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Thillh i gli ',"'; nr. ?..,. .7 : 1-,,,-'7.-4a1k .. . z „,.. r.„. : ..,,,,:, . ~ , 2 %y y zy 7 t 1~- =,~,~ r G~ /- z ~.~-- MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, at the BAZA AR, Baker-street. —A full length Model of the Hero, General HAVELOCK, is now added ; also to the separate ehamber, NANA SA TlM—Admission, Is. ; extra rooms, 6d. Open from Eleven till dusk; and from Seven till Ten. // ,~ v y~Gz'~~ -- LIICKNOW and DELHI.—GREAT GLOBE, Leicester-square. — DIORAMA of LUCKNOW and the SIEGE and CITT of DELFII ; its Streets, Palaces, and Fortifications—at 1,3, and? p.m. INDIA, A DIORAMA. of the CITIES of, with Views of Calcutta, Benares. 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 ONZ HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIFTH ENTER TAINMENT. Seventh week of the JIILLIEN r,uuLEsquE, received nightly With shouts of laughter. Doors open at half-past 7, commence at 8. Stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre. Is.; Private Boxes, 11. Is. Seats can be secured at Mr. Mitchell's, 33, Old Bond street. and at Me Hall. On Thursday and Saturday, it Morning Entertainment, commencing at 3. PROFESSOR WILJALBA FRIKELL ST. JAMMS',4 ATRE.—PHYSICAL and N.kTURAL MAGIC. -TWO HOURS OF ILLUSIONS.—Saturday Afternoons at 3, and Every Evening at S (except Thursday and Friday, 1 ee. 24th and 2'stit). Stalls, 55.: tialcony Stalls, 45.; Bexes, 35.; Pit, 21.; Gallery, Is. ; Private Boxes, two guineas; one guinea and a half, and one guinea.—Places to be secured at Mr. Mitchell's, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. A DILAIDE GALLERY, Lowther Arcade, .4CS. Strand.—Great success of NI. Lamotte's Havelock Schottische. and Grand Fantasia from " Il Trovatore," and the New Caledonian Quadrille by Charles Hill. Principal cornet-a-piston, X Boulcourt. Open every evening at half-past S. Dancing commences at 9. The Argyll Band is to be engaged for private Balls. B. It. E IGINELL, Ma nager. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM AND GALLERY Oh` SCIENCE, 3, Tichborne -street, facing the Haymarket . This Institution presents entirely new futures and offers unpre eedented &Unctions. Its object will be .o combine Natural with RXPERIMENTAL 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 Itamed the larue Oxyhydrogen Microscope, GUENAL'S AP PAREIL (now first introduced). The latest improvements in Electric and other Apparatus (including RUIIM YORFIi"S WORLD-RENOWNED COIL), Illustrations of Micro scopic Anatomy, Dissolving Views of Physiological Phenomena, neon a principle never before attempted, &c. Lectures are delivered dully oft the various branches of Science, and their application to the Hume), 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 10 o'clock. Admission to the whole Building, One Shilling. Illustrated Cata hhrues, Sixpence. Programmes and Lectures gratis on application, Or by post free for six stamps. 111 H E ROYAL POLYTECHNIC. CHRI4TbfAS HOLIDAYS.—This Institution, which has for twenty years amused and Instructed /he public, will present the fellowlng novelties:- 1. A Now Musical and Pictorial Entertainment by G. Armytage Cooper. EM. (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., and the very beau. Una Dissolving Views include Novel Optical Effects of the most Pleasing nature. 2. Remarkable Phantasmngorial Illusions, which will be produced With an apparatus of an entirel . new mechan cal construction, and, With many other Curious Experiments, will illustrate a Lecture on "Natural Magic," by J. D. Malcolm, Esq. The Misses Greenhead Will accompany these effects on the Piano, Violin, and Violoncello. 3. New Views in the Cosmoramic Exhibition. 4. Increaseef the justly admired Dissolving Scenery, illustrating the Rebellion in India, and Portraits of Clive, Lord Canning, H.R.H. 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 Seattle of Coals from the Pit to the Fireside." 6. " The Leviathan :" the overwhelming size of this great steam- Alp 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, and pretty things for the girls at the Gratuitous Distribution, commencing on Thursday Morning and Thursday Evening, Dec. 31. Admission to the whale, Is.; children under ten, and schools, halt-price. DRESS AND FROCK COATS of Superfine Black Cloth, 21. 15s. Od. to Three Guineas. Black Dress Troweers, 11. ss. Od. A choice Selection in Dress Walstcoatings. Excellence with Economy. GEORGE HOBSON, Fashionable tailor, 57, Lombard-street. INVESTMENTS EQUAL TO CONSOLS.- I. A FREEHOLD GROUND-RENT of 2491. Bs., secured on estate producing 1.4001. a-year. To he sold for 5,5001. 2. A (}ROUND-RENT of 581. ss. for 90 years, equally well 'tented. Price 1,090/. 2. An Improved well-secured RENT of 751. for 86 years. Price 46501. _ _ COTTAGES FOR SALE. 4. A COTTAGE RESIDENCE, held for 300 years at 3/. 3s. Me 2001. S. A Small ItESIDENCE near Kew-gardens, held for 99, years at R. Price 2001. ALMSHOUSES FOR SALE. G. A well-areeted ESTATE near Kew•gardens, healthful and 00 1mi:dent for omnibus, rail, or boat. OFFICES AND RESIDENCES TO LET. _ 7. The OFFICES, 25, Poultry, and 13, Gresham-street. The IgESIDENCES (under 201. rent) at Dalston, Holloway, and Kew, r ePlete with every convenience. Apply to Palmer and Co., 13, Gresham-street, Guildhall. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.—The exuberance of the feelings amid scenes of gaiety induces the fair an' inuthfhl 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 LOWLANDS' AUXILIARIES OF HEALTH AND BEAUTY are more than usually essential, viz., ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, ror imparting a transcendant lustre to the Hair, and sustaining it in decorative charm. ROWLANDS' KALFDOR lapels a radiant bloom to the Cheek, and a delicacy and softness to the Hands,Arms, and Neck; and ROWLANDS' ODONTO, &stows on the Teeth n Os pe P ar E lt and rsnaors tho Breath sweet and pure. The Patronage of Royalty throughout Europe, their general use by rank and fashion, and the universally known efficacy of these al ttcles eve them a celebrity unparalleled, and render them peculiarly ELEGANT AND SEASONABLE PRESENTS. SOLD Et A. itoWLAND and SONS, 20. Hatton-garden, London; and by Chemists and Perfumers. * f r. BEWARE OF SPURIOUS IMITATIONS ! ! ! TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. CHARLES WATSON, M.D. (Physician to the Bedford Die 1/eillary), 27, Alfred-Place, Bedford-square, London, continues to "sae, on receipt of siz stamps, " THE GUIDE TO SELF - CU RE." Kedlcal Correspondence conducted. The first man of the dcy In these - complaints."—Medical Re view, July. 1856. " The true Guide to those who desire a speedy and private cure." ,University Magazine. The •NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' showing the absurdity of Pe English mode of treating such complaints, will prove a blessing to the afflicted, who may safely and easily regain pristine kealth by 140 Pting the means presented."—Evening Star. DU BARRY'S CELEBRATED INFANTS' FOOD, for DELIC TE INFANTS, CHILDREN, and IN VALIDS. Supersedes the expense and dangers of wet-nursing, is Ire easily digested, and imparts more h ealthful nourishment than Il k acidity, cramps, bowel co m p laints, flatulency, cough, restless- Zees, scrofula, eruptions, are avoide d b y it, and p erfect regularity of system and sound sleep injured. 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 forivarding stamped and addressed envelope to Barry Da Barry mad Co., 57, Itegeut-street, London Prices : —ln Canisters, Is. ; 21.; and 121 b. at 215. The large Canister will be forwarded free of carriage on receipt of Post Office Order. THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY ' Ti nt published, price Is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps, g ELF-PRESERVATION. —A Medical Treatise on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System, and on the cure of Nervous and Physical Debilit y , resulting ; .011 1 vicious habits acquired during the cr itical p assa g e from youth La Manhood, with practical observations on the Physiology of Mar riage in its social, moral, and physical relations. To which are added r emarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden masteries "of Life within Life," and its advantages in detecting, by 4r iaaryexaminatton, the cause and effect o f ever y variet y of these . '"Vlainta, with numerous engravings and cases., BY SAMUEL LAWERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, atrictilated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospita l Medical Societ y , Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to p oint out the fearful con •eilnences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, ';: hich have produced more misery in Youth , de g radation in Man 'ol, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any ether class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret d oubts of their physical condition, and who are conscious of having haz arded the health. happiness, and privileges to which every human being is entiti o o. it is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are Principles of personal management which cannot be violated with ( nt incurring 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 maybe avoided , and , above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional deran g ement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. Published by J. Allen, 201 Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and a 7 be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill; Horne, 19, Leicester-square o rdon, 146, Leadenhall street or from the Author, who may be B edford-square , daily, from 11 till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence , 37 s edford-square, London. „The work may be had in India, of Mr. Von Lii zky, Loll Bazaar ; I.cutta—Messrs. C. and J. Hornmsjee, Apollo - street; Bombay .renlator Office ; Madras—Motussilite Office A , ra Dodsworth; Colo Ceylon ; and of all Booksellers throughout the Colonies. lIEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Patent Office Seal of Great Britahi t _Diplome d'Ecole de Pharmacie Pharmacien de Paris. Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TitiEsEmAß No. 1,2, and 3, prepared in the form of a lozenge, devoid of tastes or smell, and can be carried in the waistcoat pocket. Sold in tin cases, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpeau. Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, 14c ., and adapted for both sexes. TRIESEMAR No. 1 is a Remedy for RE LAXATION, SPERMATORRH(EA, and all the distressing consequences arising from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or too long residence in hot climates. it has restored bodily and sexual strength and vigour to thousands of debilitated individuals who are now in the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manhood; and whatever may be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for MAR. RIAGE, they are effectuall y SEMAß No. subdued by this ll Wonderful Discovery. TRIE., effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of Gonorrhcea, Loth in its mild and aggravated Gleets,-Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of "'lite, Pains of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders which Copaiyi and Cubebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the Mtn of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEIIAR No. 111., the great Continental Remedy f or Syphilis and Secondary Symp. toms. It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, anti all Cute neous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup tions and impurities from the vital stream, as altoeether 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-railing remedy for that clans of di-orders which unfortunately the English Physician treats with Mercury, to the inevitahle lest-tic:- tic -in of the patient's constitution, and which all the the world cannot restore. Price f Is., free by post, Is. Bd. extra to any part of the kingdom; or four cases in one f, r 335., by post, 3s. 91. extra, which saves I Is., and in 5/. cases, whereby there is a saving of 11. 12s. Sold by Daniel Church, 78, Gracechurch-street, City; Bartlett Hooper, 43, King William-street. (four doors from London bridge) ; Watts, 17, Strand ; Prout, 229 Strand; Hannay, 63, Ox ford -street; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Ed. Wards. St. Paul s Churchyard. HUMAN FRAILTY ; a Medical Work , price ts,, post tree, illustrated with 100 engravings, cont a i n i ng the opinions of Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Ricord, te. It gives instruc tions for the perfect restoration of those who are prevented by ha- Pediments from entering into the married st tte, alro showing the dreadful results from early abuse, gonorrhoea, amt syphilis, and the benefits arising trom the chemical tests and examination of the SPormatoza, by the newly-constructed microsc , pe, with powerful lenses. The Author may be consulted Bally acc3rdiug, to the rules in the Book.—Sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Patin - nester-rosy from all agents for tho Ottle tf " Trieseutr." R. HOWARD, burgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet ! 76. street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI FICIAL TEETH ,flied 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 decay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful olcration, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is g taranteed to restore articulation and mastication; and that Mr. Howard's improvement may be within the reach of the most econo nical, he has fixed the charges at the lowest scale possible. De cayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastics tlon.--52, Fleet-street. At hntne from ten till Ave. NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE - 21:TRES ( ithout Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation. Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints" Hysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation, McArthur a, Headache. Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough, A nhyria, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com plaints ate e ff ected by DU BARRY'S delicious REVALENTA AR ARICA FOOD, which restores health without purging, inconvenience, or expense, as it saves fifty times its lost 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 Ss 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."—Curi, No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have been removed by Dn Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham L ng, near Disc, Nortolk."—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Naming Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herta, a cure of extreme ner v3asrmss, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. — Cure No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liver pool : a cure o: ten ye'ti's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita bility. Cure No. 18,216. Dr. Andrew Ure of constipation, dyspep sia.. ervous irritabi ity. Cure No. 31,210. Dr. Sherland of dropsy an d debility. Cure No. 36,212. Captain of epileptic its. Cure No. 42.116 Major Edict of enlargement of the liver and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Alinster of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, vey of diarrhoea and debility. C ure N o . 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer of consumption. Cure No. 32,883. Caro. No. 26, 418 . Dr. Her- 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. 4 , ,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure No 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castleatuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indi 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 h) Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. It. Reeves, ISt, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight years' dis pepsin, 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, ftidlington 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, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Bess, Skibbereen. Core No. 3,906. " Thirteen years cough, indigestion, and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." Important Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious imita tation 8: — The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an injunc tion on the lOth March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, for Imitating " Hu Barry's Ilevalenta Arabica Food." 121 b a l r n . 2 11 2 sin s. tru Th e e ti canSisuittamblTipibac2itsed,dfo;r al2llbc4lisin6adte;s,Siabnldlsw,itillzbfu :gage free, on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Du Barry and Co.. 77, Regent-street, London; Fo rtnum, Mason, and Co.. pur veyors to her Majesty, 182, Pi cca dilly; also at 60, Gracecharch street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheap Side ; 149, Blahopsgate• lltilreet; anQ 150 and 158 Oxford-btrcet (N u . 20,439.) PUBLICATIONS. Now Ready, in foo!scap Bvo., price 25., bound, "" V AIR Y CHARADES. By M. G. AVELINE. London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. fl HRISTMAS SONG-THE GOOD RHEIN ) WINE. By J. GRAY. The Professional and Amateur's most powerful 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 Rama,e and L'Enfant, in Colours. Price 'ls 6d.—Chappell, 50, New Bond-street. Now publishing, price two shillings, bound in cloth, . ~.. FEIST'S RACING RECORD. Edited by ALBER I' FEIST, Editor of the Turf Department of the " Sunday Times," and Re porter of Sporting Intelligence to the London Daily Papers. In addition to other useful information, it will contain a complete Record of the Racing and oteeplechase season in England, Ireland, and Scotland trom the lst of January up to the day of publication, Derby Lots for 1855, and Nominations for all the Principal Races for next yeti*: forming one of the most copious works of reference over published. W. Wright, sporting printer and publisher, Fuiwood's Rents, 1101 born, London. A New Edition, the Fourth.—Just Publiehed, price 55., by poet free, ss. 4(1. N TRUE ds FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with a Vicw t) the Correction of wide-spread Errors in re lation to It Nature, Treatment and Cure. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD, To wh'c'i is added, AN ESSAY ON SEXUAL DEBILITIES. By the Editor. "Br. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi sal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs es, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi sal reader. We trust this may not bo the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which It may be in his power to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of ' Quiet Sympathisers, and ' Medical Friends, ' are mercilessly exposed; and if this bask could find its way into the hands of those who suffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money.... "This volumets well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating 13perinaton - hoia, and to olaais,ttut treat nent upon a more rattan& and physiological balm It ti, therefore, Beefy to do much good.";--Medical Circular. London: li. Baltiere, 219. Regent-street. CONTRACT FOR SUET. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset Mouse, 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 next, at ha:f-past Ono 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 ..... . • ....... ........ 150,000 lbs. In Fifteen equal weekly deliveries, the first of much deliveries to be made by the 16th January, 1858. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the Quet. 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 not 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 t'on 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 at:end at the office on the day of contract, as the nsult 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 " Tender for Suet," and must also be delivered at Somerset-house. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOClATlON.—Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Bating, Esq., M.P. I Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Esq., Thomson Hankey, M.P. Baron L.N. de Rothsehlld,7d.P. TREASURER OF T. 1% BENEVOLENT FUND. —John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. Accumulated fund ..... ...... £95,000 Annual income This Association offers every advantage to all classes desirous 0 assuring. A Benevolent Fund is attached exclusively fee clerks. IWM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. 15, Moorgate-street, December, 1857. • T E INTERNATIONAL LIFE .A.S3UR INCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London. Empowerel by Act of Parliament. for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR VIVORSaws, 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., John Symes, Esq. F.R.S. Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Angustus Blonde!, Esq. Atmurons. Professor Wheestono, F.Tt.R., and Profca3or T. Radford Ywwng. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elllotson, M.D., Cantab , F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.R., La. ♦SSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolbouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. 11fessrs. 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 : Bonus in Permanent Policy I Sum addition Bonns in Re 'uction of taken Age. Assured. to Su is ,Cash. tnnual Pre out in Assured. mitim. - - - --- ---- .£ £s. d. £s. d. £s. d. 1838 155 3,000 867 17 7 424 1 4 56 3 8 1811 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 10 • 32 0 4 1845 59 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 1848 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2 1851 55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7 The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter national Life Assurance Society : The Society was established in 1838. Two-thirds of the protts are divided amongst the assured every five 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 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. EDMOND S. MIES, Chairman. 142, Strand, London, W.C. 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, poet free, on application to the Company's London agent, Mr. JOHN C. Jarrsox, 61, Gracechurch street. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1857. INNS OF COURT. The Council of Legal Education have issued the following rules for the public examination of the students in Hilary Term, 1858 : " The attention of the students is directed to the fol lowing rules of the lons of Court : "As an inducement to students to propose themselves for examination, studentships shall be founded of 50 guineas per annum each, to continue for a period of three years, and one such studentships shall be conferred on the most distinguished student at each public examina tion ; and, further, the examiners shall select and certify the names of three other students who shall have passed the next beet examinations; and the Inns of Court to which such students belong may, if desired, dispense with any terms, not exceeding two, that may remain to be kept by such students previously to their being called to the bar ; provided that the examiners shall not he obliged to confer or grant any studentship or certificate unless they shall be of opinion that the ex amination of the students they select has been such as entitles them thereto. "At every call to the bar those students who have passed public examination and either obtained student ship or a certificate of honour shall take rank in seniority over all other students whe shall be called on the same day. " No student shall be eligible to be called to the bar who shall not either have attended during one whole year the lectures of two of the Readers, or have satis factorily passed a public exaalination. "Rule; for the Public Ex unination. of Candidates for Honours or Certificates entitling Students to be called to the Bar. "An examination will be held in Hilary Term next, to which a student of any of the Inns of Court, who is desirous of becoming a candidate for a studentship or honours, or of obtaining a certificate of fitness for being called to the bar, will be admissible. "Each student proposing to submit himself for ex amination will be required to enter his name at the trea surer's-office of the Inn_of Cpe—tn_ witich be belongs Gw or befbre Thursday, the 31st Dec. inst., and be will further be required to state in writing whether his object in offering himself for examination is to compete for a studentship or other honourable distinction, or whether he is merely desirous of obtaining a certifiuste prelimi nary to a call - to the bar. "The examination will commence on Thursday, 7th Jan. next, and will be continued on the Friday and Saturday following. " It Will take place in the Ranchers' Reading-room of Lincoln's-inn, and the doors will ba closed 10 minutes after the time appointed for the commencement of the examination. " The examination by printed questions will be con ducted in the following order ; "Thursday morning, Jan. 7, at half-past 9, on Con stitutional Law and Legal History ; in the afernoon, at half-past 1, on Equity. "Friday morning, Jan. 8, at half-past 9, on Common Law ; in the afternoon, at half-past 1, on the Law of Real Property, &c. " Saturday morning., Jan. 9, at half-past 9, on Juris prudence and the Civil Law ; in the afternoon, at half past 1, a paper be given to the students, including questions bearing upon all the foregoing subjects of examination. " Tbe oral examination will be conducted in the same order, during the same hours, and on the same subjects as those already marked out for the examination by printed questions, except that on Saturday afternoon there will be no oral examination. • " The oral examination of each student will be con ducted apart from the other students, and tho character of that examination will vary according as the student is a candidate for honours or a studentship, or desires simply to obtain a certificate. " the oral Examination and printed questions will be founded on the books below mentioned, regard being had, however, to the particular object with a view to which the student presents himself for examination. "In determining the question whether a student has passed the examination in such a manner as to entitle him to be called to the bar, the examiners will principally have regard to the general knowledge of law and jurisprudence which he has displayed. "A student may present himself at any number of examinations until he shall have obtained a certificate. " A student who shall obtain a certificate may present himself a second time for examination as a candidate for the studentship, but only at one of toe three examinations immediately succeeding that at which he shall have ob tained such certificate, provided that if any student so presenting himself shall not succeed in obtaining the studentship his name shall not appear in the lid. " Students who have kept more than 11 terms shall not be admitted to an examination for the studentship. " The Reader on Constitutional Law and Legal His tory proposes to ermine on the following subjects : "He will expect all who present themselves for examination to possess a general knowledge of the lead ing events in English history. "He will expect the candidates for honours to be well acquainted with the chapters in Mr. Hallam's "History of the Middle Ages" on the English Constitution, with the chapters in Hallam's " Constitutional History" which treat of the reigns of E , izibeth, of the Stuarts, of King William and Queen Anne, with so much of Rapin and Tindal, and of Belsham or Maoaulay, as relates to that period. " He will expect them to be acquainted with the appendices of Mr. Home from the time of Henry VII. downwards ; with Lord St. Leonard's " Preface to Gil bert on Uses ;" with the notes of Mr. Butler on " Coke'd Littleton," which gives the history of Uses and Trusts, and an account of the Progress of Sabinfervlation. He will expect them also to be acquainted with the most remarkable State Trials from the time of Elizabeth to the acces-ion of George I. "The candidates for a pass will, moreover, be required to possess an accurate knowledge of the reigns of Elizabeth and the Stuart Kings, with the events of the Revolution and the Act of Settlement, and with the State Trials dur• iog the reign of Charles 11. "The Reader on Equity proposes to examine in the following hooks : "1. 'Smith's Manual of Equity Jurisprudence, Mit ford on the Pl-achngs in the C')urt of Chancery, Intro duction'—chap. 1, secs. 1 and 2 ; chap. 2, sec. 1, part 1 (the first three pages) ; chap. 1, sec. 2, part 2 (the first two pages) ; chap. 2, sec. 2, part 3 ; chap. 3. The Act for the Improvement of the Jurisdiction of Equity, 15th and 16th of Victoria, chap. 86. _ _ "2. The cases and notes contained in the first vol. of White and Tudor's Leading Cases ; and the cases of Bassett v. Noswortby,' Le Neve ♦. Le Neve," Robin• son v. Pea," Penn v. Lord Baltimore,' and Howard v. Harris,' in the 241 volume, w ith the notes on those cases. Candidates for certificates of baying parsed a tsatie factory examination will be expected to be well acquainted with the books mentioned in the first of the above clae4es. "Candidates for a studentship or honours will be examined in the books mentioned In the two classes. "The Reader on the Law of Real Property proposes to examine hi the following books and subjects : " 1. ' Joshua Wiliams on the Law of Real Property.' " 2. On the Alienation of Real Estate by Tenants in Tail, 3d and 4th of William IV., c. 74. "3. On the Alienation of the Real and Personal Pro perty respectively of Married Women. "4. Hayes on the Common Law Uses and Trusts. "5. ' Hayes on Conveyancing ; chaps. 1-4 ; fifth edition. "Candidates for honours will be examined on all the foregoing subjects, and candidates for a certificate on those heads under 1,2, and 3. 41 The Reader on Jurisprudence and the Civil Law proposes to examine candidates for honours on the fol lowing subjects : " 1. The Elements of the Roman Law of Testamen tary Inheritance and Legacy—' Mackeldey's Systetna Julie Romani ihdie Usitati, , lib. pp. 601-609 of the Latin edition. " 2. The Modification of Rights and Duties by Con ditions and Limitations of Time—' Lindley's Introduction to the Study of Jurisprudence,' pp. 78-79. " 3• The Conflict of Laws in regard to Jurisdiction, Remedies, and Judgments —`Story's Conflict of Laws,' chapters 14 and 15. "Candidates for a certificate will be examined in : " 1, •Sandars'e Institutes of Justinian,' book 2 (be ginning at the 10th title), and book 4 (beginning at the 6th title). _ "2. The Conflict of Laws in regard to Jurisdiction and Remedies—' Story's Conflict of Laws,' chapter 14 " The Reader on Common Law proposes to examine on the following books and subjects : " Candidates for a pass certificate will be expected to be familiar with— "l. The Practice connected with the Writ of Sum mons, the Entry of Appearance, and the o r di nary course of Pleading in an Action. "2. The Elements of the Law of Contracts, so far as set forth in Smith's LAW of Contracts' (by Malcolm), omitting sects. 3,4, 6, and 7. " 3. The Elements of Criminal Law, as set forth and illustrated in Brown's Commentaries,' book 4. " Candidates for the studentship or honour s will be examined in the above books and subjects, and also in— " 4. The Law of Bailments, so far as explained in ' Story on Bailments,' sth edition, chaps. 1 and 6, and Coggs v. Bereari,' 1, Smith, L.C., 4th edition, p. 147, with the note thereto. "5. The following cases : " 1. Lam of Contracts—` Crooltewitt v. Fletcher,' 1, U. and N., 893 ; Hochbter v. Da la Tour,' 2, E. and 8., 678 ; Morley v. Attenhorougli, 3, Exch. 500. "2. Law of Torts—' Degg v. Midland Railway Co., 1, B. and N., 773 ; Southcote v. Stanley, Id. 247 ; Humphries v. Brogden,' 12, Q. 8., 739. "By order of the Council, " BIGGS ANDREWS, Chairman, pro ton. " Council-chamber, Lincoln's-inn, Dec. 2." CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY. — Yesterday the admissions on payment were 353 ; ditto by season tickets, 250 ; total, 603. 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 Ciaridge's Hotel to dinner, and remained for the evening. DB. LIFINGSTOIV'S DISCOVERIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA. (From the Times.) In esiiinating 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 akolelo,. 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. be 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 bushmen, 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 cattle dash away into a track less forest 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 - 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 ' strucions from Mr. Maclear, the astronomer there, and to have been supp'ied by him 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 cl ,uded 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 uninhabitaile. Even as it is, the description of the heat 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 nati ves ' f ee t must be p rotecte d b y 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 peat deal of pioneer's work, for the route lay through a th'ck forest, and the feebleness of his convalescent corn parrons 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 IVgwa. 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 the lion are no less terrible. Re is heard from far off moaning in distress, and in his rage bit es the trees and ground. The Bushmen care a poisoned waind by rubbing fat into it, and explain their mode of treatment by saying that " the Ngwa want fat, and when it does not find it in the, body, kills the man.' 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 we'come him. Sekeletu, the son of the deceased chief Sebituane, a young man of 18 no less friendly to the English than his father had begin, received the party in what is conii ierel 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 C our t e ti quette even in Centra l Africa —roared out the appropriate forms of reception at the top of hi s voice, " Don ' t I see t h e white man ? Don't I see the comrade of Sebituane ? Dont I see the father of Sekeletu ? We wart sleep (peace from war ; give your sou (Sckeletn) sleep, my Lord." rlndeed, the position of Sekeletu was not a very safe one. His father had appoint e d M amoch i sano , hi s half sister, to succeed ; and another near relative named Mpepe was very anxious that she should continue in the chieftainship, while he himself exer sed all real power under her name. But Mame chisane struck a death-blow to the intriguer's hopes. ted Mpepe, She insieted on res i gn i ng her dign i ty i n f avo ur of her half-brothe r ; an d the discen foiled in his schem e , ret i red to Ner i e l e , th e ca pital of the Bat ot se , w h o are a peop l e su b jec t to ate the Makololo tribe, and was there believed to be practising magical a r t s f or the purpose o f causing the destruction of the youn g chief. In fact, he had built a hut for thi s wicked eurpose in tha time of Sebituane, who app ears to have attr ib u t e d h is own death—really bro ug ht on by smok i ng a pernicious narcotic—to the mi sc hi ef brewed in the witch-hut. But the villain n ow resorted to d eans muc h more formidable than sorcery, in order to attain his ends. Influenced by the slavedealing tribes whose interests had been menaced by the policy of Sebituane and his son, h e determined to take off the latter by assassination. Tho attempt was made while Dr. Livingston w as on a t yur with the intended victim a few weeks after the recep' ion just mentioned, and his p resence appears mos t provi dentially to have been the ob,tacla to its success. Mpepe paid the penalt y of his gu il t w ith h i s life ; but the ferment which his death, caused among the Barotse, through whos e country D r . Livingston 's intended route lay, had th e effect o f i n d ucing him to remain same time lo nger at L i nyan ti. This town, which our traveller made the base of his future expeditions, having acquired such influ ence with its people and c hi e f as to b e a bl e to com mand all the assistance it was i n t h e i r p owe r to render him, lies upon a river o f cons id era bl e magni tude named Chobe. It is one of the affluents of the Zambesi, into which it fells 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 :—" In the event of your death, will not the white people blame us for having allowed you t o go away i n to an unhealthy, unknown country o f enemies ?" To obviate their fears, the Doctor p ropose d t o l e ave " a hook" with them, which, if h e did no t re t u rn, 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 unfortunat e c i rcums t anc e that this care for the reputation et of the M a k o l o l o wa s the i cause of its being lost to ts write r ; f or as he as lung without being heard of, th e vo l ume was delivered by Sekeletu to a trader, and all s ubsequent certainly justified by the pers ona l con di t i on of their guest, no less than by th e d angers o f the trace of it lost. The fears of th e M a k o l o l o w ere country he was about to traverse. He had suffered from an attack of fever since his arrival among them, and, although he had re covere d , his bodily weakness was still considerable, c o „ manifesta tion of this 1,1a3 a strange g iddi ness w h en he looked up suddenly to any ce l es ti a l o bject ; everything seemel to rush t o th e l e ft, and if he did not catch hold of some o bj ec t he fell heavily to the ground. Yet, i n t hi s condi tion, the best season for tra ve lli ng having arrived, he determined to set out w ith t h e resolu tion " to succeed or perish in the attempt to open up this part of Africa." Ho had with him 27 natives subjects of Sekeletu, of whom two were ge nuine Makololo, and the rest natives of other parts of Central Africa. For his people he took three muskets, and a rifle and double - barrelled smoo th bore for himself, a small gipsy tent just large enough to sleep in, a sheepskin mantle for a blanket, and a hi , reerug as a bed. A bible, nautical almanac, and set of logarithmic tables, a sextant, thermo meter, chronometer watch by Dens, of the Strand, and two 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 occa4ions. Depending for suly,istence 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 for 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 canker 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 Liuy anti in canoes furnished by Sekeletu, who had also made provision for their hospitable nception as far as his influence extended. After sailing into the Zambesi, which here 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, while the lower extremities are much less developed. For several miles below Gonye 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, ajid at all times runs a boiling current. On ar nviiig 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 eouleur 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 Ladino, 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 eanh and goodwill towards men, which it was his object to proclaim. Still, on arriving 30 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 abundant, and the party fared sumptuously. Die LiYingston has a per sonal dislike to the hunter'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 s'raight. To save his ammunition, which his companions would have entirely wasted in It arning, 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 lie 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 left shoulder, with less certainty of aim than before. The dislike of intlic ing pain upon animals seem to have induced him to study the circumst inces under which the deadahot may be delivered most certainly ; and he relates some curi ous facts bearing on this subject. His theory is, that a shock on that part of the system to which most nervous force is at the time directed proves most fatal. " I have seen a rhinoceros," h says, " white standing apparently chewing the cud, drop down dead from a shot in the stomach, while others shot through one lung and the tomach 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 Vie bushes on the aininal's lee-side, a most important point, which isascta-t.inei by throwing up a pinch of dust every now and then, to within about 20 yards, thou sit down, rest his elbows onhis knees, and ainaslanting 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 the creature. Inde el 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 at ilk ing him ; he only escaped by spriugiog 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 ordinarycircumstances 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, filet at the very last he will net 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, hut the real state of the ease 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 fill 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 an d t he Leeombye (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 coast. 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 gshowed his desire to govern wild beasts only." He then proceeded up the Leebe 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 Mambari are enterprising merchants, and bring Manchester cottons into the very heart of Africa. The natives cannot believe them to be 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 obseurius.. The objection was obvious—" How can the irons spin, weave, and print so beautifully ?" 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 vety dark skins. The Bechuanas aro 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 sus. 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 Balonda had 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 ite e idol, 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 simply mean " river " d ialeotx. in different local [PAWN 4D. STAMPED 5D.] tree, which effectually deters all thierZ a Tir ma sen a female chieftain, who received the travellers 'very hospitably, was about to cross a t 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 JSekeletu. 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 re tched the neigh bourhood of the Portuguese settlement on the 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 not let him leave her. " .Chen 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 hut heard him say to her, " Do you think I would ever leave you ?" 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, though it deprives the Teutonic races of th - eiliajalaini' to the monopoly of gallantry, is not accordpa by any other of the characteristics of civilisation. The chief who exercises a supremacy over the what of the Balondaun der 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 most reckless of despots, scarcely, if all, removed from the character of an absolute maniac. This, at least, was the me with the individual who died just before the expeditOn 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 he brought up in order to purchase it bythe s.ale of the people. Frequently when a slave trader came he would take possession of all his goods, and then, after 10 days or a f or t n i g h t, send out a party who pounced upon someconsiderable villages, killed the headman, and paid for the goods by selling all the inhabitants. These slave merchants were invari ably themselves men 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 route took a westerly direction, and in its general bearing continued W.N. W. all the way to St. Paul de Loands, on the shore of the Atlantic. The goal was reached on May 31, and by the suc cessful achi-vemeut 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 believed to exist there is in reality a widely de veloped system of rivers, which afford fair promise of access to the interior f the country. Lake Dil 1o o just mentioned, is most singularly placed. It is a natural summit reservoir in th t midst of an exten- sive plain, which itiwlf forms the watershel sepa rating the affluents of the Lecambye, or Zimbesi, from a portion of the headwaters of the Congo. Its 'el.:ration above thl sea level is no more than 4,000 feet, -and yet, while from its southern extremity time proceeds one of the feeders of the great river whioh 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 wa.' er with another of equal magnitude ( he Quango) it swing 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 scream into the Atlantic, under the name of the Congo or Zair.-. Such an achievement as that of which we have given a sketch was not to be p^rformei without much suffering. The eltvated plains through which the Doctor passed were all flooded by the periodical rains, and ho wasconsta,ntly wet through. One attack of fever followed another, and at the time he reached Loanda he was more dead than alive, in spite of the greatest attention on the part of the Portuguese settlers for the last month of his journey. The Ma kololo who had accompanied him were treat d 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 they, " that what the ancients had to dus was true, that the world had no end; but all at once the world said to us, ' I am finished ; there is 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 o::e 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 middle. In describing a house of the Doctor's they said, " It is not a hut ; it is a moun tain with several caves in it." Au 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 save trade with." They were also taken to the service in the church, and remarked, " that they had seen 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. Ho had gut 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 nothindor 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' I placed it to my ehouldsr as he came on at full speed, and that is tremendous, though generally he is a lumbering looking animal in his paces. A email bush and bunch of grans 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 must have made him renounce his purpose, for he bounded close past me 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. lie lett Linyanti for this purpose on th. 3d of November, and arrived in safety, although again , weakened by fever, in the Portuguese settlement of Tote - early in the following February. The at tention he received from the authotities 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 lorg-continued fatigue and privation upon his health, on the 20th of May, 1856, and to map 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 Africa, there are several points ,at 'which an interruption occurs from rapids, which render the transshipment of goods a necessity. At one of these the obstacle is caused by a wonderful cataract, which, putting all circumstances together, , is prob a bl y the most astonishing natural phenom enon i n the world. The whole river, which at the tim_ . th e Doctor saw it was -(--sky nearly at"its lowest, pours into a fissut'e of 43::• • c , 11\ 1 :( , i:' A' :- k , basaltic rock that forms its bed, and at the'boktorp. ,•:,, % . f.-!/ , ',: ) is forced to take a direction at right angles .4,47 : itit , spiz former one. The lips of the fissure are only 8:1Y- e ' .;%,11: : „,- „, - /k , 100 feet apart, and the effect to the eye is - thoirajliit t ) .1' 4;, , whole body of a stream as broad as that of Ibe-k Thames at Limehouse vanishes suddenly in smelt e j ' I Si 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, saw that a stream of 1,000 yards broad leaped down 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 tLem from going near enough to examine the locality, give the place the appropriate name of Mosiottrnya (" Smoke sounds there.") Dr. Livingstone con ferred on it the title of the Victoria Falls, and in dulged in the very pardonable "vanity" (if his own phrase 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 the interest of the children of the soil, he also selected a spot upon it suited for his purpose, and planted therein about a hundred peach and apricot stones, and a quantity of coffee seeds. The con tinual moisture fcom 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 'a 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. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER, DEC. 22. There was an expectation that we should have a somewhat better market to-day, in consequence of growing facilities in discounts, and of the id. per lb. gained upon cotton in Liverpool. This expecta tion, however, has not been realised. In yarns there have been partial attempts to ob tain a sligl.t ; for instance, certain goods produced in the north of the county, having been just lately sold for future' delivery, tg India and rObina, houses, the manuficturers '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 secured id. There has been a disposition to make some 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 do'td-lock under which the continental merchants are held is curiously seen in 40's mule, German and even Russian qualities, which are or dinarily worth id. to ld. per lb. more than the Indian quality, are selling at the same price as the latter, or within !d. The sum up, water and mule yarns in bundles, warps and cops, from 50's down to the lowest number, cannot be said to present any improvement beyond the slight and doubtful ap pe wanes referred to above ; and prices in the ag eregate, though not quoted lower, cannot ba reckons as more than stationary. Bolton spinnings, from 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 aba,fe not one jot of their caution, but confine their buying to small and indispeneabla parcels. The sellers of goods are disappointed. The buy ing of T cloths, and certain prints and other fabi ics, particularly such as are suitable for India and China, 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 in regard to most other articles. No confidence is felt here in the higher price of c3tton ' • and the reports from Liverpool show not much faith in it there. More is expected. by most people, from the pre sent amelioration of money matters that cm be realised in the channels of trade. We see it stated thas, bills are discounted at Eq or 8 per cent. ; and we hear of short dates being done under th e l a tt er rate. But what sort of bills are they ? Only the very choicest. Toe strict discrimination which is exe cised, both in the Bank of Eagland and out of it leaves a world ofpaper unnegotiable to keep the hands of merchants and trad-ra most efrec'ually tied up. Beginning with the A 1 bills, opening facilities will, however, gradually extend them solvers 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 'he state of the market, and of the prevalent feelings and opinions which manfestly influence its condition. We endeavour to make our report a faithinl reflection of realities. To this end wo 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 worthies and c‘nitemptible, but positively mischievous. Soma further suspensions of manufacturers have taken place in the country, but none of them largo. 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 uncorufoitable to-day, we Ired 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 cinfidence—an improvement which is now percep tibie in the market—and partly, also, to th i low ness of stocks in merchants' hands. A few consi derable parcels were cleared today, at rather easier rate, and if the weather were 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 diAress in the cloth ing districts, but the operatives, although sorely pressed by the times, ara exercising a most coin ; mendable amount of patience and moderation. I Thera will be some cessation of labour for a week I 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. Let the new year get fairly opened, money easier, and confidence more fully restored, and we must necessarily have an active spring trad•-, 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 beef cxceedingly 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 lit!le 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 doicg, merchants selecting carefully, and only to complete orders on hand. 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 iu cloths and doeskins are adopting the wise policy of decreasing production, and ate succeeded by this means in keeping stocks down. The present open weather is interfering seriously with the sale of winter goods in pilots, tr beavers, witneys, and other heavy coatings, l arge quantities of which had been prepared in anticipa tion of the winter's trade. We have n o thi ng to subdued fancy bordersou ser s bi ig, reporttwist imixture nyh e spring grounds s tl3; ii h s most inquired for. Holders of wools in the local wool trade are reserving their stocks until the • spring when they expect to realise bettor • prices than are now offered. THE NORTH COUNTRY Alin SEAM / RN Probably never since the repeal of the corn and naviga tion laws has the shipping of the north-east ports been in such a depress e d cond i tion as at the present time. S h ip . ping is g enera ll y slack at this time of the year, but this season, on account of the low rates of freights, an im. moose amount of tonnage is laid up, and of cmsequence, a great number of seamen are on shore unemployed. Shipbuilding 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 w it n eeeeci for at least ten years, and it is pitiful to see so m any able-bodied and intelligent workmen saun tering about the quayt and squares of the ports in idle. ness. T ee men, as might be expected from their Out. ratter, conduct themselves with exemplary patience, 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 way into its old channels again, and that the shipping interest will • speedily revive.—Moneteater Guardian.