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ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, Ocr. y 4, NOTICE is hereby given, that a SESSION of OYER and TERMINER and GAOL DE LIVERY for the Trial of Offences committed on the HIGH SEAS, within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, will be held at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey, London, on TUESDAY, the 27th of November next, at Eight o'clock in the morning. And all Sheriffs, Gaolers, and Keepers of Prisons, in whose custody any Prisoners, charged with Offences com mitted on the High Seas, or within the id Jurisdiction, may be, are hereby required to transmit a copy of the Commitment of every such Prisoner to Mr. CHARLES JONES, the Solicitor of the Admiralty, at his office, No. 10. Lancaster-place, Strand, London, in order that the necessary measures may be taken for removing all such Prisoners to his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, for trial at the said intended Session : and all Mayors, Justices, Coroners, and other Officers, before whom any Inquisi tions, Informations, Examinations, or Recognizances may have been taken touching any such Offences - , are required to transmit the same forthwith to Mr. JOHN CLARK, the Clerk of Arraigns of the High Court of Admi ralty of England, at his Office, at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, London. GEORGE ELLIOT. FOR EDINBURGH THE Splendid New STEAM-SHIPS, the ROYAL ADELAIDE, Captain MILL, and ROYAL WILLIAM, Captain CH &PUN, each 200 horse power, will start from St. Katharine Dock Steam-wharf, near the Tower, as follow : ROYAL AD ELA I DE, on Wednesday Evening, Nov. 28,at Ten. ROYAL WILLIAM, on Saturday Evening, Dec. 1, at Ten. ROYAL A DEL A IDE, on Saturday Evening, Dec. 8, at Ten. ROYAL WILLIAM, on Saturday Evening, Dec. 13, at Ten. These Vessels will be found of .he very first class in point of speed and accommodations, and are the only ones that afford to passengers the advantage of embarking at the commodious Steam-wharf, London, and landing in the Harbour at Leith. Horses and carriages can thus be shipped and landed with the greatest ease and safety. Fares, including provisions, Chief Cabin, 41. 4s. ; Second Cabin, 21. 10s. The accommodations in the Second Ca bins are very superior, with separate apartments for females. Information obtained, berths secured, and vods re ceived for shipment, at Leith and Glasgow Wharf Also, by T. Robertson, 164, Strand ; H. Underwood, 56, Haymarket ; M. Sanderson, Boar and Castle Inn, Ox ford-street ; Mr. Slarke, Old White Horse Cellar, Pic cadilly ; and Mr. Gilbert, Blossoms Inn, Lawrence lane, Cheapside, where light goods are received, and for warded to the Wharf till Five o'clock on the days of starting. JOSEPH ADAMS, Agent, Leith and Glasgow Wharf. A Spacious Sail Loft to Let. NEW NOVELS. Just ready, THE INVISIBLE GENTLEMAN. By the Author of " Coartley, the Fatalist." In 3 vols. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF GERMAN LIFE. 2 vols. Prin'ed for Edward Bull, New Public Subscription Library, 26, Holles•street, Cavendish-square. NOTICE is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session, for leave to bring in a Bill or Bills to extend the term, and to alter, amend, and enlarge, the Powers of an Act of Parliament, passed in the 51st year of the reign of his late Majesty, King George the Third, entitled " An Act for making a Public Carriage Road from Kentish Town to Upper Holloway, in the County of Middlesex," and also of a certain other Act, made and pissed in the 52d year of the reign of his said late Majesty, entitled, " An Act for altering and enlarging the Powers of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament for making a Public Carriage Road from Kentish Town to Upper Holloway, in the County of Middlesex."—Dated this 15th day of November, 1832. WM. BARKER, Solicitor. Limehouse,Aliddlesex ; and 3, Crosby-square, Bishopsgate-street. CABINET MAKERS' SOCIETY, 71, LEADEN- HALL-STREET. MR. 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(upwards)... 6 0 0 All t eat herbeds warranted free from dust and smell. •. • Old Furniture taken in exchange " Non est vivere sed valere vita."—Martial. " Life is only life when blest with health." THE finest System of Ethics is to confine within due bounds, and thus to regnlate the Pas sions ; unrestrained, and insubordinate, they impetuously a estroy those barriers which Religion and Morality have i made sacred ; to curb hut not annihilate them, appears the lesson of prudence, best calculated to limit their efferves cence. Every disorganization of the hum in frame requires great medical knowledge to remedy, and the public wel fare is promoted when professional men (disregarding the su ggestions of the envious and interested) devote their s tudies to the treatment of those complaints generated by It uprudence, and the ebullition of the passions at an un guarded moment. " The strength of a nation consists in the health of the people ;" but, it is melancholy to reflect % 1 th e daily sacrifice to the ignorance of unfeeling empy t'cism ; and to counteract, as far as possible, its further r avages, we offer to suffering humanity the result of our "?n experience in the various diseases of Debility. The before victim of solitary vice (early acquired at school, ;lefor e reason has asserted her right over the mind), will. In , contemplating his powerless state, become susceptible % enlivening sensations, in knowing that the most com plicated state of exhaustion may be roused into manly , i en crgy. Intense study—immoderate anxiety—long resi "'tee in tropical climes, and many other causes, will fre quently derange the Nervous System ; in such cases we pan hold out an assurance of re animation, by a treatment i rtieh has long answered the sanguine hopes of Patients of °tit sexes. h That bane to human happiness, SYPHYLIS, can now e treated fearlessly, the improved state of Medical Sci "Ce having divested its antidote of those distressing pro erties that so long rendered its exhibition uncertain and ha rassing. Some peculiarities incidental to the softer le X have not escaped our attention ; in which mildness, nrubined with efficacy, has superseded the means usually "Pted. In fine, our system is unique, peculiarly ener 6etici and eminently successful. Educated in London, schooled in our professional at t been by its splendid medical characters, and having able, personally-, to compare with admiration the b t:ritist, Surgical prac ti ce w i t h t h e C on ti nen t a l, our pre ._ n tions to superiority (in a branch we have selected) are na tured b y exper i ence , w hi c h i s ev i nce d b y th e d a ily a p- P il eations we receive, even from distant countries. ey attenddnce is given for persnal consultation : and etre b rs ll from the country are immedi o ately answered ; these dust contain a remittance for Advice and Medicines, tvh• Id can be forwarded to any part of the world, however distant. GOSS and CO., M.R.C., Surgeons, No. 11, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, London, Just published (Twentieth Edition)--I. The JEGIS ° F LIFE, a familiar commentary on Debility and Nervous D iseases.-2. The SYPHILIST, treating of Venereal isease.-3. HYGEIANA, addressed exclusively to the etnale Sex. be had at 23, Paternoster-row, London ; Porter, 2 , Grafton-street, Dublin; 86, Trongate, Glasgow; at ~ Calton.street, Edinburgh ; Wrightson, Birmingham ; "_ 4 ffield, B a th ; Brown a n d R e id, B r istol; Welle r , Chel t,ham ; L o d er , Bright on ; W oo d, H u ntingdo n; H a tt, ILinibridge ; Trewman, Exeter ; Deck, Ipswich; Huh n Leeds; Gore and Son, Liverpool; S o wler, Manclies er ; r Platt and Todd, Sheffield ; Bacon and Co., Nor k'vkh ; Haldon and Lowndes, and Slatter, Oxford; Brodie Cd Dowding, Salisbury ; Oxley, Windsor; and of all ` oo ktellers.—Price as. each, (No. 1.2,547.) LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 27, 1832. INQUEST ON THOS. HOLLIS, CHARGED WITH FORGING BANK NOTES. Yesterday evening, an inquest was held in the House of Correction, before Mr. Baker, Coroner, on the body of the late Thomas Pelham Hollis, who stood charged with extensively forging and circulating Bank of England notes, and who dreading, it is supposed. to meet his ac cusers on the re-examination appointed to be held before the Magistrates at Bow-street this day, in a fit of des peration put an end to his existence by hanging himself on Saturday morning last, in the prison cell. The deceased was committed to the gaol on Thursday. He was very reserved, and principally engaged himself in writing. On Friday morning, Mr. Chesterton, the governor, asked him if he had any communication to make respecting the treatment, when tears started in his eyes, and he said, " To-morrow, perhaps, I may have something to say to you." Mr. Chesterton, on going round the gaol at seven on Saturday morning, found him hanging from a hook in the wall of the cell. On the table was a letter addres.ed to Mr. Chesterton, containing one directed to his wife, Mrs. Hollis, 33, Miles -street, Belfast, Ireland. The letter, which was composed of several sheets, allu ded to the charge preferred against him by Mr. Beards worth, of Birmingham, and to his (the deceased) having on the morning of his apprehension, seen his Colonel that was to he, and who had promised him a majority in Don Pedro's First Regiment of Dragoon Guards. The letter alluded to various family matters touching the deceased's circumstances, and concluded in a last and tnost affection its farewell to his dear wife, whom he wished to kiss his be loved children for his sake. He expressed his resolve to put an end to his existence, and that when his unhappy wife, whose forgiveness he hoped for, received his letter, he would be no more. The letter to Mr. Chesterton was merely a request to him to forward the inclosed letter to his (deceased's) wife [lie complained of the money, &c., he had about him having been taken from hiai in the prison ; but Mr. Chesterton explained that it is a custom in the prison to take property, &c., from prisoners on their entering the prison, giving them an acknowledgment, and restoring the property ultimately, should it prove to be theirs on their discharge from the prison.] The letters were left open, apparently as if with a desire or a know ledge that they would be read; and they were perfectly rational. Gardner, an t , fficer of Bow-street, who searched the prisoner's apartments at Pimlico, produced a forged 501. Bank of England note, about ninety of which the officer found at the same time, with plates, tools, &c., fur manu facturing the forgeries. The officer explained the inge nious manner in which the deceased had made a 50/. note of a good 10/., namely, by cutting out the " Ten," and sub stituting the word " Fifty" in a manner that could scarcely he perceived, by means of gum, &c. Gardner further described the state of the deceased's portmanteau, which had secret depositories, containing various illegal property, and so closed and gummed over, that an ordinary person would never think of looking for such places of con cealment. Mr. Chesterton deposed that a person, who represented himself as related to the deceased, called at the prison in the course of the day, and represented that the decease., had been much abroad, and had been engaged as a mili tary man in numerous actions, in which he acquitted himself with great bravery. Gardner added, that he was informed that the deceased Ind served in the East Indies, and that the East India Company allowed him a pension of 1001. a year for some brave act which he performed in a moment of great peril. The following is the letter which he addressed to his wife : " Nov, 23. "My dear Wife,—T write this to prepare your mind to meet with fortitude the sad tidings which will soon appear in the public news ; it will require all your energies as well as fortitude to overcome the distress which my present situation will occa sion you and my dear children. Yesterday morning I was in high spirits, visited my Colonel, who assured me that I might consider my appointment as Major in Don Pedro's Ist regiment certain. But, oh how soon was my sanguine hope blasted! Returning home, a person named Beardsworth, a horse-dealer of Birmingham, swore on my examination that I bought a grey mare of him in November last, and gave him a 501. note that was forged. I was remanded till next Tuesday, and the Bank of England is to prosecute. Such charges will produce serious consequences. I therefore entreat you, my dear wife, as well as all my family, to make your mind up to the worst that can befall me. I have one great consolation, that neither you nor my family know any thing about it; therefore the world cannot reproach you. Your struggles will be great; you most likely will be forsaken by your brother and sister, and will become a prey to poverty and distress; but whatever their conduct may be, may I entreat you to submit patiently. There is in my portmanteau a 51. note, and another cut, and the word ten put in place of the five; there is also a note with the word fifty inserted, but it is a ten." Here the letter went on with great minuteness to state what was in the portmanteau, and concluded thus :—" This is my last farewell, and may it be with God's blessing to you, my affbctionate wife. I ask your forgiveness of my faults and vices, I have so frequently be trayed in your presence. Adieu for ever—for ever adieu, my dear wife; and, my dear children, accept the last farewell and blessing from " YOUR FATHER." The Jury, after conferring together during an hour, hrought in a verdict of "Febo de se," in which the Co roner said he most fully concurred, for a more deliberate act of self-murder he never knew, the deceased having committed it in the full possession of his faculties, and to anticipate the law. According to Act of Parliament, the Coroner isstud his warrant for the interment of the de• ceased forthwith, so that he was interred last night after the inquisition broke up—it being then between eight and ❑ine o'c!ock. The deceased was respectably connected, and had moved ist the first society. He would not have been punished with death for his crime, the law inflicting capital punish ment for forgery having been altered ; but it appears evi dent he preferred destroying himself to the exposure of a public trial. Lord BROUGHAM is, we are assured, actively engaged in devising a plan of Church Reform; Earl GREY will of course have the credit of it, for be is the Prime Minister ; but if there be anything really liberal in the plan we shall thank Lord BROUGHAM ; for although Earl GREY is as anxious as any man can be to purify the Church of its abuses, and to cut down the incomes of the lazy plu ralist, in order to give the working parson his share of the good things of this life, the Chancellor is the only man who has the art of plucking another's beard of its super fluous hairs without having his shins kicked for his pains. Although a Whig, and as the Tories say, even a Radical, the Lord Chancellor contrives to effcet his reforms with less of resolute opposition than any other member of the Cabinet ; though to say truth, the present Cabinet, much as it has done collectively in general reform, has furnished , ew instances of individual exertion in that way, Lord BROUGHAM and Sir JAMES GRAHAM being the only per sons who have stirred, and we may expect something good from such a source. The high dignitaries, and the plu ralists, however, are a powerful body, and the Church Re formers will have a severe task. We are anxious to learn exactly what is intended. If the reform is to be sweeping —that is to say just to the public, and liberal—that is to say just to the clergy at large, it will have our cordial, al though perhaps feeble support.-211erle's Church Register. RAIL ROADS AND STEAM ON THE CON TINENT.—A rail road between the Weser and the Rhine is about to be commenced ; it has received the sanction of the KING and States of Hanover, and a Company, sup ported by Government, has been formed to carry it into effect. Several hundred shares, of 500 thalers each, have been taken. The execution of this plan will be of great advantage to the trade of the North of Germany, parti cularly of Bremen. It is proposed to connect Lubeck and Hamburg by a rail road . and steam-carriages. A steam coach is now in construction at Copenhagen, which is to run on the new road between Kiel and Altona. The Da nish Government intends to establish shortly a communi in Zealand, and A cationabryhuns, in j steam-packetsutiand.between Kalundborg, IMPORTANT COMPANION TO THE BIBLE. —W e cannot refrain from speaking warmly in favour of " The Biblical Annual," just published, uniform with " The Geographical Annual ;" without exception it is the neatest in its execution, correct in its graphic delineation, and classic in its usefulness, of any work we have seen for a long period. The reader of the Old and New Testament, or the commentators on the Sacred Volume, will find in formatio❑ in the scholar-like Index which is comprised in this volume, and we scarcely know which most to admire, the perspicuity of the maps, or the laborious intelligence comprised in this portion of this beautiful volume.— Hampshire Telegraph. PROGRESS OF MEDICAL SCIENCE I EGYPT. ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, PARIS, NOT'. 13. PRESENTATION OF CLOT-BEY AND HIS TWELVE EGYPTIAN PUPILS. This was a striking scene. At an early hour, two of the most commodious benches were occupied by the Eqp tians who have come to study medicine in Paris, and in the midst of them, distinguished by the brilliant magnifi cence of his costume, sat Dr. Clot, physician-general to the army of the Pacha of Egypt, director and founder of the school of Abouzabel. All eyes were turned on this interesting group. The young foreigners have dark, strongly-marked features, and wear no beards. They have a distinction of rank among them—a chief, with his assistants and sub-assistants ; these were clad in a scarlet vest and pantaloons, richly embroidered with gold ; on their heads a red cap, in the Grecian fashion. The re. mainder of the pupils wore a simple blue dress, and cap of the same colour. M. Clot, in addition to the richly embroidered scarlet costume, wore a splendid cachmere for a turban, and a superb damask for a girdle ; on his breast were diamond stars. He looked perfectly oriental ; one should know beforehand that he was a native of Franc, otherwise it would be difficult not to suppose him an Egyptian. The Academy was in the highest degree anxious to hear from M. Clot an account of his - proceedings in Egypt, and the President, as interpreter of the general wish, invited the visitor to gratify it. M. Clot accord. ingly approached the bureau, and began his story in the midst of profound silence. After a few words of apology for his want of habit in addressing as audience in the French language, he thus proceeded : " I lived at Marseilles, a practitioner of some years ' standing, when I was applied to by an agent of the Vice roy of Egypt. I was invited to undertake the organiza tion of the service of health in that country. I consented. and, with a few attendants, embarked in January 1825 I was charged at first with the military service. The troops of the Pacha, at that time in Lower Egypt, amounted to about 25,000 men; the remainder of the army was in the Mo• rea. The officers of health were all of the lowest and meanest description —persons who had risen, from being hospital attendants, to the rank of practitioners-in-chief— and all without any examination into their abilities. The Pacha entreated me to organize the service after the French mode. I found, in the first place. a supreme board of health, consisting of the first physician of his Highness, his physician in ordinary, and a practitioner of the Court. I did not join this board ; I was appointed physician-general to the army. I then set my plans to work ; the first of which was to examine every officer of health, and to reject those it ho should prove insufficient. Of course, this made me many an enemy ; for many an ignorant person was dismissed. I ❑arrowly escaped death from the hand of an as-assin who struck me in the amphitheatre. My officers of health were honoured with military insignia, which contributed at first very much to increase the jealousy conceived against them ; hut that also passed away. The Pacha's army now amounted to 60,000 men, and there was a : , .rievons want of medical officers. To remedy this want, I proposed to convert the hospital of Ahouzabel, which is near Heliopolis; and within about four leagues of Cairo, into a medical school. I collected a hundred young Arabs for my first pupils. But now began my real difficulties. How was I to teach these young people, with whose lan guage I was unacquainted ? I happened to find at Cairo three individuals who understood French, Italian, and Arabic; but they knew nothing of medicine. I said to them, ' Come, you shall he physicians ; but first you must be scholars.' I gave them a lec ture, and said, ' Now you have had your first lec ture; study it, and write it for me in Arabic.' To assure myself of the correctness of the translation, I had retranslated into French. It was then dedicated to the young Arabs, who wrote it down, and were examined through the interpreters. In this way I got through a course of anatomy. Our theoretical mode of instruction soon began to fail us; we found that we should proceed practically to work with the dead body. This, however, looked like an insurmountable difficulty. The Viceroy would not undertdie the responsibility of permitting it ; . _ the Minister of War was equally unwilling to give his sanction. One method alone remained for me, and that I resolved to try. I visited the Ulemas. the Mahotnme dan priests. These functionaries were long sensible of the decline of their influence, and saw that it could only be recovered through the study of medicine—the people having such a veneratio❑ for the Francs, all of whom they con. ceive to be physicians, and whom they generally accost by tendering them their pulse to feel. The chief of the Ulemas, a superior man, did not refuse to reason with me on the matter. His principal objections were these : How was it possible to remove the idea of profanation which the Egyptians attached to the violation of the dead ? And how could we sstisfy the theological notion that the dead are sen sible of the tortures inflicted upon their inanimate remains ? I readily disposed of the latter objection. Suppose,' said 1, that the dead do really feel the torture of dissection, how are they better off if they wait to be gnawed by the worms? their pains can only be anticipated by a few hours; and should those pains he any objection, when the health and well being of thousands of the living are depending upon them ?' And as to the general utility of anatomy, I asked, How would you best make yourself acquainted with the mechanism of a watch ? should you not take it to pieces and examine every part in detail ?" Well, well,' replied the chief priest, go on, dissect ; but mind Ido not give you leave ; I will only say nothing ; I will not tinder my children from dissecting.' It now only remained to overcome the repugnance of the pupils, and to se cure myself from the dangers of popular prejudice. The pupils I gradually habituated to the contact of the dead body ; and before three months they were all warm advocates of dissection. Through them also I ob viated the risk that might arise from popular abhorrence. The pupils persuaded their parents and friends, and they the rest of the people ; after which every thing went on smoothly. I even invited the Ulemas to witness our pro ceedings. The chief Ulema attended ; and even Lrahim Pacha himself, with some of the officers of his Court, as sisted at an entire lecture on anatomy.—( General murmur of approbation through the Academy.) Five years thus rolled on, consecrated to the business of instruction. The land forces were now supplied with medical officers, but the navy was still deficient; the expedition into Syria also required a supply. There was thus a rapid demand for my pupils ; and when the cholera came they were all put in requisition. '['he cholera, as it ravaged Cairn, was a far more dreadful scourge than was ever known there be ' fore. In 28 days it cut off 60,000, out of a population of 260,000. The utmost that the plague ever cut off was 40,000 in the course of six months. All my pupils, as I said, were employed during the epidemic. One of them, now present, was attached to the household of the Pacha, and treated sixty cases with success. I lost, however, twenty or thirty of my pupils (out of 150) during the ravage of the cholera. Abouzabel, which contains about 1,800 inhabitants, lost one-half its popu anion. It was after the visitation of this pestilence, when the pupils reassembled, that I sent out a hundred of them to join the expedition to Syria. I attribute the wonderful progress made in the school of Abouzabel to the method 4, f mutual instruction which we adopted there, and mainly to the excellent capacity of the Arabs, who are very intelli gent, smart, and possessed of great powers of retention. But to conclude. It was in consequence of observing the little stability of strangers in Egypt, and of being persuaded of the paramount advantages of native teachers, that I pro posed to the Pacha, to whose inexhaustible benevolence I was so much indebted, to send into Europe a certain num ber of young men to be instructed in the schools of medi cine, and who should bring back with them a store of professional information. Mehemet Ali readily acceded to my request. He chose France ; and commissioned the to select twelve of my pupils, whom I should conduct to my country. I only regretted that I could not take them all. With regard to myself, I have been requested by the Paella to wear in France the oriental costume, that my countrym en might see that I was raised to the rank of Bey. I have sacrificed nothing for this dignity ; I have waived no opinion ; I have com promised no duty of conscience. The toleration of my kind patron is without bounds ; and, however true it may be that certain Frenchmen have attained the dignity of Paella, by changing their religion and becoming T u rks, I have made no such sacrifice : it was not even demanded that I should. lam both a Bey and a Christian ! I ac cepted, with pleasure and gratitude, a title which I did not solicit, and one, I may add, which is worth much to me in a pecuniary point of view. My appointments, which (PRICE 71).) were originally fixed at 8,000 francs, were afterwards raised to 12,000 ; hut, by the addition of the title, I am the possessor of 36,000 francs per annum. Nor iv the title of Bey all : the Pacha insisted also upon giving me th e rank of a Gtlonel. lie wished, he said, that I should be distinguished from my professional brethren by the de coration of a star ; and in bestowing it on me, he tapped me familiarly on the shoulder, and said with a smile, This will make you less a Christian !' " M. Clot's interesting recital was followed by the mos , marked applause from all parts of the Academy.---ifedi. cal Gazette. THE CAUSE OF RAMADGE v. RYAN. (From Merle's Medical Register.) The glorious uncertainty of the law, or the injustice arising out of proceedings in cases of libel, we think, has never been more fully exemplified than in this case. The long anticipated application for a new trial has been made and refused, and thus has Dr. Ryan in his laudable endea vours to uphold the respectability of the profession to which he belongs, been made the further victim of the most unprecedented and extraordinary legal proceedings that ever occurred in a British Court of Judicature ! It will be recollected that, in July last, an action was brought in the Court of Common Pleas, Westminster, by Dr. Ramadge, a physician of acknowledged talent, against Hr. Wakley, the spirited Editor of the Lancet, for a libel, published in that Journal, imputing to the plaintiff, mal practice in a case of typhus fever, and irregular and un professional conduct, owing to the countenance and support he was known to give to that prince of quacks and im postors, the notorious St, John Long. A verdict for tht plaintiff was returned, with one firthing damages. Proceedings were instituted on the following day in tile same Court before a different Jury, against Dr. Ryan, the Editor of the Medical and Surgical Journal, for re puhli•hing the same libel, and the surprising verdict, con victing him in time penalty of 4001. and costs, was found against him, for this minor offence. Scarcely ever do wt recollect public sympathy and indignation being more strongly expressed than it was universally at this mons trously ab.urd, unjust, contradictory, and disproportionate verdict. A public subscription was entered into for the purpose of defraying the enormous expenses which have been incurred by Dr. R. in the proceedings, but we re gret to state, that up to the present moment only about 1361. has been contributed. For th;ti apathy on the p t . of a liberal profession towards one of its most talentev members, and most manly champions, we are unable t• account, except that many have been waiting the result of the application for a new trial, and anticipating, as every one must have done, that the verdict would havt been set aside. Nothing, however, can afford a more striking exempli. fication of the justice that is itften to be obt iined by those who seek it through the medium of the law. The appli cation was made in the Court of Common Pleas or Thursd ty last for a new trial, principally on the ground tit excessive damages and the tainted character of a Juror. It was alleged and sworn to that one of the Jurors, names Ifart, who hod been an attorney, and who was present it the Court on the previous day during the trial against Mr. Wakley, had been heard to express dissatisfaction at that verdict, and to say that if he had been on the Jury hi should have given much larger damages ; and he wa stated to have added significantly, " I am to be on the .jury to-morrow." The affidavit of Hart denied this 'rate ment, and the Court considering this to be a full answer the rule which had been previously granted to show caul why the verdict should not be set aside, was discharge , ' We feel so indignant at the result of this business, that wt fear to trust our pen to the guidance of our feelings, lee it should occasion us to hive to trust ourselves to chi mercy of a similar Jury. The subject too, has been to. often and so ably cornmente I upon by the whole indepen dent press of the country, that it can scarcely be necessary further to expose the hardships and injustice of the pro ceedings. But one word for Dr. Ryan ! Now no h.q.. from an appeal to the law is left him, we earnestly app. al to all who are concerned for the liberty of the press, as matter of justice to render him that assistance which an) one connec,ed with it may soon be made to want himself: To that profession which ranks him among its must to lented members, we strongly urge all classes of it to con triltute, each according to his means. 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The iron and other ma terials are from a British foundry. PORTUGAL. OFFICIAL DESPATCH, ADDRESSED BY THE MAR QUIS PALMELLA TO ALL THE DIPLOMATIC AGENTS OF HER MOST FAITHFUL MAJESTY, DONNA MARIA 11. I avail myself of the sailing of the steamer Liverpool, which has been detained till this morning on account 01 the weather, to enjoy the satisfaction of announcing to you a new victory obtained by our valiant troops, under the direction of his Imperial Majesty the Duke of Braganza, on the 14th instant. At three o'clock, p.m., of that (Jay, a sortie was made from the Convent of the Seira, and at the same time two disembarkations effected—one at Villa Nova, and the other at a place called Furanda, where the enemy's batteries were erected, which have hitherto been firing towards the Bir. The result of this combined ope ration was the complete destruction of two or three batte ries nearest the Serra, the capture of some hundreds of prisoners, and a great many killed ; amongst whom are reported the Colonels of the regiments Nos. 4 and S. This last corps was nearly annihilated. On our part the loss does not exceed 30 men in killed and wounded. Amongst the latter are two officers. At Furanda the only force landed was a body of sailors, and unfortunately their brave commander, Captain Morgell, was killed. By 11 o'clock, a.m. the fighting had ceased, and our vie torious troops had returned to the Serra and the city, without the enemy during that time daring to attack, or even to threaten, any part of the lines. This movement was made under the immediate com mand of Gdonel Schwalbach, and was well calculated to show what might be the result of an attack when we could employ a larger force, when in this action only 1,500 men were engaged. Our object wrs completely gained, notwithstanding the enemy bad above 6,000 men at Villa Nova. I have just now learnt that at the batteries of Fur anda the mortars were spiked, and great spoil taken. The haste with which I write this circular, little more than an hour after the fighting had ceased, pre vents me from giving a inure circumstantial detail of this glorious affair, which I mean yet to do if the vessel should be detained a little longer. In the mean time you may rely on the accuracy of this brief communication. MARQUIS OF PALMELLA. Palace of Oporto, Nov. 14. FALL OP A TEMPORARY THEATRE.- A few days since a ludicrous scene occurred in Cirencester. A company of travelling comedians, of no ordinary talent, had been " strutting their little hour upon the stage" for several nights in a temporary wooden-built theatre in the Market-place. The " house," embellished with " new scenery, dresses, and decorations," was crammed to over flow. The play had just concluded, and a celebrated actress was enchanting the audience by the sweet warbling tones of her voice, when several cracks of the building warned them of danger—all, however, kept their seats. About ten minutes after, just as the farce was about to commence, the centre part of the gallery came down with a tremendous crash. The people who had occupied the broken seats, rushed to the already overloaded ones above, which fell, bringing down with them the whole front, and pitching many of the audience headlong am ,, ng the ruins. The other sides of the devoted edifice and the root then fell, burying all for some minutes in the wreck. The drop scene was now complete. No bones, fortunately were broken, nor lives lost, although some sbawls and pattens suffered, and many persons were much bruised.... Bristol Mercury. CITY OF LONDON REPRESENTATIOX. CRIPPLE GATE-WARD. A public meeting of the electors resident in this Ward, was held last evening at the workhouse, New Union street, to consider the claims of the several candidates for the City of London, all of whom were invited to attend. The Chair was to he taken at seven o'clock ; but at half. past seven Mr. Newell requested the further patience of the meeting, the candidates not having arrived. lie stated that Mr. Grote, Sir John Key, and Mr. Alderman Waithman, had promised to attend. Mr. Alderman Wood was at Gloucester. He did not know whether sfr. Scales would come. He did know whether Mr. Lyall would come: be had been written to.—(He won't —we don't want him.) Mr. Newell thought he would not. Mr. Lyall did not like meeting the public any more than Lord Henley. Both had refused to attend the meeting on Wednesday next, on the subject of the assessed taxes. Mr. MEDWAY was voted into the Chair. Mr. TIMOIIIY read the answer sent by Mr. Alderman Wood, stating his inability to come, being at Gloucester, and throwing himself upon the electors in consideration of his past conduct. Mr. Alderman Waithman was en gaged .t a meeting of his own; Mr. Aldermen Venables sent his circular, stating his intention of not offering himself as t representative. Mr. Lyall was also otherwise engaged, but proposed to call upon every elector previous to the election.—(Oh, oh ! hisses.) Mr. Dilator; proposed a resolution that every candidate should take every occasion for giving the constituency a full, free, and undisguised exposition of their political and national opinions. Mr. ROBINSON seconded this resolution, which was unanimously carried. Mr. NEWELL would put this question to the candidates now present—Would they vote for the periodical election of Aldermen, if a Bill to that effect were brought before the House? Mr. GROTE addressed the meeting—He was an untried man, but this, if an objection, was an objection which a glean must labour under at one time or another.—(Ap plause.) 'The present age was a most extraordinary one ; the vile hag, corruption, which had hitherto been decked out to appear a beautiful divinity, has been stripped of her ornaments, and stands before the awakened people in ill her ugliness.—(Cheers.) With respect to the question of corpoiations, he was decidedly of opinion, not only that the Magistrates of London, but those 01 every city should be chosen by the citizens, and that that election should he carried into effect in the same mode as he wished Mem bers of Parliament to be--that is, by vote by ballot.— (Cheering.) He thought the Court of Aldermen should :,e an open Court.—(Applause.) Mr. Grote then pro ceeded to detail his political and national views, ape ak eig in favour of the vote by ballot—triennial Pat ha tnents—universal diminution of taxation—reform in the Church—the abolition of tithes—emancipation of the colonial slaves, &c., to the same effect as we have before reported. Mr. Grote's opinions were received with the tiost enthusiastic demonstrations of approbation, and he sat down amidst unanimous cheell - ng. Mr. SCALES addressed the meeting. His public and ; private character had been publicly and privately attacked. These charges had been advertised in publications in which he (Mr. Scales) could not procure the insertion of his denials at any price.—(Shame.) Many men would have retired into private life, heart-broken, at such der.rmined enmity; but, conscious of his own honesty and .ntegrit y, ee had not only stood up against those oppresmre, but had come before his fellow-citizens for the honour of ri pre senting them, and he had no doubt he s'aould tie elec ed.— Laughter and cheers.) Two years ago be was a butcher. Siece that he had been a laayer, or, at least, had been a Treat deal in the bad company of lawyers—(Cneess)— .nnre bad company than lie had ever been led into in all ors former lile—(Laughter)—and the next thing was to 4et into the Legislature. It was a great honour he had to hope at their hands—(Laughter)—oh, he was pretty -ore of it.—(Laughter.) He might have been an M.P. long ago —(Laughter.) When Mr. Hughes retired from Roc ester, a deputation, consisting of the majority of the voters, had waited upon him (Mr. Scales) to insure his return for Rochester free of expenee ; but tie had returned for answer, that he would not be a Member for any place but the CO , of London. He had bad an offer of it se at for St. Ives, in Cornwall, at the moderate price of 3001. But le had refused to sit for a rotten borough. He somewhat oil. tered from his friend Mr. Grote ab cut a graduated tax, lair he was an enemy to all taxation.—(Cheers.) He re membered the time England was happy and prosperous, (tee !use bile Wits nee now the !nese., i.,einai sybteui of txation ; and be felt most certain, that the country would _ never be happy or prosperous, till that system was one away with —(Hear, hear.) He wanted to see a borough Reform in all matters in Church and State. He proposed only to be elected for a year ; but he would give the rest of them three years, but nut mote.—(Hear.) He eid not intend to mumble over a sham motion, and then :ay no more about it. As to taxes, he did think they sou d not much longer he collected, fur the peel reason, that the people would not have wherewithal to pay them, and when there was no more money, the locusts weted tumble off.—(Laughter.) With respect to the corn clue,. 'eon, he thought a certain small fixed duty should be tali'. lie was as much an enemy to negro slavery as anybody, and would have it abolished ; but as this country had been instrumental in establishing the system, and had protected planters and slave owners in keeping it up, they ought to abolish it cautiously. The slaves themselves should be prepared for so great a change by a proper system of edu cation, &c. Opposed to immediate emancipation, yet he was so, under a feeling, that rather than have the system persisted in, he would see the island sunk in the sea. Sir J. KEY had become convinced of the absolute ne cessity of the vote by ballot. He would vote for the re moval of the house and assessed taxes, and the com plete abolition of tithes.—(Great cheering.) He would nave complete Church Reform and the emancipation of the colonial slaves—effected, however, with due caution. He felt that untried men ought to be pledged on all the great questions.—(Cheers.) The gentlemen who had hitherto represented the rotten boroughs had been pledged—these pledges might have been discreditable ; but he thought it no disgrace for himself, or Mr. Alderman Scales, or Mr. Grote, to be pledged to advocate and sup port the rights of the people.—(Hear, hear.) The right of election he considered vested in the people, and no one had a right to interfere with that right. —(amera.) Such opinions he had expressed in the Court of Common Council, and had expressed them on a late occasion in the church of Portsoken Ward ; and if there were any gentlemen present who had to amen that he (Sir John Key) had unsaid in the Cason, what be had said in the church he bad now to come forward.—(Cheers.) Mr. BENJAMIN Woon (Alderman Wood's brother), believing himself the individual challenged, said, that hav ing gone to a meeting in St. Bartholomew's, he there met Mr. Scales.—(Great and continued uproar was occasioned by Mr. Wood's here omitting the title of Alderman; but at was at last agreed to allow him to proceed with the omission, as he refused to fill it up, for the sake of the public eliciting the truth.) Mr. Wood then stated, that at this meeting some person had used very insulting expres sions towards Mr. Alderman Waithman and himself. The next day, Mr. Scales pulled him up in the street, and said that the insulting language had been used by a fellow who had been foisted in by that scamp, Sir John Key—who had sent him into the meeting to create a disturbance, the disgrace of which was then to be fathered upon him (Mr. Scales). Mr. Scales then said, Venables was out, and be would soon have Waithman out.—(oh !) Mr. Scales said be would support his (Mr. Wood's) brother.— (Mr. Wood was continuing his account, but was interrupted by a person, who cried out, `. That's another lie." This ex clamation produced a scene of the greatest confusion and uproar, but at length Mr. Wood obtained silence, and said, that Mr. Scales had said that Sir John Key would not have voted against him in the Court of Aldermen if he had had the opportunity of voting. Sir Joust Kay asked, if Mr. Wood meant to say that he had acted in a different manner when in the Court of Al dermen, than when in the church of Purasoken ? Mr. B. WOOD would not give up his authority. He had heard that said by several individuals.—(Hisses and uproar.) Sir J. KEY said this was good proof that the proceed ings of the Court of Aldermen should be open; if it were so, it would be impossible to put off tales reperts spread About. His opinion of Mr. Alderman Scales's case was well known, and had been always the same. He would airily ask that gentleman whether he really bad made use of the expression attributed to him by Mr. Wood ? Mr. SCALES designated the whole as an election trick. Some disapprobation was expressed at the absence of Mr. Alderman Wood. Mr. Wood's son explained, that ills father's absence was quite unavoidable ; but trusted, t , that his sixteen years' service and constant attendance tee: s ;,e, his duties, would be a sufficient pledge that their interehN'..; ~, would not be forgotten on account of his absence fork e l ee \fs?' uight.—Some further discussion was entered into on - thik , ce`. ) e otnt, and on the question re-pecting Sir Jona Key an t o*-: 4 Ui. Alderman Scale,. Words got very high at last, Lilt:. /,!.,74.; ♦) Guth parties at length refrained, though unsatisfia d app . * ise.::/ - '. rently.—lt was then resolved that the meeting thanked tlii,/ s r'.~