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q , d. 42q 126 1 4 , 1204 53 53!4 'el). 1 'an. 26 Offices, 9, Austin-friars, - (Removed from 18, Cannon-street.) December 21st, 1853. Tea r . ••:: 1855.. •• ****** •• •.• 1857.... •• • ***** /86tO•1..•• • **** 18 65 * • •• •" **** •—• to 18 5, to .. to . •••• 1146.•. .... '••• • to . 1891.....-- Age. 'MINING INVESTMENT. —Parties seeking safe and profitable investments should turn their attention to the shares of those companies formed for mining, especially when their estates are in Cornwall and Devon. The dividends from many of these are equal to 10, 15, and 20 Der cent. upon the subscribed capital, while others not yet paying dividends, but having excellent Prospects of soon doing so, afford at,undant scope for speculation, not alone from anticipated early returns to the proprietary, but likewise on account of the great enhancement In the value of the stock at tendant thereon. Mr. JNO S. LANE, 32, Po'iltry, London, having correspondents in all the richest mineral districts in England, is in a Position early to advise his clients. Parties communicating will re ceive all requisite information, and Mr. LANE will recommend either dividend paying, or non-dividend paying concerns, to those wishing to embark in mining enterprise, and state his reasons for so doing. 32 , Poultry, London, Jan., 1854. CUMBERLAND HEMATITE IRON ORE COMPANY. 50,000 i. Shares of IL each.—No deed to sign. NOTICE.—The Scrip Certificates of Shares to " I3earer"in this Corn- Patty will be ready to be exchanged fir the Banker's Receipts on and after the 21st day of January, 1854. This Company is not formed for the purpose of manufacturing Bar Iron under the "Joint Stock Act," but for the express purpose of working and selling the ore in its primitive state ; and•is to be carried on under the Cost-Book System, limiting the liability of the share holders to the amount of their shares taken and paid upon. The ore is of the finest quality; is absolutely necessary for making the best sorts of iron ; and can be p:oduced and shipped free on board at the port, H hitehaven, at 7s. 6d. per ton. The selling pric3 is now 13s. per ton. Contracts for the whole of the ore may be made at this rate. An application is to be made by the Whitehaven and itgromont Railway Company, next Session of Parliament, for an Act to Make that line of railway, and a l so a b ranc h di ne of railway from their main line to this Company's property, and when made will re duce the present charge for carriage of ore Is. 6d. per ton. The remainder of the shares not already subscribed for, are hereby offered to the public at par. Applications, up to the 21st day f January, 1854, may be addressed to the Committee of Management. or Secretary, at the offices of the Company, where prospectuses aad reports may be obtained, and samples of the ore inspected. By order, _ . H. HUNTER, I.IFE ASSURANCE; 4 REPORT of the SELECT COMMITTEE of the HOUSE of COMMONS. and the DEPOSIT SYSTEM—the New and Important Feature of Life Assurance adopted by The DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. The following is an extract from the Report of the Select Com mittee: - "THE OBJECTS which persons HAVE IN VIEW IN EFFECTING IN SURANCES upon their lives, are GENERALLY OF AN IMPORTANT AND SOLEMN character, viz., the PROVISION FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS after the death of their NATURAL PROTECTORS ; unlike any ordinary transaction of trade, a CONTRACT ONCE ENTERED INTO CANNOT BE DISCHARGED OR ABANDONED, if doubts of the stability of an office should arise, WITHOUT A SACRIFICE OF PREMIUMS PAID IN PAST YEARS, and the necessity of effecting new policies in other offices at increased rates of premium, owing to the greater age of the assured ; persons are thus placed in the ANXIOUS AND UN NAPPY DILEMMA OF BEING COMPELLED TO PERSEVERE IN PAYING PREMIUMS FROM TEAR TO YEAR, With SOME suspicion and doubt as to the ultimate advantage of doing so, oa OF INCURRING THE SE RIOUS LOSS WHICH, UNDER THE MOST FAVOURABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, MUST ATTEND THE ABANDONMENT OR SALE OF A POLICY." '° , ll On the DEPOSIT SYSTEM a p erson i s NOT " COMPELLED " to pay " YEAR TO YEAR," and he does not, if desirous of "ABANDON ING" his Policy, incur any SERIOUS LOSS," but, on the contrary, he taa7 Pay such amounts, and at such times as he may find most con venient; he can stop paying whenever he pleases, and he can with draw the whole or part of his premiums. If the whole be with r awn the Policy i s cancelled ; if part only, then the value of the Pokey is diminished by the assured value of the part withdrawn. i f 1 . 1 . aged 20, opens a deposit policy with a payment of 51., which Whl be seen he increases from time to time, and occasionally "Lintnishes. O = . kco-m0m4m0..0m,-, ... t- agE -mc, 4 :74gg41 , 34g2g - 17,28 23 ---"" h ' kl a.. , It Q e • "oN-. ~,,, -,,, ~,, *. i z _„ 8 -- __r. ... 4 "„ ..li it. .;,---,. z .., ~... ,ON C. .4. g P r " ) 1 8 6 , C=.7.?.3 4' . 2 . t. - 17 . , 4n,. S .. 4 , t 3 . t.- ,, li; - .4 ..„ cs, , m 4 ..was .; N ao 1 ' A "";'' III? ii - 111 ri . ",..-5 41 m .... 4 Al .. „, t ICI 74 S'i ... .. Cl "" ". -1 w -1 t 4 . 8 2 .1 74 . g-v t -a'. 4,,--ng—A2F .4essg = 0 ; ' o ' • •,• • "1 0 ''/'!, .!.: 611 4.-ao-oo ca.* ooaaa 004 /C. - 1 ,•, Qln r r rrr 0 ii . c a 0 5 I 4 8g 4) N 4 4 I g l :4 •-• al ' . ~ Ei it 1 : • : • • • • . • ...... 1.1 ..... c; : •-• • • • : ,...: b c . , ' .- - o • ',., •.-. •cia •-...- 1 :I.6l7,t,cigSzteiii W A 4.14844g4 48m443 3:' . . " I .. . . . . . 44 . W. M. W. Thus All , in 10 years, has saved and invested at different inter in s various sumo amounting to 971., by which he had been insured Ziscase of death for 2601. 12s. 7d ; but A B requires 22/. ; he draws diff m "t' and diminishes the value of his Policy by 601. Bs. 3d. . serent times, leaving him in case of death a Policy for 2001. , 5 1,1 ,1 ., and during his life a fund of 751. to draw out at any time, in v4rt or wholly Th e Coe th „,"‘ claim settled by the Deposit and General Life Assurance of was upon a deposit of 101. which a parent made for each sot children, instead of adding it to an account they had at the peal Bank. One of them died a few days after the 101. was do and the father received 341. 65., being the amount of the De- Dealt Policy. S UPPosi n EXAMPLE No. 2. beaus_ gA B, aged 23, when he opens a Deposit Policy his the the ssme .nd continues VOLUNTARILY IO pay the same sum every year waY as he is COMPELLED to do in the ordinary system. £. s. d. 49 6 6 48 16 0 47 18 0 47 4 6 46 10 6 45 17 6 45 4 0 44 10 6 43 17 6 43 4 0 206 7 6 190 4 6 141 3 0 1,000 4 0 PORT-TENNANT PATENT STEAM FUEL AND CO4l. COMPANY. Incorporated by Act of Parliament. Capital, X 50,000, in Shares of Ll each, to be paid up in full on Allotment. Interest at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum will be payable half-yearly upon the subscribed Capital until the works of the Company are in operation. T HE INDEPENDENT FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY, 1, MANCHESTER BUILDINGS, WESTMINSTER. Members not liable beyond the amount of their respective Shares. Shares, 301.; payable Weekly, Is.; Monthly, 4s. No Back Payments or Fines. Money advanced to build at bl per cent., thus avoiding the heavy rate of Interest required by many Building Societies. This Society differs materially from all other Land and Building Societies, and is established upon the most improved principles, securing to its members greater advantages than any other Society yet placed before the public. Any member may choose a Plot for himself in any locality suiting him, and have an advance of the pur chase-money, and the means of erecting a house thereon. Prospectuses and Shares to be had of the Secretary daily, between 10 and 4, and 7 and 9 on Tuesday Evenings; or a Prospectus for warded on receipt of one postage stamp. THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK, on the Scottish System (Incorporated by Charter), besides the tran • saction of all ordinary banking business, grants cash credits, allows interest on deposits and balances of current accounts, and issues pro raissory notes or bills, and circular letters of credit, and drafts or orders payable to the bearers on demand, or at any date, in any im portant town at home or abroad, and which, for merchants and tra vellers, possess some peculiar features of economy, safety, and utility. Detailed terms of business will be communicated on application at the head office, Tokenhouse-yard ; or at the branches-429, Strand; 77, Bridge-street, Lambeth ; and 97, Goswell-road. Islington. HUGH IRITES CAMERON, General Manager, WESTMINSTER ABBEY or VICTORY.— NELSON at the RA f Tj.E of ST. VINCENT.—LEGGATT, IIAY WAR D, and LEGGAT r beg to inform their patrons and friends, that T. Jones Barker's last grand historical PICTURE of NELSON RECEIVING the SWORDS from the vanquished officers on the quarter•deck of the SAN JOSEF, on the memorable 14th of Feb ruary, 1797, at the Battle of St. Vincent, is NOW ON VIEW at their Gallery, 79, Cornhill. Court Circular, Nov. 24, 1853.—Windsor.—" Messrs. Leggett bad the honour of submitting to her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Barker's painting of Nelson receiving the swords of the officers on the quarter-deck of the San Josef after the battle of St. Vincent." In cons •quence of the unfavourable state of the weather, the pic ture is exhibited by gas-light, and may be viewed from 10 till 6. )f town nearly an lin ood de ,ats and without it &I to shows a btained to come ales ara supply, lnd the 'he light as dear. 1 calves, rearing )s, Od to 1; slips, per lb. m 98 6d g do., 4a )d to 58s mds, 610 ; ditto o Os Od; to Os Od Od to al 2 1 ; Od al is 4ld 9d cob, report is new crop we have naffed. to ates. A ;, but the ners' pro ich exists )d in pro- ii 0 38 0 Le- 38 0 iles in the Aaneashire ern, 101; stern and 1, new 6- i Canal, 5 a were ; Eastern ci Winder . aneliester , ,11-Eastern, and there e morning Anglian? land, 60i ; :re ao g 7 l ll . J 5 531 fight -- X 3 X 3 17 9 ; 0 0 0 0 41134 0 0 0 0 I }4 al Post-offiett Whet , due hi I. Er - 1%1 6 . 11d ') • Each >l°Jl Ilan. 24 Feb. 4 Jan. 29 lUncerts° Feb. 14 Jan. 29 tJan. 26 ,Feb. 1 !Daily Feb. 16 'Feb. 1 " Ilan. 26 'Jan. 86 IJan. 26 t, L Tu.Th• ~Feb. 1 !Jan. 3 0 , Feb. 4 ls TwicOch ° 'Twice ?Jan. 36 Feb. 1 Dail7 Feb. I" Feb. 4 ;Jan. w TWlceci Alif Jan. SI! 'Feb. IF 'Feb. 14 !JAL 29 on Feb. 1 Jan. 2 ' o . r; l Feb. 1 10 is Uncert' s .. Jan. 2 2 on:Jan. 2- oniFeb. .. I Jan. 26 .. Jan. !,2 Jan..' )n,Feb. 1 miFeb. mails vri ll g l s s he India ibo patched .74$ 3RAGOOOINTU t tl itch arra7l have car;; teurable o a •eattnent , ithout °, 1 1; these in -- 140 ning PP' 0 f 3 COUrSe,or VOUChe d . 3 3 7 a ll d ni r ng s. Be nt, Aw" lk, Bro P the e D, the wif n on , i-Sban, lam; ~--r ea of AP. r, Voq" . 034 :ope, at l itlghter the Fool , i. it e 98t h of l e Sq., t 00 Inge° • e i and /1113 is }T° 3le : r Daslo° Fitzr , oddes doo, 4 Colleg e ' YO q (44 }To. I 'l oo ' gla 194 13 6 147 18 6 182 10 6 1,525 b 6 CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. P. Nelson, Esq., F.L.S. 3 ~'~. ~"' ofPremium of DM commencing at 23 years of age, a n d p a id u p on 43▪ Z ordi ps/7 Policy (As I T MOST Be) every year till A.B. is 46 years .4 Will secure the same sum, viz., 1, A B lives 17 . e ars longer (whi ch is the probable duration of but life if at the time he B eeted the insur ance) his Deposit Policy, for the same payments for• an ordinary Policy of 1,0004, will have increased to 1,625/. .3.641. the Right honourable the Loans' Drumlanrig, MX., P.C., O i.Comptroller of her Majesty's 44 0 or-General Sir W. Cla Household. Man-suare. yton, Bart., 79 , Gloucester-place, Port . q Port •h' Charles Price, Bart. Banker, Lond on . N' Ic e - Admiral Ayscough, Prospect House, Southampton. CHAIRMAN. the u, ..gllt Hon. the Lord Viscount Dntmlanrig, M.P., P.C., Comp troller of her Majesty's Household. t ST ANDING COUNSEL. • Crowder, Esq., Q.U., M.P., Recorder of Bristol, Counsel to the klelniralty and Judge Advocate of th e Fleet. F b sl t i ng c; Q.C., M.P., Lincoln's - i nn. t o ._ fll ce, No, 18, New Bridge-street , Blackfriars, London. Atila i ir ranted at 5 per cent. on rea l or personal s e cu rity. %ea b es on most favourable terms. Diseased lives and lives de- For other accepted at equitable rates. the eo,r/osPectusesoffices and further information apply to the agents in " r iu7, or to C. W. Bevan, Resident Secretary. IT.R . gents wanted in all parts of the United ingdom, —Life Assurances effected on the ordinary plan. , Ser o i ,o atnPhiets, to be had gratis on application at the Publishers (if by letter enclosing a postage stamp.) • " 4 SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES. . • THE SILENT FRIEND. In Six Languages—Fiftieth Edition. 11148t,„.eWrir IMO THE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISEAS . E. , . -nte d by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings an d eie w Cases. r..cdition, enlarged to 200 pages, price 2s. 6d., by post, from the shment, ps, ,U U R SILENT Establi FRIEND in , a stam Medical Work on tac e ,.. tile e xhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by , al, ero u Z e indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of With directions for the use of the preventive lotion, fol- De e c' e .3' obs ervations on Marriage, and the disqualifications which l'tit t , n „ t it I llustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. Strft;*.„` and CO , Co suiting Sur Pons, 19 Berners-street, Oxford -4,oo,flii;;.noilicidnb.y.l"iluabniniiiSahyed, 63 b , y ' She g rw . ood and Co., 23, Paternoster and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; Scir,4,_‘l4-6,11, r L e e h a d .y e a n r hall-street ; 95, Farringdon-street ; W. Sutton, 11 d ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; R Johnson, 68, Cornhi . 0, arg.„ 4 . ,T • treats of the anatomy and physiology of the reproductive and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. p, s , and dacel. tre ats of the consequences resulting from excessive in idea etr i " , and th e i r lamentable effects on the system, producing bodily weakness, nervous excit emen t, and g e nerati v e th e „, P 447. I llustrated by 10 Explanatory Engravings. .U, treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in l ags, tZarY or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for 'arcs, treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured HIV contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a ~he P, tki ,lncation, by which the danger of i n f ect i on i s obviated. • cai, ves de , oted to the consideration of msr r i aee and i ts dut i es. of unproductive union are also considered, a n d th e w h o l e ih Tti t eically and philosophically inquired into. Olt bre,ati,, D IAL BALM OF SYRIACUM is exclusively employed Per' b ot rlg new and sexual debility, impotence, 80c., Ils and 335. t i llnech,‘ l ?: The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic ),_'lln4:„ 'or Purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary igtra, .1, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I ls. and 335. per be%r I'a rrY's Purifying Specific Pills, 29. 9d., 4s. 6d.. and I Is. it Chit certain remedy for gonorrhcea, gyet, stricture, and ke_illflatranition oft he bladder. consultation fee, if by letter, K oil i t , "lae detail ci the case is required : age, habits, and post_ eiety. Si. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Ditablish kat which the fee 1/., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, 41Z°b7,..ence, daily, at andt, Oxford-street, Lon - ''srvesl till Two, Five to Eight; on Suida7Srom OA% CLOSE OF HOLIDAYS. The return of Youth to their respective Boarding-Schools induces a solici - tude from parents and guardians for their Personal Comfort and Attraction, and ROWLANDS' MACASSAR on, for accelerating the growth and improving awl beautifying the hair, ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, for improving the skin and complexion, and removing cutaneous eruptions, and ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Denti frice, for rendering the teeth beautifully white, and preserving the gums, are considered indispensable accompaniments for the attain ment of those Personal Advantages so universally sought for and admired. Beware of Spurious Imitations. The only genuine of each bears the name of "ROWLANDS' " preceding that of the article on the wrapper or label. Sold by A. ROWLAND and SONS, 20, Hatton-garden, London and by Chemists and Perfumers. M ORRIS'S BLACK SWAN HOTEL, SNIG-HILL, SHEFFIELD. Commercial Gentlemen and others are respectfully solicited to give this Hotel a trial. The house has been thoroughly Re-furnished, and affords every domestic comfort. Spacious and excellent Stabling. T. S. and R. M. MORRIS (late Head Waiters at the Royal Hotel Sheffield, and Angel Hotel, Whitby), Proprietors. No. 19,134.] LONDON, SATURDAY EV Tenth Edition, now ready, with Fifteen Illustrations, 1 0 a. 6d., T HE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS. By ELIOT WARBURTON. "A book calculated to prove more practically useful was never penned than ' The Crescent and the Cross,' —a work which su.- passes all others in its homage for the sublime and its love for the beautiful in those famous regions consecrated to everlasting immco , ty ."—Sun . Published for Henry Colburn, by his successors, Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. '• r ... 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R e b e li eved—and he did I i • fryitit - and an ea rnestness that he could net conVelll,l " that they would watch the opening 11, 0fe v 'ti,eition • intense anxiety and a sleepless vigilanN thitt would expmine ever 7 y ,featu re Or. the t t would endeavotir to detect the weak points and the strong points—to protest against the cne ,and support the other. (Applause.) But, if there was any appearance of honesty in the proposition of Government, let no man or body of men persuade them, for any other purpose whatever to withdraw their support from a Government which proposed a measure like that, or from a measure like that, so long as it should not be enacted upon the statute-book of this country. (The hon. gen tlemen concluded amid loud applause, having spoken an hour and a-quarter.) Mr. KERSHAW, M.P., having seconded the resolution, it was carried unanimously. Mr. HADFIELD, M.P. and Mr. CROSSLEY, M.P.having also addressed the meeting, the usual vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the assemblage dispersed at 11 o'clock. THE SHEFFIELD REFORM MEETING. ( From the Times. ) DR. CUMMING'S NEW WORK. This day, in fcp , cloth, full gilt, price 95., THE TENT AND THE ALTAR ; or, Sketches FROM PATRIARCHAL LIFE. By the Rev. JOHN CUM MING, D.D., F.R.S.E., with vignettes, uniform with " Apscalyptic Sketches." Arthur Hall, Virtue and Co , 2,5, Paternoster-row. This day, in post Svo., with 'vignettes, 600 pp., neatly bound, price lfis 6d., - • ROME, REGAL ANI) REPUBLICAN, a His tory for Families. By JANE STRICKLAND, edited by Agnes Strickland, Author of " Lives of the Queens of England," &c. Arthur Halt, Virtue and Co., 25, Pa,ternoster•rQw. MR. MESIVALE'S HISTORY OF ROME. Now ready, Vols L to 111., in Bvo., price 145., each, cloth, A HISTORY of the ROMANS under the EMPIRE. By the RCT. C. MERIVALE, 8.D., Late Fello* of 6t John's College, Cambridge. Vol. 111. completes the History to the Establishment of the Mo narchy by Augustus. ' By the same Author, in 12m0., price 7s. 6d., The FALL of the ROMAN REPUBLIC. A Short History of the last Century of the Commonwealth. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. " THE PRESS," No. 38, This Day (Saturday), contains, among others—lmportant from St. Petersburg —The Staffordshire Election—Burial Clubs—The Oxford Election— The Ecclesiastical Courts—Manchester Commercial Association — Spiritual America-- Removal of the Courts of Law —Secular Educa tion—City Corporation Inquiry—The Fusion—The Peelites, by John of the Funnels, No. 2—Sketches of Radicals, No. :3—The Uncon scious Radical—Literature : The Slave Sou, by Mrs. William Noy Wilkins—Cobdenic Policy, the In ernal Enemy of England, by A. Somerville, " One who has whistled at the Pleugh"—Murray's Bri tish Classics—The Works of Oliver. Goldsmith, by Peter Cunning ham—The Little Duke—Memorable Women, the Story of their Lives, by Mrs. Ne vton Crossland—Six Months in Italy, by George Stillman—Letters from Sarawak, addressed to a Child, by Mr.. M`Dougall—Notices of Books and Pamphlets—Periodical Literature — Theatres—Correspondence—The Guano Question, by IL S.—toge ther with all the News of the Week. "THE PRESS" is published every Saturday, at the Office, No. 110, Strand, price 6d. May be had of all newsmen, and at the railway stations. Money orders to be made payable to Mr. Alfred SEE " THE PRESS" of THIS DAY (th e 21 s t) for AUTHENTIC NEWS from ST. PETERSBURGH. ;UR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC, Y including the BERNESP, OBERLAND and the SIMPLON, EVERY EVENING at Eight o'Clock, (except Saturday), and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Mornings, at Two. Stalls, 35., which can be tarn at the box office every day from 11 to 4 ; area, 25.; gallery, Is —Mont Blanc, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. R OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON—H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. MAG NI F [CENT P lIOTOGRA.P El IC PICTURES, prepared ex pressly for this Institution by Monsieur Ferriere of Paris, exhibited on a surface of about a thousand square feet, with an ENTIRELY NEW SERIES of DISSOLVING VIEWS, daily at a Quarter past Four,'and in the evenings at a Quarter-past Nine. LECTURES by Dr. BACROFFNER'OII WILKDTS'S NEW PATENT UNIVERSAL ELECTRIC TELEGitAPN LECTURE by J. 11. Pxrrxx, Esq., on SPONTANEOUS COMBUS TION, with Brilliant Experiments. Open Mornings and Evenings. Admission, is.; Schools and Children under Ten years of age, Half-price. GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH (used in her Majesty's Laundry), and WOTHERSPOON'S Machine made CONFECTIONERY, MARA LADE, JAMS, JELLIES, &c., (which gained the Prize Medal of 1851), may be had of all Grocers ; wholesale of Wotherspoon, Mackay, and Co., 66, Queen-street, Cheapside, London, and Robert Wotherspoon and Co:, Glasgow. A. LLSOPP'S INDIA PALE ALE. In CASKS or BOTTLES. PARKER and TWINING (late Harrington Parker), 5%, PALL-MALL, are now delivering the October brewing in casks of 18 gallons and up wards. Alpo in Bottles, Imperial Measure. Quarts, Bs.; Pints, ss. ; Half-pints (for luncheon), 3s. per dozen. EXPORTERS to AUSTRALIA, EAST JutIN DIES, CAPE, &c.—Genutne YARMOUTH BLO %TERS.— For terms apply to Thomss lams, Fish Merchant, Great Yarmouth. GEOLOGY. —King's College, London.---Pro fessor TENNANT, F.G.S., will give a COURSE of LEC TURES on GEOLOGY. To commence on WEDNESDAY MORNING, January 25th, at Nine o'clock, and to be continued on each succeed ing Friday and Wednesday, at the -ame hour. It. W. JELF, D.D., Principal ANNUITIES ON THE MUTUAL PRINCIPLE ENGINEERS', MASONIC, and UNIVERSAL MUTCAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 345, strand, London, PURCHASERS OF ANNUITIES ADMITTED TO PARTICI PATION IN THE PROFITS. Policy Stamps paid by the Society. Assignments of Policies Registered Free of Charge. A Liberal Commission allowed to Solicitors and Agents on the introduction of business. ANTHONY PECK, ILA., Assistant-Actuary. DIRECTORS. The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., Director of the Eastern Steam Navigation Company. A. D Bottomiey, Esq., 62, Gracechnrch-street. Robert Ford, Esq., shipowner, Brooklands, Battersea. W. V. L. Foster, Esq., Director of the Melbourne Dock and Railway Company, J. G. B. LawrelL Esq., Gloster-place, Portman-square. Richard A. Robinson, Esq., 53, St. George's-road, Eccleston-square. John Yates, Esq., 13, Gresham-street. (With power to add to their number.) BANRERS—Messrs. Currie and Co., Comhill. SOLICITOR—F. P. Chappell, Esq., Golden-square. STOCKBRORIR—F. A. Helps, Esq., 21, Finch-lane, Comhiß, SEcitrrAny—George Angus, Esq. Office, 22, Moorgate-street. This Company has been formed for the purpose of Manufacturing and Supplying Steam Fuel of the best quality and upon tile most economical terms. The advantage of steam fttel over coal are :- 1. Freedom from spontaneous combustion. 2. Economy of space in stowage. 3. Less waste, either by friction or decomposition. 4. Saving in the wear of boilers and fire bars. None of the existing Steam Fuel Companies possess the advantage of being entirely supplied from their own collieries with coal specially adapted for the manufacture of the fuel. It has hitherto been the practice to manufacture the small coal or refuse only into steam fuel, and the heavy royalties paid to the patentees. and the expensive machinery employed, have left a com paratively small sum available for the purchase of even small coal of the requisite quality, without a material reduction in the profits. With a view to meet these objections, this Company has secured, upon advantageous terms, the right of using an economical patent process, and the patentee has entered into an agreement that the cost of the fuel, tree on board (Inclusivebf the cost and transit of the coal) shall not exceed Ss. 9d. per ton. The present price of the fuel at Swansea is 145.: thus leaving a nett profit of ss. 3d. per ton to the Company. The patentee has engaged that the first works, capable of produc . Mg 100 tons a day, shall be completed within four months from their commencement. The works will be enlarged with the increasing de mand for the fuel. As the enlargement of the works will not cause any addition to the expenses of management and other fixed charges, it is fair to presume that this will result in a considerable augmenta- tion of the divisible profits. The Company has also secured the lease of a valuable colliery of 500 acres in extent, with an unexpired term of 94 years, and subject to a royalty of 6d. per ton. There are five seams of bituminous and free burning coal, agregiting about 20 feet in thickness ; one seam has been already opened by level. The coal field is situated 300 yards from the Port Tennant Canal, which communicates with Brit ton Ferry, the shipping port of Neath, and the eastern side of wan sea harbour. These two ports nearly approximate the lines of the South Wales and Vale of Neath Railways. The coal on this property is peculiarly adapted, from its purity and strength, to the purpose for which it is intended; and it cin be easily won and worked as may be seen by reference to the geological map of the district, and the reports of two engineers and colliery viewers. Considering the very large quantity of coal which the colliery is capable of supplying beyond that which is requisite for the manufac ture of the patent fuel, the surplus can be sold for steam, manufac turing, or household purposes ; and from this source alone a large re venue will arise to the Company. Two levels can be opened in six weeks ; and the coal can be sold in any quantity and at a very remu nerative price, in Swansea and the contiguous markets. The Patent Fuel has been subjected to frequent trials, of which the most recent was made in the course of the month of June last, in the Wave Queen Steamer, and the very favourable result is detailed in the annexed reports by Messrs. Dickson and Graves. The long experience which each of them has had in the testing of various kinds of steam fuel, and the careful manner in which the trial was made, impress a peculiar value upon the unanimity of their opinion. The characteristics of this fuel are--its being well condensed and carbonised; its showing a clean fracture when broken, and being free from slag or other impure matter. It rapidly generates heat, brings out a clear fire under the boilers (which Mr. Graves designates as "brilliant"), with little smoke, cinder or clinker, and can be easily stoked. The economic value over coal consists in the fuel being free from decomposition and waste during a long voyage ; whilst it effects a saving equal to thirty-five per cent. in stow4e. REPORTS. Mr. J. DICKSON, Mechanical Engineer at the Millwall Iron Works, (late Engineer to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company). Atiliwall Iron Works, London, June 16, 1853 Gentlemen,—ln reply to your application for the result of the Patent Fuel you sent to the Millwall Iron works, I have tried it for four days, against four days of West Hartley, one day of Patent Fuel and one day r•f W. H. alternate, and made each evaporate the same quantity of water, and the result is as follows :—Patent Fuel, 1.58815. ; West Thirties., 1,7921 b. I have trb>clit twice on board the Wave Queh steamer, and it gave me every satisfaction for steam and nu appearance of choking the tubes. I have used some hundreds of tons of fuel on board steam-ships, but yours is superior to any I have used. I remain, yours truly, J. DicasoN. Mr. JOHN GRAVES, Acting Captain to the Wave Qneen steamer. June 11, 1853. Gentlemen,—ln reply to your note, requesting me to give you a report of your Fuel tried on board the Wave Queen, I have much pleasure to forward you the following. Having had five years' experience in the consuming and manage ment of Steam Fuel, I can with great safety state the fuel used on board the Wave Queen on her trial trip is certainly the best that has come under my notice. _ . First. Your - blocks are much larger than any I have seen, each weighing 211 b.: the other company's fuel weigh but 161 b. If your blocks could be made to weigh 601 b. you would have still greater ad vantage. as each man would carry and break his 601 b. block as easy as the 211 b. Secondly. I our fuel is much harder than any I have seen, that being a great advantage for long voyages in sailing ships, as most fuel is found to be wasted from ten to twenty per cent, by the heat of the ship's hold. I have known sixty tons to be shipped for the West Indies ; when it was unshipped, the slack weighed six ton•. Your fuel might, with safety be shipped to any part of the world. I feel convinced it will not soften. I placed a portion of the fuel under the ashpits : it remained there one hour ; and I found on in spection it was as hard as when I placed it there. Thirdly. The Wave Queen steamed fourteen miles and a half per hour on her trial trip, having plenty of steam blowing off; her fires were brilli+nt ; the fuel when thrown into the furnace swelled out to, I may say, twice the size it was when put on. I can say nothing about ashes, as I left the vessel before they were cleared out. (Signed) JOHN GRAVES. ofnAcepzligratthiontshefobrroskhearrs of esi t n he th c e om us p u l a ny l form may be made at the —__________ DR. SAMUEL .)octor of Medicine, MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF 1, 2:017TH AND MATURITY. sort etY. Licentiate a g Edinburgh, 11/Milted ERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, rand Matriculated Member of the University of rtme°. disorde Member of the London Hospital Medical 1- tl - I Y e v be ario C u ° , resulting from juvenile irregularities ofa the Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &C. , personally, or by letter, on nervous and generative system, in youth, degradation lure decay at all stages of life, and excesses, which have pro , than in manhood, and prema ture more misery perhaps any other class of dis eases iill(1331 to modern pathologists, Long and practical experience in the treatment of these diseases has has.prrved that there are in exist pernithe)ases and disappointed hopes in Constitutional habits, to which Nervous mice secret onuses of self-acquired and Unfruitful Marri ages,eakness, and their existence, traceable to certain know that there are Dehlll7m, cariousrtenc Impotency, , forms oEd o f a l n u i s Insanity, endless eisss absolutelym odlfieti modifications a e ry th t e h i almostr atjel m e a entire.homodriv,. principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and egret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, howthese penalties may be mitigated , b ow the sting of their bitterness may be r emoved, and how the evil and its comequenc es may be avoided, and above all, that there is scarcely a n y degree of physical infirmity or fu nc ti onal derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot ap p l y a cure DOCTOR LA'MEIIT has for a long series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate corn_ plaints, and is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardl ess of the taunts and envy of thehypocritical and mock-modest, has had the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society 18 free. In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply rewarded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the care of unqualified and ignorant empirles, who, with their pirated publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who Inv° been induced to place faith in their pretensions. At home for consultation daily from Eleve n till Two, and from six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of 1/., and advice and medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address. It is desirable that patients wishing to consult D. LA 'AIERT should first obtain a copy of his work on SELF-PRESERVATION. A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Ne rvous and Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty-coloured engravings, and des cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and txcesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct ieseription of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Stolle, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; or free by post for forty-two stamps, to any address Prom the A.uthor'o red. 4 euse,7o. Exproav-eqvala LOi ox. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY 'DI CANADA.—Notice is Hereby Given, That the Directors have made a CALL of 2/. 10s. on each and every share of the A series of the company, and a CALL of 10 per cent. on each class of the De llotures of the company, payable at the Bank of Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., Lombard-street, London. The said Calls are due on Monday, the 6th February, 1854. If not paid on or before that date, interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum will be charged on those in arrear. Shareholders have the power of paying up the whole or a portion of their shares in full, and interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per an num will be allowed on all sums paid in anticipation of Calls. The Directors further give notice, that by a recent Order in Council to the Government of Canada, the Debentures of the Province will be issued in January next to those shareholders who shall pay to Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co 5/. per share (that is, 2/. 10s. per share in addition to the Call now advertised) on each o: their shares, and in full on the Debentures of the Province to which such shares are entitled. By order of the Board. • 2, Leadenh a ll- s t ree t, L on do n , llL V Dec LI 3 A , II I I B C S3 I!APMAN, Secretary. CONTRACT FOR WELSH COALS FOR THE COAST OF AFRICA. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 20th Jan., 1854. THE Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the 7th February 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 Store, at the undermentioned places, the following quantities of SOUTII WALES COALS, fit for the service of her Majesty's steam-vessels : Sierra Leone, .... 2,001 tons. Fernando Po ....... • • .... 500 „ St. Paul de Loando 1,500 „ Ascension • • • • • 1,000 A Form of the Tender may b R seen a t th e said Office. No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Coals," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a Letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of 4,0001. for the due perform ance of the Contrict. "BETTER LATE TIT kN NEVER." LEWIS'S ALTERATIVE PILLS will be found on trial, after every other means has failed, to cure the most inveterate cases of Bilious disorder, indigestion, and every derange ment of the liver, Stomach, Kidneys, or Secretory system. They are entirely vegetable, and, while removing obstructions, purify the hood, clear, the complexion, relieve the chest of phlegm, strengthen the nerves, and restore tone to the whole system Prepared and sold by BINGSTON, 11 CUSH, and Co., lA, Old Bond-street, price Is. 1 16d., 2s. 9c1., 4s. 6d., Sec , retail by all medicine vendors. Sent by post on receipt of postage stamps. T HE HIGH PRICE of COALS and PRO VISIONS. Memorable winter this—excessively cold—extraordinarily wet and damp—high prices charted far everything but the CLOTHING ma nufactured by E. MOSES and SON. Coals are "Black Diamonds" now, as far as price is concerned, and the law of corn is " higher and higher." Under these circum stances, Economy is a desideratum—a good set-off against the high price of coals and provisions is superior Clothing at a very low price. It is as impossible to dispense with Attire as with coals and pro visions ; but it is a great advantage when the very best Dress can be had for a very small sum. The high prices charged for coals and provisions directly or indi rectly affect all classes; and it is right they should apply the only remedy at present within their reach. For every class the principle of cheapness and superior quality is applied by E. MosEs and Sort, and the perfections of Art are associated with a completeness of Experience and Skill. The Bespoke Department is available for every one, inasmuch as the most distinguished talent, British and Foreign, and the most ac complished workmanship, are associated with the most moderate charges which can be made. E. Moms and SON offer advantages in the Hat, Cap, Hosiery, Shirt, and Boot and Shoe Departments, which cannot be obtained at any other house. Their immense Wholesale Branch secures to Merchants, Captains, Shippers, and Emigrants a selection from the Best, most Suitable, and the Largest Stock in the World. CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OPT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 44,85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating, 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 Branch, Melbourne, Australia. Merchant Tailor Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it will be exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset on Fridays to sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, " The Epitome of Comfort and Economy," contain ing full lists of prices, our system of self-measurement, &c., &c., may be MAI on application, or post-free. A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1854 can be had, gratis on application. Ici l'on pale Francais. Slier suricht man Deatach• Qui si parla Italiano. Aqua se habla Espano RAILWAY DEPOSlTS.—Yesterday a sale of articles, which it is likely were not contemplated among their profits by railway speculators, took place by auction, by order of the directors of the Great Northern Railway Company. They consisted of a miscellaneous collection of property, which had been left by passengers in rail way trains, and comprised trinkets, carpet bags, um brellas, parasols, sticks, shawls, furs, books, &c. There were above 100 walking-sticks, above 20 silver-mounted whips, 83 parasols, 161 umbrellas, 38 shawls, 380 gloves, &c. There were altogether 153 lots. INTENSE FROST.—The Forces Gazette says that the frost was so intense in Elgin during some days of last week that all liquors, even in bedrooms, were frozen. Several merchants had also to use candles in their shops, in consequence of the gas meters being frozen up. BONUS TO SHAREHOLDERS. HOME COUNTIES AND METROPOLITAN FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY. A Bonus of 5/. Bs. 4d. per cent. will be added to the past year's subscriptions, and in future interest at the rate of 5/. Bs. 4d. per cent. per annum will be given on all subscriptions, with such additional tonne at the end of the year as the profits of the Society may allow. Two Estates have been purchased for this Society during the past year—that at Wood-green (chiefly allotted) has been very satisfac tory and profitable, both to the allottees and the Society at large. The other Estate (not yet allotted) promises to be a more successful purchase than the first, there being a great demand for plots upon it. It is situated to Wiinbledon-park, in the midst of gentlemen's seats, and is adapted for first-class villas. There are two special advantages in this Society, viz., members are not required to pay down any part of the price of the land prior to choosing plots. The full amount of the shares drawn in the ballot is advanced; also that more shares are not drawn in the ballot than can be supplied with land, so that the members may have the ad vantage of selling their drawn shares at a premium. A. share in full is 301., with an entrance fee of Is. By order, HENRY KNIGHT, Secretary. NING,, JANUARY 21 1854. GREAT REFORM BANQUET ,AT SHEF- FIELD. A great Reform banquet was held at Sheffield on Thursday evening in the Music-hall, wl rich was crowded to excess, between 900 and 1,000 ladies and gentlemen being present. Mr. Alderman Henry E. Hoole offici ated as president, supported by Mess rs. Wostenholrn, J. G. Robson, E. Bramley, and H. Vickers as vice presidents. Among the guests were Me ssrs. R. Cobden, M.P. for the West Riding ; J. Bright, M.P. for Man chester; Lord Goderich, M.P. for Hudd erefield ; Messrs. L. Heyworth, M.P. for Derby ; F. Cryssley, M.P. for Halifax ; T. Barnes, M.P. for Bolton ; G. Hadfield, M.P. for Sheffield; J. Pilkington, M.P. for Blackburn ; J. Kershaw, M.P. for Stockport ; John Cheetharn, M.P. for South Staffordshire ; Mr. JEldward Baines, Leeds ; the Mayor of Sheffield (Mr. Hoole) ; Samuel Lees, Manchester ; and James Edwards,. Manchester. Letters of apology were read from Mr. Locke King and Mr. T. Alcock, members for East S urrey ; Mr. W. Brown, M.P. for South Lancashire; Mr. S. M. Peto, M.P. for Norwich ; Sir J. Walmsley, M.P. for Leices ter ; Mr. J. B. Smith, M.P. for Stockport ; Alderman T. Challis, M.P. for Finsbury ; Dr. Bowring, Sir Joseph Paxton ; Sir Isaac Morley, of Doncaster ; Mr. Alder man Solly, of Sheffield ; Lord Milton, Mr. Oliveira, M.P., and Mr. C. Hindley, M.p . After the only toast of the evening—" The Queen ! God bless her"—which was loudly cheered, Mr. COBDEN was called on to move the first resolu tion, which was as follovis "This meeting reeards with much satisfaction the ex pressed intention of her Majesty's Ministers to bring forward, in the coming session, a measure of Parlia mentary reform, and would urge upon the Government the propriety and the duty of placing the. representation of the people in the House of Coannons upon such a basis as shall do equal justice to all interests and classes of the population of the united kingdom." He said that he had taken very little part in his public career in the agitation for what was called "organic change." He had given his vote for measures of reform very much in advance of the great majority of the House of Commons ; but, out of doors he had not given much attention to the question of Parliamentary reform. But while labouring to set commerce free —to increase the de mand for labour—to multiply those commodities which enter into the ordinary subsistence and comfort of the working people in England—he had been labouring, and, perhaps, quite as practically, in the cause of Parlia mentary reform as he should have been if he had been s attending meetings called simply for th e purpose of raising the cry of an extension of the franchise. (Applause.) He would extend the same meed of merit to those social reformers who had been in any way ad _ vocating principles calculated to elevate the characte r of the working classes of this country, foremost among whom he placed the temperance reformers. (Hear, hear.) And, again, whomsoever he found endeavouring to improve the education of the people by any means through which the amount of knowledge diffused among. the working classes would be increased, they, too, he considered, though apparently in an indirect way, im mediately promoting the extension of the political rights of the people—(hear)—for let them give him a prosper ous, intelligent, sober community, and he defied all the oligarchies, and all the political factions that ever did or could exist, long to exclude such a community from their full and fair share of political power. (Applause.) On the other band, he would say—and the experience of the world had lately very much proved it—you may write upon parchment whatever form of constitution you please—it may be a Republic, written in cha racters of red ink--or it may be a Monarchy with universal suffrage—whether it be in Europe, or whether it be in South America—you may give such constitutions to a community who are ignorant, debased, superstitious, and degraded, but you won't make them a free people any more for that. (Applause.) Now, having accepted this first resolution at the hands of their chairman, it must at once be be lieved that he considered the people of this country, at all events a large section of the people of this country, were fit for the enjoyment of an extension of political rights. He was not here speaking as an advocate of universal suffrage. He did not say that 1,000,000 of the agricultural labourers of this country were intelligent enough, or independent enough, to exercise political rights with advantage to themselves or to others—(hear) —but he did say he believed there was a large section of the community outside of the present electoral pale who were fit to enjoy the franchise, who ought to possess it, and to whom the extension of political power, in widening the basis upon which the fabric of our con stitution rested, would tend to render the stability and durability of our constitution more permanent than under the present system. (Hear, hear.) He believed the extension of the franchise would so promote the principle of self-preservation and the power of upraising and enlightening the mass of the people, as to tend rapidly to remove any danger which at first sight they might think would arise from altering the de pository of political powers. (Hear, hear.) He was not an alarmist, nor should he fear the extension of the fran chise to any possible extent to which it might be granted ; but let them not be alarmed ; we did not move very fast in this country; we were rather Chinese in our habits, and anything that had been a precedent for the last 20 years we were not likely to get rid of very soon. We were not likely to have universal suffrage in England yet, he promised the m — (laughter) —but he should like to see a measure brought in by her Majesty's Ministers to introduce at least 1 ,000,000 more of the men of this country within the electoral pale. (Applause.) If they looked back for the last 22 or 23 years, and considered the large effect produced upon the middle class of this country by the possession of the 101. franchise—their intelligence quickened, their self-respect promoted, their patriotism fostered by the sense of the duty and obliga tion which rested upon them, and the responsibility they knew themselves to be lying under by the possession of political power—if they compared the present position of this part of the population of our towns with what it was 50 years ago, every one must see the improve. ment that had been going on among the middle classes by the possession of the 101. franchise. How could it be doubted that it would produce the same effect upon. others ? But he had heard it objected that the skilled labourers and mechanics of this country were liable to undue influence, and were not sufficiently inde pendent to be entitled to possess the franchise. But his experience had not led him to doubt that that class of people, if invested with political power, would exercise it with as much purity as those fillin g a more indepen dent position in the political scale now manifest. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the independence of the electors, he held that they were bound to provide, as a part of their new scheme of Parliamentary representation, an efficient remedy for the coercion and undue influence which were brought to bear upon the electors of this country. (Hear.) Now, he would not take the bread out of the mouth of his friend Mr. Bright_ though he had done so before--(laughter), and yet he throve very well notwithstanding— (continued laughter) ) but he might say this, with regard to the ballot, that he had never regardedthat question as one that involved so much of a democratic tendency as some people supposed. He was not one to believe that the people of this country were democratic at all. He did not think th e germ of what was called democracy ha d budded in this country ; and that, if people possessed the ballot, they were goin g t o run to-morrow into any extreme of democratic and revolu tionary sentiment, merely because they could vote as they pleased—(applause)—but he believed the ballot was a moral engine that had never been sufficiently appreciated in this country, because they had never seen it tried. Let them see one large town conduct its election by ballot, and it would spread like wildfire ; it would be an instant remedy for the blackguardism,.the ruffianism, the brass bands, and all the tumult and disorder which now disgraced periodically their elections. (Hear, hear.) At present an election every two or three years was a sort of Saturnalia, where scenes little short of mortal combat were to be witnessed. This was not the case in countries where they had the ballot. He bad seen the ballot in operation in America and Spain, and, though he had not seen it in France, he had heard of it. An election in America or in France was as tranquil an operation as their proceedings on a Sabbath day, when they went to their churches and chapels. There was Lord John Rus sell and almost every Whig and Tory in the House of Commons of statesmen class resisting a trial of the ballot. He had only asked that they should give the permissive right to try it ; but, no—they resisted it to the last. He would tell them why they resisted it. It was a feudal institution of this coun try ; it was as much a badge of feudalism as had been the Corn Laws. (Applause.) It was because everybody in this country thought he had an hereditary right to control somebody else's vote. (Hear, hear.) Free trade was not more demonstrably proved to be sound and fair by such men as Adam Smith, M'Culloch, and Ricardo than the ballot had been proved by Bentham, Grote, and Mill, and others, to be right and fair as a mode of voting at Parliamentary elections. Argument had been adduced, but argument would not do in that question ; it wanted organisation to do it. And he would add, with all sincerity, his firm belief that if instead of being nearly 50, he was 30, as when they began with the corn laws, he would, by an organisation in this country, undertake to pledge himself to carry the ballot in less than 5 years. (Applause, and a voice, "Do it now.") Though b e l ong i ng t o no c l ass, but belonging to the people, without owning any allegiance to any feudal aristocracy of this country, he had looked with shame i and humiliation at the conduct which had been pursued by the borough constituencies upon this very question during the last .12 months. Why had not the con,ti tuencies risen up and demanded with au irresistible voice the ballot, and said to the Government, " You have been paltering with this thing in the House of Commons ; you are not in earnest ; let us try the ballot, which the acutest logicians and ablest men of this coun try have pointed out as the remedy for the evil ? Give us the ballot, and see if it will put a stop to this evil, and improve our borough elections. We demand to have it before you continue to stigmatise and condemn the borough constituencies as unworthy the franchise." They had all seen that there had been a vast amount of information gathering in official quarters, and it was hinted that, instead of extending that fair amount of electoral power to the boroughs which they ought to possess, they were to give further electoral power to the counties. Now, he had watched the argument as it had gone forward, and he found that it was put on the assumed corruption and unworthiness of parti cular borough electors. Now, as one of the county members, he said that the borough constituencies were the most patriotic and independent of the coun try ; and, so far from being deprived of their fair portion of the franchise, it was for the interest of the country that they should have a larger portion than they now possessed, and that they should be accompanied by the ballot. (Applause.) They could point to the coun ties and say, "There have been no such scenes of cor ruption there as you have had in your boroughs." No, corruption and intimidation had ceased in the counties ; domination had taken their place. (Applause.) There was no electoral life at all in five-sixths (he might have said nine -tenths) of the county constituency of that country. They were handed over from the scion of one great proprietor to another in the dining room of the greatest proprietor in the county or division. (Hear, hear.) He hoped that there would be somebody pre pared to make a hero or a martyr of himself, and organise the electoral body on this question. (Hear.) What made him most indignant in talking of the ballot was that the very cliss who refused even a trial of the ballot were the very class who were using it in all their clubs and societies. (Hear, bear.) The other day he paid a visit to Oxford. Now, Oxford University was certainly the very last place in the world that he should have supposed to be addicted to anything revolutionary or un-English ; still, in all their proceedings in Convoca tion, in all they did, e xcep t i n t h e election of members of Parliament, they voted by ballot. If he was but 15 years younger, he would go--(laughter and applause) —he would go through the country and say, " Let us vote as they vote at Oxford." (Cheers and laugh ter.) Now, what they meant by vote by ballot was this—that there should be no record kept of how a man voted. The present system was to record a man's name and how be voted, and then in case a steward wanted to persecute a tenant, or in case certain customers wished to apply the principle of exclusive dealing, or any other injustice was to be exercised, persons had only to go and take of a copy of the polling-book, and they knew how people voted. (Hear, hear.) He was t respass i ng, how ever on Mr. B r i g ht ; but they had a Reform Bill pro raised them, and the Government, he believed, was now going to deal with it. He would not flatter the public to say they were not liable to make mistakes with the franchise, but this he said, the wider the franchise, if mistakes were made in legislation, they were sooner felt by great masses of the community than by a section of the community, and the error was the more likely soon to be corrected. (Hear, hear.) H e wou ld g i ve them an illustratio n . They had all read of, and some of them, perhaps, remembered the breaking out of, the war of the French revolution in 1793. It was a very popular war. Everybody called out for a war with France ; but when two years' experience had taught the people that this war brought famine, high prices, bad bread, increased pauperism, beggary, and misery they assembled round the carriage of George 111. and Mr. Pitt, and cried out, " Peace, peace !—Bread !—No Pitt, and no war !" But they had not the power to change their policy ; the power was in the hands of an exclu sive class—the oligarchical class—and, unfortunately, that class, finding that war had brought higher prices, were bribed to continue the war for 20 years, against the interest of the people, who had originally urged the war, but who, acco r di ng t o hi stor i ans, would have put an end to it 15 or 16 years sooner than it was stopped by the exclusive class. Now, he thought this was, of all times, the moment when reform in Parlia ment might be carried out. It was a time of great political calm, and it was a time, notwithstanding the adverse circumstances of a threatened war and high ' prices, of unusual prosperity. Such were just the times when a wise Government would carry out a plan of political reform, because he could n o t f ear th at, under the inibience ("passion, those upon whom the franchise was conferred would make a bad use of the power. If they preserved peace they must prosper, and comfort and increased intelligence must result. In conclusion, the hon. member expressed a hope that that meeting might be the means of a union, and reunion, if ever there had been di srup ti on, o f all reformers in Sheffield. (The hon. member resumed his seat amid loud and con tinued cheering.) Lord GODHRICH, M.P., in seconding the resolution, said he trusted that the Government, having taken a year to think upon the matter, would now redeem their pledge, not in the letter only, but in the spirit, and that they would bring in an honest measure of reform—one which was likely to satisfy the demands of justice, and set at rest this question for some time to comes (Ap plause.) Set at rest finally, it doubtless would not be by any measure likely to be now carried, for he found that final settlement nowhere in human affairs. He had con fidence in the honesty of the present Government; but if they intended to satisfy the wishes of the country, and to stay agitation upon this question, they must make up their minds to face it boldly, and grant reform with no laggard hand. He had no doubt that the granting of a right to vote to 101. householders in counties would be an act of justice. Lord John Russell resigned because Mr. Locke King beat him about it, and now Lord John was represented as making it the only feature of his bill. He hoped he would have a little more regard for his character and self-respect than to leave out the Si. bo rough franchise which he promised in his own bill, and admit the 101. county franchise which turned him out. (Applause.) Looking to the position of public affairs, they ought not to expect too much of the Government ; but without the outbreak of a war they must fulfil the pledge. Their character as statesmen—their character as men of honour was staked upon their doing so ; and their cha racter for political wisdom upon their doing so in no trifling and paltry manner, which would be a mockery of a Ministry of all the talents. It had been said that the people of this country did not want reform, and he eves asked the other day by a supporter of the present Government (not in the house) what he thought would be the best means for Government to get out of their pledge. They had got into a mess, he was told, through Lord John's obstinacy in promising a Reform Bill when nobody wanted one, and the gentleman wanted to know how they were to get out of it ? All he could say was, if they had got into a mess he hoped they would keep them in it. (Applause.) The noble lord concluded by thanking them for the kindness of their reception, and sat down amid continued cheering. The resolution was carried unanimously amid loud cheers. Mr. Cheetham, M.P., and Mr. Barnes, M.P., having addressed the meeting, Mr. BRIGHT rose to move the next resolution : "That this meeting is deeply sensible of the evils and disgrace which arise from the prevalence of intimi dation and corruption in various forms among the county and borough ccnstituencies of the kingdom, and would urge upon the Government the necessity of afford ing to the whole electoral body the shelter and protec tion of the mode of voting understood by the secret ballot." He said he was one of those who did not believe in what was called the universal apathy of the people en the quese tion of reform. Men measured the feeling on this sub ject by the remembrance of what existed 21 years ago, when the Reform Bill of 1832 was under the discussion in both Houses of Parliament ; and they fancied that, if there were not enormous meetings at Leeds, Manches ter, Birmingham, and Glasgow, the people were not thinking much about this question. What was the state of things then ? The very right which now all men admitted, that their representation should be real, and not a sham, was contested by their Sir C. Wetherells, their Mr. Crokers, and other speakers in Parliament of that day. Why, on the contrary, now everybody was for Parliamentary reform. There was not a newspaper in the country, be it as Conservative as it liked, that was not in favour of Parliamentary reform. The pro posed measure of Parliamentary reform, whatever it was, would, he trusted, bring into the House of Com mons a fair representation of the intelligence and virtue of the people, and he was ready to trust, for himself and for his children, that the institutions of this country, let them be what they might, should rest upon this one foundation—that they should be heartily suppor t e d an d entirely approv e d by the intelligence and virtue of the British people. When the present Government was being elected there was the most distinct promise that the question of reform should be soon taken up. Sir J. Graham spoke of "large measure of Parliamentary re form ;" and he being oie of the Cabinet Council Com mittee to whom this new Reform Bill was referred, they might hope that the propositions which he made at Carlisle would not be forgotten now that he was engaged in the work of concocting the new Reform Bill. (Hear.) Their7county had been called an epi tome of this kingdom, in its prosperous agricultural, its r . manufacturing, and its shippi ng i n terests, and the variety of its population. But it was not less so in cor ruption, and in the wretch e d con diti on of their represen tative system ; and he thought that, as they were in Yorkshire, they might as well look at the evils around them as travel several thousand miles in search of some thing to do. (Applause.) What did they think of the fact, th a t there were ten boroughs in Yorkshire which returned to Parliament 17 members, the population of those ten boroughs being very little more altogether than half the population of Sheffield ? There was Richmond, with 243 voters, returning two members. Now, he could not see why the 5,000 electors of Sheffield should send two members, and Lord Zetland should send two mem bers to do his bidding. (Hear, hear.) Northallerton had fewer than 5,000 inhabitants, and returned one mem ber ; Thirsk had 5,308 population, 'and one member ; the borough of Knaresborough had a population of 5,500, and they returned two members. There was a peculiar circumstance at the last election for Knaresborough. They were so highly skilled in electioneering tactics that at the last election there were three candidates, and they all had exactly the same number of votes. (Laughter.) Then Ripon had 6,000 population, and returned two members ; Malton, 7,600 population, two members Beverley, 10,000 population, two members ; Whitby, less than 11,000 population, one member ; Ponte fract, 11,500 population, two members ; Scarborough, 12,700 population, two members ; the total being 80,000 population, while he understood the borough of Sheffield had at least 140,000 inhabitants. (Hear, hear.) But look at those boroughs in other ways. The borough of Richmond was connected with the Earl of Zetland. Ripon at present returned its members at the bidding of the Earl de Grey. The members for the bo rough of Malton, it was said, were returned by Earl Fitzwilliam. He also returned the members for Peter borough. But there had been a sort of rebellion about that case. (Laughter.) He feared there would be no rebellion at Malton. One of the two members for that borough was returned at the last general election without being present. Nothing was known of his opinions or his antecedents. After that, for a long time he was not heard of, and whether he had yet received intelligence that he,was member for Melton he did not know. There never was such a place as Beverley, for some landed proprietor of vast revenues, or some great East India director, who could come there, if not offering induce ments, at least supposed to be able to offer inducements, which would justify men of very sensitive character in those matters in giving him their support. Next, there was the borough of Pontefract, which, he had been told, was the only one in the kingdom where the ballot was known to be absolutely unpopular. 'Well, let them come to their own county on the general question of the extension of the franchise. They had a popula tion of about 1,800,000, and 450,000 houses. All the voters, both county and borough, amounted to 88,000 ; but a great number of them were voters for borough anci county ; therefore actually the number of voters must be considerably smaller. That gave but one vote to every five houses in the county. Now, did any man in his senses believe that with the platform free in this country, that with the press to some extent free (and they hoped by and by it would be wholly free, by the abolition of the penny stamp), a system could be maintained that said to four out of every five of all house holders in this country, " You live in a free country, with a limited monarchy and a representative system, but only one out of five of you can vote. Four of you are too ignorant, too debased, too desperate in your theories, too destructive in your projects, to be admitted into the pale of the representative institutions of your country." If any man supposed that that state of things could continue, he must have been asleep for the last 20 years, and it was not of much use his opening his eyes. If they had a parliament in Yorkshire, and York shire was a kingdom to itself, would the people of Shef field stand such, he had almost said nonsense ? but it was not nonsense. (Hear, hear.) It was an insult, an injury —(loud applause) —that ten little boroughs should require 17 members, those boroughs not having half the population nor a quarter of the industry that was to be found in that single town of Sheffield. (Renewed cheer ing.) What he saw in the House of Commons, and what was the most deplorable feature of that house was this—that one half at least of all the members seemed to act under no kind whatever of responsibility to an intel ligent or controlling constituency out of doors. (Hear, hear.) They came when they liked ; they voted as they liked. They must have a wider franchise. Manchester had 80,000 grown men in it. There were 18,000 upon the list of voters ; 60,000 were therefore excluded. (Hear, hear.) Should he take upon himself the respon sibility of saying to those 60,000 men in Manchester, not to one more of them, that unless by some means they could get into a 101. house they should not have a I vote for that borough, when he found that for many years past there had been a great improvement in the education of the people, a remarkable diminution of crime, a regard for order which no ruler of a people could scarcely hope to see exceeded, and when he found the people ingenious and energetic and loyal, and de voted in a noble degree to all the duties of citizenship ? What harm did a man do with his vote ? Let them take in Sheffield—the most destructive and the wildest theorists, and when it came to the election of members of Parliament, in nine cases out of ten they would find that the population of this county would only vote for men who they have reason to believe were men of good character, common honesty, fair intelligence, and busi ness habits, and disposed in Parliament to use their in fluence for the common interests of the community. The Government could take, on its own responsibility, whatever steps it pleased ; it might add 1,000,000 or 2,000,000 to the elective body ; but there was no propo sition for the extension of the franchise which they could make that he should hold to be so dangerous that he should withhold his support from it. As to the ballot, he affirmed that no man ever heard a fair, tenable argument against it. He knew a distinguished statesman who always opposed it, but who admitted that it was a very difficult question to argue against. People looked at it as some new, some great and dangerous principle, but, in fact, it was only a mode of giving your vote; and it was because the aristocracy of this country—for Whigs and Tories were very much alike in this matter—wanted their voters to be hustled in the street, to be kidnapped, to have suspended over them debts and threats and taxa tion, and influences of every kind but those which the true spirit of our constitution recognised, that they op posed the ballot. It was hundreds of years old. In a copy of the charter from James I. to regulate the choice of mayor of Pontefract, it is provided that the very practice they contended for was established by his free will, " to the intent that the aforesaid election may be without any contention and malice in any shape." In Massachusetts they agreed on this mode of voting—that every elector should receive an envelope, and having been supplied by his friend or respective candidates with ballot tickets, should enclose in the envelope the tickets of the persons for whom he intends to vote, and drop it into the ballot-box. Perfect secrecy was thus secured. At the last election for Cork those who came out of the polling-booth, having voted openly for the unpopular can didate, were chalked on the back, and consequently exposed to annoyances and aggressions as they passed through the streets. Rile had had one of these envelopes, no man would have known which way he had voted. Why not have the secret ballot here also ? The Attorney-General of the United States—a man of remarkable intelligence and liberality, and possessing a large fund of information on all subjects --said to him the other day, speaking of the ballot. "'We consider the basis of freedom to be re presentative institutions, and we consider the ballot to be the basis of representative institutions." And they might rely on it that the ballot would give what the law often failed to afford—it would give the vote, actually, posi tively, and solely, to the man whose name was on the register. Lord Aberdeen stated that when the whole question was brought before Parliament, next session, and before the attention of Government, during the re cess, the ballot should be taken into consideration as an important subject for discussion. It was said that the committee, appointed to frame the Reform Bill in 1831 actually reported in favour of the ballot. Several mem bers of the present Government, including, he believed, one member of the Cabinet, were in favour of the bal lot. Then, why, not give it us now ? There would be great difficulties in the way of passing the bill proposed by Government. It was very necessary that public feeling should be aroused in its behalf; and he be lieved that the introduction of the ballot would create greater enthusiasm in its behalf than anything else, and would do more to insure its passing than the introduction of any other provision which could be placed in it. The Government did some things well last session. The budget was a good one. Their suc cession-tax was a judicious and just'measure. They re pealed the advertisement duty, after a world of trouble was taken with them ; and they distributed their sur plus, perhaps a s we ll as th e y cou ld, in the reduction of taxes. Let the Government bring in this measure, and it would be evide n t that the apathy which F . _ pervaded the country was more apparent than real. .Now, what must they do, supposing this bill to be n a now one ? including When he said a good bill, he did not m all the five points of the Charter, foreiatn one mightbe'good without giving them everything that they wanted. Don't the members of th e let them be unreasonable. All boroughs proposed to be disfranchised would be arrayed in opposition to the bill. The great questionof arlia al mentary reform themustbecar t ri a e s d er o v u e t i nednividu interests, great ri prin ciples of justice, an d not or suit the views of party. Should the latter views prevail, the people would not suppo r t t h e measure of Government, and it must consequently be lost. The wo p wasin alasrganis b ed last sess i on, but they O probaility, plu c k up their spirits uld position now, a little, and return together again when they found that anything seriously affecting their interests was brought forward. They would probably find that that distrust of Mr. Disraeli which existed in some of their minds would vanish, and 250 or 260 mem bers would be found on the Opposition side ; while some of those gentlemen who bad a pardonable affec tion for small boroughs would find themselves compelled to vote against the Government. If Government were placed in a minority they would be sure to dissolve upon it ; and he thought it wa s very possi b le that a dissolu tion might take place on this question ; for no liberal Government would lose office without testing the opinion of the constituencies of the country on a ques tion h&c, this. He trusted, however, that the spirit which e x i sted 20 years ago in England,' and caused the great reform which then took place in the representa tive system, would again be aroused when the occasion for its exercise arose. He believed the bill would be worth something ; that it would give a considerable extension to the constituencies, disfranchise many small Loroughs, give additional members to large constituencies, and create new boroughs. Now, that meeting was no proof of any apathy in Sheffield ; and he believed that they might go to any other large town like that, or even to smaller places, and address meetings which would exhibit similar manifestations of enthusiasm and unani- While every one is waiting for the reverberation of the first cannon shot which shall boom over the waves of the Black Sea, Sheffield has fired the first signal gai of the coming Parliamentary conflict. Although there are many matters on which we cannot agree with the speakers who met to do honour to the Spartan virtue of Mr. Hadfield, whom not even the dainties of a Lord Mayor's feast could tempt from his bench in the House of Commons, we must admit in all fairness that the meeting was moderate in tone and creditable in point of ability and taste, the only exception to this latt er mer i t being the extravagant eulogiums lavished on a not very remarkable' speech made by Lord Goderich. Nobody has so sincere and heart felt a respect for the peerage as your out-and-out Radical, and no candidate is so certain of success with a large constituency as a democratic Lord. On-one point we congratulate the party of - e•ei t, ;- men assembled to discuss the prospectref ftsfortii. No one among them all was found absurd enough to advocate that ridiculous nostrum for aug menting the evils of our present system—trien nial Parliaments. That article seems to have dropped out of the Radical creed, and we sin. cerely rejoice that it has done so. Next to the suppression of this once popular topic, we have to observe on the carefully concealed, but still very remarkable, divergence of opinion with reference to the extension of the suffrage. Of course, at such a place and on such an occasion it was necessary to say something with regard to the franchise, but, while Mr. Heywood spoke of uni versal suffrage, and Lord Goderich of the five pound franchise, Messrs. Cobden and Bright con fined themselves to safe generalities, and preferred dealing in millions to coining to close quarters with this most embarrassing question. Nobody can doubt that the constituent class ought to be aug mented, but the admirers of a five-pound franchise will seek in vain for, any advocacy of that measure in the speeches of Messrs. Cobden and Bright. Obviously, the events of the great European revo lution have not been wholly without their effect upon the minds of our popular leaders, and they are, much to their honour, free from the reckless ness which would take the government of this country out of the hands in which it is now placed in order to give it to untried and unknown classes for the sake of rounding a period or raising a cheer. It is remarkable, also, that such argum en t s as were brought for war d in favour of reducing the franchise were based almost entirely on collateral considera tions, and avoided studiously the question which is decisive of the whole matter. We are told that by reducing the franchise we shall develope a public spirit and patriotic feeling in the masses, which the very terms of the argument presuppose not now to exist. We are told that by lowering the franchise we shall enlist the upper classes of this country heartily on the side of education, and inspire them with a genuine desire to humanise and instruct those who will have become masters of their des tiny. But surely this is beginning at the wrong end. On behalf of those who have anything to lose in this country, on behalf of the classes who will be swamped by the vast infusion of new electors, we humbly beg that the education may come first, and, instead of giving men the franchise in order to induce them to fit themselves for it, let us have some evidence of aptitude before we hand over the trust. A country just released from despotism, and seeking for institutions of a popu lar character, must necessarily trust something to chance ; but we are under no such compul sion. Even if our Parliament were not reformed at all, we possess in it an assembly which trans acts with zeal and honesty an incredible amount of public business, which is very sensitive to the expression of public opinion, and which certainly need not shrink from a comparison with any representative body in the world. It were small wisdom to hazard the continuance of these useful qualities for the sake of giving the working classes a more perfect experience of public duties. The institutions of a free country should neither lag behind nor advance beyond the state of its moral or intellectual development. The first is full of discontent, and the second of danger. The franchise is no arithmetical question. It can not be solved by counting up thenumbers who pos sess votes, and comparing them with the much larger numbers who do not. This proves nothing. Mr. Crossley may have a thousand carpet-weavers who have no vote, but the fact of their being a thousand gives them no greater claim to the suffrage than if they were only ten. The real question, which every speaker seems sedulously to avoid, is, will the enfranchisement of the lower classes in our boroughs give us better and abler members 'of Par liament, or infuse a more enlightened and patriotic spirit into its deliberations ? Will men, who are starving themselves and their families td support in idleness and misery of their own choosing thousands who have turned themselves out of em ployment because they are too ignorant to under stand or submit to the well-known laws of demand and supply, be fit choosers of lawmakers for a great commercial country whose very existence is involved in conducting its legislation on sound economical principles ? We apprehend not. Mr. Cobden appears to regard *NI disfavour the enlargement of the county constitnences, and the proposal to extend te them a greater portion of the representation of the country. The towns are, he says, more intelligent than the counties, and therefore have the better claim for an increase of representation, and for a greater diminution of the franchise. It is impossible to accept this as a fair statement of the case between town and. coun try. If the counties were to remain as at present, the mere appanages of large landed proprietors, we should be disposed to agree that no more re trograde step could be adopted than to increase the number of their representatives ; but the counties as they are now, and as they would be if their franchise were made uniform with that of the boroughs, are quite distinct things. The num bers added to the county constituencies by such a change would be, we venture to say, infi nitely superior both in respectability and inde pendence to those who occupy the lower ranks among the borough voters. They might not be followers of Mr. Cobden or enthusiastic admirers of Mr. Hadfield or of the other gentlemen who spent so happy an evening at Sheffield amid their own mutual laudations, but they would be able to think and act for themselves, and would, we believe, keep alive amid all political and social changes a thoroughly English sp i r i t of honesty and inde pendenc. The town constituencies are bitterly reproached fpr their apathy on the subject of the ballot. They /Tem unaccountably dead to their wrongs,. and it may well grieve Mr. Cobden to find that those cawhose hard fate he has so long been describing , cannot be b roug h t to a sense of the misery he de , Plores. It looks as if the public had taken the Measure of this question, and, making by its prac tical good sense the enormous allowance, for the difference between theory and practice which such a case peculiarly demands, had arrived *at the con clusion that this great panacea of political ills had neither the good nor the evil so constantly ascribed to it. The point on which we suspect public sympathy Will go most heartily with the reformers of Shef field is Mr. Bright's clear and masterly exposition of the anomalies of our electoral system. Unlike the franchise, this is a grievance which figures may fitly represent, and fully do justice to. The • only advantage which is gained from small boroughs seems to be the representation of such opinions as do not generally find favour with the majorities of large constituencies. But this soli tary advantage can easily be compensated by some plan for the representation of minorities, and if that be done we shall regard the extinction of these discreditable anomalies as a good unalloyed with any mixture of evil. 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