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PRIZE CATTLE SHOW of the SMITHFIELD • CLUB. The Annual Exhibition of Prize Cattle, Seeds, Roots, Implements. &c., will Onen to the Public on TUESDAY°ruing and Cioaei on,FRIDA I EVQiiillg, sth, Gth, 7th, L:ad Bth Dccc.,:ii.:cr Bazaar, King-area and Bakcr-street. — Open from daylight tit nine in the evening. Admittance, Ono Shilling. T HE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 39, King-street, Cheapshic, London. Established 1834. SPECIAL NOTlClE.—Assurances effected before the st Decem -21 ber nest will share in the Profits at the end of next year. SAMUEL BROWN, Actuary. BANK OF DEPOSIT, No. 3, PALL 11'IALL EAST, LONDON. FFtr hllsbcd A .D. 1644. PARTIES desirous of INVESTING MONEY are requested to examine the Plan of this Institution, by which a high rate of Interest mayobtained with erfect security. Interest payable in January and July. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. Prospectuses and Forms for opening Accounts sent free on application CONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. The Right Hon. Sir T. FR A.NKLAND LEWIS, Bart., M.P., Chairman. NENRT FREDERICK STF.PFIENSON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman Advantages—The Lowest rates of Premium ou th, , Mutual 3v - stem The whole of the Profits divided among the Assured every Fifth Year. No charge for Policy Stamps, nor for Service in the Yeomanry or Militia Corps. Policies in force nearly 7,000. The Assurance Fund exceeds 1,400,000/. Income 230,0007. per Annum. The sum of 397,0001. was added to Policies at the last Division, 'Which produced an average Bonus of VI. per Cent. on the Pre miums paid. For particulars apply to • • • ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary. 6, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. SPECIAL NOTlCE.—Proposals for Assurance must be made Prior to the Ist January, 1855, to entitle the Assured to p artici p ate iii the nest Division of Profits in 1859. • CONTRACTS FOR SUET AND VINZGAR. Departmeot of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset House, 24th November, 1854. E Commissioners for e xecutin g the Office of T H Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on FRIDAY, the Ist December next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to contract for supplying and delivering Into her Majesty's Victualling Store,s at Deptford, .between the Pounds. In weeklyWhe n deliveriest o be delivered. SUET .... .. .. 200 000 date of Contract and the 31st of I May, 1865. When to be delivered. Gallons. Half in 3 weeks, and the remainder Y INE GAR. • ...• .. 20 , 000 in 3 weeks afterwards, or earlier if I preferred by the party tendering. Tenders may be made for the whole, or any portion of the Articles. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the ten ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for suck part thereof only as they may deem fit, er for a g re ter quantity, or Of not contracting for any. No tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at the said Office, or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol. The conditions of the revised eoetracts, to which particular atten tion is called, may be seen at the said Office, and at Liverpool and Bristol. No tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tenderin or an agent on his behalf should attend at the office on the day of g contract, a 4 the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and his proposed sureties in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for , f 1 and must also be delivered at Somerset House. •CONTRACTS FOR FLUSHING AND FLUSHING JACKETS. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset-place, 25 th November , 1354. THECommissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on WEDNESDAY, the 6th Dec. next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at DEPTFORD, _ When to be delivered. Yards. Half of each in G weeks, FLUSHING} 20,003 and the remainder in 4 No. weeks afterwards, or FLUSHING JACKETS / No. 1. 5,000 earlier If preferred by the No. 2. 10,000 party tendering. . - • . _ Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the articles. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the pewer, when the Ten ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any. • Samples of the Flashing, for quality, and a pattern jacket, together with the conditions of the Revised Contracts, may be seen at the said Office. - No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the printed form provided for the pur pose, and which may be obtained on application at the said Office. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and, bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for and, must also be delivered at Somerset-Place. - GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICE OF QUI WM. BURNETT'S DISINFECTING FLUID. is. Quarts, 2s. Pints, Is. Half-pints, 6d. rarsTaluable DEODORISER and DISINFECTANT instantane- MAI); destroys all BAD SMELLS without producing any itself. "-Itt.treo - use, as•directed, PREVENTS CEOLERA and all CON -4/01./ DISEASES. ,Sold by all Chemists and Druggists, and at the °Rice, 18, Cannon titre,¢t, ' London-bridge. N.B.—Beware of a spurious imltatioa. B. A-VESEND STAR PACKETS. No other ?ackets call at the Greenhithe and Purfleet Piers. !The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting). FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. TOM. . 4 : -*kg s SUNDAY; 0 0 17 i 3 U s " a . Omnibuses rom an Fenchurch- street Station to all parts of Lon don ; eTery quarter hoar. INWINSWICK WQARF, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the fol. lowing Trains from the Fenchurch-street Station. ....---------'--.......--- Wilt DAYS. SUNDAYS. \ 7 ________ :,...„, a ' —*----------- Fen _ , 5 4 't: i 0 church ii , 1 .2; church ; J!, , c 0 , Street 4 8 t', 8 Street 4 8 4 E ..- ' 8 g g • io 11 24 44, , , • ' Fore Cabin. Saloon. To or from Gravesend and London.. •• •• 10d. .. is. 2d. • Gravesend aid Blackwall or Woolwieh Bd. .. Os. 10 d. Between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. ad. BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 51. Os.; Six Months, 3/. Os.; Three Months, 21. Os. • to be had of the Collectors on board the Packets; or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. Nov. 13, 1954. QPECIAL NOTICE until MARCH 1, 1855.- 1.7 E. MOSES and SON'S ESTABLISMENTS will be CLOSED St EIGHT O'CLOCK EVERY EVENING, except Saturday, when they will be open until 11 o'clock. REINFORCEMENTS OF THE ARMY. The success which has crowned the arms of England and France Tequires increased numbers to pursue the victories already gained. On the broad surface of the ocean float cargoes of valiant men, whose duty and ambition stimulate them to seek the honour of their na tions, and the establishment of the peace of Europe. The success which has attended the exertions of E. Moses and Son in their re splendent provision foNithe Winter Season, has induced them to marshal an entire reinforcement of Winter Novelties, which will tell most effectively on the inhospitable influences of the weather. In the Winter Quarter every one will find the most satisfactory Quar ter in the ingenious and seasonable productions displayed by E. Moses and Son at their Establishments, and may procure the newest and best Attire at quarter the sacrifice of .time and trouble, and at Much less cost than at any other house. E Moses and Son's new Stook of Overcoats are the firm and well-tried Guards for Adults and Juveniles. They are proof against the storms and batter of Winter's FOrees, invincible protectors in the cold and wet season. Vv^ count less infantry forces signalised for neatness, elegance, and style, are drawn out in splendid flies of Juvenile Attire, Fancy Goods, Hosiery, Ladies' Dress, of every Description, Boots and Shoes, &c., &c., which will fully prove that the skill, talent, and resources of the manufac turing wore are in the command of E. Moses and Son. The Wholesale Clothing, Shirt, and Boot and Shoe Department offers selections from the largest and most seasonable Stock in the world, and secures the greatest advantage to Merchants. Captains, Emigrants, and others. Fu'l Lista of Outfits for Ladles and Gentle men, with sbip-salling information, gratis on application, or post- free: Mourning, to any extent, at five minutes' notice. CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to gaard the Imblle against imposition,having learned that the untradesman-like falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has b een resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITS ANY °THE& 110176 E IN 011 Our or LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 84, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all connr.unicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, and 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate. -Colonial Wholesale Branch, Melbourne, Australia. Shoe M akers, Tailor,. Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and ''Siirelk!rti , and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. exchanged ~ .--Should any article not give satisfaction, it will be 5 " desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation, pike, irom which no abatement goods are marked in atement can be made. plain figures, the lowest The Estabushmeas are On Saturdays, when business is min an from sunset on Fridays to sunset 14 r esumed l till 11 o'clock. A new Book for An copia," contng full lists or men u prx., ac., may be had onP Inter. "The Commercial Corn., application, or post-free. , our system at self-measnre - Id Von parte Francais. fli e r spricht man Deutsch. Qni 81 parla Italian.. Aqua sa habl a Espano. THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY, J us t published, price 25., illustrated with eases ; free by post for 30 stamps, NERVO US DEBILITY; Its Causes, Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essay on nastorrhcea, with Practical Observations on a safer an d S P er " successful mode of treatment of the diseases of the and more System, obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting rat X distinguishing, by urinary examination, the real cause and eff ec t — of every variety of com plaint, whether arising from solitary habits, To which excesses, accident, or clim ate, followed by practical remarks, founded on twenty years' exp erience in the treatment of Impnissa Nervous Debility, Loca l Weakness, Spermatorr hosa, &e . Marriage, are added, Conirn en t a ries on the Physiology of pre cautionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice, and on the Dangerous remedies advocated by various writers on these important disorders. M SAMUEL LAERT. M.D. By 37, REDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of m e di c i ne , Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Lleentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have 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. Its perusal is Particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of th eir hysical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded the he P alth, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. It is absolutely necessary thatall men should know, tha lat t the without re are Principles of personal management wh ich cannot be vio ed incurring grievous penalties, and whe n wisdom and regret succe the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences maybe avoided, and above nal all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functio derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. The Author has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive Practice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have unfortunately teen too generally confided to the car e of ignorant empiric,, who inflict great injury on those who are induced to place faith in their pretensions. Brothers, DEBILITY may be had, price 2s , of M essrs. Piper, n and Co., 23, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street stampste,l9, Leicester-square; Mann, 39, Cornhill ;or free b y p thirty ost for ror 1 to any address from the Author's residence, 37, Bed for..-square. At home for cOllllll Six till Elstlit tation daily from MO^cl till Two, and from , BAILY' S Painting by J. Ileautifu. 1. Beeswing 2. Charles XII. 3. Cothcrstone 4. Poison 5. Nutwith C. Confidence 7. Alice Hawthorn 8. Orlando 9. PritICCE3 la. Foigh-a-Balla:21 11. Merry Monarch 12. The Emperor 13. The Baron SERIES of F. HERRING, sen., an( Iy coloured, price 14. Sweetmeat 15. Pyrrhus the First 15. Mendicant 17. Alarm / 5 1. Slane 19. Gladiator 20. Sir Tatton Sykes 21. Cosgack 22. Van Tromp 23. The Hero 21:Surplice 2i'. 'rho Flying Dutch ' man VINNER S. HARRY HALL. each— 26. Voltigaur 27. Canezon 2S. Teddington 2!). Nancy 30. Newininster 31. 'Daniel O'Rourke 32. Stockwell 33. Wes , Australian 34 Irish Bh•icatcher 35. Melbourne 35. AndoTer 37. Kt. of St. George 3S. Virago Bally Brothers, Cornhill. Londol VIRAGO.—Mmrs. BAILY BROTHERS beg to announce, that they are preparing an ENGRAVING of this celebrated MARE, after a beautiful painting in possession of Mr. Padwiek. It will be published directly, uniform with Bally's " An dover," " West Australian," " Knight of Bt. George," &c.—Corahill, London. On the Ist of or g in May n by was pu Harry Hall, priulcblished, beautife £3 3s. ly coloured lafter the g i , THE GREAT MATCH at YORK between THE FLYING DUTCHMAN and VOLTIGEUR, with Por- traits of The Earl of Eglinton. Tho Earl of Zethind. The Hon. Admiral Roils. George Payne, Esq. London : Bally Brothers, 3, Roy, Fobert. B. Charles Marlow. Nathaniel Flat - Ilan. 'al Exchange Buildings, Cornhill, STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA.. Just Published, price 55., by post, free, ss. fid., -r HE PATHOLOGY and RATIONAL TREATMENT of STRICTURE of the URETHRA.; with numerous Cases illustrative of every variety of Ure thral Obstructioi, and their special Modes of Treatment and Cure. 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 : iI. Raillire, 219, Regent-street. TRIESEMAR, protected by Royal Letter Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole d 5 Pharinacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna.t TRIESEMA.II, No. 1, is a remedy for Relaxation, Spermatorrhcea, and Exhaustion or the ilystem. TRIESEMAR, No. 2, effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of those Disorders which Capivi and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the ruin of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR, No. 3, 's the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which mfortunately the English physician treats with Mercury, to the in evitable destruction of the patient's constitution, and which all the ,arsaparilla in the world cannot remove. TRIESEMAR, No. 1,2, sknd 3, aro alike devoid of taste or smell, and of all nauseating qualifies. They may lie on the toilet table without their use being suspected. Sold in tin cases at I le. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, See.—To be had Wholesale and Retail in London of Robert John ston, 63, Cornhill; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street. IVEEE DAYS. .............. i A i l " IP ' . .. . 01 Mae 2' ~.. K il" • ' ..--. --- L,L ~ -~-~ No. 19,400.] LONDON, WEDNE PUBLTCA TIONS. TS/Tf R. ALBERT SMITH has the honour to 4,31, announce that his ASCENT of MONT will RE OPEN for the SEASON, at the EGYPTIAN HALL, on MONDAY :WENING, Dec. 4,1854. During the recess the Hell has been redecorated, and every atten tion paid to the approaches, seats, ventilation, and general comfort of tha audience. The Route to Switzerland will be entirely changed, and will conduct the visitors from London to Rotterdam by Brussels, and thenc3 through Holland and up the Rhine. The new views, painted by W. BEVERLEY, will be—Amsterdam, on the Rokin Canal, looking towards the site of the old Bourse ; the Village of Brock; the High-street of Berne, with the Clock Tower; the Pass of the Gemini ; the Hut lately erected on the Grands Mulets; Lyons ; and the Place de la Concorde, Paris. In addition to these, a Pano rama of the Rhine, by M. Groppius, of Berlin, will accompany that ;,ortion of the lecture, including Rotterdam and the chief objects of interests between Cologne and Blinen. The lecture will be further illustrated by a number of appropriate models and diagrams. In addition to " Galignani's Messenger," Mr. ALBERT Sarrru will intro duce three news songs, " Murray's Handbook, " Poste Restante," and a running commentary on the scenery, called " Up the Rhine," as well as several new friends encountered on the journey. The Box Office Is open from Eleven till Four, when stalls can be taken without any extra charge. -------s,..—__ NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF "ANNE DYSART." Nov ready at all the Libraries, in 3 Vols., HERBERT LAKE. By the Author of " Anne Dysart," &c. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MR. KNIGHTON'S NEW WORK. On the Ist of December, in 2 vols., 21s. bomb'', TEOPICAL SKETCHES ; or, REMINIS CENCES of an INDIAN JOURNALIST. y W. 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Gd. SONGS FROM THE DRAMATISTS. 2s. 6d. SIR THOMAS WYATT. 2s. 6d. OLDHAM. 2s. 6d. WALLER, 2s. 6d. London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. This day, price 7s. 6d., bevelled boards; or 13e., morocco antique, THE OLD CHELSEA BUNHOUSE ; a Tale of the Last Century. By the Author of " Mary Powell." Uniform with 'Cherry and Violet." With frontispiece. Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co., 25, Paternoster-row. This day, in foolscap, illustrated, price 4s. Gd., cloth gilt, ABOY'S ADVENTURES IN THE WILDS OF AUSTR S LTA ; or, Herbert's NOte Book. By WILLIAM HowiTT. With designs by Harkey. Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co., 25, Paternoster-row. On sth December will be published, MISCELLANIES, CRITICAL, IMAGINA TIVE, AND JURIDICAL. (Contributed chiefly to " Blackwood's Magazine.") By SAMUEL WARREN, D.C.L., F.R.S., One of her Majesty's Counsel. In Two Volumes, Post Octavo. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. On Thursday will be published, BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, for DECEMBER, 1854. No. CCCCLXX. 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A Few Persmal Recollections of Christopher North. By the Author of " Ten Thousand a-Year." William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. F RASER'S MAGAZINE for DECEMBER, Price 2s. Gd., or, by post 35., contains-- Charles K emble. " Gilt and Gingerbread ;" or, Tom Fool's Day in the City. English Letter-writers of the Eighteenth Century. A Common-place English Tour. A Legend of Despair. By Frederick Tennyson. Researches in Dutch Literature. Fifth and Concluding Part. General Bounce. By the Author of "Digby Grand." Conclusion. A Midsummer -Night's Dream. Thai Poultry Pentabigue. Kaye's Life of Lord Metcalfe. Siam, and its Distinguished Princes. A Retrospect of the War in the East. London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. The DECEMBER NUMBER (Price Half-a-crown) contains — The Events of the Year. Charles Keruisle. The Attitude of Austria in the East. Aspen Court, and Who Lost and Who Won it. A Tale of our own Time. By Shirley Brooks. -' Lord Mayor's Show. Regrets. By Mary C. F. Monck. The Fate of Sir John Franklin. Paris Viveur, Bohemian, and Industrial. Robert Southey and Charles Lamb. An Adventure in Switzerland. The War-Fiends' Mission. By Mrs. Bushby. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. Contents for Decemher. No. CCCCVIII. The History of the Siege of Sebastopol. I. Commencement of the Siege.—ll. The Naval Attack.—lll. The Battle of Balaklava.—lV. The Battle of Tcbernaya.—V. The Battle of Inkerman. How to Travel in China. Street Fairs in the Eighteenth Century—Trade and Commerce in the Eighteenth Century. More Stray Letters from the Seat of War. Light Readings in Alison. By Sir Nathaniel, The Sister of the Hotel Dieu. By Dudley Costello. The Aunt and Niece. By the author of" The Unholy Wish.. " Doing our Vesuvius!' The Psychologist , Can you so soon forget me? The Whisper in the Market -place. Diary of a First Winter in Rome-1854. A Roman Steeplechase —the Martyr Church of San Martina and Accademia of San Lica — Footsteps of St. Pettr and St M . Paul. Also, price 2s. 6d., the December Number of AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. alland B o ll o a l l s l e , Il l e 9 r 3 s , *,,, ?,lj S a o p l in d b an y and Newsmen. Piccadilly. Just published, JAY'S MANITAL OF FASHION. Post 8, splendidly Illustrated. May be had gs, either by personal application or by post, at the LONDON GENERAL MOURNING WAREUGUSE, 247, 249, and 251, Regent-street. Just published, New and Improved Edition, price Is., THE CURABILITY of CONSUMPTION ; being a Series of Papers, presentinthe ost prominent and niportant Prac tical Points in the Treatment of the Disease. -By FRANCIS H. RAMADGE, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians, late Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary for Diseases of the Chest, Sze. Also, by the same Author, Price 10s. 6d. A TREATISE on ASTHMA. and on DISEASES of the HEART. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. ANDOVER AND ALFRED DAY, Winner of the Derby, 1854, Painted by llArotr HALL, and engraved by Harris, is now ready, price 11. Is., uniform with BAILY'S SERIES of WINNERS. Lomion: Bally Brothers, Cornhill. KNIGHT of ST. GEORGE and BASFIAM, Winner of the Doncaster St. Leger, will shortly be published, from a painting by HARRY Ham, engraved by Harris, price 11. IS., uniform with RAI LY'S SERIES of WINNERS. Loudon : Rally Brothers, Cornl34ll, PATRON-IL R. H. PRINCE ALBERT. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Miss GLYN will READ the MERCHANT of VENICE on Tuesday Evening, the 28th inst., at Eight, and MACBETH on Thursday Evening, the 30th inst., at Eight. The Celebrated TYROLESE MINSTRELS on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday Evenings, at Eight. LECTURES by J. 11. PEPPER, Esq., on CHEMISTRY. The next MONDAY EVENING LECTURE to the INDUSTRIAL CLASSES will be by Dr. CARPENTER, on PHYSIOLOGY, as con nected with REALM Subject : Drink, Blood, and Circulation. LECTURES by Dr. BACEROFPNER on the POLYTECHNIC GAS 'FIRE and ELECTRICITY, illustrated by the Hydro-Electric Machine, the most successful Apparatus in the World. A Splbndld Series of Forty-five COSMORAMIC VIEWS of RUSSIA and the Costumes of the Inhabitants. New DISSOLVING VIEWS of SEBASTOPOL, &c. On SATURDAY EVENINGS the TYROLESE MINSTRELS, and an A MERICAN ENTERTAINMENT, illustrated with Dissolv ng Views by G. HARVEY, Esq. ILI ATTRENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOiVlS. Now Open for the Season. —During the week the Orchestra ,will perform the Overture to Zampa ; Waltzes : Le Re fin des Mon ,agnes (first time), Germania, Solon Spruche ; Polkas, Fidelin (first time), Les Polies, Moscow; Quadrilles : La Guerre d'Orient (first time), Achamyl, Partant pour la Syrie (by d esire). L'Etoile du Nord; Schot tische: Malvina (first time), and (also by desire) the Alma Galop. Principal Cornet a Piston, M. Bonlcourt.-4kl teration of Time —Doors open at Eight; commence at half-past.—Admission, One Shilling. IMPROVEMENT IN COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ENGLAND AND IRELAND,—(Additional ac commodation for Traffic ; Powers to the London and North Western, the Chester and Holyhead, the Great Southern and Western, the Midland Great Western of Ireland, the Dublin and Kingstown, the Dublin and Drogheda, the Dublin and Belfast Junction, and the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Companies, and the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, and the Dublin and Liverpool Screw steam Packet Company to contribute and to provide Steam Boats, and make arrangements and to raise Capital ; Amendment of Acts). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that APPLICATION is in tended to be made to Parliament in the next session for an Act for providing additional accommodation for traffic on or in connection with the existing quays on the river Liffey, in the city of Dablin, and the quays and piers of Kingstown and Ilowth, in the county ef Dublin, and the quays and piers at Holyhead, by the purchase or lease by agreement of lands, and the erection of buildings, sheds, and other conveniences adjoining to and in connection with Dublin and Kingstown and Howth and Holyhead Harbour., or any of them, and the mitte s and piers thereof; and to empower all or any of the Companies - following (that is to say): The London and North- Western, the Chester and Holyhead, the Great Southern and Western, the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, the Dub lin and Kingstown, the Dablin and Drogheda, the Dublin and Bel fast Junction, and tbo Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Companies, and the City of Dublin Steam-packet Company, and the Dublin and Liverpool Screw Steam-packet Company, to execute the purposes aforesaid, er any of them, and to con struct. purchase, and hire, and work and use steam and other vessels, and to raise and contribute funds towards all or any of such purposes, and to enable the before-mentioned companies, or any of them, to enter into arrangements and agreements with respect to all er any of such purposes, and with respect to the management and direction of the steam or other vessels so to he provided, and the con duct ef the traffic to be thereby conveyed. and to the division and apportionment between and amongst the said companies, or any of them, of the toile, rates, and charges leviable in respect of through traffic passing between England and Ireland, and to enable the said companies, or any of them, if need be, to ap point a board of management or a joint committee or com mittees, for effecting the objects of the sai I intended act, or any •f them, and to enable the said companies, or any of thorn, and the In It Board of Works, and the other parties in whom is vested the management of the Holyhead, Kingstown, and Hewitt Harbours, and the quays on the River Liffey, in the city of Dublin, to enter into any arrangements or agreements which may be necessary In re ference to the purposes of the said intended act, or any of them : And the said intended act will also provide for the levying and recover ing of rates, tolls, and charges in respect of the use of the steam and other vessels so proposed to be provided, and in respect of the use of the proposed new buildings, sheds, and other conveniences at Dublin, Kingstown, Howth, and Holyhead aforesaid, and for granting exemp tions from the payment thereof, and for 'varying or extinguishing all existing rights and privileges in or with reference to the said quays and piers which would impede sr interfere with the objects and pur poses of the said intended Act, or any of them, and to grant other rights and privileges And it is proposed by the said intended Act to alter, amend, ex tend and enlarge some of the powers and provisions of the several Acts incorporating and relating to the following Companies or un dertakings, so far as those Acts will be affected by the grant or application to the same Companies or undertakings respectively of the powers and provisions whereof notice is hereby given (that is to say) : the Acts relating to the City of Dublin Steam Packet Com pany, the Quays and Piers at Kingstown, at Howth, and at Holy head, the London and North Western, the Chester and Holyhead, the Great Southern and Western, the Midland Great Western Rail way ef Ireland, the Dublin and Kingstown, the Dublin and Drogheda, the Dublin and Belfast Junction, and the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway Companies. AA Notice is hereby also given, That printed copies of the said intended act will, on or before the 30th day ef December next, be deposited in the Private Bill-oftioe of the Reuse of Contrails. Dated this 13th day of November, l COAL DEPARTMENT, North London Rail lJ way.—lTlghbury Depot.—IIETTON'S WALL'S-END (the best house coals In the world) are brought to the docks of this rail way at Poplar by new screw steamers, Cochrane, 750 tons, lletton, 750, and the Northumberland, 650 tons, chartered for this depot, and delivered thoroughly screened, to any part of London, north of the Thames, at 295. per ton. Orders to be addressed to Mr. Thomas Lea, Chief Office, Railway Station , Highbury, Islington.. Terms, cash on or before delivery. OYSTERS. —J. SWEETING is happy to inform his Frieads and the Public that his BURNHAM RIVER NATIVE OYSTERS are as fine as last season. Re has them six years' old, four hours from the beds, at his Fish and Oyster Establishment, 139, Cheapslde. Superior Oyster Rooms ; Steed's Ale ; Reid's Stout. TO LOVERS OF FIST.- ] 00 real YARMOUTH BLOATERS for Gs., package included. The above fsrwardcd to all parts on receipt of penny postage stamps, or P. O. 0. (preferred) for the amount. Send plain !address, county, and nearest station.—Address, Thomas Lettis, Jun., nsh-curer, Great Yarmouth. DR. DE JONGFI'S LIGHT BROWN COD LIVER OlL.—Medical Practitioners and other residents in London ere inrormed that, should they experience any difficulty in obtaining the Oil in their immediate neighbourhood, Messrs. Ansar, Harford, and Co., will forward it CARRIAGE FREE to any part of London, on orders being transmitted to them by post. Half-pint bottles,2s. fid. ; pints, 4s. 9d., Quarts, Is., IMPERIAL MEASURE. ANSAR, ITARFORD, and CO., 77, Strand. FOR STOPPING DECAYED TEETH. - Patronised by her Majesty the Queen, and 13.11.11. Prince Albert.—Mr. HOWARD'S PATENT WHITE SUCCEDANEUM for filling decayed teeth, however large the cavity. It is placed in the tooth in a soft state, without any pressure or pain, and in a , hort time becomes as hard as the enamel, listing many years. Sold by Savory, 220, Regent-street ; Sanger, 159, and ilannay, 6T, Oxford street ; Butler, 4, Clicapside ; Johnston, 63, Cornhill ; and all ellen - 113N and medicine vendors in the kingdom. Price 2s. 6d., with full directions for use enclosed. DR. CULTERWELL ON INDIGESTNERVOUSNE [ON. SS, DEBILITY, AND Also, on Urinary Derangements, p onsCtipation, and ILemorrhoids, ls. each, by ls. (Id. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. " Abstenua multi curantur morbi." A popular exposition of the principal causes (over and careless feeding, Scc.) 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 instruotions for tey.imen and observance of every hour out of the twenty-four. ho r Illustrated by numerous cases, &e. 2. LIGITITS AND SHADES OF MARRIED LIFE. " die which that hath no wit', I hold him lost, lielpless, and all desolat. Ile thst hath no child, Like sun and winde."—Chaucer. Subject : Marriage, its expectations and Necessities —Developme nt of the A ffections—Love Matches—Precipitate, impelled, and retarded Unions—Maritql incongruities—Mutual Unsuitableness — Mental Incompatibility and Physical Defectiveness —Advantages of inter marriage--Tbeory of Gestation—hereditary Resemblance—Mode of determining Legitimacy. On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all Unas simllable Alliances—Low of Divorce, &c., &c. 3. CaASTITY 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 casaalties 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 go:alto and urinary diseases—their nature and treatment, com prising especially primary and secondary symptom all forms of urinary derangements, stricture and spermatorrhcea s ;, with 250 en gravings and prescriptions. 5. The BLADDER, URETHRA, and RECTUM.—Comprising Urinary Derangements , Constipation, and llmm9rrtiolds. Vols. 6 and 7, companions to the preceding. THE ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. HOW TO BE HAPPY. " Juctmde ViTere." "Few words to fair faith "—Shakespere. Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ;or of DP.: RICHARD CULVERWELL, rrother, Successor, and Twenty Years Consulting Colleague of the late Author of the above, 10, Argyll-place, Regent-street, London, who may be advised f with on the above matters daily, from Ten till Five, and in the evenings, rom Seven till Nino. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Nor. 28. STOM EXCHANGE. —The market has been much de pressed to-day, in consequence of the belief that large sums aro urgently required by Government for carrying on the war. This being the last day for the account has added to the depression. Caledonian,; Lancashire and York shire, 70 - Midland, ti North Easternol; (York Stook), 25a. MANCHESTER, Nor. 23. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The market opened dull, and con tinned go throughout the day. Chester and Birkenhead, 17- Caledonian , 29 11-16 ; East Lancashire, 16 15-16; Lan• cas'hire and 'Yorkshire, 70i; Midland Consols, 678 ; South Eastern, 17 1 5-16. BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 28. STOCK EXCITAYGE.—Tho market continues very inactive, and a very limited amount oransacted. Great es t ern (Birmingham Guaranteed),f business t 72. Recruiting is proceeding actively in Norfolk. About 200 members of the West Norfolk Militia have volun teered• into various regiments of the line.—lpsivich Ex. press. 3DAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1854. A TTSTRALIA. SYDNEY, SEPT. 20,—The Madras arrived here with the mails of July in 60 days from the latest London date ; they were - delivered at Port Philip within 57. The fact that such a passage can be accomplished has given the greatest satisfaction to all classes in the.eolony, especially at a period when intelligence from Europe is expected with such feverish anxiety. The hope of establishing any thing- like a speedy and. regular communication with England was grovying very faint, and required something to revive it. As but a short time has elapsed since the depar ture of the Crcesus, there is no great mass of intel ligence for the present mail ; but it is rather more interesting than the last, and in nearly everything but the state of commercial affairs, which are even more depressed than at the opening of the month, it may be considered satisfactory. The yield of gold, now the gauge of our prosperity, keeps fully up to its average. On. the fields of New South Wales there is an indication of increase, and more labour and activity are being thrown into the pur suit. In Victoria what was thought a short time ago to be the " expiring Ballarat" has just emitted a flash of its former wealth and splendour in the shape.of-ft nugget of 981 b. weight, as if in honour of the visit of the new Governor, who has just arrived there on his tour. The lucky finders of the treasure immediately named it the " Lady Hotham nugget. Sir.C. Fitzroy communicated to ,the Council on thel2th inst. that he had recei3* the official noti fication of his recall. It is stated Sir William Denison is to succeed him. The announcement has been received here with very qualified approval, and the nomination cannot be called popular. The battle the colony fought against the transportation system, and the part Sir W. Denison took in it, contending stoutly to the last for the continuance of the " importation of felons," are not yet for gotten, nor forgiven. There is, on this account, a prejudice against him, which will demand time and tact on his part to overcome. The quiet current of local politics has been broken by a movement in the Council amounting at once to a resolution for stopping the supplies and an im peachment of " the Ministry." This measure has been provoked by the apathy, carelessness, and ge neral incapacity of the members of the Executive Government, made more apparent since the depar ture of Mr. DeasThompson, the late Colonial Secre tary. His industry and administrative ability, joined with great tact in directing the proceedings of the Council itself, covered a multitude of sins in his subordinates. He was always able to come to the rescue of a blunderer, and a l wa y s p re p are d with an explanation on any subject. Whether some of the incapacity so evident in the "heads of de partments" now may not have been partly pro duced by the long-continued habit of turning over all the business to the one able chief, till the others knew less of their duties than some of their clerks, may be a question. Certain it is that in the pre sent session the officials have been, to use a com mon phrase, " all at sea." The incompetence manifested itself gradually, and reached so high a degree of development during the discussion of the supplementary estimates for the present year that the patience of the Opposition broke down, and Mr. C. Cowper gave notice of the following reso lutions : "1. That the Government of the colony, as at present administered, does not possess the confidence of this House. "2. That this Council resolves to postpone the con sideration of the estimates for the year 1855, until it is assured that the public expenditure will be made under a Government formed upon the principle of Ministerial responsibility. " 3. That an address be presented to his Excellency the Governor-General, transmitting the foregoing re solutions, and respectfully' requesting that his Excel lency will be pleased to take them into his favourable consideration. The censure is confined to the officials connected with the administrative departments of the Go vernment. Mr. Cowper made a special exemption in favour of the Attorney-General and Solicitor- General. The other officers he accused of want of zeal, want of knowledge, want of industry, and want of good manners, the last always telling for something in the management of All bodies of men, from parish vestries to Imperial Senates ; but the chief special charges sprang from the management of the expenditure of the province. The Executive does appear to be falling into a system of extrava gance that no revenue so liable to fluctuations can justify. The supplementary estimates for the pre sent year amount to 185,0001. over and above the ordinary expenses. It is more than the whole ex penditure amounted to a few years ago, and is not accounted for either by any sudden increase of the population or by the outlay on public works and roads. There is a strong feeling out of doors against the mismanagement that must exist some where, and it is expressed even in quarters once favourably disposed to the official system gener ally. The Sydney Herald, for instance, describes the position of the Executive at present as one " of jarring incoheren ce , of helpless decrepitude , and imbecility littl e short of mental aberra tion." Nor was the language used by Mr. Cow per in the house much more qualified. Ho said the officers of the Government, in the discus sion on the supplementary estimates, had displayed "an ignorance, apathy, and carelessness in the highest degree reprehensible,—he could use no milder terms ; the history of the progress of that estimate through the House was the most painful passage in his Parliamentary experience ; one pub lic officer frequently contradicted another ; the grossest ignorance was displayed both in reference to the items and the works for which they were intended. The House would not be discharging its duty if it suffered the money of the public any longer to be squandered by such a set of ineapa bles." The general charg es were supported by refer ence to particular errors and shortcomings, and he wound up by .observing that " the motion, if it did nothing else, would enable the House to wash its hands of all responsibility for the mismanage ment of that Government, which he must pro nounce the most imbecile, the most inefficient, the most wasteful, and the most profligate under the sun." The Executive can, of course, as far as votes will do it, set this or any similar motion at defiance ; but the effect of such a debate, and the general discontent that has produced it, are de structive of that confidence and respect which it is the true interest even of an " irresponsible" Go vernment to secure. The charges should have been met by an immediate reply of some kind, especially as ample time had been given to prepare for the discussion. This was not done, and the Executive committed another error in sitting silent under the castigation, and merely applying, through the Solicitor-General, for an adjournment of the question for a week. The impression ' therefore, on the public is, th a t such charges can be made, and nothing can be found to repel them. Such a dis cussion in the last weeks of Sir Charles Fitzroy's government must be veryunpleasant to him, though he cannot be made responsible for the bad system under which mismanagement has had no check from public opinion legitimately represented. He has worked with the instrument as it was transfer red to him, and has left it neither better nor worse than he found it. The evil is in the system itself, which secures to the Executive a certain majority, and makes it in effect all but absolute. It is easy to call the few representatives of the large centres of population and influence "a factious Opposi tion," and override them by the votes of the nominee members who represent nothing ; but it is a mere semblance of power, and the confidence created by the reliance on such majorities is a false one. Tho motion will bo defeated, but the contempt and irritation it expresses will not be diminished. Such is one of the results of what is supposed at home to be " the representation of the people " in the colonies. It is a cleverly devised mockery of it, which studiously preserves all the names and terms of a representation deprived of all active and healthy controlling power. The result of the want of con fidence debate cannot be known in time for this The colonial Mint may bo considered established, though it will be longere it is actually in operation. Rather frightened at the future expense of the staff of officers, and doubting its present utility, a strong effort has been made in the Council to sus pend its establishment. Mr. Parkes, one of the members for Sydney, moved for a select committee to inquire into the whole subject. The debate opened the great question of the;curreney, and, in point of abstract principles, proved as unsatis factory as currency debates usually are elsewhere. The ordinary problems were stated—what is money generally ? and " what is a pound ?" in particular_ and received the usual conflicting answers. But, as no theory of the probable or possible results of establishing a Mint could got rid of the fact that the Council in the first alarm of the gold discovery had petitioned for the privilege of coin ing, and had had it granted, the main question had to be settled on very practical grounds. A , large expense bad been incurred and engagements made on the former vote of the legislative bode ;1 and there was a general feeling that the experiment must be made, though with its present knowledge of how the production and exportation of gold have worked, the Council would certainly not petition for a Mint now. It was alleged that the petition had only been granted under a condition that ren dered the privilege valueless. It was expected that the Australian sovereigns would be imperial coin, whereas they are to bear a distinctive stamp, though they will be of the exact weight and value as the geld coinage of England. This distinction is con sidered fatal ; the gold coined in the colony will be exported and received ah o home as bullion only ; it will not be a legal tender either in England or any of the British possessions ; it is doubtful whether it would pass current in the neighbouring Australian province of Victoria. Why go to the expense, it is asked, of striking coin that beyond the boundary of New South Wales will be but so much gold ? The metal as it is dug up suffices for every purpose of commerce ; its value is per fectly well known. In fact, gold commands a higher price hero than it does in London, and more than a Mint would impart to it—at least nominally. Other and minor objections were not wanting. The expense, of the establishment will be out of all pro portion to the population of the colony ; it will be at least 12,0001. a year for less than 250,000 inha bitants, while it is said the Mint of the United states supplies the coinage of 26,000,000 of popula tion for 30,0001. per annum. It is calculated that an issue from the Mint of 100,0001. a-year would be amply sufficient for the internal trade of the colony.; the machinery about to be erected is capable of coining several millions in the same space of time. Nor were these objections confined to the Council ; they prevail equally out .of doors : the Sydney Chamber of Commerce condemned the proposal, and 164 of the principal merchants, bankers, and traders of the city signed a petition against it. The opposition, however, has been raised too late ; the Executive is bound by its en gagement with the Colonial-office, and was com pelled to resist the appointment of a committee of inquiry, which was negatived only by a small ma jority of five. The Council, on the motion of Dr. Lang, has discussed the question of erecting the Moreton-bay district of New South Wales into a separate pro vince, to which it is proposed to give the name of Cooksland. The suggestion excites a stronger op position than the circumstances justify ; these di visions of territory are inevitable, and are merely questions of time and expediency. The province of New South Wales extends over an area equal to the surface of Great Britain and France combined; it is evident that the enormous distances from point to point must render the administration of the local affairs of a distant settlement, when they have to be referred to the centre, both tedious and. uncertain. The increase of population in the dis tant north of the province must eventually compel the Colonial-office to give that rising district a separate local Government ; toe much importance should not be attached to the feeling against the proposal in the capital. The only questions should be whether the population of Moreton-bay really suffer in their interests by the remoteness of the scat of Government, and whether they aro as able as they say they are willing to pay the expenses of a local administration. In the district north of the 30th parallel of latitude there are about 15,000 in habitants, and the exports from it arc valued at 1 500,000/. sterling a year. It "possesses laud both arable and pastural of the finest description, navi gable rivers, and a harbour," and is as well calcu lated to be the centre of another colonial system as Port Jackson or Port Philip. On the other hand, it is alleged that the demand for separation is pre mature, and that the district is not yet able to support the rather expensive machinery of a Colo nial Government. It is remarked that for all prac tical purposes Moreton-bay is nearer to Sydney than many places in the interior, that its resources are overrated, that a local board to manage local mat ters is all that can be required, and that an inde pendent Executive would merely involve it in debt and difficulties with the other colonies. A popula tion of 15,000 is, it must be confessed, a very small one for a province, and in general the case of the advocates of separation is much weak v in the facts advanced in support of it than in prMeiple. Dr. Lang's motion was negatived by 25 votes to 7. The important question connected with the in crease of the Australian provinces in number and power has hitherto been strangely overlooked or forgotten. Nothing has ever been done to lay the foundation of a systom of general control over their legislation, or to secure the means of any com mon action between them like that supplied by the federal authority of the United States. It might be supposed that the Imperial power ,pr the Colo nial-office would supply the deficiency, but it does not ; nor can it ever do so. It disallows certain acts or laws that happen to be at variance with the principles of the English constitution, or trench on the prerogatives of the Crown , and thus exer cises a certain control over the legislation of the provinces in those questions that affect the relations between them, as dependencies of England, and the Imperial authority ; but on local affairs the several Councils show a decided tendency to legislate with out the slightest care how their policy may affect their neighbours. It is even now easy to foresee on what points the most difficult conflicts will hereafter arise. Many acts may receive the sanction of the Crown, as containing nothing objectionable as far as the authority or interests of the mother country are concerned, which may cause the most mischievous confusion in the relations of the provinces to each other. Thus the several tariffs of Customs' duties are becoming yearly more different ; the import duties of Victoria already differ so much from those of New Sonth Wales, that on the frontier between these provinces on the River Murray they have rival Custom-houses, between which the settlers are as methodically harassed and impeded in their trade as if the two colonies were foreign States. If a new province wore created at Moreton-bay its tariff would probably differ from both those above mentioned, and more Custom-houses would be re quired on another inland frontier. Victoria has just passed an absurd postage act, differing from the system of all the other provinces, and that of England also, making any arrangement of a gene ral system of postal communication with Europe for this continent almost impossible, and throwing the correspondence between • the two provinces themselves into the greatest confusion. Any of the other Councils have it in their power to add to the mischief by some blunder of the same kind. In granting the Mint to New South Wales, it appears to have been left doubtful whether the gold coined in it will be current in either of the other three provinces, and it is by no means impossible they may each at some future time petition for a Mint of their own, though one well-appointed establish ment could with ease issue more coin yearly than the whole continent will require for its annual supply for the next two centuries. There is an University at Sydney, with au able staff of pro fessors and an endowment of 5,0001. a year, which the Government, with much good nature, pays for finishing the education of 15 young gentlemen. As there is no public or preparatory school to feed the University, it is all but useless ; one educational establishment of this kind would more than meet the requirements of the whole of the provinces for several generations, yet another is being founded in Melbourne, with a second endowment and another body of professors, and an equal certainty of failure in its chief object, from the same cause. The two provinces might have given some value to one esta blishment, had any power directed the respective Governments in a united action ; but two Univer sities for a population less than that of a small English county, whore there is not a single public or high school, to give the previous education re quired to "graduate" with any advantage, is a de plorable error. Even pursuits common to both provinces are governed by different systems, though the nature of the case required that ono principle should be observed. The tendency to legislate without regard to the general effect of their policy, or in a spirit of provincial rivalry, is rapidly in creasing, and the establishment of some authority, federal in effect, if not in name, will soon become absolutely necessary. The provincial Legislatures will shortly receive increased p owers ; but the esta blishment of what is called "responsible govern ment," without creating an authority to control the acts of the COIIII6IB as they may affect the whole group of colonies, will produce many enor mous evils. The constitutions sent home for approval all vary ; but none of them contain any provision—nor could they contain it—for creat ing a central authority within tho colonies that may supply the kind of supervision hitherto exercised, though very imperfectly, by the Crown. If this is left undone, a few years hence there will be on the Australian continent several independent States (there are already four, with a fifth fast growing up), each with a local Govern ment and Legi slature, stron g ly imbued with local feelings and jealousies. Theywtiiille setoilultbroeldoefpteinie dencies of Eng land, but, having colonial finances and the land- fund, the imperial power will present but a slight check in practice to ' 7 ,/' ~ A 1 'C-~~Gv~ ~ .~ '///~~v/ [PRICE SD. much inter-colonial rivalry ; and we may yet sec , Englishmen, in the age of free trade, fighting each other with hostile intercolonial tariffs. As the im perial authority withdraws or lessens its inter ference with all these States separately, some Australian board, council, or senate must be created, with a power of disallowing or suspend ing those portions of the local legislation which would evidently be a general mischief. The problem, briefly stated, is this :—One country will in a few yesrs be under the government of five or more Legislatures. Though Australia is generally called "a colony," it is much more ; it is a cluster of States on a vast continent, to which State after State will be added in the course of time. They have long outgrown the shadow of authority vested in a Governor-General ; the control of the Crown will in future apply only to certain defined laws and acts ; over all other questions the local councils will have full authority, and without some power on the continent itself, and rooted in it, to guide the separate Legislatures into something like har mony with each other, or, at least, to prevent them from coming into conflict with each other, every thing will degenerate, year by year, into more help less confusion. Such a body might be formed now the pending settlement of the constitutions of all the several States by the Imperial Parliament fur nishes an opportunity that may never again occur. It is for English statesmen to consider how the op portunity is to be used, and the consequences of neglecting it. Sir Charles Hotham, as above stated, has paid a visit to the gold fields of his government ; as he did not go in state, and dispensed even with the aftendance of an " orderly,' he was some time among the diggers at Bendigo before lee-was recog nised. His Excellency and his lady were most loyally received throughout their tour, and Sir Charles has evidently impressed the mining popula tion very favourably. The gold returns of Victoria show that the pro duce of the several fields not only keeps up to an average of 30,000 ounces per week but that for the month ending on the Ist of STptember the weekly average was above that quantity ; it was 131,563 ounces. This return includes only what is sent in to Melbourne and Geelong by the escorts, but there is good reason to believe that a large ad ditional quantity is brought down for sale by private conveyance, as the roads to the nearer fields are now much safer to travel with a " heavy belt" than they were even a year ago. For the week ending the 2d of September the quantity of gold received at Melbourne was 28,041 ounces ; for the week ending on the 9th it was 31,728 ounces. The whole quantity of gold shipped from the colony during the present year is 1,489,800 ounces, valued at 5,923,2001. sterling. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Commercial affairs both in Sydney and Melbourne continue in a state of the utmost depression, and com plaints are loud and heavy of everything being over done. Many predict "a crash," and there will no doubt be some minor failures ; but that what is understood by the term "a commercial convulsion" will occur does not appear probable. The bulk of the losses on the late large shipments and forced sales will fall on the exporters at home, who have speculated with some thing like infatuation, regardless of the numbers of the population, or what suits the market. The resi dent firms, who order exactly what is wanted ; have the command of storeroom, and can wait, are not positive losers, though at present they may not be making profits. The immense deposits in the banks of Sydney and Mel bourne, and the fact that the paying power, the yield of gold, is rather increasing than diminishing, indicate that the mass of the mercantile houses are perfectly "solvent," and something more. The retailers who have taken premises on lease in the last two years, trusting to the continuance of excessively high prices, and find business decrease both from competition and the glut of goods, will bo the severest sufferers. A gradual descent to a more nattral level of rents and prices would be a public advantage, though it might involve the ruin of some of the over-sanguine traders, who appear to have believed at one time everything could go on rising for ever. The severe losses of many exporters in Eng land must at last produce their effect, though all the warnings from the colony during the list year have failed to impress on their minds the fact that 600,000 human beings anpet consume sp much as 6,000,000 ; that there is a limit to the consuming power of the colony, and that that limit has been fully reached. The' stocks in Sydney-and Mel urne are enormous ; and it will require time to reduce them. So completely has the state of things changed, that English manufactured goods can be bought here and re-exported to Europe at a profit ; and a system of speculation, based on the cer tainty that it can be done, is actually springing up. It will be perhaps difficult to give steadiness to trade will]. a "land of gold" till a few years of experience has given some severe lessens. San Francisco and Cali fornia are equally over supplied in this, the fifth year of their golden era, and the returns of sales in that region, like those from Australia, show that the shippers are losing. As for the communities thus over-cared for, all who are only consumers of course will hear of the ruin of their mercantile benefactors with great calm ness. All the commercial reports agree in recom mending caution to exporters on speculation ; there have been so few transactions since the last mail that prices remain unchanged. In many articles they are only nominal, for no business is being done in them. The Sydney branch of the Oriental Bank has announced it will allow interest of 2 to 5 per cent, on deposits. The plan has excited much hostility from the other banks, which have been declaring large dividends, made by the use of the extensive deposits, for which they paid nothing. It is not unlikely that, however reluctant, the old banks will be compelled to adopt the same system finally. Price of Gold in Sydney, Sept. 19 :—New South Wales, 31. 17s. to 31. 17s. Gd. per oz. ; Ovens, 31. 191. to 31.195. Gd. per oz. ; Port. Philip, 31.19 e. to Si. 19s. 6d. ; Melbourne, 41. per oz. Exchange on London, 5 per cent. .7%. a .A . ' large commercial transactions have taken Plaoe ; sites- for go-downs and dwellings haver - beenNletri i chased by foreign firms ; the prices have - been set- - tled with the ii,tive proprietors, the limits fixed,' and the ground actually occupied ; all that rem lined.; was merely the formal affixing of the seal of the mandarins ; but up to the present time we are told remonstrances, entreaties, and threats, have proved 1 ineffectual, and the foreign merchants cannot take a single step towards building op their lots. Hun., deeds of thousands of dollars' worth of valuable property lies unsafely deposited in places where there is not the slightest security against fire or plunder, and all these vexatious hindrances have been more marked and aggravated since Sir John Bowring's interview with the viceroy. Ningpo is quiet; but how , long the mandarins can ward off the coming . blow ins very uncertain. An immense number of junks block up the mouth of the river off •Chinhae; and also in the river off the city of Ningpo, partly unable to dispose of their cargoes, but more generally deterred by fear of pirates from venturing out to sea. The whole country is out of joint, and things must become much worse before they are - likely to get letter., The piratical fleet from the south, which was in the employ of the Taoutae Samqua for conquering the rebels at Shanghai, is now assemb li ng in great force in the Ch u s an group, attacking and. destroy ing, without mercy or distinction, any craft, whether native or European, w hi c h comes within its reach. Great fears are entertained of their being embold ened to attack Ningpo ; and, in that case, the city would be not unlikely to fall into their hands. Apak, the noted pirate chief, is in Ningpo, and openly levies black mail. The English vice-consul has written urgent communications to the senior naval officer in command at Shanghai, representing the danger of the city, and the importance of ' despatching a vessel of war in search of the pirates. This state of things shows to what straits the Chinese Government is reduced, when it calls to its aid against its own rebellious subjects a band of pirates who one month are the paid mercenaries of his Imperial Majesty, and the next month may become a but,- caneering squadron, dealing destruction and rapine upon the inoffensive and defenceless population along the coast. How the present dynastycan nui d, longer stand on its legs will be a marvel. It i s a u but powerlesa for the protection of the seaboard, - • . MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. CASUALTIES BY DEATH IX INDIA SINCE THE DEPARTURE OF THE MAIL ON TRH 14TH OCT. BOMBAY.—Assistant Surgeon J. Crawford, at Gogo, on the 4th October. MADRAS. —Capt. G. Simpson, 22d Regiment N.I. on board the steamer Sir F Currie, on the 6th October. BENGAL.-- Surgeon Eldertsn, at Murree, on the 3d Oct. ; Superintending Surgeon Charles Bransby Fran- , cis, at Calcutta , on the 25th Sept. ; Lieut. J. Brown, 27th Regiment N. 1., at Agra, on the 27th Sept. CANTON MARKET REPORT. HONG KONG, Oct. 11. Since the 27th ult., the date of our lastadvices, we have no transactions to report in imports, and little has been done in purchases of tea. TEA.—For the fortnight the business has been on a very limited scale, confined to chops of congon and about 4,000 packages scented teas. Prices are without alteration. The eight chops that have been expected for some time have been received, bat only two of them are in condition. For these (Woonam kinds,) Ts. 32 to Ts. 34 are asked. It is said further supplies have reached a place on the river, but the difficulties in the way of bringing them forward, it would appear, exist to a greater extent than before. The sales have been 1 chop Cuan, Ts. 191 ; and 1 chop Woonam, Ts. 22 ; scented caper, Ts. 16.18, and scented orange Pekoe, Ts. 20.28. The Eto^k of congou . consists of 3 chops abovementioued, and 5 chops Woonam, out of condition. Exo'ian;2e on England, six months' sight bills, 4s. 9id. ; on India,, Company's acewpted paper, rs. 247 per $lOO. Bullion—Syoee sUver, Ts. 2.2 pre.n. ; go:d, $2l 600. per tad ; Carolus Dollars, 22 per. cent. prem. Freights—Two vessels loading. The rate may be quoted 41. 10s. to .51. Our adviees from Shanghai are to the 2d instant. A eonsi lerable export business had been doing during the previous month, and imports had been moved off to some extent in barter. Long-cloths—No cash sales reported, but about 70,000 pieces were delivered in barter. Quotations—greys, 1,1 20e. ; whites, 1$ 80e. Woollens—Long ells had been sold at $5 80c., and Sp. stripes, at 80, but only te a small extent. Tea—For the month a large business had been done, and at advancing rates. Holmes sold at Ts. 11 to 13i, Kitha,ws Ts. 16 to 19, and Ningchaws Ts. 18 to 23. The demand for greens was active, and prices had ad vanc-A to last year's rates. Silk—Purchases bad been large, and prices in con sequence were higher. The settlements are estimated at 18,000 bales, but the export shows a falling off of 13,000 bales. Quotations were—No. 1 and 2 Teatlee, $325 to 330 ; No. 3, good, 280 ; inferior, 240 to 270. Taysaarns—fine, none ; good and fair, 225 to 245 ; oom mon, 180 to 210. Exekange on England for six months' sight bills, Cs. 3d. ; on India, Company's paper, rs. 310 per $lOO. Freights to England were looking down. They are quoted 41. to Si. for tea and silk. STATE OF TRADE. MaNctiEsTER, Nov. 28.—The low prices to which light 40-inch shirtings have declined, with a disposition manifested to make still further concessions, have in duced a disposition to operate ; and for descriptions suit able to India a fair amount of business has been done. A moderate business has also been effected in longoloths, but, the production having increased in consequence of manufacturers having given up the make of other cloths in favour of these, there haft been a slight reduction in price.. Some little increase of demand has also been experienced from the home trade at the reduced rates now prevailing, so that the aggregate business exceeds what we have bad for some weeks past. In yarns the market has been very flat, especially for cop twist, which is lower in price, with a prospect of a still further de cline. These and some other classes of yarns are now fully ld. below the rates demanded a fortnight ago ; and, though the depreciation of values in yarns is not so nearly on a level with the low rates of 1848, as in cloths, yet the advantage is at the expense of much less busi ness, the sales effected to day by spinners being very limited in comparison with the bugnoss effected by manufacturers. Both yarns and cloths have continued to manifest increased weakness throughout the day. Messrs. John Stagg and Co., giving a rather more un favourable account of the cloth-market, say,— " The reluctance on the part of buyers to operate, which has existed for the last few weeks, has to-day been more strongly manifested, and the general tone of the market is decidedly against producers. This may be attributed in some degree to the very favourable ac counts received regarding the cotton crop, and partly t) the financial arrangements anticipated on the meeting of Parliament. India goods continue in much the same cededposition L a o s n r g e e g i a o rds demand, ths andT b el 0 th u s t a p r eri stillces Lave under againcon contract az re ; and prices are consequently not affected by the falling oft in the demand." LEEDS, Nov. 28.—The woollen cloth-markets to-day have been fully as cheerful in tone as any during the pre sent month, but there has not been more than an average quantity of cloth sold. Indeed, the markets at this period of the year are rarely very brisk. The stooks on hand are within a moderate compass, and care is used to keep them so, all parties avoiding everything like excessive speculation. Some heavy goods, including 20,000 woollen rugs in one order, h ave j u st been made up here for the Government, who intend to send them to the army in the Crimea. Most of these rugs were made at Heckmoudwike—a village noted for its manufacture of blankets. These Government orders are foetid to be great boons in this district. The Leeds co rn•market has been but thinly supplied with second-rate qualities of w heat were ls. per quarter lower. The best wheat was about the same price as on this day week. gra in to-day, yet the ___.--.... CHINA. We have received files of China papers to the 11th October inclusive. We take the following summary from the Overland Friend of China : Earthquake, hurricane, and war, three of man kind's greatest terrors, have all been experienced in this part of the world since the publication of our last overland summary. Of the earthquake, felt both in Hong Kong and Canton about the same time on Thursday, the 28th ultimo, we find no mark of the phenomenon on the earth's crust ; and can say no more of it than that several persons were made sick by the convulsion. Of hurricanes we have reports of three which have been expe rienced in our vicinity within the last fortnight. The British ship Thomas Chadwick, and American ship Eliza Thornton, are the only total wrecks heard of ; if we except a large ship, water-logged, seen some seventy miles from Hong Kong two or three days ago. Of war there is much to tell—war by those enemies of mankind the sea-going pirates, and war between the Patriots mid the Tartar brood that infest the Chinese empire. But though there is much to tell of it, accounts are so mixed up with apparent falsehood that it is imprudent to write out all we hear. Especially is this remark applicable in connection with reports from the northern provinces. The Shan,hai rebels, it is said, are getting tired of waiting for the long promised relief from Nanking. Of matters about Canton, speaking generally;letter from the A DAUGHTER OF THE REGD-sTs.--sit " Recently, in they may be said to remain as last reported. We French camp whichbefosreo mecossac Sebastopolks Lad set fire, we found hear of horrible cruelties being perpetrated, every Ika l a iouse to ndon now and then, by mandarins, but of no important smok r e o , o a ni Cl a iild of about 18 months' old, elegantly the point of being suffocated with the success or otherwise. Two chops (some say eight) of new teas have arrived, somewhat dawaged, dressed, neck. The poor infant smiled upon our grenadiers, wh o and having a g old cross suspended from its within the last two days ; and it is to blninped removed it, and have adopted it until the family to mere will follow soon, or we shall begin to des 'who m it belongs shall be discovered. It is curious to P air for Canton's resuscitation. see the grenadiers fondling the baby, and treating it with tenderness as it could receive from its mother." Mattera continue quiet at Foo-chow, and there as much ismult.T. ___ i mem AND HEARING —Messrs. S. a n d B The valuable advan appears to be no immediate prospect of an out sOlonivonasT, opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, Ob break. Trade goes on as usual, and the people serve —opposite the York Hotel. Newly-constructed Spectacle w t er i seem to pursue their daily employments without Lenses of the transpare nt g i•eate t s h t is invoutionis fear. But in proportion as the Chinese Govern- taxeadorisod from preserved and strengthened, ion becoming nn ment feel themselves strong in any locality, to the p P ers i p ersons are enabled to employ their sight and very aged same extent they manifest a disposition to break minute occupation—can see with these l enses g of amucktl the 111°Ist their engagements with foreigners. A great deal nifying power—and they do not require the frequent change. eleg " has been written and said about Sir John Bow- to the4an w ge D r? s u c s effects of further powerful assistance. peaf ring's recent visit, and the honourable attentionast nnaley—powerful, over i y. n — evr Th i e.Organio Vibrator, an extraordi which he received from the local governmentdelusien I entirely different from all others, to instrument for deafness, Poo-chow. Never was there a greater' has been ' i kind that has been, or probably t4 ev elt e rPese anything o of the el than to suppose that his excellencyvisits ommunity I Being of the same colour as the skin, ever can be, p b e e rCe p p r ti ble c ; it an advantage to the foreign mercantile n dinterview with publiceesdeafersons to hear distinctly at church and at at Foo-chow. Since his visit. have assemblies; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises thrown every neee ears' the viceroy, the mandarins ave. that is . entirely removed ; and it affords all the assist possible obstacle in the way of foreign merchants,. possibly could be desired. By her Majesty's Royal every promise which Letters Patent for valuable and extraordinary improvements and seem bent upon breaking in the most owerful and brilliant Telescopes Camp, the- British imagines that the plenipotentiary gate-course, O p era and Perspective Glasses (glazed with Chi nese viceroy made to h . mum im A large and brisk • e Germ an Glass), to know the distances of objects trade has been ope ned with the native merchants, vie we d th rough them—of great importance to the army, and prospects of an immense export of tea, far be- I, a ivy, and others. These telescopes possess such extra• cl the most sanguine calculations, bid fair to ordinary powers that some 3A inches, with an extra eye yon render Foo-chow the great mart for black teas on ' Pie"' will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, the Chinese coast during the present troubles. And and the doubleestars ; wit t h hr t e h e e mi sr s e an tgle a sc i ol l ; l a s n tan b t e , when the tea trade has been diverted into the new seen an person'sobje ctfroml2countenance tol4 miles. They are of larger and all channel, it is not difficult to foresee that Foo-ch,ow 1 sizes, with increasing powers accordingly.— The Royal E a x. is likely to become a permanent resort for Chinese hibiton - , 1851.—Valuable, newly-invented, very sll2, whichl l traders from the interior desirous of sell' powerful waistcoat-pocket glass,tho size of a vralnubyanswer selling their . 1 a person can be seen and known 1i miles distant; they produce to foreigners. The old duplicitythe opera houses, and faith- 1 every purpose on the race-course, and at lessness of the mandarins h however, seen at Bto 10 miles. as, come into country scenery, and Ships are clearly lk" yachting, play ; and no attempt is left untried by them for ' They are invaluable for shooting, deer-sta tourists. 4732,g, t o preventing an extension of intereou • rsewith foreignerssportsmen, gcanip, and perspective glasses, with wonderful and crushing the first beginningsrace-course, of a foreign settle-object can be clearly seen from 10 to 12 miles ruent in the provincial capital. Many the British power ,an . of le treet Piccadilly. Ob set • ve—oppe. and. American firms have their agents on the spot ; site the York Hotel. ~• .~ -'