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GREAT WESTERN -RA.II. A.Y.—Notice 18 hereby given, that the next lIALF-YEARLY GUNERAL 31E i;TING of the PRC rnlETons of this co`h!PANY will be held n London, pursuant to Act of Parliament, at ihe Paddington Station, n Thursday, the 17th thy of Februal y, at Half-past Twelve o'clock, for tl.e Election of Three Directors, in the place of Viscount Bar rington, M.P., James Gib6m, Esq., and Richard Potter, Esq., retiring by rotation, and for other purposes of business, The Chair will be taken at Half-past One o'clock precisely. C. RUSSELL, Chairman. • I!sAIidtINGTON, Deputy-Chairman. The Directors retiring are re-eligible under the provisions of the Act; and in compliance w.th a Ilye-law, notice must be given to the Secrets.: y, on or before the 3d February, of the names of any Pro prietors who are to be nominated for eleeticn as Directors at the said Half-yearly General Meeting. 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PURSUANT to an ORDER of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause JAMES THOMAS DELAHAT s7ainst SAMUEL LOVEJOY, the Creditors of BEN JAMIN WEBSTER, late of the 7 ark's Head Public-house, Charlotte street, Poi Hand-place, in the parish re Sal nt Ma , ylebone, in the county of Middlesex, Licensed Vic:meet% d'_!cerscd (whe died on or about the sth day of April, 1836), are by Pier solicitors, on or before the 15th day of February 1853, to came in and prove their debts or claims at the Chambers of the V.ce-Chant •llor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, No. 15, Old-square, Linclin's-inn, Middlesex, ,or they Will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the seid Order. Tuesday, the 22d day of Febt aaly, 1853, at Twelve o'clock at noon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the claims. Dated this 17th day of January, 1853. JAS. JOHNSTON, 100, Chancery-lane, London, Plrintiff's Solicitor. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—SEASON 1853. Mr. MITCHELL respectfully announces that the SEASON of FRENCH PLAYS will be COMMENCED on MONDAY next, Jan. 31, by the engagement of 31...psiertr Ravel (of the Theatre du Petals Royal —his iirst appearance since the year 184 w). The first performance will consist of two new end amusing Vaudevilles, entitled UN MOSSIEUR QUI SUIT LES FEMMES, and YORK; 014 Une Recompense Honette, in both of which Mo.-s. Ravel will ap pear. Mr. Mitchell has the satisfaction to submit the following List of Artistes, engaged to anpea- during the season :—Monsieur Ravel, Madame Lambert (Waite The..tro# du Pal is Royal), Madlie. Bertin (of the Theatre Frangals), Madlie. Miner (of the Theatre du Gymnase—her first appe.ra ice in Engirnd), 11 onsieur Lafont, Madlle.Einma Fleury (Eleve du Conservatoire, 's), Madlie. Page (of the Theatre des Varietes—her first appearance in England), Monsieur Adrien Fede, Monsieur Leona ^d Mellle. Madeline lirohan (of the Theatre Frangais -her first appearance in England), and Monsieur Regnier (of the Theatre Frang 'lns eminent Trage dienne, Madlie. Rachel, is al.o engaged - for Twelve Repre'entations, and will appear in Monsieur Emi'e Angle=s successful Play of DIANA, at the commencement or her engagement.—During the en gagement of Monsieur Ravel, at the beginning of the season, it is intended to give Four Representations a week—on Monday, Wed . nesday, Friday, and Saturday Evenings-1' le Mondays and Fridays being, as usual, Subscription N.ghts.—lt is el o respectfully an nounced that, during the East z- w -k, from Monday, March 28, until Saturday, April 2, M. Robert Horciix will exhib't his extraor dinary Entertainment of Soirees Fa itasigues, being his la 't appear. ance in England. previous to hi, fir 11 retirement from his profession. —The French Plays will be reuired aster Erster, on Monday, April 4. The Subscription will be arranged .or Thirty Representations, on Mondays and Fridays, until the end of May. The favour of an early applcation for Season Subscriptions is respectfully solicited at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the principal' libraries, as usual.-33, Old Bond-street, Jan. 22. •. LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill -street, St. darnels's, Lessee, Charles Emile Laurent, Onslow house, Brompton-road, Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament, of 25th George 11. Open ev€ry evening with Laurent's Celebrated Band. Principel Coruet-a-t iston, M. Boulcour. Admission—ONE SHILLING. Doors open at Half-past Eight o'clock. Dancing to commence at Nine, am terminate at Half past Eleven precisely. PATRON—H R. H. PRINCE ALBERT. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. NEW EXHIBITION. —An OPTICAL and MUSICAL IL LUSTRATION of SHAKSPEEE'S " MIDqUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM," with an ENTIRE CHANGE o: MUSIC, introducing the ORIGINAL MUSIC by Sir Henry Bishop, Morning and Evening.— LECTURES by J. H. Pepper, Esq., on the endless AMUSEMENTS of CHEMISTRY, adapted to a Juvenile Audience; by Dr. Bachhoffner. on the PHILOSOPHY of SCIENTIFIC RECREA TIOY ; by Mr. Crispe, on BALLOONING. —DISSOLVING VIEWS, including Day and Night Views of WALMER CASTLE, WALMER CHURCH, &c., &c. Admission, Is. ; Schools and Children under 'ten years of age, half-price. THE HOOD IiEhIORIAL. CLOSE OF THE SUBSCRIPTION. AT a GENERAL MEETING of the SUB SCRIBERS to the Fund for Ereoting a Monument above the Grave of THOMAS HOOD in Kensal•green Cemetery, held Dec. 2d, at the Whittington Club, it was resolved that the Subscription List be CLOSED on the let of February, 1853, and Miss ELIZA COOK, Ma. MURDO YOUNG, and Mu. JOHN WATKINS, were appointed Trustees to the Fund. The amounts subscribed are deposited at Interest in the London and Commercial Bank. Contributions are received by Mr. William Strudwicke, at the Whittington Club, Strand ; by Miss Eliza Cook, Treasurer 54, Hon . t Sec., Grea Ormon34,de-street Parliament-street. , Bloomsbury ; and by Mr. John Watkins, Among the subscribers are the following His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G.— £2 The Right Hon. Lord John Russell, ALE'. 505 0 0 The Right Hon. B. Disra e li, M .P ........ ...... 5 0 0 The Right Hon. T. B. M acaulay, Sir William Fra zer , B ar t .— •••• •• • • 5 0 0 5 0 0 James Harmer, Esq., .... •• • ... ....... 0 0 Arnold Rogers, E sq . John Macgregor, Esq., 111.1" •••• •. • . 5 0 0 • • •• airs. Robert E11i 0 t...... ••• • • A 6 0 .. ••• • • b 0 0 Richard Dawson, Esq., ad.ll George Peabody, ........ 5 5 0 Edward Moorman, •••. • . • 50 0 David Salomons, F.5q...... •• h Messrs. 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O'Conner, Esq., Morpcti 2 , Northumberland • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• 2 ;as. Wyld, Esq., arid family— • • • ▪ 2 0 0 2 0 Mrs. Theodore Mai tin (Miss Helen Faucit) A few Young Men at Simpkin and hfarsha.irs 1 5 6 Nine half crowns from Manchester.. •••• • • • 1 2 6 The Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle— •• • • • • 1' 1 0 The Right Hon. the Earl of St. Germans • • 1 1 0 The Right Hon. Lord Brougham.... 1 0 0 The Right Hon. Lord Dudley Sta art M.P. I 1 0 0 The Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne •• • • • • • • • • • • Alfred Tennyson, Esq. (Poet Laureate). ..... •: • 1 1 g Thackeray, Es •• •• ___ .__________,y, .r.sq.. . . .. 1 0 0 Charles Swain, Egg, I 1 0 W. C. Macready, E•q•• ••• • • • ***** —"• • •• 1 1 0 • •••• •••• J• Westland Marstoi, Esq 1 1 0 Albert Smith, Esq. ..••••-•••••••• • • • ' • • • •• • • Lady Morgan.... •• • ....... •• • • •' • • • • 1 1 0 W. ti M. Kent, Esq. ••••••.••••• • • • • ' • • ' • • • • 1 1 0 Alfred Crowquill, Esq. • • ••••••••••••• 1 1 0 • W illiam Jerdan, Esq... • Hepworth Dixon, Esq.. • 1 1 0 •.•••••—••' • • • '' • • • • 1 0 IW. IL Gore Langton, Esq., M.P. 1 1 0 C. Baring W a ll, E sq., M.P. •.., .•„ Charles Gavan Duffy, Es q ., M.P. ••••• • • • ' 1 • 1 0 OIL Swift, Esq., M.P.. —•••••••••••• • • • • " " " 1 - I 0 0 J ames Macgregor, Esq., M.P.... I. Oliv e i ra, Esq., MX. •• •• • 1 1 0 W. J. Fox, Esq. MX • • Sir John Berle Esq., Ent. Bristol ..".• 1 i ° Mrs Milner Gibson:— .. .. •• •• •• ..... ..... .... 1 0 0 1 1 0 Thomas Creswick, Esq. R.A........... .. .. •• .. J. B. Buckstone, Esq.... •• .. •• •• •• ••••• • • •• 1 I ° Mrs. Fitzwilliam .. .. . . Rev. Felix Palmer, Frierning Horace Mayhew, Esq •• .•• • 1 1 - 0 Sydney Yendys Dobell, Esq. .. .. .. —..••• • •• 1 i 0 C. Cowden Clarke, E5q..... ...... • ••••••• •• • • 1 0 0 J. E. Carpenter, Esq. ..• ........ „ •.........„ 1 1 0 Dr. Robert Elli o t, Stratford ...... „ „ .... 1 1 0 Elocution Class, Walworth Literary Institution.. 1 1 0 Eight half crowns from Preston . .. 1 0 0 In pence from Bideford .............. • 0 18 8 In half-crowns, from Bristol.. ...... .„ „1 2 6 In Half-crowns and Shillings.. ........ :: ::•••• ••• 011 0 In pence from 8 r i 5t01.................. „ . 0 12 6 Miss Martineau ... .. •• •• •• •• •• •••••• .. •: •••• .. . 010 6 Miss Mitford ... ••• • • • ..... •..—.• •• ..... 010 6 E. L. Blowhard. Esq. Geo. Dawson, Esq., M.A. ...„ „ „ ............ 0 10 6 ....„.................. W. C. Bennett Esq. A few poorNeedleworneu .... • ... .." ••••• • - - 010 6 „.... _ „ „0 10 6 B. w . B . „„•„.. •• ...... ••••••••• • • • • • ...... 010 6 In other sums .................• £ll6 13 6 Every subscriber's name will appear in Eliza Cook's Journal. JOHN WATKINS, Hon. Sec. 1)R. CIJLVERWELL'S NEW WORKS . To be had of Sherwood, 23,' Paternoster-row, Carvalho, 147. 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By SAMUEL LA'METIT, M.D. 37, BEDF ORD-SQUARE, LONDON; Deter of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University m' Edin. bore', Honorary Member of the London Ho244.sp ital Ste. Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, , The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful consequences resulting from irregularities and excesses, whic n- h have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Ma hood, and premature decay at ell stages of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists The treatment adopted is founded on experience gained in the most celebrated schools of medicine both in this country and in continental Europe. The results of the knowledge thus acquired are here condensed under 1 1 . Personal supervision Dr. La'Mert, himself one of the few egally qualified physicians who have devoted their whole and un divided studies to this important branch of medical science. 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Bailliere, 219, Regent-street, London. avo., in cloth, price 14! I. y post free, ss. &L. ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, wiViewt 0 the Correction . of wide-spread Errors ' fr '' o r m the In relation to the Treatmsee.axt a an ai d i C i t.re of Sufferers from Debility of the ypoehondriasis. German ecifdDerrs.bPylheiK. Generative System, German Ernnedgliicshalrliaterature. This is the first F f:ci n u p ent practi calay not be , the last, if he shall ' rime,contributionstrlieP lefinformsr a l ' to s s I that n G o e w r ru known e ..h ?La, figis 'ant evil which it may be in his "a—fTolmndeoruauhmt ebdetreatth a f t laz w e e tt s e i , , ea M m a3; ee addressed himself to cal reader. We trust this the nou-medi detect any other equally fly The author 3u°r tolBtsh lashes lis. exhibit its aim more clearly . the impostors who make a I ,iv g lih e o t ed by preying ; Sruathisers,' with .., ~ :t i l l : e r g, rip, eri t ao o oti rusd c i ese o ver r r actr e oi c i tn t y . what t would on the credulity of the public. The tribe yei and ' Medical . Friends , ' are met cilessl Poofsedandif this book could find its way into the hands of those who suffer from ti com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundred' itre saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and less importance, though it is that which the quacks most •is of to the hcea and much money .. This volume is well qualified to put an end Prize - system of treating Spenna . torr , to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. it is, therefore, likely to do much good. Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. No. 11. Pro., in cloth, price 3e. 6d., by post free, 45., THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate and apparently Intractable Forms. BY F, B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. "In proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given he history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad 118 any which Mr: Syme adduced, and on which he had operated. Such are cases ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No. ix. had resisted, for a period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix. appear, both in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag.. gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet th 3 treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently immoral." --Professor Liza= on the Treatment of Stricture. ••:_ t o i . _ //',,c . ...& - 470r--9 - ' --; , ,t ---,- ,-..,,,, .....‘ ~„,., A1w.,,:,,. ~,,,,.,11 .•,..... s .::"'r. .u.• ',,-.. ‘ . •,....., ..• ... • _____ -. - ,..,,,,44,,,n. VIP .•‘ 2 / . \ ' .'lley-- - ', : t. ,A;!tt _ .0 ' 1w" ----.--------- '-`. - - -c- .4., rr----tcA • , ;•- . .- 5 .- , r) ---- . • ---'-' ): 1` 'l''../ 1 .. '; „1, 1, 2 ,1‘ ; , -- - . , 5 4...__ ~...,: ,?, r, 0 *I:. i,...6 \ , : 4 '• .., -:, ~, , : t oo ' i.,! , , ~."!' " -,,,...:-• , \ \N - ' 4Ar-T.Z.C.49`\ , i ...‘ • ' I ~, ..,,,, 4 0 4~.. _ !,•\?' ' A ,2 7, 0 1 Fr ' ---", i A t f.' f • ~, : i .. ~ .r. II a ' ,' ,lt) ." i. t __- 9 11, , ~., --- ', , Itt• , - • , • 1.• i 4 . i , 4+;.,_... .., 4 - w. ~,,‘•;.im!„.- -,,,„ _ditt.,.....,4,,fi.4.,0,..4.4,,, 7 ,1 ' -- I,St ) „-• . i, „-:.;V:i4 . bit OI T ' le ~, , -1..."45t 46.. - 0, ray,l3 - A --.:' _ t l / 4 4.. 4 4//t/ • ,'N1..:,! ro'-' 44T ----- .... ) '''.:' ) ..,, i''' ' ' ''-'r'' ) 14 - -, 4,1 [PRICE SD. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's mail packet Lady Jocelyn, Commander Stuart, arrived at Plymouth yesterday. Few events, it appears, have occurred since the departure of the last steamer which can be regarded as indicative of the prospects of the war. N one of the pro scribed chiefs have yet been given up. Another of those unfortunate " suprises" by the enemy which have so often during the war proved fatal to small parties of our force has lately occurred. About 20 of Montagu's Horse, under Captain Villiers, were passing between Chumie Camp and the Kieskamma Hoek, and the road being steep they had dismounted and were leading their horses, with their rifles incautiously left slung in the buckets attached to their saddles. Suddenly about 100 rebel Hottentots fell upon them and com menced firing, upon which the whole party fled, leaving five guns and ten horses in the hands of the enemy, besides two which were killed. Captain Villiers was slightly wounded, and one of his men dangerously. A party from Chumie ,Camp, under Captain Rennie, 73d Regiment, at once proceeded to the spot, but the foe had vanished with his booty. The captured Slambie chief Seyolo has been brought down by sea to Cape Town, and lodged in the town prison until arrang e ments are made for his safe custody in the neighbouring village of Wynberg. When the sentence of the Court-mar-, tial by which he was tried at Graham's Town Was read to him, condemning him to be " shot to death by musketry," he is said to have betrayed no emo tion ; but when informed that his sentence was to be cornntutefl 3 - and that _he was to be carried over the sea, he was overcome with alarm, and appeared to regard this doom as much more terrible .:than that first pronounced against him. He is accom panied by one of his wives, a counsellor of his tribe and his wife, and a female servant. The Governor has proceeded with a force of 2,000 men into the Orange River territory, having first issued the following proclamation : SUNDAY 8 " Know all chiefs and men of all classes and tribes within her Majesty's dominions of the Orange River territory, that I am come among you to administer, in the Queen's name, justice and right equally to all. lam come not to make war, but to settle all disputes and to establish the blessings of peace. " I therefore order and command you all to remain quiet, each of you within your own country, and to await and abide by my judgment and decision. " I have with me sufficient of the Queen's troops to enforce obedience, and to punish with rigour and severity any chief, class, or tribe who may dare to resist my law ful authority. _ _ " All loyal subjects of the Queen will be ready to join me, should I deem it necessary to call upon them for their co-operation, against any contumacious offenders. " God savo the Queen." The cause of this movement has not been officially announced, but it is generally believed that the powerful Basouta chief Moshesh and the ove reignty farmers are likely to come into serious col lision. Reports have been received, which, how ever, want confirmation, that Moshesh has made a prisoner of the Rev. Mr. Giddy, a Wesleyan mis sionary, together with a number of the farmers, whom he had invited to a conference, and has sent a message to General Cathcart threatening to put the whole of them to death should the troops dare to enter his territory. General Cathcart has issued a proclamation al lowing that portion of the Tambookie tribe under Nonesi to return and settle down upon the terri tory they formerly occupied. . Within the western districts tranquillity prevails, and the crops promise an abundant harvest. The Extra to the Graham's Town, Journal of the 14th of December states that his Excellency the Governor with his staff, assistant commis sioners, &c., crossed the Orange River into the Sovereignty on Tuesday, the 33th of November. The camp is described as extending in a line of about two miles, and presenting a most formidable appearance. It is not known what his Excellency's policy towards Moshesh will be. All sorts of re ports were rife in the camp. Some say Moshesh's men have been patrolling the Inks of theCaledon for several days past ; others, that his sons will try their strength with the British ; while others, who know the native character well, say that he has already sent off the bulk of his cattle into the inaccessible and rugged mountains, and will try the effect of duplicity and evasion. Ex presses, it is stated have been sent off to the chiefs by his Excellency, but their contents have not transpired. The whole force, it is said, will move in a few days towards Plaatberg, which is situated about 20 miles from Thaba Bossiou, the residence of the chief Moshesh, and about 100 miles from Commissie Drift. His Excellency visited Smithfield on the 3d, and returned to the camp the same afternoon. The English mail, by the Calcutta, which arrived in Table Bay on the 22d of Novem ber, reached the Governor's camp early on the morning of the 3d—a distance of about 900 miles from Cape Town in 10 days. Subjoined is a description of Macomo's den, as supplied by the Colonist, in a letter from Fort Fordyce, dated December 5 : " We went on an expedition the other day to Maco mo's den, which is situated at a short distance from this fort, and as there were only twelve of us, you may infer that the Waterkloof is completely cleared. This den is a number of caverns at the top of Fuller's Hoek, and the approach to them is most difficult from the rugged nature of the ground. We found several skulls, one of which seemed to be that of a European. There were also old karosses, leather, tobacco, bags, pumpkins, water bottles, ' and a good knife. A skeleton was found there a day or two ago wrapped up in a kaross, with the skeleton of a dog lying at its head. Another skeleton was near it, also wrapped up in a kaross, and from the material about it, was evidently that of some one who had been killed by a rocket. There are plenty of graves of the poor soldiers about, many of which had been dug up either by jackalls, or by Kafirs in order to get the blankets." The Fettercairn, Captain Maitland ; the brig Jane, 180 tons ; the barque Lady Sandys ; and the schooner Iris are laid on at the Cape for the gold regions. In Table Bay there are at present no less than 13 vessels destined for the gold regions of Australia, and conveying emigrants from various quarters, in cluding England, Ireland, and America, and some few from the Cape. The gold. fever, however, which prevailed in Cape Town on the arrival of the Australian, has to a certain extent abated, and many who recently purposed emigrating have now wisely concluded to let well alone, at least until society is more organi se d i n that modern El Dorado. The shipments of provisions, implements, and ne cessaries hence have necessarily created much ad ditional business in the various mercantile houses here. Large shipments are being made for Australia, not only in provisions, but also in wearing apparel. An advance in price has taken place on many arti cles of general consumption in consequence. Flour and brandy are now reported at an advance of fully 10 per cent. upon previous rates. No less than 2,500 tons of merchandise will be shipped from Cape Town for the Australian colonies in the course of the present month. From Mauritius the Commercial Gazette says— " Freight s have an upward tendency, and 3/. is now asked, owing to the short supply of tonnage in the har bour, reduced as follows :—The Mary, burden about 500 tons ; Emperor, about 500 t ons • Albion, about 700 tons ; Stratford, about 500 t ons ; 'Lady Valiant, about 990 tons. This amount is very small at this time, as about 15,000 tons will be required by the end of the year. A private letter from Madras informs us that the William Prowse has been chartered to Sydney at 3/. 10s. for 500 tons of sugar, and 4/. for other goods. This vessel was crowded with passengers. Purchases of sugar will be checked by the want of tonnage, otherwise the market is steady at former prices." The same journal states that 50 persons have subscribed and purchased the Walter Scott, in which they were about to sail immediately for Australia. The Mazeppa has arrived at Madagascar. FATAL TERMINATION OP THE LATE CASE OF CRUELTY AT THE GREENWICH UNION.—The late atrocious case of burning at the Greenwich Union-house has terminated fatally, the child Gaywood is now no more—death hav ing put an end to its sufferings on Sunday last. The public will very naturally ask, is the farcical sentence of fourteen days' imprisonment passed by the Common- Sergeant at the late session of the Central Criminal Court, to atone for the depriving this child of life ? The nurse, Oldham, we may mention, was liberated from Newgate on the 15th inst., and a very few hours after wards made her appearance at the Greenwich Union in a disgraceful state of intoxication, and, claiming admis sion, said that a gentleman had given her a glass of wine, thus rendering her in the condition she was then in. The child, we may add, was an orphan, its wi dowed mother having, at the recent visitation, been taken off with the cholera, and, previous to the injuries inflicted, was one of the healthiest and liveliest in the house. The question now remains to be decided whe ther the inhuman monster can or cannot be again ar raigned, seeing that death has since resulted from her conduct, and made to answer a charge, if not of wilful murder, at least of manslaughter. If she is altogether to escape, then indeed is the law of England an anomaly. --Kentig Mercury. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1853. 111•MMEMER.M.W.Ii17 AW LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Fleet-street, London, December 30, 1852. Notice is hereby given, that a GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY w:11 be held at the Society's Office, Fleet•street,"Londen, on Wednesday, the 2d day of February next, at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, pursuant to the previsions of the Society's deed of settlement, for the purpose of receiving the •k editors' annual report of the accounts of the Society up to 31st December, 1852 ; to elect two Directors in the room of John Forster, Esq., end the Hen. the Vice-ChancePor Sir James Parker, both deceased ; and for general purposes. The Director to be chosen in the room of John Forster, Esq., deceased, will remain in office until the 24th of June, 1853, and the Director to be chosen in the room of the lion. the Vice-Chancellor Sir James Parker, deceased, wig remain in office until the 24th June, 1854. By order of the Directors, WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary, UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, Established by Act of Parliament in 1834. No. 8, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London. The distinctive features of the Company embrace, among others: Tables of Premiums formed on the lowest scale compatible with security, and constructed to meet the various wants of assurers, and every risk to which protection by assurance can be extended. One-half the Life Premium for the first Five years may remain on credit. - • • Loans granted on approved Personal Security. Assured not restricted •in their limits of travel, as in most other Companies, but may proceed from one part of Europe to another in decked vessels, without License, and to British North America, and many parts of the United States, without extra premium, by merely giving the ordinary notice to the Office in London of the intended visit. Whole-world Policies granted at slightly increased rates of Premium, thus rendering a Policy in money transactions a real security. Prospectuses, and every information, may be obtained upon appli cation to the Resident Director. NEW FEATURE - IN LIFE ASSURANCE. T HE DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIKE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 18, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. CAPITAL—ONN HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. DIRECTOR!. R. Yallowley Barnes, Esq., 11, City-road, Finsbury. • G. Noel Clarke, Esq., late 17th Lancers, Junior 'United Service Club. George Coode, Esq., Portland-terrace, Wandsworth, and Belvoir, St. Helier's, Jersey. Stephen Cracknall, Esq., 1, St. John's-gardens, Notting•hill, and 11, f,ew-square, Lincoln's-inn. George Knox, Esq., 15, Connaught-square, Hyde-park, and Tor Lodge, Staftordshiro. Alexander Maclean, Esq„ Harrow-on-the-Hill. David C. Poole, Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square. William Prinsep, Esq., 147, Leadenhall-street, and 8, Hyde-park. place West. Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Dr. Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. Major Sperling, 14, St. James's-square. AUDITORS. F. J. Bigg, Esq„ 126, Strand, Actuary and Secretary to tho3ledical Legal, and General Life Office. William Jones, Esq., Accountant, 3, Guildhall-chambers. BANKERS. Sir Charles Price, Marryat, and CO.; 3, King William-street, London PHYSICIANS. Dr. Lewis, Finsbury-place. Dr. Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. SIIII,GEONS. H. T. Chapman, Esq., 16, Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square. Michael Tcevan, Esq., 44, Gloucester-place, Hyde-park-gardens. CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. P. Nelson, Esq., F.L.S. INSPECTOR OP AGENCIES. F. P. F. Strousberg, Esq. STANDING COUNSEL. William Wellington Cooper, Esq., New-square, Lincoln's-inn. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Hill and Mathews St. Mary-axe. RESIDENT SECRETARY. Charles W. Bevan, Esq. The public is respectfhily invited to examine the principles of the Deposit System of Assurance, which is based upon tables calculated by, and is under the immediate supervision of, Francis G. P. Neison, Esq., F.L S., the Consulting Actuary to the CompanY. Comp , rative Tables to assure 5001 on death, by a person aged twenty next birthday, on the ORDINARY and on the DEPOSIT system of Assurances. LITERATURE. HARRISON AINSWORTH'S NEW STORY. The Flitch, of Bacon; or, the Custom, of .Dunmow. A Tale of English Home. By W. Harrison Ainsworth. Chapman and Hall. Harrison Ainsworth redivivus 1 Yes ; and restored to his admirers under the happiest auspices--by the com mencement, with the new year, of a good old English tale founded upon a good old English custom—a custom none the less entitled to our credence because simply traditional in its character. We welcome the romancist with a cordiality enhanced by his prolonged silence—a silence only broken recently for an interval by his tan talising chapters about "Mervyn Clitheroe." The close of that autobiography we count upon obtaining ultimately ; but.rneanwhile we are now enabled to _solace ourselves for its interruption by the new serial which, in his capa city as editor, Mr. Ainsworth has just adventured upon in the pages of the New Monthly Magazine. It has been the good fortune of our author to hit upon—or rather we should say it has been wonderfully to the credit of his judgment that he has selected—some of the most admirable subjects for fiction ever chosen , by a con tributor to our national literature. The very titles of some of his most popular works are sufficiently indica tive of this themselves. What, for instance, could be happier as a selection than that famons one of The Tower of London? Aided by the magic pencil of Cruikshank, Harrison Ainsworth in that well-known narrative—perhaps in some respects the most daring ho has ever attempted — revealed. .. every noel and crevice of the quaint old-Tower..k.„of 2.1 - nlius, displaying them to us in their threefold character as Fortress, as Prison, as Palace, repeopling them with , the forms of a vanished generation, and investing dungjtsonT'aiditair case, and turret, and corridors, nay, even pillar, and porch, and lattice with an atmosphere of romance, while he called forth from the dull stones and mortar some of the most remarkable and interesting of their great his torical associations. What again could be more felicitous than the notion of repeopling from the Past, in like manner, the gorgeous fane and verdant haunts of Windsor Castle ?—an idea further developed afterwards in regard to the town dwelling of our monarchs—St. James's. Victor Hugo had celebrated in this way the Cathedral of Paris in his masterly fiction of " Notre Dame " aud Harrison Ainsworth did the same by the Cathedral of London, in his Old St. Paul's—en hancing the interest of the story, by recounting in it the horrors of that Plague and Fire which successively devastated this metropolis in the seventeenth century. Happier still was our author's choice of a subject in Guy Fawkes and happiest of all to our mind, that of Crichton the Admirable ! In this manner, upon various occasions before now, he has continued to create a soul under the ribs of death, by reviving some dim old legend, or doubtfully remembered story, in the pictu resque guise of a living and attractive romance. Alfred Tennyson has done the same once or twice in verse—as in the instance of " The Sleeping Beauty ;" or, better still, in that of the " Lady Godiva." It is with the like skilfulness of selection that Mr. Ainsworth has taken now as the theme of his new domestic tale of life in England. "The Flitch of Bacon ; or, the Custom of Dunmow." The origin of this old legendary form he has himself described thus delightfully nally culled by Bluebell and IVlignionotte. It includes every variety of colour in style, and perfume in sentiment —deriving its charms from all quarters of the favoured parterre—from the evening primrose to the hyssop, from the pansy to the squirting cucumber ! Altogether it is de cidedly, distinctly, unmistakeably (and we say this, re member, advisedly)—the most admirable illustration we have yet seen of—the Language of Flowers. The Duke'e Funeral. A Poem. By Sir Francis Hast ings Doyle, Bart. Clark, Beeton, and Co. Another of those elegiac strains, sounding like the pibroch of patriotism over the grave of the brave old Wellington—another and another. yet succeeds like the phantom kings before the gaze of the Thane of Glamis. By this time the public generally may not unnaturally be supposed to be tolerably well satiated with effusions upon this particular subject, and of this particular cha racter. As admirers of anything at all approaching to poetic excellence, we should be disposed to regret the circumstance, if we believed for one moment (which we don't) that any reader of the poem before us would be thereby disposed to regard with apathy its merits as a composition. Nothing can be simpler in aim—nothing can be more true, more genuine, more unaffected in sen timent, than these very graceful ,verses, by Sir Francis Doyle, in commemoration of the old Duke's funeral. The opening has an originality in it that is really exqui site : " Child, with fresh cheek upon thy velvet palm, 0 bright-haired child, that sleep is sweet and calm— Through all those youthful pulses breathing balm ; But yet I say, Arise ! The unexhausted night hangs damp— Black yet round each unwaning lamp ; Against the echoing casement-pane, raw cold and plangent rain, The wind of Autumn sighs. Yet.from that flower-like rest, through all, Rouiliiales - thirb.blow ; chill showers that fall 4 1 day.again, Arise!" The tenderness of this is very beautiful. There is a pathos in the idea of the rousing of the young child at that dead hour of the morning to witness the funeral pageantries of the memorable warrior lamented by Eng land. The incident is, to the author's mind,' a symbol too—and a symbol, the meaning of which is clear, and the meaning is this— " Through thee, from booming gun and muffled drum, A voice must pass to all the years that come ! It is to thee, and such as thee, That England, great as yet, and free, Commits a solemn trust ; To print, as in a living book, On youlfs keen brain, each word, each look, And mark how o'er the nation's friend, By all poor honours earth can lend, Our stricken country seeks relief From passionate and noble grief?, It would not be difficult to discover reason, by the way, for cavil at certain flaws in the poem as a work of art. We might question the nice taste of such a Cock neyism in the way of rhyme as the following : • " From fathomless abysses still renewing Sea after sea to overwhelm and ruin." We might object to the distressing sibilatimi of the " Through seas of blood upheld, through earthquakes bore His country safe to peace's golden shore." But these minute blemishes—and there are but few of them —we forgive for the grace, and the sweetness, and the feeling, and the beauty of the composition. The follow ing passage has a crowning charm in it : " Child, suns must rise and set, the earth Through years and cycles onward roam ; And ever, past the gates of Death and Birth, Life's ocean-tide exhaustless foam. We soon must leave thee —soon wilt thou ho sitting Serenely under silvery hair ; Whilst bright curls glance, and fairy forms are flitting Around thy venerable chair. Then wilt thou tell them, ' Years and years ago, (I took it as a thing of course), An old man used to pass me, stooping low, White-headed, on his horse." The Duke ! Yes ; and slight though the sketch is, it is perfect. The effusion does credit to Sir Francis Doyle —alike to his intellect and his sensibility. ON THE ORDINARY SYSTEM. The sum the ordinary The sum the Life Offices would give ordinary Life him if he were unable Offices would to pay, or if he omitted At the His give him for to pay his current end of policy the surrender annual premium of 7 . 4 Annual thirty at that or sale Si. 6s. 3d. after he has 7.; premium years when age, of his policy, • paid into their coffers to assure the party in case after thirty 2491.78.6 d., and which 500/.* is fifty of years'payments they have had the use years old, death amounting to of at compound hewillhave will be 2491.75. 6d. interest,t or in paid into worth which theyhave the event of his death the office. had the benefit one hour after such of at compound omission or inability interest. to pay. little more 20 8/.65. 3d. 1 249/.75.6d. 5001. than 801. rtOTIIING. perhaps 901. ON THE DEPOSIT SYSTEM. - - Ifnnableto pay, or not desirous of paying or omitting topay,thePo- Hey would still remain of its FULL value, 522/.28.7d.ti1l death, if 20 years after, no fur ther payment beingre quired. Ifhowever the party, from any cause, wished to cancel the Policy, he could not o nlydraw out all hehas put in, viz., 2 25 /., but 20 ii. lOs Od 2251 . 5221.237 d 2871. 2s. 9d. which is more 2s. 9d. certain . b th on e us ba o rg f a 6 l 2 . l ; than one-fourth of the whole of his payments, or he could either draw out a part, 201. or 501., diminishing the Policy only by the assured value of the sum SO drawn out at the age when withdrawn. See pagess and7in detailed pamphlet, by F. G. P. Nelson, Esq. * The rates here selected are those adopted by the English and Cambrian Office, and adverticpd its distinctive features as low r l a n t m es o o s f t former Equitable thepaarltelbcule ' The rates here selected are those adopted by the Engl ish and Cambrian Office, and advertised in its distinctive featu r e s as low premium, o and professedly for the lower and midd:ing classes. , a t r h ly ese th r e at o es l d w er ee o l n d e h s e, muchsuclt h as igh th er e . l Scottish tiie of 101. 7s. 6d., w ith 10 s hilli ngs per cent. entrance fee , wo uld be the rate to insure 500/. a t 20 y e ars of age. In the latter 81 . 135 4d., to iha ure the same sum. Thehigher the r ate the more in favour of the DEPOSIT system. t Money laid out at compound interest nousLEs ITSELF every four teen years. On comparison of these two tables it will be seen that a person under the novel system of DEPOSIT assurance can secure the follow ing advantages, viz., l st. For a less sum, paid annually, he can assure a larger sum in case of death than under the ordinary system. 2ndly. In the event of a desire to surrender his Fancy he can receive in this Company, by the above example, which applies to all ages, TIDIER times as much as on the ordinary system. 3rdly. In the event of Inability or omission to pay, his policy remains still his property, of the same value as it was, though he cease his current payments for any number of years; whereas on the ordinary system, he gets nothing. 4thly. Should he require to increase or decrease the amount of his policy he can do so at pleasure. He can, at any time, by g iv ing a fortnight's notice, withdraw any part from 11 up to the whole amount of his previous payments and with interest. After he has withdrawn part one year he can, by a single payment, three Years, or any time afterwards. raise his policy to a greater or even is former amount ; and by this system he can at all times regulate his annual savings by his annual expenditure, with the facility in the bargain of having a fund to fly to in case of necessity, the same as in a bank, with this palpable advantage, however, that he gets inte rest for his money, and in case of death his family receive mere than the amount of his savings. In ordinary Life Offices be can do no such thing, but his policy at once lapses or is cancelled the moment he ceases to pay his current premiums, and, instead of having any fund to fly to for aid, all his hard-earned savings become forfeited to the society, and his misfortunes serve to benefit the pockets of his more fortunate co-assurers. Such a system is too equitable and too striking to be overlooked and DEPOSIT assurance is the only system of assurance which can be eniversally recognized and adopted when the principles are impar tially canvassed, and its palpable benefits become widely diffused. It confers greater advantages than a bank because it allows a fair rate of interest in case of withdrawal, and gives twice the amount in the hands of the Company to the representatives of the Depositor in case of death, thus combining the ADVANTAGES OF A BANK WITH TILE BENE,FITS OF AN ASSURANCE COMPANY. In case of endowment assurances the advantages of the DEPOSIT system aro still more striking. ADVANTAGES OF TIIIS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY LIFE ASSURANCE BRANCH. To those who prefer this branch Policies are granted fromlol. to 5,0001. on every known principle thereof. Lives in all but the worst stages of disease, and such as have been rejected by other Offices, are taken at rates equivalent to the parti cular disease. Loans from 501. and upwards granted on every kind of security, real or personal, on the most equitable terms to the borrower Annuities of every description granted on very favourable terms. Non-forfeiture of a Policy —ln case of inability to pay the currant premiums, the Directors will either purchase the Policy at a fair market value, or give a new one in lieu thereof, less 5 per cent., inte rest corresponding in amount to the whole of the prev.ous payments which have been made. - Detailed prospectuses with tables in further illustration of the De posit system, and any further information may be obtained on appli cation to the Agents in the country, or to CHARLES W. BEVAN, Resident Secretary. N.B.—Agents wan todltt all parti of the World. CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL.—The annual statement of the operations of this hospital mentions that in the course of the last year 16,236 indigent sipk persons were admitted on the books for re lief, at a cost of 2,553/. 4s. Oid. ; of these, 1, 282 were in - p atients, and 15,204 were (manyouontiposa,tiaenntdsthe greater of whompt were w e r erestored visited at t o t t h h e e i r ow n h bless ings of health and to their occ u p ations for the support of their families). These, with the cases reported in ar former annual statements, make a total of 221,144 sick and needy individuals who have partaken of the advan tages of the institution from its commencement, in 1818, to - the. 31st December, 1852. The committee thankfully acknowledge the very kind contributions to the hospital during the past year, and also the liberal donations to the fund for the completion of the building, and the fitting up of four additional wards for children and tho younger class of patients. Upwards of two-thirds of the amount required for this important purpose have now been raised, and the committee hope for such further assistance as may enable them to accomplish the object of their solicitude during suddenofan nuallyin injuries which had been brought to the hospital as to re thewer were preceding year. These cases have, during the last 1,404 were with letters amountedrequire et to 2,428, of which 324 were so dangerous year, immediatelyadmitted recommendation, admitt edduring itnh-opaatn lasti in-patients. t l s 4 . , year, BoB2f 2mBi6tted without anyrecoinmendation. The charity was in operation for fifteen years as a dispensary, before the opening of the present hospital in 1834, during which period, viz., from the year 1818 to the close of 1833, it afforded relief to 36420 patients at a cost of 6,886 e. tie, Bid. THE OLD INN AT DIINMOW. " And now a few words more in reference to the old inn. Many years ago, it had been the most important habita tion in the place: in fact, the hall. Neglected by its owner, Sir Walter Fitzwater, an eccentric personage about whom strange tales were told, though none to the effect that he had much chance of gaining the Flitch, for indeed he se parated from his lady who died in despair, it was said, soon after that unfortunate event; then altogether aban doned by him • and in the end sold, and for an old song, for like most deserted houses it was supposed to be haunted and no one would inhabit it. Half of the mansion was next pulled down, including the haunted wing, and the residue being converted into an inn, passed through several hands, and was at length taken by Jonas Nettlebed im mediately after his first marriage. But the precautionary measures above detailed had not been entirely effectual in getting rid of the ghost. It only appeared to have changed its quarters. There was still one chamber left ; and the best in the house, unluckily; in which whoever slept was sure to be scared by some unaccountable noise or preter natural appearance. With this exception the inn was quiet and comfortable enough, and the general accommo dation excellent. Good ale, clean sheets, civil host and buxom hostess : what more could any reasonable traveller desire? Let us walk up and look at the old house. As ' suredly, it is picturesque, and rich enough in elaborate architectural detail to please yon. What a fine facade it presents ! high roof, quaint gables, twisted chimneys, and bay-windows, still full of stained glass. And what a large and hospitable porch ! Note those noble elm-trees grow ing near it. To an arm of one of the largest of them is suspended Jonas . Nettlebed's gaudy signboard. But for that, and the circular bench embracing the tree, and the watering-trough for horses, and some other matters, you would never have taken the house for an inn. Now let us enter. The promise without is not belied by what we find within. Hero is a spacious and lofty room, capable of accommodating any number of guest ; and here no doubt the old Fitzwalters -- a hospitable race, save the last of the line—must often have feasted their friends, and held their Christmas revels. Is it much changed since their time ? We think not. Witness that high, carved mantelpiece, amongst the ornament of which you may discern their many-quartered shield : and you may also find their ar morial bearings in the blushing panes of the bay-windows. The wainscots are of oak as in days of yore ; and that ponderous table of the same dark material, and that mas sive carved sideboard, can never have left their places. They must have belonged to acme Fitzwalter in the days of good Queen Bess, when the hall was built, and when that fine oak staircase was reared, which you see leading to the railed gallery above. Many a light foot has tripped down those polished steps ; many a heavy boot clanked up them. Rich silks have rustled in the gallery above ; fair faces have looked down upon the gallants below, when beards were wagging at the board, and the damsels' names were on their lover's lips as they raised the cup to them. Many a swift couranto has been danced upon the floor : many a song has echoed from the vaulted roof : many a Yule log has crackled upon the hearth ; many a sport and pastime has been held round it. All are gone now. No wonder there is a ghost in the house. It must mourn over past splendours—over the buried joys of other days." The scene opens, of course, at once in the locality th u s oddly invested with popular celebrity. And here it is that our romancist gives us this capital descrip• tion of THE FLITCH OF BACON. "An old custom this delivery of the flitch; so old that the date of its institution is lost. Thus much only is known about it. Tho earliest claim on record was made t in he the gue s r e d v o e n nt o h f y r e a a r r e o co f t n h j e ug re a i l gii. ov of e E an d d wa tru rd th th w e a F s ou b rt es h and to , wed upon Steven Samuel and his wife by the good Prior of the Convent of Our Lady at Dunmow. Twice again in monkish times was the prize won—at long intervals, indeed, for the second application occurred in the reign of Henry the Sixth, and the third at the commencement of the Eighth Hurry's rule. But the good old custom was continued long after the dissolution of the monasteries ; in fact, it could not be dispensed with, being part of the manorial tenure. Part of the venerable fabric, which had once sheltered the old Augustine canons and their superior, was still stand ing, where those, who had lived and loved as few love and live, had come, in days gone by, to make their claim, and hold themselves up as a bright example to their fellows ; the very stones beneath the porch were left—sharp-pointed flints they were, and little worn—on which three proud and happy couples had knelt to verify their faith, and re ceive the priestly benediction and reward ; the ancient and curiously-formed oak chair was still preserved in which those worthy folk had sat together, and thus placed had been borne upon men's shoulders, round the precincts of the sacred edifice, to the sound rebec, psaltery, and lute, and amidst joyous shouting from admiring crowds; the flitch of bacon being carried before them on a lofty pole. All these forms and ceremonies were yet observed, or ready to be observed, save that tho Lord of the Manor, together with the steward and other officers, were substituted for the Prior and his white-robed brethren. But alack ! and well-a-day. Wedded love and faith would seem a fable. Only two more claimants came in two centuries. It was now in the middle of the third—that is to say, in 1750 — and none had yet offered—though a flitch of bacon was regularly salted and dried, and proclamation constantly made at the Court Baron that it was ready for delivery— securaum jormant donationi4—to any appli can t s , fulfilment of the conditions annexed to th e gift." on due Having in this way rendered his readers familiar at once with the Inn and the Custom of Dunmow, Mr. Ainsworth loses no time in introducing the principal per sonages destined to figure in the narrative. Besides the garrulous and uxorious old landlord, Jonas Nettlebed, and the third wife of Boniface, Nelly Nettlebed— we have already become acquainted with Carroty Dick, the ostler, and Peggy, the pretty chambermaid, with Dr Plot, the mysterious, and Mr. Roper, the crabbed ; but most agreeably of all, with Rose Woodbine, the heroine, and Frank Woodbine, the hero —doubtless the future and successful claimants of the Dunmow Flitch of Bacon. It is in this fashion that the now story opens story which, we trust, may shed fresh lustre on the New Monthly, and impart new Ainsworth. popularity to the already popular name of Harrison The Bouquet. A Monthly Periodical. A charming little publication, with, a title at onoe graceful and suggestive. It blooms in th e b ou d o i rs o f e.ll ty and Mignionette. In little magazine, Mayfair, and in the drawing-rooms of Bel grav i a , h av ing been culled at intervals o f ever y four or five weeks in otherl‘lary lweboorndes:gtahredßenosu,qubyetßis a d lueb a m con sisting of prose and poetic contributions from a number of young ladies, who are accustomed to meet in the gar dens of Park-crescent, not only for the purpose of social recreation, but for that also, it would seem of intellectual improvement. It is a happy thought most happily real ised. There is no alloy of vanity in it either—for each of the fair contributors to the Bouquet (and hence its title) conceals her identity under the name of some plant or blossom—the only clue to the authorship being that the initial letters in the names of bud and writer in each instance are identical. Mother Bunch, by right, ought to have been the editor—but, instead of that, we find the post occupied by a noli me tangere sort of personage, namely, Thistle, who must, one would fancy, alarm the more timorous aspirants, by telling them on the title page of every number that—Nemo me impune lascessit I Happily, if the Bouquet is arranged (and admirably ar- L ranged, it is under those auspices) by Thistle, it is origi. TVatkins's London Directory. 1853. An enormous undertaking has here been adventured upon in the form of a comprehensive guide to all ad dresses in the British metropolis. " Watkins's London Directory " purports, and with reason, to be both general and commercial. It comprises, moreover, a guide through the " Environs," very copious, and to a considerable extent very accurate in its character. As a frontispiece to the volume, there is a magnificent map of the Capital of England, prepared and printed ex pressly for this publication by Deere—a map extending so far in its delineation of the suburbs as to include Willesden, Wormwood Scrubbs, Barnes Common, Putney Park, Clapham Common, East Dulwich, Lewis ham, Greenwich Park, Bromley Marsh, Stratford, Low- Lepton, Stoke Newington, and. Cricklewood. Alto gether the work appears to us very skilfully arranged, and that surely is about the foremost desideratum in a metropolitan directory. The• principal divisions are, as they ought to be, large and well-assorted. A " Street Key " follows immediately after the " General Alphabetical Directory " after which come the - "Scientific Directory" and the "Pro fessional Directory." In a mercantile point of view, one of the prominent features of the compilation is that which is defined upon the title-page as the " Classifica tion of Trades." Thereupon we have the " Court Guide," followed by the "Legal Directory." The guide to "All the Public Offices " includes, of course, every one of the various offices of the Government. Besides the foregoing divisions, there are four others of some im portance : there is a " List of Bankers," thereis a "Parliamentary Companion," there is a considerable store of " Postal Information," and there is a division— and a very valuable division too—relating to "Convey ance." Added to all this, we have towards the end, the " Environs," as already intimated, in the shape of a succinct and orderly supplement. The/comprehensive ness of the work is sufficiently well pointed out by its originators in the remark prefixed to its 2,102 pages, to the effect that it extends " on the north to Camden Town, south td Camberwell, east to the East India Docks, and west to Bayswater"—this, of course, being exclusive of the supplementary guide to the environs. As testi monies that every regard has been had to the typo graphy, as well as to the topography, it is only neces sary to observe that the printing of the volume has been confided to the firm of Spottiswoodes and Shaw, and the publishing to that of Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Altogether, the proprietor, F. W. Watkins, tells us on his title page—for we need scarcely say that we have not ventured to count for ourselves—that the Directory comprises no less than 142,000 names and ad dresses. These names and addresses, we learn from the preface, are thus distributed :-92,000 under the Alpha betical Directory, 122,000 un d er the Street Key, 1,000 professions and trades under the Professional and Trades Directory, 30,000 of the nobility and gentry under the Court Directory, and so on th roug h the rest of the clas sified divisions, with 15,000 names an d addresses for the environs —making the s um t o t a l of 142,000 as already intimated. A violent controversy has for some time past, we may observe, b een carr i ed on between the respec tive proprietors, as to the relative merits of Watkins's Directory and of Kelly's Post-Office Directory. The former has claimed, by th e way , a super i or i ty over the latter in regard to accuracy, as well, we believe, as in reference to the possession in his work of something like 20,000 or 30,000 names additional. For ourselves, we shrink from any participation in squabbles of this character. Coin ciding with good Mistress Malaprop that " comparisons are oderous," we should have been disposed to preser silence as to the respective value of the two publications. But seeing the claim already referred to, we conceive that the claimant has thereby driven us to an alternative. Satisfied upon this. point, and reviewing the two works dispassionately, we give the preference distinctly, de cidedly, and unquestionably, to " Post-Office London Directory." That work we conceive to be alto gether unrivalled among works of that description. We regard the volume before us, namely " Watkins's Di rectory," as in itself really very wonderful, and as on l y inferior (but then decidedly inferior) when brought into comparison with its still more wonderful contemporary. Everything considered, however, and setting " Kelly's Post-Office London Directory" altogether on one s i de, " Watkins's Directory" appears to us peculiarly meri torious, and indicative of an astonishing combination of enterprise, industry, and perseverance. THE DUCHESS OF ORLEANS' PROPERTY. —The sale of the beautiful articles which belonged to the late Duke of Orleans, was brought to a conclusion, on Friday. The objects then sold consisted pri nc i pa ll y of silks of the richest description, which had been ordered for the pur pose of being used in fitting up th e pr i vate apartments of the prince, but which his sudden death left unem ployed. They sold for prices certainly far below their value, but still high enough to realise, in the aggregate, a considerable sum. The four curtains and four por tieres, of figured silk, brought 28,000 fr. The beautiful piece of brocatelle, which had excited so much admiration on the day when it was on view, fetched 17,000 f. The five portseres of tapestry, representing subjects a la Boucher, were knocked down, the first for 3,250 fr. ; the next pair for 2,390 fr. ; and the large one for 2,005 fr. The whole amount of the day's sale was was 69,286 fr. ; and that of the several days collectively upwards of 800,000 fr. RECTORY OP ST. ANDREW UNDERSHAPT.—The Bishop of London has given notice to the authorities of the parish of St. Andrew TJndershaft, Leadenhall-strdet, the rectory of which lately became vacant by the death of the Rev. William Antrobus, B.D. that he h as suspended the tithes, & c., w i th a view to' the apportion ment of some of them to the augmentation of neighhour ing and poorer parishes. It was stated in the parish, yesterday, that so soon as these arrangements are com pleted, his lordship will present his son, the Rev. F. Blomfield, now rector - of St. Alphege, London-wall, to the valuable living of St. Andrew. The rectory of St. Alphege, which will thus become vacant, is Worth about 400/, a4year, and is in the gift of the bishop, t e 2 • ° I I f . ~ COLONEL COLTS REPEATING PISTOi. This invention, or rather improvement up on a pr i nc l p l e long established, as our readers are aware, gained a wide-world fame during the Great Exhibition of Much apprehension appears to have existed as to'th6 real nature of Colonel Colt's invention. The gallant officer does not lay claim to an original discovery, but he does venture to declare that he has the merit of improv ing greatly upon the old system. The pistols are of singularly beautiful make and form ; and this we say without disparagement to other discoveries:which have been made. The points of superiority claimed by Colonel Colt for his pistol are—first, the facility with which the six chambers may be loaded bymeans of a compound lever ramrod, attached to the pistol, which forces the ball so effectually home that the chamber containing the pow der becomes hermetically sealed, and if the nipple be covered with a little wax the pistol may be immersed for any length of time in water without danger of a miss fire ; secondly, the perfect manner in which the revolu tion of the chambers is directed, so that it is impossible to fire the pistol until the barrel and one of the chambers are in a direct line, and so that there is no possibility of any lateral escape of flame on the explosion of the pow der ; and, lastly, the superiority of projectile power, as to force, distance, and accuracy, over every other pistol that has been invented. It appears from a report made by the board of the United States Ordnance, that out of 2,032 tested, wily one pistol failed in the inspection trial, and that - was at tributed, by the report, "to the imperfect metal of the particular arm." At the same trial one of Colt's holster pistols was fired 1,200 times, and his belt pistol 1,500 times in suBcession, and the board reported that " neither of the pistols appeared to be injured by the firing." The penetration of Colt's holster pistol was found to be through seven inches of board, and his belt pistol through six inches, whilst the greatest penetration of the common dragoon pistol was only through five inches. In the Eastern Province News it is stated that Mr. Peard,rolo nel Colt's agent in Southern Africa, having met with some difficulty in establishing the reputation of the arm, brought the matter to a public trial, in a pl ace called Baaken'si Valley. The firing commenced at 200 yards ; and out of six charges Mr. Peard lodged two bullets into the target at that distance. The range of this pistol was then tried, and it was found to throw a toll a clear.flialit DLOCIO,-yards autt - that any object the e of a human being, could be struck with a tolerable degree of certainty at from 150 to 200 yards. Colonel Colt has met with so much success that he has established a manufactory at Thames Bank, where, in order to test the validity of his invention, he proposes to erect a shooting gallery, giving a range of 100 yards. When this object is a ccom pli s hd, the public will have vary practical means of setting at rest any doubt which may exist as to the value of his discovery. We were much gratified a few days. since when we . were permitted to inspect and test the five different sized pistols. We seek not to enter into any controversy as to inventions of other parties ; but we do not hesitate to bear our testimony to the ingenuity, efficiency, and beauty of Col. Colt's pistols. SUSPECTED MURDER.—At Bath, on Saturday, reap of a very suspicious and mysterious character was brought under the attention of the magistrates at the Guildhall, when two young men, named James Bennett and Lewis Perran, were charged on suspicion with having caused the death of a woman, whose name is unknown, on the night of the 11th instant. To enable the reader the bet ter to understand the evidence given below, it may be well to give a brief introductory statement. On the morning of the 12th of January, the body of a woman, which had evidently not been in the water many hours, was taken out of the river Avon, at Swinford, a hamlet between Bath and Bristol. The body was identified by several persons as being that of a woman who had passed on her way from Bristol to Bath on the previous day, and who had stated that she was a soldier's wife, and was following her husband from Wales to Winchester barracks, where her husband was stationed. A good deal of excitement was created, as there was little doubt from the appearance of the body, that the unfortunate woman had been murdered. An inquest was held before Mr. J. Ellis, coroner for Gloucestershire, when Mr. Brown, a surgeon, who examined the body, gave it as his opinion that a wound, found upon the head of the deceased was inflicted during her lifetime, but that death was caused by drowning. The jury returned an open verdict of " Found drowned," and the poli7 ere, desired to direct their attention to the case. police subsequently obtained some information f .ii i'ic to the apprehension of Bennett and Perrin on suspiei. of being concerned in the woman's death. The first witness examined was George Gill, who deposed that he keeps a beer-house, called the Odd Fellows' Arms, in Avon-street (one of the lowest parts of Bath). H e re- \ membered on the night of the 11th of January, a stranger, an Irishwoman, coming to his house between nine and ten 1 o'clock. She went into the taproom, and remained there drinking until eleven. He had since seen the body of the woman, which was taken out of the river at Swinford, and identified it as being that of the woman he had seen at his house. The prisoner Bennett sat next to the woman in the tap-room, and Peran was in the skittle- 44 alley. About elevela o'clock he turned all the company out, and the woman left with the others. William El lerton, of 5, Milk-street, was then called. He was quite a lad, but he gave his evidence with considetable'reluc tance, He deposed that he was at Gill's beer-house on the night of the 11th inst., and left at the same time as the Irishwoman and the prisoners. Seeing the two pri soners go off with the woman, he followed to watch them. When they got about half-way down Cat's-lane, Pen-an, Bennett, and the woman stood against a tree for three or four minutes. He then heard the woman cry "police" two or three times, rather loud, upon which Bennett ran away up the lane, passing witness appar ently without seeing him. The woman went on down the lane, and Perran followed her. At th e b o tt om o f th e lane he heard the woman ask Perna to take her to the station-house, and they went on by the side of the river towards Bristol. That was not the way to the station. Perran then saw witness following, and cried out, " Wh o ' s that?" and he replied, "It's me. It Was dark, and he con tinued to follow for some distance, when Perran and the woman turned a corner, and he could not see them. He stopped, and could hear footsteps, as though they were trampling in the mud. He also heard a splash, which he believed was from Perran and the woman stepping into a pool of water, there being a large hole there knee deep. He at the same time heard the woman call " police" loudly once or twice, and she appeared to be crying as though she was hurt. Perran also called out " Oh, Christ !' and immediately ran by witness without • speaking. He followed Perran, and on Kingsmead terrace he saw by the light of the lamps that his boots and trousers were very muddy, as though he had stepped into the hole. Was quite sure that the splash he heard was not caused by the woman falling into the river, be cause he was standing on the edge of the bank, and must have seen her if . she had fallen in. The woman was not drunk, but could walk steadily. He saw no' scrambling or scuffling between Pen-an and the woman. He saw Perran yesterday in Avon-street, and told him that the woman he was with by the river side was drowned, and that the police had been to him about it. Perran told him that he had better not know anything at all about it. That was all the conversation they had. The magistrates decided to discharge Bennett and to remand Perran, Mr. Hughes, the chief of police, stat ing that he believed he should be able to produce further evidence in a few days. THE MADIAS.— Lord Carlisle has addressed a letter to the editor of the Leeds Mercury, in reference to the case of the Madiais. The noble lord says—" I am aware that it is thought by many that, so far from the case of the Madiais being a solitary instance, the prisons of Italy . are at this moment crowded with the victims of religious persecution. I speak not of matters, however, which are beyond my cognizance. Upon the ground of what we do know as a fact, without concerning ourselves for the present either with the conduct of foreign Governments or of our own, it is impossible that we should not await with great anxiety the course adopted by our own Roman Catholic fellow-sub jects. They have continually assured us that the old principles and codes of intolerance, once certainly (and I readily admit not exclusively) attached to their church, had fallen into practical disuetude, and were viewed by them with at least as much abhorrence as by ourselves. We gave them credit for the generous self-assertion. I will not waste your space by a reference to what is of so little moment as my own career ; but I feel that on the whole it has not lagged not lagged in sympathy for their just rights. What has since happened ? A man is in danger of meeting with his death, under a judicial sentence, for the offence of reading the Bible. The fact, as far as I yet know, is not controverted. It Li known that there are some, it is believed there ar many, undergoing similar risks. It must be per fectly obvious that in such a state as Tuscany these ecclesiastical sentences and penalties must slumber or revive under the paramount inspiration of Rome. Now our Roman catholic countrymen profess implicit spiritual deference and allegiance to the see of Rome. With that, principle of theia faith it is no business of mine to quar rel ; but as even spiritual authority must maintain some reciprocal relations with those who are subject to it, surely the Roman catholic citizens of the United Kingdom will address the voice of remonstrance to their spiritual supe rior, deferential, dutiful, submissive as they will, but still earnest, importunate, and incessant. till by its timely in tervention they are rescued from this glaring inconsist ence, this intolerable reproach. I might, had space and opportunity permitted, have been tempted to remark on many gathering symptoms, long foreseen, long expected by many, of a more obstinate and decisive conflict in the world than has yet occurred ; but I refrain from all mat ters of speculation, and confining myself to what is sub ject of actual record, I must repeat that upon the mode in which the Roman Catholic body at large treat these contemporary occurrences their place in the estimation even of their most sincere well-wishers must largely de pend." INCREASE IN PITMEN'S WAGES.--The coal trade of the midland counties, as might be expected, is reaping advantage from the prosperity of the iron trade, and coal and ironstone continue in a course, if anything, of more than proportionate advance. The coal proprietors have raised the colliers' wages to ss. per day, and the thin coal and stone miners' to 3s. 6d. INCREASED VALUE OF LAND IN IRELAND.—The " confiscation" of Ireland is proceeding at a marvel lously pleasant rate for the confiscated, whatever the new " intruders" may say to the contrary. The sale of the estate of Mr. Bagwell Taylor last week, is one of the latest instances of the " awful sacrifices" effected in the Irish land market. The property is situated in the county of Tipperary, and yields a net rental'of 7531. 195., which was sold in one lot for the sum of 20,300/ 2 , or at the rate of 27 years' purchase. THE LAKES.—Skiddaw, and the whole range of moun tains in view from Keswick, south and west, were densely covered with snow to nearly their base, on Saturday evening last ; and afterwards a keen frost set in throughout the lake district. ....~► A e- -77