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TO MR. PROUT, 229, STRAND,
LONDON.
" No. 208, Piccadilly, October 19, 1847.

" Sir,—lt is now three and a half years since I was sorely afflicted
with Rlummatic Gout, the suffering from which induced Ina to try
all the proposed remedies that extensive medical experience could
devise, without obtaining any satisfactory relief from pain. Daring
one of the paroxysms a friend advised me to try BLAIR'S GOUT
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" I trust you will give publicity to my case, that suffering humanity
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" I am, Sir, your obedient huimble servant,
" MICHAEL NASMTTIL"

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DR. LA'MERT ON TYE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH
AND 31ITTRITY.—WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON
STEEL.
Just published, and may be had in French or English, in a Sealed
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Stamps,
QELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise
LY on the Physiology of Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive
Unions, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Ma-
turity, usually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate
the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practice
Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion,
whether arising from these causes, close study, or the influence of
tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis•
cretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the
Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs,
explaining their structures, uses, and functions, and the various
injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and
infection.

BT SAMUEL LA'MERT,
9, BEDFORD-STREET, REDFORD.SQUARB,
LONDON,

Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the 'University of Edin-
burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member
of the London Hospital Medical Society, &e.
Marriage requires the fulfilment of several conditions, in order
that it may be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the
veil, which covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be raised,
and Its true source in every instance disclosed, in hew many could
it be traced t• physical disqualifications and their attendant disap-
pointments. Excesses are always injurious ; the gift, which when
usedm
abused, the
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Injury
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than any other to which It
subject.
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hßeproductive Organs, and of
health their relative conditions in
and disease. It deservedly
-
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he
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he of mere importance than the preservation of the health,
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and of the physical capabilities of which e
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solely to the treatment of these diseases.
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A R R I A G E.
M One half the world are desolately single, and the other
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sense of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em-
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and broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
and social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set-
tlement. Honour and justice demand that health should form an item
In the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or
neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if
these surmises concern yen, procure Dr. CULYERWELL'S little
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mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
life, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob-
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ENCOUNTER BETWEEN H.M.S.
SLOOP-OF-WAR HOUND AND THE FRENCH
BRIG-OF-WAR ABEILLE, ON THE WEST
COAST OF AFRICA.
The French newspapers have published a very in-
correct and exaggerated account of an encounter
which recently took place between an English sloop
and a French brig-of-war on the coast of Africa.
The facts of the case are really these :
On the evening of the 20th of June last, soon after
dark, her Majesty's sloop Hound, Commander Wood,
while running along the land off Porto Novo, near
the notorious slave trading station of Whydah, in the
Bight of Benin, descried a sail which tacked and
stood to sea.
The Hound made sail :in pursuit ; and having, at ten
come up about half a mile to leeward of the
chase, Commander Wood ordered the private signal
to be made to her ; but some delay occurring in
slinging the lanterns, and Commander Wood and his
officers feeling certain that the chase was not a ship-
of-war, he ordered a shot to be fired across her bows
to bring her to. The vessel then showed some lights,
but as they were not hoisted in the proper form of
the signal a second shot was fired, which was re-
turned by the chase, and which turned out to be the
French brig-of-war Abeille.
The shots from both vessels were purposely fired
wide, and took no effect.
Lieutenant Hallett, of the Hound, was immedi-
ately sent on board the Abeille to offer Commander
Wood's apologies for the mistake, which were received
with courtesy and politeness by the Commander of
the Abeille.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.

TIMES.—The English Funds continue their down-
ward course, and have left offto-day at a decline of one
and an eighth per cent. from the closing prices of yes-
terday. Consols, for money, were first quoted 81f
to i—they then receded to 81k, recovered to 81i, and
finally closed at 81. For the account the range was
from 81k down to 81*, at which they closed buyers.
The news by the Hibernia from America, coupled
with the announcement of the meeting of Parliament
in November, caused the decline in the morning, and
the increased heaviness in the afternoon was attribu-
table to the unfavourable character of the Bank Gazette
returns, and to a variety of reports regarding fresh
failures. An apprehension that the Government are
about to call for a new loan for Ireland, and that
their object in summoning the Legislature is chiefly
to consider the difficulties of that country, was also
very prevalent; although, among better-informed
parties, it is clearly understood that the sole reason
for the step consists in the desire on the part of the
Ministry to obtain a species of indemnity for their
late measure with reference to the Bank Charter Act.
Bullion to the amount of about 50,000/. was re-
ceived at the Bank to-day from the continent
In London to-day no failures have occurred of
sufficient importance to call for notice. The letters
from the couutry also are free from any accounts of
stoppages, except such as are insignificant. The sus-
pension of another country bank was reported, but it
was contradicted by their London agents. Mr.
Gardner, of Manchester, is stated to have proposed
payment of his liabilities in two, four, and six months.
The private advices from America by the Hibernia
contain nothing in addition to the published accounts.
The general tenour of the whole, as far as regards the
balance of trade between the two countries, is deci-
dedly unfavourable. The accounts of the pressure on
our side alone appear to prevent cotton from rising,
there are strong indications of considerable exports
during the winter of Indian corn, the demand for
goods from England is not likely to become active
again before the turn of the year, and bills upon this
country of a second-class character are still offering
at rates much below the regular quotation.
CHRONICLE.—An uncomfortable feeling has
exhibited itself in the City to-day, and the public
seemed disposed to give currency, and some degree of
credit, to all kinds of rumours, even of the most ab-
surd character. One of these was, that an important
line of railway had been seized, by parties having
claims upon it, under legal process, and that the line
would be stopped. The absurdity of this statement,
however, soon exhibited its true character. After-
wards there was the report of a failure of a private
bank in the West of England; but on making inquiry
at its London agents there appeared to be no grounds
for the statement, as the agents knew nothing to lead
them to think the bank was in difficulty. Afterwards,
the report that the Bank of England's weekly return
would show very unfavourably gained credence ; and
under all these influences, added, perhaps, to a vague
fear that the operations for the French loan might in-
duce the directors of the Bank to become still more
stringent in their accommodation, the Funds were
unfavourably affected, and closed at a reduction of I
for the account. The reasons for the decline were
variously explained, and, perhaps, the anxiety of
parties who have obligations to fulfil to realise at once,
and secure the certainty of a profit, may have had
some influence.

Absurd reports regarding the South-Eastern
Railway Company have been propagated during the
week, but the object of such rumours is very evident,
and too palpable to deceive any but those who are
quite unacquainted with the position of the company.
It is hardly necessary to advert to such fabrications ;
but that none of the shareholders may be deceived
by them, we may state that there is not a syllable of
truth in any of the statements we allude to.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAlLWAY.—Yesterday afternoon, about one o'clock, a
man named Joseph Castles, a carriage-trimmer, was
employed at the Stratford station, on the Eastern
Counties Railway, in shifting several tenders belonging
to the engines from one part of the station to another,
when the unfortunate man placed himself between two
tenders for the purpose of coupling them together while
they were in the act of being pushed by the other men.
There was not sufficient room for him, and his head be-
came jammed between the two. The tenders were parted,
and he fell to the ground insensible. He was placed upon
a train for London, and conveyed to the London Hospital,
where it was found that he had received several severe
injuries about his head. Very little hopes aro enter-
tained of his recovery.
DELIVERING LETTERS IN LONDON ON SUNDAYS.—
An impression seems to have gone abroad that a recent
determination on the part of the Post office, to forward
the bags which arrive by the Saturday evening and Sun-
day morning mails, instead of delaying them at the
General Post-office in St. Martin's-le-Grand for twenty-
four hours, was merely ancillary to a general delivery on
the Sabbath; we are authorised to state that no such in-
tention is at present entertained.—Civil and Mercantile
Journal.

Mr. BENNOCII, the chairman, on rising to address
the meeting, was received with loud cheers. Ile
began by observing that it was a saying of the late
Baron Rothschild, that England, with an ample and
sufficient currency, might become the manufacturing
country for the whole world, but with a restricted
and insufficient currency, the share in the produc-
tion of manufactures which we already possess must
of necessity leave us and go to foreign countries. To
so high an authority one would have imagined the
Government might have paid some deference, and
taken care that this important medium was as ample
as the necessities of the country required. The in.
sufficiency of our currency, he believed, was mani-
fested to a great degree by the number of competing
manufacturers all over the Continent. Even among
the wilds of Switzerland they were successfully
competing with us, and the agricultural population
of America were striving to make up the deficiency
which our own folly, to a great extent, had been the
means of creating.—(Hear, hear.) In 1819, instead
of carrying out the liberal views promulgated by Mr.
Rothschild, the Bank of England fixed the whole of
our circulating medium upon the one universal metal
—gold. Into that metal every transaction
must be resolved, in gold every tax must be paid,
every charge of the Customs and of the
Excise must be rendered; and when it was found
that gold in this country did not represent the one-
fiftieth part of our triezeantile. transactions, how im-
possible it was,' aztekt—as`xneslium, to carry on
the transactions of the empire.—(Cheers.) Every
kind of scheme had been adopted to overcome the
difficulty, but nothing had succeeded, and, in his
opinion, none could succeed. The Bill of 1819, by
converting a debt entered into in paper, added one-
third to the value and increase of the national debt.
—(Hear, hear.) It added one-third to the pur-
chasing power of all dividends and all annuities pur-
chased up to that period, and, it had been observed,
robbed the public debtor to an equal amount, and
laid a burden on his shoulders one-third greater than
he had borne before. And what made the burden
still heavier was the fact that, previous to that time,
our taxes, which were formerly laid on property,
had been repealed, because those in power declared
that the war, being over, there was no occasion for a
war tax, forgetting that equitable notion which men
of business ought to possess, that so long as the war
debt was uncancelled the war tax should be levied, to
pay the interest.—(Hear, hear.) Then came the Bill
of 1844—a Bill which contracted still more the
currency of the country, laying down as a principle
that 14 millions only should be allowed to circulate,
but that was without gold, being on Government
securities, and every additional million should be
issued simply upon every million of gold received
into the coffers of the Bank. What were the conse-
quences of such a restriction ? In times of trouble,
of distress, and commercial emergency, discounts ran
high, money was only obtained with great difficulty,
and the price was raised to an enormous extent, as
at the present moment. Then a sudden tide of gold
set into this country—it became abundarit—nay, it
became so abundant that parties were glad to get rid
of it, and the consequence was that gold was as low
as 2i and 3 per cent., as, in fact, it had been for the
last two or three years ; and thus all kinds of specu-
lations were set on foot for the purpose of having
this capital profitably employed. Our currency, it
was stated, expanded and contracted according to the
emergencies of the country, but this was not so. At
the time it should become contracted it expanded,
and when it ought to expand to meet the emer
gencies of the country then it contracted, and ruined
thousands of persons engaged in commerce and trade.
This was according to the scriptural injunction,
which said, " Give unto him that hath much, and
those who have not take away from them that which
they have." The argument of Sir Robert Peel in
1844, in favour of his immaculate Bill, was, that it
was on the self- adjusting principle —that its process
would be rendered steady throughout the whole
country—and that it would make trade prudent and
unspeculative ; but every one now knew how far this
had turned out to he the case.—(Hear, hear.) 01
course, every one; knew that during the last three or
four years there had been no speculation—none
whatever—(Laughter)—and they were aware also
that there had been no overtrading, and that prices
had remained unvaried.—(Continued laughter.)
Why, the fact was, that his very promises had been
falsified. Not a single point upon which he founded
the greatness and truth of the question existed which
had not been belied and falsified over and over again.
If any proof of this were required, it would only be
necessary for him to state that public stock had been
reduced at once to 12, 15, and 17 per cent. Consols
had been reduced to such an extent that they were
now selling at a loss of from 401. to 751. per cent.
Coffee, he understood, was also selling at a loss of from
401. to 601. per cent., sugar from 20/. to 401., corn about
30/., wool from 12/. 10s. to 251., cotton from 25/. to 35/.,
Dien
and manufactured goods of all kinds and denomina-
tions were not to be disposed of unless the manufac-
turer would submit to sacrifice from 15/. to 251. per
cent.—(lleac,
t ow n who w
o hadere
obliged been
to o
engaged
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from
larg 3
largely in
to 501, and even more per cent., and thus
(iln lear,
railway hear.)
spec
were confirmed the extraordinary promises of an un-
fluctuating currency and a profit to every man who
would rigidly adhere to his ordinary busines or
calling in the world. During the last twelve months
we had sacrificed an amount of money equal to half
of the national debt; and these were facts which
every man could prove for himself, if he were only to
go into the investigation. But the present scarcity
would be the means of propelling the tide in the op-
posite direction. In the course of two or three years,
or even perhaps in one year, there most likely would
be a glut of gold— a phlethora of gold, and then the
money changers, bullion dealers, and capitalists would
force the market, and an unhealthy and exotic trade
would be introduced which would bring us to an
emergency like that experienced at the present time.
Now the League believed that the foundation of our
tasystem was decidedly unjust, and that so
ry
this obnoxious measure continued on the sta-
tlmounotegn a
sta-
tute-book we shall be perpetually liable to those dis-
tressing circumstances. They therefore, at the outset,
as the foundation and principle of the League, pro-
claimed an unceasing warfare to the Bills of 1819 and
1844. The whole, the total, and the unconditional repeal
of those Bills, they went for, and until they were re-
pealed they would not stay their agitation—(Cheers)
—they would go on educating the public mind upon
this important question, and thus they would awe the
Government into submission. They would have no
tinkering of the old currency kettle I No; if they
must have a plaister, it must be a paper plaister.
Then, as to gold, there was one question which he
must answer. They were asked, " Would you do
without gold ? Would you have a currency without
gold ?" To this his answer was, that they could do
without gold. They did not pretend to say they could
do without gold altogether; they would have it as a
means of exchange, or balance of foreign transac-
tions, but they would not take it at a fixed price, but
at the lowest price at which it could be purchased.
They would always have the gold to be bought or
sold at a market value. He hoped that they would
be able to satisfy many that there might be a paper
currency. Let them look to the case of Scotland.
What had a paper circulation done for Scotland ?
Why, a paper circulation had cultivated barren wil-
dernesses. A paper currency had made fruitful
17
ofit
gardens of deserts. A paper circulation in England
didin It7h9e3
shaamde s aavnedd theit oa mr
rai
endu faucst utrberros;gbln 9
years 7
war, finishing at the battle of Waterloo. A
espaper
1/. note
circulation bad enabled us to fight our battles,
d
through that means we had conquered. In the year
, an
1825 the issue of a paper currency of
of tol the
d
extent of 1,500,0001. had saved the Bank
from ruin. In 1847 (as we understood), by
adopting
something of the same principle, many had been saved
from ruin. A well-regulated paper currency would
prevent those evils from which the country was now
suffering. But the League, forsooth, were denounced
as " Inconvertibles." Who were the Inconvertibles ?
Why, they were those who professed to supply the
country with gold, and who could not find half of what
would be sufficient. Having adverted to the lament-
able condition of the mercantile world, and to the re
cent failures, the Chairman alluded to the apathy
which had been evinced by the Government to a cer-
tain point, at which the hopeful Wood thought there
was something in it, and Lord J. Russell, by the aid
of the electric telegraph, and by every means within
his power, raised the slogan, and Sir R. Peel came
to the rescue ; and then they bad the nocturnal oc-
currences. Spirits travelled by night, and they found
this Mephistophelean minister, with the modern
Faust, meeting in Downing-street; and no doubt
there were many expressions of kindly regard, and
many affectionate allusions made to the Lady Mar-
garet, of Threadneedle-street. Sir Robert Peel, no
doubt, said it was a hard case for a man to murder
children, but they must be strangled—or their vitality
must be stopped for a period.
Then there would be
his
1 t
Sir Charles Wood and Earl Grey sticking upfor
principle, but Lord John Russell and Lord Palmer-
discussions amongst the Libera s— hey would have
Sirve

ing, for the purpose of explaining the views of the
League in reference to the question at issue, and in
reference to the doctrine held by them, that money
did not consist in the intrinsic value of the article,
said that even the Times itself, which was the oppo-
nent of that principle, on Monday last, with the pri-
vileged inconsistency which that journal was allowed
to indulge in, had conceded all their proposition—
namely, that money did not consist in its intrinsic
value. The Times of Monday last, in the leading
article, stated, " The basis of a currency must be some-
thing which already has a natural and spontaneous
existence in the country, not an exotic, forced on by
the contrivance of the State." Now he did not wish
to quarrel with the term " exotic," though it was
generally applied to plants, and not to metals; but
what became of the bullion doctrine of the Times,
when the writer said they must not have an exotic
forced on by the State ? 'Were not the Bills of
1819 and 1844 forced on by the State ? Was not
the forcing upon us a foreign metal the contrivance
of the State ? It was unfortunate for the pur-
purposes of truth to see such proceedings on the part
of a powerful organ of the press—powerful, in-
deed, on account of its past services. It was deplor-
able and pitiable that it should be tolerated to utter
statements in one part of its columns which were con-

tradicted by the City article. It was, however, for
the public to correct these abuses, and to show in a
significant manner—(and the public could put down
any power)—that such opinions were grossly insult-
ing to the common sense of the readers of the Tirnes

.
journal. The speaker, in the course of a long address,
contended that when the rate of interest on money
was low the country had been most prosperous, and
that when we returned to a metallic standard wages
had fallen. The Government, under the arrangement
which had been made within the last few days, would
share with the Bank an extra 3 per cent., which 3
per cent. would amount to a tax upon the industrious
classes.

Mr. CAPPS, the secretary to the association, pro-
ceeded to address the meeting on the subject of the
,vil effects of the Bills of 1819 and 1844 on our fo-
reign trade. Great ignorance prevailed on this branch
of the question among men who had been engaged
during their whole lifetime in the pursuits of commerce.
If we looked to they period from 1800 to 1820, we ex-
ported 10,000,000/.4nore than we imported. This
might appearqo be eratirnal state of thing§ during
.those years, because we were subsidising foreig%
powers; we were involved in a general war, and had
a large army to support. But if he took the period
from 1820 to 1843, we exported 29,000,0001. more
than we imported, and looking to the official and de-
clared value of our exports, and the official value of
the imports on the standard of 1696 (there being no
declared value on imports) from 1800 to 1834, there
was a loss of 103,000,0001. The speaker then re-
ferred to some diagrams showing the fluctuating rates
of interest from 1836 inclusive. Now the value of
money was generally shown by the rate of interest
which it would fetch; but it had been reserved to
Lord John Russell's Government to raise the mini-
mum rate of interest to 8 per cent. ; and this was
done to show the stability and steadiness of our cur-
rency. The gold being at a fixed price, the foreigner
preferred taking out of the
,country the low-priced
gold rather than the high-priced goods ; but when
the" screw was put on," and manufactures were sold
at a sacrifice, then the foreigner came back with the
low-priced gold. If the gold went up with the
goods, then the foreigner would take goods in prefer-
ence. So the foreigner had the facility of selling at
high prices and buying at low prices, and, moreover,
to make up the difference in exporting, a larger
amount of goods must be furnished to the foreigner,
and hence the difference in value between exports and
imports. It had nothing to do with what had been
denominated, by high authorities, the antiquated prices
of value of 1696. It appeared that frcin 1819, in-
stead of a gain, as between the official and declared
value, there had been annually a loss, between the
two, of from 2,000,0001. in 1820, to *53,000,000/. in
1842. Let them look to the state of the manufac-
turing classes, let them refer to the evidence before
Committees, and to information contained in the Poor-
law Commissioners' report—and let men ask whether
the tables he referred to did not clearly show the
practical working of the system on the operative
classes. All the evil arose from Peel's :Bills, which
fixed the price of gold. Sir Robert Peel was wrong
ab initio in his views. The remainder of the speech
contained a vast mass of statistical information, which
was shown on large drawings, &c., and which ren-
dered it impossible to report the matter referred to
with clearness to those who were not present.
The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting, and
stated that the society could not proceed successfully
without money, and he therefore urged the necessity
of gentlemen becoming subscribers. A subscription
of 10s. a year would entitle the subscriber to all the
publications of the League; or for 2s. 6d. any gen-
tleman could .be enrolled as a member.

The room was very crowded, and the proceedings
terminated at about a quarter past ten o'clock.

THE COURIER STEAM-SHIP.

_
The second of the new vessels constructing for the
New South-Western Steam Navigation Company, by
Mr. Mare, of _Black wall, and fitted with their machi•
nery by Messrs. Maudslay, Son, and Field, was tried
down to the Nore this day. We have had occasion
to notice the performance of the Express upon the
Southampton and Havre station, and the results ob-
tained in the trial of the Courier are, if possible, more
satisfactory. The dimensions of this vessel are as
follows :—Length, 170 feet; breadth, 23 feet ; depth,
10 feet 10 inches; tonnage, 439. She is a remarkably
handsome vessel, and does infinite credit to her de-
signer as well for the fineness of her lines, as for
the beauty of her appearance ; while in the internal
fittings nothing has been neglected which could in
any way add to the comfort and convenience of the
passengers.
Her engines are similar in principle to those of the
Express, and are the invention of Mr. Joseph Mauds-
lay. Their collective power is two hundred horses ;
standing in the same space which, twenty years ago
would have been required for machinery of one-tenth
of their effective force.
The cylinders, which are annular, give a length of
stroke of three feet six inches, and the diameter of
the wheels, which are admirable specimens of those
with revolving floats, is twenty feet. The number of
revolutions obtained, under great disadvantages, were
between thirty-nine and forty, giving a speed to the
wheel of upwards of twenty-six miles an hour. The
speed attained by the vessel, on the best calculation
which could be made, was seventeen miles and three-
quarters per hour through the water ; and but little
doubt exists that when the bearings of the engines
have worked smoother than could be expected on a
first day's trip, the speed will be maintained fully
eighteen miles per hour.
We cannot close this short account of an interesting
trip without an acknowledgment of the attention
which all the party on board received from Messrs.
Maudslay and Field, and the expression of the plea-
sure which every one felt at the successful result of
their labours. The Courier is intended for the South-
ampton and Havre station, and is commanded by „
Captain Goodridge, whose skill in the handling" of
the Wonder is too well known at Southampton and
the Channel Islands to leave any doubt as to the
future well doing of the fine vessel of which he has
now assumed the control.

lowii 'lg. Some prisoner begged of it, but I do not
know who.
Mr . Broughton—You say Mitchell began the con-
versat ion with you on the Tuesday, by asking if you
had any friends : when was that? Witness—That
was l lefore I was locked up. It was before I was
brotq ;ht before you, Sir. I said to Mitchell, " No,
I have none here." He then asked me if I had got a
solici to?..
Mx. Broughton—Di:l he use the word solicitor?
Witr ass —Yes ; he said solicitor. He asked me if I
knew one. I said no, but I should wish to have one.
He th en said, if it was my wish, he did not see any
reason. why I should not have one. I thanked him,
and tc dd him I should. He then said I will send for
one, : ind he shall be here by ten o'clock to-morrow
morning.
Mr. Broughton—Did he say what solicitor? Wit-

ness—He told me Mr. Robinion, and said he had a
case there on the Tuesday or Wednesday. Nothing
more passed on the Tuesday.
Mr- Broughton—When you came on the next day,
did you speak to Mitchell ? Witness—l was 'put
into a cell, and did not see Mitchell until he brought
Mr. Robinson to me. He introduced him by saying
this is Mr. Robinson. Mr. Wathen, another solici-
tor, had then arrived to defend me. Mr. Wathen
said, you are very foolish to engagialr. Robinson ;
if you .want counsel I will go and fetch them. I
told !Mitchell that I should not want Robinson, and
he then said, if you don't want Robinson you must
pay the man for fetching him. I said how much,
and Mitchell said two shillings. I said I have no
money now, but when Mr. Wathen comes I will pay
you. When Mr. Wathen came I borrowed two
shillingo of him, and saw him give it to Mitchell.
Mr. Robinson was outside the cell when Mr. Wathen
first came.
Mr. Broughton—What did Mitchell do with the
money? Witness—l think he paid it over to some
other person.
Mr. Broughton —When you first came to this
Court was the officer Mitchell kind to you ? Wit-
ness—lie was, Sir.
t Mr, Brouglan.s,thereony alteratida to you
irilvis manner after Wathen,e&ne ? Witness—
I think there was, Sir, ana I malk4t remark to Mr.
Tracey,. the Govewor of WestmrnsterNßridewell,*
,N 4
abpu
Iclr. binsonlOgged to be allTiated to ask wit-
ness a q estion. He was not there longer than a
minute, and the moment she said she had a friend
coming he left.
Mr. Broughton said there was no impeachment of
Mr. Robinson's character in that case, and his name
had merely been introduced to show that a solicitor
had been recommended to be employed by an officer
of that court.
Mr. WTolff cross-examined the witness at consider-
able length, and elicited that she spoke to some one
about having a solicitor before she spoke to Mitchell
on the subject. She had no means of ascertaining
that it was beer brought into the cell beyond being
asked to take some of it. The woman Marshall ap-
peared very much distressed, but not bodily ill. The
only complaint she had to make against Mitchell was
a dislike to be locked up in the cell.
Mr. Wolff said Mr. Mitchell had been connected
with that establishment twenty-one years, and had
never had the slightest imputation upon his character
before. He was in a condition to prove that Mitchell
had never received the 25., and would call the man
who did receive it.

Mr. Broughton—You do not dispute that the two
shillings was received for the purpose of fetching a
solicitor, through the medium of an officer of this
court—a system which ought not to exist.
Adam Kirsch examined—l know this female, but
can't say the exact time I saw her first ; but it was
about a fortnight back. It was on a Tuesday when
she was brought here. Mitchell said to me, " This
female wishes you to fetch a solicitor." I asked her
who I should go for; and she said, who I liked. I
then said I would go for Mr. Robinson. She asked
me who was Mr. Robinson—

Mr. Long—At what time was this ; and where wa
she at the time ? Witness—lt was between four and
five o'clock in the evening, and she was in the cell.
By Mr. Broughton—l have been in the habit of
going on messages at this court for nine years past,
and have been paid by the parties sending me. Some-
times I have not got paid at all. Mr. Robinson gate
me a shilling, but that was for getting his horse and
gig ready to come to the court.
The Magistrates retired, and on their return
Mr. Long asked Mitchell what he had to say in
answer to the two charges preferred against him.
The first of taking spirits into the cell to the woman
Marshall, and the other of introducing the solicitor to
the prisoner, and taking money for so doing ?
Mitchell said there was no glass at all in the cell.
After the depositions were read over, andthe.min'
com-
mittal made out, I was obliged to lead thiss ew
scarcelyalong th the
stand.y ard. Shelopened
I,f.aainndt tshaatt
herh downcoou‘ld
of
b g afterwardsso ill,
ltol,
asoennedalifouwl l seat,os fhaenNdVal wind,esf t
. that f n
shewshe
cto d complainedsumonotti keepme anything in
her stomach, and would die if she had not some re-
lief. I said, " What will you have ?" and she said
anything to relieve the wind. I went over to the
public-house and asked for a small bottle, and had a
glass of gin and peppermint put into it, for a poor
woman, who, I said, was very ill. I took it to her,
and told her not to drink it all at once, and left it
with her.
Mr. Broughton—Are you not aware of a regula-
tion interdicting the introduction of anything like
spirits into the cell of a police court ? Mitchell—l
am, your Worship ; but the late Mr. Rawlinson, in
cases of emergency and illness, allowed me to do so.
Mr. Broughton—But you know that this woman
had been before me and Mr. Fell, when she did not
appear at all ill. Why not apply to me, or Mr. Fell,
before you did so ? Mitchell—ln such a case I did
not think it at all necessary. The woman had no
money, and I paid for the gin and peppermint out of
my own pocket.
Mr. Long—You will now give some explanation
whether Ann Simons asked yott to get a solicitor or
not, and whether you did not tell her that a particu-
lar person would attend the next day. If so, I want
to know how you can, with the situation you hold,
take upon yourself to recommend a particular per-
son, in preference to any other professional man ?
Mitchell—l was not the first person she applied to
for a solicitor. I was told that she wanted one, but I
said
the lcould n
hands
of
the o t (0
police,l
neither
it until
shouldshe N al• a
recom-
mend eocu3tn
if
o .
mend any one. She spoke to me after the man, and
putting her hand on my shoulder, said, " cannot I
I said I woul4 not recommend
any haveoan
one
stool iicl ietro rw?h"
h
whilst she was in the ands of the po-
lice. I heard nothing more of it until after she was
mded,m,henshe
have
"how, am I to get a solici-
rtoer?a'n' I said you can eamessenger and send for
one, or you can have pen, ink, and paper, and write.
" Oh," says she, " the messenger will he quicker." I
then shut the cell door,
and went away for Adam
Kirsh, and told himthat he was wanted. I told him
that a woman wanted him to go somewhere, as she
wanted a solicitor. I opened the door and told her
there was the young man who would go anywhere
she liked for her. She asked him if he would go and
get her a solicitor. He said who shall I go to, and
she replied to any one you like. I think he said he
should go for Mr. Robinson.
Mr. Broughton—Do you mean to say that Mr.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PonrsmouTn, OCT. 29.—The Blenheim steam
guard ship, in charge of Captain Horatio Austen,
0.13., deputy comptroller of steam machinery, Wool-
wich, arrived this morning at Spithead, and after
trying her rate of speed at the measured mile, came
into harbour this afternoon to be the ordinary guard..
ship, and carry the flag of the Rear-Admiral Super-
intendent of the Dockyard. Captain Yates and the
officers and men of the ordinary will be officially
turned over to her as soon as Captain Milne arrives
from the St. Vincent. During her late cruize she
went through nearly 220 miles of water, and was
under steam about 50 hours. In addition to the other
particulars we have given respecting the Blenheim
and her cruise, we may add that in going round she
only occupied from 61 to 7 minutes, and the same
astern about eight minutes ; the time occupied in
shipping the screw was about two minutes the time
occupied in getting up her steam appeared from 40
to 45 minutes ; in gettingathe screw up entirely out
of the water, the time occupied was about 20 minutes
on the average, and in lowering it into its place about
61- minutes.
The Odin steam-frigate, Captain the lion. F. T.
Pelham; the Polyphemus steam-sloop, Commander
M‘Cleverty •' and the Stromboli steam.sloop, Com-
mander Fisher (Captain), are ordered to be detached
from Sir Charles Napier's squadron off Lisbon, and
added to the Mediterranean squadron under Sir W.
Parker, in order to strengthen his steam force. The
Sidon will also remain under the orders of Sir Wil-
liam-Parker after disembarking Earl Dalhousie at
Alexandria.
It is said that the new coal depots are not to be
statioaed at Spithead, but in the harbour ; one to be
placed off Cold Harbour, and the other in the place of
the Maidstone, the present depot, just above \Yeovil .
Lake. The reason assigned for not establishing a coal
depOt at Spithead, is stated to be the difficulties
presented to discharging coals into or out of one in
that roadstead in bad weather. It is but fair to say
that in bad weather such operations would be imprac-
ticable ; but the weather is not always bad, and it is
not too much to say, that in four cases out of every
five that occur steamers could lie alongside a ship at
Spithead to coal. With respect to discharging coals
into a depot, it has been said that there is an unwil-
lingness on the part of the colliers to risk damage by
going alongside a coal ship in an open roadstead.
This is sheer nonsense. The men who fearlessly
beach their vessels on the south coast of England and
elsewhere lo discharge their cargoes, are not likely to
flinch from going alongside one of her Majesty's ships
at Spithead, where they would be guaranteed from
damage. Besides, proper care should be taken to
have the vessels fully supplied at the proper season
of the year.
The Rhadamanthus steam transport, Mr. Jonathan
Aylen, master commanding, embarked a number of
marines yesterday for Plymouth, and sailed this
evening for that port.
The Arab, 12, Commander W. Morris, sailed this
morning for the Cape of Good Hope.
Or rs Weresgeclived last night from the Ad-
miralfro send, rle Myrmidon steam-vessel to Wool-
wich. We havinot heard the cause of this change
of destination.
The Lightning steam-tender, Petley, master, was
docked this morning to repair the damages she sus-
tained by fouling an anchor on the Irish coast,
whereby ahe knocked her false keel off and damaged
part of her gripe.
Lieutenent-Colonel William Moulden Burton, of
the Woolwich division of Royal Marines, who died
on 'Wednesday, was a Second Lieutenant, serving in
the Powerful and Africaine, and engaged in several
boat actions off the coasts of Holland and France in
1801-1802; First Lieutenant in the Astrma at Co-
penhagen in 1807 ; capture of a privateer off Calais,
and wrecked in 1808 ; adjutant of the second batta-
lion serving on the north coast of Spain, 1812 ; and
in America in 1813-1814 ; was present at the attacia
of Norfolk Island, Hampton, Oswego, Bladensburg,
and Washington. Gazetted 1809-1813. Vide Alben's
New Navy List.
Two months advance wage 3 were paid to the trew
of the Dolphin, 3 brigantine, Lieutenant Commander
lion. R. F. Boyle, to-day.
Wind W. by S. Moderate breezes and cloudy
weather.

Ia Harbour— Victory, Excellent, Bellerophon,
Victoria and Albert, Recruit, Nautilus, and Blen-
heim transport ; Sidon, Myrmidon, Undine, Myrtle,
Fairy, and Echo steamers.
At Spithead—Hecate and Dolphin.
In Dock—Leander, Ajax, Sappho,' Lightning,
Orestes, and Emerald.

In the Basin—Prince Regent, Frolic, Helena, Bir-
kenhead, Retribution, and Rocket.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 28.—The Maria Somes navy
transport arrived here yesterday from Portsmouth
with the left wing of the 81st Regiment, which is to
bequarte
itrecdiandette newly-fitted casement barracks in
Plymouth
The Diligence transport, from Chatham, came in
yesterday with stores for this dockyard.
• onerom of the new fire-
floats belonging to this port,
ang
tow
-for Woolwich.
CHATHAM, OCT. 29.—The
Alcock, master, arrived yes-
-4
The Victory, Mr. W.
h, with
terday from the Savannah, timber for the dock-
onke
Woolwich s t eam - v steam-vessel,
se
l
yes-
terday, and sailed again, having Mr. W. Bryant, master, arrivedl
The Hermes steam-vessel, Lieutenant and Corn-
mender Bridge, was paid off in ordinary on Tuesday
The Rochester lighter, Sedgwick, master, arrived
from Sheerness yesterday, to have her defects made
good and to refit.
The Sealark, 10, and Bonetta brigantine, in dock,
are both ready to be undocked, which cannot take
place until next spring tides.

MISS STRICKLAND'S LIVES Or THE QUEENS OF
ENGLAND.—The eleventh volume of the above work is
published this day by Mr. Colburn, and may now be
had of all booksellers. Mr. Colburn has also just pub-
lished : —2. Vol. 7 of M. Thiers' History of the Consu-
late and Empire-3. Lord Castlereagh's Narrative of
his Journey to Damascus, &c., 2 vols-4. A second
edition of Zenon, by the Rev. R. Cobbold, M.A., 3 vols.,
21s. bound—and 5. A third edition of Hochelaga ; or,
England in the New World. Edited by Eliot Warbur-
ton, Esq., 2 vols.
rte„ WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—At the conclusion of the ex.
hibition of Mr. Wombwell's menagerie in the Quad-
rangle
the "Lion
that the animals should remain during the evening, in
order
a rt oyh fa thethat
sh
eperformancesm Castle
hyesterday,
witness
o r Aii
Miss
by
Chapman,
lamplight
ova
pj
rrdd
Queen," in the dens with the lions, tigers, and leopards.
At the time that command was communicated to Mr.
Wombwell, it was supposed it was the wish of her Ma-
jesty, which was not the case, to witness the feeding of
the animals ; a quantity of raw meat having
pro-
vided, if necessary, been cessary, for that purpose. The two caravans,
containing the performing wild animals, having been de-
tached from the rest, and drawn up on the eastern side
of the Quadrangle, just beneath the windows of the
corridor, a platform was erected in front, on which were
placed twenty-four brilliantly lighted oil lamps, supplied
lasitn::::trnherneaxntdread.
from the Castle. Shortly after seven o'clock, her Ma-
jesty, the Prince Consort, with the Prince of Wales and
the Royal Family, the Duchess of Kent, the visitors at
the Castle, and the gentlemen and ladies of the Court,
appeared at the windows, which were thrown open, of
the corridor, Mr. Wombwell's band performing the.
National Anthem. Miss Chapman then commenced her
performances, showing her astonishing command over
the wild animals, highly to the gratification of her

illustrious spectators. At the conclusion of this extra-
ordinary exhibition, which listed for nearly half an
hour, her Majesty was graciously pleased to command
that a very handsome acknowledgment bo conveyed to
the" Lion Queen " for the gratification she had afforded
to the Sovereign and the Royal Family.
BRIBERY AND TREATING.—The charges of bribery
and treating at the late election are coming before us in
a less questionable shape. At the Small Debts Court,
last week, some rather awkward facts were dragged out
of Mr. Merrick, the landlord of the White Lion. In
answer to questions from the judge, Mr. Merrick ad.
'flitted that he opened his house at the late election in
" the Blue interest," that lie supplied goods of the value
toof
tlh9eol.mtoemßbleuresvootfertsioand i3luteh actolrniemliototekee.Lfocriiliaiteynmheannt,
Examiner.