The Sun. — London, England, 1853-09-21 00:00:00

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Z4;',131::r• 4 NPII \ iI , 2 I zyz/L.- I ~ / 4 ~ I ,- / ..) is accomplished. In thi/part, at least, of his _ varied career he has lived down detraction, and distanced oppositio?,7 May he long enjoy the ner vous energy which`has enabled him to pursue his work of law reform with such signal arid satisfac tory success. , RANK OF DEPOSIT, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar - square, Londo n . •rlLarties desirous of Investing Money are requested to examine the o hn of this Institu ion, tion by which a high Rate of Interest may be .Ltu ned with perfect security. tm old as NI L, 'new . 49? to .25 ; ; to 65s ; oa Le 36 s to 3Sgi, eans, tick, 33si to 370. Interest payable in January and July. PE fEll MORRISON, Managing Director. Prospectuses free on application. RAILWAY INTEtLIGENCE. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1853. irßics SD. SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. te, 7211 e t o 25s ; be&v.l to 42g ; Cei feg & . :C.l re (rota pOrtg, 4 I A g ~--'- -- I 24 I 28 NO Bo OS pd ila vs* market id, tZe. o . Ley ........ ? 66 , 1 ........... 6 Y.d A 1 • ........ ' ......... a ........ dvola ..... Hartley ; 0 57. `ember 19th, 1853. September 14th, 853, Tlfitonl ilptoll It!) Earl of Conrtown Earl Leven and Melville Earl of Norbury Viscount Falkland ith ••, mpton nipton r port' nptol l npton Oct.o; i 6 •seP , .10 Ar• 2 6 SeP!' g, -ep. 29 40Pt• 1 MEDICAL npton Arthur H. Hassall, Esq., M.D., bYlle bonus added to policies : , tral,er, 1847, is as follows : nptol 0_c .. t; . 1 us ' 4l O Int stO ro of till cad ° itlemen orto nder a e° 0 epar DYal Mw t .-1° arf wb s ae ;, wh r a pas the re e - r a ll.s ' 01r i ng 11- d , were Bird. JO' u c ., 111 2 A tlu jor o I 1 . s mile ct, , ed. _f_7:Bo, " 31 1 :, 1 117 f i r o i e ' _geeb all hav, .b whi o ,. the d a ll ' ev e ' 00 not efeo :fled) or der! 'nY diso • 001' T' s ' 111 ;0 0° 244, t the rough° noshi re ' "6 Catt°''bi'rl' la rrougl ieB s , 1 rae ll ' ricbf -11 001 o f the 0 0 ,er Of C°' "/Iti l, i p1y1130. , ~, college,, I ,1 10UiSSP Co ;11, ul7 o ' J °llll low a' I T Y sa bell * to O C I ' ,D,rslY, v ille - se tire aci Ann, see° unre• ...------ fr e ' brog- E ms, Lbrose lldg' 510 h is d or wood"li )phis °%i'' Be.a - w lay of If a „ r aga/ so so.l NATIONAL PROVINCIAL FIRE OFFICE, 'coni c i s 127, CHEAPsID LOND )N. e hereby given, that in comequence of the numerous it ye itille'n,eY Persons, forstions which have alletmeois been rec exc(ecing the w anholeeived from my h, of the sh aflnentia. ars trin ? Lining tindis ! t , posed of, the Directors will , on ite sth OCTO tileitrr ex t , finillY CLO , ,ESHARP' , LIS r, atter which no fur proce:plicatior,s can be received The Directors will, however, 4, 4 ,4 to COr sider any applications which may be made in . the am L a) e, with the view of distributing them In Fitch proportions c oln ..Ong such persons as may be conducive to the interests of the Party. By order of the Board, EDMUND C LENCII, Feeretary, NATIONAL PROVINCIAL LIFE OFFICE, Nou n . 127, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. the A "is hereby given, that pursuant to a Resolution passed at b e , es General Meeting of the Proprietors and Assured M em hthe L e d at th e L on d on T avern , o n the Bth instant, a Di, Wend after 14 1 Z of SIX PER CENT PER ANNUM, was declared ILlon capitsl; and notice is hereby further given that the 22d end Warrants may be received at this office, on and after the natant, between t,e hours of 1 I an , 3 o'clock. EDMUND CLENCH, Secretary.',. A.TIONAL PROVINCIAL FIRE OFFICE, 127, vil , ArSIDE. Th. Subscribed Canital, Qoarl er of a 1111Pon. or s a dvantage o insuring in this office is the Antria , Returns or seetl e ' half the entire profits in• whibt the same amount kid ample given by other offices is afforded, an • a fully subscribed Th .“ Pie paid up capital. the /: P r inelPle of (livid ng the profits bet•reen the Proprietors asd eit z d rhrodly 4 1 , e Uredeingincrea daily recognised, and has secured for this office sing husir eis. r " Promptly and liberally settled. E .)AIUND CLENCH, Secretary. `T SIT the EMPEROR and EMPRESS of of % the F 2 .th FRNCH to CA LA IS, on the 2 6 th 'nst , and to Bouloene pry. and 28th —SOUTH- EAST R C R An Ex kid., ?lin, in connection with a fast steamer, leaves the London by 4 i .rmlnus for Cale., every day, at B.othe passengers The h flr"ve Calais at about one &dr ck in the afternoon. Thal Trains for the Boulogne steamer fmna Fo'kestone will e lm I:21e London-bridge Terminus at 11.30 a.m. on the 26th inst., 7,,_ 4 Pan. on the 27th. lie t ii r ine above trifle and steamers the journey from London to ' l64 e, or London to Calais, is performed in five hours. G. S. HERBERT, Secretary. - 4GICI/AZII).,TRIJNK RAILWAY of CANADA. 44 Notice is Rereny Given, That the Holders of Shares - 1n 'the cle s t rn l th TRUNK RAILWAY CO NI PANY of CANADA, who are of Paying up in advance on the Debnitures allotted to them, rtes r e s at liberty to do so on the presentation of their , crip Certifi- A u a t Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., No 67, Lombard-street !iota „t uc h Payments will bear Interest at the rate of 6 per cent. De, 'ue date of payment, and the Certificates wi 1 be exchanged for km/attires when the same are received from Canada. By Order of the Board. WM. CHAPMA.N. wee of the Grand Trunk Railway Co. of Canada, 3 , Leadenhall-street, 3d Sept , 1853. rEE HARBINGER, for PORT PHILIP and Th. SYDNEY. he re ,- .trectori of the General •;crew Steam Shipping Company oh at l give notice to passengers and s hippers by the HARBINGER, 11will SAIL from Southampton, for Port Philip and Sydney, Irar a L.NESDAY, the sth of October next. Cargo must be for alid -4 to Sou htampn not later than the Ist of the month; specie Parcels will be received up to the 4th. kw :freight and passage apply at the Company's Offices, 1, Ade 'lace London-bridge. N.g tb 4 " — The Harbinger, on her last voyage , re ached Port Philip in 'qS from England. j~gURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL Rooms, (Lessee, Cass. C. LAURENT, Onslow - hous ,, Fulham.road). Ip a ,ge above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE SE ISON, continue open every evening, with L AURE T'S bi ti , e ''BßATED Asz D. Admission, is. Doors open at half-past 8 ; fig to commence at 9 o'clock, and ter binate at half-past 11. SOOTTISH WIDOWS' FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. lust tuted A.D. 1815. Head Office —Edinburgh, 5, St. Andrew-square. A Ccumulated and Invested Cap.tal upwards of £2,550,000 Annual Revenue upwards 0f... •• • • ...... 330,000 • _The Mkt, Reports upon the recent Investigation into the Society's te o ^. and of the proceedings at the Annaal Meeting, are now 44. 4 and may be had 4 , n application at any of the Society's rh e.es or at the He.,l Offl -e. been er e may also be had, on application, a pamphlet which has tor; and Present repared, on of the Soci co talning an a ccount of the Original His 'Positiety. JoHN MACRE-N./IF, Ma , ager. Wm. LINDE AAY, Secretary. LONDON HONORARY BOARD. Qeorge Young, Esq„ Mark-lane. Charles Edward Pollock, Esq., Barrister, Temple. David Hill, Esq., East India House. John Murray, Esq., Publisher, Albemarle-street. Samuel Laing. Esq., M.P. Sir John Thomas lirLgs Admiralty. Leonard Horner, Esq., Home-office. John Taylor, jun , Esq., C.E , Queen-street -place. Agent—Hugh SI Kean. Office-4, Royal Exchange-buildings. SECURITY TO EMPLOYERS. 1 0 Secretaries of Public Institutions, Clerks, Station Masters, Rail way Officials, Bankers' Clerks, Travellers, and Others. TIMES LIFE ASSURANCE and. GUARAN- Tr COMPANY, 32, Ludgate-hill, London. Incorporated ander 7 and 8 Victoria. cap. 110. HONORARY PRESIDENTS. CHARLES HINDLEY, Esq., 'vr P. Dartmouth.house, Westminster. JAMES KERSHAW, Esq., iv Stockport. TRUSTEES. James Alexander Douglas, Esq., 11, Queen -square. Ambrose Moore, Esq., Endsleigh-street, T wistock-square. James Nisbet, Esq., Berners-street, Osiord-street. CHAIRMAN—The Hun. Francis Villiers, Berkeley-square. DE PUT Y CHAIRMAN James Wyld, Esq., Charing-cross. " The Times " Company affords guarantee to persons requiring the Ba rrie at the lowest pos . ib i e r a t e , and divides four-nths of the profits. . c htis, by applying the imply popular principle of mutuality to public g uarantee, the premiums, instead o e being a tax. upon honesty, be tOrne a means of savingandairndvse.stra Rates —From 7 8 . No charge for stamps or extra Tl:arges. A rance n aliewance made in en tr bi g n u e a d r . antee premium, where a - e assu and guarantee are LIFE ASSURAIsC . St,•Pols indisputable, save in Life assurance, annuities, and endowments. Payments taken konthly as well as quarterlY, e ,,t 4 es 0 1 fraud. Arrangements can bema(lise Y entthe loss of a policy where the assured ens. ,r abarrassment, to keep up the paYT I. unable , wi twith th from o te e m t p o o r p a r r e y - B. SHERIDAN, Manager. ILINITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Established by Act of Parliament in 1834. 8, Waterloo -place, Pall-mall, London. HONORARY PRESIDENTS. Lord Elpbinstone Lord Belhaven and Stenton William Campbell, Esq., 01 Tilllchewan. LONDON BOARD. CHARLES GRAHAM, Esq., F.S.A., Chairman. u _ CHARLES DOWNES, Esq., Deputy C hairman. i• Blair Avarne, Esq. J. G. Henriques, Esq. • Len nox Boyd, Esq., Resident A. H. Macdougall, Esq. pFtles Berwick Curtis, Esq. F. C. Maitland, Ese D • n enl ratite, Esq. William Railton, Esq. . ''‘' Henriques, Esq. Thomas Thorby, Esq , F.S.A. OFFICER. , 8, Bennett-street, St. James's. from March, 1834, to the 31•. t 1 -- i. ----------- kas Urn Sum addedto i Sam addedto;Sum payable tired' Time Assured . PolicytnlB4l Polieyin 18481 at Death. .."------, 80 - ------ -------1----- 00 13 years 10 mths 1683 6 8 £787 10 0 £6470 16 8 1 000 i' 7 vastrg 1 .• .. 1 157 10 0 1157 10 0 4 100 6 13 7 years 10 mths l l6B3 6 8 X 757 10 087 10 0 £647 0 1157 10 0 16 bOO 1 years 1 year 11 5 0 511 5 0 th:4SarpLE.—At the commencement of the year 1841 a person aged 162 , took out a Policy for 1,0001., the Annual PdyinAlt tor which 4e profits Is. gd.; in 1847 he had paid in Premiums 168/. Its. Bd. ; but 4 - ,,,Proilts being 2'A per cent. per annum on the sum insured (which pC,!I• 10s. per annum for each 1,0001.), he had 1571. 10s. added to the ,ZY, almost as much as the Premiums paid. The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and 4tirLune-half need be paid for the first five years when the In eeiS for Life. bir;erY information will be afforded on app lication to the Resident etor. tto THE LADIES.—The powerful influence a ,, of the sun on she sk i n and com p lexion at this period of the b en4 calls tor increased attention in preserving their ecacy and 37 . The most pleasing and effectual specific for t d li his desirable -Act is l e de. ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, delicacy It, - cation established in Royal and public b,vour and estimation. li e :p , Pl neutrases the effects of atmosphere, and induces that It, ~, h y action of the minute secreto , y vessels of the skin, by which and beauty are so essentially promoted Freckles, Tan. t.f in Pimples, and Dleurat ions are eradicated by the application D a.re ` . .e Kalydor, and give place to a healthy clearness and fratts elh,,,:'_eY of complexion. Lades travelling or taking ut-door exer -51417111 find it diffuse a grateful end refres lug feeline:, dispelling . the ttoei Of langour and relaxation, allaying all heat and . it itability, tlaajlmeEliately affo , ding the pleasing sensation attending restorea ttin,: co Y and healthful state of the skin. In cases of sun-burn, tto,e of insec , s, or lental Inflammation, its virtues have long p o il i e e Ztensively been acknowledged.-Trrice 4s. 61. and B s. 6 d . p er ei,.. orTION.—The wards " Rowlands' Kal y dor" are on the wrapper u to each bottle, and heir signature, " A Rowland and Sons, 20, • 41:garden, t ondon," in red ink at foot. Sold by them and by _ , lnists and Perfumers. BUSY ALL THE YEAR ABOUT. S MERCHANT TAILORdSs,HCOI:O,7_,HKEIR.R.S,,t HOMERS, HATTER-, BOOT th or .tTTERS, on a larger scab. than anaynot dersHosoumseuisnt tbhee.R.-botisr'dy, ,1 1 no fact so plain as that E. MOSES an vi v r Year about " W hoever 41W„ u° ever undertakes to notice the care, diligence t in every - 't B and Box exercise in provilint the greatest novel le., and talet.t E. low e, and in securing to the public the most sup , eri r s44:rdtsn,eatytehaer ab o Z t n Prices, will understand how they are busy all Wb of 4r enever the seasons turn, and chanting weather renders change lbe a of first importance to all classes, including sportsmen, bulesiettie in 4, mechanics, and all others, then the am,dest stock, se _ OBES kedTala and unequalled in workmanship, is presented" by F M Yeto. ° N , who, for the completion of this purpose, are busy '. all the .„," about ~ Vr Captains Merchants, Shippers, and Em i g rants, the gigantic ap °l esaleDept:rtment of E. MOSES ad SoN's Esablishent s always is „reliable for the selection of Goods, n the superior quality oftwhich th e known in all parts of the world, and the lo w pric es char g ed for most suitable articl , s render them the most lucrative investments r ol Vertions emigrating or ading to the Colonies, fhr whose inte lll'''. Mons and Sox are "busy all the year about. ' 114 a cie e 8111 P sailing information and full Lists of Outfits for Ladies e .A.u !tlemen, may be had on application, or post free. u„ LION. —E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the tal, aib e against imposition, having learned that the untrade,sm , an-like ° 131,1 of " Being connected with 'heir Establishment,' or It's Bat . ht eb,"e concern," has been resorted to in many ins t a nces, and for i o us reasons, they beg to state that they have CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, Lo except their own Establishments, as follows : - 114. 8 , 1d 0ri City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, _ and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford .street, 1, 2 and 3, dart-street, all eon,municating. ~r ad ford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20 , Bridge-street. 'hotheld Branch, 36, Fauate. Colonial Branch, Melbou ne, Australia. Itakkierchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe / 11 . and General On for Ladies and Gentlemen. t xe , 'ORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it will be Without h esitation. if desired, or, if preferred, the money will he returned All goods are marked in plain figures, the lo west n . ° 11 : 1 which ne abatement. can he made. Establishments are dosed from sunset Friday to sunset on TrdaYs, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. I),new Bu n k , " The Herald of the Seasons,' containing full lists ftdvi o ." , Our system ot self-measurement, facts reative to Aus•ralia, to emigrants, &c., may be had on application , or post-free to e ar , P a rt of the kingdom. J „Pplic ``. some Almanac for tie year ending 1853 can be had gratis, ic : P on parle Francais. sev ar SPTICht man Deut-ch. Qui si parla R Aqua se hahla Espanol • Ugtx.oral I'OIiTE,RS wanted, Apply soy nwraing from 10 to 12 Deno,. A boaq Agb• several wtor ) ened. C hes t iest stern Cellrllrth, lon and -outer, A b u cheis o p ; South' t 4 r 5 pe a $ l/ Was brisk prices of S!"0 , e day ; I ' o4 ' l l ot s ever, w . "O 61;i Q Sheffield,y _fAr6, (C), o t; Salford, ightbs, To is. ; F a g, ast Land'" as prettl. l l, oll le varia to k was (10.014, at dig. ;;;, ness tr ....r anv- to f qorth- ° r oot prem. ; it, pas. eneral row° I WI% .Itle ;d, leo 0 what checl. I )ol ... mpton' mpton .. uh.. mpton, 1111,10111 mpton tnptun Inpton raptor, Milton Tipton (Sept• ° lOct. 6 bet. mrive d unve i l Sept. ' sot. $o i nept I oct• 16 Daill,, Oet. Oct, 1 "6 4,eitZ • Se pt. 25 se"::r e`` pet.- t 0 sep g 2 o "ePt' iwiceadyd iePt npion 10Ct• 100 ‘ ', l ‘ o to.lljUt not. npti,ii '111)I0 11 )CL. 4 ept• ed 111 ,Ct. Oct• sept ,pt. '' zeP" # 26 . Ct. ' q j t:eP t * ; Oe t ' 1 ,00 UD C ' ....t O. No. 19,030.] NEW MONTHLY WORK BY W. M. THACKER.kY, with Ides trations by RICHARD DOYLE. On the Ist October will be published, Price One Shilling, with I1las• trations on Steel and Wood by itICRARD DomE, No. I. of THE NEWCOMES. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. Edited by ARTHUR PENDEwNts, Esq. London: Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie. street. HR. H. PRINCE ALBE RT.— • See the " LEADER" Newspaper of SATURDAY, Sept. 3.1, No. 18 price 6d.—To ne had of all News Agents, or direct from the Publish r, at 7, Wellington-street, Strand. THE EARL OF ABERDEEN. — e the .• LEA DE c" Newspaper of SATENDAY, Sept. 10th, No 181, prig 6d —To be had of all News Agents, or direct mom the Puldhner, at 7, Well ngton-greet, Str•dtd. r i d HE EARL OF CLARENDON, K.G., G.C.B. at_ See the "LEADER" Newspaper of SATURDAY last, Sept. 17th, No. 182, price 6d —'l o be had of all News Agents, or direct from the r'ublishe . Nt 7, Wellington -greet, Str...nd. THE DUKE OF A RGYLL.— See the " LEADER ' Newmaper of 4ATUItDAY next, -ept. 24111, No. 183, price mod.—T" be had of all News Agents, or direct Irom the Publisher, at 7, Wel,ington.street, Strand. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, consisting or more than 700 Models, IS NOW OPEN, at the Portland Gallery, Regent-street, opposite the Polytechnic, every day except Friday, from 11 till 5, and from 7 till 10, for gentlemen only ; on Fridays, however, the Morniag Exhi6ition for gentlemen will doe at 2 o'clock, when Ladies only will be admitted until 5 o'clock. Leach will Lecture at 12, 1, 4, and 10 the livening at a quarter to 8 o'clock ; and for ladieg by Mrs. Leach ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON —H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. CHANGF of the LECTLTRK on " THE THAMES." The SECOND PORT of an HISTORICAL LECTURE on " THE THAMES," from its Source to its Estuary, by GEORGE BUCKLAND, Esq., assisted by miss Blanche Younge, with NEW SONGS and NEW 1).84/LYING EN ERY, on Tuesdays and Fridays at four o'clock, and every Evening except Saturday at e ine. LIECTURES.—By J H. Pepper, Esq.: On PHOTOGRAPHY, with Illustrations, Mornings and Evenings By Dr. Bachhoffner : On ELEDIRO-GILDING and SILVERING. The LANCASHIRE SEWING MACHINE exhibited in Use and explained Daily. Open Mornings and Evenings. Admission, Is.; S c hools, and Children under Ten years of age Half-price. MINING INVESTMENT.-Mr. JOHN S. LANE, Minin; Agent 32, Poultry, London. offers his services to partios wishing to embark in Mining enterprise, to aid them In the selection of the soundest as well as the most pro. mlsing undertakings. At the present lime, wh,n depreciation has probably gone to the farthest extent, and when so many safe and valuable shares are so much below their in trinsic value, an invest ment would doubtless he attended by immense profits as soon as a re-action takes place, which may be near at hand. All instructions promotly attended to. EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY. -A Certain Cure f ir Cancer, Btc. —To Dr. BATCHELOUR has been connnunicated (from abroad) one o' the most astoun ling discoveries of our a.,e. By an external application, with , ut pain, cancers evert in the last state are c :mpletely era icated, white swellin:gs, enlarged. stiff, and contracted joints, rheumatism, tic doloreux, lu fistula, piles, corn , , spinal complaints, and neuralgic pains ar• cured by 31 jor's Synov!tic lota n, as modified for the human subject by Dr. Batchelour, M.R.i lace', M.C.ABatche'our may be seen at No 12, Finsb ry-p, South, Finsbury-square, from 12 till 3; and at Mr. Watts', druggist, No. 17, Strand, every Tuesday and Friday, from 3to 5. For cancers, Dr. Batchelour must be con sulted ; but for the other complaints the Lotion may be applied by invalids themselves. The Lotion is sold in boties at I Is. and 225. each, at No. 12, Finsbury-place ; and at Mr. Watts', 17, Strand. Orders to be pre-paid, IRS WILLIAM BURNETT'S DISINFECTING FLUID. —The best Concentrated "CHLORIDE OF ZINC." Great Itrduction of Price.—The merits of this Fluid, invented ' y Sir W. Burne't, M.D . F.R S., &c., &c , for the Disii.fection of Sick Rooms, Cluthing, Lineal, &c. ; the prevention of Contagion ; the preservation of Animal Matter from Putrescence the purification o Bilgewater, Cesspoo s. Drains, Water Closets &c , are now so well known to the puolic as to render comment unnecess try. Sold at the Office, 8, Cannon-street, City, London, and by Che mists, Shipping Agents, and others throughout the United Kingch m, in Imperial Quart Bottles at 2s. Gd. ; in Pints at Is. 3d.; in Half- Pints at 9d., and in bulk at 6s. per Gallon. cAU 11.0 N.— BEWARE OF lINIITATIONS.—The only genuine Disinfecting Fluid is s , eled over the cork with the inscription, " Sir Wm. Burnett's Disinfecting Fluid," and accompanied with mime r:itis Testimonials of the highest order, and instructions for its use. THE BEST and CHEAPEST DISIN FECTIN F EID is CREW'S I NIPROVED CHLORIDE of Zi NC, for the purification of Dwelling-houses Stables, Dog Ken nels, Ship's II“lds, Cesspools, mains, w ater-closets, &c. ; the Disin fection of Sick 10,3m5, Clothing, Lisea, and for the Prevention of Contagion. Chloride of Zinc, as the best Disinfecting and purifying agent, is now established beyond all doubt. It is perfectly harmless in its application and inno x ious in itself. The high prce at which it has hitherto been sold has prevented its general use; to obviate this obstacle to its universal apolication as a disinfecting and purifying agent, the present manufacturer, who was many years with Sir W. Burnett's Company, has arranged to supply the public with concen trated Chloride of Zinc in its greatest purity and at the lowest price. It is sold by all Chenists and Shipping Agents in the United King dom, in Imperial Quart Bottles at 2s. 6d. each, and in larger vessels at tis. per Gallon. Each Bottle will be accompanied with instructions for its dilution and use. Concentrated Chloride of Zinc in use may be diluted with 200 times its quantity of water. Orders executed by the Sole Agents, Messrs. Drew, Heyward, and Barron, Bush-lane, Cannon street. Manufactured at H. G. GRAY'S, Commercial Wharf, Mile End, London. - :_ji-:—_-- - _ SURGEON HENRY HAMILTON, Twenty eight years in London practice, will REMOVE any CASE of a PRIVATE NATURE before charge be made for medi ski ci line. in all fema l e c omplaints requiring practical pfessionalSurge on Hamilton will guarantee a successful issue, or no expense will be incurred by the patient. Medicine can be sent to any part of the realm, securely wicked, on receipt of particulars. Ladies arid gen tlemen consulting by letter must enclose the usual fee, when they wal be treated with by return of post. Hours for personal visits from Ten till Four, and from ix till Nine daily. Address, No. 3, King William-street, Strand, London. .sledicine to country pa -1 tients, IT. ------------- MEDICAL ADVI(7E O AND MATURITTIIE SECRET IN FIRMITIEg OF YOUTH Y. DR. SAMUEL LA'M ERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and Matricif ated Member ef the University ot Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, 84c., /ice. IT AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on • the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile Irregu'arities and excesses, which have pro bleed more misery in you th, de g radation in manhood, and prema ture decay at all stases of life, than perhaps any other class of dis eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience in the treatment of these diseases has proved that th-re are in on ce secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disapp o inted hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which N Mera vous Debility, various forms o f Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful age 3, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their endless modifications owe their almost entire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penAties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyd m a of inconsiderate self -Indulgence, how these penalties m it y igated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, ay be and how the evil and its con equenc es noty be avoided, and above all, that there i- scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derange ment to which the timely a id of science cannot apply a cure DOCTOR LA'M ERT has for a long series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com plaints, and is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had the confidence, through the medium of the public press, society to direc is t a tt e ntion to these enorm ous evils, from which no grade of tree. In selecting thi. department of practice, he has been amply re, arded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to at the ed care of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pir publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who have been induced to place faith in their pretensions. At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from .ix till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of It, and advice and medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address. It is desirahle thnt patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'ME'ST should first obtain a copy of his work on SE LF •P REA RVATION. A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and Generative Debilits , illustrated by fifty-coloured engravings, and e eS crioing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and excesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct description of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Storie, Titchborne-street, llaymarket ; or free by post for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Author's resi dence. 37. REDFORD...MARE, LONDON. TARE NOTICE 1 MESSRS. R. CO. CONTINUE TO BE CONSULTED AS usu s L, AT 19, BERNERS-STREET, OXFORD-STREET, LONDON ON THE SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES C EN oI T o I u O r N ed OF E D n g r I s z a , A s i n z g . AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES. THE SILENT FRIEND. In Six Languages—Fiftieth Edition. s and E . L E D A Y n a v tO aP cal illustrated AbiyNtONnGeTHOEunßd Cases. New Edition, enlarged to 200 pages, price 2s. 6d., by post, from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in stamps, THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by excessive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of mercury, with directions for the use of the preventive lotion, fol lowed by observations on Marriage, and the disqualifications which prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO.. Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Oxford street, London. Published by Sherwood and Co., 23, Paternoster row, and sold by Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Gor- Con, 146, Leadenhall-street ; 95, Earringdon-street ; W. Sutton, 10, Bow Church -yard; Butler, 4, CheapsiLle ;It Johnson, 68, Cornbill. PART 1. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the reproductive organs, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. PART IT. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and ty,dily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative Incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Nervous renege PART 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 ngs• PART IV. contains a Reedy for the Prevention of Disease by a e s i m ple application, by which m the danger of infe ction is Obviated. PART V.is de:oie.l to the consideration of nvirriage and its duties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the wuole subject critically a.:(1 ohilosopoically inquired into. T HE CORDIAL • •ALM OF Svat scum is exclusively, employed in trea i ing nervous and sexual debility, impotence, & ‘,., its and 335. per ' bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti -syphilitic remedy. for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symptons, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, Its. and 335. per bottle. ferry's ti,irifying Specific Pills. 2.. 9d., 4s. Cd., and I Is. per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhea, gleet, stricture, and i chronic intlamm a ion of the bladder. consultation fee, if byd lett posi er, 1/. A minute detail sit th e case is required : age, habits, an tion in society. Si. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Establish ment only, by w hich the fee, 11 . , is saved. Messrs. l'erry, Surgeons , are in attendance, daily, at 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, Lon don, from Eleven Two, and Five to Eight; on Sunday from Brien to One. SHRE U WSBRY and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY COMPANY. —At the ADJOUR NED MEETLING of Shareholders, held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, Lod don, This Day, at Twe.ve o'clock, and, by further adjournment at Three o'clock, the Scrutineers, Mr. Robert Scott and Mr. A. K. Baker, announced the result of the poll to be a very large majority in favour of the offer of the Great Western Railway Company of 31 per cent. and halt profits Mr Scott stated, that, having ascertained the sentiments of so large a majority of the Shareholders to he favourable to an alliance a ith the Great Western Railway Company, he should henceforth use his utmost influence and exertions to secure the passing of an Act of Par lianient to confirm the agreement with the Great West.Tn Railway Company upon the terms now offered—viz., 31 per cent. and half the surplus profits. It was then unanimously resolved. That the offer made by the Great Western Railway Company of 3i peT cent. and half the surplus profits be and it is hereby acceptedorb is y t h e Shrewsbury and Birmingham R ailwa y Company, a given to the Directors to carry the same into effect. By order. THOS. HALL, Seesetary. Wolverhampton, Sept. 20,1853. ROYAL DANISH RAILWAY - FIRST SECTION.—SECOND CALL of 31. per Share, making 91. paid.—Notice is hereby given, that the Second Call of 31. per Share will be d .0 on the Ist October. Shareholders will be required to deposit their Certificates of Shares at the Offices of the Comparn , 84, Sing William-street, on or after the 25th instant, between the hours of ten and two o'clock, when a Call Letter will be delivered. Upon production of the Bankers' receipt at the Offices of the Company, the Certificates will be returned, with the Call endorsed thereon as paid. Shareholders are reminded that interest at the rate of 5 per cent. will be charged on all Calls in arrear after the Ist October. By order, C. MOLLER, Secretary. Dated 9th Sept., 1853. ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE, in Casks of 18 Gal lons, 305.; and in full sized Bottles, Imperial Measure only, uy watch the Public gain one-third— • • • • • • • Bs. per dozen. Quarts... Pints .•• .. ... •• • ............ ..... • ss. „ Half-pints ... • • ..... • • • • 3s. Supplied, in the highest state of perfection, by HARRINGTON PARKER, BEER MERCHANT, 5%, COUGH, CONSUMPTION, SPITTING of BLOOD, NIGHT SWEATS, and FEVERS.—lmmediate relief is effected by PASCOE'S CONCENTRATED COUGH and CONSUMPTION MIXTURE, in all affections of the throat, chest, lungs, Se c. In all cases of cough, hoarseness, wheezing, difficult breathing, &c., however inveterate, this highly-successful remedy will be found the only medicine upon which entire reliance can be placed. It is also very valuable in the febrile affections of children In all BILIOUS DISORDERS, liver complaints, indigestion in all its forms, headaches, loss of appetite, &c., PASCOE'S INFALLIBLE GLOBULES will effect a radical cure, as proved by numberless tes timonials. Prepared only by the proprietors, Henry and Co., with out whose signature across the Government stamp none is genuine. To be obt , ined through Barclay, Sutton, Sanger, &c., or any re spectable medicine vendor, in bottles at Is. 1%c1., '2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. each. ' Wholesale depot, Bohemia-place, Hackney. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 20. The Conflict, 8, screw-corvette, will be taken out to Stokes Bay again to-morrow, for screw trials, by Lieut. Clarke, of the Dragon, (First Lieutenant of the Blen heim), at 10 a.m. The Sprightly tender, Acting Master George Allen commanding, left this afternoon for Plymouth, to trans fer supernumeraries for the Mediterranean fleet to one of the ships in Plymouth Sound ordered to that station. The Dragon, 6, paddle-frigate, fitting out as the depot ship of the steam reserve at this port, will be ready for trial at the measured mile about this day week. The Barracouta, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander George Parker, went to Spithead to-day to take in her powder, &c., prior to proceeding on foreign service. The Stromboli, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Hall, completed the adjustment of her compasses to-day, and is ready to go to Spithead. The Encounter, 14, Captain O'Callaghan, is to receive a new set of rigging. The Fairy Royal yacht, Master-Commander Welch, went into the graving slip to-day to unship Scott's screw. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 19. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, after at tending divine service iu the dockyard chapel yesterday, left in the afternoon in the Black Eagle steamer for Falmouth. The crew of her Majesty's screw steamship St. Jean d'Acre, 100, Captain the Hon. H. Keppel, were paid advanced wages to-day, and she is expected to sail to morrow for Queenstown. The frigate Leander, 50, Captain G. St. Vincent King, was towed to-day by the Avon and Confiance steam vessels from Hamoaze into the Sound. The brig Philomel, 8, sailed at 9 this morning for the coast of Africa. The Avon steamer returned from Pembroke at 9 p.m. on Saturday with caulkers, who have finished the Caesar. WOOLWICH, SEPT. 20. APPOINTMENTS. Master John P. P. Warren (1843) to the Leander, 50, at Devonport. Surgeon Fysher Negus (1848), to the Stromboli, pad dle-wheel steam sloop, at Portsmouth. Assistant-Surgeon William Patrick (1847), from the Victory, flag-ship, to the Excellent, gunnery ship, at Portsmouth. The Monkey steam vessel went up the river to-day to Deptford to tow the Sarah, of South Shields, recently injured by the Vulcan, screw steamship , to Voolwich, to have old masts and rigging equal to what her own masts and rigging were previously ; the Admiralty hav ing decided that the necessary repairs to the vessel should be made at this yard, which was agreed to by her owners. of f ADMIRAL ARr Hospital, Admiral s SIR were ehraerCHAßLESesyesterday Adam, ADAM ,bllate tr K en e Governore.t 0 B t . h — e Tg grave h ao e vf r e ebmy Greenati remains se sorrowing veterans of that noble institution. The notices of this gallant officer have hitherto been confined by our contemporaries to his career in the navy. There great rewards hold out a stimulus to acts of daring by men in the prime of life. But in Greenwich Hospital, to the governorship of which no man attains until the evening of life, and when a disinclination to exertion may well be deemed excusable, inward self-satisfaction is the only reward for a conscientious discharge of the duties of that post. This satisfaction Sir Charles Adam ought to have enjoyed in the highest degree, if an unwearied and persevering endeavour to benefit the whole establishment could confer it. All guard-duty by day and night, formerly so harassing to the old men, has been abolished, and the lodging, clothings and diet of both pensioners and boys improved. He was indefatigable in inspecting the wards—no trifling labour in that extensive and lofty building--mingling with the pensioners, and addressing them in so kind and affable a manner that the most diffident were encouraged to com municate their little grievances, which, when able, he at once redressed. Nor was Sir Charles Adam less actively interested in the welfare of the schools, and during the periodical examinations by the Government inspector he was daily to be seen in the ela.ss:room—an intention most inciting to the masters as well as their scholars. It is difficult to say in what department of the institution the decease of Sir Charles will be most deplored, and it is only to be hoped that this great loss to the establish ment may be in some degree alleviated by the appoint ment of a worthy successor. THE RETIRED FLAG OFFICERS OF SEPTEMBER, 1846. —We believe it was understood at the last re-arrange ment of the flag-list, that as the flag officers on reserved half-pay were to progress in their grades of flag rank, as they would have taken their turn for promotion if they had remained on the active list ; so the senior cap tains who accepted the retired flag rank under the Order in Council of 1846, should also advance in their titles according to their seniority, with those on the active list. Under these circumstances, then, our respected and venerable neighbour, Rear-Admiral Wilkes Mau rice, the senior of the retired list of admirals becomes entitled to his promotion to the rank of vice-admiral without any increase of pay, our gallant friend being senior as a captain to our esteemed fellow-townsman, Vice-Admiral Arthur, C. 8., who has attained his pre sent rank on the death of Admiral Sir Charles Adam. — Plymouth , Mail. FLAG CAPTAIN ON THE BRAZILS STATION.—We hear that Captain Thomas Harvey (1848) will succeed Capt. St. Leger Cannon in the Centaur as flag captain to the commander-in -chief, Rear-Admiral Henderson, C. 8., on the south-east coast of America station. Captain Cannon has invalided. —Plymouth , Mail. LORD JOHN RUSSELL AT GREENOCK-. BARNSTAPLE BRIBERY COMMISSION. - The inquiry into the corrupt practices which have prevailed at the election for the borough at Barnstaple, terminated on Sa turday, after a protracted sitting of 16 days. There has been a good deal of bribery proved on the part of the o d e a c t u es pi a e t d th h e y lastth; Courtin elect incident e a x n a d m t i h n e . la i a n gs g etn a fte n sw u o m fdta b hyes Toryhave n umber be witnesses aenend who had received 61. a-piece for their votes. The i n q uir y has also been distinguished by some shameful instan ces of p er j ury, and an of a very painful nature. It was elicited that a family . of the name of Gaydon, numbering 12 voters, had received 61. each for their votes. One of them, a respectable silver smith, at first denied strongly, on oath, but afterwards, on his brother being sent for from London to confront him, he was constrained to admit it. One of the Gay dons, a mason, aged 80, attempted to commit suicide on Friday. The old man was afraid of being summoned before the commissioners, as his name was on the list as one who had received a bribe. He had denied that he had accepted money for his vote as alleged before the committee of the House of Commons, and when he heard that he was to be called up before the commis sioners he cut his throat, but fortunately it was dis covered in time to avert an immediately fatal result to his rash action, and it is hoped that he will ultimately I recover. There were several instances of shameful per- I jury, and the revelations were altogether of a most dis- I tressing and disgusting nature. THE GREAT BRITAIN.—A letter has reached us dated St. Vincent, August 24, signed by Mr. Henry Davies, on behalf of the . passengers to Australi a by th e Great Britain, in which they express their entire satisfaction with the attention of Captain Matthews and his officers to the comforts of the passengers, and with th e quality and quantity of the provisions. The writer also praises the arrangements made by Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Co. for the Eagle line of packets to Australia. (From the Times. ) Great men are never so great as in the holydays. Either they are sent for fifteen hundred miles from Rome, or live hundred miles from the Highlands ; or the quiet little nook in which they try to hide themselves becomes the focus of a million wondering eyes, and every town within 50 miles insists on feting and addressing them. The good people of Greenock have succeeded in drawing Lord John Russell, and obtaining a good sight of the man whose speeches they have read, whose life they admire, and whom most of them have hitherto been left to imagine as well as they can. A prima donna was once seized in transitu by the population of a small city, and compelled to sing her best songs with what grace she could ; and Lord John Russell has literally said his best things and shown his best points to the people of Greenock. For a compendium of his life and his policy in one brief , performance, really it was a very good exhibition. Conversant as we are with Lord John Russell's strong points, we really don't know one that he omitted or failed to do justice to ; so, his spectators and hearers on this interesting occasion may congratulate them selves on having seen the whole man, the great orator and political chief in all his phases, as Parliamentary, municipal, commercial, and general Reformer, and now leading the re• presentatives of a free people a n d a great nation. When a man has been before the world a whole generation, and introduced important bills into Parliament before half his present audience were born, what can he say that shall be really new, or even peculiarly appropriate to the occasion 'I Hap pily, the ever-varying situation pf , 4,:phirs always leaves some room for novelty. ""There is always something new, even if it be only an old thing in a new guise. The sun is never in exactly the same place in the skies that he has been in before since the creation of the world ; and so it happens, for tunately, or unfortunately in some respects, that Lord John Russell could never have said before, with equal propriety, what he said ol Monday, from the platform of the Mid-Church at Greenock, to a large congregation of Provosts, Sheriffs, Baillies, Councillors, Water-trustees, Town-clerks, Procurators, Chamberlains, and well-dressed gen tlemen and ladies. Pi erhaps the peculiarities of the present state of affairs may be summed up in three heads—the approach of a new measure of Parliamentary Re form ; the necessity of a good many social and material reforms, rendered more imperative just now by the rapid increase and crowding of our great cities ; and the still ugly look of affairs in Eastern Europe. Lord John Russell has addressed himself to all these points with so much of his cha racteristic simplicity, clearness, and strength, that, even while we feel a shade of difference, we cannot help admiring. With regard to the first, Lord John betrays all his old paternal affection for his Reform Act, and his unwillingness to see it supplanted by a more vigorous measure or one con taining any new principle. He takes care to bring out in full light the work of the last twenty years—that is of the Reformed Parliament ; its very great but quiet improvements, its increasing triumph over party, the growing agreement of public men, and the security which seems to be obtained that no measure necessary for the public welfare can now be successfully resisted. This seems as much as to say, " Here is a legislative or gan sufficient for the purpose ; it has given you all you want, and continues to do so, with ever increasing honesty and certainty ; it reflects the people, and so long as they are true to themselves it will be true to them." Are we far wrong in see ing through this a slight natural yearning for the admirable status quo of our constitution Does not Lord John feel that affection for the present House of Commons, with all its faults, which prompts a natural parent to resent the interference of a neighbour in the education and even the ne cessary correction of his offspring ? No father, no mother, ever yet tolerated the hand of the stranger on her child. Casually, and by the way, Lord John says it—but backhanders are always the strongest blows—" It would be difficult, per haps, to find a time in the history of any country when so many measures of importance have been obtained, without convulsion and without revolu tion, as have been obtained and established in this country since 1833." Who does not see the pater nal hand in this epitaph over the future grave of the Reformed House of Commons ? But then comes the timely admission that there is a world of reforms still to be done. The diffi culty is skilfully brought in as itself a result and proof of the success which has attended recent le gislation :—" Unfortunately, the very increase of civilisation, the very gathering together of popu lations, which are the proofs of industry, of com merce, of flourishing manufactures, and increased trade these things bring with them attendant evils." Here are masses of deep ignorance in crowded dwellings that neither the light of the sun nor that of the heaven above seems to penetrate, neither sweet air nor wholesome knowledge to per vade. Air, health, schools, and other wants of the many, are now occupying the same place as objects of patriotism that constitutional reform did in the last generation. They seem rather tame stuff to the men who have listened to Fox, to Erskine, to Romilly, or even to the northern Gamaliel, at whose feet Lord John Russell learnt his first les sons. But, as the Nimrods of other days would now have to content themselves with very small game, so our great reformers must condescend to clean and to scour, to open w i n dows, to " teach the young idea to shoot," and busy them selves in alternately wielding the besom and the pen. But here again comes another difficulty. We are a free people, a constitutional people, with a fancy for local management, and a jealousy of centralisation. Many an Irishman would rather die in dirt and tobacco than live in clean linen and whitewash. That is our case. We would rather go on as we now do, with stupid and obstinate parish vestries which we never go near, and with our courts full of cholera and juvenile pickpockets, than submit to official pedagogues and sanitary re formers. An Emperor might level our rookeries and our understandings with streets and new roads to knowledge ; but in England we choose to do these things ourselves, at our own leisure, and aro not over-anxious to do them at all. So they seem likely to wait the leisure of the next generation. Lord John Russell, however, hopes otherwise. He sets all this down as the work of the Legislature ; perhaps with the thought in his own breast that the House of Commons would do much more wisely to attend to these matters, instead of troubling itself with a suicidal attempt at self-re generation. Then comes the third topic of the day, to which Lord John alludes quietly, cautiously, and yet boldly. We are a great nation, and profess to stand our ground against all the world. But that boast is hollow and that armament is wasted if we allow our opinion and our friendship to go for nothing in the general affairs of the world. Important as domestic questions may be, "it is also to be con sidered," says Lord John, " and I trust we shall none of us forget, that this country holds an im portant position among the nations of the world. It is not once but many times she has s t oo d for ward to resist oppres sion, to maintain the indepen dence of weaker nations, to preserve to the general family of nations that freedom, that p ower o f go verning themselves, o f which others have sought to deprive them. I trust that character will not be forgotten, 'will not be abandoned by a na ti on which is now stronger in means, which is m ore populous, more wealthy than she has bee n a t any former period." In this manly and becoming strain his lordship continued , with ever-increasing ap plause as he went on ; so that we are to conclude the good citizens of Greenock are quit e prepare d , if necessary, to incur the risks of war f or th e cause of justice and their country s honour. Altogether Lord John Russell has turned to very good ac count the civilities of his northern friend s . It is not impossible that from the banks of the Clyde a few salutary thoughts may reach the more magni ficent quays of the Neva, and be i all th e more im pressive for not being w ra p t up n the sacred lan guage of diplomacy. Or, even if the Minister's words should be set down as a matter of course, not so will the energetic response of the assembled citizens. MR. CHARLES DICKENS. —This popular novelist, in a letter to the Times, dated Boulogne, Sept. 18th, says : " I observe two statements from a country paper, copied into your columns of Saturday last, and therefore made important. They represent me as having availed myself of the experiences of that excellent police-officer, Mr. Inspector Field, in Bleak louse, and also as having un dertaken to write the said excellent officer's biography. Allow me to assure you that, amid all the news in the Times, I found nothing more entirely and completely new to me than these two pieces of intelligence." DivisioNs OF THE HOUSE.—From one of Mr. Brother ton's returns, just printed, it appears that the number of divisions on public bills in the last session was 179 before midnight, and 61 after ; and that 17 divisions took place on private bills before midnight. The total num ber of divisions in the session of 1852-8 was 257. OUR COMMERCIAL PROSPECTS. - The unsettled state of the Russo-Turkish ques tft a i h o l el n i , c I e t , h l tl a e hre known hs f a a ßu i l ad u n r kt e h of oe f t vE h e ne e r ay o n p dd s r a; the continuous e ing topics of conver s ati on in comm p ainr p e Notwithstanding the enormous su from o C wn alif i o n rn lB ia 46 a , n o d u A r p u r s e tra sen li t a erl o icet f i hsa g le ooalfdb circless f go r or o bl m d: ,mweht metallic a mines ssets o were ly exceed those of that year by the paltry sum of 147,2201., for on the 12th September, 1846, the Bank held 16,353,8461., and on last Saturday 16,500,0681. The drain has continued without in termission since the 2d of July, the average weekly decrease being 216,5221., the aggregate during that period amounting .to 2,165,221/. Hence the rise in the rate of discounts, and as no immediate cessa tion is the efflux is expected, it is highly probable that the rate will be still further increased. Whe ther we are to have a renewal of the disasters of 1847, or are fated to escape the desolating scourge of panic, we venture not to predict ; but it may be well to remind our readers that in that most cala mitous year from 250 to 300 millions were sacrificed in order to recover from foreigners some four mil lions of sovers which had been exported. This was the practical result of our monetary legislation, and that legislation still remains in full force. The active circulation of Bank notes at the last return was 22,465,945 ; in other words, these notes were in the hands of the public, and to that amount the public were creditors of the Bank. Now what bad the Bank in gold to redeem these promises to pay on demand ? Just 16,162,6401. ; the deficiency therefore was 6,303,3051., so that of the theory propounded by the bullionists, -on which the Act of 1844 is based, were ho nestly acted upon, the Bank would at this moment be insolvent, since it could not redeem its promises in the precious metal. When Sir Robert Peel in troduced this measure he made the following re marks :--`• The whole foundation of my measure rests on the assumption that, according to practice, accordin g to law, according to the ancient mone tary policy of this country, the meaning of a pound is neither more nor less than a certain quantity of gold, with a mark upon it to determine its weight and fineness ; and that the engagement to pay a pound means nothing, and can mean nothing else, than to pay to the holder on demand, when he de mands it, a definite quantity of the precious metals." In the terms of this definition it is clear that the Bank is now insolvent ; but Sir Robert Peel dis carded his own definition when he began to legis late. It so happened that the country owed the Bank of England eleven millions of permanent debt, and always required advances to the extent of three millions on Exchequer bills, so that the permanent and floating debt amounted to fourteen millions. Now against that amount the Bank is allowed by the Act of 1844 to issue notes without any metallic basis whatever ; it is only when that sum is exceeded that it is bound to hold bullion in its cellars. The whole scheme is composite and contradictory ; it asserts a principle only to violate it, and repudiates in practice what it affirms in theory. If the Legislature had not intended to mys tify the subject, it ought to have decreed that the inconvertible notes should have on their face some distinctive mark, so that the public might know that promises to pay on fourteen millions of notes were mere moonshine. The rule laid d.ownby Lord Over stone that the notes are to contract or expand as bul lion leaves or enters the coffers of the Bank would be rational if the whole circulation were based on the theory ; but it is absolutely absurd in a mixed currency partly convertible and partly inconver tible. The ruled laid down by the Bank itself for raising and lowering discounts is not based on national policy, but is determined altogether by the pecu niary interests of that establishment. In the Lords' Report on Commercial Distress, referring to the panic of 1847, it is stated that the earlier practice of the Bank of England had been to discount at a rate nearly fixed and uniform. From 1704 to the 16th May, 1839, this rate never exceeded five, nor was less thanLfour, per cent. In the pressure of 1839, the rate was raised for some months to six per cent., but it was reduced to five per cent. in January, 1840, and remained at four to five per cent., as before, till after passing the 7th and Bth Vict. cap. 32, which is the Bank Charter Act of 1844. During this long period the object was to ensure steadiness in the value of money, and avoid violent fluctuations. Now this rule was abandoned after the monetary legislation of 1844, and the fol lowing explanation, given by the Governor of the Bank, is printed in the Lords' Report : " In regulating the rate of interest we look, of course, to the state of the reserve. We are either to increase or diminish the amount of the reserve, as may be re quired, by raising or lowering the rate interest, or by the sale or purchase of securities. Supposing the de mand upon the Bank, for instance, was considerable, and more than the Bank were able to afford, it would be necessary to put up the rate of interest. On the other hand, if the reserve of the Bank was increasing, and it was not thought advisable to purchase securities, naturally the rate would be put down. The putting up or the lowering the rate would be guided by the state of the reserve, reference being had to the rate of interest in the market." It is evident that such a system is hostile to the best interests of commerce, as the whole trade of the country is made subordinate to the profits of a privileged corporation. By raising or lowering discounts at its caprice, the Bank can lower or raise prices generally, and thus derange the whole business of the country, just as it may operate on the dividends of its own shareholders. Now it transpired in evidence before the Lords' Committee that durin g the railway mania the Bank invested 2,481,0001. in railway securities ; and when the Governor and Deputy-Governor were asked by the Committee what, in their judgment, were the causes of the distress, they answered, " One of the causes of it is, that many of those parties have been dealing in railway shares. The capital which they ought to have kept in their business they have put out in expectation of realising at a profit, but rail way shares have become nearly unsaleable, and their capital has been locked up." So here we find the Bank assisting to create the very mischief of which the Governors afterwards complained. So long as they made a profit for their establishment they encouraged the speculation ; but when the profit ceased, they turned round and set up a lachrymose whine about overtrading. The Bank has avowed that the state of the re serve determines their conduct in fixing the rate of discount. The management therefore is based on selfishness. When the reserve is large, it dis counts freely even at 2 per cent., and thus en courages traders to extend their business. An abundance of money raises prices, merchants be come enterprising, and both profits and wages are remunerating. he condition of all classes is im proved, and the population is loyal and orderly. This is a state of things that wisdom would per petuate ; but it is always of short duration, for, with rising prices, a new element is introduced which prevents the Bank from continuing to act on the reserve policy. Foreigners then begin to take gold in payment of what is due to them in stead of manufactures, and the Bank puts on the screw. As in the first case it lowered discounts to employ its reserve at a profit, so now it raises dis counts to check the escape of its bullion. Thus the Bank causes prosperity or adversity at its plea sure, and the whole trading community are at the mercy of the establishment. Now we are very far from saying that the Bank is wholly or solely to blame for these commercial derangements ; for the Bank itself is coerced by the stringency of the act of 1 844, and may be bankrupt with millions in its coffers—a fact that would be incredible had it not been proved in evidence. This is owing to the separation between the Issue and Banking De partments. For instance, in October, 1847, when the panic was at its height, the Bank had only 1,600,000/. in the banking department to meet its liabilities, while the total deposits were 14,500,0001., the deposits of the London bankers being more than 2,000,000/. at that time. The Govern or was asked, in reference to these fa cts, " if anybody had ? ad ,, "Yes called upon you for any thin g be y ond that mil lion and a w ha e lf, m y u o s.,, utmu,s,tNhevaevrethsetloepssp,e” added thed payment Governor, "we should have had 8,500,000/. iu our vaults." We have little evidence here of Par liamentary wisdom, for the Bank was solvent in one room and insolvent in another in the same building. Nothing saved it from destruction but the Treasury Minute, which suspended the Act of Parliament that had caused all the mischief. Now in reference to our commercial prospects so far as they are affected by the contraction of the currency and the rise in discounts, this important question arises—Why do foreigners take our gold instead of our goods in payment of the commodi ties they sell to us ? Of course this is not done capriciously ; there must be a strong motive for it ; this then is the point to be explained, for it involves the best interests of all who live on wages and profits. It is easy to distinguish between the intrinsic value of commodities and their taxation value. The former is strictly limited to the labour ex- pended in their production, and which labour they embody or condense ; but the latter implies that some tax has been imposed on labour when en gaged in the act of production. Now suppose that two sets of workmen are engaged on the same fabric ; that in the one case the raw material pays no duty whatever to the Government, and that no tax whatever is imposed on the food, clothing, or lodging of the workmen ' - under these conditions the fabric can be sold f or its intrinsic value, or what means the same thing, for its barter price. Now further suppose that the other set of workmen have to pay duty on the raw material, and a tax on their food, clothing, and lodging, these latter, it is clear, cannot sell for mere intrinsic value ; they are entitled to something more, and that something more is precisely the amount they have paid in taxation. In the first case, prices are said to be low ; in the second, they are said to be dear. Of course among ourselves no such difference can exist as we have assumed, since all our working the lnthis argument.n classes are placed on a level, and are subjected to one uniform law. We have only stated the dis tinction hypothetically, to illustrate the nature of when they of the working taxation. Therefore when prices are low, that is taxation, urastance s. This range t r classesa t the w e sa barter a r t e m all iesr lebvle subject thef to t he condition indirect tax which they cannot recover ° from e th o o r se who con wseogrukienntglyclaTeseins do co na re f c o o rta ve b r l t e ha ciro t con sume their products ; but when prices are high, that is when they range at the taxation level, the and con prosperous state is always enjoyed for a short period before a monetary panic, but it ceases so soon as the foreigner begins to abstract our gold. These remarks premised, we shall now answer the ques thrdipatiyeconat tion propounded—Why do foreigners take our 'bul lion instead of our fabrics ? According to our monetary legislation the price of gold in our coinage is fixed, and fixed at the barter price ; consequently, when commodities rise in our home markets to the taxation level, they become dearer than gold ; it is in this state of things that the foreigner prefers payment in cheap gold rather than in dear goods. He sells in our dear market, but he will not buy in our dear market. Suppose that wheat risen from forty to sixty shillings in Mark-lane, then the foreigner gets three sovereigns instead of two ; but all other goods have risen in the same proportion, and he refuses to buy. He can supply himself on the continent with what he wants for two sovereigns, and thus has a clear surplus of one sovereign. Thus it is that our monetary legislation offers him a premium to abstract our bullion ; then discounts rise, the currency is contracted, and prices fall from the taxation to the barter level ; this is the lesson taught us by the history of panics in 1825, in 1837, in 1839, and in 1847 ; and we appear to be on the eve of another, from which nothing can save us but Australia, and even the casual arrival of the Kent and Marco Polo, with nearly half a million of gold, may not deter the Bank from raising discounts to five per cent. About two months since the Times printed an objurgatory article, complaining that the Austra lian markets were naked of goods, and reproaching our merchants and manufacturers with remissness. Now the same journal urges the Bank to check this trade by contracting the currency. Russia wants gold to prosecute its infamous crusade against Turkey, and drains it away from us in exchange for her wheat ; and, therefore, we are to suspend the production of necessaries for Sydney and Mel bourne. We are afraid to send our fleet into the Dardanelles, lest Nicholas should sell out the funds he holds in our consols and in the French and Dutch securities. These several sums amount to 4,600,0001., according to the official report of the Russian Minister of Finance, printed in the Alge meine Zeitung in 1847. How truly does our pre sent humiliating position justify the prediction of the Marquis of Titchfield, in the speech he de livered in the House of Commons on the 11th June, 1823, when he explained the mistaken views on which the Act of 1819 was passed, and the evil effects of that measure. We quote the following passage, which is pertinent to the present crisis of the Turco-Russian question " It was impossible to mention the general subject of war without referring to the state of things on the con. tinent, since that had the most intimate connection pos sible with the present discussion ; for upon Mr. Peel's bill depended the question whether the influence of England should be everything or nothing at all on the continent. But, perhaps, there was still a greater mis chief behind, which was the knowledge on the continent that financial embarrassment was the real key to onr present policy, and the encouragement which that reflec tion held out for wicked and ambitious enterprises. The whole history of England, and the well-known character of'its people, marked at once, to every foreign govern ment, that nothing but financial considerations could have restrained the impulse every true Englishman felt on the promulgation of the horrid sentiments in the French king's speech to the Chambers. They all knew full well that there was but one check to that impulse -600,000,0001. of debt borrowed in one currency and to be paid in another. The state of our finances had been perfectly understood from that instant, and had become a matter of congratulation to the despot, and of grief and dismay to the oppressed." Since that speech was uttered we have seen Poland obliterated from the map of Europe, by the extinction of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw—the free city of Cracow handed over to the despotism of Austria the rising li berties of Italy extinguished by French bayo nets in Rome, and Hungary abandoned in her generous struggle for freedom. Now Russia sets us at defiance, and insults us by declaring in a hypocritical and mendacious manifesto that the fact of fortifying the capital of Moldavia and Wal lachia, garrisoning the whole country with troops, and depriving the Hospodars of their authority, is simply a pacific occupation ; and to add injury to insult, the Czar permits the Sulina canal to be choked, that he may deprive us of supplies of Da nubian corn, and raise the price of bread to our people. Such is one of the phases of the currency question in its purely political aspects involving our national dishonour. The Czar is now neutralising, as far as he can, the benefits we ought to receive from the repeal of the Corn-laws. Let all who live by honest labour prepare for a season of adversity, for with out employment there can be no wages, and when discounts rise the power of giving employment is weakened, and when they become excessive are paralysed. Let them carefully ponder over the bitter satire which Mr. Cayley embodied in an amendment to one of the clauses of the report drawn up by Sir Charles Wood when Chancellor of the Chancellor : " It would greatly tend, in the opinion of your com mittee, to the safety of the public, if there should pre vail among the mercantile and working classes of the community, a clear perception of the positionin which they stand under the act of 1844. That they should distinctly understand that when the gold is exhausted in the coffers of the Bank, every merchant and manufac turer is to suspend his operations, and every artisan and labourer is to remain idle , w ithout work and without wages, until the gold be restored to the coffers of the Bank." Of course this amendment was rejected, for it would have completely exposed the fraud ; but we reproduce it, as a warning and an instruction to the working classes. ALADDIN. P.S.—Since this article was in type, our expec tation has been verified. On Thursday the Bank raised the discount to four-and-a-half per cent. LORD BROUGHAM'S LAW REFORMS, ( From the Press. ) After a public career of more than half a century, and upwards of 40 years of stormy Parliamentary life, Lord Brougham finds himself, by the univer sal consent of his most distinguished contem poraries, entrusted with the duty of carrying out a class of reforms touching more closely than any others the welfare of his countrymen. A repub lication by Ridgway of two speeches by Lord Brougham in the House of Lords in July last, re minds us forcibly of his services as a Law Reformer. A quarter of a century ago he made his memorable speech on the abuses in the administration of the law : he now finds adopted nearly all the he then made, and most of them he has had the crowning satisfaction of passing into law. To Lord Brougham we owe the awaken ing of the public mind to evils the existence of which had been detected by philosophers, though they had not then been exposed by publicists. Still more are we indebted to him for the marvel lous energy and perseverance of his efforts to era dicate those evils. His war with the abuses of Chancery ; his changes in the law and practice of bankruptcy ; and generally his successful efforts to simplify legal procedure—these, although they have produced results as universal as they are bene ficial, yield in importance and value to that great reform which " brings justice home to every man's door," —the County Courts Act. If Lord Brougham had done no more than this, it would have been enough for his fame. He is sensible, however, that much must be done, even to render this measure perfect ; and thus we find him still aiming at further improvements ere yet he can feel his task The adjourned meeting of the shareholders was held yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpose of hear ing the result of the poll on the offer, made by the Gres.t Western Company, and discussed at the special meeting held on the 14th. The chair was taken by Mr. Hill. Mr. SCOTT, one of the scrutineers, stated that there had not been time to examine the proxies, and moved as adjournment to the 30th inst. Mr. BAKER, another scrutineer, confirmed Mr. Scott's statement. A conversation ensued, in the course of which Mr. Scott intimated that, as far as he could judge, there was a very general assent on the part of the shareholders to the proposition made to them. Mr. SAUNDERS, secretary of the Great Western Com- pany, deprecated delay as tending to prolong the contest ; and asked whether two or three hours would not suffice to enable the scrutineers to complete their task ? Mr. SCOTT said he thought that if the meeting were adjourned till three o'clock, the scrutineers would then be able to speak more specifically. The meeting was accordingly adjourned till that hour. At three o'clock the shareholders re-assembled, Mr. Hill again in the chair. Mr. SCOTT said the scrutineers had nothing positive to announce. He was happy to report, however, that so far as they had been able to proceed, there appeared to be a majority in favour of the offer of the Great Wes tern Company ; and he was bound to add that from communications he had had with shareholders, he in ferred that the real majority, as indicated by the general expression of feeling, was considerably larger than it ap peared on the votes. This being so, he, for one, had decidedly made up his mind to adopt the opinion of the shareholders. (Cheers.) He wished to express his entire reliance on the honour and good faith of the Great Wes tern Company ; and he hoped they would carry out their proposal in the open and candid manner in which it ap peared to have been made. Relying upon this more than on anything that was written, he looked forward to the future, sanguine that the prosperity of the railway was from that day secured. In reply to questions, Mr. Soon stated that the terms of the Great Western offer were a guaranteed dividend of 31 per cent, from the let of January, 1854, together with half the surplus profits ; and that it had been arranged that the six di rectors, who would, in the ordinary course, retire by rota ion at the meeting on the 30th inst., should not offs themselves for re-election, but that others should be c osen in their stead. A r. KENNEDY wished to know whether, in case the Gre t Western Company failed to obtain a bill in the nex session, it would renew the application in succeed ing essions, until one had been obtained. 0 e or two other proprietors having asked for infor mat on on this point, T e CHAIRMAN said the shareholders had the guaran tee Of the Great Western Company, which would con tinuia till the bill was o b tained. Al PROPRIETOR believed the company would not be able to obtain the 34 p er cent. until the bill was passed. (He?r.) It could not legally be paid. Ilie CHAIRMAN then moved that the offer made by the Gm:lt Western Company of 3 per cent. and half the sur us profits be accept e d, an d that power be given to the irectors to take steps fo r carry i ng it into effect. T its motion was second e d by M r. M ALINS. A ter a short discussion, it was p u t an d carr i ed unani -1 mou 13 ,- p , - 1 T e CHAIRMAN observed th a t th e war f are was now end d, and he hoped the proc ee di ngs o f th e company would in future be marked by pea ce an d goo d w ill . T e meeting then separated. I ought to be mentioned that no numbers were an nounced and none could be obtained. All that could be ascertained on the subject was that there was a con siderable majority in favour of the offer of the Great Weg' i tern Company. LONDONDERRY AND COLERAINE. The half-yearly m ee ti ng o f thi s company was held yesterday at the office, Coleman-street-buildings, Moor gate4street ; Captain Warren in the chair. 11 r. HEMMING, the secretary, read the report, which stat d that the rail wa y was opene d t h roughout, from Londonderry to Cole ra i ne , on th e 18 t h o f J uly last, the mailine being 33 miles, and the branch to Newtown- Limltvady three miles, giving a total length of 36 miles. The passenger traffic has already given very satisfactory results, while from the character of the line—presenting, as it does, scenery unsurpassed by any railway in the United Kingdom—and from the fact of the Giant's Causeway being within nine miles of Coleraine, the di rectors confidently anticipate that, independently of the ordinary passenger trade for business purposes, there will annually be a large receipt from pleasure and tourist traffic. The bill for the extension line from Coleraine to Castle-Dawson, as approved by the proprietors, has passed into law. The worshipful the Ironmongers' Company of London, the owners of a considerable length of property upon the extension, having agreed to give their land upon terms most liberal on their part, and highly advantageous to this company, the directors have made all necessary arrangements for at once proceeding with the first section of the line—namely, from Coleraine to Agivey-bridge, a length of 71 miles, having in the meantime taken upon themsel ves th e responsibility of the purchase of land. The Castle-Dawson Extension will give a through communication between London derry and Belfast, securing a future direct outlet from Coleraine to Dublin, and opening up the Valley of the Bann, and almost the entire length of the county to the port and city of Londonderry. The directors propose to bring upon the line the traffic of an important portion of the county of Donegal by means of a branch line of three miles in length, from the Magilligan station to the point of land at the entrance of Lough Foyle. Sir H. H. Bruce, Bart., the owner of the property through which this branch passes, hav ing given the necessary land on liberal terms, the works have been commenced, and, being of an extremely light and inexpensive character, a very short time will suffice for their completion. By means of this branch a large traffic may be anticipated from the immense district of Innishowen. The eligible sites for watering-places on the main line and on the Donegal shore, and the inex haustible deep sea fisheries along this portion of the coast, may be expected, in addition to the large salmon fisheries of the Foyle and the Rann, to add considerably to the traffic. The capital account to the 30th of June last showed that 468,168/. had been received, and 465,1241. expended, leaving a balance of 3,0441. The revenue account for the half-year ending the 30th of June showed that 1,8861. had been received on 19 miles of the line front Londonderry to Newtown Limavady, and 1,5011. expended, leaving a balance of 3841. Out of this is deducted 651., the balance against revenue at the last account, leaving a balance in favour of revenue of 3191. Resolutions were passed adopting the report, re-elect ing Captain Warren, Mr. G. Tyrrell, and Mr. P. Gil mour the retiring directors, and Mr. H. P. Fuller, the retiring auditor. On the motion of Mr. WALEY, a cordial vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman and directors ; and, on the motion of another proprietor, a vote of interests thanks was passed to Mr. Hemming, the secretary for his exer tions in promoting the of the company. ST. HELEN'S. A special meeting of this company was held on Mon day, at the railway station, St. Helen's, to authorise the conversion of shares into consolidated stocks. Mr. Gilbert Greenall, M.P., presided. The CHAIRMAN said he believed that in the consolida tion of their stock there would be very great conveni ence ; and in respect of the 5 per cent. preference shares very great convenience and advantage were evident to all of them. He concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that the various shares of the company be consolidated into the following general capital stocks : Class A, ordinary consolidated stock, 316,800/.; class B, 5 per cent. consolidated stock, 144,000/.; class C, 6 per cent. consolidated stock, 125,2501.; class D, 44 per cent. consolidated stock, 58,875/. ; and that the same be registered in the names of the several existing proprietors of the abovementioned shares in the proportion defined by the act, 1853. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. A. STOCK, the resolution was carried unanimously, and the meeting separated. PROJECTED SOUTH WALES LINES. There is every probability that the rich coal fields and quarries of Carmarthenshire, with the minerals of Car diganshire, will be thrown open by the formation of a line from Carmarthen to Cardigan. The landowners and the wealthy persons in the two counties have promised to support the line, and several meetings have been held, when most favourable opinions were expressed. The South Wales have expressed their approbation, as it will prove an important feeder to their trunk line. Several branches will be formed. Several schemes for a line between Milford Haven and Manchester and the north are mooted, and it is said that the London and North- Western and the Great Western Railway Companies will both go to Parliament for powers for constructing one on the narrow and the other on the broad gauge plan. NEW OMNIBUS LlCENSES.—Yesterday the metropo litan omnibuses were under inspection, by order of the police commissioners under the new act, as a prelimi nary proceeding to the granting of new licenses next month. Some improvements have been already ordered, and in a short time a better description of vehicles will appear. It is, however, expected that the number of omnibuses will be diminished ; it is rumoured that as many as 200 will be taken off the roads by the proprie tors, as the omnibus business is a losing speculation. By the expiration of the present licenses, several sales of omnibuses and horses will take place. Under the new law the police commissioners are empowered to see that 1 proper horses as well as omnibuses are provided for the benefit of the public. IclljsE s SANITARY CONDITION OF COMMON LOD h O N o us e G s - , li several adopted sanitary as precautionary n c a a r y n be measurese n force d a , g a which he sh c o h u o l l d era be A better supply o f wate r can be obtained,the purifying . of the places , and the immediate removal of the sick to a n d hospitalsthey in aretheand t hmpeertorpo abodesepolirps places. Thec common lodging houses shelter to great numbers, wretchedness and vice. The poor creatures issue from them, and are to be regarded with compassion. Th ese places have been visited, as appears by the parliamentary reports, and still require much consideration. 'METROPOLITAN =LIFE ASSURANCE No. 3, Princes. street, Bank. The Directors hereby give notice to Members whose Premium% fall due on the sth of October next, that the same must be PAID within Thirty days from that date The Premiums are pai d yearly, Half-yearlT, or Quarterly, on and sth the sth of January , s th of April, sth of July, of October, either of which several days constitutes the commencement of the year to Members. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the So ciety pr o posals on the sth of October neat, should appear or lodge their at the o ffi ce on or before that day. This Society, for Mutual and General Assurance, appropriates the whole of its profits to the benefit of parties assuring their own lives for the whole term of life as Members of the Society. For the year ending the sth of April, 1854, an abatement of 51 per cent. has been declared on the Premiums of all Members of Five Years' standing and upwards. IIICHARD lIBATHFIELD, Superintendent. Princes-street, Bank, Sept. 8, 1853.