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Royal Exchange Assurance Office, Royal Exchange, 25th May, 1853. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the Corpo bereb ration of the ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE do u , , Y give Notice that their Transfer Books will be shut from 4' la r ' , ;Ai's the 7th of June next, to THURSDAY, the 7th of July fol hold • and that a General Court of the Bald Corporation will he on at their office at the Royal Exchange, on Wednesday, the 'A of June, at Twelve o'clock at noon, to consider of a Dividend. ALEX. GREEN, Sectetary. Office of the Gas Light and Coke Company, Horseferry-road, Westminster, 25th May, 1853. .1111 I 3) o HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that the fol lowing Proprietors, viz.:— JOHN LOPER, Esq. Jour; BROWN, Esq., and Directors, FREDERic ALBERT VY INEOR, have, „„ the _rrsuant to the Bth Bye-law of this Company, severally given tlce in writi ng of their intention to offer themselv, s tor lte-electon as Directors, at the Election which will take place at the .0 'Pants‘ Gas Works, il orse t err y- roa d, Westminster, en Tuesday, day of June ne/e49 12 o'clock (at noon) precisely. By °rile CHARLES BURLS, Secretary. THE M i ttLEO I URNE and COLONIAL HOUSE INVEST M EN T COMPANY. afterfarther applications for Nhetres in this Company will be received 'ft ESDAY next, the 31st By order of the Directors, W. ATKINSON. 13. Gr esham -street, City, 24th May, 1853. To BRICK and TILE MAKERS. The eo,, MEL BOURNE and COLONIA L HOUSE INVESTMENT hake P ANY are re a dy t o rece i ve T en d ers f rom p ar ti e s w illing to 44 ) ti res Hollow Brrieetcks, according C to sample to be seen at their office, hain-st . _ 25th May, 1853 By order of the Board, W. ATKINSON, pro Sec. BRIGHTON SELTZER WATER, 4s. a dozen. Rei tze Ur. HOOPER h REDITCED his PRICE for Brighton Wat r and Pachingen from Gs. to 4s. per dozen. Also other mrated Eij x !,, rB i n Proportion, and which are unsurpassed, if not unequalled. titiatrzen hampers carriage lree. Balls and fetes supplied in such sp eet titi " Only as may berequired. Delivery twice daily. A pro ns with list of prices can be had on appllcitlon.--1100PER, 7, East;Tnall and 55, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street. IK° I 4NEIL MANNER-GESANG-VEREIN, or (It it;LL Cologne Choral Union, Hanover-square Rooms.—Mr. MIT 1115at ~.,resPectfully announces that he has en erect into an arrange- Of m eu ,Ili ci t Koiner Mapner-Gesang-Verein, or Cologne Union th a . ts, for the purpose of presenting, by 80 members of winb, ui stingtfished Society, SIX MORNING CONCERTS. days:whic tak e place at the Hanover-square Rooms on the following th e gaY, June the 7th; Thursday. June the 9th; Saturday, June day, i."; Tuesday, June the Thursday, June the 16th ; Satur ha;,„uoe the 18th. Commencing at half-past three o'clock, and ter errmgabout five o'clock ; under the superintendence and direction cert.:a ra nz Weber. These concerts will consist of choral and con vocal music, without accompaniment, selected from the works Vn a r,ehisohn, Otto, Zoliner, Kreutzer, Kucken, Liederkranz, C. m e wl', Lochner, Schubert, Schneider, Beethoven. .NeukoUurt., lanl e „, e ,xeOution of which by the ' members .of the Society has "aril• th, e q with the highest and most distinguished approbation in ' t — Poot,Prussia, Germany, and Belgium. ! ha concerts will be bibslrr„Pr by an instrumental performance each day, executed Claius at the first concert, M. IL Vieuxtemps at the second, fes s G oddard at the third, and subsequently by other eminent pro he°"t „. 1 accordance with the established principle of this Society, p ar Vceeds of these concerts will be devoted to useful and charitable rea" Prospectusses and programmes of the concerts are . now str e ;,' 44(1 may be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's library, 33, Old bond '; and at tile principal muslesellers' and librarians'. T I M,. MEDITERRANEAN ELECTRIC x a , t ~ELEGRAPII COMPANY, to unite,Europe with Africa, the 4tl e ,r di ell, and Australia via France, Piedmont, Corsica, Sardinia, and Egypt. (societe en commandite,) 00, Pei t ", , „ 300 ,0001), in 30,000 shares et 250 francs (10/)each. De `"o francs (41.) per share, with an exclusive privilege, for fifty t ee 0.0,! f rom the Governments of France and Sardinia, and a guaran- Of Fr Per Per cent, per annum on 4,500,000 francs by the Government Of o..""eci and live per cent. on 3,000,000 francs by the Government R HONORARY DIRECTORS IN ENGLAND. Aty 00Y51 Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G. 1/ 4 race the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, K.G. 4 13 ~ I( cellenc y the Count Colonna Walewski, Ambassador of France. Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio. Envoy Extraordinary and thAlie taster Plenipotentiary of Sardinia. ,„, l 'ord de Mautey, Chairman of the Subma!ine Telegraph Com "aY between Great' Britain and the Continent of Europe. HONORARY DIRECTORS IN FRANCE. 1:1„ ;PPerial Highness the Prince Napoleon Bonaparte. ip.7Excellency the Count F. de Persigny, Minister of the Interior, 84 e. Xxe &e. lency M. Dronyn De Lhuys, Minister of Foreign Affairs 111 1 3 c 'e• , xe enency the Right llon. Lord Cowley, Ambassador of Great 4,ritaht. ling HONORARY DIRECTORS IN SARDINIA. ti,;Yal Ilielmess the Duke of Genoa. 'ulrquis alassitno d'Azeglio. s 4„,„„ ,_lsf„.."'„_"etioY Count C. de Cavour, President of the Council of —seers, &c. Excellency General da liormida, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Hla ".celleacy Comm. P. Paleocapa, Minister of Public Works. ili3 ,...; ...is e te e r llency James Hudson, Esq., Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Great Britain. le-,Vcoelleney - the Duke de Quiche, Envoy Extraordinary and eiter Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of the French. ee4lel . Gerant—John Watkins Brett, Esq e e ",,, 1 . of Surveillance—Samuel Laing, Esq., M.P., &c. ; John Was ,,Esq., Jun. ; Sir James Carmichael, Bart.; Ernest Bunsen, h ankers in London—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co. hankers in Paris—Messrs. Fould, and Fould Oppenheim. Bankers in Turin—Messrs. Pavia. Travi, and Co. General Agents in Italy—Messrs. Curti, Picelotto and Co. • ii ri ! ll aineers —Jacob Brett, Esq., and the Chevalier Bonelli. "'" , —Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite, 68, Old Broad. street. Secretary in London—J. Wortley de la More, Esq. 00 1 c es, in Paris—James Power, Esq. 'es, 117, 118, Bishopsgate-street, near the London Tavern, and 'th e 83. Rue Richelieu. Submarine Telegraph between England and France has been I Qin terrupted operation during the last two-years, and on the 6 th ostaut tl se cable of seventy miles, in one entire length, was : l aid k fro ' . between England and Belgium with complete suecess,sus i n i l lug an additional proof of the vast capabilities of this medium the ornational communication. * e I nventors and promoters of the sumarine telegraph, aided by a ri ,, e nlightened and generous support oft he Governments of France Sardinia, Propose to unite Europe with Africa by continuing t: electric wir e s, vr - hlch now ran without interruption between 111:171 1 "d Genoa to Spezzia. From the latter port they will cross 4„,,kiterranean to Africa, passing by the Islands of Corsica and thj.,c route chosen has teen carefully surveyed, and approved by ~•orrirritssion appointed by tbe French Government a 4 affording fic i t'st practicable line of crossing the Mediterranean : the depth W ater from land to land being throutzhout very moderate. Ut the Company has furth . er and still more important objects In I, y r• The telegraphic junction of Europe with a Atrica and the East is a great desideratum to the whole worl , and must be con ol'hs.eret.l as one of the most important undertakings of the present age 4''OgresS. 'his Company is making arrangements for the o contin c uation A t . a : Ut ilsrr• ne en line from Algeria, along the coast f Anda ,to 1 , 4 -Odri -a in Egypt. to the construction of which it has bean ascertained t. Practical difficulty exists ; and with the support of the British ' , Ov en sment and the East India Company it will be easy to prolong 14, wires to Bombast where they will meet the great line of 3,000 th (l , now in course of construction by the East India Company, and I,,arther end of this chain may ultimately be carried to Australia. C ute n e Governments of France and Sardinia have guaranteed to the libera l an exclusive privilege for the term of fifty years, with a T e r k el annual minimum interest. shu n Promoters have entered Into a contract for the complete exe an "of the works from Spezzia to the borders of Tunis (including Preliminary expenses, and a transfer of the concessions of the two eq " ,„, r ornents), for the sibn of 300,0001., being the amount of ;" i lloh interest has been guaranteed by the Government ofFrance am n i a ; and the works in Sardinia are now in active pr,gress. sl iar anl ~'„?_rest at the rate of four per cent. per annum will be paid to the tw o Tatters upon the amount called up, and t ei,uarrantees of the pe ru ov ernments will take effect on the opening of the respective ~_ous of the lino. iatnhe 30,000 shares representing the capital of the . Company, 0 0 ," have been taken in Sardinia, and 10,000 in Paris, leaving )4 4 ; s hares for England ; application for which may be =de to 1. 11 1.8 ,, • Foster and Braithwaite, 68, Old Broad - street. *hi capital requisite for the extended operations beyond Algeria by " r aised hereafter upon such terms as may be d e t e rmined upon tee,: be itotiatiuna wills the British Government and the East India to th' e a ' l y- The shareholders et the.present Company w ill be entitled al„ " preference in any future extension. sibm„ li ability of the subscribers is limited to the amount of th e ir l i , (which are payable to bearer), and the capital of 300,00.11., '.th i. , 4i ., s ed, will be devoted to the Mediterranean Line. Day, o s oftres will be made to bearer, and issued and delivered on the London, of the deposit. " c m, May 21, 1853. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. Mediterranean Electric Telegraph Co►npany. ---......—.. —....... 1 -, ~ 'Niemen To Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite. I Nlert o ,„ ,--I request you to allot me shares In the above ."%4 ti ,,',',ng; and I hereby agree to accept the said shares, or any 'gar, a 1 .r you may allot me, and to pay the suns of 41. on each I)...aeleiltted at the tirneto be specified in your letter of aUottmeut. 41 thi s day of 1853. Name (In full) .......• •• .• •• • • • • • • •• • • .• •• IC A Profession, &c •• .... • • •.......... ....... • • r' ll oo the . Gill instant communications were instantly transmitted lit. -its 6,T,11es of submarine and subterranean line, with two of 24- ...........-: tery 0111 y. -1. 11 MEDITERRANEAN ELECTRIC .11,„,, this •,e e is TELEGRAPH COMPANY. eoh), bee that no further application for Shares in 'abY to received after FRIDAY, 27th instant. / And. JOHN W. BRETT, Gerant. "n• 24th M ay, 1853. ,-, drifts, tremendous maiNG of TWO EXTREMES in the q „ . f: -- G , \v ATIIER —A. few days ago deep ,•„'" 4 ' it ' t t i'"' , and sharp * frosts visited sever h a s e l b m e p w a a r d - t e s st o b f r t e l e ie ze c s o , country, - ' 4 l l l '''''' days' otice were succeeded by t 0,„ Ile, and In the weather. Such . . ''', 4 „ all - other warm indications of summer. `eace '' , ellng of two extremes 'f h a I: e i t s ei , e.u i u n r --. "bri.. "eates an extreme demand for seasobleC u l f ot A lu t n t a complete change 'ltch' at the same time, desiring l r. eat,''Zat.,sions the magnificent and commodious " k c, -. '' Moses and Clothing Es gi t r :s e b . ils O h l - 1 41„,,r''''at advantage from ' the fact of n um Sox becomes a public its co d n e v p e ar ni t e m ne e e u , ,s as be ll a l municating—w f h t g l° , 4 11 0 4 :: ',lcl complete —distinct, but e 7, 4 s ir ? a : 4,1 ' , e l .e furnished e t r h e ef el D e a g r c e a s n a c , i e e s i and et_ nreoe.vaoedwlytei.erts ° prices, theere?re, exbititr,lgiltoinuteust ~,..Theso r fatreate advantages to all classes a tri d superior quality u a i t up h ita i ntly distributed in the 1 of 7,) 4 ; ~,41),tines facilities are corive a n u ir unite t d tu. gi r li e oat, she at the Agate 1 heir Branch in West End by t equally commo die,,,M•stree, S ON, and,at the t aree , t each idinorlea Establishment New 1)1 4 ' alit ~,,_ corner of Bar ..t rtistic de 4114114, superior quality, a Gartnents briP 4 f er o v aYs replenisbel with the most b n e rvfland tasteftil dis tq ~,la:Illed dlin g fo r all classes ' fort secured I ...r, t , . workinanshin fashion. and corn "Qr 4 °B Fit • ' 1 r process' ren k i r , Y tit ylo , and, by a peeu a every profes- Adults,applicable to th. ll , De,„_of bre.ts for Juveniles and . andderfeedr -- - 1 „t 0, 0 ,. 5 e, o r entire impossibility. Sox's. so low engaement. All . articles charged prices hi :ltiti l :, 41 1tion is futile , and imitation an h ' tl l.l.4"dd Caps for the summer season, at paralleled Clic 1) esg. cndless variety, unequalled novelty, and E n. n IIIOSES and a.. 4 41. in the world. •tdr—,-rY for Ladles and Gentlemen, the naciens of all seasonable s,octios, w tt, , nigramacharged lower prices than . at any house 4 .. ° atilt , previbus to embarkation, well e to Australia, as 0- Dri , '_ ° .' their I,aund mess required for the voyage department is appr s may procure the most com e to tu !suits when arrived. A separate Ikei l °west „11,grailts; immediate attention andid to their a Clothing t ( ~ .,s _ t. , a ha 4 ,_.' e ces are charged for the (foods , c ir i tle s, `;:l t!liality and suitability of every article_ pplireytiewntit: Iti' lli 'd tl etchants, and Emigrants disposed . 8 Esta . ford ish le wbotesale Department at E, MOSES and SON , kO litita lt. ti le Most profitable and is ne guaranteed.ln•estiilent , N I ~,• "for Lists or convenient for large or small ki r , 'nation Outfits for Ladles and Gentlemen a a n u d y s p h ar ip t s e a t il t i h n e g ...gdoth MaY be had on application, or post free to i.:• l'llldi e ' t 103 7. -..E ifill eh 4 8kin at • MOSES and SON' regret untradesman-like th NA or „ ....01110sition, haying learned that tlhaving to guard the It's ht.iserne coh_.eing connected with their Establishment," or " '‘ous r -, ertl." has been resorted to in many instances, No r. re the C° aeons, beg to state that they and for t e..,._ ~.. Wyrti ANY OTHER HOUSE IN h O a It ve OUT s OFLONDON, 114'411146, 71n their own Establishments, as follow • rieft 83, .615. am 8 3' Rstablishinent 154 155 i 56, and 157, Mino , 14 %" 0 11 4.: Aldgxt e.oPposite the ChUrch, all communicating._ _. r ot 1te,......,r1•end Itraneh, 508, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, t. Zi Ittater',:,4„t_ecrt, all communicating. i e t : l lo'd' W raa k e Shlre) Br anch, 11,, t 'hent T g i i ". 86, Pargate. 19 nd 20, Bridge-street. /, 14 ak hr ors, Clothiers Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and tx til t a l:(qt z t x . aTud General Ouititters for Ladies and Gentlemen. Wit h ,,oged If dc;;-_Should any article not give satisfaction, lt will be Pri,,,""lt hesitatio ""ed'returned or, if preferred, the money will be r ,th,atr(,),„ whioiu All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest llaturdat"lablistimenotaabareternt can be made, _ r _ _ ay id to sunset on ot A T , H I, Cv. , ioowhen business la ressedulif r e, iirn ti 8 1 11 1 n 2 se o t r I 'clock. kdvi •e , c , s • ours The Herald of the Seasons," containing full lists "3' e s 1 etni YB4ln et settnleasurement, facts relative to Australia, 4 part et , Fl .t atst B ce, may be had on application, or post-free to 0 , ~ hit!i,4o,,sitsAllingdorn. 911lie!ttio7. rnaaac for the year ending 1853 ca n be had gratis, 11..0111)tu'le Francais. Qui arla Italian°. _lN,AZ.._Pricht nian bentge.h. ' 2 e t .' it r‘to A quaEspanol , cc, , leveral PORTERS. A s e babla Epply morning between 9 and 1)lt. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row. Carvalho, Flact-street , Mann, 39, Cornhill. Price One Shilling each ; by Is Gd. ENJOYMENT OF LIM "Health, Recreation, and Rational Use of Time." liising—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 Sea -London at Night—Evenino at Horne Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air, Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c., &c. FRAGMENTS FROM Vol. FOUNTAINS. Two Volt. . I. VISIT TO THE LAKES ; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH. &c. Vol.H. TICE LAKES OF KILLARNEY ; REMINISCENCES OF DUBLIN, &c. 'MUT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID, That three score years and ten ow' course may run,. A'popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner ronaly-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution that harasses tbe young, besets the man of pleasure, business or study, a n d em bitters old age • with tablekand rulesfor the diet and physical regu lation of every-day life, •---- - - - - THE PASSIONS. " What passions hurt the body—what Improve, Truths as relined as Athens ever heard." SUBJECT :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old ago. The ad vent of the passions. Chastity and its Infringement. The casualties ofileentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narra tive, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages. V. THE MARRIAGE STATE. To be or not to be, that is the question." PlooliAmmx :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and choice, on both sides, as to age temperament, complexion, and figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. _ . Caiies, &c. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841). M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. 24 y ), Twenty-flve years Medical and Forensic Referee in there matters. Price Is. each ; by post, Is. 6d. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street ; Mann, 39, Cornhill; or of M. R. Culverwell, M.D.. 10, Argyll-place, Resent-street, who may bo consulted daily from Ten till Five and seven till Nine. No. 18,929.] MR. THACRERAY'S LECTURES. In a few days will be published, in One Volume, crown Bvo., price 10s. 6d., cloth, T HE ENGLISH HUMOURISTS OF TEIE 18Tir CENTURY : A Series of Lectures delivered in England. Scotland, and the U nited _ . .__ States of America, By W. M. TIIACKERNY, Esq., Author of " Esmond," " Vanity Fair," &c. London : Smith, Elder, and Co , 65, Cori:hal. One Volume, poet 8 vo., cloth, 14s. THE HUMAN BODY and ITS CONNEXION w ITU MAN, illustrated by the Principal Organs. By JAMES JOHN GARTH WILKINSON, M D. London : Chapman and Hall. 193, Piccadilly. MISGOVERNMEFT exposed in the AL History of Sir C. Rapier's Admiuistratiou of Sciiioe. 1 vol: Bvo., with Illustrations. Price 16s. London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. Now ready, price 2d., post-free, 4d., THE CRITIC CRITICISED. REMARKS on the CASE, EPSILON versus CARPENTER, Relating to the USE of ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE in INDIGESTION. By HARRINGTON PARKER. London, 5%, Pall-Mall. 1853. EPSOM RACES and ICED CHAMPAGNE. Pa , lies visiting the Races can be supplied with all kinds of Refreshments, viz., Hams, Tongues, Raised Pies, Salads, &c., and use of China. Glass, Cutlery, and Linen, packed In convenient hampers, made for the occasion. Winer, Soda Water, &c., packed in Ice. Messrs. FURSSELL, Cornhill, near the Exchange (only). NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURANCE. T HE DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,_ 18, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. CA.PiTAL—OKE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. TRUSTEES. The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P.; P.C., Comptroller of her Majesty's Household. Sir Charles Price, Bart, 3, King William-street, London. pen raSir W. B. Clayton. Bart, Gloucester-place, Portman arden-park, Surrey. DIRECTORS. Chairman—The Right lion. the Viscount Drumlanrlf, M.P., P.C., Comptroller of her Majesty's Household. R. Yallowley Barnes, Esq., 11, City-road, Finsbury. G. Noel Clarke, Esq., late 17th Lancers, Junior United Service Club. George Coode, Esq., rortland-terrace, Wandsworth, and Belvoir, St. Jersey, Stephen Crackuall, Esq., 1, St. John's-gardens, Notting hill, and 11 New-square, Limoln's-Inn. W. Jones, M.D., Davies•street, Berkeley-square, and Lutterworth, Leicestershire. George Knex, Esq., 15, Connaught-square, llyde-park, and Tor Lodge, Staffordshire. Alexander Maclean, Esq„ harrow-on-the-Hill. C. Morgan, Esq., Berkeley, Gloucestershire. David C. Poole, Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square. William Prinsep, Esq., 147, Leadenhall-street, and 8, Hyde-park. place West. Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Dr. Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. Major Sperling, 14, St. James's-square. AUDITORS. F. J. Blgg, Esq„ 126, Strand, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical, Legal, and General Life Office. William Jones, Esq., Accountant, 3, Guildhall-chrunbers. A. Peck, Esq., 8.A., Actuary to the Engineers and Mason!. Life Office, 345, Strand. H. B. Sheridan, Esq., Manner of Times Assurance Company, Lud gate-IM. ISANgERS. sir Charles Price, Marryat, and Co., 3, Sing William-street, London. Messrs. Hopkinson and Co., 3, Regent-street. PHYSICIANS. Dr. Lewis, Finsbury-place. Dr. Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West. Connaught-square. BURGEONS. IL T. Chapman, Esq., 16, Lower Seymour-street. Portman-square. Michael Teevan, Esq., 44, Gloucester-place, ilyde-park-gardens. CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. P. Nelson, Esq., F.L.S. SOLICITORS. Messrs. 11111 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, which is based upon tables calculated y, and is under the immediate supervision of, Francis G. P. Nelson, Esq., F.T. 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 f Assuran ON THE ORDINARY SYSTEM. The sum the ordinary The sum the !Life Offices would give ordinary Life ,him Übe were unable Offices would to pay, or if he omitted At the His give him for .to pay his current end of policy the surrender annual premium of 4. Annual; thirty at that or sale Si. 6s. 3d. after he has premium l yearsvrhen age, of his policy, ipafd into their coffers to assure the party lh case after thirty 1249/.73.6d., and which 5001. is fifty of y ears'pay men ts they have had the nse years old, death amounting to of at compound hewillhave will be 2491.75. 6d. interest, or in paid into worth which theyhave the event of his death the office. 'had the benefit) one hour after such of at compound omission or inability interest. to pay. !oiBl.Gs.3d. 1 249/. 75.6 d. 500/. little more than 801. NOTHING. perhaps 90/. ON THE DEPOSIT SYSTEM. Ifnnable to pay, or not desirous of paying or omitting topay.thel'o- Hey would Atilt remain of its FULL value, 522/.2s.7d.tilldeath, if 20 years after, no fur ther payment beingre quired. Ifhowever the party.trom any cause, wished to cancel the Policy, he could not onlydraw out all hehas put in, viz., 2251., but a certain bonus of 62/. 20 71.10 s Od 2251. 5221.257 d 2871. 2s. 9d. 2s. 9d. in the bargain, which is more than one-fourth of the whole ofhis payments, or he could either draw 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. Ste pagess and7in detailed pamphlet, by F. G. P. Nelson, Esq. On comparison of these two tables it will be seen that a person ender the novel system of DEPOSIT assurance can secure the follow ing advantages, viz., l st. For a less sum, paid annually, he can assure a larger sum in case of death than under the ordinary system. in In the event of a desire to surrender his Policy he can receive . in this Company, by the above example, which applies to all ages, TUISEE times as much as on the ordinary system. 3rdly. In the event of inability or omission to pay, his policy remains still his property, for any number of years ; whereas on the ordinary system, he gets nothing. 4thly. Should he require to increase or decrease the amount of his policy, he can do so at pleasure. Ile can at any time, by giving a fortnight's notice, withdraw any part from IL up to the whole amount of his previous p ar ayments , by a sla and with interest payment, three . After he has withdrawn part one ye he cangle years, or any time afterwards. raise his policy to a greater or even its former amount ; and by this system he can at all times regulate his annual savings by his annual expenditure, with the facility in the bargain of having a fund to fly to in case of necessity, the same as In a bank, with this palpable advantage, however, that he gets Inte rest for his money, and in case of death his fami O ly rece ices ive be mcanore than the amount of his saving s. In ordinary Life ff d such thing, but his policy at premiums, lases or is cancelled the moment he ceases to pay his current and, instead of having any fund to fly to for mils l his hati-earned savings become forfeited to the society, and his fortunes serve to benefit the pockets of his more fortunate co-assurers. Such a system is too equitable and too striking to be overlooked and DEpostr assurance is the only system of assurance which can be universally recognised and adopted when the principles are impar tially canvassed, and its palpable benefits become widely diffused. It confers greater advantages than a bank because it allows a fair rate of Interest in case of withdrawal, and gives twice the amount in the hands of the Company to the representatives of the Depositor in case of death, thus combining the ADVANTAGES OF A RANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF AN ASSURANCE COMPANY. In case of endowment assurances the advantages of the DEPOSI system are still more striking. ADVANTAGES OF THIS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY LIFE ASSURANCE BRANCH. To those who prefer this branch Policies are granted from 201. to 5,0001. on every known principle thereof. Lives in all but the worst stages of disease, and such as have been rejected by other Offices, are taken at rates equivalent to the parti ailar 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 case of inability to pay the currant premiums, the Directors will eitner purchase the Policy at a fair market value, or give a new one in lieu thereof, less 5 per cent.. inte rest corresponding in amount to the whole of the previous payments which have been made. 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They had heard that a stipulation had been entered into with the Board of Trade that only one engine should be o►► the line at a time ; and that stipulation appearing to have been broken, a question would arise between the direc tors and the Board of Trade on the subject, with which they had nothing to do. There could be little doubt that the survey train being taken for the regular train was the primary cause of the accident ; but he could not divest himself of the opinion that the unfortunate de ceased himself had been guilty of great negligence and carelessness. Should they find that blame was attached to any one, it must be to the Hon. Mr. Scott and Mr. Beattie, who were on the line in a carriage, without any apparent motive which should render it necessary for them to have been there just as another train was due ; and they must altogether acquit of blame Messrs. Eaton and Ireton, who appeared to have performed their duty carefully and properly. The jury having been in deliberation upwards of two hours, found a verdict of manslaughter against the Hon. Francis Scott, M.P., and Mr. Beattie—the verdict having been agreed to by twelve jurymen, and there being five dissentients. SUCCESSION DUTY BILL. The Succession Duty Bill, as prepared and brought in by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord John Russell, and the Solicitor-General, has just been printed under an order of the House of Commons. It is intituled " A bill for granting to her Majesty duties on succession to property, and for altering certain provisions of the acts charging duties on legacies and shares of personal The firitlir- Interpretation clause provides that, for the purposes of the act, the term " real property" shall de note all freehold, copyhold, customary, leasehold, and other hereditaments, whether corporeal or incorporeal, in Great Britain and Ireland, not ccimprised in the defi nition of "personal property," which term is not to in clude leaseholds, but shall include money payable under any engagement, and all other property ordinarly de noted by the words " personal property," and all such shares of any public company as are accounted real estate and personal annuities of inheritance. By clause 2 it is enacted that every past or future dis position of property, by reason whereof, upon the death of any person dying after the time appointed for the commencement of the act, any other person is or shall become entitled to any beneficial interest in any pro perty, either immediately or after any interval, certainly or contingently, and either originally or by way of sub stitutive limitation, and every devolution by des cen t, reverter, or act of ew of any beneficial interest in real property, either in possession or expectancy upon the death of any person dying after the commencement of the act, to any other person, shall be deemed to confer on the person entitled by reason of any such disposition or devolution a "succession;" and the term "successor" shall mean the person so entitled, and the term "pre decessor" the settlor, testator, obligor, ancestor, or other person from whom the interest of the successor is or shall be derived. Clause 3 provides that where any person, shall, at or after the passing of the act, have any property vested in them jointly, by any title not conferring on them a suc cession, any beneficial interest in such property accruing to any of them by survivorship shall be deemed to be a succession ; and every person to whom any such inte rest shall accrue shall be held to be the successor ; and the person upon whose death such accruer shall take place shall be accounted the predecessor ; and where any person shall take any succession jointly, they shall pay the duty, if any, chargeable theron by this bill, in pro portion to their respective interests in the succession ; and any beneficial interest in such succession, accruing to any of them by survivorship, shall be deemed to be a new succession derived from the predecessor from whom the joint title shall have been derived. It is provided by section 4 that " Where, by reason of any past or future disposition of property taking effect upon the death of any person dying after the time appointed for the commencement of this act, any other person shall have a power of appointment over property exerciseable for his own benefit, he shall, in the event of his making any appointment for his own benefit, be deemed to be entitled at the time of his exer cising such power to the property or interest thereby appointed as a succession, and the person by whom such power shall have been created shall be deemed to be the predecessor ; but in all other cases the person taking a suc cession by the exercise of any power of appointment shall be deemed to have derived his succession from the person creating the power as predecessor." Again, it is enacted by clause 5 that • " Where any property shall at or after the time appointed for the commencement of this act be subject to any charge, estate, or interest, determinable by the death of any per son, or at any period ascertainable only by reference to death, the increase of benefit accruing to any person or persons upon the extinction or &termination of such charge, estate, or interest shall bo deemed to be a succession accru- ing to the person, or the persons if more than ono, then entitled beneficially in possession to the property, accord ing to his or their respective estates or interests therein, or beneficial enjoyment thereof; and the person or persons from whom such successor or successors respectively shall have derived title to the property so charged shall bo deemed to be the predecessor or predecessors, as the case may be." By section 6, "Where any disposition of property, not being a bond fule sale, and not conferring an interest expectant on death on the person in whose favour the same shall be made, shall be accompanied by the reservation or assurance of or con tract for any benefit to the grantor, or any other person, for any term of life or for any period ascertainable only by reference to death, such disposition shall be deemed to con fer at the determination of such benefit an increase of bene ficial interest in such property, as a succession equal in annual value to the yearly amount or yearly value of the benefit so reserved, assured, or contracted for, on the per son in whose favour such disposition shall be made." Clause 7 enacts that " Where any disposition of property shall be made to take effect at a period ascertainable only by reference to the date of the death of any person dying after the time appointed for the commencement of this act, such disposition shall be deemed to confer a succession on the person in whose favour the same shall be made ; and where any disposition of pro perty shall purport to take effect presently, or under such circumstances as not to confer a succession, but by the effect or in consequence of any engagement, secret trust, or arrangement, th 6 beneficial ownership of such property shall not bona ficle pass according to such disposition, but shall. in fact, devolve to any person on death, or at some period ascertainable only by reference to death, then such last-mentioned person shall be deemed to acquire a succes sion derived from the person making the disposition as the predecessor ; and where any court of competent jurisdic tion shall declare any other disposition to have been frau dulently made for evading the duty imposed by this act, it shall be lawful for such court to declare a succession to have been conferred on such person at such time and to such an extent as such court shall think just ; and such last-mentioned person shall be deemed to have taken a succession accordingly derived from the person making such a disposition as predecessor." So far With respect to the description of successions to be chargeable with duty under the act. The bill pro ceeds to state that the duties imposed under it shall be considered as stamp duties, and shall be under the care and management of the Commissioners of Inland Re venue.' The next important feature of the measure is the scale of duties to be levied and paid under it in respect of every succession, according to its value. The follow ing are the duties, namely : "1. Where the successor shall be the lineal issue, or lineal ancestor of the predecessor, a duty of 11. per centum upon such value. " 2. Where, the successor shall be a brother or sister, or a descendant of a brother or sister of the predecessor, a duty at the rate of 31. per centum upon such value. "3. Where the successor shall be a brother or sister of the father or mother, or a descendent of a brother or sister of the father or mother of the predecessor, a duty at the rate of 51. per centum upon such value. " 4. Where the successor shall be a brother or sister of the grandfather or grandmother, or a descendant of the brother or sister of the grandfather or grandmother of the predecessor, a duty at the rate of 61. per centum upon such value. " 5. Where the successor shall be in any other degree of collateral consanguinity to the predecessor than is herein before described, or shall be a stranger in blood to him, a duty at the rate of 101. per centum on such value." The bill (inter alia) makes a succession, subject to trusts for charitable or public purposes, chargeable with duty ; provides that leasehold estates are not to be charged with legacy duty as personal estate ; that the interest of a successor in real property is to be con sidered as au annuity ; that real property directed to be sold shall be considered as personalty ; and that no duty shall be payable on any succession which shall be of less value than 201. in the whole, or upon any moneys ap plied to the payment of the duty on any succession ac cording to any trust for that purpose, or by any person in respect of a succession, who, if taking the same as a legacy, would be exempted from the payment of duty under the Legacy Duty Acts. These are the principal provisions of the bill ; but it also contains elaborate rules for valuing lands, houses, timber, advowsons, manors, mines, and every conceivable descrip tion of property which can be the subject of succession ; states under what circumstances allowances can be made for incumbrances ; gives a power to the commissioners to receive the duty in advance, and to commute that which may accrue in future ; and provides that the act shall take effect and come into operation from the 19th of May in the present year. TERMS OF THE NEW AUSTRALIAN CONTRACT.—AC cording to the conditions of the new Australian mai contract the contractors must state at which of the three ports, Melbourne, Sydney, or Adelaide they propose to sail, and they will be bound accordingly. but they will be at liberty to touch at either, or both of the other two ports, as may suit their convenience. 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IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, Just published, by 11. BaiMere, 219, Regent•street, London No I. vo., in cloth. price ss. by post free, 53. 6d., - • (IN TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRH(EA, with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the Generative System, tr Sexual Hypochondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD "Dr. Pickford 's known to English readers by his frequent practi ad contributions to German medical literature. This is the first !)me, he informs as, that be has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if be shall tetect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in hie -ower to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. "We Promised in a former number that we should recur to this wars, 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 gaffer from th com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many h indreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money...... This volume is well qualified to put an and to the .uipirical system of treating Spermatorrhoca., and to place the treat "wit upon a more rational and physiological basis. It Is, therefore, to do much good."—Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. Sec.. in cloth, price Is. 6d., by post free, 40., THE CURB OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even Its most Inveterate and apparently Intractable Forms. BY F. B. COURTENAY. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In prow of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which ho had operated. Such are cases ix., xi., ail., and xviii. No. Ix. had res stud, for a pariod of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and 21x. appear, both in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a inure ag gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Symo, and yet the treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently succes,ful." —Protessor Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture. 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 University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medic Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall. London, &c., Bcc. MAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile Irregularities and excesses, which have pro duced more misery In youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dls cases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist ence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitthl Marri ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their endless modifications owe their almost entire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated velment 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 consequences 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 rewarded 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. An letters must contain the fee of It, and advice and medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address. It is desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MERT 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 e excesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in h correct description of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, i t n English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Storie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; or free by post for forty-two stamps, to any addresa from the Author's real done. 37. BEDFORD-SQUARE. LONDON. THE LATE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT FARNHAM. VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST THE CHAIRMAN AND SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. On Tuesday, Mr. C. J. Woods, the coroner for West Surrey, resumed at the Railway Arms, Farnham, the adjourned inquiry respecting the death of Charles Can ning, aged twenty, who was killed by being run over, on the 14th instant, by a special survey train, near the ~Farnham station. James Edwards, - the gatekeeper, said that he had been in his situation four years next October. There were six passenger trains to Farnham, all of which stopped at the station. No ordinary passengers' train passed without stopping. When he heard the train approaching which caused the accident, he thought it was the ordinary train. He had received no notice that a special train was expected, and until it had passed him he had no idea of one coming. They had sometimes a verbal and some times a written message that special trains were coming, and generally a red board at the end of the train preceding them. They had had a coal train down without any notice, but that came in very slowly. When he first saw the deceased, he was at the end of some palings which had been recently put up at the station, just at the end of the platform. He was running, and was run ning about sixty or seventy yards away. He got hold of the fence with one hand, and his left leg was on the brick wall of the platform, when something caught him and hurled him down, but whether it was the engine or one of the carriages he could not tell. Deceased did not fall before he reached the spot. Some persons got out of the train, but he did not know who they were. The ordinary train Caine in five minutes after the accident. By a Juror—The usual signal tail-board was not on the preceding train. BY the Coroner—The fence had since been put back about a foot or eighteen inches. Mr. Crombie denied that the trai u 'on was a company* ~sery rots. It w it a w s a h s is a du s ty ve o e sh tr o a w in that the station was clear, and having ascertained such to be the case an engine could then pass. He had done so on the day the accident happened. By the Cormier—The deceased had time to get out of the way by crossing the line. His duty was to attend to the trains. By Mr, Crombie—The porters ought to be on the platform, and the train that day was behind time. By Captain Simmons—The palings had been put up about the Thursday before the accident, and were altered the same day as the inquest was commenced last week. He did not know the exact height of the palings. William Gerrard, a porter of the company, was next examined. Had been in their employment for upwards of seven years. The deceased and witness were working together in the warehouse, which was below the station, near to Alton. It was 61 yards from the station. When a train arrived it was his duty, as well as that of de ceased, to attend to it. He had a book of the rules, but no part of it related to the porter being on the platform at any particular time. On the afternoon of the 14th, they were waiting to hear the signal for the ordinary train, which was then expected. There was a bell sounded at the station on the arrival of each train. He heard both the whistle and the bell on the evening when the special train came in. They both went to attend to it. There was one way upon the platform, and another through the office. They were not forbidden to go upon the line. That was a nearer way than through the office. By the Foreman—They had time to get on to the platform after the whistle was sounded. - By Mr. Crombie-- He did not know how many per sons were on the engine, but they appeared to be beckon. ing the deceased to get out of the way. They were moving their hands. The deceased was rather slow and careless. He had cautioned him, by Mr. Kitchen's order, from running into danger. The paling was put up to prevent the people from getting on to the line. If a special train had been known to have been coming, he thought that Mr. Kitchen, the station master, would have told him. The deceased was cautioned of the danger he ran some time back, when he was pushed by some coal waggons against the same wall. Richard Eaton, the driver of the engine, was cautioned by the coroner that his evidence might possibly be here after made use of against himself, and was asked if he was willing to be examined. The witness replied in the affirmative, and stated he was principal foreman in the locomotive department. He was on the train on the 14th instant by which Can ning was killed. They left Nine Elms about half-past four in the afternoon, and came to Woking with the en gine only.. Henry Ireton, a driver, and Mr. Joseph Beattie, superintendent of the locomotive and carriage department, was also on the engine with witness. Some times he was driving, and sometimes Ireton. They went to Woking to meet the Hon. Francis Scott, the chairman of the company, to go and survey several sta tions. At Godalming, whilst Mr. Scott and Mr. Beattie were examining the station, he attached a coup 4 carriage to the rear of the train, that they might view the line better. They returned to Guild ford about 6.12 or 6.15. Jie believed the down -4 ; - don train joust then — taver - ariilealtnrt he al not Lohd___ see it. 'They remained at Guildford about three minutes, and then proceeded to Farnham. Ire understood from the first that they were to precede the five o'clock Lon don train. lie did not originally know that lie was going to Godalmiag. He received instructions at Guildford from Mr. Beattie to proceed to that place before going to Alton. When he returned to Guildford from Godarming he aaw the Alton train getting ready. Ho knew therefore that he must be in advance of the five o'clock train. That train ought to leave Guildford a few minutes after six. The proper time would be 6.5 ; and he believed it was about eight minutes past that time when they arrived at Guildford from Godalming. Had the train gone on he should have ascertained the precise time at which it proceeded. Had that train ar rived at Guildford first, it would have gone before them. Witness had directions from Mr. Beattie to precede the five o'clock train. When they arrived at the Farnham station, the usual "all right" signal was up, and the gates open. Witness sounded the whistle two or three hundred yards before he could see the signal, which he could see 300 or 403 yards. They gave a good long loud whistle. He would have done the same thing had he been driving an ordinary train. The steam was shut off nearly half a mile from the station. The signals were all right. On passing a station he always kept his eye on the platform. Ho did so on this occasion, and turned round to put the steam on again, when he heard Ireton call out ; and, on turning round again, he saw him and Wakefield motioning to somebody to get out of the way or stop where he was. Witness did not s.e Canning until the engine was passing him. He was then at the extreme end of the platform, with his back to the wall. Canning was then looking up at the engine, which passed him all right. He did not see him struck, but Ireton called out that he was so, and put on his break. They were travelling at a rate of from seven to nine miles an hour. Captain Galton, and Alfred Mountain, station master at Guildford, gave evidence as to the departure of the trains from that place. Captain Simmons said that he had been instructed by the Board of Trade to make inquiries into the circum stances connected with this accident. The line was single from Ashe. The place at the station where the deceased met his death was 3ft. 3in. from the rails, sufficiently distant to be safe. From what he had al ready heard and seen, the arrangements appeared to him to be unsatisfactory ; but before he made his report to the Board of Trade, he should be glad to hear further explanations from the officials of the company on the subject. Henry Ireton deposed that he was an engineer in the employment of the South-Western Company, but he was acting as fireman on the occasion of the accident. They passed the Ashe station without stopping, and Farnham about 600 yards from the station Mr. Eaton sounded the whistle. They then proceeded cautiously up to the station, till they found that the signals were clear for them to proceed. Ile saw those signals. When about one•third along the platform he saw the deceased about four or five yards beyond the platform, as though he was coming from the goods station. He was then running between the line of rails, on the same road as they were on, in front of the engine. He looked at him hard, and saw him turn off the line to his left, and then turned back on to the road, still running. Witness then shouted to him, and beckoned to him with his right hand to stand on one side. He looked up and smiled, and witness thought he understood what was meant. At the end of the platform, instead of turning towards the six foot, he turned inside towards the platform. Witness applied the break, and the engine and part of the car riage passed the deceased, who made another attempt to get on the platform, when he was struck on the hip by the centre step of the carriage. Deceased had ample time to get out of the way. Would swear they we re not going at the rate of 15 miles an hour. Mr. Joseph Kitchen deposed that he was the station master at Farnham. He had been so for the last six months. Canning had been employed at the station rather more than three months. Witness had had to complain of the slowness with which he performed his duties, and to caution him to take care of himself, as he had seen him once or twice in a dangerous position be tween the brickwork of the wall where the fence was and the ordinary trains. On the last occasion be told him that if lie had to complain again he should be obliged to recommend his dismissal. t Co and h a r f l r e o s m W t e h e e d s o t n a , t i o o f n , F d a e r p n o h s a e m d , h driver s o o f n t t he h eplatform omnibus and saw the train come in as Charles Canning was run hnienfigreftrosamw t h h i e m whearwehneounsehobnetlotievn tl y ie ard sta s f t r i o o m n. th W e n h e e w n railing. On coming up to the old railings, he caught hold of the fence by one hand, and he had one foot on the brickwork. The engine and tender passed him, but the step of the carriage caught him, and threw him forward under the train. Witness heard the whistle of the engine and the bell of the station, and it was after that that he saw Canning running. Witness did not notice that the train was going very fast, and he thought it was an ordinary train until it passed him. It was not going at any great speed, though rather be yond that of the usual trains. When Canning caught at the fence, he appeared to have lost his presence of mind, and looked frightened. Canning was about fifteen yards from the fence when he first saw him. He was altogether away from the rails—in the station yard, in RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—TnIffic return lb; the week ending May 15, 1853 (283 miles) £15,867 12 9 Corresponding week last year (2231 miles) 11,076 2 6 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending May 22, 1853.. 223,113 4 2 Corresponding week last year 16,374 18 6 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending May 22, 1853 £4,784 15 11 Corresponding week last year 3,119 1 5 ----- Increase in 1853 £1,665 14 6 GLASGOW AND SOUTII-WBSTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re 'atrn for the week ending May 21, 1853 £4,785 5 8 Corresponding week last year 4,127 2 2 Increase in 1853 £6sB 3 6 CORK AND BANDON RAILWAY. Traffic return for the week ending May 21, 1853 £193 19 10 Corresponding week last year 146 2 4 ROYAL GEOGRAPIIICAL SOCIETY.—A Parliamentary paper, published yesterday, by order of the House of Commons (Mr. Hume), informs us of a memorial, ad dressed by the President and Vice-Presidents of the Royal Geographical Society to her Majesty's late and ' present Governments, soliciting assistance to enable them to render the efforts of that society to spread geographical knowledge more effectual. The memorialists state that since the foundation of the society in 1830 it has published no less than 22 volumes of a journal, illustrated with nu merous maps of regions previously unknown or imper fectly described, and that the labours of the society have met with the approbation of distinguished geographers throughout the world. In the prosecution of geogra phical researches it has expended no less a sum than 34,0001. sterling in defraying the expenses of intelligent and experienced t rave ll ers engage d i n ex pl or i ng and in vestigating distant and unknown regions. Upon certain conditions, and under certain restrictions, the memorial suggests the establishment of a " map-office," to which all persons in the public service should have access for the purpose of consulting maps, plans, and charts, which, i it is conceived, would b e a grea t privilege and desideratum n . a great co mmerc i a l and mar i t i me emp i re like Great Britain. The memorial is sinned by Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, president, aneby the Earl of Ellesmere, Captain George Back, R.N., Sir Wood bine Parish, and Captain W. H. Smyth, vice-presidents of the society. /2 [PRICE SD. UNIVERSITY ,INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, . The Chancell or ' s P r i zes have been awarded 25 as fol lows : Latin Verse—"Quibus prtecique de causi in artrum liberalhim studiis Romani Groeis vix pares ne dum su periores evaserint "—to Mr. George Ridding, fellow of Exeter College, Ist class in classics, and 2d class in mathematieA7Easter Term, 1851. English Essay--" Popular Poetry considered as a test of National Character"—to Mr. Starling William Day, 8.A., scholar of Wa.dliam College, 2d class in classics, Easter Term, 1851. • THE NEWDIGATE PRIZ/I.—Englisli Verse, "The Ruins of Egyptian Thebes"—has been adjudged to Mr. Samuel Henry Reynolds, scholar of Exeter College. CAMBRIDGE, MAY 25. At a Congregation holden this day the following de grees were conferred : HONORARY M.A. Lord Muncaster, Trinity College. B.D. John Fenwick, Co] Y, as Christi College. John Baillie, Trinity. IL V. Blaythwayt, Trinity. W. B. Bliss, Trinity. It. S. Gubbins, St. John's. F. P. B. N. Hutton, ditto. LICENTIATE William Ogle, SI H. D. Hubbard, Cain& T. Brotherton, Corp. Christi. J. E. Lance, corpus Christi. James Beachens, Queen's. IN MEDICINE. t. Catherine Hall. A. K. Cornwall, Trinity. Albert Marietta, Trinity. Richd. M. King, Trinity. John Rntson, Trinity. E. 0. Tyler, Trinity. Thos. Brooks, St. John's. Henry Carson, St. John's. H. H. Moseley, St. John's. H. J. Walker, St. John's. Wm. Fookos, Caius. Ed. Houchen, Caius. G. W. Samson, Caius. E. Gordon, Corpus Christi. J. H. Lea, Corpus Christi. H. J. Phelps, Corpus Christi. J. B. Crowther, Queen's. N. K. Donne, Queen's. J. W. Clarke, Cath. Hall. W. H. Seggins, Cath. Hall. J. S. Taylor, Cath. Hall. Edward King, Jesus. E. S. C. Wilson, Christ's. H. R. Cred, Christ's. Thos. Richards, Christ's. Wm. Jellicorse, Magdalen. B. W. Kenyon, Magdalen. At the same Congregation the following graces were offered to the Senate : 1. To accept the sum of 5001., Three per Cent. Con sols, offered to the University by the Rev. Win. Carus, M.A., canon of Winchester, and late a senior fellow of Trinity College, to augment the fund for founding the Greek Testament prizes. 2. To confirm the report of the Syndicate appointed February 2, 1853, to draw up a scheme of regulations for the institution of the above prizes. The report (which has been previously printed) pro vides that there shall be two yearly prizes, to be called " The Carus Greek Testament Prizes," and that one of the prizes shall be open for competition to all students who, having been admitted ad respondcndum qwestioni, are not of sufficient standing to be created Masters of Arts, and to students in civil law or medicine, of not more than seven years' standing, who shall be required, before they are admitted to become candidates, to pro duce certificates from their respective professors that they have kept exercises necessary for the degree of Bachelor of Law or Physic. That the other prize shall be open to all students who are not of sufficient standing to be admitted ad respondendun& qucestioni. The report then suggests regulations for the appointment of ex aminers, and the dates of examination for the Bachelors' and Undergraduates' prizes, with subjects of examina tion,• and other statutory regulations. A copy of the report, which has regard to the further offer of Mr. Carus, above alluded to, was laid on the registrar's table. 3. To confirm the report of the Syndicate appointed February 23, 1853, " to consider the steps which it may be desirable for the University to take, in conjunc tion with the Regius Professor of Physic, for granting a lease of the house and premises in Market-street, now constituting the Regius Professor's endowment under the gift of Mr. Crane, and to confer with the Regius Professor thereon ;" and to authorise the Syndicate, with the advice of counsel, to take such steps as may be necessary and proper for making application to the Court of Chancery, in conjunction with the Regius Pro fessor of Physic, for the appointment of the chancellor, masters, and scholars of the University, or such persons as the court may think fit, as new trustees of Mr. Crane's endowment, and for vesting in such trustees the legal estate therein, and for obtaining authority to grant such lease to Mr. Lilley, as is mentioned in the report, with such variations or alterations (if any) as may be directed by the Court of Chancery. The report states that a friendly scheme has been agreed to between the present lessee, the Regius Profes sor, and the University authorities for the future manage ment of the property, and all parties are willing to make application to the Court of Chancery, in accordance with the above grace, for the affixation of the seal to which the 4th grace provided. 5. The University governors of Hobson's Charity having made a report to the Senate, dated May 19, 1853, to confirm the said report, a copy of the report was laid on the_registrare table. It set forth the approval of the Court of Chancery of the scheme for the future mrnage ment of Hobson's Trust, as agreed to between the Uni versity and town, with the division of the Spining-house property, and the concu rrence o f th e I n p ec t or o f Prisons therein, and sundry alterations in the portion remaining to the University for the confinement of prisoners, and the appointment of salaried officers for the governance of the inmates. On the recommendation of the Observatory Syndi cate : 6. (1). To raise the salary of Mr. Charles Todd, the junior assistant observer, from 801. to 901. a year ; the new salary to commence from the 7th of August, 1853, when he will have completed five and a half years of service. 7. (2). To grant from the University chest a sum not exceeding 501., to be expended in paying an additional computor at the observatory during the ensuing year, Professor Challis having reported that tne services of such additional computor will still be required. 8. To continue the powers of the Syndicate, appointed Feb. 2, 1853, "to consider whether any and what steps should be taken for appropriating to the use of the University the site of the old botanic garden, and for erecting additional lecture rooms and museums, and to report on the subjects to the senate," until the end of the Easter Term, 1854. 9. To continue the Syndicate appointed Feb. 2, 1853, " to consider whether it is expedient to adopt any mea sures, and if so, what, for augmenting the existing means of teaching the students of the University by public professors and public lecturers, and for regulat ing and encouraging the studies so taught ; and to report thereon to the Senate from time to time," until the end of the Easter Term, 1854, for the same purpose. 10. To accept New 21. 10s. per Cent. Annuities, in lieu of the 90,0001. New South Sea Annuities, be queathed by Viscount Fitzwilliam, and to affix the seal to the notice of assent of the Chancellor, masters, and scholars to receive the said new stock. 11. To appoint Mr. W. H. Brown, of Pembroke College, Deputy Proctor, in the absence of the Junior Proctor, Mr. Ferguson. Graces 5 and 10 were thrown out in the Black Hood House. No. sby 15 non•placets to 11 placets ; No. 10 by 9 placets to 4 non-placets. No. 9 was opposed in the White Hood House—but carried by 29 placets to 14 uon-placets, and the others passed nem. con. THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM. The Syndicate appointed to consider whether or not it might be desirable to make any change in the organi sation of this establishment in consequence of the death of the late curator, have reported that it is advisable to appoint, as keeper of the museum, a graduate of the University at a salary of 2001. a year. The report defines his proposed duties, and 'proposes sundry other minor changes in the management. SOCIETY OF ARTS. At the usual meeting, held last evening at the rooms in the Adelphi, a paper was read by Mr. Loseby, " On recent improvements in Chronometers." Mr. Wink worth presided. Previous to the paper being read, it was announced that her Majesty's Commissioners for the Great Exhibition had presented copies of the jurors' re ports, the commissioners' report, catalogue, &c., to the Council of the Society, in all amounting to nine splen didly-bound volumes, which lay on the table for the in spection of the members. Mr. Loseby, in the course of his long and interesting paper which followed, entered into a general description of the various parts of the chronometer—the train, the escapement, and balance — and observed that they were seldom made to go more than eight days ; but that the two days' chronometers were better in principle, as any irregularity would cor rect itself in that time. There was little difference pro duced by the form of the teeth, while durability depended on the hardness of the brass or steel of which they were composed. He pointed out the difference between the escapement of the chronometer and the common watch, remarking that the repairs of the former ought to be entrusted to no one but to chronometer. makers, as he had known common watchmakers destroy in a few moments the labour of months, from attending only to mechanical execution, and not to theory and principle. The latter were ignorant of the adjustments, which might be called the mental part of chronometer making, and which were attended with so much nicety of calculation and execution that the making of a first rate chronometer occupied twelve menths. He went on to describe the methods adopted for adjusting twh c ee o r m ede p eat e a n tilyy - s sations for temperature, the only part of their manufac ture in which groat improvements had been made ; in other respects they were the same as they years ago. He illustrated thi,asrpaanocrdtteirmo,naanonyfdhoofinsllyeeitnutrellibgi. r w e e fe r r e ri o n f g a t to u various e c d h i n a i g e r a a l ug intelligi ble that o t h t e h eprofessionalbalance adjusted do by y h t i l s .y i a n u , d t i audience. chronometer eh Hes e a t i e d r i c n er d t i a ff in er e e d n a t twhi temperatures, chone e r u r o n r til n t e h u e tr l. exact point was as certained neutralised another, and the final adjustment was not obtained in less th an t we l ve months. After alludin g t o the co nditions needful f or a good chronometer, and the methods used to remedy the defects of the old construction, he explained the peculi arities owfth thheeseveralinventions of Arnold, ly e , D ent, an d others, degrees of success they had oitidneK and then alluded to the contrivance introduced by himself, viz., the employment of mercury Ito effect secondary compensation, the mercury being contained in tubes attached by fittings to the balance. He described the effect of substituting a fluid for a solid agent in the action of the chronometer, and the immediate results, stating that the secondary compensation could be ad justed to five-tenths of a second a day; while, as regards the permanent effect, th e g l ass t u b es were hermetically sealed, and no change could take place more than in the ordinary chronometers. This, however, was not the first time that mercury had been tried, as a similar experi. riment had taken place in France, though its application to affect the primary compensation had failed. Mr. Loseby then referred to the results of the trials made of the chronometers of the different makers at the Royal Observatory, and read a long letter from the late Mr. Dent to the Secretary of the Admiralty im pugning the character of the improvements introduced by himself. Several members objected to the reading of the letter, on the ground that it related to matters of a personal rather than a scientific interest ; and the Chairman observed that the society was not the arena mfoir rs t t p e e dt o o n r a e l ad dis h cu is ssi i o .e n p . ly T to h m e lecturer e w s alsetatterle,nignthwipliecrh he strongly maintained the superiority of his chrono meters, as shown by the recorded results of the various trials, continued for twenty-four weeks in each year, for four years. At the close of the lecture, Mr. Denison, one of the jurors who had reported on the question at the Great Exhibition, defended the statements of Mr. Dent, and the mode in which the experiments were con ducted, as the best calculated to obtain the most correct results, and contended that Mr. Loseby, with respect to the point of secondary compensation, for which he claimed credit, had been beaten in every year. The Chairman, with a view to afford the lecturer the oppor tunity of reply, suggested the adjournment of the die eussion to Monday evening, when Mr. Wenham will read a paper on a subject closely connected with the lecture of the evening, viz., "On Glass Balance Springs." Illianks were then voted to Mr. Loseby for his valuable and ingenious paper. It was then stated by the Secretary that, at the meet ing on Wednesday evening next, an announcement of an important character would be made relative to the in tended Exhibition in Paris in 1855, and also with re spect to the operation of the French tariff, and its re striction on the introduction of 'British manufactures. It was also stated that his Royal Highness Prince Albert would preside at the distribution of the medals given by the society, on the 10th of June. ANNIVERSARY DINNER OF THE _FISH MONGERS' OOMPANY. Last night the annual dinner of this ancient company took place in their hall, London-bridge, Mr. Benjamin Shaw, Prime Warden, in the chair, supported on th e right by Viscount Hardinge, the Baron de Goldsmid, Sir R. Bethell, Solicitor-General, Mr. J. Masterman, M.P., and Sir J. Duke, M.P. ; and on the left by Ad miral Sir C. Napier, Mr. W. G. Hayter, M.P., Mr. W. Keogh, M.P., Solicitor-General for Ireland, Mr. Sergeant Goulburn, Mr. Sergeant Channell, Mr. Alder man Thompson, and Mr. H. A. Aglionby, M.P. Among the company present we also observed—Mr. Alderman Cubitt, M.P., Mr. E. Miall, M.P., Mr. E. Ball, M.P., Mr. Hadfield, M.P., Mr. F. Crossley, M.P., Mr. J. Kershaw, M.P., Mr. Cheetham, M.P., Mr. M. Chambers, M.P., Mr. Alderman Humphery, &c. Lord HARDINGE, in reply to the toast of "The Army and Navy," said that the army felt deeply sensible of any compliment given to them, and were particularly proud to be associated with the citizens of London, who, they remembered, after the battle of Waterloo and other serious occasions, when thousands of orphans were de prived of their fathers, had come forward with a great and generous liberality to repair the misfortunes of war. He assured the meeting that the army was at the pre sent moment in an admirable state of discipline. It had been proved in recent times, he said, by the battles which had taken place in India under Sir C. Napier, Lord Gough, and others, that the British soldiers had not dege nerated from what they were in the glorious days of the Peninsular war, when they fought and conquered, and did their duty like men. (Hear, hear.) The army and navy had a very serious duty to perform in enabling this great commercial country to carry on its transactions in security. The one branch of the service held our colonial posses. sions in safety, and it was a remarkable fact that, in Australia our soldiers did not go to the diggings, but re mained firmly at their posts, while the other branch of the service did its duty triumphantly on every sea. (Hear.) He begged also to say, that he was proud to have his name associated with that of his gallant friend Sir C. Napier, whom he had the good fortune to know for upwards of 40 years—his first acquaintance with him having commenced at the battle of Busaco, when the present General Sir C. Napier having been wounded with a spent ball, he saw his gallant friend carrying him off the field of battle. (Hear.). His gallant friend had, therefore, learnt the profession of a soldier under the great Duke ; and might, if he had continued in it, been as distinguished as a soldier as he had since been as a sailor. He trusted that this country would long con tinue to enjoy its present peace and prosperity, and that his gallant friend and himself would not be called upon for any further operations. (Cheers.) Admiral Sir C. NAPIER begged to return thanks, in the first place, to the company for the honour they bad done him in inviting him to that magnificent festival, and, in the second place, to the chairman for coupling his name with the profession to which he had the honour to belong. He had had frequent occasions in this great commercial capital of the world of returning thanks for the navy, but he did not think lie had ever done so with more pleasure than on the present occasion, because he was happy to say that we had at last got a navy-- klauglitery --th.nks to the late Government, who came forward and told the Parliament and the country that the navy was in an unsatisfactory state, and that the country was not secure—the consequence of which was that Parliament, he might almost say by acclamation, had voted a larger force for the protection of the coun try, and that force, he hoped and trusted, would soon arrive at the point which it ought to reach. (Hear, hear.) The present Government, he must also say to their credit, had followed up the views of the late Government, and carried them out as far as they possibly could. The late Government did even a little more, for, although he was not a friend of theirs, he thought it just and due to them to say that, finding that the navy had for many years been very greatly neglected, they appointed a committee to investigate the cause of the neglect—he might almost call it the falling off of the British navy, and a very proper report the committee had made. The present Government, he was happy to say, had carried it out to a great extent. They had improved the position of the sailor ; they had given him more pay, and they had laid a foundation for the est a bli s h ment of a strong and permanent navy— e H h e a d h o a p ed permanentand trusted army encouragementnns n a e oa i r v t l permanent roeasnnsgeatneomrt woulde come s w e b ring a e y a rtillery. tw a fho sw fhero i forward tha a t nd th a e Gt h ah ro dvg w e oar a s onn ddm fruits,neenontw enter e br b e andtgehigi g ue ntgah g vaa i yt v n e dw; n t s o h t u h l d e we should see th em anx i ous to enter it as onebpuraotfyttliinhaget most splendid situations which a sailor could pos sibly possess. (Hear, hear.) Perhaps the time was come when the British navy would be looked up to with more attention and respect than it had been for a great number of years. There was a storm brewing in the east which looked very black indeed. God only knew how it would end. At the very moment he was speaking, perhaps, the fate of the Turkish empire was sealed. He hoped it was not, for he must say we were not in a position to defend the Turkish empire ; but we were in a position which would force us to be extremely cautious in what we did. The Emperor of Russia was famed for his moderation. He hoped we were not de ceived in him ; but he seemed to have Turkey at his feet. (Hear, hear.) If what we were told was true, his ultimatum had been rejected, and the Turks must, therefore, depend on themselves, for we could give them but little support. It was true we had a fleet in the Mediterranean, and that the French had a fleet there too ; but we ought not to forget that Russia had a fleet Russia, he wanted to know how we were to defend our of 30 sail of the line in the Baltic, and if we offended selves. (Hear, bear.) Thanks to the past and the pre sent Administration, we had got ten sail of the line, but ten of course would not speak in the way that 20 would do ; and Russia, he repeated, had 30 sail of the line in the Baltic, while we had only ten There. But he believed, nevertheless, that with that ten sail of the line, manned as he hoped they would be, we might do a good deal, and though he would not say that it would enable us to oppose the enormous force of Russia, yet one thing he would say, that, if unfortunately war should be declared, the British navy would be " ready, aye ready" to do its duty. (Applause.) The following toasts were then given in succession : " Tier Majesty's Ministers," by the Prime Warden, for which Mr. Hayter returned thanks ; " The Prime Warden," by Lord Hardinge, to which the former re plied ; "The Honorary Freemen of the Company," by , the Prime Warden ; " The Representatives of the City , ' by the Prime Warden, which was acknowledged by Sir James Duke ; "The health of Baron de Goldsmid, " by the Prime Warden, who expressed an earnest hope that the community (the Jews) to which that gentleman be longed would soon be admitted to all the rights and pri vileges of British subjects, for which Baron de Goldsmid returned thanks ; " The Solicitor-General for England," by the Prime Warden, for which Sir R. Bethell returned thanks. The PR IME vfoinrgl:e`lTaililde,h,,easaltil(l, otfhaMr. Keogh, the l Keogh, the slic Wni lttoN principle were established th roughout that country p r E -den in Solicitor-General wlich was acted upon by th e F ishmongers' Company o towards their 500 tenants there, he thought it would be productive of great advantage. The Fishmongers' Com pany made no distinction as regarded the religious prin ciples of their tenants, but treated Catholic and Protes tant, Presbyterian and Methodist, with equal indul gence. They also recognised a sort of tenant-right-- that was to say, where a tenant had improved the estate, he received from the incoming tenant a sum equivalent to the value of the improvements. (Hear.) Mr. KEOGH, in returning thanks, corroborated the statement of the Prime Warden, that the Fishmongers' Company had long been distinguished in Ir e l an d by th e manner in whi c h t h ey treated their tenants ; and said he could safely add his testimony, that if all the land lords went and did likewise, that portion of the British dominions would ere long be a help and an assistance, instead of a drag on this country. several other toasts were given, and the company, which consi s t e d o f upwar d s o f 100 persons, separated about half-past 11 o'clock. Ring and Brymer, sump tuous, was provided by Messrs. toastmaster; and a Corihill. Mr. Harker acted as . the course of performed in The dinner, which was in the highest degree Hobbs, assisted selection of vocal music was t pe o_ Mr. i Mr. :Machin, and Mr. by Mr. Frances, H. Phillips. the eveninunde m r rt.heccil,inirevcw.iongo, at. __----