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t F Veett I'ltA.t4, AND hoAe. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset House, 7th November, 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 MONDAY, the 20th instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing 4o contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford the undermentioned Articles, viz.: When to be delivered. Quarters. Half of each in 3 weeks, WHEAT PEAS 5OO weeks afterwards, or Tons. earlier if preferred by the BO AP party tendering. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the ten ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any ; and also an unlimited power of selection. A proportional part of the price per bushel of Wheat will be paid Or any weight exceeding 60 lbs. per bushel. Tenders may be made for the whole, or any portion of any one of the above articles ; and every Tender must speci:y in words, as well as le figures, the prices at which the Articles may be offered. Samples of the Wheat and Peas (not less than 2 quarts of each), and of the So p (not less than a bar), must be produced by the parties tendering. The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted are requested to be taken away by them immediately after the con tract has been decided. No tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro- Vided for the purpose, and which may he obtained on apPlicalloo at the said Office, or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packetgarrice at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol. The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten tion is called, may he seen at the said Office, and at Liverpool and 1 3r•stol. No tender will be received atter One o'clock on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering or an agent on his behalf srould attend at the office on the day of contract, a , the result of the offer received front each person will be communicated to him in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty :, and bear in the left-hand 'bonier the words " Tender for and must also be delivered at Somerset House. LON DON NECROPOLIS undertake COMPANY.- It is i n tended to OPEN e CEMETERY on tho 13th No vember, and this Company will un d e rtake Funerals on and after that date. A train, conveying Funerals and mourners only, will start from the Westminster-road Station daily at 11.20 a.m. Forty-eight hours' notice of any intended Funeral must be given at the office of the Company, 2, Lancaster -place, Waterloo-bridge, where full particulars of the general arrangements may be obtained. The Charges are : First Class Single Grave in perpetuity, including convey ance of Coffin to Woking, Funeral Service, end Inter- £2 10 0 Second Class, ditto ditto 1 • 0 This Company has also contracted with eminent and responsible Undertakers and Statuarleg, so that the Public may either employ their own Undertaker or statuary, or by ene payment obtain all the requirements of a Funeral. A detailed Tariff may be obtained on application, either in person or by letter. By order. RICHARD CHURCHILL, Sec. IDDLESEX HOUSE of CORRECTION, Coldbath-fiel&. -The SITUATION of GOVERNOR of the said HOUSE of CORRECTION for the county of Middlesex having been declared VACANT by the Court of Quarter Session of the Peace in consequence of the resignation of Mr. George Laval Chesterton, Notice is Hereby Given, that the ELECTION of another GOVERNOR will take place on THURSDAY, the 7th day of Decem ber next (being the county day of the next general session), at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell-green, by voting, to commence at One o'clock, and end at Three o'clock. The salary will be 5001. per annum, with residence within the walls of the building, rent and taxes free. The age of candidates must not be less than 30, nor more than 45 years, aid they are to forward to me at this place letters (in their own handwriting) stating their names and resi dences, ages, and occupation, accompanied by testimonials of cha racter and eligibility, addressed to " The Committee for General Purposes," on or before the 18th of November next, and must per sonally attend the said Committee at the said Sessions-house, on Monday, the 20th of that month, at Two o'clock, and out of the whole number of candidates the committee will select the names of not more than five nor less than three to be submitted to the Court.—Dated this 9th of October, 1854. CHARLES WRIGHT, Clerk to the Committee, Sessions-house, Clerkenwell. TO LOVERS OF FISH.- 100 real YARMOUTH BLOATERS for Os., package included. The above forwarded to all parts on receipt of penny postage stamps, or P. 0. 0. (preferred) for the amount. Send plain address, county, and nearest station.—Address, Thomas Lettis, jun., Fish-curer, Great Yarmouth. OYSTERS. —J. SWEETING is happy to inform his Friends and the Public that his BURNHAM RIVER NATIVE OYSTERS are as fine as last season. lie has them six years' old, four hours from the beds, at his Fish and Oyster Establi•hment, 159, Cheapside. Superior Oyster Rooms ; Steed's Ale ; Reld's Stout. LAND to PIIRCHASE.—WANTED, about 100 ACRES of LAND, within a radius of 40 miles of Charing cross, for the purpose of erecting thereon an Industrial School for Juvenile Offenders of the county of Middlesex, under an Act of the last Session of Parliament. The powers of the Lands Clauses' Con solidation Act of 1845, relating to the purchase of lands by agree ment, being incorporated with the above Act, may offer advantages to some vendors. Proposals, stating the locality, tenure, nature of soil, sub-soil, supply of water, and distance from nearest Railway Station, are to be sent, sealel up, and addressed to " The Chairman of the Committee of Visitors of the Middlesex Industrial School," under cover to me at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell-green, before Thursday, the 14th day of December, 1854. C/I AR LES WRIGHT. Clerk to the Committee of Visitors. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.- Now Open for the Season.—Daring the week the Orchestra will perform the Overture to Zampa ; Waltzes : Le Refrain des Mon tagnes (first time), Germania, Solon Spruche : Polkas, Fidelin (first time), Les Folies, Moscow ; Quadrilles : La Guerre d'Orient (first time), Scrutiny], Partant pour Is Syrie (by desire). L'Etoile du Nord • Schot tische: Malvina (first time), and (also by desire) the Alma Galop. Principal Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcourt.—Alteration of Time—Doors open at Eight ; commence at half-past.—Admission, One Shilling. PATRON—H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT. 1 - 10 OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. di Miss GLYN wi'l read OTHELLO on Tuesday, the 14th inst., at Eight o'Clock, and HENRY the Bth ou Thursday, the 16th, at LECTURE specially addressed to the INDUSTRIAL CLASSES, Monday Evening, 13th inst., at Eight. Second Lecture of a Course on PHYSIOLOGY, as connected with HEALTH, by Dr. CARPENTER, 1.R.5., F.G.S., &c. Subject—FOOD and INDIGESTION.. FIRST EXHIBITION of Dr. EDWARI)S' PHOTOGRAPHS of the MOON, magnified by the Oxy-hydrogen Microscope. LECTURE by Dr. 13ACIIIIOFFNER on the PATENT POLY TECHNIC GAS FIRE. A Splendid Series of 40 COSMORAMIC VIEWS of ST. PETERSBURG, MOSCOW, &e., and the CUSTOMS of the RUSSIANS, is now open daily and in the Evenings. DIS !SOLVING VIEWS of the SEAT of WAR, SEBASTOPOL, ke. Admission, Is.; stalls, 2s ; pit at Ills, 3s. Open on SATURDAY EVENINGS from half-past seven till ten, with an Entertainment descriptive of the RISE and PROGRESS of AMERICA, illustrated by a series of Dissolving Views of American Scenery, by G. HAIITEY, Esq. DURABILITY OF GUTTA PERCIII TUBING. —Many inquiries having been made as to the durability of Gutta Percha Tubing, the (in to Percha Company have much pit asiire In giving publicity to the following letters from parties who have had it in use for a considerable lencth of time : FROM SIR RAYMOND JARVIS. BART., TENTNOR, ISLE OF WIGHT. (second Testimonial.) "In reply to your letter received this morning, respecting the Gatta fercha Tubing fer pump service, I can state, with much satis faction, it answers perfectly. Many builders and other persons have lately examined it, and there is not the least apparent difference since the first laying down, now several years ; and I am informed that it is to be adopted geuer 411 y in the houses that are being erected here FROM C. HACKER, E=Q., SURVEYOR TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE Oc , B1 , 11)FORD, wOEURN PARK. (Second Testimonial.) "Office of Works, Woburn Park. Gentlemen,—ln answer to your inquiries respecting the Gutta Percha Tubing for pump suctions, I find that the water has not affected it in the least, although it will eat lead through in two years; we have adopted it largely, being cheaper than lead, much easier fixed, and a more perfect job." N.B.The Company's Illustrated Circulars, with Instructions for joining Tubes, &c , and for securely attaching Gotta Percha Soles, will be forwarded, post free, on receipt of four postage stamps. Manufactured by the GUTTA PEhCHA. CO ZUPAN Y, Patentees. lit, Wharf-road, city-road, London, and sold by their wholesale dealers in town and country. R AVESEND STAR G PACKETS. No other Packets call at the Greenhithe and Purdeet Piers. NOTICE.—Day Tickets are issued upon the Gravesend Star Packets, available for return by them or by the London and Tilbury Railway ; the Return Tickets by the Railway will also be available for return by the 6tar Packets. The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting'. FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. WEEK DAYS, SUNDAYS Terrace E Pier i 1:4 - y • I Time o 14 0 Direct Trains from the Boats marked t Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station to all parts of London every quarter of an hour. BRUNSWICK WIIA.RF. BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the fbl lowing Trains from the Fenchurch-street Station. WEIDE DAYS. SUNDAYS. wo Fen- * c; Fen- 3 14 1 church 's ^ V. .14 church 3 ' az, Street 4 5. 1,1 Street 7 . 8 , . i 2 - - - 5 - •- 44 - - 5 direct. Fore Cabin. Saloon. To or from Gravesend and London .• •• • • .... 10d. .. Is. 2d. „ Gravesend and Blackwall or Woolwieh Bd. .• Os. 10d. Between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bd. BOAT TECKETS.—TweIve Montlui, 5.. Os. ; Sia Months, 31. Os.; Three Months, 21. Os. ; to be had of the Collectors On board the Packets ; or or Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. Oct. 23, 1854. Passawes marked * are THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF 'YOUTH AND MATURITY. Just published, price 25., illustrated with cases; free by poet for 30 N stamps, NERVOUS DEBILITY; Its Causes, Symptoms. and Cure.—An Essay on Spar matorrheea, with Practical Observations on a safer and more successful mode of treatment of the diseases .of the Generative System, obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting and di s ti ng uishing, by urinary examination, th e real cause and effect of habits, every variety of complaint, whether arising from excesses, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks founded , isr mpuissance, on twenty years' experience in the treatment To which Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spertnatorrhcea are added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre cautionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice, and on the (Pingerol.l9 remedies advocated by vario us writ ers on these important disorders. By SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D. 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Honorary Member of the L o n don Hos p ital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful eon- Pe items resulting from certain habits, Irregularities, and excesses, which have proauced snore misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is I.rticularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of L\eir Physical condition, and who are conscious of having tht i /health, happiness, aud privileges to which ev er y human hazard i d s being ent 'tied. It is absolutely necessary thatall men should know, that there are p ri: s. iples of personal management which cannot be violated without Inc arl'ing grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed th , heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties to ay be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, su 0 how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all, tt at there is scare e ly any degree of physical infirmity or functional dl scgement to which the timely aid of science c annot apply a cure. p Ti Author has for a saki of years been eng a g ed In an extensive ra e m _;rtu etice complaints , In the treatm en t o f th e se delicate which have tint em, ,rics natel Y be en too generally confided to th e care of ignorant 'rice, who inflict great Injury on those who a re induced to place their prete ns i ons faith In NE RVOUS DEBILITY may be had, price 2s, of Messrs. Piper, Broth era, and Co., Hort l 1,. 19, Leiceste r- ' square 3, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; er-sq uare . thirt . , ystamps to , Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or free by post for ford-E quare, any address from the Author's residence, 37, Bed- At home for consults; Six U; 1 Eight , tion daily from Eleven till Two, and from ~' ,~ , (-'/4 NO. 19,385.] LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1854. PUBLICATIONS. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- EXTENSION to WOL,ERIIAMPTON.-- NOTICE IS IIEuEBY GIVEN, That on TUESDAY, November 14th, the Bir mingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Line, connecting the Great Western flails ay at Birmingham with Wolverhampton, Wellington, Shrewsbury, Osweitry, Chester, and Birkenhead, for Liverpool, will be Opened for Public Traffic. On and after that day passengers may proceed by certain trains to and from stations between Paddington and Wolverhampton without change of carriage. Those proceeding to and from stations north of Wolverhampton will have to change ca-riages in the Birmingham stalon for the present, every facility and accommodation for which will be provided there. Train Bills for the remainder of the month may be procured at all stations after the I Ith instant. Paddington Station, Nov. 9, 18 - NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The Hannibal, 91, screw, Captain the Hon. F. Gray, arrived at Plymouth at six o'clock on Thursday morning, en route to the Black Sea. A detachment of Royal Marines embarked on board‘the Hannibal yesterday for a passage to the Black Sea. Fifty men of the Royal Artillery will also be drafted to her for active service in the Crimea. The Hannibal is appointed to sail on the 14th inst. Now ready at all the Libraries, In 3 vols., THE CURATE OVERTON. F O " A powerfully - written story, the characters and incidents of which are portrayed with great artistic skill, is here made use of for the purpose of exposing the machinations of the Papists and of their allies, in our ow,: churcla."—John Bull. "'She story of this work is interesting and vigorously narrated. It will be read by Tractarians and Romanists to decry it, and by orthodox or Low-Church Protestants to praise it to the skies."— Observer. Burst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to henry Colburn. The Kent, 78, has been ordered to be fitted as a sheer hulk, in the place of the Spartiate, condemned. The Meander, frigate, Captain ii lldie, watt paid wages in advance yesterday morning, at Plymouth, by Rear- Admiral H. Eden. BANK OF Dru.osir, No. 3, PALL MALL EAST,. LONDON. Established A.D. 1844. PARTIES desirous of INVESTING MONEY. are requested to examine the Plan of this Institution, by which a nigh rato of Interest may be obtained with perfect security. Interest payable in January and July. PETE It MORRISON, Managing Director. Prospectuses and Forms fur opening Accounts sent free on application Shipwrights are making great progress in fitting oat the Cornwallis, 72, as a floating battery. The True Briton and Chapman, transports, are load ing at Plymouth with provisions for the Black Sea, with all possible despatch. The Conrad is returning her damaged cargo of provisions to the victualling-yard, Stonchouse. E CONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. The Right Hon. Sir T. FRANKLAND LEWIS, Bart., M.P., Chairman. HENRY FREDERICK STEPHENSON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman Advantages—The Lowest rates of Premium on the Mutual System The whole of the Profits divided among the Assured every Fifth Year. No charge for Policy Stamps, nor for Service in the Yeomanry or Militia Corps. Policies in farce nearly 7,000. The Assurance Fund exceeds 1,400,0001. Income 230,0001. per Annum. The sum of 397,0001. was added to Policies at the last Division, which produced an average Bonus of 671. per Cent. on the Pre miums paid. For particulars apply to ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary. 6, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. SPECIAL NOTICE. —Proposals for Assurance must be made prior to the let January, 1855, to entitle the Assured to participate in the next Division of Profits in 1859. APPOINTMENT. Lieutenant Edwin A. Porcher (1846), recently serving in the Majestic, has been appointed to the Tartar, 21, ateam-vessel, at Chatham. PROMOTIONS. The following Mates have been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant : George D. Fitzßoy (1851). George E. Barnes (1851). John 0. Kidd (1851). Charles F. Smith (1851). Robert E. Pakenham (1851). George T. Gordon (1851). Thomas W. `Olivet Eugene C. Batty (1851). Arthur W. Gillett (1851). Alfred H. Alston (1851). Chas. A. J. Heysham (1851). George J. Dall (1851). St. G. C. D'Arcy. Arthur Wing (1852). John G. C. Evered (1852). Frederick 0. Handfield (1852). William H. Nurse (1852). Henry G. Payne (1352). Philip R. Sharpe (1852). Francis W. Bennett (1852). James H. Whitshed (1853). Horatio L. A. L. Maitland (1853). COURT-MARTIAL. A court-martial is to be held this morning on board her Majesty's ship Impregnable, 104, flag-ship of Admiral Sir William Parker, at this port, for the trial of Mr. James William Peck Foord, paymaster of the Meander, in the Sound, "for neglect in not rendering his cash of victualling accounts when paymaster in the royal navy for her Majesty's 'deans sloop Sphinx, to the officers of the Comptroller of the Victualling of the Navy, as re quired by the Admiralty instructions for the government of her Majesty's naval service." PRIZE MONEY FOR THE PAITLINA, &o. Messrs. Stilwell have given notice that the pro ceeds and tonnage bounties granted far the seizure of the Paulina and the schooner, name unknown, on the 30th of April, 1853, by her Majesty's sloop Linnet, Henry Need, Esq., commander, will be deposited in the registry of the Court of Admiralty on the 13th inst., agreeably to act of Parliament. PRIZE MONEY FOR THE RESTAIIRADOR. Messrs. Stilwell have given notice that an account of the proceeds and tonnage bounties granted for the seizure of the Restaurader, on the 18th of March, 1853, by her Majesty's sloop Ferret, Reginald John James George Macdonald, Esq., commander, will be deposited in the registry of the High Court of Admiralty on the 13th inst., agreeably to act of Parliament. , ( 11 , • •• -::•; *l4 . foki A • 1 6210 "*".. • — 411.7 ` 4 l i .1 0 . " 4'lcti .4. 4 I , , I • l / P - 0 4 c• •, 4 ,.„, ' ~ LORD ABERDEEN AND TEE REST OF THE GREEKS IN ENGLAND. Lord Aberdeen bas got hold of a new phrase, if not of a new idea. At the Lord Mayor's banquet Lord Aberdeen dropped his stereotyped " just, lasting and honourable peace," and talked of bringing " this contest to a happy termination." Unluckily the new formula is as susceptible as the o;c1 of being interpreted in many different ways, according to the "mental reservation" of the speaker. But this is nut the worst. lie is a most unfortunate and ill- conditioned man. Lord Aber deen. Last session of Parliament he could scarcely an swer a question, or meet a charge, without being unne cessarily and unjustly rude to somebody. And iu his speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet Lord Abe rdeen . contrived to insult gratuitously almost the whole o f the English people. Lord Aberdeen, while eulogising his own valour, expressed the opinion that " many of those who were most eager for the war are now the most easily discouraged by those vicissitudes which are the unavoidable incidents of a state of warfare." Where has this calumniator of his countrymen seen any symp tom of discouragement in any portion of the English public ! The public expectation of early triumphant results of the war has been sometimes more and some times less sanguine, but the least favourable anticipations entertained at any time have only inspired Englishmen with a more stubborn resolution to struggle on until things went better. Lord Aberdeen's wantonly offen sive imputation. of faintheartedness to the nation whose indignant voice compelled him reluctantly to assert the principle of national independence, in opposition to his friend the Czar, is merely the splenetic effusion of a cold-hearted and imbecile old man, placed in a position to the discharge of the duties of which he is incompetent, and overflowing with malice towards all who make him feel his impotence. A very strong feeling is at this moment expressed against the Greek merchants resident in London and Manchester. We do not wonder at it, their impertinent obtrusion of their sympathies with the Czar, and of their desire that the arms of the Allies should be baffled, has been more than mortal patience could endure. Never theless, we are more disposed to warn against excessive for re brave made m a en long, fai en a indulgence of the indignation their folly has kindled than to fan the flame. Men so u tt er ly d es titute of right feeling and common sens e as t o i nsu lt th e p e ople among whom they have sojourn—at the v er y moment t h at so many families are inmourning o t in sa f battle t a tl e d —cannot profitable pa o l s e - sibly possess the talent, the secretiveness, the self-con trol, to do us harm. At the very utmost they can only act as spies of the Czar, and what can they tell him that he cannot learn earlier and more precisely from our newspapers ? For our own part we think it is rather an advantage that we, have these blockheads among us. At the beginning of the miserable attempts of the Greek Court and Government to stir up the insurrectionary movements in the frontier provinces of Turkey, there was a small party in this country disposed to sympathise with the Greeks, and puff them as an intelligent, high minded race. Nothing has helped so much to disabuse the English public on this score as the presence among them of the G reek merchants in Manchester and London. These men have been sent hither as among the most acute and enterprising of their countrymen to manage their commercial affairs ; they have enjoyed the advan ta,s.e of mingling with the enlightened society of the west of Europe ; yet see what poor, silly, waspish creatures they are. They ought to be tolerated among us, as we tolerate the monkeys in the Zoological Gardens, in order that we may have opportunities of studying the charac teristics of their race. It is beneath the dignity of Eng lishmen to get seriously angry with them. It seems the more necessary to insist upon this view of the matter, because the Times has been strenuously labouring to fan the flame of popular indignation against the Greeks. That newspaper is denouncing, in its wonted brickbat style, n*in whose actions and expres sions, reprehensible though they be, merely give utter ance to sentiments and opinions which, not ninny months ago, were advocated by the Times itself. The Times, while denouncing the offensive demonstrations of the Greeks in Manchester and London, claims for any un- English Englishman who may sympathise with them immunity and freedom of speech. We confess I,hat, on the contrary, we can tolerate much in these aliens that excitev in us the most uncontrollable disgust and indignation when we witness it in any one wlie claims to be regarded as a Briton. The poor stockjobbing and speculating Greeks of private life can do us little harm ; but " Greeks in heart," holding responsible situations, may do. The men of Macchester would do well to re flect that not a few of the most offensive mis-statements and sentiments of the Greeks living among them hays been endorsed by one of their own representatives in Parliament. The most offensive Greek at this moment in England is, "The classic Thane, Athenian Aberdeen." —Daily News. / /77 //' j , [PRICE SD. should not be found much affected by a law not carried out in those very parts of the city and it suburbs where crime is chiefly concocted and matured, and where there are the most opportunities for its commission. While the magistrates within the Royalty carry out the act, they find themselves besieged by a circle of neglect, drunkenness, and crime outside the Royalty, pervading a population of nearly 100,000. At Glasgow, Paisley, and Brechin the act has f ,ir play, and its results are lees qualified. Of course we do not forget in these remarks that the Sabbath was made fos mar , , and not man for the Sab bath. Iu our humile opinion Sunday observance is a matter for reasonable arrangement, and that any man absolutely needing locomotion, refreshment, and even moderate recreation on that day, has as much right to expect it as the ox or the as to be drawn out of the pit, or the sick to be healed. Point out any case of necessity, and that case roust be met, either by a special provision of the act, or by a dispensing power in the hands of the magistrates. We say that it must be met, simply be cause so long as it is not met it will give a character of extravagance and absurdity to any general enactment, and eventually lead to its repeal. When a gentleman is brought to a standstill within fifty miles of his dying child on a " Sabbath-eve," or when a man compelled by the inexorable public to work all Sunday night at an employment draining his strength, and requiring it to be continually recruited, cannot get a glass of the mildest stimulant, then a stigma and a scandal is brought upon law, for nature and common sense will not endure so tyrannical a discipline. The public convenience is the best rule in these questions, and, though individuals must continually be called on to sacrifice theiradvantage or their comfort to the general good, it will never be toleratedthat a lawful, honourable, and necessary employment shall be accompanied with severe and unnecessary hardships, simply through the rigid application of a law. There can be no possible analogy between the case of a man hard at work in the way of a necessary calling, and that of an idle man seeking early in the day for a stimulus which he has no occasion for, and had better be without. There is, of course, much practical difficulty in meet ing particular cases without letting in large classes, or, in other words, devising exemptions which shall not be fatal to the measure. That is a difficulty. The appli cation of common sense always is difficult, much more difficult than the application of a Procrustean rule which shall convict itself of folly at once. For a hundred who can reason in an exact and mathematical manner only one can reason sensibly and wisely, and in that ratio is wise legislation more difficult than laws done by rule of three. Nevertheless, this is the only legislation that human nature will tolerate or that will endure.—Times. GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND CO.'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. WILLMOTT'S EDITION OF THE POETS. Now ready, fcap. 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On Infelicitous, Infertile, and all Unas similable Alliances—Law of Divorce, &c., &c. 3. CHASTITY AND ITS INFRINGEMENTS. ♦ Lecture t• Young Men. " What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." Subject : Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent of the passions. Chastity and its infringemeit. The casualties of licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative, and remadiative. Advocacy of early marriages, &c. On Secret Diseases. their Self-management and Cure. The GREEN BOOK.—A comprehensive_ and popular exposition of genito and urinary diseases—their nature and treatment, com prising especially primary and secondary symptoms, all forms of urinary derangements, stricture and spermatorrhcea ; with 250 en gravings and prescriptions. The BLADDER, URETHRA, and RECTUM.--Comprising Urinary Derangements, Constipation, and Ilicmorrhoids. Vole 6 and 7, companions to the preceding. THE ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. BOW TO BR HAPPY. 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THE SUBSCRIBERS have received instruc tions from the Trustees of Mr. Edward Oliver's Estate, to SELL by Public Auctdon, on THURSDAY, the 7th December next, and the following days (if needed), at 11 o'clock a.m.; in the Cotton -Sale Room, Exchange-buildings, Liverpool, the above 74 SHIPS, from 150 to 1,500 tons register ; this , ale cancelling that of 32 Ships advertised to take place on the 23d inst. The Ships now at sea or in foreign ports to be delivered to the purchasers in good condition, after the discharge of their inward cargoes In this country, and should any of the Vessels come under average, the purchasers may have the option of claiming on the policies. N.B.—Bills having the liability of Mr. Edward Oliver will te taken in payment to their full amount, subject to the conditions and con firmation which will be stated at the and CO., to TO NOE CURRY and CO., or to CUNARD, MUNN, and CO., Liverpool. OAL DEPARTMENT, North London Ran k,/ way.—llighbury Depot.—IIETTON'S WALL'S-END (the best house coals in the world) are brought to the docks of this rail way at Poplar by new screw steamers, Cochrane, 750 tons, Hetton, 750, and the Northumberland, 650 tons, chartered for this depot, and delivered thoroughly screened, to any part of London, north of the Thames, at Us. per ton. Orders to be addressed to ➢lr. Thomas Lea, Chief Office, Railway Station, Highbury, Islington. Terms, cash ou or before delivery. Now publitiing to Sabsiribers, in 2,620 Imperial Octav3 pages, Price 305., the POST OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY FOR 1855. The work has been so greatly extended, that the division entitled " Street Directory" contains 152,416 names, being about THIRTY-EIGHT THOUSAND more than have ever appeared in the corresponding division of any other book. Its distinguishing feature is, that in it all the streets, squares, crescents, Ice., &c., of the metropolis and its suborbs appear in one general alphabetical arrangement; it is, therefore, the only work in which the occupant of any house can be ascertained. The 152,416 names are carried into all the classifications to which they are appropriate, each in its proper alphabetical position; all the members of any profe.sion or trade, whether in the metropolis or its suburbs, are (in the" Trades" division) arranged alphabetically in one list. This being the only work in which they aro so, is the only ono in which all the members of any trade can be ascertained. The nobility, gentry, and professional persons resident in London and its suburbs, are included in the one general" Court" alphabetical list, now so greatly extended that it inc udes upwards of Forty-tour thousand names. An accurately compiled ' Conveyance Directory,' so comprehen sive as to include all the Railway Stations and Money Order Offices In Great BrPain, is included in the volume, whicn also contains a large amount of miscellaneous information, as—House of Peers, in their order of precedence—Provincial Inns, with their holders— Arrangerm nts of the Law Courts—Names of all Postmasters in England and Wales—i'eriodical Publications. with their Publishers --not any part of which is to be found in any other London Direc tory. It, besides, has (exclusively) that most important adjunct, an INDEX TO STREETS, PLACES, CHANIBFAS, WHARFS, &C., &C., wills full Money Order information. "The copiousness and accuracy of the Post Office London Direc tory' are wonderful."—Morning Chronicle. 3d Nov., 1854. "Its reputation for accuracy and completeness defies the least whisper of suspicion or reproach." Morning Herald, 6th Nov., 1 it' 4. " After carefully examining the book in its several ;subdivisions, we feel bound to a , knowledge its very great accuracy."—Morning Advertiser, Nov. 7th, 1854. "The number for the ensuing year, howeTer, far excels all tha' _ . have gone before it."—Standard, 7th Nov., 1854. " We believe the book to be, on the whole, as perfect as human labour and human ingenuity can make it."—Globe, Nov.B, 1854. " Nicholas might face the Lancaster cannon, but he wonl 1 turn pale and-tail at the sight of the • rest Office Directory.' "—Atlas, 4th Nov., 1854. . "Truly we may class the Directory among modern wonders."— Weekly Dispatch, sth Nov , 104. " Fully worthy of its unrivalled reputation as a metropolitan directory."—qunday Times, sth Nov., 1R54. " Complete as it appeared to be, the inventive power of the pro priet,sr has yet devised some further improvements upon the puUliea tion of last year."—John 111111, 4th Nov., 18 5 4. " For utlity and information, as a class work, it is unrivalled."— Miim; Journal, 4th Nov., 1854. " Improved at every point where improvement is possible."— Herapath's Journal, 4th Nov., 1854. " It is truly one of the wonders or the age, and reflects the highest credit on the ability, industry, and punctuality of its conductors." — Weekly Times, sth Nor., 1851. Kelly & Co , 19, 20, and 21, Old Roswell-court; and (shortly) by all Booksell era. BLUNDERS : WATKINS'S DIRECTORY FOR 1855. In eight pages Imperial Octavo, a Review of the kfarch edition of Watkins's London Directory for 1854, exposing a large number of blunders, by far the greater part of which ap pear. din the first edition f Watkins's Directory published in De cember, 1851, and which have since been reprinted with every sub sequent edition of the book. Watkins's Directory for 1655 has been already publi hed, and all the identical blunders exposed in the Re view have been again reprinted intl it. Persons who have purchased the work should without delay obtain the Review, which may be had here gratis, or will be forwarded on receipt of one postage stamp. Kelly and Co., - 19, 20, and 21, Old Boswell-eourt, Temple-bar, Londol THE CIVIL SERVICE. REGISTER AND RECORD -OFFICE, CUSTOM -HOUSE, LON DON.—Mr. Williamson, senior third class clerk, bas been appointed second class clerk, vice J. Akers, de ceased ; Mr. William Curtis, second division of third class clerks, has been appointed third class clerk, vice R. Garrett, deceased ; Messrs. Alan, Stoneham, and Leaker, extra clerks, have been appointed fourth class clerks. CUSTOMS. —Mr. C. Smith has been appointed the principal coast officer at Farehatn ; Mr. F. C. Hammond has been appointed extra clerk in London ; Mr. A. Thompson has been appointed clerk in Liverpool. A clerkship for general business is vacant at Liverpool, vice Mr. W. B. Poole, appointed clerk and searcher at Lancaster. Salary, 701. a year. Mr. John Boyle, collector of Port Glasgow, has retired, after having com pleted forty-two years of service, upon a superannuated allowance of 2651. per annum. GENERAL PosT-onnel.--The appointment of post master at Nottingham is vacant, caused by the death of Mr. 0. J. Oldknow, salary 2001. per annum, the gift of the Postmaster General. INLAND REVENUE DEPA.RTMENT.—STAMPS AND TAXES. —Mr. D. T. Groom, surveyor of taxes, Bristol, has been appointed surveyor at Liverpool. vice Cottrill. Mr. J. Sanderson, surveyor at Hull, has been promoted to be surveyor of Rochdale, Lancashire, vice Amery, pro moted to be surveyor at Manchester ; Mr. Yeates, sur veyor at Truro, has been promoted to be surveyor at Bristol, ♦ice Groom, promoted to Liverpool.—Civil Service Gazette. RAISING OF THE EUROPA STEAMER, The operations determined on for raising the sunken newiron screw steamer Europa, in the East India Dock fitting-out basin, were brought into action on Thursday afternoon with complete success. The power broughtinto requisition was on a most extensive scale. The Europa capsized on Monday last, the weight of her masts, &c., causing the ship to roll over, when she filled and sunk with the whole of her larboard side down wards, her stern laying rather obliquely towards the centre of the basin, and her stem and cutwater resting on the dock quay. Owing to her great length, being nearly 200 feet long, and her tonnage upwards of 1,000, all efforts previously to 'get her upright have failed till the present operations. In the first place, in order to raise the ship in an upright position, so that the scuttles on the larboard side could be stopped up, and the water pumped out, it became necessary to direct the bulk. of the raising power on the " lower side" of the ship, and so cant her upright. For this purpose, three crab windlasses were securely fixed on the dock quay, each having a chain pa ssed under the ship's bottom, and fastened over the " upper side" to souse spars under the main deck. A pair of sheers were also erected on the quay, and brought to play with Bolton sheer hulk, which had beets brought alongside the outside of the ship. A dock chain lighter was placed at the stern, with cables under her, and a warp was run out from the fore aid mainmasts to some capstans on shore on the opposite side of the basin. Nearly 1,000 hands were, as soon as everything had been got in readiness, set to work at these powerful appliances, and, in the course of an hour, the ship yielded to the pressure, and was finally raised from her dangerous position, and righted within a feet feet, where she canted over. The water in the basin then being lower, enabled the shipwrights to plug up the whole of the scuttles, and, later in the evening, a diver was sent down to examine the valves in the ship's bottom, which were supposed to be open, but which the diver found to be closed. Yesterday morning some seven or eight large fire engines were shipped on board, together with several smaller ones, to pump the water out of the hold, which was within a short distance of her maindeck. It was expected she w ould float in a few hours. Several hundred hands are employed at the pumps and engines, and the damage to the ship appears not of so extensive a character as s 'as first supposed.— Shipping Gazette. TROOPS FOR THE EAST. The Adelaide and Braudon, hired screw steam-ships, have been ordered to proceed immediately to Portsmouth, where they are to embark the following troops, who have been ordered to assemble at Portsmouth garrison for immediate embarkation, to join the head-quarters of their respective regiments in the Crimea and seat of war in the East : Officers. Non-commisiioned Officers and men. Grenadier Guards Scots Fusiliers 0 71 let Foot (Ist battaliou) 1 ...... 52 4th Foot 19th Foot 1 10 20th Foot 0 ...,.. 51. `..tith Foot 1 ...... 16 41st Foot ........ 4 ttli Foot 1 61 4Uth Foot 1 44 49th Foot. Bth Foot 1 102 1.1. fiu Brigade (Ist battalion) 1 —.... 51. 722 NEW DRESS FOR STAFF SURGEONS. A new dress has just, Leen decided upon for staff sur geons. It consists of 4. tunic or frock similar in shape to the new line dress, with a slight display of gold lace. The facings and cuffs are covered with black ♦elvet, turned up with lace. The dress trousers aro black, with a stripe of gold cord ; the undress being of a similar colour, but with a small scarlet cloth stripe. The cocked hat will be retained with a small green plume. The re gimental medical officers' uniform. will be almost similar to the foregoing, save in regard to the facings and cuffs, which will be regulated according to the shade and pat tern used by each corps. An addition will be made to the foregoing in the shape of pouch, &a. REGIMENTAL SAVINGS BANKS. The following circular (No. 1,166) has just been issued from the War office, dated Nov. 4 : "Sir—Her Majesty having been pleased, by the warrant of April 13, 1854, to amend the warrant of July 1,1843, grant ing medals and gratuities to soldiers in the army for `good conduct' and long service,' and baying been furtlfer pleased to direct that gratuities so awarded shall be placed, under certain restrictions, in the savings bank of the regiment to which such soldier may belong, I am directed to acquaint you, iu furtherance thereof, and with reference to the cir cular letter from this department of the 22d May last (No. 2,159), that th e following instructions should be observed in investing the gratuities alluded to : " The gratuity is to be placed to the credit of the sol dier in the savings balk ledger, separate and distinct from his ordinary savings bank transactions, as also from any deposits he may have in any friendly society fund invested j the regimental savings bank. " The following heading is to 'be written over the gra tuity account in the ledger Gratuity—Not to be paid until discharged from the service.' "In the event of a soldier being transferred from the regiment in which he is serving to another regiment, a separate transfer statement, to be called from. C, is to be transmitted to the regiment to which the m the an is trans ferred, havin g th e heading above stated, and specifying amount of gratuity awarded, with the amount of interest added to principal and separately stating the amount of if interest, - any, to be afterward.; added for any broken period previous to transfer. "When a regiment is transferred tolthe Indian establish ment, these gratuities will be transferred to the India Company in the same way as th e ordinary and friendly savings bank society deposits ha re hitherto been trans ferred, but continuing to be separately and distinctly stated from ordinary deposits. " To simplify as much as possible the transfer of gra tuities to soldiers serving with their regiments in India, a notification of the award will in future be made by the Secretary -at-War to the Directors of the East India Com pany, as well as to the officer commanding the regiment, with direction s to the paymaster, that the amount awarded is to be deducted from the quarterly remittance return of effects, with a ref erence t o t h e num b er an d d a t e o f th e War-office letter. " When men are discharged in India for the parpose of settling there, at the Cape of Good H ope, or an y colony eastward thereof, then the princi:eal and interest of their gratuities are to in withdrawn, and paid to them like their ordinary savings bank deposits. "In those cases where men are sent home to be dis charged, the East India Company will transfer to the Bri tish Government the gratuity deposits of such men in the same mode as that in which their savings bank balances are now transmitted, care being taken to distinguish such gratuities from ordinary savings hank deposits. " Should a man entitled to a (Fatuity die before he is discharged from the service, the principal and interest are to be added to his effects in the anode pointed out in the 7th section of the Savings Bank Warrant of 11th Oct., 1843. "As these gratuities are only subject to forfeiture en conviction by a general, garrison, or district court-martial, commanding officers will take care to report such cases especially to the Secretary at War, and give the requisite directions to the paymaster to remit to this country the principal and interest so forfeited, with the other remit tances to be placed to the credit of the public. "As regards regiments oa the British establishment, all forfeited gratuities are to be withdrawn from the savings rank, like any other deposits, and specifically credited to the public in the general state of the quarterly pay list, with a reference to the date of the commanding officer's letter reporting the forfeiture of the gratuity, to the Secre tary at War. " Iu regard to those regiments on the British establish ment which have not opened savings banks and to the sol diers of which gratuities for go..et conduct' and `long services' may be awarded, it will be requisite that the officer commanding should open li'lvingg banks for the pur pose of investing such gratuities et interest under the authority of the warrant of 13th April, and the circular from this office dated May 22, 1854.-4 have, &c., " B. HAWES?' MILITIA. Lieutenant C.lonel Dickson this Week enrolled 45 volunteers at Uroom, for the County Limerick Militia. Captain Francis Al'iNainara,, late Bth hussars, is ap pointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Clare Militia, vice Marquis Conyngham, resigned. Captain O'Callaghan, late K. D. Guards, and Captain John O'Callaghan, late 62d Regiment, are appointed captains. R o b ert Going, Esq , ]3readfort , is appointed lieutenant. CHOLERA. of a very virulent kind has appeared at Dewsbury, in the Nast Riding. Several deaths have occurred. It is most prevalent amongst the lowest class of Irish, OBSE RYA N CI? OF SUNDAY. The proper observance of Sonday is one of those things that must necessarily come under tho law of the land. That has never been di-puted by any reasonable person who thinks about the matter. As little can it be doubted that the nature of the observance must be dictated with a proper regard to the public convenience and the pur poses of the day. Those purposes are, the periodical rest which experience shows inan to require, both for the refreshing of his mental and bodily powers and also an opportunity fir those religious acts and meditations which cannot but be much assisted by quiet and free dom from the ordinary business of the world. Sup posing that as a matter of fact everybody could go to church on Sunday as often as he pleased, as quietly as he pleased, and that no scandals or dis orders of any kind occurred on the Sunday, then there would, perhaps, be no reason for imposing any restrictions on travelling, on trade, on the sale of refreshments and liquors, the opening of public houses, or anything else thought allowable on a week day. The matter of fact, however, is unfortunately, the other way, for the institution of Sunday, enforced as it is both by custom and by law, has led, particularly, as it ap pears, in the great cities of Scotland, to a lamentable amount of dissipation, drunkenness, diserder, and even crime. It is found that the greater part of the popula tion of these cities seldom enter places of worship, and, having no taste for religious reading or meditation, must go out of doors for some means of filling up the Sabba tical void. Once out of doors, they find too many peo ple catering without scruple for their pleasure, in the lowest sense of that word. What should therefore be, as it has been called, "the rest of Heaven," is perverted into something quite the contrary ; and the better class of people who have been taught by their fore fathers, and not less by the State, that the Sabbath is a day to be observed with great sanctity, abstrac tion, and quiet, justly complain that they are not pro tected, but rather hindered, in the observance of a law ful institution. Viewing the law on one side, and the practice on the other, one cannot bat be struck with a great inconsistency, pressing hard on those who desire to follow their duty and the law, and then find them selves discouraged, impeded, and even rendered ridi culous by standing few among many. Certainly this is a state of things:that should not be endured. Conscience itself is not always consistent and strong, but it is a great evil when the law is still more illusive and weak. Indeed, the power of religion and moral obligation is altogether apt to be weakened by the spectacle of a State which does not know whether to say a thing or not ; which lays heavy burdens on the tender-minded and scrupulous, and is itself the first to fly from the re sponsibility it has created or enforced. We are not surprised, then, but rather we take it as a great proof of Scotch principle, Scotch consistency, Scotch fairness, and, so to speak, Scotch "hardness of head," that two thousand people met the other day in the northern metropolis for the purpose of reviewing the operation of the "Forbes Mackenzie Act." That measure has been partly successful, partly unsuccessful, or, rather, it has done a great deal, and only has not done as much as it might reasonably be expected to do. In the city of Edinburgh it has caused a very great diminution of police cases evidently arising out of Sunday drinking. We published the important and satisfactory statistics of the question in a letter some time since, and every succeeding Sunday has added to the testimony in favour of the act. We shall net repeat the figures, because figures are always open to cavil, and we will only say that, without any predilection in favour of what is called the Puritanical Sabbath, and without any disposition to enforce Christianity by law, we are quite satisfied, on the evidence of the calculations given at the Edin burgh meeting, that the Forbes Mackenzie Act has pro moted temperance, public order, and morality on the sacred day of worship and rest. It was to be expected that it should do so, and it has done so. Undoubtedly many a poor creature turns into the gin-shop, or the grocer's shop--for they have long been identical in Scotland —simply because the suspension of work leaves him nothing else to do on Sunday. It is all very well to talk of familes and home, but many of these poor fellows have neither families nor homes, nor any other place where they can go, as one of ourselves goes to his library or the family fireside. Even those altars of the domestic affections that many of us spend a life in raising, and that figure so lsrgely in the works of modern moralists, do not always sustain the charm with which we are wont to invest them. Gentle. men will often run away from their firesides on a Sunclay to a club or a friend in the country, or to Brighton, or anywhere for change. The hard-worked working man has no such alternatives. The gin-shop is otters his only chance of cheer, of company, of outward light and of inward refreshment. We are strongly of opinion that it ought not to be, and that in fact it ought to lTs closed, and other places of innocent resort found for Lim. But, as a first step, unquestionably the poor working man ought not to be forbidden to work and be shut out of shops on Sunday, and then, by a strange pervsarsity, find the ginshop the only place open to him. This is, in fact, to encourage and sanction Sunday drink ing sifith the utmost countenance of the law. The actual result of the act for closing the public houses in Scot land is quite what we expected. We said, however, that the act had been partially unsuccessful. That is for a very sufficient reason. It has been only partially , put in force. With the culpable connivance of the au thor3ties the la* , has not been enforced within nearly two-tbirds of the palice bounds of the city of Edinburgh. Of co arse it is but natural that crime, on the whole, AUSTRIA UNMASKED. The Times of yesterday contains au article on the treachery and profligacy of Austria, which is sure to excite profound interest throughout Europe. The perfidy of the Court of Vienna is depicted in graphic phraseology, and denounced in terms of unmeasured in dignation. The only source of regret is, that our con temporary did not see through the designs of Austria. sooner. He has been slow to discern the real character of that inprincipled Power. We feel that we are entitled to claim credit to ourselves, for having from the first formed a correct estimate of the character of Austria. We have raver for a single moment, since the quarrel between Russia and Turkey assumed a serious aspect, ceased to warn the Western Powers against reposing any confidence in the Court of Vienna. We have told there in the plainest terms we could employ,—and we did this with a frequency which may have seemed unnecessary to some of our readers,--that if they trusted Austria, they would be sure to be be trayed. We repeated again and again, until we were wearied with the task, that Austria was in her heart with the Czar, and that, notwithstand ing all her professions of sympathy with, and friendship for, France and England, she would never render them any actual aid in resisting the aggressions and chastising the insolence of Russia. The only con ceivable contingency, on the occurrence of which we thought that Francis Joseph would be found co-ope rating with the Western Powers, was that of their achieving some such decided triumph over the Czar, as would, humanly speaking, presage his coming overthrow. Then, on the principle of wishing to be on the winning side, we deemed it likely that Austria would be found ready to incumber France and England with her help. As yet, no such contingency has occurred, and, there , fore, Austria still persists in standing aloof from any active participation in the policy of the Western Powers. She still maintains her neutrality,—maintains it in name, hut is, in reality, rendering most important as sistance to the Czar. And she is thus playing the same of the Autocrat in precisely the way we predicted she would as soon as we beard of the arrangement with Turkey, in terms of which she was to take possession of the Principalities for the purpose, professedly of holding them for the Sultan. How France anti England could have failed to see through, as if by intuition, the real object which the Court of Vienna had in view, when she proposed that measure to Turkey,—a thing which we are wholly un able to comprehend. This much is certain—that every body else, who bad ever paid the slightest attention to the subject, clearly perceived the designs of Austria in the overtures she made to occupy the Principalities. Even if the Western Powers could have been so far de ceived in the first instance, by the professions of friend ship for them which she made, when proposing to occupy Wallachia. and Moldavia, it is marvellous beyond con ception, that they did no open their eyes to the real purposes of the Court of Vienna, when they witnessed the eager promptitude with which the Czar consented to evacuate the Principalities, in order that Austria might take possession of them. Unfortunately, they still remained blind to her real character. They could not, and would not, doubt the good faith ofAustria. They believed what she said, and, consequently, gave a ready acquiescence to the entrance of her troops into the Danubian provinces. The arrangement, as we said at the time, was not only as advantageous to the Czar'ns if the Principalities had still continued to be occupied by his own troops, but it was even more so ; for, having the Principalities occn- Pied for him by a Power really friendly, though pro fessedly hostile, he was enabled to transfer his Cossacks from Moldavia and Wallachia to the Crimea, where their presence was of infinite importance. Accordingly, through the kind offices of Austria, in acting as locum tenons for Russia in the Principalities, he withdrew his troops from the banks of the Pruth, and sent them to that part of his dominions where he had to confront in the battle field the forces of France and England. And they reached the Crimea just in time to resist the pro gress of the Allies. Luders and Liprandi, with the troops under their command, made their presence and their power felt in the Crimea in an incredibly short time after they bad last been heard of in the Principalities. But though the Western Powers would not, or could not, detect the perfidy which lurked under the profes sions of friendship made by Austria, at the time we and others endeavoured to enlighten them on the subject the darkness is now beginning to be dispelled, and sus picions of Austrian good faith are taking possession of their minds. The acts of Austria are now too clearly seen to be at variance with her words, for even the most unsuspicious to be any longer deceived by her profes sions. She is subserving the designs of the Czar, by actual' refusing permission to the soldiers of the Sultan to pass through his own territories, of which she holds possession. "The Austrian occupation," says the Times, " of the Principalities is at this moment used as a means of hostility to the Allied Powers, and of facilitating the enterprises of Russia. If we had known that the Turks were not to be allowed to make a diversion in our favour on the banks of the Pruth, that Austria had dispensed them from the necessity of defending their own country, and forbidden them from invading that of their enemy,we might have found occupation fez. Omer Pacha and his gal lant army either in the steppes of the Crimea or the moun tains of Armenia. Austria has indeed occupied the Principalites, but has neutralised a force almost equal to her own. She has joined us in protocols, but deserted us in action. She has entered on the Danube as our friend, and remains there to insult our Allies, and coun teract our strategical combinations." " But all this crooked policy," adds our contemporary, " will avail her little. Austria may yet find that it is easier to alienate a friend than to conciliate an enemy, and that while her recentinterference has lost her much with the Allies, with Russia it has gained her nothing." This is not more severe than just. The only pity is, that neither the Times nor the Western Powers suspected the good faith of Austria until now. They make the dis covery of her perfidy when it is too late. But hear our contemporary, yet further, on the conduct of Austria in connexion with her occupation of the Prin cipalities. "From her first entrance," says the Times, " into the Danubian provinces, up to the present moment, Austria has treated the Turks and the provincials with an overbearing insolence, which seems to announce that she comes, no a tas a friend, but as a master—not as an ally, but " establish sove reign. After her own fashion, she herself in a province she has not conquereds to seeks as an enemy, after having obtained entrance into it as a friend, obtuseand practises on the banks of the Danube the same and unrelenting despotism as saddens the plains of Lom hardy or the marshes of Venice. The cuckoo has ob tained admission into the nest, and lords it there with all the confidence of the rightful owner. Thus is Austria fulfilling the duty she has undertaken towards Turkey, thus vindicating the posi tion she has assumed towards Russia." There is an obvious and certain remedy for all this. There is a mode of punishing . such flagrant treachery, and of chastising the insolence which Austria practises towards the Turks. Austria has possessions known by the names of Lombardy and Hungary. Why do not France and England make a slight motion with their finger'? The slightest motion imaginable would suffice. Let it be but made, and Lombardy and Hungary would that instant be up is arms, and perjured and perfidious Austria would be forthwith brought to her; senses.— Morning A dvertiser REPRESENTATION OF COVENTRY.—At a meeting of the Liberal electors of this city, held en Thursday night, it was resolved to bring forward Sir Joseph Paxton as a candidate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Geich. Mr. Hubbard, it is said, is to be the Conser vative candidate. THE ESSEX MURDER. -- - We noticed in 27 Sun of Wednesday last, the murder of It woman named Hempstead, which Ler husband was said to have perpetrated. A coroner's inquest has sine.: been held, before whom several witnesses were examined, and a verdict of wilful murder against her husband was found. The following is the evidence of the principal witnesses : Thomas Hempstead, son of the prisoner, a lad about 14 years old, who deposed —Aly father is a weaver. I heard my father go down stairs, without his shoes, about four o'clock on Saturday. I was awake at the time, and I asked him what o'clock it was. He told me five minutes to four. I then went to sleep, but soon after I heard him go down again. My sister then called to him about the time, and be answered her that it was near six. A hammer that was hung up the previous night in the kitchen we missed that morning. My sister went into mother's bed-room, and found my mother dead in the bed. She made an alarm, and I went in, and I saw wounik on my mother's head. They looked as if done by a hammer. My father and mother did not live comfortable together. I have heard him say several times lie ,tn,uhl itke to wash his hands in toy mother's blood. [Tice pri,oner here rose and said in a firm voice, " I beg leave to correct that."] Wit ness proceeded—l have often seen him strike her, but I did not hear them qrarrel on Friday last. I went to bed before them, about nine o'clock. Mr. Shepherd here examined the witness, but elicited nothing particular beyond the evidence given. Elizabeth Hempstead sworn-1. am the daughter of the deceased. I heard a . knocking. in my father and mother's room ; it was a tiull , l.lnd of sound. I heard my father go down ' and I asked him the time, an d he said it was s i x o'clock. 1 got up and dressed myself by moonlight, an d wen t d own stairs and opened the door, and by the moonlight I could see what o'clock it was, and it was but twenty-five minutes past four. I went up to my mother's bed-room, and found the door ajar. I called out to my mother, but she did not answer. My brother told me to shake her, but I said I would not disturb her. My sister got up and went into the room, and put her ear to the pillow, and could not hearmy mother breathe. She they put her hand on her face and on the pillow, and found it bloody. She cried out, "My mother is killed." We ran down to o ur neighbours and got a light, and entered the room and found our mother dead, lying on her side in the bed. There was a quantity of blood on her night-dress and under her hand. My mother did not appear to have struggled. She looked as if she were asleep. We could not find the hammer, which hung up in the kitchen the night before. It was a large claw hammer. I have often heard my father and mother quarrelling, but I cannot say what it was about. It was generally father's fault. I have not seen him strike her for the last twelve months, but before that frequently. I was with him on Friday evening front a quarter-past six until bedtime. I went to bed just before nine. There had been no quarrelling that evening, nor did I hear any during the night. They went to bed at the same time as I did. We left my brother Isaac at his work in the middle floor. I have heard my father say several times " I should like to wash my hands in my wife's blood." [Prisoner again interrupted, and said, " That is an incorrect statement ; if von give evidence, give it correctly."] Witness proceeaed—l . have often heard my father say he would kill my mother—that he would catch her when she was asleep. Examined by Mr. Shepherd—l have often known my father get up in the night and go out walking about. I have thought him to appear strange in his manners. My mother used to think it temper. Sometimes I have known him to sit half an hour very quiet, but when mother spoke to him to get him into a good temper he would burst out in a rage. By the Coroner—l thought his strangeness nasty temper. The Foreman—Did he take beer ?—No, not for the last two months. Mr. Shepherd—Did you ever hear your father say anything about the youngest child ? Did you know him to dislike it ? • No. Isaac Hempstead was next sworn. [This was another son of the prisoner ; his whole air and manner was any- thing but consistent with the position he occupied.] My father is a weaver i • my mother was about 49. I was with them both all day on Friday. They went to bed about nine. I continued at my work, and went to bed about eleven. My father had been working for Mr. Burney, in his garden, the last three weeks. That's all I have got to say to it.—On being further questioned by the coroner, he said—l sleep ‘ i n th e a dj o i ning room , and heard my father go down about a quarter past four o'clock. My sister called out about the time. I heard her call out to my mother. I heard my other sister cry out, " Oh, my mother is killed." I then got up and got a light, and we went into my mother's room and found her dead in the bod. . (The witness here repeated what the former witness had said ; and then remarked again, "That's all I have got to say about it.") On being further examined by Mr. Shepherd, he said a Mr. Forster had called on him to talk to his father on Friday afternoon, and in the course of conversation he had ad vised his father that if he had those thoughts come on again, to go to the doctor and take some medicine. That he had sudden changes come ever him—sometimes he would be very fond of his wife, and then again suddenly show bad temper. He coaxed her down the face, and said he would have her asleep. They quarrelled about two months ago, but he had never talked of having his father confined, because malt to be abroad. When his father's " thoughts" catue on ho was kind to his wife, lint did not seem to know what I,e was about. 'Witness had never heard that any of hi, :amity were insane. By a juror—Did you ever know your mother to find a razor under the pillow ? No. But after quarrels mother used to lock up the knives in the cupboard. She was afraid of her life. Mr. Robert Stedman, town-clerk of Sudbury, exa mined—l was summoned by the mayor to the Town hall, on Saturday afternoon, at two o'clock, where I found the prisoner. In the pr,ence of the mayor, after duo caution, the prisoner made the following confession : —" I believe myself to have been the murderer of my wife, this morning, about four o'clock, a,t, Halstead. She is about 45 years of age. I have six children, the eldest nineteen, the youngest three. I have often something the matter with my head." He would not say more or sign the deposition. The prisoner had gone from Halstead to Little Cor , nard, near Sudbury, where he met a person named Rayner in the high road, and stopping him, asked who was the constable of the parish, Rayner replying that he was that person. The prisoner, lifting his hands, said, " Then I am a murderer, and I wish you to take me in charge." The constable was alarmed, bat took him to his house, and placed on the handcuffs ; toek him and delivered him up to Cross, the gaoler of Sudbury, who searched him and found nothing upon him but twe old pipes. He was then conveyed to the Town-hall of Sud bury, where he made the above deposition, and was afterwards lodged in the police-station at Halstead. The Coroner summed up, and the jury came to the unanimous verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner. The following is an exact copy of the murderer's con fession before the Mayor of Sudbury : "I believe myself to be the murderer of my wife this morning, at four o'clock. I did not go back to see. My wife was about 45 years of age. My eldest child is 19 years old, and my youngest 3 years. I have frequently something the matter with my head. I confess to be the murderer of my wife, but I do not wish to state any fur ther particulars for the present:" Hempstead is about 50 years of age ; his figere is tall and very attenuated, and with his grey hair and care wore countenance he might easily be supposed to have reached three-score years. He appears to have been educated rather above the generality of his class, if one may judge from the few sentences uttered by him during the trial, and which were strictly grammatical, and spoken in a well-modulated voice. The only successful defence that can be pleaded on behalf of the prisoner, of course, is that of mental derangement, but it does not appear, until the commission of this crime, that he ever complained of anything the matter with his bead. His manner since his apprehension, though sullen, has been perfectly rational, and affords no evidence of a deranged mind. When being taken from the police-sta tion to the cart which conveyed him to Braintree, one of the crowd observed that he deserved hanging, and he then exclaimed, "Oh ! I shall have it. I know that. I shall have that !" The bereaved children displayed, throughout the ex• atnination at the inquest and at the committal, a re. markable insensibility and want of feeling strangely at variance with thei r p os iti on as their father's cause accuse rs , and which it is difficult to ascribe to :tiny other ucatio n amid he st than extreme ignorance or their faulty eldest son, in particular, g chalence as was Lat ave his e alculated to excite emo oretvuidneantece with such re- parente . T the frequent broils of their unfortunate pulsive nen i n tions of pity for his unhappy si tuati on. PALESTINE.—WURTEMEUE Op Oct. 26. a- EMIGRATION informedr° PAL o f a contemplated emigration in the former " Land of Promine." The been so far matured, that it 3aas been s a e nt tract ssocial e ioafl relations n a d t jo ie , : " the Germaa Diet for its Intense. resolved to petition p m — la a W a ss e b to as er P e a a l l r es ea t d iie , the above purpose. T he y. origin of this idea of the great exodus is the pecu li ar . lion with the Sublime P ie o w rt o e f t t o he grantpre and of religious life especially. Both are generally, considered to have fallen into decay to that extenl that it is the duty and requirement of every one, to v /horn the will of God and his own true salvation are yet .dear, t o disengage himself betimes from this degenerating position. As far as we can learn, the petition to be laid before the Diet has already received the sign stures of 300 families. This intelli„;ence is the more re mark able, since the families thus resolved to leave the fr fa therland for Palestine are not of the Jewish bat t d the Christian faith.—Jewish Chronicle. LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTIIEND EXTENSION ]?SAIL WAT. — YeAterda.y a special general meeting of tins ..,hare holders of this company was held at the London 1 'n'i ern, for th e p urpose of antbori.ing the joint committee ' i the t the i Eastern C ount i es, t h e London and Blackwe ll, an , .. es London, Tilbury, and Southend Extension Comp. ti to borrow money on mortgage, under the powers of thei r ex act ; Mr. Daniels in the chair. A report was re a d plaining the position of the railway, and the t o of j t e b . e templated by the proposed loan. The amouii was 75,000/. to be raised by moi tgago, and o b jec t con loan the n t lney dditi anal was to be expended in the con truction of a elle, , of works, stations, and sidings, in cTonbseepl Chair 0121 the increased traffic on the line. that the Ch ' stated, in reply to a shareholder, it into :rest the let' sees, of the proposed loan would he pa n d a by at i I dis rturb and that the arrangement wou ld the shareholdeiv- In of 6 per cent. to the guaranteethe worlce N 1 's /ere fact, their position would be betteremine, which was expected to co t and d, th as e further t, tea to meet the increased t ne on the line from South% It a. directors to take the 1 n o the The resolution authorising a rood to, and th e Int. : t ' . ed loan was unanimously g P°s • ing sep a rate d . I