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MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, at the BAZAAR, Baker-street. —A full length Model of-the Hero, general HAVELOCK, is now added ; also to the separate chamber, NANA SA "'LB.—Admission, Is. ; extra rooms, 6d. Open from Eleven till dusk ; And from Seven till Ten. LUCKNOW and DELHI.—GREAT GLOBE, I.A Leicester-square.—DIORAMA of LUCKNOW and the SIEGE and CITY of DELHI ; its Streets, Palaces, and Fortitlcations—at I, 3, and? p.m. INDIA, A DIORAMA. of the CITIES e, with Views of Calcutta, Benarcs, Agra, and the Scenes of the Revolt, at 12 noon and 6 p,m. The RUSSIAN DIORAMA at 3. and 8 o'clock. Illustrative Lectures. Admission to the whole building, is. CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, POLYGRAPHIC• HALL, King-William-street, Strand. THE ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIFTH ENTER TAINMENT. Seventh week of the JULLIEN BURLESQUE, received nightly With shouts of laughter. Doors open at half-past 7, commence at R. Stalls, 35.; area,' 2s. ; amphitheatre, ls.; Private Boxes, 1/. Is. 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KAHN'S MUSEUM AND GALLERY OF SCIENCE, 3, Tichborne•street, facing the Haymarket. This Institution presents entirely now features and offers unpre cedented attractions. Its object will be to combine Natural with EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE, and to show the connection be tween the functions of the Human Body and the great Forces of the Universe. Amongst the numerous novelties now added, may be named the large Oxyhydrogen Microscope, GUENAL'S AP PAREIL URANOGRAPHIQUE (now first introduced). The latest improvements in Electric and other Apparatus (including RUHM XORFF'S WORLD-RENOWNED COIL), Illustrations of Micro scopic Anatomy, Dissolving Views of Physiological Phenomena, upon a principle never before attempted, &c. Lectures are delivered daily on the various branches of Science, and their application to the Human Frame, the Laws of Life, and the Preservation of Health, by Dr. Kahn and Dr. Sexton. The Institution is illuminated outside With DU BOSQUE'S MAGNIFICENT ELECTRIC LIGHT. Open (for Gentlemen only) from 12 till 5, and from 7 till I() o'clock. Admission to the whole Building, One Shilling. Illustrated Cata logues, Sixpence. Programmes and Lectures gratis on application, Or by post free for six stamps. THE ROYAL POLYTECHNI C. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.—This Institution, which has for twenty years amused and instructed the public, will present the folloiving novelties : 1. A New Musical and Pictorial Entertainment by G. A rinytage Cooper, Esq. (the accomplished buffo singer), entitled "Home for the Holidays," being the Polytechnic Annual for 1858; some of the buffo songs are written by J. C. Brough, Esq., amd the very beau tiful Dissolving Views include Novel Optical Effects of the most Pleasing nature. 2. Remarkable Phantasmogorial Illusions, which will be produced With an apparatus of an entirel , new mecharVcal construction, and. With - many other Curious Experiments, will illustrate a Lecture on "Natural Magic," by J. D. Malcolm, Esq. The Misses Oreenhead Will accompany these effects on the Piano, Violin, and Violoncello. 3. New Views in the Cosmoramic Exhibition. 4. Increase of the justly - admired Dissolving Scenery, illustrating the Rebellion in India, and Portraits of Clive, Lord Canning, the Duke of Cambridge, Generals Wilson, Nicholson, Neill, and Have lock, and Grand Optical Effects, displaying the Re-capture of Delhi And Relief of Lucknow. 5. New Lecture Entertainment by J. H. Pepper, Esq., entitled "A Scuttle of Coals prom the Pit to the Fireside." 6. "The Leviathan :" the overwhelming size of this great steam slat') realised in a New Series of Dissolving Pictures, with instructive description by Mr. Malcolm. 7. The Giant Christmas Tree will yield unusual quantities of knives and toys for the boys, end pretty things for the girls at the Gratuitous Distribution, commencing on Thursday Morning and Thursday Evening, Dec. 31. AdmissiCou to the whole, Is. ; children under ten, and schools, half-price. 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Apply to Palmer and Co., 13, Gresham-street, Guildhall. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.—The exuberance of the feelings amid scenes of gaiety induces the fair an i Youthful to shine to advantage under the gaze of many friends, and therefore to devote increased attention to the duties of the Toilet. It is at this festive season that ROWLANDS' AUXILIARIES OF HEALTH AND BEAUTY are more than usually essential, viz., ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, Per imparting a transcendant lustre to the Hair, and sustaining it in decorative charm. ROWLANDS' KALY DOH. Imparts a radiant bloom to the Cheek, and a delicacy and softness to the Hands,Arms, and Neck; and ROWLANDS' ODONTO, OR PEARL DENTRIFICE, Bestows on the Teeth a pearl•like whiteness, and renders the Breath sweet and pure. - - . The Patronage of Royalty throughout Europe, their general use by ralak and fashion, and the universally known Olney of these al tides ittre them a celebrity unparalleled, and render them peculiarly ELEGANT AND SEASONABLE PRESENTS. SOLD NY _ A• ROWLAND and SONS, 20:H - aiton-garden, London; and by Chemists and Perfumers. ***` BEWARE OF SPURIOUS IMITATIONS ! ! ! TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. CHARLES WATSON, M.D. (Physician to the Bedford Dis pensary), 27, Alfred-Place. Bedford-square, London, continues to issue, on receipt of six stamps, " THE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE." Medical Correspondence conducted. "The first man of the dey in these complaints."—Medical July, 18.56. "The true Guide to those wl.O dedire a speedy and private cure." . " - -University Magazine. " The NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' showing the absurdity of the English mode of treating such complaints, will prove a blessing to the afflicted, who may safely and easily regain pristine health by adopting the means presented."—Evening Star. IJ BARRY'S CELEBRATED INFANTS' FOOD, for DELIC &TE INFANTS, CHILDREN, and IN VALIDS. 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T HE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY Just published, price Is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION. —A Medical Treatise on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System, and on the cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from vicious habits acquired during the critical passage from youth to Manhood, with practical observations on the Physiology of Mar "age in its social, moral, and physical relations. To which are added remarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden Mysteries "of Life within Life," and its advantages in detecting, by arinaryexamination, the cause and effect of every variety of these complaints, with numerous engravings and cases., BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON . , kattieulated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, Which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is Particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. It Its absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are rinciples of personal management which cannot be violated with t incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret sue _ d the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how those penalties 7 be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, how the evil and its consequences maybe avoided, and, above all, 1 -tt4_ there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. Published by J. Allen, 204 Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill; Home, 19, Leicester-square Cerdon, 146, Leadenhali street or from the Author, who may be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence, 37 Bedford-square, Loudon. The work may be had in India, of Mr. Von Lit zky, Loll Bazaar; Calcutta—Messrs. C. and .1. 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It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and all Cutaneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup tions and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, and expel it with the insensible perspiration through the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a never-tailing remedy for that class of disorders which unfortunately the English Physician treats with Mercury, to the inevitable destruc 'ion of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot restore. Price Ils., free by post, Is. ad. extra to any part of the kingdom; or four cases in one for 335., by post, 35.2 d. extra, which saves I ls., and in Si. cases, whereby there a yis saving t of if. 12s. Sold by Daniel Church , 78 , Gracechooururs im c a h nr s no t a ret L , 6 City; d i o y n -; Bartlett Hooper, 43, King William - street. (four d London bridge) ; Watts, 17, Strand ; Trout , '229 Strand ; Ox ford-street; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Ed wards, St. Paul s Churchyard. HUMAN FRAILTY ; a Medical Work, price Is., post freo, illustrated with 100 engravings, containing the opinions of Valpeau, Lailemand„Roux, Ricord, &c. It gives instruc tions for the perfect restoration of those who are prevented by im pediments from entering into the married st Ate, 'alto showing the dreadful results from early abuse, gonorrhcea, and syphilis, and the benefits arising trom the chemical tests and exarninaiion of the spermatoza, by the newly-constructed microsc)pe, with powertul lenses. The Author may be consulted Daily according to the rules n the Book.— Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lape,Paternoster-row and from all agents for the sale of " Triesemar." ,1 R. HOWARD, burgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet . /IL street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI FICIAL TEETH , fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or Iceny, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. This method dons not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication; and that Mr. Howard's improvement may be within the reach of the most econo mical, he has fixed the charges at the lowest scale possible. De cayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastica tion.-52, Fleet-street. At borne from ten till five. (Ni). 20,439.) PUBLICATIONS. Now Ready, in foolscap Bvo., price 25., bound, AIRY CHARADES, By M. G. AVELINE. 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Wright, sporting printer and publisher, Fulwood's Rents, Hol- born, London. A New Edition, the Fourth.—Just Published, price is., by post _ - - free, Se. 4d. ON TRUE it FALSE SPERIVLA.TORREICE , with a View b the Correction of wide-spread Errors in re lation to its Nature, Treatment and Cure. Translated from Lho German of Dr. PICKFOR D. To which is added, AN ESSAY ON SEXUAL DEBILITIES. By the Editor. "Dr. Pickford Is known to English renders by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi- Gal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally fief:Taut evil which it may he in his power to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of 4 .(4143f Sympathisers; and 'Medical Friends,' are m erc il ess ly opposed; and if tills bcsa. could find its way ... 4 0 +h. 1 , ..., 1 .. 1 ' ',v.. wee caster tram the com plaint of which it treats, we are satieded that many hundreds would believed much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— oatich money ......This volume is well qaalified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrho3a, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and.physiological basis. It is, therefore, , ikely to do much good."—Medical Circular. London: H. ltalliere, 219, Regent-street. CONTRACT FOR SUET. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset Rouse, 23d December, 1857. 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 MONDAY the 4th January nett, at half-past One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford the undermentioned article, viz.:— SUET In Fifteen equal weekly deliveries, the first of such deliveries to be made by the 16th January, 1858. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the Suet. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Ten ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part hereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of net contracting for any. No tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at the said Office, or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol. The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten tion is called, may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool and Bristol. No tender will be received after half-past one o'clock on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the office on the day of contract, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and his proposed sureties in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " 'render for Suet," and must also be delivered at Somerset-house. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOClATlON.—Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. I Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Baron L.N. do Rothschild,M.P. TREASURER OF TilE BENEVOLENT FUND.—John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. Accumulated fund .............. £95,000 Annual inc0me.......... ...... 27,000 This Association offers every advantage to all classes desirous o assuring. A Benevolent Fund is attached exclusively for clerks. WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. 15, Ifoorgate-street, December, 1857. THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSUR kNCE SOCIETY, • 142, Strand, London. Empowerei by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR vrvoßsmrs, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. Win. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J: Hodgson, Esq. Samuel King-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq. John Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., John Symes, Esq. F.R.S. Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Bloadel, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, P.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Young. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elliotson, M.D., Cantab , P.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., Bse. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford-row, The next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared in May, 1860. Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : Polley taken Age. out in Bonus in Permanent Sum addition Bonus in Re luction of Assured. to Su'n Cash. Annual Pre- Assured. mium £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 3,000 887 17 7 424 1 4 56 3 8 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 • 32 0 4 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 b 10 15 2 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 6 7 7 1838 1841 1845 1848 1851 The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter national Life Assurance Society : The Society was established in 183 S. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every five years. Its subscribed capital Is live hundred thousand pounds. Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted to one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds. Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in force exceed six thousand. About one thousand new policies are added every year. Since its commencement the Society has paid in claims upwards of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds. For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair man, 142, Strand. 42, Strand, London, W.C. EDMOND S. STASES, Chairman. THE RHINE AND GERMANY.—The Shortest and Cheapest Route, via Rotterdam, to the Rhine and Germany, is by THE DUTCH REIENISH RAILWAY. Through Trains, in conjunction with those of the Colog,ne-Ifinden Company, start three times a day. _ _ Fifty pounds of Luggage allowed free for each passenger. Further particulars forwarded, post free, on application to the Company's London Agent, Mr. Jour( C. Jarrsopr, 61, Gracechurch street. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE CURES ( fit ithout Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, •Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Ilysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation, Heartburn, Headache. Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com plaints ate effected by 1)13 BARRY'S delicious REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD, which restores health without purging, inconvenience, or expense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other remedies. it is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter feres with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of grati tude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. Stuart de Decies."—Curo No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony front dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham L ig, near Dias, Norfolk."—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jaeobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme nor vaasnoss, Indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. — Cure No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liver pool : a cure of ten year's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita bility. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew lire of constipation, dyspep sia, , irvotts irritabi'lLY. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Sherland of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 36,212. Captain Allan of epileptic fits. Cure No. 42.116 Major Edie of enlargement of the liver and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. Har vey of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer of consumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunts, Esq., barrister, of paralysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant, of thirty years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. Cure No. 43,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and Midi gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con sumption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of recovery. Cure No, 180. "Twenty-five years' nervousness, con stipation, indigestion and debility, from which I have suffered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. R. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight years' dis pepsaa, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's health restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. John Flavell, Ridlington Rec tory, Norfolk." No. 32,836. " Three years' excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which ren dered My life very miserable, d has been aicAealrlyhdretn of Ross,emcoovedby Barry's health restoring Foo • Stuart, . Skibbereen." Cure No. 3,906. "Thirteen yea D rs t ; cough, indigestion, indlgestion, and general debility have been removed by Barry's excellent T h e: fe r ar o r f t u e l r, a A an t g h e o r l- s st o r f ee s t p , u P r e io rth us . i " mita, R eya l elmportantntrt Arabica C autio t n ‘ o a o g d a . m s J t a tations:— W oo d n g r o o a p n e t r e d N a e n v ii i n i e j ti,n for c - t 1 . T . l t o e . Vic-Chancellor t.h : loth March, irl 1654, against Page Alfred Imitating "Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." B " i tablY Packed for all climates, and with full instructions. In canisters, lib 2s 5,1 ; 21b 4s 6d; 51b Ils , 121 b 225. The 121 b car riage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Dti Barry and Co.. 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum, Mazon, and Co., pur -1 veyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly ; also at 60, Gracechurch street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand ; 4, cheapside ; 149, Bishepsgate street ; and 150 and 158 Oxford-street . ; a.' • ---- e-- 7e ,J ' rk .?" 0 a , ,✓ -• ; t • t ;;• 4i . , • - 41111 1111 ( 1111111111 %. A,* • • , • ; 7 ,- 4? ", , 367- p,„ • *Oita- -.17 , 0i1y • / ""'`"" 7 '" • ," Arr ; „ VEY:zs A I ,61.11!W N: 4 44' 0- t r s t ' 4llllro • %., y • ‘ 4E - jar 114 ' :1 4 :Z . ; 4 :41 16 : 117 ";. W t: f 2` [PRIOB 4D. STAMPED 5 .] Itree, which effectually deters all thieves. When a female chieftain, who received the travellers very hospitably, was about to cross a s tream, her confi dential doctor, who was in close attendance with his basket of "medicines," waved some charms over her before she ventured on the water. One of the Makololo talked rather loudly in the immediate neighbourhood of this basket, and was reproved for it by the wizard, who himself always spoke in a low voice, glancing back to the sacred package as if in fear of being heard by something inside it. The relative rank of the sexes, too, is quite reversed. Sebituane, the Makololo chief, had intended his daughter and successor to treat the men of his tribe as he had treated the women, and select a husband for herself at her own discretion. But this was so opposed to Bechuana habits of feeling that the in dividual selected was actually called her wife ; and the annoyances arising out of the popular criticism of this anomalous relation operated powerfully in inducing the lady to abdicate in favour of her brother Sekeletu. But among the Balonda female lordship is the most natural of ideas ; it seems to prevail all across Central Africa north of the Zambesi. When Dr. Livingstone reached the neigh bourhood of the Portuguese settlement on the 1 eastern coast he had bargained with a native to be his guide in consideration for a hoe. Unfortunately the man went to show it to his wife, and presently returned, saying she would IN let him leave her. " :Then bring back the hoe," said the doctor. " No, I want it." " Then go with us and you shall have it." " But my wife won't let me." One of the party who followed him, to his but heard him say to her, " Do you think I would ever leave you 1" and then, turning to his visitor, "Do you think I would ever leave this pretty woman? Is she not pretty? Un happily this high estimation of the fairer sex, al though it deprives the Teutonic races of their claim to the monopoly of gallantry, is not accompanied by any other of the characteristics of civilisation. The chief who exercises a supremacy over the whole of the Balondaunder the name of Mutiamvo, whose residence is at Cazembe (a town laid down from the reports of native traders somewhere about lat. 10 30, and long. 27), appears to be one of the moat reckless of despots, scarcely, if all, removed from the character of an absolute maniac. This, at least, was the cafe with the individual who died just before the expedition of our traveller. He had a whim sometimes of running a-muck in his town and be heading all he met until he had quite a heap of human heads. Occasionally, when he was supposed to need some special charm, a man was slaughtered for the sake of a particular part of his body. If he took a fancy to anything in the possession of a stranger, he would order a whole village to be brought up in order to purchase it by the sale of the people. Frequently when a slave trader came he would take possession of all his goods, and then, after 10 days or a fortnight, send out a party who pounced upon some considerable villages, killed the headman, and paid for the goods by selling all the inhabitants. These slave merchants were invari ably themselves me❑ of colour, generally half-caste Po tuguese. From the time of their leaving the Lecambye the course of the travellers was northwards until arriving at Lake Dilolo(lat 11 deg 33 min, long 22 deg 27 min). Thence their mute took a westerly direction, and iu its general bearing continued W.N. W. all the way to St. Paul de Loanda, on the shore of the Atlantic. The goal was reached on May 31, arid by the suc cessful achievement of the first part of his perilous undertaking Dr. Livingstone was enabled to do for the geography of South Tropical Africa what his illustrious fellow-labourer in the field of science, Dr. Barth, had done nearly contemporaneously for the northern portion of the torrid zone. Both have demonstrated - that where mountains were tradition- ally balieved to exist there is in reality a widely de veloped system of rivers, which afford fair promise of access to the interior of the country. Lake Dilolo just mentioned, is most singularly placed. It is a natural summit reservoir in the midst of an exten- sive plain, which its.llf forms the watershed sepa rating the affluents of the Lecambye, or Zambesi, from a portion of the headwaters of the Congo. Its elevation above the sea level is no more than 4,000 feet, and yet, while from its southern eltromity there proceeds one of the feeders of the great river which fells into the Indian Ocean, there issues from the northern end a stream which is an important tributary of the Casai, a river that, after receiving many contributions, unites its water with another of equal magnitude (the Quango) flowing north wards; and the two, after a considerable course, during which they receive a further accession of waters from the equatorial regions, at last pour their united stream into the Atlantic, under the name of the Congo or Zaire. Such an achievement as that of which we have given a sketch was not to be performed without much suffering. The elevated plains through which the Doctor passed were all flooded by the periodical rains, and he was constantly wet through. One attack of fever followed another, and at the time hereached Loanda he was more dead than alive, iu spite of the greatest attention on the part of the Portuguese settlers for the last mouth of his journey. The Ma kololo who had accompanied him were treated with no less kindness than himself. Their remarks on what they saw were extremely curious. The sea, of course, struck them with amazement. "We believed," said i hey, " that what the ancients had toad us was true, that the world had no end ; but all at once the world said to us, lam finished ; ihereris no more of me.'" A house with two stories had always been inconceivable to them. The nearest point to which they had arrived was the notion of two huts one on the top of the other, and they had then felt puzzled to conceive how men could live in the upper story with the conical roof of the lower one in the 'Piddle. In describing a house of the Doctor's they said, " It is not a but ; it is a moun- tain with several caves in it." An English brig-of war was in the harbour, and they were invited on board and allowed to fire off a cannon, Dr. Living ston " improving" the. occasion by telling them, " That was what the English put down the slave trade with." They were also taken to the service iu the church, and remarked, " that they had eeen the white men charming their demons, a phrase identical with one they had used on - seeing the pagan ritual of the Balonda. Dr. Livingston returned to Linyanti by the way he had come, with the exception of making a detour in a part of the central plain in order to avoid some of the chiefs who had treated him very ill on his way out. He arrived there in October, 1855, after an absence of nearly two years, during which he had undergone 27 attacks of fever, and perils both from man and wild animalS. One of the greatest of the latter befell him just before his arrival in the terri tory of the friendly chief Sekeletu. He had got quite out of the way of shooting, but his party having been for a long time without animal food, they landed from their canoe one day with the de termination on his part of getting so close that he should not miss. The game was a zebra, and he unfortunately only broke one of the hind legs, the loss of which did nothinder the animal from going off in a gallop, followed by his men. The rest of the story shall be told in his own words : "As I walked slowly after the men on an extensive plain covered with a great crop of grass which was laid by its own weight, I observed that a solitary buffalo, disturbed by others of my own party, was coming to me at a gallop. I glanced around, but the only tree on the plain was a hundred yards off, and there was no escape elsewhere. I therefore cocked my rifle with the inten tion of giving him a steady shot in the forehead, when he should come within three or four yards of me. The thought flashed across my mind, What if your gun misses fire ?' I placed it to my shoulder as he came on at full speed, and that is tremendous, though generally he is a lumbering looking animal in his paces. A small bush and bunch of grass 15 yards off, made him swerve a little and expose his shoulder. I just heard the ball crack there, as I fell flat on my face. The pain roust have made him renounce his purpose, for he bounded close past mo on to the water, where he was found dead." There now remained, in order to complete the task which Dr. Livingstone had imposed upon him self, the comparatively easy achievement of ex ploring the course of the Zambesi eastward to the sea. He left Linyanti for this purpose on the 3d of November, and arrived in safety, although again weakened by fever, in the Portuguese settlement of Tete early in the following February. The at tention he received from the authorities here was equal to that which he had experienced on the west coast. By their kind aid he was enabled to reach Quilimane, although in miserable plight from the effects of long-continued fatigue and privation upon his health, on the 20th of May, 1856, and to reap the glory of having, first of any European, traversed tropical Africa from shore to shore. Our space prevents us from giving even a sketch of this last journey, but there was one portion in it which must be noticed. Important as the navigation of the Zambesi is for commercial in tercourse with Central Afric a , th ere are severa l points at which an int errupt i on occurs from rapids, which render the transshipment of goods a necessity. At one o f t h ese the o b s t ac le is caused by a wond er f u l cataract, which, putting all circumstances tog e th er , i s probably the most L astonishing natural phenomenon in the world. The whole river, which at the time the Doctor paw it was LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1857. 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His Excellency Ferukh Khan visited several photo graphic galleries, yesterday morning, and later in the day had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon, at the Foreign-office. His Excellency returned to Claridge's Hotel to dinner, and remained for the evening. DR. LIVINGSTOZQ'S DISCOVERIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA. (Prom the Times.) In estimating the amount of difficulty sur mounted by Dr. Livingston in the performance of his great exploit—the crossing of the entire conti nent of South Tropical Africa--the reader must not forget to take into account the hardships he was compelled to undergo in reaching the base of his operations, Linyanti, the capital of the friendly chief of the akololo, without whose support all progress to the north would have been hopeless. To arrive at this place from Kuruman—itself the frontier station of missionary enterprise when he first went to Africa--occupied him more than six months, although no longer encumbered with wife and children. On arriving in lat. 19 deg. 16 min. he' was brought to a standstill by African fever. All his party except himself and a Bakwain boy, were laid up by it. Fortunately, two or three days before he fell in with a number of bushman, who proved very serviceable in his emergency. The boy managed the oxen and the doctor attended to the sick, keeping the Bushmen in good humour by going out occasionally with them and shooting a zebra, or buffalo. Sickness was not the only dan ger to be apprehended.- The - luxuriant growth of the grass in the hot weather succeeding the rains always has a peculiar effect on draught oxen. They became uneasy from fear of surprise by wild beasts, and one night during the detention occa sioned by the fever, the sight of a hyena made the whole of the_doctor's eittle aa3h o.we.y into a track less sorest in the neighbourhood. The boy fol lowed, and nothing was seen of either during the whole of the next day and night. On the morn ing of the following day, which was a Sunday, the lad returned, bringing about 40 head with him. He had found them late in the afternoon of Satur day, and been obliged to stand by them as a guard all night in the midst of a region full of wild beasts. "It is wonderful," says the doctor, "how, without a compass, and in such a country, he managed to find his way back at all." During his last visit to the Cape with his family, Dr. Livingston appears to have received some in structions from Mr. Maclear, the astronomer there, and to have been supplied by hi m with instruments to enable him to lay down the geographical posi tions of important points. These, in the latter part of his journal, are frequently noted ; but in tropical Africa the atmosphere is so often clouded that the opportunities of taking an observation occur very rarely. If the atmosphere were generally clear, the intense power of the sun by day and the dews consequent on the radiation of heat from the earth by night would perhaps render the neighbourhood of the equator literally uninhabitable. Even as it is, the description of the he at is something fearful. At lat. 20 deg south the thermometer at the sur face of the ground in the sun marked 125 deg. Fahrenheit. When the bulb was sunk three inches below the surface it rose to 138. The hand cannot be held on the ground, and even the horny. soles of the natives' feet must be protected by san dals of hide. The water in the ponds at the sur face is 100 deg., but the thirsty traveller contrives to get a cool draught by taking advantage of the fact that fluids not readily conduct heat down wards. He walks into the middle and lifts up the water from the bottom with his hands. In order to reach Linyanti without passing through the region of the tsetse, the poisonous fly which is so fatal to cattle, Dr. Livingston pursued a course directly north. This involved a great deal of pioneer's work, for the route lay through a thick forest, and the feebleness of his convalescent com panions threw the duty of felling trees chiefly upon their master. Here he was again fortunate enough to fall in with some Bushmen, who showed h m a pool of water when his own stock was exhausted, and assisted him in recovering his oxen which again had-run away in a fright, this time occasioned by a lion. The lion has a great dread of Bushmen, who track him after he has made a full meal, and shoot him with poisoned arrows. The poison is made of the entrails of a small caterpillar called IVgtua. A very small portion introduced into a scratch acts like morbid matter in dissection ; but the agony is so great that the person wounded be comes a raging maniac, and flies from human habi tations. The effects on alp iion arta no less terrible. Be is heard from far off. moaning in. distress, and in his rage bites the trees and ground. The Bushmen cure a poisoned wound by rubbing fat into it, and explain their mode of treatment by saying that " the Argun wants fat, and when it does not find it in the body, kills the man.l At last, after many other perils, Dr. Livingston arrived at Linyanti on the 23d of May, 1853. The whole population, consisting of some 6,000 or 7,000 souls turned out to welcome him. Sekeletu, the son of the deceased chief Sebituane, a young man of 18 no less friendly to the English than his father had bean, received the party iu what is cousiiered Royal style. A numb:r of pots of beer of the country were set before them, and the Court Herald, an officer of consideration but very various duties, stood up, and, after many various antics— for there is Court etiquette even in Central Africa —roared out the appropriate forms of reception at the top of his voice, " Don't I see the white man ? Don't I see the comrade of Sebituane ? Dont I see the f at h er of Sekeletu ? W e wan t sleep (peace from war ; give your son (Sekeletu) sleep, my Lord." t m lndeed, the position of Sekeletu was n o t a very safe one. His father had appointed Main o chisane, his half sister, to s ucceed ; and another near relative named Mpepe was very anxious that she should continue in the chieftainship, while he himself exer s ced all real pow er under her name. B u t Mamo chisane struck a d eat h-b low to the intr i guer ' s hoes. She insisted on resigning h e r dignity in favour of her half-broth er ; and the disconten t e d M pepe , foiled in his s c h eme, retired to Nar i e l e, t h e ca pital of the Ba ro t se, who are a peop l e su bj ec t t o the Makololo t r ib e , and was there b e li eve d t o b e practising magic a l ar t s for the purpose o f caus i ng the destructi on o f the Young chief. In fact, he had built a hut for thi s w i cked purpose i n th e ti me o f Sebituane, who a p pears to have attr ib u t e d hi s own death—really b roug h t on by smok i ng a pern i c i ous narcotic—to the mischief brewed in the witch-hut. But the villain now resorted to means much more formidable than sorcery, in or d er t o a tt a i n hi s ends. Influenced b y t h e slavedea li ng t r ib es w h ose interests had b een menaced by the policy of Sebituane and his son, he d e t erm ined to take off the latter by assassination. The attempt was made while Dr. Livingston was on a tour with the intended victim a few weeks after the reception just mentioned, and his presenc e appears most provi dentially to have been the obstacle to its success. Mpepe paid the penalty of his guilt with his life ; but the ferment which his death caused among the Barotse, through whose country Dr. Livingston's intended route lay, had the effect of inducing him to remain some time longer at Linyanti. This town, which our traveller made the base of his future expeditions, having acquired such influ ence with its people and chief as to be able to com mand all the assistance it was in their power to render him, lies upon a river of considerable magni ttide named Chobe. It is one •f the affluents of the Zambesi, into which it falls after a very tortuous course of more than 200 miles below the town, bringing with it most of the drainage of an area comprised between the parallels of latitude 13° and and 18°, and the meridians 18° and 23°. The point at which it enters is a little below Sesheke, where the Doctor first caught sight of the Zambesi. This stream it was his intention to pursue up wards uutil it should bring him into the vicinity of the western seaboard. His friends the Makololo now put a question which the formidable nature of his pro posed task rendered a very pertinent one : the event of your death, will not the white people blame us for having allowed you to go away into an unhealthy, unknown country o f enem i es I" To obviate their fears, the Docto r proposed to l eav e " a book" with them, which, if he did not return, was to be sent to Mr. Moffat, and would perfectly justify them in the eyes of his countrymen. The " book" was, as may be supposed, a volume of his journal, and it is an unfortunate circumstance that this care for the reputation of the Makololo was the cause of its being lost to its writer ; for as he was long without being heard of, the volume was delivered by Sekeletu to a trader, and all subsequent trace of it lost. The fears of the Makololo were certainly justified by the personal condition of their guest, no less than by the dangers of the country he was about to travers e . H e ha d su ff e red from an attack of fever since hi s arr i va l amon g them, and, although he had r ecovered, his bodily weakness was still considerable. One manifesta tion of this was a strange giddi ness w h e n he looked up suddenly to any celestial object ; everything seemed to rush to the left, and' if he did not catch hold of some object he fell heavily to the ground. Yet, in this condi tion, the best season for travelling having arrived, he determined to set out with the resolu tion "to succeed or perish in the attempt to open up this part of Africa. ' He had with him 27 natives subjects of Sekeletu, of whom two were genuine Makololo, and the rest natives of other parts of Central Africa. For his people he took three muskets, and a rifle and double-barrelled smooth bore for himself, a small gipsy tent just large enough to sleep in, a sheepskin mantle for a blanket, and a horserug as a bed. A bible, nautical almanac, and set of logarithmic tables, a sextant, thermo meter, chronometer watch by Dent, of the Strand, and tivo'compasses constituted his theological and scientific apparatus, unless we should include in the one or the other a magic lantern, which was found' exceedingly useful on several occasions. Depending for subsistence mainly on the supply of game, and anxious to lighten his baggage as much as possible, he took only about 201 b. of beads to barter fpr food in case of necessity, and about the same quantity of coffee, tea, and sugar. One very curious provision must not' be: forgotten. A tin canister about 15 inches square, was filled with spare shirting, trousers, and shoes, reserved to be put on when the party should reach civilised life. On the 11th of November the travellers left Liny anti in canoes furnished by Sekeletu, who had also made provision for their hospitable reception as far as his influence extended. After sailing into the Zambesi, which hero goes by the name of Lecambye,* they ascended that river as far as the falls of Gonye, where they arrived on the last day of November. The river above the falls runs through a comparatively narrow valley, inhabited by the Barotse, the tribe which has been mentioned as subject to the Makololo. They are a race of boatmen, and traces of their occupation appear in their large deep chests and broad shoulders, the (Mar extremiting are much less developed. For several miles below Gobye the river is confined within a narrow space of not more than 100 yards : the consequence is that in time of flood it rises no less than 50 or 60 feet there, and at all times runs in a boiling current. On ar riving at this point the canoes were slung on poles and carried on the shoulders of the natives past the falls. The expedition proceeded prosperously, and. everything appeared couleur de rose , with the ex ception of one circumstance which might have proved fatal to the whole object of the expedition. A subordinate official of Sekeletu, named Lerimo, had made a foray with a party of his Makololo countrymen to the north in the very direction in which Dr. Livingston was going. The influence which the Doctor had acquired shows itself most strikingly in the circumstance that, 'although this outrage had taken place with the full sanction of the headman (or vice -chief) of the Barotse, he was able to prevail upon Skeletu's mother to disown the act of the indiscreet officer and return the captives which had been made in the ill-starred expedition by his own hand. Thus he was enabled to turn the very misfortune which threatened to frustrate his plans into a confirmation of the message of peace on earth and goodwill towards men, which it was his object to proclaim. Still, on arriving 301 or 40 miles north of Libonta (lat. 14.59), the fron tier town of the Makololo, he thought it prudent to wait and see the result of the explanatory message which was sent, together with 11 of the captives, to Makoma, the chief whose subjects they were. This caused some delay, but the game In the neighbourhood was abundani, and the party fared sumptuously. Dr. Lividgston has a per sonal dislike to the bunter's occupation, but was compelled to cater for the rest on account of the inability of his companions to take a decent aim. They were nervous at the flash in the pan, and wanted him to give them " gun medicine," without which no native of Central Africa expects to be able to shoot straight. To save his ammunition, which his companions would have entirely wasted in learning, the Doctor was compelled to do all the shooting himself, and this necessity involved other inconveniences besides the shock to his feelings. At an early stage iu his career he was bitten by a lion in the right shoulder (an incident of which he gives a very graphic account), and, a false joint having formed, he was 'ever afterwards compelled to shoot from the loft shoulder, with less cntainty of aim than before. The dislike of inflicting pain upon animals seem to have induced him to study the circumstances under which the deadshot may be delivered most certainly ; and he relates some curi ous facts bearing on this subject. Ms theory is, that a shock on that part of the system to which most nervous force is at the time directed proves most fatal. "1 have seen a rhinoceros," he says, "while standing apparently chewing the cud, drop down dead from a shot in the stomach, while others shot through one lung and the stomach would go off as if little hurt." But, to make quite sure of the rhinoceros, either black or white, the hunter should creep carefully through the bushes on the animal's lee-side, a most important point, which is ascert lined . , by throwing up a pinch of dust every now and then, to within about 20 yards, then sit down, rest his elbows on his knew., and aim slanting a little upwards at a dark spot behind the shoulders, and his game at once falls stone dead. If, in the anxiety to keep himself concealed, the sportsman should inadver tently get to windward of his quarry, he would be forthwith charged by thecreature. Indeed this is not his only peril. Dr. LiVingston relates a storyof a man who, while stalking a rhinoceros, happened to look round, and saw to his horror that a lion was st ilk ing him; he only escaped by springing up a tree like a cat. When the breeding impulse is upon these animals, and a man happens to pass to wind ward of them, both lion and lioness will rush at him, but under ordinarycircurnstances Dr. Livingston asserts that the lion is a cowardly animal, and never attacks a man except stealthily, unless wounded. A very curious peculiarity about him is, that at the very last he will not make an attack where he sees any thing to produce the suspicion of a trap. A horse belonging to Captain Codrington ran away, but was stopped by the bridle catching a stump. He re mained a prisoner during two days, and when he was found the whole space round was marked by the footprints of lions, which had evidently been afraid to attack the haltered horse from the fear that the whole thing was a snare. It is a common belief that the lion when he has once tasted human flesh prefers it to any other, but the real state of the case is that a man-eater is always an old lion, who has grown too infirm to catch game ; he resorts to vil lages for the sake of the goats, and if a woman or child happens to go out they fall a prey too. This being his only source of subsistence, he of course continues it until the villagers despatch him—a work of little difficulty. On the 27th of December, Dr. Livingston arrived at the confluence of the Leeba and the Lecombye (lat. 14 10.52, long. 23 35.40), and thence sent to another chief living nearly due east, to whom also he had some captives to restore. This chief, Masiko, was said to be in the habit of seizing all orphans and others of his own tribes who were with our powerful protectors and selling them to the Mambari slave merchants for exportation by the west eoast. The Doctor sent him a message, " that he was not so wise as his father, who had wished to govern men, whereas he, Masiko, by selling his people showed his desire to govern wild beasts only." He then proceeded up the Leeba as far as the influx of the Makondo (lat. 13 deg. 23 m. 12 s.) where he arrived on Jan. 1, 1854, amid heavy rain, the season for which had now fairly set in. This is the point at which the Mambari cross the river on their way to Masiko, and one of Dr. Livingstone's men picked up a bit of steel watch-chain of Eng lish manufacture, brought thither by them. The Manibari are enterprising merchants, and bring Manchester cottons into the very heart of Africa. The natives cannot believe them to bo the work of mortal hands ; and the information acquired from the Mambari on the subject is not likely to enlighten their minds, however it may satisfy their curiosity. The English manufactures are said to come out of the sea, and the beads to be gathered on its shore. The Doctor tried to) correct this impression, but apparently with little success. To explain to savages the production of a' manufacture by a de scription of machinery is a striking example of the principle obseurum per obscurius. The objection was obvious—" How can the irons spin, weave, and print so beautifully I" Dr. Livingstone left the river at this point, and continued his journey by land through the country of the Balonda. He had at last got among the real negroes, with wool on their heads and bodies, thick lips, flat noses, elongated heels, and very dark skins. The Bechuanas are of a coffee and milk colour, with a European frame and physiognomy. Nothing appears to have surprised the Ba londa more than our traveller's straight hair. An explanation of the phenomenon was sug. gested to them by the idea that he, like the wonder ful fabrics, ' had come out of the sea,' and his own party, unwilling to waste so good a joke, afterwards always represented him as a merman, whose lank locks displayed the effects of the sea water, which was his natural element. The Balondahad l at first supposed him to wear a wig made of the hair ofsome animal. But a stronger contrast than that of per son was presented by the habits of the two races. The Bechuanas have neither idols nor any form of public worship, but among the Balonda every vil lage has its3idol, and fetishes are met with at every step. Artificial hives are placed in the trees and secured simply by a " piece of medicine" tied to a * Both words amply mean " riTer " in different local dialects, ,J 2 l ~ ~~ i ~~iLyt / ice , =- ,- 9 (7 -- ) - si nearly at its lowest, pours into a fissure of the basaltic rock that forms its bed, and at theibottom is forced to take a direction at right angles to its former one. The lips of the fissure are only 80 or 00 feet apart, and the effect to the eye is that the whole body of a stream as broad as that of the Thames at Limehouse vanishes suddenly in smoke I There is an island on the very edge of the fall, and to this Dr. Livingstone was conveyed in a canoe, and, "creeping with awe to the verge, taw that a stream of 1,000 yards broad leaped do'wn 100 feet, and then became suddenly compressed into a space of 15 or 20 yards. Without approaching thus near to the gulf, the existence of the river cannot be perceived at all. The columns of vapour which arise were visible five miles off, and the natives, whose awe prevents them from going n ear enoug h to examine the locality, give the place the appropriate name of Mosiotunya (" Smoke sounds there.") Dr. Livingstone con fbrred on it the title of the Victoria Falls, and in dulged in the v ery pardonable "vanity" (if hi s _ own - I - Era:Se is to be used) of carving his initials and the date of his visit upon a tree in the island. But mindful, as he habitually was on all occasions, of tie interest of the children of the soil, he also selected a spot upon it suited f or hi s purpose, and planted therein about a hundred peach and ap r i co t stones, and a quantity of coffee seeds. The con tinual moisture from the spray furnishes a security for the proper irrigation, and if it only escapes the ravages of the hippopotamus there seems every prospect that our traveller's little nursery will be, as he hopes, the parent of all the many gardens which will come into existence in this new region, should its resources be rendered available by means of , the discoveries which have rewarded his courage and perseverance. STATE OF TRADE. (Front the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER, Dzo. 22. here was an expectation that we should have a somewhat better market to-day, in consequence of gr9wing facilities in discounts, and of the id. per lb.' gained upon cotton in Liverpool. This expects tieln, however, has not been realised. jn yarns there have been partial attempts to ob tai4 a slight advance ; for instance, certain goods prOdnced in the north of the county, having been just lately sold for future delivery to India aid China houses, the manufacturers have become pur chasers of twist and weft to cover their con tracts, and the sellers of such twist and weft are, of course, inclined to raise their quotations, trying id. per lb., they have, however, scarcely secpred id. There has been a disposition - to make sonde purchases of mule twist for India, particu larly 40's ; but the requirement of a small addi tional fraction hos stayed proceedings. In actual sales, the rates of last week are not mended. The effeCt of the dead-lock under which the continental merchants are held is : curiously seen in 40's mule, Getinan and even Russian qualities, which are or dinarily worth id. to id. per lb. more than the _ Indian quality, are selling at the same price as the latter, or within id. The sum up, water and mule yarns in bundles, warps and cops, front 50's down to the lowest number, cannot be said to present any improvement beyond the slight and doubtful ap pearance referred to above ; and prices in the ag ' gregate, though not quoted lower, cannot . be reckoned as more than stationary. Bolton spinnings, frodt 60's upwards, show no amendment. Although the crisis is being got over in Ham burg, and though no noticeable mischief in the way of failures among the customers for our yarns in the interior of Germany is yet reported—still, the agency houses in Manchester abate not one jot of their caution, but confine their buying to small and indittpeasable parcels. The sellers of goods are disappointed. The buy ing of T cloths, and certain prints and other fabrics, particularly such as are 'suitable for India and Chien, has not been continued to-day ; and pro ducers for the east would have to make some con cession from the terms of recent sales, in order to, effect further business. Much the same may indeed b 3 said iu regard to most other articles. , No confidence is felt here in the higher price of cotton ; and the reports from Liverpool show net much faith in it there. More is expected, by most people, from the pre sent amelioration of money matters that can be realised in the channels of trade. We see it stated that bills are discounted at 81 or 8 per. cent: ; and we hear of short dates being done under the latter rate.' But what sort of bills are they ? Only the very choicest. The strict discrimination which is exercised, both in the Bank of England and out of it leaves a world of paper unnegotiable to keep the hands of merchants and traders most effectually tied up. Beginning with the A 1 bills, opening facilities will, however, gradually extend them selves to thenext grades but this cannot be looked for at a leap. We do not think it worth our while to expend more than a very few words upon a letter which appeared in the Guardian of yesterday. It is al ways our aim to give a correct general view of the state of the market, and of the prevalent feelings and opinions which manfestly influence its condition. We endeavour to make our report a faithful reflection of realities. To this end we compare the numerous statements we hear, both with one another, and with our own observations ; and the result is generally, we hope, not far from the truth. If, in order to make things comfort• able, for men like our censor, we were to deal with the facts of the market, as the chairman of a certain railway dealt with the figures in his ac counts, our reports would be, not only worthless and c'eitemptible, but positively mischievous. Some further suspensions of manufacturers have taken place iu the country, but none of them large. We find it to be the general intention of such country spinners as may deem it necessary to come to Manchester a second time this week, to do so on Thursday instead of Friday, which will be Christmas-day. LEEDS, Dec. 22.—Although the weather was dark and uncomfortable to-day, we had a larger attendance of merchants and manufacturers in the cloth halls than has been the case for some time. This in part owing to the renewal of commercial confidence—an improvement which is now percep tible in the market—and partly, also, to the low ness of stocks in merchants' hands. A few consi derable parcels were cleared to-day, at rather easier rates, and if the weatherwere at all reasonable, we might expect to see larger operations, despite the slackness of the times. We are sorry to have to continue to report increasing distress in the cloth ing districts, but the operatives, although sorely pressed by the times, are exercising a most com mendable amount of patience and moderation. There will be some cessation of labour for a week or a fortnight this Christmas, but this step is not so much a sign of extreme depression as it is that the machinery in each large firm may be examined and repaired. Lot the new year get fairly opened, money easier, and confidence more fully restored, and we must necessarily have an active spring trade, inasmuch as the stocks are very low, and the merchants must supply their large consumers with seasonable goods. HUDDERSFIELD, Dec. 22—The weather has again beeg exceedingly unfavourable this morning, and has evidently had a depressing tendency upon the market. Several buyers from wholesale London houses have been in attendance, but their purchases have been limited to the selection of cheap lots at low prices, which some few of our manufacturers, under the pressure of these " hard times," have felt themselves compelled to take. Upon the whole, however, there is very little disposition evinced on the part of holders of stocks in this market to dispose of their goods in this way. In regular market goods, at fair prices, little has been doing, merchants selecting carefully, and only to complete orders on h and. The demand for unions, low woollens, and other cheap goods continues very limited, and is causing considerable embarrassment to the manufacturers of them, who have now large and increasing stocks in hand. The shipping orders which generally came in for these goods at this time of the year are very limited this season, and make little impression upon stocks. The manufac turers of plain goods in cloths and doeskins are adopting the wise policy of decreasing production, and are succeeded by this means in keeping stocks down. The present open weather is interfering seriously with the sale of winter goods in pilots, beavers, witneys, and other heavy coatings, quantities of which had been prepared in antiarge cipa tion of the winter's trade. We have nothing to report in the spring styles of fancy trouseringat twist mixture grounds with subdued borders being most inquired for. H o ld ers of wools in the l oca l wool trade are reserving their stocks until the spring when they expect to realise better prices than are now offered. Probably lloabNly°nßeTvil e never since trthYe S 1 repeal of the corn an Sn cl AmzN.— naviga tion laws h as t h e sh i pp i ng of the north-east ports been in such a depressed condition as at the present time. Ship. ping is generally slack at this time of the year, but thin season, on account of thelolattdup, and o rates offre f nicgohtssmen ,a n ni ce m : mense amount of tonnage is a great number o f seamen are on shore unemployed, Shi p b u ilding also is at a stand, and numbers of ship car penters are out of work. The docks and shipbuilding yards present a strange contrast to anything that has been witnessed for at least ten years, and it is pitiful to see so many able-bodied and intelligent workmen saun tering about the quays and squares of the ports in idle ness, The men, as might be expected from their chap meter, conduct themselves with exemplary patien ce, and as a class they will suffer grievous want before they make their condition known.' But every one is hopeful that with the turn of the year trade will find its wayinto its old channels again, and that the shipping interest will speedily revive.—Manchester Guardian. I