The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-31 00:00:00

DR JAMES'S POWDER.

►•HIS celebrated Medicine is invariably
adopted by Physicians ; and for those who cannot
obtain medical advice, with each packet are enclosed full
directions for its use. Its efficacy is most certain, if
freely given on the attack of FEVER, MEASLES, SORE
THROAT, recent Cold with Cough, and other Inflam-
matory Disorders. In RHEUMATISM and Chronic
Complaints it has performed the most extraordinary cures,
when used with perseverance. Dr. JAMES'S POWDER
continues to he prepared by lliessra. NEWBERY, FROM
THE ONLY COPY OF THE PROCESS LEFT BY
DR. JAMES IN HIS OWN HANDWRITING, which
Was DEPOSITED WITH THEIR GRANDFATHER
IN 1746, AS JOINT PROPRIETOR. In Packets,
21. 9d. and 245.
DR. JAMES'S ANALEPTIC PILLS afford constant
relief in INDIGESTION, BILIOUS and STOMACH
COMPLAINTS, Gouty Symptoms, recent Rheumatism,
and Cold with slight Fever, and are so mild in their
effects as not to require confin,ment. DR. JAMES'S
ANALEPTIC PILLS are prepared by Messrs. NEW-
BERY, FROM THE ONLY RECIPE EXISTING
,UNDER DR. JAMES'S HAND, and are sold by them
In Boxes at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 245., at 45, St. Paul's
Church-yard ; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford street, London ;
and in most Country Towns. The name " F. Newbery"
Is engraved in each Government stamp.

THE IMPETUOSITY of PASSION,
and the coincidence of general gaiety must involve
a considerable portion of the community in the sufferance
of those disorders which are destined to he the punishment
of illicit indulgence. And since the time of Monkish.
superstition, nn blame has been imputed to medical Practi-
tioners for the exertions of their skill in the removal of
these complaints.
As medical ability cannot therefore be more usefully or
more respectably employed, it is only necessary to inquire
where it can he most decisively depended upon, certainly
not among those who rush without education into the
practice of EsculapiAn slaughter; but among those who,
after regular initiation, confine their exertions to one point,
and concentrate their skill in the study and treatment of
One Branch.

Dr. Courtenay, from the University of Edinburgh, is
entitled by his qualification to make this selection, and
after unprecedented success for upwards of Thirty-five Years,
he may now without presumption, offer restoration in cases
where the most eminent Practitioners have failed. An
Insidious Disorder may be contracted in an unguarded
moment of intoxication. By this plan of cure, pain is
prevented, the possibility of danger precluded, and the
constitution is left, not merely unimpaired, but absolutely
improved by the process.
The sufferings of this complaint are however trifling
cprnpared with the consequences of that destructive prac-
tice for which Onan suffered death. To those whose
feelings are susceptible of the misery which this pernicious
habit has occasioned, it may he some consolation to know,
that, by proper perseverance, the most deplorable debility
n'ay be removed. When estates are dependant on the
progeny of married people, the removal of those impedi-
ments is to many the restoration of life's best enjoyment,
nor is it unreasonable to expect succor from the connection
If that peculiar state of the constitution, by which con-
ception is prevented, or the embryotic prisoner constantly
testroyed. It is the result of Dr. Courtenay's experience,
ta offer a safe and certain removal of these impediment.,
and by correcting the morbid state of the uterine functions
tie female soon becomes in that state " which Ladies wish
t, be who love their Lords." Dr. Courtenay may be con-
halted personally, or by letter, with the greatest secrecy
Od honour, at his house, No. 21, Leicester-square.
Patients in the country describing the particulars of
heir complaints, age, mode of living, &c. &c., inclosing
iremittance for advice and Medicines will ha-- the same
&yen or sent to any part of the world.—Letters are ex-
Acted to be post-paid.
Dr. Courtenay has removed from No. 6, Robert-street,
Aelphi, to No. 21, Leicester-square, where he continues
trpractice, and is consulted as heretofore. Dr. Courtenay
no connection whatever with the young man now
Petising at his late residence, and he thinks it is due to
tire Noblemen and Gentlemen, who bare hitherto so
orally honoured him with their confidence, to make this
rilic declaration in consequence of that individual presum-
tr to state verbally and in writing to several of Dr. Cour-
Ny's patients, that he had retired altogether from practice,
at assigned it to him. —Dr. C. has done no such thing.

BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, NEW-ROAD;

KING'S-CROSS, LONDON.
R. MORISON, the President, and
Mr. MOAT, the Vice Presiden►, in conjunction
with all the Honorary Members, and Country Agents of
the British College of Health, being now fully borne out
with the conviction, approbation, and indubitable proofs,
of upwards of 200,000 individuals (who bad been thrown
aside by the Faculty, and out of the Hospitals, as In-
curable) having been restored to sound health by the
" Universal Medicines ;"—with all this incontrovertible
mass of evidence in support of the Hygeian Theory and
Practice, which challenges the controversy of the whole
body of Medicists, under the old system, to subvert,
they, the heads of the College, hesitate not to declare, in
the face of the Faculty, that this new light must com-
pletely change the whole course of the Materia Medica, and
introduce a new era in the scien7e of Physic : that, in
fact, mankind will be taught, in future, a new and certain
mode of investigating the nature and cause of Diseases in
general, and of possessing a certain and harmless mode of
cure, making every individual his own efficient doctor.
In confirmation of what is here asserted, the Heads of the
College mean to insert, in this Paper, a continued series
of new cases, from individuals giving their names, resi-
dences, and dates of time of cure, all of which have been vo-
luntarily given, and ascertainabl?, as to the facts by inquiry.
CURE OF AN OLD SPRAIN, AND A FULNESS IN
THE HEAD.
" TO MESSRS. MORISON AND MOAT.

Gentlemen,-1 have been somewhat surprised (although, I
must confess, as knowing the universality of your medicines, 1
ought not to have been) at the unexpected benefit wrought upon
me, testifying, if any such testimony was wanting, their peculiar
property, of invigorating and strengthening, while they cleanse.
And while taking them for one complaint, I (in common with
many others, no doubt) find myself unexpectedly relieved from
another, which, from its long standing, has become so natural,
as to be quite overlooked in the way of cure.
You must know, gentlemen, that about eighteen years ago I
strained the leaders of my legs, by over-exertion in walking. My
medical attendants (for I had several) advised a variety of expe-
dients, which bringing no relief, they ultimately recommended
me to band them up ; and so requisite has it been to my walking,
that when by accident one has slipped, I have been obliged to re-
tire at the first place I came to, to adjust it. I have at various
times during the last two years taken the Universal Medicine
freely, for what I formerly called the determination of blood to
the head, and my previous relief was only to be found in bleed.
ing. The effect has been, that I have not only lost that ten-
dency, but 1 can now walk, without bands, more than twenty
miles a day for two or three days together. While I congratu-
late mankind on the important discovery of the Vegetable
Universal Medicine,' allow me to offer my tribute of thanks to
you, and believe me, Gentlemen, your's respectfully,
THOS. GItIFFITHS.
" Westerham, Kent, Jan. 3, 1132."
The ‘• Vegetable Universal Medicines " are to be had at
the College, New-road, King's-cross, London ; at the
Surrey Branch, 96, Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars ; at
Mr. Field's, 16, Air-street, Quadrant; Mr. Chappers,
Royal Exchange; Mr. Walker's, Lamb's Conduit passage,
Red Lion-square ; Mr. J. Loft's, 10, Mile-end-road ;
Mr. Bennett's, Covent-Garden-market ; Mr. Hayden',
Fleur-de-lis-court, Norton Falgate ; Mr. Haslett's, 147.
Ratcliffe Highway; Messrs. Nerbury's, Brentford ; Mrs.
Stepping, Clare-market; Messrs. Salmon, Little Bell-
alley ; Miss Varral's, 24, Lucas-street, Commercial-road ;
Mrs. Beech's; 5, Upper Cheyne-row, Chelsea ; Mr.
Chapple, Royal Library, Pall-mall ; Mrs. Clements, 12,
Bridge-street, Southwark ; Mr. Pain, No. 64, German-
street; Mr. Kirtlain, 4, Bolingbroke-row, Walworth ;
and at one Agent's in every principal town in Great Bri-
tain, the Isl .nds of Guernsey, and Malta ; and through-
out the *hole of the linitel States of America. -

THE GLASGOW MAIL.—We observe in a
Leeds Paper a heavy complaint of the loss which they are
soon to suffer, by the withdrawal of the Glasgow mail
from that line of road. This change, which will bring in
the mail by two o'clock, is to take place on the sth of
April.— Glasgow Chronicle.

EXPEDITIOUS STEAM TRAVELLING.—We
are informed that the Adelaide steam packet left Hull,
on Sunday last, for Selby, at half-past seven in the morn-
ing, arrived at that place at three quarters past ten, re-
mained there one hour and ten minutes, and arrived at
Hull at four o'clock the same afternoon, having run
upwards of 110 miles in seven hours and twenty minutes.
—Hull Rockingham.

The packet-ship York, Captain BURSLEY,
sailed from New York on the 9th of January, in com-
pany with the British ship Heroine, for London. On the
22d of Jannarv, in lap. 48. long. 24., spoke the Cyrus
Butler, CARTWRIGHT, from Savannah, bound to Havre-
de-Grace, out 21 days; and on the 25th January, off
Cape Clear, spoke the William and Ann, -, from
Buenos Ayres to Liverpool. The papers brought by this
vessel come down to the 9th of January, but their contents
are net important.

Saturday's Bucks Gazette contains the fol-
lowing report of a proceeding at the St. Alban's Petty
Session, before F. SEARANCKE, jun., Esq., Mayor, and
the Rev. W. M. BoweN, D.D., D. G. ADEY, Esq., and
R. SOLLY, Esq., &c.:—The Overseers of the Abbey parish
were summoned to show close ,vhy they refused to relieve
MARY SEARS; her husband had absconded, leaving her
with three children, the eldest not five years of age, and
which children the parish-officers compelled her to bring
to the poor-house three times a-day, for a small portion
of fond, without giving herself any, a distance of upwards
of two miles each journey. The food was delivered to
them at the door, where they were compelled to eat it.
Mr. W. LANGLEY, a parish-officer, stated that they only
i efused her by way of an experiment. The woman
was ordered relief, as well as the children. It might be
satisfactory to learn, whether this parish officer, so fond
of trying " experiments" on the appetite of others, had
any thing to do with the Scottish Literary Festival.
In reference to HowisoN's confession of
having murdered a man two years ago, near Whitting-
hame, between Morpeth and Woolen, the Tyne Mercury
says—_" We never beard of such a murder."

EXTRAORDINLRYOPERATION.-011 Wed-
nesday last the large lion and one of the lion tigers, be-
longing to Mr. ATKINS'fi menagerie, had each a tooth ex-
tracted. The operation was performed in a masterly
style by Mr. C. S. ROWLAND, dentist, Tithebarn. street,
and was witnessed with naurh interest by several profes-
sional gentlemen. So completely are the animals under
the controul of their keepers that they were not
.even
bound during the oFeration. They seemed much relieved
by the removal of the diseased teeth, from which they
must for some time past have suffered great pain. Toe
teeth may be seen, we believe, in Mr. RowLANn's win-
dow.—Licerpool Chronicle.
DISTRESSING CIRCUMSTANCE.-011 Tues-
day night an elderly female, the wife of a shoemaker re-
siding at Middleton, left her bed asleep, and opening the
casement, went through and fell into the paved street.
Her husband, betwixt sleeping and waking, felt her leave
the bed, but did not become alarmed until he heard some
paper flipping in the chamber; he then rose and found
that the noise was occasioned by a current of air blowing
in at the casement, which was wide open, and looking
through, he saw his wife lying below. He immediately
went to her assistance, and the rest of the family having
been awakened, they conveyed her into the house, and
afterwards to bed. On examination it was ascertained,
that, besides being seriously bruised and shaken, the bones
of her left leg were broken, and the knee pan of her right
knee displaced. Hopes are, however, entertained of her re-
covery.--Manchester Guardian. •

LONDON SAUSAGES.—At the Queen-square
Police-office yesterday, a else was heard, on some dispute
of wages, between a master butcher and his journeyman,
in the course of which it appeared that they had dressed a
poor old COW, which had died of a diseased udder, and sold
it to a sausage-maker, in Cow-cross, for 11.155. The man
also affirmed that he had been employed by a butcher at
Little Chelsea to dig up some pigs which had died of
d:sease, and bad been buried ; and that, having " dressed
th,m," they were also sold to.the same sausage-maker.

The failure of this gentleman has created a
considerable sensation in this part of the country,
where it will be severely felt by many who had
lodged money on deposit in the banking esta-
blishment of " John Maberly and Co." believ-
ing that Mr. Maberly was not only the osten-
sible partner in the banking concern, but also the
•principal partner in the great linen-manufactory
now carried on here,
.until Thursday, sth inst.,
under the firm of " Maberly and Co." but now
under the firm of Richards and Co. On the
morning of that day, " John Maberly and Co."
were declared to have suspended payment ; the
firm of " Maberly and Co." was at the same
time announced to be no more; and the creditors
of the former establishment had the first infor-
mation conveyed to them by the English jour-
nals, that Mr. Maberly had retired from the
manufactuving concern " some time ago," the
Gazette of the succeeding day confirming this,
,itkrk.lxing the date of Mr. Maberly's .retir.ektvit
t4,4,lgay, 18.1. Under these circumstances, we
shall endeavour to give a short outline of Mr.
Maberly's connexion with Aberdeen, to show
how the public were led to imagine, up to the
eleventh hour, that " John Maberly and C 0.,"
and " Maberly and C 0.," were one and the same
concern. Many years ago, Mr. Maberly
pur-
chased the manufacturing houses of Scott,
Brown, and Co., in Aberdeen, and they formed
the nucleus from which his extensive linen works
have sprung. At the time Mr. Maberly made
this purchase, he was supposed to be, and no
doubt was, possessed of an ample fortune. Being
dissatisfied with the par date at which the Aber-
deen banks then drew on their London agents,
Mr. Maberly was determined to alter this ; and
the banks, not choosing to submit to his dicta-
tion, he formed the extraordinary resolution of
establishing a bank of his own at Aberdeen,
Montrose, Dundee, Edinburgh, and Glasgow,
calling it " The Exchange and Deposit Bank,"
and issuing the promissory notes of John Ma-
berly and Co., payable in London. Such an
establishment as this being contrary to all the
principles on which the Scotch banks are con-
ducted, they refused to receive or exchange his
promissory notes. In retaliation, Mr. Maberly
set about collecting their notes and demanding
gold for his balances weekly. This warfare he
carried on for nearly six years with the Aberdeen
Banking Company, and, we believe, the Com-
mercial Bank. '1 he same took place with the
branches of the Bank of Scotland, Commercial
Bank of Scotland; but, as the notes of the latter
banks were payable in Edinburgh, Mr. Matted),
was subjected to the additional expense of send-
ing them there for exchange. Strange as it may
110 W appear, many people in Aberdeen consi
tiered the conduct of titer own banks as harsh an

illiberal towards Mr. Maherly, using the same
language which Mr. Maberly himself invariably
adopted, viz., " the ingratitude of the banks,
considering the great benefit he rendered to the
country - extensive manufacturing con-
cerns." The Aberdeen banks having sufli-
ciently demonstrated their opinion of Mr. Ma-
berly's banking establishment, and knowing,
whatever might be the result, they could not be
injured farther than the balance of a weekly ex-
change, seldom exceeding 2001. or 3001., this
warfare ceased in 1826. It was always well
known that Mr. Maberly's bank allowed a
higher interest for deposit money than any
other bank in Scotland. Indeed, the rate
lately allowed was four and a half per cent.,
while the rate of the other banks was 2 per cent.
As such a difference would have been considered
discreditable and ruinous to any banking esta-
blishment, it was always imagined that the
money was profitably employed in the manufac-
turing concern, where Mr. Maberly could well

afford to pay 4* per cent. Indeed, the banking
business in Aberdeen was carried on in the same
premises, under the same room, in the same
counting-house, and at the same desks as the
manufactory, the servants of Maberly and Co.
were paid their wages with the notes of John
Maberly and Co., the gentleman who managed
the manufacturing concern superintended the
bank, and until the arrival of the post on Thurs-
day morning, the sth inst., we understand he
had not the most remote idea that Mr. Maberly
had retired from the firm of Maberly and Co.—
On that day, however (as stated before), arid as
if by magic, the creditors of John Maberly and
Co. were informed that the firm could not meet

their engagements, and that the firm of Maberly
and Co. was no more. The painted ticket,
" The Bank" was removed from the door of the
manufactory, and " Richards and Co." substi-
tuted ; but the spinning wheels perform their
usual revolutions, and the beam of the steam
engine vibrates as belore.—Aberdeen Chronicle.

ALLOYS OF STEEL.—Two eminent chemists
make stud publish a series of experiment., by which it I•
demonstrated, that a small portion of various of the pre-
cious metals might he mixed, by fusion, with the substance
of steel ; the idea of turning the discovery to practical ac-
count is promptly caught ; and silver steel, having the
advantage of euphony and novelty, becomes a popular de-
nomination in the market. But as there is some chance
of this manufacture being considered as new tangled, and
diversity and competition being the body and spirit of busi-
ness, another projector turns him to antiquity : every one
interested in cutlery having heard of the famous oriental
sabres that, while they bend like a switch( were of so stern
a temper that they would themselves cut through ordinary
iron ; so, with tolerably good taste at least, is e are greeted
with the announcement ot Damascus steel. Silver, how-
ever, is an ingredient within the reach of every manufac-
turer who chooses to put it into his melting pot ; and Da-
mascus being a somewhat equivocal epithet, at best apply-
ing rather to a mode than a material of steelmaking, a
third party procures from abroad a few lumps of the cele
brated Indian wootz, a substance which not many persons
have seen, and still fewer thoroughly understand, and under
these auspices comes forth Peruvian steel. Each of these
materials may be of acknowledged goodness and celebrity ;
but at all events they must alike be content with the
common credit of an earthly origin ; not so, however,
with those ferruginous masses which have at different
times fallen from the clouds. Poetry and policy unite to
favour the notion that, iron smelted in ether, and hardened
in the north wind, must needs, like HOMER'S horses be-
gotten of the latter agent, be of excellent temper ; accord-
ingly, meteoric steel has been among the discoveries which
have claimed the approbation of the public. We have
taken the liberty to introduce, thus playfully, four deno-
minations ot factitious steel, which, when recommended as
superior to pure steel, for fine cutlery in general, deserve
to he treated in no graver style : as connected, however,
with metallurgic phenomena, the processes developing
those peculiarities of elementary chemical combination, or
mechanical structure, upon which the obvious characteris-
tics of the above-named steels are assumed to depend, are
far from being uninteresting to the experimentalist.—Dr.
Lardner's Cyclopedia, Vol. XXIV.

His Majesty's ship Childsr,, 18, Com. 11. Deans, was
paid wages on Thursday, and is daily expected to proceed
to Lisbon with dispatches for Rear-Admiral Parker, and
thence, report says, to relieve his 71Iajesty's. ship Briton,
46, which ship is now cruising off Terceira.
His Majesty's ship Stag, 46, Commander Herringham,
(acting) is ready for set, and is expected to proitee4 to
Cork, as Peoll as her Captain (Sir T. E. Troubridge,
Barr.) shall arrive from London, being now on Admi-
ralty leave.
Hitt Majesty's ship Galatea, 42, Captain C. Napier,
C.B. and Stag, 46, Corn. • Herringhttn, acting (in the ab-
sence of Captain Sir E. Troubridge, Bart. attending his
Parliamentary duties) arrived on Sunday from Leith, last
from the Dawns. The crew of the former ship were
exercised at Spithead on Monday, in the presence of the
second in command, firing at a target, and acquitted them-
selves much to their credit, and that of the Captain and
officers. She was afterwards towed into harbour by the
Confiance steam-vessel, and will be paid off into ordinary
to-morrow. Such I.as been the alacrity and perseverance
manifested on board, that in two days after coming into
harbour, this ship was completely dismantled and ready
to he delivered over to the Dock-yard, an instance, we be-
lieve, never before on record.
His Majesty's ship Madagascar, 46, Captain Edmund
Lyons, will go nut of harbour to-morrow, and is expected
to sail for the Mediterranean on Thursday or Friday next,
taking out as passengers, General 'Sir F. Ponsonby (Go-
vernor of Malta) and suite.
The Pearl was uedacked on Tuesday, and will he suc-
ceeded, we believe, by the Wasp. It is expected that the
Britannia will be undot•ked on Tuesday next.
At Spithead—Prince Regent, Stag, Childers, and
Recruit.
In Harbour—Victory, Britannia, Royal George, Ga-
latea, Madagascar, Pearl, African, Viper, Contiance, and

His ;Majesty's ship Prince Regent, 120, Captain
J. W. D. Dundas, arrived on Tuesday from Lisbon
having sailed from the Tagus on the 11th inst., (after
lying there four months) leaving there his Majesty's shit
Asia, 81, Captain P. Richards, bearing the flag of Rear
Admiral Parker, C.B. ; Revenge, 76, Captain D. 11.
Mackay, and Victor, 18, Commander R. Russell. Th.
French squadron consisted of one sixty-gun frigate
and a corvette. The Prince Regent brought home the
following passengers, viz.:.—From his Majesty's ship
Asia, Captain H. Parker, Lieutenants T. V. Watkins and
J. W. Purcell ; Mr. F., W. R. Sadler, Master ; Mr. W.
*Hood, purser (clerk to Cap sin Parker) ; Messrs. Vaughan,
Banbury, and Stirling, mates, and twenty-nine pets)
officers and seamen, who Itai,e all since joined his
Majesty's ship Victory. She brought home also Cons
manlier A. Ellice, lately promoted from the Victor ; Mr.
J. Breaks, parser, Secretary's chrk to Rear-Admiral
Parker ; Mr. Falcon, mate, and three seamen belonging to
his Majesty's ship Briton, and the following invalided :
L;eut. G. V. Hart, of the Victor; Mr. J. A. Mends,
Mate o. the Asia ; and thirteen seamen from the squadron.
The Revenge was released front quarantine on the day the
Prince Regent sailed. On the Bth instant Admiral Parker
shifted his flag from the Prince Regent to the Asia, with
manned yards and the customary salutes front the two
ships. When the Prince Regent sailed, a: rive prepara-
tions were still going on by Don Miguel's party, but from
the exhausted state of his funds, and the disaffection of his
troops and seamen, there is little doubt of Don Pedro's
success ; the first appearance of whose flag will, it is con-
fidently reported, cause the immediate defection of Mi-
guel's forces. The forced loan had caused universal dis-
content, and it was only by the most rigorous measure,
that about half the proposed amount had been collected.
A rigid impress had just taken place, sweeping off all
descriptions of persons to man the ships. The Don
Juan, 74, with three corvettes and a brig, were the only
vessels with sails bent, lying off Belem Castle. The Qseen,
an old ship, had been rigged, and had taken her guns on
board, hut she was not manned. She was lying up th.
harbour with a 20-gun sloop, which had also her guns
on board, but was not manned. Don Miguel seems per-
fectly sensible that there is no confidence to be placed in
his troops, and it is said he has made preparations for
leaving the country, should he find himself deserted by his
troops. The Prince Regent exchanged numbers witl.
H.M.S. Melville, on Monday afternoon last, about twelve
miles off Portland, with a fresh breeze at S.W. The crete
of the Prince Regent having suffered considerably from
erysipelas, during her absence front this parr, the ship has
been ordered to come into harbour, for the purpose of be-
ing paid off into this Ordinary, after having undergone a
complete fumigation. We are happy to say, that the dis-
ease, which, at one time, attacked upwards of a hundred
of the crew, his now entirely disappeared, and time ship is
expected to come into harbour on Wednesday or Thursday
next. The sailing and other qualities of this majestic ship
are highly spoken of, and much regret is felt at the ne-
cessity which has led to her being ordered to be paid off.
By a private letter from Lisbon, dated 14th inst. we
learn that formidable preparations were still in progress to
repel the threatened attack from Don Pedro's forces. Mutt
batteries were in course of erection for a considerable
distance along the shore. The accounts from Terceira are
dated Dec. 10, at which time there were 15,000 troops
animated with zeal and fidelity in the cause of Donna
Maria, and only awaiting the arrival from Brest of ships
of war and transports to effect their descent on Portugal.
The naval force at Terceira consisted of the Regencia, 24,
Bonne Esperanca, 10, Conde de Villa Flor, 18, Liberal,
10, Coquette, 6, Prudencia, 6. One sixty-guts frigate
and two corvettes were daily looked for front France, ann
the whole farce expected to be embarked amounted to
25,000 men.

Extract of a letter from Malta, dated Jan. 6, 1832 :
" I send the arrivals and tailings of English men-of-war
from December Ist to this day. Arrivals.—His Majesty's
ship Alfred, 50, Captain R. Mannarll, on the Ist ult.
from Tripoli, where she had been cruising ; his Majesty's
ship Scylla, 18, Com. Hon. G. Grey on the 4th ult. front
Toulon; his Majesty's steam-packet Alban, Lieutenant H.
Walker (a), on the 17th ult., from Marseilles ; his Ma-
jesty's surveying vessels Mastiff, 6, Lieutenant J. Wolfe,
and Meteor, 8, Corn. It. Copeland, on the 28th tilt., from
Skaithos and Napoli di Romania ; his Majesty's ship Bar.
ham, 50, Captain Pigot, on the 3d inst., from Naples.
Sailings.—His Majesty's steatn-packet Alban, on the 29th
ult. ; his Majesty's ship Philomel, 10, Com. W. Smith (e),
on the Ist inst., for Algiers, but was forced to put back 0.
the 3d, and sailed again on the 4th inst. ; his Majesty's
ship Cerdelia, Com. C. Hotham, on the sth inst., and his
Majesty's ship St. Vincent, 120, Captain H. F. Senhouse,
with the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir H. Hotham, on the 6th
inst., for Tripoli."

We learn by private letters from Belle Isle, dated the
14th instant, that the greatest confidence of success
existed among the individual composing the expedition
of Don Pedro. The naval force consisted of the Riiinh.

de Portugal (formerly the Congress), 46 ; the Donna
Maria (formerly the Asia), 42 ; the Juno, a 20-gun cor-
vette ; the Terceira, a schoonrr of six guns ; and eight

or ten transports. Don Pedro left Paris on Wednesday
last, to join the squadron, which was expected to sail not
later than the 4th of February. The crews and troop•
were in high spirits, having received two months' wages in
advance, and gratuitous clothing and bedding. There are
no Portuguese or other foreigners in the expedition, the
whole being composed exclusively of English. Admiral
Sartorius'a flag MN flying on board the Rainha de Portugal.
APPOINTMENTS A ND PROMOTIONS. —Lieut. C. F.
Brown is appointed to his Majesty's ship Victor, at Lis-
bon, vice Hart, invalided.—Mr.W. Wood, Purser (la'e
Clerk of his Majesty's ship Asia) is appointed to his Ma
jesty's ship Victory, vice Rowe.—Messrs. M. Kerr and
G Midshipmen, are appointed, the former to his
Ilil .
aje'styleki 'slesllp Madagascar and the latter to his Majesty's
ship Asia.---Mr. H. J. Bamber, volunteer that class, (son
of Captain Bamber, of Ordinary) and Mr. G. Sinclair,
Midshiptnen,•are appointed to his Majesty's ship Childers.,

(Abridged from the Scotsman )
The first step towards estimating the import-
ance of a borough, as required by Lord Mel-
bourne, is, to get precise numerical values of the
two elements ; and to obtain these, we must have
a standard to which each element may be re-
ferred. Let us suppose a town to exist, that
contains as many houses as the whole hundred
boroughs, and pays a sum in taxes equal to what
the whole pay ; such a town ought numerically
to be reckoned equal in importance to all the bo-
roughs together, taking into account the two
elements which regulate importance. Let us
next suppose, that this large town is subdi-
vided into one hundred towns, each con-
taining the same number of houses, and paying
the same sum in taxes; it is manifest that the
aggregate political importance of the hundred
equal towns ought also to be equivalent to that
of the town from which they have been formed,
and consequently to that of the hundred real
boroughs. Therefore, one of the hundred hy-
pothetical towns may be taken al a standard of
Comparison by which the relative importance of
each real borough may be estimated. From the
• Parliamentary paper in which the boroughs are
arranged, it appears that the whole number of
houses in them all, is 45,200 nearly, and the
sum they pay altogether in taxes, about 51,5001.
Therefore, the average, or standard borough,
with which we are to compare the real boroughs,
should contain 452 houses, and pay 5451. in
Assessed Taxes. By the rule laid down in
Lieutenant Drummond's instructions, the relative
importance of each borough is resolvable into
two parts,—one depending on the number of its
houses,—and the other on the sum it pays in
taxes. Let us call the first of these, House-
importance, and the second, Tax-importance.
Let us now assume the house-importance
and tax-importance of the standard borough as
scales of comparison, by which the like kinds of
importance of the real boroughs are to be ex-
pressed, and let each scale be reckoned to con-
tain, say 1,000 equal gradations, which shall be
called degrees. Then to find the house-import-
ance and tax-importance of a borough. Arun-
del, for example, which contains 527 houses,
and pays 878/. in taxes, we must, following the
precepts of Cocker, say, if 452, (the houses in
the average town) give 1,000 degrees of house-
importance, how many degrees ought 527 (the
houses in Arundel) to give. The result, by
the well-known Rule of Three, will come out

1,165 for the house-importance of Arundel ;
and by a like process, its tax-importance will he
found 1,611 ; and so on through all the
boroughs.
Flaying got the numbers which express the
house-importance and tax-importance of each
borough, the next question is, how shall these
'be united, so as to express a just measure of re-
lative importance, depending jointly on the
houses and taxes ?

To resolve this question, with mathematical
accuracy, we ought to know how many degrees
of the one kind of importance should be reckoned
a fair equivalent for a given number of degrees
of the other ? From the nature of the case,
this question does not admit of an answer. We
know that the borough-importance depends on
its magnitude and power to pay taxes, and that
if either of these be increased, while the other
remains the same, the importance of the bo-
rough, as an integrant part of the State, is in-
creased, yet we cannot say that a degree of house-
' importance is either greater or less than a degree
of tax-importance ; we must, therefore, -account
them equal, or as Lieutenant Drummond says,
allow them " equal weight in the estimation of
the relative importance of a borough," just as in
the House of Commons, the votes of the Mem-
bers of all boroughs, great and small, and also of
the counties, are each considered as having the
same weight when placed in opposite scales of
a balance by a division of the House ; or as the
votes of all freeholders (whether real or fictitious)
in a county, are reckoned equal in value in the
election of a Member of Parliament.—We
must, therefore, allow that Lieutenant Drum-
mond has correctly done the duty imposed on
him by his instructions from Lord Melbourne.

Considerable liberty has been taken with Lieu-
tenant Drummond's professional reputation in
the newspapers, and also in a place where more
candour might have been expected. It has been
entirely overlooked, that he is an officer in his
Majesty's service, and that in this capacity he
has been performing a duty of considerable diffi-
culty entrusted to him. He has been represented
as an obscure person, one Thomas Drummond,
who is very ignorant of the science of calcula-
tion, and needing much the enlightening influ-
ence of the 'schoolmaster. It would be well for
the public service if all military officers possessed
professional knowledge equal to that of Lieute-
nant Drummond. He is intimately acquainted
with the mathematical sciences in their most re-
condite theories. He is an indefatigable and
dexterous and inventive experimenter in physics,
and he has rendered essential advantage to sci-
ence, as well as to the particular branch of the
public service in which he has been long engaged,
(the trigonometrical survey of Britain and Ire-
land) by a series of experiments on the expansion
of metals, with a view to exact measurement of
a base, and by his arduous exertions in the
field, under the direction of Colonel Colby.
His means of facilitating the Observations of
distant Stations in Geodetical Observations,
and his Method of Illuminating Light-houses;
as recOrdedin the London Philosophical Trans-
actions, are well known to every cultivator of
science in Europe. His experiments were ex-
hibited in the presence of Sir George Cockburn,
Mr. Barrow, Captain Beaufort—all belonging t,)
the Admiralty ; also by Admiral Sir T. Hardy,
Capt. Hall, the late Lord Advocate of Scotland,
Sir T. Brisbane, Col. Colby, and various other
individuals, eminent for their professional and
scientific attainments. Lastly, his present Nla-
jesty, then Master of the Corporation,Trinity
was pleased to be present on one occasion,and,
we understand still honours with his notice the
whose name and whose
said to have been made
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tish Senate.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOTV-STREET.

Yesterday Mr. Thomas, the Superintendent of
Police, came betore Mr. HALLS, for the purpose of
informing him of the fact of some articles of female
apparel, together with some human hair, having
been found on the banks of the Thames, tinder cr-
tumstances calculated to excite a -suspicion that a
murder had been committed,

Mr. Thomas stated that a constable of his divi-
sion, No. 107, received information on Sunday
morning that a woman's chemise and night-gown,
with a quantity of human hair, had been picked up
near the Fox-under-the-Hill on Saturday ;evening
by one of the boys called " mud-larks;' who obtain
a precarious subsistence by wading amongst the mud
when the tide recedes from the coal-wharfs, and
picking up bits of coals that are lost frem the
barges. The constable traced the boy to the resi-
dence of his mother, a laundress, in Stewart's-rents,
Drury-lane, where he found the linen hanging to
dry on a line. The boy, on being questioned, said he
found the articles wrapped in a handkerchief,washtl
up by the tide, close to the Fox-under the-Hill,
and exhibited them to several persons, who advised
him to take them to his mother. However, anoi her
boy took the handkerchief and ran off with it. The
mother of the boy said the linen when brought to
her appeared to have come in contact with some
night soil.

The constable produced. the articles for the in-
spection of the Magistrate. The chemise was of
coarse but nearly new Irish linen, without any
ini-
tials marked upon it, and it was torn down in front
from top to bottom, evidently with considerable
violence. The night-gown, which ii as made open
in front, was of tine calico, trimmed with cross-
barred muslin, the sewing done by a skilful work-
woman. This also had no mark. The hair,-of
which there was a great quantity, wa, a very (link
brown, and about twenty inches in length, having
apparently a natural tendency to curl. It also ap-
peared to have been hacked off rather than cut, and
that with some blunt instrument.

Mr. Thomas said that the circumstance of the
chemise being torn down in front, and the apparent
hacking off of the hair, reminded him to forcibly of
a part of the system adopted by Bishop and his com-
panions, that he thought there was something very
suspicious in the discovery, and he felt it his
ditty to make a communication to the Magistrate on
the subject.

Mr. HALLs said he had done perfectly right, and
directed that the articles should be carefully pre-
served, as it was quite possible that some discovery
important to the furtherance of public justice might
be the consequence.