The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-26 00:00:00

A FRENCH CRY POR PROTECTION OP

lir A TIONAL COMMERCE.

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CIAPTAIN CRAWLEY'S HANDY-BOOK of
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Backgammon, Chess, Draughts, Whist, Lou, Cribbage,
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Or separately,
CHESS and DRAUGHTS their Theory and Practice; with
Original Game.. 16um, cloth, 2s.
WHIST, LOG, and CRIBBAGE their Rules, Laws, etc. 16mo,

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BILLLAspeI: Its Theory and Practice. Numerous Diagrams.

Kano, cloth, Es.
BACKGAMMON its Practice and Laws, with Diagrams.
cloth, Es.
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Now ready, a NEW SERIES of HANDY-BOOKS, cloth wrappers,
prat Svo, Illustrated by Harrison Weir.
DOMESTIC PETS : their Breeding, Training,
go, In Health and Disease.
BRITISH SINGING and TALKING BIRDS; with 25 Woodcuts
and Coloured Plate. Price Is.
BRITISH SONG BIRDS; with 36 Woodcuta and Two Coloured
Plates. Price Is.
DOGS and CATS, with 30 Woodcuts and Coloured Plate. Price Is.
PARROTS. FALCONS, MACAWS. HAWKS, and OWLS; with
20 Woodcuts and two Coloured Plates. Pnce la.
RABBITS, HARM, SQUIRRELS, MICE, GUINEA PIGS, Ac. ;
with Is Woodcuts and Coloured Plate. Price Is.
PIGEONS and POULTRY of all CLARSZS with 38 Woodcuts
and Two Coloured Plates. Price Is.
BIRDS' Yvan and ETAS: how to take and pr serve them.
Stuffing Birds and Animals. 13 Woodcuts and Coloured Plate.
Price Is.
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The following is a petition to the Emperor Napo-
leon which in being signed at present at Nantes by the
shipowners and shipwrights of that port, demanding
protection :
" Sire,—The undersigned shipwrights and others em-
ployed in supplying the navy, operatives of every class—
merchants, banker, broken, and industrials of every pro-
ferion in the city of Nantes—beseech your Majesty to take
into consideration the situation in which our maritime com-
merce and marine are placed by the decree of the 17th of
Jan., 1861, and the second clause of the decree of the 24th
of June of therms year. This situation, briefly explained
in the memorandum annexed to the present request, de-
mands, sire, a prompt and efficacious remedy. Our dock-
' yards are deserted. Our ships on their homeward voyage
are exposed to suffer disastrous result' on the ap-
proaching importation of colonial sugar. Any specula-
tion in foreign colonial sugar becomes impossible or
ruinous in face of the competition of foreign ships. An im-
mediate return to the principle of a sagacious and moderate
protection, inscribed in your programme of the sth of
January, 1860, can alone save our commerce, prevent the
complete decadence of our navy, and the =roam of nu-
merous trades which depend on it. Nantes has suf-
fered more then any town from the consequence of
the above-owned decrees. Nantes, at preaeut, is still
More exposed than any other town in the empire to bear
the weight of their prolonged influence. But, sire, a
national interest is moreover engaged in the question, of
which we submit the elements with confidence and hope to
your exalted solicitude. The prosperity of aviculture in
our northern departments and iu our colonies u intimately
connected with the reforms demanded for our marine.
In preserving the latter from the annihilation with
which it is menaced, you will have at the same
time re-established harmony in our entire economical
regime ; you will have restored life, movement, activity to
all the trades which for the last two years have been vegetat-
ing in a state of uneasiness prejudicial to the general inte-
rests of the country. Treaties of commerce cannot bind,
and, in fact, do not bind, the decisions of your Majesty with
respect to foreign sugars directly imported from foreign
colonies. By re-establishing on that class of produce the
trifling differential duty which was imposed on it imam-
formity with your programme—by restoring the principle
of drawback to the primitive application whibh hid been
assigned to it--that is, to the exclusive protection of our
°mil navy, you will ci,atrize, sire, the wounds still bleeding,
and the prosperity which we shall owe to your august in-
tervention will efface even the recollection of the sufferings
we have endured for the last two years. Accept, sire, the
assurance of the most profound and most respectful devotion
of your faithful servants end subjects."

AN "AUTOMATIC EYEBALL."—An interesting
contribution to medical science has just been made to the
Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. It consists of • meet
ingenious ifpparatus for exhibiting the muscular mechanism
of the human eye. and is called the "automatic eyeball."
It was sent by the inventor, Professor Hamner, of Prague,
to the Austrian Court of the International Exhibition, and
at the close of the latter presented to the Above insti•
tutioo. The apparatus consists technically of •
left eyeball, the movements of which are regulated by
strings attached to keys. which are worked like the keys of
• pianoforte. There isalso a graduated dial attached, upon
which, by means of indexes affixed to and moving with the
strings, the extent of each muscular action is accurately
marked. This simple contrivance thus exhibit*, at a glance,
the beautiful arrangement of the muscular structure of the
eye, the knowledge of which, hitherto, could only he
acquired by dissection or oral instruction. In short, the
" automatic eyeball" performs for the exterior what the ,
ophthalmoscope has already done for the interior of the eye, !
and the gift of the learned professor in therefore an im- ! BLOOMSBURY CHAPEL—The Rev. William Brock
_______ _ • ________.
portent addition to the clinical resoarces of the above-named I
hospital preached two sermons on Sunday last in aid of the fund for
Losr IN A BNowsroine.—The A igle of Toulouse I relief of the distress in Lancashire. The collection amounted
states that a shepherd, who was keeping his flock in the I to 4271., in addition to which a member of the church gave
mountains near Martre (11autcrOarocue), last week, per. I • donation of 10W.. making • total of 5271. The further
ceived two horses in harness lying dead under the snow at ! sum of 101. • =oath has been promised, besides other
the foot of a precipice. He at once informed the mayor of valuable saistaeos by various members of the congregation.
what he had seen, and that functionary, accompanied by We may mantles that the ladies of the congregation meet
several gendarmes, lost no time in proceeding to the spot, to THE WAR•OTTICE AND LOCAL RATES.— About together once a week to make up &noel and other garments
smirch for the OWDer of the bones, who was also supposed three yeses since an agreement was entered into between for their suffering fellow countrywomen.
to have perished. At •
in
the of about 300 paces they the War Department and the Woolwich Local Board of Tile COLLIERY ACCIDENT /MAR NIWCASYLB.—
found a man and woman in snow, quite dead, closely Health, by the terms of which the former he
hitherto The whole of the bodies of the wifortneate men and boys
locked in each other's arms, and near them was a cart eon. paid a yearly sum in lien of rates on • fair assessment of the who fail a prey to this fatal catastrophe have been brought
teining a wooloombing machine and other articles. On the government property which was valued for that purpose, to bask, bat several amens of bones and ponies yet re.
ICING'S COLLEGE. LoHnmr.—The professorship of 1 cart was the name 'Joseph Rouquier, proprietor, atMiraval. The Secretary for *Sr has, however, declined to continue male underground- After having been formally opened on
Classical Literature in King's College will become vacant enberdea" It appears that the unfortunate couple, Rou- ' this payment in full, on the grounds that the government Itonday, the *wet was adjourned till Thursday ; and it is
at Christmas by the resignation of the Venerable Robert quier and his wife, on returning home from a fair at ought to be exempted from those items in the poor-rate not expected that towards the sad of the present week the con.
William Brown., ILA , Archdeacon of Bath. The Velma- ! hielottot, had been overtaken by a snowstorm, and finding connected with the coot of the relief of the poor. A deem. dltioo of the pit will be eta as to admit of operations being
isle Archdeacon Law, who has been nominated by Lord :it impossible to coed with their cart, bad detached the tation has been appointed to confer with the War Depart. with safety reannted. Oa the came at the late calamity no
Pahnenton to the deanery of Gloacieter has resigned the
•borate in the of reaching the next village, but were . meat on the subject. further light hie been throws.-IYerimatk Chreniefe•
rectory of Weston-super-Mare, and the Bishop of Bath and ' unable to find their way, and all perished together. I OYlBuOSlß—Gleutleineo who do not mind pay- Importing Tea without colour en the leaf pree•
Wells, to whom Archdeacon Browne has for many peen I CRYSTAL PALLOIL ONB SHILLING DAY.— Ins a fair ri fora good co t can depend on the saves, at vents Ces. ORDAIN pawing Mt Inferior brown leaves as in the
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CLUIBRIDEE, Nov. 25.

EXAMINATION FOR B.A. bittißsa, Nov. 1862.
Examiners—Janus Porter, M.A., St. Peter's College ; Arthur
Calvert, M.A., St. John's College ; Thorns. Henry Croft,
M.A., Cahn College; Thomas Roberson Bailey, 31. A.,
St. John's College ; Charles John Evans, M.A., King's Col-
lege; Ralph Benjamin Somerset, M.A., Trinity College.
Examined and approved.—G. F. Bagnall Sidney ; Hendon.
John's ; Bull, Emmanuel; Burnett, Queen's ; Carroll,
Trinity; Charles, Christ's; Graham, Jesus; Graves,
Trinity ; Grimaldi, Cain,' ; M. Mulkey, Trinity ; R. A.
Hankey, Trinity ; Hon. J. M. Henniker-Major, Trinity ;
Hope-Grant, Trinity ; 'Carney, Trinity ; R. Leeson, Down-
ing; Lock, Trinity ; Lowther, Trinity ; Middy, John's ;
M'Vicar, Trinity • A. T. Milton, Catherine ; Roberta,
Trinity ; Ross, (item's ; C. A. Rambold, Downing ; W.
A. Smith, Gains ; Steele, John's ; Swann. Trinity ; Thorn.
too, Trinity ; Townend, Trinity ; Walton. Pembroke,.
Wells, Emmanuel ; Yearsley, Trinity. „Egrotant.—H.
Jones, John's ; W. T. Jones, Queen's.