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ROYAL HOTEL, GRAINGER-STREET,
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.
CHARLES STATES solicits the patronage of his
BROTHER TRAVELLEI?S to the above Establishment, which
Las recently been newly furnished and laid out expressly for a Com-
mercial Hotel.
The COMMERCIAL ROOM, one of the largest and most elegantly
fitted in the-NOILTH, It is hoped will be found complete In every
respect.
The BED-ROOMS (Sixty in number) have been furnished is a
style which must ensure the approbation of all visitors.
Gentlemen travelling with STOCK can at all times have SnOW
ROOMS without any extra charge.
The Music Hall, Lecture Room, and Royal Hotel Assembly Room
are all attached, and under the same management.
The Royal Hotel is in the most central situation in Newcastle.

VREE EMIGRATION to the CAPE of GOOD
JU HOPE, under the authority other Majesty's Colonial Land aid
Emigration Commissioners.

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The splendid lb st-class ship COIIO3fANDEL, of 165 tons register,
JOHN GRAY, Commander, with a Poop, and most superior Cabin
and Steerage accommodations, will embark Passengers on TUESDAY,
Feb. 1, and at Plymouth on the 11th Feb., direct for CAPE TOWN
and ALCOA BAY. Poop Cabin Passengers will be taken at 251.
each to Table Bay. Steerage Passengers who may not be eligible for
a free passage will he charged 141. to Table Bay, and 161. to Algoa
Say, which will include new bedding and mess utensils. An expe-
rienced Surgeon, appointed by Government, will be on board. La-
bour is urgently required in the above healthy colony, and every in-
dustrious and well-conducted person is sure to better his condition
by emigrating thither.
All part'culars as to the classes eligible for free passage, dietary on
the voyage., &c., will be furnished on application to John Marshall
and Co., 26, Birchin-lane ; at Southampton ; or at Baltic-wharf,
Plymouths.

LOANS ON MORTGAGE.
THE LONDON, BRIGHTON, and SOUTH
COAST RAILWAY COMPANY will receive TENDERS
for LOANS on Mort;age Bonds, ix sums of 5001. and upwards, and for
terms not exceeding seven years. Interest at 5 per cent. per annum,
payable half yestly.
By order,
London Terminus; Dec. 27, 1847.

T. J. BUCKTON, Secretary.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
YORK EXTENSION SHARES.
The Hollers of these Shares upon which 41., 51. is.. 61. es., or
103. per slier have been paid, are required to pay to the Company's
Bankers, on or before the 22d of January next, all arrears upon the
said Share., and also to deliver their Scrip Shares when so paid up,
at this Mike, in order that they may be exchanged for Consolidated
Stock Certificates, otherwise they will not be entitled to reeeive the
Dividends en the A Quarters, or the Interest on Use B Quarters,
which will be payable ander the Resolutions of the next Half-yearly
Meeting of the Company, to bo held in February next.
By order of the Board,
C. P. HONEY, Secretary.
Bishopsgato Station, December 30, 1i147.

LONDON AND BLACKWALL
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Final Instalment and Registration of the New Scrip Shares, No. 1.
Notice is hereby given, that the FINAL INSTALMENT of
13s. 4d. per Share upon the New Scrip Shares, No. 1, issued for
paying off Drbentures, became DUE on the Ist January instant,
and is PAYABLE at the London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury,
Londoa.

N B. Interest at the rate of 5 per Cent. will be charged upon all
Instahnents not duly paid, and the non-payment of any Instalment
within Fourteen Days from the time appointed will subject the
Shares, with all previous payments thereon, to be alosolutely for-
teit,:d for the benefit of the Company.

Notice is also hereby given, that the Fifth Half-yearly Interest en
the above :,hares is now payable, and can be obtained by forwarding
the Scrip Certificates (the full amount of 61. 13s. 4d. per Share being
July paid thereon), to the Offices of the Company, for the purpose
Registration, with the Name and Address of the Owner in full,
and the Number of Shares.

N.B. Pi pursuance of a resolution of the Board of Directors, all
Scrip Shares not sent in for Registration before the 31st of January
instaat, will be Registered in the names of the orig,nal Allottees.
By order of the Board,
J. F. KEN-NELL, Secretary.
Offices, London Terminus, Fenckurek-street,
January 4, 1848

NORTHAMPTON AND BANBURY
RAILWAY.

Notice is hereby given, that an extraordinary GENERAL MEET-
ING of the SHAREiIOLDERS of the Northampton aad. Banbury
Railway Company will be held at the Offices of tke Company, No. 3,
Princes-street, Westminster, on MONDAY, the 31st day of January
instant, at Tno o'clock la the Afternoon, for the purpose of consider-
ing whether the consent of such Shareholders shall be given for en-
abling the Directors of the said Company to enter into Contracts and
Agreements for the construction of the Works of the said Railway,
Or any part or parts thereof, and if thought expedient, of giving and
signifying suck consents, under the provisions of an Act, passed in
the present Session of Parliament, entitled " An Act to give further
time for making certain Railways."
Dated this 14th day of January, 1848.
EDMUND PEEL, Chairman.

SWANSEA DOCK COMPANY.
SECOND ORDINARY MEETING.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the SECOND ORDINARY
MEETING of the Shareholders of this COMPANY will be held on
MONDAY, the 31st day of January instant, at the hour of twelve
o'clock at noon, at the Company's office, in Quay-parade, Swansea,
for the purpose of transacting the general business of this Company,
and particularly for continuing in office the present Directors, or
any of them, or for electing a new body of Directors, or Directors
to supply the places el those not continued in office, and for
increasing or reducing the number of Directors, and determining
the order of rotation in which the Directors, so continued or
elected, or increased or reduced, shall go out of office, and what
number shall be a quorum. And also for determining as to the
course to be pursued for enforcing payment of the sum of
2,8661. deposited in the Commercial Bank of London, and for
raising a sufficient sum, either by one or more calls on the
Shareholders, or otherwise, to enable the Directors to discharge
the liabiliti .s of this Company. And also to consider the position
and affair. of this Company, and the several proceedings of the
Directors, and to adopt such resolutions, and do suck acts relating to
all such matters respectively as shall be decided on.

And notice is hereby further given, that the Register of Transfers
of this Company will be closed on the 22d day of January instant.
By order of the Board of Directors,
GEO. GRANT FRANCIS, Secretary.
Dock-office, Swansea, Jan. 13, 1848.

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Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAI A-
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QELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise
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BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.,
9, BEDFORD-STREET. BEDFORD•SQUARE,

LONDON.
octorof Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edict-
burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Monsber
of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c.
Marriage requires the Nifilment of several conditions. in order
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veil, which covers the origin of domestic. wretchedness, be raised,
and its true source in every instance disclosed, in how many could
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unfortunately
and
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from their invariable consequences. unwisely entertains a tear of ap-
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qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so
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"
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A It It I A G E.
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aN THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT PREYS ON THE
HEALTH AND SHORTENS THE DURATION OF HUMAN
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ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOURED ENGRAVINGS,

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CONTROUL OF-THE PASSIONS : a Popular
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with Instructions for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to those
suffering from the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence,
terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional
Weakness, Indigestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehen-
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Illustrated with Coloured Engravings, explanatory of the varions
Cases, &c.
By C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Newman-
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Member of the London College of Medicine, &a. Sr.z,
CONTENTS OP THE WOES,

Chap. le—Bodily a;11;lenta1-EZ17austion induced by inordinate
indulgence of the Passions, illustrated with Coloured Engravings.
Chap. 2.—Baneful Results of a Secret Tice on the Mind and Body,
evidenced in the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, and other
convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping Melancholy, Indiges-
tion, Stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations on the
Duties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitftd
Unions. Chap. 3.—Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Vital
Functions, the nature and treatment of Impotence and Sterility, and
the imperfect performance of the Marital act, ceased byt he practice
self-indulgence. Chap. 4.—Gonorrhoea, its symptoms, complica-
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Chap. s.—Syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. CAsas,
and concluding observations, Plates, &c.
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THE LOSS OF THE AVENGER
The following dispatches were received yesterday
at the Admiralty, from Malta :
Her Majesty's ship Ceylon, Malta, Jan. 4, 1848.
Sir,—With reference to my letter (No. 532) of the
30th of December last, forwarding, for the informa-
tion of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, a
copy of one addressed to Vice-Admiral Sir William
Parker, with enclosures relating to the loss of her
Majesty's steam-frigate Avenger, Captain C. E.
Napier, on the 20th of that month, on a reef near the
island of Galita, and acquainting their Lordships of
my having sent the Hecate, Commander Moorman,
to render every assistance, I have now the honour to
enclose a copy of a subsequent letter to the Vice-
Admiral of this day's date, acquainting him ,of the
return of that vessel to this port on the 2d instant,
and forwarding copies of the reports, as per margin,*
relative to the total loss of the Avenger aad her crew,
with the exception of those mentioned in thefirstletter
of Lieutenant Rooke, as under-named :—Lieutenant
Francis Rooke, Mr. Larkham (gunner), William
Hill (steward), James Morley (boy).
It is with great regret that I forward these reports
of the unsuccessful exertions and endeavours of those
who were sent to rescue any survivors of the ill-fated
Avenger ; and their Lordships will perceive by these
reports, as well as by my leter to the Vice-Admiral,
that not a vestige of this vessel was to be found near
the place of wreck, except those therein mentioned,
but that several parts were met with by vessels in the
neighbourhood of the islands of Galita, Zembra, and
Maritemo.

LUCIUS CURTIS, Rear-Admiral.
H. G. Ward, Esq.
* Commissioner Moorman, dated 2d January, 1848 ;
Sir Thomas Reade, dated 28th and 29th December,
1847; Lieutenant Rooke, dated 28th December.

[Number 381.]
Her Majesty's ship Ceylon, Malta, Jan. 4, 1848.
Sir,—With reference to my letters; No. 827, of
Dec. 30, 1847, and its enclosure, informing you of
the wreck of her Majesty's ship Avenger, on the
night of the 20th of that month, on a reef near the
island of Galita, and of my having sent her Majesty's
steamer Hecate to render assistance and rescue any
of the survivors of the crew, as well as to save any of
the stores of the former vessel, it is with great regret
I have to inform you that the fears I then
entertained as to the safety of any portion
of the crew of the Avenger are too true; the
Hecate having returned to this port on the 2d
instant, after an unsuccessful search ; and by the re-
ports of Commander Moorman, Lieutenant Rooke,
and Captain Du Penhoat, commanding the French
Government steamer Lavoisier, copies of which are
enclosed, they could not discover a vestige remaining
of the wreck of the Avenger, except the few articles
mentioned in the report of Commander Moorman and
that of the captain of the Lavoisier; therefore I fear
there cannot be a doubt that the•whole of the crew
of the Avenger have perished, with the exception of
those mentioned in. the first letters of Lieutenant
Rooke, as named in the margin ;* neither do I think
that there can be any doubt but that the rocks on
which the Avenger struck were the Sorelli.
The Ariel yacht, which arrived here on the 28th
of December, passed off the Cane Rocks, on the 26th
of December, a very considerable quantity of wreck,
consisting of bulwark planks about ten feet long,
casks, tubs, &c.
. .

• .
The Indus contract steam-packet passed, on the
30th of December, off the island off Zembra, several
pieces of wreck, a circular or companion ladder,
and a spar or balk of timber ; and her MajeFty's
steam-vessel Ardent, on the Ist of this month, passed
off the island of Marithno a binnacle and part of a
bulwark.
I do not consider but that these pieces of wreck and
other articles must have belonged to the fated
Avenger. Lieutenant Rooke and the persons before
alluded to arrived in the Hecate, and I have ordered
that officer to prepare and forward to me, for your
information, a detailed account of all the circum-.
stances attending the loss of the Avenger, from the
time of her leaving Gibraltar to that of her running
on the before-mentioned rocks, as far as have come
within his knowledge, and that he may be able to
recollect. I beg to acquaint you that I have for-
warded copies of this letter and its enclosure, together
with a copy of my former letter on this subject, to
the Secretary of the Admiralty.
I have, &c.,
LUCIUS CURTIS, Rear-Admiral,
Senior officer at Malta.
Admiral Sir W." Parker, G.C.E.,
Commander-in-Chief.
• Lieutenant Francis Rooke, Mr. Larkham, gunner;
W. Hill, steward; J. Morley, boy.

Her Majesty's steam-vessel Hecate, Malta, Jan. 2.
Sir,—ln compliance with your orders of the 28th
ult., that I proceed with her Majesty's steamer under
my command to the island of Galita, for the purpose
of obtaining any information relative to the wreck or
crew of the Avenger, I have the honour to report for
the information of the Commander-in-Chief my pro-
ceedings in accordance thereto.
On Thursday, the 30th, at daylight, Galita bore
W. by N. twelve miles, stood in for the island, and
descried three boats under the east end of it. Oa
communicating with them I found that two of them
had that morning reached the island from Bizerta,
sent thither by the Consul of that place, in charge of
his son, to glean intelligence of the wreck, and, fur-
ther, to save such portions of her as they could.
I ascertained from these boats, as also from the
other one, which was a Neapolitan fisherman, that a
French steamer, together with an English one, had
been at the island four days previously, and had
cruised about it for four hours; they also informed
me that I should in all probability find the wreck on
the west, and between the small islands of Aguglia
and Galitona.

I accordingly steamed round to the spot indicated,
and perceiving no trace of the vessel, sent a boat,
with a lieutenant in her, to pass between the islands,
whilst I proceeded with the ship round them, picking
up the boat to the eastward of them No trace of
the wreck could be discovered on these islands,
either by the officer in the boat or from the ship.
I then stood in for another part of Galita, and per.
ceiving some fragments of wreck on the beach, where
the boats from Bizerta had in the meantime landed, I
sent a boat on shore to bring some portions off, and
to ascertain the description of the wreck. It consisted
of small pieces of bulk-heading and other like fittings,
of which I brought off two pieces of musket-stands,
a limber box belonging to a field piece, the bed of a
twelve-pounder carronade, and part of a hatchway
grating.
I now, at 1 P.M., proceeded from the south end of
Aguglia, steering vy. S. course by compass 101
miles, the course and distance of the Sorelli rocks
from the island as laid down in the Admiralty chart
by Captain Smith. I could not perceive the least
vestige of the wreck, nor of broken water; but as
there is very deep water all about these rocks, which
are, I believe, of a conical form, I am inclined to
think that their position will be seldom discovered by
any ripple or break of the sea.
I obtained soundings in 50 fathoms—coarse sand
and shells.

I then bore up again for Galita, for the purpose of
communicating with the boats sent from Bizera, they
having undertaken, during my absence, to search on
the north side of the island ; but they stated, from
the heavy surf, they were unable to effect a landing.
Under the conviction, as well from the pieces of
wreck
on the south side of Galita as from the state-
ment of Lieutenant Rooke, that the ship struck on
the Sorelli rocks, I lost no more time in proceeding
to Tunis in order to ascertain if the French steamer
Lavoisier had gleaned any or more tidings of the
wreck than I had, and arrived there at 4 rad. on the
31st.
It appears that the Lavoisier left Tunis at noon
and was at Galita in company with
on the 25th,
the Oriental Company's steam-ship Pacha, on the fol-
lowing day. Both vessels steamed round the island
and towards the Sorelli rocks, where they obtained
soundings in 26 and 28 fathoms. All they could
discover relative to the wreck were broken pieces of
planking and beams, some casks, a cabin door, and
furniture, consisting of
_a chair and small table, which
the Pacha took on board.
The fact of those :portions of the wreck and casks
being seen will be conclusive of the vessel having
gone to pieces,
which, from the tempestuous weather
at the time of the ship striking, must have very soon
taken place. This, together with the distance of the
wreck from the land, will preclude all hope of any of
the unfortunate crew being saved beyond those who
reached the coast in the cutter. The gig, as I am
informed by Lieutenant Rooke, was swamped in the
attempt to lower her, and he has every reason to be-
lieve the other cutter shared a similar fate.
Sir Thomas Reade, her Majesty's Consul-General
at Tunis, has sent horsemen along the coast for the
purpose of giving interment to such bodies of the crew
as may be cast upon it, and also to save anything
that may be thrown on shore.
I have taken occasion to thank the commander of
the Lavoisier for the effectual and persevering means
which he adopted to discover the wreck, or to rescue
such survivors as might have been cast on shore at Ga-
lita. The Comtnander-in• Chief will be more fully,
apprised of this by the copy of his statement of pro-
ceedings furnished by Sir 'Thomas Reade.