The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

NOTICE.--ALTERATION OF TIME AND REDUCTION OF FARES. GRAVESEND fbr 6d. or 9d., ".„.81 and railway included. The STAR and ELACKWALL rACKETS are now running at the above reduced fares from the k Illackwall, at 9%, 1034, 12, 134, 334, and 5. 8413 daYs, 12 and 334 excepted. From the New Terrace Pier, Oral esend, at 8%, 9% , C:pt o a 11%, I, 234, and 5. Sandays 9% and I ex • Fare : Fore Cabin and Second Class Railway, 6d.; Saloon And First Class, 9d. Star Office, Gravesend, Oct. 11, 1845. EWRY and ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY.— ffices, 19, Mooreet, London, Jan. 3, 1546. Notive is O hereby given to the gate-str Registered Shareholders in this Corn litY, that CER TIFICATES for their SHARES will be READY for LIVERY at this Office; on and after lloaney, tise 12th inst., 1 411 9, from Ten till Four o'clock, ia exchange for the receipt which Was given to them for their scrip. JAMES BRTDEN, London Secretary. ROYAL NORTHERN LUNATIC ASYLUM. h a REPORT by the COUNTY COMMITTEE, as presented to r:2_,eeneral Meeting of Subscribers, held within the Castle of Inver -7,, upon the 14th N ovem b er , 1845. gi a The in creasing prevalence of lunacy through the county of Inver nd the obligation upon the local authorities, to confine at the afitentee of the parish of domicile, all persons thus dangerously t ,„„„, d, compelled this project as a matter of ordinary prudence, and _net from all consideration of general philanthropy. Accordingly, 1 7_ the Annual County Meeting of the 30th April, 1643, the project t , • ' s itted to the public. It was resolved to endeavour to afford im's_oenefit of the Institution to all the northern counties, standing, 4 ...“ 16 Y did, Wider circumstances of equal necessity ; and a Committee appointed to solicit subscriptions on this enlarged and general ~'"e n g• They com mence d their duties ; but circumstances for some :r s were ad verse ; and they had the deep misfortune to lose, almost t he outset of th e i r l a b ours, one o f t h e i r most i n fl uent i al, zealous, 4, ,, k" ral ued members, by the sudden death of Mr. Fraser, of Newton. l fti 'VY• alive to the true benevolence of the undertaking, he was t o T,og it the liberal assistance of his example and of his energies up tifie t e lpi Period of his death; and that melancholy event naturally ~,ed, for a time, the exertions of those associated with him in the itsnittee. Thus the project remained in temporary abeyance. But e or r e hted soon evident that unless active measures were again re -4.a:1 to, there could be no reasonable anticipation of a successful t a t te A Public meeting of the heritors, magistrates, and clergy, was _l te cordingl e s, upon the 10th day of December, 1844, and the et t . " s tY of an immediate canvass was admitted, and pressed upon Oats Acting Committee. They undertook the task. The funds at that amounted to 1,5001., and to-day they stand on the list as 4,700/. ow e s gu nt is almost entirely the result of private contribution ; for e sri s ,re Parish, that of Dornoch, in Sutherland, has watered a sub -44:",.._0n, and only one public body, the Caledonian Bank of Inver siter'emo given a contribution ;—the parish of Dornoch has taken one bends of 111. ; the Caledonian Bank has given a subscription of one bet t ,,,,_7" guineas. Apart, indeed, m fro these two sums, the contri- NT. have been entirely from the hand of private benevolence. tiedekt ~?•, 11 amid neighbourhood of Inverness have given most liberally, of the districts of the county with an equal hand. Under Ne t ri fling exceptions, the Committee have, as yet, been prevented B •ver Pl-"e siting their solicitations throughout the northern counties. are s „L ° . however, of the most influential proprietors of the north are te,s t srt the contributors ; and this circumstance warrants the hope seas the canvass which is to be immediately commenced may be sue * s „„_ The Committee, through two of their number, have applied I, o ,7 s ptions in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, and thosn confining, tmless in one or two instances, their application to a estualconnected by birth, or profession, or trade, with the northern They regret to Say that they failed in many quarters *her ek b rs e s _ther had the best reason to anticipate success ; but, again, 'kepi' nisi instances where the claim of enlarged benevolence, apart akt u local feeling, was willingly admitted. There were indi te*Co'Who appeared to consider it a privilege to have an opportunity „Contributing to an object tending so obviously to alleviate the - riaa of the po o r. n ' U ch, then, is the amount of the realised funds, and inch le the ha see e , • tie from which they ve been to a very considerable degree de i ce The Committee have no hesitation in stating to the sub - eiberg their belief that the subscription will be soon considerably fto Vecl. An important addition may be reasonably anticipated e at t i rt et northern counties, and the result of an infiaential eommuni krtO With India may be looked for with confidence. In closing this Lo ne °l' the subject, the Committee ;have to mention that,whilst in stdas°n, they had the advantage of communicating with the Lord hie ers ° ;! t e upon the proposed scheme ;—that his Lordship became be nest • a subscriber, and that he obtained for the Institution the .of the r o y a l p a t ronag e. It is hoped that such royal counten, P aaY be the means of assisting the subscription in directions N st :`„ 6 therwise it might not have penetrated. In any event, it ettaraLue undertaking with an additional interest and importance, and •-se,,,,, h . t ees to the public) an efficient constitution and management ti teVlng as it does that that constitution shall receive the approval sigh officers of the Crown. s4\,,lue C ommittee have made it their endeavour to obtain the best a 8 to the site of the proposed Institution. They have re q•eated ts k et . -e assistance of br. Malcolm, of Perth, a gentleman eini tzr the treatment of the insane, and whose opinions were ma tioselt du ring an extensive continental tour amongst similar institu- S 0 P r eparatory to the erection of slurray's Asylum, in the neigh-'kin r` •• i s , of Perth, with which he has been from its erection , and eti ts 4, intimately connected. He selected four sites as eligible —one Property of Mr. Baillie, the proprietor of Culduthel , another } le. !. at of M r. Mackintosh, of Raigmore ; a third at the Hut of 0,1 1411 , OR the estate ef Inches ; and a fourth on the lands of ortliestoa, the property of Mr. Benne, of Dochrour. With the first I; e4 r-le proprietors, Mr. Benne, of Culduthel, the Committee have connriunication ; but the terms of feu demanded by him . ere l eg t and therefore the site upon his property adjoin oat of e ,9uarrY, and close to the marsh with the Itaigmore lands,. is s„.e . question. The Committee have also communicated with ss . ackintosh, bat without any result—that gentleman requiring ow from them the amount of feu that will be given, and the ,Von t naturally enoueii begging to be informed what is to be %s r , and here the negotiation stands with Mr. Mackintosh. Of it will be the duty of the subscribers immediately to open til'uonnunication with Mr. Robertson, of lushes, and Mr. Baillie, of 1,7 4 7tf0ur, and thereafter to select from those equally eligible sites w hich may be obtained upon the most eligible terms. e t isthe se circumstance, of realised funds and anticipated increase, lie Conger Committee have considered themselves required to delay = s ,„ a g," the commencement of the Institution. The necessity for erection is every day forcing itself upon their attention. The nun - 1- ,1,4,f lunatics confined at the expense of the several parishes is every Ite s .:!!,asing, and the operation of the New Poer-law Bill must tet, pa. fuY add to the number. That Bill directs a course by which 441-rut parishes may be compelled to the humanity of providing • eient accommodation for their lunatic poor ; but it affords no the towards securing such accommodation. The more stringent t h s oblig ellen upon parishes, the more important to them should be poZireetien of a local and inexpensive Institution, such as that pro- This is obvious, and will undoubtedly force itself upon the kid • s „•sstanding of all such burdened parishes. ~" Committee, impressed with these important considerations. Itit'keerut their proceedings to the general subscribers, and suggest tha • t , without an delay the necessary steps should be taken for the -6 , l l , Teation of the Y e saii "eY Cannot close the account of their proceedings without ex e,..lutt the obligation under which the Institution is plased to se let3 gentles:en in the south connected with this part of the country. ecoreZ"vs, Mr. Leith, formerly inspector of the Caledonian Banking Illei te rnY, most e,7 ( iciently assisted the canvass ; and in London the leeck"eneficied ensee was with espial liberality discharged by Mr. I sieth enz ,le, American ester Chant, and other gentlemen from the s nodee, • s io Mr. Young, of The Sun newspaper, the cause is eminently .ece.. - ` , for the liberality ' With which lie uniformly admitted the - ' l arY a • kit e s_ dverhsements in a free. and prominent access to the co t° his important journal. W Reported by " • COLQUBOUN, Convener of the County Committee. It a T o tal amount of subscriptions'as at this date 4,6731. 13s. Lan et te ran Meeting of the subscribers towards the erection of a Se e ' r keti:s laYluin at Inverness for the benefit of the northern s tLI4 4 - „, -, called by advertisement, held on the 14th Nov., 1846, ,„, ' t FRASER TYTLER, Esq., Vice-Lieutenant of the „ s al County, Chairman ; 7?letto`"arrnan having addressed the tong,mee moved the following 10:rbal ' :„ W hIch was unanimously agreed eSsoftei`us following noblemen and gentlemen be now appointed a W . " , With am,Cos. power to to nominate from their own number tt,auuthttee for the Ir management of all matters connected s t i - f h .. 1 ‘41, ithAireetion and establishment of the Northern Lunatic 11:e ss _ --it tedT s in particular, to draw up rules and regulations, to be 00 7 8 , 0 4 7,1 11 Geeral Meting of Subscribers, to be held at In- Ilts.a.see earliest day in January next that the Committee may " t r• Colquhoun, convener." 3n kse , INVERNESS-SHIRN. TAB 14 as or 50/. AND i SUBScsaalltS UNDEIt 501. Righ t ROL W. Y. Colquhoun, Esq., 5.6. t sten. the Earl of Sea- Provost Sutherland Righ t J. M. Grant, Esq., of Glenmoriston g islets, ,son• Lerd Salton' J. If. Grant, Esq., Joint-Convener tatt,,'° ll . Lord Lout of the county 4' - ant tsq., MA , . for the Thos. Ogilvie, Esq., ditto J. B. Fraser, Esq., of Reeliek ,burgh ee tti n, sq., M.P. for the D. Grant, Esq., of Blight A. Forbes, Esq., of Culloden racerAalu TYtler, ri s sq., of Ross, Esq., Berbice Cottage vie Dr. J. I. Nicol • • 1 / 4 . 'Patrick Grant, Esq„ Ballifeary EN, of Culduthel. IC. Waterston, Esq., manager for the Caledonian Bank I s T. Mackenzie, Esq., banker lAlex. Forbes, Esq., chemist. Der e • . ROSS AND CROMARTT. esocaes. -"•• Mackenzie, Bart., of Sir Hugh Fraser, of Braelangwell , ▪ / fa ell ' K.C.B. of Bs°O. M rs. Stewart Mackenzie, D. Davidson, Esq., of Tullech, 4. ... l tath r s °ll4 Convenor of the county eisp ,son, Esq., of Achany, T. Mackenzie, Esq., of Ord ° I . Clu e John Hay Mackenzie, Esq., of nrt tr act of Redastle, M.P. Cromartie p "zie, Esq., e of Applecross, Dr. J. Mackenzie, Kinellan li a i,for the comity D. Kennedy, Esq., of Bogbain "aaon, Req., of Ardintoul. George Cameron, Esq., Sheriff- Substitute, Dingwall. !Ls in SUTHEIRLANDSHIRR. -10 esi sSrace the Duke of SutherlamliJames Loch, Esq., acts. factor for the y. llimaas M.P. for the George Gunn, E.g., Duke of Satherland. ‘ao CAITHNESS-SHIRE. r ge Esq., m.r. Sir G. Dunbar, of Flernpriggs, Bart., and J. Gregg, Esq., se e _ riff-Substitute, Joint-Conveners of the county. 'SHIRE. Gen. Sir T. Rose, of Helms, K.C.B. 'H. Davidson, Esq, of Cantray Wm. Mackintosh, ESq„ . of Geddes J. A. Grant, Esq., of Viewfleld t 1 ,148 1 Gen. Gordon, of Lochdu.. - lot. ved farther, that the abOTe Committee contiuue in office till Th e f " APril, 1847 deem ei.ackintosh moved that the thinlits of this meeting be ten -14.,,t()_ Messrs. Mackenzie and ColquStoun for the exertions they 1te5,,,77,111 procuring subscriptions for ;his Institution ; and that the f e c zinMent s be also offered to Mr. Leith, formerly inspector o 4slW,Da °llian /Sank, now in Glasw • to Mr. Young, of The Sun :4 th e ! '" ; Mr. Maekeuzie, American ' merchari+, all of London, 4pe g ., Ifticient assistanee the afforded the depeltation In their Cl o ssl in t a b ,, es . e , eities ; which m y otion was seconded by the Rev. Mr. thud unanimously agreed to. h ersotion of the Rev. Mr. Clark, the thanks of the Meeting s. unanimo usly voted to the County Committee, who had ``l, .scar4 nn ucted the business of the proposed Institution se j ' le eting resolve that these resolntions be published in the In- WM. FRASER TYTLER, Chairman. m in ee tz tin e g eh w a e tr r . e unanimously voted to the Chair- It *RANT, Interim Seeretarc. 1-1 R I S T M A S!!! Lat 0 my lyre with tuneful lay, " welcome" give to " Christmas Day !" a joyous, happy time, lw,oh.etnrafr ourmusic, mirth, and love combine, path with roses bright, Anil mingle friendship with delight ! • i tud what is most essential—say, give éclat to " Christmas Day ?" s IOY " Clothing!" th a t we own 's a fact ; 7e therefore tell you how to act bin to " Ilynnt's "—order there stab illinents of beauty rare ! A nd then with confidence and joy Most charmingly your time employ ; s o . scenes of pleasure bright and gay, 'oU'll P ass a happy _ " Christmas Day ! !" Lilt op 1 l for Winter Garmente ready-made : xAIRIS The C a d ~ or, t Hoa. the Earl of Z e. d.%Net,. , 0 9 0 '141441411,s Over-eoats frOm .. • 15 0 1440":„4 Ci,ieeterfleld and Taglionis, from • • ••• • • •••• 1 1 0 , O Yr 0,4 1 . 4 r) Orsays and Glenlyons •• • • I:?;,rethe, Ch -coatsj .. ...... ...... ...... ..•••••• • • • • • ' • 010 6 . es% co.osterfields and Taglionis ..... ••••• • • • • 1 1 • ~,I 4t out, ', i l, to ditto lours, braided edges, from ••••• • ' • ' • 1 4 0 t" °Us t ; `tto • • / ok 1a14,, Cloth and Doeskin from /, sAle6 ' tat ,Of I.ric'ealidf Patterns, in every ' material, from ...... • • 0 4 d 6 or Winter Garments to order, fll tti ,_ £ 6. d. 1:),,, , et.fitid it ..._, fashion :- 0 18 0 ~, ,r at . „. „„, sad Taglioni Over - coats, from ••• • • • ..... • • 10 0 lu drat-rate style an dtibe.' .an Gleni ' „ .... 1 •t o ••• ar; e n ,,, Yon ditto, from ••• • • • • • ••• • • • 1 fa 0 b_gths , ,rit,„7s,ington walking ditto 0 ~ rest e,,,,,!:1 41 18 sand Chesterfields .••••••• :: 0 1 14 10 0 71rorto,ita"", 1,7"T...1d..in superior style, from •••••:• • •• : '. 115 0 \l 'sta, o r ' t , lila:Ck aid i ...... D • ee — s • lt • i • n ito •• m • •••:•• : • • 15 0 0 7 0 kit e o rde ue nolvfast materials, from n, • 1, 4 4 bronl t, r44 ,PoPartment is conducted entirely distinct and daPo •4oa taiii's noady-insde, and buyers will find patterns and ma hiAli iii iin : °r ltinal. .; 4(1 , of ~,:-440 assortment of Youths' clothes kept constantly on notice 4 ch,„„ttrranted durability, at very reduced prices. Mourning of, , '"4lPtion, and to any extent, can be had at five minutes ~ b, ok ark , ontitl e A O r " ta n b e •-• "The Talk of the Town," containing ae ~. tehur„ Llad on applying to L. Hymn, Pantechnethees• 36, Ao Inb "-krest• Londbn lid of oss tr ansacted on Saturdays until the evening. 4 lIETT ,itiv,, it `-' MiTISM. All those suffering N , rttin. , i,',llriatism, Chilblains, Lumbago, Tic-Dolorens, b C f r t r a is o m i lla n p g , Ain., will find immediate relief and a speedy cor . e 7' Cr hi`stuam EMBROCATION. The great and increasing demand ,1 1ore ..fuvill Embrocation induces the proprietor ti introduce it will be ttelleie7pdlY to.the public, satisfied that one trial . alone othor ...,Isconvince the most sceptical of its superiorityove; all soiti`... offered for similar purposes. 3,rtetor'uttles at Is. 11 4 d., 2s. and 2s. 9d. each, by the Sole Pro: l y ~_, George Richardson 12 Norland-place, Notting-hill, and . ~,e,:. ..altPointraent by Ear'ela3: a ' n(l Sons, 95, 141.0;rierte, Ise. Oxford -street. Orders, by post. directed to the Farringdon• street r' PrOMPU,Y attended to. mon . 1 cultu rr e corn. Iplato u 6 lengt h " m ed ° of t he ,billi . og g adv ice g • 0 „natio Tb at tall ucc°: o§hi ret :pre,s seti l th, ()until* resents. th o r/11 theta 14 inio° 6ll lair, the TO t F TO i to , g in b ound h , ,hem t ": 4 ibmit ►ttornd „.. he n. 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N., a , ,_._. e.", - ~/ - x.--_ ~rIV ~,,,,v).:; i 5 -:; m 1 , 1 ., .- •e - - I !I , v , 1 .1[4.4,.1,...:, , Y4,',' ~.: 0, a., v ''' ^4l4.tti.-°:, ' "'D . .0, T. ' t , s ' 416. 4? — *C•l'''' ..I' ' - . A.)..,. .A.)..,. '. '`. ..,, , / 4—• ~, ' "A ,Z , - --- —4 • ____Z — ' ' 4 4, ,-..' . . . , , .r., , . . , _. , . .. . . , _ .. _ ~ .. _ N LON EVENINi. o. 16,659. DO N, TUESDAY - A JANUARY 6, 184 6 S N PRICE SD. CHRISTMAS lIOLIDAYS. ROYAL POD YTECHNIC INSTITUTION, Lectures for this period of the year, by Dr. Ryan and Professor Bachoffnor Ln CHEMBTRY and NATURAL PHILO SOPHY will be illustrated by interesting and brilliant experiments. A Lecture on the PREVALENT DISEASE in POTATOES will *e slivered by Dr. Ryan, and also on the ATMOSPHERIC RAIL WAY, by Professor Bachoffner, a Working Model of which, car rying several persons, is exhibited daily. The additions to the OPAQUE MICROSCOPE, DISSOLVING VIEWS, and CHRO3IA TROPE are very effective. The PHYSIOSCOPE. Submarine Ex periments by means of the DIVER and DIVIN4 BELL. A. mr•ng the various additions to the Working Models is (:,"oleinan's NEW AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE, for ascending and de scending Inclined Planes. A magnificent Collection of TROPICAL FRUITS. Mr. Downe, the celebrated Flute Player, will take part in the Music, conducted by Dr. Wallis. Open from Eleven to Half past Five, and from Seven to Half-past Ten in the Evening. Admission, One Shilling. Scheele, Half-price. HOTEL and TAVERN-KEEPERS' PROVI DENT INSTITUTION - . The SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY DINNER of this INSTITU TION will be held at the London Coffee-House, Ludgate-hill, on WEDNESDAY, the 14th instant, The Right lion. the LORD MAYOR In the Chair. Tickets 21s. each, to be had of the Stewards ; at the bar of the London Coffee-house ; and at the Crown Hotel, Craven-street, Strand. Dinner on table at Five o'clock precisely. STEI'N. EDWD. TAPSTER, Hon. Sec. Craven hotel, 2d ,January, 1846. KING'S HEAD INN, COVENTRY. Conducted by JAMES WILLIAMSON. TO COMMERCIAL GENTLEMEN. J. IV. takes the present opportunity of thanking his numerous Commercial Friends for their liberal support for the last five years, and trusts, by strict attention to their comforts, he shall receive a continuance of their favours. To Commercial Gentlemen generally, J. W. begs most respectfully to observe, he has made arrangements to receive an increased number of commercial guests, assuring them his best endeavours shall not be wanting to render their visit to the King's Head at all times de sirable. _ _ _ Large Rooms convenient for the exhibition of stock. Post-horses, Flys, and Gigs, always ready, at moderate charger, Agent to the London and Birmingham Railway. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, _ 26, COB.NITILL, LONDON . Capital £ 500,000. . _ Empowered by Act of Parliameat. instituuen orrers important auu .Att v tages with respect both te Life Assurances aid Deferred Aimaities: The assured has, on all occasions, the power to bornw, without ex pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid, (see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of ki3 interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances fir terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFIT';. The s access and increasing prosperity of the Society lens enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third Bonus, varying from 30 to 75 .per cent. on the premiums paid on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. FBA 11fPLISS. PreNAM. Bonus Banas in g i added. Cash. , . 1337 £l9l 13 it 87 601000 74 3 4 1838 165 13 0 74 1839 133 13 6 61 1840 89 0 0 41 E. a Fi 5 &' 13 51.E13 17 1 13 101 11 8 6 14 31 9 210 13 4j 6 • • :4 ;2 „ rX395 Il 1 346 2 3 29e 13 4 247 4 5 WITH PROFITS. WITHOUT PROFITS. _ Age. Annual Premium. Aga. Annual Premium. 20 £1 17 1 20 £1 10 3 25 2 2 1 25 1 14 11 30 2 8 2 30 2 0 7 35 2 15 2 35 2 7 0 40 3 4 0 40 2 14 3 45 3 15 6 45 3 6 6 50 4 11 8 50 4 1 8 55 59 7 I 55 50 5 No extra Premium is charged for residence North American Colonies, or at the Cape of G, Peculiar facilities are afforded for the asst persons proceeding to or residing in the East I in the Australasian or )od Hope. arance of the lives of Indies. Premiums may be paid, and claims settled, East Indies, by indorsement of the policy. Immediate and Deferred Annuities are granted by the Company on very favourable terms, and it is a peculiar feature in its constitu tion that Annuitants participate in the profits. The following are specimens of the rates of annuities granted for every 1001. sunk : in Australasia and the Male Female Male Female I Age. Lives. Lives. Age. Lives. Lives. 35 £7 1 5 £6 13 5 65 £l2 12 0 £lO 19 0 45 7 18 1 7 4 9 75 18 9 2 16 3 5 55 913 0 88 9 80 125 8 9 20 2 7 Prospectuses, with Tables, Forms of Proposal for the purcha , e of an Annuity or for making an Assurance, and every information, may be obtained by application at the Office of the Company. E. ItYLEY, Actuary and Secretary. UNIVE RSAL GAS-LIGHT COMPANY. lIJJ PRELIMINARY . ANNOUNCEMENT. Capital 100,0001., in 5,000 Shares of 201. per Share. Deposit 10s. per 1001. Shares, In accordance with the let. (Provisionally Registered.) Under the Management of a Previsional Committee. CoNST7yrizto CnEssurr—i'rofeesor Ryan, M.D., LL.D., Royal Col lege, Portsmouth, and Royal Polytechnic Institution. num:DEN—Henry Francis, Esq., Patentee, 40, Elizabeth-street, Eaton-square. IS Artrzsa—Sir Claude Scott, Bart., and Co. BoLICITott—J. F. W. Fesenmeyer, Esq., 23, Bedford-row. SECRETARY—Mr. William NiChol3oll. Offices of the Company and Working Factories, 159, Drury-lane. The Company is farmed for the purpose if carrying out, more ef fectuallywleottreii working, and bringing into general nut, an invention se cured for an improved manufacture of gas. euted bb y letters The apparatus is so portable it can be fitted up on any descrip tion of building, even at a kitchen range, without affecting the do mestic arrangements, and the fire used in ordinary in generating the gas will be ample to produce steam for warming the most extensive premises. The most eminent engineers and chemists unite in opinion that the invention is not only practicable and free from smell or annoy ance, but by this valuable patent is secured the manufacture of a pure and superior gas, not only on new, but sound, scientific, chemical, and mechanical principles, which have been hitherto overlooked in the common modes of manufacture ; besides, this gas possesses more of the illuminating power, and will burn longer, than that now in use, in the proportion of 40 per cent. in favour of the invention. The patent method 4 pplicable to lighting generally, but more especially small towns, villages, lighthouses, colleges, churches, dock yards, theatres, public offices, prisons, barracks, railway stations, nil umfactories, printing-offices, madhouses, hospitals, and schoels, Stc., and warming the buildings, without extra expense. The benefits which would accrue to lighthouses, dockyards, and numerous localities, where the ordinary gas cannot be conveyed without the formation of many new Acts and Companies, or at im mense expense, would be sufficient to obtain for this Company the most prominent and prosperous position. The great saving to the consumer, the small portion of room requi site for the erection of the apparatus, the simplicity of its working, a price which will defy comp and the brilliancy of the gas, will insure the adoption of the invention throughout the kingdom i and although the public can be supplied at hold out to those disposed to become e the ab aCompanyt shareholders can confidently eturn up o n their capital of not less than fifty elder e The Company being far advanid'erw7int» registered, to take contracts immedi:stely. in a situation, when fully Applications for shares, in the usual ferm, to f urt h e r particulars obtained of, the Solicitor, and alsottivi:eadse to, and Secretary, at the Company's offices, where may be seen the apparatus at work, and the brilliancy of the gas exemplified. TO FLOOR -CLOTH MANUFACTURERS, pAygn-STAINERS, and WHOLESALE CABINET MAKERS, &c. first-rate connexion with Up- An • I Traveller, who has a , experience( . holsterers, and takes his journlos twice a year . through the Eastern, Midland, and Northern Counties, aml ,Scotland, is open to an en gagement with a respectable house in e ither of the a bove lines, ill conjunction with a house he has represented for many years. Address (post paid) to H. M., Cathedral Coffee-house, St. Paul's CANDLES at CLARK'S REDUCED PRICES. Palace Wax Candles (finest wax mwla), Is. 11d. per lb. ; Orient Wax, is. 9d. • Transparent Wax, Is. 6d. ; Queen's Sperma ceti, is. Rd. ; Sperm Is. ad. and Is. 2d. ; Clark's Royal Wax, Is. ; Patent Sperin, Is. , Clark's Solar, superior to all composite, 10d. ; Kitchen Candles (six months old), 514 d. 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At a Meeting of the Inhabitanfs, holden:at the George Hall, Aldermanbury, pursuant to a resolution passed at the Wardmote, held on the 24th of December last, THOMAS CHALLIS, Esq., Alderman of the Ward, in the Chair ; It was moved by Mr. CASH; seconded by Mr. ISENNOCH ; and re- solved, That this meeting views with deep concern the unsettled state of the country, arising chiefly (as it believes), from the pernicious ope ration of the present corn-law, which holds out delusive hopes to the agriculturist, cripples commercial enterprise, introduces a system of gambling into the ordinary business of life, which is alike destruc tive to morals and legitimate trade, induces a precarious supply, en hances the price of food, and is not oily oppressive to the poor, but also subversive of the best interests of the vast majority of the popu lation. It was moved by Mr. DEWAR ; seconded by Mr. STRODE, Jun. ; and carried unanimously, That the direful effects of the present corn-law, set forth in the foregoing resolution, render its immediate and unconditional repeal essential to the prosperity of the people and the peace and safety of the kingdom. It was mooved by Mr. HOOLE ; seconded by Mr. LAST ; and carried unanimously, That petitions to the Houses of Lords and Commons be prepared, founded on the foregoing resolutions. That Lord Radnor be re quested to present the petition to the Lords, and Lord J. Russell that to the Commons ; and that the other representatives of the city of London be desired to support the prayer of the petition. It was moved by ➢ir. B. BROWN ; seconded by Mr. BERNARD ; and carried unanimously, That the thanks of this meeting be given t.) Mr. James Crocker, for generously granting the use of the George Hall free of expense. It was moved by Mr. SAMUEL MORLEY ; seconded by Mr. Deputy PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause of LYNE against LYNE, the Creditors of PHILIP LYNE, late of Westbourne, in the county of Sussex, Esquire (who died in the month of November, 1840), are, on or before the 12th day of February next, to come in and prove their debts before Sir GIFFIN WILSON, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Chan cery-lane, London, or, in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the ;said Decree. W. and E. DYNE, 61, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Plaintiff's Solicitors. 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An adjourned meeting of' the Shareholders of the Metropolitan Junctions Railway Company was,held yes terday, at the offices of the Company, in Clement's-lane, for the purpose of considering the result of the negotia tions for an amalgamation with the Northern and Southern Connecting Company, and to determine what steps ought to be adopted in the present position and state of the affairs of the Company. The meeting was called for one, and shortly after that hour Major CROFT, the Chairman of the Board of Ma nagement, took the chair. Ho said the business of the rnApt;nn hp,l hmt.” 0 , - ,,, ,,.. 5 %nn A rl by thsk•"^i- - " ••e, mg . a resomA9n pa .at last kg; uireepp• UMW lode wriiteiito every member Or the Provisional 1 Committee, calling upon them to pay up their deposits upon the shares they had applied for and had had allotted to them, and then the answers which had been received to such applications. Mr. Giii. •JONES suggested that as there were only twelve gentlemen present to represent a Company whose capital exceeded two millions, they had better wait a short while longer to allow of other shareholders attending. The CHAIRMAN said, at the breaking up of the last meeting, several Shareholders requested that the ad journed meeting might be held punctually at one, be cause it was a great inconvenience for men of business to attend at that hour, and then to be kept waiting for a considerable time. Mr. JONES asked if the vote of the gentlemen present was to be taken as final ? The CHAIRMAN replied that all he could say was that if the Shareholders would not attend, it was not the fault of the Directors, but it placed them in an unplea sant position. Mr. SHIRKS said he never beard of the last meeting till after it had taken place, and then it was by accident that he saw it reported in the papers. 'The Directors ought to do more than advertise these meetings. They ought tl forward notices of them to every Shareholder. He had never seen their Company mentioned in a news paper, except in Spilleman's list in the Times. Ultimately it was agreed that the business should be delayed for half an hour. At the expiration of that time the attendance of Shareholders had become more numerous, and the Chairman requested the Secretary to read the answers to the applications he had previously alluded to. The first was from Mr. Thomas Lawrance, of Saint Mary Axe, who denied ever having applied for shares in the Company, and declared that his name had been placed on the Provisional Committee without his know ledge or consent. The next was from Mr. Brown, of Windsor, who said he had paid the deposits on his shares, amounting to 525/., and requesting to know when he could sign the contract deed. The next was from Mr. Humfreys, of 68, Old Broad street, who requested to have his name immediately withdrawn from the Provisional Committee. Mr. JONES asked who this gentleman was ? The SECRETARY replied that Mr. Humfreys was the father of their former solicitor, and he was allotted 200 shares at the request of his son. The next was from Lieutenant White, of her Ma jesty's ship Ocean, who expressed his inability to pay the deposits at present. The next was from Mr. William Harding, of Croydon, who said he was unable to accept more than ten shares, and he was ready and willing to pay upon that number. The next was from Mr. Charles Butler, who declared that he had long ceased to be a committeeman, and had never accepted any shares. The SECRETARY said it was true Mr. Butler was not one of the Managing Committee, but he had never with drawn his name from the Provisional Committee. Mr. Butler, moreover, had attended some of the preliminary the system o f meetings sev of h eralli o t N e . p ikln n a op a rt gv iinETonodep Committee. rep ...4 allowing Provisional Committeemen to act at tiles., meet ings who had formally accepted shares. The last letter was from Mr. Butler, solicitor, of Furnival's Inn, who stated that Mr. Horne, Mr. Bowyer, and Mr. Phillips, were willing to pay upon their shares if the undertaking were carried out, or to bear their share of the expenses if it were not. The SECRETARY said these were the only replies he had received to 128 applications. Mr. C. GREEN wished to know how many of the Provisional Committee had paid the deposits upon their shares ? The CHAIRMAN replied that out of 130 only 16 had paid. This, however, was exclusive of the Managing Committee. The next business to be brought before them was the minutes of the proceedings which the Sub- Committee had taken for negotiating an ainalzamation with the Northern and Southern Connecting Company, which, with their permission, the secretary would read. From these minutes it appeared that the negotiation had resulted in an offer from the Northern and Southern Connecting Company to amalgamate, provided it was effected upon tee basis that three Metropolitan Junction shares, upon which a call of 12s. per share should be made, were equal to one share in the other Company. The CHAIRMAN said the Managing Directors had re turned no answer to this offer, preferring rather to leave it to be done by that meeting. He might state, however, that about an hour ago a member of the Pro visional Committee of the Northern and Southern Con necting Company assured him that the Company was not in such a position as to induce him to recommend them to amalgamate with it. Mr. KEMP, one of the Directors, said the opposite Company had represented that they had 30,0001., but their plans were not lodged till Monday, the Ist o De cember, while they had duly lodged their plans on the 29th of November, but had only 10,0001. left to go on with. Now, if the promoters of the Northern and South ern Company had been deceiving them in the negotia tion, no language could be used sufficiently strong to denounce such duplicity. They ought to ascertain who the Shareholders of the Company were, and get them to unite in obtaining that which they could not do if sepa rated. Their line was a good one, the plans were most perfect, and if the Northern and Southern Company would aid them with 30,0001., it would be the best scheme that could be brought before Parliament. If, however, the Northern and Southern Company failed them, there was the South-Eastern and the Northern and Eastern Companies, who he had not the slightest doubt would be most ready to assist them. Mr. VETCHER, of Exeter, submitted to the meeting whether it would not be better to break up the Company at once than spend the little they had left. The South- Eastern Company would have enough to do next ses sion to get out of their own difficulties, without taking up those of any other Company ; and if he was not mistaken, the Northern and Eastern was in the same position. At the last meeting it was stated that the receipts were 28,0001. and the expenditure 17,0001., and he for one thought, if this were a true state of the ac counts, they were most unsatisfactory. Mr. KEMP said the sums stated at the previous meet ing were erroneous. The receipts it had been ascer tained were 17,0001., and the expenditure only 10,000/. Now, was it worth their while to sacrifice the valuable property they had purchased for this 10,000/., because they were not in a position to carry out a whim of the House of Commons ? Mr. VETCHER said the Directors appeared to be in doubt altogether about the ac coun ts; and how any set of men—how any secretary or solicitor —could carry on a concern of that magnitude, and not know the exact amount of their liabilities, be was at a loss to understand. He could not trust them any longer, and he should move that the Company be dissolved. Mr. CHARLES GREENE seconded the motion, and said he was induced to do so from a thorough distrust of the parties into whose hands their affairs had fallen. Was it not the fact that some of the funds had been appro priated to buying up the allotment letters and scrip of their own line ? The CHAIRMAN replied that such certainly was the case, but at the time it was done it was a very common thing, and the course was appl uded. He had since ascertained that it was a bad system, and he would never give his consent to it again. The shares were bought with a view of benefiting the Company, and the Directors could derive no interest from the purchase. Mr. GEO. JONES moved an amendment, to the effect that a Committee of Shareholders should be appointed to negotiate with the shareholders in the Northern and Southern Connecting Conan), and see if an amalga mation favourable to both parties could not be brought about. Mr. PAYNE seconded the a mendment, and it was ultimately carried by a very lar ge majority. The Committee was then appointed, and, at the request of the Chairman, a uthorised to investigate the accounts of the Company. Mr. GREENE wished to know what they intended to do with the defaulting Directors were they to be freed from all liabilities ? The CIIAIRMAN was as anxious as arly one that the Provisional Committee should pay up, but he wanted to know how they could reach a provisional committee man ? They could only proceed against him by filing a bill in equity, but that could not be done without the consent of every shareholder. ••- • . Mr. GREENE said there was no help for them but by exposing the defaulters. Some of them had the reputation of being respectable men, but he did not think they would keep it long. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting broke up, after a very protracted sitting. r p e a m ri a s i h n bnuesni r % e v l h a e t r i t v e t h t e o su t h b j e e c p t r o a p s SOUTH-EASTEIIN iriCiaRTH KENT. Last night a meeting of the rate-payers of St. George the Martyr, S out h wark, was held in the church urn parish, throu g h t h e i r surveyor, should assent, dissent, or os t e o d w l i i ie n brought forward. e t h s, er Is t , l a l s e - Mr. Churchwarden HOULE took the chair. Mr. ANDERSON, the surveyor, said, that as the subject was one of the greatest importance to the parish, taking, as the two lines would, so great a portion of it, he felt bound to take the opinion of the inhabitants. He had seen a great number of the inhabitants whose property would be affected by the proposed extension of the South Eastern line ; and they were unanimousty opposed to it. What did the Company propose ? why to carry an arch across from the present terminus to the other side, which would have the effect of driving all the respectable in habitants from that part of the parish. With regard to the other lines, it was alleged that the objections would he got rid of—but at what expense ? why, by carrying a viaduct in an oblique direction from Layton-buildings to Red Cross -street ; the arch or viaduct was to be 29 feet high, but from its position the inhabitants would have but a dead wall to look at. Trade was already bad in the High-street, and the proposed plan would com pletely ruin it. Mr. PICKFORD, of the Old Kent-road, said that he had considerable prcperty in the Borough, and as long as it was in his power he should offer every opposition to the North Kent line ; for he was fully satisfied that where 7771rer a railway came it co d o e lra p d r in e K c l t i e a tne t et e - d tro l o :r odn o p p ipp e s r w t s Mr. HOWARD thought that the hest con rse to adopt ARTIN of the 01 . t ? h: I :n e tt m an ir_ d i : ( . 1 ..qxteptdonsomd to report as odeasioifitqtrired:---- for a considerable 'engin of time ame u a tee appointed to oppose the further extension of the South-Eastern. It was said that when the terminus came to the Bricklayer's Arms, that it would increase the trade, but the reverse was the case ; as far as the inhabitants were locally concerned, they were deter mined to oppose the measure. Mr. KNIGHTON said he had heard a great deal said against the extension of railways, but no one spoke in favour of them. Now he considered they were of the utmost advantage to the public. They created trade.— (Cries of " No, no.") Was any person present who was prepared to say that, wherever there was a terminus, that trade did not exist?—(Cries of " Yes, yes.") Ha was certain they w e r e a b ene fi t , an d t h at t h ey would beautify the parish.—(" Oh, o h.") It was agreed to, with but one dissentient, that the surveyor, on the part of the parish, should return to the application a dissent. LEEDS, JAN. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-London and Croydon, 22-Sheffield ana Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 3, 74- East Lancashire, No. 2 (late Acerington) 114-Great Grimsby and Shffield, 11-Ditto, Extensions, p.-Leeds and Bradford. 57-Leeds and Dewsbury, 20!/-Ditto, New Shares, n -Liverpool and Bury, 27-North British, New Carlisle Branch, 31. Bs. 6d.-Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton, 164-London and Portsmouth, 15s. p.-Lon don and York, 4 3 4-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 34-- Direct Northern, 2%-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 5 -Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, par-West Riding Union, 7 -East Lincolnshire, 3-Essex and Suffolk, 2s. 6d. dis.-Grand Union, % p.-Lancashire and North York shire, 20s p.-Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Ea4ern, 3s. dis.-Leeds and Liverpool Direct, 2s. 6d. dis.-Leeds and York, par-Leicester and Bedford, 225. 6d. p.-Liver pool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 44-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 24 p.-Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 2s. 6d. p.- Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 7s. dis.-North Western, 3/. 145.-Nottingham and Boston, 17s. 6d. p.- Nottingham and Grantham, 17s. 6d. p.-Shropshire Union. 2s. 6d. p.-South Midlands, p.-Wakefield and Brad ford, 3s. 6d. p.-Wakefield and Harrogate, 16s. p.-York shire and Glasgow Union, 24. YORK, JAN. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.---The sales are-York and North Mid land Extension, 411 / 2 -Newcastle and Berwick, 20-North British, New Carlisle Branch, 3A-London and York. 4 3 j4 -Axholine, ` 2 4-Darby an d G ainsborough, 1/. Is.-Grand Union, 21i-Great Grimsby, Louth, &c., 1/. 142. 6d.-Lan cashire and North Yorkshire, 3, 76-Leicester and Bedford, 2/. 75.-Leicester, Tamworth Trent Valley Jtmction, 27;1-Manchester, B uxton, Matlock, and Midland, 47 9 -North Staffordshire, 61. I s. -York and Carlisle, 314. Tke d'-vision of preilta is annual, and the next will be made in De cember •f tke present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sea. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU RANCE SOCIETY. 26, Cornhill, Loudon, December 29, 1845. Notice is hereby given that the half-yearly interest, at the rate of five per cent per annum on the capital stock of this Society, due on the 31st instant, will become payable on the 10th day of January next, and Proprietors may receive the same at this office on that or any subsequent day between the hours of eleven and three o'clock. By order of the Co , lrt of Directors, F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. THE AUSTRALASIAN, COLONIAL, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUITY COM PANT, 126, Bishopsgate-street, corner of Cornhill. Capital, 200,0001., in 2,000 Shares. DIRECTORS. Edward Barnard, Esq., F.R.S. Gideon Colquhoun, Esq. Robert Brooks, Esq. C. E. Mangles, Esq. Henry Buckle, Esq. Richard Onslow, Esq. John Henry Capper, Esq. William Walker, Esq. TRUSTEES—Edward Barnard, Esq., F.R.S. ; J. H. Capper, Esq. ; Edward Thompson, Esq. AI DITORS—James Easton, Esq., pnd C. Richardson, Esq. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Maples, Pearse, Stevens, and Maples. BANKEns—The Union Bank of London. COLONIAL BANKERS—The Bank of Australasia (incorporated by Royal Charter, 1835), 8, Austin-friars, London. PIITSTCIAN—Dr. Fraser, 62, Guildford-street, Russell-square. ACTUARY AND SECRETARY—EdWRIYI Ryley, Esq. The following are the specimens of the rates of premium charged by this Company for the Assurance of 1001.: BIRMINGHAM LINES. BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY NIGHT.—A meeting of the street commissioners was held this morning at the Pub lic- office, Moor-street, for the purpose of receiving a re port from the Paving and Parliamentary Committee, respecting the plans and sections laid before them of railways proposed to enter the town, and for which ap plication will be made during the ensuing session. There were upwards of seventy commissioners present, and a report was read, of which the following is the sub stance : The Paving and Parliamentary Committee reported that, having directed their attention to the several notices given of intended applications to Parliament in the ensuing session, as far as such projects appeared likely to affect the interests of the town of Birmingham, they found that at the commencement of the Parlia mentary campaign, on the 30th of November, being the last day for delivering plans and sections at the Board of Trade, and to the clerks of the peace, the following schemes were before the public, and likely to require their attention. On the Ist of December, therefore, their solicitor applied to most of the solicitors concern d for copies of the plans, sections, and books of reference, and since that period similar applications had been made to most of the other parties. I. Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley. 2. Birmingham and Worcester. 3. London and Birmingham (Extension at Birming ham). . _ 4.' Birmingham and Oxford. 5. Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley. 6. Direct Birmingham and Leicester. 7. Welsh Midland, Kidderminster and Birmingham. 8. The Birmingham, West Bromwich, WedneAlltry, and Walsall Junction. 9. Wolverhampton, Chester, and Birkenhead Junction (Trent Valley Continuation). 10. Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester. 11. Birmingham and Manchester Direct. 12. Shrewsbury and Birmingham. Of the above list the Committee stated that the fol lowing had either been abandoned, or might be with drawn in consequence of changes in the views of their projectors, or found not to enter the parish'. of Bir minzham:- 2. The Birmin hand g am W nrroetny. the presen .t,..urr.• 6. Direct Birmingham and Leicester doss not enter the parish. 7. Welsh Midland, Kidderminster, and Birmingham. This line is abandoned between Kidderminster and Birmingham, and will be taken up for that distance by the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour-valley Company. 8 The Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction, abandoned for this session. 9. Wolverhampton, Chester, and Birkenhead (Trent Valley Continuation) will not approach Birmingdam nearer than Wolverhampton. Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester will not enter the parish, bat will join the Grand Junction in the parish of Aston. The promoters of the remaining seven of the original list seemed disposed to prosecute their several applica • tions to Parliament, which would require the utmost at tention on the part of the town, and in several cases the most strenuous opposition, unless the proposed measures be very materially modified. The Committee recommended that every Bill should be strenuously opposed, unless the following require ments be complied with, namely :- 1. Where it is intended to stop up any street or road in the parish, an ample equivalent be provided by the formation of other streets or roads equally convenient to the public in general. 2. Where it is proposed to cross any street on the level thereof. 3. Where it is proposed to cross any street or road by viaduct or bridge, the height and span of the arch be of sufficient dimension to permit at least as free a pas sage for the public in carriages and on foot as that now enjoyed, and that no piers, abutments, or other encroach ments be permitted on the carriage or foot roads. 4. Where it is intended to pass under any street or road, and a bridge for such street or road be formed over the railway, each side of such bridge for such street or road to be formed over the railway shall be effectually built up to the height of fifteen feet at least in every situation where the Commissioners shall deem advisable, so as to prevent the railway or the engines or carriages passing thereon from being seen from such street or road. The same rule to apply to viaducts carrying the railway over any street, which shall likewise be provided with parapets of the same height at least, or more, if needful. 5. Where the works of, or connected with, the pro posed railway shall in any way interfere with the public drains, sewers, or public water-courses of the town, proper provision be made for the prompt restoring of such sewers, drains, or water-courses, or providing in lieu thereof others to the satisfaction of the Commis sioners ; and in case such railway works are likely, in the opinion of the Commissioners, to prevent or inter fere with the future effectual drainage of the town, pro ♦ision be made that the railway projectors shall meet such event in the manner required by the Commis sioners. 6. Where it is proposed to stop any street, with a view to the conversion of the site thereof into a station, provision be made for a road under such station in the line of that proposed to be stopped up, or in such other direction as the Commissioners shall approve, of suffi. cient height and width, and to be well lighted at the expense of the railway company, so as to afford ample accommodation for passengers along the same. 7. Where it is proposed to make a station, provision be made by the proposed company for proper app roaches thereto, and especially for widening the stree ts and other avenues iu the immediate neighbourhood thereof, suffi ciently to meet the increased traffic. 8. Where any part of the town is proposed to be in tersected by a tunnel or deep cutting, sufficient provision be made to prevent the inhabitants being deprived of their natural supply of water. 9. That in order to prevent the inconveniencetwwhiictlhi the public must necessarily be sub j ect d uring the pro. , gperensashoiefsthheewroergkusiroefd wanyiththe railway, an engagement,Compan., for the com pletion of the works within a limited period to be agreed upon. The Committee then proceeded t) report upon each separate project as far as they had been able to aster • tain the designs of the different companies with relation Birmingham. At the suggestion of the Mal or, Mr. Henry Smith, the following was substituted for the first condition:— « Where it is intended to stop up any street or road in the parish, an ample equivalent shall be made by the company," it being thought impossible for them to pro vide a street or road which would be " equally conve nient to the public in general " as the original one. The report was received and unanimously approved of, after which the meeting broke up. RAILWAY SIIAR.E MARKETS. BRISTOL, JAN. 5. _ _ STOCK EXCMANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exe ter, New, 77; 3 —Birmingham and Gloucester, Quarter Shares (issued 7th dis.) 32 —Caledonian, New, 1% p.—Manehester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 124—Midland, New, 30. SHEFFIELD, JAX. 5. STOCK EXCITANGE.—TIIO sales are—Eastern Counties, 22%—Midland, 401. Shares, 29%—Caledonian 15 1 / 2 Grimsby Extension, Si. 17s.—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 3/. 4s.—Dcrby and Gainsborough, lA—Direct Northern, 2 —London and York, 4: 3 / 4 —Manchester, Sheffield, and Mid land Junction, 4%—Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe, 11. la. lINLL, JAW. 5. &mei( EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Hull and Selby (5 per cent. guaranteed), 102 1 h—Ditto, Half Shares, 21—North British, Half Shares, 7 1 4—North Wales. 4—Armagh, Cole raine, and Portrush, lA—Dudlay, Madeley, and Iron Bridge, 2 1 4 2 —Hu1l and Barnsley Junction, 47s.—Leicester and Bir.. woglisun, 275.--Sheffield Potteries and Crewe, 235, 61— Shropshire - 982 •8a::::-'Yorkshire and CrinQIWIT COMPENSATION TO THE LAND LORDS. (From the Sentinel.) Speculative politicians are hazarding all sorts of con jectures as to the course Sir Robert Peel will pursue on the opening of Parliament. None hesitate to affirm that he will attempt some modification of the sliding-scale, if not a total repeal of the corn-laws ; but whether that repeal will be immediate or deferred, unconditional or conditional, has led to a great diversity of opinion. We will not add to the list of unprofitable " guessing ;" nor do we believe that anything authentic will transpire till the Legislature is assembled. But whatever mystery may involve the intentions of the Minister, the demands of the landowners are clear enough ; if they cannot re tain their monopoly, they will insist on compensation for its surrender. The indemnity of twenty millions paid to the West India proprietors for the manumission of their slaves, is a precedent on which they rely. The subject deserves some comments. The agriculturists have contended that special bur. thens are imposed on land, that is to say, burthens that do not fall on any other description of property. This has been denied, and repeated challenges have been given in Parliament to adduce evidence in support of the allegation ; those challenges have been uniformly declined ; nay more, when the Liberals have brought forward specific motions to appoint a Committee to in vestigate the nature and extent of the special burthens, the agriculturists themselves, shrinking from the proof of their own assertions, have voted against all inquiry; from which the fair inference is, that they knew well that they had put forth an untruth. This, however, is certain, that agriculture is exempted from ♦ery many imposts to which all other property is liable, such as insurance on stock against fire, legacy and probate duty, &c. Again : the landlords have always contended, that the corn-laws were not imposed for their benefit, but for the benefit of the tenant farmers. Be it so ; then, if a moneyed compensation were voted for the repeal of the corn-laws, it ought to be handed over to the tenant farmers. The general subject, however, must be looked at under comprehensive views. The time is passed when the common sense of the people can be juggled by sophisms. Every fallacy of the landlords has been laid bare ; the game of deception can no longer be played. The aris tocracy should learn, that " honesty is the best policy :" and now that they can no longer find shelter in fraud, let them place their faith in truth. Their ideas of " pro tection" are as base as they are ignorant ; they are base, because they seek to be protected at the expense of their fellow citizens ; they are ignorant, because no selfish legislation can endure longer than the selfishness remains undetected. The prime error of the landlords consists in a false view of their real position, which has made them seek relief in remedies totally inadequate to their exigencies. They may yet be saved from all the dangers that menace them, and that, too, with honour ; but they will not be rescued by half-measures or class legislation. They must make common cause with all the producing classes, form an alliance with them, and work out such a reform as will effectively secure both CM:4 l ld.lektUrt., . ation. Its leaden weight presses on all of us. It has pressed on other nations, and was the real, however re mote or disguised, cause of the French Revolution. What does high taxation imperiously demand ? what does it render absolutely just ? Clearly high prices. As we desire to avoid vague expressions, we must observe, that when we use the epithet "high" as applied to prices, we specifically mean just such an addition to the natural or wholly untaxed value of commodities as will be equal to, and express the amount of, taxation levied on commodi ties. If the tax on a commodity be five per cent., fire per cent. must be added to its natural value ; if fifty per cent., then fifty per cent. must be added to the natural value. This is the just, the legitimate protection that the Legislature owes to every class of producers, to the agriculturists as well as to the manufacturer. Now, how is this to be effected? for this is the problem to be solved. Let us hear Sir James Graham ; we quote from his pamphlet on " Corn and Currency :" " So far from urging the Government to bring sepa rately under the view of the Legislature the questions of Currency and Corn, it was the decided interest of the landowners to have insisted on a careful revision of both these subjects conjointly. They are in themselves inti mately blended ; it is absurd to talk of price without re ference to money; and it is impossible to alter the quan tity of money without affecting prices. Disjointed discussion on these two vital points is the precise cause of the dangerous conclusions now sanctioned by Parlia ment, which threatens with ruin and degradation th e whole class of existing proprietors." Be it noted that we have not cited the opinion of a Leaguer or free-trader; it is the Conservative Sir James Graham who speaks, himself a large landed proprietor, a gentleman of undoubted talents and matured expe rience. We have said, that high taxes require high prices, and Sir James Graham tells us "it is absurd to talk of price without reference to money." Now, it' we have a de scription of money, purposely designed to keep prices low, it is clear that the real protection of which we stand in need, is protection against that species of money. Our standard of money is gold and the sove reign contains just such a number of grains as comports with the natural or untaxed value of golrl, and expresses it. But this sovereign is the measure of all taxed com modities ; they therefore must necessarily conform to that measure. Now this gold is exempt from the laws of supply and demand ; its value is not allowed to rise when it is scarce, nor to fall when it is Plentifu l ' while are all other commodities, of which it is the measure ,terefore, subject to these conditions. Al! e!luivalency, between the measure and the thing s measured h is de stroyed. The consequence of this arrangement is, that the producer of taxed commodities can never add th e tax to his selling price, for there is no money inthis country in which such tax can be expressed, since gold, the standard measure, is not permitted by the Legislature to express taxation, but no more than natural or untaxed value. Hence low prices must be permanent and universal,--low corn, low ca lico, low cotton, low profits, low wages. Here is the national enemy—the enemy of all industry ;it is against that enemy, not against the foreigner, that we need protection ; and until tlae producing classes see this great truth, they will remain, as they now are, the doomed, blind, slaves of capital, of bankers, usurers, loan-mongers, an d money jobbers—the oligarchy of Mammon. Do the landlords, then, seek compensation ? Do they desiderate such high prices as will enable them to pay high taxes and their mortgages ? The remedy is in their own hands. It is a physical and fiscal impossi bility for them to realise high prices in a currency studi ously designed to keep prices low ; therefore, they must change the currency, and adapt it to the exigencies of existing taxation. They have been experimenting, scheming, and devising for the last thirty years—ever haunted by their " special burthens," proceeding from blunder to blunder, from equivocation to equivocation, from compromise to compromise. Surely it is time to cease this miserable tinkering: they ought to be heartily sick of the knaves, fools, and quacks whom they have lauded as "statesmen," and who have failed to make the working classes self sustaining, and could find no better means of preventing the paupers, offspring of their own bad government, from devouring landed estates, than in carcerating them in union workhouses. MARY HOWITT'S " CITIZEN or PRAGUE."—Frede rick the Great and tha Empress Maria Theresa are the two principal characters in Mary Irowitt's romantic his torical novel just published under the title of " The Citizen of Prague." We can thus readily account for the chief incidents of the story being of so unusually ex alted a character. We are initiated into the secrets of the Imperial Cabinet—we behold the cer°monies of the most magnificent of Courts—we witness the imposing array of the bravest armies in the world—in fact, we are allowed to see all that the great conqueror and the great empress chose to display in a contest that threatened the entire continent with desolation. But these grand materials are skilfully woven into a story, which g ains from much humbler objects it principal source of interest. In contrast to these royal delineations the work abounds with pictures of social life, the most domestic, the most touching, and the most truthlike that can be conceived. In short, Mary I-lowitt has succeeded in that very diffi ctilt task which aims at pleasing all classes of readers. af , -.......... •'.."-.3e, ATTEMPT AT MURDER. MONDAY AFTERNOON.—To-day, at twelve o'clock at noon, a man of the name of Woodward, a joiner, resid ing at Wellow in the north of this county (Nottingham shire), was brought in the custody of the police to the county gaol, charged with having attempted to murder a female, of the name of Hind, a widow, with whom he had been cohabiti ng . W ellow is a village about ten miles from Worksop, and the same distance from the towns of Newark and Southwell, and it appears that for a length of time past the prisoner has been separate from his wife, and has resided with his unfortunate victim. The horrible deed was evidently a premeditated act, from the circumstance of his taking with him, on going to bed on Monday night last, a knife, which be placed under his pillow. At half-past six o'clock in the morning the man and woman quarrelled, when the wretch took the knife and inflicted upon the poor woman a dreadful wound in her throat, which extended several inches from right to left. She instantly jumped out of bed, and ran down stairs screaming" Murder,' the blood at the same time flowing profusely from the wound. The wretch ran away half undressed, and without any stockings on his legs. The villagers being alarmed, a surgeon was sent for, who sewed up the wound, and a pursuit of the murderer ensued, but for some time with out success. On Friday morning, however, he was dis covered crawling from under a hay-stack, in his own parish, almost famished. He was immediately appre hended, and conveyed before the Rev. E. Dawkins, a magistrate of the county. The woman being alive, but without hope of recovery, the man has been committed to the county gaol for further examination. To elude detection by his footsteps being traced, it has since been found that the artful villain had walked backwards into the stack yard, so that the marks of his feet upon the soft soil did not betray his hiding place. Since his apprehension, he has admitted that he went into Willow Wood, and lay there a day and a night, with a view of attacking a farmer, whom he knew to be in the habit of passing through it, and his intention was to rob and murder him; the farmer, however, having heard of the attempt to murder, and knowing that Woodward was a bad character, having fears lest he should meet in the wood, actually went a long way round, instead of going through the wood, and thereby, no doubt, saved himself from a brutal attack. APPREHENSION OF SUSPECTED BURGLARS AT WooLivica.—During the past week, various acts of burglary have taken place at Woolwich, and hitherto the police have been unable to obtain any clue to the thieves. Sunday Glevening, between six and seven o'clock po li ee-constable artwi n. an actiire offi cer Mr ,u,.. D. ~ .—__.A . , 2 --.....,-...- - tirt Tsrityp ~;LliP....Aktr., a ntr.,,Lui e uroier, in Yowls- street. The better to observe their movements, and without being himself per ceived, Gladwin concealed himself behind the pillar of a shop door opposite, and observed the prisoners trying to force the door. The prisoners, however, had a fellow with them who acted as " touter" or scout, and this man, on observing the constable, gave an alarm, and the thieves immediately desisted from their attempts on the house. Gladwin, how ever, perceiving that it was useless to watch the thieves farther, immediately darted from his hiding place, and seizing two of them by the collar, took them into custody. The third ran off. Gladwin having lodged his prisoners safely in the station-house, proceeded in search of the third, whom he succeeded in capturing. The prisoners gave the names of Tapner, Reed, and Mumford. O n th e i r persons were f oun d a number of skeleton keys of various sizes, calculated to pick any of the common locks. A small crowbar was also found upon one of them. There is great reason to believe they form part of a gang which has carried on very extensive de predations in that neighbourhood. WIGTOWNSHIRR POLITICS.—A correspondent in Wigtownshire says, " An active canvass has been carried on in this county by Mr. Robert Stewart, eldest son of Stair Stewart, Esq., of Glasserton, for the representation of ' the shire' on the Conservative interest. This has induced our present Member, Cap'. Dalrymple, to issue an address to his constituents, in which he declares for the t, tal and imme diate repeal of the corm laws. He has also been making per sonal calls. As Sir Robert Peel's return to power will, in all probability, lengthen the existence of the present Parliament, this premature canvassing will doubtless cease. We hear that it is the intention of Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., of Loch naw, to oppose Sir John M'Taggart, M.P., at the next elec tion for the Wigt own district of burghs ; but we do not know whether the rumour be correct or not.—.Dumfries Courier. IMPROVEMENTS AT ROSENEATIL—Sir James J. R. Mackenzie had this year laid down 30,000 yards of drains with stones, and the number is daily increasing. The new garden, which is in an excellent situation, and has a good exposure, together with the pleasure -grounds, which are tastefully laid out, will, when completed, make Roseneath one of themost delightful seats in the north.—lnves, ness Courier. THE FULHAM WATERMEN. -- YeSterday the Bishop of London gave his annual dinner to the watermen of Ful ham. At one o'clock in the afternoon they sat down to a repast of good old English fare, consisting of roast and boiled beef, mutton, and plum-pudding, together with a plentiful supply of excellent ale. The entertainment was set out in the hall of the Bishop's residence at Fulham, and his Lordship honoured his guests by saying " grace." The custom is said to have originated from a former Bishop's son having been saved from drowning on this day. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—THREE LIVES LOST. —lt is with much regret we state that of two market-boats which left Falmouth on Saturday afternoon last, on their re turn tr Porthalla, St. Keverne, one of them unfortunately went down in a squall, and the three men in it were drowned. The accident happened in Falmouth Bay, no great distance from Bendennis. The deceased were named Sampson Hill, and William and John Tripcony, brothers. Hill was about to be married. John Tripcony was unmarried, but his brother has left a widow and two children to bewail his loss. When the boat missed its companion, it was immediately put about, but nothing of the lost boat could be seen but a louse spar or two. Two women were in the boat which weathered the squall, who became so alarmed that they were landed at Crab Quay, on Peudinuis, an d th e y walked home. This me lancholy accident has cast a gloom over the neighbourhood in which the deceased resided, where they were greatly re spected. Efforts have been made to raise the boat and find RAILWAYS AND COASTERS.—The South Western Railway was for the first time made use of yesterday for the conveyance of an entire ship's cargo from Southampton to London. It consisted of the first portion of a freight of 1,100 boxes of oranges, brought by the Eleanor, from Fayal, and. consigned to Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, in Monument•yard, By this means not only has the fruit been obtained in a state more suitable to the market, but a great saving in the outlay of conveyance has been effected; and having discharged her cargo, the Eleanor will return for a fresh freight on Friday, instead of being detained for a fortnight or three weeks, as would have been the case had she come round to the port of London. It has been estimated that the expenses of nearly GO/. are incurred on the voyage to and from Southampton and London fer a vessel of 100 tons burthen, which may be avoided by discharging her cargo at the former port. By the contract the cases will be delivered at one charge from Southampton and the terminus at Vauxhall to Monument yard, and altogether the saving by this mode of conveyance will average less by thirty shillings per ton than:the general charge of London freight. The majority of vessels bringing fruit to the London market arrive at seasons the most de structive to shipping, and the records of Lloyd's show no less than 1,375 casualties to have occurred in the navigation between the Isle of Wight and the river Thames in the seven years from 1837 to 1843, of which 499 lost anchors and cables, 560 got aground but were recovered, 260 were en tirely wrecked, the crews and passengers being saved, whilst 56 vessels were totally lost with all or several of the crews and passengers. BURGLARIES AT WlNDSOR.—Between Saturday night and early on Sunday morning, three houses were broken into in the town of Windsor, and various property carried away by the burglars from each. There is very little doubt, from the back premises of the house being contiguous, divided only by brick walls, that the three robberies were committed by the same parties, who were evidently well ac quainted with the localities. The house of Mr. Alderman Tebbott, in Sheet-street, which was entered by forcing open the shutters of the kitchen window, was plundered of a variety of articles, consisting of silver table, salt, and tea spoons, silver tops from off dinner castors, andgo t h anot eer moneys, &c. There is no doubt if the thieves had the been in house, disturbed by Mrs. Tebbott, who, he arin g was in the drawing room of valuable articles of . plate _ got up and opened the window to w ca h l t h h e a po n h . ce,a vast d quasi_ city room would have been carried off: The house of Mrs. Secker, a widow lady, residing in Park-street, was plundered of a watch and other prop ert y : and al s o the house of Miss Ir a i nes, of Sh ee t-street, adjoining Mr. Tebbott's. The robberies are supposed to have been committed by Windsor thieves. or a d THE RECENT FIRE AN D a h L t r e: h h , s o N s u o r r t OF tl.rw.LlFTnear., AT PAD DINaroN.—Last evening,te L at held an inquest at the the terminus of the Great Western Railway , on the bodies of John Wain, bri c kl ayer ' s carter, aged 24 ye ars, and Mary Ann, his wife, age d 21, who unhappily a perished in the recent calamitous fire in Cambridge-place, Junction-read, Pad dington. It appears that deceased was carter to Messrs. Chas. Bell and Co., brickmakers, South-wharf, Paddington. The jury having been duly sworn, proceeded to view the bodies, which lay at the bone-house adjoining Paddington Church, situated on the green in the Harrow-road. They presented a sad spectacle, the extremities being consumed, and the whole of the tissue of their frame being materially injured by the action of the fire. Upon the return of the jury, the first witness called was Mrs. Eliza beth Pryer, laundrywoman, 23, Cambridge-place, Grand Junction-road, who deposed that she went to bed shortly after eleven o'clock, on the night of Friday last, and that at that hour she left a few lucifers upon the top of the stove, and a quantity of clothes in the room. Soon after one o'clock she was alarmed by cries of "Fire," and instantly she got out of bed and called as loud as she was able to the other persons on the premises. She thought this had the effect of arousing them, and, upon inquiry, it was considered all were out of the building, which, in a short time was on fire from the bottom to the top. She screamed out, and this brought several neighbours to her aid, and through them the furniture and effects in the lower part of the premises were removed to places of safety. It was some time after the fire was at its height that witness ascertained any of her lodgers were burned to death. Three of the firemen belonging to the London Fire-engine Establishment having deposed to the finding of the bodies, which appeared to have fallen from one of the upper floors, the jury unanimously declared their opinion that no further evidence was necessary, and, conse quently, a verdict of " Accidental death " was returned. CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—A circumstance, very suspicious-looking at first, but, which afterwards turned out t a most curious affair, happened in a very respectable inn e a et. Perth on Saturday night. The landlord, on entering " and, the rooms, heard a noise proceeding from the chimn ey , back, as if on examining to discover the cause, g thunderstruck, at observing the legs of s a ta e in g g e r n r e e . dan i f e l co in v g e o ri s i T e r the grate, in which, however, there f ir w s er n d, and, seizing the from his astonishment, lie rushed personage, only ing coque of a very respectable -looking legs, desperately pulledteabtitelleneiklint°il he brought down the ads, when en M ( e l a o y r account of himself, was handed su3. to of rob, tbe covered with soot. The trill. tru r d ho e ev r esri i: i o ,tpo t r s g tel i l x oe -i f n el a i ec N ie ' o e u r a 3 r : t g n e loa : lan and dlord, brought to the bar for pected of ha a y s in: pl las intendedt. ha t his and intimated that the prisoner be imagined, e' s l ervants appeared, was her lawfully-married husband—they having been mar ried only a short time previous —who had come to pay her a visit from Dundee, where he was at present located. The husband was immediately dismissed, and left the Court arm and arm with his sprightly- better half.—Edinburgli Advertiser. The Marquis of Westminster, and the leading nobility and gentry connected with the county of Chester, have unanimously come forward to provide an institution fbr the refuge of juvenile offenders, with a view to their reforma tion. This praiseworthy object is to be obtained by the con. tributions of the aristocracy, and most of them are annlaal subscribers ' so that the prospective establishment m a y bp ; maintained in its efficiency. SMITH ; and carried lin gpimously, . .„ That the best thanks of this meeting are eminently due, and are hereby given, to our worthy Alderman, for his ready acquiescence in, and quick response to, the wishes of the inhabitants of the ward in cal lug this meeting, and for his able and impartial conduct in the chair. And it was moved by Mr. PATglisoN ; seconded by Mr. lltrTcitiri- SON ; and carried unanimously, That these resolutions be advertised in the Times, Chronicle, Ad- Tertiser, Sun, Globe, and Standard newspapers. Jan. 5, 1846. JAMES A. TEAGUE, Ward Clerk. ST. MARYLEBONE, JANUARY 3, 1846 TO BRICK:MANIAS, &c. ..... 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