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Whoever will bring her to 20, Half Moon-street, Piccadilly, shall receive Two Guineas Reward. FllO 'BE DISPOSED OF.—An Old Esta blished PROVINCIAL NEWSPAPER, politics Li beral, average weekly circulation 1,200, Advertisements 45. To a Gentleman of ability who could edite it himself it would prove a lucrative undertaking. Capital required about 1,0001. The proprietor's sole reason for disposing of it is, that having other engagements, he cannot devote that attention to it which it requires. BRITISH FLEET. NAVAL GUNNERY. We publish the following list on good authority, and have every reason to believe it furnishes the most cor rect account of the fleet at home and in the Mediterranean yet published : FLAG OFFICERS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. FIFTY POUNDS REWARD. WHEREAS SAMUEL LLOYD, late a Clerk in the Post-office at Ashburton, in the County of Devon, has ABSCONDED on a charge of Felony. He came to London with the intention of proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope or Algoa Bay, having taken his passage on board the ship George, bound for the Cape, but which has s ailed without him. The said Samuel Lloyd is about seventeen years of age, five eet six or seven inches high, slender made, light hair, fair com plexion, thin face; bad on a pilot ceat and brown Mackintosh; he had a small oblong leather case, with a round brass lock in his possession. He was last seen at Deptford, about eight o'clock on the Monday evening, the 30th ult., where he endea voured to purchase a low-crowned hat. Whoever will immediately come forward and give sach in formation as may lead to the apprehension of the said Samuel Lloyd shall receive a REWARD of FIFTY POUNDS, pay able on conviction. By command, W. L. MABERLEY , Secretary . General Post-office, Dec. 12, 1840. BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. Incorporated by Royal Charter. TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, At the request of several influential Shareholders, I am nduced to propose myself for the VACANT SEAT in the DIRECTION, occasioned by the resignation of John Wright, Esq. The large interest I have in the Bank is the best gua rantee I can offer that I shall always exert my best efforts to promote its prosperity. I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, GEORGE CARROLL. 34, Cavendish-square, Dec. 14, 1840. A USTRALIAN TRUST COMPANY. Incorporated by Royal Charter. Capital £1,000,000 ; in 10,000 Shares of £lOO each, with power to increase the Capital to £2,000,000. DIRECTORS, James Evan Bailie, Esq. Robert How, Esq. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Thomas leely, Hastings Elwin, Esq. John Innes, Esq. Benjamin Greene, Esq. Francis Mowatt, Esq. William Hart, Esq. Charles John Pearse, Esq. Langford Lovell Hodge, Esq. John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. AUDITORS. Abel Lewis Gower, Esq. Sir Edward Parry, R.N. Nassau William Senior, Esq. BANKERS—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Jas., Chas., and H. Freshfield. Applications for Shares will be considered and decided on weekly until 18th January, after which day no applications can be received. Deposit on allotment Si. per Share. 85, King William-street, London, Dec. 9, 1840. YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE CENTRAL AMERICAN LAND AND EMIGRA TION COMPANY. DIRECTORS. EDWARD PARKINS, Esq., Chairman; THOMAS REYNOLDS, Esq : ALEXANDER OSWALD, Esq. THOMAS REYNOLDS, Jun., Esq. With power to add to their number. SECRETARY—Thomas M'William, Esq. SUPERINTENDENT OF THE COLONY—NV. Upton, Esq. BA NKEas—Messrs. Wright and Co., 5 and 6, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. SOLICITOR—R. B. Gargrave, Esq., 19, Buckingham-street , Strand. London Office, 32, Great St. Helen's, Bisbopsgate-street. The Company are prepared to deliver land orders for sections of 100 acres each, at ss. per acre. Their Lands which are situate between the rivers Tinto and Plaintain, in Victoria Pro vince, Central America, are held by a grant from the native king, who enjoys British protection, and the government of his country is regulated by British Commissioners, under the Pre sidency of her Majesty's Superintendant of Honduras. The climate of this country is one of the finest in the world, and the soil is abundantly fertile, producing all that usually grows in North America and the West Indies. Full information can be obtained by application to either of the Agents, or the Secretary. CHURCH of ENGLAND LIFE arid FIRE ASSURANCE, TRUST and ANNUITY INSTI TUTION. Capital, One PATRONS. His Grace the Duke of Beaufort. His Grace the Duke of Buceleuch and Queensberry. The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Beresford. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Worcester. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Oxford. The Right Rev, the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of St. David's. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chichester. The Right Riv. the Lerd Bishop of Jamaica. The Right Rev. Bishop Walker of Edinburgh. The. Right Rev. Bishop Russell of Glasgow. The necessary forms for effecting Assurances, and every in formation relative to the great advantages enjoyed by the As surers in this Institution may be obtained I y application to I3ENJAMIN JACKSON, Managing Director, 6, King William-street, City. A liberal Commission allowed to Solicitors and Agents. THE VESTA PATENT STOVE, 70s. plain. That a Madeira climate in England may be produced by the VESTA STOVE, plants of the most tender kind requiring warmth have proved ; in sick rooms it has been found invalu able, producing one even degree of temperature throughout the day and night. The Vesta Stove has no doors, and as there is not any fire in contact with the outer case, warmth is ob tained without any of the unpleasant effects complained of in the use of others. The fire can be kept alight the whole season, and the part containing the fire is not open during the time it is replenished with fuel. The fuel passes from the Hod into the Stove without being seen, p re venting entirely any escape of th e nox i ous vapours , and that annoyance from dust which, in feeding other stoves, arises from Vie fuel being removed from the Hod into the Stove, or what is worse, into a funnel to convey it into the stove. The ashes are removed without causing any dirt or dust ; no raking out with portable rakers, or the hands, being necessary ; ;.nd during their removal from the interior of the Stove they are not visible. The cost for fuel (cinders, coke, or Welch coal) will be about twopence for twenty-four hours, during which time the stove will not require attention. , The VESTA STOVES a re p erfectl y free from all liability to ex plosions and such unpleasant consequences as have been met with in the use of Arnott's. A variety of sizes and patterns are made with ascending and descending flues, in iron and earthenware, suitable for warming apartments of every descrip tion, Churches, Ships' Cabins, &c. The Stoves may be seen in use at RIPPON and BURTON'S / Warehouses, Wells-street, Oxford-street. A List of Prices a number of references and testimonials will be sent in answer to a post-paid application. ‘‘ Pauci taciturn dolorem continebant."—Liv. A . S Manhood approaches, the human form, coun tenance, voice, and the whole intellectual character, rapidly undergo a revolution. Love is the end and sum of life, creating image after image of ideal perfection. But in the tresent state of society, pure and virtuous enjoyment is often Postponed and obstructed, till the excess of youthful impetuosity Impels to a course of wild and injurious indulgence, and the blind becomes painfully harassed by alterations of fear, disgust, and passion. In this state relief is perhaps sought from the zrlexperienced, perhaps from the ignorant ; in either case at the !zpense of health; that being only palliated which should have been effectually cured. Here we propose to step in and rescue toe victim of unwise indulgence from the pangs of rem orse, disappointed hope, and disease; and we pledge ourselves to eradicate every taint of syphilitic poison, and to restore to its Wonted energy every relaxation of the generative economy, hether from this or other causes, whereby the dignity of man 400d shall have become impaired; equally contem nin g unfeel 'cgempyricism, which with reckless ignorance destroys where tt should restore ; and, on the other hand, that unworthy principle" whose proud selfishness increases the embarrass itcent of the afflicted. All classes of society, not excepting the 4 Sglo-Indian, but more especially such as are about to enter "Its matrimonial life, are included in the limits of this address, and to all we confidently offer the result of many years suc cessful practice. • Daily attendance is given for personal consultation • and im rcediate answers are returned to country letters, which must Ihinutely describe the case, and contain a remittance for Advice 4 icd Medicine, which can be forwarded to any part of the 'World, however distant.—No difficulty can occur, as the Medi 'sine will be securely packed, and carefully protected from ob servation. GOSS and Co., (31. R. C., Surgeons), 7, Lancaster-place, Strand, London. ** Just published (Twenty-third Edition), Ist. THE GIS OF LIFE, a familiar commentary on the above Dis res.-2d. HYGEIANA, addressed exclusively to the Fe male „ex.-3d. THE SYPHILIST, a treatise en Lues Venerea , . Gonorrhoea, . Sw.. May be had at 23, Paternoster-row , Lon 'cos ; and of aR Booksellers (Price ss. ) alosT IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN MEDICAL SCIENCE.rtmet r v e s. Viecetevalebit VEAVER'S INFALL IBLE EMBROCA. .1: TION for GOUT, RHEITh TIC GOUT, TIC DOULEROUX, ItT i I i% S i S B I AG , RHEUM A SCIA TICA, RHEUMATIC FEVER, QUINSEY&Oc., . sn .; for the first ti me i n t r oduced to the notic e o f th e pu b j lie - al though in the present age of imposture it is difficult to put for ward a truth, however important, that shall not be liable to be confounded with the daily empirical puffs that are obtruded on the public eye. This consideration has for a long time deterred the proprietor of Feaver's Embrocation from advertising it. Feeling, however, a thorough conviction of the incalculable be nefits it will eonfer on mankind, he conscientiously believes iat, by withholding it longer, he would be wanting in the corn soon feelincss of humanity towards his fellow-creatures, and of duty towards himself. He, therefore, no longer hesitates to adopt this mode of making this wonderful remedy generally known, that the afflicted may have an opportunity of enjoying the blessings it offers them. This specific was revealed to the Troprietor's father twelve years ago, who then cured him of a very obstinate case of inflammatory gout of thirty 'cars' standing, and although on that occasion he had been tonfined to his bed-room for two months, he was enabled to walk two miles within sit hours after the application. Since that period thousands, from the noble to the peasant, have been cured by it. In short, it is no exaggeratima to assert that it has never been known to fail in effecting a cure, where the proprie tt's instructions have been attended to. Ito extraordinary efficacy has been for years tested by several medical gentlemen 'of distinguished eminence, who declare it to be the g reatest discovery every made in medical science. The superiority it Possesses over every other remedy consists in its being an in noxious vegetable compound, in the perfect security with s'vhich it may be used (outwardly) by the most afflicted and I timid patient, and in the certainty of its being a sound, safe, and ra dical exterminator of the above-named maladies in all their s err. ible and agonizing forms. Original testimonials in confirmation are in the hands of the Proprietor, Nos. 2 and 3, Friday -street, ,car the inspection of those who may wish to !satisfy themselves NI the subject. To be had of Mr. Feaver, Friday-street, Cheapside ; Bar tley and Sous, Farrire;don-street ; Newbury and Sons, St: haul's; Sutton and Co., Bow Churchyard; Willoughby and Co., Bishopsgate-street ; Sanger, Oxford-street ; and of most of the respectable Chemists and Medicine Venders iu town and eountry. In bottles, at 4s. Gd., Gs. Gd., lls., 155., and 3 0s. The label bears the autograph signature of the proprietor. NA,—The public are requested to refer to the London in:ker n i ng papers, from the 6th to the l'2,th of July last, for a let lter from Thomas Schofield, Esq., relating the extraordinary quire effected on him by the use of this eeibrocation. FOGS AND DAMP AIR, IZIARCLAY'S ASTHMATIC CANDY has, for many years, been proved an effectual Preservative i rtom toe &11 effbets of the Fogs and Damp Air, which, in the Winter are'.eo prevalent in this Climate. Its effects are to expel Wind to pi ...serve the Stomach from the admission of Dam p s, an d _ 0 relieve those who sufler from Difficulty of Breathing. Prepared only by Barclay and Sons, J 5, Farringdon-street, London ; and Sold Retail, by their appointment, by Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; Burdett!, 180, Strand; March, Holborn - Johnston, GS, Corn. G illbrd, 114, Strand ; Hall ows, Druggist, 2, High-street, Is. " u gto„ Heu d e b o urck, Druggist, Churc h-street, Hickor y; and b y ." respectable Medicine Venders in Town and Country. Obserye_None can be genuine, unless the names of “Barclay and are en the stamp atilxcd to each Dox. THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTI TUTION, REGEIIT-STREET, is RE-OPENED for MORNING and EVENING EXHIBITIONS. The ADDITIONAL THEATRE, NEW ROOMS, GAL LERY, and DECORATIONS have been completed. and about SIX HUNDRED 6CIENTIFIC NOVELTIES and WORKS of ART, of great and general interest, have been added. MONS. LAURENTS (Jun.) NEW CORNET BAND, in imitation of the HORN BAND of the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, will perform both Morning and Evening in the Great Hall. Morning Admission to the whole, Is. ; Evening, commencing at 7 oo'Clock, ls. A mdified scale for Schools. The extensive LABORATORY is open to Pupils. The Chemist also conducts Assays and Analyses. SCHOOL for the INSTRUCTION of EN GINE DRIVERS on RAILROADS. The DIRECTORS of the POLYTECHNIC INSTITU TION hereby give Notice, that the SCHOOL for this pur pose will OPEN on MONDAY, the 21st inst., for the reception of CLASS PUPILS. The following is a Syllabus of the Course of instruction :- 1. On the expansive property of steam, according to the density of the atmosphere and the power exerted on the, This to include stationary engines, whether condensing or high pressure, as well as the locomotive. 2. On the mechanical structure of the steam engine. 3. On the velocity of bodies on planes, when a certain force is applied, particularly referring to inclines or declines, in order to show when it is necessary to increase or diminish the force of the engine. 4. On the tan gent at which, at any given velocity, the engine is likely to go off the rails when running en the curves. 5. On the strength or size of ropes or chains necessary to draw weights er loads on the railroad, whether on inclined planes or not. 6. On the strength of tubes raquisito for boilers, and on the proper weight with which to load the safety valve. 7. On the power of trac tion on engine er rail. S. On the quantity of water and tole required per mile. • 9. On the resistance of the atmosphere in high winds. The Course will consist of Lectures occupying Three Months, at the rate of Three per Week ; and the Hours of attendance are from Seven until Eight in the Evening, - is the Theatre of the Establishment. Fee for the Course, Two Guineas. The. Theory of Steam and of the Engine will be taught by the Pro fessor of the Institution, assisted by an experienced DRIVER (originally a LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE MANUFAC TURER) in the PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATIONS. The Pupils will have the use of large Sectional and Working Models, of Locomotive, Stationary, and Marine Engines, with out additional expense. An Examination of the Pupils will take place at the end of each Course of Lectures, to which the Directors and Officers of the Railroads will be invited; and no Pupil to receive a Certificate from the Institution unless he passes this public examination satisfactorily. N B. Aralyses, and Assays of Minerals and Earths. Further particulars may be had, by applying to Mr. Long bottom, Secretary, at the Institution, 309, Regent-street. TO INSOLVENT DEBTORS and Others. A SOLICITOR who has been extensively engaged in the Practice of the Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors for many years, begs to recommend such persons that are in pecu niary difficulties, and contemplating the Benefit of the Act, to make an early application at his office for professional assist ance, as by instructions given prior to custody, many days, and in some cases weeks' imprisonment may be avoided. Apply to Mr. W. R. Buchanan, No. 8, Basinghall-street, and No. 4, Montagu-place, Old Kent-road, Attorney of the Court : and also of thn Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer of Pleas at Westminster, and Solicitor in Chancery and Bankruptcy, and Conveyancer. N.B.—Agency allowed to professional men. MANUFACTURING PREMISES WANTED, if within two miles of Westminster bridge the more desirable, having a Steam-engine of from twelve to twenty-four horse power, or conveniences for erecting one; it should consist of four or five large light floors, with suitable offices, stabling, &c., and ground for building on, if re quired. The premises should be enclosed, or permission granted to enclose. Apply to Messrs. Charles Keene and Co., India Rubber Web Manufacturers, at their warehouse, No. IS, Alderrr an bury, or at their Manufactory, Guildford-street, York-road, Lambeth. YORK HOUSE, BATH. OHN EMERY, late of the Bath Hotel, Clif ton, begs respectfully to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and Families visiting Bath, that having completed the extensive alterations and improvements ix the above Establishment, it will now be found to contain every comfort, elegance, and con venience that can be desired. J. E. takes this opportunity of returning his most sincere thanks to the many distinguished Families who honoured him during a residence of fourteen years at the Bath Hotel, and hopes, by the strictest attention and moderate charges, to merit a continuance of their kind pa tronage. Families supplied with Wines of the first quality. Orders received at the bar of the York House. TO BE LET,;in DONCASTER, the NEW ANGEL INN, in the occupation of Air. DUNHILL, who is retiring in consequence of ill health. The Furniture and Stock to be taken at a Valuation, and the House entered upon the sth April 1841. Particulars may be had by applying to Mr. Dunhill, upon the premises; or of Mr. Hurst, Architect, Doncaster. GLAMORGANSHIRE. ADAM MURRAY and SONS are instructed to SELL by AUCTION, at the Mackworth Arms Inn, in the borough and seaport town of Swansea, on SATUR DAY, the 19th day of December next, A most desirable FREEHOLD and COPYHOLD ES. TATE, containing 76 a. 3r. 31 p. of rich Arable, Meadow, Pasture and Woodland, lying in detached parcels, and situate at Oystermouth and Newton, within a few miles of Swansea. This valuable property will be sold in 18 lots, affording a most inviting opportunity to purchasers who may wish to possess themselves of small snug properties to build upon, commanding a fine prospect of nearly all the Seigniory of Gower, the Bay of Swansea, and the opposite coast of Somerset and Devon, with excellent situations for sea-bathing. Printed particulars and plans will be ready for delivery in November next ; and for further information apply to Mr. Frampton, solicitor, Gray's-inn ; Mr. Thomas Thomas, of Swansea ; and to Adam Murray and Sons, Land A gents, 47, Parliament-street. INFIRMARY for the CURE of STRIC TURES of the URETHRA, SYPHILIS, GONOR- RfICEA, GLEETS, and all DISEASES of the GENERA TIVE and URINARY ORGANS. Notwithstanding the above Institutic is closed, Patients i..sy continue to receive the GRATUITOUS ADVICE of the Sur gcon (Mr. Courtenay, 42, Great Marlborough-street,) by ap plying at his own hcase instead of the Charity. Hours of Attendance, from Eight to Ten in the Mornings and from Seven to Nine in the Evenings. On Sundays in the Morning, but not in the Evening. TN cases of secrecy consult the TREATISE on every stage and symptom of the VENEREAL DIS EASE, in its mild and most alarming forms, just published by Messrs. Perry and Co., Surgeons, 4, Great Charles-street, Birmingham, and 44, Albion-street, Leeds. The above invaluable little work is given gratis with each box of PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and l Is., containing a full description of the above complaint, illustrated by Engravings, showing the dif ferent stages of this deplorable and often fatal disease, as well as the dreadful consequences arising from the use of Mercury. The causes, symptoms, and baneful effects of Lues Venerea, Gonorrhoea, Strictures, Seminal Weakness, &C., are explained in a familiar manner ; to which are added very extensive prac tical observations on sexual debility, brought on by a delusive habit, all its attendant sympathies considered, and the whole illustrated by striking cases, accompanied with full and explicit directions fur an effectual and speedy cure, with ease, secrecy, and safety, without the aid of medicial assistance; it also con tains many hints and advice well worth knowing. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price2s. 9d., 4s 6d., and lie. per box, is the most certain and effectual cure ever discovered, for every stage and symptom of the Venereal Disease, in both sexes, including Gonorrhoea, Gleets, Se condary Symptoms, Strictures, Seminal Weakness, Deficiency, and all Diseases of the Urinary Passages, without loss of time, confinement, or hindrance from business ; they have effected the most surprising cures, not only in recent and severe cases, but when salivation and all other means have failed. It is a melancholy tact that thousands fall victims to this horrid disease, owing to the unskilfulness of illiterate men, who, by the use of that deadly poison, mercury, ruin the con stitution, cause ulceration, blotches on the head, face, and body, (tininess of sight, noise in the ears, deafness, obstinate gleets, nodes on the shin bones, ulcerated sore throats, diseased nose, with nocturnal pains in the head and limbs, till, at length, a general debility; and decay of the constitution ensues, and a me lancholy death puts a period to their dreadful sufferings. Messrs. Perry and Co., Surgeons, may be consulted at No. 4, Great Charles-street, Birmingham, and 44, Albion-street, Leeds. Only one personal visit is required from a country patient, to give such advice as will be the means of effecting a permanent and effectul cure, after all other means have proved ineffectual. Letters for advice must be post. paid, and contain the usual fee of one pound. PERRY'S CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUM is intended to relieve those persons who, by an immoderate indulgence of their passions, have ruined their constitution, or in their way to the consummation of that deplorable state are affected with any of those previous symptoms that betray its approach, as the various affections of the nervous system, obstinate gleets, invo luntary emissions, eicesses, irregularity, obstructions of certain evacuations, weakness, total incompetency, barrenness, &c. A perseverance in its use has been the happy means of relieving many thousands, and el restoring a great number to the per manent enjoyment of life. P., is remarkable for its efficacy in all disorders of the digestive organs, and is especially recom mended to those who, from the irregularities of youthful age, habits of studious application, or a life of pleasure, have fallen into a despondent state of mind, and that distressing train of symptoms commonly denominated the nervous. In such per sons the mental are not less enfeebled than the corporeal powers, and to them a remedy that acts with efficacy, without interfering with domestic habits, is peculiarly desirable. Sold in bottles price ills. each, or the quantity of four in one fatally bottle for 335, by which one lbs. bottle is saved, duty included, and may be had of all medicine venders in Lon don ; also in every town and village throughout the United Kingdom, America, and the Continent of Europe. N. B. Country druggists, booksellers, patent medicine ven ders, and every other shopkeeper, can be supplied with any quantity of Perry's Purifying Specific Pills and Cordial Balm of Syriacum, with the usual allowance to the trade, by most of the principal wholesale patent medicine houses in London Just published, in royal 18mo., cloth, price 33. ; and sent in Town or Country free, by post, 3s. 6d., MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suf fering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHCEA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases, &c. By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY, Consulting . Surgeons, London . __ __. .• Published by the Authors, and sold by Balliere, Medica' Bookseller, 219, Regent-street ; 011ivier, 59, Pall Mall ; S zange, 21, Paternoster-row; Pattie, 4, Brydges-street, Strand; slachen and Co., 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin ; Duncan 114, High-street, Edinburgh ; and to be had of all Booksellers. The Work which is now presented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of diseases and affec tions, which for some unaccountable reason have been either altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost in difference, by the of dinary practitioner. To enter into the details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrific consequences, sccial, moral, and physical, which are sure to follow from indulgence, in certain habits, nwoouuldesbiteateiennti, however,relyoutof advertisement. i p n la s c a e yi i n n g a t n hatt hereisnomember W We he of society, by whom the book will not be found interesting , whe ther we consider such person to hold the relation of a a v PA RENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a CLERGYMAN. The PARENT, who beholds Isis beloved child pining away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in consequence of some disease, which for want of a careful investigation of its real cause, has been set down to the score of consumption, will, on perusing this work be astonished to find that in nine tenths of the cases of young persons of both sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary consumption, heart disease, tabes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has been the indulgence in certain destructive habits, practised by youth much more fre quently than is at all suspected. The PRECEPTOR, also, who holds temporarily, at least the relation and responsibility of a parent, will, by perusing this work, be directed, and very much assisted in investigating and detecting the too often concealed practices so often introemeed into schools, whereby the health and ultimately the lives, of his pupils are sure to be compromised, unless the evil be checked in proper time. He will hero find a clue to guide bier, through the intricate mazes of this moral labyrinth, and a standard whereby to judge, when delicacy of health should appear to attack any of his young charges, what the real cause of such attack may be, and thus he will be enabled to check the evil in its incipient state. The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred character, is at once concentrated the twofold relation of parent and instructor, will here be directed as to the nature of those habits, to which youth is addicted; he will also be enabled to point outi. he disastrous consequences which are sure to follow from them, if not relinquished. Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their residence," No. 7, Frith-street, Sohe, from Ten till Three, and Five ill Eight in the Evening; and Country Patients are re quested to be as miunte as possible in the detail of their cases, L —as to the duration of the complaint, the symptoms, age, ge neral habits of living, and occultation in life of the party ; the communication must be accompanied by the " usual Consulta tion Fee of 11.," without which no notice whatever can be taken of their application ; and in all cases, the most inviolable f secrecy may be relied on. N.B. Seven doors from Soho-square. Address by letter (pre-paid) A 151, Messrs. Howes and Co., 7, Thavies Inn, Holborn, London. AN APPEAL TO .PHILANTROPY AND THE INFLUENTIAL. THE Advertisel.:aMlddle-aged man of charac ter, of which he can give undoubted testimony, being most earnestly desirous of obtaining some employment more congenial to the feelings and conscience of himself and family than that now engaged in, resorts to this mode of respectfully imploring the humane intercession of some charitably disposed Lady or Gentleman to introduce him to some situation, such LIGHT PORTER, MESSENGER, or any similar occupa tion. His wife, if required would join him. Any communication addressed toIC. D., atiMr. Probert's, No. 4, Lewisham-street, Princes-street,Westminster, till called for, will be most gratefully attended to. References given to those by whom he is at present and has been employed. F OREIGN AND BRITISH SPIRITS. Cash Prices:— per Gal. Brandy, old Cognac, soft and high flavoured..... 28s. Od. Rum, old Jamaica English Gin, excellent quality and strength Ss. 9s. 4d. HENEKEY, KISLINGBURY, and CO. Gray :s Inn Establishment, 23, High Holborn. f NVISIBLE RESPIRATOR.—This newly IL invented Instrument is strongly recommended for its portability and usefulness in all affections of the Chest. It is sold in neat cases for the pocket at ss. each. It may be at tached to a shawl or wrapper, and worn ever the mouth to preserve the Lungs from cola or damp air. By J. GIFFORD, Chemist to his late Majesty 104, Strand, where may be had Acoustic Instruments of eigy, description for the use of deaf persons, many of which MITE tained the approbation of the Royal Society. the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and other Learned Societies. _ N.B.—Curtis's and Abernethy's Ear Syringes, Hair Gloves and Belts, Domestic Instruments, &c. Orders (per post), with remittance for the amount, sent free of postage. HYDE'S LONDON MANIFOLD LET TER-WRITER. Reduced in price to Ten Shillings. The superiority of this MANIFOLD over all other copying machines is too well known to require comment. Several let ters with a copy, each having the blackness and durability of ink, without its irregularity, result from One Operation. It is effective and expeditious in its application, extremely portable, obviates the necessity ef carrying ink, pens, &c., and (manu factured of the best witerials) is admitted to be the most com plete and economical copying apparatus yet invented. A large assortment of different sizes and bindings always on hand. Manufactured at their Paper and Sealing-Wax Warehouse, 61, Fleet-street, where may be had the BANK SEALING WAX, and HARD WAX for Hot Climates, Gs. per lb., wholesale and for exportation. May be obtained of the prin cipal Stationers of the United Kingdom. UNITED KINGE RANCE C , OM LIFE ASSU ,OAIPANY, Pall-mall, London. PRESIDENTS. Earl of Errol Earl of Stair Earl of Courtown Lord Viscount Falkland Earl Leven and Melville Lord Viscount Eastnor, M.P. Earl of Norbury. Lord Elphinstorm r Lord Belhaven and Stenton ntaßezoltS. JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman. WM. PLASKET, Esq., Deputy Chairman. 8, Waterloo-place, HONORARY Samuel Anderson, Esq. Charles Graham, Esq. 11. B. Avarne, Esq. John Ritchie, Esq. Morton 13almanno, Esq. George H. Gordon, Esq. Edw. Boyd, Esq., Resident N. P. Levi, Esq. Charles Downes, Esq. F. C. Maitland, Esq. The FIRST SEPTENNIAL DIVISION of PROFITS of this COMPANY will be declared in the ensuing year on all Policies of the participating class effected previous to the 31st December, 1840. Parties therefore who wish to insure their lives should avail themselves of the opportunity they now have of sharing in the bonus so soon to be declared, by imme diately making proposals. The following are the annual premiums for the assurance of 1001. for the whole period of life, on which half credit may be allowed for five years ; which credit may remain unpaid at 5 per cent. interest, to be deducted at death from the sum in sured : Age. Without Profits. With Profits. 20.... £l 13 10 . £1 18 $ 30 .. 40 59 60 Older ages may be insured, and the half credit for five year is found particularly convenient on such insurances. Fer the convenience of parties residing in the City, they may make their appearance and pass the medical examination before the agents, Edward Frederick Leeks, Esq., 4, Scots-yard, Bush-lane, Cannon-street, and J. F. Goude, Esq., surgeon, 9, Old Jewry. Every information will lee afforded on application to the Resident Director, Edward Boyd, Esq., 8, Waterloo-place. Proposals may be accepted en Wednesday at three o'clock, and anv ether day at half-past two o'clock, when Frederick Hale Thomson, Esq., the half-past Surgeon, is in attendance to give despatch to the business.' EDWARD LENNOX BOYD, Secretary. PATENT LEVER WATCHES.—Messrs. AVERY and CO., Watchmakers, &c., 36, Ludgate street, St. Paul's (opposite Messrs Everingten and Co.'s), offer to their Friendsand the Pubhs their celebrated PATENT LEVER WATCIIES, sapped and jewelled in four holes, double bottom silver cases, maintaining power, &e., at six gui reas, and with 4 plate eight guineas, of workmanship of the highest class of excellence, equal to those charged 25 per sent. higher. Gentlemen's levers, in 0 0-old oases, fourteen guineas and upwards; Ladies', with gold dial, at twelve guineas and fourteen guineas. Good new Sil v er Vero/ tWetches at 525. 6d. A warranty with every watch for twelve:n*4 ll3 . • N.B.—An immense Stock of Jewellery . and Fancy Goods at 25 to 30 per cont. below Ilse usual London charges. DINNER. AT THE MANSION HOUSE. The Lord Mayor gave his second State Dinner on Tuesday evening, to the Deputies and Common Coun cil men of his Ward, Mr. Woodbridge, the Treasurer of the Ward, Dr. Jones, the Rev. Mr. Veck, several of the principal inhabitants, and a select number of pri vate friends. After the loving cup had passed round, much to the amu sement and gratifi cat i on o f t h ose o f hi s Lordship's guests who had not before partaken of this hospitable ceremony, The Loran MAYOR in proposing the health of her Most Gracious Majesty said, he had ❑o longer to speak in the timid language with which, but a few weeks back, he ventured to name her as an object of tender solici tude. She was now a happy mother, and he trusted restored to full health and strength. He hoped she might long live to reig❑ over us, and that her posterity might be as worthy of our descendants' love, as she was of ours ; that our country might flourish through many generations of such Princes in the wealth and liberty which it enjoys under Queen Victoria! To this toast his Lordship added the Church also. After drinking the health of Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, and the other branches of the Royal Family, Dr. JONES rose for the purpose of proposing the health of the Lord Mayor, and, at the same time, be took that opportunity of presenting to his Lordship, on the part of a deputation of the ward, selected and de puted by the inhabitants, in wardmote assembled, a most flattering vote of thanks, elegantly emblazoned with the City Arms, his Lordship's, and the Company to which his Lordship belonged, together with a variety of emblematical devices, in a richly-carved gilt frame. h Dr. JONES said that the vote of thanks whi c h he then had the honour of presenting to his Lord s hip, h a d been unanimously agreed to by his neighbou rs an d con stituents, t i it i n n t g him s for the uponhis retiringfrom the c o?e b hhe had discharged o f Sh er iff, t manner in which those important duties, for the honour thereby con ferred on the ward, and for his kind, considerate and affable manner to the inhabitants of the ward, whereby he had gained the esteem and affection of every inhabitant. lie could assure his Lordship that the vote was not one of mere fulsome adulation, but spoke the sincere and heartfelt expression of the whole ward—it was a vote of thanks which might be looked up to by his children, and hi s children's chil dren, for generations after he should have ceased to exist. Mr. Deputy TYERS as one of three deputed to wait upon the Lord Mayor with the address, expressed the great gratification it afforded him that they had a gentle man to preside over them, who, by his mild and gentle parties in the ward, ll ll bickeri ngs an d ani mosities, n b e e r e s n to ti c i v e a r in d e s a a n l s l o f classes, alhin n g d a a at one time so prevalent amongst them, and thereby causing good-will and cordiality to reign throughout. • The LORD MAYOR, in returning thanks, said he was grateful for the honour conferred on him, in this ex pression-of their respect. He should shrink from re ceiving even the smallest token of regard, on the part of his fellow-citizens, did he not feel that he was most anxious to perform conscientiously the duties which now devolved upon him ; he had been most anxious to discharge properly those duties which belonged to the office of Sheriff, and was happy they had met with the approval of the inhabitants of his ward ; and he trusted that he should feel yet more so, for the principle exhibited in this mark of attachment to him, and to the motives which they were pleased to believ e would ever in fluence his conduct. After the healths of the Lady Mayoress, and several other toasts connected with the ward, had been drunk, the party broke up, greatly delighted with the hospita ble rdception they had met with. The first military Gazette since her Majesty's accouchement was published on Tuesday. The reason of the suspension of the military gazettes is that it is ne cessary that each commission should bear the sign.msnual of the Sovereign, unless other provision for the purpose be made by Act of Parliament. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol leave t o wn in a few, days for Brighton, where they purpose re siding during the winter. Admiral Rear-Admiral Rear. Admiral . Commodore . BRITISH FLEET IN TI FIRST RATES. Guns.' Britannia l2O Howe Princess Charlotte SECOND RATES. • Rodney 92 Ganges B4 Asia B4 Calcutta Thunderer Powerful Bellerophon BO Vanguard BO THIRD RATES. Revenue Cambridge Implacable Hastings Benbow Edinburgh 7 of the Line 1,460 TEAM TO GRAVESEND. The Public are respectfully informed that in the month of February IRON STEAM-BOATS of great power. and superior accommodations, will COMMENCE RUNNING between BRUNSWICK PIER, BLACKWALL, and GRAVESEND, at such hours between Seven in the Morning and Eight in the Evening (according to the season) as may be found to suit the convenience of the public. PRIVATE PUPIL. AVACANCY fora PUPIL is now open In the FAMILY of a CLERGYMAN of long experience, residingtwelve miles from London, the number of wh ose Pu p ils is iimited to five or six. He can offer the most satisfactory References to Noblemen and Gentlemen whose sons have been under his care. Letters to be directed for the Rev. R. H., Post-office, Pe tersham, Surrey. 91YROLESE LARCH. _X. The Subscribers have for SALE 100 m. two-) oar transplanted LARCH, 2 to 2% feet high, at 21s. per in. ; 100 m. one-year transplanted ditto, 1% to 2 feet, at 14s. per m. ; grown from seed imported from the Tyrol. The change of seed it is well known has been the means of preventing the dis ease which the Larch of this country are now so subject to. They have also for Sale a quantity of fine two-year transplanted Scots Fir, grown from seed collected in the Braemar forest. Hazels transplanted, 1% to 2 feet, 21s. per m. Vessels to Hull and London weekly, at moderate freights. Apply to EAGLE and HENDERSON, Nurserymen to the Queen, Edinburgh. PUBLICATIONS. -HAN SA RD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES, SESSION 1840, are now published, complete with Index, in Five Volumes, price 71. lOs. The plan of issuing this Work in Weekly nuts having given satisfaction will be continued in future. The PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY and DEBATES, and HOWELL'S STATE TRIALS, kept uniformly and neatly bound at reduced prices. 32, Paternoster-row. SWAINSON AND SHUCKARD ON INSECTS. This day, in foolscap Bvo., with Vignette Title and numerous Wood-cuts, price 65., cloth, lettered, THE HISTORY and NATURAL AR RANGEMENT of INSECTS. 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Hunt, Contractors, balance of bills to Midsummer,lB4o, £231 5 9 W. Selwood, map-mounter 6 15 0 Clerk, on account of disbursements .50 0 0 £285 0 9 Y. To hear appeals, particularly those against the pre sentment of the jury on the Rauelagh and Counters Creek districts. 6. To receive petitions and memories. 7. To consider the case of J. Riddel, summoned to ap pear for non-attendance on Jury. 8. Surveyors to present reports, opinions, &c, as fol lows :—On new gullies required. 9. To inspect the book of information. 10. To examine bills. 11. To receive and consider the report and valuation of be surveyors employed in assessing the rateable annual value of the property in the western division of the West minster Sewers, which is to be inserted in the next pre sentment prepared for the Jury, in addition to the pro perty included in the Poor -rate; pursuant to the order of Court of the Bth May, 1840. U. To fix the days for the ordinary meetings of the Court, during the year 1841. 13. Sir George Farrant to move—That so much of the law, No. 17, as relates to the annual nomination of Chairman, being considered by the Court betweem the hours of two or three o'clock, be altered to half-past two o'clock. SEWERS IN PROGRESS. PUBLIC. PRIVATE. Ranclagh sewer, Kilburn Thurloe-street, Brompton Norlands-lane sewer Uxbridge-road, by Slep- Coventry-street, Haymarket , ' herds' Bush-bridge Were-street, Clare-market Camden -street, Kensington Houghton-street, Clare-, Gravel- pits market ,Bathurst-mews, Paddington' Lupus-street, Pimlico Road north of Canal, illt4lda i Hill West SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER —TUESDAY EVENING. The last offer we heard on the Chester Cup was 20 to I on the field ; to-day it was not named, the business being in a great measure confined to two or three Derby horses. Mr. Greville's horse, Palmrnon, against whom, some weeks ago, 50's to 1 were freely laid, and to a considerable amount, came (probably through his position in the betting at Tattersall's yesterday) into greater provincial force. After noticing 500 to 15 laid pretty quietly, one gentleman came out in good style, and took up bets in various ;sums from 1,500/. to 50/. to 300/. to 101. to win about 4,01)01.; also accepting 14 to 1 in hundreds on him coupled to Pt ince Caradoc. 30 to lin hundreds was wanted on the let ter; 24 to 1 the highest bid, although in one instance 25 to I was laid to a little money. Several parties offered 12 to 1 in sums against Rosalie, and 16 to 1 in hundreds ag.sinst any other bar him. The odds of 14 to 1 against the cilick were laid to ten pounds; but the gentleman could get xio more of the London odds. Marshal Soult would have been backed at 20 to 1; at which figure we should say Camelion and Eringo were friendless. Long odds were offered against the Duke of Wellington ; and 500 to 15 against Mongolian. Some others were named, but no business. THE OAKS.-7 to 1 was offered against Kedge, and 10 to 1 against Lampoon. Some of the most influential speculators will leave town to-morrow and Thurday morn ing, to attend the coursing meeting at Fleet-wood-on—Wyre. 39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY (OP. POSITE TUE YORK HOTEL), AND 76, KING WILLIAM STREET, BANK OF ENGLANIO.—DEAFNESS DDE FECT IVE VISION,—A greater proof of the val AN ue of the Messrs. S. and B. Solomon's Invisible Operative Voice Conductor and n ewly-invented Spectacle Lenses, can not be adduced, than the circumstance of the many thousands of individuals who have obtained the o eatest benefit and instant relief, and the constant immena c de mand there is for them, and the patronage they has c and daily continue to receive. The Messrs. S. and B. Solo mon' disclain ull connection with persons of the saute name, and the sale of amber spectacles ; the pert ticious use of amber spectacles being now well known t a the public, and the vendor being. aware of it, he has them 'e fore altered their name, by leaving eat the word " Author,' aad calling them " Patent Spectacles." Dr. Anet..ew Ure, M. D., F. R. S., tc., states amber is 0 oat powerfully electrical by friction, very hot, to such au ex tent as to explode into fragments. The workmen, tos,..arc subject to a nervous tremor in their wrists, arms, lee., tb cy encounter great danger by handling such dreadfully-e x cited electrics. Amber is of such a soft and sticky a a . ture, that it is apt to take firs ; and when expose d to warmth, it swells, bubbles tip, and will burn away :vitt! flame. This stetement is furt'scr confirmed by Sir- D Brewster and Pliny, and also by Parks and Hearn s on chemistry. The pernicious and destructive use of stwit a material for spectacles to imperfect vision may be a:aecr tained at any respectable optician's in London, POPULAR TRADITIONS OF ENGLAND.—NN'C are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marl borough-street, has this day published " Popular Tradi • tions of England—first series, Lancashire," by John Roby Esq., M. R. S.L., in 3 vols. post Svo., with numerous en gravings on wood, which can now be had of all bookscll ems. Mr. Colburn has also üblished a second and c hea p e r cOi -- Lion, with additi ons , of d " The Dream, and other Pot :ms," by the Hun. Mrs. Norton, in 1 vol. post Bvo., with e. fine portrait of the author, after a drawing by E. Lanits,:er, A., prict: 10e. 6d. bound. t. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Havieg been promoted to the rank of Captain on being superseded by Captain Hastings in the direction of the gunnery establishment on board her Majesty's ship Excellent, in 1832, I naturally felt some inclination to notice a paragraph in the Times of Nov. 23, which stated that the precision of the fire from the ships at Acre was owing to the practice in naval gunnery first taught by Captain Hastings ; subsequently, other papers implied the same thing, and that the establishment originarud under the present Board of Admiralty. This would have re mained unnoticed had not a letter appeared in the Times of the 9th instant, from Portsmouth on the subject. Now, Sir, I beg to state that it was under the adrainis_ tration of Lord Melville, in 1830, that the gunnery esta blishment on board the Excellent originated, as suggested by me in 1826. The plan being on a much less ex pensive scale than the one proposed by Sir H. Douglas, the Admiralty were pleased to honour me by listening to my proposition ; Sir Howard honourably acquiescing, as expressed in private communications with me, conceiving, Without doubt, that if fire were once opened, his point (after 10 years' solicitude) would be carried. In 1630 I was directed by Sir George Cockburn to point out on the Admiralty chart where a ship could be moored in Portsmouth Harbour and fire shot in practice without dan ger or inconvenience. The plan was then decided on, Sir George conferring with Sir B. Martin, the able Comptroller of the Navy, who was pleased to give me a eerie blanche to choose any old ship fit for the purpose, under the sanction of Sir George Grey, the Commissioner of Portsmouth Dock. yard. The Excellent happened to be moored precisely in the spot I had pointed out, and she was selected for the purpose (the appropriateness o the name being remarked at the time). Thus commenced the present establishment, which has since been most beneficially enlarged and im proved, first by Sir James Graham, and especially by the present Board of Admiralty, Captain Sir J. Pechcll taking it under his immediate care and direction ; he was the first to follow the gallant Sir Philip Broke's system marked out as worthy of adoption by the Shannon's line of vital fire on the side of the Chesapeake. It need scarcely be repeated that Captain Sir Thomas Hastings deserves great credit for the perfection it has attained, as it now happily realises all that that dccomplished artil leryist, Sir Howard Douglas, contemplated in his able work on naval gunnery, in which he labours (though him self a soldier) to provide us in the event of a war with fu ture Shannons. In the .Naval and Military Gazette of September 7, 1539, in a corroboration of the account I have given of the origin of the Excellent, with the addition of a flattering allusion to an invention of mine, the " moveable target" (for teaching seamen, by an inboard exercise, to fire NV ith precision, without expending powder and shot in the in struction), adopted in the navy by Admiralty order in 1626 ; so that I trust I am not arrogating to myself too much in saying that to me in a twofold degree may be fairly attributed the merit of establishing a general system in the navy by which the nicety of tangent practice may be taught, having in the first place in troduced the moveable target, and secondly, having been the first to establish a depot of instrucion en board the Excellent, which ship was placed by me ex pressly in a position in which she would be at rest, so that, to quote the letter of the Times of the 9th inst., " the knowledge of the value of precision, as well as how to take aim (might) constitute the chief value of the admir able system of instruction on board the Excellent :" that these have been attained is proved by our gallant seamen gunners at St. Jean d'Acre, as theirs may fairly be termed target practice.* It is gratif ) ing to find that up to the present time, the great "tour de force" on board the Excellent and the ships of the fleet is dismounting and mounting, a 32- pounder, on a plan suggested and practised by me, and was left, with many other other plans, an heir-loom to the excellent establishment. The Britannia made this plan available when required to send her lower deck gun carriages on shore from Spithead in and in remounting the guns. Palinam qui ?wait feral is a well known motto, espe cially hallowed among the profession of which I am a humble member. My object in writing this letter has originated in that principle, and I am confident that Cap tain Sir T. Hastings, with whom I served in her Majesty's ship Undaunted under Captain Sir T. Usher, would be the last man in the world who would wish to appropriate to himself the merit which properly belongs to another. I have the honour to be, your most obedient servant, GEORGE SMITH, Captain R.N. Royal Naval Club, Bond.r.treet, Dec. 12,-1840. The Rodney, 92, when formerly in the Mediterranean, under Captain Hyde Parker, may be cited as among the ships which profited by practice at the moveable target; the men fired their 32-pounders proverbially like riflemen. STATE OF THE WORKING CLASSES. At a meet* held at Glasgow on Wednesday to promote emigration, an operative, named Stewart, said—Our emi gration societies aro mostly composed of hand-loom weavers, with a few labourers. The wages of a weaver are from 6s. to 7s. per week. I work very hard and long hours ter 75., and I do not consider myself the worst of tradesmen. If any of the gentlemen here saw our circumstances with their own eyes, they would be moved to tears. When we thought there was a fair proepect of our being carried to Canada, we appointed a Committee to make strict inquiry into the character of the members of our society, to ascertain that they were moral and reli gious persons, who were willing to support their families by their labour, wherever wages were to be had upon which they could live. Our Committee has ex pended 65/. in carrying out our objects. This sum has been raised by subscription of Cd. a-week, and that it might be paid many of us have had to go without our sup per. It was our real distress which induced many gentle men to take us by the hand, and we particularly thank our Provost ( Bartholomew) for his exertions in our behalf. Our situation at this inclement season is most painful. We arc in want of clothing, and hare scarcely that which will cover our nakedness. We arc liable to and often afflicted with small pox, fever, and other diseases, which cat away our little means, and when once a weaver gets down in circum stances, he never gets up again. We will be thankful for assistance in any shape ; but our great desire is to get to a country where we may support ourselves and families inde pendently by our labour. The Rev. Mr. HUNTER, of St. Themes', said he had exerted himself to procure a correct statement of the earn ings of the operatives in two districts of the parish of St. Thomas, including that which was received by every mem ber of the family. There were in these two districts 130 families, with bn average of five members to each—in all 650 individuals, constituting about one-fifth of the popula tion of the parish. Of these 130 families, there were only twenty whose earnings averaged lbs. a week, and of the other 110, the earnings scarcely amounted to Bs. per week. Ile next set himself to ascertain the smallest possible sum on which a family of five or six persons could subsist in Glasgow, without injury to their health, and this he found to be 10s. Bd. per week. This sum provided a scanty fare of meal, potatoes, herrings, and a small quantity of milk ; but not one farthing did it leave for tear and wear of household articles, clothes, house rent, school fees, or seat rent. Not one farthing could be ex pended on these without injury to the health of toe people, the expense of whose living could not be estimated at more than 3d. per day for each individual, or one penny per meal. This wss only a fair specimen of the destitution which prevailed in the eastern part of Glasgow ; and his parish was surrounded by masses of wretchedness of a si milar kind. Thus wore these persons existing on half-a crown per week less than what was necessary for the pre servation of their health;—but even this was not a fair specimen of their mode of living; for house rents must be paid, and wero paid, and bed and body clothes must be provided ; and the fact was, that in Glas gow there were thousands on thousands of individuals living on less than one-half of what was necessary for securing their health. Could they wonder, then, that fever should be generated in these dwellings to augment the wretchedness, of which poverty was the cause, and that it propagated itself from them to the well-canditioned classes of the community? I have (said the Rev. Gentle man) been in the huts of negroos, and in the tents of In dian savages, but never even there have I witnessed such appalling misery as I have seen in the city of Glasgow. Does this wretchedness, then, not claim the sympathy of every right-thinking individual ? and where is the man who will turn himself away, and not endeavour to lessen its horrors? While these men have brought wealth to Scot land and to Glasgow, by their industry, they have only got for themselves the canker worm of misery to blanch the cheek and sicken the heart —Glasgow Argus. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester ' Guardian.) We understand that the letter's from India, brough by the overland mail, have brought favourable accounts of the state of business both at Calcutta and Bombay, where a lair business had been done in manufactured goods. This intelligence, however, does not seem to heve pi - oduced much effect upon the market here ; for, although there has been some demand for goods and yarn suitable to the Eastern markets, the orders are generally upon a very moderate scale ; and, as the de mand for the Mediterranean is nearly over, and, ow i ng to the season of the year, not much doing for other quarters, the market yesterday did not exhibit animation. Prices, however, continued perfectly s t ead y, and great confidence appears to be felt i n a grad ual improvement in business as soon as the holidays are over. ROCIIDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, DEC. 14. begins to grow slack, as the chief of ll —lt is now the time of year when the fi z e l l te business the % i v l i arc generally laid in before Christmas. to hisnot been very much business Though there doday, yet, upon the whole, the market hasbeer,better than that of last Monday. There is no market has been dull, w i t h toady prices. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, i Change in prices. The v .-001 D EC . 15.—There s no new feature to report in the asP ee of this marke t to day. Appearan ces are not very favour able ; but, as business regenaiislinly e ow n u i s p u lo a y ll ed y , done to order, as the o p eratives a styles of f anc y large,a fair busin ess ma y be said to be doing. New and stocks are not unusually quality, are hi tolerab le demand. woollens meet wi th read y sale, and cheeks, of a lighter Business in the warehouses is an average for the season, and prices arc firm. x f T N .-_-. TIIE BLI E JACKEws. .--,-- `-----",--, , ,_, iaa I. •':::;-•:.f'_ - 4':4:•z!; ,- ,f l- *2s)t :41 TO THE EDITOR OF THE PllV.,`'s.7:'-n-lizi - *Rj--'6' i , -, (61 6;... ..,....: ,-.-. 7 • December 4.;? ....iiii 13-z I Sta.,—The Navy feel obliged for your flatteri ' •' , 615 f 5......- ments of the 9th instant, in your widely circ b rt r k:m7 . l / 43 4 in saying " The pride, the soul of England, Is' Navy. Provided the Admiralty give encouragement to plenty of blue jackets, like the gallant Stopford. Walker, and the invincible Charley Napier, we arc safe ; these are the b , .)ye for us and old England, these are not the' Queen's °e el," or the " Prince's Own," but they are the " Nation's Own," " Great Britain's Own," the " Queen, Prince, and People's Own." Wheresoever the British flag is spread to catch the breczes of victory, it is indifferen,'..,e us what is done upon land, provided nothing is neglected at sea. Our only sure defence, after heaven, is our 071 wooden walls, and the stout hearts manning them. Nov., Sir, if you will do us the favour, when you have a spare column, to advocate with the public this highly negicete4 branch of public servants, likewise to unravel sonic few' passages of the knotty anomalous logic put forth by the !etc Naval and rdilitary Commission, to the disparagement of the bulwark of the nation," by placing us quite suliordi nate in pay and emolument to the Army, and more parti cularly the Marine Corps, it may effect a feeling of justice ; as glory unites the Army and the Navy, each have an equal claim to the beneficence of the nation ! Unfortunately, Litherto, the Navy have no, found a friend in Royalty, Lords, Commons, or the public press ; the responsibility, privations, and hardships of a sailor's life, arc considered as nothing in competition with a soldier's gay and pleasurable life at quarters on shore ; our titles of distinction differ in name, though the same in rank ; v, - he then should not rank be equalised in pay? while those who have the harder work (the Navy) are least psi 1. A short statistic of the relative services will show the shame ful, discouraging, and debased treatment to which the Navy arc reduced, beginning at the lower grade. A master's mate, after 20 years' active service at sea, may re:ire on 2s. GI a day, with the rank of Lieutenaut in the Army. A Quartermaster in the Army, if above 1" years as Quartermaster, after 20 years' total service, bs. a day ; the rank of the two are equal. One is leading the life of a slave cn the ocean, the other that of a gentleman on shore. What gentleman, unless of high aristocracy, will place his son in the Navy under such prospects ? In a little time where; will you find petty officers, so necessary to complete the crews of a navy? The aristocracy here will tail, see all cannot become heads of their profession. A Captain of Marines, and twelve years' service in war, gave hiss. that rank, and if he retired he had 7s. a day half-pay ; s Lieutenant in the Navy, compeer with the Captain of Ma rines, and many of them nor, from forty to forty-three years' standing, serving in two long wars, have now Ll 4 more than 7s. a day, somo of these from seven to tea years prisoners of war, while all the officers of the Army who were prisoners, taken only as Ensigns, on their return home were promoted to the rank of Captain. Officers, under such an unprecedented long captivity, sacrificed to the policy of the State, have surely a strong claim to con sideration ; and as it so proved to our service, why IV as the other excluded ? The Navy and Military Commission amalgamated all the old worn-out two-war veteran Commanders and, Lieute nants with the peace-made officers of that rank, and says...— " That a very large number indeed must regard their posi. tion as one of retirement upon half-pay for the remainder of their lives," while to the regulars, engineers, artillery, and marines, a full pay retirement is granted ; to the Ma rines, nearly one-third their number of Captains at I Is. a day, when an old Post-Captain, ranking with Colonel and of twenty-five years' standing, has only I Os, 6d. a day, and the Navy wholly excluded from any full pay retire ment. Is this not treating us as a degraded service? If an officer of the Navy is invalided abroad, at sick quarters. through wounds or injuries received in the execution of his duty, at the expiration of six weeks he is put on half pay, or it is optional with the Admiralty, at the above i,e riod, to distrain both whole and half-pay for ever, from the expiration of six weeks, until the report of the Officer at the Admiralty of his arrival in England, when his half pay again will commence, besides frequently having to pay his passage home out of his own pocket. How different from the Army Officer ! lie returns home invalided for one or two years, on full pay continued, and if no occasion of a ship of war offers of coming home, a sum of money is allowed him by Government to pay his passage. All we ask is, and all we fully expected of the Commission was, to be placed on a footing of corresponding rank in pay, half-pay, and remunerative retirement of full pay with the Army. As to talking of twenty or thirty years' service o:i shore, in barracks, where is the wear and tear of the con stitution in this compared to fifteen years' active service at sea ? I am, Sir, your moat obedient servant. AN OLD SEA OFFICER INDIA HOUSE. A Court of the Proprietors of East India Stock held yesterday in Leadenhall-street, W. B. Barley, the Chair. The minutes of the last Court Laving been read, The CHAIRMAN informed the Court that the dividend warrants would be ready for delivery on the 6th January next. A report from the Committee on Bye-laws was read, recommending the substitution of a declaration for as oath in the elections for the Directorship. It does not op ply to Directors or officers of the Company, who must take the oath upon entering office. The CIIAIRM AN moved that the proposed bye-law bour,e of the bye-laws of the Court. Mr. MACaIOT was most happy that such a step had been taken, and hoped it would pass unanimously. Mr. WEEDING was sorry that the hopes of the Honour able Gentleman must be disappointed ; for he felt it ills duty to oppose the motion, and move an amendment upon it. He thought it very necessary and becoming in all bodies to do away with unnecessary oaths ; but in the case under consideration he thought it meat important that tb:, utmost solemnity should accompany so solemn an act as en trusting the government and welfare of millions to any fellow-men. He moved that :it was inexpedient for th e Court to give its sanction to the proposed Bye-law. Mr M tTIN seconded the amendment, because this was not an age when it was proper to dispense with reli gious forms in temporal affairs. Mr. TWININO, the Chairman of the Committee of Bye-laws,' was sorry to differ with his friend Mr. Weed ing, but he could assure the Court that the resolution pre. posed to the Court had not been come to by the Commit tee on Bye laws on light grounds. The majority of that the evil effect s p re di cte d b y Committee were firmly of opinion that the p ropose d c h ange might be made without any of his Hon. Friend. He did not think that any one pro prietor of India Stock would make a declaration more lightly than he would take an oath. Mr. FIELDER supported the motion. Mr. CLARK also supported the motion. In his opinion the Proprietor of India Stock who had the right to vote, who must be possessed ct 2,0001. stock, would be incapable of violating his declaration ; if he could do so, he did not think such a men would hesitate to violate an oath. The substitution of the declaration had had the most beneficial effect wherever it had been made, and he had no doubt it would work as well in the East India Company. Mr. SALONIONS strongly supported the motion. It was to be remembered that the Oaths Abolition Act was sup. ported by the great majority of the Bench of Bi s hop s , w h o expressed a hope that it would be carried ,farther. The principle of substituting declarations for oaths had been fully established by the Legislature, and he thought that Court would do itself honour by being the first public Corpora tion to carry it into full practice. He trusted that the motion would meet with the cordial approbation of the great majority of the Court. Mr. GOLDSMID supported the motion, and hoped it wou.li be passed, although he did believe that many men would not have that respect for a declaration that they would fur a solemn oath. Mr. HARDY supported the amendment. . The CHAIRMAN said they were merely following out the principle laid down by Act of Parliament and sanctioned by the public, nor did they at all fear that the abandonment of oaths upon the occasion of elections would ever have their force on other more solemn and important occasions. He hoped the Court would pass the motion by a large ma jority. The motion was then put and carried by a large majority) THE WAR IN CHIN•. Mr. SALOMONS asked the Chairman whether any pay ments had yet been made by the Indian Government towards the war in China. There was already some ap. pearances of the want of funds in India, and he thought it very improper that India should be taxed for the support of a war which was a national one. The CHAIRMAN said it was well known that the ex pences of the China war was not to fall upon the Govern ment of India ; and he could assure the Court that the Directors would take such steps as would :secure the ins , -. rest of the proprietors. The Court then adjourned. THE GANNAL PROCESS. On Tuesday a very remarkable exhibition was entered upon d and c onc l u d e d in mill -street, GolaNi a assembly of the Anatomic School, in Little W•tn s square, in the presence of a full gentlemen, chiefly connected with the medic a l profession, for the pnr pose of testing the utility of the invention of M. Ganna!,_ for the preservation of anim a l su b stances from deen:,.' or which extraordinary notice has been tak en in the scientific world both in Paris and h er ' ts, in our metropolis. The pro cess is simply the i injecten into the subject of tly? ope ration of a fluid, the discovery and correct preparation of which has been the result of many years' study ms the part of the breach chemist. Its great practical-pur pose is to supersede the to hinder the • quick progress of corporeal corrupiioe after death, and to secure for the a natomical ste-dent relief from the deleterious odour to which his table is ordinarily but too much subjected. The Academy of ;Medicine in Paris have given, through the reports of a commission, their full testimony to the success of M. Ganm , ,l in his invention, and the Royal Institute of that city has also confirmed his claim to that merit by arearciintT to him the great prize founded by Baron Montzon, for tb , .) discovery of the best means of rendering any art or profes. sion insalubrious. Mr. George Smith, of John-street, Oxford-stree:, has, it appeals, taken means to extend to England the advantages of this process, and, by'arranze.. ments with M. Gannal, has become its sole-patentee in bola cou ntry. To test the p owers of the fluid in q uestion in e', strongest way, a subject was injected with it two vear* ago n L e-- '• and at this an atomic theatre, where it has be ,-.T: t h en carefully retained. At this mooting it — w as ~,,b,„ jected to the scutiny and stricture of the professional roan at our side of the Channel. Mr.'Gregory Smith pericAined the part of demonstrator on the occasion, and removed, with considerable trouble, the swathin gs in which the body was eu as folded almost as elaborately a mummy. We will not enter into any minute deseri • ption of the examination which followed. Suffice it to 55y that the result of con servation Lad been to a great extent attained, and that the olfactory nerves had but. little a C Ilse to recognise the sad remains of mortality. We can feel little doubt that the philanthropic purpose of this • n_vention will be accomplished, and that it will be found ofi the nius t unequivocal impor tance to those whose study it is to preserve the living from 1 disease. QOUTHWARK BRIDGE. Notice is hereby Given, That a DIVIDEND WILL BE PAYABLE on the 15th or JANUARY NEXT, to the Proprietors of the New Shares and to the Subscribers of the 131. advanced on the Old Shares of the Southwark Bridge, at the rate of 1/. 10s. per cent. per annum, and that the TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 25th INSTANT until the 15th of JANUARY NEXT. By Order of the Court of Directors, JAMES LEITH, Secretary. Office, C teen-street -place, Dec. 15.