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London, England, 1849-05-18 00:00:00

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11) OYAL ACADEMY of ARTS
TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.
TM EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY is NOW OPEN,
Admission (from Eight o'clock till Seven), One : billing.
Catalogue, One Shilling.
JOHN PRESCOTT KNIGHT, R.A., Sec.

r ijiE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET.
A Lecture by Dr. Bachhoffner on the various moles of pro-
ducing Artificial Light, daily at Half-past Three, and on Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday Even'ngs, at Sins, in which the Rude Light,
the Oxy-Hydrogen Light, and the Electric Light, will be exhibited in
juxta-position.—Lectures on the Ventilation of Mints, &c., by
means of a Jet of Steam, daily at Iwo o'clock, and on Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday Evenings, at Nine.—The Microscope.—The
New Dissolving Views include Scenes in Van Diemen's Land, from
Originra Drawings taken on the spot by J. Skinner Front, Esq.—
New Chromatrope.—Diver and Diving-bell, &c.—An extensive Col-
lection of Models of Agricultural Implements, specimens of Manures,
&c.—The Music is under the direction of Pr. Wallis.

Open daily from Eleven to Five ; and in the Evenings (including
titurday) from SCVCIL till Half-past Ten.
Admission, is,—Schools, Half-price.—The New Catalogue, is.

ROYAL MISSISSIPPI PICTURE,
EGYPTIAN HALL.

BANVARD'S great PAINTIN(; having returned from WINDSOR
CASTLE, where it has heen exhibited, by command, to her Majesty
the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Loyal Faintly, is NOW OPEN to
the Public at the usual hours, at the Egyptian Hall. Morning, Half-
past Two ; Evening, Half-past Seven.
Admission—Lower Scats, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.

H E WONDER OF THE SEA
GYMNETRUS NORTIIUMBRICUS, recently captured off
the Northumbrian coast, and, as a young specimen, coinciding in its
principal features with descriptions of the SEA. SERPENT, will be
exhibited at the Cosmorama Rooms, Itcgent-street, on and after
TUESDAY, May 22, from ten till dusk.
Admit ion, One Shilling.

HE SATIRIST NEWSPAPER, a Weekly
Journal, established Twenty Years, produ^ing a liberal in-
come, but in ,:!onsequence of the continued indisposition of the pro-
prietor, Mr. PAGE, in conjunction with Mr. ATE INSON, will
by AUCTION, at the Kocros, 28, Moorgate-street, Bank, on
SATURDAY, May 19, at Twelve o'Clock.
The valuable Copyright of the SATIRIST, an old-establishfd
Journal, which commands a larre c'rculation and numerous Adver-
tisements, and for a series of years has been very profitable, and
doubtless in the hands of an active person can be much extended.
Further particulars and conditions of sale may be had of Mr.
Atkinson, 40A, Windmill-street, Tottenham-court-road ; and of Mr.
Page, 25, Moorgate• street, Bank.

LOYER'S N E C T Alt!
31 Beware of the many base attempts to deceive the Public by
unprincipled persons refiltng SOYER and CO.'S rejstered bottles
with spurious and pernicious drinks, under the above title.
ALEXIS SOYER and CO., sole Proprietors, caution the Public
that none is genuine but what is stamped with the name of " SOYER
and CO., 40, Rupert-street," on the side of the Cork, easily real
through the neck of the bottle, to counterfeit which is felony.

NELL GWYNNE TAVETIN and CHOP-
HOUSE, Bull Inn-court, Str.:nd, for Luncheons, Dinners,
and Suppers, Three Doors East of the Adelphi Theatre, and opposite
Adam street. .

Messrs. ARCHER and MOLT most respectfully invite their
friends and the public to patronise the Nell Gwynnc Coflee•room,
which has been fitted up in the style of the period in which she lived.
Visitors to the Theatres, Citizens, and Gontlemen connected with
Somerset House, Awl the Banking Houses in the vicinity, will find
the Table d'Hute, which takes place at Half-past Five precisely, the
most comfortable and rea,onable in the metropolis.—Fish and
Joints, 2s. per head. Hot Joints until Eight, and Suppers unit One
o'clock. Private Dining-rooms excellent Beds, superior Wines and
Spirits, fine Airs, and Barclay and Perkins's Stout.

N.B. An Entnoice also from Maiden lane.

RAY'S-INN WINE _ESTABLISHMENT.
SUMMER WINES.
Good light Claret, Hoek, Mosere, Sauterne, and GraTe, at 303. per
dozen ; Sparkling Champagne, 425. per dozen, bottles included.
thesa Wine• are recommended as well adapted for the present season
23, high Holborn

BENEKEY, KISLINOBURY, and CO.
P.S. Sample bottles may be had. Price currents, containing all
the varieties of their stock, forwarded upon application.

LD FRENCH BRANDY, purest possible
_ kind, 60s. per dozen; the brown 545.
MARSALA in perfection, as partaken by the Nobility, 51.-4 doz.
PORT and SHERHY (beautiful Wines—it is scarcely necessary to
use finer, except special occasions), 313. the dozen.
PORT or snEmtr, highest erder, 445; bottles of each included;
own carts, six (a 51. order 100) miles free ; terms, prepayment, or
on delivery. If you do not pay cash, you bear a proportion of
others' debts, indep.mdent of salaries to book-keepers, clerks, eol-
Lctors, travellers, &c. Credit is the admitted bane of trade, and
keeps up high price:4.
Post-office Odors payable to JOHN JONES, Wholesale Dealer
(for 11 years past), Knight,bridge, Agent for
BASS and CO.'S INDIA ALE. GUINNESS' STOUT.
N.B. Choice Claret (much admired), and the Champagne direct
from Bonded Stores at the Docks, each 61. per three dozen, Cases,
Duty, and every expense included.
Fresh Seltzer, 6s. per dozen.

EPSO2,l.—The EPSOM COA.TS, price 305. ;
ALPACA. OVERCOATS, from 145., at
Messrs. SWAIN and CO.'S REGISTERED SYRIAN PALETOT

DEPOT,
379, OXFORD-STREET,

Illustrated by 25 Anatomical Coloured Engraving, on Steel..

ON PUY SICA -DISQUALICATIONS, GENkItATIVE INCAPA.

CITY, ,IND APEDIMENT6' TO MARRIAGE.

yew Editior4, enlarged to 196 pages. Just rublished, price 2s. Gcl., or
by post, dircet from the Establishment, 35.6 d. in postage stamps,
PHE SILENT FRI.END, a Medical Work on
the inflrmlties and decay of the gcnerative system, from ex-
;aisive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury,
with remarks on Marriage, end the means of obviating certain dis-
lu7,llllcations. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and
L. PERRY end CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Borners-street, Ox-
fOrd-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange,
11, Paternosb;r-row ; Hanna,--, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street;
Starts, 23 Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; and Gordon, 146, Leaden-
hall-stroc:t.

PACT I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
PATT IL treats of the consequences resulting from excessive indul-
;ence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producilir mental
=.trel weakness, nervous excitement, and generative nespacity.
fit trated by Three Explanatory Engreeeings.
PACT 111. treats of the discaves resulting from infection, either in
the r rimary or secondau form, and cs explicit directions for
their treatrne's.t. This 2001071 is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured
Engravir gs.
PART. I V. contains a Prescriplion for the Prevention of Disease
y a simple app'te.atitm, by which the danger of infection is oh-
fated. This ili,iporiant part of the Work should not escape the
eader's notice.
PART Y. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its
luti,s. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and
'lie whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
Tura CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM is exclusively employed in treei-
rg and sexual debility, impotence, dr..c., 11s. and 33a. per
bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, are anti-syphilitic
remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection., secondary symp-
ems, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, 11:. and 335. per bottle.
rerry's Purifying :Specific Pills, 23. 9d., 4s. 6d., and I Is. par box, a
eertein remedy for gonorrhaa, glect, stricture., and chronic inflamma-
t'OT,l of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, 1/. A minute
retail of the case is required : age, habits, and position in society.
51. Packets, with reivice, to be had at the Establishment only, by
which tie fee,il., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in atten-
dan ,e daily at 19, llereers-street, Oxford-street, London, tom Ele-
ven till Two. and Five to Eight ; on siindays from Eleven to One.

COURT OF COMMON COUNf:II_,.
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of

business.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN TIE RIVER THAMES
A report was brought up from the Thames
Navigation and Port of London Committee for
sealing a deed relative to laying down the electric
telegraph in the. river Thames. It stated that the
committee had taken into consideration the applica-
tion of Messrs. Blunt, civil engineers, for permission
to lay down an electric telegraph in the river Thames
to communicate with a coast line telegraph. That as
the committee are of opinion the proposal for laying
down the lines was of public and national importance
th€y were disinclined to prohibit or embarrass the
undertaking, and therefore did not object to its being
carried into effect, but did not authorize it
so as to incur any responsibility, leaving INlessrs•
Blunt to lay down Unes at their own risk, they
undertaking to do no damage either to the public or
to individuals, cad to stop all further works when
required so to do, and to remove any work that shall
be found injurious.
The report was agreed to. and the City seal was set
to the conditions prescribed by the City Solicitor.
THE ELECTION. ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
The report of the Freedom Committee was brought
tip, together with the Election Act Amendment Bill,
which the Court was upwards of five hours occupied
in discussing.
The Bill was ultimately agreed to.
Several amendments were proposed, but the only
one of importance carried was,
" That the qualification
for a candidate for the office of a common councilman
be the same as that of an elector." It is calculated
that the adoption of such a principle will very much
improve the quality of the Go
urt.

LLIGENCE.
enetaln7gs lieutenant, oust bo
inne:, mounting
NAVAL INTE
PORTSMOUTH, TRURSD AY.—The
presentT eCherokee disposable forate servicesteam
vessel,Canada consis!s of :
naval force at
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lieutenant
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two
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tons,
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carrying
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assis-
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tanAt-asdurtgkeeoniiiilnocsl,er4ks,oatreidns2,spmoretneaonic.olrneLake
Erie
(laid up), mounting two 24-pounders, and carrying 1
, officers
gunner and three men.
In the dockyard at Kingston are large quantities
of valuable machinery, stores, gunboats, and a bar-
rack capable of accommodating from 600 to 800 men,
the whole in charge of an acting storekeeper and his
clerk. This force (including artificers, engineers,
stokers, and seamen, amounting to about 60 indi-
viduals) was reduced to its present state in 1843, and
is intended, we presume, to form a nucleus for any
increase which circumstances might render necessary.
The idea suggested by a contemporary of sending a
battalion of marines to that country is a good one ;
it is very d;ffieult to obtein, and still more difficult to
keep, seamen en those waters.
The Apollo troop-ship, Commander James Raw-
storne, arrived last evening after sunset' from
Gibraltar. She is to come into the harbour as soon
as the weather moderates.
The Grecian, 16, Commander Tindal, sailed early
this morning, to. proceed to Plymouth to be paid off.
As the wind has been strong from south and south-
west ever since she sailed, she cannot have got
through the Needles, but must have come to in
Yarmouth-roads.
It is a somewhat curious item of steam-vessel sta-
tistics, at a period when test upon test as to the
merits of paddle and screw are being tried, that all
the screw vessels upon the home station belonging
to the navy are on the "sick list."
The steam-tug seized yesterday on suspicion of be-
ing employed in smuggling 150 half ankers of foreign
spirits was named the Royal Charter, not the Peter
Rolt, although the property of the gentleman of that
name. She had been taken by the men apprehended
in her without the knowledge of the superintendent of
Air. Rolt's works.
Another magnificent structure of masonry has been
added to those which already adorn this dockyard.
This is a newly completed ship-dock opening into the
steam basin at the entrance to the steam factory, the
work also of Mr. Peter bolt. The dock has been
finished and clean swept within the past week, and
will be ready for use on the caisson being fitted.
The dimensions of this dock are as follow :—Length
on the coping, 300 feet; width ditto, 90 feet; length
on the bottom of the dock, 260 feet; width ditto, 35
feet. The structure is faced with the finest stone; it
is the largest dock yet constructed, and will conse-
quently be able to take in the largest ship of modern
build afloat. _ _ _

Wind—S.W., fresh.gales and hazy weather.
Woomricir, MAY 17.—The Stromboli steam-sloop,
Commander Lord Amelius Beauclerk, was taken out
of dock yesterday morning at half-past eight o'clock,
the bolt havir g been got out of one of Kingston's valves,
into which it had fallen. Commodore Henry Eden,
on receiving orders on the previous day to have the
Stromboli taken into dock to be made ready for sea
with the least possible delay, had workmen placed
upon her, and they worked in relays during the whole
night, to enable her to be taken out at an early hour
in the morning, at high water, and the gallant Com-
modore, in order to expedite her departure for Green-
hithe, gave instructions that the Monkey steam-vessel
should take her in tow, and that she should also set
her own sails while her steam was getting up, during
her progress down the river. By these excellent ar-
rangements it was expected she would reach Green•
hithe, and be able to leave that place with the North
Star in tow for the North Sea, about twelve o'clock
yesterday, one day earlier than was expected when it
was ascertained that the Stromboli would have to be
taken into dock at Woolwich.

The Gladiator steam-frigate left Woolwich yester-
day afternoon for Devonport and Pembroke, under
the charge of Mr. Leen.
On the afternoon of Tuesday last one of the con-
victs employed in this yard, named Mark Jeffery,
under sentence of transportation for life for highway
robbery, refused to work, and the guard sent him on
board the Warrior convict-ship, in charge of the
sentry. Mr. Allen, one of the guards on duty at the
ship, expostulated with the convict on the impropriety
of his conduct, when he immediately took from under
his clothes an African oak trenail, and struck him a
very severe blow on the head, and in
a moment after-
wards attempted to strike Mr. Masterman on the
head, but he observed his motion to injure him, and
warded off the blow by raising his arm, which is
considerably hurt. The sentry immediately went
down to the prisoner, and prevented him from com-
mitting any further violence, which he threatened to
do if the sentry had not been there. Mr. Allen was
assisted home, and is still unable to resume his duties.
Mr. Masterman, superintendent of the convict-ship,
has reported the case to the authorities at the head
of the convict department.