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London, January 1840,
FRASER'S MAGAZINE.
ADDRESS FROM THE PROPRIETOR TO TIIE PUBLIC.
_ _ _

TEN years have now elapsed since this Magazine was first
started ; and the Proprietor thinks that be will not be
liable to the charge of unnecessary intrusion if he, for the
first time in his own person, ventures thus to address the
public.
The Magazine which bears his name was ushered into the
world in 1830, without a single advertisement or preliminary
announcement; and it has, with constantly increasing suc-
cess, worked its way onward to 1840, solely by the public
favour, accorded to its undeniable honesty of criticism, its
unflinching boldness and consistency in politics, and the
literary talent which Ae, without vanity, may say it has
always displayed from the !beginning. The stirring period
in which its first years of existence were cast, no doubt con-
tributed, to the advancement of a Magazine which never
scrupled to express, uncompromising opinions on passing
events (events, as all must admit, of vital, lasting, and
spreading importance) and which, from its undeviating
course, could be always counted upon, whether as ally or
enemy, in every emergency. It would, however, be unjust
to the numerous contributors of the Magazine—and the list
comprises men of the highest talent in every department of
literature, and some among them diametrically opposed to
its avowed party feelings—if its success were attributed
wholly to the position it has taken in the political world. It
would be invidious to select any names ; but to all persons
ever so slightly acquainted with our literature, many of de-
served eminence and distinction will immediately occur • and
what is of more consequence to the readers, the acknowledg-
ed literary merit of its articles will, without reference to any
name whatever, be sufficient to account for the favour which
it has attained, on grounds wholly distinct from those of
party advocacy.
The Proprietor has not lost (except by death, which. alas !
in the course of nature must, in the period of ten years, have
invaded the ranks of his friends) one of his original contri-
butors, but he has been favoured by the support of many
others of talent and distinction. In literary ability, he hopes,
therefore, that his succeeding volumes will improve upon
those which have passed ; or, at least, they will not fail to
maintain the distinction which the Magazine has already
earned. With respect to politics, it is probable that the
years now coining on will be of deeper interest even than
those which have just elapsed. He does not wish to assume
the character of a political writer ; but, in common with all
who can read omens in what is going forward, he feels that
an eventful time is at hand. In all the emergencies that may
he anticipated from the seed sown by the Whigs during ten
years, FRASER'S MAGAZINE will continue to pursue the
same right onward course in the " fortie's" which it has main-
tained in the " thirties," turning neither to the right hand or
to the left,—not fainting in heart, nor wearied in exertion, to
maintain, to the utmost of its ability, the cause of Conserva-
tism—the cause of Church and State—the cause of God and
our country. All who are connected with it feel that they
have a right to expect that this promise may not be deemed
idle or insincere ' • their conduct in years past affording a fair
guarantee for what their conduct will be in years to come.
Under these circumstances the Proprietor looks forward,
with more than hope, to a still increasing circulation. The
number of volumes, however—twenty—to which his Maga-
zine has extended, opposes, from their cost, an objection in
the minds of many to commencing subscriptions to a work,
of which, without considerable expense, they cannot obtain
a complete set. The proprietor, therefore, acting under the
advice of many friends, and yielding to several applications
made to him on the subject, has reduced the price from £l5,
the present cost of a full set, to £7 lOs ; for which he offers
twenty large volumes of carefully written articles on all the
subjects which have engrossed public attention during the
last ten years ; papers on the state, the strength, the relative
position of parties. To Conservative statesmen, of such
value as almost to be indispensable, and to their antagonists
of no small service, as showing the points on which we think
they can be most dangerously assailed. Essays of high
nterest in the Religious world, on the Protestant Church
Establishment Question; classical translations and disquisi-
tions of the highest order of learning and taste ; criticism
in abundance, on contemporary works and authors, on paint-
ing, sculpture, music, the, drama, forming together a com-
plete conspectus of the literature and art of the time ; poetry,
tales, biographical sketches, antiquities, pleasantries, jeux-
d'esprit and all such other matters, grave or gay, as can be
expected in miscellanies of this kind, executed generally in
such a munner as to reflect credit on the genius, invention,
research, or wit of their writers, and calculated throughout
to nourish every virtuous feeling and religious sentiment,
and otherwise advance the moral welfare and happiness of
mankind.

In these twenty volumes will be found eighty-one separate
full-length Portraits of literary individuals. These alone are
worth the price asked for the twenty volumes :
Ainsworth, W. H.—Beranger, Pierre de—Blessington,
Countess of—Bowles, Rev. Wm. Lisle—Brewster, Sir David
—Brougham and Naux, Lord—Brydges, Sir Egerton—Buck-
stone, John Baldwin—Bulwer, Edward Lytton—Cariapbell,
Thomas—Carlyle, Thomas—Cobbett, William—Coleridge,
Samuel T—Croker, John Wilson—Croker, Thomas Crofton
--Cruikshank, George--Cunningham, Allan--D'lsraeli,
Benjamin--D Israeli, Isaac--D'Orsay, Count— Dunlop,
William—Egerton, Lord Francis—Faraday, Michael—Galt,
John—Genius, Our Man of—Gleig, Rev. George R.—God-
win, William—Goethe, Johann W. Von—Hall, Anna Maria
—Hill, Thomas—Hobhouse, Sir John C.—Hogg, James—
Hook, Theodore—Hunt, Leigh—lrving, Washington—Jer-
dan, William--Knowles, Sheridan--Lamb, Charles—.
Landon, Letitia E.—Lardner, Dyonisius—Lockhart, John
Gibson—Lodge, Edmund—Lyndhurst, Lord---Mac-
nish, Robert—Maginn, William---Martineau, Harriet
—Mitford, Mary Russell—Mulgrave, Earl of—Moir, David
M.—Molesworth, Sir Wm.—Montgomery, Robert—Moore,
Thomas—Morgan, Lady—Morier, James—Munster, Earl of
—Norton, Caroline—O'Brien, Henry—O'Connell D. and
R. L. Shiel—Place, Francis—Porter, Jane—Rogers, Samuel
—Roscoe, William—Ross, Sir John—Russell, Lord John—
Sadler, Michael Thomas—Scott, Sir Walter—Smith, Rev.
Sydney—Smith, James—Soane, SirJohn—Talfourd, Serjeant
—Talleyrand, Prince de—Thorburn, Grant—Trueba, Don
Telesforo de—Ude, Louis E.—Watts, Alaric A.—Westina-
cott, Charles M.—Wilson, John—Wordsworth, William.
Besides three large Plates of Groups, containing Portraits,
not to be found in the above.

Complete sets from the commencement in 1830 to end fo
1839, 20 Volumes. Original cost in numbers £l5 ; reduced
to 10s. Additional, if bound in green cloth and lettered,
Is. ; or half calf, double lettered bands, &c., 2s. 6d. per vol.
The Number for JANUARY, 1840 (besides its accustomed
variety of articles), will contain a paper of great interest, and
of 4ntpual length, entitled
PREFACE TO OUR SECOND DECADE.
I. Sketch of Politics, from the English to the French Re-
volution—ll. The Felice of 1815, and its Consequences to
1820—III. The Case of Queen Caroline—lV. The Prospe-
rity and Panic of 1825—V. Canning ; or the Disunion of the

MONS. LE DRAY, SURGEON-DENTIST, from the
Firm of LE DRAY and CO., London.
SCURVY in the GUMS EFFECTUALLY REMOVED.
ARTIFICIAL TEETH SUPPLIED
WITHOUT WIRES, SPRINGS, OR CLASPS.
LOOSE TEETH FASTENED.
And filling Decayed Teeth With Mineral Marnioraturn.
MoN s. LE DRAY and CO., Surgeon-Dentists, respect-
fully inform the Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabitants of Liver-
pool and its vicinity, that they have opened an Establishment
permanently at No. 38, SEEL-STREET, eight doors from
Berry-street. They continue to fill up the cavities of De-
cayed Teeth with their Mineral Marmoratum, without the
least pain, heat, or pressure ; it is placed into t'he cavity in
an almost liquid state, and in a few seconds gets hard, pre-
venting and curing the Tooth-ache, arresting all further pro-
gress of decay, and rendering the operation of extraction
unnecessary. The Mineral not only converts a mere shell
into a sound and useful tooth, but, by completely stopping
up the cavity, prevents effectually that unpleasant taint of
he breath which invariably accompanies a decayed tooth.
Among the various disorders of the Teeth and Gums. there
are none more destructive in their effects, or more generally
prevalent, than Scurvy ; and it is well known that the loss
of Teeth arises more from this cause than any other. It
affects individuals of all ages and of all constitutions, and is
the primary cause of Tooth-ache and decay. To those so
affected, Mons. LE DRAY and Co. have to inform them,
that they can effectually remove this destructive complaint
by a single application, without the slightest pain.
Artificial and Natural Teeth, of surpassing beaaty, fixed
from one to a complete set, without extracting the roots or
giving any pain, without springs, wires, or ligatures, an-
swering all the purposes of Mastication and Articulation,
remaining perfectly secure in their places, and may be taken
out and replaced by the wearer with the greatest facility,—
at the following Paris charges :
A single Artificial Tooth £o 10 0
A complete Set
A complete Set of Natural Teeth, on fine
gold plate .... 15 0 0 •
An entire Set of Natural or Terro Metal-
lic Teeth, highly finished, in the first
style, with fine gold sockets, usually
charged 40 guineas
Loose Teeth fastened, arising either from age, disease, or
mercury, and deficiencies of palate effectually remedied.
Artificial Teeth out of repair, remodelled to fit the mouth,
and restored equal in beauty and durability to their original
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MESSRS. LACE and ADDISON beg to call the
attention of the Profession to the following List of
LAW FORMS, which are kept constantly on Sale, at their
Establishment :

IN BANKRUPTCY.
1.-Bond to the Chancellor, with Affidavit.
2.-Petition to Ditto for Fiat.
3.-Style and Title and Memorandum of Commissioner's
Qualification.
.-Deposition of Petitioning Creditor's Debt.
4.- ~ of the Trading.
5.- „ of the Act of Bankruptcy.
6.-Memorandum of the Adjudication.
7.-Warrant of Seizure.
9.-Bankrupt's Summons with Protection.
10.-Witnesses Summons.
11.-Advertisement of the Bankruptcy.
12.-Appointment of Provisional Assignee.
13.-Memorandum of Bankrupt's First Surrender.
14.-Commissioner's Certificate of Choice of Assignees.
15.- ' , with Affidavit of Execution..
16.-Memorandum of the Choice of Assignees.
17.- I/ of Adjourned Ditto.
18.- If of Bankrupt's Examination, first and'
second sheets.
19.-Memorandum of Appointment of Audit Meeting.
20.- Auditing Assignees Accounts.
21.- „ Adjourned Auditing Assignees' Accounts.
22.- First Dividend.
23.- Adjourned Dividend.
24.-Bill of Costs against Petitioning Creditor.
25.-Costs in Bankruptcy.
26.-List a Debts proved at each Meeting.
27.-List of Debts for Certificate.
28.-Affidavit of seeing Creditors sign Certificate.
29.-Memorandum of Commissioners signing Certificate.
30.-Affidavit of Conformity.
31.-Common Depositions.
32.-Depositions on Bills.
33.-Memorandum of a single Commission era' Qualifies
non.
34.-Memorandum Final Dividend.
35.-Power of Attorney to vote in Choice of Assignees.
36.-
/1 to sign Certificate.
37.-
11 to receive Dividend.
38.--Allowance for Maintenance.
39.-Assignees' Summons.
40.-Affidavit of Debt for Proof at a Distance.
41.- , on Bills Ditto.
42.-Dividend Receipts.

Bankrupts' Certificates, on Parchment.
The above Forms have been revised and approved of; on the

Plan usually allowed by the Coniniissioners.
Files for the Proceedings.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Writ of Summons, Superior Courts.
C. P. L.
Affidavit 'o'f Service of Writ of Summons.
Retainers, Debt and Case.
Serviceable Process, B. C.
Bailable Ditto, Pf
Declarations, B. C., Debt and Case.
Notices of Declaration, Superior Cuarts.
C. P. L.
B. C.
Subpoenas, Superior Courts.
„ C. P. L.
B. C.
Subpoenas, Duces Tecum, Superior Courts.
PP PP C. P. L.
IP If B. C.
Felony Subpcenas, B. C;
Fi. Fa.'s Debt and Case, B. C.
Ca. Sa.'s Debt and Case, B. C.
Subpoenas in Chancery.
Special Bail Papers.
Blank Declarations.
with Mayor's Certificates.
Mayor's 'Certificates.
LINED AND PLAIN DRAFT, BRIEF, AND OTHER P APERS,
NOTARIAL PRESSES AND WAFERS, &e.
The following FORMS of CUSTOMHOUSE EMI RIES
are kept CONSTANTLY ON SALE, and may be procu red at
the Standard-office :
BRITISH GOODS OUTWARDS.
1. Liable to Half per Cent. Duty.
2. Duty Free.
*2. For the Fisheries in Newfoundland and N. Ameri,
3. Coals, Wool, &c. liable to the rated Duty.
BONDING INWARDS.
4. A General Form.
PAYING DUTY FROM THE snip.
5. Wine or Spirits.
G. Cotton Wool.
7. A General Form for all other Goods.
FREE INWARDS.
7. A General Form, same as above.
PAYING DUTY ON GOODS IN BOND.
8. Sugar, whether B. P., Mauritius, or East India.
9. Cotton Wool.
10. Wine in Casks, not Cape.
11. Ditto in Bottles, ditto.
12. Cape Wine.
13. Rum, B.P.
:ieept Cotton Wool
1154:
ABuranodoyo,dGs epnaeyvinag,
16. Tobacco.
17. Coffee, B. P. I Spirits.aDnudtoytpheerr
Cwt.
18. A General Form for all other Goods.
19. Tobacco Cigars.
20. Tea.
gsaqs.rizie FORMS AND BILLS OF LAFING.

A meeting of the leading conservatives of. We olwich was
held at Charlton on Saturday, when it was determined to
support Admiral Sir G. Cockburn, Bart. in conjunction with
Mr. Wolverley Attwood, M.P. at the next election. A pre-
liminary subscription amounting to nearly £lOOO was made
for the purpose of defraying the usual expenses.
A DINNER Two HUNDRED YEARS AGO.—Home from
my office to my lord's lodgings, where my wife had got ready
a very fine dinner, viz., a dish of marrow bones ; a leg of
mutton ; a loin of veal ; a dish of fowl, three pullets, and a
dozen of larks, all in a dish ; a great tart ; a neat's tongue ;
a dish of anchovies ; a dish of prawns and cheese.—Pepys'
Diary.

1 TUNNEL THROUGH THE ALPS.—M. Vanino Volta, the
engineer of Como, who, in conjunction with M. Bruschetti,
of Milan, obtained, in 1837, from the Austrian government,
a privilege of 50 years for the construction of a railroad be-
tween Milan and Como, is now negociating with the Swiss
cantons of Grisons and St. Gall. an enterprise which would
vie in magnitude with the Thames tunnel, viz., the piercing
through the Grisons Alps. Impressed with the commercial
importance of the passage of the Splugen, and, at the same
time, with the various obstacles which it presents, he thinks
it possible to pierce through that mountain, and establish,
in the passage thus effected, a railroad, the northern portion
of which would end either at Wallenstadt, or even at Scho-
merckon, on the Lake of Zurich, and the southern should
be connected with the Como and Milan railroad. M. Volta,
reckoning that 30 years will he required to execute the works,
demands an exclusive privilege.of 100 years, with liberty to
establish companies, in order to procure funds, or to transfer
his privilege to other parties.—Mechanics' Magazine.
A ROYAL. MARRIAGE SPEECH.—Among many instances
of the great change of manners which 170 years have pro-
duced in England, perhaps few are more striking than the
difference between the style of past and present speeches
from the throne. Those of Charles the Second, in au age
scarcely thought less witty than their own, have a familiarity,
a bluntness, and a homeliness, which make them sound
oddly in our ears. The following is from Charles's speech,
at the opening of his second parliament in 1661 :—" I will
not conclude without telling you some news—news that I
think will be very acceptable to you and therefore I should
think myself unkind and illnatured if I did not impart it to
you. I have been put in mind by my friends that it was
now time to marry, and I have thought so myself ever since
I came into England. But there appeared difficulties
enough in the choice, though many overtures have been
made to me • and if I should never marry until I could
make such a choice, against which there could be no fore-
sight of any inconvenience that may ensue, you would live
to see me an old bachelor, which I think you do not desire
to do. I can now tell you, not only that lam resolved to
marry, bnt to whom lam resolved to marry. If God please,
it is with the daughter of Portugal. * *
And I will make all the haste I can to fetch you a Queen hi-
ther, who I doubt not will bring great blessings with her to
me and you."—ln the same session Charles finished one of
his speeches thus .—" The mention of my wife's arrival puts
me in mind to desire you to put that compliment upon her
that the entrance into the town may be with more decency
than the ways will now suffer it to be ; and to that purpose
I pray you would quick despatch and pass such laws as are
before you, in order to the amending of those ways, in order
that she may notfind Whitehall surrounded with water.—
Morning Herald.
THE MISERIES OF A CORPULENT LADY AT SEA.—Our
cabin has two boxes in it called births ; tho' coffins would
be nearer the thing, for you think more of your latter end at
sea a great deal. One of these is situated over the other like
two shelves, and these together make what they call a state
room. What would they think at the real palace of such a
state-room as this—of just a closet and no more, for the
Queen and her mother to sleep in—and no dressing-room
nor nothing—but you shall hear all. My birth is the upper-
most one, and I have to climb up to it, putting oue foot on
the lower one, and the other away out on the washhand-
stand, which is a great stretch and makes it very straining—
t hen I lift one knee on the birth and roll in sideways. This
is very inconvenient to a woman of my size and very dan-
ge xous. Last night I put my foot on Mrs. Brown's face, as
she- laid asleep close to the edge of the lower one, and nearly
put out her eye ; and I have torn all the skin of my knees,
and then I have a large black spot where I have been hurt
and my head is swelled. To dismount is another feat of
hors, Imanship only fit for a sailor. You can't sit up for the
floor overhead; so you have to turn round, and roll your
legs o at first, and then hold on till you touch bottom some-
where, and then let yourself down upright. It is dreadful work,
and no t very decent for a delicate female, if the steward hap-
pens to come in when you are in the act this way. I don't
know e which is hardest, to get in or get out a birth—both are
the mos t difficult things in the world, and I shall be glad
when I am done with it. lam obliged to dress in bed
afore I I save it, and nobody that hasn't tried to put on their
clothes l ring down, can tell what a task it is. Lacing stays
behind y, nir back, and you on your face nearly smothered
with the 1 iedclothes, and feeling for the eyelet hole with one
hand, and trying to put the tag in with the other, while you
are rolling: about from side to side is no laughing mat •
matter. l'esterday I fastened on the pillow to my bustle by
mistake in the hurry, and never knew it till people laughed,
and said the' sea agreed with me, I bad grown so fat; but
putting on stockings is the worst, for there aint room to stoop
forward ; so you have to bring your foot to you, and
stretching out on your back, lift up your leg till you can
reach it, and then drag it on. Corpulent people can't do
this so easy, I can tell you. It always gives me the cramp,
and takes away my breath. You would pity me, if you could
conceive, John ; but you can't—no, nobody but a woman
can tell what a female suffers being confined in a birth at sea.
—The Bag of the Great Western.
' THE HOUSE, OF COMMONS' KITCHEN.—On the evening
of the Canada Debate I was invited by an honourable mem,
ber to dine in the Members' Room, attached to the House'
having been highly amused with the style of doing things in
the refectory of the Commons, perhaps a description may
not be uninteresting. There are three rooms, the innermost
of which is styled, by way of distinction, the Kitchen : in
this, as most humble, it is considered most fashionable to
dine, and therefore it is more frequented than the others.
These rooms and their furniture are of the most simple and
homely description ; the chairs are of oak, very plain, and
the tables (each of which will accommodate six persons) are
of white pine, unpainted. The onlyardeiesloioeskesd at
oepryseosdinbehleoenttidmaroeef,
beef-steaks and mutton-chops ;they
hqoumaeli!byre o home-brewed
in e
the room over a charcoal fire in.ibe shortest
and certainly cannot be excelled either iinekltehse, their
their cookery. These, with potatoes,
beer, and brown bread, constitute the usual repast. Wine
twang ordered, was brought in a plain, uncut decanter, with
a bottle cork doing duty _for a....stopper ; from the general as-
pect of the place, and the affectation of simplicity in all
things about it, there seemed an attempt to cheat one into a
belief, that he was seated in a clean, comfortable, quiet inn,
in some remote country village, whence he might draw a
contrast between his plain, but hot and excellent dinner, and
the luxurious profusion of a London fashionable entertain-
ment. Opposite me sat Gisborne, the member who had
jest taken his seat for Carlow, after one of the most pro-
tracted scrutinies on record—the contest cost himfifteen
thousand, he said, and he intended publishing the bills for
the edification of the public.. Beyond this stubborn Whig
was seated the Right Hon. Spring Rice, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, taking snuff at an enormous rate, and most
plentifully bedaubing his face with it while waiting for a
steak. On my left was D'lsraeli, the author of Vivian Grey
and member for Maidstone, with his singular head, and long
jet black hair hanging profusely, over his Micmac face, quietly
discussing a mutton-chop. Our steak was just
.corning on
the board when a sharp-toned bell rung violently, and in an
instant the members rushed out of the eating-room into the
House—it was the speaker's bell, and the signal a division.
All left except D'lsraeli and a staid Scotch member with
whom I believe he paired off for the occasion. It was the
final decision on the Canada Bill, and ins few minutes the
members returned to their dinners, laughing and joking as if
nothing had happened.—Letter from a New Brunwick
Deputy in London.