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tql. Q YOUTH AND MATURITY.
LONDON,
AL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF
40c "AMITEL LA'MERT, f the University of
tor ~,
Member o
tat Medicine and Matrieu'ated l Medical
London Hospital goolThergh, Honorary Member of the.
37, BEDFORD-SQITARE,
il
.ety, Licentiate of Apothecaries'
,All AY be consulted, personallY, by letter, on
or .
stem,
nd generative sy
Hall, London, &c., &c.
lesoiti ule various disorders of the nervous a
Leeed i,„4 from juvenile irregularities and excesses,
manhood, and PreMa-
..urt A -Ire misery in youth, degradation in
..._ .ef,
other class of dis-
'ases ~.•Y at all stages of life, than perhaps andypwhich have pro-
ractical experience
e the'tir oto modern pathologists. Long and
"te __r Mutant of these diseases has proved that iiiitoepxesisin.-
'iisier7 et entities of self-acquired miseries anddisappointed,
tiebaitee, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to whicliNidervarolios.
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, 4pellt to which the timely aid of science cannot ay a made
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Dlatota, Xtensive practice in the treatment of these delicate con-
the taand is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardlessd
luie eomants and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has ha
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AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES.
TEIE SILENT FRIEND.
In Six Languages—Fiftieth Edition.
CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE.
Illustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings and
Cases.

New Edition, enlarged to 200 pages, price 2s. 6d., by post, from the
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r-rHE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
11 the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by
,xcessive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of
mercury, with directions for the use of the preventive lotion, fol
lowed by observations on Marriage, and the disqualifications which
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THE HERRING FISHING IN THE NORTH.—The her-
ring fishing has terminated at all the stations in the
north, and we are now enabled to present a statement
of the aggregate catch, which amounts to 338,740 trans.
The above amount is Considerably above the average of
the last six years, of which the following is a state-
ment :-1847, 255,00 ; 1848, 275,000 ; 1849, 351,610 ;
1850, 225,000 ; 1851, 273,066 ; and 1352, 214,752.
The average of the six years ended 1852 was 265,733,
and it will be seen that the catch of the present season
exceeds this average by 62,997 craps. Though thus a
large fishing, the catch of the present season does not,
it will be observed, equal that of 1849. Notwithstanding
the large catch, prices have this year been remarkably
high, and there is every prospect of full rates being main-
tained. Already large—we might almost say enormous-7
exports have been made, not merely of red, but of white
salted herrings, to Australia ; and considerable inquiries
are still being made for fish to be sent to the same desti-
nation. Besides the demand for Australia, there has
been an unusual, quite an unprecedented, consumption
of herrings, both fresh and slightly salted, in the manu-
facturing districts of our own country. These circum-
stances combined—the export to Australia, and the
home demand—together with the high rates of every
description of butchers' meat, will, it is confidently ex-
pected, fully maintain the value of herrings during the
coming winter. Both the home consumption and the
Australian demand are likely to continue even beyond
the present season, and will, we trust, tend to render
the herring trade still less dependent on foreign markets.
At present, owing to the catch having improved towards
the close of the season, there is, we hear, a slight flat-
ness for the article in the German markets. We trust,
however, that curers will bear in mind the causes above
mentioned, which are operating in their favour, and that
they will not rashly or hurriedly fling their produce in
consignments into the German marketsthey may
rest assured, that throughout the whole coming season,
the disposers of herrings, if matters are conducted
with prudence, may command fair prices. —Baviishire
Journal.
THE PETERHEAD SEALING AND WHALING FLEET.—
The owners of the Peterhead sealers and whalers have,
on the whole, been pretty fortunate this season. The
whole fleet have brought home this season 1,560 tuns of
oil, besides 100,000 seal skins and 20 tons of whalebone.
- Edinburgh Advertiser.
THE LATE AFFRAY BETWEEN THE MILITARY AND THE
POLICE AT EDINBURGH. On Friday afternoon the police
officers visited the Castle, and identified other ten pri-
vates as having been engaged in the disturbance. They
were accordingly removed to the police office ; but on
investigation it was found that the evidence affected only
three of them, whereupon the other seven were liberated.
The officer, Lieut. Roberts, who was unintentionally the
cause of the whole affair, and who gave himself into
custody, was released on parole. On Friday the charge
against him, that of striking the boy, was also remitted
to the sheriff. On the earliest opportunity after the ac-
cident, Lieut. Roberts tendered an apology to the father
of the boy for what had occurred, and the apology was
, most readily accepted.

We trust, at any rate, that such may be the
fact, since, in this event, the course will still be
open to negotiation and adjustment. It is evident
that no fundamental objection to the modifications
offered by the Porte is entertained by the Confer-
ence, and, if the Emperor Nicholas is of the same
opinion respecting their essential import, no great
difficulty should be experienced in devising such a
note as would embody the desires expressed at Con-
stantinople in forms less unacceptable at St. Peters-
burg. It is here that we discern the unfortunate
consequences of the omission to consult the Turkish
Envoy at Vienna. If that Minister had been ap-
prised beforehand of the intentions of the Confer-
ence, he would either by his concurrence have se-
cured the assent of his own Government, or, by
expressing in time the views of the Porte, he might
have obtained their admission into the document
under consideration, and thus have deprived them
of their objectionable feature. At the same time,
it must be remembered that if the Conference was
to act impartially between two disputants, one of
them could scarcely have been admitted to the dis-
cussions without the other.

If, however, the objections of the Emperor
Nicholas should be found to apply to the sub-
stance of the Turkish modifications, the question
becomes still more embarrassing, for the mediating
Powers, by placing their independent conclusions
on public record, have in some sense determined
the case, and have deprived themselves, in a mea-
sure, of the right to press upon the Emperor's ac-
ceptance terms different from those to which, after
full debate, they had committed themselves before.
ft is perfectly true that the Porte, as the aggrieved
party, may demand the larger amount of conside-
ration, nor do we for a moment forget that this is
no case of doubtful or equally divided claims, in
which one disputant is entitled to as much indul-
gence as the other. Russia is in the wrong, but
she is not more in the wrong now than she was at
the moment when the Four Powers pronounced
their opinion upon the dispute. To this decision
Russia may now point. In accepting the award of
the Conference she may require, with some show of
reason, a like decision from the Conference itself,
and may justify her own rejection of the unaccept-
able terms by arguing that the Four powers them-
selves omitted to recommend them. These are the
obvious dangers on the side of Russia.
On the side of Turkey, it can scarcely be hoped
that the original Note of the Conference, should
Russia so frame her demands, will, after a formal
rejection, be accepted now that the martial fanati-
cism of the Ottomans is effectively roused, and the
chances of war are apparently less adverse. If the
Porte insisted on supplementary conditions when
it was less able to enforce its will and less deeply
committed to a policy of resistance, there can be
little expectation of its dispensing with these con-
ditions at a moment when the war party is clearly
in the ascendant. At present, too, the points of
difference are unhappily distinct. Originally there
was no definite knowledge of any particular terms
which Turkey might adhere to and Russia might
refuse ; but these conditions have now, unfortu-
nately, been stated with a preciseness rendering any
compromise exceedingly difficult. It has been
categorically specified what the Porte demands,
and what the Czar denies, and if, as is not impro-
bable, the Courts of St. Petersburg and Constan-
tinople should persist in their conclusions, the
opportunities of mediation are almost hopelessly lost.
The main policy, however, of the Four Powers
remains as clear as before. Their duty is the pre-
servation of peace. On the merits of the case it is
impossible that they should not incline to the side
of Turkey—a Government which has been noto-
riously aggrieved, which has certainly exhibited
some patience, and which is only in fault in so far
as that patience may have proved unequal to the
provocation received. Nevertheless, it is equally
impossible to deny that Russia, in accepting the
terms proposed to her by the joint action of the
other great Powers, has provided herself with plau-
sible warrant for her present objections, however
deficient in substantial justice her case may be.
She has expressed her readiness to do all that a
Conference of arbitrators thought proper to require,
and it evidently will be a difficulty to require more.
The Governments of Europe possess, of course, an
undoubted right to see that the consequences of
this embroilment are not carried to a length inju-
rious to the common security, nor can it be main-
tained that the conduct of Turkey, however politi-
cally imprudent, has not been such as to expose it
either to the attacks of its enemies, or the derelic-
tion of its friends. It has forfeited none of its
rights, though it may have impaired its supports,
and we earnestly trust that, as the Conference is
sincerely desirous of maintaining the sovereign in-
dependence of the Ottoman empire, it might be
enabled to do so by adjusting a dispute which
doubtless involves greater matters, but which has
apparently been reduced already to a question of
form.

A CHILD ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.—An inquest was held
hRe usthteerwr,
odoedpulntyn, cForaollnoewr,..
Ann Partington, aged two years, daughter of John
ffionerl dTt ,hu nee ehs dauranyMd r before
dne fcoohrfeeSs tMaelrfr,o. rodGn: at
O.
body of a little girl named
Partington, of Fallowfield. , The deceased was at the
house of a man named Joseph Lyth, at Withington, on
the ho a u w s
ea
with
ware-
houseman, ho u s
e Saturdaynlan , afternoon,livin g in Manchester,
when
wents
to Knight,
a double-barrelled gun, which he reared up against the
cheek of the door, on the outside. Both barrels were
loaded with shot. There were percussion caps on the
nipples, and the hammers were down. Two dogs which
were playing about ran against the butt-end of the gun,
and threw it down. It fell with the muzzle into the
house. Both barrels were discharged ; and the deceased,
who was standing in the house close to the door, re-
ceived the shot from one of the barrels in her abdomen
and one of her legs. She died almost immediately. The
jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."
EDINBURGH ACADEMY.—The classical mastership in
the Edinburgh Academy, which was vacated by the
election of the Rev. R. Payne Smith, M.A., to the
head-mastership of the Kensington Grammar School,
has been filled up by the appointment of Mr. Henry
Weir, M.A., now head-master of the Grammar School
at Berwick-upon-Tweed. Mr. Weir was originally a
very distinguished student in the University of Edin-
burgh, and he has had much experience as a teacher
in Scottish schools. He is also a graduate in the Uni-
versity of Cambridge, where he obtained a high position
in the clasnical examination,

Mr. ACKROYD seconded the amendment, and, amid
considerable uproar, stated that three of the directors at
the board held only a colourable qualification, and that
they were not fit for the position they occupied. They
had 150 female shareholders in the company who had
held their shares from the commencement, and the ques-
tion was whether they were to have a dividend ? He
confessed that it was of importance to himself to have a
dividend, and, if they had men who would come forward
and give them a fixed dividend, he for one would be in-
clined to entertain the offer. Competition might be a
very good thing for Mr. Roy and other parties, but a
fixed dividend would be a great matter for the share-
holders.

A PROPFLIETOE wished ta_knovi_whether_tht.r.,,rorrkt
not be satisfied with a fixed dividend of 34 per cent, per
annum, and half the surplus profits ! He understood
from Mr. Scott, at Bristol, that he would venture to
support a proposition of that kind if it were made to
them. They had heard him say that he would go for a
fixed and unqualified dividend.
Mr. SCOTT acknowledged that he would have accepted
3i per cent. and half the surplus profits, as he believed
it would be accepted by a large majority of the share-
holders.

Mr. GEACH, M.P., a director, entered at considerable
length into the difficulties he had had to encounter at
the board, in consequence of differing essentially from
the majority respecting the management. He stated
that there never had been a fair meeting of the board
when he was present at it, and that he had actually de-
tected the secretary in the act of skipping and mis-
reading certain parts of a document in his presence at a
board meeting. He would not remain at the board
were it not with the view of defending the property of
those who had elected him to a seat in the direction,
and who had confidence in him. He felt, as a pub-
lic man, that the conduct of their board was calcu-
lated to destroy all confidence in such property.
He would work the line fairly and accommo-
date all parties, he would oppose an alliance with
the Great Western Company, or even the London and
North-Western, and he believed, if their affairs were
honestly and prudently managed, that they would have
a dividend quite equal to any guarantee that would be
offered them. He advised them to keep their affairs in
their own hands until they could come to an arrange-
ment with the great companies. He complained of the
way in which the directors had entered into an agree-
ment with the Great Western Company on the 10th of
January, 1851, and said that he for one would never
submit to that agreement. He believed it would never
have been carried were it not for fictitious votes and cer-
tain representations to the shareholders. He considered
the conduct of the board was a scandal to all public com-
panies. If the majority of the shareholders decided
against his recommendations, he would submit, and be
glad to be relieved from the responsibility of being a
director. On the 7th of September he discovered that
2,000 preference shares, deposited by the directors with
a banker as collateral security for a loan of 20,0001.,
had been transferred to Mr. W. 0. Hunt, and subse-
quently divided among a number of persons, to be used
as proxies on the questions submitted to the meeting.
He called upon the proprietors to purify the board, and
in their selection to draw a distinction between men of
honour and those who had none, or else they would get
no honourable men to serve them in future. They
might trust the committee to select for them fit and
proper persons, as they held about 100,0001. stock in the
eompany. He felt that they owed a great deal to the
London and North-Western Company for upholding
them in the present struggle. (Cheers.) Neither for
the London and North-Western, nor the Great Western
Company would he use the trust reposed in him except
for the benefit of the shareholders. (Great applause.)
Mr. BAKER said, the proprietors must not be carried
away by the arguments of gentlemen holding large
stakes in the company, as they were only the nominees
of other parties. He thought they should make a pro-
position for 31 per cent., and half surplus profits if they
did not like the other.
Mr. SCOTT said, it was not for them to offer terms to
the Great Western, but to let the Great Western make
them an offer.
Mr. BAKER proposed that a proposition of the kind
he had suggested should be added as a rider to the reso-
lution.
Mr. SCOTT would not consent to that, with thepresent
board.
The Solicitor to the committee of shareholders then
entered into a statement respecting the conduct of the
directors in borrowing money for the company at a higher
rate of interest than was paid to the bankers ; 5 per
cent. in one case of 20,0001. being charged when only
41 was paid, and in another case of 12,0001., 5 per
cent. being charged and only 3t per cent. paid, the dif-
ference being retained as an indemnity for their personal
responsibility.
Mr. C. A. SAUNDERS, the secretary of the Great West-
ern, said he would not advert to the time that had been
consumed in discussing matters irrelevant to the busi-
ness for which the meeting had been convened. He could
not permit any one to say that the agreement of Jan.,
1851, with the Great 'Western Railway Company had
been entered into unfairly. They never sought it, the
matter was suggested to the Great Western Company.
The first question asked at the time was by himself,
whether they were in negotiation with any other com-
pany, and if they came to the Great Western with a
view to promote the interests of that company ? The
answer they received was to the effect that the Shrews-
bury and Birmingham Company had been in negotiation
with the London and North-Western, but were told that
they could not come to terms. The objects of the
Shrewsbury Company ware stated to be a traffic ar-
rangement by which the traffic from the Shrewsbury
line was to be brought of that of the Great Western,
and the traffic of the latte- to be brought on the Shrews-
bury line ;in fact, a mutial interchange of traffic. He
would ask any gentlemai in that room whether it was
p
not fair for one company to promote its interests by an
interchange of traffic with another ? The terms and con-
ditions of the arrangemmts entered into with the
Shrewsbury and Birmingham and Shrewsbury and
Chester Companies were Sawed OA a mutual interchange