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ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION at ONE CHARGE.

CHELMSFORD and BURY RAILWAY.
c HAMM A N—Thoinas Hallifax,.juu., Esq.
ENGINEER—Robert Stephenson, Esq.
Notice is hereby given, that no further applications for Shares will
be received after the 31st instant.
By order,
DAVID BATHE, Secretary.

Company's Offices, 61, Moorgate-street,
London, March 20, 1845.

LONDON, SALISBURY, AND YEOVIL
JUNCTION It 4i ILW Y.
63, Moorgate-street, London, March 19, 1845.
Notice is hereby given that the PrOViElOjlal Committee of this Com-
pany have determined to abandon the portion of the line from Reigate
to Basingstoke, and that the capital will therefore be reduced from
2,000,0001. to 1,500,0001.
No applications for Shares will be received after Monday, the 31st
instant, and those parties who have previously to this date applied
for Shares, and who may not approve of the alteration allove-men-
toned, are requested to withdraw their applications as soon as possible.
By order of the Committee,
L. CROMBIE, Secretary.

DIJON AND MULHOUSE RAILWAY.
Capital 63,000,000 francs, or 2,520,0001. In 126,000 Shares of
500 francs, or 201. each, 40,000 of which only have been reserved for
this country.
Deposit 50 francs, or 21. per Share, to be returned without deduc-
tion should the Company not obtain the Lease.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
PRESIDENT.—MousIeur le Comte DAUDRAND, Lieutenant-General,
Pair de France, Governeur du Prince Royal le Cointe de Paris.
Monsieur Jules Alexandre, Comte de Larochefoucauld, Due d'Estissac,
Pair de France, Aide-de-Camp du Roi.
Monsieur Vejux, Conseiller xi la Cour Royale de Besancon, Dopute

du Doubs.
Monsieur Andre Koechlin, Depute du Haut Rhin.
Monsieur Benedict Allegri, Banquier a Paris.
Monsieur Adolphe de Milly, Proprietaire a Paris.
Monsieur `l#lldtv,lMteet4Att ,du chemin de for de la Loire,
Metre-AdJoint du disleme arrondisement de Paris.
Monsieur Bretillot, Banquier et Moire de Besancon.

11. J. Enthoven, Esq., London.
Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P.
Francis Mowatt, Esq., London.
Francis Parker, Esq. Manchester.
George Rougemont, Esq., London.
Thomas Sands, Esq., Liverpool.
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P.
Henry Kendall, Esq., London.
BANKERS.
Mons. B. Allegri et Compagnie, a Paris.
Messrs. Denison, Heywood, Kennards, and Co., London.
Messrs. Arthur Ileywood, Sons, and Co., Liverpool.
Sir Benjamin lleywood, Bart., and Co., Manchester.
Exot NEM—Joseph Gibbs, Esq.

Notice is hereby given that no further applications for Shares in
this Railway can be received. The allotment will be proceeded to
forthwith.

By order of the Committee,
WILLIAM VILLESBAISNET,
once pro teat.
EDWARD FILDER,
Tokenhouse-yard,
Tempo3ratz Oehfri2csetli„ 718•15.

PILBROW'S ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY
and CANAL PROPULSION COMPANY.
Provisionally Registered.
Capital 120,000/., in 12,000 shares of 10/. each.
Deposit 51. per Share.
PATRONS.
The Meet Noble the Marquis of DOURO.
The Right Hon. the Earl of BESSBOROUGII.
DIRECTORS.
The Right Hon. the Earl of ESSEX, Chairman.
George Buckley Belton, Esq.
Captain Britten
Lieutenant-Colonel Gillies
Anthony White, Esq.
RESIDENT DIRECTOR—Dr. John Grigg Hewlett.
AUDITOR—Thomas Edwards, Esq.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—James Pilbrow, Esq., C.E.
STANDING COUNSEL—Thomas Webster, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. White and Borrett.
ACTING ENGlNEER—Frederick Braithwaite, Esq., C.E.
SECRETARY—CharIes Collins, Esq.
BANKERS—Diessrs. Cocks, Biddulph, Biddulph, and Co.,
43, Charing-cross.
Offices, 6, King William-street, London.
The prominent advantages of this system of Atmospheric traction,
are, that the continuous valve is dispensed with ; roads are crossed
uron a level without interruption of main; one atmospheric railway
can be intersected by another, thus saving bridges, approaches, and
leakage ; and a stationary- engine every ten miles is sufficient.
The system combines extreme simplicity with extreme efficiency,
and that obtained with a small comparative expense in working and
construction.
It is estimated that a saving altogether upon the other plans of
Atmospheric Railways (having the continuous valve) will be nearly
3,0001. per mile ; two mains or lines can, on this plan, be laid down
for little more than the cost of one, upon the other plan.
Increased safety is Insured, also obstruction and destruction by
weather and other sources are placed beyond probability by the
mains being buried, &c.
The objects of the Company are to purchase the Patentee's right
for the United Kingdom, to grant licences to Railway and Canal
Companies to use the invention, or lay down the works under con-
tracts with the different Companies ; and, in the first place, to pro-
cure all experimental line in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, if
found desirable.
The source of income is unlimited, and the expenses, with the ex-
ception of the purchase of the Patents, and laying down the experi-
mental line, must necessarily be merely nominal.
A Model, upon a scale of one inch to the foot, may be seen at work
on Wednesdays and Thursdays, between twelve and three o'clock,
at the Company's offices, by application to the Secretary or Officers
of the Company.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARER ADDRESSED TO THE
SECRETARY.
TO TILE DIRECTORS OP PILBROW'S ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY AND
CANAL PROPULSION COMPANY.

GENTLEMEN,
I request you to allot me Shares of
£ eachln the above Company, and I undertake to accept the
same, or any smaller number of Shares that may be allotted to me,
and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute the dead of settlement
when requested.
Dated this
Name
Profession or Trade

day of
Address

Reference

DEAN FOREST AND
GLOUCESTERSI HIGH
IRE. MEADOW ESTATE,
TO BE SOLD by AUCTION, by Order of the
Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, &c., at the Spulk
House, in Dean Forest, on TUESDAY, the Bth of April, 1645, at
One o'Clock,
319 OAK TIMBER TREES, about 1,200 tons of BARK, from
Thinnings, and 6,000 CORDS of WOOD.
For particulars, and view of the lots in Dean Forest, apply to
Mr. Laughlin Ellwood, and of those in the Ilighmeadow Estate, to
Mr. Turnbull, Braceland, or to different keepers and woodmen.

SILVER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
and injurious Metals, called Nickel and German Silver, sup-
planted by the introduetion of a now and perfectly matchless
ALBATA ?LATE.
C. WATSON, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton Folgate, aided by
3 person of Science in the amalgamation of Metals, has succeeded in
brif;Sing to Public Notice the most beautifhl Article ever yet offered;
possessing all tke richness of Silver in appearance, with all its dura-
bility and hardness—with its perfect sweetness in use, undergoing, as
it does, a Chemical Process, by which, all that is nauseous in mixed
Metals is entirely extracted—resisting all Acids—may be cleaned as
silver, and is manufactured into every Article for the Table and
Sideboard:—

Fiddle. Threaded. King's.
Table Spoons and Forks, 16s. 6d. doz. 30s. ' 355.
Desert Ditto ••• • • • 125. 6d. 255. 28s.
Tea Spoons •. • • ••• • • • 55. 6d. —12 s. 6d. 13s. 6d.
Sugar Tongs
C. WATSON begs the Public will understand that this Metal is
peculiarly his own, and that Silver is not more different from Gold
than kis metal is from all others—on its intrinsic merit alone he
wishes it to be tested, and from the daily increasing enlogiums he re-
ceives, he is convinced that nothing can prevent its becoming an
article of universal wear.
C. Watson's handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Currant
Is just published, and Families who regard economy and elegance
should possess themselves of this useful Book, which may be had
Gratis, and Post Free, from the above Address.
PATENT PARAGON CAMP}IINE LAMPS.

perfection of these Lamps over—tile—iiista has been
happily attained by the invention of two parallel flat rings—a larger
and a smaller forming a cone round the margin of the wick, which
cause a rapid reverberation of air against the flame—thus condensing
every particle of volatilized vapour, it is free from smoke or smell,
having perfect combustion, and iu full action, emits a light equal to
16 wax candles.
C. Watson's Warehouses, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton
Folgate, will contain, throughout the season, all the most elegant
recherclo and new patterns, comprising Or-molu, China, Glass, and

Opal.
Old 011 Lamps fitted with the Paragon Head for 21s. And tho
pparatas applied to the Vesta for 6s. The Spirit analysed
aPnadragre°cHo.Ammended by Dr, Ure, is delivered in screw cans by C.
BTCAN, and 16, NORTON FOLOATE.
W4altsscon4's2e.arßlis, at 4s. per gallon.
R

THE " CLERIC OF THE WEATHER"
To E. MOSES and SON.
Dear Sirs,—ln reply to the verses you wrote,
I have taken occasion to send you a note.
I certainly think you have very good reason
To be quite out or patience with Winter's long season.
But, Gentlemen, much brighter days are at hand,
When a beautiful Spring will encircle the laud.
You asked me, you know, Messrs. MOSES and SON,
To speak with the Winter, and this I have done.
I inquired how long he intended to stay,
And I said you were all hi a terrible way.
I told him that birds were all waiting to sing,
And that you had prepared your new stock for the Spring.
I explained that the dresses of MOSES and SON
Could never be worn till the Winter is done.
And when I had talked with the King for a while,
I succeeded in making his Majesty smile ;
And, Sirs, he assured me, betbre I had done,
That he'd not disappoint Messrs. MOSES and SON.
From this I conclude that your opportune rhyme,
Will produce its effect in a very short time.
And now, in the hope that you'll long trade together,
I remain, yours sincerely,
THE " CLERK OF THE WEATHER."
A new work, entitled " THE LEVIATHAN OF TRADE," with
fall directions for Self-Measurement, may be had on application
or forwarded post-free.

X s. d.
Beaver Taglionis .•••• • . • • • •• . from 08 6
Ditto Chesterfields.
Ditto Codringtons •
Ditto Peaabrokes, Athols, Peltoes, and every description of
Winter Coat, handsomely trimmed
Boys' Winter Coats, in every style.. •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • 0 8 6
Warm Winter Trousers, lined. • .
Doeskin •••••••• • . • " • • • • ••• . . ...............
Ditto
Dress Coats, edged, Scc • • . 10 0
Frock ditto, ditto. ••• .. . ...
Rolling Collar Vest ••• • . ... . 0 1 9
Double-breasted Ditto ••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • ..... •• • 0 2 6
Boys' Hussar Suits .....................................0 17 6
Vitto Tunic, neatly braided •• • ...... ..

RE ADT.MADB.

MADE TO MEASURE.
Saxe Gotha Coats, velvet collar and cuffs ..... ••••• • from 1 18 0
Winter Coats, in every style and shape, handsomely trimmed 1 5 0
Milled Tweed Wrappers ..... .......... .... ...... ...
Ditto ditto Trousers ......... ......... ....• •• • • 0 8 6
Buckskin Ditto .... . ............. ........... . .
0 12 0
Doeskin Ditto, any pattern ..... ••••• • • • " • •
Best, or Dress Trousers .• • ••• • •
• •
• •
• •
•••• • • • ........ ••• • • • 1 6
Cashmere Vest ..... ....• ••• • • • ,"• .• . .•••••• •• • • • •
• • • • • • 0
8 6
0 7 0
Winter Ditto, in endless pattern ••••••••• " • • • • • • • •
1 12 0
Dress Coat • •• •
...... ..•
Ditto, ditto, best manufactured • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Frock Coat .. • .
Ditto, the best manufactured ••. • • . ......... ••••• • • • . 3 3 0
Boy's Hussar Suit ••••• • • • • • .......... ....... ..• ••••• • • • 1 7 0
Ditto Tunic .•.•• • • • • .......... ......... . ....... .• •• • • 1 8 0
Mourning to any extent can be had at five minutes' notice, at the
following prices :
Men's Suits, dress coat, vest, and trousers ..........from 1 16 0
Ditto, jacket, vest and trousers ...... • • ...... from 018 0
IntroaTaNT.—Any article purchased or ordered, if not approved of,
exchanged, or the money returned.
Observe—E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Wholesale and Retail
Woollen Drapers, Outfitters, and General Warehousemen, 154, Mina,-
ries, and 86, Aldgate, City, opposite the Church.
C vriort.—E. Moses and Son are obliged to guard the publle
against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike false-
hood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, has
been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They
vIYC no oonnexion whatever with any other establishment, in or oat
of London, and those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to
permit disappointment, &c.) call or send to 154, Allueries, or 86,
Aldgate, opposite the Church.
N.B. No business transactedatietahisbusEstinaebsl3isillimreesiumit freodmusuuntwseetlovne
• rrictity till accumet Saturday wi
OilOL

ROYAL MAILIP,NY. STEAM PACKET
Notice is hereby given, that the ANNUAL GENERAL MIPIETING
of the PROPRIETORS of this Company- will be held at the London
Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, 011 THURSDAY, the 10th of April next, at
One o'clock precisely, for the purpose of receiving the Directors'
REPORT of the affairs of the Company for the year ending the
31st December last ; and for the purpose of Electing two Directors
and one Anditor, in the rosin of Andrew Colville, Esq., and Russell
Ellice, Esq., Directors, and Abraham George Roberts, Esq., Auditor,
who go out by rotation. These Gentlemen, being eligible, offer them-
selves for re-election accordingly. Any Proprietor !intending to be-
come a candidate, or to propose some other Proprietor as a candidate,
must signify his intention in wilting, to be left at the Company's
office, fourteen days at least before the day of election.
By order of the Board,
E. CIIAPPELL, Secretary.
ILMoorgate-street, March 19, 1845.

ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
39, THROGMORTON-STREET, BANK.
EMPOWERED by SPECIAL ACT of PARLIAMENT,
5 and 6 Will. IV., c. 76.
THOMAS FARNCOMB, Esq., Alderman, Chairman.
WILLIAM LEAF, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Richard E. Arden, Esq. James Clift, li.'sq.
William Banbury, Esq. Rupert Ingleby, Esq.
Edward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq.,
Thomas Camplin, Esq. Jeremiah Pilch.tr, Esq.
John Humphery, Esq., Alderman, Lewis Pocock, Esq.
Al

Alderman.

PIITSICIAN—Dr. Jeaffreson, 2, Finsbnry-sqnare.
SuncEoN=--W. Coulson, Esq., 2, Frederick's-place, 01(1 Jewry.
CONSULTING AcTuAaY—Professor Hall, of King's College.
LOW RATES OF PREMIUM.
Inafdition Mille subscribed Capital of 300,0001., the Assured have
tare sea"iiity Walla Company's income of nearly 60,0001. per annum,
,early increasing, and an accumulating Assurance Fund invested is
Government and other available emetics, of considerably larger
amount thaifthe estimated liabilities of the Company.
The tines of premium are reduced to the lowest scale compatible
with the security of the Assured, and the stability of the Company,
thereby, in effect, giving to every Policy Hokin, an immediate and
certain Bonus without risk, in lieu of the deferred and frequently
delusive prospect of a periodical division of Profits.
ANNUAL Pasylum TO ASSURE £lOO.

Age. I For One Year. I foi Seveo Te4rs. I Whole Term

20 £0 17
30 1 1
40 1 5
50 1 14
60 3 2

£0 19 1
1 2 7
1 6 9
1 19 19
9 17

£1 11 10
2 0 7
2 14 10
4 0 11
6 0 10

One-third of " Whole Terns" Premium may remain unpaid at
5 per cent. compeund interest, as a debt upon the policy for life, or
may bo paid off at any time without notice.
In Assurances for Advances of Money, as security for debts, or
as a provision for a family, when the least present outlay is desirable,
the varied and comprehensive tables of the Argus Office will be found
to be particularly favourable to the Assured.
The Medical Officers attend daily at a Quarter before Two &Clock,
EDWARD BATES, Resident Director.
A liberal Commission to Solicitors and Agents.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
8, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON.
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords the most
perfect security in a large paid-up Capital, and in the great success
which has attended it since its commencement in 1834, its ANNUAL
INCOME being UPWARDS of '12,0001.
In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Shareholders of
one-half of their Stock, and also added a Bonus of 21. per cent. per
annum, on the Sum leisured to all Policies of the Participating Class
from the time they were effected.
The Bonus added to olicies from Marcia, 1334, to December 31,
1840, is as follows :
Sum Time Sim added Sum Time Sum added
Assured. Assured. to Policy. Assured. Assured. to Policy.
.£5OOO Gyrs. 10 mtbs. £683 6 8 £5OOO 4 years #4OO
5000 6 years 600 0 0 5008 2 years 200
The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, ani
only one-half need be paid for the first Five Years, where the Insur-
ance is for Life.
Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident
Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd. Esq., of No. 8,
Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.

BRITANNIA
Bank, and 448, West Strand, London, January 1, 1645.
Notice is hereby given, that the BUSINESS of the LONDON and
WESTMINSTER MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. has
been TRANSFERRED to this Company ; and all persons holding
policies issued by the said Society are informed that, as soon as the
renewal premiums thereon shall become payable, new policies will
be granted to them by the Directors of this Company, at the same
rates of premium which they Row pay, and without any charge for
stamp-duty; and all claimants on policies issued by the said London
and Westminstor Mutual Life Assurance Society are informed that
such claims will be discharged by the Direc tors of this Company, a
soon as the the same shall have been substantiated.
PETER MORRISON, Resident Director.

BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM-
PANY, 1, Princes-street, Bank, Loudon, empowered by spe-
cial Act of Parliament, 4 Vic. c. 9.
HALF CREI)IT RATES OF PREMIUM.
Persons assured according to these rates are allowed credit (with-
out security) for half the amount of the first seven annual premiams,
paying interest thereon at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, with the
option of paying off the principal at any time, or having the amount
deducted from the sum assured when the policy becomes a claim.
Policies may thus he effected at lower rates than are generally re-
quired for the term of seven years only ; whilst the holders have the
same security for the payment of their claims, whenever death may
happen, as if they paid double the amount of premium, which would
be charged for assurances effected in the us ialway.
Extract from the Half Credit Rates of Premium.
Annual Premium required for an Assurance of 1001. for the Whole
Term of Life.

half Prenntun for
seven years.

W hole Premium.
after seYeu years.

£ s. d
1 1 9
1 4 11
1 9 2
1 14 10
2 2 6
2.12 9
3 6 8

£ e. d
2 3 6
2 9 10
2 18 4
8 9 8
4 5 0
5 5 S
6 13 4

PETER ➢IORRISON, Resident IY

7eetor.

CAUTION TO CONSUMERS.—DRY GAS METERS.
DEFRIES' S DRY METERS have successfully
stood the test• six years' trial. Among the 10,000 in use,
they have been adopted by the official authorities of the houses of
Parliament, Woolwich Dock-yard, Somerset-house, Foreign-office,
Thames Tunnel, United Service, Reform, Conservative, and other
Club-houses, the Queen's Theatre, Chinese Exhibition, and many
other large establishments. Upwards of 20,000,000 cubic feet of
gas have passed through some of these meters without regula-
tion or repair, and which are still working to •the entire satisfaction
of the gas company and consumers.
All gas consumers who study economy and a good light are invited
to avail themselves of the advantages and comfort to be derived from
the use of Defries's Dry Meter, but, to prevent the substitution of im-
perfect imitations, it is necessary at all times to order Denies's Dry
Meter, and to observe his name on the brass badge in front of all his

meters.
Testimonials from the most eminent and scientific mon and large
consumers can be had on application (or will be fonvarded by post),
free of expense, at the Manufactory, 67, St. Martin's-lane, London.
Warranted to keep correct in all weathers.
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ATE NT BELMONT SPERM CANDLES,
ONE SIIIT,T,TNG per lb. ; PATENT BELMONT SPERM
OIL, FOUR SIIILLINGS per Gallon, burning more brilliantly than
the ordinary Sperm Candles and Oil, and differing from them in being
principally prepared from a pure vegetable material, instead of an
impure animal one.
PRICES PATENT CANDLES, 101/2d. per lb.
VAUXIIALL COMPOSITE CANDLES, Sid. per lb.
PATENT BELMONT WAX CANDLES, Is. per lb.
Families wishing to try any of the above are recommended to
order them through their own tradesmen, taking notice, however,
that these being the London Cash Prices, the Country Dealer must
charge higher to cover his expenses of carriage. Where no dealer
tan be found willing to sell them, Edward Price and Co. will supply
quantities of not less than 5/. worth, direct from their manufactory,
at Belmont, Vauxhall. On receiving a Post-office order for this
amount, they will forward Candles and Oil in the proportions that
may he directed ; or, to parties wishing for samples and unable to
obtain them, they will, on receiving a 1/. Post-effice order, forward a
box containing 31bs of each of the four sorts of Candles,' and; a
gallon of the Oil. They fix the price of the sample box so high, to
avoid all suspicion of their wishing to interfere with the retail trade
of the Country Dealers.
The trade may obtain the above Candles and Oil wholesale, in
London, from Edward Price and Co., Belmont, Vauxhall ; Palmer
and Co., Sutton-street, Clerkenwell ; and W. Marchant, 253, Regent-
circus, Oxford-street ;in Manchester, from Richardson and Roebuck,
Market-place ;in Bath, from T. and G. Butcher, No. 4, Saw-closo
and in Cheltenham, from Mathews and Co., 400, High-street.

CLARK'S NEW BRILLIANT LIGHT.
Have you seen it? The nobility, scientific men, and all
who have, admit its positive superiority, and admire its simplicity.
This light causes no smoke, cannot emit blacks, breaks no chimneys,
creates no smell, requires no cleaning, and in its construction is so
simple, that any person can trim it. It is so economical that, while
producing the light of two argand oil lamps, or the light of twenty
candles, it costs no snore than two candles.
This perfect lamp fitted to persons' own pedestals, for 23 shillings,
all complete.
To be seen burning at Clark's Lamp Depot, 447, West Strand (op-
posite Warren's Blacking Manufactory).
Clark and Co. have also an improved 011 Lamp used by the Trinity
House, and the great light houses in the world, and only just now
Introduced to public notice.
N.B. To prevent imposition, Clark and Co. put their name on all
these lamps.

RHEUMATISM, GOUT, CRAMP, WEAKNESS OF LIMBS,
CON TRACTIONS; SPINAL AFFECTIONS, &e.
TWENTY THOUSAND PERSONS, and up-
wards, from the Infant to the very aged adult, have received
benefit from an extraordinary BALSAMIC PREPARATION posi-
tively under the immediate sanctiou and recommendation of the
faculty.

CABBURN'S OIL.
To be had at his Dispensary, King's Cross, London ; in bottles, 2s.
9d., 4s. Gd., l ls., 225., and of most respectable venders in the king-
dom.
Reports from Medical Dispensaries may be seen in " Bradshaw's
Railway Guide," and the daily papers. Ask for Cabburn's Oil for
the cure of rheumatism, &c.
To Mr. Cabburn,
Sin—My child, a boy four years old, never had the least use of his
legs from his birth until I used your oil, and in six weeks he was
enabled to walk, to the astonishment of ourselves and all who know
us. Tours, ever grateful,
6, George-street, Bsignigge Wells-road. lIENRY CLOVER.
P.s.—Mr. Greenwood,:of the Northumberland Tavern, and Mrs.
Finn, 12, Weston-street, Pentonville, can speak to the truth of it also.
Mr. Cabburn, Sir—l have presented two bottles of your oil to a
poor woman named Clarke, who has been paralysed for two years,
and unable to walk, or move, without a stick or crutch, nor yet lift her
hand from her side. She can now walk comfortably without either
stick or crutch, and can lift her hand to her head with ease.—l am,
yours respectfully, W. WARNER.
No. 47, Bridle-street, Nottingham.
To. J. Cabburn, Esq.
Sir—l beg agreeably to inform you that an individual for whom I
sent for your oil has greatly felt the benefit of your most important
discovery. He has, as I said in my former letter, been under the care
of the most eminent surgeons in this county for nearly thirty years,
and has been for several months in the various hospitals, &c., but to
no effect, until lie applies' your miraculous oil ; last night ho told me
with heartfelt gratitude he was well, having no pain, and the inflam-
mation gone. I should recommend your appointing an agent in this
neighbourhood.—l am, Sir, yours respectfully,
J. C. EDWARDS.
Halden-wood Cottage, near Shrewsbury, Salop.
Mr. Cabburn, King's-cross.
Sir—l beg to return you my sincere thanks for your kind attention,
and at the same time to acknowledge that I experienced more relief
from your oil than I did from any other application or operation per-
formed upon me, and had I been fortunate enough to have met with
you in the early commencement of my afflictions, I should have
avoided much misery and distress. For your kindness, I shall ever
remain,—Your obliged, humble servant,
Hatton-wall, August 30, 1841. SAMUEL BEST.
The above person's case was published in the Lancet, December 8,
1832, from an abridged lecture on neuralgia by Dr. Efflotson, being
one of the most dreadful cases ever known. Many noblemen and
gentlemen saw the patient, among whom were
Ilia Grace the DUKE of HAMILTON,

The EARL of HAREWOOD,
Sir F. BURDETT,
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LITERATURE.

HISTORY OF THE CONSULATE AND THE
EMPIRE ; or FRANCE UNDER NAPO-
LEON. By M. Thiers. Vol. 11.
This volume possesses more interest and variety
than the first, though that furnished ample and
graphic details of the passage of the Alps and the
battle of Marengo—one reckoned the most remark-
able military movement in modern times, and the
other the great step by which Napoleon mounted the
imperial throne. It made him First Consul, and from
the consulate to the empire the transition was easy.
M. Thiers has devoted a considerable portion of the
second part to the state of Egypt after the departure
of General Bonaparte, the discontent of the army and
its leader, General Kleber ; his victories over the
Turks; his defeat at El-Arisch, and his assassination
at Cairo. Though not disposed to go out of his way
to pay compliments to the English, and least of all
English naval officers, the author does justice
to Sir Sidney Smith, whom he describes as a
man of generous feelings, and to Colonel Douglas,
who did everything in his power to save
the wreck of the garrison from the fury of the
Turks. " Some of these unfortuuate men," says
he, " obtained quarter, thanks to Colonel Douglas,
and owed their lives to the interference of that hu-
mane, gallant, and distinguished officer." He de-
scribes also at considerable length the famous battle
of Hohenlinden; attributes, though reluctantly, praise
to Moreau, and modifies it with the imputation of
great faults committed in several movements, and en-
deavours to lessen his glory on that occasion by an-
ticipation of events which, unfortunately, cast a
shade on his early career. He cannot, however,
deny him the merit of prudence, vigour, and suc-
cess. " Moreau had proved himself capable of com-
manding 100,000 men with prudence and vigour ;
no man, excepting Napoleon, had manoeuvred such
a force so well in the present century ; and though
the plan of the conqueror of Hohenlinden be at
an immense distance from that of the conqueror of
Rivoli, of Marengo, and Austerlitz, that plan is, never-
theless, glorious, and would have remained glorious,
if criminal misconduct, the fatal effects of jealousy,
had not subsequently sullied a life till then noble and
pure." The celebrated passage of tl-e Splugen by
Macdonald is described in a few lines, though it
rivals, perhaps eclipses, the passage of the Alps by
Bonaparte. the leading features, however, of this
section of the work arc the domestic policy of the
First Consul, the negotiations with foreign powers,
and the vast schemes he formed for uniting the whole
of Europe against the great barrier to universal
dominion, England. In all these Bonaparte displayed
the greatest ability, and, with perhaps some excep-
tions, is entitled to the highest praise. He arranged
the discordant elements of a great nation, put an end
to anarchy by moderation, justice, and humane plans;
was lenient to the errors, or rather the prepossessions
of the unfortunate royalists and the priests ; and was
only the bitter enemy of that unprincipled portion of
the community who delighted in endless revolution
from selfish motives, and would have sacrificed the
honour, the glory, and safety of their country for
even the chance of temporary power. To these men
for a long time he attributed all the attempts on his
life, and nothing but the most indubitable evidence
could convince him that Georges and other royalists
were the real authors of the infernal machine. We
regret to find that M. Thiers here forgets the im-
partiality of a great historian, gives as facts what he
cannot prove, nay, what are fully denied by as good
Frenchmen as himself, and ministers to vulgar preju-
dices and national antipathies in language, though
not direct, yet not to be mistaken, by leaving the
impression on the minds of his readers that the assas-
sins were the tools of the English Cabinet, and that
they were furnished with English gold to carry their
diabolical schemes into effect. This it is true was
the belief of the First Consul, but we believe he was
afterwards disabused by the earnest and indignant
asseverations of Mr. Fox, independent of other proofs ;
yet M. Thiers still sticks to the original calumny
and uses such expressions as these :—" Georges,
having returned from London to the Morbihan, was
full of money, thanks to the English, and secretly
directed the plunder of the diligences. He had sent
some of his cut-throats to Paris, for the purpose of
murdering the First Consul." And elsewhere—" In
a lower sphere conspired otherwise than by words
the intriguers in the service of the Bourbons, and
lower still, but more dangerously, the agents of
Georges, with their hands full of money, supplied by
England." These and some other national pre-
judices are unworthy of M. Thiers' high rank, ability,
and acquirements—they only injure his own charac-
ter, and detract from the value of a work of great
merit. But this littleness, to apply the gentlest term,
is not unfrequently an accompaniment of the brightest
genius, and latterly diminished that halo of glory
which surrounded the head of Napoleon himself.
He has been admired by the vulgar chiefly
for his great victories. These, however, entitle
him to the least praise. They were obtained
at enormous sacrifices ; human beings were treated
as mere machines; the best blood of France was shed
to gratify his lust of dominion, and at last, in the
utter recklessness of despair, he sacrificed himself
and his country. His highest merit consists in his
domestic administration, in composing civil broils,
improving the civil code, retrieving the finances, and
carrying out vast and national works. From No-
vember, 1799, to September, 1800, the face of France
was changed ; the public funds had risen from 12 to
40, and the public creditors, to their astonishment and
delight, received a half-year's dividend in money—a
thing which had not occurred since the commence-
ment,
of the revolution. " This financial phenomenon;'
says M. Thiers, " produced a great effect, and it ap-
peared to be not one of the least of the victories of the
First Consul. This was an enigma which the mass
of the public explained by that extraordinary power,
which he was already said to possess, of doing. what-
ever he pleased. But there is no miracle in this
world. there is no other cause for real successes
but sound sense, seconded by a strong M.
Thiers thus sums up the labours in which this won-
derful man was engaged during the winter of 1800-
1801 :
All things were being organised at the same
timo,
with the harmony which a comprehensive mind is
capable of introducing into its works, with the rapidity
which a resolute energy, an authority already punctually
obeyed, is capable of imparting to them. The genius
which accomplished these things was without doubt ex-
traordinary ; but, it must be confessed, the situation was
as extraordinary as the genius. General Bonaparte had
France and Europe to move, and victory for a lever ; he
had to digest all the codes of the French nation, but
they at the same time all ranks were disposed to submit
to his laws with implicit obedience; he bad roads, canals,
bridges to construct, and the necessary resources for
these objects at his undisputed disposal ; he had even
nations ready to furnish him with their treasures—the
Italians, for example, who cheerfully contributed to the
expense of opening the Simplon, and to the endowment
of the Hospices raised on the summits of the Alps. Pro-
vidence does nothing by halves. For every mighty task
she furnishes a great genius, and to every groat genius
she assigns a mighty task.
For details of these useful and noble undertakings,
we refer to the work itself, which, we may add, im-
proves on acquaintance. The style is simple, and, at
at times, highly eloquent. The narrative flows natu-
rally, and without effort. The interest never flags,
and the writer, unlike some who claim the pharactei'
of historians, never obtrudes himself, and rarely his
individual opinions, on the notice of the reader. His

remarks abound with good sense, and his occasional
deviations from impartiality must be attributed rather
to his national propensity, and to his admiration of
the hero of the work, than to wilful misrepresenta-
tion. He draws characters with a masterly hand, in
a few words paints to the life their defects and their
virtues, and in the narration of a tragical event
stands unrivalled. As proofs of these historical
abilities, we subjoin the characters of two or three
leading men of that period, with those of Napoleon's
brothers, Joseph and Lucien, and his wife Josephine,
FOUCHE, TALLEYRAND, CA MBACERES, JO-
SEPH AND LUCIEN BONAPARTE, AND
JOSEPHINE.
M. Fouchis charged to exercise this power, formerly an
Oratorian and a Conventionalist, was an intelligent and
a crafty personage, neither good nor wicked, well ac-
quainted with men, especially the bad, and despising
them; employing the funds of the police in supporting
the agents of troubles as much as in watching them;
always ready to procure bread or a place for every per-
son weary of political agitations; thus making friends
for the Government, and more especially for himself;
creating for himself obliged dependents, far superior to
credulous and deceitful spies, who never failed to inform
him of everything that it was his interest to know;
having persons under obligations to him in all the par-
ties, even among the Royalists, whom he knew how to
manage, and to repress at the right time; always fore-
warned, never overrating danger, nor exaggerating it to
his master; clearly distinguishing an imprudent man
from one really to be feared, knowing when to caution
the one, to proceed against the other; in short, managing
the police better than it was ever managed, for it con-
sists in disarming animosities as much as in repressing
them; a superior minister, if he had had elevated inten-
tions, if his indulgence had sprung from any other prin-
ciple than an indifference to good and evil, if his activity
had proceeded from any other motive than a passion for
interfering in everything, which rendered him irksome
and suspicious to the First Consul, and frequently gave
him the appearance of a vulgar intriguer. For the rest,
his intelligent but ignoble countenance, was a faithful
mirror of the qualities and vices of his soul. . . .
M. de Talleyrand descended from a family of the
noblest lineage, destined by his birth for the army,
doomed to the priesthood by an accident, which deprived
him of the use of one foot, having no liking for this im-
posed profession, successively bishop, courtier, revo-
lutionist, and emigrant, then afterwards minister for
foreign affairs under the Directory, M. de Talloyrand had
retained something of all these different states ; there
was to be found in him a touch of the bishop, of the man
of quality, and of the revolutionist. Having no firmly
fixed opinion, but only a natural moderation, which was
opposed to every species of exaggeration ; capable of
entering at once into the feelings of those whom he
wished to please, either from liking or from interest ;
speaking a unique language peculiar to that society which
had Voltaire for instructor ; full of smart, poignant re-
partees, which rendered him as formidable -a, he was
attractive ;
i by turns caressing or dissst'alnful: with
demon-
strative or impenetrable careless, '',lgniaod, lame
out loss of gracefulness, in short, one of the most ex-
traordinary personages, and such a ono as a revolution
alone can produce, he was the most seducing of negotia-
tors, but at the same time incapable of directing, as head,
the affairs of a great state ; for every leader should pos-
sess a resolute will, settled views, and application, and
he had none of these. His will was confined to pleas-
ing, his views consisted in the opinions of the moment,
his application was next to nothing. In a word, he was
an accomplished ambassador, but not a directing minis-
ter ; be it understood, however, that this expression is
to be taken in its most elevated acceptation. For the
rest, he held no other post under the Consular Govern-
ment. The First Consul, who allowed no person the
right to give an opinion on the affairs of war and of diplo-
macy,merely employed him to negotiate with the Foreign
Ministers, on basis previously prescribed, and this M. de
Talleyrand did with an art that will never be surpassed.
He possessed, however, a moral merit, that of being fond
of peace under a master who was fond of war, and of
showing that he was so. Endowed with exquisite taste,
uniting with it unerring tact, and eren a useful indo-
lence, he was able to render real services, by simply op-
posing to the First Consul's exuberance of language, pen,
and action, his sobriety, his perfect moderation, and his
very propensity to do nothing. But he made little im-
pression on that idiperious master, from whom he ex-
torted no respect either by genius or by conviction.
Thus he had no more empire than M. Fouch6, nay, even
lose, though quite as much employed, and more-agree-
able. .
The First Consul prized the plain good sense of M.
Fouch6, relished the grilses of M. de Talleyrand, but
absolutely believed neither the one nor the other on any
subject, and, as for his confidence, had given that, given
it wholly and entirely, but not to either of those two men—
to his colleague Carabac6res. The latter, with an under-
standing far from brilliant, had extraordinary good
sense, and an unbounded attachment to the First Consul.
Having trembled for ten years of his life under pro-
scribers of all sorts, he loved, with a kind of affection,
the powerful master, who at length procured him the
faculty of breathing at his ease. He loved his power,
his genius, his person, from which he had not received,
and hoped never to receive, anything but favours. Ac-
quainted with the weaknesses of men, even of the greatest,
he counselled the First Consul, as one ought to counsel
when one wishes to be attended to, with perfect sincerity,
with extreme discretion, never for the purpose of show-
ing off his own wisdom, but always to be serviceable to
a Government which he loved as dearly as himself,
always approving of all its acts in public, whatever they
might be and never disapproving of them but in pri-
vate, in an absolute hlte-a. Vie with the First Consul;
keeping silence when there was no good to be done, and
when censure could be but a vain pleasure of finding
fault ; sure to speak his mind, and with a courage highly
meritorious in a man so extremely timid, when he was
in time to prevent a blunder, or influence the general
conduct of affairs. And, as if a character which is in-
cessantly under self-restraint must needs be betrayed
into some weakness, the consul Cambac4 Is exhibited a
puerile vanity with his inferiors, lived with some subal-
tern courtiers, who paid him fulsome homage, walked
every day in the Palais Royal, in a ridiculously magni-
ficent dress, and sought, in the gratification of a gour-
mandise that has become proverbial, pleasures which
were suited to his vulgar but prudent soul. Of what
consequence, however, are a few foibles, redeemed by
superior reason
The First Consul cheerfully forgave these foibles in
his colleague, and made much of him. He appreciated
that superior good sense, which never wished to shine
but to be useful, and which threw a tempered and true
light upon everything. He appreciated, above all, the
sincerity of his attachment, laughed at. his weaknesses,
but always with delicacy, and paid him the very high
compliment of confiding everything to him alone, of
never being concerned but about his judgment. Hence,
he was susceptible of no influence but his—au influence
scarcely suspected, and on that account very great.
i . .
To convey an accurate idea of the circle surround
ing the First Consul, we must say a word concerning his
family. He had four brothers, Joseph, Lucien, Louis,
and J‘come. The two latter we shall notice in due time.
Joseph and Lucien only were then of any importance.
Joseph, the eldest of all, had married the daughter of a
wealthy and respectable merchant of Marseilles. He
was mild, tolerably acute, agreeable in person, and
caused the brother less vexation than any of the others.
It was for him that the First Consul reserved the honour
of negotiating the peace of the Republic with the states
of the old and the new world. He had charged him to
conclude the treaty which had been signed with Ame-
rica, and had just appointed him plenipotentiary to
Luneville, thus seeking to assign to him a part which
should be popular in France. Lucien, at present Mi-
nister of the Interior, was a clever man, but of unequal
mind, restless, ungovernable, and, though possessing
talent, not having sufficient to make amends for what he
wanted in point of good sense. Both flattered the pro-
pensity of the First Consul to raise himself to the su-
preme power ; and this was but natural. The genius of
the First Consul, like his glory, were things personal to
himself ; one quality only could be transmissible to his
family, that was the princely quality, if he should one
day assume it, in preference to that of first magistrate
of the Republic. His brothers were amongst those who
asserted, with least reserve, that the present form of
government was but one of transition, devised to lull
revolutionary prejudices ; but that he ought to make
up his mind, and that if he wished to found something
truly stable, it was indispensably necessary to introduce
greater concentration, unity, and durability. The drift
of all this was very evident. The First Consul, as every
one knows, had no children, which greatly embarrassed
those who already dreamt of the transformation of the
republic into a monarchy. It was, in fact, an inconsis-
tency to pretend to be desirous of insuring the regular
and natural transmission of the supreme power in the
family of a man who had no heirs. Thus though,
hereafter, this default of heirs might be a personal ad-
vantage for the brothers of the First Consul, it was now
an argument against their projects, and they frequently
reproached Madame Bonaparte for a misfortune, of
which, they said, she was the cause. Having quarrelled
with her, from sheer jealousy of her influence, they had
not spared her in conversation with her husband, told
persecuted her with their remarks, incessantlyatnhe i
and loudly
repeating that it was absolutely necessary for
Consul to have a wife who should bring ham chrldren,
that this was not a private but a public consideration,
r
swith
eusolation on this point was indispensable, .
n
th
the most
aonrddetrhatot a revolution
the future welfare of Fance„. They
in
caused these cruel sentiments, pregnant
t o be repeated
sinister consequences for hall
lips. The wife of the First Consul, apparently so for-
tunate, was, therefore, at this moment, very fax from
happy.
Josallphine Bonaparte, who had been married first to
the Count de Beauharnais, then to the young general
who had saved the Convention on the 13th Venda-
micas°, and now shared with him a place which began
to resemble 4 throne, was a Creole by birth, and had
all the graces, all the defects, usual in women who are
so born. Kind-hearted, profuse, and frivolous, not. a
i
beauty, but perfectly elegant, and endowed with afuute