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od do iolders ess has Ily id. hough hands, boing 6/ 10s, which a. In rch 31 azil, 1 in. 1 S fitted anti large lay' o were r the DIV. STEAM TO AUSTRALIA. GENERAL SCREW STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY. ny_ortcx Is HEREBY GivxN, That this Company's Auxiliary Iron r ei rw Steam hip ARGO, 1,850 tons, George Hyde, Commander, wit' D ,'" Southampton for PORT PHILIP and SYDNEY on 1/4 EDNES the 4th of May next. . ue , a ccommodation is of a superior. descrip!ion, and the cabins are of t urnished. The rates of passage money—After Cabin, first d, S W.; Fore Cabin, second class. 501. These rates are exclusive on beer, and spirituous liquors, which, however. may be had ,""artl at moderate prices. The ship will carry an experienced 1 ‘..treon. APpliNoi Itoy 4 L , - -ons for passage to be made at the Company's Offices, 2, taif our 'lchange-buildings ; and for freight and parcels, to Messrs. ' "anaing, and Owen, 16, St. Mary-axe. To AGENTS.—Lif e A s s u rance Agents. in any r Part of En g l an d may w i th a d vantage b ecome Agents for Fire b i Z_ance, and thereby greatly extend their Life business. The I,7tors of the UNITY FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION — an in„: t tlon established on new and important principles, and possess paair Wards of Two THOUSAND SHAREHOLDERS , whose names and sses are published with the Prospectus—are ready to receive or_ cations for Agencies, accompanied by references. By looking w i 7 o r the List of Shareholders, applicants will probalgy find several to theY are known. For terms, prospectuses, &c apply to Clre THOM 40 S H Pall Ma YLIII, L . B kS, General Manager and becretary. , ondoa. 6u bi LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, sliAln, London. OF PROFIT INCREASED FF.03.1 ONE-lIALF TO The ikr",_ FOUR - FIFTHS. aeles -- b'ra beg to remind the public that persons effecting Po cipAT ... this Society now or before 'Midsummer, 1853, will PARTl th_.c POUR-FIFTIIS of their Net Profits of the Society Lt —.vision, in proportion to their contributions to those pm and r °Pectas a . cco rding to the conditions contained in the Society's 44.1 ,,, 'ice Premi ums required by this Society for insuring Young Lives %re full avr er than in many other old-established offices, and Insurers 3' protected from all risk by an ample ge fund, in a - to th e accumulated funds derived from uaran th te e investments o urns rros Peemses may be obtained at the Office in Threadneedle-street, -.lgen, or of any of the Agents of the Society. CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. LOANS OR %NTED. 2, Adelphi-terrace. tollto ON EXCHANGE ADVANCE FUND, Old idroadstreet, City. Strand, facing the river ; City Branch, 3, Lo. The Right Iron. Lord ERSKINE, Chairman. 14.0 b ,12,1 1 a dvanced, in sams of 101. and upwards, granted on a joint OfdiZrry note, rep a y a b le b y easy instalments, or on the depos it Hiiisai2r other a va i lable securities. por:?!exchange cashed at moderate rates of interest pos 4Pplication may be obtained a l t i th)fis,or . on fo ard e a pg. BROOKS, Secret try. lIRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY'. 1, P rinces -street, Bank, London. Est ablished August 1, 1837. .. c,„,__.WMIXIMPered by Special Act of P ar li amen t, 4 Viet.. cap. 9. I—Colonel RO BERT ALP.TANDER, Blackheath Park. ADYANTA.OES OF THIS INSTITUTION. _A. table of increasing rates o fespecially adapted to pro um, Me securing of Loans or Debts a lialf.credit rates whereby half the ` ln ting the first seven years. flan i premium only is payable Assured payable at slaty, or at death if occuring pre lY. th?phans Endowment Branch affording the means of having tatil'er:l educated and started in life, by securing annuities, to c CO the parents' death, and to be paid until a son shall attain Year, or, if a daughter, her 25th year of age. .ITANNIA MIITHAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. _AnsithDowered by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. voll ey ia II vision of prots. 14, aleat. "en participate in profits after five or seven annual r renu„ — Lccerding to the table selected. calculated for every three months' difference of age. 1111 1 , 1tici 17,_1t Policies granted on terms unusually favourable ; the Atm. ra Premiums being liquidated out of the profits.. „ °f3o pei.`2 4 _nal General Meeting on the 27th April, 1852, a reduction tiV I I. was made in the currentyear's premium on all partici govv.ra'eles. 4 11 e °f Directors in attendance daily at Two o'clock. 11 0 ,„ the assured in every case admitted in the policy. —"eltl attendants remunerated in all cases for their reports. --.4et i f t r Z r n_ t: t rl h o e Cred Half f (mtrrual..) Extract from Table with Participation in Profits, after Seven Yearly Payments. —__ Ilalf ot. Prerni uth 1 First - Seven Years. ....... Whole Premi um for R e _ rolvrider of Life. Age. Annual premium Half Quar - Yearly terly Pre- Pre mium. mium. £1 8 • d . " n i 9 2 6 . 2 2 218 4 3 2 6 4 5 a 6 8j 6 13 4 Years. Months 30 I 0 .£ s. d. s. d.f 273 1 4 2 276 1 4 4 2 7 10 1 4 6 2 8 2, 1 4 8 £ s. d. O 12 3 O 12 4 0 12 fi 0 12 6 E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. rt.. NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURANCE. _ DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 18, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. CAPITAL—ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. al nutEcToas. Co -ua n—The Right lion. the Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C., ,rlDtroller of her Majesty's Household. 0 . is.e lowley Barnes, Esq., 11, City-road, Finsbury. 4:4 °.,A l e e n ,, l4 ,,rke L Esq late 17th Lancer ., Junior United Service Club, 'elier ,— " e, E 41., Portland-terrace, Wandsworth, and Belvoir, St. tem en Nrl).-s,atknalle. Line oht, Esq. ,-inn 1, St. John's-gardens, Notting-hill, and 11, 's G eo e ra le:s4 r 7 t ib tr Davies street, Berkeley-square, and Lutterworth, Lnd.- ICIIO , Ale x Stap le sq., 15, Connaught-square, Hyde-park, and Tor Bo t rder m a jcish ie. WHP4. b r. ° o l¢,r' E 3 q., Harrow-on-the-Hill. Plac e NI rinser, 3 2, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square. Rob ert „th eist ' sq., 147, Leadenhall-street, and 8, Hyde-park *Er' ean! drew -.Afa r spernii42:,ll: vDer S Esq eY., Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. mour- street West, Connaught square. St. James',-square. 'Cr* Bal E 8 41„ 126 Strnd, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical, AUDITOfIL Inman; Jo n d General Life (mice. 4. o it o es ' r Accountant, 3, Guildhall-chambers. -"" . Actuar to the Engineers and Mason 'c Life ce, 345, ,trand. Sir Ch it BANKERS. -street, London. lksa t r a Nee, Marryand Co., 3, Xing - ilopktnson and Coo., 3, Regent- street. Dr. tinsbury_pi ac ,. -- '"an, 21, upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. PHYSICIANS. n BURGEONS. , hap tnan Teeval' Esq.' 16, Lower Seymour.str i e , c a t, e_ r pa o r r i t c m .g a n-a o urtre. ardeue. 1 , Esq., 44, Gloucester-place, I 3 CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. I'. Nelson, E F.L.S. INSYECTOR OM AGENCIES. F. P. F. Strousbe , v, Eau Wellington Coope r Esq., 1.1 vi ua e, Lincoln's-inn. STAND r ING N e SEL .s . q SOLICITORS. Messrs. Hill and Mathews St. Mary-axe. RESIDENT SECRETARY. Charles V✓. Bevan, Esq. The public Is respectru'ly invited to examine the p•inciples of the V , Posit System of Assurance, which is based upon tables calculated by, and Is under the immediate supervision (0, Francis G. I'. Nelson, Xgq., F.L S., the Consulting Actuary to the Company. Comparative Tables to assure 5001 on death, by a person aged twenty next birthday, on the ORDINARY and on the DEPOSIT system 't Assurances. ON THE ORDINARY SYSTEM, The sum the ordinary The sum the Life Offices would give ordinary LI: him if he were unable Offices would to pay, or if he omitted At the His give him for to pay his current end of policy the surrender annual premium of i t, Annual thirty at that or sale 81. Gs. 3d. after he has :.3 t 3 to Pre mium years when ag e , I o f hi s policy, 'paid into their coffers ~, assure the party In case after thirty 2491.7 s 6d., and which 7 is 4 5 00/. fifty of lyears'payments they have had the use years old, death amounting to) of at compoun i hewill have will be 2491. 7s. lid, I interest, or in o t. paid into worth,whichtheyhave the event of his death the office. had the benefit' one hour after such of at compound omission or inability --- --...:___ interest. I to pay. —_—__. 20 87 .62.3 d. 249 1.75.6 d. 500/. little morethan Pl. NOTHING. perhaps 901. ON THE DEPOSIT SYSTEM. If unable to pay, or not desirous of paying or omitting topay,thePo licy would still remain of its FULL value, 522/.25.7d.ti1l death, if 20 years after, no fur ther payment beingre (mired. Ifhowever the party, from any cause, wished to cancel the Policy, he could not onlydraw out all hehas 0 /110 s Od 2201, 5221.2a7d 28 7/. 2s. 9d. put In, viz., 2251., but 2 a s c . e , r d. tai i n n bonus n übsarogf bargain, which is more than one-fourth of the whole of his payments, or he could either draw out a part, 201. or 501.. diminishing the Policy only by the assured value of the sum so drawn out at the age when withdrawn. See pagess and 7 in detailed pamphlet, by F. G. P. Nelson, Esq. -Corr,..__. • comp m .,„, 'abler th of these two tables it will be seen that a person lag advaiennovel system of D EPOSIT assurance can secure the follow larger a ge 3, VIZ., ist. For a less sum, paid annually, he can assure iii 2d l y in case of death than under the ordinary system. this 'n the event of a desire to surrender his Policy he can receive Oft bY the above example, which applies to all ages, of in.,,„!lies as much as on the ordinary system. ardly. In the event o f ti Zolty or omission to pay, his policy remains still his property, for 4 ,,,:lurte value as it was, though he cease his current payments both, , monber of years • whereas on the ordinary system, he gets 4thly. Should ' he require to increase or decrease the b, - ' ll nt of his he can do so at pleasure. He can at any time, ,;',,V,ving a fortnight's notice, withdraw any part from 11. up to the 1 12 ;ke amount of his previous payments and with in After he Withdrawn part one year he can, by a single payment, three or any time afterwards. raise hi s policy to a greater or even hi former amount ; and by this system he can at all times regulate b; an nual savings by his annual expenditur e , w i th the facility in the to gain of having a fund to fly to in case of necessity, the same as a bank, with this palpable advantage, however, that he gets lute !st fur his money, and in case of death his family receive more than .'„6„anrount of his savings. In ordinary Life Offices be can do no i l : c a thing, but his policy at once lapses or is cancelled the moment k",,e,,eases to pay his current premiums, and, instead of having any the t u I IY to for aid, all his hal 1-earned savings become forfeited to aodety, and his misfortunes serve to benefit the pockets of his efortunate co-assurers. ane t 4el l a syste m is too equitable 'and too striking to be ov er l oo k e d tzrostr assurance la the only system of assurance which can be ersally recognised and adopted when the principles are impar er;„,'Y caiwassed, and its palpable benefits become widely diffused. It rs greater vantages than a bank because t allows a far ate Lulilaelerest in ca a se d wi of thdrawal, and gives twice the amount i in r the eg a , O f the Company to the representatives of the Depositor i n of death, thus combining the kb YANTA.GES OF A BANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF AN ASSURANCE COMPANY. ...In Casa of endowment assurances the advantages of the DEPOSIT , are Still more s t r iki ng. AD'o....— T....A.rACIES OF THIS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY ti To th ose LIFE ASSURANCE BRANCH. who prefer this branch Policies are on every known principle thereof, granted from 201. to t t, 4 l'ea in all b u t the worst stages of disease, and such as have been c o ula r J.oreddisease by other Offices, are tak en a t rates equivalent to the parti re.,mtna from 50/. and upwards granted on every kind of security, or person a l, on the most equitable terms to the borrower •&nuities of every description granted on very favourable terms. 14:2.0n-forfeiture of a Policy.—l n case of inability to pay the currant ~,,Muulus, the Directors will either purchase the Policy at a fair ~cot value, or give a new one in Ilea thereof, less 5 p er cent., into -41'4 _ rre 111rsponding in a de mount to the whol e o f the previous payments Ve been ma. butalled Dott PrOspectuses with tables in further illustration of the De `.',MOM, and any f ur th er i nformation may be obtained on appli -41 to the Agents in the country, or to CHARLES W. BEVAN, Resident Secretary; Igis&MO4til Enlll4 14 c er Pio wificl• DR- CULVERWELL'S NEW . WORKS. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row , Carvalho, 47, Flect-street Mann, 39, Cornhill. Price One Shilling each; by le ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. " Health, Recreation, and Rational Use of Time:: C"TENTs Early Rising —Spring and Summer Mornings — E 3E ettretwis about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Country Trips and Rambles —The Sea —London at Night—Evenings at Home Music—The Drama —On Eating, Drinking, lileeping, Bathing, Air, Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c. FRAGMENTS FROM THE FOUNTAIN'S. Two YolS. Vol. I. VISIT 10 THE LAKES ; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, &o. Vol. 11. THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY ; REMINISCENCES OF DUBLIN, &c. 111. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID, " That three score years and ten our co urse may run." A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution that harasses the young, besets the man of pleasure, business or study, kid cm bitters old age; with tables and rulesfor the diet and physical regu• lation of every-day life. W. THE PASSIONS. " What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." Eion:scr s pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties oflicentiousness and dissipation, with illustrati , ns, graphic, narra tive, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages. THE MARRIAGE STATE. To be or not to be, that's the question." FRoGRAMME:—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and choice, on both sides, as to age temperament, complexion, and figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. Cases, &c. By It. J. C CrLVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. (1824), Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in there matters. Price Is. each ; by post, Is. 6d. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvallio, 147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill; or of M. R. Culverwell, M.D.. 10, Argyll•plaee, Regent-street, who may be consulted daily from Temp IJe, ank6eve4l 1111 One* N 0 . 18,891.] NEW TRAVELS ROUND TILE WORLD. This day is published, in 3 vols., 31s. 6d. bound, NARRATIVE OF A GURNEY ROUND THE WORLD; COMPRISING, A. 'Winter Passage across the Andes to Chill, with a Visit to the G•Jid Regions of California and Australia, the South Sea IWands, Aava, &c. By F. GERSTAECKER. Hurst and IPackatt, Publishers, Successors to Henry Cclbum 13, Great Marlborough-street. HE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. (ACVILI., Is just Pul.l:shed CONTENTS: - 7. Alison'i History of Europe since 1815. 11. Marriage wish a Dic , •ased Wife's Si , ter. 111. The 'hurch of England in the Mountains. IV. Recent Novels—Agath es Husband. V. The Rational Ga:lery. VI. Mr. Disraeli —llls Character and Career. VII. Public Education. VIII. 3larcellus—Memoirs of the Restoration. IX. The Income Tax. London: Lon-iman and Co. Edinburgh: A. and C Back, FRANCE. —DOMAIN of MARGAITX-PAL - N En, turd Great Growth of M E DOC,. The Sale of this Do m takes place on the 18th May next at the Chamber of Notaries at Bordeaux. Upset price, 400,000 r. For particulars, or to treat, apply in Paris, at the Caisse 11) pothEcalre, 9, Rue Cadet ; at Bordeaux, to N. Tornezy, Notary, and to M. Bourgoin, Gerant, 27, rue Condillac ; and at Na•gaux, to M. Brachet, Notary. PATRON PRINCE ALBERT ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. —Mrs. Beecher Stowe's Popular Work on Slavery Plus• trated In an Optical Exhibition, with Vocal and Instrumental Music and New Dissolving Scenery, Morning and Evening. Lectures: — By J. H. Pepper, Esq.—Half-hours with the Ancient and Modern Chemists; by Dr. Bachhoffner, on Pneumatics, in which the Principle of the Fly's Foot and Walking on the CePing will be explained ; by Mr. Crispe, on Ericeson's Caloric Engine. Admission, Is.; Schools, and Children under Ten years of age, Half-price THE ESTABLISHMENTS ARE KNOWN EVERYWHERE, and their BUSINESS is PROFITABLE to EVERYBODY.—It is now unnecessary for E. MOSES and t,ON to publish the fact of their commodious, complete, and magnificent arrangements for the first and most distinguished business in the world; but It is right that their patrons and the public should be acquainted with the vast preparations they are perpetually making, tc supply the most fashionable and comfortable attire at the lowest prices, and to provide ladies and gentlemen with every kind of cloth ing in the newest fashion•, and the most superior qualities. The order department provides elearit styles of MILITARY or NAVAL COSTUME in the most accomplished cut and workmanship, or LIVERIES to any devise which may be desired—superior quality — excellent workmanship—dispatch and economy may be depended upon. The ready made department is replete with new styles of dress for daily wear or special occasions, and attire for juveniles not to be equalled elsewhere for novelty, snp• rior quality, and economical charges. The hat and cap section is repleni•hed with every new style, and the best goods are charged very low prices. The hosiery branch displays articles of incomparable elegance suitable for lac% s, gentlemen, and children, the quality and pric,, of each article showing how far the establishments of E. MO ;ES and SON excel all others. Emigrants are provided with their outfits, or any part of them, at wholesale prices, by E. MOSES and SON. Persona about to embark for Australia may gain a large per cent age on small investments made in clothing manufactured by E. MOSES and SON: All classes of passengers are furnished with the requiFite goods and clothing for any voyage or climate, and the price of superior articles is much lower at E. MOSES and SON, than at any other house. Complete suits of outfits for ladies and gentlettlen, and shipsailing information may be had on applicat:on, or post free to any part of the kingdom. CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like taleehood of " Being connected with heir 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 IN OR OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows: London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 84,85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradtorl (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 nd 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, Faraate. Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe Makers, arid 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 aba• ement 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, entitled " The World's Pharos," containing the Emigrant's Assistant, full list of prices, and directions tor self mea surement, may be had on application, or post-free, to any part of the kingdom. A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1853 can be .had gratis, on application. ici I'on park Francais. Rier si richt man Deutsch. Qul si parla Italian. Aqua se habla Espanol MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and Matric dated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medic Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., VIAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile irregu'aritles and excesses, which have pro duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ture decay at all states (4 life, than perhaps any other class of dis eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience in the treatment of these diseases his proved that there are in exist ence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in exigence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various iorms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Marri ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their endless modifications owe their almost e•itire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated w'thout Incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-Pdulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, bow the sting of their bitterness may be remove and how the evil and its con equences inay be avoided, and above ail, that there is scarcely any degree of phy24eal infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot app:y a cure. DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged In an extensive practice in the t , catinent of these delicate com plaints, and s the only legally qualified l'hyaiclan who, regardless of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct attention to theso enormous evils, from which Ito grade of society is tree. In selecting thit department of practice, he has been amply reu arded by the grtat success that has attended his efforts In the treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to- the care of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues of 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 must contain the fee of 1/., and advice and medicines can he forwarded to any initials or address. It is desirahle that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MEIIT should first obtain a copy of his work on SELF-PRESERVATION. A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage, and Nervous and Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty coloured engravings, and des cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and excesses. 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 German, of Messrs. Piper Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; v atm, 39, Corrthill ; Storie. T,tchborne-street, Haymarket; or Jrce oy post for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Author's resi dence, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE. LONDON. IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, Just published, by U. Bat Mere, 219, Regent-street, London. No I. Bvo., in cloth, price bs. by post free, ss. 6d., ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors In relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of tip e •encrative System, - n• Sexual Hypochondriasis. Translated from 'he German of Dr. PICKFORD • • - "Dr. Picktor.' 's known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first tlnie, he informs us, that be has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trust this may not bo the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his over to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. "We oromised in a former number that we should recur to this w)rlt, in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes with great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by preying on the credulity of the public. The tribe of Quiet Symathisers,' and ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book could find its way into :he hands of those who stiffer from th com plaint of which it tre its, we are satisfied that many h ►ndreds would tie saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money --This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcca, and to place the treat -gent upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, , kely to do much good."—Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. No. 11. Bvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6(1., by post free, 45., THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Prlncl. pies at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even ita most Inveterate and apparently Intractable Forms. BY F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. • "In proot of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given the history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated. -uch are cases ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No. Ix. had resisted. for a period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally re noved in as many weeks. But cases and xix. appear, both in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently successful." —Professor Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture. .."-- , . _ . / A---,-- , -- , _--- - . • 7/ ) - • - - - - . _ • ..ior- .--, ..,,..,_ N 4-0-,,, .. - ..\ . <c,4 1 .4, :LW' -,- 1• , ,) f• , -- ---- .. \ ' ;::::----- / __— . . ff , ; ,.. . 4. llclfii., •.t.-.-:-...? t. 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The value, there fore, of your guarantee, not to reduce the interest below 3 per cent. for 21 years, in the market at the present time, as tested by the daily transactions, is no less than 3 per cent. Now I want to get hold of that value, if I can, for the public. (Hear, hear.) Let us guarantee some of this stock which has now no guarantee, and let us perpetuate for the benefit of the public the increased value which will thereby be obtained. (Hear.) Another of the uses to which the Exchequer Bonds may be usefully employed will, no doubt, be that of obtaining temporary loans upon their deposit, without any expense, and affording ample security to the lender. This is a circumstance which will also tend, no doubt, to increase the value of thesebonds. (Hear.) There ,is another point, which I confess I look upon as one of considerable importance in connection with this subject. If we go back for a certain number of years, we find ourselves in a period when dealings in public securi ties were almost entirely confined to the metropolis. In deed, with reference not only to public securities, but to stock generally, it could hardly be said that there was a stock market out of London. The immense progress of enterprise, the formation of a multitude of joint-sto c k com panies of different descriptions—many of them of a high class—investments in railways to the extent of 200,600,090/. or 300,000,0001., giving rise to transactions every year of immense magnitude, and various other circumstances con nected with the commercial condition of the country, have, however, led to the establishment of regular stock markets in the provin ces . Li verpoo l, M anc h es t r , Leeds, Glasgow, Birmingham, and o th er t owns h ave s t oc k markets, where a very large amount of business is transacted ; but at the present moment, considered properly as " stock," the pub lic securities are almost entirely excluded from the pro vincial markets. Ido not mean to say that nobody in the provinces holds public securities for the purposes of invest ment. No doubt many persons do, but they hold them through the m e di um o f agen t s an d corre spondents in Lon don. lam most anxious, therefore, if it can be done, to bring the publi c secur iti es i n t o the, provincial markets ; because I believe that, by enlarging the scale of demand, you would increase proportionately the value of the com modity, just as when, with a fixed number of buyers, if you increase the amount of commodity you reduce its va lue ; so, when with a fixed amount of commodity you in crease the sphere of the market and the number of the buyers, you augment and enhance the value of the commo dity. (Hear.) Some persons may perhaps ask why we do not propose to alter the present mode of transfer of public securities by personal appearance at the Bank, and the in scription of a signature in the books to the same simple manner to which ordinary securities are transferred. lay reply is, that I do not see my way cleat to such a measure. The present mode of transfer —for London, I mean, which is the centre of monetary transactions, not only of Eng land, but of the world—is as near as possible to perfection ; • it is the most rapid, the cheapest, the most secure, and the most satisfactory, which has ever been devised. There may be a mode by which, without breaking up that system which works so well in London, the provinces may be pro vided with a mode of dealing with these securities. I confess, however, that I am not as yet aware of that pl an , serious matter t o sacr ifi ce the great central m ar k e t tahned immense a c e d r t v n a n i n t l a y g e b :w a h v i e e h ry enjoys for the purpose of benefiting the minor markets. No doubt we shall achieve a great good if we can, by the means now proposed, get the public securities into the pro vincial markets. The advantages derived would be that you will give an increased value to the securities, and you will introduce a further element of steadiness into the mar ket, for when you deal in one market only you are rendered more liable to the influence of combination than you would be by having a number of markets for the same commo dity. (Hear.) Another recommendation which securities of this kind will possess will be that they will form most eligible investments for foreigners who may wish to be in Possession of public securities, and to have the documents which constitute their right to the property in their own possession. These are the principal considerations which have induced her Majesty's Government to ask the house to give their permission to issue this description of stock. There are, however, two points of considerable difficulty connected with this subject, to which I ought not to omit to refer. The first question which may be asked is, " Are these securities which you call ' Exchequer bonds' to be merely very long dated Exchequer bills, which at a certain period Parliament, whether it will or no, and irrespective of circumst ances , ma y be called upon to repay? or are they to be securities guaranteedon the part of Parliament against any redu c ti on or i n t er f erence f or a certain pe riod, but with respect to which, after that period, Parliament, and Parliament alone, shall enjoy the power of redemption, to use, or not to use, as it thinks fit ?" Now, her Majesty's Government felt the difficulty of coming to any conclusion in the absence of that direct information which they could only receive from the full expression of public opinion and the discussions which are elicited in the public journals and elsewhere, when a plan of that kind is proposed. We felt the diffi culty of coming to an absolute decision on those questions in the dark. We had to choose two courses, both of which were attended with considerable difficulties, and by the adoption of either of which we might have sacrificed a very considerable part of the objects which we had in view. If, for example, we had said, " These securities shall be securities absolutely irredeemable at the will of the holder" —if we had determined to invite the House of Commons to vote such a proposition to-night, we might have run the risk of discrediting those securities at the first moment they were born into the world, and of thus seeing the whole plan abortive. If, on the other hand, in order to ensure the working of the plan, we had written expressly in the resolutions before the committee that these securi ties were to be redeemable at the option of the holders, we might have be en t o ld, as i n p o i n t o f f a ct we have been, that the securities are so satisfactory in their character, that, as permanent, irredeemable securities, there may be many persons found who would be willing to hold th em . It appeared to her Majesty's G o vernment, therefore, that the wiser course was to ask Parliament to entrust them with a discretion in the matter, and using the time infor mation, and the discu ss ion which will be elicited between the present time and the period when the act is palmed and the securities issued, and be permitted to act for the best, as the circumstmees may seem to them to require. It is quite plain that to get out these securities at the rate of interest proposed---24 per cent.—it would be well worth while to make them redeemable at the option of the hohler after a certain number of years. At the same time it is by no means certain that, even by succeeding up to th It time, we should still succeed in the principal object which we have in view, and that is bringing before the public eye, and enabling the public freely to deal with public securities bearing 2i per cent. interest, while the Exchequer bonds to bo issued would in fact be long dated Exchequer bills, land not permanent securities. (Hear, hear.) The com mittee will see that we propose to ask for power to sell the " bonds" in open market, and to apply the produce of their sale to the purchase of Exchequer bills. The committee will, no doubt, be jealous of bestowing such a power upon the Government. They may suppose that the Govern ment will throw them away, or give them away, or that they will be so stiff in their dealings that when the full value is offered for them it will not be taken. It appears to use upon the whole, that whil e th ose w h o h ave to act for the State may fail in the discharge of their duty, yet, upon the other hand, the objection would be very great to the committee now fixing absolutely the terms upon which these bonds should be issued. Her Majesty's Government are your agents in the matter, and you will hamper and prevent us taking advantage of the circumstances which may arise up to the latest moment, if you insert in these resolutions absolutely the terms upon which these Exche quer bonds must be sold if disposed of in that way. Her Majesty's Government have thought, for various reasons, that the best way of meeting the reasonable desire of Par liament to be completely master of all these transactions, would be to ask you to confer upon the Government such an amount of discretion as will be ample for the purpose and will enabl e th em t o d ea l f ree l y with the securities ' about to be created, but at the same time to limit the amount of the securities which shall be issued by them under these resolutions, and for this reason I have pro posed that the amount to be issued shall not exceed the sum of 30,000,0001. Another limitation which is pro posed is, that the power to issue Exchequer bonds will absolutely cease and determine on the 4th of April, 1854. It is not that I assume either that 30,000,0001. will be the utmost limit to which Parliament will go, or that no bonds will be issued after the day named. The object of the limitation in both cases is, that we shall have the power to try the experiment, as your agents, to a limited extent ; but to come back to you for increased powers if we find occasion to go beyond the extent named in the resolutions. (Hear.) It may be asked, what is the nature of those bonds, and would they con s tit u t e a suffi ciently broad basi s for the operati.,n which we are proposing to Parliament ? To this I must say I think not I have said much in commendation of instruments of this character as a form of public security. But I think it is obvious—and it has been broadly remarked in many ' of those intelligent discussions on the subject which have already appeared since the resolutions were printed—that these bonds would not be securities of the most desirable description for all the parties who are at present holders of public stock. I look upon these bonds as being in a man ner commercial and trading securities, which will suit the purposes of the classes engaged in commerce generally, including, of course, those who are dealers in public sto;ke But there are very large classes of holders of stock, who are in different circumstances, to whom it would be my advantage to have the power of transferring stock cheaply and rapidly, inasmuch as they do not wish to transfer it, to whom it would be no recom mendation to have the interest payable in the manner proposed, and with whom the present mode of proceeding is perfectly satisfactory. These classes consist of the t permanent holders of public stocks—of those who hold as permanent property, and who hold them is the capacity of trustees, or under private settlements. Her Majesty's Government, therefore, do not propose to found their operations upon the issue of Exchequer bonds alone. because it is obviously desirable, if it can be done without mischievous propose that alreadyth ere all tion, but to make those improvements fall o ver a ll c l asses sh u o ded la , be a means of voluntary conversi on of in the viz., u of the public creditors. Therefore, in order to m ee t th e creditor, we I hae probable views and wants of the p u bli c creditors be longing e classt p o er t m h a a n t ent to which strictest sense of the word, " the Gr ea t Th ree per Cents." In ap proaching this great phalanx of the Three de fended as it is by its amount , per Cents., , its rate of interest, and the necessity for a twelvemonths' notice, we must deal with it, as a prudent general would when approachin g a fortifica tion of the fi rs t c l ass, and our. steps must be di rec t e d b y the utmost cau ti on. The proposal of her Majesty's Govern ment is to give terms which. 1 b as being t oo lib eral to ave not seen de sc rib e d o the fundh o lder. I: am f u lly con vinced that it w ou ld b e but at the samean error to g i ve t erms too lib era l ; time, when it is said that von would get you are very much b e tt er t erms than asking, much as I should respect the estimatewhich they form, I should respect the opinion still more if it was founded upon actual account instead of being merely an estimate. The proposal of the Government is that any person who now is, or may be, interested in the Three per Cent. Consols, and who shall between the time of the passing of this act and the 10th of October, 1853, signify his desire to commute any or all of his share in the stock, may have the option of exchanging each 1031. of such stock into one of three forms. The first of these will be the Exchequer bonds at par, upon the ad vantages of which I have already dilated at some length ; secondly, into a New Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock, to be created for the purpose, upon these conditions, that 1001. of Perpetual Annuities, now bearing 3 per cont. in terest, may be exchanged for 821. 10s. of this New Three and-a-Half per Cent. Stock, giving to the present holder of stock an income of 21. 17s. 9d. per cent., instead of 31. per cent. The reduction in this case is certainly not a large one ; but the impression appears to be that even this reduction will not be very readily submitted to. For my part, I have not the least fear of seeing it very extensively adopted. The advantages of this commutation are not to be limited to the rate of interest; it will be fortified with a guarantee of no less than 40 years - 1 al as e , period, no doubt, but small in the history of national a Threen a de at the expiration of which period, instead of being cl _ per Cat, Suck, it will be one a 34 100., redeemab l e [PRICE SD. s extend it-knowing that our fathers borrowed money from the public at 51. and even 6/. per cent., and that we bor a ! row it at 31. per cent.-we assume that we are travelling , down an inclined plane. But it is a curious fact that there was a time when the public credit was higher than it is at , the present time. I think it was in 1739, 114 years ago, j and in the month of July, that the Three per Cents., which , are now just at par, were at the price of 1071. I wish to call these facts to the recollection of the committee, in order that they may appreciate the real difficulty attend , ing an operation of the character which we have now in view. Now, with respect to the Exchequer bonds, I pro pose that the issue of them will have the following leading characteristics, which I will in the first instance state con cisely together, and without any comment of my own. In the first place they will be transferrable by simple delivery, and without cost or expense of any kind. In the second place they will bear interest in the first instance at the rate of 21. 15s. per cent., and subsequently at the rate of so with respect to the number of years 21. 10s. ; and I propose during which the int eres t s h all continue at 21. 15s. per cent. that a limit shall be fixed by Parliament, beyod which that rate of interest shall not be allowed to extend, and that a discretion shall be given to the commissioners of the Treasury to reduce that limit before they come to the actual period for issuing the bonds, so that we may give the public every advantage of tho latest information of which the Government is in possession at the time when they are called upon to afford it. The bonds will, after the Ist of September, 1864, at the latest, but per haps from an earlier period than that, bear interest at the rate of 21. 10s. per cent, till September, 1894. After the year 1894 they shall be subject to redemption, but whe ther by the State or by the holders is a point to which I shall presently more particularly advert. My present pro posal is, that the question as to at whose option the bonds shall be redeemable shall not be decided by a vote of the committee to-night, but shall be confided to the dis cretion of her Majesty's Government. I propose also that these Exchequer bonds to be issued shall not exceed, under any authority to be conveyed by these resolutions, a sum of 30,000,0001. in amount. There are many other minor questions, which are, however, of considerable importance, with respect to these bonds, and which bear materially upon the value and popularity of these securities. Among them I may mention the form in which the bonds are to be drawn, the mode in which the interest is to be paid which will probibly by coupons attached to the bonds the places at which the interest is to be paid-that is to say, whether at the Bank of England, or at the Bank of Ire land, or also, at the branch banks, the mode of securing these bonds against the possibility of forgery, and the means to be adopted for replacing them when lost. Many of these arrangements are of an executory description ; they will require a great deal of careful consideration ; and it is not necessary now to detain the house by any details respect them. We propose that these Exchequer Bonds when issued may be used in various modes ; and I am sure the committee will forgive me for stating, in as plain language as possible, the propositions contained in the resolutions, for the wit of man has not yet devised a mode of framing resolutions of the kind so as to satisfy the jealous but just demands of Parliament for information in cases of this sort, and at the same time to frame a pleasant and what is called a readable document. (A laugh.) I propose that these Exchequer Bonds shall be capable of being disposed of in four different modes. The first is that they shall be exchangeable against Exchequer Bills. There may be hon. members who may say, " Why not leave the Ex chequer Bills alone. Surely you ought to be satisfied with the conditions under which you now hold so large a sum as you have invested in Exchequer Bills, viz., at the rate of interest not rising above the very moderate figure of 1 per cent." My reply is lam perfectly satisfied with the present condition of Exchequer Bills. But the condition of Exchequer bills is like a summer sky-it may be varied or even reversed under the influence of circumstances, in a very short time. The funding of Exchequer bills, when you have an opportunity of doing so, is a wise operation, and I do not say that it would be unwise under certain cir cumstances if we were to use these Exchequer bonds at the rate of 211 per cent. for the purpose of funding Exchequer bills which we hold at 12 per cent. When you can get your quantity of Exchequer bills very low, then their po sition becomes secure ; but when you have got it low, you are enabled thereby to strengthen greatly the position of the Government against any possible vicissitudes, and the Government are enabled to go into the market as borrow ers, in a case of emergency, w i th an amount of advantage which they could not possibly obtain if the rate of Ex chequer bills was not low. Now, with respect to this par ticular proposition, which is not actually that we should fund Exchequer bills, but that we should exchange Ex chequer bonds against Exchequer bills, I will just state to the house the rate at which previous fundings of Ex chequer bills have been effected. In the year 1826 there was a funding of Exchequer bills, and the rate at which they were commuted was 1001. Exchequer bills for 1071. in the Four per Cents. representing a rate of interest of 41. 6s. Bd. per cent. ; in 1829,1001. in Exchquer bills upon being fnnded brought 101/. lOs in the Four per Cents. thus representing a rate of interest of V. ls. 2d. per cent. ; in 1839, 1001. Exchequer bills were commuted at the rate of 1091. and 1101. in the Three per Cents., representing a rate of interest equal to 31. 6s. per cent. ; in 1841, Ex chequer bills were again funded upon the condition of being exchanged at the rate of 1001. for 1121. 2s. of Three per Cents., the interest being equivalent to 31. 7s. 3d. per cent. Thus, whenever you have had occasion to fund Exchequer bills, the best terms upon which you have succeeded in doing so have been at the rate of 31. 6s. per cent., and they have been funded at rates even as high as 41. Gs. Bd., and that rate of interest not representing, as in the case of Exchequer bills, a tem porary bargain, which in a few months might be modified by the Government, but representing the contracting of a new public debt, as permanent as any other portion of the public debt of the country. These facts form, we think, a justification of the request of her Majesty's Government, that we may be trusted, within the limits laid down in these resolutions, to exchange E xc h equer b on d s aga i ns t Exc;sequer bills, for the purpose of funding at the rate of 21. 10s. per cent., thus effecting a saving of snore than 1 per cent. theizn funded. at which T Lx Exchequer ü b r i p ll o s s e h have which we propose Exchequer bonds shall be applicable is, that they shall he exchanged against the "stocks" which, by these resolutions, it is proposed to commute. We pro pose, also, that Exchequer bonds may be sold by the Go vernment, and the proceeds of their sale applied to the purchase of " stock, for the purpose of cancelling it, or to the purchase of Exchequer bills. These bonds are like wise intended to meet the particular case with respect to the small portion of the public debt which we give abso lute notice to pay off; and this might be found the most convenient mode of dealing with it - that we sell the bonds, and apply the proceeds in cash to meet the demands of those who might require to be so dealt with, for, keep ing extreme cases in view, it might possibly occur that the balance, in the Exchequer might not be sufficient to meet the demands which might be upon it. This subject has been one of careful and anxious consideration, and one of the great difficulties besetting questions of this nature is, that they of necessity involve arriving at conclusions upon questions of great importance with very imperfect infor mation. Public feeling, after all, and the opinion of the commercial classes, are the tests by which ultimately a measure of this kind can alone be tried, and what will bo the state of public feeling at a given time with respect to such measures is a matter upon which very opposite judg ments, even under the most favourable circumstances, will greatly fail. I cannot blame myself for not having taken all the means in my power, compatible with the strict and absolute secrecy which those measures require, to ascertain what prospects, according to the best and highest judg ments, there of bringing out " bonds" of this kind in the market. But, at the same time, it was matter of extreme difficulty to arrive at such certain data as would have jus tified the Government in absolutely fixing upon terms of the proposition, from which there should be no variation whatever. I will now, however, state the grounds upon which we think that these " bonds" will be popular cur rent securities. In the first instance, the very easy trans fer of these securities entirely without cost. It is very difficult for us to say what may be the precise effect of that easy and rapid transfer without cost, because we have no precedent to guide us among the various descriptions of the present public securities of the country. We have, however, a partial means of forming a judgment on the subject, from the fact that there are many foreign securi ties current in this country, and which are transferable from hand to hand without cost. I by no means compare those foreign securities with those which we now propose to deal. I hope that without undue pride, Englishmen may so far lift up their heads as to flatter themselves that the instruments by which they secure their claims upon any public security in this country do, at any rate, hold a very high rank-perhaps it would not be too much to say the highest rank-among d ocumen t s o f a s i milar character in the other countries o f Europe, It does happen, h ow d ever, that there are som e ti mes foreign securities current in this country, bearing the same rates of interest and similar in almost every respect, but differing in this one respect viz., that in the one case they require a a formal legal 'process in order to their transfer, while in the other the transfer is effected by merely passing from hand to hand. I believe that I am correct--and shall be borne out by the opinion of many of the best informed men-in saying that this power of easy and rapid transfer from hand to hand adds as much as several pounds per cent. to the value of the securities which enjoy that advantage. (Hear, hear.) We propose, then, that these bonds shall possess is advantage, that they will also be of a permanent character, so far as fixing a long term during which no change can take place with respect to them. I must take this opportunity of pointing out what an important effect, not so much in the present case as in the others, this element of guarantee exercisesthe price of public securities. My right hon. friend the on o ' mem ber for the University of Cambridge, when provided that October, T hree nB5l t d- -Q o u 3 a r per ter epercent., o Cents.t. likewise sh o provided u ld b e re rvded t twenty et c nh e ta d yt , after they should have a further certain currency term they of years at the rate of 3 per cent., within t which should not be subject an stoefr tourt hhterere cistidouecloon n. J What tis is the perfectly possible to give an answer the value, o vtalufea, guarantee t p e r e e b se y n r t s c r i li r a c m um en st t a n n o c t es to o f reduce mt money n e le rate and parti f c r ul om ar t s h e e cr p iri re t s y en b t el t o im w e 3 r pe l r t ce w n i t ll . within of o r l t l e e ws c te t n e u d t 371):3 t on h n a e t a y t e ris, after all, is only a guarantee not to reduce below 3 per cent. ; but the committee has the means of testing exactly the precise value of that guarantee. The present price of the right hon. gentleman's (Mr. Goul burn) Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.-which will become Three per Cents. after October, 1854, tober, ye arsls,lma i s t wapipllenarsot fbveemliathhlee to further reduction for twenty official records of yesterday's sales, is 1031.55. the dividend having just been paid, so that that does not enter into the calculation. This particular stock has, however, th ree I dividends e e y i e v t e o on r e e c e d i i v v e i daetntdh thenext October,rt a e of next 3e second per n cent. April, and the third in October, 1851. As the excess of dividend which will be received upon each of these occa sions is just 2s. 6d. for each, I must deduct that sum in order to compare the case of this guaranteed with the un guaranteed stock. Deducting, therefore, th e 7 s. 6d. due to the augmented di v id end, it will leave as the price of the guaranteed Three per Cent. Stock, 1021. 17s. 6d. 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Fi b INNEFORD'S PURE FLUID MAGNESIA kJ' Has been for many years sanctioned by the most eminent o t the medical profession, as an excellent remedy for ACIDITIES, HEARTBURN, HEADACHE, GOUT, AND GEORGE REEVES, 3, 4, and 5, POPE'S HEAD ALLEY, 19, CORNHILL, LONDON, . _ . (nearly opposite the South Entrance to the Royal Exchange), being determined to supply the Public with the very best WINES and , PIRITS, at the lowest remunerating prices, begs to submit the fol lowing list for their consideration:— WINES. Good Draught Ports and Sherries .. • • .. • • .... 245. per dozen. Superior ditto (second to none) . . 32s. per dozen. Ve . ry tine Old oruoel Port, 4 years in Bottle • ... 425. per dozen Flue Old ,berry, Pale or 8r0wn,..•• ........ • • 423. per dozen. S PIRII S. Gin of the finest Quality, 9s. 6d., 10s. Bd., and 12s. per gallon. tine Old Jamaica Rums, 10s. 8d„ 125., and 16s. per gallon. Glenlivet and Campbelton Whiskies. imported direct, 5 years old, and 5 over proof, 20s. per gallon. G. R. having purchased. previous to the rise, 50 Hogsheads of Martell's Pale and Brown Brandies, 4 and 5 years old, feels disposed to offer them at the Original erices, taking no advantage of the 3s. advance in the markets. Fine t Pale Champagne Bran 1y...... • • ...• • • 28s. per gallon. Coloured ditto 21 s. per gallon. Hampers charged is. per dozen, and bottles 2s. per dozen. REMITTANCES in all cases to be made in advance, by Post office Order, or by Cheque payable in London. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. PETITIONS. The Earl of RODEN presented petitions from several places against the admission of Jews into Parliament ; also a petition from the county of Cavan against the con tinuance of the grant to Maynooth. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented several peti tiong, praying for the inspection of nunueries. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS BILL. This billl was react a second time on the motion of Lord GRANVILLE. FOREIGN SEAMEN IN BRITISH SHIPS. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH presented a petition from. the master mariners, mates, and seamen of Hartle pool against any repeal of the provision of Act 12 Vic., restricting the number of foreign seamen in British ships. The noble earl expressed his regret at the fact of the tonnage of this country not having increased in the same proportion as that of foreign coun tries. The increase of shipping on the continent had been of late years 66 per cent., and in this country only 21. The actual number of our seamen falls short of the calculated returns, and short pay, which was about 9/. per year, was hardly sufficient to supply them with ne cessaries. It would be highly impolitic to assist the shipowners by reducing the rate of wages, and thereby reduce the number of seamen. On the maintenance of the maritime strength of this country its safety depended, and that was a question of more importance than the in terest of any single mercantile class. There was no loss which would be more fatal to the country than that of the hearts of its brave defenders. Lord GRANVILLE deprecated a discussion upon a subject which would so soon, in a more tangible form, occupy the attention of the house. A measure was now under the consideration of the Government, but nothing could be further from their intention than to reduce the rate of wages to the seamen. It was not his opinion that the employment of foreign seamen would injure the English sailor. A very large number of English sailors were at present in the American service. He must enter a protest against the idea going forth to the country that the Government intended to bring in any measure which would have the effect of reducing the wages of the Eng lish seamen. Lord COLCHESTER was of opinion that the em ployment of foreign seamen was highly prejudicial to the English sailors. Earl GREY could not regard the measure which the Government were about to introduce as calculated to reduce the wages of British sailors. There was no law which prevented the introduction of skilled labour into this country, and he did not see why the maritime ser vice should form an exception. His belief was that the employment of foreign seamen would not have the effect of decreasing the rate of wages. The Duke of ARGYLL said that it was the expecta tion of the Government that the measure which they were about to introduce would have the effect of better ing the condition of the sailors of this country. England was essentially a maritime country, and need not fear free competition with any other nation. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH BILL. This bill was read a third time. Their lordships then adjourned at a little after six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at a few minutes to four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. PRITCHARD took the oaths and his seat for Bridg north. PRIVATE BUSINESS. _ _ The Blackburn Railway and the Norfolk Estuary Bills were read a third time and passed. ATHLONE. The members of the Athlone election committee were called to the table and sworn. The committee was also appointed to sit to-morrow at 11. PETITIONS. Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from the cor poration of Carlisle in favour of the reform of the crimi nal law ; also a petition from Cockermouth in favour of the ocean penny postage. Mr. ALCOCK presented a petition from East Surrey against the Canada Clergy Reserves Bill. Sir J. V. SHELLEY presented a petition from the wood engravers of Westminster, praying that the Crystal Palace might be opened on Sundays. Captain SCOBELL presented a petition from seamen in the port of London, against the Merchant Seamen's Bill. Mr. R. PALMER presented a petition from Berk shire, against the attorneys' certificate duty. Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from Knaresbo rough complaining of the withdrawal of the petition gainst the return for that borough, and praying that a commission be appointed to inquire into the practices at the last election. Mr. Sergeant SHEE presented petition from the coun ties of Donegal and Kilkenny in favour of the Tenant Right (Ireland) Bill. Mr. C. T. CHAMBERS presented a petition from St. Albans, in favour of National Disarmatnents. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from the Trustees of the British Museum, praying for the annual support of the house. Sir J, Y, SHELLEY presented a petition from West , minster, in.favour of the reduction of the duty on tea, to ls. per lb. Mr. - PELLATT presented a similar petition from Southwark. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Arboath in favour of the bill for abolishing University Tests in Scot land. DOCKYARD APPOINTMENTS. Sir B. HALL gave notice of the terms of the motion which he intended to move on the 19th of April next. The substance of it was that he would call the attention of the house to parliamentary papers of the present ses sion, Nos. 67, 271, and 272, relating to dockyard pro motions and appointments, and :neve the, appointment of a select committee to inquire into the circumstances connected with the cancelling, on the 9th of Aptil,lBs2, of the circular of the Admiralty of the 26th of September, 1849, without any order or minute of the Board of Admiralty; also into the circumstances under which a letter addressed by Sir Baldwin Walker to Mr. Staf ford, the Secretary of the Admiralty, in which letter he tendered his resignation, and why that 4etter was with held from the board; and also into the circumstances con nected with the appointment of Mr. Jas. Wells as master smith of Portsmouth Dockyard, and the subsequent can-1 ceiling of the same, and the appeinttnent of Mr. Geo. Costell in his stead, and generally into the exercise of the influence and patronage of the Admiralty in several Parliamentary boroughs at the l ..st general election. BORNEO. . • Mr. HUME stated that in 'consequence of the Go vernment having told him that it was their intention to institute an inquiry into the proceedings at Borneo, it was not his intention to proceed with his motion on the subject. REFORM OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON In reply to Sir B. HALL, Lord J. RUSSELL said it waseaiiiikt en tienzef th e Government to appoint very soon a commission for the purpose of inquiring into the reform of the corp Oration of the City of London, and of preparing a measure on the subject. (Cheers.) inferior to none of them—every one of these operation: have had an issue comparatively simple to deal with, and they have marked the successive steps by which yen effected the great transition in respect of your debt from a state of war, when money could only be raised at high rates of interest, to a state of peace, commercial progress, and general stability of our institutions. The case is now materially different. I will state very briefly the particu lars of those operations, for the purpose of discountenanc ing the supposition that any analogous effects are to be expected at the present time. In 1823 Lord Bexley pro posed a commutation of a portion of the public debt. He operated on a capital of 152,000,0001., and effected an im mediate saving of 1,206,-0001. In 1825 the Earl of Ripon operatc4 'on a capital of 77,000,0001., and effected an imme diate saving of 300,0001. From 1830 to 1831, my right hon. friend the member for the University of Cambridge operated on a capital of 153,000,0001., and effected an im mediate saving of 753,0001. In 1841 and 1845 he again dealt with the large capital of 248,000,0001., and effected an immediate saving of 622,0001., which in the year 1854 and 1855 will be doubled, and then there will be an actual permanent saving of 1,244,0001. (Hear, hear.) With' re spect to the amount of saving and of the rate of interest, frt;in which a dissent was to be made, the case is widely different at the present day. So far as the history of the world has yet gone, we have found 3 per cent. pretty nearly the limit at which we arrive. The enormous mass of dis sent is again such as to preclude any extensive compulsory operations, not only under the circumstances of the pre sent moment, but almost under any circumstances which it is possible to foresee. The debt amounts to 500,000,0001., more than double of what it is ever been attempted to ap proach for the purpose of reduction ; and a circumstance, which may not be c9xnerally within the knowledge of the committee, but which is yet more fatal in its bearing on the position of the public debtor and the public creditor is this, that of those great Three per Cent. Stocks, which I have stated in round numbers as amounting to 500,000,0001. the whole are secured by a provision requiring a Parlia mentary notice of twelve months' duration before any mea sure of reduction or commutation can be applied. (Hear.) I only ask the committee to recollect how serious a matter it would be for any Government, under present or any other circumstances, to sketch out a plan of operations affecting so vast a capital, involving the possibility of such an enor mous payment received from you within a period of twelve months, and including all the chance vicissitudes which we have seen happen often in the course of less than a single year. Our present position, therefore, is entirely different from this. The expectations which were then reasonably entertained it would not be reasonable to entertain now. The plans then proposed to the house were reduced to a single and simple issue. The stocks with which you had then to deal were subject to redemption by Parliament after an offer of repayment at short notice, and as many as declined that offer were required to accept other stocks ten dered in lieu of those which they held. Therefore, I lay it down in the first instance, that a large operation of a com pulsory character is totally out of the question. And the next inquiry is, shall we, notwithstanding the impossibility of such extended and comprehensive operations, come to the conclusion that a new state of circumstances has ar rived in which it is incumbent on the part of the Govern ment and of Parliamant that they should make some effort to obtain for the public the fullest value that equity and justice will permit for the security which they give to their creditors, and a rigid observance of the perfect good faith with those creditors which it has ever been the study and the glory of this house to maintain ? (Cheers.) The opi nion of her Majesty's Government is, that although we can not now effect the magnificent results achieved in former periods, yet the time has come when a beginning may be made, and when steps may be taken which may be useful so far as they go, and which will lay the ground where no ground has yet been laid. There is another preliminary point on which I venture to make a remark. You have, on approaching a subject of this kind, a choice of difficul ties, and it was because I wished to put those difficulties clearly before the committee that I did not answer at greater length the question put to me by the right hon. gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire. On the one hand, no man can admit more fully than I do the perfect title of Parliament, and of every member of Parliament— and indeed it is their bounden duty—to maintain intact its control over the whole of those operations. If it is our duty to fence about with strict and rigid forms the whole process of taxation, and to look closely into every proposi tion submitted to you by a Government for raising money from the people, it is still more your duty to see that you no not give a blind and unreasoning confidence to a Mini ster where the case is either the crea,cion or the commuta tion of public funds. The more the house takes on itself those functions, the less is the burden incumbent on her Majesty's Government, and the less the anxiety which at taches to the individual on whom the duty is imposed of making propositions of this kind. But, on the other hand, while I thus state the prerogative of Parliament and of its members, it is an undeniable fact that when you come to deal with the public creditor, his position may be mate rially amended by conferences conducted in public with the Ministry, and the Finance Minister in particular, and having reference very much to points of detail • and, there fore, I wish to ask the c omm itt ee t o extend to her Majesty's Government that degree of c o nfid ence with respect to giving effect to those operations which they think moderate and just—that they will remember the extreme import ance when once a matter of this kind has been broached of carrying it forward with resolution and promptitude, and that they will be governed by those considerations in balancing between the inconvenience of intrusting the discharge of weighty functions to those who admit their own insufficiency worthily to bear them, and the inconve• nience of doing damage to the public interests, and mar ring a great public object by discussing it in a spirit which may be fatal to its very essence. I have been most anxious to make this application at a comparatively early period of the present session, because, being aware that it is an ope ration of a kind that does not aim at very great results, and being undoubtedly of necessity a novel operation, and not analogous to those that have gone before, I am anxious that the operation should go forward, and should reach to some degree of effect, if it is to take effect, while Parlia ment is sitting, so that Parliament may have an opportu nity of exercising a judgment upon it ere long, and so that Government may, if satisfied with the working of the plan, come back to Parliament, if need be, for extended powers, before the session shall run t o it s close. I come, then, to my plan, which consists of three portions. The first of these is certainly a minor portion of the scheme ; and I will enter upon it first, in order to dispose of it and put it out of view. It is the liquidation of certain minor stocks which appear in the schedule of the national debt, and the very existence of which is unknown to a great portion of the public, and perhaps to a great portion of this house. These minor stocks are chiefly connected with the South Sea Company. There is the debt due to the South Sea Company, amounting now to 3,622,000/. ; the Old South Sea Annuities, amounting to 2,775,000/. ; the New South Sea Anuities, amounting to 1,997,0001. ; the South Sea Annuities of 1751, amounting to 460,000/. • and the Bank Annuities of 1726, amounting to 676,0001. The whole amount of those stocks is about 9,500,0001. sterling. With respect to those stocks, it is proposed to take a compulsory operation—that is to say, we shall tender a certain alterna tive to the holder, and at the same time inform him that if he does not accept this alternative, he will be paid off at the expiration of a proper period. I think the committee will agree with my view that, at this moment, this will be an eminently safe operation. But perhaps I may be asked why I touch these funds in particular. They may well be called the patriarchal stocks of the country—they have re mained longest on the records of the national debt—they have subsisted for many generations—they may be said to have grown hoary with age ; then why should you trouble them? I hold that it is useful to have different descrip tions of stock, yet it is a bad arrangement to have different descriptions of stock which have all their essential charac teristics in common, and in which there is not one that is opposed to the other. Again, those limited stocks create but a small market, and small transactions invariably bear small prices. You thus complicate the public debt with out any countervailing good, together with the manage ment of that public debt ; because, although I believe there is no possible blame that can be brought against the South Sea Corporation, highly respectable as it is, and having now effectually purged itself of the recollections of its earlier days—(a laugh)—and though there is no possibility of finding fault with the way in which this public debt has been managed ; yet this is an agency without any adequate purpose, and I think the committee will agree with me that the time has come for a different arrange ment. It will also effect a real economy. I frankly own that I think with respect to this portion of the public debt we shall obtain only a moderate reduction, but still a reduction, in the rate of interest. If on this 9,500,0001. we effect but a reduction of a I per cent. in the interest, yet that will represent a permanent annual saving to the country of something like 25,0001. ; and, besides that, wo are perfectly prepared to meet the views of those who may wish to be paid in cash ; and if the holders of this stock shall desire to have cash, and will make a call for it, that call will not be inconvenient, but on the contrary it will enable us to employ in a profitable manner a portion of the balances now unemployed, and thereby to displace, with a debt which will carry a regular interest, that which now bears comparatively little or no fruit. With respect to the means of paying off this portion of the debt, there will be, first, the power which I propose to take of raising money on Exchequer bonds by deposit at the Bank, with certain exceptions ; and, lastly, and alter native stock, which we shall offer to parties at an auction, which all will have an opportunity of attending. And perhaps a doubt may have arisen in respect to most of those stocks whether Parliament is bound by law to give a notice of twelve montbs to the holders. The case did not appear to us entirely clear ; and, it not being clear, and considering the limited amount of the stocks, we thought it right to allow the stockholders the benefit of the doubt, and to give them the full circumstances, which, under any circumstances, could be required. There is only one ex ception in the case of one of those stocks, with respect to which a notice of six months is clearly defined by law, and that notice must be signed in the handwriting of the sove reign, and exhibited to public view on the Royal Exchange. I have now disposed of one portion of this scheme, and I come now to the second and third. Tho second of these portions relate to the issue of Exchequer bonds, and the third relates to a voluntary commutation dependent en tirely on the option of the holders of the great Three per Cent. Stocks—namely, the Three per Cent. Consols and the Three per Cent. Reduced—making together the capital very nearly of 500,000,0001. But I now refer to both those ' plans, because both have in view one and the same ultimate object, and that object is to lay the foundation of a perma nent form of irredeemable public debt—irredeemable ' I mean, at the option of the holders—bearing an inte res t of 23 per cent. The mode in which we wish to attain that end will appear as I proceed, but that is the ultimate end which we have in view. I know there are some who think that this reduction is a very simple matter, which may be delayed for one or more yea rs , b u t which is sure to come at last. Those persons are mere sanguine in their tempera ment than I. Ido not say you may not entertain the hope of effecting that object, but I say it is a subject of consi derable uncertainty ; and if you hope to attain it you ought not to omit the use of any auxiliary means towards the end, and certainly you ought not to depend on the simple force of circumstances to effect any great reduction in the intereet. Not extending our view fxr .45 no ought to INDIGESTION. As a Mild Aperient, it is admirab;y adapted for Delicate Females particulary during Pregnancy ; and it prevents the food of infanta from turning sour during digestion Combined with the ACIDULATED LEMON SYRUP, It forms an Effervescing Aperient Draught, which is highly agreeable and efficacious. Prepared by DINNEFORD and Co., Dispensing Chemists (and .leneral Agents for the Improved Horse Hair Gloves and Belts), 172, New Bond-street, London, and sold by all respectable Chemists throughout the Empire. CANADA CLERGY RESERVES. Sir J. PAKINGTON asked Lord J. Russell whether he had consulted the law officers, or was otherwise pre pared to state the opinion of her Majesty's Government, whether, in the event of the Clergy Reserves (Canada) Bill, now before the house, being passed into a law; and the Legislature of Canada exercising the power that would be given to them to secularise the clergy reserves, the guarantee upon the Consolidated Fund, which is given to the Churches of England and Scotland in Upper Canada by section 8 of the Act 3 and Vic., c. 78, would still be in force, and would per manently secure to those Churches respectively the annual sums specified in the said section of the said act ? Lord J. RUSSELL said, with respect to the stipends which are now assigned and paid to the clergy of the Churches of England and Scotland, I know not that n undertake I r c ti believeoe intcer tainlyethat there will be any doubt as to the provisions of the bill. That clergy will stiil have a right by law to claim the stipends which are already assigned to them ; and pro vided the clergy reserves are not sufficient for their pay ment, then they will have a claim on the consolidated fund, as is given to them by the existing law. If the right hon. gentleman, however, wishes to ask further, whether, in the case of the clergy reserves being secu larised, any of the clergy who may be hereafter appoint . ed would have a claim on the consolidated fund, I have to say that that is a question on which the law officers of the Crown have not been consulted. Mr. BRIGHT wished to know whether in the nego tiations which had taken place with the Archbishop of Canterbury the contingency had been alluded to that possibly the clergy reserves might be secularised or alienised by the Canadian Parliament, and whether the Archbishop of Canterbury had given his assent to the measure on behalf of the Church of Scotland, which re pudiated bishops ? (Laughter.) Lord J. RUSSELL—I thought I had stated clearly to the house what took place on that occasion. Sir R. the ia Archbishop m Peel was the person who undertook the negotiations on the subject. I did not see the archbishop, nor had I any communication directly with him. The negotiati ons F were esoriarl dtcarried(i. Assembly—who not psecularisationoetoelnremember of of Canterburydi rectlycommunicatedCanterbury obafa w y nrye B i the drhsi such held not d certain R c :11 tdhe . h r g ito Peel,contingencyy referred to th em . Wi t h regar d t o th e other point, and the e n Archbishopntto answer for the Ch urc h o f Scotland ; but I b e li eve h e longing to that Chur c h—t o th e C omm i ss i oners of the G Church, and whose authority has not b een di sputed. e. d takerepresent not but i reserves.t parties a bsei be longing NATIONAL GALLERY. Mr. SEYMOUR wished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if the Government will give orders that until the select committee shall have reported to the house on the National Gallery, no cleaning of the pictures therein contained, except careful dry dUsthig, mi tted. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he would make inquiries into the subject, and give an answer on Monday. LYME ELECTION. In reply to Sir JOHN PAHINGTON, Mr. TUFNELL said it was not his intention to proceed with the motion of which he had given notice— viz., to move the issue of a new writ for the borough of Lyme. METROPOLITAN GRAVE-YARDS. Mr. SEYMOUR said according to the return pub lished by the Registrar General, it appeared that the deaths last week in the metropolis numbered 1,748, while in the corresponding week last year the number was 1,130, and therefore the mortality last week was 618 above the average of ten years, making due allowance for an increase in the population. He wished on that ac count to ask the Secretary of State for the Home De partment when the grave-yards and burial-places within the city and metropolis of London are to be finally closed, and what further steps have been taken to pro vide the means of extramural interment. Lord PALMERSTON could only repeat what he had already stated to the house, namely, that competent medical officers had been appointed to inspect all the graveyards in the metropolis. Many of the graveyards, upon their report, had been closed by an order in Coun cil, and he had no doubt that the same course would be pursued in reference to the others. With regard to making future arrangements for the burial of the dead, he apprehended that such arrangements must rest with the parishes concerned, but he thought the ground which had been recently purchased near Woking would be found amply sufficient to meet the demands of the metropolis for some time to come. NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Mr. F. SCULLY wished to ask Lord John Russell, whether any arrangements have been adopted to insure the sale of books intended for the use of the Irish Na tional Schools, to the promoters of schools and the pub lic, in an authentic form and at a moderate price. Lord J. RUSSELL replied in the affirmative. THE FUNDS. Mr. DISRAELI said the amended resolutions on the subject of the public funds had been placed. in his hands to-night ; and as there were numerous alterations in them, he should be glad to know if it was intended to take a vote upon them to-night, or only to have the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon them ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that would depend upon the house itself. It would be for the house to determine, after hearing his state ment, whether it would proceed at once to a vote or postpone it until next week. WEST INDIA MAIL. In reply to Mr. SPOONER, Sir J. GRAHAM stated that complaints from all the outports were daily pouring into the Admiralty of the irregularities which were constantly taking place in the dispatch and arrival of the West India mail. The West India Steam Packet Company were in receipt of 270,0001. for carrying the mails, and these irregularities were most unjustifiable, but the company insisted that as these i rreg ularities related to a point of time, they did not vitiate the contract, and the subject had been submitted to the law officers of the Crown. (Hear, hear.) THE NATIONAL DEBT. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the preliminary resolution, that the house resolve itself into a committee on the Consolidated Fund and National Debt Redemption Acts. On the motien of Lord JoIIN RUSSELL, Mr. Bouverie took the chair amid considerable cheering. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.—It is now my duty, sir, to explain to the committee, as well as I am able, the nature of the proposition which, on the part of her Majesty's Government, I have to make to them in re spect to the operations of the National Debt ; and the course which I think most convenient for the committee to take will be, that I should in the first instance state the plan which her Majesty's Government recommends for adoption, and that I should then put together, before I sit down such alterations as ha ve been made in t he draft resolutions since they were fir st distributed. Th o com mittee will then see both the p lan as it is, and the altera tions separate from the plan. I shall not commence thi s explanation by dwelling in any degree upon the import ance of the subject. I would rather, if I could, after viewing the amount of public interest which it has excited, endeavour to moderate such expectations as may have been formed in the public mind. Ido not recommend the proposition that is now before the committee as a proposi tion which can effect any sweeping or fundamental change, but I recommend it to them as a propositionwhich is just and prudent in itself, and which will probably lay the foundation for more extended improvements in future. The committee ought to understand that there is the broadest possible distinction between our position at the present time and the potition in which former finance ministers have stood whenthey have produced extensive operations of this kind. Every one of those operations between the peace and the year 1844, when they were ably wound up under the auspices of my right honourable friend the mem ber for the University of Cambridge, by a plan which was / it 7, ;.31. 852. agB. 1894 9217 2181 805 3063 6824 1852. s . 7. 70 of -heat 01(1; their is 3a od; fine, set* rime S to Ckl ; pd; 0 4(1