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pOST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for the 1847. he earliest copy of the work has been but a few days issued, and fo llowing Reviews have a!ready appeared in the leading Metro olltatqournals 7 fort TIMES, TIMES, Nov. 18, 184 G. The annual publication of this work—the volume for 84°eto 1a now issued. It i s a woneerfully different affair from the old I)lr rn which used to consist of little or nothing more than the alphabetical list of tradesmen ; it comprises *Ow, and has for some Tears, a " Street Directory," a " T ra d es ' Directory,"a " Court Di host rec ter7," a " Postal Directory," a "C onve y ance Directory," with e of other little digests. The volume aPpear4 to hate been very ren illY revised, an d supplies the latest information. 01 course, "-.4 P o stal treaty w ith Prussia has net been overlooked; and in minor points the work seems to bear the test of a search into mat ters la which changes hays been very recent. ----- HORNING CHRONICLE, Nov. 20, 1846. 211 6 powers of expansion exhthlted by this most useful annual N. , Cu m* appears really unlimited. Published during a series of forty cght 'ears in a metropolis whose dwellings increase in number by an Y e arly average of Come 14,000, and whose commerce expands in still larger measure, th e .‘ post-office Directory" has become enormously e nhanced_ I n bulk, as also in th e comp li cated variety of i ts indis pensable contents. The admirable success with which the really enormous difficulties of his task has been overcome by the inde fatigable publisher h as b een proved by the experience of many years; and we need say little more than that the present volume presents the g ame tokens as i ts predecessors, of intelligent method and loge ;lnUltY o f arrangement, i n packing into reasonable compass, andpro acing In lucid or d er, its millions of facts and references. Within e .(4 P erY ra Pl a ges every man m ay l earn everything he oueht to know about I., very ell one of his co-dwellers in th e great metropolis, the i r b us i nesses, ' aa ev erything necessary to facilitate him In his own. Thu ran d extension of our ra il way system, and the new postal ar gemmi with some continental states, have rendered necessary meant extensive additions to the sections appropriated to Conveyance and t he Post -office. We find the Inf orma ti on g i ven un d er th ose h ea d s .°' °WY as hill and acc urate as it was well possible to make them, out more new and recent than we should have thought attainable in a work of Such magnitude. Prefixed to the volume la about the best alap of London, we happen to have met with. MORNING HERALD, Nov. 21, 1846. BenuiltY SS the proportions of this indispensable work have hitherto D e the volume for 1847 comes forth under circumstances of still 1 . 1;t her enlargement. The experience of 47 years has obviously en- II:s° ed the proprietor, Mr. Frederick Kelly, to produce a Directory of rivalled completeness, wherein every species of fact likely to be Ranted by the merchart and the trader is placed within convenient D a li e e n e3 t r o T y h a a e l octavo oe contains upwards of two thousand closely- PsZcs, betokening a singular amount of hlm -I_,Y as a matter o f compilation, and awakening astonishment at the comprehens iveness of th e machinery which could bring within a ocimMon focus se mu c h varied and scattered intelligence—embracing 4 11 54 th'ea a multi plicity of heads, and involving .he services of vast 11 rers of contributors. We believe that the present volume is not achedof mlat in the whole world ; for such a mammoth aggregate than it a specific Information is no less a typographical wonder, I,,srioomdieproiodoziegnio:rs monument of diligence and enterprise. ik) p diretories are included in this hue Per _ _ bent the o nly one, it seems, if the annual tribe destined to g a Perm nt existence —a veritable triumph, indeed, of the utilitarian Prinver the ornamental. The "Official Directory" Is a key to the d olef the Government Offices, and a record of o ffi cial perso nages. This is followed by a " Street Directory," exhibiting the at.rraedienstmereeneeltneacebeyry thoroughfare, and the-points at which the streets those at right . angles ; while the " Commercial and Lo.fnessional Directory" is an alphabetical arrangement of the *trove. ;Mil.4 Mites a " Trades' Directory," in which the names are allocated er their respective callings. The " Law Directory" Is a list of the "ses, Queen's counsel, serjeants, barristers, attorneys, &c. with a ~a ta logne of the various courts of law, their officers, and their pecu owner; of sdiction. The " Court Directory" comprises the ad dresses of the nobility and gentry; and the " Parliamentary Direc l„rY" Is a record of the Members of the Houses of Lords and Corn 'rens, with an alphabetical list of the boroughs, citi es , an d coun ti es Ilinin g Members to P ar li amen t, t h e surnames arid eldest sons or Peers, &c. The " Postal Directory" contains the hour of receipt and l del ivery of ev ery post-off i ce In the k i ngdom ; the cities and prin c i pa l Voce!' t hroughout the world to which mails are dispatche d the L ondon ; the ra t es o f fore i gn postage; t h e ra il wa y ma i ls, a nd tress -road mails, &c. The "City Directory" registers the civic au thorities, the public companies, the brokers, the incumbents and mi nisters of churches and chapels, the ne t wsna t oe , and the "Conveyance Directory" includes the rain a Yba the . coach and booking -o ffi ces, the wharfs, &c. The vo lume closes with Banking Sad Assurance Directories. These various heads will serve to indi t ate the multitudinous nature of the contents ; for out of them come a variety of subordinate directories, which meet every conceivable preseating a curious analysis of the public and private institu tions of the metropolis and of the commercial world. Every person is to be found under his proper Section, from a prime minister down In a sheri ff 's o ffi cer—every establishment, from a pala ce t o a locig- Isg-honse. The Editor, in his Preface, takes occasion to congratu late himself on the many improvements he has this year introduced, i s rincipally flowing from the employment of " selected agents," in stead of the ordinary carriers of the Post-office. Among the specific al terations the new postage treaty with Prussia, which comes into bPeration on the Ist of January, 1847, and disturbs to a considerable the eXtent the rates of postage over a great part of the Continent, seems Most important. MORNING ADVERTISER, Nov. 18, 1846 ~,,' The "P os t-office London Directory, 1847 , " is just delivered. '"° ll gh it is appa ren tly li m i ted to London, it is in reality a national work. None of the leading towns can will be without it. It must bo an essential to every counting-house in the kingdom, as well as to ery place •fbusineas in and about the metropolis. It is .an in 'roltlable week of its kind; and the extent and minuteneiss of its Useful details are truly wcndertlil. Being prenarod " under the im knediate and special patronage of her Majesty's P ostmaster-General, " 1111 amplest and completest means were, of course, at the command 'oV the proprietor, Mr. Kelly, to secure the entire accuracy of the vo minous and crowded contents of the bulky work. The present is The I'o[ly -eighth annual publication. Few commercial or trading Ines can now require particular description of the really important And useful information, to almost every party in any sort of business, occupying the two thousand closely hut clearly-printed octavo pages 11 )f this Directory. Pre ce d e d b y an admirable and perspicuous map c't London, prepared expressly, it is declared, for the work by Mr. tionll. It. Davies, there are divisions, comprising, among other informa , " ," Official," " Street," .. i Commercial,"" " Trades," " Law," Ban eour " P marli amentary," " Postal," " City," " Conveyance," " kin;," and many other Directories The hope is expressed in the preface, that this forty-eighth annual edition of the " Post-office London Directory" may be found "in all respects to equal the het of its precieceesors." From very consi derable examination of marvellously full and varied contents and information on matters which It must be so difficult, laborious, and tINTISIVe to collect, we hesitate not to say that this unassuming wish is liberally realised. It not only equals the best of its prede cessors, hut in several particulars it surpasses all its precursors. The information in not only fuller in many respects, but there are several important alterations and editions, largely adding to the use fulness of the book. It is intimated, and truly, that although all Competition has Proof dis sappeared, the pr esent volume is conspicuous been no relaxation in the multifarious labours to perfect the extraordinary work. In speaking of past success, it 15 ob served that it h as b een " even in a pecuniary point of view benefi cial to the public, is proved by the fact, that impor ant improve triceremits and addition. , are annually made without any increase of "—a result t h at, it is declared, " could not have been the case, ad the public) patronage been divided." With reference to the price, we certainly must acknowledge that it is wonderfhl how it ctoini be profitable to provide such varied materials- and materials . nstantly changing and requiring so mach and such ceaseless la bour and cost to procure, an 4 then to classify. Nothing but a tre toridelts sale could make the speculation answer. Among the ins irr,ctorayl.teriattliZS will be found those introduced into the " ostal" indeed, singularly full, useful, and complete; and !Tat much increase the daily, it might be more truly pronounced its i f , glly n : c alu e, rn Particularly to the merchant, the trader, or the pro derabi n ' As the new treaty with l'russia caused very consi c- inion e s h i t a a l t e e :in it t a ll y e ar r i a a t , es of postage as affecting the Austrian do- Bremen, Denmark, the German Stateo, aaTbArith, Hanover Lubeck, Mecklenburg, Oldenburgh, Poland,Prus efi:'"-nnY. Sweden and Norway, Wurtemburgh, &c., &c., &c., those an are detailed " precisely as they are arranged to come into :rilioPeration on the first of January, 1847." The other changes are not -ntltrierotis, but all the l e iuteligence is announced to be brought Bchdown to a period as late as was ompatible with the appearance of a v o l ume in sufficient time for general circulation, prior to the v ' on nnencement of the year for which it is d es i gne d . The business merits of the work are of the highest order, and render it, of its kind ~., --, we imagin e , a publication unexampled In the world for its 'Adri p l etonees, fulness, and asefulness. SUN, Nov. 18, 1846. rhe present Is the forty-eighth annual edition of the " Poet-office rn,lon Directory," and a truly marvellous efort of compilation it '• The " Post-oflice Directory" has been for some yearn nnder the 1441agement of Mr. Kelly. U nt il he b ecame the manager of this Zcal. there were divers o ec ther dirtories in the field. They have, owever, all disappeared, and the " Pest-office Directory"now rules 41 ' ) ne. This astonishing sucessc, however, has not had the effect of s naking the proprietor of this gigantic work careless. Ile is too thorough a man of busbies, not to be perfectly aware that the fruits of his success can only be reaped by a continuance of the same nntlriug energy by which the success was in the first instance achieved ; and accordingly we find t"at the " Pest-office Directory" for 1847 is even more highly finished in all its elaborate arrange nients than any former edition of the book. The extent and mi nuteness of the details furnished render the work indispensable t• every commercial and mercantile establishment. So admirably, however, is this multifarious information digested and arranged, that there is net the slightest difficulty experienced in referring to the Particular pate required to furnish the information—a marvellous Instance of clearness of arrangement in a work consisting of tip ',cards of 2,000 closely hut clearly printed octavo pages. Its con. t ents are arranged under various h ea d s, as, for instance, the t ents Directory," the " Street Directory," the " Commercial D irectory," the " Trades' story,"Dire the " Law Directory,"t l, o " Court Directory . " the Parliamentary Directory," the P ostal Directory," the " City Di rectory, " tke " Conveyance Dir octory," the " Banking Directory," and some others. Many ins- DOrtant alterations have been Introduced into the " Postal Direo t4)r)"." The new postal treaty with Prussia, which comes into ope i:4ration on the Ist of January next, will effect very considerable 01 Ros in the rates of postage to places in the Austrian dominions, Aden, Bavaria, Bremen, Denmark, the German Statea, llamburgh, Il anover. Lubeck, Mecklenburgh, Oldenburgh, Poland, Prussia, 11 ,"", Saxon)", Sweden and Nora rtemburgh. &e., &e. These , - "angee are fully detailed in the "Postal Directory of the present !Qui"c'llltne. The work, moreover, is illustrated by a clearly engraved accurately drawn map of London in 1847, on a scale of three I nehee to the mile. This Directory is certainly the most complete *a rk of the Fort ever offered to the public. Of not only the useful 'leas, but the indispensable necessity of such a work, no man of bust- Can for ora moment entertain a doubt ; and, considering the com pleteness and hiltless of the Information furnished, and the enormous °utl aY of time and of cap it al that must have been made in order to "Nutria and digest the information, the very reasonable price at "'lnch the work is published is really wonderihl. GLOBE, Nov. 21, 1846 . Kelly's invaluable work, the " Post-oifice Directory," has just Made its Appearance for tho ensulag year. The vast mass ef infor- Mation which this honk contains makes it nut only desirable but at,- aolutely necessary as a part of the office furniture of every man of business, and scarcely less necessary, indeed, for every one else, who ,' ef tuires to know an y t hi ng concerning the trades, professions, and le calitles of the great:motropolls. In its present extended form, the book is an absolute curiosity; the labour and expense which it has test to bring it to its present state of perfection must have been lin- Mense. In turning over its 2.000 pages, one hardly knows which Most to be struck with and admire —the excellent arrangement and Utility of such a compilation, or the magnitude of the city which re quires such a directory. The classification of the various erofes- Ilona, trades, and callings in the court, commercial, and law depart- Mente of the work on the one hand, and the arrangement of the streets of London on the other, as well as the great male of informa tion of various kinds connected with the Post-office, and the alfferetit rocKlea of intercommunication, make it altogether as complete a di rectory as can be desired, or as It is well possible to conceive. The velialee, moreover, coutalna an excellent map of London tied the suburt a. corrected down to the latest strides of " bricks and Mortar." ----- WE EKLY DISPATCH, N ov. 15, 184 G. Useful has just been issued; and we must e•mfess that its bulky appearance has surprised us not a little; and when we reflect that the price remains unaltered, although the expense of collecting the Materials-must have Increased, we are pleased' at the liberality of Mr. Kelly, the proprietor. In a commercial point of view, perhaps, no book ever contained so much useful matter. Among other infor is an " 0111,41 Directory," a " Street Directory," a Motion, there a " Parliamentary Directory " a " Commercial Directory," a " Trade-3' Directory," a " Law Dire a .. Conveyance Directory," t °rY," a " Court Directory," City Directory," and a " BaAing D irectory ;" in fact, the volume contain', much that is intereetiq and voluahle to the tradesman, the merchant, the lawyer, and per description of information has been sons - sons in ordinary life, as well as to the gentlemen who occasionally d abbles in trade. Every which must have involvett great reeted to the latest possible period : and that information Is arranged With a clearness and simplicity accurate as ac tivity of mind and exertion of betty. Sewed with the book in an sieellently engraved map of Londononore extended ae 4 „ Postal to the suburbs, than any map we have seen ; and to make it ets com- Plebs a reference as possible, an almanac is introduced. In the Direetery," there are the new rates with various pane of thnti bent, whichnew will come Into o p era ti on e n the let of Januarye Alto gether this issue surpasses n directoriesan of its predecessors ; and we are ' to t eurprised th at otheshould have gone to the tomb of all the Capalete. JH ItULL, Nov. , MG. T his annual leviath O an N" Is already completed and published ; but as a proof that the rapiditywith which it must havo passed through th e I t '!vss has not operated against its careful accuracy, we may men -1.11 that the changes rendered necessary by the very recent decease of M r. Stewart. MX, for R en f rewshire, are duly attended to. (Se e p I). If)" and 1676 .) We have co frequently expressed our approba tion of (ilk most valuable work, that we hardly know how to vary our commendation. It contains everything which can possibly be fey in a di rectory —so full, V_scomplete, so comprehensive are all ts details, Anti when to thi s we add the extreme accuracy which pervad es every department, we know not what else can be said in is praise The machinery by which such voluminous information is :', l) _ t attlecl, arranged, an d superintended so as to avoid errors, must of itself be among the " curiosities" of modern literature. ---- ATLAS, . A book o f this kind, brought out e 2 en 1846 en nithollt much pretensionS ~,!uld be indispensable to every gentleman's library, every mer ',ant's ounting. house, and every trader's shop. But edited, as this 13, 'with ?lie utmost eare, Its materials being collected through the hei st authentie channels, and embracing in its maize every head of per k ~, nal and commercial intelligence essential to the completeness c: dies 9 a work, we cannot suppose that any house, public or private, icia can afford a book of reference, will be without this cornpen ,,l volutus. The arrangement is admirable. You can find any ,I'',I„,•YOU vvaat in a moment. All the heads are clear and complete i t „ ''''.. l, court, trades, streets, oMces, hotels; forming, upon the whole, vi 44 of local mforntation such as could nut be brought together —64014 t tztr4ordinary industry, aSilated by an eratre ceramouul of 41 WAY.) 5 to 6s per lb; :itchen 1 Lemons. 1 ° , s per 100Ibs; an d Brocoll, r cwt ; Horse and Carrots, d per bundle; 3d to 2s Per E1.1.L. kind•• of Wit 1 to 35 10d; ,1; and Pork, lrkevs, 6s to 15 6d; Tam' 'igeons, 6d to 0,4 s to 553 d; Egga, El ; 3d per lb; 3d to 2s 9d; Snipe.l, 6d O f I to 2s ; and Od; Veal, 41 to -day► °id 4s 8d ; Vel d ' r Ms. by no means active, at but )olis are froti► 4lbs loaf. fb to 721N 34 , to 881 b, 3N° 1041 b, 5d 1. 13s ; Polled 4s to 4,s 10 411 • z t trloY,er ditto, lord; both rateA. Lllover ditt°f Ad. A 01°. 15s ; Clove 2s per load, M.E.C.S. 1 Lill .tatraint—Mil )f Paternill Ineticitoasio rringeg— r , ef Experie gain:. ill feeling I. By an 0, We, the NO: mayacine.,.: La healtlW• : than, rt anbjeita O f of Intineo Y living crie liorrnntion IS Wel throsl) don tratlO It !soft wn physiela ,on that 01 ion, tko lo r 'era! healib/ ur Indirldan le health And e to rely. J imp a rta " . d happine A in fulfillh 2l )ur offspring! which ie It le body MO the iarbo to owl writ; 5e measure d ee that t' !Talk 1 41 . (leading $ By •n thoo s Ivo" Oa A $01.3 a l Work i •f resterov leturitA. s°. ,ted bf Re. R. And I. residesce. ',endezharr &3, Oxford' so who at 'ear of cot' clactlos to Atli, elate a, showinl,. aid, enta il directed t• mess, bit' esti dtblll• I. per bot. An ginti- and body' per treAt" r 11l 1., 4s. 6 4 .. . ;tura% ia (francs to ease la se• resi deice , I Ma, Old AND GS. )pe, pried e titainPs, Treatise VatteritY knatomYt e Organs shereirit Lnd *Os Nervel l lsemea I fononv7 Wats ndraneat Mona neratf re iat great aitiort on the Unctioni s of the I Youth toknese. 6. 01 r qua; fence ia Ilea anP Ole ad la inapt perusal aa ap• • ; *lie C•., • 146, erp•ol Ed Profs taints,/ FORD 11:7Gri m Ilia 1845. have most d not will vny's And , ~2 irro " :7N rci - - 4 • f 4, p , r k • .• C>;:144' .4 1' ' 1 ..-- wo k , ; „- , A., . • . •". I , • - v *-44 f - • *v. " _O, • dr; - • • 0 t*/ I • • : • IS lit .a • 4 1" ..• ‘ .;!Aqii, e, ". ‘ " :4A , 4 • • I 45 4 tri 7A, tr , .:•1; ~~ ~~ ~_ ~~~ PRICE SD. / j~ / '_' ':~~~~ LONDON, MONDAY EVENING No. 16,940. requisite official facilities. As a mere compilation, it is probably the most wonderful on record. ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, Nov. 2 ,1,14 G. This huge volume, the forty-eighth edition of the work, well sus tains the reputation enjoyed by the " Directory" of late years. In the preface, the proprietor maintains that the high character of the work is not referable to its mere connexion with the Post Office ; for an important change has been gradually introduced into the manner of collecting the information • and a larger portion of the work than heretofore has beets confided to selected agents entirely unconnected with the Post Office, this being in great part the plan of compiling the editions for 1845 and 1846. Nor has the proprietor rested content with his past success, bet has introduced -Many Im portant alterations in this volume for 1547 and added to its bulk without any increase i❑ price. The " Poster Directory" is especially Improved, and there aro numerous e.l.viges throughout the volume to Insure its completeness. The compilation must be a vast labour, to be accomplished only by systematic subdivision and the most pains taking minuteness. The appearance of the volume has suggested a very lively effusion, to ho seen in another column ; and we trust the enterprising proprietor of the " Directory" will find thathls labours are duly appreciated and remunerated. To a great commercial coun try this is an indispensable volume. This Day is Published, price Is. ALETTER to LORD JOHN RUSSELL, M.P., PROPOSING A MODE Of RECLAIMING THE WASTE LANDS of IRELAND, By RIGBY WASON. Edinburgh: W. F. Watson, 52, Princes-street, London; Junes Ridgway, Piccadilly. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26 CORNHILL, LONDON. Cspital .f,400,1)00. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The &issued , as, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense'or for citure of the Policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ; .Ise the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in crests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms *1 years are granted on the lowest possible ate,. Potash Silica PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY, made in certain Causes " CARTER r. TAGGART," " CARTER v. ADNEY," and " CAR TER v. EEAVER ;" and of another Decree made in a Cause, " CARTER v. BASKCOM ft," and of another Decree made in certain Causes " A ANE Y v. IiASKCOMB," "CARTER v. BASKCOMB," and "CARTER v. HACKBLOCK," the Creditors of James Taggart, late of Chiselhurst, In the county of Kent, Esq. (who died in the month of August, 1834), and the Creditors of the several Firms of "Taggart, Smith, and Baskcomb," "Smith, Baskcomb, and Company," and " Smith and Baskcomb." or either of them in a Rrowery at Chiveliturst, in which the Testator was a Farther, or had some share or interest, are, on or before the 10th day of February, 1847, to come in and prove their debts before Sir GIFFIN WiLsow, one of the Mas ters of the said Court at his Chambers In Southampton buildings, Chancery-lane,iLondon ; or, in default thereof, they will be perempto rily excluded the beneflt of the said decree. THOS. PEARSON, 22, Essex-street, Strs,nd, Plaintiff's Solicitor. DURSTJANT to a DECREE of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in certain Causes " ADNEY C. BASKCOMII," " CARTER v. BASECOMB," aid CARTER r. ItACKItLOCK," the next of kin of ANNA MARIA CARTER, late the wife'of John Waldron Carter, of Wool, near Wareham, in the county of Dorset, gentleman (which said Anna Maria Carter, died at Wool, aforesaid, on the 15th day of February. 1844), living at the time of her death, and the legal personal Representative er Representatives of any such next of kin as may have since died, are by their Solicitors, on er before the 10th day of February, 1847, to come In before Sir Own: Wttsois, ono of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers la Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, Locclon, and prove their kindred, and make out their claims, or, in default thereof, they will peremptorily lse excluded the benefit of the said Decree. TILOS. PEARSON, 22, Ewes-street, Strand, Plaintiff's Solicitor. THE SELF-SUPPORT INSTITUTION, (aided by Voluntary Contributions.) for the Curs of Stricture of the Urethra, and all other Diseases of Urinary Organs, Nervous, Local, and General Debility. Suiariox—F. COURTENAT, 3f.R.C.5.L., 2, Chaidos.estreet, Cal-widish-square. . _ Te small tradesmen, clerks, mechanics, and the working classes generally, this Institution offers, in all eases, gratnitons surgical asaidance, and in others medicine also tree of expense. Apply At the Surgery adjolung the Surgeon's residence. TWELFTH D A Y. Mrs. PARKES has the honour of informing her Patrons, - that her Exhibitien Boons, 22, Golden-square, will open on 'remota, January 5, 1847, at Twelve teelock, fbr the SALE of SHARES in her CLUB SUBSCRIPTION. Tho collection contains the finest specimens of English Engraving. The works aro mounted in costly fancy woods, gold, carving, crimson velvet, Ike. Shares One Guinea each, or Seven for Six Guineas. Country sub scribers will receive their shares by Tuesday evening's poet. DAVIES'S CANDLES, GO. per lb. ; Genuine Sperm, la. 9d. ; Yellow Soap, 485., 54e., and 60s. per 1121bs. Mottled, 608. and 845.; Wax Candles, Isl. per lb. ; German Wax, Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. 54. ; Transparent Wax, Is. I Id. ; Genuine Wax, 2s. Id. ; Waxed-wick Moulds, 7344.; sperm 011, Bs. per gallon; Solar, 3e. 3d., Pale Seal, 41. ; Argand, or Vegetable, 41. 64. ; Wind sor and Palm Soap, Is. 4d. per packet; Brown Windsor, Is. 94 ; Rose. 21.4 Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Sealing Wax, 48. 6d.; Bale's Paragon Composite, requiring ne snuffing, 9344. per lb. For Cash—At DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St. Martin's-lane, opposite Slaughter's Ceiba-house. COPY of a LETTER from WILLIAM COURTNEY, Esq. To Mr. Tnostss PAOUT, 229, Strand, London. Church Farm, Barton Stacey, near Andover Railway Station, Heats, October 26, 1544. Sir,—l cannot help expressing my astonishment in the effect I have experienced in taking your Pills for the Gout. I was taken on Thurs day night so severely with it as to be with difficulty able to got on, of my bed, and after I arose I had severe pains, followed on with in flammation of the toot increasing. I took three of your Pills, and within two hours I found the pain to entirely cease. I afterwards took two Pills at a dose twice in the day, and I am, thank God, this morning able to walk without the slightest inconvenience. I found in a previous very severe attack very great relief; I had the pains in my knees and thighs so very severe at that time, I thought I must have died, and that it must have gone into my stomach. At that time I had resort to your Pills, and they relieved me—within two hours I was quite easy. The use of these Pills ought, really, to be known all over the world. I have a brother, a young man, that suffers horribly with it, and his greatest relief and preventive has been your Pills. Make what use you please of my report. —Yours ruly and respectfully, WILLIAM COURTNEY. , Among the many discoveries that characterise the present age, none have contributed so much to the comfbrt and ease of the community, nor conferred such a. boon upon suffering humanity, as the impor tant discovery of BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS, the efficacy of which has been tested by the approval and recom• mendation of many of the greatest men of our day. They are effec tive for gout and rheumatism, in all its /various forms, including sciatica, lumbago, pains in the head and face, frequentlyt reated as ooth-ache, &c. They require neither confinement nor attention of any kind, and invariably prevent the disease attacking the stomach, brain, or ether vital part. Sold by Thomas Front, 229, Strand, London ; an by his appoint ment, by all respectable medicine venders throughout the United Kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Auk for BLAIR'S GOUP AND RHEUMATIC PILLS, and ob serve the name and address of " Rhomas Prout, 229 Strand, London," mpressed upon tho Government Stamp affixed to each box of the aes *Medicine. RYE, ITS CHEMICAL COMPOSI .TION AND NUTRITIVE VALUE. (From the Northern Whig.) The recommendations which have lately been given, in various public journals, with respect to the introduction of rye, as a crop to succeed potatoes, render it important that we should notice its value as a source of food. It would be interesting to trace the change which has taken place in the opinions that formerly prevailed respecting this grain ; for at a very early period, we find, by the testimony of ancient writers, that, either by itself, or mixed with wheat, it formed the general food of the people of England. As, however, the agriculture of the country improved, the more nutritious wheat gradually assumed its place f and it was only in times of scarcity, that the English labourer would willingly submit to change " the white loaf for the brown." But, even in the latter part of the sixteenth century, the use of wheat as a bread-stuff, had not by any means, be come generaL An old writer, speaking of that period, says, --"'1 he bread, throughout the land, is made of such grain as the soil yieldeth • nevertheless, the gentilitie comrnonlie provide themselves sufficiently of wheats. for andwit h rye rye cultivated b ar l i e. fo their ow n t a bl es, w hi lst their household and poore niggh " the In 1689, hours, i n some s hi res, are inforced to content themselves Englandpropo , proportion , i i o l n l be of s ee w n it wheat th.lfollowing statement, made by the celebrated statist, Gregory King ; Wheat Rye 10,000,000 bushels. Whilst, however, since that time, the cultivation of wheat in England enormously increased, less attention was every year directed to the growth of rye. But on the conti• nent, as is well known, rye continues to form the staple bread-stutrofthe people of Russia and Northern Germany, and is extensively cultivated on the sandy plains of the countries which border the South of the Black Sea. The small quantity of rye, at present grown in Great Bri tain and Ireland, is chiefly consumed by the distiller. In Holland, this grain is extensively employed, at Schie dam, and other places, to mix with barley, for the pre paration of " Hollands Gin." The straw of the ripe grain is not well adapted for fodder, and is chiefly used for thatching and for the manufacture of hats ; but when cut green, in May or June, it may advantageously be employed for soiling cattle. In Germany, the schwarz brod, or black bread, so much relished by all classes of the people, is prepared from rye. When fresh, this bread has a peculiarly sweet and agreeable taste, which is supposed to depend upon the presence of an aromatic substance in the husk of the grain, as it has been found, that bread made from very fine flour, from which the husk had been removed, did not possess it. But upon this, and many other subjects connected with our culti vated grains, careful experiments are yet required. Rye is supposed to be a native of Crete, but it has been cultivated in these countries from the earliest times. There are several species known to the botanist; but that usually grown by the Irish farmer is scenic cereals, of which there are two varieties—Spring and Winter rye. With regard to the amount of nutritive ingredients contained in rye, the late investigations of Professor Horsford, conducted in the laboratory of Liebig, show us that soil and cultivation exercise a great influence upon its composition;—thus, while one sample of meal, from Vienna, contained only 101- per cent. of what we aro ac• customed to describe as muscle-forming materials, another sample afforded nearly 16 per ce•at. A sample of rye, of superior quality (secale cererde stauden roggen), from the celebrated agricultural Institute of Hohen• hein, in Wurtemberg, examined by Horsford and Krocker, contAined, of nutritive materials and water, as follows: Nitrogenized matters (muscle-forming), 15.27 per cent. Starch Water By comparing the above numbers with the analyses of wheat, oats, and Indian corn, given in preceding papers. it will be seen, that though inferior to " the stout oat cake," the black bread, prepared from rye, must be well adapted as a sustaining food. Like the potato, the cultivation of rye requires but little agricultural skill, and it will flourish in situations where no other grain would be capable of affording food. This circumstance, however, though it may prove of importance to a slovenly and ignorant people, should not be regarded as an inducement to substitute it for the more nutritious oat. A dry sandy soil is best adapted for its growth; though, as we have remarked, in will flourish in almost any farm. Experienced farmers advise, that if the land be damp, it should be ploughed in ridges. It is'sown either in autumn or spring, and managed as the other grain crops—from two to two and a half bushels of seed being usually required to the statute acre. Formerly, an early kind of wheat and rye wore sown and reaped together ; and the bread made from the mixed grain was termed meslin, a name supposed to ho derived from the Latin miccellanea. The average produce of rye is about 25 bushels per acre ; the quantity of straw obtained is usually from three to four times the weight of grain. The following analyses of the grain and straw of rye have lately been published by Will and Freseneus, of Giessen, and will be interest ing to the farmer, as exhibiting the kind of ingredients which this crop selects from the soil, and which, conse quently, a field must contain, to bring it to perfection :- I,ooolbs. of the grain: of rye, in its ordinary state of dryness, usually contains bibs., and the straw 301b5., of ash. One hundred parts of the ash of the grain and straw were found to contain, respectively, as follows : Grain. Straw. . 31.89 17.03 . 4 33 Soda ... ... ... . Lime ... 2.84 Magnesia ... ... 9.86 Peroxide of iron ... 0.80 Phosphoric acid. ... ... 46.03 Chloiide of sodium ... Chloride of potassium Sulphuric acid 1.42 0.17 Charcoal and sand ... 2.66 100.00 100.00 j 0111.7 P. Hop Gus, M.D. Laboratory of the Chemico-Agricultural Society. MAG AZINES—(CONTINUED). BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. Bentley opens this month with a glorious article from the pen of Albert Smith, entitled "Miss Perk apple, or the Gothics' Ball." " Miss Perkapple was the oldest young lady we ever knew; and we wager the world to a China orange— which are long odds, but which, at the same time, there is no possibility of settling. even if you lose, so they may always be laid with tranquillity —that if you had known her, you would have thought the same. And we will even allow you to have lived amidst a legion of old young ladies, who had fallen back upon the calm of tracts and canaries, from the anxiety attendant upon man's insin cerity. " Miss Perkapple's nose was sharp, and always got red in cold weather before anybody eke's; and she had very uncomfortnble shoulders, with curious points and peaks about them, unknown in popular social anatomy. She had also great evidence of collar bone; and wore spectacles, with spectacles of alight bluish tint: and she was accustomed to dross her hair in fanciful designs, the like of which had never been seen before--not even in the imaginative range that begins in the fashion-books and terminates on the waxen brows of hair-dresser? dummies. From these it may be conceived, by intelli gent minds, that Miss Perkapple was also literary." Miss Perkapple pays an annual Christmas visit to London, to her friends the Straggs's. Mr. Straggs, the principal of the house, being a most respectable tailor. Of course he patronises fancy halls, as every intelligent costumier ought, and at one of these fancy balls, at the Hanover-square Rooms, Miss Perkapple figures away as a Spanish girl. She is full of poetry and love, writes sonnets to her gondolier, for she believes in Venice, and regularly appears in the left hand corner of a weekly provincial paper,as the inditer of Spanish heroics, or Italian love songs. At this ball she meets with a Spanish cavalier, attired I la Wal lack, as Don Caesar de Bazan. She dances with him, she flirts with him, she loves him. He, however, must leave her—he has business of importance to transact before he retires to rest, and imagining she had cap tivated the heart of an attache of the Spanish em bassy at the least, Miss Psrkapple remains until it shall please the Straggs's to depart. At length the Straggs's prepare to depart. " Shawls were recovered ; coaches called; and, in the cold grey of morning, amidst a mob of early risers who were loitering round the door to watch the company out, they drove away. " Miss Perkapple thought but on one subject—the partner of the evening ; and, with her eyes closed, pre tended to be asleep as she conjured up his image before her. But she was aroused from her reverie by a laugh from Mr. Straggs, and a cheer iu the streets, as if from boys, which somewhat startled her. Looking from the windows a spectacle met her own pair that well nigh brought on a fit of hysterics. They were in a west-end thoroughfare; and there, in front of a shop—a common normal grocer's shop —was Don Caesar de Bazan, as he had appeared an hour previously, taking down the shutters, to the delight of a crowd of boys on the pave ment, who were madly dancing about him. Some un provoked assault upon his cloak caused him to turn sharply round as tho hackney- coach passed, and Miss Perkapple saw that he had only one moustache! The other had been danced off in the last polka, and was no w lying on the floor of the Hanover -square Rooms; for he had trusted to composition instead of springs, which latter had set him so sneezing that ho had well nigh blown his head off before he came. As he turned, his eye caught Miss Perkapple's. Despite the cold air of morning he blushed crimson, and shot the shutter he held down a grating under the window with a precipi tancy that looked as if he would have given worlds to have gone down after it; after which he rushed into the shop and disappeared behind a monster coffee grinder, but whether he merely hid for the moment, or committed suicide by throwing himself into it, remained a mystery. " The spell had been too rudely broken: and Miss Perkapple saw that the secret of his anxiety to " leave the halls of dazzling light" was fully explained. She suppressed the cry that rose to her lips as well as she was able, and pulling her shawl over her head, at the great peril of her cachucha comb, and she—shall we say it—and the back plait attached to it, was alone in her misery." Leech's illustration to this story, Don Caesar de Bazan in difficulties, representing the Don pulling down his shutters, is the ne plus ult ra o f f un. I t is quite worthy of the tale. Cooper contributes another chapter of Captain Spike, in which the chase of the Molly Swash is continued by the revenue steamer and a fast sailing schooner which has joined her. Spike, however, by superior manceuvring, again man ages to escape, and the revenue people reluctantly give the matter up. " The Wofully AVedded" is a beautifully told tale of English rural life, by Mary Howitt, an to which "The Broken Vow," by Mrs. Romer, is an admirable companion, albeit the scene of it is laid in Switzerland; but the feelings of the heart are the same everywhere, and those who feel for poor Agnes, the heroine of Mary Howitt, cannot refuse their sympathies to the broken hearted Antonio, the hero of the Broken Vow. Portfire, in his shots from an old six pounder, gives us some pleasant reminiscences of the days of sketches o f a p n u d pi T lla h g e e n a a t theneur c o ntinues A esh c i a s de a m tn y us a in t g Woolwi c h ; Sir Chris to pher h o r n isto Queen pher Parisian society. D. W. C. Taylor gives us a very article, full d l l a n of e ng Chancellor,historical Elizabeth than and her dancing Batton, C w h h a i n c c h e l i o s r illustrated Brienn by n a portrait of th e is continued ; and is followed by a short, but admirably written, sketch of poor Barham, the Thom as I n goldsby of Bentley, whose legends were wont t o se t the readers of the Miscellany in " a roar." Th e p o rtrait which accompa nies this sketch is life like i n it s resemblance. From a notice of W. Howitt's book on the " Homes and Haunts of the English poets, we extract the following just, and barely just tribute to the merits of Moore as a patriot : " Moore, rather than O'C onne ll , d ot erves the title of Liberator of the Catholic s o f Irelan d ; the Irish National Melodies were infinitely more efficacious in winning the mind of England than all the speeches made by all the orators of the Catholic Association; and the Memoirs of Captain Rock produced a deeper and wider effect titan the Simultaneous Meetings, When emancipation was denounced from the pulpit, it was preached from the piano; the husband may have voted on the illiberal side, but the w ife and daughters propounded liberal sentiments, superadding the charms of melody to the fleshings of wit and the force of argument. Parliamentary majori ties were scouted in the drawing-room, and the gravities of the Court of Chancery were routed by the gaieties of the saloon. Fully two-thirds of those who voted against the Catholic Bills of 1825, did so, not through any dis like of the measure, but th roug h reluctance of tha t ithaitave it settled by their interventio n . Peel's speech 0 was not so much a reply t o Pl un k et , as an apology to the year boarding-schools; he felt th at i t was a hopeless s task to like the answer songs by sermons ; he felt somewha t knight in the tale of the floneystew, who se armour could not resist th e di amon d weapon the King of the Kobolds. N ow, w h a t h a s Ireland don e for Moore?—simply thi s; i t h as ne glecte d ta him inwielded by ponderous i e pri vate and assailed him in p u bli c —made no inquiry respecting his condition, and a tt ac ked him in the columns of the Nation." ROOD'S MAGAZINE. Even the brief plea for the orphan children of poor Thomas Hood (a man whose memory we all love and venerate so much), prefixed to the present number of the magazine deriving its very title fro m his genius, is preferable to no notice whatever. Something must be done for those relics of the friend of the destitute and forsaken, or the wrongsowof that world which he expiated by , a lingering death of m any years, will be perpetuated in his offspring. N Hood's wife is no more, and his children wholly de solate, we have a mournful satisfaction in transcribing the five stanzas by the dead poet, in which that domes tic calamity is literally foretold. The writer of the g ap m pe o a st l brief notice in the magazine terms the followin touching and most beautiful verses, the best that could be uttered. TO A CHILD EMBRACING ITS MOTHER. Love thy mother, little one ! Kiss and clasp her neck a ga i n __ Hereafter she may have a son Will kiss and clasp her neck in vain. Love thy mother, little ono ! Gaze upon her living eyes, And mirror back her love for thee-- Hereafter thou may'st shudder sighs To meet them when they cannot see. Gaze upon her living eyes Press her lips that while they gl ow With love that they have often told--- Hereafter thou may'st press, in woe, And kiss them till thine o wn are cold. Press her lips the while they glow I - Oh ; revere h'r raven hair Altho' it be not silvery grey, Too early death led on by cure. may snatch, save one dear loek away., Oh ! revere her raven hair ! Pray for her, at eve and morn, That Heaven may long the stroke defer, For thou may'st lire the hour forlo rn When thou wilt ask t o di e with Pray for her, at ev e an d morn her. n ► T noon. The " Avenger" and "Blanche Ne vvil e " * con tinued, and the author of th e former contributes ontr are agreeable paper headed " S uccess. " Th eeibutes an rest of the magazine is a compilation of the veries t odd s an d e nd s of literature, the very garb age o f sentiment, the very broken bits of humour, and the very stalest of stale quotations. The editor i s mistaken i n acting thus ; he may be packing his "casket of gems" with mere sawdust. DOLMAIV. We are gratified to see that the new editor of this magazine disclaims all intention of trespassing upon RAILWAY HERALD, Nov. 91, 1841. The new volume of the Post Office Directory for 1447 Is already in oar hands, and a e can only express our wonder that a, Work' so laborious, extensive, and minute, could be in any degree improved. It would have been a outlicient merit to have maintained its former reputation, it is a great merit to have surpassed Itself. The produc.. Lion of a work unequalled for accuracy and for clearness km placed in the hands of the commercial public a meet valuable and indispensable aid in carrying on the business of this vast metropolis, which would indeed be subjected to the greatest inconvenience and expense it it were not for a work of this kind. In a short time our readers will have the opportunity of judging for themselves on purchasing the new volume, whether our anCcipatorynotice is In any degree exaggerated. BRITANNIA, Nov. 21,1846. The French people have done themselves credit by their Industrial expositions. But It must he acknowledged that, though ingenims and pretty, they appear quite inslgnificaot compared with the Indus trial exposition presented to the mind by this mighty volume. Keep. ing pace with the advancing trade and population of London, It still increases In be lk ; and, keeping pace with the movement of society In a more Impc rtnut particular, it vigilantly seizes every opportunity of Improvement to insure more perfect accuracy and more complete classitic 'lion. We find In this volume many instances of superiority to former issues, which, though comparatively trifling, show the In telligence and care exercised over every department. It may be men tioned that by the employment of private agents, the changes of re sidence are now brought down to a later period thin formerly, and the value of the " Directory" Is consequently enhanced. We hate before spoken of it as indispensable to the proper management of Wiliness. Its authority is now so universally established, both at the Post-office and throughout the metropolis, that any further recom mendation of it is superfluous. lIERIPATII'S RAILWAY JOURNAL, Nov. 21, 1846. The" Post-office Directory" for 1847 appears with additions and Improvements upon Its valuable predecessor, but with no enlarge ment in the price. The continued enterprisit.g spirit with Is hich this Important, and it is not a misapplication of terms to say, national work Is conducted, merits the highest commendation, We know not whether the same illiberal sad unjustifiable attempt will be made In the ensuing session as was done in the last, to wrest ft from the hands of the present proprietary, and to place it by the force of might over right in the hands of Government ; but, should it be attempted, surely the following statement of its conductors will go home to the consciences, if they have any, of the parties seeking to draw down the grasping interference of Government :—" It can only be neces sary to refer to a copy of the work published before the purchase of the copyright by its present proprietor, to ha convinced that the mere connexion of the Directory' with the Post-office has little, if at all, contributed to its present high character. That the improvements (the result of many years of unwearied toll and application on the part of Those engaged in the compilation of the work) are duly appre. dated is now happily beyond all question ; prior to the ' Directory' passing to its present proprietor, rival books contended successfully with this—they have disappeared." DIVISION OF PROFITS. The remarkable sacceas and imereasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a tourth Ito uus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premlatue paid each Polley effected ea the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. tig e fi ›I 4 Bon Cash. xi ay ta Bane E d A Aired Premium ' t '* a dded. Borrow. lA. -• -- 1837,X217 15 1 £lOO 011 £l6 8 4' , #445 0 0 £ Xa.d. f 1838 1 192 3 0 87 1 4, 13 10 2! 195 11 1 0 1 1000 3 4 1039 165 11 10 74 1 9 ; 11 3 11 346 2 3 ;1840 no 7 6 04 81•! 718 111: 29$ IA 4 4841, 11l $ 8 491• 0, 71• 4' 247 4 The division of profits is annual, awl the next will be made in i - ,ccember of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAIIROUX, Secretary. R°"'LANDS' ODONTO, or, PEARL DEN TIFRICE, a WHITE POWDER for the TEETH, com pounded of the choicest and most reserche Ingredients or the Oriental Herbal, of inestimable value for preserving and beautifying the Teeth and strengthening the Gums. It extirpates all tartarous adhe sions to the Teeth, and ensures a pearl-like whiteness to the ena melled surface. Its Antl•Septic and Anti-Scorbutie Properties arrest the further progress of decay of the Teeth, induce a healthy action of the Gums, and cause them to assume the brightness and colour indi cative of perfect soundness. The Breath also attains a fragrant sweetness truly gratefid to its possessor. Its truly efficient and fragrant aromatic properties have obtained its selection by the Court And Royal Family of Great Britain, and tko Sovereigns and Nobility throughout Europe, while the general demand at once announces fire favour in which it in universally held. Price 2e. fO3. per box. CAUTION.—To protect the public from fraud, the Yen. Commis sioners have directed the proprietors' name and aildress to be en graved on the Government stamp, thne "A. ROWLAND and lON, 30, Hatton-garden," and which affixed on each box. gait by hem, and by Chemists and Perfnmers. THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for SILVER. The high estimate formed by the pnblle during the twelve years WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) chemically purified material has been before it (made into every useful and ornamental article usually made In silver, possessing, as It lees, the ebarasteristic purity and durability of silver), has called Into existence the deleterious compounds of " Albata Plate," " Berlin Pfvcr," and other so called substitutes; they are at best but had Imitations of the genuine articles manufactured, and sold only by him. Fiddle Threaded King's Table Spoons and Forks, full size per Pattern. I'attern. Pattern, dozen.... •• •• •••• • • • ....... •.. • • 128. Od. 2tts. Od. 30s. 04. Dessert ditto and ditto ditto.... • • 10s. Od. 21s. Yd. 255. Od. Tea ditto and ditto, ditto.... • • is. Od. 11s. W. 12s. Od. Gravy ditto ........ ...... ...... •• •• 3s. Od. 6s. Od. is . Oil. NICKEL ELECTRO-PLATED. —The REAL NICKEL SILVER, introduced and made only by WILL,IANI S. BURTION (late RIPPON and BURTON'S), when plated by the patent process of Messrs. Elkington and C 0. ,, t beyond all comparison tho very best article, next to sterling silver, that can be employed as such either usefully or ornamentally. In the lengthened and increasing popu. larity of the material itself, and the high character of the method of plating, the public have a guarantee that the articles sold by W. S. Burton (and by him only) are, as it regards wear, immeasurably superior to what can be supplied at any other house, while by no possible test can they be distinguished from real sliver. Fiddle. Thread. Any* ' ' •• 32e. .. 3ds. Tea Spoons, per dozen —••• • .. King's. Dessert Forks bBs. Dessert Spoons ~ ••••• • • • • • Table Forki Table Spoons 40s. .. 40s. .. • • 755. 80,3 Tea and coffee uts, waiters, candlesticks, &c., at proportionate prices. All kinds of re-plating done by the patent procees, Petalled catalogues, with engravings, as well as of every ironmongery article, sent (per post) tree. WILLIAM S. BURTON (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) Stock of general Furnishing Irontriengery is literally the largest in the world, and as no language can be employekl to give a correct idea of Its variety and extent, purchasers are invited to call and inspect it —39, Oxford-street (corner of Newman-street). Established in Wells-street, 1820. rrHE PAST YEAR AND THE PRESENT YE AR.—A DIALOG trE. On last New Year's evening, the past year and present Shook hands, and convers'd in a style rather pleasant. " How d'ye do?' said the Old Year, addressing the, New; • " I'm n'cely, I thank you, old friend, how are you?" Thus awhile did they chat, and, before they had done, They touch'd on the projeCts of MOSES and SON. I have often felt proud (said the Year that is past), When a glance on the warehouse of 310 , ES I cast ; For this vast spoculsthin—this trading domain— Open'd all its vast premises during my rel^n. 'Whenever I look at this mercantile throne I rejoice that my honours will rival your own." " Stop! stop 1 (said the Prezent Year), talk not so fast, I'll prove that the present shall rival the past. Although in your ' mayoralty' much has been done By tho.e wonderful tradesmen, E. MOSES and SON, Don't suppose for one instant that less will appear At MOSES and SON'S in the present new year. ' ON ! ON !' is the maxim on which they would flx, And thus will they rival the year Forty-six. The year Forty-seven, long, long ere it cicses Will add a fresh wreath to the laurel of MOSES. ONE WORD OF THANKS. On an annual occasion like this we would thank Our numberless patrons, whatever their rank ; Our warmest acknovrlcdgments let us express, Since the Forty•six has display'd such success ; And let us make promise that much shall be done, As a public return by E. MOSES and SON. LIST OF PRICES. SIAM' MIDI. Beaver Tagllonts, from ..•• ••.. • • •"•• .• •• £s. d .• •• •• 0 0 6 Chesterfields and Codringtons • • 0 10 6 Pashas, I)'Orsaye, and Chesterfields, and every description of winter coats.. •• . • •• •• ••• • •••• . Boys' Winter Coats, In every style and make• • Tweed Trousers, linod • Dress Coats• • . Double-hreasted Tests • • ••••••••• •••• • • • • ••• • • Boys' Hussar and Tunic Suits . boys' Winter Tro users .• • • •• • • •• • • •••• • • • • Ditto Ve5t5........:: ..... ..... . Mourning to any extent at flve minutes' notice. 1 5 0 O 8 6 O 4 6 0 10 6' I 0 6 I 5 I O 2 0 0 18 6 O 3 0 O 1 6 MADF. TO \VintDr Coats, warranted waterproof MDASUßE. , made to any style, • 8 handsomely trimmed • • •• • • 10• . Milled Cloth Coats, trimmed, velvet collar and cuffs, lined 2 6 0 Tweed Overcoats • • • ••• • • • • • Tweed Trousers •0 8 6 Winter Trousers, in all the most approved French patterns 1 2 6 Rest nrsss Trousers Dress Coate • •••• • • • .. .. 1 6 0 . . • . •• .. 2 15 0 F hot quality ma d e ..... .......• •. • 3 3 0 Fancy Vests ...................... . ..... ............ 0 8 6 Amin, plain or fancy • • [toys' Hu ssar and Tunic Suite ........ ........ •• •• • • 1 5 0 sure, obeerve.—Any article purchased, ready made, or ma d e to mea if not approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the money returned. E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, and General Outfitters, for Ladies and Gentlemen, 1My,54, 155, anon. d 156, 157 Mi nor i es, and 83, 84, 85, mid 86 :Litigate, Lond Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the public against impostors, but have learned that the nntradesman- Ike falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They have no connexion with any other holm in or out of Landon; and those who desire genuine and elmsr clothing, ice., should call at, or send to, Minories and Aldgate, City, London. Netice.—No business transacted at this establh•hment from sun set Friday, till sunset Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve The entrance to tits fur department is at 83, Allgate, corner of the mb or i el and Aligette, opposite the ehnrch. S Ny JAN UARY 4, 1847. the ground already monopolised by :the writer of " Barnaby Budge. We expressed our opinion last month that the editor had overlooked that publica tion, and was entering upon a field well reaped and gleaned by Dickens. This month the former dis tinctly observes—" we tread not in the footsteps of one of the most popular writers of the day." The Rev. Mr. Price tells us at once, that his serial about " The Last Days of the Penal Laws, and the Riots of 1779 and 1780," are not to be fictitious in the slightest degree. The narrative, he says, " will be entirely, even to th e m i nu t est particular, founded on facts." We are glad of this determination, and we are glad that there has been any misconception on our part, since that misconception has elicited this avowal. After this announcement, and especially after a perusal of the article itself, we can undertake to say, that the series promises to be one of the most curious and interesting disclosures that has been made for many years. The editor has two circum stances greatly in his favour, he writes with a scrupu lous and even punctilious simplicity, and he writes, moreover, with an earnestness which at all times renders that simplicity striking and impressive. Besides at tending to his own laborious compilation, the editor is displaying a very laudable discrimination in the selec tion and arrangement of Dolman, and in the general supervision of its pages. With a continuance of the same industrious and watchful care, the publication mug flourish under his direction. " Gleanings in the Green Isle," and " The Fatal Flower Basket," are characterised by the usual bonhommie of John Keegan, who writes with quite an Irish precipitation, as though (to use a quaint Irishism) there were a spur in his pen. " The Holy Week at Oseott," by tho late editor of Dolman, Mr Keon, is a remarkable composition; it is written with an enthusiasm that sometimes soars into eloquence. The paper opens with a panegyric, and closes with an apostrop h e. Here it is redundant with magnificent verbiage, and there ornate in the style and construction of its sen tences ' - but throughout it i s b r i mm i ng w i t h anima tion. One allegory there is i ,ut for the lavish splendour of the diction, wo remind - us of Addison. In conception, it has a feature in com mon with many of the inimitable allegories in the " Spectator." In this case it is an allegory on dissi pation. The Catholic man of letters is musing in his library, his mind worn down with close and ha rassing occupations, his spirits exhausted : " Suddenly, a merry summons came to him to pass some time in that wild existence, so fair outside, so ter rible within, which, some time or other, allures every young man of warm blood, and strong passions, and quick susceptibility, who toils in London—that strange existence, that garden of fatal enjoyment, that pleasance of deceitful bloom, full of lustre and loveliness at a distant view, echoing with effeminate music, fragrant with in toxicating perfumes, teeming with sweet fruits, spread out for luxury and for drowsy repose ; but stored with all abominations, and impregnated with all pestilence ; distilling an universal poison in every plant, and shrub, and root, and breathing disease in the nostrils of every living thing ; the home of all creeping and venomous reptiles ; the paradise of perdition ; the gate of death, at which sirens sing, and on which inscriptions glitter, all false, hollow, fatal—where there are lost opportunities at every step, and lost health, and lost love, and lost happiness, and pale remorse, with troops of spectres ; where, in fine, broken hearts and bruised spirits enter never to return, the kingdom of despair. Tho name of that most false country is Dissipation. "From the happy fire-side of :home—from beneath the tranquil tree of domestic joy —from the yellow fields of honourable and, perchance, historic toil— from the dear arms of sisterly love and pure affection— from the noble tumult of lofty emulation—from the stormy joys of young ambition, of generous hope, of sweet triumphs, of intellectual inebriations, of courageous attempts —come the mad disciples of a madder dik,con tent. They come, they enter those fatal portals, they move forward with careless gait ; and the guardian angels of some creep timidly behind them. Here, there is a bower ; there, there is a grotto, not untenanted ; a bloom is over all things. The contagion of riotous and fearless youth seizes on the pulse. The future is hidden, the past is forgotten ; the laughter o f s t rong nerves, the drunkenness of anima spirits, rule the hour. Further on, is an ancient and tottering temple ; and the name of it is Exhaustion. A pale, thin, and diseased Philosophy has written ominous inscriptions upon the wall ; and, from the steeple of that old ruin, glimpses are caught through the gathering mists of the land that has been left behind. Here, we know full well, some are rejoined by their guardian angels, who point to the onward road, and draw the attention of a still lingering compunction to the fading hues of that false landscape, and to the gibber ing faces of a thousand spectres that begin to hover round the pilgrim. Old times, and sounder joys, and the faint remembrance of a certain celestial music, that once rang in the healthful ears of their younger and happier time, almost break the fatal somnolency of that execrable scene. But a sort of false sublimity is undoubtedly there ; and the rapture of animal excitement once more transports the revived energies of the wanderer. It is difficult to return ; another stage of that journey, and it will be impossible. Two or three, perhaps, out of the innumerable multitude—two or three, reserved for some brighter and greater destiny—two or three, marked on the forehead, recoil. The rest, with loud shouts, pass into the outer darkness ; and, from that day, they are never heard of more —never. Such is that wild and terrible life, of which the generic name is Dissipation. Mr. Motler completes his meditations upon " The Old Village Church," and Mr. Jerningham gives us a readable paper on " Predicaments of Peril." The January number of Dolman altogether gives bril liant promise for its career during the present year. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. An oriental tale—a tale of the Phanar—poetically called " The Pearl of the Bosphorus," is commenced in the beginning of the January number. As an innovation of time and scene in a fiction, it is agree able, and we shall watch the development of the narrative with interest. The most successful attempt of this kind, i n a recent novel, is contained in Miss Jewry's charming romance, " The Ransom." 1 n that beautiful story there are some admirable scenes situated in the island of Cyprus, in the days of the crusade under St. Louis of Prance. If the delineations in this instance be at all comparable with those just men tioned, " The Pearl of the Bosphorus" will be emi nently successful. " Some Passages in the Life of Darius, the son of Hystaspes, by Himself," is a right curious (and we at first imagined, a right merry) article. The writer, however, at once removes our misconception, by premising thus :—" In adding this new name to the catalogue of royal authors, we assure our readers that we perfectly serious." It required sonic emphati c d ec l aration of that kind, to disabuseour minds o f t h e idea that the contributor was at temptintz -to crack an intensely dry joke of a literary kind. As the explantion of how so precious a trea sure of antiquity has been discovered, and where it has been so long concealed, is of the highest interest, from its multitude of classical associations, we tran scribe the following paragraph : " To descend to particulars. At a place in Media, called Behistun, or Bisitun, which is, beyond doubt, the Bagistan of Diodorus (a mountain sacred to Jupiter, where y h e te l ls us that Semiramis stopped on her way to ..cbatana), there is a vast precipitous cliff, portions of which have been artificially smoothed away. On one of these sheets of rock, at an immense height above the plait), though accessible by ladders from a narrow plat form extending along its face, is a sculpture, containing fourteen figures about the size of life. Ono of these is in the air, and was mistaken by the ignorant traveller, who first noticed the figures, for a cross. The other thirteen he imagined to be our Lord and his twelve apostles ! Major Rawlinson calls this figure in the air an angel ;' but surely it is intended for Ormazd, the supreme deity, to whose aid Darius attributes all his success.. Of the figures below, one is evidently a king and a conqueror. Before the inscriptions were tran slated, Sir R. K. Porter, who copied the sculpture, con jectured that it was Salmaneser. We now know that it is Darius. He is represented as fully six feet high, crowned and bearded. His right hand is elevated ; his left holds a bow ; and with this a n d one o f hi s f eet h e presses do wn the prostate Magian, who, with uplifted arms, is soliciting the mercy which he did not obtain. Behind the king are two figures of inferior height ; the foremost of them bearing a bow and arrows, and the other a spear. The Persian inscription which contained their names, appears to have been intentionally de stroyed ; but there is an inscription in the Median cha racter, which the Major has not yet transmitted to Europe, which may possibly enable him to ascertain who they are. In front of Darius are nine rebel chiefs, whom he overcame after his accession. They are represented as dwarfish, and frightfully ugly. They have all their hands tied behind their backs, and are connected by a rope, which passes round their necls. The tortures and cruel deaths which were inflicted on them, are recorded in the groat inscription. Above and below these figures, and on the body of one of the rebel chiefs, are thirty three small inscriptions. They are in three different characters : eleven in the Persian, copies of which are given in the present publication ; twelv e in the Median, including translations into that language of all theTlh'eesre sian ones, and ten in the Babylonian character. are all in nearly perfect preservation. They contain the names, and short descriptions of the persons represented. Under this sculpture are eight columns of writing, three character.i containsh e The la n s t the f these Median is oannldy fi pl e r tiina the filled, P rs j a a n q d ac count of a rebellion, which took place subsequent to the completion of the narrative contained in the four pre ceding columns. Its leader, ' Sarokha (or Sardakha, for the name contains a blotch, which renders one of its characters uncertain), the Sacian,' is represented at some distance behind the other chiefs, from all of whom he is distinguished by a high-peaked cap. The first four columns of this inscription are twelve feet in height, and each contains ninety-six lines. To the, left of the sculp tures are two columns in the Babylonian character, which Major Rawlinson supposes to be a translation of the great inscription below ; and to the right of the sculp. tures are four columns, t wo o f M e di an, and two of Baby lonian writing. We fear that all these upper columns are so much injured from their exposed situation, or so inaccessible that they cannot be copied. The three columns of Median writing have been copied, and Major Rawlinson has made use of them to supply some of the defects which unfortunately exist in the great Persian inscription ; but the copy has not yet been communi cated to the public, nor even to the Royal Asiatic Society, in the journal of which the Persian inscriptions have now appeared." Two very indifferent sonnets are addressed to Wordsworth, for which the poet Laureate cannot feel himself much indebted. " The Occult Sciences— Magic," is a copious review of the work recently translated from the French by M. Salverete, by Dr. Thomson. " Rogue and Rapparee" is an entertain ing trifle. The romance written by Mr. Albert Smith in Bentley's Miscelllny, entitled " The Marchioness de Brinvilliers," and the recent work of " Lucr4tia," from the pen of Sir E. L. B. Lytton, have !evidently suggested the idea of the paper which follows, called " Remarkable Female Criminals—the Poisoners of the Present Century." The subject is a disgusting and loathsome one enough, but it is well that crime should have its scarecrows as well as corn. A memoir of Edward Bunting is next introduced, ac companied by a strange, bird-like portrait of the same Edward Bunting. "Another evening with our Later Poets," is devoted to the elegant and (mostly) classical compositions of Mr. R. Monckten Milnes," especially his "Palm Leaves." The " Recollections of the Burschenschaft of Ger many," is one of those glorious articles about Ger man students' life for which this excellent magazine is already remarkable. From a delightful review of the scores of " Christmas Books" just published— blue, saffron, cream-coloured, crimson, and gold—we quote a few sentences of loving admiration addressed with touching simplicity and truth to an old favourite:— " Upon what have we laid our hand ? ' The Battle of Life,' by Charles Dickens I Within whose heart does the name not touch a fiord ? Ou our ear .it fags like that of an old ftteb - d, well known, and long-remembered ; and yet we have never seen thee, Charles Dickens, and it is possible we never may, but should these pages ever meet thine eye, know that in this, our green island, there are few hearths at which thy name is not a pleasant household sound, and there are few hands at which, shouldst thou ever visit her shores, would not greet thee with a kindly and a cordial wel come, for to us thou art a kindred spirit ; for thine own sake we would hail thee, and for the sake of those plea• sant images with which thy name is associated—those bright and happy pictures thou hest created." What other writer of the day could make any reader speak in these terms of natural and spontaneous en thusiasm ? THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE REVIEW The wonderful impudence of the series styled "Historic Fallacies" elicited our honest condemna tion on its first appearance. Formerly the writer insisted that the Spartans were NOT brave! now he maintains that the Athenians were ungrateful—and he calls the contrary idea of the latter an historic fallacy. Why every blockhead that had ever spelt his way through Plutarch or Nepos knew perfectly well that the Athenians had evinced most despicable ingratitude on more than one occasion. And yet the contributor parades the notion as though it were some wonderful discovery of his own ! It is refreshing to turn to the sensible and acute review of Landor's works, by which this first article is succeeded. When Ireland is in her present mournful and perilous dilemma the " Notes of an Irish Tour by an English M.P." are peculiarly well-timed and will be read with the attention they deserve. " The Ch urc h o f S cot l an d " and "Regalia Sepulta" are the only other contributions_ worthy of particular observation. In an " Advertisement " prefixed to the present number, it is announced that Mr. Toogood, the former editor of the Oxford and Cambridge Review, retired from that office during last April, and that henceforth "all the articles pub lished in the pages of the Review will breathe the same spirit of warm and strong attachment to the Church of England, combined with kindness and tolerance towards Roman Catholics and Dissenters." This is a plain-spoken and honourable compact with the public. THE NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE. An admirable likeness of the Hon. Member for Lynn, Lord George Bentinck, accompanied by a suitable memoir, is prefixed to the January number. The engraving is copied from a faithful portrait by M. Claudet. Lord William Lennox gives us a very chatty, pleasant paper upon Coursing ; Craven writes a digest upon the "Turf in 'Forty-six ;" and the editor continues his valuable " Hand-book of the Chase." The magazine has all the mellowness of a practised periodical, and all the freshness of one just commenced. SHARPE'S LONDON MAGAZINE. As a cleverly illustrated and well-compiled maga zine this is about the cheapest of the numberless cheap publications of the day. There is nothing ostentatious about its appearance, nor anything pre tentious in its tone, but the original articles are mostly excellent, and the engravings are frequently still better. THE WEEKLY CATHOLIC MAGAZINE. In this periodical, we have an attempt to supply the Roman Catholics with a hebdomedal organ at what Tigg would call " the rediculous small amount of three-halfpence." It a digest of the weekly Catholic intelligence, 'varied by editoria comments upon passing events, reviews, sketches, and miscellaneous paragraphs. It cannot well interfere with the Tablet newspaper from the talent and supe riority of that publication ; but may probably be acceptable to the poorer members of the Roman Catholic religion. THE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. Upon the same admirable course as heretofore this journal proceeds, with unabated industry and un• stinted talent. Now, when the national agriculture has excited immeasurably greater interest in the popular mind than previously to the abolition of the protective duties, any monthly organ displaying the excellence of this Journal of Agriculture cannot-fail of meeting with every success. Si similar principle having been long in use throughout • the Prussian dominions, where every child is taught to sing from notes. The work to which we refer is the " Musikalisches Schulgesangbuch," (the Musical School Singing Book), in which no use is made of the syllabic or Sol•fa system, under any form or modification. Every exercise is sung to words. The principle on which we have worked has therefore been subjected to the best possible test—it has been tried on a very large scale for many years, and it is found to answer. It has been satis factorily proved, that the power of singing at sight is daily acquired without the use of either the English, French, or Italian method of solmization. "It appeared to us, however, that a work on a similar principle might be constructed with a more systematic division, and a more clearly defined course of practice, than the Prussian Singing Book presents. To this point our endeavours have been directed, by fixing the learner's attention upon one thing at a time, and advancing an on ward step only, when the preceding one has become firm and sure. FINE ARTS. ROYAL GEMS FROM THE GALLERIES OF EUROPE. —Part X. The numerous excellencies which have been hitherto perceptible in the publication of this splendid serial, are as conspicuous in the tenth number as they were on the commencement of the undertaking. Each of the plates is the counterpart of some paint ing judiciously selected from one or other of the costly collections enshrined in the different European galleries. One in the present part is a copy from the work of Carl Sohn, entitled " File Sisters," and engraved by Peter Lightfoot. And an exquisite spe cimen is this of the modern German school of genre painting ! The engraving itself is drawn with remarkable truth, delicacy, and firmness. The proportion and graduation of depth in the shading are admirable. " Adoration," taken from the original of Murillo, in the Louvre, is copied with great care, by the graver of G. Paterson. The grouping of the Cherubims, and the disposition of the drapery, are rendered very happily, and without anything approaching to stiffness. In the expression imparted to the face of the Virgin, there is a ma nifest deficiency. A charming composition, painted and engraved by P. W. Topham, and entitled " The Wayfarers," completes the number. It is sparkling and animated. Throughout, the engravings are creditable evidences of the progress of art in England. THE CHRISTIANS IN PALESTINE. Part IX. Everything indicates enthusiasm both in the artist, W. H. Bartlett, and in the editor, Dr. Stebbing, in the manner with which the present publication is pursued from month to month. In sketching the various po4ions Df..Jgenery in the Holy Land, the fornier has eiincecllift4ifinitable discrimination in his selection of " the point of sight." This charaCteristic is conspicuous in the different engravings headed " Tombs in the Valley of Jehoshaphat," " Mount Gerizim and the Vale of Nablous," and " Gibeah from Michmash." Each of them is a panorama; each extends before the gazer with the most beautiful undulations of the earth, and with the most serene canopying of the skies. The delineation of the fair near Mount Thabor is a contrast not altogether un pleasing. When completed, the series will be an invaluable addition to every historical and theological library. THE FUNDS. CITY, SATURDAY, JAN. 2.—ln briefly reviewing the movements of the Money Marlett e and the status upheld by the National Securities in the course of the past twelve months, a few preliminary remarks may, under circumstances, be permitted. It has been urged in some quarters that the views and opinions expressed usually under this head are of too sanguine a temperament-- that, placing faith in the representations made, parties have held stock, and, being ultimately compelled to sell, have sustained losses. Most true it is that it has not been the province of the writer of this article, upon any occasion to yield a ready ear to whispers of coming panics, of internal and external alarms, the promulgation of which might have the effect of realising the hopes and expectations of the Bear party in and out of stock ex changes. The careful policy of those who have to com municate the rend state of monetary and commercial matters is to look to facts, not to heed reports. Anti well may the Government, and the public, and the steady holder of all our National Securities be proud of the position in which the credit of this country at present stands. Without a blemish upon the character of the nation's honour and credit, and amidst passing political events at home and abroad, of stirring, of painful, and of deeply anxious import, the close of the year 1846 saw the Three per Cent. Annuities (the largest portion by far of " the millstone" around the neck of our country men, as the late Mr. Cobbett termed it), within two per cent. as high as they were yesterday twelvemonth. To controvert this " great fact" your operatives for a fall, and those who may be deemed the avant couriers, in print, of alarms, of tightness in the Money Market, &c., have put forth many versions—many bold assertions— that ere 1846 ran out, the Funds must be most materially depressed—confidence in our national obligations be ine• paired—that the Bank Directors must be compelled to put on the " screw"—and, of course, that the palmy days—long gone by—would revive of extensive specula tive business, but entailing losses upon those who had momentarily become alarmed, and disposed of Stock. Many, indeed, have been the events of the past year to create temporary distrust—to ( xcite apprehensions—and to give a zest to Bear bargains in the Funds. But though the tocsin of co m in g s t orms i n the political and monetary horizon, has very frequently been sot sided, and loudly to bcot, the efforts to induce a panic have " come like shadows" and have so " departed.' The great secret of the unpholding of the value of our ,wn Funds has been a course of steady, though com• paratively small, investments in Stock. Arid it cannot be questioned that where large sales of Money Stock have occurred, the proceeds have been laid out in home securities. Whether they be in railway investments, or upon mortgage or what else, most true it is, that except ing payments of calls upon foreign projects of the second character just referred to, scarcely a fraction of British capital, the wealth of the country being considered, has passed from) our shores, in the shape of instalments upon foreign loans, in the last year. It would be waste of time and of space to enumerate here the many great events of the past year, all of which are well borne in mind, and how many have been the allurements held out for specu lation in Stock. But the past year, as far as time bargains are concerned, has yielded less profit to the jobber and the broker than any similar period within the recollection of the " oldest" member of the Stock Exchange. It may be true that the new field of operations opened of late years in Railway Shares and Scrip have compeesated parties for a lack of business in Consols. It is so, no doubt ; but how strongly does this fact bear upon the remarks already made, of the confidence of the vast body of the national creditors, in the maintenance of prices. Millions upon .nillions of capital have been, and are still being invested in the extension of old, and the constitution of entirely iew lines of internal communication. But with all the treat events in India, causing at the time of active ope rations intense interest, and no inconsiderable degree of apprehension as to the results, with an impending load of obligations, and calls anticipated (enlarged to an amount the practical effects of which would have broken the back of Hercules, when realised) in the railway world ; in spite, ton, of the ruin prophesied in Protec tion circles at the passing of the new Tariff Bill—of in surrections, and loss of life, and fearful presages of destruction of property in the Emerald Isle—of a crisis in the affairs of the great metropolitan corporation bank —of commercial distress and vast misery —and other less important points, we find the reduction in the mar ket value of our Stocks has been, up in the average, slight indeed. Was it not a justifiable course then to pursue to ease apprehension on the part of the stock holders,-when false prophets were urging on a panic, and to counsel parties to hold on ? But figures speak more to the purpose than words. Here are a few of such startling remembrancers:—On the Ist of January, 1846, Three; per Cent. Reduced Annuities were at 95; on the tst of Januray, 1847, the price was at 94. On the Ist of January, 1846, Consuls were at 94i; on the Ist of January, 1847, they were at 934. On the Ist of January, 1846, the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. were at 97k; on the Ist of January, 1847, they were at 951. But it may be urged, that the lowest as well as the highest rates should be looked at. Of course they should, and the more so as the comparison will further demon strate how fallacious have been the Prognostications of the Bears, that things must go from bad to worse. To give them credit, they have been most assiduous in their vocation. The following values are collated from official sources:— FLUCTUATIONS IN THE PRICES OF STOCK FROM IST JAN. To 31sT DEC., 1846. Highest Lowest Value on Ist Jan., 1847. Bank Stock - 211 203 205 Reduced Annuities 98% 92% N c d Consols - - 97% 94;{ 93% do t Exchequer Bills - 425. 48. N. * Cum dividend t Div. off. A very marked fall will be observed. in the premium upon the Unfunded Debt. It arose principally from th e repayment of moneyi to scripholders in many new rail way schemes, deposits for which were placed in the hands of the Accountant-General, pursuant t o A ct o f Parlia ment. On the projects being aband one d, payments were made to those who had claims on the committees.— Observer. EMEUTE AT THE FRENCH OPERA.—The long an nounced representation of Robert Bruce took place on Wednesday at the Grand Opera. Of course the house was crowded to rel - lotion. Could it be otherwise, to hear once again the new inspirations of Rossini, the mas ter of masters ! We leave to our ordinary critic the task of renderin ,, . justice to the pi: cc and to the execution. We shall here merely say a few words on a very disagree able incident which disturbed and threatened to interrupt the performance. A certain degree of opposition was evinced in the second act with a view to cause the failure of Mme. Stolt z, who appeared to be suffering and agitated; but who, nevertheless, sang in such a manner as to merit the applause which she received. The actress, yielding to a movement of ill-humour, tore her handkerchief in pieces, and her agitation was extreme; the minority be coming more turbulent, afterwards began to hiss,- and Madame Stolz, interrupted in her. part, was about to quit the stage, but was held back by Mademoiselle Nau. She exclaimed, loud enough to be perfectly heard, " This is insupportable. They are unmanly enough to insult a woman. lam ill, exhausted, and I cannot con. tinue thus." She accompanied these words with sig nificant gestures, in the midst of great tumult, in which, however, the applause greatly predominated, which proved that the great majority of the. audience did not join in this ungenerous-manifestation. Several, wbo had not before applauded, then began to do so, in order to mirk their tlisapprobation of what had been done, Galignani. _ - ..,.; THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. Among the numerous contributions to the People's Journal the most interesting are first some admirable lines from the pen of the poet-artizan, John Critchle3 Prince, styled " Rhymes for the Times," and secondly a spirited memoir of William Charles Macready, " the eminent tragedian," by Mr. Fox. The likeness of Macready is no likeness whatever though copied from an inimitable portrait. In all essential parti. culars the Journal is equal to its preceding numbers.. LITERATURE. THE SINGING BOOK. By James Turk, Organist of Westminster Abbey, and Edward Taylor, Gresham Professor of Music. This is the best book on the art of singing at sight that has yet been published, and that, because it is the most simple. The authors in their pre face say : " Let no one delude himself with the notion that there is any " short cut " by which the power of singing at sight can ba attained, or that he can arrive at it by any other method or device than practice. But if this be true, it is most desirable that the time of elemen tary exercise should be rendered as attractive and agree able as possible, that no needless difficulties should be opposed, and no gratuitous obstacles be thrown across the pupil's path. One of these, in our estimation, is the addition to the regular musical alphabet of a number of arbitrary and unmeaning syllables, Sol, La, Mi, &c. This is usually- called, and often supposed to be, " the Sol-fa system,' as if it were one and uniform ; whereas no description of it can be more incorrect. Scarcely any two writers, in modern times, hare used this plan in the same way, or for the same purpose." The " sol, fa" is, therefore, entirely rejected by Messrs. Turle and Taylor as a gratuitous obsta cle thrown across th e p up il' s pa th, an d t h e alphabetical notation is substituted for it. "The alphabetic notation must be known by every musician, because it is of universal employment. No other is used in any choir or orchestra in the kingdom. The student may add to it some other, but he must learn this. If he learn the names by which the notes are univer sally called, the addition of another set of names is a needless addition to his labour. The preliminary exer cises in the following work, therefore, are either upon the names of the notes—A, B, C, B,:c. —or, more com monly, upon the numbers which, of themselves, tell their several distances. In each way, a correct idea of dis tance is connected with the scale. The same element— sequence—is attached to all. Th e notes ascend orde scend as the letters and the numbers ascend or descend." The general arrangement of the exercises in thi s book is progressive, b eg i n i ng w i th an explanation of the various notes and their value, followed by exer cises in the diatonic major scales ; then come exer cises on the intervals for one or more voices, until at length the learner is taught, in the section on modulation, how to attain the power and the plea sure of "Untwisting all the chains that tie The hid !en soul of harmony." The system upon which this work is constructed has been tried and proved in Prussia. Messrs. Turle and Taylor, at the conclusion of their preface, say;— " Our own conviction of the utility of a work like the present, is strengthened by the fact of one constructed on ECM, [sate, pners f the Toned 'reser alike t this serr- ft, of fax-