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London, England, 1842-02-03 00:00:00

SEVENTH EDITION.

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The following are a few Of the numerous testimonials this
popular work has received, and which the limits of an adver-
tisement will only allow of being published :
The rage for books in all departments of Science, literature,
and the arts, was, we believe, never so prevalent as at the pre-
sent time. The unavoidable consequeuce of this is, that we
meet a very considerable proportion of indifferent, usele.e, and
even bad books. With the force of this prejudice on our
minds, we with no little reluctance were induced to peruse
Messrs. Curtis's work, entitled " Manhood ;" nor did it re-
quire much perusal fully to satisfy us that the book Was not
one of the common stamp. The scientific views taken by the
authors of the source and origin of many of the most distressing
effects of certain depraved habits, fully establish their claim to
the character of experienced and judicious surgeons. To
quote passages from the work in proof of our assertion would
be departing from the established rules of the daily press. The
result, however, of our careful perusal of the work, has been
to impress us with a thorough confidence in the talent and
skill of the authors, and to satisfy us that those entrusted with
the care of youth are not a little indebted to them for fur-
nishing them with a means of preventing some of the most
frightful maladies to which flesh is heir.—Old England.
Messrs. Curtis's work, entitled " Manhood," is one of the
few books now coming before the public on such a subject which
can lay claim to the character of being strictly professional. at
the same time that it is fully intelligible to all who read it.
The moral and medical precepts given in it, render it invalu-
able—Magnet.

TManhood,tdh
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maladies,"
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never-failing consequence of the vicious habit of which it
treats. The clear connexion pointed out between the assigned
has
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cause • and the effects is perceptible to every capacity. , We
strongly recommend the work.—Age.
The multitude of books daily coming from the press, same,
nay most of them of a very questionable tendency, made us ex•
tremely reluctant to take up another. 'Having, however, been
induced by the character given of this work by an intelligent
friend, we ventured to open its pages, and now feel no hesita •
tion in saying that we arise from its perusal instructed !and
led. The clear exposition of the source of many of those
disc,.qes which proves so fatal to youth, and which are set
dow,-. by the every-day observer as the result of common
su-h as exposure to cold, sudden vicissitudes of ter:.:pe-
rature, hereditary taint, ize., is truly convincing and extre-
mely satisfactory. We say " satisfactory," inasmuch as Messrs.
';urtis have shown that many diseases, such as Pulmonary
Consumption, Epilepsy, Sze., hitherto the opprobria of medi-
c.ne. may, when taken in proper time, and submitted to judi-
cious treatment, be brought to as favourable a termination
as any other class of ffections. We do not think we go too
far in saying that society is deeply indebted.to the authors for
producing so useful, so much wanted, so valuable, and so truly
moral a book.—Conservative Journal.

We recommend the work entitled" Manhood," &c., to the
careful perusal of persons of all classes. The moral as wel as
physical advantages sure to result from such perusal, will be
most readily recognised and felt by those who stand most in
need of them.--Statesman.

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On Saturday evening last, a preliminary meeting was
held at the offices of Mr. W. Lindley, Adelphi-terrace,
with a view to: the formation of an association to watch,
on the part of the public, the improvements now in pro-
gres),
.and to urge upon GovernMent the importance of
prepa Ong some general and comprehensive plan em-
bracing the interests of the whole metropolis.
The meeting was numerously and respectably at
tended. Several distinguished artists, merchants from
the City, and-men of scientific and literary reputation were
present. C. W. I)ILaE, Esq., was called to the Chair.
The CHAIRMAN briefly explained the object Of the
meeting. They were met; not to promote isolated pro-
jects of improvement, or to forward the personal and
private interests of surveyors, or any persons connected
by property with new lines of streets ; but to take up
a question of considerable practical importance on broad
public grounds. Hitherto the subject had not been so
treated. It had been left almost entirely in the hands of
individuals anxious to promote the interests of particular
neighbourhoods, but the interests of the metropolis as a
whole had not been considered, and hence the progress
made for some years past had been far from satisfactory.
It was high time the subject was discussed on its general
merits, not exclusively in reference to merely local im-
provements, and this was the object for which they had
then assembled.

Mr. SMITH cordially approved of the object of the
meeting. It was one which harmonised with that of
another Society with which he was connected—the So-
ciety for throwing open Public Monuments, which, at a
very inconsiderable expenditure, not exceeding, he be-
lieved, from first to last, a hundred pounds, had effected
a great amount of good. Hampton Court, the Tower,
and Westminster Abbey, were gratifying instances of
what might be effected for the public by the rightly-di-
rected efforts of a few individuals. In the present in-
stance he thought it would not be expedient, indeed, it
was not contemplated, that the proposed Society should
undertake, themselves, the .preparation of any general
Om of metropolitan improvement—it should confine
itself to the object of urging Government to employ fit
and qualified persons for the task. ,
Mr. C. FOWLER said, that while employed in the
erection of Hungerford Market, and in superintending
various architectural works in the metropolis, he had
often found reason to lament the want of unity of pur-
pose that had prevailed in whatever was undertaken in
the name of the public Hence it happened, that when
large sums were to be expended on public buildings, no
suitable sites were obtained for them, although they
, might easily be provided in any general plan of im-
provement founded upon an accurate survey. Scarcely-,
however, any one of the plans now brought forward
appeared to have any relation or connection with any other,
and hence the whole were, to a great extent, failures. A.
Committee of the House of Commons, to whom these sub-
jeets are referred, was body open to various objectionable
influences. Some of their resolutions were certainly
serious mistakes, and not the result of enlarged views.
What could be more lamentable than the decision of the
last Committee not to pull down the Rookery in St.
Giles's, in carrying out the new line from Oxford-street,
and this merely to save a sum of but B,OOOL or 10,0001.
The resolution of the Committee to make a crooked
line from Bow-street, instead of a broad, straight
thoroughfare, was also greatly to be deplored. In both
cases the new property to be created would be depre-
ciated, perhaps to the extent of at least one-third, by
the course about to be pursued.
Mr. W. E. HecKsoN thought that the attention of
' Government, should be earnesty directed to the sanitory
state of the poorer districts of the metropolis, as perhaps
the. most important part of the subject. It was a startling
fact stated in the returns of the Register-General, that
while the mean annual mortality of the population for
the whole of England was 1 in 45, the mortality of the
Whitechapel district, owing to its over-crowded state and
defective drainage was 1 in 28. This was an alarming evil,
and not one from which the inhabitants of the western
part of the metropolis were exempt, for whenever the
wind blew from the East, whatever pestiferous gasses were
generated in the neighbourhood of Spitalfields or Rat
cline were driven to our most fashionable squares. It
had been proposed to improve the health of the metro-
polis by passing Drainage Bills, but drainage was only
one part of a general question, and could not be
properly effected as an isolated measure. Before there
could be new main sewers, -there must be new
main streets, letting in the light and air where the
sun now never penetrated. The work afterwards of
making lateral sewers would then be attended with no
difficulty. The necessity for new thoroughfares to fa-
cilitate the traffic of the metropolis in extensive districts,
consisting of intricate labyrinths of lanes and blind alleys,
was a point upon which he need not dwell. The prac-
tical question was, how the object could be effected.
Since the death of George the Fourth very little, compa-
ratively speaking, had been undertaken upon an enlarged
scale. The improvements in the Strand, Regent-street,
and in the Regent's-park were well conceived in their
general outline, however defective in detail, and we owe
them to the personal influence of that monarch. The
loss of Nash could easily have been supplied, but
Government had remained passive. What had
been. done had been effected only through the
exertions of individual surveyors, and that not always
in the most judicious manner. The experience of the last
Session showed that nothing further could be expected
from a Committee of the House of Commons, and the
public must rouse itself in the matter if its intent were
not to be neglected. The public, however, could not be
got to move in favour of any isolated local schemes ;
they were considered rather private than public ques-
tions, but it would be otherwise if a comprehensive plan
were proposed, attractive in its general features, and
em-
bracing the interests of all the metropolitan boroughs.
For this reason he believed it would be found more
easy to raise funds for a comparatively costly plan of
general improvement than a tenth part of the same sum
for any one of the local projects which had been set
on foot. The one would have public support, the other
can only have the support of a section. The public also
looked with suspicion (though often unjustly) upon local
projects as originating in jobbing motives. Hence, a
general apathy existed on the subject Of all the plans
which had been approved by the House, and their exe-
cution had been found very up-hill work. In a Coin-
' inittee of the House there had always been a divided in-
terest. A small sum of money had been raised by a tax
on coals, and Metropolitan Members had scrambled for
it, each wanting it and much more for his constituents.
From similar motives rival surveyors come forward to
depreciate each other's plans that their own might have
the preference. Government should be urged to put an
'end to this indignified course. All should unite
in some general plan for consulting the interests
of all. Government ought to look forward perhaps ten
years, and employ fit and competent persons to report
upon the improvements most needed, and which might
be carried into effect within that period. Not the Woods
and Forests, already overworked, nor Members of the
House of Commons, but engineers and architects of high
and established reputation, should be selected for the task.
One Act of Parliament should then be passed for the
whole. If the plan were popular, as he had no doubt it
would be ; and if the expenditure were somewhat equally
divided between different districts, a landlords' tax of 3d.
or 6d. in the pound might perhaps easily be raised ; 3d.
in the pound on the rental of London would alone pro-
duce nearly 100,0001. per annum. It could not be thought
of now ; for why should Lambeth pay for the local
improvement of Westminster ? A popular general plan
would also facilitate the raising the money by other
modes, if either Parliamentary grants or indirect im-
posts were deemed preferable to direct taxation. All
tUfficulties would be surmounted, as in the case of Mr.
Mirry's new Houses of Parliament, if the plan to be
neilized were one which the public could regard as an
obilect of national pride. It should also be borne
,in
mind that the money expended could not in this case be
sunk- or lost. The rental of London would be increased
in a proportion greater than that of the outlay.
Mr. DILLoN, as one of the public deeply interested
in whatever steps might be taken for improving the
communications of London, and removing the existing
obstructions to its commercial intercourse, wished to
express his hearty concurrence in the objects of the
meeting. As an instance of the injudicious character of
some of the improvements now in progress, he might
allude to the widening of Cateaton-street at an enormous
expense, without rendering it either a handsome street,
or one which it would be possible to continue further
to the east or west, so as to relieve the crowded
thoroughfares of Newgate-street, Holborn, and other
streets in the same line. He was sorry to observe the
narrow view sometimes taken by the City autho-
rities, which led them to suppose that the inte-
rests of the City were entirely unconnected with
or opposed to the interests of the surrounding districts.
It was this unhappy spirit which induced them to con-
tinue to levy an octroi duty upon non-freemen's carts, as
if the object were to discourage, as much as possible, all
traffic with their neighbours. The City, however, occa-
sionally displayed a liberality which, lie trusted, would
in this case be called into exercise, and that they would
take a sound view of what the public interest really
required.

• THE LATE HURRICANE-LOSS
OF LIFE.
'Within the last three or four days accounts of the most de-
plorable description have been received by the authorities at
Lloyd's, respecting the loss of an immense number of vessels
during the late frightful :hurricane on the evening of Wednes-
day last, which has not been equalled for many years past.
The sacrifice of human life has been very great, and it is feared,
from the immense quantity of wreck that has since been washed
on the coast, that many vessels foundered during the violence
of the storm. It has been ascertained that upwards of 23 ves-
sels were wrecked during the night of the 26th ult., as will be
proved by the following particulars :—Shortly after the com-
mencement of the storm a large smack, called the Alicia, be-
longing to Cork, drove amongst the rocks off St. Bride's Bay,
'near Milford, and almost immediately bedaine a wreck. The
first person' who left' the vessel was a seaman named James
Trance,
.but he_had scarcely reached the roads before a tre-
mendous sea overwhelmed the vessel, and she was seen no
mere. The remainder of the crew happily succeeded in saving
themselves except the mate, who failed in his attempt to reach
the shore, and met with 'a watery grave:. The vessel was laden
with ballast, and Was not insured. She was on her voyage
from Yeughall to Newport, in Monmouthshire.
Amidst the fury of the storm, and at about half-past ten
o'clock at night, the brig Vermillion, laden with a general
cargo. and belonging to South Shields, which place she only
left the night before, ran on to the rocks beneath Pitch Point,
at Flamborough Head. The crew fortunately saved them-
, selves through the a,aistance of the Coast Guard, but the ves-
sel became a total wreck. About the same time another ves-
sel, called the Berton, a brig, beloneing to Sunderland, was
driven on to the Corton Sands, off Great Yarmouth, and
subsequently sunk in deep water a complete wreck. Her
crew, consisting of seven persons, had barely time to jump
into the long boat before the vessel sunk, and were not picked
up till late the following morning. 'rhe Braganza steadier,
'Captain Lewis, which arrived at Falmouth, on Saturday
last, with the mails from Gibraltar, during the hurricane
picked up the crew of the brig Chance, of Stockton, from
Liverpool, which was lost at the commencement of the
storm, and about the same hour the pilots and Coast Guard,
stationed on the coast at Falmouth, saw a sloop founder
within three miles of the shore, and all on board pe-
rished. From- accounts received from Limerick, dated
the 26th of January, it appears that the damage done
by the hurricane to the shipping lying in the har-
bour exceeds 10,0001., and similar injuries are reported
to have occurred to the shipping in the harbour at Water-
ford. The other Vessels wrecked during the storm are as
follows : The Druid, belonging to Workington, lost at
the mouth of she river Fleet, near Kirkenbright.The ship
Stag, belonging to Liverpool, from Ileaumaris,- wrecked on
the rocks tear Leasowe Castle. The brig Peruvian, Captain
Curren, on her passage to• London from South Shields, lost on
the sunken rocks near the lighthouse at Flamborough Head ;
crew saved by the ship's boats. The schooner Craig's Eliza,
Captain Paterson, totally wrecked on the racks underneath
Tynemouthlighthouse ; crew saved by Captain Manby's lite
apparatus. The Honour, of St. Ives, wrecked on the coast
off Wexford, and also the schooner Sarah, belonging to Wex-
ford ; all of the crew, except one, peti,hed. The ship Ceres,
Captain Pecker, having on board 700 tons of sugar, and a
cargo valued at 20,000/, lost on the 25th, on her voyage home-
wards ; one' sailor was killed by the fall of the mast, and an-
other drowned. The Aretkjusa, from Dublin, wrecked at St.
John's Pier; Workingtonl,liceew saved. The Margaret, be-
longing to Liverpool, ft om';;Clinway, laden with a valuable
Zarga;'losttiff Hoy's Lake, at Mostyn. The French brig Cor-
riere di Malta, belonging to Venice, laden with sugar, lost on
the coast near Calais. The smack Nymph, belonging to the
pilots of Llanelly, lose off that harbour. The Centurion, Cap-
tain Johns, from Ainlwch, was lost on the coast of Grenfield,
at hlostyn, and the master and three men met with a watery
grave, Several other wrecks occurred on the coast during ,
the violence of the gate, but their names are not correctly ,
made known.

CASE OF THE CREOLE. -
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM JUDGE JAY TO JOSEI,4
STURGE, DATED NEW YORX", JAN. 6,1842...... t.
You will hare heard before you receive this of thelnatf of
the Creole, one of our coasting slavers. She. 'Y.', for
New Orleans the last of October, with a cargo, l.'• 'ves ;
while on the voyage the slaves, or a portionri • .em ose on
the crew, and, after a slight struggle, bee) tors of the
vessel. There were tWelVe white us grid wily one was
killed. The. wounded, including tho Capttin, were humanely
treated by the negroes, who dressed their wounds. The vessel
was carried into Nassau, where all the slaves were liberated,
except nineteen concerned in the " mutiny," .who were con-
fined by the authorities to await the orders of the home Go-
vernment

Our slaveholders are in great wrath, and mean, if possible,
to terrify your Government into a surrender of the nineteen
murderers, that they may be suspended from southern gibbets
in terrarent. They will us doubt be demanded in peremptory
terms by our Minister in London. In my opinion this sur-
render would be most disgraceful to Great Britain, most cruel,
wicked, and pu,illanimous.
Admitting them to be murderers, by what law is your
Government auzborife.i to surrender to the United States
nineteen human beings to be put to death? The law of
nations does not require it. We made a treaty with you in
1794, by which each party agreed to surrender murderers, but
that treaty expired, and since then we have refused to surrey.-
der murderers at the request of your Government, as, for in--
stance, in the Case of the two Barnebees, who fled to this
country from Ireland; and in the case of one Holmes, who
committed a very atrocious murder in Canada. Also, in the
case of the Amistad negroes we refused to surrender the al-
leged murderers to the Spanish Minister.
If you cannot surrender them as murderers, can you as fugi-
tive slaves? If you surrender these men, on what. plea, can
you afford protection to the 12,000 fugitives in Canada? Have
wee right to claim favours we do not reciprocate? There is
no law authorising the surrender of a foreign fugitive, and so
far have we been hitherto from claiming the surrender by you
of fugitives as a right, that we once offered to agree to surren-
der all fugitives from your West India islands, provided and
on condition that you would bind yourselves by treaty to sur-
render such slaves.as might flee to Canada. I mention these
facts that you'may see that the claim we shall prefer for the
surrender of the Creole negroes is as contrary to international
law as it is to the law of Almighty God. There is not one of
the slaveholders who ate now thirsting for the blood of these
negroes, who would in similar circumstances have scrupled to
take human life. Do let your Government and people un-
derstand the true state of the ease. Ido hope your Ministry
will listen to the dietatt.s of justice, humanity, and national
honour.

NATIONAL ANTI-COHN-LAW
BAZAAR.

MANCHESTER, MONDAY.—The Theatre Royal had
been elegantly and appropriately fitted up for the occa-
sion, and the ladies of Manchester and the neighbour-
hood, who had given in their names to assist, were all at
their posts at an early hour, occupying their respective
stalls for the display of all kinds of wares. At twelve
o'clock precisely the Bazaar was opened; to the public,
and at this moment the theatre presented a.sort of fairy
scene, or oriental mercantile assemblage, so brilliant and
dazzling -' did everything appear. The visitors and pur-
chasers soon crowded in. The Countess l)ucie, the La-
dies Bouveriq (daughter. 4 of the Earl of Rawl.), were
expected to preside at stalls, but had not arrived at a
late hour of the day. The lady of Thomas M. Gibson,
Esq. (one of the Members for the borough) presided at
a leading stall, which was besieged by purchasers, whO
bought liberally. It is impossible to convey au idea of
the enthusiasm which prevailed, or to form an adequate
conception of the powerfully moral effect which this
project will exercise upon the vast population, ;of all
classes, in . this district. The stalls were most abun-
dantly covered with wares, of all forms and kinds ; and
ingenuity,- industry, and taste, have severally been called
largely into requisition, to supply the infinite variety of
articles which ornamented the stalls. In the course of
the day heaps of boxes, from various parts of the king-
dom, filled with articles for sale, were received and
contributions from hundreds of friends, received several
days ago, lie still in store for sale on a future day. NO
one could pass along the avenues of the Bazaar without
being struck with the powerful combination that had
been at work ; nor could any one doubt that a cause in
which so much energy, perseverance, and resolution had
been employed, would fail to triumph.
The surrounding towns of Rochdale, Bolton, Wigan,
Ashton, Stockport, and other places, have furnished
beautiful stalls, and the Corn-law Repealers in each of
these places have pledged themselves to purchase the
whole of the wares of their native stalls.

Although the day has been unfavourable as to.wea-
ther, yet the Bazaar has attracted great numbers to
view it, and articles to a large amount have been pur-
chased. The total proceeds of the day, it is said, will
not be far short 0f1,500/. ;.which, with donations already
received, will amount to about 2,5001.

RESIGNATION OF MR. BAIN-
BRIDGE.-
(I-Rom A CORRESPONDENT.)
TAUNTON, TUESDAY.-At an early hour this morn-
ing the inhabitants of this town were aroused from
their slumbers by a merry peal of the bells of St.
Mary Magdalen, and the enlivening strains of a band of
music ; and on going into the streets were surprised to
find on all sides large placards announcing the resigna-
tion of E. T. Bainbridge, Esq., as Parliamentary Re-
presentative of this borough, and the expected arrival at
ten o'clock of Sir TI-onnas Edward Colebrooke, as a Li-
beral candidate fox:the vacant seat.
At ten o'clock a large number of the electors, headed
by a band of muSic; and carrying numerous banners, pro.
ceeded on the Bridgewater-road, and shortly returned
with Sir T. E. Colebrooke, who, having arrived at the
New London Inn, briefly addressed the people assembled
in the streets, and immediately proceeded on his canvas.
• After the day's cturiass terminated he again addressed
the electors from the windows of the New London Inn,
and expressed himself perfectly assured of success.

The Duke of Buceleuch has been appointed to "
the office of Lord Privy Seal in the place of the Duke of
Buckingham.

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