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THE EBRO CANALISATION COMPANY. NOTICE LS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Provisional Certi ficates will be ready for eelivery in Exchange for the Bankers' Re ceipts on and after Tuesday next, tith instant, between the hours of Eleven and Three o'Clock. By order. C. STEWART, Secretary. 4, Adam's Court, Ohl Broad-street, 3d Feb , 1853. ANTIGUA. —The Plantation or Estate called TIIE BIG DUER3 ESTATE, situate in the Parish of St. Peter, in Antigua, with the Buildings, Live and Dead Stock thereon, Is offered for sale by Private Contract. Terms and particulars may be obtained on application to Messrs. °Ryerson, Lavie, and reachey, Frederick's Place, Lond,n. G ENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. Incorporated by Act of Parliament. 71, Lombard-street, London. Notice is Hereby Given, That the Half-yearly General Meeting of the I'roprietors of this Company will be held at the Company's Office, 71. Lombard-street, on Tuesday. the 22d instant, at Two o'Cl , ck pre cisely, pursuant to the Act or Parliament, to transact. the usual busi ness, and to declare the dividend for the half-year ending the 31st December, 1152. By order of the Court, MARTIN PRATT. London, Feb. I, 1653. THE LONDON and COUNTY JOINT-STOCK BANKING COMPANY. Parent Establishrtgent, 21, Lombard-str,,et. DIRECTORS. JOHN SAD LEM. Esq , Chairman. JOHN GRIFFITH FRITH, Esq.. Deputy Chairman. John L. Anderdon, Esq. R o h e rt Keating, Esq., M.P. William Cory, Esq. John Henry Lance. Esq. James Andrew Durham, Esq. James Rhodes, Esq. Swyn'en Jervis, Esq Richard Springett, Esq. William Champion Jones, Esq. John Wheelton, Esq. Ga-exam arrac ER —Flenry Luard, Esq. At the ANNUAL MEETING of Proprietors, held on Thursday, the 3d February, 1853, at the London Tavern, Rishopteate-street, the following Report for the year ending the 31st Dezember, 1852, Was read by the Secrets., y. _JOAN SADLEIR, Esq., in the Chair. REPOR P. Your Directors have more than ordinary pleasure in submitting to the Proprietors a general statement of the affairs of the Company. and the resat of the half-year's accounts ending the 31st December, 1852. In June last your Directors decieled that the large and steady ad vance in the business of the Company made it desirable to increase the capital from £300,000 to .E 400,000, In carrying out this measure, they offered to the Proprietors the option of the pew capital at a pre • mium of £3 10s. per share, and they have the satisfaction to state that the whole amount was at once taken up. The sum of £17,500, arising from the premium, has enabled Your Directors to extinguish the dead weight of £17,000 arising from the preliminary expenses which had acerued from the year 1836, in establishing the various branches of the Company. During the past year your Directors have opened branches at Colchester, High Wycombe, Richmond, and Uxbridge, which they have every reason to believe will tend materially to promote the in terests of the Company. The marked improvement in the progress of the Bank has enabled your Directors to give expression to their entire approval of the uniform zeal and integrity of the numerous officers employed in London and at the Country Breeches, by presenting to each officer a gratuity of 10 per cent. on the amount of his salary. The net profits of the half-year ending the 31st December, 1852, after reserving an ample sum for bad and doubtful debts, amount to 14,2091. 7s. 2d., as set forth in the balance-sheet, signed by your auditors. Your Directors recommend that a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, and a bonus of 2 per cent. (equal to 8 per cent, on the year), both free from Income tax, should now be declared. This if approved by the Proprietors, - will leave 4,6711..195. 4d , to be car ried to the guarantee fund, which will then be increased to 44,325!. Your Directors have great gratification in stating that their re • seeded Chairman, John Satilefr, Esq , has laid the foundation of a Provident Fund, for the relief of officers who, from misfortune, sick ness, or superannuation, may become inc a p able of p rovidin g for themselves and their families. Your Directors have thought that the most acceptable return they could offer to Mr. Badleir would be some general measure by which this Provident Fund might be systematically enlarged, for the benefit of the officers. They have given to this object their most mature consideration, and have established a graduated scale of guarantee among the offieers,which combines the advantage of mutual watch fulness and control over their fidelity and good conduct, with a regu lar contribution by each officer, to the increase of the Provident Fund. Your Directors anticipate that the result of this plan will, in the course of a few years, give an extended and efficient aid to the benevolent views of the Chairman. The Directors retiring by rotation are—John Wheelton, John Griffith Frith, and Richard Springett, Esquires, who have respect /.03' given notice of their intention to become candidates for re election. BALANCE-SHEET,OF THE LONDON AND COUNTY BANNING • COMPANY, list DEcEHBER, 1852. 1,1116 To Capital... .............. £360,670 0 0 Reserved Fund.. ••••• • • • •• Customers' balances, Ike. •.. .• • Profit and loss balance brought forward from last account . .... . ................. Net profit for the half-year, after payment of gratuity to officers, and 13,4121. 19s. 2d. for line - est to customers • . • • • • • • • • • 7,246 14 7 14,299 7 2 £3,703,470 3 9 Cl. 13 1 Cash in hand and at call Government and other secarities, discounted bills, &c ••• • • • ......... ..... . $ ,088,3.56 14 8 Bank premises, freehold and leasehold 30,303 6 4 £3,703,470 3 9 PROM' AND Loss ACCOUNT• To Half.ye,r's dividend at 6 per cent. per annum... £10,122 13 7 Bonus of 2 per cent...• • •.. • ... ••• • • • 6 748 810 Balance carried to guarantee fund ...• 4,674 19 4 £21,546 1 9 By Balance from last account.. •• . ...... ... ..., .. .. —7,246 14 7 Net profit for the half-year.• ••. • • • ....... ..... 14,392 7 2 £21,546 1 9 We, the undersigned. have examined the foregoing balance-sheet, and compared the items it comprises with the several books and vouchers relating thereto, and have found the sameto be correct. HENRY OVERTON, JOHN WRIGHT, /Audit Ors. R. ESCOMBE, London and County Bank, Jan. 26, 1853. The foregoing Report have been read by the Secretary, the fol lowing Resolutions were severally proposed, and unanimously adopted :- 1. That the report be received and adopted, and printed for the use of the shareholders. 2. That a Mildewti at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum be de. dared upon the capital stock of the Company for the half•year ending the 31st December, 18t2, together with a bonus of 21. per sent , both clear of •he income tax, payable on and after Monday, the 14th (lay of February instant. 3. That the balance of 4,6741 19s. 4d., remairing to the credit of the profit and loss account, be carried to the guarantee fund. 4. That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Chairman oc ar . Beard of Directors for the a' le manner in whichthey have dotted the aff tics of the Company during the past year. 5. That the thanks of this Meeting be presented to the Auditors of the Company, viz.:—Robert Escombe, Hen y t.verton. and John Wright, Esqrs., and that they be re-elected for the current year. 6. That the thanks of this Meeting be presented to Henry Luard, Esq . , the General Manager, and the other officers of the establish ment for the zeal and ability with which they have severally dis charged their duties. 7. That the special thanks of this Meeting be presented to John Sadleir. Esq., for his able and courteous conduct in the chair. The ballot for the election of Three Directors having been pro. ceeded with, the following gentlemen were unanimously re-elected:— John Wheelton, Esq., John Griffith Frith, Esq., and Richard Sprin gs% Esq • (Signed) JOHN SADLEIR, Chairman. The Chairman having glinted the chair, it was resolved, and Carried unanimously, That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be presented to John Sadleir, Esq., for his able and courteous conduct in the chair. (Signed) J. G. FRITH. Extracted from the minutes. (Signed) R. P. NICHOLS, Secretary. LONDON and COUNTY JOINT - STOCK BANK, 21, Lombard-street, 3d February, 1853.—NOTICE is HERE tY GIVEN, that a DIVIDEND, at the rate of 61. per cent. per annum on the Capital Stock of the Company, for the half-year ending the 3'st December, 1852, together with a Bonus of 2 per cent., Will be PAID to the Proprietors either at the office, 21, Lombard /reef, or at any of the Company's Branch Banks, on and after Mon day, the 11th inst. By order, BENRY LIIARD, General Manager. IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, Just published, by U. BalMere, 219, Regent-street, London. Ito I. •vo., in cloth. price ss. by post free, ss. 6d., ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the View o the Correction of wide-spread Errors 1 , 1 , 1 relation to the Treatment and Core of Su ff erers from Debility of the uentrative System, lr Sexual Hypochondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD "Dr. Pickford 's known to English readers by his frequent practi- Uttl contributions to German medical literature. This is the first L une, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi nal reader. we trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect arty other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his !Hower to eorreet.”—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. We oromised in a former number that we should recur to this unw°r„:4. in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes ft great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by preying the credulity of the public. The tribe of ' Quiet Symatifisers,' a nd ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book ( *Lad find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from th com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would ts saved much needless suffering of hody and mind, and what is of aunt importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— Much money...... This volume is well qualified to put an end to the em pirical system of treating Spermatorrheea, and to place the treat ant upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, to do much good."—Medical Circular, Jane 16, 1852. So. 11. svo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d.. by post free, 45., CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi ,"•°" at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate "" 41 aPParently Intractable Forms. By F. B. 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" What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever h eard. " ventFAUßJter : — Life's pilgrimage, from inf ancy to old age. The ad en of the nassions. Ch as tit y and its infringement. The casualties of and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narra tiVe, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages. T. THB MARRIAGE STATE. To be or not to be, that is the question." Fa c t aitAmitx:—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and Choice, on both skits, as to age ternperament, complexion, and Iliture, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility audits conversion. Cases, 8&e. By It. J. CULVERWELL, ( 18 41), 11.R.C.5. (1F27), L . S . A . (1824), Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these Matters. Price Is. each; by post, Is. 6d. To be bad of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet -street ; Alain, 39, Cornhdl; or of M. It. Culyetwell, 10, Argyll -place, Regent-street, who may be consulted daily from Ten five, and Seven till Nina. MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE. PROVIDENT CLERKS' ASSOCIATION. No. 42, MOORGATE-STREET. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. I W. G. Prescott, Esq. Thomson Ilankajun4 Esq. . Baron-L,Do Itothschikl, M.P. _ Treasurer of t Fund -John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. - Every descriptim of Assurance and A nttnities granted NINE-TENTHS of the PROFITS are divided every five years to Assurers of three years' standing. An important feature o" this Association is, that Policies may be made payable. to the WIDOW, WIDOWER, and CHILI)BEN of the ASSURED FREE of PROBATE and LEGACY DUTY. A full Report of the Annual Meeting of the Association, held on the 17th January, 1853, may be had on application at the Office, or of any of the Agents of the Association. The Directors beg to call the attention of the Public to the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Friendly Societies, which states "their proceedings—viz , of this and four other Societies similarly enrolled—had been very beneficial in extending a knowledge of the advantages of Life Assurance." The Benevolent Fund of this Association offers most important advantages to Clerks Assuring by Loans and Gratuities. Annuities also are granted to Members, as well as provision to their Widows and Orphan Children. In May next, Annuities will be granted, amounting t0;1251., which will make the total amount of Annuities given by this Association, 5801. By order of the Board. PHILIP HENRY BYRNE, Secretary, 42, Moorgate-street, Jan. 28, 1853. Commission allowed to Solicitors and others. No. 18,836.] HOUSE of COMMONS : BLUNDERS : o ratis on application, or post free for two stamps, a " Review of the Members of the house of Commons," as contained 1;1 " Watkin's London Direct.ry fir 1853," showing upon these lm•• rortant names no less than seven hundred and forty blunders. FALSEHOOD :—Gratis on application, or post tree for two stamps, " Disproof" of the falsehoods contained in a handbill now distributing with the view to injure the" Post-/Wee Lon Jon Directory ;" and a Review provin;, in names selected by F. W. ‘Vatkini, a proportion of error giving for the Street Key of W.tkin's I.ondi n Directory for 1853" one hundred and thirteen th-mand blunders. As there is reason to believe that the unsold copies of %Vat- Isin's Directory wid (with some trifling a idoida) be produced as a lf arch Editio ~" persons importuned to pni chase the work. shnuld, before pledging the,osAves to do ao, obtain these Reviews, when (as the rage at which each rror occurs is quote , ) they can I eadily test whether the book offered is a new edition or contains these blunders. Kelly and Co., 19 and 20, Old Boswell-court, London. UCCA and PISTOJA RAILWAY COM PA NY. NOTICE TO THE HOLDERS OF PREFERENCE SHARES.— Notice is hereby given, that the Bankers' Receipts will be exchange.' for Share Certificates, on and atter Ronda , , the ith day of February instant. Interest at the rate of bl. per Cent. per annum, to the 31st ult. (in conformity with the decree of the Tuscan Government), wilt be paid at the Office of the Company, No. 25, Tokenhouso-yard, simul taneously with the delivery of the Certificates. l'irchin-lane, Feb. 3, 1853. BARNETT, ELLIS, & CO. ONDON EXCHANGE ADVANCE FUND, 2, Adelphi-terrace, Straad, facing the river ; City Era 'nth, 3 Ohi Broad-street, City. The Right Hon. Lord ERSKINE, Chairman. Loans advanced, in sums of 101. and upwards, granted on a joint promissory note, repayable by easy instalments, or on the deposit of deeds or other available securities. hills of exchange cashed at moderate rates of interest. Forms of application may be obtained at the Offices, or on forward ing 12 postage stamps. WM. BROOKS, Secretary. REGENT GALLERY, 69, Quadrant.— On MONDAY, the 7th of February, will be opened the Grand MOVING HISTORICAL DIORAMA, illustrative of events in the Lives of Napoleon Bonaparte, Nelson, and Wellington. Afternoon, 3 o'clock ; Evening, 8. Admission, Is. ; Stalls, 2s. 6d. ; Reserved Seat!, 3s. lyS. WOODIN'S SOIREES • CO3ILQUES, or CARPET BAG and SKETCH-BOOK. CROWDED HOUSES AND TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS I EVERY EVENING at Eight o'Clock, at the THEATRE ROYAL, ADELAIDE-STREET WEST, STRAND. Being an entirely NoTel and Original Vocal and Visual Instructo, Gro tesquo, Comico, Pictorio, Musico, Eccentrissimo, Characteristic°, Lecairio, IN TWO COMIC SECTIONS. PART FIRST costrams A Vocal Illustration, Beginnings"—Full-length Portrait, Martha Mirins.—lllustration. Carpet Bag.—Half-length Portrait, Major Bluster.—Vocal Illustration, "A Visit to the Great Metropolis.' Full-length Portrait, Sir Benjamin Bungle.—Half.length Po- trait Mr. Sampson Rusty.—Full-length Portrait, Mr. Oliver Oldstyle (with a Vocal Illustration of " Bygone Days ").—Full-length Por trait, Ben Binnacle —Miniature Portrait, Mrs. Muddles (from Manchester.) PART SECOND. Full-length Portrait, Sandie M`Whittle.—Fall-length Portrait, A Well-known Personage.—lllustration, Carpet Bag.—Full-length Portrait, A Yankee Clipper.—Vocal Illustration, " Metropolitan Molodies."—Full-length Portrait, Mr. Cavil.-111ustration, Carpet Bag.—Full-length Portraits, Mr. and Mrs. Lapsus Linger.—Vocal Illustration, " Pleasures of a Pic-nic Party."—lllustration, Sketch book (Daylight and Moonlight).—Finale, " The Lions of London." With several Pictorial Illustrations, furnished by " The Sketch. book." In the course of the Evening Mr. C. Conran will perform a variety of grand Piano Solos. - Admission, Is.; Reserved Seats, 25.; Dress Stalls, 35.; Private Boxes One Guinea. PATRON-H R. H. PRINCE ALBERT. IROYAL POLYTECHNIC INNTITUTION. ENTIRE CHANGE of MUSIC—An OPTICAL and MUST. ILLUSTRATION of SHAKSPEEE'S " MIDAUMMER ----- NIGHT'S DREAM," introducing the ORIGINAL MUSIC by Sir Henry Piqlop, Morning and Evening.—LECTURE by J. II Pepper. Esq., on the endless AMUSEMENTS of CHEMISTRY, adapte3 to a Juvenile Audience; by Dr Hochheffner. on the MECIIANICAL PROPERTIEA aJET of STEAM: by Mr.Crlsp,, on YRICSSON'S CALORIC ENGINE.—DISSOLVING ineholing Day and Night Views of WALIIEIi CAS rLE. WALIIER CHURC &c., &c. dunitsion. la. ; Schools and Children under ten years of age, half-price, LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO. RG UAL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, St. James's, I e.see, Charles Emile Laurent, Onslow House, Brompton-road. Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament, of 25th George 11. Open every evening with Laurent's Celebrated Band. Principe orn,t-11-riston, M. Boulcour. Admission—ONE SHILLING. Doors open A Half-past Eight o'clock. Daneing to commence el Ntrio. and terminate at Ha lf-past Eleven precisely. ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MARRIAGE, AND THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. WITH FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian, in s Sealed Envelope, 2s. 6d.. or post-free, for Forty-two Stamps, QELF-PRESERVATION; an 1.0 Analytical Investigation of the Physiology and Functions 01 Marriage, in all the bearings in which that important subject allects the health anti happine.s of Man, withits DLsqualifications and Impe diments, tracing their origin to the effects of Juvenile solitary habits, youtlaul excess, tropical climates, or close study; followed by prac tical remarks, founded on twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhcea, Syphilis, and all diseases of the Urinary and Generative System. Il lustrated by 50 coloured Eneravings, on the Anatomy of the Repro. ductive Organs and their relative conditions in Health and Disease. By SAMUEL LAWERT, M.D. 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Dxtor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin bttr7h, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Socieq, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. _ _ _ The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful consequences resulting from irregularities and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists The treatment adopted is founded on experience gained in the most celebrated schools of medicine both in this country and in continental Europe. The results of the knowledge thus acquired are here condensed under th. personal supervision of Dr. La'Mert, himself one of the few legally qualified physicians who have devoted their whole and un divided studies to this important branch of medical science. In short, every peculiarity relating to the treatment of the diseases incidental to the generative system, and the means of inuftediate relief and ultimate curs are described in detail. The professional,reputation of Dr. La'Mert, who has taken the most distinguished medical and academic honours at home and abroad, is in itself a sufficient guarantee that those who may place themselves under his care will, in every instance, inset with that delicate consideration and inviolable secrecy which are so requisite in the treatment of these cases. Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater- noster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; Mann, 23, Comhill ; or free by post for forty-two stamps, from the author, who may be consulted personally, or by etter daily, from Ten tilt Two, and trom Six till Eight. ALWAYS PLEASING because EVER NEW. To every observer of E MOSES and SON'S scale of business in London and the Country, it is plain that a New Stock may be produced every day. To sore this might seem like exaggeration ; by others it might be regarded as a commercial embellishment; but E. MOSES and SON never employ fictitious allusions, for they are always prepared to prove every statement they make by the articles they present. The artistes in their employ are each in his depart. ment fully acquainted 'with every British introduction, and, aided by foreign communications on every change of style, thus are they daily producing novelties adapted to the season—such as insure grace and comfort, are there new styles of Overcoats, a - d number less garments to wear as Coats or Overcoat as mar be desired the e are articles the design and style of which are exclusively theirs. A cursory inspection will afford the highest gratification; and the 'wetness, comfort, mid sot vice secured by these ingenious contrivances will prove more than ever satisfactory ; but the prices of every description of Dress, Hosiery, Furs, &C., Sac., &c., in conse quence of Tel' auspicious arrangements, and charged so low that imitation is an entire impossibility. Sporting, Dress, and Juvenile Attire, either ready made or to measure, excels any which can be had elsewhere, and is charged considerably less prices. EMIGRATION. There are many reasons why Emigration will become increas ingly popular, and why all who intend to make Australia their fu ture residence, should immediately arrange for the selection of their Outfits, this being indispensable business for all Emigrants ; and if transacted at E. MOSES and SON'S, is the highest advantage to every class of Emigrants, male or female—all the goods being ex pressly prepared for their use on their voyage and after their arrival ani being such only as are absolutely required, prove a great saving of time ant money to thousands anticipating a voyage to " The Land of Health and Wealth." E. MOSES and SON keep a separate Department for Outfitting, but it communicates with their immense Wholesale Store, and the several sections of their Massive Establish ment, comprising Clothing, Hosiery, Boot and Shoe Making, Hatting, and other ve branches of bu s i ness, where snperior quality and l ow charges gi Emigrants advantages to be found at no other House in the universe. Ship-sailing information and full Lists of Outfits for Ladies and Gentlemen may b e h ad on application, or post-free to any part of the Kingdom. CAUTION. —E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the p u blic against imposition, having learned th a t the untradesman-like f same e) d°i.4 Being connected with th e i r E stablishment, " or " it's the concern,' has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER uoua 1N OA LONDON, except their own Establishments, a London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, mi n° r t e . " 84,85, and 86, Aldg ate, o pp osite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1, 2, dl, Ilart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, Far.tate. tierchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Sh"e Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT —Should any article not give satisfaction, it will be exchanged if desired, or, if preltirred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, Irom which no aba' merit can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset to Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, entitled "The World's Pharos," containing the EtntgrftEt's Assistant, full list of prices, and directions tor seltmea surement, may be had on application, or post-free, to toy part of the kingdom. ♦ ilitothome Almelo's for V.e year ending 1853 can be bad gratis, on application. Id Pon parte Franca!s. Hier *richt man Deutsch. Qtti si pada Italian. . 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Now ready, embellished with Nine Portraits, THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE E-ISSUE of the LIVES of the QUEENS of ENGLAND. By AGNES STRICKLAND. COMPRISING ALL TIM RECENT IMPORTANT ADDITIONS, PORTRAITS OF ALL TIIE QUEENS, 8:e. To be completed in S Monthly Volumes, Bvo., price 10s. 6d. each, E 123 ea :bound. Published for Henry Colhurn, tiy his Successors, Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough. street. teau, and L. de la Cherois, midshipmen, R.N., passed examination on board her Majesty's ship Victory, qua lifying for the rank of Lieutenant, on Wednesday. Mr. George Grandidier, secretary's clerk in the Corn naander-in-Chief's office at this port, passed at the same time for the rank of paymaster, R.N. Mr. Robert Grant, master's assistant, also passed for second master, R.N. We have received letters from the West India squadron this afternoon. Since our last the Devastation, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander C. Y. Campbell ; and the Daring, 12, Commander Napier, have been with the Admiral at Grenada and Margarita. The Daring having received dispatches of a satisfactory nature from La Guayra, sailed on the morning of the 2d ult. from there for Port Royal ; the Devastation having been dispatched at the same time for Barbadoes, and rejoined the flag ship at Jamaica. The Calypso, 20, Captain Forbes, arrived at Barbadoes from La Guayra on the 2d ult., having lost her officer of Marines (Lieutenant Lock), and her surgeon, Dr. George Roe, havin; - r been ill ; but he was better, and it is supposed the Calypso will return to the Main. No other cases of fever have appeared in that ship. The Cumberland (flag), the Devastation, and the Daring are quite healthy. The Dauntless has lost 83 in all, and her people are still en camped on shore at Barbadoes. 'the Highflyer sailed from Grenada, it is supposed f or P or t R o yal, on the 24th of December, the fever having increased a little. The following promotions and appointments have been made by Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, Com mander-in-Chief : MR. COBDEN, M.P., AT HOLMFIRTIL On Wednesday evening the annual Soiree of the Holmfirth Mechanics' Institution took place, when Mr. Cobden, M.P., for the first time addressed the inhabit ants of this obscure but important nook of Yorkshire. Mr. COBDEN, M.P., on being called upon was re ceived with loud and vo'iferous cheering. He spoke as follows :—Mr. Chairm an, ladies, and gentlemen,— When I heard you, Sir, s'?eak of war, I could not help feeling how much better 'A would be if we could have some one to fight with here, for where there is perfect unani mity, where there is nobody to oppose us except that phantom which has been conjured up, that there is some body opposed to education, it renders it exceedingly dif ficult for those who have to address you to engage your attention and interest your feelings. And my difficulty is much increased to-night in having to follow a succession of speakers who, I will say, without flattery, have equalled any speakers that I have ever listened to at a meeting of this kind —(hear, hear)—speakers who have given you practical arguments, cogent reasoning, and strong declamation. Now, gentlemen, shall I confess the truth to you, and tell you a secret. I am a very bad hand indeed at speaking—bad at all times, but especially bad when'l have nothing to prove, nothing to disprove, and nobody to oppose. Everything here is admitted, and we are all of one mind. Sometimes in the House of Commons—confessing secrets again—where I feel my self obliged to say something on questions before the house, and where there is not much occasion to speak, my friend Bright, who perhaps sits beside me, some times says to me, as an indication that I wanted Commander Heathcote, of the Cumberland, to be Captain, and appointed to the Highfiyer, vice Matson, decease& Lieutenant A. F. Kynaston, Milt of the Cumber land, to be Commander of that ship, vice Heathcote, promoted. Mate Mr. Stubbs, of the Cumberland, to be Lieute nant of the satip, vice Kynastos, promoted. The latter exchanges into the Dauntless. Mr. It. Grog, Assistant-Engineer of the first-class of the Devastation, to be Chief Egigineer of the thi r d-clas s , vice Burt, to the Dsimtless, r which it is- hoped, will be able to move shortly to Bermuda, her cases not being so numerous, nor the disease so virulent. Every vessel which coaled lately at the Island of St. Thomas has been afflicted with this awful fever, both men-of-war and packets. _something to excite me, " Would you not like some body to kick you now. (Laughter and applause.) members of Parliament—again telling secrets—(laughter) —members of Parliament call these, anniversaries ot me chanics' institutes at which they are obliged to give their attendance, political treadmills—(lond laughter)—because they say, " You are obliged to go, you are laid hold of and forcibly imprisoned, and when you are there you are always obliged to move to a certain step, and you must not step out of it." (Hear, and applause.) Now, gen tlemen, I will not say I am here by coercion, because my friends around me will bear testimony that I am a will ing and a delighted visitor here, but still there is some thing in the simile of a "political treadmill " after all, because when I come into this room filled by constituents and friends, and probably by men who sympathise with my views on general public questions, one feels naturally dis- SHEERNESS, FEB. 2. The Rattlesnake, Commander Charles Trollope, is ordered to leave here on Sunday next. The steam-tug African will tow her from here to Portsmouth. The Medea, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, of 350-horse power, Commander John C. Bailey, now at Portsmoutll, it is reported will accompany her, and tow her, as occasion requires, until she arrives in the Pacific, after which the Medea will proceed to Hong Kong. The Espiegle, 12 guns, Commander George Hancock, will be commissioned to-morrow by her commander. The paymaster, Mr. John Doyle, has taken up his com mission to-day. The workmen of the yard had been set on to expedite the forwarding this vessel with all possible dispatch. posed to talk about those things which would be likely m'ost to interest my audience, and those topics on which their thoughts and feelings may be often running. But lam forbidden, and I would be the last to infringe on those rules laid down by these societies. If there be one man in this hall who differs from me in political opinions, even if there should be but one, he shall find me respect his opinions by the observance of that strict neutrality which we all claim and afford at meetings of mechanics' insti tutions. Now, gentlemen, I come here to Holmfirth for the first time in my life, not for the last time I hope —(applause)—but I came, I must say, very much at tracted by the painful fame to which you attained PLYMOUTH, FEB. 2. Wind, east and moderate. Sailed this day, the Pyrenees, convict-ship, with convicts for West Aus tralia. Arrived the Axon, tender, with supernumeraries, from Portsmouth. _ Arrived the Rochester, lighter, Savage, master, with stores, from Pembroke. uring the last year, about which I read so much, and had the opportunity of seeing a great deal that was THE MEDITERRANEAN. The Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Deans Dun das, C. 8., in his flag-ship, Britannia, 12U, Captain Car ter, with his fleet, left Gibraltar January 25, and is by this time very near Malta, at which port the gallant ad miral is to keep his fleet in readiness for instant service. It is not correct that Lady Emily Dundas left Malta to join the admiral at Gibraltar. Her ladyship waits the arrival of the gallant and popular chief at the former port, at which he has been a stranger almost ever since his appointment. . done to meet and mitigate your awful calamity. I naturally felt that as your society here might have suffered from that calamity to which your whole dis _ trict had been subjected, that it was the duty of every one who possessed any connexion, whether political or otherwise, with this locality, to be here to-night to aid your institution on its entering upon another year of its usefulness. (Hear, hear, and applause.) And now let me tell you that Holmfirth has acquired a great reputation from what has befallen it. Towns sometimes are celebrated for calamities as well as cele brated for great blessings and distinctions of another kind : Lisbon, for instance, is never spoken of except in association with the dreadful earthquake of the last century, and Holmfirth is now usually spoken of in connexion with the fearful calamity which last year befel it. You have become a marked place, the country are interested in you. A great portion the benevolent population have interested themselves for the benefit of Holmfirth, and, I must say, I think that the Outpouring of hearty benevolence and philan thropy displayed last year in all parts of the kingdom on the occasion of your suffering, was such as was cal culated to raise, not only our countrymen, but humanity itself, in one's estimation. (Applause.) And lam bound to admit also that the great probity, and mode ration, and strict integrity with which you have ad ministered the relief awarded to you, and the way in which you have made a return of a large proportion of that which had been contributed, stands unparalleled Ln the annals of philanthopy. (Applause.) I said co-day already I wish you had been more generous to- wards yourselves with what you had to dispose of. I wish you had not only contributed relief for past suffer- ings, but had anticipated a little the distress which may bang about you in consequence of last year's misfortune. However, if you have lost something in money, you have gained immensely in character and reputation, and I think that is quite equal to the cash. (Loud applause.) Now, I have heard something to-night of the particular details of your institution. I understand you number 150 members. It is not so many as it ought to have been, and it is not so many, I think, as you will have if we meet again next year. But, considering the popu lation, and comparing you with other = towns which I will not mention, and bearing in mind the circumstances under which you are situated, Ido not think we have any right to complain on the present occasion. (Ap plause.) But recollecting the advantages of your posi tion, and hearing all that I have heard of the benefit to be derived from your institution, I do hope next year will mark an increase in your numbers. (Hear, hear.) A great deal has been said to exhort young people to belong to this institution. Ido not see a good many young people, but those who are bald and like myself grey a little, are in considerable numbers before me. Now, I should like the people to try the Chinese mode of regulating family matters. In China, if boys are found idling in the streets and picking and stealing, they do not do as we do, take these young, untutored, and unreasoning creatures before the magistrates, but take them home to their parents and apply the bamboo to the soles of the parent's feet. Now, though I would not inflict corporeal punishment, I think we should lay it at the door of the parents to be obliged to send their sons and daughters to an institution such as this. For what are the advantages they confer ? I have heard the programme of your education here, and it is almost equal to what used to be given in the public schools and in first-class boarding schools. You may learn almost anything here. Where are the excuses for being igno rant when 3s. 3d. a-quarter, or 3d. per week, gives you the advantage of all this variety of instruction ? (Ap plause.) Now, this being so, how is it brought to bear on the prospects of this people ? I cannot see how any man can have a chance of being anything twenty years hence except a navigator or a ploughman, except he has learnt reading, writing, and arithmetic, because the standard required for superior employments shuts out all who have not got superior instruction. I have been engaged in getting employments for persons, and whether I have applied to a railway company or the London police, I have experienceed the greatest difficulty in trying to serve those people who had not got the education fitting them for the employment ; so that putting it on the ground of self-interest, it appears to be the pre-eminent interest of parents to see that their children are educated, in order that they may get some respectable employment ; and here you have instruction made especially suitable to the callings of the different parties who attend this insti tution. (Hear.) It has been stated that you have re ceived a number of models for drawing furnished by the Board of Trade, or by the Committee of the Council on Education, in London. I think to have made a supply of models of this kind from a central society is very good. I am not the friend of centralisation myself with reference to anything which implies management, but to bring to a centre in Manchester, Leeds, or London, these models of art, or to offer what are considered the best rules and arrangements, and to diffuse those models and rules throughout the country as a means to enable localities to improve by them in the best way they can—that I think is unexceptionable and to be commended. These models are sent from the Board of Trade, but I think I heard the remark, that along with those models there came from the Society of Arts information and instruction as to manufacturers' patterns, or something of that sort. Now, I have no faith in that. I have no faith in your learning anything connected with your particular branches of manufacture from the Society of Arts—whe ther you shall have stripes or checks, botanical forms, hieroglyphics, or Chinese figures ; whether you shall have roses or lilies. The Society of Arts cannot teach you these things half so well as Mr. Schwann, or those who buy them from you—(hear, hear) —you would never think of going to London for designs of your patterns ; THE PACIFIC. The Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral Moresby, C. 8., shifted his flag from the Portland, 50, Captain Chads, to the Nereus, store-ship, and• sent the Portland to the coast of California Dec. 3, with stores for the Thetis, 38, Captain Kuper, C.B. It, was expected that the flag-ship would return in April. Trincomalee, Captain Wallace Houston, arrived at Valparaiso from Plymouth, Dec. 12. THE YELLOW FEVER AND HER MAJESTY'S SHIP DAUNTLESS. The following letter has been addressed , by one of the two or three surviving officers of the fever-stricken screw-frigate Dauntless, to a relative in England : "H.M.S. Dauntless, Barbadoes, Jan. 13. "I am delighted to be in a state to be able to write to you as usual. I can assure you that there was a time when your chance of ever hearing from me again was small indeed. I am happy to tell you that the terrible cloud of pesti lence that has now for nearly two months, hung like a black pall over this unfortunate ship, I think is on the point of being dispersed—at all events there is a ray of hope, seeing that we have not had a case of fever for six days from the ship, nor a case from the camp for five days. " A considerable part of the stores, &c., have now been removed to the shore, fumigation extensively used, and other means of purification, and their combined good effects, I think, now are beginning to tell. The Devas tation arrived here on the 6th, fo r the purpose of towing us over to Antigua, but it would have been folly to have bundled men and stores overboard at a time—the turning point of (apparently) from sickness to health ; therefore, the Devastation returned to the admiral, who would meet her at Port Royal. If matters progress favourably for another week, we shall be getting stores, &c., on board, and will leave here for Bermuda, the only direction where health can be found under our broken-up and debilitated condition. Our present chapiain goes home by this mail; invalided from effects of yellow fever. As regards myself, lam now nearly recovered. Have heard nothing from the Highflyer, but I believe she is now at Port Royal with yellow fever. I suppose you h ave a l rea dy h ea rd of the death of the marine officer of the Calypso (Lock) ; it is reported that he dined on board the Highflyer, and on his return to his own ship fell sick of the fever and died. " I dare say we shall be paid off directly we arrive in England, which will most likely be about the latter end of April, just in time, NOT me, to have served my time in a fifth or sixth rate to qualify myself for third or fourth, according to new regulations- pleasant prospect ! But still how delightful it is to think that in this year 1853, I am no longer a 'tea grocer, ' as the Un i te d S erv ice remarked in one of i ts recent numbers. " Poor old Parker is very shaky — a type of all and everything here. Just now disease and death have done their work on board this once-happy ship. Results up to this date (13th) :-16 officers dead, and seamen and marines, 70 ; making a total of 86 persons. There are now 22 in hospital ; the majority of these, I am happy to say, doing well." AN IMPORTANT ADVANTAGE BY A NE W S CEE w. PROPELLER. It may, perhaps, be, recollected th a t th e G enera l I Screw Steam Company s splendid ship Queen of the South, in her run back to England, broke the fan of her screw, and came home under a disadvantage. When she arrived in the dock at Southampton, a consultation took place between Captain Ford, the company's active ana the result was the superintendent, and Mr. Fi e ld (of Mauds lay, Field , an d Co. ' s ) , as to the pr opr i ety of decreas i ng construc tion of a new screw of about four fe e t greater pith, w i th much less breadth. After the ship h a d b een fitted, she andthe width intelligent e of the fan, proceeded down to Stokes 89,y, and the following is the result of the trials : First trial, with tide in favour, moderate b reeze a head, the measured knot was run i n 5 min. 26 which gives a speed of 11.043 ; mean o f revolutions 56.- sec., , 6 min. Second 14 c run,se., giveswhich li a s ht wind aft, „ and tide against of 9,626 ; mean re volutions 58. time, Third run, tide in favour, moderat e head W i n d ; 5 min. 30 sec. ; speed, 10.909 ; revoluti ons, 55r Fourth .speed ru , n 9.B ,t 3 i 6 de ; Thus giving a mean result of speed o f 10.353 knots from 564 revolutions, with a draft of w a t er 15ft. 10in. against, light wind aft ; 6 min. 6 sec. . forward and 17ft. 2in. aft, steam abundant, and firing easy. The highest mean rate of speed ever attained by the Queen of the South with her original screw was 9 knots ; revolutions, 62 ; and the above statement shows that by the new screw the same speed is accomplished under 52 revolutions which was obtained with 62 revolutions by the old screw, and the weight of the screw is not only reduced by 16 cwt., but the screw can now be raised in the small and well-arranged trunk. in the steaming posi tion, which was originally intended only fo r lif t i ng in the feathered position, thus any disarrangement can be re medied at sea, as well as in dry dock. and ENTERT A INMENT AT THE MANSIO N -H o USE.—The Lord Mayor, on Tuesday, entertained his b re th ren , th e aldermen, their ladies, and a numerous party, a t di nner at the Mansion-house. In the evening the L a dy Mayor ewsts played various airs during dinner ,an d also su pplied the music for the dancing with their usual ta le nt and success. Th e fog, i r s t eam r receive G u t d a s r pi adsr ilarge r e n a s i l s n a e t m a e tbhtleoynu, and d anc i ng was kept up h gea dance,r. The ba n d o f t h e Cold however, which was exceedingly dense at the west end of the town, prevented many of the intended guests from being present both at the dinner and the evening recep tion, some of them having wandered about in their car riages with flambeaux fora long time, and found it im possible to reach the. Mansion-house, were glad to regain their homes, and escape the danger and confusion of the streets. The Cheaper Edition, in 2 1 , Is. Bve., with Portraits, price only 165., bound, is tywe reidy. of HORACE WALPOLKS MEMOIRS. Edit ti by ELIOT WARBU RTON. , lished for Henry Colburn, by his successors, Burst and Blackett, 13, Great Slarlborouo-street. Just published, in 2 vols., 21s. bound, A TOUR OP INQUIRY TattOUGII F RANCE AND ITALY: Illumtratlng their present SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ltud RELIGIOUS CONDITION. 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With Four Maps: London : Saunders and Stanford, 6, Charing-cross. Just Published, demy Svo., price 45., INDIA : Its Government under a Bureaucracy, By JOEIN DICKINSON, Jun., M.R.A.S., Scc. London: Saunders and Stanford, 6, Charing-cross. G R AVESEND STAR PACKETS, No , i,her Packets call at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purfleet Piers, The rackets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting) FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. WEER DAYS SUNDATO Terrace' Pier. * tB 4 rgu Time. Direct Trains from the Boats marke4 t Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Statior. to all parts of London. every quarter of an hour. dRUNSWICK WHAttir, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the following Trains from the Fenchurch•street Station. • WEEK DATE. 317NDA70. s GY tf, Time. t re t Time. ; b. ° 4 g ; 3 a. $ a Il - n _ 1 2 3 3 )4 .45 Passages marked * aro run direct. Fore Cabin. Saloon. To or from Gravesend and L0nd0n........., 10d. .. la. 2d. „Grave,send and Blackwell or Woolwich Bd, ,etweeu Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d, BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Month+, 51.05.; fillx Ta,o Months, 21. Os.; to be had of the Coliectoi pa , kets ; or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. Dec, 1852. .. Os. 10d; Os. leo. :ontne, 31. O. ; 1 on board the NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE PRESENT v. THE LATE BOARD. We find it announced that the following changes are contemplated by the present Admiralty :—" Mr. James Wells is to be appointed to the situation of master smith in Portsmouth dockyard. Mr. Cotsell is to return, as master smith, to Chatham dockyard, whence he was lately removed. Mr. Simile, who is at present acting master smith at Chatham, is to return to Woolwich dockyard as foreman, the situation from which he was lately promoted." We trust that there is no foundation for this an nouncement. We cannot believe that a new Board of Admiralty would act so meanly as to reverse the decisions of the former board, when the parties appointed are so well known to be the most efficient men of their depart ment. We are disposed to give a fair trial to the new Board of Admiralty, and to make_ every allowance for the acts of men who are called upon to fulfil duties which are strange to them, but we cannot tolerate such disre spect and contempt of the acts of the late board (of which two officers of the present were members), and such wanton abuse of power as would inflict injury on such good and faithful dockyard officers as Messrs. Cot sell, Smile, and Co. For the sake of the civil service we protest against such changes. On the behalf of the dockyard men—not at this moment the least important branch under the Crown—we protest against such in justice. We trust the First Lord of the Admiralty will not be the instrument of party revenge, or that he - will lay him self open to the charge of gross inconsistency by cancel ling the warrants of one or two honest, hardworking, and deserving officers of the dockyard, and at the same time wink at not only the undue promotion, but the premature appointment of certain naval officers who are near con nections of the present board. —Morning Herald. APPOINTMENTS. Surgeon 7 --John A. Corbett (1849) to the Espiegle, 12, Sheerness. Paymaster—John Hay (1847) to the Odin, 14, steam frigate, Portsmouth. Assistant—Surgeon Dr. G. H. Edwards (1847) to the Espiegle. Clerk—James T. Bignell (1848), to the Horatio, 24, screw steam-guardship, at Sheerness. Clerks' Assistants—W. H. Haswell and C. D. Duport for examination. Gunner—D. Colinburn to the Duke of Wellington. Boatswains—S. Ackworth to the Duke of Wellington ; Henry Clunn to the Espiegle. Carpenters—Josiah V. Earl to the Duke of Welling ton ; Thomas Allington to the Espiegle. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 3. Duke of Wellington, 131 (screw), Captain H. B. Mar tin, got her topmasts, jibboom, spare topmasts, and a great deal of her rigging on board to-day. London, 92, Captain Mundy, has taken advantage of the fine weather, and has been painting outside. The Rodney, 92, Captain Charles Graham, C. 8., has taken on board her powder, &c., at Spithead to day, and is ready for sailing orders. Prince Regent, 90, Captain Hutton, discharged, her powder and shells to-day, preparatory to coming into harbour to-morrow, to be examined, and have her copper cleaned. Asia, 84.—This handsome teak-built ship, having un dergone a most thorough repair, is now painting. She has also been payed over on the copper of her starboard side, with Mr. Hay's composition. The port side is to undergo the same process, with Peacock's composi tion. She is expected to come out of dock on the 11th 0 - instant. Gorgon, 6, steam-sloop, has been getting her boilers on board this afternoon, and is painting outside. Banshee, 3, Lieut. Commander Hosken, steam-packet, hauled into dock, from the steam basin ; her copper was rather foul, and appears very thin. As a specimen of beauty her mould is unequalled, and as fine both ends as well as a rowing galley; her beautiful lines amply re paid the trouble of getting under her hottom. The Mediterranean mail steam-packet to be paid off here on Saturday next is the Medina not Minden. The Cruiser steam-sloop, Commander the Hon. George H. Douglas, was inspected to-day by Commodore Henry Eden, and left at half-past three o'clock p.m. for Green lithe, to have her compasses adjusted to-morrow. She will then proceed round to Portsmouth in charge of her First Lieutenant, William Lambard, should her com mander continue so indisposed as to be unable to join her at Greenhithe. Commander Douglas will, in that case, join her at Portsmouth as soon as he is sufficiently convalescent. On the late occasion of the return of the Fire Queen, tender to the Victory, Master Commander F. W. Paul, she steamed from Sheerness into Portsmouth Harbour re-hoistedh(hslaaps Trsi O tbhhdo nautical eieusadcr:taaotr lh. miles) Roar-Admiral Corry returned from leave to-day, and to-morrow discharged od royal flagTohaft ernoon,oewar l o pt n oso twb b e ae o d maedira. docked cypk t ar3 e h ec. dp4h e oat f, r. o P ar r : i aoTi n r i l e eti tge ßegent, rorhrticnro cci.rifieit n . coming O i , into at Regentot Commander a W nd ele w h i , ll h t a l s 7 been docked and repaired, and has had Grif fithT'shepFroupreyl,ler refitted ; she goes out of dock to-morrow, cagomTodehehoeußrthdell6ite,hrpemadadclheineteearym. a ß h e d la t m he , -sloop, Commander Tatham, steam-basin last night, having made a ef d e a c m ts a . l n e t f h t us ii. steam transport, Master Com mandert is morning with stores for Ply with stores for P mouth; Diligence emi transport sailed this morning • Messrs, John diehards, tAV : ,--140 , 1 • . A,J. Kennedy, A, T b a, u• [PRICE SD. I but you will get the best mo d e l s of art—get these beautiful flowers which I see around me on the walls, and the best bouquets of flowers, and let your boys with pencils and paper, or with slates, as the cheapest mate rial, draw the outline of them. Never mind the colour ; if a boy can do the form, he may afterwards paint it any colour, for it will always be beautiful if he can get the form accurately. Then with regard to the human head. If you have a model of Apollo, for instance, whether a statue or a drawing, let the youth take a pencil or pen and copy the outline, and then he will eventually become a draughtsman, and will draw well. Now, it is notorious that we are very much behind in art. 1 had a letter the other day from a gentleman, a large agricultural implement manufacturer, who asked if I knew any Frenchman—he wanted some one as a de signer—as a draughtsman, and he asked me if I knew any Frenchman for that purpose. Now, he wanted a Frenchman. That is a scandal that he should think of asking me to recommend a foreigner to do work of this kind. You must make use of the models of art you get from London, and your youth must be trained in the beautiful in design. Now, you want something of this sort in Holmfirth. Hohnfirth, I fear, has rather been going back, because you have adhered a little too much to the old style' of things. To-day, when I was in Hud dersfield, I went over a warehouse there, and saw every kind of check and pattern for pantaloons and waistcoats. But these things, as I am informed, did not come from Holmfirth ; for here you have been sticking too much to the old style of drab kerseys, and that sort of thing. (Applause and loud laughter.) Now, gentlemen, believe me, it will never do to persist in going on in the old beaten track when the world is bent upon going out of it. The world is obstinate, and not only obstinate, but capricious ; and if you do not follow it in its changes and requirements, and that very quickly, it wilL be of no use dreaming of remaining in business with any success in these times. Well, then, gentlemen, that being so, bear in mind the next fact—that there is no one so obstinate in resisting change as the ignorant man. (Hear, hear.) Educate the man, and he is as pliant and as plastic as possible, and most readily accommodates himself to -the changes of circumstances in the world around him. So long, however, as men are igno rant, they will not change ; they will turn upon you and say—" It did for our fathers and grandfathers, and it shall do for us." (Hear, hear) But, gentlemen, this society not only gives youth an encouragement in the pursuit of knowledge, and stimulates their minds with motives for seeking further knowledge, but it expands and elevates their ideas, and stimulates them to ascer tain, in their respective callings, what is wanted in the world in the way of novelty. In this way the world's craving for variety may be satisfied by ourselves. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I have heard since I came into this room, something about persons who are opposed to these institutions. Well, I listened very attentively to the speakers who dwelt upon that topic, as I wanted to find out who these people were, and where they sprung from. (Hear, hear.) I wondered what sect or denomi nation this person could belong to who felt inclined to brand these institutions and those who belonged to or supported them with a sort of infidelity. I was really curious to discover the man who could be found to quar rel with these institutions. I felt curious to see the re- ligious sect which held such a doctrine. But, really, we have had one reverend gentleman after another praising these institutions, and denouncing this objector to them, until at last, I believe, we have had to-night the adhe sion and active support of representatives of every reli gious denomination that is to be found amongst us. (Applause.) And from the first of these rev, gentlemen I heard as liberal a sentiment as ever passed from the lips of any man breathing. (Hear, hear.) Ho said that if the poor could only afford the time and money, he wished that every poor man's child were as well educated as the children of the richest. (Applause.) Nobody can deny that such a state of things would be a blessing, not only to the poor, but to everybody in the country, from the highest to the humblest. (Hear, hear.) It has, I know, been objected, that the poor may be too much educated. Why, gentlemen, you may just as well be afraid of all the. poor riding about in their coaches and four, or playing the piano, as fear that they will be too well educated. (Hear, hear.) - Admitting that it would be unwise to eduCate the poor so well as the rich are educated—admitting it, for argument's sake—there are too great and I fear wholly insuperable obstacles to that state of things ever arriving : the one is the want of time, the other the want of means. (Hear.) So long as these obstacles exist . the rich need be in no fear that the poor will be better educated than they are. (Hear, hear.) I remember waiting with a person holding this doctrine in Manchester about 16 years ago, where I and others were engaged in the work of starting the Man- cheater Atheneum. I was employed in waiting upon the principal merchants, manufacturers, and tradesmen of the town, asking for subscriptions towards establish ing the Athenaeum. One gentleman met me with this objection—" I think the people are a good deal too much educated already. I don't think we shall be safe if they are to be educated any more ; and our property will be in danger if this goes on." (A laugh.) Well, I met _ _ him by putting to him this question—" Will you tell me in what period of the world's history you would rather have lived than the present, in order to have had your vast fortunes safer than it is now 1" Well, he could not answer me. (Hear.) I urged him to point out the period he would have selected—" Would you have preferred the last reigrf or the reign before, or the reign of George 1., or the reign of Queen Anne, or that of Queen Eliza beth, in order to have lived in greater security both as regards your person and property ?" (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Why ho could not tell me. (Hear, hear.) And so I answered my own question by saying " You would be much safer if you lived 30 or 40 years hence ; but not if you were to go back to any time however remote." (Applause.) This is the tendency of these institutions ; and yet people are to be found who charge against them that they produce disaffection, disloyalty, and revolution. Now disloyalty and revolu tion come to the people from misgovernment ; and mis government is more likely to be attempted upon an ig- norant than upon an educated people. We have been well told that " oppression makes wise men mad." (Hear, hear.) And I remember this being very well applied by a man who was lecturing upon the Corn Laws at Bury—a man perhaps not highly educated, yet by no means destitute of shrewdness. The lectuirer said " oppression maks wise men mad.' If it maks wise men mad,' what mun it do wi' fooils then ?" (Laughter and loud applause) I think gentlemen, you will agree with the inference which the lecturer left his auditory to draw, that whatever effect misgovernment or oppres sion had upon wise men, it must produce worse an,d more disastrous effects when the ignorant and the fools come to deal with it. (Applause.) Therefore, you cannot do a worse thing than to encourage ignorance. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, will you allow me to offer a practical remark upon a subject which I think is of some interest and some importance. While your chairman and secretary were stating the course of in struction given at your institution, I think I missed any allusion to instruction in geography. Now, I would suggest to those gentlemen who have taken so great an interest in this society, that geography and maps be added. You may get some capital large outline maps from the School Society. I wish you to instruct your youth in geography. You know there is just now a great mania for emigration ; and people are losing their friends—not losing them altogether, because from the increased facilities in travelling you may easily go to the other side of the world, and yet hope to come back to see your friends and relations again. Now, it is a sad thing when a youth has a friend who has gone to Aus tralia, if he should want to follow him, that he should have no idea where to find him. But if he knew a little of geography he could put his finger on the map an d t e ll exac tly where to find him. lt is also a serious disad vantage to a person who desires to emigrate. The other day I heard of a man who wanted to go to th e di gg i ngs at Victoria, an d booked himself to Sydney. When he got there he found himself several hundred miles from the end of his journey, and had to ship himself again several hundred miles further. All this would have been avoided had he been taught geography. These are days in which geography is all-iniportant. As I came along to-day I was reading a Scotch newspaper, the Dundee Advertiser, and found this expansive idea alluded to in these words—" When all the world over are beginning to think less and less of themselves as subjects of this or that Government, and more and more of themselves as citizens of the world. The printing-press, first of all, then the steam-engine, and more recently the electric telegraph, have mightily conduced to this still progressive change. The literature of one nation is now the literature of all nations ; a voyage rqund the world is only a pleasure trip ; London converses with Paris in a moment of time. By books, by travelling, or 'by electric communication, we know, see, or speak with all mankind. We are more neighbourly with the antipodes now than with Europe a century ago, and the state of the continent is better known to us to-day than was that of this king dom to our grandfathers." This urges the people to strive after a higher state of education than was attained in former times ; for as all are now interested in what is . going on in Melbourne, in the United States and in Canada, and as we make the great topics of conversation, the triumphs of steam and ,navigation, men are not for so - ciety in the present day unless they have have a more enlarged knowledge of all these things than their fathers had. Take the mechanic ;he reads that in New York there is a new invention being applied, called the calo ric engine, by which it is proposed to propel ships with out steam-engines or boilers. But when an uneducated man reads about these things in New York, it is to him just the same as if he read about something going on in the moon ; he does not know whether the people there are black or white. In fact, an American went to a re spectable inn in York, the son being tuld that he was from America, the landlady in surprise said, " You are from Ame . rica c Dear me, I always thought they were black." (Loud laughter.) And there are many people, I dare say, who do really suppose that the Ameri cans are black. This arises from neglect in not teaching people geography. I want to see the mass of the people read these things to which I have alluded with advantage. The people have read of these thin gs i n your news-room. I am glad to hear of this new feature, the news-room, and have no doubt but it will be one of the most attractive features in your institution. (Hear, hear.) This has been found to be the case in other places. For many y emB these institutions could not have a news-room, because they were objected to by influential persons as being political. But there is nothing less political than a `news-room, if the newspapers admitted are fairly select ed, because they will have papers of all kinds. (Hear, hear.) You will find that people will resort to news rooms, not to , read the leading articles ; for, with all re spect for the talented writers for the public press, I re gard the leaders as of far less importance than the articles of news in the paper. Take a newspaper up, and you will find news brought from all parts of the world. Nineteen-twentieths of the whole paper consists of news, and only one-twentieth part of original articles or lead ers ; therefore, with all respect to the editors of these newspapers, I believe these original articles, so far as guidance and direction are concerned, are the least use ful and interesting parts of their papers, facts and intel ligence being more sought after by readers. There are far more newspapers in America than here ; but they have less political influence ; people there go to see what is the last news from Europe, brought in by the last ' steam-boat which has arrived. I wish, therefore, that people could be disabused of the idea that the reading of newspapers can be of the least injury to those who like to read a newspaper for the purpose which most of us like it for. There is one other point upon which I wished to have made a remark. Somebody mentioned to me when I came into the room that you had made an application to Parliament for grants of Parliamentary papers. We publish, as many of you know, every year, a mass of Parliamentary papers. lam afraid that a great deal of these papers, in the case of nineteen-twen- tieths of the members of Parliament to whom they are open, go very speedily to the butter-shop, not being much read or used. It has been asked that these papers should be given to societies of this kind. (Hear, hear.) Now, I have presented petitions to this effect to Parliament, and I think one from this institution in favour of grant ing you these papers. My own impression is, that if the statistical department of the Board of Trade would analyse all these papers, and give us at the end of the session a good digest of them in a simple form, it would be a great deal more useful than the mass of blue-books which are now given to us. Every member in th house claims a right to move for any returns he thinks proper. For instance, there is a curious man interested in the malt trade, who wants to know the number of quarters of malt made in the year, perhaps he has got a bet upon it, or it may be on the hop trade, and so on. We gene- rally give these returns. Now, I have never yet moved for any return except when I intended to found a motion upon it, for these returns have to be furnished at the cost of great labour and expense, more than people are generally aware of. (Hear.) But as the type has to be set up for these books, it would only require a little more paper, which would make but little difference in the cost, you shall have my vote and interest in favour of granting you a supply of these papers printed by Parliament. (Applause.) And now, gentlemen, in conclusion, I • must again say I came here 'without at all hoping to give you any information as to your proceedings, or any itimulus in the prosecution of your objects ; I came here rather from a pleasing sense of duty, and to show yon that my feelings were with you in this good cause ; and I assure you you may now cr hereafter command my best services in promoting in every way I can the pros perity of the Holmfirth Mechanics' Institution. (Loud cheers.) After a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting iroke up a little after 10 o'clock. THE ALLEGED MURDER AT BRIXTON. --....,›.-_ Yesterday morning Mr. Superintendent Lund, accom panied by Sergeant Quinnear, paid another visit to No. 4, Springfield Cottages, the late residence of the unfor tunate Mr. Jones, at present in the possession of the police, for the purpose of making a further and more minute search and investigation. It may hero be stated that these experienced officers are of opinion that for the last 4 or 5 months not a single article in use in the house had been washed ; but that since the death of the de ceased some of them had been partially washed, and that only to,remove suspicious appearances, so that the place exhibits a most filthy appearance, and actually stinks. The officers, in the course of their search, 'found the will of the deceased, and from it it appears that his property amounts to 3,0001., and that after be queathing 2001. a-piece to two of his nephews, 1001. to a third, and 3001. to Mr. David Key, who used to attend him as his medical man, he left the residue, with the whole of his furniture, to his housekeeper, Elizabeth Vickers, at present in custody, so that, after paying the funeral and other expenses, she would be entitled to over 2,0001. It would appear, also, that in Christmas week the deceased had received 281., of which sum all that was found on the prisoner or in the house on Tuesday wai 11. Gs. 6d., though the prisoner, Elizabeth Vickers, had pawned a silver watch and some trinkets three days after her master's death for 3/. On making inquiries in the neighbourhood it was found that Vickers had been carry ing on a most irregular and extravagant course for some months past, and this would perhaps account for the dis appearance of the money. She had been accustomed to go to the public-houses in the neighbourhood, and not only to drink to excess herself, but to treat perfect strangers to brandy and water, or anything else they chose to drink, and had herself been frequently led home perfectly drunk. At the inquest a person named Collins was sent for and attended, and he deposed to having seen the de ceased a short time before his death, and while in his own garden, fall down and strike his head with consi derable violence against the wall, and this corrobo ration of her evidence had much weight with the coroner and jury. Since the officers have had the matter in hand Sergeant Quinnear took Collins to the garden, and requested him to point out the spot where he saw the de ceased fall. Collins on this occasion pointed out the spot, and said the fall took place just after Mr. Jones had closed the front shutters. He could not state the pre cise evening on which this occurred, but thought that two Sundays had intervened between the time and the death of Mr. Jones. Quinnear examined the spot mi nutely, and his impression is that it is quite impossible that a person could fall in the position which Collins described. Besides this, police-constable White, 111 P, states that on the evening of Saturday, the Ist of Jan., he saw Collins bring home Elizabeth Vickers in a state of intoxication, and both went into the house together. A report had btained much currency and belief in the neighbourhood that the man Collins was about to be married to the housekeeper, Vickers, and according to the account of the landlady of the former, his circum stances seem latterly to have much improved. It would seem, howeycr, that Collins (if he really is so) is not the only candidate for the hand of Vickers, for last Mon day's post brought a letter addressed to " Mrs. Elizabeth Vickers, late at Mrs. William Jones's, Springfield Cot tages, Acre-lane, Brixton, near London" (now in the hands of the officers), of which the following is a verba im copy:— " Coventry, Jan. 29. " Madam—l have taken the liberty of writing these few lines, hoping that it will not give any offence. I have applied to you, has I am in want of a good domesticated wife, and no doubt has you have lost your master, no doubt but what you should like a good home and a good partner, and if you think anything about it, please to let me know by the return of post, and please to let me know particulars. I mentioned that hes to ask you your age, to se if they will correspond with mine, for my age his 40. Though I have seen you once or twice, and you perhaps don t•know me ; but if you answer this immediately, you will soon se the if you are not engaged with any one. " I remain yours respectfully, " C. Coventry. "My address his this, Mr. H—, cutler, —street, Coventry, Warwickshire." ALL IS NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS.—A spEcimen was laid before the last meeting of the Bombay brench of the Royal Asiatic Society of a substance called " gold sandstone," from Kattiwar, and as we have seen more than one of these of late, we presume they are plentiful at the presidency. The sandstone in reality contains not one atom of gold nor of any other substance of value ; it consists of a mass of the microscopic shells called Meliolites, from their resemblance in form and size to millet seed, the same as constitute the masses of limestone in Kutch and Kattiwar, only in this case martial pyrytes or sulphuret of iron takes the place usually occupied by calcareous matter. Though valueless for economic pur poses, as cabinet specimens they are very beautiful ; when looked at through a magnifier of moderate power, not only are the forms of the shells most manifest, but their irridescence shines in all its primary beauties.— Bombay Time, ~'