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BEAN 5. 36s 33s -ri 31s O a 03 so 3i d A 127 so" 2 0 sold 129 001" 40 O aiel• e t°ll so do. do' . ..... gi .•••." S'4 bete 0 t ' eek 161 fiA e beeP,, ; 2,l shire Por t ' sholv s k; itish)fia. orth I roll s 1 0 Tie i ,,15l i ; I°.° l9i l hire, 0 1,1, Sh e Oil sole, oft aaciPe be° t has 1 r ingo t , übt q 4 woe bo re Vf l fOO.O/01 . 10' /01 4 11 011 91 9 1 era a., ell 'OO • Sn;s Gi ; 00F So • cl clic! :refer° 402, 11 ,/ foci ls C A • Li ( 9 t he Allifilli Dl o of )11 . 149 1 . AUSTRA.M.--Parties about to prooeed to Au.tralia can be assured in the PROFESSIONAL LIFE Term COMPANY, 76, Cheapside, London, upon the whole of Life Scale, without payment of extra premium for voyage 0 or residence there. Loans granted on nersonal security. ED WARD BAYLIS, Resident Manager and Actuary. IRISH TOURISTS TICKETS.—In consequence of the po s t ponement of the Killarney Junction Railway — t h e TOC IUSTS' TICKETS will not be issued before the 21st inst. By mien General INianager's Office, Chester, 6th May, 1853. J. 0. BINGER TO THE PROPRIETORS OF THE LONDON JOINT-STOCK BANK. VACANCY having occurred in the Direction A of your Bank, in consequence of the death of William Curling, 5 ,2 • I beg leave to offer myself as a CANDIDATE for the office. heal I have the honour of being eh cted one of your Directors, I beg to assure you that my best services will be devoted towards wr°140,111 3 the interests of your institution. I have the honour to be Your very obedient t ervant, P. W. FLOWER. London, 4, Princes street, May 7, 1853. SIPS WANTED TO CONVEY HER MAJESTY'S MAILS TO AUSTRALIA. TOS TMAsTER4I , NERAI hereby gives notice that it is his t„.7tisit to receive 'renders for the Conveyance of Mails to Aus -7 la . 14 Steamers or Sailing Vessels. The dates of dispatch to be Ls follows, viz.: —The 4th June, 4th August, 4th October, and 3d be thn:tber, of this year, respect i ve l y, and the Port of departure to of London, Liverpool, Southampton, or Plymouth. S.b.r!ijae Postmaster General will be ready on Thursday, the 19th of inn before Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, to receive Tenders for ~71 1 , 1 to convey the Mails of the 4th of June. duels Ships to be ' 4 ,ped A 1 at Lloyd's. ,Tor sum of One Thousand Pounds will be paid by the Postmaster al for this voyage to Australia, and persons tendering will be to deliver to sPecify the number of days in which they will undertake la- ettver the Mails at their destination, subjecE to penalties for de- Y: her in departure or arrival. hither things equal, the preference will be given to that Tender 11,1.11 specifies the shortest time for the service. P Ten ders must be made on the printed form provided for the nr Ose, vying') with the conditions attached, may be obtained on T o aP t i fl v °leation at th e Secretaries' Office, London ; or at the Post-office , Southampton, or Plymouth. dens must b on rs must he deli vere d a t th e Secretary's Office, London, and call be received aft er th e d a y an d h our a b ove - men ti one d. eeoee s bewill appear shortly with regard to the Mails of August, r and December. General Post-office, May, 1853. SALE OF MARINE IRON BOILERS AT WOOLWICH. rip HE Admiralty, Somerset-place, 7th May, 1853 . Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord n• i rmw 4,1 -gh Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ltuiran-C., do Hereby Give Notice, that on TutsDAY, the 31st tendeni at One o'clock i n th e F orenoon , th e C om modore Superin ecei Ser Majesty's Dockyard at Woolwich will be ready to -11c L „ ed TENDERS for the purchase of the undermentioned Lot , via. ton gi': - One Set of Marine Iron Flue Boilers, in three pieces, be f),_rthie;ite,ngines of 220 H.P. fitted with furnace frames, &c., doors, boile r "' Dearer, bars, man and d mud hole doors and damper tor each , tot 2 °l4 pkte. ' e ngine * ,,. -- °fle Set of Marine Iron Boilers . (Flue), in two piece, bele kid r t ,",,`"ell'llnes of 120 lI.P , fitted with furnace doors, man L ot 3 '. wile d oors. Meets, 1;; -° , Set of Marine Iron Boilers, with Brass Tubes, in two 441 do o ,. °n ling to engines of '220 11. P., fitted with firnace frames, Let end ash pit doors, and a part of safety valve gearing. e neine *--° ,. De Marine Iron Boiler, with Iron Tubes, belonging to I _,° o 11.? , fitted with furnace door, frames, and doors, oars titi , 4 Doors, mud hole and man hole doors, brackets for bearer The abov e doors—all lying in the said yard. Ferro,deficiencies. e to be sold subject to all imperfections and for not _ wishing to view the lots must apply to the Superintendent eati o ,7,_ l admission for that purpose, and to whom all CJIIIMIIII 'uould be made with reference to the sale of the above. CONTRACT FOR TALLOW, Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, 'PI Somerset place, sth May, 1 8: , 3 Commissioners for Executing the Office of it r , d erd High Admiral of the nited Kingdom of Great Britain Insta nt, a nd, do Hereby Give Not U ice, that on TUESDAY, the 3lst p ersons at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such 1 /oelcy ar neY be willing to Contract for supplying her Majesty's ds at Deptford and Woolwich with RUSSIA OR ENGLISH TALLOW. i3in'keistrlbution and a Form of the Tender may be seen at the said TTeaty No Tender w ill b e rece i ved a f ter O ne o ' c l o ck on the day of agent l' or n° j, will any be noticed, unless the party attends, or an Ey e "" 1 ", duly authori se d i n w riting. paity Te nder must be addre s sed to the Secretary of the Admi - Tallow rY w % 14 bear in the l e ft-h an d corner the words, " Tender for 'and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied boaletterund, id gred by two responsible persons, engaging to become Perform ' : Ith the person tendering, in the sum of 1,6001. for the due ............2e , of the Contract. NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURANCE. I' -u; DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 18, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. CAPITAL —ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUN DS. tie Ai TicusrEra. ,onl-pgthrt P oilourable the Lord Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C., /.1••Rh; citeonlelrealr.,ofseihr B e w r 7 Majesty's Household. •,... .q , lar t it , .3 C , I K in g W B i 1 I i r a t m o - s l t e r u e c e e t e , t L e r o - n p d l e o c n e . , ayton. a , Por tman ei, and Marden.park, surrey• Ch a t DIRECTORS. Corn an—Tlle Right Hon. the Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C., A. ,roPotwroille of her Majesty's Household. (I _ 4l ' I "Togi ci a e L l arnes. Esq., 11, City-road, Finsbury. --oor ge cood--:%Esq , late 7th Lancers, Junior UniteadeaSeßrvelicveeirC,lusbt.. Pieter' --' ' s q.. Portland-terrace, Wandsworth, Stephen "erstY. Near! eraekn all, Eat • 1 , St. John's-gardens, and 11 IV. B q u are Lineoi ‘," • Janes, m p) ~.., n s-inn. Leiceste M. '. D avies -street, Berkeley-square, and Lutterw Notting-hill, call), G sotto zrshire. LOA ge, sntalt' sq, 15, Connaught-square, Hyde-park, and Tor Ale xander m °4l ‘bire. C ' Ar ° l Vali, R 4e „„ 1" ,% 1 . Esq Harrow-on-the-11111. w h a ni vl i d am e. poinie';l:' " sq e rk , e " y i Glou , cestershlre. 32 eymour-street, Portman-square. Place w e '. IlseP. }tag., 147P,PLereaLdenhall-street, and 8, Hyde-park- Lt'llobert ' it Andrewsean Riddell, R Tuner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. e filet A a n' 21 . U PPer Sey sq " o r-street West, Conuaught-square. . Sperling, 14, St. Jarn m es's u -square. F, a , tiz so. ~„teea i . teq 126, Strand, A L D t l n T a O r y and Secretary to the Medical, willi am ' raild General Life Office. 4 ' P eek ' , °nes, ERq- Account int 3. Guildhall-chambers. t. R ee ' 345 . t)fn -41 1' 11 • A•, Actuary ' to the Engineers and Masonic Life , sh e ,,,_,Strand. gate h3l Esq., Manager of Times Assurance Company, Lud- Rtr k h O IeSBANTERS. -rs tr_p ri ce, Marryat, and co., 3, Xing Will iam-street, London. , - .vPltinson and Co., 3, Regent-street. Le mu ge" r is. Finsbury-place. lct/345. Wan, 21 Upper S e ymour-street West, Connaught-square. amazons. • Chapman, Esq., 16, Lower Seymour-street, P arortmanarde-sqns uare. Baal Teevan, Esq., 44, Glouce gte r-place, Flyde-Pk-g. CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. P. Nelson, Esq., F.L.S. SOLICITORS. Messrs. 11111 and Mathews St. Mary-axe. RESIDENT SECRETARY. Charles W. Bevan, Esq. The public is respectfully invited to examine the principles of the ‘ ueposit System of Assurance, which is based u p on tables calculated 7. and is under the immediate supervision ot, Francis G. P. Nelson, F.L.S., the Consulting Actuary to the Company. Comparative Tables to assure 5001 on death , by a person a g ed t wenty next birthaty, on the ORDINARY and on the DEPOSIT system Assurances . ON TILE ORDINARY SYSTEM. The sum the ordinary The sum the ,Life Offices would give ordinary 1.193 him if he were unable Offices would 'to pay, or if he omitted At the His give him for to pay his current end of 1 policy the surrender annual premium of ,3 4. A r n_nual 1 thirty fat that or sale .8/. 6s. 3d. after offers has t. emium yearswhenl age, of his policy, paid into their vo assure the parry Iln case after thirty 249/.7s 6d., and which 'Z',, 500 f • is fifty I of years'payments they have had the use 1 years old, I death amounting to of at compound hewn! have will be 2491.75. 6d, interest, or in 4 paid into worth which theyhave the event of his death the office. bad the benefit' one hour after such of at compound omission or inability -- ••—______ interest. to pay. 24 8. , little more • u5•ad.,249/.78.6d. 507/. than 811 /. NOTHING. '"••••............._1 perhaps 9Ol. ON THE DEPOSIT SYSTEM. If un able to pay, or not desirous of paying or omitting topay,th e Po- Bey would still remain of its FULL value, 522/.25.7d.ti1l death, if 20 years after, no fur ther payment beingre quired. Ifhowever the party, from any cause, wished to cancel the Policy, he could not onlydraw out all hehas pnt In, viz., 2251., but 103 ed 2151. 5221.257 d ATI. 25. 9d. a certain bonus of 621. 25. 9d. in the bargain, which Is more than one-fourth of the whole of his payments, or he could either draw out a part, 201. or 501.. diminishing the Policy only by the assured value of the sum se drain out at the age when withdrawn. See pagess and 7 in detailed pamphlet, by F. G. P. Nelson, Esq. On corn,. , tables it secure the tollow timer _o an of these two tables assurance "n uity, he can assure In, _ oo novel system of Duo paid annually , ordinary system. ' 'ot'antages, viz., Ist. For a less sum , tt I s than will be seen that a person under the e 2 41 tiler sum in ase of death which applies 1 In the event l aitx: I ()flt palty by the above example, system. in kln the event of a desire to surrender his Po 3 li rds c t y i iil l . i h e is c to a p n arlo r l ec pae e ar i te v :: et loshAtes as Much as on the o h r i?f thosiso47 elrnission to payt,heug_ E t ° , any numbeerhoef a ;e i a t rs w . " Whereas on the ordinary or decrease the t o i or nc e e . ina is policy remains his an n umber 4thly. Should ' he require Ile can at any to the r y c u a r y r a e t n e t ihh e paymentst getse tiy, ~ii , T. of his poliy, he can eo so a n t P h l e eas c neaspart from " uP tvkl"Og a fortnight's notice, withdra t e a r inu, n_ount of his previous pavmen NZ:lndrawn part one year he can, to a greater.s regulate its i."„•or any time afterwards, raise his policy can at all time . in the hi s s'_rtner atnount ; and by this system i h t e re with the facility a h a n y d y a w s i i t a h g i i n e t e p r a est. ame as 15471nal savings by his annual expend en A t, ft t e h r r h e e e however, that he Fe or even rest i ir - --, with this palpable advantage, I familv receive more ~e 14 a ban k °f ha• Elg a fund to fiy to in case a of ' necessity, the tile , ' ais Money, and in case of death h s r ife o ff i ces l ie can d le,b, ;runt ut his savings. In ordinary ' 11,1 „tag, but his policy at once lapses an d instead of having same linhtaeo tilq,! to Day his current premiums, 1 s become forfeite, his the sZ i ttY to for aid, all his hat 1-earned savings the moment a lto benefit the pockets of o s r av i , S . hior„-ratY. and his misfortunes serve to 4_,ortuuate co-assurers. f urance which can 4,1,47091. T assuranCe is the only system o rinciples are impar -1/44 ,aa systein is too equitable and too striking a to be overlooked nce is the only system of assurance which can be timbr4llY recognised and adopted when the p diffused. It eoor'er..eanvassed, and its palpable benefits become hOr In t .. greater advantages than a b lik because widely it h a e llo a w m s . and,ere..t in case of withdrawal, and gives twice f t the Depositor i n sso o . ° ' the Company to the the o i death, thus combining the a u n t a t i i r n r t a h t e e ADVANTAGES OF A RANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF AN ASSURANCE COMPANY. 3.lll' "n e a ll: still i el 1 MIT e e s n t t r st rikin g. n c " ilkbp t he advantages of the DEPosi AN more OF TIIIS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY LIFE ASSURANCE BRANCH. s ..,,, ‘ 0 th o o a s o Who prefer this branch Policies are granted from 201. to -i7tes every known principle thereof. tej s' e g in all but thew orst stages of disease, and such as have been ( ' ll 6 Y other Offices, are taken at rates equivalent to the Parti t'llittr disease. tslr 4 o 4 r s Crain SOL and upwards granted on every kind of security, Annuities °f on the most equitable terms to the borrower s 1,1.....ere1af every description granted on very favourable term z re ,,,:, r re ture of a Pol.cy.—ln case of inability to pay Isi s ,T . O, v s, the Directors will eitner purchase the Policy at a a 4 4 ,`I rr Tee, or give a new one in lieu thereof, leas 5 per cent., inte the currant fir sphL',O, pending in amount to the whole of tile previous payments TN`2.,',,,ave been made. i"L"TI Prospectuses with tables in further illustration of the De riati7‘ra, and any further information nuty be obtained on appli "' the Agents in the country, or to CHARLES W. BEVAN, Resident Secretary. s.llAgents wanted in all Nina of the World, IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORkS Just published, by U. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street, London. No I. vo., in cloth, price 53. by post free, ha. 6 , 1.. TRUE FALSESPEIV witb the N/ 7 lesvto the Correction o l f Aj id OßßH d CEA Error: in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the teneratisre System, or Sexual Hypoehondria.sis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICRFORD This is the first lf to he nonmedi cal Dr. iicktord '.5 known to English readers by his frequent practi. if he shall i a m l s co , hnteriibnufotriomuss us, that h a e n hu meLi d e r a ea l i s i ed ter m at m ur s e e . o tTd aa a yy u recur th h nolats: his cal reader. We trust this may not be the last s detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may ;,ow.weer Gazette,trtoonicisoedrrecint."t-t-tmondeornnuMmebdeircatlhawe shr h worst, in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. with great severity th e im p ostors who make a livelihood by preying on the credulity of the public. The tribe of ' Quiet Symathii and Medical Friends,' ar e mercilessly exposed ; and if this 1:07‘ could find its way into the ha nds of those who suffer from th - com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many h mdreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money—. —This volume is well qualified to put an end to the 4mpirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place ththe treat merit upon a more rational and physiological ba. It is, erefore, 'lv.ely to do much good."—Medical II Circular, June 1 6 , 1852 . No. . svo.. in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 45., THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate and apparently Intractable Forms. BY F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. "In proof of his views he (Mr. Courten treated, a s ay) MS given history of a great many eases stuccsEfully any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on w hick he had operated. such are cases ix., xi., xi'. and xviii. No. ix. had res'sted, for a period of twelve years, the'treatment by On atiou, and was finally removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix. appear, both in duration, severity, and complication of t. 3 mptoms, of a more ag. gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syrre, and yet the treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved emituntly successful." —rrofessor pzars on the Treethaent Of Stricture. No. 18,914.] ~.. as To be had at all the Libraries, THE NEW NOVE L S. PUBLISHED BY HURST AND BLACKETT, Successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 1. HARRY MUIR. By the Author of " Margaret Maitland." Second edition. 3 vols. 2. ADA GRESHAM :an Autobiography. By Mara Aux LUPT ON. 3 vols. 3. The LONGWOODS of the GRANGE. By the Author of "Adelaide Lindsay." 3 vols. 4. The DEAN'S DAUGHTER; or, the Days We Live In. By Mrs. GORE. 3 vols. 5. CASTLE AVON. By the Author of " Emilia Wyndham." 3 vols. PATRON—H.R.H. PRINCE ALBE RT. ROYALPOLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. —A MUSICAL LECTURE by GEORGE BUCK LAND, Esq., entitled SONGS and SONG-WRITERS, every Evening (except Saturday) at Eight. Lec;ures.—By J. H. Pepper , Esq., on the Chemistry of Gun powder and Rocket Composition ; by Dr. Bachhoffner, on Pneumatics, in which the Principle of the Fly's Foot and Walking on the Ceiling will be explained ;by Mr. Crispc, on Heat, illustrated by tw izan tic Reflectors, by which Cooking is effected at a distance of 100 fed from the fire. Admission, ls.; Schools, and Children under Tea years of age , Half-price. ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE.—I refer the learned to Baron Liebig, the temperate to Dr. Carpenter, invalids to the medical profession, and the robmt to the best cluks of London for the merits of my stock of ALLSOPP'S ALE. The "Thirsty Soul " and " Constant Reader " of the " Times" I can also satisfy with my Imperial Measure. Bottles (quarts) • • • • ...... • • .. • • ...... Ss. per dozen. Do. (pints) .• .. ••• • • • .............. 55. „ Kilderkins (18 gallons).. • • ............ 305. HARRINGTON PARKER, Beer-Merchant, 54, Pall-mall. WHITSITNTIDE. THE time when Spring and Summer " comes out " in good earnest —trips, excursions, promenades, and busi ness enliven every circle in society—every one purchases New Dress, and is anxious to secure the Newest Fabrics associated with the most Fashionable and Comfortable Styles. Every youth in the Empire expects a New Suit of Attire, nor are they indifferent about the appearrnce their dress will impart. The advantages desired by families are superior quality, neatness, fashion, and economy. all these are combined in the resplendent Stock of Clothing, Hats, Caps, Hosiery, &c , &c., prepared by E. Moses and Sots for Whitsuntide. Specification of the principal fea tures iof their Spring an! Summer Clothing is impossible. Inspection will convey an impression of the eovelty, elegance, and cheapness of the Good=, and experience will prove the superior quality of the ma terials and workman.hip. The unparalleled position E. MOSES and Sox have maintained for many years renders assertions unnecessary, and it is only requisite to observe, that for Whitsuntide they are magnificently prepared 'Milt the cheapest and the best Clothing of every fashionable description. Juvenile At ire offered by E. Mons and SON Is more distinguished for elegance, style, fashion, ease, novelty, and cheapness, than any which others can present; it manifests the perfection of their skill in the selection of materials, and the triumphs of talent in the Cut and Make of every Garment. Spring and Summer Coats, Vests, Trousers, Taletots, &c., &c., in cluding various New Styles, which can only be obtained at the Establishments of E. Moses and Sox. Every article is far better and much cheaper than those obtained elsewhere. 150,009 EMIGRANTS to AUSTRALIA, Consisting et cabin, intermediate, or steerage passengers, may be Outfitted with everything they will need, of the beat quality and the most suitable kind, for less money and in less time ti. an at any other house in the world. These are the advantages offered to all Emi grants by E. MOSES sine Sox. The largest Wholesale Clothing Establishment in the universe is available for large_or small investments E. MOSES and sox's Goods being highly appreciated in Australia and all other Colonies, are the most convenient and lucrative investments emigrants can make. Shipsalling information, and full Lists of Outfits for Ladies and Gentlemen, may be had on application, or post free to any part of the kingdom. 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 beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 84,85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London %Vest-end Branch, 50(3, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 nd 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, rauate. Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT —Should any article not give satisfaction, It will be exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from wffich no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, " The Herald of the Seasons," containing full lists of prices, our system of self-measurement, facts reiative to Australia, advice to emigrants, &c., may be had on application, or post-free to any part of the kingdom. A handsome Almanac for Vie year ending 1853 can be had gratis, on application. Ici l'on parle Francas. Qui el ptrla Italiftno. Bier spricht man Dew , ch. Aqua se hattla Espanol II It. ULVERWELL' S NEW WORKS. 7 To he had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row, Carvalho, 47, Fleet-street, Mann, 39, Cornhill. Price One Shilling each; by is 6d. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. " Health, Recreation, and Rational Use of Time." CoNTENTs:— Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex cursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places Country Trips and Rambles—The Sea -London at Night—Evenings at Home Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air, Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c., &c. FRAGMENTS FROM THE - IOVNTAIITS7 - Two - Vea' Vol. L VISIT 10 THE LAKES; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, &o. VoLIL TAB LAKES OF KILLARWVN,dm: REMINISCENCES OF DUBLI WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID, That three score years and ten our course may run." A . popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitutlon that harasses the young. besets the man of pleasure, business or study, and em bitters old age ; with tables and rulesfor the diet and physical regu lation of every-day life. Iv. THE PASSIONS. “ What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." SUBJECT : —Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties of licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narra tive, and romediative. Advocacy of early marriages. V. THE MARRIAGE STATE. To be or not to be, that is the question." PROGRAMME :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and choice, on both sides, as to age temperament, complexion, and figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. Cases, &c. fly K. J. C(TLVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. 24), Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in there matters Price Is. each; by post, Is. 6d. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill; or of M. R. Culverwell, 10, revll-plAce. Retrent .street, who may be consulted daily from Ten till Five and Sevan till Nina. MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and Matricalated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the Londo' Hospital Medic Soci'.ty, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. Ili AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on : VN. the Various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile Irregu'arities and excesses, which have pro duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ture decay at all stages 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 there are in exist ence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various torms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Marri ages, 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 penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may he mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com plaints, and s 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, to direct attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is tree. In selecting thi department of practice, he has been amply res. arded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the care of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated 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 Six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of It, and advice and medicines can he forwarded to any initials or address. It is desire , le that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MERT should first obtain a copy of his work on SELF-PRESERVATION. A Medical 'treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage, and Nervous and Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty coloured engravings, and des cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and excesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist In the correct bB F I French, opeaaot forty-twor i c i Spanish, i 2 3: hutch, p at description of their cases, and may be had, price 2s Gd, in English, ann, y poe Paternoster-row; l t e i a r r , w o r ; German,ao,las6o3f, Oxford-street s t r P e i e pr ; rn l o t Ssttatfiep,s,Ttiotcahoboyranded-rsetrse3efrtomilathytenaitruktehtoteosr rfesrole. dexce. 37, BEDVOItD-SQUARE, LONDON, - ' if •••;*, ' , .1. , - , ..44 - . ' , , ' ‘ 4t* ''''' i ,i.." -•• • dk" :o **44 e ibie * . '._ ' N ''' ~ 4141 11, - . 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NEW WORK Y TH B in 2A v E UT. post Bvo. price HOOF " OCHELAGA." Just pub); shed, ols 18a. cloth, AMEMOIR of CHARLES MORDAUNT, EARL of PETERBOROUGH and MONMOUTH : with Selections from his Correspondence. By the Author of " Hochelaga," and " The Conquest of Canada." London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOM S . - Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham road. Open Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, during the week, "The Thistle," " tAharnrock," "Rose," "Amine" ‘• Gran ville " " Loch Vogel," and " Windsor Castle" Waltzes; he " Napo leon" Galop; "Le Cirque" Quadrille; "The Gold Hawk' and " Juno" Polkas.— Admission, Is. Doors open at Half-past Eight; Dancing to commence at Nino o'clock, and terminate at Half-past Eleven. THE GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION OF 1853, DUBLIN. WILL BE INAUGUR tTEO AT TWELVE O'CLOCK THURSDAY, the 12th of MAY inst., By His Excellency the LORI) LIEUTENANT, who, accompanied by the COUNTESS OF ST GERMAIN% will proceed in Full State from Dublin Castle, to the Building. The KNIGHTS of ST. PATRICE will take part in the Ceremonial. The CABINET MINISTERS, FOREIGN AMBASSADORS, and MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES of the Principal Towns in the United Kingdom, hare been invited to be present at the Opening, A MUSICAL PERFORMANCE will take place, The Orchestra consisting of One Thousand Performers. Mr. JOSEPH ROBINSON, Conductor. Mr. ROBERT STEWART, Organist. PEERS and PEERESSES who propose attending the inauguration are requested to intimate their intention to the Committee, in order that Reserved Seats may be provided. None but the ho'ders of Season Tickets will be admitted. On the Inauguration Day the Doors will be Open at llalf•past Ten o'clock. From the 13th May to the 21st inclusive, the Doors will open at Twelve o'clock and close at Six o'cl. ck each day during that period, when the Admission Fee charged at the door will be Five Shillings for each person. N.B.—Season Tickets may now be had at the Office eack day be tween the hours of 10 A.m. and 6 p.m.; and on the day previous to the opening, from 10 o'clock A.M. to 9 o'clock P.m. T HE WELLINGTON DINING-ROOMS, Entrance, 160, PICCADILLY. This splendid Establishment (formerly Crockford's Club) will open to the Public on TUESDAY, 10th MAY next, on a scale of magnificence unprecedented in London, combining extreme modera tion in charges with the most unexceptionable Cooking and Bill of Fare an I uniting the Independence of a public dining-room with the comforts and accommodation cf a first-rate club Scales of Charges.—Dinner from the joint, with vegetables, bread, cheese, &c., 2s. • ditto, with soup or fish, 2s. 6d. ; ditto, with soap. and fish, 35.; Made dishes, with the joint, as per bill of fare ; made dishes, without the joint, but with vegetables, bread, cheese, &c., Is extra. Waiter, each p• rson, 3d. The Wines and Beers mill be sold by Imperial measure, and the decanters all marked, so that the quantity paid for will be actually supplied to the consumer. The Public will, therefore, appreciate this novel arrangement, more particularly when they understand that the Imperial pint contains four-fifths of what is usually sold as a bottle. The Dining-Room will be open from Half-past Two, p.m., until Nine, p.m. 'the magnificent Suite of Saloons, on the first floor, fitted up for Smoking, Reading, and Chess, will be well supylied with the London, Provincial, a' d Foreign Papers, Magazines, Books of Reference, &c.; and Tea, Coffee, Ices, Seltzer Water, &c., will be supplied from eleven a.m., by Mr. Ward, of Bond-street. Lessee, HENRY THOMAS MUNDT, 160, Piccadilly. 6th May, 1853. The successful results of the last Half Century have proved beyond question that ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL possesses sin g' larly nourishing powers in the growth, restoration, and improvement of the Human Hair, and when every other specific has This celebrated Oil is now universally acknowledged to be the cheapest, and superior to all other preparations for the Hair. It prevents it from falling off or turning grey—strengthens weak hair —produces a thick and luxuriant growth— cleanses it from Scurf and Dandriff—and makes It beautifully soft, curly, and glossy. Its operation in cases of baldness is peculiarly active ; and in the growth of WHISKERS, ErEintows, and Musracaros, it is unfailing in its stimulative operation. For Children it is especially recommended, as forming the basis of a beautiful head of hair, and rendering the ass of the fine-c:mb unnecessary. In dressing the hair nothing can eqtpd its effect, rendering the Ilair so admirably soft t at it will lie in any direction, ant imparting a transcendent lustre.—Price as. 6d. and 7s. ; Family Bottles (equal to four small), 10s. 6d. ; and double that size, 21s. CAUTION I—On the wrapper of each Bottle are the words, Row- LAND'S alacassaa OIL, is two lines. The same are engraven on the back of the wrapper nearly 1,500 times, containing 29,028 letters. Sold by A ROWLAWD & Som. 20, Hatton Garden, London ; and by all Chemists and Perfumers. per cent. is a very ordinary rent to be netted from a large estate of an ornamental rather than a profitable character, the very lowest duty payable, viz., that on the succession in direct descent, will be half a year's rent. How are we to meet such a mass of objections ? We meet it with the demand for uniformity. That is the best rule in the long run, and will be found, to answer the convenience of all parties much better than going round and endeavouring to trim our taxation to every body's peculiar circumstances. Lay the same taxes on all property, of whatever kind, and then, if they are found intolerably inconvenient in sonic cases, we shall have the tax entirely remitted. The more probable result in the present instance is, that, with the Legis lature itself adding to the burdens of real estate, we shall soon have greater facilities created for its sale, in order to the discharge of. its burdens. The best thing that can be done for land, and what ever stands upon land, or lies under it, is to render it as thoroughly negotiable, divisible, and inter changeable as the Consols. We must come to that at last, and every distinction we remove between personal and real property tends to that consummation. There is no reason in the nature of things why land should not be bought and sold by titles as manageable as Mr. Gladstone's new Treasury Bonds. Of course, any description of property may be encumbered with mortgages and settlements, if people are so minded. A watch or a 51. note may be pledged, charged with pay ment, rendered liable for bills, and subject to as many burdens as the estates of a dukedom. Yet in them selves the two are sufficiently negotiable. It is the duty of the Legislature to make landed property equally so. The best title, it is said, is no title at all, or the title you have when an accidental fire has destroyed every parchment connected with your property. If Parliament could only do the work of that fire, it would add not a little to the value of land. But that is the result we must come to at Last, an&iffliprticipation of it is be4t to lose no time in equalising the taxation on all kinds of property. MRS. H. B. STOWB AT STAFFORD HOUSE. On Saturday last a number of ladies and gentlemen assembled at Stafford House, for the purpose of enabling those who promoted the "Women's Address on Slavery," and others interested in the subject, to welcome Mrs. H. B. Stowe to this country, and to give expression per sonally to the respect and admiration which are felt for that lady. Among those present we observed the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, Lord John Russell, Lord and Lady Palmerston, the Earl of Carlisle, Right Hon. W. Gladstone, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Archbishop of Dublin, Mrs. and Miss Whately, the Marchioness of Aylesbury, Frances Coun tess of Waldegrave, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. W. Cowper, Lady Ashburton, the Bishop of Oxford, Mr. W. Stirling, M.P., Mr. Hayward, Mr. Hallam, Lord and Lady Eb rington, Lord Blantyre, Mr. Russell Gurney, Lord and Lady Claud Hamilton, Lord Glenelg, the Dean of St. Paul's, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Cumming, the Bishop of Oxford, Hon. Arthur and Mrs. Kinnaird, Dowager Countess of Carlisle, Mr. Tom Taylor, Rev. Edmund Hollond, Mr. and the Misses J. W. Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. R. Forster, the Earl of Harrowby, Mr. and Mrs. T. Horman Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Alsop, the Misses Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Hanbury, Mr. H. Harwood, Mr. and Mrs. Spicer, Mrs. Elmsley, Miss Pringle, Miss Seeley, Miss Webster, Mrs. and Miss Gurney, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tritton, the Chevalier Bunsen, Mrs. Mary Howitt, Lady Dover, Rev. P. Latrobe, Mr. Ernest Bunsen, Mr. Haywood, Mrs. and Miss Benson, Rev. Mr. Beecher, Mr. H. E. Gurney, Mrs. Price, Sir R. H. Inglis, Right Hon. H. Labou ohere, Mr. Higgins, Colonel Maclean, Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Mr. George, Lady Louisa, and Miss Finch, Mr. Monckton Mil ne s, H on . W. Ashley, Sir David Dundas, Hon. C. Howard, Captain J. Trotter,. -Dr. and Mrs. Sutherland, Mrs. Grainger, the Misses Rudall, the Rev. R. Burgess, Rev. T. Binney, Sir E. N. Buxton, Mr. T. Fowell Buxton, Rev. Dr. Steane, Mr. Grant, Mr, J. Conder, Mr. and Mrs. J. Cook Evans, Rev. J. Sherman, Mr. Fowler, Mr. G. Oli phant, Mr. John Macgre g or, &c. The Duke of Sutherland having introduced Mrs. Stowe to the assembly, the following short address was read and presented to her by the Earl of Shaftesbury : " Madam—l am deputed by the Duchess of Sutherland and the ladies of the two committees appointed to conduct the Address from the Woman of England to the Women of America on the subject of Slavery,' to express the high gratification they feel in your presence amongst them this day. " The address, which has received considerably more than half a million of the signatures of the women o f G rea t Britain and Ireland, they have already transmitted to the United States, consigning it to the care of those whom you have nominated as fit and zealous persons to undertake the charge in your absence. " The earnest desire of these committees, and indeed, we may say, of the whole kingdom, is to cultivate the most friendly and affectionate relations between the two coun tries • and we cannot but believe that we are fosterin g suc h a feeling when we avow our deep admiration of an Ameri can lady who, blessed by the possession of vast genius and intellectual power, enjoys the still higher blessing, that she devotes them to the glory of God and the temporal and eternal interests of the human race." _ The Rev. Mr. BEECHER (Mrs. Stowe's brother), after a few prefatory remarks of acknowledgment and thanks, read the following letter which had been written to his sister : " My dear Mrs. H. B. Stowe, " Whilst I am fully sensible of the small results of my efforts in the cause of emancipation, I will not deny that your appreciation gives me great pleasure, and, I trust, not ignoble pride. Alas ! without such kind and cheering words which I have received from many sources, how could I have so long stood up against such odds, however much Providence had gifted me with an iron purpose ? The loss of caste in the social circle in which we have been used to move is hard—the obscurity from which the most fervent ambition cannot rescue us is hard—the peril of good name, of life and limb, is hard—but harder than all is the reflection that we are for ever unappreciated by those for whom we sacrifice our all. For if we fail our memory perishes. The most melancholy idea of Siberian exile is the extinction of the name when the burial-stone not even marks the ashes of the past. The history of man kind, therefore, presents few instances of sacrifice for the inferior castes. The Gracchi fell in defence of the rights of the poor, and the winners in the contest branded their names with infamy from which the late justice of history can hardly rescue them. It remained only to the Divine messenger of our faith thus to suffer and to conquer. " Our plans of procedure in this cause are simple ; we follow in the lead of our hearts rather than our intelli gence ; for I am not insensible of the almost indestructible power of the slaveholders. I venture to say that never be fore was an aristocracy based upon such firm basis. Slavery embraces almost all the talent, the learning, and the bodily energy of the people. If the slaveholders had only the two first, and the mass of the people the last, we could be to them leaders, and they to us power. But, alas ! whenever in the course of events men of action spring up, the first want of accumulated wealth is menial service, which, here can only be slave labour—thus the o wne r s hip of slaves places them at once on the side of the men in power. " Can we persuade men to lay down power ? Can the luxurious be induced to cease from luxury ? Can the lame walk, or the blind see ? " On the other hand, can we infuse spirit and manliness into hereditary dependents ? Can we make mon firm when their bread wastes away ? Alas, are not the dependent whites the slaves of the slaves ! " Still we `never give up the ship,' because to give it up is to give up our idea of God I We can't give it up, be cause it would be to despair of all eventual elevation of the human race. We can't give it up, because our soul lives upon ideas of justice, of mercy, of truth—we perish with hunger -we must eat, and eat of them only * * " We trust in Providence, but we trust with our shoulder to the wheel. By agitation we prepare the minds of the ruling powers for change that at last, think they, cannot be so insufferable which so many men of all climes so ear nestly crave ! Thus, you of the north aid us—thus Eng land aids us—thus France aids us—thus all outcry of all mankind aids us. This then is, perhaps, in my time, the mission of the Free-soil party— in the slave states to take care to keep untrammelled the freedom of speech and the press, and be the trumpet-tongued messengers of truth and the conscience of mankind. " This, the way of Providence—the undying aspira tions for the right in the hearts of all true men and wo men ! This is the Divine. All humble and obscure as I am, lam yet too proud to flatter any one, but honour to you that you have not buried your talent, no repining against Him as a hard master ! ' Uncle Tom's Cabin' is tho fruit of the embryo inspiration which God has planted in every humane soul ! Be of good cheer—you have not lived in vain. Through long centuries—yes, I feel, when slavery shall be no more— you have erected a shrine around which the humble, the fainting, the famishing will gather and be comforted and strengthened, and be at peace with men and trustful of God. " Mrs. Clay gladly accepts the office of committeeman on the reception of the address of the ladies of England, pro vided it be not too late. It has been the solace of long years of painful effort, that she appreciates my principles and my purposes. Though all the world is lost, home is secure ! " The vote cast for me advocating unconditional eman cipation on the soil was near 4000. The colonisation party did not sustain me. When they shall give up that com promise' with slaveholde rs , if ever , our strength w i ll be greatlyincreased. Uncle Tom' is much read iu Kentucky and all the South, where it is making daily converts to our cause. We are organised, have a feeble paper advocating our views, which we hope this summer to strengthen with an abler edit or . W e are f ew, but determined, and may God defend th e r i g ht . —Y our o b edient servant, "C. M. CLAY." After part a ki ng o f refreshments the ladies, who were present congregated in one of the splendid salons apart, and Mrs. Stowe seated between the Duchesses of Sutherland and Argyll, entered freely into conversation with her numerous visitors. In the course of her observations, she stated that the ladies of England were not at all aware of the real state of feeling of the ladies of America on the subject of slavery. It must not be judged of by the answers sent to the address, nor by the statements in the American newspapers. The ladies of England seem not to be at all aware of the deep feeling of sympathy which "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was received in America long before it was known in Engl an d. Th e p ress i n A mer ica hadin variably spoken highly of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The first word that ever appeared in print against "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the article in the Times—this was re printed and re-echoed in our papers, and widely circu lated in the form of a tract. The bitterness and anger manifested against the ladies' address showed how much its force had enraged the advocates of slavery. You in England are happily ignorant of slavery, yet that ad dress has shown your sympathy, and sympathy is very sweet. There is no bitter feeling really between the ladies of the two countries ; but the ladies of America cannot, because of their husbands' personal and political feelings, stand forth and say what they feel on the sub ject. " Some had said that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was now forgotten ; but it should be mentioned that 60,000 copies of the "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" were sold in three days. The practical question was, what can be done to forward this great work ? She looked first to God, but man can also do something. Sympathy must continue to be expressed. British subjects in Canada must be educated ; the use of free-grown cotton must be encouraged ; such are the ways in which this great work may be aided by the people of England,. remembering that, after all, the issue is the hands of Him who order eth all things. The company began to disperse soon after five o'clock, every one appearing to be thoroughly gratified with the interesting proceedings of the day. DEATH OF COMMANDER SIR GODFREY WEBSTER, BART.-It is with regret that we record the death of Sir Godfrey Webster, which took place at Battle Abbey on Wednesday night. Sir Godfrey had been very un well for some time, and was in a state of extreme weak ness, but his decease came very unexpectedly. The baronet's valet was with him, when, at about a quarter before twelve on Wednesday night, Sir Godfrey was seized with a slight sickness, which excited no alarm ; but the valet presently observed a sudden change in the baronet's face, and then immediately sent for Mr. James Watt, before whose arrival, however, the worthy baronet expired without a struggle, and in a very few minutes indeed. Death is supposed to have been caused by the rupture of some important vessel in the region of the heart or brain consequent on extreme weakness. The deceased baronet was styled Sir Godfrey Vassall Web ster, Bart., and is the sixth baronet who has borne the title, which was created in 1703. The age of Sir God frey at the time of his death was 38. His brother, Au gustus Frederick, born 1819, succeeds to the title. The family seat is Battle Abbey.—Brighton Herald. [PRICE SD. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. In the afternoon of Saturiay last a special Court of Common Council was held at the Guildhall,—the right hon. the Lord Mayor presided. His Lordship caused the special meeting of the mem bers of the corporation to be held in consequence of his having received a conimunication from the committee of the Great Industrial Exhibition of Dublin, requesting the presence of his Lordship, the Sheriffs, and a deputation from each of the courts of the corporation, at the open ing of the Exhibition on the 12th of May instant. Having informed the Court of these fact; the LORD MAYOR handed to the town-clerk the letter of invitation received by him. It was dated May the 4th, and signed " C. P. Roney." In answer to a question put by Mr. DE JERSEY, The LORD MAYOR stated that he had received a per sonal invitation from Dublin to be present, but, finding that he could not go to the opening of the Exhibition without neglecting his official duties, he had held some conversation with some of the parties interested in the promotion of the !project, when it was suggested that it would tend to do good to the cause and the Irish people if a deputation from that corporation was sent to Dublin upon the occasion of the opening of the Exhibi tion. In his (the Lord Mayor's) opinion he believed such a visit would be valuable, but, as he felt the matter with regard to himself to be no longer personal, as he could not go unless officially, he should leave the matter in the hands of the corporation, to whom he considered it to belon g . (Cheers.) Mr. Deputy BENNOCIT would suggest, therefore, as a preliminary step, that the Court agree to enter the com munication from the Dublin Industrial Committee upon the minutes. (Cries of " Move !") He would move that this be done. LEGACY DUTIES. ( From the Times.) Whenever it has been proposed to lay real estate under the legacy duties it has been usual to put the previous question as to the reasonableness of legacy duties at all. That has been the case for at least all this century. We have no difficulty in rejoining —First, that legacy duties are generally reasonable, seeing that if a man is ever in a position to contribute to the necessities of the State, it is immediately on the acquisition of property ; and on no occasion is a man more indebted to a settled and orderly state of society than when it hands over to him the accumulations of others, and realises their wishes in his favour. Secondly—we rejoin that, if duties on lega cies are unreasonable, the landed interest, long so power ful in the Legislature, ought, ere this, to have relieved the legatees of personal estate from the grievance. But, in truth, no one who thinks at all about the matter seriously wishes to relieve legacies from duty. There is one obvious reason against such an innovation, and that is, that the duty is a species of price paid to the State for the most unlimited liberty of bequest allowed in this country. In most other countries, we believe we might say in all, a man can hardly be said to have the right of making a will, so much is he tied as to the disposition of- his property. In some countries close entails, in others the contrary extreme of excessive subdivision, prevent a man from doing what he wills with his own, which, however, under such circumstances, can hardly be regarded as his own. Now, in this country a man may exclude one or all of his children, even his own wife, from his will. He may put an entire stranger over their beads. He may leave all his relations in penury, and devote a princely fortune to some object just not immoral or ridiculous. He sits down with a blank sheet before him, and may exercise his ingenuity in the most symmetrical, the most fantastic, the most partial, the most careless, the toast benevolent, the most vindictive distribution of his property. The only bounds to his caprice are those imposed by the law of mortmain, the national jealousy of long entails, and some restriction as to the morality of the bequest. For this almost boundless license it is reasonable a man should pay something to the State, and he pays a duty graduated in proportion to the deviation of his bequest from the directest natural line of inheritance. There is only one exception—an important one, and a very strange one, but still admitted to be only an exception— that is the bequest of real estate. The exception is all the stronger, seeing that unquestionably the duty, taking its rise from feudal times, was at first levied almost en- tirely on real estate, the feudal superior always stepping in, and demanding a fine for permitting the descent of the estate, whether in the line of inheritance or accord ing to the disposition of a will. The special reasons alleged for exempting real estate are doubtless worth something, or they would not now present themselves with so long a prescription in their favour. The principal of those reasons, however, has now been disposed of on the kindred question of the corn laws. It is alleged that real estate is charged with many local rates, and, what is more, with some taxes, from which personal property is exempt. The funds pay neither rates nor inhabited house-duty. To this there; is an obvious and familiar reply, but not the less a true one. Rates are simply payments either for value re ceived, as in the case of paving and lighting, or for duties localised by the custom of this country, and, indeed, by the nature of things, as in the case of poor rates. The inhabited house-duty, as the name implies, is a tax on expenditure, on enjoyment and appearance, and, so far, comes under the same category as a tax on horses, on tea, or on tobacco. One man likes a fine house, another a good horse, another a cigar ; the State taxes all, the first much more lightly than the last, though a fine house, in very many cases, is an improper extravagance. By far the greater part of our taxation falls on expenditure, that is, on people the moment they begin to spend, and as fast as they spend. Thus it may be shown to fall chiefly upon money ; for what is expenditure but the use of money ? Virtually, there is no part of a man's property so taxed as the contents of his purse in his pocket, for the moment he pulls it out and counts out the coin, whe ther in coppers or in gold, he is contributing largely to the exchequer—much more largely when it is the baser metal of the two. Seeing, then, that all expenditure is taxed, and the lighter every-day expenditure much more than the bulky annual and quarterly items, we may dis miss the inhabited house-duty and the other assessed taxes, as belonging to a province of their own, a pro vince in which houses are very lightly taxed. For this purpose we have the admission of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, who thought houses so lightly taxed that he proposed to increase and extend the duty. The rates and taxes on real estate being thus disposed of, we find ourselves at liberty to deal with real estate as with per sonal estate, and to subject both alike to a uniform duty on succession by death. But there is another special objection which has been urged with great force, and which we believe to be wor thy of some consideration, though we feel there is no alternative but to overrule it. Almost all real estate is under encumbrances, and is of such a nature that en cumbrances fast accumulate upon it, especially on a change of possession. The new possessor has often to pur chase a great deal of personalty in order to give him the actual enjoyment of his house and land. He natu rally commences alterations, required, perhaps, to adapt is t t l i e lg property to his peculiar wants, besides those improvements that invariably suggest themselves on the arrangements applicationof an . e tiansatne can nd hardlya ne succeed judgment tto to estate without immediately forestalling a year's in come, if not much more, in orders to builders, carpen ters, decorators, landscape gardeners, and the rest. At the end of the twelvemonth he has a year's ordinary expenditure to pay for, and a much larger sum for extra oturdniantaer,yheinhcaoms ainygeaexrPsenresnesi. new encumbrance, when perhaTpToshmte gaged deep enough already. Moreover, in h e en e tattnl property is tfehsheuelotias case for tunate, o r a: estates entailed, or charged with heavy settlements, m it is proposed toiotr is impossible to discharge the incoming cases will amount to four or five th e e x s penses by selling a ad nu p dt portion all t w o ihocifhs thedifficulty,inessotma t e e Upon all encumbrances, add the legacy years' actual rent derived from the estate. Nay, as 2 RAILWAY ACCIDENTS LAST YEAR. (From the Times.) The public will learn with considerable interest that the general account of railway accidents has been made up to the close of last year, so that the actual state of this question can now be ascertained. The results are before us in a " return of the number and nature of the accidents, and the injuries to life and limb, which have occurred on all the railways in Great Britain and Ire land from the Ist of July to the 31st of December, 1852, together with the number of passengers conveyed during that period." Our first brief announcement of the facts here disclosed will create, we fear, unmitigated dismay. In the six months terminating as aforesaid there were killed upon the railways of this kingdom one hundred and thirty-three persons, while there were injured three hundred and eighty-seven. These amounts appear per fectly terrible. Many a pitched battle has been won with smaller loss of life ; in fact, the great fight of Meeanee, which destroyed the Ameers and gave Sir Charles Napier the command of Scinde, cost the British force but some 200 wounded and 60 or 70 killed. The total number of sufferers shown in the return is 520 for the six months, which, if the rate is maintained, would give upwards of a thousand casualties for a single year. We shall presently offer some explanations which will materially modify these conclusions, but the result will still deserve very serious reflection. To commence with the most alarming item—that of the 133 violent deaths—we can soon reduce this sum to figures far less alarming. Of these fatal accidents 41 occurred to trespassers, being neither passengers nor servants of the companies, who lost their lives by wil fully or inadvertently exposing themselves to danger, without having any business on the line at all. This class of casualties, therefore, forming nearly one-third of the whole, must clearly be deducted from the gross ac count. n the next place, 40 servants of the companies or workmen by contractors met with their deaths by their own carelessness or misconduct—so that we have now nearly two-thirds of the amount accounted for without any censure attaching to the companies, or any risk shown to accrue to passenger traffic generally. Thirdly, we find 12 passengers killed by no fault—as the report assures us—but their own. Forty deaths only remain, therefore, ascribable to railway manage ment—that is to say, as having proceeded from causes beyond the control of the sufferers ; and, as 31 of the the victims were companies' servants or workpeople, the actual number of passengers killed by railway accidents, in the usual sense of the phrase, is reduced to 9. On the other hand, if we turn to the list of wounded, we discover in the very first item that no fewer than 316 passengers are admitted to have been injured without any fault on their own parts, and from causes confessedly beyond their control. This number, for a period of six months only, must be felt to be quite alarming ; nor do we know that we can offer any effectual miti g ation of its purport. It is true that the return is swelled by the extraordinary number of sufferers in one or two parti cular accidents, such as that at - Redhill, on the Ist of November, when 71 passengers were injured together, and that on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line, where 42 met a similar fate. It may be also true, as insinuated in the report, that a great number of these injuries were " very slight." Still, we should be loth to leave the appre ciation of these particular damages to the ideas of rail way directors, and we do not well see that an injury is substantially the less from being experienced in company. Some of these sufferers may, perhaps, be little the worse for their accidents, but the contrary result is at least as likely, and the " slight shakes " reported by the super intendents may be the ruin of a man s system for his life. Neither can we acknowledge that an accident is in any degree the less censurable because the victims happen to be companies' servants or workmen, to the exclusion of " the public," as thus understood ; and when we find, as we do, that upon the whole 40 people were killed and 358 wounded on railways between Midsummer and Christmas last, with no fault even imputed to them, we think the result both alarming and deplorable. The reader will probably be anxious to know in what proportions these casualties are distributable among the different railways of the kingdom. Distinguishing, therefore, the occurrences, for notation's sake, into what are generally termed "railway accidents," or accidents to trains from collusions or otherwise, and accidents on railways, such as injuries to trespassers, servants, or passengers, we may observe that the Caledonian had 1 of the former class and 9 of the latter ; the Eastern Counties, 1 of the former and 6 of the lattter ; the East Lancashire, none of the former, but 13 of the latter ; the Great Northern, 1 and 15 respectively ; the Great Western, 2 and 6 ; the London and North-Western, 7 and 9 • the South-Western, none and 6 ; the London and Brighton, 1 and 9 ; the Midland, 3 and 21 ; the South-Eastern, 3 and 6 ' • and the Ma nc h es ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 3 and 6 also. It will thus be seen that the London and North-Western has had tilie largest proportion of accidents, commonly so called—that is, of casualties occurring to trains in the ordinary operations of traffic. The South-Western maintains its credit for security, for the accidents on its line are all from causes conveying no blame to the management. This company, we believe, makes a noble boast o f h av i ng nev er killed a passenger. A severe accid en t i s i reported to one in the return before us, but, a s th e su ff erer jumped from a train in motion, the responsibilit y i s c l ear ly his own. It is curious to observe h ow th e ser i ousne ss, or as we may say the fatality of ra il way acc id en t s , increases as the ordinary class of pas sengers b ecomes less and less concerned. For instance, in taking passengers proper, that is to say, those who are travellers by the train and who conduct themselves sensibly, we find that to 316 in juries there are but 9 deaths. When, h o wever, the ele ment of misconduct is once i n t ro d uce d into the calcula tion the deaths, out of 15 cases, become 12, while the in juries are about 3. Passing from passengers to workmen or servants, we observe 31 deaths against 42 injuries, and, when "misconduct " comes into operation in this class also, we see that the deaths are 40, though the in juries are but 17. Finally, in the case of trespassers, being neither servants nor passengers, fatality appears to be the rule and escape the exception, for out of 50 ac cidents of this description 41 caused death. This, of course, is easily explained by the recollection that a man could hardly be run over by a railway train and live ; but there is a certain moral in the general conclusion, that no hurts are so d ea dl y as th o se, which peopl e b r i n g upon themselv es . In quitting th e su bj ec t we h a ve only to remark, that the form of th e re t urn i s no t ca lculated to convey a n y ts accurateare made or conclusive railway info com panies to th e Board r mation. It se ems th a t reports p r or of Trade, and that the board, upon this authority, tabu lates and classifies the results. The "nature and cause" therefore of the various accidents, or, in other words, the most interesting portion of the intelligence, is derived from the statements of the companies them selves, and these, it is obvious, might be occasionally either partial or imperfect. A. man might or might not be acting " imprudently " or "incautiously " when so reported to the board, and, when a train is returned as having "got off tie line—cause not known," the said cause might possibly be discoverable by more indifferent inquirers. On the whole, however, we presume that we get a tolerably good view of railway management in these particulars, and' f even 9 deaths and 316 injuries form but a small percentage upon the 49 ,886,124 pas sengers conveyed during the period, the return is large enough, in all conscience, to call for the anxious con sideration of those legislators whose attention is new devoted to the subject. SUICIDE OF AN AGED LITERARY GENTLEMAN.— Last Friday an inquest was held by Mr. Wakley, at the King's Head, Edgware-road, concerning the death of Mr. Richard Haynes, aged 74, a , gentleman of hi g h lite rary attainments, and a distinguished professor of seve ral languages. It appeared that for some time past he had been suffering the most severe pain from rheu matism, and bad fk•equently expressed his determination to commit suicide. Having written a letter to a friend whom he appointed his executor, and to whom he gave full instructions as to the manner in which his property was to applied, he laid the letter on his dressing table, and then, getting quietly into bed, destroyed himp.elf by taking a large dose of prussic acid. The jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased committed suicide ; but what was tho state of his mind at the time, there was no @VideAqa to show," . - - Mr. Depaty OBBARD seconded the motion. Mr. DiNNOcH then remarked that it had often been said, both in the House of Commons and out of it, that there existed but little sympathy between the people of England and the people of Ireland. (Hear, and No.) Now, he believed that if they agreed to send a deputa tion from that important body to the opening of the Dublin Exhibition it would tend greatly to put a stop to any such sort of antipathy between the two countries. (Hear, and laughter.) The Irish, he knew, very highly estimated the corporation of the city of London, and it was well known that in that unfortunate country no estates were better managed than the Irish estates under the control of the corporation. (Hear.) He contended that the invitation came naturally from the committee engaged in the promotion of the great industrial under taking of the Exhibition. It was right for those gentle. men to invite the Lord Mayor of London and the Sheriffs, and for them to expect to see a deputation from each of the courts connected with the corporation of London ; and it was also right that they should accede to the request. (Hear.) He held that they, as a cor poration, were integrally a part and parcel of the Irish through their official connexion with their estates in the sister country, and he hoped the deputation would be a very large one. He begged to move as follows : " That the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, and such members of the courts of Aldermen and Common Council of the city of London as shall be pre pared to proceed thither, at their own expense, shall form the deputation to be present at the ceremony of opening the Great Industrial Exhibition in Dublin on the 12th of May, 1853." Alderman COPELAND said he had no objection to second the motion. MY. DE JERSEY disagreed entirely with Mr. Bennoch. The question was not whether the interests of science would be promoted by the proposal made by that gentleman, but whether certain gentlemen con nected with that court would have the opportunity of showing themselves off in a variety of costumes in the capital of the sister kingdom. (Laiighter and cheers.) They would not forget the ridicule with which the recent so-called " deputation " to France had been met ; nor could they forget the, further fact that such persons had been made the subject of animadversion. They ought, in his opinion, to be exceedingly careful how they provoked the public papers to comment upon such ridiculous proceedings. (" Hear," and " Oh.") If all they wanted was to display themselves, he would fore warn them that the Irish were too acute to be so de ceived. No good to Ireland would come of their visit, while the body, if they consented to adopt the motion, would be lowering themselves in public estimation. The matters before them in their own city demanded their attention, let them not meddle with others with which, comparatively, they had nothing to do. (Hear.) He would propose the " previous question." Mr. ROSE objected to the language which had been used. He did not think there was anything like " hum bug " or " trap " in the matter. He thought the Court ought to sanction the motion. (Cheers.) Mr. ANDERTON was in favour of paying to their neigh bours in Dublin, at such a time as the opening of the Exhibition, a tribute of respect, provided that they did so at their own private and individual cost. He cor dias.ly agreed with - the motion. Alderman Sir J. KEY was in favour of the resolution. He did hope and trust the proposition would be agreed to. (Cheers.) Mr. H. BLAKE said that a matter like that could not be met by the " previous question." (Hear.) He would suggest the withdrawal of the amendment and the substitution of another, to the effect that the corpo ration considered the invitation to be a compliment to them, while they regretted that it was not in their power to accept it. He thought the proposal in the resolution for the deputation to pay their own expenses would be one of the most unwise and indiscreet courses they could adopt (" Hear, hear." and "No, no.") If they went, let them go as the representatives of the cor poration, and not do anything to increase the odium with which they were already surrounded. (Hear, and oh.) They ought to decline the invitation on the ground of the shortness of the notice received, the distance of the Irish capital, and for the first reason he had urged ; and he trusted that such a course would be adopted. At this stage of the proceedings, Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said he wished to ask the Lord Mayor a question. His Lordship nodded assent. Mr. TAYLOR—I wish to ask the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor whether, if the deputation proceeded to Ireland, he (the Lord Mayor) intended to go with them ? The LORD MAYOR said that, during the ensuing week, he had made arrangements to preside at the Festival of the Sons of the Clergy one day, and at some other places daily ; but be that as it might, he wished to say that the first claims he recognised were those of the corporation. (Loud cheers.) _ _ Mr. TAYLoit said the answer of the Lord Mayor did his lordship much credit, while it was evident that his lordship was not exceedingly anxious to go to Dublin. (Hear.) Mr. T. H. HALL did not like either the motion or the amendment. He thought the adoption of the former would establish a mischievous precedent, and he did hope the corporation would not do anything which would not redound to its credit. Mr. JONES then moved the following amendment (Mr. De Jersey having withdrawn his), namely— " That this corporation consider it a compliment to be invited to be present at the opening of the Great Industrial Exhibition at Dublin, but regret that it is not in their power to accept it." It will be seen that this arose out of the suggestion made by Mr. Blake, who seconded the same. After some other conversation, Mr. Bennoch was called upon to reply, which he did very briefly, when the question was put, and the amendment carried. Ordered that the town clerk inform the committee officially of the result forthwith. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON. The opening of the third and largest section of this railway, viz., from Evesham to Oxford, was celebrated on Saturday with great rejoicings along the whole route, terminating in a grand banquet at Oxford. The weather proved most miserably unpropitious, snow and rain falling throughout the morning. A special train ran through the whole length of the line from Dudley to Oxford, conveying the directors and their friends, with the authorities of the several towns through which the line runs. At Evesham a champagne luncheon was supplied to the travellers, and all along the new portion of the line from Evesham to Oxford crowds of people were assembled .at the stations and bridges, and gazed with wonder upon the special train, which was made up of 26 first and second class carriages. Rejoicings took place at Chipping Campden, Blockley, Moreton in-Marsh, Stow-on-the-wold, and Charlbury. At Wolvercot, where the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Railway joins the Birmingham and Oxford line of the Great Western Company, the party changed carriages and proceeded at once to Oxford. There a sumptuous dinner had been prepared by Mr. Peto and the directors at the town-hall, where four ranges of tables laden with a most bountiful and delicate repast were spread. The chair was taken by the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, M.P. ; and among those present were—Lord Lyttelton, Earl Talbot, Viscount Elmley, M.P., the Hon. Captain Rushout, M.P., Mr. Langston, M.P., Mr. Oliveira, M.P., Mr. Peto, M.P., Dr. Jenne, the Master of Pembroke, and numerous other dignita ries of the Oxford University, Mr. Rosse, Solicitor- General of Canada, &c. Mr. Harker officiated as toastmaster. A number of loyal and appropriate toasts having be en drunk and responded to, the g uests retir ed from the ball shortly before 8 o'clock. Those from D u dl ey and the North returned by special train from Oxford aboutal a quarter past 8, and those from Londo n by special train about 9 o'clock. Mr. Samuel Woodburn, the well-known dealer in pic tures of old masters, early drawings, and prints, died last week at his house in Piccadilly, at the age of 73. He has long been considered one of the first judges of an cient art of his day, and has helped more or less for the last 50 years in forming the principal picture galleries in Europe. DIMINUTION OF PAUPERISM IN IRELAND.—From a re turn to the House of Commons, it a p pears that on the ry, Ist of Janua, 1852, the number of paupers relieved (in-door and out-door), in Ireland was 170,484 ; and on the Ist of January last 141,822. The decrease, after deducting an increase of seven in one place (Louth) was 28,662. - THE UNITED STATES. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 7. By the United States' mail steam-ship Washing ton, Captain E. M. Fitch, which arrived off Cowes this evening, on her way to Bremen, we have ac counts from New York to the 23d ult. The Washington brought 120 passengers, 43 of whom were for Southampton, and a small quantity of specie for Bremen and Havre. The Royal Mail steamer Arabia arrived at New York, from Liverpool, on the 20th ult. From Washington there is no political news of importance, the following being the chief items con veyed by telegraph from the capital : " The Central American policy of the present Admi nistration is understood to be indicated by the sending into and ratification by the Senate of Mr. Squier's treaty with San Salvador. This treaty, which is sup posed to have been held back by the late Administration for fear of offending Great Britain, is entirely free from entangling alliances with any European power. Mr. Buchanan designs setting an example of republican sim plicity at the Court of St. James. He is said to have requested the Zion. John Appleton, member of the last Congress from Maine, to accompany him as Secretary of Legation. Senator Borland, having declined the gover norship of New Mexico, it is intimated will get the mis sion to Central America, which was rejected by Mr. Sliddell. The British Government has sent to Mr. Crampton, the British Minister, a gold medallion like ness of Queen Victoria and a gold pocket chronometer for Captain Nye, of the steam-ship Pacific, and a gold mounted trumpet an d 101 . sterling for the mate, and 101. for each of the six men who volunteered their services and saved the crew and passengers of the British barque Jesse Stephens, wreaked some time since. The presents are to be distributed through the State Department. Major Stevens has nearly completed his arrangements for the survey of a northern route for the Pacific Rail road. Lieutenant Duncan, with a party of 16, has been sent to Oregon, rid the Isthmus, to start from Puget's Sound and meet the exploring party in the mountains. Another of the party has been some time in Canada, col lecting information from the Hudson's Bay Company, &c. The Washington Union denies the reported ill health of the President, and says that his health has de cidedly li/11,2.0N-et and- that' he has gained both in strength and weight since the inauguration." The _Herald says : " New York is to have a new opera-house, —one on a magnificent scale. We learn that $lBB,OOO have already been subscribed, and 24 per cent. paid in. Only $12,000 are now wanted to make up the sum required for this splendid enterprize. It is in contemplation to have it completed in December next, and open with Grisi and Mario." The Santa Fe mail has arrived at Independence, bringing accounts that " Lieutenant Heth, in command of the military post at Fort Atkinson, had determined to attack the Cheyenne Indians, and was only waiting till the mail had pa , sed. This band during the winter murdered a discharged soldier on the plains, and refused to deliver the murdei'- ers to Lieutenant Heth. The force at the garrison was very insufficient, but Lieutenant Meth deemed it abso lutely necessary to attempt their chastisement, as they bad insolently defied him on more than one occasion. The contest will be rather unequal, and the result is feared. The Government have been guilty of gross neglect in supplying an insufficient force at a post where there is so much danger, surrounded as it is by 5,000 Indians of various tribes. A dispatch was sent by Lieutenant Heth, notifying the Adjutant of the sixth military de partment of the difficulty and circumstances. " New Mexico was in a quiet state." The tone of the New York money market was rather improved, and speculation was reviving. Exchange on London 9j to N . premium. Freights to Liverpool rather lower. Cotton less active. THE IRISH MEMBERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir, --Having met and defeated the attempts of s clamorous majority in the House of Commons to compel me to unsay my words, I find myself called upon to an swer in your columns a new and widely different charge. You affirm that my original statement was that "within the last few days" I had seen practised the corruption which I denounced. I do not know on what authority you make this charge, but, on whatever authority, it is totally untrue. Neither your own report of the proceedings, nor any re port which I have seen, gives it the smallest support. It is not only untrue, but absurd. The words attributed to me in the reports are these : • " Short as my experience of this house has been, I must say I do not believe, in the worst day s o f W a l pole or the Pelhams, more scandalous corruption existed than I have seen practised under my own eyes in corrupting Irish members." I referred to and repeated the identical phrase in italics in my subsequent observations in reply to the appeals made to me by Sir George Grey and Lord Palmerston. Is there any possibility of believing that a man who has sat in the House of Commons almost daily since the pre sent Parliament met in November last, would say, " Short as my experience in this house has been, I have seen," &c., if he had been spe a ki ng " o f the last few days ?" The charge, you perceive, is not merely a fa brication, but a blunder. My original statement, from which I never departed a hair's breadth, was this : " You are taxing us (I said) without our consent. Moro Irish members have voted against this budget, I believe, than against any measure on record. The Government, I confess, have got some Irish support. How they got it I cannot tell, for I am not in tho confidence of the right hon. gentleman who whips up the Treasury forces. Some few of them, I have no doubt, voted for it from conscientious motives. But, short as my experience in this house has been," &c. I have ascertained from personal inquiry —what, in deed, I never doubted for a moment--that the Irish members with whom I act knew thoroughly from the first that I referred to the case of the men who betrayed their public and solemn engagements to get i n t o p l ace. Mr. Serjeant She e , without the smallest communication with me, stated this to the h ouse. I t never was even suggested, till after I had withdrawn, that my meaning was that a bag of money was carried round by the whipper-in, and the votes bought up, like borough elec tors, at so much a-head. It is too absurd to fancy that an independent member, in opposition to Government, would have been permitted an opportunity of inspecting transactions of this nature, if they occurred. But I have yet to learn that corruption is less corruption be cause the man who falsifies his life and betrays his con stituents is not paid the bribe in a round sum, but by quarterly instalments at the Treasury. In your ordinary report of Friday's proceedings there is an error which I must ask to have corrected. lam made to say, in reply to Mr. John Ball, that "I did not connect my statement of last night with the division of Monday." As my answer is quite differently reported in other papers, I fancy it was imperfectly heard in the gallery. What actually occurred was this :—Mr. Ball was assuming, as I understood, that as my explanation had reference to " transactions which occurred four months ago," the Irish members not in office had of course no concern with it. I interrupted this assump tion with a hasty negative ; and another assumption, putting the converse of his first proposition, with a second negative. I meant, in fact, to convey as briefly as pos sible—that while I never charged the body of Irish sup porters of the budget with direct corruption by bribes of money, I could not, on the other hand, give them a bill of health merely because I was not impeaching them with the grossest venality. Your reporter winds up his account of the second day by stating that the business terminated amid consider able laughter. It is quite true ; but it was the triumph ant laughter of the opposition at Lord John Russell de dclummibnga n a d n d i inquiry, sconso l a a t n e d b a e t b i o n n d e t o b f e the T reas cu u lp iy rit ß s en sh cb rin w k b in en g he was expected to defend himself. For my part, a o n f u w mb bo e m r of l t b he ad fo n r o e ot m rkn o t s h t orow m un e g m hbo b eu e f r to s rthe o , f eca t e he house , inveenitnog,in several toet.nhamnky place immediately, me for having preserved the honour of Parliament, as well as my own honour, by refusing to unsay a syllab le I had said.—l am, sir, your obedient servan t, C. DUFFY. Eocleston-street south, April 7. A CHILD KILLED BY A BEAR. A shocking tragedy occurred at Portsmouth on Friday evening. The 38th Regiment quartered in that gar rison, possess two bears, one of which was kept in a yard adjoining a public-house (the Rose and Crown, in boy, about six years of age, son of the landlord, whose name is Curley, appears to have been playing with the E i li n :le t :d its b d y en t . he T o h ffi e officers do screamed c the r ea med St. Nicholas street) adjacent to the barracks. A little in the lan guage a.re gimentnimal,t‘ovnhbdiecdhrreawmgasgareke:anhbly docile, when it seized him with its paws a come to his out and a neighbour ran to his assistance and commenced belabouring the brute with a wooden prop. The bear by this time, however, had, with his teeth, seized the shaking manhin assistance,coming into arlelwinithuisah and he cbr?wbar, a dogunfortunateowould the c personhi s l h d a b k y e w t ab h o e c a n bt e . acdk Another, the was yaatr length n a g t attacked ked compelledthe child, but who, on being taken la is hold of the His neck was dislocated and the Re y 'was quite dead. frightful manner, the teeth of the savages i rn open in a met, apparently, in the child's throat,beast having vein being opened, every drop of .An important seemed to flow out on to the Tv bloodin the boy's body, this was licked up by the bearp' pavement of the . yard, and with a relish most sick ening to behold. The brute having tasted of human blood, then became quite ferocious, stroyed forthwith, which was effectedanbd had po . be .de y administering a strong dose of poison. At the inquest that was held on the child's bod ic, . had y, ic appeared that the 38th Regiment two bears in Mr. Curley' yard, paying week for the use 'of it, but that about sixveU m s s ' s. a they became very troublesome to him, one of them e escaping and creating great alarm in the locality, on which he complained to the officers of that regiment, when they sent one of the bears away to Gosport, where the 88th Regiment have another bear. The coroner's inquest returned a verdict to the effect—" That death was caused by the bear's attack, and that sufficient cau tion had not been used in placing it in a place of secu rity." They also recommend that the other bears at Gosport should be muzzled ; it would have been a great [ deal better if they had recommended them to be shot, for whenever they are paraded through the public tilt); • roughfares, they naturally excite great alarm 11,2 the ; minds of the majority of passers ' the gratification of a whim that by, whilst it is only for they are kept at all. .....-•-.., mar ket 2ths 2ths 2ths 2ths .16 do, ,er 03