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Chard, 3T dalle" t. ° ughter ience, 1, aq og Sea, 1% I j. .gardener e, Green" , Williapi served Ist Ti. ~ 1 Roske". -Sea, P . fordelure DREWS , No. 114 '.;ollrltY of 111 PERSON S SEEKING LANDED ,:4TATES. TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, -11,,F1E-10LD AND EASE ITOLD INVESTMENTS, AND .eltwni]Tt ( Ie:NMI:ALLY ~ To 'itc !IND GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls NT;,ll'oog-flout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, ,;, 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and 11. Lumley's arE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing a varied selection ?I land e d and: house properties now in the market, from kflo nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. a_ro wNrits or PROPERTIF.S wishing to Sell or Let can em ., co the opportunity that the medium of this Register testate' by sending the particulars of their properties to the istate Ornees, 67, Chancory-lane, London, as the Messrs. b rnleY can in most cases introduce immediate customers, .illere the Property is of an elie - ible character, thereby avoid the disaavantages of delay and its attenuant incon venier CCSI L TIIE RE IS NO CRARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur chaser is i n t roduced through M essrs. Lumley's Agency, and then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. THE NATIONAL STEAM NAVIQ.A.TION COMPANY (Limited). th The Directors bey to intimate to applicatts for Shares in - I . l ' Company that'they are l am `with p are OT EN, but that, owing to thee number of s applied " ,279 ), some days must yet elapse before it can be cora -I)ee ted the time occupied is necessarily prolonged owing to D irectors having determined to grant an allotment to ery applicant. By order, JOSEPHTREFFRY, Secretary, x oveinber 20, 1863. HE LAND MORTGAGE BANK OF I NDIA (CREDIT FONCIER INDIEN), Limited. 0 .. r resINia'OTICE 7S HEREBY GIVEN, That the Certificates of in this Company will be ready far delivery on and after the 30th ins', exchange for the Bankers' Receipts, thret" PP/Ication at this Office between the hours of eleven and o'clock. By order of the Board, rn T C. T. C. GRANT, Secretary. i, mporaffices, 69, Lo b , ard-street et, O London, E.C., November 24, 1863. IVERP 001, AND LONDON FIRE AND At t LIF E INSURANCE COMPA NY . he ANNUAL MEETING of the Proprietors in this Company, held on Thursday, 25th of Fetruary, 1863, JAMES ASPINALL TOBIN, Esq., in the Chair, the Ef,Jport of the Di rec t ors f or the year 1862 was read ; it showed:— That the Fire P remiums of the year were £136,065 0 0 Against those in 1861, which were 360,131 0 0 Lljv;,ng an i ncrease in 1862 T hat the n ew Life business comprised the £75,931 0 0 issue of 785 Policies, insuring.-- 467,331 0 U" U at t which the annual pre m i ums were 13,935 7 11 hhere was added to,the life reserve 79,277 11 4 That the balance of undivided profit was in creased 25,725 9 7 That the invested funds of the Company amounted to 1,417,808 8 4 In reference to the very large increase of £76,000 in the ire premiums of the year, it was remarked in the Report, The premiums paid to a company are the measure of that "Mpany's business of all kind ; the Directors, therefore reier that test of progress to s any the duty collected may , t l'ord, as tt ia t app li es to only a part of a company ' s business, Wi d„a Isrp e share of that part may be, a n d o ft en is , re -i nsure d " 1 other offices. In this view the yearly additi on t o th e b e - 're premiums of the Liverpool and L on d on C ompany must very gratifying to the proprietors." SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Company. JOHN ATKINS, Resident Secretary, London. 8- TI ORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA- Pine TEACHER. 6d. ; free by post, 7d. STIORTHAND.-7-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA PHIC MANUAL. Free by post, ls. 6d. IT 0 R. T II A N D.—"PITMAN'S PHONO anq th,,GRAI'IIY forms an exceedingly efficient —probably Ito wi '' sT efficient —system of Shorthand that exists."—Sir ondon : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C. CAPTAIN WHITE'S ORIENTAL PICKLE, (.4„,„_ CURRY or MULLIGATAWNY PASTE, 'LT Powder, and Curry Sauce, may be ob,ained from all Sauce Vendors, and wholesale of ItOSSE and tsLACKWELL, Purveyors to the Queen, Soho-square, London, oPROTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented 4 Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the aDbility, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra tary relief to weak, din, and detective vision.—S. and B ...'LOMONS, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. GREAT DRAWING OF PRIZES WILL TAKE PLACE AT ST . JOSEP [I'S RE MEAT, HIGHGATE, LONDON, N., Iio ° „trInJRSDAY, the 26th of NOVEMBER, 1863, to aid in Oi.Zattiag, the Debt still remaining on the New Church and ; and to assist in establishing the English Mission of B olas in Paris, now under the charge of the Passionist . it prizes of the first catalogue consist principally of li o r.jts of art and other precious articles, presented by His ,Tiess, several Cardinals, Princes, and other persons of 'anction in Rome. TheKETS E SHILLING EACH. axnout realised will be disposedamountdi of as follows :—That from the sale of tickets in England will be applied to -,,'choPh's, , in and Paris. at from the sale of tickets in France to las' Tl`" DRAWING OF PRIZES WILL BE ON THE PRINCIPL F. OF THE ART UNION. Y One purchasing or aiding in , either selling 25 tickets will be tled to a large Engraving of the Death ot St. ° "P 11 , or of Blessed Paul of the Cros., which will be orwarded by post upon receipt of 4 postage' will Catal St . ogues as well as tickets may be had on application at "oseph's Retreat, Highgate, and at 39, Rue de Berri, Paris. pitIZE MEDAL —INTERNATIONAL EXIIIBIT lON, 1862. -, ANCIS TUCKER de CO., Wax Chandlers, &C., To the Queen and the Piince of Wales. I , lle (Established 17?0.) ~ n ' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862, 4 rlfieti to he excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' anuf aoture. A distilguished Dignitary, In a letter addressed to Francis "Tucke r and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says : " I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my tun, recom mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with Flatted. Wicks, patented.. 2s. 2d. per lb. Ordinary quality • • • • • • .. 2.. Od. per lb. VEGETA.BLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of W ax . nest quality ..•• ls. sd. per lb. second quality • • • • • • • ls. 3d. per lb . Third quality • • • • ls. ld. per lb. Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO, 8, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.—Alabaster Powd er , and the Magnet rabic Rock Dew Water from Sahara. cassian Bloom, Aian Soaps, and Alabaster Liquid. These costly and inimitable toilet preparations render the hair, teeth, and complexion beautiful beyond comparison. —Can be had only at Madame RACHEL'S, 47A, New Bond-street, Where she can be consulted daily. all communications are Strictly confidential. ORNAMENTS for the D raw i ng - room , Library, in d Dining-room, consisting of anew and eiegant assort 'recut of VASE 8, Fi smreB, Groupe, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink- Stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &0., in Italian, Tlabam er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, Jut I mported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Ir.iesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant trranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY. d GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. P RACTEI AL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE. RALOGY i given by Mr. TENNAN T. at 149. Strand, W.C. TEE;TH,-Mr. EST( ELL'S INVENTION in ~ the construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has th e m l° "°'Ring, advantages :—A set or teeth, of excell ent fitted with work- an - 011 P and mechanism, can be made and the e,,st perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, without Pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes of masti cation and articulation. They are fitted without Trams, that tik ey are wires or f astening s , and adapt themselves so perfectly to the just these teeth to ra of the wearer. Inv a li d e idents in the country can ad quit immoveable, except at the option n s or h r n es aid of a dentist. ir, Ychanges of the mouth without the - ueY ft are c no a t so liable to injury, are always useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea tise explaining Mr. E a k ell ' a Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps. Inspection of specime ns and consultations tree.-B,Grosvenor street, Bond-street, Ny, ; and at 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir mingham. L.AMBERT'S ASTH MATIC BALSAM.-AN .11_4 EFFECTUAL ItEMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad- Mitted to be the beat medicine for immediately relieving eerif.) - ,hs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sUmption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief ,in a few mi nu t es after t a ki ng it. Prepared °my and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, Bing-William-street, Charing- Cross, London, and by all druggtsts, in bottles, 13ad., and three qua;ntities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular. and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address is engraved on the stamp. ttUPTUItES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S lIOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT IRRIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), allowed by upwards of u!viro Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective Lnventton in the curative treatment of 11 EHN I A. ;lie use of a steel spring, so often hurtfu l in its effects, ;s here avoided—a soft b a ndage being worn round t h e ) °dY, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the ..Toe -Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the tr uss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir rsunference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. Ao Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. bd. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post Moe, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT -ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, to., for Varicose Veins and all cases of ?'Veakness and Swelling of the Lege, Sprains, &o. They are '•4orous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on .'lk ean ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 16s. " 411 . Postage (Id. JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer. 22g. Piccadilly. I Z EATING'S COUGH LOZ ENGFS. —Statistics Pul monary showy Disorders.that rAmilliciliedrisnlnsannually consumption , fall vdlicsteinmsesstonipAle est, and the respiratory organs. Prevention is at 911 times better than cure ; be, therefore, prepared during the wet and wintry season with a supply of KEATING"S COUGH LtiZENGES, which possess the virtue rf averting, as well as of curing a cough or cold ; they are good alike for the young or for the aged—they soothe bronchial irritation ; and for im- Proving the voice, the preacher, statesman, singer, and actor have long patronised them. " St. Paul's Catbeilral, 30th November, 1849. " have much Leasure in recom mendin g y our lozen ges t o those who may be distressed with hoarseness. They have afforded me relief on several occasions when scarcely able to sing from the effects of catarrh. I think they would be wry useful to clergymen, barristers, and public orators. "I am, Sir, yours faithtully , " TnomAS FRA.riCIS, Vicar Choral. "To Mr. Keating." Prepared and sold in boxes, Is lid, and tins, 2s 9d, 4s 6d, V l 2 l Its 6d each, by Thomas Keating, chemist, &c. , 79, St. ul's Churchyard, London. Retail by all druggists and Patent medicine vendors in the world. 74 (/ / 1, 7 ~~ 7 l- , I -.........• ~. •41 • , , N , • , . • ..!4?.. - -,), (1•1 31 ' kf, . . - 1 , 9 '3 _.- • - . _ f 4v . I , ffl iama _ iA... , . 1 4t ., .:'`. AD o\ _, Esizy ) .l4e 1 N .,, .„-----' ~ k.• ri4c •\ ‘ :\: :#4. , '"':'' N.... , " '4s.ir, Amor c-- ..-----__L-7 tg., ...,__s t.. ,.. ~,,i . * A l i ; t-4i - , ~ 1, ‘; 4 ;,......—:,,,,,.;,,...„ .. , ''..t. 6.6 N. .. • '' 60:irrro f -- iiV• ''''\ '''s r:;4:V6,1/4 - tit & _ ,.. 6 . e . \ - • ;,:-.,---_•- *-7 . 7 , e allir\ l4 " ' ' • ~ 4 ‘•\.' ••z •t / • • • ,„ \ 4 , is „..-..- '-o- , -...- • , ~77;p..e. .13 7, ~♦+l~C 1 5pr,„..., Nit' -.oEorr• v . ' w''' ~ '"'" ' 'arE/P--7 ' ° .. , - 5,;,... STAMPED ....sd. e• - . 1 P P 'PR QY.Ogfrt e# vomited violently. He prescribed for lier ( ilia she went home. At half-past 9 o'clock he a6ifti s, Z7v her at her own house, when she was vomi i tjpg -iii , n 3,4! lently. He did not see her after this till :ke; s *ioi On making a post mortem examination hePu_nt the brain to be healthy, the lungs highly congest4d. S the heart healthy, the liver, spleen, and other org . an 3 healt`hy, but highly congested. The right side cf the heat t was full of liquid blood, as were the veins. There we), - o patches of inflammation through the whole sur face of the intestines. He removed the stomach unovened for analysis, as he could not tell what was the co.use of death. The Coroner said that the ca.so vas surrouu dcd by so many serious circumstances' Villich rcqui red explanation th a t h e s how ld adjourn the inquiry for the purpose of allowing a chemical an'al,vbis of file contents of the stomach. The Will and Testament 'of an Ame.rican RadicaL I have just seen a most extraordinary will—trikAt of Charles I'. Hovey, a Boston merchant, who c(r r tainiy has a right to the title of " radical aboli'.- ps is appointed one of his' tionist." Wendell Philli p s exuor .. s i , andhe bequeaths 1,000 d o ll ars t o each of thee t tloli . Lloyd Garrison, his wife Mrs, Garrison, , S. S. eo ing. per6,ons ''Z3'7' - Foster, and 2,000 dollars each to parker Bi7a)ury and H. C. Wright. Ti.teso names will at once b,r recognised as those of protainent and radical aboliiiunists. The follow. ing articles of this Will are weli worth g i ving ja fall : .al trust Art 16, After setting as ide su ffi cilesit funds t o pay all legacies And bequests herein male;'l direct my said trustees to hold all the rest and res.idue of my estate, real and personal and m ixed, in sps vi for the following purposes — n amel y , to pt.l9 over, out of the principal of said spec ial trust, a aura of not less than 8,000 dollars annually, until the s'a . me be all exhausted, to said Wensiell Phillips, Wm- Lloyd Garrison, Stephen S. Foster, Abby S..Fostsns Parker Pilsbury, Henry C. Wright, Francis Jacks. son, and Charles It. Whipple, and their survivorsand survivor, for them to use and expend at their dis cretion, without any resposibility to any one, for the promotion of the anti-slavery cause and other reforms—such as woman's rights, non-resi - stance, free-trade, and temperance—at their discretion. And I request said Wendell Phillips and his said associates to expend not less than 8,000 dollars an nually, by the preparation and circulation of book s, newspapers, employing agents, and the de l ivery of lectures, a tnhda secure eee will re i n t their he sh e j t d i g e judgment e e n f t slavery change i n public opinion the United States, and promote said other reforms. Believing that the chain upon four millions of slaves with tyrants at one end and hypocrites at the other, has become the strongest bond of the union of the States, I desire said Philli ps ein and his aosociates toin ex pend such bequests by believe and practise the do ctrine e y ef such agents a Neumienwith s s laveholders, religiously or politically ; an d by cir culating such publications as tend to destroy every pro -slavery institution. Art.l7. In case chattel slavery should be abolished in the United States before the expenditure of the said residue of my estate, as stated in said sixteenth article of this will, then in that case I desire that the unexpended part of said residue be applied by said Phillips and his associates in equal proportions for the promotion of non-resistance, woman's rights, and free trade ; requesting that no agent be em ployed by them for the promotion of said causes except such as believe that the natural rights of men and women are equal. Whether slavery be abolished or not, I desire that a part of the said residue of my estate be applied to the promotion of the kindred causes of temperance, woman's rights, non-resist ance, and free trade, at the discretion of the said. Phillips and his associates. Art. 22. I particularly request that no prayers be solicited from any person, and that no priest bo invited to perform any ceremony whatever over or after my body. The priesthood arc an order of nem as I believe falsely assuming to be reverend and divine, pretending to be called of God; the great body of them in all countries have been on the side of power and oppression. The world has been too long cheated by them—the sooner they arc nu masked the better for humanity. As I have heretofore borne my testimony against slavery, intemperance, war tariffs, and all indirect taxation, bank, and all monopolies, I desire to luavp on record my abhorrence of them all. The fear of being buried before I am dead is slight, nevertheless it is greater than the fear of death itself ; I therefore request my executors not ,o bury my body until at least three days after my lecease. c 7 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1863. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WIIISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It i Pu:e, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded " Kinahan's LL Whisky." AN ITALIAN PROFESSOR is desirous to meet in a FAMILY or SCHOOL to Teach ITALIAN anu FRENCH, and have in return Boardi.g, Lodging - , and Washing, for four or six months. Ile knows English suffi ciently for that. He can give unexceptionable references. Address L. M., 58, Upper Stamford-etreet,Waterioo-bridge. Sheerness harbour to Chathara dockard by the Locust and Sheerness steamtug, to be fittad and got ready by the mid dle of March next for service Ls a flagship. It is rumoured that her station will be the coast of Brazil, and that she will carry the flag of Rear , Admiral the Hon. Charles G. J. B. Elliot, C,B. .21,,ITerheeur S iege—the, ot n e 1 2 14 d t , h has y t : h_e f a o F o r w i d i n a g y , h e aded nighta detail,chiefly from the Washington Light Infantry, was stationed in the eastern barracks of Sumter, there to be held in readiness incase an assault should be made. Although the fort was subjected to the usual nightly bombardment, which, though light compared with the bombardment of the day, has hitherto been of a sufficiently heavy character, no casualties occurred until a quarter past 4 on Satur day morning. At that hour a Parrott shell from Morris Island struck the iron girder which sup ported the ceiling of the portion of the barracks to which we have alluded, causing it to tall in and crush thirteen men under its ruins. On Saturday morning the enemy opened from all his land batteries, and Parrott and mortar shells were rained through the day upon the silent work. Occasionally, indeed, the middle battery, by which is meant the battery between Gregg and Wagner, would throw a shell in the direction of Johnson or at Sullivan Island, but for the most part the fire was concentrated upon Sumter. At the hour 12, two of the three monitors which have been playing so conspicuous a part in the pre sent bombardment came up and proceeded to batter the sea face from their usual prudent distance. The shots of the island batteries were chiefly aimed at the south-west angle. The guns in action on Sa turday at Morris Island were two light and two heavy rifled guns at Gregg, three heavy rifled guns and four 10-inch mortars at the middle battery, and four rifled guns at Wagner. In the course of tho day, 443 rifled shots were fired at the fort, of which 51 missed. From the mortars 373 were fired, 120 of which did not strike. The monitors fired 86 times, and never failed once to hit their mark. The flag staff was . twice shot away, and was replaced by Sergt. Graham, Corporal Hill, and Private Swain, of company F, 12th Georgia Battalion, At length the staff was so cut up that it became necessary to raise the battle flag of the battalion just named. The mortar shells thrown by the enemy are so contrived as to explode a few seconds after impact. Of these 33 were fired at the fort on Saturday night, 12 of which passed over. On the same night 70 rifled shells were also fired, 10 of which missed. There were several casualties on Saturday at the fort. The story of Sunday is but a repetition of that of Satur day. The enemy's land batteries were served with the same fury, and the monitors assaulted the fort with the same vigour which characterised their fire on the preceding day. About 2 o'clock the firing was very rapid, averaging four shots a minute. The bombardment was still going on at a late hour of the night, but no reran had reached us at the hour of going to press of the results of Sunday's opera tions. Our own batteries have been by no means nactive during the last two days, but we have .earnt nothing of the effect of their fire." THE ARMY. jThe Marquis of Hartington, M.P., Under-Secretary of State for War; Major-General Tulloh, 8.A., Director of Ordnance; Capt. Caffin, R N., Naval Director-General of Artillery, and other officials, went down to Woolwich on Sunday, and impeded the two 300-pounder guns intended for experimental practice on board the gunnery ship Excel lent, at Portsmouth, and now lying on the wharf at Wool wich in readiness for embarkation. They afterwards held a lengthened consultation with the heads of departments in the Royal Arsenal relative to the estimates required for 1861-5, and returned to London at half-past 4. It was stated at the headquarters of the Chatham divi sion of Royal Marines, yesterday, that the GovernMent had decided on despatching eh)rtly a battalion of Royal Marines, consisting of artillery and light infantry, to Japan. The Sanitary Condition of the City, Dr. Letheby, the corporation officer of health, has just presented his report as to the sanitary condition of the city of London for the quarter ending September last. In that interval 704 births and 639 deaths have been registered Both numbers are below the average for the corresponding period of the last 10 years, the births having declined about 11 per cent, and the deaths 6 per cent. The proportion of births to the population of the several unions was stated. In the East London Union it has been at the annual rate o: 28.5 per 1,000 of the population, in the West London Union 261;p0r 1,000.-nnit in thecity of LOndon 'Union only 20:8, he mean of the whole Halirate being 24 6. for the entire City. This is an unusually small proportion, for the average annual birthrate in the city during the summer quarter is 28'5 per 1,000 of the population, and in the whole of Eng- land it is 32.9. Of the 638 deaths in the quarters 363 were of males and 216 of females, and they are thus distributed-23 2 were in the Eastern Union, 178 in the Western, and 238 in the city proper. They are in the annual proportion of 22.5 per 1,000 of the first-named district, 26.9 of the second, and 19.6 of the third, making together a general average of 22.3 for the whole city. In all England the usual mortality for the summer quarter is at the annual rate of 19.8 per 1,000, and in the town districts of England it is 22.4; but, as the last quarter was unhealthy, thedeathrate for the whole country rose to 21 . 7, and for the chief towns to 24.0. Although, therefore, the mortality in the city has been a little above the summer average (21 9) of former years, it has not been so large as in the other towns of England. In the Western Union, however, the des; hrate has been as usual high; in fact. if the same mortality had prevailed throughout the city there would have been 771 deaths during the quarter, instead of 639. The cause of this excessive mortality Dr. Letheby ascribes chiefly to the habits of the people. On comparing the condition of the population in the Eastern and Western Unions, where the deathrates are so dis similar, not much difference, he says, is found in respect of density, or poverty, or occupation, or in the number of the infant population, for both of the unions are largely in habited by the labouring classes, and in both there is a large proportion of births; but that which is most notice able is that the Irish element prevails in the Western Union and the English in the Eastern—a circumstance which makes a great difference in the sanitary conditions of home and in those circumstances which so largely affect the wellbeing of the young. This is manifest on an examination of the ages at which the principal mortality occurs. In the Eastern Union the proportion of deaths among children of less than five years of age is only about 35 per cent of the total mor tality, whereas in the Western Union it is nearly 46. The other ages at death do not present any remarkable feature, except that the proportion of deaths among persons in the prime of life, as from 20 to 40 years of age, amounts to about 12 per cent of the total mortality ; of those in mature life, from 40 to 60, to about 15 per cent ; and of those at 60 and upwards to nearly 19 per cent, the average for the former years being 13, 17, and respectively. These num bens show that while the mortality of infant life has been greatly diminished during the last ten years, that of old age has been increased. The principal causes of death in the quarter are thus stated :—Phthisis, 61 ; tabes and scrofula, 11 ; hydrocephalus, 18 ; bronchitis and pneumonia, 61; continued fever, 21; scarlet fever, 56 ; smallpox, 10 ; measles, 4 ; whooping-cough, 17 ; croup and diphtheria, 19; erysipelas, 5; and diarrhoea, 45, of which last ;::3 were am ong children. Altogether, therefore , there have been 126 deaths from tubercular diseases , 192 from inflammator y affections of the lungs, and 177 from diseases of a zymotic character. Looking at the averages of former summers, the first-named diseases have declined from 155 in the guar • ter to 126, the decline of phthisis having been from 82 to 61, and of tabes and scrofula from 53 to 44. The total num ber of deaths from zymotic diseases is nearly the same as that of former years—but the proportions of the individual diseases have been very different. Diarrhoea, for example, has declined from 62 to 45, continued fever from 29 to 21— and measles from 18 to 4—but the number of deaths from scarlet fever has increased from 24 to 56. This is the largest mortality from the disease in any summer quarter of the last eight years, and, although it has declined to some ex tent since the last quarter, when the mortality was 68, yet it has prevailed, as in the rest of England, to an unusual degree. Even swine, Dr. Letheby adds, have been affected with the malady, for the city sanitary inspectors had seized and condemned the carcases of many pigs that had died from it, or been slaughtered while suffering from it, and had been sent to the London markets for food. The cause; he says, of this unusual severity of the disease is involved i n mystery, for, unlike many maladies of this class, it has not selected the haunts of poverty or of filth, but has been found in all places and among all grades of society. It has been, in fact, most fatal in the cleanest districts of the city, where it has advanced from a general mortality cf 6 in the ,quarter to 22, while in the filthy purlieus of the Western division of the city the increase in the mortality from it has been only from 6 to 9. Among the other records of death there were 45 from vio lence, privation, and poison, the average being about 40'; and 38 from convulsions and teething, the average being 33. As to the sickness returns in the quarter—which are a little under the average—there have been alto gether 2,752 cases of illness attended among the city poor by the union medical officers. Of these, 200 were cases of fever, 382 of diarrhoea, and 73 of smallpox, all of which were the subjects of immediate inquiry as to the sanitary condition of the places where they occurred. As to the sanitary work of the quarter, there have been 1,278 inspections of houses, and 799 visits to the common lodging houses. These had resulted in the issuing of 470 orders for sanitary improvements. The officers had con demned rather more than 31 tons of meat, and 239 head of game and poultry in the city markets and slaughter houses as unfit for human food. The amount of meat condemned in the corresponding quarter of last year was less than half of the quantity seized during the last quarter. The excess is said to be chiefly due to the circumstance that on two occa sions a large quantity of meat became putrid during its con veyance to London, in consequence of the heat of the wea ther ; but independently of that, there had been a consider able increase in th e dead and disea sed meat condemne d in s a t the ndlegalproceeding s h a d i n se veral cases persons concerned. The proceedings these bt i h n eee a n l e l ittayts kmen geareakasaeisn, were taken under the Amended Nuisances Act, which empowers the ma g istrate to i nflict a fin e o f £2O, with the alternative of three months' imprisonment. THE SIEGE 01' CHARLESTON. To describe it in a few w ords, the appearance of Sumter is that of a huge h one y comb, manufactured by gigantic bees for the gratification of the gods. The only part of the fort which bears any traces of identity is the donth-west angle, where a few re maining arches, conside rabl y disfi g ured by the showers of iron hail which have assailed them, are the only evidences of form er architectural ornament. The balance of the south ern wall, expos ed so lon g ofto ppoowlveorrfiuseldanbdriowkelal directed irected guns, is a mountain mortar, without a line to indicate shape or a single feature of design. The eastern or sea face, which is exposed to the fire both ;id banged and crushed is, perhaps, the most o f s hips demolished shore lall, , i e a s and of a worse than the countenanc e of an y p ri ze - fighte r who a had been hammered to a jelly; the great hole that yawns at the sea, as if it would swallow even her if she would but leap into its throat, seeming like the entrance to Chaos. Into the rough heaps of debris the shells go plunging, here crumbling a pile of stuff away and there throwing up another, to be scattered, may be, by the very next shot. The walls are now perfectly capable of being scaled, from 2ft. to 21-ft. having been shot away within the past eight days. Perhaps no grander example of stern, stubborn re sistance exists in all modern warfare than the per sistent holding of this point by the rebels; certainly history does not record one. The flag raised each time, the sunset gun, the watchful sentinels through the night, when at intervals the monstrous dogs of war howl out their deadly rage, cannot fail to stir in the hearts of all men that feeling of respect which the true soldier always has for a bravo and determined foe. The Charleston BANK RETURNS. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir culation of the Private and Joint-Stock Banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending Oct. 17. These returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch and Irish Banks for the same period, and the average circula tion of the Bank of England for the four weeks ending the 14th Oct. (le nearest date furnished by their returns) will give the following results of the circulation of nates in the United Kingdom, when compared with the previous month : ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Sept. 19, k, ct. 17, I ) , This day is published, 1863 . 1863. Increase.' !Decrease pROFESSOR AYTOUN'S LAYS OF THE Bank of England... 20,070,780 21,544,213 573,433 SCOTTISH CAVALIERS, and other POEMS. Private Banks 3,0'.4,000 3,331,716 307,7151 With lilustrations designed by J. NOEL PATON, U.S.A. Joint-stock Banks 2,817,3771 3,013,250 1 195,8731 Engraved on Wood in the highest style'of the art by John , 1 —,.--- , . Thompson, W. J. Linton, W. Thomas, J. W. Whymper, J. Total in England. 26,8 2,157 , 27,889,178 1,077,0211 Cooper, W. T. Green, Dalziels Brothers, E. Evans, J. Adam, Scotland 4,101,276 4,338,3601 234,084 . &c. Ireland 5,039,65Q, 5,660,410 620,760) ~......,....L.......... Small Quarto, printed on toned paper, bound in gilt _ cloth, 21s. - - William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. United Kingdom 35,956,083 37,887,918 1,931,865; And, as compared with the month ending the 18th Oct., 1862, the above returns show an increase of. £241,579 in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of £485,752 in the circulation of the United Kingdom• On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the seve ral banks the following is the state of the circulation : KINGLAKFIS HISTORY of the INVASION of the CRIMEA. Vols. I. and IL, Fourth Edition, Octavo, 325. In the copious Notes which are inserted in this Edition, the Author deals with questions arising* out of controverted matters of fact, and produces authority substantiating dis puted statements ; but not a word has been withdrawn from the Text, and not a word has been added to it. W. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. The English private banks aro below their fixed issue The English joint-stock banks are below their fixed issue £261,108 HISTORY OF EUROPE, from the Commence ment of the FRENCH RE VOLUTION in 1789 to the BATTLE of WATERLOO. By Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart., D.C.L. A New Library Edition (being the tenth). In Fourteen Volumes, Demy Oct..vo, with Portraits, and a Copious Index, £lO 10s. Crown Octavo Edition, Twenty Volume s , £6. People's Edition, Twelve Volumes, closely printed in double columns, £2 Ss., and Index Volume, 3s. Total below fixed issue in England.... £1,194,535 The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue .. £1,589,089 The Irish banks are below their fixed issue .... £694,084 The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng land in both departments during the month ending the 14th Oct, was £15,034,343, being a decrease of £368,321 as compared with the previous month, and a decrease of .E 1,659,231 when compared with the same period last year. The following are the amounts of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 17th Oct. : Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks £2,334,771 Gold and silver held by the Irish banks 1,923,197 W. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. NOTICE. —ETON SCHOOL DAYS will be ready at all the Libraries on Wednesday, Nov. 25. In one vol., post Svo., price 10s. 6d. London : John Maxwell and Co.. 122. Fleet-street. NOTICE. —A TERRIBLE WOMAN ;OR , STRONG AND TRUE.—The New Novel, by AUST YN Litt MUM, will be ready, in two vols., post ivo., price 2 is., on Wednesday, Nov. 25. London: John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. £4,957,968 Being an increase of £47,075 as compared with the previous return, and a decrease of £23,628 when compared with the corresponding period of last year. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. 7 Rear-Admiral F. Bullock has been making a series of ex perimental trials on board the paddlewheel steamer Vivid, Commander W. H. Allen, which has been placed at his disposal by the Admiralty, at the measured mile, Maplin Sands, near Chatham, for the purpose of enabling him to form correct tables and lay down a code of rules and regu lations for the use of his newly-invented permanent ship log, which is about to be introduced into the service. The Lords of the Admiralty are so well satisfied of the import. ance of the invention that orders have been received at Chatham for the new log to be fitted on board the Liver pool, 39, 600 horse power, Capt. R. Lambert, belonging to the Channel squadron—and also the paddlewheel steamer Geyser, 6, 280 horse power, Commander M. R. Pechell. The condemnation of the old class of wooden gunboats at Haslar, and the certainty that iron alone will be used in the construction of this class of vessel in future, has liberated Haslar yard to a great extent from the duties it has hitherto performed as an appendage of Portsmouth dockyard, and raised the all-important question, " What shall we do with it ?" To consider this question it will be necessary here to state the present extent and position of the yard, the amount of plant it contains, and the advantages it offers while remaining still an adjunct to the yard at Portsmouth. Haslar yard stands on the south side of a narrow creek bearing the same name at the entrance to Portsmouth har bour, and is 2,640 ft. in length and 816 ft. in width within the boundary walls ; it has a water frontage throughout its entire length. On the side opposite to its water frontage stand a line of galvanised iron covered sheds for 50 gunboats, divided by five brick walls into as many divisions, the en tire length of the shed line being 1,900 ft. In front of and parallel with these sheds aro lines of rail exceeding in their collective width the length of the largest of the gunboats. Over these travels the transporting frame and cradle, pro pelled by a powerful locomotive engine, which conveys the gunboat to or from the launching and hauling up slipway or the sheds as required. Between this line of sheds and the south boundary wall of the yard is established the nucleus of an engineering range of workshops with the necessary forges, lathes, &e., employing about 30 junior naval engineers and 40 stokers, the latter working at their trades as boiler makers, moulders, coppersmiths, carpenters, &c., or fitting the machinery of the gunboats (which will become available for the ironboats to be constructed) with condensers, and doing, in fact, all the work required for the alteration and repair of machinery, except heavy iron cast ings, which are supplied from the iron foundry at Ports mouth dockyard. About a score of shipwrights aro em ployed on four new wooden gunboats, which have now been building there some time, and a gang of hands from the steam factory of Portsmouth dockyard is employed in tak ing the boilers and engines out of the condemned gunboats. A few iron and wooden mortar vessels stand on their blocks in one part of the yard, but as they can only be looked upon as waste material and not as plant, they may be dismissed from all further consideration. The enclosing wall of the yard is of brick, and substantially built, as may be ima gined, with brick sentry boxes at the angle. At the entrance is a spacious guard-house, police-station, and an official residence, now occupied by an acting master shipwright. Such is the present extent and position of Hasler gunboat yard and slipway. The advantages Has lar yard offers as an adjunct to the main yard at Portsmouth are many, and are not likely to be set aside even by the comprehensive scheme for the extension of Portsmouth dockyard which is about to be carried out under the direc tion of Mr. Stamp, C.E., Deputy-Director of Works to the Admiralty. In the first place the yard may be appropriated as a boat building, repairing, and storing yard, and thus become wholly attached to the department of the master shipwright; secondly, it may be handed over to the chief engineer of Portsmouth yard, and become a part of the fac tory establishment ; thirdly, it may be handed over entirely to the naval engineers in commission afloat, and thus be come the headquarters of the steam reserve ; and, fourthly, it may remain as it is, attached in part to all, and a source of continual disputes. It is evident that, as we are to have iron gunboats, Haslar yard, with all its costly plant of covered berthing, high and dry, for 50 boats, its transport ing lines of rails, and launching and hauling up slipway, will be retained as their headquarters. This at once nar rows the question as to the retention and future use of the yard. As a yard for the storage, repair, and building, if necessary, of iron gunboats, it would come under the ma nagement of the steam reserve more than any other depart ment, and if the steam reserve is to be continued as a dis tinct department of our chief naval port, then the iron gunboat yard at Haslar appears to offer unusual and ex traordinary advantages as the officially appointed head quarters of the force. We have already said that the nucleus of a naval engineering establishment exists at Haslar, and there is plenty of apace to extend the workshops on the present line of ground, so as to afford full employ ment for all the naval engineers and stokers on the books of the reserve in the port, who would thus have the ad vantage of being employed in the shops upon work they might bo called upon to do on an emergency at sea. With the captain of the steam reserve in residence on the esta blishment, and the " factory" system of work and accounts introduced (as now arranged in her Majesty's dockyards, and than which nothing can well be more efficient), Haslar, as the head-quarters of the Portsmouth steam reserve, would become a most important and economical esta blishment. There is abundance of room at Haslar to OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, build as we ll as s t o re 50 gun b oa t s , w h e th er th ey were ttriit t —e erection ,i 0 this uf i a s building a ut the - b in the immediate vicinity of the G reat Northern Rail uu u c t on e s r i d enr es- President—The a- Duke of BUCCLEUCIT , built by private contract or not, and th ere i s a l so abun way Terminus, at King's-cross. danceu the t o os, quarters P a tr on —The QUEEN. K . G. e n ua—y fo of r of r o the the e a y u i a n d t which would contain the necessary T reasur e r —Edward Mastcrman, Esq. r This was the first hospital to introduce the princip le of free. n ba e r e r r a s ck on ac d c u o t m y m in od p a o t r i t o , n and for thee s c shkol e r and lecturearters forooul thes and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for- officers of the establishm en t , i ncluding the naval engi mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form — viz. , that which is a corn panted by sickness and disease, t dis now of sufficient &c., which would form a necessary part of such an esta magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered hlishment. capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the Adititalty orders have been received by the authorities funds in order to have 5 0 0 beds available for the reception of at Sheerness dockyard that her Majesty's scre w s te a m these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, Co' ueror,7B , aq , guns, 2,81:5 tons, 50() it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, line-of-battle ship on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. horse power, Master in charge John C. Salfleet, belonging The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to the first division, of the Sheerness steam reserve, is to be to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that immediately got, real) , for sea as a troopship. Her main daily present themselves. deck guns P Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and db' read y.s .re to be removed and the ports closed. When Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and iploy, ion the China station. She will take out 600 marines Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn ~ ' 4 will have a complement of 480 men, and be em and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison _aid supernumeraries. and Co. ; W Mains, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, ar - Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Livery - 4 to the second division of and at the Hospital. .4)9 1 tens, 400 horse power, belonging STANFORD S. SMITH $ P Th© Bombay, 67, screw steam line-of-battle ship, 2,872 was removed yesterday from .„,r ataxv the &come:so steam reserve, ROSE WATER POLITICIANS. English politicians at present are the most ob• liging people in the world. They would fain save the Poles, without at all wishing to pound Russia into humanity. They would give Rome to the Romans, without flying in the face of France. They are for the integrity of Denmark, but cannot quar rel with a Saxe -Coburg . T hey would obli g e Na poleon in the matter of a Congress , if rea ssured that it shall not become a den of thieves. And they are more than ever anxious to gratify Greece and King George, if the lonians and Turks would but let them. The lonians, however, are ashamed to be handed over to Greece if emasculated of their only fortress, and if they are to be the pretext of hard conditions being imposed upon the Greek Crown and Govern ment. Greece, in fact, will not have the lonian Islands, nor will the lonian Islands belong toGreece, if both are to suffer disgrace. And Great Britain, that is exceedingly desirous of ,satisfying both, is still more desirous of not offending Turkey and Austria. Both these countries count it certain that they are lost if Greece can point a gun over the lonian sea. Both declare that they must one day or other bo objects of hostility . to young and ardent governments. And they insist on taking precau tions immediately. Had Napoleon the Third taken such a matter in hand, we have no possible doubt as to the answer he would have made to both Turkey and Austria. To tell them to " get out" for a pair of old women would be the sense of the language addressed to them, however cautiously and diplomatically it might be worded. But we want friends today, not knowing what may happen tomorrow, and cannot think of affronting Austria, or even rally ing the Grand Turk for his absurd jealousy of little Greece. These timid prejudices of political grendams rea lly will not answer their purposes. When a youth reaches manhood, shows a beard, and puts on the toga rirzlis, it is stupid and pernicious mis trust that would tell him not to wear a sword or bestride a horse. His strongest desire is to be a man, and to look a man; and if parents and guar dians would make a boy of him he will rebel, and probably in rebelling turn scapegrace. It is with nations as with men. When they have reached years of maturity, and thrown off, with the juvenile short jacket, the empire of the usher or the peda gogue, their ambition is for manly attire, even exag gerated, for manly attitude, and for all the appear ances of independence and strength. We see this very frailty ex pressed in all the young countries which the Turks have kept so long in a state of nonage, and which European philanthropy has breeched. Thus Servia will go armed. Roumania does not think nationality respectable without an army. And as the force of circumstances has en. dowed Greece with a fortress or two, the Greeks would feel more than mortified were we to tell them that they must not play with such edged tools. Yet this is precisely what Austria and Turkey have forced us to say to Greece. England, declare these old people, is good enough to make over to you the lonian Islands. We have no objection. You may take the population, and tax them, and swell your armies with their islanders, as well as your treasury with their contributions ; but you must not have fortresses, guns, and armies. We are terrified at the vision of an lonian Sebastopol. For tresses are only for grown nations, and you are but children. This language will not do for the descendants of Marco Botzaris and Odusseus. When the Turks had Greece and the Morea in dominion they were not, in peaceful times, such tyrants as would con descend to details. They never pretended to disarm the Klephts, or deprive the Albanians of their rocky s t r ongholds. Provided they met wit h obeisance a nd d a nd tribute they were not for crush in g ma nhood and tribute they were not for crushin they hve out of the rayahs. But the Turk s, as they a grown more tolerant of political rights, here become more suspicious of martial ones. They h ? id it as an axiom, that the Christian races, once subject, and now fortunately independent of them'. are . predes tined is in conse the policy , to devour them, and quence to extract all their teeth... I his may be it is not sensible or natural logic for a Turk, bu t . sanction such absurdities. decorus that we should weapons. That of Co r f u F or t r esses are defen sive c annot invade Albania, n either can its guns reach the mouth of the A d r iatic. In case of the war of and Greece . against Austria and combined Italy struggle will . be no doubt by sea as Turkey, the well as land. But on sea it must be carried on by fleets, not fortresses, and by a marine, and not by any amoun t of cannon placed in embra s ur es or pointed en barbette. The fear s o f A ustr i a an d Turkey are absurb ; nay, so absurd that they can not be sincere. The gist of such objections must be, not really to defend the two potent empires of Austria and Turkey from the lonians, but merely to give a slap in the fac e to King George. That is the chief aim, that the malignant purpose. And in h°ll°llr / e c ire'isteapy, and common wise, England THE lONIAN ISLANDS, -- -4. - The cession of these islands to Greece, which has • by the Powers concerned in the a- 44" a i r s of the Sep been sanctioned both by the lonian P arliament and tinsular Republic, remains now to be completed by . try and the Hellenic kingdom. the signature of a formal treaty some objection is To this treaty we understand • Govern ment. It appears that between this coun gcaohfintrietcfOfthe fortifications has beon. offered by the Greek ts. fortifications l o v f e C r o e r g f r u e t is t d h l i s s - , ttahsetedfius lmtannttillien some of the great Powers., at a loss to perceive of what buturgently e the ntl y demolit ion pressed I for re iboyy d we are completely possible use such a fortress could bo to the Greek people. If we are not misinformed, the English Govern meat has several times had under its consideration. the adv i s ability of destroying the fortifi c ations on shore, as being expensive and of little use. It was trneperLesizt,endia toisitachedmby competent authority that if Which sufficient, as while thaats commands the harbour of C o rfu, were retained r t e h m e a o i n n l e y d fiona our t b a h t a w n d o s n :w d i b t h e: the command of the sea, no enemy could effect any townpermanent lodgmentnofnetohrf a egirsenant concerned r e island. ern ed the As far as th e to demo lition of th e Works could not fail to of f er the same advantages that such a measure has presented at Vienna, F The Frankfort, Turin, and many other cities. works i . n their present state require about two hundred thousand pounds to put them into Effective repair, and would need a garrison of about twelve thousand men to hold them. Under these circumstances, while they could really prove but an encumbrance to Greece, they would still, if maintained, offer a temptation to any great power in the event of a European war. We are warranted, then, in believing th at the Hellenic Government will presently acquiesce is the course we intend to pursue—the m ore so that they cannot possibly regard it in th e li g ht of any indignity offered to themselves, seeing' that in reality they are hardly concerned in the matter. We propose merely to cede the islands to them. shall dismantle it before With regard to the fortress, that is no matter fur of the five any stipulation in the convention ; for, in accord ance with the desire of our allies and . our own Em u of what is most politic, we we proceed to the evacuation of the seven islands. e t a ti restonys I P n ow fa e e r t s s a in f e o::n h ig e of Corfu may be practically regarded as alrea d y hstigangaot,ugeoffort,hifie non existent. We are to raise con finent,ther , th at the Greek Govern ment will not be so ill-iiclvi4ed as t e r of disp ute about 'what is no w b ut << a cast l e i n 1 t h e air." —Post. A M.S. ORATOP,IO OF HAYDN'S has been i3is. covered (according to a French journal), entitled " The Sacrifice o Abrahatn" TIIE ItIJS'SIAIs.7S SEEM tSSURED THAT WAR WILL COME IN TUE SPRING. They are preparing new works ter the defence of Cronstadt, mounting 300-pound tinne on them, and facing earthworks with iron. The eilannols arc filled with infernal machines, and a steam ram is lauildin: - ,; which is to cost £: ,OQO, and run at hostile vessels under water—a great improvement on all other rants. By Ist June, IS6I, the Marine Department expects to have sixteen iron-clad vessels in the Baltic., all in order, though with rather thin plates. Cast-steel guns, enormous shells, and every variety of ammunition are being collected in quantities, and the extra expenditure already sanctioned amounts to fifteen millions sterling. Governments do not spend such sums without grave reason, and that of numita is usually well informed. 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Thirteenth Thousand, post Bvo., 7s. 6(1., CUNIMING'S (Dr.) THE GREAT TRIBULA TION; Or, THINGS COMING on the EARTH. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street• This clay is published, in 2 vols., post Bvo., price £1 Is., cloth, A X T 0 NI AN A: NJ A SERIES OF ESSAYS ON LIFE, LITERATURE, AND MANNERS, By the Author of " The Cartons," &C. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. ROYAL ALHAAIBRA PALACE. Great Musical Attraction —lmmense success of SIGNOR .NICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every Evening. ROYAL ALHAMBRA.—The Manager has the honour to announce that an arrangement has been made with Mons. BASTIEN PRA.NCONI, Proprietor of the Grand Cirque Imperiale, the whole of whose UNRI VALLED TROUPE will APPEAR, for a limited period, commencing on the FIRST NIGHT of the CATTLE SHOW, December 7. A RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. During the Concerts given by Mons. JULLIEN, at Her Majesty's Theatre, the BALL will commence E VERY EVENING at NINE O'CLOCK. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ls. Manager—ll. GitEx ET. 29, GEORGE-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM. Open daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7 o'clock. Where may be seen the Astecs ; Bushman and Wife; Julia Pastrana and Infant; Eng, and Shang, the Siamese Twins; and upwards of 3,000 Models, Natural Pre parations, &c. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission, (inc shilling Or Gentlemen only). MR. A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH , VOCALIST. SUBSCRIPTIONS R MIC ECEIVED at the OFFICE of THIS PAPER for the above artist, suddenly afflicted with Blind ness, and, in his helplessness, having a wife and child de pendant on him. BANKRUPTCY AND COMPOSITIONS.-- Mr. WETIIERFIELD, Solicitor, 35, Afoorgate-street, City. PRACTISEo in .COURT, and effects PRIVATE' AR RANGEMENTS with creditors, without pu b licity. j Charges, the lowest possible, payable by Instalments. Coun try cases economically conducted. N.B.—DEBTS recovered on commission, free of law costs. Divorce and Probate business conducted at moderate ex pense. 3TICE.- AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ENGLISH _DETECTIVE, by WATERS, will be ready at all Libraries, in two vols., post Svo., price 21s. London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. T HE TEETH, as Supplied by NATURE and Preserved by ART. By M. C. ROGERS, M.R.C.S., Surgeon-Dentist. London: 18, New Burlington-street, W. BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON "FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, ABOOK OF BEAUTY. By Madame RACIIEL. • To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, at 8. Vocalists —Mdlle VOLPINI, Mdlle. TREBELLI, Signor BETTINI, Signor BOSSI, and Mr. SANTL EY. Violin— Signor SIVO RI. Grand Orchestra—"three Military Bands, and full Chorus. Conductor, M. JULLIEN. Promenade and Gallery, ls. ; Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6c1., Xis. is., and LI lls. ad. Places may be secured at the Box-office of the Theatre. 1 1 " 0 XFOIt I) A, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, and CLARA, the MAID of MILAN, by Sir fly. Bishop ; also, from ERNANI and LA SONNAMBULA; by the following talented artistes : —Misses Russell, Townley, Fitz Henry, VI , Almsley, and .Elli son; Messrs. Green, finish, Kimberley, Stuart, rte. Also, Solos on the Violin by VIO2TI COLLINS, the celebrated English Violinist. Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL PIANO, by Herr SC,HAL KENBACH, the Inventor. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comedy, by UNSWORTII ("or ally oilier man "), Eugene, W. Randall, E. Marshall, G. llutchenson, &c. The MALL has been newly Decorated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. • - • - - • -- ---. ------ -- -- _ Open at halt-past vote ck. Admission , area, ed. ; stalls and balcony, Is. ; pr boxes, "THE GHOST CLUB" at the CANTERBURY HALL.—New and Interesting Spectral Tableaux.—Mr. C. MORTON is enabled to announce that, through the medium of Professor Pepper's World of Shadows, a "GHOST CLUB" is nightly held at the CAN TERBURY HAL L. The object of the Club is not the re peopling of the Haunted Houses of London ; but, through the agency of Phantoms, to present vivid (if transient pictures of the drama of rea l life, both in its serious and mirthful aspects ; and, by means of spectral tableaux, to recall, and still further impress on the mind, some of the teachings or pleasantries of the best writers. At pre sent, the two orders of Slavery — t he Slavery of the South, and the " White" Slavery of a more boastful civilisation, receive emphatic illustration ; and these lite pictures will be rapidly replaced by others. The pages of Shakspere and the el,:er Dramatists, of Scott. Hood, Ingoldsby, Dickens, &c., in turns, furnish subjects for illustration. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractio ns as usual, including Operatic Selections, Arc. ; Comedy by Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hudson, E. Marshall, and George Hutchenson. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. IM MENSE SUCCESS.—ARTIIUR and BERTRAND, the celebrated French Clowns, wilt appear every evening in an entertainment reserved expressly for their engagement at this establishment -The MARVELS of PERU, the most wonderful Peri ormers in the WorId—LANGLOIS, the great Indian Juggler—The FAIRY FOUNTAIN—OPeratic Selec tions —Grand Comic Divertissement, by the Francesco Family and Mons. Rate' , assisted by 12 Young Ladies. Doors oven at 7--commence at half-past 7. , . instead of submitting, ought not to bave listened t it for a moment. The French papers assert that, in consequence of these objections, the English a re to keep possession of the citadel of Corfu, and that, if no terms of accord can be arrived at, they mu st treat it, like Sebastopol, and blow it up previous to departure. We must confess that this strikes us as a most un gracious and disgre.celul mode of evacuating Cle islands. If the act be not accompanied by an engagement of King c3eorge, that neither he nor his successors shall ever repair and raise up again these battlements, these precautions will have proved useless. We therefore cannot see what is to be gained by this truckling to Austria and Turkey, except that we shall wipe all gratitude from the Greek mind for what we have done, and make King George appear to have purchased his crown by the servitude of his people. It may be said that there is little use in these forti cations, at least for such a power as Greece ; and it may be said, at the same time, that although the objections raised by Turkey and Austria are anile, that still it is wise and expedient to purchase their assent and adhesion t o th e new kingdom by a con cession which is a mere form and a symbol. Sym bols and forms are, h owever, o bj ec t s o f w orship, especially with a rude people. And that of blow • ing up the citadel of C or f u w ill b e cons id ere d so degrading an act of subservience to Turkish arro gance, that it will completely do away with all the merit and all the graciousness of the cession.— Examiner. Charles Mathews at the Haymarket. Mr. Mathews had been absent from the London stage long enough to render his return an object of curiosity. For some time before his Parisian engage ment, he had been before the public as an "enter tainer," and it seemed probable that he was about to quit the histrionic profession, strictly so called, and to enter into permanent competition with the Reeds, the Parrys, and the Woodins. Bat with all his talent, and the prestige derived from his father as the founder of what are now termed "entertain ments," he scarcely raised himself to the head of the class he had joined; and his ultimate return to the profession of his youth seems to indicate that, in the hybrid position proper to halls and galleries, he felt something like a fish out of water. Once more on the boards of the Haymarket, ho appeared as pleased to see his old theatrical patrons as they were to give him welcome. No doubt, to a regular actor who, like Mr. Mathews, can hold audiences in his grasp, can make them sympathise with all his humours, and can even take pleasant liberties with them on which a less firmly established favourite would not venture, there must be something ex tremely weak and jejeune in the very warmest applause that the most enthusiastic admirers of en tertainments can bestow. A battle fought by officers only, however skilfully conducted, would be but a dull affair, and the approval of a merely genteel audi ence, in which there is no mob-element, can never amount to what in modern parlance is styled a demonstration. By the artist who burns for public favour, the roar of the pit and gallery is required as a necessary indorsement the gratification expressed by the smile and titter of the boxes and stalls ; and the want of this must be more particularly felt where there are no pit and gallery whatever, and the seats arc occupied by persons all more or less strict in their notions of propriety, and many of them uneasily suspicious that they are grazing the borders of sin while participating in any public entertainment that does not resemble the solemn buffooneries of Exeter Hall. The poet who only pens sonnets, the musician who devotes himself to chamber-music, the humourist who exclusively retails such pleasantries as make young ladies simper, may—nay, must—be contented with the approval of the refined few ; but the genuine actor, with the ambition proper to his calling, is essentially a man of the people. He will not be satisfied with a House of Representatives elected by universal suffrage, but requires the actual Demos to be brought bodily before him. Mr, Mathews returns in excellent condition, and those who before his retirement fancied that they could detect the encroachment of time on the vigour and vivacity of the most mercurial of actors, now feel that the universal enemy has been triumFhantly repelled, and that the Mathews who charmed them ,wenty years ago is the Mathews who exhilarates ,hem now. Suspected Death from Poison, Last night Mr. John Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner, held an inquiry at the Grey Eagle Tavern, Grey Eagle-street, Spitalfields, into the circum stances of the death of Eliza Marns, aged 34 years. The case seemed to excite great interest in the neighbourhood, and the court was crowded. Jane Syms, 26, Gossett-street, Bethnal-green, said that the deceased was the widow of Edward Marns, a tailor. He died on the 29th of last May. The deceased resided at No. 34, Grey Eagle-street. She was a sober woman. She was taken ill at half-past six o'clock on Thursday last. A Mr. Beecher, who witness believed had been living with the deceased, remained upstairs a short time. 'When he came down the deceased followed him, and said to Mr. Beecher, "My dear, my God; what have you been giving me 9" He replied, " I have given you some head and stomach pills." Mrs. Marns then seem4l, to wish to go out. She went to th e door. scleint Beecher did not oppose her going out. Witnnessasked with her to Dr. Gayton's. That gentle n ra o s speak. her what she had taken, but she coul , ( 3 l f t t he Witness then then brought her home. bours were sent for, and the dec e ased was carried bed, then fell egeare.ie.ns•treet, said upstairs to bed. She sat P i npd illsoow opening n h e a n am h i t n e ha g r : u- ll io o ver, and stretched back again. She trembled her arms out. There was n° her mouth. Some water was attack the deceased seemed throat. After the first By the Coroner__ when fir. Beecher said a diffi pouredCUlty to go into a kind d sttiP" - head and stomach Witness could a kind of had given the deceasednd was present. named Wm. Ed mund nhaciforebsiedrendewatihth. her e fi s v eim ya not acc k ou last va I T s h h u e r Thursday d e v Mrs. fit. 811(eih—arlotte Mole, 31, Grey she vv BB 500- • her . dashing her evening to see the &cos ,,d, On n for arrt bead a b o ut in a dreadful manner, foaming at the mouth, and appearing to fight hard for her breath. She could not speak, but was conscious ' • the body wa s straight but stiff, and sh e worked her arms and hands about; her eyes looked as if they were about to start out cf her head, and the mouth was drawn on on© side. • A . t times her eyes went round like the works of a watch, and she suffered a suc cession of fits, lasting f rom 10 to 5 minutes each, at which times her back was bowed, the body resting on the head an d h eels ; altoget h er s h e had 24 fits. lhe usual remedies were applied, and 1)r. Gayton was called in. During the night Mr. Beecher came UP twice, seeming much cut up, and at about 4 o'clock on Friday morning he proposed that medical assistance should be procured. The death rattles were then in her throat, and witness told him that a doctor was then uselces. • B The Coroner said it was necessary that:\l L. eecher shouldbe present, in order that he mig ht ask the think proper. witnesses any questions that he might , of about Mr. Beecher, a respect4bly-dress ed 1:11tnor, resid -30 years of age, who was said to b s e pitalfields , then ing at No. 34, Grey Ergle-strect(i to cross-examine entered the court, and p roceede d himself on two tho witness as to his having gone occasions for a doctor. This was admitted. After some furt o her un important evidence, Gan deposed that the deceased Dr. Wiliamy t i n Brick-lane between 7 and S came to his shop o'clock on Thursday night. She was at the time very pales and i n a few minutes lat the shop and ith Ly'e ate ;ity