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7 SEPTEMBER 94 1851.
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THE THIRD VOLUME of HOUSEHOLT )
WORDS, a Weekly Journal, conducted by CHARLES DICI
AS, will be published on the 29th instant, price ss. 6d. cloth.
Vnlutnes I. ant 11. may be had, price 51. 6d each, in cloth. Al, In,
'rilE FIRS 1: VOLUME of the HOUSE [TOL D
NARRATIVE, of CURRENT EVENTS. Price 3i. in ch tb.
Published at 16, Wellington street North, Strand.

NEW WORK BY ALBERT ANI) JOHN LEECH.
THE FOURTH NUMBER OF
11 II E M 0 N T Fl.
A View of Passing Subjects and Manners, Home and Forei. n;
Social, and Gmeral. By ALREItT SMITH. Illustrated by JOI3 .N"
LEECH, will be published on the 30th instant, price One Shilling..
Office, No. 3, Whitefriars-street.

MR. WARREN'S NEW WORK,
H E LILY AND THE BE E,
APOLOGUE of the CRYSTAL PALACE,
lo now published, and may be had of all Booksellers, price 5 j.,
bound in cloth gilt.
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.

rAuis EXCURSIONS.
Just published, an entirely New and Corrected Edition of.-
GALIGNANI'S GUIDE to PARIS; with a
Map and Plates. Price 10s. 6d. bound; may be had without
the Plates, 7s. 61. bound.
London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.

On the Ist October,
ZADKIEL'S ALMANAC for ] 852.
Twenty-second Yearly Edition, price Sixpence.
CONTENTS :—Fate of France, Ireland, Italy, R nne !—The Great
Eclipse: its Effects on the rope.—The Magic Crystal again.—Nu-
nierous Woodcuts.
A. Hall and Co., 25, Paternoster-row.
`l.

ALL SO PP'S EAST INDIA PALE and
other BURTON ALES.
The public is respectfully informed that these favourite Ales may
be had Genuine, in Casks of 18 Gallons and inwards, at their respec-
tive Stores as under, where also a List of the Bottlers may be ob-
tained:—

The Brewery, Burton-on-Trent.
Stores, 61, King William-street, City, London.
Cook-street, Liverpool.
Hight street, Birmingham.
Tho Exchange, Manchester.
33, Virginia-street, Glaggovt.

MUTUAL ASSURANCE WITHOUT PERSONAL LIABILITY.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
Established in 1837.
NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
POULTRY, MANSION-HOUSE, LONDON.
September, 1851.
ROBERT WILCOXON, Esq., Chairman.
Parties desirous of participating in the profits to be distributed on
July isti 1856, must send in their proposals on or before the 30th
instant.

JEN-Kt

ANNUAL DIVE
Examples of Bonus

N JONES, Actuary and Secretary.
SION OF PROFITS.
; Declared July 1, 1851.

Years
in
Force.

Age on
effecting
Assurance.

Sum
Assured.

Addition
to
Sum Assured.

£ s. d.
418 15 0
111 13 0
363 8 0
109 6 0
102 11 0
197 7 0
170 11 0
166 5 0
132 17 0
154 7 0

MITE LATE FATAL ACCIDENTS
INSURANCE against ACCIDENTS of ALL KINDS, whether
from Falls of Houses, Fires, Railway Collisions, Explosions or any
other cause whatever.
ACCIDENTAL DEA.TII INSURANCE COMPANY,
7, Bank-buildings, Lothbury, London.
Incorporated under 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110.
Canamen—KENYON S. PARKER, Esq., Q.C.
Distinctive Features of the Company.
A fixed payment in case of death from accident or violence.
To Insure 1001. by Annual Payment.
Class I. I Class IL I Class 111.
2s. 6d. ss. Is. 6d. to 40s.
Single Payment for Life, Class 1., 11. Is.
A fixed payment in case of death from accident or violence, with
a fixed weekly sum in case of non-fatal injury, and an allowance for
medical expenses.
To insure 1001. on death, IL per week compensation, and 21. for
medical expanses, by annual payment.
Class I. I Class 11. I Class 111.
12s. 15s. 20s. to 50s.
A fixed sum on death by accident while travelling on a railway, with
compensation in case of non-fatal accident, by annual payment.
To insure £lOOO • • 10s.
500 •• ,• 7s.
300 .• • . • • 6s.
Prospectuses, with further information, may be had at the offices
the Company, or from any of the Company's Agents.
WILLIAM YOUNG, Secretary.

The GREAT EXHIBITION and the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTION.

All the most interesting Deposits at the Great Exhibition will, in
turn, be lectured on at the
OYAL POI. YTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
ro The present Lectures are by J. 11. Pepper, Esq., on the Ap-
plication of Iron and Steel In the Manufactures of the United King-
dom, now exhibiting in the Crystal Palace ; and by Dr Bachhoffner
on the ElectrO-Metallic Deposits there, illustrated by a splendid se-
ries of Messrs. Elkington's Specimens. —The Exhibition of the Oxy-
Hydrogen Microscope, magnifying objects upwards of 100,000 times
their natural size.—The great economy of Cooking by Gas explained.
—A Lecture on the History of the Harp, by Frederick Chatterton,
Esq., with Vocal Illustrations.—A Series of splendid Dissolving
Views.—Diver and Living Bell, &c.
Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price.
Open daily from Half-past Ten to Five, and every Evening from
Seven till Halt-past Ten.

LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO,
Licensed by Act of Parliament.
AIiGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL-
STREF.T, ST. JAMES'S.
'Sole Lessee, Charles Emile Laurent, jun., 57, Brompton-sqtlare.)
OPEN EVERY EVENING,
With LAURENT'S UNRIVALLED BAND.
Principal Cornet-a-Pistons, M. Boulcoart.
Doors open at Half-past Eight o'clock—Dancing to commsnoo at
Sine and terminate at Half-past Eleven o'clock precisely.
Admission, Ono Shilling.

THE GREATEST WONDER IN LONDON IS
BATTY'S GRAND NATIONAL
HIPPODROME, Kensington.
OPEN DAILY.
L AST WEEK BUT TWO.
In consequence of the Evenings drawing in, the Doors will be
opened at Half•past Four, and the performance commence at Five
o'clock.
Immense success of Franconi and his celebrated trained horses.
An entire Change of Performance.
M. Franconi'e Wonder of the World—the Jumping Steed.
The proprietor, determined to keep pace with its rival, the Great
Exhibition, has decided upon continuing the Hippodrome open until
the close of the Crystal Palace, and begs to intimate to 1113 patrons
and the public that as he opened on the same day as the Palace of
Industry, and as his career of success is without parallel, that ho
would impress upon the minds of his friends the necessity of an early
visit, as it will positively close on the llth of October. This Evening
and during the week, the performances will assume the most novel
and unique caste.
Doors open at Half-past Four, commence precisely at Five.
Mr. Batty has much pleasure in announcing to his Patrons that
TO-MORROW, September 25, there will be a Grand DAY PER-
FORMANCE. Doors open at One, to commence! precisely at Two.
The entertainments in the Evening as usual.
Private Boxes - "
Admission to the Reserved Seats
First-class do. - -
Second do. - -
Third do.

- - XI Is. Od.
- - as. Od.
- - - 2s. Od.
- - - Is. Od.
- - Os. 6d.

CREMORN E.—Admission, One Shilling ;
Children, Half-price.
4C new Italian Ballet Pantomime, entitled Harlequin and the Four
Elements ; or Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, with entire new scenery,
appointments,, &c., of the most magnificent description, arranged by
the Deulin Family.
Engagement of the celebrated Italian Rope Dancer and Ascention-
ist, S gnora Pauline Violante ; also Herr Henric, the celebrated Pos-
ture Master and Equilibrist, assisted by the renowned German Buffo
Herr Jung, will appear every evening.
Each Night, at Ten o'clock (except Thursday), a Grand Balloon
Ascent with brilliant revolving feux d'artiflce, by Mertratn.
THIS DAY—Great Terpsichorean Fete, for the Benefit of Mr.
J. Bland, Director of the Danchig.
TO-MORROW—For the Last Time, a repetition of the Grand
Naval Fete at Half-past Ten o'clock, of the Taking of Gibraltar, and
Storming of the Town and Fortress, by a numerous fleet of steam-
vessels manned by experienced crews, with the sanction of the di-
rectors of the Citizen and Iron Boat Companies. T. B. Simpson has
the henour to inform his friends and the public that nothing has been
neglected to render this representation truly magnificent, new and
extensive scenery and costumes having been made for this occasion.
The River Esplanade is the only place in London where a spectacle
of this magnitude can take place. The Pyrotechnic department un-
der Chevalier Mortram.
FRIDAY, and SATURDAY—Grand Exhibition Galas, brilliant
Illuminations, with unsurpassed Fireworks.
M. Dosisio, the celebrated composer of dancing music, con-
ducts the great Cremorne Band, and will execute all the
music which he composed and conducted at her Majesty's
Ball at Buckingham Palace. Exhaustless entertainments daily, in-
cluding the Bosjesmans or Bush People, Deulin's Ballet the Star of
Reality, the Ethiopian Serenaders, the double-sighted Youth,
Cantello's Egg-hatching, the Bowling Saloon, &c. Doors open at
half-past Two, admission Is., Children half-price. The Hotel affords
every accommodation for private and public dinner and supper par-
ties. Steam-boats and omnibuses nightly after the entertainments,
the transit being superintended by Directors. Fare, 4d. by Boat,
and 6d. by Omnibus.
On Sunday the Gardens are open in the afternoon for refreshment,
admission by refreshment card 6d. Table d'Hete at Four and Six
o'clock, 2s. 6d.

IN SIX LANGUAGES-FORTIETH EDITION.

C JNTAININQ TUE REM
DI EDY FOE
THE
PREVENTION OF
SEASE.

Illustrated by One Hundred Atinateetoi.mical Coloured Exgravings on

ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA-
PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
A. New and Improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, price le. 6d,
by post, direct from the Establishment, 31. 6d. in postage stamps,
All Communications being strictly conadential, the Authors have
discontinued the publishing of Cases.
TH' SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by
sicsssive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of
mercury, with explicit directions for the use of the preventive lotion,
followed by observations en the Married State, ana the disqaalifica-
Vona which prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By
R. and L. PERRY and CO., 19, terners-street, Oxford-street, Lon-
don. Published by the Authors ; and sold by itranga, 21, Pater-
noster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; and Gor-
don, 146, Leadonhall-street, Londen.
Pam' I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productlve
organs, and is illustrated by 2i Coloured Engravings.
Par.T 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive In-
inlgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing
mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative
incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanatory Engravings.
Pawl' 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for
their treatment. Thin section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Ent
tt
PART IT. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a
simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated.
This important part of the Work should not escape the reader's
notice.
Parr V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its du-
ties. The causes of nnproductive union are also considered, and the
Wool° subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
Tux CoautaL BALE of STRIACUM is exclusively employed in
treating nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., I Is. and 335.
Per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic
remedy, for purifying else blood in cases of infection, secondary
symptoms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 335. per
bottle. Perry'a Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d-, 45. 6i., and I Is.
Per box, a certain remedy tor gonorrhcoa, gleet, stricture, and
chronic indammaticn of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter,
1/. A minute detail of the case is required: age, habits, and posi-
tion in society. Si. Packets, with advice, to bo had at the Esta-
blishment only, by which the fee, 1/., is saved. Messrs. Perry,
are in attendance daily at 19, Bernars-street. Oxford-street, Lon-
don, from Elevea tut
Two, and ITN to Eight; og frola
PM to. Oue,

CI AME • SEASON.—CROSSE and BLACK-
Vi WELL, Purveyors in Ordinary by Appointment to her Ma-
Jest) , beg respectfully to inform the Nobdity and Gentry that they
continue to manufacture the celebrated SOllO SAUCE, which will
be found superior for every description of Game ; also their im-
proved Essence of real Gorgona Anchovies, Dinsmore's Essence of
Shrimps for boiled and fried Fish ; Royal Table Sauce, Sir Robert
Peel's Sauce, for general purpoies, Anchovy Paste, Strasburg Potted
Meats, &c. The whole of the above, together with their superior
Pickles, may be obtained of nil the principal Sauce Vendors through-
At. the Kingdom.
Manufactory, 21, 83ho-square, London.
Established 1706.

REMOVED to No. 9, GREAT WINCHESTER-STREET, OLD
BROAD-STREET, ROYAL EXCHANGE.
CXRSON'S ORIGINAL AN I I-CORROSION
'PAINT, specially patronised by the British and other Govern-
ments, the lion. East India Company, the principal Dock Companies,
most Public Bodies, and by the Nobility, Gentry, and Clergy for out-,
door work at their country seats. The Anti-Corrosion Is particularly
recommended as the must durable out-door Paint ever invented, for
the preservation of every description of Iron, Wood, Stone, Brick,
Compo, Cement, &c., work, as has been proved by the practical test
of tipwards Of 60 years, and by the numerous (between 50 t and 600)
testimonials In its favour, and which,: from the rank and station in
"society of those who have given them, have never yet been equalled
by anything of the kind hitherto brought before the public notice.
Lists of Colours, Prices, together with a copy of the Testimonials,
will be sent on application to Walter Carson and Son, No. 9, Great
Winchester-street, Old Broad-street, Royal Exclia•Te, London.
NoAgents.—Al orders are particularly requested to be sent direct.

of shots and shelf's. Foreigners require a card from
the legation of the country to which they belong
grid the name of cyery person forming a party must
be written upon it. A special order is required from
the Board of Ordnance, London, or from
the office of the Commandant of the Garrison, to view
the interior cf the-departments. The Rotunda—Ad-
mission gratis, 29 without order, to view the ar-
moury and models daily, except Saturday and Sun-
day, from 9to 11, and from 4. Visitors give
their names at the entrance. The Dockyard—Admis-
sion gratuitously, and without orders, from 9 till half-
ps:,,t 11, and from half-past 1 till 4 o'clock. Foreigners
mutt produce cards from their respective legttions.
To view the interior of the department, a special order
is required from the Admiralty et Whitehall, or the
Comuaodore-Stmerinzeneent at tVoolwich. Exercises
of the Rovsl Horse Artillery and Field Batteries on
Viroolwich' Common.—Theso generally take place on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and -Thursdays, when the
weather is favourable ; but the assembling of the
troops dep?nds upon the ,other duties they have to
• perform in the garrison. Mortar and Howitzer Prac-
tice—Visitors have the hest opportunities of witness-
ing this practice from half-past 2to half-past 3 o'clock
on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
GREENWICH HOSPITAL--Daily, gratis; picture gallery,
2d.; chapel, 2d.
CRELsEA. HOSPITAL.—gaiIy (gratis).
DULwlcli GALLERY (five- milei from London).—Mon-
day, Tuesday, WednesdayOhursday, and Saturday
(gratis), from joai 4t#t"Mckets, tq,bo procured from
the principal print-sellers in London.
THE. FLAxmAN SCULPTURE GALLERY, AT UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE, GOWER-STREET.—(Free)-- Saturdays, from

1 till 6.
THE MUSEUM OF PRLOTICAL GEOLOGY,. JERMYN•

STREET.—(Fred)—=-Mopdays, Tuesdays, and Wednea-

days, from 10 till 5.
THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, LAMB'S CONDUIT STREET.
—Mondays, from 12 till 4—(Free.) Divine service
on Sandays at 11 and 3; a trifling gratuity in silver
for the bouefit of the charity.
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, WALBROOli.—(Free)—Mom
days, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from 11 till 3.
CROSBY HALL, BISHOPSGATE-STREET.—(Free)—Every
day.
THE CHAPEL ROYAL, WHITEHALL—SundayF, at 10

and 2.
ST. SAVIOUR'S, BOROUGH.—(Free)—Sundays, at 10
and 2.

SHIP NEWS.

GRAVESEND, SEPT. 23.—Wind N.N.E., light, fine.
Arrived Fantome, from Jamaica; Robert Peel, from
New York; Rattlesnake, from Oporto; Aurora, from St.
Petersburgh; George Evans, from Quebec; Thom's
Henry, from Antigua; Capella, from Valparaiso; Agin-
court, from Manilla; Tevio, from Finland; Mary Mon-
tague and Jane, from Jamaica; Rosalie, from Nevis;
Sarnia, from Hamburgh.
Sailed Johanna Sophia and Elise Anna, for the Baltic;
Fury, for Memel; Fidante and Alice, for Rio Janeiro;
Twendo Broders and Fadrens Minds, for the Baltic;
Lady Elythia, for Alicante; Green Isla, for New Diep;
Giraffe, for Rotterdam; City of Boulogne, for Boulogne;
Panther, for Ostend; Eclipse, for Madeira.

When made up Its From what When
PLACES. General Post-office port dis- due.
London, patched.
America (by Brit. pkt.) N Sept. 26 ~ Liverpool .• Oct. 1
America (by U.S. pkt.) N Sept. 30 .. Liverpool .. Sept 24
America (by U.S. pkt.) M Sept 24 Southampt. Oct. 2
Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month Plymouth Oct. 3
Alexandria* • • ...... N th & 30th of mo. Dover .. Sept. 25
Belgium • . N Daily .. •Dover .. Daily
Brasil .. • • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Oct. 16
Buenos Ayres • • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Oct. 16
California(viaChagres) Di 2d & 17th of month Southampt. Oct. 5
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth.. Oct. 3
Constantinople* N 7tlll7th 27th ofmo Dover .. Sept. 20
Central America .. M2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. Oct. 4
Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., &Fri. Southampt. To. Th. Sat
Chili . 1.1,17 th of the month Southampt. Oct. 5
Franco &N Twice daily .. Dover .. Twicedally
Greece* N 7th 17 th 27th of mo Dover • • Sept. 31
Hamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London .. Toes. Sat.
Wednos. Satur.,Louden Dion.Ther
Honduras N'l7th of the mouth Southaropt. Oct. 5
Ireland .. M•Fe N Twice daily ..111olyhead Twice Cally
India(via Southamp.) 31 20th of the month Southampt. Oct. 21
India (via Marseilles) N eth& 24th ef month Dover • • Oct, 1
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) .. Di 20th of the month Southampt. Oct. 23
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) N Rh& 24t14 ofmenth Dover .. Oct. 1
Mexico .. DI 2d of the month.. Sontharopt. 'Oct. 5
Madeira 241,9 th of the month Southampt. lOct. 16
Malta* i7th,l7 th,l9th,27th Dover Sept. 28
& 30th of month
Naples* .. • . Nlsth 15th 25th oftne,Dover .. Oct. 2
Papal States* .. sth 15th 25th of mo;Dover Oct. 2
Peninsular.. 711117th 27th of mo'SouthamPt. 'Sept. 26
Peru • • .. 31117th of the month 16outhampt. Oct. 5
Tuscany* .. • • Ni.sth 151125th ofrao Dover .. Oct. 2
West Indies .. 17th of the moath Southampt. 'Oct. 5
West Indies (oxcept
Havanna & Nassau) M 2d of the month ..,Southampt. Oct. 20
A* The mails to those countries thus marked (*) are convoyed b 7
French packet vfa Marseilles.
CALIFORNIA.—ManB to and from California, via the United States
are now despatched and due by every American packet.

FRENCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
The following are the last returns of the gross re-
ceipts of the principal French Railways :
NORTIIERN.—From Sept. 10 to Sept. 16: Passengers,
446,587 f.; goods, 255,714 f.: total, 702,301 f.
ROUEN.—From Sept. 7 to Sept. 13 : Passengers,
131,1581.; goods, 87,9521.; total, 218,750 f.
ITA.vus.—From Sept. 7 to Sept. 13: Passengers,
51,390 f.; goods, 37,425 f.; total 88,815 f.
ORLEANS.—From Sept. 8 to Sept. 14: Passengers,
113,9581. ; goods, 114,1601.; total, 228,1181.
BORDEAUX.—From Sept. 2 to Sept. 8: Passengers,
80,290 r.; goods, 44,917 f.; total, 125,207 E
VIERZON.—From Sept. 8 to Sept. 14 : Passengers,
43,442 f.; goods, 39,970 f.; total, 83,412 f.
NANTES.--From Sept. 6 to Sept. 12 : Passengers,
51,376 f.; goods, 21,451 f.; t0ta1,72 827 f.
STRABBURG.—From Sept. 10 to Sept. 16: Passengers,
144,777 f, ; goods, 87,039 f.; total, 231,8161.
BALE.—From Sept. 1 to Sept. 7: Passengers,
34,433 f.; goods, 20,1421.; t0ta1,54,575f.
MONTEREAII.—From Sept. 3 to Sept. 9: Passengers.
12,4981.; goods, 13,864 f.; total, 26,357 f.
MARSEILLES.—From Sept. 3 to Sept. 9: Passengers,
52,1941.; goods, 22,902 f.; total, 75,0961
LIONS.—From Aug 31 to Sept. 6 : Passengers,
288,750 f.; goods, 78,0101.; total, 366,760'.

M. iTunins.—M. Thiers is recruiting himself after
the fatigues of the season at the watering-places of the Py-
renees. The illustrious statesman makes long excursions to
mountain peaks, and through ravines, bent on geological re-
searches. On a recent occasion he was very near falling a
victim to the ardour of his pursuits. It appears that M.
Thiers's favourite dress, in his character of mountaineer,
consists of an entire suit of nankeen—blonse, trousers,
jacket, and even cap, arc all yellow. On the 22d of last
month he was making a reconnoissance on the edge of one
of the precipices of the Pyrenees, when he heard suddenly the
report of a rifle, accompanied by a certain tincomftrtable
hissing sound just above his head, which speedily brought
the historia❑ of a hundred battles into a very humiliating
position—it plot centre on the ground. He concluded that he
was about to be made a prisoner by the contrabandists, and
in mortal agony crouched amongst the brushwood. Turn•
ing out of his hiding-place, however, he saw presently ap-
proach a band of sportsmen, who had, not very unnaturally,
when one considers the Tan and the nankeens, mistaken the
ex-Minister for a chamois.

PEDESTAIA.NISM.— On Wednesday afternoon, a
pedestrian, named T. S. Gibson, commenced the performance
of a feat here similar to that recently accomplished at Shef-
field by blanks. The match is, to walk 1,000 half miles in
1,000 successive half hours, 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours, and
1,000 quarter miles in 1,000 quarter tours, for the sum of
150/. a side. The ground is measured off in a small garden
at Restalrig, near Jock's
.Lodge, fourteen circuits of which
are equal to one mile. Gibson has in a vigorous manner, ac-
complished two days of the above ten weeks' undertaking.
and is sanguine of its successful termination. He is about 22
years of age, of the middle size, and muscular; and many
who have seen him entertain a favourable opinion of his
0114 to execute the arduous ta4l6—Edinburgh avant.

FAMILY COLONIZATION LOAN SOCIETY.

A public meeting of emigrants about to proceed to•
Australia by the Athenian, a vessel chartered by the
Family Colonizstion Loan Society, was held on Mon-
day on board. The ship lies in the East India Docks,
whence she is to start on her voyage for Adelaide
and Port Philip to-lay. Tne society was origi-
nated by Mrs. Chisholm, and has for its object the
foundation of a self. supporting system of colonization.
One third of the passage-money has ben advanced
to the emigrants, the loan to be repaid within two
years ; but the mare remarkable feature of the so-
ciety is the arrangement under which emigrants are,
formed into groups, each member of which is to a
certain extent responsible for every other, no one
being admitted except after due inquiry. The society
has prospered greatly, and the Athenian is the third
ship it has sent out. She is a fine vessel, of 670
tons, and looke i extremely well. As the meeting
on Monday was open to the friends of the emigrants,
and the time of departure was so near, a very large
company assembled ; and at two o'clock, when tne
Earl of Shaftesbury, who was to preside, came on
board, almost all the available space on deck was oc-
cupied, including such parts of the rigging as lands-
men could venture upon.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, in proceeding to ad-
dress the assembly, said he desired to express the
respect he felt for the emigrants before him, who had
made such industrious exertions to better their con-
dition—creditable not only to themselves, but to the
class to which they belonged.— (Hear, hear.) He
met them with pleasure, but with pleasure not un-
mixed with regret that our native land was to lose the
labour and the presence of so many of its honest inha-
bitants. At the same time, he felt that we were ful-
filling the great law of' Providence, and " replenish-
ing the earth," and that, although there might be at
the moment some slight disruption of domestic ties,
yet in the end the great family of mankind would be
largely and permanently benefited.—(Hear.) Per-
haps he might be allowed to take the opportunity of
mentioning that he had received a letter from Sydney
complaining of his having represented, at a meeting
in Edinburgh, that Sydney was not a place to which
members of our families could be safely sent; he had
certainly been under the impression that that was a
place to which it was not so advisable to send re-
spectable women as to our other colonies, but, if he
had been misinformed, he was extremely sorry for the
wrong he had done, and anxious to retract the asser-
tion.—(Hear.) He could not suffer the occasion
to pass without adverting to the remarkable intelli-
gence from Australia, announcing that fields of gold
of almost unlimited extent had been discovered, and
promising—it must be remembered it was only
promising—unbounded wealth to those engaged in
the pursuit of the precious ore. It was not for him to
say that mischiefs must necessarily result from these
discoveries ; all he asked of the emigrints was to be
careful, to weigh the matter deliberately, to exercise
self-control, and let experience and principle be
heard, before suffering themselves to be absorbed by
the tide which was about to set in to the district of
Bathurst in Australia.—(Hear.) He would ask
them to go out with their eyes open, and with a de-
termination that by God's blessing nothing should
supersede that without which there could be no se-
curity or honour for realms, no peace or happiness for
families—honest, steady, regular, industrious exertion.
—(Hear, hear.) For the strength and security of a
nation all the gold that ever should be found would
not be equal to the honest industry of a moral, pa-
tient, religious population.—(Hear, hear.) He
would not say that there might not be great benefit
involved in this discovery ; it might be the method of
Providence for peopling those vast regions.—(Hear.)
He trusted the emigrants before him were going out,
not like colonists of ancient times, but with all the
experience and science and power of modern civiliza-
tion—with the advantage of a good education, with
the word of God in their hands, and, he hoped, in their
hearts—(Hear, hear) ;—and that they might be
enabled to turn to permanent and useful account
those blessings of Providence, those gifts of God—
for His gifts they were, or they would not have been
found in the soil for men—gifts to be used for His
honour and for man's benefit.—(Hear, hear.) The
Noble Earl concluded 4is remarks by expressing a
hearty wish for the peace and prosperity -or-the' emi-
grants, and uttering a fe;vent prayer that God would
bless them in this life, and lead them to everlasting
happiness in the world to come.
Mr. L. FOSTER, late member of Council for Port
Philip, then addressed the emigrants, and said that
they would find many branches of industry open to
them ; indeed, he knew none which was not amply
remunerative: and, so far as he had observed, what-
ever distress existed was confined to cases where it
had been brought on by idleness, intemperance, dis-
honesty, or profligacy. There was no quarter of the
world where honesty was more appreciated. The
very fact of the presence of a class expatriated for
their crimes, and their having a name for dishonesty,
made honesty the more prized. Character would be
more valueble to the emigrant then a pocketful! of
sovereigns.— (Hear, hear.) Comfortable circum-
stances were not, indeed, to be attained without work
and frugality ; but their was ample opportunity for
the industrious.—(Cheers.) The truth was, too,
that people liked Mrs. Chleholm's emigrants better
than any others, and he trusted the present party
would keep up the character earned by those she had
sent out.—(Cheers )
Mr. SIDNEY would state to the visitors the nature
of the society under whose auspices these emigrants
were going out. It was well known that Mrs. Chis-
holm, who went to Australia many years ago for the
benefit of her health, took a great interest when there
in the welfare of the emigrants. She established a
temporary home for females in Sydney, and headed
parties into the interior with a view to place the emi-
grants in respectable situations, and distribute them
where labour was demanded. When she returned to
this country she devoted herself to giving advice and
assistance to emigrants. The constitution of this
society, instituted by her, was of the following de-
scription :—Persons belonging to the working classes
disposed to emigrate were advised to lay by money
weekly or otherwise, till it amounted to two-thirds of
their passage money ; the remainder was to be lent to
them, without interest, to be repaid in the colony
within two years after tbeir arrival. But it was de-
sired that they should know something of one another ;
and accordingly the emigrants were formed into
groups of not Jess than nine individuals. Every ap-
plicant was referred to. one of these groups, end the
group made themselves acquainted with him, and
ascertained whether his promise to repay the loan
might be relied on, every member of each group being
liable to pay 103. for any member of it who should make
default in repayment. Friends and relatives were
thus united, and individuals were introduced as to a
family.—(llear, hear.) The sccie • on the other
hand, took great pains to maintain comfort and order
on the passage, and to secure health and a good moral
tone among the emigrants.—(Hear, hear.) The
berths were enclosed, and suited to the various parties,
whether a married couple with young children, or
single men and women ' • the lads and girls of a family
would be placed near the parents ; every single woman
would be under the care of some one. of the mothers
who went out. This ship would take out but 208
adults ; she had taken out as many as 350 troops.
Mr. It. LOWE, late member of Council for Sydney,
tendered some practical advice to those who were
going out. He counselled them to employ the period
of the voyage carefully, in acquiring knowledge and
self-discipline. When they arrived, they would hear
a great deal about gold discoveries;—he would say,
" Let other people go gold hunting, you will derive
the benefit of the discovery in the advanced rate of
wages in the market, from which so much labour will
be withdrawn."—(Hear, hear.) The gold-field was a
lottery, in which a vast number would draw blanks,
and in a country where there was a number of
persons who had been transported for their crimes,
and whose sentences had expired, but who had not
all become reformed men, there would be congregated
in the gold-field a desperats and reckless set, whom
every prudent man would wish to avoid.—(Hear.)
Probably, before the requisite force could be applied
by the Government, there would be scenes that would
rival those in California.—(Hear.) The superior
class of emigrants sents out by Mrs. Chisholm would
command high wages gind situations of trust. The
great demand was for' people who could be trusted
when the employer's back was turned, and the economy
and self-denial which must have been exercised by
the emigrants present, in order to take advantage of
this society's offer, would be some guarantee for their
good conduct.—(Hear.) It was to be regretted that
the finds at Mrs. Chisholm's command were not
equal to the demand and the numbers requiring aid,
but, by working a little longer, they might raise the
whole capital themselves, and have the matter in their
own hands.—(Hear.)
A vote of thanks to the Earl of Shaftesbury, to the
committee, and to Mrs. Chisholm having been passed
with acclamation,

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY expressed his admira-
tion of the intelligent zeal and indefatigable exertions
of Mrs. Chisholm.—(Cheers.) The sudience had
probably heard something of " Bloomerisw," which
meant that ladies were to walk about in man's attire.
—(1 laugh.) Mrs. Chisholm had attained the highest
order of Bloomerism ; she had the heart of a woman
and the understanding of a man,--(Cheers.) Hs

[PRICE SD.

wished her " God speed," and prayed that she might
be made more end more instrumental in carrying out
great and beneficent and holy purposes.—(Hear.)
The assembly tken dispersed about the ship, and
inspected the arrangements of the vessel. They ap-
peared to indicate much care and judgment, and to
have been dicated by experience. Mrs. Chisholm, for
whom the emigrants seemed to have the most atree-
tionate regard and respect, was unwearkd in her
courteous attention to the demands made upon her
by visitors for explanation and description.

REPI?ESPIVTATION OF HERTFORDSHIRE.
We stated on Monday that a requ'sit!on bad been
presented to Sir E. Buti,yer Lytton, and that be had
consented to stand for Hertfordshire. The following
are the documents

" TO SIR EDWARD BUMPER LYTTON, DART.
" Sir,—Believing that you coincide with us as to
the destructive tendency of the best interests of our
country of that pernicious system of legislation lately
pursued, and as to the necessity cf arresting its pro-
gress, and affording encouragement to all branches of
native industry, by a judicious revision of our system
of taxation, we, the undersigned electors of the county
of Hertford, request that you will consent to support,
on the earliest opportunity, these our views, as Qur
third representative in Parliament.
" May 31."
To this requisition, signed not only by most of the
principal proprietors in the county, but by large
numbers of farmers, tradesmen, and other electors,
Sir Edward returned the following reply :
" Gentlemen,— I thank you sincerely and respect-
fully for the distinguished honour which your requi-
sition to become a candidate for the county of Hert-
ford, at the next general election, confers upon me.
" You rightly judge of my sentiments with re-
spect to the policy, erroneously called free trade,
pursued by the present Parliament.
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" Ever since 1834, when a motion by Mr. Hume
question of a repeal of the corn-laws, I have been
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never consented to accept that experiment which
strains and risks all the resources of an immense pro-
portion of my countrymen as a settlement that can be
advantageous to the permanent interests of the rest;
and I have never for an instant despaired of its revi-
sion. My convictions on this question are confirmed
by the utter falsification of the assurances and pre-
dictions upon which the experiment was based; by
my deep sympathy with the distress it has occasioned
throughout the agricultural class; and by my per-
suasion that the continuance of such distress cannot
fail to inflict a corresponding injury upon every
branch of trade and commerce that depends on the
national home market. For our producers are also
consumers, and whatever tends materially to diminish
the income derived from the capital invested in the
soil, must of necessity decrease the demand for all the
articles which the producers and owners of the soil
habitually consume. Common sense tells us that
whatever impoverishes the customer must ultimately
impoverish the tradesman.
" Nor, with respect to the labouring class, is it less
clear that the distress of the employers must at last
fall upon the employed; and must lower wages to a
far greater amount than the reduction at present
effected, or than can be compensated by the differ-
ence in the price of the loaf, since the rate of wages
depends on the extent of the fund for the mainte-
nance of labourers, compared with the number of
labourers to be maintained. And it follows, there-
fore, as the inevitable consequence of any long• con-
tinued agricultural distress, that the wages of the la-
bourer (if the population be not considerably lessened
by emigration) must be eventually lowered, not
merely to the relative price of the loaf, but in pro-
, portion as the fund from which the wages come is di-
minished. This truth is self-evident to the most or-
dinary understanding. If 1,0001, in any given dis-
trict, has hitherto been sub-divided into wages among
50 labourers, and 5001. of that fund is lost, while the
50 labourers remain, there is only half what there
was before to go to the maintenance of the same
number of persons. And though wages may fall
slowly, still to a level with the loss in the fund which
supplies them must wages obvlotisliand unavoidably
fall at last.

" do not disguise from you the pain
which I naturally feel, that my consistency on a
question that I regard es all-paramount should sepa-
rate me from a party to which I formerly rendered
some humble service, at a time, indeed, when its chiefs
seemed as much opposed to a repeal of the corn-lama
as myself, and had not reviewed that policy under
which, while the agriculture of this country made
the most signal progress, its manufactures and its
commerce had attained unparalleled eminence. Such
pain at the rupture of ancient ties, from a sense of
duty, every man of generous spirit will comprehend,
and he will feel that the greater the pain the deeper
and more honest the convictions by which it is con-
quered or consoled.
"Assured in my conscience that the time has come
when all who entertain my opinions must (vi hatever
their regard for individuals who differ from them),
exert all their efforts to arrest the progress of a system
which I concur with you in believing to be destruc-
tive to the best interests of our country, I accept your
support in the same spirit witb which you generously
tender it. All practical public men recognise those
principles of action by which minor considerations are
merged in the union necessary to secure such mea-
sures as they deem most essential to the safety and
prosperity of the State.

" If returned to Parliament as your representative,
you may rely therefore on my zealous endeavours to
procure and maintain 14 British industry that vital
justice, lost in the principle now pursued, which con-
founds free trade with fie e imports, and has for its ob-
ject the compulsory reduction of natural prices in a
highly tamed community to the level of foreign labour
free from our burdens, and for the encouragement of
foreign markets rigidly excluding our products.
"Permit me to add, also, that, regarding the
rights, liberties, and glory of England, as the espe-
cial charge of English statetmen, I shall endeavour,
while friendly to all wise and well•considered
measures for the improvement of our laws, for
the relief of taxation, or the more Equitable
distribution of its burdens, and for the social
progress of our people 'generally, to maintain the
institutions with which those rights, those liber-
ties, and that glory are inseparably identi-
fied ; that, while advocating freedom of conscienc, in
religious opinions, I shall uphold that Protestant
Church by which freedom of conscience was first es-
tablished ; and both as Protestant and as English-
man, I shall watch with Jealousy and resist with
firmness any renewed attempt of a Roman potentate
to undo the work of the Reformation, and render this
kingdom of England subordinate to the Papal see.
" I reserve to future occasions any more detailed
statement of my political opinions, which, right or
wrong, shall be at least as frankly expressed as they
are honestly conceived. I have now only to repeat
the assurance of my grateful pride in your con-
fidence ; and, sanctioned by a requisition com-
prising so large a portion of the most honoured
and influential names in this county, I submit my
cause, which I behave to be that of all who live iu
the land, and would fain live by it, to the sense and
judgment of the important constituency to which you
have invited me to appeal.—l have the honour to be,
gentlemen,bw yorotub, r most obliged,
Ilig,eldBs.
aold,, faithful servant,
" EDWARD BOLWER LITTON.
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THE OLD Housa OF COMMONS.—The carcase and
interior fittings of the old House of Commons are in a rapid
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the Speaker's chair was placed has been removed, not, as
m
was reported. to a Mr. Jones's 'country-house, but to the
Ship Discussion-hall, in the Kennington-road, where it has
been fitted up as the seat of honour for the president of that
institution. A great many of the foreign and country
visitors to the Great Exhibition, who daily frequent
West-
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when in-
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unseemly
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remaining fragments of what were for many are the
years the houses
in which the Imperial legislation was carried oil
of the materials are not expected to be cleafd. The whole
five or six weeks' time, and when cleared cleared away before
will be closed in from the courts of liiW on d away the apace
to the Victoria
Tower.