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The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-05

DELCROIX'S ODONTO.

" We do not hesitate to recommend, from experience, DEL.
CROIX'S ODONTO, or the Queen's own Dentiftice, as the most
♦aluable means of purifying, preserving, and embellishing the
Teeth and Gums, hitherto ofered to the Public."—Court Gazette.
*a," The Bouquet Duke of York is the last new fashionable
perfume of the season 1844 ; but though the last, is not the least
in perfection, as it happily combines the preceding excellence of all
the royal bouquets, with the delicate and delicious fragrance of the
white moss rose.

Let him who is a true born gentleman,
And stands upon the honour of his birth,
If he suppose that I have pleaded truth—
From off this briar pluck a white rose with me.

Messrs. J. Deleroix and Co., 188, New Bond.street, have pleasure
in offering this their last bouquet of the season, and beg to inform
the Nobility anti their Patrons that, during the recess, all orders
for their " unique cadeau" of a case containing the six royal bou-
quets for one guinea, comprising the bouquets de la Reine, d'Albert,
Prince of Wales, Duke of York, rrincesse Royale, and Princeese
Alice, will be forwarded to any part of the country, carriage paid.
To insure the genuine, particular attention is required in observing
that No. l si, New Bond.street, London, be upon each case and
every bottle, as worthless counterfeits, for the sake of profit, are
sold by Druggists and Hairdressers in town and country.
SHAVING A LUXURY.

PRICE and CO.'s RYPOPHAGON surpasses every soap ever
invented for shaving. One trial will prove that the luxury of a
goad shave can be enjoyed only by these who use Price and Co.'s
Rypophagon, which renders shaving (hithert• disagreeable and
often pzinnil) pleasant and easy.
Prepared by Price and Co., 28, Lombard.street (late Price and
Gosnell's), and sold by Delcroix and Co., H,9, New Bond-street,
and nowhere else in London, price 3s. dd. per pot, Is. per square,
in cakes for boxes Is. tid. and 2s. 6d.

*.* Mr. Price will have pleasure in presenting
traveller with a square of the Rypophagon gratuitously, who may
do him the honour of a a II at Montperier House, 28, Lombard-
street. any brother
London, England, 1844-10-05

SHAVING A LUXURY.

PRICE and CO.'s RYPOPHAGON surpasses every soap ever
invented for shaving. One trial will prove that the luxury of a
good shave can be enjoyed only by those who use Price and Co.'s
Rypophagon, which renders shaving (hitherto disagreeable and
often painful) pleasant and easy.
Prepared by Price and Co., 28, Lombard-street (late Price and
Gosnell's), and sold by Delcroix and Co., 1551, New Bond-street,
and nowhere else in London, price 3s. 6d. per pot, Is. per square,
in cakes for boxes Is. 6d. and 21. 6d.

•,„' Mr. Price will have pleasure in presenting any brother
traveller with a square of the Itypophagon gratuitously, who may
do him the bonour of a call at DiontpaPict ilouso. 23, LOlnbard•
street.
London, England, 1844-10-05

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Cleveland hounds, Monday, Hazlegrove; Thursday,
Ginsbrough Park, loi—Mr. Archer's hounds, Monday,
Sifton Park ; Thursday, Chapman's Well, 103—Mr.
Trelawny's hounds, Tuesday, Slade Hall, 11 ; Friday,
Newnham Park—Devon hounds, Thursday, Oxton
House ; Saturday, Sandy Gate, loi—Devon and So-
merset stag-hounds, Tuesday, Exford—Brushford har-
riers, Monday, Bampton ; Thursday, Hyson Common
(Winsford) ; Saturday, Larcumfoot, near Winsford,
9k—F. B. IL, Monday, Croft West ; Friday, Bud-
doe Water, 10—Brighton harriers, Monday, The Dyke
London, England, 1844-09-20

sally in favour of the largest yield that has
ever been produced, that speculation has not been
thought of, and manufacturers, pressed by an eager
desire to realise on the part of holdeis, have made
their purchases this week at prices al-Aays
and occasionally id. per lb. below the rates current a
fortnight ago, whilst it may still be quoted as a re-
markable fact, that the spinners have taken less from
this market for consumption this year, than they did
during the corresponding period in 1843. It can only
be supposed that more labour and less raw material is
now employed than was required for the heavy ma-
nufactures then produced.
The West India news is not of a very agreeable
nature. The planters had not recovered from the
discouragement occasioned by the measures in refer-
ence to their produce passed in the last session. Here
the prospect for them is improving, as sugar is daily
becoming more valuable now that the first impulses
have given way to calm reflection, and buyers and
sellers both discover that they cannot, all at once, be
overwhelmed with an import of foreign produce.—
Liverpool Mercury.

THE LONDON GAZETTE
(THIS EVENING.)

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, SEPT. 18, 1844.
Ordnance Medical Department—Temporary Assistant
Surgeon J. M. S. Fogo to be Assistant Surgeon, Sept. 13.

'VAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 20.
7th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant D. J. Dickinson to
be Adjutant, vice Dobbie, deceased, Sept. 20.
30th Foot—Lieutenant W. H. Heard to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Brevet Major J. Poynts, who re-
tires upon full pay ; Ensign A. Lowry to be Lieutenant,
vice Heard ; C. Molyneux, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Lowry, Sept. 20.
35th Foot—Ensign A. Tisdall to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Harding, who retires ; A. W. Ord, Gent.
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tisdall, Sept. 20.
37th Foot—Lieut. C. F. Shum to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Brevet Major Lord Keane, who retires ; En-
sign T. Hawley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Shum ; J. H. Wyatt, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Hawley, Sept. 20.
41st Foot—Quartermaster-Serjeant J. Gillan to be
Quartermaster, vice R. Harker, who retires upon half-
pay, Sept. 20.
60th Foot—Lieutenant J. Douglas to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Townsend, who retires ; Second Lieut.
J. Warburton to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Douglas ; William Hetherington, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Warburton, Sept. 20.
63d Foot—Major A. C. Pole to be Lieutenant. Colonel
without purchase, vice Logan deceased ; Captain A. G.
Sedley to be Major, vice Ale ; Lieutenant H. W.
Coultman, to be Captain, vice Sedley ; Ensign C. H.
Bell, to be Lieutenant, vice Coultman, Sept. 2 ; Ser-
geant-Major H. White, to be Ensign, vice Bell, Sept. 20.
MEMORANDUM.—The exchange of Captain Pryce
Clark, from the 54th to half-pay Unattached, on the
20th September, 1839, is without the difference, he hav-
ing repaid, to the credit of the public, the sum he re-
ceived.
London, England, 1844-09-20

FOREIGN_FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per Cent ..... „ 'Portuguese, 5 per Cent ......
Belgian, 5 per Cent lOl Ditto,. New Ditto —
SUSHI= Bonds ............ 88 Prussian, 5 per Cent .....«.,
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... 36 Russian , 5 per Cent.....„.
CliMint 6 per Cent ........... 105 !Ditto, Metallic.... .....
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Ditto' 1824........ — Ditto, 3 per Cent 34
Cuba Bonds, Eger Cent — .Ditto. Deferred.... ..... ... 13
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 18,5, 5 per Cent — Exchange —L —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent ........ 36% French, 3 per Cent.. —L —c
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 11167...... --,Dutch, 2K per Cent 62k
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... Ditto, 5 per Cent JD)

SHARES.
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid)
Dublin and Belfast Junction, 2% paid .........
Dublin and Cashel, 2% paid
Harwich, I paid l%
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid
London and Brighton (50 paid) ......... ..........
London and Greenwich (12t. 15s. 4d. paid) .....
London and South Western (411. fo. 10d. Paid) 76
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) l6
London and York, 2% paid 5%
Manchester and Birmingham
Ditto New Quarters ( 2 paid) 5
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Scrip (15 paid)... .... ......... ........ . .......
South Eastern and Dover 33 2s 4d paid) ....
12
Ditto New shares, 4 paid
Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid)
York and Selby Scrip. —. paid 56%
Boulogne and Amiens 2 paid .....
Orleans, Tours, and frourcleaux, 1 paid
38 Paris and Rouen. 20 paid ..... . ..... .............

DIABOLICAL ATTEAIPT.--About three o'clock on
Friday morning a most diabolical attempt was made to
destroy either life or property, or both, at the residence
of the Rev. G. T. Mostyn, minister of St. Michael's
Daisy Field, Blackburn. It appears that a con-
siderable quantity of gunpowder was introduced
into the lock, and through crevices in the door ;
the train was partially fired, but not succeeding,
it was again tried, happily without the demoniac
result which the wretches evidently conte niplated. It is
hardly possible to conceive the motive which could have
dictated such a cowardly and ruffianly attempt at
slaughter. Mr. Mostyn is, comparatively, a stranger
among us ; enemies he has none to his knowledge, and
what can have induced an attempt of this kind, which
would disgrace even the savage barbarian, is utterly
mysterious awl vuiaccouutable,-131tichburn Mercury.
London, England, 1844-09-20

DIISOEIMANEOIIII.

The Prince Consort's hariers have been hunted on
several days during the past week, by Major-General
Wemyss, in the neighbourhood of Windsor, in order to
get this excellent pack in good hunting condition by the
time his Royal Highness returns to the Castle.
The ship-carpenters of Sunderland have struck for an
advance of wages. At present their wages are 18s. per
week, and they request that these wages should be raised
to 21s.

A handsome piece of plate, with a purse of sovereigns.
has been presented to Mr. Long, huntsman to his Grace
the Duke of Beaufort, by the gentlemen attending the
Badminton hunt.

It is stated, on good authority, that the Commissioners
of Woods and Forests have determined upon purchasing
Battersea-marsh and fields, a tract of land upwards of
200 acres in extent for the purpose of making a public
park of the same, and which is to be adorned with lakes,
serpentine walks, shrubberies, &c. There will also, it
is said, be a splendid carriage drive along the margin of
the Thames from Vauxhall to Battersea-bridge. Mr.
Thomas Cubitt, the builder, has been directed to fur-
nish the plan, and as soon as these are completed an
application will be made to Parliament.

Mr. J. C. Belaney is said to be now on a visit in
the family of a gentleman at Cloadon, near South
Shields.—Tyne Mercury.
The Rer. W. Penrice Borrett, M.A., has been in-
stituted to the rectory of Syston, Gloucestershire, vacant
by the death of the Rev. F. Pelly.
London, England, 1844-09-20

UNION TREATMENT.

Wednesday Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., Coroner, and a
jury empanelled on Saturday last, at the One Tun
public•house, Old Brentford, resumed an inquiry
into the circumstances attendant upon the death of
John Shaw, aged 22 years, who died in the work-
house of the Eton Union, at Slough, Bucks,
from the effects of injuries he had received by a
fall of earth, and who, it is alleged, was much ne-
glected. John Peverall deposed that he was a
pauper
rhl inmate of the Eton Union workhouse, at
and for seven years had been nurse in the
men's sick ward. Deceased was brought to that work-
house on the afternoon of last Saturday six weeks,
having been injured by an accident owing to an
abatement of earth which had fallen on him while
excavating for the foundation of some cellars at Slough.
Deceased was accompanied by Mr. Nobland, a sur-
geon, of W indsor, who was passing at the time. Mr.
Hammond, the surgeon of the Union, saw deceased
next day, and continued to attend him up to his
death, which took place on the night of Wednesday,
the 12th instant, about half an hour after midnight.
The day that deceased was brought in Mr. Bryan,
another surgeon, set his leg, and deceased re-
peatedly declared to witness that he was sa-
tisfied with the treatment he received while
in the workhouse. After a very extended
examination, Mr. Seers, the master of the
deceased, deposed that the deceased told him
that for the first three weeks he was quite starving,
London, England, 1844-09-20

PUBLICATIONS.

. COMPLETION OF THE BOOK OF TIIE FARM.
Next week will be published, price Is., Parts XX. and XXI.,
completing the work of
THE BOOK OF THE FARM,
By HENRY STEPHENS, F.R.S.E. . •

Illustrated with Wood Engravings.
At the same time will be published,

The SECOND and THIRD Volumes, handsomely bound in cloth.
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.
London, England, 1844-09-20

COUXT-P.ABUIONABLE.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland have ar-
rived at Alnwick Castle for the season.

The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton are among the
recent arrivals at Bath.

The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have issued cards
for a select party on Monday next. Their Graces are
expected to leave Wimbledon Park, for Brighton, early
in the ensuing week.

The Marquis of Anglesey has arrivod at Malvern, from
Beaudesert Park, Staftbrdshire.

The Earl of Durham has left Lambton Castle on a
visit to the Marquis of Breadalbane, at Taymouth Castle.
Lieutenant-General Sir John and Lady Fitzgerald
have arrived at their mansion in Cavendish square, from
Dresden.

The Duke and Duchess of Bedford are entertaining a
select party at Woburn Abbey, including some illus-
trious foreigners.
The Countess Flahault left Mirart's Hotel yesterday
afternoon for Richmond.

Lord Stuart de Rothsay is at present at the residence
of the Earl of Mexborough in Dover-street. His Lord-
ship, we are happy to state, is considerably improved in
health since his return to this country from St. Peters-
burgh.
The Hon. Richard Cavendish and Mrs. Cavendish left
Belgrave-square yesterday morning on a visit tx) the
Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, and after a short so-
journ with the Noble Duke, they proceed to Holkar
House, to spend a short time with the Earl of Burlington.
Miss Burdett Coutts has arrived at Paris from Italy.
London, England, 1844-09-20

ALDERMAN GIBBS.

A Common Councilman said he had read in the
Times paper a statement, purporting to be a report of
a meeting of the parishioners of St. Stephen's, Wal-
brook, in which the name of Mr. Alderman Gibbs
appeared. He wished to know from the worthy Al-
derman whether that account was true.

The hoax which appeared in the Times was read
at length.

Mr—. Alderman GIBBS said emphatically that the
statement was totally fase, and the letter to which
his name was appended an entire fabrication.— (Hear.)
Mr. Alderman COPELAND hoped the Court would
not refuse that the statement just read, together with
Mr. Alderman Gibb's denial, should be entered on
their records.
Sir P. LAURIE said he trusted that no such record
would take place. True, a n attack had been made on
the character of a Magistrate of this City, but to
take so much notice of a malicious Paragraph in a
newspaper would be a disgrace to this Coort.

Mr. LINCOLN'S LECTURES ON MUSlC.—Yesterday
evening, Mr. Lincoln commenced a series of four lectures
on music at Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate-street ; they are
designed to illustrate the genius and works of Beethoven,
Weber, Spohr, and Mendelssohn. The lecture of last
night was devoted to a critical examination of the works
of Beethoven, from the earliest period of his fame as a
composer. The lecturer displayed a fine appreciation of
Beethoven's style of composition, and very aptly illus-
trated his remarks by instrumental and vocal music,
selected from that great master's works. In this he was
ably assisted by Miss M. Lincbln, Mr. Cox, NI ss Mason,
and Herr Kroff. Mr. Lincoln himself
.presided at the
piano-forte, and performed some very difficult pieces
with precision and taste. The hall was crowded to over-
flowing, and Mr. Lincoln received unequivocal marks of
the approbation of a numerous and discriminating
audience. The public taste in the more elevated style of
musical composition must unquestionably receive a vast
impulse from lectures of this character, which are di-
rected to the development of principles, and, at the same
time, are so pleasingly illustrated. _

_
LITE DESTROYED BY A CARRAWAY.—A girl,
named Georgiana Edwards, residing in Cricklade-street,
Cirencester, recently returned from Cheltenham, enciente.
On Tuesday morning she was delivered of a very fine
boy ; on Wednesday the child died suddenly, and, on a
post mortem examination of the body being made by
Mr. Warner, surgeon, it was found that a carraway from.
the food which had been given to the child had lodged in
its windpipe, and as the child was unable to cough it up,
it brought on convulsions, and ultimately death. An.
inquest was holden on Wednesday afternoon, and a
verdict of accidental death was returned.—Cheltenham
Exatnixer.
London, England, 1844-09-20

CHINESE STRATEGY.

If a general is pusillanimous, he will not have the
sentiments of honour which become a person of his
rank, he will be deficient in the essential qualification
of inspiring his troops with ardour : he will depress
their courage at the time it ought to be excited; he
will never know how to teach, nor exercise them pro-
perly ; he will never think that he can rely on the in•
telligence, the valour, or the skill of the officers who
are under him ; the officers themselves will not know
what to depend upon : he will make a thousand false
movements with his troops, whom he will arrange
sometimes in one manner, and sometimes in another,
without following any system or any plan: he will
hesitate about all things ; he will decide on nothing;
everywhere he will see nothing but subjects of alarm
and then disorder, and general disorder will reign in
his army.
If a general is ignorant of the strength and weak-
ness of the enemy against whom he is to fight ; if he
is not thoroughly acquainted, as well with the places
which he is actually occupying, as with those which
he may occupy, according to different events, it will
fall out that he will oppose to the strongest part of
the enemy's army the weakest part of his own ; he
will send his light and veteran warriors against the
heavy troop of the enemy, or against those who are
held in no estimation by the adversary ; he will at-
tack when he ought not to attack ; he will suffer to
perish, for want of assistance, those of his troops
who may find themselves incapable of resistance ; he
will defend himself inexpediently in a bad situation ;
he will give up causelessly some post of the great-
est importance; in occasions of this kind he will rely
on some imaginary advantage which will only be an
effect of the politics of the enemy, or he will lose
courage after a relapse of trifling consequence. He
will find himself pursued without having expected it;
he will find himself surrounded, they will attack him
furiously; happy then will he be if he can obtain
safety by flight : it is for this reason, to return to the
topic which is the subject of this article, a good gene-
ral ought to know all the places which are or may be
the theatre of war, as distinctly as he knows all the
corners and angles of the courts and gardens of his
own house.—Froin the "Art of War," in Captain
Picicling's Chinese Olio and Tea Talk, No. 21.
London, England, 1844-09-20

Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 255 .. 256 25 .. 255 256 25
RAILWAY SIIARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, SEPTEMBER 30.
Versaillee. L. 8....... .. 256 25 .. 257 50 .. 256 25 .. 257 50

Rouen • • ••• • •• • • • • • • • • • •• 990

.. 991 23 .. 590

. 991 25

Rouen to Havre•••.•,...... 755 ~, 755 •753 75 753 75
Orleans .•••• •• •• •••••• •••• 982 50 .. 986 25 .• 982 50 •• 986 25

Strasburg to Bale • ......... i 55

.. 257 50 .. 253

. 257 N

FURTHER OUTRAGES OF THE
FRENCH AT OTAHEITE.

By a letter from Otaheite, dated April 24, being
later than our previous advices, we learn that events
have occurred at that island which, when stated in
detail, as they are sure to be in future accounts, will
place the character of French rule in the Southern
Pacific beyond all question.

At the time ive refer to " the French had been
cruelly murdering the natives by broadsides rge canister
and grape from their two heavy frigates ! The un-
happy Queen had been upwards of twelve weeks
living with her family on board of our small ketch of
war Basilisk, and during that long period had not
dared to put her foot out of the vessel. The French
had carried their unwarrantable measure of confisca-
tion of the Queen's property to so great an extremity
that they had even seized upon the little presents of
poultry, and fish, and fruit, which her sincerely at-
tached subjects had from time to time provided for
her. These trifles the French had appropriated to
their own personal uses!"
These proceedings with relation to the Queen
seem to savour a good deal of persecution, and very
little of honesty. They are merely unrelentingly
severe and disreputable. 'Tis the tyranny of the
giant using his power like a giant, but in a little
way. Nevertheless, the great gun practice with
grape and canister, which is spoken of as a warlike
service performed by heavy frigates against an un-
defended people, is an affair of too merciless a nature
to be tolerated as the planned and deliberate exploit
of the assumed-to-be skilled navy of a great and
civilised nation.—Shipping Gazette.
London, England, 1844-09-20

ASISCRILLIII.NNOITS.

A number of the principal rate-payers in Oldham and
the adjacent townships are taking measures with a view
to the introduction of the new Poor-law, whilst a con-
siderable body of the middle and working classes are
strongly opposed to the change. It is reported that the
late irregularities in the administration of the parochial
affairs of Oldham, and the recent mismanagement in the
conducting of Middleton workhouse have produced the
present proceedings.
Mr. O'Connell, it is said, starts for Derrynane shortly
after the martyrs' feast, on Thursday next. The bea-
gles, it is added, are in training for the "Liberator's"
return to his mountain home. On his arrival in Dublin,
in November, he promises to attend another feast, to be
given in his honour in Meath.
On Saturday, the 31st ultimo, as the Lord Lovat
coach, from Peterhead to Banff, was changing horses
about ten miles from the latter place, the fresh horses
which had just been put to, from some unknown cause,
were startled, and set off at full speed, without guard or
coachman. Mr. Macduie, perfumer, Banff; who was an
outside passenger, unfortunately leaped from the top,
and although he alighted upon his feet, fell back from
the recoil before one of the hind wheels, which passed
over his chest, and caused death in a few minutes.
A Government agent has visited Sunderland, and sur-
veyed and approved the site selected by the Public Walks
Committee as a recreation ground for the inhabitants.
On Friday, Messrs. Chappell and Marsden, of Cannon-
street, Manchester (through their agent, Mr. Slack),
made an advance of ten per cent. in the prices paid to
the handloom weavers in their employment in Wigan
and the neighbourhood. We hope, for the sake of so
industrious a class as the weavers are universally admitted
to be, that this example will be followed by a general
advance throughout the trade.
Last week one of the Assistant Poor-law Commis-
sioners visited Rochdale, for the purpose (as it is re-
ported) of shortly ating the New Peor-law into force
in that borough. There appears to be great opposition
to it at present.
The most active exertions have been made during
these few days to discover the delinquents in the late
Bank forgery and robbery case, and it having been ascer-
tained that they have proceeded to the United States, J.
and D. Forester, the active police-officers, will be sent
immediately to America, to apply to the authorities there
for the necessary powers, under the late Act of Conven-
tion, to ,apprehend the guilty parties.
London, England, 1844-09-20

ALTERAON* OF TI3IE.
qRA.VIZSENDTI STAR PACKET.
FURTHER REDUCTION OF FARES.
SIXPENCE AND NINEPENCE,
Boat and Blackwell Railway included.
From the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwell,
Sundays included) at Ten, Eleven. Twelve, Three, Four,
Six, and Seven
At From the Terrace Pier, Gravesend,
--ven. Etalf-past Nine, Two, Four, Five, Six. and Seven.
Piro ~.. On Sundays at Eight and One instead of Two.
40re Cabin and Seconi-class Carriage, Sixpence ; Saloon and
Btar 081 First-class Carriage, Ninepence.
Gravesend, Aug. 28, 1844.
London, England, 1844-09-20

and the company! He reads the cards in the gentle-
men's pockets, and repeats their names to his mes-
meriser in Maidstone, at the very moment they are
announced at the Palace, &c., &c. It lightens in Lon-
don at the moment he is outside the Palace, and lie
promises to " go up and see what it is" the first op-
portunity. But this Edward Willesden, the Sunday-
school teacher at Maidstone, is beaten by another
mesmeric youth, who goes up occasionally to the
moon, and describes to his operator all that is to ha
seen there. It is actually affirmed that there is an
erratic genius of this kind in some midland county,
and that his revelations will be given to the world in
due time. To wade through one-half of the trash to
be found in this "Rationale" would be as tedious as
unprofitable. It is sufficient to point out that the able
and honourable men who maintain their belief in cer-
tain phenomena of mesmerism, are not to be disgraced
by the madness or dishonesty of every enthusiast or
impostor.
London, England, 1844-09-20

The division of profits is anneal, and the next will be made in De-
cember of the present year.
This Institution offers many important and substantial advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borriw, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium pale,
(see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
F. FERGUSON CANIROUX, See.
London, England, 1844-09-20

EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.

E SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON 241:1-
7.,EUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo-
rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to beve been formed
by One Person. during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a
cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in-
structive and interesting manner, the most important part of Euro-
pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and
',GUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., anti the EMPEROR
11'01,E0N. in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often,
daring the lea' and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of
Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladles,
also, many thousands ol the Nobility and Public; awl the Pro-
prietor has recently been able to instease, by several very fine
t4ctures, &c., his previous almost inure lible number and variety of
MSS., Works of Art, ands multitude ii valuable Relic:. and other
curiosities, in this most pstructive and. as hundreds have said it
()Oat to be, a Nationa. Museum. -•y taousand have inspected it,
and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS -.1 the PUBLIC PRESS
nave stated •ha' it cugh to be seen by every oae. The price of *dads-
ton is reduced t, ONE SHILLING.

The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to seen only at the Egyptian
Piccadilly. &Ea h om Ten till Lusk.
London, England, 1844-09-20

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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1844.

No Governor-General of India has been snore
maligned than Lora( ELLENBOROUGII. The press of
England and India justly laughed at his puerilities,
his songs of triumph ; and many of the journals la-
mented more than they blamed the attacks on hit:
predecessor, and the pompous proclamations about the
di-asters of Caubul, the gates of Somnauth, and his
firm determination to confine the British power for ever
in India to the limits which bounded it at the accession
of Lord AUCKLAND. Some, however, more severe
than just, described him as the most incompetent
Governor that ever had been sent out to rule that vast
empire. We all along, however, endeavoured to
• judge him by his acts, and not by his words. We
blamed him almost without one exception for what he
said, and praised him for what he did. The result
has not belied our opinions. Under his administra-
tion the honour and power of England were vindi-
cated in Affghanistan ; the most glorious and success-
ful march of armies through passes considered irn-
msable was accomplished ; Caubul was recaptured,
and the Affghans were taught the useful lesson, that
neither their high mountains, nor their narrow valleys
so:nmancled from the heights, nor their barren deserts,
could protect them against the forces of England.
'l7l ,is was an important point gained in that quarter.
ne merit is not entirely due to Lord ELLENDOUOUGH,
but he ordered the movement, and must come in for
share of the honour. That was, however, only an
iiode in his Lordship's government, though the im-
portant results which flo,v •
from it entitle it to a
much higher rank. But the greatest achievement of
Lord ELLENBOROUGII, greater, too, than any per—
formed by the most illustrious of his predecessors, is
~js of
this occupation of Sinde. When the
ev, nt reached Englund, higs,andes, thatand
W
joined in one cry for execration against the
run who so craelly deprived the innocent Arneers of
their dominions., who added treachery to hypocrisy,
avh ', from the ambition of conquest, riAied the lives
of British troopi without an object either just, or
honourable, or useful ; who sullied, the name of Eng-
laLd by a barbarous invasion, and doomed the unfor-
tu .ate General NAPIER and his brave troops to death,
either from thc pabres of' the Beloochees, or the pesti-
lan .e of the climate. We are not aware that any
.journal, with one cxcnption, justified the conduct of
LOA ELLEN novouGli and Sir CNA airs NAPIER in
this great work of justice, regeneration, and improve-
me it. :Many me:,:ibers of the Society of Friends
ex. laimed against the o2cupation of the country,
tbiugh Sir CHARLES NAPIER, or rather the Governor-
General, had struck off the fetters from every slave. I
14,:etings were held in various places to denounce the
inglorious inroad made upon the unsuspecting and
innocent Ameers. Mr. ROEBt'CK and Lord CLANRI-,
4:47:DR gave notice after novice to bring the
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ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION TO THE POEM.

Seven lingering moons have cross'd the starry line
Since Beauty's form, or Nature's face divine
Had power the sombre of my soul to turn—
Had power to wake my strings and bid them burn.
The charm dissolves ! What Genius bade me go

To search th' unfathom'd mine of human woe—
The wrongs of man to man, of clime to clime—
Since Nature yoked the fiery steeds of Time—
The tales of death—since cold on Eden's plain
The beauteous mother clasp'd her Abel slaia—
Ambitious guilt—since Carthage wept her doom—
The Patriot's fate—since Brutus fell with Rome?
The charm dissolves ! My kindling fancy dreams
Of brighter forms inspired by gentler themes ;
Joy and her rosy flowers attract my view,
And Mirth can please, or Music charm anew ;
And Hope, the harbinger of golden hours,
The light of life, the fire of Fancy's powers
Returns :—Again I lift my trembling gaze,
And bliss the smiling guest of other days.
So when the northern in the lonely gloom,
Where Hecla's fires the polar night illume,
Hails the glad summer to his Lulean shores,
And bow'd to earth his circling suns adores.
So when Cimmerian darkness wakes the dead,
And hideous Nightmare haunts the curtain'd bed,
And scowls her wild eye on the maddening brain,
What speechless horrors thrill the slumbering swain,
When shapeless fiends inhale his tortur'd breath,
Immure him living in the vaults of death ;
Or lead him lonely through the charnell'd aisles,
The roaring floods, the dark and swampy vales,
When rock'd by winds he wanders on the deep,
Climbs the tall spire, or scales the beetling steep,
His life-blood freezing to the central urn,
No voice can call for aid, no limb can turn,
Till eastern shoot the harbinger of Day,
And Night and all her spectres fade away.

If then some wand'ring Huntsman of the morn
Wind from the hill his murm'ring bugle horn,
The shrill sweet music wakes the slumberer's ear,
And melts his blood, and bursts the bands of fear ;
The vision fades—the shepherd lifts his eye--
And views the lark that carols to the sky.
These verses clearly► indicate the peculiar genius
and the refined taste of Campbell ; yet they are very
different from the introductory lines which were after-
wards substituted, and with which the printed
poem now begins. Many of the passages in this origi-
nal draught are verbatim, or nearly so, with the pub-
lished work ; others have been evidently retouched,
and some (the episode to the Nightmare for example)
have been entirely suppressed. It is unnecessary for
us to give any detail of the way in which the original
MSS. was procured, or how it came into the hands of
the present custodier ; this may be done in a different
form, or through another channel. Our object in the
meantime has been gained, by giving proof that Campbell
must have forgotten or been unwilling to acknowledge
the fact that " there was (as Fraser's correspondent
says he often heard) a very different copy of the
Pleasure of Hope,' in manuscript, in the hands of
Dr. Anderson's family."—Edinburgh Advertiser.
London, England, 1844-09-20

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

EMIGRATION.-SIERRA LEONE.

" Return of the number of patients received into
Kissy Hospital, Sierra Leone (the Hospital attached
to the Liberated African Department), with the
nature of the diseases as far as reported, &c., for the
years 1835 to 1842. inclusive."
This return was ordered to be printed on the 17th
July last. We submit a summary of its contents
only to illustrate, incidentally, some new horrors
attaching to this modern Golgotha, of which many of
our readers may have hitherto been ignorant. Such
a catalogue of hideous diseases none but such a plague-
spot on our globe could rarely supply in the course of
one short year.
Number of Individuals admitted int ) the Liberated
African Hospital, at Kissy, from January 1 to De-
cember 31, 1839:
Men
Women 157
Boys
Girls

Total 2,676
NOTE.—The number of persons discharged cured, and
the number of deaths, in 1839, have not been reported.
List of Diseases admitted during the Year 1839.

Intermittent Fever 8
Remittent Fever
Continued Fever
Abscess 27
Ophthalmia- 58

Dropsy
Paraphymosis
Scurvy
Elephantiasis
Lepros'

la
Ear-ache
Rheumatism 25

,epl ....
Jaundice
Venereal

Constipation

Prolapsus Ani
Sprains
Wounds 25
Burns 7
Ulcers .
671
Fractures
Amputation
Polypus 1
Blindness
Yaws 164

Craw Craw
Amenorrhoea 5
Guinea Worm
London, England, 1844-09-20

CHINESE STRATIF.4GY.

If a general is pusillanimous, he will not have the
sentiments of honour which become a person of his
rank, he will be deficient in-the essential qualification
of inspiring his troops with ardour : he will depress
their courage at the time it ought to be excited ; he
will never know how to teach, nor exercise them pro-
perly ; he will never think that he can rely on the in•
telligence, the valour, or the skill of the officers who
are under him ; the officers themselves will not know
what to depend upon : he will make a thousand false
movements with his troops, whom he will arrange
gometitnes in one manner, and sometimes in another,
without following any system or any plan: he will
hesitate about all things; he will decide on nothing;
everywhere he will see nothing but subjects of alarm
and then disorder, and general disorder will reign in
his army.
If a general is ignorant of the strength and weak-
ness of the enemy against whom he is to fight ; if he
is not thoroughly acquainted, as well with the places
which he is actually occupying, as with those which
he may occupy, according to different events, it will
fall out that he will oppose to the strongest part of
the enemy's artily the weakest part of his own ; he
will send his li ,ht and veteran warriors against the
heavy troop of emy„or against those who are
held in no esti ion by the'vegliy ;he will at-
*
tack when he oughLnot to atink ; he- wiliefter%
perish, for want oIY,--assistance, Those of his troo
who may find themselves incapable of resistance ; he
will defend himself inexpediently in a bad situation ;
he will give up causelessly some post of the great-
est importance; in occasions of this kind he will rely
on some imaginary advantage which will only be an
effect of the politics of the enemy, or he will lose
courage after a relapse of trifling consequence. He
will find himself pursued without having expected it;
he will find himself surrounded, they will attack him
furiously ; happy then will he be if he can obtain
safety by flight : it is for this reason, to return to the
topic which is the subject of this article, a good gene-
ral ought to know all the places which are or may be
the theatre of war, as distinctly as he knows all the
corners and angles of the courts and gardens of his
own house.—From the " Art of War," in Captain
Pidding's Chinese Olio and Tea Talk, No. 21.
London, England, 1844-09-20

ALDERMAN GIBBS.

A Common Councilman said he had read in the
Times paper a statement, purporting to be a report of
a meeting of the parishioners of St. Stephen's, Wal-
brook, in which the name of Mr. Alderman Gibbs
appeared. He wished to know from the worthy Al-
derman whether that account was true.
The hoax which appeared in the Times was read
at length.
Mr. Alderman GIBBS said emphatically that the
statement was totally fase, and the letter to which
his name was appended an entire fabrication.—(Hear.)
Mr. Alderman CorJLAND hoped the Court-woum
not refuse that the statement just read, together with
Mr. Alderman Gibb's denial, should be entered on
their records.
otsppbhuitn to
newspaper would be a disgrace a
to this Coort.
Sir P. LAUBIII said he trusted that no such record
would take place. True, an attack had been made on
taketho character of Magistrateonfotaiceofamalicious
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Mr. LINCOLN'S LECTURES os Mtistc.—Yesterday
evennil c a l evening
Crosby.Linco Hall, sh
lnommßeincoopidagaseter.iesstroefet ; they fourlectures
on are
designed to illustrate the genius and works of Beethoven,
Weber, Spohr, and Mendelssohn. The lecture of last
night was devoted to a critical examination of the works
of Beethoven, from the earliest period of his fame as a
composer. The lecturer displayed a fine appreciation of
Beethoven's style of composition, and very aptly illus-
trated his remarks by instrumental and vocal music,
selected from that great master's works. In this he was
ably assisted by Miss M. Lincoln, Mr. Cox, Miss Mason,
and Herr Kroff. Mr. Lincoln himself presided at the
piano-forte, and performed some very difficult pieces
with precision and taste. The
.hall was crowded to over-
flowing, and Mr. Lincoln received unequivocal marks of
the approbation of a numerous and discriminating
audience. The public taste in the more elevated style of
musical composition must unquestionably receive a vast
impulse from lectures of this character, which are di-
rected to the development of principles, and, at the same
time, are so pleasingly illustrated.
LIFE DESTROYED nt A CARRAWAY.—A girl,
named Georgians Edwards, residing in Cricklade-street,
Cirencester, recently returned from Cheltenham, enciente.
On Tuesday morning she was delivered of a very fine
boy ; on Wednesday the child died suddenly, and, on a
post mortem examination of the body being made by
Mr. Warner, surgeon, it was found that
.a carraway from
the food which had been given to the c1:141 had lodget in
its windpipe, and as the child was unable to cough it up,
it brought on convulsions, and ultimately death. An
inquest was holden on Wednesday afternoon, and a
verdict of accidental death was returned.—Cheltenham
Examiner.
London, England, 1844-09-20

THAMES POLICE.
_ _

Yesterday John Bolton, a baker, was brought
before Mr. 13allantine, charged under the Excise Act,
the 7th and Bth George IV., cap. 53, with being in
an unentered place where a private still was in ope-
ration.

On Sunday morning last the prisoner complained
;0 a police-constable, named Beale, No. 25 K, that
he had been robbed by his nephew, a boy aged ten
years, of a half-sovereign, and the policeman accom-
panied the prisoner to his house, No. 45, Wells-
street, Poplar, where he carried on the business of a
baker, and took the boy into custody. The lad con-
fessed that he had stolen the gold coin, and concealed
it in a tan pit, where it was discovered by the police-
man. Soon afterwards Bolton's wife came to the
station-house, and stated that her sister, Elizabeth
Bayntun, the mother of the boy, who lodged in the
house, had stolen a pewter pot, which she delivered
to the police, and said there were several other pots
and a great quantity of stolen property in the posses-
sion of her sister. In consequence of these repre-
sentations Beale returned to the house, in company
with another policeman named Woodrow, No. 377
K, and found in Mrs. Bayntun's room at the top of
the house in which were two young children, five
pewter pots, which have not been owned, and some
bladders which had been used in the conveyance of
"jig stuff," the produce of private stills, and several
stone bottles which had contained spirits, and
another partially filled with liquor. This induced the
officers to examine the house very carefully, and
while coming down stairs they found a tub of wash
in a state of fermentation ; it was covered over with
sacks and a blanket, and contained thirty-six gallons.
Beale remarked to Mrs. Bolton that she must have a
still at work in the house, which she at first denied,
but the officers being determined on making strict
search, she said it was no use denying it any longer,
and opened a room on the first floor, where astill and
every necessary apparatus for carrying on illicit dis-
tillation on a large scale was discovered. The officers
procured further assistance, and sent for Richard
'White, an inspector of Thames police and revenue
officer, who seized the whole of the spirits, a hundred
and fifty gallons of the wash, a copper still and worm,
nineteen tubs of treacle, molasses, and other articles.
The liquid in the still was warm at the time when
White seized it. The illicit distillation, and the pre-
paration of the wash appeared to be principally car-
ried on in the apartments occupied by Bolton and his
wife, but there was sufficient evidence to prove that
Bayntun, the sister of Mrs. Bolton, ha a share in
the business, and sl'e was convicted on Tuesday, and
in default of paying a fine of 301., was sentenced to
three months' imprisonment and hard labour. Her
sister, Mrs. Bolton, pleaded her coverture, and that
London, England, 1844-09-20

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By HENRY STEPHENS, F.R.S.E.
Illustrated with Wood Engravings.
At the same time will be published,

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COITSZ-741.81xxoNanZoB.

The Prince and Princess Radzivill left town on Wed-
nesday for Badminton, on a visit to their Graces the
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort. Twelve splendid horses
purchased in this country by Prince Radzivill for his
Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, were shipped
on Saturday last for St. Petersburgh.
The Duke and Duchess of Somerset came to town on
Tuesday for a short interval, and returned the same even-
ing to Wimbledon Park. Their Graces entertained a
select party at Wimbledon on Wednesday evening.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton, who have been
cruising off the French coast, returned to the Isle of
Wight on Sunday. The Noble Earl and Countess
landed at Cherbourg last week.

Lady Elizabeth Hope Vere returns to town on Friday.
The marriage of her Ladyship's daughter, Miss Jane
Hope Vere, with Viscount Loftus, son of the Marquis
of Ely, is not expected to take place until the first week
in October.

His Excellency Baron Brunnow entertained a select
circle at dinner on Wednesday, which included Coma
Nesselrode, Count Dmitry Nesselrode, the Baroness
Seebach, M. Hebeler (Prussian Consul-General), M. de
Maltzoff, Admiral Pootiatin, M. de Berg, M. de Koudri-
affsky, M. Gregoire de Koudriaffsky, &c.
Count Nesselrode left town yesterday, accompanied
by his son, Count Dmitry Nesselrode, and the Baroness
Seebach, his daughter, for Woburn Abbey, on a visit to
his Grace the Duke of Bedford. The Count, after
visiting Stowe and Chatsworth, will make a short tour
in Scotland, returning by the lakes, and finally leave
England on the 4th of next month.
London, England, 1844-09-20

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ceostrnt, or ewes frequent atten.
dant of the mesmeric sleep, that Dr. EllLtson never
(as he declares) met with one instance of it amongst
the great number of his own patients, although there
have been amongst them many most extraordinary .
cases. Yet the pseudo-mesmerists deal with clair-
voyance as an every-day occurrence—an almost inse-
perable condition of inesnierisee—so that we have
seen upon a platform at Mr. Vernon's lectures
as many as six clairvoyants at a time, who were, how-
ever, exhibited with no better success than the experi-
ment deserved, although it was calculated to throw
very unmerited discredit on genuine mesmerism.
Sir. Spurrell beats these practitioners hollow. He
finds not only clairvoyance, but extra-vision. His pa-
tient sees not only the money in other people's .
pockets—but from Maidstone he sees all that is pass•
ing on the way to London, and all the goings on, the
doings, aye, and the sayings, of the Queen, the Prince
and the company ! He reads the cards in the gentle-
men's pockets, and repeats their names to his mes-
meriser in Maidstone, at the very moment they are
announced at the Palace, &c., &c. It lightens in Lon-
don at the moment he is outside the Pace, and he
promises to "go up and see what it is the first op-
portunity. But this Edward Willesden, the Sunday--
school teacher at Maidstone, is beaten by another
mesmeric youth, who goes up occasionally to the .
moon, and describes to his operator all that is to be
seen there. It is actually affirmed that there is an
erratic genius of this kind in some midland county,
and that his revelations will be given to the world in
due time. To wade through one-half of the trash to
be found in this " Rationale" would he as tedious as
unprofitable. It is sufficient to point out that the able
and honourable men who maintain their belief in cer-
tain phenomena of mesmerism, are not to be disgraced
by the madness or dishonesty of every enthusiast or
impostor.

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COMPLETION OF THE BOOK OF TIIE FARM.
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completing the work of
THE BOOK OF THE FAR-M.
By HENRY STEPIIENS, F.R.S.E.

Illustrated with Wood Engravings.
At the same time will be published,

The SECOND and THIRD Volumes, handsomely bound in cloth.
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.