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TIFAVE YOU SEEN VENUS RISING
FROM THE SEA?
At the HALL of ROME, Great Windmill-street, Haymarket; and
the much-admired New Group, the RAINBOW NY;iIPI.IS. Ex-
planatory Expositions by Mr. C. Sloman, the only English Impro-
visatore of the various roses. Performances commence at Three
o'clock in the Afternoon and Eight in the Evening. Stalls, 25.;
Boxes, Is. 6d.; Pit, is.

. , .
AN INDUCEMENT to VISIT CREMORNE
GARDENS, CHELSEA.
The Gentlemen of London are most respectfully informed that the
whole of the interior of the tavern arrangements at Cremorne are
now placed by Mr. Ellis under the able direction of Mr. CHARLEi
PAWS, so many years with Mr. Simpson, at the Albion, opposite
Drury-lane Theatre, and late of the North and South American
Coffee House, City. Gentlemen visiting Cremorne Gardens can
DINE in the Coffee-room, which is most elegantly appointed, for
HALF-A-CROWN.
Rooms for private dinner parties, and every accommodation for
immense numbers, Worshipful Companies, Clubs, Societies, &e.
A Haunch of Venison on Friday, at half-past 5 o'clock.
N.B. The NASSAU BALLOON on MONDAY next, Aug. 17, at half-
past six o'clock. A Haunch of Venison at five.

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r r HE BARBER'S CLINIR is .TAKEN EVERY
Saturday in DOUGLAS JERROLD'S WEEKLY NEWS-

founder, West Bromwich, Sept. 1, at ten, at the Birming-
ham District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to

PATE

Order of any Newsman.

the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
F. Rolfe, tailor, Great Marlborough-street, Sept. 3—G.
Felthouse, plumber and glazier, Fulham, Sept. 3—J. Philp,
stationer, Bristol, Sept 3—S. Smith, grocer, Bedminster,
Bristol, Sept. 7—J. Pearson, fellmonger, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, Sept. 4—P. Hare, tallow chandler, Liverpol, Sept. 4
H. Williams, apothecary, Llanrwst, Denbighshire, Sept. 1—
J. Scott, flour dealer, Sheffield, Sept. 3—J. Holt, lace-glove
manufacturer, Castle Donington, Leicestershire, Sept. 15—
G. Longfield, tailor, West Bromwich, Sept. 15—J. Buttrey,
commission agent, Manchester, Sept. 2—W. Kirk, share-
broker, Salford, Lancashire, Sept. 3—C. Eicke, iron-rivet
manufacturer, Rotherhithe, Sept. I—W. and T. Edmond,
merchants, Liverpool, Sept. I—J. Rudman, oilman, Bath,
Sept. 1-11. C. Capleton, grocer, Cheltenham, Sept. 1-0.
Johnson, Maldon, Essex, Sept. I—E. T. Allen, apothecary,
York, Sept. I—J. Miller, plumber and glazier, Whittlebury-
street, Hampstead-road, Sept. I—W. Harding, sen., mason,
Johnson-street, Westminster, Sept. I—C. Best, printer, St.
James's-walk, Clerkenwell.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
R. Ray and T. Wynne, earthenware manufacturers, Long-
ton, Staffordshire-1 Steale and R. Ray, earthenware manu-
facturers, Langton, Staffordshire—C. and A. Crawford, con-
fectioners, klulme, Lancashire—W. Hadfield and J. Shar-
rocks, machine makers, Manchester—J. Withers and D. I.
Wyatt, hat manufacturers, Bristol—A. and. S. Sparks, glass
dealers, Preston, Lancashire—J. and T. B. Creed, lighterman,
Sampson's-gardens, St. George's-in-the-East—C. Sanderson
and H. Murray, beer merchants, Steel-yard, Upper Thames-
street—J. and W. Woodyatt, builders, Witton, Chester—T.
and H. Houldin, painters, Liverpool—J. Barrand and C.
Welch, coal merchants, Whitefriars-wharf,Temple—R. Royle
and C. Worsley, common brewers, Manchester—T. Howell
and T. A. Warren, surgeons, Princes Risborough, Bucking-
hamshire—T. Tyndall, H. W. Tyndall, and W. Tyndall,
attorneys, Birmingham (so far as regards W. Tyndall)—E.
Garbett and J. Dulling, attorneys, Wellington, Shropshire—
C. Ramsey, G. Barlow, J. Turner, and R. Williamson, dyers,
Manchester—J. W. Newcombe, R. Lewis, J. Lewis, L. J.
Lewis, J. Lewis, W. Clemson, colliery company, Dawley,
Shropshire—W. G. Harden and E. Howard, farmers, Benen-
den, Kent—J. Jackson and J. Smith, corn factors, Notting-
ham—W. W. Prole and J. Scales, wine merchants, Dunster-
court, Mincing-lane, City—J. Harwood and J. Monkman,
millwrights, Oldham, Lancashire—R. Kinneir and P. Blundell,
surgeons, Cirencester—T. Rickford and C. C. Bickham,
brewers, Reading, Berkshire—T. Parkinson and T. Penk,
builders, Manchester—J. Forrest and G. Hawes, hosiers, Pic-
cadilly—T. Nichols and W. S. Hepworth, booksellers, Knot-
tingly, Yorkshire—R. Powell and J. Bethel], spindle manu-
facturers, Manchester—W. Brooke and H. Fielding, nickel
refiners, Birmingham—C. Lazarus and M. H. Meyer, brewers,
Mansel-street, Goodman's fields—J. Dyson and J. Jackson,
millers, Leeds—T. Warren and R. Green, sword cutlers, Cur-
sitor-street, Chancery-lane.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

''HE LEARNED BLACKSMITH'S
BURRITT) ENGLISH SCENES; the WHITTINGTON
CLUB ; the CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND ;
ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE MEMOIRS; the SANATORY CON-
DITION OF TOWNS; CHURCH AND STATE LETTERS, by. u
Church Mouse; the' BARBER'S CHAIR, and other ORIGINAL
ARTICLES will be found in DOUGLAS 4,ERROLD'S WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION,
A CHEMICAL LECTURE, by Dr. Ryan, eally, and on
the Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Professor
Bachhoffner's LECTURES on NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, ith
brilliant experiments, daily. MACINTOSH'S REVOLVING EN-
GINE. COLEMAN'S PATENT LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE for as-
cending, and descending Inclined Planes. FARRELL'S ARCIII-
MEDIAN RAILWAY. The ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, all in
action. HALLETTE'S ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY VALVE.
CLARK, M`NEILL, and CO.'S PATENT UNIVERSAL GAS
BURNER. The OPAQUE-MICROSCOPE. The OXY-lIYDROGEN
ICROSOPE; exhibiting a fine Collection 'of Living Objects. A
beautiful Picture of the CHAPEL in the CONVENT of St. CA-
THERINE, near Jerusalem, by Mr. Charles Smith, is one dt the Se-
ries of DISSOLVING VIEWS.
Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

REMOVAL.
DR. CULVERWELL has REMOVED to No.
10, ARGYLL-PLACE, REGENT-STREET, (leading to
Great Marlborough-street) -where he may be consulted, as usual,
Daily till Three, and in the Evening from Seven till Nine ; and
where ales his several publications, of which entirely new and en-
larged editions have recently been published, may be obtained.

THE MOORS.-GROUSE SHOOTING. - It
has been the frequent suggestion of several Gentlemen, con-
stant patrons, that a SHOOTING JACKET and VEST, made of the
same kind of Llama Cloth as used by them in the Registered Paletot,
but in colours more suitable for the purpose, would give much
satisfaction ; such have been prepared ; and the Jacket and Vest
together will weigh but 16 ounces. There will also be a variety in
thicker substances, but, for the extreme heat anticipated on the
moors this season, those described will be found a perfect luxury in
comparison with others. They will also be found very useful as a
Fishing Coat, and other such purposes ; but it is necessary to observe
that they can only be had in London, of 11. J. and D. NICOLL, at
22, Cornhill, and the chief warehouse, 114, Regent-street.

M.R. BEARD'S PHOTOGRAPHIC POR-
TRAIT ESTABLISHMENTS are at 85. King William-
street. City, 34, Parliament-street, Westminster ; and at the Royal
Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street.
" A great improvement has been effected ; the method of colouring
renderithe portraits agreeable and life-like."—Times.
" We-would especially notice the, admirable effect of the flesh tints,
which appear embodied in the miniature, and not, as we generally see
them, spread on the surface."—Art Union.

TIIE JOURNALS of the FINE ARTS on
PHOTOGRAPHY.
" A Daguerreotype Portrait that could truly be pronounced a flat-
tering likeness, we certainly never expected to see ; that phenomenon,
however, was presented to us en recently visiting the establishment
of Mr. Claudet."—Atheneum, July 4.
"We confess we had no idea of the possibility of producing any-
thing so artistic and elegant on a metal plate."—Art Union, July 1.
"Mr. Claudet's productions approach more nearly to the highly-
finished miniature than anything we have yet seen."—Literary Ga-
zette, July 4.

HOT WEATHER.—TRAVELLING.—SEA-
SIDE.—The REGISTEED PALETOT in London, only at
22, Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange ; and the chief Llama
Cloth Warehouse, 114, Regent-street. Do not be deceived by a
similarity of name, placed in the windows of a few petty shops in the
neighbourhood of the Patentees. Each Paletot is stamped " H. J. and
D. NICOLL, 114, Regent-street."

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the Polley, two-thirds of the r..-avninnaa paid (see Table) ;
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his In-
terests to meet other conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible
rates.

DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the society
has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare
a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid
on each Policy effected on the Profit scale.

William Cleland, stockbroker, Edinburgh, Aug. 4 and
Sept. 9, at one, at the chambers of J. Somerville, S.S.C.,
Edinburgh.
Thomas Hislop, grocer, Alloa, Aug. 15 and Sept. 5, at the
shop of Thomas Hislop, Alloa.
Alexander Stewart, farmer, Rodgorton, Perthshire,
Aug. 17 and Sept. 14, at one, at the George Hotel, Perth.
Peter and John Stirling, stablers, Edinbnrgh. Aug. 17 and
Sept. 10, at two, at Ferguson's Ship Tavern, Edinburgh.

MESMERIC INFIRMARY.
A meeting of noblemen, Members of Parliament
clergymen, physicians, surgeons, and gentlemen distin
guished for their services in the advancement of science
and philanthropy, was recently held at the mansion of
the Earl of Ducie, No. 23, Belgrave-square, for the
purpose of taking measures to establish an institution,
by means of which the benefit of mesmerism, in the cure
of diseases, and the prevention of pain under surgical
operations, should be more widely extended to the poorer
classes, than they could be by individual exertion. The
meeting, " being convinced of the vast benefits derived
from mesmerism," came to the following resolutions:—
" 1. That a Mesmeric Infirmary shall be established
by voluntary contribution, for the cure of diseases, and
the prevention of pain in surgical operations.
" 2. That this infirmary shall be under the manage-
ment of a president, vice-presidents, trustees, a treasurer,
secretary, and committee."
The Right Hon. the Earl of Ducie was elected presi•
dent; the Baron de•Goldsmid, Viscount Morpeth, M.P.,
R. Monckton Milnes, Esq., MT , J. H. Langston, Esq.,
M.P., the Rev. J. Sanby, jun., and the Rev. T. Robert-
son, vice-presidents ; Mr. Briggs, treasurer ; and Drs.
Ashburner, Buxton, and Elliotson; Surgeons Clarke*,
Chandler, Flintoff, J. Hands, D. Hands, F. G. Johnston,
and Symes ; the Rev. Dr. Dickson, Major Buckley,
Captain James, Messrs. Blyth, Fradelle, Kingdom, and
Topham, were appointed as the committee.
A sum, amounting to several hundred pounds, was
subscribed ; to which the Earl of Ducie, the Baron de
Goldsmid, Lord Morpeth, and Mr. Langston con-
tributed 1001. each ; Mr. T. Lamie Murray, George-
street, Hanover-square, and Dr. Elliotson, 501. each ;
Mr. Kingdom, Westbourne terrace, Hyde Park, 211.,
with 51. ss. annual subscription. The other donations
and subscriptions varied from ten guineas to one.
The immediate cause of this infirmary being founded
under such high patronage, may perhaps be found in
the letter addressed in April last, by the Treasurer of the
new charity, Mr. Briggs, to the S3cretary of the Mid-
dlesex Hospital, and published in the last number of the
" Zoist," with a narrative of the cases referred to, and of
the subsequent treatment experienced by that benevolent
gentleman, at the hands of the, pseudo-magnates of the
medical profession, who, in his instance, surpassed their
ordinary displays of presuming ignorance and dogmatic
insolence. Mr. Briggs having received, as a governor
of the Middlesex Hospital, the usual invitation to attend
the annual dinner, declined to do so in a courteous, but
very earnest letter, in which be referred to particular
cases of happy cure effected through mesmeric agency at
his expense, and evidently with the knowledge of the
anti-mesmeric savans in that hospital, in whose hands
the patients so rescued by his zeal and charity
had lingered for years in torture and despair, under
the severest physicing administered without hope, and
amputation executed:(as the event proved) without
cause. He recommended that mesmerism, which had
effected so much in those cases, should be tried upon
some others which he proposed. He was answered that
' " mesmerism was not orthodox." He referred to the

many undoubted operations lately performed without
pain. (Those performed at Cherbourg, Leicester, Not-
tingham, and various places in America and the West
Indies, are too well authenticated for any reasonable
man to doubt.) He referred especially to the cases of
Dr. Esdaile, of the East India Government's civil staff,
which have occurred, and been presented to the world
under such circumstances and with such authority, that Dr.
Esdaile, on his departure from Hooghley, left after him
a MESMERIC STAFF, paid by the Government. When
the engagements with the Sikhs threw 3,000 men on the
army surgeons, the civil surgeons were ordered to join
the army, and Dr. Esdaile was called away. But he
had in the previous eight months performed seventy-three
severe operations without pain, and with healing results;
such as rarely (if ever) are found to follow similar opera-
tions performed in a non-mesmeric state. This success
was rightly viewed by the authorities of India as too
important and encouraging not to be followed up. Life
is too valuable in their service to be sported with for the
sneers of a fashionable, but unbred and unread "doctor,"
or the jests of a witty surgeon, who tests the sensibility
of a patient by tearing the skin from her hand with his
nails. The example of India will shortly be followed
up at home. One of Dr. Esdaile's cases was the re-
moval of a scrotal tumour, weighinc, forty pounds.
During the operation the man remained as motionless
as a corpse !
Mr. BRIGGS had evinced his good will to the Middle-
sex Hospital by subscribing to it for many years, and
inserting in his will a handsome legacy to it ; but as he
could not afford to subscribe to that, and, at the same
time, pay for mesmerising the poor, he was compelled
to make a choice between the two.
It was the conduct of the managers of the public hos-
pitals on this and similar occasions, which seems to have
convinced the founders of the Mesmeric Infirmary, that
it was necessary to delay no longer the establishment of
, such an institution.

PETERSBURGII AND MOSCOW; A Visit to the Court
of the Czar. By Richard Southwell Bourke, Esq. 2 vols.;
small Bvo.—The above work is published this day by Mr.
Colburn, and may now be had of all booksellers. The
following are also now ready :-2. Vol. IX. of Agnes Strick-
land's Lives of the Queens of England, comprising Mary of
Modena, Consort of James 11. 3. Lady Morgan's celebrated
romance, " The Wild Irish Girl," forming the new volume
of " Colburn's Standard Novels," Gs. bound. 4. Hochelaga;
or, England in the New World, edited by Eliot Warburton,
Esq., author of " The Crescent and the Cross," 2 vols., small
Bvo. 5. The Modern Orlando, in seven Cantos, price Gs.
G. Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George the
Second, edited by the late Lord Holland, now printed for the
first time in the Bs-o. form, in 3 vols., with Portraits, 365.
bound.
'TIE BOTANISTS.—At the Police Correctionelle in
Paris, a few days ago, two young naturalists, of the tender
ages of fifty and fifty-two, named Flacon and Rozelcur, made
their appearance on a charge of garden robbery. Being
questioned as to their being found in a certain locality,
Flacon informed the President that they were returning
from botanising in the forest of Bondy. The President—
" Botanising at three o'clock in the afternoon, in the height
of the dog-days! That's not usual. You each had a large
sack." Rozeleur—" When one hasn't got a box, one must
get something to put the subjects in that one finds." The
President—But when your sacks were opened, they were
found full of beans, 'peas, and onions." Rozeleur—"All also
asparagus, new potatoes, and carrots. We have demon-
strated that the potato is free from disease this year, and the
carrots we found were in remarkably fine condition." The
President—" But all these things are useful productions of
the earth, according to the code." Flacon—" At that rate,
one must leave off botanising, for everything in nature is
useful; besides, what fault was it of ours if the subject of
the lecture chanced to be vegetables ?" Rozeleur—" In
botany, the lecture is suited to the season. You may ask at
the Jardin des Plants, cf M. Pacquet, M. Noisette, or any-
body you please; they will tell you that it is the season of
vegetables. ' In spite of this definition, the unhappy victims
of science were sent to prison, to make up a kortus siccus at
leisure.
ROYAL BOTANIC SOClETY.—Yesterday the annual
meeting of this society was held at the gardens, Regent's Park ; Sir
George Cockburn in the chair. The report was read, from which it.
appeared that the society is in a flourishing state, there hiving been
numerous additions to the list of Fellows, and also largo contribu-
tions to the fund for building the conservatory, and a great increase
in the proceeds of exhibitions. During the past year the council
have executed works of great extent, and great progress has been
made in tha building of the conservatory, an erection positively ne-
cessary for the purposes contemplated by the society, and specified
in the charter, and the early completion of which two years ago
would have been looked on as impossible ; the completed part, how-
ever, is but a fragment of what it will be when completed. The
plants already placed there consist chiefly of donations. The sum
of 3,0001. was contributed by 247 out of 1,050 Fellows, and the total
amount received by the Ourator towards the sum of G,OOO/., whic,h
ealVeted /Till D. 6445e4.114(11 is 0004 Thoyeport was roeeiveit:

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PRICE SD.

VENTILATION OF THE NEW

HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

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There has just been issued, by order of the House of
Commons, a return relative to the ventilation of the new
Houses of Parliament, and containing Dr. lleid's reply
to the report of the referees appointed to inquire into
the warming and ventilating of that buiHing. The fol-
lowing is an extract from the said reply, containing a
summing up, as it were, of the Doctor's arguments upon
the subject

Having now offered such observations as appear re-
quisite in respect to the report of the referees, Dr.
Reid considers it incumbent on him to present the fol-
lowing summary.
The Select Committee of 1835, appointed to consider
the best mode cf warming and ventilating the new
Houses of Parliament, and of rendering the same favour-
able to the transmission' of sound, recommended, in the
first place, the experiment made in the House of Com-
mons, and also specially recommended that some plan
for warming and ye:Ai:Wing should be systematically
adopted, befors the commencement of the new buildings,
stating that provision should be made for it in the first
instance by the architect, so as not only to insure its
succees, hut to prevent needless expense and incon-

venience.
Mr. Barry not only commenced the work, but built
the vaults of the river front from end to end, under
all the libraries and committee rooms, without any
plan for ventilation being either considered or
adopted ; and although he agreed at the earlier pro-
ceedings Ns ith Dr. Reid, that the necessary channels
and chambers should be provided there, successive
alterations in plans he at first agreed to were made at
his request (of which the evidence may be seen in the
works, as well as in recorded investigations), and these
contemplated everything required there. Dr. Reid's
attendance in London commenced in May, 1840. State-
ments and questions by Mr. Barry, in 1845, would lead
any one to believe that the appointment was given to
him in consequence of undue influence exerted in his
favour, and in opposition to Mr. Barry's views.
This is not the fact, as is proved by a letter from the
Hon. C. Gore, one of the Commissioners of her Majesty's
Woods,
A minute inspection of the site of the new Houses,
and of the obstacles to the introduction and supply of
fresh air, led Dr. Reid to propose a peculiar series of
arrangements, in addition to those required for the venti-
lation of all principal apartments. It was in the option
of the architect to enter into these new arrange-
ments, or to decline them, when each House would
have been treated as if no other existed in the
building. lie entered into the views proposed ;he
stated in a letter that he saw no practical nor other ob-
stacle to their application. He was then the architect,
as now, responsible for the construction of the building.
He now objects to plans he was the means of authoris-
ing, at the very time when ho still records his anxiety
that the central tower proposed by Dr. Reid should be
retained for architectural purposes.
Dr. Reid's plans were presented to the architect in
April, 1841, but were not finally adopted till August,
1842. Mr. Barry could have objected to these plans at
any time between his first application to Government
for Dr. Reid's assistance, and the final decision of
the Committee of both Houses in 1842. But though
examined repeatedly before Committees of both
houses both in 1841, 1842, 1843, and in 1644, when he
never said one word either against him personally or
against his plans, he tried to impress his witnesses and
Mr. Gwilt, the referee in 1845, with the idea that Dr.
Reid's services had been thrown upon him without his
knowledge and against his consent.
In the following year, 1842, great difficulties, which
had occurred from the commencement in procuring sa-
tisfactory information from the architect, led Dr. Reid
to address two letters to him, which have been re-
corded in evidence before a Committee of the House of
Commons.
In 1844 it was represented by Dr. Reid to the Com-
mittee of the House of Commons, of which the Earl of
Lincoln was Chairman (at that time Chief Commis-
sioner of Woods and Forests), that the architect was
proceeding in opposition to the report of the Committee
in 1835, and to his own evidence of a more recent date
before the Parliamentary Committees.
In the beginning of 1845, Dr. Reid reported to the
office of Woods the differences that had occurred with
the architect at the temporary committee-rooms ; the
progress of the session proved practically the extent to
which imperfectly closed drains below (and open gas-
pipes), and tarry roofs above, destroyed the ventilati
He appeals to Sir R. 11. Inglis, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Card-
well, and other Members of the House of Commons, who
are aware of the effect produced by some of these causes,
as to their influence on the atmosphere of the com-
mittee-rooms.
In the same year the atmosphere supplied to both
Homes was severely affected by circumstances not under
Dr. Reid's control, some of which are detailed in a
lithographic print referring to tlsis matter.
In April of the same year Mr. Barry opened a corres-
pondence on a point connected with the fire-proofing,
founding Isis observations on a reported conversation be-
tween two gentlemen in his office and 1)r. Reid. The
evidence subsequently laid before Mr. Gwilt, proved that
Mr. Barry and one of the parties in question had dis-
cussed, and were perfectly aware, two years previously,
of a difficulty of construction which they now for the
first time attempted to fix on him.
Dr. Reid then recommended that the system of com-
munication between the architect and himself should be
made the subject of inquiry.
Since that period, May, 1845, the works have ad-
vanced without any intermediate party to adjust dif-
ferences, or to arrange temporarily any plan for the
removal of immediate difficulties ; passive and active
resistance in every shape and form has interfered with
the advantageous application of the plans for warming
and ventilating. A document both unjust and most
inaccurate was transmitted by the architect to the of-
fice of Woods, of which Dr. Reid was ignorant, and
which must have seriously injured his position. And
while inquiries have been conducted in a manner which
have deprived him of the opportunity of bringing out
the essential features of the case, the course taken has
tended to injure the ventillation of both Houses, and to
multiply difficulties that ought never to have existed.
In addition to those that have arisen from the course
adopted by some of the parties, the architect has thought
proper to place between himself and Dr. Reid, fifteen
months have now elapsed since Mr. Barry and Dr. Reid
have had any meeting for any useful or practical pur-
pose, and the determination of numerous points on warm-
ing, lighting, and ventilating have been accordingly re-
tarded or suspended. Thus facilities have not been
eiven, on the faith of which, as recorded in the official
letters of 1840, Dr. Reid undertook his present engage-
ment. The works, as well as official documents, prove
the endless alterations made by the architect, with which
lie has had to contend ; and, in short, the business of
the works, for the last eighteen months more especially,
have been conducted practically, in a manner hostile to
his plans, and destructive of any fair opportunity of
satisfactorily adjusting his arrangements.
(Signed) D. B. REID.
Ventilating-office, House of Commons,
July 20, 1846.

THE LATE CASE OF MILITARY FLOGGING.—A
correspondent of the Northampton Mercury gives the follow-
ing particulars of the late unfortunate soldier, Frederick
White, of the 7th Hussars:—" I knew him when a boy; and
we grew up together, and continued friends and companions till
his father was compelled to leave his situation as postmaster at
Nottingham. After leaving the academy in Toll-street, Not-
tingham, still conducted by Mr. Roper (where he met with
some of the most respectable families of the town, and one
who is now an able barrister,) he was apprenticed to Messrs.
Barker and Adams, wholesale hosiers. I believe he con-
tinued with them about two or three years; and about
the same time that his parents had to give up all they
possessed, the above house either stopped or decreased
its hands ; poor White was then out of employ-
ment, and he tried in vain to obtain a situation in the
town. He stayed however about Nottingham some
time, and was supported by his friends who knew him
in better times. 1 recollect the night before he left the
town ; he was then going to London, where he expected
he should find friends who knew his parents, and who, he
confidently said, would get him a good berth—a situa-
tion under Government, or in the East India Company's
service. He went, and met with repeated disappoint-
ments, till he was driven to enlist in the 2d Life
Guards. He did not remain long in this regiment. He
met with an accident—put his arm or his shoulder out,
and was discharged as being unfit for service. After
this he was in the London police, and was one of that body
which was sent to Birmingham to quell the riots there in
1840. At this town, he tells me in a letter, that he enlisted
into the 7th Hussars, being in liquor at the time. I (1.
letters after this from Nottingham, Leeds, and lastly. Bir;
mingham, extracts from which I beg to give. * y letters
As an apology for not answering one of
sooner, he states, " I intended to have writbteratint- taolnoosut
as soon as I arrived at Birmingham,
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out of the question." Is not this au answer with respect to
what the adjut•int said on the inquest ? His friends
had not been written to, nor did they know where to
write ; at least so it appears to me. In another part of
the same letter, he says, Some day I may have the
pleasure of showing you that my wild oats have pro-
duced a good crop after all.' have not heard from
him since February, 1845. Ile was a tall, rather slender
• young man ; and I remember when he was about seventeen
years of age, he stood nearly six feet high. He was of
a kind, affable disposition, gentlemanly in his deport-
ment, and respected by all who knew him. In conclu-
sion, Sir, I beg to deny that he was destitute of friends;
there are gentlemen now filling high stations in so-
ciety, in Nottingham, London, and Sussex, who were his
friends and companions, and would, like myself, have served
li'an to the utmost of their ability, had they but known.
Sir, I cannot, as a friend and companion in boyhood and man-
hood of the deceased, refrain from raising my voice against
the brutal use of the lash to any of her Majesty's subjects,
more particularly to those brave men who defend our land."
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—The following extraordinary
case, as connected with HOLLOWAY'S PILLS, cannot be made too
public:—George Wright, of High-street, Vauxhall, well known at
Hill's Potteries. Vauxhall-walk, where he formerly worked during
ten years, but for the last live his health had been so bad that he
could do nothing, being greatly emaciated, suffering from a diseased
liver, and also the dropsy, besides an affection of the spine. lie was
n the hospital at Winchester for five months, and afterwards in
Westminster Hospital for three months longer. To sum up, from
almost a dying state lie has been restored to such comparative health
and vigour, in the short space of five weeks, as to astonish all who
know him, and this by Holloway's Pills, which may be had at Pro-
fes_sor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand; and a AU respect-
medicine vendoilthroughout the civilised world.