The Sun. — London, England, 1837-12-11 00:00:00

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND THE; BALLOT. _ Lord John Russell has destroyed our hopes of the further P!egress of Reform this Session. He has sneaked out of In sStroud declaration, and now affirms that although there Was at no former period in the hi.tory of elections more gross and general bribery, coercion, and intimidation of °t ars) we are to have no remedy—no protection! Is this r t i laN with his puny mind and benighted ideas, fit to be a inister ? Is he to be allowed longer to guide the helm of . State, when he has declared his inability to recognize the Tlugers which are on every side impending over us How d ifferent are the manly declarations of Lords Durham and 4 ' o ugham, whose gigantic energies even their enemies view "ah admiration and reipect! These are the men whom the country looks to for safety and protection in the e '„ riling crisis, and we devoutly trust we mAy not look to t hem in vain. The popularity of our fair and lovely So t'ereign has been grievously affected by the position taken by her Minister. Would to God that s!le may see her error before it be too late, and by calling a wiser and Lette r man to her counsels, rescue her reputation from the B , l iPsfreck to which it is exposed, and regain the place in her people's hearts which by his imbecile folly she is ell nigh losing. The Ballot must be had. The cry T r it resounds far and wide. Numbers who were be lre opposed to it have by the last election been con 'need that nothing is to be done without it, and we are happy to be able to announce that many of the leading Magistrates and others of this county have already signed petitions in favour of the measure. We c all upon the county to second their efforts, and cease not tu send up petition after petition, one after the other, until t he great palladium of liberty is obtained. Let every Dis senting Minister prepare a petition from his conregation. I t is easily done, and may be e to the following effect "TO ins COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED, (' T he humble petition of the undersigned Minister and Con gregation of Chapel, in the Parish of —, in the County of [or of the freeholders and inhabitants of the Parish of , in tl , e County of ---1— SHEWETII, " That at the last Election for the County of Carmar then th ere was the grossest coercion and intimidation of toters, to prevent their voting according to their wishes. That this is as unconstitutional and dangerous to the itoed em o f the country as it is contrary to the Statute of Third year of the reign of King Edward - the First , c hapter 5, which is still in force, and enacts that because Electi ons ought to be free, the King commandeth, upon great forfeiture, that no man by force of arms, nor by malice Menacing, shall disturb any to make free election.' " That from the very nature of the intimidation and me !aces used, namely, vague indistinct threats and hints of the un defined mischief, it is next to impossible to indict with success i le 'he parties using such threats ; their effect, therefore , can only cuunteraeted by rendering_ it impossible for any man to know LT the v o t e of the threatened party whether such threats have Produced any effect or nor. " Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that Parlia ment will speedily give us the Ballot, in the election of Members to serve in Parliament, as the only means of effectual protection to the voter in the honest exercise of his elective franchise." Similar petitions should also be prepared and signed at the a4 rne time to the House of Lords. The heading to which s hould be as follows : " To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, The humble petition," &c., (as before.) These petitions may be written upon paper, and being folded up and encircled with a direction paper, in the same Was as newspapers are sent by post, will go postage free Without any limitation of weight to any Member of Parlia !nOnt, if directed to him at " the House of Commons," and In like manner to any Peer, at " the House of Lords." The following are the names of the Members of the liouse of Commons to whom we should recommend some ;i_lf these petitions to be sent, as we think they would thus " more likely to produce an effect than if they were all p r esented by our Borough Member Grote, M. P. Joseph Hume, M. P. Attwood, M. P. W. Williams, M. P. •S. Duncom!.e, M. P. T. Wakley, M. P. Sir W. Nlolesworth, M. P. Sir S. Whalley, M. P. ts General W. Harvey, M. P. J. T. Leader, M. P. ki eneral Evans, M.P. Daniel O'Connell, M. P. We could add greatly to this list, but the foregoing tlatne s we deem sufficient, and in the House of Lords the Petitions should be sent to the Earl of Durham and Lord 15 rougham. A separate letter should accompany each petition, r equesting the Member to support it.—The Welchman. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Leeds Mercury.) LEEDS. —Comparatively speaking, there has been a decided ascribed principally to the very low price at which goods are f e r li ng, which holds out strong inducements for speculation „: ,1 the spring demand. The buyers are, however, actin. , o t t lt ti extreme caution, and prices are such on some kinds of b Alin: its will not remunerate the manufacturer. Business is brisk in the warehouses as can reasonably be ex pectedBt 58 i_j at this season. b I ,I rD 4RSFIELD.—The market is still flat, but rather more - ' n ' ne sa was done than for some weeks past. mianvoitio.—The Piece-market is precisely the same as last week. No diminution in the demand, but the manufac tUrers complain loudly of not being able to realize higher Prices. In the Yarn-market there is still a great reluctance amongst the manufacturers to pay the advance on yarn re quired by the opinners. HALIFAX. Comparatively few goods have changed hands. lThe manufacturers, w h o co mpl a in that for some t i m e p as t i have not obtained remunerating prices, manifest a dis position to hold their goods rather than sell at the current Nies, bEwsnunv.—lnquiries were made on M onda y after super other ana blankets, but there were not sufficient in the Market ; 0 supply the demand. For piece goods, vi high, in former i e aanns, employed nearly the whole manufacturing population or.the American Market, there was no inquiry at all, neither could any sales be effected. ROCIIDALE.—The Flannel Market on Monday was not quite so brisk as last week. The demand was good for fine ; I 'd middle qualities. The low sorts a rc st i l l heav y . Gre y 'nd dy e d goods were in tolerable demand. WAKEFIELD.—We have to report an active inquiry , and „ `,!tensive sales in all combing wools this week, and at a fur "r improvement in price of ss. to 'Os. per pack. The finer Tialities of short wool still remains dull, but there is more i s `:ing in the lower descriptions, and in blanket wools at rather 'tter prices. i MANCHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING.—The unexpected rallying b rl . t he Liverpool Cotton Market, and consequent advance in V i c, making the present ,alue equal to the highest value -° a* , e fourteen days ago, had induced buyers, who were execs lively shy last week, again to appear ; and, could they have I)l4 Chased oa the terms of this day sc'nnight, a large business been done. This, however, the spinners and manufac ers would not comply with, but who, on the contrary, wore ti a in their demands at asking a trifling advance. 'rise still ort s I IC - 3 from America make the trade excessively ta upp getty, as the first large arrivals would be taken as indica of still more ample supplies bein;, , on the way : aid prices , (41 1d then inevitably, it is thought , recede. The present :ek of cotton in first hands is now unusually small, and Sequently within the convenient grasp of some half- Clem leviathans. This fact renders it alm..st impossible to cltohnealue of any article fur two day s to g ether.—Liver p ool " c v le. LIVERPOOL GO7'TON-MARKET, DEc 9. The demand for cotton at the commencement of the week was ter i animated, and prices of American rapidly advanced from %d. it&Since Tuesday the market s been less animated, a red p uction of 1 ,4 d. to V t d. per lb. has i ha n many instances been I ) „ 4ll tted to. Still the week closes firmly at an ad vance of I%d. 1 , lb• on the quotations of last week. Sea Island island is in good k t 4l and at full prices. The daily business in Egyptian is extensive iitteady rates. Brazil is in good demand, and an advance of nearl y , q _ Per lb. on last week's quotatiOns has been generally obta ined. q t 7ulators have been extensive buyers of Surat, which has ad - lki:ed %d. per lb. The sales of the week amount to 29,180 including 5,000 American, 100 Egyptian, 300 Pernam, 6,600 S°rat,and 300 Bengal on speculation. d. d. 0, Sea Islands l4i to 24 7 Stained ditto 5 116 1' 4 7 Uplands 7 9 j 8,4° Mobile , &c. 1 New Orleans 7 96' I :o2 o . Egptians 96 —13 i er y nams, &c 96 —lO 70 Bahia! 1 20 Nlaranhams 9 96 Sawginned 6* 81 kt m _ u e csales to-day are 5,000 bag , e cy to advancy. i. d. 90 Demeraras to 91- 40 Peruvians Bi— 9i 430 Laguayras Bi— 812 6,820 Surats 300 Bengals 5 0 10 Carthagenas 6 0 Manilla 0 0 West India 0 0 Rubadoes Smyrna 0 0 and the inarket very firm, with I. 4l4 rittive View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into and 1: 41 the whole Kingdom, from the Ist of January to the 2 d le. and of the Imports and Exports for the same period last Bags. 1302,233 120,127 5,264 _ 142,142 40,933 LITERATURE. THE COMIC ANNUAL. Bally, London, 1837. The present Conic Annual—observes Mr. Hood, in a preface stuck as full of puns as a Christmas pudding of plums—is the ninth of the series. We should not have supposed so, for it is as fresh and buoyant in its humour as if it were a first number. The author wears well as a wag. Constant practice does not dim or blunt his keen apprehension of the quaint and the droll ; but, on the contrary, appears to set a new edge upon it. The volume before us is quite as rich and racy as the best of its predecessors ; the oddities equally abundant ; the caricatures equally provocative of inextingnishalile laughter. What, for instance, can surpass the broad fun of the plate en titled " The Old Original Railway," wherein a parcel of charity school-boys and girls are represented rattling down stairs astride of the balustrades ? The attitude of the hoyden girl is exceedingly ed►fying. Being on the eve of throwing a summerset, she has of course no time to consult the proprieties of posture : conse quently, her leg is visible up to the knees. "We Don't Know What we can Do till we Try," is illustrated by an ambitious goose, who is tasking his utmost facul ties to sNallow an eel nearly as big as himself. This plate insinuates a valuable moral, for how many human geese do we daily see attempting tasks above their ca pacity, and of course failing signally in the effo►t Whenever henceforth we find a blockhead aping the orator in the House of Commons ; or a dull matter of-fact plodder affecting the poet ; or an old man attempting, by the aid of cosmetics, to look juvenile ; or a Thersites to pass himself off for a Ulysses—when ever, we say, we meet with instances of absurd, misdi rected ambition like these, we shall always call to mind Mr. Hood's goose straining to swallow an eel. " Wigwam" represents a group of mice nestling snugly in a barrister's wig. These lively vermin seem to have been inspired by their locality, for they all look as keen as so many lynx-eyed lawyers on the hunt for a client. " He's a Going to Take a Tower" is capital. A huge elephant, of a breed that must have come from Brobdignag, dressed out in a dandy-travelling cloak, is packing up his trunk, and preparing to set ont on a tour. It must be a very uncommon stage-coach that can hold this awful passenger—to say nothing of his luggage, which consists of a round tower on his back, which appears as though it were heavy enough to sink a seventy-four. " Ono. Black Ball Excludes" repre sents a group of valorous officers flying in all direc tions from a cannon-ball which has just landed in the midst of them. One of the warriors, unable to restrain his boiling courage, is jumping head-foremost out of the window . ; while another wooden-legged belligerent is expediting his retreat, by catching fast hold of the coat-skirts of his flying comrade in advance. " You're Quite Safe—He Din't Wag his Tail," is one of the broadest and most amusing caricatures in the volume. The keeper of a menagerie has been fool enough to thrust his head into the jaws of a lion, but his assistant tells him not to fear, for that he has got fast hold of the brute's tail, which, of course, increases his dispo sition to decapitate the keeper. We have mentioned the best of the engravings, but there are many others nearly equally good, which want of space alone pre vents us from noticing. The Literary department is not unworthy of the illustrations. The " Carnal)) , Correspondence," in particular, is full of broad humour, and penned throughout in Mr. Hood's most jocose manner. THE NABOB'S WIFE, 3 Vuls. Bentley, London, 1837. " The Nabob's Wife" is a clever, amusing tale, possessing the recommendation of a singular and well conducted plot, and abundance of incidents. From the frequency of its love-scenes, and the graceful and delicate manner in which they are handled, we con clude that the author of this novel is a lady. The female characters are all well conceived, and shrewdly discriminated—especially that of the heroine, Elvira Lady Melford, in the romantic adventures of whose early youth, it is impossible not to take deep interest. Her husband, too, the aristocratic purse-proud Na. bob, with his long train of servants, his Indian col lection of curiosities, and his constant allusions to the mode of life in the East, is a forcibly sustained sketch, drawn, we suspect, direct from the life. But, perhaps, the finest, certainly the most impassioned, scene in the tale, is that wherein the libertine, Colonel Dormer, under pretence of taking his last leave of Mary Mor daunt, carries her off, while she is in an insensible state, to a madhouse at Paris, in the hope of terrifying her into a mock marriage with him. The whole of this scene is pourtrayed with great skill and. power, and were not our columns so crowded with more pre.s ing matters, we would quote largely from it. The dialogues in the " Nabob's Wife," which are numerous, are replete with ease and vivacity. MARY RAYMOND. 3 VoLs. CoMuni, London, 1837. This is a collection of tales from the practised pen of Mrs. Go► e, one of our most popular and prolific modern novelists. The best among them is the first, which is entitled " Mary Raymond," and illustrates the passion of jealousy as it influences the mind of a formal, middle-aged, sullen man of business, who has married a young and pretty wife, and imagines— though without the slightest foundation for such be lief—that he has reason to suspect her of infidelity. The revenge he takes, in consequence, is frightful : and the details arc worked Hp by the authoress with ►masculine energy. It is a pity that she has not paid equal attention to the other portions of the tale, which are tot) much slurred over. We subjoin the sketch of the conscience-stricken husband after the death of his young wife, Mary : " But was that chamber in truth a fatal chamber? Had it. walls indeed echoed to the stifled groans of the murdered, to the cry of a victim's dying anguish?—Had those lips, to which the relaxation of after death imparted so soft an expres sion, been pi eviously distorted by the pangs of a violent end ? —Had they called aloud for aid,—aloud for mercy, and in va'n?—liad they faltered a response to the admonitory ques tion,—. Dcsdemoua ! have you pray'd to-night ?' " That secret rests with the Almighty !—But in a private asylum for the reception of lunatics, at Southampton, there exists an unhappy patient who for years has sat rocking him self upon a chair; incessantly muttering between his teeth, " I baffled them all,—l baffled them all !—I cheated the lover,—l cheated the uncle,—l cheated the proud, insolent, overbearing family !—I shut her her up in her coffin and se cured her from them fur ever.—And now she is mine again,— now she is mine. Are you not mine, Mary ?—answer me child, are you not mine?—She can't answer !—she groans,—She does not speak,—there is blood in her mouth,—hide it,—close up the coffin, --don't say I did it,--don't say I strangled her! —No, no, never tell them how I managed to make you my own again,—Mary, —Mary,—Mary.' RAMBLES IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DON QUIXOTE BY THE. LATE H. D. INGLIS. London, Whittaker and Co., 1837. • This is a posthumous work of the amiable and much lamented author of '' Tours in Spain," " The Tyrol," the " Channel Islands," " Ireland in 1834," " Walks in many Lands," and several other productions, upon the literary merits of which the public has pronounced very favourably. The volume before us is fully equal to any that preceded it ; and the illustrations with which George Cruikshank has enriched its pages, are re pl e te with traits of the ri c h est h umour . S evera l of the author's tales would do credit to the genius of Cervantes himself ; and if we have anything to regret it is that Mr. Inglis did not wholly devote his great talents to the production of works of fiction, The fol• lowing biographical sketch, from the preface of the volume before us, is evidently the production of a too partial friend ; but as its insertion in our columns may be the means of rendering a service to the dearest re maining relative of a man of true genius, we have pleasure in giving it : • " Henry David Inglis was the son of a gentleman of very ancient family, who is mention , d in Nisbet as coming over at the period of the Conquest. His father was an advocate at the Scotch bar, for which the son also was originally designed. His discursive fancy, however, soon turned him aside from such pursuits, and led him, at an early age, to visit foreign lands, there to lay in, by the contemplation of nature in all her most picturesque and sublime forms, the basis of all those matchless descriptions with which his works everywhere abound. His grandmother was daughter of the celebrated Colonel James Gardiner, who fell so nobly at the battle of Prestonpans, in 1745, and was herself the authoress of an heroic poem : and through her he was rela'ed to the noble house of Buchan and the Erskines. The venerable Lady Raeburn was sister to his mother. His works are twofold : they consist of fiction and travels ; and in these two walks, a s often happens to literary men, his success was precisely in the inverse ratio of his merits. It is true, indeed, that whatever genius the subject admitted or, was thrown into it; but books of travels, however useful, do not, in their nature, so well admit of any high flights of fancy. Ali that can be done, is to give a faithful copy nature, and to paint justly men and things as they really exist. Yet the man of true genius, even her,: makes his power to be felt ; and in reading over the pages of this new-tied spirit, we are everywhere made sensible that in copying I,ature, by pourtrayieg her in her external forms, he was descending from the elevation of his towering genius. His work, entitled " SFain in 1830," is beyond all question, his best book of this order ; and next, his " Ireland in 1834 ;" his" Channel Islands' contain many beauiful descrip tions, as also his " Tyrol," his " Switzerland and the Pyre nees," and his " Norway." " But it was as a writer of fiction that Inglis was really great. Indeed, while all the efforts of the greatest masters still press on my memory, I doubt whether even the greatest of them has far excelled this men in the regions of pure in ventive genius. Shakspeare it is well known, never once in vented the story of his plays. Byron owed most of his plots to D'Herbelot, and the German Kotzebue; and failed only when he trusted to his own invention; while, in one novel of Scott, —the Ivanhoe—l detect no less than three long plagiarisms of incident, direct from the Decameron of Boccacio. Inglis invented all his own stories—because it was easier to invent than to borrow ; and whatever this age may say to the contrary, I boldly rssert that his new " Gil Blas" is one of the noblest and mo..t finished efforts in the line of pure imaginative writing, that ever fell from the pen of any one man, either in our own orin any other age. Yet, will it be believed—this was the only work, written by our author, that ever fell dead-born from the press. The world, alarmed at the name, were one half of them afraid to read it—and the other half afraid to judge when they had read it ; chile, of those able to judge, and who felt the power of this admirable work, not a man was found bold enough to stand up and hazird the public or deal by making known his opinion; to the world. That work cost the author five years—no other ever cost him as many months in the composition. " I lament to ray (my poor friend used often to exclaim) I have been compelled to write my Gil Bias for posterity." He was right, the world will some day acknowledge it. " I-Ls other imaginative work, " Solitary Walks in many Lands," abounds in beauties of the highest order; and ap proaches in some parts very nea-ly to perfection in one of the most capital, but unapproachable qualities in this species of writing—l mean in the fine adaptation of human feeling and sentiment to the beauties of the forms of nature without. His apostrophes to May, and his solemn picture of September, have few parallels in our tongue, whether for purity of diction or for elevation of thought. " He died on the 20th March, 1835, near Regent's Park, at four in the morning, in the 40th year of his age—his body prematurely sinking down beneath the weight of his exalted mind. " It only remains to be said that this work is faithfully printed from the author's manuscript, which was completed a short time before his ckv.th; it now published by his widow, who has felt it a sacred obligation to preserve every word of the loved and the lost,' without ehanue or alteration." LARDNER'S CYCLOPEDIA.—No. XCVIL Longmar, London, 1837. The present Number of this valuable miscellany con tains a treatise on Geology, from the pen of Mr. Phil lips. The subject is ably discussed, in a popular spirit, utterly free from anything like pedantry or un due abstruseness. FRENCH AND ENGLISH IDIOMS. De Porquet, London, 1837. These are two useful elementary works, compiled with great care, and which will prove of great assist ance to those who are commencing the study of the French language. HUNTER'S HORACE. Parker, London, 1837. A translation of the Satires and Epistles of Horace' diligently rendered, but without point or vivacity. Mr. Hunter is but a sorry versifyer, though he may be a sound Latin scholar. Into the Kingdom this year. American Zuth American nrest Indies, Demerara, &c. itAst I n di es `lYpt, &c. Total of all descriptions Same period last year. Bags. A lll , . an 721,750 Reuti 'c A American g!est Indies, Demerara, &c. ~..:ast Indi es 9CYpt, & c . Increase of Imports as compared with same period last year Expotts in 1837 — erica]; 49,854 ; Brazil, 5,191 ; East India, 71,422 ; West India, —; Other kinds, —. 44 :1 11 in 1837 e period last year ke t , Stock. saw 8 1837 153,800 time, 1836 • 238,700 4,764 . 126,467 85,839 ;) THE SUN, LONDON, HON DAY, DECI-4:71/BER 11, 1837. THE CIVIL LIST. The Select Committee to whom the Accounts of Income and Expenditure of the Civil List, from Ist January, 1831, to 31st December, 1836, with au estimate of the probabL future charge of the Civil List oflvr Majesty, were referred ; have, pursuant to tho order of the House, taken the same int o t h e i r consideration, and agreed to the following REPORT. In the performance of the duties entrusted to them by the /Imre, your Committee have found their inquiries much abridged and simplified by reason of the arrangements made by Parliament on the accession of his late :‘,1 , 1 sty. By the Act of 1 Will. IV., c. 25, the Civil List of the Crown was relieved from those expenses which had no immediate connec tion with the Royal dignity or personal comfort of the Sove reign, but which belonged rather to the Civil Government of the State. Under this distribution, a sum of upwards of 600,0001., which during the reign of his late Majosty George IV. had been charged on the Civil List, and .he here ditary revenues of Scotland, was provided for in Supply, or fromthe Consolidated Fund. Your Committee see every reason to approve of this arranmemenr. The House is aware that in t . e sum a ler of the liredi ary revenues made by his late Majesty were included several braeches of casual reve nue which hal been left in former times at the so:c disposal o f the Crown. The sums by which the public have thus bene fited, amount to 70,684/. 10s. 5d., which unchr previnas set tlements of the Civil. List, would have begin applicable to the pricy purse of the King, but which, by 1 Will. IV., c. 25, have been appropriated to the public service. This amount has been received, it is obs,-rvable, at a time of profound peace ; in time of war the total amount would have been much more considerable. The Civil List of his late Majesty was appor tioned for the following purposes: . . Ist Class Privy Purse -. .ZllO,OOO 2d Class Salaries, &C 3d Class Tradesmen's Bills 171,500 4th Class.-- Royal Bounty—Special and Secret Service. 23,200 sth Class Pensions £510,000 It is satisfactory to your Committee to be enabled to state. that it has nut been found necessary during the two last nigns t) apply to Parliament for the means of defraying any In c ea ed expenditure beyond the amount originally fixed as the inco.ne of the Civil List. The importance of this strict at tention to the due and careful appropriation of the funds pro vided for the support and dignity of the Sovereign is so ob vious, as to require no further obs,rvation on the part of your Committee ; and the necessity of avoiding all debt or excess of expenditure for the future, is no less e,sential to the best interests of the Crown than to the reasonable hopes and ex- - ectatisms of the people. In considering an estimate for the future Civil List of the Sovereign, your Committee have been guided, to a consider a'Ae extent. by the expenditure during the late reign. In the papers laid before Parliament by command of her Nlajogy o ill be found information respecting the expenditure of the late r similar to that submitted to the Committee appointed in 1830, to consider the Civil List. Not having the power of sending for papers, or examining witnesses, the information on %%filch your Committee have proceeded has been necessarily limited to the papers before them, and to the explanations given by the official servants of her Majesty, who were members of the Committee. It is fitting, however, to add, that not only has this information been given to the extent afforded in 1830, but that much fuller and more detailed explanations were added, in order to assist your Committee in your deliberations. CLASS I. The privy purse of the Sovereign has been for upwards of half a century fixed at 60,000/. During the late reign, there b..ing- a Queen Consort, a further sum of 50,0001. wa3 allotted to this class. Under existing circumstances, your Com mittee recommend that an annual sum of 60,0001. be provided fo: this ianch of he Royal expenditure. CLASS 11. The second class comprehends the salaries of the Great Officers of State, those of the officers and menial servants of the Royal Household, and the superannuation and retired al lowances pa3able to persons of the lath'. class. The Com mittee, concurring in the of inion expressed in the report c,f 1831, " that it was not consistent with the respect due to her Majesty to scrutinize the details of her domestic household," have not undertaken any minute investigation into that branch of the subject ; but they have received, as already stated, a very full analysis of the whole of this branch of expenditure. The principal Officers of State in a tendance on the pe:son of the Sot ereuzn are the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, t h e Master of the Horse, and the Cream of the S.ole. Tho Report of the Select (i4animi:tee Of 1831 reconimended that did be reduced in th e f o ll ow ing the salari , s of these officers silo proportions Oh iginal Salary. Salary recommended. Lord Steward A;2,436 10 £2,000 Lord Chamberlain ... 3,085 0 2,000 Mesta of the Horse... 3,350 0 Grogrn of the Stole— 2,163 O 1,500 In the prnposua t.st l llla . ;• 1 1 1 ippttecl to th em your C omm itt ee lY intended th at A te reductlons recoul , ne r i d e e i v d e the three first officers, should be car ried into immediate effect, but that it is not proposed to fill perceive in t he it s i a t ia ti r l 0 0111 -to the Gro Jar of the Stole, or to :reate any analogous office rds in Wa:ii ng f rom 12 to : 3 , an d o f S from 13. -.• r i; tiolsehold of her M3. 7 . ,esty. It also proposed to re rue b•vt cr of 1, duce the nu. attendants upon h er M a j es t y w ill b e augmented reason of the !eduction of their number, whilst Grooms A the in du.iesNla it. 0 1"_ your Committee approve of the reduction of the salaries of the great officers of State, they see no reason to suggest that any redaction in the salaries of the other members of the House hold should take place. During the late reign the Lad:cs in attendan(.o on her Ma jesty were provided for out of the sum of 50,000/., allotted to the Queen Consort, and which has been already omitted from the first cla‘s of the Civil List. It, therefore, becomes necessary—during the reign of her Majesty—that provision should be made for the ladies of her Majesty's Household. In order to guard as far as practic..ible against the increase of superannuaiion and retired allowanc:s, your Committee trust that these charges may not, in ordinary eireunristance;, he allowed to excerd the limits ais;gni.d by the general regu lati.m3 of the public s,r‘ice ; and that the possibil:ty of esta blishing a superannuiltiou fund in eertai.i departments cf the household should be carefully considered. Although your Committee have not had the means of exa mining into the subject with the minute attention that wculd enable them to form a definitive opinion, they are inclined to think that, by her Majesty's permiisien, it would be a fit sub ject for an inquiry, to be carried on by the Treasury and the great departments of the Household, whether the several existing offices of pay might not be unit e d a nd c o n so lid a t e d ; and a system, simpler, more economical, and equally efficient, substituted in their room. Two offices' appear on the Civil List of his late Majesty which were formerly borne on the Army Estimates—the Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle, who receves a salary of 1,1201. and the Lieutenant-Governor, whose emo luments amount to 1731. After the principle was laid down, that Military Governments should be abolished, and military pensions substituted for such appointments, the above-men tioned offices were transferred to the Civil List, As mo,o par ticularly appertaining to the state of the Sovereign, and con nected with the Royal residence. On these grounds your Committee arc indived not to suggk st the abolilion of these offices, but their consolidation, when a vacancy shall arise. In considering the amount to be rocominended for this class, your Committee feel it their duty to call the attention of the Hons.., to the fact, that no application is now made to Parliament for the grant of pensions for the servants of the late King. With these explanations your Committee recom mend the estimate of 131,2601. for the second class of the Civil List. CLASS 111 Considering the disbursements which have taken place in the late reign under the head of Bills of Tradesmen, your Committee recommend the proposed cstimaks of 172,5001. for this branch of the Royal expenditure. CLASS IV, The fourth cla4s of the Civil Litt of his late 'Majesty in cluded the following heads : Royal Bounty 11.)me Secret Service Alms and Charity £23,200 After much consideration, your Committee have determined to recomtnerrl that the sum of 10,0001., now charged on the Civil List for secret set-Vice, may be transferred to the Conso lidated Fund by Act of Parliament, ti be applied to the same purposes, and uncier the same authority, as heretofore. The provision fur this class will consequmtly be reduced, as a charge on the Civil List, to 13,200/. Considming that the sum distributed annually as alms and charity is applied in a manner suited rather tl ancient than to modern times, and is attended with some expense, it may not be inexpedient to consider whether the purposes of the Royal kmevolence might not be more fully attained if some other and better mode of distribution were in future adopted. CLASS V. The Committee approached the consideration of the pen sions charged on the F►fth Class of the Civil List with a full sense of the attention which the subject has exacted. Your Committee refer to the following pass ge in the Report of 1832 " The House must recollect that the p inciple on which the sum is &lotted by Parliament for the purpose of the Civi! List is as a payment for the personal advantage of the Sever, ign, and for the support of the dignity of tha Crown, in lieu of the hereditary revenue vihich, at the commencement of each reign, the Sovereign sacrifices for the benefit of the public. Some provivion ought, in all cases, to be made; for such pay ments, as it might be presumed the Sovereign would have been desirous of making ha I he remained in possession of the hereditary revenue. That one class of payments would be pensions to those of his subjects whom he wished to favour, cannot be doubted." In conformity with this opinion, your Committee recom mend that the provision for the grant of pensions should con tinoe to form part of the Civil List of her Majesty. But in order to guard against the supposition that an en actment founded on this principle, should in any degree inter fere with the inquiry into pensions, of which notice has been given in the House of Commons (if it appears fitting th•t such inquiry should be instituted), it is the oi,inion of your Com mittee thst, in the place of granting a suit of 75,000/. for Civil List pensions, h r Majesty should be empowered to grant in every year new pensions on the Civil List to the amount of 1,200/., these pensions to be granted in strict con formity with the following Resolution of the House of Com mons, passed on the lith of February. 1834 : • " That it is the bounden duty of the rosponsible advire s of the Crown to recommend to his Majesty for grants of pen sions on- the Civil List such persons only as have just claims on the Royal bectfieence, or who, by their personal services to the Crown, by the performance of their duties to the public, or by their useful discoveries in science, and attainments in literature and the Arts, have m:rited the gracious consilera lion of their Sovereign and the gratitude of their country." Your Committee recommend that these resolutions should be engrafted in the Civil List Act, and that annual returns of the pensions granted, and the names of the several parties, should be laid before Par4ruent, Your Committee feel it to be their duty to add, that by this arrangement it is far from th , ..ir intention to prejudge the ques tion which is likely to come before Parliament, or in any re spect to prejudice the dust claim of the p.aties in the receipt of pensions granted by former S overe i gns . Wh en t h e i nqu i ry i s completed, your Committee feel every confidence that pro vision will be made for such pensions es, upon full examina tion, it is thought expedient to empower her Majesty to continue. Your Committee do not, however, consider that it would be proper to delay the settLment of the Civil List of her Maj.isty till such inquiry shall be completed. Your Committee e..tirely approve of the principle acted on in all the branches of the ordinary public service, by which sinecures of all descriptions have been abolished on the termi nation of the existing interests : the Committee consider this principle to be equally applicable to the departments of the Civil List ; they therefore express their hope, that, with the permission of her Majesty, such enquiries may be instituted by the Treasury to the department of the Household, and that uch directions may be given as will enforce the application of this salutary principle from time to time. Her Majesty has stated in the Speech from the Throne, that whilst her Majesty is desirous that the expenditure of the ‘. Civil List, as of every other department of the Go vernment, should be kept within due limits, her Majesty is confident that the House of Comm ms will gladly make an adequate provision for the honour and dignity of the Crown :" it has been in the spirit of this recommendation that your Committee have proceeded, and that they are of opinion that the Civil List of her Majesty be fixed according to the sub joined estimate, found,d on the recommendations contained in the present Report : Class I.—Privy Purse Class 2.—Retired Allownnees Class 3.—Expense of Household Class 4.—Royal Bounty, Alms, and Special Ser- vices Class s.—Pensions (her Majesty to be empowered to grant Pensions in every year to the extent of 1,200/. per annum. ) UnapproFriated moneys THE BIJOU ALM litt!e work under this one of the greatest cu with. It is a per nack, embellished with riched with several is little bigger than a enclosed space being Such being the case, that the print would be latcs equally invisible; A NA CK•- • V ti lc, which 8,040 13IJO'J ✓e have just seen a is, without exception, ricy:.ities we ever met feetly complete. Alma ' engravings, and en poems, yet the whole man's thumb-nail, the the exact size of it one would imagine out of sight, mid the SMITHFIELD CATTLE CLUB SHOW. This annual show, which excites so mucl, interest among the agricultural community, and is really of so much benefit to the manufacturing population, in consequence of tho improved breed of cattle which has emanated therefrom, took place yes terday, today, and will continue open until Monday ni,;ht, at the Repository 'Van], Gosn•ell-street. We a-c happy to an nounce that, interesti:ig as this show generally is, it this year exceeds in quantity and quality those f ,r many years past, The judges on this occasion are Mr. Edward Franklin, or Ascot, near Tetsworth ; Mr. Ralph Oldacre, Clipstone, near Market liarborough ; and Nfr. John Jeilicoe, Bigiierton, near Shipwell. After these gentlemen lead handled and examined the cattle, the following were the prizes were awarded CLASS I. The first premium of twenty sovereigns in this class for oxen and steers of any breed under five years of ap, withlut dis tinction as to feeding, be adjugcd to Bolin Thomas Smith, Esq., of Po,tlands, near Crowland, Lineol..shire, for h's four year and ten months old Hereford ox, bled by Mr. Hewer, cf t[a.npton Ledge near Ilere&rd,, fed on earrot , , oil-oak •, and hay. also bean flower, from the Ist of October, 1837. ra velled to the show by caravan 182 miles. A ° rex. medal was awarded to Mr. John Hewer as t ho treedt.r thereof. The second premium n sovereigns in the above class was . adj_tldge'l to th 2 [tight Hon. the Earl o f L e icester, for his Lordship's fo ur -y ear o ld D evon ox, b red b y h i s Lord ship, and fed on Swede turnips, mangel-wurzel, linseed cake, corn, hay, green clover, and vetches ; travelled by caravan 120 miles. The following oxen in this class were commended :—Mr. Giblett's steer of the Devonshire breed was highly commended as an extraordinary animal of his age. Mr. R. Lovell's was highly commended. Commended—Captain Spencer's Dur ham ox ; Mr. R. Smith's short horned' ox ; Mr. S. Slater's, ditto; and the Hon. C. Arbuthnot's Durham ox. • CLASS 11. That the first premium of thif tysov,reigns, in Class 2, for oxen or steers of any breed, under six years of age, weight 90 stone and upwards, that shall not have had corn, cake, meal, seeds, grains, or distiller's wash, twelve months previous to the Ist of August, 1837, be adjudged to J. T. Senior, Esq., of Bough ton House, near Aylesbury, Bucks, for his four-years and ten months Hereford ox, bred by Mr. M. J. Stollard, of Red Marling, near Gloucester, fed on grass, hay, 880 lbs. of oil cake; travelled by boat 40 miles to tho show s That a silver medal be awarded to Mr. Stollard as the breeder of the above. That the second preMium of fifteei sovereigns in this class be adjudged to U. Lovell, Esq., of Edgeote Lodge, near 8.n.- bury, Northamptonshire, four years old and four months Dur ham ox, bred by himself, and fed on turnips, potatoes, 1,8201b5. of oil cake, 2,0801b5. - of corn. Travel'ed by boat and taggon 72 miles. ALMANACK. yet it is - not so—both are distinct enough, even without the aid of spectacles. The book would be excellent reading for Lilliput. MR. PAINE AND MR. LAING.---It will be in the recollection of our readers that some time since Mr. Laing, the Magistrate, and a medical gentleman named Paine, in turning the corner of a street ie the Sttrand, came in - contact with each other, and, although th e l ater apologised for the accident, M r . Laing struck him with his umbrella, and then gave him in charge of a policeman, by whom he was taken to Bow -street on the following morning. As Mr. Laing, how ever, refused to appear to substantiate the charge of assault which he had preferred, and also could not be prevailed upon to apologise and give a certain sum to a charity for having un warrantably given Mr. Paine into custody, an action was com menced against him, which was set down for trial in the Queen's Bench before a special jury on Thursday last. The Court, however, was not called upon to try the issue, the defendant, at the eleventh hour, consenting to a verdict against him, with 501. damages, and th e payment of all ccsts.—Observer. MR. HORACE SMITH'S NEW NOVEL, &c.—We are requested to state that the new novel, by the author of Pramlilety e House," &c. entitled, ''Jane Lomax ; or, a Mother's Cri me ," i s published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great M arlborough -street, who has also just issued, 1. A second edition of Captain Spencer's Travels in Circassia, with the author's reply t) the Quarterly Review. 2, Mary Raymond, and other Tales by Mrs. Gore, authoress of " Mothers awl Daughters," &e. ; end, 3. A new and revised edition, ia small octavo, of Miss Pardoc's " City of the Sultan," with eighteen illustrations, The youn gentlemen of Rugby Sch oo l are i n high spirits, and will break up for their Christmas holidays on to morrow, the 12th inst , being much cattier than the usual time, in consequence of her Majesty the Queen having graciously commanded an additional week to their vacation, which we be lieve is usual upon the accession of the monarch. The venerable Earl of Eld o n ha 4, arrived in Hamil" ton-plaee for the winter. His Lordship continues to enjoy pretty good health considering his advanced life, haring en tered his eighty-seventh year. CLASS 111. That the fire premium in this class of fifteen sovereigns for oxen or steers of any breed under five years of age, under 90 stone and above 70 stone weight s that shill not have had cake, corn, meal, seeds, grain, or distiller's wash t..k else mouths pre vious to the Ist of August, 1837, be adjudged to J. I'. Senior, Esq., of Boughton House, near Aylesbury, for his four yea• - s old and onc month Hereford ox, tred by the Rev. J. Robert Smithers, Coari,.u; a • L ominz,ter ; fed on grass, Lay, and 8001bs. of oil cake. Travelled to the show 40 miles. That a silver medal be adjudged to the Rev. Mr. Smithers as the hi e..der of the above. That the second p:•,-mium of ten sovereigns in Class 3 be adjudged to Mr. Richard Hewitt, of Dorfurd, near Daventry, Northamptonshire, for his three years and ten months uld Hereford ox, bred by Mr. John Davies, of Priors Halton, near Ludlow ; fed on grass, bay, turnips, 640 lbs. of oilcake, and travelled by boat to the show 70 miles. CLASS IV. That the premium of ten sovereigns in Classy 4, for oxen and steers of any breed under 41 years of age, and under eighty stone weight, without restriction as to feedirw, be adjudged to Mr. Builey, of Shenl e y H ouse , near Stoney ' Stratford, for his th , ee years and tea months old Hereford ox, bred by Mr. Thomas Arden, and fed on grass, hay, 700:bs. c,f oilmke, and travelled to the show by boat 60 miles. That a silver medal, as the breeder of the above', be awarded to Mr. T. Arden, of the Levs, near Ile-eford. The competitors in this class were generally commended, as were the steers of Mr. T. Wratislam, in Classes 2 and 3, and also Mr. Bailey's Hereford ox, in the latter class. CLASS V. That the first premium of ten sovereigns, in Class 5, for oxen or steers of any breed, not exceeding four years and three months old, under seventy stone weight, that shall not have had cake, corn, meal, gram, or Cistille.'s wash twelve months previous to the Ist of August, 1837, be adjudged , o J. T. Se itor, Esq., of Boughton House, near Aylesbury, Bucks, for his three years and four 'ninths old Het c'o-d ox, bred by the Right Hon. the Earl Talbot, of Ing-strie, StaffJrdshire, and fed on grass, hay, and 620 lbs. of oilcake. Travelled on foot forty miles to the show. That a silver medal be adjudged to Earl Talbot, as the breeder of the above. That the second prerniuna in Class 5 be a , ljudged to J. Bailey, Esq., of Shvieley House, near Stoney Stratford, for his four years Scotch ox, bred by Mr. *Turk, fed on g-ass, hay, and 5601b5. of oilcake. Travelled by boat 60 mites to the show. CLASS . VI. That the first premium of fifteen sovereigns in Class 6, for fattened cows or heifers under five years of age (freemartins and speycd heifers not qualified), be adjudged to R. W. Baker, Esq., of Collesmoro, in the couLty of Rutland, for his three years and five months old improved short-horned heifer, bred by him_elf, and fed on oilcake, barley and bean meal, and ve getable food. Travelled by van 110 miles to the show. That a silver medal be awarded to Mr. R. Baitar, as the breeder of the above. That the second pr'mium of five sovere►gus in Class 6 be adjudged to W. F. Wrates!ow, Esq., of Rugby, Warwickshire, for his four years and seven months old Durham heifer, bred by Mr. W. Rock, of Edgco:e, near Banbury, and fed on grass, hay, turnips, carrots, cake, and corn, and travelled on foot two miles, and 112 miles by water, to the show. The above class was generally commended. CLASS VII. The first premium_of fifteen sovereigns, in Ch•has 7, for fat tened oows of five years old and upwards (freemartins and speyed heifers not qualified), be adjudged to Sir C. Knightley for his eight years and two months old Durham cow, bred by himself and calved five separate times, and fed on oilcake, Swede turnips, and barley meal. Travelled by boat 74 miles to the show. That a silver medal be awarded to Sir Charles Knightley as the breeder of the above. That the second premium of five sovereigns in Class 7, as above, bo adjudged to tin 1116 st Honourable the Mariuis of Exeter for his Lordship's seven years and nine months old Durham cow, bred by J. Whittaker, Esq., of Burley Otley. Has not had a calf at her full time. Was put to fatten on the Ist of September, 1836, and until that time was as much starved as possible to make her breed. She was fed on 400 lbs. of oil-cake, 1,250 lbs. of bean flour, and 3001bs. of barley flour, carrots, and hay. 'l'ravelled by waggon 90 miles to the show. The gold medal of five sovereigns to the breeder of the best beast in any of the abwe classes be adjudged to R. W. Baker, Esq., for his three year and five months old improved short-horned heifer, which gained the first prize in Class 6. LONG-WOOLLED SHEEP. CLASS VIII. That the premium of ten sovereigns in Class 8 for long wooled fat wether sheep one year old, that have never had cake, corn, meal, seeds, or pulse, be adjudged to J. S. Bur gess, of liolme Pierrepoint, near Nottingham, for his three twenty months old Leicester wethers, bred and fed by him self. That a silver medal, as the breeder of the above, be adjudged to Mr. Burgess. That the second premium of five sovereigns, in Class 8, be adjudged to Mr. J. P.tinter, of Burley, near Oakhant, Rutland, for his three thirty-two .months old Leicester we titers bred by himself from rams hired of Richard Cresswell, Esq., of Raveaston, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and fed by Mr. Painter. CLASS IX. That the premium of ten sovereigns in this class for long wooled sheep, one year old, without distinction as to feeding, be adjudged to Mr. Richard Hickson, of Ilougham, near Grantham, for his three thrty-two months ad wethers, bred and fed by himself. Travdled in a cart 116 miles to the show. That a silver meth', as the breeder of the above, be adjudged to Mr. Hickson. CLASS X. That the premium of ten sovereigns in Class 10, for long woolei fat wether sheep, two years old, without restriction as to feeding, be adjudgel to Mr. Richard Rowland, of Creslow, near Aylesbury, Bucks, for his three thirty-three months old long-wooled wethers; of the Cotswold and Leicester breed; bred by T. M. Kerr, Esq., of Westwell, near Burford, and fed by Mr. Rowland, in whose possession they have been since May, 1836. _ . . That a silver medal, as the breeder of the same, be given to Mr. Kerr. -The gold medal was awarded to the best pen of sheep in the abuv.: class. CLASS XI. That the first premium of fifteen sovereigns in Class 11 for short-woolled fat wether sheep, one year old, without restric tion as to feeding, be adjudged to his Grace the Duke of Richmond, for his Grace's three twenty months old South Down wether sheep, bred and fed by his Grace. That a silver medal as the breeder of the above be adjudged to his Grace. That the second premium of five sovereig ns in Class 11, as above, be adjudg e d t o S tep h en G rant h am , Esq., of Stoneham, near Lewes, for his three twenty-months old South Down wethers, bred and fed by himself. CLASS XIL - _ That the first prem!um of ten sovereigns in the above class for short-woolled fat rether sheep, two years old, without re striction as to feeding, be adjudged to Stephen Grantham, Esq , of Soneham, near Lewes, for his three thirty-months old South Down wethers, bred and fed by himself. That a silver medal as the breeder of the above be adjudged to Mr. Grantham. That the second premium of five sovereigns in Class 12, as above, be adjudged to hi Grace the Duke of Richmond, for his Grace's three thirty-two months old South Devon wethers, bred by his Grace. That the Gold Medal, value five sovereigns, to the breeder of the best p'n of short-wooled sheep, exhibited in 11 and 12 Classes, be adjudged to his Grace the Duke of Richmond, for his three twenty-months old wetheis, which gained the first premium in Class 11. PIGS. CLASS XIII. That the first premium of ten sovereigns in the above Class far pigs of any breed, above four months old and under nine months old, be aljudged to the Right lion. the Earl of liar. borough for his Lordship's three pigs, of the Neapolitan and Chinese breed, and fed by his Lordship at Melton Mowbray, on wheat, dour, barle/rneal, and skim-vai,k, That a Silver Medal, as the breeder of the above, bo awar2C d to his Lordship. That the second premium in Class 13, of five sovercirrs as above, be awarded to Mr. George William Kirby, of Epping Bury, near Epping, for his three pigs of the Bedfordshire breed, twenty eight weeks old, bred by Thomas Kempson, of Lower Gravenh, near Silsoe, Bedfordshire, and fed by Mr, Kirby, on skim-milk and peas. WiJ)in the last three month s their food has been for the three pigs skim milk and half a peek of peas daily. This class was generally commended. The judges highly commended Lord King)thret thiriMwo months Down wethers, which were eaeltidad from 934!- - c hoitit itt consequence of no certificate haVitl: 'wen receit'A. We omitted to state In the proper place that in Claes 7 Captain It 0, Allaril!be's short-horned heifer was cornmended i and that the judges highly comilended W. F. Wratesleei, Esq.'s, Durham cow in that el : dm ?:XTRA STOCK. A silver to the exhibitor of the hest beet in oar* stock adjudged to \V. Furlestone, Esq ,of Rugby, for Lis taee years and five months old short-horned heifer, bred by the late Mr. Thomas Few, of Newton Mile, near Rugby. Ms veiled by boat 112 miles. A silver medal to the exhibitor of the best fat long -wooled sheep, in extra stock, was adjudged to Mr. R. Rowland, of Creslow, for his thirty-six months old long-woolled ewe, bred by T. Wells, Esq. A silver medal to the exhibitor of the best fat short-woolled sheep in extra stock, was adjudged to Stephen Grantham, Esq., for his thirty-two months South Down we.hers. A silver medal was adjudged to the Earl of llarborough for his Lordship's twenty-three and a h a lf mont h s o l d Neapolitan a-d Lricestcr breed of pigs, Friday morning the Committee met in the Committee-room in the Repository.yard, Goswell-street, Earl Spencer in the Chair. The Committee was numerous, among whom we obser►ed the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Exeter, Sir C. Knightley, Mr. W. Ferdinand Wrattislow, Mr. It. W. Baker, Mr. John Eliman, and many other influential mem bers of the Club who take a deep interest in the breeding of superior cattle, and who are otherwise extensively engaged in general agricultural purinits. The Secretary, Mr. H. Gibbs, having read the Report connected with the present meeting, Earl SPENCER said he would take that opportunity of con gratulating the Club on the prosperous state of its finances, in asmuch as from the able and spirited manner in which it had been supported, they were now in a situation to carry forward the objects the Society had in view in a more beneficial man ner than they had the opportunity of doing--those great bene fits which had long been contemplated would arise out of this association. His L-rdship expressed his satisfaction at the great improvements which had taken place, not only in re spect of quantity, but as regarded the quality of the stock ex hibited on this occasion, and he deemed it a further indication of elcir growing prosi,erity, that no less than fourteen noble men and gentlemen, new members, had joined them this year. This he thought would shew that the services of the Club were appreciated as being of great benefit to the country geac rally. A motion was male by Mr. It. W. BAKER, and seconded by Mr. E. W. WILIW.T, that class 10 be struck out of the bill of premiums, and that the premiums in class 9 in future be in creased to two cf 15 sovereigns and 5 sovereigns respectively. In consequence of this show being, as before described, of a very super for order, Vie yard has been crowded the whole of the day with visitors. Among the seeds and vegetables our attention was parti cularly directed to some splendid samples of mange' wurzel and Swedish turnips, some of the former weighing nearly 401 b. aril the latter 201 b. each, as also kohl rati of immense size; c ormous cabbages, of tue kind called the drumhead, or cattle csbhage, weighing nea-ly half a hundred weight , each. Messrs. Thomas Gibbs and Co., of Half-moon -street, Picca dilly, have been very eminent for their attention to this im portant branai of the agriculturist's pursuits. Their numereasi specimens of glasses attracted much attention, and very pro perly co, ns the improvement of our meadow pasture is of the grea•ed moment in an advanced state of agriculture. The priz's were awarded on Thursday. The judges on this o.tcasion were—Mr. Edward Franklin, of Ascot, near Tets worth ; Mr. Ralph Oldscre, Clipstone, near Market Harbo rough ; and Mr. John Jcl!icoe, Bightcrton, near Shipnell. FROM THE GAZETTE OF FRIDAY• WAR OFFICE, DEc. 8, 1837. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Ensign F. IT. P. Methuen, from the 10th Regiment of Foot, to be Coruet, by purchas e , vice Duff, who retires, Dec. 8. _ _ _ 10th Regiment of Foot—S. G. Adanis, Gent., to be Ensi g n, by purchage, vice Methuen, appointed to the R o y a l R eg i ment of Horse Guards, Dec. 8. _ 17th Foot—Lieut. J. Brady, from the 22d Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Kelly, who exchanges, Dec. 8. 22d Foot—Lieut. W. B. Kelly, from the 17th Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Brady, who exchanges, Dec. 8. 23d Foot—Lieut. W. L. Will oug hb y to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Williams, who retires; Second Lieut. J. S. Capron to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Willoughby ; E ns i gn T. Ellis, from the 30th Regi men t o f Foot, to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Capron • Second Lieut. T. Ellis to b e Adj u t an t, vice Willoughby, promoted, Dec. 8. 30th Foot—H. Broome, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ellis, appointed to the 23d Regiment of Foot, Dec. 8. 39th hoot—Ensign J. F. Dalrymple to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Leslie, who retires ; W. M. Lockhart, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dalrymple, Dec. 8; Gentleman Cadet T. S. Little, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, with out purchase, vice Lockhart, appointed to 78th Foot, Dec. 9. 60th Foot—Second Lieut. M. B. Weston to be First Lieut., by purchase, vice Gisborne, who retires; T. Bateson, Gent. to be Second Lieut. by purchase, vice Weston, Dec. 8. 69th Foot—Staff-Assistant-Surgeon J. N. Irwin to be Assistant- Surgeon. vice Turner. deeeased, Dec. 8. 71st.Foot—Lieut. R. Cheney to be Captain, by purchase, vice Gore, who retires ; Ensign . 1. H. Colvill tobe Lieut. by purchase, vice Cheney ; Gentleman Cadet A. C. Dashwood, from the Royal Military College, to b... Ensign by purchase, vice Colvill, Dec 8. 77th Foot—Captain A. Toinkins, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice L. S. Dixon, who exchanges, .receiving the difference, Dec. 9. 78th Foot—Ensign D. St. V. Hamilton, to be Lieut., without put-, base, vice J. Shields, deceased, Nov. 30 ; Ensign W. M. Lockhart, from the 39th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hamilton, Dec. 9. 83d Foot—Ensign B. H. Brown to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Howard, who retires ; W. Wynniatt, Gent:, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brown, Dec. 8... 84th Foot—Lieut. G. ll‘Call, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant, vice P. Craufurd, X% ho exchange:4, Dec. 8. 86th Foot—Capt. R. N. Everard, from the 95th Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, vice \Vigmore, who exchanges, Dec. 8. 87th Foot—J. K. E. Holmes, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, without purchase, Dec. 8. 9•? d Foot—Lieut. A. T. W. Duff to be Captain, by purchase, vice Pigott, who retires; Ensign S. H. Murray to be Lieutenant, by purchase, ♦ice Duff, Dec. .8. - - dlth Foot—Ensign G. Maunsell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tomkins, promoted ; W. H. Dore, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Maunsell, Dec. 8. 95th Foot—Capt. 11. W. Wigmore, from the BGth Regiment of Foot, to be Captaim, vice Everard, who exchanges, Dec. 8. Royal African Colonial Corps--Major A. M. Fraser to be Lieut.-Colonel, without purchase, vice Kingston, deceased, Nov. 27; Capt. P. Perry to be Major, vice Fraser : Lieut. D. W. Jevers to be Captain, vice Perry ; Ensign C. Lynch to be Lieut, vice Jevers ; H. Sall, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Lynch, Dec. 8. UNATTACHED. Lieut. A. Tomkins, from the 94th Foot, to be Captain, by pur chase ; Dec. 8. BREVET. Captain S. Chartres, on the Staffat the Cape of Good Hope, to be Major in the Army, Tan. 10. _ MEMORANDUM. The commission of Deputy Assistant Commissary-General con ferred on Aug. 29, 1836, on Commissariat-Clerk G. Miller, has been cancelled, he Lacing previously resigned the appointment be held in the Commissariat Department. The commission of Deputy Assistant Commissary-General J. H. Kennedy has been cancelled, from the 16th September, 1537, inclusive, he having accepted a commutation for his half-pay. Captain Gibson, late of the Ist Royal Veteran Battalion, has been allowed to retire from the Service, with the sale of a Company, ha being about to become a settler in Canada, Dec. 8. The appointment of Major Heady to the 61st Foot was, vies Charlton, who " exchanges." and not vice Charlton, mho "re tires," as stated in the Gaz?tto of the Ist December 1837. WHITEHALL, Dm. 6, 1437. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John Alexander to the church and parish of Kirkcaldy, is the presbytery of Kirk caldy and county of Fife, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Martin. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Ba..,inghall-street. H. Molyneux, linen draper, Penzance, Dec. 29, at two—W. Weston, merchant, Gracechurch-street, Dec. 30, at ono—E. Dadswell, grocer, Shrewsbury, Dec. 30, at twelve—S. and E. Bassett, hotelkeepers, Tunbridge Wells, Dec. 28, at eleven. In the Country. _ _ J. Lewis, draper, Conwill Elvit, armarthenshire, Jan. 15, at twelve, at the Boar's Head Inn, Carmarthen—T. Turbervill e , grocer, Worcester, Dec. 26, at eleven, at the Hop Market Inn, Worcester—G. Hough, ironmonger, Bradford, Dec. 29, at eleven, at the Court House, Bradford—L. J. C. Clayettee, commission agent, Manchester, Dec. 30, at ten, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester--W. Hewitt and T. Hewitt, jun., merchants, King ston-upon-Hull, Dec. 29, at eleven, at the George Inn, Kingston.. upon-Hull—H. Reynolds, druggist, Liverpool, Jan I, at eleven, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool—J. Holton, jun., grocer, Promo Selwood, Jan. 2, at twelve, at the George Inn, Frorne Selwood— W. Butt, grocer, Ledbury, Jan. 5, at twelve, at the Green Dragon Hotel, Hereford. _ _ _ CERTIFICATES, Dsc. 29. J. M'Glasson, silk-mercer, Liverpool---:.j. Stafford, victualler, Haigh-bar, Derbyshire—R. Wickstead, victualler, Minories—W. Hibbert, butcher, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square—J. W. Hentig, jun., merchant, Gloucester—J. Dows, miller , lhatcharn. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. Winn and W. H. Hutchins, jewellers, Margaret-street, Ca vendish-square—T. Rousharn and W. Reusham, grocers, Leam ington Priors—W. Goodwin and P. Hart, iron manufacturers, Greystone Field Forge, Wurcestershire—S. B. Jackson and J. Jer ram, grocers, Byrom-street, Liverpool —G. Brownlow and J. Tripp, porter merchants, Kingston-upon -Hull—J. Johnson and R. Dobson, misters, Woodhouse-hill, Leeds—T. Read and Z. Simp son, drapers, Sydney-place, Commercial-road—W. Pratt, S. Platt, and T. Pratt, stonemasons, Nottingham—W. Dunn and C. C Dunn, coal-merchants, Lymington—E. H. King and W. Crouch, cab-proprietors, Prospect-place, Kentish-town--J. Kitson and J. Midd:ehrook, whiting manufacturers, Copper Bridge, Hod dersfieti—J. Jack.y.o 1, S. Jagger, and G. Ogden, stone-merchant% Storr Heights, Bradford, (as far as regards G. Ogden.) PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Muscovado Sugrt:%, from the returns made in the week ending the sth of Dec., 1837, is 38s. 24d. per Cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable on the Importa tion thereof into treat Britain. Wounds of animals may be easily cured, by the part affected being bathed frequently with the yolk of an v, mixed in the spil it of turpentine of Florence.