The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

WILS ON'S LAST NIGHT. Tap. CROSBY lIALL, BISHOPSGATE. Vol oc ,_" , EVENING, TUESDAY, 22d December, at Eight *4 4 1 kr. WILSON will give his LAST ENTERTAINMENT, tiro o, s e Will sing a SELECTION of the SONGS of SCOTLAND, 11214R.ings by German Composers, and the English Cantata of " The n Dream. ,, a' the Airts the Wind can blaw—Ower the Water to 8 : Thou haat left me ever, Jamie—Saw ye Johnnie coming? 1 07U2,7 411 Yonder happy Cottage—She is mine—John Anderson r o i.,;. Whistle and I'll come to ye, my Lad. It "• The Soldier's Dream—My Roy Tammle—The Flowers irei;:orest—My Tocher's the Jewel—Anna Lawrie—Allister Pianoforte, Mr. Land. , ALMAND OF HER MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER c°"TTRACT for C 6 6 1' .1.\ - r E l l 4 \ .. l i - lITG the LONDON DISTRICT POST LETTER BAGS. e 13 hereby given, that her Majesty's Postmaster-General read to receive Tenders on or before t 22d day of t w , ne Y xt, for conveying the London District P ost Letter -e arts ' ee day, to Woodford Bridge, and twice to Woodford, by eag er ;! ta ge coaches, omnibuses, or any other carriage conveying T he _ rictor parcels. 1 44 itions, and flill particulars, may be seen on application Ott,. ,1111.erintendin President of the London District Post-office, ft P ost -office g ,I l ott e t i _ e ra_ar_e to : be sealed up, - and addressed to "Her Majesty's 1414 0 ,1, 5 7 - General," and endorsed, " Tenders for conveying the att2irstriet Post Bags," and delivered before Twelve o'clock on 4 elien t r uar y next. Post -office, Dec. 22, 184 G. ILLS OF EXCHANGE.— FRAUD. —To or t ke t,i,onkers Bill-brokers, Discounters, and others.—T WO BILLS 41 %, l ,i n -ITGE, for 250/. each, bearing date the 28th or 29th of Np. 0-4..46, drawn upon and accepted by the liev.Franc , ls Glos Nt able at 31esns. Young and Fallings, St. Mildred 's-court, pin Lean, having been obtained by means of conspiracy and Orlp eB 7 l , * !sentations ma d e t o the acceptor, the Rev. Francis Glossop, It n "Qan, Wiltshire. All persons are hereby cautioned against 4e,g2 negotiating, or in any manner dealing with the same Dills btp to r Ziag. or either of them. N 0 7, information apply to Messrs. Bush and Mullens, 7,St. Mlldred's-court, Poultry, London. TUTHWARK BRIDGE. oks, a -z otice is hereby given that a DIVIDEND will be PAYABLE 147 15th "January to the Proprietors of the New Shares, and to t X rs of the 13/. aon Old Shares of the South gt e 1t,." ne, at the rate of 1 d /. vanced 10s. per the cent. per annum, and that Rkirthrnsi.e,r.Books of the Company will be closed from the 3 ist inst. out of January next. °tee , JAMES LEITH, Secretary. Q u een-street-place, Dec. 21, 1846. - - - ~ROIIESEND STAR and BLACKWALL. 4:14 m PACKETS. tn Included in One Payment upon every passw, the danger and delay of the Pool. 41 1 ;r, the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, at 934, 1034, 12, 134, 3, "114... s ...."'eloek. Sundays, 934, 10%, 134, 4, and 5 o'clock. The 4,ne 10 g one quarter an hour before each of these times. ._elocC' W Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 7%, 8%, 9%, 11%, 1,3, and 'kb Sundays , 734, 1134, 1,3, and 5 o'clock. other packets call at the Grays or Greenhithe Piers. - "lce, Gravesend, Nov. 24, 1846. t A 1.1 E BREAD COMPANY. r ik tth t - 4 D2rectors of the above Company beg to inform the Public 4 -str,„Z a LerY, upon an extensive scale, Is being erected in St. 1 114,.Q.Sierkeriwell, and will shortly be completed. To meet tha t cl•Mand made upon them for " Pure unadultered list rt ttors are selecting Depots in all parts of the Metro recto,. of . se re Una en will be published with the Agent's names. The been 't necessary to caution the Public, that some shops b ot ,•any ortt ru under a colourable imitation of the name of the CZheld 'lout the authority of the Board, and that they must CZ have I ... e4 Pensible for the quality of the Bread sold therein. --mtires t vren instructions to their Solicitors to take the necessary Put a stop to such practices. 41 elen t BY order, EDWARD PARRATT, Secretary. an -walk, New Broad-street, City. L E AGUE BREAD COMPANY. ke , CAUTION. 'fled fo r hereby given, that this Company, which has been I, 4 !.erar.,, th e Purpose of supplying the public with pure and un ‘,7l4ort'.. bread, has been provisionally registered, pursuant to the gorb.„. of th e NI 'got "Act for the Registration, Incorporatios, and Re oint Stock Companies 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110," and irto s are th ere f ore caut i one d aga i ns t carr yi ng on business 04, s bove tins, or under any title calculated to lead the public nat they represent, or are authorised by, or are in any 1 ,44 arlliected with the said Company. tile. or Pe ,_ 4oll B who shall infringe upon the rights of the Com ,Tno shall carry on business under a colourable evasion of " the Company, will be proceeded against forthwith. HODGSON AND BURTON, Solicitors to the said Company. Balisb4 r3'-street, Strand, ti t ..._ ' ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. o lie n ,,, PERMISSION.—PROFESSOR N, - - - ut p,,.. - " - . 144-13 EIN'S GUN COTTON, differing from all other spe- VII er..,tly before the public, is LECTURED on, with other ex -0111:„P"nds, by Dr. RYAN, daily at Half past Three ; and on ti i r D i u", of onds, Wednesdays, and Frida. io ii; 44 3 ,"11e M of the ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH DEMONSTRA .4.,., Y Professor BACIIHOFFNER, especially with reference Patent of Messrs. Nott and Gamble, called the ROYAL 411 0 ?.. 11 0se n UAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. By the OXYHYDROGEN btil11; C‘C P E are exhibited specimens of the DISEASED POTATOE, 4 ti t "tt - Leaves, Cuttings of the Tubers, &c., together with the it be c,i OTI VE INSECT, supposed, by A. Smee, Esq., F.R.S., to It lSltt r of the disease. The PHYSIOSCOPE, DIVING EX- S. the DISSOLVING VIEWS, by Smith, &c. &c. Admission is. Schools, half-price. t 5...'"11G 14 A , 1811 AND SCOTTISH LAW LIFE — ' BI TRANCE AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. 12 , Waterloo-place, London, and 119, rrinces-street, It W ee h Edinburgh. 41 °f., ereby given that the half-yearly Interest on th the capital Oa this Association, to Christmas 1816, will able at e 1311,4_ , E 1 after the llth of January . , 1847. The Transfer-books 1 ' 1)1 11 the 25st inst. to the 11th proximo. By order of the Board. J. HILL WILLIAMS, Actuary. • 4 IONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANC E SOCIETY, 26 CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital .f. 500,000. 0 111 4 T Empowered by Act of Parliament. .... r iStittition embraces imp:rtaa r t err azi , zubti t r i f e t , tai T a i d ie vaxage; 741 t, tto Life Am occasions, the ur po m 7e ' r to borrow, without expense or for -41‘,14.t Of th e Polic y, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ; %.:_be option of selecting benefits, and the convers ion of his in .A:4 to meet other conveniences or necessity. t4, 4 - mUr . ances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible DIVISION OF PROFITS. remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society req3‘ th led the Directors, at the last annual investigation , to declare tech ° , lite, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the pr emiums p aid 'OUe7 effected on the Profit scale. r.....,............... EXAMPLES. ' * .. 7 ~ ! .-1 P Prerai nn , —. '.l Bonne Bonus In gc) lnured :I added. Cash. E 6 0 may ... 5 g (,) Borrow. ---................. • 9. • 4 !--------- 10 10' • . 1837 £217 15 1 £lOO 011 £ l6 0 41.£445 0 0 100 41l a 4 18 38 192 3 0 87 1 4 , 13 10 2 395 11 1 1839 165 74 1 9 3 346 2 3 , 1 840 116 11 7 10 6 54 0101 11 7 18 10 11 1 296 13 4 1841 111 6 8 4910 01 710 4; 247 4 5 1)411 division b e of profits Is annual, and the next will be Inside in of tho present year. F. FERGUSON CAMBOUX. Secretary. NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, Poultry, Mansion House, London. ROBERT WILCOXEN, xaq., Chairman. N.THOMAS SIDNEY, Esq., Ald erman, Deputy Chairman. 11 4 7 '' 0 . Parties must send in th e i r Proposals before the Ist January, be entitled to participate in the next division of Profits. J. JONES, Actuary and Secretary. 'TARE LONDON AND ÜBURBAN CABRIOLET and CARRIAGE CoCm p ,,,,, (Provisionally Registered.) 4 • 4 eDe st , Capital 100,0001., in 10,000 shares of 101. each If. per share, being the largest sum which can . k l bit (,„ required prior to complete registration, be legally 440, - ,!nriany has been formed for the purpose of supplyi n , t , and its Neighbourhood with handsome and we!l-app o l n a e t Ze*el , ?nolets and Carriages, constructed with all modern b l . l l` in lieu of the mean and miserable conveauces at pre Nt tt reti'land to effect this at a considerable reduction in the exist , of e x i " being intended that the fares shall in no case exceed the k in kt per mile, and so on in proportion. 1 1 , Proposed to supply open Excursion Carriages of differeat 7 ,i ngto e Summer Months, similar to those in use at Brighton, :04: 41 pr::' Mid other fashionable watering places. 1( 04 4 1 a. d ea, containing the names of the Provisional Direc -1144..0r 811 -, era of the Company, way be obtained ; and applica ittia th, are a (Which must be in the prescribed forms), may be . tottr Secretary of the Company, at the temporary offices, 3, Oldßroad-street, London. NI E 1 4 ot A s S ' S CANDLES, 6d. per lb . ; Genuine is. -vg S p ,is i gd It I , 4. am ,• ; Yellow Soap, 485., 545., and 60s. per 1121bs. ; gP, 2 . 1r1 h . e ...41,si •; sd. ; Transparent Wax Candles, la. Wax, per l ls .b. ; Genuine 10d German Wax, t 4 4 r, 44 ` . Id. • Fazed-wick ; -wick Moulds, 7d.; Sperm Oil, Ss. per gallon ; 11,1 P 34 ' , PC Mtn s o a : Seal, 4s. ; Argand, or Vegetable, 4s. 6d. ; Wind- Positle.4ll4ol;cl'. -:: 6 4 d d.. per packet; Brown Windsor, Is. 9d ; 144 Z I PMh requ t rin : no snufSilenalglll,,,47lax, 4s. 6d.; Hale's raragoll 1 411 e, A : DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, Warehouse, 63, St. uPPosite Slaughter's Coffee-house. 10 —LINT „ 4 i/ 1 6 — PATENT OPEN FIRE VENTILATING STOVE. 14:tter 'I MONIAL AFTER ONE WINTERS TRIAL. tb,.,:• Sir Professor Bradley • King's College, London July, hth' (4. YOn,.' aoa happy to be a . tile to bear testimony to th i e e st ftl it c l i i- - - It ~„"` Stove, which is fixed in my lecture room at this s n tnve_ d a ' e ais to have all the essential re which requisites of a good el • I tp l7 . ft frorntlFht, freedom from all smoke, and from that smell tit his et ,,t r an heated in contact with the air of a dwelli room, ..'4lllt.soryanut,r4trlYnoau.ide_d by Your arrangement. I am, Sir, your obe toe. to w' . R ADLET." %dish-aqua,. 'ad or 'Messrs. DOWSON, 69, Virelbeck-street , where they may be seen in operation. tYEßßiav io ___ c and w HlS ar, ILERs produced In USTACHIO,,, Wilted hy th e u .._ a fell' Weeks, and BaldnesTslcremßEovo/NaEnd ee of G RINISTONE'S AROMA I t jes r ,,, it, an eSsential spirit, ;drawn from aromatic herbs and_ s flowers a , /la -iron s -, . kc'ilt (1 0 ,, , Which cure headache in a few minutes ; it I. also otti,,,, ` . .ontfUl (a.. ":, protected ntoilet perfume. r b agra t Sold only In triangular t 4114414 doable this tshie Government stamp, a tkl, tic it e teati naonialsof u ze nd : l b s. each ; enct d t I ts ..; Pamphlet oubi e t e con-- it>80),,,,.;,1148t.1,6cie G.,r_ow,,ta andu p l r ed ue a ry ut a h t o to n o les e e ntitleti " Three Minutes , toi, ''' Whole s '' " and 125., for money yef orders only. the Human Hair, &c.' 0 -ton . end only at Grimstone's Herbary, Highgate, near lrord,,h by Messrs. Barclay and Son. Farringdon-street ; Sanger, d Teller % street Messrs. Butler and Ce.,Cheapside ; Fisher an • St d b , stre et . I Y 411 .- Idr. Johnston, medicine warehouse, 68, , Cornhill 41 intoes'7e.m,,ists, Perfumers, and others For Edinburgh, J. and - "•oftl e : etch -walk ; for Manchester, eresebe and Son, Myer ballt,.,_ Is lad,. ,_ TO 'rue LDIES. tbrr o n 7 had the following letter s inserted In the "Times" Dak r - znit• 7, 1846. Reader, remember, this letter was putneiwnteo th bi r ,, i .3' the lady herself, as a testimony to me. 1 ,-44 r * 4r "kle f /4' • ' • street Borough, takes this oppor titas ,};,°; tr bl .l e ly y ih e ank7n . :l . I s r7N e V n . - G • ;tone of the Ilerbary, High tiou'`7 re eto .l'T-F . acy of his Aromatic Regenerator, in having cour t Lo t who rl the hair on her head, after using it about tour months, !to r ...._ eof her hair is much stronger and mere u 1 auriant than R_' kr.".,before the baldness appeared. Nt11%;,.. w et kley inserts this testimony to the virtues of Mr. G.'s ~.- 4 11 8. ",. r. reeline ...,,,....4 thomany ladies would gladly purchase ri uotti - ----"-- t maj Itu as she is, from ex ..' -one, elf they were as certain of its v r cs t a nte , not °---" l 3' in threstoration and production of hair in abund rontent 4 IL cure ef n e e ree headache; as a toilet perfume it is far - +3 , of -- Y to her taste rT S eu h s e will feel a pleasure in answering any In . 4t,Pectability to . th ' e ahove facts.— 3, Swan-street, Borough. ' Stiktil'asea of the halthin, weak, or turning grey. a few t tiZithe crown ' ort becominge occas ' ionally, every week, will pre ovon, air from coming away with the comb, make it strong, and -.• it tue.„ l h it , io- oes ~ grey, rendering the hair luxuriant i ane curly. A ', bru it "n Your hairbrush before brushing the ha r, wi ' II give the ,The „, a ncY, causing it to curl. 'Knit ''''At delicate ladies may use this delightful product et the ndoor,ftatic herbs and ftow with confidence ; its refreshing to th„,',...rnovea headache and makes it a most necessary companion 2 4 tht` Qu et• In eases of nevous headache, pour ten or twelve drops Vlar. e y t° 2 l.l l of the head ;if v‘ry bad, repeat it every quarter of an Viir o u ~..alost CUSS relief is certain in ten minutes. It produces ~_mtakis it sta g heads in a few appplicatlons. It used on infants' :tilt 4"' "lis sueb-a. peculiar cooling influence on the brain as to pre witrapunt"l43ions, as well as promoting the growth ot hair.—See Ail itZi testimonials. -I— ' llll44 .lllaecl to William Orimstone Herbary, Highgate. a.~/ ~e -Z ~_,,..._,...1 . . . if 14 4 ~.....„. 4 :--. ;e, 0 ••1. , 4 - ' . re < c • ..sil - - 4 e• ' — rjo ) , 1 1 / 4 4 *. 4 . .. . t =.. ri“t ..th 1, t )444" " ' t s, , 7.,.' . \L ie, 1 41 , =,.. 'r , ...: -' • . ~,, . 5. "44111. , ... - , It . -4t . ' ilf/ ' -:\;,• ...„ .„: (9, . ..,, . ~ „,..1...2.24,Z,,..... ,.., \ \ l 4 4 ", - / ) • ) - • ~ i i ~ E . z• er - " \•*\ - ..,1 Vk - ' l / 4 ,_ - .tk oe ,'"-- 1 .-, ' l t. No c o t r ,oi 1 .., 0 , • , .... ''' .., • ,i, • 1. IE ' l A :.l''l '' i ki aol o' )t ,: ei ll 'Phoh.A , s •••-* ,\\...= 4*: - , , __ .., No. 16,929. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING SUN, DECEMBER 22, 1846. STOCK of GENUINE WINES, directed to be SOLD in consequence of a Dissolution of Partnership, and to be delivered from the Cel lars, in the Adolph!. TVlR b A y lU Au lsT c D nox. RO ,t ßLN ß S oorn is s, iinn Covent-garden,struetedto ELL EDMUND TO-MO/MOW, at Twelve, A CELLAR OF REMARKABLY CHOICE AND GENUINE WINES, GUN COTTON. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. COLUMN OF CALLS. The following are a few of the calls advertised up to this period for December and January, with the amount payable on each share. The first sixteen are for Decem ber, the remaining thirty-eight for January, the majority of which are called up by the old lines, who more than divide the demand with the lines of last session:— North Staffordshire .£2 18 East and West Yorkshire Junction Enfield and Edmonton Northern and Eastern, New. Glssgow, Barrhe s d, and Neilston, New Dieppe and Fecatnp Aberdeen Scottish Central Caledonian (Clydesdale Junction) Paris and Lyons 3 0 Boulogne and Amiens Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Manchester and Leeds, Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 501. shares 5 0 Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyn e , and Manches ter, One-eighth shares (late N 0.3 Quarters) 2 10 Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company 1 0 Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Edinburgh and Northern, 151. shares Liverpool and Bury, 101. shares Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, Fifths. Manchester and Leeds, Quarter shares Manchester and Leeds (Liverpool and Bury 101. shares) 3 16 Midland, Erewash Valley 5 0 London and Blackwall, New shares 1 0 Lynn and Ely Northern and Eastern 5 0 . Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction 0 10 Newcastle and Carlisle, New 1001. shares Newcastle and Carlisle, Newry, Warrenpoint, and Ro sstrevor 5 0 Midland Six percent. shureellate-Bistol-und Gloucester shares), 21. on the 50/. shares; 31. 14s. 6d. on the 37/. ss. s h ares . J a • nuary 5, 1847. New Quarters Midland Extension Lines, New 401 shares 6 0 Midland Great Western of Ireland, 50/. shares 5 0 Ambergate, &c..... South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 1 5 Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 501. shares 5 0 Great Western, 171. shares Great Western, Quarter shares Bristol and Exeter, Thirds Dutch Rhenish Great Luxembourg London and North Western (Grand Junc tion 251. shares) Eastern Counties, 14/. 16s. shares Eastern Counties, New 41. 16s. shares Thames Haven Dock and Railway Reading, Guildford, and Reigate London, Brighton, and South Coast South Wales Leeds and Bradford .. 5 0 Eastern Counties (York Extension) 2 0 Northern of France Belfast and Ballymena Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company 1 0 Eastern Counties, New shares Birkenhead, East Lancashire, Edinburgh and Glasgow, London and North-Western, Taff Vale, Ulster, Ipswich and Bury. It is said that the reformed board of the Manchester and Leeds intend declaring a dividend at their next half yearly meeting, at the rate of eight per cent. The Scottish papers state that the English proprietors in the Edinburgh and Glasgow, who hold about 3-4ths of the stock, have determined that the Sunday trail,: shall be immediately resumed. The York and North Midland intend, with the new year, to take in hand the formation of the railway and works from Selby to Market Weighton, a distance t about 16 miles ; the formation of the railway and works from Uopmanthorpe to Tadcaster, a distance of about seven miles ; and those on the Harrogate Branch Ex tension, a distance of one mile. Also, the stations, buildings, and other works on the East Riding Branch (Leeds Extension), Selby to Market Weighton, Harro gate Ektension, and Copmanthorpe to Tadcaster. The South-Eastern will first commence that portion of their North Kent line extending from Erith and the Surrey Canal, a distance of 14 miles. The Leeds and Thirsk are contracting for their carriages and conveyances for general merchandise. The Ashburton, Newton, and South Devon meet to•day to consider the sale of their line to the South Devon. ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, SITTING OF DE CEMBER 13. Although the French Government has fulminated its decree against the fulminating cotton, it cannot prevent the experiments of scientific men, or the publication of them in the sittings of the Academy. As many commu nications on this subject are sent in as if the Government had declared the manufacture and sale of this substance free. We do not, however, find an) thing in the last papers worthy of notice except an estimate by M. Pelouse of the coast of manufacture. According to this gentleman, 170 kilogrammes (about 3801 b. English) will cost, exclusive of labour, which is not an important item considering how little of it is required, 317 fr., being less than lfr. per French pound. It is easy to conceive, there fore, that if gunpowder can be advantageously replaced by explosive cotton, and the Government were to permit the free sale of the substitute, it would lose an important source of revenue, as the price of gunpowder, the manufacture and sale of which is a Government mono poly, is so much superior to that at which the cotton could be sold. We are not to suppose, however, that this consideration has had any weight with the Ministry as regards the recent prohibition of explosive cotton. If this new discovery would replace gunpowder, the Government would, as a matter of course, take the manufacture and sale into its own hands, giving an in demnity to the persons who may have taken out patents in France for different modes of preparing the substance. We have heard of only one patent having been taken out, but it is probable that there are several. If it be declared illegal to make and sell explosive cotton, all that can be said is, that it is a strange inconsistency for a Go vernment to grant a patent right where no right can be exercised, and we think the Minister of Commerce would have done well if he had refused to sign the patents for this manufacture ; but this is a point upon which we shall not enlarge, particularly as, subsequent to the order for the prohibition, the Moniteur published a sort of explanation of the motives which induced it. We learn from this explanation that the prohibition is not a final one, and are warranted in believing that if experience sheuld show the properties of explosive cotton to be better than those of gunpowder, and the dangers attend ing the preparation to be comparatively small, the prohibition will be withdrawn. The objections at present are, that the preparation is dangerous, and that the properties of the new substance are now suffi ciently known. On the first point we must be permitted to observe that the danger is much smaller than with gunpowder. It is no argument to say that some acci dents have taken place. If gunpowder were an inven tion of the present day, and as many unskilful and care less hands had been engaged in the preparation of it as has been the case with the explosive cotton, the accidents would have been much more numerous and far more calamitous than anything that has been authenticated in the accounts which have appeared of explosions during the preparation of the cotton. On the second point, however, the reason assigned by the Government for the prohibition is good. It has not yet been proved that the fulminating or explosive cotton is a perfect sub stitute for gunpowder. Many inconveniences have been pointed out by scientific and practical men, and its ex plosive power is unknown. In one case several grains have been fired in a pocket pistol, without the slightest indication of danger to the person using the article ; in another a quantity of cotton, equal only in weight to the hundredth part of the ordinary charge of gunpowder, burst a proof mortar. With such facts before it, the Government is wise to pause.— Galignani. presenting to the connoisseur a rare opportunity to possess wines of the finest quality, the sale taking place under a dissolution of part nership of an old established concern in the Adelphi, proverbial for the excellence of their stock. The wines comprise 11 bins, or 252 dozenskof brown, golden colour, and pale Sherries, of pure and dry qualities, and of NI arth , az, D AWSOn Campbell's, and Sebastian Smith's shipping ; 90 dozen, in three bins, of old crusted Port, bf Sandeman's and Thompson and Croft's shipping ; also, 50 dozen of choice full flavoured Burgundy Port. These wines being old in bottle, of first rate quality, well-matured, and in the finest condition, a most tempt ing opportunity is presented to private buyers to replenish their cellars for the approaching season. Samples may be had, with catalogues, at the Offices in Covent garden. ktig RAILWAYS AND FRESH HERRlNGS.—Herrings caught at Brighton in the morning are sold in the Midland counties in the afternoon. This arises from the facilities of transit by the London and Brighton and London and North-Western Railway; and such has been the effect in the reduction of prices, says our Birmingham cor respondent, " that the finest quality can now be had at the rate of from twenty to twenty-five for a shilling, being a reduction of nearly two hundred per cent." SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER—CUTTING FIRST SOD OF THE WIIALEY-BRIDGE BRANCH. On Friday afternoon the ceremony of cutting the first sod of the Whaley-bridge Branch of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway, extend ing a distance of twelve miles from Dukinfield to Wha ley Bridge, took place under very auspicious circum stances. The day, considering the season of the year, was fine, and that attracted many people to the scene of the ceremony. At one o'cleck a special first-class train left Manchester, and at half-past eleven a special train left Sheffield, with the directors of the company, share holders, and well-wishers of the undertaking. The Manchester train first reached the Dukinfield station, but shortly after its arrival the train from Sheffield took its place at the appointed rendezvous. Immediately after alighting from the carriages, the company pro ceeded along a narrow and slippery lane, for a distance of about two miles, to the field, on the estate of Mr. Dukinfield Astley, in which it had been arranged that the ceremony of cutting the first sod should take place. At this spot there was a very numerous attendance of gentlemen, farmers, and cottagers connected with the neighbourhood. The usual preliminaries having been gone through, Mr. JOHN CHAPMAN, Chairman of the Sheffield, Ashton, and Manchester line, said they were met that day, as they were all aware, to commence the operative part of the works connected with the formation of the Whaley-bridge branch of the Sheffield, Ashton, and Manchester Railway.—(Cheers.) As chairman of that company, he had to express the thanks of the directors to Mr. Dukinfield Astley, for the prominent part which he had consented to undertake in the commencement of that 'great work.—(Applause.) He hoped the work would be carried forward in as auspicious a manner as that in which it bad commenced.—(Applause.) Ile hoped the work would progress in a satisfactory way until it was concluded.—(Loud applause.) Mr. Dukinfield Astley, then, amid loud cheers, cut an immense sod in the usual manner, and wheeled it along planks " like a regular navy." He returned along the planks amidst great cheering, when some of the directors and founders of the company cut sods. After this the regular " navies" were called in, took the spade, mattock, and wheel-barrow, and did excellent work, to the great delight of the assembled multitude. Mr. DUKINFIELD ASTLEY, on returning, after deliver ing his great sod, said he must take that opportunity of expressing the great pleasure which he felt in assisting at the commencement of a work which he had no doubt would be of great advantage to those parts of the country through which the line was to pass.--(Cheers.) He thought nothing could be better (than to move three cheers for the success of the work that they had just commenced.—(Three times three, and three cheers more.) Three cheers were then proposed for Mr. Ast ley, and after a short stay in the field, the meeting broke up. The chairman of the company (Mr. Chapman) pre sented to Mr. Astl e y a beau iful spade previous to his cutting the first sod, and which bore the following in scription :—" This spade is presented to F. D. P. Astley, Esq., by the directors of the Sheffield, Ashton-under- Lyne, and Manchester R a il way Company , i n comme moration of his having cut the first sod of the Whaley bridge branch, on the 18th of December, 1846." This inscription was surmounted by a portrait of the Queen on the shaft (which was made of maple wood), and by Mr. Dukinfi e ld A s tl ey ' s coat of arms. On the reverse side of the spade were the seal and arms of the com pany, and a list of the directors and principal officers of the company. On the shaft were also a number of or naments. The spade was manufactured by Mr. Male ham, irenmonger, Sheffield. The Earl of Yarborough, chairman of the Lincolnshire and Sheffield Railways, would have been present both at the cutti.ig of the first sod and -at the dinner, had cir cumstances nit compelled him to be absent on the con tinent. FORTUNES MADE BY ADVER- TISING. From a small pamphlet, entitled " The Art of Making Money," an extract has been taken, and is going the round of the provincial press, pointing out the facility of making immense sums by the simple process of con tinuous advertising. Doubtless large sums have been, are, and will be made by such a system by certain per sons of ability, who no doubt would make their way in the world if called upon to play different parts on the great stage of life ' • but to suppose that men in general must as a matter of course acquire wealth by such means is as absurd as to imagine that all the penniless an shoe less of London are capable of rising to the dignity and wealth of an alderman or the Lord Mayor of London, simply by reading the " Young Man's Best Com panion." Money is not so easily made as the writer of the article referred to would lead people to suppose ; if it be so, few need be poor. But to our text : fortunes made by advertising. Undoubtedly the greatest man of the day as an advertiser is Holloway, who expends the enormous sum of twenty thousand pounds annually in advertisements alone ; his name is not only to be seen in nearly every paper and periodically published in the British isles, but as if this country was too small for this individual's exploits, he stretches over the whole of India, having agents ie all the different parts of the upper, central, and lower provinces of that immense country, publishing his medi caments in the Hindoo, Oordoo, Goozratee, Persian, and other native languages, so that the Indian public can take the pills and use his ointment, according to general directions, as a Cockney would do within the sound of Bow bells. We find him again at Hong Kong and Can ton, making his medicines known to the Celestial by means of Chinese translation. We trace him from thence to the Philippine Islands, where he is circulating his prepa rations in the native languages. At Singapore he has a large depot : his agents there supply all the islands in the Indian seas. His advertisements are published in most of the papers at Sydney, Hobart Town, Launceston, Adelaide, Port Philip, and indeed in almost every town of that vast portion of the British empire. Returning homewards, we find his pills and ointment selling at Valparaiso, Lima, Callao, and other ports in the Pacific. Doubling the Horn, we track him in the Atlantic—at Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, Santos, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco : he is advertising in those parts in Spanish and Portuguese. In all the British West India Islands, as also in the Upper and Lower Canadas, and the neighbouring provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, his medicines are as fami liarly known, and sold by every druggist, as they are at home. In the Mediterranean we find them selling at Malta, Corfu, Athens, and Alexa n d r i a , b es id es at T un i s and other portions of the Barbary states. Any one taking the trouble to look at the " Journal" and " Courier" of Constantinople, may find in these, as well as other papers, that Holloway's medicines are regularly adver tised and selling throughout the Turkish empire ; and even in Russia, where an almost insurmountable barrier exists, the laws there prohibiting the entria of patent medicines, Holloway's ingenuity has been at work, and obviates this difficulty by forwarding supplies to his agent at Odessa, a port situated on the Black Sea, where they filter themselves surreptitiously by various chan nels, into the very heart of the empire. Africa has not been forgotten by this indefatigable man, who has an agent on the River Gambia ; a l so a t Sierra Leone, the plague spot of the world, the inhabitants readily avail themselves of the ointment and pills ; thus we can show our readers that Holloway has made the complete circuit of the globe, commencing with India, and ending, as we now do, with the Cape of Good Hope, where his medicines are published iu the Dutch and English languages ; and while speaking of Dutch, we have heard that he has made large shipments to Hol land, and is about advertising in every paper or pet iodical published in that kingdom ; we might also add that he has also started his medicine in some parts of France, in some portions of Germany, as also in some of the Italian states. We have been at some little trouble to collect all these facts, because we fear that the article before alluded to, " the Art of making Money," is cal culated to lead people to spend their means in the hope (as the author states) of making a hundred thousand pounds in six years for his pains , by holding up as an followto il such a man as Holloway, who his way. Many may means, but have they the nend k ne nowledg knowledge, eiahsabasivyl eitreallyy he example energy, Napoleon and pr' isites, a total loss is certain. neces sary Failing any to e b o dy and mind. No doubt judgment,o of these calculatedrequnmaa undertake any enterprisein. Holloway requiring is immenseenergies he has been well repaid for a fortune. Of course it is not to our of making a large rthe public from advertising; but, as interest to deter all his labours, and is, we should suppose, in a lair way lighthouse upon what we consider a dan duty to place a- h may perhaps sooner or later pre gerous shoal, which guardians of their interest, we think it our incumbent such waters. inexperi enced about to navigate dinburgh Review," in a The Editor of the " E stated th the n con t three years ago, vent shipwreck and ruin . to the sanguine and ber published about sidered he was making a desirable bequest to posterity , by handing down to them the amount of talent and abi lity requir e d by th e present class of large advertisers. At that p y set forth; anderiod Hollowa if these rema.rks, conjointly 's mode of adv ertisin g was most prominent) with his, should descend to a generation to come, it will be known to what extent the subject of this article merits was able to carry out hi s v i ews , t o gether with the conse quentof his expendit ure i n ma ki ng k now n the Times. preparati ons to nearly the whole wo rld. wtorial The celebration of the dinner took place in the Music Hall of the Albion Hotel, Piccadilly. About 100 gen tlemen sat down to dinner about half- past four. At the dinner, the chairman, Mr. John Chapman, chairman of the Sheffield, Asht,,n-under Lyne, and Manchester Railway Company, was supported right and left by Mr. F. D. Astley, Mr. G. Gisborne, Mr. J. Smith, Mr. E. Buckley, Mr. G. Winter, Captain Clarke, Mr. R. Buckley, Captain R. Hollingworth, the Mayor of Ashton-under-Lyne, the Town Clerk of Manchester, Mr. John Cheetham; Mr. Robinson, Mr. J. Ellison, Mr. Al derman Bancroft, Dr. Fleming, &e., &c. The following directors of the company were present: —Messrs. Charles Turner, Richard Matley, William Bradby, M. M. de Bartolome, James Wall, Richard Thorold, and F. A. Ward. The vice•chairs were occupied by Mr. C. Randall and Mr. T. Blake. BURKE'S HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY. — This important work, it appears, is to be issued by Mr. Colburn, in ten monthly parts, p r i ce ss. eac h, commenc ing with the Magazines on the Ist of January. The Landed Gentry of England are so closely connected with the stirring records of its eventful history, that some ac quaintance with them is a matter of necessity with the legislator, the lawyer, the historical student, the specu lator in politics, and the curious in topographical and antiquarian lore. This work furnishes such a mass of authentic information in regard to all the principal families in the kingdom as has never before been brought together. It relates to the untitled families of rank, as the " Peerage and Baronetage " does to the titled ; and forms, in fact, a peerage of the untitled aristocracy. It embraces the whole of the landed interest, and is indis pensable to the library of every gentleman. METROPOLITAN hiPROVEMENTS.—Yesterday the second portion of the houses belonging to the Mercers' Company's estate in Long- acre were sold for the building materials, all of them, including the extensive range of factories occupied by Messrs. Home, the coach-makers, coming down for the proposed improvements at the north end of Bow-street snd Long-acre opening a direct li ne of communication between Waterloo- bridge, the London and Birmingham Railway, and all the northern districts of the metropolis. The demolition of the east side of Upper St. Martin's-lane, for the proposed new street, is pryer/din ropidly. PRICE SD. POTATOES. The following important information, upon the sub ject of the potato disease in Poland, has been received by Government from the British Consul at Warsaw:-- arsaw, Ot. 16, 1846. "My Lord,---In a report " on W the result of this year's harvest in Poland, which I had the honour to forward to your Lordship with my letter (Consular, No. 25) of the 28th of last month, I stated that the potato disease was totally unknown in this country. Since niaLing that statement I have heard of cne exception to the rule, which has occurred on a small estate, not far from War saw, farmed by a Mr. Kedzlie, a British subject of much intelligence, long established in Poland. The potatoes which have furnished this exmption, are of the kind called the Ash-leaved English Kidney Potatoe,' and were obtained from England two years ago ; they were planted in the midst of Mr. Kedzlie's other potato crops, on land of the same quality, and prepared exactly in the same way as the rest of the ground, which has yielded perfectly sound fruit. This circumstance would seem to prove that the disease is not attributable to at mospheric influences, as is, I hear, the generally re ceived opinion in other countries. Here, in Poland, all persons to whom I have spoken on the subject think that the potatoes in the rest of Europe are tainted in the germ by over cultivation ; and it is certainly re markable that here, where the soil is generally light and where less manure is used than in any other coun try, except Russia—and never immediately preceding the crop of potatoes—those plants should have com pletely escaped the infection, which threatens their ex tinction in all parts where greater pains have been taken in their cultivation. Ido not imagine that the opinion alluded to, on the isolated fact which I have mentioned, will decide a question which has so hopelessly occupied the attention of first-rate scientific men in many coun tries ; but I hope that the notice of the circumstances will not be deemed irrelevant, at a time when the dis ease in question is the cause of such dire di s t ress i n h er Majesty's dominioni, as well - as in other parti of Europe.—l have, &c., (Signed) " GUST. DU PLAT." " Viscount Palmerston, C.8.C., &c." This document will be read with the more interest, if it is compared with the other facts of the same nature to which we have formerly alluded as having been ob served at Genoa, Oporto, Bermuda, and the Cape of Good Hope. It proves incontestibly one of two things —either that the potato disease was actually engendered in 1844, or that the whole English potato crop is pre disposed, by some cause, to take the disease more readily than the crops of Portugal, Italy, and Poland.— Gardeners' Chronicle. PUBLICATIONS. OTTO SPECKTER'S CHRISTMAS STORY. Now Ready, with Twelve Illustrations, square 16m0., se. THE CHARMED - ROE; or, the LITTLE BROTHER and SISTER. Illustrated by OTTO SPECKTER. Also by the same, a New Edition, square 16m0., 55. PUSS Ils -7 ROOTS ; suited to the tastes of LITTLE and GROWN CHILDREN. With Twelve IFustrations. John Murray, Albemarle-street. THE TEA PRODUCTION OF CHINA. • Just Ready, with Plates and Woodcuts, Svo. aHREE YEARS' WANDERINGS in the NORTHERN PROVINCES of CHINA, including a Visit to the TEA COUNTRY. By ROBERT FORTUNE, Botanical Collec— tor to the Horticultural society of London. John Murray, Albemarle-street. Now Ready, Second Edition, Revised to the Present Time, Bvo., 245. T HE PROGRESS of the NATION, in its various Social and Economical Relations. By G. R. PORTER. F.R.S. John Murray, Albemarle-street. CHARGES FOR CATTLE ON THE EASTERN LINES. On Saturday another meeting of the farmers and graziers was held at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, Mr. J. Neave, of Wymondham, in the chair, with a view to a reconsideration of the promises of improvement lstely made by the Eastern Counties, and for putting them in a fair way for being carried into tangible results. The CHAIRMAN said the complaints with regard to the conveyance of cattle were not confined to the Eastern Counties line, but extended to nearly all the railways in the kingdom. In London he heard complaints of the Great Western that cattle had been upon the line twenty one hours, when they ought . to have been up in seven, and the complaints were general from the farmers send ing cattle upon all the other lines. Mr. GARROD said he had complaints to make. He sent some stock on Friday week, and should have gone with them himself but that he dreaded the conveyance, for they put them (the drovers) into the open carriages. He believed the cattle went well and safely till they arrived at Brandon, but there, and again at Cambridge, they were stopped in the two places for the space of ten hours, so that they were 19i hours before they arrived lay taken in London. For his part, could he hav e k nown t h at wo uld have been the case, the down a tssthroaniuldwahyatvoebee Mile end,abeen at home, for that was not the way to treat c a t t l e nor any other animal. It would be satisfactory if th e E as t ern Counties tisfac t that there; would that be a The CHAIRMAN thought the men w ou ld b e well con tent with a third - class ca rria g e, b ut the master drovers stotrey Companywere might to be should be allowed a second•class. cattle improvement? A committee was appointed, and it was decided that defray expenses. subscriptions of from ss. to 10s. sho uld be received to The London and Brighton are in search of a locomo tive and carriage sup erintendent ov er the 1 20 miles of line now in full working op eration. The Chester and Holyhea d a re about to take tenders for the minutiaeof locomotion, such as cross i ngs , switches, turn-tables, and water-cranes, i n di cat i ve o f a speedy completion of their line. The Admiralty have given notice of their intention to deepen Holyhead Harbour, to dredge, excavate, build The following companies are candidates in the money market for loans to various amounts : — Chester and retaining walls, and erect timber jetties. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 19.—The Penelope steam-frigate, Captain Gifford, bad the adjustment of her compasses completed yesterday. She has bent sails, and is now nearly ready for sea. The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert was hauled down from her moorings alongside the jetty yesterday, prepara tory to being docked to-morrow. In consequence of the frequent and long excursions which her Majesty now every season takes to sea, and the increase of the Royal Family, the accommodations of the yacht, as originally con structed, have been found insufficient for the Royal Family; her present docking is, therefore, not from any break down in her machinery or steerage apparatus, nor from any of those other causes or ills which ships of a certain construction are alleged to be heir to, but merely for the purpose of having the nursery and store-rooms, and such other offices as may contribute to good lodging and living, enlarged. The Resistance troop-ship, Commander Lowe, will be ready for sea about the 30th inst. The Cyclops steam-frigate, Captain Lapidge, left yesterday at 3 P.M., for Sheerness, with supernumera ries. If her defects are found considerable, she will be paid off. A plan, which was laid before the late Board of Admiralty, and which, having been submitted to and approved by the present Board for organizing all the workmen in Plymouth, Chatham, Pembroke, Sheerness, and this dockyard, into brigades, to be drilled a certain number of days in each year to the exercise of great guns and small arms, will be submitted to Parliament next session. The artisans will be instructed in the naval great gun exercise (we are told) in ships to be brought alongside the several dockyards, armed with guns of the largest calibre, and in the land artillery practice in the various batteries contiguous to each port. The first instructions will be given by gunnery lieu tenants and naval gunners, the second course of instruc tion by artillery officers and men connected with the corps. The drill is not to interfere with the works in progress in the dockyards, but take place in the summer months for an hour or so before or after the working hours in the dockyard. Each man to be paid extra when on drill. By these means it is expected that an avail able force of 5,000 men will be raised for the defence of the different arsenals in the event of an emergency. We are also informed that there is to be an increase, of the Royal Marine force, to the extent of about 1,500 men, or about ten additional companies. The number of Royal Marine cadets in the Excellent are also to be in creased from 15 to 20, at the commencement of the en suing year. Orders have already been received by the Colonel Commanding the Royal Artillery in this garri son to exercise the dockyard artisans in the great gun practice. The committee appointed to examine the fortifications and defences of the naval arsenals, consisting of Captain Sir Thomas Hastings, R.N., the late Colonel Sir George Hoste, R.E., and Lieutenant-Colonel Mercer, R.A., among other reforms in the defences of the island of Portsea, recommend that the works at Hilsea should be put in a proper defensive condition, and that an officer and detachment of artillery should be placed therein to keep them so. In pursuance of this recommendation the clearance of lines; ditches, &e., has been commenced, and a formidable redoubt and barracks are being con structed on the south-east end of the glacis, close to the Brighton and Chichester Extension Railway. This bat tery wall be constructed so as to sweep the greater part of the harbour of Langston, and the streams which flow into it from Emsworth, and entirely protect the entrance into Portsmouth harbour from Post-bridge. Lieutenant Tylden, R.A., is the officer who has been appointed to superintend the construction of this fort. WooLwitca, DEC. 19.—The Rhadamanthus steam vessel, Master Commander Aylen, having had her de fects made good, will leave Woolwich for Greenhithe on Monday next, to have her compasses adjusted, and then proceed to Plymouth for further orders. The Centau - r steam-frigate has her steam up today, for the purpose of being taken round to Portsmouth to be made ready for sea, and commissioned at the port. PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Palestine freight ship arrived last evening with the remaining portion of the crew of her Majesty's late brig Osprey, from New Zen. land. The men were removed from her to the Victory this afternoon by the Echo. The Mercury returned to-day with volunteers from Poole and the neighbourhood. ROTAL MARINES. Lieutenant-Colonel John Hewes (1842), of the Ports. mouth division, has retired on the full pay of his rank. This gallant officer was First Lieutenant serving in the Rainbow in action with the French frigate Nereide, 1810 ; was in boats at the capture of a Genoese pri vateer moored under a battery - was also present at the attack on Leghorn ; and th e reduction of Genoa, 1814. By the retirement of Colonel Hewes the following officers obtain promotion : Brevet Major T. Wearing to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Hewes. This officer was Second Lieutenant, and served in the Conqueror, 74, at Trafalgar, when he was wounded. Gazetted 1805. First Lieutenant P. Priest, to be Captain, vice Why lock, promoted. This officer was midshipman of the Genoa at Navarino, when he was wounded. Second Lieutenant J. Manger, to be First Lieutenant, vice Priest. First Lieutenant IL P. Lewin (1837), of the Ports mouth division, died last evening at his residence,. Portsmouth. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 19.—His Swedish Majesty's corvette North Star, 20, Captain G. Hespelberg, arrived on the 18th, in twenty-eight days from New York. During her passage she experienced some severe weather, and shipped several heavy seas, one of which broke in aft, entered her bread-room, and damaged her provisions. To-day she was supplied with three tons of bread and other necessaries. Her water was obtained from the Royal William Victualling-yard at Stonehouse. She had been on a cruise, and to-morrow will leave this for Fre derickstadt. The schooner Queen has this week discharged at the Royal William Victualling-yard 932 quarters of Indian corn, making, with six other cargoes received there, about 5,400 quarters, the whole of which is ground or is being ground into meal for the destitute in Ireland and Scotland. The mills are kept going night and day; two gangs of men are employed, and in order that the master miller may be always on the spot, he is furnished with a bed in the mill-house. About 1,000 sacks of meal are produced per week. The whole of the corn now in store will be ground in a fortnight, previous to which it is ex pected other cargoes will arrive. 763 sacks of meal have been shipped by her Majesty's steamer Stromboli ; 794 by her Majesty's store-ship .IF,olus, 42; and 1,000 are to be shipped by her Majesty's steamer Rhadamanthus, daily expected at this port. These three parcels go to the Isle of Mull, where th e y will be under the orders of the captain of her Majesty's frigate Belvidere. The steam-packet Shannon, Captain Moppett, th e cargo of which ignited on the sth instant, left this port in ballast trim on the 11th for Falmouth, whence she departed again yesterday morning for Dublin, where she will be repaired at the extensive establishment of her proprietors, the British and Irish Steam-packet Com pany. The Shannon, which is 153 feet long by 27 feet broad, was originally built by Messrs Fletcher and Co., London, for about 44,0001. In the spring of 1845 she was thoroughly repaired, and supplied with new boilers and engines of 250-horse power, at a cost of 13,0001. She has been employed on various services, but princi pally between London, Plymouth, Falmouth, and Dublin, on which station she has run about 250 voyages, and never experienced any casualty worth rec or di ng b e f ore the spontaneous combustion of her cargo on the sth of December. TELEGRAPH ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—The electric telegraph on the Midland Railw a y was opene d for public use on Friday, so that communication may now be made to and from Leeds, Normanton, Macs borough, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Derby, Liecester, Rugby, Burton, Tamwortb, Birmingham, Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln, at the following rates, namely:— Under ten words, Id. per mile; above ten, and under twenty, at lid. per mile; above twenty, and under thirty, at 3d. per mile; and for every additional ten words, one halfpenny per mile. A messenger, if re quired, may bo dispatched from any of the above sta tions, on foot, at Is. per mile; or if by postchaise, on a reasonable remuneration. In case of any message fail ing through the defect of the instrument, or neglect of the company's servants, the money will be returned. Messages relating to luggage lost or mislaid by the company's servants, will be sent free of charge. STATE OF TRADE. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, DEC. 18.—There has been more firmness in this branch of trade during the present week; sales have been rather more extensive, although they have been chiefly to supply the present wants of the manufacturers, and not arising from any speculative excitement. - FOREIGN WOOL TRADE.—LEEDS, DEC. 18.—There bas been a fair average business done in foreign wools this week, and prices are firmly suported. LEEDS.—The usual dulness of the season has pre vailed at our cloth markets both on Saturday and Tues day last. The merchants continue to purchase only to order. Goods maintain their price, and the stocks in the manufacturers' hands are not larger than usual at this period of the year. Although business is, as usual so near Christmas, dull in the warehouses, the severity of:the weather for the last few weeks has tended to create a demand for heavy winter goods ; the stocks in the mer chants hands are in consequence lower than they were a few weeks ago; but the foreign houses are doing little. BRADFORD MARKET, DEC. 17.—The demand for combing is again somewhat more restricted, on account of the staplers having raised the prices. As there is a great disproportion between the price of wool and yarn, the spinners buy very sparingly, and with the greatest care. We can report no improvement in the yarn trade. The production of yarn is reduced to a very low point, and there seems to be no chance of in crease until the turn of the year. There is an average business done in pieces for the season. A universal impressment seems! to prevail that we shall have a fair, if not excellent spring trade, and we hope there will not in this case be disappointment. There is no alteration in prices within these two weeks ; some manufacturers, with rather heavy stocks, have been much reduced. MANCHESTER, FRIDAY MORNING.—As it would be a hopeless task to give au intelligible account of the state of our market this week, it will not be therefore at tempted. The trade is thrown into utter confusion by the speculation in the staple, and no two persons appear to be asking the same price for the same article. Short time is, however, commencing in good earnest. Messrs. Birley, the largest cenzumers of cotton in Manchester, are now working short time, both in spinning and weaving. They employ near 2,000 hands. Some of our spinners who were so fortunate as to lay in very heavy stocks of cotton at the lowest point, as well as toFur chase fretly at a small advance, are now, instead of keeping it for use, actually sending it down to Liverpool for sale, being certain in that case of realising a large profit, whilst if kept to carry on their establishments, if a loss sliculd not be sustained, at least no profit would .possibly be derivc , d. This is, indeed, " taking coals to Newcastle." Such a state of things cannot last long we may be sure, still the fact is a strange one. (ANOTHER ACCOUNT.) This market is quite deranged, in consequence of the monstrous and plirenzied cotton speculations in Liver pool. Producers have generally, until yesterday, when there was rather a disposition apparent in some quarters, to sill, declined to name a price, whether for goods or yarns ; and, indeed, buyers have mostly kept aloof frcm even making inquiries as to rates, knowing they would be such as they could not pay. There has been some. thing done in anticipation, at slightly advanced rates on those paid last week, but buyers will rather wait the result of business in the spring than pay the extreme rates required. Printieg cloths and shirtings are, of course, in demand, as this is the season when printers lay in their stocks, and higher relative prices are, con sequently, paid for these than for other classes of goods. It appears that the immense concerns at Stalybridge, Ashton, Todmorden, and elsewhere, are not simply going on to short time, but are about to bo closed altogether. This is grappling with the cotton evil right vigorously ; and we should hail it with unmingled satisfaction but tbr the sufferings which thereby must be entailed on the operative classes.—Manchester Times. NoTrlNGuaat.—The trade of Nottingham has deci dedly improved during the last week or two, in the cotton and hosiery departments, and a tolerable trade is expected in February and March. LEICESTER.—The present seasonable weather has caused more business to be done than usual, at this period of the season, in the glove and hosiery branches, and as it will enable the shopkeepers to clear off their winter stocks, a good general demand is expected at the beginning of the year. Worsteds are steady, and cotton yarns are looking upwards. Wools are firm, at prices in favour of the seller.—Leicester Journal. To HAVE LAYING POULTRY.—It is with poultry as with all other animals removed from a warmer to a colder climate, they exist but do not thrive without warmth, and whet - her to fatten them or to promote their laying at an unseasonable time, a temperature adapted to their constitution should be provided them ; this will be one point towards success. I will now mention two more points, viz , age and diet ; attending to these three particulars I have at all seasons an abundant supply of large and new-laid eggs: the age of poultry should never exceed three years (except when it is wished to keep an indi vidual for the sake of breed), after this age they rarely lay from the moulting season till late in the following spring, consequently it is folly to keep an unprofitable tnimal when one in profit would consume no more food: she plan I pursue and recommend is, to part with all poultry after the third autumn laying, and to put in their place the previous spring chickens, by which is meant chickens hatched through the months of March, April, and May; birds of January and February hatch ing are apt to have their feet swollen by the cold in some situations, which is unsightly, and besides this being ready for markets in May, they are too valuable to be kept for stock when birds of less market value, but equally good for laying, can be had ; the March pullets will begin to lay in September, and the others will suc ceed them in rotation of hatching; to these in November will be added the hens rising two years old, and about January, if favourable weather, the hens rising three years old will begin to lay ; by attending to age, a suc cession of laying hens will be had -through the whole year. The next particular to be attended to is diet ; with poultry, as with other animals, variety has its charms, and greatly promotes both fattening and laying; poultry confined to a yard should have given to them food as similar as possible, and as various as that they would feed on if allowed to roam at large ; they require vegetables, seeds, insects, gravel, ashes or dry mould, as much as corn of different sorts, to keep them in health. and plenty of clean water, rain water is the best ; if a feed of mixed corn is given the first thing in the morn ing, let this be followed at eleven A.m. by a feed of bar ley-meal, mixed with boiled potatoes or parsnips, or both . ; to this pieces of fat meat chopped may be added, the fowls will fill themselves to repletion ; about three P.m. a little corn may be thrown them, soon' afterwards they will prepare for roosting ; fowls prefer meal to corn, and I have observed that those birds that had rolled crams of barley and oatmeal required feeding only twice a-day, feeding to satisfy each time, and resting nearly the whole of the interval ; by feeding with meal made into stiff dough or crams with milk t or liquor of boiled meat, more eggs and larger and fatter fowls will be obtained than by corn. feeding. Of giving peppercorns to poultry I have no knowledge, neither do I think any benefit will attend it.—J. S., in Agricultural Gazette. SUDDEN DEATII OF MR. HATCHER, THE HISTO RIAH OF SALISBURY.—II is with sincere regret that we announce the death of our esteemed townsman, William Henry Hatcher, Esq., author of the talented " History of Salisbury," which for ms one o f t h e mos t magn ifi cent volumes of hat fire series of topographical works, Sir Richard Colt Hoare's History of Wiltshire. Up to within a few hours of his death he had pursued his cus tomary routine of active bodily and mental exertion ; and no appearances of unusual decay were visible in him. On Monday morning, however, lw was found in his bed a corpse.—Poole Herald. THE MOSQUITIAN KINGDOM. Just published, price 4s. 6d. cloth. NARRATIVE of a RESIDENCE on the MOSQUITO SHORE ; with an account of Truxillo, and the adjacent Islands of Bonacco and Roatan ; and a Vocabulary of the Mosquitian Language. Second Edition. 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' Ross and Sons being ;fully determined not to be " punched " down, even by that inimitable merry an drew, or " merry angry," Mr. Punch, beg to inform the public that they intend killing an enormous bear on Monday, the 21st inst., and exhibiting it on that and the three following days, at their establishment, when any one preferring it can have the fat cut direct from the animal, thus ensuring its genuineness. For preserving and strengthening the hair there is nothing equal to the genuine bear's grease—Vide " Mr. Catlin's account of the quantity used, and the length and thickness of hair obtained by the North American Indians." Address, Ross and Sons, 119 and 120, Bishopsgate-street, London. STATE or TRADE. —The continual advance in the price of cotton is beginning to be felt by the handloom weavers of Wigan • s everal of the manufacturers - ha vin g , duri ng the past week, stopped their gingham weavers, from inability to obtain an advance on cloth in the market commensurate with the advance of cotton yarns for the manufacture of those fabrics. Diaper weavers are in a similar situation, and there are loud complaints of wait inganbgea been dn tsot held ltahset a t m h o e n amongst the of work. Some consultations, we are informed, have short time, but as some of them have a supply of cotton on millowners respecting working seem inclined to agree to the pmroopnct,hsasltaotiperoeljaseentt.h. Teyh.deocnrYt more induce ve artificial scar • city for the sake of exorbitant gam,be comingmh cotton e f m o r e a n n a t d , afecnwodrnsospmeecuplautbolrs for causing an public movement to We of Parliamentcourse d o to notice their practices is talked of. suppose Parliament would inter fere.-- Preston Chronicle. of " American Rifle ' i, THE AMERICAN of a rich treat in the descriptiontrhALe but — ewa ed F er RIFLE.—From oogwmfreitlhttlhethev expect aa s tr o u toh n ues d t sounding peculiari ties partake ci a aa m rni e : ties attached to them ' scien m e e e rian rifle is only not be realised. The fame. There is no displayed i in the construc tion, which it not to be met with of groove, t hasa great in they have every degree of spiral in eery P everrt o f been Europe;re . 111. the —every variety nd every size of commended, every variety bore—from 16 to the lb. to 140 to the , their arms, they arms, for of length and every weight. In truth attention t to have obtained is not for any perfection in a vast majority of those they have are the commonest " Brummagem rubbish," made with no science, but only for profit. No, the truth is ricans use the rifle more, probably, than any' n i a n e ti A o l n i m i e n the world. They are more expert generally shooting practice, and this has done everything for them,eir and not the merit of their rifles. We have seen American rifle barrels which were far from straight, and far from being correctly rifled, yet they shoot well. Why! Be causern the bore is very small, the barrel burning powder sufficient to give a high velocity up to 100 yards, and, as we have already remarked, accuracy at short distances is the American rule of perfection. Occasionally the back woodsman may venture a long range, but in a vast majority of cases the balls used are so small as to be per fectly useless at greater distances than 150 yards. To write a long article on the American rifles would be but a repetition of previous matter, as they have no established rule or principle, save in their military arms, and here uniformity is necessary, and the display of scientific princi ples in these is not very apparent. The military rifle is 2 feet 9 inches long, carries a ball 30 to the lb. The rifling is different from any used in Europe. The grooves are 14 in number, with 7 projections more pro minent than the others, an arrangement very objection able, as it is clear these " projections" must either grip the ball so to indent it, or to allow the extra cuts to be of no use or if not gripping it, why have so many " furrows and lands ?"—two sizes remind us of cutting a file with ha'f the teeth higher than the other half. The rifle, as a whole, is a handy weapon, but with the " old plan" of a " hook main spring" and " tumbler," it is what we may designate as a very nice " tool" for a gentleman's amusement, certainly not a military weapon as it ought to be. It is very near akin to the Prussian rifle, will shoot well at 200 yards, but no further.— Greener's Science of Gunnery, DR. M'WILLIAM.—We are happy to state that Lord John Russell has given to this eminent officer the valuable appointment of medical attendant to the Board of Customs, recently become vacant. This appointment was conferred in the most handsome manner, without any application on the part of Dr. 311 4 William, Lord John's secretary stating, in the letter which announced it, that the appointment was conferred on account of Dr. McWilliam's distinguished services in the River NigeT, in the year 1841. / / ~~ i'v ~! 0- , f~~~r ~~ DISTRESS IN SKIBBEREEN. The following letter has been addressed by Sir George Grey.,in reply to the statement of the Poor-law Union of Skibbereen " Whitehall, Dec. 9, 1846. " Gentlemen,--I have given a careful and attentive consideration to the statement which, on behalf of the Poor-law Union of Skibbereen, you placed in nay hands, and to the request which you have addressed to her Majesty's Government, that a Queen's letter may be issued, for the purpose of making a collection throughout England fur the relief of the distress in Ireland. •r The painful details which are annexed to your written statement, and the information you have com municated to me in personal interviews, afford sufficient proof, if indeed such were wanting, of the severity of the distress in your district, and it is impossible not to feel deep sympathy for the sufferings which you describe. " I have no reason to believe that you entertain a doubt of the desire of the Government to adopt all practicable 111 t e. , ures for the mitigation cf the distress unhappily so prevalent iri Ireland. It is, therefore, un nece.,sary that I should here enumerate the measures which have been taken by the Government with this otject, or that I should advert in detail to the extent of relief-wf rks now carried i n under the superintendence of the Government, by which ab, ut 300,000 men are at present employed. I am, however, desirous of stating distinctly the conviction of the Government, that they cannot, by any measures - within their power, meet all tl-e cases of severe privation and distress which are to be found under existing circumstances in Ireland. - " Much must remain to be done by individuals, owners of property, and by private charity. Her Majesty's Government, at the same time feel that a Queen's letter is not, at the present moment, the most appropriate mode of raising funds for the relief of these cases of distress. A Queen's letter is usually issued for the purpose of making a collection in aid of funds already raised by public subscription. I should therefore ven ture to suggest that, instead of looking to this in the first instance, means should be taken f - or raising among the wealthier classes in Ireland, as well as in England, contributions for the relief of extreme cases of want and destitution, not capable of being met by the existing Poor-law, or by the works in progress or to be here after sanctioned ; and I entertain no doubt, that if due precautions were taken for securing the proper applica tion of such contributions to the relief of urgent and severe distress through the local agency, which can alone be competent to their duty, liberal aid would be afforded by private benevolence in this country. • * 4 In Cuggfsting 'contributions in Ireland,. I:d0 1 320t: overlook the fact, that much is being already done there by individual charity, and that presentments for public works will impose a heavy burden on the estates of the landed proprietors ; but it must also be borne in mind, that the maintenance of the destitute is in Eng land charged bylaw on the land and other fixed property of the country, and that in Scotland, where in extensive districts, the failure of the potato crop has been as complete, and the consequent pressure on the people as great as in Ireland, the landed proprietors are at the present moment making great sacrifices and exertions for the relief and support of their people. There are also parts of Ireland in which the pressure is much less severe than in others, and there is much property on which the burden of the presentments for the relief of distress has fallen lightly, if at all. " I shall only add that, with reference to some of the particulars contained in your statement, inquiries have been instituted and directions given, which,.l trust, will have the effect of mitigating the severity of the suffering in your neighbourhood.—l have, &c., (Signed) " G. GREY. " Rev. C. Caulfield, Rev. C. Townsend." LETTER STEALIN G by a SOLDIER SUNDERLAND, SATURDAY, DEC. 19.—Yesterday Fre derick Loyd Sims, a private in the 30th Regiment, a depot of which is now stationed at Sunderland Barracks, was brought before Joseph Simpson and John Scott, Esqrs., two of the magistrates for this borough, charged with stealing a letter containing a cheque on the Branch Bank of England at Newcastle for the payment of 261. The case excited considerable interest, from the circum stance of Sims being respectably connected, and having obtained a local literary tame by the publication of a volume of poetry, which have been lately very favour ably reviewed by the Sunderland and Newcastle news papers. From the evidence adduced in the case, it appeared that Sims was the person sent to the Sunderland Post effice for the letters addressed to the officers and soldiers of the depot. On Wednesday, the 18th of November, a letter was forwarded by Captain Macdonald, the pay master of the regiment, through the Newcastle post office, to Captain Heard, the commanding officer at Sun derland barracks, in which he inclosed a cheque on the above-mentioned bank for the payment of 261. This letter ought to have reached Captain Heard on the fol lowing morning, but it was never received by him; and after much inquiry, . Sims, the letter-carrier, was sus pected and taken into custody, Whilst at the station-. house he made a written confession, for the purpose, as he says, of " preventing innocent parties coming under suspicion, and in token of contrition and reparation for the wrong he had done to others." In this docu ment he states that he was induced to commit the offence by being involved in debts which preyed upon his mind. He presented the cheque himself at the bank in Newcastle, and receivad 261. in gold; he endorsed the cheque in the name of Barker, and sent 15/. by a Pest-office older to a friend in London. The most extraordinary part of his statement is, that he rut 201. of :he money in a purse, v hich he placed under nis pillow on the night after his return from► Newcastle, and it was stolen while he slept. This part of his story was corroborated by a comrade called bcf ore the magistrate yesterday, who deposed that on the 20th of November he met the urisoner in the can teen. The latter chargM him with having :tolen the money from under his pilbw, and cfrered to accept half of it to say nothing about the matter, intimating that with this money he would leave the country. Sims declined making any statement before the magis trates, and was fully committed to take his trial at the next Durham assizes. GOLDICUTT v. BEA GIN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—The report of this case, contained in your journal of the 18th, is inaccurate in one particular only. Mr. Cockburn did not, as stated in your paper, apply to postpone the case on Thursday evening, nor were any affidavits read ; but there was much confusion at the time, and your reporter may have easily mistaken the object of Mr. Cockburn's application, which was merely to ascertain whether (it being then past four o'clock) his Lordship would take the case that evening or not. Requesting the favour of your inserting the above in your next number, I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, THOS. FRAS. JUSTIUE, Defendant's Attorney. 17, Bcrners street, Dec. 21. THE LATE SUPPOSED MURDER AND SUICIDE. LATEST PARTICULARS. Throughout the whole of yesterday the police were engaged in endeavouring to find out the names of the unfortunate child and woman, whose bodies were dis covered near Waterloo-bridge, but without success. No letter or anything else was found upon the deceased likely to lead to their identity. A notice was last even ing sent to every police-station in the metropolitan and City districts, with a request that the police on their several beats would make inquiries of the inhabitants as to whether they had missed any persons answering to the description of the woman and child. Persons were engaged yesterday afternoon - in the neighbourhood of Belvedere and Commercial-roads, Lambeth, inquiring of the wharfingers whether they had seen the woman -and child upon their wharfs the preceding day, or if they had heard a splash in the water, such as would be caused if the unfortunate creature had precipitated herself into the river. Up to six o'clock last night they had bee' unsuccessful in their inquiries. - The clothing of both having been washed, it was found that the child had on a white lace cap and a light-coloured hood, a cho colate and blue coloured woollen turnover, a pair of worsted leggings, and two frocks. It is believed to be not more than 10 or 12 months old. It was an exceed ingly fine child, and had cut two of its upper teeth. The woman had on a speckled straw bonnet, trimmed with black crap, Adelaide boots, black worsted stockings, a dark silk and cotton shawl, with bunches of flowers on it, and a pair of dark jean stays. She bad no wedding= apparently and ring on her finger, and th e on l y t hi ng found in her ipocketfrom 26 wa to s a n sm y a e l a l r b s o . box She wa s ll Her age eras stature, s at had dark brown hair. It was found, upon examining the bodies, that neither 'of the deceased had a single bruise upon their persons, proving that they could not have fallen from any great height. The appearances of the bodies are such as to lead to the supposition that they had not been in the water more than 12 or 18 hours ; but from what part of the river they went in it is impossible to tell, as it is quite possible that they might have been forced along with the tide for some miles. The ligature which bound the two together was , what is termed laycord ; it was passed three times round their bodies, and fastened to the bonnet and cap strings of the woman. The police who have seen the woman declare that she was not known to them, and they are of opint • 'on that she did not belong to the neighbourhood of Lambeth. MILITARY Courtn-MARTIAL.---Saturday morning a general court-martial assembled at Portman-street barracks, composed of the officers of the Brigade of Guards, with Colonel Sir Ord Honeyman, of the 2d Battalion Grenadier Guards, as President, when private J. Buckley, of No. 4 company 2d Battalion Coldstream Guards, was brought to trial for highly insnbordinate conduct, and striking Sergeant Hadlam, of the Cold stream Guards, when in the execution of his duty. The finding of the court and its proceedings will not be made known until the court-martial is finally approved of by her Majesty and his Grace the Commander -in-Chief. On the same mor ing the proceedings of a district court martial were read to , the 3d Battalion Grenadier Guards, on the Military Parade, Tower of Lon don, on private J. Orton, of No. 5 company, who had been tried for desertion. The Court sentenced the prisoner to undergo three months' im prisonment, with hard labour stationed td in square, a on , aartet thett_hhear Portman -street Military t h e barracks, minutes n ut e Prison,s Chatham. On the same . morning, the 2cl battalion of Coldstreamarrackswere em of a court-martial read on Lance -Sergeant Spencer and Corporal Reeve, of that battalion, who have been tried by a district court-martial for neglect of duty, by allow ing a prisoner under their charge to get drunk. The evidence having been heard for and against the prisoners, .Spencer wa s not guilty, who was therefore the court cam e t o t h e following decision—that Lance- Sergeant acquitted ; an d C orporal Reeve was found guilty, and sentenced to be reduced t o t h e ran k an d p a y o f a private soldier, ~~~-~ ~~ 2 7G . . • 7 IF!`• -. Admission is. 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