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Scottish Syst-in (Incorporate t hy Charter); besides the trans,- ,„ ...,all ordinary banking hi,sinc,s, grains CREDITN 2 1 4 , 11 Interest on depositi and balances of current accounts, and d tai: . proraissor, not,. 01 and eh colar letters of creuit, and its or orderspayabh, to the bearers on d e mand, or at any date, and tr _ h riPortant town at home or obroad, and which, for merchants aqd ue tTellera, pos , ess some peculiar features ot econolnY, safety, R anches Detailed terms of business will be communicated on lir.„„t i on th the ilead Office, T. kenhouse-yard ; or at the vreT: es 09, Strand ••77 Bridge•street, Lambeth ; and 97, Goa- Load, Islington. , Roy HUGH INNES CAMERON, Genera l Manager. al British Bank, Tokenhouse-yard. C RESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY. lON between ENGLAND, , SCOT ..AND, and x o , n D, via HOLYHEAD. - ceuib er r,, IS lIEREBY GIVEN, That on and after the Ist De- Will b'' 153 . the Through Booking Arrangements for Passengers a,„ O confined exclusively to the EXP RE' S VESSELS of the at 9': . !Elt and HOLYHEAD COMPANY, which leave Kingstown and Holyhead at 5. , 0 p.m. General "kr By order. 3. 0. BINGER. —anager's Office, Chester, 24th Oct., 1853. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASAURANCE. FARMING STOCK. Lonion, December Ist, 1853. r tI S Corporation having determined on a Re f°, parind!iction of One Shilim4 per Cent." in the rate of Premium c'nornltatelit Stork and Utensils in England and Wales, Insurances property may be effected accordingly through the 44,1 at No ^gents, or at their Chief Offices in the Royal Exchange, 2 9, Pall-mall. ALEX. GREEN, Secretary, OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Ist Dec., 1853. Principal Officers of her Majesty's Ordna nce I ; r Y CI d o hereby give noti .e, that a quantity of Blankets, Artil wheels, Files, Harness, Serge, Canvas and Leather Cuttin g s, elab Metal, Bellows, Zinc, Steel, Tin, Shovels, Plank , 58 cords of Fir ti: l es. and and 34 cor d s of Firewood, Bale Hoops, Sand ethe standing crop of Reeds on the Ordnance Land below Arsen a r,..Arsenal, will be SOLI) by Public Auctio n, in the Royal W oolwich, on THURSDAY, the Bth December, at I 1 the forenoon precisely. the 8 4 e p . e viewed from 10 till 4 o'clock on the three days previous to Ceit ak , 4 f tom gueg May be had at the Ordnance Office, Pall-mall; Toe er Out and Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. By order of the Board. G. BUTLER, Sec, ONE HUNDRED RIGHTS OF CHOICE !- Ti CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. —On THURSDAY 'Kan "'" ,hi Freemasons' Hall, after the routine business of the Threesurterly and First Annual Meeting has been disposed of, at I ) ) eltiek, VISCOUNT RA/4ELAGH in the Chair, the Thirteenth p,'"Clteepv!‘"wing for Rights of Choice on the Estates bought for the Zelns 4 ;`, ll ve Land Society, will take place. On this occasion ONE 4 " NUMBERS will be drawn and FIFTY will be added to the A dot o r RIGHTS BY SENIORITY. All uncompleted Shares taken tie le he Anal Numbers, 133ing placed in the Wheel, up to the Pepsi: the Drawing, will participate in the advantages thereof. liet t — t re s , , Prospectuse, Rules, and Plans of Estates, apply at the lOp fn .0, Norfolk -street, Strand, and to the agents of members, in Or -entry. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary. g O TTIsli WIDOWS' FUND LIFE ASSURANC SOCIETY. Instituted A.D. 1815. Read Office —Edinburgh, 5, St. Andrew-square. SPECIAL NOTICE. hop" - outs of the Society are closed annually o n the 31st Dec Niteas FOIL A S SURANCES MUST THEREFORE BE LODGE D at the Iseilti le the l nce. or at one of the Agencies, on or before the 31st curt., Applicant to be ranked as an entrair of this year. JOHN MACKENZIE, Mviager. Wm. LINDESAY, Secretary. bt e This Society's Policies are now issued without any cha r g e - .IP duty. LONDON HONORARY BOARD. 4 eorge Young, Esq„ Mark-lane. tnarles Edward Pollock, Esq., Barrister, Temple. 4 ,7 1 €1 Hill, Esq., East India House. Om Murray, Esq., Publisher, Albemarle-street. - Muel Laing, Esq., M.P. ftr John Th oma s Briggs. Admiralty. J ohn Horner, Esq., Home-office. "lin Taylor, jun., Esq., C.E., Queen-street-Place. Agent—Hugh M`Kean. Office-4, Royal Exchange-buildings. To be Incorporated by Act of Parliament. PROSPECTUS. P P IE EXECUTOR and TRUSTEE COMPANY. Temporary Office—(ye. 4) 71, Conlinll. Capital, 1,000,000/ , in 50,000 shares of 201. each. htilt (With power to increase.) -.nary —.nary deposit, 2s. per share (as restricted by the Act of Parliament). P:ovisionally Registered. Ilte Ri HONORARY COUNCIL. Ol t Honourable Sir John Pattesen, late one of the Judges of Elti: r t . , of Queen's Bench. Als 'ro J. Gambier, late Chief Justice of Madras. &r ies Marshall, late Chief Justice of Ceylon. TIIE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. VI, P resident—The Right Hen the Earl of ZETLAND. • ITresident—TOMAS EMERSON HEADLAM, Esq., Q.C., St a . 3 O, LincolnH's-inn-ftelds. Villtl "Chambers, Esq., Q C , M.P., Child's-place, Temple. 11 .0 . 1 Clark, Esq., 5, Fig Tree-court, Temple. do PaWjb~ld. Esq., M.P. (Messrs. Bacon, Cobbold, and Co. , Bankers , 444 1 b rg e eir nstabl e , E. 17, Westbourne-terrace. ••t• Deffell Esq., ' 7, King's Bench-walk, Temple. ills 4. 1 3 1 rEsq., 10, Eaton-place, South. i Virareave, Esq., Langley House, Abbott's Langley, Harts. ,NtrileSlorris, Esq. 'eard Ley, Esq. Bideford, North Devon. A M'Daugall (late ' E.I C.S.), Fir-grove, North Brixton. (late E.LC.S.), Rockbeare-court, Exeter. (freel3oo M ac Morris, Esq., F.R,S., 10, Mansfield-street.l ~.orton, Esq., late A d voca t e -G ene ral of Madras. W 5%,„, " k* T wells, Esq.iPps Prowett, Esq., 5, Ring's Bench - walk. (Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Co.) (With power to add to their number.) S ECRETARY—CharIes Twigg, Esq., 71, Cornhill. sE CUTARY Charles Hance, Esq., Mitre Court Chambers, Temple. SOLICITORS Messrs. Cobbo'd and Patteson. Messrs. Fearon and Clabon. PROCTORS. Meters. Dowdier and Bathurst. lteeaa c l es Srls- Shepherd,Middleton, and Bedford. ifi as ,„ in ,_Messrs.Moo re and Carr, 61, Threadneedle-Street. a Respon i Na, society ii-r* —Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Co. nded, to supply a want long felt bar the public, S slat nstitution for the Security and 'Management oT , 61 7 8 ,ettrY and Trust Property. • r,4„1:441,e, the, evils at present existing may be mentioned the great eZa . . itud e '.flitatly persons . o undertake duties which involve much Ica, t 7trei ,‘ f ie ' d al th P e t t tr A r o lte n osaidhil4. 6ots ofii their part, by no means in all the difficulty, on the creattoll of a persons the making of a will, of se l ect i ng who unite ability Perience with high character ; an d the delicacy, when such a Rte, 4 2 ,1 can be made, of asking suitable persons to undertake bur- Tlhil e and thankless duties. ~, itllo;,°'Kes so frequently incurred from the incapacity, inexperience. ZtisaVleSty of trustees and executors—the numerous suits insti- Z9aef t n taeCourt of Chancery by or against persons acting in these ", and the vast accumulation of property in that Court, far -1111"'llonal evidence of the defects of the present system. ti l k t s k i ' co il r o i ciety offers the care of alwell-selected establishment, and 1 4st ty of a subscribed cap ta of 1,000,00 1 /. of which 100,0001. lt ring be paid up, and invested in Consols L a guarantee fund. rin g Undertake— ,Sse4xecutorships is°ts Y—TrusteeshipS, whether under wills marriage --kceor Other similar instruments, for private individuals, or settle- on ily tthe. Public companies, or for the bene fit of elvtrities, and gene r.lhe anagernent of all descriptions o' treat property. tr,Z i ciple upon which this Society is iounded has already been 44 y03' the Government. In the year 1838 a joint-stock com ‘l4,telitiled Rot tbe the Board of Executors, was established at the Cape, t h stx tent jeer 1843 received letters of incorporation. The Board oc..elilpeBoteoeeiitatlyursioluly in full operation, and answers in every respect for the benefit of children whose property is en 141leittenlis management grant, in a safe and legal manner, loans h„uele the OM of subscribed capital, instead of injuriously diminish 4Tolint of property in trust ; such loans to be secured by M SUrance. In the same manner it will make advances to 47_ et or ''rlose favour bequests are made by wills, entrusted to its gtto strP) It Will also receive, and effectually protect, by depo t• 1 rtY* °rig fire-proof rooms, wills, title deeds, and other valuable t o * l ,l!_ect to test care will be taken to ensure strict privacy, both with re, spee P t roPerty entrusted to the care of the society,. and also ta,tve, b to Property placed under its administration. Persons, 1 4 ,, , t. of e nedelally interested in eroperty entrusted to the manage tllea, 1 e Society, will have, at all times, reasonable access afforded if t `lte D V ° order that trey may examine their own accounts. lb to rrnanenee of the functions of the Company will be one of te4l:ne ,„ in nlortant and valuable characteristics. It often happens ,"Klividual, the friend and confidant of many persons, is I,,S2D,V,everal families. In the event of his death, it can scarcely 401111,„7 that his heir or executor will assume such varied and res ponsibilities. Each family, therefore, has to select a • t ee + and is frequently required to do so through the costly ~, r the Court of Chancery. To avoid such a necessity , and qe 01 6 .2 , continuous executorship and trusteeship, application !lreis''e to Parliament for an act, the requisite notices for which lqas r given j i tl ll l ..i t. t , i _ e rls of the Society are likely to prove extremely benefit- At,,,Sele, t rud ; but they will be still more eminently so in India. abtset. ll . of an executor or trustee is there extremely difficult ; r ena 4 PPlicable to the purposes of testamentary trusts is often ii:l4l,loer cifferent countries, and no individual possesses the means s k „ s te , 1 „ at .? 1 7 and satisfactorily performing the duties of an executor. C.l . leyb s `"es. therefore, have often necessarily been entrusted to ° "e B , or thrown upon the Administrator General, and, in i d ... 111 4 1: known cases, much property has thereby been lost. CI 'lees where, from feeling or any other circumstances, par 04;17,prefer to repose specific or particular powers in any of their j,, , 7914 6 ,!beY will be at liberty to do so, and yet derive the principal 110,1” . _Kacured by the operation of the Society. Such persons, t„ , te ti . "'ed. may fulfil their prescribed duty, and the Society will t a it4 ilet the other duties of the trust. Moreover, the solicitors of sty + whose property is entrusted to tha management of the So may,,. at th e reques t of the parties interested, be appointed to Nbj,,„ , 8e the dut ies o f so li c it ors w ith reference to such property, Sllte.:: the control of the Society. rriance with the provisions of the Joint Stock Companies het e ns further deposit will be required, in the first instance, than es. 01,7,fe• It is anticipated that after the passing of the act, a call 1 - , , 5 - L i t i e s t h e a a r s e s N o Vl b l u b s ? n za s de a . nd F a tu a r n e c i i n n .s g t p ti r m us e i nz a w y il u i f bl e rehg o u c l ie st t c y d y d ng a corresponding increase of the guarantee funds. ve all charge will be ma le upon the property administered by IkaZufrany, as a remuneration for the security it affords. It is .a it ed that one per cent. will be amply sufficient for this purpose. gee capital paid up, with the e,ception of the deposit of 2s per kW for preliminary expenses, will, in order to form a guarantee t ltd . t 4 '. 4 c immediately invested in console, and the shareholders will, • ,'4.e commencement, receive dividt ntis on the sums so invested, Itir , ution to their share of the prodts arising from the business ~..4tt e d by the society. Nit,,:r'e Profits are estimated at a large sum. in 1831, legacy duty 11115,Vinited Kingdom was paid on 49,102,391/. of personal estate ish lt The Succession Dull, s Act will greatly augment the sums l • 1i t,r,,,, t° ,,,,,5uch payments. If one fortieth o 1 this mount of persona Nllta irt "" 1 3' Passed through the hands of the society, and a similar Zeit, trus'eeships under settlements and deeds, and one per cen.. 'od d I L"2.rBed by the society, an annual sum of 25,000/. would be Adding to this the dividends on the paid-up capital, d and an I,,te ire expenses of the establishment, there would remain Kritlicient to give a dividend of ten per cent. to pn w n Paid-up capital of 250,00 e/. b 3, t tl . will be contained in the act for the appointment of audi l'Apa,, Government to examine the affairs of the Society. for shares may be addressed to Mr. Charles Twigg, tto'4l4Ztrehill (the so c i e ty' s Messrs. Moore and Carr, -se t% No. 61, Threadneedle-strteet, in the accompanying To the ~ Foul OF APPLICATION. , Zeen. 1 1 -“ve Council of the Executor and Trustee company. 'A 4 ' 4 ") at 185 , x lit _ lot me Shares in the capital stock of this Society, tPt reb Y undertake to pay the deposit of 2s. per share upon the 4 1. '• Un,.... ', shares, or any smaller number that may be allotted silto 42. the allotment thereof, and to pay the calls when made, 4 0 7 3 1te the deed of settlement of the Society when required Name in full ..... ......•• Residence... . .....••• •• •• Place of bUSiIIeSS. • • • • ..... . . Trade or profession.. ....... Zn I Q % r eturn,__ B made to the house of Commons , it a pp ears that n i ;.,Ts_ a RUM th an 45,815,694 L paid legacy duty and p robate 45,283 .070/. ; and in 1851, 49,402,3911. 4 , 1 1 at ,:tCOND EDITION.—WITH ADDITIO i N re t , . 50. 6d. hl4 — DL i sh„,,ed, Bvo., in cloth, price 00., by post ORTUICE A & FALSE SPERMAT t G, lade n+ ,,""„the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors Treatmeat and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the gal Tr,C' YSt en; or Sexual Hypochondrlasis. pi_nslated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD ti,eta trrik .'sore 'a known to English readers by his ffecluen'P" t , .utio ns be infadero one uermanemedical literature. This is the firs w zn s us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medniy '-I,,,bth-. trost_this may not be the last, if he shall detect a thi, - ndc a My flagrant evil which it may be in his :over to correct." Sul u , e dielid Gazette, M a y 30,1851. The tribe of 'Quiet Sympa biLd flail Me dical Friends 'aremercilessly exposed; andif thisbook k t ' " t Of a W a:r into the hands of those who ander from the cora 4eh it treats, we are satisfied that manyhundreds would nit,,,, 4 4c,r ta b needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of th(4l, t h it i s th a t w hi c h the quacks most prize— nit." r 'al • •.This v o l ume is well qual i f i e d to put an end to the c,,_Ystem of tr eat i ng Spermatorrhoaa, and to p l ace the treat y", l rnore rational and h siological basis. t is, therefore to do n'uych ge Medi p eal Y Circular, June 16, I 1852. ' -iq eden : 11. Dalliers, 219, Regilat4trQd. 9 . 0 v• 22 : J ljn iw " if 2 0 Ira Ys , 1111° tho9e . r .r .s ir e to - irtorm )der, New yea ; 6 " . Marsala; Vincent; oport°l E liza Ina Cial6°' el Cod Y le : Jannacii pe of Co °a . L Breo en ' 3; W3141' e M v t arb3 nr i l 110 ; do. ; e c brt, ugly' r i ,„, °rt ` . Mari*, """ al the A ji efil ' f P Yest4L— ain-tek ir wive, 16 re-hea ci ' l° sterdsl,.„. )0 (low— 41g , long' "- OGO. it 03, l° °l ° ti ll Boats Too )011rn e ' s°l. o (suPP#4) 24W . # f . a $ 0 ' 10 If, ~ ions 49 30. id; ; 6d f, M — ape t° 6i odi 55 60.0 4 ins, 3• 30. pr dom. averaged tro, cre 8 (1 ) b v o l b 44 0 b 31 0 o a b 610 3 24 : 1212 4 ' 93 44/1 . 1.12 6. 1 5.190 Ci Sae ° 4. p tions,4 , 3y 20 " red, 76a SP , 365 1 0 r berg ra Peas, qr. of 8o Pric es O i l Oat° 00 c. PIO [e at ti 4 0 hate, ;8s Od. , 433 Od 00 an d tbci o i , not Purc, L d bean O# WaS nOt been. --` lll/1 ; ° Csle d( so o/ 3, 164 , I, 4°' 663 at iV ,11) 0 ` i ' ;ith . ate C bo °l* " sifro, 111 0 1 ,' 111 , 'tern, l'u tiO o l o wer i ott e , id fo r po' ,„ )li ' I ., 61. mos 5. „ tio her ; closo i ios s ,” transAc: "fp: s 0' Ste p ,l ie rffi ,t Nor' .41 ao. c a ie 4tO J , Bland 6 0 rid h' s o n of s p 4 TeP Of cln“j fer tlT, v erY 001 : A rti' ° torl' tiler d / isfao niP ffee' - i xtrAc" A O" iwioo,, dor e` I Co F r oJ 0, e" for d oft e a tte ° fI J ras ty b°sr f ° e in h wbie , ur feet c A il r by _Sol" cot/ _j f• !if f l'i'll. i ty 0 f (f• 1. as 0 S air e l I Up ''- v i er'' • _ t -r a sh. Fr. r obrit''' on, g'." Evre.'; the a P .D, Po' rt.stree i, a 65 . torste' d, ;tecio v ' 'O O 4 2.10. No. 19,092.] AMARTINE'S CONSTITUENT LASSEMBT,Y (1759), to ,e completed in Three Tols. uniform with THE HISTORY (RIMY. RESTORATION OF MONARCHY IN FRANIIOE," Vol. 1., Price 65., will be Publishe d on Monday neat, December 51. Yizetelly and Company, 135, Fleet-street. And all Booksellers, Libraries, and Railway Stations. Just Published, thoroughly revised, ss. ; or, with an Appendix or Index of Names contained in the Volume, is. 6d. in addltiOn, THE RED BOOK FOR 1854. THE ROYAL KALENDER, and COURT and CITY REGISTER, for England, Scotd, Ireland, and the Colonies; containing an Improved and Enlarged Peerage and Baronetage —The House of Commons, with the latest alterAtions The Queen's Ministers —It yal Household—Gornme Depart ments—Ambassadors, British and Foreign—Nav ve y and Ar nt my—Law and Civil officers—Ecclesiastical Establishments —Universities — Literary, Scientific, and Religious Societies—Charitable and Com mercial Institutions —Magistrates, Hospitals, Skc.. London : R. and A. Suttaby, Stationers'-court; and other pro prietors. " THE PRESS," No. 31, This Day (Saturday), contains, among others—Preparations for the European War —The Emperor of is ussia and his pecuniary resources—Romanism and its Defen ers —Strikes—the City Corporation—Report of the Med•cal Officer of the City Board of Health—Cen , us of the Unt'c'. St-rtes —Omer Pacha's despatch from Oltenitza—Corporation Finance —Sketches of Radical•, No. 8: The Fraternal Radical—Lora Car lisle's Garter—Examination of Lord Jobn Russell before the City Commission —Literature : Brown's Life of Southey—Arnold's Poems —Westgarth's Victoria—Keepsake—Court Album —Feathered Fs. veurites —Democritus in London —Warden's Justice in India— Poems by W Jones--A. Crowquill's Bundle of Crowqullis - Spencer P. Butler's ": urkish Invasion of Europe—Sullivan's Parish Sermons — Clerical ducation—Gisberne's Agricultural Essays Montgomery's .:hristian Life Blaine on Artistic Copyright—Periodical Literature —New Music—Dramatic Novelties Haymarket—Princess's — The Marionettes, together with all the News of the Week. "THE PItESS" is published every Saturday, at the Office, No. 110, Strand, price fid May be had of all newsmen,-and at the railway stations. Money orders to be made payable to Mr. Alfred lye. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE Rooms, (Lessee, Cues. C. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fmaam-road). The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE SEASON, and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S CELEBRATED BAND. Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past 8 ; Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and ter idnate at half-past 11. LIFE ASSURANCE. REPORT of the SELECT COMMITTEE of the HOUSE of COMMONS, and the DEPOSIT SYSTEM—the New and Important Feature of Life Assurance adopted by The DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. The following is an extract from the Report of the Select Com mittee : " THE OBJECTS which persons HAVE IN VIEW IN EFFECTING IN SURANCES upon their lives, are GENERALLY OF AN IMPORTANT AND SOLEMN character, viz., the PROVISION FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS after the death of their NATURAL PROTECTORS ; unlike any ordinary transaction of trade, a CONTRACT ONCE ENTERED INTO CANNOT BE DISCHARGED OR ABANDONED, if doubts of the stability of an office should arise, WITHOUT A SACRIFICE OF PREMIUMS PAID IN PAST YEARS, and the necessity M effecting new policies in other offices at increased rates of premium, owing to the greater age of the assured ; persons are thus placed in the ANXIOUS AND UN HAPPY DILEMMA OF BEING COMPELLED TO PERSEVERE IN PAYING PREMIUMS FROM YEAR TO YEAR, With SOME suspicion and doubt as to the ultimate advantage of doing so, oa OF INCURRING THE SE RIOUS LOSS WHICH, UNDER THE MOST FAVOURABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, MUST ATTEND THE ABANDONMENT OR SALE OF A POLICY. " On the DEPOSIT SYSTEM a person is NOT " COMPELLED" to pay from " YEAR TO YEAR," and he does not, if desirous of " ABANDON ING" his Policy, incur any " SERIOUS LOSS," but, on the contrary, he may pay such amounts, and at such times as he may find most con venient; he can stop paying whenever he pleases, and he can with draw the whole or part of his premiums. If the whole be with drawn the Policy is cancelled ; if part only, then the value of the Policy is diminished by the assured value of the part withdrawn. A B, aged 20, opens a deposit policy with a payment of 51., which it will be seen he Increases from time to time, and occasionally diminishes. X .4 . .00.-.00c100. ,1 • 00, -,0.-..e V,... ...., ,-4 11 a. .. Q . ; :. 0 -...-.v. , -se,oev.-..e. , -c . icv . v . "BETTER LATE THAN NEVER , " E l c4' 6' 7 , ~ i o s .... to v.-.-r--ev., ,,,- .c.4 , -- ,---mo L EWIS'S ALTERATIVE PILLS will be fo und 1 . ~ - - ii ' .....,,,, ~,... ... . 3 c.,. ? . on trial, after every other means has tailed, to cure the 'most ' A • --_-_- inveterate cases of Bilious disorder, Indigestion, and every derange- Er 1.4 c.) "8 __.: ...: o c.., .--.. co ci .--. v. e i•-• I.- co 1 it- Men , of the liver, Stomach, Kidneys, or Secretory system. They 44 , ~, r• .-•.-• are entirely vegetable, and, while removing obstructions, purify the P., ~.- g .f , ,"-I--'" d ; ,e '''' . ''' .7... ..9 ' - 2. c .,' :-' 5 . -a " '''' '' :11 Wood. clear. the complexion, rel'eve the chest of phlegm, strengthen 74 g t.) «. 8 g :.5 u a 4/ ~ t- = c 0,.,, .co t- -- --, o-- r- o the nerves, and restore tone to the whole system. Prepared and cc c. .., - "'' '''' "' '' ''' ''' ri Fold by HINGSTON, HUISH, and Co., lA, Old Bond-street, price cn •• -4 - ls. Iy 2 d., 2s. 9d., 48. 6d., &c , retail by all medicine vendors. Sent by post on receipt ofpostage stamps. ' O ..., IS Ts .--1 f ~,; r... . 8 -- )c , ••1 1111 11 - 111 AJOR'S SYNOVITIC LOTION as modified c -,z, 4 4 p•J . • 4 , 2 ::-.. c., -.-. . I VE by Dr. Batchelour. Testimonials from the following per ,' . 1 , g tit sons may be seen at Dr. Batcheleur's, 12, Finsbury-place South, ~9 a ------'------.--- '- Finsbury-square. CANCER : from Mrs. Brown, 2, Bevis-marks, <l) c 0 0 0 If, 0 14 le se 0 .-. csl CI 04 C 4 .ci c 4 6.. i s, City ; Mrs. Wilton, 24, De Beauvoir-terrace, Kingsland ; Mrs. Tiping, Hoxton-place. Epsom. WHITE SWELLING: from Mrs. t,' tl <0 , 6' 1 ."-.' Stevens, at Messrs. Berens & Co.'s, 33, St. Paul's -churchyard. H H 44 " ---g, `.2 `..`..' ~..' :f: .g, 2'4 ';.' E? fi', If= .4pIN AL COMPLAINT : from Mr. Price, 23, Brick-lane, Spital t 7s . . = u fields ; Mr. W. Knight, Faversham. RHEUMATISM : from Mr. P. Smart, Somerset-place, Rotherhithe. SCALD HEAD: From Mr. H a , . o Carter, 38, Kingsland-road. -1 1 m 4 6 1.), 44Dr. Batchelour is acting in unison with Mr. Major, the inventor O I :4 ,-.? -, 7; 4 '''''' 2' 4 2' l l 2- -i c of the lotion, the most wonderful medicinal agent of modern times. 0 L.) 0 The lotion, with directions for use, is sold at 12, Finsbur y - p lace o. o I youth, Finsbury-square, and at George Watts ', 17, Strand, in bottles i lie, and 225. each. o . .... . 3ea CI • -•• 0 \ Ia 14 1-' *3 " V ... , el EORGF REEVES, 3,4, and 5, POPE'S • - • ...... . - ir -,-..,, ~- -.- L.-, in prytrvitt r.T. TRIN-110N. 7is a :::''; • : . • . • . : .. • . 0 . • 7,..,0,,mz.i i .:,;;;.5,0,.,—.7, --03 F;Vi - jti4g , gaite'W . A i t; ft.c,or.eftglZ..oX ,rtz ~ ,r, m , m , m —,.. •qb •n m ~, ~, mm m • m 00 m mm mm Thus A B, in 10 years, has saved and invested at different Intel. vals various sums amounting to 971., by which he had been insured in ease of death for 2601. 12s. 7d. ; but A. B requires 22/. ; he draws this sum out, and diminishes the value of his Policy by 601. Bs. 3d. at different time., leaving him in case of death a Policy for 2001. 4s. 4d., and during his life a fund of 751. to draw out at any time, in part or wholly. The first claim settled by the Deposit and General Life Assurance Company was upon a deposit of 101. which a parent made for each of fly., children, instead of a. ding it to an account they had at the Savings Bank. One of them died a few days after the 101. was de rosited, and the father received 341. 65., being the amount of the De posit Policy. Supposing A B, aged means, and continues in the same way as he EXAMPLE No. 2. 1 23, when he opens a Deposit Policy has the VOLUNTARILY to pay the same sum every year s is COMPELLED to do in the ordinary system. GEORGF REEVES, 3,4, a,ncl. 5, POPE'S HEA.:',) ALLEY, 19, C ORN HI LL, LONDON, (nearly opposite the south Entrance to the Royal Exchange), being determined to supply the Public with the very best WINES and PIRITS, at the lowest remunerating prices, begs to submit the tol lowing list for their consideration:— Age. X. s. d. 49 6 6 48 16 0 47 18 0 47 4 6 46 10 6 45 17 6 45 4 0 44 10 6 43 17 6 43 4 0 206 7 6 190 4 6 141 3 0 1,000 4 0 Year. 1851.... •• — 1 to to 1875. to 1840•...:...•.... • • to to 1891.. 194 13 6 147 18 6 182 10 6 1,525 6 6 The premium or 18/. commencing at 23 years of age, and paid upon an ordinary Policy (As IT MUST BE) every year till A.B. is 46 years old, will secure the same sum, viz., 1,0001., but if A B lives 17 Years longer (which is the probable duration of life at the time he effected the insurance) his Deposit Policy, for the same payments as for an ordinary Policy of 1,0001., will have increased to 1,525/. 6s. 6d. TRUSTEES. The Right honourable the Lord Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C., Comptroller of her Majesty's Household. Maj )r-General Sir W. Clayton, Bart., 79, Gloucester-place, Port• man-.mare. , ir Charles Price, Bart., Banker, London. Vice-Admiral Ayscough, Prospect House, Southampton. CHAIRMAN. The Right Hon. the Lord Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C., Comp• troller of her Majesty's Household. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN. George Cootie, Esq.. Victoria-street, Belgravia. CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. P. Nelson, STANDING COUNSEL. R. B. Crowder, Esq., Q.C., M.P., Recorder of Bristol, Counsel to the Admiralty, and Judge Advocate of the Fleet. R. Matins, Esq., Q.C.. M.P., Lincoln's-inn. Chief Office, No, is, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. loans granted at 5 per cent. on real or personal security. Annuities on most favourable terms. Diseased lives and lives de clined by other offices accepted at equitable rates. For Prospectuses and further information apply to the agents in the country, er to C. W. Bevan, Resident secretary. Agents wanted in all parts of the United Kingdom. N.B —Life Assurances effected on But ordinary plait. DR. SAMUEL. LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical somety, Edinburgh, of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. ON THE SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES. MAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on gu gl a L g E es_ NT F F u ll tie rE th N E D dition. In Six TH L E an the various disorders of the nervous and generative argon, A b i y s noNnoe Hundred TSB R red E at en A Y n a l , t O o a m y: a r resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have Engravingspro- C EN oITred OFDm"E, and &need more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis eases. cases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience Illustr C a ° trd by post, fro in the treatment of th ese diseases has proved that there are in exist- N e w Edition, enlarged to 200 pages , price 2 s. 6 d. , m the once secret causes of self -ac q uired miseries and disa pp ointed ho p es in Establishment. 3s. 64 , in stamp s, ifIE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on ex i s t en ce, traceable to certain pernicious habits , to which N ervous r Debility, various forms of Insanit y , Unha ppy and Unfruitful Merri rl. the exhaustion and physical decay of the system od Impotency, Local and Constitutional ,Pr produced hy ages, Weakness, and their excessive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of endless modifications owe their almost entire origin I mercury, with directions for the use of the preventive lotion , . It is absolutely necessary that all men should kno w fol w that there are lowed by observations on Marriage, and the disqualifications which principles of personal management which cannot be violated without prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed PERRY and CO. Conehlting She 19, Berners-street, O x f or d_ the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties street, London. Published by Sherwood and Co., 23, Paternoster- may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, row, and sold bY Hannay, G 3, and ganger, 160, Oxford-street ; Dor- and how the evil and itsconsequenc es may be avoided, and above all, don, 146, Leadenhall-street ; 95, Farringdo'H - street ;W. Sutton, 10, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional Bow chnrch-yard ; Butler, 4, Cheaeside ; R Johnson, 68, Comilla. derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot a pply a cure. PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re DOCTOR LA :ALERT has for a long series of years been engaged organs, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate corn- P A RT 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in- Plaints, and is the only legally qualified Physician w ho, regardless d t dgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing of the taunts and envy of thehypocritical and mock-modest, has had mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanator) Engravings. attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is PART M. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in free. In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for rewarded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the their treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav- treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the care of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated logs. PART IV. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a ass umed forei n names publications, g and titles, and pretended virtues simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated. of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who have been induced to place faith in their pretensions . PART V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage and its duties. for consultationdaily and from At home from Eleven till Two, The causes of unpr oductive union are also considered, and the whole Six till Eight. All letter s must contain the fee of if., and advice and subject critically and philosophically inquired into. medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address. THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRI ACUM is exclusively employed 1 It 13 desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LAIIE/CT in treating nervous and sexual debility, impotence, & c., lis and 31s. firsthoUld obtain a copy of his work on per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitie 8 - - SELF-PRESERVATION. remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary y ptons eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 335. per A. Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and 11 " in- * ' Purifying Speci fi c Pills, 25. 9d., 4s. 6d., and Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty-coloured engravings, and des bottle. Pura S x a certain remedy for gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and lerronbioc i nflammation of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, excesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct 11. A minute detail of the case is required : age, habits, and post- description of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in English, tion in society. 5/. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Establish- French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or Gentian, of Messrs. Piper ment only, by which the fee, V. is saved. Messrs. PerrY, Surgeons, Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxtord-street ; arc in attendance, daily, at 19, BernerSsstreet, Oxford-street, Lon- Mann, 39, Cornbill ; Stacie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ;or free don, from Eleven till Two. and Five to Eight; 0)1 d 8-at from I b post for forty-two stamps, to any address from the - Author ' s{ Tea- Eleven to One. 'hence, 37, 8M:W0W:044134U LONDog. WINES. Good Draught Ports and Sherries • • ........ 245. per dozen. Superior ditto (second to none) Very fine Old Crusted Port, 4 years in 80tt1e.... 425. per dozen. Fine Old Sherry, Pale or Brown ..............• 425. per dozen. SPIRITS. Gin of the finest Quality, 9s. 6d. 10s. Bd., and 12s. per gallon. Fine Old Jamaica Rums, 10 s. 8d„ 125., and 16s. per gallon. Glenlivet and Campbelton Whiskies, imported direct, 5 years old, and 5 over proof, 20s. per gallon. 0. R. having purchased, previous to the rise, 50 Hogsheads of Martell's Pale and Brown Brandies, 4 and 5 years old, feels disposed to offer them at the Original Prices, taking no advantage of the 35. advance in the markets. Finest Pale Champagne Brandy • • ........ •• • . 28s. per gallon. C o l ou red ditto 255. per gallon. Hampers charged Is. per dozen, and bottles 2s. per dozen. REMITTANCES in all cases to be mtde in advance , by Post race Order, or by Cheque payable in London. ENGLISH ASSISTANCE DURING THE PRESENT WAR. Almost all the readers of the daily papers are puzzled to make out the position and prospects of the combatants, but English inter ference must he required. The elements of the present war re pa lp a ble enough in the City and in the country. The grand northern foe has declared his hostilities, and opened a regular siege on the constitutions of the British sub j ects, by Fogs, Damp, Rain, ost, moving in consolidated masses, or dispersed in irregular troops under the command of General Winter. To meet these inhospitable in vaders, E. MOSES and SON have marshaled an in omparable army of Overcoats, Paletots, Wrappers, &c., &c., of sufficient force to destroy the antagonistic influence of the elements, and to act as Life and comfort Guards on unnumbered thousands; and the re nowned arVests, of their strong, neat, and substantially-made Win ter Coats, and Trousers, will entirely subdue the capturing powers of colds, whole penal settlements are rheumatics and all the ills of the Winter Season. An army of reserve is just made up by E. OSES and SON for sale at their Establishment and West-end Branch, consisting of Oxford Blues, Greys, and Mixtures of the most novel, seasonable, and serviceable materials, associated with the most fashionable and accomplished workmanship ; and millions of Light Infantry, in Children's and Youths' Attire, most magnificently bring up the rear of Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-three. Victory will he consolidated by the best Understandings which ever existed —a Stock of Boots and Shoes of unparalleled quality and cheapness ; and the crowning of these victorious powers will be at the establish ments of E. MO ;ES and SON, the largest, best, and cheapest stock of Hats and Caps being prepared for the purpose. The event will be celebrated by a vast selection of Hosiery Goods, Furs, Shawls, Ladies' Cloaks, &c., &c.; and in superabundant satisfaction every one exclaims, " Long live the Queen, and prosperity to all her subjects." 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 ANT OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : Lond City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 44.86, and 81, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506,507, 508, New Oxford street, 1, 2 and 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate. Colonial Branch, Melbourne, Australia. Merchant Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe alakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT. —Should any article not give satisfaction, it will be exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, tha money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, trom which no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, " The Epitome of Comfort and Economy," contain ing full lists of prices, our system of self-measurement, &c., &c., may be had on application, or post-free. A handsome Almanac for tie year ending 1853 can be had gratis, m application. lei l'on park Francais. iirr Mrri , • ,, t. man Deutsch. Qui si parlft Italian. Aqua se tutila EsDano LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING-, DECEMBER 3, 1853. GT7ILDHALL, Dec. 2, 1853.—The Committee for LETTING the CITY'S LAND will meet at Guildhall on WEDSESDAY, the 11th day of December instant, at one o'clock precisely, to receive TENDERS for LETTING, on leases for 21 years from Chri-tinas next, TWO HOUSE?, Nos. 14 and 15, on the east side of Qvieenbithe. Further peril ulars and Plans may be seen, and Forms of T en der obtained at the Architect's office, Guildhall. THOS. SAUNDERS, Comptroller. BUILDING GROUND, Fenchurch-street.— The Committee for Letting the City's Lands will meet at Guildhall, on WEDNESDAY, the 14th day of December in-t , at One o'clock precisely, to receive TENDERS for LETTING, on buildhiv leases for 80 years from Christmas next, several PLOTS of GROUN:), on the south side of Fenchurch-street, between Loudon str,et and Mark-lane. Further particulars, specifications, and pla may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the Architect's Office,ns Guildhall. Guildhall, Dec. 2, 1853'. THOMAS S XUNDERS, Comptroller. PRIZE CATTLE SHOW of the SM ITHFIELD CUM.—The ANNUAL EXHIBITION of Prize Cattle, Seeds Roots, Implements, &c., commences on TUESDAY Morning and closes on Friday Evening, 6th, 7th, Bth, and 9th Deeember—Bazaar Kim•-street and Baker-street Open from daylight till nine in the mining, Admittance, One shilling. OYSTERS—TO EPICURES. QUEENBOROUGH and FAVERSHAM NATIVE OYATERS. Tire most acceptable Present at this season of the year is a Barre of the best NATIVE OYSTERS, which are to be obtained at SCOTT'S Celebrated OYSTER WAREHOUSE, 18, Coventry-street, Piccadilly, at ss. 6d.per Barrel, warranted to weigh 141bs. A TKINSON and COMPANY, CABINET MAYUFACTURERS, UPHOLSTERERS, and CARPET WAREROU , 'EMEN, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster bridge-road, Lambeth, London. TKINSON and COMPANY, DRAPERS, Ca_ SILK MERCERS, LACEMEN, &c., 69. 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster -bridge-road, Lambeth, London.—Shawls, Furs, Mantles, Family Mourning, Bsc. TO LOVERS of FISH.-100 REAL YAR MOUTH BLOATERS for 65., package ineluded. The above forwarded to all parts on receipt of penny postage stamps, or Post office order (preferred), for the amount.—Address, THOMAS LETTIS, Jun., Fish Curer, Great Yarmouth. Itiß ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC WILL orEw for the SE 'SON on MONDAY EVENING, December 5. Stalls can now be secured (without any extra charge) at the Box-Office, Egyptian Hall, every day between Eleven and Four. R OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON-H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. CLASS LECTURES. Mr. .T. 11. PEPPER Will commence TWO SEPARATE COURSES of Twelve Lectures each on PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY in the LABORATORY on MONDAY, December the sth, at Eleven o'clock a.m., and on the Evening of the same day at a quarter to Nine. Fee for each Course, including use of Apparatus, Three Guineas. Also, TWO SEPARATE CLASSES on PHOTOGRAPHY, each including Six Practical Lectares on the Paper and Glass Processes, to commence December let, at Eleven o'clock in the Morning, and in the Evenings at Eight o'clock. Fee for each Course, Three Guineas. CLASSES on MATHEMATICS by Mr. SMALLEY (a Graduate in First Class Mathematical honours of the University of Cambridge) commencing MONDAY, the 28th inst., at Eight p.m. Terms. One Guinea per Month. QOYER'S EXQUISITE SAUCES expressly sea -1-0 soned to suit the Palate of Ladies or Gentlemen. SC/YEWS Re lish for general purposes, and SOYER'S Aromatic Mustard. To be had of all grocers and It?lian warehousemen ; and whole sale of Crosse and Blackwell, purveyors by appointment to her Majesty, 21, Soho-square, London. F.DICaI. AD VICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. I T HE HUME COUNTIES AND METRO POLIMN FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY. Office-14, Chatham-place, Blackfriars. Members enrolled Daily. Office hours 10 to 4—and on Thursday tiveninge from 7 to 9. • PRESIDENT,. Lord Dudley Canna Stuart, At.P. YICE•PREBIDENTS. Apsley Pellatt, Esq., M.P. William Ewart, Esq., M.P. TRUSTEES. Apsley Pellatt, Esq., M.P. William Ewart, Esq., M.P. John Williams, Esq. Shares, £3O each. Entrance Fee Is. Subscription, One Shilling per Share Weekly. 4 The Directors call special attention to the class of estates that are purchased for allotment amongst the Members of this society. The one at Wood-green (now almost allotted) is acknowledged to be one of the most eligible for building purposes yet distributed by any Land Society; and a further purchase in Wimbledon-park has just been effected, fully equal, if not superior, to the oue at Wood-green, ad mirably adapted for first class villas. There is now an opportunity, either by paying up Shares, or taking them, to get Ballot-rights of acquiring plots on this highly eligible and profitable estate. Ballots take place Monthly. _ . HENRY KNIGHT, Secretary. Office-14, Chatham-place, Blackfriars. Now Ready, In 2,400 imperial octavo pages, price 365., with Map corrected from recent Surveys, POST -OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for 1854. The work is printed in entirely new type from the Caslon and Glasgow Letter Foundry, and has been so greatly ex tended, that the " Street Directory" contains 131,1,842 distinct names or firms ; these will be found correctly classified in all the other principal divisions, Commercial, Trades, Law, addeonrr, all of which are increased in proportion to the great extedsjon of the " Street Directory." " The Tost &Ace Directory has long been the' ivonder of the pub- lishing world, a monument of private enterprise And labour wholly without parallel."—MOMing Herald, Noti,'4, 1853. " Battersea, Bow, Briito4Oiromley (Middlesex), Camberwell, Cambridge Heath, Clapham-Paad, Dalston, Dept eril, Hackney, Hol loway-road, Kentish-town, Kingsland, New-crosa u South Lambeth, Stratford, Wandscybrth-road, &c., &c., are esaen ly parts of `the it great metropolis,' and, as such, should obvloual be eluded in any Directory of London. . . . In the , ' Post- ' ectory,' there fore, the inhabitants of these places appear i alphabetical lists, so that the residence and calling of any, be instantly traced in whatever part of the suburbs he may be lodged. This renders the work one of the most useful that tug be possibly ima gined for any purpose of metropolitan life." —Ohisrver, Nov. 13, 1853. . _ .... • - " The indices are very numerous, and immensely. facilitate refer ence to the various sub-divisions of the book."-3foming Adiertiser, November 4, 1853. " A mine of useful and entertaining knowledge."—Daily News November 17, 1853. "Deserves much praise for the accuracy which pervades it, and for the lateness of the information."—Morning Chronicle, November 4, 1853. " The completest Directory yet produced, both *8 regards classifi cation and typographical execution."—lllustrated News, November 5, 1853. "If it be true, as all our readers will be ready to admit, that there is no country like England, and no place like London, it is a most consistent climax to add, and no guide book like the "Post Office Directory."—John Bull, November 5, 1853. " One of the most remarkable and useful works of the age."— Herapath's Journal, November 5, 1853. " This monster volume is a perfect desideratum for the office and the counting,house."—Mining Journal, November 5, 1853. " Greatly increased in size by the introductionof a large number of streets in the suburbs." —Weekly Dispatch, I , lovember 5, 1853. " The edition of this wonderful work has, to speak commercially, been enlarged some ten or fifteen per cent.''—Spectator, November 5, 1853. "Gives no insignificant idea of the wonders of a city that de mands such a work to register its multifarious writents."—Atlas, Nov. 5, 1853. " The whole information has been brought up with great care AND ACCURACY to the 19th of September." Sunday Times, November Gi, 1853. " A notice of this gigantic volume, proportioned to its size and value, would occupy our whole paper—we say its size and value, for they hold a perfectly equal measure."—Standard, Nov. 7, 1853. " Already the Messrs. Kelly and Co. had actually distanced the most enterprising of their competitors. They have new rendered it preposterous for any other compiler to dream of emulating their ex traordinary enterprise."—Sun, November 7, 1853. " Its marvellous accuracy and minuteness of detail, fills one with astonishment." —Morning Post, November 7, 1853. " This annual miracle appears again."—Globe, Nov. 8, 1853. " It is unrivalled —indeed quite unapproached by any competitor we have seen."—Examiner, Nov. 12, 1853. " Upon a gentleman of our acquaintance stating to us that the two great wonders of the age are the electric telegraph and chloroform, we were induced' to observe that there was yet a third, and that — Kelly's Post-office London Directory." —Bell's Weekly Messenger, Nov. 12. 1853. " Of the accuracy of the Court Directory, we can ourselves speak With confidence."—Court Journal, Nov. 12, 1853. " A most valuable, commodious, and almost indispensable work." —Weekly Times, Nov. 13, 1853. " The biggest as well as the best book of our acqualatance."— Punch. Nov. 19, 1853. " It would be quite superfluous for us to dwell at length upon the superior excellence of this work."—Economist, Nov. 19, 1853. " Has no rival in the publishing world."—Britannia, Nov. 19, 1,853 " The volume before us far surpasses in bulk, weight, and com pleteness any that has appeared before."—Literary Gazette, Nov. 5, 103. " Such a handbook of the polite, official, professional, and com mercial life of the grdatet city in the world, as to demand unquali fied praise no less than universal admiration."—Shipping and Mer- Oantile Gazette, Nov. 5, 1853. " One of the greatest wonders of this wonder-Working age."— Church and State Gazette, Nov. 25, i 853. Kelly and Co., 19 and 20, Old Boswell Court, and a 4 Booksellers. CITY OF LONDON COMMISSVie' The commissioners re-assembled in the official residence of the Premier yesterday, and resumed their investigation. Commissioners present Right Hon. Mr. Lsbcuchere (chairman) and Mr. Coruewall Lewis. The first witness examined was — Mr. Edward Leigh Pemberton, who stated—l am solici tor to the Board of Inland Revenue, and have held that appointment since 1830. The Chairman—ln that capacity have you become ac quinted with the nature of any disputes which have taken place between your office and the corporation of the city with regard to the soil and the conservancy of the Thames ? Mr. Pemberton—l have. The Chairman—State what you know with regard to that. Mr- Pemberton—l bcg to state, in the first place, that I attend here at the request of the commissioners, o afford such information as they may call for. It is now more than sixteen years since it first came to my knowledge that the corporation of London, who have long held the office of bailiff and conservator of the river Thames from Staines to Yantlet had exercised acts of ownership on the soil and shores of the river quite beyond their jurisdiction as con servators, and amounting to encroachments on the property and prerogative rights of the Crown. Tho title of the cor poration to the conservancy, the nature of the office, and the duties and authorities appertaining to it, aro stated in Lord Hale's treatise " De Jure Maris" ; Pars Prima, c 5. In the spring of 1837 the Solicitor to the Admiralty called my attention to au act which had been passed in the ses sion of 1836, for making I. pier, wharf, and other works at Greenwich, which act cottaineda clause directing payment of a fine and rent to the corporation of London for the liberty of digging foundations in the shore and bed of the river, and to a bill then in progress through the House of Commons for amenaing and extending the said act. The clause in question had been inserted without the knowledge of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Land Revenue, and as far as I could learn, without the sanction of the Treasury or the Board of Admiralty. By the direc tion of the Board of Land Revenue, and after correspond ence and interviews with the City authorities, clauses (eventually settled by the Attorney-General and the counsel of the corporation) were introducedinto the Green wich Pier Extension Bill, repealing so much of the former act as directed payment of rent to the City, andsaving the rights of the Crown in respect of its property in the soil, and of the corporation of London in respect of their office of conservators of the river. The proceedings on the Greenwich Pier Extension Bill and the embankment re quired for the new Houses of Parliament, which happened at the same time, together led to my investigating the the claim of title to the bed and shores of the river, set up by the corporation of London. I collected all the materials I could at that time get togther embracing the published City charters and all the acts of ownership I could find to have been exercised on eitker side and laid a statement of them before the Attorney and Solicitor-General, the present Lord Chief Justice of England, and the Lori Chancellor. The law officers gave their opinion that the evidence in support of the title of the Crown greatly preponderated, and that none of the charters contained apt words for passing the soil, but they advised that the Crows, should not voluntarily enter into litigation, but act as if its title was undoubted. Reports of proceedings in the court of Common Councilha,ving been published in the newspapers, by which it appeared that the corporation had granted, or were about to grant licenses to embank portions of the river, and that they were granting such licenses not merely in the character of consevators, but in the assumed characters of owners of the soil of the river, I wrote to the City Solicitor for copies p ar ticulars of the licenses granted , or a bout to be granted, by the corporation. I afterwards received from him a copy of a license granted to Mr. Cubitt to ma ti ke ann the embank ment in front of premises in his o ccupation i Isle of Dogs. This was the only license, of which a copy was sent to me, but it w a s in a p rinted form, and it was evident that similar licen ses had been granted, or were about to be granted, to other persons. The license was art fully framed. It did not contain any actual grant of the strand or soil of the river, but it professed to grant full permission and authority to Mr. Cubitt to embank nkment it, with a c ovenant that he should quietly hold the emba without interruption by the corporation of London or any person claiming under them, The corporation were not described as conservators of the river, and there was nothing on the face of the instrument to imply that they granted that license merely as conservators. On the contrary, it was so framed as to imply t hat they granted as owners of the soil, more especially as the grant was expressed to be made for a pecuniary c onsideration. By the order of the Board of Woods I consulted the Attorney and Solicitor-General (Sir Frederick Pollock and the late Sir William Follett) and they were of opinion that the claim of the ownership of the soil of the river being now openly made on the part of the corporation, and acts having been done by them in asser tion of the rights claimed, it was desirable that the ques tion between the Crown and the corporation should be set at rest, and that an information should be filed in the Court of Chancery against the corporation and the grantees of licenses to embank, praying that the rights of the Crown and of the corporation respectively might be ascertained and declared, and that if it were necessary to determine such rights by issues at law, that such issues might be tried under the direction of the court. Accordingly, in Hilary Term, 1844, an information was filed by the At torney-General in the Court of Chancery against the Cor poration of London and their town-clerk, and against Mr. Cubitt and several other persons t o whom the corporation had granted licenses to make embankments' - some of which were complained of as nu i sances and obstructions to the navigation. The information stated that the Crown, by ground virtue of its p reroga ti ve, was se i se d o f the 1 soil of the c oas t s an d s h ores o f th e sea and navi gable rivers, w ithi n th e fl ux an d re fl ux o f t h e throughout the kingdom and, among others, of the ri ver Thames, and had the right ogovernment over empire and over them ; that the C or p ora ti on o f Lond on had fora very long period, by p irescri tion or grant from the Crown, held the offi ce of bailiff or conservator of the river Thames from Staines to Yantlet ; and that the duty of the bailiff or conservator was to see to the navigation of the river and prevent nuisances and obstructions therein, and to regulate the fishing thereof ; but that he did not, by virtue of his office, acquire any estate or interest in the ground and seil of the bed or shores of the river. That the corporation had and shores of the r i ver bev i lately assumed t o exercise o ttets of ownership over the soil and ,tiohi as t,; ,, the powers of bailiff or con servators, seised of the freeh o ld of thewharfsland ground or soil of the river, and parties possessed ofuP°ll river, and to other persons h make ank r o n f ts the to them license to emb an k the -w }whom they thought fit, giving strand of the river between high and low water mark. It then stated th e gran t made to Mr. Cubitt, i n may, 1843 another grant made t o the Alias Ina 4 already mentioned ; embankment at Rothe r hith e, i n April:a l - 11; 43 'om pany for an corporation received 2001, ; an d a third ,fo r which the grant made to Cor nelius Park in May, 1843, for an embankment at Battersea, for which the corporation received 10/' ; and it charged that the two last-mentioned embankments would be and obstructions to the navi ga ti on . It also alleged that nuisances i the corporation had made a great many similar grants to other persons, and had received l arge sums o f money for them, and it required a discovery an d accoun t o f the same.r The information required the corp o rati on a l so t o se t f or th , under what charter, letters patent, or other grant they claimed to be entitled to the soil, or to have had th e i r titl e recognised or confirmed, and it concluded with praying that the rights of the Crown and of the corporation respec tively might be ascertained and declared by the decree of the Court, and that if it were necessary that issues at law should be tried, the same may be tried under the di rection of the Court ; and if it should appear that the cor poration had no title to the soil, that the grants to the other defendants might be declared null and void. The in formation also prayed on account of the fines, rents, and profits received by the corporation for licenses to embank, and that they might be decreed to pay the same to the Crown, and that the title of the Crown might be decreed and established to the avoiding multiplication of suits. The corporation have been loud in their complaints that the Crown has adopted an oppressive mode of proceeding in suing them in the Court of Chancery rather than in a court of law. It is the privilege of the Crown to . sue in what court it pleases. In the present case, even if the right to a discovery had been waived, the question of title between the Crown and the corporation could not have been effectually tried in any other court than the Court of Chancery, to which the equity jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer had been transferred. An information of in trusion against the corporation of London, grounded upon their licenses to embank, could not have been sustained at law, for the licenses contained no grant of soil ; and if such informations had been filed against the grantees acting under them, although the grantees might have been evicted, the corporation, being no parties to the suit, would not have been bound by the results of them, and endless actions might have been tried without ever settling the question between the Crown and the corporation. In March, 1844, the corporation and the town clerk entered their appearance to the information. An unusual length of time was con ceded to them for answering the same, on the assurance of the City Solicitor that they would answer fully and com pletely. At length, on the sth of July, 1844, they put in both an answer and a demurrer, answering only so much of the information as charged that the licensed embank ments were nuisances, and demurring to all the rest of it, alleging that the Crown was not entitled to any relief in a court o equity, or to any discovery from the defendants concerning the other matters in the information mentioned. The demurrer was argued before the Master of the Rolls, in January, 1845, and on the 17th of April, 1845, his lordship overruled it. (8 Beavan, 270; Law Journal, vol. xiv., p. 305.) The corporation thereupon ap pealed to the House of Lords, and on the 26th of March, 1848, the House of Lords affirmed the judg ment of the Master of the Rolls. (1 H. L. Cas., 440.) In the month of July following the corporation put in a fur ther answer. The Attorney-General applied to the Court for leave to file exceptions to the answer as insufficient. The motion was opposed by the corporation, nod by arrangement ordered to stand over till Michaelmas Term. The motion was heard, and an order made giving leave to except. The exceptions were filed, and, in the usual course of practice, referred to the Master. The exceptions were argued, and on the 22d of December the Master al lowed them. The corporation appealed to the Master of the Rolls by way of exception to the Master's report. The ease was argued during three days in the month of February, and on the 4th of April, 1849, the Master of the Ras gave judgment, overruling the defendant's excep tions and confirming the Master's report with costs. (Law Journal Reports, vol. xviii., p. Z 14.) The corporation thereupon appealed to the Lord Chancellor. The appeal was heard during several days in December, and on the 14th of January, 1850, the Lord Chancellor finally dis missed the appeal with costs. (Law Journal Reports, vol. xix., p. 314.) After the judgment on their appeal the cor poration put in a third answer, which was deemed to be still insufficient, and on the 26th of February the Attor ney-General obtained an order referring all the answers back to the Master upon the old exceptions. On the 6th of March, 1850, the Master made his report, finding the answers still insufficient. After three answers reported insufficient, the course of practice was to move for a seques tration against the defendants, and, notice of such motion having been given, the corporation at length, on the 19th of April, 1850, put in their fourth answer, setting forth in the first schedule a list of charters and documents which they claimed to be exempt from prodacing on the ground that they were evidence of their own title to the soil, and did not tend to prove the title of the Crown, and in the iecond schedule minute books and presentments relating exclusively to the conservancy of the river. An order was made for the production of the last-mentioned documents. The examination of them was commenced on the 15th and continued till the 29th May, and the result of the examination made it expedient to amend the informa -1 tion ; but I was advised first to prosecute further searches for ancient and other d scumentary evidence bearing upon the points in controversy. Instructions were given to Mr. Fearnside, the keeper of land revenue records and enrol ments, and also to Mr. Hewlett, to make such further searches. Reports having been made by these two gentle men, which, though incomplete, were sufficient for the present purpose, I instructed counsel to prepare the amend ments required to be made in the information ; the purport of the amendments being, to place upon the record charges negativing the statements in the answers that the corpora tion had been immemorially seised of the bed and soil of the river, and that their title had been recognised or confirmed by Royal charters, and to show that any acts of ownership on which they might rely were attributable to their office of bailiff and conservator ; that their applica tion for, and acceptance of, charters was inconsistent with their alleged right by immemorial possession ; that other grants had been made, and acts of ownership exercised by various Sovereigns, acts of Parliament passed, and decrees made in courts of law or equity, also inconsistent with such alleged right ; and that the title of the Crown had been declared in various courts of law or equity, and evi denced by the returns to divers inquisitions in several reigns. The proposed amendments likewise alleged that the Court of Conservancy was a court held under and for the Sovereign, and showed that the matters in which the defendants had for some time past assumed to act as owners of the soil were matters which for merly they would have taken and ought to take cog nisance of as conservators of the river, and that the licenses in the information mentioned were granted by the corporation in violation of the duties of their office. In February, 1851 I applied to the Master, as re quired by the practice of the Court, for leave to amend the information. The corporation opposed the application, but the Master made the order. The information was amended and filed. Tho defendant then applied by motion to the Master of the Rolls to discharge the order, giving leave to amend the information, but the motion was re fused. The Solicitor-General did not press for costs, the defendants engaging not to present any further appeal. The defendants were not required to answer the amended information, but they were at liberty to answer if they pleased • and on the 30th of April , 1851, the y p ut in a fur ther answer, not making any new case, but still resting e their title on immemorial posse ssion and claiming a right to apply the proceeds of the shores and embankments to their own use. On the 3d of May, 1851, replication was was at length brought toand filed, and the cause for 00 for the examination of witnesses. Since ' then about 2 00 ancient records have been proved in evidence on behalf of the Crown, and from 50 to 100 still remain to be procured from the various record offices. No evidence has yet been given on the part of the defendants. In conclusion , I m a y s t a te that the reports of Mr. Fearnsid e and M r. lewlett , containing merely an analysis of the documentary evidence in support of the title of the Crown, extend together to 420 brief sheets. The Chairman—When do you think that that cause will be decided ? Mr. Pemberton—lt is impossible for any one to say. The corporation of London have not gone into any evidence at all, and it is likely they will apply for time. Mr. C. Lewis--How does the exercise of the right to the soil of the river stand now ? Does the City claim to exercise the same right over the soil of the Thames as it did before you filed your information, or is the right in abeyance ? Mr. Pemberton--The right is, in fact, in abeyance, but the corporation go on granting their licenses to embank, giving the Commissioners of Woods and Forests 14 days' notice before doing so. Mr. C. Lewis—Has the Crown exercised a similar right ? Mr. Pemberton—l do not recollect any other case of the Crown doing so except in that of the embankment for the foundations of the New Houses of Parliament. We em banked there without any license from the City. We ad mit, however, that if a proposed embankment would be injurious to the navigation of the river, the corporation of the City have the right to stop it ; but the Crown in no way recognises their right to the soil of the river. The Crown does not dispute the right of the City to the con servancy—at least, I would qualify that statement by say ing that if the right be disputed at all it would be done by the Admiralty, and I do not represent that departm en t . Mr. C. Lewis—Your case, then is, that the City are, and have been, from time immemorial, the conservators of the river ; but all the acts that they have done, and th diction which they have exercised, have beau in t e juris diction uris ca- pacity of conservators of the river. Mr. Pemberton—Yes ; but of course have exercised their power. we say th a t th ey The witness then withdrew. Mr. Beck examined--I am a wharfi business at Isleworth. l am also n,„er, and carr y on a timber merchant, and an owner of slate, i) lime, coal, and Thames. Although I h ave been long acquainted plying on the g sea, and have been in various of the British with the not allowed to carry g oo d s up and down sh colonies, I am the river, because I have not been apprenticed to a licensed watorman. My grievance is, that I am not permitted to load my barges with other people's property, which appears to me to be As absurd a regulation as if no man were permitted to own a ship or to sail her to any part of the world unless ho had served his apprenticeship to the sea. Mr. C. Lewi s —D o th e li cense d wa t erme n charge a highe r rate for their services than other persons would re Mr. Bedk—l d o no t k now th a t they do, becaus e t he k i seep considerable competiti on in the business , w ee ' a greater down the rate of freight, but that there woutldro _ n open I amount of business done if the trade were feel perfectly satisfied. com plaints to make as The Chairman—Have you any regards the conservancy of t h e r iver s • hosis, and, on account Mr. Beek—The river a bounds ia w are put to great ex , of the shallowness of the watr 5 , e There is not a free pease in rigging out landingllage_ e City charges us 2 }Nor passage up to our wharves. e oods up the river to lsleworth, ton toll for conveying Q u r n m npas eing the navigation. In and it expends no r n , Y e - does not do it s dut y as COME rva fact, the City eo r co'ra Tao absurdity of their regulations tors of the Thames. s Pixy be judged of from the fACt as re gards my busiuei F PRIcE SD. L that I may fit out a vessel which may bring a cargo of coals 1' from the north and convey it all the way to my wharf at • Isleworth and nobody can say nay, but I cannot navigate ) a barge from the port of London by my own men. 'So long L as the journey of a barge begins below the jurisdiction of ) the City, the City watermen have no exclusive right to navigate her. Any body like the corporation might dis charge the duties of the conservancy if they appoint3d the i proper officers and required them to do what was neces t sari , ; but I think the navigation committee of the ccapo ; ration, as composed of its present members, can hardly be suitable for the exercise of such functions, e.s they cannot ) be acqu inted with the circumstances pf the ri'i er. The • absurdity of the City's claim to allow none bnt privileged watermcn to navigate barges on the Thames is further illustrated by this fact, that I might have a son apprenticed as a waterman without his ever appearing on the river, and he would be permitted to act without undergoing any examination whatever as to his efficiency. I think the Government can impress a certain number of watermen for the service of the royal navy, and upon that I believe the watermen found their claim. _Mr. W. Edmund Hickson was then recalled, and his evi dence resumed from Wednesday last. He said that he Rt c h o es na fto i rmb d e er woA h c o ut w loaf th slu e :v e s xi ss s ht ti ng would new state to the commissioners his general view of the remedial measures which he would apply to the munici pal government of the city of London. He would not overcome by gradual and occupy the ti Ile of the commission with any theory which v- f e Loudon, which had might be applicable to a new state of society, but rather o was ud b t o h the p p li introductionedtransition,to o the f citytoh involving t c h oo e fu H cip e l w e o ou f id fre i3 e ro t po rad se e t i h n a t ; th tPr°gresalh e e l c 4 i t t h y evils might be most effectually no sudden or violent change. The first practical measure been applied pretty extensively to the rest e ry clause of the Municipal don,Lon thereby abolishing every exclusive right to ractise any trade or employment withi n i t s ; and ) if the commissioners should not be prepared to go any further in the next session thin merely to recom men d th e introduc tion of a short bill into Parliament embodying thin single clause, he considered that they would deserve the thanks of the public. He would- also propese 'the - application to the City of the first clause of the Municipal Reform Act, which abolishes all existing charters and prescriptive rights now held or claimed to be held by the municipal bodies to which the act refers. This would be an impor tant step in the right direction, and would put an end to all the vexatious litigation which has been going on for many years between the corporation and the Crown with reference to the conservancy of the river and the right to the soil of the shore. It would also meet the case of the fellowship porters, the watermen, the town carmen, meters, and others. The same sort of privileges as the Municipal Reform Act repealed were enjoyed previously to its passing by the other corporations of the country, but they were all abolished under the provisions of that measure. This proposal would also deprive the City of the conservancy of the Thames, which is not a local, but a national concern ; and, until some better organisation is provided, he would suggest that the conservancy should be handed over to the Woods and Forests. He would have the compensation granted to municipal officers whose offices should be abolished regulated upon a liberal scale. The City claims the right of excluding the metropolitan police from the City side of Temple:bar, and even of prohi biting the Sovereign herself from passing through until the Lord Mayor permits. This system is very inconvenient. Under it gangs of thieves often remain in the City until they become known to the police, when they migrate into other districts west of the bar to practise their depreda tions. When they cannot stay there any longer with safety to themselves, they return to their old quarters, where they have, perhaps, been forgotten by the police. If the commissioner were legislating for the whole metropolis and creating one metropolitan municipality, he would, even as regards the management of the police, introduce the popular element. The City police, he thought, should be amalgamated with that of the whole metropolis; but at the same time he conceived that the civic authorities should have the power of appointing a body of police or watch men, in addition, if it were considered necessary. The area of the City proper is one square mile and a half in ex tent, for which there is a police force of 500 men ; whilst the whole of the! rest of the metropolis which extends to 7001 square miles, has a force of only 5,600. The Chairman—Pass to the next subject, if you please. Mr. Hickson—The principle of the coal tax is very objec tionable. If a tax is imposed on coal at all, it ought to be levied at the pit's mouth, where the article is cheapest, and, if necessary, a drawback might be allowed on coal consumed in London. Mr. C. Lewis—How would a tax at the pit's mouth benefit the city of London? Mr. Hickson—l am not considering that. lam only dealing with the justice of the principle of the tax. When the food of the people has been liberated from the weight of taxation, I think the next thing to be done would be to establish free trade in coal also, and exempt the fuel of the people from taxation, for it is also a necessary of life. The machinery for levying the tax is becoming every year more cumbrous and inefficient, and there is no proper mode of ascertaining how much of the tax is stopped in its progress into the public coffers. I calculate the amount of the loans still unpaid, which are secured upon the coal tax, at 750,0001.; and a penny rate over the whole metropolis, as a coal compensation tax, would produce 48,0001. annually, a sum which would be sufficient to pay the interest on the loans. The Chairman—Pass to the next point. Mr. Hickson—My view of municipal government is that, as far as that government is purely local, it should be left strictly and entirely in the hands of a local body. Lo - ial corporations ought to have unlimited power to do as they please with their own local rates, but should possess no power to spend the money of other districts ; and every thing which the local corporations do ought to be required to be in accordance with the common laws of the land. The Legislature, of course, should overrule all by-laws of independent corporations interfering with the general pub lic interest. If local municipalities were given to the dif ferent metropolitan districts, he would wish to see a central body created, which should be clothed with the power of overruling the sectional municipalities, so far as their de cisions were inconsistent with the general interest. With regard to the sewerage of the metropolis, for instance, he would have the arterial drainage managed by the metro litan commission, but the house drains and the minor de tails of sewerage in particular localities he would leave to the control of the district authority. Again, with regard to the paving, he would hand over the control of the main arteries of the metropolis to the central board, and the management of the side-streets and by-streets he would give to the district. The lighting he would entrust to the separate districts. Ho would also confer upon the new municipal board of the City the power of electing the beard of guardians of the poor. It was well known that the new Poor-law Act had failed in its application to the City, the expenses at the present moment being conside rably greater than they were before the City was formed into three distinct unions. The Central Union in the City contains ninety-eight parishes. The average annual sum expended in the relief of the poor in the three years 1834, 1835, and 1830 (before the passing of the new Poor-law), was 59,110/. ; the population at that time being 57,100. In the last three years, however, viz. ' 1850, 1851, and 1852 (since the passing of the above act), the annual average ex penditure was 88,449/., the population being only 55,908. There are no fewer than 101 elected guardians in the City Central Union, besides 15 ex o f ficio; and altogether the three City unions have about 160 guardians. This is too great a number, and it is difficult to find enough persons of the highest class to undertake the administration of the poor relief system. Another function which he would give to the new municipal council would be the consolidation of the numerous ecclesiastical jurisdictions within the City, which was divided into no less than 110 separate parishes. This ho proposed in no desire to weaken or injure the Church. On the contrary, he believed that the bishop of the diocese would not refuse his sanction to such a mea sure. He would, therefore, invest the new municipal body with the power to confer with the ecclesiastical authorities, and, with their concurrence, to prepare for the approbation of Parliament a bill for the consolidation of the 110 exist ing parishes into a reduced number of districts. He would also invest them with power to assist, by a committee, the new charity commissioners in their investigations, and to prosecute, where nec: ssary, all parties committing a breach of trust with regard to charity funds. With respect to the mode of remodelling the municipal constituency of London he would be inclined to copy the New Poor-law qualifica tion now adopted for electing board s o f guar d ians, which confers the franchise not only on all ratepayers, but also upon all owners of property; admits of plurality of votes, and does not restrict the suffrages to residents alone. v He, , also preferred the system of sendingt round voting lists t o b e filled up by the voters ( as i s d one under the New Poor- 1 Act), to the system of p ersona l a t tendance at the ch p a o r l t l e i r n e g d place. He now cam e t o th e su bj ect of the various companies and corp ora ti ons w i thin the City of London. Their private property was computed a t at 250,000/. per an num . an d it was the lowe s t es ti ma t e sirable that it s h ou ld be legally in his opinion very de defined to whom that pro perty belongs, and by Nhom it ought to be f administered. h The property of these companies had arisen p o r s o 9 m de t v an e tn r very heavy thosee vye municipal fines which they formerly f fines having been invested in theurc a s companies are often composed of very di and it was very desirable that the system of corruption s c e or o dant materials; now practised in them under the guise of eating and drink ing and good fellowship should be abolished. mode of appropriating the funds adopted. Member t g lieir at tending the dinners sometimes found a a note under r hould a nd a better plates. He would suggest that the Com recommend in their report that another cowmiguisi t e ig oi the City qi n o rg n should be issued specially to inquire into the ta. companies, and that that commission shoul d h who would be have upon it some of the first law officers of the Croce. competent to give an opinion on the wer of compelling j e gsJ branch of the subject. He would take a way P the citizens generally to take II would recommend the liverymen of the companies. up ttheeeir treedom and become Mr. Hill for South Austra. system of voting thesuggested bl tie re presentation of the mi nority.a whichrovides for re ought to be ten alderman in He thought h the new council, who not by the whole constituent body. shonidte be elected by the Common Council itself, and . 1 rs o ught not to exceed 100 in num- The common council o also, that the mayor should be her. He would propose, . elected from the Common Council. The Chairma n Would you make it obligatory that the choice of mayor should be restricted to a member of the Common Council? Hickson —I would. The Chairman - -Why would you confine the choice in that manner ? Mr. Sickson—l donot . think there can be any materia, ee obi dons to such a limitation.lbelieve that the rile laid down by the Municipal Reform pct in is other b o roughs, and it works well in the country. By 100 e lected men electing ono man from their own body y ou have the best means of securing an intelligent choice. It does not follow that because a man is the wealthiest man in the district that he is the most eligible p erson to preside over the municipality. Without meaning to be invidious, men of the standing of Baron Rothschild, or Mr. Thomas Baring for instance, might be very well quali field for negotiating foreign loans, or for ma nag i ng larre commercial transactions, and yet not have the peculiar training that would best fit them for the discharge of mu nicipal duties. Provided a man ha s hi g h character and practical ability, it is not necessary that he should be u usuallyfit for , ci rich, or v o n dine of the m agnates of his neighbourhood,il to besti lie did not concur in the suggestion which had been made that the district munici palities to be established in the metropolis should be regu lated according to the existing parliamentary boroughs. There boroughs stood in a very Anomalous position, as cOll - 3V &:i t its City, In rogue I population and th( to them ; and were, eluded in the measure of parliame) Government had promised to sion. This point he, theref' served for future considerati( Mr. Hickson then •withdre\ Mr. 'Thomas Woodley examined. ing on business in Aldgate 30 and 40 slaughter-houses annoyed by a class of men City, the right to mouopolif demand 2s. 6d. per bullock f , high charge, and 30 per celh work done for by other persons. They claim under an old by-law passed by the Court of Common Council, under which any one employing non-freemen in any business is liable to a fine of 51. Actions were brought against me in the Lord Mayor's Court for not employing freemen, and I was obliged to compromise the matter by taking up the freedoms of four of my men. These men afterwards endeavoured to act as petty masters over me, and raised their charges to a higher rate than I paid them before I took up their freedoms ; and the effect of the system when the men lay out 6/. or 71. of their own money in taking up their own freedoms is to make them have higher notions of themselves, and try to domineer over the masters. I think the members of the corporation are not favourable to the system, as when I was summoned a fourth time for employing a non-freeman, Sir John Key dismissed the case, on the ground that it originated in pure malice, one of my men who had left my service, knowing that I was liable to the penalty, having sought to enforce it against me. No such fine is exacted anywhere else that I am aware of ; but it is useless to defend an actionbrought against you in the Lord Mayor's Court, because it is almost always sure to be successful. The system is not enforced in Newgate-market ; it is only enforced in Whitechapel market. It is, I believe, capriciously applied, and is not extended to any other trade but ours. The privileged slaughterman can earn from 10s. to 12s. per day at their own rates. Thomas Pillow examined—l am a lighterman, carrying on business at Lower Thames-street, and also at Simon's wharf, Tooley-street. lam a member of the Watermen's Company, and one of the court of assistants of that body. The gentleman from Isleworth made a mistake with re gard to the Medway. We have no jurisdiction over that river ; and he has the same power of bringing his craft from that river, as he has of navigating his own vessel from the collieries in the north. Our freemen enjoy the exclu sive right to manage and navigate all craft and barges be tween Yantlet Creek and Staines ; but their right does not include the Medway. They enjoy this under act of Parlia ment and not under charter. We have no exclusive privi leges extending over the loading or unloading of ships, they extend to the navigation of them only. Anybody, there fore, can employ his own servants in loading and unloading. If a barge comes from a point below our company'sjuris diction, th e owner can b ring h er t o his own wharf without our intervention. I admit that the community would be be nefited by the throwing open of the trade. I am an advocate gefrreeew-titeEerinciples, but if our privileges were f a t tlis m he e d n employed on the guaranteeriver, no and dens n ue, and the collisionsf o for the efficiency weu l remedy would be worse than the disease. I would, how ever, prefer the abolition of the present system to its being w eo h n i t e in h uTedcoeuixadctlyas suggest,i it stands now; would now be ;buvt very gre at a r i ree changes pre v iivinepercn,yntisn.t jhleiTr'iocormuispn.lsotyafmnfceaen,mtinaonfoubarpasop wrennntbaciacrtegst,ehswee,rhheicahre I r es t t h r i l i n e kt hav i ° a n r e s e two apprentices ; but if h e h as 100 barges, ho can cannotcan on y have more than three appre n ti ces. I would 'suggestat,a man should be allowed to take as many apprentices as he pleases. il If the trade were thrown op en , I d o not think our rates would fall very much, or that the present freemen would suffer much. I believe our men would still be employed. We are not connected with the corporation, and have no political standing in the City. We have have at present 7,786 freemen of the Watermen's Company on our books. Oar body is bound by act of Parliament to send a con tingent to the royal navy in certain cases, and if the Go vernment required it, we could be compelled to-morrow to supply 500 men for the fleet in the event of hostilities. In fact, if absolutely necessary, we can be compelled to serve her Majesty to the full extent of our whole number. At the breaking out of the last war we were called upon to supply 500 men. W'e have 1,680 apprentices, 800 of our number are master lightermen, and the number of barges and lighters registered is 5,107. The number of barges has increased slightly of late. Mr. Charles Brown examined—l am one of the rulers of the City fellowship porters. Our governing body consists of the present Lord Mayor, who is the governor, a deputy go vernor, twelve rulers of the body, t wo corn ifters, a salt shifter, and a fruit shifter. The number of the fellowship is limited to 3,000 by an act of Common Council, but the actual number, I believe, is not more than 2,000. The body of the free fellowship porters of London, al though admitted to be a legal institution, is not a corpo ration in itself, but claims the right to this species of labour under the prescription of the corporation of Lon don. The body has existed from the time of Edward I. and was originally created for th e p urpose o f l an di ng and delivering corn, salt, apples, pears, plums, onions, and every other other article in its nature measureable, entering the port of London between Yantlet Creek and Staines. Their wages are fixed from time to time by the Court of Com mon Council. They must be all citizens of London, and if they wish to be app o i n t e d th ey mus t go through the ordeal of sending in an application to the Court of Rulers, and then waiting for their turn. The extent of the busi ness to he done varies. Only last week there was a large importation of potatoes, and the merchants memorialised the Lord Mayor, as governor, to app o i n t more porters to do the work, because the supernumeraries they had been obliged to employ had committed depredations, and the merchants were desirous to have the protection which is derived from the men being subject to the jurisdiction of the fellowship. A member of the fellowship must find two sureties in 401. each for his honesty and general good conduct. As a specimen of their charges, I may state that fellowship porters receive, when they are working oats, 2d. per quarter, which has to be divided among as many men as are employed on the job —say seven or eight, as the case may be. Out of that sum they have to find a " shift." For heavier grain—wheat, barley, peas, and tares---they receive ltd. a quarter, and whatever c h arges may be sent in to the importers, the 8111 n I have stated is all that the porters receive. Ido not think that the rate received by the fellowship is any higher than the market value of the services performed ; indeed, 1 believe it is considerably lower; and if the fellowship porters were re moved to-morrow, the corn trade would experience a difficulty in getting their work done. Mr. C. Lewis—Then if their exclusive privileges were abolished, the porters would not be losers ? .._ Mr. Brownl believe they would actually get more money. The porters are compelled to t a k e j o b s a t a loss. Their living is very precarious, and the small jobs, which form a large proportion of their work, do not pay. Com plaints have been made about their charge for landing potatoes ; but they only receive, for conveying, from the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth vessel in the tier to the shore, three halfpence per sack. I took out my citizen ship by redemption, and paid 501. for it, and I have to com plain that the corporation takes the redemption fee from our class, but does not secure to us our exclusive privilege. I believe that there are about 100 of the fellowship who have paid as much as myself for their freedom. Before 1835 we were compelled to be freemen of a company. The corporation suffered the dock companies to take our labour away from us without our receiving compensation for the loss. With regard to the oyster dues, which, I under stand, have also been complained of, the fact is, it is not the importers, but the public who pay the porters for their labour. The porters are only paid ld. per peck for taking the oysters a certain distance ashore, andithree halfpence per peck for a greater distance ; and what profit there is beyond this all goes to the meters—the .porters are paid for work actually d one. I f any mistake or irreonly gu larity occurs, the p ar ty t o whom the oysters belong has only to apply at the Fellowaldp-hall, and the whole of his loss is at once made good to him. At the conclusion of this witness's examination, the com mission adjourned the inquiry until Friday next. egg to the iobrp4..mtiv• osti*i ,he number of representatives therefore, not ikkttly.l.4) ~1!e• 7, t l r szliamentary refermi 4hich to introduce in A • -\ efore, though Ttittitlia '' 4 \ t tiT Lion. rew. umined—l a ''' her l osa ° T ; Highstreet. k. - • tkre between Je io , , 4 in my neighbclUlhOd itud4.lant 2. who claim, as the the ise the whole of the We. They for slaughtering, whiell'h a vtity :nt. more than I conk' get the UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. O T X y FORD,D EC. 2. U NIVERSITY A RCHITECT URAL ILi SOCIETY. A me eting was held on Wednesday evening, No vember 30 , at the society's rooms, Holywell , when the Rev. D r. was loxham, Fellow of Magdalen College , the fol lowing B president for the ensuing year , a n d members were elected to fill up the annual vac anc i es i n th e nu mber of the committee : Iv)r. . Palmer, Exeter College ; Mr. Chester, St. Mary Hall ; Rev. J. E. Millard, Madgdalen College ; Rev. T. Chamberlain, Christ Church, and Rev. E. Mil ler, New College, The Rev. John B arrow, Q ueen ' s College, and the Rev. .T. E. Earle , O riel Colle g e, Pro fessor of Anglo-Saxon, were elected auditors, and the following gentlemen were elected members of the society: —Mr. .T. Campbell Colquhoun, Trinity College ; Mr. James Percy Kane, Trinity College ; Mr. Charles Bowyer, Trinity College ; Mr. W. Jeffeocks, Worcester College ; Mr. J. Talbot, Christ Church ; Mr. R. Har rington, Christ Church. The secretary, Mr. Lygon, proposed a vote of thanks to the Principal of Brasenos Prin e College, the pres ident of the past year, which the cipal acknowledged, and the meeting adjourned. JIIRIMUDENOR AND MODERN HISTORY.—SECOND PUBLIC EXAMINATION. . . . . The following gentlemen, whose names are alphabeti cally arranged, offer themselves for examination in the school of jurisprudence and modern history, which com menced this morning, viz : Akinson' J a mes A., Exeter B a rker, George W. Christ Beesley, Edward S.,Vradham Bode, G. C., Magdalen Hall Cocks, Henry 8., Exeter Coleman, James, Oriel Cookson, Charles H., Oriel Ed w ards Thos. H.,Exeter Eliot, William, Wlidliain Fanshawe, H. L., New Gibbons, Frederick, Balliol Girtin, Thos. H., Pembroke Gnille, Charles S., Wadham Harrison, L. J., University Hill, Nicholas Frank, New Holford, John H., Wadham J ac k son Henry M., Trinity Ki ng , Charles W., Trinity Longrigg,_ William, Queen'a Mande, Thomas W., Balhol Moore, Henry, Worcester Oldham, James, Trinity Thorley, Geo. E. Wadiumai Valentine, J. W. w&ahua Wilder, Frederick, New Willey, E. H. L. Queen' s Wilson, W . 0. P., Balliol Woodhouse, T., St. John's THE NEW ACT ON BETTING-ROV%ES. — Thursday the new act on betting-houses came into operatio n , and it is understood to be th e intention of' Governme n t to en force the new law. Some pr o j ects have been started to continue betting-lists, such as selling pictures or form ing clubs, but when it is known that one-half of the penalties will go to the informers, the parties will run great danger if they attempt to evade the statute. Scot land is exempted from the act, and should it be neces sary, will be added in the next session of Parliament. The object of the act is not to interfere with horse-rae rs ; ing, but only to abolish betting-offices, than 700 had been opened in the metropolis. ce T h ere are is to be of which _Jee ero are 20 provisions in the act. No house . or office are kept for the purpose of betting.. Betting -offices penalty to ef be considered as common gaming-houses. labour,lool. , or i s six to e be months' imprisonment, bet ting-houses, and 501., or three e condition of paying money un persons receiving money 9 imposed imprisonment, e n ewrimero sn w toh i r t e s h , . o occupiers without of hard bet - recovered. A penalty of ,-, er'sons exhibiting placards, ment, may be enfo . rcet]i: t r t i se p i The penalties, with costs, on the event of any bet, arnioolinmeorntewyesomreenctebisv.eidmnpina.ysob: or advertising betting-I poor rates. An appeal other to the , informers, and the Quarter Sessions. Suspected houses to the may be recovered by distress, i. and one-half to go to the is given may be searche d . a • e =~..z ~« s . , This day, post Svo., 55., URE. E SSAYS ON AGRICU LT By the late THOMAS GISBORNE, Esq., Of Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire. CONTENTS: — I. Cattle and Sheep. 11/. Ancient Agricultural Litera 11. Agricultural Drainage. tune. Iv. High Farming. John Murray, Albemarle -street. ■ ■ I ■ 1111