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TABLEAUX VIVANS,

HALL OF ROME, GREAT WINDMILL-
STREET, HAY MARKET._ _ _ _

This favourite place of amusement was on Wednesday evening
last honoured by a visit from his Excellency Sami Pacha, who was
pleased to express himself highly delighted with the chaste and
classical arrangements of the Poses Plastiques. Ms Excellency
particularly approved of the much admired group " Venus rising
from the Sea," and through his interpreter notified to Professor
Tumour his intention of again visiting the Hall of Rome on Satur-
day evening next, accompanied by his suite. Professor Tumour,
therefore, begs to announce to the nobility, gentry, and public that
he will on that occasion present to their notice the most approved
Tableaux, comprehending the whole of the perfect and unrivalled
models of his Estabiishment.
PROGRAMME.
1. Triumph of the Greeks—Bondsman.
2. The Feast of Bacchus—Tumour.
3. Come dwell with me in the deep deep sea—Tumour.
4. Judgment of Paris—W. Etty, RA.
5. The Shepperdess.
6. From the animated picture " Pas de Quatre."
7. Orpheus subduing the Syrens--Turnour.
S. May and the Morning Star, '• from Bielfield's celebrated picture."
9. The Willis Captive.
10. Venus rising from the Sea, Venus by the new model—Tumour.
11. I am King of the Castle.
12. The Storm.
13. The much admired new group, the Rainbow Nymphs—Tumour.
14. The Three Graces.
15. The Romans and Sabine Women—David.
16. Poses de Diverses—Turnour.
17. Les Sylphides.
IS. The Artist's Studio—Canova.
19. The Lute Player (by par.icular desire).
20. New Tableaux Finale—Composition.
Afternoon Performance, at Three o'clock; and at Eight in the
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THE LETTERS of ALFRED to the NATION
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effects of hiding, ce, &c., are folly pointed out. Illustrated by Eu-
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The Third Edition, just published, price 55.,
APRACTICAL TREATISE on STRICTURE
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26, CORNNILL LONDON.

Capital X 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-
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also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
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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, ♦arving from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid

on each Policy effected

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The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in
December of the present year.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.

VICTORIA LIFE A SSURANCE COMPANY
No. 15, KING WILLIAM-STREET, CITY.
Sir JAMES DUKE, Alderman, M.P., Chairman.
BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Benjamin Barnard, Esq. Thomas Nesbitt, Esq.
Charles Baldwin, Esq. John Nolloth, Esq.
B. Donkin, Esq., F.R.S. Charles Phi Pips, Esq.
Aaron Goldsmid, Esq. Major-General Robertson
James Law Jones, Esq. Daniel Sutton, Esq.
John Knill, Esq. O'B. B. Woolsey, Esq.
Lifo Assurances are effected by this Company on every description
of risk, on a profit or non-profit scale.
Credit of half the premiums for the first five years allowed on Poll
ties effected tor the whole term of life.
Payment of Premiums so arranged as to meet the convenience or
wishes of the Assured. A Policy may be made an absolute security.
Advances continue to be made to Assurers on real or undoubted
personal security, for terms of years, repayable by instalments.
Particular attention is requested to the detailed Prospectuses of the
Company.

WILLIAM RATRAX, Actuary and Secretary.

THE CATHOLIC, LAW, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
8, New Coventry-street, Leicester-square.
TA 1:181726.
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Cheadle, Staffordshire.
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Company, r.nd of the London Joint-Stock Bank.
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Westminster.
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Francis M'Donnell, Esq., Usk, Monmouthshire.
James Reade, Esq., la, Lower Berkeley-street, Director of tit
National Bank of Ireland.
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Ireland—Sir Colman O'Loughlen, Bart., 3terrion-square, Dublin.

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B. SAVORY and SONS, Watch and
Clechnakers, No. 9, Cornhill, London, opposite the
"Bank of England. Rich or-molu Clecks, with splendidly executed
figures of Time, History, Ceres, &c., to go for eight days, and strike
the hours and half-hours, sn stands under glass shades, at seven
guineas each. The performance is warranted.

JUVENILE PLEASURE•
A midst the bright scene we delightfully treasure,
We witness with ecstacy juvenile pleasure!
Their light-hearted revels we cherish with joy,
Whilst the face is illumin'd of each beautiful boy
Oh ! there is not a youth, we may venture to say,
But enraptured looks forth to the bright holiday ;
And amongst all the transports, and many are those,
There is nothing that pleases so much as New Clothes
Now HYAM, we freely acknowledge with truth,
The very best Clothing provides for each youth,
Transcendently high his great name now It shine.%
For Ilussar Suits and Tunics of novel designs
At incredulous prices he now will dispose
Of his splendid assortment of Juvenile Clothes !
Parents and Guardians are respectfully invited to inspect the im-
mense vsriety of Boys and Youths' Clothing always kept : n hand at
this Establishment. An immense saving in price is effected, and
every garment warranted as to durability, quality, and fashion.
LIST OF PRICES.
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Dress Coat, braided edges.... • ... • • from 1 1 0
Surtonts, do ...... • . •• • 1 5 0
Trousers, in cloth and doeskins . • .... 0 8 6
Trousers, in Tweed . • ......... .
Vests, either in cloth or fancy Materials • • 0 4 6
SUMMER GARMENTS.
Summer Coats, in endless variety 11 9 6
Cashmere Ditto .. •.••• • • . • • 0 12 6
Fishing or Shooting Ditto.. ••• • • • 0 7 6
Office Ditto •.• • . • • • . 8 9 6
Blouses, in countless profusion.. •. • ..... 0 2 6
Trousers, in all the newest washing
materials .
Vest, ditto. Designs guaranteed to retaira
their colour • •• •
MADE TO ORDER.
Dress Coats, made to measure •. • trona 1 10
Surtouts„ ditto ........ - • .......... • - 1 15 0
Trousers, ditto ...... ••• • • 0 15 0
Test, ditto .. •••.•• • • .. • • • • • 0 7 0
SUMMER GARMENTS.
The Hyamonian Paletet, a fashionable
Over-coat, made to order, extremely
light and well-adapted for the present
season... • • • ..... • • • .. • • • . • •

...... 1 1 0

Trousers, of peculiarly light fabrics .. • . 0 8 0
Vests, in rich Cashmere and printed
Quiltings, French patterns..
In immense Stock of Youths and Boy's Clothing at proportionate
.evr prices. Money will be returned to any purchaser, should he not
approve of his purcha,e after seeing the articles at his own house.
No business transacted on Saturdays until the evening.
L. HYA M. Pantechnetheca. 36 Gracechurch-street, London.

DEATH OF MR. NORRIS, GAMEKEEPER VS LORD
WARD, AND COMMITTAL FOR WILFUL MURDER OF
ZEPHANIAH Hum.—Our papers of the Bth and 15th instant
presented various particulars relative to the melancholy
affair of the shooting of Mr. John William Norris, one of the
gamekeepers to Lord Ward, at Himley, on Tuesday, the 30th
of June, by Zephaniah Hull, also a gamekeeper to his Lord-
ship. Mr. Norris, we regret to state, notwithstanding skil-
ful and diligent medical attendance from Messrs. Thomas
and Samuel Fereday, surgeons, of Dudley, died from lock
jaw on Monday last, at half-past twelve o'clock at noon.
The prisoner Hull, who had been remanded from the 30th of
June to the 13th of July, and subsequently to the 27th inst.,
was, in consequence, taken by Colonel Hogg, by directions
from Mr. Briscoe, from the station-house in this town to the
Cross Inn, Kingswinford, yesterday (Tuesday) morning, for
re-examination. The magistrates present were Samuel
Stone Briscoe, Esq., W. H. Cope, Esq., and Charles
Henry Molineux, Esq., and an extended and minute inves-
tigation into the circumstances of the affair took place. Mr.
Cope proved the dying declaration of the deceased, which
had been taken by him, and which was to the effect that the
shooting was purposely and deliberately done; and also the
voluntary statement of the prisoner that the shooting took
place in a struggle, and was accidental. Portions of the
evi hence bore a favourable aspect for the prisoner, who how-
ever, on the termination of the examination, was committed
to the assizes, to take his trial for the wilful murder of the
deceased. A coroner's inquest had been appointed to be held
at Ilimley on the same day, at three o'clock, but as the pri-
soner was under examination at Kingswinford at the time
appointed, the inquest was adjourned until to-day (Wednes-
day). In the meantime a post nortem examination will
tak- place.— IVolcerhamptnn Chronicle.
DEATH BY DaowNlNG.—On Saturday last, the 18th
ii,snisilt,a3Gre.ntleman Cadet Charles C. Hulbert, of the Royal
it
College, was drowned while bathing, being, with
one exception (namely, death by a chance blow), the only
case of fatal accident which has occurred since the first
eqablishment of the College, in 1802—a period of 44 years.
The coroner's inquest returned a verdict of " Accidentally
drowned," founded on the facts brought forward in evidence,
namely, that the bathing-pond is very shallow; that it was
frequently visited during the bathing hours by the orderly
officer and sergeant ; and that the utmost and most perse-
vering exertions were employed by the surgeon of the insti-
tution for a period of nearly three hours to restore animation.

TIIE ROYAL CHRISTENING.
The Lord Chamberlain, by her Majesty's command, has
issued invitations for a grand banquet at I3uckingham
palace, on Saturday next, iraionour of the baptism of the
infant Princess.

The royal invitations to the banquet are confined to the
principal members of the Government, and the Duke of Nor-
folk, and the chief officers of State.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester, the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, the
Duchess of Kent, and Prince George of Cambridge, and his
Serene Highness the Prince of...Leiningen, are to dine with
her Majesty and the they
Consort on the auspicious oc-
casion.
It is probable that the King and Queen of the Belgians
may arrive in this country in the course of the week, ex-
pressly to be witnesses at the solemnity. -
The baptismal ceremony will be performed in the royal
chapel at Buckingham Palace, when his Grace the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury will officiate.
We hear that the distinguished personages honoured with
invitations are to assemble at the Palace at half-past six
o'clock, and the christening is to take place previous to the
banquet.
Tier Majesty will have an evening party after the banquet,
the Lord Chamberlain having caused cards of invitation to
be issued to above three hundred personages of distinction.
The hour appointed for the company to assemble is men-
tioned on the cards to be half-past nine, and that the com-
pany be in full dress.

TO THE LORD JOHN RUSSELL, &c.
My Lord,—ln this crisis of colonial 'affairs, the conduct of
the Government being again vested in. the leader under
whom we achieved that which shoOleid have been a wide
and general blessing—the abolition of'slavery—l address
you in the hope that it is not too late to amend your colonial
policy.
I object to the measures you have proposed, as unjust to
the colonists, and not in accordance with those liberal prin-
ciples in the maintenance of which it has so frequently been
my pride to rank myself as Tour humble kupporter.
You tell us that the proansed and present supply of sugar
from the British colonies is inadequate to meet the home con-
sumption ; that as we, the colonists, cannot produce enough
sugar to answer the demand, the difficulty is to be grappled
with; and ask whence is the deficiency to be supplied but
by the admission of foreign and slave-grown sugar? You
hope that when the trade is open to the competition of the
world it will raise such a spirit of emulation in our breasts,
that we shall proportionably increase our production, and
benefit the public and ourselves by industrial exertion.
Your hope, my Lord, so far as regards the continental colo-
nies under the present inadequacy of labour, is utterly vain
and impossible.
I deal in no theory, but with the hard and cruel fact.
When the abolition of slavery was proposed I held six estates
in the continental colony of Berbice. There were about 360
slaves upon them, and those estates had produced a net in-
coins of from three to seven thousand a year. I hold those
properties now.
Under your guidance I assisted to fight the great battle of
emancipation ; for though well aware that I must lose by
the ab-lition of slavery, still its existence could not be con-
scieniiously defended by reasoning, human or divine.
At the time of its abolition, and subsequently, your Lord-
ship may perhaps recollect that I urged upon you a system of
wide and general free labour, and prayed that its first intro-
duction might not be confined to the Mauritius, but that, ac-
cording to the general and generous principle of affording to
the labourer the best market for his hire, the whole of the
West India colonies might be thrown open to those who,
guarded by the Government as strictly as necessary, might be
inclined to better their condition. All classes might then
have shared in the blessings contingent on, and not impos-
sible to, the liberal and comprehensive scheme embraced by
emanicpation.
The admission of free labour, which ought to have gone
hand in hand with emancipation (a more beautiful conjunc-
tion can scarcely he imagined), was, however, neglected. It
was refused, or ultimately saddled with such injurious re-
strictions that, so far as the colony of Berbice is concerned,
up to the present time the shadowy boon has been completely
valueless.

I particularly call your Lordship's attention to the locality
of my estates (better known as Benfield's estates), simply
that by the true picture of my distress I may leave you to
judge of the tenfold misery of others who have nothing to
support their state and station in society, or to find them in
daily bread, but their colonial possessions.
Since the abolition of slavery my estates have returned no
income. They have been a heavy debt, and an annual loss
of more than from 1,0001. to 1,200/. a year. The original
prime cost of the property, before a clearance in the bush
was made, amounted to 100,0001. Ido not, under present
circumstances, return one hogshead of sugar to this country;
afford me but the free labour I am honestly willing to pay
for, and I can return 1,000 hogsheads. Judge, then, the ge-
neral fact of the cause of the "deficiency of supply " by the
instance I set before you.

The compensation I received on the abolition of slavery
was about 14,000/. Is that a " liberal compensation" for the
loss of all income and superadded debt?
Another fatal mistake has been made in bygone legislation
—let it be avoided for the future. It is, that no distinction
has been drawn between the necessities of the island and
those of the continental colony. The same rules cannot be
applied to both.
In the island the labourer, or the man that should be the
labourer, is circumscribed—his means of living without in-
dustry are more compressed—he is shut up and within the
influence of civilisation, and ho is, to an extent, constrained
to do as others do.

Not so on the continent, not 60 in Berbice. In Berbice
civilisation is surrounded by a vast wilderness, the soil un-
occupied, and vegetation so luxuriant, that a month's labour
in the bush will afford vegetable subsistence enough to the
squatter or negro for the year's consumption. The rivers
and the woods supply him with deer, with fish, flesh, and
fowl, and free of society, he needs no clothes; be is above
the necessity of labour. The proprietor and planter has
become the real slave to neglect and oppression.
You have, my Lord, in the continental colony, given the
negro an unlimited, and therefore a dangerous, freedom,
without surrounding him early enough by circumstances
him temporally and religiously useful to
pile mother country. In Berbice you have
taken
loprietor the sole value of his luxurious soil,thetsresehlaffrol aounin ldd
worthtkthe eoe to Pf
that possession, to obtain which he once
had British encouragement and support. The British planter
.
in Berbice left to perish, and succeeding Governments of
this country, in establishing and recogni-ing the glorious
achievement of emancipation, have sullied its purity by per-
mitting the existence of a monstrous and unjust evil, alike
foreign to the interests of liberality and compassion.
The slave being freed from his shackles, and the proprietor
now being a greater slave to injurious oppression than ever
the forced labourer was, inasmuch as the one starves, while
the other, even in his slavery, has been proved in many in-
stances to have saved money, the proprietor's cries upon this
country for redress shi uld find as willing an ear in the one in-
stance as was afforded to the negro in the other.
As your Lordship's follower in your general line of policy,
I protest against your present colonial proposition—not to
the ultimate design, but to your immediate method. Give
to the ruined colonist the means of cultivation open to us
here in England ; enable him to compete with the rest of
the world, and to be aroused into that state of industrial
emulation you say you hope to see supervene upon his pre-
sent helpless and forced inactivity. Give us, give me, the
simple labour I require, the power of paying for the fair and
remunerative day's work, and carry out your system of free
trade all over the world. Put us first into a position to ac-
cept your free-trade principles—and you can only do so by
the importation of labour, ample, speedy, and decisive—and
on these just grounds I will still be, as I have been, your
humble but faithful fellow- labourer and follower,

GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY.
Berkeley-house, July 21.

GRAND FLORAL FETE OF THE ROYAL SOUTH LON-
DON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY.—This society held their third
grand flower show on Wednesday, at the Royal Surrey
Zoological Gardens, and often as we have had occasion to
speak in terms of praise of the different shows of this so-
ciety, we have never yet seen one so justly entitled to un-
qualified encomium as the present. The improvement in
the shows is molt marked since the gardens came into the
present proprietor's hands ; all the arrangements are liberal
and excellent, and certainly the indefatigable exertions of
the present secretary, Mr. Neville, have been crowned with
the most complete success. Amongst the earliest of the
great concourse of the nobility and gentry who thronged
the gardens during the day, was his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge and the Prince of Mecklenburg Strelitz,
who expressed in very warm terms to Mr. Tyler their en-
tire satisfaction with all th• arrangements. A great number
of medals were distributed among the most successful com-
petitors for the honours of the day. For the best collection
of miscellaneous plants the gold Victoria medal was awarded
to Mr. Ayres ; and for the second best collection, the gold
Adelaide medal to Mr. Bruce. For 12 white ground picco-
teas, the Rev. A. Matthews became the winner of the gold
Adelaide medal ; and for carnations Mr. Holloway obtained
a similar prize. For the best collection of plants in the
nurserymen's class, the gold Adelaide medal was won by
Mr. Fairbairn ; and for the best single plant (any genus)
at dusk a dis-
the silver Victoria medal was awarded to Mr. Dawson. The
assemblage of company was very numerous ; in the course of
pa
lt
et rya c
et
the day many thousands of persons must have entered the
gates. Tis addition to the show of flowers there was the usual
The late showers have considerably
benefited the turf and flower beds, and the gardens now
and refreshing coup d'ail.
present a ver v pleasing
A ROMANTIC
DWELLING.--In the cli& on the other
fionfigneo-fsvot
a couple of minutes'
side of Hastings (about walk from the
himself
rhkes.b.and of Mr. Godfrey, and
Irishman has madeabout as romantic a
town) an s
possible to conceive
dwelling-place s..s it is . . The cliffs here
e the
are more than WO feet above the sea. Rather more than
e _s a
small ledge, below which it is perpen-
dicular; but it ii accessiblelt is path. Above, the
cliffs again rise perpendicularly.. this ledge that the
fox' his habitation. Scooping
Irishman chose out the sand in
an arched
the face of the cliff, he made_
.. , cell, where he lives
with his wife and seri adoPten c hld—a
cripple, but a very intel-
ligent boy. The naan gains alivelihood by breeding rabbits,
squirrels, &c., and by the contribution of visitors to this
strange abode. Among the latter are a good many artists,
and Landseer spell!: three days on the spot, in sketching it
and the surrounding' sceuerY.—Brighton Herald.
EXTRAORDINAR' RECOVERY AFTER T 2 A
--• BROKEN BACK.
—During the month last past a fine athletic young roan, re-
siding at Hartshay, near Heage, met with a severe injury
of the back from a heavy mass of coals falling upon him
whilst at work in a pit belonging to C. V. Hunter, Esq., of
Kilburne Hall. He was visited very soon after the accident
by David Evans, Esq., surgeon, Belper, who pronounced it
to be a fracture of the spine. A fracture bed on the double
inclined plane was forwarded as speedily as possible; and
an ingenious kind of strait
waistcoat, with pulleys, &c.,
was prepared by a saddler under the immediate direction
of Mr. Evans. Powerful extension was made,
which gave
immediate relief to the part affected. No untoward symptom
occurred, and we are credibly informed that the man has
already returned to his duties in. She pit....._
This caw is pro-
bably unprecedented in the annals of surgery,—Derby iVercury.
CLERKENWELL IMPROVEMENTB.—The whole, c of those
miserable dwellings on Saffron-hill and the vicinity I' will be
demolished in a few days, preparatory to the formatic ei of the
continuous line of street from the end of Farringdon-s treet to
Islington. This long-projected metropolitan impresvement
has been hitherto delayed until the result of the Pat iiamen•
tary report on the Metropolitan Railway Termini !sb. ould be
known, as, in the event of its being favourable to : i central
terminus in the City, this line of road would haste° been
adopted by one of the companies.