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MEDICAL ADVICE.

DR. LA'MERT, Registered L.S.A., Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Societ , M.D.
of the University of Erlangen, &c., may be COWS UYLTED
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CONTENTS.
slleathlOerd,
SECTION ll.—Puberty--Manhood —The Morale of Genera-
SECTION I.—The Physiology of the Generative Organs.
t ye Physiology—True and False Morality.
Hal,
• ppointme
tel Expectancies and Disa
SECTION In—Marriage in its Moral, nts—Advan-
Soc and Physical
ages of Physical Contrasts in securing; Healthy Offspring.
SECTION TV.—Spermatorrlicea and Impotence—
The causes
1 Sterility in both Sexes—Self-inflicted Miseries.
SECTION V. -The Vices of Schools—Effects ot certain per-
nicious habits on the mental and general faculties.
SECTION Vl.—Treatment of Nervous and Generative De-
bility—lmpotence and Sterility—Dangerous Results of
various Hazardous Specifics—The Author's from
Treatment; Medical, Dietetic, and General, Principles
derived
Twenty Years' successful practice'
The above work is intended for the perusal of those who
of
have in early lite been induced to swerve from the strict rules
of morality. In its pages facts of paramount utility are
brought together, wholly diveste4 of tne delusions and incon-
sistencies so largely introduced into certain quasi medical
publications given to the world gratis, under the gui
philanthropy, or as se Of
"acts of gratitude," by pretended clergy-
men and others, whose tamperings with the constitution are
frequently followed by serious Consequences,

" Sicilians—The enemy has proposed an armis-
tice to us, which in a generous war like that in
which we are engaged, I have thought it reason-
able not to refuse. The interment of the dead, the
care of the wounded ; in a word, all that is called
for by the laws of humanity, has always honoured
the valour of the Italian soldier. Besides, the
wounded Neapolitans are also our brothers,
although they act with cruel enmity, and are
now plunged in the darkness of political error ;
it will not, however, be long before the light
of the national flag will lead them to swell
the ranks of the Italian army. In order that the
terms of the stipulated convention shall be main-
tained with good faith, we publish the following
article of convention between the undersigned at
Palermo, 31st May 1. The suspension o hosti-
lities shall be prolonged for three days from the
present time (noon of the 31st May), at the expi-
ration of which the General-in-Chief shall send one
of his aides-de-camp in order to fix, by common
accord, the hour for the resumption of hostilities.
2. The Royal Bank shall be handed over to the
Representative Crispi, Secretary of State, in re-
turn for a proper discharge, and the detach:
ment which now guards it shall go to Castella-
mare with their arms and baggage. 3. The
embarkation of the wounded and of families
shall be continued, no means being neglected to
prevent abuses of any kind. 4. The transport of
provisions shall be free for the two belligerent
parties at all hours of the day, every proper ar-
rangement being made that the measure shall re-
ceive full effect. 5. Permission is given to exchange
the prisoners Mosto and Revilsa, for the first lieu-
tenant-colonel and another officer—for instance
Captain Grasso.
" FRANCISCO CRISPI, Secretary of State of
the Provisional Government of Sicily;
" FERDINANDO LANZA, General-in-Chief.'
The same journal, in its number of the 3d, pub-
lishes the following proclamation :
" Sicilians--A tempest almost always follows a
calm, and we ought to prepare ourselves for the
storm, although the desired object be not attained
The conditions of the national cause were brilliant ;
triumph was secure from the moment when a
generous people, trampling under foot humiliating
propositions, resolved to conquer or to die. Un-
doubtedly, our situations is every moment improv-
ing, but that must not prevent us from doing our
duty and securing the triumph of our sacred cause.
Get arms and arm yourselves ; sharpen your steel,
and prepare every means of offence and defence.
We shall have time enough for enthusiasm and
cheers when the country shall have been cleared of
our enemies. Get arms and arm youselves, I repeat.
He who does not think of procuring some arm
during these three days is a traitor or a coward
but the people who fight among the ruins of their
burnt houses for liberty and for the lives of their
wives and children can be neither cowards nor
traitors. " GARIBALDI."

Some of the Genoese journals publish the following
letter from Garibaldi :

"My dear Bertani—l authorize you not only to
make any advance or any loan on account of Sicily,
but also to contract any debt, beeause we have here
immense means to satisfy every one.
" Yours ever, " GARIBALDI!'
A private letter adds that Garibaldi's officers and
those of Lanza's corps entertained each other reci-
procally, and that the Neapolitan troops at Palermo
certainly inclined to the cause of insurrection,
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It is stated in a letter from Palermo that Gari-
baldi has placed the Duke de Verdura at the head
of the new municipality he has formed in that city.
The bombardment did considerable injury to the
town, and many houses were in such a dangerous
state that the Duke de Verdura has given orders

for pulling them down, in order to prevent acci-
dents. The duke is said to be very popular in Pa-
lermo, as well as Baron Pisana, the Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
The following proclamation has, says the Gazette
du Alidi, been circulated in Venetia, and may, that
journal remarks, explain the military precautions
Austria is taking in the province :
" Brethren—The signal of redemption will net
be long delayed. Austria is endeavouring to
crush you, but be of good heart ; let your pa-
triotic efforts be employed with great firmness in
the approaching reawakening of Italy. The un-
fortunate men who are groaning in the prisons of
Peterwardein are not only your sons and brothers,
but ours; but those who, led on by the brave Gari-
baldi, and animated by the love of their country,
have gone to deliver Sicily, are they less your
brothers than ours ? If you suffer the outrages of
servitude, display the pride of martyrs. Dispersed
in all the territories of Italy, the rEfugees of Venice,
by sacrifices and courage, have already added to
our history its most glorious page ; on the day of
insurrection they will know to add to it a second
one. That day approaches ! Keep alive in your
hearts hatred of the abhorred enemy, and faith in
the future of Italy The magnanimous King
who vanquished at Palestro has not ceased to feel
his heart beat for you. His hand still holds his
sword, and that sword protects our cause!"

wa.As
aConuoanzdtteyserflpt Oofurdohmoiniciele—athalSft.anLeoEnnylais'hs
farm-house, half a Gothic villa—situated in the seor.—t
neigh-
bourhood of a rabbit-warren, amid a vast range of
hilly and woody country, intersected with gurgling
streams and large patches of cultivated land ; sheets
of golden wheat flashing out between dark brushwood
slopes, and emerald fields of turnips, spreading at the
feet of the tall, frowning forest monarchs. A noble espalier
pear-tree, and a luxuriant vine, trailed all over the white
fronts, and many a clustering bunch of luscious purple
fruit might be seen in the autumn sunshine, ripening on
the gabled roof, resting its juicy weight on the patches of
stonecrop, and causing divers speculations among the
juniors of the household as to whether there was a p'ssi-
bility of reaching them from the top casements ; and occa-
sionally they did disappear in a most miraculous manner.
There was a rude sort of garden spreading round, where
carnations and cabbages, laburnums and lettuces, scarlet
beans and sweet-williams, brocoli and black currants, rose-
trees and radishes, sprang up in plentiful and brilliant con-
tiguity ; and there was one little corner where some moss-
covered flints, a spontaneous profusion of dock-leaves, and
an overhanging elder, afforded an asylum for a couple of
pet frogs, to the dismay of certain boarding-school-bred
cousins who visited us in the midsummer holidays.
One side of this Eden wilderness •was bounded by a rip-
pling stream of lucid water, known as " Miller's Brook,"
across which, close by the frogs' hermitage, were a couple of
rough planks, forming a bridge, leading on to a fresh,
grassy bank, where flags, and rushes, and forget-me-nots.?
grew thick and odorous, under the shadow of poplars and
alders ; and beyond lay the " Long Water,Meadows," with
Dives's farm in the distance. On the other side was an
ancient rambling sort of orchard, inclosed with old grey
paling, all covered with yellow lichens, and wefted with
wiry ivy, with an occasional azure periwinkle and red dog-
rose peeping out, reminding one of Infancy's blue eyes and
ruddy cheeks playing with the wrinkled brow and silver
hair of a grandfather. Ay, that was an orchard I where
bouncing cats-head apples shook their fists in the nigger
faces of muscle-plums • where green-gages bursting with
sugary juice tumbled into the cool grass, and gipsy filberts
rattled down about our ears with very gentle assistance ;
then the mulberries and the "swans-egg" pears, and the
damsons and the cherries—oh, such cherries I—may-dukes
and bigaroons, and black hearts and morellos, hanging like
coral and jasper wreaths from the drooping boughs, propped
up here and there by a broken rail. Ah; what mouths,
what pinafores, what hands, used to be seen in that old
orchard during the cherry season ; whatmorning gluttony,
what evening excesses, were carried on in defiance of all
paternal authority and serious prognostications of cholera
and sudden death. We taught the very sheep-dog to
mumble the delicious food, and old " Watch" was often
seen with his grizzled muzzle deeply stained with the for-
bidden fruit—to say nothing of the pony having real non-
pareils handed to him, by dozens, through a gap in the
paling, and whole capfuls of the finest " Orleans,' or melting
" swans-eggs," being bestowed in munificent generosity on
any ragged wayfarer who looked with longing eyes on our de-
predations. This paradise of an orchard led through a gate
into a lengthy sort of copse, the copse led into a cloverfield,
and the cloverfield skirted a lane with luxuriant hedge-rows,
where bees, butterflies, and grasshoppers, made
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together. About a quarter of a mile down this lane, just at
the commencement of the village, was the blacksmith's
rustic forgo and thatched cottage,, where the ringing ham-
mer made cheerful music, and as happy a family dwelt as
one might meet in a day's march, and with whom we
scraped an enthusiastic and immediate acquaintance.—
Eliza Cook's "Jottings from my Journal."
[AnvEwrisEmENT.]—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.--
Indisputable Facts.—The merits of these remedies have
been and are acknowledged in both hemispheres, and few
would presume to impugn the experience of the whole
world. Testimonials from all parts vouch for their effi-
ciency as curatives. The ointment soon displays its vir-
tues in overcoming abscesses, swellings of the joints, en-
largement of the glands, cutaneous eruptions, soros ulcers,
and in allaying inflammation and pain in rheumatism and
gout. It heals by cleansing all animal fluids with which
it comes in contact, and promotes a sound and perinanent
cure. It removes all obstructions to the free circulation
through the minutest vessels, and repairs mischief by con-
stantly securing pure blood. The pills effect generally
what the ointment accomplishes locally.

Vice-Admiral W. J. Hope Johnstone has been
appointed to succeed Vice-Admiral Edward Harvey
as Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness. He has ap-
pointed Capt. W. G. Luard as his flag-captain, and
Mr. Arthur Jones as his secretary. The Admiral,
with his flag-captain and secretary, arrived at
Sheerness yesterday in the Wildfire, on a visit to
Admiral Harvey, to make the necessary arrange-
ments for taking up the appointment, &c. Admiral
Harvey's commission expires on the 30th inst.
Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawc, K.C.8., ar-
rived at Plymouth yesterday afternoon in the paddle
wheel steam-frigate Terrible, 21, Capt. Frederick
H. Glasse, which exchanged the customary salutes.
The Terrible left Malta on the 31st of May, arrived
in Gibraltar on the sth of June, and sailed there-
from on the 6th. She spoke at sea on the 3d of
June the screw steamship Queen, 86, Capt. Charles
F. Hillyar, and the gunboat Mohawk. The Ter-
rible left at Malta her Majesty's screw steamships
Marlborough, 131, Capt. Lord Frederick H. Kerr ;
Renown, 91, Capt. Arthur Forbes; London, 90,
Capt. Henry Chads ; Agamemnon, 91, Capt. Thomas
Hope ; James Watt, 91, Capt. Edward Codd ; and
Exmouth, 90, Capt. James J. Stopford ; the paddle-
wheel steam surveying vessel Medina, 4, Capt.
Thomas A. B. Spratt, C. 8., and the gunboat Boxer,
and at Gibraltar the steam-ii igate Doris, 32, Capt.
Edmund Heat heote ; paddlewheel steamship
Scourge, 6, Commander W. G. Jones; and the screw
steam-sloop Lapwing, 4, Commander Montagu F.
O'Reilly. The Melpomene arrived at Gibraltar on
the 6th inst. Vice-Admiral Fanshawe, succeeds to
the command at Plymouth, in place of Vice-Admi-
ral Sir Barrington Reynolds, K.C.8., whose term
of service expired in May.
Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam-sloop Hecate,
Commander Hosken, under orders for survey in the
Pacific, yesterday left Woolwich basin for Green,
hithe, to be adjusted for sea. Her pinnace was
brought up from Portsmouth by the Dee, and de-
livered on Saturday.
The new despatch boat Lee, built at Deptford,
was yesterday taken into basin at Woolwich, to be
fitted for service.

The two contract-built screw gun-vessels, Cor-
morant, 4, and Racehorse, 4, having been approved
by the Admiralty, are ordered to be fitted for the
second-class steam reserve at Chatham.

The Firebrand, 6, paddle, Commander J. M.
Bruce, sailed from Spithead yesterday morning,
under sealed orders.

The Diligence, naval storeship, sailed from Spit-
head yesterday morning for Devonport.
The Bacchante, 51, screw, Capt.McKenzie, fit-

tint at Portsmouth as the flagship of Rear-Admiral
Sir T. Maitland, K.C.8., the future Commander-
in-Chief on the Pacific Station, will be ready for
sea in a week's time.

The Fire Queen paddle steamer, Master Com-
mander Paul, was yesterday undocked from No. 6
dock at Portsmouth, on the completion of the re-
pairs to her hull. She was berthed alongside the
north wall of the dockyard. to receive her boilers
and complete other repairs.
Tier Majesty's Royal screw-steam yacht Fairy
has been placed in No. 6 dock at Portsmouth to
undergo her annual embellishment and necessary
repairs.
The Ranger screw-steam gun-vessel, Commander
Wratislaw, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from
a cruise, and not the " Wrangler," as incorrectly
reported yesterday.
The Immortalitie, 51, screw, receiving her ma-
chinery in the steam basin at Portsmouth, will be
ready to get up steam by Monday next.
The Eagle, 50, sailing Coastguard vessel, Capt.
E. Tatham, was towed into Portsmouth harbour
yesterday from Spithead.

_
The Princess Royal, 91, screw. completed mast-
ing yesterday at Portsmouth, and is in the hands
of the master rigger, to be brought forward for the
first-class steam reserve or for commission, as may
be ordered.

The Hermes, 6 paddle steam sloop, 220 horse-
power, Commander W. E. A. Gordon, from the
Cape of Good Hope station, was paid off on Friday
last at Sheerness, under the superintendence of
Capt. Rundell B. Watson, C.B. (Capt. Superinten-
dent of her Majesty's dockyard).
The Virago, 6, paddle steam sloop, 300-horse
power, Commander Montagu R. Dunn, was paid
off on Saturday, under the superintendence of
Capt. R. B. Watson, C.B.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. D'Arcy S. Preston,
promoted to be commander ; Lieut. E. H. L. Ray,
Lieut. C. R. F. Boxer, Lieut. W. H. Gould, Lieut.
T. M. Maquay, Lieut. C. G. Fane, and Lieut. A. H.
Alston to the St. George ; Lieut. C. G. M'Grigor,
Lieut. J. B. Grove, and Lieut. F. H. Blair to the
Colossus William J. Aldrich, master, to the St.
George; ?William H. Crane, master, to the Colossus;
James A. Miller, surg., to the Colossus ; Charles J.
Fennell, assist.-surg., to the Colossus; the Rev.
John Jenkins, Chaplain, to the Colossus; George
Ramsden, paymaster, to the St. George ; John
Millard, Beresford Scott, :James Ray, and John
Pooling, paymasters, to the Colossus ; Edward W.
Goldson and Nicholas B. Dennys, assist.-pay-
masters, to the St. George ; John Chambers and
F. A. Keogh, assist.-paymasters, to the Colossus.

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

Sir C. Barry.—The will
of Sir Charles Barry,
R.A., F.R.S., late of the Elms, Clapham common,
and of No. 1, Old Palace yard, Westminster, archi-
tect, was proved in the principal registry on the
fourth of June, by the
executors, Charles Barry and
Edward Middleton Barry, his sons, who are both
architects; William Henry Barry, his nephew,
and Thomas Guebar, solicitor.
The personalty
was sworn under £BO,OOO.
To his wife he has
left all his furniture,
ow plate, linen, china, and
carriages for her
legacy of
own absolute use ; also an im-
mediatein the whole of his £5OO and a life interest
with power of appointpmroperty, real and personal,
to their children in such
ent
and disposal by his will
and in default thereof he mbanner as she may direct ;
children equally. The trustees equeaths the same to his
are invested with
power to carry out and complete
in hand and on land nea mplete building contracts
Clapham-
common. The will ' r his residence,
]s
concise, and is contained on
three sheets of brief, and
1857, and was witnessed bears date December 12,
by John T
Kennington, and Ann Parker,
servant to ewis Wolfe, of
Sir
Charles.
Sir C. Ogle—The will of Sir Chaloner Ogle, Bart.,
formerly of Wilton.cresoont9 and afterwards of
Baton-place, Belgrave-square, but late of the
city of Brussels, where he died on the 3dof February
last year, has just been administered to in London
were The executors appointed Arthur Ogle, Esq.,
who renounced the grant of
Denton, Esq., since deceased. Lady
and Henry
Lady Ogle, the
relict, also renounced the grant, and administration
with the will annexed, was
an granted to the Rey. R.
G Vaugham, M.A., who interest in the
estate. By a deed of conveyance
made in 1843 on his marriage, he and settlement,
was empowered
to charge the family estate at Roehampton and other
property with annuity of £4OO f
or the life of
his wife, whom he has appointed •
The will is dated 14th of June, 184u3myrersal legatee.
The deceased,
who was in his 56th year, was the •
son of Admiral
Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., who die"d.
June, 1858.
Col. Harington : —The will of
Thos. L. Haring-
ton, Esq., Colonel of the sth Bengal
formerly residing at Peshawur, inLight Cavalry,
the East Indies,
and late of Kingston-on-Thames,
who died on the
sth of April, has been proved in London by
Emily Octavio. Harington, his relict, a power being
reserve to Daniel Ball, Esq•
ill , whow were the ex-
ecutors appointed by thewhich was made
and executed when he was in India,
acid was wit-
nessed by Lieut. Prendergast and Lieut. Beanfill, of
the sth Bengal Light Cavalry. To
his wife he has
left all his furniture and plate, as
paraphernalia and jewellry absolutely, well
as all her
and the in-
terest and dividends arising from his
English funds and in the Beno•i money in the
Government
Securities ; and at herd ecease hebal
pro-
perty to be divided eqly amongsteaves 'the
his children.
To his son Henry Ball Harington
his he leaves his
medals and clasps, and each of sons he leaves
some articles of jewellry, which he had in wear as
mementos.—lllustrated London N on.

CALLS TO THE BAIL—The following calls to the
bar were made on Wednesday :---Inner Temple : Henry
Peter Pisani, Esq., B.A. (certificate of honour of the first
class) ; John Win. Mellor, Esq., M.A. ;
James Tisdall
Woodroffe, Esq., 8.A.; Robert William Kirby Martin Esq.;
Julian Robins, Esq. ; Arthur Paul Stone, Esq. ; William
Richard Woolrych, Esq.; Richard Temple Rennie, Esq.;
John Alfred Burkinyoung, Esq. Robert Henry Bullock
Marsham, Esq., M.A.; Francis Thomas Platt, Esq.,M.A.;
and Henry O'Hara Moore, Esq., M.A. Middle Temple :
Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, Esq., of 3, Essex-court,
8.A., London University (holder of the studentship
awarded by the Council of Legal Education); Frank Cock-
burn, of 40, Hertford-street, Mayfair, Esq.; Etienne Pel-
lereau, of Mauritius, Esq ; Joseph Deakin, of 5, Brick-
court, Esq. ; Edward Comyn, of 59, Cleveland-square,
Hyde-park, Esq. ; and Edward Backhouse Eastwick, of
Merton College, Oxford, Esq., her Majesty's Secretary of
Legation at Teheran.

THAMES TUNNEL RAILWAY BILL.
The committee to whom was referred the Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover Railway Bill (Metropo-
litan Extensions), yesterday proceeded to consider
the proposed bill for converting the Thames
Tunnel to railway purposes—Mr. Ridley in the
chair.
Mr. Hope Scott, Q.C., and Mr. Rodwell appeared
for the promoters of the bill ; the only opposition
came from the London Docks Company, who were
represented by Mr. Sergeant Wrangham and Mr.
Murphy.
Mr. H. Scott, Q C., briefly opened the case for
the promoters of the bill, who he stated had agreed
with the Thames Tunnel Company for the purchase
of the Thames Tunnel for £150,000, and the expense
of the works, including the purchase of the tunnel,
would amount to £BOO,OOO. It was proposed to
make a railway, commencing at Deptford by a
junction with the main line of the Brighton and
South-Eastern Company, passing through the
Thames Tunnel, and terminating in the parish of
St. George-in-the-East by a junction with the
Blackwall Railway where it crosses Cannan-street-
road. A railway would then commence from this
point to the Fenehurch-street Station of the London
and Blackwall Railway. It was then proposed to
make a line from Deptford to the Commercial Dock
station of the Greenwich line, and terminating in
Deptford by a junction with the main lines of rail-
way belonging to the Brighton and South-Eastern
Company ; and a railway commencing in the parish
of St. Mary, Rotherhithe, and terminating at a
point immediately adjoining to, and on the eastern
side of, the general offices of the Commercial Dock
Company, with the appropriation, alteration, and
discontinuance, either wholly or partially, of its
present use by the public as a passenger thorough-
fare. The learned counsel then recapitulated the
advantages which must necessarily be derived by
the public in having a railway communication
directly between the railways on the north and
south sides of the Thames, and at the same time
convert a national work, which was now altogether
unproductive, into a very desirable means for com-
pleting that railway system The scheme was a
most valuable one, and was only opposed by the
London Dock Company.
Mr. D. Pollock, engineer, was examined by Mr.
Rodwell, and he said he had had it in contempla-
tion for some time to adapt the Thames Tunnel to
railway purposes, about which there could be no
difficulty whatever. It would be the means of re-
lieving greatly the street traffic. It was originally
intended by Mr. Brunel to be used for street traffic,
but that had never been done, and as the tunnel had
not been used by the public to the extent antici-
pated by Mr. Brunel, the work had proved an en-
tire failure, as the shareholders had never received
a farthing dividend, and there was a large debt due
to the Government.

Mr. Mason, clerk to the Thames Tunnel Com-
pany, said he had been so for 24 years, and was
engaged in the construction of the Thames Tunnel
under Mr. Brunel. There is three feet of limestone
rock under the timid. It could be safely used for
a railway as it is perfectly dry. The tunnel is ap-
proached by a spiral staircase, and is only available
now for foot passengers. In round numbers the
tunnel cost £468,000. The masonry of the Thames
Tunnel is three feet in the thinnest part, and is the
strongest masonry in the world, and when some
works were required to be done Sir I. Brunel
offered the men one shilling for every inch they
could get out whole. It was so solid that it ap-
peared like rock work.

Mr. Jennings, engineer to the Grand Surrey
Canal Docks, was examined by Mr. Rodwell, and
said he considered the conversion of the Thames
Tunnel would be attended with great advantage
to the public. It would also be of great benefit to
the Surrey docks, as it would give them a commu-
nication for their timber trade with all the railways
in the north of London. This bill had the entire
assent of the Grand Surrey Dock Company.
Mr. G, H. Huisch, secretary to the Grand Surrey
Docks Company, said he had examined the plans of
this company. The acreage of the Surrey docks
was about 160 acres, and they were looking for-
ward to a great increase in the timber trade. If
this line was formed, it would relieve London-bridge
of the timber traffic which now passes over it.
Mr. Gaussen, a provisional director of the Thames
Tunnel Company, said he had directed his attention
to the subject of railway communication by means
of the Thames Tunnel. There had been an objec-
tion raised to the formation of the railway under
the London docks, but be had no doubt that it could
be executed without damage to their property.
There would be no danger whatever, nor would it
be antagonistic to the interests of the London Dock
Company. It would tend greatly to relieve the
streets of traffic, both of passengers and goods. If
this line were made he believed it would be a paying
line, and a good investment.
After some further evidence of a similar nature
had been taken, the committee adjourned.

SOCIEIY FOR PROMOTING- THE
AMENDMENT OF THE LAIV.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the members
of this society was last night held at their rooms,
Waterloo-place ; Lord Brougham in the chair.

LAW OF LIBEL IN FRANCE.

MS LORDSHIP, on taking the chair, said he was
anxious, before the meeting proceeded to discuss
the question of the Attorney-General's bankruptcy
bill, to call the attention of the society to the state
of the law of libel, or what was now discovered to
be the law of libel, in France. It appeared that his
excellent friend, Mr. Prevost Paradol, was about to
be prosecuted for a pamphlet which he lately pub-
lished, but in which it was impossible for any man
who read it to find anything worthy of prosecu-
tion ; but after the recent decision of the Court of
Cassation, in the case of the action brought by the
sepresentatives of the late Bishop Rousseau against
the Bishop of Orleans, one could scarcely pronounce
anything impossible. His lordship having ex-
plained the nature of the suit, and the course of the
proceedings through which it passed, went on to
say that the old Duke Pacakie, when he heard that
the court grounded its decision upon a law of his
proposal made in 1819, said that as he was morally
dead, being upwards of 90 years of age, he had, on
their own interpretation of the law, ground of
action for libel, as well on his own part as on that
of his old colleague, the late M. D. Seere, as the de-
cree was tantamount to a post-mortem defamation ;
and that, had such a law existed in the time of
Tiberius, the four Evangelists might have been pro-
secuted for defaming Judas Iscariot. The law of
England, however, had no such rule, although it
did protect persons existent against the pain of
having their deceased relatives libelled, on the prin-
ciple that such abuse might lead to a breach of the
peace.