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" LIF I aint -311' 'Mena ), icitola sn" Be' e o) sj*. fee V" 131 9 ' il a the " ay a e'lun— heeltl . . sot l ‘ AI yr icyl and eta' Pe r " 1 1 ° 1 4s. „ • tar e ', ta drOe 10 00. :9 0 c os reil 6 s ai ..---- As') rG9• pried 4PtAaPi' ;‘, Trea tise gams' ;,1 t 1 Ant" - 031. ve ci glo om and oa Se,o disto- ilonorSri ;Dtiat° • so ll 00,04 puRSIJANT to a DECREE of the HIGH v e , tis °CRT of CIIANCERY(Inade in certain Causes " ADNEY 14, the .1 ' 8 " 3114 ,” the next of kin of ANNA MARIA CARTER, th e tou /*ife of John Waldon Carter, of Wool, near Wareham, in die „ nt ,Y of -Dorset, gentleman, (which said Anna Maria Carter, Wool, aforesaid, on tit 15th day of November. 1844,) tut- 5 a t the time of her' death, Q and the legal personal Represen ve or it • fli e d , _ e Presentatifes of any such next of kin as may have since by their Solicitors forthwith to come in before Sir GIFFIN grm,77; b one of the M as t ers o f t h e sa id C our t, at his Chambers in l kiturr iun O t o- buildings, n - Cha er lane London, and prove their i er4— e4 " and Make out their ela c or in default thereof they will ld the benefit of the said Decree. TRW. PEARSON, 22, Essex-street, Plaintiff's Solicitor. eatsuANT to a DECREE of the HIGH ' CAPrC e° I/RT OF CHANCERY, made in certain Causes v.' TAGGART," "CARTER v. ADNEY," and " CAR LCAIIip,EAVER t" and of , inother Decree made in a Cause, ‘`asse B ASKCOMR," and d of another Decree made in certain kte .11EY v. BASKCO3II3," ' CARTER v. BASKCOMB," of is KR v. HACKBLOCK," the Creditors of James Taggart, the o ' f .'niselip-st, in the county of Kent, Esq., who died . in 4 4 August, l• 34, and the Creditors of the several Firms of n(1 • , and Baskcomb ' ," "Smith askcomb, and Company," gliten'Mit i and Baskcomb " or either , of them in a Brewery at °t int e tt " , 1a .which the Testator was a Partner, or had some share '40,74,1 are, f orthwith. to cine in awl prove their debts before Sir In l i n i euN, one of th e M as t ers o f the . said Court at his Charn- Ruf he hate[ ton buildi ngs , Ch ancer y -lane, London ;or in default wil l be excluded the benefit o the said decree. "as Pearson, pl d aintiff's solicitor, t 22, Essex-street. ti ()1 _„"liORN-HILL ; - SNOW W. HILL, AND -, AIIRING -• STREET VIADUCT COMPANY. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 2 00,0001. in 20,000 ghares of 101. each. %r,, Dcposit 11s. per Share. L 44 be Share-list being closed, no further applica Al ti lo on t s . -11 t otir i vod. and. the Directors are now proceeding in the " Shares. • uee (By order) CHAS. THOMAS, Secretary. tlq°lBl AL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR - • ANCE SOCIETY, . 26 CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital 2500,000. his T.. M rnPONVered by Act of Parliament. 4- mtltuu 11 4 r n "Pect " embraces important and substantial advantages oill . Life Assurances and Deferred Ainitl e e . s. p k Ort of themoons, the power to borrow, without expense "orsureafor ths l ° ll cY two-thirds of andu paid . (see ..; "t s a :oil of selecting benefits, the conversion of his ett 'other conveniences - or necessity. .2 - " 4 ter terms years are granted on t he low est possible DIVISION. PROFITS. nh siicce ' sa O nd N increasing prosperity of the Society b 6,1 Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare 4e tl I%l ' l 4 , s ' 'ne l'arYing fr l 'om 38 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid effected o n th e P ro fit scale. EXAMPLES. I ---\ EXAMPLES. ° g Pr r n l„ . _ 6 4 41 9 ," • e tin. tt , Bonus BAnns in ia g A...red !, adclo. Cash. E• 6 0 may ET a Borrow. --................... 1 g, t......_ -- I°4ooo ts' d. r 1837 £217 19 1 £lOO 011 £l6 0 41.Z445 0 0 a 4 • 183 8 192 3 0 67 1 4 13 10 2 1 395 11 1 1,1:34: 116 1 1 6 0 7 04 4 0 1 9 I; 1 1 18 3 10 1 296 34 13 2 3 4 *h. 1841 111 6 8 49 10 0 710 4 247 4 5 h:Qe dhi -c'enlber ivo;r , f o f Profits is annual, and the next will be rand. in t he present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUI, Secretary. LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, N .„P9W 3 1 : 9 11 ' ; 1 1 I ROGMORTON-STREET, BANK. b, '4O MA. BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT. Nch ARNCOMB, Esq., Alderman, Chairman. i tuli ar a t. Ara.LLIAM LEAF, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. _ Aid hanb ur e n , Esq. John llumphery Esq., Amerma n , Y' Esq. Esq., Alderman. 4 41 as rat Esti. Thomas Kelly, Esq, Jeremiah Filcher, Esq. 1 41 q ' Lewis Pocock, Esq. eby E ' 3( i• ' mss eto N Jeaffreson 2 Finsbury-square 'Y • Coul son ESQ 2, irederick's-place, Old Jewry. • P t. A titraiiir— Professor Hall, of King's College. l'ai t -, he A s . LOS RATES 'ol' PREMIUM. Ni - b , r) ,Pr tni ', 4 r.ig in this Oftice have the benefit of the Low r est sk t az no Which is compatible with the safety of the Assu :d ye , p k :s)s t Abe S. in elrect, equivalent to an Annual Bonus ; they h 0/, 4 Of n e a rl y '!UritY of a large subscribed capital—an Assurance l'sqrp4,lejea,oo4o /4.!ctr i t:r n :f a Million—and an Annual Income o from the issue of between 5,000 and A te. 4•1"-sr.sa, PREMIUM TO ASSUTtI £lOO. 1.1 " ° Jae Year. ' • • For Seven Years. 1 Whole Term. 40 17 3 1 1 3 1 5 0 1 14 4 2 4 £0 19 1 1 2 .7 1 6 9 1 19 10 3 7 0 £1 11 II 2 0 7 2 14 10 4 0 11 6 0 10 , 01 1 ,, alt or ni Yeark n e ,," Whole Term" Premium may remain en credit ' 9 t11 0 0 7 4 the Do — One-third of the Premium may remain for life as a k l 'eli u e j e nn tiee; at 5 per cent., or may be paid off at any time 1 4. °4 4, Il a el igne n c 1 as a security td others, will not be rendered Told tt s ;, n ease ;,,°' death isy suicide, duelling, or by the hands of jus- Clai% ll ed,th' death by the above causes, where the Policies are The .4 Paid e gr oss amount of Premiums received will be returned. Hd ). li td' °ne m • on..h after proofs have been furished. 'l e es i s e t . o "Leers attend daily at a Quarter before n Two o'Clock, ' ti ed the same day. 1111 EDWARD BATES, Resident Director. t x ,„ era-I Comml - ssion to Solicitors and Agents. 43 %Lis .1; Assup and SCOTTISH LAW LIFE aten„„ --INCE and LO 1.. N ASSOCIATION. —.-Place, London; 119, Princes-street, Edinburgh. Established in 1839. tiPt Aze, ''' Subscribed Capital, One Million. UrtANCE, ANNUITIES, REVERSIONS, AND IN o n n ENDOWMENTS. IN the English and Scottish Principle of Assurance. I N el len E UENSIVE and LIBERAL SYSTEM of LOAN in bl i tY. "It Lite Assurance, on undoubted personal or other ~bu e -e ° l Participate in two-thirds of the profits. HILL WILLIAMS, Actuary. ku-UARDIAN 1 ANCE C( LOMEA ED - STEEET, AND LIFE ASSUR )3IPANY. Lt the Entrance of the Old Post office, London. DIRECTORS. he t JOHN LATIOUCIIED.E, 1? 4 j°IIN Plx°;.l ' I;m" G p eorge Lysli, Esq., 3 r.P. c E p s uly"- C e h li a arnnl n i;. til t li nci a Pt% Berens, Esq. Stewart Marjorlbanks, Esq., M.P. I,l ar Ibrke. Esq. Bart. John Martin, Esq.. 5.P.3 i n R. Farquhar,., J [ S h er jun., Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. bq rrey F.sq. Robert Mitford, Esq. he ot te l l ] r „ , br;nd Hubbard, Esq. James Morrii, Esq. 4e lts"`"ollnCtone Es te to t h ' ' q' Henry A *4 LOA E i sq ' Joint Thornton, Esq. -k ..- s• w ...an., Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. It. Reynolds, jun., Esq. waii ' Ile 'barts •s• AUDITORS. Itel Jon • ....sq e. Loyd . Esq. n Esq. I l ll s e u n i r r y; Sykes Thornton, Esq. )01, n_ ilbil Lipt,etl,,arr—Grifilth Davies, Esq., F.R.S. b,, effected at 'tith i tes wi theUt ge-tr,TIIENT, Assurances maym each n .- a ToPatio n 'll ' o e lPation In the Profits ; or at so o: e d i e t r y a .e te ar l s tat A es t th e i to t t he three s ent tie moiety of the Profits , every kturc l r t anlounr ellinal dsions which thi ti 04 .11 or a hoUt 2- ed to about 1 per cent. Per . 1 . 1 ? . tun recived 1)3 0 .. e Whole amount ' er cent. on the amount of Kinn b . •inv has made, ' C . ° , l".P u ' in . oil the sum exceed ed s of Reversionary Bonus allotted 3 y ekt itu s gran ._ 00 ,000/. slues, pro -404,7 each 1 ,„`'. 11 Oil Life Policies to the extent of their val the`Coin tiled , uncles shall have been effected a sufficient time to have la 41 each e Olt t i t i t 'e FIR, ~,,e a value not under 501. *111,, e 3th 'i .1-I,I,PARTINIENT, a Return of profit was declared IS o e ' l hat b een i'nufne, seenhe premiums received on all 1 0 e tll v W ._ in course o _ orc eyears at Christmas , , 1845 and the sam Ith ~ I I th e ~_ r Payment daily (Friday and Saturday excepted),. I is _ ay th. r of Payment ten and three o'clock, at the Head Office , and Lrioti ee ; lents in the Country Districts. 13 1 . - day- i ,. reby g ive n, that Assurances which expire at Christ till _,S3eas7;_tl renewed within fifteen days at this Offiee, or with '4e void, • 1 , St. J ames's-street, ..orner of Poll-mall, or with ' 4O Void " . "Y ' Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they be - GEORGE KEYS, Secretary. 11. fl A ~ATI)ENT LIFE OFFICE, 50, REGENT STREET, LONDON, Established 1806. , INVESTED CA.PI CAL, 1,200,0001. eim ylnual Income 140,000/. Bonuses declared 529,000/. " 13 Paid since the Establishment of the Office, 1,520,000/. PRESI DENT.. The Right Honourable EARL GREY. a lhe Pa I DIRECTOIIB. '44', r or Macclesfield. Frederick Squire, Esq. J,,,,_ ....!1 Osborne, Bart. Rev. James Sherman. men Deering, Esq. Alfred Beaumont, Esq. n _l ,l'.!•ander Henderson 'II D Richard Sherwood, Esq. 'Me es " Rates et Premium l ' re . those adopted by the principal Life sil lees , th e rate without bonus . is lower than that of most other ii 2. The ai ~ "lotuses are added to the Policies, or applied to the redne 'trecis '''' e P remiums, or may be received in cash as soon as dz.- t.. at their then present value. 4 114 4111 1 are granted upon the Policies issued by this office, or the t .. 4. t t . are purchased at their full value. "41 aPartY neglect to pay for the renewal of his Policy, he m ay to ed r 1 1;: - 'e omissi on any thne within twelve months, upon p roo f of tlth. '''.......:___' e ntises paid upon Policies whi, ,h have become Claims. iSum insured, Sum paid. a o p,Wha on, Esq.. Skelton Castle Fl t4l ' h o rt A - s briott Bart... Ar vv. ° „,. ll .,aur,ers e . , kart 'Ll'ut:t. r r i n th iS m - o a r k e e .. 0 , 8" . rt.......•...... kart Thl ll l.:,ixW. Chatnpneys Canterbury Earl e Cott wolemey •• •• •• •• ath rt ... 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 L. 8. (1. 7,706 6 0 7,652 13 3 7,500 5 9 7,128 15 5 4,509 1 1 3,411 1 3 1,862 4 11 t c hZ t °Bo ectus - . 0 the ;„, e‘ and full particulars may be obtained upon applica rn ngdo . of the office in all the principal towns of the United a nd at the head office, No. 50, Regent-street. JOIN A. BEAUMONT, Managing Director. BRITIsn INSURANCE COM PANY. LOry,i,,stablished in 180 i), and Incorporated by Royal Charter. ' 4l Offices-4, New Bank-buildings, City, and 10, Pall-mall East. Chief Office-64, Princes-street, Edinburgh. I s k t • Capital, Ono• Million, ffilly subscribed. i II:MKT—HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G. LONDON BOARD. SIR PETER LAURIE, Alderman, Chairman. Al FRANCIS WARDEN, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. j oiZ z" ,; d er Cockburn, Esq. Charles Ilertslet, Esq. Rii I ,unnell Esq. Isaac Sewell, Esq. 4 444 4 , 41 Petrie Craufurd, Esq. Walt. A. Urquhart, Esq. 4/ Ing Glennie, Esq. George Webster, Esq. BENJAMIN BOYD, Esq. } Resident. MARK BOYD, Esq. ,Nr s ... John Webster, M.D., F.R.S., Physician. mtei k u:oS desirous of participating in the next bonus are recom liVto e to insure before the termination of the present year. I s 1: at commission Is allowed to parties introducing blislner.. to ms! ' r . f0t1 4 4 — Ones, with Tables of Rates, and full particulars, may be -* lilt n the Secretary, 4, New Bank-buildings, and of the Actuary, 0 , Esq., 10, Pall-mall East. HENRY T. TIIOMSON, Secretary. UD D ER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HER MOST TITD _9_RACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. nOYAL NAVAL. MILITARY, EAST INDIA, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 1 3, WATERLOO-PLACE, LONDON. b Ert.RAIIMAN — CoIo DIRECTORS. nel Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.11.,R.E. It'eltAlßmAN—Major-Gcneral Sir WILL AM GOSSET, C. 8., K.C.11., It E. Ad miral the Right lion. Sir G. Cockburn, G.C.8., M.P. Ma ier - General Sir J. Cockburn, Bart., G.C.11. G eneral Sir Thomas Bradford, G.C.8., G.C.11. Nla jor-General Sir P. Ross, G.C.M.G., E.C.11. Lieute nant-G'eueral Sir John Gardiner, K.C.B. Alajor - General Sir hew D. 1:0.55, K.C.8., R.A. ,CaPtalu Sir George Bac' , . R•S !Nor -General Taylor, C. 8., E. i .C.S. I.tajor-General Edward Wynyard, C.B. tajor-G enCral Arnold, K .C. Lieutenant -General Cleiland, E.I.C.S. Lieut enant -Colon e l 11. Ilannier, K. 11., late R.U.G. Lieute nant -Colonel Purchas, E.I.C.S. Lieutenant -Colonel Matson, R.E. Major Chadwell Clerks, ICH., F.R.S. Archibald Hair, Esq., M.D., late R.11.G. kaPtain William Lancey, Valiant Chard, Esq., Navy Agent ,aires Nugent Daniell, Esq. kCTilbraham Taylor, Esq. 41,3,fUtir—John Finlaison, Esq., the Government Calculator. iitem,auces are granted upon the lives of persons In every station 411 118 : 50 d for every part of the world, upon particularly favourable Per tli tr ws°itn,s as sured in thi s o ffi ce may change from one country to ano to.rut forfeiting their policies. the Do , s AMO UNTING TO THIRTY PEE CENT. on the ac t ua l value of keeti4e:ehst,irsin tapportioned to the assured at the First Septennial 4. JosErii BRETTELL *ocretary. Z---e-z-o- , - %-- - ' , -- -, -- -- ‘' '' ' 'l % ~~ ~_ 4:0 1 14, 1 . 4 5 \ / I el-4M .00 ' " : 1' 46 , " I\ 2 ' 11' - • 5 ' - -3; - • Ai - • %,it° E - i 7 ;irtii : r a'l4l. %t› - ZN: \ • yt • - 4 & rll Ots, _ LONDON, SATURDAY EVENIN",„ Ny DECEMBER 19, 1846. PUBLICATIONS. ELIZA COOK'S POEMS• Just published, the Fourth Edition of MELAIA, and other Poems, beautifully illustrated, price 10s. 6d. cloth, and 15s. morocco, elegant. " The work b well got up, and will form a handsome Christmas Gift." Also the "Second Series," with a finely executed Portrait of the Author, price ss. cloth. •• Eliza Cook's poetry appeals at once to the soul by its simple truthfulness. Many a roof has rung with her beautiful ballads." — Literary Gazette. " Eliza Cook has the daring which belongs to genius alone. There is health In her poetry, and it is likely to make her readers happier and better."—Sunday Times. " Some of the poems are so exceedingly bclutiful as to strike us with a kind of wonder."—llell's Weekly Messenger. London : Simpkin. Marshall, and Co., and 011ivier, Pall Mall Orders received by all Booksellers. Just rubll-hed, 2 vols., octavo, 285., of THE BONAPARTE LETTERS AND DESPATCHES from the Originals in his Private CablEet. " This coteetion was known before, and has been largely quoted from, [by Alison, in his history of Europe ; by Thicrs, and Witch smith, Professor of History in the University of Leipzig, in their Histories of the Revolution ; by Botta, in his history of Italy, and by other distinguished historians] "but it has not to our knowledge been previously published in this country. It is a work of the first importance."—Britannia, Nov. 14. "We heartily recommend these remarkable volumes, bearing, as they do, intemal evidence of authenticity."— New Monthly Magazine. " We have perused these volumes with indescribable delight ; they contain the Secret, Confidential. and Official Letters of the greatest Warrior the world ever saw.' In fact, these Letters, sketched by his own hand, were never intended to meet the public eye,"—Weekly Dispatch. "A highly interesting collection."—Atlas. • London : Maunders and Otley, Conduit-street. ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE. 1 1 HE FIRST - VOLUME - of the NEW EDI TION of THE HISTORY OF EUROPE is now published, and may be had of all Booksellers. Price 6s. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. THE LONDON AND SUBURBAN CABRIOLET and CARRIAGE COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered.) • Capital 100,0001., in 10,000 shares of 101. each. Deposit 11. per share, being the largest sum which can be legally . . required prior to. complete registration. This Company has been formed for the purpose of supplying the Metropolis and its Neighbourhood with handsome and weil-appointee: Public Cabriolets and Carriages, constructed with all modern im provements, in lieu of the mean and miserable conveyances at pre sent in use, and to effect this at a considerable reduction in the exist ing rates, it being intended that the fares shall in no case exceed the rate of ad. per mile, and so on In proportion. It is also proposed to supply open Excursion Carriages of differest kinds, in the Summer Months, similar to those in use at Brighton, Leamington, and other fashionable watering places. Full prospectuses, containing the names of the Provisional Direc tors, and Members of the Company, may be obtained ; and applica tions for Shares (which must be in the prescribed forms), may be made to the Secretary of the Company, at the temporary offices, 3, Crown-court, Old Broad-street, London.. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS SCHOOLS FOR ORPHANS AND NECESSITOUS CHILDREN. Offices, 51, Cheapsitle. . . Notice Is hereby given, that a QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the GOVERNORS of this INSTITUTION will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, in the City of London, on MON DAY, the 28th day of December inst., at twelve o'clock at noon, pre cisely, for the purpose of appointing Patrons, Patronesses, a President. Vice-Presidents, Trustees, Treasurer, Auditors, Medical Officers, Secretaries, and Collectors, or such of them as he Court may think lit; and also for the purpose of electing a Board of Management for the ensuing year, and to entertain, discuss, and determine such other questions and matters as may be authorised and required by the rules of the Institution. The attendance of all Governors is particularly requested. GEORGE LAI" ENCE I Secretaries. WILLIAM GORDON, REFORMATION ll' CLEANING UHIM NEYS.—The use of the PORTLAND PATENT SPRINt BRUSH and CHIMNEY-SWEEPING APPARATUS obviates al the annoyance and inconvenience consequent upon the present die gusting plan. By it a flue is completely cleansed withont on. particle of soot entering the apartment. A short time agc an experiment was made with this apparatus at the House o: Commons, the success of which was complete. Speets of writing paper were placed upon the chimney-piece, and in various *the! parts of the room, and after the completion of the sweeping not one particle of soot was discernible upon any of the sheets of paper. To be seen at 69, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square. N.B. The Proprietor is willing to grant licenses for the use of this patent invention in the provincial towns of En;land. Agents for the Metropolis are required. PATENT ELASTIC BANDS, warranted not to he affected by the cold or heat of any season or climate. These Rings or Bands are used instead of Tape or String, for hold ing Papers and Parcels of every description. One of these Rings is instantly placed round a Packet of Papers, a Roll of Maps, Print:, Music, &c., holding the same firmly and se curely, saving the time and trouble of tying, yet allowing a very groat addition or reduction without any loss of compactness. They are well adapted for Garters, (a size being selected which re quires little stretching); also for the Waist and different parts of the Body ; Surgical Bandages, and for a variety of Surgical and Mann featuring purposes. These Bands are also very suitable for Fastening the Covers of Preserve and Pickle Jars, Bottles, &e. In addition to the above, there is a great variety of uses, too nu mesons to mention, for which these Bands may be applied with ad vaz'itage, and new applications will constantly suggest themselves when in use. . They may be had of two thicknesses, and are sold in Boxes of six dozen each, of assorted sizes, price Gd. per box and upwards. . . ]ands may be had to order of various widths and thicknesses. 4 !** The above articles are sold by all Stationers and Dealers in Metallic Pens. Wholesale and for Exhortation by Perry and Co., at No. 37, Red Lion-square, London ; and also by Charles Macintosh and Co., Manufacturers, Manchester and Birmingham. CUNDY'S PATENT OPEN FIRE VENTILATING STOVE. (TeEtimonial after one Winter's trial.) •' St. Jollies, Fulham, May 2, 1846. My dear Str,—l have very great pleasure in ,glving my public testimony to the efficiency of your stove, as combining the double advantage of thoroughly warming and constantly ventilating any large church or building. Your invention appeared to me to he in the Dry all that could be desired, and I can honestly say that I have not yet discovered the point in which the practice falls short of the theory. "The area of my church is computed to be nearly 200,000 cubical feet, and, though a second stove will be required, the one already erected has fully answered my highest expectations, and realised al: thai you have given me to expect. If confirmation were needed fin evidence of its efficiency, I might further state that I had peculiat - - difficulties to contend wi:h—that various attempts had bee'n made, and that every attempt had preyed a signal failure—that I was ex posed to the charge of boldness in attempting what had bafile(, others; but that such is the power, the efficiency, and the comfort communicated by your stove, that I know not of a dissentient voice, and have heard only of approval with unanimous consent. " I might add, that I was first led to the making inquiry respect. ng your stove having gathered indirectly that a disposition, not un• favourable towards it, was entertained in a certain high quarter, where, on account of ability of discernment, the smallest approach to approval must carry with it great weight. " I remain, dear Sir, yours faithfully, " WILLIAM (I.lltltArf, Minister of St. John's, Fulham. " Cundy, Esq." The stoves to be had of Messrs. DOWSON, 69, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square ; where they may be seen ill operation. BRITISH COLLEGE. of HEALTH, New road, London. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. of the HYGEIST, with the reason: that led him to the discovery of the Ilygeian System of Medicine and the " Vegetable Universal Medicines," after thirty-five years' inex pressible suffering under the medical faculty. James Morison, the youngest son of Alexander Morison, Esq., was born at Bognie, in the county of Aberdeen, in the year 1770 The family has been long known as one of great affluence and re spectability, and the late Member for Banffshire, John Morison, war the second brother of the subject of this brief sketch. For the remainder of the sketch, see the abridged " Morisoniana," to be had of all the honorary members of the British College o. Health, New-road, London. Price Gd. • lfanehester just one hour and three minutes after its due time.—Manchester Guardian. THE SALT TRADE TO INDIA. A deputation of the merchants, manufacturers, ship owners, and others, interested in the salt trade to India, old the abolition of the East India Company's power to manufacture salt in India, waited .on Sir John Cam Hobhouse, the President of the Board of Control, on Thursday last, at two rM. The deputation, which was headed by Sir Denis Le Marchant, M.P. for Worcester, consisted of the folio% in.- '3 gentlemen:—Mr. W. Worth ington, Mr. IL Ashton, Mr. D. C. Aylwin, and Mr. R. Falk, representing the Committee of the Cheshire Salt Chamber of Commerce ; Mr. Alderman E. Evans and {r. J. W. Lea, Commissioners of the Ss:vern Navigation improvement, representing the Worcester Chamber of Commerce mai Town Council ; Mr. Shawcross, Mr. W. L'eel, and Mr. H. Fleming, on behalf of the city of Man chester ; Mr. T. Greenshields and Mr. Itufford, repre senting the Worcester section of the Salt Chamber of Commerce ; Mr. Shipton, of the Gloucester Chamber of Commerce ; Mr. A. Ridley and Mr. W. C. Harnett, re presenting the London Shipowners' Association ; Mr. Hontague Fielden, on behalf of the merchants and manufacturers of Blackburn and vicinity ; Mr. Enthoven, Hr. Morrell, Mr. Westall, and Mr. Bumpstead, repre senting the London salt trade ; and Mr. J. H. Stoc lueler, the Secretary to the Committee of the Cheshire ind Worcestershire Salt Chamber. The deputation being seated, Sir Denis Le Marchant )pened the case, and read to the President of the Board ,f Control a memorial of aliseeting of the merchants, manufacturers, &c., represented by the deputation, in which the great evils of the India Company's monopoly the manufacture of salt, and the oppressive method in whiCh the duty is levied on imported salt, were fully set 'orth. Sir Denis likewise handed in the resolutions passed at a recent public meeting at Man c h ester , de c l ara t ory o f the determination of the manufacturers of that city to appeal to Parliament against the monopoly. Mr. Thomas Greenshields followed Sir Denis Le Harchant with an exposition of the (so-called) bonding system in force in the principal Indian ports, showing how completely it operated to check the exportation of salt from this country, and is give to the East India Company extensive command of the market. Mr. D. C. Aylwin (of the firm of Aylwin and Co., Calcutta) entered into a complete detail of the various ways in which the virtual possession - of the monopoly sffected the commerce, the manufactures, and the ship ping of this country, and the health, comfort, and ad vancement in civilization of the natives of India. Mr. Aylwin likewise illustrated the absurdity and inconsis tency of the bonding process, by describing a case of re sent occurrence at Madras. Mr. Montague Fielden, on behalf of the merchants ind manufacturers of Blackburn and its vicinity, pro tested against the monopoly, upon the broad ground of is inconsistency with the welfare of the people of India. lie cast aside all minor considerations, and maintained .hat upon the great principle of the right of the meanest •übject to participate in the blessings of free trade, the 4:ast India Company should be alto get h er pro hibi te d 'rom manufacturing salt, or . imposing a duty upon so t.sential an article of food. Mr. Rufford showed how deeply concerned the Wor !estershire salt trade was in the alteration of the system ender which a duty was now levied upon salt sent from his country. Mr. Ridley, of the London Shipowners' Association, net the allegation of the Company (advanced on some =osier occasion), that there was not available tonnage 'or all the salt that would be required from this country ror the supply of India, by declaring, on the contrary, here was a superabundance, and that the enterprise and ingenuity of the shipowner would always discover means )f meeting a deficiency, could such a contingency by any aossibility arise. Mr. Sliipton explained to the President that the port ,f Gloucester, which, in its comparative infancy, stood ouch in need of fostering assistance, would be largely ')enefited by becoming one of the channels for the ex ,ort of Worcestershire salt. Mr. Shaweross, while sympathising with the mer :bents who confined their present prayer to the enforce nent of a bonding system analogous to that in .opera ion in Great Britain, stated it to be the firm impression A* the Manchester merchants, manufacturers, &c., that ,he only adequate remedy for the evils of the monopoly was its total extinction. Manchester regarded the tax upon salt as a cruel impost, for which the necessity of raising revenue afforded n 9 kind of reasonable excuse. Sir John Hobhouse having asked how, in the face of such a bonding system as that complained of, large ex portations of salt had been made during the last year— the President was answered by Mr. Greenshields, Mr. Rufford, and Mr. Robert Falk, that the exports had been made experimentally, in the hope that the late Govern ment would have caused the East India Company to 31ter their regulations ; but that all those exports had 3nded in loss, and not another ounce of salt would be dent until the trade was placed up.m a fair footing. Sir John Hobhouse then intimated that he would lay the whole matter before his colleagues in the Cabinet, for their early consideration. He could not hold out any mir.ediate expectation that the East India Company would be induced readily to surrender 1,300,000/. et an ival revenue, but he would see that the bonding system vas immediately inquired into. The India Board being. concurrent rather than a directly controlling power, he mad not issue peremptory instructions, as was sup posed, but everything should be done which the case, on !onsideration, appeared to demand. The East India .:ompany had already sent out a dispatch to their Go ,Trnment in India upon the subject, tut he was nut at iberty to disclose the nature of the communication. Mr. Stocqueler having asked when the salt merchants night hope for a decision on the question, Sir John an swered, that no time should be lost., consistently with the 'rdinary claims upon the time of the Cabinet, in coining to a conclusion, and meanwhile, he would be very happy to sea and confer with any members of the deputation ho might wish to see him. The deputation then retired. ALARMING AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. - This norning, shortly before three o'clock, a fire broke cut -n the premises of Mr. Noblett, currier, '24, Drury-lane, which at one time threatened destruction to the densely )opulated neighbourhood adjacent. The premises con sisted of a dwelling-house in Drury-lane, and workshops extending to a considerable depth, entirely built of wood, ;or the purposes of tanning and currying the leather. the fire originated in the front of the building, and was speedily communicated to the wooden workshops above ,iientioned. At one time considerable fears were enter wink d for the safety of the building adjoining, in the ccupation of Mr. D ur i eu , ta l low - c h an dl er an d melter, but the speedy arrival of the engines from the various tations, together with that belonging to Messrs. Combe and Co , assisted with a plentiful supply of water, speedily stopped the progress of the flames, but not before the whole of Mr. Noblett's premises were entirely consumed, together with the stock in trade, furniture, &c. The firemen, with their wonted per severance, combatted the flames at no less than four several points, viz., at the rear of the premises, in Brownlow-street, in Brokers'-alley, in Charles-street. and in the front in Drury-lane. The fire, we are happy to state, was nearly extinguished within an hour atter the outbreak. Mr. Noblett, we understand, is insured in the Sun-office. We could not ascertain the cause of the conflagration, but the loss must be very con siderable. THE NATIONAL BATHS, HOLBORN.—Those who were wont to visit these rooms in the summer season, will find them now converted into elegant reception sa loons, for the lovers of music and votaries of Terpsi chore. The space hitherto occupied by the swimming baths is floored over, at the one end of which is placed the orchestra ; it is tastefully and elegantly fitted up, and on either side are commodious refreshment rooms, and above, is a beautiful apartment devoted to the accom modation of those who wish to indulge in the luxuries of a cigar. This Casino, under the management of Mr. Coleman, was opened for the first time on Thursday night, when a crowded and respectable audience listened S pl o a m Yi e n c g hoice and the most fa vourite t h p l eoverturesa ex cellent singing followed, diversifying the entertainment a n u e d xc g e u ll u e d n r t il b le a s n . d, of the evening, which was loudly applauded. After a short interval, dancing commenced, which was kept up with great spirit. A visit to this novel entertainment will well repay those who wish to enjoy an evening's en tertainment. BREACH OF PROMISE IN FRANCE. —Actions for breach of promise of marriage are very rare in France, and they are still more rarely successful. On Saturday last the civil tribunal of the Seine was occupied with a suit by Mdlle. Ziuna, a young lady of a respectable fa wily, against a M. Emile, who, after repeated protesta tions that he would marry her, had married another lady. Mdlle. Ziuna had loved truly, and too well, for a child was the result of her weakness, and it had been baptized in the name of the father, who not only ac knowledged it,, but even declared at the registry of the birth that it was his child by his legitimate spouse, the mother. The promise of the marriage, both verbally and in writing, was clearly proved, but the counsel for the defence contended that Mdlle. Ziuna and her mother had taken advantage of the youth and inexperience of the defendant, who is indeed older than the plaintiff, but it was argued that young ladies are much more clever than young gentlemen, and that Mdlle. Ziuna, although younger in years , was su p erior in tact to her seducer. The Avocat du Rol, in his address to the court, said that " if it was necessary to give reparation to the victim of seduction, it was quite as necessary to avo id h old i ng out premiums to a sex who complain too frequently of being such victims." The court rejected the demand of Mdlle. Ziuna for damages. ' SIR JOHNIFRANKLIN S EXPEDITION TO THE ARCI IC REGIONS.—A statement has been going the round of ion u nnecessary alar m an d apprehen the papers expres, .. sion for the safety of the expedition to the Arctic re gions, and that inquiries have been daily made at the Admiralty on the subject. The e ntire paragraph is a tissue of ignorance, s tupidity, and falseh oo d. Th e l as t accounts from Sir john Franklin were dated July 12, 1845, at Disco. The last heard of the expedition was by a whaler, which left them on July 26, 1845, off the entrance of Lancaster Sound. As the expedition has ;one where no whalers ever go, it was not possible t o hoar by the ships just returned. No inquiries whatever bare been wade at the Admiralty by any of the relatives or connexions of those employed in the expedition ; there is, therefore, no cause of apprehension, THE NEW PLANET. ST. CATHARINE'S HALL LODGE, DEC. I2.—The Syn dicate appointed to visit the Observatory, conceiving the subject at the present time to possess peculiar interest, beg leave to submit to the Senate the following state ment of Professor Challis, describing the course of ob servations, founded on the theoretical calculations of Mr. Adams, of St. John's College, and made at the Observatory, with a view to the discovery of the new planet. 11. Philpot, Vice-Ch?.n. r George Peacock. John Graham. James Cartmell. 13. Chapman. Chas. W. Goods!in. W. Whewell. W. C. Mathison. Joshua King. G. G. Stokes. SPECIAL REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE CAM BRIDGE OBSERVATORY, RELATIVE TO THE NEW PLANET. At a meeting of the Observatory Syndicate, held at the Observatory on the 4th December, for . the dispatch of ordinary business, a strong desire having been expressed by the Vice-Chancellor and the members of the Syndicate generally, to receive from me a special report of observatory proceedings relating to the newly discovered planet, drawn up in such a manner, and in such detail, as would enable them to lay complete in formation on the subject before the members of the Senate, I considered it to be my duty at once to comply with this request. A new body of the solar system has been discovered, by means depending on the farthest advances hitherto made in theoretical and practical astronomy, and confirming, in a most remarkable manner. the theory of universal. .gravitation. It is, therefore, on every account desirable that the members of the Senate should be made fully acquainted with the part which has been taken by the Cambridge Observa tory, relatively to this important extension of astrono mical science. The observations I shall have to speak of, and the reasons for undertaking them, are so closely connected with theoretical calculations performed by a member of this university, to account for anomalies in the motion of the planet Uranus, that the history of the former necessarily involves that of the latter. I hope that for this reason, and because of the peculiar nature of the circumstances, I may be allowed to make a com. munication less formal and restricted in its character than a mere report of observatory proceedings. The tables with which the observations of the planet Uranus have been uniformly compared were published by A. Bouvard in 1821. They are founded on a continued series of observations extending from 1781, the year of its discovery, to 1821. Previous to 1781 it had been accidentally observed seventeen times its a fixed star, the earliest observation of this kind being one by Flamsteed in 1690. Bouvard met with a difficulty in forming his tables. On an attempt to found them upon the ancient, as well as the modern observations, it appeared that the theoretical did not agree with the observed course of the planet. He thought this might be attributed to the im perfection of the ancient observations, and consequently rejected all previous to 1781 in the formation of the tables finally published. These tables represent well enough the observations in the forty years from 1781 to 1821; but very soon after the latter year new errors began to show themselves, which have gone on in creasing to the present time. It was now evident that the ancient observations had been rejected on in -sufficient grounds, and that from some unknown cause the theory was in fault. Were the tables calculated inac curately? The difference between observation and theory (amounting in 1841 to 96 mins. of geocentric longitude), was too great, and Bouvard's calculations were made with too much care, to allow of this explanation. The effect cf small terms neglected in the calculation of the ' perturbations caused by Jupiter and Saturn, could not be supposed to bear any considerable proportion to the ob served amount of error. This state of the theory sug gested to several astronomers the idea of disturbances, caused by an undiscovered planet more distant than Uranus. But there is no evidence of this hypothesis having been put to the test of calculation previous to 1843. The usual problem of perturbations is to find the disturbing action of one body on another, by knowing the positions of both. Here an inverse problem, hitherto untried, was to be solved; viz., from known disturbances of a planet in known positions, to find the place of the disturbing body at a given time. Mr. Adams, Fellow of St. John's College, showed me a memorandum made in 1841, recording his intention of attempting to solve this problem as soon as he had taken his degree of B.A. Accordingly, after graduating in January, 1843, he obtained an approximate solution by sup- posing the disturbing body to move in a circle at twice the distance of Uranus from the sun. The result so far satisfied the observed anomalies in the motion of. Uranus, as to induce him to enter upon an exact solution. For this purpose he required reduced observations, made in the ears 1818-1826, and re quested my intervention to obtain them from Greenwich. The Astronomer Royal, on my application, immediately supplied (Feb. 15, 1845), all the heliocentric errors of Uranus in longitude and latitude, from 1754 to 1830, completely reduced. Mr. Adams was now furnished with ample data from observation, and his next care was to ascertain whether Bouvard's theoretical calculations were correct enough for his purpose. Ile tested the accuracy of the principal terms of the perturbations caused by Jupiter and Saturn, and concluded that the small terms which Bouvard had nut taken into account, would not sensibly affect the final results, the chief of them being ei, her of long period, or of a period neatly equal to that of Uranus. Besides which he intredueed into the theory several corrections which had been de. rived from observation and calculation by different astro nomers, since 1821. The calculations were completed in 1845. In September of that year Mr. Adams placed in my hands a paper containing eumerical values of the mean longitude at a given epoch, longitude of perihelion, eccentricity of orbit, mass, and geocentric longitude, September 30, of the supposed disturbing planet, which he calls by anticipation, " the New Planet," evidently showing the conviction in his own mind of the reality of its existence. Towards the end of the next month, a communication of results slightly different was made to the Astronomer Royal, with the addition of what was far more important, viz., a list of the residual errors of the mean longitude of Uranus, for a period extending from 1690 to 1840, after taking account of the disturb ing effect of the supposed planet. This comparison of observation with the theory implied the determination of all the unknown quantities of the problem, both the corrections of the elements of Uranus, and the eh ments of the disturbing body. The smallness of the residua! errors proved that the new theory was adequate to the explanation of the observed anomalies in the motion of Uranus, and that as the error of longitude was corrected fur a period of at least 130 years, the error of radius vector was also corrected. As the calculations rested on an assumption, made according to Bucle's law, that the mean distance of the disturbing planet was double that of Uranus, without the above-mentioned numerical veri fication, no proof was given that the prcblem was solved, or• that the elements of the supposed planet were not mere speculative results. The earliest evidence of the complete solution of an inverse problem of perturbations is to be dated from October, 1845. Although the comparison of the theory with observa tion proved synthetically that the assumed mean dis tance was not very far from the truth, it was yet desir able to try the effect of an alteration of the mean dis tance. Mr. Adams accordingly went through the same calculations as before, assuming a mean distance some thing less than the double of that of Uranus, and ob tained results which indicated a better accordance of the theory with observation, and led him to the conclusion, which has since been confirmed by observation, that the mean distance should be still farther diminishel This second solution, taken in conjunction with the first, may be considered to relieve the question of evtry kind of assumption. The new elements of the disturbing body, and the results of comparing the observed with the theoretical mean longitudes of Uranus, were communi cated to the Astronomer Royal at the beginning of Sep tember, 1846. These were accompanied by numerical values of errors of the radius vector, the Astronomer Royal having inquired, after the reception of the first solution, whether the error of radius vector, known to exist from observation, was explained by this theory. It would be wrong to infer that Mr. Adams was not pre pared to answer this question till he had gone through the second solution. Errors of radius vector were as readily deducible from the first solution as from the other. The preceding details 'are intended to point out the circumstances which led astronomers to suspect the ex istence of an additional body of the solar system, and the theoretical reasons there were for undertaking to search for it. No one could have anticipated that the place of the unknown body was indicated with any degree of exactness b 3 a theory of this kind. It might reasonably be supposed, without at all mistrusting the evidence which the theory gave of the existence of the planet, that its position was determined but roughly, and that a search for it must necessarily be long and laborious. This was the view I • took, and consequently I had no thought of commencing the search in 1845, the planet being considerably past opposition at the time Mr. Adams completed his calculation;. The succeeding interval to Midsummer of 1846 was a period- of great astronomical activity, the planet Astrica, Biela's double comet, and several other comets, successively demanding attention. During this time I had little communication with Mr. Adams respecting the new planet. Attention was again called to the subject by the pub lication of M. Leverrier's first researches in the Cornpte liendu for June 1, 1846. At a meeting of the Greenwich Board of Visitors, held on June 29, at which I was present, Mr. Airy announced that M. Leverrier had obtained very nearly the same longitude of the supposed planet, os that given by Mr. Adams. On July 9, I received a letter from Mr. Airy, in which he suggested employing the Northumberland Telescope in a systematic search for the planet, offering, at the same time to send an assistant from Greenwich, in case I declined undertaking the observations. This letter was followed by another, dated July 13, contain ing suggestions respecting the mode of conducting the observations, and an estimation of the amount of work they might be expected to require. In my answer, dated July 18, I signified the determination I had come to of undertaking the search. Various reasons led me to this conclusion. I had already, as Mr. Adams can testify, entertained the idea of making these observa tions ; the most convenient time for commencing them was now approaching ; and the confirmation of Mr. Adams's theoretical position by the calculations of M. ' Leverrier appeared to add very greatlito the probabi PRICE SD. lity of success. I had no answer to make to Mr. Airy's offer of sending an assistant, as I understood the accept ance of it to imply the relinquishing on my part of the undertaking. „, I have now to speak of the observations. The plan of operations was formed mainly on the suggestions con tained in Mr. Airy's note of July 13th. It was recom mended to , :weep over three times at lea , t, a zodiacal belt 30 deg. long and 10 deg. broad, having the theore tical place of the planet at its centre; to complete one sweep before commencing the next; and to map the po• sitions of the stars. The three sweeps, it was calculated, would take 300 hours of observing. This extent of work, which will serve to show the idea entertained of the difficulty of the undertaking before the planet was dis covered, did not appear to me greater than the case re quired. It will be seen that the plan did not contemplate the use of hour xxi. of the B•-rlin star-maps, the publica tion of which was equally unknown at that time to Mr. Airy and myself: It may be proper here to explain that tha construction of a good star-map requires a great amount of time and Labour both in observing and calcu lating, and that precisely this sort of labour mils', be gone through to conduct a search of the kind I had un dertaken. The stars must first be mvpi_ed before the search can properly be said to begin... With a map ready made, the detection of a moving body, as it happened in this instance, might be effected on a comparison with the heavens with a map by mere inspection. Not having the advantage of such a map, I proceeded as follows. I not( d down very ap proximately the position of all the stars to the 11th mag nitude that could be conveniently taken as they passeci through the field of view of the telescope, the breadth of the field with a magnifying power of 166 being 9 = , and the telescope being in a fixed position. When the stars came thickly, some were necessarily allowed to pass without recording their places. Wishing to include all stars to the 11th magnitude, I proposed in going over the same region a second time to avail myself of an arrangement peculiar to the. Northumberland Equatoreal, the merit of inventing which is due to Mr. Airy. The hour-circle, telescope, and polar fram e , are movea bl e b y clock-work , which may be regulated to sidereal time nearly. While this motion is going on, the tele scope and polar frame are moveable relatively to the hour circle, by a tangent screw apparatus, and a handle extending to the observer's scat. This contrivance enables the observer to measure at his leisure differences of right ascension, however small, and therefore meets the case of stars coming in groups. The observations =de by this method might include all the stars it was thought desirable to take, and therefore might include all the stars taken in the first sweep. The discovery of the planet would result from finding that any star in the first sweep was not in its position in the second sweep. If two sweeps failed in detecting the planet among the stars of the first sweep, it might be among the stars of the second, which would be decided by taking a third sweep of the same kind as the second. It will appear that this plan carried out, would not only detect the planet if it- were in the region explored, but would also, in case of failure, enable the observer to pronounce that it was not in that region. The second mode of observing required the aid of my two assistants, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Breen, in reading off and recording the observations. I commenced observing July 29, employing on that day the first method, with telescope fixed. The next day I observed according to the second method, with tele scope moving. On Aug. 4 the telescope was fixed as to right ascension, but was moved in declination in a zone of about 70 min. breadth, the intention of the observations of that day being to record points of reference for the zones of 9 min. breadth. On Aug. 12, the fourth day of observing, I went over the same z )ne, telescope fixed, as on July 30 with telescope moving. Soon after Aug. 12, 1 compared, to a certain extent, the observations of that day, with the observations of July 30, taken with telescope moving; and finding, as far as I carried the comparison, that the positions of July 30 included all those of Aug. 12, I felt convinced of the adequacy of the method of search I had adopted. The observations were continued with diligence to Sept. 29, chiefly with the telescope fixed, and were made early in right ascen sion, for the purpose of exploring as large a space as possible before I should be compelled to desist by the approach of daylight, On Oct. 1, I heard that the pla net was discovered by Dr. Galle, at Berlin, on Sept. 23. I had then recorded 3,150 positions of stars, and was making preparations for mapping them. The following results were obtained by a discussion of the observations after the announcement of the discovery. On continuing the comparison of the observations of July 30 and August 12, I found that No. 49, a star of the Bth magnitude in the series of Aug. 12 was wantirg in the series of July :30. According to the principle of the search, this was the planet. It had wandered into the zone in the.interval betwet n July 30 and Aug. 12. I had not continued the former comparison beyond N 0.39, pro bably from the accidental circumstance that a line was there drawn in the memorandum beck in consequence of the in terruption of the observations by a cloud. After ascertain ing the place of the planet on Aug. 12, I readily inferred that it was also sawn?, the reference stars taken on August 4. Thus, after four days of observing, two posi tions of the planet were obtained. This is (nail-. ly to be attributed to my having, on those days, directed the telescope towards the planet's theoretical place, according to instructions given in a paper Air. Adams, had the kindness to draw up for me, I would also beg to call attention to the fact that, after August 12, the planet was discoverable by a closet comparison of the ebserva tions, a method of observing, depending upon novel and ingenious mechanism, having been adopted, by vi hich I could say of each star, to No. 48, " This is not a planet," and of No. 49, " This is a planet." I lust the oppertu city of announcing the discovery, by deferring the dis cussion of the observations . ; being much occupied with reductions of comet observations, and little suspecting that the indications of theory were accurate enough to give a chance of discovery in so short a time. On Sept. 29, I saw, for the first time, the communication pre sented by M. Leverrier to the Paris Academy on Aug. 31. I was much struck with the manner in which the author limits the field of observation, and with his re commending the endeavour to de4ct the planet by its disc. Mr. Adams had already told me that, according to his estimation, the planet would. not be less bright than a star of the ninth magnitue. On the same even ing I swept a considerable breadth iv declination, be tween the limits of right ascension marked out by M. Leverrier, and I paid particular attention to the physical appearance of the brighter stars. Out of 300 stars, whose positions I recorded that night, I fixed on one which appeared to have a disc, and which proved to be the planet. This was the third time it was observed before the announcement of the discovery reached me. This last observation may be regarded as a discovery of the planet, due to the good definiton of the noble instrument which we owe to the munificence of our Chancellor. From the reduced places of the planet, on Aug. 4 and Aug. 12, and from observations since its discovery, extendisg to Oct. 13, Mr. Adams calculated, at my re quest, values of its heliocentric longitude at a given epoch, its actual distance from the sun, longitude 01 the node, and itclination of the orbit, which were pub lished as early as October 17. I am now diligently observing the planet with the meridian instruments, and when daylight prevents its being seen on the meridian, I pi opose carrying on the observations as long as pos sible with the Northumberland equatoreal, for the per• pose of obtaining data for a further approximation to the elements of the orbit. My report of proceedings relating to the planet here terminates. I beg permission to add a few remarks, which the facts I have stated seem to cal: for. It will appear by the above account that my success might have been complete, if I had trusted more implicitly to the indications of the theory. It must, however, be remem bered that I was quite in a novel position : the history of astronomy does not afford a parallel instance of ob servations undertaken entirely in reliance upon deduc tions from theoretical calculations, and those, too, of a kind before untried.' As the case stands, a very pro minent part has been• taken in the University of Cam bridge with reference to this extension of the boundaries of astronomical science. We may certainly assert to be facts, for which there is documentary evidence, that the problem of determining, from perturbations, the unknown place of the disturbing body, was first solved here ; that the planet was here first sought for ; that places of it were here first recorded, and that approxi mate elements of its orbit were here first deduced from observation. And that all this may be said, is entirely due to the talents and labours of one individual among us, who has at once don e h onour to the Univer sity, and maintained the scientifi c reputation of the country. It is to be regretted t h at M r. Adams was more intent upon bringing his cal cu l at i ons to perfection ' tban on establishing his claims to priority by early publication. Some may be of opinion, that in placing before the first astronomer of the kingdom results which showed that he had completed the solution of the problem, and by which he was, in a manner ; pledged to the production of his calculations, there was; as much publication as was justifiable on the part of a mathematician whose name was not yet before the world, the theory being one by which it was possible the practical astronomer might be misled. Now that success has attended% different course, this will probably not be the general opinion. I should consider myself to be hardly doing justice to Mr. Adams if I did not take this opportunity of stating, from the means I have had of judging, that it was impossible for any one to have comprehended more fully and clearly all the parts of this intricate problem; that he carefully considered all that was necessary for its exact solution; and that he had a firm conviction, from the results of his calculations, that a planet was to be found. (Signed) J. CHALLIS. Cambridge Observatory, Dec. 12, 1846. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF THE "WHITEHALL MUD LARK."—Yesterday morning, about eight o'clock, an old woman, who for years has obtained a living by gathering coals in the Thames at low water, while proceeding along Scotland-yard. dropped down in the street and suddenly expired. The deceased, who was between 60 and 70 years of age, was well known to the coal merchants and watermen at Whitehall as Peggy, the Mudlark, and many a time has she been seen up to her armpits in mud gathering up the pieces of coal that 114e1 fallen from the several barges. In this manner she had managed to obtain a subsistence for herself and family for many years. THE WEATHER. stoNrmEWcCoAnStiTnLuE-esOhN;TreYNwE, with h T u u n E a s b D a A te y d N s e f ir c e i r f i T t y . T a n h d e s w n I s; every further. appearance of being prolonged still Lasi night a very heavy place, fall of snow took and I t h ro ughout the night, and, with intervals, durin a g s tT". greater part of to day, of course deranging all th; ordinary means of communication. Yesterday mor n • ing's papers, which should have been delivered here a; six P.M., did not reach until two this morning ; and tb. mails have been quite as much beyond their time. Letter: us ually delivered early in the forenoon were not in the postman's bands until about four o'clock, and the del ..(3 has necessarily occasioned much annoyance to busine s men. On the North Shields Railway no train run thi. morning until eleven o'clock ; and d serious delay agai; occurred on the Carlisle line. On the Newcastle an( Darlington no trains have run, except the mail and one or two expresses, so that we are nearly completely cut off from neig hbouring towns. The frost continuesintense, have lls seriously on the ntrqgation. Altogether, w( aot suffered so severely in these respects for man) years. curred on board the morning, but was detained in the that place on Thusday. e y r or ,but the ste weather e r . s h h a e s l o e c f le that was blowing for several Loch by the strong g d here, after a very severe pas ' hours, en and eight hours, and only between seven n e m d o e n e d e rage passenger, t number o ee •. . o'clock. She had a gr . ea o. achedwre condition, ano A sad result of the inclemency on ,board, all of them in a m i hunger and cold. Among these suffered very much from man, apparently about them was a tolerably well-dressed sage, on Saturday morning , A little sixty or seventy years of age, the weather. died on deck from the severity of died the passage. also on child, two or three years of age, ashore here, and the The body of the latter was brought . nce of A circumstance . former was carried on to Glasgow. than strange 1, this kind is very rare, and not more rare who was discovered to have it that such a fearful affair should happen o n board a largeroomy vessel, w h ere means m i g h t h av e been taken to prevent it. Th e authorities will, of course, inquire into o the matter, to see th a t all proper means were a do a do pted t s to prevent the fatal result. The passage across wa tremendously se vere , and very likely all the crew were required t o l oo k after the vessel.—Greenock Advert i ser. The frost co n ti nues with unabated rigour, our ther mometer having indicated for the last few nights a point varying from 12 to 16 degrees below freezing point. The canal being frozen over, and large masses of ice on the Severn, render the navigation very dangerous. The condition of the abject poor must now indeed be wretched. while that of many artizans, IN ho are obliged to suspend their work in consequence of the cold, is scarcely any better. The relief committee, it will be seen, have come to a resolution for the distribution of soup at a penny per quart in the first week of January, and also for the sale of rice and coal at greatly reduced prices. These measures will prove most beneficial, and the subscription list will undoubtedly be soon crowded with liberal sums; but we think it is a pity that these humane operations had not commenced with the present week, when hun dreds of the poor are' shivering under all the horrors of fireless grates, empty cupboards, and uncovered b. ds.— Worcester Chronicle. DELAY OF NEWS.—The frosty weather continues to cause all the railway trains to be late. On Tuesday the morning mail train from London was about an hour late, from the slippery state of the rails; and, owing to the same cause, the train which leaves London at a quarter_ past six A.M. freighted, amongst other things, with the morning papers, was an hour beyond its time in reaching Birmingham; consequently the train, usually leaving that town for Manchester about twenty minutes after its ar. rival, proceeded without waiting for it, and the news. papers were brought on by the mail-train, which reached No. 16,927. CONTRACTS FOR WHEAT, COCOA, SOAP, TOBACCO, and PEAS. Department of the Comptroller for Victualing and Transport Services, Somerset-place, Dec. 16, 1846. The Commissioners for Exectling the Office of Lord High Admi ral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give Notice, that on THURSDAY, the 24th instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her ➢lajesty's Victualling Stores at DEPTFORD the undermentioned Articles, viz. : When to be delivered. Quarters, Red ...... 2000 Wheat] White •..• 1000 I Half of each in Three weeks, and the Tons. remainder in Three weeks after -100 wards. 30 Cocoa . .. . Soap (mottled) • .. • • ___. Tobacco (Virginia) 20 half in a Fortnight, and the remainder (quarters in a Fortnight afterwards. Peas • 500 The Cocoa and Tobacco are to be exempted from the Customs' duties. Samples of the Wheat and Peas (not less than Two quarts of each), and of the Cocoa (not less than 21bs.), must be produced by the parties tendering, and samples of the Soap and Tobacco, together with the Conditions of the Contracts, may be seen at the said Office. No tender will be received after One o'clock, on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi miralty, and bear in the lett hand corner the words " Tender for " and must also be delivered at Somerset-plate, and those for Cocoa must be accompanied by a Letter signed by Two respon sible persons, engaging to becomeleound with the persons tendering in the sum of 251. per cent. on the value for the due performance of he contract. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. B Y , PERMISSION.-PROFESSOR SCH(ENBEIN'S GUN COTTON, differing from all other spe cimens recently before the public, is LECTURED on, with other ex plosive compounds, by Dr. RYAN, daily at Half past Three, -and on the evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The principle of the ELECTRIC TELF.GRAPH DEMONSTRA TED daily, by Professor BACHHOFFNER, especially with reference to the new patent of Messrs. Nott arid Gamble, called the ROYAY. ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TELEGRAPII. By the OXYHYDROGEN MICROSCOPE are exhibited specimens of the DISEASED POTATOE, showing the Leaves, Cuttings of the Tubers, &e., together with the DES rRUCTIVE INSECT, supposed, by A. Sinee, Esq., F.A.S., to be the cause of the disease. The PHYSIOSCOPE, DIVING EX PERIMENTS, the DISSOLVING VIEWS, by Smith, &c. &c. Admission ls. Schools, half-price. CORNWALL RAILWAY. FIRST GENERAL MEETING OF PROPRIETORS. At the First Ordinary Meeting of the Proprietors of this Company, held pursuant to advertisement, at the Assembly Rooms, Truro, on Wednesday, the 16th day of December, 1846, WILLIAM MANSEL TWEEDY. Esq., in the Chair, the following resolutions were put from the Chair, and carried una nimously : I. That the Register of Proprietors, now produced, be authenticated by the Common Seal of the Company. 2. The Capital of the Company having been divided into Shares of 501. each and 251. each, that a 50/. share shall be considered as one share, and a 251. share as a half-share ; and that, for the purpose of voting, two 251. shares shall be considered as one share. 3. That the Report of the Directors now read be adopted, and printed, and circulated amongst the proprietors. 4. That in addition to Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Jimes Gibbs, Esq., Patrick Miller, M.D., Thomas Gill, Esq., M.P., John Rundle, Esq., Thomas Woollcombe, Esq„ and Ralph, Cole, Esq., the Directors nominated by the Great Western, Bristol and Exeter, and South Devon Companies, the following:gentlemen be appointed the Directors of this Company : Joseph Thomas Treffry, Esq. Robert Were Fox, Esq. Thos. James Agar Robartes, Esq. John Vivian, Esq. Clement, Carly on, M.D. William Manse' Tweedy, Esq. John Gwatkin, Esq. William Came, Esq. Michael Williams, Esq. George Smith, Esq. 5. That the Secretary be paid 500/. a year for his services from the time of his engagement by the Directors. 6. That the Directors be authorised to take such measures as they may deem expedient to oppose in Parliament, or otherwise, any pro jects which they may consider to be injurious to ,the interests of this Company. It was moved by ALFRED Fox, Esq.. and seconded by Dr. BARHAM and resolved unanimously, 7. That George Jones, Esq., of Bristol, and Edward Clifton Came, Esq., of Falmouth, be the Auditors for the year ensuing, and that they be paid a salary of 20/. each for their services. It was moved by JOHN BAYNTER, Esq., and seconded by ALFRED JENEIN, Esq., and resolved unanimously, 8. That the sum of 1,7001. per annum be assigned as the remunera tion for the Directors, to be apportionedin such manner as they may determine, to commence from ti.e passing of the Act. W. MANSEL TWEEDY, Chairman. It was moved by E. C. 31.anniorr, Esq., and seconded by It. R. BROAD, Esq., and resolved unanimously, That the thanks of the Shareholders be presented to W. M. TWEEDY, Esq., for his conduct in the c'lair on this occasion, and for the assi duity and zeal with which he has prosecuted this undertaking from its commencement to the present time.: It was moved by R. Ileaci.av Fox, Esq., and seconded by Joas CARLYON, Esq , and resolved unanimously, That the thanks of the Shareholders be presented to the Directors for the perseverance and energy with which they have promoted the interests of this Company. W. H. BOND, Secretary. At a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of this Company, held pursuant to advertisement, on Wednesday, the 16th day of Dezember, 1846, WILLIAM MANSEL TWELDY, Esq., in the Chair, Resolved, unitimously,—That the Directors be, and • they are hereby empowered to take such measures as they may deem expe dient to apply to Parliament in the next session for an Act for tho alteration of the line of the Cornwall Railway between Plymouth and a point near Saltash, and for powers to purchase, lease or jointly construct, and use portions of the South Devon Railway and works, and to purchase the Saltash Ferry; and to sell or lease the new works to the Great Western Railway Company, or to the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, or to the South Devon Railway Company, and to do such acts as the Directors may deem eTpedient in reference to the capital for such purposes; and for the amendment of the powers already conferred by Parliament on this Company. • (Signed) W. MANSEL TWEEDY, Chairman. SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. Second Call, 51. per Share, making 10/. paid, Notice is hereby given, that pursuant to a resolution of the Board of thre.ctors, the Proprietors of Shares ill this Company a, required to PAY the THIRD INSTALMENT of 5/. per Share, on or before the 15th day of Jaruary next, to any of the undermentioned bankers London —Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. Liverpool—The Bank of Liverpool. Manchester—Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co. Glocester—The Glocestershire Banking Company. Bristol and Exeter—The West of England and south Wales Bank. Cardiff—The National Provincial Bank of England. Carmarthen—Messrs. David Morris and Sons Swansea—The Glamorganahire Banking Company. All calls, not paid on or before the 15th January next, will be charged with Interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum : and no interest will accrue to the proprietor of any Share upon which any Call shall be in arrear in respect of such Share, or of any other Share held by the same Proprietor during the period while such Call shall remain unpaid. By order, • N. ARMSTRONG, Secretary. • South Wales Railway Office, 449, West Strand, London, December 16, 1846. GRAND UNION RAILWAY COMPANY. AMBERGATE, NOTTINGHAM AND BOSTON, AND EASTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given to parties holding Scrip in Cie Grand Union Railway, who have claimed shares is the Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction ItaLway, that a CALL of 11. ss. per share, together with interest at 4/. per cent. from the 6th of May last pursuant to the agreement entered into with the Grand Union Railway Company, has been made, and the same is requested to be paid, on or before the 6th day of JANUARY next, to either of the under. mentioned bankers, who will give a receipt for the same, on production of which and the receipt for the Grand Union Scrip at the offices of the Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway Company, in Wheeler -gate, Nottingham, the parties will receive the sealed certificates of the Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Jtinction Railway Company. By order, W. F. N. NORTON, Chairman. JOHN GOUGH, Secretary. Offices, Wheeler -gate, Nottingham, Dec. 5, 1816. BANKERS. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, London. Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, and Co., London. M ess rs. Samuel Smith a nd Co., Nottingham. Messrs. I. and I. C. Wright and Co., Not am.tingham. Messrs. Moore and Robinson, Nottingh Messrs, Kewney a nd King, Grantham, Lincolnshire. Messrs. ' Hardy, Walkington, and hardy, Grantham. Messrs. Garfit, C laypons, and Co., Boston. Messrs. henry and Thomas Gee and Co., Boston. Messrs. A rkwri gh t, Wirksworth. Messrs. Samuel Smith and Co., Derby. The Liverpool and Manchester Bank, Manchester. Messrs. Beckett and Co., Leeds' , The Nottingham and Nttinghamsnire Banking Company, Notting ham' The Igr - anch Banks of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank inswl•b Company charged Nottingl • and Altreton, Nottinghamshire, Loughborough, Leicestershire, Derbyshire. vt Mansfield, Worksop, East Retford. and Newark, A circular will be addressed to each Shareholder, who must present It to the Bankers on payment of the Call, and 51. per cent. on all Calls not paid by the said 6th day of January. LONDoN AND NORTH-W ES TERN RAIL WAY (SOUTHERN DIVISION). NOTICE. —Th e ALTERATION OF TRAINS. DECEMBER next, on this Railway e informed that on Trains Public areand after the ht of following Alterations will be made in the The Train now leaving London at 10.45 a.ra, will leave at 11 a.m., arriving at Bedford at about 1.45 p.m. The Train uow leaving London at 4 p.m. will leave at 3.45 p.m. , arriving at Bedford at about 6 p.m. A Train will leave Bletchley at 3.15 p.m., arriving at Bedford at about 4 p.m. The Train now leaving Bedford at 10 a.m. will leave at 9.45 a.m., arriving at London at about 12 noon. A new Train will leave Bedford at 11.50 a.m., arriving at London at about 2.45 p.m., and at Birmingham at about 3.35 p.m. LEAMINGTON BRANCH. leave The at Tr B. ain now a.m. leaving Coventry for L eamington at 8.45 a.m. will 30 . The Train now leaving London for Rugby at 3.45 p.m. w il l l eave at 4 p.m. The Train now leaving Aylesbury at 10.30 a.m. will leave at 19.45 a.m arriving at London at about 12.30 noon. The Train now leaving Birmingham at 8.0 a.m, will leave at 7.45 a.m., arriving at the intermediate stations and London 15 mi nutes earlier than at present. By order, MARK lIUISH , Manager, Euston Station, Nov. 24, 1846. N EWRY, ARMAGH, and LONDOND E RRY JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY, Notice is hereby given, that a FIRST DIVIDEND of Ten Shil lings per Share will be PAYABLE to the Scripholders in this Com pany, on and after MONDAY, the 16th day of November instant, be. tween the hours of Ten and Three o'clock, on application at Messrs. Spooner, Atwood, and Co., Bankers, London. The Bank of Scotland, • • • • Edinburgh. The District Bank • • • • • • Liverpool, and at - • . The Provincial Bank of Ireland Dublin, as heretofore. The Scrip must be endorsed by the party presenting it, and deli. vered up to Bankers, and a receipt signed for the amount of the Di vidend ; the Banker in exchange will give a certificate of the Com pany entitling the holder to such further Dividend or Dividends as the Directors may be enabled to make upon the final settlement of the accounts. This arrangement has been made at the request of Scripholders residing in England and Scotland, to avoid the risk and expense of forwarding Scrip to Ireland. CIIARLEMIXe.IT, Chairman. Newry, No. S, Trevor-hill, Nov. 4, 1846. G REAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY (IRELAND). Notice is hereby given, that the TRANSFER BOOKS of this Com pany will be CLOSED from and after THURSDAY, the 31st day of December, 1846, to MONDAY, the Ist day of February, 1847. By order, - WILLIAM TAYLOR, Secretary. 3, College-green, Dublin, .sth December, 1846. DRAWING -ROOM, LIBRARY, and DIN ING-ROOM ORNAMENTS in ITALIAN ALABASTER, BRONZE, MARBLE, and DERBYSHIRE SPAR, consisting of Groups, Vases, Figures, beautiful inlaid Tables, Watch. stands, Cali dlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands, raperweights, &c., chiefly copied from the antique, and imported by J. TENNANT, late Blare, 149, Strand, London. J. Tennant has an extensive assortment of Shells, Minerals, and FOFSiIS, and arranges elementary Collections to facilitate the study of Conchology, Mmei alogy, or Geology, from 2 to 50 guineas each ; he also gives Private Instruction in Mineralogy. DRAWING•ROOM CLOCKS. A B. SAVORY and SONS, No. 9, Cornhill, A London, opposite the Ban., of England, invite attention to a splendid variety of Rosewood, China, Bronze, and Ormolu CLOCKS; they go for eight days, and strike the hours and half hours. I'rice Four Guineas, Seven Guineas, and Ten Guineas each, and up wards. The performance is warranted. A Pamphlet, with detailed lists of prices, and illuotrated with sketches, may be had on application, gratis, or sent to all parts *I Great Britain and Ireland, postage tree, in AllAlYg to A paid letter. / _~~~ N ..',_,‘ 4 ' b ki,Jto w ' STREET NUISANC .'0„\l, ----- ` , - - '"• - w s. 1., 17 7 i.; T i t (From the Chronicle.) The dwellers in cities are subject to a loUstLiiigfigAtato of minor nuisances, which, taken in the aggregate, are sufficient to poison all the enjoyments, and materially to interfere with the business of life, and which yet, from _their individual insignificance, escape the in terference of the strong hand of power. We ask of any candid Londoner which of the two would he prefer—that Great Britain should possess herself of Otaheite, or that barrel-organs should cease to exist? Any reasonable unit out of the two millions would, we are sure, give it in favour of the barrel-organs. This is not purely a metropolitan, but a national ques tion; yet not one solitary Member out of the 650 can be found to take it up. This, however, is but one out of the long and dismal series. We have no wish to under rate the deteriorating influence of the organ upon the population of the metropolis, for well do we know what 5,000 organs, ground into discord almost night and day, can effect. Still, this is but one of many. We have at present in Lonclim, in full operation— The Organ Nuisance. The Slide Nuisance. The Snow- ball Nuisance. The Advertisement Car Nuisance. The Opening of Drains Nuisance. The Drawing -up of Omnibuses at Crossings Nuisance. a column o f small type with a bare i . n e g r o s s t s o w t o h s i c t h . i t a r u n i a ,s n C The Long T eam N u i sance, &c. &e. We could fill u p i e n n tt a m e n r . a a t l i k o n fr o o f m t h e e h s a u r ff i n , g r isaethl e p d o r s a e d i . PandoFa's maid must have brought these down in a smaller box, at tl.e time her mistrcrs laid the founda tion of the learned professions—nor, but tor a law sug gestions whica have occurred to ourselve3 should we feel justifhd in saying that in the second case we had even left us the poor consolation of hope. In the first place, every Member of the Lower House might be compelled to adopt his nuisance before his return should be deemed complete. The two questions of What is y our qualification? and What is your nuisance? might go together. Thus each nuisance would be represented by a Member. We should have 650 nuisances, leaving out Sudbury and the Speaker. We would divest their discussions of all political acrimony. They should be entirely EX, etaispyou - rtretters to be settled in the . lobbies by improvised Committees; never in the body of the House, except when the assembly was uselessly employed; therefore of course they never could be in -1 troduced there. In the next place, they might all be - considered open questions. The lion and the lamb might go into Committee together upon such subjects. A col lateral bent fit resulting from this arrangement would be, that it would have a humanizing effect upon the fierceness of political partisanship. Thus Sir Robert Peel, representing "the slide nuisance," would exchange votes and_ compliments with Lord George Bentinck, re presenting " the snow-ball nuisance," and probably both could be put down. So of Mr. Macaulay and " the advertisement-car nuisance," of Mr. Disraeli and "the barrel, organ nuisance," &c., &c. If it were thought fit to extend the scheme to the Upper House, any Peer might take any nuisance ; e. g., Lord Brougham " the fish-wife nuisance," Lord Grey " the long team nui sance." We only throw out these hints by way of sug gestion : the two Noble Lords might exchange, &e. It would be a mere question of arrangement. Another idea would be to place all the London nuisances under a board. There should be the Board of Nuisances, just as we have the Board of Trade or the Board of Works. By the adoption of this suggestion, a provision could be made for the you nger an d unemp loyed branches of the nobility, an object the country has so much at heart. Thus the nuisances and the young gentlemen would neutralise each other. If neither of these suggestions are thought practicable, we would propose a third method— the introduction of a clause in the Police Act, by which the police (under the control of a magistrate of course) should be enabled to interfere summarily in these cases, and check the nuisances at their origin. It is astonish ing how much additional comfort might be given to the - inhabitants of London with a slight degree of trouble. - So badly, for example, are the streets kept in the City, that it is ten, to one you can get from the Bank to Temple-bar sconer on foot than in any vehicle. A piece of pavement has been pulled up, a drain has been opened, a stoppage of some kind (which might have been pre vented) has been created, and thus the stream is checked. With a little management of street officers, compelling vehicles to move on, by no longer submitting the streets of London to ridiculous experiments, and all these nui sances might, in some degree, be kept under. Time in - London is all in all ; the quarter of an hour we are compelled to waste in a cab or omnibus probably dis arranges the engagements of the whole day. These things appear to have been better managed at Rome, for, if we remember right, Juvenal, in his good-hu moured sketch of the manners and customs of that city, tells us the wealthier classes could get about with comfort : "Si vocat officium, turbh, cedente vehetur Dives, et ingenti curret super ora Liburno, Atque obiter leget, aut scribet, vel dormeit intus." Rothschild or Baring, or any one else, though his name were good for a million upon 'Change, must be knocked about with the humbler classes of the commu nity— "Nobis properantibns obstat Unda prior; magno populus premit agmine lumbos Qui sequitur. Fent We cubito, ferit asseie duro Alter; at hic tignum capiti incutit, ille metretam, Pinguia crura tuto, plants mox undique magna Calcor, et in digito clavus mibi militia lucre.' This is true of London at the present hour, even to the lung private of the Blues, the di:gamma ot the human ...lphabet, who brings his huge sph,y foot down on your boor, and leaves you there, to your torture and your mud. It would be so easy to do so much with so little trouble. What injury to individuals, in comparison with the public convent, nee, would there be in compelling the waggons carrying coals, huge beams, &c., to circu late through the streets only at given ln.urs—say not after eb.vcn in the morning, nor until post hour in the evening. Why could nt.t the advertisement cars be at once summarily put. down, one and all, and the drivers sent to the treadmill for a conFle of months if they again offend? Why is there not a division of police scattered about the metropolis, gin rilla-fashion, for the sole pur pose of boxing the ears of little boys who make slides in the street? This may appear ridiculous, but we have known and heard of many serious accidents incurred from this cause which we should wish to see removed. Why do rot the race receive express orders to conduct the Italian boys to the station-house, and destroy the in human traffic ? The sufferings undergone by these wretched boys, for the benefit of a few cold-blooded speculators, would bafille all description. By forbidding them to circulate for the future through the streets, and aiding them, if they would, to return to their own country, we should in reality be doing them the greatest possible service. The relief from hourly discomfort to the inhabitants of the metropolis would be past: all tbelief. We have thus touched slightly on some of the 'Spain nuisances of the streets, and have offered some suggestions for their removal. Whatever may be thought of our first propositionsa—the last one will pro bably be admitted by all, viz., that of empowering and requiring the police, by an express order, to see the nuisances abated. We are not aware of the exact mea sures adopted at present by way of keeping the streets in the principal thoroughfares, as from Charing. cross and Oxford-street to the Bank respectively, and in the most crowded parts of the City. Whatever the arrange ments may be, judging by results, they are certainly inefficient, and should at once be put upon a new foundation. THE BRITISH ARMY. (From the Times.) • Before the close of last session of Parliament, Mr. Warburton put a question to her Majesty's Governuient in Parliament. in consequence of a calumnious report published in a paper called the Heald of Peace, in July last, asserting that on the 22d of December last, after one of the victories on the ban'• s of the Sutlej, " the troops were engaged in hanging and shooting all the prisoners; which dreadful work lasted nearly the whole day." A similar question was put to the War Depart ment, to which Mr. Fox Maule replied, " that it was impossible." Inquiries were, in - consequence, imme diately directed to be mare in India as to the truth or falsehood of so unexampled a charge against the ho nour and humanity of the British army. We have, by the last accounts from India, received intel ligence that Lord Gough has, in the most peremptory and indignant terms, not only completely refuted the charge, but has thoroughly confirmed all that we have advanced in proof of the humanity as well as bravery of the forces under his command. The calumny was founded upon a letter purport ing to have been written by a soldier of the 80th Regi ment to his father, which charged the British arms, after the battle of Ferozeshah, with acts of atrocity which would have disgraced a nation of savages. We can re fute this foul accusation upon the testimony of the most competent authorities in India, and give it the most un qualified contradiction. It could not have been written by any soldier who was an eye-witness, for there is not an iota of fact which could give rise to such gross false hood. During the heat of that desperate action very few prisoners were taken. The Seikh soldiers disdained to ask or accept quarter. Almost invariably, when un able to escape, they rushed upon our men with their (Vdwars) cimeters. Except in action, there was but one Seikh executed, and that one by the express order of the Commander-in-Chief. Great numbers of British troops were killed or wounded on the 22d and 23d by the ex plosion either of " expense magazines" or of mines-- some, no doubt, accidentally, but others were fired by the people of the village of Ferozeshah. One man was ap prehended in the act of firing a train, the explosion of which caused the death of Lieut. Warren, of the 80th Regiment, and two or three privates. He attempted to make his escape, and would have been bayonettedit Lord Gough had not come up at the time. As an exam. ple to the Seikhs of the village, he was condemned, and hanged in front of it, by the Provost Marshal. We are fully justified in saying that, instead of the Seikh pri soners having been massacred, the utmost humanity was extended to them. The wounded were carefully attended to, and their wounds dressed by our medical offi,wtehoeeursreld thata p n o d re a , l a l n d tten could be de dto removed b o y v t e h d e alive Britishsc e f r i e ;ihnt s itt e dn n tihia t i eG t w o ho F oa er o hospitals.zo iN person inotaß writiasshkoilffileederafitnertthhee army o f disgrace himself, his country, and his profession by giving an order for the maltreatment of a wounded or a captured foe. Thank God, there are no soldiers who would be found guilty of so brutal an act; and the hu manity of the Indian army was never more proudly manifested than after the action on the banks of the Sutlej. THE CONDE DE MONTEMOLIN.—The Conde de Montemolin, after receiving several distinguished visitors, left his residence at an early hour, and spent the re• , mainder of the day in returning visitfi. The Conde, as usual, dined in the evening with the Ivoblemen and gen tlemen of his suite. 0 0 0 1 rot , c erlei ; 11 111 ' LrlO ci; 2; gt 4 o°4 °r eel° 0 , t 4 131 41 ' 1111°.' . Fri► efi llii , oi 4' /