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L ARMY PONTRACTS. OFFICE OF ODNANCE, PALL MALL, JAN. 2, 1837. NOTICE islifiereby given to all Persons desirous of Contracting to supply the following Articles for the USE of the ARMY, the deliveries of which are to commence on and for the Ist day of March, 1837, and to continue .(subject to the usual Conditions of the Contracts) until the following periods— MEAT, 31st March BREAD, both days inclusive :—v iz. , FORAGE, } 30th April, BEEF AND MUTTON To His Majesty's Land For ces (th e F oot G na rls excepted) in Cantonments, Quarters, and Barracks, in the undermentioned Counties, &c. Chester Monmouth I Cornwall (including S c ill y ) Northumberland (including Durham (including Holy Island) Berwick-on-Tweed) Gloucester (including the City Sussex of Bristol) Warwick Kent (including Tilbury 101.0 Worcester Lancaster North Britain. • BREAD To His Majesty's Land Forces (the Foot Guards excepted) in Can tonments, Quarters, and Barracks, in the undermentioned Coma ties, &c.:-- Cornwall (including Scilly) Berks Isle of Man Kent (including Tilbury Fort Monmouth Stafford Worcester North Britain. FORAGE, viz., To His Majesty's Cavalry and Artillery Horses in Barracks, in the undermentioned Counties, &c. : Berks I Northumberland Hants Suffolk Kent I Sussex. Middlesex That Proposals in writing, addressed to the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, sealed up and marked on the outside " Tender for Army Supplies," will be received at the Ordnance Office, Pall Mall, on or o before Tuesday, the 7th day of February next; but none will be received after Eleven o'clock on that day. Separate Proposals must be made for Meat, for Bread, and for Forage ; and Proposals must also be made separately for each County and Island, except f or th e Counties in North Britain, all of which must be included in one Tender, and each Proposal must have the Letter which is annexed to the Tender properly filled up, by two persons of known property, engaging to become bound with the party tendering in the amount stated in the printed Particulars for the due performance of the Contract ; and no Proposal will be no ticed unless made on a printed Form of Tender, and the prices expressed in words at length ; and should it so happen, that dn ring th e con ti nuance of the Contract no Troops should be supplied by v i r t ue o f t h e same, the amount of the Stamps on the Contract and B on d, paid in the first instance by the Contractor, will be re funded t o him ; and Persons tendering are desired not to use any Forms but those which may be had upon application at the Office of the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance in Pall Mall. N.B. Letters to and from Contractors and their Agents cannot be allowed to pass free of Postage • but the Correspondence be tween the C on t ractors and Regimental and other Officers will be forwarded as usual, provided it be strictly Official. The Board of Ordnance, and their Officers, will not, however, be responsible for any Letters, Money, or Orders for Money, which may be so forwarded. By Order of the Board, R. BYHAM, Secretary. LONDON COLLIER and STEAM SHIP PING WHARF COMPANY, on the east side of the Isle of Dogs,'svith a Railway to communicate with the Commercial London arid Blackwall Railway, near Limehouse Church. To be incorporated by Act of Parliament. Capital 500,0001. in 20,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 11. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. With power to add to their number. John Henry Cassell, Esq. A. Ridley, Esq. Captain Faed, John Stock, Esq. Charles A. Ferguson, Esq. H. Stock, Esq. T. B. Fyler, Esq. Thomas Teed, Esq. Richard Green, Esq. B. M. Willcox, Esq. Dixon Holmes, Esq. NEWCASTLE COMMITTEE. Richard Day, Esq, I Stephen Lowrey, Esq. Thomas Gib son , E sq . T. C. Gibson, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Ladbrokes, Kingseote, and Co., Bank - building s . Sotaerro as —M essrs. Amory and Coles, 25, Throgrnorton-street. AGENT I'OR COL LIERIES AND SHIPOWN'ERS— Thas Browne, Esq., 11, Mark-lane. ENGINEER --Joseph Gibbs, Esq., 25, Bucklersbury. ARCHITE CT AND SURVEYOR T . M ars h Nelson, Esq., 7, Charles street, St. James's-square. SECRETARY—Mr. Charles Dow-ding. Office, 57, Old Broad-street. The object of this undertaking is to construct a public quay, nearly one mile and a half in extent, to be accessible at all times of the tide, combined with machinery for discharging laden vessels, and adapted-- I. To the great object of a rapid discharge of coals. 2. T o the Steam N a vigation Trade, in conjunction with the Black wall Railway, for the conveyance of passengers to the heart of the metropolis. 3. To the coasting trade and all vessels requiring a speedy delivery of their cargoes. The principal feature in this undertaking is the discharge of coals by machinery on the wharfs into one or two ton baxes, and conveying them to the cellar :of the consumer without either chanp or breakage, or into barges alongside, and towing them to their respective destinations by steam tugs, in strings of a number at a time. Thus the interests of the merchants and the consumers in all parts of London will be consulted—the shipowner will have his - vessel afloat in the stream, without obstructing or impeding the Tiavigation—the intentions of the Legislature (contained in the Ileport s o f t h e N av i gat i on of the River Thames, and on the Coal Trade) in clearing the Pool not only of the colliers, but of the straggling barges, will be most completely carried out—and the ot- istructiou of collier or steam docks (the impracticability and inconvenience of which have been fully established) will be ob viated, no compulsory clauscwill be required, and the discharge of the coals can be effected without any additional expense, and at a great saving in point of time to the coal and shipowners. The estimated revenue has been calculated on data from Custom house and Parliamentary documents, and shows a large remunerat ing profit to the shareholders. Resolutions in favour of the measure have been passed by the colliery and ship owners of the north of England, and by the town council of Newcastle. The Committee, therefore, recommend it with confidence to the public, on account of its importance as a great national work, its certainty of profit to the shareholder, and from the substantial sup port it has already received. The plans, sections, and books of reference have been deposited with the clerks of the peace and parish clerks—notices have been given to the owners and occupiers--and the standing orders have Sessbeen ioncomplied with t o o b ta i n an Act of Incorporation in the next Application for shares to be made to the Secretary at the Corn tny's Office, 57, Old Broad-street, and of the following Agents : John Ridley, Newcastle; Messrs. Kidson, Sunderland; Messrs. Bainbridge and Spurrier, solicitors, Shi e ld s ; M r . Th omas C ar d- Manchester; Mr. Henry Fox, Liverpool; Mr. John Wrighton, 'N Ir tnintrham • Mr. Lancelot Be c k, B r i s t o l ; M essrs. Reyno ld s an d I 0 ~,'"l n er, Go p=areat Yarmouth ; Mr. James W a t son , Gl asgow ; where , ses and plans may be obtained. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. EXTRACTS from PART 11. (i f " The Anti-Railroad Journal; or, Railroad Impositions Detected." It not, therefore, too much to anticipate a similar termination to the initior Great Western Railway from Bristol to London ; for, thouh "mg. likProbably it may reach as far as Bath from Bristol, after hay t e " a mole, explored its way through tunnels, long and deep, :ai r, who travel by it will be so heartily sick, what with foul air will he s ' no Ke, and sulphur, that the very mention of a Railway th wor se tha n ipecacuanha, especially when the only prospect ey - ? 11 'lad th e l east cheering in the midst of all this derangement of their stomachs, will be a'granite tramway, actually in operation, alongside of th e i r own dose of i pecacuanha, rea d y to f o ll ow up t h e black draught, so t get rid.of every particle of obstruction with which the bottomsaosf t o h - eir pockets might be otherwise afflicted. Tro t , it i 59 that th oug h the last 40 miles from Reading to London will not require (pine so much mole-like engineering as through the first 13 miles to Bath, yet for the gratification of Mr. Brunel, who mad wish to tunnel more successfully for the Great Western Bubbl e through dry land, than has hitherto rewarded the ingenuity and talent of his father through wet land, another field is open to his skill an d dexterity in the shapi of viaducts and aqueducts, through which the Shareholders will find, as well as Mr. Brunel, solicitors, 411 1 oth ers, of " undoubted talent and activity, " that the aqueducts and viaducts will doubtless form capital ducts to carry oil all the superfluous cash of the Shareholders. u y But th bar e serious for in a ques ti o n where so much is to be lost ne pt lu t i st be Y, and n o thi ng to be ga i ne d by another, even ridi cu l e e conomised ; s i nce i t s h ou ld ever be borne in mind, that a the parties who have concocted the minor Great Western liubbylceaY were conscious that they were putting forth nothing but a w s yeculation, they ought to be able to show that the whole lingt em. °1', 1 (.1 pay a liberal profit, and not fall short of . eTi one per scrib e Profit, so as to induce the most cautious capitalist to sub that thuer is they must be willing to labour under the imputation liiscale,ltit?Ave miscalculat e d th e traffic of the load ; an d as s uch they m ser ,:on c ou ld not be the result of ignorance, if f oun d e d, as slit (4 1114i: e n " Stamp -office returns," it must have been the re- Nov', t o ~Yr e Pense. the truth, itris/oe,sh necessary, if they w . ould, have arrived at facts : "LY to draw attention to the following The total Mc Western Line the first Great °lt, in the waggon department for eon or a nge and lera of ora . exclusive of the canal and coastin trade, besides lot st int mot' • hthe tribe of Israel in fruit s ° enough to eep whole ion in P net Phil ot-laneoho grand mart for th;Se,svbillle c ivil engineers, is estimated to bo ' £143,515 Ditto Ditto pare& the incl u d e d and posting, ditto __ 82,178 the total °T tal c' goods alon e Consequently f at 40. per ton per ~,iietantity of good s es ti ma ted to be conveyed being 8,000 tons /tore rum end to end, will be about 28,86 4 tons, vehicles on the Bir rrt i v : the whole of the traffic from similar latter is far more produetiventhi'llne,, But, granting that the p i .„ i ll 4 the Bristol Line. though it is notorious that the tons of goods, still the item fO i - : e i r tt s i ave not over-credited 8,000 least three4ourths, even assumi ng „., 35 ,750, must be reduced at and owners of cattle will, out of lanchesterallY cons to be possible that graziers throw away their own profits m ore 11:113i,isnelit to the Bristol Bubble, 'willing to bestow them on th than they have proved more than three years trial of that mod r , and Liverpool Line, after very few horned-cattle, if any at all, 1 , „ °f conveyance. In fact as few sheep, because it is impossible t o e „ n en carried, and quite vey such animals at rates salliciently low to pay, for reasons assigned in the estimate for the Birmingham Line. • From the total income, therefore, of 143,515/. will 26,8131. for cattle over credited, thus reducing the nettbe. deducted 116,702/. ; and if from this be abated the expenses, in the 1 731 ier cent. of the income, as on the Manchester Lriaetiosao 85,::i/„ it leaves a gross profit of not more than 30,820/. whichy upon the estimated capital of 3,000,000 L, is about one p'er cent. itut, as the cost of construction would more likely reach 4, T 0 ,04 - 0/., the gross profit would not be more than 6-Bths per cent. But it is not pretended that even this traffic can be obtained - with( ut superseding every other interest, and - bidding defiance to any velocity or economy equal to what is now so fully established on_ :many of our canals; and notwithstanding there is one water line (leside s cana l s) by which goods may be brought to London from Iristol, eta freight but little exceeding one penny per ton per mile, cr nearly 300 jeer cent. cheaper than the Railway, together with ' V No. 13,837. the fact already proved on the Manchester Line, that owners of goods, not requiring dispatch, prefer the water line in the propor tion of ten to one. - How then the bubble makers at Bristol, even sleeping with one eye open, as they are said to do, could think of overloading the esti mate so prodigiously beyond the just limits, is only to be reconciled by the fact of their supposing the bubble payers were never awake even with both eyes open, consequently would never detect the same over-reaching principle in the coach department. But let us look at the revenue of the waggon department of the minor Great Western, and the sweets will be found still less like honey to the Shareholders. For, assuming that the whole quantity of goods will be one-third, with more than half of the whole dis tance cut off in the middle of the line, making the total quantity of conveyance 9,621 tons, and the gross income about 38,900/., from which deduct expenses in the ratio of 73:4 per cent. of the income, say 28,543/., and the total gross profit will be 10.357/., which, on e capital of 1,500,000/., the least sum requisite for such a line, is about five-eighths per cent ! In the coach department it is notorious, that there is at least one third less travelling between London and Bristol, than between London and Birmingham'; yet the Bristol Committee assert, that they shall carry 110,403 passengers in one year more than the Bir mingham Line, and 208,072 more than the Manchester Line has carried on an average for the last three years, under the authority of areturn said to be from the Stamp Office, only taking care not to produce it as the Birmingham Committee have done. In fact the blowers of the Great Western Bubble stand charged with having designedly over-credited the annual income with no less a sum than 110,403/., on the asserted authority of a return from the Stamp Office, which never has and never will be obtained. But, granting the fact to have been proved, are Steam Car riages and Canals not to carry any portion of the traffic, merely be cause they will both condescend to do it many times cheaper, long before the Railway opens ? Is the Bristol Line, like the Birming ham Line, to monopolize all the traffic, even against a saving of 50 per sent. to three-fourths of the community, to whom money is more valuable than time ? Yet that saving must be sacrificed alto gether, before the Bristol Railway can expect to realize more than six times the income from passengers alone, than has been made by the mostfavourable line in the kingdom. Assuming, therefore, the total income to be 493,833/. for passen gers alone, and not 604.2361., and deducting the expense in the ratio of 44a per cent. of the income, say 214,200/., it leaves a gross profit of 279,633/. • taking therefore one-half only of this sum as a more reasonable share of the road earnings, it brings the income to 138,816/. (without allowing for any additional tax to be in a par with common road stage coaches), being on a capital of 3,000,000/. about 4a per cent. ; or, supposing the capital to be 4,000,0001., 31 per cent. ; making, in the latter case, the total profit in both de partments about 4 per cent., or less than one per cent. net profit for the whole line, supposing the bubble blowers for the Great Western Railway to carry 208,072 passengers more in one year than the Manchester and Liverpool Line, the best in the world ! whilst TWENTY POUNDS REWARD. Iv - HEREAS WILLIAM WEATHERLY HARTLY, aged about 39 years, about 5 feet 7 inches, grey eyes, ruddy complexion, full f ace , small nose, a mole on left cheek, large mark from small-pox, over the nose, and betwixt the eyes, dressed in a dark brown frock-coat, bound with black dark mixture trowsers, and dark checked waistcoat, with a Mackintosh cloak, having absented himself from his late employment, as a Collector of the Poor Rate of St. Pancras, Middlesex, and a de faulter of several Hundred Pounds,—We, the undersigned, being his sureties, hereby offer the above Reward for his apprehension and detention. JOSH. HALLETT, Skinner-greet, Somers' Town. JOHN BURNHAM, Church-row, St. Pancras. January 17, 1837. KELLEWERRIS CONSOLS MINING COMPANY. The DIRECTORS of this COMPANY finding it absolutely necessary that powerful Steam Stamps should be erected on these Mines, have this day made a CALL of TEN SHILLINGS PER SHARE, to be paid tq Sir J. W. Lubbock, Bart., and Co., on or before the 18th day of February next, and all Shares on which the said call is not paid within 21 days after that date will become for• kited, according to the indorsement on the Scrip. HENRY TRIBE, Secretary. No. 19, Austin-friars, Jan. 17, 1837. This day was published, new edition, price 2s. 6d. in cloth. QUESTIONS on the HOLY SCRIPTURES, to be answered in Writing, as Exercises at School, or in the course of Private Instruction. the petitioners themselves against the Birmingham Railway con fess, that " without indulging in any extravagant expectations, there is now every reason to hope that, within no long time, these Steam Carriages, by means of successive improvements, will be brought to such a state of perfection, as to admit of their being advantageously used upon turnpike roads, without the expensive accompaniment of a Railway." Besides, it should be borne in mind, that the Projectors have founded their estimate on the result of the Manchester and Liver pool Line, which was tax-free for 2li months; but after the facts disclosed in par. 93, every one must see, that no other Railway will be permitted to pocket profits at the expense of both the nation and the common road coach masters. In the Press, T.ORD MAHON'S HISTORY OF ENG LAND, from the PEACE of UTRECHT to the PEACE of AIX-lA-CHAPELLE. Vol. 11. 1720-1737. Bvo. John Murray, Albemarle-street. • By JOHN BULLAR., London: Longmian and Co. ; Hamilton and Co. ; Darton and Harvey; Whittaker and Co. ; Si m pki n an d C o . ; an d T . Baker.- 3, St. James's-square, Thursday. A SECOND EDITION of T HE LONDON and WESTMINSTER REVIEW. WAS PUBLISHED THIS DAY. John Maerone, St. James's-square. SECOND SERIES OF " BOZ." Nor does the minor luminary from Reading to London, and Thistol to Bath, hold out any stronger inducement in the coach de partment, to throw away income, for five or six years, merely to put a fortune into the pockets of a set of crafty Projectors, who are bound hand and foot, by their own interests, to reveal nothing to open the eyes of those ,whose purses are scarcely ever free from the fingers of one or other of the party. For, if the gross profit of 138,8161. in the coach department for the whole line be nearly correct, the proposition for the minor bub ble line, in the ratio of one-third, will be 46,2721., which, after de ducting the expenses, 44,4 per cent., as before, leaves a gross profit of 25,7391., being, on a capital of 1,500,000/., about 1g- per cent. But what is the inference to be drawn from this last shift to the Maximum Bubble Line? The projectors must have felt convinced, that the one-eye sleepers at Bristol, who knew best how to appre ciate the minimum, never would risk a shilling en the major cheat —seeing that it must in the end be far more ruinous than any one of the 7,000 bubbles of 1825, that helped to fill half the mad -houses in London ; and consequently the blowers were well aware that they must all go out of commission, even without half-pay, if they did not beat up for recruits in other quarters ; whilst, by setting fire to the candle at both ends, they speculate to lighten the darkness of their opponents so effectually, as to place nearly 70 miles of inter mediate space, at present struck out of the way-bill, in so clear a light, that the ultimate junction may be insured in self defence. For neither engineers, lawyers, nor agents will work long in good hu mour, without slipping their fingers into the pockets of the com munity ; nor is there any good reason why they should waste brains of such elastic capability, oratory, law, and engineering, for an old Now ready, .omplete in ono volume, very handsomely bound, S KETCHES BY "BOZ;" SECOND SERIES. With numerous characteristic Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Complete in One 'Volume ! CONTENTS :- The Streets by Morning The Streets by Night Making a Night of it Criminal Courts Scotland Yard The New Year Meditations in Monmouth-street Our Neat-door Neighbours The Hospital Patient Seven Dials The Mistaken Milliner John Macrone, Si This day was published, new edition, price bound, SYSTEM of GEOGRAPHY, A. for the Use of Schools, on an entirely New Plan, in which the recent Alterations in the Division of the Continent are carefully attended to. song. 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Accordingly, a pie-nic party of Bubble Missionaries visit Reading, stick the Mayor in a chair, make him believe the moon is made of cream-cheese, or, what may be considered scarcely less absurd, that a Railroad, carried on for forty miles through a country entirely agricultural, and therefore not densely populated, would pay as much as the Manchester and Liverpool Railway, the object of which was to connect the largest manufacturing district in the world, with a port through which they obtained all the raw mate rial, and from which is exported full one-third of their manufac tured goods. For the Mayor of Reading, probably net over fond of reading statistical works, or not having Mr. Marshall's digest of 600 volumes of parliamentary papers to refer to, was not exactly familiar with the merits of the whole case, or he would not have swallowed the bait quite so greedily, though doubtless a lunatic cream cheese was a tit bit that could not be well resisted. 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Whereas the whole barthen calculated for the first Great Western Railway, throughout the line, from BriAll to London in waggon and van goods, is only about 28,864 tons, being 1,219,136 tons less than the annual bnr then estimated for conveyance on the Manchester Line ; yet, s ith all this enormous additional traffic, even the latter has not made one per:cent. nett profit. What then can be thought of the maximum bubble, the minor Great Western, that cannot even speculate upon carrying more than 10,000 tons at most from vans and waggons. Yet his Worship, the good easy . Mayor of Reading, doubtless must have thought the cream cheese most delicious, or he never would have recommended to his townsmen the utility of a conveyance that would bring the Welsh cheeses, already converted into Welsh rab bits, as a fit companion for the Kennet ale, to be carried over, the heads of blocks and sleepers, without paying toll lower down, or having anything to do with canal water. In Svo., Now Edition materially improved, 15s. bound, AINSWORTH'S DICTIONARY, English and Latin, Latin and English ; abridged for the Use of Schools. Neither was his Worship duly apprized before his taste was con sulted, that the hilly country for 20 miles to the east of Bath is from 700 to 1,000 feet high above the level of Bath, and therefore forms almost an insurmountable barrier to a Rail-road at the end of the minor Great Western Line. What chance then his Worship of Readineean have for customers, to get rid of the moonshine rab bits, time alone can tell. For Mr. Brunel, according to Mr. Cundy, the civil engineer, proposes to tunnel though these hills, and one plan is to dig a huge gutter for delicate ladies and gentlemen, of infirm mind as well as body, to be poked through all the way under the good city of Bath : for the excavation must be long ana deep for miles ; and the want of air, combined with the combustion of gas, smoke, steam, and sul phur, will render the tunnel almost fatal to human existence. Besides his Worship 'may not see that the condensed or com pressed air in tunnels for one mile long, much less others for several miles, will give forfeitable resistance to the speed of the propelling engine, and train of rriages, that would require more than double the power to propel them, comrared with the power on the same level in the open air ; for though air shafts may be made, and other means provided, at a great expense, yet if two carriages enter at each end at the same time, the rapidity of motion would so compress the air before each of them, as to operate like wedges one against the other. Lastly, in driving the tunnels at the Bath end of the line, if only a few hundred feet below the surface of that country, it would be considerably below the level of several great springs that form the head of the rivers Isis, Kenne t, and Avon ; and, cutting across the country by such tunnels, would no doubt tap these powerful springs ; drain all the high country, and convert the old road into something like a ship canal between Bath and Bristol ! so that the Granite Line Company must apply to the Humane Society to keep prop er people in attendance, to taie the passengers home occasion ally in warm blankets, should the Great Western only get an act to make a Railway or Floating-road from Bath to Bristol, or the for mer Company will have no chance of saving a single passenger from a watery grave. Kairon gnothi—Fugit hora. ABelief in the existence of the fountain of youth, from which those who bathed in its waters gained a pristine energy, was among the speculations of the 15th century ; it will, how ever, serve as no inapt type of the revivifying powers of art and medicine. Those who, early victim+ to a morbid imagination, have sought fatally to anticipate the purposes cf nature, and have consequently lapsed into a state which brings with it weakened capabilities and clouded hopes, may by timely application to professional treatment, regain those first, noblest, and best of powers that have been compromised by the criminal propensi ties of "guilty solitude," the progress of which is marked by the lym. phatica somnia" of Pliny, attended with bodily weakness and mental apathy, We may indulge a natural exultation in referring to our daily correspondence with grateful and convalescent patients, not confined to our own country, but difflised over the whole world. For twenty-five years has our peculiar treatment in cases of Nervous Debility proved emi nently successful, and we have hitherto resisted the earnest solicitations of our patients to publish their cases in a public address: the following, however, has been so urgently pressed upon us by a medical friend, that we have yielded toan importunity sufficiently excusable by the gratitude it evinces:— • • - " Dear Sirs—My fondest hopes are realized! Accept my most heart felt thanks; words are inadequate to express my unbounded gratitude. May you long live to reap the rich reward of your labours in the treat :lent of that class of diseases which have hitherto baffled the skill of your medical brethren. Nov. 1832." Your's, most sincerely, L. H." There are many disorders of the generative system (which, when com pared with the above, may be termed subordinate) that are consequent upon the too free arid indiscriminate indulgence of the passions, exhi lilting in some, debility from excess, in others, the relaxing effects of a tropical climate, and in many, indeed in how many, the various maladies which afflict the student, the misanthrope, the gay, the dissipated, and the libertine. In all these cases cur practice, which embraces every grade in society, from the man of rank to him of the humblest sphere, has been uniformly successful; and as secresy belonr to our profession, the most delicate and diffident may api;ly without fear or hesitation MESSRS. 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Oats I Barley 7s. 10d. Rye This day was published, in 3 vols. Bro., with Numerous Curious Illustrative Notes, Now First Added, and a Portrait, WAL P L E'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH GEORGE MONTAGU, &c. THE MARKETS.-(FHIS DAY ) During a Period of 6.5 Years. " Every letter in this collection is in itself a fund of amusemen., and, as throwing a bright light upon the manners of the time in which they were written, invaluable. Those who have before seen this Correspondence,!never had an opportunity of obtaining so good an edition of it as the present ; and for those who happen not to have seen it, the very best thinfy, they can do at the opening of the year 1637 is to buy it."—John Bull. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERI.AND. 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J. 141T.urthy, baker, Drury-lane A circular has been 'lately transmitted to the Lord Lieutenants of counties by Lord John Russell, intimating that his Majesty has been pleased to command that the uniform of the officers of the militia of the United King dom shall in future be laded in silver, and that the officers of such regiments as are Royal shall wear, by way of dis tinction, silver embroidery instead of lace. Yesterday morning, between six and seven o'clock, the body of an elderly — man was picked out of the mud along the quay of the Custom-house by some watermen. It was conveyed to the bone-house belonging to St. Mary at Hill Church. From the dreadful dcomposition of the body, it is supposed that it had been in the water for seve ral weeks. The clothes of the deceased were of a good de scription. Nothing was found on his person to discover his name. MORE DARKNESS.—The metropolis was again visited during the whole of yesterday morning with much darkness; and though not so intense as the day before, yet it has greatly impeded public business. Candles had been in requisition throughout the day in all ,the public offices, merchants' counting-houses, mechanical establishments, and commercial warehouses. A most impudent robbery was committed during the thick fog on Tuesday morning. A gentleman was passing along the Regent•quadrant, and while he was blow ing his nose a thief snatched his silk handkerchief out of his hand, ran off with it, and in an instant was concealed by the thickness of the atmosphere. a _ _ Yesterday morning, between six and seven o'clock, the body of a new born male infant, wrapped in a new jack-towel, was found in the Islington-fields on a heap of rubbish. The body was that of a very flue child, and had every indication of havirr , been born alive. There were no marks of violence on the body. . . The General Steam Navigation Company's packet the Sir Edward Banks, from Rotterdam, arrived on Tues day off the Custom House with the Dutch mails. Among the club-houses renovated, altered, and em bellished, since last season, are Brookes's, the Athenaeum, and the Carlton Club-house, which are now all ready to receive their members ; and from the rapid progress made in erecting the Universities new club-house, it will probably be ready for the reception of its members early in the en suing year. _ _ _ Dowton, the celebrated comedian, and son, came passengers in the NeW York packet ship Virginian, which arrived at Liverpool on Monday evening. The Sheyfie/d, Liverpool packet ship, also the Albany, Havre packet, had arrived at New York. On Tuesday night a seaman, named James Austend, who has lately arrived in England, and has been lodging at No. 6, Fox and Goose-yard, Shadwell, asked a woman of the town, with_whom he has been cohabiting, to swallow some liquid contained in a phial which he offered to her. On refusing to comply with his request, he put. the phial, which contained laudanum, to his mouth, and drank the contents. The woman immediately raised an alarm, and policemen 43 and 253 K procured the stretcher and re moved him to the London Hospital, where he died from the effects of the narcotic yesterday morning. The phial was found in the room ; it was labelled " Laudanum— poison." The sailor was not very sober when he committed the rash and foolish act. THE LATE MURDER IN RATCLIFF HIGHWAY. —On Tuesday afternoon a dense mob collected in Rateliff Highway to witness the funeral of the late Mr. J. H. Ready. The murder has created the utmost horror, and public curiosity was strongly excited. At four o'clock the street was quite impassable, and soon after that hour the mournful procession left the house of the late. Mr. Ready, No. 125, Rateliff Highway. The coffin was followed by the widow, sister, father-in•law, and other relatives of the deceased ; and the police of the K division, under the di rection of Mr. Young, the superintendent, and Mr. Rice, the inspector, had great difficulty in clearing a way through the crowd for the mourners to pass. On the arrival of the body in the chapel, the widow, who was an object of great commiseration, cried aloud. She appeared eve. whelmed with grief, and was supported to a pew by her friends. The mourners having been seated, and the coffin placed on tressels near the pulpit, the Rev. Mr. Hyatt, the minister of the chapel, delivered a long and interesting discourse to his hearers on the melancholy subject which had brought them together. We understood that Pegsworth, who, for three or four days after he had murdered Mr. Ready, dis played the most cool indifference, and expressed no sorrow for having d e p r i ve d a f e ll ow - c reature of life, has since began to display some contrition, and has paid great attention to the exhortations of several pious gentlemen who have visited him in Clerkenwell prison. The present number of post-oflices in the United States is 11,100 ; miles of post-road in July last, 118,264 ; miles of annual transportation, 27,518,620. Revenue of the year ending 30th of June last, 3,398,435 19 dollars ; expenditure, 2,755,623, 76 dollars. Excess of revenue over expenditure, 642,831, 43 dollars. TO GROCERS AND TEA DEALERS. 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Sold in London by Sanger, 151, Oxford-street ; St ra dli ng , Roy - al Ex change Ga.es, Cornhill; I , arclay and Sons, Farringilontreet; Edwards, St. Paul's Church-yard; Sutton and Co., 'low Church-yard ; and may be had or all respectable yle<liciue Venders in Town and Country. N.l3.—phserve that the Proprietor's name is cm the stitrop, THE INFLUENZA. This epidemic still continues without abatement, and ap pears to have spread to all parts of the kingdom. In the metropolis its virulence is such as to create serious incon venience, both in the public offices and among mercantile men. Many of the oldest and most respectable parishioners of Chelsea, Battersea, Wandsworth, Putney, Kew, and other villages on the Surrey side of the river have fallen victims to the virulent effects of this dire disorder. On the Middlesex side of the Thames, especially in Kens'ngton, Hammersmith, Turnham-green, and Fulham, the disease' has also prevailed, and the consequences have been equally fatal to the adult population. It is not, perhaps, gene rally known that the typhus fever and small-pox have been prevalent in many of the befoie-mentioned places, and have carried off a number of both old and young persons. The latter disease has been particularly fatal among infants. In Chelsea the effects have been most fatal, several gallant ye-. terals in the hospital having died, whilst many others are , extremely indisposed. In the Duke of York's Military Asy lum, in the King's-road, many of the inmates are afflicted with the complaint. On Monday no less than sixteen funerals took place in the churchyard of St. Luke, nine out of which came from the workhouse. On Tuesday morn ing, at the usual hour, a vast,number of persons were in attendance at the Board-room, in which the petty sessions are held, to make complaints, prefer charges, &c., before the Bench. The several parties were informed that there would be no court, as the clerk to the justices and the yes• try-clerk were both confined to their beds. This was the second court-day at which no business had been transacted. Many of the magistrates of this district are indisposed. During the past week forty-five persons have been interred in Woolwich churchyard —a larger "number than ever re membered in one week. The Royal Artillery Hospital has at the present time more patients within its walls than it has had for many years past. So prevalent is the disease among the household troops, that it is with difficulty a sufficient number of men can be got together to mount guard. The regimental hospitals of the Guards are so crowded that orders have been issued from the office of the Commander-in-Cai e f for the fitting up of temporary hospitals. Thirty-one pensioners have died at Greenwich Hospital since Sunday last. All the public and private hospitals in the metropolia are crowded to excess, and numerous applications for admission are ne cssarily daily refused. The number of funerals on Sunday last are, we believe, unprecedented. Since the commencement of this epidemic the Commis sioners of Police have discontinued the suspension of the slaing per day, which was previously deducted from the pay of the police constables, when debarred from their duty by indisposition. Prior to this prevalence, the anatomical theatres i❑ the metropolis were very short of subjects under the provisions of the New Anatomy Bill, but these are now very plentiful. The unseasonable weather of the last two days has tended not only to increase the disorder, but re store the symptoms in those that were convalescent. In Hertfordshire the disease is very prevalent. In one house in Buckeridge five of the inmates died on Sunday. A si milar complaint has recently appeared among the horses in Hertfordshire, which has been very destructive to them. A quarto pamphlet is preserved in the Royal Collection, British Museum, entitled " Morbus Epidemius, the Newe Disease ; its Signs, Causes, and Remedies." Printed 1643. The description.of the symptoms of this " newe disease," it , is remarkable, agree exactly with those to be found in the malady now prevalent in London—the influenza. During the past week an act of suicide was effec tually perpetrated by Mr. Barr, formerly a solicitor at Leeds, and who, our readers may probably recollect, w tried at the last spring assizes at York, being charged wita forging and signing orders upon the treasurer, purporting to be the claims for the county allowance made by supposed prosecutors on certain indictments for offences which in fact had never been. committed, nor prosecutions taken place. Tile sentence was transportation for life, with 12 months' previous solitary confinement or hard labour in this country. The unfortunate convict, who was about leaving England, was respectably connected, and his remains %dere deposited last Sunday in the parish churchyard at Leeds.—Chester field Courier. ST. KATHERINE'S DOCK COMPANY.—On Tuesday the half yearly meeting of the stockholders in this Company was held at the dock-house, Tower-hill, for the purpose of declaring a dividend, and upon other matters. Thomas Tooke, Esq. in the chair. The Chairman said that, pur suant to the provisions of the Act, the annual statements of the receipts and expenditure of the Company for the past year had been laid on the table for the inspection of the proprietors, and they might congratulate themselves upon the result. The balance of profit brought down applicable to a dividend at the close of the last half year was 78,4711. 18s. 6d. showing an excess of revenue over the amount of the corresponding period of last year of 17,0321.55. 7d. A large increase in the net earnings of the Company had taken place, and the Directors theref ore recommen d e d t h at the dividend for the last half year on the capital stock of the Company should be increased to 21 per cent. It was satisfoctory to him to be enabled to state, after inquiries into the fact, that the trade of the port of London was greatly increased. The total increase in the vessels which had entered the port. of London with cargoes last year was 250, of the total tonnage of 118,755 tons, and of these the St. Katherine's Docks had bad their full share, an excess of 73 ships, of the tonnage of 15,398 tons having entered there with cargoes above those of the year 1835. In the last year 487 ships with cargoes had entered the docks. The increase in the foreign trade of the port of London in the last year inwards had been 256 ships, of the tonnage of 118,715 tons. He proposed that the dividend should be 2-4 1 - per cent. on the capital sto c k o f th e C ompany for the - half year ending on the 31st December last. After some conversation relative to the Company's affairs the dividend was agreed to. Thanks were returned to the Directors and the meeting adjourned. Shortly after one o'clock yesterday morning, a fire was discovered in the lower part of the premises belonging to Messrs. Cohen and Company, tea-merchants, Aldersgate street, City, and for a considerable time threatened serious consequences ; but owing to the timely assistance of the en .ri „nes and a plentiful supply of wate r , th e fl ames were ex , tinguished before much damage was done. On Tuesday evening an inquest was held at the Moors' Arms public-house, Bromley, Middlesex, on the remains of Charles Taylor, aged 33 years, who died by i n h a ling hydrogen gas while employed in clearing out a large vat or chamber in which vitriol is kept, on the premises of Mr.. Jones, a chemical -manufacturer in that neighbourhood. —On Thursday last another inquest was held before the same Coroner, on the body of a young man named Joseph Chamberlain, who lost his life through the same cause, in attempting to clean out the same vessel. The Coroner summed up, and the Jury returned_a verdict—" That the deceased, by inhaling the noxious gas into his lungs, had accidentally come by his death." The Jurors also returned a deodand of 25/. on the vessel.—On Tuesday an inquisition was taken before Mr. Stirling, in the board-room of Mid dlesex Hospital, on the bodies of Anne and Small M'Grath, aged four and five years, .who were burnt to death. John Anneright, a labourer, No. 19, Oxford-buildings, lived in the room on the second floor under that in the occupation of the deceased children's father. About twelve o'clock on Thursday, at noon, witness was in his own room, when he was alarmed by seeing flames burst into it from the room overhead. He rushed up stairs, calling for assistance. The door of the room was padlocked. Witness broke it open, but. no one could enter, on account of the smoke and flames. They obtained some water, with which they put the fir- out. The children were then fou n d huddled in each other's arms. They were quite black, and all their, clothes were burnt off. Some persons took them away to the Hospital. Verdict —" Accidental Death." ANTI-CHURCII-RATE MEETING.—The Mayor, actin.' ' under the advice of the Tory town-clerk, h as re fused to convene a public meeting to petition for the abo lition of church-rates, alleging as a reason, that such an official act would be inconsistent with the declaration made' bj Lim on accepting office. The requisition contained the signatures of six magistrates, thirty aldermen and coun cillors, besides a large number of oth er respec t a bl e inha bitants. Mr. Jalland has acquired the honourable dis tinction of being the first mayor of a re f orme d cor p or ation. that has refused c ompliance in this matter. Thanks, how-' ever, to his worship's timidity or faithlessness, arrangements arc in progress for getting up a more effective demonstra, tion of public opinion on this important subject than could have been made muter his merely official auspices. —Hull Advettiser. Letters have been received in town from his Royal Highness the,Duke of Sussex since his arrival at New stead Abbey, in one of which, dated the 19th inst., his Royal Highness speaks of the accident he met with in the following terms :—" My carriage was nearly dashed to pieces against one of the posts of the turnpike between Newark and South%vpll. However, as no one was Iraq, I am truly thankful to have escaped with so little los% `as that of nearly complete destruction to my carriage." Within the last three dais twenty-four new arrests of persons implicated in political conspiracies have taken place in Paris. Yesterday information of the following most exten sive robbery was received at Scotland-yard, and promptly circulated throughout the various divisions of the metropo litan police. Between Friday evening and Sunday evening last the shop of Mr. Myers, at Birmingham, was I%roken into and.phindered of a number of gold and silver N.; atches, togcther with gold aye glasses, spectacles, silve r spoons, forks, coral teads, and other valuable propert y, o f diff er ent descriptions ; the watches are f or th e mos t par t of a supe rior kind, and one of them has on th e b ac k a star formed of diamonds. A reward of 201. has been ,;red for the ap prehension of the depredators, NEW WORK BY THE LADY CHARLOTTE BURY. Nearly Ready, in 2 vols. p os t B vo ., T " DIVORCED A TALE. By Lady CHARLOTTE BURY. Authoress of " Flirtation," &c. " Nor tears that wash out sin Can wails out shame."—Pope. Henry Colburn, publisher,l3, Great Marlborough-street.