The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-05 00:00:00

PART FIRST COIIRRISP4

A Vocal Illustration, " Beginnings."—Full-length Portrait, Martha
Mivins.—lllustration, Carpet Bag.—Half-length Portrait, Major
Bluster.—Vocal Illustration, "A Visit to the Great Metropolis."
Full•length Portrait, Sir Benjamin Bungle.—llalf-length Po: trait,
Mr. Sampson Rusty.—Full-length Portrait, Mr. Oliver Oldatyle
(with a Vocal Illustration of " Bygone Days ").—Full-length Por-
trait, Ben Binnacle,—Miniature Portrait, Mrs. Muddles (trom
Manchester

PART SECOND

Full-length Portrait, Sandie WWhittle.—Full-length Portrait, A
Well-known Personage.—lllustration, Carpet Bag.—Full-length
Portrait, A Yankee Clipper.—Vocal Illustration, " Metropolitan
Melodies."—Full-length Portrait, Mr. Cavil.—lllustration, Carpet
Bag.—Full-length Portraits, Mr. and Mrs. Lapsus Linger.—Vocal
Illustration, " Pleasures of a Pic-nie Party."--Illustration, Sketch-
book (Daylight and Moonlight).—Finale, " The Lions of London."
With several Pictorial Illustrations' larzgalaail..bY " The Sketch-
book."

In the course of the Evening Mr. C. COLMAR will perform a variety
of grand Plano Solos.
Admission, ls.; Reserved Seats, es.; Dress Stalls, 35.; Private Boxes,
One Guinea.

LONDON LIFE ASSOCIATION,
Instituted 1806.
Office, 81, KING WILLIAM-STREET.
PRESIDENT—CHARLES FRANKS, Esq.
VICE-PRESIDENT—JOHN BENJAMIN REATH, Esq.
This Society is essentially one of Mutual Assurance, in which
the Premiums of its Members are reduced after seven years.
The rate of reduction of the Premiums for the present year was
70 Per sent., leaving less than one-third of the original Premium to
be paid.
The Society also undertakes other descriptions of Assurance, in
which the Assured do not become Members, and having ceased to
allow any commission to Agents, the Society has been enabled to
reduce the Premiums for this class of Assurances to the following
YETY low rates :
Annual Premiums for the Assurance of £lOO.

Age £s. d. Age £s. d. Age £s. d.
20 1 13 7 35 2 7 6 50 4 1 2
25 1 17 0 40 2 15 5 55 5 1 0
20 2 1 5 45 3 6 0 60 6 5 10

The Court of Directors are authorized by the Deed of Settlement
to advance money on the security of Policies in this Association.
EDWARD DOCKER, Secretary.

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r.tenry West, Bishop, and Dr. Cooke, every Evening, except Satrir-
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and the PROSPECTS of AERIAL NAVIGATION, illustrated by a
beautiful Model of POITEVIN'S PAR tCHUTE, GREEN'S GUIDE
ROPE, DIAGRAMS, &c.—Series of LECTURES by J. H. Pepper,
illustrating the MINERAL WEALTH of CORNWALL.—
LECTURE by Dr. Bachhoffner on FRICTIONAL ELECTRICITY,
illustrated by the large PLATE and the HYDRO-ELECTRIC MA-
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WANDLE WATER AND SEWAGE COM-
PANY, for the Supply of Water to the Metropolis South
of the Thames, at constant and high s.erviee. To be Meorpora ed by
Act of Parliament, whereby the responsii,ility of Shareholders will
be limited.
k Capital 500,0001., in Shares of 101. each. Deposit 10s. per Share.

TRCSTEES.
Sir James Duke, Bart., 31.1'.
The lion. P. J. Locke King, 31. P.
George Stone, Esq., Lombard Street, Banker
AUDITORS.
Samuel Gurney, Jun., Esq., Lombard Street
Peter Itolt, Esq., 31. P., Clement's Lane

DIRECTORS.
James Baring, Esq., Piccadilly, and Putney Heath, Surrey
William Blount, Esq., London Joint Stock Bank, and Oche Hill

House, Gerrards Cross, B'ucla
Humphrey Brown, Esq., M.P., Westminster, and Tewkesbury
Thomas Chandler, Esq., Rotherhithe, Surrey
Edward Esdaile, Esq., City Saw Mills, Regent's Canal
William Maseres Fellowes, Esq., Dorset Square, gent's Park, and

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Reigate, Surrey
George D'Olier Gowan, Esq., Copthall Court, acd Dulwich, Surrey
John Macgregor, Esq., M.P.(late Secretary of the Board of Trade),
Prince's Te-race, Hyde Park
16, ir Charles Nightingale, Bart, Kingston, Surrey
The Hon. Hugh Rowley, Belgraye Square, and Wimbledon, Surrey
Charles Reynolds, Esq., Wellington Lodge, Carlshalton, Surrey
Sir John Villiers Shelley, Bart., M.P., Park Lane, and 21aresileld-
park, Sussex

ENGINEER.
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falgar square

N°. 18,760.] LONDON,

NEW STORY OF THE DAY, BY THE AUTHOR OF
" ANION INA."
On the 15th of November, in 3 vols. pest Bvo.,
BA S I L: a Story of Mcdern Life.
By
on W. WILKIE
Author of " Antina," " Ramblesßeyond Railways," &C.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

GEORGE CRUICKSHANK'S COMIC ALMANACK.
Now ready, price 2s. ed., with large coloured Frontispiece,
'f H E COIL IC AL NIANACK for 1853,
Prolusely Illustrated by GEORGE CRUICKSHANK.

Just published, the Eighth Edition, with Emendations and Additions,
Svo. cloth, price 55., by post ss. 6d.
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rPHOMAS HOOD'S GRATE.—The publication
IL in Eliza's Cook's Journal of " Lines written at Kensall-green
Cemetry," has induced numerous readers to express an earnest de-
sire to assist in raising a fund for the purpose of placing a memorial
over the remains of "Poor Hood."

David Bogue, Fleet• street.

A
POPULAR TREATISE on DISEASES of
the Urinary and Generative Systems: with a concise ana-
tomical review of their organs, and a physiological account of their
functions. Together with remarks on spec:tie erupiions and the
modern treatment of Syphilis, and Local Debility or Spermatorrhma.

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Many a burst of merriment has echoed above " Hood's Comic
Annual," from the lips of all classes. I': r many a year he cheered
our Christmas firesides with racy bunion', that never wearied by
its frivolity nor offended by its coarseness. Far and wide was ha
known as the Poet of Mirth: but the higher development of his
genius and the noble, purpose of his muse were shown in such
glorious hymns as " The Song of the Shirt" and the " Bridge of
Sighs." Those who have read either of these poems will acknow-
ledge that such a man deserves to have a mark upon his sleeping-
place, so that it may be 011rld wit, out the help of a grave-yard
servant, and all eho have laughed at his inimitable wit, or sighel
over his human tenderness, arc now earnestly solicited to spare
what they can in aid of a purpose which is alike praiseworthy in
the li,ing and due to the dead.
For the furthering of this design, the following gentlemen, mem-
bers of the hittingt-, • Ciub, have formed themselves into a Com-
mittee :

G RAVESEND STAR
PACKETS,

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Exchange ; J. B. Bailliere, Rue Hauteteuire, Paris ; and all
Books,llers.

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Mr. J. Balfour Mr. R. W. Roberts
Mr. Campbell Clarke Mr. W. Strudwicke
Mr. Edward Copping Mr. 11. Roscoe St. John
Mr. J. Bassincre Edwards m r. George Waller
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rrx E LEADER NEWSPAPER of TO-
MORIWW (Saturday), November 6, contains, among other
articles :—The Profanity of tresent " Sabbath Observances "—Pro-
gress of English Opinion on America—Prospects of the Session (by
the " Stranger")—League of European Powers against the United
States—Taxation Simplified, Vll—Special Application of Principles
—Mr. Thackeray's New Novel, " Esmond "—Butler's Analogy and
Modern Unbelief (second article).
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BANKERS.
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Messrs. Martin, Stone, & Martin, Lombard Street d
BROKERS.
Messrs. Shepherd & Sons, Threadneedle Street, City
Messrs. Carden & Whitehead, Exchange Buildings.
SOLICITORS.—Messrs Mullins and Paddison
SECRETARY.—Greenville Fletcher, Esq.
OFFICES.—No. 28, .
A Bill embracing the proposed objectsCornhill of the present Company was
Wore the last Parliament, when, after passing the Standing Orders
I.t.id the first and second reading, it was submitted to the Select
Committee on the Metropolis Water Supply. The Government and
the other Bills occupied the attention of the Committee till the latter
en.. ;
d of. May, when this Bill was called on, and the evidence gone
i„
?..but from the improbability of being able to pass the Bill through
the Rouse of Lords in that Parliament, and in order to avoid large
444 useless expenditure, by the advice of Counsel, it was withdrawn,
upon the understanding that the same measure would be proceeded
with in the next Parliament :
,uThe Metropolis Water Bill passed last Session removes all uncer-
tainty as to the extent of interference by the legislature with regard
to Water Companies, thereby enabling the Promoters of this Under.
taking to frame their measures to meet all the requirements of the
means
Act, arid likewise to offer to the capitalist a perfectly secure
',loans of investment.
The objects of this Company are :
To afford an unlimited and constant supply, at high pressure, of a
Pure, transparent, sparkling water, filtered, cold, and at an equal tern-
berature at all seasons, to the Inhabitants within the ambit of Rich-
Inund on the West—Deptford on the East—the Thames on the North
—and
Merton, Mitcham, Streatham, and Norwood, on the South, in-
' uding the densely populated localities of Lambeth, Southwark, &c.
-,--and to afford this supply to the topmost floors of the highest build-
ing within these districts.
To supply such water in bulk to Public Bodies, Baths and Wash-
houses, at a very low rate of charge.
To improve, by a complete and independent system of deep imper-
Meable sewerage, the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of those
districts, through or near which the River Wandle flows, thereby
affording the means for the complete drainage of every house.
The River Thames, the common sewer of the fniliiois living upon
'if' banks, is the source from which the two existing Water Compa-
nies South of that river, take their supply.
The Thames Water throughout contains sulphates and chlorides
Of
i some sort, which " no amount m boiling can separate ;" and be-
sides these, it is impregnated with the Sewerage of this immense
district, and receives in addition the washings of many thousand
acres of richly manured agricultural land.
m iFo t
treenz the
well
asabundant evidence
recent
as
able
given
re
e p r ft or
b before the
e distinguished a i l a e n t a
5r Parliamentary C o.
D.
on
Water as supplied from Thames Litton, it is clearly shown that "no
other conclusion can be derived at than these Waters are totally
unfit for the supply of a large
fine
But at a far higher point,namely,e :raper cannot be made with it,
Maidenhead, the water of the
its
River Thames is so impure, h
whilst in the case of the Wandle, water is constantly used in the
manufacture of paper of the finest texture and most delicate colour.
The Water of the River Wandlehbaly
eminent
gnbeenen celebrated for its
ifLlyd
pr
great purity, and its recent analysis
con-
firm the high character given to it by the late tilstes, dfurrh.eTmei
Bostock, in their examination by the Government Commissioners on
Water supply.
As regards the quantity, it can be shown that, in the districts
mentioned, the aggregate supply of the existing Water Companies
does not exceed Nine and a half Million Gallons dallyllFaupeantihese
River Wandle, as proved before the Committee, can ye
imum supply of upwards of Twenty-seven Million Gallons, antnire.
Maximum of upwards of Forty-four Million Gallons daily,
By the plan proposed to be adopted, all impurities win be cow_
pleteiy excluded by means of intercepting sewers and drains. The
water in its unpolluted state will be conveyed through filtering beds
to Subterraneoug Reservoirs, and from thence distributed in its wire,
soft, and cool condition, at constant and high service direct to the
consumer.
Every Householder South of the Thames paying Water Rates, is
aware of the high charge for the present inferior and insufficient
suPPIY. The proposed rates of this Company will be upon a much
lower scale. It will thus be evident that upon the point of economy
al„une, they must command the preference of consumers; but when
c.",en Purity of the water is considered, and that the supply will be
smrseaod.
'twit and unlimited, all competition will necessarily be su-
Thes
com e advantages will at once ensure a large revenue to tdhels
ri,,:lanY, in addition to which, there will be the income to be
•"-, from the unsupplied suburban districts, and from houses un-
',Wiled in 'at 0 urban district,, from Water supplied to large con-
suersil and for sanitary and other purposes, and from the disposal
the
Sewage for manure. There will thus be amply sufficient to
yield
an early dividend of more than 71. per cent. on the Capital
p d: . annex of all working expenses, rates, and other contingen-

At the request of these gentlemen, Miss Eliza Cook has consented
to be Treasurer to the fund, and Mr. John Watkins to be Honorary
Secretary.

Subscriptions will he received by Mr. William Strudwicke, at the
Whittington Club, Arundel-street, strand ; at the office of Eliza
Cook's Journal, 3, liaquet•court, Fleet-street ; by Miss Eliza Cook,
54, Great Onnonde-street, Bloomsbury ; altd by Mr. John Watkins,
34, Parliament-street, Westminster.

Post-office orders may be made payable to the Treasurer or Secre-
tary.

The following Contributions have been received :
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G.... . ££2s 0 0
Lord John Russell, ....... 5 0 0
The Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, • • 5 0 0
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P ••..•• • • • • 5 0 0
MISS Eliza C00k......
Miss Cushman.......S 0 0
Mrs. Robert E11i0tt..... •• • • ••••• • • • • • 5 0 0
Richard Dawson, Esq., M.D..... •.. • ...... 3 0 0
George Peabody, 5 5 0
Edward Moorman, Esq. •• • ..... 8 0 0
Messrs. Spalding and Hodge. • • ...• • 5 5 0
Samuel Rogers, Esq.... • • a 0 0
C. W. Dilke, Esq... ••••..•• .. • • • •
Ellas Davis, Esq.. •••• • • • ...... •••••••• • •• • • .• 3 8 0
Charles Lnshington, Esq.. ••.. • •
J. B. Buckstone, Esq., 11. Is. ; Mrs. Fitzwilliam,
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The Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere
Sir James I)uke, Bart., m..? ..
Douglas Jerrold, Esq... •
T. K. Hervey, Esq. • ..... • • •.•••••• • • • • • • • •
B. W. Procter, Esq., (Barry Cornwall)....
Rowland Hill, Esq., General Post-office • • •
C. Mackay, Esq., LL.D. • • .. • • • • • • • • •• • ......
C. W. Dilke, jun., E5q..................
Edward Moxon, Esq .
Frederick Muspratt, E5q.............
Frederick Heath, Esq...
Cox, Brothers, and Wyman . ..
Jas. Wyld, Esq., 20s. ; Mrs. Wyld, 10s. ; Master

and Miss Wyld, 10s. ..
Murdo Young, Esq.. • . .. • • ..
Murdo Young, jun., 10s. 6d. ; Miss Young, 10s.
Gd. ; Miss C. Young, 10s. 6d.; Miss F. Young,
Mrs. Theodore Martin (Miss Helen Faucit)
Francis Bennock, E5q..... • • • • . •
Edwin Brown, Esq., Coventry ... . .
Herbert Williams, Esq., and Mrs. 11. Williams
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle.• • • • •
The Right Hon. Lord Brougham ...... .
The Right lion. Lord Dudley Stuart
Lady Sandys ...•
B. Oliveira, Esq., M.P.. • • ...... ..........
J. Westland Martson, Esq
Charles Swain, Esq ••• ••
R. Swift, Esq., M.P.. .• •
William Jerdan, Esq....
Hepworth Dixon, Esq • • .......... .....
W. C. Macready, Esq. . ...... •• .. • • • . ••.. • •
Samuel Phelps, Esq •.. •
Thomas Greenwood, Esq.. ••• • • • ....... .
Dr. Smiles.... • • .. • • • ~ . .
Thomas Cotterell, Esq., ex-Sheriff of London....
James Macgregor, Esq., 'ALP .•
Charles Cook, Esq. ,• • • • • • .. • ....... • • • • • .....
Horace Roscoe St. John, Esq.... ... .......
Bayle St. John, E5q..... ....... ..... ........
Richard Beard, jun., Esq • • • • • • •
H. (2. Maguire, Esq.. • • ..
Rev. Felix Palmer, Fryaning ..... .......
H. Tindal Atkinson, Esq.. •
George Grossmith, Esq.... .•
R. W. Roberts, Esq..
Matthew Noble, Esq • .... • .....
J. I'assmore Edwards, E5q...... • ..
Robert Rawlinson, Esq., C.E.. ......
John Watkins, Esq.... .• ...
Chas. S. Middleton, Esq.. • • . ..
J. T. Bedford, Esq..
Mort, Esq., Manchester.........,
W. A. Matthews, Esq • • ..
Charles Barker, Esq.... ...... • • .....
John Franks, E5q...........• • •
Frederic Poulton, Esq..• • • • • • • • . • • • • .• •
William Wrightson,
J. 11 ••••••• •••• .
Henry Allsopp, Esq., Burton-on• Trent...
Mrs. Mi11man............................... • • • •
W. Marsden, Esq., M. 1)...... .....
Jonas Levy, Esq... • • ••.. • • • • •• •
E. W. Watkin, Esq. .• • • • • • • • .. • • • • • • ........
Lady Morgan .......... • • ..... ............
James Low, Esq. ....... .
W. C. M. Kent, Esq. .... . .
Warren de la Rue, Esq. .....
Wm. Waring, Esq., Fludyer street, Westminster
Henry Waring, Esq., do.,
Charles Waring, Esq , do., do ...... ............
E. J. Coates, Esq... .....
Howard Staunton, Esq. .
Henry (Miley, Esq.
John Thnbs, Esq. .
E. Davis, Esq. .
J. T. Phillips, Esq.
Benjamin smith, Esq., Fleet-street and Hackney
C. Cadog in, Esq., Commercial Bank of London
Charles Hardwick, Esq., Preston ..............
I'. B. Turton, Esq.,
Joseph Turton, Esq., d 0....
Turton, Esq., do ...... • • .• • • • .....
Mrs Milner Gibson .......
Twelve Poor Men, in shillings ..
G. W. Tapp, Esq., and Mrs. Yapp....
Edward Copping, Esq.,.. •
William Strudwicke. E5q..... ..... • .
Campbell Clarke, Esq.. • ......... ..... • •
George Waller, Esq.-- • ..... .
J. Balfour, Esq., and Mrs. C. L. Balfour ......
Sydney Vardon, Esq....
Afew Poor Need1ew0men..............
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George 11. Watkins, E5q......
Lieut.-Col. Fitzmaurice..
AFriend................
George Sanders, E5q.....• ........
Charles Smith, Esq
Thomas Watts, Esq.. • ....... • • . •
Leopold J. Lardner, Esq.. • • ........... ..... • •
Asline Ward, Esq., New Y0rk..................
T. C. F .
Robert Dawbarn, Esq , Wisbeach • • • • •
M. E. Marsden, Esq.—. • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
H. Britian Willis, Esq.
Charles Millward, Esq., Liverp001..............
AFrenchman,
William Bellingham, E5q.....................
Percy B. St. John, Esq..
Miss Frances Deane...—.
MrE. Burke ........ ........ • •
Fred. Win. Bloxam, Esq. ..... • • • • • • • • • •
In Sixpences from Assistants at 1, North-street,
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Isaac Latimer, • • • • • •
Samuel D. Rickards, Esq.
Joseph Hardy, Esq..
Printers employed on the Musical Bouquet, • • • •
Charles Sheard, Esq...
Luke Limner, E5q..... ........ •• • • ••• • • •
S. Brown, Esq., Coventry ..... • •
11. Brown, Esq., Coventry •• ••••
T. Brown, Esq.. Coventry. .......... •••• • • • •
Alfred Keeling, Esq,... ..... ..................
Mr W. E. Bennet .•
Miss .Mitf0rd.......... ...... ...............
G. P. and C. P... .....
Seven Dressmakers . . . • •
James Teague, Esq., M.D.
Thomas Wilson, E 5.....
J. Ileylin, Esq,.. • . ... •
:fames Evans, Esq. ..................... • • .. •
John Phillips, E5q.........
A Widow, .
Thomas Ileaphy, E5q.....................
A. J. Honey, Esq.... ..
AFriend ••..••....••••••.••.••
Henry Mann, Esq...
H. Scholfield Johnson, Esq., M.D. ..... • • ..
Nathaniel Randall, Esq. •
W. Davey, Esq...
Joel howsell, Esq. ..
C. Brown, Esq., Coventry • • ........
S. Brown, jun., Esq., Coventry,
Mrs. Williams..
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LORD MAIDSTONE AND MR. MACAULAY.

In another column will be found an epistle from
Lord Maidstone to Mr. Macaulay—a composition
which, considering the relative position of the par-
ties concerned, and the solemn circumstances which
usher in the impending session, may
well serve to il-
lustrate that remarkable law of our nature which
generally couples the grave with the gay, the serious
with the foolish, the ridiculous with the sublime. We
are not sure, indeed, that Mr. Macaulay would not
have better suited the dignity of the occasion, as well
as his own, by suffering Lord Maidstone's hexameters,
together with their author, to sleep in the obscurity
which properly befitted them. We can only account
for his reference to such a topic on the principle
which leads dramatists and painters to diversify their
grandest objects with a few grotesque images, in
order to set off to greater advantage the more strik-
ing characters and scenes in their compositions. Lord
Maidstone does not seem fully aware of the purely
artistical purpose for which he and his hexameters
and his late rapid conversion were introduced into
Mr. Macaulay's speech ; so he writes in a tone of
mingled apology and defiance, asking consideration in
one sentence, and proclaiming no quarter in another.
His Lordship is a poor complaining soul. There is
nothing light or cheery about him. He has a quarrel
with mankind, with Mr. Macaulay, with the electors
of Westminster, with Sir J. Shelley, and Gene-
ral Evans, with Sir James Graham, as he drops
out incidentally, and not the least with himself. Lord
Maidstone doubtless thinks he ought to be a states-
man, being born to that rank, and having started in
life with very fair prospects. But to be born a states-
man, without the possibility of ever being one, is
enough to sour any man's disposition. His lordship,
having in a manner forfeited his birthright, is at war
with the whole world. His hand is against every
man, and every man's hand is against him. " Be-
ware who touches me," he exclaims, as if he wished
to be touched for an opportunity of letting out what
had been long pent up in his soul. But the penalty
of touching him is not very serious, if all the damage
he can do Mr. Macaulay, with the very best inten-
tions, is to tell him he is not a sound historical autho-
rity, that he has made some mistakes, and that he
has been ungenerous to Lord Maidstone in attacking
a man who could not answer in person. Mr. Macau-
lay will not sink under these terrible accusations.
His authority is above Lord Maidstone's impeach-
ment ; and there cannot be much cowardice in attack-
ing a man who has spent a life in collecting a vocabu-
lary of abuse, and rolling it up into hexameter pellets,
for discharge at the first assailant.
But all that Mr. Macaulay has said is, that Lord
Maidstone was'converted very suddenly from a furious
eater of Sir Robert Peel into a humble believer in
Free Trade. Lord Maidstone exclaims that his
motives are impugned, and claims the immunities of
a conscientious convert. "Duty," he says, " excuses
every man who changes his opinion conscientiously
from the charge of inconsistency." Why, who denied
you, my Lord, the right of changing your mind ?
Not Mr. Macaulay, or anybody that we know of, ex-
cepting yourself. You have yourself laid down in
your immortal hexameters that every one who
changes his mind is a rogue. This charitable and
most comfortable doctrine is your own, propounded
specially for the use of Sir R. Peel, but recoil-
ing on your own head. So now, like that ingenious
gentleman of Syracuse, you are roasting in your
own bull, and bellowing loudly enough to do
honours to your own workmanship. When
Lord Maidstone next addresEes the populace of West-
minster, and finds them insensible to the charms of
his eloquence, he threatens to speak to them in legends,
like the figures in old windows. He need be at no
loss for the matter of these legendary scrolls. Let
him cut out of his books all the rubbish he has
written against " the apostate Peel," and exhibit it
round his own noble person as the best account he
can give for suddenly adopting Peel's measures. Per-
haps, however, something like a difference will be
necessary in applying to himself the heraldic decora-
tions he has granted to Sir Robert. Let him state,
then, in addition, that Peel was converted by a fa-
mine, and Lord Maidstone by unparalleled prosperity;
that Lord Maidstone tried to come in as a Protec-
tionist, and, only when that failed, tried for another
place as a Free-trader ; and that the conversion cost
Sir Robert his power, but did not procure for Lord
Maidston© a seat.—Times.

• _
ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA ;
with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors
in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the
Generative System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis.
Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD.
"Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi-
cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first
time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi-
cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall
detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his
power to correct. —London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851.
—" The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this
distressing malady by translating this little book, and by laying bare
the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to
cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object
than to till their own purses. The difference between true Sperms-
torrhcca and the various forms of disease which resemble it are
accurately described, and thus a safe guide is offered for the
treatment of the malady."—Medical Circular, May 5. 1852.
—" We have delayed so long upon the contents of the preliminary
chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of
he subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickford; but the moderate
Price at which the brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of
every one interested in the matter."—Dublin Medical Press, April
18,1852.

The original stock of the New River Conipany was abort 200,0_00/
Which, by the yearly investment of a portion of the dividends, bas
been increased to the present fixed Capital of 1,500,0001.; therefore b
He
Sold
not 1001. share is represented by 7501. A single share
itiot long ago for 17,000 1!
Although inordinate profits are not contemplated by th's Com-
pany, yet it is firmly believed, looking at the vast extent of the
Surrey District, and the chilly increase of buildings there, that the
present undertaking as ill afford an immediate, sound, and steady
"extment for capital, with every prospect that the maximum di-
vidend, now allowed by the Legislature, namely, 101 per cent., will
be speedily attained; proposals having already been made by largo
consumers, to take several millions of gallons daily.
After payment of the Deposit, no call will be made until an Act
r?e obtained, in which it will be provided that no Call shall exceed
11. per Share, or be made at more frequent intervals than three
months.
_ Applications for Shares to be made to the Brokers; or to the
Secretary, 'at the Offices of the Company, No. 28, Cornbll, where
the plans and models of Mr. Thompson's t.4.:ISTEURANEOUS ItEsEa-
vmas may be seen, and detailed Information obtained.
3rd November, 1852, GREN VILLE FLETCHER,

Secretary.

FOR OF APPLIC.kTION FR SHARES.
To the DirectoM rs of the Wandle Water anOd Sewerage Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 101 each,
in the above undertaking, and I agree to accept the same, or any
less number which may be allotted to me, and to sign the necessary
Deeds, and to pay when required the Deposit and Calls.
Dated tlllll day of 1852.
Name in full .. •• •• '• "•• • •
Trade or Profession
AcWen of Roam •• • • • '"'

RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.

(From the Times)

THE reislorrs:
"What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths as refined as Athens ever beard."
Smi.ixoT :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The ad..
v!nt of the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casual-
ties oflicentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations graphic, nar-
rative, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages.
V.
THE MARRIAGE STATE.
" Po bo or not to be, that is the question."
raouttasess :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and reli-
gion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion. and
figure, to secure healthy offspring. with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectivenesa and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
Cases, &c.
By It. J. CCIVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
(1824). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these
matters. Reception hours daily till rive. Evenings, Seven
ill
Nine, 10, Argyll-dace, Regent-street.

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Railway arnalgation has now been brought, in its
true character and purport, plainly and distinctly
before the public. We yesterday reported the speech(
on this question of two eminent chairmen, who quoted
the opinions of three others, and, as their suggestions
were accepted by the assembled proprietaries, we may
assume that the mind of the railway interest is sub•
stantially m.ide up. Taken from the evidence of
these very authorities, the case for hearing is as to--
lows :—There are too many railways in the country.
These undertakings have been projected and executed
without any due consideration of what public con-
venience required, and the result is an overgrown and
ill-distributed system of communications. The error
thus originally created is made worse by the particu-
lar species of rivalry in which the several companies
have indulged—a rivalry which (we borrow the di-
rectors' own words) entails upon themselves a need-
less and wasteful expenditure without any correspond-
ing advantage to the public. This is the case. Die
remedy proposed is that Parliament, which already
leaves facilities for virtual combination, should sane-

tion an actual amalgation of competing interests so
final and permanent as to settle the whole question for
all future time,and reduce the railway communications
of the country to one great incorporated monopoly.
With more or less candour the speakers generally ad-
mitted that certain restraints, restrictions, or regu-
lations would be called for in the interests of the
public, to protect the population from those into
whose hands they would be thus delivered.
Before we can accept the question exactly as the
directors propound it, there are several points involv-
ing some doubt to be taken for granted. It must be
assumed that the railway communications of the
country -are superfluously convenient, whereas Mr.
Russell himself, the chairman of the Great Western,
confessed in his letter upon this subject that the
Legislature was not unlikely to take an opposite view
of the point. It must be assumed that competition
cannot exist between railways, although one of the
chief arguments of the Midland Chairman on Wed-
nesday for the project of amalgamation was " the
great competition among railways, which was going
forward all round." It must be assumed, finally, that
this competion, thus going forward, has been so
ingeniously devised and conducted, that the public
really does not get any advantage from it whatever,
but that, contrary to all precedent and reason, corn-
panics have contrived to fall out without permitting
a single customer to get his due.
Omitting, however, these exceptions, let us suppose
that, in railway language, the "preamble" has been
proved. Two companies, therefore, appear before the
Legislature, desiring to be turned into one, on the
principal ground that more than one never ought to
have existed. One of them, therefore, by its own
present confession, must have betrayed Parliament
into the sanction of an undertaking so unnecessary,
wasteful, and injurious, that what was then done
requires now to be undone by the same authority.
Nothing, on such showing. can possibly be plainer
than that those parties alone should be damnified by
the result through whose misrepresentations it oc-
curred. We observe, indeed, that it was attempted
to charge all the responsibility of these transactions
on the Legislature itself, as if the assent given by
Parliament to the sworn depositions of railway pro-
moters exonerated those promoters from all obliga-
tions as to the truth or genuineness of k their appeals.
The sooner this argument is put out of sight the
better will it be for those who, with such an assertion
in their mouths, are now going before Parliament
again. It will be a somewhat extraordinary proceed-
ing to apply for a second hearing on the ground that
the applicants had proved themselves unworthy of
credit in the first. Every one knows how these bills
were passed, and by what means the consent of the
Legislature was obtained. It was obtained only by
desperate importunity, and upon the most elaborate
affidavits. These very parties, who now charge Par-
liament with a false decision, procured this decision
by the production and array of all kinds of testimo-
nies and witnesses, and by declaiming, demonstrating
and swearing that the line or lines now sought to be
swamped or neutralized were absolutely indispensable
to the traffic and accommodation of the district, all
presumptions and arguments to the contrary notwith-
standing. They must now be judged by their own
words. Their attempted exculpation is preposterous.
On the same grounds any debtor might evade pay-
ment of a debt by representing that he was a tho-
roughly good-for-nothing fellow, who never ought to
be trusted.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Taking matters, however, as they stand, without
inquiry into faults or causes, and accepting the vo-
luntary declaration of the directors, that they are ut-
terly incurable, what are the securities desirable to
prevent these gentlemen from treating the public as
ill as, by their own showing, they have treated each
other ? If they cannot refrain from cutting each
others' throats, though no kind of profi tresults from
the pastime, is it likely that they will refrain from like
practices on the public when the amusement will be
attended with prospects of pecuniary gain ? The
amalgamating directors represent that railway trans-
action are now all gratuitously conducted in dupli-
cate, that there are two companies, two lines, and
two sets of trains, where one set, one line, and one
company would have answered the purpose as well,
or better. They propose, therefore, in each of these
particulars to substitute single action for double. But
But there is another point. Over and above
double railways there are double capitals, but we
do not observe any proposal for cutting these down
in the like manner. On behalf of the public,
however, ,we have here to remark, that we have
quite as much objection to double capitals as
directors have to double companies, and that we
have at least as much warrant for protesting. One of
the two capitals in a question like this must necessa-
rily represent a line which never ought to have been
constructed at all, but which was constructed in de,
ference to the importunities of those who now decry
it. In the most favourable view of the case it was
either a mistaken speculation at first, or has become
so through incurable mismanagement. But neither
mismanagement nor mistake can possibly warrant a
transfer of the consequences to the public. If capital
has been invested in a losing or a superfluous concern,
those who placed it there must abide by the result.
The first condition, therefore, of the concession now
demanded should be the general immunity of the
public from those obligations which pertain to others.
The common stock on which interest is to be exacted

HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY.
ELECTION OF SPEAKER.
After the return of the House from the Lords,
Mr. R. PALMER rose, and addressing Sir D. Le
Merchant, the Chief Clerk of the House, said it now de-
volved on tho House of Commons, in obedience to her
Majesty's commands, to proceed to the performance of
its first, asd one of its most important duties, viz.., se-
lecting from among their own body some Hon. Member
who should fill during the present Parliament the Chair
of the House. He did not undertake the task of ad-
dressing the House on such a subject without consider-
able hesitation, for he was well aware of the great ler-
sonal responsibility which attached to any person
who ventured to propose an Honourable Mem-
ber for so high and important a post, knowirg
that upon his ability, and the efficiency with which he
discharged his duties, all the regularity of their proceed-
ings must deperea ; but on the present occasion he was
fortunately relieved from any difficulty in this respect,
for he rejoiced to see among them again his Right Hon.
Friend, the Member for North Hampshire,—(Cheers)—
who had filled the chair of this House during the last 13
years with so much advantage to the country, and so
much honour to himself—(Cheers)—and who had ren-
dered it a less difficult task to select the best qualified
among them for that high and distinguished situation.
(Hear.) Under these circumstances he did not think it
necessary to trespass on the attention of the House by
any detailed information on the various duties that at-
tached to the Speaker of the House of Commons. (Hear.)
They were sufficiently well known to most hon. members
who had before sat in the House. Suffice it to say, there-
fore, that in the choice of a Speaker they must look for
some individual whose intimate acquaintance with the
law and practice of Parliament would render him at all
times a ready exponent of all those rules and orders by
which their proceedings were regulated, so as to enable
them on all occasions to confidently rely on his deci-
sions. They must also look for a person who would up-
hold and defend the ancient rights and privileges of the
House of Commons, if they should at any time become
the object of an attack from any quarter—privileges
which were not granted to the House of Commons
for individual benefit, but for the benefit of
the community whom they were sent there to
represent. (Heir.) They must also look for a gentle_
man who in the midst of party contest, and sometimes of
debate, was enabled to lay aside all party feeling, and to
maintain, while presiding over their proceedings, strict
and undeviating impartiality. (Hear.) For all those
qualifications, every one who had witnessed the conduct
of the Right Hon. Gentleman in the chair would agree
with him, that ho had proved himself to be most emi-
nently respected. (Cheers.) He thought he might add
that, in upholding the dignity of the office, and in pre-
serving an equal and unruffled equanimity of temper
under all circumstances, his Right lion. Friend had not
been surpassed by any of his predecessors. (Loud
cheers.) He thought ho had said sufficient to induce all
Hon. Members who had before sat in the House to agree
with him in the motion which ho was about to make ;
but if he were permitted to say one word to that
large number of Honourable Members who had for the
first time been sent there to take part in the deliberations
of that House, he could assure them that they would
always find his Right Hon. Friend ready to assist them
by his advise and experience if any difficulty should arise
in the transaction of the private and other business with
which they might be entrusted. (Hear, hear.) He re-
joiced to think that on the present occasion it had not
been considered necessary to make the question of
choice of Speaker the test of party feeling. Such had
occurred before ; but it was to him a matter of extreme
gratification to find that no party:considerations called
upon him on this occasion to surrender those feelings of
private friendship and personal regard which he enter-
tained for the Right HOB. Gentleman. He was sure that
all those who bad witnessed his condnct in the
chair would agree that his uniform conduct in his
high position had more than proved the wisdom
of the choice made by the House in the year
1839, confirmed as it had been on two subsequent occa-
sions by the unanimous approval of the House. He
trusted that the House would now agree with an equal
degree of equanimity, and place his Right Hon. Friend
for the fourth time in the chair without a dissentient
voice. (Cheers.) He thought that by so doing they
would offer to his Right Hon. Friend the only reward
they had in their power to offer, for the eminent services
which he had already rendered to the House and which,
ho was convinced, he would continue to render with
equal zeal and ability, only, perhaps, with more effici-
envy in con,equenco of his increased and mature ex
perience. Without any further preface, he then moved
that the Right lion. Shaw Lefevre he elected Speaker of
the House. (Loud cheers.)
Lord R. GROSVENOR seconded the motion. As
the Right Hon. Gentleman had formerly belonged to the
party which sat upon this side of the House, it, no doubt,
would be more agreeable to him, and more pleasing,
that that unanimity which was so desirable should seem
to prevail in his election to the highest office in that.
House, and that one at least of his nominators should
be a member of her Majesty's Opposition. (Cheers.)
He could have wished that some one more qualified
than himself had been selected to give weight to the
opinion entertained of the Right Hon. Gentleman on
that side of the House, of the qualities of the Right
Hon. Gentleman. He, however, had been selected as
an unofficial organ of that party, because as it was
perhaps, well known, it was not usual for a Member
holding high office, or who had held high office, to pro-
pose a candidate for the chair. It gave him, however,
great satisfaction to have this public opportunity afforded
him of bearing witness to the manner in which Mr.
Shaw Lefevre had performed the arduous duties of
that station, and he was quite sure that ho was
giving utterance, not only to his own opinion, but to the
sentiments of every gentleman on that side of the
House, when he said that not only were they proud of his
Right Hon. Friend as having sprung from that party of
which they were members, but also entirely setting aside
all party feeling—that they were more proud of him as
a member of that legislature to which they all belonged.
(Cheers) The merits of the Right Hon. Gentleman
were so well known, not only to the members of that
House, but also to the public at large, that it would be
a work of supererogation to dilate upon them at any
length ; and certainly, upon this occasion, it would be
extretnely unnecessary, after the good taste and good
feeling evinced by the Hon. Member for Berkshire, in
proposing the Right Hon. Gentleman. Before sitting
down, however, he would take leave to make one
remark, which he hoped would be found not quite
foreign to the subject. It was said to bo one of the in-
firmities of human nature to give undue prominence to
events passing around us at the present moment,
and if we cast our eyes around, it would be
acknowledged that, if there ever was a time when it
was necessary that the Imperial Legislature now sum-
moned should bo presided over by a person of undoubted
ability and talent, it was the present. At a time when
the liberties of Europe, when the right of full and open
discussion, and the right of public opinion hung by a
thread—at a moment of this sort he was sure that it
would be acknowledged that the character of that House
was deeply involved by the manner is :which its pro-
ceedings would be carried on. It became us then to
act with unusual calmness, to take the utmost care that
that liberty of free thought and free assertion which we
so happily enjoyed should not be abased for any per-
sonal party or factious purposes, but that we should
guard that right committed to us, he might say with-
out any exaggeration for the benefit of mankind at
large. It this were the position of affairs, as he
thought he could gather, it was from the assent with
which his remarks had been received by a portion of
the House, assuredly it was a matter of the greatest
urgency that they should have over them a gentleman
whose nice discernment, discriminating judgment,
n
largo and varied experience, and whose
fatigable attention so eminently qualify him for
t in which,
that position. At a period like the
even throwing aside any other disturbances bat those to
which be bad alluded, the nicely-balanced
ties would render that office ono of very
should have tress
it was most necessary that the gr.eat difficulty,
head one of experience and ability.
but would
11:311ewuoeuld notpass:longer upon the attentioritiofn, which se, understood
conclude by seconding the motion,
to be that the Right Hr. Gentleman the Member for
Hampshire was the mosforparolpoenrg isnedriievsidoufalyetoarsfi,llwthhialet
chair, being a MID who,
maintaining to the utmost
t hhea had independence,
conciliated
and dignity of that House,
good-
will, respect, and esteem of every member of every class,
and of every party of that House. (Loud cheers.)
After
of a few moments there being no sign of
oppositioanPta"e
othGes motion,
Sir R. H. IN
said, that he rose not so much to
congratulate his Right Hon. Friend, but far more to
congratulate the House upon having a person of so largo
an experience proposed to fill the Chair. It would be
needless to add a single word as to the personal fitness of
the Right Hon. Gentleman,—but it was not unfit, nor
unnecessary perhaps to recall to the recollection of some
and to take the liberty of stating to others, what a very
different amount of time and labour were here
required from the Speaker compared to former
periods, and that time, and that labour had
been bestowed most cheerfully, most actively, most
service beneficially for the public by the Right Honour-
able Gentleman. (Cheers.)A hundred years ago, not
perhaps one tenth the labour which now devolve upon
him was required from the occupant of that chair. A
hundred Years ago they had but three debates, and
fifteen divisions, but in the last year there had been 224
diTiliollOf and the Speitker in the executio 9f hie duties

should be regulated, in this respect, with equitable
adjustments. Nobody would desire that the stock
of one proprietary should be rigorously sacri-
ficed, but neither, on the other hand, can any
claim be put in for its absolute recognition. The
next condition should apply to the lines themselves.
Directors must not be left in the unrestricted privi-

lege of saying what line should be closed, and what
left open ; or what train should run, and what be sup-
pressed. At present the competition which railway
managers are so eager to disparage does certainly
secure us some amount of accommodation, and if
this competition is withdrawn we must have what
Mr. Disraeli would term a "countervailing" check.
In short, as the proposed amalgamation, if fully car-
ried out, would reduce our railway system to the
continental form, we must get the advantages of
this form, along with its drawbacks, as far as we
can. Directors cannot expect to unite for their
special benefit the opposite conveniences of private
enterprize and chartered monopoly. Government
indulgence must, to a great extent, carry with it Go-
vernment supervision ; and, if railway managers can-
not conduct themselves in the ordinary way of
business, they must be made amenable to extra-
ordinary control.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ON
THE CONFESSIONAL AT PLYMOUTH.

The following letter, from the Archbishop of Canter.
bury to Mr. J. W. Soultau, has been published:—
" Lambeth, Oct. 29, 1852.

" Slft,—l have the honour of acknowledging a memo-
rial which you have addressed to me, as agreed upon at
a public meeting of the clergy and lay members of the
Church of England, assembled at Stonehome on the
12th inst. _ _ _

" The memorial alludes to the introduction of doctrines
and practices into the Church during the last few years
which cannot be reconciled with the principles of the
R,,formation. This is a subject upon which, unhappily,
I have been so often obliged to declare my opinion, that
I need not repeat it now. The memorial, however, pro-
ceeds to complain of a practice originating in these erro-
neous doctrines, which cm scarcely be distinguished from
the auricular confession of the Church of Rome.
" I agree with the memorialists in believing this prac-
tice to be equally unscriptural in principle and mis-
chievous in effect. But I trust that public opinion is so
uniform in condemning and repudiating it, that the con-
tinuance of such a system, either at Plymouth or
,ulelse-
where,-d will be more effectually prevented than it
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