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PATENT RAMONEUR ASSOCIATION.
J. (Provisionally Registered.)
COUNTIES of SURREY and KENT.
Capital, 20,0001. in 10,000 Shares of 21. each. Deposit, 11. per Share
on complete registration.
No further call will be made without three months' previous
notice. The liabilities of each shareholder limited to the amount
subscribed for.
The PATENT RAMONEUR MACHINE is exclusively used is
the offices of the Right ROIL the Lords of the Treasury, the Royal
Agricultural Society, the Royal Horticaltural Society ; the Royal
Exchange-bindings, &c. The objects of the promoters are ap-
proved by
The Most Noble the Mergais of NORTHAMPTON, President of the
Royal Society.
The Right llon. Earl DE GREY, K.G., President of the Royal In-
stitute of I;ritish Architects.
Sir RODERICK I. MURCHISON, President of the British Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science.

The Right Rev, the Lord Bishop The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop
of Norwich I of Lichfield
The Right Hon. the Earl of Lei- The Meat Noble the Marquis of
Vaster Bristol
The Lord Rendlesharn, 111. P. The Hon. and Rev. Thomas R
The Right ROY. the Lord Bishop. Keppel
of Gloucester and Bristol The Hon. Fred. Byng
The Hon. and Rev. Edward S. The Rev. Sir Thomas Gray Cal
Keppel lum, Bart.
The Very Rev. the Dean of West- Sir William Foster, Bart.
minster, Dr. Buckland Sir Robert Harland, Bart.
The Venerable Archdeacon Shir- Sir Francis Darwin
ley

Sir John P. Boileau, Bart.

The Norwicli Union Fire Office
Saliba Fire Office

Sir Richard Paul Joildrell, Bart. :The District Fire Office of Bir-
Dr. Outran, F.R.S., F.G.S., In-' mingham

Spector of Naval Hospitals The TiOrwich Equitable Insnranoe
Right Hon. Earl Fitzhardinge Office
His Grace the Duke of Beaufort The Nottinghamshire and Derby-
Philip W. S. Miles, Esq., M.P, I shire Fire Office
Right Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, The West of England Fire Office,
M.P. &e.
W. Miles, Zsq.,

The object of this Association is totally to abolish the use of
climbing boys, who, notwithstanding the penalties to which those
employing them are subjected by the 3d and 4th Victoria, cap. 85,
are continually resorted to. This breach of the law is acquiesced in
by a large portion of the public, from a conviction of the utter im-
possibility in innumerable cases of cleansing a chimney or flue with
the old machine. For the laudable purpose of furthering the objects
of the law by avoiding all necessity for its infringement, the inge-
nious and effective Ramoncur machine has been invented. This
invention consists of four brushes forming a square head, which
by means of elastic springs contracts or expands, according to
the small or extended space in which the machine moves, thereby
creating an even pressure on all four sides of a chimney. The
rods attached to this head or brush are supplied at intervals wit!"
universal spring joints, capable of turning even a right angle
and the whole is surmounted with a double revolving ball, having
also a universal spring joint, which leads the brush with certainty
past every angle, and into every corner, cleansing its route most
perfectly. The capabilities of this machine are best demonstrated
by the fact, that it is exclusively used ii the Government and
numerous public offices, while the patronage bestowed by a large
number of the nobility and gentry in eontinuing their anneal con-
tracts to the patentees evidences their sense of its superiority, as well
as of the philanthropic views of the projectors. Detailed prospectuses
may be obtained, and a working model of the machine seen, at the
offices of the solicitor, F, Dolman, Esq., 39, Jeimyn-street, St.
James's ; at Messrs. Barry and Co.'s, brokers, 7, Ilirchin-lane ; at
W. Heath, Esq.'s, Nag's Head-court, Gracechurch-street; and at the
principal office, 1, Wellington-street, London-bridge, Borougk, where
applications for shares may be addressed.

DR. LA'MERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH
AND MATHRITY.—WITH 25 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS.
rust published, and may be had In French or English, in a Sealed
Envelope, 2s. 6d„ or post-free, from the author, for forty-two
Stamps,

-4E114P-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise
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 cli►eates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis-
cretion. With twenty•five 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.

BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.,
BEDFORD-STREET. BEDFORDSQUARE,
LONDON,

Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh,
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it be traced I. physical disqualifications and their attendant disap-
pointments. Excesses are always injurious ; the gift, which when
used In moderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, when
abused, the prolific source of mischief, and of greater or less Injury
to the constitutional and vital powers. The particular excesses, on
the Nature and consequence of which this Treatise professes to dilate,
are productive of greater severity of misery to the human frame,
than any other to which it is subject.
This work contains an accurate and complete account of the
Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs, and of
their relative conditions in health and disease. It deservedly
requires the closest attention and study, for what subject can
be of mere importance than the preservation of the health,
and of the physical capabilities of which every man should
be possessed. It unfortunately happens that the unhappy
victim of excessive indulgence and vicious habits, whether acquired
in early life or from the follies of advanced age, while suffering
from their invariable consequences, unwisely entertains a tear of ap-
plying to a qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so
frequently, but erroneously entertained that these complaiats are
beyond the reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking
for assistance where alone it can be procured. In acting thus, he
forgets that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of
disease, sympathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, Inva-
riably characterise the intelligent
and practical physician, and to the
medical man who can show by his posse sion of the requisite legal
lineations that he is entitled to esteem and respect in his profes.
sional pursuits, the utmost
qua confidence should be extended. Dr.
LAIIERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas
testify, and the great extent of his practice for many years is a
guarantee for his professional experience, which has reference almost
solely to the treatment of these diseases.
Published by the Author, and may be had of Kent and
Tich Richards,
52, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, borne-
street, Haymarket ; Mansell, 115, Fleet-street ; Gordon, 146,
Leadenhall-street, London ; or, free by post for torty-two stamps,
from the Author, who may be consulted on these disorders personally
Or by letter, daily, from Ten till Two, and from Five till Eight, at his
residence, 9, Bedford-street, Bedford-square, London.

ALARMING FIRE IN STAMFORD-STREET.—Yester-
day, a few minutes before two in the afternoon, a fire
of an alarming nature took place at Bickerton's hat fac-
tory, Stamford-street, Biackfriars-road. They have
large premises at the rear of their warehouse, in which
drying and finishing were carried on, but for some time
one of the proofing rooms has been unoccupied. One
of the men was preparing proofing matter over a large
fire, and while he was at dinner by some accident it
boiled over, and in a few minutes the whole building
was on fire. Before the engines could arrive the houses
at the rear (Boddy's Bridge) were in a very precarious
state, as the flames nearly touched the roofs of the
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THE- MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 14. —The
Oriental Company's steam-ship Montrose, Captain Bur-
ney, arrived here at 8.30 A.M. this day, and landed her
mails from the Peninsula and Mediterranean, under
charge of Lieutenant Percival, RN., which were for-
warded to London by the eleven o'clock train. She left
Gibraltar on October the sth, Cadiz the 6th, Lisbon the
9th, off Oporto and Vigo the 10th. The Montrose had
no communication with Oporto. She has thirteen pas-
sengers, and full cargo—partly consisting of 2,300 boxes
of grapes, 11 cases of cigars, 11 packages of specie,
besides sundries. The ships at tho ports were—Gibral-
tar, her Majesty's steamer Virago and American sloop
of war ; Cadiz, the Oronoque French war steamer and
one Spanish ; Lisbon, the British squadron, consisting
of her Majesty's ships St. Vincent (flag), Caledonia,
Queen, and steamers Sidon, Odin, Avenger, Dragon,
Stromboli, and Jackal' ; the Canopus, Veageanee, and
frigates Amphitrite and Trincomalee having sailed on a
trial cruise. Oct. 9, at ten A.BI , passed her Majesty's
steamer Terrible, entered the Tagus, supposed to be
from Angola, with the banished party. At noon, the
same day, passed her Majesty's steamer Antelope, off
the rock of Lisbon. The Montrose experienced, through
the Bay, south-west winds with rain and a heavy north-
west swell. Up Channel, wind from. the south east, with
thick weather. The Montrose entered the river with the
yellow flag hoisted, having sickness. on board.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 14.—The Duke and Duchess
of Palmella, suite, and attendants, embarked yesterday
in the Fire Queen steamer, from the King's Sallyport,
and were conveyed to Spithead, and put on board her
Majesty's steamer Vixen. Commander Ryder soon after
put to sea for Lisbon. The Vixen took letters and
packages for the coast of Africa, to be put on board the
Amphitrite at Lisbon.
A contract, we understand, has just been made for
the relaying and adapting for lomotive steam power the
Ardrossan Railway, from Eglinton Iron Works to the
Perceton Branch Railway, the latter of which, some
time ago, was rendered fit for locomotives ; also for
forming a railway from Corsehill t,o Kilwinning to in-
tersect the Kilmarnock branch of t he Ayrshire Railway,
forming part of the Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardios-
san Railway. Mr. H. King, Mothizzwed, Lanarkshire, is
the contractor.—Ayr Observer
Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian_ Minister, and Count
Schimmelpenninck, the Netherlands Minister, trans
acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.

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termination of the present account.
. The way in
which speculators extended their operations on the
reduction of the Bank rate of interest in September
has evidently necessitated at this moment a simul-
taneous rush upon the market for which the public
were not prepared, and which has
tennsequently ena-
bled the dealers to make their own
To look to any other circumstances for a full ex-
planation would be useless, desirable to
notice the fact, in order that the present panic panic may
not be mistaken for one having entire or chief
origin in commercial distrust. Although we are
evidently only approaching the final state of pressure
by which the mania that now ' jeopardizes the
whole nation is to be subdued, it is quite clear
that the movements of the past week have
not occurred in consequence of any more deliberate
view taken by the public to that effect, while at the
same time it is to be observed that as far as the posi-
tion of commercial affairs is concerned,. nothing has
happened to create any particular apprehensions be-
yond such as have now prevailed for a considerable
period. One house of importance whose capital has
long been eaten up or placed out of reach, has fallen,
but that is all; and as regards the future, there is no
of
added reason for alarm that any those firms who
may have prudently prepared by
a con traction of
their engagements for the whichstormd they must
long have seen was inevitable will b bebroken down.
That such contraction has been steadily going on for
months may be shown by abundant evidence, vidence, and,
a consequently, although commerce of kinds was in
a sound and healthy state when the crisis was first
prophesied, it is now, beyond question, in a still nar-
rower and closer compass. -Let the same policy be
steadily pursued, and although each man, in business
will be compelled to sustain loss of income, he will
escape all danger of insolvency.
That the want of currency aids to commerce has
not been the cause of the past failures,or of the pre-
sent panic, may fortunately be demonstrated. On the
29th of August, 1846, when the bullion in the Bank
was at its highest point, and when it was universally
proclaimed that the then amount of circulation was
sufficient to render the expenditure of some two or
millions three hundred
.tsterling on railroads perfectly
amount practicable, the of notes in the hands of the
public was 20,426,0001.11 Since that time, as we have
observed, the degree of contraction which all com-
mercial transactions have undergone has been almost
unprecedented, while at the same time a heavy fall in
prices has taken place, both these circumstances being
such as to cause a vast reduction in the monetary
wants of the public. Concurrently, therefore, with
what happenedh
thecirculation might have greatly
whilediminished money might still have remained
as easy as ever. We have seen, however, a gradual
rise in the rate of interest from 2f up to 6 or 8 per
cent. ; and, consequently, increased economy in the
use of notes must have been largely practised ; so that
a further reason has existed to enable the public to
carry on their operations with a greatly decreased
amount. Yet, in the face of all this, what has been
the actual extent of the reduction ? Less than one
million and three-quarters has been its entire sum.
From a time when the currency of the country was
in a state of plethora down to the present moment,
when we are told that all our commercial energies are
threatened with extinction solely from the want of
due facilities, the
times
n
than in former has absolutely been smaller
often witnessed in the
changes of a few months. Nay,
is actually not so great
89 more, the difference
as it was on the 19th of June
last, when Consols were when commerce was
much less contracted,
were higher. At that time wheni prices of all articles
tinmoew
18,7
17,967,0001. sufficed for
our wants, and we have
It is plain, therefore,e 12,0004
that if the existing circula-
tion were really available for the uses of the mercan-
tile body, there would ebe a surplus instead of a
deficiency, and that
higher than 2i per money would again be not much
When, under these cir-
cumstances, we hear cent.
a cry for "relief," and an
assertion that a reduction of one million and three-
quarters in the amount of our promises to pay is too
of a
great in the face reduction of nearly eight mil-
lions (for that is the
extent to which our gold has
by which those promises
are secured, let us note
be deceived as to the parties
for whom the demon
that might be concededr is raised, and by whom all
would be forthwith clutched.
Trade and manufactures
must further decline, the
pressure we have already endured must be outdone
which it will not be borne,
but there is a limit beyond
rne, and all that we can do is
to wait patiently until
least movement in an that limit is attained. The
opposite direction would con-
stitute the first stepto
(vtebe followed by many rapid
national bankruptcy.
POST.—Money was
again to-day. The excessively scarce and dear
meeting, but made Bankno
directors had their weekly
fresh demonstration. The
minimum rate of disco')
per cent. p discount was left unaltered at five-
and-a-half
was granted unless er
annum • still no accommoda-
tionso that although the 011 considerably higher terms,
what it professes minimum is in reality no longer
Yet, difficult as itto be,
ma noi change is openly declared.
actually is, it is icr be to state what the mini-
mummaximum. The Bank ar more so to say what is the
something for the more e understood to have done
traders at about seven per cquiet, unpretending class of
assistance to houses of L. ent.,
standing, but to have refused
i' 'gher and whose
pursuits are of a less national h
and-a-half per cent. The positionfaracter, under nine-
leading firms has been said tc of several of the
so many important failures as very critical, and
firms who have carried on their operations8 have occurred,
tent of millions can hardly expect, to the
to escape escape suspicion, and even the however. solvent,
injurious conse-
quences of rather minute inquiry, 'VV. ith their more
intimate connexions breaking down on all hands, it is
perhaps only wonderful that that they should find the
means of bearing up against the shock.
It was ac-
count day in the Consols market, and
seldom have
the differences payable been so hear
One house is
believed to have sustained losses hyJit
its
Bull opera-
tions of the six weeks past to the amount
So far, there has been no case of
defalcation among
the members of the Stock Exchange,
will be the day for payment, but ba li To . morrow
serious difficulty to deal with, it Would, ere been any
we
presume,
have been made public. Outside operators have met
their engagements less effectively. Several of them
unprepared
have been named as having been to an-
swer the demands upon them owing to the short-
comings of their own debtors and other circumstances.
i
HERALD.—Early in the morn
morning it was cur-
rently reported that the directors of the Bank would,
at the weekly meeting to-day, declare a formal ad-
vance in the minimum rate of interest. They very
prudently, however, issued no public •
notice to that
effect, for although for several days past they have
been doing no business at the nominal rate, the idea
would have made rather an injurious impression on
the public mind. In point of fact, however, the
directors are governed by no rule, but entirely by
tiae circumstances in each particular case, in the rate
of charges. To the advances or loan on commercial
bills that fell due to-day in some cases an extension
has been given for seven days for half the amount,
the directors of the Bank selecting what they con-
sider the best of the bills to remain for their secu-
rity. The rate of interest charged in these cases
er cent.
has been increased to 7 p, and consequently
the notice of their minimum being 51 is practicalty
fallacious. More stringent measures have been
applied where loans were made on public
securities, the return of the money being made im-
perative in some cases to the full amount, if not in