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r -,G--ve-- -- -.- -- :_ , 7" ? ZZ_ ~//~- 41 4 • t iyoo k . , 4 44: • art • • • 41 - ,FL Ai; - , 04 ' = 4:: • AL:. • • •go -• \ // • 2, "--- • GRAIiESEND gTAR PACKETS leave the Brunswick Pier, Blackwall, at 11, 3, and 4; on Sundays at architect, of Hamilton-place, Near , ; pad, in which the pile was divided by party walls instead pf lath and plas ter partitions, and the additional cost Viit-v said to be a mere bagatelle. The CORONER said that some of the professimal gen tlemen around the table would perhaps think of so de— sirable an improvement on the present defective" ID 1) 91 building. 11 and 3. Fr ets Terrace Pier,,Gravesend, at 91, 1, and 5 ; on Sundays at 9/ and 5. Fares to or from London. Fore Cabin and Second Cl its Carriage, Ninepence. Saloon and First Class (!arriage, One Shilling. To or from Illackwall. Fore Cabin, Sixpence—Saloon, Ninepence. &`tar Office, Gravelend, Nov. 29, 1 5 44' REAT AVE:STERN AND CORNWALL , UNCTION RAILWAY, from Exeter to Falmouth. ital, 2,000,0001., in loir,ooo Shares of 201. each. Deposit, I/. 10E.. per Share. c proposed by this Company commences at Cowley. bridge the vicinity of the city of Exeter, uniting at that point With the Bristol and Exeter Line, traverses the centre of the county of Devon, and the great mining district of Cornwall to the town of Truro, whence it takes a southerly direction to, and ter. tninates at, the port of Falmouth. The line is integral between its termini, and will,' by means of tl'e Bristol and Exeter and the Great Western Railways, connect th e fort of Falmouth and the western counties with the metropolis and the chief manufacturing towns in the north of En:stand. The line was surveyed, at a great expense, - in 1536, by the Lon don, Salisbury, Exeter, and Falmouth ltailway Company, the pro rna!ers of which applied to Parliament in thb session of 1937 for an Act of incorporation, which had, after a protracted and search. t rig investigation, the sanction and report of a Committee of the douse of Commons in its favour. The present Company has, by an arrangement with the Share. holders of the former, acquired the valuable plans, sections, and other documentary evidence in support of the line, and it is thus enabled to present an undertaking sanctioned by a Committee of t he Legislature —a feature which distinguishes it from all the rail. w ays of recent projection. The notices and deposits of plans required by the Standing Or. l ets of the Howes of Lords and Commons have been perfected. A deposit of 1/. 10s. per share to be paid to the account of the Acting Committee with the Bankers of the Company upon appro. Pri ation. But in accordance with the arrangement entered iuto With the Shareholders in the London, Salisbury, Exeter, and Fat. enouth Railway Company, their Shares will be recognised on the PaYrnent of ss. per share, pert.of the deposit, and the further sura 15t. 1 /- per share will entitle the bolder to a certificate in the pre , sent Company, representing a deposit of IL lOs. ; the Subscribers' a greement and Parliamentary contract being previously executed. In the event of this undertaking not receiving the sanctien of t he Legislature, the Parliamentary deposit of 11. per share will be ° turned to the Subscribers without any deduction. 1 10 application fellbuhatei can be attended to, unless made in the following form:— To the rßovisioNAL COMMITTEE of the GREAT '''ESTERN and CORNWALL JUNCTION RAILWAY. G ENTLEMEN,—I request you will allot to me shares of 20L each, or any lesser number of shares, in the Great Western and r, "nwall Junction Railway Company, on the terms and conditions of the prospectus ; and I undertake to pay the deposit and sign the su bscribers' agreement and Parliamentary contract, wherein I am : I talled to do so. Dated the day of 184 . Name-- Residence Trade or Profession Reference APPlications fur prospectus and for shares to be addressed to the e ecretary, R. Moore, Esq., at the Company's offices, 15, Old -Tewry tiharnbers; to the Solicitor, William Bevan, Esq., 6, Old Jewry; to n ewt. J. 3sewell and Son, Tokenhouse.yard ; to the Commercial t 3 ank of England, Lothbury, and Henrietta-street, Covent - garden , "on; at the respective branches and agencies of t he National p rovincial Bank of England; to It. T. Head, Esq., solicitor, and lit Charles Dean, surveyor, Exeter ; to Messrs. Burd and Son, t o licitors, Okehampton, Devon; or to Mr. John Ellis, sharebreker, wenouth. LONDON-, SALISBURY, EXETER, and FALMOUTH RAILWAY COMPANY. The holders of certificates of shares issued by the London, Salis -I*ty, Exeter, and Falmouth Railway Company, are requested to 1 r4 tlernit the Dates and Numbers of their respective Certificates to e l :Secretary of the Great Western and Cornwall Junction Railway nzpany, at their offices, on or before the Ist day of January next, ' order th a t they may he registered preparatory to their exchange for the scrip of the latter Company, upon the terms and in accord -4'4 with the arrangement on which the undertaking is based. It. MOORE, Secretary. IS, Old Jewry-chambers, London, Doe. 23, 1844. F -N - ~„M THUMB 4 -,r_v Th• AMERICAN MAN in MINIATURE has returned ntion and is now holding his PUBLIC LEVEES at the ler Y, In Suffolk-street, Pall-mall. The General has been visiting toe 14i ncipal towns in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and has met win kZ unprecedented success. Whilst in Edinburgh the Gener a l 4 presented with a beautiful Highland dress, of the Royal Stu art Tartan, manufactured by Messrs. Meyers and Mortimer, in u hicls he will appear at each exhibition, in addition to his Citizen, " a lsoloon, and Court dress. Hours of Exhibition from Eleven to 46 , Three I. Five, and from Seven to Nine. D oors o p en half -o hour previous. Admission (regardless of age), One Shilling. ~ "e General's Miniature Equipage will be exhibited daily from at - r to Half.past Five, and from Eight to Half-past Nine, P.M. 1 41, Pall.mall, at the trifling charge of Threepence, merely to the rent of the room. NOW OPEN. NIQUE EXIIIIiiIION.-BATTLE OF WATERLOO. New M o d e l , upon a ver y l a rge Scale, representing the Splendid ci r ge in the earlier part of the Battle by the British heavy Ca. 24 '7 under the Marquis of Anglesea, and by the British Infantry 'lder Sir Thomas Picton. •Oh. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. —4 from Ten till Five; and in the Evenings, brilliantly illuminated, from Seven till Ten. Admission, One Shilling. PAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR,. Farewell to the Year, which will soon disappear, May the next with success be attended ; Through the universe wide, may Dame Fortune preside, And commerce and trade be extended I May kingdoms unite, in defence of our rights, May freedom and justice o'er flourish ; Prosperity smile round our own bonny isle, Each subject his rights ever cherish May the sunshine of Peace all her prospects increase, May health and contentment be near us ; May friendship and joy all our moments employ, And our conscience triumphantly steer us I With wishes like those, and the cheapest of clothes, Would Hyam appeal to the nation ; His gratitude, too, is unbounded to you, For your favours and kind approbation : His splendid success, 'tis a task to express, In efforts you'll find no reaction ; His clothing for all, and at prices so small, Must ever ensure satisfaction For the holidry times, his stock now combines, Of clothing a boundless collection ; The great and the small, the short and the tall, May choose from his splendid selection. O bserve—All garments at this establishment are :larked the hi s . • HI plain figures, from which no abatement is made. Any - "ele exchanged, which is not approved of, or the money returned, HYAM, Tailoring and Outfitting Establishment, Pantech. het-sea, 36, Gracechurch.street. Ts READY-MADE DEPARTMENT. /..eni sr Chesterfield coats, from . ..... ...£0 lYoli or Waterford Riding ditto, from Parisian Envelope, from to 'ert Walking Coat, from vld Youths' Taglienis, or Chesterfields, from • Ditto Dress Coats, any colour, from D itty Surtout ditto, ditto, from . Ditto Black Trousers, from Ditty ditto Vest, from D". tt . Tweed Trousers, from • 7 6 121 ' , ,tte. Buckskin Trousers, from . 1 , , 4 0 Fancy Vest, from i i mi Sie suit, from k en's suit, from b it , Moleskin Trousers, from 15,,`°, ditto, very best quality, rule pockets, from • 6 6 , fie e Coats, from ............ .• 3 n BESPOKE DEPARTMENT. to -11 loni or Chesterfield Coats, from 1.,"1Y0n or Waterford Riding citto, from 1 0 0 s Parisian Envelope, from i mb ert Walki ng Coat, from ..... 110 • ° Y , ' and Y out h s ' Taglioilis and Chesterfields, from • 12 0 ken's e Dress Coats, any colour 1 10 0 Dittoh Surtoute, ditto, from Ditto Doeskin Trousers, any pattern, from ... • 18 0 t/ itte ack dress Trousers, from 0 0 40 Fashionable Vests, in endless variety, from 7 0 a New B oo k, en titled The Age of Wonders," containing a att i c , th. t 'sd List of Prices, Fashions, and Description of material for I,` Present season, can be had by applying to Mr. L. HYAM, "te ehnetheca, 36, Gracechurch.street, London. NTIIB BEST REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION. ORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi wil deafly recommended as a simple, but certain remedy, to all DI ° suffer from Indigestion, Sick Headach , Bilious and Liver Com -1:""8 ; they act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient, impart &strength to the stomach, and composure to the nervous system. ~,Id in bottles at Is. 4c1., or I I s., each, by A. Wit. 1 ,,, i , 1 hbY and Co., late B. G. Windus, 61, Bishopsgate Without, 1 .,......11a!1y all Medicine Vendors. YU FSLIC NOTICE. 434; DXFORD-STREET. 10 SHIPPERS, OWNERS, CAPTAINS, AND OTHERS. Copies of Testimonials, Gratis, by all Agents. q_R IMST ONE'S EYE SNUFF.—Under the Patronage of his late Majesty, her Royal Highness the toi o " e " of Kent, and the Lords of the Treasury, is universally re -1,„. Mended by the Faculty for its efficacy in removing disorders 'Went to the Eyes and Head. SIGHT RESTORED!—NERVOUS HEADACHE AND DEAFNESS CURED! I t , 1%7 the most simple, delightful, and fragrant Com p ound! to r h ood cot application is fraught with pleasu re ; man y thousand e t . i .p. have been accomplished by its use, at a triiing expense, yet tois a 'u in its operation. If testimonies be necessary to induce the tho_erer to make trial, Kings, Lords, and Commons have used it. I N ! Lords of the 'Treasury have sanctioned its use. Their late Ma.- A T Z , , the Duchess of Kent, the most eminent Oculists, Medical fi r r t itioners—with that gigantic balance, the Press —have eul o gised stot,o,tone's celebrated Herbaceous Compound , kn o wn as " Grim. to th e s Eye Snuff," for its efficacy in removing_ all diseases See incident e ,,„EYes and Head. O. J. Guthrie Esq., F.R,_ as D a r Andrews.callestit 14,,,,i3O„„a.'41eleaiitetegr, Whitehall, i t h e i r: aI L e po p rts . touching l its utility. The late flaiAbernethy, with many others, recommend Grimstone's Eye and call " Man's best Friend," and the "Student's Vade Dr .f • tsph,,.• in Nov. also recommends its use as a preve ntive . S ee his Nov. 1531. He states that the tenacious sympathy of the ith e inbr ene, within the nostrils, with the nervous system, that Grim rle Snuff, when frequently taken, must be of the greatest eflt to the consumer • and, further, recommends its universal ron as a preventative ' . 1 4 2. Thomas of Hatfield having witnessed many cases both of Zache and ophthalmia , has kindly given his testimony thereof. bear t few of the man no usand Testimonials of Sight restored and . cured ley Oil hISPONE'S EYE SNUFF:— L w ti Grimstone, Esq. " April 20th, 1844. th e ear Sir,-1 fe e l bound by a sense of justice to inform you of the raculous cure effected on myself by taking a few p inch e s of tath: r celebrated Grnustone's Eye Snuff, which, is my case, ought 4 deaf o be called ' Ear Snuff,' it having effectually relieved me from {t hi,,ness from which I have been suffering for many years. You are sho o il t Y to make an y use you please of this communication, since I *ti t „"'n , och regret if' the extraordinary qualities of your Eye Snu ff "ot universally known. " I am, dear Sir, your obedient servant, „ rant on, Scotland. " M A ROA RET MAC GREGOR. s t e in vouc tr h fer the uth of the foregoing facts and stateme q .‘ l7 g. 1644. " JAMES SHUTER, Kentbury, Berks."n Reynolds, editor of Chambers' London Jpurnal, &c.. &c. .;,o , f excruciating pains, and can now write without spectacles it ac t a rnford.st:eet, Blacktriar's-road. o f di,,,._ ra c Lespis, facing the church, Park-street, Windsor; cured B • of sight and headache.-9th September, 1838, and 1843. 4- bat c r Lachfleld, Esq. ; cured of Ophthalmia. Whitehall and paced House Tavern.—See leis letters, 1838 and 1842. . 'Ad th'.. r ee the Caution—W. GRI MS FONE is the sole inventor, ? s nlY genuine is prepared by him. whir Odoriferous Herbaceous Compound of Herbs is sold in i r ohriot,:„ at „, Bl , ls. 3d.,4d., 4s. 44., 81., and 15s. 6d. each . , by the GRIMSTONE, at No. 434, Oxford-street, fatten. 4 411 st ' ti r t-road end (late of No. 311, Broad-street, Bloomsbury), Eierbary, Highgate; and can also be obtained in all the ihwle4 .4 Towns and Cities. A liberal allowance to Sh ippers ,felsr itt 2 .l4 2tains, and all Vendors of Grirastone's Lye Snuff This aunt a shipped to all ouArters of the they an rettame 44 tit s f: 1 1 4 ualitie4 in every cUnlate Ail Soon aoct At . ly u noa notice. tili. 4l444 titY can Igt forcardol thrtro4b the Generalby "*.juur i rbey ore„, • , A 4d. wrabiet, , rith :rod s Coat 13 .44411,„1n like proportio ""ms HIGHGA TE o. it).:341 1)( )N, t UESDAY MORNING SUN, DECEMBER 31, 1844. PRIOR sd. THE SUN is Published EVERY MOANING 41 FIVE O'CLOCK,. in Tine 'COT the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY ; a SECOND EDITION (E ven i ng Sun) is Piddislied in Time for the :AFTERNOON TRAINS and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, ec - : ntaining PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Boar. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Christmas Holidays. One of the brilliant novelties is Child's CHROMATROPE, to which may be added, Subjects in Nature and Art for the PROTEOSCOPE. The PHYSIOSCOPE. The first Ex hibition of a Series of beautiful DISSOLVING VIEWS. On the. i*.venings of Tuesdays and Thursdays Mr. C. E. HOE '4 . lectures on the MUSIC of DIFFERENT NATIONS. Dr. RYAN'S and Pro fessor BACHHOFFNER'S varied LECTURES da ly. Dr. RYAN also Lectures en the Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. All these Lectures abound in interesting Experiments. SUBMA RINE EXPERIMENTS by means of the DIVING-BELL and DIVE .^. . The H YDRO-E LEC TR IC MACHINE. Ad . ...fission, s.; 6ctiools, Halt-price. A New Edition of the CATALOGUE, containing Three Hundred additional Works of Art, &c., since the last revisal, is just published.. price Is. PUBLICATIONS. formal alliance or concordat with Rome can convey to an English Minister an hundredth part of that su premacy over the Chtirel, its spirit, and its nomina tions, which has bren ived apparently from Rome, and which is wielded by the Catholic Monarchs of Aus tria and France. Neither does an English Minister want that minute power which must be wielded by a Prussian Minister, who, as yet, has no assistance, from puttlx opinion in his system of ruling, and who must have a bridle in every mouth, and that bridle tight drawn, ere he can feel that he governs at all." ' for the labourers of Dorset, sending down commis sions, corresponding with the Dorchester unionists, demanding better pay and better houses, sending an army of inspectors to pry and peep everywhere, and stand by on Saturday night, when the labourers were paid their wages, lugging the names of every town and village, and every landowner and farmer before the House of Commons night after night, with no end of black images, dark apprehensions, and solemn appeals, it is not unlikely that Mr. Bankes and his colleague would have made some attempt to transfer the war of agitation to their enemies' country, and given the Lancashire gentlemen just a taste of the evils they were suffering. Nay, truth itself requires these retaliations. If one employer charges on another the ill-condition of his servants, it is quite necessary to inquire, " How do you manage ?" If a parent censures the excessive strictness of another's domestic menage, it is obvious and inevitable to reply, " But your Children are ill-bred." The manufacturer is charged with working his servants too young, too much, too carelessly, and so forth. He cannot but inquire, " How do you contrive to give a sufficiency of wages to your servants without these acknowledged evils ? You are lavish of your precepts. Show me your example. How do you actually get over the difficulties under which the great bulk of mankind are sentenced to earn their bread ?" Let Mr. Bankes just for a moment quit the charmed circle of his castle, his tenantry, and his agricultural meeting, and put himself in the place of a Manchester manufacturer, and he will learn to make allowances, and to take truth even at the mouth of a rival ; at least, to meet assertions with facts. LIVERPOOL RAILWAYS. TIIE RAILWAY REGISTER and RECORD of ENGINEERING for JANUARY, edited by HYDE CLARKE, Esq., price Ilalf.a.Crown, contains :—The Liverpool and Ormskirk Railway, with a coloured Map—Kollmann's Railway, with a Plate—Railway Experiments, with Five Engravings— Mining in Mexico, by John Phillips, Esq.—Cornish Mining, with Three Engravings, by J. Y. Watson, Esq.—Official List of Rail ways which have lodged their plans—The Meetings of the Month— Official Railway Time Bills. Weale, 59, High Holborn; Thomas, Finch.lane ; srappel, Liverpool ; Messrs. Thomson, Manchester ; Bielby, Birmingham 5 Ntven, jun., Glasgow; Mrs. Strong, Bristol; II olden, Rader; Andrews, Durham; and all Zooksellfers. IVe repeat, we do not undervalue the importance of enlisting spiritual authority on the side of public order. It is good for this at least, if for nothing more—it deprives disturbers of order of that autho rity ; turns it against them, instead of enabling them to appeal to it in their favour. But no authority, empty-handed, is really powerful with bodies of men, unless exercised in coincidence with their own sub stantipl interests and conditions of existence. The Court of Rome has had time to learn this, in its long years of experienced feebleness • the Court of England will find it out, if it expe c t s from Rome permanent opiates for Ireland. 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" The best of all friends is the professional friend ; and in no share can he be consulted with greater safety and secrecy than in Lucas on Manly Health.* The *author shows how • Manly Vigour, ' tem porarily impaired, can be restored."—The New Bell's Weekly Messenger. • . . . Messrs. Lucas and Co. are to be consulted front ten till two, and from five till eight in the evening, at their residence, No. 60, New man-strect, Oxford-street, London, ant country patients may be successfully treated on minute lir d‘aqibing their case, and inclosing he usual fee of 11. for advice. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—It was predicted by Peter Plymley, about 1807, that " we shall live to see the Hampstead Protestant (Mr. Perceval) pronouncing such extrava gant panegyrics upon holy water, and paying such fulsome compliments to the thumbs and toes of departed saints, that parties will change sentiments, and Lord Henry Petty and Sam Whitbread take a spell at No Popery." Part of this prophecy we witness at present some thing like the fulfilment of. The Times last week appeared to have had its cue from the Foreign-office to put forth a feeler on the subject of instituting diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome, with a view to obtaining Papal mediation between the Irish Roman Catholic hierarchy and the Government. Now we have no objection whatever to friendly relations with the Court of Rome, nor to the use of its media tion in conciliating the Irish Roman Catholic priest hood to the civil power. It will be a mistake, how - ever, in our Government to exaggerate to itself the effect thereby attainable. The most advantageous introduction of parties (public or private) to each other, has little effect, unless their feelings and objects shall harmonise afterwards. We appreciate the influ ence of the See of Rome over its conscientious ad herents; an acknowledged authority is a great matter to have to point to, on one side or other; and we have no doubt that this Government would be as successful as any other in enlisting that authority on the side of its own just requirements. But we must not exaggerate the real extent of any ex clusively spiritual influence. The Pope's name may be a tower of strength ; but the fate of the tower depends, after all, on the garrison. The Papal authority will ba all-powerful with a local clergy, so long as it is exerted in accordance with their own feelings and prospects. But no authority on earth can produce action contrary to class-instincts. The University of Oxford declared the duty of passive obedience, only a year or two before, with the rest of the Church, it commenced resistance to James the Second. The advanced guard of Puseyism pro claims the sin of schism from the Roman Church now—but takes it extremely unkind to have the con sequent duty urged on it of instant reunion. The logic of facts, and actual circumstances, is stronger than that of words. The Times says : " We shall not attempt to explain by what means in the present absurd state of the law any intercourse between the British Government and the Court of Rome may have taken place. But it is notorious that such intercourse has taken place at various times ; and, although the indirect mode in which it must hale been carried on was unbecoming the great interests affected by such negotiations, the interests of peace and conciliation have been no losers by these transac tions. We allude to the consent of Rome to the veto, which was subsequently defeated by the Irish Roman Ca tholic laity ; to the influence of the Pope in calming the excitement of the Canadian insurgents and in proscribing the slave trade ; and more recently to the sanction which is understood to have been given to the important measure just promulgated in Ireland. On these occa sions it has been found that the good order and welfare of the Roman Catholic Church presented no obstacles, but rather a powerful assistance, to a wise and tolerant policy in civil government ; and since the laws of this country have ceased to persecute the Roman Catholics and to deny their civil existence, there is no secure or tenable resting-place between that state of things, which is now passed away, and the recognition of those authori ties, to which the Roman Catholic clergy and laity ascribe a controlling power in the direction of their spiritual concerns." It must be observed, with reference to the above statement, that if " the interests of peace and concilia tion have been no losers" by such transactions as our Government has hitherto had with the Court of Rome, neither does it, as yet, clearly appear that they have been any gainers. The Veto [of Government on the appointment of Irish Roman Catholic Bishops] was not carried—the revolt of French Roman Catholic Canada was not prevented. We do not contend that Papal intervention is of no use in any such cases, or that (in the existing state of political powers) it is likely to he used on any side but on that of order. We only suggest something more as wanting to the conciliation, by such means, of third parties—something addressed more directly to the business and bosoms of those parties themselves. The .M'orning Chronicle examines, as follows, the ex amples of Austria and France, which the Times had cited : DORSETSHIRE LABOURERS. (From the Times.) Mr. Bankes seems resolved that the condition-of the-labourer controversy shall not close for the season without leaving a nest-egg for future discussions. On Saturday week the Blandford Agricultural Society held their annual meeting, and reviewed the agricultural year in some . speeches marked, on the whole, by good sense and good feeling. The speakers appeared to be practical men, with no other object than to improve land, increase produce, and better the landlord, tenant, and labourer. Mr. Bankes was the only exception to the practical tone of the meeting. Either relying on the unassailable strength of his cause, or buoyed up by those peculiar encouragements which are sure to meet a wealthy landlord and in fluential man in his own neighbourhood, he under took to account for the disagreeable circumstance of Dorsetshire having just now rather a bad name in the kingdom at large. That it has a bad name is not disputed. Other counties possess claims to notice, but Dorsetshire ap pears to receive it. Notwithstanding the fires of Suffolk, the occasional riots of Wales, the strikes of Durham, the overwork of Lancashire, and the con centrated miseries of the metropolis, yet destitution and degradation cannot be mentioned without the mind naturally turning to Dorsetshire. The Dorset shire labourer, Dorsetshire wages, Dorsetshire cot tages, Dorsetshire parish houses, Dorsetshire bed rooms, Dorsetshire depopulations, are becoming almost household words. We have Cheshire cheese, Devon shire cream, Norfolk turkeys, Essex calves, Wiltshire bacon, and other provincial delicacies. But for large families, existing on Bs., or even 7s. a week for undrained mud floors, for a dozen or more of all sexes and ages in one bed-roam, for every other form of squalid brutish degradation, we go to Dorsetshire. The opinion may be absolutely unfounded, but still it is universal. Dorsetshire, justly or unjustly, has fur nished a type of agricultural misery. There is a poetry in the human mind which naturally leans to locality and circumstance. We are slow to conceive and remember what we have not invested with familiar place and form. So it is with the greatest facility that the popular intellect has imbibed the idea of that almost dramatic character, a Dorsetshire labourer. To this opinion Mr. Bankes addressed himself at Blandford last Saturday, and proceeded—not to confute it—not to deny any one of the allegations on which it was maintained—not to advance a single fact of a contrary character; but to point out how such an opinion might possibly have spread, and that its prevalence did not necessarily involve its truth. " The Dorset labourer has obtained a very pro minent situation in the public eye. Whether we grieve cr rejoice at it, such is the fact, and it does not become us to shrink from it. The reason for the peculiar notoriety of the Dorset labourer, I believe, may be justly attributed to some public transactions which I will slightly allude to. fhey are transactions which convey no discredit to this county ; two transactions, in particular, I refer to." The first of these is the prosecution of some Dorsetshire labourers twelve or fourteen years since for illegal combination ; and the other is one of more recent date, which, as far as it goes, we agree with Mr. Bankes in considering very honourable to the county—viz., the prominent part taken by Lord Ashley in the factory question : " I have conscientiously given my support to the Noble Lord, and, as a humble supporter of him, I am sure we had no idea of making an attack upon any one, or accusing any one of cruelty and harshness. We did consider, on full consideration of this very delicate question, that some interposition might be safely applied, but without the remotest idea of in flicting any injury on any other interest, and without the slightest intention of casting any slur upon any member of a different class. We sustained that question, and shall sustain it still ; but it is from that cause that the Dorsetshire labourer is brought for ward, and his case stated to be one of peculiar hard ship, peculiar neglect, and peculiar abuse, contrary, I'll venture to say, to the facts of the case, and, I be lieve, contrary to the knowledge of those who thus venture to state them." The Member for Dorsetshire is a public man of business, a man of weight with his party, and even has pretensions to statesmanship; yet how does he meet a serious charge —a universal belief? By show ing a possible foundation in accident, interest, and malice. Yet the facts were before his face, and under his very feet. A numerous body of labourers had just been rewarded, and at that moment were being feasted in the same house; a numerous body of gentlemen and clergymen were in the room. Here was a host of competent witnesses. All the circumstances of the scene were as favourable for the impirtial development of the truth, as for the favourable reception of Mr. Bankes's singularly in sufficient apology. Here is the county Member, a leading man of his party, at an agricultural dinner ; excuse the comparison —a cock on his own dunghill. On rising to speak "he was received," as became his station and character, " with loud and protracted cheers." He was addressing " a large and influential portion of the censtituencv, ' and had, as he expressed it, the peculiar pleasure of "making one in this room with the large portion of the agriculturists of this county here assembled, mingled as it is this evening with so many belonging to this opu lent and influential town, who are engaged in other pursuits, trades, and occupations." What a noble opportunity of eliciting and declaring to the deluded kingdom the facts of the case ! Why not out at once with the rates of wages, summer and winter, a description of the cottages, and fare, and other plain realities ? The successful candidates for the labourers' prizes had each received " a neat and pretty testimonial, expensively framed and glazed, to hang up in his cottage !" How complete the scene would have been if " a neat and pretty " landlords' testimonial could have been added to the series ! THE LATE CALAMITOUS FIRE IN GUILDFORD-STREET. INQUEST ON TIIE SUFFERERS. Practical men always make the best of their way to the facts of a question. However it may have been originally started, they try to bring truth out of it. The truth is the only thing that can really set it at rest. Few discussions arise out of the love of truth in the first instance. Inferior motives will take the lead, and mix themselves with the whole course of the inquiry. A wise man casts them aside, and searches for facts. It is but a feminine mode of debate to descend from a question of fact to a question of motive, and merely perpetuate a miserable war of personal recriminations. If it were a sufficient answer to any considerable statement that there are interested or malicious reasons for propounding or believing it, there is an end to all human certainty, and all exactness of knowledge, for there are few statements which are not in that predicament. But, after all, why should we not accept informa tion at rival, or even at hostile hands? An external observer can generally add something to the know ledge even of the most experienced men. They who have lived in a system are, of course, assi milated to it. They are reconciled to abuses, they . recognise pretensions, they acquiesce in seeming impossibilities, they admit apologies, they yield to partialities, all perhaps grossly at variance with truth and justice; and from which a stranger to the system, without their more practical experi ence, is happily exempt. Everybody is keenly alive to the virtues of his own craft, and the vices of others ; and so invincilde is the bigotry of cast and circum stances, that we cannot be too thankful for the light occasionally communicated by caste to caste, and one sphere to another. Lord Ashley sees the factory system with a more bird's-eye view, and to some ex tent with a truer view, than the millowners ; and they, on the other hand, can form a judgment on the agricultural system truer in some important respects than what the Members for Dorsetshire are likely to have fallen into. A NEW AND IMPORTANT EDITION OF THE SILENT FRIEND ON HUMAN FRAILTY. Just published, price 2s. 6d., and free by post (in a sealed envelope), Price 3s. 6d., THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on Human Frailty and Physical Decay, its causes, and the baneful effects of excessive indulgence and Infection, illustrated by engravings, with observations on Marriage, and directions for the removal of certain disqualifications. By R. and L. PERRY and CO. Published by the Authors, and sold at their Residence, 19, Berner& street, Oxford-street ; also by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row; Purkis, Compton-street, Soho; Noble, 109, Chancery-lane; Hannay and 63, Oxford-street; J. Gordon, 146. Leadenhall-street, Lon don ; and by all Booksellers In Town and Country. " The influence of the Courts of the Tuileries and of Vienna over their upper clergy does not depend upon the power of choosing, or forbidding to be chosen, obnoxious persons ; it consists in the Court connexion with the prelates, generally of noble axed courtly families. in the power of the Governments of France and Austria at Rome itself—in short, iu a host of things Anti of patronage to which au English Government must remain a stranger. We doubt, then, that a Mr. Wakley, Coroner for Middlesex, Mr. G. J. Mills, Deputy-Coroner, and the jury empanelled to inquire into the circumstances connected with the late fire at 67, Guildford-street, Russell-square, by which four unfor tunate individuals lost their lives, re-assembled yesterday in the Angel Inn, High-street, St. Giles, for the purpose of further prosecuting the inquiry. Fairey, Esq., the gentleman on whose premises the fire occurred, Mr. Braidwood, superintendent of the London Fire Brigade, and others interested in the evidence, were present. Precisely at ten o'clock the Coroner and Deputy- Coroner entered, and the names of the jurymen having been called over, they were sworn, and the court was opened in the usual form. The names of the unfortunate men, it will be remembered, were Robert Birkmyre and John Wright, police-constables of the E division, Charles Jenkins, a groom, and William Robinson, a clerk. The first witness, Frederick Perrier, fireman No. 78, said that he found John Birkmyre in the ruins, on Saturday, the 21st. Found him in the front kitchen alive. Heard a cry of " Here, here ! Help ! For God's sake, save rue !" I crawled under the fallen wood work, and asked if any one was there. He said " Yes, Jack's here." With assistance I got him out in about three quarters of an hour. Found the young man, William Robinson, about half-past three the same afternoon, on the top of the ruins, between the rafters, with his face towards Russell-qsuare. The body was greatly burned. I also found a drunken mau on the premises, but he was recovered. A young man stepped forward, and said that some remains had been found, which were supposed to belong to the deceased Robinson. And if th; , re he something like retaliation, so long a, human nature remains what it is, that is inevitable. We can only learn to take it easy, and make the best of it. If Cobden and Co. had begun with agitating Witness—l cannot say how the drunken man came on the ruins. He was apparently insensible, and could give no answer to the questions asked him. I did not know John Birkmyre before he was burned. Gregory Cole Dudley, inspector of the E division, knew Birkmyre. Saw his body at the ruins, but cannot say how he came by his death. Saw also the body of John Wright, aged 30, brought out. He was also a police constable. William Miley, coachman to Mr. Fahey, knew Charles Jenkins, and saw his body brought out o: the ruins. The deceased was a stranger in the house, and merely came in to " lend a hand." Police-constable 52 E found the body of Charles Jen kins on the 24th in the ruins of the kitchen. Edward Payne, Upper Clapton, identified the body of Charles Jenkins. Police constable 52 E (continued)—The deceased, Jen kins, was in the same room with Birkmy-re, but on the opposite side of the place. He was buried beneath the timber. Mr. Fairey—No other of my household is missing. I have not seen the body of the deceased lad, Robinson. He used to sleep at the uppermost middle window of the premises. His age was 15. Mr. llTAxxxy—Now, gentlemen of the jury, if you are satisfied of the identity of the bodies, the next and only inquiry will be to ascertain how the fire originated. The coachman was called with this view, but he could give no account of the origin, as he slept over the stables. Mr. Fairey said the cook was the first of his domestic servants awake. (A section of the house was exhibited here, with the exact position in which the bodies were discovered.) The female domestic of Mr. Fairey and a boy who used to sleep with the deceased Robinson, were then sworn, and Mary Hall, the cook, was first examined—l went to bed at ten minutes before eleven. The parlour-maid and another girl were left up. I was alarmed soon after by finding that the room was filling with smoke. I mean the third floor back room. The two girls slept in the same room. One came immediately to me but the other did not for some time. I smelt a strong smell of fire about a quarter after three. I leaped out of bed and opened the door, and found myself almost suffo cated on the landing. I awoke my fellow-servants and screamed " fire," and then ran up stairs to the boy's room. I then came back for I met my master. The fire was coming up the staircase, and I tried to descend but could not. I then got up the stairs again and caught hold of my boy, who said " Oh, it is me, mother— and he then added—" Oh ! poor Robinson." We then all escaped except the last-mentioned. There was no fire left in the kitchen, and the last fire in the stoves had been on the previous Wednesday. The laundry is on the ground floor, with kitchen rather detached, the only communication between it and the house being a water-closet. _ _ Mr. WAKLEY—Mr. Braidwood gives it as his opinion that the heated air in the communicating flue had occa sioned the occurrence. What is your opinion, Mr. Fairey ? Mr. Fairey—Suph is my opinion, and that the heat communicated with the woodwork near. (The wit ness then explained at great length the direction which the flue took in its passage through the house, and the dangerous nature of the connecting woodwork.) Mr. WAKLEY—Then this fire would have originated on the ground floor ? Mr. Fairey—No, on a landing above it. Mary Hall—There were no fires left in when I went to bed. There was nothing unusual in the fires in the house that day. Master was very careful of his fires himself. Mr. Fairey—l sat up till after two o'clock in my study. I went down stairs after the time that cook says she met me, to look at this landing I have already mentioned. I could not see much flame, for it resem • bled the gas-lights burning through an intense Lon don fog. The other servants were examined, but added nothing to the evidence of the cook. They could form no further opinion of the origin of the fire than that it arose on the back ground floor, and was occasioned by the flue of the ironing-store. Mr. WAKLEY—It has been said that there was com pany in the kitchen that evening. Is it so ?—The wit nesses said such a report was altogether false. Mr. WAKLEY—It has been also said that policemen were in late at night. It is as well to remove such an impression. An Inspector—lt is altogether false, for inquiries have been made, and the policemen, who were also stated to be drunk, were perfectly sober. Mr. Fairey—There had been scandalous disorder somewhere, for the wine-cellar had been broken open, and bottles of strong French brandy, gin, and wine, stolen and drunk, and the empty bottles thrown about the kitchen, where these men were found dead. Thomas Wenman, the chimney-sweeper, saw the sparks coming from the roof of the study in the morn ing, just as he was going to work. Mr. Wakley—The study is not burned down. William Dilley, coachman to Mr. Fairey, slept over the stables, and was roused by people knocking at the door. Saw the fire first inside th• pantry windows. It was not in the house then. When he next saw the flame it had communicated with the bottom staircase window. Saw the man who was brought out tipsey. He lives on the Colonnade, and I have observed:him before. When brought out he was taken to the station-house. I have seen the wine cellar since. The panel of the door was broken open, and also one of Chubb's patent locks. Police constable 5 E— Got to the house at about four o'clock. Saw fire then from the second floor front room. Sergeant Dyer and witness got over the area into the ground floor. The door was broken open, witness was told, by Wright, one of the deceased constables. The flames were over witness's head, and on trying to get up the staircase the pieces of wood were falling down. Wright, Birkmyre, and Jenkins, were looking under the kitchen table for a dog at that time. The men were quite sober. The cellar door had been before that broken in witness's presence. Saw no bottles handed about, but heard Wright say that "this cellar must be looked to, or they would be at it." Wright broke open the door under the impression that it was the plate room, but finding it the wine cellar they left it untouched. He could swear that all were perfectly sober. William Quait, carpenter, was alarmed by fire, and went into the house by the coachman's back entrance. That led into a passage, and the kitchen door is just there. The fire was burning very briskly there, and it communicated with the staircase window, alse are ap- ADVERTISEII4E.NTS INSERTED in ALL THE TrIREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. peared to him to have broke out in the pantry at. the back of the house. There was no fire in the front kitchen then, and soon after the policemen came; and they were quite sober. Witness told them several times, "If you don't come out now you will never come out alive." Soon after witness left the roof fell in. Mr. WAILLEY—I think it is quite evident that these poor men were not intoxicated, unless, indeed, the jury wished to multiply evidence. The jury expressed their full satisfaction that the constables were quite sober. James Mallett was examined, but nothing material was elicited. The next witness called was the man who had been found in the house intoxicated. Mau rice Williams, coachman to Mr. James Hacking man—l heard a cry of fire, and went down to the back of the house. I went by the back door to search for a dog which was said to be inside. I saw a policeman break open the wine cellar with a poker. He put in his lamp, and said, " This is the wine cellar; I thought it was the plate room." The policeman then went away. I drank something out of a pot. I don't know what it was. I don't know who gave it me. The only light was from a policeman's lamp. There were two in the kitchen then. It was not the liquor got over me. It was the fright and the smoke tbat did it. There was no time for nothing. I was taken to the station-house on a stretcher, and thrown into a col& cell for four hours and a half, and when I was brought out the water ran from me. Mr. WAKLEY—It has, I think, been sufficiently proved that these men were sober ; but there seems to have been something wrong about the protection to property, cer tainly. I cannot sce the necessity for having broken open the door at all. Mr. Fairey examined—l am an engineer, and on the night of the Ste went to bed between a quarter and half past two o'clock. Told William Robinson, and the other boy, Hall, to put the fire right, and saw the boy Robin son with the fire-screen ready to do so. I then left to go to bed. My first impression was of a scream of fire. I went outside, and then saw the smoke. I went up stairs to alarm the servants and met the cook. I told her to alarm the servants, and then went to my study, to save my papers if they should be on fire. When I got down nearly to the level of the study I found that the fire was lower down. I came back to my room where my wife was, and called out " Fire !" I told my wife to try to save nothing, not to speak except in case of abso lute necessity, and to do all I told he r . I th en t oo k h er up stairs to the third landing, and then got them into the open air by the leads. Mr. WAKLEY—IIow do you account for the boy Robinson not being saved ? Witness—l did not miss him till we were outside. got all together, as well as I could feel them on the upper landing, and it was only some seconds after we were outside that I discovered this unfortunate boy was lost. The whole of this transaction might have occu pied four minutes. By the CORONER-Our occupation for that night was to prepare a report for the Vice-Chancellor, and the boys were engaged in copying the rough draft. I had an Arnott stove heated from the wash-house and passing through the conservatory. I had an ordinary stove also with a fire, but there was not the smallest connection with wood work. There was indeed less fire than ordi nary. The Arnott stove in the washhouse was to heat the conservatory and the back drawing room beneath my study. I had a vertical flue passing from the stove through the wall to the outside, then straight up outside the wall of the conservatory. The conservatory is a half circle or bow, and the flue went round that. It had other branches, one to the back drawing-room, coming in under the window, the other branch was near the stove, and th© floor of the pantry was the ceiling of the washhouse, and in that floor was an iron pipe about eleven feet above the stove. The size of the main flue at the stove, might be nine inches by four inches, all of brickwork. Mr. WAHLEY—Now, Mr. Fairey, do, if you please, describe the other flue communicating with the ironing stove ? Witness—There is another flue from the iron- ing-stove also in the laundry, going upwards to the pantry, and ending in what I believe to be a chimney in the next house. I think it cannot be cleaned on account of the very acute angle which occurs in its line, and that angle corresponds with the place w here I observed the appearance of gas-lights on a foggy night. In one part of the wall, where an arch was formed in order to admit the pipe, a very nicely fitting piece of wood-work was inserted, and nothing was placed between that wood work and the heated pipe itself. I believe now, that the fire originated in the small closet where my servant kept his boots, and that it then entered at the staircase window, thus, in fact, at first arising in the wooden arch.. referred to already by me. Mr. WAKLEY—here is a fireman belonging to the Brigade, who arrives at a different conclusion. It may be as well to examine his reason for this opinion. George Calf, a fireman, put in the ground plan of the premises by direction of Mr. Braidwood. He believed it to be a correct plan, and he agreed with Mr. Braidwood in his opinion from the appearance of the premises. The house was as bad a house as ever was built. The floors had sunk from not having proper support. lie only called out five of his men a few minutes before the floors fell in, and it was next to miraculous that the whole of them were not buried in the ruins. Mr. Fairey said the house was a very handsome one, but not of substantial materials. A former owner had greatly beautified it, but he removed some main beams. The house was all lathe and plaster, not unlike a scene in a play. Two pilasters which were intended to sup port the ceiling, and made of strong materials, he had found since the fire that they were made of wood and plaster, and consequently combustible. The youth Hall was then examined—He said he went to bed about half-past two o'clock. He was employed in writing up to that time in the drawing-room. At that time there was neither fire nor smoke, and nothing pe culiar. Mr. WAKLEY remarked that it was next to impossible that the fire could have been in that flue next to the conservatory without Mr. Fairey or the youth's know ing it. Hall continued—Put the guard on by the desire of Mr. Fairey, Slept in the same room with Robinson, but not in the same bed. Shook him and called him to get up. He never made the least motion. Witness did not dress himself. Came back to the room twice in the hope of saving him. The larktime he could not venture into the room. He was generally a very heavy sleeper. When witness awoke the room was full of smoke. Mr. WAKLEY said that a small quantity of smoke in some of the small passages of the lungs would cause death. Mr. Fairly said Robinson had difficulty in breathing, and generally did so with his mouth open. Mil said he did not hear him breathe. The CORONER said it was ♦ery desirable that while one body of men paid proper attention below, another party should pay attention to those upon the roof. In this case, it appeared that Mr. Fairey and his family had been upon the roof six or seven mi nutes without any one coming to their assistance. If any objection were made to admit persons for that pur pose at the next door, he should, if a policeman, have no hesitation in breaking them open. He thought no fur ther witness need be examined, for he did not think that were they sitting there for a fortnight they could come to any more satisfactory conclusion than they might with that before them. There being no further evidence, The CORONER proceeded to address the jury. He said there was nothing peculiar in the circumstances. There was a difference of opinion between Mr. Fairey and Mr. Braidwood and the firemen in regard to the situation of the premises in which the fire origi nated. In the opinion of all it originated in a flue. Consequently a difference of opinion only existed as to the particular flue in which the fire first happened. The inquiry - , however, would have the effect of directing the public attention as to flues in general, and in his opi nion it was a subject which could not receive too much attention. Now even in this case, though an engineer of great celebrity had resided in the house for many years, he was not aware there was a flue communicating with a stove in which a large quantity of soot might have con gregated through the peculiarity of its construction, and yet it excited no suspicion and attention even from the experienced mind of the occupier of the house. It only showed in what situations of danger one might be placed unsuspectedly. It was not known that the flue opened into a chimney of the next house. That was certainly a curious circumstance. Mr. Fairey stated that the flue was so constructed that it was actually in contact with wood-work, and with nothing to separate them. Now, in the state of that flue, nothing was more easy than the heat from it communicating with the wood, and so originating this lamentable occurrence. In his own opinion the fire originated in the western flue of the laundry, for, if it had originated in the eastern one, those in the room must have seen it. If this inquiry , directed attention to the construction of flues, of what ever kind, very great good would be derived from it, and much security to life and property would accrue, and occurrences of this painful kind entirely prevented. In nearly all cases fires occur from the improper con struction of flues, and too much attention could not. therefore, be paid to the subject. The flue in which this fire occurred had been in use eleven years without having been once clear at the point in which it found an angle with the chimney of the next house. In this case he thought no blame could be at tached to the policeman on the ground floor as regarded intoxication. 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Price and Co.'s Perfumery is so superior to any other, and in such general demand, that many shopkeepers are basely deceiving the Public by selling urious imitations. Price and Co. respect.. fully solicit Ladies and Gentlemen when they purchase not to take any article without the protection label, from a design by Sir William Congreve, being affixed to it, with the signature of " Prices ad Co. Lombard-street," in red ink, and " 28" conspi cuously in its corny?: - - - - - Price and Co. are the sole Wholesale Agents for DELC A 0 IX'S K A LYD Olt, a French cosmetic, surpassing all others for preserving and beau tifying the Complexion, prepared for the use of her most gracious Majesty the Queen, and her Majesty the Queen Dowager, by es pecial command, and protected by letters patent. Price 4s. 6d. DELCROIX'S MACASSAR OIL, mported under the sanction of the " Lords of the Treasury," for the use of her most gracious Majesty and their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, &c., is also protected by two elegantly-executed, correct likenesses, in embossed medallions, of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Price Es. 6d. DELCROIX'S ODONTO. " We do mot hesitate to recommend, from experience, DEL. CROIX'S ODONTO, er the Queen's own Dentifrice, as the most aaluable means of purifying, preserving, and embellishing the Teeth and Gums, hitherto offered to the Public."—Court Gazette. • ~• The Bouquet Duke of York is the last new fashionable perfume of the season 1844 ; but though the last, is net the least i siperfection, as it happily combines the preceding excellence •f all the royal bouquets, with the delicate and delicious fragrance •f the white moss rose. Let him who is a true born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth If he suppose that I have pleaded truth— From off this briar pluck a white rose with me. Messrs. J. Deter°lx and Co., 158, New Bond-street, have pleasure In offering this their last bouquet of the season, and beg to inform the Nobility and their Patrons that, during the recess, all orders for their " unique cadeau" of a case containing the six royal bou quets for one guinea, comprising the bouquets de la Reine, d'Albert, Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Princesse Royale, and Princesse Alice, will be forwarded to any part of the country, carriage paid. To insure the genuine, particular attention is required in observing that No. 158, New Bond-street, London, he upon each case and every bottle, as worthless counterfeits, for the sake of profit, are .41 b♦ D:u_gist , . and Hairdressers in town and country. SHAVING A LUXURY. PRICE o.'. ItYPOPHAGON surpasses every soap ever invented tor shaving. One trial will prove that the luxury of a good shave can be enjoyed only by those who use Price and Co.'s Rypophagon which renders shaving (hitherto, disagreeable and often painful) pleasant and easy. Prepared by Price and Co., 213, Lombard-street (late Price and gosnell's), and sold by Delcroix and Co., 153, New Bond-street, and nowhere else in London, price 3s. 6d per pot, Is. per square, in cakes for boxes ls._6d..and 21. 6d. • • Mr. Price will have pleasure in presenting any brother traveller with a square of the Rypophagon gratuitously, who may do him the honour to call at Montpellier House, 28, Lombard greet. PUBLICATION& LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, ANI9 ALL DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c. ‘• He who ih pleasure's downy arms Ne'er lost his health or youthfu Icharms. A hero lives, and justly can Exclaim, In me behold a man I" Just published (in a sealed envelope), Tenth Edition, price 2s. 6d., or sent by post, free, to any address, 3s. 6d.„ SELF-PRESERVATION : a Popular Essay on those concealed disorders originating in youthful excesses, an d terminating in Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and all those Sinkings, Anxieties, and Tremors, which afflict the Weak, the Sedentary, and the Delicate. With Practical Observations on Marriage, and on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, with plain Directions for their perfect Restoration By SAMUEL LAMERT, Consulting Surgeon, 9, BEDFORD-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecary's Hall, London,&c. " The various positions of Lover, Husband, and Parent, the in herent privileges of mankind, al e frequently marred and prevented throug" the follies and frailties of early indiscretions. To such, among others, this Essay addresses itself ; and by its perusal many questions may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of no appeal even to the most confidential friend."—Stafford Gazette. " Long experience in the treatment of a class of diseases hitherto neglected and most imperfectly understood by the great bulk of the medical profession, has enabled the writer to prove that there are conceale I causes of Nervous Debility In exi-tense, where the mere routine practitioner would never dream of finding them; traceaule to certain habits, forming the most secret, yet deadly, and I "al springs of domestic misery, and premature mortality."—Wakefleld Journal. Published by the Author, and sold in London by S. Gilbert, 51 and 52, Paternoster-row ; Starie, 23, Tichboree.street, Quadrant, Regent street; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; Noble, 114, Chancery lane; Gordon, 146, Leaelenhall-street ; and by all Booksellers. At home every day till Three, and from Five till Eight OPINISINS OF THE PRESS. ". We regard the work before us,'' The silent Friend,' as a work embracing most clear and practical views of a series of com plaints hitherto little understood, and passed over by the majority of the Medical profession, for what reason we are at a losst o know. We must, however, confess that a perusal of this work has left such a favourable impression on our minds, that we not only recommend, but cordially wish every one who is the victim of past folly, or suffer ing from indiscretion, to profit by the advice contained in its pages." —Age and Argus. " The Authors of ' The Silent Friend,' seem to be thoroughly conversant with the treatment of a class of complaints which are, we fear, too prevalent in the present day. The perspicuous style in which this book is written, and the valuable Pints it conveys to those who are apprehensive of entering the marriage state, cannot fell to recommend it to a careful perusal."—Era. The CORDIAL BALM of SYRI ACUM is exclusively directed for the cure of nervous and muscular debility, impuissance, Ste. Price Its, and 235. per bottle. Sold by all Medicine Vendors, of whom may be had the " Silent Friend." The Five Pound Cases may be had as usual. PER R Y'S PURIFY IN SPECIFIC PILLS are the most enctua tura for Syphilis eccondary wsrnp , :was intotb pra:e!zs. ',kt. sod Ils. per box, Consultation fee, if by letter, U. A inlnutc tiatail of cases is ne. ce. , 4ary. Messrs. kerry are iii daily attesaiance, for Consult,timi, at their Perners-street, 1,117,101, from Eleven till Tis o, and five till Eight, and on Sundays from Ten till Twelve. One persons visit only is necessary to effect spertruutent cure A SHARK HUNT AT CURACOA. The reader will understand the scene which oe curl ed one evening a short time after I had witnesses a large troop of sable nymphs gamboling in their favaurite element, and playing their national game " b my neighbour's head." This can be * pla at only by swimmers, such as they are, wino verily surpass the otter in familiarity with the water. The joke appears to consist in making a kind of so merset dive, so that the heels come up in sight, and strike the surface forcibly; and the skill of the game is to time and aim the manoeuvre so dexterously that they hit the head and neck of another swimmer, who may, that moment, have just emerged from a plunge, and is then forcibly, and before breath can be taken, ducked down again. TI-is feat is sure to raise loud shouts of laughter from the other porpoises, who are seen tumbling about, with their tawny soles flickering above water, in all directions. In a land where cloth ing is very scanty, and the sensations produced by cold water are pleasant, spectators in thousands being close to the scene, it is no wonder, where all are ex pert, that 150 or 200 are excited to plunge in and partake of the sport, After witnessing from the balcony the scene just described, I had gone in to dress, when old Mynheer Van Starkenburg, the fiscal, or chief justice of the island, came in, request ing my company in his boat, to go up the harbour to his country house, called Buitenzorgh, where I had not yet been. I was just going to ask for some ex planation, when a sudden yell arose, such a confusion of shouts and screams, as made me instantly start up and grasp my sword, intending to rush down and turn out the guard ; for there evidently was some terrible disaster in occurrence. Before I reached the ante chamber, forgetful of the worthy fiscal, I met his orderly (garde de chasse), a mulatto, adorned with sword and belt. " Het is een Haayvisch, mynheer," said he, taking off his hat, and speaking Dutch, the official language of Curacoa, the vernacular being l'apiemento, a kind of broken Spanish—" Het is een Haayvisch" (it is a shark). " Ja," interrupted Markus, the fiscal's waiting-boy, " een Haayvisch, oudu de vrouwen" (a shark among the women). " The devil," quoth I; " Mr. Fiscal, what can be done to save these poor girls?" I wondered at the quiet gravity of my good-natured friend, on this, to my mind, dangerous occasion. He smiled, and said, " Oh ! captain, don't be uneasy; but go and see, f,sr it will be a scene you shall never forget !" and with these words he came with me to the head of the bal cony stairs. It was certainly an exciting moment ; not a man or woman was to be seen on shore ; all were in the water ; all were vociferating and utter ing the most discordant noises imaginable. The punts were already run on shore, in order to enable the scullers to partake of the sport ; the harbour was everywhere studded with human heads above water, forming a kind of shoal ; and a whole dense line of swimmers barred the entrance from the fort to oppo site my house, chiefly and most numerous in the deepest water, which they beat with their hands, and incessantly diving and plunging, presented a tu multuous belt from shore to shore. Some negro boys and girls attempting to enter, were driven back by the others, and it was some time before the real object of excitement could be made out. I had asked repeatedly, " Where is he ?" " Wagt een heetge, mynheer" (wait a little), was the re ply ; and I now perceived, as the fiscal pointed to the spot, another belt of human swimmers, who had been roused on the first cry to take the water, and still more violently engaged. Advancing from the upper end of the harbour, they prevented the monster reaching the great ;lagoon, where he would infallibly have escaped, and drove him down within the narrow space between the houses. There were troops ofvocifer ous swimmers divided into bands, advancing and pur suing, until my eye caught sight of the groat dorsal fin of the fish, which, it was now evident, was in -utter dismay, shooting rapidly from space to space, en deavouring to swim low beneath the surface; but even eight or nine fathoins of depth left him no pas sage. Men and women, in whole masses, darted down in the deep and scared him upward. Once he made a dash to pass under the piles of Mr. Basden's wharf, and got entangled. I could see him struggle to get free, and effect it; but, furious in his rage, it was visible that he was blown. He now made no further efforts under water, swimming half his back high above the surface; once or twice he lay motionless, his snout and eyes quite visible, and seem'ngly deliberating upon a fierce resolve. But soon he was roused by a troop coming on him ; he started like lightning, his tail quivering; and now and then lashing the water into foam, he dashed -sill the middle of the seaward belt, which instantly re doubled his*mour and in diving, while all from above harbour came down in full cry. The shark plunged isfe"then rme, shooting in the violence of action his Wilsole length above the surface, which glittered like a flash of silver in the sloping sun. Down again he went, darting along the line, to the deepest side, under Fort Amsterdam : but here the crowd and noise, the beating of the water with sculls and bars, was most intense. He came up again, turned towards the upper harbour, floundered, un certain of his purpose, and then started again, with rapidity to the side where we stood. Here he nearly grounded, but he fought off; his speed, however, was exhausted ; he ran a short way upward, and then, in rather a lubberly way, came on shore on our side, at a little distance off, and hardly moved a fin before an axe was lifted, and his tail cut off. This was the signal for a univer sal shout of triumph. He was by no means one of the largest, measuring something less than 11 feet in length, but was a true squalus carcharias, or raging shark, most dreaded by seamen. With all his vora city and fierceness, this shark is a real coward, as I had long before witnessed at Dominica. A drunken man, floating on the water, was about to be devoured by one of great size one morn ing, while our people were washing the decks, when four men sprang overboard, and scared him away, towing the drunken fellow on shore, where they gave him a sound thrashing by way of ? caution fur the future. Boats or punts must be kept on shore during the battle with a shark, because in the violent exer tions used, their oars and bottoms might strike the swimmers or protect the fish. THE UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE, AND NAVAL AND MILITARY JOURNAL FOR JANUARY, 1845.—The most marked difference between this magazine and most of its contemporaries is, that while they are filled in a great measure with tales of fancy, which are perused but to be forgotten, it is a record of facts and occur rences, and of the results drawn from reflection and ex perience in reference to many of the most practically in• teresting questions regarding the professions which it re presents, and through them to the peace, prosperity, and security of the nation at large. The truth is, we know of no periodical published in this country more deserv ing general patronage, and certainly no one containing anything like the same amount of information. Nor is what may be regarded as light reading wanting in its pages, for it abounds with narratives of the most inte resting and exciting kind—stranger than fiction, with the additional recommendation of their being true. The articles in the present Number that may be considered the most striking are—The Social Wrongs of the Soldier—Hints for National Defence, addressed to the people—The Experimental Squadrons—Reminiscences of a French Prison—A Record of Indian Warfare and Passages of Indian Adventure—Notes on Eastern Africa —A Chapter of Reflections on the Military Art—The Theatre of War in the Caucasus, &c. &c. THE COMMISSION OF THE PEACE FOR DURHAM —The names of the following gentlemen have been just included in the Commission of the Peace for the county of Durham, viz. :—Viscount Seaham, William Standish Standish, Esq., of Cocken Hall ; John Eden, Esq., of Beamish Park ; and the Rev. Henry Douglass, 8.D., Canon of Durham. The whole of these gentlemen, with the exception of Viscount Seaham, qualified at the late adjourned sessions of the peace to act as magistrates for the county. POLLOKSHAWS. SCENE IN A CHURCH. Con siderable excitement was occasioned here on Sabbath last, in consequence of an occurrence which happened in the Rev. Mr. Smith's church. The managers of this church had for some time past been considering the most suitable method for heating the church, and in the course of lat week two small stoves (constructed on the consumption of smoke principle) were placed in the body of the church, and on Sabbath morning were lighted with charred wood. No bad effects were felt until about the close of the forenoon service, when nearly twenty individuals were so much overcome by the vapour from the stoves that they fainted ; one of the elders was dangerously affected, so much so, that he was obliged to be carried home in a chair. The Rev. Mr. Smith was also affected to a very considerable extent. When the congregation met in the afternoon (although the stoves had been previously removed), it was found that the vapour was still so powerful as . to compel the congregation to remove to a neighbouring schoolroom, where Divine service was performed by . Mr. Smith, who was so far recovered as to be able to officiate. The most remarkable circumstance was the fact , that in the afternoon a great number of the congregation were affected in the schoolroom in the same manner as the others had been affected in the fore part of the day in the church, and upwards of a dozen fainted, or suffered so much as to be obliged to be carried home. It is supposed that this was occasioned by the noxious vapour or gas adhering to their clothes, and the heat of the schoolroom caused it to produce similar effects to those felt in the forenoon. A good many of the congregation were still so much indisposed as to be prevented from attending their respective occupations on the Monday. We are glad, however, to learn that all are now fairly recovered.— Renfretvshire Advertiser. FANG OF THE RATTLESNAKE.—A man had been bitten through his boots by a rattlesnake, and died. The boots afterwards descended into the successive pos session of two other persons, and killed them both • and it was then ascertained that an envenomed fang ha d' re mained sticking in the leather.—llogikin's Australis. ,de ek na !en rch jet, of Jedred '3) , - Vs