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This Day is published,
E PITOM I_7; of ALISON'S HISTORY of
EUROPE.
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EMIGRATION AND COLONIZATION.

IMMIGRATION being much required in
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, &c., and as the supposed
expense of an OUTFIT often prevents Individuals Emigrating, S.
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TRACTORS (having a large interest to maintain in those Colonies).
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proportion, at No. 4, BISHOPSGATE-STREET WITHIN, opposite
the London Tavern, where lists will be given on application.
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the Outfits they supply, and as one of their objects is to promote
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obtain the most economic passage to the Colonies. They have a
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Outfitting being exclusively at No. 4, Bishopsgate-street Within),
London, and each branch at St. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIVER-
POOL.

ON NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERATIVE DISEASES.
Just published, the Thirty-sixth Thousand, an improved edition, re-
vised and corrected, 120 pages, price 2s. in a sealed envelope, or
forwarded by the Authors, post paid, to any address, secure from
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merous Anatomical Coloured Engravings.
MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMA-
TURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for its PERFECT
RESTORATION.
A Medical Essay on those Diseases of the Generative Organs,
emanating from Solitary and Sedentary Habits, indiscriminate Ex-
cesses, the Effects of Climate and Infection, &c., addressed to the
sufferer in Youth, Manhood, and Old Age; with Practical Remarks
on Marriage, the Treatment and Cure of Nervous and Mental De-
bility, Impotency, Syphilis, and other Urine-Genital Diseases, by
which even the meet shattered constitution may be restored, and
reach the full period of life allotted to -Man. The whole illustrated
with numerous Anatomical Engravings on Steel, in colour, explain-
ing the various functions, secretions, and structures of the repro-
ductive Organs in heaith and disease ; with instructions for private
correspondence, cases, &c.
By J. L. CURTIS and CO., Consulting Surgeons,
7, Frith-street, Soho-square, London.
" Manhood.' A Medical Work.—To the gay and thought less we
trust this little work will serve as a beacon to warn them of the
danger attendant upon the too rash indulgence of their passions,
whilst to some it may serve as a monitor in the hour of tempta-
tion, and to the afflicted as a sure guide to health."—Chroniele
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and reputation in the treatment of these paint ul diseases is the
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oulation."—Era.
" Curtis on Manhood' should be In the hands of youth and old
age. It is a medical publication, ably written, and glevelopes the
treatment of a class of painful maladies which has too long been
the prey of the illiterate and the designing."— United Service
Gazette.
The Parent, who beholds his beloved child pining away, and last
approaching to a premature grave, in consequence of some disease,
which, for want of careful investigation of its real cause, has been
set down to the score of consumption, will, on perusing this work,
be astonished to find, that in nine-tenths of the cases of young per-
ions of both sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary con-
3umption, heart disease, tubes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has
been the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by youth
'noel; more frequently than it is at all suspected.
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RAILWAY SHARE AIARKETs.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 30.

STOCK EXCHANGH.—The market remains firm, but only
a small business is doing. The sales are—Lancashire and
Yorkshire (late M. and L.), 16 dis.—Ditto, Halves, 8,4
'
dis.—Ditto Fifths, 1 'X; dis.—Ditto, 101. Preference, % p'
Leeds and Thirsk, 25—London and North. Western, 11-5 T.
—Ditto, Quarters, Vs c.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire, Eighths, 6c. dis.—Midland Stock, New Halves,
71. 18s. 9d. dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Halve',
71. 9d.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Pur-
chase), 3e p.
MANCHESTER, Au°. 30.
STOCK Excliaxat.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire, and Cheshire Junction, 22/. Shares, 834 dis.—
East Lancashire, New, 8,A3 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire
(West Riding Union), 41/2 dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 11."," dis.—North
Staffordshire, 4,4 dis.— North-Western, 8 dis.—South-
Eastern and DoverßlßD , No. 4, 7 1-16.
lINGRAM, Au°. 30.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The sales are—London and North-
Western, 115 x d.—Ditto, New Shares, 3s. 9d. p.—Birming-
ham, Wolverhatnpl on, and Stour Valley, 4,A dis.—North
Staffordshire, 4,43 dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A),
61. 6s. 3d. dis.—Ditto (B), 81s. 3d. dis.—Shropshire Union,
3 dis.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY.
The Queen and his Royal Highness, and the younger
members of the Royal Family, rode and walked in the
grounds of Osborne this morning, accompanied by the
Princess Hohenlohe and the Princess Eliza and younger
Princess of her Serene Highness's family.
The royal dinner party yesterday included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Princess of Hohenlohe
Langenburg and Princess Eliza, his Excellency the
Chevalier Bunsen, Prince Lowenstein, Lady Anna Maria
Dawson, and the Baroness de Speth.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the
Princesses of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst, left her resi-
dence, Bushy House, Bushy Park, yesterday morning,
for Cowes, Isle of Wight, travelled to Gosport by the
London and South-Western Railway, and crossed in the
Fairy steam-yacht. The QUM:I- Dowager, after landing,
proceeded to the Queen's marine residence, Osborne, ac-
companied by the Princesses of Hohenlohe Schillings-
furst, to pay a visit to her Majesty and the Prince Albert.
A deputation, including Mr. Brotherton, M.P., Mr.
Marsden, and Mr. Neild, had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.
Drs. Hodgkin and Norton Shaw, and William Wright,
Esq., of Jamaica, a deputation to deliver a memorial to
Earl Grey, for presentation to her Majesty, had an in•-
t-rview with the Noble Earl yesterday, at the Colonial-
office.

LOYAL UNITED FRIENDS.—A few evenings ago
the fifth anniversary of the No. 9 Lodge of this highly
popular social order, was celebrated at the Lodge House
Treasurer Layet's, the Turk's Head, High-street, Ald-
gate, when a numerous body of the members partook of
a supper served up in their worthy host's usual excel-
lent manner. P. S. P. Spearing officiated as chairman,
as did also P. P. Delight as deputy, and were supported
by the following past and present officers :—P. Sand
P.
Smart, P. S. P. Heath, P. P. Everett, P. P. Clayton,
P. Pickett. After the cloth was withdrawn and the cus-
tomary loyal toasts had been given, the Chairman, in his
usual spirited manner, gave the " Order of Loyal
United Friends, and may its gift fund flourish," this
was succeeded by the " Friend in Need Fund," both
toasts were well received ; the healths of the chairman,
deputy, and Treasurer Layet elicited great applause.
Several excellent songs (particularly those of I'. S. P.
Smart) wine sung, and the ;.harmony of the company
kept up to a late hour,when the party broke up highly
entertained with the evening proceedings.
COMMITTAL FOIL MURDER.—Mrs. Mury Lightfoot,
wife of Henry Lightfoot, of Quarry-bank, near Dudley, has
just been committed by the district coroner, Mr. T. M. Phil-
lips, on a charge of administering arsenic to her husband,
which caused his death. It was proved on the inquest that
the prisoner had been seen in familiar intercourse with a man
not her husband, and that she had obtained medicine for her
husband during his illness. Arsenic was found in the body
of the deceased on a post mortem examination being made,
and altogether the circumstances were of so suspicious a cha-
racter that, after an adjournment, the coroner's jury returned
a verdict of wilful murder against the wife, who has been
committed to take her trial on the charge at the next Staf-
fordshire assizes. On Lightfoot's death his wife obtained a
sum of 41. for his burial from an Odd Fellows' club, of which
her husband was a member.
Matthias Kelly, the private of the 14th Regiment,
who was found guilty at the last assizos for shooting a
Woman in the Newport barracks, was executed on Mon-
day, at Monmouth.

MR. CGBDEN.
(From the Times.)

Mr. Cobden is constant to his thethe. He lets slip no
occasion of reverting to his favourite topic of a reduc-
tion in the army and navy estimates. On Tuesday night,
in the discussion upon the Exchequer- bills, he was rid-
ing his old hobby as vigorously,as ever. The only safety
for England is to denude herself of her means of de-
fence. At a time when every mail that arrives from the
continent brings with it rumours of war Irons north
and south, end when the presence of au unusually
large force in Ireland has been necessitated by the
disturbed condition of that country, Mr. Cobden
recommends us to reduce a military establishment con-
fessedly insufficient for the service of the empire even in
ordinary times. We have no love of soldiering in the
abstract. We are just as unwilling as any Manchester
manufacturer can be to disburse fifteen or sixteen
millions of money annually for pontoons, sharpnels, fire-
ships, bayonets, and sabres. We . should be glad to
have lived in that pleasant country between the four
rivers, where toil and anxiety were things unknown.
Taxation in any shape is a thing as odious to us as it
can possibly be to Mr. Cobden. Could we mould the
human race to our will, a military uniform or two should
remain in a tailor's museum, as a record of the past bar-
barism of mankind nothing more. So far we
thoroughly agree with the Member for the West
Riding ; it only remains ,to, consider Whether by dis-
banding our forces, or by effecting any-Juaterial reduc-
tion in their number, we should adopt the most prudent
course, and the most economical system in the end.
Now, remembering, what• all the world remembers,
the opinions expressed by Mr. Cobden on foreign poli-
tics, and on the internal stare of the continent during
his progress in foreign parts, and before the, outbreak
of liuhruary, we pronounce his views op these subjects
to be utterly erroneous and vvithou.t value. In common
with others, we for a long time.refrained from attackiNg
Mr., Cobden's express,i*.pe., sitoptnien after his. slOfT
'froth' the continent. Unreasonable, absurd,'
enough they appeared to Ilse; but we nourished a latent
hope that the, air of sober England would blow these
cobwebs from his brain. He had been the foremost
man in a great and successful movement. A few months'
grace might well be conceded to the leader of the
Corn-law Repeal, in addition to the more solid
acknowledgment of the Cobden Testimonial. We
watched his flights as he passed through Europe, and
although the handwriting was already flickering on the
wall in no pale colours, Mr. Cobden could see nothing.
In France there was the firm of Louis Philippe and
Sons, general dealers; in Spain, Christina and Co. were
ready to do a thing or two in oils; in Italy, Germany,
it was everywhere the same narrow-minded Manchester
view. Mr. Cobden was literally purblind as to what was
passing under his very nose, and returned to
England as he left it, a profound believer in a cora-
mercial millennium and the triumph of the tariff.
Has all this been justified by the event ? We ob-
served that for a short time Mr. Cobden had the
grace to be silent in the face of the astounding con-
tradictions every mail brought to the theories he had
broached with the dogmatism characteristic of his class.
But he soon recovered strength. He soon renewed his
attacks as he found events turn out in a manner that
no human foresight could have anticipated at the time.
Who that remembers the latter days of February of this
year would have recommended, at the time, the absence
of military precaution on the part of this country ? Is
it post hoc or propter hoe that our shores have been saved
from the profanation of an armed stranger's foot ?
Sonic little we remember of Polish legions, and Belgian
legions, and Italian legions, of a not very consolatory
character to the Governments who were not in a condi-
tion to resist attack. We have notyet forgotten the alarm
Mt by the inhabitants of this capital on the afternoon of
the Sunday preceding the threatened Chartist riots- of
April. The arrival of the red-coats was not then dis-
pleasing to the good citizens of London. No one then
thought the number too great. So, in Ireland, again,
at a more recent period. True, these impending dan-
gers have blown off, but it is in consequence of the system
adopted for their repression. The plan is now, wherever
danger or disturbance appears, to collect an overwhelming
force at that point, crush all chance of rioting or tumult,
and then proceed against the leading offenders by the
forms of law. Is the plan so injudicious an one, or has
it answered so badly at home? Turning to the conti-
nent, again, we find it literally in the occupation of an
armed garrison, doing their utmost to restrain the ex-
cesses of a mob who appear able to obtain arms when
Icy will. What sort of opinion can we entertain of a
man's discretion who chooses the present season us an
apt one for declaiming against the policy of maintain-
ing our military and naval establishments up to par?
Mr. Cobden has already lost much of the credit he en-
joyed as leader of the Corn-law movement. lie has to
is cover, what is much harder than to make, a character
for statesmanship.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGIIT.
VitUAI OUlt OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, AUGUST aa

A splendid steamer of 910 tons was launched this day
at noon from the building•-yard of Messrs. Thomas and
John White, for the Sicilian Government; she will be
armed with six heavy guns, and is called the Indepen-
dence. She went off majestically amid the cheering of a
numerous assemblage of spectators. She was afterwards
placed in the adjoining dock to be freed of her cleats,
and to complete her fitment.
ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAGER.
—Her Majesty's yacht Fairy arrived at Cowes soon
after one o'clock, and her Majesty and suite landed at
the Parade under a salute from the Flirt, the Castle,
and the Royal Yacht Squadron battery. The foreign and
English vessels in the roadstead were dressed out in their
gayest colours. Her Majesty was received on landing by
the Marquis of Anglesey, and proceeded in the
Duchess of Kent's carriage to Norfolk House and to
Adelaide Villa and Gothu Hall, the three houses taken
fur her. Her Majesty, will remain in Gothu Hall to-night,
Norfolk House having only been left by the Mar-
chioness of Salisbury this morning, could not be got
ready for the royal party till to-morrow, when they will
take up their residence there, the domestics occupying
the other houses for the autumn and perhaps the win-
ter. Her Majesty's carriages and ten horses arrived to-
day. _

Earl Fitzhardinge leaves tho Pavilion to-morrow for
town.

The Earl and Countess of Wilton leave Grovo House
on Saturday.

MissS U
cnXat
cokoplace
HALL,Ina
sBc'esTioclnoEnEmeeTor.ntdoayf vocaleven evening, when
instru-
mental
an
nadmirable selection was performed by this celebrated
violinist, assisted by her talented little sisters Emma and
Victoria, Miss Bassano, Mr. Bodda, and Herr Muller
vocalists; Madlle. Guenise, from the Conservatoire, Paris,
and Monsieur Lavigne, from the Royal Academy Paris,
the Grand Opera Berlin, and her Majesty's Theatre, in-
strumentalists. Miss Bassano sung Mrs. H. St,
Leger's new dramatic romance " The forsaken Mother,"
with the most refined taste, abandon, and expression;
applause the most rapturous rewarded the admirable in-
terpretation of this charming composition by the fair
eantatrice. Herr, Muller sang the romance from Der
Naehdager with great effect. His fine baritone voice
will be a great addition to the forthcoming concerts at
Drury-lane. Miss Bassano and Mr. Bodda were en•
thusiustically encored in John Barnett's duet, the
" Singing Lesson" which they sung with the greatest
spirit. Monsieur Lavigne'a splendid performance
upon the oboe was perfection, the airs selected
by him for his beautiful fantasia were from
the ever beautiful opera of La Sonnambula.
Nldlle. Gumi?, performed twice during the evening ;
her first morceau was a fantasia upon the exquisite
melody from the Lucia, " Fra poco," which she played
with a combination of taste, expression, execution, and
genuine feeling, that entranced the audience. Her se-
cond performance consisted of two studies of her own
composition, remarkable for beauty and originality.
There is a mixture of all the attributes necessary
for a first-rate pianiste in this charming ar-
tiste's performance, and without imitating any of
the great pianistes that have preceded her she has a
specialite and school of her own. Miss Victoria Collins
was encored in Mr. 11. St. Leger's popular ballad "'Tomas
then that she promised to marry, which she sung with
the greatest spirit and neglect!, and Miss Rosina was en-
cored on playing Paganini's celebrated variations upon
the " Carnevsl de Venise," which was most rapturously
applauded. This talented family, we understand, leave
town next week, to fulfil engagements at Ryde, Ports-
mouth, Gosport, Fareham, and Chichester. Miss Rosina
Collins is engaged by Mons. Jullien for his winter con-
certs. Mr. F. Bowen Jewson and Mr.' Maurice Davis
were the conductors of the evening. We were particu-
larly struck with the beautiful tone of the piano-forte,
which, we understand, was made by Erard.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY, AUG. 29.—The Penin•
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship
Tagus, Captain R. W. Evans, sailed to-day for Gib-
raltar, Genoa, Leghorn, and Civita Vecchia, with a few
passengers and ship letter bags. The Tagus had a large
cargo, consisting of 270 tons of English manufactures for
the Italian ports, and about 150 cases containing 3,000
muskets for the Sardinian Government. Her Majesty's
steam-yacht Fairy arrived in Southampton docks yes-
terday afternoon from Cowes, bringing their Royal
llighnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the
Princess Mary and suite, who proceeded by the three
o'clock P.X. train to London. The Peninsular Com-
pany's steam-ship Malta is gone out on a trial trip to-
day, preparatory to sailing in a few days for India, via
the Cape of Good Hope. The Dutch barque Onder-
neeming, Captain J. C. Atskir, with 1,838 boxes of
sugar from Havannah, arrived off Cowes yesterday for
orders. The English barque, Mary Bayly, Captain
Sc well, 2,550 bags; of coffee from Rio Janeiro, and the
Taylor,New
Orleans,Captain
sailede l a us
yesterdayse n, 6l
from Cowes roads for Rotterdam.
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LABOURERS IN HER. MAJESTY'S DOCKYARDS.—
The total number of labourers employed in her Majesty's
fsilip tobacco Emilyfrom
dockyards and arsenals at home, and abroad, is 3,977.
The number of pensioners employed is 195, viz., 71 from
the army, and 124 from the navy. All the labourers at
Bombay, and 41 of those at Trincomalee, are natives,
Lascars and Coeliac