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London, England, 1853-12-29 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1853.

ARCTIC REGIONS.—GREAT GLOBE, Lei-
cater-Equare.— A Collection of Dresses, Arms, and Imple-
ments of the Tuski Esqnimanx and the North Pole, collected by
Captain Inglefleld, Liettt. Hooper, and in the Exploring Expedition
in search of Sir John Franklin and the North-West Passage. Mr.
WYLD'S. MODEL of the ARCM REGIONS. Geographical Lec-
tures every hour from 10 till 10. Admission, Is. ; Chi dren and
Schools half-price.

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE ROOMS,
(Lessee, CHAS. C. LAURENT, 011SIOW-horse, Fn,sam•read),
• —The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE. SEASON.
and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S
CELEBRATED BAND. Admission,' Is. Doors open at half-past 8 ;
Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and ter .Inate at half-past 11.

CHRISTNIAS WEEK. • •

3TR. ALBERT SMITH will give his ASCENT
X of MONT BLAND TO-NIG(IT (WEDNESDAY); and
EVERY EVENING (except Satunlay) at Two and Eight °Tina,
during the waek. Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.

J.
XPORTERS to . AUSTRALIA, EAST IN-
DIES, CAPE, &c.—Genuine YARMOUTH BLON VERS.—
For terms apply to TIMMAS LErris, Fish Merchant, Great Yarmouth.

TKINSON and COMPANY, CABINET
MASUFACTURERg, UPHOLSTERERS, and CARPET
WAREHOUSEMEN, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster
bridge-road, Lambeth, London.

ATKINSON and COMPANY, DRAPERS,
SILK MtRCERS, LACEMEN, &c., 69. 70, 71, 72, 73, 74,
and 75, Westminster-bridge-road, Lambeth, London.—Shawls, Furs,
Mantles, Family Mourning. &c.

WIVE THOUSAND Fresh, Large, and Fat
TURKEYS, GEESE, FOWLS, and OSTEND RABBITS,
which arrived too late for sale on Saturday last, will be cleared off
daily without any reserve by THURSDAY next, by GEORGE and
EDWARD BROOKE, Salesman, Leadenhall-market.

DO YOU BRUISE YOUR OATS YET?
NEW OAT CRUSHERS, 21.155. 6d. and 41. ss.
bd.; CHAFF CUTTERS, 1/. 7s. 6d. and 2/. 19s. 6d, ;
MANGLES, 21. 10s. 6d.; FLOUR MILLS, 41. 10s. 6d.
MARY WEDLAKE and CO., 118, Fenchurch-street.

110 the CHARITABLE.—Members of Societies
and others, now preparing their customary gifts to the Foor
at this inclement season, are advised that F LA NNE LS, BLANKETS,
and all similar materials, calculated to give not merely an empty
appearance, but the actual warmth and usefulness intended by
benevolent donors; such are SELLING OFF at a great reduction
from their actual value, in consequence of the recent dissolution
of Partnership, at Warwick House, 142 and 144, Regent-street.

CRTSTMAS GIFTS.—It is truly . said that
few things form a more welcome Present than an elegant
SFIAWL, a Mantle, or Silk Dress, than can now be obtained at half
their real value, owing to the Retirement of Mr. Merrett, and the
necessity for an immediate SELLING OFF. Every article is marked
In plain figures, and will fully sutlain the high reputation enjoyed
(luring a quarter of a century by Warwick House, 142 and 144,
Regent-street, London.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS,
For Orphans and Necessitous Children, Wanstead.

PRESIDENT -JOHN MASTERMAN, Esq., M.P. -
A GENERAL COURT of the Governors of this Institution was
held at the London Tavern, this day (Wednesday), the 28th inst.,
GEORGE MOORE, Esq., in the chair;
At which an Election of 12 children for admission into the schools
took place. At the close of the poll, the result was declared as fol-
lows:

BOYS.

A Morley, Henry .. • • •• •• 3,094,
Bowden, Thomas Alfred.. 1,3801
Cane, Frederick William.. 1,7591
Ewins, Charles Henry.• • • *3,7191
Fox, .... • ... • • *4,148
Hopkins, James...... • • 3,607
Howell, Richard Adolphus *4,002
Keene, George Henry.... 1,851
Kempsten, Robert.. • • .... *3,610

WKibbin, James ........ ►4,800
Mee, George Edward .... 2,362
Phillips, Henry 150
Sternberg, James Rober t.. 1,741
Swindell, Charles ........ 1,373
Stockdale, James *3,985
Travis, G. Robert .... • *7,142
Tweddle, Launcelot Marshall 408
Williams, Robert Haworth *3,807

GIRLS.
I
Bradbury, 'slainlla Frances *3,322 Murray, Henrietta .... • • 1,706
Cockerton, Ann •. ...... .. 1,729 Patten, Je,ssi‘... ...... ... 496
Cooper, Mary Helen.. •.. • *2,964 Taylor, Caroline King.... 846
Davis, Catherine ........*4,178 1 Wilcox, Fanny Emily •• .. 2,265
Ilextall, Elizabeth Adelaide*4,46s I

THOMAS SALT and CO.,
EAST INDIA PALE ALE BREWERS,
BURTON-ON-TRENT.
STORES.
London • • • .. 22, Hungerford-wharf.
Liverpool ...... • •• 52, Henry-street.
Manchester •• ........ 37, Brown-street.
Birmingham
Bristol •• ........ Back Hall, Baldwin-street.
Nottingham .. • • .. •• .. 14, Milton• street.
Dublin •• •• •-•• .. 4, Crown-alley.
Edinburgh .•......... 17, Downie•place.
Dundee •• • • .... • • .... 13, New Inn Entry, High-street.

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.—At the Social
Re-unions of this Festive Season, the Fair and Youthful are
more than usually desirous of shining in

PERSONAL ATTRACTION
under the gaze of many friends; and the following unrivalled dis•
coveries for the Toilet are necessarily called into increased requisi-
tion, namely, ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, for creating and
sustaining a luxuriant head of hair; ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, for
rendering the skin soft, fair, and blooming; ROWLANDS' ODONTO,
or Pearl Dentifrice, for imparting a pearl-like whiteness to the Teeth ;
and ROWLANDS' AQUA D'ORO, a fragrant and spirituous perfume,
an essential accompaniment to places of public amusement and
crowded assemblies. The patronage of royalty and rank and fashion
throughout Europe, and the well-known efficacy of these articles,
render them a peculiafly Elegant and Seasonable Present. Beware
of Spurious Imitations. The only genuine of each bears the name of
"ROWLANDS' " preceding that of the article on the wrapper or
label.

'Sold by A. ROWLAND and SONS, 20, Hatton-garden, London;
and by Chemists and Perfumers.

31ECHI'S PREPARATIONS FOR
NEW YEAR'S PRESENTS.

Sensible that the season is approaching when love and friendship
give their tangible testimonials, MECIII has taken care to provide
an abundance of objects for tasteful selection.
/Cone need deny themselves the luxury of giving, for the most in-
expensive as well as the most costly articles are to be found at his
Repository of Utilities and Elegances,

MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF
YOUTH AND MATURITY.
DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of
Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical
Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Ste., Bte.
MAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on
the various disorders of the nervous and generative system,
resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro-
iuced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema-
ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis-
eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience
In the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist-
once secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in
existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous
Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Marri-
ages, Impetency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their
endless modifications owe their almost entire origin.
It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are
principles of personal management which cannot be violated without
incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed
the heyday of -inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties
may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed,
and how the evil and its consequene es may be avoided, and above all,
that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional
derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure.
DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged
in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com-
plaints, and is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless
of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had
the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct
attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is
free. In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply
revrarded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the
treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the
care of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated
publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues
oftheir patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who
have been induced to place faith in their pretensions.
At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from
Six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of 11., and advice and
medicines can he forwarded to any initials or address.
It is desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MERT
hould first obtain a copy of his work on
SELF.PRESERSATIOTT
A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and
Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty-coloured engravings, and des-
cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and
excesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct
description of their • cases, and may be had, price 25 6d, in English,
French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper
Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxtord-street ;
Mann, 39, Cornbill ; Storie. Titebborne-street, Haymarket; or free
by post for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Author's resi-
dence. 37. EGDFORD•SQUARE LONDOIC

SECOND EDITION.—WITH ADDITIONS.
Just published, Bvo., in cloth,
ftbi TRUE (IT, FALSE SPEit by post tree. 55. 6d.
MATORREICEA,
price ss.
. with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors
In relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the
0 anerative System, or Sexual Ilypochondriasis.
Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD
Flap-m(1 Is known to English readers by his frequent practl-.
ell contributions to German medical literature. This is the 111,4
tlnle, he informs ns, that he has addressed himself to the non-medl-
call reader. We trust this may not be the last, if ho shall elect any
other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his .ower to correct."
—London Medical Gazette, May 36, 1851. The tribe of 'Quiet Sym pa-
hisers,'and ' Medical Friends,'are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book
could find its way into the hands of those who sailer fr,rn 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 volume is well qualified to put an end to the
empirical system of treating Sperrnatorrhcea, and to place the tref.t-
mant upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore
likely to do much good."—Modical Ciuilar, Jnno 16, 1852.
London: 11, Balliere, 219, Regent-Street.

WILL. SHORTLY OLOSE.--DR. KIdAN'S
ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, Portland Gallery, Regent-
street, pposite the Polytechnic.--Open for gehtlemen daily at the
usual hours, exce?ting on Wednesdays and Fridays, from Two to
Fire, during which hours Ladles only are admitted. Explanations
for Gentlemen by Dr. Leach, and for Ladies by Mrs. Leach. Ad-
mission, is.

NETHERLANDS-OLAND ENCLOSURE

NOTICE IR HEREBY. GIVEN, that the F,)111ITII INSTAL-
M] NT of It per Share (making hi. In all), will become PAYABLE
on the shares of this. Company ore the 30th December next.
Shareholders are requested to pay the came at the hankintz-house
of Mesars:Masterman and Co.' Nicholas-lane, London, whose receipt
must afterwards be presented with the shares at the offices of the
Ctunpany, in order, that the amount. it the call may be endorsed
th.creon.

By order of the Board,
' GEO. FASSON, Secretary.
3, Adelaide place, London-bridge, 28th Nov., 1853.

„ .
THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.
Offices, 33, .Norfolk-street, strand, London.—Enrolled under
6th and 7ili,Wm. IV., cap. az, !as the Conservative Beneht Building

Society ; and established for the purpose of ;tidily.; Members of all
Classes to obt,in s,,ecally and cheaply the Freehold Franchise in all
Counties, and as a most eligible mode of Investment.

TRUSTEES. . . .
Viscount Ranelagh. J. C. Cobbelel., Esq., M.P.
The Honourable Colonel Lowther, • W. Theriison, Fq., M.P.,
M.P. • " Alderman.' '''' • • •
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Chairman—Lard Viscount RANELAGII
Vice-Chairman—Colonel BROWNLOW KNOX. M.P.
•
Booth. T. W., Esq., M.P. Laurie, Fector J., Esq.
Churchill, Lord Alfred Maidstone, Viscount
Cobhold, J. C., Esq., M.P. Maitland; J. G., Esq.
Codringtun, Sir W., Bart., M.P. Pownall, Henry, Esq.
Cribb, Mr. William • Ray, H. 8., Esq., , •
Duncombe, Hen,!W. E., MP. - stracey, 11., Eser.. 4. -
Fowler, Robert Nicholas, Esq. Steven, Robert, Esq.
Holmes, T. K., Esq. Worthington, Rev. J. W., D.D.
Huddleston, J. W., Esq.
BANKERS (City)—Messrs. Dimsdale, Drewett, Fowlers, and Barnard.
BANKERS (West-end)—Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co.
STANDING COUNSEL—Richard Mains, ESQ., Q C., M.P.
CONVEYANCING COUNSEL William David Lewis, Esq., and John

Fish Pownall, Esq.
SOLICITORS —Messrs. Harrison and Lewis, Boswell-court.

SURyEToß—George Morgan, Esq., Architect and Surveyor.
ACCOUNTANT—Perse Stace, Esq.
SECRETARY—CharIes Lewis Gruneisen, Esq.
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CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN,

gant barbarians who shiver in their palaces on the
Neva, under the cold and cloudy skies of the north, •
may well kindle, when they hear or read of the
sunny slopes, the pleasant glades, the balmy
breezes, the calm eternal blue of the waters,
which make the sail from the Sea of Marmora to
Thorapia a succession of delights. But let us hope
that no plots against human liberty and peace will
ever again be hatched in scenes so blessed by na-
ture, and that the fleets and armies of tyrants will
never again issue from the Hellespont on a crusade
against the dearest interests of mankind.

We found the fleets moored in Beikos Bay, the
English squadron 'close to the southern shore and
the French farther out. The Turkish ships lay on
the other side of the strait. The coup-d'wil was
magnificent •' but the sight of such tremendous
might slumbering there, when so much wrong and
mischief was being enacted a few miles away,
was to me anything but a pleasing one. The Rus-
sians are carrying their ravages to the very mouth
of the Bosphorus, when two English first-rates
would make their flag invisible for long enough to
come, at ]east in those waters.
Our anticipations regarding the Black Sea proved
only too well founded. After getting out a few miles
we found the sea running very high, the sky black
enough in all conscience to keep the sea in countenance,
and our captain's face very long indeed. So, as we
expected, we put about, and, running hack into the
Strait, came to anchor under one of the forts. We
had no sooner done so than the Fury steamer passed
us at full speed, followed by a French one, bound, as
we have since learned, for Varna. We did not pro-
ceed on our way until noon on the following day,
and on Monday about noon, after a deal to do,
reached Burgas, a small village, possessing a very
good harbour, and a small trade with Con-
stantinople. At the entrance to the port on
a narrow rock, some distance from the shore,
stands a Greek convent. A more lonely and desolate
abode can hardly be imagined—lonely and desolate
enough, onewould imagine, to satisfy the most thorough-
going anchorite. I have been struck by the total want
amongst the Greek monks of that eye for the picturesque,
that love for pleasant, shady, or romantic abodes, for
which the holy men of western Europe were in old times
so remarkable. Barren rocks, difficult of access, track-
less wastes, or lonely dens of various kinds, in hich no
delights for the senses were to be found, are the places
in which the Greek recluses mostly sought to expiate
their offences. There are no Melroses or Mucrosses
amongst the abbeys and convents of the east. Even
Mount Athos has little to recommend it in the way of
scenery. The Greek love of nature did not follow them
into the church.
Somewhere near Varna, in some bay or creek, whose
name I neither know or care to know, our valorous
captain anchored in the night after leaving Burgas, so
as not to arrive at Varna before daylight, all earance
to the port in the dark being prohibited since the
commencement of the war. I was inclined to excuse
his caution after I had seen his engine. I walked
forward one day, and in sheer listlessness occu-
pied myself for a few minutes in looking down into
the engine-room. I was amused to find that this speci-
men of the great "power" of modern times was mended
in two places with cord. lam not enough of a mecha-
nician to designate properly the parts which were thus
fortified ; but in one case the shaft appeared strongly
lashed, as if it had been spliced : whatever may have
been the nature of the repair I can vouch for the fact
itself. This discovery was, of course, not calculated to
increase our comfort ; and when to all this you add
general want of accommodation of every sort, exorbi-
tant charges, and a rate of exchange lower by 20 piastres
in the Turkish Medja than at Constantinople, you will
have a tolerably accurate notion of voyaging in the
Black Sea at present by the 'Austrian Lloyds steamer—
always remembering that the cold was intense, with
high northerly winds.
We have met with a most hospitable reception here,
under the roof of Col, Neple, the British COnsul, whose
houss happens to be the only one in the town open to
strangers, excepting the khan, a bare room, to which the
outer air has always easy access through innumerable
crannies—the domestic manners of the Turks not per-
mitting the admission of men of any nation into their
households. His kindness has, during the past autumn,
been put to a very severe test, in consequence of the
great number of English travellers who have passed
and repassed on their way to and from Shumla, and
all of whom coved more or less of the comforts of
their journey to his assistance. His spirit of practical
benevolence was displayed in a still more remarkable,
and even more praiseworthy, manner towards the Polish
and Hungarian exiles, who sought refuge on the right
bank of the Danube in 1849. Many of them have
spokenito me of his-conduct towards them in terms ex-
pressive of the warmest gratitude—deeply felt, I have
no doubt, not only towards him, but through him to-
wards the nation he represents. These little acts of
charity performed by British agents in far-off corners of
the world towards men who, God help them, have no
country and no home, will I am sure prove rich in bles-
sing to England one day when the rotten despotisms of
the world are scattered to the wind, and the outcasts of
to-day become the statesmen of a new and better era.
In connexion with the affair at Sinope described in
my last, I may mention that the French admiral some
days ago, on learning from the Capitan Pacha that a
detachment of his fleet was lying at Sinope. expressed
his surprise that it should be allowed to remain in so
exposed a situation. Two days afterwards, when the
above news arrived, the Capitan Pacha sent to Admiral
Hamelin to know whether he had had any previous
knowledge of what had occurred, thus unconsciously
paying a very high tribute to the foresight of the latter.
A Russian war-steamer came in here on the 6th ult.
with topgallant sails set, and showing no colours. As
she kept her bows towards the batteries, it was sup-
posed she was a sailing vessel, till, on arriving right
opposite the town, she wheeled completely round, and
thus showed her funnels. The British consul, who was
standing in front of his house, at once perceived her real
character, and informed the authorities, who were quite
taken by surprise. She got off, under full steam, before
there was time to give her a suitable reception, for which,
it appears, she was fully prepared, as she had her guns
loaded and matches lighted. The object of her visit
seems to have been to ascertain whether any vessels of
war, foreign or otherwise, were lying in the harbour.
Ever since this, great vigilance has been shown by the
military Pacha of Varna, lest any similar event should
take place. Everything is in constant readiness at the
various batteries to bring the whole available force on
the seaside into instant action. Varna has often played
a prominent part in the military history of the Turks,
particularly in the war of 1828, when it was taken by
the Russians, owing to the treachery of the Pacha,
after a siege of four months, and the fortifications
totally destroyed. They were restored completely
three years after by European officers, and are at pre-
sent four times stronger, both in extent and in the
number of guns in position. The defences are much
larger, and the guns number two hundred, nearly all of
English make, and mostly sixty-eight pounders, none
being of less calibre than forty-eight pounds. These are
distributed over eleven batteries, and do not include
those mounted on the outworks along the harbour. The
latter are four in number, besides two batteries at Cape
Galata, at the entrance f the bay, which command the
whole anchorage, and could, in conjunction with some
of the town batteries, sweep it with a tremendous cross
fire, besides which, one of them is so elevated as to be
out of the reach of ship's guns. The total number of
guns in the outworks is twenty-five. In the hands of
Turkish soldiers I need hardly say that these masses of
artillery would render a repetition of the event of 1828,
by the Russians at least, all but impossible. A distin-
guished English officer of engineers, who passed through
here a short time ago, expressed great admiration of the
whole of the defences. The town is also surrounded by
a wall and ditch, the former pierced with loopholes for
musketry. It would of course be of little use against
artillery, and perhaps not of much use anywhere except
next the sea. The beach is too small for the landing of
a large body of troops, as they would not have room to
form, and a small one would of course be destroyed by
musketry alone, as soon as they left the boats.
General Prim and his staff have left Schumia for the
winter, and many of the troops are going into winter
quarters in the large towns. Omer Pacha does not in-
tend, I believe, to attempt any fresh operations before
spring ; but it is thought by no means improbable that
the Russians may attack his position at Kalafat as soon
as the frost sets in hard. They are greatly chagrined b
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fantry have been seen under fire since the European
system of training came fully into operation, and the
result has excited the admiration of all the foreign offi-
cers present. Perfect steadiness, perfect silence, and
thorough devotion to the terrible work before them,
prevailed throughout. Of the artillery it is needless to
speak. The only arm in which they are deficient is the
cavalry ; and I have no doubt that Omer Pasha's exer-
tions will at last bring this up to as high a standard as
any of the others.

BANKRUPTCY.—A petition in bankruptcy against
Wm. Bernard Anderson, of Billiter-street, Leadenhall-
street, general merchant, has been opened before Mr.
Commissioner Fane. The bankrupt is the person of
that name whose case has been recently before the
Mansion-house Police•court, and his debts are said to be
about 120,0001. It is further stated that the assets are
large, notwithstanding some reports to the contrary.
ROBBERY OF BIRDS FROM ST. JAMES'S PARE.--
Three white birds and one black one have been stolen
from the ornamental heater in St. James's Park, the
property of the Ornithological Society. The society
have issued a notice offering a reward of 51. for the cap-
ture and conviction of the party guilty of this impudent
robbery of fowl from the park waters.