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wommowl... )es for s were ey and Cis Cd 63s to nding, ; oats, to 50s ; ck, 36s 375. a ruled r main- Beans to S4s ; beans, ; peas, .eceived s, from 55 555 !57i830 )oth old. f wheat or both• r wheat, 3 11431 V. Beans. Os Oa Os Oil Os Od Is Od. d. ..26 0 ..23 6 ..3U 0 ieen veil cent. un• e a slight mcashirs, (.1 North shares), Eastern r, but im' Dovero , wth-Wee' 16. r to-daft cainghani, from the Lion of au j has L e d ; and WO hick were but close. ro done 0 )me Post-00° Who' due i n • , Enga l Each VG' lOct. 0 (Nov. 3• Dec 4 Dec• 1 ar t°* Erne if NOT • d ' Oct. i Oct. $° L NOV. 1 paat,, pro 7. • Oct. ` 2 , b ,net. , Oct. 26 " g ru.O. °- Nor. 2 1 ,4 Irwicedwv Oct. 26 Nov. 1 ,4; Toes. PP NOV•,!,00 Nov. l b Oct. 2 1 Nov. l Oct 2O Oct. 2 6 Nov. l" 4 Nov. Oct. 26 Nov. , Oct- 2 ? Noy'. uncert So Oct. F s ! Oct. Nov.' Oct. 2 " Oct. 22 Oct. UVM 2? No, • .AI D. ails ,-- • ( 0 e India A patched "' _- ' ro. Af°' ots, th coo l ' Thee' 0 0 - Arai 1314 11 01 siste r 01 0 ' 111 )1 IVJ;),, urg e° , f liter 0 01 f t ba of a G :- Xarl of Courtown Earl Leven and Melville Earl of Norbury Viscount Falkland MEDICAL rOelArthi 11. Hassan, Esq., M.D., le bon us added t o pol i c i es f rntoe r,lB 47, is as follows: Asettrecl Time Assured • '.43 C0 'l3 *l OOO , Year% 10 niths 8 00 ; Years Jeer ._, 'tTl 46 ' 0. 1 1 al THE CRYSTAL PALACE HOTEL COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered, 7th and Bth Viet., Cap. 110.) Capital 250,0001., in shit es of 5/. each. A. Call of 1/. per Share will be made on complete registration. Prospectuses will shortly be issued. Applications for shares to be mare to the Secretary, at the Company's Office, 2, Adelaide-place, London-bridge. BANK OF VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.- The LONDON and WEST NIINSTER BANK era prepared to !mile at their Head Office In Loth , fury, Letters of Credit, and Bills at ..30 days' sight, upon the Bank of Victoria, Melbourne, ort Philip, :and upon the Branches of that Bank at Geelong and Belfast, at a charge 01'2 per Cent. J. W. GILBART, General Manager. ATKINSON and COMPANY, CABINET „ MANUFACTURERS, UPHOLSTERERS, and CARPET ~ 4R EHOUsEMEN. G 9, 70. 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster or. Fe-road, Lambeth, London. ATKINSON and COMPANY, DRAPERS, SILK MEItCEITS, LACEMEN, &c. , 69. 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75 , Westminster-bridge-road, Lambeth, London.—Shawls, Furs, 31untles, Family Mourreng, LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL Rooms, (Lesee, C 11,19. C. LAIIREIVT, Onslow-honse, Fulham-road). The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE SEASON, and will e,mtinne open evert evenintr, with LAURENT'S CELEBRATE!) BANE). Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past 8; Lancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and terminate at half-past 11. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON—MR.II. PRINCE ALBERT. LAST FORTNIGHT of the SECOND PART of an HISTORICAL ECT(TRE on "TILE THAMES," from its Source to its Estuary, by .11,NORGE BUCKLAVD, , assisted by Miss Blanche Younge, with EW SO NGS and NEW Gl Esq. SOLVING ENER Y, on Tuesdays and Ii d dass at four o'clock, and every Evening except Saturday at rine. l ecruars. —By J. H. Pepper, Esq. : On PHOTOGRAPHY, with Illustrations, Mornings and Evenings. By Dr. Bachhoffner : On ELECTRO-GILDING and SILVERING. Th e LA V CASHIRE SEWING MACHINE and BATE'S IM .-ROVF.D FIRE ESCAPE exhibited in Use and explained Daily, Open chi Mornings and Evenings. Admission, Is.; Schools, and Children under Ten years of age Half-price. ENGINEERS' MA.SONIC, and UNIVERSAL MrTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Head Office-34.5, Strand, Lindon. BONUS. th e iWT ICE.A Division of Profits by this Society will take place at end of the year 1854. All persons who have paid two annual pre miums will be entitled to sha-e therein. Policies to participate the Bonus must therefore be effected in the course of this year. ABATEMENT IN INCOME TAX. 04 he 17 erY person assured in this Society is entitled to have the amount an annual premium paid for ass•irance or for a deferred annuity ins 8 own life or the life of his wife "deducted from any profits or in respect to which he shall be liable to be assessed under e ither of the Schedules D and E of the Income Tax Act." By order of the Board_ ANTHONY PECK, Assistant-Actuary. riE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY, 72, Lombard-street. J. 0 4 TRUSTEE. Ric Shard Spooner, Esq., M.P. -,..lripbell Renton Esq. Matins, Esq., Q.C., M.P. W James Fuller Maddox, Esq. Wilberforce, Esq. DIRECTORS. * William Adams, Esq., Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square. John Atkins, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street. Henry Augustus Bevan, Esq., John-street, America-square. John Diingerfielii, Esq., Craven -street, R. Henry Forman, Esq., Ordnance, Pall-Stall. John Hamilton, Esq , Alfred-place, Thurlow-square. John Matthews, Esq., Arthur-street West, City. C. fletavins Parnell, Esq., Norfolk-street, Park-lane. William Williams, Esq., Rood-lane, Fenchurch-street. PADDINGTON LOCAL BOARD. 24, Connaught-terrace, Edgware-road. ''The Rev. James Shergold tioone, A.M., Stanhope-street, Hyde-park. Captain Creed, Bedford-square. and St. Albans. Roger Gadsden, Esq., Maida-hill West, and Bedford-row. Charles Pemberton, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde park, and Lin coln's-inn-fleids. George Y. Robson, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and New- Square, Lincoln's-inn. W. H. Trinder, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, SECRETARY —Chß& Hoghton, Esq. The policies of this Company being indisputable, form FAMILY PROVIsIONS and NEGOTIABLE SECURITIES, for their validity Is not dependent, as in the case of ordinary policies, upon the import of previous reports and other documents. ALEX. ROBERTSON, Manager. UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Established by Act of Parliament in 1834. 8 , Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. HONORARY PRESIDENTS. Lord Elphinstone Lord Belhaven and Stenton William Campbell, Esq., of Tillichewan. LONDON BOARD. CHARLES GRAHAM, Esq., F.S.A., Chairman. lit CHARLES DOWNES, Esq., D e p u t y Ch a i rman. 10. lair Avarne, Esq, GJ. . Henriques, Esq: tkilnex iloyd, Esq., es Resident. A. 11. Macdougall, Esq. Berwick Curtis, Esq. F. C. Maitland, Esq. ;'-ulant Pa lrlie Esq, William Railton, Esq. Henriqu es ,E q Thomas Thorby, Esq OFFICER. 8, Bennett-street, St. James's. Dm March, 1834, to the 3lst Sum addedto Sum addedto Sum payable PolicyinlB 4ll Polleyin 1848 at Death. £683 6 8 4787 10 0 46470 16 8 • •• 157 10 0 1157 10 0 ▪ •• 11 5 0) 511 5 0 E xa. thirty 0,,147-At the commencement of the year 1841 a person aged la 24 ° Q , a Policy for 1,0001., the Annual Payment for which , tll e Prof; Bd.; in 1 847 he had paid in Premiums 168/. w h 22/. 10, t t a „ be ha/ 2 per cent. per annum on the sum insured (which cy afi n ":„ er , a urlin - for each 1,0001.), he had 1571. 103. added to the as much as the Premiums paid. 0 4 , "'",buis, nevertheless, are on the most moderat e seale, e r h d . var 4 „_ -half need be mad far the first five years w hen th ),..."unis for Life. Palley stamps paid by the Comp any. . bt7._e!Z information r will be afforded on application to the Resident SECOND EDITION. —WITH ADDITIONS. Just published, Bvo., in cloth, price 55 ., by post free, Sc. 6d. ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMA.TORREICEA, with the View to the Correction of wde-spread Errors in relation to the View Loath Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the gene.rative System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr PICKFORD "Dr. Bickford ¶¶ss known to English readers . by his frequent practi- Cif contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non -medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall letect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his sower to correct." —London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. The tribeof ' Quiet Synt thisers,'and ' Medical Fri ends,'are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book cOttld find its way into the hands of those Who saffer tram the wra- Dlaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be • Paved much nee:'iless suffering of body and mind, and what is of importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— AM money.. ..This volume is well qualified to put an end to the s 3 sty of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat likely Win o. more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, 4 eLY to do much eMedieal Circular, Juno 16. 1852. London : H. Ballicre, 219, Regent-street. lit DICA.L ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF bit. YOUTH AND MATURITY. S AMUEL LA'MERT, 37, REDFORD-SQUARE , LONDON , Doctor °f Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of tli n b ur g h , Honorary Member of the London Hospital M e di ca l mkioelety, Licenti a t e o f Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on r esui ,. the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, th ic ;, u ng from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro biar.`, Snore misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema 1044TeaY at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of . dis til tu 'flown to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience ~iiee'.o treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist eMst:'cret causes of self-acquired miseries and . disappointed N hopes m in s beto,?lee, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous a gel ui tY, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Ma - .....• Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their „net abaolutely -"Z113 n ' o difirations owe their almost entire origin. necessary that all men should know that there are , 14 ,c1IrrT ca °I. Personal management which cannot be violated without ,I;t* grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed `Qs he .... ..r. De:litigated, k it 3 daY . of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, fat the evil and its con-equenc es may be avoided, and above all, 'Z l t l tere is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional 12,105.e_ment to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure 1a ~..101t LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged Nalltextensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com p!, ~!'"lt and is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless elicie taunts and envy of tbehypocritical and mock-modest, has had ,z_eol.llldence, through the medium of the public press, to direct itZrttion to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is i t ,. In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply tre i j N ed bY the great success that has attended his efforts in the .._ traent of these cases which are too generally confided to the 1,,,,!. °( unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated -tlications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues k o :i b r Patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who At been induced to place faith in their peetensions. RIS tillome for consultation daily front Eleven till Two, and from rem' Ei ght- All letters must contain the feeand vice and It e ,ines can be forwarded to any initials or address. hoed first 9 desirable that patients work on 4 1t,,,,, cal _ . SELF-PRESERVATION. O ft " Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and cribte,,rat.tve Debility, illustrated by fifty-coloured engrvings, and des serit,ceBl Bin detail the various disorders resulting from sect et habits and f es. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct ,i.i p renc tuon of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in En i ., , ist, roth,' Co., Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. I iper k ittin r_s_and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; byp,,A d i ?, Cornhill ; Storie. Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; or free °r f ort Y-two stamps, to any address from the Author's resi ft, ./ RID "RD- B QtrAzz, Lownost. `''.........._4 THE NEW STAMP ACT. of business. and to circulate AE new Act for Penny Receipt Stamps is intended to facilitate the purpos,, alaiongst the people a legal guarantee for every purchase to will r_at,e no alteration to - the purchasers Br the money for 7 7. 3 , for they have always been willing to l'C of goods at E. o 16 Y artide bought at their Establishment, or its Braneh re e o s r , s e h l o ti ul i d e popery- not be entirely approved ; hut it is another . p arl of E. MOSES and SON'S bushiest', which provnies the best ,axritieles at the lowest possible prices, and every description of Attire st a „e by them is stamped with superior quality and unparalleled d 'e• Thus eqni table course hve the of trady secured the world's confidence by the most e Il • Rests and Son's arrangemi nts for the Winter Season are mag- Rhtfllnt in every sense of the expression, comprising novelties in ei Z , 6 and Materials which cannot be found elsewhere, the Quail y, Dr eaPness and ur.iversal application of the Goods being without any e es of Dress, i eeed eni, and all classes may furnish themselves with the best arti- Hats, Caps, Hoste-y, Furs, Boots, and Shoes, &c., &c , i'n_t_he cheapest and most satisfactory conditions. 4 Merchants, Captains Shippers and Emigrants may select such (..??,3, onus are prepared f ' or the season when they will arrive in the st this adapts them for immediate sale, and thlow 1 ,-;;_ir char ged by E. MOSES nd Sort render their Good s the y most .e.,t table investment which can be made. __Mallion, rnay .ull Sts of Outfits for Ladies and Gentlemen, with ship-sailing CAUTION. be had on application, or post-paid. E.•MOSES and SON regret having to guard the i tt li h n against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-llke the e - rt, d ,.., " " B eing connected with their Establishment," or " It's and for otre{:„ --- ,,`"ncern," has been resorted to in many instances, . 5... --J a easons, they beg to state that they have " osiNEXION 'WITH kNY OTHER, ROUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON, Lend() ex cept their own Establishments, as follows : 6 4,85 n Ci ty Establishment 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, I u _ ' an d Se, Aldgate, opp os it e the Church, all communicating. ,ntlon West -end Branch. 5 06,507, 508, New Oxford -street, 1, 2 Branddfo3t, Hart-street, all communicating. ....... tlett d Branch Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. o,_!tColonial Branch, Branch t 6;lbora u rgt n at e e ,Australia. ..... eerchaanet Tailo.at,Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and .extileuhapmnogiArsifN, dr_Zenh,noeuoral Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. ld any article not give sasfaction, it willbe t hesitation. Allrgoodif eilthou veferred the money will be returned price, trorn which no abate The F.stablishments are ineleon a s r edt e e m afnr ar obn iei n t ua i n n dsee p i lainfigures, the lo west A now )8. when business la resumed till 12 o'clock. Saturda • . i,ki,"-k to sunset on " The Epitome of Comfort and Economy," contain- I sis of Prices our system of e se lf - measurement, &c., &c., t aaY be had on a li • ' Hon, or poat-fre , A hardsorne il P m P an ea ac for t;:c year ending 1853 can be had gratis, on application. lei t , ' en Palle Francais. tiler arrleht man nentsch. ..,7_,%* SPECIAL NOTICE —The EstnabiliolshB4 9W si Parla Italian°. en ha ta bla ar E e spa c l o l SED ;;A.,443' 4111 TuesclaY. Oct. 17th and 18th * ' '1 '.uegilay Mon:114, st 7 Velgek. I •t-opening, as usual, on No. 19,052.] THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, ULXXXVI., is Published This DAy. CONTENTS:- 1. The Institute of France. 11. Murder of Thomas A'Becket. 111. The Dauphin in the Temple. IV. The Holy Places. V. Diary of Casaubon. VI. Electro-Biology, Mesmerism, and Table-turning. VII. Life of Haydon. John Murray, Albemarle-street. EACE CO NFERENCE.-A FULL REPORT of the interesting series of Meetings at Edinburgh will be given in a Supplement to the NONCONFORMIST, on Wed neslay, Oct. 19. Published by W. Freeman, 69, Fleet-street, Lon don Sent by post on receipt of six postage stamps, arid may be hal of all newsagents. Just published, Bvo., in cloth, price 5s , by p os t fr e e 6s. THE PATHOLOGY and RATIONAL TREAT MENT of STRICTURE of the URETHRA, in all it Varie ties and Complications, With Practical Observations on the Use and Abu.e of Urethral Instruments. The whole illustrated by numeroas cvses, showing that this disease may be succesvfully treated by means at once simple and sate, even in its most inveterate and apparently intractable ferms. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E. "We believe Mr. Courtenay's experience in the treatment of stricture during the last 20 years has equalled, if indeed it has not surpassed, that of any of his contemporaries, and we know of no man to whose care we would with greater confidence entrust the treatment of a severe case of stricture of the urethra."—Medical Circular, July 27, 1853. IL Hailliere, 219, Regent-street. IMPORTAN T TO HOUSEWIVES. No MORE DRESSES, &C., DESTROYED IN TIIE WASHING. CREWS'S RINSING LIQUID, for fi x i ng th e Colours in all kinds of Fabrics.—The clear starching of Laces and Muslins is rendered far more beautiful by its application—simple in its application —very inexpensive. TWENTY DROPS sufficient for ONE GALLON of Water. Sold by all Chemists and Oilmen, at 6d. and 9d. per bottle, Agents—Drew, Heyward, and Barron, Bush•lane, Cannon-street. Manufactured at Commercial Wharf, Mile-end, London. , • \\ :7* . • 4,4 . 0.17 . 47 I" 0-• .11111.11181115 ,' \ • .o I ; • • „.. of 1; 3 - • ..71 2 „ 1 I . 444 31‹ ..v5 4° , ,r4, 4,..,. ; 64) ; 4 //' p 2 1 A ' , ' ll r 1.5 ..,A my, 13 -10///i r PRICE SD. Derby's officials were accused. The only consolation of an alleviating character that is left for us amid the con vulsion in the money-market is the prospect of bread and meat being ls. a mouthful. It cannot be said that that has been done by the noblemen and gentlemen of the counties for their own benefit. That is the only pull in a selfish point of view that we have. It is a deplorable state of things that we have a Cabi net composed of statesmen without a party, who are staking the very existence of the honour and cre dit of the country upon the decisions and num bers of public meetings that Ministers of the Crown get on waggons and platforms in order to give their opinions weight at the next Cabinet Council. I sincerely wish well to the objects of your meeting. I cannot see my way in this crash of the Conservative party, and I know that the gentlemen of the Hedingham district under stand the local but meritorious object of their meeting better than I do ; but at the same time I acknowledge that I have neither the heart nor courage to attend and speak my real opinions of the causes that have brought about this internal confusion and break-down of our party in the House of Commons. I admit it would bring such a hornet's nest about my ears, attended with no beneficial result, that I shall refrain from attending meetings, and content myself with floating upon the political surface till some event takes place that may render it less disagreeable than it would be now, by coming in conflict with many of those with whom we have fought many a battle.—l am, &c. " J. T. TYRELL." The second was from Major Beresford, and was as follows " " Hampt on C ourt, O ct. 13, 1853. You will oblige me by communicating to the mem bers of the Hinckford A gr i cultural Association, that upon mature consideration I have thought it advisable to abstain from attending the di nner at Castle Heding ham on Friday. Till within a few weeks it was my decided resolution to have taken advantage of their annual meeting to lay before them and the constituency of North Essex a full and detailed statement of the transactions connected with the Derby election and the consequent inquiry, and to have vindicated myself from the unjust and malignant imputations which I h ave b orne hitherto in silence, awaiting that opportunity to expose and refute them. A fresh perse cution has been lately commenced against me. The whole matter has been opened afresh, and is to be brought to the issue of a trial. Such proceedings ne cessarily preclude me from entering into those explana tions which might be impolitic as far as I am indi vidually concerned, but which must be unfair towards . others whos e cause h as been mixed up with mine upon this occasion. It would not therefore become me to present myself at Castle Hedingham tongue-tied, neither would it be justifiable to put forward a one-sided statement to prejudice the case before it was fairly submitted to the tribunal by which it was to be investigated. Such is the reason which induces me, however distasteful it is to my own inclination, to absent myself to-morrow from the meeting. I trust that those to whom you will read this letter will patiently await the conclusion of those legal proceedings before they condemn unheard, or on the ex parte assertion of malignant enemies, one whose unre mitting exertions for six years in the cause of the agri cultural and Conservative interests, if overlooked by the party in whose service he has toiled, have not been for gotten by their opponents and his unrelenting perse cutors.—l am, &c. " WILLIAM BERESF0111)." The toast having been enthasiastically drunk,' Sir W. B. SMIJTH, M.P., returned thanks. The " health of Mr. C. Ducane and Mr. J. T. Miller," the members for Maldon, who had been unseated on petition ; " Lord J. Manners and Mr. Hawkins, the Conservative Members for Colches ter ;" " The Yeomen of Essex ;" " The Chair man ;" " The Committee ;" " The Ladies ;" and other toasts followed, which protracted the pro ceedings until a late hour. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1853. of the colonists, since it is a fact—to adopt the words of the Empire, " that still scarcely a family in New South Wales can boast of a persevering, industrious, and trustworthy set of servants, or hardly of a single servant to be relied on ; and that the higher the wages, the worse is the quality of service obtained ?" We learn that many families are compelled to do without servants ; that others must change them from week to week. Most of the young women are unfit for their duties ; many will not even submit to be taught. While sadly complaining of this lamentable state of things, the colonists look for the cause of a grievance which touches them so nearly, and find it in the fact that in the mother country " the domestic training of young women of the working class is not such as to warrant their employment as servants. They say, bad are the best ; and, what is worse, the de teriorated quality is trans-shipped for the benefit acid at the cost of the colonies." It is the old cry of damaged goods exported for colonial consump tion—a practice which calls forth the most indig nant remonstrances at the antipodes. Another grievance is the mismanagement of the police force. Though Sydney is by far more orderly and safe than Melbourne, still the protection of per sons and property leaves much to be desired. The police are described as being neither efficient in quality nor sufficient in number. Their pay is not high enough to tempt sober, steady, and able bodied men from other trades, and the members of the force are, moreover, frequently oppressed and always misgoverned. The pay of an ordinary policeman is 1/. 12s. 6d., and that of a sergeant 2/. per week. A policeman, if accused of any act of negligence or insubordination, is suspended from duty and from pay as long as the charge is hanging over his head ; and it was shown, in a case tried in the Sydney Police-court, that, in some cases, the charge is thus kept hanging for a considerable time. Even if acquitted by the Inspector-General's tribunal, his pay is not refunded to him, and there fore any police officer who is accused is certain to be punished, even if acquitted 1 Well may the Empire ask, " How can a respectable body of men be induced to enter into and continue in a force so badly paid and liable to such tyranny and in justice ?" Besides the notorious inefficiency of the police, there is another universal cause of crime in New South Wales. It is intemperance. The police reports show that one half of the offences against the person were committed in a state of drunken ness—one half of the offences against property were prompted by the desire to obtain the means for intoxication. The local papers ascribe the extent of the evil in a great measure to the carelessness of the authorities. Drunkards are in deed punished with imprisonment or fines, but the means of getting drunk are permitted to multiply , ad infinitum. On the last licensing day 323 pub licans' licenses were granted for the district of Sydney alone ! The Empire complains that " the number of houses in this city licensed for the sale of intoxicating drinks has greatly exceeded what might be considered a proper proportion ;" and the Sydney .32orning Herald, expatiating on the same theme, laments that the outrageous number of pub lic-houses prevents the establishment and success of less objectionable places of entertainment. It says:— " For the legitimate entertainment of the inhabitants of this great metropolis there exists up to the present time but one theatre, properly so called. A mechanics' institute there is, but notoriously incompatible with the importance of the city, where it stands alone. Reading rooms are nearly, if not altogether, non-existent. Cof fee-houses, combining the use of all the literary and po litical publications of the day, with the supply of the ex cellent beverage from which they derive their name, are utterly unknown, and literary or scientific clubs have scarcely found a footing in the colony." That wants such as those stated above should be felt as a grievance is certainly a good sign. There is a spirit awake in New South Wales which will break through the trammels of sottishness and at tain civilisation in spite of the authorities. Even now, the most superficial reader of Australian papers must be struck with the vast mental supe riority of the masses at Sydney over those at Mel bourne and Geelong. Books, which are scarcely ever advertised for sale in Victoria, form an im- portant item in the trade of Sydney. We note the names of three large booksellers advertising the arrival of Fresh supplies of English literature. The Illustrated Eonfitakz News, the last voluine of Punch, Sealsfield's " Cabin 'Book," " Ida Pfeiffer's Travels," Whateley's " Logic and Rhetoric," Roe buck's " History of the Whig Ministry," Macau lay's History and Essays, the " Household Words," Dickens's " Copperfield," and Thackeray's " mond," are freely offered for the amusement and instruction of Australian readers, and Oxford and Cambridge men in their log huts on the Turon or the. Murrumbidgee may read the " Tramp to the Diggings," and Mundy's " Antipodes," and review them on the spot. There are, moreover, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese stan dard books offered by the purveyors of literature to the Sydney market ; and it is not too much to say that a studious person might more readily and easily procure food for the mind at Sydney than in the majority of our second and third rate country-towns. Instruction, too, is not wantin g . Sydney has for more than a year past had its university, and now a preparatory col legiate school is being opened. It need scarcely be said that there is no lack of private tui tion. " Ladies accustomed to tuition," and " Governesses wanting places" abound as a matter of course. It appears that the most eminent masters of Europe have e emigrated in a body to teach the young Australian idea how to perform polkas. New " manias" are faithfullyreproduced at the antipodes. Diggers, stockmen, and hardhearted squatters have sighed over the sorrows of Uncle Tom, and they will no doubt, in the fulness of time, dance to the tune of "Pop goes the Weasel !" though to learn that popular and hacknied polka is rather an expensive affair at Sydney. The pianists to all the crowned heads of Europe, and pupils to all eminent musi cians, past, present, and to come, who advertise in the Sydney papers, have a just appreciation of the value of their services. Their lessons, by the quarter, cost 2i guineas for half an hour twice a week, and 31 guineas for two hours per week—of course, at the residence of the professor, who de mands an additional guinea and a half per quarter if the pupil desires to receive his instruction at home. The art of puffing has made astonishing progress in Sydney. The tailors, of course, are foremost in the race. Under the heading of " Companies," in the advertising columns of the Sydney Empire, we note what appears the prospectus of a Bathurst Railway Insurance Company , wh ose p aid-u p capi tal is quoted at 500,0001., in 100,000 51. shares. It is a tailor's puff. Mr. Pyke, of Bathurst, seeks to attract attention and custom by offering to insure " the personal appearance of gentlemen from all defective dress." THE NORTHERN COAL TRADE. NEWCASTLE•ON TYNE, Oct. 15.—Between 300 and 400 sail of coal-laden vessels left the Tyne yesterday afternoon, the greater proportion for the London market. The wind has been from the south-west since they sailed, and not very favourable to the progress of their voyage. London coal freights are from 10s. 6d. to lls. 6d. per ton. A. private letter, received here from Cronstadt, states that there are a great number of British vessels there, and that vessels which left here with coal at high freights have some difficulty in finding a market. The high freights to London do not appear to be consequent upon our English shipowners naving a monopoly of the coasting trade ; for during the past three months coal-freights have been equally high to ports in north Europe, the carrying-trade to which is open to all the wor ld . M ost intelligent shipowners are so satisfied with the operation of free trade principles that they are not at all alarmed at a suggestion for throwing open the coasting trade, and only regret that they lost the Californian trade with the eastern States of America because of our coasting trade being closed to the Americans. HORRIBLE CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.—"Up till Satur day last from Monday preceding, the town of Newport had been the scene of a numerous and truly. frightful chapter of accidents, almost unparalleled in its history. Accident upon accident, all fatal in the results, have succeeded each other. On last the engine-driver was smashed to pieces on the local railway, his arms, thighs, and head being literally crushed to atoms. On Monday a driver fell off an engine on the same line (the Western Valleys) ; his bead was severed from is body, and his abdomen frightfully mangled. On Tuesday a man dropped dead in Charles-street. On Friday a man named Win. Reeves, an excavator, who was employed at at the Letty-shenkin mine, while lowering some stone by a crane, from some or other happened to let go the handle, which struck him on the face and head, and he was killed upon the spot. Nearly all the sufferers were married men, and the last unfortu nate fellow has left a wife and five small children. DEATH OF LIEUT. HUTCHINSON BY DROWNING.— Intelligence has been received at the Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, of the death of this young officer, whilst cruising in his pleasure yacht in the Australian rivers, a sudden squall of wind catching the sails, and upsetting the boat, the whole of the hands on board perishing. The bodies were afterwards picked up, and have been buried with military honours.—Kentish, Mercury. THE PROGRESS OF IVETV SOUTH TVA LES. The Sydney papers received by the last mail contain, as usual, a curious and interesting medley of information on the commercial, social, and poli tical progress of the colony. Its prosterity, though seemingly eclipsed by the astonishing accounts from the Victoria goldfields, is not therefore less sub stantial, and perhaps is more firmly established, and more general in its diffusion. The goldfields of New South Wales, though less stupendous in their results than those of Victoria, have never since their first discovery ceased sufficiently, and in many instances brilliantly, to remunerate a large mining population, while the wealth of the colony has been still further increased by considerable amounts of gold and money obtained by inhabitants of New South Wales in the Victoria goldfields. Ample evidence of this fact is again furnished by the Sydney Gold Circulars from the 4th to the 18th of June. In the week ending the 4th of June, 2,161 ounces of gold, valued at about 8,0001., reached Sydney from the various New South Wales diggings, which may be enumerated as follows :—Bathurst, Sofala, Yass, Bingara, Tambaroora, Avisford, Mud gee, Braidwood, Bell's Creek, Major's Creek, Goul burn, Murrurundi, Cameron's Creek, Tamworth, Hanging Rock, Rocky River, and the Ovens, where new and rich placers had been discovered. In the week ending June 10, the arrivals amounted to 4,325 ounces, valued at 15,0091. ; in the week end ing June 18, 1,446 ounces of gold came to Sydney, together with 2,8641. in cash. The total of the ex ports of gold since the first discovery amounted to 1,332,741 ounces, which, at 70s. per ounce, repre sent a capital of 4,664,5931. It is of course impos sible to estimate the amounts taken out by pas sengers, either on their own account or for others. The prices of gold at Sydney in the third week of June ranged from 31. 15s. to 31. 17s. 6d. per ounce. Considerable losses, in some cases amounting to Bs. or 10s. on the ounce, had been sustained by Sydney gold brokers from adulterated gold sent from Mel bourne, and the consequence was that New South Wales gold was much in demand, while the parcels imported from Victoria were looked upon with a good deal of suspicion. Among the gold fields mentioned above are several new diggings which have never, or but very slightly, been mentioned in England. The first among them is Nuggetty Gully, near the Ovens, where the gold, we learn, is distributed capriciously, and success has consequently been unequal. Nevertheless, at least 500 diggers were at work in that locality in the last week of May, and the majority of these ad venturers, says the correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, " aredoing very well." By some Nuggetty Gully was spoken very highly of ; others maintained that the washing stuff is only a few inches in thickness, and that, unless it is very rich, it would not pay for working. Three or four parties are mentioned as getting 12 ounces to the tub. An instance of great good fortune is reported from another new locality—Maitland Bar, on the Meroo. A party of three were digging on a claim for 24 days. They paid all their expences, sold the gold, and in the end had a surplus amounting to 1,080/. Of the same diggings it is stated that four diggers had within a very short time (there are no further details) obtained 800 ounces of gold-dust, and another party of three was mentioned whose weekly earnings for many weeks past ranged from 20 to 100 ounces. The working of the alluvial diggings and the washing of the soil engaged the attention of the diggers in almost all the fields. Formerly, in the majority of instances, washing would not pay, for it was necessary to carry the " dirt" uphill and downhill for the distance sometimes of a mile or two, in order to bring it near the water. But, within the last month, water companies have established themselves at almost all the goldfields, which, by the aid of pipes, and in some instances, with the help of machinery, conduct the water to the places where it is most wanted, These companies, it is said, are suc cessful, but their success would be greater if they could command a sufficiency of labour to supply the wants of all applicants. They offer 15s. per day and rations, but they are unable to procure the hands they want. A hundred miles of gutta-percha tubing and a dozen small steam engines would, un der these circumstances, meet with a hearty wel come at the diggings. The mining population seem determined to be not only prosperous, but as comfortable as can be expected under the circumstances. Diggers' tents and lairs, constructed of dry branches, give way to bark and slab huts, some of them constructed in a very substantial manner, and doing, by the taste and judgment displayed in their arrangements, much honour to the impromptu architects. Log huts, too, are being built at almost all the diggings. It is hoped that the established localities will be more steadily worked by miners who have in this manner provided themselves with homesteads, and that the " rushes" to any new creak or gully which may excite attention will not in future be either so frequent or so general as has hitherto been the case. AUSTRALIA.-GLENFIELD PATENT STA RC II ; W OTHERS POON'S SCOTCH LOZENGES and COMFITS, JELLIES and JANIS, Made and Packed expressly for Exportation. These goods have always commanded a large sale in the colony. Samples and prices may be obtained at the Wholes de Depot, 66, Queen-street, Cheapside, London. TOZEAU'S COPAHINE-MEGE, or Saccharatt, C k PSULES, approved by th e F rench College of Physicians, and successfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and acknowledged by them to be the best remedy for the cure of Gonorrohcea, Gleet, and Leueorrhceal Discharges, on an average of six days (see " Lancet " of 6th Nov., 1852, an extract from which will be forwarded immediately on application).—Prepared and sold by G. Joieau, sole French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London ; and Jozeau, I'hannacien, 161, Rue Montmartre, Paris ; at Liverpool, X. Clay and Abraham, chemists, Bold-street ; and the principal chemists of France, England, and the Colonies. Price of bottle of 100 capsules, 4s. 6d.; 50 do., 2s. 9d., with directions, and stamp with the name of Gabriel Jozeau printed thereon. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION, (Established by Royal Charter of his Majesty Geoitge 1., A.D. 1720), For SEA, FIRE, and LIFE ASSURANCES. OFFICES—ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. BRANCH OFFICE-29, PALL-MALL. Octavius Wigram, Esq., Governor. The Hon. J. T. Leslie Melville, Si üb-Gavernor. George Pearkes Barclay, Esq., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Charles John Manning, Esq. Edmond S. I'. Calvert, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. John Garrett Cattley, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer, Esq. Alexander Colvin, Esq. Sir John Henry Pelly, hart. Edward Maxwell Daniell, Esq. Abraham George Robarts, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Itiversdale Win. Grenfell, Esq. Thomas Smith, Esq. Robert Hanbury, jun., Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. William Tetlow Ilibbert, Esq. Thomas Tooke, Esq. Lancelot Holland, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Sir John Wm. Lubbock, Bart. Charles Baring Young, Esq. MEDICAL REFEREE. Samuel Solly, Esq., F.R.S., Consulting Surgeon, St. Helen's-place. Notice.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pre miums falling due at Michaelmas will expire on the 14th of October. Life Assurance may be effected to the extent of Ten Thousand Pounds on one Life ; with, or, at lower Premiums, without partici pation in piofits. The Reversionary BONUS on Participating Life Policies has amounted on an average to 46 per Cent. on the amount of Premiums Policies effected during the present year on the participating scale will entitle their holders to share in the division of profits at the end of the year 1455, provided the assurances continue in force. Further Bonuses will be declared at the end of five years. The Corporation bear the cost of Policy Stamps and Medical Fees. The Assured are subject to no charge but the Premium. No extra Premium is required for service in the militia. Persons assured with this Chartered Corporation are exempt from the liabilities of partnership. Annuities are granted, Immediate, Deferred, or Contingent. This Corporation has held a high position during upwards of a Century and a Quarter, and affords unquestionable security by its capital-stock. Royal Exchange, London. ALEX. GREEN, Secretary. Post-office irregularities and the badness of the Royal Exchange, London. roads are still standing complai n ts w ith th e N ew . G RAVE S E N D ST AR South Wales miners, as with those of Vi c t or i a , b u t PACKETS. the grievance which is most frequently mentioned, No other P ac k e t s ca ll at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purfieet Piers. and most loudly inveigh e d aga i ns t, i s th e li cense The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting) duty. d leaving wliy g t o h l a d t v s h e x o e u d l d q u p e a s y t i o a n n y a l d o u n t e y , p a r t ot a e l s l t . :• In the first inst ance , th e m i ners cannot un - FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. W EEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. Others, derstan oppressive p t p h r e e ssi revenue.ve and unjust tiley complaint to individuals tha that ------ a' r F., . 5 . ,d ..5 ,, , . . ..a. ~. ~ that the manner of levying the duty by means of Terrace t p, ,- 7 , 3 .2,_ T . : r, 1 t . ii: a an l d ice in n J a n e Pier. .o ° ' ' , e . .E. Time. F., , 7 ,3 ri fe o e us is t T 8 Z-' 'a , 1 8 - 7, o f. : ), P 4 8 ' o 4 4 s c. - - 4 the unfortunate among the miners are quite as 7 - - -—— -- ------ - • •fel4 11 IA 114 —— - - 14 - enoug h t o cover hi s ex p enses , i s mulcted to the 14 - 3% 1 5 _ same amount as he who by chance hits upon a spot - 3 e - ..... - 6 which pays him at the rate of 50 ounces per week. 5 The opinion seems to be generally adopted, that if there be any necessity for taxing gold at all, a Direct Trains from the Boats marked t moderate export and coinage duty would be prefer- Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station to all parts of London able, as tending least to hinder the development of I every quarter of an hour. the mineral wealth of the colony. It has been sug- BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACK WALL, on the arrival of the fol. ge-Aed that an export duty of 2s. Gd per ounce would : lowing Trains from the Fenchurch-street Station. prove more a d vantageous than the license fee. The •• WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. New South Wales exports in 1852 amounted to ' • ~ - d. 856,188 ounces, which, at 2s. Gd. per ounce, would t -- ... Fen- 3 . T. .'',) ',74 a ,_'" Fen - .-.— . ;1:1 :-, ~, 0 a 4 ° t 4 .... (rive revenue of above 100,0001. There can be ( 'church ..?. te. -,-; i•e C - 3 church O. 0 E. ~.„0 Ile doubt, say the colonists, that this duty will 1 :Street. '42 ,p t i Street. Z '''' p t 0 77 , ( --' 8 4 " 6' ° eventually fall on the miner, but the tax would be = --•- - -- _ - -- —— more equitable, as it would affect them in exact I 914 Mei 121,4 - - - - 10 - It i s s t a t e d i n H a rnet's commercial r e p or t, th a t a 1 :2 4 - - - - - new copper mine has been discovered, and that it b % —3% is being worked by Messrs. Samuel, of Sydney. A i 5 l ump of copper, weighing nearly half a ton, was on l 4 ----- its way to that town. Passages marked * are run direct. The Sydney commercial reports contain some 3 . To or from Grave sen d an d L 0n d 0n ........ • F . ore gd a . bin.. I S B al . 00 2 11.. evidence of the overstocked condition of the solo- ; „ Gravesend and Blackw e ll or W oo l w i c h Bd. .. Os. 10d. vial market. About the end of May "prices were Between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bd. BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 5.. Oe. ; Si x M on th s , 31. O s . • still enormously high." Brandy, for instance, left 1 Three Months, 21. Os. ; to be bad of the Collectors on board the 70 per cent. profit to the importer, and case gin and ', Packets ;or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. rum 25 per cent., after paying all expenses. A few Oct 5 , 1853. days afterwards enormous shipments arrived, prices ' SIRWILLIAMBURNETT'S DISINFECTING of storeage increased to a very high rate , importers FLUID.—The best Concentrated " CHLORIDE OF ZINC."— were compelled to push the sales, and the auc- Great Reduction of Price.—The merits of this Fluid, invented by tioneers were completely smoothered with goods. , Sir W. Burnett, M.D., F.R.S., &c., &c., for the Disinfection of Sick Rooms, Clothing, Linen, &c.; the prevention of C onta g ion ; the The prices of produce and provisions were affected ; preservation of Animal Matter from Putrescence; the purification of by the general reaction, to the signal benefit of the 1 Bilgewater, Cesspools, Drains, Water Closets, &c , are now so well labouring population. Wheat sold at 7s. ; flour at known to the public as to render comment unnecessary. Sold at the Office, 18, Cannon-street, City, London, and by Che- 18/. and 201. per ton of 2,000 mists, Shipping Agents, and others throughout the United Kingdom, the 21b. loaf ; beef at 11d. to lid. per lb., and J in Imperial Quart Bottles at 2s. 6d. •, in Pints at Is. 3d. ; in Half- Pints at 9d. ; and in bulk at 6s. per Gallon. I m utton at 21d.. to 21.. per lb. Th e p r i ces o f f ow l s , '. CAUTION.—BEWARE. OF IMITATIONS.—The only genuine turkeys, eggs, potatoes, A,. wc., may generally be de- Disinfect ing Fluid is sealed over the cork with the inscription, " Sir ! Wm. Burnett's Disinfecti ng Fluid," and accompanied with nume- signaled as high English prices ; they are not roue Testimonials of th e hi g h es t or d er , an d i ns t ruc tions for its use. hi g her than the quotations of the London markets - . .at periods of moderate scarcity. But it should be ON THE SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES understood that those prices apply to Sydney only. AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES. At the various diggings provisions are still enor- H TE SILENT FRIEND. In Six Languaees—Fiftieth Edition. mously high, in exact proportion to their distance CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE. from Sydney, the badness of the weather and the Illustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings and Cases. condition of the roads. At Spring Creek, flour sold New Edition, enlarged to 200 pages, price 2s. 6d., by post, from the at 141. per bag in May, and the price declined in Establishment, 3s. 6d. in stamps, THE SILENT FRIEND, a M e di ca l Work on June, as we learn from the Sydney Empire, though the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by it is not said what the exact price was when the excessive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of mail left. mercury, with directions for the use of the preventive lotion, fol- The high price of labour continu es , in man • y in- I lowed by observations on Marriage, and the disqualifications which prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. stances, to the preventexecu • execution of useful under- PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Oxford- takings, which, in the end, would doubtless be street, London. Published by Sherwood and Co., 23, Paternoster row, and sold by Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; Gor- to the speculator and profitable to the community. don, 146, Leadenhall-street ; 95, Earrined cr.-street ; W. Sutton, 10, The papers before us contain no regular price cur- Bow Church-yard; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; R Johnson, 68, Cornhill. rent of labour, but a few odd p aragrap h s h ere an d PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the reproductive organs, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. there suggest sonic valtiable hints on the PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in- Thus we learn that the shipwrights of Sydney struck dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing wages in May. They were mental and bodily w ea k ness , n erv o us excilcireut, and generative for , receiving 15s. per incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanator) Engravings. day and wanted 20s. A man who wished to engage PART 111. treats of th e di seases resu lting from infection, either in a blacksmith was told by an unsu ccess f u l di the primary or second ar y f orm , an d con t a i n s explicit directions for digger their treatment. This sectio n is ill us tr a ted by 62 Coloured Engrav - "tO offer 1./. a day and rations, or," he added, tug. " you don't deserve to have one." It appears that PART IV. contains a Remedy f or th e P reven tion of Disease by a . simple application, by whi c h th e d anger o f i n f ect i on i s o bviated. in almost all other trades a like want of hands is Parer V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage and its duties. painfully felt, and corresponding wages are given. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole 1 The cry is still for useful emigrants, " With the ' subject critically and philosophically inquired into. I THE CO BDIAI. IIA I, NI OF eYltl tenet lis exclusively employed e xception of clerks and professional men , says the in treating nervous and sexual debility,lmpotence, ELL!, uls and 335. ! s,,d ne y Empire, " there is an open fi e ld f or a l most per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic "‘, i remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary any species of honourable industry. A conside symptons, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, 1 Is. and 335. per rable number of ships have arrived with living car bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2 , 4. 941., 4s. 641., and its. of both sexes, married and single. Other shi per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhma, elect, stricture, and goes • , PS chronic inflammation of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, i are immediately in prospect, and yet the complaint 1/. A minute detail of the case is required : age, babies, and posi tion in society. 5/. Packets, with advice , to be bad at the Establish- IS general. It ment only, by which the fee, 11., lit saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, I any sufficient quantity. 1 arc in attendance, daily, at 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, Lon- i If such are the complaints of the men of Sydney, don, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Eight; on Sunday from A Elm= to One. I what wust be the lamentations of the fairer poxticii ALEX. GREEN, Secretary. PROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. WEER DAYS. SUNDAYS. r = 7 c--"------ ~ ) , ----------, ‘a .„: 5 4 . .* ... .e Terrace :k . : w, _,— a.) a. 2, .E . A 4 Pier. ,c g V . , ,; t Time. c, c 3 ~ g V, t ... S ' U P, 6.. Pi 8 7., 5 . 2.) ~. 4 z 4 2 0 4 4 S 6' 7% _ 8% Ste 1 __, iIN 11 IA 13v Omni' every q BRUNS' To or from Gravesend „ Gravesend and Bi Between Gravesend am BOAT TICKETS.-- Three Months, 21. Os. Packets; or of Mr. Moi Oct 5 , 1853. HINCKFORD AGRICULTURAL AND) CONSERVATIVE CLUB. was Tl e ie el a e n br n rsa aivteeder of this old Conservative on Friday, bya dinneratth Club e Bull Inn, Castle Hedingham, a small hamlet in North Essex, long the great rendezvous of the Conser vatives of the county, where the "Essex Ten" were wont to meet and rejoice over the fact that both divisions of the county and every borough in it returned stanch protectionists as their represen tives to the Commons' House of Parliament. Prior to the dinner ploughing matches took place in fields abutting upon the Sudbury road, and prizes were distributed to deserving labonrers and ser vants. As one of these illustrates in some degree the vexed question of the wages at present paid to agricultural labourers in this part of the kingdom, it is given here " To the agricultural labourer of good character in the service of a subscriber, and not in the receipt of more than 10s. per week, exclusive of harvest, who has sub scribed the longest time to a medical club, it." Mr. G. Round, of Colchester, presided at the dinner, and the attendance was numerous and respectable, although not so great as on many pre vious occasions. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts were drunk with enthusiasm. Captain WAY returned thanks for the " Army and Navy." The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of the evening, " Success to the Hinckford Agricultural and Conservative Club," said that he took a suffi ciently vivid interest in the affairs of the county and the boroughs within it to be able to offer a few remarks in reference to their present position, which was one of most extraordinary novelty, when compared with that time last year. At that time Lord Derby was at the head of the Government. (Cheers.) A strong, and powerful, and true body of Conservatives were at the helm, and it was hoped and fondly believed that those reckless and ruinous courses which had been adopted to the prejudice of agriculture would have been in some degree stemmed and averted. (Cheers.) But that had not been the case, and they now found them selves the most powerful and important interest in the country with a Government that had no sym pathies with them, with every party as it were hostile to them, with war almost on their shores, and with a high price of corn, which they well knew was neither the result of men nor of politics. The toast was drunk with all the honours. The Rev. J. Cox, M.A., of Fairstead, in acknow ledging the toast, observed, after a passing allusion to matters of a personal and only local interest, that it would seem that the system of persecution to which they had been exposed at the last election was only the beginning of a series of complicated affronts and persecutions which were to be adopted towards them by the Whig-Radical party. They were aware of the gross indignities to which his hon. friend Sir J. Tyroll, and his right hon. friend Mr. Beresford, had been subjected at the last elec tion. (Cheers.) He hoped he should never see the like again, because he did say now, quietly looking at it through the vista of one year, that it was disgraceful to all those who had been concerned in that business. No sooner, however, were the elections over than the present Attorney-General moved for a committee to inquire into the conduct of Mr. Beresford with regard to certain proceedings at Derby. As that question yet remained to be tried before a legal tribunal, he would not enter further into it than to say, that in the whole history of party warfare, party persecution, and party spite, there never had been anything at all to be com pared with the virulence with which his right hon. friend had been persecuted. (Loud cheers.) The question which the select committee of the House of Commons had to try was, " Is Mr. Beresford guilty, or is he not, of being concerned in the bri bery which took place in the borough of Derby ?" That was the issue. Was he guilty or was he in nocent ? But, what was the course taken by that Whig-Radical committee with a Peelite chairman ? They - were obliged to find that his right hon. friend was totally exculpated from any share in the bribery transactions at Derby, yet they could not forego their itching palm, and so great was their love to finger something which might be detrimental to the Conservative party, and destructive to his right hon. friend, that, though they pro nounced him " Not guilty," they concluded their verdict with a most severe censure upon his conduct. (Cheers.) He said that such a pro ceeding was unheard of in the whole Parliamen tary history of this kingdom. (Cheers.) But that was not sufficient. His right hon. friend was to be indicted as a criminal for entering into a con spiracy to bribe the people of Derby. As that, however, was an issue which yet remained to b e . . tried, he was precluded from saying anything upon it. Even that was not enough to satisfy the ani mosity of their political opponents, but they must present a petition against the return of his hon. criends, Mr. Ducane and Mr. Miller, for the bo rough of Maldon. (Cheers.) Mr. Cobden said, if we had free trade we should have peace all over the world, because it would be the object of the Emperor of Russia, who was the great lock-keeper of the Danube, to sell us his corn. In place of that, however, the Emperor said—" I hold the keys of the granary of Europe. I'll do what I please, and you dare not touch me—if you do I'll starve you." This it was which accounted for the vacil lating and truckling conduct of our Government on the Eastern question. (Cheers.) As to the uniformity of prices, he defied any of them to re collect the time when within six months corn had risen 100 per cent. He contended, then, that the prophecies of the Freetraders had been much more at fault than those of the Conservatives. He knew that party was at an end with the present Govern ment, because they had no principle, but were a mere combination of Peelites, Whigs, Radicals, Pope's bands, and a variety of other little conglomera tions, constituting a knot of persons in Parliament whose object was the destruction of the Conserva tive party. (Cheers.) Under these circumstances, it was the duty of the Conservatives to e hold ofthem fast by their principles and to withjo.in non Peelites, and all, to fall ; leaving them, Whigs , . Radicals, h,, played by the Pope's d (Loud cheers and laughter.) into brass the "Rogue's The position of the present Government was this, that they were bound hand and foot to the Pope, and without his sanction they dared not make a movement. Witness the Canada Clergy Reserves Bill, the Charitable Trusts Bill, and the humiliat ing letter of the Premier to Messrs. Monsell, Keogh, and Sadleir. They must erect, then, the Conservative party upon the great platform of the Protestant institutions of this country. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) Any man who supported the present Government should be looked upon as aiding and abetting in the overthrow of their Pro testant institutions. The CHAIRMAN called upon the meeting, after the excellent speech they had just heard, to drink a special toast to the Rev. John Cox. The toast was drunk in a bumper. Mr. A. MAJENDIE, of the Castle, in an eulogistic speech, proposed " The health of the County Members," and read the following characteristic letters from two of them. The first was from Sir J. Tyrell : " Rongham-hall, Oct. 9. " I am sorry frankly to admit that I have neither heart, spirit, nor courage to attend your meeting at Hedingham on the 14th. I fear that many friends will think I am neglecting them—others, that I am indiffe rent to what is passing in the county. Your meeting is Conservative and agricultural, and I have a few words to say upon that subject. The Conservative party is so completely demolished in the House of Commons as a party, that it must be reformed before it can be a com bined party. If I am asked what has brought about that state of things, my answer is, the perfidy and in sincerity of conduct and action of many of that party, who talked loudly on the hustings of confidence in Lord Derby, and who were afterwards in the lobby of the enemy defeating by their countenance the proceedings of the most strenuous of our leaders. Under these cir cumstances, our moral influence as a party has vanished. Undoubtedly, I acted like the cabmen—struck work, and perhaps you may say abandoned my duty. I admit that I am too old to enter the lists, and I have seen too much of party conflicts to attack those in our ranks who, though their motives may be sincere, have, in my opinion, acted a part inconsistent with their declarations, which excited cheers from the hustings, and caused extraordi nary exertions to be made to secure their return to Par liament. It is not impossible that we may ere long, from the present relative state of the party, be awakened by some attack upon our own Protestant liberties, or by the din of war, mainly brought about by the antiquated imbecility of the head of the Cabinet, whose known sym pathy with the Orleans party has encouraged Russia to rely upon a division between England and France, and would at once leave Turkey at the disposal of Russia. This state of things would never have occurred had Lord Derby remained in office, and that is the penalty that England has to pay in supporting a Government bound by a combination of trading politicians—that is, of men whose great object was to be in office on any principles or at any price, and which is daily becoming explained to the public by the e/ite of the Irish party. Those gen tlemen, it seems, have been tampered with by the under lings of the Peel-Whig party, putting into the shade by their imperfections the little imperfections of which Lori IMPORTANT TO TRACT DISTRIBUTORS. A young man named William Smith was brought be fore Mr. O'Callaghan, the sitting magistrate at Capel street police-station, Dublin, on Saturday, charged by Mr. Martin A. O'Brennan, with having acted in a man ner calculated to provoke him to a breach of the peace, by thrusting a handbill or tract of a sectarian character into his hand on the public street. The case excited considerable interest, Mr. O'Brennan having published his own version of it in the shape of a letter to a morning paper ; and the office was crowded to excess with persons anxious to witness the proceedings. Mr. Whithorne appeared for the prisoner. Mr. O'Brennan (who is a Roman Catholic schoolmas- ter, residing in Bolton-street,) having been sworn, said —Yesterday evening, whilst I was going to the theatre with a lady I was encountered by this man in Sa,ekville street ; he "thrust" a paper violently into my hand, and as he and a woman who was standing by both laughed at the time, I took it for granted that something was wrong. Accordingly I opened the paper, and found that it was a species of tract, containing matter which I look on in the light of a nuisance. lam of opinion that when a man is going about his business no one has a right to offend his feelings in this way by thrusting into his hand a paper which is calculated to irritate and drive him to commit a breach of the peace ; under these circum stances, I felt it to be a duty, as a lover of peace, to give this person into custody, in order to put a stop to what I consider to be a most noxious and dangerous system of addressing people in the street, and asking them to read articles entirely opposed to their religious tenets ; for my own part, I would rather receive a dose of poison than the poisonous matter contained in this paper. (The paper " handed" to Mr. O'Brennan by the pri soner consisted of an invitation to Roman Catholics to attend a sermon to he preached by the Rev. J. O'Carroll, A. 8., S.T.C.D., in St. Luke's Church, on Sunday even " ine. next, upon the alleged su p remacy o f St . P eter. ) Mr. O'Callaghan (to witness)—Have you any reason to believe that the prisoner knew who you were when acting in the way you have stated ? Witness—From the fact of his laughing, I think he must have known me. He admitted after his arrest that he was the agent of the Rev. Mr. M'Carthy, of St. Michan's parish. Mr. Whithorne (to witness)—How long is it since you put the "0 " before your name ? Witness—l don't choose to tell you. [The witness was, till lately, in the habit of styling himself simply Mr. M. A. Brennan.] Mr. Whithorne--Were your feelings very much hurt ? Witness—Yes, my feelings as a gentleman. (Laughter.) Mr. Whithorne—Yon are an orator. Witness (with a complacent smile)—Yes, I think I am. (Laughter.) • • Mr. Whithorne—And you are a publisher too ? Witness—Yes, I write for the press occasionally. Great laughter.) Mr. Whithorne—And you wish to bring your name into great repute ? Witness (seemingly offended by the question)—Sir, my name has been in great repute for many years. (Roars of laughter.) Mr. Whithorne—You published a note about this case in the Frecnian's Journal of this morning. What was your object in doing so ? Witness—My object was to call the attention of the public and of the public authorities to this system of circulating tracts, which are, in my opinion, more poi sonous than the most no x i ous miasmata. (Laughter.): Mr. O'Callaghan—Do you swear that he " thrust " it into your hand ? Witness--Ile did. I saw a number of similar papers in his possession after he was taken to the police station. Mr. Whithorne submitted that his client bad commit ted no offence in point of law. All he did was to " hand " the paper quietly to Mr. O'Brennan, and for doing that he was not only arrested, but actually kept in close confinement during the entire night. The charge was such a trumpery one altogether that be did not think it necessary to go any furthei: with the defence. Mr. O'Callaghan (to witness)—Did I understand you to say from what took place there was any likelihood that a breach of the peace might ensue ? Witness —My opinion is that " if "my temper had not been controlled by education, it is " probable" that I might have struck him. Mr. O'Callaghan—lt strikes me, to say the least of it, to bo exceedingly indiscreet and improper for any man, whatever may be his religious opinions, to thrust them upon another man who, as in this instance, is of a dif ferent way of thinking. If a paper put into a person's hand contains anything that is likely to make him angry, or to disturb his feelings, it is, in my judgment, calcu lated to provoke a breach of the peace, and it is the pro vince of the magistrate (who is termed a justice of the peace) to take care that it is sufficiently preserved. cannot entertain a doubt that conduct such as the pri soner has been guilty of is greatly calculated to lead to a breach of the peace ; but as no actual breach has oc curred in this instance, I will only require the prisoner to enter into his own recognisances to be of good beha viour for the future. Prisoner—l have no witness to speak for me, but a s sure as I stand before your worship I d id not "thrust" the bill into Mr. O'Brennan's hand. I simply offered it, and be took it, without the least pressure on my part. Mr. O'Callaghan--I am a justice of the peace, and I am determined to preserve it, so far as I can, in all these cases. You must enter into bail or be committed for 14 days. The prisoner accordingly entered into the required bail, and was discharged from custody. TIM LATE SHIPWRECK ON BARRA-HEAD.—GLASGOW, Sunday Afternoon.—The steamer Islay arrived at the Broornielaw early this morning with 40 passengers, saved from the disastrous wreck of the Annie Jane. They left Barra in a small sailing smack on the morning of Wednesday last, and, arriving at Tobermory in the course of the same night, were thence forwarded to Glas gow. The majority of the passengers are pretty well attired, having obtained clothing from the wreck of the boxes which were cast ashore ; but many are totally pen niless, and 18 of the number had to receive food and shelter during the night in the police-office. Captain Mason, with the remainder of the passengers, including ra 9 " Of the women, 'till remain on Barra. - T.H // , CIiOLERA. /j i ( From the General Board of Health, 0ct.17 .) METROPOLIS. , Dr. Gavin Milroy, from the General Board of Health, 114 an interview yesterday (Monday) with the directors he poor of the parishes of St. Giles and St. George, Bloomsbury, with a view to the preparation of plans for securing the preservation of ,the public health in those districts. Mr. Yardley, of the metropolitan police office, has to-day reported to the General Board of Health seven cases of cholera in the parishes of St. George in the East, Shadwell, Bermondsey, Bennington, and Green. wich, and on board the ship Ivey, in the river Thames. Dr. Milroy, in pursuance of the instructions of the General Board of Health, has just inquired into and reported upon the sanitary condition of the Queen's Bench Prison in so far as it may be affected by the foul effluvia arising from the knacker's yards, bone-boiling factories, &c., in its immediate vicinity. Attention was drawn to these nuisances a few days since by Captain Hudson, in a letter addressed by him to Viscount Pal merston, and referred by his lordship to the General Board of Health. Dr. Milroy observes : " That it appears from the statements of all whom I examined that the stench from the factories, &c., com plained of, is often so horrible, more especially when the wind comes from their direction, that not only must every window be shut, but the inmates of the prison-- the average number of all within the walls, including the officers and their families, is about 200—are frequently so nauseated that they cannot take their meals when brought to them. One of the patients in the infirmary, suffering chronic asthma, stated that his breathless ness was always much increased whenever the air was polluted by the emanations from the bone-boil ing and other offensive trades in the neighbourhood. On such occasions he was forced to leave the rear of the building, which is most exposed to the dis gusting nuisance, and go into a room in front ; but even then he did not find relief unless he at the same time closed the windows. The proper ventilation of the infirmary at the very season when it is most required is seriously impeded, nor should it be forgotten that the weather when the mephitic effluvia are the most powerful is that when the freest aeration is the most necessary to health and for the prevention of dis ease. The testimony of Mr. Watson, the surgeon of the prison, leaves no doubt as to the results Ipf the nui sance in the production and aggravation of sickness. 'I attribute the prevalence of bowel-complaints in the prison,' he says, 'to a great extent, to be caused by the noxious effluvia arising from the knackers' and i bone boiling yards i n G reen - street, and th i s I observe s par ticularly the case with prisoners recently committed, who invariably complain to me of nausea and loss of appetite, whi c h th ey attr ib ute to the peculiar offensive effluvia. During the p reva l ence of north-westerly winds it is at times quite impossible to open the Infirmary win dows for the necessary ventil a ti on. ' Captain Hudson and L i eut. Evison, the Governor and Deputy Governor of the prison, testify to the depressing and otherwise hurtful influence of the atmospheric pollutions upon the health of their families, who have been much snore ailing since they have resided in the place than they were before, and both gentlemen very decidedly say that they would refuse to live on the spot, if the nature of their duties did not render residence compulsory. From a list given to me by Captain Hudson, I find that in one street alone there are no fewer than four bone-boilers, three slaughterers of horses and other animals, two cat gut manufacturers, and one bone button manufacturer. The Board of Guardians of St. George the Martyr have made more than one attempt to suppress the nuisances, but hitherto they have been foiled. They are still most desirous to get rid of them from a conviction of their pernicious e ff ects ; and at the recent interview which Mr. Hall, of the Poor Law Board, and I had with the board to confer with them upon the measures to be adopted at th e p resent time for the protection of the public health, the chairman pressed upon our 'attention the necessity of means being taken to correct the two monster nuisances—viz., the horrible condition of the sewers, and the disgusting trades of bone-boiling, cat gut spinning, and horse slaughtering, carried on in the midst of a thickly peopled neighbourhood." NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.—DEATHS.—Oct. 15— Cho lera, 2 ; diarrhoea, 2. Oct. 16—Cholera, 2 ; diarrhoea, 2. The total number of deaths from cholera and diar rhoea in Newcastle during the present outbreak has been 1,501. In the same period (namely, the first 46 days) during the prevalence of epidemic cholera in 1831-2, the number of deaths was 289. SCOTLAND.—Dundee, Oct. 15, cholera, 1. Glasgow, Oct. 14, cholera, 1. Edinburgh, Oct. 14, cholera, 1. DARLINGTON.—Oct. 15, cholera, 1. BAENTFORD.—Oct. 14, cholera, 1. G - ATESHEAD.—Oct. 14, cholera, 3. HANK:MGR.—The visitation of cholera appears to have been comparatively slight ; only 15 fresh cases have oc curred since the 26th of September, and no new case was notified to the authorities on the 6th of October, nor on the three preceding days. The total number of per sons attacked is stated to have been 537, of whom 279 died, and 201 recovered, 51 remaining at that date under treatment. In all human probability the community of Hamburg are indebted for their comparative immunity to the improved sanitary condition of their city since the last visitation in 1848. In that year great mortality oc curred among the British seamen in this port, amount ing to upwards of 800 ; but on this occasion an eminent English medical practitioner of the city, Dr. Helbert, has been officially appointed to visit the captains and crews of British merchant vessels in the port and neigh bourhood of Hamburg. Under the zealous service of Dr. Helbert upwards of 400 vessels have been visited, and be tween 40 and 50 cases requiring immediate assistance were thus discovered, of which only three have proved fatal, all the deaths being from developed cholera. It is stated that but for this ship visitation, very few of these men would have been brought under medical treatment at all, and still fewer in time for treatment have been of any avail. Speaking of the British seaman generally, Dr. Helbert says, " I think the general state of their health is very satisfactory. In comparison with the Hamburg population, these English sailors look much stronger and healthier. As I often had occasion to visit the vessels at dinner-time, I was generally struck with the excellent food they had, which is far superior to that of the Ger mans ; particularly there always was a much larger allowance of meat than the Germans have." The great distance of the hospital from the port (namely, about three miles) is greatly and justly complained of. It is always difficult and often dangerous to remove the sick so far, and even when they safely arrive at the hospital, the journey produces a depressing effect. Attempts have been made to remedy this evil, but hitherto without success, though it is stated that a seaman's hospital might be supported at a very moderate expense, were the seamen to pay only at the same rate as they do at present in the general hospital, namely, one mark daily. .THE GOLDEN SANDS OF THE AMAZON. The following letter, dated Chacapogas, August 17, has been published in the Panama Star, headed with the following remarks : "In the last summary of Peruvian news we gave some information relative to the extraordinary discovery of gold in the bed of the River Amazon. since then we published, in the Spanish part of our paper, a letter giving further particulars relative thereto, which, being of considerable interest, we translate to-day, although we in no way vouch for the correctness of the statements contained therein : " 'Don Mariano Aguilar left this on the 10th instant, to commence the opening of the road to the river Amazon, with the $2,059 granted by the State for that purpose. "'The important day which shall enrich the north is near, and within two months we shall be on the shores of the river Santiago de Borja, travelling over its golden sands, and in the midst of the rich and fertile plains of the majestic Amazon. " 'A person travelling by the river Ucayali, for Pa. ruro, has discovered, a short distance from the shore of the said river, a chalk hill, which at first appeared to him to be of little importance ; but as a pastime he took several pieces for examination, when, what was his sur prise at finding a gold ring on his finger apparently converted into silver. It at once struck him that this earth must contain quicksilver, and he continued to inspect further into the hill, until his surprise was further increased by coming to a lake of fine quicksilver, of some twenty yards in circumference, and, on more minute examination, he found in various parts of the hill drops of quicksilver fil tering through a kind of yellow earth, partly concealed among the herbs. " Within five days Dr. Reyna will be en route with a sufficient force to commence the work at the rich copper mine of Chachahuala. It is expected in this province that these mines will, within two months, prove a second Copiapo in respect to these same copper veins, which contains an alloy of 1,800 marks. " Fifty years ago a man excavated the vein to the depth of 14 yards, and the result was that the layer of copper disappeared, changing to pure silver. From this silver the ornaments of the church of this city, still in existence, were made. The discoverer worked alone, and after his death no one was able to discover the mouth of the mine. In this way it is expected that Dr. Reyna will, without doubt, having worked through the copper layer, meet with a compact bed of silver. " 'ln conclusion, it is said that within sixty days the gold washings of Santiago de Borja will be discovered, and the hill of Chachahuala will be reduced to solid sil ver, and afterwards the quicksilver mines of Ucayali.'" DEATH OF M. 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