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• I. • rignEE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE r Ni _ SOCIETY, 39, King-street, Cheapside.-(Established 1834.) insjiw"c_.n.-In addit'on to the usual Board on beny, the Fax- I'ECIAL COURT of DIRECTORS will holden on . NY th e 30 lie DAY' the lust., from Two to Three o'clock, to enable , all parties ;e , c°,lll)lete articipating in the profits at the en r d his fneat year to 1) ,.,_ _ r assurances by the 31st inst. For purpose, o 3. I)._".s received be lod mediately that the Referees' replies may g - '-eeeived in time Vijay before the Board. (I . ............., ALLSOPP'S STRONG. ALES. ,I A LL SOPP ' S ALES for CHRISTMAS. . ton PateE and TWVNING. 5%, PALL-MALL (late Barring chiisr) have a small stock, and can send out, as a curi E os as ity n f r o i r . can teas the STRONG CHRISTMAS theEmpressPeter eoatßileorr,ine of Russia, many barrels of mean by special orde , of th .n e se ttro , O . THE A.DMIRAITY, acco4.ied the expedi , ion i ' Of Sir John Franklin in the frozen regions of the Arctic Circle. In Casks, 455. per 18 Gallops. PARKER and TWINING, Beer Merchants (late liar Ington Parker), 5 1 %, PALL-MALL. oa EX-11,,, ORTERS to AUSTRALIA, EAST IN- Pe rte - LES, CAPE, &c.-Genuine YARMOUTH BLo A. rms.- rc as apply to THOMAS LETTIS, Fish Merchant, Great Yarmouth. --...._ ~,.- A .T m i C, I , N ,„§ON and COMPANY, . CABINET ' , 4..RE r ., --- , ,, EACTURERS UPHOLSTERERS, and CARPET bild.._..'wußEMEN. 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster .......t road, Lambeth, London. -41 T R IC IN, SON and COMPANY, DRAPERS, ;:7t 440 5 7,..... ;MERCER, LACEM EN, &c., 59, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, Maim' "c eBtr ninster-bridge-road, Lambeth, London.-Shawls, Furs, ' a rnilY Mouraing; &c. i Oi ER ) EPIRES. od U RRNB O O Y R ST OU S G T C:O H o and FAVERSHAM Oa T ~, „. NATIVE OYSTERS. 0 Ofthe-bziost acceptable Present at this season of the year is a Barre )1i bleb t NATIVE OYSTERS, with are to be obtained at SCOTT'S 0 at 3 s. n 6 ,, t ed OYSTER WAREHOUSE, 11, Coventry-street, Piccadilly, ---..,_______''Per Barrel, warranted to weigh 141bs; ill i t I F E AS SURANCE; tif co‘IEPORT of the SELEC t iOMMITTEE of the HOUSE I taPost' M° NS, and the DEPOS , T SYSTEM-the New and am 4111' Feature of Life Assurance adopted by The DEPOSIT Th e fri , ER . AL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Ititle e : "'“ ), Ylng is an extract from the Report of the Select Corn ' l 'ft o aJ hA N ,,, B-EcTs which persons HAVE IN VIEW IN EFFECTING IN -80.1.-tk.,'"' °Pon their lives, are GENERALLY OF AN IMPORTANT AND titer MN thencter, viz., the PROVISION FOR WIDOW . S AND ORF . EIANS 0 tr,n isa t e i t i ? death of their NATURAL PROTECTORS ; unlike any ordinary 0 ~b n „ l a ctiol , ,° , „4 , ,° f trade, a CONTRACT ONCE ENTERED INTO . CANNOT BE .$ v. ice bi, - :'",, Olt ABANDONED, if doubts of the stability of an rksT s'iliu arise, wamour A SACRIFICE OF PREMIUMS PAID IN 'Ace ~4 1-3, . , and the necessity of effecting new politics in other or Of th,, 41 Increased rates of premium, owing to the greater age 0 t0 0 ,,, T - as sured ; Persons are thus placed in 'the ANXIOUS AND UN -01 DRE W , ' f "MIIA OF BEING COM PEL L ED T O PER S EVERE IN PAYING j to th e 48 P ROM YE AR TO YE AR , with SOME sus pi c i on and doubt as C altim N x,„„, L ate artvantage of doing so, OR OF INCURRING THE BE -11% A o ss WHICH, TINDER THE MOST FAVOURABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, ~ Cla tj,, T ,„ E ND THE ABANDONMENT OR SALE OF A POLICY." Irern ‘,"' -IJEPOSIT SYSTEM a person is NOT " COMPELLED" to pay INe'.. h i r Nit To YEAR," and he does not, if desirous of " ABANDON hiay 1,2, Policy, Incur any '• sznious Loss," hut, on the contrary, he ki; vent, , . such amounts, told at such times es he may find most c.on ,¢r 4 rls - 'i l , he can stop paying whenever he pleases, and he can with t, 41 14 v i, , e Whole or part of his premiums. If the whole be with io relt the Policy is cancelled ; if eart only, then the value of the d, 7 I s diminished by the assured value, of the part withdrawn. 1 1 I‘,l' a ged 20, opens a deposit policy with a payment of 51 , which li ti„! be seen he increases from time to time, and occasionally .....,___'"gitshes. I; ~.t ------- - .014.1 .—.0,N...4 . 1; CS . =- m o ~..C4, - 41,M,M.N., . ., M 0 0 L tz. 6 . ° -, 1 , ' ca 4 —c, el. a- Mer . ~ ,, s - . ca .—, C. ..., -4 $ k „ 6 It 0 „. 0 ii • , ,„'; sr, .-. • ...... ..1• 4° Y. . 0 , ,,,,,, Sao Jr-.D. 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Part''• and during his life a fund of 751. to draw out at any time, in Tae Wholly. C e lint claim settled by the Deposit a nd General Life Assurance 1 4 ota n v l'auY was upon a deposit of 1 0 /. which a p arent made for each B tivi ,e children, instead of a ;ding it to an account they had at the ka l -;; flank. One of them died a few days after the 10/. was de -1847,1, and th e father received 341. Gs., being the amount of the De -1 P olicy, 14.._cPosing A B, Eq. EXAMPLE Jiro. 2. aged 23, when he opens a Deposit Policy .Bear the Ihs';l and continues VOLUNTARILY to pay the same sum every year e mu° way as he is COMPELLRD to do in the ordinary system. • Year. Age. 1 .'..- -------._ (1 8 51 --. X X. s. . 185 ). •'••••• • • 23 18 49 6 6 18 48 16 0 145 4 25 18 47 18 0 188 . : •• • ..... ...... 26 18 47 4 6 1858 •• ...... .. 27 la 46 10 6 18 • 45 17 6 1 85 8 •• • . 1859 . . ••• •• •......... 30 18 44 10 6 1 8692 •• • ........... 31 18 43 17 6 1 86; .••-•• •• • • ...... 32 18 43 4 0 to .... .. • . G , . 90 206 7 6 l ilt "• •• • • ...... • S 7 • 1 870:' ••• • . ....... • 90 190 4 6 41; . :•••• •••• •.•... 42 18 74, . 72 1.11 3 0 •• •• • ...... .. 46 _ ----- 181 5. 432 1,000 4 0 .t.o .... —•. • • .... 47 IfiB A. 103 191 13 G - 1 8ei .. "• •........ . 52 la 5. 53 2 90 147 10 G 18 189 i 108 182 10 6 63 ----- ~..._ 738 1,525 n 6 Tll premium or 181. commencing at 23 years of age , and p aid u p on 014, Zinary Policy (As IT musT se) every year till A.B. is 46 years secure the same sum, viz., 1,0001., but . if A B lives 17 leadedrin( is the probable duration of at the time payments 0 4.4 . an ordinary Policy of 1,0001., will have increased to 1,5251. 111 TB.IISTEES. Lt Drumlanrig, , nonourable the Lord Viacom Atm ,n l _2 3 troller of her Majesty's Household. Q t .' General Sir W. Clayton, Bart., 79, Gloucester-place, Port- Vi t e . '"arles Price, Bart., Banker, London. Admiral Ayscough, Prospect House, Southampton. CHAIRMAN. ''lght Hon. the Lord Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C., Comp , troller of her Majesty's Household. DEPUTY-CUAIRMAN. George Coode, Esq., Victoria-street, Belgravia. CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. P. Nelson, E4q., F.L.S. STANDING COUNSEL. ‘irowder, Esq., Q.C., M.P., Recorder of Bristol, Counsel to the ralty, and Judge Advocate of the Fleet. • "WI c h , 11% Esq., Q.C., M.P., Lincoln's - inn. ti : ;'ef Office, No, is, New Bridge-street, 131ackfriars, London. "in4,ns granted at 5 per cent. on real or personal security. tlin4Ves on most favourable terms.. Diseased lives and lives de- D P other offices accepted at equitable rates. th e "r Prospectuses and fat ther information apply to the agents in country or to C. W. Bevan, Resident Secretary. It'l l Agents wanted in all parts of the United Kingdom, ' ll -4fe Assurances effected on the ordinary plan. --..... — 41131 CA.L ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITrE2 OF Dit YOUTH AND MATURITY. e g AMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD - SQUARE , LO N DO N, 4 ...."`"'' of Medicine and Matriculated Member of the University of 1‘ .41h urgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical " 1 / 4 tY, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London , ice., &c. AN be consulted, personally, or by letter, on :caul the Tallow disorders of the nervous and generative system, "Ikeda% from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro t4re More misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ',l/455,3,e5,/ at all stages of life, than pethaps any othar cls of d `a ti n ,: s Pown to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience - 'Teahnent of these diseases has proved that there are in exis,- e4'ecret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in bet e : i nce, tra cea bl e t o c e r tain pernicious habits, to which Nervous 1 / 4 453 t ,r , various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Marrl 1/4kile' : r oPotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness , and the i r It i s ' Modifications owe their almost entire origin. Prin et absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are Iricin.,Zaa of personal management which cannot be violated without L li 1 ; e , R grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed .._ rl / 4 fty b2claY of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties n ild 1 3 " g,ated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, the t t r ii 'V" the evil and its consequenc es may be avoided, and above all, 41 / 4 1 1in e : ra Is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional Do e , t ,' ,l ent to which the timely a .1 of science cannot apply a cure. ex° LA•mERT has for a long series of years been engaged ilturit4ensfve practice in the treitment of these delicate com -411 th e : and is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless the ee ` l / 4 orids and envy of thehypocritical and mock-modest, has had " t tertu o de nee, through the meaium of the public press, to direct 'ree oto these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is t ,.!si. re., the thii department of practice, he has been amply nitti ne e ", l) Y the great success that has attended hit efforts in the ' l / 4 1 'e nt AL of these cases, which are too generally confided to the he " l / 4fth li e e tnrti nu cillalifed and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated c na, dzsuined foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues -ev e h_Pattnn nostrums, have inflicted serious Injury on those who ,A A iZen Induced to place faith in their pretensions. : I till tslEn° for consultation daily from Kleven till Two, and from m edic] Ei ght. All letters must contain the fee of 1/., and advice and k it 1 3 7 2 can he forwarded to any initials or address. aOidd n asiralilo that pati wi ents shing to consult Dr. LA'MEItT "t obtain a copy of his work on 4 Aired' SELF...PRESERVATION 4 11 ,,_ . cal T reatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and tribiLl ve ali Debility, illustrated by fifty-coloured engravings, and des olts4l/1 d etail the nariorts disorders resulting from secret habits and tl ' e Ls ''ripii . " The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct wl'en eh. ° / 1 of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in English, ‘ ,„'retin,,.,, Panish, 'Dutch Italian or Oerma.n, of Messrs. Piper al/4nn,r3,3, and ei ll ., 2.4. Pat'ernoster-;ow; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; as" ' ) ost 11: „cenlitil ; Storie titehborne-street, Haymarket; or free 1 / 4 1 1 mrly-two stun ' s to ' any address from the Author's rest ......—"' 37 . lig 1 ' ~ , -.........._ Driven-sonar:a i,ounon. , lust S ECOND EDITION.—WITII ADDITIONS. eiPUlished, Bvo , .FALSE in cloth, price 55., byMA post tree. 58. tn. TRUE dr' SPERTORRFICEA, in w ith the View t o th e C orrect i on of w id e - s p re ad Errors 4,,ttattiolvnto the T rea t men t and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the e System, ^r Sexual Hypochondriasis. Translated from 'he German of Dr. PICKFORD 0 known to Englieh readers fr practi t:,,e7i.ributiong .to di German me Beal literature. by his This equent is the first sal re he I nforms ns, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi- I3 lher 43er ' We trust this may not be the last, If he shall letect any flagrant evil which it may be in his -ower to correct" In g ,;:; 1 1 Medical Gazette, May 30. 1551. The tribe of 'Quiet Sympa• cotu d ; 111 A , r i t d edical Fri an d s,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if thi s b oo k sa t o f Is_ts it into the hands of thoea who seffer frln the corn uvel w nich it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would 14 % ittv o nl " o h needless suffering of body and mind, and what . is of much ,rtance, though it is that which the quacks most d pr t ize th — I tY • • .• • . This volume is well qualified to puti an e u ,"•1 system of treating Spermatorrhrea, and . to p acs the rea - e 111E t l y gu a ll a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore •40 mo o t go - a Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. London: 11. Balder% 219, Regent-greet. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. R OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON—H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. FIRST EXHIBITION of PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES MAGNI FIED about 40,n00 times on the Disc, with an ENTIRELY NEW SERIES of DISSOLVING VIEWS. LECTURES by Dr. BACROFPNER on WILKINS'S NEW PATENT UNIVERSAL ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LECTURE by J. H. PEPPER, Esq., on SPONTANEOUS COMBUS TION, with Brilliant Experiments. An HISTORICAL and MUSICAL LECTURE, illustrated with DISSOLVING SCENERY, entitled " The ROAD, the RIVER. and the RAIL." by J. E. CARPENTER, Ent., assisted by Miss Blanche Younge, daily at a Quarter to Four, and every evening, except Saturday, at Nine o'clock. Open Mornings and Evenings. Admission, Is. ; Schools and Children under Ten years of age, Half-price. - - ---,-- - . . ..-- ~,/') . .: , (j , 2/IZ, Ze_ .„‘,._,,,,Z----. /- - - e-- t - I t.--e 7. // • / Z . _ / ..•,,i,,,,_ ;,:44p'•"..r,„::---?"1/ ~:1111111-1:'... el . ... ~, et_ E. e -, . ~ . . „, 1 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. .:i,.„,_ , 4 4 . , 4 ,••., ~.... '''''' '':-,,,,-,, - ' -.:. .' ' / •r , f;:, ''')- ---. • 1.1 ' krlAA*l ' . t., 1) , ..- ~, ,,,t , , 4 . 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At'' s 4IU ~._''' - 1 , i , " ' • 4, / N -r• ••••\, 1 ' ~.k_ ' l', i 4 :', , t -„, / l'• ;zos i .M. 4 ., l'' ' t y ill ':' ' '4,, r , p , ,; :.-, .1 1 4 , ' • '4 4 -I t°i'r 7 0VV4 .1 4. - 4i6:5?' . :1: DI V. .4, < . - - . ---- GUILDHALL.--Alderman Hum her begged to acknowledge th e rece i p t o f the followin g munificent donations to the poor-box of this court :---251, from the Grocers' Company, being 51. more than their usual handsome subscription, on account of the dearness of provisions ; 201. from the Merchant Taylors' Company, being double the amount of their annual donation, in consequence of the high price of provisions and coals ; and 20s. from a portion of the young men employed at 30, Gutter-lane. The Alderman also acknowledged the receipt of 25 family tickets and 50 single tickets from the City Samaritan Institution, in Victoria-street, entitling the holders to a good dinner of roast beef and plum-pudding on Christmas-day. [ 1 ) R10E SD. THE EASTERLY GALES AND THE COAL TRADE. SHIELDS, SATURDAY NIGHT. We have an immense fleet of coal-laden vessels in the Tyne, which have been accumulating during the past 10 days. In fact, the continued easterly gales are causing a very serious detention of shipping —the Wear, Hartle pool, and the Tees being as full of vessels as the Tyne. There is not a vacant berth in Shields harbour. The weather has been very rough at sea, and the waves break heavily on the coast. The few vessels that have left here laden within the time mentioned have either had to put back or seek places of shelter in Leith -roads or Holy Island. It is very fortunate that we have had so few vessels, more especially laden vessels, on the coast du - ring the prevalence of the gales, and the ship ping casualties reported bear a slight proportion to the losses by similar gales in past seasons. The only vessel belonging to this port of the crew of which there seems now to. be n o hope, is a brig named the Agenoria. She sailed coal-lade n for London. Subsequently one of her boats was washed ashore near Aldborough. Neither vessel nor crew has been heard of, and there is - every reason to concl u d e th at she is lost with all hands. The side of a vessel has come on shore near Bridlington, of which there is no account, and a derelict vessel is re ported to have been off Sunderland. About 200 light colliers reached here from London during Monday and Tuesday, after very quick passages. About half-a dozen light vessels ran ashore on the same day in a, breeze in taking Hartlepool, but it is not supposed that they will sustain any serious injury. When the wind veers about, and the sea gets down on the coast, there will be an extraordiny sea tide, and an immense fleet of laden colliers will leave the northern parts for the Lon don market—not less than 1,000 sail of vessels. The consumer of' coal, with the coalowner and ship owner, is interested in the removal of obstacles impend ing the ingress or egress of collier-vessels from the northern seaports, as the effects of the easterly gales clearly show. Owing to the increase of large vessels frequenting the coal ports, a good deal of attention has been recently paid to plans for increased harbour accom modation, and the making of docks for the shipment of coal and merchandise. There are now extensive docks at Hartlepool and Sunderland. The directors of the Sunderland Dock are extending their accommodation, and are spending a large sum of money in making a sea entrance. The Tyne Improvement Commissioners have also procured powers to excavate a large dock on that river for the shipment of coal at the Hayhole. The execution of the works is now in the hands of contractors. The York, Newcastle, and Berwick Rail way Company are also applying to Parliament , for powers to build a large dock in Jarrow Slake, for the shipment of the produce of the Durham coalfield ; and another company has a project to build an extensive deep waterdook at St. Peter's, near Newcastle-on-Tyne. There is also a project on foot to build a dock and give increased harbour accommodation to vessels engaged in the coal trade at Blyth, a little seaport on the Northum berland coast. But the most important improvement projected in connection with the Tyne is the building or piers at the mouth of the river, with the object of deepen ing the water on the bar, and protecting vessels enter ing and leaving the port. The River Tyne Improve ment Commissioners have an act giving them powers to make those works, and to collect the necessary dues. But as the Admiralty have a veto, and as there was a want of agreement among the towns on the banks of the river as regards the best set of plans, the appoint ment of an engineer to execute those works was left in the hands of their lordships. They nominated Mr. Walker, civil engineer, and that gentleman has just presented an elaborate report setting forth his views on the subject, and it is anticipated that the works will be proceeded with in the beginning of the year. The wind has veered round to the N.W. to-night. The weather, however, looks very black and threaten. ing, and we have had a great deal of rain. The crew of a billyboy, which had been roughly used by the gale outside, brought word into Sunderland on Thursday that they had seen a schooner and a galliot in distress not far off our coast. This report has not been confirmed, and is not generally believed in. Coal freights to London on Newcastle quay to-day were from lls. 6d. to 12s. per ton, but there were no light vessels in port to take them. MARYLEBONE.— Walter Godbold, driver of the cab No. 2,819, appeared before Mr. Long on a sum mons which had been obtained against him at the in stance of the Police Commissioners, to answer the charge (under the 16th and 17th Victoria, the Amended Hackney Carnage Act) plying for hire on a stand with a horse unfit for public use. Inspector Jecks, G, who has been specially appointed to carry out in different districts the provisions of the act in reference to the offence in question, stated that at half-past one in the afternoon of the 15th inst. he saw defendant on the rank in High-street, Camden town. Upon examining the animal which he (defend ant) had in his vehicle he found upon the off shoulder a wound of some - extent, from which pus and blood were oozing. The horse was in an extremely weak and jaded condition, and, on witness desiring him to take it home, as . it was cruel to work it, he promised that he would do so, but almost immediately afterwards he took np a woman and drove off. The poor animal was whipped severely, and even then it could scarcely get into a mo derate. trot. I 0 was evidently in extreme pain while performing the compulsory labour alluded tn. Taylor, 320 K, corroborated the greater portion of the inspector's statement. Defendant, on being asked what he had to say, re plied that he was not plying for hire, and that the per sono he took up was his wife, with whom he drov e h ome directly. He had no witnesse s p resent to speak for him. Mr. Jecks had another case of a lik e d escription, and Inspector Hennent, D, a third. Mr. Long said he was glad that und er th e amen d ed act these matters had been taken up. A grea t d ea l o f cruelty r s e s in w as as woringofw e hotrnr•eoe cases tcab h the magistrate inflicted a penalty of 10s., or seven d ays ' imprison ment, a t th e same ti me i n ti mat i ng hi s i ntention to inflict a grea t er amoun t o f punishment upon like offenders in fut ure. thepubc practised strbeyets. the In each of the CLERKENWELL.—John Thlgailes, brushmaker, of' 40, Wynyatt-street, Clerkenwell, and Mary Ann, his wife, appeared before Mr. Tyrwhitt, pursuant to their bail, to answer an atrocious charge of cruelty to Emma Higgins, aged 6, the illegitimate child of the former. The inquiry occasioned a painful interest. The little complainant, remarkable alike for her dimi nutive as intelligent appearance, stood on a stool sup ported by her mother, and when questioned by the worthy magistrate as to her knowledge of right and wrong gave answers with a rapidity and truthful accu racy that excited astonishment and admiration. Mr. Tyrwhitt, addressing Mr. Wakeling, who ap peared for the prisoner, said, after so pleasing an exhibi tion of the talent of such an infant, he had no difficulty in allowing her to be sworn in the usual way. For merly a child of that age was not permitted to give evi dence, let the crime be never so great, and many rut= ing noticed and remove d th a t diffi cu lt y, l eav i ng magis trates to ascertai n an d j u d ge th e compe t ency o f c hild ren o consequently ea r escaped. ned m e m b ersof Such, the however,Li.gis Legislature t u was r a not . the case n w, l ey h to give eviden ce . fin S The New Test amen t was th en p l ace d i n t h e h an d s o f the child, and being told to examine it, she opened it, and read with fluency three verses of the Book of Reve lations. Being sworn, she entered minutely into a series of barbarities perpetrated towards her by the prisoners. whom she knew only in the character of uncle and aunt. In the course of the investigation it came out that the child was the offspring of one Martha Higginson by the male prisoner, who had subsequently married. The complainant was placed under the guardianship of her mother's father, to whose kind attention she is indebted for her learning, and she remained with him until March last, when the prisoners took her to their abode, alleging inability to pay 2s. 6d. a week for her maintenance, under an order of this court for that purpose. According to the testimony of the com plainant, she was at first treated as well as the other children of the prisoners, but, after a while, she was buf fetted and kick e d a b out, made to eat for her breakfast and supper dry bread with milk and water, and that her dinner invariably consisted of boiled rice and salt, whereas the prisoners and their children had at the first meal tea, bread and butter, and fish ; meat, potatoes, greens, and pudding, at dinner; and at tea-time their fare was the same as at breakfast. She had frequently been stripped naked by the prisoners, who had afterwards tied her hands behind her, and her legs together, and then plunged her head foremost into cold water ; and on one occasion while so bound the woman was going to put her on the fire, but was alarmed at her screams. Since then the male defendant had placed a piece Of wire secured to some string round her neck, and dragged her about the floor to a nail in the cupboard, saying he would hang her. Her aunt (the woman) would often beat her with her shoe over her head, and kick her on various parts of her person, because she did not work fast enough with her needle is assisting her at dress -making. Her grand father at length came to see her, and, finding h er na k e d since been in Clerkenwe'll workhou se , w h ere s h e h a d b een in the corn er o f a room he took' her away, and sh e h a d fed on puddings, meat, and other nice things. Mr. Brown, surgeon of the parish, said that when the poor child was brought under his notice it was emaciated, and had bruises about its body, and a ligature mark about its neck. A woman named Hopper stated that a fortnight ago she heard the woman at the bar call the complainant a little brute, and say she wou ld put an end to her. She had often heard her beat her, when the little sufferer would moan, scream, and call out, " Oh, aunt." Four months back she noticed black marks on her face. Other evidence in confirmation of th© child having been given, Mr. Wakeling pleaded for his clients that they were on the verge of the grave from sickness and destitution, in addition to which the female defendant was near her accouchement. He had listened with con siderable pain to the evidence of the child, and felt the serious difficulty in which he was placed, and the heavy responsibility cast on him ; for surely the cruelties de scribed could not be the artful inventions of an infant of so tender an age ; and then again he was utterly at a loss to account for the motive for such unheard-of bar barity. The child was an out-patient of the. London Homceepathic Hospital, and the cold water applications and recommendation of peculiar diet might possibly have induced the poor child to fancy peculiar hardships to wards her. However, he must leave the learned magis trate to aone judge of all the fa c t s, satisfied that justice would be INDICTMENT O,P TWO FEMALES FOR SHOPLIFTING. At the Quarter Sessions for the Borough of Colchester, Mrs. Bathia Webb, of 'Great Bentley, and Miss Eliza beth Holby, of Thorpe, whose connections are highly respectable, were indicted on several charges of shop lifting. The case excited the greatest interest, and during its hearing the court was crowded to an extent equalled on any former occasion. Mr. Walford prosecuted, and Mr. Parry was specially retained for the prisoners. It appeared in evidence, that the prisoners went toge ther to the Colchester Bazaar, on the 10th of this month, and made some trifling purchases. Two pairs of stock ings, two handkerchiefs, a pair of plush cuffs, a quantity of velvet trimmings, and other articles, were missed by , the prosecutor, having been stolen, and were subse quently found concealed under the bed and mattress in the room kept for ladies on market days at the Sea Horse Inn. Mrs. Webb, it was proved, dined with her husband (a respectable frequenter of the market) ou the same day ; but Miss Holby was not with them then. Upon the articles being found, Miss Holby exclaimed, "My sister is innocent. I alone am responsible." She was very much affected. The articles baying been produced and identified as the property of M r . Marsden, the proprietor of the bazaar, Mr. Parry addressed the prisoners. He observed that, with regard to one of them, he was extremely pained as to the course he was compelled to take, but, after the admission she had made, it was impossible for him to struggle against the fact, that in a moment of temptation, either dazzled by the finery o!' the establish ment, or unconscious for the moment of the cor.se quences of what she was doing, she did commit an act which must bring upon her some punishment. In a moment of agony, feeling the misery she had brought upon herself, and was likely to bring upon her sister, she confessed her guilt. The learned counsel then con tended that Mrs. Webb had not committed a single act that looked like that of a guilty woman, and her posi tion, with the prospect of soon becoming a mother, was one that must cause the jury a greater anxiety to rescue her from the disgrace of having her first -child born in a gaol. A number of witnesses having been called to character, The jury acquitted Mrs. Webb, and found Miss Holby guilty, who was sentenced to four months' imprison ment and hard labour in Springfield Gaol. A second indictment against the prisoners was with• drawn. Mr. Tyrwhitt remarked, that Mr. Wakeling had made the best of a veryheartles s case of cruelty, and, taking into considerati on t h e improbability of the prisoners ever again havi ng t h e care of the child, and also their evident ill stat e o f health, he should commit them, with out fine, to th e R ouse of Correction for two months. The Priso ners, de graded position, were t h en remove d f rom th e b ar. who appeared overwhelmed with their STATE OF TRADE. LA.MBETH.—A clerk from the office of Mr. Hick applied to the Hon. G. C. Norton for a summons against the Rev. Robert Gibson, an Independent min;ster, for wilful and corrupt perjury, committed while giving his evidence in a case of assault by Mr. Kelly, a respectable printer, whose wife he had seduced. The applicant related to his worship the answers atlnitsrs. at Clarke,reply her h w given by the Rev. Mr. Gibson to questions put to hi m on that d a y—answers not hastily, b u t d e lib erate l y and after a caution given, which had subsequently b een con tradicted by the most respectabl e an d un i mpeachable witnesses. One of the question s as k e d the rev. gentle man w as, whether he had no t assumed and gone by the tl h nn vh i ell i s at vm tn e w e e r l o s d r f h s. i . N K p G ' se whoil b l rsye:cno land o tki h i s n ap , that rdeliberateme there. o a sou n s eet o n af t t h thh e name of Kelly, a n d wen t b y that name while he resided ee (Front the Afanchester Guardian of Saturday.) MANCHESTER, DEC. 23.—At the commencement of the present month, indications began to show them selves of a rising opinion that the depression in busi ness had probably run its course for the present; and since then, we have experienced a gradual increase of demand for both yarns and goods. The India mer chants have operated with greater freedom, in mule twist and the lighter kinds of goods, especially of late, , under the influence of improved accounts from Calcutta ; and some purchases of wa t er tw i st and the heavier shirtings appear to hav e b een made even for Can ton, where, accordin g t o t h e last accounts a re sumption of busine ss seeme d to be taking place. The Greeks have also come into the market for twist and cloth adapted to the trade of the Levant. For some parts of the continent of America, moderate operations are in Progres s ; an d we may cite domestics as articles which seem pretty sure to be in' much greater request for usual absence of demand Canada, tha n i n any former year. The last-name d ar ti c l es are not no w h e ld i n stock by the makers, as was th e case but a sh or t t i me back ; and they are consequen tl y very firm in p r i ce. NOTTING -RAM, D ec. 22.—The that is alw a y s exper i ence d thi s month still continues, and with th e excep ti on o f a few final orders for the sea son, both f or l ace an d hosiery, there is comparatively nothing doing. ' ' LEICESTER, Dec. 22.—Oar market' is as usual quiet before Christmas. Stocks on hand are unusually low for the season, and there is more confidence felt amongst the worsted spinners in holding over stock tilthe new year's trade commences. Mr. Norton—Juries are slow to convict in cases of per- jury ; and I feel assured that evidence such as you have seen by that when the rev, Mrs gentleman the i s r b , ea w sufficient to obtain a conviction. to avoid Applicantw e t ti addressed him i n th e name o f K e ll y, say i ng it was all Clarke,h went tdwi llinto be rthe. ableKwa oi to tera p , y he rsel f o right, and that he might come out ; but, besides this, I can produce a respectable master baker, who will swear that Gibson at hi s s h o p s aid his name was Ke lly, and ordered bread to be sent to his wife, Mrs. Kelly, and further, I can have the evidence of a medical man, wh o made out a bill in the name of Kelly, and Gibson paid him. Mr. Norton—Well, I much doubt whether even this will be strong enough for a conviction. Applicant —I feel satisfied that it would be sufficient to obtain an indictment before a grand jury, but, as the Recorder at the Old Bailey strongly objects to persona being placed for trial on bills of indictment found be hind their backs, I should much prefer, and ao would the person by whom I am employed, to have the rev. gentleman brought before your worship on a summons, and the evidence taken in the regular way, so that he might know exactly what he had to answer. Mr. Norton.—All that is very fair, but 1 have some doubts whether the evidence on which you wish to found the charge of perjury was given sufficiently for mally ; and I should like -to hear the whole evidence read before giving a summons. Applicant.—The gentlemen whom I represent, from having been so grossly imposed on by the Rev. R. Gib son, in his assumed sacred capacity; as well as Mr. Kelly, are determined not to let the matter rest where it is, and with th a t v i ew h ave i ns t ruc t e d me to p l ace the whole of [the evidence before eminent counsel, and act upon his advice. The opinion of the learned gentleman I shall have in a few days, and shall then renew my application. Mr. Norton.—Very well, let it remain so. Mu. SMITE o'BRlEN.—Acco r di ng t o the Limerick Chronicle, no intimation whatever has reached' the family or friends of Mr. Smith O'Brien of that gentle man's escape from Van Diemen's Land. We are happy to be enabled to state, from inquiries which were made, that the three Misses Green Wil kinson are fast recovering from the accident by fire, which is by no means of that serious nature as was at first supposed. ~__-_~ N. 19,1 I.] LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE Rooms, (Lessee, CIIAS. C. 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Edward 1 1 0 Thomas, Vice Admiral Richard ••.. • • Thompson, Capt. J. T Telver, S , Esq... ••,, ,„ 1 1 0 Townshend, J. V. S., Esq 1 1 0 Towry, G. 8., Esq FR.G S. •• •• •• •• I 10 0 Tremenhere, Seymour, •• • ..... 1 1 0 Trevelyan, Sir W. C., Bart., M.A. F.R.G.S. 5 0 0 Tudor, Henry, Esq• • Tudor, Edward Owen, Esq., F.R.G.S ...... Turner, Henry, Esq 5 0 0 Urquhart, James, Esq. 2 2 0 Vaughan, Col. Wright Vernon, John, Esq. " Vivent les Bellots" Vyner, Robert, Esq. 5 0 0 vValte, J. C.. Esq. • • 1 1 0 Waley, S. W., EKI. .. 1 10 . Walker, Capt. Robertson 2 2 0' Walker. Captain W. H., H.C.S., F.R.G.S. 2 2 0 'Washington, Capt. John RS., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. 2 2 0 Weld, C. R., Esq. , •• 1 1 West, Admiral Sir John 5 00. Whiston, Rev. Robert .. 1 1 0 Wilkinson, Conrad, Esq. 2 2 0 Wilkinson, Horace, Esq. 2 2 0 W;lkinson, Norman, Esq. 1 1 0 i Wilkinson, William, Esq. 1 1 0 tN, illiams Rev.D.,D.C.L., F.R.O.S. • • ••1 1 0 Willich, Chas. 3L, Esq., F.R.G.S. •• • 1 I Winslow, Dr. • Forbes, D.C.L. 3 0 0 Wood, Sir W. P. 5 0 0 Wynniatt, Lieutenant (Phcenix) ~ 2 0 0 Young, T., Esq., F.G.S. 5 0 0 Younghusband, Captain R.A., F.R S. 10 10 0 10' 0 0 1 00 I 1 0 1 00 LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1853. PUBLIC WORKS IN AUSTRALIA. Nothing, in the progress of a new country, is a more striking and important sign of-advance than the first beginnings of public enterprise. The keen struggle for existence absorbs the energies of the early settler. He has to hew and to burn that he may clear the ground on which to rear a precarious harvest, or he explores with his cattle and herds the unknown solitudes of plains and valleys. He conquers nature, he seizes on the advantages she offers, and overcomes the obstacles interposed in his course. He occupies' the land that is to be his home ; the safest harbour is selected, the best Water carefully looked for, a sheltered site for a town secured, and the capital of the colony springs up, while homesteads and stations begin to dot the surface of the interior. This is the first stage of colonial history. The second is characterised by the introduction of an organised Government, by the establishment of law and order, by the de velopment of local resources, and the growth of a foreign trade. Public buildings arise to adorn the capital ; associations are formed to promote objects 'of general interest, or to carry on in common the pursuits of commerce. But as yet the necessities of the day are still the first objects of all. The colony has to be made, its place has to be won by the exertions that are expended to promote it, and by the capabilities of which it can be shown to be possessed. If 'the flood of emigration sets in strongly, so that fresh elements of wealth are con tinually added, -and if circumstances are peculiarly favourable, a colony may make an advance in its second stage with as marvellous a rapidity as has been exhibited in the province of Victoria. And before we can distinctly say that the second stage has passed away, the third has begun. The time has come when men gain somethrig like a clear conception of the future destiPi4 of the country they inhabit. Sure of their own position, they in vestigate the relations they occupy to their neigh bours and friends. Individuals act ton - ether for a remote and general object, and not only to further private and particular interests. Undertakings are entered on, the success of which is wholly de pendent on new wants being certain to arise in the community, if means of ministering to them are provided, while these means are necessarily of a nature that demands concert in action, and. a wide appreciation of the less obvious interests of the society. And such enterprises, when crowned with success, bring with them not only the fruits which are their primary object, but also a sense, perpetually heightened, of public confidence, and a desire for public ad vantage. If fair play is given to the wishes of the colonist, the form of Government becomes adapted to the altered mood of public opinion, and power from being external and merely executive becomes local and deliberative. This is the stage on which Australia is now entering, and though the very peculiar conditions of her progress have enabled her to outstrip all calculation, yet in her rapid advance we may see compressed into the compass of a few years what, in colonies of a slower growth, it has taken generations to unfold. Public works of every kind are being urged for ward with an energy and rapidity that almost out herods the Americans. Schemes are being set on foot which, if originating in a private source, have yet a wide and public aim. The eye of the specu lator both travels on to the possibilities of the future, and, traversing the artificial boundaries of his own peculiar district, sveeps over the wide ex tent to which the natural conformation of the whole territory conducts it. Thus province is contemplated as united to Trovince, and something of a national character seems to be impressed upon the whole. We might watch with interest and ad miration the public works of Australia, if we saw reflected in them nothing but the untiring perse verance and ind.omitabbi energy of the race ; but such feelings are heightened to a tenfold degree when we are thus led to perceive the opening of a new phase of the colonial history, and to detect the first germs of a new, though perhaps subject, nationality._ _ _ Of all such public works railways are by far the most important. We have already learned from America how steam can be used as the pioneer of civilisation, and how rapidly it unites the distant and heterogeneous members of a great society. Railways in Australia are still in their rudest in fancy, and are the creatures of promise rather than of performance. But still enough has been done, and is doing, towards their formation, to serve as an indication of the stage of its history on which this great empire of the south is entering ; and if We watch their intended course we learn, with a clearness not otherwise to be attained, the natural facilities and difficulties of a country that is strange to us. Its soil, its rivers, its declivities and eleva tions, are presented to us as viewed by the light of the greatest local experience ; and nothing cm be more suggestive of what our Australian colonies are than to trace the course of intended railways and ascertain the purposes they aro meant to sulmerve. We cannot hero enter into the details of the schemes which have been either projected or partly realised, but we can assure our readers that any one who attempts to make himself master of those that have received the sanction of public approval in tie co limy will find himself amply repaid. In South- Eastern Australia, for instance, we may point to the line, very shortly to be opened, which wil. con nect Melbourne with its harbour. We are mll by this time familiar with the mournful history of the vexations, the perils, the waste of money and time, to which the voyager to the land of gold was ex posed in the last nine miles of his course. After thousands of. miles of ocean travelling he found himself stopped in sight of the spot he had come so far to gain by the necessity of getting himself and his goods up a miserable little stream full of sand bars, and :so tortuous in its course that in no wind can sails be employed. The navigation of the Yarra will now be in a great measure superseded by the possibility of unloading at a sea harbour, and then ten minutes of a railway will take the eager traveller into the midst of, perhaps, the ugliest, worst-built, newest, richest, and dearest town in the globe. Another railway, again, will soon connect Melbourne with Geelong. Victoria has now two capitals, each possessing some Conve niences and advantages, and both labouring under some counterbalancing deficiencies. But when a railway has bound them together, each will share the advantages of the other. And these under takings seem small and insignificant by the side of the great scheme which proposes to connect Mel bourne with Sydney. A line is in contemplation which will first carry the digger to the gold, rocks of Mount Alexander, and then sweep away to the north-east. Instead of having to waste days in lumbering over a road intersected with gullies, and often ending abruptly in a quagmire, the mining adventurer may soon spend a pleasant morning in Melbourne, looking for a wife or a bar gain, and still be back by the down express in time to have a good day's work with the mattock and cradle. When it has brought the digger to his location, the train will hurry the traveller bound for the capital of New South Wale's over the rich plains lying at the base of the Austra lian Alps, and watered by . the numerous streams that feed the great tributaries of the Murray. The line will find an opening through the great chain of mountains by means of one of the great passes that admit the waters of the Yass, and then, entering on the long valley which gives a channel to the Shoalhaven and the Hawkesbury, will terminate at the harbour of Port Jackson. It will probably be some years before the London and Liverpool of Australia, as they have been termed, will be thus united ; but colonial energy will not suffer the time to be a day longer than is abso lutely necessary. Of the 500 miles over which the line is to extend, one half is on a dead flat, and the gradients of the remaining half is by no means great. Perhaps further investigations may show that it is necessary to vary the details of the pro posed scheme ; but, in one way or another, the colonists of this generation may expect to aye Syd ney and Melbourne united. We need not dwell on the political and material advantages that would be sure to ensue. If nothinr , more were effected than a diminution of the jealousy and rivalry of two provincial cities, both new, and both ellted by rapid prosperity, enough would be done . ,S make the work a good one. .t. .i. MESMERISM IN. FaAr/cE.—At a time when .' smeric notions are turning almost every head, s m ore than mesmeric agencies turn our tabl e s, ill not be without interest to the thinking w orld . hear that the Academy of Moral and 'Political b' .`.t.. ces of the Institute of France has at length offere, N,a prize for the best philosophical essay on " Sleep, Dream ing, Natural and Artificial Somnambulism,' &c. The essays are to be in the hands of the secretary of the Academy by the end of this month, and4he de -1 cision of the academicians will come out iu Aprit 1855. We shall wait with some anxiety for the result of the competition, and for the expressed opinions of skika prac tised thinkers as are M. Victor Cousin and 0 ers of European renown who compose the se c tion of pl i so phy of mind i n th e a b ove - men tioned aca d em y, on i s im portant point in the science of man, which, although so much debated hitherto, is, after all, ad hue su4 judice. Some authors of repute are said to have enteredghe list with a view to gain the academical laurels. Petite: • Aftelies de Londra. t I On Thursday, one vol. Bvo , 205., DANTE-THE DIVINE COMEDY : THE INFERNO, PURGATORY and PARADISE. A literal Verse Translation. By FREDERICK POLLOCK, Esq.,with Fifty Illastr,Ations by George Scharf, Jun. London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. 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The views of Granada and • the Alhambra, and of 'the Burma, Alps, are also now open. • • - • • CHRISTMAS WEEK. Ttfß. ALBERT SMITH will give his ASCENT 1v s. of marr BLANC TO-NIGHT (MONDAY), TO-MOR ROW MORNING (TUESDAY), and EVERY EVENING (ex cept Saturday) at Two and Eight o'Clock, daring the week. Egyp tian Hall, Piccadilly. WIVE THOUSAND Fresh, Large, and Fat TURKEYS, GEESE, FOWLS, and OSTEND RABBITS. which arrived too Itee for sale on Saturday last, will be cleared off daily without any reserve by THURSDAY next, by GEORGE and E iIVAILD BROOKE, saleiman, Leadenhall-market. EOLO GYan d MINER A.LO GY. —Elementary I Collecti,ns, which will greatly facilitate the study of these interesting branches of science, can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 minens each, of J. TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, strand, London. Mr Tennant gives Private Instruction in Mine ralogy and Geology. / - 1 RNAMENTS for the DR&WING-ROOM, LIBRARY, and DINING-ROl5l, consisting of a great variety of vases, figures, groups, inkstands, candlesticks, inlaid tables, &c., in Derbyshire spar, marble, Italian alabaster, bronze, tic., manufactured and imported by J. TENNANT, 149, Strand, London. ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF PALE ALE. THE Prineipal Firms of Burton having advanced the price of EAST INDIA PALE ALE 6s. per barrel, Messrs. T ETLEY and SON think it necessary to inform their friends that tit :y do not Intend to alter the price of their Ales on orders „.,-tered before Christmas next. The quality and condition shall be such as to maintain the character it has heretofore sustained. The Brewery, Leeds ; City Stores, 26, Crosby-hall Chambers. Oct. 24, 1853. DELETERIOUS CON FECTIONARY. —Many children having been poisoned by eating the ornaments of twelfth cakes, in consequence of the general use of mineral colours by confectioners, Messrs. PURSSELL, 78, Cornhill, near the Ex change, have introduced an entirely novel method of DECORATING their CAKES with FRENCH BON. BONS, &c., of delicious flavour; the colours, being prepared solely from vereetables,nre quite harmless Ornamented cakes of evt.ry variety, suitable for country presents, new year's gifts, &c. A great variety of fancy .French and Swiss pastry, mince pies, &c,—Messrs. Purssell, 78, Cornhill, near the Ex change only. THE MOST CERTAIN. PREVENTION OF CHOLERA YET DISCOVERED. • FURTHER GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICE. CREWS'S DISINFECTING • FLUID is the Best and Cheapest.—The Improved Chloride of Zinc for the purification of Dwelling-houses, Stables, Dog Kennels, Ship's Holds, Cesspools, Drains, Water-closets, ,Ecc. the Disinfection of Sick Rooms, Clothing, Linen, and for the Prevention of Contagion. The extraordinary power of thid Disinfecting and purifying agent, is now acknowledged, and i ts use recommended by the College of Physicians. Unlike the action of many other Disinfectants, it destroys all noxious smells, and in itca3f s rontload. The manufactu rer, having destroyed a monopoly fostered by the false assumption of the title of a patent, has to warn the public against all spurious imitations. Each Bottle of Crews's Disinfecting Fluid contains a densely concentrated solution of Chloride of Zinc. which may be diluted for use with 200 times its bulk of water. Vide Instructions accompanying each bottle. . . . It is sold by all Chemists and Shipping Agents in the United King dom, in Imperial Quarts at 2s. ; in pints, Is. ; half pints, at Gd., and in larger vessels at ss. per Gallon. Agents—Messrs. Drew, Heyward, and Barron, Bash-lane, Can non-street. Manufactured at 11. G. GRAY'S, Commercial Wharf, Mile End, mndon. BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. The folloWing testimonial is another proof of the great effi ,' .;), of this medicine : "157, New Bond-street, London, October 12, 1850. " Sir,—lN acquainting you with the great benefit which Ihave ex perienced by taking BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, I feel that I am but performing a duty to that portion of the public who may be similarly affected. "About twenty years since I was first attacked by rheumatic gout nmy hands and feet. I had previously been subjected to every va riety of climate, having served in Canada in the 19th Dragoons, and In Spain, under Sir John Moore, in the 18th Hussars. I always pro. cured the best medical aid, without obtaining any essential relief, and my sufferings can be appreciated only by those who know some• thing of this disease. " It was during one of tliose paroxysms, between twelve and thir teen years ago, that I was recommended to try BLAIR'S PILLS. I lost no time in procuring a box, and befere I had taken that quantity Ihe pain had entirely ceased, and in a few days I was in perfect health. "From that, moment, whenever I feel any symptoms of the dis ease approaching, I have instant recourse to this medicine, which to me is so valuable, that were it not that the days of magic have ceased, I should certainly attribute the relief I obtain to that cause. Voreover, I rejoice to say that my health has not in any degree suf.' ,ered, but on the contrary I believe the tendency of BLAIR'S PILLS $ towards its improvement. "I have recommended the Pills to many friends, and the result has always been of the most gratifying character. " I am, Sir, yours respectfully, " GARRET FOSTER GILL. "To Mr. Prout; 229, Strand." For every description of Gout and Rheumatism, Sciatica, Tic-dolo reux, &c., &c., BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS are a sovereign remedy contain neither mercury, opium, nor any other dangerous drug, require no care whatever in their use, and ler ra pidity of cure and complete safety have not their equal in the world. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London;, and all respectable Medicine Vendors. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe that " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," is Impressed upon the Government Stamp. HANDSOME GIFT-BOOK.-MEMORIAL OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION. Four Handsome Volumes, cloth lettered, gilt edges, price Four Guineas, including the Supplementary Volume, THE OFFICIAL DESCRIPTIVE and ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE of the GREAT EXHIBI TION of the WORKS of INDUSTRY of all NATIONS, 1851. 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AMERRY CHRISTMAS and CHRISTMAS FE>TIVITIES.—Good cheer, smiling faces, warm-hearted wishes, toh Ig visits, practice, balls, amusements, everythi ng pl eas i ng—var i ety tri monotony, pushing the dull sy s t em o f t hi ngs ent i rely u and helping every one to b e merry an d c h eerful. uupfhover All observers of the preparations made for Christmas festivities by E. Moses and Sorg will easily understand how this is accomplished. There is not anything more necessary to cheerfulness than first-iate Attire, and hat presented by E. Moses and Son exhibits greater ex cellence and variety than on any previous season. For the festive season. E. Moses and Son have rendered their gigantic commercial resources available for every one, the best and cheapest articles of Attire being offered for Ladies, Gentlemen, and Children. The variety in Overcoats and Winter Clothing is produced by an extraordinary association of skill and experience, which has selected the most fashionable and durable materials, and fashioned them to the most celebrated habiliments of the age. The variety in Dress for Christmas parties entirely surpasses description ; every material in which taste and fashion is cons2icuous is made into the most mag nificent attire ever witnessed. Juvenile Attire is rendered universally attractive by new modes of cutting, making, and Trimming; many new styles are introduced as distinguished for fashion and comfort, as the Goods are for Durability and economy. _ The New Stock in the Ladies Dress Department comprehends all the Nqvelties in the World, and Ilosiery Goods for Ladies and Gen tlemen the richest and cheapest articles ever offered. Variety is the charm of Christmas Parties, but it was never sa magnificently provided as this year by E. Moses and Son, and in presenting the best and cheapest articles of Dress to all classes, they wish their Friends, Patrons, and the Public "A Merry Christmas!' CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition. having learned that the untradesman-like falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many Instances, and for obvious reasons, they begto state that they have No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE 11 01 OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 14, 85, and 86, Aldgate. opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Bram.th, 506, 507, 50.4, New Oxford-street, 1, 2 and 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36 Fugate. Colonial Branch, Mclbou,ne, Australia. Merchant Tailor Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it will be exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All e•oods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, trom which no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on Saturday§, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, "The Epitome of Comfort and Economy," contain ing fun lists of prices, our system of self-measurement, &c., &c., may be had on application, or post-free. Jot I'on parle Francais. Qui siparla Italiano„ filer opricht man Deutsch. Aqua ea habla Ewan STEAM COMMITIVICATION WITH A,USTRALIA. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY DEC 23. Any step und er t a k en b y the enterprise, of a . public company to afford rapid and efficient steam communica tion with the Australian colonies is now a matter of great public interest.' The experimental voyages to Port Philip and Sydney, accomplished by the General Screw Steam Shipping Company's ships Harbinger and Aixo, have been the most successful of any efforts yet madeto shorten the distance between Australia and the parent country. A strange fatality has, in fact, attended the operations of every other company up to the present time, and the expectations indulged by various interests who have hitherto attempted to solva the problem, have been productive, if not of actual failure, at least of great and serious irregularity. The General Screw Steam Company is now about to follow up the favourable impression first made by more decisive efforts; and is just about to occupy the field by the adoption of measures which promise to supply the great object hitherto unattainable, which is no less than a regular steam communication with Australia by means of the employment of ships of such a class as from their size, power, equipment, and capacity appear destined to command a practical and enduring success. The first of the new line of steamers of this charac ter made her appearance in .the Southampton Docks last week. She is named the Crcesas, and is com manded by Captain J. V. Hall. This noble ship, the largest merchant steamship which ever left the Thames, and the finest screw steamer that has yet been exhibited in Southampton, is of 2,500 tons burden, and was built by Messrs. Mare and Co., of Blaekwall, who are also preparing for sea,. to follow the Crcesus, three other ships of similar dimensions, to be respec tively called the Golden Fleece, the Jason, and the Prince. A description of this magnificent steamer may not be uninteresting, embodying as she does every im provement, both of construction, equipment, and fitting which science and skill can suggest. The Crcesus is built of iron, in watertight compartments, the dimensions being as follows :—Length between perpendiculars 280 feet, length over all 300 feet, breadth 43 feet, depth 31i feet. She is full bark rigged, with an immense spread of canvas sufficient to force the ship through the water (irrespective of steam power) with a strong breeze at the rate of 13 or 14 knots. The Crcesus is, of eourse, pro pelled by the auxiliary screw, and her engines, by Messrs. Rennie, are of 400 horse power, on the direct acting horizontal principle, having an immediate connexion witlithe shaft of the screw. The screw itself is a two-bladed one of 161 feet diameter, with a 231- feet pitch, and weighs five tons. By an inge niously contrived hoisting apparatus it can be discon nected and lifted bodily out of the - water, so that when the vessel is under canvas alone (which will fre quently be the Case) no obstruction will be offered to the speed which may be obtained from the force of the wind acting upon the sails. The cylinders of the engines have a diameter of 63f inches, and the steam is generated in four tubular boilers, which are so arranged that they may be used singly or collectively, according as it may be 'necessary and prudent to expend or economise fuel. The engines perform about 52 revolutions per minute, withl6lb. pressure of steam, and a vacuum of 27 in the condenser. The arrangements for the accomodation of passengers are of the most complete kind ; 200 first and second-class can be carried, and for th e i r b ene fit th e sa l oons , b e d cabins, bathrooms, and other conveniences are of the most com modious description, and comprise every necessary luxury and oomfort that can be desired on board a steam-packet. The sleeping-berths are ranged entirely on the main deck, which has a communication from stem to stern, the officers' and servants' cabins being built upon the upper or spar-deck, thus economising the space for pas senger accommodation of near 40 person. A glance round the ship - exhibits the excellence of the general ar rangements, and shows that the Crcestis is intended to be a commercial and purely self-supporting steam-ship. Besides the great space allotted to passengers, the Crcesus has a capacity for 1,300 or 1,400 tons of measurement freight, will carry 1,000 tons of coals, possesses stowage room for 300 tons baggage and stores, with 103 tons of water in tanks, in addition to an apparatus for condens ing 700 gallons of water per diem. This ship and the others of the company's fleet have been fitted out under the entire supervision and direction of Captain John Ford, late of the Ottoman navy, the superintendent and manager of the General Screw Company. The Crcesus started from Greenhithe on Monday morning .last at 10 o'clock, having on board Captain Shuttleworth, and one of the directors, and Captain Ford, the superintendent 'of the company ; Mr. Lam bert, the engineer of the company ; Captain Halstead, R.N., Mr. Rennie, jun., and Mr. Scott, the manager of Messrs. Rennie's establishment. Before putting into.. Southampton, the object of the gentlemen on board was thoroughly to test the steaming and sailing qualities of the vessel by a trip down Channel, and this has been accordingly done in the most satiSfactory manner, and with the most pleasing . results. Immediately ozi getting under way (the ship at starting having a dead weight of 1,480 tons on board with a draught of water of 181 feet) fullsteam was put on, and rapid progress made to the Nor'°, where the ship dropped anchor for the night. The next morning the anchor was again hoisted, and the ship steamed on at a great rate through the Downs, after passing which a run down the Channel was made to a distance of 15 miles below the Start. In the three days and nights during which the Crcesus was kept at sea before return ing to Southampton, several opportunities were afforded for trying the speed under every variety of weather. The maximum speed under canvas, with a strong breeze, and the screw disconnected, was 13 or 14 knots. Close hauled, with double-reefed topsails, courses, trysail, and jib (canvas alone —no steam power applied), 101 knots. In smooth water, with no sails, the ship steamed 101 to 11 knots, and in coming up Channel against a heavy north-east gale, with a rough sea, all yards across, the engines forced the . ship through the wate r at th e ra t e o f 41 to 51 knots; These trials of speed, under every cir cumstance, were therefore deemed most satisfactory— the engines worked admirably, with no symptoms of hot bearings, the boilers giving a full supply of water at all times. The Croesus is to sail on the 10th of January, and will, we understand, go direct from Southampton to Port Philip without touching at any intermediate port. This feature in the voyage of a steamer to Australia will in itself be a novel one, and the experiment will be watched with much interest. The great stowage and carrying capacity of the Crcesus will enable her to carry sufficient fuel for the whole voyage out, while we are told that, in addition to this, 600 tons of coals are to be stowed in the hold to be used for consumption on the homeward voyage. It is likely, therefore, that the Crcesus will start from Southampton with sufficient coals on board (supposing she is favoured with mo derate weather) to perform a voyage to Australia and back. Without being sanguine of the entire suc cess of this attempt to solve the hitherto almost in superable difficulty of coaling the Australian steamers, we may remark that the experiment is a most im portant one. Coals cannot at present be shipped' from this country to Australia at a less freight than 4/. to 51. per ton, and adding to this 2/. per ton for the cost of landing them at'Port Philip, the deterioration of quality to which they are subjected, and the expense of again placing them on board the steamer, it is not too much to say that the saving effected by the eompany upon the quantity (600 tons) to be taken in by the Crcesus for the homeward trip will be from 6/. to 71. per ton. The consumption of coals by an auxiliary screw-steamer during a voyoge of this duration is entirely dependent upon the weather that may be encountered. With fine breezes and moderately fair winds, the fires may be let out for days or weeks together ; while, in light breezes, calms, and head winds the full power of the engines must be exerted to save both time and distance. With the ex perience of the voyage of the Argo as a precedent from which to draw conclusions, we may infer that the Crcesus will be enabled to make therun from Southampton to Port Phillip (by way of the Cape) with an expenditure of about 1,000 tons of coals ; that a larger quantity will be required on the homeward trip, and for this purpose it will either necessary to add to her stock at the Austra lian ports, or to call at St. Vincent's for a Whicheverreplenish tthisfi co nesh u i r p se wi ln ll a m y a b li e e n e t 6 b o a days or under, and we t m h e e nt p adopted, a o s a i g t t e h i ef it l h l way y e r e in h x w o p a m e y c e t . e d have no hesitation in pronouncing that she is the finest and most suitable steamship which has yet departed from this country for the great colonies of the south, and the enterprising association to which she belongs merits in a large degree the patronage and support of the mercantile community for having (unaided by Go vernment subsidies or assistance) commenced and carried out, with an expenditure of such an immense of capital, so important and gigantic a line of steam-ships. ARTIFICIAL PROPAGATION OP SALMON IN TIM TWEED. —We understind that the Duke of Roxburgh is at present engaged in forming a pond for the artificial pro pagation of fish, on the same principle as that recently adopted at Perth. The pond is situated on Stodrig Burn, within the Floors policy, and readywo forrks w will the consistreception o four rf boxesth e ova 2 and in f a t i longs short tpby time.ct wide, divided into compartments 6 feet long and 1 inches in depth. W e un d erstand that a pond of a simi lar description is i n course of formation, and a por ti on of it is already fi n i s h e d, at K napton Burn, t h e s it e fo r o el r eiesd inches to b e e Th which has been granted by Mr. David Milne Houle, the proprietor. Boxes sufficient to fecundate 208,000 sal mon fry have been laid down at Knapton Burn. The expense of the whole work is estimated not to exceed 601,, whi ch has been raised by private subscription,— Kelso Mail. great exciteme n t h as ____ .......,.. TRAGEDY IN HAVANNAII.—A been created in Havannah, by a most brutal murder, per petrated by an actor attached to the Tacon Theatre, on his wife, Matilda Domingues, prima donna of the Spa nish Opera, also belonging -to the same company, and a great f.xvourite in that place. With a poniard he inflicted 32 wounds on his victim, and then stabbed him. rTe a fh s aes h causea el of ha ha s the assigned su fficiently w ffici e e n iftfoo t lr furnishv t hreec murdero vehried m with money. self 11 times, but without effect. In his wou n d e d s t a t e he was taken to prison , where he now rem a i ns , an d i s a thes n recovering. Sentence of death has b een pronounce d w u b be paoswni him, will jealousy, be andana so garrotted. STATE OF THE WOOLLEN TRADE. (Prow, the Leeds Mercury of Saturday.) LEEDS, Dec. 23.--Both on Saturday and on Tuesday there was a fair average business done in both the cloth halls, in addition to some considerable deliveries of goods direct at the merchants' warehouses. liiimiEssFritiLD, Dec. 20. Since last Tuesday, busi ness in the warehouses has generally been good, consider ing the time of the year ; and a considerable quantity of finished woollens and waistcoatings have changed hands. In the Cloth-hall and the manufacturers' shops to-day, the demand has not been so brisk. but it has been quite as brisk as that of any market which has been held lately. ROCHDALE, Dec. 19.—We have had rather a slack attendance of buyers in the market to-day, and a very limited amount of business transacted. In wool there is little change ; the manufacturers buy for immediate use only, but prices keep very firm. BRADFORD, Dec. 23.—Wool—Christmas and stock taking cause a diminished attendance and business. The stocks are certainly less than is usual at this period, and the prices sought by growers prevent staplers coming here. Noils and broker are not plentiful, and pricei are firm. Yarns--The demand is somewhat improved, but the prices will not induce the employment of, idle machinery. Pieces—There is little doing. The limited production of the last three months must tell favourably in the opening year. Prices firm.. 1 00 1 0 0