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:~;.. -. ~ it t ~~ (~z~~- Z 1_,,-,7 7 k0/ ...el t To be delivered at i IGosport. i Piyenoutti ktISIN'S (Eleme, Va- Itnti a, Chesme, or any VI ot her d escription).— • .GAR..... ••• • • *** It & (con gon ) ... • • * • •• • TOI3 tee° .. • • Tons. 12 Tons. 8 60 I 50 'bs. 20,0:0 •• Tons. Tons. 15 10 Year, .••' 181 853 . **** ••• • •• Img***** • * • *** 5 144 ••••• • to la/4••••••••••••'• ••••••• C OUNT RY COTTAGE for a PERMANENCY. WANTED, by Lady day or Midsummer , on an y of the Su WANTED, branches, within twenty miles oft Lond on and three of roo ms, containin g a t least .two good sitting and four or five bed Moor or iu . "ns, with ch a i se -h ouse and sta bl e a ttached. An old-fashioned Farm=house would suit, and a small quantity of pasture ]actedeeirable, though not essential. A retired situatio n not ob. to, but a dry soil and good water indispensable. Address, ""n full particulars, to M. T. Y., 33, Erydges-street, Covent-garden. )F). TT _ ._ 'CithaSnUcer y7adetoinaaDcaeuTeAConfdrtahs eao,liainigsthlOndoruus,rt the o T e i n tors of George Andrus, late of ' Sutton at Hone, in the County are t, aentiernan, who died in or about the month of June, 1817, to _b y their solicitors, on or before the 28th day of January, 1854, tb e l n oi a i in and prove their debts at the Chambers of the Master of there ' o !! in the Rolls-yard, Chancery lane. Middlesex, or in default Said th eY Will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the Decree, • Tuesd ay , 00 - , the 31st day of January, 1854, at twelve o'clock at f ___n at the eaid chaMbers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicat "g_tiPon theclaitns em e d , • this 2.1 d day of December, 1853: ADAM RIVERS STEELE, 1, Lincolies•inn-fields , . .....„.._, Plaintiff's Solicitor. GirUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE •, ASSURANCE COMPANY, - • • : No. 11, Lombard-street, London. • DIRECTORS.' Sir WALTER R. FARQUHAR, Bart., Chilnnan. • ~.. ritAxcis HART DYKE, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. I e,IITY I . lulse Berens, Fig. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq. John DIEM E.n Kir ly- Di xo n ----, John ',I artin,Esq., M.P. _. 0 .M. T. Farquhar, Bait. Bowiand Mitchell, Esq. .111 s ,Hankey,jun.,Esq M.P. James Morris, Esq. • 'Qn itarve r ' Jolii ' - Y, " se l' Henry Norman, Esq. i G.T - lubbard, Esq. Geo Henry:R. Reyno'ds, jun., F.sq. .. rge Johnstone Esa John Loch, Esq. elir•re, Esq. uoiu ~.., • • Esq. John Thornton, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. • Henry Yigne, Esq. .. A Rhharts, Esq. AUDITORS. I flerry Sykes Thornton, Esq. "Is Lloyd, J an., E sq. f John Henry Smith, Esq. SECRETARY—George Keys, Esq. . . C A om ex p u a A ny ily—driffitli Davies; Esq., F.R.S. l t l h s zne "LPARTNIENT.—Under the provisions of an' Act of Par now offers to future insniers Four-flfth! wiii iir ; °e ta, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low itate of Ilenniun The Participation of Prints. all next division of Profits will be declared in June, 1855, when tici at Pating Policies which shall have subsisted . least one year At 1854, will be allowed to share i n till' Profits. !xt the several past divisions of Profits Inacle by Allis Company, the rielpe.,.,..%ioannlaoryucitlledon, uses added to the pollcies from one-half the on an average of the different ages, to about One tadepaitt. prr Annum on the sums insured, and the total Bonuses r ob the Four. Septennial Divisions exceeded 770,0001. and l i7 EI GN RISK 51-The' Extra Prenilinna required . for the East est Indies, the nritish Colonies, and the northern parts of the • M , t4te i of America, hive bun inaterialVredwled. wetil k LID LIVES.-- , Tersons who are net in stfrh Sound health as !nay d i t „ tl ' 4444 illein-to insure their , Li ex At4tic Tabular Preininnis, their blues insured at Extra Prem.ums. tid e d 'S eranted on Life Polieles to the extent of their values, pro- Mi s t su ch Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have As r s te t cl i s ,e .. ette , li , cat,e a value nt:t. under 501. and re „ Aarkar TS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, received istered. poll""' iees paid by the Company, and no charge will be made for tarti . rnalottee htrebv g'ven, that Fire Policies which expire at Christ nuet be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with cerri . ;, 4ll . No. 1. St. James's-street, corner of Pall-mall ; or with the tekr a nYs Agents throughout the Kaigdom, otherwise they become ei :NTR 1 ' , - ---CTS FOR RAISINS, SUGAR, TEA, AND TORldalt: 'ePartment of the Comptroller for Victualling And Transport , t , . Th., ~. • Services, Somerset-place, 23d Dec., 1853. ' 4l -i Commissioners for Executing the OffiCe of • and i i 4ord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain . 4 an tia ,7 and. do Hereby Give Notice, that on THURSDAY , the I 2th p ermn ‘Y, 1854, at O ne o ' c l oc k, they will be ready to treat with such Into ' " may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering The u " er Malesty's Victualling Stores at GOSPORT and PLYMOUTH ...___ndennetioned articles, viz.:— When to be delivered One-half of each in one month, and the remainder in one month afterwards, or earlier if pre ferred by the party tendering. Th e 1%1 articles to be exempted from the Customs Ditties. 4 t en t ender will be received for a les& quantity of Raisins than than tens tons ugar than 10 tons—of Tea theta 4,000 lbs.—and of Tobacco oar n „, , e3l t ',tHea of the Raisins (not less than 6 lbs.), of the Sugar (not Ware 41 4 lbs.), of the Tea (not less than 2 lbs. from the Bonded due.;, and of the Tobacco (not less than 2 lbs.), must be pro - yay the parti es tendering. are r ,7 s amples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted trg,t`queated to be taken away by them immediately after the con ton 4 s have been decided. 6 CC " , ditlollB of the revised contracts, to which particular atten at called, may be seen at the said office, at the victualling yards and Plymouth; the office ofComniander Bevis, at Liver te.,4lscl of the Co lector'of tiustomi at Bristol. No tender be taile m i l u alter One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed I %riti n2 ,""e Party attends, or an agent for him, duly authorised in arid°ei; tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty : uear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender to , * , IQT most also be delivered at S , merset-place, and those for Raisins, WIC' , and Tea Must be accompanied by a letter signed by a respon ta.th.rersan, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, ti t ., felZc o t f s . 2 01. per cent. on the value, for the due performance of LIFE, ASSURANCE; Sf ,„..REPORT of the SELECT COMMITTEE of the HOUSE Al MONS, and the DEPOSIT SYSTEM—the New and itritertant- Feature of Life Assurance adopted by The DEPOSIT Th e following is au extract from the Report of the Select Corn btl.ttee k r ; THE OBJECTS WhiCh persons HAVE IN VIEW IN EFFECTING IN :NOES upon their lives, are GENERALLY OF AN IMPORTANT AND lit ter kN character, viz., the PROVISION FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS Ir x , the death their NATURAL PROTECTORS; unlilo any ordinary htz e t l ftiort of trade, a CONTRACT ONCE ENTERED INTO CANNOT BE l I ) , O4,;'ItOED OR ABANDONED, if doubts of the stability of an .aer ",, , hottld arise, WITHOUT • SACRIFICE OF. PREMIUMS PAID IN ° Mee, t 41 111, and tne - necessity of effecting new policies in other Of th e at increased rates of premium, owing to the greater age 4 .4Pp y 'lssued ; persons are thus placed in the ANIMUS AND UN DILEMMA OF BEING, COMPELLED TO PERSEVERE IN PAYING t O th, - ,., 48 FROM YEAR TO YEAR, with SOME suspic ion and doubt as Ultimate ativanlage of doing So , OR OF IN CURRING THE SE -1 L oss o ss WHICH UNDER TILE MOST FAVOURABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, the THE ABANDONMENT OR SALE OF A POLICY. " from DEPOSIT SYSTEM a person is NOT "COMPELLED " IO his Pot TO YEAR" and he does not, if desirous of " ABANDDN nia incur any SERIOUS LOSS," but, on the contrary, he teln e 7 such amounts, and at such times as he may fled most (lon -1144; he can stop paving whenever he pleases , and h e can w!th rap, 1, 5 Whole or part of his premiums. If the whole be with rotic:' ;He Policy is cancelled ; if part only, then the value of the A k i s diminished by the assured-value ot the part withdrawn.- 1. 5 .1,, sZed 20, opens a deposit policy with a payment of 51 . , wh.i ch ihru,oli shes. •be seen he eases from time to time, and occasio nall y inc, --- --z7: 4 eg , 6 0 0 ...00444.0 sg , 1 2 0 ,,,, -..4440.-. 0, ..e? : C:0 =0.3.. L' 4 2=. ' ,l ' 44- 47: - 4g! ,, V4V4,=gg=t o3 A -42 ...---v k t . N . . i -. ,:i • ,40....0 MN ..,I.M ~M , ~,s ... ..... .. 4 ~ T„. 1 . : !„ ~... „...,.., 2 t.. 0 44 .4.01. ~ : 1 t;) 0 ...id :acL'a 4... , --. .0, ,-.....•.,, co , -,-.,, -.--...,,,,, v.m . t. 7, 4 • 0 O. LI p ge. , 1111 11 - 111 44 -g.8.5 . . - :0 4 1 ,I. gi 4 I rr; N 4 - _ Z (4 I 0 . . N . M 40 00 . N. NM C. 4 .••••••-r- .. .1 t i, R .4, ,- q---g--g.c.;,3. 4 ,ig5.p. t f C r.u'ol zi g u , i ~,g a , 45 4.0%14.2 v. 2,D., : : co 2 i.,. k 0 . 44 11 ;1 4 01 4 . 4 . El Lt ‘' . ... : • : • • • • c6 . . c . 3 : ••. : ! • .: :.,; '/; 7.4gWMNg74JL;W7' I .; 4 '4; a l , -.4 , ,0w..1.,AA0 2 AmZ i 1 F... r. ...1 •.1 •••• W WW WM glhu in 10 years, has saved and invested at different Inter -04 “ 0 2 1 3 sums amounting to 971., by which he had been insured in e, 0 , death for 2601. 12s. 7d. ; but A. requires 22/. •he draws clitt. 4l oat, and diminishes the value of his Policy by ' 6O/. Bs. 3d. b. r e'n times, leaving him in case of death a Policy for 2001. Aid',ol, and during his life a fund of 751. to draw out at any time, in ,emus .whouy. i , a urst claim settled by the Deposit and General Life Assurance five wag upon a deposit of 10/. which a parent made for each hvi n e,lildren. instead of aiding it to an account they had at the L s c)alt„„" Rank. One of them died a few days after the 101 . was de "usit-,."' and the father received 341. 65., being the amount of the Le a-011,y. EXAMPLE No. 2. 'lta,;r 3 sing A B, aged 23, when he opens a Deposit Policy his the and continues VOLUNTARILY to pay the same sum every year sa me way as he is COMPELLED to do in the ordinary system. S. s. d.. 49 6 6 4S 16 0 47 18 0 47 4 6 4G 10 6 45 17 6 45 4 0 44 10 6 43 17 6 43 4 0 206 7 6 190 4 6 141 3 (1 1,000 4 0 194 13 G 147 1g ( 182 10 6 1,525 o 6 COSMOS INSTITUTE.—The Registration of this Society being now completed, and notice of the applica toll to , Parliament for extended powers having been duly given, shares will now be issued, bn personal or written application, and on the production of the Banker's receipt. By Order of the Council, STANLEY. Cosmos Institute, 87, St. James's-street. EXPORTERS to AUSTRALIA, EAST IN ALA DI, rAILMOUTS 111.0 Tor to DTEo Tuostas LEiTIS, Fish Merchant, Great Yarmouth. 4 TKINSON and COMPANY, CABINET MAN . UFACTUREES, UPHOLSTERERS', and CARPET WAREIIOU , EME V, 69, 70, 71, 72,• 73, 74, and 75, Westminster bridge-road, Lambeth, London. A TKINSON and. COMPANY, DRAPERS, J SILK MERCERS, LACEMEN, &c., 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster-bridge-road, Lambeth, London.—Shawls, Furs, .'•i:uitles, Family Mourning, &c. THE MOST CERTAIN PREVENTION OF CHOLERA. YET DISCOVERED. FURTHER GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICE. CIREWS'S DISINFECTING FLUID is the VV Best and Cheapest.—The Improved Chloride of Zinc for the purification of Dwelling-houses, Stables, Dog Kennels, Ship's Holds, Cesspools, Drains, water-closets, &c. ; the Disinfection of Sick Rooms, Clothing, Linen, and for the Prevention of Contagion. The extraor-linary power of this Disinfecting and purifying agent, is now acknowledged, and its use recommends l d by the College of Physicians. Unlike the action of many other Disinfectants, it destroys all noxious smells, and is itself scentless. The manufactu rer, havinz destroyed a monopoly fostered by the false assumption of 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 210 times its bulk of water. Vide Instructions accompanying mph bottle. It is sold by aif(lhemists and Shipping Agents in the United King dom, in Imperial Quarts at 2s. ; in pints, is. ; half pints, at ad., and In larger 'vessels at ss. per Gallon. Agents—Messrs. Drew, Ileyward, and Barron, Bash-lane, Can non-street. Manufactured at H. G. GRAY'S., Commercial Wharf, Mile End, London. DELETERIOUS CONFECTIONARY.--Many children having been toison , d by eating the ornaments of twelfth eel.; in Cr/11.11UCTICe of the general use of mineral colours by confectioners. Messrs. PUINSELL, 78, Cornhill, near the Ex change, have introduced an entirely novel method of DECORATING their CAKES with FRENCEJ BON EONS, &c., of delicious flavour; the colours, being prepared solely from vezetables, are quite harmless. Ornamented cakes of every variety, suitable for country presents, new year's Oils, &c. A great variety of fancy French and Swiss pastry, mince pies, &c.—Messrs. Purssell, 78, Cornhill, near the Ex change only. MERRY CHRISTMAS and CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES.—Good cheer, smiling faces, warm-hearted wishes, visits, balls, amusements, everything pleasinr—variety tri umphing over monotony, pushing the dull system of things entirely out of prictice, and helping every one to be merry and cheerful. All observers of the preparations made for Christmas festivities by E. MOSES and Sow will easily understand how this is accomplished. There is not anything more necessary to cheerfulness than first-rate Attire, and hat presented by E. Moses and Son exhibits greater ex cellence and variety than on any previous season. For tho festive season E. Moses and Son hare rendered their gigantic commercial resources available for every one, the best and cheapest articles of Attire being offered for Ladies, Gentlemen, and Children. . _ The variety in Overcoats and Winter Clothing is produced by an extraordinary association of skill and experience, which has selected the most fashionable and durable materials, and fashioned them to the most celebrated habiliments of the age. The variety in Dress for Christmas parties entirely surpasses description; every material In which taste and fashion is conspicuous is made intb the most mag nificent attire ever witnessed. Juvenile Attire is rendered universally attractive by new modes of cutting, making, and Trimming; many new st 3, les are introduced as distinguished ior fashion and comfort, as the Goods are for Durability and economy., TheNor-Stock in the Ladies Dress Department comprehends all the Ncveltios in the 'World, and Hosiery Goods for Ladies and Gen tlemen the richest and cheapest articles ever offered. Variety is the charm of Christmas Parties, but it was never so magnificently provided as this year by E. Moses and Son, and in presenting the best end cheapest articles of Dress to all classes, they wish their Friends, Patrons, and the Public " A Merry Christmas." CAUTION. —,E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the uutradesman-like falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IA OZ OUT Or LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows :7_ London City Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Mlnories, 83, 44, g 5, and,B6, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506,507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1, 2 and 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, Fugate. Colonial Branch, 31 , 1b0ul ne, Australia. Merchant Tailor Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT. Should any article not give satisfaction, it will be exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which no abatement can be made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, " The Epitome of Comfort - and Economy," contain Ing full lists If prices, our system of self-measurement, Eac., &c., may ho had on application, or post-free. Ici Pon parte Francaii. Qui si parla Italian°. liter 4rricht man Deutsch. Aqua se habla Espaco • oleord o , 181. commencing at 23 years of age, and paid noon - ArY Policy (AS IT MUST RE) every year till A.B is 46 years A if B lives 17 ;Dearsl l A l s ecure the same sum, viz ., 1,0011" bat feet,., ,s ' i ßer (whi c h i s t h e pro b a bl e 4 ' o oration the insurance) his Depo.it olicy. for the to 525/, a m e r)en t 4 .W% ordinary Policy of 1,0001., P will have increased pa 1 o~— s. TRUSTEES. • q ottnurable the Lord Viscount Drumlanrig,M.P., P .c. , ittptrolle r of her Majesty's Household. ki nla n.. ;'eer nar a e l Sir W. Clayton, Bart., 79, Gloucester-place, Port- ViZti.aries Price, Bart. Banker, London Ayscough, Prospect House,. Southampton. .%11 1 liht CHAIRMAN. Tien. the Lord Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C., Comp troller of her Malesty's Household. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN.George Coode. Esq., Victoria-street, Belgravia. CONSULTING ACTUARY. h . it n_ Francis G. P. Nelson, E-q., F.L.S. STANDING COUNSEL. Ad . ,.Towder, E gg.. , M.P., Recorder of Bristol, Counsel to the 11'4raitY. and Jud ge Advocate of the Fleet. QhleirAXBq., Q.C.. M.P„ Lincoln's-inn. A ( An isie. IR, New Bridge-street, Blackfrlars, London. granted at 5 per cent. on real or personal security. :111,44_ byesoothntrmost favourable terms. Diseased lives and lives de offices accepted at equitable rates. utiVrospectuses and further information apply to the agents in ' n tr3'. or to C. IV. Bevan, Resident Secretary. „ ge nts Wanted in all parts of the United Kingdom. - AVIIITUCCIS Meted on Um ordinary Plan. MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE RECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. DR. SAMUEL LAnIERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh,. Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society. Licentiate of Apothecaries' hall. London. Sec., &c. MAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience In the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist ence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitfhl Marri ages, Impetency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their endless modifications owe their almost entire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principle.s of personal management which cannot be violated without I nc urring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its con-equenc es may be avoided, and above all, that there is seercely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. DOCTOR LI'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged In aft extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com plaints, and is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has lied the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is free. In selecting thi department of practice, he has been amply rewarded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the cure of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated publications, assnmed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues o`their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who have been induced to place faith in their pretensions. At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from six till Eight. All letters mast contain the fee of IL, and advice and medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address. It 13 desirable thet patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MERT hould first obtain a c of his work on SELF-PRESERVATION A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and Generative Debility, illustrated by Afty-coloured engravings, and des cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and accesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct description of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in English, French. .Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or Gorman, of Messrs. Piper Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, (Word. street ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Storie, Titchborne-street, llaymarket ; or free by oost for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Author's resi dence. 37. BltDF0111:0•SQUABE LONDON. B ELLOT TESTIMONIAL FUND. NAMES OF SUBSCRIBERS. (Received at the apartments of the Royal Geographical Society, Waterloo-place, up to Nov. 21.) Sir Roderick I. Murat- Hughes, H. W., Esq. .. £ I 0 0 son, D.C.L., M.A., Hurry, Edward, Esq... 1 1 0 F.R.S., V.P.R.G.S„ Hutchinson, Col. H. .. 1 0 0 Chairman • • 225 0 0 Hutchinson. Hon. R. H. 1 0 0 Aberdeen, the Earl of, Ick, Rev. W. R., Sygles- K.T., M.A., F.R.S., thorpe .. . .. 1 0 0 F.R.G.S. .. ..25 0 0 Ingletleld, Capt. E. A., Acland, Sir Thomaq D., R.N., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. 5 11 0 Bart., M.P., 1.R.5., Inglis, Sir R. EL, Ran., F.R.G.S. .. .. 5 0 0 - M.P., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. 5 0 0 Addington, H. U., Esq. 5 0 0 Irving, Dr. E. G., R.N., Aitchison, Captain .. 33 0 F.R.G.S. • • •• 05 0 Alston, Mr. A. H. Irving, Thomas, EN., (Phoenix) .. . 20 0 F R.G.S. .. .. 05 0 Angerstein, Col. J. J. W . 5 0 0 Jesse, Captain •• .. 1 1 0 Anonymous. Llanelly, Johnstone, Colonel Geo. 1 1 0 per '•The Times" news- Kaler, E., F.sq. .. .. 1 1 0 paper .. .. .. 1 0 0 Kennedy, William, Esq., Archer, H.M.S., Cam- of the Isabel .. . 5 0 0 mender Strange and Knudtzen, Gorgan, Esq. 5 0 0 the Gun-room officers, Laird, M'Gregor, Esq., one day's pay .. .. 316 6 F.R.G.S. .. • • 5 0 0 Arrowsmith, John, Esq., Lansdowne, the Marquis F.R.G.S. .. .. 3 0 0 of • • • • .. 20 0 0 Austin, Captain Horatio Lee, Thomas, Esq., T., C.B. .. .. 2 2 0 F.R.G.S. .. .. 1 0 0 Bacon, Thomas, Esq. .. 1 0 0 Leigh; Right Hon. T. P. 10 0 0 Baillie, Alex., Esq. 5 0 0 Levesque, Peter, Esq., Baillie, David, Esq , F.R.G.S. .. .. 10 0 0 F.R.S., F.R.G.S. 5 0 0 Lindsay, H. H., Esq. .. 1 1 0 Baker, Capt. Thomas, Lloyd, —, Esq. .. 1 1 0 H.C.S, .. 1 1 0 Lloyd, T. Davies. Esq. 1 1 0 Barnett, Capt. Edward, Londesborough, Lord, R.N., F.R.G.S. 1 0 0 F.R.S., F.R.G.S. .. 25 0 0 Barrow, Sir Geo., Bart 5 0 0 Luce, J. T., Esq. • • 1 0 0 Barrow, Henry,'Esq. 1 1 0 M'Cormtck, Dr. (Phoenix) 2 0 0 Barrow, John, Esq , M'Donnell . Mr. (Phoenix) 1 0 0 1.R.5., F.R.G.S. 2O 0 0 Maitland, Vice-Admiral Beaufort, Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir Anthony 5 0 0 Sir F., K.C.8., F.R.S , - Majendie, Ashurst, Esq., F.R.G.S. .. lO 0 0 F.G.S • • 5 0 0 Becher, Captain A. B , Majendle, Mrs. Ashurst 1 0 0 R.N., F.R.G.S. 1 1 0 Malmesbury, the Earl of 5 0 0 Beechy, Captain W. F., Mangles, Capt. J., R.N., , R.N., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. 1 1 f F,R.S., F.R.G.S. .. 5 0 0 Bell, J. D., Esq. 1 1 0 Manson, Mr. Donald Best, Capt. Hon. Thos. 1 1 0 (Phi:lents) .. Biggs, J , Esq. .. 2 2 0 Mare, C. J., Esq. Bird, Wm, Wilberforce, Martin, Rev. J. W., Esq., F.R.G.S. 5O 0, F.R.G.S. • • • • 1 1 0 Blair, Lieut.-Col. W. H. Merivale, Herman, Esq„ S. .. .. 5. 0 0 F.R.G.S. • • Borland, Dr., Inspector- Mills, E. W., Esq. . Gen.ofArmy Hospitals 1 1 0 Milne, Alex., Esq..' Bowles, Vice-Admiral F.R.G.S. .. 2 0 0 Win., C. 8., F.R.G.S. 5 0 0 Mocatta, F. D., Esq„ Bourclin. M. • • 1 1 0 F.R.G.S. • • .. 1 1 0 Boyd, Mark, Esq. 2 2 0 Molyneux, Commander Bracebridge, C. R.., Esq , W. H. • • • • 1 1 0 Fit G.S. .. 1 1 0 Moore, Major A. 5 0 0 Breadalbane, Marquis of, Moorsom, Rear-Admiral 1 1 0 K.T., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. 20 0 0 Morant, George, Esq. 2 2 0 Brent, Gao. S. Esq., De- Morgan, Lieut. W. G. puty Coroner for Mid • 11., ftN., H.M.S ,Pre diesex, F.R.G.S 0 5 0 sident •• .. 5 0 0 Brisbane, General Sir Mundy, Admiral Sir Thos.M.,Bart.,G.C.B., George, K.C.B. .. 5 0 0 G.R.G.S. 5 0 0 Murray, John, Esq., Brock, Capt. Thos., R.N 010 0 F.R.G.S. .. .. 10 10 0 Brockedon, Wm., Esq , Norcliffe, Colonel • • 1 1 0 F.R.S ,F.R.G.S. 5 0 0 Ommaney, Capt. E., Brooking, T. H., Esq , Brown,FFIRRiGG F.R.G.S. 5 0 0 Ommaney, M. C., EBq. 1 1 0 John, Esq ,• R.N., F.R.G.S. .. 22 0 5 5 0 Otway, jocely C n o , m ß m . N a n . d er R Ob. .. 10 0 0 Brown, R , Esq., D.C.L., Otway. Sir George, Bart. 1 1 0 F.R.S., F.R.G.S. 5 0 0 Outram, Sir Benjamin, Browne, Major• General C. 8., F.R S., F.R.G.S. 5 5 0 Sir Henry, E.C.H. 2 0 0 Ouvry, Frederick, Esq. 1 1 0 Buckingham, J. Silk, Overstone, Lord, M.A.,' Esq., F.R.G.S. 1 I 0 Pres. S.S., F.R.G.5... 25 0 0 Buckley,Lady Catherine 2 0 0 Owen, Mr. (Fheenix) .. 0 10 0 Calder, Alexander, Esq. 2 2 0 Paget, Captain Lord Campbell, Captain, F.A., Clarence, R.N. .. 5 0 0 R.N. .. . .. 1 1 0 Pakington, Right Hon. 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R.N., Perigal, F., Esq... .. 1 1 0 D.C.L., F.R.G S. .. 5 0 0 Petrie, Samuel, Esq. .. 2 2 0 Collier, C., E , q... .. 2 2 0 Phillips, T. J., Esq. •• 1 1 0 Combe, Harvey, Esq. .. 5 0 0 Phoenix. H. M. steamer Commerill, Lieut., R.N. 10 0 0 (side's crew) .. .. 2 3 7 Cooke, Comjnr. J., R.N. 1 1 0 Pinhorn, W., Esq. .. 1 1 0 Coote, C. Chidley, Esq., Playfair, Dr. Lyon, C. 8., F.R.G.S. .. .. 1 1 0 F.R.S. .. .. .. 2 2 0 Copley. Sir J. W., Bart., Pole, Major .. 1 1 0 F.R.G.S. .. 25 0 0 Ponza, Charles, Esq. .. 3' 3 0 Cotton, Capt. H. E., R.N 2 0 0 Portlock, Lieut.-Colonel Cracroft, Miss Sophia 2 0 0 J. E., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. 1 1 0 Cracroft, Capt. R.N., Pottinger, Lieut.-Col. W. 1 1 0 F.R.G.S. •• 1 0 0 Fowles, J. D., Faq. .. 10 0 0 Cracroft, Mrs. Peter .. 2 0 0 Prescott, Rear-Admiral Craigie, Capt Robert •. 1 0 0 Henry, C.B. .. .. 2 2 0 Creswell. Lieut., R.N... 2 0 0 Probyn, Capt. G., R.N... 1 1 0 Cumming It., Esq. .. 0 5 0 Pynn, Mkior-General Sir Davis, Sir J. 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J., F.R.G.S. 10 0 0 F.R.G.S. .. lO 0 0 Royal Artillery(Non •com- Drake, Capt. John, R.N 1 0 0 missioned Officers em- Drummond, Dir. (Place- ployed in Col. Sabine's nix) OlO 0 office). One day's pay 210 0 Duff Gordon and Co 2 2 0 Russell, Lord John, M.P., Duncombe, Hon. Ar., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. .. 20 0 0 R.N. • • 5 0 0 Russell, J. Watts, Esq.. Dundas, the Right Hon D.C.L.,': F.R.S., F.R. Sir David, F.R.G.S. —5 0 0 G.S. ,•• •• .. 33 0 Durkin, 11., Esq., 1 1 0 Sabine, Colonel Edward, Edgell, Cast.. R.N. 1 1 0 R.A ,F.R S., F.R G.S. 5 0 0 Edwards, Capt. H. 2 2 0 Sainsbury, J., Esq , "tee Eliott, Capt. Geo. Angs, Collector and Propri -1 0 0 tor of the Napoleon Ellesmere, the Eel. of Museum" • • .. 10 10 0 D.C.L., Pres. Royal Do., towards the family Elliott, Gao St. David's, Bishop of .. 5 0 0 Geographical Societ y 25 0 0 fund .. .. .. 10 10 0 (Phoenix) .. .•2 0 0 Salomons, Mr. Alderman Evans, D. M., Esq. 1 1 0 David, F.R G.S. .. 25 0 0 Evans, Capt. G., R.N 1 0 0 Sandwith. Lieut.-Gen., Farley & Boyce, Messrs 22 0 F.R.G.S. • • .. 1 1 0 Farley, Wm., Esq., Mae- Saurin, Rear-Admiral ter, R.N., Newton 2 0 0 Edward Abbott .. .. lO 0 Sewell, Fox, " ox, and Sewell, Faraday, M., Esq., Messrs. .. .. 33 0 F.R.S. .. .. 2O 0 Simpkinson, Lady .. 1 1 0 Fairer, Jas. Wm., Esq , 2 0 0 Simpkinson, J. M., Esq. 5 0 0 Fawckner, Mr. (Phcenix) 010 0 Slade. Felix, Esq. .. 50 0 Fayrer, Cora. Robt. R.N. Smith, Newman, Esq... 2 0 0 F R.G.S. • • 1 0 0 Smith, E. Osborne, Esq , Ferguson, R., Esq. 1 0 0 F.R.G.S. .. .. 1 1 0 Fitzroy, Capt. R., R.N , Smyth. Rear-Admiral F.R.S., F R.G.S 2 0 0 W.H., K.S.F., D.C.L., Forster, John, Esq., M.P 5 5 0 F.R GS. . .. 1 0 0 Fowler, RN , Esq.,M.A. Soth' , y, Capt. E. S 1 0 0 F.R.G.S. .... • • ...... I 1 0 Spence, William, Esq , Franklin. Lady 25 0 0 F.R.G.5............. 5 0 0 Gage, Admiral Sir Wm. Spencer, Rear-Adm. the H., 0.C.11., K.C.8., Earl, K.G.,C.8.,F.R.5, 25 0 0 F.R.G.S. Gassiott, J. P., Esq., Stanton, Mr. (Phcenix).. 2 0 0 F.R.S. .. .. .. •... • . 5 5 0 Stanton, C. H. Esq .... . 010 0 Gell, Mrs .• •• • • Glocester and Bristol, Steele, Lieut.-Col. Thos.. Bishop of.. • • ........ 5 0 0 F R.G.S. •••••• . • • • • 2 2 0 Glen, G.C., Esq., M.P.. 10 0 0 Stirling,Rear-Adm.SirJ. 1 0 0 Gordon, Capt. G.T.,11.N. 1 1 0 Stokes, Capt. J. Lod. Gordon, E.G., Esq. •• .. 2 2 0 R.N., F.R.G.5....... 1 1 0 (sore. Rev. George..... 1 1 0 Sykes, Vice-Adm. John 2 0 0 Gowen, J. R., Esq, Tatham, Com. Edward 1 1 0 Thompson. Richard • C • . a . P . t . . . ../..: I.— * F.R.G.S. Graham, Right Hon. Sir 3 0 0 James. Bart, M.P., F.R.S., F.R.G.S •••• 25 0 0 R.N. ....E5q......... - 1 1 0 ............ 1 1 0 Graham, Prof., F.R.5... 3 3 0 Telver, S., Grattan, T. C., E5q..... 1 1 0 Townshend, J. V. S., Esq 1 1 0 Griffith, C. Duty.. •. 10 0 0 Towry, G. E., Esq' Grosso, Mr. R. • • .... 2 0 0 F. 14.0 5......... •• • • 110 0 - 0 5 0 - 50 0 0 .; 2 0 0 .. 10 0 0 Gurney, Miss Anna, ef N. Repps.... • • 5 0 0 Haden, F.S., Esq... 2 2 0 Makin, Commander, C.L. 1 0 0 Belford, Rev. Thomas, M.A., F R.G.S. • 5 0 0 tfaikett, P.A.,Esq., R.N. 20 0 0 11a9, Capt. W. H., R.N., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. • 1 1 0 Hamilton, Capt. W. A. 8., R.N.. F.R,G.S. 5 0 0 Hancock, E. T., Esq. 2 2 0 Hand, Capt. G.. R.N , F.R.S. 1 1 0 Harker, Rev. G. • . 1 1 0 Harposel, F. R., Esq. .. 1 1 0 Harris, Mr. (Phoenix) .. 0 10 0 ilarris, G. F., Esq, F.R.G.S. • • .. 1 1 0 Hawley, Mr.( Phoenix) .. 2 0 0 Hay, John H., Esq. .. 3 3 0 H.E. .. .. 1 1 0 Herbert, Rear-Admiral SECOND EDITION.—WITH ADDITIONS. Sir Thomas, M.P., K.C.B. F.R.G.S. .. 5 0 0 Just published, Bvo., in cloth, price 55., by post free. ss. 6d. Hicks J., Esq , M.R.I. 11 0 IN TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA , Higgins, M. J., Esq. .. 5 o o with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors Hills, Mr. (Phoenix) .. 1 0 0 in relation to the Treatmeat and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the Hobbs, J. S., Esq., Generative System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis. F.R.G.S. 1 1 0 Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD Holland, Sir IL, M.D., "Dr. Pickfora to known to English readers by his frequent practi- F.R.S., .. 55 0 cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first Holman, Dr. (Phoenix) .. • 2 0 0 that he has addressed himself to the non-medi- Hopkinson, W., Esq. .. 0 10 0 teigTerecal'ectrn.formWes u, trust s this may not be the last, if he shall letect any Ditto for the family .. 010 0 other equally Ilse:Tait evil which it may be in his •ower to correct." Homer, Rev. J. M. .. 1 0 0 —London Medical Gazette, May )0, 1551. The tribe of 'Quiet Sympa- I Howard, Capt. the Hon. hisers,' ' edical Friends,'are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book i Edward .. 1 1 0 'ould find its wry into the hands of those who stiffer fr an the com- Howden, Rt. Hon. Lord 10 0 0 plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would Hudson, Capt. J., R.N. 1 1 0 to .aved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is ef Subscriptions are received by Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, 'en importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— Lombard-street; Bouverie, Murdock, and Co., 11 Haymarket; much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street : Messrs. Coutts and empirical system of treating Spermatorrhma, and to place the treat- Co., 59, Strand ; Messrs. Drummond and Co., 49, Charing-cross; mout upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore Messrs. Ommanney and Co , 40, Charing-Cross ; Cocks, Biddulph, likely to do much good."—Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. and Ce., 43, Charing-cross (Treasurers); and at the apartments of London: H. Balliore, 219, Roma-street. he Au Geographical liodety, 3, Waterloo-place. Tremenhire; Seymour, • Trevelyan, • Sir W. C., Bart., 51. A. F.R.G.S. 5 0 0 Tudor, Henry, Esq• • 22 0 Tudor, Edward Owen, Esq., F.R.O.S ...... .. 2 2 0 Turner, Henry, E5q..... 5 0 0 Urquhart, Jamo, Eaq• 2 0 Vaughan. Col. Wt 4 ght .. 1 1 0 Vernon, John, Esq. . 25 0 0 " Vivent lea Rellots" .. 2 0 0 Vyner, Robert, Esq. .. 5 00 , Waite, J. C.. Esq. .. 1 1 0 Waiey, S. W. Esq. .• 1 1 0 Walker, Capt. Robertson 2 2 0 Walker, Captain W. IL, H.C.S., .. 2 2 0 Washington. Capt. John R.N., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. 2 2 0 i Weld, C. R.. Esq., 0 West, Admiral Sir John 5 0 0 Whieton, Rev. Robert .. 1 1 0 Wilkinson, Conrad, Esq. 2 2 0 Wilkinson, Horace, Esq. 2 2 0 Wilkinson. Norman, Esq. 1 1 0 Wilkinson, William, Esq. 1 1 0 illiams Rev. D., D.C.L., F.R.G.S.• • 1 1 0 Willich, Chas. M., Esq., F.R.G.S.• • • 1 1 0 Winslow, I Dr. Forbes, D.C,'.L. • • • . .. 3 0 0 W7pndhnat Wood. Sirn i t Lie u tenant 2 0 W. P f . . tena 5 00 0 Young, T., Esq., F.G.S. 5 0 0 Yonnghusband, Captain R.A., F.R S. .. .. 1 00 LAW INT '3LLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.--DEc. 27. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) " 9 . IN RE BRADSTREET. The bankrupt was a baker, in Pearson-street, and Great Cambridge-street, Kingsland-road. This was the last examination meeting. His debts were 531(. ; no assets. Mr. Bagley opposed for the assignees. It appeared that the bankrupt had, a few days before the petition, transferred his business to a person named Payne, on the ground of a pre-existing debt, he having previously paid 801. for the business. He went on con tracting debts up to the date of the failure. Besides the business of the baker, he had traded as a miller and flour factor ; and though several thousands of pounds had passed through his hands, his accounts showed little or no profit. There being nothing whatever in the hands of the assignees, they had not the ppportunity of investi gating the case thoroughly. i , 1 The bankrupt was examined, d stat e d th a t h e h a d kept no account of his ready m o y sa l es . At one ti me he took 121. or 131. a week. H , had 500 sacks belong ing to him, which were at presedt in the hands of the bakers. It was a usual thing, even in a small business, to lose as many as 200 sacks in a year. Mr. Harris, for the bankrupt, submitted that he ought to pass, as the accounts were undoubtedly correct, and were all vouched. Mr. Edwards, the official assignee, expressing a simi- lar opiniOn, His Honour allowed the bankrupt to pass, observing that the question was more one for the certificate meeting. From the figures in the balance-sheet it would appear that he had been carrying on trade for a long time without profits, and living out of his cre ditors. Mr. Harris said that would be explained at the pro per time. IN RE COHEN. This was the adjourned last examination meeting in the case of Abraham Cohen, clothier, of Houndsditch. The accounts have been already published. Mr. A. Turner, for the assignees, stated that after the last examination, when the bankrupt was adjourned sine die, without protection, a ca. sa. had been taken out by one of the assignees in his individual capacity, on the understanding that whatever was obtained should go to the credit of the estate. Under these circum stances the assignees were not unwilling for the bank rupt to pass. His Honour said that under the circumstances, the accounts being most unsatisfactory, and no other account having been filed, the court could not take notice of any arrangement with the assignees, but must again order an adjournment sine die. Mr. Poole applied for the discharge of the bankrupt from custody, but his Honour directed the application to stand over. IN RE LANGFORD. The bankrupt was a brewer and maltster, of Portsea, Portsmouth. This was the last examination meeting. The accounts prepared by Mr. Pettis, commenced on the Ist of February, 1851, with a capital of 501. The bankrupt owed to unsecured creditors 1,080/. ; to those holding security, 4,1341. ; liabilities, 61/. ; assets in good debts and property, about 9001. ; property held as security, 4,3101. The profits had been 2,589/. ; losses, 1321. ; trade expenses, 1,8271. ; interest and discount, 348/. ; law expenses, 1941. ; domestic ditto, 4151. The bankrupt passed unopposed. 19 rf 16. LATJRENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE Rooms, (Lessee, Cass. C. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Ftsam•roed), —The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR TIIE SEASON. and will .continue open every evening, with L MYREN T'S CELEBRATED BAND. Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past 8 ; Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and terminate at half-past 11. tIEOLOGYand MlNERALOGY.—Elementary ‘‘._ft - Collections, wtech will gredtly facilitate the study of these interesting branches of sciatica, can' be had at 2,5, 10,23, 50, to 100 guineas each, of J. TENNANT, lopOralogist to her Majesty, 149, Striind; LOndon. Mr. Tennant giros Priya:c Instruction in Mine ralogy and Geology. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1853. [ PRICE SD. Soule, fits, was slightly wounded, and promised on his word of honour to contradict the facts given by the English press, by inserting a letter in the English and American papers. He also bound himself to burn the letter which the Duke had written to him, before wit nesses. Thus terminated. this combat. But these are only the first two acts of the drama which weare relating. Here is the third and the most serious. After the events which we have just related, Mr. Soule, pore, wrote to the Marquis de Turgot a very violent letter, telling him that it was not the Duke of Alba and Mr. Soule, fits, who ought to light ; that it was he who ought to avenge the honour of his wife, which had been attacked by the jokes which the ambassador of France had permitted him self to make. The Marquis de Turgot has accepted the cartel addressed to him. The seconds are Lord Howden, the English ambassador, and General Caine, French minister plenipotentiary at present at Madrid. The meeting was to take place on Sunday, the 18th. A third combat, the consequence of the two others, is afterwards to take place between Mr. Perry, the secre tary of the United States legation, and the French con sul at Santander. Such is, without comment or reflec tion on our part, the reds,' of the facts, which speak sufficiently plainly of themselves. We guarantee the authenticity of what we tell. We could add much more, but we refrain. The Emperor is informed of all, and s tle p i at c t h el e e s g o ra n ph th e a v t er dyepdaloyrat"blemaniffaititedr, totowhhimichsewveeraklndoew that he has given the attention which it merits." The same paper adds : " The article which precedes was in print when the courier from Madrid brought us the conclusion which we exp'ected. Informed of what was taking plebe, 'the Spanish Government took measures to prevent the com bat. The two adversaries, to disconcert the precau tions taken by the authorities, advanced the day fixed for the duel. The meeting took place on Saturday, the 17th. The seconds of Mr. Soul(' were General Valdes (known for his advanced ideas, but who is no relation of the General Valdes so well known at Madrid), and Gaminde y Picon, one of the editors of the Clamor. The pistol was the weapon chosen. Two shots were exchanged. Mr. Soul 6 was not touched, but the Mar quis de Turgot was knocked down ; the ball of his ad versary bit him in the leg at four centimetres below the knee. The wound is serious ;it is hopedt nevertheless, that the life of our ambassador runs no danger. All the Spanish nobility, all that Madrid contains of honour. able men, have gone to inscribe their names at the hotel of the Marquis de Turgot, showing by that attention the sympathies which they feel for the cause supported by the ambassador of France." ••• 6-1; 1 1* t- •• - ILIsA tr_k!4 t 8 10 # r h. W t , ~„ "4," \ , ..i% 17 - 0 ,• ' .1 4500 16 -k 1) 2Zo r T 310' " " 44 • _ _ tV.41..,1% - ..;., L , • . 1 DI CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. R OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON—H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. FIRiT EXHIBITION of PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES MAGNI FIED about 04000 times on the Disc, with an ENTIRELY NEW SERIES Of DIgiOLVING VIEWS. LECTURES by Dr. BACHOFFNES on WILKINS'S NEW PATENT UNIVERSAL ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LECTURE by J. 11. Pzerits, Eary., on SPONTANEOUS COMBUS TION, with Brilliant Experiments. An HISTORICAL and MUSICAL LECTURE, illustrated with DISSOLVING FCENERY, entitled " The ROAD, the RIVER, and the RAIL," by J. E. CARPENTER, 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. ADafIIVIST.RATION OF JUSTICE. COMPLAINT AGAINST MR. WARREN, Q.C., THE RECORDER OF HULL. ( From the Legal Observer.) " Censure is the tax a man pays for being emi nent." The judges of our superior courts have not unfrequently been the objects of severe attack in the public journals. It is not marvellous, there fore, that a person so celebrated as Mr. Warren should be occasionally visited with auimadver sion. It appears that out of the large num ber of two hundred and thirty prisoners tried be fore the learned Recorder, eight have been ordered to be whipped, and one in particular, a youth of the age of 15, at the last sessions, was sentenced to 18 mouths' imprisonment, and during that period to be whipped four times. Thereupon a violent and outrageous article appeared in the Eastern Counties' Herald, against • such supposed undue severity, and one of the sapient inhabitants of Hull thought proper to transmit the paper to the Home Secretary. The charge thus rested upon anonymous information. Representations, we un derstand, were also made of the ill state of health of the culprit, and good nature (not to say the in clination to popularity) induced the noble lord to reduce the imprisonment to six months, and to remit the "remainder" of the whipping,—of which however none had been inflicted. Our knowledge of the abundant kindliness of disposition of Mr. Warren, and the sympathy which he would feel towards any juvenile offender whose case really deserved a merciful consideration, readily satisfied us that the sentence, severe as it might appear, was intended equally for the benefit of the offender and the protection of the public. We have, however, made it our business to inquire into the facts and circumstances of the case, and are glad to find in the columns of a local paper, the Hull Advertiser, a complete vindication of the whole of Mr. Warren's conduct. It appears that the prisoner in question had been thrice previously convicted of felonies, but sentenced only to short imprisonments, and that the last offence was of a more flagrant character than any of the former. It was, of course, desirable to sever this young offender from his bad associates, and, if possible, to teach him some industrious trade. To effect this object, not le4s than 18 months would be suffi cient. We fear that the mitigation of the sentence will return him but little improved in his moral condition. The extent of the corporal punishment would, of course, be regulated by his conduct ; but now the terror of the whip is at an end, the remainder of the six months will soon pass away, and none can tell the result. From the Hull Advertiser we extract the follow ing letter of the Clerk of the Peace, which fully refutes every part of the imputation :-- "TO THE EDITOR OF THE HULL ADVERTISER. " Sir,—lt is proper to rectify certain misapprehen sions concerning the administration of justice in this borough at Quarter Sessions, which have been occasioned by a letter published in the Eastern Counties Herald of Thursday last, alleged to have been sent to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and therefore I think it my duty as clerk of the peace to trouble you with the following observations. The letter above alluded to contains several grave errors. First—The case of William Cooper Robinson is al leged to be particularly striking instance of the ine quality of the Recorder's sentences,' as that prisoner, convicted of attempting to obtain 1,0001. by false pre tences, was only sentenced to 13 months' imprisonment, without hard labour.' This was a common law misde meanour, and the Recorder had no power by law either to transport or impose hard labour, and, in sentencing the prisoner, expressed his regret that such was the case, and in very severe terms commented on the offence as grievously aggravated by the station and profession of the prisoner. The sentence of 18 months' imprisonment inflicted on a man of education and a solicitor, and in the gaol of his own town, was ruinous. H e sa id on quitting the dock that he would rather have been trans ported ; and he is now in a lunatic asyl um h opel e ssly insane. "Second—The boy Regan (aged 15), is alleged to have committed only ' trivial crimes.' He had been three times previously convicted o f felony, viz., on the 11th Nov., 1852, the 27th April, 1353 , and the `27th May following. He had on each occasion been sen tenced by the - magistrates to a short period of imprison ment, and on one occasion to be whipped. On the 11th October he was nevertheless again committed on a clear case of felony, aggravated by ingratitude ; and the in dictment expressly charged two of the previous Convic tions, in confor m it y w i th the recent statute 12 and 13 Vict. c. 11, s. 3, by which he was liable to two years' imprisonment. The Recorder expres re claim appa sly stated in pass ing senten ce , th at his object was to rently incorri g ibl e o f fender, and separa t e him for a long period from his guilty companions. He also sentenced him to be four times, not five times privatelywl-.ippe at intervals during the imprisonment, a l s f secured re d for the had proved ineffectual. prisoner the assistance of H. e als d o 'i l i l a un c s o e unsel at the Ses sions, by whom he was v ir l :o;s i l;defended. The fore man, d d the prisoner to mercy, of the jury but on hearing of the three supposing it a first offence, convictions, a bstained from d oin g s o. The Recorder visited the p r isoner in th r e gaol after the S ess i ons, w h en he expressed gratitude fo having had a counse l g i ven hi m by the Recorder. He made strict inquiries as to the state of the prisoner's health (as he had had, s ince the sentence , a fit of an epileptic na t ure , but f ro m which he was recovering), and shortly after wards the Recorder wrote from Londo n t o th e governor on the subject, and found that though apparently well enough at the period of his committal and trial, he was not in good health, and that otherwise than in respect of epileptic fits ; that a physician was going to visit him, and, if necessary, he would b e transferred to the infir mary. I have every reason for believing that under the circumstances any application for a remission of either the whippings or imprisonment would have been sup ported by the Recorder himself, whose own authority had expired with the Sessions. No whipping at all has been inflicted on the prisoner, who is now conducting himself satisfactorily in the gaol,!and attends school, and is learning a trade. " Third--The letter speaks of 'painfully numerous flogging sentences' inflicted by the Recorder. Now out of 230 prisoners tried by him, many of whom were liable to whippings, he has ordered whippings in only eight eases, and every one of those of apparently incorrigible boys, who had been previously convicted of felony and other offences twice, thrice, four, and even e i g h t times. When it is necessary to carry the sentence into effect, the surgeon is present ; the character of the infliction depends entirely on the conduct of the prisoner in the gaol, and there has been no single instance of undue severity. The effect is declared by both the governor and chaplain to have been very salutary. "The Recorder di , l not sentence any prisoner to be whipped until his third sessions, when he found it neces sary from the increasing numbers, and the recklessness of juvenile offenders. The result is —that, as stated in the chaplain's report to the magistrates at the last ses sions, there are now fewer prisoners than there have been at any time since October, 1846 ;' and that whereas, the two calendars preceding the last contained no yo--(_-„,./.., , ,.. , Ai, it 1t 1 . 77 :7 -- -,, / •("Fit7.t::::-Rri .i':/ --, ic;lz:.\- 7 t , P",Z i -tki1....,.. (4: 14.441:1,E ,414 itt).Vil :Wrig r - ) qii . * la ati fewer than 17 prisoners unclbs..T44eaiyirags contained only two.' "The Recorder's humane anxiety to do full justice to every prisoner, and the spe c i a l pa i ns he takes to inform himself of all facts bearing. on the quantum of punish ment are known to all who attend the court • and he constantly states, when the occasion arises, that his ob ject in pu n i s hi ng i s to recla i m and prevent'. " I believe there is not a prisoner in the gaol who does not admit ,having had a fair and impartial trial. " All the foregoing facts can be verified by the proper authorities, and it is right that they should be known, to prevent misunderstanding, out of respect to the Judge and all concerned in administering justice." "J. H. GALLOWAY, Clerk of the Peace. "Hull, 7th Dec., 1853. An able leading article appeared in the Hull Advertiser on this subject, and which we extract, because it is disinterested, for the editor arid Mr. Warren are of different political sentiments. A sense of justice, however, has induced the writer not only to insert the preceding letter of the Clerk of the Peace, but to bear honourable testimony to the judicial conduct and character of Mr. Warren during the whole period of his recordership : " The seeming censure upon the learned Recorder of this borough, implied by the remission of the sentence passed upon a young felon named Regan, by the noble Secretary for the Home Department, has induced the Clerk of the Peace, Mr. Galloway, to address to us an exceedingly well-written letter, with a view to correct the mischievous reports put abroad upon the subject. In the first place, we beg to assure Mr. Galloway that no impression unfavourable to the conduct of the re corder, as an upright, pains -taking, conscientious, and really humane judge, found at any time a place in our mind. Almost as constant in our attendance at the Court of Quarter Sessions as the Recorder himself, and rendered doubly observant by our opposition to many of his well-known political opinions, we enjoyed oppor tunities of forming a judgment as to his real merits, which enabled us to treat with contempt the silly gossip which found its way into sotne of the London papers concern him. And being opposed on principle to the whole system of flogging, whether in the army, the navy, the prison, or the public school, we were especially careful to ascerfai r n, long before the boy Regan was tried, the degree of severity, and the exact circumstances under which the punishment of whipping was inflicted in the Hull Borough Prison. The result of that inquiry was, to satisfy us that, supposing the punishment of whipping to be retained, it did not matter a great deal whether in 18 months a lad was sentenced to be punished twice or four times. We knew right well that the first person to inquire about the state of the prisoner's health, and, if necessary, to suggest mild and reformatory treatment, would be the presiding Judge, Mr. Warren. We feel confident that if it was deemed by the Governor, the surgeon, the chaplain, or the visiting magistrates, desir able to obtain a remission of the lad's sentence in conse quence of either bad health, or wonderful moral improve ment, the Recorder would be one of the very first to sug gest an application to Lord Palmerston —nay, he would be the very first to petition the Crown to be made the bearer of a message of mercy to the prisoner. And even now, it may be that he was consenting to the exercise of the Royal prerogative of mercy by the noble Home Secretary. The only mistake now made, was the n o t selecting the Recorder as the me di um of making known to the people of Hull the remission of Regan's sentence. And we have not the least doubt that this resulted from the noble Home Secretary not being aware of Mr. War ren's personal attention to the interior economy and general management of the Hull gaol, as well as to the individual condition of the prisoners, Before Mr. War ren's time, it was very unusual for learned recorders of this borough to trouble their heads in the way which he does about the reformation of the prisoners tried before them. They were content with the correct discharge of what was understood to be their regular official duty. But he does a great deal more ; and out of this excess of labour has sprung the kind of opposition which he has hitherto experienced in Hull. This has - its origin, not in bad feeling, but in an excessive jealousy of any undue severity on his part. His great powers of personal ob servation enable him, by the exercise of a sort of pres cience, to detect latent crime in the countenance of a prisoner, and thus he is sometimes prompted to address his warnings to the unacted vice before him, as well as to the small acted part revealed in the evidence. Those who have eyes, but see not, cannot comprehend this, and deem him at times rather sharp in his admonitions. But he is an excellent judge, nevertheless, and requires only to be well supported by the magistracy to effect a won derful reduction in the juvenile criminality of the borough. While, therefore, we thank Mr. Galloway for the explanation which he has given, we would sug gest to him not the trouble himself much about idle rumours to the Recorder's prejudice. Mr. Warren is large enough to be the object of such attacks ; and he possesses greatness enough in himself to be able to con sign to utter nothingness myriads of those capable of making them." No. 19,113.] • I - ! 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She immediately pushed him from her, and told him to go away, upon which he struck her a violent blow in the face, and she then gave him into custody. He was was not tipsy, although he had evidently been drinking ; but there was a gentleman with him who was very drunk indeed, and used very bad language to complain ant. Her eye was bloodshot, and she was very ill during the night in consequence. On leaving the witness-box, the complainant fainted away, and was carried out of court. The defendant said he never touched the lady's dress ; but that he was very drunk, and when she slapped his face, he certainly did strike, for which he had offered an apology. The complainant said she offered at the station to accept an apology, but the defendant refused to make any apology for his insulting conduct. Sir John Musgrove said this was a serious case. The defendanE's being in a state of intoxication was no ex cuse, and his refusal of an apology was an aggravation of the offence. It was not because ladies were some times compelled to go home at a late hour and alone that they should therefore be assaulted or interfered with. Under all the circumstances he considered that a proper apology should be made to the lady, against whose character there was not the slightest imputation, in addition to which the defendant must be fined 40s. or in default one month's impnsonment. The fine was immediately paid. WORSHIP-STREET.— Timothy Warren was charged with having been concerned with three other men not in custody, in assaulting and robbing Mr. Edward Wil liams, a clock - manufacturer, in Wentworth-street, Whitechapel. The prosecutor , an elderly man, stated that between 8 and 9 o'clock he was looking in a shop-window in Kent-street, Spitalfields, when he was suddenly sur rounded by the prisoner and three other men. Feeling satisfied that they intended to rob him, he walked has tily on, but he was instantly seized by the prisoner, who clasped him round the nec k and almost strangled him. While he was struggling to extricate himself one of the other men made a snatch at his silver watch guard, which snapped asunder and jerked his watch out of his waistcoat-pocket. The prisoner then flung him back into the road with such violence that he was partially stunned, and on recovering he found that his assailants had effected their escape. He immediately furnished tke police with a description of the prisoner, who was soon afterwards traced out and taken into custody. The prisoner, who positively denied all participation in the robbery, was remanded for the completion of th depositions. CLERKENWELL.—Captain William Martin was charged by Miss Sarah Macklin, of Clarendon-street, Somers-town, with bigamy. The particulars have been already fully detailed in the newspapers. Miss Macklin, in reply to Mr. Cprrie, stated that she had not been injured in any way by the prisoner. She had communicated with his wife, who did not deem him to be in his right senses, and said she always found him a kind and affectionate husband and father. She (Miss Macklin) therefore would not pres.l the charge against him in consideration of his wife and family. The prisoner, who was much affected, said he had been drinking freely, and didn't know what he was about at the time. Mr. Corrie said it was a shame that the ordinances of the church should be made a joke ,of, but, at the solici tation of Miss Macklin, he would discharge the prisoner. SOUTHWARK.— Bli:a Murdctt, a fine-looking young woman, dressed up as Jack Sheppard, in full dress, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with being drank and incapable of taking care of herself. Delany, 33 M, said that about 10 o'clock last night he saw the prisoner rolling aboitt the London-road, dressed as she noiv appeared, in 1 beastly state of in toxication. She was so insensible that he was compelled to carry her to the station-house. Mr. Combe asked how she camean such a dress ? The prisoner replied that she vas going to a mas querade in Holborn, and that unfortunately she fell in with some friends on her way frotn the Borough, who induced her to drink a little brandy and water, which overpowered her all at once. She' was extremely sorry to be in such a disgraceful positicn, but she had been 'severely punished for her folly, bes des losing all the fun she anticipated at the masquerade. Mr. Combo told her to bo more careful in future when LAMBETH. John Burnett was charged with swindling. The prosecutor (Mr. Pile) was playing at skittles with hi 3 two brother!; when three men of whom one was the prisoner, entered the ground and joined the party. After playing for'some time the prisoner prevailed on the prosecutor to borisci4o/5/;fro m lito brother, and bet his brother's partner that he (the prosecutor) and his partner would have the best of three games. Prosecu tor's companion played so very badly that they immedi ately lost two of the games, and having no doubt that the whole thing was a ruse, he (the prosecutor) charged them with being " sharps and swindlers." The pri soner, who was the stakeholder, at once banded the 101. to his companion, and with both his confederates ran off in different directions. They were followed, but the prisoner was the only one of the three captured. In his cross-examination the prosecutor admitted that his brother was aware that he had borrowed the money for the purpose of betting it against himself and his partner, and therefore it was his (the brother's) object to play badly. A solicitor, who attended for the defence, described the affair as merely the "biter bit," mil contended that his client should be discharged. Mr. Elliott thought differently, and remanded the prisoner to a future day. THAMES.—JuIia Mallony was charged with as saulting Ellen Downey, and biting off the end of her nose. Both women, who are prostitutes of the lowest class, bad been living for some time at No. 7, Bluegate-fields, Shadwell. On Monday night, after they had been drinking and quarreling, they became reconciled ; and soon afterwards the prisoner entered Downey's apart ment and asked her for the loan of a shawl. This being refused, the prisoher said she had an old grudge to settle. She then fell upon Downey, and seizing her nose between her teeth, bit off the end of it. The pro secutrix's screams brought in a policeman, who caused her to be conveyed to the hospital. Mr. Ingham said this was a very repulsive affair, and committed the prisoner for trial. HAMMERSMITH.— Mr. George Reid Feuillade ' the proprietor of the Colonnade Hotel, adjoining her Ma jesty's Theatre, was again summoned to answer six in formations for having unlawfully used gas at Rose Cot tage, North-end, Fulham, the property of the London Gas Light Company, and also with having unlawfully used a burner other than had been provided and ap proved of by the undertakers of the company. The defendant had been summoned a short time since to answer six other complaints at the instance of Mr. Walpole, one of the collectors of the London Gas Light Company, relating to the same transaction, but they had been subsequently withdrawn to allow the matter to be amicably arranged. Such a settlement of the differences had not been made, and hence the present proceedings. Mr. Humphrey, the solicitor for the defendant, sug gested that the matter should be placed befOre Mr. Bea don not as a magistrate, but as a gentleman, and that both sides should abide by his award. Mr. Martin, on the part of the company, declined to accede to the proposal, and opened the case at some length. He said in 1835 the defendant entered into a 'ontract with Mr. Andrew Spottiswoode, who was then chairman of the company, for six lights, at his laundry in North-end, and it afterwards transpired that a seventh burner had been added without the knowledge of the company. This light in question had been in use for some years for the purpose of heating a kettle of water for preparing ?Well: Mr. Walpole having produced the contract, Mr. Beadon discovered that it was not signed by Mr. Spottiswoode, and that he considered would be fatal to the document. After some discussion, Mr. Humphrey said that notwithstanding his friend had no case, he was willing to make the same offer that he had mentioned in the first instance. Mr. Martin now accepted it, and Mr. Beadon con sented to act as arbitrator. The summonses were therefore withdrawn. TIIE RECENT DUELS AT MADRID. The recent duel at Madrid appears to have caused no small consternation in that capital, especially the one in which M. de Turgot was engaged. The Messager de Bayonne publishes a long account of them, and although it is written in language and with an object which would excuse us for not publish ing it, as it appears to be the Duke of Alba's own account of the affair, we give it. " A month ago our letters from Madrid brought us accounts of a regretable incident, on which we consider it our duty to be silent. We did not wish, by the pub licity which we should have given to it, to aggravate a case without importance in its origin, or to render more difficult a reconciliation which a frank and loyal expla nation ought necessarily to produce. The reserve which we imposed upon ourselves, by a sentiment of propriety and tact, has not been imitated by others, for whom, nevertheless, it was commanded more imperiously. The English press has produced the facts on which we were silent ; they have done so, at the same time misrepre senting the truth, and giving a false account, which was insulting to the Duke of Alba and all the Spanish no bility, which it was attempted to hit, in order to arrive at a majesty too high placed for any such insolence to rebound upon him. We wish to re-establish in the truth the facts which have been caricatured. We will tell what has passed, without passion, without prejudice, and taking care to reject all the vivacity that our cor respondents may have brought into what they write on facts in which they-play a part. On the 15th of No vember the Marquis de Turgot, our ambassador at Madrid, gave a splendid ball on the occasion of the fete of the Empress. Mr. Souls, the United States Mi nister, was present on the occasion, accompanied by his wife, and his son, aged 23 years. During the fete the Duke of Alba and our ambassador while talking alone, made some remarks and exchanged sonic jokes on the toi lette of Madame Soule, whose dress, of an eccentric taste, had been remarked by the whole party. Without being observed by the gentleman, Mr. Soule, fits, overheard the conversation. On the following day Mr. Perry, secretary of the United States Legation, and Colonel Milans de Bosch, waited on the Duke of Alba. These gentlemen presented him with a letter from Mr. Soule, the younger telling him that they were sent by him to obtain satisfaction for the jokes of the night before. Ex tremely surprised, the Duke of Alba threw the letter which had been delivered to him on the desk, without opening it, and explained to the seconds of his young adversary what had passed at the ball. It was a simple joke, exchanged in a conversation au tete a tete ; he protested the regret he. felt that a son could have thought his mother offended, when the wholly innocent criticism which he had made could only apply to Madame Soule's dressmaker ; and yielding to a good feeling, the Duke of Alba wrote to Mr. Soule, fits, a very kind letter, in order to disabuse him. The seconds of Mr. Soule, fils, retired satisfied. On the following day the Duke of Alba found on his desk "the letter which had been sent to him on the previous day, and r which he had not opened ; he read it, and foundit written in such violent, such insulting terms, that he thought himself obliged to send in his turn two of his friends to Mr. Soule fits, to demand a retractation of what he had read, and to obtain th e re t urn o f the explanatory letter which he had written. M r . Soule, fi ts, disavowed the offensive expressions which he had used, and asked to be allowed to keep the letter which he had received f h r e o m the should Dnuekvee never f makeA l b a a , n g y iv i i i n s use h o i f s w it, or t d he o t f hhoenour that wa s too happy to keep it, and the result of the affair satisfied him completely. Several days afterwards the English journals told the facts which we have j us t related, but caricatured them i n an o ff ens i ve mapner to the Duke of Alba. Irritated to the last degree by these attacks, the Duke of Alba sent General Do* JosZ... de la Concha to Mr. Soule, fits, and demanded satisfaction. The la tter consented, and accepted the sabre, which was proposed to him. The day of meeting was fixed for the 12th December, Afterwards Mr. Soule fits, requested that the duel should be with small swords, and his adversary con sented ; he afterwards asked a delay of 48 hours, which was also granted to him. On the da y fixed for the meetine , which took place on the Pardo, Mr. Soule,tii/s, after having made the party wait for him a very long time, pretending that be had to write numerous de spatches to his Government, arrived at last, followed by six carr iages full of his countrymen who live at Madrid. Although surprised to see this sufficiently in discreet curiosity, which made a duel resemble a cock fight, the seconds of the Duke of Alba consented, never theless, to allow the Americans to be present at the duel. The two adversaries take their ground ; the swords are crossed ; Mr. Soule, fits, breaks continually ; he several times demands truces, which are granted to him. But at length the seconds declare the duel must terminate, and that they will only grant five minutes more to arrive at the denournent. By that time Mr. •-,-' • • - T. 2 vibe went to a masquerade, and ordered her to be dis charged. The remainder of the night charges were for drunken ness. The magiarate ordered -all the prisoners to be discharged. The chief.6l them, however, were women. John. Bri,stow, owner - and driv er o f a cab, , was charged with plying for hire with a horse in an unfit state to be worked. Inspector Townson, the officer appointed to examine cab horses in.the district, having proved that the animal was s!Aivering, and hardly able to stand, Mr. Beavitt, who attended for the defendant, said it was as good a horse as any driven in a cab, and that his client was offered at the time 12 . for it. Mr. Townson had seen the horse that day, and he be lieved it• fit to use, but when he saw it on the cab stand a week ago it was weak and tottering. Mr. Beavitt said that was caused by the animal just coming off a long journey, and by remaining on, the stand a few minutes it would have recovered. Mr. Combe replied that that was no excuse. Cabmen must understand that if their horses were overdriven they must not put them on a public cab stand, but take them to a stable, where they could remain until re freshed. As this was the first case, and as it did not appear that the horse was injured, he should merely order defendant to pay the cost of the summons. THE WAGES MOVEMENT. LORD PALMERSTON'S REPLY TO THE OPERATIVES OF PRESTON. PRESTON, MONDAY.—It will be remembered that, a short time ago, a memorial was addressed to Lord Palmerston in reference to the contest at present going on between the factory operatives of this town and their employers. The memorial was adopted at a general meetin g of weavers' dele gates. Yesterday Mr. Kinder Smith, president of the Operatives' Executive Council, received the following reply from the Home-office : " Whitehall, Dec. 24, 1853. " Sir—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston to acknowledge the receipt of the memorial dated the 15th ult., signed by you on behalf of the power-loom • weavers of Preston and its neighbourhood. " Lord Palmerston has delayed till now answering this memorial, in the daily hope that he might hear that an amicable arrangement of differences had been come to between the workpeople and their employers. I am, however, to assure you that hi s l or d s hi p rea d the memo rial with much sympathy and with deep regret. "It was impossible that he should not sympathise with the feelings of a large number of a most deserving class of the community, who have been led to think that they are suffering under acts of injustice, and could not but excite his deep regret to reflect upon the severe pri vations which the state of things to which the memorial refers must have inflicted upon those on whom it so hardly bears. " Lord Palmerston desires inc to state that he feels bound, moreover, to do justice to the temper and mode ration with which the memorial has been drawn up. His lordship is sorry, however, to say that he has no means of interposing to apply a remedy for the evils referred to. It would be impossible for him, without much more detailed informati on than lie possesses, to form a just opinion as to the merits of the points in dispute between the working men and their employers, and he could not, as a memb er of the Government, possess any right er power to interfere in the matter. " Under these circumstances, his lordship would only for venture to s ugges t i n the mostfriendlyloiritsome topics o aware eon thatlsicer 1 atiotnbooufr being a commodity, like anythe memorialists. They must be well ltlhe other, its money value in the market must be regulated by the same general principles which govern the price of other commodities ; and that among these go verning principles the most influential are the cost of production and the relative proportions of demand and supply. The cost of production in regard to labour n the price of the necessaries of life, and the proper- I t s e n a of s the demand and supply must depend very much upon the periodical fluctuations of trade. It is greatly to be wished that both the working men and their em ployers would allow these general causes to act silently and gradually in equitably adjusting, from time to time, the proper rates of the money reward for labour, and it is scarcely to be doubted that by forbearance on both sides, and by mutual and reciprocal good feeling, these arrangements might generally be effected without re course to such injurious methods as strikes' and 'lock outs.' It may be stated that in times when, according to the general principles above adverted to, an increase in the rate of wages would be just, that increase might be too long delayed, and the working men be thus sub jected to undue privation, if the adjustment was left to the gradual operation of forbearance and good will. But may not an appeal be made to the result of recent events to show that even such inconvenience would be less than the evil arising from extensive and general strikes ? These evils are many and great. Tho strike of the workmen deprives the strikers of their wages, and, so far as wages are concerned, it de prives them of the means of subsistence. On the other hand, the strikes, of course, stop production, and unless markets happen at the moment to be much over stocked, strikes give to the foreign producer a position of advantage• from which he may not afterwards be flo easily dislodged. And if strikes were to become too frequent, or of too long duration, a part of that capital which is now applied to giving employment to labour at home might possibly be transferred to other coun tries, to the disadvantage of British industry ; and that this is not a groundless supposition is proved by the fact that British manufacturing establishments have been formed in Belgium, in Prance, and in Mexico. This, too, leads to a reflection upon the opinion which seems to have actuated the strikers, that the general pros perity of our export trade was in itself a proof that the rate of wages ought to be increased. Lord Palmerston does not pretend to form any judgment as to whether that opinion was well or ill founded in the particular in stance to which it referred, but his lordship has desired me to remark that our power to supply foreign markets with manufactures depends upon the cheapness at which those manufactures can be sold ; that their price must depend mainly on the cost of production, and that the wages of labour form a material part of that cost. "Therefore, as our exported manufactures must always be running a hard race with the similar manufac tures of other countries, an apparently flourishing trade may possibly be checked by an increase of wages, which would add t 3 the oost of production ; and the gains made by the manufacturer may often consist of a very small profit upon each separate article, the aggregate amount ofgain depending on the quantity exported, and that quantity depending on the cheapness of the commo dities, which cheapness again is governed by the cost of production. " In directing me to submit these general reflections to the consideration of the memorialists, Lord Palmer. ston does not mean to give any opinion on the imme diate subject of dispute ; but his lordship would earnestly entreat the working men to lay aside those feelings which are too apt to be engendered by a struggle, and to endea vour if possible to come to some arrangement with their employers.— I am, sir, your obedient servant, " R. 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