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SALES BY AUCTION.

SALES BY AUCTION.

ESSEX.-ON THE BORDERS OF SUFFOLK.

"THE AUBERIES," an IMPORTANT FREEHOLD MAN.
SION and ESTATE, comprising about 1,400 Acres, situate
within a mile of the navigable river Stour, which divides the
counties, and two miles only from the excellent market town of
-Sudbury. The Kelvedon Station on the Eastern Counties Rail-

way brings the Estate within three hours and a half of the
metropolis.
R. W. W. SIMPSON has received directions
from Colonel Merrick to offer for SALE by AUCTION,
at the Mart, on WEDNEADAT, the 25th September, at Twelve
o'clock.

That valuable and much-admired FREEHOLD ESTATE
called " THE AUBERIES," with its Modern Mansion of hand-
some elevation, seated in a Park of 120 acres of delightfully varied
and undulating surface, studded with majestic timber, and com.
mending most extensive and interesting views of the surrounding
country. It is environed by pleasure-grounds and plantations of
luxuriant growth, in which is an ornamental sheet of water, bridge,
and bath-house. The mansion, which opens to a beautiful lawn,
flower-garden, and terrace-walk, contains on the principal floor
handsome reception and conservatory, en suite, 150 feet in length,
and which communicate with an elegant drawing-room. The
sleeping apartments and domestic accommodation are of a most
perfect description, and the whole admirably adapted for the resi.
dence of a family of distinction. The stabling, coach .houses, and
out-offices, are of a commensurate extent. The principal lodge.
entrance to the park is on the high London road. The kitchen
gardens, which are of considerable extent, are walled, and planted
with the choicest fruit trees, grapery, and gardener's cottage.
The demesne portion of the estate is in hand, and, including the
park, consists of about 650 acres. The remainder of the property
contains about 750 acres, and is let in four farms to tenants of the
first class. The farm-houses, agricultural buildings, &c., upon the
entire estate are adapted to the occupations ; and the lands, which
are highly cultivated, are of deep staple, and, with feir exceptions,
are of a convertible and productive description. The estate is well
stocked with game in all its varieties, and the country is hunted
by the fox-hounds of Richard Marriott, Esq.
Descriptive particulars of the estate are in preparation. Mr.
Simpson, however, in the meantime, invites an immediate Inspection
of the mansion and lands, which may be viewed by cards, on appli-
cation to Messrs. Steadman and Son, solicitors, Sudbury; Messrs.
Cox and Williams, solicitors. 62, Lincoln's Inn-fields; Messrs.
Wharton and Ford, solicitors, 64, Liacoln's Inn-fields; Mr.
Charles H. Branwhite, Gestingthorpe, near Halstead (who will
show the estate) ; and to Mr. W. W. Simpson, 18, Bucklersbury.

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The NEW MEDICAL BILL, nearly entire.
Editorial Observations (No. I.) on this Bill.
➢lr. W. Addison, F.L.S.—On the Transformation of Pus Cells into a

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Dr. Frederic Bird's Case of Removal of a Diseased Ovary.
Dr. Jeaffreson on the Pathology, &c., of Ovarian Diseases.
Dr. G. 0. Rees on the Pathology, &c., of the Morbus Brightli.
Mr. Roberts on Military Hygiene.
Mr. Wilson's Case of Poisoning by Digitalis.
Full Account of the Proceedings at the Anniversary Meeting of the
I'rovincial Medical and Surgical Association at Northampton ; with
other articles of interest to the profession.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &e.
He who in pleasure's downy arms
Ne'er lost his health or yeuthfu Icharma,
A hero lives, and justly can
Exclaim, in me behold a man I"
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afflict the Weak, the Sedentary, and the Delicate. With Practical
Observations on Marriage, and on the Anatomy, Physiology, and
Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, with plain Directions for
their perfect Restoration.

By SAMUEL LAMERT, Consulting Surgeon,
9, BEDFORD-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of
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THOMAS and FREDERICK DALE beg to inform the Nobility,
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PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
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JOHN WALKER against ELIZABETH WALKER, and JOSEPH
WALKER against ELIZABETH WALKER, the Creditors of
GEORGE WALKER, otherwise JOHN WALKER, late of Ton-
bridge-place, New-road, in the parish of St. Pancras, in the county
of Middlesex, Esquire, who died in the month of April, 1842, are
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in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; or in default
thereof, they will be excluded the benefit of the said decree.

•
DURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made 14t a cause CORBYN against
HER MAJESTY'S ATTORNEY-GENERAL, the NEXT OF KIN
of MARY PHILIPPS, spinster, formerly of Halifax, Nova Scotia, in
North America, afterwards in River-street, in the city of Bath, then
of Great Russoll-street, Bloomsbury, in the county of Middlesex, but
late of Boulogne-stir-Ater, in:the kingdom of France (who died at a
very advanced age at Boulogne, in the month of December, 1842),
living at her death, or the personal representatives of any of them
who have since died, are by their solicitors, on or before the 12th
day of January, 1845, to come in and prove their kindred, and make
out their claims before Sir GIFFIN WILSON, one of the Masters of the
said Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-
lane, London; or in default thereof, they will peremptorily be ex-
cluded the benefit of the said decree.
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The father of the said Mary Philipps was John Philipps, who
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said, from the years 1765 to 1800, and who died and was buried at
Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, in the year 1801. The
mother of the said Mary Philipps is said to have been " Judith,"
otherwise " Jude," one of the daughters of Dr. 'Wood, Rector of
Annapolis, in the same province, whose other daughters are said to
have been Mary, the wife of Mr. Day, of Halifax, aforesaid, mer-
chant, and Jane, wife of Captain Shaw, of a Highland regiment, in
the service of his then Majesty.
PRICE and BOLTON, Plaintiff's Solicitors.

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THE ULTIMATUM OF FRANCE,
AND THE EMPEROR OF MOROCCO'S REPLY.

We find in the Alerie the following details rela-
tive to circumstances which brought about the reply of
the-Sultan of Morocco to the ultimatum of France :
" The Phare arrived off El Araich in the morning
of the 25th. The sea was rough, and the captain of
the port, who usually boards every vessel that arrives,
to demand the motives of her visit, was some time
waited for. Seeing that he did not make his appear-
ance, the captain of the Phare lowered a boat, and
the envoy of the Prince de Joinville, accompanied by
M. Balaroufa, an Algerine pilot, landed on a rock
at the foot of a battery. Some Morocco soldiers
came down to ask what the Frenchmen wanted,
when a letter was given them for the Pacha, in
which M. Warnier informed him that he was
the bearer of dispatches for him, but that he
should not come into the town until hostages,
mentioned in the communication, had been sent
on board the steamer. The Pacha immediately
sent his first secretary, the Amin of the
Marine, and the Kaid of Mechouar, who commanded
the garrison. M. Warnier and M. Balaroufa then
went down on the beach, in spite of the violence
of the surf, but when the hostages were requested
on
to get into the boat
boat, they excused themselves
in consequence of the roughness of the sea.
M. Warnier insisted, and threatened to return
board. The selretary wrote to the Pacha his
master to consult him on the subject of this dif-
ficulty, but the letter had scarcely been sent off when
M. Warnier decided on going himself to the Pacha,
accompanied by the pilot. The inhabitants formed a
line, through which the French envoy passed, and
the Pacha received him with marked distinc-
tion. M. Warnier handed him the ultimatum of
France, and commented on it verbally. The Pacha
sent off a courier to the Emperor. There was no
time to be lost, for the utmost delay granted by
the ultimatum would expire on the 2d August.
As the Consul-General, in the dispatches delivered
by M. Warnier, demanded immediate permission
for the embarkation of all the French who were
at Tangier, with their property, the Pacha did not
hesitate, and, under the dictation of M. Warnier him-
self, wrote to the Khalifa at Tangier to allow the
French envoy to act on this subject as he might
think proper. The Pacha had also given a similar
authority, on the previous evening, to the Neapolitan
consul, who had come to El Araich in the Hecla. He
also expressed his desire to see the unhappy diffe-
rences existing between the two countries removed.
At six o'clock in the evening
under weigh, to return to the French squadron. On
the 2d of August the ultimatum of France would
expire, and on the
previous evening the envoys of
the Emperor arrived atthe Phare again got
'rangier, announcing that
peace was assured ; but these same envoys hastened
to remove everything that was valuable, and, above
all, the public treasure. The inhabitants fled from
the town, carrying off their wives, their children,
their slaves, and all their riches, into the mountains.
A report was also current that a price had been put
unon the head of the Governor of Tangier, doubtless
on account of his having allowed the consuls and
their countrymen to embark ; that the Pacha of La-
rache had also been compelled to take refuge in the
inviolable asylum of the Marabout Bon-Sellam ; and
that the Kaid of Rabat, who was too much a friend to
peace, had fled at the approach of the Emperor, and
that the mountaineers had entered and pillaged that
town as soon as the Sultan had left it. The moun-
taineers had arrived in crowds at the gates of
Tangier, demanding admission ostensibly to protect the
Place) but in reality to pillage it ; they would, how-
ever, find nothing to take, for the Moors had so well
profited by our forbearance, that the place might now
be burnt without causing them the slightest regret.
The following are the naval forces of the different
nations now at anchor off Tangier :,---France-3 sail
of the line, 1 frigate, 3 brigs, and 9 steamers, making
altogether a force of 450 guns;
—Pain-1 frigate,
1 corvettee, 2 brigs, 2 schooners, 1 cutter, and 1
steamer; England-1 line of-battle ship, 1 frigate,
and 1 steamer; Sardinia-1 guns; corvette of 36
Sweden-1 corvette of 36 guns.

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ao
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promptly eradicated by the Kalydor. Spots, pimples,
freckles, discolourations, and sallowness, yield to its
specific qualities, and are succeeded by a smoothness
and transparency of the skin, giving rise to sensations
of the utmost pleasure and surprise. Being universally
preferred, its consequent great demand excites the
cupidity of unprincipled shopkeepers, who give the title
of " Genuine" Kalydor to wale compounds of their own
manufacture, of the most deleterious character, con-
taining mineral astringents utterly ruinous to the
complexion, and by their repellant action endangering
health. It is, therefore, imperative on purchasers to
see that the words " Rowlands Kalydor" are on the
wrapper. All others are fraudulent counterfeits ! I
FALSE ALARMS OF FIRE IN SUFFOLK. —. on
Tuesday evening last, another of those malicious re-
ports, which during the winter season were so preva-
lent, reached this town, of a fire in the neighbourhood
of Rushmere. The intelligence was brought into the
town by a person on a pony, at present unknown,
and in a short time one of the engines be-
longing to the Suffolk Fire office, together with that of
tbe.Messrs. Ransom's, were soon on the spot where the
fire was supposed to be raging. No symptoms of a confla-
gration, however, were visible in any direction, and the
engines soon afterwards returned by a circuitous route
to Ipswich. The road leading to Rushmere was literally
crowded with persons on horseback and on foot, and
great was the indignation expressed against the dastardly
instigator of this scandalous report, who, it is to be
hoped, will be soon discovered, and receive the punish-
ment his conduct so justly merits.—lpswich Express.

THE BURNS FESTIVAL.

The following letters of apology from some of the
most distinguished writers in England, invited to the
banquet, will be read with interest. It is a singular
feature in these documents, that though the writers
vary in a most remarkable manner in their mode of
expressing admiration for Burns, they all, with one
exception, concur in regarding him as one of the
brightest ornaments of his country. That exception
is Thomas Moore. We are indebted to the Ayr Ob-
server for the letters. They are all addressed to
Messrs. Bone and Gray, the Honorary Secretaries:—
From Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Author of " Za-
noni," "The Lady of Lyons," &c.
Great Malvern, July 6, 1844.
Gentlemen,—lam truly sensible f the honour you
confer upon me, by your invitation to attend the
festival in honour of Burns ; and it is with great and
unfeigned regret that I must decline the pleasure of
enjoying Scottish hospitality, and uniting with some
of the most illustrious of living Scotchmen, in
homage to one whose manly heart, and healthful
genius, have never, even in Scotland, been surpassed.
But my arrangements, depending on the uncertain
state of my health, are such as to preclude all hope of
being able to accept the offer, which I acknowledge
as a distinction.—l have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
you very obedient servant,

EDW. BULWER LYTTON.

From Sergeant Talfourd, author of the Tragedies of
lon, Glencoe, &c.
London, 6th July, 1844.
Gentlemen,—lt is with great regret that I am
obliged to confess the absolute impossibility of m 3
availing myself of your very flattering invitation to
the meeting to be holden in honour of your great
Scottish poet, and in sympathy with his sons. The
scene, the occasion, and the presidency of the noble-
hearted poet and critic, Professor Wilson, would
render a visit to the romantic land, where I have spent
the happiest of my mature holidays, most delightful to
me. But your festivities will be holden in the midst
of my laborious circuit, which will begin next Wed-
nesday, and last till towards the close of August, and
from which I cannot be absent without serious injury
to my own professional prospects, and a violation of
my duties, which would entail great inconvenience,
and perhaps loss, on my clients. Under these circum-
stances, I can only thank you, as I do most heartily,
for thinking me worthy of a presence " at your great
bidding ;" and assure you that I shall drink a full
bumper, on your day, to the memory of your genial
poet, and another, as full, to the happiness of his sons.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your obliged
and faithful servant,

T. N. TALFOURD.

From Thomas Carlyle, Author of "The History of
the French Revolution," &c.

Chelsea, London, July 6, 1844.
Gentlemen,—l have received your obliging invita-
tion to the Burns Festival, and beg to express myself
very sensible of the honour you do to me.
It would have given me real pleasure to assist in
any public testimony as rational and earnest as our
times permit, of the reverence entertained by Scotland
towards this the most gifted of all her sons, for some
generations past ; one whom she has good cause to
look upon with gratitude—with pride ; and, alas !
also with various other feelings, wherein sorrow, self-
reproach, and determination to treat her next gifted
one a little more wisely, should not be wanting!
Unluckily, however, the state of my engagements
threatens to detain me here through August ; and I
shall only be able to contribute to your meeting my
sympathies, thanks, and good wishes.
With many acknowledgments, I have the honour
to be, Gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
T. CARLYLE.

From William Wordsworth, Poet Laureate.

Rydal Mount, July 7, 1844.
Gentlemen,—lt would have been a great pleasur(
to me had circumstances allowed of my attendance at
the festival to be held on the Banks of 1)oon, in
honour of the genius of the poet Burns; but, as it
will be inconvenient to me to leave home at the) time
specified, I trust that the friends assembled to wel-
come his sons will believe that I am in full sympathy
with the most ardent of their father's admirers ; and
let me assure them that, though absent in person, my
thoughts and good wishes will be with them upon
the 6th of August.—l have the honour ti be, Gentle-
men, your obedient servant,
WM. WORDSWORTH.

From G. P. R. James, author of " The Gipsy,"

" Richelieu," and other novels.

The Oaks, near 'Walmer, Kent, July 11, 1844.
Sir,—Having been moving from place, to place for
some time, your polite letter of invitation to the
Burns Festival was long in reaching me, which must
account for my not replying sooner. It would give
me infinite pleasure to attend, and I should accept the
invitation at once with many thanks, but that, at the
present moment, I feel so unwell that I fear I may
not be able to fulfil my promise if I do engage to
come. My admiration for the genius of Burns, my
close connexion with Scotland, and the delight which
it would afford me to meet several whom I esteem
and love, will all bring me to Ayr, if lam able to
travel ; but the uncertainty of being able to do so
leads me to beg that you will not reserve any accom-
modation for your most faithful servant,

G. P. R. JAMES.

From Samuel Warren, author of " Ten Thousand

a Year," &c.

Northern Circuit, York, July 15,-1844.
Gentlemen,—Your letter of the 11th instant was
forwarded to me at this place, which it reached only
yesterday. I feel a deep sense of the honour which
you have conferred upon me by inviting me to be
present at so interesting and memorable a festival as
that which is fixed for the 6th of August next; but
my arrangement for the next six weeks, fixed long
beforehand, render it impossible for me to enjoy the
gratification which you have so kindly proffered me.
Be assured that my heart, however, will be a silent
and invisible, but a reverential guest among you; for
the genius of Robert Burns has long held absolute
sway over my best feelings. I have for very many
years been convinced that his taste is the purest, his
feelings are the freshest, and his perceptions the
quickest, by whom the inimitable songs and poems of
Burns, your great poet, are best appreciated. As for
myself, in many an hour of severe solitary mental
toil and exhaustion, when
" Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care,
A burthen more than I could bear,"
the strains of Burns have gushed upon my wearied
faculties, they have left me no means of testifying
their influence but tears. You may have present
many great and gifted men on this occasion, but none
that can feel more deep enthusiasm and fondness for
the memory of Burns than I do.—l am, Gentlemen,
your obliged and faithful servant,
SAMUEL WARREN.

From Leigh Hunt, Author of " The Story of Rimini,"
and other Poems.

Kensington, July 18th, 1844.
Dear Sirs,—Your letter of the 2nd inst. did not
reach me till last Sunday. Mr. Moxon had been
daily expecting to see me, otherwise I should have
had it sooner ; and my delay in answering it has
arisen partly from my very sense of the honour
your Committee have done me by their invita-
tion, and my extreme unwillingness to say that
it is out of my power to accept it. But my
wife is in such a state of health that I fear at pre-
sent to leave her for many hours together. Nothing
but an obstacle like this should, or could, have de-
tained me; and she is heartily sorry for it on my ac-
count, as well as her own. Pray make the explana-
tion to such of your friends, besides the Committee,
as you think may wish me to have been present; par-
ticularly, if I may count them as such, to the poet's
sons. I shall not fail to drink their health, and his
(the immortal man's) on the day of the festival ; and
very impatient shall I feel at not being among you.
I cannot indeed express my regret at missing so
delightful an opportunity of seeing Scotland, and my
friends there, and all its classic ground; old ground
to me (in books) from Tweed-side to the Dee, and so
round by the isles to the Clyde and Doon, not omit-
ting the localities of Allan Ramsay, every step of
which I traced not long ago in a map, with his pas-
toral by my side; and if I have so much respect for
Allan Ramsay, what must I not have for Burns ? I
have been one of his greatest admirers from my
boyhood, and could, with pleasure, even in these days
of steam and swiftness, have walked through merry
England into merrier Scotland (for your poetry. beats
ours in impulse and animal spirits), and paid the
mite of my homage at his shrine. Who so fit for a
festival as he ?—for all the candour, the large-
heartedness, the high reasonableness, which one feels
in one's veins during the honest flow of wine I
cannot help fancying myself under its influence at
this moment—standing midway between yourl\ oble
and Learned Presidents, glass in hand, and, with the
leave of the chivalry and poetry which they represent,
daring to utter my testimony to the honour end glory

of one whose books are his veritable self—Nature's
own work—a fervid, large-hearted, open-hearted,
manly, unhypocritical, uncastrated edition of a human
being—one who, though he could make a heaven for
himself out of love and a song, had anxious thoughts
for the whole human race ; and was Christian enough,
like divine Uncle Toby, to wish the very devil him-
self out of his " den."

Begging you to give my warmest thanks to the
Committee for their invitation; and to accept them
yourselves for the kind manner in which you have
conveyed it, I have the honour to be,
Dear Sirs, your most obliged and faithful servant,
LEIGH HUNT.

From the Rev. Henry Hart Milman, author of "The

Fall of Jerusalem," &c.
Cloister, Westminster Abbey, July 24, 1844.
Gentlemen,—l have had the honour to receive the
invitation of the Committee for conducting the Festi-
val in honour of the poet Burns. . .

If I could have made it consistent with my en-
gagements, I should have been proud in joining any
public testimonial in honour of a poet who, besides
the exquisite beauty of many of his works, has a fur-
ther claim on all lovers of true poetry, as having im-
parted new life and freshness into the dead stock of
English verse, and as having contributed so much to
awaken us from the monotony into which we had
fallen. If Scotland owes much, England owes scarcely
less, to Burns. I trust that the reception of the
poet's sons, in their native land, will be as gratifying
to them as their father's memory deserves.—l have
the honour to be, Sir, your faithful servant,

H. H. MILMAN.

From Alfred Tennyson, Author of "Miscellaneous

Poems."

6, Belle Vue-place, Cheltenham, July 27.
Gentlemen,—l deeply regret that the nature of my
engagements is such as to prevent my being present
at the festival given in honour of your great national
poet. No one, even among Scotchmen, loves and
venerates Robert Burns more than myself, and I am
fully sensible of the compliment implied in your in-
vitation, but it is quite impossible for me to accept it.
Though your letter is dated July 2d, I have only this
day received it on my return home from a short tour.
—I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your very obe-
dient servant, A. TENNYSON.

From Thos. Moore, author of the " Irish Melodies."

Slaperton, July 28, 1844.
Gentlemen,--Ever since you did me the honour of
inviting me to take a part in the highly interesting
Festival which you are about to celebrate on the
banks of the Doon, I have been flattering myself with
the hope that it would be in my power to obey your
most welcome summons. But circumstances that
have lately arisen, rendering my presence at home
necessary at that very time, will, I grieve to say,
render it impossible for me to accept your invitation.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your very
obliged servant, THOMAS 11100 RE.

In addition to the above, letters were received from
Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn-law Rhymer; Charles
Knight, the eminent publisher and author • J. G.
Lockhart, editor of the Quarterly Review ; Mr. Ma-
caulay, M.P., author of " Lays of Ancient Rome ;"
Captain Marryatt, the popular novelist; Mr. Dilke,
editor of the Athenceum • Richard Monkton Milnes,
M.P., author of " Miscellaneous Poems ;" Dr. Croly,
author of the " Angel of the World ;" Hnry Hallam,
author of the " History of Europe during the Middle
Ages ;" Mr. Rintoul, editor of the Spectator ; Henry
Taylor, author of " Philip Van Artevelde '-" P. F.
Tytler, Esq., author of " The History of Scotland;
but as these contain nothing beyond a simple apology
for unavoidable absence, we do not deem it important
to give them at length.