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____--- 2~t-- ~~ ~_ .Cie- Z-- - 1-.G' 6 V .~ l~ ~~~ ~ ~~0 e•---e . - e.' ? the most lively strain upon the correcting influance i k c ________•' ,±,14P.,- ,' ' 4 k.,, , i',,. - !' '''TLI;:-.1411) ; ' the separate system was calculated to exert over A . and conduct of the frail portion of the co unity _ , its o eratior. There %co. 'ever, a . : T .- '' _ 7 1. 4.74. - -- - --) 14). A . _ s! ' . . , ) connected wit I 'lnir - tinffirtrUn of discipline to w / 4 !, neither the Chaplain nor his present correspondent - ;It - 7 wgliß -• ,- ..,:,.'" - •,. 4 „,„ . . 41 ! tr 9 1 : ...i - ! 1 kik I 1 rI , tE . 1 ~. , -•- , .. .• . r, -0-Na • • ,• 7., 44,,. . it ~, , , • M' ii ~ - 1 . 0.-,:i , . e il, .. , rve-4" v „,-,•„...--4 ‘ . "-- \`k‘ ._, -, k' • :'' --. 75 ,---: ' I ' t ' ..,., 1 1 '' ' ' (3. ; • ,4% . - ..!.. It-. 1.. —' 4 t'-c . y li 1 1 ''' 1 .'"'• V4_ ''''' . , ' s .--- . %.,, 5, a tK i _, 1 ''.' .....tl' ....*:„,\ - ° t , ...,.„! ; ..e. , "§` , -- ."' ' \,.'" • - ' oj, '= - 4.4 ''r.-4 7 ‘.4,..' 4' r.-• ) - :.1- -.; -- if . 74,00 , # $ ‘ - -), ' A...*,/. ---; " eta -2" i o ;l4' . -,‘ " ,01 ,i 4( A Z,4, r , *P-,, =-- `e 4. _I ' 'lt - ---- , 04,.- - Ir ---. 1, ~- .....,11L— 1 Lt: , - , ~ "' ~ : 64 . , ....;..„-Fw RO. T. qi '- T r i, EAST INDIA HOUSE, Miaca 11, 184 e. ",' COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST XX4,,DIA COMPANY do hereby give notice, that, the RATE of IM m„ 'OE at which they will receive Cash for Bills on Bengal be 1 ,ir a5 ....;,, .. 4.11 d „ will. from the present date, and until further notice, 'be c o , u _ pa u n e v C s o r t e n p p e a e n . y' s rupee, and for Bills on Bombay Is. I%cl. ..._ T o 1• k 'S :— k OURNE E (..) 'JOAN In 3,700 Shares 100/. be divided into Five Classes of 740 0 f shares each. De:-‘osit, 101.; to ae returned without deduction in the event of failure. TRUSTERS. nthtrarge William Anderson, Esq., 69, Harley-street Blr uel Scott E fines Cavendish-square ardell, Esq., 43, Westbourne-terrace. -- Sir Claude Scott, Bart., and Co., 1, Cavendish-square. SOLICITORS. 1,40% ' tt rg o 3rnes, Thrupp, and Clark, 16^, Oxford-street 'et I t v._ me -t errace is confessedly one of the firiest ranges of build tkleog" metropolis. Its proximity to Hyde-parkand Kensington :kit am at width, elevation, andtion , gravelly soil, and the very vo n v sS " , cenunodious arrangement of the interior of the man , em a combination of attractions which must render it a most 141 ) l uvest th jltio n v , Meat ; particularly where the object is to secure a 'dreg the ta child or children, because by nominating such child or 4' 4 Pro 'r necessarilyt4i a 1001 income for such st! survive. I ,et ia , in Pnetor of every share of. will have the privilege of one life at any time previous to the 24th December, :Inan should the nominee die before that day, then another ) 141 1 I su bstituted so that all the subscribers may be •n an 4 4%44 on the 25th ) December, 1846, the day from which the Ot, To ntine u'er ceivable by the Company. • k 'bleeit fth _ill be divided into Five Classes of 740 Shares ; the elas ' s to be under ............25 years of age. from ..25 40 4th " to 55 „ • t sti sth " • •• • ........55 to 65 ~ .. .. 65 upwards. oT4 4 , t m in n giile rental • ;t 20,0001: each class will be entitled to one Dosse — .."`• per annum ; and the survivor of such class will not Vtvb.,,,',_that income for his life, but will have the power to leave 'tit 'le Pleases for the residue of the term of 98 years. tt, t , uot of 4 to b e „„coarse necessary for the proprietors of shares, in either • tor, hnY particularmany young persons, for instance, Tinate a life in the sth, or elder class, with a riew to their It 114 'at° - .solute possession of the 4,0001. per annum at the end '4l4 f d o: ' We 'ttY yea d with the certainty of a more rapid In t 4Ppb..twidend tlian nth junior classes. k, , S ttoy. i a u Ms for Shares must be sent, under cover, to . Messrs. or - h tt, 1 11r aPp and Clark , No. 160, Oxford - street; Sir Claude ieetioadn4 - mu Co:, Cavendish•squaraeither bf the Committees, Th:mentioned Agents—the Secretary to the Hall of Com t,?lbti.,s'eadneedle-street • George Allen, Esq., 43, Princes-Street, kti blin ; 7 o ; ll T. M. Archer, ' Esq., Leinster-chambers, Dame-street, m, eunliffe Esq Preston Lancashire ; Messrs. Fletcher I', -' 51 Kin -street, Man • er; v crPool; Houghland and Leese, , g At,,Dct„;,, W . H. Collis and Smith, Birmingham. kilt ' 4 ; rs may be obtained from the Solicitors, and the respective i tl itr eet I_ air. Tomson Architect j and i. Sur e v t eyo; io N 3 o 4 . , 2, l f e o s n t : 4 1 ::ter ra „„tt Hyde - p ar k ; or from J. Ipp k ik ilt at , *, Who will show the houses. Le 4 th o ' l5 Will be received up to Wednesday, the 22d of April, h.,se for any particular class double the number required tio t4 h ' t oted ." ' ? s,l , when notice will be immediately given, and the t.„,'„. 14 h ' s the committee being desirous to discourage all specula fattd z: allot the shares to bona fide applicants only. It is ..c▪ b , 'aerefore that narties will not apply for more shares than to take separate application for 'ass,, and that they will make a s Os t OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY, f n - •eril s .„ for 1146. soPY of the work has been but a few days issued, anu Jottri t i t t i r . , Ylews have already appeared in the leading metrope -o'lo irk has now SUN reached 2 the Jorty-s 7, eventh annual edition, and 1245. tl4em, " 'ont i „ Mr. Kelly, the proprietor, who has spared no expense the compilation, keeps progress with the times, and than any similar publication, the great changes which Diace, net onl In our trade and commerce, but in the h il rtirn i n d extent of y this vast metropolist No other nation irideb, suchr such a work, and to these is the compiler 1. 44 cly" e ` e d for a mass of useful information, useful, not to only, but to the whole community. There is not one tk, l 7 l J tW e :°n l lnunity to which some of the directions are not ab aod boi ssary. It extends to 2,074 pages, printed in a close, but kli t i t es \yo u tYPe, and is accompanied by a beautiful, minute, and ti tiqave had an opportunity of judging. a correct map of the nri t d ' s of London, with the names of each distinctly marked. hoes *ll,lktell e great credit to Mr. Kelly, and we have no doubt that i t ,' it Manner in which it is prepared, and the information tti eTs will insure for it universal approbation and corn te,B Iti t t li k : 411 y heeess t GLOß . E ithi Ja s n e . s l t 7 a , bl l i ti sh 46 e . d work. that it sustains Vork ep ro Putati2fo o r sa a y ccuracy and comprehensiveness which 4,1, 4 et, volumes, in Mr. Kelly's hands, at once obtah:ed for it. u f f London residents this annual has been an indispens --"e• In the present year several improvements have been to 'Or t ,lvole tt TIMES, January 9, 1846. )00ior a l._ a Unlike many others, as it increases in bulk, increases 1%C% th 'utlY in value • thus every succeeding edition is more >l r aati a - n aa its predeces ' sors and the book of 1846 contains more 10, to t han the book of , 1845. The volume for the current t ati 'ls pa t res anything of a simil ir kind that has ever been offered 4,414 ae a guide-book to the names, occupations, professions, *Con tritons of the hundreds of thousands of the inhabitants of 1,, 4%4 t ar that h as ever ye t b een i s sued from the press. In it, 1,,, It he a•" local habitation and a name" is noted down-that b p kr 4 -- 'e a housekeeper. an office-keeper, or the proprietor or r ailt Of "UM: g beyond a furnished lodging or the humble oc ', ' , to an attic. There is an " Official Directors," a " Street N rY," , • ta„. rt b,„ a ' Trades' Directory," a " Law Directory," a " tors„ " e torY," a " Parliamentary Directory," a " Postal DireDi- Si a „klkio t ,, " City Directory," a " Conveyance Directory," a 4Y thh7 - 1 _ ctory,” and a mass of other matter, explanatory of Notiaa e ,' , l i s i which are nece sary to be known, and which are not to o t :,,s ti t , together and easily accessible in any other volume. lei,T;lishta , th annual publivation of the work, whieh is now so fully 4 3 1 of 1, 41 . Public estimation, for the accuracy and multi %,„ • th at t,„'S int ellieence, requisite for every class and for every le ° Of all t e w ith Out it is almost an imputation on the common -4-t4 busiC u r 4l % connected with the trade of London or the Tiii f ,,, , t , of life. ir e ,' s exe t n, u ,UNING HERALD, December 27, 1845. 'p p ' pace nt Work, the 47th edition of which has just reached us, f ia ,Nt Offi ce the commercial requirements of the times. The "'s lu re : * Directory" of some twelve years since, and the " Post tt,a it Wa ` ,. .Y" for the coming year present a remarkable contrast. 0 , 1% ,_ . ( e ) connned to a meagre list of names, comprised within a ali ti ,„7 or three miles, and might have been put very conveniently taric,,oua: pocket. Year after year it has increased in size, and att„, s . and valuable stores of information to its columns; its 14 t t e‘ 21-- c, 't Pages have g r own into thousands, and it now embraces 1 „' - `f Polls and its suburbs, from north to south, east and west, Zati a 7, l Prises within ita voluminous pages of information (now 4 . 1 ,7 indispensable to the merchant and tradesman) an Krt,47, „Directory,' a " Street Directory," a " Commercial - %'',,tto t ',,'„ a " Trades' Directory," a " Law Directo," a "Court h, ei t „l , a "Parliamentary Directory," a "Postal Directory," ii:stt,,r, ,)irectory," a " Conveyance Directory," a " Banking ,I rot! ' and a variety of other copious lists of Information, dint 4 transcription of which would occupy considerable time. - 'A ; it 1 Provincial Inns" extends over 31 pages of three columns t, t 'lly;, Post Office London Offical Directory" over 48 pages, ~ , s, alit of which are of tour and twenty of two columns each ; a,reet Directory," 472 pages of th-ce columns each; its ', t h ; - i t '1.0 , 131 and Professional Directory " 504 pages of two colnrons , „Ow ',,', ` Trade Directory" 623 pages of three columns each; its c rect ory e , 14 44, 1, etory 64 pages ; " Court Directory " 110 pages ; litt 44 atti entar y D - rectory "36 pages ; " Postal Directory " (most tiroA a `,., compiled) 67 pages,This portion of the work has , ( j",.elllarged and improved. It now supplies us with the i•i t - ,_%lit Q ,;',lar7 of the London letters at each town and village in tst - ',7 , a e a ;', '.,trlgdom at which there is a Post-office or Receiving- IV I,l kt "toe time at which the letter-box for London closes at N„ . . 1, th, ; also the distance of each from the poat town through tli t " . l., l i L ondon letters are transmitted. We also observe that the 4,74t4. 41) of London, which has for some years past accompanied tj4 aril -,...' mid which has been frequently much improved, is ren it, q .o ore valuable in the present edition. The names of each i t 'o4 ° roost distinctly printed, and we hesitate not to state that ti,al' ,l ot , the t ,he hest Maps of London extant. The Work is printed N4 4 'etil at c " l tYpe. We can scarcely think it requires special re -4a •-", fer no man who ready has business to transact can .t., 'a hhout it. l'C'' to MORNING CHRONICLE, Jan. 17, 184% N -raw ' Sit, 4N volume just published of this laborious and valuable kianY t,, 5 the same meed of approbation which has been so de -14%,7`i1y 1„ - V 4 ved upon its predecessors. In mere size, it is con % difo,,,ger than any of them, not yearly tha introduction of ktralt,.atioe, but in consequence of the growth of the me hitnLitil t a t , lle avocations and whereabouts of whose inhabitants it is h,i" ar - : ar ra the " directory." The enormous multitude of facts l101o: to ndensed in the bulky volume before us is really over ,74cl ; yet they are not more than are requisite to make the a t t rici a Maur overgrown city duly acquainted with one another's TO a t ,' tot ~., r e.idences. The facts are presented in the same available tlit,f'tiot t will tile same attention to accuracy and recentness of in % tl of ,Which characterise the volume for 1845, and rendered it a t°,4 is Vection as a directory. We. observe some useful ad tat;',,r: t '" o contents of the present publication, especiallin rapidly %%Nat . „ °t ed to the Post•effice arrangements, which are so t kiler` lt arided and 'aYs a complicated under the double impulse of 11, nd the penny postage. /aa h :' , a I „MORNING ADVERTISER, Dec. 24, 1845. bkr - i ,, I),' 4 ' Published bv Kelly and Co., which has now made its ~t 4 ti'' Wo l 7 ft rance for forty-seven years, is decidedly one of the most !h t ,2 1 1 511' 4 , of the day. It contains an immense amount of infor- N,;,?ttr o ",,_ , greatest importance to all in any way connected w th :I).'„, t ery ,'a• It comprises among other information, an "Official "Lvleo 1 3 , a " Street Dieectory," a " Commercial Directory;' a Ititt m llara 4 :_eetory," a " Law Directory; a Court Directory," a t hi,,, ' t. ,(I j"TY Directory," a " City Directory ," ~ a ` Postal Dlree salt va t i A ° aveyanee Directory," and a Bank Directory." Under iio th e - us divisions will be found masses of information, com- f . 4 '''r ik,:ttributes of accuracy and completeness. The amount o 1 4 1 bet a v ia wed on the compilation of this work must necessarily tt el l' s co w great, and nothing but a liberal pt tronage tromthe No - ,a, i t , oa r " r emunerate the enterprising proprietors for their outlay 't k 'eria; , The " Post-office London Directory" is singularlycheap, ke t i k tere the nature and quantity of the information it contains. 4 4100,1 to, n• fewer than 2,000 large closely •printed pages, in it,`Rt e ;'` Lreble columns All things considered, we look upon it c'lte 4seest, as assu . rediy it is the most valuable and useful, tili i „,, - ' 4 Da ti „ lt Which emanates from the press of England. The map "als ‘ ,.." , Z it appears to us to be much improved ; it is certainly ..cellent and perfect. ,utlii t t 5 551 0 s WEEKLY DISPATCH, Dec. 28, 1845. it t, N, ' 4l grade to the great metropolis is, a striking illustration k;til ' ti :Nei t !' °I . British perseverance properly directed, and British ~a ck er ttously employed. For many years the French " Al ,ta.'ell at , l iftY Thousand Addressee" was considered one of the ,'kp,i't ),,-.• Loe world; bat the Messrs. Kelly have achieved a work .444 tarp, -Y he aptly termed a wonder upon wonders. Large 1 , r; Volume be, the mass of information contained in it is 'la; itieing ; and every department is arranged with so much S i `tat a e:asnt, and accurate discrimination, that the business of %,t'll, ~:,0 its pages is as plain and simple as to a dictionary or ' O', tiai ,` l use scheme is alphabetical. We have, In this volume, ei t °,4l%„' ' Street," " Commercial," "Trades' " " Law," " Court," la a uir,,,iltary, ,, e postal," " City," " Conveyance." and " Itank hiP4l„ atig rie a." But these heads only comprise a portion of the NCI stitiontained in the work. There are other departments 11%,1ii ez tractfoil-- de from the preface should be quoted :-" The advan -14 Itioasd b L eert Y the proprietor are of no ordinary character 4' a z ,ant being the means placed at his disposal through the ' a te ~.l a trit:" Majesty's Postmaster-General. The General Post , s ail th - . 8 , tinder the direction of his Lordship, collect, each in 411ot:tart -tact, the information from which the volume is compiled. D(1 h a ,teuraey in such a book, the collection of the information e b , t 'l h.„',Lroaltaneous • and hew completely this is effected, is ~t a rt i o,l , e fact th t ' intelligent letter-carrier performs within :If, es hours all a the duties annually required of him for the 1 %, -4 Y t - the Post Office London Directory." We need not valid te's°Minendation of this work ; its reputation is established O t t tiga. 1,,t k . Nta,,,„,. Pi RITIXNIA, December 17, MB. 1 7'q t ; tilt ! '" ,11 annual continues to keep pate with the times, k AsEit" Pei. M ove. It now numbers upwards of 2,000 closely al‘t b 4 s4 a V, this immense mass of matter being so judiciously ..' , 11 4 ? 1( 4 ; arranged that ally item of it can be picked out with- Ils t . `, or si . °t a minute expended ita the search. From the con .%,.itt-;.tils 47: Proprietor with the c o s Post•oftie, he is enabled to V% - "tt) rlviatien from the most authent ources, and (a great 1- t to , t th e th i ,etunlilne it simultaneouily. Some objection has been Ot a alt,„ let ter-earriers being employed for this service ; but, ,7ttplantia be all ether considerations, it is certain that the Post -11,41 fr a t 'ein (?, greatly advantaged by the publication, both from kilib t. re i ta . rected inore accurately, with this book as a guide, t,.% M I . Tha ~a lw ati being at hand ready for reference in eases of ON •Pri, th i a mine has all the merits of its predecessors ; displays, j a 's t t a l l fi ) ,„ „Ittreost care in every department; and as a wort of 12 1 4, ~,,, on d ,, a merchant trader, or any person engaged in bust. I,.; t i la Ik u tilq ' x n a , leaves nothing to he desired. It is one of the most la az t ,'tet ar ,,,;"Ples of great industry, intelligence, and capital le:t th'e op, '"'Y eraploved in the production of a work for fecal- A t‘ ct, h t t r attoria of t;usiness and extending trading intercourse, "Nth I % al; b ert ile et it is in ingenious inventions, affords. Of its * t ' ' ta r Perfection as it seems possible for any work to be hi t , i t h a se , t% „, V! N o „JO FIN BULL, January 10, 1646. t a N i .,.. 4 thi s 'ten hail to bear our testimony to the extraordinary 4; th,.4%, and laborious compiletion its fulness and accuracy i a ves -4 and its - ' ' t one who " lives, ,44 prone t o, d ~ consequent value o every aLla tt le th at, has hie being" in London, that all we need now do hi,m gi k v <sl .„._fxtellent as were the preceding volumes, this one kap,,,einhal'"lous improverneuts, which add largely to that pre ^4141,,..tY• It is a work of immense care and labour, and of 11:410 -, utility. ‘o,tof s ta „ I tA•IIWAT HERALD, Jan. 1846. blrr,,, i '"ty ta "'re or the " Post-office Directory" to men of business 4 ,..1 , ,1 4 1 tha t a ° 4 , ea r y n T . d . ? without it-it is indispensable, thumbed over, oi a,..,„, of i ette f ' , IV,. and week by week-a counting-house,. in lii t ,ook„ t atth t otte r - sending, could do almost as well without an ink ' ''' , ll, 'llll its a _ 2 Directory." We have made a great many trials It aa i ts _Otethe work, exercising a careful scrutiny, and in no `4 te e alr red under the test. t 4lttt,ler,,,itkrt,ly pon•ILWAY EXPRESS, Jan. 1846. •• • ' 4 lt c4r efun s , " t hle for any work to be more correct than this, NS, m y "' nea ~ eon - 11)11M in all its laborious .detail It would be a .• ti e % . arras ° More ito,., ra w comprehensive or more useful work than this a ti ,V ois k. , g et exhibition of this vast city. The typographical t h utted i„,_"' ueedless to av ume than that the bOWlsicaown ‘00 4 ,, , h e° ,2 l lPlote as becomes the well-dosierved poWarity of .f 5y.... 1 --i lau'll o f batilWi in IMldelt. it for the Dow o fitir ' Treason until gce iyed .ff D o i ,_Sheri ro . t o. l .0 'O5 9 s i r , nee t he Yc r ' hi. the inlis te plle e to his 1 1 0 1 e rd sl t e atel) - Leoce of i s tort? watt !Sw ot , rt ysil° - h e toted intro roes e lectors or the c° to the P°, n . [ectiou ; foto d iof 2,rpol' bo dl loge fr o .ctors 3e is 0 1t1 ; , ...1., the Plv— print df irab.e bo o o be°" - tec tioo• sp a tdence,• i II o ffer w on i Ind 8 , 11 ~, e v vays - ev ot Pe r ' s ' ur ~pC abho" - i s 1 b° l( g l t o ernair'' eogo„ of pIO S P C' et is 0 4 0 ; ' hones t , au to 7d be ` sc ' s . indidate eA L oe 5. s trcet s .tort .ay diro: lical biP re at TbeY 01 3 . n biol! t b met 11 .' 1 bo it be sf 2' Olo ° otal 15 : rr ire d 'nlac'34 co°' of tbl i SiO oseP 4 ever r dAV fin al c,.. 60 poa" Lies !tit lent 1_ 00, 0! I ,is t b : idres s . v e , ? at, " rice ry 0 1 of red , ' " c olv lat r the a ir ins 6 3roO V '' "te st ct :11 gr,i had efest bG cot' e. i d of r ' i 4, to i c P - Olds No. 16,685. LONDON, THURSDAY Et R N G N EASE IN WALKING, NVILIAAM BADDELEY, of 130, STRIND, is induced to give publicity to his much-admired PRE PARED LEATHER (so noted for extreme SOFTNESS and DURABILITY), in consequence of the patronage he has received, and the general satisfaction given by him in manufacturing the above into BOOTS, &c., on his peculiar fitting principle of combining elegance with ease. An extensive assortment of best made articles aiwayc ready on'sale: Established in 1767. No. 130, Strand, corner of Waterloo -bridge, London. U P NIVERSAT , GAS-LIGHT COMPANY Capital, 160,0601., in 5,000 Shares of 201. per Share. Deposit, 2s. per Share. in accordance w•th the Act. (provisionally Registered.) N.B. The allotment of Shares will take place ~n the 16th of March next ensuing. William Stiles, Esq. Pnifessor Ryan, M.D., LL.D. Captain Kenyon Robert Nicholson. Esq. Henry Francis, Esq., Patentee Dominique Causse, Esq. .loseph Peplow, Esq. Usury Galt, Esq. Charles Brooke, Ea.q. John Kissick, Esq. i-otaccrolt—J. F. W. Feeenmeyor, Esq. BANKERS —sir Claude Scott, Bart., and Co. This Company is formed for the purpose of carrying out, and bring ug into general use,, an invention (secured by letters patent) for an inp roved manufacture of gas of a superior quality, and at much less expense than the usual cost, by an apparatus so simple in construc tion, and so compendious is form, as is be available in any building or situation where the ordinary snpplies of gas are not accessible. Full details in prospectus, which may be had at the offices of the Company, 159, Drury-lane, with forms of application for shares, and where may be seen the apparatus at work, and the brilliancy of the gas exemplified. Mr. William Nicholson, Secretary, to whom must be made all oommunications, post free. Admission, Is. ; Schools, half-price, UNIVERSAL GAS-LIGHT COMPANY.- CONTRACTS TAKEN for lighting up with a superior GAS, and at a reduced rate, towns, villages, lighthouses, dockyards, hos pitals, theatres, public offices, manufactories,printing-offices, prisons, barracks, railway-stations, asylums, schools, and other large build lags, where the ordinary gas is not accessible. Letters to be ad dressed to Mr. William Nicholson, Secretary, 159, Drury-lane. IPENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE changes in a few minutes, without trouble, red or grey hair, whiskers, eyebrows, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or black, by simply using a comb wetted with the liquid. One application will produce a pleasing and permanent change. Price 3s. 6d., 65., and 10s. per bottle. 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This overcoot recommends itself to the Public generally by its peculiar elasticity and lightness, moderate price, and able defence against the almost constant hamidity of the climate of Great Britain. To b had in London only of the Patentees, 114, Regent-street. THE STORM OF WEDNESDAY IN SCOTLAND. The severe hurricane which we t xperienced on Wed nesday last, and which was productive of so many serious casualties in this city and neighbourhood, we observe, has been felt with equal severity in many other places. The following are a few records of the effects of the storm : DUNDEE.—Shortly after high water on Wednesday the wind increased to a hurricane, and between nine and ten o'clock the fury of the tempest was at its height, gradually subsiding afterwards till about the time of low water. We may mention the following amongst the numerous casualties attending the visitation of this war of elements here. The South Mail was two hours and the North Mail one hour later than usual in arriving, the state of the weather in the former case rendering it impossible for the Ferry steamer to effect a landing on this side of the river, the whole breadth of which presented a tempestuous sheet of foam. The tide swept the quays in all directions, exposing life and property to extreme hazard ; and, had the springs not drawn considerably off, the shipping and other pro perty exposed to the sweep of the impetuous flood must have suffered very severely. Even as it was, several vessels were considerably injured. The effects of the tempest were also felt on shore. Part of a factory at the Hawkhill and the back part of a house at Logie were blown down ; the rope work between the Arbroath Railway station and the Seagate was nearly demolished. An erection in Mr. Adamson's shipbuilding•yard was partly unroofed, and one in Mr. Stephens's was thrown down; while the inclosures of Messrs. Kerr and Guild's bonded yards were almost completely prostrated. A chimney stalk situated between Shorter-road and Tally street fell with a tremendous crash through the roof of a glazier's shop, but fortunately no one was on the pre mises. There were many narrow escapes, but, so far as we have heard, no serious accidents were caus_ d by the storm. PAISLEY.—We certainly never saw the wind rage with such terrific force, nor have we ever seen the streets so strewed with chimney cans and slates, but happily that description of damage, coupled with the tirring of thatch roofs, and the breakage here and there of a few panes of glass, are the most severe losses that have b-en sustained. 01 all the buildings about the town, Mr. Kerr's new factory has suffered most severely, but still in nothing hut the tearing off of the slates. A boy who resides in Queen-street had his arm broken by the falling of a chimney can. At Elderslie two houses were unroofed. At Neilston a drying-house was blown down. Not a farm has escaped less or more damage. KILMARNOCK.—About ten o'clock a large stalk of chimneys in ltobertson-place yielded to the storm, and fell with a tremendous crash through the roof of a weaver's shop, happily without injury to life or limb. In the newly opened print-works of Mr. P. Brown, in Wel beck-street, about seventy panes of glass were blown out. Several trees were also blown down in our neighbour hood. BRIDGE OF WElR.—Between nine and ten a.m., on Wednesday, when the hurricane was at its height, a young girl, in going home from her work at that time, met with a very serious accident, being felled to the ground by a large pit Ce of a wooden ridge which was blown off the Mill-of-Gryfe byre, at the distance of twenty or thirty yards from the road. On being taken up, it was found that her thigh bone was broken, and that she was otherwise severely wounded in the head. GREENOCK.—This town, as well as a large part of Scotland, was visited on Tuesday m ruing by a storm of wind of unusual violence. We are very glad to be able to say, that it has been unaccompanied by any loss of life, or material destruction of property in this neigh bourho .d. Slates, pans, and panes of glass wt re broken in the more elevated parts of the town, and in a land in Hamilton-street, a large portion of a stack of chimneys was overthrown. The storm has extended to Ireland ; and in Parsons town a house was blown down, kllling a woman and her child. Numerous other casualties are also reported to have occurred throughout different parts of the country. —Glasgow Argus. SERIOUS AND MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Satur day morning, Mr. P. Nuthall, at the Lime Kilns in this town, met with a very distressing accident, under peculiar circumstances. A man named Bowles, employed by Mr. Nuthall in his timberyard, was in the act of drawing a deal from one of the stacks of timber; just at this moment Mr. Nuthall happened to pa.s, when a portion of the pile fell upon him, and so completely overwhelmed him that his body was not discoverable. On extricating him, it was found that one leg was broken in two places; two or three ribs very much injured, if not fractured ; and several other severe bruises were found extending nearly over the entire surface of his body. Mr. Nuthall's medical attendant (Mr. C. Aldred) was immediately in attendance; but at the time of writing this it is scarcely possible tr, form any very accurate opinion as to the extent of the injuries received, or state of the sufferer.—Bury Herald. LEWES.—THE SPECIAL BURDENS UPON LAND.—At the Petty Sessions held here on the 3d instant, John 'Taylor, the Ringmer- gate keeper, appeared before their Worships to answer an information preferred against him by Robert Raw linson, bailiff to Captain Hart. Taylor, it appeared, under the erroneous idea that all who drove a vehicle on the high way should alike pay toll, charged complainant with toll for a cart laden with a roller. For this he was summoned, there being a provision that implements of husbandry should pa , s toll free. He now pleaded guilty, and was fined Gs., includ ing costs.—Brighton Guardian. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Minch 9 MAYO ELECTION.—The virtual termination of this con test is in favour of the Repeal candidate, Mr. Joseph Mites M'Donnell, of Doo Castle. At six o'clock on Saturday even ing the Sheriff's assessor announced the poll, at its final close, as follows: . M'Donnell. Moore ~477 ~ 417 Majority for M'Donnell The Men SHERIFF then declared Joseph Miles M‘Don cell, Esq., duly elected as one of the representatives tor Mayo.—(Loud cheering rdlowed this announcement.) On the motion of Mr. Diu.ox Bkowsz, M.P., a vote of thanks was passed to the Sheriff's Assessor for his impartia lity during the election. Mr. Moony:, the defeated candidate, briefly addressed the electors. He deplored the occurrence at Wes. port, which, he said, had diminished the lustre of the victory obtained by the Repralers—a triumph which, he couside:Ted, had not been achieved by constitutional means. Now that the con test was at an end, they should lay aside all feelings of ran cour and shake hands. Mr. Moore then shook hands with Mr. Dillon Browne, and the crowd in the Courthouse loudly applauded. Mr. DILLON BRoWNE - said the victory was the greatest ob tained since the Clare election, as the kepealers had defeated the Whigs and Tories combined. The proceedings then terminated. The town of Castlebar and the surrounding district were quite peaceable. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. DUBLIN, MARCII 9.—The weekly meeting of the Association was held this day ; Daniel Callaghan, Etq., M.P., in the chair. „ - - The CHAIRMAN haying congratulated the Ass )ciation on the result of the Mayo election, which he regarded us the greatest popular triumph sine the Clare election; and an unequivocal demonstration in fivour of repeal, The Secretary read the following letter from Mr. "British Hotel, Jermyn-street, London, March 6, 1846. "My dear itAy,-111 my first letter on the recent Ukase of the British Miniver, I stated only three of my objections to that oppressive and afflicting measure—the new Cpercio Bill coet?ela:4l. _ ""*" l "My VectioeWirnfiriettertkilliTtratbet*ten this cud every former Coercion I3ill. They were, each and all of them, temporary enactments—they were limited in duration. "This alone is a perpetual law. " This is to form part and parcel of the perpetual con stitution of Ireland. It has the hellish perfection of perpetuity of pain and infliction. " It will save time and trouble to every future Minis. ter. Despotic power will always be ready made to their hands. " Ireland must exist with her oonstitutional rights and liberties held by the sufferance and with the eva nescent permission of her despot for the time being. The Governor may be a violent partisan ; he may be what is still worse, a well-intentioned, weak minded being—a fit instrument to be used in the hands of irre sponsible knaves. He may be a priggish formalist, who may think highly of technicalities and forms, and may nave a sovereign disregard for substantial justice and truth. " In short, no matter what manner of man the Go vernor shall bP, there is, by this Bill, to be vested in him the uncontrollable power to annihilate every vestige of constitutional liberty, and to enact irresponsible des potism. • " His power is to be perpetual. " My first objection to the Bill, therefore, is its per petuity. " It may indeed be said, that if the period shall arrive whF n murders shall totally cease in Ireland, when there shall no longer be any manslaughter committed, when no person shall be shot at, or stabbed, or cut, or wounded, nor any grievous bodily harm dune to any body, when such millenium arrives, then this law will be repealed. " I don't believe it. I don't believe that the English Government is ill ever voluntarily give up any power Gr dominion they may have over Ireland. " The case of 1782 is not, as we lawyers say, a case in point. England had just lost America by refusing to c o nciliate—she preserved Ireland by ratio n al conci- liation. " The causes that induced England to conciliate Ire land at that period are part of history. It is matter of prophecy, and I firmly believe, almost unerring pro phecy, that causes of a similar nature will produce effects not dissimilar. " For the present, my first objection to the Bill is its perpetuity. " My second objection consists in the absolute false hood of its title. " It is not a ' Bill for the better protection of life, and to facilitate the apprehension of persons guilty of offences in Ireland.' " It really and in truth is, a Bill•for rend ring more insecure lite and property in Irelatfd; anti:stimulating to additional crime. My third objection is, the absolute and unlimited power, on any excuse however trivial, or upon any pre tence however untrue, to place the inhabitants of dis tricts, and counties, and provinces in Ireland out of the pale .1 the law, and beyond the protection of any con stitutional right. " I have said so much on these three points in my first letter, that I shall now consider— " My fourth objection to the Bill, which consists in the unlimited posters given to the Government over the persons and properties of the Irish people. " Let it t.e recollected, that a proclamation under this Bill will be equally valid, whether it be founded on the assertion of a falsehood or the assertion of a truth. In other words, truth or falsehood in the allegation of the proclamation is totally immaterial. The proclamation is of equal validity with the one as with the other. " Well, the proclamation having issued, my fourth ob jection consists in the extent of powers vested in the Lord Lieutenant by means of his own proclamattcn, true or false. The powers are these : " Ist. The power of appointing as many resident magistrates, inspectors of constabulary, bead con stables, petty constables, and sub-constables and con stables, as the Lord Lieutenant shall think fit, such persons to reside in the proclaimed districts, and all of them to be clothed, fed,- maintained, and paid at the expense of the occupying inhabitants of the proclaimed districts. " The second power is that of compelling the in habitants of such proclaimed districts to remain within their respective places and homes from sunset la sun rise. " The third power is that of allocating any sum of money, to any amount the Lord Lieutenant chooses, as a reward for the apprehension or discovery of any per sons being guilty of any offence in the proclaimed districts. " The fourth power is to allocate any sum of money the Lord Lieutenant pleases, to the relations of any per son murdered in the proclaimed districts , or,to any per son permanently injured in that district. " The fifth power given by the Act is that which makes the former power of allocating money to injured parties and their relations afflictive and grievous. There would be no objection to a reasonable allocation of money to c ompensate injured persons and their relations, but that should be done in a constitutional way, out of funds voted by Parliament, by annual votes. The ob jection to the fifth power is, its totally unconstitutional nature. " This fifth power, the Lord Lieutenant by his pro clamation invests himself with, is that which enables him, if he thinks fit, to levy the most enormous sums of money from the occupying inhabitants of the proclaimed districts, merely at his will and pleasure, without con trol, without check, without any legal responsibility. " The sixth power enables the Lord Lieutenant to appoint ' such person' or offices (these are the words of the Act) as he shall think fit, with full authority to make such rates as the Lord Lieutenant may deem ne cessary on every occupier whatsoever within the dis trict.' There is no limit to the Lord Lieutenant's ca• price. The rate may amount to the entire value of the property of each occupier. No matter, a valid rate to the full extent of the last shilling the occupiers are worth, may be made, and there is no relief, no remedy, no traverse, no appeal. " Mark. my countrymen, such a Bill as this is called a Bill for the Protection of Property I!! " The seventh power with the Lord Lieutenant ac quires by his own proclamation, is that of levying and collecting such capricious rate, though it were, as I have said, to the full value of the property in the dis trict ; and such collection or levying is to be made by the constabulary or other force in the district, who are authorised to destrain furniture, goods, chattles, cattle, corn, hay, potatoes, and in short all the property of the occupants, and to sell the distress for payment of the rate. " There is, then, a provision of a most oppressiVe nature, that is, that the entire rate shall be payable and levied on the actual occupiers, and whereas the rate is based upon the poor-rate ; yet the Bill contains this provision, that although persons holding lands under the value of 41. a year are considered too poor to be charged with poor-rate, set these wretched paupers are charge able to the proclamation-rate to be made pursuant to this Bill. " Another provision of the Bill is equally emphatic; it exempts (oh ! let this be held in perpetual recollection 1) the landlords, that is, the rich, from the payment of any part of the rates, and expressly provides that the tenant or occupier shall net deduct from his landlord any part of the rates. "There have been already many coercion Bills for Ireland, but none of so unconstitutional a nature, as far as relates to levying money off the subjects. In that respect this Bill stands pre-eminent in its unconstitu tional atrocity. ' "But to crown all, and as if it were in utter contempt of theComtnons of what is called the United Kingdom, this Bill, with such enormous powers of taxation, is made to originate in the House of Lords, which house, all constitutional authority tells us, has no power what soever to orignate taxation. " We say with sorrowful respect for our masters, Lord St. Germans and others, that they ought not to carry their power of insulting the people of Ireland to quite so great an extent. A little moderation would become them, were it ever so little: " Let me, however, in the exercise of my duty, remind our worthy Lords and masters that Lord Devon's com mission has told the wold the astounding act that the agricultural population of Ireland, being more than Jew millions, maim greater privations and suffering than &iv other people in civilised Europe. "Would it not be better to de vote time, attention, and legislation to ameliorate in some degree the cordition of so miserable a population, instead of devoting time, at tention, and ligistation to devise modes of unconstitu tional coercion for that unhappy people ? "There are many other horrib'e clauses in this Bill which I shall recur to again. But I wish to pause for one moment, to call the - marked and deliberate at tention to the most important and absorbing considera tion of one simple fa=t. " That matttT of fact is this, that the entire hope of the Bill treats with indiscriminate and amdistinguishieg severity the innocent as well as the guilty; and more especially that, in the attempt to detect a. comparatively small number engaged in crime, punishment is not in flicted alone on the guilty smaller number, but is equally inflicted on the innocent great majority. ' " Thus, fear example, a crime is committed; or obliged to be committed, for it is all the same, in one distriet or county, and inane:Batt:ly a proclstnation may- issue of outlawry, not only against the district or county in which the criam was committed, but also any adjoining dis trict or county. The number of criminals in svich case would, at least in al probAbtlity, not exceed six or eight —the number of persons effectually punished in their property would amount to ten thousand, twenty:thou sand, or perh spa one hundred thousand, or even more. " It is a maxim in our law, and often quoted by the be t of our judges, that it is better that one hundred guilty should escape than that one innocent should suffer. This Bill, however, goes on a directly opposite principle. It punishes one hundred innocent, upon the chance of inflicting?: chastisement upon the one guilty. " And all this medley of legislation is facetiously called a union between Great Britain and Ireland. "I reserve the consideration of the other and most hideous clauses for my next letter. " For the present, I have only to observe, that it is re ported that Lord St. Germans has graciously conde scended to limit the duration of the Act to about four years. I hope and trust the firmness displayed by the Repeal Association . );asealbrie him shrink from the more atrocious enactment ; but the little Lord is not to escape in that way. He formed, fostered, and matured the Bill, with pit the.ndious tyranny of a perpetual law. If Ireland shall ever have justice done her, the iniquity of the pr( ject will, I trust, bo adequately punished. "For my part, I will not spare him a single observa tion. What a miserable estimate he must form of our love of constitutional rights. Freedom reckons by the hour—liberty is counted by the day—and he who would Acquiesce in one day, one hour of servitude, is as despicable a miscreant as the base tyrant who imposes the chain. My fifth objection to the Bill is the unlimited power it give% over the persons of the Irish people. " By the 15th and 16th sections, any persnn who hap pens to be out of his place of abode, at any tine from one hour after sunset until sunrise, may be arrested by any constable or policeman—that is, by a.nyhody—and trinspert d for fifteen years. Mark the offence, and mirk the punishment. Gracions heaven ! fifteen years' tran.portation for being out of a man's house for five minutes. "It is not necessary to give any proof against him, but the fact of his being out in the open air. It is not ne cessary to prove that he was out for any unlawful pur pose. I repeat, the only proof under this Bill to enable the Court, whatever it may be, to condemn to fifteen years' transportation, is the mere fact of his being in the open air within the prohibited hours. " The prosecutor in such a case is bound to no proof of guilt ; but the unhappy prisoner is told he will be allowed to prove his innocence. "See what a total violation of the first principles of our criminal law is this ! Our criminal law declares em phatically, in the language of all the Judges, that every B itish subject is to be deemed and taken as innocent until his guilt is proved—proved on the oath of wit nesses. But this Bill reverses the maxim, and declares the man guilty, unless he is able to prove, on the oath of witnesses, his innocence. " Fift-en years' transportation upon an ac:usation unless innocence be proved. " I have often spoke harshly of the Emperor Nicholas; but I will do him the justice to say that he never issued such a Ukase as this. " The sixth objection to the Act is another frightful power. It is one enabling the magistrates to issue a warrsnt to enable any person to break by force into any house in which liqu. r of any kind is sold, in a proclaimed district, and to arre,t any person in the house not being an inmate or traveller, and such person, for the mere _ . . _ fact of being in such house in the prohibited hours, is liable to fifteen years' transportation. " Mark this—a man is found in a house where liquour is sold, at night, unarmed, defenceless, and for that offcnce—offence I—he is liable to be transported for fifteen years. "I am sick of this Bill. There is a group of other offences, some not punishable at all at common law, and the others punishable only by fine or imprisonment, which are !wade liable, in proclaimed districts, to trans portation for fifteen years. " Two topics more, briefly touched, will bring me to a conch's! n. " The first r. late.; to the imperative necessity of every repealer exerting him elf to prevail on the people to keep the peace, and not to violate the law. There never was a period when it was so emphatically true, " That whoever commits a crime Strengthens the enemy.' " The next topic relates to what fills my mind wi.h the bitterest anguish, namely, the hideously mistaken and unconstitutional course that the Ministry adopt in respect to Ireland. We repealers are most anxious to put an end to crime, and to see the country tranquil lised, We know that it can be done by adopting the proper course. Let the Irish people be conciliated. In stead of Coercion Bills, bring in Bills to equalise in Ireland the elective franchise with that in England. " Secondly. Give Ireland her equal proportion of re presentatives in the House of Commons. Thirdly. Give Leland equal municipal rights with England, and give them without reservation. "Fourthly. Ab owe all things, immediately amend the law of landlord and tenant. Give to the landlord his adequate rent ; but secure to the tenant possession of the land until he shall be repaid for all actual improve ment made by him upon the premises. "Fifthly. Place the law of landlord and tenant upon the same footing with the law respecting all other con tracts, and take away all the relics of the feudal supe riority of the landlord. "Sixthly. Impose without delay a heavy absentee tax in Ireland upon all non-resident landlords, and apply the produce to lighten the burdens of county-cess and poor rates on the occupying tenants. " Let the Government do all these things before it presumes to bring to the Hon=e of Commons a Bill to trample down all constitutional rights and liberties. They may deem it a shorter and easier course to abro gate the constitution than to concede constitutional equality. "Is the Parliament of Britain only competent to coerce, and not to equalise the franchises and rights of both countries ? I believe so. " Still, there is one course open to them—it is that of abdicating a power which they abuse, and cannot apply to useful purposes. "Let them awow their incapacity, and restore to the people of Ireland their domestic legislature. Let them thus establish tranquillity and prosperity in Ireland, secure the stability of the throne, and the permanence of the connexion between both countries, " Believe me to be, very faithfully yours, "To M. Ray, Esq." " DANIEL O'CONNELL. Mr. GRATTAN, M.P., moved the insertion of the letter on the minutes, and then entered into an .elaborate con demnation of the Coercion Bill, expressing his convic tion that penal enactments were wholly inadequate to meet the evils of the country. Till a better feeling sprung up between the aristocracy and the people, there could be no peace in Ireland, and that consum mation could only be hoped for in a satisfactory and final adjustment of the landlord and tenant question. A vote of thanks to the electors of Mayo having been proposed and adopted, the rent of the week was an noinced to be 2831.45. sd. The meeting then adjoured. THE POTATO DISEASE. GALWAY, MARCH 7.—We fear that the worst antici pations of the people, respecting the state of the pt.tato crop, are about to be realised. Already the markets are but scantily supplied, and hundred= clamour for this almost necessary article of food, but cannot procure it even at exorbitant prices. It is really pitiable to witness crowds of poor creatures, whose means will not allow them to buy in a week's supply at the Saturday's market, looking, but in vain, fur a day's food during the week. On Wednesday there was scarcely a cart load to be had for love or money, but since then some few baskets have been brought into the town for sale. SLIGO, MARCH 7.—The famine anticipated by the failure of the potato crop has actually set in at Sligo. In the liall.barony of Coolavin, a portion of the people are now without food, or the means of procuring it ; they are living on the bounty of their neighbours, who will be soon reduckd to as sad and deplorable a condition as themselves. The Government is about to bring Indian corn to this port ; so far so good—but they must give the people the means of buying it, or their labour will be in vain. Employment is what is required, and we trust it will be granted. STATE OF CRIME THE .ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY The Right Rev. Dr. Browne, Catholic Bishop of El phin, has is.sned a Lenten Pastoral to the clergy and laity of that diocese, dated from Athlone. The following are ext: acts : " We earnestly solicit and intreat, that, guided by , that good sense, and those lively convic:ions of the faith which we know you to possess, you would put from amongst you, as the deadliest enemies or your happiness and p. ace, those who would seek to connect you with secret societies or secret obligations. For we have heard that there are some among you who walk disor derly, working nut at all, but curiously meddling. N ow these that are such we denounce, and we beseech them, in the Lord Jesus Christ, that working with silence, they would eat their own bread. And if any man o b e y n ot our word by this epistle, note that man, and do not keep company w ith him, that he may be ashamed ; yet do not esteem him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. But you, my bre-ti , ren, do not weary in well doin: We allude to that accursed rind illegal system of Molly Maguirism,' Equally condemned by the law of HORTICULTURAL IMPROVEMENTS. JREAD begs to inform Ladies, Amateur and Practical Gardeners, that he has taken out a NEW PATENT for Improvements in his Garden Engines, Machines, and Syringes. The action of the Valves is such as to prevent the possibility of their getting out of repair, which J. R., from thirty-one years' practical experience can safely warrant. The above are adapted for Forcing Houses, Conservatories, &c., surpassing anything of the kind ever offered the public, inasmuch as they can be worked with half the labonr of any other Engine now in me. Manufactured only by the Patentee, 3', Regent-circus, Piccadilly, where they may be seen and proved. N.B. None are genuine except stamped with the words Read's Patent. BURGESS'S NEW SAUCE, for general pur poses, having gained such great approbation, and the demand or it continuing to increase, JOHN BURGESS and SON beg most -espectfally to offer thus their best acknowledgments M the Public tor their liberal patronage of the same ; its utility and great convent awe in all climates have recommended i.. to the :cost distinguished oreign connections, who have all spoken highly in its recommenda- Jon. It is prepared by them only; and for preventing disappoint -neat to families, all possible care has been resorted to, by each ,ottle being sealed on the cork with their firm and address, as well as each label having their signature, without which it cannot be genuine. • JOHN 131TROESS and SON'S long-established and much-esteemed ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES continues to be prepared by them after the same manner that has given the greatest satisfaction for many years. Warehouse, 107, Strand, corner of Savoy Steps, London. , AN cyr iiElt CASE of FIFTY YEARS ASTHMA, by Dr. LOCOCR'S PULMOXIC WAFERS. From Mr. Jeremiah Cunningham, farmer, Ardingly, near Brighton " Sept. 26. 1845. "Sir,—l feel it a duty to inform you of the astonishing benefit which has been afforded to my wife by Locock's Wafers. She has been afflicted with confirmed asthma for fifty years, and was recom mended last winter to try the wafers she did, and the effect was truly astonishing; indeed, the first box gave her immediate relie; &c. (Siveci) "J. CUNNINGHAM. ~ "To Mr. Payne, chemist, 18 North-street, Brighton." DR. LOCOCK'S WAFERS give instant relief and a rapid cure of Asthma, Coughs, and all disorders of the Breath and Lungs. To SINGERS and PUBLIC SPEAKERS they are invaluable for tearing anft strengthening the voice ; they have a most pleasant taste. Pride Is. 116 d., 2s. 9d., and Ils. per box. Agents—Da Silva And*Co., 1, Bride-lane, Fleet-street, London ; sold by all medicine venders. MARCH 12, 1846. PRICE sr. God and the law of the land; for, as the Apostle says, ' Let every soul be subject to higher powers, for there is no power but from . God; and those that are ordained of God; therefore he that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God, and they that resist purchase to themselves damnation.' A system which encourages the midnight assassin as wel! as the noonday murderer— a system, the impious abettors of which hesitate not (for their interested purpose) to attribute even to the ministers of their religion a culpable indifference to the wants of tie poor, and a base subserviency to the caprice of the rich, charges as wicked as they are false. " We are perfectly aware that the poor have many grievances to complain of, and that it is oar duty to aid in alleviating their sufferings ; but it is not by violence or outrage this great end can he attained ; it is by humble supplication to the Throne of Mercy, and in the midst of danger and of difficulty to place our entire con fidence in the God of Justice. We most earnestly exhort the opulent and the wealthy to be indulgent and charitable to the poor, to sympathise with them and their wants, rather than, by adhering toorigi lly to their rights and privileges, provoke indignation, and thus in duce a people already too sensitise, vainly, and irre ligiously to imagine, that there is no redress for them, save by illegal combinations and lawless violence." VICEREGAL COURT.—The Lord Lieutenant enter tained the fellowine. party at dinner on Saturday, in Dublin Castle :—Hon. Mrs. Robert Daly, the Marchio ness of Sligo, Lady Elizabeth Browne, Lady 11. Browne, Captain and Lady Adele Ihbetson, Lord Sidney Os borne, Lord Henry Loftus, Mr. and Lady Eleanor F therstone, Lady Florence Balfour. Mr. Lowry Bal four, Lord and Lady Castlemdble, Hon. Miss Hand cock, Lord Dunsandle, Mr. and rs. Vernon. Mr. Corry Connellan ; Hon. R. Daly and lir. Cast, aides-de-camp • in waiting. COURT OF A WiIEN. A Court of Aldermen was Tuesday, at which a long and interesting diseußi ek place upon the report of the Inspectors of Prison pun the state of the city gaols.. CHRIST S HOSPITAL —THE CORPORATION. The LORD MAYOR directed that the correspondence which took place between the Town Clerk and the clerk to Christ's Hospital, relative to the reception which the Lord Mayor might expect:to meet at the Hospital, upon going to visit the school on the public supper nights, should be read. Upon the motion that the correspondence be entered on the repertory of the Court, The RECORDER intimated that the Court ought not to have such documents entered upon their journals. It would furnish evidence against themselves to have them upon the books, and if they inserted the application, they must necessarily enter the saucy answer.—(Hear, hear.) The LORD 111AYOR-I shall have nothing to do with Christ's Hospital. I consider that I was acting dis creetly in directing the Town Clerk to write to Christ's Hospital, that I might not be charged with neglect of the privileges of my fellow citizens, but my right having been denied I shall go no more.—(Hear, hear.) The correspondence was then ordered to lie on the table. THE GAOLS OF THE CITY. Sir P.LAIIRIE rose to submit th e mo ti on o f w hi c h he had given notice to the Court, " That the report of the Inspectors of Prisons relative to the gaols of the City be referred to a Special Committee, consisting of all the members of the Court, for consideration." He was glad that on the occasion upon which Alderman Wilson had brought forward a motion of importance, which could not have been properly discussed in a small Cout t, he had effectually interfered, by desiring that the Court should be counted. It would have been im possible at such an hour to answer a speech of great length, in which a proposal of communication with the Government was involved.—(Hear. hear.) His object was to induce the Court to proceed exactly in the same course as that on which they had preeeeded in 1836 and 1837, without entering into the merits of the report of the Inspectors. He could not, however, help alluding to one statement which was made in that report. The inspectors represented that several of the Aldermen had expressed their approbation of the separate system. He did not know where they could have received that in formation. By whom bad they been enlightened as to that point? He would just state a fact or two in testimony of the happy effects of that sys tem. Bethlem Hospital, of which he was the governor, and which was doomed to receive all the inane of all the surrounding gaols, had not been burdened with a single mad inmate from any one of those places of confinement, with the exception of the Penitentiary at Milbank, and the New Prison at Pen tonville, the only prisons in which the system was strictly enforced.—(Hear, hear.) The ore was so pro lific of unhappy victims of that sort of d'selpline as to produce sixteen lunatics in a few years, anl the other, which was comparatively in its infancy, had al nuidy, although but four or five years old, contriv..d to prove its efficacy upon five unfortunate creatures who were at that moment urder the only discipline which gave them a chance of recovery.—(Hear. hear.) He trusted the Court would agree to his motiou without entering into the matter of the report. Alderman SIDNEY very much questioned the accuracy of the statement made by Sir Peter Laurie, as to the supply of madmen from the City prisons, so highly complimented, to Bethlem Hospital;and asked for exact numbers and dates. Sir PETER LAURIE (as our reporter understood him) believed that Pentonville Penitentiary had contributed at least one lunatic or madman annually since its erec tion; and that at Miibank, had sent in sixteen within the period of about six or seven years. The inspectors know very well how to select the prisoners best adapted to their views, as evidences of the efficacy of the prin ciple of separation. Alderman CHALLIS thought it would be advisable to drop the discussion in the Court, and to resume it in the Committee, where they could ascertain what alterations were practicable and eligible. Alderman Sidney rose and said it was certainly his intention to move an amendment upon Sir Peter Laurie's notion. He must say, that he differed essentially from his senior I, rother magistrates in his view of this im portant question. He did not view it in the light in which Sir Peter Laurie seemed to regard it. When Sir Peter Laurie wished to get rids of a subject, which happened to be disagreeable to him, he, with a great ap pearance of candour, rose to refer it to a Committee, well knowing that such reference would be the most sure mode of extinction.—(Laughter, and cries of " Hear, hear," and " No, no.") The fate of all the reports hitherto made upon the subject adequately proved that the readiest way to stop inquiry was to call for a Com mittee.—(Murmurs.) Had they not been for the last seven years assailed by reports as strong as that to which attention had been made, and were they to goon perpetu ally referring, and reporting, and doing nothing ? The present state of the City prisons reflected dis honour upon those who had the power of producing a reformation in them. In a Committee it was a matter of much difficulty to get gentlemen to attend to end examine the details. The whole history of the gaol dis cipline of the city of London exhibited the want of that vigour and energy, without which the prisoner could not be reformed, society could not be protected from conta mination, and the city of London and its magistrates could not escape condemnation and obloquy.—(Hear, hear.) He was ready to admit that the City prisons were at present much better than they had been in days gone by.—(hear, and laughter.) He acknowledged that such was the case ; but he denied that the improve ment was much better than a mere contrast to . what_ it ought to be, looking at the me ans which the city of London had at its disposa l, and the authority which it exercised in effecting improvements of another kind. o in t d. He denied that the s e p arate s y stem was calculated produce insanity, or any other malady of the kind. He believed, on the contrary, that it brought back the mind to a healthy condition, and strengthened its moral tendencies ; and there were instances in which persons, whose progenitors had been subject to mental disease, who were indebted to the operation of that system for a marked improvement in their conduct and character. — (A laugh, and cries of " Hear, hear.") The Alderman here read quotations from the observations of the Rev. Nlr. Clay, the chaplain to the Preston House of Correc tion, on the separate system, and showed the decrease of crime in the North Lancashire district, ascribable, in the opinion of the reverend gentleman, to the system he commended. (He here read a variety of documents, in favour of the views and opinions expressed bythe inspetors.) lie gathered that information from the report of the in ueosene es na ? . in spectors. Was it then to be said that the City o f Lon don was to remain neutral under such inspectors circtm ii n t ri a m Every syllable uttered by th ton of the City prisons was accurately true. He was li;mself a witness to the frightful evils of the want of discipline in them. What could be expected from a plan which permitted twenty-six men, some of them convicts, and others untried, and som e likely to be acquitted, to be locked up for several hours together in idleness ? (Hear, hear.) Could it be supposed that those who escaped would do otherwise than, upon their discharge after such contamination, join, and be the captains of bands of thieves, become greater adepts, and at last dis. appear altogether by transportation or the gallows ? (Hear, hear.) He hoped the Court would look seriously at such a picture, which presented no exaggeration. Ile, for one, would never consent to the continuation of the evils be so feebly described, but society so dreadfully suffered from.—(Hear, hear.) Alderman Sidney con cluded by moving an amendment, " That it be referred to a Committee immediately to inquire as to the most elegible place in which to build a new prison adapted to the plan of the separate system." The Alderman had, in the course of his speech, referred m ist particularly to Reading Usol and Preston House of Correction. Alderman FAREBROTHER said the preceding speaker had been profuse in his quotations from the Prison In spector's reports of the two crack gaols of the kingdom —Reading county gaol, and Preston House of Correc tion. If a man wished to refute his own arguments, the next best thing to writing a book was quoting from one. Mr. Clay, the chaplain to the Preston House of Correc tion, who had written so fully to Alderman Sidnney,oz ap peared to be a very communicative gentleman; ofa dfid of a very numerous, if not a very select I he held in his hand, there was h a orth specimen corre spondents. In the report of the richl'tison Inscpaesctooreowpihsitcol.l yChaplain ; and he l a a u r4c o o se rr d e i s r p . o t n h d o en n c e t; t wi ti t o h m t ml e . w report Alderman Sidney's correspondence would be A ra ld is e e r d ma to n the had s e a x m r e at e i l: t v e a d te d u distinction. The worthy wkleh the life sub quality -which ~ent had adverted ; but he would, from - the blue boo, which he held in his hand, supply that great omission, and show to the C , urt the attractive side of the picture, as his brother Magistrate had indulged in describing only its darker shades. That blue book, it should be remembered, was not a romance, or a novel, but a serious and pious document under the hand and seal of the most grave and lt , verend Prison Inspector, which, as the title of the book ostentatiously stated, had been " presented to both houses of Parliament by com mand of her Majesty," for the instruction of members, and printed and circulated for the edification of the public at large.—(Bear, hear.) The letter was addressed to the chaplain of the Preston Gaol, but, as was cus tomary with the correspondence in these reports, the name of the writer was not given. It ran tl.us, familiarly and kindly— • " Dear sir,—l hope you will excuse the liberty I take, as a stranger. in writing these few lines to you. I read an account of the new Penitentiary at Preston a short time ago in Chamber,' Edinburgh Journal, and my reason fur writing this is, that I wish to subject myself to the dis• eipline of the prinon tor twelvemonths, without commit ing any crime. —(A laugh.) lam a young man of very respectable family ; my friends are wealthy, and I s:n myself possessed of a good property ; money is not an object to me, co m pa ra ti ve ly speaking, but I have unfortunately within the last two years got into a habit of drinking too freely, to my v. ry great injury, and distress to my friends, and I sin convinced the only plan to break myself is to cut myself off en tirely from it, but unfortunately I have not resolution t l eorl I t o enough as long as I am at liberty, and I have, therefore, w m i ad sh e t u o p be m i y n mind to ptoarashteuteempr andeli' up.—(Laughter.) hn Laug n h d weave at—(Great laughter,)—which I understand, having learnt it a few years ar.o for my own pastime; and I intend to pursue the cold bathing system with thh water supplied to the cell, and the drinking of cold water also, as recommended by the Ilydropathic estab lishrnPnts now in use in England and on the continent.— (Laughter.) I feel very anxious about it, and, as I said, money is not an object. lam willing to r a y down 201. as soon as I am admitted, which will insure the institution from any loss; but I do hope you will take the thing into consideration, and let me have a favourable answer soon. I hope you will not refuse me suddenly, but if you think a personal interview with any of the inspectors or managers of the prison would further my • views, I could come over to Preston on purpose, to make an arrangement as for certain. Nothing can lure :Lie from my purpose, though I should be sorry to have to commit _crime for the purpose of getting in, as it would so much distress my friends. lam twenty-three years of age, of a good constitution, and have never suffered from sick ness at all, so that lam certain my bodily health would be good and I should give no trouble, but stick steadily to my work.—(Great laughter.) I shall feel very grate ful if you will be kind enough to drop me a line by re turn of post, and, as I am a stranger in Preston, please send me word how I can be admitted to see the interior of a prison, and whether you would have conversation with me yourself, if I were to come over in the course of a week. I shall be very anxious for a favourable answer as soon as you can make it convenient.—And I remain, Sir, yours truly." As soon as the Court recovered from its fit of laughtei', Alderman FAREBROTHER proceeded—The letter, as was proper amongst gentlemen, received a speedy answer from the worthy chaplain. The contents of that answer were modestly withheld, but it might be inferred from the tone of the next letter, that the authorities of Preston held out to the youth of twenty-three, some hope of a domicile within the sequestered bowers of Preston House of Correction ; but in order to make as surance of admission, a sly hint WB3 contained in the next letter, that if he could not be allowed to show its benefits without committing crime, he would consult an attorney, who would doubtless provide him with a passport to the great object of his desires.—(Hear, hear, and laughter). What bad been the result of that fii:tation between the chiplain and his unnamed cor respondent did not appear, but the following letter closed the correspondence, which the chaplain had deemed a sufficieatly important voucher of the merits of his pet system of solitary confinement to get embalmed in the inspector's report. a Dear received your letter on Saturday last, and am much obliged for your promptness in answering mine. As you say, my requrst is extraordinary, but my determination has been long formed, and I am not at all inclined to change it. I feel very anxious to hear from you again, and hope the visiting magistrate will decide upon admitting me, as I would much rather make my journey a_Toss the country to them two ; however, if he make any objection I shall come over to Preston, call to examine the establishment, and consult with an attorney about the affair, for nothing but 12 months in a solitary cell, with lab Our, &c., will satisfy my mind—(ll era of laughter) --for I am quite certain the benefit I shall derive will far more than counter balance any. inconvenience I may suffer. Anxiously waiting your reply, I remain, Sir, yours respectfully."_ (Laughter.) prom the foregoing specimen of the con tents of the prison reports, the public might learn bow the time of the prison officers and prison inspectors bad been wasted, and the public money consumed, by get ting up such trashy stuff.—(Hear, hear.) He trusted that the public would have their eyes opened to the de lieioa attempted to be practised upon them by repre sentations respecting the solitary, or, as it was now called, the separate system. The change of names did not change the nature of things, and it would be found insuffioi, nt to exchange the name of solitary for separate confinement, unless they destroyed its crushing solitude and maddening isolation. (Hear, hear.) The theory upon which the advocates of the sepa rate system relied was, that men would be deterred from the commission of crime by the anprehension of the dreary solitude to which they would be consigned, so frightfully injurious to both the mental and bodily health of the victims of that system. Had that de scription of solitude proved that an abundant supply of officers was required, in every gaol where it prevailed, to avert, by frequent risits at the cells, those fearful con sequences ? -(Hear, hear.) If that relaxation of the system became necessary to the preservation of mental and bodily health, what would become of the argument on which the jus:ifieation of the system rested—namely, its power by its severity to deter the prisoners from the re-commission of crime ?—(Hear, hear.) He should cheerfully support the motion, because he felt that if there still existed any mismanagement in the City pri sons, it ought to be rectified. The prisons were all of an ancient date—they had been built at the time upon the b 'st models, and the greatest attention h a d b een paid by the ourt from time to time to increase their accommodation and amend their discipline. The gaol of Newpte, in its objects and purposes, was unlike any other prison ; it was a place for th e s t r i c t confinement of prisoners from the metropolitan counties, preparatory to their trial at the Central Criminal Court. The arrangements and discipline suited to prisons for convicted crimina's were unsuited to that gaol. He re peated, he was not inimical to substantial and rational improvement, but he was opposed to the system of soli tary confinement of untried prisoners, which it was the purpose of the inspectors to force upon them. The country would, before long, find out the enormous cost which these experiments would cast upon it. Besides ' the cost of constructing the gaols upon that system, the annual expense would be immense. It might suit the purpose of the promoters of the system to keep down the amount for a time, but the enormous staff of officers which would be required to teach and talk to the prisoners to chase away the depressing con • sequences of solitude, mast add to the country an overwhelming nominal sum.—(Hear, bear.) The nomi nal cost of persons subjected to that system of confine.. ['sent, in the early stake of the business, amount e d t o between 30/. and 401. a year. To what sum it might in crease,pr,ss impossible when the system was fairly established, it was to state. The Alderman co nc l u d e d b y ex. the strong indignation he felt at the ingenious attempts to excite sympathy for the most abandoned criminals, at the same time that the poor and the help less seemed to be wholly left to their own resources, as far as the interposition of Government was concerned. Sir J. DUKE said it was quite impossible to alter New gate in such a manner as to adapt it as a gaol for the separate system. It would be better to pull down that prison than to attempt any alteration of the kind. Alderman LUCAS declared that he was a decided enemy to solitary confinement, as he believed, upon un questionable authority, that it was calculated to produce insanity in the unfortunate creatures who were subjected to it. That was one of the parts of the system in the notorious Bastile, which was the abhorrence and detesta tion of the Christian world, and which every friend of h u A m l a d n e i r ty m a r n e j ( S A I C D e N d E to y ra e vi u n t g t : seer a l t y t hes suggestion der. of several Members of the Court, withdrawn his amendment, Alderman WILSON rose to propose au amendment to the effect of holding a conference with Sir J. Graham upon the subject of the necessity of constructing a new prison, as comprehended in his (Alderman Wilson's) motion upon the day the Court was adjourned, on account of the small number of members present. He ably advo cated the view taken by Alderman Sidney upon this subject, and contended that not a single argument had been urged upon the other side calculated to washes the effect of the inspectors' report, which represented the existence of evils which, if not soon remedied by the City authorities, must certainly find active opponents in the Aministration. He considered that the magis trates of this City betrayed a strong tendency to the very desire which they foolishly supposed was a neces sary consequence of the separate system, when th_l o l3: l 3 pertinaciously adhered to a mock discipline, h it would be ab pesocoipieety. pronounced to be ruinous to the morals w of the Sir PETER LAURIE suggested t ha t of State, with. surd in the court to go to the Secr t p e r ta s' ry report. In that out having examined the m the alleged consequences of ils un o mo nt i ts ei w ity ith o - f the inference drawn fro t was calculated to prevent any attack of hereditary report are several atatemenhitnins-gwe could chioch equal d a n l o th t e th f e oil leap y foundation in truth; and not the separate system, that mental disease. der W ed un d Sever al his . amendment,mem bersentre as at t e h d ey Alderm an oo nei ho wev er most positively refused, and upon the questi ra e w at co s nsequence on such an occasion. The Ald erman , being put, there were three hands held up for his amend. ment, and four against it. The inspectors' report was finally, according to the motion of Sir Peter Laurie, referred to a committee of the whole Coed, The directors of the Eastern Counties Railway hams given the liberal donation of 25 guineas to the testimonial to the widow and family of Mr. W. F. Pierce, the supezin— tendent of the H division of Metropolitan Police, who fen teen years rendered every asiistance in his power to railway con panics and their officers. We hope this example will be iilll fated by other companies. —Railway Standard. i) JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. n I yarwick-lan A e, Newg ß ate ° -str N ee ' t. begs ß to inform the ti rt !,' l Pito ' 8 making the INDIA CORN BREAD on a much im !e.tion. Ple, and it is highly recommend:id to pco?le of weak