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LONDON, FRIDAY SUN DECEMBER
7 26, 1851.

N°. 18,490;]

ANGLO-CALIFORitIAN GOLD MINING
COMPANY.
(Incorporated pursuant to 7 and S Viet.)
Offices—No. 11, Adam-street, Adelphi.
Capital, 50,0001.,
In 100,000 Shares of 10s. (folly paid up) each.
No Shareholder will be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.
a• TRUSTEES.
Charles Herbert Cottrell, Esq., Hadley, Herts.
George Eurnott Green, Esq., Eminott Hall, Lancashire.
James Harmer, Esq., Ingress Park, Greenhithe, Kent.
CHAIRMAN. •
GEORGE EDWARD COTTRELL, Esq., James-street, Buck-
ingham-gate; and .New-square, Lincoln's Inn.
VICE-CHAIRMAN.
FRANCIS DENNIS MASSY DAWSON, Esq., Victoria-
square ; and Flo widen-buildings, Temple.
DIRECTORS.
John Barker, M.D., Richmond, Surrey.
Symcon Taylor Bartlett, LL.D. Cambridge.
Jonathan Felder, Esq., Penrith.
Charles Hawks, Esq., Birmingham.
Joseph George Parker, Esq., Warminster.
Sir C. S. Rumbold, Bart., Argyll-street, Regent-street.
RESIDENT DIRECTOR IN CALIFORNIA.
Captain Sir Henry Vere Huntley, R.N.
BANKERS.
London and County Bank, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Coombe and Nickell, Bridge-street, Westminster.
SUPERINTENDENTS IN CALIFORNIA.
James Maconochie, Esq. I William Godfrey 'Wet, Esq.
SECRETARY (ad interim).
Mr. George Frederick Goodman.
This Company being now completely registered, the Directors
take the earliest opportunity of laying before the Shareholders a
statement of its progress and prospects.
It may be confidently asserted that no Company
and successful
was ever brought
before the public with equal prosp.ct of speedy
results.
The prompt assistance afforded by the Shareholders to the Direc-
tors, and the perfect confidence in the management displayed by
them, have enabled the Directors to take such steps as must ensure
an enormous dividend within a few months.
Sir Henry Huntley, the resident Director in California, has been
in that country five months, and the course adopted by the Directors
for carrying out this enterprise results from the experience obtained
by hint daring that period. The instructions given tosible inquiry
Sir Henry
Hunt ey were, in effect, that he should make every pos
relative to the state of the countrY, the tenure of land, the com-
parative merits of the different quartz veins in the several districts
of California, and after mature deliberation to advise the Directors
as to their best course of proceeding, and to take such measures as
would enable them to carry out his views as speedily as possible.
Following these instructions, he has secured for the benefit of the
Company, sufficient lands for all milling purposes ; but he is clearly
of opinion, that for the present, at least, it is not desirable to under-
take mining operations, but to crush and amalgamate quartz to
be supplied by those who are possesse 1 of mines, and have raised
the quartz. With the assistance matters, gentlemen of great
experience in geology and mining he has inspected and
tested a great variety of veins in the Mariposa, Nevada, Grass
Valley, and other districts, and has come to the conclusand
upon sound reasons, that the vicinity of G rass Valley
Nevada City, is that which affords the greatest advantages for car-
rying on our enterprise. He has, therefore, entered into an agree-
ment with some American gentlemen, who have formed a company,
and have opened, and, to a considerable extent, worked a vein of
quartz, di.tant about three miles from Grass Valley and Nevada
Cit , and ofabut thirty miles from Sacramento City, Dope crush and
amalgamate he quartz to be raised from the mine ned by
them. By means of machinery, he has already cru hed
and amalgamated considerable quantities of the quartz sup-
plied him from this mine ; and the r.sult of his operations
has been to satisfy himself that the vein is of a full average
richness, and that the locality offers many important advantages in
the way of water, fuel, means of transit, &c., &e. He has, there-
fore, entered into a formal agreement with that Company, which, in
a few words, amounts to this: he is to be supplied by them with as
much quartz as his machinery shall be found capable of crushing;
the quartz is to be deposited at the mills free of expense ;
he is to crush and amalgamate it at his own expense, and
he gAd produced is to be divided equally between the owners
of the vein and our Company. Formal and legal agreements
for carrying out the above arraneement fairly and honestly, and
without any copartnership, have been entered into. Steam-engines
and machinery estimated to crush about thirty tons of quartz a day,
with funds sufficient for putting it in motion, have been placed under
the control of Sir Henry Hun
and, and, unless some unexpected
delay has arisen, the machinery is now actually at work, and a
return will be made about Christmas next.
For the satisfaction of the existing shareholders of this Company,
and
of other Companies, the Directors are desirous of calling attention
to some of the more prominent advantages possessed by this Com-
pany over others now in the field. Shareholders in other Companies
must mainly rely upon reports sent over by persons inested' in
selling the mine; we rely upon the reports of our own resident
Director and his practical assistants on the spot, whose only
interest is to give us facts. The Directors of other
Companies gene rally base the eftstimate ofort the
experiments
value of
their mine upon calculations unded
upon a few pieces of specimen quartz, sent over to this countr Leto for
the express purpose of advertising the commodity
offered for s
the British public ; we found our calculations upon experiments
tried, during several weeks, on quartz raised from the. mine, and
crushed and amalgamated by our own Superiatendent, and with our
own machinery and apparatus. Other Companies propose to
incur the expense and risk of carrying out miniug operations
upon their vein, before the quartz arrives at their mill, and, should
their labours prove successful, they must then pay out of their
profits large per-centages for obtaining their leases, and large royal
ties to their lessors ; whereas we have secured as muc quartz as
our machinery is capable of crushing, the title to which ih s as secure
as that of any other company, unfettered by any per-centage or
royalty. The half of the produce to be paid by this Company to the
parties who supply us, free of expense, with the quartz, being in fact
merely equivalent to the dividend upon the outlay of capital ex-
pended in raising the quartz, and lodging it at the mill. All the
new companies, unlike this, must be a considerable timer efore
their arrangements and machin s actually at work.
ery can be ready for carryig out
their schemes—tkis Company alone i
The paid-up capital of the Company will not exceed 20,000/. An
almosertain esimate of the produce of our machinery can be
formed, t c
and, from the calculations made, the Directors confidently
anticipate being able even at the most moderate estimate, to afford
a dividend of 200 per cent., at the least, within the next twelve
months. According to the data
anusfurished to us, the quartz which
we are now working yields upon verage 4d. per pound, or 1/.
17s. 4d. per cwt., or 371. 6s. Sd. per ton; and, as we can crush and
amalgamate at least 20 tons per diem, that would amount to 7461.
13s. 4d., or 3731. s. Sd. per diem as the share of this Company
I3y the peculiar arrangements this Company has made, based
upon practical experience, the economy in working expenses must
necessarily be such as to render the current outlay most trifling.
In case circumstances should induce the Directors to alter the
system now adopted, and lead them to undertake mining operations
of their own, arrangements have been made securing four distinct
sites, most carefully selected for their eligibility for mining pur-
poses, and Sir Henry Huntley has on the spot Cornish miners who
went out with him, and who have 'voluntarily retendered him their
services.
The gentlemen who formed t Provisional Committee of this
Company, have added to their number several gentlemen possessing
the acquaintance and entire confidence of a very large body of
Shareholders in the provincial districts. To add such men to the
Dire .tory was due to those Shareholders who haves in fact estab-
lished and nobly supported this Company. Measures will be taken
for further augmenting the Directory, and a Special General Meet-
ing of the Shareholders will be convened for the middle of January.
In conclusion, the Directors beg to offer their best thanks tot e
Shareholders for the uniform support they have received, and they
pledge themselves that the affairs of this Comeany shall be con-
ducted with the most rigid econoray, and with the sole view of for-
warding the interest of the Shareholders.
The Directors beg to call the attention of Shareholders particularly
to the fact that, from the system adopted by this Company, it can-
not be affected by the question now agitated between the ho'aers of
leases and Colonel Fremont or his agents. The district selected for
the operations of this Company is far removed from the tract claimed
by Colonel Fremont. The difficulty arising out of the many points
now raised relative to the tenure of land under leases, had been long
known to and was maturely considered by those having the control
of the affairs of this Company, and was one of the reasons which in-
duced them to penile for the present the course they have, and not
to inc
certain heavy expenses with doubtful results.
The Directors trust that Shareholders; will approve of the prudence
of the course they have adopted.
Prospectuses may be had upon application at the offices of the
Company

BRITISH AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINING
COMPANY.
In order to convince the public that this Company is not liable to
the Joint Stock Companies Registration Act, and that, consequently,
no deed is required, and no further liability can be
e n incurreded the
, the
London Committee beg to state that they hav obtai
oint, of which
OPINION of Sir FREDERIC TIIESIGER on the p
the following is a copy:—
"I am of opinion that the British Australian Gold Mining Com-
pany is exempt from the operation of the Joint Stock Companiesof
Registration Act, This company was not established in any part
the United Kingdom in the sense of the Legislature, which sense ap-
pears to me to be clearly conveyed by the enactment that the Act is
to apply to every Joint stock company established in Scotland, and
having an office or place of business in any other part
be of
inferred :
the United
Kingdom. From which expressions two things may
First, that the word established' is intended to point to the place
where the company was formed or founded; and, secondly, that but
for this special provision with re'pect to Scotland, merely having a
place of business in the United Kingdom would not have brought a
Scotch company within the operation of the Act. The company in
question was formed or established at Sydney, and there is nothing
in the Act which will make the formation of a branch or place of
business here equivalent to establishments.
(Signed) " FREDERIC THESIGER.
" Temple, Dec. 20, 1851."

HE BRITISH AUSTRALIAN GOLD-
1, COMPANY.
Established in Sydney.
Capital 200,0001., in 200,000 Shares of I/. each, to be paid up in flill,
and without any further liability.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT IN AUSTRALIA.
Edward Hammond Hargreaves, Esq., Sydney, the first discoverer of
gold in Australia.
Richard Fawcett, Esq., George-street, Sydney.
John Orr, Esq., of the firm of Jamieson, Orr, and Co., Sydney and
Melbourne.
COMMITTEE FOR THE LONDON AGENCY.
Chaves Hereage, Esq. Henry T. Hyde, Esq.
George Burge, Esa.. John Rionrhouse, Esq.
iticnant Ward, Esq. Edward Davis, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Sydney—Randolph John Want, Esq.
London—F. P. Chappell, Esq., 25, Golden-square.
BANKERS.

Sydney—The Union Bank of Australia.
London—Messrs. Martin, Stone, and Martin, Lombard-street.
STOCK BROKER—Mr. F. A. Helps, 21, Finch-Pule.
LONDON SECRETARY—Mr. 11. A. Drake.
OFFICES —Sydney : 481, George-street. London : 26, Moorgate-
street.
t
This Company (which is already completely fanned in Sydney)
has been established for the purpose of
onions working
the , to the greates
possible advantage, the most eligible pof splendid Gold
Fields lately discovered in Australia.
The Committee have secured a lease for seven years of a plot of
freehold land, about 600 yards square, situate on the Summer-hill
Creek, in the Wellington District, contiguous to the famous Ophir
Diggings.
They have also secured a lease, for a similar term,
ra o
of
such por-
tions of an estate called " Singleton,
as are desibl for mining
purposes. This estate Is contiguous to Maitland, on the Hunter
River, and extends for upwards of 20 miles, in many parts of which
Gold has already been discovered.
Either or both of these leases are to be renewable for an extended
period of seven or fourteen years, at the option of
payment to the lessor of a royalty of M. per cent. upon the produce.
The Company being established in Sydney, the liability of each
shareholder is limited to the amount of his shares, which are paid up
in full on allotment. The shareholders are subject to no ca 1, and
are not required to sign any deed.
For further
particulars, see printed Prospectuses.
be made at the
Application for shares, in the usual form, to
offices of the Company; to Mr F. A. Helps, stock broker, 21, Finch-
lane ; or to any of the country agents hitherto advertised.

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It E A M.
A. A few nights back, in health and spirits prime,
I went to rest about my usual time,
Nor did the clock a dozen minutes number,
Before I sank into a peaceful slumber.
And while I thus reposed upon my bed,
A sound of music floated roucd my head ;
For, understand, although I was asleep,
Some little consciousness f seemed to keep ;
So, when I heard the music, soft and sweet,
I knew the Christmas waits were in the street.
I listened to their strains in various modes,
And f ndly thought of Pope's and Dryden's Odes,
In which, by either poet, we are told,
Of what the famed musicians did of old ;
And while I heard the music of the waits,
I pictured harpers at the castle gates,
And many a fond romantic scene arose,
Till music steeped me in a deeper doze.
A curious dream then came across my mind,
Original and novel in its kind :
Methought that lIYAM was desired to call
On Father Christmas at his ancient hall;
The object of the visit was flat stated,
And nothing in the least was intimated,
Yet HYAM, from his manner, seemed to guess
Some special ref'rence with regard to dress,
And making up his mind without delay,
Ide called on Christmas on the appointed day.
The abode of Father Christmas was agile
Precisely in the old baronial style ;
A noble English mansion did it seem,
And much did it delight me in my dream.
Thick on its lawn the holly bushes grow,
The smiling mistletoe and myrtle, too,
While verdant bays and laurel boughs were seen
To vary pleasingly the winter green.
lIYAM arrived precisely to his time,
And found the " festive father" in his prime ;
His eyes were bright, his checks were full of glow,
Just as they were five hundred years ago.
" Good morning, sir (said Christmas), how d'ye do "
" Good morning, sir (said HYAM), how are you ?"
And thus the usual compliments were passed,
Till business things were introduced at last.
" I sent for you (said Christmas), to enquire
What stock you have of gentlemen's attire
I'm rather anxious, Sir, for your reply,
As Christmas time is now so very nigh,
A few more days, and we shall find it here,
With all its happiness and social cheer;
And I'm ambitious (said the good old sire)
Of seeing all appear in good attire.
A sumptuous feast is very well, I know,
And glad I am my subjects find it so :
I love the feast, the holly, and the log—
But what are these without a change of ` tog ?'
While we're attending to the inner man,
We ought to mind the outward all we can.
And, therefore, Mr. HYAM, do I ask,
How you, this season, have performed your task ?
I scarcely have a doubt (continued he),
m 0 ;
roved b
That what you've done will be appy
But notwithstanding this, I wish to hear
What you've performed in your extensive sphere ?"
Here Christmas paused—nor need I tell you why,
He merely paused, awaiting a reply.
" Father (said lIYAM, with respectful bow),
If I was ever honoured, it is now ;
And I'm prepared, without one ' if or but,'
To answer every question you have put.
The preparations I have made (said HYAM),
Will satisfy the multitudes that try 'em.
All kinds of Christmas dress—designed anew,
At my Establishment aro brought to view.
I've winter wrappers, good in make and cloth,
Fit to defy the winter's utmost wrath.
Such over-coats as those which I've in store
Are better than were ever made before.
I've dress (said HYAM), in the various styles,
And first-rate suits for youths and juveniles ;
There's not a thing in which I've been remiss
At such a time of holidays as this,
Ann, lair, (said HYAM), I would have you know
That all my goods are s Id extremely low.
Economy has ever been my law,
And from this rule I never will withdraw."
" Hear, hear (said Christmas, rising from his chair),
That's famous, Mr. lIYAM, I declare.
I wish you much success, nor do I doubt
That thousands will by you be well-rigg'd out.
I'll not omit to recommend your dress
To all my friends—l can't, in fact, do less.
I find that you adopt the very way
To realise success—good day—good day."
Here both shook hands, and bid a warns adieu,
Well pleased, of course wills such an interview.
And finding matters come to this decision,
I felt so happy that I lost my vision ;
But, should I have another, you shall know it,
For I'm a most communicative poet.

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(Incorporated under 7 and 8 Viet., can. 110.)
The Policy Holders in this office are respectfully informed that tb e
Christmas Renewals, are in the hands of the several Agents of the
Company, and should be paid on or before the 9th of January.
The Equitable Fire Office, by a constant 'analysis of its own
experience, from time to time, adopts such rate of premium as the
nature of the risk Justifies ; and with this view an annual investi-
gation is made into each class of risk, and a return of fifty per cent.
of the net excess, made to all classes of Insurerl whose policies have
been in force for three years. •
Farming Stock insured at as. per cent. without the Average
Clause.
Losses are made good without deduction or discount.
NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE OFFICE., Capital £500,008.
NEW LIFE TABLES. •
On the Withdrawal Table the assured is entitled, by simple en-
dorsement, to receive an immediate advance of one-half the amount
of the paid annual premiums, without security or deposit
of the policy ; or half-premium for the whole continuance of life. On
surrender one-half of the annual payments will pe returned.
Life Annuities granted, also Deferred and Contingent Annuities.
The terms of the Society are peculiarly favourable.
The present annual income of the Society from premiums exceeds
70,0001 ; the amount covered by the policies of the Society is up-
wards of 2,250,0001.; and the reserve profit applicable to future
bonus to the assured, amounts to 95,5021. 14s. Od.
Prospectuse', and every information, may be obtained, on applica-
tion at the Office, or to any of its Agents.
W. S. B. WOOLIIOUSE, Actuary.

SECURITY TO EMPLOYERS.
TO SECRETARIES OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,
CLERKS, STATION-MASTERS, RAILWAY OFFICIALS,
BANKERS' CLERKS, TRAVELLERS, AND OTHERS.
TIMES LIFE ASSURANCE and
GUARANTEE COMPANY.
32, Ludgate-hill, London.
Incorporated under 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110.
HONORARY PRESIDENTS.
CHARLES HINDLEY, Esq., M.P., Dartmouth House, Westminster,
JAMES KERSHAW, Esq., M.P., Stockport.
TRUSTEES.
'James Llexanddr Douglas, Esq., 11, Queen-square.
Amprose Moore, Esq., Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square.
Janes Nisbet, Esq., Berners-street, Oxford-street.
Cnetamert—The Hon. FRANCIS VILLIERS, Berkeley-square.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—JAMES WYLD, Esq., M.P., Charing-cross.
"THE TIMES" COMPANY
Affords Guarantee to persons requiring the same at the lowest
possible rate, and Divides Four-fifths of the Profits. Thus by apply-
ing the justly popular principle of Mutuality to Public Guarantee,
the Premiums, instead of being a tax upon honesty, become a
means of saving and investment.
RATES—From 7s. 6d. upwards. No charge for Stamps or extra
charges.
An allowance made in the Guarantee Premium where a Life As-
surance and Guarantee are combined.
LIFE ASSUR,ANCE.
Life Assurances, Annuities, and Endowments. Payments taken
Monthly as well as Quarterly, Re.
Policies Indisputable save in cases of Fraud.
Arrangements can be made with this Office to prevent the loss of a
Policy where the Assured is unable, from temporary embarrassment,
to keep up the payments,

H. B. SHERIDAN, Manager.

MITE PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL
LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION (enrolled under the
Friendly Society's Acts) and BENEVOLENT FUND.
Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. IW. G. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Ilankey, Jun., Esq. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
•

TREASURER OF TRE BENEVOLENT FUND.
John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P.
This Association offers the follolving advantages :

The Mutual Principle of Assurance.

An Equitable Rate of Premiums.
Division of Profits every five years on Policies of three years'
standing nine-tenths thereof are divisable amongst the assured, and
the remaining one-tenth is appropriated to the Benevolent Fund.
The last Division of Profits up to the 31st December, 1847, ave-
raged 33 per cent.
All Policies Indisputable, except in cases of fraud.
LOANS to MEMBERS on security of their Policies to the extent
of their estimated value.
The sum assured may be MADE PAYABLE to the WIDOW,
WIDOWER, or CHILIIREN, FREE of PROBATE or LEGACY
DUTY, or ANY CHARGE WHATEVER.
Policies can be Assigned, and Aseignments Registered in the Books
of the Association.

By orderpf the Board,
P. H. BYRNE, Secretary.

wards,
aCnlaersicusbsb:rciboimnginsgsM.
teom2boTsbnymialan
42, Moorgato-street, London, Octlber22,lBsl.
or or n
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an annual subscription of one guinea, are entitled to all the impor-
tant advantages of the Benevolent Fund.iyA,ssaaracconredeinogf toloaogl.e

CHRISTMAS BOLIDATS.
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
Lecture by George Barker, 2sq., on the Ballad Music of Eng-
land, commencing with his celebrated Entertainment, " An English
Christmas," every evening for a fortnight, except Saturday, at Eight
o'clock.—Lecture by J. 11. Pepper, Esq., en Ward's New Sub-
marine Lamp.—Lecture by Dr. Bachhoffner on the Philosophy of
Scientific Recreation.—Numerous Prize Models, Works of Art, &c.,
from the Great Exhibition will be explained by Mr. Crispe.—Opti-
cal Effects in Dissolving Views, Microscope, Chromatrope, &c.—
Diver and Diving Bell, &c., &c.
Admission, Is.; Schools and Ckildren under Ten years of age,
Half-price.
Open daily from EleVen to Five. and every Evenirg, except Sa-
turday, trona .even till Half-past Ten.

ridiculously
valued, ir
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
resents
be-
cause not adapted for display, and too frequently not for use ; how
ery
notTfohrouysoaun
idhs,
and
dthe pounds
greaterare p expended einnd e
articlesd N'
w top -coat or a sit
u
much more gratifying would he an article that could be worn ? Give
a girl a new tippet, cloak, or muff, or a boy a ne
of clothes, and there is something to gratify the pride, something to
boast of among their acquaintances, something to last them the
season, and do them a real service. Those, therefore, who snake
presents, and particularly to their own children, should bear in mind
that they would be infinitely more delighted at an article of dress as
a Christmas present than with any toy, or book, or useless play-
thing, even if it only anticipated the period at which they would have
had it a few weeks. Messrs. E. MOSES and SON have laid them-
selves out in anticipation of this being generally done by all thought-
ful parents and relations ; and they respectfully invite all classes to
take their children to the Monarch Mart, in Aldgate an I the,
Minories, or their West-end Branch Establishment, corner of Hart-
street, New Oxford-street, where they will see the finest assortment
of dresses for all ages and conditions, made of the best materials, of
the newest fashions, and the most exquisite workmanship, and
where the gorgeous fittings-up
and:convenient rooms for dressing and
fitting on, form a complete exhibitton. Moreover, they will see
the price marked on every article of dress, and be convinced at once
that it is less than half that charged by ordinary
tailors for inferior
goods.

E. MOSES and, SON,
London City Establishment, 154, 155 i 156, and 157, Minories, 88,
‘4, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church,
all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 647, 638, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
and 3, Hart-street, all communicating. -
Bradford Yorkshire Branch, 19, Brifgerstrfpet•
Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Tailors, Clothiers, Matters, Hosiers, Furriers,
nakers, and General Outfitters for Letha and Gentlemen.
Boot and Shoe-
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on
if t'r lel s when business is resemed till Twelve o'clock.
The New Book, entitled " The Exhibition for All Nations," in
Three Languages, viz. :—English, French, and ilerman, and contain-
ing full directions for self measurement, can be had gratis, on appli-
cation, or forwarded post free to any part of the kingdom.
s
4 handsome Almanac, for the year ending 1852, can be had gratis,
on application.
Tel l'on parle Francaise. Qui si parts Italian°.
Hier spricht man Deutsch. Aqui
se habla Espanol.

MEDICAL ADVICE ON VIE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF
YOUT a AND MATURITY.
With Plain Directions for their Prevention and Cure.
FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON .STEEL.
Just published, ix French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and
Italian, in a Sealed Envelope, 2 . 6d., or post-free from the Author
for Forty-two Stamps
,
E 1.-PRE Sll E SERV AITION; a
,
Medical Treatise en the Physiology of Marriage, and on the
Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth 'lnd Maturity, usually ac-
quired at an early period of life which destroy the physical and
mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feelings, and ex-
haust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical Observations on
the certain Prevention and successtbi Treatment of Nervous Debi
lity, Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all
Diseases and derangements resulting from Indiscretion, as adopted
by Lallemand. Ricord, and other eminent Members of the faculty of
France. With Fifty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy,
Physiology, and Diseases of the Re roductive Organs, explaining
their structures,Wes, and functions, and the various injuries that
are produced in Obit by solitary habits, weeses, and infection.
By SAM TEL LA'MERT, Iti•D''
37, REDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON.
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society,
Llcontiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London,
Medical Society of Edinburgh, &c., &c.
This work contains a plain and complete description of the ana-
tomy and physiology of the reproductive organs, and of their relative
conditions in health and disease. Dr. La'Mert, who has taken the
highest medical honours, as evidenced by tee diplomas and testimo-
nials inserted in the work, is the only legally qualified medical man
who has exclusively, and for many years, devoted his studies to the
treatment of these complaints. Ile may be consulted with advan-
tage by all these whose constitutions may have become debilitated
through secret practices acquired in youth, er by the excesses of
later years, whereby the pleasures of life are marred, the objects of
marriage frnstrated, and existence itself rendered a term of unceas-
ing misery and regret.

Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater-
noster-row ; Ilannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Starie, Titchbome-street,
Haymarket ; Gordon, 146, Leadenliall-street; Mann, 23, Cornhill ;
or free)), post for firty-two stamps, from -the author's residence,
who may be consulted on these disorders personally, or by letter,
daily, from Ten till Two. and from Siz till Eight-

THE SILENT FRIEND.
IN SIX LANGUAGES-FORTIETH EDITION.

CONTAINING TILE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE.
lanstrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Epgravlngi.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA-
PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
4. New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, price 2i. 6d. by post, from
the Establishment, Bs. 6d. in stamps.

THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
A the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by
excessive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abase of
mercury, with directions for the use of the preventive lotion, fo-
llowedMlOaro Marriage,
Engravings. By It. and L.
anci the disqualifications which
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street, London. Sold by Strange, 21, Pateraoster-mw ; Hannay,
63, and Sanger, 150. Oxford-street. Gordon,l46,Leadonhall-atreet ;
Barclay, 95, Farringdon-street ; W. Batton, 10, Bow Church-yard ;
W. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Church-yard ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; it.
Johnson, 68, Cornhill ; and Simpkin, Stationers' Hall-court.

PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
organs, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings.

PAzT 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive In-
dulgence, and their lamentable effects en the system, producing
mantel and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative
iicapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanatory Engravings.

Past, 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
tto primary or socondary form, and contains explicit directions for
tleir treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav-
ings.
"

Platt IT. eontains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a
el nple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated.
PART V.is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its
as. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the
whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
ma COILDIAL BALM 07 SITIAMIM is exclusively employed in
treating nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., I la. and 335.
per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-sypbilitic
remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary
symptoms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, 11s. and 38S. per
Mottle. terry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d„ 49. 6d., and 1 Is.
per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhcsa, gleet, stricture, and
chronic inflammation of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter,
11. A minute detail of the case is required: age, habits, and posi-
tion in society. 51. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Etta-
bilOment wily, by which the fee, 11., is saved. Messrs. Perry,
surgeons, are in attendance, daily, at 19, Berr.ers-street, Oxford-
' street, London, from Leven till Two, and Ftro to Eight; on &m-
-agi from Zino to Ono

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
At this festive period of the year more than usual anxiety Is
created for—

PERSONAL ATTRACTION,
and the fallowing unrivalled discoveries for the TOILET are called
into increased reputation, namely—
ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL,
for creating and sustaining a luxuriant head of hair,
ROWLANDS' KALYDOR,
for rendering the Skin soft, fair, and blooming.
ROWLANDS' ODONTO ; or, PEARL DENTIFRICE,
for imparting a pearl-like whiteness to the Teeth, and
ROWLANDS' AQUA D'Olto,
a fragrant and spirituous Perfume, an essential aczompaniment I
places of public amusement and crowded assemblies.
Beware of Spurious Imitations.
The only Genuine of each bears the name of " Rowlands' " pre-
ceding that of the Article on the Wrapper or Label.
Sold by A. Rowland and Sons, 20, Hatton-garden, London, and by
Chemists and Perfumers.

I COM MER CIAL TRAVELLERS.--
Commercial travellers are, of all men, the most social ; their
profession often places them within situations where they are obliged
to freelyvatronise the science of gastronomy, and to yield to the
seductive allurements of the " rosy god ;" no harm from these indul-
gences would ever be felt if they would take two or three of OLD
PARR'S fine stomachic PILLS at night, which would, without the
slightest disturbance or pain, clear off all acidities which would
otherwise remain in the stomach and bowels, and produce feverish
head-ache, and all other unpleasant symptoms. On account of their
mild and effective operation, they are now more used by all travel-
lers than any other medicines are. For sea voyages they are ac-
knowledged to be all that are required, preventing all scurvy, &c.
The sale of Parr's Life Pills amounts to upwards of 30,000 boxes
weekly, more "than all other patent medicines put together. The
simple fact needs no further comment; it tells plainly that the Pills
of Old Parr are the best medicine in the world.
Sold by E. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Churchyard ; Barclay and Sons,
Farringdon-street ; Sutton and Co., Bow Churchyard, London; J.
and R. Raimes and Co., Edinburgh ; Mottershead and Co., Man-
chester; and by all Chemists; in boxes at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and
I Is. each.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS,
NEWBURY, DEC. 24.—The market to day, being out
of the usual course, has lessened the attendance, as also
the supply of grain. Wheat realised fully the terms of
last week, and most of the limited supply was cleared off.
Barley short supply, and most descriptions rather dearer.
Beans, oats, and peas in limited supply, and late rates
fully maintained.

DERBY SMITHFIELD MARKET, DEC. 23.—The supply
to-day was not large, nor was the attendance of pur-
chasers; the demand for beef was flat, without any
alteration in price. The show of sheep was about the
average, and high prices were asked for them. There
were but few pigs off-red for sale, which were not in
good request. Fat calves were plentiful, but were a
heavy sale. Beef, 40 to 5d ; mutton, Sid to
6}d; veal, 5d to sid per lb; pigs, 7s to 7s 3d per score;
rough fat, 33 6d per stone of 14Ibs; hides, lid to lid
per lb; calf skins, 2d to 3id per lb.
EDINBURGH GRAIN MARKET, DEC. 24.—There was
a good supply of grain in the market to-day. Sales for
all sorts were exceedingly dull, and prices back with the
general sales in wheat, barley, oats, and beans, although
up on the average. As compared with last week, the
top of wheat was 6d up on the top, and the average 7d.
Barley on the top 3d down, and the average 3d up.
Oats on the top Bd, and the average 2d down.
Beans on the top 3s, and the average 2s 4d
down. Unsold, 110 cgs wheat, 234 qrs barley, 147 qrs
oats, and 32 qrs beans.
Top of Wheat ... ... 65 lb. 43s 6d
„ Barley ... ••• 57i1b. 27s 9d
„ Oats ... 43ilb. 22s Od
„ Beans 66iib. 33s Od
EDINBURGH CATTLE • MARKET, DEC. 24.—The number
of cattle was 475, or 56 less than last week. Top price, 7s Od ;
current, 6s 6d to 6s 9d; secondary and inferior, from 5s
to 5s 6d per Dutch stone. A good clearance was effected.
The number of sheep at market this morning was
2,816, being 391 mere than last week. Best wedder mutton,
top price, sid per lb; current, 5d to Od; ewes, 4d to 4d.
A clearance was not effected.

UPPINGHA.M' DEc. 24.—Wheat 34s to 365; barley 228 to
24s Od ; oats 17s to 278;: beans 28s to 345. Butter 12d to 12id
per lb ; eggs lb for Is.
LOUTH, DEC. 24.—Wheat 32s to 375; barley 22s to 265;
oats 14s to 18s;
_ beans 29s to 32s per qr.
NEWARK, Dsc. 24.—Wheat, white 40s to 425, red 34s to
38s; barley, malting '2ls to 275, grinding 21s to 235; oats,
245 t., 24s to 275. 225 t., 18s to 20s; beans, 32s to 38s ; peas,
24s to 2Ss; malt, 54s to 565; tares, 30s to 36s per qr.
MELTON MOWBRAY, DEc. 23.—Wheat, 33s Od to 38s ;
barley, 23s to 275; oats, old 23s to 275, new 178 to 20s ;
beans, old 33s to 365, new 25s to 29s per qr. Butter is to Os Od
per lb ; eggs 12 for is.

CORK, DEC. 24.

Barrels. Currency.
15 White wheat 20s 6d to 00s Od 00s Od-20 stone
74 Red wheat l7s 6d to 19s Od 005 Od-20 do
37 Ditto l9s Od to 203 6d
0 Ditto oos Od to 00s Cd
41 Barley Its 8d to 11s 10d
35 Ditto lls 104 to 12s 3d 00s Od-16 do
0 Ditto Os Od to 00s Od
0 Bere ...OJs Od to Os Od Os Od
96 Oats. 95 4d to 9s 9d
414 Ditto ...... 98 94 to lOs Od 00s 04-14 do
164 Ditto ........10s Od to 103 4d
100 Pigs 20s Od to 29s Od 28s Od per cwt
Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:-
0 barrels white wheat; 13. red ; 27 barley; 0 bare; 107 oats;
l pig.
Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week
Wheat, 1,277. Barley, 2,355. Oats, 6,859. Pigs, 1,002

PRICES OF BUTTER.
CANT. CURENNCY.
First quality
Second quality
Third quality ..... .......... 663 Third quality ... 57.
Fourth quality
Fifth quality
Sixth quality _

Return of Cattle sold for week ending Dec. 13.
Pigs, 1,412. Sheep, 195. Cows, 262.
Coax.—Flour—First Its 6d to 12s 6d; extra 13. 6d;
seconds, 103 Od to lls 6d; households 8s to 108 Od; thirds, 7s toes
per cwt. Oatmeal 10s ad to 11s; Indian meal 6s 6d to 7s Od; wheat.
meal, Ps to 9s 6d per cwt. Indian corn 61 Os Od to 6115$ Od per
ton. Bran 85s to 87s 6d per ton. Hay—Farmers 24s to 30s; average
28s; dealers 32s to 34s Od; average ON per ton. Ste aw— Farmers
14$ Od to 2ls Od ; average 16s ; dealers 001 Od to OOs Od,
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf bid to 6d ;
household loaf 44d to 5d per 41b. Fresh butter, 9d tc
10d per lb. Eggs-5s 6d to 6s Od per hundred. Coals—
Newport 16s Od ; Lydney 17$ ; Landore 00s ; Culm,
13s Od per ton. Tallow 00s Od to 401 per cwt
Whisky, 25 0. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 4d to 4-cl ; mutton 5d to qd ; veal 4d tt
6d ; pork 4cl to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages bd per lb
Hops 818 s to 9/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates 2/ 17s 6d to 3/ Os per
ton. Bark—Barbary 710 s to 810 s ; Valonia 151 to 01; French
61 Os ; Spanish 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 14s to 151 per stone.
Hemp 291 to 341 per ton. Fish-- Scotch herrings 19s to 00s; red
ditto, 24s to OOs per barrel ; Newfoundland, 1010 s to 11/ pet
ton. Timber—Memel, 70s per ton ; red pine, 31 591 Tenor
ditto, 21 15s per ton; deals, 151 to 181 per 100. Hides—
Market 21s to 30s; salted 22s to 30s per owt ; calf skin.
3d to aid per lb. Potatoes, white 7d to lld ; Minions,
00d to 00d. Guano— Peruvian, 11110. ; lohaboe, 8/ to 91 Cs
per ton. Tar—Archangel, 19s per barrel.

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.
On Tuesday (Sir William Cubitt, President, in the
chair),the annual general meeting for the election of the
president, vice-presidents, and other members of coun-
cil for the ensuing year, for receiving the annual re-
port of the retiring council, and distributing the
medals and premiums, was held.
The report referred particularly to the late Great
Exhibition, many of the competing designs for the
building, as well as the suggestions for the guarantee
fund, and several important points connected with the
classification, &c., having emanated from members of
the institution ; and amidst the Royal Commissioners,
the building committee, their executive staff, and the
jurors, many were to be found; even the designer of
the present building, and those whose energies were
so successfully devoted to the task of its construction,
also belonged to the institution, whilst " the weight of
responsibility, the arduous duty of supervision, the
honour of acting as the master mind to weigh the re-
quisites, to determine the design, and to govern the
construction," were reserved for Sir William Cubitt,
the president. The professional and scientific visitors
from foreign lands received much assistance and in-
formation in their inquiries in this country • and it
was confidently hoped that the relations with other
countries might become more intimate, and that col-
lective and individual benefit would be promoted.
The principal papers which had been read were
noticed, and their objects and merits explained in a
few expressive sentences ; though it was regretted
that they were not so numerous as usual, and in con-
sequence the list of subjects for the ensuing session
had been much altered and modified, and the attention
of gentlemen known to possess information on any
subject had been directed to it, with a pressing re-
quest that they would favour the institution with the
results of their experience.
The following medals and premiums were awarded:
Telford medals to Messrs. Clegg, Wyatt, Swin-
burne, Bruce, Hughes, Struve, and Newton ; and
council premiums of books to Messrs. Glynn, Black-
well, Leslie, and Carr.
In speaking of the subject of publication, the com-
pletion of the Library Catalogue was mentioned, and
it was stated that not only was the utility of the work
admitted by the members, but the plan of its forma-
tion, and the:accuracy of its execution, had been gene-
rally approved by the best authorities ; this, it was
hoped, would lead to the presentation of standard
works of reference for the library, which it was de-
sirable to bear in mind was supported entirely by
voluntary contributions.
Notwithstanding several deceases and resignations,
the effective increase in the number of members,
which now amounted to 716 of all classes, was equal
to that of any previous year, and far greater than the
average. _ _

Memoirs were read of the following :—The Most
Noble the Marquis of Northampton, honorary
member; Messrs. W. Brunton, G. S. Dalrymple, J.
Farey, W. Mackenzie, and IL Renton members ;
and Colonel Jervis, B E., Messrs. S. B. Moody. J. H.
Tasker, G. B. Thorneycroft, W. West,
associates. and J. Wilson,
The memoirs were succinct records of eventful
lives. They noticed feelingly the virtues and talents
of Lord Northampton, the mechanical skill of Mr.
Brunton, almost the 'last of the old school of en-
gineers—the patient industry and laborious research
of Air. Farey, to whom, with the Lowrie, the en-

[PRICE SD.

f gravers, was due the merit of improving
the style of
illustration of the scientific works of the present time
—the gigantic engineering undertakings of Mr.
Mackenzie, who, with his coadjutors, Mr. Brassey
and Mr. John Stephenson, had, since 1833, executed
railway and other works to the amount of upwards of
seventeen millions sterling, and from a very bumble
station had risen by his own talent and industry to a
high station among his compeers—the brilliant military
career of Colonel Jervis, and his greater merits, in
devoting his time and energy to the introduction of
the blessings of education among the natives of India.
The practically useful careers of Mr. Tboneycroft
and Mr, Wilson, two men who, from the positions of
a workman in a forge, and the son of a farmer, rose
by industry, talent, and upright conduct, to great
wealth and the first rank as eminent iron masters in
Staffordshire and in Scotland, and to serve as models
of the most useful class of this country.
The report concluded with the expression of a hope
on the part of the Council, that the profession would
be firmly united for the prosecution of the legitimate
objects of the society, and by their acts, in and out of
the institution, would strive to confirm the universal
confidence in the skill, honour, and integrity -)1•1--,,lish
engineers.

The thanks of the institution were voted unani-
mously to the president, vic-peresidents, and other
members of council; also to the auditors and the se-
cretary, for their great exertions on behalf of the in-
stitution, and to the scrutineers of the ballot, for the
kindness with which they undertook that office.
The following gentlemen were elected to fill the
several offices in the council for the ensuing year
James M. Rendel, president; I. K.Brunel, J. Locke,
M.P., J. Simpson, and R. Stephenson, M.P., vice-
presidents; G. P. Bidder, J. Cubitt, J. E. Errington,
J. Fowler, C. H. Gregory, J. Hawkshaw, J. R.
M'Clean, C. May, J. Miller, and J. S. Russell, mem-
bers; and J. G. Appold and E. L. Betts, associates
of council.

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office,
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tChuesnlrreTtn,
beprrsesfiodrentth, e returned
kind
ne s s hiswh shi nt cheery
had evinced towards him during his tenure of ooffice,e
and expressed the hope that the same good feeling
would he exhibited to his successor, whose eminence
in the profession and undoubted abilities well qualified
him to hold the office with advantage to the institu-
tion and credit to himself.
The meeting was then adjourned until Tuesday,
January 13, when the following paper will be read :
" On the Alluvial Formations and the Local Changes
of the South. Eastern Coast of England, second section
from Beachy Head to Portland," by Mr. J. B. Red:
man, M. Inst. C. E.

CURIOUS OLD LONDON DIRECTORY.
(From the Glasgow Reformers' Gazette.)
I have at present in my possession a London Di-
rectory, seventy-five years old. It is a nice, quaint-
looking, little volume, clean, and in fine preservation.
In shape, it is a thin, small octavo, of 198 pages, and
neatly bound in law•calf. The date is 1776, the era
of the outbreak of the first American war, when Lord
North was Premier.

This curious little tome may be regarded as one of
the Fathers of all our Provincial Directories. Nei-
ther Edinburgh or Glasgow had then attempted such
a thing. John Tait tried his first Glasgow Directory
in 1783, and Peter Williamson his Edinburgh one a
few years after. But the London Directory now
under notice was only the 44th of its family, the first
brought out by its publishers having appeared as far
back as 1732, in the reign of George 11., thirteen
years before the last Scotch Rebellion. How inte-
resting to scan the queer pages of this record of Old
London, and contrast its lean, unpretending aspect
with the huge, overgrown Directory of 1851. The
following is its title :
" Kent's Directory for the year 1776 ; containing
an Alphabetical List of the Names and Places of
Abode of the Directors of Companies, Persons in
Public Business, Merchants, and other eminent
Traders in the Cities of London and Westminster,
and Borough of Southwark ; with the Numbers, as
they are affixed to their Houses, agreeable to the late
Acts of Parliament ; also, Separate Lists of the Lord
Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Bank, East India,
South Sea, Royal Exehange Assurance, Sun Fire
and London Assurance Companies ; Commissioners
for Trade and PI rotations, and Commissioners of Ex-
cise and Customs, with their places of abode. To
which is added—A. correct List of all the Bankers.—
The Forty-fourth Edition. London : Printed and
sold Richard and Henry Causton (successors to the
late Mr. Henry Kent), at the printing-office, No.
21 in Finch-lane, near the Royal Exchange; and
by the booksellers and pamphlet shops of London and
Westminster, 1776. (Price One Shilling.)"
There is also the following " Preface :"
" The many preceding impressions of this book
have sufficiently proved the usefulness of it to people
in business, without any farther recommendation ;
and to render every edition complete, great care is
taken to correct the alterations that happen. As this
Directory will annually require re-printing (1), on
account of removals, deaths, new partnerships, and
other accidents, the printers will always be glad of
written informations, in such cases, before the month
of March, that they may be better enabled to rectify
every new edition accordingly."
There is a woodcut representing an antique-looking
man-of-war, under full sail, with the sun above,
displaying his broad face and rays ; the Houses of
Parliament in the back ground, and one of the royal
palaces in front, with trees resembling respectable
cabbages.
The total number of names in this Directory is
only about 6,000! The name of the Lord Mayor
was, "The Right Honourable John Sawbridge,
Esq. ;" and among the aldermen is the celebrated
" John Wilkes, Esq.," for the ward of
" Farringdon Without." The private residence
of Wilkes is stated to have been at No. 7,
Prince's-court, George-street, Westminster. The Go-
vernor of the Bank of England was "Samuel Beach-
croft, Esq., No. 8, Little St. Helen's, Bishopsgate-
street.," and the Deputy-Governor, " Peter Gaussen,
Dq." Of the East India Company, the chairman
was " John Roberts, Esq , Strand ;" and the Deputy-
Chairman, " William James, Esq., Gerard-street,
Soho." Then follows a list of the directors of the far-
famed South Sea Company—" The King's Most Ex-
cellent Majesty, Governor; Thomas Coventrye, Esq.,
Sub-Governor, Sergeant's Inn, Fleet-street; and
Samuel Sale, Eq., Deputy -Governor, No. 2, Crown-
office-row, Inner Temple ; and Claude Crispigny,
Secretary, No. 18, Old Broad-street."
It would appear there were then only three In-
surance offices in London, viz., the Royal Exchange,
the Sun, and the London Assurance.
There were 52 bankers, among whom appear the
names of the respectable old firms of Messrs. Barclay.
Bevan, and Bening ; Robert Child and Co. ; Thomas
Coutts and Co.; Robert Drummond and Co. ; Sir
Thomas Ilallifax, Mills, Glynn, and Milton ; Han-
bury, Taylor, and Co. ; Martin, Stone, Blackwell,
and Foote; Prescotts, Grotes, Culverden, and Hol-
lingsworth ; Smith, Payne, and Smith, &c , &c.
Appended to this curious old London Directory
there is " The Shopkeeper's and Tradesman's As-
sistant; being a New and Correct Alphabetical List
of all the stage coaches, carriers, coasting vessels,
&o. ; containing also an account of the several inns in
London where the coaches and carriers put up and go
out from ; the days of the week, and hours of those
days,whenithey set out, and the customary fares,of the
coaches for carrying passengers, &c., the whole being
well digested, is designed as a proper assistant for
shopkeepers, tradesmen, and others, who have occasion
to write or send goods into the country (price one
shilling)." The date of this queer " Assistant" is
1773, and the editor declares he has spared neither
pains nor cost upon it. There was no coach from
London to Glasgow in those days. The vehicle was a
waggon, and the " Assistant" records that it left the
White Horse, Cripplegate, every Monday at tiiv
o'clock afternoon. A" vessel" also sailed from " o
milton's and Glasgow Wharfs, Lower East Smitha--
" field, Hawley's and lore's Wharfs, Hermitage."hn
Who knows but this Glasgow waggon mitay
that identical one in which Roderick Random
been
Strap fell in with Captain Weasel, and the anotheemr dis-
tinguis.hed;company,when assailed bythe highwayman
on on their way from the
London, beyond Newcastle much to the consterna-
n-ighest tof Glasgow to
consterna-
tion of the Prince of Shavers,mucrecorded in that re-
freshing history,
waggon, but no coach
Edinburgh also its London
whileg modest Paisl.ey's. tra-
vellers were water-borne; • but whether this vessel
came to an anchor at the Water-Neb, or furled her
red sails in the limpid waters of the Pudzeoch cannot
bt satisfactorily made out from the antique pages of
the London
shopkeeper's
Assistant ;"
" and it seems
doubtful if either of these havens had yet appeared
in any well-known chart of the British coasts. So
much for this droll old London Directory. Z.
Glasgow, Dec. 4, 1851.

SALE OF THE GROUND RENTS OF THE LYCEUM
THEATAL—The freehold ground rents of the building so
well known and so much frequented by the public from
tin.e immemorial, as the Lyceum Theatre, will on the 26th
of JA'wary be brought to the hammer, as well as the ground
rent of several of the houses in the vicinity. It is stated
that this is to be done that some enterprising builder or
man of capital may be got to erect houses on the vacant
space north of the Lyceum, and complete the street. At
present this vacant space is a receptacle of rubbish and filth
w:thia, and an eye-sore and a nuisance to the passers-by
without.

WEST INDIAMAIL.
Yesterday the Avon arrived et Southampton with
the West India and Pacific mails. Her dates are—
Grey town, Nov. 20; Cbagres, 24; Carthagena, 27;
Jamaica, 29 ; Demerara, 27; St. Tho
Amongst her cargo is :—Specie mas, Dec. 5.
, 1291
789 serous of cochineal, 256 serons,
0f,558 dollars ; quinine, 118
cuses of cigars, 55 bales of tobacco, 98 bales of sarsa-
parilla, and 70 packages of sundries.
Amongst the passengers is Doctor Cullen, the pro-
jector of the great ship canal across the Isthmus of
Darien. He has come to England to advocate the
adoption of the ship canal.

BRITISH GUIANA.
At Demerara the weather has been highly favour-
able to the crops. There are, however, signs that a
change is about totakeplace, and the wet season usual
at this season of the year to set in.
Abstracts of the census of the population taken on
the 31st of March last have been published by order
of the Government. According to the returns the
total population of the colony amounted at the end
of March to 127,695 persons, 97,554 of whom con-
stituted our rural population, and the remaining
30,141 our urban. Of those 97,554, 50,259 were
inhabitants of Demerara, 24,925 of Essequibo, and
22,370 of Berbice ; while of the 30,141 persons resi-
dent in the town, 25,508 belonged to Georgetown,
and 4,633 to New Amsterdam. There is no great
disparity between the sexes, though, owing to the
importations of late years of Coolie immigrants, who
are mostly males, there is an excess of males over fe-
l:noes:d es. Of the total number of 127,695, 86,451 are
natives of British Guiana, the remainder being com-
noun tries.of immigrants of all classes and almost all

J AMAIC A.
Frein this island we have accounts to the 29th ult.,
from which it appears that the cholera was still raging
there. The Cornwall Chronicle says that at Sudbury
eluding Kirk Patrick Hall Estate,
village, on the grand interior road to Falmouth, in-
north of the Montego Bey river, the disease has be-
come prevalent, and several deaths have cc
and Orange to the
those districts. Since the 13th of , September 66
deaths have taken place in the town ; 17 of these
occurred in
were from that date to the 31st October, and from the
Ist of November to yesterday, the 24th, 49 neW
mounds have been raised in the cholera graveyard;
thus showing an average of two daily within the last
twenty•four days. It is estimated that four or five
times the number of those that have died have been
successfully treated, including the cases which have
appeared in the incipient stage of the complaint, and
to which immediate preventive re
Plied• elf tThe disease has also manifested itself were
virulently
at Montego Bay, in Westmoreland, and Trelawney. The small-pox was still very bad in the Duncan's
district of Trelawney. The weather, however, had
assumed a mild and serene appearance, Which was
regarded as an augury of returning health for the
island.