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ROYAL ASYLUM of ST. ANN'S SOCIETY. By Voluntary Contributions Maintaining, Clothing, and Educating the Children of those once in prosperity. The HALF-YEARLY ELECTION will take place at the London TATern, on FaiDev, February 11,1848, from Eleven to Three o'clock. E. F. LEEKS, Secretary. 2, Boyal Exchange-banal:lgs. Life Subscription •. .• .......... £lo' 10 0 Annual Ditto•••• •• .............. 1 I 0 A W LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Fleet-street, London. January 13, 1848. Notice is hereby given, that a GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the Law Life Assurance Society will be held at the Society's Moe, Fleet-street, London, on WEDNESDAY, the 2cl day of February next, at Half-past Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon precisely, pursuant to the provision of the Society's Deed of Settlement, for the the of receiving the Auditors ' , Annual Report of the Accounts of 1 40 Society up to the slst Decernher last, and for general purposes. By order of the Directors, WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Aetuary. N.B. Business will commence at Twelve o'clock precisely. The Dividend on the capital Stock of the Society, for the year 1846, has been in coarse of payment since the 6th day of April last. A RGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 39, THROGMORTON-STREET, BANK. EMPOWERED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT. THOMAS FARNCOMBE, Esq., Alderman, Chairman. WILLIAM LEAF, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Richard E. Arden, Esq. ohn Humphery Esq., Alderman, William Banbury, Esq. M.P. Edward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman. Thomas Camplin, Esq. Jeremiah Filcher, Esq. James Clift, Esq. Lewis Pocock, Esq. Ittpert Inglelay, Esq. Pnystami—Dr. Jcaffreson, 2 Finsbury-square. SulakoN—W. Coulson, Esq., 2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. CONSULTING ACTUARY—Professor Hall, of King's College. LOW RATES OF PREMIUM. Persons Assuring in this Office have the benefit of the Lowest rate of Premium which is compatible with the safety of the Assured, and which is, in effect, equivalent to an Annual Bonus ; they have likewise the security of a large subscribed capital—an Assurance Fund of a Quarter of a Million—and an Annual Income of 65 ,0001., arising from the issue 01 nearly 6,000 Policies. ANNUAL PREMIUM TO ASSURE £lOO. Age. Whole Term. £0 19 1 £1 11 10 127 2 0 7 1 6 9 2 14 10 1 19 10 4 0 11 3 7 0 6 010 For One Year. 1 For Seven Years, £0 17 3 1 1 3 1 5 0 1 14 1 3 2 4 One-half of the " Whole Term" Premium may remain on credit for seven years, or one-third o f the Premium may remain for life a s a debt upon the policy at 5 per cent, or may be paid off at any time Without notice. Policies assigned as a security to others, will not be rendered void in consequence of death by suicide, duelling, or by the hands of bstiee. In case of death by the above causes, where the Policies are not assigned, the gross amount of Premiums received will be re turned. Claims paid In one month after proofs have been approved. The 'Medical Officers attend daily at a Quarter before Two o'Clock, and Policies issued the• same slay. R. BATES, Resident Director'. A. liberal Commission to Solicitors and Agents. NATIONAL -LOAN FUND-LIFE -A- 11 ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 26, CPRNIIILL, LONDON. Capital £lOO,OOO. Empowered by Act of Parliament. Thts Institution embraces important and substantial advantages 'With respect to life assurances mid deferred annuities. Tke assured has en all occasions, tke power to borrow, without exp ense or for 'elture 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 eonveniencies sr . necessity. Assurances for terms of years en the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF 'PROFITS. The ',lonising prosperity of the Society kas enabled the Directors Id the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. ox the premiums paid ox each policy effected ex the profit scale. EXAMPLES. Policy Bonus in taken addition Bonus in out in Assured. Cask. X LA.,' X r d. 1837 243 9 3112 8 S I 1838 218 4 8 1 99 8 DI 1839 192 1 10 86 9 1840 .143 S.lO, 66 8 4 1841 138 14 2; 61 17 6 1842 111 6 8, 49 10 0 Perm ient Re duction of Sena, the Assured may bor row on Policy. Anxual Premiums. The Annual Report, with tables of rates, &c., °ftlice, er any of its branches in the ciantry ; e] bb forwarded post free. F. FBRGUSON C. X s. d. 18 4 6 15 13 13 4 9 9 19 1 9 9 2 7 le 4 £s. 41. 494 8 10 445 0 • 395 11 1 346 2 3 296 13 4 247 4 5 may be had at the ', en application. will ',OUX, Secretary. THE PROVIDENT CLERKS' & GENERAL • BUILDING AND INVESTMENT SOCIETY. Office, No. if, Old Broad-street. Shares 1001. each. Entrance- fee, 2s. 6d. per Share. e nneCtipitions per Share—Monthly, 125.; Quarterly, 11. 15s, lid. ; Half-yearly, 31. Ile. bd. ; Yearly, 71. Id. In this Society there will be no bidding. for Shares—no Redemp _ "° 1 Fees — nor any Fines on withdrawal. Advances made according . r Priority of application, and subject . to Fixed Tables. Calculated n eratien of the Society, Ten Years. TXtraTarra. " ' 7 : Zones, lag:, Toulmin, - Esql-; J. C. Hardy, Esq. DIRECTORS.- • • Mr. W. L. Allen, Murray-street, New-road . Mr. Edward Devonshire, East and. West India Dock House Mr. Samuel Eastman, Crawford-street Mr. Samuel Gilbert, Little Tower-street Mr. Thomas B. James, Messrs, White and Greenwell, Cheapside Mr. W. Kettlewell, 6, Great , Winchestir-street • Mr. C. T. B. Keep, Lindsay-wharf, Chelsea - Mr. T. A. Pott, Henry-street, Pentenville • Mr. George Richards, II and 52, Paternoster-row Mr. .7. Whitehead, lien., Somerset House, and Chelsea Mr. George Winter, Professional Life Assuranos Office. "its—The Commercial Bank of London. BTEISDINO COUNSEL —W. C. rooks, 311, Chancery-lane. BolnetTens-51essrs. Devonshire and %Filson, 25 Austin - friars. RUnvisroas—Mr. Cornelius Wheeler, 23, Leadenhall-street ; Mr. William Lambert, 40, Coleman-street Crescent, excissrelaT—Mr. John Whitehead, jam, No. 6, the A-road, rwell. This Association has lba been ny formed Camb princi e pally with the view of af lbrding to gentlemen engaged in 410VERNMENT and PUBLIC BANR - flec e milsE,s, and MERCANTILE ESTA BLISIIMIINTS, asafe and advantageous mode of investing a portion o f.their incomes, either by way o f deposit, at 71. per Cent. compound interest, or in the purchase of freehold orleatebeld residences. _The operations of this Society - will be regalated by Tables prepared exPritaly tor - the - purpose brtireeeminent actuaries. The leading principles of this Society are 1. Perfect aqaality of benefit between . all, the Members, whether borrowers or not. /- Certainty in tha am."ni of advance is which cash Member , ofto anticipate his Shares w ill a t an y gi ven poi... of the Seelety's existeace, with the means of meta tadning precisely at any date the amount payable to retiring Members, and the value of the Sharet of continuing Members. Members. may-pay up Bits whole or any portion of their subecrip tious fin the ten years, iu advance, and discount, after the rate of 41. Per Cent. per annum, will be allowed for the sums so paid. Members wishing to withdraw their Subscriptions may do so after the first year, without fine ; and subsequently to that period com pound interest at the rate of 61. per Cent. per annum will be allowed upon the sums withdrawn. Shares may be transferred free of stamp duties. By the plan adopted in this Society new Members entering at any period, and all Members taking up additional shares, may have loans advanced to them without paying up arrears of Subscriptions ; and the precise - amounts that will be advanced either to old or new Members, are set forth in the Tables, a copy of which will be sup plied to every Member. This is manifestly far preferable to the un equal and objectionable system usually adopted of putting the shares np to auction, and advancing the money to those who submit to the largest discount ; by which means the object of the Legislature, which' contemplated that each Member should derive precisely the same advantage, is entirely frustrated. • • • The monthly subscription, both to the borrowing and non-borrow ing Members, is precisely the same, and continues the same to the end of the Society; borrowers are, therefore, relieved from the heavy monthly redemption fee," and the mutual principle is car rred into full operation. - Ne Member has any responsibility beyond the payment of his own a ubscriptionS. A Public Meeting for affording furthef explanations of thenbjects " the Society and its system of operations, will be held at the Lon- In Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, en WiDNasDAT Evarsixa, 26th Yuary instant, at Half-past Six for Seven o'clock precisely. P rospectuses and copies of Rules may be obtained at the office of the Society, 15, Old Broad-street. Applications for Shares should be addressed to the Secretary, in the. following form : Date, 184 authorise you to register my name as it stibscriber for Shares in the Provident Clerks' and General Banding and Investment tiociety. Name Occupation ICeie,—lt is proposed to limit the number of Shares to SOO, and that the entrance fee shall not exceed 2s, 6d. per Share previously to le t February, 1848. More than 100 Shares are already taken. iSUPERIOR SHEFFIELD PLATED DISH COVERS, with strong silver mo untin g s and silver shields °r engraving the crest or coat of arms. 'fable Dish Covers. Light Plating. Heavy Plating. The Gadroon pattern •• •• • £ll 0 0 .. £l5 12 6 Th e shaped Montrose pattern • • 12 6 6 • . 16 17 6 The Grosvenor pattern 15 0 @ . • 2@ 6 6 The Albert pattern .• . ... •...• • • • 15 .• • 15 0 0 • • 20 6 6 The Gordon pattern .• :• ••. • • • 12 6 A .. 16 17 6 i r.he above sets comprise four dish covers—viz., one 20-inch, ono ',Weh, and two 14-inch. A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing Silversmiths, 14, London, opposite the Bank of England. ALCURIOUS ACROSTIC. A ttend to the following curione lay, A word of advice we've a wish to convey ; A llow us to offer (you cannot do less) A few observations concerning eheice dress. A 11 those who have purchased of MOSES and SON, A dmit that their garments were never outdone; A nd, reader. you'll find when you purchase goods there, A dvantages offered you, many and rare. A stounding improvements do MOSES' display, A nd many choice novelties famed in the day. A 1 no other house can the public behold A ttractions to equal what MOSES' unfold. A nd then only look at the prices we quote, A list we present which we wish you to note. A 11 folks when they fled that the prices thus run, A veil themselves gladly of MOSES and SON. A nd do tkej regret when their bargains aro made ? A re they ever disposed to find fault with our trade? A n answer to this we at enee will bestow, A nd the answer's in oue little negative—NO ! LIST OF PRICES. BEADY MADE. t savor Taglloai -- - .. .. ~.. .. .... .... .. .. .. from .£0 9 0 Cke , sterfleld sad Codrington's, aid every description of Over-coat, handsomely • The Dacha Coat .............................. 1 6 0 The p.,,i, _.—raer, wet weather..... ..... .... • • • • • " .. ...... .... : :: :: especially adapted fur snowy and 1 • • T he Premier.... •• •• •• "*. '• • ••••• • • • to • ... 6 6 • ~ Y .• a Winter Coats, is every stylo• • • •. . < • Dress Coats.. ••••••••—• • " ' • ' • '` 1 0 0 .....• .. 0 2 0 1 4 6 LotLollble-hreastFrock do et Winter Yeats :•••• • • • • • I leYs' Hilmar and Tanis Salts"— • , ..... . MADE TO MIASIBI. Pinter Coats, la every style and shape, handl , Beastly trimmed ............ • - • • • • • • • • • • froin -Allied cloth Over-eeats, velvet collar and cuffs .• Tweed Wrapper • • •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • Doeskin Trousers • • • • • • Best, or Dress— ••••••' • ' • " " • • •• • • DreesCoat • • • • • • •" • " • • • • • • '' Best caality made.. • • • • . • • • • • 1 6 6 2 4 0 0 13 6 1 2 1 6 0 1 12 1 2 16 Fred. do.. ....... Best finality ror de .••• • • • 3 3 eashakere Tests ............. 0 6 6 Satins, Plain or F ancy ...... •—• ••••••• *a • • • • Cs 12 tors Hussa r and Tanis Salts .•..• • • • 1 6 0 Great Coat.. •• • • 0 16 II A. Slit of Clothes complete. ..... .•••• • • • .. .... 1 16 0 Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes notiee. ObServe A Ezre, if • nY article purchased, ready roads, or made to raea not approved of, w ill b e exc hanged, or if preferred, the — Y r tleY returned. • 51 ° 8 E5 and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters, Lad e" ' Fu rriers, Boot sad Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for aid Gentlemen, 154, 155, and 156, 157 Minories, aid 83 , 5 , mid 86 en, 154, City, London. P1)11 4 . 4 ' 4 * — X. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the •• - against impostors, but have learned that the stntraciesmal ,,'•'ehood of being COPile,:ted with th.,:n, or it's the same concern, 1,110;:eean resorted I to in many instancer, and fee obvions reasons. ar k e os u . ve no con nex i on w ith any o th e r horse in or out of 1,0110.42 t; or - who desire genuine and cheq, clothing, should call at, N o •t• 1 4 Minories and Aldgate, City, London. set r i , i 2• -- X0 basiitess transacted at this establishment from sun veltch 0112J0t eatitrdsy, when buena Is roomed till twtlye Annual Pre- • g minx. an . d. 60 11000, 74 5 3 4 • 404 9 • • • - . : te$V,lV,?/4. • 4 , , A 6 4. '..;iO4' “&, - • . t a. 14 . ; ; • • ;,' • - • ' l7 • - 'F'41111;"'t1;!'":;_' 4 A:': . f 4 ;7 , 1.•' • B Mr' JANUARY 19, 1848. [PRICE SD. 1 ; from the deanery of Athlone, in the diocese of the Eirsht Rev. Dr. Brown, per the Rey. Thomas Phillips, 121. 10s.; from Prince Edward's Island, 151. Rent for the week, 1051. COUNT MONTALEMBERT AND LORD PALMERSTON. (From the Constitutionnel.) M. de Montalembert, in the interest of the Jesuits, has endeavoured to resuscitate prejudices and passions against England. Greece is the theatre which he has selected to show Lord Palmerston pursuing with ardour the ruin of French influence, and if necessary, by the ruin of Greece. He has represented him as paying for the revolt. of Grivas, loading the Greek Government with reproaches the most severe and the least merited, and causing, by the anxiety which he prepared for him, the death of M. Coletti. With the exception of thei last allegation, which is purely declamatory, there is something true at the bottom of all this. It is true that the English Government strives after the destruction of French influence, not only in Greece, but at Constantinople, in Syria, in Spain, in Italy, everywhere ; it is equally true that it employs, in order to attain its object, all the means which it is possible to make use of, without coming to an open rupture. But why does it do so ? Why do we find in every part of the world British antagonism counteracting our designs, combating and destroying our influence, and reducing our foreign influence to the wretched state in which we behold it ? Has Eng land something to envy us ? It is the abasment of our Government, the subordination of our Cabinet to an absolute power. Is it the corruption which is eating us up, the deficit in our finances, the general discon tent and uneasiness which prevail ? England, unfor tunately, has nothing to envy:us. If she endeavours to destroy the miserable remains ofinfluence which France still possesses abroad, it is because we have declared against her a veritable diplomatic war. The two nations united ought and could march together at the head of civilization, and they could impose by their moral ascendancy on absolutist Europe, the observa tion of treaties and respect for the laws of humanity and for the rights of nations. Our Ministry deserted that mission for a marriage and a dowery ; it de ceived the confidence of its ally ; it has boasted of its conduct towards England, and of the famous trick which it played her ; thus voluntarily breaking the union which it had itself declared was necessary for the peace of Europe. Is it astonishing that the chal lenge was accepted, and that we have at present to contend against her wherever she meets with our diplomatic agents ? This is what M. de Montalembert knows as well as we, and what no doubt he would have said at another moment. But Lord Palmerston refused to support the interests of the Jesuits in Switzerland. M. de Montalembert has in consequence I forgotten everything, both the just complaints of England against our Ministry, and the voluntary rupture of the English alliance by M. Guizot, who has flung himself into the arms of Austria." ST. KATHARINE DOCKS. A general meeting of the proprietors of the St. Katharine Docks was held yesterday at the Dock house, Tower-hill, for the purpose of declaring a divi dend, for the half-year ended the 31st of December last. Mr. Thomas Tooke, the chairman 4 presided. the company, The SECRETARY read the not; x 0 for convening the meeting. The CIIARMAN observed, that th e accoun t s o f rece i pt and expenditure of the. ocrepany for th e year en d e d the 31st'December last, had, as usual, and in accord ance wit h - the provisions of the Dock Act, been acces sible to the proprietors during the last fourteen days. From these it appeared that the general balance brought forward on the Ist of January last was 88,5691.75., and that the' balance brought for ward on the Ist of the present month was 88,980/ 19s. 3d., shaefing a slight increase. The gross earnings of the company (fractions omitted) were, during the year 1846, 229,8151., and the expenses amounted to 124,270/„ leaving a balance in favour of the company of 105,445/.; whereas the gross earnings during the last year gwere 260,0041., and the expenses 146,2681.; leaving a balance in fa - vour of the company of 113,7361., being an increase of 8,1911. in the nett earnings of 1847, as compared with those of the year 1846. The accounts further showed that a diminution of 5,3141. had taken place during the last year in the charge for interest upon the floating debt, 353,5001. of which had been already extin guished 1)y the measure of conversion in progress ; which sum of 5,3141., added to the net earnings, con stituted an amount of 79,2341. applicable to dividend for the past year; but 4,6271. short of 5 per cent., computed on the increased capital, which now amounted to 1,700,6871. It would be in the recollec tion of such of the proprietors who were present at the last January meeting, that the directors then announced, " That unless there should be a material increase in' the earnings of the company during the (then) current year, they would not feel justified in any further encroachment on the rest, but would consider themselves as having no alternative but that of proposing at the next (present) January meeting a reduction in the dividend." And at the July meeting a declaration of similar import was inci dentally made, in answer to an inquiry by a proprietor. Notwithstanding the great augmen tation of business and increase in the earn ings during the ' past year, the gross amount of which exceeded by several thousand pounds the gross earnings during any one year Since the opening of the docks; the net earnings were, as before stated, short of the usual dividend. The directors, there fore, were satisfied of the expediency of adhering to the determination, which they announced in January last, not to encroach further upon the rest ; and they were then prepared to recommend such a reduction in the rate of dividend as may afford the means of replacing, from time to time, the sums that have been taken from the rest (of which amount the proprietors have had the benefit in the shape of dividend) ; and, further, of making some provision for contingencies, which might be expected during the year, from de rangement in the mercantile and monetary affairs of the country, the injurious effects of which must be especially felt by the trade of the port, and, conse quently in a degree, by the dock company, in common with all other establishments connected with the com mercial and shipping interests of London. Under these circumstances, the directors recommended to the proprietors to deClare a dividend for the half year ended the 31st - of December last, of two per cent., the income-tax to be defrayed by the company. It - howev e r, would, be = satisfactory. to the pro rietors to find ,from the statistical returns - of business transacted in these docks during the last year, 'evidence of the industry and unceasing attention which have been devoted by the manage ment-to the interests of the company. He would now submit a resolution for declaring a dividend as -pro posed, and expressed his readiness to afford to the proprietors the fullest information upon the affairs of the company that might be desired. And in reply to several questions, he stated the wages bad been in.; creased much by the large imports of flour, corn, and rice, which required' more labour to store then than the light and more vahhible article's. - SPORTING IN INTELLIGEN CHESTER CU st. lb. st lb Sir Tatton Sykes ... 9 0 Keloshea 6 9 Pyrrhus the First 8 12 Magnet 6 9 Cossack TELLIGENCE. TCE EXTRA. P WEIGHTS. Chanticleer Mendicant Inheritress War Eagle 8 6*alt Poynton Rat-trap Cawrouch Lightning _ Cc;ilingw;od Red Hart 8 2 Erin-go-bragh Dulcet -,8 2 Crim Con Conjuror' 8 ONV py 1 atil ro Blackbird 1 Conynghain Patriot G rimston 7 -121 Britannia Morpeth - -- 7 1-I,Marianne Lady Wildair . Rowena Mathematician Giselle 7 BiStuits Foreclosure_. 7 Pantomime ....— 6 3 Walmgate .bar, Witk-. Lyme out - -- Newcourt 7 71Spectator 6 0 Sharstou - 7 71 Chit - 7 4 The Widow 7 6 Clermont Foxwhelp " 7' 5' Sheraton King of.Moryen 7 .5 Raisthorpe Bantam 7 3 The Liberator ' t 7 3 Joe o'Sot .. 7 2 1 Reminiscence Whinstone , 7 o Ennui ' • 7 ..: 0 rum rougn Milliner Foinual la • 6 0 Sally Maggs In fringe Bedlam 6 0 liing of the Forest 6 0 ,Passionate Sultana ;{Blase Wildrod ? no Roy 6 1a I rilla,c 5 12 Shawn Buidhe i i prandy Face _ _ MI": SMITH was satisfied with the progress of the docks, but thought the dividend ought . not to be. re duced. He should move that the proprietors them selves 'should pay the income-tax in future, as it would he st, vain he.rw. p t tha t the tax would be taken off by the IGovernnie, ougn iti ..41 15 1.4 increased. - - The CHAIRMAN said that the dividend would be paid free of income-tax, and that the rest formed the floating capital of the company, which it was unad viktble to trench upon, because the prospects of trade in the ensuing year were not such as to hold out the chance of increased activity among the shipping interest.i. West Countryman Z t) Dunham , Woodpecker Crozier • 7 0 Clarendon.. Peep-o'-day, Boy ....., Z. Q Oxonian The Swallow" Connaught Ranger... 6 12 Antler • 6.12 Premier Enchanter . 'lloloraine Lady Ilylda Tom Jolly Hawkeitone ...... 5 8 Scaudal Tuscan Mrs. Taft Eagle's Plume . The - dividend was then agreed upon, and after lanks had been voted to the chairman and directors, be meeting adjourned. Best of Three 6 12, Intrepid Jonathan Wild Rufus Gannet Duke of Richmond 6 Clementina 6 12' The Tartar 6 12, Montpensier Mary Stewart. Administrator 6 12; Fergus 6 12, Sutlej Mongrel Tit-Bit Romance 6 6 1 1 0 0 1 The Admiral Bingham 6 10 Tim Whiffler Geraldine Shelforth 6 9' Maid of Lyme 6 9 The Premier Louisa Newell 6 9 Maid of Motherwell 6 9 Great Western Snuff Box Shylock King of Kildare Jock o' Hazledcan 5 2 Blackball 5 2 ! Prince Charley ;Hornpipe 5 0 Sampson 5 0 Good Boy ;Sylvan 5 0 Pet of the Fancy Maid of my Soul 4 10 'Self Defence ...... 4 10 Ellen Loraine 4 10 Otterburn Swiss Boy Slug Mr. Eddison's colt Cracow Latitut 4 7 Rainbow ! Sunny Sido 4 4 , Primrose 4 4 ,Glen Saddel ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER AT CHATHAM. At the county magistrates' office, Rochester, on Monday, Henry Bartlett and Joseph Bartlett, of the respective ages of 30 and 18, were brought before the Rev. G. Davies and J. Smith, Esq., on a charge of robbery, under most revolting circumstances. The prisoners are the sons-in-law of James Henry Storey, landlord of the Lord Hill beer-shop, 'Westcourt street. Shortly after eleven o'clock on the night of Tuesday last, the house being clear of customers, the prisoners went from the tap-room into the bar, where Storey was sitting alone—his' wife, the mother of the prisoners, having left her home on the previous day, in consequence, as she states, of threats used by the sons towards her. The gas having been extinguished, Storey lit two candles, and the prisoners having first secured the doors, returned to the bar, and bolting the door on the inside, demanded money. Storey told them to go to bed, promising to give them a pound in the morning. They however per sisted in their demand, and said they would have two pounds that night, which he refused to give them. The younger one left the bar, and almost immediately , returned armed with a bludgeon, and they com menced a most brutal assault upon Storey, striking him several heavy blows on the head and face. They then rifled his pockets of about three pounds worth of silver, together with a silver watch. The lodgers in the house having been aroused by the cry of murder, hastened down stairs to the landlord's assistance, when the prisoners, in their hurry to escape, knocked one of the women down in the passage, and made off at the back part of the house. Mr. Weekes, surgeon, was called to attend Storey, and he stated that he found him with five extensive wounds on the right side of the head, one of which was nearly four inches long, and penetrated to the bone of the skull. He also found very extensive bruises and swellings on the left side of the head, the right eye much bruised and nearly closed, and the third finger on the left hand broken. The prisoners, who made no defence, were fully committed for trial at the assizes. ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OW THE EAR.— Yesterday, at noon, the annual meeting of the supporters of this charity was held at the institution, Dean street, Soho. Mr. Masterraan, M.P., the treasurer, took the chair, and at his request Mr. Smyth, the secretary, read the report, by which it appeared that the expenditure of the past year exceeded the income, in consequence of the benefits of the institution having become more gene rally acknowledged, and thus causing a'greater number of applicants for medical relief. The recipients were generally domestic servants, mechanics, and poor foreigners, deafness being to the latter a peculiar draw back in a country whose language was but partially un derstood by them. Since the establishment of the i - stitution, 15,000 persons had been relieved or cured, and 880 patients had been treated in ono day last year, a proof of the increasing claims on the funds, &c., of the institution. Several new remedies and modes of treat ment had been adopted, with, generally speaking, satis factory results. The experience afforded by the insti tution has caused much improvement in the practice of aural surgery, and fully proved that deafness was fre quently produced by living in confined and damp locali ties, by intemperance, u n c leanliness, and insufficient or adulterated food. The causes being known, the pre.. ventatives were obvious. Neglect in the earlier stages of the disease commonly rendered it incurable. The report having been adopted, thanks were voted to her Majesty and the other royal patrons of the in stitution, to its different officers, and the meeting separated. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—An accident of a pecu liarly distressing and melancholy nature occurred yes terday in Finnieston, at a small cluster of one-storied houses, called World's-end-street. About half-past nine o'clock, Elizabeth Campbell, a young married woman, accompanied by her brother-in-law, James Young, was engaged in fastening a line for the purpose of hanging clothes on, when about sixty feet of the south wall of Hyde-park Foundry, which forms the boundary of the little garden plot in which they were so occupied, fell down on them with a tremendous crash. The wall is upwards of twenty feet in height, and being of a solid construction, the weight was immense. The workmen in the foundry, on hearing the noise, immediately hurried out, and made every exertion to extricate the unfortu nate individuals, who were completely buried in the mass of ruins. Young was first got out, and although much bruised, was still breathing. So heavy were the stones and rubbish which covered his unfortunate relative, that some minutes elapsed before she could be extricated, but after they had succeeded it was apparent that the poor woman was beyond the reach of human aid, her skull being severely fractured, and both her legs and ono of her arms broken. Her husband, a mason by trade, was at the moment coming along the street to his break fast when the sad intelligence reached him, and he ar rived to see his wife carried a corpse into the house which she had but a few minutes previously left in the possession of perfect health. What renders the circum stance more distressing is, that she has left two young children, the oldest not above, four years of ago, and „ that she was far advanced in pregnancy. Surgical assistance was immediately procu red by .Mr. Neilson, of the Hyde-park Foundry, and in a short time Dr. Thom ' son arrived, who dressed the injuries which Young had jreceived; and we are glad to state that though the man is by no means out of danger, there are sanguine hopes entertained that he may ultimately recover.—North British Nail. EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.—CIIRMISTS AND DRUGGISTS.—A meeting of chemists and druggists was held last night at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet-street, Mr. Gore in the chair, for the purpose of considering the expediency of extending to this department of occupa tion the benefits of early closing hours of business, which have been so eminently advantageous in other depart ments of business. A perfect unanimity prevailed with respect to the desirableness and expediency of an arrangement so well calculated to advance the physical, and, of course, the moral and intellectual, condition of the young men employed in the establishments of che mists and druggists. Mr. Underwood, the secretary, read the report of the society, which spoke in the most earnest terms of the advantages which were calculated to result from the adoption of early hours in the shops of chemists and druggists. The report gave a very clear and explicit account of the receipts and expendi ture of the society. A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman and secretary, after which the meeting se parated. THE LATE SIR HENRY CAREW ST. JOHN MILD.* MAY, BART.—This gentleman, whose melancholy decease we recorded yesterday, was in his 61st year. lie was son of the late Captain Sir henry Paulet, who assumed the name of Mildmay, by the daughter and heiress of Carew Mildmay, Esq. He married two sisters, viz.— first, in 1809, the eldest daughter of the Hon. Bartholo mew Bouverie (she died in 1810); he married secondly in 1815, at Stutgardt, by the special permission of the King of Wurtemburg, the next sister of his deceased wife, a lady whose marriage with the Earl of Rosebery had been dissolved a short time previously. By the first marriage he leaves issue a son, Henry Bouverie Paulet. born in 1810, a Captain in the 2d (Queen's Bays), who succeeds to the title, and the portion of the estates which remain in the family. Ho had issue by the second mar riage three sons, all of whom entered Austrian Hussar regiments. A man named James Degan, was ,arrested in Liverpool on Monday, on a charge of being engaged in. a murderous assault on Job Larkin, of Newtown, in the King's County, in November , last- He was on board an emigrant ship, and WAS about escaping to ,America. N0.17,261.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY, EVENING ROYAL HOTEL, GRAINGER-STREET, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. CHARLES STATES solicits the patronage of his BROTIIIIR TRAYELLERS to the above Establishment, which has recently bees newly famished and laid out expressly for a Cost morale' Hotel. The COMMERCIAL ROOM, one of the largest aid most elegantly fitted in the NORTH, it is hoped will be found complete is every respect. Tke BED-ROOMS (Sixty is number) have been famished in a style which must ensure the approbation of all visitors. Gentlemen traxelling with STOCK can at all times have kIIOW ROOMS without any extra charge. The Music Hall, Lecture Room, and Royal Hotel Assembly Room are all attached, and under the same management. The Royal Hotel is in the most central situation is Newcastle. THE WILD SPORTS OF THE PRAIRIES. This Day is published, post Bye. 65., TRAVELS in MEXICO, with ADVENTURES among the WILD TRIBES and ANIMALS of the PRAIRIES and ROCKY MOUNTAINS. By G. F. BUXTON, Esq. " Mr. Buxton's work is crowded with the wildest adventures, that, from the epening page to the close, rivet the attention. It has that reality which makes Melville's Types and South Sea Adventures' so charming and fresh. It has none of the homeliness of Robinson Crusoe, but the adventures are as startling."—Economist. John Murray, Albemarle-street. lIIAMOND OIL LAMP.-NEW LIGHT. ./ The Diamond Lamp is the best light in the werld—is used in all 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 less in burning than any common oil lamp— gives double the light of candle lamps, at one-half the expense—this is beyond doubt. Designs suited to every taste—the Diamond Lamp is perfection in Light—the public will have none other—it can be IU-ea to any person's lamp pillar. To, be had only at the Establishment of the Metropolitan Light Company, RICHARD CLARK, Resident Manager, 447, West Strand. RAISING WATER discovered by the FOUN TAIN PUMPS, which roll the water upwards, without either friction or faltering, therefore can never be 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 sated, and the captains gratefully ac knowledge the glerioas results. Two testimonial extracts shall sufilee 7 " Captain Greig, from Quebec to London, states that the Feentain Pump being fitted in the Caroline, its great power was the means of saving the ship and 230 souls on beard, two seams in the bottom being partly left without calking." " The Argus brig, from Cadiz, sprung a leak when three days oat at sea,' and soon after her common pump cheaked and became use less. • Captain Rutherford states all then depended upon her Foun tain Pimp, which for nineteen days and eighteen nights was in ac tion without a minute's respite, when all arrived safely in London, with a think God for the Fountain Pump." ON LAND the New Portable Fire-engines are of infinitely better service than e. fire brigade. They act instantaneously at the outbreak if a fire. " eve are delighted with the invention—it is a great boo' to so ciety."—Editors Liverpool Mail. The New Portable Fire-engines have preserved a large portion of Norwich from destruction, fbr out of eighteen different properties on fire 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. Hortea's dyery, and 12,0001. worth of consigned pro perty; Stoke mustard, starch, and flour mills, and Messrs. Butcher's grocery warehouses, jast in time to prevent a large quantity of gun powder therein from exploding, which must have spread areand de straction and death. " North Walstam.—lt this dre the Portable Engine was of great ser►ice, and by having one of them ready, there is no doubt but half the property now destroyed might hare been saved."—Norfolk Chro nicle, August 22, 1846. At a Norwich fire Jane 2, 1847, 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 largo engines present proved useless. Portable Engines speedily prove steam-boilers to a dozen atme spheres. Now the fast is this, all former Force Pumps, Lift-farce 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 Matteis, with many other eminent experimenters, lamented thus :—The quantity of water actually raised by any snacking seldom exceecs half the power consumed, after overcoming friction and leakage ; and notwithstanding the best engineers in the world hid tried in vain for twe thousand years to abate these palpable defects in hydraulic machines, nevertheless, at last the victory is won, and won for ever ; for ftiction and leakage are now both annihilated by the new rolling principle in pumps, and their effect augmented from twelve to twenty (sr about seventy per cent.), and frequently with out mere outlay. Most men can sustain heavy rapid pump trials for 40 seconds, bit some men drop at minute time. With a best new heavy working Fric tion Pump an active sounthwinded young man of 140 lbs. weight can raiae'lo,9oo`lbs. 'of /titer one (dot high hi h minute, and with a Foun tain Pump 9;005 lbs: in - half a minute. 'This a continual and most extraordinary, lucrative advantage Is gained ever perpetual and uni versal ignorance, clearly proving that Knowledge is Power. Menton _Roberts, Esq., in, his popular work, No. 1,110, did well in placing Gosset's French Pump Abortion (that slaps the water upward) Ude by side with the Fountain Pump, which upset a good deal of Folly. Because Mr. Mallett, Dublin, a thorough-bred pump maker, Mr. Baddley, London, an everlasting pump-writer, and Mr. Ewbank, America; an igiorant pump book-maker, asserted that the two ptunps were identical. But the , Yankee out-fooled John Bull' and Paddy in No. I,IN, and in Islo. 496, Book-maker Millington's remarks are preposterous. However, on the other hand, Dr. Birk beck, Abirdour, Haj", - 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 sustain 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 advaicennnt in the useful arts in modern times. _ • . . The Consummation Fountain rumps - ire successfully carried out for private and publle lees, at lifts below and above 100 tet altitude, for man, horse, and steam power; delivering from half a pint per stroke to IN barrels of water per minute, and rendering every fair trial at competition ridiculous, wlailst their durability is guaranteed at leas cost tkan common pumps. W. STIALDERS. Fountiln Putni - Woits, Norwidh, Km '3O, 1847. See lfechasie's Magazine, Nos. 231*, 364, 383, 429, 430, 433, 482, 486, 487, 489, 492, 495, 496; 508, 509, 510, +525, 533, 658*, 727, 804, 1,040, I,llB*, 1,183. Nos. illustrated aro marked thus* FNG`LAWL Io lITIDTJL The INDIA and AUSTRALIA MAIL gTEAM-PACKET COM PANT, incorporated by Royal Charter, which limits the re sponsibility of the shareholders to the amount for which they indivi dually subscribe, and authorises the Company to establish "commu nications to. aid sal from the United Kingdom, the East Indies, Australasia, a'td New Zealand. Capital One Million sterling. Divided into series of shares of 201. Ott*. COMMITTEE. Sir George Larpent, Bart., Chairman of the London Committee of 1846 for Eztession of Steam Navigation to Australia. Sir William Tenter, Bart., M.P. Hon. Francis Scott, M.P., Agent for Yew Soath Wales. Sir TkeautS L. Mitchell, Sur reyor-General of New South Wales, Lond•n. Lieut.-Col. Abdy, Indian Army Thomas Browne; Esq. Captain Cogan, Indian Navy . Archibald Cuninghanie, Esq. Captain H. M. Denham, F.R.S., Royal Navy G. H. Donaldeoi, Esq. Capt. R. J, Fayrer, Royal Wavy Captain Ford, East India MariVme Service Captain G. T. Gordon, Royal Navy E. Si. Ilalswell, Esq., M.A., I.R.S. Capt. 11. HaMilton, Loyal Navy Gustavus Hamilton, Esq. James Hunter, Esq. J. A. Jackson, Esq. Charles Joyce, Esq. Frederick Lambe, Esq. J. Maclean Lee, Esq, Captain Richard Lloyd, Indian Navy Milbourne Marsh, Esq. it. Montgomery Martin, Esq. J. Monteflora, Esq. Sir F. Waskett Myers, K.C.S. Alexander C, Ogilvie, Esq. Richard Paterson, Esq. Robert Tienley Payne, Esq, (John Wilson Pillans, Esq. G. H. Skead, Esq., Master, Royal Navy Colonel Torrens, F.R.S. William Gordon Thomson, Esq. Lieut. Waghorn, F.R.A..S„ Royal Navy Melvil Wilson, Esq. BANKERS-IEOBSn. Carrie and Co., Cornhill. Soticrrous—Messrs. Barron and Clarke, Bloomsbury-square. India. Australia, China, and the adjacent regions, contain a popu lation of more than half the number of the inhabitants of the globe, and teem with every product which eon minister to the wants of man. To carry cut effectually and economically steam communication with those countries is the object of this Company, for whose ope rations there is an ample and profitable field, especially as regards oar numerous and valuable colonies in the Southern Pacific, which have an increasing intercourse with India as well as with England —are the only portions of the British empire unconnected by steam navigation with the parent state, and for which a charter by the overland route has been exclusively granted to this Company. The route sanctioned by the Lords of the Admiralty for this Com pany is vik Ceylon,. Singapore, and Torres Straits, the advantages of which are, that Sydney, the metroplitan capital of the whole of the Australasian colonies;would'he brought to a certainty within 64 or 65 days of London (frequently in 60), and within less than 30 days of India. The coal stations are convenient, excellent coal from the pits at Newcastle, New South Wales, can be pat on board there at 7s. to 7s. 6d. per ton. Prospectuses, with forms of applieatien for shares, and further Information may be had on application at the offices of the Com pany, wkero a copy of the loyal Charter of Incorporaticus may be obtained. Ordees, 24, Cornhill, London. JOfl TATES, See. P ATENT RAMONEUR ASSOCIATION (I4ovisionally Registered.) COUNTIES of SURREY and KENT. ,Capital, 20,0001. ix 10,000 Shares of 21. each. Deposit, 11. per Share on complete registration. No further call will be made without three months' previous notice. The liabilities of each shareholder limited to the amount subscribed for. The PATENT RAMONEUR MACHINA is exclusively used ii the offices of the Right Hon. the Lords of the Treasury, tie Royal Agricultural Society, the Royal Horticultural So cie ty ; the Royal Exchango-buildings, &e. The objects of the promoters are !Ap proved by Tho Most Noble the Marquis of NORTHAMPTON, President of Ise Royal Society. The Right Hon. Earl DE GREY, K.G., President of the Royal In stitute of British Architects. Sir RODERICK I. MURCHISON, President of the British ASsosias ton for the Advancement of Science. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop' of Norwich The Right llon. the Earl of Lei cester Th e Lord Itendleshans, The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol The Hon. and Rev. Edward S. Keppel The Very Rev. the Dean of West minster, Dr. Buekland The Venerable Archdeacon Sills , ' Icy Sir John P. Boileau, Bart. Sir Richard Paul Joddrell, Bart. . Dr. Outrank, F.R.S. F.G.S., In spector of Naval kospitals Right Hon. Eerl Fitzhardinge His Grace the Duke of Beaufort Philip W. S. Miles, Esq., ALP, Right lion. F. IL F. Berkeley, M.P. W. Miles, Esq., M.P. tlon totallyth the pen to alt a ie b s oli t s o h w t h h i e eh u t s h e wh a 9 l :, subjected by the 3d and 4th Victelia, cap. 85, The object of this climbing employing boys, o thems , notwithstanding A sso eia those are continually resorted to. This breach of the law 12 acquiesced ix by a large portion of the public, from a conviction of the utter im possibility in innumerable cases of cleansing a chimney or flue witk the old machine. For the laudable purpose of furthering the objects of the law by avoiding all necessity for its infringement, the inge nious and effective Ramoneur machine nes been iuvented. This invention consists of four brushes forming a square head, which by means of elastic springs contreets or expands, according to the small or extended space in which the machine moves, thereby creating an even pressure on all four sides of a chimney. The rods attached to this head or brush are supplied at intervals with universal spring joints, capable of taming 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 into every corner, cleansing its mato most perfectly. The capabilities of this machine are best demonstrated by tke fact, that it is exclusively used in the Government and numerous public offices, while the patronage bestowed by a large number of the nobility and gentry in continuing their anneal con tracts to the patentees evidences their sense of its superiority, as well as of the philanthropic views of the projectors. Detailed prespeetasee may be obtained, and a werking model of the machine seen, at the offices of the solicitor, F, Dolman, Esq., 39, Jermyn-street, St.!. ; at Messrs. Barry and Co.'s, brokers, 7, liirchin-lane ; at W. Heath, Esq.'s, Nag's Head-court, Gracechurch-street; and at the principal office, 1, Wellington-street, London-bridge, Borough, where mliGetitllli tvr ilam ivy in warmed. ,The Right ReY. tho Lord Bishop of Lichfield The Most Noble the Marquis of 1 Bristol Tlico lion. and Roy. Thomas E. Keppel The lion. Fred. Byng The Rev. Sir Thomas Gray Cal. lum, Bart. Sir William Foster, Bart. Sir Robeft Harland, Bart. Sir Francis Darwin The Norwich Union Fire Otto The Suffolk Fire Office The District Fire Office of Eir• mingham The Norwich ET.iitable builtraiee Office The Nottinghamshire and Derby. shire Fir; ()flee The West of Enghuti Fire Office, &c. LOANS ON MORTGAGE. THE LONDON, BRIGHTON, and SOUTH COAST RAILWAY COMPANY will receive TENDERS for LOANS on Mortgage Bonds, in suns of 5001. and upwards, and for terms net exceeding seven years. Interest at b per cent. per annum, payable half yearly. Ey order, London Terminus, Jan. 17, 1848. T. J. BUCKTON, Secretary. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. TENDERS FOR LOANS. The Directors are ready to receive TENDERS FOR LOANS la sums of not less than 5001., for fixed periods, at the rate of hl. per Cent. per Alumna. By order, C. P. RONEY, Secretary. Bishopsgate Station, _Lug. 12, 1847. E ASTE N COUNTIES RAILWAY. YORK EXTENSION SHARES. The Holders of these Shares upon witch 41., bl. Se., 6!. 53., or 71. les. per Share have been paid, are required to pay to the Company's Bankers, on or before the 22d of January text, all arrears upon the said Shares, and also to deliver their Scrip Shares when so paid up, at Ibis °Rice, in order that they may be exchanged for Consolidated Stock Certificates, otherwise they will net be entitled to receivo the Dividends en the A Quarters, or the Interest oa tke B Quarters, which will be payable ender the Resolutions of the next Ralf-yearly. Meeting of the Company, to bo held In February next. By order of tke Board, C. P. RONET, Secretary. Bishopsgato Station, December 30, 1841. SEASONABLE PRESENTS. IIIUbLEN§'S HAVANNAH TOBACCO, in Packets, so universally admired, will be fully appreciated by connoisseurs, as combining the fragrance of a Cigar with the com fort of a Pipe. Gentleman should ask for MULLEN&'S HAVAN NAII TOBACCO, in roasts of o)2e, Two, ant Four oz., at lid. per oz., or 6s. per lb.; 3% lbs. for 20e., at his Warehouse, 24, Fore street, London. A choice lot of Cigars, 20s. per lb. THE AMERICAN METALLIC TABLET STROP, of G. SAUNDERS, is used and recommended by the first cutlers in Europe, and they are convinced that the Tablet makes the ram shave with more ease than by any other method. Gentlemen are requested to bring in a dull razor and try them before they parchase. For sale at the Depot, 278, Strand. SECRET MALADIES. Treatment of CH. ALBERT, M.D., a Member of the Univer sity of Paris, Professor of Pharmacy, Apothecary to the Hospitals of Paris, Professor of Medicine, and honoured with several Medals sad iational rewards. No. 21, Rue Montorgeall, Paris. Numberless and well-authenieated cases whieh hitherto had been considered as incurable by the Faculty, and which in a short time have given way under this treatment, are most unequivocal proofs of its superiority over every other means as yet employed. t was for a long period of time a desideratum to discover a mode of cure adapted to all constitutions, and which should be free from the bane ful effects of mercury. Ws are now arrived it. tho solution of this problem by the discovery of a mode of treatment at once simple and easy, and which, without any degree of exaggeration, we can affirm to be infallible is the cure of all secret maladies, however inveterate or of long standing. The method of sure, according to Dr. Albert, is economical aid easy, .either at home or on a journey, causing not tho slightest derangement to the general health, and safe in all seasons and is all climates. Bold by E. W. Wilcox, 336, Oxford-street; T. Mlles, Graseehurch street ; and by an the principal Chemists in London. A. Treatise is enclosed with the Medicine. Illustrated by 26 A.natontleal Coloured Engraving* on Steel. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICA.TIONS, GENERATIVE INCII .AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., er by post, direct, from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps, THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical. Work on the Inirmities aid decay of the generattie oysters, front ex cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of inermtry, with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-stroet, Oxford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 21, - Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger,.lso, Oxford-teet ; Starts, 23, Titehbonte :treat, Haymarket ; and G0rd0n,.146, Les.denhall-street. TART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology* of the re-productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings, PAZT 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive indul gence, sum' their-lamentable effects on the system, , prOdneing• ntental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. It is illustrated by Mine Explanato'ry Engravings. Eara W., Treats of the diseases resulting .trcan infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions:for: their treatment. - The consequences of early neglectand of thwabuse of mercury, are also clearly pointed sat. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured Engravings. PAs.x. IV. Treats of Perry's Preventative. LO/lant by the use of which the dangers of infection are obviated. It combines with the virus chemically, and destroys its power en the system. Parr Y. Is devoted to the poneideration of marriage, and its dutiei, The causes of unproductive anion, are also considered, and the whole subject eritieally_and philosophically inquired into.. Tun COADIAL BALM OF STRIACIan is exclusively employed in treat ing no teas and sexual debility, impotence, &c., 11 s and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symp toms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 335. per bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 3d., 4s. 6d., and lls. per box, a certain remedy in gonorrhoea, gleet, strictures, and chronic inflamma tion of the bladder. Ferry's Preventative Lotion, an application! to , obviate the danger of infection, 335. a bottle. Consultation fen, if by letter, 11. Si. Packets with advice to be had at the Establishment only, by which the fee, 11. ,is saved. Attendance daily at 19, Esr ners-streot, k'om Eleven ti Two, and Five to Bight: en Sundays from Eleven to One. A R R I A G T. 9ne half the wort& are desolately single and the other supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a sense of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes ein 6ittor the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un comprosieg harry; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity, and broken health, are tke great hindrances to domestic happiness and social 'content. The dowry should net be the only- marriage set tlement. Honour and justice demand that health should form an item in the compact ; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or neglect would More sorely than poverty sr misfortune. reader, if these. Surmises .concern you, procure Dr, CULYERWELL'S little MEMOIRS 'On Single and Married Life," pub. in 2 vols., Is. each (by post, - in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let le imaginatively -alined, 9r prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered oy misinterpretation of their supposed contents, front obtaining them. They are not intended certainly for mere idle cariosity, but for the closet perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom they are ogered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or together, are a disgrace to" the ago. Parthermore, two other ittle publications claim your attention (same price Is. each, by post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and Avoid,' and " How to be Happy." They are not merely' pamphlets, bpt equal in quantity a library'voltuxe, nor are they the mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's life, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob servance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as ke would be done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always on tho "shunt side of the way." The above works may be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvaiho, 147, Fleet .street ; Xann, 39, Corn= ; Nelson, 4b7, West Strand; or direct (by post or other wise). from the author (who may be conferred with personally, mornings and evenings), 10, Argyll-place Regent-street; aid all Booksellers. DR. LA'MERT ON Till SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY.—WITII 40 COLOURED ENGRATINGS ON STEEL. Just published, and may be had in French er English, iu a Sealed Envelope, 28. ed„ er pest-free, from the Author, for forty-two Stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise en the Physiology of Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and 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 Practical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion, whether ariiing from these causes, close study, or the influence of tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Bees 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 aro produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and Infection. BT SAMUEL LI'MERT, 9, BEDFORD-STRBET, BEDFORD-SQUIRI, LONDON. otter of Medicine, MatriculaiditieMber of the 'University of Edin burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Hoaorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c. 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 tts true source in every instance disclosed, ia how many could it be traced to physical disqualifications aid their attendant disap pointments. Excesses are always injurious ; the gift, which when used in moderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, when abused, the prolific source of mischief, and of greater or less injury to the constitutional and vital powers. The particular excesses, on die nature and conseqnence of which this Treatise professes to dilate, arc productive of greater severity of misery to the human frame, than any other to which it is subject. This work contains an accurate and complete account of the 4.natoray and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs, aid their relative conditions in health and disease. It deservedly requires the closest attention and study, for what intbic-ct can be of more impertance than the preservation of tlie health, and of the physical capabilities of which every man should be possessed. It unfortunately happens that the unhappy victim of excessive indulgence and vicious habitd, whether acquired in early life or from the follies of advanced age, while suffering from their invariable consequences, unwisely entertains a fear 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 cllscAnsination 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 rne,ical man who can show by his possession of the requisite legal qualification; that he is entitled to esteem aid respect in his profes sional pursuits, the utmost coifideace should be extended. Dr. LAME LIT has obtained the highest mediae' honours, as his diplomas certify, and the great extent of his practice for many years is a guarantee for his professional experience, which has reference almost solely to the treatment of these diseases. Published by the Author, and may be had of Kent aid Richards, 62, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Tichborne street, Haymarket ; Mansell, 115, Fleet-street ; Gordon, 146, Leadonhall-street, Landon; er, free by post for forty-two stamps, from the Author, who may be consulted on idles' disorders personally or by Jetta, datiyitoll Tlese tti Aiti6 Aid tea Five till Eight nt his reactance. 9. Hertford-street gunne-miagii London. DINNER AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday the Lord Mayor gave a splendid entertainment to about 70 guests, upon the occasion of the swearing in of Alder man Finnis, the newly elected Alderman of Tower Ward. Many of the aldermen deputies, and principal law offi cers were present. Yesterday the materials and fittings-up of the premises situated at No. 5, Oat-lane, Foster-lane, City, which was formerly the residence of the celebrated Titus Oates, after whose name the lane was called, was disposed of by auction by Messrs. Pullen and Son. Can siderable interest prevailed among the competitors, there being many present beyond the usual attendants of pur - ohasers of building materials. FADVERTISEMENT..]-ThR EARL OF ALDBOROUGH A ND HoLLowev's PILLS.—An astounding cure by this miraculous medicine, after every other means had failed. See extract from his Lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845. Professor Holloway—Sir : I beg to acquaint you that your pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach all the most eminent of the faculty, at riotthom ev ea e n r 4 the all watersoverth of Carlsbad econtilen or Ma rienbad.t - k , ai not been able (IS.igenfledit;" ALDBoaouon." These wonderful pills will cure any disease of the liver or stomach.—Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, and by 9.11 milting; MOM threakilletit 1 31 9 Weltd. IRELAND. OUT-DOOR RELIEF-EMPLOYMENT. DUBLIN, JAN. 17.—The Poor-law Commissioners have forwarded to Mr. nugh Morgan Tuite, of Tonna, Westmeath, the following important communication in reply to a letter from bim, objecting to stone breaking as a test for the able-bodied paupers receiving out-dcor relief. The Commissioners adhere to the principle of their regulation, but only as a test at the outset, promising to sanction more useful labour if circumstances should render a modification necessary, but positively refusing, in any event, to permit pauper labour on private farms : " Poor-law Commission Office, Dublin, Jan. 13, 1848. " Sir,—The Commissioners for administering the laws for relief of the poor in Ireland have had under consideration your communication of the 6th instant, in which you state objections to the employment of paupers receiving out-door relief in theMullingarUnion in stone-breaking, and you suggest that it would be more preferable to employ them in useful and remu nerative works, such as repairing roads, and in fencing, trenching, and draining land, whereby you state that the labourers would not be congregated together in large numbers (which you deem objec tionable), but would be scattered over the country in small numbers, under the superintendence of persons interested in the welfare of the country, and of the works in progress, thereby avoiding the great expense of superintendents. "In reference thereto the Commissioners desire to state, that in recommending stone breaking as the him! of employment which should be offered to the destitute able-bodied poor in the first instance, the Commissioners did not contemplate the permanent employment of many thousands of individuals in nothing else but stone-breaking. The view which the Commissioners have taken of the subject has been, That whereas all experience has shown that the granting relief to able-bodied men, without some rigid test, is liable to 'great — abuses, and whereas stone-breaking is less attractive and more capable of effectual superintendence than any other kind of out door labour on a large scale, it is advisable for guardians to begin by offering stone-breaking to applicants, when there is no longer any vacant workhouse accommodation' in the union. " With reference to the expense in paying overseers of work, the Commissioners have to express their entire conviction that efficient superintendents of labour would save the union far more than the amount of their own salaries, by preventing imposi tion and fraud. Similar objections were raised in England, in 1834, to the expense of workhouses, but notwithstanding the immediate expense arising from the building of workhouses, and the salaries to work house officers, the total reduction of expense in the first year was, in some unions, 20, 30, and even 50 per cent. In fact, it is to be borne in mind that, if any system of relief is attractive, one of the chief sources of expense arises from the great number of improper objects to whom such relief is administered, and hence arrangements by which the abuse is checked are found, in the long run, to be really economical, although the system of arrangement may be apparently expensive. " The commissioners, therefore, trust that a fair trial will be given to the experiment of stone break ing, as a test of destitution in Mulingar union; and if the number of able-bodied men on the relief lists still remain the same as before, the commissioners will endeavour to forward the views of the guardians in reference to the completion of the unfinished roads. " The 'commissioners have only to add, that they would not, under any circumstances or consideration, deem themselves justified in permitting the employ ment of paupers on private farms. It is an essential principle in sny sound system of poor-law adminis tered, that relief and wages should be kept totally distinct, and that a destitute able-bodied man should either be'relieved wholly by the union, or employed wholly by the,party for whomile works. "The commissioners are convinced that the in - - fringement of this principle would lead to pernicious consequences, and by making employers of labour suppose that they had a pecuniary interest in intro— ducing a system of , out-door relief to the - able-bodied. men, it would eventually entail - an enormous burden on the poor-rates, which the property of the_union would be wholly unable to support. By order of the commissioners, "H. M. quite, Esq." - "W. STANLEY, Sec. . . STATE OF 'THE . *Pobit. - From the south - and - west, the` account's of the increase ef -destitution arOmost afflicting. ,-* ' ' • , The Galway Mercury , says--" It-is .now no - un. f.‘ hear Qf hujnan_ bodies lying for days uninterred for want of coitus. pn twat -we beheld - ifo lesi - than fifty-six of our fellow-creaturea, pale, wan, and . emaciate - d; - eoidniiifed - to our county gaol for acts of petty - larceny—such as stealing turnips, and the like- articles of food, - inn the neigh bourhood of Clifden. On the same day we learn that there were two other batches of thirty-five and eleven each from another part of the county. The same occurs every day. While undergoing the term of their sentences they will get food, but what will become of them afterwards." The Corkßeporter gives a statement of increasing destitution in various parts of the county, and of some deaths from starvation. STATE OF CRIME. There are not many new outrages, but the pro ceedings of the Quarter Sessions Courts, as well as the special commission, exhibit a fearful array of crime. At the Tralee Quarter Sessions, last week, a con siderable number of prisoners were sentenced to transportation, chiefly for the stealing of cattle. Ten persons pleaded guilty . to a charge of riot, in oppos ing the collection of the poor-rite, which, however, they had subsequently paid. They were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. The assistant barrister, Mr. M‘Dermott, remar k e d t h at t h e persons concerned in plundering cattle by wholesale in the county of Kerry, belonged to the better class of the peasantry, and were far removed from a state of desti tution. The Tipperary Constitution gives the following as an illustration of the good effects of the conviction of Frewen, at the Limerick Special Commission for har murderer bourieg a Already has the conviction of Frewen, sentenced to transportation for life, for sheltering the murderer Rya n (Puck), at the Special Commission in Limerick, been attended with the most salutary result ; and we are happy to state that those results have originated within a few miles of our town. Some time since we gave an account of the capture of two brothers named Cody, charged with the m ur d er of a man name d Madden, near Glesbower—and, upon that occasion, we detailed the difficulty with which their capture was effected. Since that period a third brother, charged with the same offence, has been on his an d of course,keeping,' must have received shelter from the neighbours. However, when the conviction of Frewen was noised ab roa d , it caused a general panic amongst the shelterers, and all determined to avoid the risk o f a simila r sentence. The result has been—that every door has been closed in the face of the third Cody, and on Wednesday he came into town and surrendered himself." Hionwat ROBBERY OF A PAY CLmtK.—On the Bth instant Mr. Brunker, of Ardee, whilst on his way to Wilkinstown, wasaY persons employed by the Board of Works, attacked by two fellows, one of whom presented a pistolj at him, whilst the other, after a desperate struggle, made off, with his cash-box containing 271. The robbers have been apprehended, and commited to Trim goal. ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—On Friday night last a man of Mr. Parker's , near Portr oe, within a few miles of Nenagh, was fired a t, but fortunately the shots did not take effect. Two persons have been arrested for the offence, and it is stated that they have been fully identified. They are tenants of Mr. Parker. REPEAL ASSOCIATION, The weekly meeting of the association was held this day in Conciliation Hall. Joseph H. Dunne, Esq., presided. The ch airman commenced the pro ceedings by a speech in condemnation of the conduct of the recently-elected Lord Mayor (Mr. Jeremiah Dunne), because that functionary, a t h i s inaugural dinner, omitted to include amongst the toasts, " The memory of O'Connell." Mr. John O'Connell also referred to the subject. Havin g acquitted the L o rd Mayor of any wilful desig n to cast slight or disre spect on the memory of his father, the Hon. Gentle man referred to an article in the Dublin Evening Post, in reference to the manner in which the Lord- Lieutenant had been received at the Lord Mayor's dinner by the citizens of Dublin, who thereby, it was said had expressel their ap proval of th e po li cy he has adopted. Now he (Mr. O'Connell) denied that the citizens :of Dublin had expressed any approbation whatever of the policy of her Majesty's Government. In fact, the cheers given were only to be considered as a compliment to the official personage, and had no reference to the policy h e p ursued . — (Hear, hear.) Mr. John O'Connell had to hand in several contri butions from tile Catholic clergy, mainly of the west of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) Through Dean Burke, of Westport,county MaYO, he had received 2, 1. ; f rom the deanery of Castlebar, through the itev. Mr. Curley, C.C., 14; from the deanery of Dunmore, county Galway, throe/hey. trick .GraPPY,Er., ttkJCi 111/1 1 NOTICE. PRIITIOUS TO 'MB CLOSE OF TIM ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, en the 29th instant, for Additions and Decorations, Dr. RYAN will LECTIIRB en SANITARY MEASURES, and en the nature of DISINFECTING AGENTS, in oettnexion with this Important sal•- ect, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at Half-past Three, P.M., mad every Eyeaing, except Saturday, at Niae o'clock. On the alternate days other Lectures onCIEMISTIT. Dr. BACH- HOFFNER will LECTURR on RESPIRATION and VRIITILA.- TION, in connexion with tks above Sebject, Daily al Tyre, rat., in which a JET of STEAM, as a Ventilating Agent, will be ex hibited. The Opitical Erects include the °IT-HYDROGEN MI CROSCOPB, New aIISSOLVING ♦IEWS, &c. WORKING 110- DELS of MICHINHRT explained. The DIVING DILL aid DITER, Admissi•n, Is.; Schools, Ilan-prim ses • _ iCtIUR IRCULAR. WINDSOR, AY.—The Queen a d Prince Albert walked t s morning on the Eastern T errace i and slopes. • The Royal Farn,'lY took walking and pony exer- cise to.•day His Royal Highnes,s Prince Albert rode out this forenoon on horseback, a s tendesl by Captain the Hon. A. Got don. The Earl of Liverpool is expected to arrive at the Castle this evening, on a visit to her Majesty. The royal dinner party at the Ciestle this evening will „include her Royal highness the Duchess of :Kant, the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, and the Earl of Liverpool. The 'band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards attend di. ring dinner. The (Queen's private band will ,attend the remainder of the evening in the Castle. A •deputation from Paisley, consisting of Mr. Mastic Mr. ,Hankey, Provost Murray, and Baillie Philips, had an interview with Sir George Grey yes- terday, at the fiome-office. The Attorney-Ueneral had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence in Downing -street. Dispatches from the Cape of GoOd Hope were re- ceived yesterday at the Coionial-office. Lord Blayney had an interview on Monday, at the Home-office, with Sir George Grey. TIIE LATE EARL OF POWIS. [FURTHER PARTICULARS.] The late melancholy and fatal accident to the Earl of Po wis may be regarded as an event almost unpre- cedented in the annals of the British Peerage. The lamented nobleman did not appear to sillier very severely until Friday, when mortification should appear to have set in, and an human skill was baffled. He died perfectly resigned, having from the day of the unfortunate occurrence exhibited a considerable de- gree of firmness. His Lordship's son, the Hon. Robert- Clive, who discharged the fatal shot, is about ‘..?1 years of age, and we need scarcely state that he has been plunged into grief of the most poignant character. The melancholy event places a Garter at the disposal of the Premier, as well as the Eord- Lieutenancy of Montgomeryshire. His Lordship was a Conservative and Protectionist in politics. • His name became still snore familiar to the public by his contest with the Prince Consort for the Chancellor- ship of Cambridge University. Previous to his suc- cession to the title in 1839, he represented Ludlow in nine Parliaments. He was patron of eleven livings. His Lordship was brother-in-law to the late Duke of Northumberland, and his surviving Countess is sister to the Duke of Montrose. The estates, which lie principally in Shropshire and Montgomeryshire, are considerable and unencumbered. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTER,ED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JAN. 15, 1848. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 388 Diseases of Uncertain Seat 51 Turbercular Diseases... ... 181 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... 180 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 50 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... ... 346 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ... 65 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &e. 12 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 10 Diseases of the Skin, &c. ..• ••• Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance ... 32 Sudden ... .„ 9 Malformations.— ... 2 Premature Birth ... 27 Atrophy Old Age Causes not specified ~, 4 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES 1,457 Population Average weekly - Deaths Enumerated, Deaths, 1843-7. in the 1841. Five Winters. Week. West Districts... 300,711 . . 161 ... 201 North Districts.. 375,971 ... 209 244 Central Districts 373,653 ... 203 ... 256 East Districts ... 392,444 ... 235 ... 360 South Districts.. 501,190 ... 299 ... 396 T0ta15........ 1,948,425 1,107 ... 1,457 Males 755 Females „,, 70 2 BIRTHS IN THE -WEEK. Males Females ... ••• ' ••• ... 682 • " • Total ... . 1,436 EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUM- :STANCE. One of the most extraordinary preservations of hu- man life, under circumstances of extreme peril, lately occurred in the Bristol Channel, reminding us orthe startling accident which many years ago oc- curred- to an aged woman by the breaking down of Caerleon . evooden bridge, when she was crossing it, 11. r c,ll - s c 4.2%learlf vf-vra.gn _ " 410 finZt:_lr (kind" of the river Usk on a portion of the fabric, and her ultimate rescue when on the point of being carried °title 'Sea. ". Atl2 o'clock on The night Or Monday, the 13th of - December, a young man, named Lutton, of Cardiff, a joiner by trade, was engaged at work on the Duncan Richie, a vessel which lay at anchor in the Channel near the Flat Holmes, for the purpose of being repaired. In order to prosecute the work with vigour, shipwrights and others were kept busily employed day and night. A scaffold was hung along the stern Of the vessel, upon which the work- men stood while following their occupation. This scaffold was not strongly formed, and at night canvass was placed around to protect the lights which the men used from the wind. Lutton suddenly found the plank on which he stood split under him, and he was precipitated into the water from a height of 15 feet. He sank to a considerable depth ; and, on rising to the surface, called loudly for assistance. He felt one end of a piece of the plank in the water—the other end being attached to the scaffold. This piece be got hold ofand pulled it down, still calling loudly for help. He soon got astride on the piece of wood, which was nine inches wide, an inch thick, and 18 feet long. Upon this he was borne down channel, continuing his cries for help. The mate of the vessel, who was in bed, heard him—ran upon deck—got the boat down from a suspended position with the assistance of others, in which position it had been for convenience placed—and with three other men followed the poor fellow down channel, being guided by his cries, which they occasionally heard. Lutton says that he passed scores "of vessels" in his dangerous course, but saw no appearance of any effort being made to assist him, although he cried out as loudly as he could. In all probability the sound of a human voice, proceeding from such quarter, in the dead hour of a dark night, fright- ened those who heard it, and who were necessarily ignorant of the real cause; seamen are naturally prone to be superstitious. However, after a voyage of two hours and a quarter, the boat with the mate wasand h t a i k s e c n o o u n r a b g o e a o r u d s i o n s si a s d t e r n e a t s d f o n v l e s r t a t o t o e k of L e u x t h t a o u n s , t i wh o o • n and at half- past five in the morning the party suc- ceeded in regaining the vessel. It is supposed that Lutton was carried down at least fourteen miles! The weather was exceedingly boisterous.—Cardiff Guardian. • ASHTON.—The cotton mill of Messrs. Binns and Dean, Dukefield, Ashton, was to a great extent destroyed by fire. Had there not been a partition wall in the centre of the mill, observes the Liverpool Mercury, there is not the least doubt but the whole of the extensive building would have been burnt down. No one appears to be able to account for the origin of the fire. Tho damage done is estimated at not less than the sum of 10,0001. The proprietors, however, are insured in the Phoenix, Globe, Sun, and Liverpool fire offices. By this unfortunate occurrence upwards of 200 hands will bo thrown out of employment for some time to come. THE ROBBERY ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. —The box of coin stolen from the Great Western Rail- way on the 10th instant, contained, we are informed, 1,5001., and not the larger sums named. The box, a strong one, aid well secured with iron clamps, was sent by a special and confidential messenger to the Padding- ton terminus, who delivered it into the hands of the guard immediately before the train started. The guard himself placed the box of coin in the compartment ad- joining his own box, the said compartment being occu - pied with parcels only, and between the two there was a communication by means of the aperture over All break. break. The guard, on receiving the box , said, al right—l'll take care of it." The messenger re on the platform till tho train was in m otion, and m aif not e very ry of the more than a minute elapsed between the O d t n he arrival of box and the departure of the train. the train at Bristol the box was di s covered to have been broken open and the contents abstracted. How it w as effected, or how it could lo ha ve been 3rb.),t rd e aa ff i3n e . i c i t gi e nh d t , ,o w radn i et and the o t u hto t , exciting attention, is at pres ent unexpl ai n ed . The box was dispatched byt he secure its transmiss ion throug h out weight of the parcel (about 1251 b.) was d es i gne d t o • preve nt its removal without notice. The forcing open of the box whilst under the charge of the company's servant could not have been anticipated, it being an operation attended with difficulty and much noise. FAILURE IN THE IRON TRADE.—BIRMINGHAM, MoNDAY—Messrs. James Batson and Son, iron and coal masters, of Dudley port and Tividale, having become unable to meet their engagements, a fiat in bankruptcy has been issued against them, and they will surrender in the course of this week. It was suspected that in con- nexion with the suspension of the above house three other firms would have been involved, and the failures exceedingly heavy. It is said, however, arrangements have been entered into which confine the failure to the above firm, and the obligations fortunately to under 10,0001. Mr. Brooke, the Raja of Sarawak, is detained in Cheltenham by a severe attack of influenza, which has confined his Excellency to his house during the last few days. . ~. • , '- :1 2?: "": ,‘• 7." •" , •, s, Cl His icr