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OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, 6th October, 182. rirll E PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of lIPr MAJESTY'S ORDNANCE do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That they are ready to DISPOSE OF, to such persons as may be willing to Tender for the same, a quantity of old IRON ORD NANCE, SHOT and SHELLS, in Store at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, which have been divided into luts, and may be viewed upon application to the Storekeeper at that place any day (Sun lays excepted) previous to the day fixed for the delivery of thidTenders. A Catalogue of the several Lots may be obtained by persons will ing to become purchasers at the Stoiekeeper's unite, W uolwiCh ; the principal Storekeepers at the Tower; and at the Secretary's Odice in Pall-mall, where the Tenders for the whole or any number of the said Lots are to be delivered on or before Wedne , day, the 27th lost. By Order of the Board, G. BUTLER, Secretary. CONTRACTS FOR COALS FOR ANTIGC .SND BERMUDA. 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In short, t j e t r l Peculiarity relating to the treatment of the diseases incidental ue generative system, and the means of immediate relief and _.ultimate_ cure are described in detail. The professional reputation of Dr, La'Mert, who has taken the most distinguished medical r i i i ,i l oi l a n every instance, `'.. a esdelnic honours at home and abroad, is in itself a su ffi cient .7:!.!:antee that those who may place themselves under his care meet with that delicate consideration and eases, Published 'secrecy which are so requisite in the treatment of these itam market ; Mann, 23, P ubliSh none _ ed by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater a,-Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Starle t Titchborne-street, lettorl!' in:el Corn. ; or tree by post for forty-two the author, who may be consulted personally, or by ...-- laity. fmm T en till Twn. and from Six till Blab* IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, *hat published, by H. Rainier°, 219, Regent-street, London. No I. Second Edition, with Additions, ON B,O , in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. 6(1., TRUE & FALSE SPERMATOREMEA ; 'with the View to the Corr ec tio n o f wide-spread Errors relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the Qtnerative System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. "Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi cal co ntributions to German medical literature. This is the first ct time he informs us, that he ha s a dd resse d hi mse lf t o th e non-medl tedreader. We t rus t thi s may no t b e th e l as t, if h e s h a ll anY other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his Power to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1351. The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this 4 1 .stresai ng ma , tatty by translating this little book, and by laying bare a Scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to cure a disease of w hi ch they know nothing, with no other object to fill their own purses. The difference between true Sperina torrheea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are accur ately described, an d th us a safe guide is offered for the treatment of the malady."—Medical Circular, May 5, 1852. 7: We have d e l aye d so long upon the contents of the preliminary ! lPter, that we h ave scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickford ; but the moderate Price at which the brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of every one interested In the matter."—Dublin Medical Press, April 18,1852. In cloth, pricet 6dil 18. by post free, 4 s . THE CURE ° OF STRICTURE: OF' THE URETIIR mo A st lonnyPetlnactie ples at once Simple, Safe, and Eflici;nt, in even its which is added, PRACTICAL clanßdsaEpupvatietnTtimyNlnstroaeNtabTine Forms. To TREATMENT OF SPERMATOL.R. /REA BY CAUTERIZATION; its Inefi BY F. B. COURTEIZ.7 anrdEnDeangander.' Member of the Royal College of Surgeons' "Those who complain most loudly are tho s s i e n o T O n i l o, 3 3 : p :vr:a e : ti kn e fr e o oe wennnoedet how to use the common instruments sur geons has been marred with all kinds violence,of; as . tei: operations a about the simple cure of diseases, and a all the excesses and horrors of surgery."—John Observations.—" In proof of his views he (Mr. CourtenaSulrgical has given the history of a great many cases successfully treated, y.s, bad as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated Such Such are cases ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No.. ix. had resisted, for Period of twelve year% the treatment by dihtation, and was fi na ll y r emoved in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix. appear, both In duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag. gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently successfuL" — Protesstr Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster -row ; Carvalho, '' eet-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill ;or direct from the author ; Priee fl Ono Shilling each ; by post, ls. 6d. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. 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"What paesions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever beard." nt o ISt:manesassio p f the :—Life's pilgrimage, from infa ncy t o o ld age . The mil. Ve ns ties oflicentio . C hastity and its i n f r i ngements. The casual and dissipation, w i th illustrations graphic, nay_ a tive, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages. v. Tnz 111.A.RRIAGE STATE. To be or not to be, that is the question." FILOGILAMMS Lawa and obligations of nature, society, and reli d - OM regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. choice, on both sides, as to age, tem perament. complexion, an them. figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing P hyiff cal defectiveness anti its removal. Ster:lit d 'Ls conversion. Yan , Time an d Cases, &c, By It. J. CULVERIVELL, M.D. (1841 ), M.R.C.S. (1 82 7), 1824) Twenty-five years Zledical and Forensic Referee in these ,nl!ktters. R eception hours dail y till Five, Evenings, Seven till " 4 41 it). 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Capita!„ 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares, of 201. eao Doposit, 2/. per Share, This Railway is "riled to commence at a point adjoining the Station of the Grer 4- 7:::,.`etern Railway Terminus at Paddington, and passing thence ne Grand Junction Canal through certain fields In the line ll e'-)ss the Edgware road upon an arch near the Kilburn Turnpil at then over the London and North-Western Line near 1 1 , F r..-New Station, and proceed northward until it forms wit . to projected line of the North and South- Western, Hampstead, and City Junction Railway, and thence by it and the East and West India Dock Railway to the City, affording to the traffic on the Great-Western Line direct communication with the City-IV Railway. • - The proposed lin a ewill afferl railviay accomtnaclation to the entire large and populcds district lying to the west of the Regent's-park, including Bayswater, raddington, Malaa-hill, St. John's-wood, and Kilburn. [PRIC E SD, THE WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE ELECT lON RIOTS. On Friday the trial of the body of men charged with rioting at Bridgegate, Gloucestershire, on the occasion of the late contested election, beating the police, obstruct ing the voters on their way to the poll, and extorting money by intimidation, came on before the Gloucester shire court of quarter sessions, and created intense inte rest throughout the county. On the bench and in court were the lion. Grantley Berkeley, the unsuccessful can didate, and there was a numerous attendance of magis trates. The prisoners arraigned, and against whom true bills were found were 21 in number. Their names were Joseph Wiltshire, Philip Britton, Thomas Wilcoeks, William Stone, Joseph Franklin, Richard Williams, Si meon Weaver, Joseph Iles, James Goodwin, William Brain, Benjamin Miller, Jonas Davis, George Davis, William Burchell alias Lovell, George Hendy, Charles Lovell, Robert Freake, David Arnold, Aaron Rogers, Thomas God win, and William Wilcocks. They were charged with h av i ng , on M on d ay , t h e 19t h o f J uly lust, at the parish of Wick and Abson, together with divers others evil-disposed persons, unlawfully, riotously, and wantonly assembled to disturb the peace ; and that they then and there made a great noise and disturbance, and assaulted and beat Thomas Hazel, Henry Knight, E. Broad, W. David, Thomas Wood, Charles Breakspear, William Hardy, and Rumsey Laughby, of the Glouces tershire police force, while in the execution of their ditty; and also assaulted and beat F. B. N. Dickenson, Esq., one of the magistrates for the said county. Two other prisoners, William Osborne and William Jenkins, who are charged with highway robbery and extorting money from the voters, are left for trial at the assizes. The prisoners all pleaded not guilty. Mr. Skinner and Mr. Pigott, were counsel for the prosecution; and Mr. Cooke and Mr. Powell for the prisoners. Th evidence was very voluminous, but the principal facts as deduced from the testimony of the witnesses for the prosecution —chiefly magistrates and policemen—may be put in a narrative form. It will be remembered that at the elec tion for the western division of this county, party feel ing ran very high. The candidates were the old mem bers, Mr. Hale, in the Conservative interest. and the Hon. Grantley Berkeley in the "Liberal Protection " interest. The latter gentleman being opposed by Mr. Nigel Kingscote in the Liberal and free-trade interest. Oa the first polling-day, Monday, July 19, a large body of men armed with bludgeons and hurdle•rails, attacked the committee-room of the Protectionist candidate, throwing stones and breaking the windows. There wore only a few police:on the spot, and after making an ineffectual attempt to disperse the mob, which, according to the account of one of the officers, numbered a thousand people, they were obliged to beat a retreat over the fields, and were followed a considerable distance across the country by the mob, who pelted them with stones, beat them with sticks, and tore the clothes of some of them to rags. Mr. Mirehouse, a magistrate, read the Riot Act, but the mob paid little attention. Some of the police were carried away for dead, but subsequently recovered. The police called upon the people to "aid and assist" them, but they held aloof or refused. The conduct of one woman, how ever, the wife of a policeman, named George, was most courageous. Placing herself between the mob and the police, she fought nobly in behalf of the civil force, and kept them back, for they were su ffi ciently man ly to refrain from striking a woman. The magistrates pre sent, Messrs. Mirehouse, Dickenson, and Hughes, sent for the military, but they did not arrive ; and the mob was quelled soon after the disappearance of the police. Some of the mob had yellow cards, Mr. Kingscote'e colours, in their hats. The prisoners were marked by the police, bat were not apprehended until Sunday night, the 15th of August, a month after the election. The trial was brought to a close at 8 o'clock on Saturday night. The jury, after a patient investigation, found the prisoners guilty of a common assault only. The Chair man sentenced two of the prisoners, Osborne and Jen kins, to 12 months' imprisonment ; Brum ' Davis, and Lovell, 9 months ; T. Wilcox, Britton, Iles, Jones, Davis, Arnold, and Wiltshire, 6 months ; and Treake, Rogers, two Godwins, W. Wilcox, Miller, Hendy, Stone, Burchill, and Weaver, 4 months' imprisonment. The survey of the ground has shown the line to be free from en gineering difficulties, and can be constructed at a very moderate cost. Application will be made to Parliament in the ensuing session for an Act to authorize the construction of the line. Detailed prospectuses of the undertaking, with the namos of the Directors, are in course of preparation, and will be ready in a few days. In the meantime, applications may be made to the Solicitors, Messrs. Davies, Sou, Campbell, and Hand, 17, Warwick-street, Regent-street. 25th October, 1852. - . . .... c, . , _ ... .. __..„-...,, . . ...., \,.....,,,,,,........__J . ±3117 'l.s'. \ :4' , 1 , 1.--, ""............. s. - - T -L.--i ' tqt..o, 4 t ~, J &,____ O. - li i . Ar . ',- ' ) ---`) AI: .."' ~„...,,, , 14;,: , , '''l‘ 4 '''': ''' '' .l lt.' 1 ELECTION PETITIONS. (- -e 7 ...-- 4 1 *4-,, - 4.4.. - 8,..... ••••,:..,... , c • ,- „, . ,y. '7 ,- 8 -4 rc--- --1 ,)- \ i ter - _ -z-`, ‘‘ t - ' Th ~,_ i 1.- --, --11;4•7y - ' -_•,* „ . 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Some even go so far as to assert that so pure a general election never came under their notice. It would serve a good purpose, if those gentlemen were every one of them summoned before a specially appointed committee of the House, and required to produce the statements and notes of evi dence as to every case that had been laid before them, and to declare the several considerations upon which they had decided on not proceeding with each particular petition. Some, no doubt, would be found to have been abandoned as a matter of compromise, some because safely ex posure iu this particular instance would really for the future place the representatives in the hands of the honest, and deprive the agent of his Jong-held power to put up some one to be plucked at every election; others, becaue it had suddenly become more advantageous to stop the petition than to go on with it ; and a goodly number would be found to have been abandoned because there was no petitioner in the field able to afford such t al t i h W e we m hino ere ' expense as would content a parliamentary agent, i t i s utterly in vain to say that on investigation the cot-. caption active part in the contests. wa s excite ment of the moment that spread the report of unea.. envied corruption. It was the rare exception that wherever there was a contest unfair means were used, appeal i t i n o r m n s a o n u y t to s n h h a vaesbs assertion n s m t a nn l 1 0 . and in those places there are plenty of people to be found who make no secret as to how the election was lost or won. There were rumours on the polling days in several places which have not since died away, bat hare become corroborated and confirmed; and we are not with out instances in proof, that if the whole number of pe titions be few, tke smallness of the number is not the result of the rareness of corruption, or of any insuper able difficulty as to getting at the facts, but is in many, if not in most instances, owing to the enormous cost of petitions. As elections are at present conducted, a can didate—even where, in a moderately large constituency, he fights ifair battle —must make up his mind to pay heavily his way to Parliament. It is a road to be passed in any case only by a considerable scattering of gold and silver. A man may have ambition or love of som e c ause enough at heart to spend the money in an open contest; but when he is beaten by bought votes, it is another matter to spend as much more as the election cost him in a patriotic effort to unseat the buyer of the seat. The bribery-beaten candidate may reasonably enough consi der that it is the duty of the Parliament to weed itself of its corrupt members, and that the nation or the con stituency, and not the individual, should pay the cost. It is in vain to cry out against corruption, so long as its putishmeut is guarded against by an enormous fine upon the prosecutor. No petitioner need look to spend less than five hundred pounds, and he may be plucked to the extent of one or two thousand, and then have the satis faction of knowing that the corrupt electors are still in full force, and that he has no better, if not a worse, chance, of being returned than before. As elections now stand—even in the most flagrant in stances—members are left in the full enjoyment of their purchased honours, and constituencies in undisturbed possession of a national trust, which they systematically betray. Those acquainted, for instance, with the myste ries of the management of the franchise at Maidstone, know that when an election is on foot a certain club of voters meet in a private parlour in a publio house to talk over the merits of the candidates —and pipes are smoked, and the weather gone over, and crops discussed, and beer and gin and water tippled—and by and bye, through, it may be, some my s t er i ous 'h o l e i n the wall, there appears a 5 in chalk on a little black board over the fire-place; the eyes of the company find their way in that direction one after another, heads are shaken in dissent, and on goes the drinking, and the smoke thickens, and the conversation becomes political, and in stead of the 5 appears a 7. No one notes the change; the chances of the candidates are gone into with some zeal; the nominee at the club is no favourite yet; if he be an old member there are no end of complaints against him; he has been a member so many years, and still there's smelt tax, and the hop duty is neither abolished nor changed to an acreage. If a new candidate, he is. unknown, and they must be cautious how they take new men. AlO comes out upon the board; faces brighten; there's a long pull at the pip es; every glass is filled as if by some common impulse, and the chairman gives the health of the candidate, and then, old or new, there are speeches and cheers, his committee named, and his election is safe. The mysterious ten has done it all. It is notorious that at the last election positive evidence of bribery in the shape of cheques fell into the hands of the opposing party, and led to a compromise, by which one of the Derbyito candidates was withdrawn, and a section of the Literals and the Tories agreed to a walk over. At the last moment, however, an independent portion of the constituency resolved to resist the compromise —brought torevard a man of their own, Mr. Leo, and polled for him, but without success. At the close of tho election a petition was very urgently spoken ot, but after a time re,. ct.,oled down. The qu.stion begun to bo asked, what good could come of it ? Mr. Lee might unseat his opponent, but his 51.4 -porters would, by no fair means, win in the faro of the figures over the mantel-piece, and the instructions to shopkeepers and others from the °utility round. Tho honest few could not afford amongst themselves to face a petition. The cost of the Tf-titian protects alike the bribers and the bribed. Those who have the monfl , have nothing to gain by its exdenditure, and tho:o who have not, though they feel the di , grace of such a representation, have no remedy. Tradesmen in the metropolis combine to prosecute swindlers, who would escape in numbers, if the charges were to be borne in each instance by an individual. Surely the public are deeply enough inter ested in having an honourably chosen Parliament to raise a fund for the unseating of those who by corrupt influences deprive the honest electors of their ♦oice in the state. Maidstone is far from being a single instance. Colchester, at the last election, went, there is little doubt, knee-deep into its old practices. There is no lack of proof of bribery, and open-housekeeping. Mr. Hard castle was defeated by those practices, and would, in all probability, have petitioned, but the vacancy at Bury St. Edmunds gives him a chance of getting a seat at less coat than by petition at Colcheeter, and so no one means to pay fur exposing the doings of the Chief of the Woods and Forests and his colleague, and their allies of the Eastern Counties Railway. At Bury St, Edmunds a petition was determined upon, and Stuart must have lost his seat. The appointment to the vice-chancellorship, however, leaves the seat open, and no one with sufficient funds has any longer an interest in the exposure of the member. But surely, if a general fund h a d b een su b scr ib e d f or t h e purpose, the Vice-Chancelior would have found a petition between _ would o u b l i d s him and the Chiltern Hundreds ; and the public have appointment mightpp opportunity r t b u o n i o ty o a os considered e a r s o c d e ascertaining i n thein g l i g h h o t w o f f a a pre ventive to detection. of f oll ial in o g n - i d e a s 13 and aid grumbling over unfulfilled promises, Rochestervotespicked enough on n known p of y , loosee t unse at both the present members ; but upe i early k places and payments to it is so well known t h a t the same cor rupt means would be used aga in , and would return an y ot h er men o f the sam e politics, whilst the present Mi n i stry continue in office, that probably the late members would consider it a mere idle waste of money to petition. But other co nstituencies, earnest and honest, and whose votes are neutralized by those bought and coerced seats for Ro chester should surely be ready to contribute to throwing the borough open to another contest, and so again and again, until it become an ascertained fact that it is mere money thrown away to attempt to bribe in Rochester. Then there is Ipswich, from which Mr. Adair's 'Ty r , for the ballot and reform, is to be neutralised b by Al Cobbold's thick and thin support of Lord through perj the be cause Mr. Hubhouse does not see his a expenses, first of a petition, and then Ipswich pretends tested election. And yet no one inh os ; unless the that Cobbold gained his seat by w of Y another con of his bank be fair tug to his brewery, and the power of some thirty public. h t o: T s e l se b e fr o , more or less belong. r chances of the seat for Ips wich costs of the seat, i to be looked for that the few means. It would be absurd o for an individual to pay the i s so i rce y wich ; and it most active of . the Liberals, and on whom falls all the , tiona , should tax themselves to so theamount.eiec'The country generally has no less labour of heavy an h e matter than Ipswich itself. The beer an interestbinok. bought seat is a vote gained by foul shop and . ~,s , a t the great mass of the people, and it is mleansinterestnb-nsand their duty, for the purging of Parlia ment,subscribe for punishment of the wrong done the their to hone , s t part of tne constituency o f I pswich. a yrm outh is a case of anot h er kind, looking at the re turn—and with such knowled ge as any one who has i n vestigated the matter, may have of the practices plied on the late occasion —there is no doubt that Mr. hiCullagh might gain the seat by a scrutiny of the votes; but a scrutiny is of all modes of procedure against a sit ting member the most expensive. Counsel exert their ingenuity in contriving delays; they will spend a day, or perhaps more, over the cross-examination of a single witness; they will make long speeches upon a class of points seemingly raised for the purpose, and ending in nothing; and all these days the petitioner is at the cost of keeping witnesses in town, and sending for fresh testi mony. Tile present system of elections is altogether vicious. The candidate, even where the election is to bo pure, comes forward to pay expenses himself', or else, as in some few instances, his party subscribes, and pays, and so on the face of it he occupies the position of one seek ing a direct advantage for himself, and not the advantage of the electors and the country. If expense be essential to the choice of a representative, it assuredly should be borno not by the candidate, but by the constituen cy. It is one of the public constitutional acts of the boro ug h or county to chose members of Parliament, and if booth s are to be erected, committee-rooms engaged, poll clerks, messengers, &c., employed, the charges should be met by the borough or county, and not by the returned mem bers and beaten candidates, and so also in the case of petitions against the return. If there be bribable elec tors in a constituen c y , it just is the interest of the constitu ency to be rid of them, as i t is their interest to be ; and the member or can didate upon to pay for the rid o f psihcokuplodck no e t more o r b burglars ; ex posure and prosecution of bribers and receivers of bribes than a persun who has had his pocket picked to be called upon to pay the cost of transporting the pickpocket. If bribery is to be put an end to, there must be an end of levying the coat upon the petitioner. BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS. 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By the Deed of Settlement the Directors are empowered to appro priate one-tenth of the Profits to the relief of aged and distressed Shareholders, Depositors to the extent of Five Pounds, and Parties assured for Life, who have paid Five Years' Premiums, their Widows and Orphans. LONDON BOARD OF DIRECTORS. R. Yallowley Barnes, Esq , 11, City-road, Finsbury. Captain G. N. Clarke, Junior United Sery ce Club. George Coode, Esq., Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Stephen Craoknall, Esq., 11, New-square, Lincoln's Inn. George Knox, Esq., 15, Connaught-square, Hyde-park, and Tor Lodge, Tettenhall Wood, Wolverhampton. Alexander Maclean, Esq„ Harrow-on-the-Hill. W. K. M. M'Clintock, Eeq , 8, Connaught-tea'ace, Hyde-park, and Hampstead-hall, Londonderry. Rev. Robert Collier Packman, Rector of Langdon Hills, Essex, Minor Canon of St. Paul's. William Prinsep, Esq., 8, llyde-park•place West. Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Dr. Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, ilyde-park. Mikior Sperling, 14, St. James's-square. AUDITORS. William Jones, Esq., Accountant, 3, Guildhall-chambers. F. J. Bigg, Esq„ 126, Strand, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical, Legal, and General Life Office. BANKERS. Sir Charles Price, Marryat, and Ot; 3, King William-street, London. PHYSICIANS. David Lewis, Esq., 11. D., Finsbury-place. E. Scanlan, Esq., 31. D., 21, tipper Seymour-street West, Connaught square. SURGEONS. H. T. Chapman, Esq., F.R.C.S., 16, Lower Seymour•street, Port- man-square. Michael Teevan, Esq., M.R.C.S., 44, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park gardens. INSPECTOR OP AGENCIES. F. P. F. Strousberg, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Hill and Mathews, St. Mary-axe. The novel and striking advantagesOF this Company, when com pared with those of ordinary Life Assurance Societies, will be readily perceived by the following example and table. Suppose a person aged 20 commence by depositing 101. with this Company, and continue to do so every year till he arrives at 50, he R ill havepaid to the Company 3001., for which he will hold a policy for 6951. 12s. 40., payable to his representatives in case of death. Should ho, however, survive 50, and become unable to pay,* or not be .desirous of continui ng hi s p a y men t s , h e can either retain his policy, and still remain assured for 6951. 12s. 4d., or he may cancel his policy, and receive in cash 3821. 17s. 00., being 621. 17s. Od. more than he has actually paid in. TABLE. assured at ad- mo l l u e ra or. When with- Number period. Com ''. of years Age d li t ach may be ceived in the ',anew to y ti, Pal Po cy a c . Corn- v E al q u u e i v o a i f e t n h t o money that d e r :e w e:B ' r t e h - e pang. pally event of at any at each age• death. at each age. amount age, in the withdrawn above the paid. -______............-_________.- 5 25 50 X S. d. £ a. d. £ s. d. 10 30 2 30 ' 2 100 1 7 51 10 8 110 8 15 35 150 68 8 1 101 17 11 617 11 20 40 200 89 8 8)0 166 17 4 16 17 4 25 45 250 499 8 4 232 0 4 32 4 601 30 50 390 G 95 12 6 1 9 10 7 297 7 47 912 4 382 17 35 55 350 l7 782 0 0 8 ~ 40 GO 400 2 468 3 3 11 8 " 861 41 65 450 935 10 10 55 9 10 7 159 10 50 70 500 1,003 79 0 655 1 6 5 205 16 3 754 is 6 254 15 -... -,.----.--' n _ , , ~,,,,-; -.. , •na r n,..tictry 1 i-A incomes are pre fear of being s, have i fß ti m i t c h a e s e P s o o ll f c o y r Life a n s u rda all p roenv namep a t; pay str bh:ecv:p. onleobvious Orfeited to the Society. 'f o persons, therefore, of limited incomes, or wh ose dependent on contingent circumstances, andfrom unable at some future time to continue their annual hitherto neglected to avail themselves of the benefits ofnl,ol ur mice, the advantages of this institution over any other is to require comment, Every description of ordinary Life Assurance business transacted. l'olicies from 101. to 5,0001., on every known principle of Life Ax surance. Policies not void on account of suicide. by other offices, accepted. ' s ' t convenient to the assured. "Disease d" Premiums m lives,snit paid \n'easn'y' Annuities and Endowments grante d u p on more favourable terms d w e a c y l 1 n m e( o l than in most offices. Ilalf-prcmlum Assurances during the term of seven years. Loans are granted on every description of Real or Personal Secu rity, upon terms more advantageous to the Borrower than in any similar institution. Indisputability of Policies. To put this matter beyond a doubt, the common declaration as to the health and habits of the person assured will net be inserted in the Policies. Medical referees are paid by this Society in all cases for their pro fessionat reports. Commissions are allowed to all parties introducing business to this Society, on a most liberal scale. Detailed Prospectuses , features with Tables, in illustration of the peculiar and advantages of the Deposit system, calculated by F. G. Neison, Esq., expressly for this Company, may be obtained on ap plication to any of the Company's Agents; or to C. W. BEVAN, Actuary and Secretary. N.B. Clergymen and Ministers of all denominations are particu• arly invited to examine the principles of the Deposit system o: assurance. Agoutsind. Medial Waco yrAutocl iu iII pMtl t he kiDgcloll3' THE FATAL DUEL AT EGHAM. The remains of Mona. Frederick Cournet, who was killed in the fatal duel near loglefield-green, were in terred yesterday afternoon, in Egharn church-yard. Great numbers of Frenchmen arrived by the 11.33 train at the Staines station, and proceeded to Egham, when they partook of refreshment at the King's Head and Catherine Wheel inns. They then walked to the Barley Mow, at Inglefield-green, where the body of the deceased was lying, and where the necessary arrangements for the funeral had been made by Mr. Oades, of Egham. Soon after one o'clock the procession :started, and pre sented a most novel and imponing appearance. The F2 rrie the shoulders of six countrjmen of !: 1) ?.?.o v =„11 ) . than a mile and a half, five diff rent pales relieved t avh other on the way. At the head of the procession was cArried a large red 11 ig, hung with black crape, and bearing the inscription, " Republique I.): , rnocratni.le et Socialo." About 150 Frenchmen followed, their feuds uncovered, and their whole demeanour showing the sincerity of their sorrow. Amongst those who took part in the melancholy ceremony were MM. Ledru Rollie, Seftelcher. Savoys, Ferrier, Felix Pyat, As tiix, Rolland, Xavier, Do vrier, Martin, Bernard, and l'fl,iger, formerly representatives of the people in France, aud several political writers, including Delui cluge, Cakaigne, Naquet, Recherelles, and others. The grave was dug at the further end of the churchyard, and by the time the corpse, with the procession, arrived at the spot, every part of the burial ground, and the ap proaches to the church, were crowded with spectators. Colonel Salway, Captain Seymour, Sir John Cathcart, W. Newnham, Esq., tied several others of the neigh bouring gentry were present. No burial service was read, but after the coffin had been lowered into the grave, Monsieur Delescluge pronounced the following doge in French :—" Citizens, in the presence of justice this day arrested—in the presence of an instruction commenced —every one will understand the sentiment of high deli cacy which obliges us to be silent before this grave, around which so many regrets and sympathies are crowded. The feeling must be indeed imperative which compels us to be silent. What, however, would be the use of breaking that silence? To speak of the cruel loss which democracy has just experienced I Is not ever true Republican conscience acquainted witheournet? That great heart—that soul so protoundly sympathetic— that daring so heroic in danger, which at the age of nineteen illustrated one of the most brilliant careers in the French navy. What true republican conscience ' does not know the eminent services which Frederick Cournet has since rendered to democracy, and those which he would have rendered her still ? Yes, Cournet was a great end courageous citizen and the name which he leaves to his son as his only fortune is one of those which will remain as the symbol of political honesty and of an unlimited devotion to the cause of the people. On his deathbed ono thought alone occupied Cournet—the republic and the revolution. Let us give him, then, the only farewell worthy of him by repeating the last words that fell from his lips—‘Vive la Republique, de mocratique et sociale.' " A loud cheer from the assem bled mourners then broke in upon the solemnity of the scene, the red flat , ' was faded, and the churchyard was speedily deserted. The friends of the deceased after wards re-assembled at the Catherine Wheel, which re sounded with their ejaculations for another hour or two, b and then the red republicans departed, as they came, y railway for London. TIIE DUKE'S MAGNANIMITY.—An anecdote appo positoly distinctive of the two great warriors of modern times is thus stated :—At the battle of Dresden, Na poleon perceived a group of distinguished otlicers ride up to a conspicuous point, were they paused, and appeared to be wakicg a reconnoisance. Pointing to the place, he called out to the officer directing a battery of artillery close at hand—" Jetta moi une douzaino de boulets, la la fois ! Il y a petit, etre quelques petits generaux !" " Throw a dozen bullets yonder all at once. There are perhaps, some little generals among them 1" Ile was obeyed, and Moreau was killed. At Waterloo, the colonel commanding the British artillery observed to the duke—" I have got the exact range of the spot where Bonaparte and his staff aro standing. If your Grace will allow me, I think I can pick some of them off." " No, no," replied ho, " generals-in•chief have something else to do in a gtoat battle besides firing at each other." THE DUKE ON CHURCH PATRONAGE.—The fol lowing anecdote of the late duke, is both "good" an d "true." On a vacancy occuring, some years ago, a see in Ireland, a clerical dignitary, who thought . . ib n a a d s peculiar claims on his grace's interest, wrote to u, ni w , T an 111 .... follows:—" My dear duke. One word from_ yo,______ , am bishop." Prompt came the reply, XY ""` Not one word!" in the Irish IRISH BUTTER.—The rapid increa se butter and provision trade with Cork, Limerick, much attention, as the exports fr om nd is attracting perh a ps, than at and other ports are becoming ilgreater,jsmost valuable traffic any former period. is now quite revived, alnndfact'become once more a source of butter is an evidence of of great wealth to the agifruiaccs:ltural classes. The enor mous increase in the pro f pasturage in districts where the far greater extent almost exclusively in former years. tillage had prevailed change . in the system of husbandry, b - the decrease account of this convenience has been cause d 3. comparative little in . d ecrea se of population, and the continued " exo d us. " PRODUCTIVE LABOUR IN POOR-L AW UNIONS.— A circular has j us t Poor-law Association, conv en i ng a conference of of the members of Parliament, guardians of the p oor, m i n i sters of religion. and others favour a bl e to the principle of sub stituting, in Poor- law unions, productive employment for m ere relief, either in total idleness or accompanied by degrading and useless taskwork. The objects of the conference are to be confined to collecting and bringing under consideration the various methods in use, in Eng lish or Irish unions, for usefully employing the poor re ceiving in or out-door " relief," with the pecuniary and other results, beneficial or not, arising from their adop tion, and to consider and adopt means for promoting the general enforcement of productive and healthful labour, and otherwise furthering the purposes of the Poor-law Association. Viscount Goderion will preside, at some • portioh of the prweedingth. MONDAY rE - - r - a ;.rte - trk, S N tta 7 OCTOBER 25, 1852. LONDON AND PARIS.-A CONTRAST. If anybody wants to realize the charms of this metro polis lot him spend a week, such as the week before last, at Paris, ,and return for a week, such as last week, to London. There ho will find the air itself, if not every where balmy, yet always exhilarating, brightening up every face, giving elasticity to every step, and so clear that from the top of the Arc de Triomphe, or the heights of Niontrnartre, it seems possible to count every chimney and every attic window in Paris. Here ho passes at once into the atmosphere of a brewhouso end the odours of a stable. He breathes in steam, ho sees through smoke, he walks through mud, and he the sewer,. As ho forces his way through the inimi cal thoroughtaro he is alternately stunned by the incessant noise end brought to a standstill by the utter inadequacy of both the pavements and the car riage way. There were times last week when to get from Charing cross to the London-bridge station would take nearly as much time as a journey by the express from London to Brighton. or to Oxford. Paris, of course, has its disagrceables, for though not a port, nor the seat of manufacture, except for articles of ; luxury :and taste, it is a garrison, and a hundred thousand soldiers aro a blessing riot without some drawbacks. But in Paris immense efforts have been made, and are still making, suf ficient to satisfy the strongest craving for improve ment. The congested centre of that metropolis is being perf)rated by splendid thoroughfares, opening the great national and municipal palaces to one another, and giving a clue to the intricate labyrinths that surround the Hotel de Yale. Under the banks of the Seine vast sewers in tercept and carry off what we as carefully infuse into our river, though in Paris there is not the same neces sity for such an arrangement as in the case of a tidal stream which twice a day brings back its load of abomi ' nations. Among other points in which Paris sets us an example, it is now more than half a century since a corpse was interred, or an animal slaughtered for food, within a quarter of a mile of the barriers. The result of these and other arrangements is, that Paris is a city a man is happy to live in all the year round, even when he has other alternatives. Its suburbs are sought rather for cheapness and quietness, and for schools, by reduced gentlewomen, by aunts, and grandmothers, than by men and families. Though dissipation and poverty shorten life there even more than here, at all events Paris is an enjoyable city, and its inhabitants are con tent to make it their constant home. We only oontrast the condition of the French and the British capitals just to show how much can be done in spite of the great difficulties and hindrances inevit able to a place always on the verge of revolution, and enjoying only a fraction of our commerce and wealth— how much, on the other hand, may be left undone in the wealthiest, freest, and quietest metropolis in the world. It is little to the purpose to talk of this or that foreign city, or to expatiate generally on continental dirt, for what fair comparison cad there be between this city of millionaires and towns where silver, if it exists at all in an unalloyed form, is as precious as life-blood? There is no occasion, however, to go to contrasts at all. Every engineer, every mechanic, will tell us, what in deed is obvious on the smallest consideration, that whatever is necessary to the health and comfort of a city is a mere question of E. s. d. If it is possible to make one street a good one, to make one house perfectly clean and sweet, to do one hundred yards of drainage effectually, to supply one house with a sufficiency of pure water, it is possible to do this for the whole city. Among other uses designed in the existence of palaces and mansions, Providence, doubtless, intends that they shall be specimens of what may be done, and that, beginning from these, we shall go on to do the like for whole cities. Buckingham Pa lace, we trust, by this time has been rendered a healthy and commodious residence, in spite of some consider able difficulties. That once achieved, there is no reason why every tenement in St. Giles's or Bethnal•green should nut be made as salubrious and agreeable, as far as it goes —nay, more so, seeing that the very collars even of the notorious Church-lane are at a higher level than the rcot of Buckingham Palace; but it is a matter of demonstration that there need not be one single nuisance, either public or private, in this metropolis, and that the heart of London might be as sweet as the South Downs. London might bo made the very healthiest spot in the world, for oven that apparently insuperable evil, the smoke of our coal fires, besides that it is more of an eyesore Oen a real mischief, may be reduced within very bearable limits. The obstacles to improve ment, then, are moral rather than physical, and the an tagonists we have to deal with aro not so much the ele ments of external nature and the necessary conditions of humanity in masses, as certain foes within the camp— the selfishness, stupidity, and indolence of man, or rather of some men. The wors!afLit.jltliat the more L4l l Plasttki ky l#a tobo done, the less we have in the way of actual results. For example, there has been no end of discussion about intramural iatermen . a, and an Act e as passed, now many months since, which was expected by the credulous public to stop them tdtogether. No such thing. To the best of our information the spade is busy in every burial ground of this metropolis, and parsons, clerks, sextons, beadles, grave-diggers, and all the rest of the sable fra ternity, aro burying all the faster because they think their time short. Really they have no occasion to give way to these gloomy apprehensions. Strong in the power of prescription, and mighty in abuse, they may safely trust in the weakness of laws and the imbecility of Parliament. Twenty years will find them still unmo lested, still gathering fees from corruption, and reaping a harvest from death. The next generation will see our graveyards only heaped a yard higher, and their walls only bulging a little more, and of somewhat deeper stain. The next generation will see the Thames still unnaturally turbid, and its mud banks still crimson under the July sun ; it will still be greeted at every step with the vapours of death as cending from grates, areas, cellars, and the whole surface of a soil saturated with sewerage and impregnated with gas. The next generation will still find our paving in heaps for three months every year, our great thorough fares at a dead lock ten times a day, our ears stunned by a traffic nine-tenths of which could be carried swiftly and silently over rails, Holborn-hill without a viaduct, and the motrapolis in general only getting worse and worse, because, as long at least as we continue to prosper, it must become larger and larger. To what purpose, then, is all this, if so far there has been nothing but talk, and for the future there seems nothing but discouragement ? Is it nothing, then, that the metropolis still want the master mind who is to render it the monument of his useful services P On all sides ambitions patriots are asking for something to be done. Everywhere you meet your Hercules panting for his labours. After all, homely as it may appear, what arena so worthy as that in which we live ? The control of fifty colonies, the adjustment of the European " balance of power," the regulation of trade, and all the other functions of an Imperial Government, have their several glories, but also their difficulties and their mis haps. Moreover, these are matters in which political sentiment and p , rty spirit are sure more or less to thwart the greatest talents and best designs. But the internal improvement of this metropolis is a work which will surely reward the statesman with some degree of suc cess, and which promises a comparative exemption from merely factious obstacles. At the present rate of in crease, the population of this city will amount in thirty years to that of an independent second-class State, and s Portugal ir could s ul ll d ooln loaungdh, t o t o r B confer u m a , or much D e n g m l o a r r y k ,onor itsP its greatest deliverer or statesman. We seriously com mend this consideration to some of the many Ministers unattached who are going about town asking for em ployment, and unable to get it in more usual channels. Of course it cannot be disguised that the task requires oven more judgment than courage, and we cannot pro mise to back up every great scheme for the improvement and better management of this metropolis simply be cause it is a great scheme. Projectors must take their chance of that. We have only to proclaim that the work is still to be done. London waits for its great seine. There is still to come the man, who will not, indeed, " find it brick and leave it marble," but who may render it the most wholesome, agreeable, and convenient place of residence in the world, and that not merely for the ten thousand fashionable families who occupy one quar ter of it for the season, but for the half-million families who aro confined to it all the year round.—Times. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH IN A RAILWAY CAR RIAGE.—On Monday last, Mrs. Timbrell, a passenger by a 9 30 a.m. express train from London was, on the train approaching Warrington, observed by one of her fellow-passengers to lean back as if dozing, but upon its arrival at the station it was found that she was dead. HARDY WOMEN.--A very singular exhibition took place yesterday in the bed of the river opposite the spot where the horologe-hill stood in days of yore. There wore,iwe should say, at least two dozen of boats, and six times as many women in the water around them, Some of the damsels wero nearly arm-pit deep, with scarcely one straw more than their busts above water. All were busy—all were feeling for mussels with their feet, and, when found, stooping down till their chins touched the water, so as to secure them with their hands ; but, in chattering__ some cases, chin deep would not answer, and then over head and ears was the order of the morning. Sticking spectators that happi ness aamndong the clay, treading upon sharp mussels barefooted, would h ave past the middle in water for hours, one thought enough to produce wry faces and teeth; but nothing of this was seen, for all the world doe s hooci"—Monte ose "* gay and merry as a marriage bell, teaching the life; and also real' is common to all conditions of nu tme g the old proverb, that "one half of Standard. tknow how the other makes a liveli wanted for this branch WEST RIDING is for the West Ridin g, ST RIDING MILIT rA:7-The number of men of military service is 3,760; this wanted for the Ainstyg,,wlnedh exclusive of the number to constitute three regi ments, as at Supposing the 3,760 would increase the number mentioned by some f ew hundred s. an lesent intended, it will give for one regiment 1,264, 1,253. It is not definitel y settled for the other two, what shall be th e exact number in each regiment, but at present the en rolment is going on for three regiments only, viz., the Ist, 2d, and 3d, THE' UNITED STAPES. (From the Times Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Oct. 9, laj-past 10 a.m. My letter on the Lone Star movenent reached this country just as our leading jourials had become aware of the extent of that society, Ind somewhat in formed in regard to its operations, ;had derived my information when I wrote from wha I believed to be authentic sources, and I am sorry ncw, in addition to what I had before stated, to be oblted to communi cate other facts, which not only corpborate all that I said, but which impart a still deep' signification to this matter. Your remarks on the sime subject were immediately copied into some of our newspapers while others gave the substance of ve►n in their owi: editorial articles ; but my letter 1)3 the last steamer will have already informed you 0 a gross outrage perpetrated upon our 412 g by the autiorities in Haydn nab, and you will find in nearl3 all our Atlantic journals of the last week earnest latguage concerning that occurrence. I need not tell you that the receit occurrences in Havannah, as well as the remarks t► our most promi . nent newspapers, not only confirm the truth of all my statements in reference to the Loni Star Order, but they corroberate to au unexpec t e d e xtant the tendency of public opinion in this country as I foreshadowed it. The truth is, that this is likely to prove a very ugly business for us all. I entertain apprehensions about it which I cannot shake off I see a drift of public feeling among the American people which be tokens the precipitation of events that I think every friend of this country wculd try fo'avert. But there is something else that I regard as still more impor tant. The present Captain General of Cuba is the worst enemy Spain has inspired, perhaps by loyal zeal for his Sovereign and patriotic feelings for his coun try, he is pushing things to such an extreme that he is waking up the indignation of that very class of our people who will thus be hurried into a policy .which, but for such outrages, would meet with no favour except from the Lone Star men and their intimate adherents. The treatment which several of our officers and vessels had already experienced afforded some theme for talk about national insult . , American power, Republican empire, &c. ; but all this would have slipped by, and men of sense and discretion would have everywhere either overlooked or palliated what had been done; but the late aggres sions and insults to the Cornelia and the Crescent city , have excited universal indignation. The British peo ple have never submitted very tamely in any period of their history to insults on the sea, and it should never be forgotten in any judgment which English men form about Americans, that we are only Anglo- Saxons, much resembling our father s i n past ages and our brothers of 1852, on the other side of the At lantic, in our good and our evil things. But it would be strange enough if the vast difference in our history should not work some modifications also in the deve lopment of national character and popular feeling. The Americans have grown to be more sensitive on this subject of interference and aggression on the ocean than even Englishmen are themselves. I regret very deeply all that has h appened in our relations with Cuba since the first landing of Lopez at Cardenas. I did not lament his first repulse, nor did I much regret on the whole, the final state he suffered, nor did I much regret the fate of my own countrymen, any further than my humanity might have been stirred by the brutality of their deaths. But Ido not desire to see my country irritated into a new and precipi tate launch upon the territories of our neighbours. Heaven is leading us fast enough, without having the unholy impulses of bad passions to drive us on. Like all other Americans who take time to reflect, I wish my country to spread her dominion no faster than she can extend it by the arts of peace or by friendly negociations. For these reasons, I regret deeply the course the Captain General of Cuba is taking ; for it requires no gaze of a seer to foresee what will be the result. And then suppose the up shot of the matter—what would be a war with Spain to us ? She was too weak 30 years ago to repress the independence of her American colonies, and if she has now to contend for the supremacy of the last of them against the whole force of the United States, we shall only witness a spectacle which we would not wish to contemplate--the final degradation of one of the olliftitaliapnt angedligls States in Europe. moment some friendly power would wu t ite'PtiFWPti counsels in the ear of the Cabinet at Madrid! It would seem now that unless the present Captain General is recalled, end his place filled by a wiser man, Cuba will be revolutionized, and the gem of the Antilles lost to Spain for ever. There is a ferocity about his administration which recalls souvenirs of barbarous times, and Isis recent atrocities have cur dled the blood of our people with horror, and filled them with indignation, The Webster movement has gained in earnestness and intensity during the last few days. There have been several mass meetings in Boston, and in other portions of Massachusetts, and every new speech that is pronounced goes to show that the breach between the Scott and Webster men of the United States can not be healed. Two evenings ago, at the last great Webster meeting in Paneuil-hall, " the cradle of American liberty," were the most impressive and powerful addresses in favour of the Declaration of Independence had been pronounced three-fourths of a century ago, Mr. Curtis, one of the most eminent of the Boston lawyers and citizens, closed an impas sioned, learned, and powerful appeal of three columns by the following peroration : Entertain no vain regrets for him whom you are now seeking to honour from motives eminently honour able to yourselves. For your country, for a wronged and injured people, for a neglected constitution, you may grieve (sensation)—but not for hint. If the efforts which you and others aro now making cannot be crowned with success, be assured that the residue cf that li('o will be all that your fondest wishes could make it. (Loud applause.) You will see an old age adorned with letters, sustained by religion, dignified by the noblest of human pursuits, surrounded by the affections of a grateful people, and exercising, by the mere force of intellect, an influence exceeding that of his own previous life. You will see the retirement of a statesman whose rtS)urces of personal happiness are as ample as his power of public usefulness. You will see that great orb go down to the western skies un clouded and serene. Its last rays will rest on you. The later wisdom of advancing years that will go forth to mould the opinion of the world will be uttered to you. In the midst of you Mended by your vigilance, encom passed by your care, he will remain, and his fame will be to you and yours :a possession which neither time, nor accident, nor human caprice, nor human malice, can touch or take away." They are having I see, morover, less numerous but equally resolute meetings in favour of Mr. Web ster in other parts of the country, and certainly this movement must seriously affect the fortunes of General Scott. A very large number of newspapers in every part of the country have, during the tour of General Scott through the west indulged in the se verest strictures upon his course. They do not hesi tate to say that it is a gross violation of public decency that the Commander-in-Chief of the American army —our little Duke of Wellington—should, when a candidate for the highest civil office, and still in the exercise of the highest military power known to our constitution, choose such an occasion as this to travel thousands of miles with an imposing suite, and at great public expense, merely to m a k e po li t i ca l speeches i n hi s own favour, under the pretext of performing a public duty. No wonder that the Buillalo Republic should ask, as it does in the follow ing paragraph , " THAT SITE FOR A MILITARY HOSPITAL. , —When will General Scott find that site ? Ile has been march ing and countermarching, traversing and re-traversing State after State, electrifying his Whig friends through out the country with his ',unsurpassed eloquence,' and his wisdom, which exceeds Newton's and Locke's,' all about a site for a military hospital. We should not wonder if that evasive, dodging, unfindablo site should keep out of the General's sight till the time draws near for him to be cited to embark for the Salt River country. Let us not be understood, however, as insinuating that the Whig candidate is on an electioneering tour, instead of looking fur that site. No, no, he denies that at every place where he stops. He is certainly in pursuit of that site, which, like an iynis fataus, lures him from place to place, first one course and then another, sometimes ap pearing nearly within his reach, and then flitting again away into another State. A very slippery thing is that site which the General is pursuing ; and wo sometimes doubt whether he will ever get within the sweep of his sword of it." Many newspapers have made themselves merry at a thousand peculiar reinarksnf the illustrious General on his tour, and it has already grown into a proverb that a"Scott-man must of necessity " love that Irish brogue." The General himself made use of this ex pression while addressing a crowd in Ohio. Upon which the New York Sun makes the following com ments : " While the General was addressing a crowd at Cleve land, Ohio, and telling his auditors how gl a d b e was t o be with them, some son of Erin, whose tongue, it seems, betrayed its nationality, with genuine Irish hospitality told him be was welcome. gawk as thought the Gene ral exclaimed,— • I love that Irish brogue. I love to hoar it.' " O'Connell himself never excelled that bit of blarney. We expect the Irish brogue to become quite fashionable in political circles at least; and, should Scott be elected to the presidency, office•seekers will donNess practise the brogue so as to be able `to come round' the Gene• ral." It is well known that the General had been for merly a furious " native American ;" that he had written very energetically against allowing foreigners the rights of citizenship until they had been in the country 21 years, or until they had served five years at least in the American army or navy. The hero shows that he feels the necessity of being particularly obsequious to the sons of the Emerald Isle, and they certainly cannot complain that he is not so. There is not much local news of interest. Mr. Howard, the late proprietor of the Irving-house in New York, one of the most popular and magnificent of our American hotels, has recently so ld hi s esta blishment, and it is supposed that he intends to visit London, and open an hotel there on the American system at an expense of half a million sterling. Mr. M'Kay, of East Boston, has nearly completed a clipper ship, which, it is supposed, will surpass in size and sharpness ally merchant ship now afloat. She is to be 300 feet long, have a breadth of beam of 50 feet, with 28 feet depth of hold, three decks, and a register of 3,400 tons. She is to be diagonally braced with iron, and built as strong as the best ocean steamers. Those who have seen her say that the beauty of her model exceeds that of any of our vessels hitherto built. She is not made on contract, but will be offered for sfle when completed. You will have observed that there have been seve ral very perceptible ups and downs in our money market during the last few weeks. The time is ap proaching wbch I spoke of last spring in one of my letters, wlienthe first symptoms were becoming visible of a monetary crisis in this country. I remarked at the time that this was inevitable, and that it would come before a long period had passed. The enormous extension of paper money, the immense multipliesion of our banking institutions, the pro digious L umber of loans effected by our railroads, canals, bsilders, real estate holders, and speculators of all grathe, the influx of gold from California, even the impetusgiven to our trade by the Australian move ment, a id, in a word, the unwarrantable expansion of our e rterprizes of all kinds throughout the world, must to every shrewd and forecasting mind have indi cated ;he inevitable approach of a commercial revul sion. But the moment of its arrival I have never believed to be so far off as those men have who have been most mixed up with the agitation. Our credit in Earope is good—perhaps it never was better. But y ou r capitalists ought not to shut their eyes to th e p re sent state of things in this country, and I hope these few remarks, with my former letter that I have alladed to, may have some tendency in arresti ng an un warrantable expansion of public and private credit, for may Heaven save us from a recurrence of such disgrace as we suffered in the days of our all but uni versal repudiation! MONUMENT IN LIVERPOOL TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. A meeting of the inhabitants of this town was held at noon on Saturday, called for the purpose of giving the inhabitants an opportunity of expressing their feelings upon the great loss the country has sustained in the recent demise of his Grace the Duke of Wellington. The Worshipful Mayor, THOMAS LITTLEDALE, Esq., presided, and the meeting was attended by a large number of the gentlemen, professional men, and trades men of the town, of all creeds and parties. The MAYOR, onta e k e i t n ing g the chair, said he had much ea pleasure in for such an object, and to show how great the f ee li ng was i n t h e town, h e wou ld mention that thre e diff erent memor i a l s h a d b een got up in one day, but they were now merged into one, the more expressively to convey t h e general and undivided opinion which existed. Ho h ope d t h e same unani mous feeling would actuate them now, and that a me morial creditable to the town would be erected. (Cheers.) CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P., rose to move the first resolution, and said he regretted it had not fallen to a more capable person to propose it ; bat ho felt that no e ulogium was required, as the name of Wellington would live as long as the records of this great empire existed; and so long as the name of Englishmen existed upon the earth, so long would generations of his country men recount his deeds with pride and admiration. (Ap plause.) He concluded by moving the following reso lution .—" That this mooting, desirous of testifying the high estimation in which the character of the late Duke of Wellington was held by the inhabitants of this borough, and appreciating those great talents which, 11q, bi „Lnerru ft QriATILY lion be opened for the purpose of raising to his rnen.ory a column, surmounted by a statue, to be placed, by per mission of the Council, in some suitable situation of the wn." (Cheers.) WILLIAM BROWN, Esq., M.P., seconded the resolution Ho said, whatever diff-renee of opinion might prevail as to the policy which had involved us in Continental wars, there could bo none as to the military merits of the Duke of Wellington. No man ever evinced a greater love of country; nor was more careful of the lives of the soldiers under him, always attending . to their commissaries. No man had ever shown more patriotism than he had done. He had been the faithful counsellor of her Majesty, great in war, great in the senate, and his name would live in the hearts of his countrymen. Ho hoped there would be no backwardness on the part of the burgesses and inhabi tants in subscribing funds for such a monument as should be a credit to the town, and show to the nation that we appreciated his q ualities. There never was a man who had acted through life with more disinterestedness than the Duke—who never, in the course of his difficult and arduous career, ever attempted a job. It was impossibl e for him to say anyt hin g of his merits which faithful his tory would not record. (Loud applause.) The resolution having been put from the chair, and carried unanimously, a committee was appointed to ma nage the details of the proposed memorial, after which. on the motion of F. B. Horsefall, Esq., M.P., seconded by Archdeacon Brook, Mr. F. E. Muss was appointed Treasurer. Mr. ELIAS ARNAUD related that, in 1830, ho was one of a deputation who called upon the Duke to invite him to visit the town, and ho had on that occasion expressed himself in the highest terms of Liverpool, and, with the gallantry of a soldier, said, he should be highly delighted to see the " Lancashire witches." The Mayor having vacated the chair, Mr. Brown was called thereto ; and on the motion of Mr. L. Mozley, seconded by the Earl of Sefton, the thanks of the meet ing were voted to the Mayor, who briefly acknowledged it, and the meeting separated. PROPOSED REPEAL OF THE CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.—At a meeting of the Manchester Protestant and Reformation Society, held in the Free-trade Hall, Man chester, on Thursday evening—the Rev. Hugh Stowell in the chair—the following resolutions were passed That the grant to Maynooth, so utterly wrong in prin ciple, has been abundantly shown to be no loss injurious in practice, more especially in the conduct of the May nooth-trained priesthood during the late general elec tion; and that, therefore, a petition to the House of Commons for its repeal be adopted. 2. That it is high time to move for the repeal of the Relief Act of 1829, as utterly incompatible with the liberties of this coun try, the rights of Protestants, the free action of the Le gislature, and the safety of her Majesty's Throne. The meeting was a very large one; but there was a largo pro portion of the sofer sex. The speakers included, besides Mr. Stowell, the Rev. Pierce Connolly, late Roman Ca tholic priest, and chaplain to Earl Shrewsbury; Rev, H. W. M`Grath ; Rev. Mr. Richardson, Rev. James Bard sley, Rev. Mr. Trail, and Rev. G. T. Parke. CAMPBELL THE POET.—Dr. Beattie, the biographer and friend of the poet, has addressed the following letter to the Inverness Courier, describing a graceful tribute to his memory on the part of a French gentleman, who now inhabits the house in which he died at Boulogne-sur - Mer:—" At Boulogne my first visit was to the house where Campbell died, and which, after seven years' ab sence, brought back many recollections connected with the closing scene. Over the door of another house in Boulogne, in which Le Sage (author of Gil Blas) ex pired, there is a tablet recording that event. I had long thought that the death-place of Campbell was entitled to a like distinction, and now was the time for carrying it into effect. The house is now occupied by the President of the Civil Court, a man of letters and a cordial admirer of the poet, and no sooner was the design mentioned to him than he cordially applauded it. I then consulted with Mr. Hamilton, the consul, and wo fixed on the fol lowing brief inscription, similar to the ono dedicated to Le Sage:—" Ici est wort Thomas Campbell, auteur des Plaisirs do l'Ep6rance. xv. Juin iliroccexmv." It is engraved on a tablet of black marble with gold letters, and is affixed to the outer wall of the chamber in which ho died. I was gratified by observing the respect paid to the memory of Campbell by the French, particularly by the distinguished official who occupies the house. He has taken pains to preserve the rose-trees and shrubs and flowers which the poet admired and cherished during his brief sojourn; and he delights in presenting visitors with a rose from ' the poet's tree.' The chamber is held sacred; and when I tell you that even the small pieces of cloth with which I had stuffed the crevices to exclude sound during the poet's short slumbers are undisturbed, you will join with me in thanking the worthy French man, who, in doing honour to the memory of Campbell, has complimented the whole country." Trts CRYSTAL PALACE.—The offers of large sums made by several parties for monopoly of the " pickings" to be found beneath the boards of the Crystal Palace were all refused by the Contractors, Messrs. Fox and Henderson, who generously gave permission to the labourers employed upon the spot to appropriate to themselves any "treasure trove w hich they might chan ce to l i ght upon in removing the planks of whith the flooring was composed, and in turning up the surface of the turf below. These findings have been quite godsends to some of the men employed upon the works . Coins of copper, silve r , an d go ld , crochet purses, studs. rings. lockets, &c., have b een turned up daily., to say nothing of gold and silver head e d canes, and other m i s cellaneous articles ; and one day last week a poor man was fortunate enough to ktatall) liptni A ptIDO watailaii* betwn 74 and 8/. Gd; s per Abel ; 1335; ()Pi 0,54 20 do )0 do az cwt , 4