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ART -UNION of LONDON. • • Estah7ithed lgr: Incorporated by Royal Charter, 101 h Victoria, 18-i5. " 1481 1ORNT.—His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE. VICE-PRESIDENTd. The Most Noble the Marquis of Northampton, P.R.S. • Tha Right Hon. the Lord Prudhoe. The Right Hon. the Lord Monteagle. COUNCIL. , - .;“Sli d t Hon. the Earl of Arun 'l'. Charles Harrison, Esq., F.R.S. a ny. F.G.S. Chun ChAnhijo, Esq Surre ~ F.R.S. Edward Hawkins, Esq., F.R S. L`ries Barry, Esq., R.A. F S.A. g;l7'j:tell, Esq., F. R.S. q., Henry Hayward, Esq. kiritton, Es F.S.A. Henry Thomas Hope, Esq. Cabbell, Esq., M.P. F.A.S., William Leaf, Esq. h e 'lasurer. William C. Macready, Esq. 11,e,wr. Edward Coleridge. Thos. P. Matthew, Esq. Cull Collard, Esq. The Rev. H. H. Milmau. lft Bicksop, Esq., M.D. F.L.S. Richard Morris, Esq. a;,, - Lcil John Dimond, Esq, John Noble, Esq., F.S.A. tOlge Dodd, Esq., M.P. Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A. ATO L. Donaldson, Esq. Hr. Sergeant Thompson, F.S.A. Lord Bishop of Ely. R. Zouch S. Troughton, Esq. e.(47 4 Ewiart, Esq., M.P. Samuel Wilson, Esq., Alderman. 1 1 r oz , 31. Edward Wyndham, Esq. gto Gaskoin, Esq. I homas Wyse, Esq., M.P. Esq., F.R.S. F.S.A. Toe Council have much satisfaction in announcing to the public the Charter granted under the Act passed in the last session of Valent has received the great teal, and that the Art-Union of 'a Is now a corporate !Jody; with all the rights and privileges 4io belonging. kir Council feel assured that, the Society being thus placed on a lite: l4 Permanent basis. a great exten-ion of its beneficial opera -16.. Will result, and that many will he induced to join wl:o ha ve ,nritherto deterred by doubts of its legality or permanency ; ltei: the Council, feeling that the existence of the Society is no k h ! precarious, will be authorised to make all such provective bemetics as may be desirable ; and it will be their anxious en bar so to apply the means at the Society's disposal as to carry u 1 the most effectual manner the great objects it has in view— ttilstoemination of a knowledge and love of art, the improvement k e r general taste, and the consequent elevation of the fine arts and . I ,,,Drefessors. kW, s scheme of prizes for the present year will embrace, in addi i -C.pie the usual proportion of works, to be selected by the prize i, 'kir In Bronze, from an original figure of " Iris Ascending," expressly for the Society, by Mr. W. B. Kirk. —.15 in Iron, from a reduced copy by Mr. Nixon, of a figure of h e!** in the British Museum. tbZittettes in Porcelain, from an original figure called " Irmo made expressly for the Society, by Mr. J. H. Foley ; and tk a jwne in Silver, by Mr W. Wilson, commemorative of Flax - 114 1 , 't continuation of the series already commenced by the So ttf,l Member will receive a pair of prints—" The Last NEm and" The Neapolitan Wedding," engraved by Mr . C harles h et ind Mr. F. A. Heath respectively, after T. Uwins, R.A , with of engravings in outline from seven of the cartoons submitted ki7fPetition for the premium of 5001 . offered b y the Societ y for re be rV i cal picture. ptions for the present year are now due. By order, GEORGE GODWIN, LEWIS POCOCK, Hon. Secretaries. --.=gar-square, Dec. 94,1846. ?,NGLISH and SCOTTISH LAW LIFE ASSURANCE and LOAN ASSOCIATION. Waterloo-place, London; 119, Princes-street, Edinburgh. Established in 1839. IMF Subscribed Capital, One Million. —E ASSURANCE, ANNUITIES, REVERSIONS, AND ENDOWMENTS. 7, nof the English and Scottish Principle of Assurance. Iia,"MPREHENSIVE and LIBERAL SYSTEM of LOAN in —0 11 with Lite Assurance, on undoubted personal or other - " e jkagared participate in two-thirds of the profits. J. HILL WILLIAMS, Actuary. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26 COENHILL, LONDON. Capital 1400,000. A Empowered by Aet of Parliament. restitution embraces important and substantial advantaves 'it, el Pect to Life Assurances ant Deferred Annuities. The assured ilt h _n all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or tor li're of the Polisy, twatitirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ; It Use Y ' option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his eta t ` 0 Meet -otherconveniences or necessity. 441 1ces fbr terms of years are granted on the lowest possible the . • DIVISION OF PROFITS. e e .,.aelnarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society 'Vlod the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare e e „,l 4 bonne, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid Policy erected on the Profit scale. '..,.......... - EXAMPLES. Ls ~7 Ft 'r: p Premium. i 4 Bonus Bonus in ri o g 4 Assured- , added. Cash. .."-: F g may . ' Borrow. •.%. • 2, • I 1 4 2A r 1837, 1 .£217 15 1 £lOO 011 1 030 ""' 18381 192 3 0 87 1 4 •3 4 /111439: 165 11 10 74 1 9 :1840 , 116 7 6 54 010 'lB4l 111 6 8 4919 0 , £l6 0 4 1 X445 0 0 13 10 2: 395 11 1 11 3 1i 346 2 3 7 18 10' 296 13 4 710 4' 247 4 5 let-'b„e A i vision of profits is annual, and the next will be made in — *er of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX. Secretary. ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR- ANCE SOCIETY. Itns, 26, Corral!11, Dec. 24, 1846. lkiv e 4 hereby given that the Half-yearly Interest, at the rate 1 , on th e Cent. per annum on the Capital Stock of this Society , Zt, mvi e 31st instant, will become payable on the 11th January Proprietors may receive the same on application at this that, or any . subsequent day, between the hours of a4l cl Three o'clock By order of the Directors, F. FERGUSON' CAMROUX, Secretary. V II IECT BOMBAY and. MADRAS RAIL WAY. e FIRST HALF YEAR'S INTEREST, at 4 per ce nt. req uel '"; will continue to be PAID till the 31 st inst. Sc ri p holders the hours of Twelve and Three, when it will be tamped and ''"t Paid at the same time. "tile t s order, JAMES WARD, Secretary. the Company, 58, Fenchirch-street. LI N, NT4 is hereby given, that MARY COL boty nr ... of Morice Town, in the borough of Devonport in the ~I, l r ‘l - 2evon, widow, grocer, dealer, thepinsia, by IN • t; of ASSIGNMENT, bearing dote 4th day of Novo.. erp, And made between the said Mary Collins of , the first part, d Down ing, of the borough of Plymouth, in. the Said county, 1 1,4 1 . C., of the second part; and the several other persons whose N i tB , and seals are thereunto subscribed and set, being severally r t., , 43 r 8 of the said Mary Collins , of the third pa rt, assi g ned all and Ib of the stock in trade, goods, wares, and merchandises, and house 4. goods and furniture, book debts, sum and sums of money, and lend every other the personal estate and effects whatsoever and t47esover of her the said Mary Collins, for the benefit of all her k t ztor4, that such was duly executed by the said Mary Collins and %eld Downing on the Said 4th day of November last ; the exe- Ne V ll Whereof was attested by James Gilbatd, of DevoiVort afore. ~:_tolteitOr, and John Collings Avent, his clerk. ' EAGUE BREAD COMPANY.' 4Nt Directors of the above Company beg to inform the Public h;tLlokery, tipon an extensive scale, is being erected in St. l Oler , Cle*kenwell, and will shortly be completed. To meet eal t....demand made upon them . for ", Pure nnadultered Litrectors are selecting Depots in all parts of the Metro llkcters t '' ) ,°r which will be published with the Agent's names. The e beefi I n ok it necessary to caution the Public, that some shops s o ,Parly . "Poneti under a colourable imitation of the name of the oe Hayed the authority of the Board, and that they must 14.1 4 '11av e a reVensible for the quality of the Bread sold therein. `ssu res jiver! stopctins to their Solicitors to take the neces sar y 4an to Put a to such practices. By order, EDWARD PARRATT, Secretary. walk, New Broad-street, City. WESTMINSTER NEW BRIDGE. m,.llrike to The Lambeth Committee for opposin the Removal of the essed to them at the g e l v uest that any communication may be By order, bill Hotel, Bridge-road, Lambeth. W. H. MILLER, llon. Sec. RAVE SEND STAR PACKETS a nd BLACKWALL dNat and Rail included is One Payment, avoidin the d e ley of the Pool. g anger ~n 3 the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwell, at 9%, to , 72. 1,3, 4, and ter r ;'lrtelayg l%, 4, and 5. The Trains startln V' an hour before each of these times. gone quar k ;4* Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 7%, 8 1 %, 9%, 11% , ~ 3, and 1141 '11 % 3 , at 8%, 11%, 1, 3, and 5. Bt 4t -- N . () other packets call at the Grays or Greenhith e Piers. 0 111 c ',......._ e, Gravesend, Dec. 28, 1846. I) &VIES'S CANDLES, 6d. per lb. ; Genuin e ko ape tn, d, rin. is. id.; Yellow Soap, 485., 54e., and 60e. per 112Ibs. 2d•i i es• and 645.; Wax Candles, is. per lb. ; German 1 - y ex, ma x,g o , I ,fi,e Wax, le. 5d.; Transparent Wax, Is. 10d.; Genuine 4ar, a s : ; Waxed-wick Moulds, 7d.; Sperm 011, Bs. per gallon ; It, 1 9114 p:' q • Pale Seal, 4s. ; Argand, or Vegetable, 4s. 6d. ; Wind t 2%. 2, e l m Soap, Is. 4d. per packet; Brown Windsor, Is. 9d ; " 1 4 0 _,'; Almond 41 6d • Sealing Wax, 45. 6d.; Hale 's Para g on atte • • 9 k_or• requiring no snuffing, 9}6d. cer lb. 7tire:M -- •At DA_VIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St. opposite Slaughter's Coffee-house. ,PLA.TE SUITED FOR PRESENTA TION. ' l° ' SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing ( I ) l24 4 ,, S pvrsmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bana of submit for inspection in their show-rooms, every Sr vt, 1.,21, am, PLATE adapted for this purpose, embossed and RZo4 , T, Silver Tea Trays, Silver Centres, N'pergnes, and.Can /Olt Ta ree I ne Coolers, Dinner Services, including CorneT.Dishes, tielLnit e u , s ns . Pce.; Bread and Cake Baskets, Silver Sailing and 14 ; Silver Inkstands from 101. to 401. always ready for nES of an '"it'eti, to Y of the above articles are sent for the a pp roval of all Parts of the kingdom. 11.1%11)1 C'S PATENT OPEN FIRE V STOVE. tetter(PISTIMONIAENL - AFTER TILATING ONE WINTER'S TRIAL.) eo - p;: in the Rev. Matthew y O'Brien (Professor of Natural Philo /is Y and Astronom ). M.A., F.R.S., &c., King's College. AD4 beg I ,„,. 4 , Upper Norwood, June 22. D -" (' - LaY that one of Mr. Cundy's Patent Stoves was put ' ''Y *eta Ilp,, ll ,tovi , ~eom at King's College, last year, in place of. l a e e s ort .. s ti Lun ~i O , Arnott's construction, I believe). I have no i . i 14 1 , 1 7 1 f10r b o . tt ilf 1 •0111 actual experience, that Mr. Cundy's Stove is far ng l'entil.„Droducing warmth over the whole roo . m, and in pro- The , — ' 4l ,wittiout disagreeable currents of air or close smell. v,,, Mo ve . a MATTHEW O'BRIEN. "" l iih.3„,„ ' to be had of Messrs. Dovrson, 69, Welbeck-street, Ca `are, where they may be seen in operation. ..._ MOUSTACHIOS, and WlllS hvetutd Produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and ,OR the use of GRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGA,N 'eer essential spirit drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers, Zoeit d° Pe Of Which cure ' headache in a few minutes ; it is also a ;:oetti,`!_lghtful, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only in here trianular .; p r otected by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double ze, 411117 1 2 , " double this size, I 1 s. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, con •t1,111 testimonials of undoubted authority, entitled " Three Minutes: cY ) 4. 0 11 the Growth and Preservation of the Human Hair, &c.' 4.215•75. my and 125., for money orders only. tks w holesale only at Grimstone's Herhary, Highgate, near and Not 4 ; by Messrs. Barclay and Son, Farringdon-street ; Sanger, „ :street; Messrs. Butler and Co., Cheapside ; Fisher and Teller, hA'telt-street ; Mr. Johnston, medicine warehouse, 6S, Cornhill • 1) Tall "i t t enlists, Perfumers, and others For Edinburgh, J. and mler:Q c es e ..letth - welk ; for M anc h ester, eresche and Son, Adver- Ns TO THE LAD IES. 1)1 4 , 4 lady had the following letter inserted in the "Times" news the a uAnt. 1, 1 846 . Reader, reme m b er, this letter was put into .1 4 4 1 10 r by the lady herself, as a testimony to me. t ullit"• Weekley, of No. 3. Swan-street, Borough, takes this oppor tate, r o4 l, tiblicly thanking Mr. IV. Orlinstone, of the llerbary, High- Dietei,,l 'he efficacy of kis Aromatic Regenerator, in having corn ‘n, ( 1 tii:a t nrod the hair on her head, after using itabout four months, ' eve r - ..""ole of her hair is much stronger and more luxuriant than R " kr."44..before the baldness appeared. 4 ' , ge * " e .kleY inserts this testimony to the virtues of Mr. (I.'s 5 ._ . _ eater , e et ,,_ "'tit assured that many ladies would gladly purchase DierteinCeb°ttle if theY were as certain of its virtue i s as f sheis, from ex te4n;eo, cibui not only in the restoration and production • hair in lathniid i-, " a cure ef nervous headache; as a toilet . perfume is far 14,1 3 ," 0f ell' to her taste. She will feel a pleasure in answering an? , In re V e otability to the above facts.-3, Swan - street, Borough." dr en 'os of op % the hair becoming thin, weak, or . turning grey, a few vent the the crown of the head occasionally, ever week,. will parned lrevit hair from coming away with the comb, make it strong, A v ie* bis turning grey , rendering the hair luxuriant and . curly. .at i . b rn — on your hairbrush before brushing the hair, TiterilliancY, causing it to curl. will give the Tnoilt _Mast delicate ladies may ose this delightful product of the o dour ;reornittle herbs and flowers with confidence ; its refreshing lio th e to rtes headache and makes it a most necessary companion on tb,, _ et. In cases of nevous headache, pour ten or twelve drops ho er : 'town of the head; if 'very bad, repeat it every quarter of an hair eu I n most cases relief is certain in ten minutes. It produces h eads, i t e i h s ib lron's heads in a few appplicatlons. 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" This is an exceedingly useful book ofreference, and the matter it contains is at once varied, practical, and well arranged. The value of a book embr icing subjects to which we have such frequent occa sion to refer, needs no other recommendation than its own intrinsic merits." —Morning Post. E. Clirton, Library, 26, Holies-street. We are sorry to perceive that the Wilderspin Tribute Fund has not yet reached the minimum amount at which it has been deemed practicable to effect the double object of giving ease to the remaining years o f Mr. Wilderspin himself, and making some provision for his family atter his death. Of the small sum of 2,0001. reanired for this purpose, only 1,3001. has been yet con trifyutecl.—Leeds Mercury. PROPOSED CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS ON TRH SUFFERINGS AND PRIVATIONS OF THE PEOPLE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.—In consequence of the frightful amount of distress and famine existing in all parts of the United Kingdom, but more especially in Ireland and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, a meeting will shortly be convened at Exeter-hall, consisting of clergymen and ministers of all denominations, whose professional duties render them more intimately acquainted with the exi gencies of the people than any other class of her Ma jesty's subjects, for the purpose of consulting as to the most desirable course to be pursued to mitigate the im mense amount of privation and suffering daily increas ing throughout the country with a rapidity truly appall ing. Among the ministers who have tendered their zealous co-operation, may be numbered the Honourable and Rev. Baptist Noel, Rev. S. G. Garrard, the Hon. and Rev. S. G. Osborne, R-,v. Weldon Champeeys, Rev. Francis Dollman, Rev. F. A. Cox, D.D., Rev. J. Leif child, D.D., Rev. J. IV. Weeks, Rev. Robert Sprange Rov. Edward Scobell, Rev. Henry H. Beamish, Rev. R. 11. Herschell. RD., Rev. Septimus Ramsay, Rev. Sidney Turner, Rev. Dr. Reed, and Rev. J. B. Hill. The clergy are earnestly requested in advertisements to for ward their names and assent to the proposed conference, as soon as possible, to the honorary secretaries, as the miseries of the people are being greatly aggravated by the inclemency of the seasou.—Leeds Mercury. RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE. IRISH LINES. (From the Irish Railway Gazette.) At a meeting of directors of several of the Irish rail way companies, held in Dublin, on Friday, December 11, 1846, with a view to considering how the progress of their works might be made available towards reliev ing the present alarming and increasing destitution of the poor in this country, it was resolved to lay the fol lowing statement before her Majesty's government : It appears to this meeting that Government aid to Irish railway companies, by way of loan, would enable them to assist very materially in relieving the present distress, and afford the same relief for a considerable period, by providing an immediate and ample field for unemployed and productive labour, in the acceleration of their works. That this employment would not be confined to any lo cality, but would be spread over large districts of the country, from north to south. To carry out this object the following suggestions are respectfully submitted : That, previously to a loan from Government to any Irish railway company, twenty per cent. of their capital shall be bona fide paid np, and expended on the under taking. Th - at the Government shall advance to such company a sum not exceeding thirty per cent. of their capital, in in• stalments of five per cent., at such times as an equal amount, shall be paid up by the shareholders. The amount of loan thus required is less than that now authorised by their acts to be borrowed, but it brings, that power into action sooner. Such assistance, by inducing the shareholders in the respective companies more readily to pay up their calls, appears fully justified by the recommendation of govern- ment loans to Irish railway companies by the committee of the House of Commons, in 1845, us— " Bringing forward a large amount of private capital in furtherance of tuhlie works_ of great national utility as well as etnolurnent, and thiis Confer benefits on Ire land which neither public nor private capital separately employed could ever accomplish." Without some such assistance it is much to be feared that many of the railways now in course of construction must be greatly delayed, considerably lessened in extent or altogether stopped ; thereby adding fearfully to the amount of destitution already existing. Among the numerous advantages to the government, the following are respectfully but particularly sug gested : -.;lnstead of advancing an immense amount of money, unassisted, for carrying out works for the most part of questionable utility, and in many instances worse than useless, from the pauperising effect already so apparent upon the industrial habits of the labourer by the present system of baronial relief, and with the prospect of re payment at the best but doubtful: • By advancing five millions durizg the next three years to Irish railway companies, an additional sum of ten millions would be paid by the sliareholders, thereby causing fifteen millions to be expended on Irish railways, the advantages of which can scarcely - be over-rated, as whatever improvements are in ! contemplation for Ireland, these must prove to be the most important auxiliaries. This would not create any unnatural demand for, or give a false and only temporary stimulus to labour, but would enable Irish railways to progress steadily, and be completed in about the average time of construction for such works. It appears, from the present weekly expenditure by the Government for relief of dis tt•ess, and which has been rapidly on the increase, that by August next the amount will probably be above 6,0W,000/., thus exceed ing the loans required for railway' companies for the next three years. The security would be ample for the repayment of the loans, which would only amone t to three-eights of the money actually expended on e works, whilst the direct profit of Government, by bo." owing at 3 per cent., and lending at 4 per cent., would be' as follows :- 5,090,000/. to be returned by ai inual instalments, in twenty p ars, commencing soon afte r the advance, would bear a gross amount of interest, equal to an average of ten years. Four per cent per annum on 5,000 0001 . £200,000 Phree ditto dito Leaving a clear profit of. to the Government, which, upon an. average of ten years, would amount to 500,000/. To this may be added the inairect but Rot unim portant advantage in the greatly i ncreased consumption of tea, coffee, sugar, and other a•re.tcles paying duties, as well as of low priced manufactur, ?d! commodities. To elucidate still further the n ?sult of the proposed arrangement, the annexed table is: , respectfully submitted to the consideration of her Majes t: f's Government. LIST A. IRISH RAILWAY COMPANIES—: D :CORPORATED 1845. Name of Company. Capital. Belfast and Ballymena Cork and Bandon . ...a,. 240,000 Dublin and Belfast Junction ... Dundalk and Enniskillen ..........• 750,000 Great Southern and Western Ex t..?nsion 1,200,000 Londonderry and Coleraine Londonderry and Enniskillen .. ifidlaud Great Western .. Newry and Enniskillen 900,000 Waterford and Kilkenny .... 250,000 Waterford and Limerick £7,425,722 LIST B. IRISH RAILWAYS—INCOI%)'ORATED 18 46. Name of Company. Capital. Belfast and County D own 500,000 Clonmel and Thurles Cork, Blackrock, and Passage.— Cork and Waterford Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine J 1 n action Dublin, Dundrum, and Rathfarnit am Dublin. and Kingstown Extensio n ... .. 300,000 Galway and Kilkenny Great Leinster and Munster-- Carlow to Kilkenny Great Leinster and ,Munster— -I alkenny to Clonmel Great Southern and Western— Cork Exten sion Killarney Junction 375,000 Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Midland Great Western—Athlo a .e Midland Great Western—Liffey - Branch 33,000 Mountmellick Junction 22,500 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostr e vor Sligo and Shannon lOO,OOO Templemore and N enag h Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow,. and Dublin 2,000,000 Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin .... £8,817,900 The have Massachusetts avTehdoo A n ilie M fts E hi ne ß l e i:n a C r e pg s A iet N s a ct r h e: nri s ue i a ri N g i g d hh E i t S o_ b. Worcester, ü b s e ine r s e s a , p i a n ad rich at hn ed harvests. Western two latter have been doing a a lost successful general traffic throughout the season. '1 'he financial year of the Worcester and Western has do s 4 •d, when their accounts will be made up; the former P rr six months, and the latter for five. The Charlestc Ivn Branch Road, some times called the Ice Road, whit :l i has lately been united to the Fitchburgh road, has freighted this year, in eleven months, over seventy th Lc busand tons of ice and twelve millions of bricks. The • expenses have been con siderably reduced since the u n ion, which places both lines under one head and mat ta gement, and it is esti mated that this little road, abo u t five miles in length, between Charlestown and Fresh Pond, will yield ten per cent. net revenue, being equal t o the main line. The Fitchburgh Company made a 1 ;ood thing by the an nexation, and the Charlestown branch corporators, by the sale of their roads and l U ids, have realised over par for their stock, which at of tt% time sold at consider -I.loeractaipointalhoafs th h e ee lio n st i o n n . able discount. andß 6pBTrOoNvi creased by the creatio n of 3,6 0 .) new shares. An as sessment of 25 per ce nt. on th e par value of the shares ANDI enc ePill°iraliDlrolladCE.Ct ri; will be p a yable on the 13 th o f April next; and one of 50 per per cent. on the Ist of a winery next; one of 26 cent. on the Ist of July nex :t. All new shares not WILMINGTON aAnNdpanyßiehEn: taken by the stockholders by -. the 25th of December will be sold at auction at su o h time as the directors shall determineba , ji ll 11 ....... obtained at such sale shares, • in their proportion. .t r l s io o r lders entitled to such The eleveth annual meeting the Wilmington and of the stockholders t )f n el g d. the G s ov a e rt i Dudley, president of the com pany, submitted, on b e half of the directory, a report of operations f or the 3 ear' ending October 1 . Liabilities of the company on the Ist October, 1845, $668,817 52. Whi ch de up as follows : Bonds sold in England,sbini is; 1 n a bearing - 5 per cent. interest ......... ! . To the Literary Fund .Of ... tl 3f 3 State of North Carolina, at 6 per cent • ' 4 85,000 0 0 Company's Bonds en d orsed b.. interest 3 • State of North Carolina, bearing 6 Bills payable, b ear i ng 7 per e l : sl . n t cent . in 250,000 0 0 . interest . 15,000 00 Do. bearing 6 per et at. interest . 42,272 86 Scrip Bonds due to contractor s Bonds for hire of negro m a t lc :u ....... rers, 43 due . Jan. 1, 1846, and p ' revious.. .. Bonds for hire of negro lal 3,939 48 rc urers, due Jan. 1, 1847 18,270 00 Due sundry persons for material s, labour,Scc• 30,875 08 Tora 1 5668,817 52 Amount of receipts for the yi .ar ending Oct. 1: Passengers ,' 103,469 60 Freight Mail Transportation $185,286 65 Expenses of road for the year ... Amount of receipts from st( sac Moats for the year end ing October 1 : Passengers and freight Mail transportation tr:,.... Experses of boats for the yer ir,....,. ......... 97,827 96 Net profits of road and boats ~..... a 28,140 04 In regard to the exp enses. of 0 road the examining committee say, " It will b # seen Os* the expenditures of the railroad are to an amount greatly exceeding that of any previous year. The committee think proper to explain that there has been expended during the year for four new locomotives, two new coaches, a large num ber of new trucks, and a new coach-house, the snm of $42,901 07, which doe s not proper l y b e l ong t o th e cur rent expenses of the ro a d. I t appears b y the report of the superintendent of th e roa d an d roa d re p a i r s that there has been expend e d f or road repairs (including the sum of $21,747 74 for n ew i ron ) t h e sum o f $79,790 46." PENNSYLVANIAN LINE. —A fierce controversy is being carried on in Pennsylvania as to the expediency, or otherwise, of carrying out this line, by voluntary private subscription or compulsory public loan. Upon this ground the promoters of the measure take their stand, and state that " the construction of the line cannot be postponed without the most disastrous results both to city and state—that if throe millions of dollars be not subscribed to the capital stock and 10 per cent. thereon paid in, on or before the 13th day of April next, and unless one million of dollars be paid on the amount sub scribed, and thirty miles of road put under contract, before the 30th of July following, the grant of the 'right of way' which is now only conditional, will then become positive, in which event all the advantages which we n ow h ave i t i n our power to secure for Philadelphi a an d P ennsy l van i a a r e to be transferred to the city of B a l t i more, an d th e Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,to whom have been granted 'the privilege of diverting the trade and travel from our own city as well as the revenue from the state improve ments. The Pennsylvania rail will, on the contrary, greatly increase the revenue derived from the state im provements, both from canals and railroids, particularly from the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad with, which it will be connected. It will furnish in connexion with the Ohio Railroads, now 19 progress of construction, and with which it will be united, the most central, the shortest, the cheapest, aid but route between the At lantic seaboard and thUgres4 West, and must, therefore, attract to itself an immense amount of trade and travel, as the following table will make manifest : Max'm grade per mile From Cleveland to Boston, via Buf falo, Albany, and Massachusetts R. Roads From Cleveland to New York via the New York and Erie Railroad 640 60 " From Cleveland to New York, via Pittsburg, Harrisburg, and Phi ladelphia From Gleveland toPhiladelphia, via Pittsburg and Harrisburg 466 45 " It will thus be seen that Cleveland, the most important city on the lakes, and the northern terminus of the Ohio State Canal, more than 300 miles in length, and the Cin cinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland Railroad, now in pro gress, 260 miles in length, both passing through highly productive portions of the State, is situated 265 miles nearer Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania route than to Boston by the new York and Massachusetts route, and 174 miles nearer Philadelphia by the Pensylvania route than to the city of New York by the shortest New York route, whilst the maximum gradients in all cases are greatly in favour of the Pennsylvania route. Who, therefore, can reasonably doubt that a railroad possess ing such superior advantages will attract to itself an immense amount of trade and travel, richly remunerating the stockholders, at the same time adding largely to the revenues of the commonwealth, and contributing beyond all present estimates to the growth and comfort, the business and prosperity of Philadelphia ? What has been the effect of similar improvements in other cases ? But for the construction of the main line from Philadelphia to Pitsburg, imperfect as it is, and im peded by frosts and droughts for a considerable portion of the year, and other internal improve means, the population, business, and real estate of these two cities, as well as of other portions of the State,, would scarcely have equalled two-thirds of the present estimates. The construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, towards which the city of Baltimore largely contributed, although completed only half the entire distance, has, as is stated, nearly or quite doubled the amount of her western trade, and greatly augmented the value of her real and personal estate, whilst the nett earnings of the road are already more than equal to the interests on the investment. The city of New York, within ten years from the completion of the New York and Erie Canal, had nearly doubled her population, and the value of her real and personal estate had swelled from 100 millions to 218 millions,' and went on increasing, notwithstanding great pecuniary dif ficulties and devastating fires, until the completion of the railroad from Boston to Albany, which has had a sensible effect in diminishing the western trade, and thereby the value of her real and personal estate. The road from Albany to Boston was completed in 1841, in which year the value of her real and personal estate in the city of New York was 252 millions ; in 1842, 238 millions ; in 1843, 228 millions; in 1844, 236 millions; and in 1845, 240 millions ; still 12 millions less than in 1841, although in the interim several thousand buildings were erected. "Ifetan-Yorh-viaerly with the hope of recovering her lost advantages, had found it expedient to construct a railroad (running nearly parallel with the Hudson river) and another to Dunkirk on Lake Erie, at an aggregate expense of some twenty millions of dollars. " Upon Baston the effect of this road (from Boston to Albany) has been most remarkable. In the four years intervening from 1841 to 1845, her population has increased from 93,000 to 115,000, and the value of her real and personal estate within the same period, from $98,000,000 to $ 135 ,000,000. When this growth is compared with her f ormer h i story, as t h e o ld es t city on the Atlantic, we s h a ll be able to appreciate her astonishing progress un d er the disadvantages o f a so il ungenia', almost to s t er ili ty. " Even the c i ty o f Alb an y, though small in co m p ar i son, has aide d muc h more liberally in proportio n t o h er means than Phil a d e lphi a is now desired to, towards the construction of a rail road designed to promote her trade and intercourse. That city has thereby greatly increased, not only the business, but the value of her real and personal estate, and at the same time is receiving dividends on the amount of her investment at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum. Yet none of these improvements held out, originally, any advantages, either general or special at all to be compared with those that may reasonably be expected from the speedy construction of the Pennsyl vania Railroad. If satisfactory assurances are given that this road will be promptly commenced and pushed forward to completion, we may safely calculate not only upon a connexion with the Pittsburg and Cleveland road, and the road leading from Cincinnati via Colum bus to Cleveland, b u t a l so w i th the Sandus k y an d Mans field road, e ith er at M ansf i eld or Mount V ernon, with a probable e x t ens i on westward, throug h t h e cen tral portions o f Ohi o, Indiana and Illi no i s , to the Mississippi r i ver, with branches f rom th e north and the s out h, which in less t h an th ree years from its completion will bring to the main stem an amount of trade and travel far surpassing all present cal culation. This is the true, and the only true method of securing for Philadelphia any considerable portion of the trade Si the lakes. The prod uce an d commo dities, which, in the absence of s uc h rai l road facilities as we h ave a b ove suggested, are now, a t muc h expense, conveyed chiefly from the north ern an d central portions of Ohio, I n di ana, and Illinois, to port s on t h e lakes, and give emp l oyment to a vast amount o f tonnage, if once afloat on t h ose waters, may be considered as lost to Philadelphia. If we design to secure for Philadelphia "the trade of the lakes," we must intercept it before it reaches the lakes. At Cleveland, Sandusky, and Toledo, and between the two places last named, a railroad is now contemplated ; we have the advantage in distance of 174 miles, and at all pi iints 50 miles south of the lakes, 274 miles over New York, and a still greater advantage over Boston, and during the five months of the year, when the- lakes are closed, which is the season when the products of the west are generally prepared for market, the cities named can not compete with us, either fur the trade or travel, ex cept by our " central route." The navigation of the lakes is usually obstructed by ice from five to six months in the year, whilst the railroad during seasons of frost, as well as at all other seasons, will furnish a ready, safe, and expeditious conveyance, without trans-shipment, to a steady and desirable market. On such a railroad, so extended and connected, it has been estimated, by good judges, that the tonnage cannot be less than 200,000, and the passengers 300,000 per annum! Who shall calcu late the effect of such an increased amount of trade and travel upon the commerce and navigation, and the growth and prosperity of Philadelphia? But what if the Pennsylvania Railroad be not made, and the Balt more and Ohio Company, as they would in that ease have the right to do, should extend their road to Pitts burg, and form a connexion with the Ohio railroads, to which we have above alluded. All the advantages, we repeat, which we have it now in our power to secure for our own state and city, would then be transferred to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and to the city of Balti more. Some, we are aware, have affected to believe that Philadelphia, because of her superior capital, and the deservedly high character of her merchants, would still retain her present portion of the western trade, al though she might not be able to increase it. This we believe to be a fatal delusion. The position of Baltimore, so far as regards the foreign and coastwise trade, is at least equal to that of Philadelphia; and, in the case above supposed, her advantages in respect to the wes tern trade would be greatly superior. The distance by railroad from that city to Philadelphia is 93 miles. The additional expense, therefore, of transporting 200,000 tons of freight between the two points, at the low rate of three cents. per ton per mile, and 21 cents. per ton for charges in Baltimore, would be ............ $600,000 And for conveying 300,000 passengers at the same rate, and the same allowance for ex penses in Baltimore, would be Making an annual tax of ........41,500,000 against Philadelphiaand in favour of Baltimore, or in that ratio according to the greater or less amount of business and travel passing by that route between Philadelphia and the West. So monstrous a tax as this the business men of Philadelphia cannot aff,rd to pay, and the Western dealer will not pay. By the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia will be placed even nearer to Pittsburgh, and to the main channels of the western trade, than Baltimore can possibly be by way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. whilst the maximum gradients on the latter nearly double those on the former. Nature has afforded us advantages and facilities with respect to railroad improvements enjoyed by no other Atlantic city, and if we avail ourselves of these advantages and facilities, while it is yet time, the growth and prosperity of Philadelphia will at least equal, if it do not surpass, that of any other city in the union. Some have entertained the opinion that if the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company should ultimately extend their road through Virginia to the Ohio river at Wheel ing, or Fishing Creek, a large portion of the trade and travel ascending that stream would be diverted by that road, notwithstanding its short curvatures and gradients, varying from eighty-two to a hundred feet per mile, and consequent high charges. This we believe to be a groundless apprehension. The average periel in each year, for a number of years past, during which the Ohio river could not be navigated to advantage by steam-boats, is - less than six weeks, say thirty-nine days—previously to the arrival of which period, western produce is usually sent to market—and it is during this short space of time only that this road could enjoy any of these supposed advan tages. The Pennsylvania route, by its connexion with Cincinnati, above. referred to, will strike the river many miles below, at one of our most important cities. To and from this point the passenger desirous of avoiding the river would assuredly take the railroad. Where expedition is of more importance than low freight, or in low stages of water, the same would be the case with merchandise. Where low"freight is an object, as is almost always the case with produce and heavy articles, Pittsburg, the bead of navigation, would of course be preferred as the point of transhipment to any point lower down. Whether, therefore, we consider the expedition and advantages of railroad communication alone, or these combined with the economy of water transporta tion, the Pennsylvania route must have the preference." The views of the opposition are embodied in what is entitled an anti-subscription address, wherein it is con= tended that the expected cost of the line of from seven to ten millions of dollars is a perfect probability, seeing that the cost of railways hitherto has only been imper fectly estimated among them. It asserts that the progress of private subscription has proved to be inconsiderable, when compared with the demands of the charter; and this was the natural consequence of what had taken place. The commissioners adjourned their last meeting in September to a day beyond the coming election, be cause, it may be presumed, private subscription had ceased to come in. The interference of the new coun cils has become the principal, if not the final, hope of the railroad ; and after merchants, traders, manufac- turers, mechanics, householders, lot-owners, and pro prietors of every kind in the city, in the districts, and in the state at large, have proved either so blind or so true to their own interests as not to have subscribed to secure the charter, the Whig list or candidates for th e councils has been formed by the conferees precisely in that manner that will compel every owner of real estate in the city to submit to the road, whatever may be his view either of his own interests or of the interest of the corporation. A voluntary subscription has failed. It never was resorted to in the temper, spirit, and manner through which alone it could be obtained, From the very outset, all the calculations of profit and all the sug gestions of personal interest put forth by the friends and patrons of the road were completely and fatally dis credited by their own course in resorting to the city ; and it has now come to be the nearly universal feeling, that if the city does not make it, the road will not be made •, and that if the city does make it, it will only be made by her because the sacrifice of private capital to make it will be so much beyond the value to the sub scribers, that men acting with the instincts which govern all trades and the investments of all property for their own account, will have nothing to do with it. The railroad itself is no object of aversion to any of us—far from it. We should be glad to see it made by those who see their interest in it, for then we should be morally sure that it would be worth the expenditure ; but we confess our doubts, in con equence of the doubts which are practically manifested by those who say the road is indispensable to the city. We confess our doubts, arising from this cause, whether the road is so iroportnt to any interest as it has been declared to be ; and we entertain a perfect conviction that if by the interest of the city is meant the interest of the cor poration of the city, or the interest of the owners of property in the city, that so far is the declara tion from being true, that it is directly opposed to the truth.. On this point we ask your attention to the fol lowing suggestions. There is one proposition connected with this subject, the truth of which has, we believe never been questioned ; that is to say, that if the city shall subscribe for the number of shares proposed, pri vate subscriptions will cease altogether, and the city must take the burden of the whole railroad upon her self. There is another, which we think equally clear, that she must raise the money by loans, if she can, and must pay the interest by taxes, if she can. She has no other disposable resources. No financiering will relieve the property of the inhabitants from this burden. There is a third, that all experience in Pennsylvania shows to be as true as either of the others ; that for years and years to come, and for a period which we are unable to measure, this burden of taxes must-continue. There is not an extensive work of this kind in the state, whether public or private, that brings any dividend to its stock holders. You may look around this city in every direc tion. Railroads and canals have been projected and car ried on in the same spirit which now rules, and the end at this time is that the stocks of most of the private com panies have disappeared from the brokers' exchange as of no commercial value ; that even their loans are far, very far, below par, except in some solitary instances, and that we pay a tax to meet the interest on the loans contracted by the state to make such of these works as are public, and shall continue to pay it, as long as the public faith shall endure. Can any person tell when the dawn is to break upon the long night which has settled upon most of these companies and works ? There have always been arguments, very good arguments, against any such occurrences as have happened ; but the occur rences are before our eyes, and unless we shut them, and keep them shut, it is impossible to avoid seeing them in every direction ; and unless men are willing to be cheated, and even desirous of being cheated, they will take no argument whatever against such experience. There is another proposition which has great probability on its side, though it may not be so evident as the other, namely, that in proportion as any dividends from a successful railroad shall meet a part of the interest on the city loans, we may look for a diminution of re ceipts upon a long line of the public works, and increased taxation to meet it. What we may Cease paying in part to the city, we shall pay to the state. These taxes, fellow-citizens, are to fall upon what ? Upon any new property within the city which the railroad is to create. Upon an increased capital of the trader, manufacturer, and mechanic within her limits ? Upon an inct eased value of her houses and lots ? Not at ull ; or if at all, only in a most inconsiderable de gree. When the advocates of this subscription say that the railroad will produce an increase of taxable capital in the city of Philadelphia corresponding to the interest on the increased debt, they use an ambiguous name, which must be reduced to certainty before we can rea son with them. If they mean an increase of capital, or a profit to the whole commercial city, including all the districts, their allegation does not meet our objection. Our concern is in the corporate city, and the corporate city can derive no profit and no taxes from anything beyond its limits. The increase, to be of any value in the argument, must be within its limits. Now what is the probable increase of houses and stores, or in their va lue, within those limits which the railroad is to set off in aid of the tax paid ? In which direction, let us ask, is the progress of buildings and improvements at the pre sent time under the influence of existing public im provements ? Let any man take a walk round our city, and his eyes will see progress in the north, the north-east, and north-west, and very little else where. This is the destiny of things not to be arrested, and the railroad is to accelerate it. The great future growth is to be in those directions, and not within the limits of the city. For purposes of transportation to the west the whole river front may be employed, as well as that within the city, and that to receive the trade from the west it must happen in this case as it universally happens, that buildings of every kind will stretch out towards the country. to meet the productions which are coming in. The true interest and the necessary policy of the city is to reduce her taxes as low as she can, to make them, if possible, lower than those in the northern districts, to counteract the advantage of position which these districts enjoy over her western front, for ever lost to the purposes of trade, as much as Moyamensing, and destined to be the residence, not of trader?, but of per sons of easy fortune and of moderate income, and pos sibly of some manufactories, if the weight of taxes does not drive them away. We say with confidence that every dollar of tax which the railroad debt shall bring upon the city, is a premium upon residence and improvement in these districts, and therefore an injury to the city. It is a premium for deserting the city west of Broad-street, the only material space now remaining to be built upon. The tax will be avoided, and equal or greater conve nience in residence obtained by going north. A raj - road tax upon the city must have the double effect to discourage investments in the city, and to increase them in the districts; to increase the value of property else where, and to diminish it at home. It is felt, and justly felt, to be hard that the western trade, which is the golden fleece this railroad is to obtain for our traders, even if every dollar of it comes into the city, will not pay one dollar of taxation towards the expenses of the road. The trade is not expected to be taxed; it cannot be taxed; it eludes state taxation at this present time, when there is a clear and positive law to tax it, and the state does not get a dollar from it. The taxes must fall on that on which the present taxes fall, and if any one thinks they are not heavy enough at present, we cannot object to his voting for those who will vote to increase them. The taxes, then, fellow citizens, which this railroad is to necessitate, are not to fall upon the new houses and stores within the city, vi hich are to be built up in consequence of it, not upon the increased capital of the trader, nor upon the increased value of existing houses and stores. They are to fall upon the property now existing, and in our judgment to depre• mate the value of the great mass of that property, and to raise the value of like property in t h e districts. It is this general proposition `that we ask you to consider. There may be, and if the road should pr,,ve successful, there probably will be, exceptions in favour of curtain descriptions of property in the city. But the proposition we hold to be generally true; and we had vastly rather, as citizens of this city, take the hazard of losing the western trade, if it is to be lost, of which we have little fear, than to incur the mo mentous responsibility of burdening the,city with a tax to make the road, with the, probable consequences which are before us. We wash our hands of it, as we hope you will do. There are many other objeetions to this scheme of compelling the corporation to build •the railroad, which we can only name, without explaining and enforc ing them:—the extreme rashness of embarking the city in such a project upon mere credit, for the has no dis posable property to pay her subscription without borrow ing; the jealousy which is certain to be entertained of her by the country and by the legislature, if she succe: fully controls such a Work, where there exists quite enough of thatfeeling already; the fierce contentions of party within her limits for the control of all the contracts, appointments and emoluments that are to grow out of the road; the .defects of the railroad charter, which give the company no security whatever far the enjoyment of the Columbia railroad upOn equal terms with those who use the state works, nor for consulting the interest or. convenience of the company in the use of it, and which contains no authority to the company to make a road betiieen Harrisburg and Philadelphia, for its own use, while, in a - certain event, it is careful to give that right from Harrisburg to Lancaster ; , the de fective management that must arise under the directors and agents of a municipal legislature, of anntial elec tion, of occasional attendance, of imperfect experience,, distant from the scene, and expending from the city purse, and not from their 'own; these and 'other objec tions fill us with the deepest apprehensions. DUTCH AND HAMB WIWI. MAILS. AMSTERDAM; DEC. 23.—8 y a royal resolution of the" 22d Septembet, and another of 25th- November, the estates of the province of Drouthe •are authorised to negotiate a loan for account of the province of Drouthe to the amount of 20,000110 !ins, to 'defray part of the expenses of constructing a road 'froin ROW to the frontiers of the province of Groningen, according to a . plan approved of by liirlifijesty. The estates of the province have given notice that the loan shall consist of 40 shares of 500 florins each, bearing interest of 4 per cent. per annum. His Royal Highness Prince Alexander, accompanied by his Aide-de-Camp, has returned from the Loo to this city. EINDHOVEN, DEC. 20.—The diligence which left this place yesterday morning at half-past eight o'clock, to proceed to Bois le Duc, was obliged, after going two leagues on its road, to turn back, it not being possible to go any further on account cf the great quantity of snow, which had drifted to a vast height, and had en tirely blocked up the road. The mail from Holland, which ought to have arrived on Friday, did not reach here till the morning, being' brought by a man on horseback. The Belgian mail, which should have arrived yesterday, did not reach here till to-day. Thus the mails are stopped or considerably delayed in all directions to Eindhoven. VIENNA, DEC. 14.—A melancholy event had lately nearly cost the life of our Archbishop, Milde. The Chamberlain of the Archbishop, whi for some days had evidently been labouring under a fit of melancholy, en tered his master's bed-room early in the morning, and announced to him, that he came by order of a vi-ion that had appeared to him in a dream, and commanded him to cut his Excellency's throat. in this extremity the Archbishop ' retained his presence of mind, notwithstanding the danger, and answered that such commands were not to be resisted ; but that it was the duty of a Christian to set about every thing with prayer. His Excellency profited by the time which he had gained, to escape into an adjoining apart ment, and to lock the door, after which, the madman was taken and lodged in safe custody. BERLIN, DEC. IB.—We find in almost every journal very different accounts of tlt2 arrests which have taken place here: The most fabulous report is that commu nicated to the Breslau Gazttte, which pretends to have got scent of a communis conspiracy, propagated by Emisaries from France. There appears to be no other foundation for this, than that the information which was received by the police was written in the French language. It is said there is no ground for the assertion that those who were arrested had formed a society com pletely organised. Mr. Beheends, the young clergy man, who was asked at his first examination, whether he had not chiefly reckoned on meet ings of mechanics, positively denied this, declar ing that he had merely spoken in a public place with several persons whom he accidentally met. The person whom the authorities announced to be most deeply implicated is a young merchant's clerk named Ottensosser, who is accused of having read prohibited poems in a public place, though many persons deny this. We understand that the greater part of the persons arrested here at Berlin on the 9th of this mcnth, on suspicion of seditious intrigues, have been already set at liberty, and'only six more remain under arrest. HAMM:TRIM, DEC. 20.—The mails of the 15th and 16th from Paris are still due. (From the office of the liamburgh and Altona Telegraph.) Yesterday, during a south wind, with rain, and a rapid thaw, the ice in the Elbe became more and more unsafe, and if the weather eontinues the same, it is intended to break up the ice in the harbour. Yesterday the ice was firm at Blankenese and Sehule, but to-day it is all drifting again. . _ DEC: 2f. —The ice is still firm at the Devil's Bridge, and the Elbe was still passable this morning in hand sledges. The workmen are busy in the harbour break ing up the ice. At Blankenese and Brunshausen there is much floating ice. GLlJoimarrr, DEC. 20.—Yesterday we had a thaw with a high west-south-west wind and drifting snow. The Elbe is covered with flakes of ice, and the weather allows ships to unload only a few hours in the afternoon. DEC. 21.—The south-west wind and rain have pre vailed since yesterday, and the ice has already disap• peered. The Marshal steam-boat is unloading, and will probably have finished to-day. CUXHAVEN, DEC. 19.—There being much drift ice in the channel of Cuxhaven, the ships ready for sea have come from the road into port. They have all been obliged to take extra hands to bring them into the harbour. VIENNA, DEC. 15.—Lord Ponsonby still remains in the hotel, and, except official visits to Prince Met. ternich, has neither paid nor received any visits. The diplomatic relations seem, notwithstanding, to assume a more amicable appearance. On the other hand, the pecuniary crisis becomes more and more threatening, and the prospects in this respect are very gloomy. Mer chants of the middle class, not speculators on change, but some of the real manufacturing and mercantile classes are daily stopping payment here and in the pro vinces, and a greater number of bankruptcies may be shortly expected. These are the consequences of the limited credit given by our national bank. BERLIN, DEC. 19.—The military journals of this city announce that the Grand Duke C , nstantine of Russia has been appointed Chief of the 9th regiment of Edu'sars. DRESDEN, DEC. 14.—The incorporation of Cracow with the Austrian monarchy seems to have a very fa vourable effect on the situation of the late dictator, Typowski, for it is positively asserted that he will be set at liberty in the spring, and provided with passports. STOCKHOLM, DEC. 15.—The Government has ratified the following conventions—The treaty of commerce and navigation between Sweden and Norway, and Mecklen burgh Schwerin; the portal convention between Sweden and Norway and Russia, Concluded on the 29th of July; and the postal convention, concluded on the Bth of Octo ber, between Norway and Denmark.—Hamburgh Papers, Dec. 22. DUTCH FUNDS.—AmsrEaDent, Dec. 24. Money. Bills Actual Debt, 2% per Cent•• • • • •• • 594 601 4 Ditto, 3 per Cent •• .. 71 72% Ditto, 4 per Cent...... ..... •• 92% 923( Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent.......... Commercial Company, 4% per Cent .. 174 4 174.% East India Loan, 4 per Cent.......... Exchange on London, at sight . ...... 11 97 Two m0nth5............... 11 90 On Hamburgh, at sight .... 35 63 Two m0nth5............... 35 25 On Paris • •• ..... •• 56 50 Tw0tn0uth5........• •• • 56 12 —Dutch Papers, Dec. 26. HAMBURG"' BORSENIIALLE, lAc. 22. Bills• Money. Austrian 5 per Cents . .... ....• .. 108 Bank Shares •. • •• • • ••• . •• • • 1570 Anglo-Russian Loan .• .• •. ••••• • •• •• 105% 10.5 Russian 5 per Cent., Hsmb. Certificate. 100% 100% Ditto Ist series Inscription. •••••• • • • .. 101% Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 96% Ditto, in Certiflcate• ••••••••• • • • • .• • • 96% New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. 88% Ditto Stieglitz . ....• • . ..... 87% Spanish New 5 per Cent. • •• •• •••• • • 19 18% Ditto 3 per Cent Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent•. Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••• •• 59 Ditto 3 per Cent. .............. Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.... 78 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...... 84% 84 National FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, DEC. 24.—The Ch;mber of Representa tives voted, to-day, the budget of the Department of the Interior, and the project of law relative to the duties of Custom on leather and hides, and on hemp. The Chamber then adjourned until the 12th of January next. In this sitting the Minister for Foreign Affairs pre sented a project of law relative to granting two millions, to permit the Government to participate in the founda tion of a society for the exportation of linen and manu factures. The project of law enacts, that this expense shall be met by an issue of Treasury bonds. The sta tutes of the society are added to the project of law, the examination of which is referred to the sections. In the debate on that part of the budget of the Inte rior, which took place to-day, M. Verhaegen found fault with a chapter of belles lettres, science, and art,-parti cularly the grant allowed for the publication of the " National Library." The Minister of the Interior and M. Therode replied. The reduction of 10,000 f. in the artieles of belles lettres and science, proposed by the central section, was adopted. A considerable discussion arose on the article " Archives of the Kingdom." The Minister of the Interior declared that the Government hoped soon to be able to assign a suitable locality for tr,e " Archives of the Kingdom." On the article " Fine Arts," M. Northcomb invited the attention of the Le gislature and the Government to the necessity of re storing the celebrated " . Descent from the Cross," by Rubens, which will soon peel of from the pannels, un less measures are taken prevent so depl. , rable an acci dent. The Deputies of Antwerp, and the Minister of the Interior, inquired who was to be blamtd for the delay in the restoration of this masterpiece ? May the observations of M. Northcomb stimulate the zeal of ~~ ,~~~ ~~ ~ . _ L ••• those whose duty it is to preserve that s tion of a great master, our glory and our ;... the city of Antwerp show itself worthx6Cl i b s diii o . )). " metropolis of the arts in B e l g i um ," by p =,. _ segtl o - fo , " a skilful rep a ratio n , thi s " ll...seent from .. . 341 . 4 which, in the opi n i on o f th e di rec t or o f t h e seum, will not exist more than a year, unless the re storation is immediately undertaken. The budget of the'Department of the Interior was voted by a majority of 59 to .5: ; 7 _. , ?__ J The Senate,' in its- sitting of to-day, voted the budget for-Foreign Affairs, the project of law for exempting from import duty salt destined for feeding cattle and for manure, and . the provisional vote of credit of five mil lions for the War Department. A deputation of a dozen respectable inhabitants of the town of Renaix was "received to-day by the Minister of the Interior. These gentlemen stated the melancholy state of distress which prevails at Renaix and the envi rons, and solicited M. de Theux to afford speedy assist ance, to relieve the sufferings of the indigent. This deputation had a long conference, also, with the Go vernor of East Flanders. The Monituer of this day published the convention concluded between Belgium and the German Zollve rein, signed at Brussels on the 26th of June, 1846, to secure the suppression of smuggling 'on the frontier be tween Belgium and the Zollverein. The heavy snow which has fallen within these few days in the environs of - Brussels, has caused the death of four persons, who were buried in it on one day. The water of the Meuse again rose very considerably during the night, and is now beginning to overflow the banks. A melancholy accident has just taken place in the coal mine of Donchy. Six miners are said to have been killed on Monday last, in consequence of au explosion, the cause and particulars of which are not known. BELGIAN FllNDS.—Bansms, Dac. 22. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent .........-- Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent •• • • Ditto Three per Cent.................. Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto Ditto, ditto,lB4o .......... ••• • • • •• • 100% , Ditthfditto,lB42... ...... ....... ••• . • 101 Ditt0,1844... . . . Ditto, 1836... . .. •.•••• • • • • • . 95% Ditto of the City, 1832 ...... • Ditto, 1843 . Bank ofßelgium • • —••• • • • 925 —Brussels Papers. Dec. 22. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vnumt, DEC. 12. 5 per Cent. Metalliques. •••• ••• •• IOBX 4 per Cent. ditto.... ..... ••• • • • 99% 3 per Cent. 74 Ditto, 1839 ... •••• . • • • ....• 119 Bank Shares ...... ........ ••• • • •• • • 1565 Esterhazy's Loan . . ........ RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand •• • • . 175% Vienna—Milan .. • •• • • • • .. .. 110 Sienna ........ Grosetto . • • • . • Oldenburg .... ...... Pestoja • • Perth Bridge .. Apenninen —Allgemeine Zeitung. Dec. 16 94 k' ADELAIDE GALLERY. The spirited proprietor of this establishment com menced, on Saturday, a series of morning performances (commencing at three and ending at five), which are more especially adapted or t lie amusement of the juve nile branches of families who are at home for the holi days. In the getting up of 'hese performances, the manager has catered ini.st judiciously for juvenile tastes. Children delight to witness tee performances of children, and the a itnessing such performances creates in the children who are the audience a degree of emulation whi,h mikes them pursue their studies with tenfold vigour, in order, possible, to equal those whose efforts are rewarded by the greatest of all guerdons to children, approbation and fame: theref'ore has the manager acted most judiciously in securing the services the talented Turner family, whose performances last season at the St. James's Theatre, created such a sensation in the fashion ble world, and who have during the recess been con stantly Performing at the parties of the nobility in town and country. These wonderful little musicians are three in number, Miss C. S. Turner, eight years of age, and Miss R. P. Turner six years of age, harpists, and Miss S. 0. Turner, a beautiful child only tour years of age, a violinist, and a violinist whose taste, precision, aeon racy, and firmness, might put many a full grown pet former to the blush. Her fantasie, on the favourite waltz of the Duc de Reichstadt :-was exquisitely given, as was her duet for the violin and hhrp from Norma, in which she was admirably supported by her elder sister the harpist. The most wonderful per formances, however, were the trios, the two elder sisters performing on one harp, and the younger on the violin. Exquisitely beautiful as musical performances, these trios were also most interesting as tableaux. The two sisters playing on one harp, the one leaning over the other, and the younger sister at their side playing on her violin, formed the roost tasteful group imaginable. It was a beautiful picture. The intervals between the performances of the Turner's were amusingly filled up by the Nigger melodies of the Lantum Ethiopian Serenaders. They are merely imitators it is true, but it is equally true that they approach nearer the originals than any imitators who have yet appeared. With children who have a taste for music, the morning performance at the Adelaide Gallery will be an especial favourite. ANOTHER DISASTER ON THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY. On Friday evening last another collision took place near Bishop Bridge, ou the passenger train, which left Edinburgh at a quarter to _eight o'clock, reaching Glas gow near to eleven. The passengers were thrown into - the greatest state of terror and alarm. They have called a meeting on the subject this day (Saturday), at one o'clock, in the Black Bull Hotel. It is surely high time that the Government of the country should look into the state of this railway. —Scotch Reformers' Gazette. INDIAN Come.—Sinae:lesterday morning the ves sels enumerated blow have arrived at Cove. These are all laden with Indian Corn. The tonnage given is the register tonnage, and us they bring, of course, much more than the. weight mentioned, there cannot be under 7,000 ,quarters of maize introduced in these six vessels. We mentioned in our last the probability of the Manchester (American vessel) discharging here. Since then we have heard she goes round to Lomertek to unload. The cap tain of this ship states that he left as many as seventy' vessels loading with Indian Corn at New York, and des tined for Ireland. As spring approaches we calculate on large supplies of this grain from that port and New Orleans. Cadiz Packet... l5l tons from Leghorn. Nov pnrt l6l ... Genoa. George Deane Ambroye . Zante Packet Quicksilver l6l ... ... Vienna. Total 1152 tons—Cork Examiner. Two " GENT LEMEN."—A very brutal and black guard assault w.s c mrnitted at the Devonport theatre, oe Wed nesday rVeflillg. Two naval officers, whose names, we regret to say, have not been ci mmunicated to us, f,,r they have not been sufficiently identified, fel disposed, in a very larkish and gentlemanly spirit, to disturb the harmony of the audience by endeavouring to interrupt the performances. A sailor who was paid oft from the Sappho rem. , nstrated with them, when one officer with a stick struck the poor fellow and knocked. off his hat, and another immediately inflicted a terrible , blow on his head, with what is called a life-preserver, and cut it open. The life preserver was taken possession of, but, unfortunately, these "gentlemen " did not meet with the chastisement they deserved. We hope they are not done with yet.—Devonport Independent. ASTRONOMY IN FRANCE.—M. 1 e Verrier, whose name has lately become European by the discovery o the new planet, and who has, within the last fortnight, been appaiuted, by royal ordonnance, to one of the new professorships, founded on the Faculty of Sciences, com menced on Wednesday, at the Sorbonne, his course of lectures on astronomy. Upwards of 1,200 persons, amongst whom might be remarked most of the scientific men of Paris, were closely packed together on this occa sion. M. Le Verrier took for the eubject of his opening address the pre eminence of mathematical astronomy over that of simple observation, which latter it was generally considered he treated somewhat too lightly. The following sentence gives a tolerably fair idea of the learned lecturer's view of the subject :—" When," said he; "armed with your instruments, you observe the hea vens, you advance with difficulty towards the mountain, and at last you climb it slowly ; whereas, by the omni potence of mathematical analysis, you tell the mountain to come to you, and it c omes an d bends with humility at your feet." SUPPLIES FROM AMERICA.—An extensive land proprietor in the state of Illinois, United States, has received a letter. from his family by the last mail, it, which they tell him that in sending a team of grain t' Chicago, they were detacnei a day longer than usual L getting delivery. There was such an influx of grai into the place, that there was not storage nor shippin to take it away as fast as it was brought into tom there being no less than one thousand teams on the roe at one time laden with grain for the market at tht . place. Price, 75 cents. per bushel. The late severe weather has brought a great quer tity of wild fowl inland., The marshes round Caute bury have been literally inundated with ducks, snip( woodcocks, &c. Last week a flock of nearly a hundr( • geese were seen at Sandwich. At New Romney, an other places near the coast, the numbers have also bet very great. — Dover Chronicle. REFORMS IN THE PAPAL STATES.—The commit sion appointed by the Pope to examine into the questica connected with a revision of the civil and criminal lay has made its first report, at which it passes in revie what it considers as the most urgent reforms, the fort mast of which is the institution of the jury. Accordir to the plan proposed by the commission, the jury= would be divided into two classes. The first would ii elude rich landowners, members of the nobility, at commercial notabilities. The second would be compost of literary men, such as doctors of law and medicine, t upper employes of the Government, members of ti academies, and professors of the universities. One met ber of the commission proposed tha', the judicial discu sions should be public, but this reform was consider by others as premature. INCREASE IN THE VALUE OF LAND i SHIRE.—At the recent sale of waste lands, lg un S de gu r () t ! . Clun Forest Inelosure Act, out of twenty-eight lo o off. ne bre.)d, privatet enty tsreevaet)n,. Someweresoldofutnhdeearbtohvee lots, an open common, tetch( d the hi g h p r i ce o f 26/. pe u r p s o t n at t u i acre ; and the average price of all the land sold was' 11 per acre. About live years ago, under the restricts norn.laws, s i m il ar land, sold in the same way, and at ti same place, 6id not produce a greater average than 7 p pe e r op a l c e re in . th O e n. ini th m is e o d c ia c te asion, wh ole was bought b th e neig hbourh o od. COLLIEt'S ROXBURGHE BALLADS. On Friday next will be published, in fcp. 4to. with Wood-cuts, 21s. boards, or Us. appropriately bound in morocco, in the best manner, by Ilayday, A BOOK OF ROXBURGHE BALLADS. Edited by JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, Esq. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. ------- - UNIFORM WITH THE STANDARD NOVELS. T HE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN; or the Fielis And ttui Woods. By JOHN MILLS. New Edition, revised. Price 6s. bound. " A new and compact edition of a racy and hearty book."—Moru ing Chronicle. Also, by the same Author, CT RISTM..kS in the 'OLDEN 'TIME ;' or the Wassail Bowl. Illustrated by Linton. Price 55., elegantly bound. " A most delightful deserlption.of Christmas merry-making in th• olden time." —Sunday Times. 11. Hurst, publisher, 27, King William-street, Strand, MR. ROWCROFT'S NEW WORK, NOW READY. CIIRONICLES of the FLEET PRISON. By the Author of " Tales of the Colonies," &c, &c. " The sto r y o f The Ruined Merchan t, ' reminds us of some among the, Passages of Mr. Warren's Ph y sician's Diary.' "—Athenmurn. Specimens of admirable fiction: --Court Journal. H. Hurst, publisher, 27, King William-street, Strand. T]cssoz%ti t E THE CHESS-PLAYERS l d ' il L Edited YE.RS CHRONICLE. Tile fiZ EN v ER In weekly Nun - that's , p rice 31.. by 11. STAUNTON', Esq. and willns and o°n H. HurstNa2; Pr oblems on Dia , rams. Pr oblems wilt be published on th e Ist of January, 1847, three first-rate Games, a Chapt er of Elementary Booksellers,'New ' s l( yeinngdera, & e. rn-st;eet, Strand. T o be had of all ROYAL POLyT E ---- BY PERM' CHNIC INSTITUTION. 8811 ,9,,N- - PROF ESSOR SCIRENBEIN'S OLIN- c o °Miens recently before the public I:9N, differing from all ether spe plosive compounds, by Dr. fly he evenings of Mondays, Weclnes'cl - ily at Half past Three; and on The principle of the EL' CTRIC - ;i a "ECTURED on, with other ex ),kaind Fridays, 4.GRAFR DE tit ONSTRA" TED daily, by Professor BACHHOFFN o the new patent of Messrs. N.tt and G am ,;,esPecially with reference th® DISRASED PO GE N MICROS' 'OPE areexhtbited specimen:o. Ily the OXT HYDRO TATOE, showing the Leaves, Cuttings of the with the DESTRUCTIVE INSECT, supposed, u ters: by Ste s . u. , i t t o h ge , t B, he e r . F.R.S., to be the cause of the disease. The Y r ft. yB S i ns o u s e c , o E p sci E : DIVING EXPERIME • TS, DISSOLVING VIEWS Admission Is. Schools, half-price. ......, . t tni entire NEW and BE AUTIFUL SERIES of D ISSOLVING. VIEWS will be introduced at CHRISTMAS, and the in be open on the evening of Saturday, the 26th. utloa will UNDER DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE. T HE HALL OF' ROME, GREAT WIN D _ MILL-STREET, HAYMARKET. This splendid Exhibition is now open with the Original TABLEUX VIVANS and POSES PLASTIQUE. Due attention has been paid to the warmth and comfort of the Visitors. In addition to the much admired company will be added male and female artistes, arrived ex pressly from Italy. Germany, France, &c. Amongst the new series of Tableau will be represented, the Four Seasons, the Mistletoe Bough, or the Christmas Fete, and the Spirit of the Waters. Performance to commence at Three o'clock in the Afternoon, and Half-past Eight in the Evening. 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