The Sun. — London, England, 1851-12-04 00:00:00

tA.ST and WEST C C OMPANY. rt of Li , ee FitiVou qtors of the Eazt and West India Doek Co i nt iv p , a v r7 l ;Inotice, that the Transfer Books of the said Comp l 01 1) , 4 44 ; utbStoaday, the Bth of Decernb. - T,13 )1, and 0' ElN e of or Jazuary, 1852, By order of the Court, 4 11 t and Veit India Dock IlouseG,Eß°llliltGeEr'SC:iaLrLe'lN' Secretary. November 28, 1851. INDIA DOCK ti ----- 17Tr N 42,.1;.,,11NT CLERKS' ASSOCIATION, ---v.OATE-STREET, LONDON, DEC. 3, 1851. 4 1 44 heEIYE ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT. 11 ZETi..!,7 given, that the ELEVENTIIANNUAILiuGTEUNAEL fiZAsst/RIV the Members of the BENEFIT, VI. guiloruE DEPARTMENT, will be held a o t r th - e London lil t 4 8y of j ate-street, in the City of London, on MONDAY, the Ti k l4ll4 le fo ly. anu arY, 1 852, at Half-past Five o'clock in the EN ttiby ronTalg ltanagerg, in accordance with Rule 7, go out of . a. a, but being eligible, offer themselves for rc-dect:on, .111 r mot 04_ tiozdrectitueufilinrytsJuitonngaeys III: I tl ea tT ek je o pti e Mr. Samuel Notley be il insp l e i c r ie ß d ic a h t a t r h d e P O ri ff c i e Ce one week By Order of tke Board, PHILIP HENRY BYRNE, Sec. BENEVOLEN I` DEPARTMENT. k i Ar E elven, that the k ft or t , -TIN of the DONORS, SUBSCRIBERS, a l 1 111.01140 Ce BENEVOLENT DEPARTMENT, . Bishopsgate-street, ELEVENTH ANNITA n f i i wi 1 he London, tlri ern berilY after .9th day of January, 1552, at Seven . o c o , in the city of , lokor oft!, the conc'usion of the Annual Meeting of the a- to wz uetieflt or Mutual Life Assurance Department, t t4l 14 141 c Place 40 ye . en the same Evening, at the 141 AB ° eicc k Precis EL s3u, c Y• .•,acue place, at ill, Esq., M.P., Y orde r of the Board, T:easurer, In the Chair. PHILIP HENRY BYRNE, Secretary. QvYTTISIT 11UTITAL ASSURANCE. a n' IDOWS' FUND and LIFE , Onilt • ...SSURAE SOCIETY. Ra ted by A ct of Parliament. Xstablished A.D. 1815. tlto TED INVESTED FUND Al ta TIIREEufIIaIr4)RoEfD THOUSAND POUNDS. Anil AL REVENUE T IDIEL i ncr "vvards of , int 4) THOUSAND POUNDS. PRESIDENT. nonourable the Earl of ROSEBERY, K.T. 1 4171 'totin g I.,:?NDON PIO NORART BOARD. 41. 41 1.1a,;,2q 47. Wirnpole.street and Hark-lane. 4• oa.u-AstEtlivairll, Rector of St. James's, Piccadilly. 44 1 ;111, t. 14 4_ollock, Esq., Barrister, I`..mple. 74.41urra".:t Last India House. !..atutr2:, Publisher, Albemarle-street. C hairman of Brighton Railway. az, 8 1)4 1 bkitVI4NIs7IAL INVESTIGATION TAKES PLACE 11 41/ I l'lt zv n Ert, 1852. POLICIES OPENED WITH THE 111, AD US TO 3182 DECEMBER NEXT (1851), KI LL -,, -A s.,, N TAGE OF A FULL YEAR'S STANDING 41 04 4 't 'LAYED BEYOND THAT DATE, AND h. tip ~,L L D TO RANK FOR TWO YEARS' ADDI- Ztq a +NVES TIGATION O b. tT 4 g u Tab ula \` l lll, a ' Colts, 'wows VieW of one or two cases, taken at random - ` 4 % . 3 the effect of Additions declared at previous 4;4 f , 1/44. 1 ,, 'noutit Amount paid fiss ured. Date of under the Policy, Death. Including ------________ Bonus Additions. t 8 -.---- 80, • d. 1 009 0 0 1851 £s. (I. 1621 4 11 109 0 0 n O 1848 1917 19 10 15 0 „ s. ‘, 0 0 1818 1542 17 8 499 19 1850 2168 10 3 „......._ 490 19 ° 1851 651 1 11 „ 1850 571 18 10 let, ---.........____ itVl4eat a,, L --- -- ----- -4 T it -. t ea L'. 15 aNsatrrc] qt, :i .,„ ~„„ b Utiful Stock of WATCHES, GOLD CHAINS, 14, 1 t 41t S ht `telstreetrill,!ant ORNAMENTS of Mr. J. S. DAVIS, late 3 INorWich, hy order of the Assignees. NI . I:),,T_ro Days' Sale. 41 1111N re v, 4 Ninth .c. ',u 6 tN HAM and STORK are fa• I, k li tt s l 4. sa,CUlß,str,se in structions of the Assignees to SELL, at 4 1 14 4 i 2ootollowin7t4Covent garden, on WEDNESDAY, December Shitelat"Jaitill,bereslYollnisled gold lever, duplex, and horizontal sal teJkilt74,lll:4riee:entEotneguilish and foreign celebrity ; 20 silver ditto; Nlitiki t 7 'eases desigs, seals,incluing necklets, ear-rin o g l s c i INI N S' sii bert ellairdcks, key:s . ; about . 300 tLk e gn. l . - -ver a rid Os; splendid brilliant sings, b fi r i a le cefets . , 10, 1 74t at i , ls, am , S heffield plate, gilt work, stationery, P. 0 til t t s a ;Ired atolioater valuables, comprising the modern and tti he 0 4 b tt i f _rday , m Mr. Davis, a Bakrut. k kSt... 4l he 'ailed of 3ndaY, and T. esday prior, when Cata- I NI t4' th er.kessrs, F. Groom,official assignee, I _ 2, "Pairi•Vansandan and Cumming, solicitors . , e 2 h 7 . , "q. ° tee 'el at the Sof the I : , Tfolk otel and Bel Inn, N"w d l en ' e auAuctioneers,H King-street, l Covent-gar , l i tl t .T k lint 0 c1:330 LI T A N ECONOMIC gle Pabite I t , IO LET CONIPANY i th neat and commodious Cabs at the rate t l t tl k , 442tfle,, (Pr 0 : 1 : 3 , 4 d• Per mile. N"01 -1 2 3 b t° nalY Registered.) iz tl ,? l r. , : i iilft2n: ool . o :rlin anir e e s ii t u - f sr l e e t e Ve D s e t p m e iz t ste i r d . 3. or share. NNPtat,, k : t safe •4 : r e ir_ is to provide for the pab"c a good ta:rd 1N1.,4'„e o l'tesen t ..` of conveyance, and to prevent ex f ill tlite "cl edPahr., ~°0 Universally and justly complained o . 0 1 th, re m tomsn eh ''wvilabs will be 4d. per mile. Men of good li,ti t llts 44 l , 4 , se ci T t 'eVen' t 1 „. 1 b erployed, and the most strict rel. §at l ig er tn - ,4et urw •r i l l e i a a u l o ile i to t a h . em ri b xed th sa c la e r m ie p s a w n l y ll . be paid lk i 1 40,,, 14 9 L i t o t 's Dir„1:: for capital (50 y pe e r cent., as is shown tlti\vil!oori,tillitere:si i nte rs irreeas h e a t i r e es e ien v i e l r bn y . reason to believe it ranie d hir t i e ng e a e t mm th e e u r e e e im d med t i. I ti, , , Pitv wiliradUally to increase the number to what 4 1 ;1 'tat e allow, No liability beyond the 2L per I N ' t i it ~,,r .' " i tlBt 4°, 15 11 C 4 Y be "lted, is Intended to bo affixed to each 4 rbiaa„::,-,l4ri,,,cornpany'softices. r. r l , r, tt i,v.vita J)e N m K ad E e s to Secretary. L ' q 4ll i ll L ' LB A- 2---------- ~ .t h 4z- - t , 1, Pr ' c k •z, S ii 0 vv, 1851. 11 1 0t 1 411 °N . er , 11 1,t ~, \ t tla... , 1 3 ' 1 31 ' .MpL t Z,_ , - , W of the SMITHFIELH CeLeLMB. IL .-4 4 „ 41, ,„ o .raln, V- r. , -NT S, SE . E DS, ROO 'f, & ‘ 'ery;! t tl:roin.l": . 126 1. '"t_ closes _Friday Evening, De c c . ember t an-square. It rt , r jr4 nire ti rtl for m e g mvy ,, in ing- i str d eet u , Y ble e that of former 4 gmtor,. era- , are markelebayr tit:usual attention to ; 1 P 4 kt' Att—Ttit sz, l 4 tto, mIN ED A ~„,,,,„,,,, ti .— Ther , ATTACK ON LOUIS ct on e e, but that a crisis is now ieVe tb licin d3 ill p rirs __ three important parties will shortly be 11, : t 04 4 , 1 3' 0 ,, ° t the 4'e —the Red Republicans, the Legitima- P 01 4 ,4,2, k,,, the G o v,. esetit Government. The attacks made Vq, 4 t w t hen' t Yet lu v r e e rnlnent of Louis Napoleon have been all 1 ,Ir ott : 1 :„„ t1::„ I tis• 0 1 1, ° lu n i or s i l gnally feed ; but the last and worst 4 1, I . 0 ". titnrars, to t Y s ought, by a Bill which has been yt,, Nets lia litry , 8...,•11130wer the Assembly to impeach the Wii ire 0 8 ab et Doleo n " u Whoever else should favour the re- S, fi e h is m. el otbin While, however, the French people are u ltNilt til,s,Sitor Vss°rDPOrtuelt;ln N p lq 4 t : Ti s t Zi s th, '' , ! ., Of t he g ' e ta a A n ssembly or the Governmente with are thinking worldthinkl npgre,,aebrci,thutitcslelft,hi for c i 4, , NitZ t ex 4 t 4 Inere'el E• MOSES and SON is more novel, W hit t to e , ii ensl„ _egarit than at any former season. Each to kkitioven,,,,.._ warehouses are crammed with new and k itA t ii :ky k e , Qin g 4 1- reduced th . quantity may be by night. 41 1 Nit '''. t Pa sses eve ' NI . 4 , 4 or , li so . -z and SON are only anxious that rise ty be t in heir Yat the Monarch Mart in Aldgate and 14 :3 1 .Seet, iet,,, ll)'sguillcently fitted-up Rest-cud Branch I, `, dnrittWin afod-street, corner of Hart-street, for A LI utlity, 4 1 r,,,T0 anybody an idea of the elegance, ii. 11 041 1 4 ,1 t) t.,,_ E. it',„„ el l_eaPness of every article they make. , 1 Is ~-..alxiiih s , r- , S and SON k is4;s:C lga ta, : lent, 18 4, 155, 156, ' ' and 157, Mi . noriell, 83, ..,x,„ PPOsite the Church, N lid se t, !ritzlok,s,. all communicating. 11k14, m il the l%. l t tZr e° ,, r4 ra p iniZa . t s t7' 568' New Oxford-street, 1,2, 111,04,4`40thL36,elpaZranch, 19,B ri dge- street. 1 10 4P rI tIQ o tati: ate • rio \ 114'441544 thtteca for Bo aters, es and Gentlemen. and Sh"- IP . ~b t.,--. from sunset Friday to um.* Bs' leA.T e -ut-,.. amid tlll Twelve o'clock. Vett 1 4 , V t Rt. 04,4 .la 4 vT k i ln; k Or Sher E LL' S NEW WORKS. ).\,. c .nit, 3q r , °(l, 2 3, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, . 4e i tta - - , h ; b;' ~rnhlll ;or direct from the author ; NS c it k gNJOl i t t, j a. 6d, 10 ' O 4 Am tatie n OF LIFE. /I v ... Ninz.:"ndltational Use of Time." 4146 • 44‘1' t- itai'' , 44 , 4‘ ~,, 4 1 .1Ivir ens . s ,„Pring and Summer Mornings - Ex- Vsle,,Zl-re ad . ~ London —The Parks, Lanes, Hills, ).1) ) .„_ Th e 5:„.....1.tnd other pleasant places —Country i. -.4 % ( 1 -.‘ 44 ---,3,`",_ 1 . -..ondon at Night—Evenings at Home . 4 14 1 ,... ''' 4 Pati e ' e a . , :ag e. Drinking, Sleeping, n, gi N't ''4l4 tllol t II Bathing, 1. 0 Tnt. --. MOUNTAINS. Two Vols. N u ,''-' , tajzt vol. , i. S ' gICETCH OF R EDINBUGII, &c, ..3 o r ,„,_ vol. u. ' 4l4 ' J ANET ; REMINISCIINCES OF 111 0, ; 111 4 I ik 't D UBLIN, &c. l i I) , 9 Ikr t t he% TOE A 111. b'f44 . : l l:4lll!ti t ,,,kilr li ,„"T, DRINK, AND AVOID, '11Z 4 1,;( , 1 1 ,%, t 1tecl 4:t,si n L e : t rs and ten our course may run." dale atOth - ` ll ll e n ,. e verY form (cause and cure) of ner 1, * 4, 444 of, enfeebled constitution, that harasses -4 114 4 h1es Pleasure, business, or study, and ere 0, and rules for the diet and physical regu. ~ ~.i :, ,411 ), .. i t , r ,... IV. i,,,,, , , , ,t,,.i,1b,zi r 0,i,-- 7 ,t t ssiolis. , ik., Da, ire ads 'tined 6 body_ what improve, I) Ol, ti 'lON . o llgri te 6, Athens ever heard." 4, 7 : 1 14,, e elis At l ity c , from infancy to old age. The ad -4 zedieuvii! dis e i pa t i n e d_ , l ,w ts t r t r i i t i t ile r m ai n o t os s. g : ap t cas o, ual . - ti.' i A Tg t e 4 0 ,..„" - Y of early marriages. V S lt ik t t li P t it: ° b t or I dAR/4/A . G '4l a t IZ I AA 'le t to be t E STATE. . n t 01:, i ) tb; ll r ri ' and 0 „ hat is the question. N I It, kid4ge, to ~ougations of nature, society, and rell rin4k, nli kt lre h , ..., s‘sue observed by either sex. Time and IN " A ver t althy ( T age, temperament, complexion, and It t J i t 'Ct i •°B and itsprin, 'with the art of rearing them. I N 't vp 4 ., ern , r— ‘'Ya Sterility and its conversion. 1 0 e te 3 ''; • r ilW tLT, A r ii. 4r..Ptioe ° Yea'-.. --13 - (1841), M R.C.S. `4l ”11 " hours "edical M.R.C.S. Referee in these (1827), L.S.A. I -pl._ dap and Forensic AL - -e. it, ge iY till Five. Evenings, Seven till tin r, " - street. i fit AL ‘.'tri b h tr,t'l e „,t ON 7 ,,, „ Vl,l l , Zi6 L i AIT a i". ‘ ,...... SECRET INFIRMITIES OF ,li It h th m oo r tecn on A ND MATURITY. i t V II I 'le /,'" 5 l - ,rR ti for their Prevention and Cure. ' 'IC R N - rer t ,,, ED EN° Germ 1,, tp,4 ,‘,, t a --., z n I GS ON STEEL. \ 4 V tt,,t_ny t i e j r , an, Dutch, Spanish, and tii ll t il t , l •p° D ii —, .. 6d., or post-free from the Author k 14 11 144 h.. t i li n itt ' r , 4tl ? S,Elt V ATION; a i k tvit, ~, a rlinis - r 'r the . - hysiolegy of Marriage, and on the li vt 1:11 : " I 'it zi l. ili4crind e lerli of Youth and Maturity, usually ac t, k a P r clier g t . l liiii Lnd enfeeble thenestroy the physical and 1 . 1‘ ,,, t ,,,.1,, ot , ,_ natural feelings, and ex ),11r.,5d11,74120n ae7anhood ; with Practical Observations on oh, :Aqtrkil.2.ltutio'n:lnecessfal Treatment of Nervous Debi o:ol,4l,lloll4.traente _Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all th l ti l , . ,',' Fir ts d, a nd ~fpulting from Indiscretion, as adopted 5 041 bl.eolotirinn.!r eminent members of the faculty of 4a ) 14 1 ,, , 21,„„74%, —o;:ligrayings, illustrating the Anatomy, N: , th rN ‘ Bild fu `n,2•o Reproductive Organs, explaining l a th t; b lly 3 7 solit ary ' u h t ls . and the various Injuries that 4Ni t io ' i, tie 0 . 11 rEl; * '; htt e• excesses. 01 littZ"nt "e, Ti t -% "Ls "A• ALERT. M.D., and'infection. "kniAk•tr a .PY it, ktrie rd R , L 0 N ..),, 1., Am ' i , eir i aieu At hy (ir k 1 tt ,, ,i ) „,„ ber of .„_ erabcr of the University of Edln ,,•ll,N , s , t,,,,y o f L ' .. , , _ar1e.,,.„,.‘ij5n London Hospital Medical Society, IN netny,o"ot.itiri,,,2llnr,waall. ondon, Member of the Hunterlan 1 6 t1 i , kip,, a NI , g plain‘"' ' e, &e. A Ji lt , .k.,tAit ) , Of t he r and complete description of the aria iiitbaß tilTilloil•oknu die,caProduetive organs, and of their relative 'l n ' y 4l 4 4 ; l ir,,,c Z r u s Lati evt„„,, l l, r • La'Mert, who has taken the r ,VAh All kth t ,sAY, s i , is th*„"'rt by the diplomas and testimo• 01. ), , , t, ttig)k,' eqo, . for in ...,-TbY legally qualified medical man i,,N: r,,,nt er im o rain t „.'g Years, devoted his stuaiee to the I , ' ti ll, p tr e 7ik re ttti,,, constit u l en blay be consulted with adtvatp loi!,li, t' % . trat Yila, acquired 1 I t may have become debili t a ted 10 1 1, 4 nq i , tel are Ple, n youth, or by the excesses of pq t ,,,,, . t r oet. d t z i eten es_ of life are marred, the objects of Lh ' ; 'l ! k tl'.ll4:: Anth e ' e ItSelf rendered a term of unceaS -1"; licitiltrej, 63r'4,11 r aBY be had of .T Gilbert, 49, Pater ith% for 4 1 : 14 6, , eord-street z Starie, Titchborne-street, wli.e.teitii,_rt,..twi-io _adenhall-street; Mann, 23 Cornhill N olizl o o4 ti,, t : ii n d , l 3 3, from the autkor's , residence, "r 3 l i l l_ 'Borders Personally, or by letter, wqEight. _ . • • ..,, -----.lr/ ' ..- ----.#-449:--- --- ---) , . • . p)'.. (7. ,----------: . ~..._.,. 4... , br. .. • . ': fr; , '.._. ---,--- 'l..- V . 7 `NA l4' , * . . ,-- e , , S ---... ) )t i ,e cr-,_ s ) - , , i ...!-Vi - /,; s. 4.6 .:.? , ...„„li -,-, . '.: d • -; - 4 '.. ' NV - ' ( '.. -e"...?".., ,* * 7 Mi , - .: . ... , 4, 4 ~.s - i f",, •."vLx ' " • ~- --w r : ,y . li s IN _ i .',,, i .-- s, —) ._) --.7 ,' • '../.. c „° _.• 4 4 ! L ' . . s‘ c 7 9- 141 1 / 44 ;_ \,- - -42 ' 1-- 4 r , ' , 1 -- :t 4:,, -,.._ ‘......." ....z .-.... ~ v , -.- V„ e ~--,, ,, ,, t' '''''-' ---- ,SZ, ,; ,, g , i — :..,- , . :' ' -+9 Ar 4.-- .7 • •.-4- 5 t,'.3 14 ! ------------r.A.t. , I • : 0„,,,,,, • z ,,, ,, L, -,.. t ,, ~.—, --- c , :. s 1 , —............J ~,,....,„ /,----- ~... ---,----; OF GOOD 1 0 0 O wn D j Or-L°naPlsEof the 4th Ve ha C ve A r P ec E eive? 3c:tuber, being three days later date than the last ath importan ceas ices. No change o f any h taken place in the a-pect of afliiirs at the colony. (From the Cape Town Mail of Oct. 4.) GRAHAM'S TOWN, bEPT. 27.—But little of public in terest has transpired in this neighbourhood. since oar last communication. The party that went in pursuit of Goldsv.ain and Honey's cattle shot one Kafir and on e Hottentot, but did not succeed in falling in with the booty. One of Mr. Goldswain's wounded herds is since dead. Colonel Eyre has taken up a position at Driver's Bush, where he and his men will be most use ful in affording protection to this part of the colony, The Gallant Colonel is now in town, and has assumed the command of this district. The letters by the Kafirland post report everything to be quiet in that vicinity. We understand at soma of the smaller outposts the soldiers are suffering from want of proper and regular supplies. At Fort Cox, for instance, they are much troubled with the scurvy, none but the officers being furnished with bread and fresh meat. The others are supplied with salt provisions and biscuit. Round about the fort the Kafirs are digging up and planting their gardens, either with :the prospect of being able to hold the country, or of having peace re stored before the time cf harvest comes round. Affairs amongst the tribes beyond the Kei are not in a satisfac tory state. A restless, turbulent disposition is said very generally to prevail. At Smerset, all seems pretty quiet; but at Cradock and the neighbourhood matters look again very gloomy. The Tambookies are reported to be coming out in great numbers, p lun dering and destroying all before them. Mr. Giltillan's cam p 'has been attacked, and plundered of the cattle end ah p Eig ht Fingoes are reported to have been killed, sheep. . ot he rs are missing, who and many are supposed to have s har e d sam e fate. What loss has occurred to h the . have . t 0 enemy in this affstr we not heard. This morning we have - J us t learned that, in the course of the night, 66 cow ha ve stolen from the kraal of Mr. Chadwick, in the suburbs been the town, and adjoining one of the bridges. suburbs of . enn to the dwelliug-house. Aaa The kraakis I ttEntot, armed with a gun, was seen by Mrs. Chadwick, about the premises, and was unrs il,astl evening, hovering questioned. A mongst other s ooirse Y allowed to go un teet, appar ent l y t h e footmarks P 0 f ehthi ~ those of some small near the place.ren, were observed A few nights since an attempt w cattle of Mr. Honey, at Blue Krants,as made upon the Flat. The cows and calves were stole tear ManierB a party returned for the oxen. The ICna'fiared last night 25 in number. They did not succeed in athweiere about nut were kept at bay, and after battering ul t. object, e ling-house well with their bullets, they event dwel ually de camped. Information has been received from General Sower sat thst a strong party of about 100 Kafirs and Rotten. tots have entered this neighbourhood by the Way of Da Bruin's Poort. We may, therefore, soon expect to hear something of their doings. The various burgher posts have been warned of their presence. A. eon_ siderable number have also made their appearance i n the Bushman's River. [PRICE SD. FRONTIER NEWS.—LATEST FROM HEAD. QUAR I'ERS. (From the Graham's Town Journal, Sept. 27.) The military expreos from King William's Town, which came in :yesterday, affords information from Kafirland up to Wednesday last, on which day Colonel Alichel returned from his duty of convey i ng suppl i es to Fort White and F ort C ox. Th i s seems to h ave b een effected with out i nterruption, and with the usua l zeal and activity which have a l wa3 distinguished that officer since his ar r i va l i n: this country. Private letters state that the intelligence beyond the Kei is not of a favour able character. Traders in that direction write de spondingly, and remark that there is evident restless ness among the chiefs, indicative of a strong bias to join in the combination, the aim and end of which is to expel the white man from South Africa. The offer of Faku's daughter has, it is said, been accepted by Sandilli; and Krelli is acting with so much wayward.. ness as to excite a good deal of suspicion of the sincerity of his pacific professions. Some fear is expressed for the missionary institution of Mount Coke, which is said by the hostile chiefs to stand in their way. Every endeavour is made to guard against surprise, as well as to meet attack, should it be made upon the institution. Reinforcements, it will be seen, are slowly reaching the Commander-in-Chief, who is looking anxiously for the arrival of the Lancers and Ribs. The following extract uf a letter before us contains the leading items of intelli gence from this quarter:— " Sept. 24—On Sunday morning last Colonel Eyre left here in command of a party for the colony, to be sta tioned as circumstances may require. He and his de voted little band leave this with our best wishes for their safety and success. It was gratifying to witness the cordial reception he end his men received from Sir Harry on their last return from the colony, and no less was it, seeing that with their garments all ' tattered and torn' their spirits were as buoyant after their fatigues and dangers as ever. Sir Harry also spoke very feelingly to the 2d Royale, who suffered so severely in the Fish River Bush. " On Monday a strong party left here in command of Colonel Michel, with a train of ox and mule waggons— the former conveying supplies for Fort White, the latter tor Fort Cox. Several private waggons had the benefit of the escort in conveying supplies to the above places. " The drafts for regiments serving on this command arrived here on Tuesday, about midday. They appeared to be about 300 strong, and are tor the 73d, 74th, 6cb, 'and 91st. They were played in by the bands of the 2d and 6'h Royals. The mounted corps styled 'Montagu's Hone,' are daily rece icing additions to Oar number. They muster now about forty, but we learn many aro about to leave next month, when their term of service will expire The severe dtoup,ht, vrhieli has told with such cad Effect upon live stock, is mating away. Beau tiful rains have fallen, cawing the hills to wear their wonted appearance. _ This day (Wednesday) the waggons returned from Forts White and Cox, having accomplished the journey in three days, to and from. Such zeal for the service is fatal to oxen while in such wretched condition. It is not very profitable to have waggons iu commissary employ, as many who are receiving at the rate of 15s. per day, which is 221. per month, have been paying out 23/. per month in the purchase of cattle to keep their waggons going, not taking into account pay and extras for ser vants, gear, Ex. Speculation, indeed ! where is it to be witnessed? Certainly not with traders or waggon pro prietors of this place. The libel published by the United Service Gazette and the Morning Chronicle with regard to traders here, is treated as it should be, with contempt." GENERAL SOMERSET'S DIVISION. An txpress reached town this morning from Major- General Someraet. By this opportunity we are in formed that a party of about 100 Kafir* and Hottentots hevo passed Jantje's Kraal into the colony. The Major- General cautions all persons to be en the alert, as this tiand of marauders may be hourly expected to com mence the dark work of their srrand. With the pobi. thins now ecoupiA by the troops, and the co-operation of the burghers, it is expected that those marauders will meet with their desrris. Their presence is, how ever, a warning to individuals not to attempt travelling in small parties, and to the camps to exercise the utmost vigilance. By this post private letters have been received, which state that a communication between the rebels Lad been intercf pted. This admits that their loss in the engage ment on the Kromme heights with Colonel Fornyct's patrol, had been more severe than that in any other tgair the eLemy had had with the troops during the whole of the war. The communication likevelee stated was regarded by themselves as n d that the ammunition of the patrol got so to be regretted that the position of the hostileo longerb ds i t n em W ab a le t . erlc l l t oo ja f lion expedient, as o i t s h o d , r a i w t a l is f raoffimr ol t h e d e , fi r thes t a p ff ol reduced ould h a a y s e t to c r e e l ]: doefrtthhaeerwwmost decisive chara c t er . The i conduct w of the Cape corps engaged is now highly spoken of, and the morale of the whole combat is mentioned as being more depressing to the enemy than to ourselves. We have it from very good authority, however, that with the exception of detached escorts to waggon trains, the Ist division of the army is inoperative, and must re main so until reinforced to such a degree as shall warrant the storming of the fastnesses now held by the enemy. The expected proximity of new troops gives warranty that the needed accession of strength will soon be on the spot, and in such forces as to inflict a chastisement commensurate with the deeds of violence which have called it forth. NA/AL INTELLIGENCE PORTSMOUTH, W EDNESDAY.—The Neptune, been bro ug h t down to-day alde the jetty g 0 ed. 120, hoe b e =m onga The Rapid, 8, time on Comm ander Bah"tob-meeonrrpoawidhaavde :trance to-day. Herord Sunday. ersfor Isailin g been cancell e d, an d s h e is now to wait until after post The Rodney, 90, Captain Charles Graham, received her crew to-day from her bulk, which is needed to ac commodate some of the Britannia's officers and ship's company, on passage from the Waterloo in the Birken head from Sheerness. The Britannia has struck her jury yards and topmasts preparatory to docking, for overhaul, &c. The undermentioned young gentlemen were examined to-day on board the flag-ship Victory, touching their qualifications to servo as lieutenants; both were found qualified:—Mr. George J. Dall, supernumerary man of the Victory; and Mr. John C. p • midship man of the Rodney, urns, midship- The Argus new steam-frigate, one of th e reserve, was taken out to-d a y to try he r advanced in speed. Mr. G. Waller, of this port , paymaster an d p urser , late of the Howe, 120, wilt b 3 the of the Britannia. pay master and purser ROYAL ANTIL LERY. — `Voorwicn, DEC. 3.--In telligence has been received in the garrison here of the death of Lieutenant Collington, Royal Artillery, which took place suddenly at Athlone, on Sunday last. The gallant officer proceeded to Ireland some time ago, in the commsmd of the Ist company of the Ist battalion, and was promotedtot tt. he rank of Lieutenant-Colonel o n th e 11th of November ia lle entered the service as Second Lieutenant, ... I )!.eer . e c r a l p 6 : 1816 ; was promoted to First Lieutenant July 2 ._ tf,..i? i a tain, January 10, 1837; Ilrevet-Major, October a t and Phu?. '18,9 the promotion of and to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel o Lieutenant -Colonel Chesney to the been 35 years on full-pay seryice. t b y a detachment of Cap &et was relieved on Monday l a a t s t a lion, consisting of 1 cap tain Maude's Company, 9th and 64 gunners and drivers. h lo m ne e l n , t sioued officers, 1 trumpeter , 11111 proceeded with the des Captain Maude and Lieutenant The rank no d f et C ac o tain, 1 subaltern, 3 sergeants. 1 0 ) rank and file non-commi!, tachment. 'I _ , - 7 DECEMBER 4, 1851. LONDON, THURSDAYN°.IBI47Id Just published, price 315., embellished with a NAP of LONDON, Corrected to this date, the Complete ,Edition of the POST -OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY, For I 8 5 2, Being the Fifty - -third Annual Edition, Comprising, among other information, OFFICIAL DIRECTORY; STREET DIRECTORY; COMMERCIAL DIRECTORY; - TRADES' DIRECTORY; LAW DIRECTORY; COURT DIRECTORY; PARLIAMENTARY DIRECTORY, POSTAL DIRECTORY ; CITY DIRECTORY; CONVEYANCE DIRECTORY; BANKlltl_p DIRECTORY; &c. &c. &c. The following are Reviews of the New Edition, which have already appeared in the leading Metropolitan Journals : SUN, OCTOBER 17, 1851. This is the fifty-third annual publication of the "Post Office Lon don Directory ; and if untiring enterprise or unerring accuracy in the collection of materials, or unequ tiled ingenuity in the classification afterwards, so as to afford the greatest possible amount of informa tion in the smallest possible amount of space, be worthy of being con sidered a work of art and industry, then is the " Post Office Lonlon Directory" a work of art and industry quite worthy of a foremost place in the Great Exhibition, and then should the Messrs. Kelly have awarded to them a mark of honorary distinction for the pro duction of this unsurpassed and urvurpassable production. It is the microcosm of the n etropolis of the world ; no information concern irg London, its inhabitants, its topography, its public buildings, its institutions, its palaces. its docks, its trade, and its commerc., can by possibility be required, which the " Post Office Directory" can not at once supply. To the commercial man it is invaluable, for not only does it supply tile names and addresses of the heads of firms, but the name of every junior partner in every firm is to be found in the proper alphabetical position of his own name, and with reference to the firm. The work is illustrated by an accurate Map of London, corrected up to the present moment, and drawn upon a scale of three inches to the mile ; in this Map the position of everyone of the stew streets recently built in London or the suburbs, is accu rately laid down; and we find, on reference to the Map, that it shows the positions of many streets which are scareelyyet completed. It is " Official " Street classified. as usual, into as Directory." a " Commercial Directory," a " Trades' Direc tory," a " Law Directory," a " Court Directory," a " Par. liamentary Directory," a " Postal Directory," a " City Direc tory," a " Conveyance Directory," and a " Banking Directory." It furnishes also full and accurate information regarding the various assurance and other joinst-stock companies, and the latest informa tion with regard lo the recent postal arrangements. The man of fashion will find in the l• Court Directou," that the same minute accuracy has been observed, and the same untiring diligence exer cised, in procuring information relating to the fashionable world, as has been exercised in compiling, arranging, and classifying the commercial portion of this great encyclopxdia of the metro polis ; whilst, to the politician, the " Official" and the " Parlia mentary" Directories furnish all the information he can desire on the subjects of which they treat. This information is brought down to the latest moment. It was only on the 7th instant that Lord Dunsandle was elected an Irish Representative Peer, to fill up the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Earl of Charleville, and that the electors of the East Riding of Yorkshire returned Captain Duncombe as their representative, in in the room of the late M r. Broadley ; both these changes appear the present edition of the Directory ; and the present Lord Staffo - d, who only succeeded to the title about a week since, appears as the Peer. with Christiin and t-urname at length. In the list of Peers of ap p ea rs the full Christian and length. n the present Earl Donouglimore, who only succeeded to the title in the course of last month ; whilst, in the " Postal Directory," at page 1,761, the accele ration of the delivery of the papers by day mail appears, under the head " Delivery of Letters in London ;" the first day on which all the mails arrived, so as to admit of the complete carrying out of the arrangement, being Saturday last, the I 1 th ult. The proprietor is fully justified in his belief that this work has kept pace with the re quirements of the metropolis to which it is devoted, and he explains la his preface how he has been able to accomplish this great labour, and to bring, the work to its present high state of per fection. lie says :—" Accuracy and appropriate classification, so that everything which may reasonably be expected in such a book, may not only be found, but found without difficulty, are indispen sable to perfection. These advantages can, in any Directory, only be attained gradually, and not completely, until the work enjoy s s the entire circulation. Wh ile rivals existed, patronage wa divided between books which were, or should have been, coun terparts of each other ; the public, therefore, had to pay more than they need have done, and, besides, to submit to inferior pro ductions ; the total receipts not being sufficient to sustain two Directories of London, each as complete as the present. This is quite certain ; as, for the many years during which this work but a has enjoyed the entire c irculation, its profits would have paid small proportion of the expense necessary to the production of another equally complete. A second Directory of London would be about as prudent an undertaking as a second railroad to Brighton; all the expenses would have to be incurred a second time for the same objects ; and it must be manifest, that if both paid their ex penses, the profits on two capitals, instead of one, must be paid by the public. The present state of this work is a sufficient proof of the advantage to the public—of their having to pay but for one collection of the information —one compilation—one setting of the type, &c. &c. This volume, to say nothing of accuracy the classifica tion, and general arrangement, Fontains about doublequantity of mere letter-press contained in the closing volume of its l taan,es annu al competitor, and is published at a lower price. There pant therefore, be no question that the public, as well as the proprietor of the Post Office London Directory, benefit by the circumstance that the work has been so long without any competition. Firmly established as this Directory is in public favour, it can only be ne cessary that an amount of diligence equal to that which has led this to s o gratifying a result , b e continued, in order to sustain it ; on the public may, with confidence, rely." Judging of the future by the past, we cOltfidently rely on the energy, the abilities, the talent, and the resources of Messrs. Kelly, and believe that for years to come the " Post Office London Directory" will continue to enjoy, because it will deserve, the undivided patronage of the public. TIMES, OCTOBER 21, 1851. Far-seeing sages have been busy prophesying all manner of results from the Great Exhibition. We have one before us —one which none of them ever dreamed of. The Great Exhibition, amid the other wonderful effects it produced, exhausted the " Post Office Di rectory" for 1851 ; and lest the whole commercial world of London should be left without its guide and friend, the proprietors of that valuable work have at this unusually early period leaned their volume for the year that is to coins. Arms d witu this infallible weapon for, indeed, its accuracy is so great as to deserve the name as much a, anything of the kind—(one may pierce the remotest fastnesses of London, and count its Smiths, Joneses, Johnsons, and Browns. For one who has the time it is worth while to scrutinise the amasing con• rectness n ith which this volume discriminates the whole mass of London life into some 2,500,000 names, and how it depicts and takes co pieces the miuutest works or the vast machine that fills the valley of the Thames. The book is one of our standing wonders. In utility, excellence o f typography, care, and trustworthiness, it can not be surpassed; and not the least remarkable feature about it is the very recent ch anges recorded in its pages. For instance, here in this volume of more than 2,000 pages, hi whh was printed on the 13th of October, we find inserted in the " Parliamentary Directory," at pp. 1,738 and 1,749, the name of the Zion. Captain A. Duncombe, R.N., who was elected as Member for the East Riding only six days previously—namely, on the 7th of October ; and in page 40, in the list of the Privy Council Office, the name of Lord Liverpool is struck out, though his death was not recorded in the " Times" till the 6th of October. To the commer cial world it would be yuite as necessary to deliver a lecture on the general benefits of sunshine, as to speak of the merits of the " Directory," and to all Londoners who want to t know anything of the world they live in it is inestimable. The present volume is dis tinguished by the same internal and external advantages as those which have so long charact erised its predecessors. [ The fact above adduced , t hat in the " Directory" the name of Lord Liverpool, whose death b had een recorded only on the 6th of October, was struck o in page 40, in the list of Privy Council, is a happy illustration of the rapidity with wigsk the information con tained in the work is compile d and published. Sr striking aned e xample of the excel'enee of the " Directory" has naturally caui. some comment; and the present appears a fitting opportunity of calling attention to the entire facts of the ca'e :—An Earl, who is a Privy Councillor, appears in the " Post Office London Directory," Ist, in the list of Privy Council; 2d, in the " street Directory ;" 3d, in the " Court Directory';" 4th, in the list of ails; 5t lisht , in the the Alp h a betical list of Peers ; 6th, in the Alphabetal of Surnames of Peers ; 7th, in the titles of the Eldest Sons of Peers. The corrections, rendered necessary by the death of the Earl of Liverpool, only recorded on the 6th of October, wera actually carried into five o in f thaes Work consisting e of 2,000 two others I m perial Octavo having before been printed off), pages ; and the book was printed, bound, and distributed, so that the Reviews of it in the newspapers commenced on the 14th of the same month. Although we believe that it is not possible to adopt mea sures which shall ensure greater promptitude or accuracy, we should not have called public attention to a matter which, with our ar rangements, is a mere thing of course, but for comments which have been made on this particular point. It was on account of the acknowledged impossibility of competing with our arrangements that the Proprietors of " Robson's Directory" took leave of their sub scribers in the following terms : " Bowtrell and Co., Proprietors and Publishers of Robson's London Directory,' beg to acquaint their subscribers, that with the volume for the present year that work has terminated. "It has been found impossible longer to contend with the Post Office Directory,' a work combining large capital, with un equalled resources of every kind requisite fur the_proper production of a Directory of the metropolis. These advantages place that work on such an elevation that further competition with it would be as injurious to Bowtell and Co. as it would be unjust to their subscribers " And since this was put forth, the arrangements under which the " Post Office Directory" are conducted have, as is well known, been very materially strengthened.—Editors of "Post Office London Directory.") MORNING CHRONICLE, OCTOBER 15, 1851. In an age prolific of books this is the most extraordinary, and we feel almost compelled to say, the most useful of all. It is a miracle of human industry—a miracle of human skill —a proof of the tri umphs resulting from an ultimate co th mbination of the temporary di vision of labour—an argument fur e superiority of London over every cty in the world—and an example to all publishers, catalogue makers, and book compilers whatsoever. This is the fifty-third an nual publication; it enjoys all the advantages of its proprietors' fifty-two years of experience. The classification, once complex almost to Bradshawism, is now so admirably managed, that every information such a work may be expected to afford can hers he RAMC and found without difficulty, by persons to whom the search is a novelty, and the volume anknown. The stranger may here be guided, and the Londoner, at each year's end, refresh his in formation as to the whereabouts of his old friends. The statist, too, suddenly called upon for his figures, may joyfully find refuge a ccess to his Direct or y , where he wilighyelerase,rundarehheoreww_ by ready many churches hanewd hinowenmyahneyksecrehononlsd, how h cl u e te r mighty metropolis to satisfy the sp iritu a l, intellectual its two m on an illi d a half of inhabi ' tants. q m u a l r n e d y law in (h e t this s , Thean d teetotallerphysicalrecreate himself by marking in each street f a street , and in every parish, the appearance a t eac h corner 0 w atnntasyof or disappearance see • , se whereb t em perance has progressed, a where lic-house ; he may compare 1851 nd with 1841, with 183 1 hhi to beer-shop and point the moral ost " from hotel to inn, from nn d in-palaces are still in the ascenant ;he matrace back " mine also lost, by the sale o f intoxicatin g fortunes gained, the of some future speech by extracts of the evidence here given of the fortunes liquors. The topographer may co rrect his chart by the information which he must hence deri ve, that historian may note where flue thought his labours conclud ed ; t he new streets have arisen since he h h he must try to discov er, ob serve that here, from some cause w tuations in the p:mulatlon have occurred;ie the politician may commerce and her attendant man are restl b min the centre positions—that there is some attraction rapidly co g h e and seekin new of a new system, hitherto not called into operation operatives' asso . T e staden of the times generally may find, occasionally, an t dation occupying a house in a good stre et, and be only brought to anything like a state of equanimity again b y a discovery of the fact, that great slop-shops, and other East-end abominations, are making the 'r way westwards, if not at a greater pace, at any rate with more . show and circumstance, than the humbler trading establishments of the Christian Socialists. If the inquiring m i n d penetrates, in print , the district of the Temple, th e result will be as tonishment at the number of old names g one , re fl ec ti o ns on the mutab ilit y of the most immutable ofprofessions, and a discovery, if the search be persevered provinces ; if, finally (which in, that the lost barristers are not dead, but only localism. in the contemplative, seems not improbable), the scrutineer wants only to discover an address, he may do so in a minute, and he may be sure, , since the world generally is nut unless the object of his solicitude be very flighty, that it is correct we, at least, assaro him that it would have been so up o within a fortnight of the publication of the volume before us. "Ex ono disco omnes." The death of Lord Stafford was but a week si nce noticed In our columns : in the Parliamentary department of this Directory we find the full Christian names of the new Lord, with such other ry. W da h l o r s e h vi al ea l change of particulars as the circumstances required. Yet the volume kept thus minutely accurate contains more than tWO thousand c b l es os t e o l w y e p d ri u n p t o e n d pages . Who l B conceiveut evet he needw at c u t i n ffi t l i n e rti t i diligence qualities which cannot be denied ; we need net end ai useful recomm what recommends itself as indispensable. G oo d c l ass ification, and incessant care in marking alterations, are the qualities Of essential a Directory; and both these qualities thisto er feetion. Directory has P ...........-. MORNING HERALD, OCTOBER 17, 1851. The punctuality with which this huge record makes its appearance at the close of the year is not one of its least recommendations. Certainly, it is proof that the diligence :and energy which have always characterised its production experiences no abatement, notwithstanding the perpetual extension of the field of labour, and the vast increeao of those details which an insidiously growing population must necessarily 'concrete. We have often before been called upon to compliment the enterprise of the proprietors, and We have little to add upon the present occasion. Every one who has been in the habit of turning to the " Post Office Directory," is aware of its faultless accuracy; and to praise it on this score is superfluous. The changes to which such a multitude of localities are exposed by the accidents of life, are duly provided for; and we can but marvel at the excellence and completeness of the machinery .by which the entire Duane of Lcnclyn li - annually oplcod, ad orgy wails fact detected and corrected. The union of forethought with in genuity —of comprehensive method with inflexible perseverance was never more eminently displayed—and that, happily, in a cruse of the highest and most catholic utility. The "Post Office Direc tory" has now become a metropolitan necessity. The gallery of volumes which have been published exhibit, in the gross, a me morable and curious monument of private industry; while to the stati,t they unfold, with a plain and naked truth, the gradual deve lopment of the resources, both personal and commercial, of the greatest capital' of Europe. Rivalry has long since been extinguished by the great superiority of the present publication; arid it is as well that it should be so, for the editors affirm, with reason, in their prefaee, that when " patronage was divided between books which were, or should have been, counterparts of each other, the public had to pay more than they need have done, and, besides, to submit to inferior productions ; the to al ri.ceipts not being sufficient to sustain two Directories of London• each as complete as the present." The rivals alluded to have, however, not been with out their use. They have, no doubt, stimulated the proprietors of the " Post Office Directory" to that kind of prompt and vigilant exertion from which perfection alone can spring ; and we have now a book of reference as unique in its characteristics as in its worth. Tire divisions of the book are the same as they have hitherto been. The separate Directoriel i amount to twelve ; by which arrangement any particular search may be achieved, either by reference to the name of the person sought for, the street he lives in, or the occupa ' lion he follows. We have, thus, a Directory of Government officials ; of streets ; of tradesmen ; of trades ; of law; of fashion ; of Parliament ; of the Post Office ; of the City ; of conveyances ; of banking-houses ; and of the assurance offices. These are again subdivided where necessary ; and every conceivable facility is afforled to the inquirer, by means of sectional indices, Sec., to save both his time and trouble. But we need not further particularise. The " fifty-third publication" of the " Post Office Directory" more than equrls any of its numerous predecessors; and when we say this, tire amount of labour bestowed upon it, the diversity of its classifications, the variety of its information, and its uniform exact ness, will be at once appreciated. Every sort of specific knowledge that it concerns the merchant, the trader, the professional man, the idler, or the artisan, to be acquainted with, may here be found; and that the corrections come down to the latest date, may be inferred from such entries as the elections of Lord Dunsandle and Captain Duncombe, both of which tojk place no further back than the 7th instant MORNING POST, OCTOBER 22, 1851. This remarkable volnme has attained its fifty-third year, and now contains 2,085 closely printed pages. In this immense mass of in formation, the most searching scrutiny . will And nothing useless or unnecessary ; and the extreme 'accuracy which is observable in the most minute details, renders the " Post Office London Directory' one of the marvels of the age. Its early publication Is accounted for by the circumstance that the edition for 1851 is out of print. and the proprietors have taken great care that all necessary cor rections should be made up to the latest moment. We have been at some pains to test the accuracy of the present edition, by reference to instances of recent change within our own knowledge, and in no single case have we found any mistake. The insertion of Lord Dunsandle, whose election took place in September, amongst the Irish representative Peers, and the alterations rendered necessary by the death of Lord Donoughmore, on the 12th September, are two, amongst many, proofs of the diligence and care with which this in valuable work has been prepared. Even the miner official changes, such as the appointment of Queen's counsel, police magistrates, and the like, are also noted with unfailing correctness. The arrange ment and distribution of the several parts of the work afford the utmost facilities for reference; so that the labyrinth of this vast metropolitan population is threaded as readily as the population of the most insignificant village, and official situations, trades, profes sions, residences, as easily discovered. It is not surprising that such a work, so useful to all, and so indispensable to those engaged in business, should find a demand proportioned to the labour bestowed uron it. It has now, we conceive, reached the highest pitch of perfection of which such a production is capable ; and it will unques tionably continue to receive that large share of public patronage by which it has hitherto been deservedly supported. Not even the Great Exhibition itself could convey to foreigners a grander or more just idea of the vast resources of British capital and enterprise; and certainly no guide book in the world could give half as accurate a notion of the wealth, industry, and pursuits of the Londoners as is contained in this imposing and instructive volume. The obligation which the public owe to Messrs. Kelly is certainly not confined to the mere counting house utility of their labours. They have collected an amount of statistical information, the quantity of which is only equalled by its value ; and it affords us sincere pleasure to bear our testimony to the merits of their present edition. MORNING ADVERTISER, OCTOBER 22, 1851. The fifty-third annual impression of this wonderful and ever increasing book is before us. On the present occasion it is marked by a more early appearance than usual—a proof of increased dili gence in compiling the Immense lists of names, trades, and profes sions, as well as a further enhancement of its value and accuracy. For it must be evident, upon reflection, that the nearer in point of time to the completion of information so varied, evanescent, and perpetually changing, the issue of the work °containing it shall be, so will its faithfulness be increased. Death, bankruptcy, retirement, sales, emigration, mere removal, prevent the permanency of such information, in the recency rf which lies its whole value. Now, living ourselves in this current of change, and of necessity observant of many mutations, we have applied to the " Pest Office Directory" the severest of tests, by a reference to a few of the most recent fluc tuations in the world of London and of commerce. This it has stood triumphantly. In this vast mass of matter (over 2,000 pages), in all parts of the ponderous volume, is the same actuality of present truth fulness. Official appointments and promotions, changes of firms, removals, alterations of postal times, of mail routes and arrivals, of steam-packets, the evictions and changes consequent upon street widenings, &c., &c., &c., are all noted, so as, in poetic phrase, to " Fix the flying Cynthia of the minute ;" or, rather, to render, so far as modern Babylon is concerned, " the very age and body of the time, its form and pressure." Among the notabilia of the world's metropolis, this record of its actual state Li one of the most useful and wondrous. DAILY NEWS, OCTOBER 14, 1851. The " Post Office Directory" for 1852 has been published, un usually early this year. The portly volume is now before us. The proprietors thus explain their reasons for this earlier issue of their volume:—" The Exhibition having occasioned a demand greater than usual, the edition for the current year became exhausted; to prevent the Inconvenience of the work being out of print, every exertion has been made to produce the new edition at the earliest period compatible with accuracy." That this has not been sacrificed to speed, a scrutiny will amply show; and in proof that the cor rections have been made to the latest possible period, they instance the acceleration of papers by the day mail, under the head of "delivery of letters in London," at page 1761. The first day on which the mails arrived so as to admit of the complete carrying out of the arrangement was on Saturday last, the lI th instant. The insertion, too, in the " Parliamentary Directory" of the Christian names of the present Lord Stafford, whose father's death was an nounced on the 6th instant, is ano her instance, among several which might be adduced to show how closely the corrections have ,been made up to the moment of issue. GLOBE, OCTOBER 18, 1851. Among the many interests affected by the Great Exhibition is that of the " London Directory;" the demand for the edition of 1851 being so great, in consequence of the crowds congregating to the metropolis, that it was deemed advisable to have an early public a tion of that for 1852. The comparatively early appearance of the work will, however be found to have derogated little, if at all, from its accuracy and excellence, as every change that has taken place up to the last few days is carefully recorded in its pages. As in stances, we may state that the Hon. Arthur Duncombe is given as the Member for the East Riding of Yorkshire, for which county he was elected as late as the 7th instant; and that the present Lords Stafford and Bolingbroke are named as the possessors of their re spective titles, although they succeeded to them only within the cur rent month. In every respect the edition for 1852 is quite equal to its predecessors. Indeed, when one considers the immense amount of information in the work—the perfect accuracy which charac terises it—and the excellent classification adopted, by which any piece of information required can be pounced on in a moment, the " London Directory" seems little short of a marvellous work, and one which could only have been pot together by the most indefati gable perseverance and scrupulous care. It would have been indeed worthy of a place in that noble collection of the monuments of the industry and intelligence of the world, which we have but a day or two since looked on for the last time. STANDARD, OCTOBER 21, 1851. The fifty-third annual publication of this extraordinary volume is now before us. The projector of such an opus magnum must have been a bold man, but no one can observe its singular completeness without coming to the conclusion that it has been the work of many years to bring to perfection such a guide-took to the first city in the worl 1. The labour and diligence which must have been bestowed on Messrs. Kelly's book is quite inconceivable, and the proprietors must be gratified that their efforts have been appreciated by the public. Every merchant's house, " every place of business in London, or even in the conntry , has its Post Office London Directory." The enormous circulation thus attained has enabled the proprietors to offer it for sale at a price that no book less universally purchased could be sold for. Upwards of two thousand closely-printed pages, comprising the most extensive and miscellaneous information in one volume, ant sold at the price at which it is offered, is a triumph of skill and diligence of which the proprietors may well feel proud. They who look further, mar see, in the success ofLondon Post Office Directory," the foreshadowing of results yet more im- Portant to the community even than the accurate knowledge of the Persons, occupations, and things, so skilfully set before us in this vo lume, of the busy metropolis. It is unnecessary to recommend the " Directory ;" such a book is always itself its own best recom mendation. SNIPPING AND MERCANTILE GAZETTE, OCTOBER 18, 1881. The annual volume of this stupendous work appears with pre scriptive punctuality. The plan originally laid down is carried out with increased completeness in the publication for 1852, which, like its predecessors, is a signal monument of method, enterprise, and per severance. It is not possible that any work devoted to London and its statistics can furnish so clear and definite a record of the per sonal aril commercial oftconents of the me . tropclis as this mammoth book, the swelling bulk which denotes that it keeps pace with the increase of population and the several developments of industry. No one can turn over its pages without being struck with the im mensity of labour which its compilation must have entailed upon those engaged in it. Every line is the record of a specific fact—a fact in every case liable to Be, and, consequently, involving periodical justification throughout. The machinery devised by the Messrs. Kelly for securing this annual revision is now as perfect as it is possible to make it; and the corrections are brought down to the latest date. The separate Directories embrace the usual fields o finfonnation. Trades and tradesmen, professionals and officials, streets and conveyances, banking-houses and post offices, are here regulated to their particular heads, and, besides the mere catalogue of names, enriched with every sort of collateral information which the exigencies of business or cariosity may require. Our former commondationa may be repeated now. The accuracy aimed at by the editors half a century ago has been severely tested since the book has been in extence ; and it not only repels accusation on this score, but challenges fresh panegyric as every succeeding volume emerges from the press. The counting-house of the merchant and the trader could now as ill spare the almanack as the "Post Office Directory." WEEKLY DISPATCH, Ocronza 19, 1851. It is difficult to remark upon a work that, presenting the same phases, has so often laid claim to public notice and patronage. The fifty-third annual volume •is now before us; and, as heretofore, it embodies (certainly in a very bulky form) an amount of useful in formation which might be sought for in vain at any other source. It is, in fact, as the preface states, a " hand-book to the commerce of the first commercial city in the world." As usual, the volume contains, among other information, an "Official Directory," a " Street Directory," a " Trades' Directory," a " Law Directory," a "Court Directory," a "Parliamentary Directory," a " Postal Di rectory," a "City Directory," a "Conveyance Directory," a "Bank ing Directory," and a finely-executed Map of London and its en virons. The work, alike indispensable to the commercial man and to individuals unconnected with trade, reflects great credit upon the proprietor for his industry and untiring perseverance, and is an ho nour to the country in which it appears. The whole is printed in a clear, distinct type, and on excellent paper, and the "getting up" altogether is unexceptionable. While such care and zeal continue to be exerted, to render the book in its several departments com plete, and make it really and truly a hand-book of commerce, it need not fear any rival. EXAMINER, OCTOBIR 18, 1851. Mr. Kelly's giant Directory takes the field a month earlier than usual this year. This is accounted for by the fact of the great de mand for last year's impression consequent on the crowds at the Great Exhibition; and certainly our visitors could not do better than resort to Mr. Kelly's compilation for a proper impression of the magnitude and wonders of the city they were visiting. We possess no other record of them to compare with it. Two thousand closely printed pages of streets, trades, professions, and persons, express better than the most eloquent phrases what a mighty mass of human beings are now congregated in the spot called London, and what in finitely vast varieties of human existence and interests have come to be comprised within that name. Often we have had occasion to say, and may now repeat, that this book of Mr. Kelly's is not one, but a dozen Directories. Its clear and succinct an angement adapts it to the use of every class that may be supposed likely to have need of such information. There is a Street Key," of nearly 500 pages, containing the names of more than a hundred thousand people. 'fliers is an Alphabetical Directory, containing in the same number of pages nearly the same number of names. There is a classification of more than two thousand trades. There is a Court Guide to some 25,000 of what are called the gentler classes. There is a Law Guide ; a Parliamentary Guide; a Guide to all the Public Offices; a Directory of Post- Towns and Postages all over the world; a list of all the chief hotels and inn throughout the country ; and, tinder separate Directories, whatever a person can be supposed to have any need to know re specting city buildings, companies, churches, chapels, publicationa, an d a gencies, or about assurance companies, banking houses, and conveyances of all kinds from, to, or in the metropolis. A mass of various matter so unexampled in bulk and extent depends obviously upon a rrangement, and facility and completeness of reference, for its practical worth and val u e in a readily available sense , Th e book before u 9 seems quite a model of such arrangement. It con tains nothing that may not at once bo found—not a street, trade, eas ab ies le t t s n ea j r n e d h ge d , o w es uh no n t n b e rg g in s t e o . Trough it is hardly the middle of October when we have yet find proofs of a scrupulous cor vprieowfe,ssainond:oars p fa e r rs a o s n w , w e h ha ic v h e th b e een icturn tn a i e b. s e p fo f re eeyiS us i c° ol2 m t ril ha e t te l w ils e t hate dated so recently RA the den Of rec the first week in October. But we have said enough to commend a volnme which we cannot but regard as a marvel of compilation most creditable to every one engaged in its production, and which has doteAless now become indispensable to all that have ever had occasion habitually to resort to it. SPECTATOR, OCTOBER 18, 1851. That gigantic volume, " The Post Office Directory," maintains its character as a fitting representative of the largest city in the world ; excelling all books in bulk, as London excels in towns. And as the Metropolis contains various other districts besides the City, so does the Directory contain many directories, yet all an swering some specific purpose. Thera is the " Official Directory" and, by-the-bye, it Is curious to see how often the same name oc curs together, as if public employ ment were too good a thing to let out of the family. There is the "Street Directory," where we may find the man if we know his residence, but have forgotten his name ; the " Commercial Directory," where we may And the name if the residence has escaped us ; then there are the " Trades'," " Law," and " Banking" Directories, where it is possible to bunt up a man If we know his vocation, but cannot, without assistance, recall either his name or address. There are also other directing classi fications—as Court, Parliamentary, Conveyance, Postal ; forming an unparalleled work, which, however, has beau three-and-fifty years growing to its present size. The present volume appears early; the demand, owing to the influx of strangers, consequent upon the Great Exhibition, having exhausted tte current edition for 1851 ; and what would London be without a Directory ? Great exertions, tis stated, have been made to bring down the chart. es to the latest moment ; as a profs' of it, the alterations consequent upon the death of Lord Liverpool-may be instanced. ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, OCTOBER 25, 1851. The Great Exhibition has bad Its effect upon the sale of this leviathan Directory, and has helped to exhaust the year's edition sooner than usual. We are not surprised at this, seeing that the London season has been one unbroken round of visits ; and an un precedetitly large number of persons has flocked to the metropolis, the majority requiring the class of information sc well conveyed in the " Post Office London Directory." According!y, the volume for the coming year has been produced thus early; it maintains the high character of the series for accuracy, appropriate classification, and ready reference. The corrections of the Peerage, and other lists, have been made to the latest possible period ; and altogether, the work is recommended, as heretofore, by its completeness in every department . , attainable only by the proprietor's long course of experience and popularity. THE SILENT FRIEND. IN SIX LANGUAGES —FORTIETH EDITION. CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE. Illustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings. e p e r ti e o v n e , n o u r ve th l e ouon, abuse fol lowedo ON PHYSICAL DISQI7ALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO hIARRIAGE. A New Edition, enlarged W 19 6 Pages, price 21. 6d. by post, from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in stamps. lions which THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by mercury,ixcassi w in i d th ulg dir en e ee cu , o th ns e prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons , 19, Earners-street, Oxford street, by observations in Marriage, and the disquaimee Landon. Sold by strange, f co or ns t eg he ue u n s c irof °f tht f 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150. Oxfbrd-street ; Gorden,l46, Leadnnhall-street ; Barclay, 95, Farringdon-street ;w. Sutton, 10 tl , erB,4ow Church-yard ; Vf. Edwards. 67, St. Paul's Church -yard Cheapside R. Johnson, 66, Cornhill ; and Simpkin, Stationers' Hall-court. PAM I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-prednetive organs, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. PAST 11. treats of tke consequences resulting from excessive in dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative Incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanatory Engravings. PAnT 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav ings. PART IT. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a simple application, by Which the danger of infection is obviated. PAST V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its du ties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. Tun CORDIAL BALM Or SYRIAOIIII ie exclusively employed in reating nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., 1 Is. and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic rewed.T, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symptoms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I ls. and 335. per bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d„ 4s. 6d., and I Is. Per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and chronic inflammation of the bladder. C onsultation fee, if by letter, 11. A minute detail of the case is required: age, habits, and posi tion in society. 51. rackets, with advice, to be had at the Estee bliskment only, by which the 1/., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in attendance, daily, at 19, I:erners-street, Oxford street, London, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Eight; on Sun ifq4 tgat ZOVOLI L ONDON to DUBLIN (via Holyhead) in THIRTEEN HOURS and a HALF. Three communications daily on week days; two on Sundays. Sea passage, Four Hours and a Half. First class, 3/. ; second, 2/. Return tickets (available for a fortnight), first class, 4/. 108.; second, 3/. Children under twelve half-price. For full particulars of the booking-through system between Endand and Ireland, see Bradshaw's Guide, page 122 ; Walsh's Irish Guide, page 20; Fisher's Irish Guido, page 2. MR. DIGBY SEYMOUR'S WORK ON WESTERN IRELAND Just published, the Third Edition, greatly enlarged, price Half-a-Crown. Dedicated, by express permission, to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, HOW to EMPLOY CAPITAL in WESTERN IRELAND being Answers to a few Practical Questions upon the Manufacture of Beet Sugar, Flax, and Chicory, in con nexion with a Land Investment in , the West of Ireland. Uy WILLIAM DIGBY SEYMOUR, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. London : John Hearne, 81, Strand ; James Ridgway, 169, Picca dilly; and Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, Grafton-street. A NEW MONTHLY JOURNAL. On the Ist of January, 1852, will appear, price Bd., r iIETE ANNALS of PHARMACY and PRAC TICAL CHEMISTRY : being a Monthly Record of British end Foreign Materia Medic; Pharmacy and Chemistry, neoretical and Technical. Edited by WM. BASTICK ane WM. DICKINSON, Members of the Pharmaceutical Society. London : Wm. Jones Cleaver, Publisher, 46, Piccadilly. May be ordered of any Bookseller. DR. RAMADGE ON ASTHMA AND DISEASES OF THE HEART. One vol. Bvo., greatly improlTecl7jecond Edition, price 10s. 6d., ASTHMA.: its VARIETIES an d COMPLICA TIONS ; with Practical Remarks on their Specific Treatment. Illustrated by Cases, and Plates coloured from nature. To .which is annexed a Succinct Treatise on the principal Diseases of the Heart. By F. 11. RASIADGE, M.D., Fellow of the College of Phy sicians, late Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary for Asthma and Consumption. Price One Shilling, T. DUNSTAN and the DEVIL. The True Legend: Showing 4ow the HORSESHOE became a Charm against WITCHCRAFT. With Illustrations by G. CRUIKSII&NK. Engrave t by J. THOMPSON. D. Rogue, 86, Fleet-street, London. FATAL EXPLOSION. DARTFORD, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.--During the last twenty-four hours this town and the surrounding dis trict have been most painfully excited in consequence of an explosion, involving the destruction of the lives of seven human beings, having occurred in a rocket factory, situate on Joyce's-green, some 300 or 400 yards from Dartford. It seems that a few weeks since a gentleman named Callow had taken up his abode in a large farmhouse, occupied some time since by Mr. Wigman, one of the contractors of the North Kent Railway. Shortly after Mr. Callow came into possession of the premises he commenced manufacturing blasting-rockets or fusees, in a timber building on the estate. The building in ques tion, from the ruins which remain on the ground, appears to have been something like forty feet long, and certainly not more than thirty feet wide, and was covered in with a thatched roof. On Tuesday evening eight persons were at work therein, independently of several others whose business only occasionally call them there. Shortly after l'Air o'clock the whole town, and, indeed, every inhabitant living within a circle of five or six miles, was dreadfully alarmed by a report far surpassing in violence a discharge of artillery. The building used for the manufactory was levelled with the ground. Head, legs, hands, and feet were found scattered over the ground. Tho body of a man named Haggard was found with the whole of the clothing consumed, portions of the flesh stripped, and the brains protruding. The remains of as many as fire persons were soon collected together, and two of the .unfortunate workpeople were picked up alive. One had both his arms broken, and the other had his legs and thighs fractured, the eyes blown out, and the lower portion of the trunk also badly injured. One was named James Goldsmith, and the other was a woman, supposed to be named Brown. The poor man lingered only for en hour and a half. The unfortunate woman only lived half an hour. From the inquiry made this afternoon by Mr. Webb, the coroner's officer, it appears that at the time of the fatal explosion there were either in or about the factory ten persons, and the following is a correct list of them:— Frederick Haggard, a carpenter, not hurt. William Harrison, from London, a miner and head foreman, dead. Thomas Nash, also from London, foreman over the " fillers," dead. _ _ Christopher Haggard, foreman over the women, whose business was to insert the rockets or fuzees into the gutta percha tubes, killed. Joseph Loft, late of London, a filler, dead. James Goldsmith, a pincher off of the gutta percha tubing, dead. Miss Sarah Kempton, otherwise Mrs. Goodeve, killed. Mrs. Brown, killed. George Weller, a carpenter, severely injured by the explosion. John Poole, the varnish-matter, who was standing at the side of the fireplace, uninjured. Alfred Salaßhone, one of the clerks, whe had just left the factory, not hurt. Various rumours are afloat as to the precise cause of the calamity. One person who was at work in the place attributed it to the carelessness of one of the female suf ferers, who, ho states, was married on Sunday last; and, Tuesday being her birthday, she promised the men half a-gallon of beer if they would allow her to fill one of the cases. They acceded to her request, and, while filling the tube, ho imagined that she must have driven the charge in too tight, for it exploded while the case was in her h an d, an d hence the catastrophe. In the hand of this unfortunate creature, notwithstanding that the body is blown into several portions, is to be seen, firmly clenched, one of the rockets, to which is attached three or fuer inches of gutta peroha. Mr. Webb, who was in the factory not more than five minutes before the disaster happened, states, that while he was present ho neither heard nor saw anything like what that person had stated. While he was in the place the various hands were at their several occupations, and, as he was leavi ng , he noticed one of the men with a pot of bailing glue in his hand, and he bad barely time to place the liquid on the table when the explosion hap pened. _ _ - Although an active march was made during Tuesday evening, the whole of the mangled remains of the unfor tunate sufferers could not be found, and it was not until this day at noon that some of the missing portions were collected. Two men went over the ground with a large basket, and succeeded in gathering together a number of hands, a woman's trunk with the bowels blown out, and several fingers. These were carefully collected together, removed to the union -house, and placed at the side of the other bodies. Up to half-past seven o'clock this evening (Wednes day) the coroner's warrant for summoning a jury had not arrived; it is therefore probable that the inquest will not be held until Friday, the coroner no doubt wishing to give as much time as possible for finding the missing portions of the other bodies. blood, the intermediate space being likewise sprinkled with blood. Tho trousers pockets had been rifled of the left hand, near t h e thumb, was a shilling their contents, a n d t urned inside out, and on the back of the blood. At four o'clock the villagers, who had been prevented from shifting the body by their scruples respecting the necessity of its first being seen b ner, were pre vailed upon to convey it to theporchof the church, a distance of about half a mile, the consent of the mi nister having been with some difficulty obtained for allowing it to bo deposited there. Two sixpences were found on the grass under the deceased, and in his waist affixed by coat pocket a few pence. He was short in stature, and a quiet, inoffensive man. Mr. Hughes our new chief of police, and Inspectors Brown and Drake, are making active inquiries in the neighbourhood, and we hopo the perpetrators of the murder will soon bo in the hands of justice.—Bath and Cheltenham Gazette. NEW LAW OF EVIDENCE ACT (From the Chronicle.) To those who are anxious, with ourselves, to telieve that the judges of the superior courts are actuated by a real desire to discharge their duties uprightly, and to give full and fair effect to the enactments of the Le gislature, one or two events which have recently occurred in Westminster Hall must appear painfully inexplioable. We allude to the manner in which Mr. Baron Martin and the Lord Chief Justice Jervis have thought proper to act with reference to the power now vested in courts of justice of directing prosecutions for perjury. Our readers are possibly aware that, by an Act passed in the twenty-third year of the reign of George 11, the justices of assize, nisi prius, and gaol delivery, were respectively empowered to order any witness who committed per jury in their presence to be prosecuted; and every such prosecution was directed to be carried on without the payment of any fees, either to the counsel who were assigned to conduct it, or to the officers of the court. These provisions, though salutary as far as they went, were obviously in sufficient to check the crime against which they were year, t that h aimed; for, first, th e p owers which they gave were con fined to the superior j u d ges at common law—next, they only applied to case s w h ere vied voce testimony was given —thirdly, they did not authorize the commitment lastly, e they presentcontained injudi cious Lord of Campbellegtii guilty k, n th lly cious regulations respecti ng costs. When, therefore, pre pare a Bill for the amendme n t o f criminal justice, it was thought expedient to extend th e p owers granted by the Act referred to ; and a cl ause was consequently intro duced into the measure, whi c h enacts, insubstance, any judge of one of the superior courts of common law or equity, any justice of assize, nisi prius, oyer and ter miner, or gaol delivery, any recorder, chairman, or other judge at quarter-sessions, any county court judge, any justices in special or petty sessions, or any sheriff' or deputy-sheriff —" in case it shall appear to him or them that any person has been guilty of wilful and cor rupt perjury in any evidence given, or in any affidavit, deposition, examination, answer, or other proceeding, made or taken before him or them" —may " direct such person to be prosecuted for such perjury, in case there shall appear to him or them a reasonable cause for such prosecution." The court may- also commit such person, unless he shall enter into recognizances to appear and take his trial—and may bind over any persons to prose cute or give evidence against him, and may grant a cer tificate of the prosecution having been directed, which, except under very special circumstances, shall entitle the prosecutor to his costs. Now, it is impossible to read either the clause just referred to, or that contained in the older statute, without perceiving that, under each Act, the judges are invested with a very delicate discretion, which must be exercised with great caution and for bearance. the law was not meant to be put in force whenever a witness swore to a fact which the jury dis believed, or whenever two witnesses gave different ver sions of the same transaction; but it was unquestionably intended that the judge himself should feel clearly con vinced that flagrant perjury had been committed by a witness before he should undertake to give directions for hie prosecution. Indeed, the judges have uniformly acted in accordance with these views from 1750, when the Act of George 11, passed, down to the present year; and we doubt whether a single instance of a prosecution under the old law could he found, except in cases where the judge was fully persuaded that the witness had been telling deliberate falsehoods. No sooner, however, does the new law come into operation, than new notions of judicial discretion are brought into active play, not, in deed, as against ordinary witnesses—for to them the Act has hitherto been a dead letter—but as against the par ties to the record, who are now rendered admissible wit nesses by Lord Brougham's admirable measure. Ac cording to Sir Samuel Martin, perjury is a crime of so detestable a character, especially in the mouth of a party to a suit, that every party must be put upon his trial if he be so much as suspected of having committed that offence ; and proof of his guilt to the satisfaction of the committing judge seems wholly immaterial. The case in which this marvellous doctrine was acted upon was that of Hornidge v. Hawkins. An action was brought to recover 1141., the amount of an attorney's bill; and the defence was, that the plaintiff had never really acted as the defendant's attorney, but that the de fendant had employed the plaintiff's clerk, a man named Jordan, to attend to his bueiness, and that the plaintiff had merely lent his name to this Jordan. Hornidge, Jordan, and Hawkins were all called us witnesses, and their testimony was so conflicting that, as Mr. Baron Martin observed, one, if nut two, of the three had been guilty of the most corrupt perjury. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendant was com mitted for trial. So far there was nothing to show that the judge had not exercised a proper discretion; but now comes the most remarkable part of the case. A day or two after the committal, the defendant's counsel applied to the Court for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was against the weight of evidence. In the course of his argument the Learned Coupled referred to the con duct of the judge at the trial, and was remarking, very justly, that it would become a most serious matter if the result of a verdict being given against a party, who had himself been called as a witness, was to be his committal for perjury, when Mr. Baron Martin is reported to have interrupted him with the following astounding avowal : — " When the jury retired. I did not know which way I should have given the verdict had I been on the jury." He subsequently observed, " I cannot say that I was dissatisfied with the verdict;" and then, after some further discussion, he added, " Perhepe the true solu- lion of the matter was that Jordan deceived both par ties." We have no hesitatien in saying that, if this be a correct report—and wo have no reason whatever to doubt its accuracy—Mr. Baron Martin has been guilty of very grave misconduct. It matters not, in the view we take of the subject, whether Hawkins be a guilty or an innocent man; but the question is, whether a judge can be justified in committing a person for per jury when he is not himself satisfied thet the individual has perpetrated that crime. We apprehend that there can bo but one answer to such a question. The judge must act, not on the vicarious opinions of others, but on his own belief—and, even then, only when it is clear to him beyond all reasonable doubt that the party he is about to commit has wilfully perjured himself. In any other view cf the matter the discretion of the judge will bo a mere tyranny, and statutes which were passed to promote the discovery of truth, will become the ready instruments of intolerable oppression. The conduct of Sir John Jervis, in the case of Maher ley v. Shepherd, is scarcely less censurable than that of Sir Samuel Martin. That was an action brought by an ar chitect against an engineer, to recover I 601. as the value of certain drawings which the plaintiff had made for the defendant. 501. had been paid into court ; and the question was, whether the drawings were of any greater value. At the close of the case, on some dis crepancy appearing between the testimony given by the two principals, the Chief Justice recalled the plaintiff, and cross examined him as to his former statements-- when he gave evidence varying, as it would seem, in some respects, from what be had previously stated. The following colloquy between the judge and the plaintiff's counsel then took place :—Judge—" Mr. Stammers, can you make anything of this? Do you intend to address the jury?" Counsel—" Certainly, my Lord." Judge —" You mean, do you, to put your client in peril of the verdict?" Counsel—" My Lord, I certainly intend to take the verdict." Judge—" Very well, let an dicer see that the plaintiff does not leave the court." The counsel then lost his temper, and, like most tthh o erhtye the judge under similar circumstances, talked some eeh e thisinf infringed in g was d s nonl l dsense the summed daring f the judge t o commit him as p s w h ou s bemostl e n a t ui up, ft and, after iouWheefanofrt all r declaring of the subject," h e procee d ed to state that " t Yeaetlri,b " was not because he had told the plaintiff to remain in the counsel had a r i g h t to assume that he court th a t was going to commit him—it might be that he wanted to ask him some question." The jury found for the defendant, and the plaintiff was not committed. Now,• is just possible that, as the Chief Justice insinuates, it • his Lordship directed the plaintiff to remain in court simply because ho wished to question him further; but the proceeding has, unfortunately, a very uglyaspect; and plain men will, we fear, he muchinclined to regard of an attempt at intimidating the counsel. The judge may have wished the jury to believe that, when he warned the counse l against putt i ng hi s c lient in peril, and ordered th e o ffi cer to k eep hi s e y e upon the plaintiff, he had no idea of directing a prosec ution for perjury; but we would cer t a i n ly advise Sir John Jervis in to devise a a more prob a ble story should he ever find himself witness-box of common sense as his , with twelve men jury, and Mr. Baron Martin as his judge. [A D VERTISEMENT..., --Holloway's Pills a safe and Certain Cure for Dropsy.—This insidious disease arises from various causes, and frequently from come obstruction to th e free circulation of the blood, generally exhibiting it se lf b y a swelling of the feet and ancles, ascending gradually until it affects the whole of the body. Those who are thus afflicted should immediately take Holloway's Pills. This invaluable medicine purifies the blood and invigorates the system, so that many of the worst cases of dropsy have been cured by its means. Females at the turn of life should have recourse to these excellent Pills, being the safest and most excellent re medy ever used.—Sold by all Druggists and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London, HERAPATH'S . RAILWAY 2 JOURNAL, OCTOBER 18, 1851, The way in which Messrs. Kelly produce their " Post Office Directory" renders competition useless. Such a work contains no matter of opinion. and advocates no particular interest. If the Messrs. Kelly do their duty well' and spiritedly, what more can be desired? We only want a Directory that is as full, as accurate, and as complete, up to the time, as possible. Now, as far as our know ledge of the Directory extends—and from our making frequent use of it we know a good deal about it—we think the work is admir ably kept up. In the present edition is found the very latst infor mation, and the whole of the work bears evidence that the greatest degree of attention is paid to its proper production. For sone time past the " Post Office Directory" has had no competitor. During this time it has been a better work than it ever was before. The absence of competition, producing increased gains, seems to have enabled the work to reach its maximum merit. The present edition makes an earlier appearance than usual, which, we believe, is due to the Great Exhibition having created " a run" upon the Directory. BELL'S WEEKLY CHRONICLE, OCTOBER 25, 1851. We have, on more than one occasion, expressed our opinion of the merits of this voluminous and astonishing work, the fifty-third annual impression of which is now before us. By most of our mercantile and trading readers, the work is known to be too useful, and is also too highly prized, to render a word of commendation from us necessary ; but, as it is possible that some parties engaged in business may not hitherto have possessed the volume, we can only say, that to understand its value they must examine the work for themselves—a work which is alike remarkable for the vast mass of information which it contains, and for the admirable manner In which that information is arranged. JOHN BULL, OCTOBER 25, 1851. The accelerated sale of the last edition of this stupendous reper tory of London statistics, occasioned by the Great Exhibition, has induced the enterprising publishers somewhat to anticipate the usual period cf annual republication. In doing this, great pains have been taken to bring down the alterations to the very latest date, as is attested by the fact that the result of the recent election for the East Riding, and the succession to the Earldom of Stafford, both having occurred within the present month are duly registered. The Map, likewise, keeps pace in its enlargements with the additions which are being made in every direction to the houserooms of the metropolis. Of the abstract merits of Messrs. Kelly's publication it is unnecessary for us to speak; we can only reiterate the opinion which we have before expressed—that the volume Is one of the most comprehensive, most complete, and well digested, and, for its size, one of the cheapest manuals of reference ever offered to the public. ATLAS, OCTOBER 18, 1851. The - " fifty-third edition" of a work would scarcely appear to re quire a critical notice, and yet this fifty-third edition of the " Post Office Directory," is so essentially a new book, that it is impossible to allow its publication to pass over without bestowing on it a larger share of a tentlon than any mere new edition of an established work could possibly demand. Like the great metropolis, this Direc tory has, year by year, increased in value and importance ; year by year the number of individuals it enumerates, classifies, and de scribes, has become larger and the book more bulky ; in the same proportion the care and labour necessary for its careful production have increased; and yet every year has seen it in some degree better than its predecessor, and more valuable to the public. It is no slight praise to say that the present edition of the " Post Office Directory" is an improvement on the last. The competition with which Mr. Kelly is threatened, appears to have determined him to produce a volume which shall defy all rivalry, and it will be a diffi cult task for a publisher to bring out a work which can in any way compare with it for accuracy, classification, and price. There appears to be nothing wanting in this Directory to render it com plete of its kind. During the number of years we have used it for reference, we have never met with an error in it of any magnitude, or one which affected its great usefulness, and if it is continued with the same skill which has marked its editorship while it has been in the hands of Mr. Kelly, we think he may safely trust to its well known excellence to protect him against the consequences of any competition. MINING JOURNAL, OCTOBER 25, 1851. T le fifty-third annual edition of this useful work has just appeared, and judging from its contents, is by no means inferior to its prede cessors, and fully sustains the reputation it has so.well earned, as being the only correct key to the names and itddresses of the se veral trades and professions in this vast metropolis. As a work of reference, it Is decidedly most useful and necessary to the man of business. No banking or merchants' office should be without it. A smaller edition has likewise been published, vthich, though not so comprehensive as the larger, contains an immense mass of useful in— formation ; and both the works are eminently entitled to the name of " handbooks to the commerce of the first commercial city in the world." LITERARY GAZETTE, OCTOBER 18, 1851. One of the first symptoms of the dueling year is presented in the publication of the fifty-third edition of the " Post Office London Di rectory." Mr. Kelly is the first In the field, with his very neat and ponderous volume, comprising upwards of two thousand very closely•priated pages ; and his machinery is so well organised, that he is enabled, with astonishing facilty, to correct every department of it to within a few days of its publication. What a model for Mr. Panizzi, for the publication of a printed catalogue of the books in the British Museum, is the construction of this eminently useful volume." BRITANNIA, OCTOBER 18, 1851. LONDON AS IT IS. London is a wide labyrinth, in which those who are uninitiated in its topographical intricacies must, without the aid of guide or clue, become hopelessly bewildered. Every years adds thousands and tens of thousands to the enormous amount of its population. Squares, streets, and terraces, which would elsewhere constitute flourishing cities, are periodically annexed to its already unequally extent of buildings, and it is impossible to calculate the breadth of area which its encroaching wings threaten eventually to overshadow with their vastness. If its ratio of increase in respect of extent, during the ensuing century, shall equal what it was in the last, the surface of the county in which it stands will be too circumscribed to contain its limits. Its inhabitants, who in the reign of Queen Anne numbered only three hundred thousand, have increased by the last census to nearly two millions and a half—a population equal to that of the whole of Scotland ; and when we reflect that these teeming num bers are all domiciled, clothed, and fed, in this human hive, the sumptuary arrangements necessary for the purpose seem almost in comprehensible to the human mind. Yet such is the extraordinary elasticity of our external and internal resources, that the supply has always kept pace with the demand, and the daily wants of the two millions and a half of human beings who are sheltered and fed in our capital, are supplied with an ease and a regularity unknown In the days when London contained but a tenth part of its present population. A surrey of the number of the "Yost Office London Directory" for the year 1851, which has just been publishe 1, will give somo notion of the difficulty which the numerous foreigners and strangers in London, who have lately been sojourning amongst us, would have experienced in tracing amongst these thousands streets, and almost countless thousands of inhabitants, the desig nation and abodes of their friends and entertainers, but for the timely aid of some such accurate and comprehensive record. The mind can scarcely realise to itself a position of greater perplexity and difficulty, than that of.a stranger to our land and our language, launched for the first time, without guinance of any kind, in the bewildering mazes of our metropolitan streets. Oar English no menclature sounds so strangely to continental ears, that, without an interpreter, an Italian, or a Spaniard, in confabulation with a cab man or omnibus conductor, would have as much chance of mutual intelligence, as with the denizen of another planet. To such, then, the study of a faithful record of all that mighty London, in its multitudinous divisions and snbdivisions, contains, will be of incal culable advantage. That which seems, when viewed en masse, to be of a complexity utterly inextricable, through the ingenious arrange ments of our Court: Guides and London Directories, among which Kelly's is the oldest and the best, has been made easy of comprehen sion to all who can read the Roman character. The foreigner, with this Directory in his hand, while he contemplates with wonder both the size of the volume and the amount of information it contains, will admire the judicious mode of compilation, by the assistance of which he is enabled to thread his way through the labyrinth of t s a t r f e a e r t a s t a o c s a i n a g w l e r e o h u e t ni all v a t h a a a t t i l a s a m () t o s t a w a o t r a t u h y a I i o c f s his a o l b th s e,r power,va t e in, a and d extent of the first city of the world. The Smaller Edition of the Work , and which includes Map of London, comprises, amongst ot he r information— Official Directory — C omme rcial Directory--Court Directory—Parliamentary Directory n—LesbetalhaDthirectory—Banking Directory, &c., &c., Price 155., may Kelly and Co., " Post Office Directory Offices," 19 and 20, Old Boswell-court, Temple-bar, Loudon; and all Booksellers. LAURENT'S CASINO. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, St. James's, is OPEN every Evening for the Winter Season. Laurent's well-known and celebrated Band, principal Cornet-I- Piston, M. Boulcourt. During the recess the Booms have been re-decorated, and many Improvements made, under the sole direction of Mr. G. F. Bryer. Doors open at Half-past Eight. to commence at Nine o'clock. Admission —ONE SHILLING. London Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. HOUSEHOLD NARRATIVE. This day is published, price Twopence, THE NOVEMBER NUMBER OF THE HOUSEHOLD NARRATIVE OF CURRENT EVENTS ; which being declared, by the judg ment of the Court of Exchequer, a legal publication, not clining within the provisions of the Stamp Act, will be regularly continued and much improved. A Number is publhhcd at the end of each month. The First Volume, being a Narrative of the Public Events of 1850, is always on sale, price Three Shillings, neatly bound in cloth. The Second Volume will be published early in January. Published at the Office of " Household Words," No. 16, Wellington street North. Sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen. PILKINGTON'S DICTIONARY OF PAINTERS, BY ALLAN CUNNINGH A.M. A New Edition, brought down to the Present Time, by R. A. DAVENPORT, Esq. Bvo. cloth, price I Os. 6d. AGENERAL DICTIONARY of PAINTERS: containing Memoirs of the Lives and Works of the most emi• nun Professors of the Art of Painting, from its Revival by Cimabue, ..he year 1250, to the Present Time. By MATTHEW PILKING TO.T, A.M. With an Introduction, Historical and Critical, by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. A New Edition, Corrected and Revised by It. A. DAVENPORT, Esq. , Lonthn : William Tegg and Co., 85, Queen-street, Cheapside. MURDER AND ROBBERY. A most shocking murder was perpetrated, on Mon day evening, about half d mile from Pristoa, the victim being a man named George Bush, aged 36, a milkman, residing at Timsbury. It appears that Bush, who is unmarried, left his lodgings at Timsbury about half-past one o'clock on Monday morning, having, it is supposed, between 41. and 51. in his possession, for the purpose of attending an auction sale at Britton (which is about two miles from Timsbury), and promised his landlady (Mrs. Flower) that he would return early the same evening. He was seen at the sale; but we are not aware that he purchased anything. When the sale was concluded, he went into a beer-house at Priston, called the Ring of Bells, and remained drinking there with several persons. Between eight and nine o'clock a dispute arose with him and his friends respecting the payment of a pint of beer, in the height of which Bush left to return to his own home. The direction taken by him is extremely lonely, leading through a field called " Cow Lees," the pathway of which slopes down into a dell, and skirts Priston Wood. Bush, however, did not return home during the night, and Mrs. Flower became very uneasy. Early in the morning she sent two of her children to look alter him, giving them instructions to go along the road by which he usudly came when returning from Priston. On ar riving at the Cow Lees, about eight u'elt,ck in the morn ing, they were very much frightened at finding the un fortunate man lying Deer tie footpath, in the middle of the field, with his throat cut in a most shocking manner. The children immediately convoyed the information to their mother, and in a s hort s p ace o f t i me several men were on the spot. When our reporter arrived in the afternoon, the body was still expo.ed in the field, surrounded by a large concourse of persons, and presented a most ghastly ap pearance. The wound had evidently been inflicted by a large sharp instrument, which had entered imme diately under the chin, laying open the interior of the mouth, and extending round to each ear; the collar of the shirt being completely severed in two. The villains had filled up the wound with grass. Underneath the head was a large quantity of blood, and a short distance from the body lay his hat and another peel of il 1 499 ii i' ) 1851 1850 2 651 11 168 10 3 , b k t. very 499 Y v 1850 571 18 10 t 4l. Of ''' DOlk 19 0 Ilaby tnl tt ry ; Z u r t arlkB In the allocation of profits according to Op k .,tll,wi thi ll _Additions are payahle where a claim 4tp xbiliitritivite a il ea_rs from the date of the Policy. 1 .05,, 'Ci s Ob. 5 , St. Andrew-square. JOHN MACKENZIE, Manager. ' 110 z ,WILLIAM LINDESA.Y Secretary lil), -'' 40YAL EXCHANGE 13 ' 17 ' ILDINGS. hiN11.... ------- HUGH WKEAN, Agent. 1 0 0 0 of , P , . gl of 1. ,D eIP 4# FP