The Sun. — London, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

C4LtDONIAX ASYLUM. F .1,,..._ . 111Corporated by Act of Parliantent, 1815. It„, k 'P o rting anti Educating the Children of Soldiers, Sailors, and it4vllers, natives of Scotland, Who have died or been disabled in the I , {indo n " their country, and of Indigent ,' tin .... . •uetiee i s i,,, _, Scotch Parents, maiden efihi s f ,„ '"'reoY Orel/ that a QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT c,..,,_‘•vrPeration will be held in the Hall of the Scottish Hospital, 411 an Election of Six RoYs ~,,";'"vottrt, Plect-street, on THURSDAY, the 3d of December next, and Six Girls, to be admitted into the thp._ , will take place. The poll to commence at oue, and ch se at --- w. o'clock, The chair to be taken at twelve o'clockiprecisely. 91. t v Ir.r JOHN BUIINIE, Secretary. tomm iumit.,,.... r. 1R46. ... , nent of DePartrollu for Victualling and C °I S Transport Services, Somerset Plac e , No v . 21, 1846. TTR AC T FOR SUGAR, PEAS, AND Tile c OATS. of th e r„,",iftilas.ioners for executing the Office of Lord ugh Admiral boti ce ,",ft,:d for of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give *ill b e ;WI on THURSDAY, the 26th instant, at One o'clock, they tra c t , 9 7 0 7 to treat with such persons as may be willing to ?len 13torea ;,,. "MYing and delivertnn- into her Majesty's Victualling 6 DEPTPORU the undermentioned Articles, viz.— When to he delivered. tr2to b half in 3 weeks, and the --`` (Tee produce of the T TO s Ol remainder in 3 weeks British Possessions.) afterwards. 1' 43 Qrs.l night afterwards. Half in a fortnight, and OAT% 500 the remainder in a fort 1° Th e 8 ug(Seotch Potatoe.) 300 Wit ten s. he pr odu ar to b e exempted f rom the Customs'hin Duties, da an y d a Sample t itrapl eecl ' Thet" of the Peas and Oats (not less than two quarts of each e tiv is . ebe Predoce Cont the parties tendering. )70,,,,,_ pralitions of tittracts may be seen at the said Office. 11 , 0 - 41 ;uer will be .„. , , ,ce ,„,, 6 ived after Ono o'clock, on the day of . treaty, t 4411 10 n°ti- -o, Unless the party attends, or an agent for Inn duly tv ri ", i ll Writin -41 be ar in the left hand corner th 6 words "Tender , fo t r Alac ax _ '' and must also be delivered at Somere d ....."40arN14,,t1",e, for Sugar must be accompanied by a letter signed tem.... - ''' s lole persons engaginr , to become bound with lie pe t z Perfor m .l4, in the sam of 25/ pc; cent. on the value, for tle d - " mi ce of the Coxtract. I:IIt,PPESSO R IIY SdA R CENVEIN'S GUN COT t,ttirh!'eltreting fr -44 1 . .Lte rvitE r 0 all ot t h h er o s t r e c r h e n x e p ns'recently before the pub lOsive compounds, by D l r f . t i t l`g.t t _ the ROYAL P n OL ‘rI YTECIINIC INSTITUTION, at Ha *ral - v dail ; ~,tls, at Nine ?MI on the evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and 0t.44, ,rfeaßoarelock commencing on Thursday next. t E7) l }, l l lo ,,ciDle Of theAELECTRICETRELTEhGeRAOPx/fIaDDELIOGNESNTRaAnd- ItAR y,„„„_l4 CIIHOFFN • ~,..._. txv,-,6vacoPES. The PILYSIOSCOPE DIVING EX . - - `glok t i: c. The DISSOLVING VIEWS, by CHARLES Odmis.slon ls. Schools, half-price. . 8 :It- T 0 E DISEASE. atle c Z; how — ,: APHIS VASTATOR, the Cause of the Potatoe an — "o ki re t ale at Messrs. Borne, Thornthwaite, an Woods, bia... - crosea - aloter 123, Newgate-street. Pocket Magnifyers - le at prl'-', especially adapted:forithe investigation . of the Potatoe tICeS within the reach of all Agriculturists. IGListi n SCOTTISH LAW LIFE 12orsintAaicci and NCRLOAN ASSOCIATION. -."."'Place . London; 119, Princes-street, Edinburgh. Established in 183 g. L ITE 4,,.4"a Subsc ribed Capital, One Million. SI:TR A NCE, ANNUITIES, REVERSIONS, AND 4 ahl on ENDOWMENTS. 01 4 COl t ° lt t the English d Scottish Principle of Assurance. ' te... -nell ° P4IIENSIVEan Scottish Principle of Assurance. B and LIBERAL SYSTEM of LOAN in ' „..-.47.4 *"., Life Assur a a n n d ce, en undoubted persbnal or other 444 4 384 t... v't participate ix two-thirds of the profits. . .11..".z-'•-f-z ATi, . 1 „ n ---n •`\ AL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, lAIISION-lIOUSE, LONDON. J. lIILL WILLIA➢IS, Actuary. DIRECTORS. t)aoItAI tOBEE T WILCOXON, Es 4., Chairman. SID: STEY Esq., Alderman, Deputy-Chairman. 4eprge Cu B aker, Esq. (G a l e, Baker, War d c, an d C o .) gert,rshltal, M.D., Saville-row. 11 Lawson, Esq. (rower, Lawson, and Trower). Witi t i ! e Moore, Esq (Groucock, Copestake, and Moore). 41,4„:,,Nleholson:Esq. (J. and W. Nicholson and Co.) ttliesl,.. e ek, Esq. (Peek, Brothers, and Co.) Pet e —rAirianYne Esq., New Bond-street. Esq. (Brocklebank and Rolt). p~nitl4l444,ther " 1 7, P aoffered by this Society are security with- Y in the management, and low rates of premium. 4' Yd. PRO 'ITS TO POLICY onus declared July ['OLDER& 1, 1846.) t 2 1 k ilth, yo 11a, ~., 42, 12 0 o crt 1 , 2' cr4 -, • ' Igh lgi; 7 itl2; 7 60 1,000 i las 6 48 1000 ; 8 40 4 9 1,000 '4l 4 A " , ; 2 ,000 4 ~ I moo 14 t t 49 2,000 tiltiii m -- -Pa rti to partreef feetin g Assurances before January 1,1847, will be 'Pate in the next dil;ision of profits. It it IT J. JONES, Actuary and Secretary. A ~... ""NNIA. LIFE ASSURANCE Inisi..._ 1 ~ COMPANY. --wettl,', rri tices-street, Bank, London. Cu m 41)1 '4 s l ,P e A cial Act of Parliament, 4th Viet., cap. 1. sub tie —Dlet.._ ~,,—GES OF TIIIS INSTITUTION. Int uu ri bed e,,tri t „ ty - Z,..ruaL ASSURANCE BRANCH. 11/11%N.''' . n v .. - "Al, ~,-,romed to the Assured by means an ample - 7„ thu tl a '„ardi o - r e the large fund accumulated from the pre km.."vre yea r `"QUltt o m Pgo policies. Z:11r1li;::' the .--,,," Of the annual premium required during the , "") afier r u - "aining half premiums being paid out of the the l ow - ' r2 Years, will be aanually divided among the %lAA erred rates P ROPRIETARY BRANCH. 4 411 481 4 8 -"meistent with security to the Assured. '''.. ces a - 241 e "Premiums, peculiarly adapted to cases h w ts here ‘ ll lo7oedit;:reted for he purpose of securing loans or de 44 rit Preim es Premi um 'te...., at the opwtiohneroefbtyhcerbedoiltdeisr. UP% th pokey seven Years, to be then paid off, or remain a given for half the 4 %41 Pr,,, -LXTRACT FROM THE TABLES. '."14113 re 'llgred for as Assurance of 1001. for the whole Term of Life. ' I I:rA L DURANCE BRANCH. I PROPRIETARY BRANCH. I. 5. d. 62 15 0 39 15 0 60 0 0 68 9 0 35 0 0 82 10 • X. 8. d. 24 15 S 14 7 3 20 1 10 21 0 7 9 6 0 18 10 0 248 244 224 474 202 341 vaANcE BRANCH. Ate. ilalC s i: ---- -- PROPRIETARY BRANCH. Pr ____ 1 11111 /1 , , 67- Whole Pre- Half Fro• Whol• Pre \........21,..,_.,..... ,A In fiv in e lll y , ea af r t s e . r Age. ium, first sevenseven years. 2 4) 4S. d . 0 a. d. 2a. d. 1 2 2 20 0 20 018 0 116 0 1 411 - 24 4 25 019 Y 119 2 11 9 2 3 6 18 6 29 10 35 0 30 1 4 11 2 9 10 l 13 3 " 3 2 17 6 6 40 1 9 2 213 4 1 19 1 14 10 3 9 g 227 9 319 0 45 415 6 50 22 6 45 0 4 10 5 17 8 65 2 12 9 5 6 6 PETER MORRISON, Resident Director. k .,....._ 4T10ic AL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital £500,000. N t i a , Empowered by Act of Parliament. 1 14 • resz.lltution embraces important and substantial advantages iteou & IV to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured I.4 6 `tre Or ihateasions the power to borrow, without expense or for ttnsall.a oi,4 o l ' oll cy ' , two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ; to in to * of Selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in 'alai, 'auks - ,?ther conveniences or necessity. 'r ttrins of years are granted on the lowest possible itil il s aa re,„,._ r, t askiLirlt a l,, DIVISION OF PROFITS. eti - "ink„._. 4 th e - ",1 success and increasing prosperity of the Society '`alltaiti, '''lrectors at the last annual investigation, to declare -&-.1 1 , 14. c . i . v.414 ag from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid - "` l4 03 the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. 11 p i , -4 11114 4. 4 2 Bonus .... :. added. ; '-'..---... " - --s t 4 1 10 00 - I. 4 ' 1 , 85 p 2 42 17 15 I 'L l OO 011 I 165 74 1 9 4 i 8 )5391 : 912611 3 7 10 0 6 ' 8 5 7 4 0 1 10 4 1, 840 i 41 iii 6 .. 49 10 0 b6 40. 11"11140 11 lg bet' °1.11 17,, Pr°1114 is annual, and the next will be nada in l a vralteat ye ar. - 1-__ lk kW A P. FERGUSON CAMROUX. Secretary. )Ori n ' la ". Otio-' s'-a‘Zaillabnd 004 trite 3 ° B th expressly Jr - ..,,,s. CE (emheliiahed for wi t til a Edition of the i rt 4 - rt a - -;E LONDON DIRECTORY, FOR 1847. . . 1 ' 011 11 . '—Ofticial Directory ; Street Director , y, Commercial I, Nab s ' Trades , t ater. ~, Directory ; Law Directory ; Court Diree . tory t tile 1:61,-z,....iireetory ; Postal Directory ; City Directory , Con te,...the .g.L.orY ; Banking Directory, &c., &c,, &c. k i dlMed bylllal Directory" will be ound detailed the changes to N t 111 affe e i_. 4 hevr treaty with Prussia, in the rates of postage Th, day eta .'" bY the treaty, which will come into operation on •trki o ther el i ,,,, anh arY next. 411 d5.... %1, Withi u — g" throughout the volume it must be nnneeessa o ry . geikelte,teitudetle_tra:iocibt;hs,oilajtmeitsuof an advertisement it would be i i inP i t %V to ... ... Lacy ... •vill be found to bring down all the ntel can be compatible with the appearance l's;;! sta it ' p a volume in sufficient time for its general circulation. Ne 0 .11711" bir ab e lis t. ll .4 ers have already issued the following Provincial t,ek!ittr,,, e ,: - .. --.es, all with Maps of the Counties, from the most -4,llEltiVlffrved expressly from these Works : C IttAlfiliti, ". -a-CNT, MIDDLESEX, SURREY, AND SUSSEX, }44I%aESHIRE, pice 1/.55. ••.- , 0, WITH NORFOLK, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE AND WAR AND SUFFOLK, price 11. 4t tm , WICKSHIRE, price 11. ' Ciitbs In the Press. to be published next month, lIIR lit hh . E, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, AND HUNTING DONSHIRE, price 11. kerlilß i, z Now compg, tot a . i F alai OR THAMPTONSIHRE, .IND OXFORDSHIRE.. , Tern Co' .. Post-oftee Directory Offices, Wand 20, Old Boswell Ide.bar. Bonus in Cash. :71 1 R Co d fl g g Assured u. 1::: ca ma y §a 5 Borrow. Ll 6 0 41.£445 0 0 13 10 21 395 11 1 11 3 11 346 2 3 718 10 296 13 4 710 4 247 4 5 tn,rtnit 'j" SI MOUSTACHIOS, and W HlS ,v(tproduced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and e. fen. L , an ! Pe of GRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGE.NE -last de Ps Of which spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers, 1 4etti es aughtf ei, ", ch Cure headache in a few minutes ; it is also a prpt, et i ragrant toilet perfume. Sold only in triangular 411 44, 4114 danbl" by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double the size, 1 , 44 11.t e ; testhn e e n t hi a size, I Is. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, con 8y the ads of undoubted authority, entitled " Three Minutes' 1• 343 L, 48. 6d Growth and Preservation of the Human Hair, &c." y,.._°440,;71101,eZ, 5. 813 ,, and 125., for money orders only. 'word. and h 3, m O nly at Orimstone's Herbary, Highgate, near Ce e ,„_ . titr e , cure. Barclay and Son, Farringdon-street ; Sanger, Andtalt-et r ,,n means. Butler and Co.,Cheapside ; Fisher and Toiler, ti 4 ; Mr, J ohnston,• It e i Cb eni , medicine warehouse, 66, Cornhill ;,41 . y „,„ ,staPerfumers, and others For Edinburgh, J. and ; for Manchester, eresche and Son, Adver -1• 11 41 --ak h To THE LADIES. the on A, ad the .61. , 184 following letter inserted in the "Times" news ., m iler by the G. Reader, remember, this letter was put into t atut„ 4 . Weeki„ 4 Y herself Swan a testimony to me. 8a ref Dqb, v y, of No. 3. -street, Borough, takes this oppor pleteil_r th e 'e,.:7 thanking 11r. W. Grirnstone, of the Herbary, High the este ! ..;;,!LaY of his Aromatic Regenerator, in having corn e baldness appeared. twh o r e o ite hair on her head, after using it about four months, 4 14;:ae btf o -1 hair is much stronger and mere luxuriant than eared. sTril i tor. 7: 5 4,.3: Inserts this testimony to the virtues of Mr. G.'s ifut_ assured that many ladies would gladly purchase Nee, h e ,2 net ow, V i !fere as certain of its virtues as she is, from ez ,. _uer ee 'iut et i r , the restoration an d pro d uct i on o f h a i r i n abund -4417 01 l " to her 9 ne rvous headache ; as a toilet perfume it is far Itic te4Deetabiliaste' She will feel a pleasure in answering any dr ool eats er the tY to the above facts.-3, Swan-street, Borough." vtat tit' t he cr _ ir becoming thin, weak, or turning grey, a few Drt, 4 hair from of the head occasionally every week, will pre ft* lt c orning away with the comb, make it strong, and 144.7 0 18 o n -,__`.K.greY. rendering the hair luxuriant riant and curly. A titutrUliabe7 nairbrush before brushing the hair, will give the ktait t riNt Onainit it to curl. etan.e.rormiTZl:nt ladies may use this delightful product of the teR 1 . 1. ,111 ov e i , u _erne and flowers with confidence ; its refreshing 04 4r - iz 1011 et. n o he and makes it a most necessary companion aair Stew, 0 7 th aaS e . es of nevous headache, pour ten or twelve drops inost head ic very bad, repeat it every quarter of an ,c . ika c k en , 6 relief is certain in ten minutes. It produces Vnitt I: s tnas sa c h ada In a few appplications If used on infants' kriak e , -ww "nlai f ons, a as Pe vr CUl eli t ar cooling influence on . the brain as to pre -41 14 4 . .s t" ..i tir cnials, as p romo ting the growth of hair.—See • —949 g t° Grinutone Rerbary, H/gbgatc A4i LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING S NI NOVEMBER 24, 1846. PRICE SD. No. 16,905. r l RAVESEND STAR and BLACKWALL PACKETS. Boat and Rail included in One Payment upon every pass , i.ge, avoiding the danger and delay of the Pool. From the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, at 9 1 / 2 , 10 1 4, 12, 11Q, 3, 4, and 5 o'clock. Sunday's, 91Y, 10 1 / 2 , 11(2, 4, and 5 o'clock. The trains starting one quarter of an hour before each of these times. The New Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 7 1 , 1 2 , 8%, 9%, 111, 1,3, and 4 o'clock. Sundays, 7 1 / 2 , 11!,, 1,3, and 5 o'clock. N.13.—N0 other packets call at the Grays or Greenhithe Piers. Star Office, Gravesend, Nov. 24, 1646. REFORM in the ROYAL SOCIET Y. THE STIRLINGSHIRE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE. The manufacture of tartan shawls and plaids from wool may be said to be a branch of trade indigenous to the north. The Highlanders of Scotland were the first of whom we know anything who wore chequered gar ments composed of that material ; and so well acquainted were they even centuries back with a becoming arrange ment in striping them, that each feudal lord and his, vassals had fixed upon a certain c omposition of stripes with certain colours, by which they were distinguished from all the rest ; hence the origin of the clan tartans. They were worn, as is well known, only in the lower part of the dress chiefly, though all who could attain to it had coats and vests of their favourite check. And so proud were they, and tenacious of their clan, and this their showy garb, that a Highlander has been known to wear them in the olden time to shreds, rather than la 3 them aside for other apparel. The Government of George the Second, after the dis astrous battle of Culloden, in passing the Disartnins Act, declared that it was as essential to prohibit the wearing of the tartan kilt, in order to restore and ensure a continuance of peace in the Highlands, as it was to take away from the hardy Gael his gun, his skein-dhu, or his broad-sword, and so the wise legislators of those days decreed accordingly. How altered, indeed, are the times, when even Majesty itself will wear them, and thereby encourage their growth ; and now, besides all the clans, from Frazer to Campbell, or Mac Kenzie and Mac Lean, we have the Queen's Welcome, and the Queen of Beauty, and scores of other fanciful checks, the result of exquisite skill, taste, and arrangement. If we then can admire all this—and if we then regard. it as it ought, in an important commercial point of view, we must—we are compelled—to laugh at the silly idea of our legislators at all interfering with the colour or shape of the clothing which the people, or any portion of them, may feel disposed to wear. Had that part of the Act succeeded in its working out, probably no such kind of work would have been now seen amongst us ; but the mountaineer, while he might be refted - of his kirk or claymore, could not be stripped of his clan kilt, unless they proceeded to turn him adrift in his native nudity, to browse on the heath with his own mountain roe. He had no other kind of cloth, and would have none. Laying aside his predatory habits and mixing more freely with the people of the low country , t he latter, in ' course of time, became attracted with his flaunting plaid as he strutted proudly by, and the looms that were em ployed in the wearing of course home-spun, or blankets, were soon turned to the production of tartan shawls, of various kinds and qualities. It is, h ow ever, only within these few years that the trade has: ramified to such an extent, and reached our town; and as it is likely still far ther to increase, and may, as it has done already, super sede other kinds of the loom's productions, we will give some account of how it is carried on, in detail, in Stir lingshire, the principal seat, as yet, of its manufacture. And here, we may remark, that it is not the native grown wool which is used. The Cheviot and the sheep of the far off Australasia are mingled together in the product of a shawl in Stirlingshire. The fleece or bail is obtained, it is picked, and often classified or sorted, as it is termed, into three. It is spun, dyed and scoured, woven, dressed, or waulked, if necessary, and made fit for the wearer, and all these processes are performed under the same establishment. From this, it will be seen at a glance, that those manufacturers possess a superiority over the Paisley manufacturer, who buy their yarn from the spinner, and know nothing at all of the first operation of the trade. We once heard a Stirlingshire manufacturer say, who had fallen behind with his yarn in consequence of the fitting up of some new machinery in the room of the old, that it would be better for him for a little to give his idle weavers a small compensation, and go about, rather than buy yarn and keep them working. The motive power of the machines for the most part is water instead of steam, which was at first doubtless a great inducement to their location, and unless in the long droughts of summer the streams afford a plentiful supply. It is very pure, also quite free of chemical analysis, and therefore well adapted for dyeing and scouring. Thousands of gallons pouring down the dark-winding Carron, or the clear-winding Devon, classic streams, contribute in this way to a great purpose in the social economy of life, instead of, as in by-gone days, wasting themselves in the ocean Firth below, or at most serving as themes for the hero's wail or the poet's lute. Having said so much in respect to the manufacturer, turn we to the weaver, and we perceive at a glance the advantages which he possesses in the working of wool over the Paisley operative. The whole of the plans are different. Ile glues his own web ; this may be thought by some no advantage, but it is, as he can size it accord ing to the quality of his yarn, and an experienced hand is, in this operation, very particular. How many excel lent warps have we seen in Paisley rendered nearly un workable by being too firmly glued, and how many of a softer texture, that would have required a quantum more. and might have given to the weaver 3s. or 4s. a-week ad ditional wages. In bad weather it is indeed a tantalising matter to the Stirlingshire operative the glueing of his web, as the operation is performed in the open air, but when it is fine we have seen it gone through in about two hours, and the method of doing it is the best calculated to do the least injury to the yarn. After his glue is boiled, say, one pound of sheep-skin to twenty pounds of warp, he makes up a quantity suf ficient to wet the warp through ; not all at once, this would be too much, but about the fourth part of it. He then wrings it out with the assistance of a neighbour, in the same way that a woman wrings her blanket or petticoat, it is then stretched at its length along hori zontal stakes, a coarse rail is put through it, and when these webs are carefully handled, we have seen them when taken off, put upon the beam as quickly andwith as little broken yarn as any cotton warp, this is seldom or never the case in Paisley. The loom of the north is also very different to that of ours, the pace or benting power does not bang as with us, there is on the yarn beam a row-head just as we have in Paisley on the fore beam, a string is attached to the clink or hook thereof, and is led to the front, so that the weaver can ease it when he pleases wiihout leaving his seat, besides the beam on which the yarn is, a square beam is placed about 15 inches behind the heddles over which the warp passes. By this means the yarn sustains the least pos sible amount of friction before it comes to be acted upon by the reed, lay, and shuttle, which as every weaver, who is in the least acquainted with wool, knows, to be of, the utmost impOrtance. The 'cloth passes over a beam of the same description, and is taken on upon one below. This is also an advantage, as it does not bulk up to alter the place of action in the reed on its floating on the lay. Their shuttles, too, are vastly larger, they will take in a pirn holding a full number of yarn, so that the labour in this alone is abridged, when they are compared to Pais ley shuttles, seven-eights, at least. It is with these and other advantages rest the reasons why the wages of the north-country woollen weaver are superior to those of his Paisley brother for the same kind of work. The prices per yard are about the same, but the former will double nearly the latter in quantity, and with short hours, too, their time being from six, A.M., till half-past six, P.M., with forty-five minutes for breakfast and as many for dinner ; and although the shop or factory be open, during these intervals of labour, no one is permitted to sound his shuttle on any account. Their wages are good during the busy season, which generally occupies from seven to eight months in the year—that is from the beginning of March till the latter end of October. The remainder is short time to all, un less an order comes to hand, which is certainly superior to the Paisley method of some going entirely idle, while others may be fully employed ; but, let it be remarked, we speak of factories, and such alone, or nearly so, ob tains in Stirlingshire. We may remark that the wages will run from 15s. to 20s. a-week, and many of them who a re very expert will kee p up, during the busy season, from 4/. to 51. a-month, and even sometimes more. Nor does this in the slightest degree tempt the o cupidity of employers to brea k the wa g es—nd, in trary, their remarks to the weaverstend h emulation amongst t eir workers. and keep They dee d rather; nthe to stir up to keep high up on the pay roll , for the y feel a pride in it. nfrqy Nor will the weav er—while he works with a long al ive tel a l them not ef u his stretch, fretting his yar n before it comes to the shuttle, and making it as fr izzle y as a sentimental wig, with hanging pace straining the thread, while at the same time it is yielding, and will not assist the heddles in opening up a course for his shuttles, while these shuttles are Ito small that in the changing of pirns alone his labour is increased seven-eights—ever be able to count the wages of the northern artisan, be his skill and ingenuity in other respects what they may. But here we feel we must stop for the present. The importation of this thriving branch of our national in dustry, which bids fair yet to command customers in the furthermost quarters of the globe, ought to be looked to by all taking an interest in the prosperity of our town, with a wistful eye, while men of influence a nd ca p ital would do well to turn their attention fully upon it ; and sure are we, that while it would prove a source of wealth to themselves, it would improve the condition of the operative vastly, who now, poor man, languishes on 6s. or 7s. a week, while they would reap the reward of this besides, in a joyous heart, in a conscientious feeling that they bad done something to smooth a rugged path of life, and mitigate to som e ex t en t the catalogues of human woes.—Glasgow Saturday Post. up thing to repair the wrongs which have been inflicted on men of science by former irregularities, and we do not scruple to say, illegalities ; and will he set himself in conjunction with the Council, to bring its organisation into a state fitted to lead and foster the science of this coun try as it at present exists ? Each of these points is of the utmost importance. So long as irregularities are permitted in the reading and printing of papers, in the 1 constitution of committees, and the awarding of medals — so long no discovery made amongst us can be safe. Corn mon justice, and the present and future character of the Royal Society, imperatively require that the wrongs already committed should, as far as possible, be repaired. And last of all, activity, discussion, and permanency in the weekly sittings of the Royal Society, should be pro vided for. Unless a genuine reformation be set afoot, unless the cold and formal aristocracy of science admits some more generous elements than it at present possesses, we may look to see discovery after discovery lost to this country, and the original workers amongst us soured and disappointed, instead of cheered and honoured. The Royal Society and its coteries have long acted the Florentine part towards the scientific genius of England. This year they have, among other errors, lost a planet; what they may lose next, if they continue their career, it is impossible to foresee. If this loss does not rouse them, no arguments can do so. Dante describes, in the " Inferno," the interviews between the ghosts of the dead. What kind of meeting will that be between the offended shades of Newton, and Halley, and Herschel, and the administrators of science of the present gene ration? IRELAND. (From the Lancet.) Saint Andrew's Day is drawing nigh—the day on which the official programme of the Royal Society will be drawn up for another year. The present would, therefore, be a fit season for reviewing the proceedings If the society during the scientific year, which closes on the 30th of November. But we can only refer to parti cular points. Besides a numerous array of minor laches, we have charged those in authority, with three specific outrages upon the con s tit u ti on o f the Royal Society. In the first place, they have doubly violated the re gulations under which the Royal Medals are awarded — regulations which have received the sanction of her Ma jesty, by giving a Royal Medal to a paper which cal not legally come within the cycle of years for which the award was made ; and for a paper which did not appear in print in the "Philosophical Transactions" until nearly a year after the medal was given away. In the second place, we charged the secretaries and the Physiological Committee with having broken the statutes by allowing he author of the paper to which the Royal Medal was illegally awarded, to receive back and alter his paper, without the permission of the council. And in the third place, we have charged the secretaries with trampling under foot the whole constitution of the Royal Society, by printing an extended communication from a person not a fellow of the Society, and which had neither been read, nor referred, nor considered by the Council in any way, having, in fact, as the printed date proves, been sent to the secretary subsequently to the last meeting of the Council for the year. We stop not to enquire into irregularities of former years—it is enough to say, that all these subversions of the statutes belong to the present year alone. These charges, as our readers know, were made distinctly, nominatively ; it would, indeed, have been a treason to truth not to have done so. We charged the parties concerned in the court of public and professional opinion, and they have acknowledged the competence of the tribunal by pleading to the indict ment. They have all responded, have all held up their hands—some with the plea of not guilty, some with ex planations, some with equivocations, and all with ad missions of one kind or another. Besides the corres pondence of the injured parties, letters have been elicited from Dr. Roget, the senior secretary; from Mr. Bell, the secretary of the Physiological Committee; from Drs. Todd and Sharpey, the two referees in the case of the recent medal; and from Mr. Beck, and Mr. Newport, the two royal medallists by favour, but not by right or desert; and, lastly, from the Noble Presiden, the Mar quis of Northampton himself; wile the rest of the par ties engaged have been busy with private repudiations of all part in the discreditable transactions, and members of the Council have been running to and fro to examine into the truth of things about which they had judged in the absence of evidence or inquiry. Never before, in the annals of the Royal Society, has there been such a series of charges—never such a series of replications. Such has been the contradictory nature of the communica tions, that we have sometimes been able to stultify theetate ments of the individual writers, by bringing them into self collision—the facts and acts of the same party at dif ferent times or places being in inexplicable contradic tion. At other times we have proceeded by the equally easy mode of knocking the statements of one party against the opposing facts of another. Their official conduct has reduced them to such a condition, that the mere touch of truth has been sufficient to throw them into a state of moral polarization, particle instantly re pelling particle, and mass opposing mass. But the profession have seen the changes, the evidence adduced in their support, and the defences set up. The parties implicated are, with the exception of the Pre sident, all of them professional men, and with the pro fession rests the verdict. Let them, then, throw their pebbles into the urn of the republic of medicine, •and decide for punishment or acquittal. We do not wish to aggravate the matter, but we ask—What would be said to the secretary of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, :if he could have dared to assume in his own person all the functions of the society, and to print papers without the sanction of the society, or sanction of any kind, in the " Medico-Chirurgical Transactions?" Or what would be said if the treasurer of the Bank of nEinagoloarondmNavnedre?shoAwnndtaorehanvoet a m oi a e l n v o e e rs a a n ted the dsoientiffiuonds fame t oh thingsthe e nation,as deara t s o e t v li e e r r m ig e h r t e fu m l p o o n s e s y es e s a o h r, h a e n ? d as important We say it advisedly. At the present time, the whole system of scientific polity in this country is rotten at the core as regards those who are charged with its regardsad ministration, either the lax x od t e o to an o b x e t e r n om fo a rced Thinaitsttrhaeti menon, ainnd aspourer a de gree, or utterly unprinciple d, we have shown a g ain and e i again; and the machinery e ntrusted to these infirm or hands is equally to be c ondemned. Science ad vances with an increased impetus from every century and from every generation; yet the polity of the Royal Society, our chief scientific institution, clings pertinaciously to its venerable regulations, clogged as they are by time, and I by the altered condition of knowledge. Where Science formerly numbered its tens, it now numbers its thou sands of cultivators; advances which were formerly the feature of a generation are now the events of a day. Science never sleeps; yet the Royal Society hybernates, or rather falls into perfect torpor, annually, from June to November. It still moves on in the antique round, when the London year commenced with the fogs, and ended with Midsummer. To the savans the 30th of November is still the beginning of the season, as it was in some remote era, the date of which can hardly be specified. But the resultant mischiefs are incalculable, when to this semi• fossilized state, the grossest violation of statutes, charters, regulations, and by-laws, are per mitted with impunity. Times and dates being altered as they have been—papers being tampered with in the way we have stated—and papers being printed without the sanction of the Council,—no anatomical or physiological discovery is safe. We say anatomical and physiological, because the more glaring outrages have occurred in these departments. If a greater than Harvey were now to arise, his labours and his reputation would not be safe in the hands of the present officials of the Royal Society. This is not mere assertion, but a close induction from the proved facts. Of late years, whenever any man has signalised himself in these departments, some puppet has straightway been fostered at Somerset House, to the defamation and injury of the right man. Sir Everard Home, the pur loiner and destroyer of John Hunter's papers, was sup plied from the coffers of the society with the funds for appropriating the labour of his illustrious predecessor. The expensive plates of his work on " Comparative Anatomy," illustrating one hundred and nine papers in the " Philosophical Transactions," were executed at the cost of thesociety. Mr. Mayo, who attempted to deprive Sir C. Bell of his just fame, was long suffered to be upon the Council, than which a greater insult could not have been offered to this distinguished man. More recently we have seen Mr. Newport set up and rewarded, it is scarcely known for what, while the discoverer of the reflex function has had his papers blackballed, which, to his noble and independent spirit, was ostracism from the society. Later s till, D r . L ee makes an anatomical dis covery, and, as if in obedience to some mysteriou s and inevitable law of wrong , a non -discoverer is raised up to usses and worry him in his career. Evis of this magnitude cannot exist in one depart ment of science without being an indication of they unwholesome polity pervading the whole. They are so, in fact, at this time, when an event of the highest importance is engaging the attention of the sci entific world. We allude to the newly discovered planet. It is now well known that our countryman, Mr. Adams, a member of St. John's College, Cambridge, had first cal culated the existence and position of the new planet in September, 184 e, that he sent these calculations to Mr. Airy, the Astr onomer -R o y a l, and to Mr. Challis, of the Observatory, Cambridge, in September and October of that year. M. Le Verrier, a young French mathe matician, made, in June, 1846, a calculation which yielded fewer of the elements of the discovery than those obtained many months before by Mr. Adams, and sent them to Mr. Galle, of the Observatory of Berlin. Professor Airy does not seem to have looked at all: Professor Challis looked and saw the planet twice in August, yet did not publish the matter. But M. Galle, though he had received M. Le Verrier's calculations many months after Mr. Adams had sent his to Mr. Airy, and though he did not see the planet until six weeks after it had been twice seen by Mr. Challis, was able to publish it first through the French Academy, and thus to take from this country the glory of the discovery.* While the French Academy was active, our Royal Society was in its six months' sleep, or, in all probability, Mr. Challis would have sent his observations to this the legi timate channel. In this way of the greatest things of the age has been partially or wholly lost to us! The intellec tual triumph clearly belongs to Mr. Adams, with whom all must profoundly sympathize. Oceanus would have been, his but for the slew and formal technicalities which sur round science in this country. He did even more than M Le Verrier, bu t Mr. Air y , our Astronomer - Royal, did not turn his tube into the he avens so promptly as M. G o a t l 1e s 0 , the g astronomer oo Arago ; and the Royal Society has p rove d itself no match for the activity of the Fren ch Academy, or rather nv irn a and eloquent Berlin ; Sir John H ersc h e l was as M. it has not appeared on the stage at all : otherwise the genius of England would have been unequivocally before that of France, we should have added Oceanus to Uranus, and the name of Adams would have been higher than that of Le Verrier, or even of the elder Herschel himself. We put the question last week, " What will the Mar quis of Northampton do ?" When he was first elected into the Society, in common with other Fellows, he subscribed the obligation and promise to " observe the statutes and orders of the Society " in his own person . when he arrived at the Presidential chair, it became his especial duty " to execute," himself, or, see to the exe cution of the statutes" by other persons. It can be proved from t he minutes of the society that he has him self infringed the statutes, and that during his Presidency the statutes, orders, and royal regulations, have been ha bitually broken by those in a u t hority under him. W ill he for the future ob serve and cause to be observed, the sta tute of the society in the letteer and spirit ; will he do any DUBLIN, Nov. 21.—The Duke of Leinster has, in the following brief letter, sent in his resignation of the office of President of the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland : " Carton, Maynocth, No " Sir,—The special general meeting of the ;al Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland aving yesterday decided to suspend until April, 1847, th e latter part of the 14th rule of the society, I consider it will be impossible to prevent matters totally unconnected with the object of the society from being discussed. I beg, therefore, to resign the honour of being their Pre sident, and request you will have the goodness to inform the council of my determination.—l am, Sir, your obe el;ent servant. " Edward Millen, Esq. " LEINSTER." This communication was read at the weekly meeting of the council on Thursday last, when the following re• solution was adopted : " That the council have received with much regret the letter addressed to them by his Grace the Duke of Leinster, their Noble President, to whose uniform kind ness and co-operation the society are so much indebted, and will lay his letter before the general meeting of the society, at which the usual election of its officers will take place ; and they hope that the constant abstinence in the meantime from all discussions unconnected with the objects of the society may prove that his Grace's apprehensions will not be justified by any departure, on the part of the society, from the spirit which dictated the law in question." Lord Downshire's letter of resignation, addressed to Mr. Secretary Bullen, was published in the Mail of last (Friday) night, twenty-four hours after the usual weekly meeting of the society. It is somewhat strange that no notice of the fact appears in the printed minutes of the proceedings. POPULAR ARMAMENT. The following appears in the Tipperary Vindicator: — There is at present, literally speaking, a rage for fire-arms among the humbler classes of the country . , people. The trade in guns, pistols, powder, and shot, is of the briskest of any within several miles of Limerick, Ne nagh, and other localities. The trade is quite a new one in Nenagh; but since it has been commenced by one cr two persons it is almost impossible to meet the demand. In a house in Queen-street, Nenagh, on Thursday, the crowds were enormous. It was difficult to enter the door. Groups of eager purchasers sur rounded the counter, and others gazed in at the win dows, the former supplying themselves with arms, or getting them repaired, while the owner of a shop, and a aat in n t 1 attend themselves,ade t n ‘ t adi e rxett arms poaestrr their veryere i aeai i trsemyei customers. si armament oil s frmm s na i s ooen t srw a ts e n . re t m , vg' inferiorsTeoo s ri o huyn m regeah e ar r w ao, efnalohi hand. forward. wtdg doing a a t i d lsreved v oa. a eor n ec e beo e lei d yl. i ett i hvi n mei s a e t g iht e soi respectable class of farmers perfectly right in arming so I a ; but almostwe cannot see the good that will arise from the indiscri minateevery district we hear from reports of gunshots are frequent throughout the day and at night. A gentleman residing near the Shannon, between Birr and Borriso kane, heard several volleys within the last few nights. Shots have also been heard in the neighbourhood of Kilcoleman and in other localities. Some of the country boys cunningly say that they will be all disarmed when they go to a certain length in the purchase and posses sion of firearms, and that just now Government is en couraging them. In the latter observation we think them wrong. W• do not believe Government is encouraging the purchase of arms for a vicious purpose. It would be horrible to think so; but we do think that this business cannot end well. A large seizure, we learn, of arms from an English house, consigned to Ireland, was made in an English factory last week, and the arms sent to the Custom-house." MR. MORGAN JOHN O'CONNELL. The Evening Post contradicts the reported appoint ment of this gentleman to the office of Poor-law Com missioner in tho room of Mr. Twisleton, and asserts that such an arrangement was never contemplated. THE GALE OF FRIDAY. The morning papers publish a long list of the casual ties of the terrific storm which raged here from Thursday night up to five o'clock yesterday evening, when, veering from S.S.E. to N.N.W. the gale took off, and the night became quite moderate : "We have been visited with a most frightful gale of wind yesterday morning, accompanied with heavy rain. From about four o'clock until after it blew with extra ordinary violence from the south and south-east. The effect was, as usual, to impound a quantity of water in Dublin-bay, and this occurring on the top of the spring tides had a fearful effect upon the stability of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway. We are happy to say that the injury sustained is but trifling, and none whatever upon the sea wall or embankment. The sea which rolled in was in the morning terrific—waves breasting the wall, and the wind sending the surf some 40 or 50 feet high, shutting out all view of the opposite coast. At Merrion the water rushed in unbroken across the road, and on that part of the railway between Merrion and Williams town there were at least from two to three feet of water on the line. The trains were, from motives of safety, stopped for about an hour and a half, and afterwards quarter trains were dispatched to meet the demands upon the traffic. " The water enclosed by the sea wall on the sea side, and the embankment on the south sieve, at length forced its way through two breaches, and deluged the reclaimed ground between Merrion and Booterstown. Near the rock an extensive breach was made, undermining the road, so that labourers had to be set to work to ballast up the rails, and make the road passable. " The inhabitants of Bath-avenue and Bath square were all inundated in their houses, and the operatives of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway works most chival rously turned out to the rescue, and some hundreds of families were conveyed by them, wading up to their waists in the water, to a place of refuge. One woman, with an infant at her breast, and its grandmother, were amongst the rescued. One of the inhabitants saved his pigs by putting them into a cask, and guid in g it to a place where the animals were high and dry, he wading nearly breast-high in the water. " The breaking of the sea over the eastern pier was magnificent, and several adventurous spirits dared to go to the end and view it. One young man, the son of a pilot, was amongst them; he unfortunately suffered for his temerity, having been carried away by a wave. " About two'o'clock the wind changed to the west ward, and the sea, though running heavily, was more mOderite. ' This day at twelve o'clock will be the top of the springs, and, from the moderation of the gale, we may augur no further amount of damage, but to the lovers of the picturesque an imposing object will be afforded. " DUBLIN AND DROGHEDA RAILW4Y.—There were serious apprehensions about the sea embankments on this line, but they have stood the test of this violent storm admirably. " DUBLIN AND HOWTH LlNE.—This branch line has suffered some trifling injury near Baldoyle, but a few hours' work will set all to rights. " ALARMING FLOOD.—This morning, about half-past ten o'clock, a most tremendous tide broke over the wall. on Sandymount stand, commencing at Merrion, pros trating at that place the stables of Mr. Bourne, and also the walls adjoining the strand road. Such was the force of the great element that it broke down every barrier that the inmates of the several dwellings raised against it. At Newgrove-avenue the inhabitants suffered most severely, as many of them had to fly from their houses, and seek shelter in the city, leaving their valuable furni. ture, &c., to float on the briny waters. A great portion of the wall from Sandymount to the Tritonvillo baths has given way, and it is much to be feared and regretted that Mr. Cranfield has suffered severely, as the greater walls, &c., h n ee‘. o ice f . ghaui adjoining, sp do r ien o r i p ne e g r e, t e y mp rp p ol r se e tt s re e tt net prostrate. .s e e a t A m e f o l s ,s t vregtee distressingrg,aabnbdaredl all pie the s fl o ated right over the Dodder bank at Ringsend, and is now to be seen sailing about on the low grounds of Bath avenue, where a few days since a fine crop of oats in stack was to be seen. " There is a rumour that four people have been drowned in the neighbourhood in trying to rescue their property. " The cellars allong the quays were flooded, and great injury done to the poor in the vicinity. " PORTOBELLO GARDENS.—The storm of Thursday night did great damage in these gardens. The beautiful panoramic model of Mount Etna is a complete wreck, and a great portion of the timber of it is totally de destroyed ; much injury was done to the firework factory and the fences. Nothing could be more unfortunate for Mr. Drewett at the present time, whilst he is struggling against his heavy losses occasioned by the late fire. STOPPAGE OF A PUBLIC WORK. In the hi-weekly record of Tipperary pleasantries, a Nenagh paper mentions the following : " On Tuesday night last the steward employed by the Board of Public Works on a road at Loughorna, within two miles of this town, shortly after he had retired to bed in the house in which he lodged, was fired at when he had lain down, and the ball passed close over his head, as if the parties outside knew well the locality within. A threatening notice was found next morning posted did not the door, threatening the steward with death if he d his making a re act over the few under his char g e. blicOnWorks in Neeagh, presentation to the officers ofhPe all unless the he e personsd did so, o r h t eo would n works to be suspended, they very properly ordered t s have been thrown out and, consequently, thirty person the Board to suspend any w employ Hood—that allowed h bou t r c, mated." o u r ld k not be of employment. We underesrtkanedwtlhiearteitoiustrtehgeeo.risdeerosmo! B RITISH WHALE and SEAL FISHERY COMPANY. SPECIAL NOTICE. No applications for Shares in this Company will be received after TO-MORROW, (IYEnzrEsDAT), the 25th Instant. By order of the Directors, NATIIL. W. SYMONDS, Secretary pro tern. 72, Cornhill, Nov. 24, 1846. ZAL S TURI A N MINING CO MPANY NOTICE is hereby given that, in terms of a Resolution of the Special General Meeting of the Shareholders in this Company, held at their offices this day, the remainder of the Shares on whieh Calls past due shall not have been paid on or before the 30th day of November instant, wit: be cancelled, and new Shares issued, in lieu of them, for the benefit of the Company. By order of the K. MACKENZIE, Secretary. No. 9, Austin Friars, Nov. 23, 1846. PUBLICATIONS. RURAL PICKIIs.MS. Just published, 12mo, bound in cloth, gilt edges , pr i ce i s. RURAL PICKINGS; or, Attractive Points in Country Life and Scenery, by the Author of " Ephraim Holding's Domestic Addresses," &c. with Coloured Plates, by Absolon, &c, *** Youth and Manhood delight in the country, while Childhood absolutely revels there ; even old Age himself, almost forgetting the wrinkles on his brow, and the rheumatism in his limbs, is ready to skip in the gaiety of his heart, while he breathes the fresh air, gazes on the green fields, and calls to his remembrance the exploits of his lAyhood. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury having had under their consideration an application, from an eminent firm, requesting that Prussian books may be admitted into this country at the reduced rates provided in the treaty of international copyright, recently con cluded between this country and Prussia, notwithstand ing that the said books may have been stamped at Leipsic, and not at a town in Prussia, the Commissioners of the Customs Department have received a communication from Mr. Parker, one of the Secretaries to the Treasury, stating that he has been commanded by their Lordships to transmit, for their information, copy of a letter from the Board of Trade on the subject, and to desire that they would admit the Prussian books with the stamp of the Saxon authorities thereon, which have been already imported by the memorialists, at the low rate of duty. Mr. Parker also intimated to the Commissioners in this communication that he had received directions from their Lordships further to state to them, that their Lordships c oncur in the opinions expressed in the Board's report and in that of the Board of Trade, namely, that books, published in Prussia and stamped in Saxony, or any other State which may have acceded to the Convention, should be treated as Prussian, and vice versa; and that it was their Lordships' desire that the Board would give the necessary directions to their officers to admit the same at the duty prescribed I by the convention to be levied upon books published in Prussia, and imported into this country with the Prussian stamp affixed. The following is a copy of the letter from the Board of Trade to the Lords of the Treasury alluded to:— " Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall. _ . "Again his childish days afford him joy, And pleasant thoughts—again he is a boy I" Loudon : William Tegg and Co. P. VIRGILII MARONIS A:NEM Just published, 12mo. roan, price 7s. Gd. THE .2ENEID OF VIRGIL, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory ; a Medea' Clovis ; and an Ilistorical, Geographical, and Mythological Index, by CHARLES ANTHON, LL.D., Jay Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages in Columbia College, New York, and Rector of the Grammar School. Edited, with considerable alterations, and adapted to the use of English Schools and Colleges, by the Rev. W. TROLLOPE, M.A. Also, the following works, by Anthon : Homer's Iliad, First Three Books. Greek Reader, by Boyd, 7s. 6d. 7s. 6d. Caesar's Commentaries, 6s. Horace, by Boyd, 7s. Gd. Greek Grammar, by Major, 45. Sallast, by Boyd, ss. Greek Prosody, by ditto, 2s. 6d, Cicero's Orations, by Boyd, Os. Latin Grammar, by Hayes, 4s. London : William Tegg and Co. am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, enclosing a report of the Customs on an application of certain parties for the admission, at the low duty, of Prussian books, stamped at Leipsic, and I am to state to you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, that my Lords of the Board of Trade are of opinion that the Commis sioners of Customs have put a right construction upon the instructions which have been issued to them with respect to the admission of Prussian and Saxon books. The books mentioned in the memorial under notice are clearly not Saxon books,' because they were not pub lished in Saxony, neither are they entitled under the Convention to be regarded as Prussian books,' because, although published at a town or place within the domi nions of Prussia, they have not been duly stamped by the proper municipal or other authority of such town or place,' as is required by the sth article of the Conven tion. Had they been so stamped, and had they thus ac quired a perfect Prussian character, they might un questionably have claimed admission at the low duty, although imported from Saxony, and not from Prussia itself, which is the meaning of the sth article of the treaty. My Lords are, however, of opinion, that there would be no objection to allowing books published in Prussia and stamped in Saxony, or vice verse', to be ad mitted at the low rate of duty, and as both the Act of Parliament and the Orders in Council are perfectly ge• neral in their terms, they would suggest that the in structions which have been issued to the Commissioners of Customs may safely be modified, and the Commis sioners informed that they may treat as Prussian books published in Prussia, and stamped in any state which may have acceded to the Convention; and as Saxon books published in Saxony, and stamped in any such state. " I am, &e. (Signed) " STAFFORD 11. NORTIICOTE. " T. C. E. Trevelyan, Esq." In pursuance of this order of the Lords of the Trea sury, the Commissioners have caused copies of the same and of the communication from the Board of Trade to be issued to the principals of the several departments in London, and the collectors and comptrollers of the out ports throughout the (InitedKingdom, for their informa tion and future government in this important matter. DEATH EY DRowsrma.—Last evening an inquest was held at Barnes, on the body of Mr. George Roxburgh Sharp, aged 19, who was drowned on Friday afternoon by the upsetting of a boat in that part of the River Thames called the Chiswick Cut. The deceased was a student at the College for Civil Engineers at Putney, and a very promising young man. He and a party of fellow-students had gone up the river for recrea tion, and in crossing the stream from the Surrey to the Middlesex side, the swell struck the bow and the boat was swamped; the decased (who was steering) having sunk, it is believed, in consequence of having had on a heavy pea jacket. Verdict, " Accidental death." The accident excited a deep feeling in the neighbourhood. About two years ago, his brother, also a student in the ' same college, was similarly drowned near the same spot; and about five years ago, a third brother was drowned in the East Indies. A sister alone remains of a family of four. The deceased was just about to leave the col lege for Cambridge University. o " Had the facilities of publication been equal to both, it is possible that the position of these eminent names (M. Le Verrier and Mr. Adams) might have been reversed. This we state with no other feeling than a conviction of the imperfect machinery of our Royal Sod ety. We have announced that reform is being carried out, and we know that good heads and stout hearts are at work. Facility, regularity, and f r e q ueney of publication, will 4e a great boon." --Literary Gazette, Oct. a l. Yom, 7 , 0 1 r //.: 2 if "1.41' • 3 1 :* * 1 THE POPE AND RAILWAYS. , ;•.7- 7 ;‘,,t; or o xi • 3,A ; • AS 4 _ • .. - ' 'lt: kl / 4 c 8 . . 0 .141f i l • ; , 4 p c ,ss, • • • A„- • • , • I :454 I .‘ f4d :! • • 1/4 • K. : 1 1 , 11'4 C.I,,XSZ44# It is at length announced that the Pope has appointed Commissioners to devise forthwith a general plan for the extension of railways over the Roman States. The fol. lowing articles, signed by Cardinal Gizzi, which have been published by order of his Holiness, are to constituter the basis of their proceedings:— " Art. I. The lines considered by the Pontifical Government to be of the greatest importance, and thof. o whereof the execution is authorised, are four in number— namely: — "1. The line from Rome through the Valle del Sacco to the confines of Naples, near Ceprano. 2. Vecchia. A ia nzio. 3. A A " 4. A line from Rome, run nin g through the moss populous parts of Umbria — nam el y , Foli g no and the Valle del Fiume Potenza to An cona, and thence to Cthievi Porto Bologna; following the traces of the ancient Via Fla mini* " Art. 11. The construction of these new roads will be conceded to private companies, represented by Papal subjects, and the competing parties will be required to furnish— undeiriaAke.plan of the line or lines which they propose to bind th; .. m s s ta el t v e e m s ee to t ofcomplete the s " 2. Drawings a n d specifications. " 3. A statement o f th e ti me w ithin which they will the shortest lease with which they w ou ld b e s atisfied. ~ 4. in eeo th ri e ty w v‘ or i k li s e , b an it d l a m lso ay o b f e their power to offer for the due completion of their re spective undertakings. a s they A t . wlillll. r astatementffeoert theofthepresentation railway is to be conducted, considered principally as far th eprinciples ßoman people, : upon ; projects on w in h which landholders, t eachand capitalists. com plianceA with the above conditions, a period of three months is to be allowed from the date of the present notice (Nov. 7, 1346), which period can be extended at the request of the companies, on sufficient reason being given. " Art. IV. The construction of the lines described in Article I. having been assured, the Government re , serves to itself to take into consideration the construc tion of a line from Foligno towards Perugia and Cita di Castello by the Valle del Tevere, aad also other lines of communication with the neighbouring States, when ever the necessity or utility of such works for the Roman people shall be fully recognised. " Art. V. A gold medal of the value of 1,000 seudi @ 151. ) will be given, under the judgment of the Council. of Art (the members of which are on that account ex cluded from the competition), to the person who shall demonstrate the easiest and cheapest read between 'Um bria and Le Marche." UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN . -----------_-_-,.-----=--- RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION_ TO RAILWAY LA BOURERS.—Mr. Peto, the railway contractor, with a view to inculcate a better feeling among the labourers employed on his various contracts, has engaged a num ber of religious teachers, who visit the men daily, and during the time set apart for meals they read the Bible to the labourers, and in the evening teach them to read and write. The plan has been found to answer ad mirably. There are two missionaries on the Nor wich and Cambridge line, two on the Southampton and Dorchester line, and several others on Mr. Peto's other contracts. RAILWAY NOTICES.--A Supplement to the London Gazette, published yesterday, contains 49 notices of intended application for Railway Acts (luring the next session of Parliament. On Friday, the 20th of November, being the day ap pointed for the election of the annual officers, the fol lowing gentlemen were appointed to their respective offices: — Vice-Provost of Trinity College.—The Rev. Dr. Wray. Proctors.—The Rev. Dr. M‘Donnell and the Rev. John Malet, M.A. Deans.—The Rev. Dr. Singer and the Rev. William Lee, M.A. Bursar.—The Rev. Dr. Moore. Senior Lecturer.—The Rev. Dr. Lloyd. Greek Lecturer.—The Rev. Joseph Carson, M.A. Assistants.—The Rev. Thomas Stack, M.A., the Rev. George Longfield, M.A., and the Rev. John William Stubbs, M.A. Morning Lecturers.—Mr. Haughton, Mr. Stubbs, Mr. Townsend, and Mr. Ingram. Examiners for Honours in Mathematics.—Mr. Jellett, Mr. Salmon, and Mr. Galbraith. Examiners for Honours in Classics.—Mr. Carson, Mr. Stack, and Mr. Longfield. Examiners for Honours in Logic and Ethics.—Mr. M'lver, Mr. Haughton, and Mr. Stubbs. The Rev. Joseph Carson, M.A., to be one of the Uni versity Preachers, in place of the Rev. Dr. Lloyd, re signed. The Freshman class of this year is likely to be the largest that has been in the University for many years; the matriculations in Trinity College this year will, pro bably, number 400. This, in part, arises from the largo and increasing number of students from England. The Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College have contributed the sum of 1,5001. within the last year out of the College revenues to relieve the distress of the poor on their estates. CONVICT OVERSEERS.—A number of non-commis sioned officers and soldiers of the Ordnance corps, just pensioned off, have been appointed overseers and keepers of convicts in Van Diemen's Land. Each one has re ceived an outfit for himself and family, and 201. for the passage, with rations during the voyage. Their pay, at the rate of a guinea and a half per week, commences from the day of embarkation, and in addition to their pensions, varying from two to one shilling per diem. They will embark at Woolwich to-day. DREADFLTL ACCIDENT.—On Thursday morning a report was current in Ashton, that a large number of the workmen employed at the Victoria Coal Pits, Dukinfield, had been burned to death ott the previous night. On our going to the colliery to ascertain the particulars, we found that a most serious accident bad occurred, by which four men, who were employed at the bottom of the pit, had been most severely burned, but at that time they were all living ; two of the number, however, were not expected to exist many hours. It appears that as the men at one particular point of the pit were driving the foul air out of the jig-brows by means off' the ventilator, it forced its way along the level of the pit, and there being a candle lighted near to where some other men were employed in getting as a l, the the air came in contact with t he light; the result w explosion, and the poor fellows were most dreadfully scorched, the skin hanging in shreds from every part of their bodies.—Another awful occurrence took place in the same pit on Thursday morning. A boy named Thomas Jones, aged 15, one of the drivers in the pit, while standing at the bottom of one of the jig-brows, took up a pick, with which he commenced to strike near the top of the roof, when a large stone fell upon him and killed him on the spot ; the boy had been previously told it was dangerous to interfere with it. The father of the deceased was suffocated in the pit some time ago.— Manchester Examiner. THE SstrTIIPIELD N msmccE.—On Blackfriars bridge, in the early part of Monday, a young child named Elizabeth Drawbridge, whilst in the act of cross ing the carriage way, was knocked down by an ox pro ceeding towards Smithfield, was trampled upon and gored. She was conveyed in a hopeless condition to the residence of her parents.—ln the market, between three, and four o'clock, a r young married t, woman, residing at No. 10, Green-street, iar-ee Blackfriars-road, named Tailor, was run against and knocked down by oxen. She sustained such injuries that her recovery is not expected. She was taken to St. Bartholomev'a Hospital.—Shortly afterwards, in the Blaeldriars-road . , a child named Wade, crossing the road, was tossed by an oat vowing from•the- market, .endang.ering the_ child'a life.—Mary Ann Binical, a married woman, residing at 30, Goswell-street-road, while crossing Farringdon street, was run over by no less than four beasts, and severely wounded. TIIE FLORES EXPEDITION. —Yesterday and Satur• day several hundred lads and men were collected near the Angel public-house platform, Rotherhithe, for the purpose of engaging themselves in the above expedition , under the name of emigrants. An officer and a doctor occupied a large room in the public-house, where the men and lads were examined by the doctor, and, after being supplied with sixpennyworth of bread and cheese and ale, they were shipped on board a steam -tug, an d taken to Gravesend. Upwards of five hundred have en gaged themselves already. Inspector Hornsby, M divi" sion, was there nearly all yesterday, keeping them ill order. We stated yesterday that the ship Glenelgl, lying off Gravesend, had been s eized for a contemp Act, fated breach of the Foreign Enlistm ent And Equipmen 1 ins t and also the Monarch a nd Neptune gtestm-vessels, - at Blackwall.'"We are informed that the captains and tyre cews have been released, their papers havflig been wer e Cainead to be perfectly correct. The vessels, however, remain in the custody of the Custom -house olßcers. A meeting of the Committee of Spanish American Bondholders was held yesterday afternoon, on the sub ject of the Mexican debt, and the withdrawal of the agency from Messrs. Schneider and Co. Nothing im portant, however, transpired relative to the deliberations of that body further than the prompt acknowledg ment of the receipt of correspondence both from General Mendoza and Messrs. Schneider and Co. On the question. From what we can learn, the Committee appear extremely desirous of moving with great caution in the affair. CHATHAM, Nov. 23..--The head-quarters of the 56th Regiment, of which the Earl of Westmorland , K.C.8., is the Colonel, arrived on Saturday evening last, and were placed in quarters at Brompton bar rack.% next Chatham ; its strength being 13 sergeants, 8 drum mers, and 204 rank and file, un d er the command of Li eutenan t-Colonel W. H. E den,i with a number o women and children belonging to the corps. The troops left Manchester on Friday. The strength of the regi ment is upwards of 1,000 men. ALARMING ACCIDENT ON TOE EDDTBUZGH AND RAILWA Y. —Last nig ht an occ u rrence of a G LA SGOW very serious character took place on this railway. The half-past eight o'clock train _from E . dinburgh haring reached the Winchburgh cut, the engine suddenly came into violent collision with a mass of rock which had slipped down the southern embankment and fallen upo* bothail The effect was to throw the engine across both rails, and produce a fearful concussion of the car riages. The engine was dashed to pieces, and several of the carriages damaged ; but we arc happy to say that none of the passengers suffered injury. The driver and stoker were thrown off the engine, and escaped with some slight bruises. The ten o'clock train from Edin burgh brought on the passengers who had left Glasgow at eight o'clock, a total interruption of the communica tion having been caused by the accident. Edinburgh Post. ACCEPTANCE OF THE LORD RECTORSHIP BY LOAD JOHN RUSSELL.—We are glad to learn that, in a letter to the Very Rev. the Principal Macfarlan, Lord John Russell has accepted the unsought honour which has been conferred upon him, and that he is now Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. Ills Lordship states that, in consequence of the pressure of public business, he is at present unable to name a day when he can visit Glasgow for the purposes of installation. We trust that he will shortly be enabled to do so.—Glasgou , Argus. THE ANIMALS' FRIEND SOCIETY AND THE Pors.--- Among the many memorials lately received by his Holi ness the Pope, is one from the Animals Friend Society of London, praying his Holiness to prohibit the cruel sports of the bull-ring in Spain, and the inhumanity practised towards animals in the streets of Rome. O Consider the Dress Mart of MOSES and SON, Consider the wonderful fame it has won. Consider how widely its name is display'd Consider the thousands that honour its trade. Consider its various styles of attire ! Consider the cloth which you all most admire. Consider the workmanship (never out-done), Consider the prices of MOSES and SON. Consider the Hat Mart of E. M. and S. ! Consider its tasty additions to dress. Consider the Hats in their nap and their shape ! Consider their cheapness ! Let nothing escape. Consider the Fur Mart, which makes such a stir Consider its various species of fur ! Consider the prices which one time you paid ! Consider the change which is happily made. Consider the Out-fits and Hosiery, toe ; Consider the Mouse.in each possible view: Consider that quality's watchword is here, Consider that nothing whatever is dear. Consider the language with which we've begun, Consider the Dr ss Mart e of PR IC OS MES. ES and SON. LIST OF READY MADE. A s. d Beaver Taglionis, from .. •• • • ...... •••• ' • .. Chesterfields and Codringtons .. ••••.• • • • • • • 0 10 6 Pashas, D'Orsays, and Chesterfields, and every description 1 5 0 of winter coats ......• •••• • • • • •• • • •• • • • • •"• • • •• ' • Boys' Winter Coats, in every style a nd make ••• • • • a 6 Tweed Trousers, lined •••••• • • • • • • Dress Coats • • • • • • .. • - • • • • • • - • Frock Coats.. • • • Double-breasted Vests Boys' hussar and Tunic Suits • • .. Boys' Winter Trousers .••••• • . • • • • •• • ..... 0 3 0 Ditto Vests •••••••••• • • • • • • • •. ...... 0 1 6 Mourning to any extent at five minutes' notice. MADE TO MHASURE. Winter Coats, warranted waterproof, made to any style, handsomely trimmed ••• • . .. Milled Cloth Coats, trimmed, velvet collar and cuffs, lined 2 6 0 Tweed Overcoats. • . Tweed Trousers ... Winter Trousers, in all the most approved French patterns 1 2 6 Best Dress Trousers .. Dress Coats .• ..... •• • ..... Best quality mach Frock Coats • . Best quality made .. •••••• • • • • • .••••• • • • .. Fancy Vests .... ••.. • .......... ...... ....... ..... . 0 8 6 Satin, plain or fancy Boys' Hussar and Tunic Suits .... • • • ........ • • 1 5 0 Obscrve.—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to mea sure, lf not approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred, the money returned. E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Wooliendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, and General Outfitters, for Ladies and Gentlemen, , 154, 155, and 156, 157 Mineries, and 83, 84, 85, and 86 Aldgate, :31t., London. Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the public against impostors, but have learned that the untradesman like falsehood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They have no connexion with any other house in or out of London ' • and those who desire genuine and cheep clothing , &c. , s hould call at, or send to, Minories and Aldgate, City, London. Notice.—No business transacted at this establishment from sun set Friday, till sunset Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve o'clock The entrance to the fur department is at 83, Aldgate, corner of the Minories and Aldgate, opposite the church. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 23.—The Admiralty have issued an order that no officer in a ship fitting out is to be granted any leave. This is a good and stringent regu lation if strictly acted upon, and will prevent young gentlemen of rank and influence shirking work, in which all ought duly to share. An order arrived yesterday for the crew of the Vengeance, 84, to be made up to 500, by the addition of seventy first-class boys. She is taking in her guns, 54, which will be all the armament she will be furnished with at present. She will send the carriages of her lower deck guns ashore to-morrow, and receiver" officers and crew on Thursday. Commander Story has left the ship, the Admiralty not intending to put a commander into her as long as she is not efficiently manned and armed as a sea-going ship. Lieutenant H. 1). Rogers (18 37 ), la te First of the Wolf, 18, on the China station, is appointed First of the Vengeance, vice Story, promoted. The Penelope steam-frigate progresses but very slowly in her equipment, and no wonder, as, independently of the very unfavourable inducement held out in the matter of the station she is intended to be sent upon (coast of Africa), the Admiralty have ordered sixty men less for her complement than when last in commission upon the same service. APPOINTSIENTS. Nov. Vindictive. William S. Wiseman , B art., commander, to the Hi Th o o r a m t a o s E. P s i; It i c t h h r m d d m o p s m h i man, to n t , theo t v h e e o r g e e n s e n l c o ep.e. Edward A. Pierson, naval cadet, to the St. Vincent. Charles Andrews, midshipman to the Hibernia. Rowland Berington, lieutenant, to the Belleisle. Samuel J. Brickwell, lieutenant, to the Albatross. William Swinburn, lieutenant (additional), to the Penelope. Henry J. Allan, extra clerk, Woolwich-yard. Thomas Blennerhasset Elliott, surgeon and agent at sick quarters at Kilrush. Thomas James Barnes, acting assistant-surgeon, to the Rosamond. F. W. R. Sadler, assistant-surgeon, to the Royal Sovereign. William Hobbs, assistant-surgeon, to the Poictiers. John Acton, assistant-surgeon, to the Locust. Charles F. Williams, acting assistant-surgeon, to the Siren. James B. Alder, master's-assistant, to the Birken head. Thomas Parry, gunner, Crocodile. William Powell, boatswain, to the Crocodile. Thomas Barnard, carpenter, to the Crocodile. Edward R. Dutton, second engineer, to the Birken head. Charles R. Knight, third engineer, to the Birkenhead, John H. C. Bishop, third engineer, to the Birken. head. Thomas May, master's-assistant, to the Caledonia. Thomas Spark, clerk, to the Crocodile. Charles Harding, acting gunner, to the President. CAPTURE OF B U RGLARS.—LIYERPOOL, MONDAY.- To-day four men, George Martin, John Wright, Miles Fitzmorris, and James Davis, were brought before Mr. Rushton, charged with burglariously entering the spirit vaults of Mr. James Tracy, corner of Leigh-street, Parker-street. Two decanters of wine had been drank. Nothing else was missing. Mary Ann Kirby, a servant, said she was going to bed between twelve and one o'clock, and saw four men (whom she could not identify) standing at the front door of Mr. Tracy's vaults. Two of them appeared to open the lock and went in, while the other two walked about for a while, and then turned - Leigh-street, towards the back yard. She caused in , formation to be given to the police, and Inspector Savage mustering five men, so arranged them as to renaer escape impossible. Davis was found under a table in the Feathers Hotel, to which he had gained access from a window in the back yard ; and the other three prisoners were arrested in the vaults. Several chisels were fuund, and it was discovered that an attempt had been made to break through the wall into a watchmaker's shop. The prisoners were committed for trial at the sessions. EXPLOSION OF A STEAM-ENGINE. —On Friday afternoon last, a locomotive steam-engine employed in the conveyance of earth to fill up a valley on the Black burn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway, at Over Darwen, exploded from being overcharged with steam, and the engine-man, a person of the name of Heaviside, was thrown sixty yards in the air. When he alighted he was of course dead; his features were horribly dis figured, and could scarcely be recognised. The stoker was at a distance, but was much scalded. E It. THE LATE GALES. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 21.—The storm continues with very little abatement. A flag of distress has been exhibited all day on the Eddystone lighthouse, and, in consequence of the severity of the storm, Mr. Ditchem, the agent, has not been able to hold communication with the keepers. An attempt to approach was made this afternoon in the Diligent tender, but the heavy Atlantic sea and rising tide forced that vessel to put back as night approached. Intelligence has reached here of the loss of the sloop Ellen, Captain Beach, belonging to Mr. Clark, of Fare ham, Portsmouth. She was consigned from Perros, on the coast of France, to Mr. Attril, of this port, with about 35 head of cattle and some poultry, and unhappily went ashore on Friday morning, in Bigbury-bay a little to the west of Mothecombe. The ill-fated vessel was quickly dashed to pieces, and all her crew perished. One of the bullocks swam ashore, and the body of one of the crew has been washed on 11 ) beech. The Ellgn was not above 50 tons burden, and ,was consequently small for this description of trade at the present season of the year. This morning Mr. Ditchem, the agent for lights, made a more successful attempt to visit the Eddystone. There is a tremendous sea in the Channel, and the wind is blowing strong from the southward. After approaching the lighthouse as near as the boisterous state of the weather would permit, the lightkeepers were signalled to throw out a letter in a sealed bottle; from this it was ascertained that the distress flag had been kept hoisted in consequence of the damaged state of the lower part of the door of the basement-entrance, caused by the great weight of the water, which had forced itself into the lighthouse at the upper doorway during the storm. Measures are to be immediately taken to repair the damage. RAILWAY ACCIDENT ON THE EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—BURY, MONDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK.--This afternoon a very serious accident occurred on this line of rail to the train which left Rawtenstall at two o'clock P.M. It appears the train was coming at a rapid speed onits way to this town, and on reaching a bridge which crosses the Irwell, at Spring-side, Ramsbottom, the en gine went off the rails. It is said that there is an acute curve at this place, and there being pieces of wood fixed along the rails to keep the engine on, one of them bad given way, and consequently the flange of the engine wheels came in contact with it, and thre w the engine off the line with fearful violence. There were only five carriages attached to the engine, an of which were thrown off the rails. Fortunately, horiTe ver, the accident occurred in a deep cutting, or the re suit might have been disastrous in the extreme. Several of the passen gers were severely injured. One ms uS had one of his feet cut off near the arch of the foot., and the other dreadfully lacerated. He is, however, alive, but in a very weak state. A policeman, who was a passenger, was also seriously injured ; it is said at le of his legs was taken off, and the other much bruised. A third passen ger was al.e) much bruised, and a re pc )rt is circulated that a fourth was killed. This repor t, however, is said not to be correct. Three of the carri inges were broken to pieces, and the engine and tender much damaged. There happened at the time to be a p ilot engine on the way to Bury, and the alarm w as give t t in a very short time, when a special train was dispatcl a , d to the scene of the accident, which brought the whole oof the passengers, and some of the wounded, to Bury. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—One of the •, - most destructive fires witnessed in the metropolis fc ,r some time broke out this morning, shortly before two o'clock, on the ex tensive premises occupied by Messrs. Palmer, the patent candle manufacturers, in Great Comp ton-street, Clerken well; where, it will be remembered, a fire occurred of great extent about three years ago. '1 'he premises, which were considerably enlarged after the former destruction, occupy the entire space of ground fr c St. John-street to Compton-court, and from Compto a i-street to Sutton street. Upon an alarm being given t several parochial engines were quickly in attendance, b a t from the inflam mable nature of the contents of the 1 uilding the fire in a few moments burst through the roc , and the exertions of those persons who had hastened f, a the spot appeared to be completely in vain. The er ig;ines from the fire brigade stations at last arrived, and Mr. Inspector Penny, with a strong body of the' .1 division of police, also promptly _attended. An excel le of supply of water was soon obtained, and the whole c 4 the engines were set in operation, but instead of darer ] ?ing the flames the w ater as it fell upon the burn ing tall.° w and composition, appeared to increase their fury. Li , appearing evident that no means could save the prom)/ ;es, the attention of the firemen was then directed to th a • preservation of the adjoining buildings, which they sue ceeded in saving, although some of them were parts;, lly damaged. An i mmens e stock of candles and raw i naterials were in the building at the time, and the 3 oss, including the valuable steam machinery, cannot b' less than 50,0001. The proprietors are insured, but not ,it is believed, to the amount. BOND'S PERMANENT MARKING INK, (the original, and by far the best, requiring no preparation), for writing, in indelible characters, upon Lien, &c„ whereby is afforded an indisputable means of identity for Towels, Sheets, Table cloths, and every variety of Wearing Apparel. Prepared by the in ventor, JOHN BOND, chymist, 28, Long-lane, West Smithfield, Lon don, and sold by most Stationers, &c. Price Is. a bottle. ;og sig 1 14 ell 0 6 ' '( iq ,een el , l os rob Iseiti' , of IA bt 0 1 , , 0 1 a stir 0, AO. • l ' 13 (14t lrenti