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LONDON, FRIDA Kr r

NEW NOVEL BY MLSS PENNEFATIIER.
Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., T.
HELEN TALBO
r,y Miss PENNEFATITER.
" Miss Pennefather, the daughter of the late Lord Chief-Justice
Pennefather, has in this, we believe her first work, evinced much
literary ability. All will admit that ' Helen Talbot' is a beautiful
incarnation of womanly feeling, dignity, and grace. The fashionable
circle in which the principal personage of the novel moves is ani-
mated in a high degree, and is drawn with a bold and graphic pencil.
We have no doubt that many of the leading figures are painted from
originals, and that in Lord Montague, Sir Reginald Talbot, Lord
ltavensdale, and others, those conversant with fashionable life will
recognise living acquaintances."—Globe.
Colburn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

THE ORPHAN, a near and interesting Novel,
by CHARLES WHITEHEAD, Author of " Richard Savage,"
&c. The first chapter will appear in TIIE AGE, of TO-MORROW,
September 11. On the same day the Subscribers to THE AGE wUI
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THE GREAT ST. LEGER PROPHECY,
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The Original JOE MUGGINS'S DOG will give his Canine Pro-
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PATRON—H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT.
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
LECTURES.
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By Dr. Bachhoffner on the Patent Polytechnic Gas Fire ; and on
the Mode of Preserving Fresh Provisions, illustrated by Specimens
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lidified Preserved Milk, and Moore's Patent Concentrated Milk.
By Mr. Crispe, on Morrall's Patent Needles. -.-
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New Series of Dissolving Views, &c., &c.
Admission, Is. ; Schools and Children under Ton years of age,
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LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO,
4RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
St. James's,
Lessee, Charles Emele Laurent, Onslow 'louse, Brompton-road,
Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliamen, 25th of King George 11.,
Are Re-opened for the Wit nter Season.
During the recess the Rooms have been entirely Re-decorated, by
G. S. Bryer, regardless of cost.
Laurent's Matchless Band every evening. Principal Cornet-a-
Piston, M. Boulcourt.
Admission—ONE SHILLING.
Doors open at Half-past Eight o'clock. Dancing to commence at
Nine, and terminate at Half-past Eleven.

CREMORNE GARDENS.
On the Banks of the Thames, King's-road, Chelsea.
Waterside Entrance close to Battersea-bridge Pier.
Fare by Steam-boat from London-bridge or any of the interme-
diate Bridget or Wharf Piers, 3d. Strangers should request toome
landed at Battersea-bridge for Cremorne. Fare by Omnibus
Charing-cross, 3d.; from the City and remotest parts of the East-
end, 6d.

Proprietor, Mr. T. B. SIMPSON.
The Pyrotechnic Displays by the Chevalier Mortram.
Open for the Season.
By Desire.—Re-engagement of Louis Soullier's Cirque Oriental.
A new Grand Spanish Comic Ballet, entitled Le Barbier de Cadiz,
every Evening, at Ralf-past Seven o'clock.
TIIIS DAY, Signor DeYani, the celebrated Ourang-Outang Con-
tortionist.
Saturday, Grand Globe and Wheel Ascents, by Kerr Franz do Bach,
on a Narrow Platform, 160 feet long.
An uninterrupted succession of Entertainments from Three o'clock
until near Midnight, including
Every evening, at a Quarter to Nine o'clock, in the newly-decorated
Pavilion, in addition to the following attractions, Louis Soullieparti r's
Cirque Oriental, and the best Equestrians of the age. For cu-
lars, see Special Bills.
Principal Artistes :—Messrs. M`Cullom,.Albert de Bach, Franz de
Bach, Jean de Bach, Devani, Mackney, Victor Soullier, Kemp, Leon
Bonnier. Signor Vilderini ; Madlles. Clementine and Olga Soullior.
Admission to the Circus fro the Gardens :—Promenade, Pit, and
Boxes, Is.; Amphitheatre, 6d. m
Open at Three o'clock.
Admission, Is.; Children, Ralf-price.
On Sundays, after Four o'clock, by Refreshment Card, price 6d.
Table d'llote at Six o'clock, 2s. 6d.
Private Room for Dinners and Coffee.
Shortly (of which due notice will be given) a Grand Bal Masque,
for the Benefit of Mr. T. B. Simpson.

IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS,
Just published, by 11. BailLtere, 219, Regent-street, London.
No I.
Bvo., in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. 6d.,
(N TRUE Sr FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA ;
with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors
n relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the
Generative System, or Sexual llypochondriasis.
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 fill their own purses. The difference between true Sperma-
torrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are
accurately described, and thus a safe guide is offered
5,
1852. for the
treatment of the malady "—Medical Circular, May
- We have delayed so long upon the contents of the prelhninary
of
chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any
notice
the subject specially treated of by Dr. Plcord ; but the moderate
price at which the ' brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of
I every one interested in the matter."—Dublin Medical Press, April
I 18,1852.

. No. 11.
avo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 4s.
THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi-
ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate
and apparently Intractable Forms. To which is added, PRACTICAL
OBSERVATIONS ON THE TREATMENT OF SPERMATORR-
IICEA BY CAUTERIZATION ; its Inefficiency and Danger.
BY F. B. COITRTENAY,
and a passion for operations and
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
pwrhscotikncooowf
snuOrt_
" Those who complain most loudly are those only
how to use the common instruments ..... The
surgery. "—John Bell's Surgical
Y treated, as bad
goons has been mad with all kinds of violence, an indifference
all about
thet beexscieras
excesses
se cau.rde
ho
of
rro rsdiseases,of
Observations.—" In proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has
given the history of a great many cases successffill
as any which Mr• Syme adduced, and on which he had operated.
Such ae oftass ix., xi., ii., and xviii. No. ix. had resisted, for a
yet the
period o twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally
removed in as' any weeks. But cases xviii. and xis. appear, both
in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag-
gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syine, and
treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently saccessful.,,
—ProtessLr Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture.
_
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SELF-ACTING SIGNALS FOR RAILWAY
SAFETY.
We have had various suggestions as to self-acting
signals of late, but we
.have first,. it appears,. to deal
with the principle, to which the. railway authorities in-
discriminately and entirely object. The following quo-
tation from a communication by a Mr. Wilkins, who
had invented a self-acting 7sgnal about four years
since, after a rather severe.collision on the London and
North-Western Railway, will. sufficiently prove that such
is the fact:—" I obtained an interview with the manager
of the London and North-Western Railway Company,
and in less than a minute was dismissed without an ex-
amination of my scheme, and with an assurance from
him that a self-acting signalwould never do for railways
because they Isere self-actozy. Now had our correspon-
dent proposed to substitute self-acting signalling ma-
chinery for signal-men actually employed. ,we think that
the manager would have been perfectly right in objecting
to the principle; but are signal-men so rite on a railway
that self-acting signals could only be used as a substi-
tute for the more expensive article? It may be that
railway authorities can view the question in no other
light; that when a proposal for increased safety to the
public is made to them they dream of nothing but in-
creased economy to themselves, and at once dismiss the
proposal, merely because they have already decided that
it would scarcely do to take off a signal-man and put on
a self-acting signal in his place. Bat this, let us tell
them, is not the light in which the public view this
question; neither is it that in which either inventors or
ourselves view it, although a consideration for this very
economy is assuredly also involved in it. To insure the
utmost possible safety to the public—and why should
not the public be conducted with the utmost possible
safety?—the signals (of whatever sort) ought at least to
bo as numerous, if not as expensive as those that are
deemed essential to the utmost possible safety of dis-
tinguished individuals—such as emperors, kings, or
princes—when they travel by rail. In such cases we
know that even a continuous line of living signals in
sight of each other is not considered superfluous. Now,
although we would not wish to insist on so expensive
and impracticable a system of signals for the safety of
his Majesty the Public, what we do insist on is, at least,
a cheap and reliable substitute for it. The railway
authorities must be compelled to view this question in a
somewhat less self-interested light than that in which
alone they seem to be capable of viewing it as yet
1 Builder.
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Solomons, Opticians, have invented in tae ed ua le pbreserving
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too high, and the result is, empty trains where there might
be full ones. A train one-third filled- is very little less ex-
pensive than a full train, and with reduction to the public
would come increase to the shareholdi ars. The rates on the
Great Western are particularly high. It is true that this line
affords the greatest perfection of tray, ailing to which we have
att • awed, but the experience of other countries, as well as of
our own, proves the shortsightednessf extortionate charges.
9
, ---Builder.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
SOUTH-EASTERN.
The half-yearly general meeting of the South-Eastern
Railway Company was held yesterday at the 3ridee-
house Hotel, London-bridge, Mr. J. MacGregor, M.P.,
in the chair. The attendance of the proprietors was
numerous.
The report of the directors and statement of account,
which appeared in The Sun on Mondry last, having been
taken as read,
The CHAIRMAN rose, and, in moving the reception and
adoption of the same, said—Gentlemen, we trust that the
report and statement of accounts which have been laid
before you will have your approbation. If a comesriwn
be instituted between the half-year terminating on the
31st of July and the corresponding half of last year, it
will appear that there has been considerable economy in
all departments of the company's service, and an eco-
nomy which the directors hesitate not to say his been
arrived at without any reduction of staff, aid with
every liberal provision for the public service and se-
curity. The increased charge upon revenue during last
half-year over the comparative half of last yeer,tunounts
to 10,2981. Os. Bd., and is to be attributed to an
increase of 5001. in the rent of the G7eenwich
Railway, and to the additional capital expended
in the approaching completion of the com-
pany's lines and works, and the large stock of materials
necessarily purchased for their use. The increase in the
amount of capital expended between the two periods is
422,6141.35. 5d., and there are 27 additional miles of
railway open. The proprietors will observe that during
the three months of the last half-year, prior to the com-
mencement of a comparison with the period when the
Exhibition traffic commenced, the traffic receipts showed
an increase of 14,8331.,9e. 11d., and that the subsequent
diminution in the traffic was entirely in through, or con-
tinental traffic. Judging from the fact and also from the
receipts since the Ist of August, the directors are san-
guine that, after the 11th of October, when last year tlee
Exhibition was closed, the earnings of this half-year will
be greater than they were in the half-
Year ending on the
31st of January last. The comparison of last half-year's
traffic with the comparative half-year of 1850, is
sSlfor a year,
receipts
de-
cidedly satisfactory, as it shows an
increase of
53,111/, 7s. sd. The use of periodical tickets on the
line is steadily increasing. The income received
offr alodmty ashaltst was
se duringl6,769, 1 the 43. ysed. arendilig on the 31st
against
13,1871. from
the same source for the year ending on the 31st of
July,
esethoefl. 12s. sd. of
thisheaadn in.
I increase
as those for half a year would not afford a useful com-
parison,
receiptslBasnld, e
r showing
a largo proportion of periodical tickets being
taken at the close of the year. There is a progressive
increase in the goods traffic, the reee pts for the last
half-year being 5,7021. 9s. 10d. greater than in 1851, and
13,6231. 10s. 6d. greater than in 1850.—(near, hear.)
The increase during the last six months in the weight
of goods brought by the South-Eastern route from Bou-
logne to London is 33 per centelbut the increase of earn-
ings has not been more than 15 per cent. Until the com-
pany aro able to establish a bonded warehouse at the
London terminus, competition for the carriage of wine
is impossible on our part—(Hear, hear_
but the diffi-
culties which occurred in making this arrangement now
appear likely to be overcome, and then the daily com-
munications by the South-Eastern boats and trains from
Boulogne to London will, no doubt, occasion an im-
provement in the receipts under this head. There is a
railway constructing round Paris to connect the
southern with the northern railways; this, when the rail-
ways to Marseilles are completed, will allow of merchan-
dise being brought from Marseilles and Lyons to Bou-
logne without change of carriage, and in regard to all ob-
jects, for whose preservation or deliver-
y time is an "
ob-
• t the South-Eastern route will, no doubt, command
J '
the traffic. Six of the steam-ships have been so altered
as to fit them .for carrying goods, and the other two will
be in like manner prepared—they were all originally
destined for passenger traffic only. It will be interesting
to the proprietors to know that 14,646 through and re-
turn tickets were sold during the last half-year between
London and Paris, Brussels, Aix-la-Chapelle, Cologne,
Frankfort, Leipsic, Berlin, Hamburgb, and Chalons.—
(Hear, hear.) The system of selling through tickets
has been extended since the opening of the railway to
Strasburg and Basle. It will not be to) great an occu-
pation of the time of the proprietors io be again re-
minded of the peculiar facilities which the South-Eastern
route now presents for continental traffic, These have
been extended since the last general meeting of the pro-
prietors by the establishment of a fixed daily service be- i
tween London and Paris, Brussels, and Cologne, leaving
London for Paris, Brussels, and Cologne daily at 8.10
.ell., Cologne for London at 8 A.M., and Paris for
London at 7.40 A.M., and performing the journey
between London and Paris in 141 hours,
London and Brussels in 14 hours, Cologne
and London in 21i hours. This being in addi-
tion to the night mail service, and the daily tidal service
to Paris, viii? Folkestone and Boulogne. The locomotive
and carriage and waggon department of the company
are both in first-rate order, and the directors look for-
ward to obtaining advantage both from the superior con-
dition of the engines and workshops, and the experience
which has been gained in the adaptation of engines to
the work for which they are employed, and in improv-
ing their construction, and their consumption of fuel,
which must gradually tell in the half-yearly outlay. The
warrants for the dividend which the accounts present, as
earned daring the half-year, namely, 78, 6d. per 301
stock, will be completed and in your hands and payable
on Monday next, if it be your pleasure to pass a resolt!,
don accordingly. Gentlemen, you will observe the posi-
tion in which we stand in regard to the agreement exist-
ingd between this company and the Canterbury and
Whitstable Railway
Company. The directors anticiptahea,
that you will decide to become the urchasers of
table
to and that you will order a six months'.
ntable
to bo given to the Canterbury and lit the
Company accordingly. The effect
will
be
' expiration of
present value of money, a saving, at the "Pil:a
six months, of 2,0001. per annum; and it is satisfactoryto state that the net earnings of that railway will
com•
in-
demnify you for the perpetual charge which this
pany will then be liable to. The average gross earn-
e have been
ings for the last three years on this lin
31st of
8,500/., and the net receipts 3,840 e. since the
rear
July calls have been received from proprietors in mar
due
to the amount of 9,704/. Gs. Bd., leaving a total
4ci.Of
to the company on this account of 70,4951-
18s.
this sum, 24,871/. ss. is duo on No. 4 scrip, Which has
absolutely
not been registered, and which has become a
not
forfeited to the company, the holdere of the scrip
of
having entitled themselves to the shares. The issue
stock to represent this scrip, at the present Prices,
5,208/. would
leave a surplus beyond the amount of arrear o
Is. >;d. Deducting the 24,871/. 58. thus accounted for
asum
from the total amount in arrear, there remains
Tho
of 51,624/. 13s. 4d. due from the propriotors.
_von
directors have, in obedience to your Instruction:l:lces,
at the last half-yearly meeting, forfeited
th°seetors to
and will propose a resolution to the Pr suit . This
confirm that forfeiture and order their
evsateo arrive
stop is necessary to enable the coniPaae their lino
at the actual capital which will rep
resentill observe
and works completed. Gentlemen, Y
°u
will
been re-
that the mortgage debt of the company
1351,859,9 W.,
duced last halt-year from 1,997,060/.
ti° having been
being a reduction of 137,0851.-361,5 b
paid paid off, and 224,5651. renewed on
favourable terms.
last from the
The directors obtained estimates in March
by the
engineer, surveyor, and other officers employedccunt of the
company, which showed that the capital f_l
f consolidated
company would stand at 7,433,7001.
od
with a mort-
capital, at 481,300/ guaranteed stock, iiii.
eluded a valu-
gage debt of 1,784,375/. This estimate inamounting to
ation of surplus land and buildings
encies of about
312,2004 and it left a margin for conting e
tan rental,
of
i 40,0001. Of the property comprised n -
ny rental, but
312,2001., 70,0001, is not producing
utilizing sum of
the property represented by the
rlths a rental of
242,2004 produced in the last 12 niohn directors ad-
-15,2641. It has not appeared to
t erty, as all pro-
visable to hurry the sale of this praPt- e
f h company is
party adjoining the lines and works o
ess of realisation,
increasing in value. Pending the pr°cn
t the portion of
or the decision of the proprietors
ag
it will be needful
the property to be eventually retained,ge powers
for the company to exercise
its
the Canterbury and
to an extent of 180,000/.
If& further mortgage
Whitstable Railway be purchase
i ectors do not attempt
Powers will be necessary. The ci•lr latitude must be al-
to conceal from themselves that
a uncompleted works;
lowed in regard to estimates
forined month by month,
the facts, however, will be ascerta
d the accounts settled.
as the works are completed, aotit debt of the company
The average charge on the prese
r annum. Of this debt
is at the rate of 4-1. per cent. Pe'nd 5 per cent. falls duo
nearly a million, at 4, 41, 41, and
the period is not
before the end of 1854, h tand dealing
may be made
m far distant at which a ateri with this question
in the charge on revenue, by and expected state of the
on such terms as the present .
ail not venture to trespass
money market will allow. Isf -my own or of the board
upon you with any opinion
°estion• but, with your per-
of directors, on this great qll,O, of an hon. proprietor
mission, I will quote the '
°PI° his position in the City of
in this company, eminent for I mean the Hon. Member
London and his judgment-
man Thompson, who, in his
for Westmoreland, Mr. Aide:.
i a director of the Bank of
own extensive concerns,
anal
to information on the sub-
England, has abundant accesseeting
and Westmoreland Agricultural of the Cumberland
ject. I observe that at
a Inltural Society, the other day,
.heyine terms:—l shall not
the Hon. Gentleman bpokth ThOMpsOieti remarks
trouble you, gentlemen, w.. ti,
t have a strong impression
on fat stock, for some 0 has
numbered us among the
that railway construction
y you by reeking his remarks
lean trine, nor will I oehnlilcP
h might also apply to the state
on " deep draining,"
w arc railway proprietors; but
of. the pockets of som© who
thine words made use of
with regard to money, says—'` People are amazed
by the Hon. Gentleman.
enormous amount of gold which
at the description of the
and Australia. I believe that
has come from Californiai
accounts
to a great extent those are true. I believe that.
F 20
millions per annum• ~
is realised
gold to the amount o.
am not about to enter upon any
in Australia alone.
I to the effect of these supplies upon
elaborate argument as ,
erience tells me that it has al-
the currency, but my eneering the rate of interest, thus
ready had the effect of
facilities° to the borrowers of money, and
affording greater of great tracts of land to secure
enabling the cultivatorstheir operations.—(llear, hear.)
money to carry on
a us, and finding that we our-
With this authority befor