The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

TO RAILWA.Y PROPRIETORS AND-SHAREHOLDERS. EgSRS. WICKHAM and CO., Share Auctioneers, inforin their friends and the public, that their i(Zaie SALES OF RAILWAY SHARES, &c., are held every 11,0A1 arid THIIRSTUT, at the HALL OF COMMERCE, Au -aneolle-street, London, to which place, or to the office of the 28, Thr eadneedlo-atroet, all favours and instructions era Tired to be addreesed. M the 1, and Share certificates must be forwarded to or deposited Of the Auctioneers, as above, at least the day preceding iclr ifard - h" thli e gale. and advisee of the result of the sales will be the first post after the sale, and the proceeds hums ,ogPoled of acoorcun g to instructions. Ca.A3touse.—l7nder 20/. Is per share ; urrler 50/., 16. 8(1. LOO/ 2 a 6d . • ' • 6d d ; and lie. for all above. Crit,,,EAT WE RAILIVAT. for Directors of tliis Company are ready to receive Tenders . lire or In sums of n o t l ess than 1,0001., for a period of l eteru s t Years, on th e security of Mortgage Debentures, bearing Apou...‘, he rate of 41 . per cent. per annum. Mee, t; 44l °lls addlngton Stationb. e made to the undersigned, at the Railway- LOYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . 444 t.._'olhe Lectures selected for this period of the year,nyD p r, Ryan 80pur:esser Itachoffner, in CHEMISTRY and NATURAL _H L A /,,,,,1 MU be Illustrated by interesting and brilliant experiments. dep.,,,, r ure on the P REVALENT DISEASE In POTATOES , w it il , lo . e . W4i ren d bY Dr. Ryan, and else on the t.TMOSFIIERIC All r. rYlag'._s_3' Professor Ba ' clieffner, a Working Model of which, e t a he Ol'A..:!veral p ersons, is exhibited daily. The additio , ns to mA. Titoi,;,E MICROSCOPE, DISSOLVING VIEWS, and Cil • ft e o. E.- Pen ine 7 ; ; . L . re very effective. The PHYSIOSCOPE. submarine me the 'ram . by means ef toote DIVER and DITIND ~B E L. _ s A___'2! Alltkl4s additions ke Working Models is Coleman• un lS , 1 .. d ": 0_ telkij, i'LN. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE, for ascending I fllt'4eined lanes. A magnificent Collection of Ili the ir • Mr. Downe, the celebrated Flute Player, 14tst rrosic, eenducted by Dr. Wallis. Open Irma Eleven te lialf -`"ro. and frera Sloven to half--past Ten la time Evening. w i i ll U t (j a k V e l C p A ar L t I". Adiaittance. One Shilling. Scheele. half - price. •ItaIfr,RSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH Atijoe.,•ol.lltT of CIIANTCERT made in a Cause ALDRED against tar ts ;' the Creditors of ' JOHN ' ALDRED, Esq., formerly of G in Th e N, in the county of Norfolk, afterwards of Hatt m en- ard re en kite fleigt7opfrLoituee,o,4henred h su e b d s i e e q d u , e i n u tl t y h o e f ui ß u o u u t l h og u n f e- F s e u b r r - u _ er g , , in is t 3 l o le: W I rt hwith I a r ry GIFFIN , 'cox ~_- to come In and prove their debts before S in .otith an ',,,"o, e of tile Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers,_ e et tans;•=n-bnildinge, Chancery-lane, London ; or, in default th re 0, Jae excluded the benefit of the said Decree Plaintiff's . Solicitors, '4OB/LET, SCOTT, and HERTSLET, 31. Norfolk-street, Strand. MECHI GRINDS and REPAIRS CUT silt.. LERy d aD s qe al% L onis 7 on the Premises, No. 4, LEA ui ly p N u ll th A i L ie L 7 - , oa t o 0 ,,, - .on ; also re -leathers old razor strops, tzhts strops cork screws. Razors 'set in a superior manner. His /1 :14 s i s ~..,, and Paste are well worth the attention . o tible.k,!ng difficult. A large assortment of IlletacZles and forks, (ions ' cork-screws, British-elate forks and sp , penknives,scissors kitk,rll.7,,,al'oto, Shedield plated candlesticks, tea and coffee pots, tiSegos, eft/et thine', nut crackers, &c. I hi BT v.. Itt n e S STRAND STATIONERY ~it l inea l , -'XIIOUSE• Stationery, Dressing-cases, Travelling 'ilett,e-44, Envelo• e Ladies' Companions, I'ortfolios and % tea, 1;'-'441 Inks tat e is Cas GOld and Silver ever-pointed Penci l l- Aleh t ati. larl 17; Gd.; Prayers 00 beetn 114 h or7 Tables Cutlery, &c.; Bibles fur and . !Ards, ,_ elegiun bind' ' ' ir e .4. e s t . algs. Name-plate engraved n I n 1 4 . • ~ • . auportlne letter paper from ss. tke ream ; note paper 14 e th e ream ; with every article• of stationery, of the boot A t ,c and pricea. el 1'11(llInto N • k, and 1;:t e 1 1 4 0 3 0 ,. Strand, facing Catherine-street. Envelopes, len ,Lia,s PALETOT, registered 6 and 7 Vic., 6,. °- e llbr7, D. 63 . le Patronised '• the Prince Consort, Prince George . 4 iit o - uite, ace, and is e Y rallv acknowledged to exoel all etne Yet 4 _, ate. _ttirally The cloth is made of Llama Wool, known to be porous, st„..'lle r iss .,, r o,__Pellant of rain. sin zr, a ~....,,urhood of the extensive Wareroonas, 114, Regent "•,'utrit, "7 sMall shops are se far unprincipled as to assume a tes'ititst-n°%nalne, Intending te Impose upon strangers some trashy e oliti seers. Nicoll think It due to their own reputation thus ke ier,, °4 t he Pabl' (Ist._ •ed ; an , le, sad to suggest that a eopy of the Address be ' ti on or (1 they further offer a Reward of Fifty Pounds for the b itik k a Positive Infringement. kiln Drina Cloth from its soft elastic, nature, is well adapted far kytellteobr444 , ' e ate—to be had only of the Patentees. . _ D, Iri,rl7l.t ie4etetredtr Paletot c l i c; of in the lining " H. d . ana l :„ I.l k g e 2LDEiI FLAX CRAVAT COLLAR. li„ at, gi r ngle Rands" may be wore with the customary 'NI b nines nereued warmth and compactness, by substituting " a "" Is' Di • troublesome tape-strings, a , vota in , ace of the unsightly and 4, 1 ° haek g tostettiolonleeeernkly parting l und u irr bu it u a u tio p n as o s f in t g he t u h s r u e al ugh col t l h a; tel. 'Th e D n ,by one ine _.p.is o„ °ebbs Bands" need no additional cravat ;in one ar buniat vs, ''"ined bothd .i s ,,, slits" collar an cravat. .In both kinds " The ~' lin en 4 obtained by the us (exclusively) of " The Golden 1 471 3/ ' t . 1 1 wil_detopniti, ttetatosiiieteetredavaAtucellar bears the mama of " John Paterin)nn; C 11 Aug 29, 1849," stud may be obtained at any of t re Ind drapers, in London and the country. A R I S T M A S!!! t a k es my lyre with tuneful lay, 41ttr 1:: :(18 .:. i o\l you,,comhea; happy v t e hn toe e ," Christmas Day 1" nen Music, minh, and love combine, To strew our path with roses bright, Mingle friendship with delight ! I ,nd what is most essential—say, R ° glys éclat to " C hristmas Day ?" y "Cl o th ing! " that we oven's a fact; fore t here tell you how to act ! ,'"wa to llyam's "—order there 4illebillnienta of beauty rare Ind then with confidence and joy ~ oat charmingly your time employ ; - .! r h o?enea of pleasure bright and gay, „ °4 11 Pas, a happy " Christmas Day 11 List er %N I . Ci s - nlei s ,-, -- f =lees for Winter Garments reedy-made :•-•-• x c d. 0 9 0 ettsineo,,l Over - coats fro m .. 0 15 0 14tii,eineo,s Destertleld and Taglionis, from •..• . .. ......., 1 1 0 t0inn 0 ,ver... 00 °,11 473 and Glenlyons • • •••• :: . ........., 00 108 06 1n.., a Cheater a . ............. .• ••• • • • i3,...1% co.delds and Taglionis •••• • • • • ..... ' • ... .... .. 1 1 0 I,;. 4r o teet s, s4 i la all c olours, braided edges, from •• ••• • • ... 1 4 0 ~ / '' t t" , lia t° l,l l ,,_ t t o • ...... ...... .................... 4,is; B,.aphinditi—,u ond Doeskin, ftom ••..•••• • • • • • • :: 0 4 6 °. I'n e ' Patterns, in every material, from • • N 4 4 for Winter Garments to order, in first-rate .. st (x vle c ai d ni . dray ‘o fashion : iil'ldefr Taglloui Over-coats, from ------—— • • • • 0 111 0 1 10 0 1 , ,,t. and c _ enlYon ditto, from .•••----• • • • • • • • • • .. , b„.4,4' T.,,,,,Hintton walking ditto .... ... •••• • • .. ..... 1 • 4 'ft e -..,01fis and Chesterfields .......... •• • ......, 0 14 II Ill orto. sci ts trie,i `Y r ••ts, t ro ' —0 In superior style, from .........., ~. 1 10 0 1. 'No s , 111 ~ ........ ~ ~ I 15 0 ', t4 ts . „ or ;144,11,Lowek.setad Fancy Doeskin, from • . . ate oOni srm ,), Inatorials, from • • I 7 0 t ._ fre t , tn . It Parttnent is conducted entirely distinct and sopa 'lsis gm, ortgiV-made, aud buyers will find patterns and ma kif.rndly4l4oMfrnwen;r4iinasteds°rtd. unirTilit7yf, alrt ouths' clothes k t constantly en 4s tee, I llioat ant to any et l e eel t, r ea ed:c bo ed b p ad rrce a s t . t r e ou nti j rnin u g to o; A h 0„,,. purriee4,-,4u eb.tiktled The Talk of the Town," containing list of see,h - nod on a' s , t Y 0 be.isrell-Street, London 3 o L. liYam' a P ntechnetheoa, 36, ''''° - "" il ees IT.,, -----~z- ______transacted on Saturdays until the evening. UIiGESS' — --- 4,44°10,T11b°u5107, ES SENC EsTRND,corner e o f f the SAavNoyC-slitepOs,VlES 144444 itd.i:,sB and SON, being tehll,: f e ed It , Y ras hY Peraona to impose a spurious article for . the apprised of the numerous en 'ter,. ", ni po„,,_-•e.unabent mi them to request the attention of r at e the ,Ta•„_"ocing what they conceive to be the original to ob 011,!PPettran'mo and Address correspond with the above. The genes en4 - 3 1 " 4 ;an Of the spurious descriptions will deceive the un *lV c" " t8 : - --°- ' sr their detection, J. B. and Son, submit the following Peat x,C.,,°ke rt e In appearance at first sight, 'the genuine," but t s ‘etl isre ••! or ', r u b ; „„ ,_7.a some " Burgess's Essnce ef Anchovies," titZ is 'ts and al••-•tolo st" and many more without address. John eillighed itp,„.llolovig been many years honoured with such clis bits.,.. six ,•ooation, feel every sentinaent of respect towards the *1 11;'4 v r i t tle stl7 solicit them to Inspect the labels previous t• 11,,rt,,,, rata hey conceive to be of their make, which they hope tt4'-ngtss. '.,x17 iappointments. es,nl itatistaeti XIV SAUCE, for general purposes, ellin.al as n it n, continues to be prepared by them, and is recem having given such Z, t4 t Withal and convenient sauce ; will keep good in all 'll%ele, Ip7, ST RAND, corner of the Savoy-steps, Leadett. The Original Fish-sauce Warehouse CIJAS. A. SAUNDBRS, Secretary. 11(3 -'- i'Vlit r 'lt t_rAsse,t4AND's AIACASSIAR OIL. r bll`._ .. orri ii --. .e2 gold reproduces the Hair; prevents It from falling 14,,,err errand ; restores grey hair to its original colour; frees it t e lies t ,' abs,". dandriff and renders it soft silky curly, and glossy eeti I . iris 'U•I7 Prov ' ed 1•7 innumerable ' testimonial, which are 11. • ve . Pectio s 1,7 ti ) ; -14 „,, at the proprietors. As a mild stimulative, car itgrpt.e/elsk,,ftervatlve agent ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL ~ t1i5p.,,44 ~..,e Patronage of the several Sovereigns and Courts of r e ,ille s 'ion s ,', th rank, fashion, and discernment, supersedes all 1,, , 1it. ah eash j,..4 Professed similar import. ' A small pamphlet accom -1'1,4 al *d 7, ttl e of ROwlaud's ' Macassar Oil, wherein important la , ()%ittia h v tst --e . w11 .. 1 be found on the culture of the hair of infancy, ,tine,tt ti. •yauon and beauty through the several stages of Tto zi . . 1, 41 41 ore 1, ."-taprhisipied shopkeepers, for the sake of gaining a os t.4e4s4 ''' i nt . vend the most spurious trash under the title of - ''' ''lls ° L . It is thereforrAechnAsPosrAaßtiveoca l i lt te lls 1, 4 U, Al N. in two lines purchasers arit to see that (11,*,-'34.sp.PPer-"Per, k- oP 'S ea l Ch bottle, andon 29 t ,o h 2 e B ii l i: t i t d e e rs. _ of I, ' L'At t i ,`Kb, 7, ca rlY 1,500 times, containing er) "4,size . /.4 Mily Bottles (equal h Proprietors, A. ROW -4011 p„,„' 41 8. per bottle.—Sold by t-e to four small), 10s. 6d., and Oh. "`'.., 20, Llatton-garden, London, and by Chemists and ki(;; Ali r, "her *Macassar Oils are Fraudulent Counterfeits. , .S Q Si. wit it (.`P•Y‘Cip',, D EMULCENT -00, --, the b lis,,kie% 0 a nti est remedy ever disco 0 - '4,,1 . ils r .,_ nlit. difficulty of breathing, consumr ye C re O d. UGH 140- ~ 4p„•-4 r,C`"tellien th respiratory organs, Pe o r t s i o o n n s o a r ffl o ic tit te e d r IS': 414'asti)t.t:titt:tWil'ell ,derive'l2c%tTs'o°rirte G u ll LOZENGE S e which are so effica • Perinanent , b nett, will tel'insPeuriseene:f ( l ' e F nt ' paroxysra of cough rchitielareeth,-1;. *tremble to the ie most palate that o they may be eaten I tt, L' t t !' la til i t !l ll4 ,A a P . ri . estorr,Peter Jones, operative chemist, 11,.Norton- I r ead,7*u ty 7 ., I London in boxes Is. 14d., and in tills at tit,eols,”„ t e is apt, ; and by meet eheinists and patent inedi atti , ,,'.o A pt , -nand countr 1 . 4 - Cllti-444-11arelay an Y d . Son, Farringdon-street ; Edwards, rehYard. .1%. t it G P ' S 4 10, 4 lop, oe e ' EAL-ALL, kw , „ t o h,,, LEFIRATED EMBROCATION, fi1,,, • ahaseloss n ever throughout the West of England as the er 'els ~,,Attisi:edY for rheumatism, lumbago, pains in the },pc,ktlie-Tolllbni4eC, !, sciatic and Paralytic affections, ns, face-ache, tlis ~,11. h . or Iris and scalds spasms and cramp, stiffness 4 4 , 4 sey ,;;likewiZ, ' frozen limb's chilblains before they are t O liaP a rw a i , 5 ,, ° , 1 1, bro 2. infallible cure fer that dangerous disorder, " e aeh' V ."eliti s '". 111 Which it was never known to fail after itfig. sotti Tha t ;I. in this •;:,?,,' 95,.Pt4t4ne e rn be genuine unless the Stamp affixed F br edg o -I",able 4,71,44% Leine aid Address of BARCLAY and r y? 1,, t i l a ua of wi:h'e frpAisieet, who have purchased the property --...._ * ti a5,j,,,, Z end soid urc rd, 't‘ille e xecutors of the Inventor, William ti•-... - wint ry - retsti ts . 1. 1 , 1 , -- Retail h'l` ' - all re.pecat e 'in i edic l ln d e . ls 41)0 1 , a.t. f r v a e n t el ide 2 r s e 9 i d i; Orn, e i , As lit li, °ile r e: 11 . Lock ft tr ti s " , t-T is i Cr .. H urim in b T y EN MINUTES , eltrab i p,2 Or Aith'.B PUL MON'IC -WAFERS. l'S'tice4tietn. 4r tYle Ma ' be nt Mr. W Barton, Apothecarlee 4.,. 41,,.. 1 1--I. o _ ._ _shire, dated M . h • I 1845 • I:li' A h oi ,, ‘.ll' _ i _ arc ~ • . or pris t . end so d gentleman g'!_e great satisfaction , one case in ti s, tcry medic! 014 had . Nviio for years has been afflicted with Sit t lie, ~e s a quiet nights rest, had used very many Lh t 'i:ei l ag re e h be' as vrell as medical prescriptions, but all were n g .n. 11 0 st "to use Locock's Wafers, he feels himself . ,mek i ,o4r,,,L etc, eePe well at 4110'44 ~, ~,,fts and (Si gn e d ) night, an l d v i l s ix q i u m ite refreshed in ' 4l 'tr. II4 3LIC 8 1 . ) 4, , rie, 1 I lttheni n t , -• EAXERS they are invaluable for t ' l tte sl O i s ' ,_11.14., 2: Q , e V oice ; they have a most pleasan "•tillsi;.'• nritie,4,,'" - ' 4 . , and I 1 s. per Box.—Agents : Pa 0 l i t h ..e, Eleet-street, London ; sold by all me t ti t • ilto-,.„,„ tq,, —1, 71 II T 1 229, STRAND, LONDON. th t il t ,N t , tbli at ° Wine boricaster , September 2Gth, 1844. Dri , •• the— . Particulars have been ' handed to us with a ~ ""eatt o '' raight forty t, if shouldardad to you, with permission for b ietlis si , you deem them worthy of such. "'411"4 - 47% Ntri J. BROOKE and Co. Doncaster. tb, Ilt,i , rty mid flex, residingesdin in Duke-streat Do ' ncaster, aged ti,;olllo,,tuelar b e e f it ot y, vr ely afflicted with Rheumatism, and Ile ish, °l 4„, lll l, her aria Pe . riod of nearly two months, with scarcely 1), - 'elg t; la Lalit,,,‘.?,.z She Was signally benefited after taking 1 1 ta 4, v ° bOx ee ~,,' "'it T and lIIIEU3SIA.TIC I'ILLS, and after h' e lli l ' , 41 4 re cent t as quite recovered.' 'la. • Itl 4441, ___FBtllTlOrlial is a mrther Proof of the great efficacy lesa _ .4,ettta.„ ineoleine, Which is the most effective remedy for 440 c. 5,11. Sciati Nt lt AttieTendt-t„ . ea, Lumbago, Tic Dolorous, Pains in the i1ii.,40 4%ticii Mistaken for tooth-ache. and for all Gouty and Itti ,tz_ grattfyineeste. ' etettY7. liele t , • - flare Permission to refer to the following katp)hers 4 t onr u tr°rn lnultltudo of others, whose station in ,: - -a. 11. libuted tea.advance this popular medicine in public $'1,i'.,14t4t,,,,1 tht jt,andab, EB, Coroner, Doncaster • the Rev. Dr. )t, kZ el•l4 rtford: e ,alier de la C , arde • Mr. Aliskin' brewer and ei i ) a t ._' kr. i n ' w 'i oo r• iti:hard Stone, Luton ; John J. Giles, Esq., tt, - ts--43,,,_ , , ,- erbright ; William Courtenay, Esq., Aftipli„-,74N,f,Andover Railway Station, Hants. ; all of whom Pii%ts l ,,else . the i; t g ent bY taking this medicine, and have allowed the Nd b vil lcs of Publishing the same for the benefit of the by. ) ,,,1'he0,...., - 140 ell r ---'' relit, 229, Strand, London ; and by his appoint A.. ts eilnectabi lii:t it, N ee , ~, 0 Medicine Vendo hroughout the United c I t% t t LA,H t f a • 9 d. Per box. 4 1t,\,c414 awn 9 OUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe ee* et " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, Londoon," ‘., 1 kid.leki:4, 0911114 11114 8t nip affixed to cut boa of the DA Y ,. ) ILLIA3IS-/ p__ 0 nsSeSSed DAY•) IN RENN" a to stay Prcr t be delivered to,, he notica.nodirrii • eer •-• 1.0 , nn d Ca r e ds an „ne of whic3 t gilt the Prf' s .4 4 e n daot t s h y s i jihel order person cepable r refer the Oa till, °l Otigi ll'e ;1 10 Op° of of 5 ,. ii T °°"- Q. , Tb'ljj'il d°'• of • 14° ‘ 0 110 $ ale rt 00 1 11$11 No. 16,677. . . ---.. ".. . .. . s . ‘ ... _ ... , 4: .. .7,7- ,,,.._,4 7 ,_ . . ... .1..... . r A r 4.,.. . , .. „: 7 • a ~.,,...te,.... _ , ,„. QUI - . At :,,,.. V: -, vo, 0 , .• 4 , IcV ' 2 1 , ..• ZI t 1 s .. . ( .. • 7 i -7 ; 4 , = a ,, 7 . -‘\\ w , ' • OK „ ..„,,,,. . ...,,...:"___ , i • , X , " , VV. \ ,-. -- ' -- 1 -,---„ '''--,--..,...? ( 4''' - ' -, ~ z i , -- • , : ....,"" -,72:,,4 ,.. . 1. ,i 3 . 0 ,7 ,--, ~ ~_N, ..? , 6 --,, 4. „<.5, , „.,.",-,, a _ ~ $ - 111 ....- -, - , , • .... IL , - ..;41e . , .. , i . - ..... ..... , • 1 ~ ,t • ..., -,.- .: 4 ' 1 4 - \ 41:: . % l f ilk ' ' • `5 .1 1i..4 ~,r- `,- ' ) •'' •tt. ) - A , Ci s, r'''''3 ,9 •'l )s: z. l i ,e7il? irks' '; Ve " -- ze ,,,e ,_ e' ' •,_,--_,"›<A , . -4,2(:. 1 .,—.. , -,---v 4 p.: - a.. 2 .: 1 , • 1 ,0 . 1 , e... ,j, --_ -- . i f x . ,--‘, s _ s , , .. : ,* fr y 64 - of -'---_spjy '-4 4iltitu., -0 ',' •'Q at'. . ' •ii , s w., • , , , -- , .. -bi,, ..4, s ., ir ... e fill--- -_. , - - • , • . . PRICE SD, J UARY 27, 1846. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING S - NOTICE. -ALTERATION OF TIME AND REDUCTION OF FAKES. GRAVESEND for 6d. or 9d., boat and railway included. The STAR and BLACKWALL PACKETS are now running at the above reduced fares from the Brunswick 11 Blackwall, at 9%, 10%, 12, 1%, 3%, and 5. Sundays, 12 and 3% excepted. From the New Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 8%, 9%, 113 1,2%, and 5. Sundays 9% and 1 ex cepted. Fare : Fore Cabin and Second Class Railway, Gd.; Saloon and First Class, 9d. Star Office, Gravesend, Oct. 11, 1845. THE NEW REVOLUTION. A (GRATIS) SUPPLEMENT usTRATTODTLIiONEND ON NEWS W og a ill be mtblished on SATURDAY , JAN. 31, 1846, FULL REPORT of the New Measures proposed by Sir ROBERT ?EEL and the Speeches In th e D e bate, re l ative to t hese Containt important alterations in the Policy of the Government. No measure ever proposed or carried by any Administration ever equalied the importance of the proposed REPEAL of the CORN LAWS, and other alterations in Custom Duties. These Government proposals, If carried into effect as a law, will undoubtediy cause a complete revolution in the social condition of the people of England, far beyond any political changes ever effected in any country. * 4 . The ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS may be had, If or dered two days previously, of any bookseller or newsman in the United Kingdom, price 6d., stamped, with the Supplement for Nothing ! ! The Illustrated London News may be had tor any period at the office, by remitting the cash in advance. Office, 198, Strand, London. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUIi- ANCE SOCIETY, 26, COIINHILL, LONDON. Capital X 500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution offQrs important and snlostantial advan tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all oceasiens, the power to borr)w, without ex panse or forfeiture of the Polley, two-thirds of the premium paid, (see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFIT:. The success and increasing prosperity of the Society leas enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third Bonus, varying from au to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. q 040 rn . Bonne Benasin gg 0 ~ .0 In. = Premium., - , ri I added. Cash. a Ei E . 9 p i a 1 . 1 . 1 5 tiJil- ‘ : ":4 2. . 1 .1837 £l9l 13 51X87 13 5 £l3 17 1 £39511 1 69 1000 74 '3 4 1833 la 13 01 74 13 10 11 8 6 346 2 3 1839 138 13 61 61 14 3 9 210 296 13 4 1 1840 89 001 41 13 4 6. 0 247 4A The division of prefitz is annual, and the next will be made in De cember. ef the present year. _ _______ _ . F. FERGUSON CAIIROUX, S. IN THE CITY OF LONDON.-VALUAELE FREEHOLD PROPERTY, situate No. 91, Bishopssate-street. MR. W. W. SIMPSON has received instruc tions from the Trustee under the will of Isaac Laugh ton Marsh, Esq., deceased, to offer for SALE by AUCTION, at the Mart, on TUESDAY, February 17, at Twelve, A valuable FREEHOLD PROPERTY, comprisinea substan tially-built Freehold House and Shop, desirably situate No. 91, Bishopsgate-street, containing five bed-rocms, handsome drawing. room, dining and breakfast parlours, two kitchens, cellars, water closets, &c., the whole well arranged and fitted up in a superior style. The premises, which are in excellent repair, are let on lease to Mr. Henry Peacock for an unexpirJd term of 21 years; at a ground rent of 391, per annum, and in the occupation of Mr. Tyler, at a rent of 1401. per annum. The commanding situation of this property renders it very desirable for investment. The premises may be viewed by permission of the tenant, and particulars, with plan annsxed, may be had of Messrs. Desbo rough and Young, solicitorst 6, Sise-lane, City; at the Mart; and of Mr. W. W. Simpson, 18, Bucklersbury. LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. BREWERY, INNS, PUBLIC AND BEER-HOUSES. R W SIAIPSON has received directions to SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, in the ensuing month (unless an acceptable offer be previously made by Private Contract), The FREEHOLD BREWERY, with Spirit Trade attached, situate in the High street, Lowestoft, and carried on successfully for many years by Messrs. G. and W. Everitt, but in consequence of the death of Mr. George Everitt the property will be sold, and offers an eligible opportunity (or investment, as skiVnlness and industry only would be required in the management to realise an extension of the free and private trade, which is at present considerable. The home premises comprise an excellent residence, brewheuse, with tun rooms and stores, yard and stabling. The fixed plant, which will be included in the purchase, consists of a 15 quarter tun, two brewing coppers, one of 38 and the other of 19 barrels, and all other requisite plant in proportion. Also 14 inns, public and beer-houses, which are all freehold, with the exception of one copyhold ; six of the houses are in Lowestoft, and those in the country are generally at convenient distances from the brewery : a malthouse with 15- quarter steep, two working floors, &c., maltster's cottage and ,yard. A considerable portion of the purchase-money may remain on mortgage. Particulars are in preparation, and may be bad in due tires of Mr. William Everitt, the proprietor, who will now on application show the premises, and give all informatioa required ; of Henry Ling, Esq., solicitor, St. Gies's, Norwich ; and of Mr. W. W. Simpson, estate, brewery, and distillery agent, &c., Bucklersbury. FATHER WINTER'S EXPLANATION ! How is it, Father Winter ? 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Moses and Son are obliged to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike false hood of being connected with thers, or its the same concern, has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reassus. They have no connexion whatever ith any other establishment, in or out of London, and those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to prevent disappointment, &a.) call or send to 154, M: cries, or 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church. [ADVERTISEMENT.I—DOCTOR BINNS AND HOLLO.• WAIT'S Ot stirsucwx. —Doctor Binns, who is one of the prin cipal physicians in the island of Jamaica, has expressed him self in the following manner respecting the surprising healing properties of Holloway's Ointment :—" 1 made many trials of this Ointment in cases of Chronic Ulcers, which several years experience in the West Indies taught me to consider as incurable. lam now happy to say that in all cases it was really and truly efficacious. Signed, E. Bisrsrs, M.D. F. S. A. Sco. ' Holloway's Ointment will cur e b a d legs, however long standing •, likewiqt the most obstinate cases of King's Evil or Scrofula. Sold by all medicine vendors, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. FROST, WILLIAMS, AND .TONES.—OD Monday night a public meeting was held in Marylebone to petition for the pardon and restoration to their native country of Frost, Williams, and Jones, GENERAL PASLEY and the GAUGE QUESTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—l had laid down a rule not to reply to any of the articles in which my opinions or reports are at tacked, either in the daily or weekly papers, or in those specially devoted to the subject of railways; nor to enter into any discussion with persons who propose now in ventions to prevent railway accidents, all of whom deem their own projects infallible, and some of whom are unreasonable enough to be offended by my returning a mere acknowledgment of the receipt of their commu nications. To enter into a controversy with the former, or into a correspondence with the latter of the parties alluded to, would waste the whole of my time in inter terminable altercation, leading to no useful result. Con sequently, when I have b een c h arge d w i t h an equa l want of practical knowledge and of science ; when I was accused of astounding ignorance, because I reported against the use of improper switches, viz., shifting rails and cross-rails, to connect with a passenger railway, which had cau-ed the death of two men; when I had been described as an infirm, superannuated person,;in capable of supporting the fatigues necessary for the efficient execution of my public duties ; when I have been reproached with neglect, because I did not examine the levels of every rail and of every chair, before I allowed a line to be open e d, or w h en, a f ter I h a d re ported a new railway to be in a safe state, accidents oc curred afterwards, through carelessness, or even when slips occurred afterwards, cau se d b y cont i nue d ra i ns an d inundations, to which persons who understand anything of railways know that the best are liable for years after they are opened; when my inspections have been alleged to be a useless form, and nothing more than a party of pleasure in a first-class carriage, ending in an entertain ment provided by the Directors, whose invitations on the contrary I have always declined, when I could do so without a want of courtesy—l have passed over such misrepresentations with silent contempt, sensible that the falshood and absurdity of the whole of them is well known to the Directors of the Railway Companies whose lines I have inspected, as well as to their officers and the persons in their employment, from all of whom, in my official intercourse with them, I have inva riably experienced, not merely civility, but respect and cordiality. In respect to the statements made by me when sum moned to attend coroners' inquests, held in consequence of fatal railway accidents, the case is different. I have always had a great reluctance to appear on such occa sions, for not having been myself present at any of them, I could not, of course, say any thing from personal know ledge as to the facts. Only in the trial at the York As sizes, on the 15th of last month, of Thomas Wheatley, the engineman, who ran with a pilot engine into the rear of a train which he was sent to assist, which he did on an ascending gradient with such violence as to cause the death of Mr. Boteler and another gentleman, I certified, from personal knowledge, that the breaks of the tender at tached to that engine, which were asserted by the stoker to have been unserviceable, in palliation of the pri soner's conduct, were, on the contrary, perfectly ser viceable, they being the first and only pattern that had been used on railways for many years, ai d being still in very general use, though more powerful ones have recently been adopted in making new tenders. Here there could be no misrepresentation or mistake, and my opinion was not asked for, though if it had been I should not, of course, have withheld it, it having been previously submitted to Lord Dalhousie, the President of the Board of Trade, as will appear when the reports of the Rail way • Department of Government shall be p u bli s h e d. I n respect to the report of my proceedings on the 6th of August last, when I visited the spot where a fatal accident had taken place, between the Wendon and Chesterford stations of the Eastern Counties Railway, and when afterwards giving evidence at the Coroner's inquest held in conse quence of it at Littlebury, on the 15th of the same month where my opinion was pointedly asked, the case was so far different, that the newspaper reports, whi c h i nc l u d e d not only my evidence but my private remarks in conver sation, being not entirely, though not very nearly, accu rate, led to attacks upon me not only for what I said, but also for what I did not say. Still it did not appear worth while for me to take any notice of those articles. In the case, however, of my evidence on the late coro ner's inquest at Thetford, on the 13th instant, it has been so inaccurately reported in yours and in the other morning papers of the day following --not only opinions, but even facts having been misstated—that I owe it to my own character to correct the errors into which the reporters have fallen, as it is not fair to assume that a person said what he did not say, and gave opinions which he never entertained, and then to attack such statements and opinions as if they had been really his. I seldom read the numerous papers on railway subjects, having better opportunities of judging of points connected with my own official duties than the editors or correspondents of those papers are able to afford ; but the editor of one of them usually sends me the articles that he writes against me, and, on receiving his last number, I found, after perusing a few lines of it, that he grounded an attack on me upon the erroneous passages in the newspaper report of my evidence at Thetford and at Littlebury, on which I laid aside hi s p a p er , as I h ave done on former occasions, without reading any more of it, for such attacks are to me a matter of perfect indif ference. After this I found that one of your corres dondents, who signs himself " 5.," has written a letter, published in your paper of the 15th inst., headed " General Paisley on Railway Accidents,"in which, under an erroneous impression that I am a partizan of the broad gauge, he controverts my supposed opinions, but with more temper and moderation than my other assailants. If he had known my real sentiments, he might have saved himself the trouble, not of writing the letter to you, i n which he discusses the subject of long and short boilers, but of mixing up my name with it, as far as the gauges are concerned. My opinion on that question has always been, that the narrow gauge is too narrow, and the broad gauge much wider than was absolutely necessary ; and, therefore, I recom mended in March, 1843, that a gauge of 5 feet 3 inches should be established for all railways in Ireland, in pre ference either to the narrow gauge of the English rail ways (4 feet 8 } inches), adopted on the Dublin and Kingstown railway, or to the broad gauge of the Ulster Railway (6 feet 2 inches), which, though ten inches narrower than that of the Great Western Railway, I considered wider than was absolutely necessary, My opinions on t hi s h ea d h ave not been altered since, and on being examined by Lieu tenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Smith, Mr. Airy, Astro nomer-Royal, and Professor Barlow, the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the gauge of railways on the 18th ult., before the accident on the Norfolk Railway occurred, I stated that the extent of Railway lines in England would certainly be doubled, and might probably be trebled, in the course of some years, and therefore I thought that both the present wide gauge of the Great Western Railway, and its extension and branches, as well as the narrow guage of the other railways in Great Britain, ought to be abolished, and the 5 feet 3 inches gauge adopted instead. The trials between the broad and narrow gauges made under the inspection of the Gauge Commissioners, by means of experimental passenger trains and goods trains, loaded with equal weights, had not then taken place ; but previously to my being examined by the Gauge Commissioners, I had been required, in the course of my duty, to give an opinion whether the speed of tile express trains then running on various railways might not be dangerous to the public safety. As I knew from long experience that the oscillation of a railway carriage was no proof of danger, and its steadiness not always a proof of safety, I therefore in vestigated this subject by travelling en the locomotive engines of all the express trains in England, which affords the only just criterion of safety or of danger; and I found that not only the engines of the Great Western, but those of the narrow gauge lines, such as the South-Western, the Brighton, diand Junction, Mid- land Counties, and other failwaY Companies, whether constructed according to the designs and specifications of their own locomotive engineerss, with outside or inside cylinders, or from the designs o f M essrs. S harp Brothers, hawthorn, Fairbai▪ rn, and other skilful loco motive engine-makers, as well as th e newpattern en g ine of Mr. Bodmer, were all steady , es pecially the last, and consequently all safe ; but when I tried the White Horse of Kent, one of Mr. Robert Stephenson's last patented long-boiler engines, on the 18th of Sept em b er l ast, I found that it rolled like a ship▪ at sea when pushed to a velocity of about 45 miles au hour proporti on to the between London an d Tunbridge, on the South-Eastern Railway, and this uneasy motion having inincreased speed, I came to a conclusion , if an attempt were made with such engines to rival the speed of the Great Western express trains, that they . would run off the rails and overser. I have expressed this opinion since to the Noble President, and to my colleagues, the other officers of the Railway Department of the Board . of Trad e , an d to railway officers who'll I have met with on duty, not excepting gentlemen w ho have been pupils of M r . Robert Stephenson, or who are employed on ra i lways of which he is either the engineer-in-chief or th e con salting engineer. I have also stated the sa me op i n i on to enginemen in charge o f locomotive engines of this construction, on which I have since travelled, b ut I never had occasion, al mentioned in the newspap er re port, to tell these men that they were actually i n danger, for they never went down descending gra dients at a greater speed t han about thirt y miles an hour ; and they never exceeded the speed o f 45 miles an hoar on level portions of railway , whilst I was present. Hence I did not think that the dangerous character of these engines w ould ever be p ract i cally proved, because both on the Eastern Counties and Nor folk Railways, where they were most used, th e t i me between the stopping stations of the swiftest trains was so regulated, that there was no necessity for exceeding that speed, excepting on the old wit-cons o l i d ated por ti.m between London and Bishop's Stortford, which I have travelled over at 45 miles an hour on an engi ne o f the construction alluded to, bu t even at that spe e d it oscillated a great deal ; when diminished, it became steady. My former opinion of Mr. Robert Stephenson's new long boiler engines was favourable, for when I first travelled on them on the 12th of April, 18.14, w hil st in specting , the Yarmouth and Norwich...Rai an hour Railway, it was at a rate not exceeding from 30 to 35 miles an which they are steady and safe ; nor did I d iscover any objection to them on the Gravesend and Rochester Rail way, where they are always used at moderate speed, until I travelled on the White Horse of Kent with swift train of the South-Eastern -eraez--e-aees ee55...........ae5 e5 ..„ be l fo h re ir m y e e n r t i i , o ie n n e e t Railway Company, as ' before the coroner's inquest, Al 11'. trains r of both ; namely, . that the narrow gauge has ford, I therefore ascribed the accident. party to tb- e im-et failed in the most important points of railway travel prudence of the engineman in running dove loifn sufficientg, as ith has not T o o m o between btaib tha that the eed, wheels combinedfor a boiler prudence descending gradient of 1 in 200 at the utmost s n i.e a ed l t o h n a g t pest, safety, e nssdhli‘c, which the ei : t h travelling s tpublicrmiiis of h a t v h e e his engine could command, and part)Greata right Western to e construction of that engine, which I .3' Jo the peculiar Railway Company have proved to be perfectly prac. a speed exceeding 45 miles an hour c onsidered unsafe at ticable. This is another argument for abolishing the perfectly unnecessary oe any pare ; a speed that was narrow gauge and adopting 5 feet 3 inches, as the chilly on that portion of it wh- re "of that line, but cape- standard gauge of all our railways, as that will admit of between Harlingroad Stati on an tlh,ehaefcident occurred, a boiler of more than four feet in diameter, which is the of only 8 mils, for t r 'avelling over het ford, a distance maximum dimension hitherto adopted for the engines of which 46 minutes the Great Western Railway. were allowed. As I inferred. , • To conclude, I have no doubt that the reporters for from a question put to me, that h jury had an - `..rroneous notion, that the engine to which dente London morning papers would have given my evi this accide-nt occurred, as well as those which ran off the with perfect accuracy, if the coroner had examined in the usual manner, by taking down what I said, rails o7i the Eastern Counties line first near Chesterford, a in n e d t ading it over again, and asking me whether it was at'''. afterwards near Littlebeach, were engines built for corre r c e But he did not follow this mode, only asking a 'the wide gauge, and therefore unsafe for the narrow few questions, to . which I not only replied, but gauge, I explained to them that the width between the stated m wheels on the narrow gauge was too small to admit of misconception of ' be boilers of such large diameter as those of the engines of too rapidly for a I sons in full, lest there should any my opinions. In so ,doirg 1 spoke an person, however well educated and the Great Western Railway, which had greater power intelligent, to report ac tely, unless he were an than any before used. Mr. Robert Stephenson tried to engineer, who understood " The details of locomotive en get over this difficulty by increasing the length of his gines and of railway constructions After my evidenceboilers, since heco u ld no t i ncrease t h e i r di ameter b eyond c l osed, the coroner read over a brief abstract o f it, that a certain limit, i n h opes t h at the greater length of the he had made, which I signed, and for which am ' re- re boilers, and consequently of the tubes, would produce an sponsible, but not for the matter contair.ed in the news additional evaporating surface, and render his long en- paper reports. Before I quitted the Town-hall, two gines superior in power to all the former snort- reporters, brothers, introduced themselves to me, and boiler engines of the narrow gauge, as well as asked me to correct their notes, to . which I agreed, to the engines with boilers of larger diameter being anxious that my statements and opinions should of the Great Western. In this attempt, which at be accurately reported in a matter of so much delicacy the time appeared very promising, I consider that he has and importance. One of them accordingly called on me failed, as I stated in my evidence before the coroner's afterwards at the Bell Inn, and read over such parts of inquest ; for his engines with long boilers are by no his own not es on m y ev id ence as h e cons id ere d d ou b t f u l , means so powerf u l as t h ose o f the Great Western, nor which I corrected wherever he had mistaken my mean do I think that they excel in power ; indeed, from my ing. If he had read over the whole to me, as I sug personal observation, I should say that they are inferior gested, it would have been more satisfactory, for in that in power to other engines made for the narrow gauge, ease no possible mistake could have been made ; but he having boilers of moderate length, to which they are assured mo that he was confident it was all right, which certainly much inferior in safety; for I have travelled on I could not help doubting, as he seemed to have taken the engines alluded to, whether having outside or inside hasty notes of the heads of my evidence, trusting to cylinders, at the rate of 50 miles an hour or upwards ; memory for putting in into form afterwards, in which, if and lam of opinion that though certainly inferior to he had been more successful, I would not have troubled those of the Great Western Railway in power, they are you with this long letter, which I shall be very much perfectly safe at the utmost speed they are capable of at- obliged to you to insert In your columns.—l have the taming. Indeed, I have been informed by railway honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, officers not personally interested in the battle of the C. W. PASLEY, Major-General, &e, gauges, that one of Messrs. Sharps Brothers' engines London, Jan. 19. with a light express train, travelled over the wole dis tance of 31 miles, between Manchester and Crewe, in 30 minutes, which must have exceeded 60 miles an hour for great part of the way. But when I rode upon the same engine afterwards, on the 23d ultimo, from Stock port towards Crewe, whilst it was drawing a train of 47i. tons, in a stiff gale, it only accomplished 10 miles in 13 minutes and 52 seconds, which induced the narrow gauge party not to employ it in the trial of power and speed before the gauge commissioners, as they had at first intended ; but to transfer the scene of action to York, and to use engines of the long boiler pattern. The peculiar danger in Mr. Robert Stephenson's long boiler engines, whether made with outside or inside cy linders, is, that, in consequence of their extreme length, he has placed the axles of all his wheels under the boiler, having the fire-box and dome an overhanging weight in the rear, which was never done before, ex cept in the short four-wheeled engines of Mr. Bury's pattern, on the London and Birmingham Railway, which I do not consider by any means so good as six -wheeled engines; but in travelling upon one of them by an ex press train on the 6th of October last, I found it steady and safe, in consequence of the tender being screwed up close to the engine with buffers and springs, which con verts the tw ) as it were into an eight-wheeled engine. I never travelled an a four-wheeled engine at a very great speed before, but lam informed by locomotive engineers and enginemen who have, that until this improvement was adopted, they pitched and rolled like a sailing vessel in a gale of wild. Probably the same expedient may ren der Mr. Stephenson's long-boiler engines also much steadier, and consequently safer. In respect to the question put to me by the coroner, whether shutting off the steam suddenly at high speed could cause the carriages to run against the engine with such violence as to knock it off the rails, I explained that a locomotive engine being considerably heavier than the tender, and at least double the weight of any of the carriages of a railway train, and the whole moving, of course, with equal velo city whilst connected, I thought that the act of suddenly shutting off the steam from the engine could not possibly cause the carriages to press upon it, because having much greater momentum it would retain its speed longer; and if the connexion between the engine and tender, and the carriages of a train were cast off immediately after shutting off the steam, the engine would leave the car riages behind, and travel to a greater distance than any of them before it stopped. If shutting off the steam suddenly could have any effect, as I found by trial that it had not, accidents like that near Thetford ought to occur every day ; for it is a common practice with en ginemen, on preparing to stop, to shut off their steam all at once ; as I observed that the driver of one of Messrs. Stotherd and Slaughter's engines did, the same evening that I returned from Thetford, when I took the opportunity of travelling some stages on that engine ; but this he did of his own accord, and not by my desire, as your reporter stated through mistake. The experi ment, however, can easily be tried on a descending gra dient. Let an engine with its tender, drawing a train of coal waggons, be set in motion. lam ready to go with Mr. Bidder on any of the narrow gauge engines, except those of the long- boiler pattern, at full speed, down an incline, and to shut off the steam suddenly, and to cast off the train immediately afterwards by dis engaging a pin, as is done by the auxiliary engines of heavy down-trains of the London and Birmingham Rail way Company, near their Camden -town station, several times every day, and I will prove to him that the effect is null. Should he have doubts as to the safety of the experiment, he may ride in a carriage in the rear, whilst I stand on the engine, in as much confidence of the safety of my position as he can have of his own. But I shall not argue the point with him in writing. lle has given his opinion, and I have given mine; and his time may be better employed than in paper warfare, which can prove nothing. Having always had occasion to approve of the railway works actually designed and executed by Mr. Bidder, though nominally under Mr. Robert Stephenson, as en gineer-in-chief, in which he has displayed equal skill and judgment, and especially in his iron swing-bridge over the river Wensum, near Norwich, which does him very great credit, it was a matter of regret to me, that I could not conscientiously do otherwise than entirely dissent from Mr. Bidder's opinion in respect to the cause of the accident on the Norfolk Railway. Having now explained my evidence in a clearer manner than was done in the report made in the morn ing papers of the 14th instant, before alluded to, I must notice some errors as to fact in that report; after having corrected which, the remainder of it will be quite accu- I rate. In the first place, I did not say that the flanges of Messrs. Stotherd and Slaughter's engines were deficient in depth; on the contrary, they had the usual depth of 11 inch, which I stated as being quite sufficient; but they were set nearly at right angles to the tread of the wheel, contrary to the rule followed in all other locomo tive engines that I have seen, which is to round off that angle nearly in the form of a quadrant. Though similar to Mr. Robert Step'nenson's last pattern in other respects, the fire-box did notprojeet entirely in the rear as a dead weight, but had its centre placed over the axle of the hind wheels, which rendered it necessary to raise the top of the boiler about nine inches higher, and conse quently, though better balanced on their wheels, they ' had the disadvantage of being more top-heavy than Mr. Stephenson's pattern. The present locomotive engineer of the Eastern Counties Railway assured me that they had not only been all provided with new wheels of the usual form, but that they were much improved since two of them ran off the rails and overset, the first with ex cessive speed down an incline and along a curve, which terminated fatally; the second on a level and straight portion of the line, and at very moderate speed, so that no person was injured. If these engines had been an exact copy of Mr. Stephenson's pattern, the last-men tioned accident would not have taken place. In mentioning the gauge Commissioners, there were also several inaccuracies in your reporter's account of my evidence, in consequence of which I was obliged to write to them to explain, lest they should consider me wanting in courtesy towards them. In the first place, being independent of the Board of Trade, they gave no opinion, as implied in the newspaper account, and sent no report to the Board, of the accident that occurred to an experimental train on the Great North of England . Railway on the Ist inst., by a long-boiler engine run ningthey off the rails and being overset;for though ce I afterwards inquired into it at York, in c presen pre sume,'the of Mr. Close, Secretary of iha b t efo o r m e p t a h n e y m , on that de positions of the evidences who cameby thatgentleman, occasion were transmitted officially t of the accident, as required by Act together with a report of Parliament. On inspecting the engine itself, at Derby, last week, I found that instead of being an exact c o p y o f Mr. Robert Stephensons long-boiler pattern, as I had supposed at the period of the inquest , it differed from it in two points; first, in having been made with insid e cylin ders, in order to do awa y with the oscillation generally, but I think erroneously, ascribed to outside cylinders; and, secondly, in having an oval boiler in order to obtain greater sectional area than the narrow gauge admits of when the cylindrical form is used. Neither of these alterations can be considered an improvement, as they both produce the unfavourable effect of rendering it necessary to raise the boiler higher than in Mr. Stephen son's pattern. It was also erroneously stated by your reporter, that the gauge Commissioners were in a train from Bristol to Gloucester, upon the engine of which I travelled with Mr. M'Connel, locomotive superintendent of the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, erroneously styled Mr. M'Connel, when I first tried the experiment of shutting off the steam in going at full speed. Moreover, when I tried the same experiment a second time, by permission of Mr. Brunel, on the engine of an experi mental goods' train, on the Great Western Railway, in which the Commissioners were travelling from Padding ton to Didcut, it had a load of 205 tons only, instead of 2,000 tons, as stated in the newspaper report. I shall here observe, though it made no part of my evidence before the coroner's inquest at Thetaard, with which the question of the gauges had i ory little to do, that I have drawn an in ference from the performances of the experimental TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir.—A long letter from General the Board of Trade, Inspector-General of Railways, on various matters connected with railways, especially as to the construction of engines, appears in your paper of to-day. The Inspector-General's letter is avowedly to correct errors in the report of statements made by him at the coroner's inquest lately held at Thetford; but among other general remarks on points connected with rail ways, the Inspector-General thinks fit to prejudge the inferences to be drawn from the late experiments on en gines of the broad and narrow gauges. The parties interested in the narrow gauge, who were commanded by the Commisssioner s to undertake the ex periments, desire me to explain that they were made for the information of the gauge commissioners—to whom, and not to the Inspector-General, the deci sion of the. question of gauge—including, therefore, the inferences to bo drawn from the late experi ments—are referred by her Majesty ; and that consequently, the correct and authentic report of these experiments has been put into the hands of the gauge Commissioners only. They further desire me to say, that the reports which have been published in the newspapers, from the omission of essential facts, da not afford the means of deducing from the experiments any correct inference as to the issue of the question to de termine which they were made. The parties at whose request I write are, therefore, they believe, in possession of mere precise information as to these experiments than is possessed by General Pasley, who, though present at the experiments on the broad gauge, was, it is to be remarked, not present at the experiments on the narrow • but respect to the Commis sioners, under whose consideration the matter still rests, prevents them from saying more than that they them selves feel satisfied that a correct statement of the whole facts connected with the experiments leads to a directly opposite conclusion to that expressed by General Pasley, and that the results of the experiments, as far as they prove anything, tend to confirm in every respect the evidence (derived from long experience) which has been laid before the Commissioners in favour of the efficiency, as regards safety, speed, command of power, economy, and convenience, of the engine which the narrow gauge admits of, as compared with those which the broad gauge admits of.—l am, Sir, your most obedient servant, London, Jan. 21. GEORGE P. BIDDER. AMERICAN NEWS. THE OREGON QUESTION. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The New York packet-ship Henry Clay, Captain Nye, arrived here this afternoon, after a voyage of eighteen day s from New York, having left that port on the Bth inst., and brought papers of her day of sailing. The news by this arrival is again of a very warlike tendency. A resolution from the Committee on Foreign Affairs was brought up by its chairman, Mr. Wenthrop, on the 3d inst., to the House of Representatives, to the effect that immediate notice be given to Great Britain of the termination of the joint occupancy of the Oregon territory, after a very lengthy debate lasting four days, in which the venerable J. Q. Adams took part in sup port of the Bill. It was referred to a Committee of the whole House ; but, upon the motion that it be made a special order for the first Monday in February, and which required a vote of two thirds to carry it, it was lost, the Ayes being 102, and the Noes 89. During the debate, an outline of which we subjoin, the most violent language was indulged in towards Great Britain, and the asser tion of the right of the United States to the whole of Oregon, and the vehement repetition that they would stand for "Me whole of the Oregon or none" was of fre quent occurrence; in fact, the whole of the proceedings are characterised by the greatest violence of language, and is throughout utterly unworthy of a deliberative assembly. The agitation of the question had greatly affected the markets. Stocks of all descriptions were lower, busi ness in many kinds of produce dull and slack, and al though the best papers in the city of New York depre cated the war feeling, which was thus being so assi duously fanned into a flame, yet it is evident that the feeling has taken a strong hold on the people, and might work mischief. TWENTY•NINTH CONGRESS-HOUSE OF REPRE SE NTATIVEB. WASHINGTON, JAN. - 2, 184€7—Various resolutions, de claring the American right to the whole of Oregon, were in troduced; and upon the question being put to the vote, the yeas were 75, and the nays 89. A Bill was then introduced for the organisation of rifle men, as also for an increase of infantry, artillery, and dragoons, for the purpose of protecting emigrants to Oregon. After an animated discussion of the question, Mr. J. Quinc y Adams rose and addressed the House. After apologisi n g to the representatives for his physical inability to enter upon the important matter before them with adequate pow e r , proceeded to say that he hoped the first measure adop ted by the notice would be to give in the most solemn manner notice to Great Britain which the treaty required " Let it be made the special order of the day; for, in his opinion, they were wasting time in legislating or talking anything about the increase of the defences of the e3untry until we give this notice. It did not follow that there would be war; it did not even follow necessarily that we should take possession of the country. We would only say to Great Britain, after negotiating twenty odd years under that may negotiate. That was the convention, made and repeated, we do not choose t o negotiate any longer in this way. We choose to tak e possessiv of our own. If we have to settle what is ou r own, belo tak ng i s ng to po y ss o o u ;si z . `Pe wihneitghhert negotiate military way of doing business. It was th e way in which g y otrat r e tion after Frederick 11. of Prussia had negotiated with the 14' Austria for Silesia. He said he hoped the first 'naperor of step taken would be to give, in the most solemn manne r, Britain. Then we should ha ve our elbows lb notice t o G rea t clear, and could do as we pleased. It did not foll ota k ew " a necessary con _ sequence that we sh ou ld then possession, but he hoped it would follow as a consequence, and a very immediate one. But whether we give the notice hostility or wa r . If Great Britain chose to take it as an indication of hostility, and then to commence hos tilities, why, we had been told that there would be but one heart in this country ; and God Almighty grant that it might be so! But if this should be so, we should hear no more of these extraordinary terrors of war on the part of the gentleman from South Carolina, whose course on the Texas question had been contrasted with his position on this question. How gallant the gentleman was at the time that Texas was in question was not for him to say. He did not wish to draw any comparison between the disposition of Members of this House for the acquisition of Texas, and the —not acquisition but—taking our own, of Oregon. He said if this war came—which God forbid! and of which, by the way, he had no apprehension whatever--he hoped the whole country would go into it with one heart and one mighty hand; and if that were done he presumed the question be tween us and Great Britain would not last long, neither Ore gon nor any country north of this latitude would long re main to Great Britain. Strong as was his moral aversion to modern war and military establishments, then, if he should have the breath of life at the time when the war commences, he hoped he should be able and willing to go as far in any sacrifice necessary to make the war successful as any Mem ber of this House. He could say no more. He now said, and he repeated, that until the notice was given to Great Britain, ho was not prepared to go for any of the subsequent mea sures. He thought we might with great propriety, without waiting for the effect of the notice, extend to our countrymen, who are in possession of parts of that territory not claimed by Greer. Britain, the laws of the counts y, and the protectioli s tf country in any form which may be necessary. B t ut a.. n " e , no necessity for an increase of the army or navi• e a would not supposed that the measures taken after the no n t o ic v did he be of a disposition offensive to Great Britsm, it. But for the sup pose that they would commence awmar up on loi ose some additional occupation of the territory he a ; "tind, however unveil ling would be necessary fo r the te for the increase of the ling be was ever to give his N t hought he should overcome mili tary forces of the country, he on the the difficulties la the way, espe cially appearance on T HE TONTINE LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANT. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 2,000,000/., in 100,000 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit, in compliance with the provisions of the statute 7 and 8 Tict., e. 110, Two Shillings per Share, until the complete Registra tion of the Company, when the same will be increased to 1/. per Share, which, with the assistance anticipated from the Tontine De partment, will, it is expected, be sufficient to carry out the objects of the Company. The plan of this Company offers considerable and peculiar advan tages to the Shareholders, as In addition to the profit arising frora Life Assurance transactions, it is proposed to raise a capital of 1,080,000/., or more, by the grant of Tontine Annuities, in classes to be regulated by the ages of the Subscribers or their Nominees ; which capital, on the death of the survivor in each class, will be divided exclusively among the Shareholders. The principle •f the Tontine Annuities is explained below. TRUSTEES. John Elijah Blunt, Esq., 4, New-square, Lincoln's Inn John Conolly, Esq., M.D., Lawn-house, llanwell James Martin, Esq., 68, Lombard-street. PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. John Elijah Blunt, Esq., 4, New-square, Lincoln's Inn Walter Wyndham Burrell, Esq., Knepp Castle, near Horsham, and 5, Richmond-terrace, Whitehall John Charritle, Esq., Moorgate-street Chambers, City John Conolly, Esq., M.D., Lawn house, Hanwell John More Douglas, Esq., Belvedere-road, Lambeth Walter Etty, Esq., Lombard-street Chambers Edward llamilton, Esq., M.D., Grafton-street, Piccadilly William Henderson, Esq., 16, Bishoogate-street Within Hector Monro, Esq., Walsham le Willows, Suffolk Savile Craven Henry Ogle, Esq., M.P., 04, Eaton-square, Pimlico. Ambrose Frederick Proctor, Esq., Ware, Herta Croke Taylor, Esq., LL.D., Fleet-street John Alfred Trimmer, Esq., Mu3leinere, Surrey Forbes Winslow, Esq., M.D., Sussex-house, Hammersmith. BANKERS--Messrs. Martn, Stone, and Martins, 68, Lombard-street. SOLICITOR—WiIIiam Dimes, Esq., 46, Lincoln's Inn-fields. MEDICAL AND SURGICAL REFEREES. Thomas Callaway, Esq., F.R.C.S., Wellington-street, Southwark James Copland, Esq., M.D., F. 11.5., &c., &c., Old Ilurlington•street. DISTRICT MEDICAL REFEREES IN LONDON. William Preston Lauder, Esq., M.D., F.R.S.E., Sloane-street, Knightsbridge Edward Lloyd, Esq., M.D., Jewin-street, City Walter Ilayle Walsh, Esq., M.D., Professor of Pathology at Univer sity College, Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square. CONSULTING ACTUARY—David Jones, Esq., Author of " Tables on Anntutes," &c., King 'William-street, City. ACTUARY AND SECRETARY—WiIIiam Clark, Esq. Temporary Offices, No. 16, Lincoln's Inn-fields. It is unnecessary in this Prospectus, to enlarge upon the advan tages of Life Assurance, or its adaptation to most of the exigencies and relations in life. These benefits have been so extensively pub lished, that they are already well understood and appreciated. This Company is formed for granting every description of Life Assurance, Annuity, and Endowment ; Loans either for long or short periods to persons effecting Assurances, upon receiving satis factory security for the payment of premium and interest, and the repayment of the principal, by instalments or otherwise, as may be agreed ; also for the purchase of Reversionary Interests, Policies of Assurance, and every other description of property. Persons borrowing money of the Company, upon approved se curity, and effecting a policy of Assurance for the amount bor rowed, will net be called upon for the repayment of the loan, so long as the interest and premium are regularly paid. Thus a party borrowing 1,000/. upon security of his estate, and an assignment of a policy on his life, would at his decease leave his estate unencum bered, the sum assured being applied by the Company to repay its advance. The premiums are based upon data derived from the most recent and authentic sources, presenting a moderate and equitably.adjusted scale. One of the principal objects of the Company is to assimilate Its benefits as nearly as possible to those of Mutual Assurance Societies, with the additional securi'r of a subscribed capital. With this v"eve, four-fifths of the profit. OSLO lig from Policies affected by parties on the terms of particip. profit., will be divided every three years, after the first Ave years, among those who assure for the whole term of life. The sum so divided among the Assured to be applied to the reduction of the annual premium, or added to the sum assured as bonus, or paid In present value, at the option of the Assured. Parties may also effect the assurance by payment of one-half only of the premiums for a stipulated term of years—the interest upon the unpaid portion of the premiums, at the rate II 6 per cent. per annum, being annually paid in advance. Upon payment of the arrear of the premiums, the Assured will be entitled to a full parti cipation of the profits. For persons who may wish to assure for short periods, er for the whole of life, without participation in the profits, a scale has been adopted, which is as moderate u it can be rendered eonsistentlywith the interests of the Company. The Assured may at all tines borrow an amount equal to the value of the policy, on its security. In all the transactions of the Company the utmost liberality will be exercised. Life Assurance. will be effected with all the advantages to the assured afforded by the most respectable established companies. A Table of Premiums will shortly be published. TONTINE ANNUITIES. This Company, In submitting the subject of Tontine Annuities to the public, is influenced by the belief that there are many persons, who from the hope of longevity, and the desire of ease and affluence as they progress through life, will gladly avail themselves of this mode of investment ;—by which they will secure a large remunera tive and increasing income, guaranteed to them by the Company during their own lives or the lives of their nominee. The following is an illustration of the principle of the Tontine An nuities :—lf 1,000 persons subscribe 100/. each, they or their respec tive nominees, being of an age to enter the elates in which the an nuity granted is 61. per cent. per annum, each subscriber or nominee will, during the continuance of all the lives, receive an annuity of 61. ; but as the lives drop, the share of the deceased parties will be divided among the survivors, until they are reduced to six, each of whom will then receive 1,0001. per annum fbr life ; but as they re spectively die off, the 1,0001. per year which the deceased party re ceived will fall into the funds of the Company, for the benefit of the shareholders ; and so in proportion for a larger or smaller number of subscribers or their nominees. This mode of investment will place it in the power of almost every individual, at some period of life, by prudently and legitimately ap propriating a comparatively small sum of money, which in any in stances would be otherwise uselessly expended, to secure indepen dence and comfort in their declining years. Parents may also by these moans provide for their children. Wealthy relatives for their poorer relations. Applications for Shares, in the following form, to be directed to Charles Barker, Esq., No. 46, Lincoln's Inn-fields : To the Directors of the Tontine Life Assurance Company. Gentlemen,--I request you to allot me Shares in this Company ; and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any lees num ber you may allot me, and to pay the deposit of Two Shillings per Share thereon, and also to execute the Deed of Settlement of the Company when required to do so. Name •• •........... .iddrc50.............. Profession or Business Reference . ..... PUBLICATIONS. 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IL Carter and Son, solicitors, Spalding ; of Mr. William Proctor, who will show the home premises; and of Mr. W. W. Simpson, estate, brewery, and distillery agent, art, Bucklersbury. r the part of Great Britain to take offence at this Measure. All these measures, and especially that of the increase of our minter? , forces, must depend on the notice to Great 'Britain that this present state of things, which had existed for twenty ortwenty-five years, should no lorigercontinne; that we would not have our hands and feet tied on this subject; that the no tice must be given, and we must be free to act as we shall think our interest and the lights of the country require. He thought it was time for this House to begin to consider what was due to that portion of our countrymen who were in one and Another portion of that territory. They ought to know who they are. He confessed he was very imperfectly informed on the stubject ; and neither from Lieut. Wilkes's exploring expedition, or from Lieut. Fremont's journal, could he gain this information which was the most needed. He referred to the memorial which had been presented by the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs at an early day of the session, from American citizens in Oregon, and to another memorial on the subject, which had sot been pre sented to the House, as promising to impart something of the desired information, arid he repeated that he vas in favour of protecting them as far as we could protect than. He be lieved he had said all lie proposed to say on this subject. The most materiel thread of his observations was tint to givo notice to Great Britain to terminate this conviption—this was the first measnre ; and after that would come measures necessary for the protection of our citizens, such as the esta blishment of stockade forts and other measures relating to the increase of our military establishments—for he WV , against all these, unless the convention was first terminated?' Mr. Adams having taken his seat, Mr. Faran endeavoured to offer a resolution, but the Hearse, influenced by feelings of intense agitation respecting the sub ject before it, immediately moved an adjournment. On the 3d the debate was resumed by Mr. J. C. Ingersoll, who, far from considering the notice would precipitate war, believed it would on the contrary be the means of avoiding it. He expressed his opinion that the matter could and would be honourably adjusted, peaceably and without w ar . Mr. Darrat was for promptly and boldly asserting ear rights to Oregon and giving the notice. And various other Members expressed similar views. On the 6th Mr. Giddings declared that he was opposed to war, and thought it would come if the notice was given, yet by annexing Texas the power of the Government had been transferred to the slaveholder, and he would therefore go for speedily settling -the question in order to add to the number of free states, and thereby restore the balance of power. He was therefore in favour of giving the notice, even if war should come. He took it for granted, that if war should cense, they would, in addition to Oregon, get the Canadas, out of which we could make five or six free states, and thus and in that way the' balance of power could be brought back to the free states. Other Members made comments of a similar character, sad the debate was concluded with a braggart war-speech by Mr. Sims. The debate was resumed on the 6th by N. Helliard, in favour of authorising the President to give the notice. After some further discussion, a motion to make a special order of the resolution was voted upon and lost. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of the whole, sued Mr. Boulin moved to take up the joint resolution, to give the one year's notice to England closing the joint occupancy. va. _. On the same day, the Bill fir raising two companies-lins,, mounted riflemen, without objection, was referred to the Committee of the whole, and ordered to be printed. Mr. 31-Connell requested permission to introduce a resolu tion, which the House — allowed to be read for information. The reading excited much merriment, and laughter, and was regarded as an appropriate burlesque upon the recent pro ceedings of Congress:— " Resolved,—That we hail the elevated feeling which now unusually prevails in our glorious confederacy to strengthen and consolidate the principles of Republican freedom, and extend the blessings of our free institutions in every practi cable quarter of the universe, in the spirit of Christian love and peaceful brotherhood. " Resolved,—That while we hail the admission of Texas (which fought her way to independence) as a sister state into our union, we now, with unaffected pride and sa tisfaction, hail the resolution of the Executive and Con gress of the United States to uphold our title to Oregon, and in the same spirit we observe the growing desire to incorporate Mexico, Yucatan, California, &c., into the con federacy, and that Ireland is fully entitled to share the blessings of our free institutions. " Resolved,—That the Irish people, as a nation, have long been ground down by the British misrule and misgovern ment, and while her people for centuries have been ground down by a monarchical yoke, they have always cherished the democratic principles of a republican government—the only government that has ensured freedom to man. Itesolved,—That the House will receive with due atten tion and consideration any communication that may be for warded by that high-minded and liberty - 40'ring people with a view to effect such an object!' PARIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. SITTING OF JAN. 12.—PRESERVATION OF WOOD—TANNING LEATHER. A communication was made by M. Letellier on the pre servation of wood. M. Letellier states that, u long ago as 1837, lie pointed out the means of preparing wood by im mersion, first, by impregnating it with deutochlorure of mercury and then with gelatine, which rendered the mercu rial salt insoluble, and, in December 1840, he pointed out the disadvantages of the use of pyrolignite of iron, as recom mended by M. Boucherie. There is scarely any subject on which so muck has been said in the Academy and the jour nals as the preservation of wood. There are at least thirty competitors for the honour of the discovery, and yet up to this moment we hear of no establishment being formed for any operation on a large scale. M. Boncherie appears to have passed six or seven years in experiments only. Mr. Banner had his patent thre_e years for Payne'sprocess—which is extensively adopted in En g l an d , where it is said to yield large profits to the patentee--before he could form even the nucleus of a company, and though he was able at last to get together a board of direction, embracing some' of the most eminent and high-sounding names in France, the affair is still-born, the public, in its eagerness for wild schemes on the Bourse, having shown no disposition to take shares. This is the fate of half or two-thirds of the really useful discoveries and inventions that are announced in France. Law found plenty of dupes for his schemes; the proprietors of the bitumen companies let in thousands for heavy losses with their unfounded pretensions, and even at ibis moment, in spite of their experience of the past, capital is to be found for schemes that are equally wild ; but in vain does the true disciple of useful science call for the tro-opera tion of the public for assistance to execute his plans. A very important communication was made by M. Payen, in the name of Dr. Turnbull, of London, relative to his prac tical application of the theory of endosmosis and extosmosis, discovered by M. Dutrochet, to the process of tanning, and also the application of the soluble principle of sugar to the same purpose. We give here a short explanation of what is meant by endosmosis and extosmosis:—When a membrane intervenes between twe liquids of different densities, they produce two currents, the one outwards called extosmosis, and the other inwards called endosmosis. By this sew physical law the currents interchange until they become of the same specific gravity ; thus Dr. Turnbull, by sewing up a hide filled with one liquid of a certain specific gravity, and then immersing the hide in another liquid of greater or lesser density, keeps up this reciprocal action until such time as the hide is thoroughly tanned. The statement made by Dr. Turnbull is so extraordinary, that it as tonished the Academy, and has equally astonished some of our Paris contemporaries, who observe that his process, if real, eclipses everything that has been discovered in the practical arts for these hundred years. The best answer to the doubts expressed as to the reality of the discovery, is to be found in the fact that the process is carried on in London os a very large scale, and the experiments which Dr. Turnbull has been performing in Paris for the last month, in presence of many of the first tanners. By the ordinary process of tanning it requires eighteen months to tan an ox-hide, and 4001 b. of bark. Dr. Turnbull tans the hide in fourteen days, and with only 100 lb. of bark. Here, then, is a saving of out lay for the process, and the tanner, with the same amount ecapital, can do thirty-six times as much as under the old system. And this is not' all. Dr. Turnbull's process gives an extra weight of leather, varying from 15 to 251 b. per cent. Calve-skins, which under the old process resistire an immersion in the vat of five, six, and seven months, are by Dr. Turnbull's process tanned in two days. But, it will be asked, is not this rapidity of execution attended with infe riority to the leather produced? On the contrary, it is much better, for all the saturation required for the production of good leather is as fully effected by the new as the old pro • cess ; and one of the great causes of bad leather tanning en tir e ly f avoided. The first part of the ordinary mode of to remove the hair from the skin—to do t : and before the hair can be detached, injury to the skin, render ehiscoririonleveilacutsieodr; of the lime always p ing it spongy, and therefore r o d u c e readily s at the same time that roaearn,oisi susceptible of moisture when the leather is made up are affected by loss of weight. the interests of the tanner Dr. Turnbull effects the removal of the hair by the use Of fsugar or any substance containing saccharine matter ; or, if lime be used, it is removed by the application of sugar, b e f ore it can do any injury, whereas, by the old process, a portion o f it must for ever remain is the skin. Hitherto teary pro cess for rapidity in tanning —comparative rapidity, we mean, for when M. Seguin contrived to turn out oz.-hides tanned in five or six months, the fact was thought wonderful—has been atteaded with loss of quality, for the process was ex pedited by the use of acids. By the new proem not only are no acids used, in addition to the usual tanning Materials, but even the portion of acid which those materials contain is destroyed. We state all this, as the French say, with amnaissance de cause, for we have been present at two of the experiments performed by Dr. Turnbull, and had not only the evidence of our harida and eyes as to the quality of the leather, but also the advantage of hearing the tanners who were present declare, that every part of the process had been conducted under their own control, and with skins marked by themselves. A commission of the Academy, consisting of Messrs. Payen, Boussengault, Dumas, and Dutrochet, was instantly appointed to visit the tan-yard, where these experi ments are going on, and to make its report. SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS LAST SESSION:. Yesterday returns were issued by order of the House of Lords, dated Jan. 22, showing the number of days in each month the House of Lords sat during the session of 1845; and also the :lumber of days on which the several public Bills came from the House of Commons. and the days on which they passed their several stages in that House during the same session. From - the former return it appears that the House of Lords sat 14 days in February, 10 in March, 16 in April, 11 in May, 17 in June, 20 in July, and 7 in August— making altogether 95 days their Lordships mot during the last session. The second partion of the document gives a list of the various Bills sent from the House of Commons. the days on which they were brought up to the Lords, and the days on which each such public Bill passed through its various stages in the House of Lords. APPEALS IN THE HOUSE OF — LORDS.—The Appeal Committee was appointed for the session in the Douse of Peers on the first evening of their Lordships' meeting a ..: various appeal causes have already been presented o the House. I bus, on Saturday, two appe a ls were p roone namely, Evans v. Scott and the East India Co m pany t :':. Glasse, in both which cases the Great the respondents weravioroardteerread to answer in a fortnight. In Ranger e t . „. _ Railway Company and in Thorney i cro t f o answer in a week ; re spondents were ordered peremptory urochett, the - ;a ill'Kenna v. Pope and in the fifth instance, the aPP,I, . for the (writ of error) the petition of t ri b g e p w is a in s tirt, read and referred to appoint ment of an early day for hear! the Appeal Committee already mentioned. No day h as yet been fixed by their Lordships for commencing the hearing of appeals. , r or Tom THUMB'S PONIES.'--011 Satur .,. DE ATI! ao.r O ;:rocceding with his suite to Glasgow by rail- Ray,day last, i, i hisw 1i0,,,,iF1, to Falkirk, one of the littl© grey leaders ..... 117. ( su d denly seized, at Natalie station, with the disease ,::,",- in Scotland as the " batts." The animal survived only a f ew minutes, thus depriving the General of one of Is.dwartish team, a loss w hi c h will not easily be supplied.— vr Advertiser. "a'SHOOTING GAME AT LOWTHER.— On Friday and Saturday last, in th e preserves near Lowther, the Earl of Lonsclale gave a grand shooting treat to a number of his sporting friends, amongst whom were the Hon. Celonel Lowther, the Messrs. Markham, &c. About 500 hares and other game were shot, which his Lordship made presents of to his fric,nas, tenantry, tradesmen and werkmen, at Penrith, Eamont-bridge, Clifton, llackthorpe, Askbam and othex places,— Westmorland Gazette. i ` 2~ ~ 2' -~ ~ 1--- y J ~' _~' - ,1