The Sun. — London, England, 1846-11-07 00:00:00

EDINBURGH PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION. EDINBURGH, THURSDAY MORNING.—Last evening a soirée, with an abundant supply of cakes, fruits, wines, &c., was held in the .Music-hall, to celebrate the estab lishment of the Philosophical Institution. About 800 ladies and gentlemen were accommodated at the tables placed in the body of the hall; the galleries and spacious orchestra were also filled with a well-dressed auditory. The Lord Provost occupied the chair, supported on the right by his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, Pro fessor Wilson, Lord Cuninghame, Mr. Fox Maule, M.P., Mr. William Gibson Craig, M.P., Professor Nichol, Dr. Maclagan, Rev. Thomas Guthrie; and on the left were, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, M.P-, Lord Murray, the Rev. Dr. Robert Lee, Mr. D. M. Moir (Delta), Pro fessor Gregory, Professor More, Professor Pillans, &c. Dr. LEE having said grace, the Lord Provost gave in succession the usual preliminary toasts, all of which were heartily responded to; that of "Her Majesty's Ministers," though proposed without accompanying re marks, was followed by loud and prolonged cheers. The LORD PROVOST then rose, and spoke as follows: Though not altogether unaccustomed to public speaking, I never rise to address even a small and friendly audience on subjects with which I may be supposed to be familiar, but with diffidence and hesitation. I may, then, be excused for an oppressive feeling of in adequacy to speak on subjects in regard to which I am only a scholar on th e lowest form, before an audience so numerous and intellectual, and in a presence so exalted in dignity and in talents.—(Applause.) But for the accidental circumstance of my position, it would have been presumption in me to have attempted to grapple with the topic entrusted to me by the direc tors ; yet, however feeble my endeavours, I yield to none in good wishes for the success of this and kindred institutions.—(Renewed applause.) Edinburgh has been long renowned as a seat of learning, and as the resi dence of distinguished philosophers, and the inhabitants have not failed to profit by the brilliant lights which shone in the midst of them. From the opportunities afforded by her educational institutions, even the humblest ranks of her sons have had the treasures of literature and science laid open to them ; the pupils have communicated of their acquisitions to their families and associates, so that, as a community, her citizens have earned a reputation for literary taste and general intel ligence.—(Great applause.) If, however, we have at tained an honourable position among the cities of the empire, to keep our place we must advance with the onward progress of society. Other towns are establish ing literary and scientific institutions for the general benefit ; the standard of information among all classes is perpetually rising. Unless we open the fountains of science, and avail ourselves of the streams of know ledge, we must submit to take an inferior rank among cities. Our sons may trade for a short time upon the reputation and capital of their forefathers, but unless thoroughly . educated and trained for the more respon sible situations in life, their places will be occupied by others who have more diligently improved their talents.—(Hear.) The Edinburgh Philosophical Asso ciation commenced some fourteen years ago for the purpose of giving the members an opportunity of hearing lectures on literature, science, and art by men distinguished in their various walks. The last whose voice was heard amongst us was the gifted but unhappy Haydon, who was listened to with profit and pleasure, when eloquently unfolding the history and principles of the pictorial art, and whose cheerful conversational powers enlivened our social circles, while, alas ! a wounded spirit was fatally preying upon his too sensitive mental constitution. It has been resolved to enlarge the sphere of the association, and to add to the system of lectures a library and reading-room, that the information communicated by the lecturer may be extended and more accurately appreciated by study. The education of the man is not completed when he leaves the walls of the school or the college, he has received there only the discipline and training which by giving strength and flexibility and habits of exercise to his faculties prepare him for educating himself. The drilling he had received fits him for the active campaigns of life; but to secure success he will have daily to combat subtle and power ful enemies, he must resist the seductions of slothfulness and sensual pleasures, he must subdue the strongholds of prejudice and error, strengthen his intellectual and moral powers, and extend his mental domains.—(Ap plause.) Do I hear any one say the study of literature and science may be very appropriate for those who are to follow the learned professions, but it only tends to distract the attention of the industrious classes from their proper business and to make them discontented with their con dition? If the thirst for knowledge should stir up in some ardent minds cravings and longings after more in tellectual occupation, is it matter of regret that such men as the elder Herschel should have relinquished organ playing for astronomy, and added a new planet to our system ? that Arkwright should have neglected the busi ness of the razor for the study of mechanics, and in creased the wealth and power of Britain by the inven tion of the spinning jenny ? that Franklin should have left the manual labour of the printing-press for litera ture, philosophy, and legislation, should have taught us to draw down the lightning from Heaven, and assisted in giving a free constitution to his country ? or that Watt should have annihilated time and space by the triumphs of the steam-engine ?—(Applause.) It may be that some ill-regulated spirits may be diverted from their proper sphere to attempt at flights beyond their power of wing ; but if such ill-balanced minds had not taken an erratic course in this, is it certain they would not have flown off in another and less honourable direc tion ? The legitimate tendency of this and similar in stitutions is not to make the industrious classes discon tented with their condition, but to qualify them more thoroughly for succeeding in whatever branch of in dustry they are engaged. Knowledge of the countries with which he trades, of their productions and capabi lities, of the manners, habits, and wants of the inhabit ants, is necessary for the merchant, and the more ample and accurate his information regarding the various countries of the globe, the greater will be the probabi lity of success in his adventures ; and is it not the same with the manufacturer, the agriculturist, the mechanic, and the artisan ? What wonders have been accom plished in our manufacturing districts through the in structions of natural philosophy ; for art is only the ap plication of knowledge to a particular end.—(Hear, hear.) From reluctant soils and trackless moors on which an ignorant and sluggish tenantry formerly toiled and starved, the increased science of the agriculturist has extracted rich and abundant crops, and quadrupled the value of the land ; and still greater triumphs remain to be achieved by the farmer when better instructed in the powers of nature.—(Applause.) There is no class, not even the humblest, whom increased knowledge will not benefit even in their ordinary occupations and do mestic arrangements. More widely diffused information will discover to the operative more efficient and quick methods of completing his work—will lead to the proper ventilating of houses, increased cleanliness, improved health, and general comfort.—(Applause.) Highly im portant as is the diffusion of knowledge for the promo tion of the arts and the increase of physical enjoyment, it claims a still higher place in our estimation when its moral results are considered. The tendency of true knowledge is to purify and elevate the mind ; and the more exalted the nature of the knowledge, and the greater the amount of acquisition, the greater will be the advance of the man in moral excellence. The man whose mind lies waste and uncultivated, rank with pre judice, dark and sluggish through ignorance, is much more likely to become the slave of passion and appetite than the man who contemplates the ob jects of nature around him with a discerning eye, who perceives with admiration the harmony of its parts, the skill and efficiency and aptness of its contrivances who sees, as his sphere of observation extends, new wonders continually opening upon him in increasing abundance and surpassing his comprehension, till, lost in light ineffable, he is com pelled to,feel and acknowledge his own insignificance in the scale of creation, and to adore that unsearchable power and intelligence which governs the universe. (The Lord Provost concluded by giving " The Philosophical Institution," which was received with great applause, and drunk with all the honours.) The Archbishop of DUBLIN, who was loudly cheered, proposed, as the next toast, "The Cause of Education." His speech was very much a recapitulation of the one de livered by his Grace at the Manchester Athenaeum. The Right Hon. T. B. MACAULAY, on presenting himself to propose the next toast, was most loudly cheered. When the cheering had subsided, he said— Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you from my heart for this kind reception. I have thought it right to steal a short time from duties not unimportant, for the purpose of lending my aid to an undertaking eminently' calcu lated to raise the credit and promote the best interests of the city which has so many claims on my gratitude.— (Cheers.) The directors of this institution have re quested me to propose to you, as a toast, " The Litera ture of Britain."— (Cheers.) They could not have assigned to me any part in these proceedings more per fectly in harmony with the view which I take of the nature and objects of this institution.—(Cheers.) It is, I conceive, an institution for the purpose of imparting knowledge, chiefly through the medium of our own language and of our own literature. Your city is already rich in libraries worthy of her fame as a seat of learning, and Is a seat of jurisprudence. A man of letters can have no difficulty here in finding access to repositories of learning filled with the varied wisdom of many ages and of many countries. But something was still wanting. We still wanted a library readily ac cessible to that large, that important, that respect able class which, though by no means destitute of liberal curiosity or of sensibility to the highest powers of genius, is yet necessarily compelled by the pressure of daily avocations to confine its studies almost entirely to our own language. For that class I will not say exclusively, but I conceive especially, this library is intended. I hope the directors will not be satisfied, las a member shall certainly not he satisfied, until we pos sess a truly rich and complete collection of English literature—(Cheers)—until it is impossible to seek in vain on our shelves for any English book which is valu able either by reason of the substance, or by reason of any light which it may throw on our civil, ecclesiastical, intellectual, or social history—a collection of everything in the English language which can afford useful instruc tion or harmless amusement.—(Cheers.) From such a collectio n , rea dil y open to all that valuable class I have mentioned, I am disposed to expect very great good. And when I say this, I do not at present take into ac • count those rare and extraordinary cases to which my valued friend, the r Provost, has so happily and strikingly alluded. Is not impossible that We so m e must, indeed, remember that it great genius, qualified to en rich our literature withlierrable works, or to extend the empire of dy er possibly for the first time feel in our consciousness filf:srg,tv-tll.3emtyi yet andeveloped.—(Chee impossible th a t in our reading-room the ftistthoughtaoat f something great may cross the mind of sortie Hersche l, Watt, or Ark wright ; but I epee's Aot Orthese rare and What I do anticipate is,t4ist through the peculiarwlole of that cases. valuable class -whose" benefit we have peculiarl y view, there will be *diced a general i n t e ll ectual,an in a in consequence, I hope, and believe, a general moral im provement—that many hours which otherwise would have been passed in folly, perhaps in vice, will be em ployed either in pleasures which not only are harmless, but have a positive tendency to ele ate the cha racter. Our own experience leads us to think this. My own observation in various part , of the world, and among various classes of men, lead me to hold this opir ion strongly. I have, as you may now, had occa sion officially to form some notion of what those causes are which affect the moral and intellectual character of regiments, and I will venture to say there is no ex perienced and judicious officer who will not tell you that the whole character of a body of young officers may be most materially affected for the better by the mere cir cumstance of being placed in the vicinity of a valuable library.—(Cheers.) I can myself give instances which have fallen within my own knowledge of this fact. I was myself told by a most accomplished man—a man who was an eminent soldier, an eminent diplomatist, who enjoyed the confidence of the first generals and statesmen Europe has produced in our own time—when I asked him to what he owed those accomplishments, he said this—" When I served as a young man in India, and when it was the turning point of my life—when it was an even chance that I should be a card- playing, hookah-smoking, punch-drinking lounger—l was quar tered for two years in the neighbourhood of an excel lent library which was made accessible to me."— (Cheers.) Some objections which have been urged to the species of mental cultivation which we trust this institution will afford have been so happily and satisfac torily disposed of by my esteemed friend the Lord Provost, and my most reverend friend the Archbishop of Dublin, that to these I should think it very super fluous to advert. 1. here is, indeed, a topic which has often, and sometimes by men of eminence, been urged against this and simiar institutions, which I may beg your permission to notice. Their dread is of superficial knowledge. They say, " Knowledge is undoubtedly a great blessing to mankind ; it is closely connected with virtue ; it is an indispensable preparative for freedom, but then it must be profound knowledge. A reading public, a crowd of people who have a little mathematics, a ittle astronomy, a little chemistry, a little reading of poetry, a little history, is dangerous to states ; such a species of half knowledge is worse than ignorance itself. Drink deep, or taste not ; shallow draughts intoxicate ; drink largely—that will sober you,' repeating the well known lines of the poet. I must confess this danger never appeared to me very threatening, and for this reason, chiefly that I never could prevail on any one of those persons who enter • tained such apprehensions to let me know what was his standard of profundity.—(Cheers.) The argument pre supposes that there is some line between profound know ledge and superficial knowledge, similar to the one which runs between truth and falsehood. I know of no such line. What is the standard of profundity ? When we say that a man is deep in science, do we mean that he has got to the bottom of it, or near to the bottom of it ? When we talk of deep and shallow, are we comparing human knowledge with the vast mass of truth which is capable of being known, and which, probably, in the course of ages, human minds actually will attain ? If that be the meaning, then we are all shallow together— (Cheers)—and the greatest men who have ever lived would be the very first to confess their shallowness.— (Cheers.) If we could call up the greatest of all human beings, if we could call up and ask Sir Isaac Newton whether, even in those particular pur suits in which he attained the highest excel lence, he considered himself as profoundly knowing by comparison with the mass of that which is capable of being known, he would have told you that he was a smatterer like yourselves, and that the difference between him and you was nearly vanished when compared with the difference between the mass of science, just as the distance between a person standing on the level of the sea and a person standing on the top of Ben Lomond utterly vanishes when they are making observations on the fixed stars.—(Cheers.) But if this is not the standard, what is the standard? Is it the same, in all ages? Was it ever the same for a genera tion together? Is it the same in any two countries? Is it not notorious that the profundity of one country is the shallowness of another—that the profundity of one gene ration is the shallowness of the next? What would now be the profound chemist of 1746—what the profound geologist of 1746? There is a natural, a necessary pro gress, in every experimental science, of such a nature that in one generation the hind rank occupies the same place which the fore rank occupied in a former genera tion. It is the same with countries. The same know ledge which entitled Ramohun Roy to be called the most profound of the Hindoos, would have made, permit me to say, but a very superficial member of this institution.— (Cheers.) The very knowledge of geography which en titled Strabo to be called a profound geographer, would be considered the shallowest ignorance on the part of a girl from a boarding-school. The truth is, a change takes a place, as in Gulliver's wanderings. The first is shipwrecked in the country of little men, of only six inches high. Immediately he is a colossus among them ; he strides over the walls of the capital ; he stands higher than the temple ; he stretches his legs, and whole" - armies march in columns between ; he devours for breakfast a whole granary of corn and a whole herd of cattle. But in a little while he finds himself in the country of giants; then he who in Lilliput took the people up in his hand to hear them speak, is himself taken up in the hand by one of his masters; and now, was Gulli ver a t a ll or a s h ort man ?—(A laugh.) Why, truly at his own house I be lieve he would have passed for neither one nor the other. At Lilliput he was man-mountain; but move him to Brobdignag and he is Gulliver ' the little manikin again.—(Che ers an d laughter.) The intellectual giants of one age become the intellectual pigmies of the next; and if those effects which are said to flow from shallow knowledge really flow from it, it must have been one of the very greatest of all evils, that, in the thirteenth century, for example, there should have been such a thing as a profoundly learned man. It strikes me that you might, without much difficulty, make a parallel be tween the most profoundly learned man of the thirteenth century and one of those who, we hope, will pass their evenings in our library, which would,not be altogether to the advantage of the profound, and might lead us, per haps, to change the names of profundity and shallow ness. Try the parallel in one or two points. Take your great learned man of 600 years ago (at the time of Henry 111., or Alexander 111. of Scotland), some one considered first in intellectual attainments, first in science, first in literature in the whole island, and let us ,ee to what his attainments amount. Take him in the two sciences which were then, as ever, studied with care, assiduity, and which were munificently patronised in the middle ages let us take him as an astronomer and a chemist. A firm believer in the Ptolemaic system, one who never heard of the law of gravitation—tell him that the succession of night and day is produced by the revolution of the earth on its axis—tell him that the polar diameter of the earth is shorter than the equatorial, and if he does no;. set you down as an idiot the probability is he will report you to the bishop to be burnt as a heretic.—(Cheers.) But if not perfectly informed on the points, there are others in which undoubtedly he has made great profi ciency—he can casta nativity for you.—(A laugh.) He knows perfectly well what is meant by Saturn being in the house of light ; and what events are portended by Alm being in conjunction with the dragon's tail ; and he can tell by these events which of your children will be fortunate in marriage and which of them will be lost at sea.—(A laugh.) Now, compare this man with one of your shallow persons, whose exceedingly superficial knowledge is so dangerous to their moral and intellectual character. I doubt not that in our library will be found at least one copy of Sir J. Herschel's beautiful volume on astronomy ; a very few evenings passed in the perusal of th a t vo l ume w ill no t i n d ee d enable our friends to cast the nativities of their children, but will give them, I believe, a far more correct and a far more profound notion of the solar system ; and of the laws that govern the heavenly bodies than the greatest astro nomer of the 14th century possessed.—(Cheers.) Or take chemistry ; our great man—for we will suppose him a great man ; we will suppose him to be a uni versal genius —our great man of the 13th century is a great chemist. Ile has perhaps got just so far— the very pillars of Hercules of his chemical know ledge—he has got so far as to know, that if you mix charcoal and saltpetre together in certain propor tions, and Fut fire to them, a great explosion will take place. But of the possibility of applying these powers to make a revolution in the art of war, in fortification, to perform any scientific operations, he has no concep ion. There are things with which he busies himself wrhaps beyond the reach of modern chemists. He is in W till chase after the philosopher's stone.—(Laughter, fie has an array of furnaces with saltpetre and red and .vhite oil burning night and day, and he entertains the firm conviction that by means of these stews he Rill s. , me morning turn all his pots and pans into gold.— (Laughter.) Now, suppose—l heartily hope it will be the case—suppose that Professor Faraday comes here and gives at your lecture-room the lectures I heard him give to the little children daring the Christmas holidays at the Royal Institution; I cannot promise you he will teach you to turn your halfpence into sovereigns, but I do promise that you will carry away from those lectures a very much more correct and profound knowledge of chemistry than a chemist who could have been consi dered deserving the patronage of kings could possibly have given with years of study in the 13th century -- (Cheers.) So it was in science; but when we turn to literature is it not much the same? With respect to li terary knowledge --with respect to knowledge of great masterpieces in composition —compare the position of our supposed learned man of the 13th century and that, in which the superficial student in the library of this in stitution will be placed. As to Greek, they are on a par—for neither the one nor the other would possess any; and with respect to the vernacular, no great writer had y e t appeared. The only literature of such a man was Latin. He might have had a great many manuscripts. Suppose his library well furnished, with some 40 Latin manuscripts—suppose he has a considerable portion of really the best books in the Latin lan guage, the best specimens of that literature, and say with perfect confidence that his opportunities of en larging his mind, his means of literary enjoyment are not to be named with those you possess in the English language. Such a man could form no notion of tragedy and no idea of comedy as you can from Shakspere; he had no epic poem within reach of " I'aradise Lost;' and as for all his dialects, one passage of the " Novurn Organum" would be worth it all.—(Cheers.) One of the great advantages which those possess who, though they are ignorant of other tongues, are well acquainted with the English language and have a good English library at their command, is this, that to a great extent it is in their power to enjoy, in an imperfect manner, but still to enjoy, the great productions of the minds of other times and other nations. We have a great variety of translations. It is scarcelt p,,ssible that translations should completely attain to the excellence of the ori ginal; but it is not the less true, that as to the main features of every great work—the conception of charac ter, the general plan and outline--a, very large portion may be preserved. such works will give to the English reader a notion of the great compositions of other times and of other countries; such a notion as a person who has never been able to travel to Italy may have of the Raphaels in the Vatican from a valuable collection of engravings.—(Cheers.) There is no translation so bad as that some part of the genius of Homer, some part of the genius of Cervantes, does not shine through it. Thus we conceive that a literary person, possessing only the English language, may, through the means of Eng lish versions, enlarge his mind by attaining no small de gree of knowledge of the style, the manner, the views of the great men of other ages and countries.—(Loud cheers.) Let me not be misunderstood as in the smallest degree to deprecate the study of -the ancient or modern languages of Europe. Far from it. I would advise no man who has leisure and opportunity to be content un less he can obtain several of these most valuable sources of knowledge. I would impress on every young man the saying of Charles'., who knew several foreign lan guages, that he "never learned a new language without feeling he had got a new soul."—(Cheers.) But at the same time I may be permitted to felicitate my country men not so fortunate as to have the command of leisure for this purpose, that through the English language they may obtain means of intellectual wealth more precious than the greatest scholars in the days of Charles V., and greater than Aldus, Erasmus, or Melancthon them selves enjoyed.—(Cheers.) This brings me back to the toast I have to propose—to British literature—(Cheers) —to that literature, the proudest, the purest, the most durable of all the glories of our country—to that lite rature rich in all the treasures of truth and of fiction— to that literature which boasts of the prince of all poets, and the prince of philosophers—to that literature which has exercised on mankind a mightier influence even than that of our commerce and our arms—to that literature which has taught France the principles of liberty, and which has furnished Germany with models of art—to that literature which constitutes a tie even nearer than blood between us and the great commonwealths in the valley of the Mississippi—to that literature before the light of which impious and cruel superstition is fast taking flight on the banks of the Ganges—to that lite rature which will, in future ages, instruct and delight unborn millions, who will then have covered with cities and with gardens the Australasian and Caffrarian de serts—to " the Literature of Britain"—and, wherever British literature spreads, may it be attended by British virtue and by British freedom.—(Great cheering.) The Rev. Mr. GUTHRIE proposed " The University of Edinburgh." Professor THOMSON, M.D., " The Lord Provost, Magis trates and Council, Patrons of the University." The LORD PROVOST, " The Archbishop of Dublin," who briefly acknowledged the compliment. Dr. S. BROWN, " The Progress of Science." Mr. D. M. MOIR proposed the next toast. He said, the tc ast I am about to propose is one which I am sure will be received with enthusiasm, not from anything I can say regarding it, but simply for its own sake. I repeat this with confidence, when I announce that my toast is the health of the Right Hon. Thomas B. Macaulay.—(Prolonged cheering.) Wben we consider the characteristic peculiarities of the Scottish people, perhaps the highest honour which Scotland could confer on any one would be the selection of that individual, on account of his genius, his talents, and his high character, to be the representative of its metropolis in the great council of the nation. For such a person did Edinburgh seek, and such a person did Edinburgh find in the dis tinguished man I have just named. In him she found combined the legislator, the orator, the historian, the critic, the philosopher, and the poet ; in him she found a man who " Had multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents." —(Cheers.) In Mr. Macaulay's presence I dare do no more than allude to his vast and varied attainments, to his brilliant talents, to his unwearied business habits, and to his having secured for himself a high place among the great classics of England.—(Cheers.) I shall in conclusion simply allude to one topic as being that by which Mr. Macaulay has associated himself with this institution — I mean the great cause of national education. When we consider the position of the British Isles on the map, we must be at once aware that by intellect has the su premacy of Britain among the nations been won, and by intellect alone can that supremacy be maintained. By education men have ceased to be mere " sons of the soil," mere hewers of wood and drawers of water ; by education men have felt themselves to be rational and responsible beings—creatures into whose nostrils God has breathed the breath of an immortal spirit ; by edu cation men have become jealous of their civil and their sacred rights, they have walked with features more erect, and when they trod the ground their feet have "brought from the soil the source of liberty." It is absurd, there fore, to say that the mind can be ever over-educated, or that man can have too much light, either regarding him self—so fearfully and so wonderfully made—or of the world in which he is placed, where, whether he examine the wild flower beneath his feet with the microscope of Loewenhoek, or the planet that sparkles in the blue canopy above him with the telescope of Lord Rosse, he can only be thereby the more convinced of his own in significance, and of the wisdom, the power, and the beneficence of Him who created all things.—(Much cheering.) Need we ask a better or stronger illustration of Mr. Macaulay's devotion to this great cause of national education than the fact of his having travelled 400 miles to be present at the opening of this institution ? I beg to propose " the Health of Mr. Macaulay." (The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm.) Mr. MACAULAY, in reply, said—lt would be unpar donable in me to detain you with more than a single word; and in truth the best expression of the feelings which I entertain Is the briefest and the simplest. lam sure you will not doubt the gratitude with which I have seen the manner in which the last toast so proposed has been received by you. I can claim no praise on the ground of having performed a journey of 400 miles for the purpose of appearing before you.—(Cheers.) I am more than repaid by the pleasure I feel in addressing an assemblage of the citizens of Edinburgh, not upon sub jects which divide wise and good men, and about which even wise and good men can seldom differ without some bitterness of feeling. Most of the occasions on which I have appeared before great assemblages of the citizens of Edinburgh have been of such a kind, and I feel to night very much more than repaid for any exertions I have made in order to be present by having the oppor tunity of seeing so many of you actuated by one spirit, and in retiring from among you thinking that we can all congratulate each other on one common victory. " The Royal Scottish Academy and the Fine Arts," proposed by Dr. D. Maclagan ; " The Directors of the Philosophical Institution," by Professor Gregory; " The Health of Professor Wilson," who proposed, in an elo quent speech, " The Memory of Sir Walter Scott;" " The Health of Mr. W. G. Craig," who gave " The High School, and other Educational Establishments;" " The Kindred Institutions of England," by Professor Nichol; " The Health of the Chairman," by Lord Cun inghame; and " The Ladies," were afterwards proposed, and the meeting separated at about eleven o'clock. MEXICO, The Diario (Mexican journal) of the 19th of Septem ber, contains the following decree:— " Jose Mariano de Salas, General-in-Chief of the Liberating Army, in exercise of the supreme power, to the inhabitahts of the Republic makes known— " That, desirous of having a consulting body which may advise the Government on matters of importance in the present extraordinary state of affairs, I have deter• mined as follows: " 1. A Government Council shall be established con sisting of thirteen individuals, each of whom shall re ceive a monthly salary of 250 dollars. " 2. This Council shall be composed of the following persons:— " His Excellency Don Valentine Gomez Farias, who shall be the Pr( sident. " Don Manuel Gomez Pedraza. " Don Juan Rodriguez Puebla. " Don Manuel Baranda. " Don Ignacio Trigueres. " Don Luis de la Rosa. " Don Francisco Lombardo. " Illustrissimo Senor Don Manuel Pardio, Bishop of Puebla. ‘- General Don Martin Carrera. " Don Mariano Otero. " Don Jose M. Lafsagua. " Don Fernando Ramirez. " Don Bernardo Guimbarda. " This Council shall be installed on the Ist of October, the various persons composing it first taking the cus tomary oath of office. " Ordered to be published, printed, and circulated, and complied with. " JOSE MARIANO DE SALAS. Palace of the Government, Mexico, Sept. 19, 1846." EXTENSIVE FIRE AT DEPTFORD.—Last evening shortly after 7 o'clock, a very fearful fire, nearly at tended with fatal consequences to several persons, broke out in the private residence belonging to Mr. H. F. Wooster, situate opposite the Jolly Caulkers, hi the Lower Deptford-road. The flames originated in the lower part of the building, at the time Airs. Wooster was engaged putting her children to bed in one of the upper rooms. It appears, from inquiries male d ur i ng the progress of the fire, that the first intimation the in. mates received was by perceiving a dense mass of smoke entering the rooms in which they were. Upon getting upon the landing they were met by huge masses of flame rolling up the staircase, which completely cut off all means of escape by the regular way. What to do the poor creatures scarcely knew, for the house stood in the middle of a large garden, and far away from the public road. Mrs. Wooster, who was within a few weeks of her accouchment, took her three children, and, after con siderable trouble, succeeded in jumping out of one of the windows. By that period the destructive element had travelled through nearly a dozen rooms, and in the space of five or ten minutes after the roof became ignited. The firemen, upon their arrival, found that the residence of Mr. Wooster was doomed to destruc tion, and they very judiciously directed their efforts towards saving the adjoining seed warehouse belonging to Mr. S. Brandon. In the latter they were nearly suc cessful, but unfortunately the flames could not be en tirely extinguished until half-past 9 o'clock, and not be fore the house was burned down, the valuable furniture consumed, and even the wearing apparel of the residents destroyed ; and to add to the misfortune, Mr. Wooster was riot insured for a single penny, and the premises were only insured for 3001. A meeting was held yesterday of the creditors of Messrs. Mackey, Holt, and Co., whose failure took place on the 4th of July last. The debts of the house were z-tated to be about 30,0001 . , and an offer was made to the meeting of a composition of ss. in the pound. This offer was declined under the belief that a sum of 9,0001. paid away by the firm shortly before their suspension, and alleged by them to have been trust property, should in reality, have appeared among the assets. Messrs. Mackey and Co., of Calcutta, the correspondents of the English firm, whose failure also was announced about a week ago, are understood to offer a composition of 108. in the pound. .11.41 T -a-A A. '-, V &4JVLI3L4 LIIi , I k..7"k U • tary schemes in connexion with their own, but never to drive hard bargains, and the Bristol and Exeter line and the Cheltenham Railway would bear out the accuracy of this statement, and it was on a similar footing the pre sent agreement was sought to be carried out. It was with that view the directors submitted the report which the secretary would now read to them. The SECRETARY then read the report, which set forth the conditions of the proposed arrangement between the two companies. The report, on the motion of the CHAIRMAN', seconded by Mr. HEYWOOD, was unanimously adopted. The SECRETARY havivg read the heads of the agree ment, _ The CHAIRMAN then moved a resolution empowering the directors of the Company to carry them iato effect. A PROPRIETOR seconded the tesolution, and would take the opportunity of asking who were to fix the fares of the South Wales Company ? When the lease was made, the power of fixing the fares would follow as a matter of course ; bat till that period he wished to know who were to fix them? The CHAIRMAN took it for granted that the South Wales company would do so. The line was to continue in their hands till then, and of course they would regu late the fares for their own benefit. The Great Western Company were only to work the line till the lease com menced. After some discussion, The CHAIRMAN said that the heads of agreement would be submitted to competent legal advice, and everything doubtful, or likely to give rise to dispute, obviated. The resolution was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN then said that since the agreement had been entered into some of the directors of the South Wales Company had expressed an opinion that it would be desirable, instead of amalgamating at the time specified, to propose the Great Western Company should continue to guarantee 5 per cent. with half of the surplus profits in perpetuity. The directors of the Great Western Company wished, therefore, to have a power to treat with the South Wales directors, should that modification be insisted upon. After some discussion a resolution to that effect was unanimously carried. A ♦ote of thanks having been given to the Chairman, the meeting separated. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE WHITEHALL, Nov. 4, 1846. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Granville George EArl Granville, the Right Hon. Sir Edward Ryan, lint , and Captain Henry Rowland Brandreth, Royal Engineers, to be three of the Commissioners of Railways. WHITEHALL, Nov. 4. Notice is hereby given, that the Right Honourable Edward Strutt, the Right Honourable George Earl Granville, the Right Honourable Sir Edward Ryan, Knight, and Captain Henry Rowland Brandreth, R.E. appointed by her Majesty Commissioners of Railways, under the provisions of the Act 9th and 10th Victoria, cap. 105, will begin to act in execution of the said Act, on Monday, the 9th of November, 1846 ; also, that the office of the said Commissioners is at No. 29, Great George-street, Westminster. DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 5. The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Simms, Esq., to be Assistant-Judge of the Supreme Court of Judica ture in the island of Newfoundland; and Edward Mortimer Archibald, Esq., to be her Majesty's Attorney. General for that island. Her Majesty bas also been pleased to appoint Charles Douglas Stewart, Esq., to be her Majesty's Solicitor-General for the island of St. Vincent. Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Richard Hayward, Esq., to be Colonial Surveyor and Engineer for Sierra Leone. WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 6. 7th Dragoon Guards—Nugent Chichester Nagle, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Johnston, who retires, Nov. 6. 2d Dragoons—Brevet Colonel Henry Salwey, from half pay Unattached, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice John Frederick Sales Clarke, who exchanges ; Major St. Vincent W. Ricketts to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Salwey, who retires ; Captain Henry Darby Griffith to be Major, by purchase, vice Ricketts ; Lieutenant Henry Thomas Coward Smyth Pigott to be Captain, by purchase, vice Griffith ; Cornet William Wallace Hozier to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pigott ; Ensign William Cunninghame Bontine, from 15th Foot, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hozier, Nov. 6. 14th Light Dragoons—Cornet William M'Mahon to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hodson, who retires ; Herbert Edward, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, ♦ice M'Mahon, Nov. 6. 15th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Charles William Clayton East to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hatchett, who re tires; Samuel James Blencowe, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice East, Nov. 6. 37th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon James William Fleming, from the 70th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, Nov. 6. 44th Foot—Ensign George Lethbridge Ottley, to be Lieu tenant by purchase, vice Noake, who retires ; William Fletcher, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ottley ; Lieutenant John Allen Lloyd Philipps to be Adjutant, vice Noake, who resigns, Nov. 6. 46th Foot—Lieutenant Alexander John Macpherson, from half pay 6th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Yonge, promoted ; Ensign John Edward Lyons to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Macpherson, who retires; Charles Somerville M'Alester, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lyons, Nov. 6. 66th Foot—Brevet Colonel Fielding Browne, from half. pay Rifle Brigade, to be Major, vice Brevet Lieutenant , Colonel William Longworth Dames, who exchanges; Cap tain Sir William Gordon, Bart., to be Major, by purchase, vice Browne, who retires ; Lieutenant James Hunter Blair Birch to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sir W. Gordon; Ensign Robert Conner, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Birch, Nov. 6. 70th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John William Johnston, M.D., from the Ist West India Regiment, to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Fleming, appointed to the 37th Foot, Nov. 6. 88th Foot—Lieutenant Edward John Vesey Brown to be Captain, by purchase, vice Townshend, who retires; Ensign Charles O'Donel to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Brown ; John Salmon Bayley, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice O'Donel, Nov. 6. 97th Foot—Lieutenant William Murray to be Captain, by purchase, vice Kinderley, who retires ; Ensign Henry George Woods to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Murray ; William Frederick Norman, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Woods, Nov. 6. Ist West India Regiment—William Sedgwick Saunders, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Johnston, appointed to the 70th Foot, Nov. 6. 2d West India Regiment—Edward John Stephens Knap man, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Strachan, whose appointment has been cancelled, Nov. 6. BREVET. —Captain William Holland Leckv Daniel Cuddy, of the 55th Foot, to be Major in the Army, Nov. 6. UNATrAcxxo.—Brevet Major George Thomas Parke, from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Major, without purchase, Nov. 6. MEMORANDUM.—The date of the commission of Lieutenant Bolton, as Adjutant and Lieutenant in the 31st Foot, is 22d December, 1845, not 19th December, 1845, as erroneously stated. Commission by her Majesty's Commissioners of Lieutenancy for the City of London. Regiment of Royal London Militia—Claudius Stephen Paul Hunter, to be Captain, vice Captain Henryßutterworth, resigned, Nov. 5. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 4. With reference to the announcement which appeared in the London Gazette of the 3d instant, the name of Captain Fre derick Jennings Thomas has been added to the list of Cap tains of the Royal Navy who have accepted the rank of Re tired Rear-Admiral of her Majesty's Fleet. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 5. With reference to the dispatches from Rear-Admiral In glefield, C. 8., dated the 9th and 17th of June, 1846, which appeared in the Gazettes of the Bth and 22d of September last, the Board have directed that Commander Francis William Austen shall be promoted to the rank of Captain, when he shall have served the required period at sea to qua lify him for that rank. The Board have aleo directed that David Kamm, gunner, shall be advanced to the Second Class of Warrant Officers. WHITEHALL, Nov. 3. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Lane Swat man, of Lynn, in thecounty of Norfolk, Gent., to be a Alas• ter Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. Edward Axford, milliner, St. John's-wood-terrace, Nov. 13, at twelve, and Dec. 19, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Baylis and Drewe, Basinghall-street. John Morris, Crown-street, Finsbury, and Old-street, St. Luke's, leather-seller, Nov. 18 and Dec, 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Lawrance and Plews, Old Jewry-chambers. William Henry Smith, linendraper, Edgware-road, Nov. 12 at half-past eleven, and Dec. 18, at eleven at the Court of B an k ru pt cy . P enne ll , o ffi c i a l ass i gne e ; Dick son and Overbury, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. Robert Weir, bookseller, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, Nov. 19 and Dec. 19, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Wimburn and Co., Chancery -lane. William Louis Collins, brewer, Wood-street, Westminster, Nov. 26, at half-past one, and Dec. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Lawrence and Plews, Old Jewry-chambers. Jonathan George Moon, merchant, London, Nov. 14, at half-past one, and December 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Old Jewry ; Simp son and Cobb, Moorgate-street. James Rule, veterinary surgeon, Saffron Walden, Essex, Nov. 20, at two, and Dec. 15, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Bromley and Aldridge, South-square, Gray's-inn; Master and Freeland, Saffron Walden, Essex. John King, soap maker, Kingsland-road, Nov. 16, at eleven, and Dec. 14, at half.-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry chambers ' • Overton and Co., Old Jewry. Edward Eades, auctioneer, Merton, Surrey, Nov. 17, at twelve, and Dec. 17, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Harrisons, Hart-street, Bloomsbury. Mary Norgate, schoolmistress, Tavistock-villas, Tavistock square, St. Pancras, Nov. 17 and Dec. 16, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall street; Buchanan, Basinghall-street. John Leasor, retailer of ale and porter, Birkenhead, Nov. 17, and Dec. 18, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Frampton, Gray's Inn; Hillier, Birkenhead. _ James Stout, shoemaker, Liverpool, Nov. 19, and' ec. 14, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Oliver, Old Jewry; Evans and Co., Li verpool. John Brown and Thomas Brown, brick makers, Newport, Nov. 18 and Dec. 9, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Kynaston, official assignee, Hull; Shaw and Co., Ely-place Holborn; Thorney, Hull. Joseph Pidwell, ironmonger, Market Strand, Falmouth, Nov. 19, at one, and Dec. 8, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Stogdon, Exeter; Keddell and Co., Lime-street, London. George Flint, paper manufacturer, Tamworth, Nov. 18 and Dec. 12, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Partridge and Taylor, Birmingham. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. J. K Winterbottom ,banker, Manchester —third div. of Gd. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. W. Walker, fustian manufacturer, Manchester—second div. of I d. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. Joshua Garsed, sen., and J. Garsed, jun., flax manufac turers, Leeds—first div. of 6s. 6d. in the pound, on any Tues day,:at the office of Mr. Hop e , L ee d s. It. Bone, grocer, Durham —first div. of Is. Bd. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle upon-Tyne. W. G. Taylor and E. Gay, hosiers, Liverpool— iv of 3s. 6d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool. J. R. Wood, varnish maker, Failsworth, Lancashire—first div. of 3s. Bd. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. J. T. Carter, apothecary, Berners-street, Oxford-street, Nov. 20, at twelve—R. 11. Blacker and C. Earith, jun., ware housemen, Gresham-street, City, Nov. 30, at eleven—A. Wily, hatter, Oxford-street, Nov. 28, at half-past eleven — W. Elliott, gentleman, Petworth, Sussex, Nov. 28, at eleven —W. J. Harris, t a il or , high-street, Southwark, Nov. 28, at one—J. Teasel, builder, Norwich, Nov. 27, at twelve—H. Savage, apothecary, Dorset-place, Dorset- square, Nov. 27, at half-past twelve—F. Syder, grocer, Fakenham, Norfolk, Nov. 27, at eleven—J. Gisborne, merchant, Coleman -street, City, Nov. 28, at half-past twelve—W. Erick, baker, Shore ditch, Nov. 28, at twelve—J. Maggs, clerk in her Majesty's Customs, Crutched-friars, Nov. 27, at half-past eleven—S. Dixon, cheesemonger's- assistant, Broadley-terrace Bland ford-squara, Marylebone, Nov. 30, at twelve—J. Lane, gen tleman, Whitstone, Frien Barnet, Nov. 30, at half-past one. In the Country. S. Purser, draper, Cheltenham, Dec. 3, at one, at the Bristo" District Court—F. F. Phillips, coachmaker, Bristol, Dec. 1, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court—D. Thomas, mer chant, Manchester, Dec. 3, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—J. Seaton, farmer, Frickley cum Clayton, Yorkshire, Dec. 1, at ele ve n, a t the Leeds District Court— J. Robinson, spirit merchant, Beverley, Yorkshire, Dec. 2, at ten, at the Hull District Court—ll. R. Morley, merchant, Hull, Dec. 2, at ten, at the Hull District Court—J. Brown, ironmaster, Birmingham, Nov. 28, at twelve, at the Bir mingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. A. Thorn, oilman, High Holborn, Dec. I—E. S. Boult, stockbroker, Liverpool, Dec. I—W. Lancaster, ship owner, Liverpool, Nov. 27—T. Walker, tallow chandler, Leeds, Dec. 8 —T. Hanson, builder, Leeds, Dec. 2—J. Clarkson, plumber and glazier, Barnsley, Yorkshire, Dec. 2—J. Bloor, brewer, Tutbury, Staffordshire, Nov. 28—T. F. Shillam. wool broker, Dudbridge, Gloucestershire, Nov. 27—W. Watts, builder, Cheltenham, Nov. 27—J. Wilkinson, fruiterer, Liverpool, Nov. 27—R. Reed, miller, Dawlish, Devonshire, Nov. 27 A. Birch, grocer, Birmingham, Nov. 27—J. Pritchard, butcher, Seymour-place, Camden-town, Nov. 27—1. Black burn, engineer, Minories, Nov. 27—C. Pulling, potato sales man, Trinity square, Southwark, Nov. 27—E. H. Durden, manufacturing chemist, Standish, Gloucestershire, Nov. 27 W. H. Mortimer, wood pavior, Lower Harley-street, Mary lebone, Nov. 27—E. Cawdell. toy dealer, Hull, Nev. 27—E. Williams, builder, Birmingham, Nov. 27—W. Hart, hat manufacturer, Whitechapel High-street, Nov. 27—J. Bal lard, innkeeper, Hastings, Nov. 27—T. Roberts, builder, Birmingham, Nov. 27—J. Salmon, builder, Beaumont, Essex, Nov. 27—G. H. Watton, tobacconist, New Bond-street, Nov. 27—J. Perry, grocer, Harlow, Essex, Nov. 27—A. S. Holl, grocer, Norwich, Nov. 27—J. Farrer, cabinet manufac turer, Curtain-road, Shoreditch, Nov. 27—R. B. Line, car penter, Plymouth, Nov. 27—D. A. Morel, dentist, Langham place, Marylebone, Nov. 27. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Varney and E. V. Pledge, whip manufacturers, Bii ming ham—C. Marshall end F. J. Stones, edge-tool manufacturers, Sheffield—W. Garrard and W. Rotherham, linendrapers, Leicester- square— N. Hastings and S. Tatham, machine makers, Rochdale—AV. Richardson and H. Rogers, misters, Kirkham, Lancashire—C. J. Petherick, J. Anderson, and J. Petherick, decorative painters, Exster—W. Askwith and T. Simpson, proctors, York—R. Jones and G. Davies, mercers, Newtown, Montgomeryshire—T. Sissons, sen., R. J. Sissons, T. Sissons, jun., and J. D. Sissons, colour manufacturers, Hull —J. H. Gandell and J. Brunton, architects, Birkenhead, Cheshire—C. Knight and J. Young, booksellers, Ludgate street—C. Jeynes and J. Buckingham, jun., printers, Glou cester—J. Hills and J. Allason, stockbrokers, Sunderland—R. Archer and R. Benbow, jun., wine merchants, Leicester square—F. Yate and H. Bisshopp, surgeons, Ham'oledon, Surrey—J. Bray and J. Fenton, engineers, Leeds. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Margaret Davies, draper, Dundee, Nov. 11 and Dec. 2, at two, at the Royal Hotel, Dundee. Archibald White, merchant, Glasgow, N0v.12 and Dec. 7, at twelve, at the chambers of Mr. Wilkie, Glasgow. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending November 3, 1846, is 335. Id. per cwt. REGENT'S CANAL COMPANY. A general meeting of the proprietors in this company was held yesterday at the offices of the company, City road Basin, to consider the advisability of forming a railway on the banks of the canal, from Paddington to Limehouse. J. E. D. BETHUNE, Esq., was called to the chair, who read the report to the meeting, the substance of which was that the proposed line, which is to run on the northern side of the canal, would be 8 miles 7 furlongs and 3 chains, with a further branch of 1 mile and 6 furlongs, the whole estimat e d cost f or t h e ma i n li ne b e i ng 640,0001., and that for the branch to Limehouse 45,0001., making the total cost of the line 685,0001. After reading the report, The CHAIRMAN stated that, in consequence of the Par liamentary Commissioners for central termini having re ported unfavourably to the formation of a central ter minus, it struck the deputy-chairman and himself that in that report there was an intimation to the Regent's Canal Company to secure to them selves the right of carry ing all the goods from the outskirts of the metropolis to the Thames. They had accordingly consulted Mr. Radford, their own engineer, and the result was, the employment of Mr. Rendell as the engineer for constructing a line of rail way along the banks of their canal. A meeting was called on the 20th of September, invitations to which had been sent to the shareholders, at which the repre sentatives of 4,000 shares were present, and a report recommending the immediate application to Parliament for powers to make the railway was submitted to them. On Thursday he had had an interview with the head of the Commissioners of the Woods and Forest, not for the sake of inducing his Lordship to become a party to their plan, but to express a desire that his Lordship should not commit himself to any other party. To this Lord Morpeth very readily acceded ; and he hoped that the Government would support this project, by which all the advantages, without any of the disadvantages, of a central terminus would be effected. He concluded by moving the adoption of the report. Mr. GREEN seconded the resolution. Mr. ROBINSON inquired on what principle the pro perty of the railway was to be apportioned? as he con ceived that many of the present proprietors of the canal would be unwilling to take shares in the railway. The CHAIRMAN replied, that it was proposed, in the first place, to mortgage the whole property of the canal for 500,0001., and to raise the remainder by the issue of new shares, which were, in the first place, to be allotted to the whole of the shareholders, and in the event of any being declined, to allot the shares of the decliners to those parties who had already taken the new sharesf; then, in the further event of any shares remaining on hanii, they were to be thrown into the general share market. But he should remark that the act of this meeting would be a corporate act. To further inquiries of Mr. ROBINSON, as to the power of compelling unwilling shareholders, The CHAIRMAN replied that there was already a power under the Act of the Company to raise 277,000/. further capital, and, in fact, to make a railway already, for the Act gave them authority to pass over their route by any other means than a canal; to erect steam-engines, to form inclined planes, or to constitute any other facilities that the company might deem advisable. He should observe that arrangements had been made to prevent the preliminary expenses from coming to more than 255. a share. In reply to other inquiries, the CHAIRMAN stated that preliminary operations had been already commenced, and had been in progress since July. It was intended to retain the present waterway complete in all its parts, all the wharfs, all the basins, and other property, with the slight exception of a little alteration needed by the line. The railway and canal were to be conducted by the same directory, and were indeed, to all intents and purposes, an identical pro perty, and in the event of the proprietors being unable to raise the 685,0001., the Act of Parliament weuld become a dead letter, but that he did not apprehend. He further observed, that the whole of the preliminary expenses would, after this meeting, be payable out of the corporate funds. The report was then adopted, with only two dissen tients. Resolutions founded on it were passed, thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. --- A special general meeting of the shareholders in this undertaking was held yesterday afternoon, at the offices of the company, in West Strand, for the purpose of consi dering the propriety of leasing the line to the Great Western Company. Mr. Louis Vigurs, the deputy-chairman of the com pany, presided. The report stated that it was proposed to lease the line for five years, at 5 per cent. on the paid-up capital, and for five years more, at 5 per cent. and half the surplus profits, with the option of amalgamating with the Great Western Company after that period. The heads of the agreement having been read, Mr. ROACH took exception to several of the clauses, and complained of their not being so simply worded as to be intelligible. In the first place, he thought the ad vantages of the arrangement preponderated in favour of the Great Western Company, who, for every 200 shares, would be entitled to 100 votes, while the shareholders of the South Wales would only have 38 for the same number. It would have been more satisfactory to the shareholders generally had the Great Western Com pany liberally proposed to lease the line at 7 or 8 per cent. rather than offer them a complicated and wordy agreement, which required the mind of a lawyer to com prehend.—(Hear, hear.) He decidedly objected to the basis upon which the amalgamation was to take place at the expiration of ten years, because their line would only have been in working existence that period, while the Great Western would have been in operation some 18 or 20 years.—(Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN said he could remove the latter ob jection, by simply stating that the directors, after the agreement had been confirmed, would submit a resolu tion to the meeting, authorising them to negotiate for expunging the clause respecting the amalgamation, and amending the assignment, by making it a lease in per petuity. Mr. SMITH had no doubt but that the line would pay ten per cent., for, independently of the local trade, there would be traffic enough coming from the south of Ireland to make up 6of the 9 per cent. He thought, therefore, that the Great Western Company ought to have dealt more liberally with them.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. T. WILKINSON thought it would be more for their interests to accept a lower rate of interest, with an early participation in the divi s i on o f prospective profits.—(Hear, hear.) As the arran gement stood now t would b they would eeight wld parti c ip a t e i n t h e surplus probably years, calculating th e wor k s s tio p occ s profits,three, uriy a befored in the meanwhile they would have to be content with a common rate of interest.—(Hear.) The CHAIRMAN said they had duly considered all these matters, and, in the present state of the money market, and the prospect of railway profits being shortly redueed, they were of opinion that the arrangement they had come to was the best for the interest of the shareholders. They had had to deal with two classes, the speculative and those who embarked their money in railways for the purpose of permanent investment. The amendment he had mentioned, of a lease in perpetuity, would insure their shares being taken up by the latter class. A resolution, confirming and approving. of the agree ment, was then put from the chair, and carried una nimously. The CHAIRMAN then proposed a second resolution, empowering the directors to take the necessary steps to amend the clause relating to the amalgamation, or sub stituting one making the lease a lease in perpetuity in its stead. A PROPRIETOR wished the arrangement to be amended in another respect, namely, that the surplus profits should be divided immediately on the opening of the line, The CHAIRMAN said the Great Western Company had been asked to make that alteration, but they declined doing so. In answer to another question, The CHAIRMAN said the subject of allowing interest on calls was now under consideration of the directors. The works would be all completed within the estimate, and portions of the line opened in about two years. The resolution was then put and carried unani mously. Thanks were afterwards voted to the Chairman, and the meeting terminated. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. A special general meeting of the Great Western Railway Company was held, a t one o ' clock yesterday at the Paddington station, for the p urpose of considering the propriety o f taking a lease of the South Wales line, and of afterwards amalgamating the two companies if it should be deemed expedient. Mr. C. RUSSELL the chairman of the Company, took the chair. He said that the present meeting was called to affirm the arrangement that had been proposed to be made between the Great Western Railway and the South Wales Railway Company. When the report of the meeting at Bristol, in August last, was laid before the proprietors, he took th e o p portun ity of stating the prin ciples which the directors had determined to take for their guidance with regard to the proposed arrangement. lie stated, first, that the construction of the South Wales Railway, and the charge and responsibility of it should rest up on i ts promoters •, secondly, that the line should be placed in the hands of the South Wales Com pany till after a certain period had elapsed ; thirdly, that in o r d er to facilitate the completion of the line a certain and fixed value should be given to the shares of the company; and lastly, that these conditions should be so arranged as not to impose a large and unreasonable responsibility on the Great Western Railway Company. A long and complicated discussion had taken place on these propositions, but during the three months which they had continued the principles which he had now e nunc i ated ha d b een i nvar i a bly kept in view, and they would find that they had been carried out in the heads of agreement entered into. The charge of completing the line was to be left in the hands of the South Wales Company, and the South-Western Company were to have no concern with it till the main branches were completed from one end to the other. The benefits to result were to be secured to the company till the amalgamation with the Great Western Company took place. The Chairman then stated the conditions on which the line was to be leased, which will be fo un d i n our report of the proceedings of the South Wales Company, in another part of this evening's paper. These terms the directors hoped were sufficient to enable the South Wales Com pany to raise all th e money they s h ou ld require. The Great Western Company did not purpose the arrangement as one from which any large profits were to accrue . Their obj ec t was to secure th e completion of the line, and the profit s th ey l oo k e d t o were from their own line, in connexion with the South Wales Company. It was always the policy of the Great Western Company to afford all the assistanc e i n th e ir power to the tribu- RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS --• BRISTOL, NOVEMBER 6. STOCK Exciter(Es.—The sales are—Caledonian, New, 2 1 % —Man. Chester, Buxton, and Matlock, 1% p.—Midland, 134--Ditto, New, 41. Bs. 9d. p.—North Staffordshire, 3—York and Newcastle, New, 18 1 /—Ditto, Preference, 4y p. MANCHESTER, NOVEMBER G. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, Bos ton, &c., p.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, % p.—Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 6% p.—Blackburn, Clitheroc, &c., IN dis.—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, % dis.—Eastern Counties, York Extension, 1% p.—East Lancashire, No. 1, New, 4 p.—Ditto, No. 2 (late Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston), 4% p. Great Grimsby and Sheffiell, 3% dis.—Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford, 1% p.—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 51A p.—Ditto, Thirds, 1 11-16 p. —Leeds and Thirak, 2M dis.—Ditto, New, IN dis.—Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 1114 p.— Ditto, New Branches, 5M p.—Ditto, Extension, 1 p.—Liverpool, Manches ter, and Newcastle Junction, N dis.—London, Manchester, and Bir mingham, 76—Ditto, Quarters (A), 77 p.—London and York Ex tension, 7-16 c. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 1% c. p.— Manchester and Leeds, Fiiths, 5M c. p.—Ditto, Extension, 1 1-16 c. p.—Manchester and Southampton, % dis.—Midland Railway Con sols, 501. Shares, 4% p. —North British, Halves, 6 1 A p.—Ditto, Quar ters, 2% p.— Ditto, Extension, 1 3-16 p.—North Staffordshire, 3 5-16 p.—Not th Western, % p.—Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., 17s. dis. —Preston and Wyre, Halves (A), 3% p.—Ditto, ditto (B), 7s p. Sheffiel 1 and Lincoln, % dis.—Shropshire Union, 3.16 c. dis.—South- East= and Dover, No. 4, % p.—Trent Valley and Midland, &c., 74 p.—West Riding Union, 9-16 p.—Wharfdale (late North-Eastern), 11-16 dis. LEEDS, NOVEMBER 6. STocK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bhmingham and Oxford Junc tion, 6% p. —East Lancashire (Blackburn and Preston), 2 p.—Ditto, No. 2 (late Liverpool, Ormskirk, &c.), 4/. 4s. p.—East and West Yorkshire, 15s. dis.—Great Gr:msby and Sheffield, 3% dis.—Hudders field and Manchester, 5 % p. - Ditto, Extensions, 325. p.—lludders fleld and Sheffield, 4% p.- Leeds and Bradford, 44% c. p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 11 4 p.—Ditto, Branches, 6 1 4 p.—Ditto, Extensions, 225. p.—Leeds and Thtrsk, % p.—Ditto, New, 3% p.—Manchester, Bux ton, Matlock, and Midland, 1 1 4 p.—North British, Halves, p.— Ditto, Quarter Shares (late Carlisle Branch), 51s. p.—Ditto, Exten sion (scrip). 21s. p.—North Staffordshire, 3% p. —Wharfdale Junc tion, 15s. dis.— York and Newcastle, New, 13% p.—Ditto, Prefer ence, 4% p. —York and North Midl an d, P re f erence, 8 % p. — Ditto, East and West Ridin f, 15% p.— Ambergate, Nottingham, and Bos ton, 4s. 6d. p.—Direct Northern, 15s. 6d. s. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 2% dis.—London and York, 7s. s. dis.—North West ern, 3s. 6d. p.—West Riding Union, 3% s. SHEFFIELD; NOVEMBER 6. &ma EX.CRANGE.—The sales are—A mbergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 6s. p.—East Lancashire, No. 2 (late Ormskirk, &c.), 414 p. —Great Grimsby and Sheffield Extensions, 275. dis.—Ditto, Qi.tarters, 152. dis.—lludderstleld and Manchester Extension, 245. Gd. p North Western, Is. 6d. p.—Sheffield and Lincoln, 12s. dis.—Sheffield, Ro therham, and Goole, 2s. dis.—West Riding Union, 28s. p.—Manches ter, Sheffield, and Midland, 2% dis. i f U NOVEMBER 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—To-day the market has worn much the same appearance as it has done during the week, and a fair amount of business has been done. Ambergates are lower, with a prospect of still receding. North Staffords and Leeds and Dewsburys have con siderably improved upon yesterday's prices, and closed dim at quota tions marked. The sales are—North British, New Quarters, scrip, 21s. 9d. p.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 41. 10s. 6d.p.— York and North Midland (East and West Riding), 20 —Ditto, Preference, 8 p.—Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, &c., 2/. 14s. 3d.—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, dis.—East Lincolnshire, 225. 6d.—Erew ish Valley, 32—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 17s.—Glasgow, Dumnies, and Carlisle, 31s.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 33%—Ditto, Branches, 5% p.—North Western, 3s. 3d. p.—North Staffordshire, 31. 2s. p.—Shropshire Union, 6s. dis.—West Riding Union, 3d. 95. Leicester and Bedford, 16s. 6d. YORK, NOVEMBER 6 STOCK EXCllANGE.—fir;sale.s are—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 2%—Direct Northern, 1% .—Eastern Counties, York Exten sion, 3% —London and York, 21. ls.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 356—Newcastle and Berwick, 33 ex int.—North Bri tish, Half Shares, 16%—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 31. 175.—Ditto, Ex tension, I%—North Staffordshire, 5% —North Western, 1% —West Biding Union, 3% scrip —York and Newcastle, New, 171. 18s. 9d. cum new —Ditto, Preference, 6% —York and North Midland Exten sion, 41%—Ditto (East and West Biding Extension), 20% cum new —Ditto, Preference, 10/, 6s. GLASGOW, NOVEMBER 5. STOCK Excnsions. -The sales are - Aberdeen, 211.-Airdrie and Coatbridge, 445.-Caledonian, 241.-Ditto, New, 475. 6d.-Direct Bombay and Madras, FM-Direct Northern, 345.-Dundee and Ar broath, New, No. 2, 81. p.-East ol File, 305.-East Indiau Railway, 16s. 6d. -Edinburgh and Glasgow, 761.-Ditto, New, 20/.-Edinburgh and Northern, 16%-Ditto, Newport, 87s. 6d.-Glasgow, Kilmar nock, and Ayr, 69 k -Ditto, 33%-Ditto, Halves, 71. 195 . - Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 39a.-Glasgow and Greenock, Half Shares, 8 4 -Glasgow Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 31s. 9d.-Gl asgow, Air drie, and Monkland Junction, 365.-Great North of Scotland, 3.53.- Great Indian Peninsular, 63. 6d.-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 3s. 6d.-Manchester and Southampton, 235.-Midland, Halves, 61._ North British, New Quarters, scrip, 355.-Paisley, Barrhead, and Hurlet, 535.-South-Eastern and. Dover, New, No. 4, 588.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 355.-Strathern Junction, 82s. 6d. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week In the previous year:— Week ending Last Week. hk: NAME OF RAILWAY. Oct. 3 Nov. 3 Oct. 3 3 Nov. 1 Oct. 31 31 Nov. 1 Oct. 31 Nov. 1 Oct. 31 25 31 31 Nov. 1 . Oct. 31 Nov. 2 Oct. 21 Nov. 1 Oct. 31 Arbroath and Forfar .............. Chester and Birkenhead ............. Dublin and Drogheda.. • • ......... Dublin and Kingstown . Dundee and Arbroath . •........... Durham and Sunderland ............. Edinburgh and Glasgow . .• • ........ Eastern Counties and iTorth E_ %tern.. East Larcasihre ...... ............ Eastern Union .. . • • . .. Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... Glasgow and Green0ck......... Gravesend and Rochester • ......... Great Southern and Western. • • • ..... Great Western, &c .....• • • • • • . . . Hartlepool ..... London and North Western, &c. London and 8iackwa11.............. London and Brighton .... ... London and Croydon .• • •• • • • ...... London and South Western . • • ...... Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ...... Manchester, Leeds, end Hull Assoc.. Maryport and Carlisle Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... Newcastle and Carlisle .... •• • Newcastle and North Shi e ld s .. ...... Newcastle and Barwick .• • • North British • Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans • • ••• • • • Paris and Rouen . . Preston and Wyre • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Sheffield and Man c h es t er .. • • • • • • •• •• • • South Eastern and Branches • • •• • • • • South • ...... .• •• •• Taff Vale York and Newc:stle . •• • • •• • • ••• • • • York and North Midland . • • • • 750 1,456 687 3,714 9,509 418 2,116 923 962 18,538 39,098 195 6,231 8,992 586 17,863 2,4 4 1,544 309 774 2,84 s 6,695 1,898 801 185 540 1,530 1,169 18,747 1,323 38,162 810 6,356 6,563 955 8,212 17,749 1,846 656 1,762 8,486 472 1,220 6,627 5,653 879 1,306 489 1,240 7,071 1,214 820 5,956 6,226 718 b,548 5,291 CEsAR BORGIA, an Historical Romance, by the Author of " Whitefriars," is published this day, in three volumes, by Mr. Colburn, and may now be had at all the libraries. The following new works of fiction are also now ready :-2. Men of Capital, by Mrs. Gore, 3 vols. 3. The Roman Traitor, by H. W. Herbert, Esq., author of "Oliver Cromwell." 4. Marston, by the author of " Salathiel." 5. Adventures of Captain O'Sullivan, by W. H. 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With l'ractical Observations on tne an d o.• Debility, Local and Constitutional WeakileSS , 401 4 the Urethra. • visa O W O f f By SAMUEL LA'MERT, CONS -r ` l sssi r - - yond 00 ; 11, 1:1 0 ° 0 r i 9, Bedford-street, Bedford-sqllA re sdinbagiscea° Matriculated Member of the University lii c „, e ietf, Member of the London Hospital Medical '— Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. its 0 111 ,,d0 d l e CONTENTS OF THE TREATIO S. OI.- . 11.- 4 0 CHAPTER 1. On the Philosophy of 3larriage, o ductil'oettesi and Obligations, and on Infelicitous and linP r of th e 0 ,4 'Ol O CHAPTER 2. On the Anatomy and Physiology . r efuloSe os Organs, their functions, structures, and secret':M . 7;l:o7o °la! Mental and Physical Power are dependant nno: rion s e l l 0701 4 —CHAPTER 3. On Solitary Habits ; their L i ity 111 _ fr s' -' es.„ fstd° Animal Economy ; the concealed cause of Dew" a i viee of of the Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and gen er n isorderilieP - , 00 Mental Faculties. CILAPTER 4. 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" upon themselves years of misery and suffering. _„,,10 1 1 0 00 0 4 011 0 The CORDIAL BALM OF sYRIACUM is eXciu i e _„3 al' the cure of nervous and sexual debility, irregularlt4,oo, vie , renaess, loss of appetite, indigestion, consumptiv e ° s o 3* oil' ties arising from venereal excesses, &c. Price Ile' i° I V tie. The Five-pound cases may be had as usual. ,cs, , , 1f mnsyeepr T rneiE h lat t litscit c etoccyn o ro N ensamdm i : E iryd f aistt i fil . oo l mFr t n A y:: : :: E mr.: : :isynanp D ,gEd E bilu T aoltlt E Fleah ß elnruee S ds l p V u E rify E i S ng SE t - : he ;1;7 4 01 t ssi li ; ulcerations, and those painful affections arising fre rn i sill. 04 na andna m d in 3 l 3 la s e t .. i per opne r, bb irritationo o . t tlea. are e the o r themost bladder, effectual Ppot s ni Lo c r nt ;:m Seo w if: l Ptile o ; s o li n ::rb: s : i llit;P-P E ss, 11 1 :1911 : 00 ! e business. onsu tation fee, if by Letter, 10 9 at rte l aS i 1/. A nainut: thei r Oh cessary. Messrs. Perry are in daily attendfin c- „it t ea - 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London, front ',. 1 " - ye l . % five till eight; and on Sundays from eleven till til'....;„e A t etic A RIGHT H ONOURABLE IMPOSTER'orarci , some time ago, the "Ri g ht H on o ura ble A" d tsnP 010 rick Vernon," with imposing moustachies & g i be so! ! is' introduced himself to an elderly lady s s vo til l 'olli f Peer, a temporary exile from home for pJ discretion. The old simpleton supplie d h' g 0; with clothes and money, and introduced "I" ol s e iso" the " first families" in the city, by whsle r t e of t `" c oli fV f ciously received ; and, after living on the 's„" ° for three months, and making a pretty P en al's o°l o J e c ; ing a young lady, he decamped, stating ts.botit,, r his intended, his confidence, that he ws s 10 posit a casket of jewels with his London be5,...,00,, ) 3 0, custody. The jewels, he said, were forinerlY PeoP and would shortly, he hoped, be his br i " r e • s ed: since been discovered that the case ec's*„; l hade heegs tongue, ve ea nk t two partridges , nanfdro from uprraap nat;s a c bottle of slier rP f y w . hich th e 1 sif t, etbe pa k anest; o re An Irishman, in writing a letter to his i s e a ba ck asking whether she would accept of his f gee d writes thus:—" If you don't love me, pla n " a ; the letter without breaking the sale." rn „,„ tat ° , l of it t FOREIGN POTITOES.—SeveraI 1.--r ° t r in eni , Of , ' potatoes have taken place from the C° i . g n " . P, il o ll SV l , t ' the past week. The Perseverance, at. if' be' brought a cargo comprising 30 tons weig —; tocs liam and Matthew, 115 tons; the Ypres, 5 " toP'yirow from the same port; and the Albion tOt tr ori;riof whole • the produce of Normandy. A e3- have taken place from Holland , ' iTh reriV mad! and France. cu stl o ar , l A CONSOLATION.—In Scotland it it, when a death occurs in a family, to send t h e 0u1,," pith an invitation to attend the funeral. A "g el d an d' tj e r a ' was passed by in one of these dispensatioepthe fil to o her heart full of indignant grief, she wat che :s O f ' i f l o i rc eel gathering around a neighbour's door. It w n - e of ou r much for her, and she exclaimed, in t e n - o - r re resignation, " Aweel, awed ! we'll ha'e s `; ‘ 03 11 " ain in our ain house some day ! See th en " vited." pices oc iet (ADVERTISEMENT.]-39. Albemarle-streen7o GeaesoD —Sent into the Count r y, f ree , b y P os t . —N e wlY",..inffsed by Draft' Telescopes, Open Glasses, Microscopes, &c. a lZ o stin„lt Sir Edward Paget, Sir Evan Lloyd, Sir John PY - Frederick Goodfellow, Clayton, Grosvenor Morria°' son, Mackenzie, Galway, Biggs, Woolf, Aft u r r Y il• V P- ida e ,rslf Price, Lindsay, and Thackray ; Major Generals . L ';; e rs, .sau sir Sir John Ross, Sir James Cockburn Achinty, P. 10' 1). Bouverie, Sir J. Macdonail, Sir R. Barton, Sir TA co ekl e, 3 l W ee, Wm. Eustance Admirals Lord John Hay, str.„ - i 'vbits D George Munday, Sir George Martin, Sir James ill to pe - s . Gold Reiss, Alexander, Curzons, Tompktnson, I ' o o cl d SP: e j Vice- , Admiral Sir F. Austen ; Rear-Admirals Brown i n ven tC e &c. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Opticians , lin v , e tacle Lenses upon a new construction. Immediateilich spP e ct - ,ll9t; 4 'st, before imperfect vision, that mist and dullness wil eesr bra l or , the eyes is at once removed, every object becomes a nd i t so that the most aged imperfect sight beceane s riftal s, l ,, t ie 0* and is brought to its youthfal, natural, and °—„"„ invidea' e iff Achromatic Telescopes, Opera Glasses, MicrosenP`" % tre ol " kinds of Acoustic Instruments, for relief of most e e no t la te sa to Caution—Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Opticians , 4 o tned ia 0 013 1 connected with a person of the same name in their oter vel jo ic • r ed • $2l bourhood. To prevent mistakes be cautious , an tee Yin be had at 39, Albemarle -street, Piccadi ll y, oppo site o f 00 % [A DVE RTI SE ME N T.] —SCROFULOUS S ° g , r ASP A r e of ,SS YEARS STANDING URED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTN,Eq,, peP te s Mr. C. Brook, residing at Standishall, Suffolk , ln nl nice li (Sr is 00 breast in one frightful mass of scrofulous sores an d aj nicie similar large ulcers on his hip. He had been tliu t . ' surg e f o ter years, and under the treatment of the greate% wor c ` o poiniist% country, and was for a considerable time at l' o cer, D 'hila is mary without receiving the least benefit. He, MO meal 's •• ca ses o il the many who have been cured after every ° tiler in fi e nd' These celebrated medicines are equally efficaci?ns wi•- d g ru ou g t g a is nt s, rh a e n u d m a a t t r is r tn oiess or es c H on o t l r lo a w ct a e y el ,s London. aEnsatlffloßlent; 04, --- ""'t___--------- Y• ~ • BIRTHS. im fG' d On the 26th net., at Winchester, the iv.- - ° p' the 30th ult., at Hurley H o us e, nea r 31514°16 tifi* Wood, M.D of a son. ~ On .1.010 51;°1' tb° R. Francis, of a son. On the 3d inst., in Southampton-street, -u• -- par' en, r wife of John Watson , Esq of a son -1- WOO On the sth inst., the wife of the Rev' S.' - , I,lesit nonage, St. Peter's, Stepney,of a daughter• , o f P• ''. On the sth inst., in 'a-square, the leaf lit er ' 0 dsag EN., of a daughter. On the 6th inst., at Croydon, Mrs. W. fli' °l l= l o ll pc MARRIED. He O n n ry th p e re 4 s t t h on i , n ß s t a . r , t. at 0 f D B i g e s e w s t e o l n l , youngest daughter oldie late William Wil l°4 WO Esq., of Hendon, Middlesex. r-q uare 'ef al3t- On the 4th inst., at St. George's Han c ' ve t Lie tit H. Seymour, Esq., to Georgians, daughter 0 ...-- General Roert Ellice. Haenr,tfisiorodrfsolti;eb' i to:A r r gc e o li t s t: 4 ------- On the 28th ult., at Westerhatn, Kent, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Crowden. ,illier, 01 , 11 c 3 b0 111 DIED. t t s i,--', t he r s : On the 30th ult., at Rochester, Vi r - i r in f a nt son fif e Geo o orn n gte t h h se e hl l as s wt t inst., Frederick 14faxwe , i 0 ,144 0 %01b, 2i Esq.,i nst., t. .t ) ~. a l is of Thomas Bridgman, Esq., aged 79. Northumb On the 3d inst., at Unthank Hall, beth, wife of Dixon Dixon, Escl rcZamrroouitdhilgaronv, eiedfordshireer,:o of IO TTE D r't P it_ Aa y. j(e• London: Printed and Published by Al !quo-, P. ogi.-• 1 strand, Printer, at Me Sun Offi ce on of the Savoy, ' in Ulu County Of liwww 'ember 7, 1846.