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STOVES. 39, Oxiord-street (corner of Newman-street), London. Established in Wells-street, 1820. QECRET MALAD•IES. L 3 Treatment of CH. ALBERT, M.D., a Member of the Univer sity of Paris, Professor of Pharmacy, Apothecary to the Hospitals of Paris, Professor of Medicine, and honoured with several Medals and natioaal rewards. No. 21, Rue Montorgeuil, Paris. Numberless and well-authenicated cases which hitherto had been considered as incurable by the Faculty, and which In a short time have given way under this treatment, are most unequivocal proofs of Its superiority over every other means as yet employed. It was for a long period et time a desideratum to discover a mode of cure adapted to all constitutions, and which should be free from the bane 1W effects of mercury. We are now arrived at the solution of this problem by the discovery of a mode of treatment at once simple and easy, and which, without any degree of exaggeration, we can affirm to be infallible in the cure of all secret maladies, however inveterate er of long standing. The method of curs, according to Dr. Albert, is economical and easy, either at home or en a journey, causing not tile slightest derangement to the general health, and safe in all seasons and in all climates. Sold by E. W. Wilcox, BM, Oxford-street; T. Mlles, Gracechnrch- Street ; and by all the principal Chemists in London. 1 Treatise is enclosed with the Medicine. THE PRIZE CATTLE SHOW' The Cb-lstmas Cattle Show, in Portman-square, Draws many thousands with its prizes rare; :for need we wonder much, for such a sight Is calculated to afford delight. 'Tie most amusing to behold a prize, Rolling in fatness—twice its usual size. The greedy pigs, reclining half asleep, With here and there a group of waddling sheep. (nd the huge lazy oxen calmly snoozing, Ake objects which are certainly amusing. But there's an exhibition, you must know, MoreUeasing than the Christmas Cattle Show ; MOSEA,and SON'S display of prize attire, Is sotnething which the public a'l admire. The alio* et MOSES' Mart does not appear At Christmas time alone, but all the year. Their celebrated Show-rooms never lack Prize Coats and Waigeoitts to adorn the back, Prize Over CoatiretiVrroedirs, too, are there, More prized than:any prize in Pot anan-square. 31081 , 8 and SON beg, tharefore, to advise, An early application for a prize. Let all who prize their health adopt the plan, Of well preparing for the outward man ; And those who prize appearance we apprize, Of what our Prize Establishment supplies. MOSES and SON'S prize garments all admire, And own them to be prizeable attire; The least dissatisfaction there is not, But all who purchase dress, no matter what, Exclaim, delighted, " What a l prize I've get I" LIST OF PRICES. MIXT MADE. Beaver Tagßeni • ..... ••• • • • fl.emX() 9 Che,aterneld and Codringten's, and every description of Over-cent, handsomely The Pack& Coat . • • The Bullmer, especially adapted for snowy and wet w3ather. • ...... •. • • The Premier.. • •••• • . • •••••••• • • • • • • • • 0 15 Boy's Winter Coats, in every style..... • .... •• .. 0 6 0 Men's De. Trousers, lined .•• • • Doeskin 0 12 6 Dress Coats 1 4 • Double-breasted Winter Tests ••• • • • •••. • • • • 0 2 0 Roll collar Boys' Hussar and Tunic Salts- .......... • • 0 16 6 JUDI T• =ABM. Winter Coats, in every style and shape, hand somely trimmed ••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • from 1 6 • • Milled cloth Over-coats, velvet collar and cuffs .. 2 4 • Tweed Wrapper. •..• • • ...... • .......... 0 18 Doeskin Trousers ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 1 2 4 Rest, er Dress. ••••••• • • • • • • ••• •• • ••• .. 1 6 0 Dress Coat 1 12 8 Best quality made.. • ...... 2is • Frockde.... ••••••.••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • 1 15 0 nest quality made .• ••••• • • • • • 3 3 0 Cashmere Tests •• • ••• •• • • ••• • Satins, Plain er Fancy •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • " 0 12 • • Boy's Hussar and Tunic Suits .. ••.••••• • • • • .. • • 1 6 0 Great Coat.. .... ••••••• • .. • • • • 0 16 • A Snit of Clothes complete. ..... Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes notice. The attention of Ladies is especially directed to E. MOSES and EN'S stock of Furs, which will be found on inspection to be the Nest, best assorted, and cheapest ht the trade. Reserve your per wales, Observe.—Any article purchased, ready made, or anode to mos- Lure, if not approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the fey returned. Z. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Matters, L is• alers, Farriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for dies and Gentlemen, 154, 155, and 156, 157 Minoriea, and 83, " 1, 85 , and 86 Aldgate, City, Loudon. Centins.—E. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the he against impostors, but have learned that the untradesman kCc falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, Las been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. uoc7 have no connexion with any other how* is or out of London; cold those who desire genuine and cheap clothing, &c., should call at, lend to, Misoricss and Aldgate, City, Londoa. Xotico.—}To Widness, °transacted at this establishment from sun " Friday, till sun/et Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve LA'MERT ON TIE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MITURITY.—WITH 46 COLOURED ENGRAYINOS OX STEEL. ' T wit Published, and may be had in French or English, is a Sealed Envelope, 23. 6d„ er post-free, from the Author, fir forty-two Stamm SELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive ' ffi ons, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Ma nlit andi at an early period of life, which enervate it,,l 3ll Ysical ental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural ,_ ti nliCs, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practice ""servations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion, nether arising from these caries, close study, or the influence et yePteal climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, strlctare, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis :nen. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the. — '' t eli l 7, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, 4Plaining their structures, uses, and functions, and th e var ious _ t tries that are produced la then by solitary h a bit s , excesses , an d Wattion. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., S. tBDFORD-STREET, - BEDFORD•SQUARE, LONDON. ~p e ter of Medici ne , M a t r i c ul a t e d Member of the University of Edin burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c. th lfar ri, age requires the fulfilment of several conditions. in order veil, may be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the which covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be raised, its true source in every instance disclosed, in how many could uile traced to phys!cal disqualifications and their attendant disap tTelits. Excesses are always injurious; the gift, which when ul moderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, when te — L" t ied . the prolific sonrce of mischief, and of greater or less injury e constitutional and vital powers. The particular excesses, on • Itature "' and consequence of which this Treatise professes to dilate, i t Productive of greater severity ef misery to the haunts frame, sA .,,,,anY other to which it is subject. work contains an accurate aid complete account of the tk.• ,''Eay and Playi.lelogy of the Reproductive Organs, and of ~..•4 r relative conditions in health aid disease. It deserredly j ) ; 4tl res the closest attention and study, for what subject can lai :t mere importance than the preservation of the health, b.' ei the physical capabilities of which every man should vi posses It unfortanately happens that the unhappy 14 early life or from the follies of advanced age, while suffering DiA• n;lg t heir invariable consequences, unwisely entertains a fear of ap frg „, to a quali fi ed physician for relief. Shame and the dread so 14 1 : e htlY, but er roneous ly en t er t a i ne d th a t th e se complaints are for und the reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking forg es ist allee where alone it can be procured. In acting thus, he ou seas that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of e ', 3 Yß l Pathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, inva rgedfaaracterise the intelligent and practical physician, and to the gnalig m an who can show by his posse-sion of the requisite legal Kortarations that ho is entitled to esteem and respect in his profes 14,,mDllurgaits, the utmost confidence should be extended. Dr. tegt hr i: T has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas thargw a 2l the great extent of his practice for many years is a B° . I P . i t rb Itlh7liore treatme his profes sional ©xeperie ne e , which has reference almost of the ed by the Author, and may be had of Kent and Richards, etrw7 crao ster-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Stacie, Tichborne tead."Yinark et ; Mansell, IFleet-stre ; Gordon, 146, *ent the' lln, r - street, London ; or, free E by post for e tort two stamps, Oe ist .itther, who may be consulted on these disorders personally dan. 7. from Tea till Two, altar, Five till Eight at his Bedfordlitreet Bedford- Loudon. S ALE of OLD STORES at PL YMOUTH. Adrairalty, Somerset-place, December 9, 1847. The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give notice, that on WEDNESDAT, the sth January next, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, the Captain Superintendent will pat up to Sale in the Royal William Victualling-yard at Plymouth, several Lots of OLD STORES, consisting of Provi'ions, Biscait-bags, Staves, Beading-easks, Slop Clothing, &c., &c., &c., all lying in the said Yard. Persons wishing to view the Lots must apply to the Superintendent for Notes of Admission for that purpose. Catalogues and Conditions of Salo may be kad here and at the Yard. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE. December 3, 1847. Toe Principal Officers of her Majesty's Ordnance do hereby give notice, that they will SELL, by PUBLIC A UCTI lON, at the Tower, on FRIDAY, the 17th ins ant, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon pre cisely, sundry Lots of OLD STORES, consisting of Great Coats, Cranes, Fire-engines, Hose-pipe, Tools, Grates, steel, Iron, Fire-wood, Musket-stocks, and various other articles, the whole of which may be viewed at the Tower, four days previous to the Sale (Sunday, ex cepted), from Ten to Four o'clock, upon application to the' Principal Storekeeper's Office at that place, where Catalogues 01 the Lots, and Conditions of tha Sa e will be delfve ed to those persons who may irp.; ply for the same. By Order of the Board, K. HYJdAM, Beerotary. WALKER'S PATENT PtICENIX STOVES, for Churches, Halls, Shops. &c. The most powerful, safe, economical, and convenient Stoves made. Prices from 21. 2s. to 161. 163. each. Small Stoves, las. each. Requiring no Chimneys. 302, OXFORD-S I'REET, LONDON, and 48, OXFORD-STREET, BIRMINGHAM ; and of all the Ironmongers in the Kingdom. JOYCE'S PATENT FUEL. STEAM TO INDIA, VIA EGYPT. Regalar Monthly Mail Steam Coaveyance for Passengers and Light Goods to Ceylon, Madras, and Calcutta. The PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY book Passengers and receive Goods and Parcels for the above Ports by their Steamers, starting from Southampton the 20th, and from Suez on or about the 10th of every month. For Rates of Passage-money, Plans of the Steamers, and to se cure Passages, apply at the Company's offices, 61, St. Mary Axe, London. CIREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TENDERS FOR LOINS. The Directors of this Company are ready to. receive TENDERS for LOANS on security of the Company's Debentures, in sums of not less than 1,0001. each, at 51. per Cent. interest, payable halt yearly, and for terms of Three, Five, or Seven years. Applications to be made to the undersigned. CHARLES A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. London Terminus, Paddington, August 20, 1847. MIDL AND RALWAY. I. The MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY are prepared to receive LOANS, •n security •f their Debentures, for periods _of Three, Five, or Seveu Years, in sums of 1,000/: egelPand upwards, at Interest atter the rate of 6T. per cent. per annum, payable half yearly. Application to be made te the Secretary, at the Company's Office, -Derby. By order , J. F. BELL, Secretary. November 2S, 1847. THE PLATED SEAMLESS TEAPOTS can not be distinguished from , ilver, or leak or lose their shape ; while from the peculiarity of the process of making (just patented), their prices are about one-half of any other sort. Portland, 233. ; Oval plain, 235. ; Round plain, 255. ' • Round engraved, 305.; Antique (superior even to silver itself in delicacy of finish), 40$. Detailed Catalogues, with engravings, as well as of every iron mongery article, sent (per post) free. - - LENDERS, STOVES, AND FIRE-IRONS. 1: The LARGEST ASSORTMENT of STOVES, KITCHEN RANGES, and FENDERS, as well as General Ironmongery in the world, is now on Sale at WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) extensive warehouses. Bright steel fenders, to 4 feet, from 30s. each ; ditto, ditto, with or-mole ornaments, from 605.; rich bronzed scroll ditto, with steel bar. 10s. 6d. ; iron fenders, 3 feet, 45. 6d. ; 4 feet, 65.; ditto bronzed, and fitted with standards, a feet, 9s. ; 4 feet, 115. ; wrought iron kitchen fenders, 3 feet, 4s. 6d.; 4 feet, 6s. ; bright register stoves, with bronzed ornaments, and two nets of bars, front 80s.; ditto, ditto, with or-molu ornaments, from Cl. 61. ; black dining -room► register stoves, 2 feet., 18s. , 3 feet, 275. ; bed-room register stoves, 2 feet, 16s. ; 3 feet, 24.5. The new econo- Weal thermio stove, with fender and radiating hearth-plate ; fire irons for chambers, Is. Sd. per set ; handsome ditto, with cut heads, 68. 6d. ; newest pattern, with elegant bronzed heads, Ils. A variety of tire-irons, with or-mole and richly cut heads, at proportionate prices. Any article in the furnishing ironmongery 30 per cent. under any other house. The money returned for every article not approved of. Detailed catalogues with engravings, sent (per poet) free. WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPtON and BURTON'S) Stock of general Furnishing Ironmongery is literally the largest in the world, and as no language can be employed to give a correct Idea of its variety and extent, purchasers are invited to call and inspect it. _ _ - .. • , .4 ~ •' 4 ' '' •-'''.,,•• , • . ~_ . . • , __ . -.---- " 4 4ti'.417.) • i ' - i‘. ) % t , .---,•.-.... ""n ef • v iz vA , A . ~,-, re Nt•• ... • .. A T V ' i'- ' ! j Mg l - , ~,) • : ig l )•,_' ' . , ~• ', ••• '4l//•• :). , • L , .• - e f ..,„.• , v AI 43 i 10 C ' ' ''' , 1 ( ;',..4 1 .7 1 ,t''' , ::';• • '; " ,,,Z ' . : 14, & .r. 'i" L- I , ~.., , ~\- 14 3 , - ,i , '-', ~,..,,,,,,_,,,,,..,..t.,10, • 1 1 .4 , 4 3 / 4 &_,.., - n. +-• /„. , ‘,A,' 1111[. • r* ' ,--co , 4 ~''....:..0---- 0,, ,4- 4 7 . 1, - --tv f l .%tiCki it i, 1 4 , -, k .. : 1 -,,,, • ''...- . 1110•1' • •• l ''. bi 11,,,,..4 , ","•-, ,--/ 2. 31 , , ,,c, , K. L it+ ' ' " '''‘Z .;'. • 7 .,' ;.'•;;: :A 'nn....•-:',..... ' ,\ 1 ! f ig' . '',.. . ;, 7 1' ra.......- No. 17,229.] LONDON, MONDAY, EVENING R OYAL HOTEL, GRAINGER-STREET, NE WCA STL E-O.IT-T YNE. CHARLES STATES solicits the patronage of his BROTHER TRAVELLERS to the above Establishment, which has recently been newly furnished and laid out expressly for a Com mercial Hotel. The COMMERCIAL ROOM, one of the largest and most elegantly fitted in the NORTH, it is hoped will be found complete in every respect. . The RED-ROOMS (Sixty in number) have been furnished in a style which must ensure the approbation of all visitors. Gentlemen travelling .with STOCK can at all times have SHOW ROOMS without any extra charge. - The Music Hall, Lecture Room, and Royal Hotel Assembly Room are all attached, arid tinder the same management. The Royal Hotel is in the most central situation in Newcastle. CILERICA 1., MEDICAL, and GENERAL iLj LIFE ASSUVA CF. SOCIETY. Persons of all ages, and in every station, may assure with this So ciety- on very moderate terms. No extra premium is required for sea risk, or residewe in any part of Europe. Persons wishing to visit, or reside in other parts of the world, may also effect Policies at a small increase of premium. BONUSES. .The two Rrst Divisions averaged 221. per cent. on the premiums pid;. the third 281. per cent. Toe fourth bonus, declared Jan. 1847, averaged rather more than 361. per cent., and from the large amount of Profit reserved for future appropriation and other causes, the Bonuses hereafter are expected to exceed that amount. Tables of Matee, with a cell Report (recently printed) can be ob tained of the Society's Agents, or by addressing a letter to • • GEO. 11. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary, No, 99, Great Russell-street, Bloombury, London. METROPOLITAN CIE LIFE ASSURANCE No. 3, Princes. street, Bank. The Directors hereby ghat notice to Members whose Premiums fai due on the sth of. January next, that the same must be payable within Thirty days from that date The Premiums are paid Yearly, Half-yearly, or Quarterly, on the sth of January, sth of April, sth of July, and sth of October, either of which several days constitutes the commencement of the year to Members. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the So cie:y as Members on the sth of January next, should appear or lodge their proposals at the office on or before that day. This Society, for Mutual and General Assurance, 'appropriates all its profits to the .benefit of parties assuring their own lives for the whole term of lite as Members of the Society. An abatement of Premium has been made at the rate of AN per dent. for thb - year ending the 4th of April, 1848, under the confident expectation of a continuing abatement at that rate, at least to all Members of Five Years' standing and upwards. RICHARD HEATHFIELD, Superintendent. Princes-street, Bank, December 6, 1847. ATION AL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.. 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital 2500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages with respect to life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for feiture of the policy, two•thirds of the premiums paid (see Table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in terests to meet other conveniencies or necessity. Assurances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors at the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each policy effected on the profit scale. PUBLIC: TIONS. This Day, p Gd., OUGHT BARON DE rice ROTHSCHILD TO SIT IN PARLIAMET? An IMAGINARY co,sw...RsAnoN between JUD.EUS and AMICUS NOBILIS. By BARNARD VAN OVEN, M.D. Author of •' An Appeal to the British Nation on behalf of the Jews London : Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange. Price Gd., or post free from the Author, 7d., ,N INI PORTA NT BOOKKEEPING, which enables the Merchant to ascertain his Assets, Liabilities, Gains, Losses, and Present Worth, either Daily, Weekly, or Monthly, without balancing his Ledger. By H. BOULTEIt, Accountant, &e. M. G. Duke, 99, Chancery-lane ; Watling, Newspaper Ofike. 409, Strand ; W. J. Adams, 59, Fleet. street ; and the Author, 395, Strand, AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. Just published, itLETTER to LORD MORPETH on the Necessity for, and Mode of Obtaining AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. By MATTHEW M. MILBURN, Land Agent, Thirik. Price One Shilling. London: J. Ridgway, and Simpkin and Marshall; and all Book sellers. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. LECTURES on AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, by F. IL Ho'mes, Esq., Daily at Half-past Three, and every Evening at Nine o'clock, except Saturday Evening. TWO LECTURES by Dr. BACHHOFFNER—one on the Laws of Nature, in reference to the important sabject of SANITARY MEASURES; the other on the various modes of VENTILATION, in which the PHYSI CAL PROPERTIES of a JET of .TEAM will be exhibited, with Novel and highly Interesting ExperimeuLs, Daily at Two and at Eight o'clock in the Evening. The ELECTRIC 'TELEGRAPHS worked. The WORKING MODELS, explained. DISSOLVING VIEWS. The CHROMATROPE. DIVING BELL and DIVER, with HYDE'S NEW APPARATUS for CONVERSING tinder WATER, &c. &c. Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price. 1LL1.1.11. PLATED . CORNER DISHES.- A. B. 14AVORY and SONS. Manufacturing Silversmiths, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England, submit the prices of the following Patterns of strongly PLATED CORNER DISHES, with silver handles and edges, and silver shielo.s for engraving the crest or coats of arms, viz.:— The Gadroon Pattern. Four Strongly Plated Corner Dlskes and Covers ...... •• . • X.S 0 0 The St. James's Pattern. Four Extra-strongly Plated Corner Dishes and Covers •• • • £l3 10 0 N.B. The Covers are made with moveable handles, so as to form extra dishes. Drawings of the abeve forwarded to any part of Great Britain or Ireland, postage free. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Thelfollowing is an abstract of a letter addressed by Dr. King to Earl Grey : - "The last whaler has arrived, and Sir John Franklin and his 125 followers are shut up in the Arctic regions for a third winter, which the medical officer who served with Sir Edward Parry in all his expeditions will, in all probability, be attended with the most serious consequences. For this there is no help. To save them, however, from a fourth winter, when, in addition to disease, they will have to con tend with starvation and all its horrors, Dr. King has been constantly urging the Government, since last June, to take the most active steps for their rescue. He directs attention to the western land of North Somerset, as the spot where the lost expedition is most likely to be found, and he offers his services to Earl Grey to journey to that spot by the same route he travelled in search of Sir John Ross. He is not satisfied with the effort the Admiralty have resolved to make in search of the missing party. After entering minutely into the subject, he Mate• : "ro sum up in a few words, the Board of Admiralty in their effort virtually declare the lost expedition can not be relieved except the north-west p isFage is dis covered ; we must first discover the passage, and then seek out the lost expedition. To this declaration I cannot assent, for, by following out my plan, I can search all that is known of the western land of North Somerset, and be sure that every footstep I make is so much good work for the safety of the lost expedi tion, and for the furtherance of geographical and natural historical knowledge, while Sir James Clarke Ross, before he gets a single footing on that land, must have solved the problem which has baffl , , , d all our ingenuity in ships for 3f cen. turies. The facts speak for themselves. 1. Barrow's Strait was impassable in 1838 ; it may be impass able in 1848. 2. Sir James Clarke • Ross is using the same means to relieve the lost expedition which have brought them into their difficulty; the relief party may, therefore, become a party in distress. 3. The land that is made will be of doubtful character; the searching parties at the end of the summer, with the close of which every soul of the lost expe dition will have perished, may find that they have been tracing an island many miles distant from the western land of North Somerset, or navigating a deep bay, as Kotzebue navigated the Sound named after him, and as Franklin navigated the sea called Melville Sound. The plan which I have proposed is to reach the Polar Sea across the continent of America, and thus to proceed on my search from land known to be continent, where every footing is so much good work done for the safety of the lost expedition, and for the furtherance of geographical and natural historical knowledge; and if the plan is laid aside, the lives of our lost:countrymen will de pend upon a single throw in the face of almost certain failure, if the difficulty in which they are involved is the fame which, not to go further back than 1818, has driven away every officer, including even Parry himself, who has made the attempt in ships " METROPOLITAN SEWAGE MA NURE COMPANY. It is with very great pleasure that we announce to our readers who have so interested themselves in the progress of this great national work, that the consent of the Commissioners of Sewers, as required by the Act of Parliament, has been formally given to the proposed works of the company, which will be commenced forthwith. with every prospect of their being so far completed in the course of next summer as to permit of the application of the sewage to the immediate neighbourhood of the station at Stanley Bridge, and thus to yield an early return upon the capital. It is calculated that calls of less than half of the shares already taken will be sufficient to complete this portion of the works, and give the great experiment a trial. We have also the extreme gratification to announce that the Earl of Ellesmere, having witnessed the ad vantages of the applications of sewage water to por tions of his own estates, has been so satisfied with them that he has within the last fortnight joined the Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company, by becoming a shareholder. Such an example of confidence in the scheme, from one so well qualified to judge, is of incalculable importance, for it will doubtless induce the many who are wavering to follow it at once, and take a direct interest in this grand enterprise before all the shares are gone. When such men as Lord Ellesmere , (perhaps better known as Lord Francis Egerton) come forward to take shares, it may be supposed that the subscription list will not be long in completion. We understand that four or five of the provincial towns are about to apply to Parliament this session for Acts having similar objects with this company. We shall feel much . pleasure in also recording their proceedings, receiving their communications, and forwarding their views. STATE OF MANUFACTURES IN LANCASHIRE.—It is satisfactory to notice that a considerable improvement has this week taken place in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire, so far as regards increased employment of the operative classes. One mill has commenced working full time with its entire complement of hands, and three other mills ha►e also entered upon full time with a reduced number of hands. The number of men added to those heretofore in full work exceeds 1,300 in one week. Within the borough of Manchester there are still 8,622 hands on short time, and 9,629 wholly out of employment. This state of things shows a gradual advance in tho amount of production, and gives hope to the large population of the manufacturing districts. Trade continues languid; but at this season of the year, independently of other considerations, the markets have generally been flat, parties generally looking to their Christmas balances. It is gratifying to observe the patient, judicious conduct of the working classes amidst their privations. No insubordinate feeling is shown, and the efforts of the demagogue to incite to disaffection would be abortive. RUGBY SCHOOL.—During the past week the work men of Messrs. Bevington and Sons have been engaged in erecting an organ in the great school-room. The expense incurred has been chiefly defrayed by a volun tary subscription among the boys. The annual concert., given and supported entirely by members of the school, is fixed for the 18th inst., the first part'of which (sacred) comprises a selection from Judas Maccabeus ; and Han del's Coronation Anthem, "Zadok the Priest." The second part (secular) contains several of Bishop's standard glees, German songs, &e. We understand that the gentlemen of Rugby School do not make music a study, but merely practise it for the amusement of their friends and their own:recreation, at the same time wish ing to instil into their hearers a taste for really good and classical music. We cannot but hope that other public schools will not fail to follow their example. A man of genteel appearance, named Edward Wil son, was committed by the magistrates at Liverpool on Thursday, on a charge of having forged a cheque for 2501 . --Liverpool Mercury. A rumour has been circulated within the last few days, that the Asiatic cholera has made its appearance in the metroplis, and that it .has proved fatal in two cases in the borough of Southwark. From inquiries made among the leading practitioners of the district, we find that the rumour is without foundation.—Medical Gazette. MR. COBDEN'S FARE WELL AD DRESS TO THE ELECTORS OF STOCKPORT. A public meeting of the electors of the borough of Stockport was held on Friday evening, at the assem bly-room of the Lyceum, to receive their late repre sentative, Mr. Richard Cobden, on his retirement from the representation, and his acceptance of the honour conferred upon him by the West Riding of York. The room was crowded to excess, and nearly 2,000 persons were present. Mr. Alderman BOOTHROYD, in the absence of Sir Ralph Pendlebury from indisposition, was called to the chair. The worthy Alderman, in opening the proceedings, called upon the meeting to exercise patience and forbearance towards Mr. Cobden whilst making his explanatory statement. There were strong feelings, no doubt, existing in the borough and it had been alleged that the Hon. Gentleman ought not to have delayed so long in making his choice of a seat in the House of Commons. In that opinion he (the chairman) concurred; but he waited to hear Mr. Cobden's statement on this point before he ven tured to pronounce judgment. Mr. COBDEN then came forward amidst general applause, and spoke nearly as follows have ap peared before public meetings . of the electors of Stockport under a variety of circumstances. I came before you in 1837 to contest the seat in this borough, when it was not your pleasure to elect me Member of Parliament. I tame before you again in 1841 with better success ; but I speak unfeignedly the sen timents of my heart when I say that I never, under any circumstances, appeared before you with feelings of such regret as Ido on the present occasion.—• (Cheers.) You has has stated that _he thinks I ought to haie collie 'lere before, that I ought earlier to have appeared amongst you. It was my intention, as I expressed in a letter to you written at Dantaic, to appear before you immediately on my re turn from the continent, to thank you for the honour you had done me ; but on my return I found myself • unexpectedly returned for two con stituencies. Now, gentlemen, I must confess that after I first found I was returned for the West Riding of Yorkshire, my own inclina tion, indeed, my own determination was not to accept that honour; but I found, on my return home, that the opinion of my friends—the opinion of the electors of Stockport—(Hear, hear)—public opinion in general, as far as could be ascertained, had decided the question for me, and I found no alternative but to elect to sit for the West Riding. Then, gentlemen, finding that I had the painful choice to make between a seat for a borough to which I was previously in debted for kindness and confidence, and another con stituency—the largest, the most important, and most wealthy in the empire —having that painful task thrust upon me, contrary to my own wishes and expectations, I then said, the next best thing to do is this—to save that constituency which I cannot re present as much as possible a protracted contest for my successor. It was not out of any disrespect to you, gentlemen, nor to the West Riding of Yorkshire, that 1 did not state for which constituency I would pit before the night before last in the House of Commons. I sedulously abstained both in public and private from stating to any one what my decision would be. In order to justify the step taken, and to clear myself altogether from any charge of dis respect because I have not qualified till the present moment, I will explain my views and sentiments towards you.—(Hear, hear.) Some people may say, the electors of the borough of Stockport have grounds of censure ; that I have run away from Stockport in j order to make it the stepping -stone of my ambition, and find a larger and better constituency. Gentle men, they who charge me thus know nothing at-all of the advantages which a large constituency can give over a smaller one in the House of Commons. There is no advantage whatever to me in repre senting the West Riding of Yorkshire after re presenting Stockport. Whatever I could do in Parliament as the representative of the West Riding, I believe I could do equally well as the representative of Stockport. However, I am quite sure of this, that I shall not find the constituency of the West Riding of Yorkshire show more kindness or forbear ance towards me than I have found from the electors of this borough.—(Hear, hear.) When in the House of Commons, we are, I may say, a perfect republic; every man who enters the doors of St. Stephen's is there on hi's own intrinsic merits, and whatever those merits may be he will be judged of by them ; no matter whether he sits for a county with thirty thou sand electors, or ' a small borough- with merely 4 200, he will soon find his level in the House of Commons. I consented to sit for the West Riding, because when I returned home I found that I had no alternative but to do so ; and I tell you what I told them in my ad dress—had I been in England at the time they pro - posed to put me in nomination I should not have con sented to their doing so.—(llear, hear.) And now. gentlemen, having made this explanation with regard to my own personal feelings, I think you will not be satisfied unless I address myselt a little to other sub jects of far more importance to the constituency.— (Applause.) I am known only by the electors say I was known at first, c a o c u in r g se, m o e f of Stockport—l may and am now mainly as the representative of a principle in Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) It is to that prin ciple I owe whatever means of usefulness I may have been enabled to effect through your kindness and m o instrumentality ns. I spe ak in o f p l fitththe principleH ou se o f f C Com mons. e trade. Well, gentlemen, Idisguise the en, will not matter from you that we have entered upon the " free trade experiment," as some people still call it, under very trying circumstances. It seems to me as if we had to go through a species of martyrdom in order to test- the f a ith of men who have avowed them selves thorough- go i ngf ree-traders (Al)—ppause. The us are question is, h ow many of • prepared to go through this ordeal and still adhere to our principle ? or, how many there are who will be found to have been merely summer birds—fair-weather ships that will not bear a gale or storm—that run to the old system of monopoly whenever there is a little dan ger?—(Great applause.) sin ee tay return to Eng land I have been delighted to find so little re action on the subject of free may say that T I find no re-action ; that the man who 'was a free-trader, five, six, or three years ago, is a free-trader still. If some men are found weak and vacillating in principle, it is only because they had no very strong principle at all to begin with.—(Applause.) What are the grounds on which we are now told to free trade ? We are told that we have not been pros perous for the last year or two in England. It is true we have not; but the question is, whether the ad versity has sprung out of free trade, or whether it has sprung out of monopoly- Our opponents tell us that we have had free trade, and it h as no t answere d ; b ut I say we have had thirty years of monopoly, and have not got free trade yet. Further, it is said, that free trade in corn has caused those disasters to the trade of this district which we have at the present time to lament. Why, we have not had free trade in corn yet; we have only been passing through a tran sition state ; we have not got through the three years we were to have of the fag end of monopoly, and have not yet had trial of our principles at all.— (Hear.) Those gentlemen who find fault with free trade in corn, for having produced the distress of the last twelve months, neglect to show us how the re striction on trade in corn would have produced a better state of affairs. If I understand our position for the last eighteen months, we have been suffering from the want of the potato, from the failure of the means of subsistence. We have had to lay out 10,000,000/. in food to keep the I r i sh alive. I want to know whether it would have benefited us, under these circumstances, to have ha d a high tariff ? Peo ple say that it has produced drain of gold to pay for the corn. Wh y, i f we bad not had the corn, if we had kept the gold, mane had that are now alive would have been starved. I understand (for I have not been in the habit of reading everything pub lished in the borough) it has been charged against me that I made predictions of prosperity that was to arise from free trade in co . r_n, and that these predic tions have not been verified. Gentlemen, I never did deal much in prophecies , but I possibly might have told the working men that, w i t h f ree trade in corn, we should have American flour at lid. per pound. I stick to that opinion still.—(Avoice, " When ?") When we get free trade.--(Hear, hear, and applause.) I believe I _am cha rged, too, with having stated that you would have more mills and more employment, more _houses, carria ges, churches, and chapels, with free trade. Yes, and I say so still. —(Applause.) But, gentlemen, t did not say, that if you had a failure in fhe cotton crop in the year 1846 you would have spindles running when you had no raw material to work upoil•—(Applause.) You have been suffering in the cotton districts quite as much from famine in cotton as from famine in.corn during the last twelve months; and if you had had corn ever so cheap, and the demand for cotton goods had been ever so great, you could not have employed all the mills and machinery, and for this simple reason—be cause you had not cotton in existence to keep the machinery in employment. To bring - this charge of having made a false promise against me and the free traders generally—to make me responsible for the fai lure of the cotton drop—le just as absurd as it would be if I had promised a man that, if he was mode rate and temperate in all things, he would have good health, and in consequence of that man falling down S DT, DECEMBER 13, 1847. and breaking his leg you should charge me with not having fulfilled my promise. —(Laughter.) Give us ordinary —give us natural circumstances—and then when we have free trade I maintain the same dos • trines as I always did. Before we have prosperity in Stockport we must have free trade in corn and other things. We have been suffering severely in the cot ton districts from a diminution of the raw material ; and when I think of the combination of evils that have pressed upon the cotton districts, on the trade of Lancashire, during the last twelve months, lam astonished that you have not suffered more than you have. In the first place, you have had wheat at one time as high as 100 s. a quarter, a price hardly known since the war. It has been up as high as 120 s. in Uxbridge-market. At the same time cotton was 50 per cent. higher than it was the year before, and along with these two evils you have had a high rate of money, such as has never been known since the war, arising out of inordinate engagements and speculations in railroads. With the combination of these three evils—dear cotton, dear corn, and dear money—l rep ea t it i s w ith me a matter of astonish ment that the cotton districts have escaped so well as they have done. It is nut merely in England that we have had this distressing state of things, but through out Europe. With the exception of Russia, there is no country in Europe that has not suffered frcm scarcity, and in many parts there has been famine. A large portion of our trade, as you know, is carried on with the Continent; and if the people are suffering from scarcity of food—from high-priced corn—it stands to reason that they will be unable to purchase the same amount of manufactured goods as they could under ordinary circumstances. You have then had a limited demand from the Continent for your pro duce, and a limited demand at home at the same time ; and this combination of evils, I repeat, has never been known before or since the time of the war. We may, at all events, draw this consola tion from the facts mentioned to you, that free trade has been subjected to an ordeal at its com mencement which it is not likely to undergo again ; and if we pass through this ordeal without forgetting our principles, we may fairly expect in ordinary times to reap the advantage we looked to from them. It would appear that we have some Protectionists still in the House of Common's...there are not many of them there—there are not many of them in Stockport; still we have those curiosities, those eccentricities still in the House of Commons.—(Laughter.) They tell us we have been out of our predictions. They say we promised good employment, and that you are wanting work in the manufacturing districts. They say we promised there should be no drain of gold to pay for corn, and now they say there is a drain of gold. They remind us of our promises, and say we have fulfilled none ; but they seem to have quite for gotten their own predictions. They said that if we had the repeal of the corn-laws the farmers would be ruined. Why, the farmers have never been doing better than they have done during the last year.—(Cheers.) They told us that the land would be thrown out of cultivation, whereas agriculturists have never been more busy in cultivating the land than they are at this moment ; and, instead of their predictions being fulfilled, that our landlords would run away to Australia, they are at the present time getting higher rents for the land.—(Cheers.) Now, if they have been out in their prediction s , and we ha ve b een ou t in ours, it is qu it e certain that the time must come when one or other must be right ; and I only ask for the time which is necessary to test our principle, in order that we may see which party is right. They taunt us that foreigners do not reciprocate free trade as we predicted. Now, one reason why foreigners do not follow us in our free-trade experiment is, that they read English newspapers; that they see Noble Lords, that they see gentlemen who are Members of the House of Commons, that they see men who are among yourselves—millovvners of Stockport—calling out for protection—(Cheers and laughter)—and they say, "We cannot yet be convinced that free trade is to be the permanent policy of your country."—(Hear, and cheers.) They say, " We see so many men of high rank, we see so many men in high places, who are still calling out for a re turn to the corn-law and for protection, that we are not satisfied that it will last."—(Hear, hear.) It is a question I have been asked over and over again whilst travelling on the Continent, " Do you think free trade can be maintained in your country ?" My answer has been " Certainly ; we are nut a people given to change when a question has been discussed, and when a decision has been arrived at by public opinion." " But," they said, "we see a great many lords and other men arguing for a restoration of protection and regretting that free trade has been adopted ; and we must wait; we see you are not agreed among your selves." And so it is; those men who taunt us that we do not see any progress making among other nations in free trade are themselves the very cause of it.—(Cheers.) They are the men who are throwing obstacles in the way of our progress, by exciting dis trust as to the continuance and permanence of free trade principles here. Not that I think it will be an obstacle long ; for though foreigners see that there are great statesmen, and great lords, and mister spinners —though there may be some men of great in fluence and of high rank arrayed against us—though they see these men on one side, they must perceive that all the statesmanship, the, great intellect, and the talent of the country are on the side of free trade.— (Loud cheers.) An as they know that brains in the end do prevail—(Cheers and laughter)—l think they are fast coming to the conclusion that we are not likely to go back again under the rule of the block heads.—(Renewed cheering and laughter.) In my travels on the Continent I made this observation, in every country to which I went—in Spain, in France, in Italy, in Germany, in Russia—everywhere I found every man of intelligence on the side of our principle. —(Cheers.) I found among the statesmen and poli ticians everywhere that the ablest men were the men most disposed to imitate the English example and carry out the free trade principle. And I saw there was - everywhere, on the part of the cleverest men in the country, a conspiracy to elude the vigilance of the Protectionists and establish the free trade principle. hy, I believe if our bad example in England had not led almost everywhere else to the establishment of this bad principle—if "the Governments of the continent instead of their present absurd, complex, and injurious tariffs, had now sheets of white paper on which to write their tariffs, and had to write them over again, I believe there is not a country on the continent of Europe would establish a restrictive system at all ; because now the disposition is everywhere to esta blish free trade, and to undo the mischief that has been done by their predecessors.—(Hear, hear.) We have had, too, the taunt thrown out against us that we have not induced other countries to follow our example ; and one good honest gentleman in the House of Commons has said, " If you can show me one country that has followed our example, I will be come a free-trader." Well, I take him at his word I'll show hi m a coun t ry t h at has followed our ex ample—(Cheers and laughter) —and it is the country which it is of the most importance to this country should have been induced to do so— it is the United States of America.—(Hear, hear.) Within six months of the passing of the Bill repealing the corn-law by our Government, they remodelled their tariff, and established a tariff for the admission of our manufactures on a considerably lower scale than they had fixed it at before.—(Hear, hear.) And I look on it as a most fortunate thing that Sir R. Peel made the change at the time he did, because it gave them the opportunity of making provision for our wants. The Americans had just one season in which to prepare before our famine came upon us ; and had it not been that Sir R. Peel had changed the rate of duties to a scale ranging from 10s. to is., so that the merchant could calcu late on more steady prices, and could venture to im port corn with more certainty of remuneration, I believe that we should have had thousands and tens of thousands of our people starved to death.—(Hear, hear.) _Because it is well known, gentlemen, that under the old sliding-scale the Americans never would move their corn from the interior for this market; that they never would start it from the in terior down the Mississippi and Ohio with a view to sending it here, because they could never calculate that the prices would remain low sufficiently long to enable them to introduce it at all.—(Hear, hear.) The same argument applies to Russia; for if the duty on foreign corn had not been fixed within a moderate limit at the time it was, we should not have had a quarter of the corn we had to supply our wants with from the corn-growing districts of Russia.—(Hear, hear.) It may be an interesting fact to know that so great is the distance of the corn-growing districts of Russia from the port of St. Petersburgh, from which the great bulk of the grain is shipped, that the Rus sian corn we have been eating this year is not the crop of last year, but of 1845.—(Hear, hear.) I was toll in Russia that the corn they had shipped was the crop of 1845 ; that it takes two seasons to bring it from the interior for the purpose of being shipped, it being frozen up half a year on their great rivers, and one year being lost before it can arrive at its destina tion. Now, when we recollect these circumstances, when we consider that but for the establishment of this free trade policy, the growers of corn would not have speculated with a view to supplying us, we shall see the vast advantage, the immense and almost pro vidential advantages we have derived from Sir R. Peel's repealing the old sliding-scale and establishing the corn-law of last year.—(Loud cheers.) I believe we could not have been supplied with corn if we had depended upon the ordinary stocks in the ports of Hamburgh, Leghorn, and Odessa, and if we had not had the stimulus which was given by that measure, and which led to the extraordinary supplies we drew from the vast prairies of the interior of Russia and America. Now, gentlemen, these are the justifica tions I offer for the policy we have proposed with regard to the corn-laws, and that it has not prevented great calamities from overtaking us no one can wonder. No one could have expected that we should have to purchase 10,000,000/. worth of grain for Ireland, and twice as much for this country, making in all 30,000,000/. worth of corn to meet en unex pected and unexampled scarcity ; no man could have I expected we s h ou l d go through such an ordeal as th a t without s ome su ff e ring. —(Hear, hear.) But what shall we say of the men who try to palm upon their too credulous hearers the belief that we have been suffering all these evils from the effects of free trade, contemporaneously with a large importation of corn ? Why, gentlemen, we have had an increase of exportation to America.—(Cheers.) During the last nine months of the present year the expor tation of our manufactured goods from Liverpool to America has been 90,000 packages more than we ex ported thither in the same time last year. You have had an increased demand, but you cannot suppose that you will have that increased demand to meet an im portation of corn which arises from a sudden and unexpected deficiency that we should have had under a regular and growing trade.—(Hear, hear.) If there had been some sudden calamity in America, through the destruction of all their clothing, cutlery, plows, harrows, spades, axes, and other implements of agriculture, contemporaneously with our famine here, then you might have expected a sudden demand from them just the same as we had here for their food.—(Cheers.) I have spoken of the distress you have suffered in the cotton districts through the want of the raw material ; but there is great consolation in looking to the other parts of the kingdom to find that in those places where other descriptions of manufac tures are carried on they have not suffered so much as in like periods of high priced food before. Mr. Cobden proceeded to observe that he felt perfect con fidence in the future prosperity of the manufacturers of the district. Many people tried to mystify the matter, and talked about there not being money enough to effect this result ; but the fact was, that if all the linen cloths in the country were to be made into bank-notes, and each note stamped for 1,0001., it would not enable all the railroads to be made in five years that should be made in 25 or 30 years. He was not telling them this after it had happened only ; for last year, before going to the continent, he wrote a petition from the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on the subject of railway Bills. Of all the mad things that were done by any body of men, he believed that the House of Commons, by granting these railway Acts during the last three years, had done the most insane act ever perpetrated by a public body. The directors of railway companies would be compelled to suspend their works, because the share holders would not be able to pay the money demanded of them; and the result would be, that which ought to have been originally attempted within 10 or 16 years would be done in that time instead of the next five years, while a great deal of mischief would still be inflicted, not only on speculators, but on the mercan tile interests of the country generally. He had gone into these facts to show that an abund ance of raw material, with cheap food, would always produce good trade in the district ; but if they had this evil hanging over them—if they had all those demands upon all available money at 7 or S per cent.—that would be a disturbing element in the country, and retard its prosperity. Mr. Cobden went on to show that taxation ought to be reduced. Taxation was much lost sight of. The English seemed to lose their good sense when they dealt with matters of government. Never would the House of Commons be more economical than the electors— Government would never curtail expenses if nobody asked them ; no Minister could attempt it till he could say, " [he people at the hustings have demanded it." When would this demand be made ? He would `el] them how the expenditure of the country could !be very much curtailed. Reduction could be made in the army, navy, and ordnance expenses to the amount of 17,000,000/. a year. Cutting down petty salaries might serve sham politicians to make a fight about, but that would never reach the pockets of the people. There must be a complete change ,of public opinion on this subject. If we thought we could manage the affairs of the world only with our ships of war and armies, then we could not reduce our army, navy, and war expendituie. Formerly men put the taxation question first and foremost, and that must again be done before we could obtain retrenchment in the national expendi ture. Mr. Cobden ridiculed the attempt made to affright the people by an alleged approaching inva sion, and concluded his address by saying, that so long as he remained in Parliament his services would be as much at the disposal of the electors of Stock port as of the freeholders of the %Vest Riding of York. The lion. Member sat down amidst enthusiastic and long-continued cheers. Mr. COPPOCK (town-clerk of Stockport) moved, " That this meeting expresses its great regret at the determination which severs Mr. Cobden's Parliamen tary connexion with this borough. It still, however, lays claim to some share of his representative energies, and hopes, in whatever sphere of action he may be placed, to retain a hold on his sympathies, and rely, in some degree, upon his public services." I The resolution was passed unanimously. Three cheers were given at the conclusion of Mit,. Cobden's address ; and Mr. COBDEN then proposed " Three cheers for Free-trade," which were heartily responded to, and the meeting separated. DIR. COBDEN AND THE WEST' RIDING. Mr. Cobden has addressed the following letter to the electors of the West Riding of Yorkshire : " Gentlemen,—Having been anxious to prevent the inconvenience of a protracted struggle for the election of my successor at Stockport, I have postponed until the moment when a new writ could be issued, this public expression of my gratitude for the signal honour you did me in choosing me, in my absence, one of your representatives in Parliament. To have been thus returned, when 1,000 miles distant, with out solicitation, by the most numerous and influential constituency in the empire, is probably the highest electoral distinction ever conferred upon a public man. "Whilst fully appreciating the honour you have done me, I will not conceal that this double return to Parliament has imposed upon me a painful task in the selection of my seat. Although in the unexpec-• ted situation in which I found myself on my return from the continent, I did not hesitate to recognize your paramount claim to my humble services, yet in justice to my views of the obligations which consti tuencies and their representatives owe to each other, I must frankly declare that if I had been in England when it was proposed to nominate me for the West Riding, I should not have felt justified in consenting to sever my connexion with a constituency from which I have received repeated proofs of confidence and kindness. You, who have possessed, and known how to appreciate, faithful representatives, will forgive me if I cannot lightly break the ties which have united me to my former constituencies. " I have only to express the hope that, at the close of the present Parliament I may find that in our poli tical views generally we are as much in accordance as we are upon those commercial principles on which you more especially pronounced judgment at the late election, and respecting which there is now very little difference of opinion amongst men of In telligent and unprejudiced minds. " I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, your most obedient and faithful servant, " RICHARD COBDEN. "London, Dec. 9." MISS STRIC/ELAND'S LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. VOL. XL—The eleventh volume of this truly charming history perfectly sustains the authoress's reputation, in point alike of truthfulness, diligence, and style. The anecdotes interspersed throughout the work are exceedingly racy, and claim credence by the un questionable authenticity of the evidence on which they are presented. On the whole we must pronounce Miss Strickland beyond all comparison the most entertaining historian in the English language. She is certainly a woman of powerful and active mind, as well as of scru pulous justice and honesty of purpose. And, as we b„. fore remarked, the considerable number or new docu ments to which she has had access, and the curious nature of some of these documents, impart to her pro duction a character of which it would be hard to deter mine whether the utility or the entertainment predomi nated. The present volume is occupi ed with th e re i gns of Mary 11. and of Queen Anne. more interesting or exciting era has not been in the English annals, and we heartily recommend both lives to the attention of the public.—Morning Post. [ADVERTISEMENT.].THE SURPRISING EXCELLENCE OF HOLLOWAY'S PILLS IN THE CLEF OF INDIGESTION.—Extraet Of a letter from AI r. Thomas 1101 l and, Seaton- s t reet, Li verpool, dated July 26, 1847 : "To Professor II 1 o loway—Sir,—l had suffered intensely for many years fro m b ad digestion, attended with sleepless nights, fright ful dreams, want of obtained was of no aav"'eltite, and extreme debility. The best advice I taking your 411* I . was . in this wretched state when I com mencedme to health. I feel quite which, in a few weeks, completely restored well : and am capable (' ofi e en a d n u e r ly man. My appetite is good ; I sleep enjoy by taking your invaluable Fills." s fa ol t d igu b o y . jh D es r e u bles t sin s, g s s mi l " rr° 4l —.......2_____lelloway's zitabitaulatut, 244, Uri - ' Lultai. It, 244, itriad, Lord John Russell was much better on Saturday. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. C. Moore. At the daily service the prayers were read by the Rev. T. Ilelmore, the lessons by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, and the communion service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The sermon was preached by the Rev. C. Moore. The service was in A (Sir George Smart). The anthem was " Awake, put on my strength" (Wise). Sir G. Smart presided at the organ. The Marquis of Win chilsea, Lords Granville, Farnham, Ebrington, and Sydney, were among the nobility present. The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel will preach on Sunday next, the 19th inst., in the Chapel Royal. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday, and resumed the hearing of an appeal from New South Wales, " The Bank of Australasia v. Breillat." Mr. Bothell (Queen's Counsel) and Sir Fitzroy Kelly were heard. The case was adjourned. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 12.—H er M a j esty ' s ship Asia* with C.B , has b compelled the o l inpelled fla flag o f return in con . sequenee ee o n f t serious y of f injuries ßiseay. caused She byh had got aboutntering a tempest in 100 leagues to the westward of the Land's End, when a gale of wind came on which increased to a storm. Several sails were blown out of the bolt-ropes; the seas washed away her quarter-boats and hammock-netting, and one sea stove in a scuttle, and the orlop deck was nearly flooded, so that the crew had to go to the pumps. The Asia strained so much in the heavy weather that her caulking was injured, and the seams opened to such a degree that she has leaked considerably ever since. Owing to the heaving, pitching, and rolling of the ship some of the iron ballast has shifted, and it will be necessary to have her in dock to re-stow her hold and recaulk her. This will occupy the artificers ten days. 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B RECHIN.--REMARKABL E CASE.—Robert Duncan (a pensioner discharged from the Ist Regiment o f F oo t, now aged 70). i n th American war in 1813-14, was hounded by a musket-shot in the left knee, at the battle of Chippeway ; and, notwithstanding every exertion of the medical staff, the ball eould not be extracted at that period ; consequently it has remained in his kneebone until last week, when it was taken out by our eminent townsman, Dr. Guthrie—the ball having been carried about by the aged veteran for the long period of 33. years. lie has been confined for the last ten weeks, In consequence of the ball_shifting out of the bone into the flesh, causing him great pain, which he has borne with great fortitude. The ball might be an excellent relic for the British Museum, es it actually is stuck round with several splinters from the aged warrior's leg. Duncan is a native of Brechin.—eilontrose Review. • The Honourable Robert Gore , R.N. , lately ap pointed consul at Monte Video , has instructions to await at Rio Janeiro the arrival of an envoy to be sent out by France, and to proceed in company with him to this River Plate, hhere both will appear in concert to enforce the terms of pacification agreed upon by the GoYern , meats of Easland ancl of Franco.— Observer. I:XAMPLES. Annual Policy Bonus in! Perma- Sum tke nent Re- Assured z e Pre- taken addition Bonus in duction of may bor t mium. out in Assured. Cash. Annual row on Premiums. Policy. - £ a. 4., 1 X s d. X s. d. £ s. d. f 1837 243 9 3,112 8 5 18 4 6 494 8 10 ls A 1838 218 8 1 99 81015 13 5 4 45 0 0 60 1000 i.'" 4 " 1839 192 1 10' 86 9 3 13 4 9 395 11 1 1 74 1840 143 5 10, 66 8 4 919 1 346 2 3 1841 138 14 21 61 17 6 9 9 2 296 13 1842 111 6 81 49 10 0 71 0 4 247 4 5 The Annual Report, with tables of ra t es, & c., may be had at the otllce, or any of its branches in the coun t ry ; or, on application, will be forwarded post free. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. 31 ETROPOLITAN SEWAGE MANURE COMPANY. _ . Incorporated by 9 and 10 Victoria. The Directors of this Company have the satisfaction to announce that they have obtained their amended Act, and will proceed with all possible speed to carry out the important objects for which the Com pany is incorporated They are ready to receive applications for the New Shares of 201. each, authorised by the amended Act to be Issued. Upon the amount of deposits and calls. interest, at the rate of four ner cent. per annum, will he allowed from the day of payment ; and by the Act of Incorporation Shareholders are only liable to the amount of the shares. ALEX. 7, Waterloo-place, Pall- ma ll, December 11, 1847 GItEIG, Secretary, . The Company's plans have been already tried, and their advan tages proved, on a farm of 300 acres near Glasgow. At Edinburgh the application of sewage water has raised the value of land from 2s. 6d. an sure to 151. and 201., and at Mar/afield from 4s. 6d. to 111. 4s. The Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Company's Bill " urge the importance of the project," and declare their opinion "that only through the agency of a company" can the objects con templated, " be combined and applied to the important purposes of Cleansing our Towns, Purifying our Rivers, and Enriching our Soil." Again, the Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests pronounces " the principle involved" to be " national." The establishment of this Company may therefore be regarded as the commencement of a system fraught with great national benefits, contemplating not only profit upon invested capital, but increased comfort and improved health to the inhabitants of towns, and ines timable advantages to the agriculture of the United Kingdom. The most careful calculation that has been made, exhibits a profit of from 15 to 20 per cent. ; this calculation was based upon the esti mated supply of Sewage to 39,000 acres, but since that Pine Farmers, Market Gardeners, and Landowners, cultivating about 68,000 acres of land have, by petition to Parliament, expressed their anxiety to take a supply of Sewage Manure from the Company. The Act of Incorporation requires that at least three months' notice shall elapse between the Calls, which shall not exceed 21. 10s. per Share. Five per cent. Interest will be paid on all earns received in advance of Calls. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company. Gentlemen,—l hereby request you to allot me Shares, of 201. each, In the above Company, and I undertake to accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit of It. per Share thereon, and to execute the necessary deeds when required. Name in full .................... Address .. Profession or Business (if any) Reference Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel ON PHYSICALDISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAI CITY, &ND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or by post, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 611. in postage stamps, THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex cessive indulgence, infection, and the Inordinate use of mercury, with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By It. and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-stroet, Oxford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Starie, 23, Titchborne ,trect, Ilaymarket ; and Gordon, 146, Leadonhall-street. PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive indnl gence, and their lamentable elects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. 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CIONTROUL OF THE PASSIONS : a Popular Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of its premature Decline, with Instructions for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to those suffering from the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence, terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional Weakness, Indigestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehen sive• Dissertation on MARRIAGE, Incontinence, and Celibacy. Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the various Cases, &c. By C. J. LUCAS and C.., Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Newman. , street, Oxford-street, L on d o n. Member of the London College of Medicine, &c. &c, CONTENTS OF THE WORE, Chap. I..—Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced by inordinate indulgence of the Passions, illustrated with Coloured Engravings. Chap. 2.—Banefhl Results of a Secret Vice on the Mind and Body, evidenced is the production of convulsive Consumption,E e u pll n e e p h s . y iy, an ii d d o i t g h e e s r convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping m Hon, Stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations on the Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitful Unions. Chap. 3.—Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Vital Functions, the nature and treatment of Impotence and Sterility,an the imperfect performance of the Marital act , caused byt ho practice of self-indulgence. Chap. 4 . — Gonorrhoea , its symptoms, complica tions and treatment, Gleet, Stricture, and disease of the Prostate. Chap. s.—Syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. Csses, and concluding observations, Plates, &c. Sold by Brittain , 54, Paternoster-row ; Gord ni 146, Leadenhall street ; Hannay and Co., 63. 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The above works may be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalho, 147, Fleet street Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Nalson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other wise) from the author (who may be conferred with personally, mornings and svenings), 10 looksellors. , Argyll-place Regent-street; and all [PRICE SD. " SAML. - OXON. " To the Right Hon. the Lord John Russell, &c." " Chpl, Dec. 8, 1847. "My Lords,--I have esham- had the ace honour to receive a representation signed by your Lordships on the sub ject of the nomination of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford. " I observe that your Lordships do not state any want of confidence on your part in the soundness of Dr. Hampden's doctrine. Your Lordships refer me to a decree of the University of Oxford passed eleven years ago, and founded upon lectures delivered fifteen years ago. " Since the date of that decree Dr. Hampden has acted as Regius Professor of Divinity. The Uni versity of Oxford, and many bishops, as I am told, hare required certificates of attendance on his lec tures befbre they proceeded to ordain candidates who had received their education at Oxford. He has likewise preached sermons, for which he has been honoured with the approbation of several prelates of our Church. " Several months before I named Dr. Hampden to the Queen for the see of Hereford, I signified my in tention to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and did not receive from him any discouragement. " In these circumstances, it appears to me that should I withdraw my recommendation of Dr. Hamp den, which has been sanctioned by the Queen, I should virtually assent to the doctriie that a decree of the University of Oxford is a perpetual ban of ex clusion against a clergyman o f em i nent l earning and irreproachable life, and that, in fact, the supremacy which is now by law vested in the Crown is to be transferred to a majority of the members of one of our Universities. " Nor should it be forgotten that many of the most prominent among that majority have since joined the Communion of the Church of Rome. " I deeply regret the feeling that is said to be common among the clergy on this subject. But I cannot sacrifice the reputation of Dr. Hampden, the rights of the Crown, and what I b e li eve to b e t h e true interests of the Church, to a feeling which I be lieve to be founded on misapprehension and fomented by prejudice. "Ai the same time I thank your Lordships for an interposition which I believe to be intended for the public benefit.—l have, kc., "J. RUSSELL. " To the Right Rev. the Bishops of London, Win chester, Lincoln, &c." COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen, accompanied by the Royal Family, took a drire, on Friday afternoon, in a carriage and four. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at tended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Couper, left Osborne at eleven o'clock on Saturday morning, crossed in the Fairy steam-packet to Gos port, and took her departure by the London and South- Western Railway, on her return to her resi dence, Frogmore House, Windsor. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked, on Satur day, in the pleasure grounds of Osborne. The Royal Children took an airing in a carriage on Saturday. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay, and Sir James Clark, arrived at Osborne, on Saturday after• noon, on a visit to the Queen. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay remained at Osborne yesterday. Ilis Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge at tended a meeting of the Trustees of the British Mtvieurn on Saturday. His Royal Highness returned to Hatfield House, Herts, the seat of the Marquis of Salisbury, in the afterno , in. A Cabinet Council was held at half past three o'clock on Saturday lafternoon, at the private resi dence of Lord John Russell, in Chesham-place. The Ministers present were—Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Earl of Auckland, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Viscount Morpeth, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The Council sat two hours. DR. HAMPDEN. PROTEST OF THE BISHOPS . The following important correspondence has taken place in reference to the appointment of Dr. Hampden to the see of Hereford : " My Lord,—We, the undersigned Bishops of the Church of England, feel it our duty to represent to your Lordship, as head of her Majesty's Government, the apprehension and alarm which have been excited in the minds of the clergy by the rumoured nomina tion to the see of Hereford of Dr. Hampden, in the soundness of whose doctrine the University of Ox ford has affirmed, by a solemn decree, its want of confidence. " We are persuaded that your Lordship does not know how deep and general a feeling prevails on this subject, and we consider ourselves to be acting only in the discharge of our bounden duty both to the Crown and to the Church, when we respectfully but earnestly express to your Lordship our conviction that if this appointment be completed, there is the greatest danger both of the interruption of the peace of the Church, and of the disturbance of the confi dence which it is most desirable that the clergy and laity of the Church should feel in every exercise of the royal supremacy, especially as regards that very delicate and important particular, the nomination to vacant sees. " 'We have the honour to be, my Lord, Your Lordship's obedient, faithful servants, " C. J. LONDON. " C. WINTON. " J. LINCOLN. " CHR. BANGOR. " HUGEL CARLISLE. " G. ROCHESTER. " RICH. BATII AND WELLS. " J. H. GLOUCESIER AND BRISTOL. "11. F.VFTER. " E. SARUM. " A. T. CHICHESTER. " J. ELY.