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Depaitment of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, T he Commissi Somerset-pdace, Jan. 3, 1848. oners for execatine the office of Lord llfah Adm i ra l Of the I:nited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give !Mice that on THIMSDAY, the 20th instant, at One o'clock they will be ready to treat with such Per.uns as may be willing to Contract for supplying an d delivering into Store at Sincapore, 300 Tons Of COALS, fit fur the the service of her Majesty's steam-vessels. The Conditions of the Contract and a Form of tho Tender may be seen at the said (Mee. No Tender will be received after One o'clock on th , ,, day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party at tends, or an agent liar him duly authorises! in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, And bear In the left hand corner the words Tender for Cools," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, signed by accompanied by a letter sig a responsible person, engsginr to become bound With the person tondoring, in the sum of 2001., for the duo perform- Race of the Contract. LONDON and SOUTH-WESTERN RAft- WAT. Notice Is hereby given, that the. LETTER.: of ALLOTMENT for the NEW THIRDS sIIARES will be EXCHANGED for SCRIP at lue Offices of the Company during the present and following week (Fridays excepted), betweot the hours of Eleven and Four o'clock. By order, ALFRED MORGAN, Treastrer. Rise Elms, Vauxhall, January 6, 1648. EASTERN'COUN TIES RAILWAY. EXTKNSION STOCK, :Co. 2. The holden of Scrip Shares In this Stock are informed that unities " all 'Melt -kW - tic:Alt.+ of CALI,s as are due by them be PAID to the ,onaparky,,, Basket-a on or bet Ore the lUth of January next, they wlil not afterwards he permitted to pay any further sums •n the said will S hores, and the Extension Stock, No. 2, to he lem''el I. them ow be limited to the amounts they shall hare &ready paid up. By order •f the Board, C. T. RONEY, BecrotarY. n ishoPsente Station, Dec. 20, 1847. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANT. 1247. FIFTH INSTALMENT. 1/4 P' Share of 171. 100 due 94th January, MS, making 121. 4s, Iltetlee Is hereb per Share called up. y given made that the Directors of rethe above-named Company have this day a Call of 21. per Sha, payable on the 94th January, 1648. The Shareholders are accordingly requested t. pay the came at _MY of the ander-mentioned banks, producing at the same time the call letter, without which payment of the call cannot be ac %Pied. HARRY VERNET, Chairman. WYNDHAM HARDING, Secretary. O, Great George street, Westminster, December 10, 1847. Interest at i per cent. will be charged by the Bankers on all Calls Wkich remain unpaid after the appointed day. Ne interest accrues on any Share during the period when any Call One by the Proprietor remains unpaid. Xo transfer of shares will he received on and after the 22d of Ilauttry, 1548, until the call i. paid. BANKERS. London .... • Messrs. Glyn, liallifax, Mills, and Co., Lombard street. It irmingham..The Birmingham Banking Company. Liverpool ....The Borough Bank. Nan:theater .• Sir 11. Heywood and Co. A r e gburY•• •• Mews. Bickford and Hunt, and the London and County Bank. Racklnghatn• • Messrs. Bartlett, Parrott, and Hearn, and the and Cavit. . • Ila nuurY •• —Meow s. Cob b and Co., and Itlessre. Gillett and Tawney. Oxford ...... Mewl. Wootton and Co., and the London and County Bank. "Ikea er 2.iesers. Tubb. • :(.B.—The London and North-Nrestern Railway Company have acceded, on application being made to them by the Directors of this Company, to interest being allowed for three years at five per cent. Per annum on the balance of 5/. 6s. per share not yet called up, pro vided that such balance be paid up before the list of February next, inteh rate of interest not to be reduced as calls are made. It will be necessary that those Shareholders who may wish to avail themselves of this arrangement apply to the Secretary for a special Call Letter to enable the hankers to receive the calls tendered is advance. WELLINGTON SURTOUT—Patronised by Prince Albert, the (Loyal Family, the Duke of Wellington, sad principal Nobility and Officers of the Guards—Two-and-a-Halt samosa. A stout milled substance of superlative quality for wiater, at Three Guineas, is now also ready. It is presumed that the reputation of the Patentee ai.a West-end Tailor for the last 13 years, as also the fact that this 'popular gar- Vent is low worn by almost every nobleman and gentleman in the kingdom, renders comment on its quality and style unnecessary. ... 10 London only of FOUGERE, Patentee, NUMBER SIX, CON VUIT-STREET, Regent-street, and NUMBER ONE, BUCKLERS adjoining 80, Cheapside. : Hollingsworth, New.street — Liverpoo l : !! etaggart, hold-street—Manchester : Brown, Market-street —Edin wirgla Marshall and Aitkea —Glasgow : Brodie, _Macleod, and Co.; aid Principal tailors in all large towns. DIAMOND OIL LAMP.-NEW LIGHT. The Diamond Lamp is the best light in the world—is used ii •il the palaces in Europe—is free from all the imperfections of ordi narY oil lamps —so simple it cannot be mismanaged—no cleaning re quired for years —costs leas in burning than any common oil lamp— SITU double the light of candle lamps, at one-half the expense—this 18 beyond doubt. Designs suited to every taste—the Diamond Lamp perfection in Light—tke public will have none other—it can be Itted to any person's lamp pillar. To be had only at the Establishment of tie Metropolitan Light Company, RICHARD CLARK, Resident Manager, 447, West Strand. M DCCCXLVII. and MDCCCXLVIII. TO THE PUBLIC. " Look on this picture, and on this."—Shakspeare. As now another year is passed away. MOSES and SON their wonted tribute pay; And freely own, with gratitude sincere, Tim many favours of another year. Oft have their warm acknowisdonsats been made, For vest success, and glorious public aid ; lint rover did such staunch support appear, ' As that which honoured the departed year. Spring, summer, autumn, winter, bear fresh proof, Of crowding throngs beneath thoir trading roof. What January's frosts were keenly felt, Thousands with MOSES liberally dealt; And Winter Overcoats, to suit the cold, Were purchased at their Warehouse million-fill. In February's month. and blust'rirn. March, The public sought the Emporium's lofty arch. In fickle April, and in milder May, 310SES and SON'S Spring dresses bore the sway. In pleasant Jane, and changeable July, Vast multitudes were daily seen to buy ; And such supporters failed not to remember The City Mart in August and September. And in October's month did thousands press, At MOSES' Mart for matchless Autumn dress. In dull November, and December, too, MOSES and SON were ever kept in view. And thus did new encouragements appear Throughout the circle of the by-past Year z Not only in attire, but boots and shoes, And also in the furs which ladies use ; And throngs of buyers might we daily see, Obtainining first-class Hats at Eighty-three. In Hosiery and matchless outfits too, The trade at MOSES' Warehouse daily grew. The glorious marks of favour thus presented, Proclaim the by-gone year unprecedented. 'Twas truly pleasing to behold a throng, Crowding the spacious Warehouse all day long; While all the current coins, with constant jingle, Amid the busy stir were heard to mingle. Nor was it ally sight to cause a frown, While orders for bespoke were putting down. Swift went the knibs, awl orders swiftly took, And very swiftly filled each order-book. The Cuttinz-room at MOSES' mart has been, " A cutting sight" —an ever-busy scene. No time for Idleness—no lengthy leisure, Could here he had for cutter, shears, or measure: All was activity in every part, And business "ruled the roast" at MOSES' Mart. Though scarcity of money roused alarm, MOSES and SON sustained no trading harm. ; on the contrary. as people fou.A, The real value of a current pound, They flocked to MOSES' Mart, assured that there, Unmatched economy is brought to bear. What non' remains ? A task devolves on MOSES, Now Eighteen Forty-seven for ever closes. Most heartily do Messrs. MOSES tender Their thanks for what a generous public render. But thanks ttr, thousand times they might repeat, And leave the task of thanking incomplete. Yet, happily, they've more that they can state, And thus they're led to Eighteen Forty-eight. In Eighteen Forty-eight they mean to steer Beyond the bounds o 1 each succeeding year. The recent purchases which they have made, Will add new benefits to all their trade. When all the markets were depressed, they bought For moderate sums their cloths superbly wrought. They saw the opportunity, and now, A most immense reduction they &Hsi+. Such are the benefits which here await The purchaser of Eighteen Forty-eight. May MOSES anti the public ever be, On pl , asing terms of trading unity ; May both the buyers and the sellers find, That all their mutual interests are combined ; And may the friends of 'MOSES (small kind great) Enjoy, in every possible estate, 't happy year in Eighteen Forty-eight. LIST OF PRICES. ILIAD , / MADE. Beaver Tagllonl • -- • from £0 9 6 6 .. • • Chesterfield and Codrlngton's, and • every description of Over-coax, handsomely trimmed,.. 1 5 0 The Pacha Coat .... ........ •••••• " • • " • • 1 The Bullmer, especially adapted for snowy and wet ..... .... •• • ..... I 0 0 The weather... .. Boy's Winter Coats, in every style.. .... .... • 06 0 licn's Do. Trousers, lined .. •••• • • • • ........ 0 4 0 Doeskin .•. .•. •• Dress C0at5............ • • Frock d 0... •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 1 4 0 Doa ble - breasted Winter Vests ••••• • • • • • 0 2 • Roll cellar "toys' Hussar and Tante Suits .•••••••• • • • • • • . • • 0 16 6 MADE TO NZABillig. 'Winter Coats, in every style and shape, hand somely trim . med • .• mailed cloth Over-coats, velvet collar and cuffs .. 2 4 0 Tweed Wrapper , . ........ ..... .• •. 0 18 6 Doeskin Trousers :::..• ••••••• . . • . • . 1 2 0 Best, or Dre 55.................... ..... 1 6 0 Dress Coat . • Best quality rn.:de... ....... .. 2 15 0 Cashin,, r , Best quality made .. .•• • • ..... 8 3 0 Vests • • Satins, Plain or Fancy ... Boy's Hussar and Tunic Suits •• ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 1 6 Great Coat... ..... . ..... ••• • • • 016 0 A Snit of Clothes complele.. •••••••••• • • • • • • • • 1 16 0 cob„e Mounting to any extent at Five Minutes notice. lure. rve•—Any arti c l e net appruved of, purchased , ready made, or made to Meg - Inorkey returned will be exchanged, or if preferred, the Ig• MOssa • gad SON, Tailors, Woollemlrapers. Clothiers, Hatters, L ad Fnrrlers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for iz t and Gentlemen, 154, 155, and 156, 157 Minoriea, and 83, caw, and 6 6 Altigate, City. London. Ptibli. - 2_ . • — p• Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the f imPostors, but kave learned that ths nntradesman boo been —, °°d of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, Th °7 hav r e es°rte4 to in many instances, aid fo r obvious reasons. Mid 10 connexion with any other house in or out of London ; orßend ' , she desire gen u i ne and cheap clothing, ice., should c all at, to, Miseries eria and iy, London. set p r i A ._ 11! Duablegli transac ted at this establishment from sun o'clock-77i In•i sunset Saturday, when boaiDeng is resumed till tw elve Al R R I A G E ' d the otker Ileipece:Me half the World are desolately single, s ense ; l e theu t bitter the rieht of mutt latter. •m e toted hopes e Married, questionably contented. D a n n dence, dence, orma determine the former, and miscalcu lated solitary one may shield himself under the plea compr es s ! : and worldly' prudence, and the Indissoluble, regret un and brolx - e -ght‘rr7 ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapa city, and social en h e e t al th, are the great hindrances to domestic happ iness t. Bement. II n . c . ,„. e4t * The dowry should not be the only i n the :tt - 7 4 . 40 dillstice d emend that health th.uld form an e marriage it se . Bllgkted hopes or *MI- a ' '` alone die,^rudes the alliance. neglect wound ntore sor e ] these surmises concer Y than poverty misfortune. Reader, if or , , 31EMOIPS ' 0 1 n Yoe. procure Dr. (,1JI•N E •L n S-nfne Married 1 ife " pub. in 2 vols., le. each (by tost, 111 ate and • , RWELL'S little . eitned, nr prudish aY Mininterpretatior ee rn m e l" Let no imaginatively of t heir r r you, by d th c e o l n r t t e i n tl t e s s . , n fr o o r m be o h b i t a a d in ered ing thers. 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''" A LIP 44014 TENACIOUSLY DISPUTED. This Day is publis ed, 'Second Edition, price Sixpence , THE RISKS of LIFE ASSURANCE ; Suggested by a History of 'the Case of GEACH v. INGALL, in which The IMPERIAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, by the Verdicts of Three Special Juries, was defeated in an ATTEMPT to EVADE PAYMENT of a POLICY. London : Effingham Wilson, Publisher, 11, Royal Exchange. 6aPENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE. 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LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Newman street, Oxford-street, Londoa. Member of the London College of Medicine, &e. FCC, CONTENTS OF Till WORK, Chap. I..—Bodily and Mental Exhaustion induced by inordinate indulgence of the Passions, illustrated with Coloured Engravings. Chap. 2.—Baneftll Results of a Secret Vice os the Mind and Body, evidenced in the production of Consumption, Epilepsy, and other convulsive diseases, Insanity, Idiocy, moping Melancholy, Indiges tion, stricture, Impotence, and Sterility, with Observations on the Ditties of Married Life, and on the unhappiness caused by Unfruitful Unions. Chap. 3.—Debility and Exhaustion of the principal Vital Functions, the nature aid treatment of Impotence and Sterility, and the imperfect performance of the Marital act, caused byt he practice of self-indulgence. Chap. 4.—Gonorrhoea, its symptoms, complica tions aid treatment, Gicet, Stricture, and disease of the I'rDstate. Chap. i.—Syphilis, and its attendant maladies and treatment. Cusses, and concluding observations, Plates, &c. Sold by Brittain , 54, Paternoster-row; Gord is m 146, Lead enhall street ; Hannay and co., 63. Oxford-street ; Sger, 150, Oxford street ; Mansell, 115, Fleet-street, London; IViihal, 78, High-street, Birmingham; Whitmore, 119, Market-street, Manchester ; Howell, 54, Church-street, Liverpool; Robinson, 11, Groenside -street. Edinburgh ; Powell, 10, Westmoreland-street, Dublin ; .t.ad all Booksellers. Persons desirous of obtaining the above work, and not wishing to apply to a bookseller for the same, may, to insure secrecy, have it direct from the Authors, by enclosing 3s. Gd., or Postage Stamps. Messrs. 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Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Starie, 23, Titehborne etreet, Haymarket ; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street. Parer I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. PanT 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive hadul gence, and their lamentable erects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. It is illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. PART 111. Treats of the diseases resulting from Infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. The consequences of early neglect and of the abuse of mercury, are also clearly pointed out. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured Engravings. Paler IV. Treats of Perry's Preventative Lotion, by the use of which the dangers of infection are obviated. 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Attendance daily at 19, Ber ners•street, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Fight: on Sundays from Eleven to One. DR. LA'MERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY.-WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. Just published, and may be had in French or English, in a Sealed Envelope, 2s. ski„ or pest-free, front the author, for forty-two Stamps, QELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treat ise I.J on the Physiology et Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth aid Ma turity, usually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practice.: Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion, whether arising trom these causes, close study, or the influence et tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis cretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining their structures, uses, and functions, and the various injuries that art produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and hifection. BY SAMUEL LA'MEET, M.D.. 9. BBDFORD-STBEET, BEDFORD-SQUARB, LONDON. ector of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, lac. Marriage requires the fulfilment of several conditions. in order that it may be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the veil, which covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be raised, and its true source in every instance disclosed, in how many could It he traced to physical disqualifications and their attendant disap pointments. Excesses are always injurious ; the gift, which when used in moderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, when abused, the prolifle source of mischief, and of greater or less injury to the constitutional and vital powers. The particular excesses, on .he nature and consequence of which this Treatise professes to dilate, are productive of greater severity of misery to tke human frame, , than any other to wh ich It is subject. This work contains an accurate Reproductive and complete Organsaccount and ef the of Anatomy and Physiology of their relative conditions in health and disease. It deservedly requires the closest attention and studs, for on oft sub the je hect can be of more impo r t a nce than the preservatialth, and of the physical cap abilities of which every man should be possessed. It unfortunately happens that the unhappy victim of excessive indulgence an d vicious habits, whether acquired in early life or from the follies of advanced age, while suffering from their invariable consequence s, unwisely entertains a tear of ap plying to a qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so frequently, but erroneously entertained that these complaints are beyond the reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking for assistance where alone it can be procured. In acting thus, he forgets that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of disease, sympathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, inva riably characterise the intelligent and practical physician, and to the medical man who can show by his posse- sion of the requisite legal qualifications that Ite is entitled to esteem and respect in his profes sional pursuits, the utmost confidence should be extended. Dr. LI'MERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas certify, and the great extent of his practice fir many years is a guarantee for his professional experienee, which has reference almost solely to the treatment of these diseases. Published by the Author, and may be had of Kent and Richards, 52, Paternoster row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; &tine, Tichborne street, Haymarket; Mansell, 115, Fleet-street; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street, London ; or, free by poet for forty-two stamps, from the Anther, who may be consulted on these disorders personally or by letter, daily, from Ten till Two, and from Five till Eight, at his tasKoce. 9 . Begiotti-sicset Badibitituars iandgui CHRI,TMAS HOLIDAYS. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Dr. RYAN has been engaged to deliver a short COURSE of LECTURES on CHEMISTRY, with brilliant Experimecs, Daily at Hall-past Three, aid every Evening at Nine o'clock, except Satur day Evening. A LECTURE by Dr. BACIIIIOFFNER on the Laws of Nature, in reference to the important subject of SA NITARY MEASURES, and of the rations modes of VENTILA TION, in which the PHYSICAL PROPERTIES of a JET of t+TEAM will be exhibited Daily at Two, and of Tuesday and Tharsday Evenings at Eight F.M. The OXY-HYDROGEN MICRO CCOPE, New DISSOLVING VIEWS, the CHROMATROPE. PUY SIOSCOPI3, &c. MODELS of MACHINERY at work, and ex plained. The DIVING SELL aid DIVER, with HYDE'S NEW APPARATUN: for CONVERSINE under WATER, Ste. &C. Admission. Is.; Schools, Mali-price. B RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, 1, Princes-street, Bank, January 5, 1848. Notice is hereby given, that the ANNUAL DIVIDEND on the Proprietary Capital of this Company is now in COUItSIeI of PAY MENT, and may be received at the Oftlee between the hours of Eleven and Four. PEI:ER MORRISON, Resident Director. ATION AL LOAN FUND LIFE I_l ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital .£500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This institution embraces Important and substantial advantages with respect to life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for feiture of the policy, two•thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in terests to meet other conveniencies or necessity. Assurances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled tlee Directors at the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each policy effected on the profit scale. The Manual Report, with tables of rates, &c., may be lead at the office, or any of Its branches in the coantry ; or, on application, will be forwarded poet free. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. PATENT RAMONEUR ASSOCIATION. (Provisionally Registered.) COUNTIES of SURREY And KENT. Capital, 20,0001. in 10,000 Shares of 21. each. Deposit, 11. per share on complete registration. No further eall will be made without three months' previous notice. The liabilities of each shareholder limited to the amount subscribed for. The PATENT EAMONEUR MACHINE is exclusively used in the offices of the Right Hon. the Lords of the Treasury, the Royal Agricultural Society, the Royal Horticultural Society ; the Royal Exchauge-buildings, &o. The objects of the promoters are ap proved by The Most Noble the Marquis of NORTHAMPTON, President of Le Royal Society. 'fhe Right Hon. Earl DE GRET, K.G., President of the R o y al In- statute of British Architects. Sir RODERICK I. MURCHISON, ?resident of the British lesocia- Lion for the Idyancement of Sete The right RIM the Lord Bishop of Norwich Ph* eight Hon. the Earl of Lel- caster Th • Lord Rendlesham, The Right Rev'. the Lord Bishop' of Gloucester and Bristol The eon. and Km Edward B. Keppel Pile Very Err. the Dean of West minster, Dr. Buckland The Venerable Archdeacon Shir ley Sir John P. Belleau, Bart. Sir Richard Paul Joddrell, Bart. Dr. Outran, F.R.5.,F.G.5., In spector of Naval lospitals Right Hon. Earl Fltzhardinge Ills Grace the Duke of Beaufort Philip W. S. Miles, Esq., M.P, Right Ron. F. 11. F. Berkeley, M.P. W. Mlles, lisq., M.P. !ICC. The Right Rev. Me Lord Bishop I of Lichfield The Host Noble the Marquis of Bristol The Hon. and Rev. Thonudi X. Keppol IThe Hon. Fred. Byng The Rev. Sir Themes Gray Cal lum, Bart. Sir William Foster, Bart. Sir Robert Harland, Bart. Sir Francis Darwin The Norwich Union Fire Office The Saffolk Fire Office The District Firs Offia of Bic- minghans IThe Norwich Equitable Disuramee Office The Nottinghamshire and Derby shire Fire Odle, iThe West of Englaud. Fire Offee, &c. The object of this Association is totally to abolish the use of climbing boys, who, notwithstanding the penalties to which those employing them are su►ejected by the 3d and 4th Victoria, cap. 85, are continually resorted to. This breach of the law is acquiesced in by a large portion of the public, from a conviction of the utterirn possibility in innumerable cress of cleansing a chimney or flue with the old machine. For the laudable purpose of furthering the objects of the law by avoiding all necessity for its infringement, the Inge 'does and effective Ramoueur machine has been invented. This invention consists of four brushes forming a square head, whick by means of elastic springs contracts or expands, according to the small or extended space in which the machine moves, thereby creating an even pressure on all four sites of a chimney. The rods attached to this head or brush are supplied at intervals with universal spring joists, capable of turning even a right angle and the whole is surmounted with a double revolving ball, having also a universal spring joint, which leads the brush with certainty past every angle, and hits every corner, cleansing its route most perfectly. The capabilities of this machine are best demonstrated by the tact, that it is exclusively used in the Government and antuerons public oiliest, while the patronage bestowed by a largo member of the nobility and gentry in eontinuing their annual con tracts to the patentees evidences their sense of its superiority, an well as of the philanthropic views of the projectors. Detslled prospectuses may be obtained, and a working model of the machine seen, at the onlces of the solicitor, F, Dolman, Esq., 39, Jermyn-street, St. James's ; at Messrs. Barry and Co.'s, brokers, 7, 131rchin-lane ; at W. Heath, Esq.'s, Nag's Ilead-court,Gracechurch-street; and at the principal omce, 1, Wellingten•street, Lendon.bridge, Borough, where applications for shares may be addressed. RAISING WATER discovered by the FOUN TAIN PUMPS, which roll the water upwards, without either friction or faltering, therefore can never b• surpassed ; conse quently this is the most important discovery ever made for the pre servation of life and property either at Sea or on Land. - AT SEA numerous ships it has already saved, and the captains gratefully ac knowledge the glorious results. Two testimonial extracts shall suffice : . . . " Captain Orcig, from Quebec to London, states that the Fountain Pump being fitted in the Caroline, its great power was the means of saving the ship and 230 souls on hoard, two seams in the bottom being partly left without calking." _ _ _ " The Arg us brig, from Cadiz - , sprung a leak when three days out at sea, and soon after her common pump choaked and became use less. Captain Rutherford states all then depended upon her Foun tain Pump, which for nineteen days and eighteen nights was in ac tion without a minute's respite, when all arrived safely in London, with a thank God for the Fountain Pump." ON LAND - the New Portable Fire-engines are of infinitely better service than a fire brigade. They act instantaneously at the outbreak of a fire. " We are delighted with the invention—it is a great boon to so ciety."—Editors Liverpool Mail. The New Portable Fire-engines have preserved a large portion of Norwich from destruction, for out of eighteen different properties on lire in and near the city, they saved eleven solely and seven mainly, including in the seven the Queen's Cavalry Barracks ; and in the eleven, Messrs. Horton's dyery, and 12,000/. worth of consigned pro perty ; Stoke irustard, starch, and flour mills, and Messrs. Butcher's grocery warehouses, just in time to prevent a large quantity of gun powder therein from exploding, which must have spread around de struction and death. " North Walsham.—At this fire the Portable Engine was of great service, and by having one of them ready, there is no doubt but half the property now destroyed might have been saved."—Norfolk Chro nicle, August 22, 1846. At a Norwich fire Juno 2, T 847, the two Portable Engines were the pets of the public. The cry was, feed the little engines and they will do the work, which proved true. The four large engines present proved useless. Portable Engines speedily prove steam-boilers to a dozen atmo spheres. Now the fact is this, all former Force Pumps, Lift-force Pumps, Lift Pumps, and Chain Pumps are bad machines : they rub, grub. and scrape the water upwards by friction, which wastes two-fifths of the power used, and progressively falter by leakage, which Drs. Young and Hatton, with many other eminent experimenters, lamented thus :—The quantity of water actually raised by any machine seldom exceeis half the power consumed, after overcoming friction and leakage ; and notwithstanding the best engineers In the world had tried in vain for two thousand years to abate these palpable defects in hydraulic machines, nevertheless, at last the victory is won, and won for ever ; for friction and leakage are now both annihilated by the new rolling s principle in pumps, and their effect augmented Itom twelve to twenty (or about seventy per cent.), and frequently with out more outlay. Most men can sustain heavy rapid pump trials for 40 seconds, but some men drop at minute time. With a best new heavy working Fric tion Pump an active sound-winded young man of 140 lbs. weight can raise 10,000 lbs. of water one foot high in a minute, and with a Foun tain Pump 9,000 lbs. in half a minute. Thus a continual and most extraordinary lucrative advantage is gained over perpetual and uni versal ignorance, clearly proving that Knowledge is Power. John Clenton Roberts, Esc., in his popular work, No. 1,110, did well in placing Gosset's French Pump Abortion (that slaps the water upward) side by side with the Fountain Pimp, which upset a good deal of Folly. Because. Mr. Mallett, Dublin, a thorough-bred pump maker, Mr. iladdley, London, an everlasting pump-writer, and Mr. Ewbank, America, an ignorant pump book-maker, asserted that the two pumps were identical. But the Yankee out-fooled John Bull and Paddy in No. 1,183, arid in No. 49G, Book-maker Millingion's remarks are preposterous. However, on the other hand, Dr. Birk beck, Aberdour, Hay, Parkington, with many other discerning men, after witnessing the perfect effect and the beautiful simplicity of the rolling principle,, gave the invention the following true and ewnain able character:—The Fountain Pump is the most important improve ment in the art of raising water that has appeared within the last two thousand years—the greatest advancement in the useful arts in modern times. _ . _ • The Consummation Fountain Pumps are successfully carried out for private and public uses, at lifts below and above 100 feet altitude, for man, horse, and steam power ; dellv;Ting from half a pint per stroke to 100 barrels of water per mirate, and rendering every fair trial at competition ridiculous, whilit their durability is guaranteed at less cost than common pump,. W. SIIILDERS. Foaatain Pump Works. Norwich, Nov. 30, 1847. Sibs Mechanic's Magazine, Nos. 231*, 364, 343, 429, 430, 433, 482, 486, 407, 449. 482, 495, 496, 804, 509, 510, 525, 533, 458* 727, 804, 1,040, I,llo*, 1,183. Nos. illustrated are marked thus• COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.--Yesterday the half yearly examination of candidates for the certificates in connexion with the institution commenced at the Col legiate Schools of St. Peter, Eaton-square. A large number of gentlemen presented themselves for examina tion, the subjects being classics, mathematics, the ele ments of commerce, natural philosophy, modern lan guages, &c. The Rev. J. Hind, M.A , was appointed senior moderator, and Mr. Eccleston, 8.A., of Tririty College, Dublin, Head Master of the Sutton Coldfield Grammar School, junior moderator. The classical examiners for the present session are the Rev. R. Wil son, D.D., of St. John's College, Cambridge, the Rev. IL G. Latham, M.D., and Mr. Eccleston, B.A. Exa miners in mathematics, the Rev. J. Hind, MI. A., Mr. Sylvester, M.A., and Mr. Boole. In the elements of conktnerce, Mr. Payne (Leatherhead), Mr. Seggings (Sudbury), and Mr. Lane (Plymouth). Examiners in the other branches have also been appointed. ORNAMENTAL ROOFING TlLES.—During the past week two vessels, the Celerity and Joage Johanna, have arrived from Belgium freighted with ornamental roofing tiles. They are of a blue or slate colour, and cost, as we understand, about the same as slating. One pattern in form resembles a leaf, and would, when placed upon a roof, have a picturesque effect. The use of these tiles appears to be extending. We recently noticed that they were used for the church at Staplefield, Sussex. St. Paul's Church, Hull (Mr. Dykes, architect), has also been roofed with them, as well as the boat-house on the Serpentine, in Hyde-park.—Builder. THEIRAJA OF SARLWAIL—His Highness the Raja of Sarawak, after a visit at Holkham, the hospitable mansion of our noble Lord-Lieutenant, the Earl of Lei cester (where he was accompanied by the Hon. Captain Keppel), is expected on Saturday at the Palace at Nor wich, on a visit to the Lord Bishop of the diooese.— i Yarmouth Chronicle. DR. _WHILE AGAIN. TO TEE RIGHT HON. Da RD JOHN RUSSELL "Et pereuntibus 11 ddit a 111 u libria ut ferarum tergis contectilaniatuganum interirenr; t, nut crucibus ufiliciti ant ilammandi, stque übi defies aet dies in usum nocturni luaiinis uterentur."—Tacitus. St. Jarlath's, Tuam, .Feast of St. Thomas of Cante ribury, 1847. My Lord,—Now that the e cries of the famishing poor cannot be drowned atn uldst the tumult of dra matic execration, wickedly e; :-4sited for the purpose of hunting down the character ,of the Catholic clergy, allow me again to press upon 3 -our Lordship the para mount duty of saving the su. r riving remnant of the Irish people. It is a duty f tom the repeated incul cation of which no impediment artfully thrown in the way shall deter us ; and thov vh your last reported speech in Parliament would : furnish but little hope, as far as it was an index of y a'ur policy, still we will not despond, being well aware Ithat the earnest impor tunity of the petitioners often iwrings from a reluctant Minister what a love of hum Lenity or justice would not yield. Your Lordship hes now time for reflec tion aloof from the recent stt arms of debate, amidst which the sense and propriev of the Members, as well as the lives and reputation. of the Catholic clergy, appeared exposed to the sam a promiscuous destruc tion. The tender- hearted Pecrs have, doubtless, ere now, recovered from the rapid ;succession of histrionic horrors with which their ne ryes must have been shaken whilst the graphic tr., ay of the Roman writer was again acted before view, and bands of immoral ecclesiastics were, paraded on the plat form, clothed in the skins of vrild beasts, covered with pitch, and worried with yell.king animals; and the blaze of the faggots with whh •fanaticism pursued them rendered the masked monsters more ludicrous in the sight of their spectators.. From the period in which the Roman historian painted this first persecution of the Christians in the circus of Nero, there is no of her event that combines more of the cruel and the lu ilicrous than this recent onslaught on the Catholic pe.ople and clergy of Ire land. And what, it may be: asked, has excited this tempest of the passions in which reason seems to have lost its control ? The people are on the brink of famine, nay, they are plunge tit into all the depths of starvation at Christmas, usu a Ily a season of festive plenty. They are seen devouring raw turnips in the streets. I have known whole families that would have deemed turnips a luxury, subsisting for ten days on rape alone, until they exhibited the appearance of livid corpses. This is the condition of thousands in this vicinity, of which I speak from my intimate knowledge; and the condition of several districts is worse, as I learn from the most trustworthy sources. On inquiring of such persons, " Why not go into the workhouse ?" their reply :usually is, that there was no chance of admittance. until they left their cottages, and that they see numbers who abandoned theirs repulsed from those counterfeit asylums of charity, without a chance of again ever occupying their little habitations that w.ere inexorably thrown down. Without admittance into the poorhouse, and without the shelter of their own cottage, left be hind them in ruins, these poor people are made out laws from the protection of society, and left beyond its pale, to draw their lessons :from the laws of nature, with such comments as hunger and despair once sug gested to the patriarchal wanderer in the desert ; and if those comments have not been more terrible and more frequent, it is because the angel of mercy seasonably appears in the person of the parochial clergyman [refreshing the sad souls of the poor out casts at the fountains of grace, and pointing their hopes to the reversion of a blessed inheritance. Nay, I have known, on undoubted authority, a widow and her orphan family to have spent four nights during this inclement season stretched on the outside of the wretched cot of which the ro.)l' was dismantled ; and on inquiring how she could: endure so long the piercing cold without any other covering but their ordinary wretched clothing, she replied that they were in a state of perspiration,. which she could not understand, but that it was God did it—a sentiment of piety suggested, no doubt, by meditation on the couch of the Child of Bethlehtim, which breathed no noxious inculcations, and which it would be well for the profligate revilers of the Irish people and their clergy to imitate. Yet, in the midst of this suffering, which, if one were to say would not be endured in England, might be deemed a constructive incentive to crime, no out rages, thank God, have been committed. The Irish are said to be a most peculiar race of people. No doubt they are, and many an experiment of the cruellest kind has been made on the extent of their patience. But it has not yet been discovered that they are found an exception to the general race of mankind in the ler lings of hunger or of cold, or that they can claim any privileged exemptioa from the alimentary laws that govern the rest of the creation. Are we to inquire with Job, whether the constitutions of the Irish are formed of bars of inon, in order to test the magnitude of their endurance ? No, they have the same flesh and blood, and bowels of compassion as the rest of their species, and, therefore, it is not just to subject them to trials of hunger, or experiments of patience, under which the human nature of the rest of their species would sink. Finding themselves members of a large and wealthy empire, which, like those of the human body, ought to assist each other—they demand, in the hour of their need, a portion of that sustenance which has flowed in a superfluous degree to one portion of that empire, to the utter exhaustion of the other. This their aernand is founded on the obvious principle of reciprocal benefits and reciprocal burdens. They labour —they till the land —they rear the crops— they punctually pay and have paid all their stipulated rents as long as God blessed their soil with abundant harvests. And when the harvest is not sufficient to pay the usual rent and maintain their families, they are ignorant of any divine or natural law which should oblige them to hand over the entire of the produce to the proprietor of the land, and to consign their families, the companions of their toil in raising it, to utter starvation. therefore, claim They, an equitable share in the fruits of their industry, through the protection of laws in accordance with natural equity, by which those fruits will be secured. Self-reliance, dependence on them selves, are fine and specious themes to speak on, especially when seasoned with the caustic admixture o f a s ufficient quantity of abuse of their habitual indolence. They should still prefer to have to rely on wise and equitable laws, regulating the rights of both, rather than on themselves and their landlords ; for they have found by long experience that this self reliance, so much vaunted, is nothing else than an inexorable requisition of their industry to minister to the cupidity of their task-masters, and to starve them selves on the vilest esculents ; and when they are un able to raise produce to the extent of their grinding exactions, then they are humanely taxed with the incorrigible indolence of their Celtic nature Brought to this humiliating crisis by a process of l aws which made every provision for the landlord and none for the tenant, and finding their petitions for commutative justice generally answered by coercion, they repeat their loyal and constitutional claims to participate, in the hour o f th e i r d i stress, i n t h ose common funds of a united people to which they have so amply contributed. And when they are repulsed with contumely, as disentitled to share in the abun dance which flows from their own exhaustion, they propose to the Minister a fair alternative of either giv ing them the full and stipulated benefits of the legis lative Union, or, if not, to dissolve it and while they continue attache d to the Throne to let the people go. Yes, coerce and re-coerce, and coerce again until you fill up whole cycles of coercion. The people of Ire land will never cease to cling with an enduring tenacity to the throne of their beloved Sovereign ; and to demand of the Minister, as far as re gards legislative union, to let the people go. What a dilemma! to be reproached with mendicancy on Eng lish bounty if they claim aid from an Imperial Trea sury, or with uniting against the State, if to escape the degrading imputation of mendicancy they claim the protection of a native Legislature. You may fancy you have laid prostrate every hope of a native Parlia• ment by your recent co ercio n. You may succeed in bowing it down, it is true, but it is only to spring up with stronger resiliency. The peopl e see no h ope b ut in justice, and in the justice of recent legislation they have lost all their confidence. I really cannot account for the infatuation that has come over the counsels that have suggested the recent crusade against the ministers of p uce, the preachers of morality, and the preservers of order, for that this onslaught has resulted from deep contrivances can no longer be doubted. The priesthood of Ireland can deny, as truly as indigeantly, that there is any ground for these monstrous accusations. They the instigators of murders ! who have chain€d by their holy influence the fury of the passions, and been instrumental in preserving the lives of those who levelled cottages and desolated the country, in despite of all the incentives to outrage which such deeds naturally provoked. They have rather, as was Lite duty of ministers of peace, thrown oil on the troubled waters. With what exquisite morality the calumniators of the clergy show themselves imbued, affecting such horror for personal denunciations that have no exist ence, and feeling no remorse at their own denun ciation of this innocent body to the world. Those who are now so profuse of this vituperation of the PUBLICATIONS. DR. CROLY'S SERMONS. Now ready, in 1 vol. Bvo., price 101. 6d. cloth, GI k ERMONS preached in the Chapel of the Found ►► 7? ling „Hospital, with others preached in St. Stephen's, Walbrook, in 1547. By the Rev. GEORGE CROLY, LL.D., Rector of St. Stephen's, i%'albroolc, and St. Benet's. London : Smith. Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. ESAMPLEA. I ;. c ; Annual Policy Bonus 112 1 Perma- Sum the nent Be- Assured etc. E !taken Assu red . I Bonus in dilution of may bor. ..-: V, i mium. out in I Cash. Annual row on '`' I I Premiums. Policy. r 1 £ s. 4. £ s d. £ s. d. £ s. d. r 1837 243 9 3 112 8 5 18 4 6 494 8 10 1838 218 4 8 99 8 10 15 13 5 445 0 0 £As. d. 1839 192 110 86 9 313 4 9 395 11 1 60 1000 74 3 4 1840 143 610 66 8 4 919 1 346 2 3 i I 1841 138 14 261176 9 9 2 296 13 4 1842 111 6$ 49 10 0 710 4 247 4 6 . JANUARY 6 1848, clergy might find in their own truculent pages stimulants to hate and assaults on the landlords of Ireland, which they would look for in vain in the pulpit instructions of the Catholic priesthood. It is surprising that they should so soon forget the beautiful colours in which they painted them. Of the same subjects their pencils can form angels or damned spirits, and their pens, like that of Pope, can rival the art cf Egypt in transforming into pre , iious mummies, when departed, those very men whom in their lifetime they represented as infecting society with the bad odour of their vices. The cruel fate of those victims of murder we deeply lament. The mis deeds of those who robbed them of that life, which can never be restored, we abhor, and over their in human authors we cease not to grieve from our in most souls. But whilst we deplore and stigmatise murder as drawing down the vengeance of Heaven on all who counsel or encourage such a dreadful crime, we can have no sympathy with that hypocritical sentimentality which affects such horror for the loss of life of a few individuals, and can view the silent slaughter of thousands without a particle of commi seration. It may not be difficult to conjecture what have been the causes that hare evoked from the depths of bigotry this feeling against the Catholic clergy, that reminds you of the Pagan persecution cry, Chris&mos ad Leones. Is it to take vengeance on their faithful alliance with the man of strength, of wisdom, and of peace, who lifted one prostrate nation from the dust and enlarged the liberties of the other that so long oppressed it? If so, it was a paltry revenge, akin to the envious feeling that refused a tribute of eulogy to him in that assembly which listened with a willing or reluctant attention, now to the softpersuasion,ur again to the scathing denunciations of hii eloquence. They fancied, forsooth, to extinguish by their silence in the House the fame that filled the world. As well might they expect to put out with a candle extin guisher the light of the sun of heaven. But they have at length done tardy homage to the memory of the mighty man whom they so long feared and hated. It is reported to have been such a homage as was exhibited to the absent Orpheus by the Sylvan mena gerie of musical animals, tamed and soothed into a sullen concord by his presence, but taking vengeance on him by whom they were so long restrained, by their fierce mutiny and their deadly rush on the ad herents and supporters of his peaceful policy. Hence the wild antics of their uncontrolled ferocity. But let them forbear from an insolence as ungenerous in its principle as it will be harmless in its effect. Though O'Connell is gone, the lessons of wisdom of fortitude, and of perseverance, of reverence for religion, of fidelity to our Sovereign, shall survive. You cannot calculate how much the recent rabid proceedings will strengthen the loyal Repeal Associa tion. He has left a worthy heir of his virtues and of his patriotism behind. It was by the peaceful, legal, and constitutional action of the Catholic Association we won that emancipation which has enabled some few false Catholics to turn on their brethren to whom they are indebted for their elevation. It is by a sirs filar enrolment in this peaceful and loyal body we shall succeed in bringing back our exiled senate, which will take care of the interests of Ireland, and enable the people to show to their Sovereign an al legiance, heightened by gratitude, for the plenty and the prosperity which then would be their lot, instead of the periodical famines that now afflict them. Might not the fate of Switzerland have had its influence on those senatorial doings, and the fall of Friburg and Lucerne be hailed by those bigots as harbingers of the disasters that awaited Catholicity over the world ? The great European Powers were to have interfered and prevented this unnatural civil war by their seasonable diplomacy! Yes, they will probably interfere when the Catholic religion shall have been checked, its•colleges interdicted, its altars desecrated, and its ministers of charity, who poured the unction of religion on the smarting wounds of human suffering, banished, but not, I trust, for ever, from these Alpine valleys which they filled with the odour of benediction. Such sacrilegious robbers as those Helvetian confederates are not deserving of much sympathy from any state anxious for the support de rived from morality and religion. Many a broken monument of the arts, as well as of Christian wor ship, will yet draw forth from the Alpine traveller, as from Dr. Johnson, in his tour through Scotland, in • digrant imprecations on those recent " ruffians of an infidel reformation." Or was it intended that those fiendish calumnies on the priesthood should be sent to Rome to furnish Lord Mint() with plausible arguments for conductiut► t., the desired issue his mysterious diplomacy ? Was the coincidence between his Lordship's mission of amusement and the meeting of Parliament merely casual, or was it meant that the priests in the mask pitched skins and dames, after furnishing the Lords of England with such excitement as to spare them the necessity of going to Covent-garden to be roused from the drowsiness of dullness in which they are wont to slumber, should in the after-rehearsal of the dramatic Envoy be shown, like their Christian predecessors, in the same circus that now surrounds the Vatican, to excite the horror of the modern Romans? What a proud boast might it not afford to this non commissioned ambassador to be able to lift his noble kinsman, the Prime Minister of England, into un precedented importance, and to enable him, who has one foot already on the Church of England, to plant the other on the Catholic Church of Ireland—thus to be raised on these foundations into colossal dimen sions ! What a delightful visian to behold ! infidel colleges flourishing in the distance—notwithstanding the decree that went forth from the successor of St. Peter dooming the unholy establishments to condem nation and to extinction—as if Ireland were not suffi ciently oppressed and degraded to that monstrous Church Establishment, which, as the high-minded Charles Waterton indignantly writes, is the prolific source of our misery—gorged with the sacrilegious spoils of the poor—and then inflicting, as the offspring of its cruelty, a mockery of a poor-law, which fattens foreign stipendiaries, and yet leaves the native poor to starve ! How consoling to the Minister to be able to subsidize priests in defiance o£ the authority of bishops and of the Pope, and to secure by enormous salaries, which would feed thousands of the poor who are now famishing, the disinterested allegiance of those self-denying functionaries ! How conducive to the interests of virtue and the repose of society were he enabled to recommend to some of the Catholic sees some enlightened and liberal eccle siastics whose opinions might keep pace with the fashionable opinions of the age, and who might rank among the exploded subtleties of scholastic theology all defined doctrines regarding the principal mysteries of our faith, such as baptism, ofiginal sin, the Trinity, and the Incarnation. As your Lordship and Lord Lansdowne, it is said, are inspired with a new- born reverence for Rome, you will not forget, I trust, to accompany any dispatches regarding the priests, with your letter regarding the Regius Pro ' fessor of Oxford, which will show how Dr. Hampden is selected for his ultra-Protestantism—a Protestant ism which seems to protest against all creeds and confessions, even those of Nice and Athanasius, in order that this most diverging Protestantism might counteract any returning tendencies to the centre of unity in Rome. But, my Lord, we have no fears, notwithstanding all the recent calumnies heaped on our clergy, and all the diplomatic talents now in re quisition to destroy the liberties of our faithful Church. If at all times we bad confidence in the Apostolic See, whose virgin faith was never tainted, and which chair, in the language of St. Cyprian, perfidy never approached : how much more so, when the Church is ruled by the great Pontiff who now holds the keys of St. Peter, who unites the legislative genius of an Alfred with the patronage of .arts and letters such as distinguished a Nicholas or a Leo ; but who, far beyond such qualities, stands forth the champion of the priests of the faith, and of the evan gelical liberties of the Catholic Church as prominently as the seventh of the Gregories. It is well known that Lord Minto is in Rome, in order to take back with him lessons of wisdom, of justice, of regard for the people of every rank and class—the poor as well as the rich—in every part of the British empire as well as in England, such as no English Minister ever exhibited until that connexion is again restored. Of the near approach of this happy consummation I do not, notwithstanding the present discouragin,g aspect, at all despair, and in its achieve ment the Irish clergy shall not fail cheerfully to par ticipate. Yes, on the calumnies and cruelties now so maliciously heaped upon them they will take the same noble revenge as the first Christians, mentioned at the head of this letter, took on their Pagan per - secutors, by winning them over to that religion against which their fury was directed. Again shall a Cole man and a Columba, co• operating with the pious bishops on the other side of the Channel, without aught of national jealousies, lend their aid in convert ing Albany and Saxonland (these are the names in the beautiful language of our country) from the do minion of heresy as their predecessors did froM the errors of Paganism. No state pension shall enslave the free movement of their apostolical zeal ; their faith shall not be infected, nor the " word bound" in tram mels by being dictated through the tubes of Ministe rial influence. It ii a pity that a people of such good natural qualities as the English should be so often put beside [PRICE SD. themselves in their estimation of Ireland by the rabid teaching of heterodox pastors. But what other results than anti-Christian calumnies cm we expect from the inculcation of teachers raised to the highest seats in the sywgogue, who smile at the scholastic efficacy of the sacraments as a notion grafted on the magic cf past ages, and trace the definitions of the Trinity and Incarnation to the ingenious dialectics of the Platonic and Aristotelian philosophers? With such disastrous consequences before their eyes, the Irish clergy will never brought to surrender a particle of the purity of their faith (r discipline to the noxious control of any English Minister. Instead of again subjurgating our faith, we will aid in freeing yours from the tyranny of error, in which for three centuries it has been bound, England, instead of being as it is now, with all its wealth, a melancholy and miserable country, will become once more merry England, and restored to the centre of unity, it will again reflect .the splendour of that faith, and the warmth of that charity which was brought to it from Rome, and was illustrated in the lives of a Larfranc, a Langton, and an Anselm, as well as in the glorious martyrdom and miracles of Thomas of Canterbury.—l have the honour to be, your Lordship's obedient servant, JOHN, ARCHBISHOP OF TUAM. T HEREVENUE. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—The abstract of the net produce of the revenue for the financial year ending the sth of January, 1848, as compared with the preceding year, shows a gross deficiency of 2,217,454/. Deficiencies are never pleasant subjects of contemplation, but a glance at the statement we print to-day will show that somewhat less than one-half—and no more—of the deficit is to be referred .to any falling off in the ordinary and constant channels of revenue. The gross deficiency being 2,217,454/., of this 1,067,5401. clone belongs to the permanent sources of national income. Whereas in the year ending .sth of January, 1847, we find China Credited with an item of 667,6441., in the present year the flow of Sycee silver into the Treasury has been altogether dried up. Last year, again, under the head of Repayment of Advances, we see a credit of 1,070,411/. ; this year there has only been repaid the sum of 564,046/. These two heads, then, of the extraordinary revenut will account fur a gap of upwards of a million sterling in the national balance sheet, even when the trifling set-off in favour of the present year on the " imprest and other monies" is taken into account. Unless the non-re payment of advances be accepted as a criterion of the difficulties under which the country has been labour ing for the last twelve months, we may consider the deficiency in the year's revenue as one only of a mil lion sterling, or a little more, when compared with the preceding year. It is as well to clear away these preliminary considerations, which merely embarrass the mind, in arriving at an estimate of the true sig nificance of the return. When we take the heads of the ordinary revenue in order, it is almost matter of surprise to find the deficiency on the gross amount so small. Let us first take the " Customs." Whereas in the year ending January sth, 1847, we find that these duties produced the sum of 18,310,8651., in the year that has just elapsed the revenue derived from the same source amounts only to 18,015,2981. In ' other words, there is a deficiency under this head of 295,567/. The Sloss has mainly occurred in the two last quarters of the year; that is to say, in the quarter ending the 10th of October, 1846, the Customs pro duced 5,310,8351., whereas in the corresponding Ilquarter of 1847, their amount was only 4,936.6441. In the last quarter, again, of the financial year 1846, we find the Customs credited for 4,514,721/. ; in the last quarter of the financial year just elapsed they produced only 4,111,862/. This result is not much to be wondered at when we take into account the difficulties of the nation, and the consequent contraction of its exporting and im porting powers. As we showed yesterday, we were under the necessity of importing the prime article of human sustenance, and this to the exclusion of other articles which would have been more pro ductive to the revenue. Something, no doubt, must be allowed to the first operation of the recent free trade measures. It was always foreseen that, for the 'noment there might be a loss, to be succeeded by a steady and ultimate gain to the national finances. We will bring into direct contrast the heads of ordinary revenue for the two years, that it may bo perceived at a glance to what items the loss is to be r€ furred : 1846 1847 Customs ....... X 18,010,865 ... .E 18,015,298 . . _ Excise Stamps Taxes 4,272,408 ... 4.334 561 Property-tnx 5,395,391 ... 5,-150,801 Post-oflice 816,000 ... 864.000 Crown 11:nds. 120,000 ... 77,000 111i5crA1anenus 317,090 ... 184;926 The Customs and Excise show a loss; the Stamps, Taxes, Property-tax, and Post•office, each a small gain. The heads of Crown Lands, and Miscellaneous, under which a certain deficit is found, are, perhaps, less deserving of consideration. The really impor tant point is that, under the titles "Customs" and "Excise," there has been this year a• falling off of considerably more than one million sterling when compared with last year, whereof the sum o f 295,5671. only is to be referred to the Customs, and 790,4041. to the Excise I Were it not for this last item, the balance-sheet would present a better appearance than we had a right to expect after the accumulated calamities of the past year. In the last quarter, from this source there has,only been received 3,246,8831. against 3,608,1551. in the corresponding quarter of the preceding year. We endeavoured yesterday to point out that such a deficiency, in exact reasoning, is not so much a proof of national distress, as .that the people have wisely diminished their comforts in order to meet the pressure of the times. Had the Excise presented us with its usual redundant return, the circumstances of the nation remaining unaltered, what would the present abstract have proved ? It could not have proved that the Irish potato had never rotted away. It could not have proved that our merchants had not been brought to the verge of bankruptcy. It would merely have shown that unthrift was added to diffi culty. It may be very true that there has been pro tanto a diminution in the physical luxuries of the great mass of the population, but when the choice was presented to them of what they would accept, and what refuse, it would seem they have made their election for needful food and raiment, and rejected the comparative luxuries on which the exciseman levies toll. CHRONICLE.—The state of the national income, as indicated by the quarterly returns, is, on the whole, perhaps less discouraging than, after passing through a crisis, or series of crises, of such unexampled mag nitude and complexity, the country had every reason to anticipate. The decrease on the present quarter is 1,155,3131. against a decrease of 1,507,2301. on the quarter ending October 5, 1847; or about one-fourth less. • Taking the decrease of the ordinary revenue afone, the proportion is about the same. This unfa vourable exception must, however, be made as re gards the extraordinary revenues; the China money having ceased to be paid in the quarter ending Octo ber 1846, the comparison for the present quarter is for the first time free from the disturbance in the or dinary amounts of this item produced by the Chinese payments. And the deficit in the repayments of ad vances must be taken as no favourable symptom of the ability of the quarters from which those pay ments ought to come to meet their ordinary engage ments. This is an item not, properly speaking, of the revenue, but of the cash in the Exchequer, which must be expected for a c ons id era bl e per i o d to present an unfavourable aspect. The repayments which will be coming due from Ireland will be very , large ; while both the ability and the goodwill of that country to make them will, we fear, be propor tionally small. Taking separate items of the decrease on the present quarter, the comparison on the whole I is not discouraging. The decrease on the Customs is a trifle more, but the decrease on the Excise is 280,0001. less. On the other hand, the decrease on Stamps during the present quarter is remark ably heavy; no less than 175,8321., and is a fearful evidence of the degree to which the commercial operations of the country have been recently para lysed. It is, however, consoling to observe, that this temporary decrease does not affect the sum total for the year ; the increase on Stamps for the year now ended being' 28,1321. This increase, though small, is remarkable, if the (Tecline of some of the extraordinary sources of the stamp revenue, as from railway transactions, &c., be taken into account. ' Contrasting the decrease and increase on this and the previous year, in the mode we have already adopted for the respective quarters, the result is much less encouraging. If, indeed, the causes of our recent difficulties were not, however calamitous i in themselves, altogether of an exceptional nature, the contrast would be. most lamentable. The actual increase on the total revenue for the year ending January 5, 1847, was only 13,0001. But there had been a decrease on the extraordinary revenue of more than a million. It appears that, after all this country has gone through ; after a famine, a railway tmania, a monetary crisis, and a crash of first-rate houses, unequalled, or at least unsurpassed, in the history of any people, and all of them occurring within the space of two years; the revenue from ordinary sources of thiF .dry is only about 40,0001. less in the year l 47 than it , was in the year 1845; The steady inc ase, amounting to nearly 200,0001., on Stamps, Tf .!s, Property-tax, and Post office, in the face of al the disturbances and dis couragements that mi , ri,t have interfered with them, is a good omen for the ature. It is an evidence that the true elements of • - e prosperity of the country have, after all, abater at little of their accustomed activity, and that no ;is wanting but a little time, a little calmness, a more foresight,.. frugality, and caution in our r c and private transactions, to impart a new, aln profound, and more widely profitable impulse .rergies which have been but temporarily benur iby carses of very unusual oc -Cuffence. ! ADVERTTSEIL—We publish to-day, in the usual tabular form, the Revenue returns for the year and quart er en d e d t h e sth January, 1848. There is, as was to be expected, a considerable falling off both in the quarter and y e a r , as compare d w i t h t h e corre sponding quarter and the year ended January 5, 1847. But the country, we are sure, will concur with us in the opinion, that the defalcation is not nearly so great as might have been anticipated. On the ordinary sources of revenue the deficit on the quarter is 957,8741., and on the year, 1,261, 0 35/. ; while on the total income of the country, which in cludes "Imprest and. other Moneys," and "Repay meats of Advances," the falling off on the quarter is 1,155,3131., and on the year 2,217,454/. Now, wh en it is remembered that in the quarter which ended yes terday, we have had to pass through one of the most frightful periods, not only of pressure, but of panic, ever known in this or any other country, and when it is remembered, moreover, that in the quarter just ended, no duty has been received on . foreign corn, while in the corresponding quarter of last year a considerable amount was received under that head,—there is not only abundant reason for surprise, but for congratulation, that the defalcation is so inconsiderable. The departments in which the greatest falling off has taken place. are the Customs, the Excise, and the Stamps. The quarter's deficit in the Customs is 402,8591.; in the Excise, 361,2721.; while under the head of Stamps it is l 75,832/. These are the departments which indicate most correctly the condition of the masses. In the deficiency, therefore, under these heads, we have the most con vincing proof which could be given of the extreme privations which the industrial classes must have en dured in the closing quarter of 1847. They have been com . pelled, by the depre sse d s t a t e o f trade, to abridge, td'A very gs'eat extent, their consumption of excisable commodities, and, consequently, to struggle with difficulties of which none but themselves can form a due appreciation. The only heads under which we have an increase of revenue for the quarter are the Taxes, the Property-tax, the Post-office, and the Crown Lands. In the department of Taxes the aug mentation is 4,8841. The Property-tax yields an increase of 12,3481. From the Post-office we have an addition of 5,0001.; while the Crown Lands pro duce 10,0001. more than in the correspondin quarter of last year: Again we say, that, all things con sidered, there is every ground for joy and congratulation, that the falling off in the national income, both on the quarter and year, is not greater. We are now entering on a new year, which, there is every reason to believe will be one of such decided prosperity as will more than compensate for the defalcation of 2,217,4541., which has taken place in the year which has just concluded. Everything around us justifies the hope, that the sun of commercial prosperity will shed his bright and genial beams upon us during the year 1848. Cheap food is already secured, so is cheap cotton. Bullion is daily flowing back to our shores from all parts of the world. The Bank was never in a stronger position. Confidence is rapidly returning. Consols are rising. The rate of interest has been reduced to five per cent., and in a few weeks will be reduced to four per cent. Money is not only cheap, but will immediately become abundant. It is already beginning to look out for the means of a safe and profitable investment. Under so remarkable a con currence of favourable circumstances, we surely are not over-sanguine in anticipating a year of greater commercial and financial prosperty than has been witnessed for some time past. SCOTTISH HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday a general quar terly meeting of the govrnors of the above charity was held at the premises of the corporation, Crane•court, Fleet-street; Dr. Webster in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and received, the usual annual vote for selling 1,2501. stock from the Kiulock fund was passed. •It was then proposed, in consequence of the low state of the receipts of the charity, that 5001, he sold out of the general stock to be applied to the purposes of the institution; and after some questions on the part of the governors present the vote was passed. It was then stated from the chair that the office of surgeon to the institution had become vacant by the death of Mr. Liston, and after a few observations it was unanimously 042 reed that l'rofessor Ferguson, of King's College, should fill the vacant situation. Major Adair, secretary to the institution, applied to the meeting to be al lowed access to the records of the society and other papers kept in that room, which had been unchanged since the time when the house was in the posses-ion of Praise God Barebones. I/1 had no - doubt that many interesting documents might be brought to light. The Royal Society had formerly met there, and the documents in that room would probably assist in a very materiel degree a history of 'that society which was about to be published. Permission was granted, and a remark made, that when the secretary had on a previous occasion access to sane of their records, the use made of them brought 2001. to the funds of the charity. Notice was then given by Mr. Hamilton of a motion, that 30,0001. instead of 40,0004 be'the minimum amount of stock held in the name of tte corporation, and the meeting then separated. THE COACHMAKERSI BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.— Last night the half-yearly general meeting of the sub scribers to the above institution took place at the Red Lion Tavern, King street, Golden-square; Mr. Savage in the chair. The Secretary (Mr. Brown) read the re port, from which it appeared that the cash in hand was 90/ exclusive of a sum of 3401. 16s. 93. invested in the Three per Cent. Consols. The Chairman, in a short address, stated the general objects of the society to bo the permanent relief of aged and infirm cAschmakers, and their widows and orphans, and congratulated the subscribers on the sure, though slow, progress of the society to prosperity. The report having been unani mously adopted, and the usual courtesy passed to the chairman, the meeting separated. ARTIFICES OF PRISONERS.—Last evening an in quest was held in the Giltspur-street Compter, before Mr. Joseph Payne, on the body of Alfred Harwood alias John Atkinson, aged 33, a prisoner under sentence of one year's imprisonment, for stealing a watch of the value of 141., from the shop of Mr. .durray, jeweller, Cornhill. Mr. M'Murdo, the surgeon, said the deceased was admitted on the 9th of January, 1847, and bad been in the infirmary almost ever since. Ho told witness that he had been in prison several times, and that by refusing his food he had often led the medical officers to believe that he was ill, so as to get himself into the in firmary, where he would have better diet. He died on Saturday from atrophy, or wasting away. Verdict— " Natural death." AN IRISH EMIGRANT SUFFOCATED IN AI SEA , - criEsT.—The following is an extract of a private letter, dated New Orleans, Nov. 21, from a passenger in the Constantine, Captain Sampson, which sailed from Liver pool on the 23d of September:—" We were towed out of the river by a steam-boat, during which time our ship was searched for any persons who might have secreted themselves, in order to pass across the Ocean free. Weil, there were eighteen found, fifteen of whom the captain sent back by the steam tug. The rest he allowed to work their passage out. After the tug had left, and we were in the Channel, a large sea-chest was secretly opened by the owner of it, an Irishman, who found within not hi s li v i ng b ut h i s dead brother. He had secreted him, and the poor fellow was suffocated. Ile was thrown overboard that night." DEBTS OF STUDENTS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF Ox- FORD. —The Vice-Chancellor and the Heads of Houses in the University of Oxford have determined on the acbiption of very stringent measures to check the extra vagant expenditure on the part 'of the undergraduates. Hitherto, a law has been in force which provides that all accounts of tradesmen shall be sent to the tutors of the colleges, and be by them discharged, but this law hss been evaded. The new rules on this subject will be com municated to the University immediately after the com mencement of Lent Term, on the 14th instant. SCENERY AND DECORATION.—Mr.PIanche's charm ing Christmas piece at the Lyceum displays some of the most beautiful scenery end costumes that we have seen . for a long time. An enchanted wood, with groups o f shepherds and shepherdesses, improvements on their China resemblances to be found in nice old houses, is one of the most perfect things ever put upon tl±(_! i stage; the arrangement of colours is quite beautiful. With the neatness, elegance, and good taste sh own in the piece itself, we are supposed to have nothing to do, or we should speak in warm terms. The first scene in the Drury-lane pantomime, the sea-shore by moonlight, with • ripples, is excellently well managed. Mr. Balfe's mimic new opera has some capital scenery. Gothic architec' tore is beginning to be better understood by stage artists than it was, and we find more consistency in architec tural representations generally. An amusing instance to the contrary was observable in a piece by the late Mr. Peakc', called Gabrielli, recently played at the Adelphi Theatre, where an Italian monumental urn, on a pedestal to match, was represented b eneat h a Gothic canopy.— Builder. MortEY7MAitKET.—The premium on gold at Paris is 13 per milk, which, at the. English Mint price of 3/. 175.!10f4. per ounce or standard gold, gives an ex change of 25.47 I and thc exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.65, it follows that gold is 0.70 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By adrices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 434 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.9 f ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.11 k, it follows that gold is 0.91 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at New York on London is 110 f per cent., and the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23.40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.93 per cent. in favour of England. But, the quoted exchange att New York being for bills at 60 days' sight s the in terest must be added to the above difference. 1 ~ , , ! , 1 • 1 . , ',.., a i i I 1 i I 1 j 4 , 1