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COITNTRY COTTAGE for a PERMANENCY. tout" ' a stationas Z- 4, ITED, by Lady!day or Midsummer, on any of the tern branches. within twenty miles of Lonthm and fi th e re b e e n d f rooms. containing at least two god sitting and four or i v 11 4 ,„ ' With chalse-houre s uit,bl attached. An old-tat 'gone( hind"! ° c Par lu - house. - would and a small quantity of pasture iect e rP, able, though not essential. A retired titu stion not ob- With b artiut a dry; soil and good water indispensable. Address. '"1, P culars, to M. T. Y 33 B r ydges-street, Coven garden. . t Xl O 1\11) °n & SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. Prom POW TRAFFIC.—ESPECIAL NOTICE. f arts f ana of ter let JA NU A R Y, 1854, the existing THROUqII zari s a „,nr GO , als 'frame betwixt London and- Paris, and betwixt flood;',l, llclfi Channel islands; will be DISCONTINUED. a nd betty 'be 'be conveyed, as heretofore, betwixt London and Havre, rate , „ Ir t Havre and th e Ch an nel Islands, at reduced through or to j' o rti include all c h arges f rom th e Quay at Havre to• London, Iniu ra 'n:Ubannel Islands, the amount of Customs' Duty and Marine (1 0 4 ,, e41 excepted. W, ck„ 4 „ 1 1. 111 be conveyed b e t w i x t L on d o n and Havre three times a for '- " c " way, as heretofore. in L . Part i culars of thr ong h ra t eg , and all other informatio n, a pp l y POlit , ) . 1146 n. tO Mr. SIMKIN, 53, King William street, City; in k r . Ptn, to Mr. WATKINS, ;in Ilavre, to 5, Rue-de-la-Gaffe. Rath, (B order) ARCH D. SCOTT, Trade Manager. 4 Y - ninc y e, London, Dec. 24, 1853. • lr - 1 ( y 11 . ," v x AL DANISH RAILWAY.—First PiTt r i° 77o l7. IS lIEREI3Y GIVEN, That the lIILF-Y RLI .2 at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, to the 31st Decent i.,aya.ii; on the Capital paid upon the Shares of this Company, will ,itd atteri att, the C:lnraury's Offices, 84, King William-street, on "of Rh ar . the 2d January, 15,54. It is neeess.wy that the Certificates 'deli veri e s he left two eh:fir days for examination, &c ,'previously to I I the Warrants for the interest due. GEORGE. GRENIE LT. GLYN, Chairman. London pee. 15, 18 53.. C MOLI,ER, Secretary. °YAL DANISH RAII,WAY.—First Section. Her CALL of 31. per Share. making 121 paid.—Notice th e 24021 Given, That the Thizd.Call of 31. per Share will be due on Sh,„..„,"LuarY, 1854. at the--;,-.o,laers will be required to deposit their Certificates of Shares thent2tPlees of the Company, 54, King William-street, on and after a Call holitant, between the hours of Ten and Two o'clock, when tet ot etter will be delivered. Upon production of the Banker's Re- With t a : t he Offices of th e C ompany. th e C er tifi ca t e s will be returned, g hat e C all endorsed thereon as paid. )fiji b e e , t l ders are reminded th a t i n t eres t a t Oe rate of 5 per cent. urged on all Calls in arrear after the 2d January, 1854. GEORGE GRENFELL GLYN, Chairman. to C. Si JLLER, Secretary. Mori, 1 5th Dec., 1853. EAST INDIA_ CADETS receiving APPOlNT rilsheci"N-rs,on application to Messts. CIIRLAIII , T, will be int quantij'ith ESTIMATES, giving the entire cost of an outfit, with s td Rbas required for the routa via Egypt or the Cape.—street I'arti„ at hbonc, Manufacturing Outfitters, 11, Wigmore-street. waiteel upon with samples within one hundred miles of Lon ' 4' Mildred. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU RANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNIEUX., LONDON. Xotiee • December 27, 1853. th e c hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY INTEREST on Per . ky ( IA L STOCK of this Si) CIETY, a t the rate of 5 perCen the 10,',; m arn, due on the 31st Instant , w i ll b ecome PAYABLE on at t his " day ofJannary neat, a ficl Proprietors may receive the same Of tie's. e °Mee, o Th ree o'n that or an subsequent day, between the hours 1 and clock. th-, 1 Notice is hereby a:,:oelety will close on f i r Aber given, that the Transfer Books of —44, 7 next. the 30th instant, and open on the I 1 th By " 4 ar of the Court of Directors, W. S. B. WOOLHOUSE, Actuary. E - 14 4. NCAS II IRE INSURANCE COMPANY. beater, Lip, e r p oo l, Glacgow, Greenock and No. 2, King-street, Cheapside, London. Capital, Two Millions. TRUSTEES ' J'ames Cunliffa, Esq., Banker, London. •Arthur H. Heywood, Esq., Banker, Manchester. J.P. Brown Westhead, sq., M.P., London. DIRECTORS IN LONDON, John Cheetharn, Esq., ,M.P., Chairman. John James Saunders, Esq., Deputy-Chat . man. baviii 'ederick Clare, E": 1. Robt. Schofield, Esq. 11 ' , 411 . 4 ' , Ibvb. Esq. ans.EKl * Thomas Shepperson, Esq. uSydney gmirke, Esq, A.R.A. d.oui i lrimsdell, Es Henry Vyse, Esq. 311 tre James Wagstaff, Esq. LIFE DEPARTMENT. 1 0 'SER—EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits apportioned to rek,,,,,s+gured triennially, after the first five years, and applicable as Preferred at the time of elch valuat!on. No charge whatever for Stamps or Policies. FIRE DEPARTMENT. iff -4 ".5--FIFTY PER CENT. of the Profits apportioned to 7!ttred by annually, on offices Policies of throe years' standing, an advan -110 Tiered few . * be L lir st Year's Fire Duty, payable to Government, amounts to 4 . ,..":""ented sum of 11,308/., and the first year's Bonus and , rung - co near 8,0001. 1, 11 ti ..„ - stel ) a ,, e i e av§ons insured with this office whose Polbles expe at fittl ftheme,-„,'Tt4B 'ltre respectfully reminded that they should be renewed nsen days from that period: and those who desire to avail 44%4R1 elves of the advantages and security of the Lancashire Insur toftP any, incur no extra expense by the transfer of their lAMBS NORTIICOTT, Secretary to the London Board. " To be delivered at I When to be delivered -----------.. Gosport. Plymouth. Ilk _ -BDTS (Eletne Va- ,„., mtia, Chesm e , or ' any —"— Tons ' i One-half of each in o ther desoviption)..... 12 8 one month, and the 4 r4AR.... •••• •.•••• 60 53 remainder in ono 14 ~,,, lbs. month afterwards, l , Ongou)... ...... 20,000 . `,...... or • eviler if pre- Itu ACC° .. .... .„ .... To nl ss. Ton lo s. force tenderingd, by the party R AVESEND STA PACKETS. 70C u cr Packets call at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purfleet 0 Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitti FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. 8 tsK DAYS. ' SUNDAYS. = 4 .... .4 7 'erra„ '' t 4 a i of) , 4 :t .1 d 11 , 0 Bier. t t's 4 8 8 0 G) . N liq "012 11% —— 3 14, ._ 5 '',-......___ Saturdays only -- o ) lruct Trains from the Boats marked t l Unibuses from Fenchurch-street Station i ~erY quarter of an hour. all parts of London Itl iNSWlctic WHARF, BLACKWALL, on t lowing Trains from the renehurch-stri the arrival of the fol vet Station. DAYS. SUNDAYS. 'Si m , m om l. t• thurch ,__ 7 , _ t Fen- 87, B. 5 92 church 2., ureet. al tz street. 7'. 6 4 fal ' 1 8 4Z7 g x ' 3 4 - . 4 4 9L'i 12„ 1 Passages marked * are ri •un direct_ Fore Cabin. Saloon. ‘Q °T f rom Gravesend and L0nd0n.......... 10d. .. ls. 2d. It:: Gravesend and Blackwell or Woolwich Bd. .• Os. 10d. "'Peen Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. 80. BO AT TICKETS.—Tweive Months, sg. 03. ; Six Months, V. Os. ; N o r te Months, 2L Os. ; to he had of the Collectors on board the ; or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. No v ,17, 1853. trtITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. I, Princes-street, Bank, London. Established August 1, 1837. ralz.owered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Viet., cap. 9. Policies issued free of stamp duty. NOlpa DIRECTORS. ItOBERT ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park, Ca.LiamAß William Bardgett, Esq., 149, Fenchurch-street. George Bevingtnn, Esq., Neckinger Mills, Bermondsey. P. CockerP, Esq., Shadwell and Twickenham. • Q eorge Cohen. Esq., Shacklewell. 'Tullis Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street. John Drewett, Esq., 50, Cornhill. Erasmus Robert Foster, Esq., 1, Princes-street, Bank. S. Girdler, Esq., 7, Tokenbouse-yard. • L. Swale, Esq., Doctor's-commons. STANDING COUNSEL. R. Bellenden Ker, Esq., 8, Old-square, Lincoln's-inn. Messrs' Di'Leod and Stenntug, 16, London•street, Fenchurch-street. BANKERS. Dirnsdale, Drewett, Fowlers, and Barnard, 50, Cornhill. I. tgisl - aturP M arked testimony in favour of life assurance evinced by the^,id for - thZt u re in the exemption from income tax of the premiums ems 44" u oriellt of a surviving family, is deserving the most serious but abi," of all classes; not only on account et the actual saving, isYst e Z on account of the high estimation in which it provesthat the tio tin iu ry of life assurance generally is held by the Government of the ellr n i n e , re rlog Rates of Premium, especially useful to creditors for se }tar, .oans or Debts. Ar sur 'otniurns, only, required during first seven years. Pr ov r cos payable during Life. ion. during minority, for Orphans. BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. r oPowered by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. irteo_ll,ts, di vided annually. iialr-boloolt computed for every three Months' difference of age . urns computed on a new pl an p ec uliarly advantageous to der t th • made' l, gt Annual General Meeting a reduction of 30 per cent. was " 1 . the current year's premium on all participating policies. (11 " ) PRIET AM.) nalf Whole I Preconini prenolnru I'4 Nirzt tin Re- Reven mainder, Years. of Life Half Quar- Yearly terly Pre- Pre miuni. I mium ' a (LI 40 '> 9' 50 I 9 2 2 6 6 g £ s. 2 3 6 2 18 41 4 5 n: 6 13 41 (MtITUAL.) Age. I Annual . premuum Years. Months £ 8. d. s. d. 30 1 0 '2 7 3; 1 4 2 1 I 3 276; 1 441 6 2 7 101 1 4 6; 9 4 8 2; 1 4 8 £ s. d. O 12 3 O 12 4 0 12 5 0 12 6 E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDRI4W FRANCIS, Secretary. No. 19,114.] NOTICE.—VOLUME 111. OF THE CHEAP RE-ISSUE OF EVELYN'S DIARY vv AND CORRESPONDENCE , Will be ready with the Magazines, Dec. 31. To be completed in one more volume, price only 6s. bound. Published for Henry Colbnrn, by his successors Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. TIIE FIRST VOLUME Embellished with 14 Portraits. price 7s. (id. bound of the CHEAP EDITION_ of LIVES of the QUEENS of EXGLAND. , By AGNIi,'S STRICI(LAND. Will be published with the Magazines, Dec. 31. To be completed in't3 monthly volumes. Published for Henry Colburn, by his successors, Burst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. FERIODICALS FOR JANUARY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, No. CCCCLIX. Price 2s. 6,1. CONTENTS. A Painter in Perfia. The Quiet Heart. Part 11. Dives. The English at Home—By a Frenchman Abroad. The Past and Future of China. The Last Fruit off an Old Tree. The Beverages we Infuse. The Aberdeen Cabinet. 11. EIHE JOURNAL of AGRICULTURE and the TRANSACTIONS of the HIGHLAND and AGRICUL TURAL SOCIETY of SCOTLAND. No. XLIII., price 35,, corn prising an account of " Bell's Reaping-Machine," by the Inventor, tlie Rev. P. Bell, with Engravings. PROFESSOR JOHNSTON'S OILEMISTRY OF COMNIOICTIFICr-- No. 11., price Sixpence, contains — THE SOIL WE CULTIVATE. THE PLANT WE REAR. PEOPLE'S EDITION. A LISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE. Part IX. Price One Shilling. Vol. 111., price Four Shillings in cloth. To be completed in 44 Parts, forming 12 vole. CHEAP EDITION. ORKS OF SAMUEL WARREN. Part V.; price One Shilling. • • Vol. T., price 6d. in cloth, containing THE DIARY OF A LATE PHYSICIAN complete. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen, and at the Railway sta tions. ACTON'S COOKERY BOOK. The Twelfth Edition, in fcp. Bvo, price 7s. ILIZA ACTON'S MODERN COOKERY reduced to a System of Easy Practice: With Directions for Carving. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, This day, foolscap octavo, 2s. 63. cloth, Vol. T. of the pOETIdAL W ORKS of JOIN DRYDEN, with Historical . and Illustrative Notes and Biographical Memoir, containing New Facts and several Original Letters of the Poet, now published for the first time, being the commeacement of A NEW AND ANNOT&TED EDITION OF THE ENGLISH POETS, by ROBERT BELL. To be continued in Monthly Volumes, 2s. Gd. each, in cloth. London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. CHANGE IN TIME OF PUBLICATION. . riSHE BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. XXXVIL, price 65., will be published on the 2d JANUARY. CONTENTS: -- I. Niebuhr. 2. Modern Syria. 3. Recent Scientific Ballooning. 4. Coleridge as a Theologian. 5. Trades' Unions and Strikes. 6. Memoir of Dr. rye Smith. 7. Dante's "Beatrice." 8. French Literature under the Restoration. 9. The War—its Seat ,nd its Prospects. 10. Our Epilogue on Affairs and Books. London : Jackson and Walford, 18, St. Paul's Churchyard ; and Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers' hall-court. F RASER'S MAGAZINE for JANUARY, Price 2s. 6d., or by post 35., contains— The Birth of the Year. By Frederick Tennyson. The Decline and Fall of the Corporation of London.—l. The Con stitution. Dr. VOron's Memoirs. General Bounce; or. The Lady and the Locusts. By the Author of " Dishy Grand." Chaps. I. and IL Lord Palmerston and the Presbytery of Edinburgh. The Freight of the Jacobina. A Visit to the Hospital for Sick Children. The Principle of the Grecian Mythology ; or, How the Greeks made their Gods. Young Germany. Cambridge Lite according to C. A. Bristed. With Notes by P. Jenkinson. Gallinaceana. A Few Words on Irish Antiquities. Derby ism. London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. MINING. The ANNUAL REVIEW of MINING OPERATIONS during 1853, (Including the GOLD DISpOVERIEs), will appear in the " MINLNGPJOURNAL" of Saturday next.—To be had at the " Mining Journal" °Mee, 26, Fleet-street, London. and of all booksellers and newsmen, price Six pence. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. R OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PATRON—II.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. FIRST EXHIBITION of PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES MAGNI FIED about 40,000 times on the Disc, with an ENTIRELY NEW SERIES of DISSOLVING VIEWS. LECTURES by Dr. BACROFFNER on WILKINS'S NEW PATENT UNIVERSAL ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. LECTURE by J. H. PEPPER, Esq., on SPONTANEOUS COMBUS TION, with Brilliant Experiments. An HISTORICAL and MUSICAL LECTURE, illustrated with DISSOLVING :CENERY, entitled " The ROAD, the RIVER, and the RAIL," by J. E. CARPENTER, Esq., assisted by Miss Blanche Young°, 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. DELETERIOUS CON FECTIONARY.—Many children hag been poisoned by eating the ornaments of twelfth cakes, in cotiWequence of the general use of mineral colours by confectioners, Messrs. PURSSELL, 78, Cornhill, near the Ex change, have introduced an entirely novel method of DECORATING their CAKES with FRENCH RON EONS, &c., of delicious flavour ; the colours, being prepared solely from vegetables, are quite harmless. Ornamented cakes of every variety, suitable for country present*, new year's gifts, &c. A great variety of fancy French and Swiss pastry, mince pies, &c.—Messrs. Parnell, 78, Cornhill, near the Ex change only. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. U and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE ILA SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and al. Boast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game. Soup. Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily useof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe guard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street, London, and 68. Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer chants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the naraes of "LEA and PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. FRAMPTON'S PILL of HEALTH. The following testimonia, is another proof of the great efficacy of this medicine : " Winchmore Hill, Middlesex, April 16, 1851. "Sir,—ln consideration of the great benefit I have derived from taking Frampton's Pill of Health, I feel it a duty that I owe to you and the public to send you the following statement. For upwards of nine years I have experienced the efficacy of this excellent medicine. I had long previously been afflicted with headache and indigestion, but a friend having induced me to make a trial of Frampton's Pills, I now inform you that a few doses gave me great relief; and during this long period of time I have taken them in preference to any other medicine ; and I have the happiness of saying that I never had a better state of health, which I attribute to Frampton's Pills. I beg further to add, that this medicine is in general use by my family, and we know of nothing to equal it. " I am, Sir, yours respectfully, THOMAS PROVINCE. " To Mr. T. Prout, 229, Strand, London. This excellent Family Pill is a medicine of long-tried efficacy for correcting all disorders of the stomach and bowels, and is a pleasant, safe, easy aperient ; they unite he recommendation of a mild operation with the most successful effect, and require no re straint of diet or confinement daring their nse. Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the name and address of " Thomas Front, 229, Strand, London,"on the Government Stamp. Price is. I d. and 2s. 9d. ner box. AMERRY CHRISTMAS and CHRISTMAS FEsTIVITIES.—Good cheer, smiling faces, warm-hearted wishes, visits, balls, amusements, everything pleasing—variety tri umphing over monotony, pushing the dull system of things entirely out of prectice, and helping every one to be merry and cheerful. All observers of the preparations made for Christmas festivities by E. MOSES and Sox will easily understand how this is accomplished. There is not anything more necessary to cheerfulness than first-rAto Attire, and hat presented by E. Moses and fon exhibits grdater ex cellence and variety than on any previous season. For the festive season E. Moses and Son have 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 into the most mag nificent attire ever witnessed. Juvenile Attire is rendered universally attractive by new modes of cutting, making, and Trimming; many new styles are introduced as distinguished or fashion and comfort, as the Goods are for Durability and economy. The New Stock in the Ladies Dress Department comprehends all the Novelties 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 and cheapest articles of Dress to all classes, they wish their Frien‘hi, Patrons, arid th 9 Public " A Merry Christmas." CAUTION.—E. MOsES and SON regret having to guard the pu'Alc against irnposition,having learned that the untradesrnan-rike taliohood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and ior obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OS OUT Or LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Mineries, 83, 34, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506.507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1, 2 and 3, Bart-street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. Ilheflleld Branch, 36, Fargate. Colonial Branch, M.lbouine, Australia. Merchant Tao. , Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoo Makers, and General Oatiltters 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 he made. The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on Saturdays, whets business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, "The Epitome of Comfort and Economy," contain ing full lists of prices, our system of self-measurement, &c., &c., may be had on application, or post-free. Ini Pon pule Francais. Qui si parla Italian. uier *tight nula Deutsch. . AQUA habli Eilmo \ lx, ~,,. 4*, r ./77 rr ;., / An J [PRICE SD. , . . ' "roi, ' ' - • •' ' v * 740:,,,, ~• ~,,,,, 5.--- .4: • ' _5.0..L.,•„,,-,_., \ : q ,, ..., -• .. 044 *.. , ---%.\ ''.7 - . '''' '''. ' e . ' " . ' , 4 .'S 4.4 nt : :: , 4 1 ,.e. • . Nt" fi n ` ' ' 4 % 4.... . e ~,,,, „..,,,,,, __ ___-_—, . ~,i Af*, ~, .1,4--- - .\,- , , _, , , ttr...„- =;•.„ a ---- ' - , 4,0 "" 4. 4 ,.. ,_-, FJ #4 / 4 t z • 41.:, 1 ' • 00 ft.,: ,1 'A EZ. f i t qt ,• 11 1., 0... - ' • ',.. k . ' 7 7. z j , i,' 'r /- )N_ _ • II Di l' ls t wit 1. in 11, IV ''. 'fir;. .-i.: 4 "‘ OIT ' ' e . LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1853. ARCTIC REGIONS.—GREAT GLOBE, Lei cater-Equare.— A Collection of Dresses, Arms, and Imple ments of the Tuski Esqnimanx and the North Pole, collected by Captain Inglefleld, Liettt. Hooper, and in the Exploring Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin and the North-West Passage. Mr. WYLD'S. MODEL of the ARCM REGIONS. Geographical Lec tures every hour from 10 till 10. Admission, Is. ; Chi dren and Schools half-price. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE ROOMS, (Lessee, CHAS. C. LAURENT, 011SIOW-horse, Fn,sam•read), • —The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE . SEASON. and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S CELEBRATED BAND. Admission,' Is. Doors open at half-past 8 ; Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and ter .Inate at half-past 11. CHRISTNIAS WEEK. • • 3TR. ALBERT SMITH will give his ASCENT X of MONT BLAND TO-NIG(IT (WEDNESDAY); and EVERY EVENING (except Satunlay) at Two and Eight °Tina, during the waek. Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. J . XPORTERS to . AUSTRALIA, EAST IN DIES, CAPE, &c.—Genuine YARMOUTH BLON VERS.— For terms apply to TIMMAS LErris, Fish Merchant, Great Yarmouth. TKINSON and COMPANY, CABINET MASUFACTURERg, UPHOLSTERERS, and CARPET WAREHOUSEMEN, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster bridge-road, Lambeth, London. ATKINSON and COMPANY, DRAPERS, SILK MtRCERS, LACEMEN, &c., 69. 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster-bridge-road, Lambeth, London.—Shawls, Furs, Mantles, Family Mourning. &c. WIVE THOUSAND Fresh, Large, and Fat TURKEYS, GEESE, FOWLS, and OSTEND RABBITS, which arrived too late for sale on Saturday last, will be cleared off daily without any reserve by THURSDAY next, by GEORGE and EDWARD BROOKE, Salesman, Leadenhall-market. DO YOU BRUISE YOUR OATS YET? NEW OAT CRUSHERS, 21.155. 6d. and 41. ss. bd.; CHAFF CUTTERS, 1/. 7s. 6d. and 2/. 19s. 6d, ; MANGLES, 21. 10s. 6d.; FLOUR MILLS, 41. 10s. 6d. MARY WEDLAKE and CO., 118, Fenchurch-street. 1 1 0 the CHARITABLE.—Members of Societies and others, now preparing their customary gifts to the Foor at this inclement season, are advised that F LA NNE LS, BLANKETS, and all similar materials, calculated to give not merely an empty appearance, but the actual warmth and usefulness intended by benevolent donors; such are SELLING OFF at a great reduction from their actual value, in consequence of the recent dissolution of Partnership, at Warwick House, 142 and 144, Regent-street. CRTSTMAS GIFTS.—It is truly . said that few things form a more welcome Present than an elegant SFIAWL, a Mantle, or Silk Dress, than can now be obtained at half their real value, owing to the Retirement of Mr. Merrett, and the necessity for an immediate SELLING OFF. Every article is marked In plain figures, and will fully sutlain the high reputation enjoyed (luring a quarter of a century by Warwick House, 142 and 144, Regent-street, London. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS, For Orphans and Necessitous Children, Wanstead. PRESIDENT -JOHN MASTERMAN, Esq., M.P. - A GENERAL COURT of the Governors of this Institution was held at the London Tavern, this day (Wednesday), the 28th inst., GEORGE MOORE, Esq., in the chair; At which an Election of 12 children for admission into the schools took place. At the close of the poll, the result was declared as fol lows: BOYS. A Morley, Henry .. • • •• •• 3,094 , Bowden, Thomas Alfred.. 1,3801 Cane, Frederick William.. 1,7591 Ewins, Charles Henry.• • • *3,7191 Fox, .... • ... • • *4,148 Hopkins, James...... • • 3,607 Howell, Richard Adolphus *4,002 Keene, George Henry.... 1,8 5 1 Kempsten, Robert.. • • .... *3,610 WKibbin, James ........ ►4,800 Mee, George Edward .... 2,362 Phillips, Henry 150 Sternberg, James Rober t.. 1,741 Swindell, Charles ........ 1,373 Stockdale, James *3,985 Travis, G. Robert .... • *7,142 Tweddle, Launcelot Marshall 408 Williams, Robert Haworth *3,807 GIRLS. I Bradbury, 'slainlla Frances *3,322 Murray, Henrietta .... • • 1,706 Cockerton, Ann •. ...... .. 1,729 Patten, Je,ssi‘... ...... ... 496 Cooper, Mary Helen.. •.. • *2,964 Taylor, Caroline King.... 846 Davis, Catherine ........*4,178 1 Wilcox, Fanny Emily •• .. 2,265 Ilextall, Elizabeth Adelaide *4 , 4 6s I THOMAS SALT and CO., EAST INDIA PALE ALE BREWERS, BURTON-ON-TRENT. STORES. London • • • .. 22, Hungerford-wharf. Liverpool ...... • •• 52, Henry-street. Manchester •• ........ 37, Brown-street. Birmingham Bristol •• ........ Back Hall, Baldwin-street. Nottingham .. • • .. •• .. 14, Milton• street. Dublin •• •• •-•• .. 4, Crown-alley. Edinburgh .•......... 17, Downie•place. Dundee •• • • .... • • .... 13, New Inn Entry, High-street. 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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 iuced 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 once 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 Unfruitful Marri ages, Impetency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their endless modifications owe their almost entire origin. 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In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply revrarded by the great 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 oftheir 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 11., and advice and medicines can he forwarded to any initials or address. It is desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MERT hould first obtain a copy of his work on SELF.PRESERSATIOTT 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. 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A Bonus of Six per Cent. has been declared onvall Shares which were unallotted for the first financial year ending the 29th of Sep tember, 1853. No Shares issued until the first payment thereon has been re ceived at the office. The taking or lots on estates is quite optional. Prospectuses, Rules, Plans of Estates, the Annual Report of the Board of Directors, and the Audited Statement of Accounts, to be had of the Secretary. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, gant barbarians who shiver in their palaces on the Neva, under the cold and cloudy skies of the north, • may well kindle, when they hear or read of the sunny slopes, the pleasant glades, the balmy breezes, the calm eternal blue of the waters, which make the sail from the Sea of Marmora to Thorapia a succession of delights. But let us hope that no plots against human liberty and peace will ever again be hatched in scenes so blessed by na ture, and that the fleets and armies of tyrants will never again issue from the Hellespont on a crusade against the dearest interests of mankind. We found the fleets moored in Beikos Bay, the English squadron 'close to the southern shore and the French farther out. The Turkish ships lay on the other side of the strait. The coup-d'wil was magnificent •' but the sight of such tremend ous might slumbering there, when so much wrong and mischief was being enacted a few miles away, was to me anything but a pleasing one. The Rus sians are carrying their ravages to the very mouth of the Bosphorus, when two English first-rates would make their flag invisible for long enough to come, at ]east in those waters. Our anticipations regarding the Black Sea proved only too well founded. After getting out a few miles we found the sea running very high, the sky black enough in all conscience to keep the sea in countenance, and our captain's face very long indeed. So, as we expected, we put about, and, running hack into the Strait, came to anchor under one of the forts. We had no sooner done so than the Fury steamer passed us at full speed, followed by a French one, bound, as we have since learned, for Varna. We did not pro ceed on our way until noon on the following day, and on Monday about noon, after a deal to do, reached Burgas, a small village, possessing a very good harbour, and a small trade with Con stantinople. At the entrance to the port on a narrow rock, some distance from the shore, stands a Greek convent. A more lonely and desolate abode can hardly be imagined—lonely and desolate enough, onewould imagine, to satisfy the most thorough going anchorite. I have been struck by the total want amongst the Greek monks of that eye for the picturesque, that love for pleasant, shady, or romantic abodes, for which the holy men of western Europe were in old times so remarkable. Barren rocks, difficult of access, track less wastes, or lonely dens of various kinds, in hich no delights for the senses were to be found, are the places in which the Greek recluses mostly sought to expiate their offences. There are no Melroses or Mucrosses amongst the abbeys and convents of the east. Even Mount Athos has little to recommend it in the way of scenery. The Greek love of nature did not follow them into the church. Somewhere near Varna, in some bay or creek, whose name I neither know or care to know, our valorous captain anchored in the night after leaving Burgas, so as not to arrive at Varna before daylight, all earance to the port in the dark being prohibited since the commencement of the war. I was inclined to excuse his caution after I had seen his engine. I walked forward one day, and in sheer listlessness occu pied myself for a few minutes in looking down into the engine-room. I was amused to find that this speci men of the great "power" of modern times was mended in two places with cord. lam not enough of a mecha nician to designate properly the parts which were thus fortified ; but in one case the shaft appeared strongly lashed, as if it had been spliced : whatever may have been the nature of the repair I can vouch for the fact itself. This discovery was, of course, not calculated to increase our comfort ; and when to all this you add general want of accommodation of every sort, exorbi tant charges, and a rate of exchange lower by 20 piastres in the Turkish Medja than at Constantinople, you will have a tolerably accurate notion of voyaging in the Black Sea at present by the 'Austrian Lloyds steamer — always remembering that the cold was intense, with high northerly winds. We have met with a most hospitable reception here, under the roof of Col, Neple, the British COnsul, whose houss happens to be the only one in the town open to strangers, excepting the khan, a bare room, to which the outer air has always easy access through innumerable crannies—the domestic manners of the Turks not per mitting the admission of men of any nation into their households. His kindness has, during the past autumn, been put to a very severe test, in consequence of the great number of English travellers who have passed and repassed on their way to and from Shumla, and all of whom coved more or less of the comforts of their journey to his assistance. His spirit of practical benevolence was displayed in a still more remarkable, and even more praiseworthy, manner towards the Polish and Hungarian exiles, who sought refuge on the right bank of the Danube in 1849. Many of them have spokenito me of his - conduct towards them in terms ex pressive of the warmest gratitude—deeply felt, I have no doubt, not only towards him, but through him to wards the nation he represents. These little acts of charity performed by British agents in far-off corners of the world towards men who, God help them, have no country and no home, will I am sure prove rich in bles sing to England one day when the rotten despotisms of the world are scattered to the wind, and the outcasts of to-day become the statesmen of a new and better era. In connexion with the affair at Sinope described in my last, I may mention that the French admiral some days ago, on learning from the Capitan Pacha that a detachment of his fleet was lying at Sinope. expressed his surprise that it should be allowed to remain in so exposed a situation. Two days afterwards, when the above news arrived, the Capitan Pacha sent to Admiral Hamelin to know whether he had had any previous knowledge of what had occurred, thus unconsciously paying a very high tribute to the foresight of the latter. A Russian war-steamer came in here on the 6th ult. with topgallant sails set, and showing no colours. As she kept her bows towards the batteries, it was sup posed she was a sailing vessel, till, on arriving right opposite the town, she wheeled completely round, and thus showed her funnels. The British consul, who was standing in front of his house, at once perceived her real character, and informed the authorities, who were quite taken by surprise. She got off, under full steam, before there was time to give her a suitable reception, for which, it appears, she was fully prepared, as she had her guns loaded and matches lighted. The object of her visit seems to have been to ascertain whether any vessels of war, foreign or otherwise, were lying in the harbour. Ever since this, great vigilance has been shown by the military Pacha of Varna, lest any similar event should take place. Everything is in constant readiness at the various batteries to bring the whole available force on the seaside into instant action. Varna has often played a prominent part in the military history of the Turks, particularly in the war of 1828, when it was taken by the Russians, owing to the treachery of the Pacha, after a siege of four months, and the fortifications totally destroyed. They were restored completely three years after by European officers, and are at pre sent four times stronger, both in extent and in the number of guns in position. The defences are much larger, and the guns number two hundred, nearly all of English make, and mostly sixty-eight pounders, none being of less calibre than forty-eight pounds. These are distributed over eleven batteries, and do not include those mounted on the outworks along the harbour. The latter are four in number, besides two batteries at Cape Galata, at the entrance f the bay, which command the whole anchorage, and could, in conjunction with some of the town batteries, sweep it with a tremendous cross fire, besides which, one of them is so elevated as to be out of the reach of ship's guns. The total number of guns in the outworks is twenty-five. In the hands of Turkish soldiers I need hardly say that these masses of artillery would render a repetition of the event of 1828, by the Russians at least, all but impossible. A distin guished English officer of engineers, who passed through here a short time ago, expressed great admiration of the whole of the defences. The town is also surrounded by a wall and ditch, the former pierced with loopholes for musketry. It would of course be of little use against artillery, and perhaps not of much use anywhere except next the sea. The beach is too small for the landing of a large body of troops, as they would not have room to form, and a small one would of course be destroyed by musketry alone, as soon as they left the boats. General Prim and his staff have left Schumia for the winter, and many of the troops are going into winter quarters in the large towns. Omer Pacha does not in tend, I believe, to attempt any fresh operations before spring ; but it is thought by no means improbable that the Russians may attack his position at Kalafat as soon as the frost sets in hard. They are greatly chagrined b n their es d re g e n f; sent at , whot into exile. n e d xe m t e is m z e tßn y du e n te dw rumoured er force at remember o G bi et e re n h e t i r ht a az l at , D h he a an s - one of the best generals in the service, it is hard to attach eir numb ers i n the affair much l e h e o r e u d l d e n m c e e t n o t i t o h n e r t h e p a o t r t th of the 4th at Oltenitza have been grelt Eativye firearms, unTderrated. hismi n u f s a t n h e y a v i e s reached r a w t i l t e h a s t t h l e s u , ofoeoeo. good marksmen. Thi s was th e fi rst time that nearly all, except where some physical defectms'.aexists, u t h r k en dr f r n o r m e in fantry have been seen under fire since the European system of training came fully into operation, and the result has excited the a d m i rat i on of all the foreign offi cers present. Perfect steadiness, perfect silenc e, and thorough devotion to th e terr ib le work before them, prevailed throughout. Of the artillery it is needless to speak. The only arm in which they are deficient is the cavalry ; and I have no doubt that Omer Pasha's exer tions will at last bring this up to as high a standard as any of the others. BANKRUPTCY.—A petition in bankruptcy against Wm. Bernard Anderson, of Billiter-street, Leadenhall street, general merchant, has been opened before Mr. Commissioner Fane. The bankrupt is the person of that name whose case has been recently before the Mansion-house Police•court, and his debts are said to be about 120,0001. It is further stated that the assets are large, notwithstanding some reports to the contrary. ROBBERY OF BIRDS FROM ST. JAMES'S PARE.-- Three white birds and one black one have been stolen from the ornamental heater in St. James's Park, the property of the Ornithological Society. The society have issued a notice offering a reward of 51. for the cap ture and conviction of the party guilty of this impudent robbery of fowl from the park waters. OYSTERS-TO EPIC (TRES. {) EENBOEOIIG R - and FAVERSHAM • NATIVE OYSTERS. T)ie most acceptable Present at this season of the year is a Barre of the best NATIVE OYSTERS, which are to be obtained at SCOTT'S Celebrated OYSTER WAREHOUSE, 18, Coventry.street, Piccadilly, at ss. 6d.per Barrel, warranted to weigh 141bs. ie successful candidates. ALFRED .LINCH SAUL, Sec. 853. Those marked • are thi Offices, RI, Cheapside, Dec. 28, 1 B AKER'S OVENS. Mr. JOEIN LEE STEVENS, 1, Fish-street-hill. sir,—l ani entirely satisfied with your PATENT SMOKELESS OVEN ORATE, put np by Mr. BURTENSHAW, of Southwark bridge-road. in one of my ovens on these premises, and doubt not of having_tbe invention adapted throughout my bakeries as convenient opporfflnlttes occur. _ _ Besides subduing the smoke, it gives a quicker and better heating to the oven than before, with a saving in coals of one-third ; and, what is of more consequence to me, it leaves the oven free from soot, which is otherwise so liable to spoil confectionery in the process of baking. And I am, sir, yours truly, 20, Ludgate-bill, Dec. 27, 1853. JOHN R. PURSSELL. 4, LEADENHALL-STREET, London, near the India House. England has always been renowned for its hearty Christmas libe rality, while " Le Jour de l'an" of our lively neighbours the French is equally consecrated to the gifts of affection. MECHI invites a visit from the natives of all countries to his emporium, where they may be sure of putting their kind intentions into an acceptable shape. In his Elegant Show-Rooms are displayed to the greatest ad vantage, a superb stock of Ladles' and Gentlemen's dressing cases, work-boxes, tea-trays, work-tables, chess-tables, tea-caddies, card-cases, &c. Those who desire to make really useful pre sents will find in the general department the best table cutlery, scis sors, thimbles, penknives, writing-desks, ivory and other hair brushes and combs, and a variety of goods adapted to every exigency. Also bagatelle-tables, affording a charming amusement on a wintry or wet day. 4, Leacienhall-street, London. LETTER FROM THE BLACK SEA. The following is from the special correspondent of the Daily .News, dated Varna, Dec. 8 I arrived here on Wednesday, by one of the Austrian Lloyds' steamers, after a most tedious and vexatious passage of nearly five days from Constan tinople. The distance is about 172 miles (English), and a boat of ordinary powers ought to be able to accomplish it in eighteen hours. Previous to the outbreak of the war there were Turkish boats on this line, which ran two or three times a-week both ways ; and, owing to their regularity, and, above all, to the civility and attention with which the passengers on board of them were treated, they left the Lloyds' boats with very little .to do. They have, however, ceased running within the last three or four weeks, as one of them was captured not long ago by a Russian frigate. The Austrians now have the route all to themselves ; and accord ingly, manage matters in a manner quite charac teristic of the nation. I had made arrangements to leave Constantinople for the Danube on the 29th ult., in company with an English officer, who is about to pass the winter at Schumla en amateur, by the boat which is advertised to sail regularly every Tuesday. To make sure, we called at the office to inquire, and were told by the agent that the steamer would start as usual. The day arrived, and brimful of blissful confidence we put ourselves in marching order, and proceeded to the Custom-house with our baggage, to have it examined previous to embarka tion various articles of home manufacture, such as chibouks, saddlery, &c., being in Turkey liable to a small export duty. This troublesome ceremonial over, we got into a boat, and commenced to cruise about the harbour in search of the steam-boat for Varna. Therer were plenty of Austrian ones at anchor, but neither flag nor smoke gave sign that any of them had the smallest intention of going anywhere. We hailed them all, but the crews not only denied that they were about to sail for Varna but seemed rather doubtful whether there was such a place at all, and whether we'were not a couple of eccentric Englishmen whom " the natives " were gulling. There was nothing for it but to return to the office, where we gave vent to our indigna tion, rather to take the load off our hearts than in the hope of producing any effect upon the obdurate official, who heard us with a face calm and impas sible as that of a SphinX'. As soon as we had done he informed us that they had two boats missing on the Danube, which was the cause of our disappoint ment, but that if neither of them arrived that day (Tuesday), they would send an extraordinary boat on the Thursday following. We waited accord ingly, and on Wednesday evening went down to inquire once more regarding the " extraordinary boat," but then learned, to our astonishment, that the despatch of such a boat was not one of the measures contemplated by the " administration," and we were moreover unable to ascertain whether the Steam Navigation Company of the Austrian Lloyds would ever again send another vessel to Varna in the whole course of that distinguished body's existence. We started off directly to the Porte, and applied for firmans to enable us to travel overland on horseback by Adrianople—a ride of at least ten days—no very pleasant prospect in the present state of the roads, and with heavy snow in the Balkan, and the ther mometer down very near zero in Constantinople. We were promised them at the same hour on the following day. Thence we proceeded to the post office, and arranged for horses, a Tatar, and a Swindji or postilion, all necessary but expensive items in our equipment, reserving to ourselves the right of countermanding the order within 24 hours if we thought proper. On the Thursday, when walking over for the firmans, we called in at the Austrian Lloyds' office—more from curiosity than any other motive, as rumours were afloat that they had received a hint from their Government, in the interest of Russia, to break off the commu nication by sea between Constantinople and Varna —to inquire whether they had received any news of their missing boats. No, they had not, but had made up their minds in any case to send one on , the Saturday. Seeing an incredulous smile on our faces the functionary waxed warm, became slightly imperious, and • swore and protested in the most solemn manner that the boat would positively sail on the day he mentioned. Thinking there might be some truth in his statement, and being un willing to impute deliberate perjury to a man of whom we knew nothing, we determined to wait once more, and accordingly countermanded the horses. On the Saturday we started from the hotel with our baggage again, but this time took the precaution to call again at the office on our way down. No boat till the morrow ; the weather on the previous day was really so stormy, and. the "mer si grosse," that it was impossible to put the cargo on board. As all this was undenia able, we remained silent and patient, and meekly took our places at the table-d'hôte once more in the evening, to the great amusement of those of our fellow travellers who were aware of our two abor tive attempts at getting away. _ _ _ On the Sunday we made a third and last trial, and this time were partially successful. I say " partially," because, though we got on board, and were made certain, humanly speaking, of reaching to the mouth of the Bosphorus that night, we heard such terrible moaning and g roaning amongst the captain and officers over the horrors of Black Sea navigation, that getting out of the Bosphorus seemed to be a feat which we could only hope to accomplish after many efforts and great and sus tained exertion. We resigned ourselves to our fate, and to the contemplation of the glories 'of the scenery around us, as we slowly passed up the strait. I am not about to describe it, or attempt to describe it, lest it should be found that I was the one hun dred thousandth individual who had done so ; but I may remark that, in gazing on Constantinople, it was not .hard to understand why a rapacious and ambitious man, like the Czar, backed up by a sensual and luxury-loving nobility, should be ready to fling away the lives of a few thousands of serfs, if only in the hope of - advancing one day's march nearer to so splendid a prize. The imagination of the ele- OANADA.- -DESPATCH OF LORD ELGIN. COPY OF A DESPATCH FROM THE EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. Government House, Quebec, Aug. 16, 1853. (No. 58.) (Received Sept. 5, 1853.) My LORD DUKE,—I have the honour to transmit herewith the Blue Book for 1852, together with two printed volumes, containing respectively the public ac counts of the province, and tables of its trade and navi gation for the same year. 2. In my despatch to Sir John Pakington, No. 116, of the 22d December, 1852, which accompanied the Blue Book for 1851, I endeavoured to submit as detailed and accura.te a representation of the then state and prospects of the colony, and the bearing of recent legi:lation, both imperial and provincial, on its material and moral in terests, as in a document of that character it was pos sible to furnish ; it is-not necessary, therefore, that I should on the present occasion go over the same ground . agr an. I ha ve on l y t o i nqu i re how far the experience of :mother year inay have modified conclusions previously arrived at. 3. The value of imports into Canada for the year end ing the sth January, 1853, is stated at 4,168,457/. Bs. sd. against 4,404,409 Os. 3d. for the year immediately pre ceding. Here th en i s a falling off, though to no great amount, into the causes of which it may be proper to inquire. 4. It will appear, on a close examination of the returns which accompany this despatch, that a considerable por tion of the falling off in question has taken place in goods which are classed as free goods, the total value of goods imported under this head in 1851 having been 372,058/. lls. 10d., and in 1852 256,407/. 16s. Bd. Among the goods comprised in this category, of which there has been in 1852 a diminished im portation, are military stores, wheat, to the large importation of which from the United States i n 1851, I called special attention, in the second paragraph of my dispatch to Sir John Pakington, No. 116, of the 22nd December last, and coin and bullion, which represent in the imports of 1851 the sum of 90,3971. 2s. Bd., but are altogether omitted from the re turns of 1852. This circumstance may in some mea sure account for the fact, that the diminished importa tion for the year has not been accompanied by a corres ponding diminution in the revenue for customs, the said revenue having been-.-- For 1851 For 1852 . £. s. d. Gross 606,114 5 2 Net 577,15S 15 8 Gross 607,613 18 11 Net . 5. As respects dutiable articles, there appears to have been a falling off in cotton goods, which were imported in 1851 to the value of 802,4921. 15s. 11d., and in 1852 to the value of 636,3211. 17s. Bd. Of woollens, linens, and many other' manufactures, there was, on the other hand, an increase in the latter year over the former ; but on the whole I am inclined to believe that importing merchants looking to the great and rapid increase that had recently taken place in the aggregate amount of the annual imports which had risen from the value of 2,468,130/. Os. 9d., in 1849, to the value of 4,404,4091. Os. 2d., into 1851, conducted their operations with espe cial caution during 1852. 6. With the view, however, of ascertaining whether or not the check which had been given in 1852 to the rapidly progressive increase of Canadian imports was due to causes which were likely to be permanent, I have caused returns to be prepared, showing the comparative amount and value of the importations during the first six months of 1852 and 1853 respectively. It appears from these returns that the imports into the province during the six months ending. the sth of July, 1852, amounted in value to 1,782,4641. 13s. 11d., and during the six months ending the sth of July, 1853, to 2,811,970/. 10s. id., showing an increase of about 50 per cent. in the latter period over the former. I may observe further, that the importation of articles paying an ad valorem duty of twelve and a half per cent., which includes cotton and other manufactures, has increased from 1,199,0961. 19s. 2d. in the first six months of 1852, to 1,910,0551. 17s. 3d. during the same period of 1853. 7. The exports for the year 1852 exceeded those of the year preceding. Total value of exports during 1852 :-- From sea ports From inland ports 1,285,923 15 4 2,888,214 0 0 Against 2,663,083 14 4 or 1851. Or, with the addition in either case of 20 per cent. to the valuation of exports from the inland ports, in order to approximate to the actual values. Grand total of exports in 1852 1851 £3,145,09814 3 2,837,785 9 11 8. In this statement of exports the value of the ships built at Quebec in each of the years in question is in cluded. It is estimated for 1851 at 1852 at The estimate for the former year being thus considerably in excess of that for the latter. It may be proper, how ever, to mention that from information I have received I have reason to know that the returns for the current year, when completed will show a great increase in ship building at the port of Quebec for 1853 over 1852. 9. The returns herewith transmitted give the follow ing statement of the commerce of Canada, with the un dermentioned countries for the year 1852 : Exports. Imports. Great Britain... £1,388,495 5 8 £2,192,698 6 7 N. A. Colonies 166,877 18 4 93,826 3 9 B. W. Indies... 2,867 15 8 1,050 19 8 United States... 1,201,340 1 8 1,743,991 15 4 Other Countries 38,731 18 2 133,890 0 9 As regards the commerce with the United States, how ever, it is to be remarked that it consists both ways, to , a great extent, of goods which pass through the country in transit. The imports of the States comprising large amounts of tea, West India sugar, and other articles not indigenous and the exports thereto including, among other items, vegetable food to the value of 654.7111. 9s. 6d. 10. The revenue on the provincial canals, which wa5 £62,640 £62,640 3 8 52,545 5 6 69,536 3 7 57,034 17 4 in tons on the in 1851 Gross ) Gross Net .. ? Net an i d n I th B e s2 total movement of property canals— Welland. SL Lawrence. Chambl 1851 691,6271 450,4001 110,7261 1552 743,060 492,575 87,514 The decrease of traffic on the Chambly Canal is pro bably due to the competition of railways which have come recently into operation, and afford a direct com munication from Montreal to the States. 11. The per centage of increase in the total move ment of property on these canals in 1841, as compared with 1848, appears to have been as follows : Welland 141.5 St. Lawrence 199.8 Chambly 364.6 Although the traffic on the Chambly Canal, therefore, fell off in 1852, its ratio of increase on the longer term was larger than that of the other canals. Its rapid growth is attributable to the great demand for Canadian sawed lumber which has sprung up of late years in the United States. 12. The number and tonnage of the vessels from sea which entered inwards at the ports of Quebec and Mon treal were : In 1851 1,469 ships ......... 573,397 tons. In 1852 1,332 „ ........ 5 28,738 2' Of which totals the following were foreign vessels belong ing to the under-mentioned countries : : o Countries. 1851. 1852 . Nu -- T. t7,---ong• Num ' ..------,--------____ _____-- _____ 1 134 Bremen ............... --- g 478 2 469 Mecklenburg ..................... Norway ... ...................... Prussia ........................... __ 2 7 4 . 1 . - 17 07 ° 3 5 1 2 8 2 10 1 :31 Hamburg ............................ 6 1,019 Portugal _ _ Sweden 3 989 3 979 ............ 35 20,062 73 36,354 United States., ........... . ...... 1 212 Russia..... Hanover . .. . .... 3,668 _ ............. 117 50,716 176 71,409 rri..4-1 ' _ .......... Total 13. The net revenue of the province of Canada for the year 1852 was 623,724/. 7s. sd, ; expenditure including interest on pu blic debt and sinking fund, 535,171/. 6s. 7d. $a f o re concluding this report I will, with your Grmission, offer a few remarks on t wo di s t r i c t s ce Pe of the province which I have visited since the close of the parliamentary session , and which, though they are out of the track of ordinary travel, possess features of considerable interest. 15. Of these districts, the one which I first visited lies to the south of the St. Lawrence, at a distance of about 60 miles from Quebec. The discovery of gold at various points within it, and more particularly in the beds and banks of some of the smaller streams which fall into the River Chaudiere, has attracted attention to it of late years. The geological formation in which these disc:- veries have been made is held to be a prolongation of the Green Mountains of Vermont and its strata bears a pretty close analogy to those that run through Virginia, the Carolinas, and other southern states in which gold has been found at intervals in veins and alluvial deposits. The goldworking in this district have been hitherto conducted on- a, very small scale, by companies employing hired labour, and for obvious rea -1 sons it is difficult under such circumstances to ascertain what may have been the amount of the actual yield. The encouragement which the com panies have met with is at any rate such as to induce them, after the experience of two or three years, to continue their operations. I was unable to visit the most productive working, but a considerable quantity of gold was extracted in my presence from the gravel on the banks of a small stream called Des Plantes, which runs into the Chaudiere. Whether the gold workings in Lower Canada are likely to prove in any high degree productive, and whether, if they were to become so, it would be an advantage to the province. are questions on which I do not venture to hazard an opinion, but of the existence of that metal in very appreciableNuantities in ' 7, e - _-z%° the district I visited, and over an extensive tract of country beyond it, no doubt can be entertained. 16. It may be questionable, however, whether the principal mineral wealth of the townships of Lower Canada will be found eventually to consist in their au riferous deposits. Copper ore, magnetic and specular oxide of iron, and other materials capable of economic application, are found in the regions so named ; and al though I am unwilling in a document of this nature, where nothing should be introduced which is not sus ceptible of proof, to admit opinions which are speculative, I am bound to say that statements have been made to me on what purports to be high authority, which seem to warrant the expectation that some of these articles will, at no distant day, be worked to advantage. 17. My second visit was paid to the district which is probably doing more at the present time than any other single section of the province to enable Canada to enter the markets of the world as a purchaser. In my last year's report I adverted to the fact that the returns for 1850 and 1851 showed that in those years the exports of timber and agricultural produce from this Province were nearly balanced in respect of value ; the returns for 1852 exhibit a similar result. The products of the forest exported during that year being valu e d at, 1,051,713/. 9s. 7d., and agricultural products, includ ing " animals and their products," " vegetable foods," and " agricultural products," at 1,214,2141. 3s. 10d, Of the vast amount of wealth represented in this esti mate by the products of the forest the valley of the Ottawa furnishes a large and increasing proportion. 18. This important region takes the name by which it is designated in popular parlance from the mighty stream which flows through it, and which though it be but a tributary of the St. Lawrence, is one of the largest of the rivers that run uninterruptedly from the source to the discharge within the dimensions of the Queen. It drains an area of about 80,000 square miles, and receives at various points in its course the waters of streams, some of which equal in magnitude the chief rivers of Great Britain. These streams open up to the enterprise of the lumbermen the almost inex haustible pine forests with which this region is clothed, and afford the means of transporting their produce to market. In improving these natural advantages con siderable sums are expended by private individuals. 50,0001. currency was voted by Parliament last session for the purpose of removing certain obatieles to the navigation of the Upper Ottawa, by the construction of a canal at a point which is now obstructed by rapids. 19. From the nature of the business, the lumbering trade falls necessarily in a great measure into the hands of persons of capital, who employ large bodies of men at points far removed from markets, and who are there fore called upon to make considerable advances in pro viding food and necessaries for their labourers, as well as in building slides and otherwise facilitating the passage of timber along the streams and rivers. Many thou sands of men are employed during the winter in these remote for es t s, preparing the timber which is transported during th e summer in rafts, or, if sawn, in boats to Quebec wh en d estined for England, and up the Richelieu River when intended for the United States. It is a most interesting fact, both in a moral andhygienic view, that for some years past intoxicating liquors have been rigorously excluded from almost all the shanties (as the dwellings of the lumbermen in these distant regions are styled), and that, notwithstanding the exposure of the the men to cold during the winter and wet in the spring the result of the experiment has been entirely satis factory. 20. The bearing of the lumbering business on the settlement of the country is a point well worthy of notice. The farmer who undertakes to cultivate un reclaimed land in new countries generally finds that not only does every step of advance which he makes in the wilderness by removing him from the centres of trade and civilisation, enhance the cost of all he has to purs chase, but that, moreover, it diminishes the value of what he has to sell. It is not so, however, with the far mer who follows in the wake of the lumbermen. He finds, on the contrary, in the wants of the latter a steady demand for all that he produces, at a price not only equal to that procurable in the ordinary marts, but increased by the cost of transport from them to the scene of the lumbering operations. This circumstance, no doubt, powerfully contributes to promote the settlement of those districts, and attracts population to the sections of the country which, in the absence of any such inducement, would probably remain for long periods uninhabited. 21. The country of the Ottawa, besides its wealth in timber and water power, and considerable tracts of fertile soil, is believed to be rich in minerals, which may. probably at some future period be turned to ac count. It is also worthy of remark that the route of the Ottawa, the Mattawa, Lake Nipissing, and French River, is that by which Europeans first penetrated the West. Along this route Champlain, in 1615, pro ceeded as far as Lake Nepissing, and thence to the vast and tranquil inland sea to which he gave the appropriate designation of La Mer Douce. The Recollect father, Le Caron, bore the Gospel to the Huron tribes along the same tract, and was followed soon after by those Jesuit missionaries whose endurance and sufferings con stitute the truly heroic portion of American annals. This route has been for some time past in a great measure abandoned for that of the St. Lawrence and the Lakes. The distance, however, from Montreal to the Georgian Bay, immediately facing the entrance of Lake Michigan, is, via the Ottawa about 400 miles, against upwards of 1,000 via the St. Lawrence. From this point to the _ Sauit t _bt. Marie, the highest of the three narrows (Sault St. Marie, Detroit, and Niagara) at which the regions lying on either side of the four great lakes, Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, ap proach each other, is a distance of about 150 miles. It is highly probable, therefore, that before many years have elapsed, this route will be again looked to a,s fur nishing a favourable line for railway, if not water com munication with the fertile regions of the north-west. 22. I enclose the supplement of a local newspaper, which contains copies of the addresses that were pre sented to me at various points in my progress up the Ottawa. Your Grace will observe with satisfaction the uniform testimony which they bear to the prosperity of the country and the contentment of the inhabitants. Reports which reach me from other parts of the province speak on this point the same language. Canada has enjoyed seasons of prosperity before, but it is doubtful whether any previous period in the history of the colony can be cited at which there was so entire an absence of those bitter, personal, and party animosities which divert attention from material interests, and prevent co-opera tion for the public good. 23. Into the political causes which have mainly con -1 tributed to this gratifying result I do not now propose to enquire. When the irritation by which periods of transition are unhappily attended shall have entirely passed away, it is not improbable that Canadians will acknowledge the advantages they have derived from the steady application of sound principles to the administra tion of their affairs, and that they will look back with satisfaction to the period at which they began to feel practically that the interests which they have in common are more important than those which divide them, and that faithful allegiance to the Crown is not inconsistent with the exercise of those faculties and the indulgence of those aspirations which in communities as in individuals are proper to maturity.—l have, &c. (Signed) ELGIN AND KINCARDINE. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c. &c. N EW LITERARY SOCIETY. We are glad to learn that a literary society is being formed at Holt, Norfolk, under the patronage of the Right Hon. the Lord Hast ings and the leading clergymen and gentlemen in the neighbourhood, and the principal tradesmen in the town. Its objects are to provide a reading-room, form a library of useful works, and arrange for the delivery of occa sional lectures. We heartily wish the society success. .A. GOOD EXAMPLE,— On Thursday last a treat was given to the children of the St. James's District Day eyltreet, Hampstead-road, o n the f ter mination o year, by the lady visito rs o f th e Schools, in their rn first schools. The children, to the number of 320, assem bled in the Infant School-room, at four o'clock, and after a plentiful meal of bread and butte r , ca k e, an d milk, they were taken up to the girl's school-room, which had been tastefully decorated, under the super intendence of the clergyman's wife, with evergreens, flowers, and flags, and a Christmas-t ree , eleven feet hi g h, hung with toys and sweetmeats, a n d lighted by gas. After a short address from the Rev. Dr. Stebbing, and singing a Christmas hymn, the tree was stripped, and each child received a toy and a bag of sugar-plums. Senors DAVIES'S PUNS.- -Baillie (commonly called long Baillie: a very clever man, but odd) complained to our friend Scrope B. Davies, in riding, that he had a stitch in his side. " I don't wonder at it," said Scrope, "for you ride like a tailor." Whoever had seen Baillie on horseback with his very tall figure on a small nag, would not deny the justice of the repartee. When Brum• mel was obliged (by that affair of poor Meyler, who thence acquired the name of " Dick the Dandy-killer"---- it was about money, and debt, and all that) to retire to France, he knew no French, and having obtained a grammar for the purpose of study, our friend Scrope Davies was asked what progress Brummel had made in French ; heresponded, ",that Brummel had been stopped, like Buonaparte in Russia, by the Elements." I h ave put this pun into Beppo, which is a fair exchange and no robbery ; for Scrope made his fortune at several din ners (as he owned himself) by repeating occasionally, as his own, some of the buffooneries with which I had encountered him in the morning.—ilfurray's Beauties of Byron. Bra PHILIP SIDNEY'S DEATH.—After having had a horse shot under him, Sidney received a wound from a musket-bullet on the left thigh a little above the knee. As he was carried from the field a well-known incident occurred, which Lord Brooke, his r e b'loff miller and com panion, thus describes :—‘, A s he passed along by the rest of the army, wh ere h is uncle the General was he soon became faint an d thirsty from excess of bleeding, and called for some drink, which was presently brought him ; but, as he was putting the bottle to his mouth, he saw a poor soldier carried along, who had eaten his last at the same feast, ghastly casting up his eyes at the bottle, which Sidney perceiving took it from his head before he drank, and delivered it to the poor man with these words :—' Thy necessity is yet greater than mine.'" The wound unfortunately proved mortal, and after many days of severe suffering lie died at Arnheim, in the arms of his wife, and of his faithful secretary, William Temple, on the 7th of October, 158 G, in the thirty-third year of his age. On the fatal intelligence reaching England, a general mourning was ordered, and affectionat,ly observed by all ranks and classes of people. His body was brought home, and interred in Old St. Paul's Cathedral, in the month of February following • the funeral being attended by all foreigners i n England, the diplomatic corps, most of the nobility, and an immense concourse of people. No man perhaps was ever more universally admired, and none, certainly, more tenderly and respectfully remembered. "He trod," says the author of the " Effigies Poetise," from his cradle to his grave, amid incense and flowers, and died in a dream of glory."—.l. Crossley's " Sidney and the Arcadia." 'V f' ~' 41 1 ACTS FO2 RAISINS,, SUGAR, TEA, AND TOBACCO. D epartment of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset-place, 23d Dec., 1853. liECommissioners for Executing the Office of 4 „ Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ~.reland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on Tunasnsv, the 12th p ti .."arY, 1854, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such iht,:na as may be willing to Contract for supplying and dolitering th: her M ajesty's Victualling Stores at GOSPORT and rLYMOUTH Un dermentioned articles. viz. le7*lls -14,7 articles to be exempted from the Customs Duties. 4 t o , o tender will be received for a less quantity of Raisins than tha7.. ens ugar than 10 tons—of Tea than 4 , 000 lbs. — and of Tobacco to Pies of the Raisins (not less than 6 lbs.), of the Sugar (not W ara ",`'au 4 lbs.), of the Tea (not less than l 2 lbs. from the Bonded kleoF, °Us e) , and of the Tobacco (not less than 2 lbs.), must be pro .3' the parties tendering. ar e samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted trs et r,nested to be taken away by them immediat el y after the con b;" 'lave been decided. tio ti e c onditions of the revised contracts , to w hich p articular atten at (1 1° called, may be seen at the said office, at the victualling yards p oo i7sport and Plymouth; at the office ofCommander Bevis, at Liver teesivand of the Co'lector . of Custom at Bristol. No tender will be /n ue ed atter One o'clock on the da treaty, nor any noticed Vrr4 t he party attends, or an agentfor t h im, duly authorised in sad2 l 7 tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty , : Bu" Ear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for flat also be delivered at S-merset-place, ant those for Ra isins, % r * and Tea must be accompanied by a letter signed by a respon tZ rson, engatOng to become bland with the person tendering, '` e sum of 201 prr cent on the value, tor the due performance of cant ' contracts.