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• L'.ll A ., 71 it IN ,t _ _ • , ge - - r 4 / 1 TH ORN T D" ./..") (Fro he ark / 2 (1 -‘ of those sudden cha, • _ (. 14' 4 2t ' tuksV tr.* • No - • , , v . 4 , * not increr,Xr' CR, 7 : :: - „ , tri; r <, • inE j , , - oTT . RR cam.4; gal r . 0 iN OWE YOUR ORDERS IMMEDIATELY. Every penon v,11,3 sball subscribe for TII E - S YP A - T C .11 During this Month of JUNE, • Will be presented with a FINELY ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF 71 ~~1~ E L I Z A COOK., " The p•:cms of Miss Cook are national property. There Is hardly t a h homestead in the land where her name and her contributions to inspatch' are not familiar as household words. Apart from the Powerful and brilliant talent with which the ' Dispatch' is conductesi, this handsome and acceptable present to its fifty or sixty thousand readers cannot fail to be appreciated."—Liverpool Chronicle. hay a 1847 • The likeness of this po e ti c g enius, by Trantschold , is most striking, and the en g r av i ng is by Adlard, in the first style of the art. _ An Edition of the DI-PATCH is published at Five o'clock e ver y Saturday taunting, for transnnsiion by the First Trains and Morning al ails, so that ptrsons residing in towns 250 miles from Loudon may receive it the saint evening. This Edition eontons the Lon on Markets of the week, including those held on Friday ; also the sainted letters of Publicola, austic, and Censorius ; and frequently original poems by Miss Eliza Cook Persons desirous of being supplied with the WEEKLY DIS PATCH.e may give their orders and ray their subscAptions to any ws - agent, or to Mr Hichani Wood, at the DISPATCH Office, 4•2 n, Fleet -street, London. who, by a remittance of 25., or postage 6 to that amount, will supply the DISP ITCH throughout Julie nest. The terms for the DISPATCH are, per Quarter - 7s. Od. Per Year, in advance - - 6t. Od. Ditto on Credit, payable by reference In London £1 10s. Od. 4• 111 .—A beautiful frame, of an original character, in imitation o f insiis b ranches and fOliag-. interspersed with medallions illust rative of s Cook's works. has been prepared by an artist of aonsidercble talent, and which can be had at twenty shillings each. Arrange __entS have also been made with respectable manufacturers to supply elegant Frames, at prices varying from 3s. to 25s , and any Sub &critter to the DISPATCH may, by transmitting to Mr. Wood tio a uto for the frame he wishes to obtain, be supplied with the same. ANTWERP, BRUSSELS, and the RHINE. LONDON TO COLOGNE IN TLIDITY HOURS. fitteaT-614 The (S-a , assage Seven Hours oily.) Ete Antwerp Company's powerful, splendid, and very favourite ANTWERI'EN, T;IOMAS JACKSON, Commander (re , .Li and re -decorated throughout in the most sumptuous manner), I T el the St, Katharine's-wharf, Tower, every Sunday Morning at o ' n l e , ()pock, returning from Antwerp every Wednesday Afternoon at p a n: 'lock. By this steamer and the railroad from Antwerp, t!a -ae,,,„." gOnfr to the Rhine reach Cologne In thirty hours. The general the e rnages as her for passengers on board this renowned ship, as well c si)scious Ladies' and Private Cabins, are entirely unequalled. and horses may be sent to the wharf up to one hour b fore nuis tl me of sta rt i ng ; b ut a ll applications for the shipment of goods 123 , t , b e made to the London agents, Messrs. Lightly and Simon, Re gent fe nchurch-street, where, as well as at the Packet office, 33, .gent circus, Pi cca dill y , b er ths may be secured and every informa tione obtained. • ,• LONDON direct to BOULOGNE.-1 he Corn tidn ~.nsercial Company's SteaShip CITY of BOULOG'SE, Cap . Tune, from I.mm:on-bridge m- Wharf, every Sunday, at reduced " — Saloon, 12s. ; Fore Cabin, 8,1. • • . Sunday, June 6, 3 morning. Sunday, June 13, 10 morning. Sunday. Juan 20, 2 morning. Ofn eec Sunday, June 27, 9 morning. Fish-street-hill; Chaplaln's Universal Office, Regent- L T EANI to ITALY DIRECT, from SOUTH RA. _ A MPTON for GENOA and LEGHORN, calling at GIB TAI; Th• COM e ? ' A PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL , STEAM NAVIGATION Mart from 8 Steam-ship MONTROSE, Captain C. F. Burney, will lo t thn Southampton on TUESDAY, the 15th June, at Two p.m., bus Ports. Families travelling to Italy will find this route e?3nomical, and interesting. also Kates First-class Passengers, Servants, Horses, and Carriages, Dann ‘ ,"4"xls and Parcels, may be had on application at the c om ces, 51, St. Mary Axe, , . STEAM to ABERDEEN, INVERNESS, and Ti he the NORTH of SCOTLAND. 1 41 s h i yurdeen Steam Navigation Company's splendid and power -14. Ps will start as under, weather, &c., permitting:— . 5 , :r,,,A8E0 o' R clock DEEN Afte , thenoo CITY OF ABERDEEN, on Saturday, June IJTH B hrt, rn. IN VERNESS, the New Iron Steam-Ship DUKE OF kr2h,RLAND, on Monday, June 7, at Niue, Morning, calling off - eOffices : Chan my Spread Eagle, Regent-eircu., or 257, Wapping. CHARLES WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY, Agent. L ---C E U M T H E A T R E . rill e t tea The HOLDERS of DEBENTURES on this Theatre are re- How e ... to attend the ADJOURNED MEETING of the Debenture ciseb,:l oll FRIDAY NEXT, the 4th of June inst., at One o'clock pre -4 the Saloon of the Theatre. . I ._________cl( B, nn Ingham street, Adel] JOHN STRUTT. 2, 1847 CARSON'SORIGINAL ANTI-CORROSION Vero rn j'lNT, specially patronised by the British and other Go bock c ` n ts, t;te Honourable East India Company, the principal Cl e °l4ant es. most public bAlies, and by the Gentry,. Co rtost rgY, for out-doo work at their country seats. The Anti door n.? 4 IS Particularly recommended as the most durable . out- Of i eo r n -Int ever invented, for the preservation of every description Prov ed ',7 oo d, 3 - one, brick, compo, cement, &c., work, as has been triero u ,Y the practical test of upwards of 60 years, and by the nu from ` es tirnonials (between 300 and 400) in its favour, and which, hav e, I.r.ank and station in society of those who have given them, ualik to b ithert o tr ,s na Ps , never yet been equalled by anything of the kind Li st , of "rought before the public notice. I DDlicati D r iees, colours, and other particulars, witl be forwarded on Walter Carson 15, Tokenhouse-yard, back of the ..2.ngland. No agents.' A 1 ,„.------_____ °V - ELTY in FRENCH CORNICES, at 205. PARis i .;A , Most varied and beautiful rssortment of these elegant Of h.., '"N. NOVELTIES which threaten entirely to supersede al omltish r nanufac:ure, from 20s. and upwards, complete for any extrajr3: window (if inlaid with velvet of any colour albout 15s. each rOx d is i ,naw on 8 kLE at WILLIAM S. BURTON ' . (late an 9 0 f d-street corner of Newman-street. RIP- Detailed c. - ... , ,x Or 2 in "g ery arttalognies, with engravings, as well as of every iron- WILL I k , t lele, sent (per post) free. 6f I ?ener i . 8 . BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) . Sto tn ck e 'world, and Famishing Ironmongery is literally the largest in Its ram 4 --langu purchasers employed to give a correct idea of "-Est " Y and extent, are invited to call and inspect it. ablished in Well-street, 1t420. 11 1 °1.414 ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT ,4 , on GARDEN. . m ut of ~,'!quelice of some misa iprehenslon as to the localities for the t-offt e ." e i kels. the Public Is i resqe, , :tfully informed that the only 4t oh — 41 11 .W-strect Is in the Theatre, corner of Hart-street, and ---............ :,_ .ey is taken at the doors. ° W L A. N TI7,LsADIEIi. A 1. Y D 0 R ..fftle ac ,,r ORIENTAL BALSAMIC PREPARATION of slig,mlar thoroughly purirying the Skin frm all Pimples, Spots. e t es, Redness Freckles, Tan, and Discolour . tfons, producing a tii4 44. freshness ofte an h d an tr a ans a p r a m re s ncy a • n o ci f n C e ' c o k mple l xion, aid a softnes> ed delicacy - n,?vating and Refreshing s Wash In Travelling ; and In cases of Wawa, Stings of Insects, or fncidental Inflammation, its virtues h 4 ve lon g a".d extens i ve ly been acknowledged Its purifying and re irealling two e rtles have obtained the exclusive patronage of the Queen , the 6 - nit , l' and the Roy at Family of Great Britain, as we;l as the Principal co arts of Europe, and the most distinguished Nobility and Gentry of all civilised nations. *,,,* Beware of Spurious " KALYDORS," containing mineral as tringents utterly ruinous to the complexion, and which, by their re pellent action, endanger health. Each bottle of tile genuine kas the words " ROWLANDS' KALY.DOR" on the wrapper, and A. ROWLAND and SO ST, 20, Hatton-garden, is also enzraved (by desire of the Hon. Commissioners) on the Government Stamp affixed on each. Price 4s. 6d. an 1 Bs. 6d. per bottle. Sold by the Proprietors, and by Chemists and Perfumers. FILE BOSJI4.:SMANS from SOUTH AFRICA, At the EGYPTIAN lIALL, PICCADILLY. Admission—One Shilling. In appearance they are little above the monkey tribe."—Times. A pigmy race of wild men."—Post. "An exhibition of a peculiarly instructive kind."—Herald. The audience at Exeter Had were wonder-stricken at beholding n "L"-- Chronicle. „ T heY confirm to the full those tales of tra vellers which we have Inclined to loott u.,on with suspicion."—Advertiser. tin them are most beautifully formed; a painter or sculptor must look them with great interest." —Liverpool Journal. Ike ealiatt,the Mit , siimary's work, on South Africa, Lichtenstein's, e - -I.lours of Exhibition. I I till 9. El R Z!estlian's Wild Dance and mode of warfare, at Fear o'clock and • NOW EXIIIL' iTING, AT TILE GYPTIAN H Al, L, PICCADILLY, the meet EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITION of ABORI briR 1 : 8 I WER SEEN In EUROPE:, landed in Liverpool by the • Oaptain Wheeler. lirr — s ,l l - 1 --N, TWO WOMEN, and a BABY, of the BOS JESMAN f ro m ; TlallE, from the interior of South Africa, a race that, r 'Reif wild IFibits could never before be incim.ed to visit a place 4?„. This ' opportunity of gratifying the man of science the student in zoology has only been obtained by great personal b as erfion .n.ogi,,„ . c a ll the part of the gentlemen who have brought them to tan immense outlay of capital. On the passage to Europe De l t i was born at sea, thus adding to the great interest that must • • Prete4, by their appearance. Sou th — too Liverpool Journal : —" Ilosjesmans, or Bush People, from or 11,7eril Africa—lnter_ specimens of a most extraordinary race tusu, n 'an beings have been lauded In our 14,rt ; the are the llosjes lotto; o r Bush People from the interior of South Africa, of which so ..trave•unts been written by the missionaries, and the few who have ootte r ;"` to that far distant region. They are natives of the country T0wu . .,,1 the Great Orange River, 1,200 or 1.400 miles from Cape 'cieyelhibit alost as striking an absence of the intelle qua' or h u ` l. faculties as is m otiservatile in the skull of that mockery of ro o — „ 4 nifY. the Baboon while the preponderance of the animal is-al . th e e qUally as great. In every respect they are calculated to excite greatest astonishment, and to confirm to the full those Tales , r avellers" which we have certainly been inclined to look upon 'to su.plelon. We could scarcely have credited that such a race Co uld be in ex i s t ence o n the earth. That they are genuine no one c an doubt ; in proof of which we give the lea:ming extract from a C ape Town Paper of the 24th December, which we have just re e eived :—" We understand the bd.; Fanny, Captain Wheeler, which recently left Table Bay for Liverpool, had on board an unusual kind of exportation, viz., twe males and two females jG of theß_ p. whoigsehnoutneura.- Man species; they are in charge 4-f a Mr. J . . been at considerable trouble and expense in procuring them from the interior. They are authentic specimens of this diminutive and ra pidly decreasing tribe of Aborigines, found only in Southern Africa. For particulars of the habits and disposition of the Bosjesmans, see Professor Lgichtenstein's, Borchelt's, Campbell's, Backhouse's, • Methune's, and lloffatt's Travels in South Africa. Admission One Shilling, and Reserved Seats Two Shillings and Sixpence A POPULAR TREATISE on ,he DEALT'', LIFE and VIGOUi of the BODILY FUNCTIONS. 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(With Diet -tables for II Complaints.) 3. mAnitrAeE and its MYSTERIES. To;bo, or not to be, that the qucstion."—Shakspeate. The PACSIONS—TheIr ADVENT and CONTROL. Theeut eas." e Publicatio ns are " fre Car e a from val enapyricat mysticism, to and are adapterl.lthe intelikzen ee of the dines. hallo oe , 4d 01 •:itt , rwq,),l, 23, l'atern.ister-row hi, Corn- Mann, the 4e...-voralho, 147, 11, et-strvei and all Booksellers, or dir,ct froin flop wh ose practice i s exclusively devoted to home consults at lull Three, and i n the Evenings from Seven till :Nine, 1440.8 Regonuetreet. No.. 17 , 069. LO N' DON Til Ii,SDAY • N N G N 9 N ATIONAL LOAN F(LND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 26. CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital .£.509.000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. Th s Institution embraces important and substantial advantages with resoect to tile assurances and deferred annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, wiliout expense or for feiture of the policy, two•thlrds of the premiums paid (see Table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in terests to meet other convenimcies or necessity. Assur.unes for terms of years on the lowest possible rates. DIViSION OF PROFITS. The Increasing prosperity of th, Society has enabled the Directors at the arnual meeting held on the !2th May. 1847, to declare a fifth bonus, varying from 35 to 8.5 per cent. on the premiums paid on each policy effected on the profit scale. EXAMPLES. Perma• Sum the .:4 ° .,; Annual (Policy Bonus in l amit 11e- Assured Age. = tg ,' mlu Pre- m taken addition ' Bonus In duction of may bor -5 . out in Assured. Cash. Annual row on vi Premiums. Poky. - - - £ s. d.' £ s d. £ s. d. £ s. d. r 1837 243 9 3,112 8 5 18 4 6 494 S 111 X •X s. d. 1838 218 4 81 99 8 10 15 13 5 :445 0 0 60 1000 74 3 4 1839 192 1 1(1 1 1 86 9 313 4 9 39 5 1 1 1 , 1840 143 510 66 8 4 919 1 341; 2 3 1 I 1841 133 14 21 61 17 69 9 2 ,296 13 4 L 1842 111 6 81 49 10 0 710 4 .247 4 5 The Annual Report, with tables of rites, &c., may be had at the nice, or any of its branches in the country ; or, on application, will' e forwarded past free. F. FERGUSON CA3IROUX, Secretary. NATIO NAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU RANCE SOCIETY. OFFICE, 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital 500,0001. Empowered by Act of Parliament. The system of Deferred Annuities, originally proposed by the Na tional Loan Fund Life Assurance Society, for the better advance meat of the objects of Benefit and Friendly Societies, having received the approbation of a considerable body cf the active membo.'s and officers of those Institutions, and the Directors of the National Loan Fund Society having been urgently solicited by them to establish a Branch Office in connexion with the.o secieties and the 'Operative Classes generally, in which their services might be successfully en gaged, a Committee has been sanctioned by the Directors to open communication with the different Societies, with the view of more effectually d:sseminating the valuable benefits amongst the indus trious classes, and a plan has been aroposed with that object. ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE. Many praiseworthy but ineffectual attempts have been made to bring within the scope and operation of the laws of mortality and money the savings of the industrious classes, as well as various cal culations regulating their distribution, having for their object either immediate, contingent, or deferred benefits. A slight examination, however, will demonstrate that the con struetion of these associations or societies is defective; and that in stead of affording an easy access and a free choice of investment, whici should be the privilege of every one, they confine too nar rowly the •hannel through which a benefit can alone be secured ; and, in proportion as their action is circumscribed and embarrassed, their utility is drafted. For example, it is not to every individual or to every class amongst the industrious community, that provision in case of sickness is an object of such importance as to call for a pecnniary sacrifice ; while to others such a provision appears more attractive, and the loss of employment caused by sickness is a risk against which they desire to be guarded. For this anomalous state of things there is an effective and simple remedy ; that is to say, Instead of covering, by one weekly or annual payment, two or more contingent or deferred benefits, so to arrange it that each separate benefit should have its separate contribution. It is to not having observed this rule, and to the association of two dissimilar functions. and by confounding a sick allowance and an annuity fund in one and the selfsame payment, that much of the evils and mismanagement has arisen amongst Benefit Societies. No mechanism can be so perfect for the management of a sick - eess-fund provision as that afforded by the constant sectional asso ciation and watchfulness of the several members composing it. By th means a thorough and constant check is mutually e xercised, none but the really sick are likely to become chargeable upon it. Bit the same perfection, or the same security, is seldom attainable where a fund is to be accumulated through a succession of years, and where results are to bear out calculations, money investment being in general beyond the experience of the industrious classes., For these reasons it is clear that the fhnds destined for a provision In sickness should be kept entirely distinct from the fund intended as a provision for old age :- Ist Because the laws of sickness andmortality, though apparently connected, do not depend on the same calculation. 2d. Because there are a great number who, in order to secure a larger provision in old age are willing to take the risk of providing for probable sickness on themselves. 3d. Because the responsibility of managing a provision for old age, continued to a distant period is, in a great measure, incompatible with voluntary associations, fluctuating laws, and individual irre sponsibility, and more exposed to a failure in the performance of such a contract , that when undertakes on the same principles that ordinarily govern commercial isodie.. 4th. Because the expenses of providing for sickness must, when milted in the same payment with provision for old age, tend to dimi nish still more this provision : nor is it wisdom or good policy to en danger the one for the sake of the other. Impressed with these convictions, and with an intimate knowledge of the discussions passing within the bosom of many of the existing Friendly and Benefit Societies, the parties whose names are here unto attached, have had several meetings. with a view of proposing or adopting a remedy for those and other evils ; and in this manner to give an ad atonal force to the principles of brotherhood, unity, and mutual aid, on which friendly societies are based, by guarding them from the risks of sudden dissolution. After much diligent search amonast the combinations Ingeniously proposed from time to time for the attainment of one of the principal objects of Friendly and Benefit Societies, they have found none equal in simplicity and comprehensiveness of design, as well as forethought and sympathy for the wants of the industrious classes, as the plan proposed by the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society. It is true that the author of that plan has furnished an argument against provision in sickness; but, without concurring in the immediate ex pediency of abandoning a provision in sickness, no one can ' ,read the other part of the plan itself, without being fully sa'isfled that the conven enee and safety of Friendly and Ilenefit Societies will be greatly secured and consulted, by separating the payment of a sick allowance from an annuity for old age. A deputation having waited on the directors of the National Loan Fund, who met in the handsomest manner the overtures made to them for the establishment of a separate office for the transaction of business connected with Friendly and Benefit Societies, and the in dustrious classes in general, resolutions have been entered into, con stituting the undersigned as a Committee, with power to add to its number, for the promulgation of the benefits contained in the an nexed nrospectu s , under the guarantee of the Capital of the Society, and which, without interfering with the numerous objects connected with the institution of Benefit and Friendly Societies, will in their t o o pi I t i h io e n w e o r r e k a i tZ enlargesse s itnheotlrdsapgheeraendOf adversity,utll tty, ant a h ff ic o h rd no a th pr ing ote u e p tio t n o the present Tho s da n ) . • r h t a h s om ale l lu c a . te ß l . - secured Ancient to o r t d h e e r m . .; Foresters. John Fussell, CAL, Ancient Order of Foresters. John 11. Gordon. MS., Ancient Order of Foresters. James Hale, D.C.R. Ancient Order y of Foresters. Henry hunt, P. 0., i c la .s n . ch s e i s a te n rA., n s Ity of Odd Fellows. Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows. J j o os .e ep p h h i N te e e g k ezt ii l. o re .r . . Order of Old e a a m m p u i e e l . - T i A m b p r e e r l . l o . c n a lf: . 2 . 4 Ancient O birthday, r I d . 7 l e e s r n o d f: by the annual pay- DEFERRED AN Foresters. Ex S ment of 11. (ls., or quarterly payment of of 23. 2d., may secure, on attaining the age.o'fo monthly payments ce i v ing Annuity, 10/. 19s. 23 . ; Cash down 0, the option of re on his Life, 1371 . 175 . , 313. ;or a Policy Example.-A person aged 26 next birthday, may secure, on at taining the age of 60, an Annuit y of 10/ . , with the other optios, by the annual payment of 11.65. 93.. er a sin g le p a yment of 221 . 17 s. ad • or on payment of 61. 14s. . for disparity, hewill be entitled to the same benefits by an annual payment of 18s. I id., the same as or age 29. Example.-A person aged 30 next birthday, by the annual pay ment of 1/. 65., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly payment of 2s. 2d., may secure on attaining the a g e of 65, the o p tion of re ceiving Annuity, 181. Os. 43.; cash down, 1481. 12s. ; or a policy on his life 1751. I is. Example.-A person aged 35 next birthday, by the annual pay ment of 63., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly payment of 2s. 23., may secure, on attaining the age of 65, the option of re ceiving Annuity, 181. Os. 4d. ; cash down, 1481. 12s. ; or a policy on his life, 1751. lls. LIFE ASSURANCE. Example. person at the age of 30 next birthday may secure the sum of 1001. payable at his death, whenever it may happen, and also participate in the Annual Division t...f rrofit3, by the annual pay ment of 2/. Ps. 3d. Example.—A person at the age of 25 next birthday, by the pay. meat of 4s. per month, or Is. per week, may snare the sum of 1121 Is. payable at nis death. whenever it may happen, and like wise share in the annual profits of the Society. F. FERGUSON C aIsIROUX, Secretary. T HE EXPERIENCE LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Edinburgh, 15, George-street. London, 58, King William-street. Established 1843. Capital 3.0,0001. This Company's Tables are based upon the EXPERIENCE OF TIIE SEVEN I'EEN LIFE OFF[CES,as contained in the Report of their Itortality published in 1843. The Company embraces, in its constitution, the adva stages of both the mutual and proprietary systems of Assurance. The SHORT PERIO.) RATES will be found, in comparison with other Companies, to be exceedingly favourable to Insurers, and the rates for the whole period of life as low as is consistent WITH PERFECT SEPURITY. For prospectuses, &c., apply at the offices as above, or to any of the Agents throughout the kingdom. By order of the Directors, T. YULLLE WARDROP, Secretary. F REEMASONS' AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 11. WATERLOO. PLACE. PALL-MALL, LONDON. Business transacted in all the branches and for all (Micas of Life Assurance, Endowments, and Annuities, and to secure contingent Reversions, &c. Loans granted. Information and Prospectuses furnished by JOSEPH BERRIDGE, Secretary. ASCOT RACES-LIGHT WEIGHT ANTI-DUST, RAIN, &c. NICOLL'S I'ALETOT 'VETE, ONE GUINEA. 114, REGENT-STREET, and 22, CORNIIILL—not elsewhere in London. IF THE SUMMER, now approaching, should prove as hot as it was last year, doubtless NICOLL'S LIGHT PALETOT, of Lama Cloth, will be again much worn, without any other coat under it. This luxurious ease and comfort once expe rienced is alone sufficient inducement to adopt the same course again. Price of Paletot, rich silk linings, T W O Guineas and a Half; not silk, Two Guineas. 114, Regent-street, and 22, Cornhlll. ON THE SECRET AT INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND . WITR TWENTY-FIVE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. Just published, Twentieth Thousand, in a sealed envelope, pries 2s. 6d. or pest paid, to any addr ess, for as. 6d. in Postage tamps direct irons the Author's residence. SELF. PRESERVATION : A Medical Treatise on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity. illustrated with Twenty-Svc Coloured Plates on the AnatOr gans omy. Physiology, and Disease! of the Urinary and Reproductive , explaining their various s'•7".".ctures, uses, and functions, and showing the injuries that art o oduced in them, by solitary habits, ane. excesses. ?ractical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility, L-:,cal and Constitutional Weakness, and other diseases of the Urethra. By SAMUEL L &WERT, CONSULTING SURGEON, 9, Bedford-street, Bedford-square, London; Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medica l Society, Licentiate Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &C. CONTENTS OE VIE TREATISE. Cntrrint 1. On the Philosophy of Marriage, with its Hindrance and 0 bligations, and on Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions.— CHAPTVEt 2. On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Generativ . Organs, their flinctions, structures, and secretions, proving that grea• Mental and Physical Power are dependant up on their healthy action —CLIAPTER 3. On Solitary Habits; their various effects on th: Animal Economy ; the concealed cause of Debility of the function of the Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and general weakness of th. Mental Faculties. CUAPTER 4. On the Secret D isorders of Youtl and Mental N taturity, and the Treatment of Nervous and Loc al Weakness. • Debility, and Prematur e Decay .— CU TEtts 5 and 6 . Oz the Disorders arising from i n di scrim inate Excess, Gonnerheeti sleet, Strictures, and other Diseases of ,he Urethra. atviaws or THE WORE. fled melt cal m a n, w h o h as ev i dently had cons id e rable experience oil "The author o f t hi s singular and talented wor k is a legally quail . the try ttment o f th e var i ous disorders ar i s i ng f ro m the follies ar d i malted of early indi scret i on. 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This highly Interesting addition to the Exhibition and Lectures is a ff o rded to the Visitors for a limited time, The EVENING MUSIC, under Dr. Wallis, commences at Seven o'clock.—Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price. FATAL . ACCIDENT ON THE - SOUTA Cobs r RAILWAY. BRIGHTON,. Joili I.—We regret to state that a melancholy and fatal accident occurred, on Monday evening, on the Portsmouth Extension of the Brighton and Chichester Railway. Ruinour, as usual, had greatly exaggerated the result, i being reported in Brighton yesterday morning that fhe, six, and even ten parsons had lost their lives. i t station our reporter learned that the accident had probed fatal with regard to one person only, and he proceeded by an early train to the spot. In tee train he hid for fellow-passengers Mr. Thomas Kirtley (lococnoeve engineer of the company). Mr. Copley (tee assistant manager of the railway ), and Mr. Acton (superintendent of the railway police), who were also en the way to die site of the accident. Learn ing the object of our repnter's journey, the first named gentleman kindly informed him that he was a passenger by the train which sustained the accident, and he volun teered the particulars which we here subjoin : The train in question was a continuation of the two o'clock down train from London. It started from Brighton on its way to Havant at a quarter past four o'clock, and kept its time with perfect exactness, leaving Chichester at 20 minutes to six. Mr. Kirtley had gone to Chichester by an earlier train to make arrangements with regard tofit supply of gas, and having finished this business, and wizhing to proceed to Havant for the pur pose of arranging for the departure of some extra trains this morning, he stepped on the engine of the train, and rode With= the driver from Chichester to Bosham Pound, a station three miles towards Portsmouth. Here he left the engire, and entered a carriage in which were his wife and child, and the train proceeded about a mile and a half forward, when a rumbling noise was heard, and the train immediately came to a standstill near Nut bourne, half wtq liutween the Bosham station and the borders of the counties of Sussex and Hampshire, at Emsworth. The speed was between 32 and 35 miles, the road is perfectly level, and the hue straight. Without any apparent cause the engine ' suddenly left the line, the rails and the engine bei . 4 best working condition. It ap peared that the engine on leaving the rails rushed across the up line at an angle of about 45, and tearing up the rails in its progress toppled over an embankment about four feet high into a ditch about the same depth, wheels uppermost. .The connecting irons which couple the engine and tender having snapped, the tender was drawn off the line only a few inches, probably by the jerk. The luggage box was also just off the line, and had mounted the tender, but none of the carriages were off, nor were they in the slightest degree injured. On the train being thus suddenly brought up, Mr. Kirtley had the passengers alighted. The engine driver was found under the tender. He is supposed to have fallen from the engine at the moment it left the rails, and to have been struck by the train, and the first wheel of the tender having passed over his thigh com pletely severed it. He was quite dead. His name was John Gregory. He was about twenty-eight years of age, and has left a widow and family. He was a very steady driver. The stoker, whose name is Henry Peel, was about the same age, and he was also a married man, living at Brighton. He was found lying close to the driver. His right arm was nearly severed from his shoulder, and his scull was fractured, but he was still alive. He was re moved to a neighbouring cottage, where he was promptly attended by medical men, procured from Emsworth. He is in a desperate condition, but still some hope is enter tained of his recovery. The only other person who was injured by the ca tastrophe was the guard, named Careless. He merely received a slight shock, and is to-day nearly recovered. From the spot where the engine left the rails to its present site is exactly eighty yards ; to the spot where the tender and train stopped, sixty-five yards ; and con sequently the bodies were picked up about twenty yards from the overturned engine. Tne tender is barely in jured, with the exception of an indentation of the water tank ; and the luggage box had not so much as a splinter knocked ofE . _ So gradually, although so rapidly, was the train brought up, that the passengers did not suspect an acci• dent until the train stopped. Mr. Kirtley himself stated to our reporter that it was his extensive knowledge of railway traffic which alone led him to detect something unusual in the rumbling noise produced by the engine as it was tearing up the rails. The passengers were Promptly forwarded to their destination in vehicles pro cured in the neighbourhood. About 20 of the rails were broken or bent, and some delay was of course oc casioned to the subsequent trains. The tender was on the rails in half an hour, and was the same evening re moved to Brighton. The site of accident is in the small thick wood at the back of the beautiful little village of Nutbourne. As described above, the line is perfectly straight and per fectly level; the rails had been replaced; and it was not till a second look had been taken that he discovered the damaged rails lying on one side of the very low embank ment, and the overturned engine in the ditch on the other. Anything less like what one pictures as the site of a fatal railway accident can hardly be imagined. As to the immediate cause of the accident nothing is known. An investigation will, of course, take place by a Government engineer. The ballasting on the spot is a coarse gravel, that which we believe geologists call alluvial; and on looking at the spot an idea suggested itself, that one of the larger stones might have been accidentally or otherwise placed on the rail. A footpath crosses the railway on a level, exactly midway between the place where the engine ran off and where it stopped. This suggestion is answered by the fact, that the engine is furnished with " pr o t ec t ors ," w hich would remove from the rails anythi ng o f an i nc h di ame t er . A secon d idea is suggested by an inspection of the engine. It is one of Stephenaon's last patents, but the cylinders are on the outside, and s ome d r i vers dislike such engines, because of thei r greater oscillation, or " wo bbli ng ." Mr. Kirtley h a d an escape which may b e regar d e d as truly miraculous. Had he remained on the engines, as is his custom, for the purpose of overlooking the line, he would probably have shared the fate of the driver and stoker; to his change at Bosham from the engine to a carriage may he owe his life. The body of the driver lies at the Bell and Anchor, Nutbourne.— Times. THE LATE CASES OF POISONING AT KENSAL NEW TOWN. From an early hour on Tuesday morning until late in the evening croeds of persons continued to assemble in front of the cottage lately tenanted by the unfortunate sufferers. Mr. Abercrombie, the surgeon, has been in constant attenda nce upon t h e surv i vors, an d at s i x o ' c l oc k last evening Mrs. Hickman remained in such a pre carious state that little hopes were entertained of her recovery. The eldest child Thomas; and also Mrs. Hickman's sister, were, onlhe contrary, rallying rapidly, and it was the opi n i on o f the med i cal gent l eman that they are now out of clangor. Caroline Boneniy, who was the innoc en t cause of the calam i ty , sta t es th a t she was perfectly i gnorant o f arsen i c or anything of a poisonlus nature being kept in the house; that on Sun day morning she wanted some paper to light the fire, and seeing the bag, which she imagined contain , d only itair, she mixed the contents with what was used in making the pudding. It may appear most extraordinary that so large a quantity of arsenic should have been kept in any house; to account for which it is only necessary to state that Hickman was formerly in business as a glass-blower, and in his trade he used not only arsenic but nitrate of silver in large portions. That which was mixed with a r t e m hisai n f s o r o m f e a r l o r t e s h i e d e p n u c r e c h h a e s e h d ad some but on removing to th e p resent h ouse t h e b ott l e got t p tih o me is ep o su n idn p dc l i a et c :g ed wW i a n sh a elnh b e uttle and concealed in the washhouse, broken, a bed in n it dthep th oi e so c n up w b a oa s r t d. hen placed in the flour bag, and foorftuthneateneighbours i i if t u r ly as po a f t so fi n r ed first his s m fa o m ur i e ly d that and destroyed his own life. Th e y were l e d t o thi s con lythe someun con clusion from the fact of his long absence from home, and his sudden return so short a time before the tragedy oc curred. It, however, appears that about four months since, from some neglect of duty whilst in the police, be thought it better to resign, and he accordingly sent in his clothes with his resignation. It further appears that whilst in the force he had contracted several small debts, and being out of employment and unable to discharge them, he kept away from home, only occasionally going to see his wife and family, and that by night when he thought he should not be observed by his neighbours. On the forenoon of Sunday last, whilst the pudding was being prepared, he was engaged in his garden fixing up for his wife drying poles. The occupier of the adjoin ,eaceialinner v d os e aw a n do r , o r e f ' n sc o p l ra nd the a pfourrepmos: oc chosen, i s n e q n us t r h i ne they adjoin ing house is positive that from ten o'clock until past one forenoon, Mr. Wakle) o'clock Hickman never left the garden; he, therefore, could not have had any hand in placing the poison in e o c ck tab o l n e jTurtlyeantatyat the Portobello Amis.' the pudding. Since his death a post mortal! examina tion of his body, and also that of his son James, has been made. Porto_ the cir cumstances connected with the respective deaths of Thomas Hickman and his five children. The • proceeded to jury hav ing cottage to view the bodies. IC i e . Arn been A more appalling scene has rarely been witnessed; in the front her wa s the elder deceased, and by his side th e five other bodies were lying. The jury having returned to the inquest-room, the Coroner was informed that two only of the bodies had been opened; that the sister of Mrs. Hickman and the other boy were rapidly recovering, and possibly Mrs. Hickman herself might get th e b etter of the poison in a few days. The CORONER then informed the jury that he should not at that period go into the case, but should adjourn the inquest to a future day; and, in the meantime, the bodies of the other children would be opened, and pos sib!y by that time the two women would be in a fit state to give evidence. At the pres.ent tim e he was quite sure that they would not be able to get anything like saris factory testimony, for they appeared to be the only parties likely to throw any ligh t upon the affair. The inquest was accordingly adjourned. 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CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their resi dence, No. 7, FRITH-STREET, 80 'lO-SQUARE, LONDON, and Patients can have this work priyatelylorwarded them, by initial or otherwise, to any part of the United Kingdom, direct from the Author's Residence, or from any of the above agents, on remitting 2s. 6d. in postage stamps. THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT CHESTER CHESTER, MONDAY MORNING.—Since our last report a strict inquiry has been instituted by Captain Sim mons, the Government Inspector• General of Railways, into the circumstances attending the falling of the bridge, and the shocking catastrophe that followed. The gallant officer was assi,ted by Mr. Robert Stephenson, the engineer of the Chester and and Holyhead Rail way, who planned the bridge ; Captain C. W. A. Moorsom ; Mr. Lee, the resident engineer ; Mr. W. R. Collett, M.P., the chairman ; Mr. King, the Secretary ; Mr. Ty roll, the solicitor ; and several of the directors. The first obj.cts that came under inspection were the girder that had given way, and the masonry of the piers and abutments. The bridge across the river by the race-course or Roode, its length being about three hundred feet, supported by two stone piers in the centre of the stream, and nearly thirty feet in height at low water. The abutments were built upon piles of great strength, and the piers were formed•on hard blue clay, a coffer-dam having previously bean made. The iron girders that support the permanent way . are ninety eight feet long, each consisting of three pieces, having vertical flanges with bolts at the joists, and otherwise strongly secured. There are many bridges of a t, m tlar description on the Treat Valley, Blackwall, Great Western, and other railways. The masonry was minutely examined, and, from the observations that fell from Captain Simmons, it is in terred that, in hi s r e p or t t o t h e B oar d o f T ra d e o f t h e disaster, he will n o t a tt ri b u t e t h e acc id ent to i ts defec tive state, or state that the girder broke down from any undulatory motion produced by the passing trains. Toe girder that gave wa y, th e outsi a one of the. down line, underwent a strict scrutiny. It was in three parts .he portion th a t h a d reste d on t h e S a l teney or Welsn . side of the Dee, was torn from the masonry of the abutment, and was lying partly in the mud and water, buried by the falling stones and rails, &c., while about 50 feet of the remainder was still hanging from the masonry of the pier buttress. The fractures w , re in the sound metal, and exhibited no appearances of having originated from any flaw or defect in the casting. One or the fractures, it was considered, caused the bridge to give way, and the other one was produced by the metal falling on the cround, or some heavy substance striking it in its descent. In other respects the girder was quite sound. Clayton, the driver of the engine attached to the train, who hai so extraordinary an escape, made the same statemant as he , !id before the Coroner, and persisted in his °rig:nal story, that the speed of the train in passing over the bridge did not exceed 20 miles an hour. Mr. Robert Stephenson expressed an opinion, not pub licly announced, that the train was travelling faster than had been stated, and that the tender by some means got off the rails, and on passing over the bridge struck the girder a lateral blow ;.‘nd fractured it. This, we believe, was the general opinion amongst the many engineers and scientific gentlemen who were present. • The Rev. Arthur Rig-g, the P r incipal of Chester Training College, has given a totally different opinion as to the cause of the calamity. He says there are three causes for the accident; Ist, the defect in the ma• sonry; 21), the peculiar vibration, brought about by ac cidental circumstances; the bridge, although not a sus- pension bridge, was a structure that would vibrate - in three ways—vertically, horizontally, and also with a slight and almost inappreciable longitudinal motion; 3d, the horiz.mtal vibrations from the centrifugal force of the train passing over. Major Thomas Congreve R.A., stationed at Chester, believed the accident arose from the breaking of the girder, and not from the giving way of the ma soi;ry. The board of directors have come to the conclusion that no precaution or engineering skill could have ary this morning, we were g u ti ard p( e ) n d n ga qu ts y t t a he tti a l c e c i i d n e fi n r t. m informed that the condition of several of the survivors was very unfavourable. I; EVIE ` V OF I BOOPS. -1 t cted that the Grand Duke Constantine will visit Woolwich previous to his depar ture front this; country, and that the Royal Horse Artillery and field liatieries will be reviewed in his presence. A re view of the household troops will also, it is understood, come oil' in Hyde Park, JUNE 3, 1847. REPRESENTATION OF WEST MINSTER. On Tuesday a meeting of the electors of St. James's parish was held at Willis's Rooms, Brewer-street, Go!- den-square, for the purpose of hearing the political sen timents of Charles Lushington, Esq. Wm. GEEsIN, Esq., one of the churchwardens, occu pied the chair, who, before introducing Mr. Lushington to the meeting, stated that it bad been spread abroad that the Westminster Reform Association was a clique. This would lead a stranger to believe that it consisted of halt a dozen members, who met in some back parlour; but it consisted of 300 very influential, highly respect able inhabitants, and of some of the first working men, ,in Westminster. It was established to protect the eke tive franchise of the inhabitants of Westminster, and for promoting, not dictating, the election of two Reformers to represent the city in Parliament ; also for the promo tion of vote by ballot, househo!d suffrage, that each constituency should consist of 5,000 voters, the repeal of the 27 Eh clause of the Reform Act (the rate-paying clause). triennial Pat liaments, a more extensive application of the funds of the municipal institutions of this country and of Its land, repeal of the window duty—(the Chairman called it by its proper nate e, a tax upon the light of heaven) . --(Cheers)---the repeal of the corn-laws, the abolition of all pensions not merited by known publi , i services, the removal of taxes wbieh impeded the advancement of knowledge among the people, but particularly the repel of the stamp duty upon newspapers, and the more gene ral expenditure of the funds left for the 'purposes of education. This showed that the society was not a clique, and that it had been established to promote the welfare of the city, and therefore he was proud to be long to it. It had accomplished the greatest good in that parish. Now Mr. Cochrane was a man of assertion, and boasted of the great things which he would accom plish when he was admitted within its walls. Cha rity was one of the greatest blessings under heaven, but he did not consider that the giving of donations of 51. or 10/. to the Foresters, Odd Fellows, and Cogers—(Laughter)—for the purpose of promoting his election, - was &achy., .Then what, had he done? Where was he during the repeal of the corn laws?—(Hear, hear.) He (the Chairman) was an old corn-law repealer, but he had never heard of Mr. Cochrane, and were they, in 1847, to take the first per son who offered himself, and of whom they knew no thing? Mr. Lushington had a committee of three hun dred gentlemen of great influence in Westminster, but he had not seen - any list published by Mr. Cochrane. He hoped St. James's would act as they had done on former occasions, and elect a man of sterling worth like Mr. Lushington—(Cheers)---who had been tried, and whose votes were recorded the right way.—(Cheers.) Any candidate proposed by the Reform Association was objected to on the ground that Mr. Leader had not proved a very acceptable candidate.; but Mr. Leader approved and pledged himself to support the sentiments of the as sociation, and he at first did his work well. They could not drive him to the House of Commons, neither could they drive Mr. Cochrane if he felt disinclined ; but all Mr. Leader's votes were recorded the right way— (Hear)—and when they found him getting idle they looked out for another candidate better qualified to supply his place, and they fixed upon Mr. Lushington as that person. He concluded by introducing Mr. Lushington to the meeting. Mr. LUSIIINGTON then presented himself, and was received with loud cheers. After adverting to his first introduction to the parish, when he was soicited to be come a candidate. he proceeded to say that when an in dividual, who had played a humble part on the Parlia mentary stage, which he did, retired from public life, and after a lapse of five years emerged from his retire ment, it was necessary for him to remind those whose support he sought of the course which he pursued when he took a part in political life. He was in Parliament from 1835 to 1841, and among the measures which he supported during that period were to be found those which had for their object civil and religious liberty.— (Cheers.) Over and over again he voted for the ballot, for the extension of the suffrage, for an abridgement of the duration of Parliament, and for the abolition of the property qualification of Members of Parliament. He always voted for the abo lition of the corn-laws long before he thought of standing for Westminster—(Cheers)—and also for free trade in all its excellence.—(Hear, hear.) Did he not also bring forward two substantive motions for Church reform, and did he not propoie that the translation of bishops should be altogether abolished ?—(Cheers)—and did he not also propose to the House, in spite of taunts and jeers, that it was unfit and unscriptural that the bishops should hold seats in Parliament?—(Loud cheers.) He only got about ninety Members to vote with him. He was still of the same opinion, but he feared that that great mea sure was still further distant, because the present Go vernment were opposed to an alteration, and were, therefore, not to be shaken.—(hear, hear.) Education was not mooted much in those days, but he used to vote for grants to the national schools and to the Borough school. It was quite understood that that freedom of religious opinion should be untouched, but latterly be found, in consequence of the superior riches of the Church of England, that nine parts out of ten of those grants used to go to the Church, consequently great in justice was done to the Dissenters, who, although they were taxed the same, got but one part out of ten t f the grants, the remainder being devoted to a mode of reli gious worship to which they were opposed.—(Hear, hear.) He twice gave notice that he should propose an alteration, but the session broke up and it was not further mooted. Then he proposed that the payment of 21,0001. a year to the King of Hanover, to whose cha racter he would not allude, should be discontinued be cause it was a payment of the most unjust de.scription. —(Laughter.) The efflux of time since the passing of the Reform Bill, and the events which had occurred affecting it operation—the diffusion of knowledge amongst the people—in short, the whole spirit of the times forced upon them the conviction that the stagnant pool of finality must be disturbed and agitated—(Loud cheers)—and that a free course must be opened to a purer stream of improvement.—(Hear, hear.) The glaring abuses of which they all now com plained must be redressed. They might expect the introduction of many salutary measures into the next session of Parliament. His opinions were—first, that the Government scheme of education must he greatly modified—(Hear) —it was unjust, because the members of the Privy Council, who were entrusted with the funds, were members of the Church of England, and the Dissenters thus had no share whatever in the go vernment of the funds ; but he considered that they should be associated with that board. (Cheers.) Secondly, he thought that provision pernicious which provided that where there was a Church of England school, and no Dissenters' school, that it should be in the option of the clergyman or schoolmaster to dispense with requiring the creed or catechism to be used, or whether the children should not be required to attend the church. It should not he left to the option of the clergyman, but it should be imperative upon him, provided the parents of the child required such a modification. He was also in favour of more direct taxation, and ap proved of the motion recently brought forward by Mr. Ewart. Every man of humacity must wish to see sana tory measures carried out, with justice, however, at the same time, to claims and rights— He generally approved of Lord Morpeth's Health o Towns Bill, and was glad to find that that portion which had reference to the metropolis (and some of the dis tricts were carefully organized and managed with great propriety) was to be reconsidered. He was in favour of the abolition of the window-tax, which was connected with sanatory improvement.—(dear.) That really was an impost which, without making a pun, bad interfered much with the enlightenment of the nation.—(Cheers.) The existing poor-law required very great modification, as several of its provisions bore harshly on the poorer classes, and he trusted that something would shortly be done in Parliament calculated to satisfy the poor that they were considered more than they at present seemed to be, and rendered more contented. as far as possible, with their painful lot. The separation of a man and his wife was most objectionable—(flear)—and out door relief ought to be extended in certain circumstances, but at the same -time a poor-law must be carefully considered and cautiously administered, otherwise the money which would be expended foi the relief of the poor would swallow up the finances of the nation.— (Cheers.) He looked upon his past conduct with consi derable satisfaction, because he did not repent of any vote which he had recorded.—(Cheers.) His opinions had undergone no change since he was in Parliament; he felt more than ever their propriety and their justice. —(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman resumed his seat after expressing his willingness to reply to any Mr. BIDGOOD inquired whether the Hon. Gentleman was opposed to the endowment of the clergy, not only of the Church of England, but of other denominations? Mr. LUSHINOTON had no hesitation in saying that he was totally opposed to the endowment any religion whatever.—(Cheers.) For several years he was chair man of the Religious Freedom Society, and the burden of his song had always been " religious freedom to every man, and no endowment whatever." He did not say he would pull down the Church of England, he was no destructive; but he thought it would be much better if it were uphld on the voluntary principle.—(Cheers.) Mr. THOMAS A'BFc&ETT then proposed the adoption of the following resolution:— " That the political opinions and well-known charac ter of Charles Lushington, Esq., are fully approved of and highly appreciate d by this meeting, an -I we, the electors of St. James's, hereby pledge ourselves to use our best exertions to secure his return." He considered that they ought to elect a roan whose opinions were well known, whose vo:es were always on the side of freedom, and who did not repeat political truisms like a parrot.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Lushington was a tried man—a man of character; but Mr. Coch rane had placed on record a memorable proof how ex cellent he was in the art of deception—(Loud cheers) — and therefore he was unworthy of their support. — (Hear, hear.) Mr. Cochrane was, as he had said, not a tried man—(A voice—" Perhaps we'll try him")—and he considered that in the present state of things a tried man was the person they required to represent them. Mr. HENRY BIDOOOD cordially seconded the motion. He said next session large sums of money would no doubt be proposed for the purpose of endowing different religious stets, and the conduct of Mr. Lushington had shown that he was a fit man to represent their opinion!, on the subject of such grants. 24r, apgauf said the rum whom they should elect to PRICE SD. represent Westminster in Parliament should be a man of high, character, or consihrable experience, and not a mere adventurer—(Cheers) —a man of high moral cha racter, and not one who wished to build his fame by fair promises to the industrious classes, which they would find be would ultimately break. He regretted to find that there was to be a hard-fought contest between can didates who professed nearly the same opinions ; but as Westminster had heretofore led the political opinions of the country, he doubted not but at the ensuing electicu she would not be found wanting. The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which was carried with but two dissentients. Mr. LUSIIINGTON briefly returned thanks, and assured them that if he were eltcted ha should dist.!hrge his duties with the greatest assiduity. Ile then proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was carried unanimously, and, the Chairman having returned thanks, the meting broke up. SUDDEN DEATH. OF DR. CHALMERS. (From the .Edinburgh Advertiser.) A very great sensation was created yesterday through out the city; by the intelligence of the sudden death of Dr. Chalmers. That venerable and distinguished divine had been seen so recently in his usual health, that the report•of his having so suddenly expired came like a shock which seemed to electrify the public feeling. It was generally felt that an eminent character, a renowned Master in Israel, had been cut off;—that a champion had fallen; whose name for the last thirty years had filled so prominent a space in our ecclesiastical annals. The particulars of this event, so far as we learn, are the fol lowing:—The Rev. Doctor had been called to London to give evidence before the Site Committee of the House of Commons, and lied returned on Friday last to his own residence at Morningside near Edinburgh, apparently in his ordinary health. On Sunday, though complaining a little, he attended the Free Church at Morningside in the afternoon, in company with Dr. Cunningham, and walked with his friend part of the way home. He called upon.a lady afterwards, and dined with his family as usual. In the evening he walked fur a short time in his garden with another minister from the country, and conversed with his accustomed cheerfulness and anima tion. Before going to bed he wrote a letter to his sister in England, intimating his•safe arrival from London, and remarking that such was now the celerity of travelling, that though he scarcely expected to have the pleasure of seeing her, he might have the pleasure of seeing her, again. Business elsewhere had prevented him from taking any share in the proceedings of the Free Assembly, and in deed he had of late almost retired from his public labours, with the exception of preaching. But he had intended yesterday to have presented the report of the College Committee to the Assembly which had been drawn up by Professors Cunningham and M'Dougail. Being desirous to see the latter gentleman, with the view of making some slight alteration in the report, Mr. M.Dougall called upon him for that purpose about eight o'clock yesterday morning, but was informed that Dr. Chalmers was in bed, and had not rung his bell. Being beyond his usual time, the servant then proceeded to see if anything was wrong ; and, on entering the room, she perceived the Doctor in a reclining position in bed, dead, and the body quite cold, indicating that life had been some time extinct. The immediate cause of his demise is said to have been apoplexy, or the bursting of a blood vessel in the head. Dr. Chalmers was not an old man, nor bad he suffered much, notwithstanding the tear and wear of a busy lite, from the infirmities of age. He was in his sixty-ninth or seventieth year, and had been in the ministry about forty- five years. Towards the beginning of the century (1802) he was assistant in the parish of Cavers, near Hawick. Afterwards, he was presented to Kilmany in Fife, and this rural parish became the cradle of his future fame; for it was whilst incumbent there that he wrote his celebrated article " Christianity," in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, which was afterwards expanded into his Treatise on the Evidences. From Kilmany he removed to Glasgow, where his eloquence as a preacher reached the zenith of its fame. The next remove was to the Chair of Moral Philosophy in . the University of St. t o theAn fdersesw's o rs , h i i n 1823; and a r tiyn in n B2B h e the • as University appointed of Edinburgh, Pro iu t urg h which he continued to occupy until the secession of 1843. In that memorable secession he took a leading part, and we believe we are correct in saying that it derived no small portion of its influence from the weight and lustre of his name. Short time has he survived to witness its progress and effects. If his living eloquence gave it vi tality and energy, his loss may well be regarded as one of its severest calamities. Peace be to his ashes ! Many who, like ourselves, diflered from him in the re ligious controversies of the day, will join his warmest admirers in offering their homage of respect and vene ration to his memory. . RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JUNE 1. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sa!es are—Great Western, Quarters, 6 p.—Ditto, Fittho, 7 1 ,4 p.—Ditto, New, 41. 35. 9d. p.—Midlaud, New, 3 p.—Newcastle and Berwick, Nov, 21. Bs. 9d.—North Staffordshire, 2 1 A p.—Taff Vale, 139 Ditto, New, 2s. 6d. p. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 1. STOCK EXCITANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting ham, Boston, and Eastern Junction, 21s. 3d. dis.—Birming , ham and Oxford Junction. 6 p.—Blackburn, Clitheroe. &c., Preference, 1 4p p.—Caledonian (Clydesdale Junction), 12 p.—Chester and Birkenhead, 49 , 4—Dittn, 204 Shares, 1 3 4 dis.—East Lancashire, New, ih die.—Ditto, New Scrip, Dar—East Lincolnshire, 176 p.—Great Northern, 1. 1 ,1, dis.— treat Western, Fifths, 27—Leeds and Thirsk, New, 3 dis. —Ditto, Preference, 6s. 3d. p.—Liverpool. Crosby, and South port, 1% p.—London and North-Western, 177—Ditto, New Quarters, 10:4 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 14 3 4 p.—London, Brighton, and South Coast, 54—Manchester and Leeds, 21 32/. Shares, p.—Ditto, ilalves, (late L. and B. ), 1 1 4 p. —Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), 1 4 p.—Manches ter Sheffield, and Lincolnshir e , Ei g hth s , 1 5 ,4 dis.—Ditto, 201. Shares, 2 1 / 2 dis.—Ditto (late Sheffield and 'Lincolnshire), 3 dis.—Midland Stock, 120—Ditto, CV. Shares, 4% p.— Ditto, New, 3 p.—Newcastle and Berwick, New, 2 1 4 p.— North Staffordshire, 2% p.—North Union (A), 209—North- Western, 1 1 4 dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmilighain,9/. 12s. 3d. Shares (B), % dis.—Shropshire Union• Railway and Canal, 31s. 3d. dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, New, No. 1, p. —Ditto, Consolidated Thirds, 1 ,4 p.—Ditto, New, No. 4, t. p. —York and Newcastle, Preference, 3 1 4 p.—York and North Midland, Preference, 9 p.—Dublin and Belfast Junction, 12 dis.—Newry and Warrenpint, dis.—Dutch Rhenish, 2 3 A dis. - MANCHESTER, JUNE 1. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 13-16—Birk,nhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 1% c. dis.—Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 6X p.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., 2 dis.—Ditto, Preferentials, 15 p.—Eastern Counties York Extension, dis.—East Lancashire, New, % dis.—Ditto, New (scrip), % dis.—Fleet wood, Preston. and West Riding Junction, 1 3-16 dis.—Hadderslield and Manchester Railway and anal, : 3 / 4 p.—Ditto, Thirds, t% p.—Leeds and ThirA, Preferentials, 5 16 p.—Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 1 p.—Ditto, Branches, Halves, 34 p.—London and North-Western, New, 11 p.—Ditto (Manchester and Birmingham), 68 3 4—Ditto, Quarters (B), 11-16 p.—Ditto (C), 5 7 / s p.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 1 4 3 dis.—Manchester and Leed., 321. Shares (late Extension), 1 4 p.—Ditto, Six teenths, 7 13-16 p.—Ditto, Fifths (W. R. IL), p.—Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, l% dis.—Ditto, Grimsby, 201. Shares, 2% dis.—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincoln shire), 2 . 5, dis.—Manchester and Southampton, 30s. dis.— North British, Extension, p.—North Staffordshire, 2 a c. p.—North-Western, dis.—Oldham Alliance, 1,4 dis.— Preston andWyre, Halves (A),3% p.—Rovston and Hitchin, 7 p.—Shropshire Union, 9 -16 dis.—South-Lastern and Dover, 374—Ditto, No. 1, p.—Ditto, No. 4, par—South Stafford shire, ss dis. LEEDS, JUNE 1. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 1% dis. —Eastern Counties, York Exten sion, 16s. 3d. dis.—East Lancashire, New, 9s. dis.—Ditto, New (scrip), ls. dis.—Last and West Yorkshire, l.ss. dis.— Great Northern, 31s. 6d. dis.—Ditto, Extensions, 16s. dis. —Huddersfield and Manchester, 153. p.—Leeds and Dews bury, 1 1 4 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 4 dis.—Ditto. New, 3% dis.—Ditto' Preference, 43. p.—Halton and Dritlield Junc tion, 2s. 6(1. dis.—Manchester and Leeds, Halves (late Hod. and Slieff.), 17s. 6d. p.—Ditto, West Riding Union, 2s. p. —Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 2s. 6d. dis. —Midland, Preference, 3 p.—Newcastle and Berwick, New, 2/. 4s. p.—North British, Thirds, 1% p.—Ditto, Quarters, 28s. Exten,ion, 3s. 6d. p.—North Staffordshire, 2 1 ,4 2 p. —Northern Counties Union, Ms. dis. —North-Western, 265. 6d. dis.—Wharfdale Junction, 20s. dis.—York and New castle, New, 5V 2 p. SHEFFIELD, JUNI 1. STOCK ExCHANGE.--The sales are—Ambergate, Notting. ham, and Boston, 1 dis.—Great Northern, 1% dis.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 1 1 % p.—Manchester and Lincoln Union, 28s. dis.—Manchester and Leeds (West Riding Union), Ai p. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 2% p. —Ditto (Grimsby and Sheffield), 20/. Shares, 50s. 6d. dis.—Ditto, 121. 10s. Shares, 295. dis—Ditto, Docks, 4 dis.—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincoln), 2% dis.—North British, Extension (scrip), p.—North-Western, 18s. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Mid land, 1 dis. HULL, JUNE 1. STOCK Excussam—The sales are_Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 325. 6d.—Blackburn, Clithero, &c., Prefer ence, 1 1 / 2 p.—Great Northern, 453.—Malton and Driffield Junction, par—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, dis.—Manchester and Leeds (West Riding Union), ss. 6d. p.—Newcastle and Berwick, New, V. 9s. p.—North Bri tish, Halves, 15:y 4 —Ditto, Quarters, 915.—Ditto, Extension (scrip), 4s. 6d. p.—Ditto, Thirds (scrip), b 7 s. —North Staf fordshire, 21. 16s. cash—North-Western, 21s. dis. GLASGOW, MAY 31. C um ale b d a o r n to i n an i , ii 2 re 9 3 / 438 ; Ditto, New, 465. 6d.— a —Clydesdale Junction, 424—Direct Bombay and Madras, STOCK EXCHANGE.ft ed e 6d.— Caledon ian s alesla n andaare—Caledonian, e — D —Edinburgh . and Perth c)s6ll.—Dundee and Perth, Quarters,. 64s.—Last of Fife, 3 - 5 . Q —East Lothian Central, 40s. 35s.—Glasgow, Barrhead, and Nedston Direct, ( 16 N ;. e. — w G C la e s . g ), ow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 11 7 1 ,!—Ditto 411. Ditto, lialves, No. I, 94—Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 71.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, hi 11s.—Great North of Scotland, 40s.—Great Northern, 52s.—Ditto, Lond on and Y ork Eaten: sion, 375. 6d.—Alanchebter and Southampton, Ws. 9d.—Mid land, .10—Ditto, Halve, B%—North British, Thirds, 588. —Ditto, New Quarters ( scr ip), 198.—Paisley, Barrhead, and . Hurlet, 525. 6d.—SeottiBh Central, 241 .—Stirling and Dun fermline, 5/.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 71h. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT PRESTON.^—on Saturday night last the mill belonging to .alr. Bashall, at Preston, was found to be on fire, and notwithstanding all the efforts of . the firemen, who were quickly on the spot, the flames obtained so complet e l y the posessiu u n of the premises tili!t, it was tim possible to subdue them, and the whole mid, which ci . .nsis ciol t of four stories, was reduced to a mass of blackened ruins. It required ;orn required the utmost exertions to a late hour on Sunda}' had .ng to preserve the adjoining property. S fi ' r o e pp ett ecl un w o o t r b k e in a g ev s m om nt e ed da t 3 o - r s . Iy h i e ou h : s l 8 0004 to 50004 biat 1,11, building was Waurog estimated at from 3;:waasiid the , origin of the (Fro he Mark Expfels;)r r One of those sudden chef which under pkuliar, circumstances are not inrrei_nt in the grain trade bas taken place. Up to the commencement of May the spring was cold and ungenial ; and as the autumn sown crops were supposed to have been previously more or less injured by the extreme severity of the _winter. the most gloomy forebcdings respecting the probable result of the next harvest were entertained. The uneasiness on this score was greatly heightened by the exhatisted state of the stocks in granary, by the belief that, the quantity i n t h e h an d s of the growers was likewise very short, and by the daily exports on an extensive scale from th;s Country to France and other continental sfates. There was, cons, quen:ly, nothing extraordinary in, the rapid rye which occurred in prices ; indeed, for several weeks in succession 0 e supplies proved inadequate to meet the home and foreign demand, and holders were enabled to ob , ain almost any price they chose to,ask. At first the benefi, irl charg e w hi c h tot k p l ace i n the weather produced littl e er no effect, but 'the wonderful improvement which w as gradually being worked in the growing crops aeon began to Operate, and in districts where sc rcely any cor n was befere supposed t o b e l e ft the supplies increased, at the sa me t i me arrivals from the Baltic began to drop in at several of th e p r i nc i pa l maritime ports, whilst buyers contracted th e i r operat i ons in proportion as sellers manifested anxiety to realize, until business has come to a complet e stand. Having arrived at this point,it may perhaps not be arnis's to examine a little into the real state of the ease, an d en deavour to ascertain in how far our pos i tion is act ua ll y changed for the better. The chief, if not the only alteration is our favour, appears to us to be, that the harvest, which threatened to be a very late one, m a y now be reasonably calculated to com mence as early as in average years, whilst there is nothing about the aspect of the crops to give rise to any immense point gained, as fear as to the probabl e yield. This is certainly an we are likely to have the new crop rescly, for consump tion three weeks earlier than was supposed wou ld be the case, which will m a k e a g r e at dilievence in the quantity required to be imported. The cessation of exportation to the continent has, besides, done away with an extra drain on our stock ; and the reaction in price thus far appears, therefore, warranted by circumstances. There is, however, SJIIIO clanger A thol the fall may continue too long. We say danger. for in that case the dem an d f rom fore i gn countries wealthtro bably revive ; and if prices here were, to recede below the level of the continental countries whereecarcitypre-_ vails, a portion of the supply originally intended. for Great Britain would he sure to be diverted from us to those states, which might prove a s.rious inconvenience, in case anything untoward should occur to render the liarveit less favourable than is now expected. The fall in the value of wheat from the high, st point, taking one market with the other, cannot be estimated at less than 15s. per quarter up to this time (Saturday, 29th of May); and there is every appearance of prices going considerably lower ; but when once the lowest point shall have beeu reachA we are likely to have an ex tensive demand. The millers, dvalPrs, and bakers are working up their stocks without making any purchases; and this they will probably continue to do so long as they have anything left. So soon, however, as 'they have exhausted what they have on hand they must again come into the markets ; by that time sellers will probably have recovered some degree of confidence ; and it in the interval the weather should become at all doubtful, a portion of the decline would speedily be re covered. Prices of all kinds of spring corn and pulse have been affected by the reduction which has taken Place in wheat ; and this will, to a certain extent, con tinue to he the case se lorg as the latter article recedes. The advices from Scotia d do not speak so favourably of the weather as might have been expected ; but in. Ireland plentiful showers, with a high temperature; ap pear to have been exp tie need, under the influence of which the crops have been breed rapidly forward. The arrivals of wheat coastwise into London have not been large this week, the total quantity received up to this (Saturday) evening amounted to only 3,475 quar ters, which, compared w i t h t h e supply of the preceding week, shows a falling off. The display at Dlark-lane by land-carriage samples from the home counties has also been moderate ; the town millers having, however, come to the &termination of not buying whilst they have any stocks, the trade has been miserably dull, with a decided downward tendency in prices. On Wednea day scarcely a bargain was closed, in which position of affairs it became almost impossible to quote prices ; but had purchasers come forward they might have bought at 2s. to 3s. per quarter lower. On Friday it would have been necessary to have made a further concession of 2s. to 3s. per quarter to have effected sales, and this factor* were not indisposed to do ; but so averse were the millers to act, that hardly a transaction took place. Of foreign wheat we have again to report a fair ar rival, viz., 20,952 quarters ; and a portion of the pre viously received supply having remained unsold, there is now rather a large quantity at this port on board ship. Idiporters are naturally anxious to avoid incurring landing expenses, if possible, and have consequently manifested some anxiety to realise; but the country de mand having suddenly ceased, it has become impossible to sell largely, even at considerably reduced rates. In ' this state of affairs a part, if not the whole, of what has lately been received will have to he taken to granary, and e hen this has once been done there is likely to be less pressure on the market. After our last Monday's report was written, the town millers de.ermined to lower the top price of fleur from RSA. to 80s. per sack. trill they Lave been freely offering their best marks this we - l; at the latter rate without being enabled to induce the bakers to buy. Ship samples have also he en very difficult of disposal, and Notfelk hnuseholds have in many cases been offered ss. to 6s. per seek below the extreme rates of the preceding wetk. American flour has been wholly neglected ; and the de e:ine in the price of the latter has been fully as great as on that of home manufacture. Th e quantity of English barley brought forward has n small, and the receipt. from abroao only Int dera te. The reduction in wheat and flour has, however, hnd the efiri , ct of sening• the inquiry for all other kinds of crain, and barley has not failed to feel the influence. The trifling f - usini-ss done has been at terms decidedly b.•1,,w those of Monday lai,t; and the difficulty experi enced in making sales was greater at the close than earli.r in the vteek. The operations in malt have been on a strictly retail scale, and the turn has been greatly in favour of the purchaser. The mark , ts hive bsen very sparingly supplied with oats of home growth: 'tom our own coast only 381 quarters, from Scotland 830 quarters, and from Ireland 1,244 quarters, saying to hand. Having, how. ever, received 21,335 quarters from abroad, no scarcity has been experienced. Neither on Wednesday nor Friday were nny purchases of importance made by buyer! from the country, and the local demand being very restricted the trade eas languid in the extreme. Undfx these circumstances accurate quotations cannot be given, for whilst needy buy, rs hail to pay nearly former rat, s for the small quantity they required, it is certain that prices ls per quarter lower must. have been taken to have sold largely. ✓ Beam and pea&- have met with very little attention ; and with trifling stocks and :mall supplies the value of these articles has tenth d downwards. The inquiry for Indian corn has fallen off very consi derably; and though stllers have manifested a disP 0... sition to meet bit% ers by taking less . - noney, they - have been unable to make much progress. The eff , ct of toe late destine in the value of wheat in the British roark , t , , on quotations on the continent can, of course, not as yet be known; but the general tone of the advices from the near ports is somewhat subdued in eitusequence of a similar alteration in the weather to that experienced h:.re. At Dan'zic, however, prices were apparently still on the advance on the 22d inst. The supplies down the Vistula had been small, and a good many orders having been receiaed to buy, high mixed wheat, of 621 b. weight per bushel, bad realised equal to 85s. 6d. p, r quarter, showing a rise on the rites of that day se'oni4ht of about Ss. per quarter. ihmealite-ids,tuamla,ouennd, to o L a o b w o - e u r t At hen gsb, rg, on the 22d in..t., business was quite at Poland together trqii'tvg:elrishreerf::"biny woul d, t t h l e l e nd t B"au sg of e, 5 .7 u n e. a stand for want of sup' I es, al d very high prices were asked for the trifling stocks it, granary. From Rostock we have no advices this week; but a s letter from Stettin of the 24th o f M ay informs utha t holders of wheat were th en as ki ng equal to 90sp e r y quarter, free on board, for qua li t i es weigh i ng only 591 b. per bushel. Rye had b een, an d st ill continued, in great request for the interior, and prices corresponding'with 725. per quarter had been paid for the article. The i transactions in wheat had not been of much importance, owing, in the first place, to the scanty nature of the stock, and, further, to the extreme high price asked. The weather had been cold for the season; still there were no complaints of the appearance of the growing crops. the dull English accounts, bu t r h g e h m m e u r c h h et le h s y s effect appears to have been. the continued demand from the interior having given on complete exhaustion of the stocks on the spot and had been further increased by the news from Sweden, ptherAdall confidence ead m to the sellers. The firmness of the latter of fhe a l l k i nds e,, o d e terminedtitt wheat.to prohibitßeyen acted with much cauion ; but their iressing 945. to 953. per quarter bad been occurred in n i o n very quotations,na arked whts paid htaaa edntit e" for'ls generally e' thatlrn wheat tg wheat trade was quiet, a A lt t er r at a i r o i n s, ap pearsond barley , ecln Thursday, n t e i to' . e nFhrat h oehv e naeect accounts uun t s from Havre are, buteratheiemre fla w : lu cha racter; and the only thing worthy of notice in the intel ligence from the latter place . is, June, there were . still buyers of flour, for delivery which would app ear to indicate luthautne spublice,ea at opinion prices, tinued in favour o f a r i se during the m er p me m e n th c e. on- At Marseilles, on the 21st of May, holders of wheat were rather anxious to realize. Polish Odessa on the spot was worth only 635. per quarter, and for delivery iu June 58s. per quarter. From Leghorn our advices are of the 19th of May the wheat trade was then decidedly dull, and Egyptiar s was obtainable at about 365. to 375. per quarter. "Mr s .. rianopoli and other good qualities, on the spot, were lie Id at equal to 645. to 68s. per quarter free on board; t out ' there were s• Hers for June delivery at 59s . to GO b., or f or delivery in July at 565. to 586. p:r quarter. RE-APPEARANCH OF THE POTATO Saturday,DlSEASt.-- statem en t fro rece ra n o t a ly r ill nl n the n in the Carlon, Sentinel with regard to the re-ap pearance of the potato disease in that county. The discovery We hav c e o r rres vc6 p is O e n d de a nt, let co te n r firl . of - it at so early a period, when we were to be visited by such an affiiction, is regarded as fortunate by our cc rrespondest,, w i l l begs of as to im:sr -ss upon the public the advisa bility of sowing beet-r.,ot and turnips in lieu of potatoes wherever the disease shows itself. The appearance of the p G u a h r l ie is w hed other crops, particularly wheat, and the breadth of land sown under them. are st oken of as she most encouraging ever wit ues3ed,--publin Pilot. , 1 any He Oing still r ex a bo ,~. +.,~, ~'