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NVIXVORD and VALINTIA RAILWAY CuPll4, 400,0001, In 40,000 /shares of 101. eaeh. Further deposit of ss. per share. SoMmITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. JOIIN ATT WOOD, Esq., M.P., Chairman. ithe Lord Ingestre, M.P. William A. Campbell, Esq. ,r' aar d SPooner, Esq„ M.P. l Ambrose Miller, Esq. rene:UeorY Attwood, Esq. _r_Trisional Directors feeling assured that they can secure, by Obje e i aPPlication to Parliament, the important and national this railroad Company originally contemplated, think sa ct - ei r went, and Purpose in the ensuing session of Parliament to othlc l3° L re r to Obtain a line from Killarney to Valentin, and for 1 " ,,, Of that Original line, and thus by the construction of 40 Corp? in p aen „..._— .3rinea4oll with lines granted during the pa st -weal - ••••• , ..nt, to secure all the advantages set forth in their t'w*Poctus. kat This " rt szled line necessarily reduce the capital of the Com taklerid the Directors, under the powers granted to then by the %tat:7V agreement, reduce the 251. share to a 101. share, and thus T h ...ul lessen the liability of the shareholders. Ptaa.:2!l,:reholders are hereby informed, that, for the purpose of 'tisjiZu t t( the above object, and under powers given to the pro tbsextber;etterS of this Company by the Deed of Settlement or or at A greement, they retain the moneys remaining in their . • teat , that of the bankers, if any such should remain, after pay - ktrsaai, el P e nses incurred in prosecuting the undertaking ; and in 41tat h .'v„, of the covenants therein contained, a Call is hereby made, thatur`nrrovisional Directors hereby require the shareholders to pay ~_„1 / 1 0 bank ° L s L Per share, to be paid by them into the hands of one of now. o urs of this Company, whose names and addresses are given sat the loth of the Provisional Directors, on or before 3io i n rb• day of December instant, for the purpose of mak ..tg tgdet.L eti nd the necessary preliminury Parliamentary deposits, 'lt—"ng such ferther costs and charges as may be incurred in It-LT:Mien of the measures contemplated by the said Director t. tint wt4; ec turs feel every confidence in prosecuting this scheme, and - "tette s atisfaction to the report. herewith annexed, ofa Baronial ba tnn : u t t it egh, in the coun ty of Kerry, for petitioning the Go -114 itse- 44 aid of the prosecution and construction of this important lal undertaking. By •rder. A. LIGHTON, Secretary. BANKERS. • Messrs. llasterman and Co., London. The National Bank of Ireland. The Bank of Scotland. At unront a t th e t Meeting for Iveragh—Valentia Railway. L- baron , . " 1 et Magistrates, Clergy, Gentry, and Cess-payers of n ort . of Iveragh, county of Kerry, assembled in Baronial anerciveen, on the 10th of November, 1846, for the c't , ie appi vi • tl 'Arany - lig to Government for assistance to carry ou t such %._fires m , and reproductive works as are beat calculated to relieve "nee " distress. and provide for the future employment of the Con,. develops the resources of the country, it was resolved : ~ .t5,4 7 4 r , tine n °l Baronial Sessions assembled in Caherciveen, on ~t e ere of November, wish very respectfully to represent tli"laron hta Excellency, the great expense, inconven ience, dela y , tiltin7bo4ll-, 4se d by the erroneous' and perverse system of making na 4 1 the west of Ireland dependent on eastern ports and iligation. only . o for y is their su pplies of Government stores a nd pro hgreat waste of public money incurred me Of co f Pra the character of coast intervening, and the altu,„_"finner + ll ,,` r ai7 winds, supplies have frequently been delayed, 4144400 d to excite alarm and risk famine. It cannot well be t iat er ect 2 . supplies for the Commissariat shall not be ,Ita io u'eat Valenta, exempting the Government from • int, „,leert a , freight and transhipment, an ex -444.P1e15, r., to amount in fuel alone, by steamers, to 21. per iliC h Lßeat r . o daelf would make a difference in price calculated to l iac r ett 1 1 , - " er • To Valentia in particular, which happens to be etiej:!..tinle rt*ur to Ameri ca, and the best in the empire, the . ty and coat would be considerable -along a great extent r ktntal ereld ePetvessel like the Madagascar at Tarbert, or the Tmoored in this harbour, receiving its supplies direct si ?„ 4, la Twelve or fourteen das, or by steam in seven. initz -naronial Sessions therefore, y most respectfully submit .itn,„, 4 krb c ,,! t ileY, the pressing expediency of stationing in Va tQ;.t...z.ien• depot vessel receiving her supplies direct from %tot:we bid I t the, th satisfaction the announcement made by the Di ift.totake Zeiford a n d Valentia Railway Company, that they are eneCeesary steps for coming before Parliament in the kg_ kl ' v ll l3aV; lce ,. especially that the Directors have decided to aban- Laiii' conti; i 2i their original project as would involve them in ex it:r a lin o r With existing Railway Commissioners. and to apply th i .lljud ici f° l ll Killarney to Valentia, with a branch to Tralee, .ef0in,,,," 1 1 8 course they will curtail their expenditure, avoid 4**, 04 1 411 ns co ra. ition from rival companies, and be enabled, at a very hetkeptoethe t, by the terminus of the Killarney Junction, to 011 14, 111 ,_. of communication between the county and the s ts t -qt ri t. yel r b 'linen to that advantage and to the benefit which will 41-1714 t 0 3 ,... t he Tralee branch) from connecting this barony with „ t litt 4 4l _ker. (as there is no doubt, especially since the report of Ne o ,‘lty .. `e Admiralty engineer, that Valentia Harbour must leitin ts - Aran ‘ Me the American packet-station), the completion of Nt.• ° keit 4h d Valentia Railway will secure the immediate ac tasttenorti,ef that event, and to this county the immense advan %4 tOf i",,. 14 t 4 thoroughfare from England and the whole of the 7ren Lleeph,'" °Pe to the western world. `apii_ort s ,':ensible how indebted this county, and especially the wh o l ti ._ is to Mr. Attwood and other enlightened English i` te a ti z io teti no ' nmah unconnected with this countr7, have . from t 7E the national importance of the object projected „Dreje ot n for Ireland, we much regret that this all-im ,74,Zirenghtd net during the last session of Parliament advance Z Z l i tt for required stages as to place it in the category of thilt; of "tl", a baronial presentment may be made ; but . we Inland respectfully pray his Excellency the Lord Lieu phsllitt7,,aicl of the endeavour to obtain from Govern_ment a grant of t c ,'„alit tit t argn g line proposed from Killarney to l• alenlia.. n,tee ve to , not only in order to prevent the rejection of a Niati o T t •r eproductive work which will afford employment t ,,, ti tighT ev trln ott u ni t u a st di t s o t r ri t t more h than th mostneed h ln a g ve suc to h e s m t,u p g lo g y i ; kih i'lleZthietrtehagricultural distresesxtandrdelem yearsculties ; hut because we St l 7:_csn itt Z ceinpletion of the Killarney and Valentia Railway till -4 it ° hal conseque n ces of the highest vatue--frem the aug -14 Itit okt I WIII w oo ,. in Ine t ffice revenue-the improvement ti41% 4 the communications Pos-o with our North American and t: 4- 4h Colonies, nmede vo ,_ beth for Government and commercial pur b7,,esohlbotir prnent it will give to internal traffic and the mar ,the moat Of agricultural produce, and that it will prove in suet. - . rah imPortant step ever achieved by private enter a, qqattzt tt i c ement of this portion of the British empire, and • ;7•Tve I ....ypsperity of Ireland. aaei4 o 7, l / 41 7: 1 1 , ation, proposed by James Butler, Esq., D.L. itly4 t ing r e „„ ekaon, Esq., D. f,., being unanimausly adopted; U . rag e o , , ested that inn Marice O'Connell,would °f t he presence Dublin of Daniel O'Connell, Esq., t his Powerful advocacy with his Excellency the Lord '4.l4f of the prayers of the resolutions. Ar Exi --- ----„, hereb y , The s,,RD AND VALENTIA RAILWAY. ~,Slitnato,nforioLVl/holders of the Wexford and Valentia Railway are , , oroiti -.e at t •-si. that the new Parliamentary Contract will lie for 'lp ottlf 11, .., en. lb, 4 '' , .ces of the Company, 3, Royal Exchange-buildi ngs, it ti 't„_ - ,,,, b4 T, PAT,th. the 14th day of December instant, until - "tllsa lir ace th: da of December instant. All krip ',' ill th e - nauker's Receipt of haying paid the further deposit, tht '. left ..41:reeeding advertisement, and it id requested that /t o "' 11 , ti le Secretary to be exchanged few new. ...... 5.. 321 ity, s , .3' order, A. LIGHTON, Secretary. ptlist.;. '-uan ge-buildings, Cornhill, Dec. 3, 1846. s.ble n ,_ - "READ DOCK COMMISSIONERS. 4, -, l6,— , rite r , h „,_, _ LOANS OF MONEY. ;Sti r ."el , for `.l Dock Commissioners are ready to recerte Loans sa te. act, .. _Periode sr five or seven years, under the authority of 4 4 1 st wiii rarliament, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. The tzd' i ll Lo n e e Paid half -yearly, on the Ist of January and let 01 t„,,!tmm ten _o e r r i or elsewhere, as the parties lending maare Lx,, , ..7,,,fgrz h the yl s tr ,„ . ... _s, stating the amoun t an d term t oj t m . commis ... Lem. , 44,1"TZsdeedr to be lent, to be addressed sept. 21, 1846. r Loans."—lftr" RICHARD HIND, Sec. ilPt i r., .............,.................................11y order, , . ti ra,E SELF-SUPP ORT r INSTITUTION, -, th ( aided by Voluntary Contributions.) for the Cure of Stricture ' toest; urethra, and all other Diseases of Urinary Organs, Nervous, flu•Lar , d General Debility. ea,„:'.utw—F. B. COURTEITAT, M Tt ci - ----. , .5.L., 2, ChaadoS-street, — .kilo,. T o o sqare. t on _ Mall tradesmen, clerks, mechanics, and the working classes s a „,7l ll n Y e . this Institution offers, in an -“ easeS, gratuitous surgical - .1 5 ! , ... e a . and in Others medicine also free of expense. .."'" t the'Sing t he Surgeon's residence. n''FLtrENZA,---"—:::::"------COITGIIS A LINSEED COLDS. kINICO'S ESSENC E of is the most I L,-? efficacious remedy ever discovered for the relief of persons suf . Die7from tr - n o u fluenza ; the two first doses generally arrest the Pro , t this distressing complaint, and a little perseverance corn 44ist'a removes it. Children's coughs, as well as recent ones In , will be removed by a few doses (frequently by the first), and bi,74tie ) 444 :111,3Na . person s , who pre7lously had not been able to lie down I , n kb:.received the utmost benefit from the use of Shnco s of Lins eed . 1.41 z. b Y all medicine Vendors, in bottles at Is. I%d. and 2s. 9d `,..........._ N , (N .211 E BEST REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION. , uttT ON'S CAMOMILE PILLS ..,,,,,, A ar e ot,. confidently recommended as a simple but certain remedy 124;_ielffer from lndigestion, Sick Headache, Bilious and Live Itren,,l they act as a powerfu I tonic and gene aerient, imer 4,Ni:l,l l :L i lt° the stomach , and composure to the nervous syste P m, e, ,_ kith esa(),. " A des at Is. 1%d., 2 s. 9d ., and Its. each, in every town i n 1 4 ' 4210 - 1 -a ed to purchase an sk imitation. NORTON'S PILLS," and do not 11 74441 115,a , ;,,,PLO_ll.l_ STOPPING DECAYED TEETH. ~,..- 441:17rAlajesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and 41111 3MAQ " 'al Highness the Duchess of Kent. 11 411 ) , i s litul l ' 3 , and HOWARD'S SUCCEDA .*Dst • it i s ~,i wr stopptng Decayed Teeth, however large the qrs, ili,. it s t o leed in the tooth in a soft state, without any pressure l i tif . l i glie . t omi n fo leOmes as hard as the enamel, and will remain 0%4 - 7 it the tnany years, rendering extraction unnecessary, 24 .. 6 r 0 thernsettilor progress of deca. Asons c re an en u c s l e os t e h d is . tA t 64 , it erl t r ePared onlyvi t b h y e a s e o , m a a s , fulland directions Howard , Surgeon Den -44, t o 3 ;!re, by I,Z-street, Oxford-street, who will send it into the Sold by Savory, 220, Regent-street ; Sanger, & _plily ,tedioi ne ., , , 'Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Johnson, 0, Cernhill ; in t ,`:_e los, of mdors in the kingdom. Mr. Howard continues to ate sta l Wire, teeth on his new system of self-adhesion, without or ro, This 0 1 4, - roet. method does not require the extraction of .... or 'et, to ot ,„l_ any painful operation whatever, and is less ford_B,2'es• Mr. Howard, Surgeon Dentist, 64, Renters . eet• At home from 11 till 4. s, N il Sp TO OLD 14, hail, mer theire ! Thy seasons inspire At h : h earts of young and the old: I. react "Ma to hurn v when I see ~,, o/t„ lllnu th the m onth of December is thy cold return,. A. co me, and make glad the hearts that are sad, Come u tell us of homely delights ; .._ and cheer lace with thy bonny red face, ...eroughly'rse-t us to rights. Thy o w _ _ ~,,,,,,t,Atlultiaitne,ze_zlit,w. toilluvog: ymaernetsw"iwthillabjeolslyp_ugn_oi,od.ilntrgeat, log, -..ni with 44,,e, and grog, and abright hurt I alway s „,„ .1.1 a Crne,,, Iv h 0 , ri es: e,:f i r n o ra MOSES cheerful D e ande December, b 6 e u r ,24 • Whe, r°---- purc has ed SON'S noted Mart; 1 Sire attire to hail the g-'i- - ' se h°",lB.3's need , something smart. • IS'rry „,, P., -,.. sh ould. be deck'd, if they've any respect Then ,_('grather Christmas's cheer ; thuasten and tart for MOSES'S Mart, ereW the heats Winter dresses appear' ~ I,,se seas' is cold, warm garments are sold, - 1;‘,11..'e ( Illall d in Winter attire ; 'll7 Pri ce is so low, that all folks may show ---filr respect to the hearty old Sire. LIST OF PRICES. !LUDY MADE. s 0. d P b y HelsmacMls e 8 6 g a .. • ....... • • 4r sa, Cotringtons . • • • " • • 010 6 hoy ! t iate na Ya, and Chesterfields , and ' every description Vri n r f "att.... MTr,, -er Coats in - every style s • iylea • n . .. • 0 6 iry :Users, n ne ' d 0 4 6 Co ' • ....... •••• • • • • • • .. 010 6 , J • ttik • ...... ............... •• • • ,„ 6 rio °"l a - b 4tli " • • Fa sts • • • ..... •• • • • ••• • • • •• • • 1 ; 0 a 44 ted ase x • • ..... ...... ..... .......... Ur, and Tunic Suits .............. Di U 1 T si n its rOugers ... ....... 0 3 0 ....... . 0 1 6 . . Itete 1.0 any extent at five minutes' notice. 1.. 6): c oat _ NADI! TO MSAIUxE. G 4 'qao4,, e r. warranted waterproof, made be any style, p5 1i • ,,,, e4 Cloth f ,trirairie • ...... .. ••••• • • • • • 1 5 - Coats, trimmed, velvet collar and cu ff s, lined 2 6 0 Iti e td T r er "ats. 0 18 0 eltilbres:tara, all • ost approved French patterns 1 2 6 ki n Co r ousers 1 6 0 gmade .. t u! • ........ ..... .......... 1 15 0 rnad •••'• ' • ' ' • ' ........ 3 3 0 ;Al Ob4l"ll;n•kelacrrtulfd TunicEl nits ••••• • • • • . ••. • • 0 6 alley ....... 0 12 0 ... ....... 1 5 0 k it ii,,g h : n, c • , - t .- . 4 / 1 3' article purchased, ready made, or preferred,madeto mtehae e kettPproved of, will be exchanged, or if I :lo g Ok'Wits et . l % 1 64 4. It to .,, i s al . SOS, Tailors, woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters, Clt:. 16 6 ~.."'ara. and General Outfitters, for Ladies and Gentlemen, tom ' ' Ol 7 . 156 , 131 Mineries, and 83, 84, 85, and 86 Aldgate, bl Ni titten - - -E1 Ike ama in • Muses and Son regret being obliged to guard the In kh r !lseh om st 1111 00 s t -ors, but have learned that the untradesman- Th ;711 Ccnnected with them, or it's the same concern, that' to in in,,?.ny instances, and for obvious reasons. t14, 6e - do connexion with any other house in or out of London; ~ad t o. li t o desire genuine and che , p clothing, &c., should call at, stiaotie.„....._inories and Aldgate, L a thCi London. v o l P rtd ay, business transacted is establi.hment from sun anniet Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve ti ' i r i ce to the Air department is at 83, Aldgat her of the A ldgMol opposite he church ~~ k' ~~~' , ~-.. pk_~ ~~ ~,24---or-2--, i ~ %:c~~ 11 ' 4 " LONDON, • MONDAY 4. • • No. 16,916. DEPUTATIONS to GOVERNMENT the smuggling, and that the enterprise of the contraband trader had been transferred to tobacco. The effect of the reduction of the duty on spirits had been a positive increase of revenue. This would certainly occur in the ease of tobacco. The deputation then retired, no intimation, E 0 far as have understood, having been given of the intentions ,;f Government in reference to the tobacco duties. CALEDONIAN ASYL-UM.' Incorporated in 1815. A QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of GUARDIANS was held at the Scottish Hospital, Crane-court, Fleet-street, on the 3d instant, for the ELECTION of SIX BOYS and SIX GIRLS into the Asylum, when the following were declared to be the successful Candidates:— MONSON'S ARMS, COMMERCIAL and AGRICULTURAL INN, LIMB-STREET, LINCOLN. JOHN INMAN begs most respectfully - to retarn his best thanks to Ids agricultural and commercial friends in particular, and to the public in general, for the increased and increasing support conferred upon him ; and to merit which it will be his constant endeavour and uremittlag study. Commercial gentlemen will at the Monson's Arras find accommo dation equal to any house, however celebrated for commercial resort —an excellent commercial ro om, well aired beds, and good s. Travellers by railway visiting the ancient city will receive every attention. An omnibus to and from the railway station on the arrival and eperture of each train. November 23, 1846. TEA DUTIES. A deputation on the subject of the tea duties waited on Lord John Russell and Mr. Charles Wood, on Satur day, having been introduced by William Entwisle, Esq., Member for South Lancashire. Mr. William Earle, in presenting the memorial from the town of Liverpool, agreed to at the late public meet ing, and signed by the Mayor, praying for a material reduction of the duty . on tea, assured his Lordship that he had never witnessed a more influential or unanimous meeting in Liverpool than the one at which that memo rial had been adopted, and he believed it expressed the feeling of nearly every inhabitant of that town. Mr. Halliday presented a similar memorial from the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Feilden presented a memorial from all the in fluential inhabitants of Blackburn, and another, signed by upwards of 2,000 of the working classes, in favour or a great reduction in the duty on tea. Mr. Law presented a memorial from the city of Edin burgh, signed by the Lord Provost, and another from the Chamber of Commerce there, to a similar effect. Mr. Scarlett presented a memorial from the town of Leeds, and stated how seriously the trade of that town was affected by the injurious tendency of the present high duty on tea. Mr. John Scott supported the prayer of the memorials which bad been sent direct to the Government from the cityn and f China Glasgow, theMerchants' House, the East India aAssociation, and the Chamber of C ommerce of Glasgow. Mr. William Potter, of Liverpool, then addressed his Lordship on the benefits which would accrue to the mer cantile and shipping interests by a material reduction of the present high duty on tea. He showed, in a very forcible manner, the immense increase of manufactures which he stated would be consumed in China, and that the increased consumption of tea, and consequently of sugar, would give employment to at least 40,000 tons of additional shipping. Mr. Wench, of Liverpool, argued, from statistics which he brought forward, that by reducing the duty to Is. per lb. the public would be enabled to consume twenty-seven millions of pounds more of tea, and 27,650 tons more sugar, without any additional outlay; that tea which is now retailed at 4s. per lb. might then be sold at 2s. al., and that the loss to the revenue would only be 101,5731., even if the rate of consumption were no greater than in the Isle of Man, where the duty is Is. per lb. Mr. Robert Gardner, of Manchester, stated the im mense decline in the shipment of cotton manufactures from Manchester, in consequence of the serious losses incurred in the China trade by the restrictions caused by the high duty on tea. Many of the mills had already commenced working short time, and others must follow, unless an impetus were given by such a reduction of the duty as would enable shipments to be made to China with better prospects than were now offered. Mr. Scarlett, of Leeds, called the attention of the Go vernment to the depressed state of the woollen manufac turers in the West Riding of Yorkshire, greater than had been felt for several y ears. The trade with China had been so ruinous that shipments had greatly fallen off. He felt assured that an early intimation of the Go vernment's decision in favour of a reduction of the tea duties would at once cause renewed activity in the de mand for woollens. He was desired to mention, on the part of the deputation from Norwich, how fully they concurred in the statement he had just made. Mr. John Scott stated how much Glasgow was inte rested in the subject, and hoped the Government would take the tea duties into their serious consideration. Mr. Horsfall, of Liverpool, assured hls Lordship that it was the general opinion that a small reduction would be certain to disappoint both the Government and the consumer ; to be of service, it must be reduced to a rate equivalent to Is. per lb. We had secured for other nations the same advantages in China that we ourselves possessed, but whilst in no other coaatry was tea charged a higher duty than 6d. per lb., and in some it was entirely tree, our consumers had to pay 2s. 2kd. per lb. It was, he argued, frost unjust to force upon the Chinese a tariff the lowest of any nation with whom we traded, whilst we imposed on the principal article or their manufacture so exorbitant a duty. It was con trary to the feelings of Englishmen to oppress the weak and the powerless, and he hoped that so great a blot on the national character would soon be wiped away. Lord John Russell assured the deputation that Go vernment were fully impressed with the importance of the subject. He had listened with great attention to all that had been urged by the several speakers as affecting the commercial, manufacturi n g , and shipping interests, and also as regarded the claims of China to a more liberal treatment. It was, as all knew, a revenue ques tion, and an important one,. but he would promise the early consideration of the Government to the arguments that had been advanced upon this point. More he could not say, nor could it be expected of him. Mr. Eutwisle then thanked his Lordship for the patient hearing be had given to the subject, and the deputation withdrew, highly pleased with the courteous reception they bad met with. 80111. GIRL 9. Thomas Mitchell .• • • .. 1789 Robert Ilutchenson • • .. 1573 Andrew Fell .• .• 1406 James Chambers .• .. 1157 Richard Alexander .. .. 1062 John Gunn • . • • .. .. 1032 Mary Ann .. 1237 Mary Charlotte Clark .. 829 Eliza Prentice • • • . .. 692 Lucy Isabella M'Leod 335 Margaret McKenzie • . .. 312 Mary Ann Robertson.. .. 234 Rosina Sutherland • • .. 234 JOHN BURNIE, Secretary. THE TEA DUTIES. (From the Examiner.) The question of reforming the duties on tea is at pre sent under agitation by the commercial community throughout the country, and began on the 28th of last month by a great and enthusiastic public meeting at Liverpool. The history of the tea duties, or as much of it as is useful, is easily told. Under the monopoly the: public tax was an ad-valorem one of 100 per cent., with a tevour of four per cent. for the consumption of the poor. On the abolition of the monopoly, thirteen years ago, this was replaced by a duty rated to the value of the different teas by classes. Against this rating the tea trade mutined, and forced on the Government the exist ing system of an uniform rate, against which the tea trade is again in a state of mutiny with a good deal more ar • - ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated Ethiopian Serenaders, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, whose entertainments last season at the St. James's Theatre were so eminently successful, and whose recent performances in the Provinces have been atte,ded with unexampled success, will have the honour of resuming their entertainments at the above theatre on TUESDAY EVENING, Des. 15. and of continuing the same every Tuesday, Thursday , an d Saturday evenings, during the Christmas holidays. The public is respectfully cautioned that the Songs and Melodies, as sung by the above party at the St. James's Theatre, are published only at Mr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street. None others are authentic. St. James's Theatre, Dec. 1, 1846. reason. The fixed duty, which has now been in operation ten years, is 2s. 2id. per pound on teas of all, or any quality, and is equally imposed on poor bohea, as on superfine gunpowder, or superfine flowery pekoe—equally on the consumption of a washerwoman and the luxury of a fine lady. The value of the lowest bohea is 2d. a pounds and that of the finest gunpowder or pekoe 4s. 6d. a pound, or seven-and-twenty times [as much ! The fine lady ought to pay righteously, twenty-seven times the tax which the washerwoman pays, but the law makes her pay just the same sum. She pays 2s. 2-I.d for her 4s. 6d. worth, and the washerwoman 2s. 21d. on her two pence worth The washerwoman's tax, rated on the value of her consumption, exceeds 1,300 per cent., and the fine lady's is under 48 ! The public tax now paid by the washerwoman is near fourteen times as much as it was before the abolition of the monopoly—and that paid by the fine lady is less than one-half what it was then ! This, with a vengeance, is placing small-beer and im perial tokay on a fiscal level. The result of the levelling has ben that the 10,000,000 lbs. of bohea consumed by the poor, eleven years ago, have been well nigh kicked out of the market altogether, and that there is not now, nor has there been for some years back, a stock of bohea in the kingdom that would suffice for a year's consump tion of the washerwomen of Marylebone. All this comes of a Government listening to evil advisers ! Of the speakers at the great public meeting at Liverpool, by far the most enlightened sentiments were expressed by Mr. Brown, the new Member for Lancashire, and they were such as show very clearly that the electors of Lancashire have made a good choice. Mr. Brown showed from one of the lectures of Mr. Bamfield, that the poor who were consumers of Tea amounted to 10,300,000—the middle-class consu mers to no more than 4,500,000, and the wealthy con sumers only to I,2oo,ooo—and he asked if it was to be endured, however convenient to the merchant and the Custom-house, that the poor and rich should pay the same specific duty. We are sorry to be obliged to say that Mr. Brown stood alone :n the expression of this generous, righteous, and politic .sentiment. He was loudly cheered, but no man backed him, and after a great exhibition of statistic knowledge and much talent, the meeting came to the most lame and miserable conclusion of demanding a swingeing reduction in the duty—a reduction of one from 2s. 21(i. to one of " one shilling"—thus leaving the ruinous principle untouched, and throwing the whole onus of an enormous defalcation of revenue on the Go vernment. We shall show how the proposed tax would operate, in case the Government, which is not credible,ahould be so simple as to adopt it. The lowest priced Bohea is worth 2d. a pound, and the proposed tax is an ad-valorem duty of six hundred per cent. on it. The highest Bohea is worth 4d., and the tax is here three hundred per cent. If' the poor should be driven to 6d. tea, the tax is still two hundred per cent. The tea of the middle classes may be taken at ls. a pound, and they pay only 100 per cent. ; but this class also drinks tea at Bd., so that the poorest of them will be charged 150 per cent. The tea of the wealthy may be taken at 2s. 6d., so that the wealthy are to pay but 40 per cent. ; but the upper classes also consume teas worth 4s. a pound, so that the most luxurious of them shall only pay 25 per cent. By this pretty invention, originating with the en lightened town of Liverpool, from which we had hopell for better things, every man and woman is to pay taxes in the inverse proportion of their means. The 12,300,000 of poor, from two to sixfold as much as the 4,500,000 who are in easy circumstances, and from five to fifteen fold as much as the 1,200,000 that are luxuriating in wealth. With such a placard in their hands, Liverpool is going to stir up the country, and enlist the sympathy of the millions! And of this clumsy piece of empiricism, the Govern ment is to be made the scape-goat. The present con sumption of tea is about 44,000,000 of pounds, aid the revenue which it yields is 4,800,0001. By the adoption of the "one shilling" duty, the immediate sacrifice of revenue will be the appalling sum of 2,600,0001. — more than a moiety of the income tax : and to re-esta blish it, the consumption must rise to ninety-six millions of pounds,—that is, must be doubled, with a surplus above the doubling, equal to the consumption of the United States of America ! That a very considerable increase of consumption will be the result of the mere rude process of reducing the duty without adjusting its incidence, is certain ; but, striking at the very sources of consumption, the con sumption of the masses, that the increase will be such, within the lives of the present generation, as to cover the existing revenue, is what no reasonable man can hope for. It is in vain that the speakers It the Liverpool meet ing appealed to the increase which had taken place in coffee and cocoa from reduction of duties. The fact is that the increase in these articles has taken place at the expense of tea, just as the consumption of hyson and rekoe has been quadrupled at the cost of Bohea and Twankay. The duty on cocoa is 2d. a pound, or one thirteenth-part that on Bohea. The duty on coffee is 4d., or less than one-sixth part of the Bohea duty. Can any one be surprised, then, that the two first commo dities should have greatly increased, and that the last should have nearly disappeared altogether. In an article like tea, where a commodity of the value of small-beer stands at the bottom of the scale, and one of the value of first growth Burgundy at the top of it, l and in which the range comprehends at least sixty varie ties, it is obvious to common sense that any other prin ciple of assessing the duty than an ad valorem one must be fraught with inequality and injustice, and equally in jurious, in the long rum, to the consumer, the dealer, to commerce, and the Treasury. The experience of the last ten years ought to be a warning to all future times. The injurious specific duty has taken the place of the in jurious monopoly, and consumption and revenue have moved at a snail's pace under both, barely keeping pace with increase of population. We must bear no more of specific duties on tea. " The trade" must alter its tactics. At present, it is pursuing that course which, Adam Smith says, merchants sometimes followed in the olden time, when they became the most suspicious councillors of a government. TOBACCO DUTIES. A deputation of the Associated Manufacturers of Tobacco, accompanied by Dr. Bowring, M.P., Mr. Henry Berkeley, M.P., Mr. G. H. W. Heneage, M.P., and Mr. Ludlow Bruges, M.P., waited upon Lord John Russell, at his house in Chesham place, on Saturday, for the purpose of calling his attention to the state of the tobacco trade, and the injurious influence of high duties on the interests of the trade and on the comfort and morality of the public. The deputation consisted of the following members of the trade: —Mr. John Lloyd, of the firm of J. and F. Lloyd and Co.; Mr. Williamson and Mr. Back, of the firm of Taddy and Co.; Mr. 11. 0. Wills, of the firm of Ricketts, Wills, and Co., Bristol. Mr. Von der Heyde; Mr. Thomas Huxley; Mr. Charles Lloyd, of the firm of Wishart and Lloyd; Mr. Robert Roberts; and Mr. Paul Anstie, of the firm of P. and E. Anstie, of Devizes. Lord John Russell was accomp an ied by the Chanc ellor of the Exchequer, and receiv e d the deputation with much courtesy. Dr. Bowring referred to the Committee of the House of Commons on the tobacco trade, which sat in 1844, and to the important and conclusive mass of evidence which was given before that Committee. It was shown that of the number of seizures of contraband goods made by the Customs, five-sevenths of the whole consisted of tobacco, and that the convictions for the crime of smug gling had increased during the three years previous to January last, 11191 e than two hundred per cent.; that the duties on tobacco are so enormous (varying from 800 to 1,400 per cent. on the value of the a rticle), that the temptation both to smuggling and adulteration is so great as to forbid the hope of collecting the duty; that thehevi dence proved such an amount of these practices as tos shor t that the power of the revenue was entirely defeated. which duty shown that a quantity fully equal to that on d duty had been paid was introduced fraudulently, and consumed without payment of duty, to the injury of the fair trader. The Board of Excise produeed chemical evidence, with the intention of showing that they had the means of discovering adulteration by analysis ; but in that respect they had entirely failed. The evidence went to show that the expenses attending the evasion of the duty are so great, that smugglers could not intro duce tobacco under a cost which would render it unpro fitable to him to run his goods if the duty were reduced to is. a pound. Mr. John Lloyd said that the trade had been com plaining of the operation of duties for many years, com mencing soon after the close of the war, when inter course with the continent became open. That the strin gent regulations of the Excise survey —and the trade had readily assented to the most stringent regulations the Government could devise—having altogether failed of their intended effect of preventing smuggling, they were abandoned in 1840. That the rate of duty so much exceeded any other article in the tariff, that even en that ground tobacco had the first claim for reduction. And now the duties on other articles having been re duced, the tobacco duties had become relatively still higher. Thus all the operations of the smuggler had become concentrated on tobacco. Formerly his venture consisted of brandy, silks, and other highly taxed foreign articles. Now tobacco forms the whole venture. That the low prime cost of the article, and the consequent enormous profit realised, had led to such an amount of smuggling, that the condition of the fair trader was now worse than at any former period. That this duty falls heavily upon the working classes, inasmuch as eleven twelfths of the revenue derived from tobacco was derived exclusively from the consumption of the working classes. Mr. Lloyd also referred to the general views of the sub ject on which Dr. Bowring had touched. Mr. Paul Anstie said that, after Mr. Lloyd's state ment, he was only anxious to prove that the calculations gAdoctm., and the whole of They had then which the trade had embo died in t he papers they now left with the Chancello r of the Exche quer, were strictly based on evidence given before the Tobacco Committee, and upon Parliamentary papers since p u bli s h e d . Th ey ) had taken the proport ion which existe d between seizures in London in the y e a r 1843 (the onl y clear year after the th e passing seizures in of the last United Tobaccon taken the po sitive testimony. given befor e th e C omm i ttee , as to definit e amounts introduced int o London b y s muggling duri n g that y ear. The witn esses who h ad spoken to quantities of smuggled leaf tobacco within their own knowledge, were only been 8 -X, and the total quan tity so ascert ained had multiplied only by three ; an estimate believed to fall far short of the truth. This remark applied also to the calcula tion of the quantities of smuggled foreign manufac tured tobacco, in which case the quantities deposed to by three witnesses were multiplied only by four. The same proportion which existed between the amount seized in London and in t e whole ki ng d o m in 1843 w as applied to ascertain the whole of the q uantities smuggled ; and the result was, that if in 184 4 the duty had been reduced to Is. per lb. on leaf, ss. on foreign cigars and cheroots, and Is. 6d. on other foreign manufactured tobacco and snuff, the revenue from tobacco would have been as great, taking adulteration also into account, as now derived from the present high rate of duty. Several official papers had been published ; when Sir R. Peel introduced his last tariff, the associated manufacturers complained that he had taken spirits in stead of tobacco, the latter being most largely smuggled, and was subject to the highest rate of duty. They have evidence in these papers that the anticipations they then expressed had been fully realised. Parliamentary re turns show that tobacco now constituted five-menthe of . - .„.,... . „ • • . , , :. • 71 '4 . 4 • . d . - 40 . 4 4 :".\ , A 411111111111111111 k, . -"`: 1, ..N . . .e. , , - • . .... . - . .._ . -•:-.. •,, 2,,, - ! I V .. _ L - , A • A ': . . F.:.... ; -3. , —.- 1' 01160,-,„ 41. k-....,:.--,• -.,•. ‘ ......,,, ._,. . ,- i -. i -s. :- 61 f - ' `" --2 '"" . ' 4 i 4 , ---- , ?; ' , - ,N, ..,..: ,„ .„ : „,„, i ,.... \ ,- 3, i - fti 4.----v, A.. , F‘f - , ..._ ' 1 ;:'• I , 1 "`e. ..3. 4 ? , Z - 44,_ ~. .._ _ 41.--..<4,.. l• i- _ ., , - 4. - -_ '''':' . ."* l " . : lo, .: - ~./14.C_____1*L„'1431411e - ! .I' 4lli p # 7. . ' I . N - P* 3,0 ',4 4L,,,.._ ,. ,. i . " At et I v ' 4 ,1., 1,- i , • '.------ ' ' - 1 \- '' ' ''''''''-'''' ;"-' ' -N,,, DECEMBER 7, 1846. /4 , PRICE SD. gwraso asth haingdh as in 92E nsgplaannids.h d l o n lia l r B s 2 p o e , r t m he uil p e r , ic o e r i a , t oo Z o a lb n s te , while in 1831 it was as low as 15 Spanish dollars rer mille. In 1821, in London, the wholesale price of currants reached 1151. per ton, which is believed to be the highest rate they have ever realised, while in 1843 they were sold as low as 404 per ton. Within the last twelve years, the duty on currants has been twice reduced by the British Government—in the first in stance from 441.65. 8(1. per ton to 22/. 3i. 4d., and next, from 22/. 3s. 4d. to 15/. per ton, which, with the addi tional five rer cent. imposed on duties by Lord John Russell, and which has not been removed, makes the present duty 151. 15s. per ton. A very considerable revenue is annually derived by our Government from the duty on currants, and which has increased since the reduction in duty, the consumption in the United King dom having materially increased. Although the con sumers in this country have certainly benefited by the reduction in duty to a certain extent, the cultivators of the fruit abroad have been much greater gainers thereby, and during the last three years have realised such profits as to lead to the cultivation of further tracts of land for currant grounds. During the official year of 1845, the actual consumption of currants in the United Kingdom exceeded in quantity any preceding year, and it was an unprecedented fact that when the first cargo of new currants reached London in September last, there were no old currants on sale in first hands, the stock of old at that period usually averaging nearly 2,000 tons. From the 22d of September to the 25th of November, forty-four vessels have arrived in London alone, with entire cargoes of new currants, the total quantity of which cannot be less than 7,000 tons. Of these vessels, 43 were British and 1 Greek. The quickest passage was made in 29 days, and the longest in 77 days. The price opened, on the 22d of September, at 565. per cwt. for Patras currants, and on the 6th of October at 545. per cwt. for the first arrival from Zante. Since then the prices have continued very steady at 565. for Patras, and 555. for Zante and Cephalonia fruit. Quite a new feature in the trade was that seven or eight of these car- goes were sold by the Greek consignees to London grocers and speculators while they were afloat, to be de livered on arrival. Nevertheless there must be at least 3,000 tons of cur rants now in London for sale, part of which will no doubt be put up to auction. With the forty-four car goes already arrived, and a few more on the voyage to London, there can be no fear of a scarcity of currants, even for the most inordinate wants that may arise for Christmas. A great many cargoes have also reached Liverpool, Bristol, and other outports. The total crops of currants this season in the Morea, Zante, Cephalonia, and Ithaca, are estimated to have rea lised 49,000,000 weight, or about 21,875 tons. This is the largest total crop of currants ever before produced, and it is stated that - about three-fourths of it would come to this country. The general quality, owing to rain damage, is not fine. It is a singular fact that the coun tries which produce this enormous quantity of currants do not themselves consume a hundred tons. What would the poor Greeks and lonians do if John Bull was by any chance to discontinue the use of currants? 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From various paragraphs during the last few days both in the London and continental papers, on the present condition of the Bank of France, an impression seems generally to prevail, that in the year 1839 the Bank of England obtained relief from danger by a loan from that institution, and opinions are consequently expressed that if similar aid should now be required in return, it could not with propriety be refused. the idea, however, of a loan having at any time been made by the Bank of France to the Bank of England is altogether erroneous. In July, 1839, the bullion in the Bank of England had fallen below 3,000,0006 sterling, while its rate of discount was as high as 51 per cent. It was evident that the causes for the existing drain consisted more in distrust abroad, founded on a belief that the Bank of England could not long continue specie payments, than in an un favourable balance of trade, or mun for sovereigns to hoard at home. Parties on the continent drew out all their balances here, and as much more as their corres pondents would give them credit for, discounted the acceptances in London, and, in the absence of foreign bills, took gold from the Bank of England. Under these circumstances, it was impossible that exports of produce and manufactures from England could take place immediately to a sufficient extent to counteract the evil ; but it was seen that the difficulty would be met if a temporary creation of bills on the continent could be effected. With this view, the Bank of England engaged to transfer English securities as a guarantee to Messrs. Baring, Brothers, and Co., or those whom they should name, and this house arranged to draw three months' bills for 40,000,000 f. on various houses in Paris. These bills, which Baring, Brothers, and Co., negotiated upon 'Change (paying the proceeds into the Bank, so as gradually to act upon the circula tion), fully supplied the trade demand for remittances hence, and equally served to meet all paper on Eng land remitted here for returns, as they proved a better return than gold. At the end of three months, when the acceptances fell due, the same amount was redrawn, so as to cover each acceptor by bills on his neighbour, thus prolonging the operation- to six months ; but, before the expiration of this period, the supply of the regular remittances of commerce had been such as to enable Messrs. Baring to liquidate all the engagements in Paris, and to restore the pledged securities to the Bank of England. From this statement the Bank of France will ap pear to have had nothing to do . with the operation but a mode by which they facilitated its progress, m s i e n n c eti ration e e d e entertained Th e dreugh o t n s and which, doubtless, gave rise to the erroneous liable houses were, of course,F the subjectsuppositions • Bank of ranee, and as these drawn by Messrs. Baring theteva.rbieouspreFsreenntcehd for discount to the rewrohaiienhs tolialay.ee limit with that institution , me necessary, owing to such their rejection might eco d.ffi firms, respectively, h t t , ethreedreitswaoanlay possibility y er t t h ai a n t exeuerious effect, and application was there produce an inj cded. This cu ty was calculated to An understanding was accordingly entered be overcome. Bank of France, that the draughts, in case into by the Ban earance, should be discounted ltioinreitsmbaediengto. the Bank of France in order that it might l'snits in question. This precau without regard to the the draughts being - of the first scarcely essential, for f d'scount at the Bank of France character, e arrangem ent, r a a n i d i they should make their app 'however, proved to have been I the market rate, they were being some wh g a te t hm h ee i an d hence it is believed readily discounted out of doors,. found their way into that but a very small proportion that establishment. The only claim, therefore, that can . it is, that sup- Bank of England in the way of remproctey g nr a h t e e r than posing the Bank of France should now, analogous of purchasing silver from us, adopt a method di to that just described, the same facilities of be urrgethdeuppuornptohsee should be i b g e h a t ff p o r r e d e e a d re wi b t i h u r g e . ga T rd he to se th w e ee p l a d r , ties sist of leading houses , whose acceptances would a all times be received with avidity by the ordinary money lenders, and such an engagement on the part of the Bank of England would therefore involve no great stretch of generosity. From the present aspect of affairs it seems by no doubtless,u P ° l whom con sist means improbable that some measure of this description will be resorted to by the Bank of France, and it is im portant to recognise that if such should be the case it must cause an immediate rise in the discount market. A demand from a new source for two millions, or even for only one million, could not come suddenly upon us without producing a decided increase in the prevailing rates, and thus another is added to the numerous reasons which already exist to call for the exercise of caution.— Times. NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.—On Friday afternoon, between two and three o'clock, as a man of the name of Gillham was proceeding up the river in a boat, when off the Penitentiary his hat fell overboard, and while endeavouring to reach it, he overbalanced himself, and fell into the river. A waterman of the name of Freeman immediately went to his assistance, and succeeded in getting him into his boat in less than two minutes from the time of his immersion. He was con veyed to a public-house near Vauxhall gardens, where every attention was paid to him, and in less than two hours lie was enabled to return to his home, THE FROZEN SHIP. One serene evening in the middle of August, 1775, Captain Warrens, the master of the Greenland, a whale ship, found himself becalmed amongst an immense number of icebergs, in about 77 deg. of north latitude. On one side, and within a mile of his vessel, these were of immense height, and closely wedged together, and a succession of snow-covered peaks appeared behind each other as far as the eye could reach, showing that the ocean was completely blocked up in that quarter, and that it had probably been so for a long period of time, Capt. Warrens did not feel altogether satisfied with his situa tion; but there being no wind, he could not move one way or the other, and he therefore kept a strict watch, knowing that he would be safe, so long as the icebergs continued in their respective places. About midnight the wind rose to a gale, accompanied by thick showers of snow, while a succession of tre mendous thundering, grinding, and crushing noises, gave fearful evidence that the ice was in motion. The vessel received violent shocks every second, for the haziness of the atmosphere prevented those on board from discover ing in what direction the open water lay, or if there was actually any at all on either side of them. The night was spent in tacking as often as any cause of danger happened to present itself, and in the morning the storm abated, and Captain Warrens found, to his great joy, that his ship hadinot sustained any serious injury. He remarked with surprise that the accumulated icebergs, which had on the preceding evening formed an impene trable barrier, had been separated and disarranged by the wind, and that in one place a canal of open sea wound its course among them, as far as the eye could discern. It was two miles beyond the entrance of this canal that a ship made its appearance about noon. The sun shone brightly at the time, and a gentle breeze blew from the north. At first some intervening icebergs prevented Captain Warrens from distinctly seeing any thing but her masts ; but he was struck with the strange manner in which her sails were disposed, and with the, dismantled aspect of her yards and rigging. She continued to go before the wind for a few furlongs, and then grounding upon the low icebergs, remained motionless. Captain Warren's curiosity was so much excited, that he immediately leaped into his boat with several sea men, and rowed towards her. On approaching, he observed that her hull was miserably weather-beaten, and not afoul appeared on the deck, which was covered with snow to a considerable depth. He then hailed her crew several times, but no answer was returned. Pre vious .to stepping on board, an open port-hole near the main chains caught his eye, and, on looking into it, he perceived a man reclining back in a chair, with writing materials on a table before him, but the feebleness of the light made everything very indistinct. The party went upon deck, and having removed the hatchway, which they found closed, they descended to the cabin. They first came to the apartment which Captain Warrens viewed through the port-hole. A tremor seized him as he entered it. Its inmate retained his former position, and seemed to be insensible to strangers. He was found to be a corpse, and a green damp mould had covered his cheeks and forehead, and veiled his open eye-balls. He had a pen in his hand, and a log-book lay before him, the last sentence in its unfinished page ran thus:— " Nov, 14, 1762. We have now been enclosed in the ice seventeen days. The fire went out yesterday, and our master has been trying ever since to kindle it again, without success. his wife died this morning. There is no relief—" Captain Warrens and his seamen hurried from the spot without uttering a word. On entering the principal cabin the first object that attracted their attention was the dead body of a female reclining on a bed in an atti tude of deep interest and attention. Her countenance retained the freshness of life, but a contraction of the limbs showed that her form was inanimate. Seated on the floor was the corpse of an apparently young man, ' holding a steel in one hand and a flint in the other, as if in the act of striking fire upon some tinder which lay beside him. In the fore part of the vessel several sailors were found lying dead in their berths, and the body of a boy crouched at the bottom of the gangway stairs. Neither provisions nor fuel could be dis covered anywhere ; but Captain Warrens was prevented, by the superstitious prejudices of his seamen, from examining the vessel as minutely as he wished to have done. He therefore carried away the log-book already , mentioned, and returned to his own ship, and immedi ately steered to the southward, deeply impressed with the awful example which he had just witnessed of the danger of navigating the Polar seas in high northern latitudes. On returning to 'England tio mein respecting vessels that had disappeared in an unkn own way, and, by comparing the results of those with the in formation which was afforded by the written documents in his possession, he ascertained the name and history of the imprisoned ship and of her unfortunate master, and found that she bad been frozen thirteen years pre vious to the time of his discovering her among the ice. Westminster Review. ALARMIMG PREVALENCE OF FEVER.—The village of Upton, near Blewbury, Berks,. has had an awful visi tation, by the spread of a contagious fever. It first ma nifested itself about a month ago in a cottager' s f am il y, family, and sach has been its rapid and extensive spread since, that up to Saturday last riot fewer tha n thirty two deaths had arisen in consequence, and these out of a village populatiot?. of 150. The di sease, we re gret to add, is still raging, and such general alarm has been created from so destructive an enemy, that many of the villagers have begun to cha nge t h e i r d well i ngs to the neighbouring downs ; and it is expected, from the re movals, which are now pretty generally taking place, that the village will shortly be deserted. The numbers of persons who have thus been carried off are chiefly of the humble labouring cla s s, some o f w h om a re bewil dered in distress from the additional painful circumstance that the head of a family, who had been its chief support, has been cut off. The cause of this calamity is so clearly manifest that the authorities have not deemed it necessary to institute any inquiry, or to hold an inquest in either case ; the only mystery is that the contagion should have shown itself in a situation where theclimate is con sidered to be so remarkably healthy. T . The enragement of the disease is ascribed to the difficulties in procuring medical attendance at such a desolate place of abode. We may remark that this infectious disease has so ex tended itself as to be viewed in the district as a second great plague. The melancholy event has excited much c ommisseration for the distressed objects.--Devizes Gazette THE LATE THOMAS Hoon.—lt is with deep regret that we have to announce the decease of the widow of the late Thomas Hood, the celebrated humourist and poet. The public are aware that Mr. Hood's life was closed in the midst of much physical suffering and much mental anxiety ; and there is little doubt that the un wearied exertions of Mrs. Hood, her unceasing attend ance on her husband's deathbed, and the grief and trial which preceded and followed her bereavement, have been the immediate causes of the disease which has thus pre maturely terminated her existence. She expired on the . morning of Friclop the 4th of December, - e./ - r2- - AK,-, i i. 7 i 1)-t'...,', ..• ..-- -rXf;. - ;,-.: DEATH FRO - 141t iitt i On Tituradsy and PriderzaiwArit e olden Cambridge before Mr. criatedb 4.8 body of Elizabeth Howe, an unfortunate girl, who had bo.::n living in Barnwell. A good deal of interest was excited, in consequence of it being understood that death resut:cd from the deceased having caught a violent cold at the Spinning-house, by being put into a damp bed. Tile Rev. Mr. Kingsley, of Sidney College, the junior proctor, was present during the examination. .Izl M. Newby, surgeon, stated that he was called in t';', attend the deceased. Her complaint was rheumatic fever, and she was unable to move. Her pulse was beat ing 120 a minute. She told him that she had been put in the Spinning-house, where she had slept in a damp bed. She stopped there, however, only one night, and was lib rated in the morning. He considered the cause of her (it ath to be rheumatic fever. - Edward Wilson, keeper of the Spinning-house, said that Elizabeth Howe was committed on the eyt of the 6th of Novemb e r by the Rev. Mr. Kingsley, one of the proctors. Another girl named King was brought with her. They were put in the same ward. The win dows of the room are cas.ed with iron. Oce of the iron .easements h as a p i ece o f g l ass to a d m it li g ht. The whole used to be glass, but the gir;s break them, and now the wi n d ow i s s h eet i ron except a , square. 'lbis square was not broken the night deceased came in. The room is well protected from the weather. If it is a wet night there is generally a fire. I believe there was no fire on the night of the 6th of November. By a juror —I am acting both for Mr. Wright and the University. The Rev. Mr. Kingsley examined—l am one of the proctors. :I recollect apprehending Elizabeth Howe. She was not behaving disorderly or indecently. I ap prehended her because the constables, who were with me, knew her to be a prostitute. It was between eight and nine o'clock. I did not know she was a prostitute of my own knowledge. She went quietly. I am but partially acquainted with the internal arrangements of the Spinning-house. It appears to me to be a proper place to confine females. I don't know how females are accommodated in gaols. CORONER—Have you instructions as to your duties, otherwise than the statutes of the University? Wit ness—l refuse to answer. CORONER—You must, sir. I have a duty to perforn. which, as judge of this court, I will perform. Witness.—l have no other instructions. I have never read the charter of Queen Elizabeth, giving the university power to apprehend disorderly persons. Deceased was reprimanded the next morning and discharged. The deceased came so quietly that I recommended her dis charge to the Vice-Chancellor. One other girl was with her, who did not go orderly. There were no memb,i s of the University in their company when we apprehended them. By a juror—l am not certain that I have seen the in terior of the celL I believe I was in it a few days ago. I merely delivered her to the keeper. The glass was broken the last time I saw the cell. I believe the Uni versity have power to cause the apprehension of prosti tutes in the streets, although they may not be miscon ducting themselves. Eliza Wright said—l was in the Spinning-house on the sth of November. I was taken on the 4th. I was locked up in a small cell. I was by myself. The bed was not made. I could not see to make it, so I lay down with my clothes on. The bed clothes were very damp; they consisted of three blankets and a quilt. I was not ill when I was taken to the Spinning-house; but when I was there I was taken ill with a bad cold and pains iu my bones. Eliza Green was brought into the Spinning house when I was there. We both asked Wilson for a. fire. He said he would not have a fire for two girls. I knew Elizabeth Howe. I saw her tse morning she came to the Spinning-house. She looked cold, and put her hands to her chest as if she were ill. Saw her afterwards at the house were she was lodging, but she was not sen sible then. Some other witnesses who had been confined at the same time spoke to the cold and damp condition of the cells, and that the deceased appeared very ill on leaving the place in the morning. The evidence,being now closed, the Coroner proceeded to sum up. In the first place they would consider whe ther death had resulted from exposure to the weather in the .Spinning house ; end if they were sati s fi e d on this point, they would ascertain whether any p ar ty was criminally culpable. The circumstances under which the deceased was apprehended appeared to be these. She was beyond doubt a personcoming within the description of a common ; roslitute, but it was proved that at the time she was taken into custody sh e was not conducting herself disorderly or indecently, With respect to prostitutes so misconducting themselves the Legislature had provided,that they should be deemed idle and disorderly persons, and punishable as such under the Vagrant Act, but the University officers claimed the extraordinary power of apprehending with out warrant: any prostitute whatever found within the town and precincts of Cambridge. The Rev. Mr. Kingsley had stated that he believed the University officer had the power to do so, but referred to no autho rity, and mentioned it only as a matter of opinion. This power was really claimed under a charter of Queen Elizabeth, granted to the University in 1561, by which she empowered the masters, &c., to search and scrutinize in the town and suburbs, and in Barnwell and Slurbridge, for all common women, vagabonds, and others suspected of evil, and should they be found guilty, to be imprisoned, banished, or otherwise, as the chancel lor or his vice-regent should deem fit. This grant was clearly bad of common law, but ten years afterwards the University obtained an Act of Parliament, by which it was confirmed in a more ample manner, and in effect the charter became an Act of Parliament. Large as the power granted was, he (the Coroner) had great doubts if its powers were ample enough to justify an arrest without warrant ; but still, looking to the practice which had prevailed for so many years, he was not prepared to say that in point of law the arrest of the deceased had been illegal. If i t were, it would in volve Mr. Kingsley in a charge of manslaughter, inas much as it would be a violation of the liberty of the subject, and the law was, that if death resulted, though unavoidably, from a trespass, the trespasser was guilty of manslaughter. The Learned Gentleman then adverted to the place in which the deceased was confined, and ob served that the evidence fully showed the miseries to which the poor creatures who were committed there were subjected. He hardly thought they would be justified in returning a verdict which would affect Wilson, the keeper. The fault appeared to him to be rather in the system than in the individual. The jury after a lengthened consultation returned the following verdict:—" We find that Elizabeth Howe died of rheumatic fever, caused by a violent cold caught at the Spinning-house, on the night of the 6th of November, she having been conveyed thither in the custody of William Townley Kingsley, proctor of the University, and confined for that night in a cold an d damp cell , from the effects of which she died. The jury cannot separate without expressing their abhorrence at a system which sanctions the apprehension of females when not offending against the general law of the land, and con fining them in a gaol unfit for the worst of felons. The jury also request the Coroner to forward a report of ate whole of the proceedings to the Secretary of State fee the Home Department." THE CURRANT TRADE. Public attention has of late been directed to the im portations into this country of many articles of food, the magnitude and variety of which are both striking and curious. The following statement of the immense and unparal leled importation of currants within the space of nine weeks, with some account of the growth and production of an article which is so especially patronised and used by the British public, will probably prove interesting, not only to the consumers of plum buns, puddings, and cake., but also to the wholesale and retail grocers, the merchants who buy and import, the shipowners, the cultivators of the fruit, and, in short, to all parties con cerned, which, without any licence of pen, must embrace nearly every individual in this country. The growth of currants is almost entirely confined to the Morea (and merely to that part of it situated between Patras and Corinth) and to the lonian Islands of inte and Cephalonia, only about one cargo being grown in Ithaca. A small quantity is also produced near Smyrna and in the Lipari islands, but the quality from the two last named places is very inferior. Currants, which are in fact grapes, grow in bunches, some of which weigh two pounds,. on short standard trees, planted at regular intervals, in vineyards, which, of course, vary in extent. The crops are generally ripe by the end of July, when the bunches are carefully cut f,om the trees, and spread on the ground in a part of the vineyard which has been properly prepared. The intense heat of the sun, in the month of August, in Greece, suffices in a few days to dry and convert the luscious small grapes into currants, no other procos being necessary to render them fit for packing and shipment than merely placing them in sieves and throwing them up into the air, to divest them of the stalks. The drying time is one of great anxiety to the grower, as, in the event of rain falling while the fruit is on the ground, it causes much deterioration, and reduces its market value. It has been observed that scarcely ever have three yearly crops been secured with. out rain damage to one of them. The crops being stored in magazines, the next btniness is the fixing a first price between the growers and the export mer chants, which, within the oldest memory, has almost always been a matter of much difficulty and delay, owing to the growers invariably asking very high prices, while the merchants endeavoured to obtain the fruit as reasonably as they can. Sooner or later some buyer and seller fix a price for a cargo, when the market opens, and prices rise or fall according to the demand. For many years previous to 1818, the currant trade of England was almost exclusively in the hands of two hull houses, but after that period it became gradully more divided, so that at present not only are a great many English merchants awl wholesale grocers engaged therein, but also Greek merchant., and even the growers themselves, have become importers on their own account. Within the last thirty years, the fluctuations in the price of currants have been remarkable both at the places of Provisionally r.tgistered according to Act of Parliament. METROPOLITAN and SUBURBAN CEMETERIES SOCIETY, established for public objects, and carried eut by private means. First Capital, 100,000/., in 5.000 shares of 201. each. Ultimate Capital, 2,000,0001. Deposit, It. 10s. per share. All Shareholders to have the option of burial-ground in exchange for their tha-es, at two thirds the price to the public, with the pre emption of any future shares of the ultimate capital which may be issued. To be incorporated, and the liability of shareholders limited by Act of Parliament, or Royal Charter. TRUSTEES. - _ _ _ Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P., &c. ; Luke James Hansard, Esq., &c. &c. &c. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Henry Berkeley, Esq., Essex-street, Strand. John Berkeley Cotter, Esq., Broad-street-buildings. John Gardiner, Esq„ Regent's Villas, Regent's Park. William Gilpin, Esq., Northumberland street. Captain Hackett, R.N., Upper Rutland-street, Dublin. George Peters Irvine, Esq., Travellers' Club, Pall mall. George Leslie Lee, Esq., Broad street-buildings. George Frederick Minton, Esq., Berners-street. Edward Duke Moore, Esq,, Arlington-street. George Kennett Pollock, Esq., Essex-street, Strand. William Stuart, EMI., Bedford-square. William Walmsley Terrington, Esq., Great Winchester-street. Charles Robert Thompson, Esq., Winchester House. James Tracy, Esq., Great Winchester-street. With power to add to their number, BANKERS—The Commercial Baak of London. STANDING COUNSEL. Mr. Sergeant Channeil and Mr. Thomas Bourdillon, Esq. SomaToas—Messrs. Bourdillon and Sons. AlcutrEcx—John Hargrave Stevens, Esq., C. E. SuavEvoas —Messrs. Iloggart and Norton. SUPERINTENDENT — James Macdonald, Esq. SECRETARY Edward Hoare, Esq. The proposed objects of the Metropolitan and Suburban Cemeteries Society are as follow : To provide sites for Burial, East, West, North, and South, of the Metropolis. To effect considerable reduction in the rate of charges. To adopt a new principle of payment—a single charge being sub stituted for the customary fees. To provide for the decent and respectable Burial of the Poorer Population by a system of arrangement perfectly novel, Including buildings for the temporary reception, as well as for the transit of bodies. Negociations are now pending for the purchase of several exceedingly eligible sites, and one portion of 150 acres has been already secured. The estimates show a large annual dividend when the Society shall be in fhll operation, until which period four per cent. interest will be paid on the deposits and calls. The Committee of Management are now ready to receive applica tions for Shares, which mty be made to Messrs Bourdillon and Sons, Solicitors, 30, Great Winchester-street ; J. IL Stevens, Esq., Architect, 6, Clement's Inn, Strand ; Messrs. Shewell and Sons, Brokers, 25, Tokenhouse-yard ; Thomas Sleigh, Esq., jun., Broker, 22, Exchange-street East, Liverpool ; Messrs. W. H. Collis and Smith, Birmingham; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol; Messrs. Jackson and M'Cowan, Glasgow ; James Pringle, Esq., Edinburgh ; Edward Minton, Esq., 26, barley-street, Bradford ; Messrs. Wood and Son, Leeds ; or to the Secretary, at the Office of the Society. 6, Broad street-buildings, where Prospectuses and all further particulars may be obtained. By order of the Board, London, Nov. 25, 1846. EDWARD HOARE, Secretary. - E4 ONDON FRIENDLY INSTITUTION, 19, London-wall, City. Established and Enrolled, 1824. TRUSTEES. Thos. Challis, Esq., Ald. &Sheriff I George Lyall, Esq., M.P. T. S. Duncombe, Esq., M.P. John ,Esq., M.P. William Ellis, Esq. Richard Taror, Esq., F.L.S. TREASURER —George Grote, Esq. BlNKERs—Messrs Prescott, Grote, and Co. For assuring by small contributions, according to age at entrance, from Bs. to 28s per week in Sickness, with Medical Attendance and Medicines, and from 51. to 501. at Death. This improved Benefit Society , secure, permanent, and economi cal, entirely managed by it s own members (elected from candidates at the Annual Meeting), is periodically reserving a surplus against advancing age. Already its capital amounts to nearly 8,0001., unen cumbered by annuitants and shareh iders. There are no extra con tributions of any description, nor any uncertainty in the amount of benefits. No offices to serve y compulsion, nor any public-house meetings to attend. The books t and accounts are always open to inspection. Prospectuses, with Tables, &c., will be forwarded by inclosing a postage stamp; or may be had gratis, and Rules, Sixpence each, at the office any evening, from five to nine, where persons may offer themselves for admission, or at Chelsea—A. W. Warder, Esq., 1, Upper Robert-street. Poplar—S. K. Ellison, Esq., 22. High-street. Rotherhithe —S. Tilley, Esq., 27, Paradise-r. By order, PALMER Secretary. ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital 2.500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for eiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the Premiums paid (see Table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his la crests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a fourth bonus , varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid m each Policy effected on the XAMP Profit LES. scale. E ,7 g. Crl 7' Bonus Bonus in ri F, g Assured Premium. cg :" added. Cash. E 0 may m Borrow g • aF-t -__-_.----- ------ _ too, coil IS l'S:100 011 £l6 0 4 £445 0 0 s. d. GO 1000 3 4 1837 £217 15 I'XlOO 0 11 1 IX16 0 4 1 X445 0 . 1838 192 3 0, 87 1 4 1 13 10 21 395 11 1 1839, 165 11 10' 74 1 9', 11 3 1! 346 2 3 18401 116 7 6, 54 0 10 1 718 101 296 13 4 18411 111 6 81 49 10 01 7.10 4! 247 4 5 The division of profits is Annual, and the next will be made in Member of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAISIROUX, Secretary. SOVEREIGN LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANY', No. 5, St. James's-street, London. TRUSTEES. Sir Augustus Brydges Heiiniker, Bart, Benjamin B o nd Cabbell, Esq., M.P. henry POWnall, Esq Claude Edward Scott, Esq. DIRECTORS. 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Septic and Anti •Scorbutic Properties arrest the further progress of decay of the Teeth, induce a healthy action of the Gums, and cause them to assume the brightness and colour indi cative of perfect soundness. 7he Breath also attains a fragrant sweetness truly grateful to its possessor. Its truly efficient and fragrant aromatic properties have obtained its selection by the Court and Royal Family of Great Britain, and tile Sovereigns and announces the favour in which it Is universally held. Price 2s. 9d. per box. CAUTION. —To protect rothe public from fraud, the Him. Commis sioners have directed the pprietor? name and address to be en graved on the Government stamp, thus "A. ROWLAND and SON, 20, Hatton-garden," and which is affixed on each box. Sold by hera, and by Chemists and Perfumers. ....------ C OPY of a LETTER from WILLIAM COURTNEY, Esq. 1 To Mr. Thomas PROUT, 229, Strand, London. . Church Farm, Barton Stacey, near Andover Railway ' Station, Hants, October 26, 1844. Sir,—l cannot help expressing my astonishment in the effect I have experienced in taking your Pills far the Gout. I was taken on Thurs day night so severely with it as to be with difficulty able to get otu. of my bed, and atter I arose I had severe pains, followed on with in flammation of the foot increasing. I took three of your I afterwards Pills, and within two hours I found the pain to entirely cease. took two Pills at a dose twice in the day, and I am, thank God, this morning able to walk without the slightest inconvenhadience. the pains in I found In a previous very severe attack v e r y g reat relief ; I my knees and thighs so very severe at that time, I thought I must t have died, and that it must ha ve g one into my stomach. hin two At time I had resort to your Pills , a nd they relieved me—wit hours I was quite easy. The use of these I'ills ought, really, to be known all over the world. I have a brother, a young man, that suffers horribly with it, and his greatest relief and preventive has been your Pills. Make what use you please of my report. —Yours ruly and respectfully, WILLIAM COURTNEY. e Among the many discoveries that characterise the p resent age, non have contributed so much to the comfort and ease of the community, nor conferred such a. boon upon suffering humanity, as the impor tant discovery of BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS, the efficacy of which has been tested by the approval and recom mendation of many of the greatest men of our day. They are effec tive for gout and rheumatism, in all its various forms, including sciatica, lumbago, pains in the head and face, frequentlyt reatcd as tooth-ache, &c. They require neither confinement nor attention of any kind, and invariably prevent the disease attacking the stomach, brain, or other vital part. Sold by Thomas Prout, medic Strand, London ; an by his appoint ment, by all respectable ine vendors throughout tlie United Kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS, and ob rve the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229 boan impressed upon the Government Stamp afilael to each of the ci eaulmble4lciath HAMBURGH MAIL. VIENNA, Nov. 24.—Ti1l the expiratir,n of six weeks from the day of the incorporation of Cracow, with the Austrian territory, all goods will be imported free, but under certain controul, for which purpose a cordon will be drawn on the Russian and Prussian frontiers. After the expiration of these six weeks, a list will be made of all the goods which still remain, and from that time nothing be admitted free of duty. All goods which re main at the end of nine months, not having paid duty, will either have to pay duty or be sent abroad. With respect to the future commercial relations and customs. of Cracow, we find the following s t a t ement i n letters from ßreslaw, of the 20th of November:—" According to, no_ counts received this day from Berlin, the deputation from this city has had several conferences, among others, with the Minister of Finance. The result, we are sorry to say, is unfavourable to our city and to the province, for tho Mhaister of Finance only knows that the conditions of the incorporation of Cracow with the Austrian territory are :-1. A moderate transit duty through the territory of Cracow. 2. The permission to have magazines for transit goods in Cracow itself ; and, lastly, the junctlOn of the railway, The deputation afterwards had an iiiiaioneco o r rj h rd t: itroj..f. j . a.. King. It appears from this that the trad e w i t h C racow is lost to us, since goods will be liabl e to pay duty ac ing to the Austrian tariff. gtshbeur citg a Gazettelic of the 25 t h VIENNA, Nov. 25.—The A us t r i an Ob server bas the fNololvolinbgera,ritnicalen arti cle from : The Au frontiers, re specting the deci s i ons o f t h e three 'powers relati ve to Cracow, adds, to counterbalance the acquisition made by Austria through the incorroration of Cracow. Prus sia is to have Hotzenplotz, a district belonging to Aus trian Silesia, and Russia s small tract to the north of th e circle of T a d no Poi in Galicia, we are authorised to de.. . Clare that these c.:catements are wholly unfounded. BERLIN, NOV. 30.—The new regulations of the post office 03.;swn up during the life of the late Postmaster- General, Von . Nagler, which were to have been intro duced._s in the year 1847 are indefinitely deferred, becaus e some changes which are more suitable to the prese n t times are to be made in them, which wilt require som e time, so that our post-office will rem in for the present on the same footing. FRANKFORT, NOV. 2 5 . — Tbe Committee of the Stags of is said not to have judged it advisable t o of U rix dollars, which could not be rai sed on b onds tit 4 per raise by the issue of paper th e s um o f five millie:ns of Cent. For this reason it is intimated by tho S wa bi an Mercury, that the States will be convoked in an extra ' ordinary session, in order to discuss the proposal for an issue of Bonds bearing interest at per Cent. to th e; above amount. _ _ _ _ BERLIN, Nov. 29.—0 n Sunday next divine serv e i c ,, will be performed for the first time in the new Entp sb chapel, in the Hotel du Nord, which is very ele-r -fitted up. Her Majesty the Queen of England ).. as Sec ) ; a contribution of 100 ducats to defray soni. - necessary expenses.—Hamburg papers. Dec. 1. ST3T/m.—. The omnibuses at 2d. and 3d. each par, i .- senger, now , run ning so productive that it r T a li d E din C g li to E n AP: d MNID. 0 s 4.lungerford-markot, the Bank and Charing-cross, the r.)ank and Tottenham has been determined ton extctnd the cheap travelling Ex t T o E a N n S d u 3'T from OF system, and accordingly Tuesday next omnibuses will court-road, &c., have been found run between Paddington and t h e Ban , K via New-r oa d, City-road, &c., at tl'e rate of 4d. each passenger for the court-road. whole distance, an d 2d. to and from the Tottenham .We learn from the east of France that the wheat s have come up with remarkable vigour, and promise ye '7 abundant crops. 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