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A., ,,,, .voiT • 0/ ''''s • I, lik POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.. Alderman Hum he begged to acknowledge the rec e ipt o f t h e following nx6,ificent donations to the poor-box o f thi s court :-251. fzipni the Grocers' Company, b e i ng 51. more than their usual handsome subscription, on account of the deatness of provisions ; 201. from the Merchant Taylors' Cainpany, being double the amount of their annual donation, in consequence of the high price of provisions and coals and 20s. from a portion of the young men employed at 30, Gutter-lane. The Alderman also acknowledged the receipt of 25 family ti c k e t s an d 5 0 s i ngle tickets from the City Samaritan Institution, in Victoria-street, entitling the holders to a good dinner of roast beef and plum-pudding on Christmas-day. No. 19,1 1 I.] LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1853. [I)R10E SD. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH +LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE Rooms, , On Thursday, one vol. Bvo , 205., (Lessee, CHAS. C. LAURENT, 011810W-110113(1, FU.ARM- road), ANTE—THE D DIVINE COMEDY : THE The above Rooms are no w OPEN FOR THE SEASON. , INFERNO, PURGATuRY and PARADISE. A literal and will continue open every evening, with LAUIt E NT.,', . Ve•se Translation. By FREDERICK POLLDCK, Esq., with Fifty CELEBRATED BAND. Admission, la. Doors open at half-past 8 ; illustntions by George Scharf; Jun. Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and ter •inate at half-past 11. i London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. PUBLIC WORKS IN AUSTRALIA. AUSTRALIA. THE EASTERLY. GALES AND THE COAL TRADE. SHIELDS, SATURDLT NIGHT. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. R OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON-11.MM. PitICE AJMER l'. FIR , T EXHIBITION of PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES ACIN I FIF I) about 40,' 00 times on the Disc, with an ENTIRELY NEW ~f DIS -;Ot.ITING VIEWS. LECTURES by Dr. BACHOFFNER On WILKINS'S NEW PATENT UN tVE itSAL ELECTItI2 TELEG.tAPH. LECTURE by .T. 11. PEPPER, Esq., on SPONTANEOUS COMBUS TION, with Brilliant Experiments. An .HIsTORICAL and MUSICAi. LECTURE, illustrated with DISSOLVING • CENERY, entitled " The ROAD, the RIVER. and the 11:1I1.." by .T. E. nARPENTER, Esq., assisted by MISS Blanche Younge, daily at a Quarter to Four, and every evening, except Saturday, at Nine o'clock. Open Mornings and Evenings. Admission, Is. ; Schools and Children under Ten years •of age, Half-price. Inc few days, Crown Byo , ds., THE POETICAL AND DRAMATIC WORKS of S! rt F.DW %It!) 1111,WF:It I' ON, Bart., Vol. IV , containing Dramas, 'The Lady of Lvow," .‘ ItichelLu," &c. London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Pic adil y. This day, at Pll the Libraries, CH ARLES STANLY. By the Author of " Ninfa." 3 vols. T)st Svo London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. Svo SPwe, 2a., wlth n lfap, •,7„7.0...............mmip—iftxx----- ir -,-, 116 MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE 2,inTi_,; R;-- O CIETY, : , !1. liii. , street, Cheapside.- (Established 1831 . ) iliailia , ° ln ad 0 dit ,to the usual Board on Wednesday, the 28th /4 Y, th -I ECIAL COUR /' of DIRECTORS will be holden on Fat desirous° 30 th inst., nom Two to Three o'clock, to enable all parties corapi ei o f Participating in the protils at the end , f next year to n ow , si c their assuranc,s b. , the 31st inst. For this purpose, pro be recei r °Uhl be lodged immediately that the Referees' replies may be ved in time to lay before the Board. .......-__ ALLSOPF'i STRONG ALES. ALLSOPP'S ALES for CHRISTMAS. ton Parker) and TWINING, 5%, PALL-MALL (late Barring Th ris :" , er) have a small stock, and can sen d ou t , as a cu riosity for fonaelas c onsumption, the STRONG CHRISTMAS ALE as ori eathe.brewed by 111, -ame firm for the Czar l'e'er and the Empress LORP . s ine of Russ , a barrels., many ,rrels of whllt. by special order of the Search OF Tlfl ADM IRALTY, awaritanied the expedi.n in Of Sir John Franklin in the frozen regions of the Arctic Circle. ! • ln Cask , , 455, per 18 Gallons. PARKER and TW IN I G, Beer ' ' erchants (late , tar irrrton P , -rker), 53( 2 , PAL L• MALL. XP ORTERS to AUSTRALIA, EAST IN -1 .PrEs, CAN , ,, &c.-Genuine yAitmtp:rrn. Iltps Kiis.— in • ~. s ari Pply to TIIMIAS LETTis, Fish sterchant, Great Yanout h. i v A T XII\TSON and COMPANY, CABINET Wmic„.,"luFAcTul:F,!:, UT 1101,5T1.11,1 , 1t5, and CA It l' ET brid-_ , :wIT'EME , 0. 73. 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster _ sv road, Lambeth, London. --...... -- A TI CINSON arid COMPANY, DRAPERS, i, 1 , 1 1. 5 &LTC. MERCEBA, LAC i. 7 N 4 r.. &c, 69 70, 71, 72, 7 1 , '4, 114rit'l, Wstruinster-brid,ze-road, Lambeth, LO:1,10O.-Shaw s, Furs. ....... es, Family .Mourning, &c. ........_-____ OYSTERS-f , l Frill. lit.-. ( Q UEENBOROUG II and FAVERSHAM 1 , ,,, in NATIVE 01 , ,TERS. .°fthe be most acceptable Present at this season of the year is a Tia• re eeleb 8 t NATIVE OYSTERS, vi'lch are to be obtained at " , COTT'S in e.rateil OYSTER WAREHOUSE, 18, Coventry -street, Piccad Ily, ° 6d.per Barrel, warranted to weigh 141bs. --_____ __ E— --- REPORT ---------- 14 , I F E ASSUR A N C E ; Of c o iLEPORT of the SELEC P COMMITTEE of the HOUSJ;;. Inipn ri . : -M ON S, and t lie DEPOSIT SYSTEM-the New , _ ali_ , and „ ; 1 " 1 t Feature of Life Assurance adopted by The DEI Oz ,ll Th e NERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. " 5 folio nlitte e , wing is au extract from the Report of the Select Corn -1 - Slij k4 ,: , -t OBJECTS which persons ItAVE IN VIEW IN EFFECTING IN ' 3 043,„,"_ 11, 0 n their lives, are GENERALLY OF AN IMPORTANT AND af ter -.r. doiriClO'', ViZ., tire rnovist. , N FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS . tpi t ,.....ne death of their NATURAL. PROTECTORS; Uffilk" any ordinary • Ina,;:'tion of trade, a CONTRACT ONCE ENTERED INTO CANNOT BE 14Q.B.GED .-,.... ..., ‘-. ABANDONED, if don , ds of the stability of an AsT 22 1° Lud arise, WITHOUT A SACRIFICE OF PREMIUMS PAID IN 041 , e :. and the necessity of effecting new pollens in other . ' Of th ° at I ncreased rates of premium, owing to the greater age , 4 0 14 11 - 13 ssured ; persons are thus placed in the ANXIOUS AND UN "UIm, 'LEMMA OF BEING COMPELLED TO PERSEVtRE IN PAYING ( ' to th . 31 3 FROM TEAR TO TEAR, With SOME suspicio n and doubt as :,, .it: .tinlate aivantage of doing ‘O, or. or INeunßiso TILE BE- At% ~,..t °,l3 Innen. UNDER. THE MOST PAYoGRANLE - CISC:iIMSTANCES, , _ On .1.7, -- L.„ND THE ADANDANMENT OR SALE or A POLICY. ~ Tr i p, ~...e .DEPOSIT SYSTEM a per:on is NOT "COMPELLED IO pay ma" ~:r E AR TO TEAR," awl he doss not, if desirous of " ABANDON , ,1 8 POlioy, incur any ' SERIOUS Loss," hut, on Ihe contrary, he re n i„nY . such amounts, and at such times as he may find most con clraws he can stop paying whenever he pleases, and he can with the tlra,„_ vvhole or part V his premiums. If the whole be with -1'011"e the Policy is cancelled ; if rart only, then the value of the A It 3 ' Is diminished by the assured value of the part withd , awn. It w i „ , aged 20, opens a deposit policy with a payment of 5/ , which be seen he increases from time to time, and occasionally . - "wishes . r; f . r. :0•=7:0100,00,0 , OCO-..- - tr 1 ' V.. 5 V 2 ~ -v.- ts .... —„ ,—..., --. wt. eqz.,--,,,.c.,—.. ? , lit 41 c..),_ -- t •oc,-. .v -.5r.:7 , r...,..., , T. , • ti ... ,- . ° 4 •';',) •co or •o• •••• ..1 • .o . , .._ co . .... -•--. -• co /-• co co er Cr, co 04 ... - ....1, cr; . ..= ~ v C ° sr co ~ C -r; . 1 6 . ' FA . '?' ' • C" 1 X . V,Zg 'III' 11-11 i A . , 41 c ., .... va .-.. R 7.19...,... .ft mw ..„_________ • ____________ _ __________—_ l a . i „ , ea I . CV 0 4 0 . 04 CV CI M 0 . 4 . t • t i 4 t' ..., I .. t ,T, . r• ''' 1 tli oi , 4 140.—,?., ~,,, 2. 0 :: 2F.2 R -1 gz - g,' c> 0 o a. 1 - . . -. I , 5. ?: ci ~, ,i, 1 21 A* ... 4 .?-- . .t. Ei • . . . . . . . . . . . ; -•c • • . - •,, ~', ' M ~--,., ...4 2: • ,-,, 2 ::: i T 7, .. , 3 ' 1. ) ~; :.3 5 2 >' Z P. . 0 W '. . S 9 ' 5 E . f! w V ° ..1 4 ,T. c~ . -'s . -' .„ _ Th u . A in 10 years, has saved and inve , ted at different int , r. teaserious sum 3 amounting to 971., by which he had instued Of death for 2601. 12s. 7d ; hut A. B requires 221.; h draws St duffsand diminishes the value of his Polity by 601. Bs. 3d. .4 . rent times, leavirm• him in case of death a Policy for 200/. 4 c1., and during his life a fund of 75/. to draw out at any time, in ,1 2:! or wholly. C o h ,'n e first claim settled by the Deposit and General Life Assurance orZPanY was upon a deposit of 101 . whic h a p arent made for each t abi ve children, instead of a 'dinz it to an acc ount the y had at the 11,j;7 4 n gs Bank. One of them died a few days after the 10/. was de- DZ'ed, and the father received 341. 65., being the amount of the De - Policy. EXAMPLE Yo. 2. 4 , l3,l PPosing A B, aged 23, when he opens a Deposit Policy h:s the h e4 „ ,18 , and continues vot UNTARILT 10 pay the same sum every year the same way as he is COMPELLED to do in the ordinary systein. Year. Age. 1114 1. £ £. a. d. 18 • 49 6 6 18 48 16 0 1R54: 24 18 47 18 0 18 47 4 6 185 6 • • .. 27 13 46 10 6 18 45 17 6 8 58 I 29 18 45 4 0 30 18 44 10 6 1 859 ' I 18 43 17 6 1 "" "•• • • 32 18 43 4 0 61. . 90 206 7 6 1866: ••• • • • ....... 37 to 90 190 4 6 1g7 4 72 141 3 0 •• • 46 ------- Ig7 s. 432 1,000 4 0 to ***** •• •••• . . • • 47 108 194 13 6 59 S 14 5. 90 147 18 6 18g6 •• • • L 7 io ..... .......... 58 1891 108 182 10 6 738 1,525 0 6 oro Dremium or commencing at 23 years of age, and paid upon (4 4, try Policy (As IT MUST Be) every year till A.B. is 46 yea rs Yea rs secure the same sum, viz., 1,0001., but if A B lives 17 tOE.,,longer (which is the probable duration of life at the time he it fc ;'d the insurance) his Deposit Policy, for the same payments 611• ed. An ordinary Policy of 1,0001., will have increased to 1,525/. the TRUSTEES. t o ll ight Honourable the Lord Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C., T'lAtroller of her alaiesty's Househo. Vt-General Sir W. dlayton, Bart., 7 ld 9, Gloucester-place, Port- Pilettare. VicZnarles Price, Bart Banker, London. Admiral Ayscough, Prospect House, Southampton. 1 14 , CHAIRMAN. 'stint Hon. the Lord Viscount Drumlanric. M.P., P.C., Comp- troller of her Maiesty's Household. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN. George Cociile, Esq., Victoria-street, Belgravia. CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. P. Nelson. E4q., F.L.S. b STANDING COUNSEL. A d ' crowder, Esq., Q.C., M.P., Recorder of Bristol, Counsel to the AiVralty, and Judge Advocate of the Fleet. tt iT ‘ B, Esq., Q.C.. 01.1%, Lincoln's-inn. 1 4 Office, No, 15, New Bridge; street, Blackfriars, London. ' 1 11.„ granted at 5 per cent. on real or personal security. 'es on most favourable terms. Diseased lives and lives de- Fed other offices accepted at equitable rates. th e 'r P rospeuses awl further information aly t the agents in "nntry, or to C W. Bevan, R sident ,zecrpetpary. o 441 Agents wanted in all parts i,f the United Kingdom, Assurances effected on thy' ordinary plan. , k E. DICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIEi OF , s 1:111 . YOUTH AND MATURITY. vOes,"AMITEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, tr ot Medicine, and Matriculated Memher of the University of 144 , bilrgli, Honorary Member . of , the London Hospital Medical k t itl - Acentiate of Apothecaries Hall, London, &c., &c. Y be consulted, personally, or by letter, on the various disorders of the nervous and generative s ystem , : .. 11 . e ki l in g from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro- Ze d„ rn „ °l'e misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema 7e4c4Y at all sta ,, es of life, than perhaps any other , class of dis thp74.ll°.s" t modern - pathologists. Long and practical experience .13, e - Lreatm to ellt of these, diseases has proved that there are in exit h_klilts'„ecret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes } in ZI):1 1 - s ee, traceable. to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Zrel, 7 , various terms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Marri '44laT°PoteneY, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their h i : Modifications owe their almost entire origin. trine;ftbsolutely necessary that all men should know that there are Nr ri „" of personal management which cannot be violated without Zit h e "R grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed - "a1•b,.." 4 3' of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties 6:s l ll, 7 :l i tigated, how the sting of their bitterness may he removed, ,il!At sh,„the evil and its con-equenc es may he avoided, and above all , '.rit 4D re is scarcely any decree of physical infirmity or functional & r i n o, ti . t LAto which the timely aid of science cannot apply en a cure. bl eli " " 'MERT has for a long series of years bn engaged . fu,,, t ensive practice in the treatment of these delicate corn - I N Land is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless e hunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had r .ttent t ''ence, through the medium of the public press, to direct `C. rl to these enormous evils from which no grade of society is tr " 9 fts4,, B electing this department of practice, he has been amply ~,,.e, t t01 , ,",..bY the great success that has attended his efforts in the D h . le Of i ,..‘' of these cases, which are too generally confided to the of i l l icatj hqua lified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated 1 14 • 41 ets „ cll. '''. Assume,' foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues Te hoer nostrUnis, have inflicted . serious ' injury on those who fli nt h e ,,,,.... uotteed to place faith in their pretensions. se till IT, for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from e al.,, lei All All letters must contain the fee of 1 i., and advice and It i s ( i , can be forwarded to any initials or address. C'eld asst that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MEItT A k L obtain a copy of his work on 4 et i "cal -/, . SELF-PRE I.:RVATION t _ s rati __ reanse on the Philosophy of NlArriage and Nervous and ' l Ol i „"° nebllitv illi t t lb , fifty-coloured engravings, and des -428,87 de,tV the ;ari7u r s a d e i s ' or 3 iers resulting fro , n secret habits and V s :gift.lo,, " ( l' perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct k r -rich, 8 of their cases, and may be had, price 2c fid, in English, 114 ° Therm 4 „ P T 1 1 411 , Dutch, ' Italian, or (lerman, of Messrs. Piper by ' lll , 39 , 'i," ~o , 23, Paternoster-row; . llannay, fl 3, Oxford-street ; fleteft.s4,2rinorrntyll.lt,.;,,Storie too hborne-street, Haymarket ; or free ....................I . 2_, ±o , o„.s e t ri j r A n a p . ; ioN a n ni n • , a . eldress from the Author's resi- ircJußt published, ED . TTroN.-7171 5 1 , b ADDITION S. sttr , 55 . 6 1,* IN Tl) A B iT °. l' l A n t o S th E pr gP e . RAIATORRH U-' 2% 9 Error, „ rel,„ With the View to the Correction of wide-sr 3 i, rat 7 , ll to the Treatme.pt and Cure of Sufferers from I)e re bility cif the ns__‘Y'teni, 1r Sexual Hynochondriasis. eal ~,.ranalated from he German of Dr. PICK FORD t:lli c l''l"Ore 11110 WT) to . Enelish renders by his frequent Mott ributioas to German medical literature This is the first et „„ l N,,L i .,.. in rm. OS thPt . he has addre.tised himself to the non-medi -,nor •We trt;sl mad not he the last, if be shall elect any s...tonequally flagrant which d ma 3 be h. his f.tre., to correct." 111R,r3(,)11 Medical Dazette, Niax . lll, 1351. The tribeof 'Quiet Sympa- Dlgintti Ind edical Friendsmercilessly exposed ; and if this book ncl its way into the hands of those who stiffer fr m the com lb', Of which it treats, are ' satisfied that many hundreds would ess 'e (l Inttett needless we " Faddy and mind, and what is of trittehn,P°rtance, th. oeusKsittoitereirinti; of which i the quacks most prize 111ttAiri - „2, n eT • • • • .. This voltin s ie is a well qualified to put an end to the %4 ~Y etean of treating Spernatorrlicea, and to placs the treat 'll4l 4 " .a More rational and ' physiological basis. It is. therefore Y to ( in mach 1411d012;Circular, June 16, 1852. H. Bailiere, 219, Regent-street. B ELLOT TEST] NAMES oF Sl (Received at the apartments of Waterloo-place, Sir Roderick I. Much!. eon, M.A., F.R.S., V.P.R.G.S., Chairman £25 0 0 Aberdeen, the Earl of, K.T., MA., F R.S., F.R.G.S. 25 0 0 Acland, Sir 'Thomas D., Bart., M.P., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. .. 5 0 0 Addington, 11. U., Esq. 5 0 0 Aitchison, Captain .. 3 3 0 Alston, Mr. A. 11. (Phoenix) .. 2 0 0 Angersteln, Col. J. J. W. 5 0 0 Anonymous, Ltanelly, per' The Times" news paper .. .. 1 0 0 Arehir, H.M.S., Com mander Strange and,_ the Gion.roonx odaccrO, co,o-crart - psy.. .. 3 16 6 Arrowsnith, John, Esq., F.R.G.S. .. 3 0 0 astir', Captain Horatio T., C.B. .. 2 2 0 Bacon, Thomas, Esq. .. 1 0 0 Baillie, Alex., Esq. .. 5 0 0 Baillie, David, Esq., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. 5 0 0 Baker, Capt. Thomas, 1 1 0 Barnett, Capt. Edward, R. V., F.R.G.S. .. 1 0 0 Barrow, Sir Geo., Bart. 5 0 0 Barrow, Henry, Esq. .. 1 1 0 Barrow, John, Esq., F.R. S., F.R.G.S. 20 0 0 Beaufort, Rear-Admiral sir F., K.O 8., F.R.S , .. 10 0 0 Becher, Captain A. 8., R.N., F.R.G.S. .. 1 1 0 Beechy, Captain W. F., R.N., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. 1 1 0 Bell, J. 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Aqua se hablek Evan° Nothing, in the progress of a new country, is a more striking and important sign of advance than the first beginnings of public enterprise. The keen struggle for existence absorbs the energies of the early settler. He has to hew and to burn that he may clear the ground on which to rear a precarious harvest, or he explores with his cattle and herds the unknown solitudes of plains and valleys. Ele conquers nature, lie seizes ou the advantages she offers, and overcomes the obstacles interposed in his course. He occupies the land that is to be his home ; the safest harbour is selected, the best water carefully looked for, a sheltered site for a town secured, and the capital of the colony springs up, while homesteads and stations begin to dot the surface of the interior. This is the first stage of colonial history. The second is characterised by the introduction of au organised Government, by the establishment of law and order, by the de velopment of local resources and the growth of a foreign trade. Public buildings arise to adorn the capital ; associations are formed to promote objects of general interest, or to carry on in common the pursuits of commerce. But as yet the necessities of the day are still the first objects of all. The colony has to be made, its place has to be won by the exertions that are expended to promote it, and by the capabilities of which it can be shown to be possessed. If the flood of emigration sets in strongly, so that fresh elements of wealth are con tinually added, and if circumstances are peculiarly favourable, a colony may make an advance in its second stage with as marvellous a rapidity as has been exhibited in the province of Victoria. And before we can distinctly say that the second stage has passed away, the third has begun. The time. has come when men gain something like a clear conception of the future destinies of the country they inhabit. Sure of their, own position, they in vestigate the relations they occupy to their neigh bours and friends. Individuals act together for a ' remote and general object, and not only to further private and particular interests. Undertakings are entered on, the success of which is wholly' de pendent on new wants being certain to arise in the community, if means of ministering to them are provided, while these means are necessarily of a nature that demands concert in action, and a wide appreciation of the less obvious interests of the society. And such enterprises, when crowned with success, bring with them not only the fruits which are ieir primary object, but also a sense, perpetually heightened, of public confidence, and a desire for public advantage.. If fair play is given to the wishes of the colonist, the form of Government becomes adapted to she altered mood of public opinion, and power from being external andmerely executive becomes local and deliberative. This is the stage on which Australia is now entering, and though the very peculiar conditions of her progress have enabled her to outstrip all calculation, yet in her rapid advance we may see coMpressed into the compass of a few years what,) r in colonies of a slower growth, it has taken genetrations to unfold. Public works of every kind are being urged for ward with an energy and rapidity that almost out herods the Americans. Schemes are being set on foot which, if originating in a pritate source, have vet a wide and public aim. The'eye of the specu ator both travels on to the possibilities of the .°Liture, and, traversing the artificial boundaries of . his own peculiar district, sweeps over the wide ex tent to which the natural conformation of the whole territory conducts it. Thus province is contemplated as united to province, and something of a national character seems to be impressed upon the whole. We mighi watch with interest and ad miration the public works of Australia, if we saw ..effected in them nothing but the untiring perse verance and indomitabhienergy of the race ; bht such feelings are heightened .to a tenfold degree when we are thus lei to perceive the opening of a new phase of the colonial history, and to detect the first germs of a new, though perhaps subject, nationality. Of all such public works railways are by far the most important. We have already learned from America how steam can be used as the pioneer of civilisation, and how rapidly it unites the distant and heterogeneous members of a great society. Railways in Australia are still in their rudest in fancy, and are the creatures of promise rather than of performance. But still enough has been done, and is doing, towards their formation, to serve as an indication of the stage of its history on which this great empire of the south is entering ; and if we watch their intended course we learn, with a clearness not otherwise to be attained, the natural facilities and difficulties of a country that is strange to us. Its soil, its rivers, its declivities and eleva tions, are presented to us as viewed by the light of the greatest local experience ; and nothing can be more suggestive of what our Australian colonies are than to trace the course of intended railways, and ascertain the purposes they are meant to subserve. We cannot here enter into the details of the schemes which have been either projected or partly realised, but we can assure our readers that any one who attempts to make himself master of those that have received the sanction of public approval in the co lony will find himself amply repaid. In South- Eastern Australia, for instance, we may point to the line, very shortly to be opened, which will con nect Melbourne with its harbour. We are all by this time familiar with the mournful history of the vexations, the perils, the waste of money and time, to which the voyager to the land of gold was ex posed in the last nine miles of his course. After thousands of miles of ocean travelling b e found himself stopped in sight of the spot he had come so far to gain by the necessity of getting himself and his goods up a miserable little stream full of sand bars, and so tortuous inits course that in no wind can sails be employed. The navigation of the Yarra will now be' in a great measure superseded by the possibility of unloading at a sea harbour, and then ten minutes of a railway will take the eager traveller into the midst of, perhaps, the ugliest, worst-built, newest, richest, and dearest town in the globe. Another railway, again, will soon connect Melbourne with Geelong. Victoria, has now two capitals, each possessing some conve niences and advantages, and both labouring under some counterbalancing deficiencies. But when a railway has bound them together, each will share the advantages of the other. And these under takings seem small and insignificant by the side of the great scheme which proposes to connect Mel bourne with Sydney. A line is in contemplation which will first carry the digger to the gold rocks of Mount Alexander, and then sweep away to the north-east. Instead of having to waste days in lumbering over a road intersected with gullies, and often ending abruptly in a quagmire, the mining adventurer may soon spend a pleasant morning in Melbourne, looking for a wife or a bar gain, and still be back by the down express in time to have a good day's work with the mattock and cradle. When it has brought the digger to his location, the train will hurry the traveller bound for the capital of New South Wales over the rich plailas lying at the base of the Austra lian Alps, and watered by the 'numerous streams that feed the great tributaries of the Murray. The line will find an opening through the great chain of mountains by means of one of the great passes that admit the waters of the Yass, and then, entering on the long valley which gives a channel to the Shoalhaven and the Hawkesbury, will terminate at the harbour of Port Jackson. It will probably be some years before the London and Diverpool of Australia, as they have been termed, will be thus united ; but colonial energy will not day longer than is abso lutelysuffer thenecessary. time t o 017 e a the 500 miles over which the line is to extend, one half is on a dead flat, and the gradients of the remaining half is by no means great. Perhaps further investigations may show that it is necessary to vary the details of the pro posed scheme ; but, in one way or another, the colonists of this generation may expect to see Syd ney and Melbourne united. We need not dwell on the political and material advantages that would be sure to ensue. If nothing more were effected than a diminution of the jealousy and rivalry of two provincial cities, both new, and both elated by rapid prosperity, enough would be done to make the work a good one. MESMERISM IN FRANCE.-At a time when mesmeric notions are tui ning almost every head, still more than mesmeric agencies turn our tables, it will not be without interest to the thinking world to hear that the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the Institute of France has at length offered a prize for the best philosophical essay on " Sleep, Dream ing, Natural and Artificial Somnambulism," &c. The essays are to be in the hands of the secretary of the Academy by the end of this month, and the de cision of the academicians will come out in April, 1855. We shall wait with some anxiety for the result of the competition, and for the expressed opinions of such prac tised thinkers as are M. Victor Cousin and others of European renown who compose the section of philosophy of mind in the above-mentioned academy, on this im portant point in the science of man, which, although so much debated hitherto, is, after all, ad huc sub judice. Some authors of repute are said to have entered the list with a view to gain the academical laurels.—Petita Affiehes de Londres. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY, DEC. 23. Any step undertaken by the enterprise of a public company to afford rapid and efficient steam communica tion with the Australian colonies is now a matter of great public interest. The experimental voyages to Port Philip and Sydney, accomplished by the General Screw Steam Shipping Company's ships Harbinger and Argo, have been the most successful of any efforts yet made to shorten the distance between Australia and the parent country. A strange fatality has, in fact, attended tne operations of every other company up to the present time, and the expectations indulged by various interests who have hitherto attempted to solva the problem, have been productive, if not of actual failure, at least of great and serious irregularity. The General Screw Steam Company is now about to follow up the favourable impression first made by more. decisive efforts, and is just about to occupy the field by the adoption of measures which promise to supply the great object hitherto unattainable, which is no less than a regular steam communication with Australia by means of the employment of ships of such a class as from their size, power, equipment, and capacity appear destined to command a practical and enduring success. The first of the new line of steamers of this charac ter made her appearance in the Southampton Docks last week. She is named the Crcesus, and is com manded by Captain J. V. Hall. This noble ship, the largest merchant steamship which ever left the Thames, and the finest screw steamer that has yet been exhibited in Southampton, is of 2,500 tons burden, and was built by Messrs. Mare and Co., of Blackwall, who are also preparing for sea, to follow the Crcesus, three other ships of similar dimensions, to be respec tively called the Golden Fleece, the Jason, and the Prince. A description of this magnificent steamer may loot bg uninteresting, embodying as she does every im priWement,- both of cthistruttion, equipment, and fitting which science and skill can suggest. The Crcesus is built of iron, in watertight compartments, the dimensions being as follows :—Length between perpendiculars 280 feet, length over all 300 feet, breadth 43 feet, depth 31i feet. She is full bark rigged, with an immense spread of canvas sufficient to force the ship through the water (irrespective of steam power) with a strong breeze at the rate of 13 or 14 knots. The Crcesus is, of course, pro pelled by the auxiliary screw, and her engines, by Messrs. Rennie, are of 400 horse power, on the direct acting horizontal principle, having an immediate connexion with the shaft of the screw. The screw itself is a two-bladed one of 161 feet diameter, with a 231- feet pitch, and weighs five tons.' By' ari . 'inge niously contrived hoisting apparatus it can be discon nected and lifted bodily out of the water, so that when the vessel is under canvas alone (which will fre quently be the case) no obstruction will be offered to the speed which may be obtained from the force of the wind acting upon the sails. The cylinders of the engines have a diameter of 63k inches and the steam is generated i n four tubular boilers, which are so arranged that they may be used singly or collectively, according as it may be.necessary and prudent to expend 'or economise fuel. The engines perform about 52 revolutions per minute, withl6lb pressure of steam, and a vacuum of 27 in the condenser. The arrangements for the accomodation of passengers are of the most complete kind ; 200 first and second-class can be carried, and for their benefit the saloons, bed cabins, bathrooms, and other conveniences are of the most com modious description, and comprise every necessary luxury and comfort that can be desired on board a steam-packet. The sleeping-berths are ranged entirely on the main deck, which has a communication from stem to stern, the officers' and servants' cabins being built upon the upper or spar -deck, thus economising the space for pas senger accommodation of near 40 person. A glance round the ship exhibits the excellence of . the general ar rangements, and shows that the Crcesus is intended 'to be a commercial and purely self-supporting steam-ship. Besides the great space allotted to passengers, the Croesus has a capacity for 1,300 or 1,400 tons of , measurement freight, will carry 1,000 tons of coals, possesses stowage room for 300 tons baggage and stores, with 103 tons of water in tanks, in addition to an apparatus for condens ing 700 gallons of water per diem. This ship and the others of the company's fleet have been fitted out under the entire supervision and direction of Captain John Ford, late of the Ottoman navy, the superintendent and manager of the General Screw Company. The Crcesus started from dreenhithe on Monday morning last at 10' o'clock, having on board Captain Shuttlewortb, and one of the directors, and Captain Ford, the superintendent of the company ; Mr. Lam bert, the engineer of the company ; Captain Halstead, R.N., Mr. Rennie, jun., and Mr. Scott, the manager of Messrs. Rennie's establishment. Before putting into Southampton, the object of the gentlemen on board was thoroughly to test the steaming and sailing qualities of the vessel by a trip down Channel, and this has been accordingly done in the most satisfactory manner, and with the most pleasing results. Immediately on gettinc , under way (the ship at starting having a dead weight of 1,480 tons on board with a draught of water of 1S feet) full steam was put on, and rapid progress made to the Nore, where the ship dropped anchor for the night. The next morning the anchor was again hoisted, and the ship steamed on at a great rate through the Downs, after passing which a run down the Channel was made to a distance of 15 miles below the Start. In the three days and nights during which the Crcesus was kept at sea before return ing to Southampton, several opportunities were afforded for trying the speed under every variety of weather. The maximum speed under canvas, with a strong breeze, and the screw disconnected, was 13 or 14 knot.. Close hauled, with double-reefed topsails, courses, trysail, and jib (canvas alone —no steam power 'applied), 101 knots. In smooth water, with no sails, the ship steamed 101 to 11 knots, and in coming up Channel against a heavy north-east gale, with a rough sea, all yards across, the engines forced the ship through the water at the rate of 41 to 51 knots. These trials of speed, under every cir cumstance, were therefore deemed most satisfactory— the engines worked admirably, with no symptoms of hot bearings, the boilers giving a full supply of water at . all times. The Crcesus is to sail on the 10th of January, and will, we understand, go direct from Southampton to Port Philip without touching at any intermediate port. This feature in the voyage of a steamer to Australia will in itself be a novel one, and the experiment will be watched with much interest. The great stowage and carrying capacity of the Crcesus will enable her to carry sufficient fuel for the whole voyage out, while we are told that, in addition to this, 600 tons of coals are to be stowed in the hold to be used for consumption on the homeward voyage. It is likely, therefore, that the Crcesus will start from Southampton with sufficient coals on board (supposing she is favoured with mo derate weather) to perform a voyage to Australia and back. Without being sangaine of the entire suc cess of this attempt to solve the hitherto almost in superable difficulty of coaling the Australian steamers, we may remark that the experiment is a roost im portant one. Coals cannot at present be shipped from this country to Australia at a less freight than 4/. to '5l. per ton, and adding to this 2/. per ton for the cost of landing them at Port Philip, the deterioration of quality to which they are subjected, and the expense of again placing them on board the steamer, it is not too much to say that the saving effected by the company upon the quantity (600 tons) to be taken in by the Crcesus for the homeward trip will be from 6/. to 71. per ton. The consumption of coals by an auxiliary screw-steamer during a voyoge of this duration is entirely dependent upon the weather that may be encountered. With fine breezes and moderately fair winds, the fires may be let out for days or weeks together ; hile, in light breezes, calms, and head winds the full power of the engines must be exerted to save both time and distance. With the ex patience of the voyage of the Argo as a precedent from which to draw conclusions, we may infer that the Crcesus will be enabled to make the run from Southampton to Port Philip (by way of the Cape) with an expenditure of about 1,000 tons of coals ; that a larger quantity will be required on the homeward trip, and for this purpose it will either necessary to add to her stock at the Austra lian ports, or to call at St. Vincent's for a replenish ment on the way home. Whichever course may be adopted, it is fully expected that this fine ship will make the passage either way in 60 days or under, and we have no hesitation in pronouncing that she is the finest and most suitable steamship which has yet departed from this country for the great colonies of the south, and the enterprising association to which she belongs merits in a large degree the patronage and support of the mercantile community for having (unaided by Go vernment subsidies or assistance) commenced and carried out, with an expenditure of such an immense of capital, so important and gigantic a line of steam-ships, ARTIFICIAL PROPAGATION OF SALMON IN THE TWEED. —We understand that the Duke of Roxburgh is at present, engtaged in forming a pond for the artificial pro pagation of fish, ou the same principle as that recently adopted at Perth. The pond is situated on Stodrig Burn, within the Floors policy, and is expected to be ready for the reception of the ova in a short time. The works will consist of four boxes, 24 feet long by 18 inches wide, divided into compartments (i feet long And 12 inches in depth. We understand that a pond of a simi lar description is in course of formation, and a portion of it is already finished, at Knapton Burn, the cite for which has been granted by Mr. David Milne Home, the proprietor. boxes sufficient to fecundate 205,000 sal mon fry have been laid down at Knapton Burn. The expense of the whole work is estimated not to exceed 601., which has been raised by private snbscription.— Kelso Mail. TRAGEDY IN HAVANNAH.—A great excitement has been created in Havannah, by a most brutal murder, per petrated by an actor attached to the Tacon Theatre, on his wife, Matilda Domin g „, s , psis a donna of th e Spa nish Opera, also belonging to the same company, and a great favourite in that place. With a poniard he inflicted 32 wounds on his victim, and then stabbed him• self 11 times, but without effect. In his wounded state he was taken to prison, where he now remains, and is recovering. Sentence of death has been pronounced upon him, and as soon as ho has sufficiently recovered he will be garrotted. The cause assigned for the murder wa s jealousy, and the refusal of the wife to furnish him with money. We have an immense fleet of coal-laden vessels in the Tyne, which have been accumulating during the past 10 days. In fact, the continued easterly gales are causing a very serious detention of shipping—the Wear. Hartle ! pool, and the Tees being as full of vessels as the .Tyne. There is not a vacant berth in Shields harbour. The weather has been very rough at sea. and the waves break heavily on the coast. The few vessels that have left here laden within the time mentioned have either had to put bank or seek places of shelter in Leith-roads or Holy Island. It is very fortunate that we have had so few vessels, more especially laden vessels, on the coast during the prevalence of the gales, and the ship ping casualties reported bear a slight proportion to the losses by similar gales in past seasons. The ouly vessel belonging to this port of the crew of which there seems now, to be no hope, is a brig named the Agenoria. She sailed coal-laden for London. Subsequently one of her ' boats was washed ashore near Aldborough. Neither vessel nor crew has been beard of, and there is every reason to con c l u d e t h at she is lost with all hands. The side of a vessel has come on shore near Bridlington, of which there is no account, and a derelict vessel is re ported to have been off Sunderland. About 200 light colliers reached here from London during Monday and Tuesday, after very quick_ passages. About half-a dozen light vessels ran, ashore on t h e same day i n a breeze in taking Hartlepool, but it is not supposed that they will sustain any serious' injury. When the wind veers about, and the sea gets down on the coast, there will be an extraordiny sea tide,,and . an immense fleet of ' laden colliers will leave the northern parts for the Lon don market—not less than 1,000 sail of vessels. The consumer of coal, with the coalowner and Siiip_ owner, is interested in the removal of obstacles impend ing the ingress or egress of collier-vessels from -the northern seaports, as the effects of the easterly gales clearly show. Owing to the increase of large vessels` frequenting the coal - ports, a good deal of attention hag been recently paid to plans for increased harbour accom modation, and the making of docks for the shipment of. coal and merchandise. There are now extensive docks at Hartlepool and Sunderland. The directors of the Sunderland Dock are extending their accommodation, and are spending a large, sum of money in Making a sea entrance. The Tyne Improvement Commissioner• have also procured powers to excavate a large dock.`on that river fcir the shipment of cold 'at the Haylide., The execution, of. the works• is. now in the s lat*: of contractors. The York; Newcastle, and Berwick Rail=. way . Compariy - .are - ale) • apiflying to Parliamerit; for powers to build a large dock, in Jarrow Slake, fgr. the. shipment of the produce of the Durham coalfield '; L fUld . 1 another comp an y h as a p f- o je ct t o build au' eitbrisiVe" deep waterclock at St. Pe;er,s, ; near Newcastle:,cingyne.' There is also a project on foot to build a dock and 'give' increased haib our a ccom modation' to vessels engaged in the coal trade at Blyth, a little seaport_ on the Northum berland coast. But the most important improvement projected in connection with' the' Tyne' is the building os piers at the mouth of the river, with the object o f d eepen -' ing the wate r on th e b ar , and protecting vessels enter ing and leaving the port. The River Tyne Improve ment Commissioners have an act giving them powers to make those works, and to collect the necessary dues. But as the Admiralty have a veto, and as there was a want of agreement among the towns on the banks of the river as regards the be'st - set of ,Plans, the appoint ment of an engineer to execute those works was left in the hands of their lordships.' , They. nominated Mr.. Walker, civil engineer, and that gentleman has just presented an elaborate report setting forth his' views on the subject, and it is anticipated that the 'works will be Proceeded with in the beginning of the year,. The wind has veered round to the N.W. to-night. The weather, however, looks very black and threaten ing, and we ha've had a great deal of rain. The crew of a billyboy, which had been roughly used by the gale outside, brought word into Sunderland on Thursday that they had seen a schooner and a galliot in distress not far off our coast. This report has not been confirmed, and is not generally believed in. Coal freights to London on Newcastle quay to .day were from lls. 6d. to 12s. per ton, but there were no light vessels in port to take them. INDICTMENT OP TWO FEMALES FOR SHOPLIFTING. At the Quarter Sessions for•the Borough of Colchester, Mrs. Bathia Webb, of Great Bentley, and Miss Eliza beth Holby, of Thorpe, whose connections are highly respectable, were indicted on several charges Of shop lifting. The case excited the greatest interest, and during its hearing the . court was crowded to an extent equalled bn any former occasion. Mr. Walford prosecuted, and Mr. Parry was specially retained for the prisoners. - It appeared in evidence, that the prisoners went toge ther to the Colchester Bazaar, on the 10th of this mouth, and made some trifling purchases. Two pairs of stock ings, two handkerchiefs, a pair of plush cuffs, a quantity of velvet trimmings, and other articles, were missed by the prosecutor, having been stolen, and were subse quently found conceale d under the bed and mattress in the room kept for ladies on market days at the Sea Horse Inn. Mrs. Webb, it was proved, dined with her husband (a respectable frequenter of the market) on the same day ; but Miss Holby was not with them then. Upon the articles being found, Miss Holby exclaimed, "My sister is innocent. I alone am responsible." She was very much affected. • The articles having been produced and identified as the property of Mr. Marsden, the proprietor of the bazaar, Mr. Parry addressed the prisoners. He observed that, with regard to one of them, he was extremely pained as to the course he was compelled to take, but, after the admission she had made, it was impossible for him to struggle against the fact, that in a moment of temptation, either dazzled by the finery of the establish. ment, or unconscious for the moment of the conse quences of what she was doing, she did commit an act which must bring upon her some punishment. In a moment of agony, feeling the misery she had brought upon herself, and was likely to bring upon her sister, she confessed her guilt. The learned counsel then con tended that Mrs. Webb had not committed a single act that looked like that of a guilty woman, and her posi tion, with the prospect of soon becoming a mother, was one that must cause the jury a greater anxiety to rescue her from the disgrace of having her first child born in a gaol. A number of witnesses having been called to character, The jury acquitted Mrs. Webb, and found Miss Holby guilty, who was sentenced to four months' imprison ment and hard labour in Springfield Gaol. A second indictment against the prisoners was with drawn. THE MAGAZINE'S FOR. JANUARY. COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The January Number. commencing the Hundredth Volume, and containing. a great variety of important and interesting articles, will b•• Published on the 31st. Also, the January Number of AINcWORTIVS MAGAZINE. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. Just Published, price Is., MINORITIES AND MAJORITIES : Their Relative Rights; A Letter to Lord John Rime% M.P., on Parliamentary Reform. By JAMES GARTH MARSHALL. James Ridgway, Piccadilly, and all Booksellers. CORN TRADE.—In accordance with the wishes of Farmers, Millers, and others interested in the Corn Trade, an "Edltivirtyfia. AnnICULTL - ft AL ZIVPTE AN 'r GAR , Dittexsic.s. crinatcrCLE will be published every Moeday Afternoon• in time for post, commencinz with the New Year. The full Report of the Mark Lane and Smithfield Markets of the day.—May be ordered of any News Agent. Price 6d. CONSTANTINOPLE is. just opened at BUR FOR O'S, Leicester-square, embracing the Golden Horn Val ley of Sweet Waters, Pera, Galata, the various Palaces, Scutari, Ur- Tower of Leander, the Seven Towers, Santa Sophia, and all the other Mosques, the Sea of Marmora, with Mount Olympus in the distance, awl the Bosporus, with the combined British awl French Fleets. The .views of armada and the Alhambra, and or the Bernese Alps, are also now open. CHRISTMAS WEEK. ,QTR. ALBERT SMITH will give his ASCENT II of MONT BLANC TO-NIGHT (MONDAY), TO-MOR ROW MORNING (TUESDNY), and EVERY EVENING (ex cept Saturday) at Two and Eight o'Clock, during the week. Egyp. tian Hall, Piccadilly. FIVE THOUSAND Fresh, Large, and Fat TURKEYS, GEESE, FOWLS, and OSTEND RABBITS. which arrived too la'e for sale on Saturday last, will be cleared off daily without any reserve by THURSDAY next. by GEORGE and EDWARD BROOKE, Salesman, Leadenhall-market. EOLOGYand MlNERALOGY.—Elementary I Collections. which will greatly facilitate the study of these interesting branches of science, can be had at '2, 5, 10, 20, 50, to len rmineas each, of J. TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, strand, London. Mr Tennant gives Private Instruction in Mine ral gy and Geology. O RNAMENTS for the DRAWING-ROOM, LIBRARY, and DINING-ROTVI, consisting of a great variety of vases, figures, groups, inkstands, candlesticks, inlatu tsbles, &c., in Derbyshire spar, marble, Italian alabaster, bronze, &c.. manufactured and imported by J. TENNANT, 149, Strand, London. ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF PALE ALE. THE Principal Firms of Burton having advanced the price of EAST INDIA P 1 LE ALE Sc. per barrel, MUM TETLEY and SON think it necessary to inform their friends thitt th ,v do not intend to alter the price of their Ales on orders •tered before Christmas next. The quality and condition shall be such as to maintain the character it has heretofure sustained. The Brewery, Leeds; City Stores, 26, Crosby•hall Chambers. Oct. 24, 1853. DELETERIOUS CON FE CTIONARY. —Many children having been poisoned by eating the ornaments of twelfth cake•, in consequence of the general use of mineral colour,. hy confectioners. Messrs. PURSSELL, 78, Cornhill, near the Ex change, have introduced an entirely novel method of DECORATING their CAKES with FRENCH RON RONS, &c., of delicious flavour the colours, being prepared solely from vegetables, are quite harmless Ornamented c-tkes of evLry variety, suitable for country present , , new year's girls, &c. A great variety of fancy French and Swiss Pastry, mince pies, &c.—Messrs. Purssell, 78, Cornhill, near the Ex change only. rHE MOST CERTAIN PREVENTION OF CHOLERA TEI DPICOVERED, FURTHER GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICE. CREWS'S DISINFECTING FLUID is the Best and Cheapest.—The Improved Chloride of Zinc for th' ourification of Dwelling-houses. Stables, Dog Kennels, Ship's Holds, (lesspools, Drains, water-closets, &c. ; the Disinfection of Sick It' , onts, Clothing, Linen, and for the Prevention of Contagion. The extraordinary pOwer of this Disinfecting and purifying agent, is now acknowledged, and its use recommended by the College of Physicians. Unlike the action of many other Disinfectants, it destroys all noxious smells, and is itself s tentless. The manufactu rer, having destroyed a monopoly fostered by the false assumption oi the title of a patent, has to warn the public against all spurious imitations. Each Bottle of Crews's Disinfecting Fluid contains a densely concentrated solution of Chloride of Zinc. which may be diluted for use with 200 times its bulk of water. Vide Instruction, accompanying each bottle. It is sold by ail Cheitists and Shipnint. , Agents in the United King torn, in Imperial Quarts at 2s. ; in pints, Is. ; half pints, at Gd., ant'. in larger vessels at Os. per Gallon. Agents—Messrs. Drew, Heyward, and Barron, Bash-lane, Can non-street. --- --- Manufactured at 11. G. GRAY'S, Commercial Wharf, Mile End, London. BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. The following testimonial is another proof of the great effi cacy of this medicine : " 157, New Bond-street, London, October 12, 1850. " Sir,—ln acquainting you with the great benefit which I have ex perienced by taking BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, I feel that I am but performing a duty to that portion of the public who may be similarly affected. "About twenty years since I was first attacked by rheumatic gout in my hands and feet. I had previously been subjected to every va , iety of climate, having served in Canada in the 19th Dragoons, and , n Spain, under Sir John Moore, in the 18th Hussars. I always pro aired the best medical aid, without obtaining any essential relief, and my sufferings can be appreciated only by those who know some thing of this disease. " It was during one of those paroxysms, between twelve and thir teen years ago, that I was recommended to try BLAIR'S PILLS. I Iciq no time in procuring a box, and before I had taken that quantity :he pain had entirely ceased, and in a few days I was in perfect health. " From that moment, whenever I feel any symptoms of the dis ease approaching, I have instant recourse to this medicine, which to me is so valuable, that were it not that the days of magic have ~eased, I should certainly attribute the relief I obtain to that cause. moreover, I rejoice to say that my health has not in any degree suf fered, but on the contrary I believe the tendency of BLAIR'S PILLS s towards its improvement. " I have recommended the Pills to many friends, and the result has always been of the most gratifying character. " I am, Sir, yours respectfully, "GARRET FOSTER GILL. "To Mr, Pront, 229, Strand." For every description of Gout and Rheumatism, Sciatica, Tie-dolo reux, &c., &c., BL AI WS GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS are a sovereign remedy contain neither mercury, opium, nor any other dangerous drug, require no care whatever in their use, and ter ra pidity of cure and complete safety have not their equal in the world. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and all respectable Medicine Vendors. Pr ce 2s. 9d. per box. ksk for BLAIR'S Got/ T and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe that " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," is impressed upon the government Stamp. STATE OF TRADE. (Front the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.) MANCHESTER, DEC. 23.—At the commencement of the present month, indications began to show them selves of a rising opinion that the depression in busi ness had probably run its course for the present ; and since then, we have experienced a gradual i ncrease of demand for both yarns and goods. The India mer chants have operated with greater freedom, in mule twist and the lighter kinds of goods, especially of late, under the influence of improved accounts from Calcutta ; and some purchases of water twist ar.d the heavier shirtings appear to have been made even for Can ton, where, according to the last accounts, a re sumption of business seemed to be taking place. The Greeks have also come into the market for twist and cloth adapted to the trade of the Levant. For some parts of the continent of America, moderate operations are in progress ; and we may cite domestics as articles which seem pretty sure to be in much greater request for Canada, than in any former year. The last-named articles are not now held in stock by the makers, as was the case but a short time back ; and they are consequently very firm in price. NOTTINGHAM, Dec. 22.—The usual absence of demand that is always experienced this month still continues, and with the exception of a few final orders for the sea son, both for lace and hosiery, there is comparatively nothing doing. LEICESTER, Dec. 22.—Our market is as u sua l qu i et before Christmas. Stocks on hand are unusually low for the season, and there is more confidence felt amongst the worsted spinners in holding over stock till the new year's trade commences. STATE OF THE WOOLLEN TRADE. (From the Leeds Mercury of Saturday.) LEEDS, Dec. 23.—80th on Saturday and on Tuesday there was a fair average business done in both the cloth halls, in addition to some considerable deliveries of goods direct at the merchants' warehouses. HUDDERSFIELD, Dec. 20. Since last Tuesday, busi ness in the warehouses has generally been good, consider ing the time of the year ; and a considerable quantity of finished woollens and waistcoatings have changed hands. In the Cloth-hall and the ma nufacturers' shops to-day, the demand has not been so brisk. but it has been quite as brisk as that of any market which has been held lately. ROCHDALE, Dec. 19.—We have had rather a slack attendance of buyers in the market to-day, and a very limited amount of business transacted. In wool there is little change ; the manufacturers buy for immediate use only, but prices keepvery _—Wool—Christmas an d stock taking firm. a pee. diminished23.—Wool—Christmas attendance an d b us i ness. BRADFORD, cause The stocks are certainly less than is usual at this period, and the prices sought by growers prevent staplers coming here. Noils and brokes are not plentiful, and prices are firm. Yarns--The demand is somewhat improved, but the prices will not induce the employment of idle machinery. Pieces—There is little doing. The limited production of the last three months must tell favourably in the opening year. Prices firm. MARYLEBONE.— Walter Godbold, driver of the cab No. 2,819, appeared before Mr. Long' on a sum mons which had been obtained against him at: the in. stance of the Police bornmissioners, to answer the charge (under the 16th and 17th Victoria, the Amended Hackney Carnage Act) plying for hire on a staid with a horse unfit for public use. Inspector Jecks, G, who haafbeen specially appointed to carry out in different distatits the provision of the act in reference to the offence "in question, stated that at halt-past one in the afternoon of the 15th inst. he saw defendant on the rank in High-street, Camden town. Upun examining the animal which he (defend. ant) had in his vehicle he found upon the off shoulder a wound of some extent, from which pns and bldod were oozing. The horse was in an extremely weak and jaded condition, and, on witness desiring him to take it home, as it was cruel to work it, he promised that he would do so, but almost immediately afterwards he took up a woman and drove off. The poor animal was *hipped severely, and even then it could scarcely get into a mo derate trot. It was evidently in extreme pain while performing the compulsory labour alluded to. Taylor, 320 K, corroborated the greater portion of the inspector's statement. Defendant, on being asked what he had to say, re plied that he was not plying for hire, and that the per son he took up was his wife, with whom he drove home directly. He had no witnesses present to speak for him. Mr. Jecks had another case of a like description, and Inspector Hennent, D, a third. Mr. Long said he was glad that under the amended act these matters had been taken up. A great deal of cruelty was practised by the working of worn - out cab horses in the public streets. In each of the th ree cases the magistrate inflicted a penalty of 10s., or seven days' imprisonment, at the same time intimating his intention to inflict a greater amount of ,punishment, up ol4 . lik e _ - • 4.011461 in - • . CLERR ENWELL.—John, Thwaites, brushmaker, of 40, Wynyatt-street, Clerkenwell, and Mary 2124,z, his wife, appeared before Mr. Tyrwhitt, pursuant to their hail, to answer an atrocious charge of cruelty to Emma Higgins, aged'6, th e illegitimate chil4 oft Oormer. The inquiry occasioned a painful iikterest v -* " The little complainant, remarkable alikejAker, dimi- • nutive as intelligent -appearance, stood on a)stbok sup port ed ••by her mother, and when' _questioned '"by the worthy magistrate' as to her Ittadialed g e: o r .right and ,wrong gave answers 3vil4 a rapiility and ,truthful accu- • racy that excited astonishment_ald . a dtniration.- Mr. Tyrwhitt, addressing' Mi',...WakOrik, 'who ap. peared for the prisoner, said, after so_pleasii?g exhibi ition of the talent of such,an infant,' he had 110 difficulty il. allowing her to be ifyorn in the usual- way. For. • * merly a`child of that age was not permitted to give evi. dence, let the crime be never so_ great, and many r u f. flans consequently escaped. Such, howeVer, was not 4- the case now, learned members of th e L eg i s l ature hay ing noticed and removed that difficulty, leaVing ma g if trates to ascertain and judge the competency of children :` 4 - to give•evidence' ' The'New , Teitament was then placed in the hands of •••.: • the child, and beinglold to examine it, she opened it, and read with fluency three verses of the Book of Reve lations, Being sworn, she entered.Mitintelyinto a series of barbarities.. perpetrated toward s h er b y th e pr i soners, whom she knew only'-in the character of uncle and , aunt. In the cou rse o f the ipstica -_ • - - ,04 IttioNi k 'child'was the offfiiiiMone' iggrltilon Dpihe male prisoner, who had subee. ttebtly parried. complainant was placed nuclei' ,the guardi a n s hip o f her mother's f a th er, to - whose -.kind attention she is indebted for• her learning, and she _remained' with him until March last, when. the prisoners took her to their abode, alleging inability to 'pay 2a: ad.' a yreek for her maintenance, under an order of thiA court,for...- that purpose. According to the testitfrAT of the:com plainant, she was at first treated as well as the other children of the prisoners, but, after a while, she wall buf fetted and kicked about, made to eat for heiThreakfast and supper dry bread with milk and water, and that her dinner invariably consisted of boiled rice and salt, whereas the prisoners and their children had at the first meal tea, bread and butter, and fish ; meat, potatoes, greens; and pudding, at dinner; and at tea-time their fare was the same as at breakfast. She had frequently been stripped naked by the prisoners, who had afterwards tied her hands behind her, and her legs together, and then plunged her head foremost into cold water ;. and on one oscaston while so bound the woman was going to put her, on the fire, but was alarmed at her streams. Since then the male defendant had placed a piece of wire secured to some string round her neck, and dragged her about the floor to a nail in the cupboard, saying be would hang her. Her aunt (the woman) would often beat her with her shoe over her head, ant: kick her on various parts of her person, bemuse she did not work fast enough with herneedle in assisting her at dress-making. Her grand father at length came to see her, and, finding her naked in the corner of a room, he took her away, and she had since be n in Clerkenwell workhouse, where she had been fed on puddings, meat, and other nice things, Mr. Brown, surgeon of the parish, said that when the poor child was brought under his notice it was emaciated, and had bruises about its body, and a ligature mark about its neck. A woman named Hopper stated that a fortnight ago she heard the woman at toe bar call the complainant a little brute, and say she would put an end to her. She had often heard her beat her, when the little sufferer wmonth s ould ineail, scream, and call out, " Oh, aunt." Four back she noticed bl ac k mar k s on her f ace . Other evidence in confirmation of the child having been given, Mr. Wakeling pleaded for his clients that they were on the verge of the grave from sickness and destitution, in addition to which the female defendant was near her accouehement. He had listened with con siderable pain to the evidence of the child, and felt the serious difficulty in which he was placed, and the heavy responsibility cast on him ; for surely the cruelties de scribed could not be the artful inventions of an infant of so tender an age ; and then again he was utterly at a loss to account for the motive for such unheard-of bar barity. The child was an out-patient of the London Homoeopathic Hospital, and the cold water applications and recommendation of peculiar diet might possibly have induced the poor child to fancy peculiar hardships to wards her. However, he must leave the learned magis trate to judge of all the facts, satisfied that justice would be done. Mr. Tyrwhitt remarked, that Mr. Wakeling had made the best of . a very heartl ess case of cruelty, and, taking into consideration the improbability of the prisoners ever again having the care of the child, and also . their evident ill s t a t e of health, he should commit them, with out fine, to the House of Correction for two months. The pris oners, who appeared overwhelmed with their degraded position, were then removed from the bar. LAMBETH.—A clerk from the office of Mr. Hick applied to the Hon. G. C. Norton for a summons against the Rev. Robert Gibson, an Independent minister, for wilful and corrupt perjury, committed while giving his evidence in a case of assault by Mr. Kelly, a respectable printer, whose wife he had seduced. The applicant related to his worship the answers given by the Rev. Mr. Gibson to questions put t o hi m on that day—answers not hastily, but deliberately and after a caution given, which had subsequently been con tradicted by the most respectable and unimpeachable witnesses. One of the questions asked the rev, gentle man was, whether he had not assumed and gone by the name of Kelly ? and his deliberate reply was that he never had. Now it would, the applicant felt sure, be in his worship's recollection, that Mrs. Clarke, one of the witnesses who had been examined, had distinctly sworn that Mr. Gibson took apartments at her house in the name of Kelly, and went by that name while he resided there. Mr. Nerton—J ur i es are s l ow to convict in cases of per jury ; and I feel a ssure d t h at ev i dence such as you have mentioned would not be sufficient to obtain a conviction. Applicant —Mrs. Clarke, sir, will be able to prove that when the rev. gentleman went into the watercloset, to avoid being seen by the husband, Mrs. Kell y addressed hi m i n t h e name o f K e ll y , sa ying it was all right, and th a t h e m i g h t come ou t ; but, besides this, I herself can produce a respectable master baker, who will swear that Gibson at his shop said his name was Kelly, and ordered bread to be sent to his wife, Mrs. Kelly, and further, I can have the evidence of a m edical man, wh o made ut a bill in the name of Kelly, and Gibson p a id him. ell, I much doubt whether even this will N st o ro rt n o g n • t—l feel satisfied that it would be sufficient Applican . . to obtain an indictment . before a grand jury, but, as the Norton—Fell, for a conviction. Recorder at the Old . Bailey strongly objects to persons your employed worsh worship p o o l n i have e summons,the r eN- b e i ng placed for trial on bills of indictment found be hind their backs, I should much prefer, and so would b b y ro ‘ u v g h h o tmbiref am m e and the evidence taken in the regular way, so that he might know exactly what he had to answer.' g tl e le nt p le e t r n s a o n n . Mr. Norton.—All that is very fair, but 1 have some 1 doubts whether the evidence on which you wish to found the charge of perjury was given sufficiently for mally ; and I should like to hear the whole evidence read before giving a summons. Applicant. —The gentlemen whom I represent, from having been so grossly imposed on by the Rev. R. Gib son, in his assumed sacred capacity, as well as -Mr. Kelly, are determined not to let the matter rest where it is, and with that view have instructed me to place the whole of ;the evidence before eminent counsel, and act. ' upon his advice. The opinion of the learned gentleman I shall have in a few days, and shall then renew my application. Mr. Norton.—Very well, let it remain so. MR. SMITH O'BRlEN.—According to the Limerick Chronicle, no intimation whatever has reached the family or friends of Mr. Smith O'Brien of that gentle man's escape from Van Diemen's Land. Ws are happy to be enabled to state, from inquiries which were made, that the three Misses Green Wil kinson are fast recovering from the accident by fire which is by no means of that serious nature as was at first supposed. `?L ~~,i ~ ~4♦