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V GLASGOW HARBOUR MINERAL RAILWAY. The Provisional Committee of the above undertaking hereby call It. MEETING of the Shareholders thereof, to be held within Gibb's fYal Hotel, Princes street, Edinburgh, on MONDAY, the Eighteenth r i Y of April current, at 2 o'clock p.m., for the purpose of determin ing 'whether the partnership or compa y of the Glasgow Harbour Mineral Railway shall be dissolved, all in terms of the 9th and 10th Victoria, cap. 28, entitled "An Act to Facilitate the Dissolution of C ertain Railway Companies." ROBERT BAIRD, Chairman of Committee. Glasgow, April 6, 1853. GLASGOW HARBOUR MINERAL RAILWAY. A MEETING of th e Sh are h o lders in the above undertaking is he reby called, to take place within Gibb's Roy al Hotel, Princes-street, Edi nburgh, on MONDAY, th e 18 t h day of April current, at 3 o'clock P.m.,.. for the p urpose of appointing an d aut h or i s i ng a comm itt ee to na up the affairs of said undertaking in the event of its dissolution li wng resolved upon in terms of the 9th and 10th Vict , cap. 9. ,„ ROBERT BAIRD, Chairman of Provisional Committee. .ut sgow, April F, 1853. LOANS OR ANTED. ° "ON EXCHANGE ADVANCE FUND, L 2 Adelphi Old Broad-stre t, terrace, Strand , - terra facing the river ; City Branch, 3, e City. The Right Hon. Lord ERSKINE, Chairman. Promrs advan ced, in sums of 101, and upwards, granted on a joint of Bills _ssorY n 0 t°, other available securities. t e , repayable by easy instalments, or on the deposit Fen n : "change cashed at moderate rates of interest. !mg 12 of application may be obtained at the Offices, or on forward - Postage stamps. •--- NVII. BROOKS, Secretary. AUSTRALIA. IVIR. ROBINS begs to inform the public, for . he has rece i ved instructions from the Western Australian L .....annd Company to oar SALE, at the , 0 3 8 don, on THURSD k Y, May sth, i y n Lots Publi c, (unless Auction, previouslyi Mar is- their ed of hY Private Cont ract, of wh i ch due not i ce w ill b e given) XTT. —NSIVE AND IMPORTANT FREEHOLD ESTATES IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA, being the EXCEEDING 0,000 ACRES, con, a e residue of the Estates o 13 f the Western Australian Land s4ePbuY midisposed of, wllich the Directors are required to off that Y Ptiblic Competition, for the winding up of the affairs o ;t iff. .ve°YedatlY. A large portion of the Estate has been accurately tr s ,_!_sad the Present affords an admirable opportunity to eter- Aitg_Fapitalists to acquire a " 4 AND VALUABLE TERRITORY IN THIS BRITISH for a gr i COLONY, eultaral operations, with much probability even of inaar ano , AURIFEROUS PRODUCE, grail " a portion of the Land forms a continued line or range ar In character to 'tvuTpE DARLING RANGE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA, HAS BEESLITERALLY FOUND TO OVERFLOW Mr. Robin GOLD. a'ands a s feels he may with every -- certainty reCollnaittitt these for , ure _THE NUCLEUS OF A GRAND SCHEME yineaa velopnaent, which, under skilful management, must not aZtProtable result, but ultimately become a to the Inc; e li r I KE OF WEALTH In?P„ortnartiactinloanr.fa:tanydbPelanstirobtausiireetin;sfprepariFngew, in the meantime, every and Co Solicitors, No. neer ietta-street, or Mr. Robins, piazza, Covent-gar ' (lea. LOWER CANADA. Four fine Freehold Estates, comprising 132,652 acres, deserving the xrp attention of the enterprising Capatalist. tW• ROBINS is fa,voured with instructions to übalit to PUBLIC COMPETITION, at the Auction Mart, ousl ' on a day to be h erea f ter announced, in Lots, unless previ ,. ' 4 POsed of by private c on t ract, The Four si ngularly -important Landed Estates of the GASPE F ISHERY and COAL MINING COMPANY, Comai nin ., lipon W IZ al together 132,652 acres of land in Lower Canada, h the finest timber is growing, exempt from all seignorial ittresand held in free and common soccage, with indisputable titles. greate e days of emigration to the West, which seems to offer the to Chest attractions to the really industrious, these Estates present (tind er Peculator an unusual opportunity to employ his capital the influence and protection of the British Government) with every certainty of a large return The Estate of PABOS consists of 51,840 acres, near the entrance to the Bay of Chaleur, the boundary commencing at the Great int:aberiosorn. R iver extending three le,gues from the coast into the extensive and substantial buildi ngs h ave b een erected at this station for carrying on the fisheries, and are all in good order; and the Estate produces pine, spruce, cedar, and birch. '2. The Estate of NEW PORT adjoins the Pabos Estate, and con rtain' 19,394 acres. A valuable water-power saw mill has been eeted on this property, which is near the fishing e,tablishment of , he Company, where capital buildings have been erected well caicu utted for this branch of the business. Pine, spruce, cedar, and birch, are produced on the Estate. n , 3 . The E s t a t e o f PORT DANIEL is a good harbour in the Bay of `' L la'eur, 18 miles west of Paboa, comprising 4,000 acres, well covered With spruce, birch, and juniper. 4. The Estate of BONAVENTURA. comprises 66,418 acres in the township of Cox and Hamilton, on the Great Bonaventura River, a line tract of land with pine, spruce, birch, cedar, and juniper. Mr. Robins begs to add that plans of these truly important proper ties may be seen at his offices 28 days prior to the sale, and full par ticulars will be prepared as soon as possible, and will be given on ap plication to Messrs. Amory, Travers, and Smith, solicitors, 25, Throg- Morton-street, and Messrs. Roy, solicitors, 4, Lothbury; at the Auction Mart ; and at Mr. Robins' offices, Covent-garden. NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURANCE. THE DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 18, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. CAPITAL—ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. DIRECTORS. ehejrnian—The Right Hon. the Viscount Drumlanrig, 31. P., P.C., of her Majesty's Household. Comptroller, Tallowley B rnes Esq , 11, City-road, Finsbury. IT °tl Clarke Esq., at e 1 7t h Lancers, Junior United Service Club. Soode, Esq., Portland-terrace, Wandsworth, and Belvoir, St. Step he e : -8 . Jersey, Xevi- -- , era cknail, Esq.. 1, St. John's-gardens, Notting-hill, and 11, W. ,„„ Lincoln's-inn. fx , r st ' D T. ., Davies -street, Berkeley-square, and Lutterworth, hire. t l4ld ge, 15, Connaught-square, Hyde-park, and Tor -ezander sti g 'Thire. IN:21 14 C • Poole Esq„ Harrow-on-the-Hill. _oilman „, Ja na Pr no • 'RI, 32, Upper Seymour-street, r square. Itc Y b e jae rt e We s -C. `P' Req ., 147, Leadenhall-street, and 8, Hyde-park. Dr. se Cdrerf Riddell, Esq , Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. 3 er Sn;,, an i ,' 21, UPper eyn; our-street West, Connaught-square. 1 4. St. James's-square. •a. Bi a AUDITORS. Le 1 - -' 126, and, Str Actuary and Secretary to the Medical, winigaatn and General Life Office. p J° nea, Esq., Accountant, 3, Guildhall-chambers. _eek, LA., Actuary to the Engineers and Masonic Life %M ice, 345,5 q Strand. Ch Co. arieg p r i m ""ssris. Elopkinson an d C o ., 3, at C and o, Regent-street. 3, King William-street, London. Dt. L Mb, Finsbury-pl ace . be aulan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. 11 . T. ch "1"11, ._ SURGEONS. ~.an, Esq., 16, Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square. 3lich aelweevan, Esq., 44, Gloucester -place, Hyde-park-gardens. cONsULTING ACTUARY. F ra ncis G. P. Nelson , Esq., F.L.S. INSPECTOR OF AGENCIES. F. P. F. Strousberg, Esq, STANDING COUNSEL. William Wellington C•oper, Esq., New-square, Lincoln's-inn. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Hill and Mathews St. Mary-axe. RESIDENT SECRETARY. Charles W. Bevan, Esq. . The public is respectfully invited to examine the principles of the Deposit System of Assurance, whicb is based upon tables calculated by, and is under the immediate supervision of, Francis G. P. Nelson, Esq., 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 ofAssurances. ON THE ORDINARY SYSTEM. The sum the ordinary The sum the Life Offices would give ordinary Life him if he were unable Offices would Ito pay, or if he omitted At the Ills give him for to pay his current end of policy th e surren d er annual prem i um o f k. Annual thirty at that or sale Si. 6 s . 3d:after he has 4 Premium yearswhen age, of his policy, 'paid into their coffers tp, to assure the p ar t y i n casej after thirty 1249/.78.6d., and which a5OOl. is fifty I of years'payments they have had the use years old, death I amounting to of at compound ahewill have will be 2491. 7s. 6d. interest, or in • Paid into worth whichtheyhave the event of his death t the office. !had the benefit! one hour a ft er such "I of at compound , omission or inability .........______ ________ intbrest. I to pay. 20 81.63.3 d. 249/.78.6d. 500/. litthtlan 8 little than NOTHING. perhaps 901. ON THE DEPOSIT SYSTEM. Ifun able to pay, or not desirous of paying or omitting topay,thePo- Hey would still remain of its FULL value, 5221.23.7d.ti1l death, if 20 years after, no fur ther payment beingre quired. Ifhowever the Party, from any cause, wished to cancel the Policy, he could not 01 7/.los Od only draw out all heh aa 225/. 5 221.257 d 287/. 2s. 9d, put in, viz., 2251., but a certain bonus of 621. 2s. 9d. in the bargain, which is more than one-fourth of the whole °fills payments, or he could either d rav out a part, 201. or 501., diminishing the Policy only by the assured value of the sum se drawn out at the age When withdrawn. See pagess and7in detailed pamphlet, by F. G. P. Nelson, Esq. On MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the Universit y of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medic Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. _ _ 111 AI be consulted, personally, or by letter, on the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile Irregularities and excesses, which have pro duced more misery in youth, degradation In manhood, and prema, tore decay at all stages of life, tfian perhaps any other class of dis eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist ence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed Slopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and UnfruitMl Marri ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and thei r endless modifications owe their almost entire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its con -equences may be avoided, and above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com plaints, and s the only legally qualified Physician 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 these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is tree. In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply roe arded 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 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 ii., and advice and medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address. It is desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'III.ERT 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 ; Mann, 39, Conthill ; Stone, Titchborne- street, Haymarket; or free 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. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street, London. No I. 8 vo., in cloth, 'price Is. by post free, Is. 6d., ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORREICEA, with the View to the Correction of wide-spreaa Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of tie renerative System, er Sexual Hypochondrlasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD "Dr. Fickfori. 's known to English readers by his frequent practi al contrlbutiOnS to German medical literature. This is the first ime, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he in his shall ietect any other equally flag rant evil which it may be • ower to correct." — L ondon Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. "We Promised in a former number that we should recur to this wore, 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 the hands of those who stiffer from th com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many h mdreds would De saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much nnoney ......higs volume is well qualified to put an end to the Ampirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat -gent upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, •kely to do much good."—Medleal Circular, June 16, 1852. No. 11. Svo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 45., THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate rind apparentlylntractable Forms. BY F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. "In proof of his views he (Mr. CourtenaY) has given bad the history of a great ma n y cases successfully treated, as as any which M. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated. -ea are cases ix., r xi., xii., and xviil. No. ix. had res i st d, for a period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally re roved in as many weeks. But cases xviii. 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. CoartenaY proved eminently successful." —Professor Lizars on the Treatment of Stricturte: , g _ ovel systetn of D 11"rn Parizon of these two tables it will be seen that a person tinder the n El'osiT assurance can secure ehe f llow ain l a4vealritageB, viZ., iSt. For al can assure 2 dIY• In the in e ase Of death emtha pa rer n 7li n e nn or y dinary system. in this n e event of a desire to nan his Policy he can receive k.orap an3 , b e surrender Tirana times a. y the above example, which applies to all ages, of inabilit a Much as on the ordinary system. 3rdly. In the event of the same Yorr OMISSIOU to pay, his policy remains still his property, alue as it ts for anY number was, though he cease his current paymen ts nothing , of years eas on s, he • at* . am ount of his sh uld ; ~„ ohe wh require er to the Increase or y ste decmrease ge the by givin Pulley, he can do so at pleasure. He can at any tiul", whole g a fortnight's notice, withdraw any part from 11 up to the _ as wiatmount of his previous payments and with interest. After be ;ears, :Armen Part one year he can, by a single payment, three its fo.rnr er anY time afterwards. raise his policy to a greater or even his an amount ; and by this system he can at all times regulate bargain s avings by his annual expenditure., with the facility in the in a bank f ha t i ng a fund to fly to in case of necessity, the same as rest fur this palpable advantage, however, that he gets lute _ his mone, and in case of death his family receive more than rincamount of his savings. In ordinary Life Offices be can do 1 0 _ h thing, but his policy at once lapses or is cancelled the moment lialeinceases to pay his current premiums, and, instead of having any t b Q t o nY to for aid, all his hard-earned savings become forfeited to e society, and his misfortunes serve to benefit the pockets of his Morefortunate co-assurers. .4" 11 a system is too equitable and too striking to be overlooked n ,:: m'll'Osrr assurance is the only system of assurance which can be --,,..ZeraallY recognised and adopted when the principles are ImPar ".iy canvassed, and its palpable benefits become widely diffused. It Conf ers greater advantages than a bank because it allows a fair rate of interest in case of withdrawal, and gives twice the amount in the 4143 f detath O f he Company to the repres en t a ti ves o f th e Depositor I n case o, thus combining the kiIIYANTAGES OF A BANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF AN ASSURANCE COMPANY. In ease of endo wment assurances the advantages of the DEPOSIT BYsteill are still more striking. A-DT ANTA.GES OF THIS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY LIFE ASSURANCE BRANCH. To those who prefer this branch Policies are granted from 201. to MOO/. on every known principle thereof. Lives in all but the worst stages of disease, and such as have been re Lives by other Offices, are taken at rates equivalent to the peril villar disease. Loans from 501. and upwards granted on every kind of security, real or personal, on the most equitable terms to the borrower Annuities of every description granted on very favourable terms. Non-forfeiture of a Policy.—ln cae of inabilty t pay the curant Premiums, the Directors will either s Purchase the n Policy at a r fair Market value, or give a new one in lieu thereof, less 5 per cent., inte rest corr , sponding in amount to the whole of the previous payments which have been made. Detailed prospectuses with tables in further illustration of the De- Posit system, and any further information may be obtained on appli cation to the Agents in the country, or to CHARLES W. BEVAN, Resident Secretary. 11R. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row , Carvell)°, 47. Fleet-street, Mann, 39, Cornhill. Price One Shilling each ; by la Gd. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. "Health, Recreation, and Rational Use of Time. " CONTENTS : —Early Rising —Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex cursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills _Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places - Country Trips and Rambles —The Rea —London at Night—Evenings at Home Music—The Drama--On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air , Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c., &e. FRAGMENTS FROM THE FOUNTAINS. Two VolS. Vol. I. VISIT 70 THE LAKES; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, &C. __ _ _ Vol.II ._ _ • THE LAKES OF KILLABLINRNEY ; REMINISCENCES OF 111. DU, &e. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID, " That three score years and ten our course 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, and em bitters old age ; with tables and rulesfor the diet and physical regu lation of every-day life. IV. THE PASSIONS. " What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." Snancr :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad vent of the passions. Chastity and its infringement. The casualties oflicentiousness and dissipation, with illustratims, graphic, narra tive, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages. N.B.—Agents wanted in all parts of the World. Ten tui hire, and seien till Nine. THE GREAT NUGGET VEIN COMPANY. Some communications have been received from Syd ney regarding the Great Nugget Vein Company, whose shares two days back experienced a sudden fall, from which its actual position would appear to be as follows :—The number of shares is 100,000, of which 33,000 were issued in London, 33,000 to subscribers in the colony, 33,000 to the original proprietors of the vein. The English shares are of 21. each, fully paid up, and were allotted at a premium of 11. ss.—the proceeds of such premium being for the general benefit of the company ; the Australian shares are also for 21., but with only 10s. paid, their title to a participation in profits being proportionably limited ; and lastly, the shares allotted for the purchase of the mine are to rank the same as the English ones, that is to say, for 2/. each paid in full. The ground held by the company, and through which the vein extends, runs parallel with the Louisa Creek for two miles (comprising also the bed of the creek for that distance), and is about half a mile in width, the terms of possession being the payment of a royalty of 10 per cent. to the Government. It is about 23 miles from Mudgee, and 170 from Sydney. When Mr. Spence, the manager of the Colonial Gold Company, arrived in Sydney with his mining captain, he proposed a mutual arrangement with the Great Nugget Vein Company for working the property, and after he had been allowed six weeks for a full investigation of it, a contract was entered into that the Colonial Company should conduct the whole of the operations free of ex pense to the Great Nugget Company, and allow them one-half the profits whenever the yield should be equal to 4 ounces of gold per ton of quartz or earth, one-third when the yield is 3 ounces, and one one-fourth when it is 2 ounces or under. He was also to take a steam engine of six-horse power, which the Great Nugget Company had erected, at a valuation, but was to have the buildings and other works free of charge. Under these circumstances the capital of the Great Nugget Company is no longer required, and it will be a question whether it should not, at an early period, be returned to the shareholders. The amount remitted from England had not arrived at the last dates, but the sum raised by the Australian subscription was being employed in the purchase of gold. As far as the ope rations at the mine, previously to the junction with the Colonial Company, are concerned, the amount raised is believed to have been about 3,0001., and when tEe Great Britain left the more efficient machinery of the Colonial Company had arrived. The cause of the fall during the present week was an announcement that some of the Austrailian shares had been sent for hale here. It seems that is correct, about 8,000 or 12,000 of those allotted to the original proprietors of the vein having been transmitted. They are, however, said to be totally distinct from the English issue, and the reason alleged for the intention to offer them here is that the first out• lay in connection with the mine incurred by the parties to whom they belong was nearly 20.0001., and that with the present demand for business capital at Sydney they desire to reimburse themselves to that extent. APFILIATIoN.—At the Kensington petty sessions, yes terday, Mr. John Stevens, a master baker, of Brentford was summoned before the magistrates, to show cause why he should not be charged with the support of an illegetimate child, of which it was alleged he was the father. The case was rendered remarkable in conse quence of the great disparity in the ages of the parties, the supposed father being a man far advanced in years, with a large family, and the mother a child, now not 15 of the Inner Temple, appeared f defendant. Sleap,Ma Mary Ann Joyes, a pretty - looking years uoirrl,ths te o a f d age. t e efe dtat she was now between 14 and 15 years of age. About the beginning of last May, she was pass ing through Brentford, on her way home to her mother's house, when she was accosted by Mr. Stevens, who was standing at his shop door, and of whom she had a slight previous knowledge. Hef spoke to her as she passed, shortly afterwards followed her, telling her that he had something very important to say to her. They walked for some distance together, and when they got opposite to a barn that belonged to him, he pulled her in, and there took advantage of liar ; but such had never took place before or since. In February last, she gave birth to a female child. Mrs. Joyes, the mother of the girl, said as soon as she found out her daughter's misfortune, she waited upon Mr. Stevens, who was the father of 12 children, and he gave her a sovereign to provide givenneces dres morehs e e r d another t htsowbtowards de s sovereignthede denying yu support pg; altogether but r t of n the o w o r h e t f i h u l de s . ed to do any thingsaries, and subsequently to the birth of the child, had a d paternity i S ty le o ap n the part of Mr. Stevens, and called two witnesses to impugn the character of the girl. The bench considered the case fully made out, and made an order for the Price Is. each; by post, Is. 6d. highest legal allowance, dating from the birth of the To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, child, and to be continued until terminated by the statute. Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill; or of M. B. Culverwell, 31. 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This day is published, Byo., cloth, Bs., HISTORICAL OUTLINES of POLITICAL CATHOLICISM : its Papacy Prelacy—Priesthood — Peop le. London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. THE ~ QUARTERLY' REV IEW, No. CLXXXIV., is Published this day. CONTENTS: - I. Apsley Rouse. 11. Scrope's Bistoty of Castle Combe. 111. Human Hair. IV. The Old Countess of Desmond. V. Hungarian Campaigns—Kossuth and (lorgey. VI. Buckingham Papers. VII. Search for Franklin. VIII. The Two Systems at Pentonville. IX. Maurel on the Duke of Wellington. John Murray, Albemarle .street. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.- Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham road. Open Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, during the week, " The Thistle," " Shamrock," " Rose," and "Amine" Waltzes, the "Napoleon" Galop, "Le Cirque' 'Quadrille; "La Valerie," " Juno," and " Steeplechase" Polkas.— Admission, Is. Doors open at Half•past Eight ; to commence at Nine o'clock, and terminate at Half-past Eleven. 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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 R. J. C(TLVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. (1824), Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in there matters 4 e 18,889.] . 1 • ~.)--`- - --- /----- ' ' i - ,/,, • ' x r /' 2. , ./..,,,-- OZ. .. - - T re- •- e .Z ' .. 7 -, 40 V . --- - - - IJ - i 7 .. •'" °- ---- - - - e• --" . 1 '--.,'''' v -- -4 ) 2_ . , . r-, Srr r r - 1 7" ( - 1. Or T,..,* (N - y c,l 1" 7 TTi ~:: 7I ' + ' ,- - ..• - ---'-- . • . osi : s .110! .. * ' tj '-. I ; 1L1111............_ . . o .tr r . ..., : 6 col ''''., ~..\ ------6* -21.\ --1 i''' ' '4 :: :::: : ..c t ' 11 ..\14 :4' 1.16:; '' '.. '7l--- 1 - -.) - --5-. r 17. -.7\ :: - 7 ;'' '‘,,,,,v.::,,,,, ..., ', • • - " %i s ' ---- , •.. -', ..,_ .'. 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One portion of that debt, called the Planters' Bank bonds, was never repudiated, but it has shared the fate of the res* re gards the non-payment of dividends ; and it now ppears that a sum which had been derived from the prethium obtained by the State on the original sale of these bonds, and which had been set apart as a sinking fund, has actually been used to the last dollar by the Government, in defiance of a mandamus from their own High Court of Errors that it should be paid over forthwith to the English creditors : " Some new phenomena have recently ocsurred in'the history of Mississippi repudiation. Let us proniise, for the information of persons not familiar with the facts, that in 1830 and 1833 the State of Mississppi issued bonds to the amount of $2,009,000, and loaned them to the Planters' Bank of that State, then recently established. Of this amount $1,500,000 were issued with coupons attached, and $500,000 without. Not long after, say in 1835 or 1836, she issued bonds to the amount of $ 5 ,000,000 more, for the establishment of the Mississippi Union Bank. The bonds for the Planters' Bank sold at a considerable pre mium' Out of which a sinking fund was established, which was eventually to redeem them. These Planters' Bank bonds were never in form repudiated, but the in terest on them ceased to be paid in 1838, and not a farthing has since been received from thbm by the un fortunate holders, most of whom reside in England. " The bonds for the Union Bank were thrown upon the market at too late a date to bring the highest prices. Money was not so plenty, and a portion of them at least, if not the whole, were sold for a trifle under par. The act of the Legislature authorising, their issue contained a proviso that they should not be sold under par ; and as a pretext was not wanted to cover the odium of repudia tion, it was found in the neglect of this proviso, although at the date of the repudiation most or all of the bonds had passed into the hands of third parties, who knew nothing of the restriction, and had no agency in disregarding it. At best it was little more than:a technicality, on which no stress was laid when the issue_olthe bonds was authorised ; and the Gov ern or's recommendation to re pudiate on that ground, or on any ground, was at first resisted by the Legislature, who, on the other hand, passed a resolution declaring that Mississippi would preserve her faith inviolate,' and that any insinuation to the contrary would be a calumny upon her justice, honour, and dignity.' She, however, made no attempt to pay either principal or interest, and in 1842 the in famy of a formal repudiation was consummated. "We now go back to the Planters' Bank bonds. In 1848 there remained of the sinking ftinki k et apart for their redemption, 94,000 dollars. The pi gi siataring that year passed an act requiring this •money to be applied to the payment`of the first of the overdue coupons of these bonds. As 500,000 dols. of the bonds had no coupons, they were excluded by the wording of the law from the bents of the appropriation ; al though no such discrimination was probably intended. As yet, however, nothing has been gained o* lost by either class of bondholders in consequence of the dis crimination, the State auditor having evaded the law which required the payment to be made. Under these circumstances Mr. Weiss, an agent of the English bond holders, being then in Mississippi, obtained a mandamus against the auditor, commanding him to pay over the mo ney acccording to law. The latter thereupon appealed to the 'High Court of Errors,' the highest tribunal in the State, which, towards the close of last year, confirmed the mandamus of the lower Court. The sinking fund was by this time reduced to $45,000, the Legislature of that year having appropriated it to defray the ordinary expenses of Government ; and we infer from the recent article in the Natchez Courier, that this $45,000 h s since been expended in the same way, the auditor pro bably regarding the authority of the Lerislature superior to that of the Court of Errors. However 'thi/3 may be, it is plain that there is a collision between the Courts and the Legislature, and that the latter body has trampled under foot the authority of the former. " Nor, is this the only point of collision between the Government of Mississippi and her Courts. For her Court of Chancery has recently decided that she is legally and constitutionally bound for the redemp tion and payment of the Union Bank bonds. This case will go up to the highest Court, which, there is reason to believe, will sustain the Chancellor's deci sion. The New Orleans Bulletin, anticipating this result, says This will plitce the people of Mississippi in a very awkward predicament—they voting that they will not pay certain obligations, and the high tribunals of their own creation, specially authorised to pronounce up'on such subjects, declaring that they are legally and constitutionally hound for their redemption and payment. "All honour to the Mississippi Courts. They have done what they could to vindicate outraged justice, and blot out the infamy which must ever attend and follow the repudiation of just debts. That those under consi deration are just debts nobody doubts but the debtors. The country and the civilised world have pronounced upon the case a unanimous verdict. Mississippi stands before mankind a fraudulent debtor—able, but refusing to pay. Being an independent State she has the power either to pay or not to pay ; but this fact makes her re fusal still more discreditable to her, if possible, than it otherwise would be. " In thinking and speaking on this subject, we must be careful to discriminate between the numerical majority which has hitherto refused to make any effort to pay the bonds in question, and that large and respectable mi nority who for years have !Awn struggling to redeem the credit of the State. We said years ago, and we say now, that Mississippi will yet regard it as a privilege to pay her repudiated bonds, and all her bonds. Recent demonstrations encourage us to hope that her regenera tion is near. Not only the decisions of her Courts, and the increasing zeal of the party in favour of bond paying, encourage us, but also the fruits of her dishonesty, which she is beginning to reap. These are bitter, like the apples of Sodom, and will become more so the longer they are kept." 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By order, &c., HENRY TRISTRAM, / Hon. Secs. FRANCIS W. BLAKE,3 Schools, March 28, 1853. THE ESTABLISHMENTS ARE KNOWN EVERYWHERE, and their BUSINESS is PROFITABLE to EVERYBODY.—It is now unnecessary for E. MOSES and SON to puhlish 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 fashions, and the most superior qualities. The order department provides elegant styles of MILITARY or NATAL 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. 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(From the Tit ' .) i The Chancellor of the E hequer's announce ment of a motion to-morrow f a committee of the whole house to consider the C o solidated Fund and National Redemption Acts will revive many an old reminiscence, and manya dormant train of thought, in the elder portion of our readers. Forty years will carry us back to the day s , when the National Debt had not yet attained it present monstrous proportion, when it was still young and intolerable, and when every table was covered with pamphlets on its illegal or its ruinous character, and on the best way of getting rid of it. M os t the schemes for its redemption were little more than repudia tion, in one flimsy guise or another, But the iniquity and presumption of visit* the sins of one generation on another, and leaviat to the unborn the inheritance of a debt larger than the world had yet seen or conceived, was the prevailing idea of serious pamphleteers. The utmost that the nation could do, it was urged by a large class of financial malcontents, was to burden the future for ten years, or, at the utmost, twenty, that being the period during which nature makes us guardians and trus tees for the rising generation. But theories and plans for paying the costs of the wa and discharging our increasing liabilities were as riS- in thaw days as plans 'of drainage, extramural interibent, life assurance, and communieation on railways are in ours. The debt having attained a certain colossal roundness and perfection, and the war having happily, ended, the question of gold versus paper served for some years to fill up the void in financial minds; and from that day to this we have seldom bEgn reminded of the old controversy, except when Chancellors of the. Exchequer came forward from, time to time with the terrible announcement —terrible to many a widow and orphan—that stockholders were to be immediately offered their money or a lower rate of interest. By degrees we have come dovin to 3 per cent., and for many years Consols have not been sufficiently above par to allow any'further reduc tion. Now, however, for many menths; they have been so much above par, or so little below it, that it has become a question whether a bargain may not be made with the fundholder, and whether something may not be thrown in to make up for the want of a more decided premium in the market. According to rumour, that is the interpretation of Mr. Gladstone's announcement ; and, on the sup position that it is so, the judgment of the money world has already been pronoun ced in i ts favour in es that are looming ' the infallible voice of the Stock - Exchange. I i n Undtheeru the ndh n m i d a e n r y , s hand when money may be a dr u g , Consols ma y be cofunttge,enacnid with the days at considered as always trembling on the eve of con- ' version. The Chancellor of the Exchequer can al ready borrow as much money as he likes for a twelvemonth at I.'i per cent., and what is more likely than that 2 per cent r may by and by be the regular price for loans on unquestionable security ? It is true that, under many circum stances, a great abundance of money has a ten dency to raise the rate of interat. It is so in a new country, with new resources continually opening, and with many ways presenting them selves by which a man trade g with borrowed capital can turn it over often en ugh to pay a high interest, and accumulate a for une besides. But in an old country like England ' great disturbance of capital is more likely to reduce the rate of in terest than to raise it, and, we •repeat, nothing is less improbable than that before long Government may have as much money as it wants by paying 21. per cent. a-year for it. But the real hardship will be, that when Government has almost com pelled the creditor to take 21. instead of 31., it will still be unable to prevent the depreciation of the capital in the market, and the creditor who has in nec t e h ss e iti ma es i w n e d r u e c w ed ort by h, h s is ay p , riv lo at 2 e r t k o e s t e , il m w ay he s n till th b ey e reluctantly acquiesced in the bargai n w h en C onso l s are at 90, or less. Indeed, it may be naturally supposed that a stock which pays 21. is more likely to fall much below par than one which pays 31. For those who buy and sell money, for those who speculate in the funds, or wholiald a few thousands of stock on the reserve fund of Commercial enter prise, and, still more, for those who havo to live on the interest of their money, it will always be a very great hardship that their stock may be further depreciated. With such a prospect as this before us, there appears to be little doubt that a stock certain to pay 2A- per cent. for 20 years will be a more valuable property than one paying 3 per cent., but liable to be reduced to 2 per cont., or even lower. If rumour says true, that is the proposal which will be made to the fundholder, and a large proportion of fundholders will be glad to accept it. The two conditions offered by the Government, supposing the rumour to be correct, are the cer tainty of 2-i per cent. for 20 years, and the certainty of repayment at par at the end of that period, as opposed to the chance of reduction to 2 per cent., and a depreciation in 1873 or 1883 to 801., or even 601. When stock paying 5 per cent. has been with in the memory of living men at less than 50, what may not be the market value of ' stock paying 31., or so low as W.? Certainly the present seems the time for bringing the immense security of Govern ment to bear on the general insecurity of commer cial affairs. There is no class of debtor, not in cluding the Irish landowner, who has not been re cently enabled to pay off old debts with new ones paying less interest, or to make some other advan tageous bargain with his creditors. Even France has done this in the very midst of revolutions, con vulsed by factions, occupied by armies, and go verned by a despot. We have the best security in the world, for England, so liberal and so changeable in many respects, will fight to the last drop of its blood to maintain its financial integrity, the real palladium of its commercial prosperity. Mr. Glad stone appears so far to understand our position, and to seize the opportunity it offers. We take the mea sure as wefind it, and we have described the proposal as an advantageous one to the fundholder. In the city it appears to be thought even too advantageous, that is, accompanied with too much risk to the State. It is asked, what if a large proportion of the stock holders should immediately accept the offer, and Government should find itself obliged to pay them all their debts at par in 1873, when possibly com mercial or political events may make repayment difficult and costly ? It is even suggested that this part of the bargain might be modified, with the option on the part of the Government of paying its debt at the end of 20 years in 3 per cent. stock. This may perhaps be necessary, and even with this modification we are inclined to think the offer a good one for the fundholder ; but it should be re marked that the bargain cannot be a very good one for both parties at once ; and that if the State gains present ease by a reduction of the rate of interest, it must expect to purchase that ease by under taking some of the creditor's risk. The present 1 state of affairs is, that the State is burdened with the payment of an immense annual interest, and the fundholder has much uncertainty in his future prospects, as he knows neith • er the rate of interest he will receive nor the market value of his stock twenty years hence. The pro o 1) ~ sal is and must be a matter of " give and take. To be relieved somewhat of its present annual payment the State must relieve its creditor somewhat of his future sh his risks with uncertainty ;but it cannot dimini out increasing its own, a s the risks—that is the chances of change—exist, and must lie on some shoulders or other. The proposal is that Govern ment, for a present consideration, shall take a por tion of these risks on its own broad shoulders, and the fundholders will do well, we think, to accept the offer. FOREIGN AND BRITISH SHIPPING. ( Prom the Morning Post. ) It will scarcely be forgotten that, in the frequent discussions with regar d to the future of the national policy which took p lace on the accession of Lord phlanngce in complete- I llor of the Derby's Government to . power, Mr. Gladstone assumed to himself as a mission, not only the office of convoying free tr ade safe and .intact into har- b n o e s u s r , t h b e u in a i t l a o h d e system e mt of . d A e v s e c o Exchequer it has s ince become his peculiar province to do this so far as concerns the adaptation of the financial arrangements of the country to the new policy ; and on the 18th of the current month we shall learn how the chiefest representative of the traditions of Peel proposes . to get over the pons asinorunt that Mr. Disraeli was submerged in at tempting. Nobody questions the difficulty of the passage. E ver ybody admits th at, will he nill he, be he Peelite, Derbyite, o r Whig, the Chancellor of the Exchequer must compass it with free trade on his back—and encumbered,. too, with all the crotchets that have been of late elicited i by Parliamentaay in vestigations, and lie sleeping n blue books till they shall be waked by the Minister moving that the House resolve itself into a Committee of Ways and Means. The experiment will be an interest - ing and, possibly, a slippery one ; and the atten tion of the public has been so engrossed in watching its coming off, that they appear almost to - . ba,ve lost sight of the condition of one of our . MoSt important branches of industry, whiCh is daily suffering progressive deterioration because free trade in its completeness continues to be withheld from it. It is not from the stirring within us of any of the old leaven of Protection—not from any jealousy of those who overthrew what we defended, nor even from any anxiety to uphold, as a class merely, .the British shipowners, that we again earnestly call attention to the rapid decrease of the share, which, relatively to other nations, Great Britain has posseSsed of the carrying trade of the world, but because We consider that branch of in dustry of vital importance to the prosperity and consequence to the United Kingdom, and -deem its conservation and-protection one of the mostrim perative duties of an English Minister. We do not propose to go over all the old ground again ; nor is it necessary for our purpose to quote figures and statements which we have put in evi dence before, and which remain unanswered, to show that from 1848 to 1852, the relative poidtion of British shipping was not maintained either at home or abroad. It cannot be denied that, with regard to the United States especially, and with regard also to the most important of the European carriers, such was the fact. That pro Position, at any rate, was not refuted ; but then we were told that there was a new trade about to open, and to expand into great importance, both with California and with Australia, and that of both of these the British shipowner would undoubtedly get the lion's share. We expressed doubts as to such a result being attainable ; and the reasons which we gave for those doubts have since, we regret to ob serve, been entirely justified by facts as regards California, and the trade from the American shores there, and from thence to the eastern seas. Look ing to the last published returns from the Board of Trade, it is to be feared that, even with respect to the 'trade newly created with our own colony, we are little better off. It appears from 6; comparison of the total tonnage cleared outwards in the month of February of 1851 and X 855, and we take this month of the present year be - cause it was then that the Australian traffic had attained peculiarly high. development, that the total clearances outwards in tonnage were— British. Foreign. In Feb., 1851 359,199, composed of 229,208 128,991 In Feb., 1853 505,438, 297,600.......207,838 Now, we ask, is that a relative ratio of progress as between ourselves and foreign nations on which. a British public can look with satisfaction, or a Bri tish Minister without inquietude ? Will I.r: Glad stone and Mr. Cardwell sit complacent or listless in the face of such circumstances as these ; and will they make no. attempt to persuade or to drive the foreigner to grant us the reciprocity of unrestricted competition, and render trade as free in their ports as it is in ours ? They have a screw in the recipro city clause, though somewhat a rusty one, perhaps. If negotiation and gentle requirements fail, why not try if it will work or no ? We have given above the gross increase of the clearances of foreign tonnage outwards. It may be worth while to see how that was apportioned. In the case of Denmark, the increase has been from 6,000 to 11,000 tons ; in Prussia and the German States, from 18,000 to 23,000 tons; in Holland, from 4,000 to 11,000 tons ; in Belgium, from 2,000 to 4,000 ; and ix the instance of the United States, from 50,000 to 100,000 tons. The entries inwards present a still more remark able and a still more disagreeable result. They are : Total Tonnage. British. . Foreign. In Feb. 1851... 366,107 composed of 243,471 ... 122,631 In Feb. 1853... 457,151 „ 241,338 .. 215,816 This increase, in nearly a duplicate ratio, appears to have been thus distributed among foreign carry ing nations: — Feb. 1851. Feb. 1853. Russia 5,000 Sweden Norway Denmark 12,000 Prussia 6,030 Other German States 10,000 . Holland - 5,000 , 13,000 United States ' ' 46;000 •68;000 • Add with all this transference of traffic from the British to the foreign carrier, the consumer gets, we will not say no 'benefit, but no equivalent or proportionate benefit, for freights are no lower than before the repeal of the navigation laws. Now, we take it that the questions of the relative merits of protective and free trade systems being buried and done with, and a very active motive for fudge in these matters removed, no man will say that this is a desirable state of things, or one out of which our commercial marine is to be left to flounder as best it may. We are quite aware that shipowners, ship-dealers, and ship-builders aro not at this mo ment complaining. The shipowners, like old Ge neral Costigan, love to bask in a bit of sunshine ; but we shall hear enough of the voice of their com plaining when the Australian ships find crews to bring them home, and they are thrown suddenly in a lump for sale or freight on the market here. But we are not looking solely or peculiarly to them or interests—we are looking, and we confess with great anxiety and doubt, to what must be the fu ture influence of these circumstances on the posi tion of this country, if they are left without check or amendment. It is idle to hope to stop their progress by a Pilotage or a Passing Tolls Bill. PATRON-H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. —Mrs. Beecher Stowe's Popular Work on Slavery Illus trated in an Optical Exhibition, with Vocal and Instrumental Must, and New Dissolving Scenery, Morning and Evening. Lectures : By J. H. Pepper, Esq.—Half-hours with the Ancient and Modern Chemists ; by Dr. Bachhofther, on some of the Mechanical Proper ties of Aeriform Bodies ; by Mr. Crispe, on Eriecson's Caloric Engine. - - - Admission, Is.; Schools, and Children under Ten years of age, Half-price. LONDON THIEVES IN SOUTHAMPTON. For some months past robberies have been committed at the Southampton Railway terminus, and the South-Wes tern Railway Company have had to pay a considerable sum of money for parcels which have been lost there. Strong suspicious have been entertained that a pipe of wino was tampered with at the terminus, that a portion of the wine was taken from it and water substituted. In con sequence of those robberies, a London detective has for some time back been stationed at the terminus. A night or two since, three of the night porters belonging to the goods department were detected engaged in abstracting the contents of a barrel of beer, and were apprehended and lodged in gaol. One of these men has been in the railway company's service twelve years. For som e ti me past, also, a gang of thieves have been noticed passing be tween Southampton, Portsmouth, and Salisbury. A short time since two of them came to the parcel-office at the Southampton terminus for a parcel, and it was noticed by an official there that each seemed adverse to sign his name t• a book as an acknowledgment of the receipt of the parcel. The latter was directed to a disreputable public-house, in an obscure neighbourhood in the town. On Monday one of these men came again to the t erm i nus w ith a parce l for Lon don. A railway policeman, who was standing by, remarked that he was one of the gang of prigs about. Mr. Colebrook, theofficial al hided to,recollected that he was onowho had been averse to sign his name. The London detective was called .in, and he pronounced the parcel to be directed to a London Fence, or a place for the receipt of stolen goods. The cover of the parcel was of washed leather, such as jewellers use. It was very soon ascertained by the police, who set to work directly, that it contained about 101. worth of new silk handkerchiefs, and that most of the contents had , been recently stolen from different shops in Southampton. Lee, an active town police officer, was then made acquainted with these facts. Mr. olebrook went in disguise to the above-mentioned public-house, and there he saw a number of fellows, some playing cards, and others eating and drinking. None of them were, however, the parties he wanted. Lee soon afterwards entered the public-house, and in a room by himself he saw a man who, he knew from the description, was one of those who received the parcel from London, and very shortly afterwards he apprehended his confederate, the man who brought the stolen handkerchiefs to the ter minus. This fellow appeared to be thunderstruck by his apprehension, pretend.ed he was a commercial man, and 1 that he hardly knew where the railway terminus was. j On being confronted with Colebrook, however, he soon I altered his tone, and betrayed his guilt. Both the rail way and town police have acted very dexterously in the matter. Some interest is excited by the announcement of the sale of 130,000 acres of land in South-Western Austra lia, north-west of King George's Sound, by Mr. Robins, to take place in the month of May next. It is the por tion left unsold by the Western Australian Land Com pany purchased from the Crown some years since. The intention is to dispose of this property in large lots for agricultural and mining purposes. The land is reported to bear, in every respect, an appearance similar to that in South Australia, and should its products be the same, the tide of emigration will be diverted to that direction, as the climate of this portion of Australia is said to be equal if not superior to that of Sydney and Port Philip. Specimens of copper ore are in England which have been brought from near one of the rivers intersecting this land. The public sale of the extensive property in question will take place, under Mr. Robins's direction, on the sth May, if not disposed of in one lot by private arrangement. Several fine estates in Canada East, or Lower Canada, in the district of Gasp 6, are announced in our columns for public sale by Mr. Robins in June next. They com prise 132,652 acres of freehold land, upon which luxu riant timber is growing, and buildings erected in con nection with the Gaspg Fishery in the Bay of Chaleur, and seem to offer a strong temptation to the enterprising capitalist to invest his money in land, which in these days of emigration to the West, under the protection and influence of the British Government, must eventu ally become of great importance and value. STOP MY aPER."- - -When a man gets mad and stops his paper, he always borrows the next number of his neighbour, to see if the withdrawal of his patronage has'nt killed the editor and dressed the columns in mourning. This grows out of the fact that none try to show their spite in this way but the kind of people who imagine that the world rests on their shoulders. —Gates head Observer. TIM STATE OF VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, JAN. 1, 1853.—The last moments of an eventful year have fled, and it will be interesting to ponder for a while on the marvellous position and pros. pects of this favoured province of the great continent of the south. In little more than twelve months this small commu nity has had a greater amount of riches thrown into its lap than has• ever fallen to the lot of any people in any period of history ; and in attempting a brief portraiture of its position one is almost as much puzzled where to begin as it is difficult to make credible the vast changes that have come over this hitherto amicultural country. Fortunately for this city and province, the existence of golden treasures in the soil was not discovered earlier —for although it has come soon enough upon so young a colony, the evils that attend the rapid acquisition of gold (as witnessed in California) have been averted by the existence of a Government whose arms have been generally sufficiently strong to protect its people from a villain's attack or the adoption of a frightful Lynch law for themselves. Of crime there is a great amount to deplore, and which usually has its cause in the same source—viz., intemperance, both in the assassin who chooses stolen lucre rather than industry, and the poor digger who shows the glittering wealth and then drinks until he becomes a listless prey to the spoiler ; yet one wonders that in such a strange mixed community there should not be more causes of violence and robbery, and probably in no city in the world was there ever con tained a larger amount of property unmolested in such slender security as in Melbourne at this moment. It is by the blessing of a Government that society is held together, and the churches and courts of law are often attended as crowdedly as at home. The streams of wealth are flowing to this city by many different channels, but which are chiefly dependent on the suc cessful results to the labour of the digging community. It is quite impossible to form a correct estimate of the quantity of gold derived from the soil of this province during the year 1853 ; for 'although the number of ounces brought down by the armed escorts is published, there is no clue to the quantity brought down privately, nor can we arrive at any data as to the quantity held by parties here, nor do our ships' manifests pretend to tell us of all that leaves the port in the pockets of their passengers. As the production can only be proble matically ascertained, it is well state the two extreme estimates —viz., eleven and fifteen millions sterling value. When it is considered what large sums are kept back by the diggers themselves, the vast increase in the circu lating medium, the enormous known export, and the great aggregate amount of bullion in deposit at the banks, the latter estimate of fifteen millions is probably not far from the fact. Land, houses, shops, and warehouse property have advanced many hundredfold in value ; and although progresses at a magic pace, it is still impossible to find roof for the multitudes daily arriving ; conse quently many thousands are necessarily tented. Rents of land and every species of tenement are most extrava gant. A two-roomed wooden house-shed lets readily at 40s. to 508. per week, and a warehouse, to contain 400 tons of merchandise, 1,2001. per annum. . . Provisions are also much enhanced in value by the high price of labour and house rent ; these high prices, unfortunately, fall most heavily upon those commodities particularly prized by an English population, such as the following, viz..: —Milk, is. per quart ; eggs, 6d. each ; fresh butter, 3s. 6d. per lb. ; bread, 2s. 6d. per 41b. loaf ; cabbages, 2s. each ; onions, is. 6d. per lb. ; potatoes, 4d. • other vegetabl es equally dear. Water, 3s. per hhd. ; and wood for fuel, 31. per cart load. Fresh meat is corn; paratively reasonable—beef and mutton 4d., veal 6d. per lb. ; but the luxury of chicken can only be indulged in at 16s. per couple, or a goose at 20s. ! Cattle feed is very expensive. Green oat grass, 61. 10s. ; new hay, 201. ; old hay, 251. per ton ; oats, 14s. per bushel. Labour commands 10s. per diem for the unskilled. Good artisans are much wanted, and as high as 30s. for clever carpenters is given. Servants and laundresses find ready employment. Occupation for all strong ma nual labourers is readily found ; the only suffering class is that which is dependent on the pen, and a great num ber of clerks are by necessity working at the gold fields, finding suitable engagements unattainable in the port. The shipping from distant parts has been in a worse dilemma than any other interest, from the several causes ~ --~ of crews deserting on arrival, and the difficulties and expenses attending lighterage and ballasting. It is to be feared that much of the splendid shipping in the bay will continue to be delayed by the same adverse causes. ' Having rapidly touched some points of interest, let us hasten to glance at the prospects of the new year opening upon us, which is likely to prove interesting not only to this community itself, but to the world at large. Wo shall soon find a list of vessels making their way here in numbers beyond anything hitherto experienced ; it will include a gathering from all nations and languages, and altogether form a spectacle engaging alike to the Chris tian philanthropist, the statesman, and the philosopher. First, as to the Government. It is the fashion to abuse the "powers that be," but 4 should be rather a matter of surprise that so much has been effected by so young a legislature ; it is, however, found expedient to increase the number of members of the Council to 64, and when important measures come before them it will be time enough to make comments. The estimates have liberally granted additions to the stipends of the officials in some accordance with the altered circum stances of the colony. The simple tariff on imported commodities affecting only five, viz., spirits, wine, to bacco, ten, and coffee, is worthy of remark, and leads one to expect that by some future means a revenue will be raised without the expense of a custom-house or a temptation held out to the smuggler. The revenue for the year has augmented to 1,700,0001. The prospect of the yield of gold must be a pure mat ter of opinion, but from the most careful inquiries as to the auriferous regions, it is likely that with the increase of diggers and the intelligence and experience now at work a much larger aggregate yield of gold will be forth coming. Continual fresh localities are being discovered, and there is no assignable reason why deposits equally as rich as have already been found should not exist in a vast number of spots equally favourably situated. It is not thought that labour will recede in value for some time to come, as the yearning for the diggings among all the working classes is too general, and while the chances of success at the golden lottery are held out, there will be a restlessness among the brawny armed population which will deter them from the old routine of steady labour. : As the inflated prosperity and high prices of every thing depend s on th e go ld en h arves t as it s ma i n spr i ng , we will leave this part of the subject, and turn to the shadows of the scene, whence arise some gloomy thoughts for - consideration. One evil is unavoidable, viz., the overcrowded state of the greater part of our city, and this is coupled with very bad drainage. A case ' of cholera of ar Asiatic comp l ex i on occurred 'yesterday, and any qtreadmg of such a calamity is too dreadful to contemplate. Another evil is chargeable to those who have furnished England with such glowing descripti ons o f t h e c li mate of this colony ; and it is a gross deception practised on the poor emigrant to tell him that this is so delect able a climate. We have people from all re g i on s arrived at this time, uninterested in colouring any report, and who readily pronounce these glowing de scriptions unfounded, and should never have been pro mulgated. For instance, yesterday morning the i ther mometer stood at 102 deg. indoors, and 128 deg. n the sun, with a violent gale of blinding, burning dust, as bad as on a Nubian desert, and ere sunset the tempera. ture fell 40 deg. ; this is a frequent occurrence during the summer months, and should suffice to prevent such glowing reporta,of the'exeellence of the climate. Dysen tery has been a prevailing complaint among all classes, of all ages, and in many instances rapidly fatal. Money-making is charm enough to bring multitudes here, but they should not be deceived regarding the climate, which is more adapted to vigorous constitutions than to those labouring under infirmity, who should pause ere they venture to come to this distant land, where the usual comforts of life are not obtainable, except at an exorbitant cost. The immigration includes all classes of a civilized people, and as society becomes cemented thereby, the present year bids fair to present to the world such a rapidly-formed community as the world has never wit nessed. The population of the province is now estimated at 200,000 Ronls, and it is to its rapid augmentation that Gre-t Britain is indebted for its supply of wool, which is , noiv shipping to the usual extent. SELF-CONFESSION OF THE MURDER OF A WOMAN BY HER HUSBAND IN SCOTLAND. Yesterday much excitement prevailed in the neighbour- Hood of the Marylebone Policec-ourt, arising from a know ledge of the fact that a man was in custody and about to be examined upon the serious charge of murder. At 12 o'clock, by which period a number of cases of minorim portance had been disposed of, the prisoner was placed at the bar before the sitting magistrate, Mr. Broughton, charged on his own confession with having caused the death of his wife, Mary, at a house in Edinburgh, by throwing her down stairs and breaking her neck, and afterwards concealing her body under some flag stones in the cellar. The prisoner, who had the appearance of a labourer, and seemed to be about 35 years of age, had at the sta tion-house refused to give any other name than that of " Robert ~" he was very much dejected, and, resting upon the bar, covered his face with his hands during the greater part of the investigation. Mr. Broughton (to the prisoner)—What is your sur name ? Prisoner—l have given my name as far as I mean to tell it. Ido not want my friends to know of this affair. Sergeant Battersby, 4 D, on being sworn, said—At a quarter past three this morning I saw the prisoner out side of the Marylebone station-house, and he said to me, "I want to speak to you about my having killed my wife." Mr. Broughton—Was he the worse for drink ? Wit ness—No, sir ; he was quite sober. A constable who was outside brought him into the room where I was doing duty as acting inspector, and after I had cautionod him with regard to what he might say he made this voluntary statement :—" I and my wife went into a lodging-house in Blair's-close, Old Town, Edinburgh, at half-past twelve on the morning of the Ist of last January. I gave her 55., and told her to get me some supper. I then went out and re turned in the course of half-an-hour, when I found that my wife had not provided supper, as I ex pected she would have done. I asked her what she had done with the money, but I received from her nothing more than abuse. I sat down and smoked my pipe for an hour or so, and let her go on as long as she liked. She got so enraged at my not saying anything to her that she cried out, " Speak to me, speak, or I shall burst 1" She then flew at me, and scratched m y f ace. I se i zed her by the w r i s t s and held her down on the seat, and said to her, " Now, Mary, this is the last row you and I will have," and I told her that I would go and leave her. She still went on, thinking that I was not in earnest about going. I reasoned with her a long while, and on my at last leaving the room she followed me. By the time I had got to the bottom of the stairs she reached me, and laying hold of my arm, said, " Where thou goest there will Igo too." She clung to me, and I shook her off, and she fell down the stairs - in fact I threw her down. I did not know that the stairs were there ; it was quite dark. She gave a scream. I rushed down stairs, and spoke to her, but she gave me no answer. I then went up and got a light. and on my re turn I found her senseless. I dare say there was life in her, and that's all. I carried her up stairs, and laid her on the bed. She Was then quite dead. I was afraid of being taken up for the murder, so I took the light down stairs and found in the cellar a heap of rubbish and ashes. I lifted up some of the flag stones, and havinc, dug a hole a b ou t th ree f eet d eep, I fetched my wif e ° down and put her in the hole after which I covered her up, and put the stones down again in their proper places. I then mixed the earth with the ashes and rubbish, which I threw over the stones. I left the house at six in the morning, and went to a public-house, where I remained till daylight. I pawned my watch, and went to Leith, from which place I came back by steam-beat to Hull, and from thence to London. lam satisfied that I could point out the precise spot where the body now lies.' Mr. Broughton (to the prisoner, who seemed lost in thought, and scarcely raised his head from the bar in the course of the inquiry)—Have you heard all that the ser igtl e : n i. t has said l—Prisoner (carelessly) —Yes; I have heard Mr. Broughton (to Battersby)—Have you been able to get any information about the prisoner as to who he is or where be has been living since he has been in Lon don ?—Battersby—l have not, sir. Ile told me that the maiden name of his wife was McLaren ; further than that I could get nothing from him, with the exception of his telling me that when lie did the (teed all the other lodgers in the lower part of the house were out for a holiday. Mr. Broughton—The idea cf the hole dug under the flagstones, seems to have been borrowed from the Man nings' case. Inspector Jackson, D, said i t o h n a e t d he in he. th lr e d u t s l u m al p m ris a o n t n le e r say that he had not been long in London. Re (th e r inspector) knew that there was such a place 8.8 Blair's him till ' Wednesd a y nex t , by the magistrate, had nothinsgontotosay ands f e l dri , ei. r e pße a cri ti. n ose o oud n ng g ei ir : t t n, t o e snw , p heEico. remanded mow i n raa b us u jdc r a l cau h kt . cause a copy of the circumstantial statement of the murder made by the pri soner to be sent to the superintendent of the Edi n b urg h p of ol c i o ce u , rs b e y , b w e h i memomadi strict relativ e t o the ll inquiry into all th e circum stancesaeged murder of the f ema l e wou ld , The prison er was at 6 l and stri c tl y i nst i tuted. then removed from th e b ar b y Add ey, the gaoler, and locked up. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—Five weeks ago, a navvie. named Barratt arrived at Rentchurch, and met with a former companion (John Letts), who had worked on the London and York line at Newark, and who treated him kindly. The same evening, Saturday, Feb. 26, they went together to the Bridge Inn, Rentchurch, where " forfeit money" had to be spent, and there the stranger fought for a short time with another navvie. Late at - night the parties left, Barratt (who bad arranged to go to Lett's lodgings) having been observed to go out pre viously. From that time nothing was seen of him until Thursday last, when the landlord of the Bridge Inn found his body (the face having come to the surface) in a cesspool or privy on his premises. H. Underwood, Esq., held an inquest on Monday last, when Mr. Lane, surgeon, thus described its appearance :—" I found the man quite dead, and covered with filth. I examined the face. I then gave orders for the body to be cleaned in order to its examination, and on the following morn ing. I proceeded to make a more c are f u l exa,mination_.v.is found a mark on the eye and nose, as though smile blows had had been given to the -1 ,eased when alive. T y ot h e e uffieient and blows were of a trifling kind, mc,e must have body. lam of opinion that the to produce death. There was no I.;id been suffocated fallen headlong into the cesspool, Verdict, " Found instantly in the mire of the cesspool. -dead." certainly nwihantever on the , e - A SECOND AND REVISED EDITION OF MEMOIRS of the COURT and CABINETS of GEORGE THE THIRD. From Original Family Documents. By the Duke of BITCEINGHAM and CH XITDOI, IS PUBLISHED THIS DAT, In 2 vols. Bvo., with Portraits, 30s. bound. Hurst and Blackett, Publishes, Successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great 3larrlborough-street. 15 1. Is 3 ~:l 1.4