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ING, MAY 12 1856.

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PROFESSOR WILSON'S WORKS.
• Edited by his Son-ix-law, Professor FERRIER.
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,Fourth and Concluding Volume, with a Glossary and Index.
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JUNE : a Book for ,the Country in Summer
TIME. • •

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SAYINGS AND DOINGS DURING THE SIEGE.
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THE CAMP CLUB in the CRIMEA ; or,
Stories from the Tents ant Trenches.
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()N TRUE FALSE SPERMATORRH(EA,
kir with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the
Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread
Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure.
Translated from the ierman of Dr. PICKFORD.

" Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi-
cal contribution,. to German medical literature. This is the first
time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-medl-
-3al reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any
Ither equally flagrant evil which it may be in his p war to cor-
^ect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,'
end ',Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book
;mild find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from the corn-
)laint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would
be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of
'es3 importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize—
nueb money...—. This volume is well qualified to put an eud to the
empirical system of treating Spermatorrhosa, and to place the treat-
ment upon a more rational and phvelological basis. It is, therefore,
likely to do much good."—Medical Circular.
London: H. tsamere. 219, Regent-street.

BE PARTICULAR to address at full length
BENJAM IN EDGINOTON,
2, Duke-street, Southwark.
MARQUEES, TENTQ, and RICK CLOTHS.

RICK CLOTHS.—A. large quantity of canvas
intended for the Crimea has been made into itICK CLOTHS,
to he sold as second-hand at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
A List forwarded by post.— Address in fall, Benjamin Edgington,
2, Duke-street, Southwark.

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WEIITSUNTIDE EXCURSIONS to Leamington, Binning
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will leave Paddington on WEDNESDAY, 14th, and MOSDA.Y, 19th,
at 8 a.m., returning either on the 14th, 19th, 28th, or 30th of
May, from Liverpool (landing stage), at 8 ' a.m. andf intermediate
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and only available for the Excursion Trains. Children under twelve
half price.

pALAIR DESTROYER, 1, Little Queen-street,
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Hands, without the slightest injury to the skin. A. R. will warrant

it not to irritate the flesh in the smallest degree, and the hair to be
entirely destroyed.—Sold in bottles. at 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 10s. 6d. ;
or applied at the liair•dyeinq Establishment, as above. Forwarded
for stamps, tree by post, eight extra.

THE GREAT OYER of POISONING.—The
approaching Trial.—Let all people, from one end of the world
to the other, mark well the burthen of the song between the doctors
on the trial. Would the accused have ever been suspected but for
the insurance officeo Most certainly not. The same thing is being
enacted every day by these deadly poisons, but John Bull quietly
looks on. We emphatically declare that it cannot be otherwise.
Posterity will attest this.

Issued by the 1381 -H COLLEGE of HEALTH, New-road, Lon-
don, this 16th dtiy of April, 1856, for the Society of Hygeists.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.

TRIESEMAR.—On the 29th of May, 1855, an
injunction was granted by the Migh Court of Chancery, and
on the 11th of June following was made perpetual, against Joseph
Sranklin and others, to restrain thorn, under a penalty of one thou-
sand pounds, from imitatinz this Medicine, which is protected by
[loyal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the
Ecole de Pharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial Collage of Medicine,
Vienna.

OFFICE OF WORKS, &c.,
12, WrsTEHALL-PLACE, MAT 7, 1856.
TENDERS will be received at this Office from
Persons willing to enter into a CONTRACT to Supply and
deliver to Government Offices in London the following Articles, from
the Ist June nextto the 31st May, 1857, both inclusive:_
Genuine Sperm Oil, not less thanOlL lbs. to the
gallon . .
Cottons for ditto • •
Genuine Colza Gil, nit leas than lbs. to the
gallon . ......
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•• • • Genuine Rape Oil, not less than lbs. to the at per gross
gallon ..... •• • ..... •• . ............ .at per gallon
Cottons for ditto .
Genuine Sicilian Oil, not less than lbs to the
gallon... .••• • • • • ••• •.
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...... at per gross
Balls of C0tt0n........ • • .
Flat ditto ..
Tow
Spirits of Wine. ......... .........• • •
8 in. French Glass Lamp Chimneys
Ditto for Moderator Lamps
CANDLES. ••
Best Store or Dips, of any sizes required .at per dozen lbs.
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Best Composite
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" Tender for Supplying Government Offices." They must also be
delivered at the Office of Works on Tuesday, the 20th May instant,
before 12 o'clock at noon.
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required by the proper officer of this department, may be seen at this
Office between 10 and 4 daily (except Sunday) ; and printed Forms
of Tender may also be obtained at the same place.
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cepted is to enter into a formal contract, to the satisfaction of the
Flrot Co i.mlssioner, for the proper supply of the articles for 'which
his Tender is accepted.
By Order of the FirSt Commissioner of her Majesty's Works and

Buildings.
ALFRED AUSTIN, Secretary.

LONDON, MON DAY

! ' UtR A L Y A.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. •
The Royal Mail ship aCeari Chief, Capt. T. J.
Tobin, of the Black Ball line ,of Australian packets,
arrived off the coast of Cornwall last night, and
landed some of her passengers, amongst 41aiers
Capt. James Nicol Forbes, the commander= he
ill fated Schoenberg. Captain Forbes arrived in
Liverpool to-night, and supplied us with files of
Melbourne papers,to the 25th of February inclusive.
The Ocean Chief sailed from Port Philip Heads on
26th Feb., and arrived to; St. Ives in 73 days—the
fastest run made during The last 18 months.
She brought about 80 passengers and 50,000
ounces of gold, in addition to a cargo of wool and
copper ore.
The Royal Mail ship Marco Polo, with the Ens-
lish mails of Dec. 8, arrived in Hobson's Bay as the
Ocean Chief was leaving, 79 days from Liverpool.
The following vessels had also arrived :—At Mel-
bourne, Feb. 19—Helene,' from Hamburg ; 20th,
John Pearse and Nimrod, frOm London ; 21st,
Golden Era, from New York, and Cohota, from
Boston, U.S.; 23d, New Great Britain and Land
o' Cakes, from London. At Adelaide—Feb. 19 :
Albemarle and Investigator, from London. At
Geelong—Feb. 22: Steadfast, frcin London.
The Roxburgh Castle was to sail for London
March i ; Medway, March 2 ; George Marshall,.
8 ; and Viscount Canning, 21 ' • the. Eagle, for Li-
verpool, Feb. 27; and the, R.M.S. Mermaid,
March 10 ; and the Morning Star, for Bristol,
March 12. •

The charge against Captain Forbes was, after
some adjournments (oyving to prosecution not hav-
ing the case completer tried before the Chief Jus-
-tice.,in the Suprenie-Llnprt at Melbourne, on the
21st of Feb. Cap. Forbe§ was indicted under +he-
-239th clause of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854,
17 and 18 Vic., c. 1.04. The first charged the de-
fendant, as master of the ship Schoenberg, with
neglect of duty on the 26th December, 1855, iu
not altering the course of the ship, and thereby
causing the destruction thereof. The second count
was similar to the first, alleging the neglect of duty
to be not keeping the ship from the shore. The
third count alleged the neglect of duty to be that
the defendant himself did not keep diligent watch
on deck. The fourth count alleged the neglect of
duty to be not having the anchors ready to let go
on approaching the shore. The fifth count alleged
the neglect of duty to be in not letting go the an-
chors to prevent the vessel striking the shore. The
fifth count charged the defendant, as master of the
Schomberg, with standing too close to the shore,
whereby. the ship was destroyed.
The witnesses examined were James Hodge, the
boatswain ; Thomas Jenkins, a sailor ; H. Casey,
J. Conolly, F. Adams, and P. Ryan, passengers ;
Capt. B. R. Mathews, agent for Lloyd's, and late
commander of the Great Britain Capt. E. Devey
of the Australian ship Merrnaid,.and Capt. G. Doran,
of the coasting steamer Queen ; all on behalf of the
prosecution. After hearing the case for the
Crown, his Honour, without hearing any evidence
for the defence, said that it did not appear to him
that there was any evidence of a satisfactory nature
to justify them in convicting Captain Forbes, and
a verdict of not guilty was accordingly returned.
The counsel for Captain Forbes, Mr. Dawson, after
the decision, stated that lie had in court several of
the cabin passengers, officers of the ship, and a
number of other ship-captains, not only prepared
to contradict charges preferred by the Crown, but
to testify to Captain Forbes's abilities as a seaman,
and the utter groundlessness of the many state-
ments made against him. The M elbourne Argus
of the 25th of Feb. publishes a number of letters
from the passengers of the Schomberg, testifying
to Captain Forbes's attention and kindness to them
during the voyage, sympathising with him in his
misfortune, and expressing, in indignant terms,
their opinion of the parties whopreferred the charges
against him, already published to the world. Inseams
leading comments upon theseletters, the Argus says:
"Certainly these letters are very staggering to any one
whose mind has been prejudiced against Cap;. Forbes,
but who is not insensible to the force and weight of evi-
dence. Nothing could be more .satisfactory or conclu-
sive than these testimor.ials to character, unless we can
suppose the .writers, without any conceivable interest in
doing so, have joined in a conspiracy to deceive the pub-
lic on a question so easily brought to the test. Captain
Forbes is perfectly entitled, therfore, to consider himself
exonerated on this point—of personal character. As to
the pAfessional question of seamansnip, displayed in the
navigation of his vessel, or disproved in the foss of her
—all that we are entitled to say is that we were the first
to point out the necessity of a judicial inquiry, and we
did so in language of unsparing severity so long as the
presumption seemed unfavourable. Captain Forbes has
stood hii trial. He has been acquitted by a verdict of
his countrymen, and it would be a gross violation of
common decency as well as of common justice to deprive
him in any manner of the benefit of his exculpation.' '
A meeting of the Melbourne Chamber of Com-
merce was to be held on the 25th of February, to
consider the best means of p; emoting the re-estab-
lishment of steam postal communication with
Europe.

The Melbourne Argus says :
" We have to notice the discovery of some rich quartz
reefs at the M'lvor field, which will very probably give
a fresh start to that locality. • At Anderson's Creek the
diggers have been successfully working on the private
laud in Thompson's Gully, and several instances of fair
success can be recorded. There can be little doubt that
many of the untried gullies around this place would also
yield well ; but the population has always been so small
—only 156 persons are at present there. A new rush
has also been made at the Caledonian diggings to some
hill workings near the old diggings. A lull seems to
have taken place at the Sleighting diggings, for what
reason there are many conflicting statements—some ac-
counts are favourable, while others say the whole affair
is a complete hoax."

A correspondent at Avoca diggings says there is
no longer any doubt as to there being gold there
in paying quantities ; and although the sinking is
deep, wet, and often uncertain, shares in holes 10
to 15 feet in advance of the lead are freely pur-
chased at 51. to 20/.

The Bendigo Advertiser has the following notice
of mining ailairs :

"The late rains have induced many to return toMyer's
Flat, both from Epsom and from Fryer's Creek, Castle-
rnaine, &c. ; indeed the population of this district is
largely on the increase. The quartz workers in Sailors'
Gully give but an unfavourable account of their late
workings. Some have run out the paying quartz ; others
have been damaged by the water, which has got into
their claims. At Beelzebub, Devil's, and Wellington
Gullies, numerous pudding machines have been formed,
more especially in the latter. These gullies are in the
neighbourhood of the White Horse flat, famous for the
heavy nuggets found in it some three years ago A. large
quantity of ground here is yet unbroken, but I think
that the diggings will extend from hero to the Whip-
stick."

From Anderson's Creek diggings a letter states
that several of the claims have been bottomed at a
depth of about 20 feet, and nearly all of them have
satisfied the owners. More new ground has been
taken up adjacent, and the sinking is expected to
be about 50 or GO feet.

The amount of gold received at Melbourne for
the week ending Feb. 23 was 51,154 ounces, and
32,5301. in coin.
Lola Montes is playing at the Victoria Theatre,
Ballarat diggings. A fracas had takeu place be-
tween her and Mr. H. Seekamp, of the Ballarat
Times. It appears that a writer in the Times had
made some remarks reflecting on the character of
Lola, and a few evenings afterwards Mr. Seekamp
called at the United States Hotel, where she was
residing. Hearing he was below, she came down
stairs with a whip, and laid it on his back with a
hearty goodwill. Mr. Seekamp retaliated with a rid-
ing whip, and ere long the combatants had each
other by the hair. Some of the parties interposed,
and they were separated, but not before life pre-
servers and revolvers had been produced. At the
theatre next evening, Lola was enthusiastically
received, and at the close of the performance made
a characteristic speech.
The subscriptions to enable Mr. C. Gavan Duffy
to qualify for the Legislature had reached 4051.
'is. About 2,0001. would be required.
The advices from Sydney are to Feb. 20. The
banks had adopted uniform rates of exchange, the
quotations being 2 per cent. prem. for selling, and
par for purchasing. Some fresh discoveries of gold
had been made at Ophir Creek. The total of 28
days' earning of a party of diggers was 400 ounces,
consisting principally of nuggets—one of which
weighed 2 to 3 lbs. Th e opinion generally prevalent
is that the Ophir country is one large rich gold field.
The dates from Adelaide extend to the 19th Feb.
A severe storm had visited the Macclesfield dis-
trict, doing great injury to the crops. Flour con-
tinued firm at 231. per ton at the port, and then
was no change in imported produce and merchan
disc. But little wheat was changing hands.
Hobart Town dates to Feb. 20, Launceston to
February 21, have been received, but they contain
no news of interest.

New Zealand advices to Jan. 26 have also been
received. The governor bad recently paid a visit
to Nelson, which bad added considerably to hi,
popularity. The Nelson Examiner gives. glowing
accounts of the progress of the settlement; the ea-

tension of the commerce, the increased area of culti-
vation, and the improved appearance of the town.
Some very fine specimens of copper ore had been
found in the Dun Mountain mine.

The third session of the provisional council of
Wellington was opened on Thursday, Doc. 27. The
superintendent, in his opening address, estimated
the revenue for the year 1856 at 38,000/, which in-
cludes a balance in the treasury of • 15,000/. The
cost of the several departments of gOvernment he
does not think will exceed 10,000/. ; a balance of
28,000/. will thus be available for public works
and undertakings. The provincial government is re -
presented as being very popular at the present
time.