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TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADLES AND GENTLEMEN, HE proceedings of this day having terminated in the Election of Mr. D. C. Afarjoribanks for a seit in the .uirection of your affa'rs, I have the honour to inform you, that it is ply fixed determination to proceed to th e B a ll o t u p on the first the honour of your support. _I beg to assure you that the result of my canvass to this time, in land-Inc premises of suogort from a very Jorge portion of those Pro retors whom th e e l ec ti on of Air. D. C. Alarjoribanks has set free, warrants my entertaining the most sanguine expectation of success It will upon the neat occasion. dour be my duty again to submit t o y our i ns p ec tion, and I trust • approval, the grounds upon which I have ventured to golcit /our suffrages, and to this I shall address n yself without delay. With gr a t eful acknqwledgments of the kindness with which I have been Personally received, I have the honour to be, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, Your most obedient Servant, FREDER AI ILL E TT. trpper Brook -street, April 13, 1853, TO THE PROPRIETORS OF E 4„S r INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE election o f thi s d ay _h av i ng term i nate d i n hi favour of Mr. Majoribinks. and Mr. Millett having declared it ,,, ni self ready to proceed to the Poll on the, next vacancy, I beg to " fl ounce to you that it is not my intention to oppose a gentleman 1,!:, eminently qualified by his rnblic services to take a part in the ~_°yerritnen, of India. I trust, however, that his success will enable lo Present myself before you on ,. e succeeding occasion, when, . n 7., 4 'llged by the favou ra bl e reception which I have already met th from a large body of Proprietors; who have been pleased to ri cogaise my long end not uncbstinguithed services in India, I look Nith con/Ilene: to a satisfactory result. I have the honour to be, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, Your most obedient Savant, L. It. REiD Wesibourne-terrace, 13th April, 1853. IM OUNT CARBON CHARTERED COAL and 1R0.7, COMPANY. Offices - , "30, 13acklersbury. • The Diran, SH A , - -wrS hereby give Notice that the ALLOTMENT "of t _ RE 'in the thereby Carbon Company is COMPLETED. Allot .ankers of the Company, ...`" are requested to pay the amount of their subscriptions to the . 0 Cornhili, Barnard 5 Messrs. Dimsdale, Drewctt, Fowler, and before ' or to the Commercial Bank, Lothbuly, on or Saturd ay ~,..-4 v.... 4 the 16th instant. By Order of the Board, W. A. HOEBER, See. 4 A.pra 1?, 1853. "Divide about the broad bride cake, Round about the bride's stake."—BEN Jobtsote. iy, b W ED DING BREAKFAST, BALL SUP PERS, and DINNER S, provided entire, in Town or Coun t' Messrs. PURSSELL, Cornhill, including Wines of the most s.lterclie description, and use. of Plate, Linen, China, .ttendrlceGlass, and ; Seats, ables, Lights, I .arcing liollands, and Instru lentai x, ~,; '''u-sio i Wedding and Invitation Stationary, as in Paris ; , a— ..iges, Post or otherwi-e; an el.gant assortment of Bride Cakes ' I. sele ction ; Ihssert and Evening Ices. A competent person sent •ntertai receive Orders and g i ve Instuctions as to the blanagement of mments. dose Note . — Messrs. PIIRSSE LL h ave no other Business Premises except in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange. AITRENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.— roa. Lessee, CHARLES E. LAUREN'', Onslow-house, Fulham tit Week Pen“ Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, during w e aitz _ , The Thistle," " ShainrocK," "Rose," and "Amman' Valerie,', illo "Napoleon" Gaol', "Le Cirque' Quadrille ; "La Doors ' "J uno," and "Steeplechase" Po!kas.— Admission, Is. ope n . :erin nate at 1 . a. lialf•pagt Eight ;to commence at Nine o'clock, and L } tail - past Eleven. LOANS GRINTED. NDON EXCHANGE ADVANCE FUND, ,1,[41432, Adelphi-terrace, Strand, facing the river ; City Branch, 3, uld B road -street, City. The Right Hon. Lord ERSKINE, Chairman. Loans advanced, In sums of 101, and upwards, granted on a joint D r omissory note, repayabh by easy instalments, or on the deposit of deeds or other available securities, hills of exchange cashed at moderate rates of interest Forms of application may be obtained at the Offices, or on forward ing 12 postage stamps. W i. BROOKS, Secret ry. NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURANCE . T HE DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, _ 18, New Bridge-street, Blackfrlars, , London. CAPITAL—ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS, DIRECTORS. .Chairman —The Right Hon. the Vise unt Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C., .., C omptroller of her'3lajesty's Householo. 4. Yallowley Barnes Esq., 11, Cit -road, Finsbury Cl r ,i lioel Clarke, Esq , late 17th Lancer', Junior United Service Club. ' re °,,rge Goode, Esq., Portland-terrace, Wandsworth, and Belvkdr, St. ...teller's, Jersey kepheu Cracknall, Esq., 1, St. John's-gardens, Notting hill, and 11, V Jones, M .D. s _ . !ew-siDare, Linc o l n ' s -i nn. Leices , Davies street, Berk e l e y- square , an d L utterwortb, tershi re. (eon , . tr -- —n "' Esq 15, Connaugh,square, Hyde-park, and Tor Lodge, Stafford" h i're.. tiexdn(l" Maclean Ea.-, harrow-on-the-Full. ,„ ooi. ":" ' ' , I-Warn p i : "' ' 8( 1, 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square. —lnse P Esq, 147, Leadenliall-street, and 8, Hyde -fark ,place West ' kbearetaAndrew Riddell, Esq., inner Temple, Barrister-at-Taw. Nor_ Wan perling 2l S ,Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. , 14, James's-square' • ,T. 13 . ,,,,,, , AUDITORS, vQRaII I"°' '" E ly , 126 , St and, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical, , and General Life office 4, Peek j s„Tes, ['sq. A , t i, 3, Gull shall-chambers. Ora,' 'sq, 13.A', Actuary c-ciunaß to the Engineers and Mason'c Life Ghee, 345, Strand . . Sir eh ~., Ilessrga,re: - Nr BANKR , RS : Opk arryat, Alfa C 1 9 King William-street, London. 2 °n and Co., 3, Regen , -street. Dr. Lewis PHYSICIANS. . se,inensbu ry . Ta e ' 21 ' 1-i ppe l3 r S c ey . mour-street West, Connaught-square. I`. —4, ltaei Prnan, E....5q., 16, Lower Seymour.street, Portman - square. Tee v 411 ' Sq., 44, Gloucester -place, Hyde-park-gardens. CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. P. Neison, Eq., F.L.S. INSPECTOR OF AGENCIES. F. P. F. Strousbefg, Esq. Mili an , STANDING COUNSEL. Wellingt on Cooper, Esq., New-square, Lincoln's-inn. SOLICITORS. M essrs. Hill and Mathews St. Mary-axe. RESIDENT SECRETARY. Charles W. Bevan, Esq. bel'sposeipur,blte Is respectfully invited to examine the principles of the by, „ c iTY s tern of Assurance. which is based upon tables calculated ~ornparat ive Es 8 under the i mmediate supervision of, Francis G. P. Nelson, ' P ' S., th twenty neat birteThad Crsulting Actuary to the Company. les to assure 5001 on death, by a person aged ef-iSsurances. a y , en the ORDINARY and on the DEPOSIT system SITBGEONS. ON TUE ORDINARY SYSTEM. The sum the ordinary The sum the Life Offices would give ordinary Life him if he were unable Offices would to pay, or if he omit' ed At the His give him for to pay his current end of policy the surrender annual premium of to' An nual thirty at that or sale Si. es. 3d. after he has tc Pre mium yearswhen age, of his policy, p a id into Affair coffers to assure the party In case after thirty 2491.7 s 6d.. and which Soot. is fifty of years t payments they have had the use years old, death amounting to of at compoun 1 hewn] have will be 249/. 7q. 6d, interest, or in ; - paid Into worth which theyhave the event of his death the office. had the benefit one hoar after such of at compound omission or inability interest. to pay. 1-777---- little more 249/.75.6d 500/. than An/. perhaps 90/. NOTHING. ON THE DEPORT SYSTEM, EAST INDIA. HOUSE, APRIL 13, 1853. TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. ZaDres AND GENTLEMEN, WE beg to offer you our grateful acknowledg electin ments tor the honour you have conferred upon us by re g us into the Direction. Trussing that the Proprietors will ever find us deserving of the co nedellee they have repoked in us, We have the honour to be, With great respect, - LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, Your most obedient and very humble Servants, HENRY ALEXANDER. W. H. LESLIE MELVILLE, JAMES OLIPHANT. H. T. PRINS'EP, JOHN SHEPHERD. YBl 6s 3d I Minable to pay, or not *in oestrous of paying or omitting topay,thePo- le' Hey would still remain o of its FULL value, "1 522/.25.7d.ti1l death, if w: 20 years after, no fur- wi ther payment beingre- on quired. Ifhowever the an party, from any cause, cot wished to cancel the fa Policy, he could not be onlydraw out all hehas les 011 1050, 225/ put in, viz., 2251., but mt 522/.257d 287/. 2s. 9d. ac . ertain bonus of 62/. "NI 2s. id. in the bargain, m^ which is more .han one-fourth of the whole of his payments, or he could either draw r , out a part, 201. or 501.. pie diminishing the Policy am only by the assured value of the sum se drawn out at the age when withdrawn. See the pagess and 7 in detailed as pamphlet, by F. G. P. Nelson, Esq. 13,, fr°4 e° ruParl tinder th. , 8 " ef these two tables it will be seen that a person l ils A "' n° Vel a ' t assurance can secure the fol ow . -• as,veo t . 38 em of DEPOSIT - I r -g " , v iz., I st. For a less sum, P dly ar . l- surn in case of death than under the ordi aid annually, 'a r eal; assure in this In event of ihneactina all receive Tha,x ties ans, by t a n d o es a i h r o e v t o o s o ur xa r m en p d le e , r w h hi is o P h o a li p cy pl P r i tilthatl..ll;oarsOZitioal: roperty t o o n p t a h y e , o h relin is p a o rl c s y ystem. 3rdly. e h s l . n the event he gets Tiothhi,aumber of years ; Whereas on the ordinary System , T°P arij aine e t as it was, though he cease his current p p ayments: .elbounbt•rs, hilly Should he require to increase or decrease time, "3' n.'„. olicy, node do so at pleasure. He can at any .. IN'll4ll,3l,;,.l4%,afhotrotnfih's, withdraw any part from 11 Afterbe his previous pas ments and with interest. Year,,,'ltltawn part one year he can, by a single payment, les rO N ' t 411 1 time afteravards , raise his policy to a greater or tte it s arn , zer A eventhree 0 - mount ; and by this system he can at all times . regu the t„ a lItelo a — , t a7l r l Ss by his annual expenditure, with the facility in Le"" a bank , — "avleg a fluid to fly to in case of necessity, the same as st ill.. e n_t_h_ this Palpable advantage, however, that he gets trite `a° aZ_wene, and in case of death his family receive more than th tht :: , , ot his savings. In ordinary Life Offices he can do 2.0 I la ct o'Y , but his policy at once lapses or is cancelled the moment dt o : t ° Pay his current premiums, and, instead of having any tho soele .! to for can all his hail-earned savings become forfeited alerer4 7 , and his misfortunes servo to benefit the pockets of his 8 40 1 sate co-assurers tux 1 ,,,,. sYsteni is too eit . iitable and too striking to be overlooked brbrer,?,re assurance is the only system of assurance which can be tali,. ally recognised and impar when the come ° lint er %niers : " a ssd, and its palpable adopted benefits be widely diffus ed. It priniples are teeter advantages than a bank because it allows a fair rate ids ~, he case of avithdraWal and gives twice the amount in the bf,;`"e Company to the re resentatives of the Depositor in A, s ' a " , , thus combining the P .VANTAGES OF A BANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF Irt eas e A N ASSURANCE CO MPANY. tty, of mo re s m . ent Assurances the advantages of the DEPOSIT .i.:74 arG stillking -,I I P OT T . 4.- GES OF TtriHlS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY 4.0 T 00 ° L 4A- ao% LIFE At3SITR.ANCE BRANCH. 'who prefer this ',ranch Policies are granted from 20/. to _ XI I , r_eerl known Principle thereof. Meet:, b y all but the worst stages of disease, and such as have been el tlitri l is a e f is o e t . her °Mew, are taken at rates equivalent to the parti tell.t. from 501. and Uprrards granted on every kind of security, Ah__PentOnal, on the most equitab , e terms to the borrower . Iff ta ltles of every description granted on very favourable terms. eak7tpre..`s-ferfelture of a Policy. —In case of inability to pay the currant iu tus, theget Directors will eitner purchase the Policy at a fair t est c 0 .:. 411 1e, or give a new one in lieu thereof, less 5 per cent., into l'ln...eis h`fit'.:Dong in amount to the whole of the previous payments ' , et a bee, made Debelt 45,1,1,4_ rospectus,: with tables in fit/they illustration of the De tettlez":,`,lll, and any further information may be obtained on appli '' Me Agents in the country, or to CHARLES W. TIE VAN, Resident Secretary, ; Be.. Agents wanted in all parts c the World. N o . 18,895.] PATRON-H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT ItOYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. —Mrs. Beecher Stowe's Popular Work on Slavery Plus. Irared in an Optical Exhibition, with Vocal and Instrumental Music and New Dissolving Scenery, Morning and Evening. Lectures : By J. H. Pepper, Esq.—Half-hours with the Ancient and Modern Chemists ; by Dr. Bach h offner, on Pneu :n at ics, in which the Principle of the Fly's Foot and Walking on the Ceiling will be explained ; by Mr. Crispe, on Ericcson's Caloric Engine. Admission, Is.; Schools, and Children under Ten years of a, Half-price, TO AGENTS.—Life Assurance Agents in any part of England may with advantage become Agents for Fire Insurance, and thereby greatly extend their Lite Yusiness. The Directors of the UNITY FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION—an institution established on new and important principles, and possess ing upwards of Two THOUSAND SHAUEHOLDERS,•whose names - and addresses are published with the Prospectus--are ready to receive applications for Agencies, accompanied by references. By looking over the List of Shareholders, applicants will pi obably find several to whom they are known. For terms, prospectuses, &c. apply to THOMAS H. B kYLIS, General Manager and Secretary. Chief Offices, 40, Pall Mall, London. NORTH OF SPAIN RAILWAY. Bayonne, Irun, St. Sebastian, Tolosa, Bllboa, Vitoria. Miranda, Br,viesca, Burgos, Palencia, Vallado:id, Avila, L'Eseurial, Madrid. Capital 29,925,000 piastres, 315.000 shares of 95-piastres each for Spain, 500 francs for France, or 201. for England. Deposit 19 piastres in Spain, 100 lanes in France, or 41. in England. One fifth of the capital his been subser:bed in Spain, two-fifths in France, and two fifths remain for appropriatidu in England. President—The Duke De Riansares. Bankers in Paris—Messrs. Rothschild, Paris. Bankers in London—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co. ; the London and County Bank. Bankers in Bordeaux—Messrs. Ezpeleta et Fils. Agents in London—Messrs. C. Deyaux and Co., 62, King William street, City ; to a hom applications for shares may be made. The •N orth of Spain Railway js about 685 kilometres, or 427 miles long, including the branch to the port of Bliboa. The projectors have already obtained the concession for 99 years, of the Spanish portion, which traverses a distance of 650 kPornetres, or 406 miles. They have paid 750,000 piastres (157,0001.), the caution money, and they are in actual treaty with the French Government for the section from Bayonne to the Spanish frontier ; the length of which is only 35 kilometres, or 21 miles. The SPanish Government guarantees to the Company, on a maxi mum capital of 30,000,000 piastres (6,315,7891.), a minimum interest of 7 per cent., Including 1 per ccnr. to be applied to a sinking fund. The provinces and coma tines traversed by this railway, as well as the contiguous provinces and communes, have agreed to share with the i- overnment the responsibility of this guarantee. The Spanish Government, perceiving the great advantaz;e which must result to the public revenue by the encouragement of railways, which develop the various sources ofnational wealth, have faithfudy adhered to the guarantees they have given ; and even in cases where companies have not been able to perform their engagements, the Government has returned to such companies, whether nttive or foreign, the entire sums paid as cautionary deposit. In order to secure to the shareholders in the North of Spain Rail way the full value of the guarantee of 6 per cent., and 1 per cent. sinking fund, a general contract has been already made for the pur chase of the land, the construction of the whole line, and for rolling stock, plant, &c., according to the requirements of the Government, at a price within the guaranteed capital. The contractor has depo sited 500,000 piastres o , 165,2631., as a guarantee for the due fulfil ment 01 the contract, and is to leave 5 peecent. out of each certificate in the hands of the directors as a further security, until such reserves shall amount to the sum deposited. The contract price covers all expenses incurred in surveys and otherwise up to the present time, and leaves a fund of about 10 per cent. of the capital in the hands of the directors, to meet the general expenses of the undertaking, and to pay interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum to the shareholders during the course of construe- The North of Spain Railway connects Madrid with several.provin etal chief towns, forming points of convergence of various high roads, such as Vitoria, where seven meet. Burgos, Valladolid, and Avila, ate also the centres of similar streams of traffic. The North of Spain Railway traverses most important industrial districts, such as the provinces of Biscay, Guipuzcoa, and Alava. It runs also through districts rich in wools, wines, and corn—districts producing much more than they can either consume, or at present, export • and which. to gain access to the home an d f ore i gn mar k ets, need only those facilities of economical transport which this railway will provide. The North of Spain Railway will establish a thorough communi cation between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Starting from Bayonne and Biboa it will proceed through Irun, St. Sebastian, To'osa, and Vitoria to Miranda At Miranda it reaches the river Ebro, which Is now being canalised down to the port of Alfaques, on the shores of the Me di terranean. At Madrid also it will be placed in communication with the great line of railway now in course of construe non between the capital and Valencia. Another very important feature or this great undertaking is that at Valladolid it will reach the river Douro, which runs to Oporto; end lastly, at Madrid, it will be brought into connexion with the Ararjuez Railway, which will be continued first to Badajoz to meet the Portuguese line to Lisbon, next to Cordova, and thence to Seville and Cadiz. To e , timate the advantages which such data promise to the North of Spain Railway, the distinction between epanish, English, and French railways must be kept in view. First,—The cost of construction is greater in England or France, because land is of a higher value than in Spain. Labour is much dearer in England and in France thin in Spain. Rails tvso and engines bear in France a price somewhat extravagantly high, in consequence of the protection given to home industry, whist into =pain they are imported from England free of duty.. Secondty, —The return from railways in England or France are of much slower development than in Spain, because in the former countries railways have to compete with already existing and long established means of conveyance, whilst in Spain railways, from the moment of their opening, absorb the o+ hole of the traffic. The returns are less profitable in England and France than in Span, because they can be secured only by incessant reductions upon the tariffs of the numerous competing means of transport ; whist In Spain the tariffs will, to a certainty, be largely remune rative, since they can reasonably be fixed at 50, 100, and even 200 per cent above the Englsh and French tariffs, and still remain much cheaper than the old means of transport, and be accordingly appreciated. These distinctions are well founded, and have received confirma tion from the results of all the existing railways in ripain ; hence the Railway Company from Valencia to Alcira has teen compelled, after a few months' traffic, to double the rolling stock, which Lad been estimated sufficient for several years. Upon the line from Langreo, in the Asturias, the exorbitant tariff of 20 centimes per kilometre and per ton sufficed to put down all competing means of transporting the coal of the basin of Sama to the port of Gijon ; and, lastly, the line from Madrid to Aranjuez, only 51 kilometres long, and which runs to no centre of production or commerce, had in 1852, the first year of its working, a traffic of 300,000 passengers, and 110,000 tons of mere' andise. 'i he estimates of the receipts to be expected from this line have been framed under the special superintendence of the provincial, consular, and municipal corporations •of Biscay, and establish upon the existing traffic an immediate return of 5,150,000 piastres, or 1,08 ,2101., which, after deducting 45 per cent. for working ex penses, leaves a net profit upon the capital of the Company of 10 per cent. This estimate, however, is wholly irrespective of the in crease which improved means of transport invariably ensures. . . . . The Board of Direction will be nominated in the statutes of the mpany, and will consist of eight Spanish, four French, and three English Directors. Three French Directors have been appointed, TiZ. M. Ardouin, banker, Paris, M. De Grimaldi, Paris, and M De Ezpeleta, Pads and Bordeaux. London, April 9, 1853. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARE'S, North of Spain Railway Company. To Messrs. C. Devaux and Co. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares in the above undertaklnz, and I hereby agree to accept the said shares, or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the sum of 4/. on each share allotted, at the time to be specified in your letter of allotment. Dated this day of 185 Residence . . . N ORTH OF SPAIN RAILWAY.—Applica• tions for Shares in this Company may be made to Messrs. C DEvoux & Co , 62, King William-Street, City. 13th April, 1853. IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, Just published, by H. Batter°, 219, Regent-street, London. No I. Bvo., in cloth, price ss. by post free, 15s. 6d., IN TRUE & FALSE SPERMA.TORRUCEA, 4..fi with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors In relation to the Treatmeat and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the cricrative System, ?r Sexual Hypochondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD 'Dr. 's known to English readers by his frequent practi :Al contributions to German medical literature. This is the first ime, he informs us, thut he has addressed himself to the non-medi al reader. We trust this may not be the last, if be shall 'teat any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his wer to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851. Ve uromised in a former number that we should recur to this es, in orcer 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 saffar from th com- plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hittlre& 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 17 oney This volume is well qualified to put an end to the system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat mnnt upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, , ibqly to do much good."—Medlcal Circular, June 16, 1852. _ . No. 11. Bvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 48., THE CURE OF STRICPURE OF Tag 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. 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Aqua se hahla Espanol MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. CR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and 141atric , ilated Member of the University 01 _Edinburgh, honorary Member of the London Hospital Medic Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Ball, London, &c., &c. HAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile irregu'arities and excesses, which have pro duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience . . in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist ence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various corms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful 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 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 thi 4 department of practice, he has been amply ree aided 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 no-trums, have inflicted serious injury on those who have been induced to place faith in their pretensions. At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from Six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of 11., and advice and medicines can he forwarded to any initials or address. It is desirele that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MERT should first obtain a copy of his work on • - t n • t , mt , _ -1,1014 rel./ II c(-/ . is for Parliament to will be hailed. as a p , v • ( I v _ o % or, , I rd ,e , 7 4 1 . sendterLifophpe opprobrium + 0 . - 14114 4 ; 1.4 .11110,*%5 0 3.5 ' ?‘` -1 4 11 PAPAL • a • iff 7 t plE kza w l si , uri • [ PRICE SD. HACKNEY CARRIAGES. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1853. NEW QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. VI. Price Half-a•crown. A Second Edition is now ready, and may be had of all booksellers. Hookham and Sons, 15, Old Bond-street, SOCIETY for IRISH CHURCH MISSIONS TO THE I:OMAN CATHOLICS. ANNUAL MEETING. The Annual Meeting of this Society will (9.V.) be h&c'. In Exeter Hall, on Friday, the 29th of April, 1853. • The Chair will be taken at 11 o'clock A.ll , by His Grace the Duke of MANCHESTER, President. The Wight Hon. Joseph Napier, M.P., Arthur Mills, Esq., M.P., Jelin C. Colquhoun, Esq„ Rev. Alex. R. C. Dallas , 111.21„ Rey. Robt. Biekersteth, M.A., Hon. Secretaries, Rev. Charles F. ‘lacarthy, M.A., _Ex.-Sch. T.C.D., MitsiOnary;' and others, have engaged to' take part ht the proceedings. FRENCH JOURNALISM. THE SALE OF THE CONS7ITUTIONNEL. This case, which excited great interest, was on Saturday, after sundry adjournments, brought on before the Paris Civil Tribunal. The court was crowded to excess. The case consists of an action brought by 31. Olympe and 31. Onesippe Aguado, shareholders in the Constitutionnel, against M. Veron and M. Mires. for the purpose of having the sale of that journal ir 7 to the latter declared null, and of an 7 M. Adamole and M. Foucalt, also shall "Wren alone, for the purpose of obtainh gall the share holders of 1,900,000 f., the IVL Mires, in stead of 720,000 f., which divided among them. To' both these act I the prelimi nary objection,that the Tr risdiction, but that they ought to be sent M. Paillet appeared for commenced by saying that M. Veron ardei 'le case should be publicly heard, but that ad regard for the interests of others, rc _nand that it should be sent before arh Inc into with closed doors. He then prc the situation of the Constitutionnel.. TI , was in 1844 purchased by M. Veron an for 432,500 f., and they formed a new con it on. The number of shares was fixed le of each at 3,0001. The shares were divided among the persons in pro portion to their interest in the old. company. M: Wren was appointed sole manager (gerant) and absolute master of the journal. He alone had power to trace the political line it should follow, to choose the personnel, and to modify the form and price. The further power was given to him of making over any portion of his authority to iiny shareholder he might select. But, on the other hand, he was, in certain cases, rendered responsible for losses, if any, to the amount of 200,0001., and was to be the holder of at least 12 shares. To cover these losses, M. 'Term was entitled to take half the profits, and when there were ite losses his share in the profits was to be one-third. A committee of 7 sharehold ers was to watch over the interea f the journal, and the by-laws enacted that general as • sof the shareholders should be- ireveated-wfth making, 4ecisions which should be binding on all the other shareholders; though absent ; also, that any dispute which might arise with respect to the company, or to the liquidation of it, should be judged by three arbitrators nominated by the parties, or, in default of their doing so in a week, by the Tribunal of Commerce. The Constitutionnel, thus consti tuted, had different vicissitudes of fortune. In 1847 there was a loss of 290,000 f., and M. Wren took it on himself. He might then, by the statutes, have resigned th e man agement, but he did not do so; and before 1850 he had re covered the loss. From 1850 to 1852 his position became further removed. On the 31st of January, 1852, the Com mittee of Surveillance, in their report to the shareholders, stated that they were greatly indebted to him for his ser vices, and that his accounts were admirably kept. In 1847 M. Veron sold M. de Morny, for 100,000 f., the half of his part in the management of the journal, and this fact was of importance in the events which followed. In 1852 the fortune of the Constitutionnel changed ; the paper had to submit to severe financial and political trials. The Moni yConstitution t h eils, forme r e e d d u a c e d its disastrousprice from competition both financially and politically. And this was not a ll • the Pays, which was on the same side in politics, also reduced its price to 40f. To these causes of ruin another was . to for 4" the. a ear added. The Constitutionnel published an article on Bel gium, which created a profound sensation in the diplo matic circles and among the public. Called on for ex planations, it stated that it had derived its inspiration from the highest sources. The new legislation on the press armed the Government with immense power over the jour nals, and in virtue of it a " warning" was given to the Constitutionnel. It persisted in its statement, and a second " warning" was given. After that it might have been said that the existence of the journal hung on a thread, as it was liable to be suppressed at any moment, not by the Chief of the State, but by one of the Ministers. Its shares consequently were almost without value. It there upon became necessary that something should be done, and on the 19th of August M. Wren convoked the share holders, and exposed to them the real state of the enter prise. He represented that it would be impossible to sup port the competition of the Moniteur and the Pays by adopting the same price as they had done, and he p ro p ose d a reduction to 32f. That was a bold and able measure—it was a coup d'etat. At that price a large increase of sub scribers was to be expected. 10,000 subscribers had been lost in the course of a short time, and they would no doubt come back again, while many others who looked more to the price of a newspaper than the quality of its contents would no doubt be obtained. But unfortunately at that price there was a loss on each subscriber. However, a con siderable increase of revenue was to be expected from the increase of publicity. The reduction of the price to 32f. was of no importance to the Moniteur, the Government organ, but it was a terrible blow to the Pays. The cense quence,was that the proprietor of the latter journal was obliged to endeavour to come to an understanding with the Constitutionnel. M. Mires accordingly went to M. Veron, and the latter gave this account of the interview in a memoirs which he had published M. Mires,' said I distinctly, almost before allowing him to sit down, will you sell me the Pays? or will you consent to adopt by a common accord the same subscription for the Pays and the Constitution net? We are making a competition of cheapness which cannot last ; let us come to an understanding and live as brethren instead of living as enemies.' I shall be delighted,' answered M. Mires ; The Pays even at 40f., is a heavy burden to me; but I am not free ; I cannot give you a definitive reply to-day." To-morrow, then.' The next day M. Mires came to me and said, cannot sell you the Pays, and I cannot even pn,t -an end to tho compe tition in cheapness with thq_Cgrt.stittionna.' Surprised, I asked him the explanation of the enigma. 'Be calm,' said he, 'I have not concluded—listen to me to the end. I cannot sell you the Pays, but I can purchase the Consti tutionnel from you." The Constitutionnel,' I answered, 'is not exclusively my property, and you will never be able to buy it. The proprietorship of tho Constitutionnel is divided into two distinct parts ; the commandite and the gerance ; the commandite consists of 180 shares, and the gerance is divided into two parts, represented by the Count de Morny and myself, M. de Morny having pur chased from me for 100,000 f. the half of all the rights and all the powers which the bye-laws confer on me as gerant. I cannot do anything asgerant without the approbation of M. de Morny, nor can he do anything without me. But,' I added, what would become of me without the Constitu tionnel 7 I like work, anxiety, and embarrassment. It is only at rare intervals that I complain of embarrassment. If I leave Paris and my affairs at the end of 24 hours I feel the want of occupation, and gladly resume my harness. I will be no obstacle to you in any respect, M. Mires, but my desire is that you shall not remove me from the Consti tutionnel, even on condition of paying me a million.' M. Mires, however, insisted, and r then told him that thefirst step he had to take was to see Count de Morny. I added that it would not be becoming in me to estimate the price which M. de Morny would require for his share in the management, the greatest reserve on such a point being necessary. M. Mire s , as an active,orrow, enterprising I will man, now said at once—' I w ill see on again to-morrow go to M. de Morny.' The next d a y he arrived triumphant. ' Everything i s conc l uded with M. de Morny,' said he; for his half of the gerance I am to give him 500,000 f. It will thus be seen that, without any intervention of mine, with out my saying a word, the value of the gerance of the Con stitutionnel was fixed. I had no observation to make, but, more surprised than aatified, I said to M. Mires—` You are not at the end of your difficulties. You must come to an understanding with the shareholders, who are repre sented by the Committee of Su Wawa. Shall I ask the committee to receive you prefer,' said he, that you shall communicate t o th em my p ropositions. The ma"' dice of tho Constitutionnel consists of 180 shares; those shares cost only 2 ) 500L, though they were issued at the nominal capital of 3,000 f ; 180 times 3,000 f. make 540 , 000 f., proposes in my name; 540,000 f, for the shares.' I [re marked that 3,000 f, er share wouldperhaps be considered too little; th a t the Committee of Surveillance was suspi cious and exacting, and. that it had already brought an action against me. Thereupon M. Mires, without hesita tion, said, although know well th a t no share could now be sold even . for 1, Of.' )' offerlthem 4,000 f , and that will make 720,000 f., The mkaoire then went on to state, that M. Veron, after again rep resen ti ng t o the committee the situation of the journal, and the impossibility of con tinuing, without enormous lossets, th e c ompetition with the Pays and the MOnitettr, which had been commenced, com municated to them the proposition of M. Mires. Although (the learned gentleman remarked) the shareholders had no concern with the terms on which he might treat respecting the gerance, M. Veron told the committee that he also should leave the Constitutionnel in the event of their selling it to M. Mires. The committee received the overtures favourably, and when they were communicated to the shareh o ld ers, the holders of 17 1 s h a res out o f th e 180 con sented to accep t th em. N o gene ral assembly of th e share holders was, h owever, called, as the formalities necessitated by such a m ee ti ng wou ld h a ve caused a delay of th ree months. Of the ni ne s hares which did not figure in the list of adh es i ons , three belonged to 31. Odiot, who w as then in Egypt, and six to the family Aguado. The con sent of M. Odi o t was cons idered certain by 31. Veron, and, as the shares of Messrs. Aguado form ed but an impercep tible part o f th e ir f or t une , he thought they would make n o objection. The negotiation then might be considered as nof e ,gerance arose be nearly concluded ; the question ,tttav answered. M. understanding with de Morny?" •, e eren. " I ?" saiclamY°llvc..°l7l° to an twee , sa . M. Veron and M. Mires. have,.? answered MI Mires "r to Jinn 600 ,000 f. for his half of the tainas*emenb- ", ell, Veron, "I - do not seek for other conditions than those 11. de Meaty has accepted. Butt must. remark that he is only the power. On this account I responsibility, and I have expenses of • representation, , enses of the journal, I nominally gerdnt, while am really so—that have the am allowed 12,000 f, a-year for obliged to give my articles and I shall lose them. More er e n v o e t t h ' in l g a to m t a h wr i e c l r . ita l t r zne lt . receive 10 000 f. It is, then, 2 I. a-Year which I shall m e p li o t rtant operations, said, "What and I can prove from the books that, the et aofffafrthgE.Bondly,ooo, as h all av o e w t e o d i a o n se n . trll m y . f m or ir t e, h .s, a man accustomed to i t. I offer you therefore 180,000 f. as you say is perfectly ins " An arrangement was come to an indemnity on that score. Mires himself. As to the on the basis thus fixed by delighted; and formal adeed of sale shareholders, they were Th f t the 17th of November. eac of the sale was was signed on announced veri ostentatiously, and more than once, in the that there was no secrecy, and, if any of who treated Constitutionne ; so The shareholders• them. were paid, moment to have made . Paid, and M. Veron was paid. The sale, M. de Morny was pl ta. But on the 29th of January, the shareholders had entertained objections, that was the in short, which M. Veron could not solve. had done so was a problem account of money, as they had not It could not be on the dividends due to them from the 1853, Messrs. Aguado A c gu om ailo s putin an opposition to it. Why they deigned to receivet several thousand francs were now Constitutionnel, and .the books. They reproached with having exceeded his powers as a gerant, M. Veron they accordingly demanded that the sale of the paper and and that 65,500 f. should be paid them, should be annulled, first of the C t• standing to their credit in / As to M. Adamole, who held four shares, and tuticmne they did not demand the nul lityM. Foucalt, who held two, e forted to it , but they re as the price of a share in the company - of the sale, for they had co s paid nn the era . nce should. be ld These g two preten sions were contradictory, and he should be able to show, when the case was gone into on its merits, that they were d qu iv i i r c e le d d that among the l ar trsh . areho shareholders. ____ ....... 1 of no weight. But, for the moment, the sole question was, as to whether the Tribunal could entertain the case. He repeated his former observation, that if M. Veron could gratify his own wishes, he would not object to its jurisdic tion in the matter. But he was obliged to object on legal grounds, as, in the event of a decision being given against him, he would have to proceed against M. de Morny and M. Mires ; and they might reproach him with having con sented to have the case tried by an incompetent tribunal. Article 51 of the Code de Commerce was very clear in say ing that this was one of the cases which ought to be sent before arbitrators ; and a clause in the.bye-laws of the company of the Constitutionnel said the same thing. The question in dispute was essentially one between partners, and it aught to be treated in the same way as all such questions were. It was, too, a mere commercial one, being relative to a sale and purchase • and on thXt ground also it ought to be s ent b e f ore arbitrators, or at least before the Tribunal of Commerce. M. Chaix d'Est-Ange, advocate for M. Mires, said that he was anxious to explain that that gentleman had not, as might be assumed from what had been said, made a bad operation in purchasing the Constitutionnel at the rate of 4,000 f. a share, with 500,000 f. to M. de Morny; and 680,000 f. to M. - Wren. He had not made a bad bargain, because he knew that he could get rid of the two " warn ings " that had been given to the journal ; that he could raise, not only its subscription, but that of the Pays, and so check the ruin with which it was menaced at 32f.; and that, as it had 44,000 subscribers, there was reason t o h o p e that he could increase the number of advertisements, which had been done. As to the technical objection which had been raised, he supported it; but it was not necessary to add anything to the argument of M. Pallet. M. Hebert then proceeded to address the court for Messrs. Aguado. He would not, he said, stop to inquire if the other side were, as they alleged, rather anxious than otherwise that the case should be' gone publicly into ; but he believed that they knew perfectly well that the tribunal wasfully competent to entertain it, though they had pleaded the contrary. It was necessary to go a little into the acts, to enable the Tribunal to judge of the question raised. According to his adversaries, what M. Veron had done was the simplest thing in the world—he had acted for the eom moti interest and it was ingratitudenot to heap eulogiums upon him. But when he was told that -he had note-the - right to sell a common' property, he replied that the ques tion was one between partners, and as such ought to be discussed in the dark before a tribunal of arbitrators. His clients saw the matter in quite a different light. They considered themselves co-proprietors of an accredited news paper, represented by a man who was not only the manager of it, and of the common interests, but, as he had stated in his namoire, the guardian of the portion of the pro perty belonging to th em , f or which their father had paid. 65,000 f. Well, that gerant, that guardian, had, with out even consulting them sold and deliv ere d th e com mon property for 1,900,000 f. • and out of that s um he had given t o a friend 500,000 f., and had kept 680,000 f. himself. Besides that, he and his friend had taken 174 ? 000f. for shares held by them ; so that there only remained 546,000 f. to divide among the other share holders. The portion which fell to Messrs. Aguado in that sum was not more than 24,000 f., and that for shares which had originally cost 65,500 f. They accordingly contended that a sale of property which produced such results ought to be annulled ; and he submitted that the - tribunal was the sole judge in matters relative to property. The learned advocate then went on to remark that it was strange that M. Veron, who, in the mintoire he had published, had in troduced a great many irrelevant matters —one of them an account of a visit he had made to one of the Messrs. Aguado, respecting his examination for the degree of bachelor of letters —had not attempted to prove that he could legiti mately dispose of the property in question ; nor attempted to explain how it happened that, when he had only 31 shares out o f 180, h e s h ou ld receive 680,000 f. out of the purchase-money of 1,900,000 f., and should give 500,000 f. to a friend for what by his own avowal had cost that friend only 100,0001. Was not he warranted in saying, in presence of such figures, that it was not a sale which M. Veron had effected, but a confiscation ? The learned gentleman then gave a history of M. Veron's connexion with the Aguado family. It had commenced by the late M. Aguado, the father of his clients, having advanced him 300,000 f. for the caution-money which he had had to deposit as director of the Opera, and in return for that M. Wren had allowed him a box gratis. Subsequently, in 1838, 31. 'Wren wrote a modest letter to M. Aguado, to ask him to assist him in purchasing two shares in the Constitutionnel. M. Aguado gave 65,500 f. for one of them, but allowed it to stand in M. Veron's name. In the changes which subse quently took place the share was represented by new ones, bearing M. Aguado's name. In consequence of these changes, M. Veron became entrusted with th e so l e management of and control over the journal ; but his powers were not so extensive as had been represented. Thus, they were limited with respect to all that concerned the pro perty, the capital, and the common interest of the share holders ; and his administration was placed under a Com mittee of Surveillance, which committee shared with him the right of convoking general assemblies of shareholders. This being so, it was impossible that he could have the right to sell the journal without the authorisation of a general assembly of the shareholders ; at all events, it was im possible that out of the price of sale he could justly take 580,0001. for himself ; give 500,000 f. to M. de Morny, and reserve only 24,000 f. for Messrs. Aguado. The learned advocate then went on to contend that M. - Peron, in order to wring from the Committee of Surveillance its consent to the sale, had represented the situation of the journal as much more grave than it really was, and had spoken of the two " warnings" it had received as likely to be perfectly ruinous to it, though he knew that they were without danger, as the articles which had called for them had been written by M. Granier de Cassagnac, and that gentleman iwas to remain attached to the journal under its new pro prietor. ; also, that he know th e " warn i ngs " were to be revoked on the establishment of th e E mp i re, w hi ch was near at hand. There was no necessity, he asserted, for the reduction of the price to 32f., as the Pays was not a very formidable rival, and as the Constitutionnel then had up wards of 40,000 subscribers, while the Pays had only 10,000. Nor was it true, as had been stated, that the shares of that paper were at that time unsaleable, as M. Faucher had sold several for 4,000 f. each. All these facts caused several of the shareholders to make a formal pro test against the sale of the journal on the conditions pro posed. The Tribunal, at this stage of the proceedings, rose, owing to the lateness of the hour ; and it fixed the further hearing of the cause for Saturday next. M. Hebert will then resume his pleading for MM. Aguado. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-APRIL 13. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) COUNTY ELECTIONS POLLS (SCOTLAND) BILL. Clause 2 (Sheriff with consent of Lord-Advocate, to in crease or alter number and arrangement of polling places) —Amendment proposed, in page 1, lines 14 and 15, to leave out the words, ' with consent of her Majesty's Advocate for Scotland for the time being :"—Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the clause :" —The committee divided ; ayes 64, noes 53. MAJORITY—AYES, 64. Aycock, Thorns* Hadfield, George Power, N. Anderson, Sir James Hayter, W. G. Russell, Lord J. Atherton, Wm. Herbert, Sidney Sawle, C. B. G. Brand, H. Hervey, Lord Alfred Scobell, Capt. Rrotherton, J. Heyworth, L. Smith, R V Browne, V. Hughes, W. B. Stanley, Hn. W. 0. Byng, q. H. Charles Hume, J. Stapleton, John Chambers, T. Ingham, Robert Strickland, Sir G. Cockburn, Sir A. Johnstone, James Strutt, lit. Bon. E. Craufurd, E. H. J. King, I'. J. Tancred, Henry Wm. Crook, J. Kingscote, R. N. F. Thompson, G. Crossley, F. Langston, J. H. Towneley, C. Dashwood, Sir G. H. Lockhart, A. E. Whalley, G. Drummond, Henry M'Taggart, Sir J. Whatman, J. Duncan, George Milligan, R. Wilkinson, W. Dundas, F. Mills, T. Winnington, Sir T. E Dunlop, A. Monck, Lord Wise, J. A. Evans, William Moncrieff, J. Wyndham, W. Ewan, William Moreton, Lord Fergus, J. Mulgrave, Earl Fitzgerald, J. D. Norreys, Lord Fitzwilliam, G. W. Oliveira, Benjamin Elliot, John Grosvenor, Lord R. Phillimore, J. G. Kinnaird, A. F. TILLERS. MGINORITY — NOES, 53. Annesley, Earl of reenall, G. rainier, Robert Arbuthnott, General Raiford, sir H. Repton G. W. J. Arkwright, G. Harcourt, Colonel Rushou ' t, Captain Baird James Hayes, Sir Edmund Smijth, Sir W. Barrow, W. H. Heneage, G. H. W. Smith, W. M. Bentinck, Lord H. Herbert, Sir Thomas Spooner, R. Campbell, Sir Arch. Hotham, Lord Stanhope, James B. Carnac, Sir J. R. Irton, Samuel Thesiger, Sir F. Christopher, R. Adam Kelly, Sir F. Trollope. Sir J. Duckworth, Sir J. Knatchbull, Wm. F. Vansittart, George H. Dundee, G. Lockhart, W. Waddington, H. Dunne, Col.. Lovaine, Lord Welby, Sir G. E. Egerton, Edward Al acartney, G. Whitmore, Henry Evelyn, W. J. Macgregor, Jas. Farnham. E. B. Miles, W. Fellowes, Edward Michell, W. Fraser, Sir W. A. Napier, Joseph Freshfleld, J. W. Oakes, J. H. P. Gordon, Admiral Ossulston, Lord Mackenzie, W. F. Granby, Marquis of Packe, C. William Blair, Colonel TELLERS. Clause 4 (Poll to be kept open only one day) :—Amend ment proposed, in page 3, line 19, to leave o u t th e wor d s " shall be di rec t e d t o begin on a Monday or :" —Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the clause :"—The committee divided ; ayes 61, noes 71. • —' - - MINORITY—AYES, 61. Anderson, Sir James Fraser, Sir W. A. Moreton, Lord Bathes, M. T. Freehtlel 1, J. Nostyn, E. M. Baird, James Grosvenor, Lord Mulgrave, Earl Barrow, Wm. H. Hadfield, George Oasulston, Lord B. nbow, John . Harcourt, Col. Palmerston, via. Biotherton, Joseph Hayter, W. G. Prime, R. Byng, G. H. C. Herbert, Sir Thomas Russell, LordJ. Campbell, Sir A. Hervey, Lord Alfred Sawle, C. B. G. Chambers, Thomas Johnstone, James Spooner, Richard .Charterls, F. Kingscote, R. N. F. Stanhope, J. B. Craufurd, E. Langston, TI. G. Thesiger, Sir F. Crossley, Frank Lemon, Sir C. Thompson, George Drurnmond, H. Lockhart, A. E. Whalley, G. H. Duncan, G. Lockhart, W. Whitmore, H. Dundaq, G. Luce T. Wise, John A. Dundas, F. Maule, Colonel Wyndham, William Dunlop, A. - Milligan, Robert Young, Sir John Ev..ns, W. Mills, T. Ewart, William Mitchell, W. MUM. Fergus, John Moncreiff, James Fitzroy, Hon. H. Monsell, William Elliot, J. E. Forster, C. Montgomery, Sir G. Kinnard, A. F. MAJORITY—NOES, 71. Alcock, Thomas Fitzgerald, G. Phillimore..T. Annesley, Earl Forster, M., Smijth, Sir W. Arbuthnot, Gen. French, Fitzstephen Smith, R. Arkwright, G. Fuller, Augus us E. Smith, Wm. M. Ball, John Gordon, Admiral Stapleton, J. Bentinek, Lord H. Granby, Marquis Strickland, Sir G. Blair, Colonel Herbert, Sidney Strutt, Edward Brand, H. Heyworth, Laurence Tomline, G. Brown, V. liotham, Lord Towneley, C. Brown, W. Hughes, W. B. Trollope, Sir J. Buck, Lewis W. Kelly, Sir F. Turner, C. Carnac, Sir J. R. Knatchbull, W. F. Tynte, Col. C. J. Christopher, R. A. Lewis, Sir T. Vanslttart, G. H. Clinton, Lord C. P Lowe, R. Vivian, J. H. Cockburn, Sir Alex. Macartney, G. Waddington, H. S. Crook, J, Mackenzie, WF. Walcot, Adm. Dashwood, Sir G. Macgregor, James Welby, Sir (I. Davison, H. M`Taggart, Sir J. Whatman, James Dunne, Micha 1 Miles, W. Wilkinson, W. A. Egerton, E. Molesworth, Sir W. Wilson, Jam es Evelyn, W. Mona, Viscount Winnington, Sir T. Farnham, E. Basil Napier, J. Feilden, M. Norreys, Lord =wan. Fellowes, Edward Oakes, J. H. Hume, J. Fitzgerald, J. Parke Charlea W. Atherton, Wm. (From the Morning Chronicle.) On Tuesday night, Mr. Fitzroy gave notice of a Bill for the better regulation of Hackney Carriages in the metropolis. The evils, however, connected with the ordinary and cheaper carriages plying for hire in and about cities, are not confined to Lon don. Wherever the thing is, its abuse co-exists. Fiacre, Cabriolet, droschsky, vigilante —or what ever else it may be called—it invariably brings with it, in every city of the world, oaths, swindling, abuse, extortion, violence, fraud, injustice, and most of the o th er evils of Pandora's box. hat is true pf the cab i s , to a considerable extent, true of the omnibus; and the law of rapine which rules over terrestial locomotion governs the river no less than the roadstead. Why this strange social phenomenon ? Why should travelling be subject to this fate ? Why should the wayfaring man, on sea or on shore, in street or in harbour, be reck oned a legitimate prey to cabmen, boatmen, and porters, as caravans are to the B e d ou i ns ? How comes it that our highly civilised state of society has not yet, in this matter, emerged from barba rism ? And how is it that this social vice espe cially infests travelling ? What is the subtle con nexion between hiring the means of transit and being, ex necessitate rei, robbed? What is there which makes a journey and cheating inseparable ? How is it that society resigns itself, almost without a struggle, to the caprice and tyranny of that com pound of beer and blasphemy, extortion and obscenity—the true British cabman. We are well aware that this is no new thing. Long before the Spectator's time, the slang and I swindling of the river were notorious. ' We do not deny that the Cadiz and Neapblitat boatman,'or the Venetian gondoliers; will outsivindle and out swear their brethren at Dover or Gravesend. But the antiquarian inveteracy or the oecumenical ex tent of a nuisance ought to be a reason for resist ance rather than for patience. It is not so, how ever, in England. All that is needed to conse crate an abuse among us is its largeness—its daily occurrence—its universal impact. We are despe rately active about securing the purity of articles that are consumed by one person in a million - but to pestiferous air an d po i soned water, we, in 'Lon don at least, submit with very inarticulate mur murs. A nation is convulsed if a foreign ecclesi astic calls himself Bishop of this place, or Arch bishop of that ; but the millions who inhabit this great city passively permit their health to be in jured, and their property to be destroyed, to the value of thousands of pounds per day, only because it is nobody's business to enforce the Smoke Con suming Act. So it is with cabs. Everybody is a rider in cabs, and everybody feels that the cab driver is the na tural enemy of the whole human race. He is a sort of Fate. Nobody hires a cab but with the certainty of being cheated. The evil haunts every family, and infests the daily necessities of life. Wherever we ride—to church or theatre, to wed ding or funeral, to a meeting of creditors or to a ball—one dark pall of misery, one grim anticipa tion of robbery, hangs over the journey. London streets are as Finchley-common and as Hounslow heath—Stand and deliver is the rule of the road. The moment the door is shut on the pensive travel ler, he begins settling whether he shall play the fool or the hero—whether he shall sacrifice his money or his peace. His only choice lies between being swindled and savagely abused. Sometimes, as in the case of women, the hirers gets both bullied and cheated. And all this, we must say, is mainly our own fault. Vicious customs, and our own criminal weakness, have made the cab d r i ver th e savage an d robber that he is. Such has ever been the history of a social evil, until it got to be so monstrous that society avenged itself by a revolution. Fees to ser vants grew into a tax, and into so monstrous a one that either society itself or the nuisance had to be abated—either vails or visiting must cease. It is with cabs as it was with the extinct tyranny of flunkies. The evil has reached its zenith. A necessary of London life is turned into a curse. All the middle classes are interested in Mr. Fitzroy's proposition ; and it will be our own fault if we sub mit any longer to the continuance of the cab nuis ance. When, some twenty or five-and-twenty years ago, cabs became the re gu l ar f orm o f h ac k ne y carriages, fares were apportioned to their cost. Now that every other necessary of life has fallen more than one-fourth in value, there is no reason why cabs should maintain charges which were ample enough a quarter of a century ago. Six pence a mile in 1853 is more than eightpence a mile was in 1830, considerinc , the dif f erence in the price of horse-flesh, horse-keep, and carriages. Nor must the active competition of the omnibuses be forgotten in settling a new tariff for hackney-car riage hire. Free trade must penetrate into the cabowner's yard, as well as into the farmer's. We see no cause why the undue profits which we deny to the grower of corn, the breeder of hor s e s , an d the carriage builder, should be intercepted from the public savings in order to increase the consumption of beer. 'backey, and blackguardism at the public house adjoining the cab-stand. For we must not forget that the cab nuisance is an offence against public morality, as well as an engine of grinding extortion. I If cabowners could be taught common sense, they would see that it is their interest to prevent the overcharges and savagery of their representatives, the drivers. Cabs, if clean, and driven by men who are neither extortioners nor reprobates, might double their earnings. As it is, people are often driven to a sweltering omnibus or a fatiguing walk, in sheer despair of receiving civility or honesty in cabs. And the unprotected middle-rank women— all ladies, in fact, below the rank of " carriage folks"—are driven to choose between staying at home and a ruinous " clarence for the day." The remedies, we maintain, are, if not easy, at least at tainable; but we must begin with ascertaining the causes of the unpopularity of cabs. These are, first, the eightpenny fares, and next, the system of sub-letting. F rom the days of revenue-farming to those of Irish encumbered landlordism, middlemen have been a curse to the public. The fares may be easily settled ; but the sub-letting can only be kept in check by a most resolute co-operation on the part of the public, together with new and strin gent regulations against extortion. We are per fectly aware that solitary attempts to remedy the evil have failed—the drivers have combined alike against the sixpenny cabs and against the me chanical devices for measuring distances. Judg ing from our own experience, we should say that the most available reform would be to cheapen and facilitate complaints against the drivers. Who can afford the time, the temper, and the strength re quisite to complete a successful complaint against a cabman, in face of the misery and delay inseparable from a visit `to a police-court ? But why not try cheap and summary justice ? An es pecial court for offences against the Hackney Car riage Act, with the power of levying higher penal ties than those at present imposed, may be worth thinking of. Again, let there be a remedy against the owner as well as against the driver. An owner whose drivers are " unfortunate" enough to be frequently " had up " might be made per sonally responsible ; and his license as well as the driver's, might be suspended. As prevention, however, is better than cure, we should do well to provide facilities for ob viating extortion which either do not at present exist, or are only very partially available. The fares Commissioners mi g ht p u bli s h tables of differently arranged from any now in use, which would be of great local utility, and' which would h find a large public sale. These tables might be in separate series, .sa-fihat there might be one marking distances from every authorisedstrdnedn..re . s F t or e c t erixasmplees the Charing-cross or the Fa r . might register at least 500 distances in every direc tion ; and thus, as is found in the case of the railway s tations,' a great approximation 'to ascertaining the distance travelled would be secured. And this re minds us of the secret cause of the disinclination of the public totheir own rights.. A hirer vindicate . . feels pretty con.fident that lie is cheated ; but, being really ignorant of the distance—say between Dal ston-lane and Bloomsbury-square—he generally pays double, simply because he cannot extemporise anything better than the merest . guess at the real fare. And ,then his doubts prevent him from tak ing out a summons. Why should there not be an office especially dedi ca t e d to inquiries, where, for the fee' of a penny, the victim may ascertain the legal fare ? In a very short time, almost every conceivable distance could be registered 'Within threepence ; an d with a court specifically consti tuted fo r a dj u di cating on cab offences, a complaint might be presented and decided at the cost of one tenth of the present difficulty and annoyance. Anyhow, it is the plain duty of the Legislature to interfere. Means of cheap, speedy, and decently comfortable locomotion are as necessary to the ac tive, economical, and sanitary working of our social system, as is a fair supply of water and gas. The State charges itself with the duty of compelling at ' tention to public morality and safety ; and mora lity, comfort, business, and health are alike inter fered with by the present condition of the hackney carriage trade. The existing law has failed, and. it made by the former action brought by eholders, against M. ng a division among total sum paid b 5. alone, had been di ions M. Veron raise( ibunal. had no jur before arbitrators. M. - Wren. He co , ntly desired that th t the nature of it, ai equired him to der arators; and be go )ceeded.to describe tat • jou*al, he said, d 14 otNer persons f npany for carrying at 180, and the vab SER \IONS. Scrinons will (DX.) be preached in aid of the Funds of the Society as follows : • On Friday l'.forning, April 15th, in' St. Michael's• Church Chester _square, by the Rev. William Harrison, Rector of birch, at 11 o'clock. ' On Sunday Morning, April 24th, in St. Giles in the Fields, by the Rev. Williapi Welih, 8.A., Deputation-Secretary, at 11 o'clock. And in the Evening, by the Rev. Robert Bickersteth, M.A., rector,' at 7 o'cLick _ • . 'On Friday Evening, April 29th, in Percy Chapel, Charlotte street, Fitzroy-square, by the Rev. Edward Ellis, Corresponding Missionary, at 7 o'clock. " On Sunday Morn'ng, May Ist, in St. Mit`tbew's Denmark-hill, by the Rev. Ea ward Ellis, Corresponding 111 issionary, .at 11 o'clock. On Wednesday Evening, May 41.1), in St. Mary's Parish Church, Islington, by the Rev. John C. Miller, M.A., RectOr of St. Martin's, Blitningharn, at 7 o'clock. nd 'On the same Evening, in St. Michael's, Str , ckwell, by the Rev: Eliward Ellis;Coriesponding Miisionary, at 7 o'clock.. On Recension Day, May sth, in Trinity Oharch,.Marylebone, by the Rev. 11 , ,gh M'Neile, D.D., of Liverpool, at 11 o'clock. And on the evening of May sth, in Christ Church, Newgate-street, i«y the Rev. Robert Bickersteth, M.A., Rector of St. Giles, at half= past 6 o'clock. On Sunday morning, May Bth, in Regent-square Church, Regent square, by the Rev. Edward Ell's, Corresponding Missionary, at 11 o'clock. In the afternoon, by the Rev. fdiyardEllis, at half•past 3 o'clock ; and in the evening, by the - Rey. G. A. Rogers, M A., In cumbent, at 7 o'clock. Ou Wednes-lay eveninf, May I lth, in Portman Chapel, Baker s reet, Portnsan•square, by the Rev. J. C. Ryle, ILA., Rector of liel minghara, at 7 o'clock. On Sunday morniir; May 22d, in the Lock Chapel, Harrow-road, by the Lord Bishop of Cashel, D.D., at 11 o'clock. MEETINGS. Meetings will (D.V.) be held on Ab.nday evening, May the 2d, Jr the Infant School, Camberwell New•road. On Tuesday evening, May the 10th, in the National School-room ; Dutton stre t (Cromer-street), off Regent-square. On Wednesday evening, May the 11th, at Clerkenwell. On Thursday evening,litay the 12th, in the Infant School-room lchmond-street (Liss at Grove), St. John's-wood. 14, Exeter hall, 13th April, 1853. 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 dekription of their cases, and may be had, price 2s Gd, in English, French, Spanish, Dutch ' , Italian, or German, of Messrs. Viper Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Mann, 39, Comhill ; 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. DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART. The following important minute has just been issued by the Board of Trade t--- "My Lords take into consideration the estimates about to be submitted to Parliament for affording aid to the local schools of art during the year ending the 31st of March, 1854, "At the establishment of the schools it was understood that a Government grant was promised for a limited period of three years, upon the condition that a sum equivalent to it was raised in the locality, and in the expectation that after three years the schools would be so established and supported as not to require any further assistance from Go vernment. These expectations have not been fulfilled ; but, on the contrary, the tendency of the system, until very lately, has been to encourage increased reliance on Government aid, rather than upon the value of the instruc tion or local exertions ) and has been found adverse to eco nomy. My Lords are of opinion, that by more judicious arrangement it may be possible greatly to increase the ad vantages which now result from the outlay of so large a sum of public money; and while they do not propose to withdraw grants from the places which now receive them, they are desirous to introduce a system of greater efficiency and economy, by which the independence of the local bodies may be increased, and the objects of the Parlia mentary vote more adequately attained. My Lords desire to relieve the localities altogether from the obli gation to raise a sum equivalent to the Parliamentary vote, and instead to leave the whole general manage ment, and the control of the cost of it, entirely. to the local committees. In future, the local committees wilt not be requifett to return to this board any ac count of their local expenditure, or of any receipts from subscriptions or donation each local committee will, therefore, determine for itself what premises shall bo used —subject, of course, to their being considered by my Lords as suitable for the purposes of instruction —what rent shall be paid, what furniture provided, what Managing officers, servants, &c., shall be engaged, and what s h a ll b e the cost of general management. " My Lords, on their part, propose to confine the Par liamentary grants wholly to the promotion of instruction, and even in this point to exercise control only so long as the local committee elects to receive the Parliamentary aid. Their Lordships would view it as the highest mark of the progress and success of art education, in any locality to find that the committee preferred independence of the Government grant altog e th er . " My Lords will require that the Parliamentary grant tfor the year ending the 31st of March, 1854, should be paid o the following objects :—the present masters' salaries ; an Increase of masters where necessary, especially for affording instruction to public schools, public teachers ; and to serv e o e r ot re . o n p g o s li t t u a d n en so t h s o in ol h s o : ld en b y t s o cho st la u r d s e hi nt p s s i b n ot t h re t n o g cal to " be ( - 1 masters ; lectures and exam les for teaching. After committees, communicatio n w i th the local P • my Lords will apportion the grant to these respective items. "As the fees • paid by the students may be considered as the product, p artly, of the grants furnished by Parliament, and partly of the funds raised in the locality, my Lords will require as a condition of receiving any Parliamentary aid that an equitable Portion of the fees shall be applied towards instruction ; and, in accordance with their minute of the 28th of January, 1853, and for the reasons given in the letter of the 30th of June, 1852, which has been sanc tioned by the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, they propose that such portion of the fees shall be paid to the master or masters of the school as part of their income. " HENRY COLE, Secretary. -•‘-,-, ‘" prove it ; and Mr. Fitzroy lublic benefactor of no mean in wiping off what is at pre of our country and its laws. DOMINATION. (From the Times.) Among the causes of the Reformation in this country, none was more powerful than the indig nation of a high-spirited nation at the practice of what were termed Appeals to Rome, which in voked the jurisdiction of a foreign Court to decide questions of sacred and vital interest to the welfare of a free and independent community. Among the blessings of the Reformation none is to this day more earnestly cherished than the proud conscious ness that we are in spiritual as well as in temporal concerns a self-governed people, and that our insti tutions in Church and State recognise no authority which is alien to the British nation. But though mere than three centuries have elapsed since the Statute of Appeals of Henry VIII. released us for ever from that bondage into which the people of England will fall no more, yet to this hour we may see on the other side of the Channel this power asserted, this jurisdiction exercised, these man dates obeyed, to an extent which is absolutely incredible among a people like that of France. We revert to the subject because it illustrates in a very striking manner the constant policy of Rome whenever it finds a country plunged in such a state of torpor as to offer no resistance to its claims, and the Apostolical Letter of the Pope, addressed to the Cardinals and other prelates of France, is certainly an extraordinary example of what the nation may be led under certain circumstances to endure. The controversy which led to this interposition of the authority of the See of Rome-was kindledby the intemperate zeal of the writers ina Romaa Ca tholic periodical called l' Univers. These gentlemen, who were for the most part laymen, assumed 'in the name of the highest Ultramontane dectrine§ . a spe cies of—consorship over the bishops and clergy of France. They attacked the moderate party in that Church with extreme virulence on all occasions, they professed absolut e i ntolerance, and boldly claimed un mitigated domination. On the fertile subject of edu cation, confined, of course, to sacerdotal hands, they supported the proposition of a certain Abbe Gaume, who has entered the lists againSall classical studies, maintaining thatthe early Greek and _Latin Fathers were the best authorities that could befollowed in the study of antiquity. The influence acquired by this paper is such that it attacked and supplanted the authority of the bishops in their dioceses ; and the Archbishop of Paris at last resolved to try his strength against it by prohibiting his clergy and their flocks from contributing to or reading a jour nal of a character so hostile to his own influence. From this decision M. Louis Veuillot, the principel editor, appealed in person to Rome. In less than a month he obtained all he wanted, for it was not difficult to convince the Pope that the expressions complained of by the French prelates were, in fact, marks of homage to his own superior authority, and, accordingly, the Letter Apostolical, which we publish elsewhere, has appeared in M. Veuillot's favour. The Archbishop of Paris at once confesses himself entirely vanquished, and withdraws the in terdict he had placed on these publications in his diocese ' • and the edit or o f th e Univers, who is a sort of Mr. Lucas in his way, triumphs in the name of the Church over the metropolitan, and in the name of the Vatican over Notre Dame. The Pope commences this singular effusion by an elaborate panegyric on the French clergy, and he may boast, with some reason, that it is long since any branch of the Romish Church has been more absolute in its pretensions at home, or more entirely subj ec t t o th e ar b itrary will of Rome. He congratulates the clergy of France on the restora tion of their provincial councils, on the introduc tion of the Romish liturgy in several dioceses where it had never been used, and especially on the signal devotion to Mother Church of "our very dear son in Jesus Christ, Napoleon, Emperor of the French, by whose care the Church enjoys entire peace, tranquillity, and real protection." Whatever may be the value of this devout protec tion, we may judge of the peace and tranquillity of the Church in France by the fact that this very mandate has been called forth by a dispute bf uncommon violence, and that the imme diate consequence of it is not merely to condemn but to humiliate the Archbishop of Paris in the exercise of his legitimate pastoral authority. The protecting care of Louis Napoleon would have been far more effectually dis played towards the Church if his Government had refused, according to the undoubted maxims of the French law, to allow such a brief to have any vali dity or authority in the Empire, and had deter mined to repudiate the claims of the Papacy to in terfere in a question of national and ecclesiastical policy. For the Pope's letter does not stop here. It proceeds to lay down express directions for the guidance of the clergy on the great question of edu cation, and it so far adopts the propositions of M. Gaume that it recommends the study of " the ex cellent works of the holy Fathers and of the most celebrated heathen writers, after they have been care fully expurgated." But the principal object of the letter is to recommend to the especial predilection of the French bishops those identical writers who have devoted their lives to the defence of the rights of the holy See, the same being the very men whom several of these bishops had just condemned. "Fi delity to the holy See, and most perfect obedience to all that it teaches, establishes, and decrees," is the one quality which includes all the other Chris tian virtues, and it is not wonderful if, tried by such a test, M. Veuillot and his colleagues far out weigh the testimony of prelates who have not yet wholly forgotten what is due to the episcopate and the Church of their country. Pius IX. is a revolutionary Pontiff. His reign will be remembered hereafter as that of a Pope in whom the idea of established legal rights and tra ditions never weighed for an instant against the impulses of his own arbitrary authority ; for no Pope was ever so deficient in the first quality of the Roman See--its surpassing caution. But whether he lets loose Cicerovacchio and the mob of Rome, or affects to abolish by a decree the ancient hierarchy of the Church of England, or treats the prelates of France as if they were the mere creatures of his power, Pius IX. manifests the same utter unconsciousness of the elements he has to deal with. Within the last few days it is said that he has definitively refused to crown Louis Napoleon, though even if that act had depended on his own will he would probably have pertrmed it, with an utter disregard of the rights attached to the Frerieh Crown and the violated liberties of the nation. But he follows up this refusal, which is in itself not very flattering to a Ruler whose army is at this moment in possession of the Papal dominions, by a manifesto such as no previous Government of France has endured. It asserts in the most absolute terms the entire inde pendence of the Church in France on the unlimited authority of Rome. It purposely limits every allusion to the laws and liberties of that Church, and to the treaty which binds it to the State. It condemns in terms a book recently published in defence of the Gallican doctrines based on the common law of the nation ; and it lavishes adula lation on the Government on the ground that it has sacrificed the independence of the Church. These Ultramontane opinions, these arrogant pretensions of a foreign and irresponsible Court, are no es sential part .of the Roman Catholic religion. On the contrary, they have been successfully re sisted by the most illustrious members of that Church, and they have not been asserted by the wisest of its Pontiffs. This spiritual despotism, which threatens to enfold the idea of obscurity, and to realise t o h f at l i an ea tyranny over the mind . which i o n n e m e v u e e n d n i To t vha the and accord for a tinge subjection with the strange Middle Ages did not achieve, apathy .nto which the greatest nations of Europe have fallen. l But the Church of Rome never committed a more signal error than that of allying itself to such Powers as these ; and even in the present s t a te of the world, when every other form of oppo sition is suspended, We are much mistaken if the ancient rights of the Gallican Church will be sacri ficed and abandoned with - out h irefender. .Eibriar e aliquis ! Even the present French Government can scarcely think that it is interested in abetting the subversion of the only party in the Church upon which it can rely on national grounds ; and the publication of such a mandate is m itself a vio lation of the right hitherto exercised by the State to sanction and control all the communications addressed - by the See - of Rome to its subjects: RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending April 3, 1853 (283 miles) £14,425 10 0 Corresponding week last year (2414 miles) 11,268 14 4 . 'LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending April 10, 1853.. .. £18,220 14 4 Corresponding week last year , 17,405 17 10 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for railway and steam-boats for the week ending April - 10, 1853 £3,202 12 6 Corresponding week last year 2,586 17 7 Increase in 1853 £6ls 14 11 CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending April 9, 1853 £235 6 9 Corresponding week last year 172 3 5 THE BUTTER TRADE AT CORK. —On Monday the butter market opened at the Cork Weigh House, after the usual annual vacation, and at a figure highly en couraging to dairy farmers. Cant, 110 s., first quality ; currency, 101 s. for ditto. In addition to this high price which may be set down at is. per lb., there are no stocks in the hands of dealers in either this or the London market. rnseY ; Fried t. D''' tian 3 ; Haul' awest' Istine) rinces i 3,iver ; Turk' I, BO' >urgb ; lirel. from r , but e n ti• 13t. lat. 49 ). 15, 0. lat. 4, 1, Ist. 03C? is OW stole! 600J' il, 1° oa t. 3r 1-P° Chir J , 0 1 )0 A i v a l s ' n r A s in s ' Oti Oa Od Id. r 0 Nil to mss;