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THE WELLINGTON, ST. JAMES'-STREET. Gentlemen are respectfully informed that the :above Esta blishment will be closed on Christmli Day. Both Dining Rooms Will be opened as usual on Saturday, the 26th. By order. JAS. TIIYER, Superintendent. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY._ CHANNEL ISLANDS.--Tickets to Jersey and Guernsey, via Weymouth, are now issued at the Paddington Station, enabling Passengers to break tha journey at Chippeuham, Dorchester, or Weymouth. Fares, Pall and Boat : —3ls. and 21s. Further particulars can be obtained on application at the Com pany's Offices. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY.—CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. The 9.15 a.m. Down Mail Train from London will run as usua' on Christmas-day, excepting over the Chester and Holyhead Railway, and to Leeds only over the Midland line. The other Trains from London on Christmas day will run as on Rundays, except the 10.0 a.m., which will not proceed beyond Prestbn. DAY TICKETS issued on THURSDAY, Dec. 24, and interven ing days, will be available until the following TUESDAY, Dec. 29. By order. MARK lIUISH. General.Maaager's Office, Euston Station, December, 1857. EAST and WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY. The Court of Directors of the East and West India Dock Company hereby give Notice, that a Half-Yearly Court or General Meeting of the said Company will be hell, pursuant to the directions of the'Act lit and 2d William IV., cap. 52, at the Dock House, No. 8, Billiter-square, on FRIDAY, the Bth day of January, 1858, at which . Meeting a Dividend will be declared on the capital stock of the Company for the half-year ending the Ziat inst., and also for the purpose of choosing and appointing Two Directors to fill the Vacancies occasioned by the decease of Archibald Hastie, Esq., M.P., and the resignation of William Dallas, Esq. By Order of the Court, GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary. East and West India Dock Howe, 8, Bunter-square, December 18, 1857. N.B.—The Chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisely. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOClATlON.—Established 1840. TRUSTEEH. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P....I — Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., 3J.P. Baron L.N. de lloth.schild,lll.P. Tazumus OP WE BINEVOLENT FUND. —Joh❑ Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. Acc - unmlated fund .. • • • • • ....... £95,000 • Annual income ...... ...... 27,000 This Association offers every advantage to all classes desirous of *Amurlug. • A Benevolent Fund Is attached exclusively for clerks. iNV3I. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. 15, Moorgate-street, December, 1857. T HE GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1237. (United with the British Empire Fire, and British Amicable Life Companies ) 62, ring William street, London. Capital, 1,000,9001. DIRECTORS. • Thomas Challis, Esq., Add. John T. Fletcher, Esq. Jacob George Cope, Esq. James Pilkington, Esq., M.P. Joseph Dawson, Esq. Thomas B. Simpson, Esq. William Delf, Esq. The Right Hon. Chas. P. Villiers John Dinon, Esq. M.P. Benjamin Edgington, Esq. Edward Wilson, Esq. SECRETARY. ♦CTUARY. Thomas Price. LL.D. I David Oughton, Esq. AGENCY SECRETARY. Francis Cuthbertseu, Esq. The CIIRISTMASFire Renewal Receipts are now ready, and may be had on application at the Read-Office of the Company, or of any Of its agents throughout the country. Losses by Explosion of Gas made good by the Company. In the LIFE DEPARTIIENT FOUR-FIFTHS of the PROFITS, divisible by the Company's Deed of Settlement, all,,wed to Assurers; and the Company transacts all business relating to Life Assurances, Deferred Annuities and Family Endowments, on the most lib e ral terms consistent with sound principles and public security. Ne charge for Stamps on Life Assurance Policies. LOANS granted on personal security, and the deposit of a Life Polley to be effected by the borrower. To all Agents, Solicitors, Auctioneers, and Surveyors, a liberal allowance is made. T HE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSITR .NCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London. Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURtANCE, SUR VIVORSIIIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. Wm. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Samuel King-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq. John Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., .Tokn Symes, Esq. F.R.S. Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. AleYander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Blonde], Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, P.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Tung. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. 3. Elliotson, M.D., Cantab , F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., 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 k ay, 1860. Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : Polley taken out in Sum Assured. Bonus in Cash. _ . Bonus in addition to Snit -- X s. d. X s. d. 667 17 7 424 1 4 749 4 0 325 16 • 232 18 0 156 15 0 154 2 8 103 16 8 120 17 0 72 14 6 Permanent Reaction of annual Pre mium. Assured. 183$ 1841 1845 1848 1851 3,000 4,000 2,000 2,000 2,800 X s. d. 56 3 8 32 0 4 16 6 0 10 16 2 6 7 7. The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter national Life Assurance Society : The Society was established in 1834. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every 2 °e years. Its subscribed capital is five 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 ono thousand new policies are added every year. Since its commencement the Society has paid in claims upwards Of three hundred and twenty titonsand pounds. For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair - loan, 142, Strand. 142, Strand, London, W.C. EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. THE RHINE AND GERMANY.—The Shortest and Cheapest Route, 'via Rotterdam, to the Rhine and Germany, is by THE DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY. Through Trains, In conjunction with those of the Cologne-Minden Company, start three times a day. Fifty pounds of Luggage allowed free for each passenger. Further particulars forwarded, post free, on application to the C ompany's London Agent, Mr. JOHN C. JANsoN, 61, Gracechurch street. DU BARRY'S CELEBRATED INFANTS' FOOD, for DM - AC ATE INFANTS, CHILDREN, and IN VALIDS. Supersedes the expense and dangers of wet-nursing, is lliere easily digested, and imparts more healthild nourishment than Milk ; acidity, cramps, bowelicornplaints, flatulency, cough, restless ness, scrofula, eruptions, are avoided by it, and perfect regularity of the system and soundsleop in ;tired. Many respectable families who have reared and saved delicate Infants by this Food can be referred to, and a copy of their Testimonials may be had free on forwarding stamped and addressed envelope to Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London Prices : —ln Canisters, Is. ; 25.; and 121 b. at 21s. The large Canister will be forwarded free of carriage on Vacelpt of Post Office Order. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. EA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSFIIRE _AI SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, Ind all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, " by its tonic arid invigorating properties enables the stomach to Perfectly digest the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe attar(' to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street, London, and Gs, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oihnen and raer- Chants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. 14 . 11 .—T0 guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA and PERRINS" are upon the labs and patent cap of the bottle. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPACITY, AID IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. AM and improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, illustrated by 100 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just published, price, - - free by post, Is., THE SILENT FRIEND : A Medical Work on the physical exhaustion and decay of the frame, from the effects of solitary indulgence, infection, ant the injurious conse q iences from the use of Mercury ; with observations on the obliga tions of marriage, and directions for obviating certain disqualifica tions, By R. and L. PFRRY and CO., Surgeons. Consultations as usual (see page 197). Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Pater noster-row; Sanger, 160. Oxford-street; and Gordon, 146, Leaden hall-street, London. The CORDIAL BALM o f SYRIACUM is employ ed in both sexes to renovate the impair e d powers of life. Its action is purely balsamic; Its power in reinvigorating the frame in all c ases of nervous and sexual debility, obstinate gleets, impotency, barrenness, and debi lities arising from venereal excesses, has been demonstrated by its unvarying success in thousands of cases. Price I Is. per bottle, or four quantities in one for 335., which saves I Is. The CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, an anti-syphi litic remedy, for purifying the system, and is recommended for any of the varied forms of secondary symptoms, such as eruptions on the skin, blotches on the head and face, enlargements of the throat, tonsils, and uvula; threatened destruction of the nose, palate, &c. Its action is purely detersive, and its beneficial influence on the system is undeniable. Price I Is. and 335. per bottle, also a saving of lls. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effec tual remedy in either sex for all cases of gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d ,an I I Is. per box. Sold by Daniel Church, 7R, Graceehurch-street, City; Bartlett Hooper, 43, King William-street (four doors from London Bridge) ; 0, F. Watts, 17, Strand ; W. Sutton and Co., 10, Bow-churchyard; W. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's-churchyard ; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford street; Hannay and Dietrichsen,* 63, Oxford-street ; Butler and !larding, 4, Chea”ide ; Trout and Ilarsant. 229, Strand ; and all medicine vendors througholt the United Kicgd am. TILE SECRET INFIRM ITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY , post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps, Just pUblishod, pr im, is. ELF-PRESERVATION. —A Medical Treatise S on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System, ervoas and Physical Debility, resulting and on. the cure of N Irorn v i c ious habits acquired during the critical passage rrom youth to m an h oo d; with practical observations out the Physiology of Mar riage in its social, moral, and physical ins.relation To which are added dded !marks on the wonders of the Microscope re the h mysteries "of j,,ife within Life,' and its advantages in detecting„by urinary exataination, the cause an d effect of every variety of these complaints, with numerous engravings and cases., BY SAMUEL L.VMERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARF., LONDON, Matriculated :Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Seciety, Licentiate of Apothecaries' hall, London, &c., &c. 7he essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con setmences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, uhich have produced snore misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhap s, any other class of disPase kno w n to modern pathologists. Its p erusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health, liappnessi, and privileges to which every human being is entitled. It Is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of perso,al management which cannot be violated with , ut i nc urring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and. regret suc ceed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how those penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and, above all, that 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, 201 Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Home, 19, Leicester-square ; Gordon, 14d, Leadenhall street or from the Author, who may be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from G till 8, at his residence, 37 Bedford-square, London. The work may be had in India, of Mr. Von Li zky, Loll Bazaar ; Calcutta—Messrs. C. and J. Ilormusjez. ' Apoto-street; Bombay- Circulator Office; Madras—Motussilite Office : Acne - Dodsworth; Colombo. Ceylvia . ; and of all Boo:op:110re throughout the Colonies. Age: (N o . 20,438.) PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, In 1 vol., 103. 6d. bound, R P 11 A N S. 0 By the Author of "MARGARET MAITLAND," " The author of this tale is one ( f the ablest writers of fiction in the present day, and bet end this, and far better, is one of those who always seek to inculcate r€ligious impression and moderation by all her literary eff rts. This excellent purpose pervades every page of this Interesting tale, which is a choice specimen of judicious thought and feeling."—Mes•enger. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, saccessors to Henry Colburn. NEW WORK BY DR. DORAN, AUTHOR OF " MONARCHS RETIRED FROM BUSINESS," Just ready, in post Bvo. C URTFOOLL S. By Dr. DORAN, Author of " Lives of the Queens of England of the House of llanover," &c. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. 'this Day, Third and Cheaper Edition, foolscap, Bvo. 53. SHIPWRECKS OF THE ROYAL NAVY. By W. 0. S. LILLY. With Preface by Canon GLLLT. London: John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. This Day, Foolscap Octavo, ss. NORMITON. A Dramatic Poem, with Mis cellaneous Pieces. By MARY C. HUME, Author of " The Bridesmaid," " Count Stephen," and other Poems. By the same Author, Two vols., 16e., TIE WEDDING GUESTS ; or, the Happiness of Life. London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. NEW NOVEL BY THE HUN. C. A. MUREA,Y. This day, Two Volumes, Post Octavo, 21s. ITASSAN ; or, The Child of the Pyramid. An Egyptian Tale. - By the Hon. C. A. MURRAY, C.B. Author of " The F rairie Bird," " Travels in North America," &c. London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. This Day, OctaYo, 7s. Gd., CAMBRIDGE ESSAYS for 1857. CONTENTS :- THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ENGLISH CRIMINAL LAW. By FITZJAIIES STEPHEN, LL.B. MODERN AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN. By Abmazw STEUART, M.A., M.P. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA. FRANCIS GISBORNE, M.A. PORSON. By 11. R. LUARD, M.A. GEOLOGY. By WILLIAM HOPKINS, M.A., F. QUESTIONS RAISED BY THE MUTINY. By CHARLES BUXTON, M.A., M.P. London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. HRISTMAS SONG-THE GOOD RHEIN J WINE. By J. GaAY. The Professional and Amateur's most powerlul and telling song. Sang by Mr. George Tedder with great applause. New Edition, with vocal chorus, piano, and band parts for an orchestra. Illustrated by Ramage and L'Enfant, in Colours. Price 2s. Gd.—Chappell, 50, New Bend-street. Now publishing, price two shillings, bound in cloth, FEIST'S RACING RECORD. Edited by ALDER r FEIST, Editor of the Turf Department of the " Sunday Times," and Re porter of Sporting Intelligence to the London Daily Papers. In addition '',o other useful information, it will contain a complete Record of the Racing and steeplechase Season in England, Ireland, and Scotland trout the let of January up to the day of publication, Derby Lots for IRO, and Nominations for all the Principal Races for next year ; forming one of the most copious works of reference ever published. W. Wright, sporting printer and publisher, Fulwood's Rents, 1101- born, London. MONT BLANC IS OPEN y TO-NIGHT. CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, POLYGRAPHIC IIILL, King-William-street, Strand. TIIE 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 8. Stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre. Is.; Private Boxes, 11. L. Seats ca be secured at Mr. Mitchell's, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Hall. n On Thursday ►and Saturday, a Morning Entertainnient, commencing at 3. PROFESSOR WILJALBA FRIKELL. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. —PHYSICAL and NATURAL MAGIC.—TWO HOURS OF ILLUSIONS. —Saturday Afternoons at 3, and Every Evening at 8 (except Thursday and Friday, Pee. 24th and 25tH). Stalls, bs.; Balcony Stalls, 45.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Private Boxes, two guineas; one guinea and a nalf, and one guinea.—Places to be secured at Mr. Mitchell's, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. A DELAIDE GALLERY, Lowther Arcade, Strand.—Great success of A. Lamotte's Havelock Schottische, and Grand Fantasia from "II Trovatore." and the kiew Caledonian Quadrille by Charlei Hill. Principal cornet-a-platon, M. Boulcourt. Open every evening at half-past 8. Dancing commences at 9. The Argyll Band Is to be engaged for private Balls. —R. R. 111024 ELL, Ma nager. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM AND GALLERY OF SCIENCE, 3, Tichborne•street, facing the Haymarket. Phis Institution presents entirely new features and offers unpre cedented attractions. Its object will be to combine Natural with ERIMENTAL SCIENCE, and to show the connection be tween the functions of the Human Body and the great Forces of the Universe. Amongst Ole 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 EUHM KOBFF'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 oc 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 MA GNIFICENT ELECTRIC LIGHT. Open (for Gentlemen only) from 12 till 5, and from 7 till 10 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. DRESS AND FROCK COATS of Superfine Black Cloth, 21. 15s. Od. to Three Guineas. Black Dress TrowSers, 11. ss. Od. A choice Selection in Dress Walsteoatings. Excellence with Economy. GEORGE HOBSON, Fashionable rallor, 57, Lombard•street. INVESTMENTS EQUAL TO CONSOLS.- 1. A FREEHOLD GROUND-RENT of 2491. Bs., secured on an estate producing 1,4001. a-year. To be sold for 5,5001. 2. A GROUND-RENT of 581. ss. for 90 years, equally well secured. Price 1,0001. 3. An Improved well-secured RENT of 751. for 86 years. Price 1,050/. COTTAGES FOR SALE. 4. A COTTAGE RESIDENCE, held for 300 years at 3/. 3s. Price 2001. 5. A Small RESIDENCE near Kew-gardens, held for 99 years at 3/. Price 2001. ALMSIIOUSES FOR SALE. G. A well-erected ESTATE near Kew-gardens, healthful and convenient for omnibus, rail, or boat. OFFICES AND RESIDENCES TO LET. 7. The OFFICES, 25, Poultry, and 13, Gresham-street. The RESIDENCES (under 201. rent) at Dalston, Holloway, and Kew, replete with every convenience. Apply to Palmer and Co., 13, Gresham-street, Guildhall. ARETIRED PHYSICIAN, whose sands of life have nearly run out, discovered while in the East Indies a certain cure for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds, and General Debility. The remedy was discovered by him when his only child, a daughter. was given up to die. He had heard much of the wonderful restorative and healing qualities of prepara tions made from the East India Hemp, and the thought occurred to him that he might make a remedy for his child. He studied hard, and succeeded In realising his wishes. His child was cured, and is now alive and well. He has since administered the wonderful re medy to thousands of sufferers in all parts of the world, and he has never failed in making them completely healthy and happy. Wishing to do as much good as possible, he will send to such of his afflicted fellow beings as request it, this r , cape, with fell and explicit direc tions for makin it up and successfully using it. He requires each applicant to enclose hire six stamps—one to be returned as postage I on the recipe, and the remainder to be applied to the payment of this a d ver ti se ment: Address to 11. James, M.D. 14, Cecil-street, Strand. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE S'ITRES (n ithout Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Ilysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Dlarrhcea, Acidity, Palpitation, Heartbur a, Headache. Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough, Aathina, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com plaints ate effected by U I3ARRY'S delicious REVALENTA IfATABICA 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 sew out of the many thousand ex pr es tude from invalids :—Cure co. 71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. sions of gratl 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.' —Caro No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony frosts dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spa.am s, and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly , W ortham L ig, near Diss, Nortolk."--Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of s azing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, llerts, a cure of extreme ner vmsness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. — Cure No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gatescre, near Liver pool : a cure of ten ye'ar's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita bility. Cure No. 18,216, Dr. Andrew Ure of constipation, dyspep sia, ervons irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. sheriand 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, William Cur 11l e. N0 u . n 2 t5 6 , ,4 E 1 5 8 q . ., barrister, pr. nar vey of diarrhoea and debility. C ure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer of consumption. Cure No. 32,883diarrhoea 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. 4 ,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castleetuart, 54,812. Miss er gestioii.cureN ot m o.s a i n , is a sv v i o r u g s rrit in i laz a e b v ili e t rs y, , b e il u e r , an edo d f kidi- 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 eflectually cured b 3 Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. R. Beeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight years' dis peps' a, 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 ta 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 miserab l e , has been radicall y removed b y Du ' health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Bess, Barry No. ' 906. " Thirteen years' cough, indigestion Sk ibbereen." Cure been removed by Du B s an d general debility have ay s excellent Porte ed r, Athol street, Perth." i:eva l en ta Arabia Food. , ame d Important Cau tion against the fearful dangers of spurious 'mita: tation s: Sir William Page Wood granted an injunc- The Vice-Chancellor lion on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, for Imitating " Du Barry's Rev:dents Arabica Food." 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My dearest Mother,—ln the hurry and work of the siege of Delhi, the last mail day p tseed by with out my knowing it, or b-irag able to write ; ttnd I ant now on duty with the moveable column, whose des tination is not known, and which has, as ynt, t nly reanhnd thus fa , after an engagement with Walida Khan's men at Bolundshuhur, on Mondaylast. He bolted and has left th , fort in our hands, which lem at present rendering untenable. You will d uhtless ere this have heard of the fall of Delhi, acrd that the King is in our Lands ; Mogul Beg and two ol:ee princes have been killed. The former was the man who killed uncle Simon.* I must now tell you something about the siege, and of my goings on in it. For ton d a y s I was perpetually en day, dty and night, first on the right and then on the left. I had charge of the consti notion of our first breach ing battery, which was constructed in one .night, a thing which has only been done in one other siege. The engineers were highly complimented en it. I then had charge of the construction of the battery nearest the city—at only 140 yards from it, which was finished satisfactorily, and breached the wa. er bastion of the city. I remained iu charge of the battery till the assault, in which my duties were as follows :—I was directed to take charge of a patty of 14 Sappers, with three non-commissioned OffiC”s and another officer of the Engincets, named S and to proceed and blow in the Cashmere Gate of the city. Owing to delays, the assault did not take place till sunrise, and I had to advance from Lud low Castle (uncle Simon's house) in broad daylight to the gate, place powder-bags against it, and ex plode them, and then give the signal for advance. We all arrived at the gate quite safely, although we were under a very heavy fire of musketry from the walls and through the wicket of the gate,. which - was open. However, as we were laying the bags at the gate, we began to lose men. There were two Ear-.- peen non-commissioned officers and one native killed. Salkeld was badly wounded in the arm and leg. He has lest his arm, and his leg, being wounded, is in splints. I hope he may recover, but it seems very doubtful. I had also two .natives wounded. I escaped with a blow on the leg above the knee from a stone knocked up by a bullet. Out of 12 persons who were at the gate 6 were killed or wounded. For blowing in the Cashmere Gate in broad daylight, General Wil , oa has put in orders that Salkeld, a sergeant, a bugler, and myself ar e to get the Victoria Cross ; so we are , of course, proportionably proud, we being the first persona in the Indian army to receive this decoration. After we got into the city, owing to the heavy loss in engineers, 9 out of 17 who went into action being killed or wounded, I was the third senior officer fit for duty, so got charge of the left column of attack, and was continually on duty until the king evacuated the palace. I had never more than four hours' sleep iu the 24, and thns only by spa ches. I had also the pleasure of blowing in the gate of the palace, though no ono luckily fired at me, there being so few mew left to guard the palace, and they were asleep. The gate was blown in at noon. So now the Delhi business may be considered over, and I hope the country will soon begin to get settled. We had a tolerably sharp action with the rebels atlßoluudshuhur, which they occupied with about 2,000 wen and some fourteen guns; however, after three hours' fighting, they bolted. They 114. d, however, maos ,, - ' ,-d to attack our bag gage, and to cut up two sickEaropeaurs who were being carried in dhoo:ies. We found a lot of European property in the fort which had been looted from Bolundshuhur. Walidad Khan was some relation of the King of Delhi, and had con tinually intercepted our communications during the row. He has now, E 13.,Lieve, gone to Rolla cund, which has become the refuge for the deai tut°. Ido not know where we go to from this place. I believe that the force is to go to Agra, but I should not be astonished at its being ord.erod on to Cawnpore, to join the force under Havelock. It is quite cool in camp, though the sun is still powerful. I have not received any letters fr nn you by this mail, but hope to get some soon. With best love to you all, believe me, your affectionate [Pncit 4J. S RIMPED 5 7) .] THE LArg FIRE ANI) LOSS OF THREE LIVES AT BETHNAL-GREEN. I ADJOURNED INQUEST. —CHARGE OF ARSON. Yesterday morning, Mr. W. Baker, the coroner, resumed the • inquest, at the Prince of Wales Ta vern, Bonner's-road, Victoria-park, Bethnal-green, respecting the deaths of John Metcalf, - aged 52, Ann Metcalf, aged 48 , and Julia Maria Metcalf, aged 8, who perished in the late fire on -the re mises of Mr. Harman, silk manufacturer, of No:, 27, Anchor-street, near the terminus ofthe Eastern Counties Railway, Shoreditch. Mr. T. A. Roberts attended for the Liverpool and London Insurance Office ' Mr. Jas. Braidwood, the superintendent of the London Fire Brigade ; Mr. Lowe, the secretary of the. Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire ; and Inspector Dandy, of the B. division, ware in attendance to watch the case. Mr. C. Sleigh attended for Mr. Harman. The following additional evidence was adduced : Mr. T. B. Christ:e, assistant-surgeon to the workhouse of Bethnal-green, deposed that he had made a post-mortem examination of the bodies, which were free from organic disease. The de ceased died from asphyxia, caused by suffocation from burning. Maria Brown, 28, Anchor-street, widow, pro duced a 'policy of insurance on the household and pers mai property of Mr. Harman, who - was insured for the sum of 3001. The chief portion of the goods was her property. Mr. Harman gave her the po licy for safety three days after it - was taken out. I left borne on Friday a waning at half-past eight with my daughter (Mrs. HarmanMto proceed to No. 34, John-street, St. John's-wood, the residence of my brother. I saw Mrs. Harman on the same evening at 7 o'clock. She was then crying, and wished me to assist her in packing up her clothes and baby linen, together with a small table and work-box. The articles were obtained from the front room on; the first floor of Mr. Harman's house. Mrs. Harman seemed to be suffering from grief, and said, " I cannot live with him any. longer." Mr. Har man has not behaved so kind fo his wife as he ought to have done, and I have frequently lent him money. There was no danger of fire from the cha racter of the goods. There was a gas-burner over the mantel-shelf in the kitchen and another gas-burner in a glass case in the window, with a large quan tity of empty boxes. The' boxes] were placed there until they were required for use. Mr. Harman was very slack in business, and the boxes were generally placed in the window. There were no articles of trimming hanging in the window. When I left the premises at half-past 8 o'clock, I lowered the gas in the back room. There was a little fire in the grate in the back pal lour. There was a side door in the passage for the entrance of the lodgers. After I left Mr. Harman's I took the clothes into my house, and placed them upon the floor of my own room, as I expected that Mrs. Harman would take them away. I went into Mr. Harman's shop at 10 o'clock, and at that time all things were safe. Mr, Harman when intoxicated was very much ex cited, and be bas thrown me down violently. Ido not consider that he was deranged, but, on the contrary, I believe be knew what he was about. He was very abusive, but not generally violent. He has never threatened to set fire to the house. Witness denied having ever said that she would stop him having the money from the insurance office. In reply to the coroner, witness said the deceased persons were on good terms at the time of the fire, and she never heard Mr. Harman threaten any one. Ann FinlaPon, servant to Mrs. Brown (the3last witness), was next called, and said—l left the house of Mr. Harman on the night before the fire, at half-past 10 o'clock. There was only one gas light burning at that time. It was in the kitchen, and was nearly extinguished. There were no com bustible materials on the mantel-shelf, but there were two paper paintings with frames, and they were 9 inches from the gas burner. This room was at the back part of the house, and the apart ments were in the usual state, and I have no know ledge of Mr. Harman having removed any goods. After some words with Mr, Harman, his wife (Mrs. Harman) took away some goods, about Good Fri day last, but the articles were brought back again shortly afterwards because the quarrel between them had been satisfactorily arranged. Mrs. Met.- calf did not pass through the cellar from her own house to Mrs. Brown's residence on the night.hefore the fire. The Metcalfs were very sober persons, and 1 knew of no ill-feeling between them and Mr. Harman. I never heard any threats between them, and they always seemed on friendly terms. George Cole, the sub-engineer of the Watling street Engine-station, was recalled, and said that he had made an examination of the premises of Mr. Harman since the fire, and lie was of opinion that the flames fiat broke out in the shop. Barton, the fire-escape man from Shoreditch, stated that he assisted in getting the engine and the fire-escape to the scene of the fire. He had charge of the latter machine, and in consequence of the flames which were issuing from the windows, he found it impracticable to place the escape against the burning building. He therefore passed through No. 28 on to the roof, and got into the attic by the , window, to assist Cole, the engineer, who was then in charge of the deceased persons on the second floor. James Vicat, a watchman, said—On Saturday morning last, at about three o'clock, I was passing the front of the premises. I saw flames issuing from the upper part of the door of Mr. Harman's shop. I went to the back of the house, and saw Mr. Harman, who was excited, and exclaimed, " Where is my bull-dog." I assisted Mr. Harman over the wall of the yard. He returned with the dog in his arms. The animal was afterwards loosened, and ran away. Mr. Harman was not sober. Wm. Adams, a licensed victualler, landlord of the Three Compasses public-house, nchor-street, was then called by the wish of the son of the deceased man Metcalf. He said, Mr. Harman, on Saturday morning, about a quarter past 12, came into my parlour and asked for a ladder, as he wished to go ,to bed. I told my potman to take the ladder with Mr. Harman, and bring it back again- The potman returned with the ladder, accompanied by Mr. Harman, who said, "I am a ruined man, I have been robbed of everything I possessed. I have a great mind to cut my thr at," but he did not harm himself. He added, "My wife has robbed me, and lam a ruined man." Mr. Harman, at half-past 1 o'clock, took a can containing two quarts of half and-half away from my house, He had been drink ing, but was capable of taking care of himself. Mr. Harman asked my son and others to accompany him to his residence, but all declined, as they were going home to bed. I took the knife from Mr. Harman. The Coroner said he was of opinion the case could only be properly investigated by being sent to ano ther tribunal; and the inquiry was adjourned. The Coroner then called in the son of the deceased man (Metcalf), and after a short consultation, Mr. Hannan was given into the custody of Inspector Dandy, who immediately conveyed the accused in a cab to the Leman-streetpolice-station, Goodman's fields, where he was charged with wilfully setting fire to his own premises, whereby the lives of the deceased persons were sacrificed. .• The prisoner will be taken before the sitting ma gistrate at Arbour-street, Stepney, to answer the charge of arson. The inquest was then formally adjourned for ad ditional evidence. son, Dux CAN C. Homo. *The Uncle Simon" mentioned in this letter is the late Mr. Simon Fraser, Commissioner of Delhi, who was one of the first victims of the mutiny. IRELAND. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE LATE MONETARY CRISIS. The Mayo Constitution announces a case of mer: cantile embarrassment in that county, which ap pears to have caused very general regret there. The old and respected firm of Pinkerton and Thompson have been compelled to suspend payment. These gentlemen became so far back as 1822 the successors of the wealthy house of Smith and Patten, of West port, and throughout a long career maintained a high character as mercantile men. The amount of their liabilities is not stated. in order to meet the demands of their creditors they have offered for sale the residue of their private property, consisting of mills, dwelling-houses, farms, arida salmon fishery, MR. JUSTICE MOORE. The Evening Post states that Mr. Justice Moore, one of the judges of the Queen's Bench, whose state of health for some time past had been anything but satisfactory, is now considerably better. It was believed that, in the event of a continuance of his illness, he contemplated a journey to the south of Europe. A PUZZLED AMERICAN .EDITOR.—Broke into the pocket of the editor of this paper, sometime during the week, a ten-cent. piece. 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" The judge then began by apprising those pre sent that her Majesty had been graciously pleased by her Order in Council of the 27th of August last to increase the jurisdiction of the Consular Court at Constantinople, to alter in some respects the manner of proceeding in civil and criminal process, and to modify the relations of the different Con sular officers in the Levant, as far as regards their magisterial and judicial functions with the Con sulate-General of Constantinople. "In these three points the changes which the Order in Council makes with respect to the Con sular jurisdiction in the Levant are all comprised. " Before explaining these changes in detail Mr. Hornby pointed out that they were made in order to secure upon some safe and satisfactory basis the civil and criminal jurisdiction in the Levant, and that therefore it was expected that the British mer cantile community in the Levant would give its hearty co-operation to carry them out effectually.. " After alluding to the work of the Commission which was charged in 1856 to inquire into the state of the Consulate-General, Mr. Hornby entered into a detailed explanation of the character of the new Supreme Consular Court, and indicated, as far as it is possible now, the course which will be taken for the future with reference to the administrationlof justice in this and the other Consular Courts of the Levant. "The first point is the separation of the judicial from the Consular functions. This separation has at this moment only reference to the Consulate- General of Constantinople, for which place the judge of the Supreme Consular Court is specially appointed. As for the other Consulates in the Le vant, it affects them only in so far as it transfers the appeal from their decisions to the judge, in stead of to the ambassador at Constantinople. But a certain liberty has been left to the judge in cases of felony occurring in outlying.districts, when it will be his duty to provide for their careful investi gation and for the effectual punishment of the cri minal. " Thus the first and most necessary step is done, viz., to unite the whole civil and criminal jurisdic tion of all the Consulates in the Levant. Hitherto each Consular jurisdiction was more or less an inde pendent power, from which, indeed, there was a nominal appeal to the Embassy,. burr this latter, overwhelmed with political business, could only in effectually attend to the appeals which came under its notice. On the other hand, a great many cases, especially the claims against the Turkish Govern ment, were brought from the first instance under the notice of the Embassy, without any reference to the Consul to whose jurisdiction they would have properly belonged. The consequence was a hope less confusion, and a waste of that energy which ought to have been concentrated on questions of importance. The dragomans of the Embassy had continually to run about to the Turkish police, and other subordinate courts, wasting their time in in significant squabbles, which were rather calculated to detract from that authority which they ought to have been anxious to preserve. "As the order in Council says that its disposi tions are not to be considered final, and that improvements will be introduced accordingly as they will be required, it may be hoped that this separation between the judicial and other func tions of the Consuls will be still further ex tended. If in the capital the union which existed hitherto has only produced delay and confusion, in the provinces it has produced other evils like wise. I don't think I am wrong in saying that there ig not alingle Consul in the Levant who has had a judicial education ; the Consular Court in the provinces is therefore a kind of patriarchal j urisdic tion, in which the Consul rules as despot. This presses specially on the poorer part of the commu nity, who have not the means of appealing from arbitrary decisions. With almost all other greater nations it is a rule not to appoint anybody who has not bad at least the rudiments of a legal education, and in all larger places a legal adviser is invariably attached to the Consul as his chcsncellier. This might be imitated with advantage in the British Consulates of the Levant. In the meantime it would not be impossible, perhaps, that either the judge from limoi m s t el f ot i o m r e o t a t e of h c irc ui i t s to th the personnel m 0 r s e h oul d mk importantae g in dis to tr t i h c e ts a . d " With the establishment of a separate Con sular i a n c se places r t a o t i s o u n pe o r f i j n u t s e t n i c d o a i n n d i th n es v e a o s t u i fl a y t i e n Court the functions anti the power of the Consular jurisdiction have been considerably augmen ted. Until now the power of the Consulate - General ex tended only to a fine of 100 doll. and imprison ment for one year. The Judge of the Supreme Consular Court has the power to fine to the amount of 5001., and may sentence criminals to transporta tion for life or for any lesser period, or to penal servitude, deportation, and imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding two years. The only crimes that do not come under his jurisdiction are those of a capital nature. In such cases, having taken the depositions in writing and on oath of the witnesses, and having bound over such witnesses, being British subjects, to ap pear when and wherever they shall be called upon to do so, he has to send the accused to England or Malta, or, if an lonian, to Corfu. It is rather to be regretted that,suoh au exception should have been made, for it gives a chance to the worst species of criminals to escape. Witnesses who are British subjects may be bound over to ap pear in England or any other place where the offence is to be tried ; but if they are, they cannot be forced, and their evidence must be sent in writ ing, which in English courts is of much less, or no value. Besides this, if it be an lonian or Maltese who has committed the crime, it will be rather dif ficult to fi n d a j ur y i n e ith er place to convict him of a capital offence. Finally, the impression whi.h punishment produces is entirely lost by sending the criminal away, and no native will ever be convinced that this is not done expressly to withdraw him from punishment. With the regular proceeding which will be now introduced, and with the estab lishment of a jury of six respectable British sub jects for all cases of felony, there is every possi bility of trying fairly the case according to the forms and maxims of British law, on oral instead of written evidence, and surrendering the criminal to the Turkish authorities for execution. " Mr. Hornby drew the attention of his audience to the right conferred on the British community to have cases of felony tried by a jury. This institu tion was rather liable to be misunderstood ; hither to the experience of the merchants was confined to namedb s y ho ti u le ld mixed cases iu c i v il ma tt ers, w h ere it i s a rule that the question decided b y two one be claimant and de fendant. As all kinds of subterfuge and chicane were employed to defeat the ends of justice in these cases, the honour of being an arbiter was studiously avoided as involving a great deal of trouble, and it was to be apprehended that the duty of jurymen would be viewed in the same light. Mr. Hornby tried to impress on his hearers that they had to consider this, not as a burden, but as a right, lof which every Englishman ought to be proud. "Another subject which Mr. Hornby touched upon, and which is of great importance, is the sys tem of procedure in civil cases, which has been hitherto very imperfect and lengthy. According to the order in Council the judge has a right to estab lish from time to time rules of practice, and these rules have to be as much as possible in conformity with those of the County Courts in England. No thing better could have been devised to put an end to the lengthy forms which were used hitherto, involving a great deal of time, opening the door to every kind of chicane, and feeding a number of petty lawyers, who got up cases of a most desuls tory nature. "A summary, and, as far as possible, verbal pro cedure, will put an end to all this, and the right now ve•ted in the judge to award costs gives him the power to deter people from making a profit by litigation. "Mr. Hornby explained his ideas on the way in which evidence will be taken in the Supreme Con sular Court. Hitherto the procedure was so loose that most cases had to be judged on hearsay, or second-hand evidence, and it was quite entertain ing to hear the vaguest report brought forward as evidence. For instance, a man had heard from another man that he had seen or heard the fact in question. If the court asked to see the man who had seen or heard, he was either not to be found or had heard the fact related by a third person, who never was found. Now no secondary evidence I will be admitted so long as original evidence can be procured ; as for second-hand evidence, it will be altogether rejected. " In civil cases, the Consular Court at Constan tinople will be final in all cases of appeal from the outlying consuls, but in cases where the judge has decided' a case sitting as a judge of first instance an appeal will lie to the Privy Council in England, provided that the subject-matter iu dispute in volves a larger amount than 1,0001. "Mr. Hornby gave some excellent advice to his hearers about the mixed cases in which foreigners are concerned. He alluded to the failure of these mixed commissions in practice, however plausible they might sound in theory, and be said that he was rather inclined to attribute this failure to the mistaken notion on the part of many individuals who served in such commissions that they have to act the part rather of advocates for their respec tive countrymen th an o f judicial arbitrators, showing neither favour nor partiality. He ex pressed his hope that an arrangement will soon be come to between the different Governments which will put an end to these commissions ; but in the meantime he assured them of the anxious desire of her Majesty's Government to protrect the per formance of any judicial function exercised in the British name from even a suspicion of undue bias, and henceforth the legal vice-consul, or the other legal officer of the court, will always be a member of such a mixed commission. Rules of procedure will be framed, besides, which shall insure a prompt decision. Mr. Hornby views in the same spirit the proceedings with tits Turkish tribunals. In all cases of sufficient importance an officer of the court will go together with the dragoman. "If Mr. Hornby, as I hope, will do away with the abuses which have hitherto prevailed in this respect, he will confer a great benefit not only on the Turkish Gavel nmen t,but likewise on the British community. There are many complaints against the; chicanery of the Turkish tribunals, calculated to elude justice, but the fault is just as great on the other side. The most unreasonable demands are constantly made, and turned often into a source of annoyance to the Government itself. Experiencing continually a spirit of unfairness from the Euro peans, it seems not unnatural that they should have recourse to cunning, the only expedient which re• mains to them against the pressure ; but let them once see that they are dealt with fairly, and there is no doubt that they will heartily co-operate. "As regards casts of bankruptcy, the power of the nowronsular Court is exactly the same as that of a Commissioner of Bankruptcy in England. An officer of the court wilt act in the capacity of an official assignee to assist the trade assignees in get ting in the property of the bankrupt, and in all cases of fraudulent bankruptcy prompt and decisive punishment will follom " There is certainly no country in Earope in which cases of fraudulent bankruptcy are so fre quent as here. Indeed, it is not uncommon to hear the fortune of a man estimated by the number of bankruptcies he has made, and there was so little chance of punishing the defaulter that in almost all cases the creditors preferred to make whatever arrangement they could with the debtor, rather than to declare lain a bankrupt. Such arrangements are made every day, and it is high time, at any rate as far as British subjects are con cerned, that something should be done. " The judge has the right to introduce a system of fees and stamps, which will be published and hung up in the Consular Court. " This was the tenor of Mr. Hornby's explana tion of the order in Council. As he contributed so much during his former stay here to draw the atten tion of the British Government to this subject, and as the order in Council is mainly based on his sug gestions, it may be confidently expected that he will be able to carry it out effectually. There will be, no doubt, numberless obstacles which have been heaped up by years of habit and routine, but they will not resist firmness. Even with the best inten tions this has been impossible hitherto, because the judicial authority was too much subdivided ; no limit was drawn between the different jurisdictions, and no central power existed to control them all and subject them to a common rule. To establish this is the mission of the new Supreme Consular Court. To fulfil it will not a little_contribute to raise the British name and British institutions in the eyes of the natives, who are perhaps the more impressed by justice and fairness the more seldom they can obtain it themselves." ought to be so in ours ; and it woulsi be so were it not for the deep social ramifications of the dynasty of generals' nephews. "I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " A CIVILIAN.". DRAIN OF SILVER TO THE EAST. (Front the Daily News.) During a period of eighteen months the value of money has been unusually high, varying from 51 1 up to 10 per cent. Setting on one side the extra ordinary pressure witnessed during the last two months, which must be regarded as altogether ex ceptional and transient, it may be interesting, in the last days of 1857, to draw attention to the most re cent fea,tures,of a movement which has powerfully contributed to the maintenance of a high rate of in terest. We allude to the drain of silver to the East, which each year in'reases in severity. From the an nual tables prepared by Mr. James Low we have compiled the following statement, showing the total quantity of gold and silver shipped direct from England in each month during the year 1857, by the steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental Company : . Gold. Silver. Total. January ... £9,973 £787,550 £797,523 February March 19,486 1,560,261 ],579,747 April May 4,588 1,207,634 1,302,222 Juno 7,457 ],896,772 1,904,229 July - 1,395,177 1,409,031 August. - 21,727 2,086,250 2,107,977 September - 22,209 1,341,175 1,363,331 oe'lob3r November December Total £269,275 £16,795,232 £17,084,507 The following table shows the destination of these enormous supplies, despatched during the year 1857 : To Gold. Silver. Alexandria £2,280 nil. Aden Mauritius ..... Coylon. 76,496 1,136 Bombay Madras 97,783 403,616 Calcutta Penang Singapore Hong Kong 950 2,048,795 Cant0n....... Shanghai nil. 2,398,723 Total £269,275 £16,795,232 The total shipments of specie from Great Britain to the ports mentioned for seven yews are thus stated : Gold. Silver. 1351. 1852 1853 1854 1355 1856 1857 TJtal for 7 years... £4,700,816 £17,513,115 Even these figures, however, do not represent the full extent of the Eastern drain, for the fol lowing additional remittances have been despatched to the East from the Mediterranean—i.e., from Marseilles, Gibraltar, and Malta, but chiefly from the first-named port—during the last fivejyears, viz.:— 1853 1854 ~ 1855 1856 ~ 1857 .. Gold. Silver. £93,528 £848,362 48,456 1,4)1,014 213,239 74,039 2.59,986 W T e e ta t i h i u n s s aTi r ;;; .. at t 7 ll l9 e 24 fo B llowing astonishing £9,164.221 facts :—During the year now closing more than 16 millions and three-quarters sterling in silver have been despatched from Southampton to the East ; including the sums remitted via Marseilles, the silver absorbed by the East in 1857 exceeds 20 millions sterling ; and during the last seven years the amount taken from various parts of Europe by Asia is 56,677,3331.- This is altogether exclusive of gold. There is no movement in the history of commerce more deserving of study than this, for its influence upon the money market is direct and important, and every branch of trade is thus affected by it. It upsets, too, many of the prevalent theories respect ing the probable influence of the gold discoveries ; for of the twenty millions in silver 'transmitted to the East from Europe in 1857, the larger propor tion has been drawn direct from the circulating medium of countries which have a double standard of value. It may be asserted that the amount of silver absorbed this year by Asia is nearly equal to the combined production of gold in Australia and California. In so far, then, as the year 1857 is con cerned, the new gold drawn from the bowels of the earth, though of such enormous amount, does little more than fill up the vacuum occasioned in the sil ver circulation of Europe by the Eastern demand. Under the stimulus imparted by the production of gold a vast fabric of new trade and speculation has been reared up ; but during the last year or two the new gold seems to have become insensibly dispersed throughout Europe, merely occupying the room of the silver displaced. An accumulation of gold in the European banks has thus been rendered impos sible; a return to low rates of discount has been every where prevented ; and the immense transac tions, commercial and speculative, which have been entered into have been, to a great extent, deprived of the expected support. The disastrous commer cial collapse of the autumn of 1857 is in no small degree traceable to these considerations. It is interesting to remark, however, that the crisis which set in at the close of the year has given a considerable check to the drain of silver. In the first quarter of 1857, the shipments of that metal from Southampton were 3,971,091/. ; in the second quarter, 4,703,258/. ; in the third quarter, 4,822,6021., and in the fourth quarter, 3,293,2811. Of the latter sum ono million formed an exceptional remittance. being despatched by the East India Com pany. In the single month of August no less than 2,086.2501. in silver was sent from Southampton, whilst in December the amount was 737,1691. Indeed, deducting the half million remitted for the Indian Government, the mercantile remittances in December have been only 237,169/. This is not surprising, for at a time when the stringent opera tion of the Bank Act was hurrying the country into the vortex of panic, and when there was a prospect that the maintenance of the law would bring the entire commerce of the country to a stand still, and the whole community, including the Bank of England and every other bank, to suspension of payment, there could be little inducement to send silver to India. Latterly, too, the parties engaged in these bullion operations have either found money too difficult of obtainment, or have been satisfied to employ it at ten or eleven per cent., without en tering into fresh transactions in connexion with the East. Now that the rates of discount in the open market have virtually fallen two per cent., and that a reduction of at least two per cent. in the terms of the Bank of England is confidently expected, the restriction placed upon the silver drain will be in some degree removed ; and it becomes a question of interest to what extent will the movement re- vive ? No announcement has yet been made of ani intention on the part of the East India Company to send out fresh sums in silver, but Government have already clopped a lrint that Parliament may be called upon to extend to the Indian Treasury some " temporary assistance." In this case, fresh remittances of silver to the East, on State account, may be hereafter witnessed. It must not be for gotten, too, that the East India Company at pre sent draw scarcely any blls on India, keeping up their rate of exchange at a point almost prohibi tory, with the express object of deterring such ap plications. This circumstance operates as an in ducement to remittances of silver Eastwards. It is very possible that the news of the crisis here, and of the fall in the value of produce, may give the Eastern Exchanges a turn in our favour, as was the case after the panic of 1847 ; but, bearing in mind the large remittances that must be made to India for account of the various railway companies, it would be very hazardous to assume, as some per sons are disposed to do, that silver will flow back to Europe from the East. We are rather inclined to look for a continued efflux, but upon a less active scale. SUICIDE WITH VITRIOL. —Yesterday a very determined act of self-destruction, committed under very frightful circumstances, was brought under the notice of the co roner for West Middlesex, by Mr. Davis, the summoning officer for the district. It appears that the deceased, a woman named Margaret Pervil, aged about 60 years, resided at 1, Margaret-row, Marchmont-street, Bruns wick-square, and there had never been any thing material in her manner which could lead to the supposition that she would commit so dreadful and rash an act. However, as she did not make her appearance at the usual hour on Tuesday morning, her room was entered, when the hap. less woman was found lying in the bed quite dead. A bottle, which had contained some oil of vitriol, was by her side, and her mouth and throat, on being examined by the medical man who was called in, fully testified to the fact that she had swallowed a quantity of that burning fluid. No cause whatever can be assigned for the determined act. An inquiry, it is expected, will be held on Saturday into the dreadful affair, GENBRALS'NEFIIE IFS. The following letter has been addressed to the editor of the Times : " Sir,—The admirable report of the Commis sioners on Military Education, published in the spring of this year, Dilates that in the armies of continental Europe it is considered an advantage to the public service that a general officer should be surrounded by the most skilful and best educated military family his country can supply. With us, on the contrary, it has been hitherto tolerated that the personal staff of a general officer should be jobbed solely for the convenience and advancement of his sons and,nephews. " Grave inconvenience to the service, incalculable loss in money and life, and gross injustice to the working officers of the army have resulted from this chronic abuse. It was to be hoped that the new regulations for the better organisation of the staff of the British army would have put a stop to it, and that in future general officers would have been compelled to select their personal staffs from among the students at the new department at Sandhurst. _ . "But the very limited number of which that class is to consist plainly indicates that with the personal staffs of general officers the Minister of War has not ventured to interfere, and that you are premature in declarin that "the dynasty of generals' nephews is at an end.' "It appears that the officers of the rank of lieu tenant-colonel and officers of proved ability in the field are to be exempted tests to which all other candidates for the staff are to be subjected. from the educational " The first exception will qualify every captain in the Guards as well " The second will work thus : —Maj the army for every s it uation on the staff without proof of study or a cqu i rement . Bearskin proceedin g t o take th e as every lieutenant - colonel in or-General of Culdstreams command, say, in a Caffre war, will, as usua l , ap p o int his son Charley Bearskin, Dolman, of the Huss ars , as his and his nephew Dick s two aides-de - camp ; and he will be quite sure to do so, for it is the time-honoured custom of the service, and he would be a bad father and a worse uncle if he ab stained from removing thew lads from the tempta tions of London and Dublin, and giving them a chance of seeing a little real service in a pleasant and easy way. " As soon as the general and his aides have had a brush with the Caffres, he painfully composes his despatch, towards the end of which he stat( s that he cannot forbear recording the reckless devotion of Cornet Dolman, of the Hussars, and the remark able coolness under fire of Ensign and Lieutenant Bearskin, of the Coldstreancs, who remained by his side during the whole day and afforded him the most important assistance. , f-From that day forward Di c k Dolman and Charley Bearskin became officers of proved ability in the field, and as such will be eligible for any staff employment they can contrive to obtain. "It appears to me that when all the lieutenant colonels in the army who hare g ot good interest at the Horse Guards, all the captains in the Guards and all the young aides-de-camp who have been favourably mentioned in despat c h es b y th e ir fathers' and uncles', or their fathers' an d mothers', or uncles' and aunts' personal friends, havebeon accom modated to their liking on the general staff of the army, very few crumbs of the loaf will remain to be divided among the 30 students who are invited to qualify themselves for Staff employment at the new department at Sandhurst. I cannot forget what occurred when the war with Russia broke out. We had then a senior department at Sandhurst, at which officers were invited—as now — to qualify th emselves f or staff employment. But during the long peace the Horse Guards authorities never thought of employing those students on the staff of the army a bit the more because they had studied successfully for that purpose. " When our army was going to the East the late Lord Hardinge, the Commander-in-Chief, stated in the House of Lords that the authorities at the Horse Guards, anxious to get the best men for staff em ployment, had written to Sir George Scovell, the Governor of Sandhurst, to ask him the names of the successful students there in the senior depart ment during the last few years. It appeared, therefore, that the names of officers who had been studying under the supposition that their labours would ultimately place them upon the staff were not even known at the Horse Guards until the war broke out. "Unless the personal staffs of general officers are placed in the same category as to educational acquirements as the general staff of the army, very little in the way of staff reform will have been effected. It is so in all other armies of Europe ; it ~.~~~` /,, TILE GREAT SLANDER CASE. The hopes of. a conclusion before Christmas are becoming more faint. No less than eight witnesses were examined yesterday on the part of the defen dant, and it is said that the list is not yet exhausted. The trial is to be resumed this morning. EQUALISATION OF PO , )R-IZA2'ES IN THE METROPOLIS. Last evening an influential meeting of the ratepayers of the borough of Greenwich was held in the hall of the Greenwich Literary Institution, for the pnrpose of con sidering the propriety of adopting a petition to Parlia • ment for an equalisation of the poor-rates throughout the metropolis. Mr. JOHN TOWNSEND, M.P. for the borough, was unanimously voted to the chair, and addressed the meet. ing at considerable length, observing that in no part of the metropolis more than that of the borough of Green wich was the evil of the present fistem of levying poor rates felt. (Hear, hear.) If the ratepayers of Green wich looked at the large Government establishments in the borough occupying the best sites of land, and .hutting out merchant shipowneri without contributing one penny t , the relief of the poor, they would see the injustice practised upon therh. (Loud cheery.) If they looked at certain rich parishes they would the amount of rate there levied for the relief of the poor was not more than 61 in the pound, but in their own parish they were called upon to pay a rate of 4s. or ss. in the pound. In St. Paul, Deptford, it was 44., but in the adjoining parish of St. Nicholas, Deptford, only a few weeks since, a rate of 3s. in the pound on the quarter was made, and for years past that parish bad paid not loss than 13.. in the pound per annum. (Shame.) The present move ment partook neither of a party nor political purpose, but was a question in which the ratepayers individually, were deeply interested. Mr. SMITH, in moving the first resolution, expressive of the opinion of the meeting that the destitute poor should be relieved equally by every member of the corn munit ,;, I directed attention to the burdeus inflicted upon himself and other ratepayers in Greenwich, by the poor thrown upon rates by Greenwich Hospital, which esta blishment altogether escaped from payment towards their support. Mr. SMALLWOOD seconded the motion. Mr. GILBERT, chairman of the association calling the meeting, entered into an elaborate and statistical state ment, showing the inequalities at present existing, and that by a uniform assessment not snore than a rate of 11. in the pound would be required annually. Ocher resolutions, embodying a petition to Parliament were then proposed and agreed to, and, after a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated. RATING OF THE LIVERPOOL DOOKEL—We understand that Mr. Rees, the district auditor, has intimated to Ur. Church warden Woodruff that in his coming audit he intends to surcharge the churchwardens and overseers of this parish with the sum of 20,0001. uncollected poor rates on the asssessment of the Liverpool docks. Should the auditor carry out his present intention, there will be nothing left for the parochial authorities but an appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench in order to have it decided whether the docks are legally liable to be rated to the relief of the poor. Should the Court decide that the docks are liable, the rate-payers will be at once relieved of a burden to the extent of at least 6d. in the pound. Should it be decided that, as the law at present Stands, there is no power to rate the docks, there stillr pa leu l ar: the question w h e ther it is desirablet ap p l y to meat for ranae m , v. tforratinerag the dock e tateto the relief of the poor.—Liverpool g a olloway's Ointment and Pali, bad leg.—F. Bird; gardener, G bad eorges -grove , e.rlolloway, was afflicted for 20 years caused by a blow on the shin, which a n [ unparalleled ADvEnv E ill B un T r e j o — f s w o i ,:: ultimately formed itself into an a ngry wound, he con salted s everal medical men and tr ie d almost everything recommendedhim by sympathising friends without effect, as a last resource he determined to give folio. wa y's Ointment a trial, and after persevering for a far months was completely cured, and now enjoys the best of health.—Sold by all Medicine vendors throughout the world, at Professor Holloway's Establishments, 244, Strand, London ; and 80, Maiden-lane, New York; by A. Stampa, Constantinople ; A, Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta.