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,Z Vf f/t- e - 1 17 e) 0 COURT OF COMMON C , o O f U a n N I d ", 44 N. 4 0 1 1 10/ . .4 • 0 _ = - 4, 7 4 4,1.41 er 2 ir Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of public business. After the auditor.' aceount,s of the Great Central Gas V % '1;14 4 7' _ ..„ o, ,A _ 4 /• • , A • ' " • 41.. 4 . 4 ;40 g-4 ) •1 • • 0' ', •7.',4': " 7 ,74 A, ) I 0, - A `; 4 x , * Ct.;ll4 3 ll o M c e o r u s ' rt e p G r ill oc p e Et e n e y cd hl. t d o b t ea p e r l e c S e CT io ie n d A ~( 4 $ • 4111111P '- Tht - / N 4 (A ° -1‘7)2 Z01 Marshal of the city of London, when Mr. Edward W. • L. , it 0. 4 > . T PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY made in a cause lIAWKSLET v. &SHPLANT, the Creditors of WILLIAM TIIORNE, late of Cheltenham, in the county of Gloucester, Esq., deceased (who died In the month of March, 1850), are, by their Solicitors, on or before the 10th day of May, 1852, to leave their claims of debts before Jown 11 1.3fruaT, Esq., one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Office, In Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London, and are, on the 10th day of June, 1852, to establish such claims before the said Master, or in default thereof such persons will be peremptorily ex cluded the benefit of the said Decree, and the General Orders of the said Court. Brown was chosen by a very large majority. THE FLEET VALLEY IMPROVEMENT. aco GRA—NE and SON, 23, Bedford-row, Plaintiff's Solicitors. N°.18,604.] LONDON, FRIDAY E • S MAY 7, 1852. [PRICE SD. Deputy BEDFORD wished to ask the Chairman of the Fleet Valley Improvement Committee whether he in tended shortly to raring up a report as to the progress of the proposition with reference to the Fleet Valley im provement? Deputy HARRISON replied, that as soon as the com mittee had received answers from the railway companies it was their intention forthwith to report to the Court. The matter then dropped. After considerable discussion of no public interest the Court adjourned. THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK, on the Scottish System (Incorporated by Charter), besides the trans action of all ordinary Banking business, grants CASH CREDITS, and allows 3 per cent. per annum on Sums of any amount deposited for Six months. HUGH INNES CAMERON, General Manager. LONDON — HEAD OFFICE, 16, T o k en h ouse -yard. BRANC!IES, 429, 11 road Islington.strand ; 77, Bridg e - s t reet, Lambeth ; 97, DroswP PUBLICATIONS. VIE RT. lIQN. THE. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, G.C.8., M.P. PAUL and DOMINIC COLNAGHI and Co., 13 and 14, Pall-mall East, Publishers to her Majesty, beg to state that they have this day published the Engraving by SAMUEL ° Esq„ A.E.A., from the Picture of the above Noble Pis"- c C on. C a N t S , l pa S' painted by JOHN PARTRIDGE, Esq., which was presented to the Viscountess Palmerston on the 22d ofJune, 1850, by a Com mittee of Noblemen and Gentlemen. ,Astute Proofs (very limited in nuMber) X; 8 0 ' A . ).,,Reopfa•before'Letters r.; - 6 6 0 Proofs .. •• • . .. 4 4 o Prints .. .. 2 2 0 Mr. Alderman SoLomows demanded a poll, upon which scrutineers were appointed, and the voting commenced forthwith, and being concluded in a very short time, the Chairman declared the numbers to be— For the resolution... ... ... Against it ... Majority upon the present occasion ... —8 THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION. Now ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo., 15s. bound, JAPAN a n d the JAPANES E . Comprising the Narrative of A THREE YEARS' CAPTIVITY IN JAPAN; With an Account of British Commercial Intercourse with that We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The funeral service performed at the Invalides on Wednesday, the anniversary of the death of the great EMPEROR, was attended by the Chief of the Republic in a manner worth noticing, as it shows the confi dente felt by him in his popularity. Louis NAPOLEON drove over to the church in a little open carriage, through a large crowd of persons assembled to see him, and who cheered him heartily as he guided his pair of horses at a slow pace. After the ceremony was over, the PRINCE PRESIDENT drove in the same manner to the Luxemburgh, and back to the Elysiie. The Pays has the following on the subject of the rejection of the clause in the Convict Rehabilitation Bill by the Legislative Body, mentioned in our co lumns yesterday : ... 47 LIQUID BURBACH, BROTHERS RMANUE. .• and Co., GOTHA, Mannfacturers of CANVASS HOSE without Seam, for Fire Engines, Pumps, Liquid Manure Tanks, &c., &c., have appointed as their Agent for all England, F. PETERSON, Water-lane, Tower- Street, London, of whom may be had every information, and Speci snen,s of this very superior article, which is about one-third the price Of any other description of Hose. Machine Bands, Saddle Girths, &c. country. By Captain GOLOWNINT. " No European has been able, from personal observatiOn and ex perience, to communicate a tenth part of the intelligence tarnished by this writer." - British Review. Colburn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Mr. WILsoN disputed that the standing orders had been complied with, which required the assent of four fifths of the proprietors present. The CHAIRMAN said the return of the votes would be sent to the committee, who would determine upon the point. The meeting then separated. RAGGED SCHOOLS AS THEY WERE AND AS THEY ARE _ _ _ I found my first Ragged School, in an obscure place called West street, Saffron-hill, pitifully struggling for life, under every disadvantage. It had no means, it had no suitable rooms, it derived no power or pro tection from being recognised by any authority, it attracted within its wretched walls a fluc tuating swarm of faces —young in years, but yountb ful in nothing else—that scowled Hope out of countenance. It was held in a low -roofed den, in a sick ening atmosphere, in the midst of taint and dirt, and pestilence; with all the deadly sins let lo ose , h ow li n g and shrieking at the doors. Zeal did not supply the place of method and training ; the teachers knew little of their office ; the pupils, with an evil sharpness, found them out. got the better of them, de -1 rided them, made blasphemous answers to scrip tural questions, sang, fought, danced, robbed each other; seemed possessed by legions of devils. Th e pl ace was s t orme d and carried, ever and over again ; th e li g h ts were bl own out, the books strewn in the gutters, and the female scholars carried off triumphantly to t h e i r o ld w i c k e d nes s. With no strength in it tbu mde t a it i s ts w p a u y rp . ossOme the school e since, I found it, one of many such, in a large conven i en t loft, in this tr ans i t i on part of Farringdon-street — qu i e t and orderly,, full, years stood it all out and lighted with gas, well white washed, numerou s ly attended, and thorough l y esta blished I went th e ot h er n i ght to ma k e anot h e r visit to it. I fo un d t h e sc h ool in ,the same place, stil l advancing. It was now an industrial school too; and besides the men and b oys w h o were learning —some, aptly enough; some, with painful difficulty; some, s l ugg i s hly and wearily; some, not at all —to read and write and cipher; there were two groups, one of shoemakers, and one (in a gallery) of tailors, working with great industry and sa tisfaction. Each was taught and superintended by a regular workman engaged for the purpose, who delivered out the necessary means and implements. All were em ployed in mending, either their own dilapidated clothes or shoes, or the dilapidated clothes or shoes of some of the other pupils. They were of all ages, from young boys to old mee. They were quiet, and intent upon their work. Some of them were almost as unused to it as I should have shown myself to be if I had tried my hand, but all were deeply interested and profoundly anxious to do it somehow or other. They presented every remarkable instance of the general desire there is, after all, even in the vagabond breast, to know something useful. One shock-headed man when he had mended his own scrap of a coat, drew it on with such an air of satisfaction, and put himself to so much inconvenience to look at the elbow he bad darned, that I thought a new coat (and the mind could not imagine a period when that coat of his was'new!) would not have . pleased him better.—Dickens's Household Words. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS: NEWPORT, ABERGAVENNY, and HERE FORD RAILWAY. NOTICE OF CALL. Fifth Call 21 pert hare, making 121. paid. Notice is hereby given, that the Directors of the Newport, Aber- Eavenny, and Hereford Railway Company have this day made a CALL of 21. per share upon the respective Shareholders in the said Company, payable on FRIDAY, the 4th day of June next, and the Shareholders are requested to pay the same accordingly to any of the undermentioned Barkers : London—Messrs. Masterman and Co., 36, Nicholas-lane, City. The Union Bank of London, 2, Princes-street, City. Hereford—The National Provincial Bank of England ; any of the Country Branches of the National Provincial Bank of Englan t in England or Wales. Abergavenny—Messrs. Bailey and Co. Interest at the rate of 51. per cent. per annum will be charged on all sums not paid on or before the said 4th day of June, 1852. By order of the Board, THOMAS PRITCHARD, Secretary. 26, Spring-gardens, London, May 6, 1852. To be had at all the Libraries. THE NEW NOVEL S, PUBLISHED BY COLBURN AND CO.. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) THURSDAY, MAT 6. MILITIA BILL. (IN THE COMMTritIE.) Clause Three (Provisions requiring Property Qualifications repealed, save as to Melon and higher Ranks) :—Amend-' ment proposed, In page 2, lines 19 and. 20,- to leave out the words ". Property Qualification in the , case of persons to be appointee :"-- Question put, " Tint the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Clause." The Committee divided. CONVERSION of the CRYSTAL PALACE into a CRYSTAL TOWE R, 1,000 FEET HIGH. _ _ 13, Great Marlborough-street. ADAM GRAEME. By the Author of " Margaret Maitland." CONFESSIONS of an ETONtAN. By Charles Rowcroft, Esq. AURELIA ; or, a Beauty's Life in Italy. The PERILS of FASHION.' • DARIEN. By Eliot Warburton. Second Edition. ADVENTURES of a BEAUTY. By Mrs. Crowe. HEARTS and ALTARS. By Robert Bell, Esq. RAVENSCLIFFE: By the Author of Emilia Wyndham. JACOB BENDIXEN. By Mary Howitt. The HEIR of ARDENNAN. By the Author of Anne Dysart. EMILY HOWARD. By Mrs. Dunlop. Also just ready, in 3 vols., MARY , SEAFIAM. A New Novel. By- Mrs. Grey, Author of " The Gambler's. Wife," &c. " "Nov there is no longer either a majority or a mino rity on the benches of the Palais Bourbon. The mem bers are not enrolled under any flag; they do not obey the chiefs of party; every one is free in his vote, because every one is master of his own conscience. Servitude is no longer imposed by policy. The discussions which have taken place during the last two days in the Legis lative Chamber—discussions, without passion and with out violence, going to the bottom of things, and render ing questions palpable to every mind—will do as much for the preservation of the representative regime, such as it has been founded by the new Constitution, as all the interpellations and all the convulsions of the Parliamen tary regime did for its destruction." We read in the Constitutionnel : " The public revenue follows a rapid progression. The month of March had presented an increase of 5,000,000 f. as compared with the corresponding' month of last year. It appears that the increase in April was still more con siderable." The Moniteur says : . Just ready, price One Shilling, L OUIS NAPOLEON'S POETICAL WORKS. Now first done into plain Knglish. This little work is rare fun, and the illustrations are the best things of the kind we ever remember to have seen."—British Army Dispatch. GRAVESEND STAR PACKETS. ore Cabin. aloon: To or Prom Gravese n d an d L oudon Fore . 15. 2d. Gravesend and Blackwall and Woolwich Bd. ... Os. 10d. Between Gravesend and I n t erme di a t e P i ers.. 6d. .... Os. Bd. Bo 6ther Packets call . at the Giays, Greenhithe, and Puilleet Piers. The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting). coil ate/. Aber David Bogue, Fleet-ssreet. r 01 ston e t 5 6J FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. . 6 is Odf DI WEEK DAYS. .72:. 111 , 0 _ _ s !z 8 SUNDAYS, 1 .4 " The Government has come to the resolution to post pone the concession of the lines of railway from Paris to Cherbourg, and from Bordeaux to Cette. Wishing, however, at present to secure the execution of these two lines, and to commence the works, a Bill has just been sent before the Council of State having for object to open a credit of three millions on the estimates of 1852 to be divided equally between the two lines. The works which will be executed by the State by means of these credits wilt be eventually handed over to the companies obtain ing the concessions in part of the subvention which will have to be allowed to them." The Moniteur announces that the celebrated Pro fessors VILLEMAIN and Cousitc retire on the pensions to which they are entitled. France hardly possesses two men of more distinguished power in their differ ent lines than these famous philosophical professors, whom the introduction of a new system sends into private life. 'rime. Time. 4•" :rosj s vb.' 19 6 B 1 - 104 - - in m eal. oesi* 3d vie/ _i- Direct Trains from the Boats Omnibuses from Fenehureh-s ever Y quarter of an hour. Larked t 'eet Station to all parts of London vrd• 6 1 Od Od i od Oa FROM BRUNSWICK WHARF, the following Trains from ELACKWALL, on the arrival o f he Fenchnrch•street Station. WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. 2 co .•• I .2 • :V, g c., , 0 4 to Thin.* " i I % .. '2 t' Tine. - 1 ' ' 5 ''' °zPil. 11? t T • 'B-- = f.s j 4 (:)!,,s , 4 48 - S 0 . 0 io k i A .. 0 `' il'' 8 x 1 c' g .-„......____ __ ....... 9% • _ IN —. __ _ 11 —, 2 % 2 1 4 —-- 05 u BOAT Passages marked * are run direct. TICKETS.—TweIve Months, N. Os. ; Six Months, 31. T ires Months, 21. O. to be had of the Collectors on boar) PB;kets; or Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. APril 21, 1852. SIGNOR VALLETTA, Professor of Italian Li tt_ terature at the Ladies' College, Bedford-square, begs to an orrice that he will REPEAT his COURSE of FOUR LECTURES lt on ,, n the , PtiIIGATORIO and PARADISO of DANTE, at Willis's Wi n '": , King-street, St. James's. on the following days, in May, lirrx .... " SaLk Yl the 12th, SATITADAY, the 15th, SATURDAY. the 22d, intmsnev, the 25th, to commence at three o'clock precisely ; and / 0 4180 give Two Extra Lectures in Italian, for the amateurs of to ,Lail Literature, on Wednesday, the 19th, ana Saturday, the 29th, ur ntrience at the same hour. ,- ,2 41 bscription tickets (for two persons), 11 . ; sing le ticket, for On e rture, ; may be obtained at Rolandi's Library, 20, Berners gfet; Grosvenor-square application to signor Valletta, 17, Gilbert eet, ; and at Willis's Rooms. TOWE R HAMLETS. ELECTION WITHOUT A CONTEST. 1,21 1 e political addresses and local qualifications lately set forth, tC n g ceased public attention, it now becomes necessary to set • Matter to rights, and thus stifle all acrimony which further discus ti▪ taUght engender. The Tower Hamlets have their Represents yea,.l nrs , n lanY years have their qualifications been admired, as many l'avu they had the spontaneous votes and interest of the • " and non-electors ; they therefore sustain the duties of their ;tensible station with renewed ardour and increasing vigour— themselves to confer the greatest advantages on their IT1: co nstituency, and to extend the same benefits to the popu „D" of the whole world—maintaining magnificent establishments, and perfect in every department, each having con • ent and commodious comraucication, constantly providing a u fghtY stock of superlative excellence, and adapted to ev erytaste, cultivating the talent and skill developed Y every country in the universe, remunerating the ingenuity and Ploying I ndustry of the rst artists and the best workmen in the world, em a mighty capital for the introduction of Styles, Fashions, sad New Devices for Dress, &c. ; securing comfort in warm days, and defence from wet ones ; Clothing for the nobleman, clergyman, tradesman, or working man, unparalleled in Spring and Summer Dress ; HATS, CAPS, HOSIERY, BOOTS and SHOES, &c., suitable for all classes, including an endless, varied, and inimitable stock of new fabrics in ingenious styles for Youths and Children ; ap Plying their measures with the most perfect correctness, securing everything necessary for a demonstration of patriotic feeling by their Universally admired Rifle Dress ; rendering the most essential ser 'rice to Emigrants by their Outfits of surpassing suitability at a rea sonable charge—in one word, continuing to supply articles in their gi gantic trade better inandat far lower prices than can be had it quality any other establishment in the world. E. MOSES AND SON. 41, 0, ,ndon City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157 , Minories , 83, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. Lyndon West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, aad Hart -street, all communicating. Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge-street: Sheffield Branch, 56, Fugate. /0 11 ,, e_rellant Tailors, Clothiers, Ratters, Hosiers , Furriers, Boat moemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. TSat urdays, n stablishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on ` ur claYs, when boldness is resumed till Twelve o'clock. r til t Thew Book, entitled " The Library of Elegance," containing a lirt of prices, and directions for self-measurement, can be had, j r a t _i_f , on application, er forwarded, post-free, to any part of the k 'handsome Almanac for the year ending 1852 can be had, gratis, al4Plication. Id Pon parle Francais. 1 Qui si parla Italiano. Hier spricht man Deutsch. I Aqua se habla Espanol. *Anted, several Assistants in the Ready-made Department. Ap- DV Personally from Ten to Twelve o'clock, on Tuesday and Wed nesday Morning, at 86, Aldgate. Also, several Cashiers. Apply by letter, stating age, &c. MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. Wi T u r ry lainDirections for their Prevention and Cure. Jest published, C O LOURE D French, ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. Italian, i n a se E nglish, German, Dutch, Spanish, and tor Forty.two Stam ated ps, 25. 6d., or post-free from the Author S ELF -PR E RV ATION; 11 th4 , siology of Marriage, and on the Medical Tre atleeon Secret Infirmities and Disord ers quired at an early p erio _.,,_ e of Youth and Maturity, usually ac mental powers, diminish s ad 2_ l l , which destroy the physical and sow , with Practical Observations on haust the vital , energies of Ma nh ood the natural feelings, and ex the certain Prevention and su w cce eatnen Treatment of Nervous Debi lity, Local and Constitutional and other eminent Indiscretion, as adopted Diseases and derangements resulting from Indiscretion, Stricture, and all by Lailemand. Ricord, r rance . With Fifty coloured E ngravings. members w of the faculty of . rgaus, explaining PhysiolOgy, and Diseases of the Reproductiv rating the Anatomy, their structures, uses, and functions, and the alts produced in them by solitary habits, excesses v an an er injuries that By SAMUEL LA'MERT, hi,D% infection. 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDO N Doctor of Medicine, Matricu lated Member of the truiversi l — • burgh, Honorary Member o f the London Ho spital Medical I. ciet Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Member of the Hant er i fto Medical Society of Edinburgh, &c., &c. This work contains a plain and complete description of th e anat temp and physiology of the reproductive organs, and of their relativ e conditions in health and disease. Dr. La'Mert, who has t a k en the highest medical honours, as evidenced by the diplomas and testimo nials inserted in the work, is the only legally qualified medical m an Who has exclusively, and for many years, devoted his studies to the treatment of these complaints. He may be consulted with advan m_e J: 0 3 7 all those whose cC.--.. t i tut i ons may have become debilitated secret practices acquired in youth, or by the excesses of .IT4r years, whereby the pleasures of life are marred, the objects of marriage frustrated, and existence i tself rendered a term of unceas -' h„, misery and regret. Publithed by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater e Titchborne-street, I,,lkeeter-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Star' -4 ~ ll YMarket ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street; Mann, 23, 1:0 1 ' 101111 Or fr ersonall y - ee by Post for forty-two stamps , fr om the authoro'sr by residenoe letter, AY be consulted on these disorders P qatpy fwlnk Ten till Two, and from Six till Eight. 14- 11 . CII.LVERWELL'S NEW WORKS. 1 47 rieet-street-street, _To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, Mann, 39, Cernbill ; or direct from the author o ; "'";° Ons Shilling each ; by post, Is. 6d. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. "Health, Recreation, and Rational Use of Time. —Ex k.,ColgTErre :—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings I, A r _ s ions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, mss , T',", 4 `vsts, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Count ry ps and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evenings at Ho me Air t ' 3l c - -The Dramaa—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bath in g , ' Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c., &c. F RAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two Vols. Vol. I. VISIT TO THE LAKES ; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, &C Vol. IL l i liE LAKES OF KILL &RN EY ; REMINISCENCES OF DUBLIN, Sto. DEL WHAT TO BAT, DR.UTS, AND AVOID, r A That three score years and ten our course may ran." -• Popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner thoeusly.debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses bi tte Y°ung, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em la rs old' ate ; with tables and rules for the diet and physical regn on of every-day life. rv. THE PASSIONS. ,"What passim hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." .), ik-R •rce'r •—Life's pilgrima ge , f rom i n fancy to old ago. The ad. mt of the p assions. Chastity and its infringements. The casual. 'lee of lic Entlousness and dissipation, with illustrations graphic, nar , Illt ive, and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages. THE MARRIAGE STATE. "To be or not to be, that is the question." reli _ r 'I.OOII AMME:—Laws and obligations of nature, society, an d . * rut regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time an d Li' rice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, g are, to ., secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. kvsical defectiveness and its removal, Sterility an d its conversion. Caßer,, &c.complexion, an I By R. J. CULVERWELL , M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. ‘B2, R. Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these ; 2 2,__at1 crs. Recepti on h ours daily till rtyc. E v e u i ngs . Seven till "4 " t• 10 , Arull-place, itegultlirett. Os.; .it the BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. Empowered by her Majesty's Royal. Letters Patent. DIRECTORS. CuAlam.tx— Colonel ROBERT ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park. William Bardgett, Esq., 149, Fenchurch-street. George Bevington, Esq., Neckinger Mills, Bermondsey. F. F. Cockerill, Esq., Shadwell, and Twickenham. George Cohen, Esq., Shacklewell. Miles Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard•street. John Dreweft, Esq., 50, Corehill. Erasmus Robert Foster, Esq., 1, Princes-street, Bank. T. S. Girdler, Esq., 7, Tokenhouse-yard. H. L. Smale, Esq., Doctors'-commons. STANDING COUNSEL. H. Bellenden Kerr, Esq., 8, Old-square, Linncolies Inn. SOLICITORS. Messrs. M'Leod and Stenning, 13, London-street, Fenchurch-street. BANKERS. Messrs. Dimsdale, Drewett, Fowlers, and Barnard, 50, Cornhill. This Institution was originally established under a different title in the year (839, on the plan of admitting the assured to participate in four-fifths only of the profits ; but the Society has since been re modelled so as to become a strictly " Mutual Association." The whole of the funds and property belong to, and are accumu lated for the exclusive benefit of the assured. The profits are divided annually among the policy-holders, and applied in reduction of the current year's premium ; thus constitut ing, in effect, an immediate cash payment to the assured. Half-credit policies are granted on terms unusually favourable to the holders, the amount for which credit is given being gradually li quidated out of the profits. Two Tables of Rates have been computed; one entitling the as sured to participate in the profits after payment of five annual pre miums ; the other considerably lower, in which the period of parti cipation is deferred two years longer the premium ultimately pay able by the assured is, however, precisely the same, whichever Table of Rates may In the first instance be selected. General meetings of the members are held annually, to whom lull and complete statements of the affairs and funds of the Society are submitted, and by whom the division of the profits are from time to time declared. At the'Annual General Meeting held on the 27th April last, a di vidend of 30 per cent, upon the current year's premium was awarded to all members who had made the requisite number of payments on their respective policies. By order of the Board of Directors, E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. London, May 1, 1852. *.* The "Britannia Mutual Life Association" is altogether dis tinct from, and independent of, the Proprietary Office transacting business under the name of the "Britannia Life Assurance Com pany." The only connexion between the two establishments is, that their affairs ate conducted on the s tine premises and by the same officers, by which means the entire disbursements of the Mutual Association are reduced to a small per centage on the receipts. SECURITY TO EMPLOYERS. TO SECRETARIES OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, CLERKS, STATION-MISTERS, RAILWAY OFFICIALS, BANKERS' CLERKS, TRAVELLERS, AND OTHERS. TIMES LIFE ASSURANCE and GUARANTEE COMPANY. 32, Ludgate-hill, London. GUARANTEE FOR FIDELITY OF TRUST. PROFITS DIVIDED. RATES—From 7s. 6d. per cent. upwards. No charge for Stamps, An allowance made in the Guarantee Premium where a Life As surance and Guarantee are combined. LIFE ASSURANCE. Policies Indisputable save in cases of Fraud. Arrangements can be made with this Office to prevent the loss of a Policy where the Assured is unable, from temporary embarrassment, to keep up the payments, H. B. SHERIDAN. , TIMES FIRE AND PROPERTY ASSURANCE COMPANY. Every description of Fire Assurance. Profits Divided. Agents Wanted. H. B. SHERIDAN. MERCHANT'S and TRADESMAN'S MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, 5, Chatham-place, Blackfriars, London. JOHN MACGREGOR, Esq., M.P., Chairman. The Advantages offered by this Society are— Policies Indisputable, unless obtained by fraud. All the Medical Fees paid by the Society. Policies payable during the lifetime of the Assured. Non forfeiture of Policies.—Assurers unable to pay their Pre miums as they fall due, may have a credit for that purpose on appli cation to the Board. Loans granted on Personal and other Securities in connexion with Life Assurance. Prospectuses and every information may be obtained at the (Mee. GEORGE THOMSON, Manager. THOS. MUSGRA.VE, Secretary. METROPOLITAN COUNTIES AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 27, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, LONDON. Sweeting-street, Liverpool ; and 7, Chancery-lane, Manchester. TRUSTEES. Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. M.P. Edward Vansittart Neale, Esq. Henry Peter Fuller, Esq. Life Assurances, Annuities, and Endowments. Sums payable at a given age to the Assured, or to Representatives in case of previously dying. Credit given for half the premiums for the first five years. Loans on Freehold or Leasehold Property, or on approved Per sonal Security. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. RQ YAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, TRAFALGAR-SQUARE. 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Pachets, with advice, to he had at the Ede blishmeni only, by which the fee, 14, is saved. Messrs. Perry, surgeons are in attendance, daily, at 19, Berners-street, Oxford street, London, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Eight ; on Sun anyironl EICYCIA to One. MAJORITY—AYES 165 Arbuthnott, Hon. 11. Farnham, E. Mußings, J. R. Arnhdall, Captain Fellowes, E.:, Mundy, William Arkwright,- G. '. - • Ferguson, Sit.' R. Mure, Colonel Bailey; Crawshay Filmer, Sir E. Naas, Lord Baillie, IL J., ; , Baldock, E. H. Forbes, Neeld, John Bankes, G. - ' ' Forester :C. Neeld, Joseph r. Barrington, Lord , Fox,' S. . - Newdegate, C. N. Barron, Sir H. Freuchfr. Newport, Viset. Barrow„ W. H. . Galway, Viscount Noel, G. J. Bennet; Philip Gilpi , Colonel ' O'Brien, Sir Luelus Beresford, William• (loot, SiriE. S. Oswald, Alexander Bernard, Vhcount .. ~ uotA, W. R. 0. - -Owen, Sir John Bolden), H. G. . ce. 0. D. J. Puke, C. W. Booker, T. W. er, T. C. rakington, Sir John Bowles, Admiral an, Henry Palmerston. 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A special meeting of this company took place yester day at the Bridge-house lintel; Mr. James Macgregor in the chair. The meeting was called f or the purpose .of oonsider ing the draft of a Bill, by .which,it za- iitetaded to merge the undertaking of rhe'Rea.elink, Guildford, and Rei gate Railway Company in the undertaking of the South- Eastern Railway Company, and to dissolve the former company. • ' , - , The Secretary having read the' notice convening the meeting. . , The Oman:mate• said the Bill- wh:ch was to come under the consideration of the meeting had passed the House of Commons, and had been rend a first time in the Lords. There had b een no alteration in t h e prin ciple of the Bill; but th e 41,0001.-per annum, payable under the existing lease, was by t hi s Bill di v ided into annuities, payable to th ose who hold the stock of t h e Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Company. The ob ject of the Bill was to am a l gamate the two compan i es , in order to avoid the expense of a separate manage ment, and the subject had been before the pro prietors since the year 1846: lb ; (Mr. Mac gregor) was aware that the impression upon the minds of some of the proprietorawas that the pass ing of this Bill, would increaser.the liabilities of the South-Eastern Company, but 440' 'would inform them that the lease was equally yrwep valid ut._ ont this Act of Par liament. At the present time thitteading, Guildford, and Reigate line was an incompletuled mutilated under taking,been that by- means of this line h arrow-gauge 4rrow gauge lines . - in the south would acquire means- ' - and the views of the mmunication with and Reigate, a very valu able—'4nd it was a pledge L to. Parliamertt e .:44_ the ,part of , the-great 'Western, 4n 1846, that they'would continue the narrow gauge from rs since 1846 had t o h x e ro n r a d rr t o o w ß -g e a a u d g in e g l , in a e n s d :in ß t a h si e P u n r :o:: ke, property. The subject had been so frequently dis cussed would have c m u a s d se e d t a h t e t ß h e e a m di e n e g tin G g u s i o ld f lo th r i d ; company, that he thought it unnecessary to do more on the present occasion than propose that the Bill be approved. The motion having been seconded by the deputy chairman of the company, Mr. J. WILSON inquired whether, under the standing orders of the House of Lords, it was not necessary that the Bill should be approved by foutafifths of the pro prietors present? He (Mr. Wilson) apprehended that on ati occasion like this the vote was irrespective of the amount of stock held by each individual. Mr. Wilson appealed to the solicitor on this point. The SOLICITOR had no doubt that the number of votes would, guide the Committee, and not the number of per sons present. Mr. WILSON begged to differ from the legal gentle man on that point. He (At.. Wilson) protested against being forced into an alliance with another company, which was completely foreign to the undertaking for which they, as South-Eastern proprietors, had subscribed their capital. They had subscribed for a railway from London to Dover, and he contended they had no right to be burdened with a line which entailed upon them a loss of 30,000 i. a year.—( [leer, hear.) And even though he should stand alone he would oppose such a measure. The CHAIRMAN said the lion. Proprietor had left oat of sight the fact that an agreement for the leas e o f this line was entered into in 1846, before the line was made, and upon the faith of that agreement the capital of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Company was sub scribed; and he (the Chairman) would leave it to the gentlemen to say whether in 1852 they would repudiate an agreement entered into in 1846. As to the legality of the agreement there had been ample time and oppor tunity for testing it; but upon that point he would say there - was not the slightest doubt. . . ' Mr. M'LAREN also opposed the Bill, and complained that throughout the whole transaction the South-Eastern proprietors had been kept in the dark. There had, he said-, been - no 'fewer than three separate arrangements, all differing from each other. The chairman had stated that the first agreement was in 1846, but that was only forleasing the eight miles of line from Read ing to Dorking, with the option of leaving the rest of the undertaking. On the 17th March, 1847, a fresh contract, it appeared, was entered into, by which they were to pay si p er cent . upon a ca pital of 600,000/.; and by the third arrangement the' 600,0001. capital was increased to 800,000/., 200,0001. being at 4 f per cent., and 600,0001. at 51 per cent., making' the ave rage upon the whole 800,000/. 5k per cent. He (Mr MeLaren) would undertake to say that there was not a man present who was not in thte dark as to the real na ture of the agreements. At the last meeting of this company a fourth alteratioh was made in the arrange ment; they were now to have a rider over their prefer ence shares, and it was to be put into the form of anian nuity to ride over every other responsibility of the com pany, bondholders, and all. For his own part he had never seen any agreement, nor h a d he ever - been in formed, as a proprietor, of the equivalents they were to receive for the payment of that e amount of interest on the 800,0001 . of the capital of thßeading, Guildford, and Reigate Company. Re bd . they sho ld he had shown sufficient reasons why Mr. RICH (a director) wou l d ' whether if the Reading , put it to those present nie:teedupport the Bill. g, Guildford, and Reigate lease had been as profitable an arrangement proved unprofite as it had, unfor tunately,heard of any objections to they would ever have question whether the agreement He did not look upon it a lease or amalgamation? a question of profit and l o ss, but simply ass q wa s binding upon them or not, ot, and whether, as honest men , they would refu se to ratify upon the ground that it an agreement solely Was ment. an unprofitable arrange- Mr. APLarteer considered • from the way in which the a himself an honest man, but upon them, he did not considergreement had been forced morally or le al himself bound by it either Mr. Rica—The alteration which the lion. Proprietor had s in the arrangement to difications, and each successive South-Eastern modification had been himself, he woald be the 1 proprietors. As regarded agreement once made. last person to depart from an Mr. MiLAREN sai the Principl e l a id d o wn by the Hon. Director might d be excellent i n hi s o wn private t r ansactions, but, acti ng o,s a trustee, he (Mr. BPLaren) felt that the proprietor s wereenterd a greement improperlynot bound to fulfil au • Mr. Alderman SeeoeioNs into.—(flear, hear.) Guildford, and Reigate), ref ended uf the Reading, nded the course be had pur sued iu this matter. It was'etrue,Read ing, he said, that the Read an independent undertaking Railway was projected as ga m e d as a put of the South. Eastern it had always been re directors of the South-Eastern Eastern scheme, and three They had Parliamentary had sat at the board. sanction for a guarrnteo of 44- per cent., but there wa s from which the this embarra ssree extraordinary agreement sisted upon as a primary condition mainly arose. It was in first be opened from .!tien that the line should Read they could open the more profitable t° Guildford before had &hie insinuated portion, viz., from Reigate to Dorking. I t his own diplomacy or wisdom hen that, by dolt 51 per cent. for his com pany e had succeeded in get- Salomons) had no more to do .; but he (Alderman revith that than any one in 1 that room. A' very old p ro o P ee ietor, :Ind a large holder in the SOnth-Eastern, now d self made that arrangement wit a b se d (Mr. Maubert), him the he (Alderman Salomons) k new South-Eastern, and mile to the meeting at which itnothing about it until he Upon that being the ease h e can a " brought forward. ings of his proprietors, who were three or four meet to conclude the bargain as ho naturally anxious ho ' (Alderman Salomone) speedily as possible; bat as chairman and director, at zed his seat, both holders• rather than eanction eehat feet of the share undue precipitancy in t _makin g a might be considered (Hear, hear.).. The on. Gentle t resperity bargain.— remark—With regard to the line" then proceeded to gentlemen present that if the South.tself, he could tell to part with the Reading, Guildford, and had chosen he could; have sold it twice over betweeand Reigate line and they would Ond notice of a Btu for 1846 and 1848, the line by the Sontb - Western. It was he powers to buy constructed line within twenty or thirty m e i l i r st cheaply . and when a railway communication .was aof London; Dover to Oxford, and from Dover rigia o t oneplete from Birmingham, they might reasonably e through to apect that large quantities. of goods and merchand ise would be booked through for shipment at Folkestone. bat was, they were sitting in j ud g ment upon an as ut as it n incomplete concern. The Hon. Ge ntleman contended that the ag r ee ment between the two companies was one honest, open, and straig htf e rward cha racter. of an It was to be borne in mind that the Reading, Guildford , the south. and Rei gate Company handed over to E 100,000 w in hard cash, whilst the cost of construct"satere the line was not more than about 700,0001.; and how would separate that 100,000/, from their Own cash ey h ould event of their repudiating this agreement, to do which,ith he contended, would be worse than Mississippi rep dia tion, and he (Alderman Salomons ) should be surprisedell- if any gentleman could be found to do it.--(gear.) Mr. GEORGE SMITH opposed the Bill. Mr. HEATH had no intention to repudiate any agree meet legally entered into; but if they gave their sanc tion to this Bill it would put an end for ,eve r to the question of the validity of the agreement itself, which he contended had never been decided upon by any com petent tribunal. It would appear from the statement of the chairman that the agreement for the lease was en tered into before the line was even begun to be made. The 50th section of the Act gave authority to lease to the South-Eastern—the fair meaning of which he took to be, when the line was made. There was no railway to lease four or five years ago. The CHAIRMAN having repli“l, ho proceeded t o put the resolution approving of the Bill, when Mr. I,I‘LAuEN moved as an amendment, that the meeting should be adjourned for three months, w hi c h was seconded by Mr. JOSIAH WILSON. Amidst some confusion a show of bands was taken upon the amendment, which the ,Chairman declared to be lost. Upon putting the original resolution, the Chairman stated that, however, it might be determined by a show of hands, a poll would be demanded. The CHAIRMAN &aired the show of hands to be in favour of the resolution, but that decision was some what noisily disputed by a number of shareholders who were opposed to the Bill. f l f ground ifert oc l etuu t hnln i e s da agr proposed tt r oys atte : bhhtwn p aoesi oegu e o. tnfvhhu s fgtdai e helitleptdcl d tarsse.fewsnr.toaps hrutsre t oro o mwpewf d b eonpl ear n uge scr i roi eapgdf:e design, eu n nnapacl oteik preserving,sei I ntin o nthgot r ge n irtaßyhean featuresuobag y elstpyreduu t se l oncer o o ll n w taerpddtoctduhgff ) er e iniro, cue:hnyenoe r fahwev o gglad:toaede ( b, of the rirofdenstEsa,tjraoh,ntsdansoiengaoeowsaso:cmccnedfrnt whtchowrttymidhtotuaetmiamhhehnretrosocslha-eeeeer. yatst a euir n esrtrat t ie i eraa t , nl h nslwtd e Bo s iwsmt i fh s il l e as a choice collectio n easilyotoadr eipß ccaoeT his cninesuhi efteg o aopii hbdnsn f tryreeez eotrs e i ogffeuuias z ooaolnnebu o ralnlhdym t eneso i ss c damssrsa s .tpeiphydatmta f hlloesl the aT i oapaa o coferrnthe m bweekegedauosaarodinboso four quarters underpviptahaao land com pared various oad p ui usrwftoovmipcuat consideration nu s a a e stan d i c hbsd r el e e e offered, it will be as well to give an explanation of the t a structure perfectly safe against the strongest hurri canes. In tho °entre is a large octagon, conesed of twenty-four columns, which spring from the fodEdation, in which they are securely imbedded to the very top of the building. Adjoining is a decagon, similarly con structed, forming the second tower in the elevation, and rising to the second gallery of 840 feet. The dodecagon tower also springs from the foundation, and is carried up to an altitude of 660 feet. We then see a square of columns measuring 120 feet on one side: this likewise rises from the foundation to where the clock is placed, and is surmounted by four turrets. which lend their aid in supporting the building, and screen in some measure from the wind those adventurous visitors who arrive at this aerial promenade. Another square of larger di mensions abuts on all these, and rises to a level of 198 feet, upon which four galleries, each 120 feet in length, are to be constructed. Similar small turrets are to be planed at the four corners. In addition to this accumu lation of strength in columns and girders, a portion of the south front of the transept is added to each side of the square, forming a cross; not only as an abutment, but with a view of perpetuating the most elegant part of the present building, and handing down to posterity the entrance through which so many thousands passed. The four halls of glass formed by this cross might be reserved for choice plants. eec., with appropriate statuary ornamenting the outside and relieving the general effect. If we suppose four of the upright columns, wish four of the girders attached, and bolted to firmly-fixed cradles in the foundation, it will give a notion of a hollow cube of brick or stone of similar dimensions. Were the building constructed of such cubes, it would not be so strong or durable as of the material so opportunely pre sented. If we imagine a give-and-take line passing through the section from the outer colonnade columns curving up through the towers towards the top of the octagon, a figure similar to the outline of the Eddystone Lighthouse will be presented to the mind. The clock is of proportional size to the tower, being 44 feet in di a meter, with figures 10 feet long; its elvation about 440 feet above the terrace, and many feet above the the cross of St. Paul's; the gallery over it is somewhat lower than the Groat Pyramid of Egypt; and were St. Paul's Cathedral placed on the top of St. Peters, there would then be room for the Nelson's Column, which would about reach the Crystal Tower's summit. The little squares in the octagon represent four carriages or ascending rooms, which are to be continually running on, or rather up, a vertical railway, to the glazed gallery at the top of the octagon, where the visitors may observe the view around, sheltered from the wind. There is also a platform gallery on the very summit, for the more adventurous. The view from any of the galleries would be magnificent in the extreme.—Messrs. Fox and Hen derson have expressed their conviction that the project could be carried out.—Builder. MINORITY-NOES, 82. Armstrong, B. B. Hardcastle, J. A. Peel, Frederick Baines, M. T. Harris, Richard Pilkington, Jameri B ass , 3i. T. Hastie, Alexander Pinney, William Bell, Jacob Hatchell, John Rice, E. R. Birch, Sir T. Headiam, Thomas Romilly, Colonel Brockman, E. D. Henry, Alexander Salwey, C o l on el Brown, H. Hervey, Lord A. Scobell, Captain Brown, 'Lindley, C. S ul li van, M i chae l 1 Y• Lord M. Smith, R. V. Hobhottse, T. B. St r i c kl an d , Si r G. C cß l aull a rter y b : " J'am S'al es lllErel. , Hodges, T. T. Strutt, E. Clay, Sir W. _ Howard, Lord E. Stewart, Admiral Cobden, Richard ' Ilumphery, Aid. Stuart, Lord D. Cockburn, Sir A. - Hutchins; E. J. Thompson, Colonel colehrooke, Sir T. Hutt; William Thompson, George Colvile, C.R. , Kershaw, James Thornely, Thomas. Co*an,:CharieS King, P. J. Villiers, Charles Crowder, R. B. Langston, J. 11. Vivian, J. H. Davie, Sir H, Laslett, Widlam WakleY,T• D'Eyncourt, C. T. Lennard, T. B. Willyaws, H. Duncan, Ford.. M'Cullagh, W. T. Williams, W. Ellis, John ' Marshall; W. Wilson, Matthew Elliot, J. E. ' Matheson, Colonel Wood, Sir W. P. Evans, J. Molgund, Viscount Wyld, James Ewart, William Milligan, Robert Fox Mitchell, T. A. TELLEIB. Gibson, T. M. Morris; David Hume, Joseph Greene, John Mowatt, Francis Bright, John Grosvenor, Lord R. Ps hell, Sir G. Clause Seven (Number of Militia to be raised) :—Proposed' after the words" keep up," to insert the words " any number not exceeding eighty thousand :"—Question pnt, " That those words be there inserted." The Committee divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 237. Adderley, C. B. Anson, Viscount Archdall, Captain Arkwright, Oesrge Bagge, William Bailey, Crawshay Bailey, Joseph H.J.Baillie, Baird James Baldnck, E. IL • Bankes, G. Barron,Barring s to i n r ,V H. lscount . Barrow, W. H. Benbow, John • Bennet, Philip Bentinek, Lord 'H. Beresford, William Bernard, Viscunt: Blair, Stephen Bla.ndford, Marquis Bolderti; George H. Bonham-Carter, J. Booker, T. W. Booth Sir R. G. Bowles, Admiral Bramston, T. W. Bremridge, Richard Bridges, Sir B. Brisco, M. Broeklehurst, John Brooke, Sir. A, B. 'llruce, C. L. C. Buller, Sir Y. • • Runbury, W. Burghley, Lord. . Burrell, Sir C. Butler, P. • g. Cabbeil, B. B. Campbell, Sir A.. , Carew, W. P. Cayley, Edward S. Chandos, Marquis Chatterton, Colonel Chichester, Lord J. • Child, Smith Christopher, R. Christy, Samuel Clerk, Sir G. Clive, IL B. Clive, R. IL Cobboid, J. C. • Cochrane, A. D. Cocks, T. S. Codrington, Sir W. Colie,'•Hori. E. R. Collins. Thomas Colvile, C. R. Conolly,Thomaz Corry; Henry ' Cotton; W. H. - Cowper, W. F. Davies, D. A. Denison, Edmund Disraeli, B. ' Dad, J.W. " • Dodd, Druralwig, Vis. Drnratiland, 'Home DtincoMhei A. Dunc.oinhe, Duncombe, We R. Dimbe, Colonel Du Pre, C. G. Ebringtou, Lord ' Edwards, Henry witon,. Egertort,'W! T. Visoount I,;steourt, J. B. B. Euston, Earl Farnham, E. B. Ferrer, James Fellowes, E. Filmer, Sir E, Fitzpatrick, J. W. Floyer, John Forbes, William Fordyce—A.. A. Forester, G. C. Fox, S. W. L. Freestun, Colonel Gallwey, Sir W. P. Galway, Viscount Gaskell. M. Gilpin, Colonel Gooch, E. S. Wyndham Gore, W. R. 0. Goulburn, Henry Granby, Marquis of Greens.ll, G. Greene, Thomas Grey, Sir G. Grogan, Edward Guernsey, Lord Gwyn, Rowel Hale, R. B. Raiford, Sir Henry Hall, Colonel Halsey, T. P. Hamilton, G. A. Hamilton, Lord C. Harcourt, G. G. Hardinge, C. S. ,Hatehell, John Hayter, W. G. Heald, James Henley, J. W. Herbert, Henry A. Hervey, Lord A. Hildyard, R. C. Midgard, T. B. Hill, Lord E. Hollond, Robert Hope, Henry T. Hope, Sir J. Hotham, Lord Howard, C. W. G. Howard, Sir R. Hudson, G. Inglis, Sir It. Jermyn, Earl Jocelyn, Viscount Johnstone, Sir J. Johnstone, James Jolliffe, Sir W. G. Jones, Captain Knox, W. S. Knbx, Colonel Langton, W, H. • Lascellesf F Legh, G. C. Lemon, Sir C. • Lennard, T: B. • Lennox, Lord. A. Lennox, Lord H. G. Leslie, C. P. Lewis, 0. C. ' Lowther, Colonel Lowther,Henry Lydon, General Mahon, ONlormiuz Mandeville. Iris. Manners, Lord C. Manners, Lord G. Manners, Ldrd J. Maxeb. Earl of , Martin, p. W. Matheson, Colonel Maunsell, T. P. Maxwell, Hon. J. P. Meux, Sir Henry Miles, P. W. Miles, W. Moody, C. A. Morgan, 0. Mailings, J. R. Mundy, William Mure, Colonel Naas, Lord Napier, Joseph Neeld, Joseph Newdegate, N. Newport, Viscount Noel, Gerald J. O'Brien, Sir Lucius Oswald, Alexander Puke, C. W. Pakington, Sir J. Palmer, Robert Palmer, Roundell Palmerston, Iris. Pennant, Colonel Perfect, Robert Plowden, W. H. Portal, Melville Pusey, Philip Repton, G. W. Rushout, Captain Sanders, George Scott, Francis Seymer, Henry Ker Seymour, Lord Sibthorp, Colonel Slaney, R. A. Smyth, J. G. Smollett, A. Spooner, Richard Stafford, Augustus Stanley, Edward Stanton, W. H. Staunton, Sir G. Stuart, Lord J. Stuart, H. Stuart, J. Start, H. G. Sullivan, Michael Tennent, Sir J. Thesiger, Sir F. Thompson, Alderman Tollemache, John Townley, R. G. Trollope, Sir J. Tyler, Sir G. Tyrell, Sir J. Verner, Sir W. Vesey, Thomas Villiers, Viscount Villiers, F. W. Vyse, R. H. Waddington, David 'Waddington, H. S. Walpole, Spencer Walsh, Sir J. B. Wegg-Prosser, F. Welby, G. E. Wellesley, Lord C. • Westtidad, J. B. Whiteside, James Wigram, Loftus Williams, T. 1). Worcester, Marquis -- Wrightson, W. B. , Wynn, 11. W. Yorke, E. T. • TEl.txus. Mackenzie, W. F; • Bateson, Thomas MINORITY—NOES, .NG. Adair, R. Shatto Forster, Matthew Mowatt, Frauds Alcock. Thomas _Fox, W. J. -, O'Connell, M. J. ,Antsy, T, C. Glyn, George:Carr Pechell, Sir G. Armstrong,ll.l3: ' Greene, Johit Teel, Frederick Balnes;11. 'l 4 ' - Grenfell, C. Pascoe ' Pilkingten, JameS Pass,. N. T. , Grey,Ralph W. Pinney, W. Ben, Jacob , . , Grosyeuor, Lord R. Reynolds, Jgnh Berkeley, C. L. 9: Hall, Sir B. Ricardo, Osman Bright, John ' ' Hardcastle, J. A. Rice, E. R. g roc kinan, .E. D. . Matte, Alexander Rich, Henry Brown, H..• , . Hayter, W. G. Romilly, Colonel Banbury, E. 11, Headlam, T. E. Romilly, Sir John Carter, Samuel Heneage, Edward Salwey, Colonel Cavendish, G. M. Henry, Alexander Scobell, , Captain Childers, J. W. Heywood, James Shalto, R. D. Clay, James. Heyworth, Lawrence Smith, J. Benjamin Clay, Sir W. Hill, Lord M. 'Sother'Yille, Sir W. Cobden, Richard Hindley Charles . Strickland,lSir G. Cockburn, Sir 4. - Hobhouse, T. B. Strutt, E. Colebrooke, Sir T. Hodges, T, L. Stewart, Admiral Collins,l,Crowder,iljJames n R Williamß . Hume, J. Tancred, 11. W. Cowan, Charles Hutchins, E. J. Thompson, Colonel Cruig, Sir W. G. Hutt, William Thompson, George Jackson, William Thornely, Thomas Dashwood, Sir G. Kershaw, James Villiers, Charles D'EYuceurt, C. T. King, P. J.`, Vivian, J. H. Divett, Edward Langston, J. H. Wakley, Thomas , Colonel Douglas, Sir C. Duff, G. S. Morris, William Wahnsley, Sir J. Locke, Joseph: Watkins, Colonel Duncan, C i 111 a gpha, David T. Willcox, Brodie ucan, Viscount Marshall, J. G. Du can, George Williams, W. Ellis, John Martin, John Wilson, Matthew E van . , John Melgund, Viscount Wyld, James Evelyn, iv . j - Milligan, Robert TELLERS. Fergu son Mitchell, T. A. Charteris, Francis Gibson, T. M. DEMOLITION OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE sequence of many thousands of persons in the U . n — ite l d n ifi Ci n n g: dom having been priu n r a e b d le to obtain a copy of the Great Chart,of the Weal in ). colours, and presented by the in the months of 2 January and February last, a patch, to their subscribers and Exhibitionthe.proprietors public, 1 . .:1 , ( 3 171, to take place on Sunday, diagrams has undergone a careful the e t a he number of persons re-issue sls6utehhoafs May.be e n determinedT ha chart m o o f unt of money taken refreshments con sumed;an account revision, shows by simple dia , g that visited the Exhibition daily, at the variens entrances, the quantity the names of the Royal Commissioners; of the origin of the Palace, and its dimensions zers; in feet. In m s s t e eo s m s m thisar mark order that every individual in the country may statistical reflex of curious . and interesting results, lo the demolition of the building, and to serve as a of its existence, the Chart will be . delivered gratis to every ento subscriber and purchaser of the Dispatch on the day stated. The Dispatch is published at four o'clock every Saturd a y morning, in time for the first railway trains leaving London, and for the morning. mails. Early orders should be given to all newsvenders in town or country ; or to Mr. R. J. Wood, the Chart with every Di s p atch of May 16th. No. 139, Fleet-street , The news agents will have a copy of FEMALE FASHIONS FOR MAY. Before calling the attention of our readers to bonnets, which now form a prominent feature in describing "La Mode," we must notice two becoming and fashionable caps. The first, the Charlotte Corday, made of deep in dented blonde, falling over bunch i ly of roses. The second we have been permitted to name the Psyche; it is graceful, modest, and youthful, composed of black guipure over black lace, with a wreath of green ribbon foliage encirc ling a beautiful rose. We must now pass on to the bonnets. The first is a capote of buillonnes, violet tulle, with loops across each bouillione, of very narrow violet and straw-coloured rubans-passementerie (those ribbons are a great novelty, and are as delicate and light as gauze). Two rows of grey passementerie embroidered with straw are slightly quilled over the bouil lonnes of tulle—one across the crown, and another on the curtain. The inside of the front, which is wide, is trimmed with violets of three shade. The capote papillonnee of blonde and light gauze rib bed). There are three rows of papillons of blonde, and consequently three bands of gauze ribbon. A broad white taffetas ribbon passes over the crown in the style of a fanchon, and forms the long broad strings. On one side the ribbon is con cealed by a tuft of double narcissus and long grass; three rows of blonde and gauze ribbon fall from the back of the crown, covering the curtain. We have seen a robe of Napoleon blue gros de Tours, with a crossed body, closed on the side with a narrow band buckled round the waist. Three large plaits from the shoulders form drapery across the chest; the body closes on the left side, where the gold buckle separates two toques of blue ribbon; five large bows, with gold buckles in the centre, are placed down the skirt. This trimming down the side is quite original. The sleeves are slashed, with a narrow wristband—a white lace pro truding through the openings. Two robes a corsage Watteau have elicited much praise. The robe Watteau is quite a study of co quetry. To produce it in its primitive elegance we must go and consult the panels at Versailles, where it will be seen that the front piece of the body is very narrow; square on the shoulder, widening near the chest, and very narrow at the waist. It is trimmed with three ribbon bows for dinner dresa, and bouquets of flowers for a concert or ball. To return to the two robes above-mentioned, one of silver grey taf fetas, with stripes of pale green satin; the other of Pre sident green. The new form of sleeve is the manche tailladee, or slashed sleeve. A small cuff fastens the five pointed angles, between each of which the white under sleeve protrudes. This has the advantage of novelty, but the open, rounded, square, or moEquetaire sleeve, with open sleeves of Brussels lace, or Valenciennes or English point, are much more elegant and preferable for sum mer toilette. The most successful novelty of the season is la mode for lace mantes. Imagine this manto of .the finest black in beautiful designs, forming a rounded scarf behind, descending only to the waist; the ends in front are sometimes long, sometimes short and narrow, and are tied in a knot at the waist, descending to the knees, or carried behind and fastened like the Dubariy manteletF. A hood is added, which forms a double pelerino over the shoulders, or a delightful coiffure madJne when thrown over the head. Some are lined With thin coloured taffetas. Caps are worn very small, scarcely covering the top of the head. We have seen two extremely pretty ones; the first is of black net, with two rows of blond falling one over the other; a broad blue ribbon is tied round with long floating ends; three roses, one white and two pink, are placed under the lace on the right side, and one dark rose with long ends of blue ribbon on the other. The other cap is also of lace, of the same form; the trimming is different, being a plaid ribbon plaited en fichu, with the point fallin g over the knot of hair. The bouquets ar composed of mixed flowers, combining all the colours i n the ribbon, and producing an extremely agreeable ensemble. At Bow-street, yesterday, David and Mary Belasco, and Amelia Collins were again brought up for final exami nation, charged with causing the death of Robert Clarke, by knocking him down stairs at a brothel in Hart-street, Long acre. The depositions h avin g been read over, Mr. Bridge water, house surgeon of K in g 's Colle g e Hospital, who had made a post mortem examin ation, g ave it as his o pinion that the deceased died from congestion of the brain. On the con clusion of the case, 11r. Hall decided that each of the en femalthat e prisoners might be disch ar g ed, no proof being g they had acted in such a manner as to have caused fatal re sults to the deceased, all the injuries having been inflicted by the male prisoner. Mr. Haynes, who ,appeared f,r the prisoners, said he should be prepared allegedve a complete answer to every portion of the charge against his client. The witnesses were then bound over to give evidence at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court against the prisoner for wilful murder. Mr. Hall hoped that the parochial authorities would institute proceedings against the house in Hart-street, which was well known to have been a most infamous place for a considerable time. Mr. Mouseley who attended to watch the proceedings, said he would lose no time in drawing the attention of the board to the circumstance, In the afternoon Mr. Bedford, the Westminster coroner, held , but that The k coroner e d s i id t . an inquest on the body of Clarke at the Plough Tavern Carey-street. After the evidence, the Coroner proceeded to ' sum up, and explained to the jury the difference between manslaughter and murder. The jury then considered their verdict, and after the lapse of about twenty minutes, the foreman said that twelve of the jurymen had agieed tthewev twelve remainingou would d h f four u s r u i held llc ie n d t iffe different t h opinio nsreturn . ta The foreman then said—" We a verd . fct of man slaughter against David Belasco." FOREIGN CATTLE. -- The steam-ship Attwood, which has arrived at Blackwell from on one occasion Rotterdam' has brought a cargo of Dutch cattle, consisting, with the exce no less ption of d I n 13 oxen and cow s, entirely of calves, a •ncluding than 251 of this d escription of young stock of Holland. The re has been no previou i stock, the production a number of :ca l ve s having been brought of so from this or any ot her of the continental states of Europe. On the subject of the attributed determination of the Emperor of RUSSIA not to take the new Four and-a-Half per Cent. Stock, we read in the Patrie : "Some speculators for a fall have endeavoured to raise a report that Russia was realising, by daily sales, the Five per Cent. Rentes which she purchased in 1847. Nothing can be more false than this statement; no sales of the kind have taken place. Besides, how could it be probable that Russia would sell, even at 100 f. stock which, with interest at 5 per cent. since the 22d of March, represented a reimbursement value of more than 100 f. 80c." The Debats says—" A letter from London of the 3d states that it appears certain that the treaty which is to be signed at the Foreign-office on the 4th or sth, between the Plenipotentiaries of England, Austria, France, Russia, and Sweden, will not only have for object to regulate a new order of succession in Den mark, but also to secure the integrity of the Danish monarchy. This important result will not, it is said, have been obtained without considerable diffi culty, and it is to that circumstance that may be at tributed the delay of the signature. The Germanic powers, particularly Prussia, are said to have sought every means to impede the conclusion of the treaty, which is only due to the firm resolution evinced by the Cabinets of St. Petersburgh and Paris, which have throughout the whole negotiations acted with the most perfect and constant accord. Lord MALMES BURY has, it is said, shown himself anxious to unite his efforts to those of the French and Russian Go vernments." The Public mentions a report that it is intended to raise the pay of the sub-lieutenants, lieutenants, and captains of the French army. The Austrian Lloyds contradicts a report pub lished by an English journal that the Prussian and Russian Governments had protested against the esta blishment of an Empire in France. It says— " The Journal des Debats has announced that Prince Schwarz9nberg demanded of Prussia and Russia their opinion on the re-establishment of the Empire in France. These three powers are in accord, in case the form of Government should be changed in France; but they have not the pretension of meddling in the internal affairs of that country. The treaties of 1815 are cited. Those who pretend to know those treaties should re member that in the sitting of the 6th May, 1815, Lord Clancarty said that England had only notified the treaty of alliance of the 25th March, under the condition that Article 8 of the said treaty should not be considered as obliging his Britannic Majesty to continue the war with the view of imposing on France a particular form of go vernment. England, therefore, formally declared at that period that she would never force France to adopt one form of government in preference to another. The Courts of Prussia, Austria, and Russia have left it to be understood that on that point they are and always will be in accord with England." There is better authority for this statement respect ing England than the assertion of a Peer, viz., a formal diplomatic " Declaration." A treaty was signed at Vienna, on the 25th of March, 1815, be tween the King of GREAT BRITAIN, the Emperors of AUSTRIA and RusslA, and the King of PRUSSIA, for making " a COMMA effort against the power of NA POLEON BONAPARTE." But a " Declaration," added to it on the exchange of ratifications, says formally, that it is " not to be understood las binding his Bri tannic MAJESTY to prosecute the - war with the view of imposing upon France any particular Govern ment." The bust of the PRESIDENT of the Republic has been put up in all the mairies of Paris. It is said to be in contemplation to erect an archie piscopal palace at Paris near the Hotel de Ville and the church of St. Gervais. The hut barracks constructed by order of General CAVAIGNAC on the Esplanade of the Invalides, at the Pantheon, and on the Place de l'Archeveche, are about to be demolished. The announcement in the Moniteur this morning, that the concession of the railways from Paris to Cherbourg, and from Bordeaux to Cette, had bean adjourned, pro duced a favourable effect on the Bourse. The Four and-a-Half per Cents. opened at 99f. 650., and closed at 100 f. 25c. for the end of the month; the Three per Cents. closed at 70f. 45c.; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,185 f. ; Rouen, 7721.500.; avre, 290 f.; Great Northern, 592 f, 50c,; Avignon, 2901.; Vierzon, 587 f. 50c.; Basle, 246 f. 25e.; Bordeaux, 6121. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 5651.; Tours and Nantes, 3671.50 c.; Paris and Lyons, 6131. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE —North LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 6. i _gne and T,nxembnure„ Liege, 6 France, 201. 3 per Cent. Bonds (formerly 8 0 1 0 . " n of Amiens Shares), 133A —Orleans and Bordeaux, 15 and Orleans, re and Meuse, 4—P aris 1i We tern H o f France, 7%, s —T ours and Name,, SPAIN. Our accounts from Madrid are of the Ist inst. A C a binet Council having been held M the QUERN'S apar tments at Aranjuez, on th e 30th, rumours were current o f fundamental c h anges being in contem plation by the Government, but nothing certain was known. M A DRID BOLSA, MAY I.—Three per Cents. , 431; Exchange on London, 50 65. GERMANY. By letters received from the north of Germany we learn that the differences between the Duke of AUGUSTENBURG and the Danish Government, in which the Cabinet of Berlin acted as mediator, have been settled. The Prince has accepted th e o ff er o f the Danish Gov e r nmen t o f an Indemnity of 2,025,000 thalers for his property situated in th e d uc hi es, i n order to avoid th e necessity of proceeding judicially against him. The Duke has, consequently, no fur ther connexion with Schleswig or Holstein. ITALY. The Queen Dowager of SARDINIA has, according to the Risorgimento, already expended upwards of 10,000 f. for the relief of the sufferers from the late explosion at Turin. In its sitting of the Ist the Senate of Piedmont passed the Bill for the execution of a railway from Savigliano to Cuneo. Tie Count DEC;AmuoaD left Venice on the 27th ult. for Goritz, to attend a funeral service on the an niversary of the death of King CHARLES X. From Gotitz the Prince was to proceed to Frohsdorff. THE LATE ACCIDENT . AT ALBERT-GATE, —Yester day Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westminster, and a n;, jf e y d a o t i respectable inhabitants of St. George's Par a a r Tv yse , No. the private residence of Captain George '-' 5, Chesham-street, Belgrave-square, for the purpose of in quiring into the circumstances attending Or lando George Sutton Gunning athecodmeamthandoefrin the Royal navy, and brother of Sir r by a fall from his died from the effect of injuries Sutton, at Gunning, who f sustainedtaf the case have horse on on Saturday last. The :Patient investigation, the peared in our journal. , Afte!_ eu „, Eseath. ” `jury found a verdict of , Accid dent PHOTOGRAPHIC AND BINOCULAR PORTRAITS. A very curious discovery, which it is important that the public should know, respecting the binocular da guerreotype portraits, which have now become so po pular, has been recently made by Sir David Brewster. The harsh and disagreeable expression which characterises all sun pictures, but especially the bi nocular ones when united by the stereoscope, has been ascribed to the imperfection of the lenses employed, the instability of the sitter, and the necessary constraint of feature and of limb under which he sub mits to the operation. But whatever may be the in fluence of these causes, there is another which neither the artist nor the sitter can control. Even if the lens is absolutely perfect, the sitter motionless, and the expression of his features such as should be per petuated, the portrait is a monstrous representation of humanity, which no eye, and no pair of eyes, ever saw or can ace. This character of photographic portraits arises solely from the size of the lens, and as every photographer strives to procure large lenses, for which ho pays a high price, his very attempt to improve his art leads him to produce portraits deviating more and more from pictorial truth. The cause of this is easily apprehended. A perfect portrait is that which an artist paints with one eye, or from a single point of sight; but a portrait taken by a lens in a camera is a combina tion of a great number of portraits taken from a great number of points of sight on the margin and throughout the area of the lens. The consequenca of this is that the whole figure and every individual texture is a com bination of lines or points in different positions, and of lights and shadows of different magnitudes and intensities. If the commonest eye, theretore, can see very distinctly, as it does, the great difference between two portraits, the one taken by the left and the other by the right eye—which are only 2i inches distant— how enormous must be the difference between portraits taken at different points of the margin of a lens four, five, or six inchet, in diameter! The perfection of the photographic art, therefore—but particularly of that new department of it which con:ists in taking binocular portraits, which the stereoscope combines and (exhibits in relief—depends upon the discovery of a process so sensitive that portraits can be taken by lenses as near as possible to the size of the pupil of the eye. COMPETITION. After all, it must be admitted that Competition bas already done the civilized world great service, and ac complished more towards diffusing the benefits of in dustrial enterprise, than any single agency that could be named. Competition has led to most of the splendid mechanical inventions and improvements of the age. It has stimulated the shipbuilder, the merchant, the manufacturer, the machinist, tho tradesman, the shop keeper. In all departments of productive industry it has been the moving power. It has developed the re sources of this and of other countries—the resources of the soil, and the character and qualities of the men who dwell upon it. It seems to be absolutely necessary for the purpose of stimulating tbo growth and culture of every individual. It is deeply rooted in man, leading him ever to seek after and endearrour to realise some , and thing better and higher than he has yet attained. Of sympathie W co:operate with course, man is much more than a competing being. That is only one of his characteristics, and not the highest or I s th to n b n e fe:t s b t p e e i r n r ed a e l noblest. He has sensibilities, tions, which draw him on to unite and others in works for the common good. individualism, there may, and there ought But.e with each other under any cir ficent co-operation for the general happiness.sha. Men may to o stinct of Competition, c u a n m i t s e t a t o n labour, es,ther t e o produce, i d ü b c e e, t a h n e d the fruits of corporate industry. the opportunities for Competition, and, though mixed with necessary evil, there will be the ultimate beneficial results of CompetitilEl. EliZa C oo k' s Journal. CoNsEmrTioN OF COKE ON ItaiLwAYs.—The in creased consumption of coke, and consequently of coal, from which it is made, since the introduction of the railway sys tem, is truly remarkable, and still is not to be wondered et . when we take i nto consideration the thousands of miles es of iron way whi c h g i rdle the land, the hundreds of locomotives conti nually roaring a n d b e l ching forth steam, and the number of Passengers and quantity of merchandise daily conveyedcrctlar hundreds of miles to their destination. From a trade n recently received, we find that in one house alone in trade New castle-on-Tyne, that of Messrs. Straker and has more than doubled in the past three Y Lo rs ve, - e a a rds ; of 40,000 L nightly pay-bills, wages, &c., amount to uw for carriage of per annum, and they pay in railway dues,heirmake of coke is coke, upwards of 60,0001. a year. T they expect to raise their fort , upwards of 200,000 tons per annum, an d 000,000 tons of coals. from melt collieries this year These coals are principally from th district of Durham, are Bitch burn Collieries, in the Auckland district coal, and the coke pro ducedknown generally as a productive g 41juuetBrancepeth and appreciated for railway purposes, free from it is highly boiler tubes remaining unin jured.—Mixing sulphur, and of high clinker on the fire bars, and the ev a porative power, leaving no jured.-2/fixing Journal. PRESERVATION OF THE CRYPT OF GERRARD'S HALL. —At the last meeting of the British Archeological Associa tion, a communication was read from Mr. J. W. Butter worth, urging the society to transmit a remonstrance to the City authorities against the demolition of the ancient and beautiful crypt of Gerrard 's Hall. The chairman, Mr. T. J. Pettigrew, said that, ardent as was the desire manifested by the members of the association on the subject, he feared the preservation of the crypt was impossible ; the City architect, and surveyor, had exerted all their skill, but without effect, to prevent its downfall. He understood that in conse quence of the site of the crypt being some feet above the level of the neighbouring ground, its removal became neces sary, in order to carry out the City alterations and improve ments. Therefore, he entertained no hope that any remon strance now would stay the hand of destruction. Mr. C. Egan said that, in London, a city celebrated for able archi tects and talented engineers, surely some scientific e spiri e t would be found capable of devising a mode wherebyitthh im. of street might be deflected, and consonantly' t ~ '7 Z. °, A ssuredly he from the route originally P City sug authorities co uld su th p e e y ra w bl o e u . ldfind the enlightened citizens of London woulalangnnoesntteestmnioffpnlearwt the eodu. l d H per petrationbyea therefore hoped that Mr. Butterwol's adopted, being satisfied that if th That the only be induced to re consider thweerrne n o t i n . ...... that the engineering difficulties 3 e - v pzp rt o h se , d AblypMr.,, and :c , a t l ii A: c •so li c a l i a r t ra io a n i be reques ted and D ic Mr' A. sDtinegivesdbisucruys,sion in r. w w h . ' N h v. , After anWhite, le and ne h e l n , t 3 e i r r e . Egan, 1 Petti grew, s n" sg,r,ceown,dteodokbpyari‘tiri.t wLaaswurlet to take such steps as they may deem desirable, for the council of the h . pre servation _intact of the ancient crypt of Gerrar„ British n h a ving been A rchni !t it °.llll b ell'un.hraneedimmo;°tuißsniheumatism by Holloway's Ointmenot [ADvErtzisEm ENT.] —A Lioutenant This officer, who is in the Dutch array, states thfaatnDlideoalpigoiwlolsoa.n7ss Pills and Ointment have cured him of rheumatism, which ap peared to be incurable, as neither sea bathing, vapour baths, nor preparations vaunted as sure remedies, did him any good, and the treatment of th e d ot', after several months' trial , was without success. A t this juncture he commenced taking these pills, and rubbin g the oi n t men t into the complaining' parts twice a day, w hi c h et t i hs ec i tu s a ta i e ll m cu e r n e t d eanhimbine tvheeuechouedrseforof six weeks. Th e truth of by Mr. J. 13. 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