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IQOCIETY :for the'DISCHT;G:F.,
A and RELIEF
1., •of PERSON-1S IMPRIBO4IED ror .
SMALL DEBTS through-
!out ENGIJAND and WA'IES. ' ' '
, . Es t ablislied-.1772.
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PRESIDENT. r
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The EARD 0-ROMNEY.
VICE-PRESIDENT.
Lord Kenyon
. ..:TaxitVuxEa- -33eniaminiRomi. Cabbell, Esq., MX., F.R.S.
AUDITORS LJohn I'epys, Esq.. and Capel Cure, Etch
At a MEItTLIC -4, of * d '(,'raven-street, held in'(,'raven-street, on
W r
edlie §d 1t y b. , the 4 . day ,of .dlece;nbcr, 1850, the cases of 10 Peti-
tioners were con, i idered, of which 9 vi'Pere aiproved, arci 1 inad-
missible. ; • ,,, . i p .. .
Since the mee ling' held on the Gth of 'Npveinber, THIRTEEN
fiEBTORS, of -w.h pm 1l• had Wives and 19 .t.-3hildreu, have been
Discharged frcm tai e Prisons of England and Wales; the expense
eft' whose libcration4, including every charge connected with the So-
ciety, was 1471.1D5Z .4d;; and thp following
BENEFACTItONS RECEIVES) SINCE TIIE LAST EEPORT :
JohirKenyon, Esq., per Min Pepys, Esq.' ..: ....., ...., .. £5 0, 0
The Rev. Sir John :Newport, Bert., per Mews. Hoare.. A. 1 1 0
Benefactions arse received 'by Benjamin Rond Cabbeil, Esq., the
Treasurer, No. 1, Brlck-court, Temple; also by .tlie following
Bankers : Mess rs . Cocks, Drummonds, Herries, lloares,
Veres ; and by tb,e, Secretary; NO. 7, CraVon-areet, Strand, whore
the kooks may 1 e seen by those who are inclined ti support the
Charity, and whet 'Pzi. the Society meet on the firstWednalay in every
month.. JOSEPH_ LUNN,,SecretarY.
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TotANK of BRITISH NORTII AM RICA.
Li teorporated lir Royal Charter. ft
fi
Tile Court of Directers hereby give notice, that a HALF-,
PEARLY DIVIDAIND, ht She rate of Tive per Cent. per Annum,
on the capital of tlt,i3Bank, will be PAYABLE to the Proprietors of
Shares registered / n'this country on and ificistbe•6tit day of Jan.
next, at the Mee 41J. the Corporation, 7, St..Heleu's-place, Bishops-
gate-street, betwe et t the' hours of Ten and Foul*.
No transfer can t c male betsveen the 16th initatit ail 6th proximo,
as the Books must. be Closed. diving that period. .
Ordtr of'the Court, .
Q. DE B. ATTWOOD, Secretary.
No. 7, St. Helen', s-placc; London, Dec:5;1550. • -

31:113S1 UTEp.MXPE POkaCreit.
A trial of cones lerable interest to Life Altsurance Mew and the
pul,hc w:ts conclu sed yesterday in the Court ,of Exchequer. The
Ea„ lc Company he 41 a policy for an assurance of 5391. in the Albion
Q.opoquAttlitwalt.y;tor art atlyanati,tive pay,4Aatvictoitrij. —ter.
WAS .65W diSlStt )3, the Albion; on tht ground thitt -RtATW—liTtitB
was effected the fe i :t of the assured party having been a man of in-
temperate' habits R 'as concealed from the office. The clnet evidence.
tame I upon, the qi z estion as to the degree of intemperance that had
been exhibited, mg I the recultwes, that a verdict was given against
the resisting office,.: not only for the amount of the policy, but also for
401. interest from the date when it became due. The circumstance
of the action being! brought by one office against another presents a
striking illustratio I of the uncertainty which may attach to all po-
licies under the pi x sent system, and shows that the only mode by
which absolute sect Irity can be btained by the public must lie in the
general adoption b. p Assurance Offices of the plan of protecting them-
selves in,every CEO a 3 by due inquiries before the grantim- f each po-
licy, and of aftereke ards assuming the full responsibility on the com-
pleteness of such nquiries by holding themselves precluded from
raising any future I question. In the present case two offices are
found to be diamel x 'catty opposed in their opinions as to what can
properly invalidit e a claim, and yet the public are expected to be
able to guare then as elves against such contingences. Similar cases
have occurred befo Ire, and even if they were more rare, they would
seriously injure ti be progress of life assurance. The very principle
upon which the be edness is founded is the removal of uncertainty,
and whenever tha t principle is counteracted in the slightest degree,
the people who wo Id be the first to resort to its advantages are the
first to bodeterred.r —Times, July 11, 1850. .
THE LO:SfDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE
POLICY COMPANY
No. LOMSARDSTREET, LONDON.
TRUSTEES.
J. eatiapbell Rentea 3 , Esq., M.P. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
Richard Matins, Esc t., Q.C. James Fuller Madoa, Esq.
William Wilberforce, Esq.
DIRECTORS.

William Adams, 3 :4q.Sq. —W_
Robert Henry Forman, Esq.
Joim Atkins, Esq. John Hamilton, Esq.
Henry Augustus /1 rvan, Esq. James Fuller Madox, Esq.
J. Thompson Brannwell, Esq. John Matthews, sq.
John Daugerfield, Esq. C. ()davit's Parnell, Esq.

AUDITORS.

George Cumming, e;sq. J-4. es Turner. Esq.
William D. Starlit) g . Esq. 'David Henry Stone, Esq.
i:4CRETARY —David .Alison, Esq.
BANKElts—The London ann k unty Bank
Psi DDINGTON LOCAL BOARD. .
24, C t)nnaught-terrace, Edgeware -road.
Rev. James Sherbotil Boone, A.M., Stanhope-street, Hyde-park.
Captain Creed, Nord ilk-crescent, Oxford-square.
Charles Pemberton, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and Lin-

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coin's Inn-fields. • •
Thomas Jervis Anklas, Esq., York-street, Portman-square.
George Y. Robson, sq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, and New-
square, Lincoln's E Inn.

SeCretary, Chas. Erogiaton, Esq

The POLICIES o f this Company, being INDISPUTABLE, form
Family Provisions and Negotiable Securities, for their validity is not
dependent, as in the case of ordinary Policies, upon the import of
previous reports and other documents.
Owing to this important improvement in the practice of Life As-
surance, the progn as of this Company has been rapid from the com-
mencement of its I nisiness, and is steadily advancing.
Copies of the, Re port of the last Annual Meeting will be forwarded,
on application, to St dicitorsEXAN, to whom Commission is allowed.
ALDER ROBERTSON. Manager.

AILWAY PASSENGERS' ASSURANCE
la) t COMPANY.
Empowered by sweial Act of Parliament, 12 and 13 Vie., cap. 40.
OFFICES. 3, OLD BROAD-STREET, LONDON.
Chain nan—JOHN DEAN PAUL, Esq.
Deputy- Chairman—G. B. HARRISON, Esq.
Established for ti me purpose of affording compensation in cases of
personal injury, and the payment of a certain sum in the event of
death by a railway accident.
The distinctive fes Ltures of this Company are.:-
1. It is empowere d by special Act of Parliament, 12 and 13 Vic-
toria, cap. 40.
2. It has a sulaz crl bed capital of one million sterling, as a guarantee
to the assured.
3. In the premium charged the Stamp duty is included, which is
paid to Government by the Company. •
In these respects: 11 is peculiar, and distinguished from any existing
railway assurance company.
TABLE OF PREMIUMS.

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For the conveniet ice of frequent or daily travellers the Company
Issues periodical tie2:ets at the following rates of premium, which
gives the holder the option of travelling in any class carriage and on
any railway :
To Insure 1,0001. at an ..“u,si ,f 908.

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. - 0.001: . , " Si ,64 53, '
Single journey ticket* are likewise issued at lost, rettw.iirittlttns
in the kingdom at Ilia folio Ting rates of premiutli :
3d. to iriaittre 1,0001. in a first-class carriage.

2d. to 5001. in a second-class-carriage.
Id. ditto 2001. in a third-class carriage.
These sums to 150 paid to the legal representatives of the holders in
cases of fatal accident while travelling by railway, with propor-
tionate conmensa tic.n to himself in case of personal injury.
Two fatal eases, each insured for 5001., and forty-four cases of per-
sonal injury, met by payments varying in amounts to upwards of
2101. have been the -claims 'upon this Company during the past year,
details of which may be seen in the prospectus, to be obtained of
tile booking clerks at the principal railway stations ; or at the
°faces of the Company, 3, Old Broad-street, London.
LEXANDER BEATTIE, Secretary.

tNGINEBRS, MASONIC, and UNIVERSAL
ituruAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Head Office, 345, Strand, London,
(Opposite Waterloo•bridge).
Incorporated wider Act of Parliament, 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.
Policies issued fre e of Stamp Duty to the Assured.
A Policy once g.ra nted never disputed.
Medical Referees paid in all cases.
No Entrance-fee or admittance.
The whole of the Profits are divided amongst the Assured.
Assignments and. 'Transfers of Policies Registered at the Office free
of charge.
The Board meets kvery Tuesday and Friday, at Two o'clock.
Attendance at the Office daily from Ten to Four, when Assurances
may be effected.
persons assuring before Christmas will be entitled to partici-
pate in this year's profits.
FREDERIC LAWRINCE. Actuary and Secretary.

inHARAC TERISTICS of L. HYA.M and CO.
Att he numerous and vast ESTABLISHMENT. of L. lIYAM
and CO., Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, and Wholesale Dealers, the
invariable practice is to PURCHASE the RAW MATERIALS from
the first manufacturers, and thus, save to Gentlemen and Heads of
Families who patronise them, all intermediate profits, viz. :
let Profit ! arising from manufacturers buying articles In the raw
state.
2a. Profit arising from merchants purchasing from manufac-
turers.
3d. Profit I! arising from London or Wholesale Houses buying
from merchants.
4th Profit ! ! ! I arising from small retal ers having to purchase
from wholesale houses.
5111 Profit ! I ! !I arising from small tradesmen's exorbitant charges
to the consumer.
In the Ordered De partment the newest and most superior style of
every Garment may be obtained, first-rate talent being employed in
the execution of all orders. •
In the Department of Clothing for immediate wear will be found
the mest-varied Stock in the world. Over Coats, peculiarly adapted
for travellin, and equestrianism.
Dress, Surtout, and Riding Coats; Walking and Business Jackets,
Waistcoats, Trow ears, Servants' Top Coats, Pages' Suits, and Wait-
ing Jackets, enab ling the Proprietors (at the shorteq possible notice)
to execute all orders for home or foreign consumption.
Private Rooms are set apart for trying on Children's Clothing, so
that parents and guardians can at once select the most becoming at-
tire, and likewise ei more a correct and beautiful fit.
L. HYAM and. CO. beg distinctly to state that Goods made by
them can only be obtained at their places of business, 36, Grace-
church-street, and 86, Oxford-street, and at their various Establish-
ments in.the following towns :—Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool
Leeds, Glasgow, Hull, Dublin, Bristol, and Exeter.

DENTAL SULIGERY.—DTSSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
MR. EPIIRAIM MOSEt4Y, Surgeon-Dentist,
begs to state, for the information of his Friends and Pa-
tients, that the Partnership lately existing between himself and Mr.
S. Mosely, carried on by them at 61, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenc r-
square, London, and 15, Whitefriargate; Hull, was, from the 24th day
of August last, D ISSOLVED by MUTUAL CONSENT, and duly
gazettecl. and that. Mr. Ephraim Mosely will henceforth carry on
his practice ALONE, at his old residence, 61, GROSVENOR-
STREET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE, and trusts for a continuance
of that patronage with which be has hitherto been honoured.
Mr. E. M. continues to supply the loss of Teeth without extract-
ing the stump or causing the least pain, and which so closely re-
semble the nat nral as to defy detection. They will never change
colour or decay, and will be found superior to any Teeth before used.
They are fixed without ligatures, and render a firm support and
preserve to any Ireeth that are loose, and guaranteed to restore arti-
culation and mastication.
Decayed Teeth filled with Mr. E. M.'s newly-invented Composi-
tion, and every operation on safe and certain principles.
61, GROSTENOR-STREET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE.
All Debts due. to the late firm payable to Ephraim Mosely, 61,
Grosvenor-street. Grosvenor-square, London.

R. C ULVEEWELL'S NEW WORKS.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, PaternOster-row ; Carvalho;
147, Fleet-str(,et ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or direct from the author,
,)rice One Shilling each ; by post, is. 6d.
ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. . .
" Health, Recreation, and rational Use of Time."
Corrums:—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings._rx.
oursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills,
Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Country
trips and Ramblcs—The Sea—London at Night—Evening., at Home
--ISfusic--TheDrama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air,
n.est, Ease, Occupation, &c., Szc.
FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two VolS.
Volt.
A VISIT TO THE LAKES ;_SICETCH:OF EDINBURGH,

REMOVAL of SX ITUFIELD MARKET.
ISLINGTON CATTLE MARKET.

• • Established ;1y Act of Parliament.
A Plan of the Islington Cat ble market, with the Slaughter-houses
and Lailage (a Bill for the extension of which to nearly 80 acres
wlll be brought intp P{►rliamei )t In the ensuing, session) may be seen
at the Market House, Islingto a, every day.
COLOURED iPLANS and Descriptions may be obtained at the
Stands of Messrs. CJGAN zu id Co., Nos. 148, 149, and 10, in the
Bazaar, price 6d. each.

AO SOLICIT'OR6O, ATTOitNIE
" and OTHERS.—If any Solicitor or Attorney'should have
Prepared, or should have in hi 5 possession, the.will of Mr. EDWARD
MOORE, late of No. 10, King—square, St. Luke's, Middlesex, Gentle-
man, deceaSed, or any other liapers, ani • would communicate such
fact to Messrs. Hine and I:obinson,, of Charterhouse-square, the
family of the deceased will be, much oblig.ed, and ready liberally to
compensato the party for the strouble taken.

GRAV'E'SEND STAR PACKETS.
more Cabin and Sec Onti, Class Railway NINEPE.NCE to
or from adon, and Gravesend. •
galoon and First Cli.ss ditto, ONE SHILLING:
To or , 1:oin Blackwall.
Few tabin ••• • • • 6( Q. - Chief Cabin.... 9d.
Intermedial 0 Piers 6d.
No other Packets call at the Grays, Greenh!the, and Purfleet Piers.
The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (Weather' permitting).
FROM TEREACaI PEER. GRAVESEND.

Ti ale

7%
if-8%

Orem
hitho.

Etieet

rime

Roshr-
vile. j

4reen-
hithe.

flEret-

Direct Trains frem the Boa is marked t
Omnibuses rrom N cnc. arc', protract Station to all parts of London
ror.7 quarter of an hour.
Rem intinrs-wrox•wrrit-itr. BLACKWALL, on-the arrival of
the following Trains froi n the Fenchurch-street Station.

WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS.
Time. 'Pur- Green- rime.. Pur- Green- Rosin,
fleet hithe. Grayj vale. u M fleet hithe. Grays ville.l
10 I -- 93
12, I —•— 11
314 .-
1

Passages marked are run direct, the Packets not bed/
mated to step at Piers or for Noats.
BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 41.45. ; Six Months, 2,
'rare° Months, 11. 153.1 to be 'had of the Collectors on boa
packets; or Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend.
November 27, 1850.

ig per-

!. 155.;
rd the

CSREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
jll CALL for FINAL INSTALMENT of 21. per Share on the
171. Shares. ' .

The 'Directors of the Great 'Western Railway Company having re-
-solved at a Meeting, held this elay, to call, under the provisions of the
Acts of Parliament, for the final INSTALMENT of 21. per share
on the 171. Shares, notice is hereby given that the respective proprie-
tors are requested to PAT, OR (lT before the Bth day of January next,
the said sum of 2/. per share to either of the undermentioned bankers
of the Company, viz. :
London—Messrs. Glyn, H2r7lifax, Mills, and Co.; at the Great
Western Railway office, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside.

Bristol—Messrs. Miles, Harford and Co. ; Messrs. Bathe, Ames
and Co.; Stuckey's Banking Company; the West of England and
South Wales District Bank.
Liverpool—The Bank of Liverrpool.
Cheltenham—Tiw County of Glocester Bank.
Reading—Messrs. J. and C. :.iitnonds and Co.
By order of ths Boar 4 of Directors,
CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Sec.
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London Terminus, Paddineton, sth Dec., 1850.

OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION
it "Li Lecture by Dr. Bachhoffner on Voltaic Electricity, in which
will be exhibited Allman's Pat.tnt Electric Light, daily at Two, and
on Tuesday and Thursday Eve,aings at Nine.—Lecture by J. H. Pep-
per, Esq., on the First or Simple Principles of Agricultural Chemistry,
daily (except Saturday), at a Quarter past Three, and on Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday Evenings at Nine.—Lecture on the Ballad
Music of England, by Mr. George Barker, every Evening (except
Saturday) at Eight o'clock, illustrated by Moore's Melodies.—Model
of Weston's Patent Nova-Metive Railway, at work daily.—Dissolving
Views, daily at One o'clock, at Half-past Four, and in the Evenings
at a Quarter to Ten.—Diver and Diving-bell, &c., &c.
Admission, l -Schools, Half-price.
Open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock, and every Evening (ex-
. ept Saturday) from Seven till Balf-past Ten.

ARGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL.
STREET, ST. JAMES'S.
Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament of the 25th of King George

the Second, cap. 36.
(Sole Lessee, Charles Emile Laurent, Jun., 57, Brompton-square.)

LAURENT'S SOIREES MUSICALES AND DANSANTES.

Open every Evening, with his CELEBRATED and POPULAR
BAND, acknowledged by the n,3bility and patrons of music to stand
UNRIVALLED and SECOND to NONE.

Principal Cornet-a-Pistons. M. Boulcourt, from Paris, whose in-
imitable performance is nightly received with rapturous plaudits and
universal admiration.

Admission., One Shilling.

Doors open at Half-past Eight o'clock—Dancing to commence at
Nine and terminate at Half-past Eleven precisely.
N.B. Due notice will ise given of the First Series of Concerts that
will take place at the above Rooms.

GRAND SALON DE DANSE,
ROYAL ADELAIDE: GALLERY, STRAND.
OPEN FOR THE SEASON.
Lessee—Mr. Thomas Bartlett Simpson, Albion Tavern, Great
Russell-street, Covent-garden
Mr. SIMPSON, anxious to have the best Band in London, h..re-
tained the valu?ble talent of the leading Artists engaged during the
past* season at rtanorne Gai'oens, inetueung -the nirist eminent
Performers from her staiesby'a 'Theatre, the itoyal Italian Opera,
and the Philharmonic Concerts.
BORINI'S BAND.
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT.
Comprising Selections from the most celebrated Composers, and
Solos by first-rate Artists.
Overture, "Le Pre aux Clercs," . • , .. Herold.
Comte Song, Mr. J. W. ••harp, " The Exhibition for
I [1851" . • ' . • .. • • Hardwick.
Song, Miss G. Hodgson. " The Swiss Girl" • • Linloy.
Solo (Trombone), Mr. Webster (Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday).
Solo (Flute), Mr. Saynor (Thursday, Friday, Sa-
turday).
Comic Duett, Miss G. Hodgson and Mr. J. W
Sharp, "The Kentish Gipsies"
Comic Song, Mr. J. W. Sharp,
Poet".
Selection from Donizetti's Opera of" L'Elisir d'Amere".
REPERTOIRE OF MUSIQUE DE DANSE.
THIS EVENING, Dec. 10.
The Bride's •• •• ••
Popular • • • • • . • •
The Star of the Night • • • •
Cremorne • • • • • •
Bruxelles • . . • • • • •
Abatene • • • • •
Alice • • • • - • • •
All Nations .• • • • •
Isabelle • • • • • • • •
Charlottes • • • • • •
Les Mousquetaires de la ].Leine
(2d set) • • • • • Musard
12. Galop • • Glocken •. • • • • • • La,bitzky
To the votaries of Terpsichore remarks on the excellence of
Borini's Band, after the experience of its Orchestral Triumphs at
Cremorne, would be superfluous.
Solos and Concerted Pieces will be performed during the evening.
Borini's Latest Compositions—The Adelaide Polka, Waltzes to
various popular Irish Melodies, Galop d'lndustrie, New Quadrille of
all Nations.
The Grand Salon, Refreshment, and Ante-rooms have undergone
:onsiderable alterations and improvements.
Doors open at Halt-past Seven o'clock. Admission One Shilling

Polka

Qcadrille• •
Waltz • •
Polka • •

Quadrille..
Schottische
Polka ..

Quadrille..
Waltz ..

Polka

Quadrille ..

• •
•• . Labern.
" Billy Nutts, the

D'Albert
Borini
D'Albert
Borini
Bosisio
Quinton
J. Strauss
Borini
Bosisio
Labitzky

TO ALFR•ED TENNYSON, ESQ.
THE NEW POET LAUREATE.
Call me not rude, my literary brother :
One poet, surely, may address another.
We both may claim the self-same 11< ense—mayn't we ?
And both are en an equal footing—aint we ?
You're made the Laureate - so the papers tell us—
And really, Alf, I can't help feeling jealous.
It plagues me much, in fact, and I have fretted
Since first your said promotion was gazetted.
For this appointment I've been long a craver,
Although I know that " kissing goes by favour."
But you're "appointed," I am " disappointed,"
,And feel my nasal organ quite unjointed. •
Yet never mind—no matter who opposes,
Or who supports—l'm still the bard of' MOSES
Yes, I'm .the trading Laureate of the day,
' And, paidon me, that's more than you can say.
While you are busy with your birth-day odes,
I'll sing of dress and MOSES' matchless modes.
I still will praise the cloth of M. and SON,
In spite of your " Green' Bays"—excuse the pun.
I feel I'm honoured when I strike the lyre
For MOSES' Mart, and its superb attire;
Nor would I cease to be the bard of MOSES
For all your task of penning palace posies.
Thrt should I get the sack, as some scribes do,
MOSES, I hope, will give the berth to yob.
The NEW EDITION of " EVERYBODY'S BOOK," containing
a full Report of the late important Trial, may be had gratis on ap-
plication, or by letter, post free.
Notice.—The Fur and Shawl Department are now replete with
every novelty of the season.
Observe.—Any article purchased, either ready-made or made to
measure, if not approved of, will be exchanged or the money re-
turned.
Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret having to guard the public
against imposition, but having heard that the untradesmanlike false-
hood of being connected with them, or it is the same concern, has
been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They
beg to state they have no connexion with any other house-in et out
of London, except their own Establishments, as iollows :
London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minorles, 83,
84, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
and 3, Hart.street, all communicating.
Br
Branch,aclford"York 311167F"argBraatnec.h, 19, Bridge-street.
Sheffield
Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe-
makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset Sa-
turday, when business is resumed till Twelve o'clock.

DR. LA'MERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH
AND MATURITY.-WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON

STEEL. •
Just published, and may be had in French or English, in a Sealed
Envelope, 2s. 6d., or post-free, from the Author, for forty-two
Stamps,
Q ELF-PRESERVATION; a
LIP Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on
the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity,
usually acquired at an early period of life, whieh debilitate
he physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
beings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical
Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion,
whether arising from these causes, close study, or the influence of
tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis-
cretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the
anatomy,- Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs,
mplainhig their stracim es, uses, and functions, and the various
Injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits,.excessea, and
infection. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D..
37. BEDFORD-SQUARE. LONDON.

Doctor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Ndin-
burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member
of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c.
This work contains an accurate and complete account of the
Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs. It un-
fortunately happens that the unhappy victim of excessive indul-
gence and vicious habits, while suffering from their Invariable con-
sequences, unwisely entertains a fear of applying to a qualified physi-
cian for relief. Shame and the dread so frequently, but erro-
neously entertained that these complaints are beyond the reach of
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LEEDs, FRIDAY.—=The second lecture announced for
delivery by the Earl of Carlisle was delivered in the
Music-hall to-night. As the subject of the lecture was
to embrace his Lordship's recollections of his travels
through the United States and Canada in 1841-2, the
interest excited among the townspeople was more intense,
and the demand for tickets more numerous and more
pressing than even on the former evening. And, though
the restrictions remained as before, vet the Music-hall
was perceptibly fuller to-night. The orchestra, even
where the more distinguished guests were accommodated,
was much and inconveniently crowded, while to those
who were standing in the body of the hall, the pressure
and discomfort must have been very :great. No one
would have imagined, however, that any inconvenience
was felt by them, as they, listened with the most
fixed attention, moved only by frequent bursts of ap-
plause through the two-and-a-half hours that this lec-
ture lasted, as well as dating the remaining half hour
that was taken up i❑ passing a vote of thanks to his
Lordship. Notwithstanding this, the defect of the town
in not having a hall fit to accommodate such an audience
as was brought together has been the subject of gene-
ral conversation. Jt seems probable that L'eds will not
much longer be behind Birmingham and Manchester in
having a hall where the great body of the citizens can
assemble.

The company to-night was nearly the same as last
night. There were—the Mayor ; Mr. Beckett, M.P.;
the Dean of Ripon; Mr. William Beckett Denison; Al.
dermen Sidney and Hunter, of London; Mr. Bowes,
President of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Insti-
tutes; Mr. Wilson, the Chairman of the Leeds Institu-
tion; and several ladies. His Lordship, on entering the
room, was received with general applause, and imme-
diately commenced the lecture.
It may be known to some of those whom I have the
pleasure to see around me, that when circumstances to
which I need not further allude, occasioned a breach,
temporary, indeed, and seen repaired, in my connexion
with the West Riding of Yorkshire—when, as the phrase
was, some of your neighbours, and probably of your-
selves, had given me leave to go upon my travois, I
thought I could make no better use of this involuntary
I:iisuee than by Requiring. some personal knowledge of
the United States of America. I accordingly embarked,
in the autumn of the year 1841, and spent about one
whole year in North America, having within that period
passed nearly over the length and breadth of the Re-
public, trod at least the soil of twenty-two out of the
twenty-six States of which the Union was then com-
posed, and paid short visits to the Queen's dominions in
Canada, raid to the Island of Cuba. I determined to
keep a journal during my travels, and only at the
end of them to decide what should become of it
when it was completed. I fiund it was written
in too hurried and desultory a manner, and was too
much confined to my own daily proceedings, to make
it of interest to the public at large ; still more
strongly I felt that, after having been received with
uniform civility and attention, nay, I may say, with
real warmth and openness of heart, I should not wish,
even where I had nothing but what was most favourable',
to communicate, immediately to exhibit myself as an in-
quisitive observer of the interior life to which I had
been admitted; and this very feeling would probably
have disqualified me for the office of an imparti“l critics
Now, however, that above eight years have elapsed since
lay return, in turning over the pages then written, it has
ixlCialowabla to eadaav_oar, fora
purpose like
tne present, to convey a few of the leading impressions
which I derived from the surface of nature and society as
they exbibitcd themselves in the new world. It must
follow necessarily, from such limits as could be allowed
to me on an occasion of this kind, that any account
which I can put together from materials so vast and so
crowded, must be the merest superficial skimming of the
subject that can be conceived; all I can answer fur is
that it shall be faithful to the feelings excited at the
moment, and perfectly honest as far as it goes. I
must premise one point with reference to what I have
just now glanced at—the use of individual names. I
came in contact with several of the public men—the his-
torical men they will be—of the American Republic. I
shall think myself at liberty occasionally to depart in their
instance from the rule of strict abstinence which I have
otherwise prescribed to myself, and to treat them as
public property, so long as I say nothing to their dis-
advantage. It was on the 21st of October, upon a bright
crisp morning, that the Columbia, steam-packet, upou
which I was a passenger, turned the lighthouse outside
the harbour of Boston. The whole effect of the scene
was cheerful and pleasing; the bay is studded with
small islands bare of trees, but generally crowned with
some sparkling white building—frequently some public
establishment. Lord Carlisle here described his ar-
rival at Boston, and his first impressions of that city.]
These aro some of my external recollections of Boston;
but there are some fonder still, of the most refined and
animated social intercourse—of hospitalities which it
seemed impossible to exhaust—of friendships which I
trust can never be effaced. Boston appears to rue, zer-
tainly on the whole, the American town in which an
Englishman of cultivated and literary tastes or philan
ihropic pursuits, would feel himself most at home.
The residence here was rendered peculiarly agreeable.
to me by a friendship with one of its inhabitants, which
I had previously made in England; he hardly yet
corner within my ruin of exception, hut I do not
give up the notion of his becoming one of the historical
men of his country. However, it is quite open
for me to mention some of those with wi:om,
mainly through his introduction, I here became ac•
quainted. There was one Mr. Justice Storey, whose
repetition and authority as a commentator and ex-
pounder of law stands high wherever law is known or
honoered, and who was, what at least is more generally
attractive, one of the most generous and single-hearted
of men. Lie was an enthusiastic admirer of his country,
especially of its lawyers; how he would kindle up and
flow on if he touched upon Lord Hardwick or Lord
Mansfield—" Sir," as an American always begins, "on
the prairies of Illinois this day Lord Mansfield admi-
nisters the law of commerce." He had also a very ex-
alted opinion of the judgments of -Lord Stowell, which
his own studies and practice have led him thoroughly
to appreciate; and I may permit myself to say that ho
had formed a high estimate of the judicial powers of
Lord Cottenham. I must admit one thing—when he
was in the room few others could get in a word; but it
was impossible to resent this, tor he talked evidently
not to bear down others, but because he could not help
it. There was Dr. Charming. I could not hear him
preach, as his physical powers were nearly exhausted;
but on one or two occasions I was admitted to his
house. You found a fragile frame, and a dry manner,
but you soon felt that you were in a presence
in which nothing that was impure, base, or selfish
could breath at case. These, alas! have since
my
- visit been taken away. In the more
immediate department of letters there aro happily seve-
ral who yet remain—Mr. Bancroft, the able and accom-
plished historian of his own country—Mr. Tricknor,
who has displayed the resources of a well-stored and
accomplished mind in his recent work on the literature
of Spain—Mr. Longfellow, with whose feeling and
graceful poetry many must be acquainted—Mr. Emer-
son, who has been heard and admired in this country—
and I crown my list with Mr. Prescott, the historian of
Ferdinand and Isabella, of Mexico and of Peru, with
respect to whom, during the visit he paid to England
during the past summer, I had the zsatisfaction of wit-
nessing how all that was most eminent in this country
confirmed the high estimate I had myself formed of his
head, and the higher one of his heart. The public in-
stitutions of Boston are admirably conducted. The
public, or common schools there, as I believe in New
England generally, are supported by a general rate, to
which all contribute and all may profit by. lam not
naturally now disposed to discuss the question how far
this system would bear being transplanted and engrafted
on our polity, but it would be uncandid if I did not state
that the universality of the instruction, and the excellence
of what fell under my own observation, presented to my
mind some mortifying points of contrast with what we
have hitherto effected at home. Before I leave Boston,
let me add one observation on a lighter topic. I lodged
at the Tremont Hotel, which was admirably conducted,
like very many of those imposing establishments in the
chief cities of the Union. Here I learnt that one is apt
to receive false impressions at first. I was struck with
the clean, orderly, agile appearance of the waiters.
" The Americans beat ns hollow in waiters," was my
inner thought. On inquiring I found that of the twenty-
five waiters in the house, four were English and twenty-
one Irish. I could not help wishing that a large number
the Irish might come and be waiters for a little while.
Within time or four days of my landing I grow.impa-
tient to see the Falls of Niagara without 101 l of time; if

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any sudden eveat should have summoned me home, I
felt how much I:should have grudged croseing the At-
lantic without having been at Niagara, and also wished
to look upon the autumn tints' of the American Forest
before the leaves, already beginning to fall, had entirely
disappeared. [The speaker here recounted his travels
by railway to Albany, adding a brief notice of that town,
and quoted the following passage from his diary, con-
taining his first impression of the forest towns:—]
" The moment is not come for me ) et, if it ever
should come, to make me feel myself warranted in form-
ing speculations upon far results, upon guarantees for
future endurance and stability; all that I can now do is
to look and to marvel at what is before my eyes. Ido
not think I am deficient in relish for antiquity and as-
secietion ; I know that I am English, not in a pig-
heeded adhesion to everything there, but in heart to its
last throb. Yet I cannot be unmoved or callous to the
soaring of young America, in such legitimate and lau-
dable directions too ; and I feel that it is already not
the least bright, and may be the most enduring title of
my country to the homage of mankind, that she has pro-
duced such a people. May God employ them both fur
his own high glory,"
I am hound here in candour to state that I think what
I first saw in America was, with little exception, the
best of its kind ; such was the society of
Boston—such was the energy of progress in the
western portion of the State of New York. [Gerd
Carlisle here alluded to some other places through which
he passed prior 4 his arrival at Niagara.] When I
arrived at the hotel, the Cataract House, I would not
anticipate by any moonlight glimpses the full disclo-
sures of the coming day, but reserve my first visit for
the clear light and freshened feelings of the morning. I
staid five days at Niagara on that occasion; I visited it
again twice, having travelled several thousands of Miles
in_each interval. I have thus look,ed upon it in the late
-autumn, in threArraprings -end in tom,-fall summers-
Mrs. Butler, in her charming work on America, when
she comes to Niagara, says only, " Wbo can describe
that eight?" and, with these words, finishes her book.
There is not merely the difficulty of finding adequate
words, but there is a simplicity and absence, as I should
say, of incidents in the scenery, or at least so entire a
subordination of them to the main great spectacle, that
attempts at description would seem inapplicable as well
as impotent. I have undertaken, however, the endea-
vour, though so inadequately, to place before you the
impressions which I actually derived from the most
prominent objects that I saw in America. How, then,
can I wholly omit Niagara? The first view neither in
the least disappointed or surprised, but it wholly satira
tied me. I felt it to be complete, and that nothing could
go beyond it; volume, majesty, might, are the first idea
which it conveys: on nearer and more familiar inspec-
tion, I appreciated other attributes and beauties—the
emerald crest—the seas of spray—the rainbow wreaths.
Pictures end panoramas had given me a correct appre-
hen3ion of the form and outline; but they fail, for the
same reason as language would, to impart an idea of the
whole effect, which is not picturesque, though it is sub-
lime. There is also the technical drawback in painting,
or the continuous mass of white, and the line of the
summit of the Fall is as smooth and even as a common
mill-darn. Do not imagine, however, that the effect
could be improved by being more picturesque; just as
there are several trivial and unsightly buildings ou the
banks, but Niagara can be no mere spoiled than it
can be improved. You would, who on the spot, no more
think of complaining that Niagara was not pic-
turesque, than you would remark in the shock
and clang of battle that a trumpet sounded out of
tune. Living at Niagara was not like ordinary life; its
not over loud, but constant solemn rear, has in itself a
mysterious sound; is not the highest Voice to which the
universe can ever listen, compared by inspiration to the
sound of many waters? The whole of exi,tence there
bas a dreamy but not a frivolous impulse; you feel that
you are not in the common world, but in its subliwest
temple. I naturally left such a place and such a life
with keen regret, but I was already the last visitor of
the year, and the hotels were about to close. On my
going back, I paid two visits at country houses, one to
an old gentleman, Mr. Wadsworth, most distinguished
in appearance, manner, and understanding, who had set-
tled where I found him fifty years Inifore, when he had
not a white neighbour within thirty miles, or a flour mill
within fifty ; be lived entirely surrounded by Indians,
who have now disappeared. Oa some occasion there
had been a review of a corps of militia. A neigh-
bouring Indian Chief had been present, and was ob-
served to be very dejected. Mr. Wadsworth went up
to him, offered refreshment, which was usually very ac-
ceptable, but he declined it. Upon being pressed to
say what was the matter, he answered with a deep
sigh, pointing to the east, " You are the rising sun;"
then to the west, "We are the setting." The face
of the country is now indeed changed; a small flourish•
ing town, the capital of the country, stretches from the
gate; and the house overlooks ono of the widest and
best cultivated tracts in America, the valley of the Gen-
nessee. My other visit was to Mr. Van Buren, who had
been the last President of the United States, and who,
I suspect, s wdly ..roekonori on being the next. It
seemed, indeed, at that time, to be the general expecta-
tion among his own, the Democratic, or, as they were
then commonly called, the Loco-foco party. He was at
that time living on his farm of .liinderback; the house
was modest and extremely well ordered, and nothing
could exceed the courtesy or fulness of his conversation.
He was full of anecdotes of all the public men of his
country. In his dining-room were pictures of Jefferson
and General Jackson, the great objects of his political
devotion. [His Lordship then traced his route down the
Hudson to New York, where he took up his winter
quarters.] I thought this, the commercial and fashion-
able, though not the political capital of the Union, a
very brilliant city. To give the best idea of it, I should
describe it as something of a fusion between Liverpool and
Paris—crowded quays, long perspectives of vessels and
masts, bustling streets, gay shops, tall white houses, and
a clear brilliant sky overhead. There is au absence of
solidity in the general appearance, but in some of the
new buildings they were successfully availing them-
selves of their ample resources in white marble and
granite. At the point of the battery where the long
thoroughfare of Broadway, extending some miles,
pushes its green fringe into the wide harbour of New
York, with its glancing waters and graceful shipping,
and the limber, long raking masts, which look so dif-
ferent from our own, and the soft swelling outline of
the receding shores, it has a special character and beauty
of its own. I spent about a month here very pleasantly,
the society appeared to me on the whole to have a less
solid and really refined character than that of Boston,
but there is more of animation, gaiety, and sparkle in
the daily life. In point of hospitality, neither could
outdo the other. Keeping to my rule of only men-
tioning names which already belong to fame, I may
thus distinguish the late Chancellor Kent, whose com-
mentaries are well known to professional readers. He
had been obliged, by what I think the very unwise
law of the state of New York, to retire from his high
legal office at the premature age of sixty, and there
I found him, at seventy-eight, full of anima-
tion and racy vigour, which, combined with great sim-
plicity, made his conversation most agreeable: Wash-
ington Irving, a well-known name both to American
and English ears, whose nature appears as gentle and
genial as his works—l cannot well give higher praise:
Me. Bryant, in high repute as a poet, and others. In no
part of the world have I ever seen places of refreshment
so attractive—every one seems to eat oysters all day
long. What signifies more, the public institutions and
schools are there also extremely well conducted. The
churches of the different denominations are very nume-
rous and well filled. It is my wish to touch very
lightly upon any point which among its, among even
some of us now here, may be matter of controversy; I,
however, honestly think that the experience of the United
States does not as yet enable them to decide on either
side the argument between the Established and volun-
tary systems in religion; take the towns by themselves,
and I think the voluntary principle appears fully ade-
quate to satisfilill religious exigencies; then it must be
remembered that the class which makes the main diffi-
culty elsewhere, scarcely, if at all, exists in America; it is
the blessed privilege of the United States, and it is one
which goes very far to counterbalance any drawbacks at
which I may -nave to hint, that they really have not, as a
class, any poor among them. A real beggar is what you
never see. On the other hand, over their immense tracts
of territory, the voluntary system has not sufficed to pro-
duce sufficient religious accommodation; it may, how-
ever, be truly questioned whether any establishment
would be equal to that function. This is, however, one
among the many questions which the republican experi-
ence of America has not yet solved. As matters stand
at present, indifference to religion cannot be fairly laid
to her charge; probably religions extremes aro pushed
farther than elsewhere; there certainly is a breadth
and universality of religious liberty which I do not
regard without some degree of envy.—(Applause.)
Upon my progress southward, I made a comparatively
short halt at Philadelphia. This fair city has not the
animation of New York, but it is eminently well-built,
neat and clean beyond parallel. The streets are all at
right-angles with each other, and bear the names of
the different trees of the country; the houses are of red
brick, and mostly have white marble steps and silver
knockers, all looking bright and shining under the effect
of copious and perpetual washing. It still looks like
a town constructed by Quakers, who were its original
founders; but by Quakers who have become rather dan-
dified. [Lord Carlisle then briefly alluded to some other
objects in Philadelphia which attracted his notice;
amongst others the waterworks, the model prison, and
the costly poorhouse.] My next brief pause was iat
Baltimore. At a halt on the road on the way thither,
I heard a conductor or guard say to a negro, " I cannot
let you go. for you are a slave." This was my first in-
timation that I had crossed the border which divides
freedom from slavery. I quote from the entry which I
made upon noting these words that evening. " Decla-
ration of Independence which I read yesterday—
pillar of Washington which I have looked on to-day--
what are ye?"—(Great applause.) I must now give
myself some little vent. It was a subject which I
felt during my whole sojourn in America, as I feel
it still, to be paramount in interest to every other. It
was one on which I intended and
endeavoured to ob-
serve a sound discretion; we have not ourselves long
enough washed off the stain to
give us the right to rail
at; those whom we had originally inoculated with the i
pest ; and a stranger abundantly experiencing hospi-
tality could not with any propriety interfere wantonly
upon the moat delicate and difficult point of another