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T 1 _ o • COUNTRY COTTAGE for a PERMANENCY. WANTED, by Lady-day or Midsummer, on any of the South-liakern branches, within twenty miles of London and threo of a station, containing at least two good sitting and font or tiro bed rooms, with chaise-house and stable attached. An old-fashioned Minor Or Farm-house would suit, and a small quantity of pasture laud desirable, though not essential. A retired situation not Ob jected to, but a dry soil and good water indispensable. Address, with full particulars, to M. T. Y., 33, Bry dges-street, Covent -garden. LONDON SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. FOREIGN TRAFFIC.—SPECIAL NOTICE. From and after Ist JANUARY, 1854, the existing THROUGH RATES for Goods Traffic be , wixt London and Paris, and betwixt Paris and the Channel Island., will be DISCONTINUED. Goods will be-conveyed, as heretofore, betwixt London arid Havre, and betwixt Havre and the Channel Isl-oids, at reduced through rates, which include all charges from the Q uay at Havre to London, or to the Channel Islands, the amount of Customs' Duty and Marine Insurance excepted. Goods will be conveyed betwixt London and Havre three times a Week, each way, as heretofore. For particulars of through rates, and all other ,information, apply in London, to Mr. SIALKAN, 53, King Willlatn-str.:et, City; in Southampton, to Mr. WATKINS, Railway-station; in Havre, to Mr. GILLS, 5, Rue-de-la-Gaffe. (By order) .ARCHD. SCOTT, Traffic Manager. Railway-ofliee, London, Dec. 24, 1853. C.ORNWALL RAILWAY. NOTICE OF CALL Sixth Call-2/. per 201. Share—mating 12/. paid up. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVBN, That the Directors of the CORN WALL RAILWAY CO XP.ANY have this day made a CALL of 2/. per 20/. share upon the respective Shareholdera In the said Company, and have appointed such Call to be paid on the 10th day of January next, to either of the un iermentloned Bankers, namely : Messrs. GLYN, MILL'i, and Co., Lombard-street, London. Messrs. PRAEDS and Co., Fleet-street, London. Memr,o. TWEEDY, WILLIAMS, and Co., Truro, Falmouth, and Redruth, Cornwall, and the several Shareholders In the said Company are hereby re quired to pay such Call. By order of the Directors, WM. H. BOND, Secretary. Dated Tiuro, Nov. 11, 1853: • Interest at the rate of 3% per cent. on Calls paid up will be allowed from the date of payment, free of income-tax. All interest will cert,e 'from the date of the call being made paya ble, on the whole amount paid up, until the said call be paid ; and a charge of 41. per cent. will be made by the Bankers on the unpaid call for the time the said clll remains in arrear. N.B.—The interest due to the 29th September last is in course of payment. AURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE ROOMS, ..LA (Lessee, CHAS. C. LAURENT, OHSIOW-house, FataßM.roßd)t The above Rooms are now -OPEN FOR THE SEASON. and will continue Orell every evening, with LAURENT'S CELEBRATED BAND. Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past 8 ; Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and terminate at half-past 11. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON—II.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. MAGNIFICENT PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES, prepare& ex pressly for this Institution by Monsieur Ferriere of Paris. exhibited on a surface 35 feet by 28, with an ENTIRELY NEW SERIES of • DISSOLVING VIEWS, daily at a Quarter past Four. LECTURES by Dr. BACROFFNTER on WILKINS'S NEW PATENT UNIVERSAL ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LECTURE by J. H. PEPPER, Esq., on SPONTANEOUS COMBUS TION, with Brilliant Experiments. LAST FORTNIGH T of an HISTORICAL and MUSICAL LEC TURE, illustrated with DISSOLVING SCENERY, entitled "The ROAD, the RIVER, and the RAIL," by J. E. CARPENTER, Esq., assisted by Miss Blanche Younge, every evening, except Saturday, at Nine o'clock. Open Mornings and Evenings. Admission, ls. ; Schools and Children under Ten years of age, lialf-price. 3,1 r R. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC, 1 including the BERNESE OBERLAND and the SIMPLON, TO-NIGHT (WEDNESDAY), and EVERY EVENING at Eight o'Clock, (except Saturday), and Thursday and Saturday Mornings, at Two. Stalls, 35., which can be taken at the box• office every day from 11 to 4 ; area, 45.; gallery, is —Mont Blanc, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. EXPORTERS to AUSTRALIA, EAST IN DIES, CAPE, &c.—Genuine YARMOUTH BLOATERS. — For terms apply to Thomas LErrm, Fish Merchant, Great Yarmouth. ATKINSON. and. CO3IPANY,-, ,PABINET MAN . UFACTURERS, UPHOLSTERERS, and CARPET WAREHOUSEMEN, (39, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster bridge-road, Lambeth, London. ATKINSON and COMPANY, DRAPERS, sir,* MEEtCEItS, LACEMEN, &c., 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster-bridge-road, Lambeth, London.—Shawls, Furs, Iklantlett, Family Mourning. &c. LADIES' (D'HIVER) COSTUME DU BAL, GA LOST D'Olt, and PASSEIMN CERIE FLOUNCING. in Gold and Silver Comment on various Coioured Tarlatans and other fight Fabrics. These brasses, so highly approved in Paris, and all the Evening Parties of the beau monde, may now be seenduring the Selling Off at this Establishment. Some of the less lavishly decorated will be sold at Eighteen Shil lings the Dress, but it must be recollected that this will be less than half the real value, and the same remark will apply to the Silks, Shawls, Mantles, and Family Linen, which, through the retirement from business of Mr. Merrett, must be sold immediately. • WARWICK HOUSE, 142 and 144, Regent-street. PRYING INTO TAE, FUTURE. Young Ladies are not the only persons who have wished to pry into the mysterious volume of the future, for Alexander hinged his enthu siasm on similar circumstances. It may be innocent enough to amuse ourselves with-the prospect of reaping a golden harvest from dreams of hope ; but In these days of practical affairs, and business in earnest, every one has a right to expect " Value for Value." The matter of fact realities of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty -Three are pesslbly the best interpreters of the events of 1854, for we may all take the credit to ourselves of being able to tell what we' already know.; and the fortunes of the future may be very well calculated by the successes of the past. anti it is even possible that, our expectations may, be"surpassed in the onward progress of busi ness, that the bright prospects of the future be rendered more satis factory in reality; than they were in the representations of imagina tion. It is one of the most amiable features of the human race, that every individual Lady, Gentleman, or Child should possess an am bition to excite an influence in the circle higher than that in which they move and, it is. Dress in Style, Neatness and Excellence,wkich forms the primary chain to this social elevation. Taking steps which no other tradesman ever ventured to ascend, and holding a position on an eminence which none but themselves could occupy, E. mons AND Sox have the greatest pleasure in in viting their friends and the public to "pry into the future," and to compare the advantages of the past, with the certainties of what mast follow ; they have long supported the title universally bestowed on them of being the largest Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and Outfitters in the World, they have extended the benefits of new styes and artistic designs to all classes, with the precision employed on the manufacture of attire f.'r the peer, they have prepared suitable dress for the artisan, labourer, and emigrant. The progress of refinement, the improve ments of manufacture, the revelations of science. and the influence of capital, they have. exercised to the fullest extent in rendering their productions the most novel, the most comfortable, the most fashionable, and the cheapest which can be obtained. The business ofE. Moses AND SON has the speed of the railway, with none of its accidents—the correctness of art, without any of its limperfections—the regularity of time, but free from its obliterations -the universality of light, but never subject to a perk, lice eclipse —and well has the public repaid the diligence, skill, and assiduity which has been displayed by E. MOMS AND SON, by unprecedented Patronage of the City and West-end Establishments, and their branches at Sheffield and Bradford in Yorkshire. For E. Moshs*AND SON to say they thank their patrons and the public, would be a very inefficient way of dismissing the favours they have to acknowlethe, they cherish an indissoluble remembrance of the unnumbered instances of public approbation, expressed both in favour of their system of Business, and of the articles they have had the pleasure of presenting to all classes during the past year, and They ara determined to give a most Businesslike expression to their grateful recognition of these favours by providing every thing in the several departments of their gigantic business, Win tely better and cheaper than it is possible for others to do. Entering on another year under circumstances so encouraging, E. Moses AND Son have briefly to state, mit Ladles WM find the most varied and magnificent assortment of Dress at their Establishment ; and Hosiery Goods for Ladles, Gen tlemen, and Children, distinguished by unparalleled novelty, eleghnce, Utility, and cheapness. The Nobleman, Man of Business, or Mechanic, will still be pro mled with the most fashionable, most seasonable, mod the cheapest Attire, either Ready-made or to Order, Merchants, `hipper, Captains, Emigrant?, or Salton, will con tinue to derive the highest advantages from transactions at the Es tablishment of E. Moses and Sox; the former, from the vastness, suitability., and cheapness of the Wholesale Stock, and the latter from the completeness of their Outfitting Business, which applies to, every service Military or Naval—to every profession and occupation to all the necessities of any voyage, and to every exigency of a foreign climate. The meet stupendous success in London and the provinces is not the only record whch E. Moses and Sox have to make of the Last Year. A new world having been created for commercial enterprise by Australian gold discoveries, E. MOSES and Sox have identified their business with our antipodes, by opening a magnificent store in Melbourne—this is another aux•liary to their gigantic trade, and puts them lit constant communication with that colony —(to which, as well as other parts) they have outfitted incredible numbers, and are ullY prepared to outfit thousands more with far greater advantages n the quality, suitability, and cheapness of the goods. In conclusion, the wide world's population wilt possess still further facilities a belt tg'fOrnished with the hes., mest artist ic, most fashion able, most comfortable, and the cheapest goods, at the estatelshment of E . Moses and Sox, at its branches, New Oxford.street. corner of hart -street, London; and Fargate, Sheffield; also, Bridge-street, Bradford, Yorkshire. in an Impartial and accurate review of their business I rosperity at home and abroad, on a just calculation of the benefits d arived from it by countless thousands, and anticipating those advt ustuges becoming still more extensive, E. MOSES and SON most contially and ardently wish all their patrons and everybody, "A nippy 'NEW YEAR!" ON THE, SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISEII.IES AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES. THE SILENT FRIEND. In Silx Languages—Fetrieth Edition. Col :TaiNtso THE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISZASE• Thustrate d by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings and Cases. New Edi lion, enlarged to 200 pages, price 2s. Gil., by post, from the Establishment, as. 6d. in stamps, THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on y of the syst em , p ro d uce d by h ns y e s q ic u al eu d e e e c s a o 1 infect ion , or the abuse of tl ie exhaustionthanedepo excessivt: indulgence, mercury, with directions for the use of the preventive lotion, fol lowed hy• observations on M a rriage; and the, disqualifications Which prevent it Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings, Ily R. and L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Oxford street, 1 sindon. Published by Sher wood and Co., 23, Paternoster row, and sold by Hannay, 63, an d Sanger, 150 , Oxford -street ; Gor don, 146,. Leadenhall-street ; 95, Farr ingdoi-street ; W. Sut ton , 10 , Bow Chi erch-yard ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; 1;, Johnson, 68, C orn l l lll . Peal , L treats, of the anatomy and physiology of the reproductiv organs, tend Is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. from excessive in- Palm 11. t rea t s o f th e consequen ces resulting diligence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapac. ity. Illustrated by 10 Explanatory Engravings. Pear 111. treats of the diseas e s resulting from infection, ioneithers for i o n r the li c it direct primary or secondary form, and contains explicit their treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav lags. PAST IT. contains a Remedy for the Prevention o f Disease by a simple application, by which the danger of infection is O bviated. The Paa'r V. is devoted to th e c ons id erat i on o f marriage and its duties. _ a causes of unprodu c ti ve un i on are a l so con sidered, and the whole abi ect critically and philosophically inquired into. THE CORDI employed AL RAL NI OF SYRI tC UM is exclusively 1, In treating nervous and sexual debility, impotence, Br , e., 11 il alld 3 ' . rem _ ?Ale. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilit ie hyak e 2l" 3. : l for Purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary pio 4 ern tl 335. X bottle. ' P o P ns, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and Per per b ox err rs Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 1 ls. c h toni... , a certain remedy for gonrhcea, gleet, stricture, and IL it ` . . L itlarnin Won of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, in minute detail et the case is required : age, habits, and posi tionnhsaciely. 5/. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Establish 3', by which are in at - the fee, 1/ ,is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, _en tenclance 0 • fro ri, Elevedaily,n till 'l'wo. and Five to Eight; on Sarigy " om Just published S-1(1 ° 1 " 1.1 1 EDITION WITH ADDITIONS. ON TaUt 'r , with the' . Bvo in cloth7price 55., by post tree, ss. 6d. FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA View to the Correction of wide-PIT/mad Err ors ilireatimi to rcatnnekt and Cure of Sufferers from lb Nifty of the O niera"e B Y'tem, 'l* Sexual Itypochondrissis. Translated, front the German of Dr. PICIEFORD . practi - Dr. Ploktorcl is knoun to English readers by his frequen` em eactribUtloll3 to German medical literature. This is the first time, h.. Informs us, that he ha.s addressed himself to the non-medi c/al reader. We trust this rnaY not be the last, if he shall ietect any other a4cally ilsgrant evil whieh it may 1.. e in his -ower to correct." —London 'Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. The tribe of 'Quiet SymPa bison:and 'Medical Frlenda. are mercile ss sed ; and if this book ly tould find its way into the h ands of those who ex po stiffer fr tin the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would ta, saved much needless suffering ' . ifbody and mind, and what is of less Importance, though it is th at which the quacks most prize— much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the avpirical ayston of treating Spermatorriu ea, and to p l acs t h e treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore nicely to do much good." — Medical Circular, Juno 16, 1852. London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. SAN FRANCISCO. —Madame Ida Pfeiffer thus writes of St. Francisco, under date October 30, 1853 :—" The city of Francisco certainly ranges with the great wonders of the world, but it is not a wonder to charm or en chant. No less than six times in the course of five years it was destroyed by fire, yet it looks as magnificent as if it had never suffered by that element. It lies mostly on sand-hills, which are covered with houses and huts up tc their summits. The centre of the city consists of an artificial piece of tolerably flat ground, produced by fill ing up the bay with sand to the extent of one-third of an English mile. Here you would see a bustle as in the city of the English metropolis—where is a driving, rid ' running, a haste and hurry as in a disturbed ant hill. Houses of brick are built in an incredibly short time, so that streets are often not recognised after a month or two. While in the luxury and splendour which is to be seen in the interior of the houses, San Francisco r i va l s L on d on an d P ar i s —th e filth without and the state of the streets generally far exceed Con stantinople. These, forming as they do the common receptacle for all kinds of rubbish and filth, are, In the first instance, covered with a layer of dust and sand, upon which may be seen heaps of broken boxes and casks, crockery and bottles, cast-off cloth, linen and old shoes, together with the dead bodies of dogs and rats. To walk through the streets is a punishment, and to extend your walk to the country around so much an a dditional punishment--your legs soon becoming fa tigued by the deep sand, and your eyes not the less so by viewing the monotonous dreary landscape. The bay, it must be owned, is fine, and imposing by the great number of vess els from all p arts of t he world ; to which 1 must also ad d, that in the rain y season, as I am told , being the whole country richlycot7 clad assumes in a green swa r d an d covered pro fusely with many beautiful flowers. This season begins a few months hence. quite a diff erent aspect, i t A striking BIDDING BY TELEGRA PH. illustration of the cosmopolitan uses t o which the electric telegraph may be applied, • and of the extent to which it may be sellers a n d th e rendered practically useful to b u yers and _for the first just occurred auctioneering profession, has time to our knowledge. At the sale of a vessel b y Mr. The Hote lbon l Jackson, auctioneer, of Whitehaven, at the A he i tim , at te, an one of the bidders, who was in Gla s g osv t gentleman tually made his bidding by telegraph . in question did not become the ulti mate purchaser, not in • s,t t t in consequence of any telegraphic ccntretemp solely from his declining to bid so high a s the par y o whom the vessel was ultimately knocked down.— Journal of Auctions. !J•I*0 41 , 014 1 / 4 N. 19,119.] Thls day, one vol. Bvo , 203 . , DANTE -THE DIVINE COMEDY : THE INFERNO, PURGATORY and PARADISE. A literal Wise Translation. 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We tind that former pupils of Hanwell college have been either high wranglers or firct-class mer of our Universities during the present year; and this is the twentieth instance of succi as at Sandhurst or Addiscdmbe we have had to record within a short period." Prospectuses may be had on application to the Principal, the Rev. Dr. LMERTON, Hartwell, Mid riesex. NEW PATRIOTIC SONG —" Up with the Standard of England." Written by EDWARD FARMER. Composed by GEORGE SIMPSON". Beautifully illustrated in four colours. Price 2s. 6d , free for stamps. "A fine bold patriotic song, truly characteristic and national in its sentiment ; as a song for the times it has no equal." Jewell and Letchford, 17, Soho•square. THE LAST WEEK BUT THREE. - DR. KHAN'S ANATOMIC AL MUSEUM', Portland Gallery, R e gent street, opposite the Polytechnlc.—Open for Gentlemen daily at the usual hours, excepting on Wednesdays and Fridays, from Two to Fire, during which hours Ladles only are admitted. 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SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University o. Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical stndetY. Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c.. &a - MAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, On the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile Irregularities and excesses, which have pro luced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist ence secret causes of self-acquired miser ies and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitinl ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their endless modifications owe their almost entire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there art principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of Inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may be mitieated, how the sting of their bitterness may he removed. and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functiona" d e rangement to which the timely aid of science c annot apply a cure DOCTOR LA'MEItT has for a long series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com plaints, and is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless of the taunts and envy of thehypocritical and mock-modest, has bac the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is free. In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply tea arded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the c ire of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated puislioations, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those wise have been induced to place faith in their pretensions. At home for constatation daily from Eleven till Two, and Prim Six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of IL, and advice and medicines can be. forwarded to any initials or address. It is desire-hie that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'AIER7 should first obtain a copy of his work on SELF•PRESERVATIONs A. Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty-colotred engravings, and des cribing in detail the various disorders resulting fro n secret habits and excesses. 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We have arrived at an important era of Protestant missions in China. Unwilling to count our converts by the doubtful measure of promiscuous baptisms, we have in past times chosen rather to await the descent of God the Holy Spirit upon our work than to build a spiritual fabric on the rotten foundation of a barren formalism. We were often asked—" Where are the proofs of suc cess or the signs of progress in Protestant missions ? Rome with her fourteen bishops, her eighty-four Euro pean missionaries, her 135 native priests, her fourteen colleges and seminaries, her 326 churches and chapels, and her estimate of 315,000 baptised converts, counts her children in every province. Where are those who form the beginnings of the Protestant Christian Church in China ?" We had a reply which, while it satisfied the student of missionary records of the past, awakened no sympathy in unfriendly minds. It has been a distin guishing principle of Protestant missions in China to give a pre-eminent honour to the inspired word of God. The translation and circulation of the Holy Scriptures have from the commencement of the present century oc cupied a prominent place in the attention and labour of Protestant missionary societies. Unable to point to numerous instances of positive submission to the holy restraints of the Gospel, we nevertheless trusted in the Divine promise, and patiently abided God's time. We looked forward in faith to the results of a wide-spread moral impression, assured that the seeds of scriptural truth, sown widely and sinkin g deeply into the minds of the people, would hereafter, under the vivviug power of God's Holy Spirit, become pregnant with life, produce a harvest of joy, and bring forth the fruits of a spiritual influence in the hearts and lives of the people. And now at length a sudden gleam of hope streaks the horizon, and the dawn of a brighter day succeeds to our dark and dreary night of depression. The Holy Scrip tures and the Christian books distributed in past years along the coast—and especially in the province of Can ton—have at length, as messengers of mercy, winged their flight into the far interior, and given an impulse to a movement which appears likely to issue in the most remarkable revolution of modern times. Numerous, doubtless, have been the unknown channels through which a wide-extended moral impression has been communicated to the distant localities of the inte rior. But at the present time, and in the absence of more intimate access to the insurgent army, the only known facts refer to the circumstances under which the insurgent chief arrived at his knowledge of Christian truth. Twenty years ago a native preacher who now survives, Leang Afa, distributed several thousand copies of a Christian book composed by himself, and containing lengthened extracts from the Bible in the form of Scrip ture lessons, interspersed with his own summary of Chris tian doctrine. In the journals of the late Dr. Morrison; the first Protestant missionary to China, there occur no tices of this Christian native having disposed of large numbers of this and other books among the crowds at tracted to the city of Canton on the occasion of the pro vincial examination for literary degrees. According to information recently supplied by a relative of the insur gent chief who visited Hong Kong, it appears that in the year 1834 one scholar, destined in all probability to fulfil a conspicuous part in the history of the empire, received from an aged man, whose evident description points to no other than Leang Afa, a copy of the above-men tioned work, entitled "Keuen She Leung Yen"—Good Words for Exhorting the Age. lie took with him to his distant home these first elements of Christian truth, and pondered over the important doctrines which they contained. Seven years ago the same native returned to Canton, and, as an inquirer after Christianity, became for two months an inmate in the house of an American missionary. Partially enlightened as to the Christian re ligion, and before he was admitted to Christian baptism, he retired to his native district in the interior. The dreams of his excited brain during a period of sickness under which he laboured after his first acquaintance with Chris tianity, appear to have been mistaken for a personal re velation from God. He communicates Christian doc trines to others ; and the number of Christian professors multiplies. In the strength of awakening earnestness, they decry and denounce the idolatry of their neighbours. The sect attracts the notice of the magistrates. Perse cution essays its power ; resistance follows ; and at length a collision ensues. What, at first, was a mere local rising, in many of its adherents engendered perhaps more by civil discontent than by religious fervour, grows at length to a formidable rebellion. The infusion of a religious element imparts an energy and vigour to the moeement for which the usual impossibility of the native mind rendered us unprepared. The corruption and weakness of the native Government and the popular hatred of the dominant Manchow Tartars strengthen the insurrection and lend wings to its progress. The pro ject is conceived of expelling and exterminating their Manchow oppressors, and of building up on the ruins of the Tartar dynasty the Church of Christ and the king dom of God. The political considerations arising from these events I shall speedily leave. Whether Louis Napoleon at the bidding of the French priesthood may interpose the power of a foreign fleet and to seek to crush a rising power, which in the first burst of iconoclastic zeal has demolished alike Romish images and Buddhist idols ; or whether the Russian Czar may pour down from Sibe rian Tartary his hordes of fierce invaders to arrest the chariot-wheels of revolution and prop up the cause of Chinese despotism ; or whether the downfall of the Manchow Tartars may be arrested or delayed by intes tine divisions in the insurgent force, are contingencies of the future, big with weighty results to the world, and calculated to affect the whole history of missions in the East. Anxious reflections are also sometimes awakened in reference to the great commercial Powers of the West. If Britain, inconvenienced by the diminution of the large duties upon the import of tea, or alarmed at the more permailent injury to her Indian revenue through the ex clusion of opium by the rival dynasty, should hereafter he tempted to interpose her powerful arm, or if,. bribed by promises of extended privileges which the passing away of their hour of danger would lead the faithless Manchows, as heretofore, to evade and elude, she should hereafter employ the resources of a joint foreign inter vention to restore the sinking fortunes of the Imperial ists—then it may confidently be predicted that the civili sation of this vast empire will be hopelessly postponed, and the conversion of this people to Christianity will (to all human view) be indefinitely delayed. In such a de plorable event, this remarkable race—possessing within their territory all the resources needful for great strides in material civilisation, and exhibiting in their national character moral and intellectual traits capable of giving them a leading place among Asiatic empires--will be trampled hopelessly :n the dust, and the pmans of Man chow triumph will be the melancholy dirge of a vast nation having her liberties entombed amongst the dead, and sinking into the lowest depths of political annihilation. All present hope of China's elevation in the scale of nations, morally, politically, and socially, appears to centre around that little army of imperfectly-enlightened religious warriors who now hold the ancient capital of the empire, and before whose irresistible prowess the forces of the former conquerors of China have been un able to stand in a single conflict of arms. With the religious aspect of this native movement we are more intimately concerned. And here it is needful to exercise a prudential caution, neither expecting too much of matured Christianity on the one hand, nor identifying Protestant missions with it too indiscrimi natingly on the other. Tic rebel leaders are evidently men in earnest. Their unsparing destruction of idols— shocking the minds of the common people generally, and, of the female population universally—would be ina- ' politic in men with less lofty aims than those of a re formation of the national religion, and strikingly exhibits , their own belief in their Divine mission to extirpate j image-worship and to propagate the knowledge of the one true God. Their compulsory prohibition of opium smoking and their threatened exclusion of this contra band article from the country, preclude the supposition of their being actuated by a selfish and calculating policy, bringing them into danger of eventual collision with foreigners, as well as pledging them to an onslaught on the most cherished sensual habits of their countrymen. They appear to be animated with all the religious fer vour which inspired Mahoinet in his course of victory, and to be tinctured with the austere morality which soured and incensed the Puritans against their dissolute adversaries. To expect from men of whom we have as yet no certain knowledge that any of them have been baptized —. who have no spiritual teachers whose knowledge of Christianity is derived more from the Old Testament than the New—whose views of reli gious zeal and political propagandism appear to be drawn rather from the warlike- example of Joshua at the head of the armies of Israel than from the writings and sufferings of Paul, the apostle of Jesus Christ—to expect from such a body of men a perfect exhibition of the gentle, forgiving spirit of the Gospel, and a full harvest of the fruits of the spirit of holiness, is to mea sure them prematurely-by the standard of well-instructed Christians, and to apply to them the rule of long-estab lished Christian communities. Amid all the error, the enthusiasm, the fanaticism, and the intolerance which are perceptible among them, they have given forth, in their public manifestoes to the reading population of China, sentiments and views of moral and religious truth such as have never before sounded in the ears of this people. It is a mark of no inconsiderable progress in this people to find the former half of the book of Genesis, as translated by the late Dr. Gutzlaff, republished in the insurgent host and bearing the imprimatur of T'hae ping-wang as emperor : the words " Volume the First" leading to the supposition that other portions of the sacred record have been published or are in the course of publication. it is no slight event in the history of the world to find a Chinese claimant of imperial dignity taking up the work of the British and Foreign Bible Society and publishing the Holy Scriptures for his followers. The "New Calendar of the T'hae-ping dynasty" pro claims to tho people of China—hitherto the dupes of necromancers or the slaves of good and evil omens, and of lucky and unlucky days—that prayer for .he Divine blessing sanctifies every day as alike for tunate : "Whoever truly venerates our heavenly Father, the supreme Lord and great God, is under the protection of Heaven and can engage in• his duties whensover he floated upon theirbosom the scattered and drifted wreck of thousands of broken idols. The temples have been demo lished, the einblems of superstition have been expelled, an d in cases of resistance the priests have been put to the sword. The first principles of civil and religious freedom and of constitutional government have yet to be imbibed from the same fountain source whence they gained their knowledge of the more prominent truths of the Bible. The national polygamy of China seems as yet to have received no check; and like the Israelitish monarchs of old, the insurgent chiefs appear to have a plurality of wives. They make an 'external submission to Christi anity a condition of adherence to their cause ; and all the evil consequences of such a compulsory profession may bo expected to prevail, in the hypocrisy or fanati cism of many among their multitude. The various styles of writing observable in their books, and the extravagant pretensions proclaimed in some of their edicts, lead to the conclusion that probably two classes of Christian professors are to be found in the movement—sincere en thusiasts, on the one hand, impelled by a conviction of their divine mission to extirpate false religion from the empire, and political adventurers, on the other hand, less palpably under the influence of religious motives, and willing to employ the arts of kingcraft or the pious frauds of a middle-age Christianity for overawing the multitude and banishing treachery from the host. Many facts, however,4 which have been ascertained respecting them, exclude the supposition that such adherents as the latter - class form a general specimen of the religious character of the insurgents. The lawless rabble of mem bers of the Triad Society—who have recently risen against the local authorities and captured the cities of Shanghae and Amoy, and whom we have seen to be addicted to the practice of idol worship and opium smoking—are in no way to be confounded or identified with the character and cause of Thae-ping-wang. They have endeavoured to conciliate foreigners in this city by hoisting the flag of T'hae-ping-wang, and by issuing a copy of one of his religious proclamations. But it is a mere device intended to excite foreign sympathy. A recent visitor, an Atneri can med ical missionary, relates of the insurgent forces within the city ofChin-keang, that among them the Sabbath was kept holy (although by an astronomical error in their calendar, they kept as such the seventh instead of the first day of the week)—public religious services were regularly held—appointed offi cers, like Cromwell's generals of old, preached to the troops—and the general signs of order, morality, and decorum prevailed. At each dawn of day, the rebel garrison assembled for prayer in the various military guard-houses—and there, to the sound of native music, they sang hymns, chants, and doxologies to the Trinity, all kneeling devoutly in prayer to the Almighty. Could we hope that even a small proportion of this vast mul titude operates as a leaven of religious sincerity, to give a Christian character to the general mass, it would be a spectacle partaking of the sublime, to witness tens of thousands of native patriots banded together for a great political and religious end ; and, where a little while ago idolatry reigned uncontrolled, to hear doxologies of praise and hymns of prayer ascending to the one true God through the one Saviour of mankind. Ere long the true character of this movement will be open to a closer view. In the meantime we judge only from published documents and authenticated facts ; and such a mingled aspect leaves opposite impressions on the mind—mucit that is hopeful combined with not a little that is dubious and unsound. While there is much that should render us indisposed to raise unduly the hopes of the Christian Church at home—to sound the notes, of premature triumph—or to identify the continued stability, of Protestant missions with the fortunes of the T'hae•ping dynasty, we may leave both sides of the picture—its lights and shadows—its bright colours and its sombre hues—its hopeful features and its dangercus aspects, to the careful, observing mind ; premising only that it requires a more than human foresight —it be longs only to the secret counsels of Him whose over ruling providence 'will assuredly direct the result--to know and to predict in which direction the religious bearings of this question may terminate. The mere political problem seems likely soon to be solved; and the dynasty of the Manchow Tartars is apparently fall ing or fallen to rise no more.-2'he Record. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. REAR-ADMIRAL CORRY'S SQUADRON. A letter from Lisbon, dated the 28th December, says : —"There has been an unfortunate affair here, of which I will endeavour to give the leading particulars. On Saturday (24th) the fleet, consisting of the Prince Re gent (flag), Duke of Wellington, St. Jean d'Acre, Im perieuse, Arrogant, Tribune, Desperate, Aniphion, Valorous, and Cruiser, started under sail alone for a cruise, intending to go as far as Vigo. The wind was foul and unsteady, and the tide ebbing. The St. Jean d'Acre was outside, but, not being ready, was not to start at the moment. Thinking herself in the way, she was moving towards the south shore to leave room for the others. At this moment, with the tide and current running like a mill-race (from the late heavy rains), the wind failed; the Cruiser missed her stays, and was only saved by an anchor when within a hand's breadth of the shore. The Desperate also missed stays, and was swept down upon the St. Jean d'Acre in a moment, and im paled upon her bowsprit. I thought she would have been turned over by the force of the tide under the St. Jean d'Acre's stern. By great good fortune their anchors held when they were close to the shore ; these two and the Valorous got steam up, and, with the Cruiser, at last extricated the un happy Desperate, with the loss of mainmast, and all the superincumbent rigging, mizentopmast, great in jury to topsides, upper deck beams, and various other damages, but no harm done to the engine. While this was going on the flag-ship nearly got on board one of the frigates, lost an anchor (for which boats have been creep ing ever since), and got round only when her keel touched (or did not, for it is a vigorously disputed point) the ground. By this time the Duke of Wellington, which works like a Cowes yacht, was well out, but the Admiral made the recall and signalled to anchor, and the cruise is deferred sine die. The Portuguese, as usual, were most attentive in sending assistance and offering the resources of their dockyards, but I doubt their find ing a spar, or the resources of ie fleet being able to do more than put the Desperate in a temporary state of efficiency. A court of inquiry was held on board the Duke of Wellington by the Commodore, Captains Wat son and Yelverton, and no blame was attached to any one. Miraculously and mercifully, no one was killed. A man fell from the mainyard of the Valorous, struck the side, and fell overboard--killed ; he was buried on shore. Next day (Christmas-day) a man fell down the flag-ship's hatchway and was killed ; he was also buried on shore. The Valorous and Desperate, being the last manned, are the martest ; the Duke of Wellington and, Imperieuse give promise of being in very good order. The flag-ship has rather fallen off since she changed her commander. The St. Jean d'Acre lost her jibboom with other trifling damages, and has gone to-day on a month's cruise by herself, at the end of which she will call at Gibraltar for provisions and return here." PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 3. The Dauntless, 33, screw, Captain A. P. Ryder.—This powerful screw frigate, " true to her name," went out of harbour at 11 a.m., in the face of a gale of wind from E.S.E., to prove her powers at the measured mile, hav ing Capt. the Hon. F. T. Pelham on board. It was feared at first that, owing to the driving snow-storm it would be utterly impossible to sight the marks at Stoke's Bay. Keen eyes overcame this apparent difficulty, and her runs were as follow : With and against the Tide. With ... 10.034 1.643 Against ... 5.202 ' With•and against the Tide. With 11.255 7 907 Against ... ... 4.220 Thus showing that even with her old boilers, in the face of a gale of wind, she is equal to nearly eight knots an hour. We cou:d have wished to have seen carried out what we submitted many months since, that this power ful frigate should have new boilers to do her justice, when we feel satisfied she would have accomplished 11. However, patching up is the order of the day. The Daunt less's draft forward is 15 feet 10 inches, and aft, 17 fee 4 inches. Her steam would not enable her to go fu power. First Step of Expansion. Revolutions ... Barometer ... 29 27 8 lb. Steam ... thinks proper. Every season, therefore, may be con sidered as-prosperous and favourable. _ . During the season of drought we have of late wit nessed around this ' city propitiatory offerings to the "Dragon-Prince of the Eastern Sea," sanctioned and commanded by the ruers as a means of obtaining rain. But the " Imperial declaration of T'hae-ping-wang," a documeNt said to be - written by the leader of the rebel lion himself—thus assails the prevalent superstition : " In later ages we have had unprincipled men falsely declaring that the Dragon of the Eastern Sea can pro duce rain ; whereas this Dragon of the Eastern Sea is nothing more than a transformation of the King of Hades. This King of Hades is no other than the old serpent, the Devil, who transforms himself in a variety of ways, to deceive and entrap the souls of men." In their published comment on the Ten Command ments-, the thoughts and intents of the heart are recog nised as among the spiritual requirements of God's law. " Lustful imaginations"—" amorous glances"—" libidi nous songs"—and their common incentive the "smoking of foreign tobacco" (opium) —are among the enumerated ways of transgressing the Seventh Commandment. An acknowledgment of the universal prevalence of sin seems to be shadowed forth in the following extract from " the book of religious precepts of the T'has-ping dynasty:" " Who has ever lived in the world without offending against the commands of Heaven ? But until this time no one has known how to obtiin deliverance from sin. Now, however, the great God has made a gracious com munication to man, and from henceforth whosoever re pents of his sins in the presence of the great God (Shang-te), and avoids worshipping depraved spirits (Shin), practising perverse things, or transgressing the Divine commands, may ascend to heaven and enjoy hap piness for thousands and myriads of years in pleasure and delight, with dignity and honour, world without end." Then, again, obscurely and inadequately as the Di vinity and Atonement of Chri t., etimes alluded to throughout their writings, aotriise in the following pagages a groundwork of essential truth, on which the glorious superstructure of that doctrine in all its full proportions and completeness may be Lbuilt by the foreign missionary instructor. The " Ode for Youth," intended to be committed to memory by every child in the insurgent camp—and in the event of their triumph, probably by the child of every official through out the empire—contains the following lines on— " REVERENCE TO JESUS. " Jesus, his first-born Son, Was in former times sent by God ; He willingly gave his life to redeem us from sin : Of a truth his merits aro pro-eminent. His cross was hard to bear, The sorrowing clouds obscured the sun ; The adorable Son, tho honoured of Heaven, Died for you children of men. After His resurrection, He ascended to Heaven, Resplendent in glory, He wields authority supreme. In Him we kuo; that we may trust, To secure salvation and ascend to Heaven." Still more wonderful is the clear exhibition of the way of salvation and redemption through Christ in the foll Owing—" A prayer for a penitent sinner." Among the multitude of those who have been familiarised from infancy with the 'doctrine of Christianity, how large a portion would probably state their view of salvation less clearly ! " I thine unworthy scn (or daughter) kneeling down upon the ground, with a true heart repent of my sins, and pray thee the great God (Shang-te) our heavenly Father, of thine infinite gcodneas and mercy, to forgive my former ignorance and frequent transgressions of the Divine commands ; earnestly beseeching Thee of thy great favour, to pardon all my former sins, and enable me to repent and had a new life, so that my soul may ascend to heaven. May I from henceforth sincerely repent and forsake my evil ways, not worshipping corrupt spirits (Shin) nor practising perverse things, but obeying Thy divine commands. I also earnestly pray Thee, the great God our heavenly Father, constantly to bestow on me Thy Holy Spirit and change my wicked heart. Never again allow me to be deceived by malignant demons ; but perpetually regarding me with favour, for ever deliver me from the evil one. And every day bestowing on me food and clothing, exempt me from calamity and woe, granting me tranquility in the present world and the enjoyment of endless happiness in heaven ; through the merits of our Saviour and heavenly brother the Lord Jesus, who redeemed us from sin. I also pray the great GOd our Father who is in heaven, that His will may be done on earth as it is in heaven. That Thou wouldest look down and grant this request, is my heart's sincere desire." In this extract from " the book of religious precepts of the T'hae-ping-wang dynasty" we have a clear recog nition of the guilt of sin, the duty of repentance, the atonement of Jesus Christ, the need of a new heart, and the work of the Holy Spirit in renewing and purifying the soul for heaven. The Emperors of China have been remarkable for their absurd claim of extravagant titles and relationships in heaven. The rival Emperor declares that Wang (King) and not Shing (Holy) nor Te (Emperor or Potentate) belongs to him ; for the latter term belongs only to the great Supreme Being (Shang-te) ; " The great, He is God (Te). The monarchs of this world may be called kings, and that is all." " The great God (Shang Te), our heavenly Father and supreme Lord, in omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, the Supreme over all. There is not an individual who is not produced and cherished by Him. He is Shang (Supreme). He is Te (Potentate). Besides the great God (Shang-te) our heavenly Father and supreme Lord, there is one who can be called Shang, and no one who can be called To. Therefore, from henceforth, all you soldiers and officers may designate us your Lord, and that is all. You must not call me Supreme, lest you should encroach upon the designation of our heavenly Father- Our heavenly Father is our holy Father, and our celestial elder brother is our holy Lord the Saviour of the world. Hence, our heavenly Father and our celestial elder Brother alone are holy ; and from hence forth all you soldiers may designate us your Lord, and that is all ; but you must not call me holy, lest you encroach upon the designation of our heavenly Father and celestial elder I3rother." In the plenitude of Imperial pride, the " Son of Heaven" has from ancient times claimed alone as the high priest of the nation the honour of making special offerings to the One Supreme Being, and sacrificing at the winter solstice at the round hillock. The chief of the rival dynasty restores to the sons of Han their just right, and gives to all the children of men equality in the sight of God. " Those whose minds have been deluded by the devil objectwor shipped by sovereign p r i nces . B u t we w i s h you to know greathat the great God is only to be God (Sh an ge-te) is the universal Fztthertahonafdt all Stal lYe' ment throughout the world. Sovereigns are those of his children whom He elothes with power, but the good , are tho se o f hi s c hild ren w h o mus t re semble Him. ' • The national exclusiveness and pride of China has hitherto debarred her from intercommunication with foreign' countries. On thisipOrZ - a;ain,;emay per ceive the inculcation of sentiments, which, if prevailing generally among this people; would speedily throw down the barriers which have so long isolated them from Christendom, and bring them into the great brotherhood of Christian nations. Instead of terming foreigners barbarians," the pretender to the Imperial throne enjoins his followers to recognise them as " brethren" under the protection of tho same true God. "The great God is the universal Father of all men throughout the world. China, which is near to us, is governed and regulated by the same God ;. foreign are under the same rule. " Foreign nations, though far removed, are protected and cared for by the. One g reat G od ; an d C h i na, w hi c h is so near, is under t he same gracious care. There are nations,A—n w hi c h are far away, many men in world, but they are al l our b ret h ren ; therearemt the many women in the world, but they are all our sisters." The usual objection of the Chinese against Christianity taunt by g has been that it is t he rel igion of foreigners. The in pa.teiarchal tradition ' and that when the Chin e s e " kn ew God, they glorified him, not as God," nor " retained God in their knowledge." (Romans i., 21-28.) s o u n r c g e entedic edicts acknowledged reply theto t c ti o s that China God of declarin Some also say, erroneously, that to worship the great God (Shang-te) is to imitate foreigners ; not re membering that China has her histories, which are open to investigation. From the time of Pwan-koo" (the first man of whom the Chinese speak) "down to the peri9d of the three dynasties, both princes and people honoured and worshipped the great God (Shang-te).' "The fact is, that according to the histories of both the Chinese and foreign nations, the important duty of the great God, in theas alike early worship pingages of the world several v thousand years ago,practised both by Chinese I and foreigners. But the vario us foreign nations in the west have practised thi s duty up to the present time, while the Chinese only p ractis ed it up to the Tsin and Han dynasties ; since which time they have erroneously followed the devil's ways, and allowed themselves to be deceived by the King of Hades. Now, however. the great God, out of compassion to the children of men, has displayed his great power and delivered men from the machinations of the evil one, causing them to retrace their steps, and again to practise the great duty which was performed of old." But strange customs an d s uperstitious rites have been reported as observed by these imperfectly enlightened men. Apparently borrowing the institution of Shew bread from the Jewish tabernacle, or transferring to the service of the true God their former Pagan modes of honouring their false gods, they place triple offerings of food before each of the Three Persons of the Trinity. There occur in their publi shed books statements of a per sonal communication with t he Almighty, and claims of a di fa newfu turecu coursel a ty itndnspecialrreer f.o verlea all d ue a b atemen t s on ac count With of the suspicious channel of hostile authorities through which many of their excesses have been reported, they nevertheless appear to pursue their Tartar oppres sors with all the sanguinary destruction which was wreaked by the Israelites under Joshua of old, as the ap , pointed executioners of God's judicial wrath, upon the na tions of Canaan. The waters of the Yang-tze-kiang have e.oZ Fair Wind. Revolutions Barometer Stearn. ... 28 27 8 lb. Foul Wind. No hot bearings. Very little priming. Temperature. Engine-room behind cylinder ... 68 deg. Starting place 68 deg. Stokehole forward ... ... 60 deg. „ aft ... 64 deg. The Dauntless returned into harbour at four p.m., with every one on board drenched to the skin and glad to get ashore. The Conflict, 8, screw sloop, is ordered to sail to-mor row for I)ovonport, to join the steam reserve. Her steam was got up to-day to try her engines. Spithead has not been visible at any time during the day, owing to a continuous fall of snow. We are requested to state that the Medea, whose narrow escape from total loss on the Lincolnshire coast we lately described, was, at the time of her r unning aground, in charge of the pilot, who will be brought to a court-martial. The Medea is ordered round to Ports mouth to be docked. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY EVENING. A very sever' gale from east north east sprang up last night, and has caused the total loss of t-,,v0 schooners near Dawlish. The Atalanta, of Exeter, coa l-laden . , was wrecked on Exmouth Bar. Crew saved. The Friends, of Exeter, with 110 tons of coal, from Hartlepool, struck a sandbank called the Poles, and, having sprung a leak, her master , Henry Dailey, with the hope of saving the lives of the crew , ran her ashore on a beach half-a-mile east of Dawlish abmit 7 o'clock this morning, when the sea was very high and the tide had two . hours to rise. She lay about 40 yards from the RICE 5D E r • sea wall of the South Devon Railroad, and Mr. Mar gary, engineer on the line, speedily proceeded to the vessel with some of his men, two of whom, Eli Pike and Tucker, following his example, went into the sea at the risk of their lives, and succeeded in throwing on board a lead, to which was attached a line and a rope. Four of the crew tied the rope round them in succession, and were hauled ashore ; the fifth, William Pile, of Woodbury, unfortunately perished. The Friends (a very old vessel) went to pieces immediately. Mr. Mansfield, of Teignmouth, was ready with a volunteer crew to take the lifeboat round, but she could not be got over the bar, in consequence of the severity of the weather. The merchant-ship St. Hilda, Kirby, of Liverpool, from Manilla for London, out 178 days, put into Ply mouth Sound last evening, with loss of main and mizen mast, pump disabled, and crew much exhausted.. Oct. 25, spoke the Robert Stephenson, from Algoa Bay for London ; Dec. 27, the Hudson, from Mauritius for Lon don, out 133 days. She reported having passed, on the 20th, a vessel with mainmast, mizentopmast, and fore topsail-yard gone, decks swept, and no appearance of any one on board. January 1, passed a brigantine under jurymasts, having lost her foremast and mainmast, head bulwarks, rails, &c. SHEERNESS, JAN. 3. The Cressy, 80 guns, new screw steam-ship, Captain Richard L. Warren, has this day been placed under the masting shears in the fitting-basin, for the purpose of being masted. She is to be masted and rigged as a second-class line-of-battle ship. The extreme circum ference of her mainmast is 10 feet. Her standing rig ging is all ready to be sent over the mastheads imme diately the masts are stepped. She will be out of the master-shipwright's department, as it regards her hull fitments, in the early part of next month. The following officers have taken up their commissions, and joined this ship :—Lieutenant—Nicholas E. B. Tournour (28th Sept., 1849) ; Chaplain—John Gurney (10th Feb., 1853), from the Leopard, 18 guns, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, at Portsmouth ; Clerk—W. H. Stevens, from the Water loo, 120 guns, flag-ship at this port. The Majestic, 80 guns, new screw steam-ship.—This ship has received all her engine machinery on board, and immediately the Cressy is masted the boilers of the Ma jestic will be put into their places, when a large number of engineers, boilermakers, &c., will be set on to com plete the setting up of her engines and getting her ready for sea. The Monarch, 84 guns, guard-ship of ordinary, Captain Charles Hope.----On the paying-off of this ship on Friday last, and recommissioning her on the following day (as reported), only such seamen as had served their three years were actually paid off : other seamen who had joined under the new Admiralty regulations for con tinuous service, and such as had not completed their three years, were paid down and transferred from the old to the new commission on this ship's books. The new contract for the supply of vegetables to the fleet in the Medway has been taken here by Mr. Aaron Brown, potato salesman, residing at this place, in con sequence of which a daily supply of fresh vegetables can be obtained for the use of the crews of all ships in com mission at this port—an advantage not hitherto enjoyed for many years past at this place. On many former occasions surveys have been called, and vegetables con deinned on such surveys and destroyed ; this has caused great inconvenience to the service, which, by the present conditions of the contract now entered into by Mr. Aaron Brown, is not likely to occur here again. WOOLWICII, JAN. 3, APPOINTMENTS. Henry 13raxton (1846), at present serving in the Cro codile, 8, receiving ship, off the Tower of London, is appointed Clerk-in-Charge of that ship. Clerks. —Edwin Harris. (1851), from the St. George, 120, guard-ship of ordinary at Devonport, to the Eurya lus, 50, screw steam-frigate at Chatham ; John T. Wells, to the St. George ; Richard Munday (1850), 'from the Impregnable flag-ship at Devonport, to the Pique, 40, at Devonport ; W., H. Turner; to the Impregnable ; F. G. Pearn, to the Neptune, 120, guard-ship of ordinary at Portsmouth. ~f PROMOTIONS. Commander George A. Bedford (1843), borne on the books of the Fisgard flag-ship of Woolwich for surveying service, to the rank of captain. Lieutenant William H. Church (1838), also borne on the books of the Fisgard for surveying service, to the rank of commander. The name of Captain C. G. E. Patey (1846), who was injured by the falling of a block when in command of the Ampb ion screw steam-frigate, was inadvertently omitted from the list of officers who received their certificates after a course of study of steam at the factory at Wool wich dockyard during the last three months. Captain Patey was fifth in order of merit, or between Comman , der Morrish and Commander Harston. Commodore John Shepherd having struck his broad pendant, and gone on leave for a few days, Lieutenant Robert Robertson, of the steam reserve, has taken the duties afloat, and Mr. M'Donald, master-attendant, the duties of the dockyard. A singular occurrence took place about three o'clock this morning, owing, it is supposed, to the freezing of one of the self-acting valves of the caisson in the east dry dock, in which the Firefly steam-vessel was docked for repair. The pressure of the floating ice, while the tide was rising at that hour, literally lifted the caisson out of its place, and floated it up the river until it grounded a little beyond the slip on which the Royal Albert, 131, screw steam-ship, has been built. The Fire fly, like a phantom ship, floated out of dock, without any person on board, and entered the river where she fortunately took the ground alongside the wharf wall, without much damage being done. The scene was only witnessed by one of the privates of the Royal Marines, and one of the constables on duty, the latter having had a narrow escape from being carried into the river, as he was crossing the caisson when it rose, and had barely time to jump off it oa the wharf wall as it floated into the river. The river pre sents a singular spectacle to-day, owing to the great quantity of floating ice passing up and down with the tide, and the whole of the shores on both sides. are covered at low water with numberless miniature ice bergs grounded on the mud, the greater part of which are floated again when the tide rises. The Prometheus steam-sloop, which was at moorings in the river, has been taken into the basin to-day to secure her from injury by the floating ice, and the Black Eagle, Master-Commander John E. Petley, has been taken from the stream to strong moorings alongside the wharf wall. The Fisgard has also had her moorings strengthened, and every precaution has been taken to prevent any injury to the vessels afloat in the stream. The Banshee steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Louis R. Reynolds, will proceed round to Portsmouth as soon as she is ready for sea, and will be paid wages in advance at that port. Captain Brock, appointed to the Britannia, 120, flagship on the Mediterranean sta tion, and at present in the Bosphorus, will take a pas sage in the Banshee to Malta, and then proceed to the Britannia on his surveying duties, for which pur pose she has been appointed. Several other officers take passage in the Banshee for Constantinople. DEATH OF CAPTAIN JOHN STonDART.----Captain John Stoddart (1825), on the retired list of 1846, and the next but one in seniority for his flag rank, died at Ash ford, Kent, on the 31st ult. This gallant officer served 17 years afloat, chiefly during the war. He entered the navy 1797, and in the Adathant, 50, with the Tre mendous, 74, assisted in driving the French frigate, La Preneuse. on shore, under a heavy fire from the bat teries of Port Louis, Isle of France. He was made a lieutenant in 1804. In the Melampus, 36, he assisted in capturing two brigs and a Spanish privateer, the Hydra, 28. In company with the l3ellisle he assisted in the destruction, off Capp Henry, of the French, 74, L'lmpetueux. In the Canopus, 84, in 1809, he wit nessed the self-destruction, off Cape Cette, of the ships of the line Robusto and Lion. As commander of the Stromboli, bomb, he actively co-operated with the Catalonian patriots, and assisted at the capture •of the Fort of St. Phillippe. He also commanded the Crocus and Primrose sloops, but has not been afloat since he was posted. A. SNAKE IN A Fix.—A Texas •correspondent of a 'New "York paper gives the following snake story:— "One night my wife and myself were awakened by a noise from the shelf which contained our small store of crockery, followed by a crash which showed that a great portion of our cups and plates had been flung on th e floor. Springing up to discover the author of this ' attack upon china,' I found a large snake in a somewhat un pleasant He had crawled upon the shelf, attracted by a number of eggs which were scattered about. One of these he had s wallowed, arid in order to get at the next, he had put his head and a portion of his body through the handle of a jug which happened to stand be tween the coveted delicacies. The handle was just open enough to let his body, in its natural state, slip cleverly through, but not sufficient to let it pass when puffed out by the egg. In this position he had swallowed the second egg. His snakeship thus found himself unable to a dvance or retreat ; and in floundering about to es cape from this novel stock had caused the accident which bad aroused us. I, [of course, !proceeded at once to execute summary justice upon the interloper, but the eggs which he had swallowed were a dead loss." CHEAP EDITION OF THE LIVES OF THE QUEENS. — The first volume of the cheau edition of Miss Strickland's celebrated work "The Lives of the Queens of England," is just published, handsomely bound and embellished with Fourteen Portraits. The work will be completed in eight monthly volumes at 7s. 6d. each. The price of the present issue will doubtless place "The Lives of the Queens" in the hands of thousands of purchasers, by whom the former editions were unattainable. " These volumes, as the Times observes, "have the fascination of romance united to the integrity of history. The work is written by a lady of considerable learning, indefati gable industry, and careful judgment. All these quali fications for a biographer and an historian she has brought to bear upon the subject of her volumes, and from them has resulted a narrative interesting to all. The whole work should be read by all who are anxious for informa tion. It is a lucid arrangement of facts, derived from authentic sources, exhibiting a combination of industry, learning, judgment, and impartiality not often met with in biographers of crowned heads," 1 7 /1 FREE TRADE FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY. Last night a meeting of the inhabitants of Camberwell and its vicinity was held at the. Greyhound Tavern, Greyhound-road, Old Kent-road, for the purpose of hearing a statement of the plans and proceedings of the Free Trade Freehold Land Society. The estates pos sessed by the society consists of two very attractive ones, situate at Camberwell and Anerley. The hour fixed for the commencement of the proceed ings having arrived, Mr. GIMSON proposed that Dr. Leonard do take the chair. Mr. COLEMAN begged leah'e to second the motion. It having been put to the meeting, and declared carried, Dr. LEONARD, in taking the chair, said he did not in tend, in opening the proceedings of the evening, to occupy the attention of the meeting for any length of time, as he would be followed by a gentleman who would place before them the claims of the society in a far more attractive form than he could. It was perfectly well known to most .of them that freehold land societies had now taken a posi tion that the most sanguine supporter could hardly have expected. Lately an important movement had taken place, which all and every one would hail with pleasure and delight. Societies like the one on whose behalf he appeared that evening tended in a great degree to foster habits of frugality, and all who had the good of their fellowmen at heart would be greatly rejoiced at such a result. There was no political object to be worked out, but all, of every shade of political opinion, were invited to join and participate in the benefits to be derived by joining so successful, and deservedly so, a society as the Free Trade Freehold Land Society. He • I would not further detain them, but at once call upon Mr. Smith to address them. (Cheers.) Mr. SMITH, on rising to address the meeting, was cor dially received, said, although the origin of freehold land societies was of recent date, their advantages were well understood and appreciated. Seven years ago, the founder of them, James Taylor, of Birmingham, and a friend met at a coffee-house in Birmingham, and there drew up a report, and forwarded it to the editor of a newspaper in that town, with a polite request that he would insert it in his journal. That gentleman not only inserted the communication, but called . attention to the importance of the subject by a loading article, and results that Taylor and his friend least expected followed. When he (Mr. Smith) first became acquainted with Taylor, who through drunkenness had become greatly reduced, he had saved a little money, and become exceedingly anxious to pro cure a freehold home. On receiving the abstract of the title, he made the observation that it was as long as his arm and as thick as his leg—(laughter) —and on its perusal discovered that he had paid five shillings a yard for land which had cost the seller but five pence. This fact first gave rise to the present idea, that by co-operation pur chases of large tracts of land might be effected wholesale, and distributed among the purchasers at the original cost; in other words, that which had been acquired wholesale might be retailed at the wholesale price. Among other societies, he would mention two, to illus trate the success of the movement, namely, the Na tional, now one of the most flourishing, in the first year made but little progress. The success by this society had not proceeded far before it was found necessary to establish the Conservative Land Society, to - counteract the success of the Radical societies. At the present time the political part of freehold land societies was falling into crisuetude ; the franchise was not so much sought after, as it was perfectly well known to all that by the aid of societies like the Free Trade Freehold Land Society—open to all creeds of political opinion— that, as a matter of right, followed the acquisition of a share. The priority principle, which was the first put forth, was found, after a short time, not to answer the expectations .of those who were at first its most decided advocates. The National Society put forth two plans the ballot and the paid-up shares. This was also objected to, and it was now found that the system that received most favour with the great majority was the ballot, the seniority, and the paid-up principles combined. That was the plan adopted by the Free Trade Freehold Land Society. (Cheers.) The advantages held forth by savings banks had been thought to be of the best and most solid description ; yet, when he mentioned the case of the Rochdale Savings Bank and the Cuffy-street Savings Bank in Dublin, he thought that the security held forth by freehold land societies was by far to be preferred. (Cheers.) There was no fear of nearly all the funds of freehold land societies being irrecoverably lost. With respect to building societies, he (Mr. Smith) thought they were not for one moment to be compared to freehold societies. In the latter, every man on entering knew what he would get. He did not think he could say so much for the former. For the early rights in this society fifty pounds had been offered as a premium and refused. There was no fear of any one losing by joining this society ; all were prizes, and, unlike lotteries, there were no blanks. (Cheers.) •As for the moral influence exercised by socie ties like the one he had the honour to be connected with, he would mention the fact, that when Mr. Stevens, the inspector of police at Birmingham, was examined before a committee of the House of Commons, he, in answer to questions put to him, stated that they tended to diminish drunkenness, and also created habits of sav ing and temperance not known of before their introduc tion. (Cheers.) * The progress made by freehold land societies had been most extraordinary—indeed, the Messrs. Chambers, in the last number of their publica tion, declared it to be quite a mania. The success at tained by the most successful freehold land societies had been eclipsed by theirs, for in the short space of four months—the date of their foundation was the 15th of August, 1853—they had had 2,030 shares taken up. (Cheers.) No society, he could truly say, had done so much in so short a time. Economy was carefully studied in everything connected with the it. There was no party bias. Conservatives and Radicals were not in fluenced by the directors ; indeed they considered it de- rotatory even to attempt to interfere with the free exer cise of the franchise acquired through this society. (Loud cheers.) They ha t d. had •a ballot for seniority, but the directors, to show their disinterestedness, had submitted to throw their early acquired rights into the wheel, and some of them now stood far down the list ; and, judging from the premiums offered for early rights, he might with truth say, by so doing one gentleman had lost 250/., another 5001. The first ballot for rights would take place on the 30th, in which all shares would participate. He Mr. (Smith) would feel great pleasure in answering any question any gentleman might feel disposed to put to him, as it was their greatest wish that everything connected with the Free Trade Freehold Land Society should be examined and inquired into. He begged to thank the meeting for the attention with which they had listened to him. Mr. Smith then resumed his seat amidst loud applause. Mr. GIMSON then rose to propose the first resolution. He said that after the clear, able, and lucid statement they had heard from Mr. Smith, he thought lie should be only trespassing on their patience if he attempted to address them at any length. lie fully confirmed every thing that Mr. Smith had stated with respect to the prices offeted as premiums for the early rights. To enter into tie principles of the Free Trade Freehold Land Society would take a longer time than he thought the meeting would feel disposed to allow him ; but this he would say, that it was their earnest wish and desire to raise the position of the shareholders in the social sca l e . (Cheers.) The resolution he had the pleasure of moving was to the following effect—" That Freehold Land Societies have been proved, by experience, to be a safe and profit able investment, advancing the interests of the community generally, and of the industrious classes in particular." Mr. BARRETT briefly seconded the resolution. The CHAIRMAN having put it to the meeting, declared it carried unanimously. Mr. HUNT, in rising to propose the second resolution, said, in moving the resolution he held in his hand, he had intended to have laid before the meeting a brief statement of the present position and future prospects of the society, but that ground had been gone over with such ability by Mr. Smith, that he would read the words of the second resolution ; but before doing so he sincerely declared that the Free Trade Freehold Land Society was what its name implied--honest, open, and free. (Cheers.) The resolution was as follows :—" That the Free Trade Freehold Land Society is worthy of sup port from the success.thiit has marked its progress, the principles on which it is based, and for having purchased two very desirable estates, one of which is situate in the immediate neighbourhood, for distribution among its members." Mr. KIPLING seconded the resolution. The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, and, like the preceding, declared it carried nem. con. Mr. GIMSON proposed, and Mr. HUNT seconded, a vote of thanks to Dr. Leonard, for his conduct in the chair. It having being carried, The CHAIRMAN, in returning. thanks, said it afforded him the highest gratification to have assisted at a meet in.- having such 'Ale and disinterested objects in view. He begged sincerely to thank them for the ki n d ness they had conferred upon him. The proceedings, which were of the most satis factory description, then terminated. GRAIN IN BELorvm.—The importati on o f w h ea t daring the last year in Belgium amounted to 106,630,686 kil ogrammes , while the exportation did not exceed 11,298,577 kilogrammes. w/Zi-/ 11100 C k. ay lit 2.e. IN 4