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"in proof of his views he (Mr. Conrtenay) has given he history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated Such are Cages ix., xi., ail., and avid. No. ix. had resisted, for period of twelve yea's, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and six. appear, both in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently saccessful." —Professor Lisars on the Treatment of Stricture. No. 48;819'.] Just published, with a Portrait of the Author, price 2 s. 6 d., THE ELEMENTS OF BANKING, with Ten Minutes Advice about keeping a Banker. By J. W. GILBAR,T, General :Manager of the London mid West minster Bank. 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Sir James Graham, Bait, the Firs Lord of the Admiralty, returned to Whitehall front Windsor yesterday, and after the meeting of the Cabinet proceeded again to the Castle. _ 7 Rear-Admiral the Hon. M. F. F: Berkeley, C. 8., M.P., has left Whitehall for his country place n ear Chi &tester for a few .61) , 5. His son, Mr. Berkeley, has re sumed his position as private secretary to his-father. - The Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., has left \V i I itei I all for Woburn Abbey, on a visit to the Duke of Bedford for a few days. Captain G. B. Martin, C. 8., the newly-appointed superintendent of the Deptford Dock and Victualling Yards, commenced official duty on Wednesday, when Captain the Hon. R. S. Dundas, C. 8., took leave of the officers, paying them the flattering compliment that no officers ever gave him greater 'satisfaction in the discharge of their respective duties titan they had done during his superintendence. He carries with him the best wishes of all. It is reported that the new First Lord intend s t o re vise the departm en t of new works and improvements at our naval dockyards and arsenals. We trust that Sir James will set about it forthwith, for no department is so imperfect. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 13. The weather has moderated ; wind got up to W.N.W. The Phaeton, 50, Captain Elliott, sailed from Spit head at half-past 12 to-day, for Sheerness, to be paid off ; and at one p.m. she anchored off the Nab-light, apparently to await the turn of the tide, though she had a fair wind at the time. The Prince Regent, 90, Captain Hutton, struck Rear- Admiral Corry's flag on Wednesday evening. The whole of the squadron are now under the orders of Rear-Ad miral A. Fanshawe. The Rodney, 90, Captain Graham, has removed her powder and shell at Spithead to-day, and is being light ened of her provisions ready to come into harbour. The Odin, 16, steam-frigate, Captain Scott, has been brought down from her moorings to-day, and placed in the fitting-basin ready for docking to have her bottom inspected. The Basilisk, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Egerton, has hauled alongside the Malabar, to coal, ready for further service. The Encounter, 14, screw steam-frigate, Captain O'Callaghan, sailed from Spithead this afternoon—it is reported for Liverpool, to enter seamen for general service in the navy. The Fury, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Tatham, has been placed in the steam-basin to-day to take her boilers, &c. The Belvidera, 33, has completed her fittings, for a receiving hulk, and has been removed from the fitting basin to-day, ready to go to her moorings. The Furious, 16, steam-frigate, Captain Loring, has taken on board her powder and shells at Spithead to day. ___ The Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord Edward Russell, has unmoored, ready to proceed to Plymouth, but the wind being from the westward, and very unsteady, it is not likely she will put to sea to-night. The Marlborough, 130, screw three-decker, will be launched (i. e., her after-body) at 10 o'clock a.m. to morr2w (Friday). Rear-Admiral Fanshawe inspected her purchases this day. Two ponderous anchors are buried to the shank, to which the purchases are made fast, and an additional weight of five tons of iron bal last placed upon the shank of the anchors to secure their holding ; for upon these purchases the whole weight of the enormous after-body rests—a weight of nearly 1,500 tons. CHATHAM, JAN. 12. The Imperieuso, 50, screw-frigate, Captain Wat son, came into port from Woolwich yesterday afternoon, was taken alongside the sheer hulk, and had her masts and bowsprit put in place, and was taken into dock this day to be rigged and fitted for sea. The Royal George, 120, converting into a screw-ship, is rapidly proceeding. The shipwrights are working on her by task, and she is expected to be ready to be put out of dock in April next. WOOLWICH, J. 13. APPOINTMENT. Master's Assistant—William Baker, to the Cruiser steam-sloop, at Woolwich. The Royal Albert, 120, has had the extension of her keel completed, and the aft stern post was put up on Saturday evening last, the men continuing to work after six o'clock, that it might be adjusted in its proper posi tion. The aft stern-post is 5 feet in breadth, 1 foot 6 inches thick, and 36 feet high, and it weighs upwards of 10 tons. It is formed of several large pieces of ex cellent timber, strongly joined and held together by sub stantial bolts. The other stern-post, through which the shaft of the screw propeller will pass, has been put to gether, and is nearly ready for being put up. It is made of two pieces of massive timber, joined together and se cured by strong bolts. The replacing of the other tim bers taken down to admit of this splendid ship being converted into a war steamer, with engines of 400-horse power, and screw propeller and the general work on board, are progressing rapidly, and she will be ready for launching during the summer of the present year. The Cruiser steam-sloop, Commander the Hon. G. H. Douglas, received her stores on board yesterday. The officers and crew are accommodated on board the Medusa .steam-sloop, in the inner basin, until the Cruiser is fully ready for their permanent reception, which it is expected she will be on the 15th inst. The Megmra, iron screw steam-frigate is in the east dock having her bottom payed with Mr. Hay's compo sition. The four lower stern-ports on each side of the frigate have been filled up with sheet iron, of the same thickness as the iron of which she is constructed, and rivetted so as to be permanently closed, and the only opening left where these ports were situated is a small space in the centre of each of about 8 inches by 5 inches, for admitting light and affording some degree of ventila tion. The other lower ports forward are to have the lower folding-flap of each port, on both sides, closed and permanently fixed and caulked, leaving the upper parts as they are at present, for light and ventilation. The Megmra is expected to be ready by the 18th inst., and, when completed, will be a much more serviceable and comfortable vessel for troops, from her lower ports being water-tight. The Firebrand steam-frigate, Captain Hyde Parker, is expected to be ready by the 9th of February. The Tribune, 30, screw steam-frigate, building at Sheerness, was expected here yesterday, the Monkey and African steam vessels, when they went down the river with the Imperieuse, having remained to tow up the Tribune to receive on board her engines at this port. The wind having blown so strongly for several days, it was considered advisable to let the vessel remain on the stocks until the weather became more moderate. A dis tilling -galley is o r d ere d t o b e ready for the Tribune by the Ist of March. FRIGHTFUL MURDER ON BOARD A VESSEL AT LIVER kooL.—On Wednesday night a most frightful murder was committed on board of the ship Guy Mannering, at present lying in the river, bound for New York. So far as we can learn, the facts of this tragedy are briefly as follows :—About eleven o'clock on Wednesday night a boat-load of seamen, shipped by Mr. Da Silva, of Great Howard-street, were taken on board the Guy Mannering. During the passage from the pier to the vessel, a dispute arose between two of the men, William Christie, an American, and Mezia da Costo, a Portu guese. The quarrel between them broke out again on board, and, according to some statements, Da Costo, the deceased, followed Christie, the alleged murderer, about the deck with an open knife in his hand. Christie, in self-defence, then drew his knife and stabbed Da Costo four times in the abdomen and back, wound ing him most fearfully, and almost ripping him open. Da Costo died from the effects of the wounds in flicted on him in about half an hour, and Christie was immediately seized and put in irons by the captain. In formation was expeditiously sent to the police authori ties, and yesterday morning Carlisle, assisted by two offices, took Christie into custody, lowering him into a boat with ropes, to prevent him from jumping over board, as he had threatened to do. The prisoner is an intelligent -looking young man, born in New York, and about 23 years of age. He can read and write well, and appeared quite composed, answering all questions put to him calmly, and without hesitation. Immediately after stabbing Da Costo, he threw the knife into the river. The body of Da Costo, which presents a most shocking spectacle, was brought from the Guy Mannering yester day morning, and placed in the deadhouse, where it was viewed by the coroner's jury in the afternoon, as it was expected that the prisoner would first be examined be- 1 fore the coroner. This murder has created great excite ment in the town. A crowd of persons was collected on the piers, to see the prisoner brought on shore. Th e coroner. inquest is to be h e ld t o -d ay before Mr. Curry, th e MILITIA —Weunedoerrpsstaonrd athnatectihue n o d ffi e r " cers connected OF withENGLAND.—We G r a therT D . militia the act of last s ess i on , h ave received ordersg fis rom head': quarters to attach themselves to an Infantry the line. The may select the regiment adjacent y regiment of own locality and having been enrolled, to their they must take a share in the drills and regimental duties, with a view to render themselves efficient as off are not bound to reside in the b racksf militia. They become members of the mess, ar but, of course, Scotland or Ireland s. Those officers who are in , can join the ments, and we understand nearest Infantry regi already rece i ved the 79th, in thi s c i ty, h as n a order.—Cal e d on i a y n an nporary access i on through this EM Il t IeIepcurIGRATION HM . now lying a t . Amongst th e fl ee t o f s hi ps chor Aß in RIPS P Australia, with or d Roads, is one bound to upwards of 240 • emigrants on board, com posed of French and German Jews. The ship left Ger many nearly three months s i nce, and shortly after her departure got di smasted, and was thereby obliged to put into Ramsgate, to be refitted, where she remained two months, and is now only arrived here. Several of . tb c e ) emigrants have been, for the last few d ays , ob t li e ged fo t r come on shore and dispose of their je weller4 o r' altogether in almost what the could get for it ; and are a,- -y- across a pitiable condition, and heartily sick of theirg e unpre cedented misfortunes, and long-delay delayed vo ya ge w ab eather,— the Atlantic, owing to the late very h Sherborne ournal. BTATJ OF THE POLL.-FIVE O'CLOCK. Gladstone 929 Perceval Majority for Gladstone --125 The election to En the vacancy made in the represen tation of the county of Limerick by Mr. Monsell's ac t ceptance of the office of clerk of the ordnance under Lord Aberdeen's Government, took place yesterday at Limerick in the Co un ty Court house. The High Sheriff presided, and, after the usual preliminaries, Mr. W. Monsell, of T ervoe , th e f ormer representative, was proposed by Sir Vere de Vere, Bart., seconded by th e R ev . Mr. - 01.Zeuke, P.P., of Pat ricks well; and th ere b e i ng.noe u .other candidate, Mr. Mo.ell was I e clam d duly el e ct e d. and the nom illation Mr. IVIoNsEr.i., on presenting himself, was received with loud cheers. He had to congratulate them upon the overthrow of a GovernMent which was not at that time popular in Ireland, and which never would be N p v o li p o ul h a : d b i n e.tra, i the t(l3rioeyvecl support of the people save one pr;nciple, which they maintained to the last—that was hostility to claimed them and hostility to civil and religious liberty. (Cheers. ) He believed and hoped they had not only to thank Heaven for those it had taken away, but also to thank Heaven for those it had given them. (Cheers.) He be lieved they would find in the present government a body of men not only determined in every way in their power to promote the rights and liberties of the people of this country, but from their great ability, tried experience, and great skill in the administration, able to give effect to those principles for the advocacy of which they had made such great sacrifices. (Cheering.) A great empire, with such various political sentiments, and possesing vast bodies, it was utterly impossible for any government to march forward, so as wholly to •satisfy the particular feelings, sentiments, and princi ples of any one particular section,- cxclusively, great community. (Hear: 7 Edmund Burke, said "It is a settled rule with me to make the most of my actual situation, and not to refuse to do a proper thing because there is something else more proper which I am not able to do." (Hear.) Now, that sentiment should meet the assent of every reasonable man. It was one which entirely justified the course taken by the present Government. They had men of different opinions and views combining together in the first place to exclude a Government which was unworthy of the confidence of the country, and in the second place taking office in order to carry on the Government under the circumstances of the time. He ventured to implore c - d every class, of every religious denomination, to combine. with the Government in the mighty work which they had undertaken, and to give up all remnants of any feelings of ascendancy, maintaining stoutly their own opinions —(hear, hear)—defending them on every proper occasion —(hear)—but to give up all enmity or bitter ness against those who did not share those opinions. He would ask them to assist in the mighty work which Providence was now accomplishing ; and when the American visitor came to see their packet station on the Shannon—(hear, hear, and loud cheering)—instead of looking on a miserable and wretched, because a divided people, he would find a happy and a prosperous popula tion—instead of despising the institutions under which • they lived, he would see in the result of the new institu tions, progress, order, and prosperity, which were in separable by a just law of Providence from justice in the administration of the laws of the country. (Loud cheers.) Thanking them once more for the high honour they had done him, and remembering the great responsi bility that new 'mark of kindness cast on him, he would conclude by expressing the hope that they would con tinue true and sincere friends one to the other. (Loud and protracted cheering, amid which the hon, gentleman retired,) • The proceedings then terminated. )INNER AT SOUTHAMPTON TO THE DIREC TORS OF THE GENERAL SCREW STEAM SHIP PING COMPANY. On Wednesday evening a magnificent entertainment was given by the merchants, and other inhabitants, of Southampton, to the directors of the General Screw Steam Shipping Company, to celebrate the svleetion of that port by the company as the station for the arrival and departure of their ships, and also to honour the arri val of the Queen of the South, the first ship of the com pany's fleet that occupied a berth in the Southampton Docks. The representatives of all the great mercantile and shipping companies connected with Southampton received invitations, and also those of some of the new steam shipping companies recently formed, the Sheriffs of London, and many eminent shipowners of the city. The banquet took place in the Royal Victoria Rooms, which were elegantly decorated. The Mayor (Joseph Lankester, Esq.) presided—supported right and left by the Attorney-General and Mr. Willcox, members for the borough ; Mr. R. M. Fox, M.P., managing director of the Screw Shipping Company ; Ca?t. Austin, RN., Lord G. Lennox, Sir Ed. Butler, Mr. C. Brett, Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Carter, Mr. Sheriff Croll, Mr.•Ogilby, Sir.dolin Campbell, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Cham pion Wetton, Mr. J. L. O'Beirne, Mr. L. Somes, Mr. F. Somes, Mr. Laming, Sen., Mr. Balfour, Mr. W. S. Lindsay, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Currie, Mr. Margetson, Mr. Faudel, Mr. J. Hartley, sen., the Hon. R. Dutton, Captain Mangles, Mr. Allen, Mr. J. R. Croskey, Cap tain R. Ford, Mr. Rigrnarden, Mr. J. Matthews (of Grindlay and Co.), Mr. W. Felgate, &c., &c. The principal vice-chairs were filled by Mr. Alderman An drews, Mr, Alderman Laishley, and Mr. Deacon, Town Clerk. On the removal of the cloth, the MAYOR proposed, in succession. "The Queen," and " Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the royal family." The MAYOR then proposed "Her Majesty's Ministers, coupled with the name of Sir Alexander Cockburn, the Attorney-General." Drunk with great applause. Sir ALEXANDER COCKBURN was very warmly received on rising to return thanks. He said he felt it would be as ill-timed as unwelcome if he were to make the slightest political allusion in reference to the toast, but he trusted he might be allowed to claim for her Majesty's ministers credit at least for a deep and all engrossing desire faith fully and honestly to discharge their duty to their Sove reign and their country. (Hear, hear.) It was doubt less an object of great ambition to guide the destinies of this mighty empire ; but at the same time the strongest might well quail before a task so great. At home, a people full of energy, and increasing daily in wealth and power ; abroad, an empire on which the sun never sets ; throughout the whole world subjects of our common coun try to be found ; our flag floating on every sea ; from this little island, throbbing the full tide of civilisation and prosperity to the uttermost ends of the earth ! It was no small task to undertake the government of so vast and mighty an empire. He could not but recollect, whilst touching on this theme, how large a province this town of Southampton was assuming in the relations be tween the mother country and its vast colonial depen dencies. They, the inhabitants of Southampton—and they, the representatives of the great commercial steam ship companies, were making this port the connecting link between the empire at home and our great colonial dependencies abroad. In how many hearts was the recollection of this place deeply impressed by all the fond recollections of home and affection 1 But he felt that he was wandering from his proper province. A. locality a n d a commun it y t o w h o m he, beyond all men, was indebted, had led him from his proper subject—the and a toast of her Majesty's Ministers. He trusted the Ml nii-sdterYn t suwopupldor, an findtfdrofmrotinhetihrepiorlpitoical!tlicfanienfodeas aagenerous warm belief, at least, in their sincere desire to do their duty to their sovereign and their country. (Cheers.) The MAYOR then proposed the toast of the evening— " Prosperity to the General Screw Steam Shipping Company, coupled with the health of R. M. Fox, Esq., M.P. T M h r e . hFeoexlthhaovifng,, "The elie4otmo Members f the toast, orht e Borough," was then proposed, and drunk with loud applause.—Mr. B. thanks. "Pro s p er it y to t h e M. M W r. l A LL l c d o e x rm r a e n tu A rn w e D d ß t Ew han s Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company." —Mr. JAMES HARTLEY acknowledged the toast." Mr. FALVEY proposed " The Royal Mail Steam Navi gation Captain MANGLES replied. Hi s His brother directors of out the right hand of friend ship Company." himself were happy to hold the Royal Mail Company them he was proud of oyal Company. (Hear.) In thanking them for the honour not because of the nu the largeness of theirradi to the General Screw Mail Company he assured shares, but because of v :h d e en a d d s hisb connection with that company, they had done the R which they had ofer and splendour of their ships, Mr. W. LANKESTE Rate,mOirratbhlee hoiognhdrauette of ff their their officers and sea m en l throughout the severe visitation proposed ste experienced. "Pro sperity to the Ocean N tlie . net toast, aneoupled with the health of M r . a C o a s vi ke ti' llinte o d m A 3 tatL; Consul at Southampton. " r Y' Drunk - with great applause. . .. C ROSKEY, in returning thanks, expressed his gra: tffication as an American to hear wherever he went, a t Z on all oc cas i ons, t h e ki n dl y f ee li ngs th a t wer e manife S the towards his country. If they, on the other side ofLtn. . Atlantic, could only be satisfied that that frien r t r ,.., gunge came from the heart, they were ready to , e _' sa d,. with tenfold warmth ; but they could scarceyounernalist fled that it was genuine whilst some of t_ ifhelittle national were so ready to take hold of and i nagTA is, The two failings, making mountains out . of 1 7° 1 : i advancing the coaintries were rivals, but only ri o va. ti, the good of man- Pr ;it h e r d er Occur. he interests of civilization and dp, kind. ; and, whatever wars rn g_ 'erica would continue in trusted that England and Am fries idly alliance. (Cheers.) ed " the Australian, Pacific, and 3 Ir. DOUGLAS pro anon Companies." Afr ican Steam N: g A , C ha irman of the Australian Mail Com 3En 11- wEs At ' p r esent his company did not avail pan y, replie d. the piselves of t he i a dvantages of this port ; but if they m prove the advantages already existing, co , a tinued to well p-aing com p a nies as we as old companies must ulti n Ateiy come to them. Several other toasts followed, and the company sepa rated about midnight. f SAFETY TO RAILWAY PASSENGERS.—We understand that the directors of the London and North-Western Railway are taking measures to apply to their trains the best practical communication between the guard and the driver. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1853. Now Ready, price 10s. 6d. each, bound (completing the Work), ITOLS. 111. and IV. of EVELYN'S DIARY and CORRESPONDENCE. NEW EDITION, With numerous ADDITIONS and OEIGINAL, THE REPLY TO STAFFORD HOUSE. _ - The following " Addres,s.a many thousands of the Women of the United-States of America to their Sisters the Women of England," is published in the semi-weekly New :York, Courier and In quirer : "A common origin, a common faith, and we sincerely believe a common cause, urge us at the present moment to address you on the subject of enormous social evils which still prevail so extensiveiy„pud, even under kindly disposed rulers, with such frightful results, in everypart of your country. "We approach you to-day, not with fiction, but with fact--not fact as exaggerated, perverted, and discoloured by the novelist's imagination, but fact as presented in its naked simplicity by Parliamentary do,cuments, or other statistical writings which are egarded in your land as of standard authority. It will be impossible for us to, bring now to your consideration the immense aggregate of evils which are visited upon the poor and helpless by your husbands and brothers through the vast extent of youi Sovereign's dominions. We must forbear to speak of the flagitious and bloody modes by which those dominions have been extended' and are now extending in Southern Africa, in Southern Asia, and through the Southern Seas ! We can say nothing of the iniquitous war your nation waged upon the Chinese, or of the untold miseries caused by the forced imposition of the opium traffic upon that people ; not even for' poor Ireland can we invoke your sympathies now—that land which through misrule has decreased in population twenty per cent. with in the last year, and of which one of your own ad mired writers—the Rev. Sydney Smith—wrote these words, as awful as they are true, ' So great and so long has been the misgovernment of that country, that wa yerily be lieve the empire would be much ..-eltronge? if everything were open sea between England and the Atlantic, and if skates and codfish swam over the fair land of Ulster.' Sisters, we suppress our indignation, and touch upon none of these things now. It is upon evils on your own soil, in your own communities—evils among which you daily live and move, and with which you have personally to do, that we now address you. We wish to speak to you of the ignorant, and thepoverty-stricken and the degraded population of your own land, and we shall do it with faithfulness, yet with kindness. " Sisters, your land is filled with slaves —slaves to ig norance, slaves to penury, and slaves to vice. The ter rible truth has been told you by one of your most learned and respected authors, Joseph Kay, of Trinity College, Cambridge, at the close of his great work on national education, which is or ought to be familiar to you all— that in England, where the aristocracy is richer and more powerful than that of any other country in the world, the poor are more oppressed, more pauperised, more numerous in comparison to the other classes, more irreligious, and very much worse educated than the poor of any other European nation, solely ex cepting uncivilised Russia and Turkey, enslaved Italy, misgoverned Portugal, and revolutionised Spain.' The first and greatest of all popular needs in every free Christian country is the need of in struction ; and yet your country has no system of public education that is worthy of the name. The entire amount of your annual Parliamentary appropriations for the education of your people is less by thousands of pounds than the annual public expenditures made for this purpose by the city of New York alone. One person out of every eight in your population is a pauper, and the average poor-rates of England, for the last ten years, have been 6,000,000/. ; and yet to provide public education, and thus in a great measure remedy the very neglect which has cursed you with this grievous and yearly-increasing burden, your national Legislature has expended in six years only 600,000/. One-third of the population of the State of New York, according to our census tables, just published, are regularly receiving education in our public schools ; according to your Parliamentary returns, only one-eleventh of your popu lation are enjoyinr , a similar adv an t age . Sisters, is that a Christian state a society which, for some millions of your people, renders the development and cultivation of all those faculties which distinguish man from the brute little better than a physical impossibility ? "You, whom we are addressing, live in all parts of England, but everywhere, in the metropolis, in the manufacturing towns, and in the country, you see about you the most pitiable destitution and degradation. In London'there are, we understand, more than 1,000,000 of immortal beings who are never seen in the house of God, and practically think the thoughts and live the lives of absolute heathens. The condition of a large portion of the labouring population of that vast city may be judged from the fact that of its 20,000 journeyman tailors, 14,000 can barely earn a miserable. subsistence by working 14 hours a day, Sunday included ; and that it contains 33,000 needlewomen, who earn on an aver age only 4d. a day, by working 14 hours. There are 50,000 people in London who obtain their living in the streets, and Henry Mayhew, an authoritywhom you will not venture to question, says of them, When the reli gious, moral, and intellectual d e gr a dati on o f t h e majo rity f these 50,000 people is impressed upon us, it be comes positively appalling to contemplate the vast amount of vice, ignorance, and want existing in the very heart of our land. There are 30,000 costermongers ; of these he says only one-tenth-:--at the outside one -tenth —of the couples living together, and carrying on their costermongering trade, are married ; that not three in a hundred of them had ever been in the interior of a church or any place of worship, or know what was meant by Christianity, and only one in ten of them is able to read.' In your manufacturing towns the case is no bet ter. In Glasgow, there are 60; 000 women engaged in factories or needle-work, whose average earnings do not exceed 7s. or Bs. a week. Dr. Paterson, whom you know and respect as one of the most eminent divines in that city, stated, in a public speech not long since, that in three wynds, constituting but a portion of his parish, there were, in a population of 3,232, only 83 church sittings, or little more than an average of two and a-half to 100, and that in the whole locality there were only 117 Bibles. Certain it is,' he exclaims, 'that nothing short of a levy en masse of whatever there is of living Chris tianity in the city, in all the branches of the Church of Christ, will suffice to make head against the augmenting ignorance, and ungodliness, and infidelity with which we have to deal. If we do not destroy the evil, it will destroy us.' Out of 10,461 burials in that city in 1850 no less than 2,381, or nearly a fourth, were at the public ex pense. Glasgow, in these particulars, is but a speci men of your manufacturing towns generally. So, too, of your country population. A very large number of your agricultural population live in filthy and crowded cottages, where the sexes are in close and perilous con tact night and day, where decency is difficult, and com fort impossible ; the effect of which is to break down the barriers of morality, to obliterate all the sweet and say ing attractions of a home, to weaken and desecrate all domestic ties, and to brutalise the manners, and debase every natural feeling. The cottage accommodation of your villages is little or no better ; and the low tone of morality which this, in conjunction with other unfavour able influences, has caused, may be inferred from the following sad statement, made last May in the North. British Review :—" There are few things more remark able in the sight of observant residents in many country villages than the small number of marriages solemnised in the course of the year. Among these few things we are afraid must be mentioned the num ber of illegitimate children that are born into the world. In some villages, indeed, these events are of such frequent occurrence as to excite neither surprise nor in dignation There is something in this kind of insensibility which is very chilling and disheartening. This obtuseness of the moral senses, this deadness to shame, makes one almost despair over it. When the standard of public opinion is so low, there is little hope of practical improvement. " But, sisters, we have said enough ; and we now ap ncagtion and influen ce ? peal to you very seriously to reflect, a n d to as k counsel e c s o — rda y nce r of God how.far such a state of thing youri is in du with His Holy Word, the inalienable rights of immort a l souls, and the pure and merciful spirit of the Ch r i s ti an oand told d you, to di s t resse d u of all rankats accordance duties—your preeleiguiloianr. duties —aasre women ednisocf d discharging A individuals As on e of your of own w every description compassion and charitable aid ; While' you owe to your lower orders, as such, you owe, not charity, b ut j ustice writers has t —not so much the openpurse as the equal measure; ad vice, as far as they will receive . : g u idance, as far as they will submit to it ; education of the best quality and to the utmost extent that your unhappy sectarian jea lousies will permit you to bestow. Yo u owe them fair play in everything ; justice of the most even-handed sort—full, unquestiqned, and overflowing ; the removal of every external impediment which prevents them from doing and being whatever other classes can do and be. You owe it to them to employ your superior capacities, your richer opportunities, your m aturer wisdo m , i n cheering their toil, smoothing . their difficulties, directing their often misguided and suicidal energies. Y ou owe to them every facility with which you can surround their conflict amidst the obstacles of life 'facility to obtain land, to obtain employment, or obtain coloni sation—facility to acquire temperate habit s , to accumu late savings, to employ them wisely, to invest them well—facility, above all, to acquire that which is at once the key and crown of all, solid and comprehen sive instruction in all the things which b e l ong both to their earthly welfare and their future p eace. How you have performed these duties may be learned from the following short paragraph in a work pub blished last year, by 'William i Johnston, barrister-at law, entitled, England as t Is. , i 'The separation between rich and poor—the dis-sympathy an d i so l at i on of classes—is the great social 'evil of the time. In stitutions for scientific and literary teaching by lecturers, at the cheapest possible rates, are established ; parks, for the recreation of the lower orders, are established ; even clubs, upon something like the aristocratic model, where conveniences and luxuries are supplied at lower prices ; but all this seems unsuccessful. What one wants to see--a mutual and hearty recog n iti on o f t h e difference of civilisation, a kind and cordial combination on the one hand, and an equally cordial, but still re spectful, devotedness on the other—appears to make no progress.' This is the common complaint among all your philanthropists.. Now, sisters, we do not shut our eyes to the difficulties that might beset the sudden eleva tion of your degraded population to the rights and the dignity of manhood. But, nevertheless, we cannot be isilent on those symptoms of your society which, in direct contravention of God's own law, deny in effect to the poor labourer the sancity of marriage, with all its joys, rights, and obligations ; nor can we be silent on that awful policy which, either by laW, or by the absence of law, precludes any race of men, or any portion of tho human family, from that education which alone can' en able them to understand the truths of the Gospel and the ordinances of Christianity. We appeal to you as sisters, as wives, and as mothers, to raise your voices to your fellow-citizens, and your prayers to God, for the removal of England's shame from the Chri ,tian world." (Front the Morning Advertiser.) The " Women of the United'States of America" have replied to the anti-slavery address from the women of this country, in an " Affectionate and Christian Address to their Sisters in England." We give this reply in another column. We hail its appearance. Though intended as a retort, and written in a spirit of censoriousness under the cloak of great " sisterly" affection, it is a document from which we anticipate incalculable good. The women of the United States, it will be ob served, studiously avoid all allusion to the question of American slavery. They do not even make any direct reference to the Staffordshire-house address, though that document has called forth their appeal to the women of England. This shows, in a manner not to be mistaken, how sorely they smart under the severe reproaches, though couched in courteous phraseology, which the address; from the women of England contained. They know that they cannot defend the conduct of their country in.reference to, slavery„and therefore abstain from any direct attempt to justify the "peculiar institution." Their address proceeds on the assumption that two blacks make a white. They seem to extenuate, if not justify, their own conduct with regard to slavery, by throwing in the teeth of their " sisters in England," the ignorance which prevails among us—the destitution and misery which are so rife in our populous towns and the fearful amount of wretchedness of which misgovernment has been productive in Ireland. We admit, to a certain extent, the justice of the reproaches which the Transatlantic ladies bring against England. We cannot deny, nor have we any wish to deny, that we have not done all that it was our duty to do, with a view to the ameliora tion of the condition of the poorer classes in this country. But, we beg to remind the fair sex of the United States, that they do a grievous injustice to their " sisters of England," and to their " brothers" also, when they hold them responsible for all the want and wretchedness which prevail in the United Kingdom. So far as the misgovernment of Ireland has been productive of degradation and misery, the people of these realms are not to blame. They have never ceased to remonstrate with those in authority against the course of procedure which every successive Administration has pursued to wards Ireland. The blame for the deplorable state of things which has prevailed from time immemorial in that country lies at the door of the Government alone. The " sisters of England" are as guiltless in this matter as are their sisterly censors on the other side of the Atlantic. And so it is, in a greater or less measure, with regard to those other evils which the ladies of America point out, and reproach their English " sisters" for, in Great Britain. Tho people of this country, including the female portion of the popu lation, have never ceased to deplore the extent to which ignorance prevails among the poorer classes. And they have not failed to furnish a practical proof of this, by the enormous sums which are an nually raised by voluntary effort to impart the blessings of education. What has been done in this way must appear astonishing to all who reflect on the subject, and ought to have elicited the com mendation, instead of calling forth the reproaches, of the ladies of America. It is the same with regard to the various other social and moral evils which exist among us. We have done, are doing, much, and will, we trust, ere long, do a great dear more, to grapple with, and master the monster evils with which we are every where surrounded. And, in order that we may apply ourselves with greater resolution and in creased energy to the task, we are heartily glad that such a stimulus as that which the address of the American ladies supplies, has reached us from the opposite shores of the Atlantic. But we say again, that for th e more collossal evils which w e have to deplore as existing among us, the people of this country are much less to blame than the Government. It is the duty of Government to apply remedies for the evils of Ire land, and to provide a sound and salutary educa tion for the children of those who are unable to procure instruction for themselves. It is unjust and ungenerous, also, to hold the nation respon sible for the sins of the Government. The women of America might, with just as much justice, re proach the nation for those other short-comings in the Government, such as the non-introduction of necessary reforms, which the people deeply and con tinually deplore. But it is otherwise with American slavery. That is spoken of and cherished as a " peculiar institu tion," and as one which may be defended on vari ous conclusive grounds. The American people not only do nothing to abolish slavery, but they do not recognise it as their duty to do anything. On the contrary, they seek to maintain it. They not only justify it, but regard it as one of the institutions of their country of which they ought to be proud. It is because the women of England entertain an op posite view, and have addressed a friendly remon strance to them, that the American ladies have written in a spirit of recrimination, and with great bitternesi of spirit, but ill concealed under an at tempt at the use of a polite phraseology. There is thus a great distinction in the degrees of culpability between the Americans and the people of England. Slavery is the adopted and proudly-caressed child of the nation ; the moral and social evils which prevail in this country are not only condemned by the nation, but all that voluntary effort could do has been done to put an end to them. We have said, that in the " Affectionate and Christian Address of many thousands of the United States of America to their Sisters, the Women of England," there is a s t u di e d absence of any allusion to the enormities of Transatlantic slavery. But, notwithstanding that fact, no one can fail to perceive how. sore the Americans feel whenever that subject is spoken of. In the opening part of the address to the " sisters of England," there is a sneer at " Uncle Tom's Cabin," which tells, in terms which cannot be misunderstood, how deeply the exposures in that wonderful work have cut the American body to the quick. "We ap proach you to-day," say the sisters of the United States, " not with fiction, but with fact— not fact as exaggerated, perverted, and discoloured by the novelist's imagination, but fact as presented. in , its naked simplicity, by Parliamentary docu ments, or other statistical writings, which are regarded in your land as of standard authority." No one can mistake the allusion here. We will not pause to defend Mrs. Stowe's work from the attack thus made, by implication, upon it. It is because of the stern, stubborn facts with which that book abounds, that it has produced so great an impres sion in both hemispheres, and has made the slave power groan and quail under its terrible exposures. Though the American women betray so much soreness at the faithful remonstrance which their sisters in England have addressed to them, we anti cipate immediate results from it of the most bene ficial kind. It will have the effect of making the people of America reflect more on the subject of slavery than they have ever before done ; and be cause we have an unbounded faith in the ultimate triumphs of truth, justice, and humanity, we cannot doubt that the result of that additional reflection will be the destruction of the " domestic institu tion." CLUTTON ABDUCTION CASE.—We have heard from good authority that this case, which made so much noise in the neighbourhood some months back, came on on Wednesday, the 22d u lt., b e f ore Mr. Justice Erie, his lordship havin g t o t ry th e contempt of court committed by Mr. Money in taking away his wife, while she was under a writ of h a b eas corpus procured from himself. The investigation lasted three hours, and the judge at the conclusion dismissed Mr. Money, not only without punishment or reproof, but with every expression of sympathy and condolence. He said that his judgment proceeded from the evidence as then brought before him, and he stated that Mr. Money, without any fault of his own, had been subjected to the greatest calamity that could befal a man ; and that, under the most trying and painful circumstances, he had behaved in a kind and honourable manner.—Bristol Mercury. THE INConPoRATED NATIONAL SOCIETIES SCHOOLS. —That the number of children attending schools, in immediate connection and correspondence with the society, amounted in the year 1813 to 40,484; in the year 1833 to 400,830 ; in the year 1837 to 597,811 ' • in the year 1847 t o 816 ,874 ; and at Christmas, 1851 to the incre ase d num b er of 886,430 ; while the total n'um ber of Church Schools known to exist up to Christmas 1851 is 23,457, with 1,564,401 scholars. TRAINING C RANGES.—it is reported upon trustworthy authority, that J. B. 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And Notice is hereby also given, that the said Indenture of Assignment is now lying at the office of the said Philip Vaughan, at the Town of Lampeter, for the benefit of the Creditors of the said Eliezer James, who shall execute the same, and signify their assent thereto within one month from the date hereof. Dated this 6th day of January, 1853. PHILIP VAUGHAN, Solicitor for the said Trustees. Witnesses, WILLIAMS & HETT, 1, Veralam-buildings, Gray's-inn, Middlesex. 'rrHE BEST COUGH MEDICINE FOR CHILDREN is "SPENCER'S PIILMONIC ELIXER." For the nursery it is invaluable, as it is as agreeable to the palate as it is useful in all cases of kooping-cough, chin-cough, or common coughs, arising from colds, teething, Sec. To invalids, whose ailments aro increased by frosty and Pggy weather, it is a never failing source of comfort and case from suffer ing; enabling them to breathe with freedom during the keenest frost and thickest fog. In fine, it possesses every property which can be beneficial in cases of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, and all com plaints of the Chest and Lungs. Prepared only by T. Roberts and Co., Crane-court, Fleet-street, London; and sold by E. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Churchyard ; Bar clay and Sons, Farringdon-street ; Sutton and Co., Bow Churchyard; Sanger and Co., and lllmnay and Co., Oxford-street, London; Mot tershead and Roberts, 3lsitchester; Ratlines and Co., Edinburgh and Liverpool; Remhardt, Leeds; and by ad respectable Medicine Vendors In the Kingdom. In Bottles, at Is. IMd. and 2s. 9d. each. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGIIVEERS.-JAN. 11. The paper read was "On the Nature and Properties of Timber, with notices of several methods, now in use, for its preservation from decay," by Mr. Henry Potter Burt, Assoc. Inst. C. E. The author first examined the different species of home and foreign grown timber, their various properties, uses, tendencies to decay, under cer tain circumstances, the moss apparent causes of dry rot, the formation of fungi, and the action of wet and of heat ; noticing the extraordinary duration of specimens of tim ber found in Egypt, in the ruins of Nineveh, and in the more recent monastic and castellated edifices of this country. The chemical constitution of wood was examined, in order to trace the origin of decay, and to lead to the consideration of the most efficient means of arresting it. The necessity of some efficacious and yet moderately cheap system of preserving timber, was insisted on, from the great demand for railway and other engineering works, not only in Europe, but even in the East Indies ; where it was remarkable, that the wood which would resist the climate and the ravages of the white ant, was only to be found at such distances inland that the expense of carriage, in a country devoid of good means of communication, rendered it more economical to buy fir timber in the north of Europe, convert to the required dimensions, and saturate it with creosote in England, and convey it by sea to India, for the use of the railway now in course of construction in that country. The earliest record, of preserving animal and vegetable substances were traced back to the Egyptians, whose mummies were embalmed by being boiled in pitch, found floating in the lakes ; the linen and the timber, so preserved, gave the first idea for adapting the process to the wants of the present period, and several of the patents granted were enumerated and commented on ; the greatest space being devoted to those of Kyan, for chloride of mercury ; Burnett, for chloride of zinc ; Margary, for acetate, or sulphate of copper ; Payne, for the use of two solutions in succession, mutually decom posing each other, and forming an insoluble substance in the pores of the wood ; and Bethell, for creosote, or oil of coal-tar; which last had, by its extensive employment iuharbour, railway, and other engineering works, proved, that when properly executed, the preservation of the timber from decay and from the ravages of insects, might be considered complete. The paper was illustrated by a series of models and drawings, showing the various apparatus for the several processes, enlarged diagrams of microscopic views of sections of several kinds of timber, both in the natural state and after being creosoted ; experiments on the degrees of saturation by the process, and on the transverse strength of the timber ; with the results of the improvements introduced into the system, by the author, whose experience had been very exten sive. The discussion was commenced, but was adjourned until Tuesday evening, January 18th, at 8 p.m. ; when, if the timepermitted, the following paper was announced to be read - "On the construction of Fire-proof Build ings," ld duly ember • and Messrs. elected ;—Mr. S. C. Court, as a m , iate E. Bagot, J. Hodgson, and A. Sinclair , as assoc s. tinhgesm,"onbtyhl Mr. y all j o a t m , the e BfarrolloewttingAscsaonedi. Inst. o w . eEre. DEATH FROM DRINKING FOR A WAGER.—On Tues day, Mr. W. S. Rutter, county coroner for Lancashire, held an inquest at the Manor Inn, Church-street, Sal ford, on the body of Robert Farnworth, a labouring man. It appeared that on Monday morning, the de ceased was at the Mount Tavern beer-house, in Rosa mond-street, Salford, kept by James Tipping ; that some where about noon there were many persons drinking in two of the lower rooms ; that two fiddlers were playing, and that dancing was going on. The deceased had apparently had a good deal to drink before he got to the beerhouse, and he talked about having been drinking for a wager in Oldfield-road. He also drank freely in the beerhouse, there being present the traveller or " townsman" of a brewer, who "stood" drink for all present ; a witness stating that he saw two half gallon jugs on the tables of the room in which the deceased was, which he thinks were re-filled once, if not twice. The witness heard the deceased offering to make a wager that he would drink a certain quantity of ale • and he thought he afterwards made a bet that he would drink twelve gills of ale within an hour, taking one every five minutes. The witness was sitting by the fire, and only saw the deceased drink one gill after this. The men in the room had told him to " chalk down" upon the chimney piece, so as to show how many the deceased drank ; he made a mark whenever the men called out to him to do so, and he had no doubt that he had made nine or ten marks, if not more. The !gill of ale which he saw the deceased drink was poured out from a quart jug by Tip ping, the landlord. After he had made the nine or ten marks, the witness observed that the deceased was ill, and he went to him and advised him to go to a druggist and get an emetic, or else to go to a doctor ; the deceased asked for "more ale." The deceased was afterwards removed to another room, and soon afterwards, while the witness was looking at a man dancing on,one leg in the room in which the deceased had been drinking, a girl came to the door, and said, " Yon man's dying." Wit ness and others went to him, and found him stooping over a pail, with his hands "stuffed into his mouth, like," and quite black about the neck and ears. They got him up and rubbed him, and sent for a doctor, who administered an emetic, but all to no purpose. The jury returned a verdict of "Died from excessive drinking ;" the foreman remarking that they thought great blame attached to the landlord, for not only allowing, but taking part in, such a disgraceful proceeding. GLASGOW TOMS' REVENIIR.—The Glasgow Citizen publishes a statement of the Customs' revenue returns at Glasgow for the quarter and the year ending sth January, 1853, from which it appears that, while there is an increase on the former as compared with the corres ponding quarter in the preceding year, there has been a 1. as considerablecomparisongo Glasgow theworcefi occasioned s l i it i a i hn g a offof increase the e previoust h e e n tpastle twelvemonth.qyneaa r quarter ' e s r revenue e2 55 At 5d.,, and on the year a decrease of 21,7611. is ld At Greenock there is an increase on the year of 10,3 . 28/.. p l r 3 i s n . e B ip d a . l ; ly and at Port Glasgow a decrease of 10,3181. n3dp.laeTe The a t b h o eo v nd e d decrease, says the Citizen, has been it take is haspre presented resulted edon th is abundantly evidernotm from tonnage om entiebeyonthenegraerdauncdtiomnsolawssheiec.h Thathave any falling off in our river traffic, threetnernheserionng the year. which general trade of the Clyde, w t never in a more flourishing co e nd a gon happy to state, was