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-..--s dee: -f-- de; S Ii N of desperation ? The Whig Premier has the Tirr'' L 1:---- of being a cool and coura geous man . Th e Et s ' ";--- coolness and courage are not those which . ; 4 :, . ' .4 - -1 l applied to his present conduct. Callousness § .'' suffering, insensibility to hu man wretchedn f . ~-.* n. ' • ,„,,,,_,__ r _,,__ word, downright inhumanity, ar e th e only ter ,_ can properly characterise the conduct of Lo Russell. It was the prevailing impression, solarlhautirasAt l ifaa..Lai ago, that Sir Robert Peel had no heart. The 4neAtibn whether the Right Hon. Baronet possesses that article or not, is one which we have no inclination to discuss just now. But one thing we know, and that is, that had he been still Premier, he would, at least a month ago, have thrown open the ports. Whether humanity or policy. had prompted him to the act, we care not to inquire ; at is enough for us to know that he would have done it. And that he would no one can doubt, with the recorded declaration before him of the Right Hon. Gentleman, that the reason of his resignation, in November last, was because he could not induce his colleagues to concur in the propriety of then opening the ports. u ti„. n_s „L ' ‘, , - 4 , :eL r - I - - .) . 1 7;1. • - ~,„ . , ^4 ' 7.. . yrt ' V , " DIE C P . " - T" \ • ZW , , 'h v;.s.Or' • c•- 1, - "":4' 4 . • , g rj BER No. 16 673. LONDON SAT' UItDAY is TO 17 , 1846. . PRICE SD. [(gasses NiattiUg, Indian Ncediewo k heeeides Pipes and Pipe Tubes l'ur e Garnitures • PeLolls - Palo tugs on Ivory, &e. l'oreel.d , ., rrench and Dresden i'iated Ware Pape , Stained and Writing ling , . Persian and Koulas ilurn Shawls, China Crape pURSUANT t a DECREE of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause FRIEND against SULLY, the creditors of JOHN, FRIEND, late of the town ant port of Sandwich, in the county of Kent; gentleman, who died in the month of August, 1834, are, on or before the 2d day of NOVEMBER next, to come in and prove thei.n 4 j9.its, before Sir GIFFIN WILSON, one of the Masters of the said Court+, at his Chambers, in Southamp ton-buildings, Chancery-lane, Lohdon, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Decree. - ADAM RIVERS STEELE, 1, Lincoln's Inn-fields, • Plaintiff's Solicitor. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PROA'ECTUA OF TIIE B RISTOL AND POOLE HARBOUR. RAII4- . WAt COMPANY. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. Capital, 1,00",0001., in 50,000 shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. p,•r share. (Registered Provisionally.) PATRONS AND SUPPORTERS. Sir E Doughty, Bart., Upton House, Dorset John Samuel Wanley Sawbridgs Erie Drax, Esq., M.P., Charborough TS-EICHTIT SAT.E. rUSTOM HOUSE , LO s DON, OCTOBER, trol I S46. sIGYE BY ORDER Cr THE HONOURABLE COMNTtS- tt noo ' 5 OF HER. MAJESTI'S U 55 , 1 S,- at Twelve o ' cl ock i. F r, etaely, on .MONDAY 23th, 7 UESZAT 27th, EDNESDA I,,Esn 1471151)AI 29th, ! BIDAY 30th October, MONDAY 2nd, vinl ntd c ' .N. ,yeniter, 1546, the Cum - wen..Al Sale Ro.ms, tllz • FOLLO WING GOODS FOR, HOBIE CONM SUPION, viz. Artili°"B L ir. acque S en and red Ware rt are dal F lowers L Cotton tus te s g ts gustekge r P ap Meerschum Pipes and ff ßowls ical loxes aady " Musical sre tze totted's Ler liotq., • (lora' ll Clue ,e canrd Negligees lirolizc art • Corriai e , Inlaid • Marble Can'elei Pot. - ei a -„ ttbr CAN as Ca s , e " C otton. Cr ay° Stocking s C arp. "' cbinaTurkey 1 / 1 4o er 1r e Jars, Ornaments, Chet,,, 3 and Tea Sets ch,2lbriek Ha .dkerchierS Il lt Z'arn bo lN i sk t 4 , 4, d e . Colog ne °°ldereel CoMrs Caps • Habit Shirts 'Curtains, &co e mir _ Fur Ostrich and Dressed• 04 1 01 re Cetr e4 (11 4 , 1 , a Tinder and Lights (. 44,- 11, r a 4e,,. l : l falieon s Ivor y ' i rY, Geld and Mock ezes, R.- qilta i nk &C•, Carved ace . Antiq ue Pill ow Silk Thread Caghtnere Fren. h Squirrel and other Linings Sears Segar Tubes Silk Cips Bonnets Scarfs Shawls Mitts Cloaks Mantles Laces Manufactures Spa Ware Sewing Thread Tables, Carved and Dining Toys Tobacco, Manufactured Utunanufactured Tea Varnish Velvet Cloaks and Mantles Watches, Cold and Silver Watch Springs and Chains Work Boxes Wine Woollen Handkerchiefs or Points Cloth Wine Coolers &c. &c. &c. • Cola W a t c h es, el ECM EXPORTATION ONLY, oc':s, Books. Prin s, Re lined Saga", &c. &c. '"ukce, FO R THE BENEFIT OF THE CROWN. FO t,.. 7" i es, Rope, Old Stores and Fittings, an Iron Crane, Screw Press, &c. &c. oV,9III'ATION, AT BUYERS' PRICES; OR, FOR HOME *Weal Att"noN, ON PAYMENT OF THE DUTIES. ,*%d "tll,sltuneuts, Spirits, Tea, Coffee, Sugar, Ligutun Vitae, Log- A r tk,' Tali( gang and othr Woods, Larteewood and other Spars, oa r 'As% ow Root, Books, M livery of Silk, and S'lk Manufactures, cr Shoes, Eau de Cologne, Tamarinds, Saccades, Cordials, 150 . 1 4 c. ltre,t cie weCt at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom House, Thames at a i the t• Kaherine Len 'on, and West India Docks, and find,rd, andbaeco Ground Ito ' therhithe on Thursday 22nd, Friday Saturday 24th October, 1846, ' from Ten o'clock in the un til Three u'elock in the afternoon, and on the days of get T hk. otice t l,l Ten o'clock in the morning until Twclve o'c'ock at noon ill not be delivered th,, af,. thlt the Goods sold at this S " ' Clear days of the day on whieh they are soid, and T i) e ' s can be paid for at the 0111,e of the Receiver , of Fines oney '4l t , h ot b ock in the afternoonthe da of Sal "e rezeived by the Receiver ea Fines after Eleven o ' clock in 1, 11 ee 011 e S h B lling each r naY te hat the Queen's Warehouse, Custom House, i . ad Beds, Is. 63. a night. 111 -YS COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS. or e -MDrovement has been effected by the Patentee. The me ()lourtti,. ka t r ,. tl e ,„: , renders the portaits agreeable and Life-like"—Times. attreet4"lThille" ' Portraits are most brilliant in effect.''—Spectator. t cre„, • 34 1 , n .—At the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Recen Cit;. ard ament-street, Westminster; and 85, King William- Co;. 7 c AN LIFE INSURANCE OFFICE , Dr,-.N•1). -. LOTiz BARD-STREET, and 57, CHARING-CROSS, k Established 1797. At m _ tw, (o DIRECTORS. Iv 'trt, ( - 3, 4 ' , t 2q., M.P. J. A. Gordon,Esq.,M.D.,F.R.S Si t ottob'"n,,Y harelay, Esq. Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq. IV:. ' Curti s, ' . ' v P.n.s: R. H. Lawrence, Esq. b b/,_ J. Petty 3lnspratt, Esq. ' l, Th ari ls, E s 7 l " 4 4, - c, H. Turner, Esq. p at l , ll e R ee l alr, E sn M. Whiting, Esq. e 's tut ? al Plan--si. thisoffers to parties about to effect InSti- N se th e of Mee ktu . t ßibi re al adv the ges of which the system of Life Assurance itt Pt t 4 t p c• t ; Withoata liability of partnership, or the risk of in t he Oni t ' ''' e A , "ery e ,, ees a , 4 ,1 every information may be obtained on application "Y ana 4° We, or to the Agents of the Company appointed in Principal town in the kingdom. R. TUCKER, Secretary. INT - "N IN AI, MERCANTILE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. - Tb ebu.• 4 O L T LTRY, DIA.NSION-HOUSE. 4, sk,, . niness Of ‘_`' ~ • ethis Society is now carried on at the , _ ntee secretary. J. JONES, "Pte triber 30 , 1,46. NATIoxAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR- ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital £500,000. m o i: n ozc a r c e e d. by Act of Parliament. Phis Institution ' a substantial advantages with respect to Life A...lran:en' IT a il nl r t in r t erred Annuities. The assured l ilt on all occasions, the power to boT e Tow without expense or for kiture of the Policy, two-titiris or the premiums paid (see Table) ; t l, O the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in 'rests to meet other conveniences or necessity. N tt .. -n surandes for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible r emarkable sucDIVISI and incr OF PROFITS. cesseas:ng prosperity of the Society k tili)led the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the pre m i ums paid 'fltrt rolicy effected on the Profit scale. 1 EXAMPLES: at !o, i 'V P I'l : enilurn ' ii I :d ° d n e n t 3 3 C " a s u L I n gs i r A m s sl , l r v e d . --.................._. - . il, 4 --I_______ 1000 4 ri, d . i i :F . Z 21 91; 15 3 0 1 . X1 8 0 7 13 1:: 1 4 1 .£1163 10 2 4 . X 3 4 9 4 5 5 1 1 1 ) 1 • 3 4 1839 165 11 10 ' 74 1 9 11 311 346 2 1840 116 7 6 54 010, 718 101 296 13 , rn .-- --7-..._ 1 841 111 68; 49 10 01 71n AI9 A / A £21715 I . ZIOO 11'.£16 0 4X445 0 0 192 3 0; 87 1 4 13 10 2 395 11 1 165 11 10 74 1 9 11 3 11 346 2 3 116 7 6 54 010, 718 101 296 13 4 111 6 8; 49 10 01 710 41 247 4 5 I:l62 ' , lfa t ' 0 1 ,. °11 of profits Is annual, and the next w ill b e made in ' the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. c i i 4 „ CAMPHINE, CAN DLES.—P a t en t rate in, r ,..l;APllatent CIN andles, E in sealed hallb. ,f-gallonat WILLIAM S. cans, 4s. 9d. BURTON'S allon kt r pe xhrt, pm and Burton's), 39, Oxford-street, corner of Newman assortment of Camphine, Armand, and Solar Lamps, la'Drove,,i'er„ Magnum and other Candlesticks, wilh all the latest s t Pst Cud of the newest and most recherche patterns, is the froZ,l t l enne- All the seasonable novelties are now ready, and Styl e tO 30 Per cent. under any return with whom nuality 110;',,,tupro.r:a con siderations. The money ed for eve article fre e. " Of. Detailed catalogues, with engravings, sent (per AND FIRE-IRONS. Qua 1,„ I'ZXI)ERS, STOVES, ~e,„_ ~,,ge.. at WILLIAM S. illlAsilr,,one,. assortment of Stoves and Fenders, as wel as niongery, in the world; is now on Sale . -irl,Tht steele (late HIPP, iN and BURTON'S) Neu ...., fenders to 4 feet from SO °..lhilletltS f ' • h bronz— scroll e h • ditto ditto,w it li or - At .: 6a, ‘,... min 60s. , ric .. t eac e xdtietdastiotlivosevi warehouses. th bronzed, steel a bar, ud 0 f,. ,,,, i wit, ~,,t lenders, 3 feet, 4s. 61.. de r , ',,i at fenders, 3 feet, 9s• ; 4 -, •.1 t register stoyes, with 4 feet, Gs.; iron s' f eet, 4s. ' feet, r6.;.1.; Ils ; 7 rought i kitchen brig i :9.; 95 ditto ditto, with itele_naltuenta, and two sets of bars, free% I,Z,'"llnents, from 9/. ; black dinin iscer stoves, 2 feet, I ; 1 andlt . 1.4 1 , 24, ,a feet, 278. ; bed room reg. fr?m,.room register stoves, 6 stove, with f,''r per set !‘ th ie i the new ecouomical thermic, for chambers, .s. 9d. t4,4tlh4,l4oeivath - plate, from 81. ; fire-irons • fid. • and !t hroi,esditto, with cut heads . , ms. of dre-irons, withl ormolu the ~ rieb,„ ' tat beads, Ils. A variety . __ 4 , artic e The newest pattern, m wl o 't i h u ere4hi) cut heads, at proportion ate Price' "- Illeee3,:g ironon, 1 0ga,,,, returned for every article not approved • 4 re' 30 per cent. under any_ o o f ther p l e t t o a u n s ed e. cata ' stock nr,Wii,Mtvngravings, see t (per pest) free' ngeaer If t d PAIRTON') S. BURTON'S (late RIPPON ar 1 4 "` 4 8 4 rl unlishlng ironmongery is literally the v arl et ,. 0 language can be employed to give a c d inspect it.- 9, ~ J a,i stmt, ited to call an , ...,._,1,... street kromst oL, purchasers are inv est in tlie world, ) Established in iir e, 1,20. reet. (earner of Newman -street . arg orrect idea of its OPtiNIN -- --6"--,;I7IIiOSES and SON'S FUR 14, klltrance DEPOT, 157, Minories.2te A ld gate Church.) riesatiat.y3e,,uctoortzr2oof 1181 lOpened to the public a new e46Mi rl i l lea be ( o e tpilleiicli-.l4ll,.letetibusiness of E. MOSES and SON, on ertitirnewlyiantewmaPyibe ttetiettZtobil NTra.Seras.l,llaAT'lfeilkhadDEi n g a r the new featnre temp ( l i ai lor ti lt , nu,: added is a decided advance towards ' the accomplishment 01E at,3,4cAlinerehentive project. The extensive Fur Warehouse rtment , of Ladies anna7l SON will be stocked witivan Immense assortment - recoin- Tnendation. The entlenten's Furs possessing every possible Chin china, Rolin,te stock will consi4 of Sable, Mink, Ermine, in illedern wint4t a ll a r eve '? other species of Fur materials adapted Prior to manufacturinge• thorn to the St the Pure E. MOSES and SON subjected 0 rictest s rim tnat erials 'iv e -.., and . ' special care was observed tha t t e n u. lion has Beene made up but what were well seasoned. Equal at up or the r__ bestowed by E. MOSES and SON on the making ene e) (1.,,Lr5! and on eXamination and tr's.l of the Boss ( _ ____ he 84 e ' . IZ iles, Cardinals, Muffe, Visettes, Vietarines, Cuffs, u wril. ff r i ed to tle Public will . be seen that none but first Ouse goods are o e E. 'uoties ar ,,, , , the proprietors. Economy, In this new featureof E Fur trade (let it be ',el , SON'S trade, will be strictly adhered to. The th e ~„b. alstinctly understood), like that of tailoring, has longtaxed a riew''','lc wtih most extortionate and unwarrantable prices but oquelele shah distimmish the new branch of business of E. hha, ' and SON'S—laage profits shall be succeeded by small, and will ,erices by low Every article, according to its relative value, be ~,Ivemared upon it, in plain figures, the lowest at which it can "vl . from which no abatement can possibly be made. OPENING OF THE NEW FUR DEPOT. Reserve your Purchases until the 20th. Behold ! the vast Establishmeet of MOSES Another feature in its trade discloses. The present month shall reach its twentieth day When this New Branch will make its first display. Cottle and inspect (for y ou h ave every reason) Soon Well -seasoned Furs, adapt e d to the season. -And will the l einter show it s t h reatening form all will stand an need of something warm, Cottle and Inspect our Furs, and you will find • Choice fashion and utility combined. Come and inspect our Furs, and 'twill be seen We've articles that would become your Queen. Come and i nspect our F urs, and you'll confess ' Mow choice these articles of winter dress. Colne, fo r economy is studied here. ' Though choice the goods we never sell them dear. Again, in invitation, we would say, Is(oe rid inspect then on our opening day. Ilattem CoSES and SON, Fuiz'er Tailors Woollendrapere, Clothiers, E. ~. Rosters, OutfiGers and General Warehousemen. s'+'-' NO3ER and CON, 15‘., 155 166, la xinories ; and 63, 84 , klta 16, Aldote CltYr 1,91144 Park, Dorset J. Weld, Esq., Lnlworth Castle, Dorset Colonel John Michel, Dulish House, Dorset Wm. Cartwright, Esq., propri,tor of collieries in Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire. E. B. Ashford, Esq., Babcary, Somerset. ACTING COMMITTEE. HENRY STRETTON, Esq., Ramsgate, Chairman. MajarJ, B. Howe, Army and Navy Club John Gray Wilson, Esq., Westbourne Grove Colonel William Mainwaring Sloane, Seymour-street Gilbert M`Queen, Esq., Great Coram-street, Russell-square Thomas Peers, Esq., 1, Lamb's Conduit-place George Chisman, Esq., Dalston, Middlesex Sir James Caleb Anderson, Bart. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. (With power to add to their number.) Frederick William Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-place Rees Price, Esq., M.D., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex Thomas' Ottery Rayner, Esq., M.D. F.S.A., 1, Matthew's Pla,e, • Cambridge Heath • • Rev. C. Davies, Sandgate • Major J. Mill, Guernsey Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury J. Johnson, Esq'., Davies-street, Berkeley-square G. Pusey, Esq., The Dells, Stoke Newington N. Crouch, Esq., South-place, Euston-square; and 64, Pall-mall R. B. Crofts, Esq., Hamilton. square, Birkenhead, Cheshire John Britten, Esq., Basinghall-street Lieut. Charles T. Hill, R.N., Queen's-square, Bristol Captain Hippisley, Somerset-street, Cavendish-square Wm. C. O'Connell, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman square. LONDON BANthall. London and County Bank The London Joint-Stock Banking Company. COUNTRY BANKERS. Messrs. Stuckey and Co. - • National Provincial Bank of England Messrs. Ledgard and Co., Poole Messrs. Bastard and Co., Blandford. ENGIN - EEL—George Rennie, Esq. SucazmutrEs (pro. tem.)—Messrs. Castleman and Kingdom. SOLICITORS. Gilbert Stepbens, Esq., j3: - iTO - ril — in - mberland-street, Strand. Messrs. Cas'tleman and Kingdon, Wimborne. Since issuing the former prospectus, the Committee, being deter mined to proceed on the surest grounds, and anxious for the ultimate success of the undertaking, have made further and more minute in quiries into the remunerative traffic to be expected on this line; and they are warranted In stating that, the result of such inquiries has greatly exceeded, the expectations upon which they grounded their former prospectus. This line of railway, commencing at Bristol, will open a direct communication with Poole, passing through or near the important towns and villages of Whitechurch, Pensford, Clutton, Shepton Mallet, Bruton, Castle Cary, IN incanton, Stalbridge, Sturminster, Newton, Shillingston, Stourpain, Blandford, Spittisbury, Sturminster Marshall, Wimborne Minster to Poole Harbour ; and thus, by means of the Line of Packets intended to be established by this Company, from that port to the Channel Islands and Cherbourg, and the rail ways now in progress from the latter place to the French capital, and from thence to Lyons, will coliplete the line of communication by the most direct way, from Edinbtugh to the south of France, thus enabling that country to supply herself with many articles of com merce at little more than half the cost she at present pays, and leav ing a good remunerative profit to the Company and producer at home, Among the various sources of traffic to be expected on this line. the following are the most prominent : —The supply of the Govern ment with Coal from the Welch and Sornersetshire pits, by means of the proposed line, for its different naval and steam depots throughout the world. The Somerset pits, which are 36 in number, yield, at present, about 2,000 tons per diem, but are ca pable of yielding a much larger quantity ; and, supposing that 2,000 tons were carried by the railway, at ld. per ton a mile, a dis tance of 40 miles for 300 days in the year, which is even less than the Company have every reason to expect, it would yield a net return of 100,0001., or 10 per cent. upon the estimated capi tal ; deduct then 40 per cent. for working the line, wear and tear, and there remains the sum of 60,0001., or 6 per cent. per annum on the capital. There can be no doubt of the demand of this important article of general consumption. from the great dimi nution of price to the consumer by the costs of carriage being reduced to Id. per ton per mile from the present cost, which is from 6d. to 10d. The supply of the Channel Islands (population more than 100,000), and of France, with the best species of coal for the production of gas, as well as for the -use of their manufactures and for domestic purposes. This article, by means of the various coal pits situated on the line, will yield to the Company a very fine remunerative profit, and be of the greatest be nefit to the coal proprietor; as the coal necessary for the purposes of gas can be obtained in very large quantities, and delivered at Cher bourg at one-third less than they are now giving for the same coal, and which cannot, therefore, fail to be of equal benefit to the mer chant abroad, the producer at home, and the proposed Company. Besides these two great sources of coal traffic, there is the supply of the southern coast, and the different districts or the line, with coal for domestic use, at a saving of from six to,seven shillings a ton. This is a circumstance that cannot fail to secure to the Company the entire traffic, and be of the greatest benefit to themselves and the public hi general. In addition to this, the line will offer to the great manufacturing city of Bristol a more ready market for all those articles of commerce of which France and the Channel Islands stand so much in need, and which are manufactured In great quantities at that city, and as soon as the line is completed, tenders will at once be submitted to Government for the more speedy transmission of the mails to the Channel Islands, by which a saving of more than twelve hours will be effected, and to the North and North-west of Great Britain a saving of twenty-four hours. There is also very considerable traffic to be derived from the various stone quarries, iron mines, and clay pits on the line (the clay pits alone yielding more than 50,000 tons annually) ; sand from the Isle of Wight, for the manufacture of glass, of which more than 10,000 tons annually are used in Birmingham alone; the pre sent mercantile traffic whieh now goes round the Land's End to the Western Ports ; the great agricultural, manufacture, and pas senger traffic from the rich and populous districts through which the line passes; and the traffic which must be thrown upon the line from the Welch iron and coal masters, as being the nearest and most direct outlet to the Continent for the produce of that country. In dependent of remuneration, this line ought to be looked upon as a great national undertaking and benefit, as it will do away with the necessity for vessels now employed in the Dutch, Danish, Swedish, and Russian trades, bound to the western parts of England, going round the Land's End, by at once opening to them the harbour of Poole, which has been pronounced by eminent engineers to be one of the best natural harbours in the world, and capable, at a small expense, of being made accessible to 'vessels of the largest class with perfect safety, and enabling them to send their cargoes to their different destinations in less time, and at a less expense, than at present : by this means, not only will the shipowner and the merchant be greatly benefited, but the Company would derive an immense annual revenue from the throughout this country - cargoes ute of northern produce thus landed at Poole, to be again diet ri follow so large d by means of their rail way, to the different manufacturing towns Y passenger traffic that would natu rallya , portion arnl the handsome yield to the Company a verymercantile traffic cannot fail to mer return The average number of vessels detained in this trade in going round the Land's End amounts, from the most authentic sources, to about four thousand, each ves se l averag i ng a d e t en ti on o f five days. The average tonnage .of these vessels amounts to 130 tons, which would give six men to each vessel, working after the rate of 601. per month, which would give, for the number of days detained, 101. to each vessel: this, multiplied by the number of vessels, viz., 4,000, would give the sum of 40,000/., which will be entirety saved by means or this line. This is independent of the loss of life, destruction of property, expense of insurance, and loss of time, whieh would all be saved by the projected rail, the statistics of which, did space allow, would make every one look upon the present undertaking, not only as one, of great local importance, but one of great national benefit. The a d van tageS have long been k n o wn and a pp reciated, an d the present Company have determined to bring th , em into play in the most full and efficient manner. The expense o. storage at Poole as well as the port dues are leas than at any port m kingdom ; that the merchant would be enabled to keep his goods there at a less expense than at his own port. He would be enabled to perform five voyages far every three from t he northern parts, and, by means of y te speed communication y the electric telegraP the ra id h and p conveniences will travelling of the present day, b me n - a ny advantages and conve be afforded. Company's A careful preliminary survey having be en made by the surveyor, the line has been pronounced to present less than-the ave rage engineering difficulties, about thirty miles being through a rich, populous, and level valley. The harbour of Poole has also been sur veyed, and the bar at the mouth of the harbour has been pronounced to be capa'ole of removal, and is now actually being removed ; thus opening to vessels of the largest tonnage one of the safest and most commodious harbour .3 in the world. These are a few o: the advantages offered to the public by the pro jected line ; and the Committee, impressed with the sense of the ex cellence and legitimacy of the undertaking, and basing their views upon ascertained facts and undoubted evidence, feel themselves war ranted in offering to all applicants for shares the following conditions, viz.:. That no party taking shares in the said Company Shall be liable (in case of failure of the Company) to a larger amount than five shillings per share, unless a greater sum shr'l be sanctioned at a General Meeting of the Shareholders called for that purpose; so that incase the Company ,all at any period of time prior to such Meeting being called, the Committee pledge themselves to return 1/. 17s. per share instead or 21. 25., and a wamortionately larger amount if the accounts ofthe Company, upon inspection, show a less expenditure. At the first general meeting of the shareholeevs the Committee will produce an account, signed by the hankers, of the several sums received by them on account of the Company, thereby warranting o the shareholders tb- - t the amount subscribed is still in the bands or be hankers, minus fie ss. per share. The future plans or the Company will be laid before the share iolders at their first general meeting, and everything submitted to heir inv—tigation and approved. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee or the Bristol and Poole Harbour Railway Company. I request that you will allot to me shares of 201. each m the above undertaking, agreeably to the prospectus ; and I avee' to accept such shares as may be allotted me on the terms above mentioned, and also to pay the deposit thereon, and to sign the Par liamentary Contract and Subscribers' AgreeneM, when required. Dated the dayof 1846. Name Residence .. ••••••• . • • • • • • Trade or rrofesslon •• .. Reference ..... • • • • .. • • • • • • Address of Referee •••• • • • • *** Aprcations for shares may be made, in the above form, at the office of the Cowany, 65, King William-§ireet City; Gilbert Ste phen., Esq., 13, Northumberland-street, Strlnill ; Messri. Castleman and Kir , gdon, Wimborne ; T. Hyatt, Esq.. solcitor, Shed ton Moyet ; S. Smith ,Esq., Blandford ; and M. K. Welch, Esq., so licitor, '2004 DERBYSIIIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, AND WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY COM- PANT. This line of Railway was originally projected to supply a most im portant mineral, agricul.ural, and manufacturing district with much required means of inter-communication, and is now rendered *ill more necessary, inasmuch as it e ill connect, by en intersecting route the North Staffordshire, the Trent Valley, the London and North Western, the South Stafforshire, and (by means of the last) the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railways. It will. con sequently, he in immediate communication wish first-class stations on all these lines. -This Company applied for an Act in the last session, and the Bill passed the House of Commons, and was only defeated in the House of Lords upon a technical non-compliance with the standing orders, so trifling, indeed, that the Comments' Select Committee on standing orders had specially reported that the Bill might and ought to be proceeded with. The line may now be made on its original integrity, from Uttoxe ter, where it will join the North Staffordshire Railway, to a Junc tion with the South Staff ordshire, near Walsall. The latter Corn pang having obtained au A ct, last session, fur constructin g the lin e from Walsall to Dudley, wi ll execute thdt, the mos.; ,expeneiV e part of the whole scheme, and re nder it unnecessary for th is Company to require more than a capital of 400,0001. The Dir, etors have the pleas re of stating that upon this capital the evidence addwed 1. sZ, session proved a probable return of con siderably more than 'en per cent. The surveys of lest yerr are now being carefully rev7sed, to enable Mr. Rastrlck, the present engineer of the Company, to eeleet, where opportunity offere, the lint which will hes: , accommodate the public at the least expense of construction. ' The Directors beg to inform the Shareholders of this Company, and also those of the Direct East and West Junction Railway Coin pafty, that the' , have been engaged, for some time past, in making arrangements, which they :eel assured will p rove much to their be nefit, and not only secure a return for the great expenses necessarily incurred in the last session, but also he of material advantage to the success of their opener:. on to Parliament. The Directors do net propose to make any further call upon te Shareholders for that purpose, but as it is necessary, in complian h ce with the standing orders, that fresh Parliamentary Deeds should be signed, each Shareholder is reqeested to attend, with his scrip, at the office of the Company, for that purpose, when the old scrip will he exchanged for new eel•p certificates, in tv'e'c't creditfor the full deposits already paid w". be given and power ef . l - • ,tornev be for warded, free of expense, to Country Sit , :reholders, on application to the Secretary. The new deeds will be ready for signature on and front the 22nd day of October instant. In the meanti're, all further MN:nation relative to the position and prospects of the Company, may he ob tained .korn the sercZl -, by personal adplication to him, or other wise, at the Comeany's By we:et' of the D• Ce:•01 3. I:.. -4 . AT knfiENZIE. Secretary. Office of the Company, 4, Queen-square, Wes-minter, Oct. 13, 1840, STAIN ES and RICHMOND RAILW AY. The Committee of Maw...valeta of this Railway have the satisfaction to state that arrangements have been made with the London and Soutb-Western Railway Company, by which thaSerip holders,in. this Company will be entitled to an equal number of Scrip Shares in the New Amalgamator Company, upon payment of 1/. 2s. per share. Such new shares will then be considered as having paid a deposit of 2/. 2s. in the .Apaal„ramater Company, to be called the " Windsor, Staines, and South-Western Railway Company." Scrip holders will be required to deposit the scrip with the Secretary, at the Offices of the tiCompany, 32, Moorgate-street, on or before SATITILDAY, the 31st of October Inst., between the hours of Eleven and Four o'clock. A receipt will be given for the scrip at the time the same is left at the Offices of the Company. Persons transmitting their scrip by post are requested to write their names and addresses in lul across the face of the scrip. Due notice will be given of the times and places appointed for payment of the deposit, and for ex changing the Shares for scrip in the Amalgamator Company. By order, J. C. GOVETT, Secretary. 32, Moorgate-street, Oct. 14,1816. L ONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. OPENING OF THE BRANCH LINE TO BEDFORD. NOTICE.—The public are informed that on TUESDAY NeXT, the 20th instant, this RAILWAY will be OPENED THROUGHOUT to REDFORD, and that Trains will be dispatched , FROM EUSTON STATION At % past 7 A.M., arriving at Bedford at about M past lb. M before 11 A 911 .M., 34 past 1. % past 5 P.m., ft 8 P.M. • - • AND. FROM BEDFORD At 34 before 8 A.M., arriving at the Euston Station at about . , • 20m. past 10 A.M. lq, Past 2 P.M., I/ 5 P.M. 6 P.M., % past 8 P.M. By order, R. CREED, Secretary. Office, Euston Station, October 13, 1846. HALL OF ROME, GREAT WINDMILL STREET, HA.YMARKET. Eight doors from Coventry•street. Under Distinguished Patronage.—The original Poses Plastiques and Tableaux Vivane. Professor TURNOUR, ever anxious to diversify the attractions at the above splendid theatre, begs most respectfully to inform the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public,•th'dt he has succeeded in en gaging one of the finest Models of the day, who will appear every afternoon and evening during the week in l'rofessor Tumour's cele brated groups of Venus Rising from the Sea and the Lute Player. The new Classical Groupings, which have been acknowledged by the press as fur surpassing anything of the kind ever attempted in tiii4 country, will be repeated during the week, introducing the THREE COLOUR ED FEMALE MOD Et,S, natives of Hindoostan, who have been received with rapturous applause by fashionable and crowded houses. Morning Performance at Three o'clock, and Evening at Half-past Eight.—Stalls, 2s. ad.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. T HE WALIIALLA.—Late Miss LINWOOD'S GALLERY, Leicester-square. • Madame WHARTON begs to inform the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that she has opened the above spacious gallery with a series of Tableaux Vivans, and Posesyiastiques ; having, during her re cent visit on the Continent, engaged a troupe of eminent artistes, and been favoured with admissions to tlra studios of several cele brated painters and sculptors, she is enabled to produce, in a classic and authentic manner, this truly popular exhibition. Morning performances at Three ; Evening performances at Eight. Admission, Is. ; Reserved Seats, 25.; Stalls, 3s. cAulloy LOST or STOLEN, in the neighbourhood of Cornhill, on Friday, the 16th October instant, between twelve and one o'clock in the afternoon, a Bank of England Note for 401., dated 7th March, 1846, No. 64,470. Payment of the above note has been stopped, and the Public are hereby cautioned against receiving the same if attempted to be negotiated. Information to be given to Messrs. Bush and Muliens, solicitors, St. Mildred's Court, Poultry, Londsn. fiI_LOBE HOTEL, PLYMOUTH. REPORTS being most industriously circulated, evidently emanating from interested parties, that the greater portion of the Bed-rooms are temporarily destroyed by the alterations making in the above hotel, W. RADMORE deems it necessary to inform his Friends and the Public that such is not the case, and he has so arranged that the whole improvements will be carried out without In the least degree interfering with the comfort of his guests. Plymouth, Oct. 15, 1846. TO INNKEEPERS and OTHERS.—To be LET, in a flourishing town in Hampshire, a good well frequented COMMERCIAL INN and HOTEL, having a large garden and meadow; five pair of post•ho:•ses are kept, which are in constant work. The capital required will be about 1,300/. for valuation, &c. No good will. A lease eta moderate rent will be granted. For par ticulars apply to Wariters, Lovejoy, and Sou. 55, Chancery-lane. SALES BY AUCTION. THE VALUABLE AND IMPORTANT ESTATES OF THE LATE WM. C ROWDY, ESQ.. OF lIIGHWORTH, WILTS, COMPRISING THE MUCH AD WIRED RESIDENCE, WEST ROP II )USE, AND LANDS AROUND THE TOWN; ALSO FARMS AND LANDS AT STBAVTON, CLOSE TO THE SWINDON STATION, SOUTH MARSTON, SHRIVENHAW, LETCOMBE, LECULADE, HAMPTON AND HANNL.NOTON; ALL MOST ELIGIBLE FOR INVESTMENT. MR. GEORGE ROBINS is instructed by the Executors to announce for SALE by AUCTION, at the GODDARD ARMS, SWINDON, on MONDAY, Nov. 16, at Twelve for One o'clock, in Thirty-five Lots, The important Freehold Property of the late William Crowdy, Esq., of Highworth, Wilts. COMPRISING NEARLY 400 ACRES OF THE BEST LAND IN THE VICINITY OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, OFFERING MANY TEMPTING INVESTMENTS, including Westrop House, the family Residence, built of stone, of handsome exteriof, and upon which no expense has been spared to secure every comfort ; the internal arrangement so complete as to leave nothing to be desired. The principal Rooms are of good pro portions, and the Reception Rooms and Saloon opening one with another and, LOOKING UPON THE LAWN AND PLEASURE GARDEN, WHICH EXTEND TO FIVE ACRES, forma most agreeable scene. A shrunbery walk, of singular beauty, winds a considerable distance through the grounds, which present a charming specimen of landscape gardening ; the offices are quite perfect, and, as four packs of hounds hunt the immediate neigh bourhood, A MOST DELIGHTFUL HUNTING SEAT may be secured, which from its many advantages only requires to be known to be appreciated by a sporting gentleman. Also immediately opposite are 26 ACRES OF ORNAMENTAL LAND, with extensive frontages to two roads, forming a most valuable ap pendage to the residence, and in the town, two Freehold Houses, facing the High-street, occupied by Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Howse, with gardens, and several cottages. Also, AT EASTROP, IN HIGHWORTH, a house occupied by Mr. Lavington, with two closes of extremely rich land, with frontage to the high road; two other Closes, known as Fennell's Closes, and another as THE TRINITY CLOSE, WITH FISH-POND AND PLANTATION, a romantic spot of extreme beauty, and its proximity to the town offers a tempting purehase. Two acres of meadow land, at Hampton, lit to Mr. Robert Litten ; three acres at Hatimington, let to Mr. ichard Herbert ; thirty acres, known as the Goslakes, with frontace to the Lechlade road ; 37 ACRES OF RICH MEADOW AND ARABLE LAND AT STRATTON, _ divided into five closes, two of them abetting upon the railroad at Swindon, and close to the station, let to Mr. Greenaway, Mr. Law rence, and Mr. Bailey. A SNUG FARM OF FIRST-RATE PASTURE LAND &T SOUTH MARSTON, comprising 58 acres, with lToniestead and buildings, let to Mr. Love ; and 9 acres, let to Mr. Hughes, Mr. Fisher, and Mr. Litten. 5 ACRES OF CAPITAL MEADOW LAND AT SHRIVENHAM. in two Closes, one with frontage to the Wilts and Berks Canal, let to Mr. Streat, and the other on the Road to Highworth, let to Mr. Po cock. Three Cottages at Watchfield, let to Mr. Addison and others. A CAPITAL PASTURE AND ARABLE FARM AT LETCOMBE, with a comfortable Farm House and suitable Buildings, a portion of the Land of superior quality around the House, the remainder Down Land about a mile distant, forming together a desirable Farm, in the occupation of Mr. Bence, also an allotment of three and a half acres at Letcombe Regis, let to Thomas Goodlake, Esq., and four and a half acres of rich Meadov Lan at Letcombe Basset. AN 'UNDIVIDED MOIETY OF A SMALL . FARM OF EXCEL LENT ARABLE AND MEADOW LAND AT LECHLA DE, 46 acres being close to the Town, with Farm-yard and Buildings, and frontage to the High-road. let to Mr. Hunter, 10 acres of Water Meadow on the Road leading to Welfo.o in the same occupation, asd an undivided moiety of a small Close of three acres, being the second from the Road leading from Farringdon to Lechlade, in the occu pation of Mr. Phipp. The various Properties may be viewed, by permission of the tenants, and fall particulars will be published 21 days prior to the sale, to be had st the Goddard Arms, Swindon; Barrington Arms, Shrivenham; Bear, Wantage ; New Inn. Lechlade; White Horse, Cricklade ; Crown, Farringdon ; of Henry C. Crowdy, Esq., Solicitor, Flighworth, and at the King and Queen,' Highworth ; of Messrs. Barnes, Winter, and Bernard, Solicitors, No. 2, Great Win chester-street, Broad-street ; and at Mr. George Robins's Offices, Covent-garden. FREEHOLD BUILDING GROUND, and other PROPERTY, to -- --- TO be SOLD, pursuant to ORDERS of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in a eertain cause of HAMILTON v. VISCOUNT LISMORE, with the approbation ef SAMURI, DUCKWOBTH, Esq., one of the Masters of the said Court, at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house, Holborn, on TULIDAY, the 24th day of November next. A piece of BUILDING GROUND, consisting of 2 acres and 2 perches, part of a piece of ground known as the Gospel Oak and Five Acre Fields, situate between Kentish Town and Hampstead, forming part of the property sold in the above-mentioned cause on the 7th day of July last, and adjoining the laud recently sold by Lord South ampton, Also a Rent Charge in perpetvity of 1001. per annum, from the Chapel and Burial-ground of the parish of St. James, Westminster, situate in the Hampstead-road. Particulars and conditions of sale may be had at the said Master's Chambers, Southamptombuildings, Chancery-lane; ef Messrs. Walker, Grant and Co., solicitors, 13, King's-road, Gray's Inn ; and of Messrs. Lightfoot, Robson and Lightfoot, solicitors, 26, Castle street, Leicester square. WALKER, GRANT and Co., King's-road, Gray's Inn. TH E 1J N IVE R SAL GAS BURNER. 30 to 50 per Cent. Saved ! To be had at the Patentees, 60, St. Martin's-lane, Charing , cross. The Patentees beg to call public attention to the following facts, the advantages resulting from the invention are various and striking. Independently of a saving of 30 to 50 per cent„ the com bustion is perfect, and the brilliancy produced superior to any light hitherto discovered. It emits neither smell nor smoke, and burns steadily for any period ; and such is its purity, that it neither affects or soils the most delicate odour or the finest fabric. Objections have made to the introduction of gas in dwellinv-houses, to the expense of fittings, to its destruction of furniture, draperies, gold moulding, &C. ; these are entirely obviated by the "PATENT UNIVERSAL GAS BURNER." As the cost of laying on gas is much lower than is com monly supposed, it Is adapted for private dwellings, as Well as for club-houses, hotels, manufactories, and publie buildings. One of the small burners is amply snflicient to light a good-sized room, at a sum immeasurably lower than spirit, oil, or candle, with the avoidance of waste or trouble. The merits of the "Burner," its brilliancy and economy surpassing every other known light, are shown by the annexed authentic opinions of the qualities of the UNIVERSAL GAS BURNER. Extract from the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Tuesday, 26th May, 1846, Sir JOHN RENNIE, President, in the Chair. " A gas burner of a novel and ingenious construction was exhibited. The principal novelty was the introduction of a stream of air to the centre of the flame by a hollow button in the middle of the burner. the air passing up through the hollow stem of the button, was heat ed, and passed out by two series of fire-holes around the periphery,. and impinging with force on the flame oP the gas curved it outwards In the shape of a tulip, while the oxygen of the air, mingling with the carburetted hydrogen gas, produced a very p'irfect combustion, The flame was quite white down the top of the burner, was very steady, as was amply demonstrated by the excellent light of the ynstitutiou. where these burners have been used 4 In comparing the consumption of these burners with that of the concentric ring burners, and trying the power of the two lightsi,y the photometer, the new burner gave a better ght, with a saving of rather more than one-third." CERTIFICATE rOLTTECHNIC CHEMICAL Smoot..—" In testing Clark, McNiell, and Co.'s Universa :Gas Burner with one of the best shawdowless turners, it gave a more pure and brilliant light, with a saving of 20 o 25 per cent." GEORGE Clill', Engineer, ROUT. LONGBOTTOS - 1, Secretary, CERTIFICATE, " Ina series of experiments made upon Clark, Mc Niell, and Co.'s Patent Universal Gas Burner, its superiority was satisfactorily estst: blished in economy and the quality of the light. Tested against argand hurn , rs, Nos. 4 (12 holes), and 6 (15 holes), it afforded a g as jug of at least 25 per cent., and against three fish-tall burners, N o . 49 per cent. The colour and brilliancy of the flame Is supe rior to any other burner." T. W. KEATER, Consulting Chemist, J. 1). PALAIEIt, illechanic.l Inspec:er. The UNIVERSAL GAS LIFINEIt•is used nighav rt th., Poly technic I n stitution, aril mry be bed and Leen fro-n 11 at the D a t e stees,6o, St. Martin's-lane, C:astring-cross ; and of vll Gas Fitters. PUBLICATIONS. • NEW EDITION OF CAPTAIN 31ARRYIT'S SETTLERS. On Wednesday next will be publiihed, a New Edition, in 1 vol. fcp. Bvo., with Two Engravin7s, price 7s. 6d. riflE SETTLERS in" CANADA. By Captain MARRYAT, C.B. A New Ediaon, complete in One Vol. By the sarna„Atibbor, - MASTERMAN READY. 3 vols. witti Illustrations, 225. 6d. The MISSION; or, Scenes in Africa. 4 2 vols. fcp. Bvo., 12s. The PRIVATEER'S-MAN one Hundrid Years Ago. 2 vols. 12s. London: Longman, Brown, G n, and Longmans. by BOY'S OWN LIBRAR -A Series of Books . for the Young, profusely and Lutifully Illustratcd.—Now ready, the BOY'S SUMMER BOOK, THOMAS MILLER; da• scriptive of the Seaton, Scenery, Rural - Life, and Country Amuse ments; with nearly 48 beautiful Wood Engravings, and Title and Frontispiece printed in Colours, in imitation of Water Colour Draw ings. Price 25.. in ornamental stiff cover; or 3s. cloth. Shortly, the BOY'S AUTUMN AND WINTER BOOKS, by the same author. Chapman and Tall, 186, Strand. PUNCH'S POCKET-BOOK FOR 1847. Illustrated with a coloured Frontispiece and numerous En gravings on Steel and Wood, by John Leach and Richard Doyle, will be published on November Ist. Price 2s. Gd. London : Published at the " Punch" Office, 85, Fleet-street. LADIES TRAVELLING, Visiting the Sea Coast, or otherwise exposed to the seorehixg rays of the Sun, will find . . OWLAND'S KAL . YDQ,II,I a moat refreshing JLIV preparation for the Compleatak , •Wetnr/ e ele4A of lan guor and relaxation, allaying all heat and irritability, and immedi ately affording the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity of the Skin. The numerous varieties of Cutaneous Eruptions, Sun burn, Freckles, Tan, and Discolourations, are pleasingly eradicated by the Kalydor, and the skin rendered delicately soft and clear. Its purifying and refreshing properties have obtained its exclusive selec tion by the Court and the Royal Family of Great Britain, and those of the Continent of Europe, together with tha "elite" of the Aris tocracy and " ilaute Volee," from the sultry climes of India, and the Drawing-rooms of Calcutta and Madras, to the frozen realms of the Czar and the Salons of St. Petersburgh and Mcscow.—Price 4s. 6d. and Bs. 6d. per bottle. •*$ BeWa - re of spurious "Kalydors" containing mineral astrin gents utterly ruinous to the complexion, and Which, by their repel ant action, endanger health. The only genuine has the words •' ROWLAND'S KALYDOit" on the wrapper, and A. ROWLAND and SON, 20, Hatton-garden, is also engraved (by desire of the Hon. Commissioners) on the Government Stamp allied on each bottle. Sold by the Proprietors, and by respectable Chemists and Per- Atmers. All other "Kalvdors" are fraudulent counterfeits. THE REGISTRATIONS. CITY OF LONDON. The revision of the householders' lists was proceeded with at ten o'clock on Thursday morning by the Revising Barrister. George Henry Wright appeared in the list with the following description attached to his name :—Place of abode: 31, Shepperton-cottages, New North-road, Isling ton. Nature of qualification : tenant to Mr. Bond, at a yearly rent of 501. Place where the property is si'uate: 45, Cornhill, being a successive occupation from No. 12, Moorgate• street, in the parish of —, Coleman -street, and previously 3, Spread Eagle-court, in the parish of St. Benet Fink. Mr. Browne applied to have the name expunged, and his application was founded on the manner in which the qualification was described, and which, he submitted, was not sufficient. The BARRISTER observed that the qualification as de scribed was insufficient ; it looked to him like a county qualification, and he must expunge the name. RESULT OF THE REVISION ON THURSDAY. OBJECTIONS.—ALLOWED. Conservatives. 157 Liberals. 34 Double. 22 FAILED OR WITHDRAWN. 79 106 4 Liberal claims allowed... 1 Disallowed The lists of the following parishes were revised : St. Botolph, Aldg;ste, and St. Mary, Whitechapel, in the ward of Portscken, St. Michael, Cornhill, and St. Peter, Cornhill, in the ward of Cornhill ; and St. Olave, Hart street, Tower ward. The following parishes are yet to be revised :—St. Gabriel, Fenchurch-street ; St. Mary Wolnoth, and St. Nicholas Aeons, Langbourne. and Lime-street ward ; and Allhallows, Barking, and St. Dunstan's in the East. ,The Barrister proceeded with the revision of those parishes at ten o'clock yesterday morning. MIDDLESEX. The court was held on Thursday, at the,Green Man, Bethnal-green, before Mr. Shadwell, fur the revision of the lists in the Bethnal-green district. Mr. W. H. James appeared for the Liberal party, and Mr. J. Payne for the Conservatives. In the Norton-folgate list, Matthew Coffee, described as residing at Liverpool, was objected to by the Con servatives, on the ground of insufficient - description. Mr. Coffee having proved his justification, stated that last year he was objected to by the Conservatives, and his name was retained. He had now come up from Liverpool on purpose to support his claim, and therefore asked for his expenses. _ _ _ . Mr. Payne contended that Liverpool was not such a description of place of abode as required. Mr. Coffee stated that he resided in a ward called Everton, but that he conld not give any better address than Liverpool, as the place in which be lived was being newly formed, and had not yet been named. Mr. Payne submitted that Everton ought to be in serted. Mr. SHADWELL said that "Everton, Liverpool," might be a better description of place of abode, at all events it would prevent the voter being objected to again; but having made the alteration, he could not allow costs. Name retained. _ Mr. Robert Harrison, claiming in the Hackney list for a freehold house, situate in the High-street, was ob jected to by the Conservatives. From the evidence of the claimant it appeared that be lodged in the same house for which he claimed. At Lady-day last the claimant let to one Goodrich the house as yearly tenant, at the rent of 181. a year, and afterwards became his lodger, paying a rent of three shillings a week. The claimant had paid all the rates up to Lady-day, when he let the house to Goodrich, and he still continued to pay the rates. Mr. Payne submitted, that if the claimant Was allowed to stand upon the register it would be a great infringe ment of the Reform Act, as he woule be entitled to vote for the borough, and thereby have two votes fur the same house. _ . __ Mr. SHADWELL was of opinion that the claimant was entitled to vote; he would insert the number of the house in High -street.—Name retained. The Court rose at two o'clock. WESTMINSTER. The revision of the lists of voters for this city has ter minated most successfully for the Reform interest, as will be seen from the following statement:—' RESULT OF REGISTRATION IN WESTMINSTER, 1846. Reform claims allowed l2B Tories expunged on objection 243 Deduct Tory gains on claims allowed Total gains to Reformers 367 In addition to the above gain, there was. previous to the revision, 979 more names on the lists than on the previous register, a large majority of whom are known to be Reformers; this increase has mainly resulted from the attention paid by the Reform Society to the insertion of names in the lists of voters previous to the revision. MR. BRIGHT FOR MANCHESTER. MANCHESTER, THIIRSDAY.—The long- pending . ques tion in the Reform Association as to the nomination of 1 Mr. Bright, at the next election for this borough, was settled yesterday. W. R. Callender, Esq.,' was in the chair, and a motian was made by Alderman Kershaw, seconded by Alderman Burd, " that Mr. John Bright be requested to allow himself to be put in nomination at the next general election for this borough." The resolution was carried with only two dissentients. A deputation was then appointed to wait upon Mr. Bright, and the resolution appointing it provided " that in the event of Mr. Bright's accepting 'the invita tion of the ass , )ciation, a general meeting of the Li beral electors be forthwith called to confirm the nomi nation." The deputation consisted of Messrs. Callender, Alderman Kershaw, Alderman Burd, Alderman Kay, George Wilson, W. Rawson, Edward Watkin, and Samuel Lees, and these gentlemen sent a special messenger to Mr. Bright, •at Roch dale, yesterday, soliciting an interview this day at the League Rooms, Manchester. The messenger, however, did not succeed in meeting with the honourable Gentle man, and at the meeting of the deputation this morning a messenger was dispatched with a letter to the Honour able Gentleman, announcing the resolution which had been come to. Mr. Bright is expected to be in Manchester, to meet the deputation this evening at five o'clock. STOPPAGE OP T H AMES-STREET. Thursday the thoroughfare of Thames-street, between Southwark and London-bridges, was closed to relay the roadway. NOVEL TMPORTATION.—A vessel just arrived in the River from Alexandria (Egypt) has brought, in addition to 261 tons weight of animal bones, 3,758 baskets of pigeon.' dung. This extensive arrival is not of the de scription of manure known by the name of guano, other wise, it is presumed, it woulsi have been so termed in the repot t of the vessel importing the article. It would appear, however, from the description given above, that it possesses the qualities of, or is of the kind of merchan dise similar to, the article which has of late been so ex tensively supplied from the islands in the Southern and South Atlantic Oceans, between the African and South American coasts. Its importation from the particular quarter mentioned, and the apparent novelty of the at title so named, causes it to be of interest to those con cerned in the supply of the manure called guano, which is the excrement or refuse of the penguic bird, abound ir.g in the southern climes, and is, therefore, entitled to particular notice. TIMES.—The sententious proclamations of the tele graphs have at length struggled through the heavy and ominous clouds which interposed themselves between Madrid and Neuilly, and Louis Philippe has been au thentically informed that the Duke de Montpensier has been married to the Infanta of Spain. Such is the bare and frigid announcement. Perhaps, his Majesty now conceives that the victory is won, and that his family will gather in the glittering spoils, and revel in the cap tured city long after the passing jealousy of an ally and the envious cavils of a neighbour have sunk into silence and oblivion. Sunt tanti. It is worths little discredit and some disturbance to have another chance of level- ling the Pyrenees and doubling the dynasty of Orleans. The ides of March are come. Before they are past we shall see a little more clearly what is to be the cost of the prize. Already is misfortune augured from the boding incidents of a solemnity which should have made the year a jubilee. The Spanish Queen and her sister should have been dowered with the hearts of their people; not a voice should have been heard but that of favour, and not a coun tenance seen but that of joy ; liberated captives should have marked the national holiday ; and the true and tried allies of Spain should have sent their representa tives to the altar to carry the combined congratulations of Europe. What has been the reality? A secret and suspicious negotiation, with rumours of violence and symptoms of fraud, has been terminated by an abrupt and unblessed alliance. The marriage of an Infanta has been compassed and concluded under circumstances which no Castilian noble would tolerate in his own family. Amidst the sullen silence of an offended people, environed by cavalry and guarded by cannon, the intru sive bridegroom has traversed the streets of his newly found capital, throegh a crowd whose most friendly feeling was indifference, and whose most innocent senti ment was inquisitiveness. . No sound of welcome saluted his ears or cheered him into momentary confidence. The energy of an unscrupulous Government contrived to suppress disgust, but it could not supply acclamations. Arrests instead of amnesties characterised this sinister festival of a nation ; the marriage of a Princess has been seen to crowd the prisons with her sister's sub jects. From the ill-starred ceremony the friends of Spain stood coldly aloof, and the representative of her truest ally and surest supporter withdrew from the scene, after having vainly tendered the amicable remonstrances of his country against the contemplated contract. What will come of a bargain thus ominously struck—thus stripped of the joys and gratulations of such solemnities, and completed amidst such dark prog nostics of impending evil? The political and natural horizons were black and overcast as at one of those mar riages which, in heathen fable, used to entail miseries and bloodshed on innumerable generations ; and not even the fatal u edding of Marie Antoinette was more gloomily characterised than these precipitate nuptials of a helpless Princess. Superstition was perhaps required to infer massacres - and ruin frcm the fall of a scaffold' and the deadly struggles of a crowd ; but the most sober prudence can only augur conflicts and convulsions from an outraged people, an estranged ally, an enslaved court, and a detested intruder. Already is the unknown issue of a marriage, which should have supplied reversionary heirs to the Crown, ignored by that Power to whose friendly aid both Crown and Constitution owe so much; yet there is joy and gladness at Versailles, as if forty years had not taught them to dread the tempera ment of Spain. It might be imagined that the re cords of 1808 were forgotten or inaccessible, so little is learned from the lesson which they so loudly teach. Indolent apathy might then, perhaps, have been mistaken for popular acquiescence ; but such a blunder is strangely simple now. It was amidst the apparent in difference of carelessness or content that the French co lumns were pushed across the Pyrenees, and established in the frontier fortresses, while the partition of Portugal was put forth as a transparent pretext for the occupation of Spain. It was without question or interruption that Charles and Ferdinand continued their unbecoming quarrels, and tossed their neglected kingdom for arbi tratiou or acceptance into the hands of the wily ruler of France. Not a murmur reached the guard-rooms of the arrogant Joseph, when the ninety-one notables had con veyed to him, as he fondly conceived, the peaceable and entire possession or the monarchy of Spain.. Napoleon had stronger grounds of confidence than Louis Philippe; for Charles was an idiot, and Godoy was a fool ; and if the ambitious Corsican thought that Spaniards would willingly acquiesce in a Monarch and Constitution of his gift, he might have been more readily par doned for forgetting 1706, than can King Louis Philippe be for forgetting 1808. A week trans formed apathy into insurrection. A flame, the most fierce and violent, burst forth instant a n eous ly from ashes under which scarce a spark was thought to smoulder. Arragon, Navarre, the Asturias, Biscay, and the Cas tiles, successively or simultaneously proclaimed their spirit, and their strength, and not a link was wanting in a 'chain which encompassed the French intruders with the vindictive hostility of an insulted nation. Spain seems to fascinate the house of Orleans by an hereditary law. Scarcely had the first uxorious Bourbon been se cured in his palace by the ill-merited loyalty of Castile, than the Regent tampered with Stanhope for its transfer to his own branch, or at least for its partition ; and King Louis Philippe may, perhaps, recal the hour when he sailed with a Sicilian kinsman to Gibraltar in pursuit of this favourite prize, with somewhat different ideas of English interference from those professed at present. A few months will now probably show us how far he has succeeded in a feat which foiled the undying ambi tion of Louis le Grand and the unexampled might of Napoleon ; and what is the real value of the spoil for which he has not hesitated to imperil a thirty years' peace and convulse the relations of Europe. POST.—It seems to be generally admitted among the physicians of the mind, that there are intellectual as well as physical epidemics, and that the human understand ing has its influenzas as well as the human body. Folly appears to be as catching as the measles—any one gen tleman who may be insane upon some point of " social improvement," has only to inoculate the brains of his neighbours, to cause the major part of the commu nity to take the mania kindly, and to go as stark staring mad upon the subject as himself. A little time ago the enlightened British public caught the railway fever, and everybody was delirious about " junctions," " exten sions," and " directs ;" but being under skilful hands, the fever, as usual, was allayed by copious phlebotomy, or a considerable letting of the vital specie from the breeches pocket, and it was found that, as in the well known case of Nicolai, the Italian bookseller, the bleeding bad the effect of dissipating the illusion. The last new Mental malady is an eruption of clubs. One or two " noble institutions" have already broken out, and the streets seem likely in a short time to be covered over with a severe rash of cockney Parthe fions, Palladiums, Athenaeums, and other Bow-bell temples of wisdom and boiled beef. The clerks and shopmen of the metropolis are to be fed and philoso phised at cost price. They are to have three courses of fish, flesh, and fowl, and a course of scientific lectures into the bargain, on the most reasonable terms ; and, so that no time may be lost, the mind is to be feasted with the body. A professor of hydrostatics is to come in with the soup—a lecture on ichthyology to be served up with the fish—and a popitlar discourse upon comparative anatomy to lend all the relish of currant jelly to the mutton. Consequently we may entertain hopes of shortly seeing the day when eEuclids shall measure oat yards of flannel on geometrical principles, when New tons shall calculate the gravity of our accounts at our bankers, and Bacons oblige us by handing us the copies of our writs. The richest, the raciest, the summa stultitia of all, however, is a project for the construction of a series of social Chateaux en Espagne, given • in a paragraph now going the circuit of the papers, and the first stone of which appears to have been laid in the brain of some sapient correspondent of the Builder, who seems to possess a fine lath-and-plaster facility for running up castles in the air. The atmospheric archi tect puts forth a plan for what he calls "Family Club Chambers," by which he proposes that the future resi dences of the middle classes should consist, like George Coleman's fat gentleman, of several single houses rolled into one. He is anxious to consolidate the domiciles, as well as the funds, of the London gentry, and to locate a different establishment on each different floor ; or, in other words, to run up what he calls "a palace" several families high, and so to found throughout the metropolis a number of little communities of " flats." But the gentleman cackles so eloquently on the subject, that, in order to allow him the opportunity of saving the British Capitol from the hands of the barbarians, we will give his own version of the scheme : " FAMILY CLUB- CHAMBERS. That the union of several private residences under one roof would improve the architecture of London, is unquestionable. If it were properly carried into effect, we might live to see palaces erected for the accommodation of the middle clasSes, instead of interminable rows of mean dwellings, which depress the spirits of all who behold them. The system would also be most advantageous in preventing the inconvenient extension of the metropolis." So that " those interminable rows of mean dwellings" which constitute the localities of Russell, Eaton or Bry anstone-squeres, which we believe were erected for the accommodation of the middle classes," but from the con templation of which we must confess we never expe rienced that " depression of spirits" which the aerial builder mentions, are, we suppose, to be horizontally condensed, and perpendicularly elongated, until they arrive at the altitude of the brace of stucco Mont Blanes which flank the Albert entrance to Hyde-park, and which are of course, to the aerial builder, so much more inspiriting to behold, and must be so healthy to ascend. This arrangement certainly might have the effect of " stopping the inconvenient extension of the metropolis" spoken of ; but though it might prevent London from growing a Daniel Lambert in bulk, we fear that it would be the cause of the buildings becoming O'Briens in height. HERALD.—We are free to confess that we have much greater expectations of Lord Cottenharn as a law reformer than we ever entertained of Lord Lyndhurst, The last-mentioned Noble Lor d o ccu p ied the great seal for the third time from 1841 till the middle of thep t re ; sent year; and though n o man was better awtaree Noble of the evil of the monopoly of the sergeants t ha n h nandoir.earned Lord, or knew better the ill effects of hkn g u p the approach to one of her Majesty's superior courts, —or more sardonically laughed at the folly of maintaining, in the nineteenth century, the usages and customs of the twelfth and thirteenth,— or more stoutly maintained the propriety and necessity of Lord Broug ham's efforts to open the Common Pleas, than Lord L 3 ndhurst,—yet such was the uncontrollable laziness of his nature—such his insoucient and careless character— that he never made for five long years the slightest effort to repair a state of things which was operating alike to the injury of the Bar and Bench, and—what was of far more consequence than either-10 the great injury and oppression of the suitors frequenting her Majesty's courts of common law. Somewhere about the middle of the month of July, we believe, the great seals were delivered to Lord Cottenham, and on the 18th of August he had drawn up and passed through Parlia ment the 9th and 10th Vict. c. 54, entitled "An Act to extend to all Barristers practising in the Superior Courts at Westminster the Privile ges of Serg ean t s - a t-l aw i n t h e Court of Common Pleas. " As this Act is a model of brevity and clearness, and a full measure of justice to both branches of the profession, and to all suitors, we transcribe it in eztenso, in order that its provisions may be thoroughly known : " Whereas it would tend to the more equal distribu- tion and to the consequent dispatch of business in the superior courts of common law at Westminster, and would at the same time be greatly for the benefit of the public, if the right of barristers-at-law to practise, plead, and to be heard extended equally to all the said courts; but, by reason of the exclusive privilege of sergeants-at law to practise, plead, and have audience in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster during term time, such object cannot be effected without the authority of Par liament: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temperal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the passing of this Act all barristers•at-law, according to their respective rank and seniority, shall and may have and exercise equal rights and privilege of practising, pleading, and audience in tho said Court of Common Pleas at Westminster with the said sergeants-at-law; and it shall be lawful for the jus tices of the said court, or any three of them, of whom the Lord Chief Justice of the said court shall be one, to make rules and orders, and to do all other things neces sary for giving effect to this enactment." That this measure will not only, in the language of its preansble; tend to the more equal distribution but to the consequent dispatch of business in the courts at Westminster, there can be no manner of doubt. For the last five years the Court of Queen's Bench has been overwhelmed with a mass and multitude of business which no five—or probably no ten judges—in her Majesty's dominions could effectually get through, so as to leave no arrears at the end of the terms, or, if you will, at the end of the judicial year. Some idea, and that a faint one, of the increasing bulk and ,importance of the business, may be formed from the fact that one of the volumes of the Term Reports, which in the dayi 'of East—i. e., froni 1800 to 1812—used to amount to about 550 pages, now, in the days of Adolphus and Ellis, amounts to the astounding number of 1,080 and 1,105 pages. The cases of parish law, and involving decisions on the new Poor-law Act, have increased tenfold since the days of East—while cases of corpora tion law have, since 1832 or 1833, increased in a nearly equal ratio. Railroads, too, have brought in their train (we mean no pun) a new, distinct, and very fruitful class of cases, altogether unknown to the old law; and unless each one of the three courts of common law performs a nearly equal share of labour, the engine of justice, to make use of a railroad illustration, will be altogether at a stand-still. The idea of " exclusive privilege" to practise and plead in a par ticular court can, in the present day, only be defended by the possession of superior learning, astuteness, and aptitude and we hare yet to learn that any one of the twenty-seven sergeants, or sergeants' counters, as they are called in " Horne's Alirrour," possesses a greater aptitude than any competent " apprentice" or " utter barrister" in Westminster Hall. Whether the black patch on the top of the wig or the purple gown of the sergeant, described thus by Jekyll, " Their purple garments come from Tyre, Their arguments go to it," confers on him any extraordinary capability, we leave to be determined by the learned brother who published the case of the sergeants-at law, and who aspirated at a Lord Mayor's dinner a fervent wish that sergeants might eat calipee and calipash at the Mansion-house feasts so long as British law and the British constitution lasted. Joking, however apart, there are not above seven or eight of these sergeant counters who enjoy any considerable practice, and to say that the whole legal business of the country should suffer, to secure the monopoly of these gentlemen, is a proposition so monstrous, that it need merely be enunciated to be at once placed in the limbo of preposterous follies. It is, indeed, of the mainest importance—as every practicable man knows—to the attorney, to have his cause handled, ab ovo usque ad mala —from the beginning to the ending—by the same counsel. A cause is generally best managed in which the counsel who has , first advised as to the preliminary steps aid pleadings, sadyises and argues to the end. Practically this was not so in the Common Please under the arrangement maintained by Lord Lyndhurst— himself an old and eminent sergeant. For from every circuit in England causes were argued in banco by sergeants who had not led at the trial, either at Liverpool—or, Exeter—or Stafford—or Bury—or Lincoln—or Chester—or Swansea—as the case might be. And the preposterous and unjust part of the arrrangement was, that sergeants who excluded all other barristers from their close court—free as " chartered libertines" themselves—took the wide range of Westminster Hall, and plied, such of them as had large business, like Sir Thomas Wilde—their gainful trade and tuneful tongues —in every court, from that of the Lord Chancellor down to the latest created Vice-Chancellor's Court or Court of Bankruptcy. This was a manifest injustice, and could only, be defended by those who resorted for anti quarian arguments to Fortescue and Dyer, or by those sergeant counters who told us, as an extinguisher of all discussion, in the words of Sir Edward Coke, in his preface to the Eighth Report, and in his First Institute, that the Common Pleas existed as a distinct court before the Conquest, and was not created by Magna Charta. To such pre-admite pleaders for exclusive privileges as these—to such preposterous pedants and prigs—it was vain to urge , the spirit of the Uniformity of Process Act, altering the mode of proceeding in the Common Pleas— as well as in all the other courts—vainer still to urge the spirit and exigencies and requirements of the age and time in which we live—for they were blind as well as deaf to what was passing around them. But now their illusions are dissipated,—not by the Queen's writ—but by the Act of Parliament, which we have given in its entirety. No longer, therefore, can the ancient counters— • " The sergeants-at-law both ware and wile, Who often do come to the parvise," claim exclusive privilege "pur enginer la court," to use the words of the statute of Westminster—(and which has been erroneously translated in the statute-book " to beguile the court," for the words mean to dupe and de ceive, and the phrase is so used by La Fontaine), for Lord Cottenham has levelled the barriers they erected, and opened the common bench to the common bar, — to men with stuff in their heads, and with stuff on their backs. ADVERTISER.—The meeting held at Manchester on Tuesday last, for the purpose of memorialising Go vernment on the subject of abolishing entirely the re maining duties on foreign corn, will, we have no doubt, be followed by similar assemblages in all parts of the country. Indeed one has already taken place in Sun derland. It is only surprising that meetings, having for their object the opening of the-ports, have not before now taken place in every populous town in the country. There is only ene thing, in connexion with this subject, which has caused us greater surprise. Can our readers guess what that one thing is ? If they bestow a mo ment's reflection on the matter, they cannot fail to arrive at a right conclusion. That which excites our amaze ment to the highest pitch, in connexion with the pre vailing alarm and the impending famine, is, that Govern ment should not, weeks ago, have thrown open the ports to the untaxed admission of foreign corn. The astonishment which we feel is not confined to our selves. It is shared by the country. It is universally felt. If ever a Minister's course was clear, if ever his duty was plain, Lord John Russell's was so in reference to the unbarring of ottr ports to the admission of foreign corn, duty free, whenever it was seen that the potato crop in Ireland was a total failure, and that the corn harvest generally throughout the kingdom was below an average. How Lord John Rus sell can reconcile his refusal to open the ports at such a crisis as that which has overtaken us, with the duties which, as the first Minister of the Crown, he owes alike to the Sovereign and the people, is more than we are able to comprehend. It is for himself to explain it. If the Noble Lord can make out a case for himself; he must be a much abler logician than the public has hitherto given him credit for. One thing is certain—there isnot a man beyond the pale of the Cabinet who does not feel and say that a graver dereliction of duty was never com mitted by any Minister. Time was when the Noble Lord would have been impeached for such neglect. Many a Minister before him has stood at the bar of Par liament for dereliction of duty of a much less nature. Morally, the Noble Lord is responsible for every death from starvation which takes place in Ireland ; constitutionally, he ought to be also so considered, and be dealt with ac cordingly. Nay, more, we maintain that Lord John Russell is responsible for every breach of the peace which may take place in Ireland, and everyo has ge its on property which may occur in that cotry, origin in the present scarcity and high : which prices of food. Du we absolve from blame those who may be the prin cipal actors in any popular outbreaks on the other side of the Channel ? Nothing can be farther from our minds. The law must deal with all such p ersons as guilty. They must be punished. On the contrary hypo thesis, there would be an end of all order. Society would be disorganised. Anarchy would everywhere prevail. So long as laws exist, they must be enforced, even when their violators have been worked up by cir cumstances over which they bad no control, to a state of desperation. But ifo the wretched peasantry 1 of Ireland are not to be held guiltless, even with all the palliating considerations which, in their present condition, can be urged in their fa vour, what shall be said of the criminality, both moral and constitutional, of the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, when he has refused to adopt a'course which would have had the effect of mid.' gating the evils which have (Liven the Irish W. this state MEXICAN BONDS. The following highly important communication on the subject of the Mexican debt, with a copy of the opera tive part of the " dispatch," has been forwarded by Senor Gomez Farias the younger, son and representative of the Mexican Minister of Finance. It will be observed by the second clause of the dispatch that the Mexican Government contemplate a re- exchange of the old for the new bonds as the chief thing to be done at present; and by the third clause, that there is a notion of some new terms, yet undefined:— "TO TUE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. " Sir,--I am informed that the continued silence of Mr. Murphy with regard to the determinatoin of the Mexican Government on the subject of the arrangement of its foreign debt lately made in this city, has excited much uneasiness among the bondholders, and an unfa vourable feeling towards the Government of the Re , - public. " Desirous of calming the apprehensions of those in terested in the public debt of Mexico, I beg to assure' them that the resolutions of my Government disapprov ing the conversion made under the late administration" of General Paredes, have been adopted, not from mo-• tives of party, and still less from those of interest, but solely from the conviction that the country could not fulfil the engagements which Mr. Murphy, without any powers to s uch effect, bad contracted. - " Sinee, - thirefore, it appears that Mr. Murphy re fuses -to make public the orders which he received by the last steamer from his Government (and which I de. livered to him in person on the 7th inst.), that the bond holders may know the real intentions of the present Mexican Administration, I beg to accompany herewith a translation of that part of the disp a t c h w hi c h contains the orders referred to, and soliciting its publication.— I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, " B. GOMEZ FARIAS. " Queen's Hotel, Clifford-street, London, Oct. 15." " His Excellency the General-in-Chief charged ad in terim with the government of the nation, declares— " 1. That the conversion of our debt into the consoli dated fund of 10,241,6501, sterling is hereby annulled, and your Excellency is responsible for whatever loss or detriment may from this operation result to the republic. " 2. That public notice be immediately given through the London journals, in order that the holders of the said converted debt may go and receive back the bonds which they had previously delivered for conversion, giving in exchange those that they may have received of the new consolidated fund. "3. That due notice be likewise given through the public journals to the holders of Mexican Bonds that the Government of the republic intends to propose, through other agents, a new plan, based upon an equitable ar rangement, and in which the Government will contract no obligation which it cannot fulfil. "4. That your Excellency being hereby relieved from every charge and office held from the Government of the republic, will deliver over to the Secretary of Legation the archives, and whatever papers and documents may be in your power; relating to the particular affairs in trusted to your Excellency. "I communicate this to your Excellency by supreme order for your intelligence and effects corresponding. God and liberty. " Mexico Aug. 28. "G 0 MEZ FAIIIAS. " E. S. D. Thomas Murphy, Minister Plenipotentiary of the republic to her Britannic Msjesiy." MARVELLOUS RAIL WAY INCI- DENT. On Monday last, Oct. 12, a gentleman of the name of Parker, of Sydenham, Kent, was travelling by the mail train from Derby to London, in a first class carriage; his only companion being a gentleman about thirty years of age, remarkably handsome, and perfectly gentle manly in his appearance and manners. After some pre liminary conversation, he requested to have the window kept open, and offered Mr. Porker his wrapper if he felt inconvenienced by the cold. Other conversation ensued, and he stated that he once possessed a large fortune, which he had squandered; that he bad now retired from the army, and had not been so happy for a long period as at that moment; adding that some friend had given him 1,1001. to pay - his debts, and 5001. more to buy furniture, and that the first thing he intended to do was to buy a dressing-case, which would cost bim thirty-five guineas, which Mr. Parker remarked he thought would be a great pity, as no doubt he already possessed one. A fter some further conversation, which began to alarm Mr. Parker, he suddenly dropped on his knees, and in a most energetic and fervent manner prayed for his friends the Dukes of Beaufort and Wel lington, and more particularly that his dear mother, who had died in his infancy, should appear, &c. After rising from his knees he exclaimed to Mr. Parker, " Did you hear a noise ? You must have heard that God was speaking to me." At the same moment a train passed, the engine of which he declared to be hell. Mr. Parker by this time being greatly alarmed, tried in vain to soothe him ; his only reply was," Have you repented of your sins?" at the same time throwing off his boots, coat, and shirt, with his gold watch, chain, and seals ; he began to slap Mr. Parker in the face, exclaiming, " You must come along with me !" and thrusting his own head through the window, he cut his head and nee in a most shocking manner, and was soon covered with blood. He then returned with double fury, and beat Mr. Parker about the head and face most severely. Ex pecting to be murdered every moment, Mr. Parker en treated him (in order to gain time) to pray again, which he instantly did ; while Mr. Parker, at the imminent risk of his life, opened the door and made his way to the next carriage, where there was only one gentle man, who, having heard all that had passed, helped him in and shut to the door. They had scarcely done this when the madman appeared, endeavouring to force his way in also, and it required the united efforts of both-to keep him out, so he returned to his carriage. This hap pened near the Watford station. Frequent and unavail ing appeals were made to the guard for assistance, stating that a gentleman was dying, aed the reply was that being after their time they could not stop, as the Manchester train was close behind them. This, however, was no excuse for the guard not going to the carriage to ascer tain what was the matter. All Mr. Parker knows fur ther of this strange companion is, that the guard of a following train saw a man in a state of nudity running by the side of the road, which can only be accounted for by his having thrown himself off the train, which was then going at an increased speed. A servant was at the terminus of the Euston-square station, waiting for his master; but Mr. Parker being in a dreadfully bruised state, and most anxious to get home, did not wait to hear the result of this strange encounter. We are happy to say he is now nearly recovered from the effects of his violent bruises and most alarming position. CELEBRATION OF EARL GROS- VENOR'S MAJORITY. Chester was on Tuesday wholly given to festivity to celebrate the coming of age of Earl Grosvenor, eldest son of the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster. The bells of the cathedral and other churches rang forth merry peals, bands paraded the streets, and all was hilarity and mirth. Two thousand tickets, value seven shillings each, available either in silver coin or mist and drink, were distributed among the citizens as a gift from the Noble Marquis, to enable them to " make merry and be glad " on this auspicious occasion; and various social parties assembled at the different hotels and inns to enjoy a good dinner, and to drink long life and hap piness to the respected heir of the Noble 'louse of Eaton. About twelve o'clock the boys of the Blue Coat Hospital, preceded by their excellent juvenile band, marched with their elegant banner and new flags pre pared for this festivity, to Eaton Park, where a scene of universal rejoicing presented itself. In front of the splendid mansion of Eaton Hall mall marquees were erected, in which an immense body of the tenants of the Noble Marquis, their la bourers, and dependents, were feasted with a most substantial dinner of good old English cheer, with potations of the choicest juice of the " barley bree;" and most heartily did the assembled throng do justice to the bounty of Lord Westminster, and most re solutely did they cheer the bumper toast to the health of the Earl Grosvenor. The festivities at Eaton Hall were continued on Wednesday and Thursday, when the has li b h ane. a e a r a d d e female sothers o l resident on h iksnk kindness estates ess o n thoifs occasion extended, were regaled with tea and other iteele ele c t: ta la ments; and the children of th in th ' y r vsec G no ro r sv fa e m no il r, the r 's and M archioness of Westminster, various h ss joy. The Marqui also supported the by the p ie liberality s eL fal the Earl Grosvenor, y o f Elizabeth h li v k e z a Honourable Mr. Lawley, and other members of the f am ily circle, honoured the festivities with their pre sence; and a great number of the neighbouring gentry and of the most influential citizens of Chester were spectators of the joyous scene. At five o'clock in the afternoon about two hundred of the principal gentry and tradesmen of the city and neighbourhood sat down to a banquet at the Royal Hotel. In the unavoidable ab sence of the Mayor, Mr. Thomas Dixon discharged the duties of the chair. The greatest conviviality animated the party, and the toast of the evening, to the health and happiness of Earl Grosvenor, was drunk in wines of cie ps h cl ar e yi e p r ot s if . fin r A e 11, l b ,m o od u r bs n eo i ennne the o r a c si o te c od k o d t a h eme e ro (for go w rs at which the choicest vintage, and with prol onge d an d h earty h t a h i. cmehaagnl citizens); i i b fi e ce ra s d i 0 : towers and a most and walls of the andeaanciecity, interesting t appearance, and illupmeainraantedee: and the exhibition excited general admiration.—Abridged from the Chester Courant. Th n iursday morning, during a rough sea and heavy surge, Lieutenant Pratt and eleven of the Coast Guard at Brighton launched the life boat at the end of the`chain pier, to go to the assistance of a sloop anchored about a mile off the cliffs. The crew, however, declined all assistance, and the life-boat returned through the heavy surge, riding gallantly on the water, and the Lieu nant and his men were greeted on their arrival by th c heers of ktiadreds of maim spectators. each. etMEDIATE REMOVAL of the DUTIES on CORN and ALL HUMAN FOOD. Fr abitauts of the Parish of Marylebone, and especially the lends Labouring Population. _ ' and Fellow Parishioners— or,q, tb. In consequence of the high price of bread and . L l % ovs' existence of partial famine in Ireland, and the apprension h" ..°41 ; A` en ' lo ll during t . he ensuing winter from a dearth of provi fl'o'resellt'et ,the d eclaration, on the part of he Government, that the ;`:. are of so awful a magnitadz as to enforce the necessity te - k a : n P l LaY_ers,to implore the Divine mediation and protection, inset,t. fo r tb:...e Princess's Assembly-rooms,. Castle street, Oxford a at ee , Purpose of delivering an ao...re, on MONDAY, the 26th the -4114 "egt o'clock precisely, in order to endeavour to create such atton , 0 . public sympathy and anxiety for the sufferings o Zriie n : . ',Asses throughout the country, as will lead to the Go tittai to moving, without delay, all duties on every kind of food ot i - ' it is in-wants. 4, aod Y I ntention to grund the argument of my address on Di etel °t hutnan laws, sincerely hope and trust that all political ees 1 111 ntil be sunk on the o c casion. ble e 'llieb, "l greatly favoured by th inclined name, address, and advice of vvho are benevolently to aid in the foregoing have t he pleasure to be, Friends and Fellow Parishioners, b Youis, very faithfully, CHARLES COCHRANE. Thursday, Oct. 15, 1846. t I. L O L vi- an d CROWN HOTEL, HOLBORN, si ze' t° rae . e u t."* — , V. RIMER informs his friends and the public itter c ~,„"he great increase in his business, he has doubled the to ltioopa 81jee-room, converted the old coach.yar . d, & and bed-rooms ; large rooms fp! Railway e. a , nd n other 11,1'24 4 , 4 ' Also a new and commodious smoking-room, and ether ", entiregether an new entranceo the Hotel, reto f oa b e to eo 0:e. ducted with with the same moderate charges as