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THE ATLAS TO ALISON'S HISTORY OF
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PARIS at the OUTBREAK of Ti OUNT TIIABOR, 1799.
the RI.. VOLUTION. STOCKACII, 1799.
The NETHERLANDS, &c., 11- ZURICH, 1799.
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1792 to 1793 11011 EN LINDEN, 1800.
FRANCE, for the Campaigns of COPENHAGEN, 1801.
1793, LA VENDEE, &c. AUSTERLITZ, 1805.
NORTHERN ITALY, SOUTH JENA, 1806.
GERMANY, &c., to illustrate PULTUSK, 1806.
the Campaigns of 1796. PRF.USSISCH-EYLAU, 1807.
LOWER EGYPT, and Part of HEILSBERG, 1807.
SYRIA. FRIEDLAND, 1807.
SOUTH ITALY. CAPE ST. VINCENT, 1797.
OPERATIONS AROUND ALEXANDRIA, 1801.
ULM, 180.5. AUERSTADT, 1806.
SPAIN and PORTUGAL. CAMPERDOWN, 1797.
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the Campaign of 1812. MEDINA DE RIO SECO, 1808.
JEMA PPES, 1792. TALA VERA, 1809.
NEERWINDEN, 1793. EC lIM UHL, 1809.
TOULON, 1793. CIUDAD RODRIGO, 1810-1812.
TURCOING, 1794. BORODINO, 1812.
FLEURUS, 1794. HANAU, 1813.
LONATO and CASTIGLIONE, TRAFALGAR, 180 i.
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MANTUA, 1796. CRAONE, 1811.
ARCOLE, 1796. No. 1. TOULOUSE, 1814.
RIVOLI, 1797. ABE NSBERG, 1809.
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The TREBBIA, 1799. TARRAGONA, 1811.
MARENGO, 1800. KRASNOI, 1812.
ARCOLE, 1796. No. 2.

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ObiD ON and SOUTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.

TO THE SHAREHOLDERS.

Two years ago I attended a General Meeting at Nine Elms, and
then told my brother Shareholders and our Directors that all our ef-
forts to obtain the Act for the Cornwall and Devon Central Railway
would prove unavailin. I was sure of it from a knowledge of facts,
which I then tried to bring before you, but I was not believed. I
need scarcely remind you that the errors in your deposit plans, with
some of which I was acquainted, caused the r-jection of our Bill on
the first day that it was brought before the Standing Order Com-
mittee.
Yesterday I attended a meeting at Nine Elms, but it was not easy
to give expression there to facts which It is important for you to
know. 1 therefore take this means of informing you, that the mile-
age receipts of the Railway, as well as our dividends, are diminished
by the extension of our line. lam in possession of an official docu-
ment, by which I find that in 1845 we had 921:i miles of Railway in
operation, bringing in a gross weekly return of about 631. per mile.
In 1846 the Line was extended to 105 miles, and returned about
531. per mile per week. This reduction of 101. per mile per week
may be ace iunted for by the circumstance of the fares being reduced;
but in 1847 we have 188 miles open with a return of only 381. per
mile per week, being 151. per mile less than the former year.
With these figures before us, we need not be at a loss to account
for a diminution in the Dividend. If such be the result of our exten-
sions, the less we have of them the better, except for accommodating
the public.
It is probable that sine who voted yesterday for extensions west-
ward arc hardly aware that we have already spent more than a quar-
ter of a million sterling in this fruitless game ; and not only so, but
that the ground which it is proposed to occupy was pronounced by
the late Thomas Telford to be the most difficult district for road con
structiou of any he had examined in the whole course of his life.
I remain, y, urs respectfully,
E. 0. TREGELLES.
75, Isfornington-road, Regent's-park. Feb. 18, 1848.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
At the Court the Earl of Aberdeen had au audience
of the Queen, and delivered to her Majesty the riband
arid badge of the Order of the Bath, worn by his
brother, the late Sir Robert Gordon.
The Privy Council was attended by his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the
Lord Chancellor, the First Lord of the Treasury, the
Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Co-
lonial Departments ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster, the President of the Board
of Control for the Affairs of India, the President of
the Board of Trade, the Lord Steward, the Lord
Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the Groom
of the Stole to Prince Albert.

The Queen in Council made an alteration in the
Sheriffs for Radnorshire and Nottinghamshire.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
Her Majesty gave audience to the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, and Viscount
Palmerston.

The Court was attended by the Marquis of An-
glesey, Gold Stick in Waiting ; Lord Elphinstone,
Lord in Waiting; the Treasurer of the Household,
the Vice-Chamberlain, the Comptroller of the House-
hold, and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Robert Boyle,
Groom in Waiting.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Saxe-Coburg visited her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's,
yesterday, and also visited their Royal Highnesses
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge
House.

Their Royal Highnesses tho Prink,. of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, took walking and riding exercise yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was taken
an airing yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent dined
with her Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday
evening.
Colonel Bouverie has relieved Colonel Seymour in
the duties of Equerry in Waiting to his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and
the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duke and
Duches of Cambridge yesterday.
Sir William C. Ross, R.A., took the last sitting for
the miniature of her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Saxe-Coburg, painted by command of the Queen.

ANATOMICAL LECTURES.
Br JOHN STRICKLAND, ESQ.
On Saturday evening last, the 25th ultimo, the lec-
tures on artistic anatomy recently delivered by Mr.
Strickland, in the Gallery of the Society of British
Artists, Suitslk-street, Pall Mall, were brought to a
conclusion. The subject of the final lecture was the
" Foot," one of the most exquisite portions of the
human frame, whether considered in regard to its adap-
tation for the support of the entire body, to the infinite
ingenuity of its construction, or to the incomparable
beauty of its form. Throughout the whole course of
these interesting and renuo kable lectures Mr. Strickland
displayed a perfect familial ity with his profession, and
an originality of thought worthy of the nephew of a
man whose name is for ever illustrious in science—we
mean the celebrated Major Cartwright. With the ex-
ception perhaps of the description of the structure
of the brain, the discourse upon the " foot"
was among the most able of the series—it conveyed
an abundance of information very happily
grouped together and illustrated by appropriate
diagrams. It was clearly demonstrated by the
lecturer that of all parts of our anatomy, the foot was
not only one of the most admirable, but the most cruelly
treated by the preposterous fashions engendered by
civilisation. Deformities had become so universal in
consequence in this member that they were unconsciously
copied by sculptors and painters ; but what was visible
in the limnings of Murillo er Rubens, were not so in the
antique statues discovered among the ruins of Babylon,
where the models of the ancient workers in marble
were isot distorted by boot-leather—where, in short,
those models were not the flaneurs of Bond-street, but
the huntsmen of Nimrod. Speaking of the shoe, the
lecturer very happily observed—" Finally," said he, " the
shoe is a symmetrical coffin in which the grace, variety,
and beauty of nature, being first assassinated, is then
buried." These absurd consequences of the formalities
introduced by artificial life suggested a panegyric upon
the pristine, vigour tad nubility of the Redmen. In his
enthusiasm upon this topic Mr. Strickland appears to
coincide with the intelligent and adventurous Mr. Catlin,
and in the admiration of both for the aborigines of
North America we sympathise to the very uttermost.
We have listened ourselt to Catlin when he has been de-
picting the glorious race of the Redmen among whom he
has wandered so long—we have heard him tell of their
grace, of their agility, of their strength, of their elo-
quence, of their probity, of their virtues, and of their
heroism, and, warming with his subject, we have heard
him lament over the havoc made among that splendid
family by the insidious advances of the white man. We
were therefore able to appreciate the more truly the
feelings of Mr. Strickland, when lie broke out into the
following beautiful and impassioned exclamations
:
What was it," said he, "that inspired Catlin with a
zeal and enthusiasm to undergo unknown privations
and hardships ? It was the beholding the stately
march, the noble step of =lure's untutored
gentleman. Whose mind dared to contemplate some
other scene of existence where no fiends torment, nor
Christian thirsts for gold. Upon whom the European
has stolen a march, as in the dead of the night of his
simple and honest mind; and, having concealed his tiger-
features under the lamb-like mask of religion and pro-
pri,ty, has arisen us a highway robber an a murderer,
and swept his race and people into one common grave.
Lo! the consuming fire of the wilderness having arisen
at the Atlantic has reached the Pacific shores, scarcely
able to scorch up the tears that have watered that land,
or the innocent blood that has been shed in it. The sins
of a people possessing no written language, have
been eagerly seized on to palliate the refined ini-
quity of civilisation which has made use alter•
nately of poison, the bayonet, and the bullet.
While, to save the trouble of slaughter, the little
children of the Redman—the joy and hope of his man-
hood—have been thrown to be torn in pieces by the
bloodhound as a reward for his sagacity in tracing them
to their hiding place in the desert swamps of Florida.
Our watch tires are gone out, say they ; our bows
are unstrung; our arrows are brokers; and we travel to
the land of our forefathers at the setting sun!"
As a fragment of these very elegant and striking lec-
tures—lectures which have proved profound in ana-
tomical research—the foregoing is not unworthy of
remembrance; it is a passage selected almost at random,
and one of peculiar fervour, passion, and humanity. We
may add that the lecturer was listened to throughout
ith marked attention by a numerous and cultivated
audience.