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HOOPER, MAYOI. ACOMMON COUNCIL, holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, on Friday, the 25th day of February, 1848. Resolved unanimously,— That this Court have observed with surprise and dismay that her • Majesty's Mlnistershave made a proposition to renew the income tax for a period of five years, and to increase Unsaid tax fora period of not less than two Sears, from sevenpence to one shilling in the • Pound ; that a tax on income Is unjust in principle, and was sub mitted to in the first instance on the distinct understanding that it len for a temporary purpose, and for a limited period only; that it la unjust to levy the same amount of tax on precarious and uncertain incomes arising from trades and professions, as from landed, funded, • or ether accumulated property. That it is thus made a direct tax on the industry and skill of those engaged in trade or professional pursuits, and Imposes on them an unfair proportion of the public burdens; that this Court do not hesi tate to declare that if the Honourable House of Commons should agree to perpetuate this system of taxation, it will no longer deserve the confidence of the people of the United Kingdom. That amid unprecedented commercial difficulties, and with -trade ;Mt manufactures in a state of most extreme depression, any in crease in the taxatfon of the country would be impolitic, acid that the inquisitorial character of en income-tax renders it at all times peculiarly obnoxious. That this Court are of opinion, and submit that it is the duty of the Honourable the House of Commons, to limit the expendi ture for the public service to the sums already accruing from the ordinary sources of taxation. That the liotioarable the House of Commons should not anticipate by lavish expenditure a revenue to be raised by additional burdens; and this Court regard with the most serious apprehension the an nuallJ,increase.l expe , diture for the public service, and submit to the klouourahlc the House of Commons the necessity of a strict revision of our unjust and uacqual system of taxation. ItesolvetiN n animously,— That the thanks of thii Court be presented to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor for the handsome and prompt manner in which his Lorlship acceded to the wishes of the members convening this Court. AIERENETHER. T, J THE LIVERYMEN OF THE WOE.- ; SIIIPFUL COMPANY OF CLOTIIWORKERS. Virtue of a precept from the Lord Mayor, dated the 25th inst., You are to appear at Guldhall on .1108 DAT next, the 28th instant, at Tvrave of the clock at Noon, in your Livery Gown, " for the pur- Mite of considering the propriety of petitioning the House of Corn- Mons not to agree to any increase or cont !inane of the Income-tax.', ROBERT BECKWITH TOWSE, Clerk. ~lothworkenv' Hall, Mincing Hall, Fe 28, 184 S. . E AS TER.N COUNTIES RAI WLAY. TENDERS FOR LOANS. Tile Direetcrs are ready to receive TENDERS FOR LOANS in sums of not lees than 5001., for fixed periods, at the rate of 51. per Cult. per Annum. By order, Itishopsgate StatioH, Aug. 12, 1847. C. P. ItOSEY, Secretary. RESTER HOLYHEAD RAILWAY. Nozice is hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY ORDINARY nIEETING of the Shareholders in the Chester and Holyhead Rail way Company will be held at the Offices of the said Company, 61, Moorgate-street, London, on WEDNESDAY, tho Sth day of March next, at One o'clock in the Afternoon precisely. And hotice is hereby given, that at such Meeting it will be pro- Polled to confirm a Declaration or Declarations of the Forfeiture of certalo Shares, and to direct the sale or other disposal thereof. And notice is hereby further given, that the said Meeting is Spe tiallY convened for the purpose of considering' the draft of a Bill pro p? 4 ed to be introduced into l'arli.tment in the present session, in ntllled." A Bill to enable the Chester and Holyhead Railway Com pany to purchase, hire, and use seam-boats, and for other purposes." The Transfer-books will be closed from the 26th day of February Until after the Meeting. By order, GEORGE KING, secretary. • 61, Moorgate-Ft rept, January 31, 1848. UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COM FANY. WATEI;LOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, London ; 97, George street, Edinburgh ; 12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow; 4, College Green, (Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.) In 1841 the Company added a bonus of 2 per cent. per annum en tin; sum assured to all Policies of the Participating Class from the time they were effected. When the insurance is for life, only one-half the annual premium nerd 1,1 paid for the first five years. Every information will be afforded on applicatien to the Resident Dirxtor, No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London, where prospec lutes, &e., may be had. PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICI, ho, REGENT-STREET, and 2, ROYAL EXCHANGE LEILDINGS, CITY. Established 1806. INVESTED CAPITAL, 1,200,000/. Animal Income 140,0001. Bonuses declared 529,0001. Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, 1,520,0001. PRESIDENT. The Right Honourable EARL GREY. DIRECTORS. The Earl of ➢facclesfeld. Rev. James Sherman. The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird. I Henry B. Churchill, Esq. Sir Richard D. King, Bart. William .Judd, Esq. Alexander Henderson, M.D. James Sedgwick, Esq. Capt. W. John Williams. Alfred Beaumont, Esq. John Deering, Esq., M.P. George Deere, Esq. William Henry Stove, Esq. Richard Sherwood, Esq. 1. The Rates of Premium are those adopted by the principal Life °l nce% the rate without bonus is lower than that of most other °Slices, 2. The Bonuses are added to the Policies, or applied to the redne , tic.° of the Premiums, or may be received in cash as soon as de clared, at their then present value. 3. Policies issued by this office are purchased at their hill value ; or Loans may be obtained upon them to the same amount. 4. If a party neglect to pay fur the renewal of hie Policy, he may repair the omission any time within twelve mouths, upon proof of good health. . Bonuses paid upon Policies which have become Claims. Life Insured, ;Sum insured.( Sum paid. John Wharton, Esq.. Skelton Castlo 5,000 hit' ? John Saunders Sebright, Bart 5,000 air William Wake, Bart. •••• •• • 5,000 Rad. 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BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. Lector of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c. it quires the fulfilment of several conditions. in order last it nay s be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the Veil, which covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be raised, "d, tta true source in every instance disclosed , in how many could 114 0 traced to physical disqualifications and their atte ndant disa p - P o intments. Excesses are always injurious ; the gift, which when Used in moderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, when t aUu 'ed. the prolific source of mischief and of greater or less in j ur y 0 the constitutional and vital powers. The particular excesses. on ale nature and consequence of which this Treatise professes to dilate, are 0 Productive of greater severity of misery to the human frame, an any other to which it is subject. T his Work contains an accurate and complete account of the anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs , an d of eir relative conditions in health and disease. It deservedly t e quires the closest attention and study, for what subject can u ,... 0 f more importance than the preservation e the health, abC the physical capabilities of which every man should e , sasessed. It unfortunately happens that the unhappy leti ss„ rn of excessive indulgence and vicious habits, whether acquired e arly lifs or front the follies of advanced age, while suffering f ront their invariable consequences, unwisely entertains a fear of ap ;.';ying to qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so er luentlY, but erroneously entertained that these complaints are be YOnd the reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking fo r assistan ce w h ere a lone it can be procured. In acting thus, he for gets d that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of disease sympathy with the sufferer, and , above all , secrecy, inva ris'y, ,",,Y characterise the intelligent and practical physician , and to the 'edieal man who can show by his possession of the requisite legal r a lifloations that ho is entitled to esteem and respect In his proles- L u ,T ll pnrsults, the utmost confidence should be extended. Dr. e MERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas repifY, and the great extent of his practice for many years is a solely for his professional experience, which has reference almost w n_lY to the treatment of these diseases. by the Author, and may be had of Kent and Richards, R Vaternostet Tow; llannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Tichborne euualtc Haymarket Mansell, 115, Fleet-street ; Gordon, 146, from 4 l b: 111 -street, London; or, free by post for forty-two stamps, , letter, Author, who may be consulted on these disorders personally r.:„, daily, from Ten till Two, and from Five till Eight_ at 1113 """noe. 37, b e di• MI-liquaro London. _ - :1:;,.r':" • ; at' /72 • 4 /41 lh /.1 / 7 , • ! .. / e • • I / 7 4,1 ,7 0 URT OF CO / t. 4g, r ' ' • UNANIM IT' •••: • • 44,1 ll • , . „ POSED INCREASE t fof 4 • Ao _ r THE NCOME-TA' 4: 4 4 70 " v C.` Yesterday, in pursua, , • about 140 'members of thi ~ ~~~ ~. %IMON COUNCIL. 'ION AGAINST THE PRO AND CONTINUANCE OF X. nce of a requision, signed by io Corporation, a Court was held to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament against the proposed increase and continuance of the income-tax. The Lord Mayor, upon entering the court, which was filled with members, was loudly cheered. The LORD MAYOR, upon taking the chair, said, he did not know that it was necessary for him to make any other observation than that he was most happy to com ply with their request, and most glad to see them assemble in such numbers.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. NORMS congratulated the Court upon the prompt manner in which the Chief Magistrate had attended to the requisition ❑pon the large assemblage of the representatives of the wards, and upon the una nimity which he anticipated would be perfect and complete.—(Cheers.) The state of feeling which mani fested itself upon the declaration of the Minister that the income-tax was not only to be continued, but to be increased, and the resolute opposition made to so ob noxious an impost, proved that there was no necessity fur dilating upon the question of the propriety of peti tioning against it. He should therefore read the reso lutions upon which it was his intention to found a peti tion to the House of Commons, and then make a few observations which naturally suggested themselves to him. They were as follows: _ _ _ " That this court have observed with surprise and dismay that her Majesty's Ministers have made a pro position to renew the income-tax for a period of five years, and to increase the said tax for a period of not less two yt , ars, from sevenpence to one shilling in the pound. " That a tax on income is unjust in principle, and was submitted to in the first instance on the distinct under standing, that it was fur a temporary purpose, and for a limited period only. " That it is unjust to levy the same amount of tax on precarious and uncertain incomes, wising from trades and professions, as from landed, funded, or other ac cumulated property. " That it was thus made a direct tax on the industry and skill of those engaged in trade or professional pur suits, :4nd imposes on them an unfair proportion of the public buttons. " That this Court do not hesitate to declare that if the Honourable House of Commons should agree to per petuate this system of taxation, it will no longer deserve the confidence of the people of the United Kingdom. " That, amid unprecedented Commercial difficulties, and with trade and manufactures in a state of the most extreme depression, any increase to the taxation of the country would be impolitic, and tho inquisitorial cha racter of an income-tax renders it at all times peculiarly obnoxious. "That this Court are of opinion, and submit that it is the duty of the Honourable House of Commons to limit the expenditure for the public service to the sums already accruing from the ordinary sources of taxation. " That your Honourable House should not anticipate, by lavish expenditure, a revenue to be raised by additional burdens, and that the country regard with the most serious apprehension the annually increased expenditure for the public service, and submit to the Honourable House of Commons the necessity of a strict revision of our unjust and unequal system of taxation." The Court loudly cheered at the conclusion of every sentence of the resolutions, particularly when the mover read that which stated that if the attempt succeeded the House of Commons would no longer deserve the confidence of the people. NORRIS continued—ln the resolutions it was stated that the Court heard of the intention of Ministers with surprise and dismay, because in describing their feelings on the occasion the strongest terms that could be u'cd were unquestionably the best. It was impos sible to contemplate the fact of an annually increasing expenditure at a time, and after so many years of pro found peace, without perceivingfthe necessity of inquir ing for what purposes these enormous sums were de manded, and why such a constant increase of taxation took place. They found not only that a large portion of the income tax had been most unjustly and unfairly raised from the classes least able to bear the imposi tion, but with a lavish hand the Government framed commissions through the country, at a vast outlay, to inquire into the necessity of draining, and doing other things, for interfering in which there could be now no excuse, whatever justification might have ex isted centuries ago, as the people were well qualified to judge and act for themselves in such matters without any Parliamentary sanction at all. The commissions thus appointed superseded the medical men of most eminent ehsrseter, and passed over the country under pretence of benefiting the public health, and averting the conse quences of dangerous disorders. It was the duty of Government, instead of establishing such costly bodies, to show the people how to cultivate their own prosperity, and to derive advantage from the arts of peace; but under the establishment of peace it appeared to have been the object of administrations to provide for the numerous hangers-on to whose assistance they owed the success of their speculations upon the pockets of the people, in stead of giving encouragement to useful enterprise.— (Cheers.) Mr. Norris then went back to the poriod at high the income-tax was imposed, and commented upon its renewal by the same Minister who had intro duced it. He ridiculed the intense eagerness with which the latter,upon the danger of an invasion from France, was referred to as authority for the necessity of preparations calculated to supply the Government retainers to whom he alluded with places or profits, and he asked whether France, if she was indeed desirous of conflict, did not seem more disposed to expend her fury upon herself, than to commit any outrage upon this country ? France, he was convinced, was aware of the expediency and of the blessings of peace, and contemplated no rupture. He called the attention of the Court to the condition of the clerk with 2001. a year, who naturally adopted the step of insuring his life to provide for his widow. The insurance would cost him 201. a year, which, together with the local rates, reduced his receipts to 1651. a year, and then came on the income Act, which taxed him upon his original 2001.—a cruel imposition, inflicted to main tain the Government in its course of prodigal expendi ture.—(Cheers.) Upon reviewing the career of Parlia ment, he must say that, after what had been done in this country to relieve Irish distress, a sense of justice to England should prevent the Irish Members from sup posting the Administration in imposing so atrocious a tax.—(Load cheers.) That tax was nut to visit Ireland, and the wealthy men of that country received the amounts of their dividends without incurring a farthing of deduction, and could go down to Parliament to ♦ote for the measure from which the Minister ingeniously exempted them.—(Cheers.) Mr. Norris concluded by expressing an anxious wish that the Court should be unanimous in making an indignant remonstrance founded upon the resolutions he proposed, and was cheered upon sitting down with great acclamation and clapping of hands. Mr. R. TAYLOR felt great pleasure in seconding the motion. With regard to the defalcation in the revenue, that was an inevitable national misfortune which must be wet. He would not enter upon that subject, neither would he enter upon the subject of the increase of taxa tien. lie was for revising the whole system of taxation from first to last, and placing it upon an equal footing.— (Cheers.) When, in 1842, Sir Robert Peel brought in his Bill for imposing a new income-tax a surprising apathy seemed to exist. The country submitted upon receiving thns promise that the obnoxious tax would not exist beyond a stated period, and being told that it was only to answer an emergency.—(Hear, hear.) Now, what was the language which the present Chancellor of the Exchequer used in speaking of the proposition for an increased income-tax ? He would read an extract from the Right lion. Gentleman's speech. It was as follows:—" The Chancellor of the Exchequer then said, with regard to the income-tax as it at present stands, it is quite true I have indirectly expressed an opinion that there was no prospect of its being taken off. I did consider the SI per cent. as a permanent part of the taxa tion of the country. I knew it was not imposed as a permanent tax, but when it was voted, in 1845, I do not believe any man really believed that there was any prospect of its being taken off.—(Great laughter) I for one voted for it with a perfect conviction that it would never be taken off, and I do not think any one was san uine enough to hope it. I think it right to declare that 1 do not see any chance of that part of our taxation. amounting to 5,000,0001,, being taken off; this applied to the 3 per cent. With respect to the addition of 2 per cent., new proposed for a period of two years only, I will snake no promise, as I do not wish to be taunted with it hereafter."—(Laughter.) Now (proceeded Mr. Taylor), no man believed there was one word of truth or sincerity in the promises made with respect to that tax. He considered, as the present Chancellor of the Exche quer considered, that there was no reliance to be placed in assurances of this kind, and he could not at all see why more credit was to be given to Ministers at the pre sent moment than had been given to Ministers of a former day.—(A laugh and cheers.) The Right Hon. Gentle man, however, had, by his speech just quoted, made it evident that he had no intention to remove the tax at the conclusion of the time to which it was pretended to be limited. Mr. Taylor repro bated the whole system of taxation as directly t he e e reverse of what it ought to be, inasmuch a:e h He poorest individuals were the most heavily tax ed asserted that Government might easily r aise a ll the those money they required by throwing i t i h e e as"kuelid u pon what who were best able to bear it. ' b lame the caused the evolution in France? W h a t but the ex emption of the rich from taxat i on ? —(Cheers.) The same evil existed in t h is disguised.—(llear, h e ar . ) Government was pre sent or any other Government —no Icioeundtridy' but it was more not s trong enough forth intended a for the ar istocracy, poor.—(Cheers.) who stood betw ee n the poor and the g o o d Mr. Pf.:Vi TRESS said h e recollected the opposition made to the income - tax when ten per cent , was the amount. Upon tha t occasion Lord Castlereagh spoke of the ignorant impatience of the people, and declared it was impossible that the Government of the country could be carried on without the produce of that tax. The people, however, by compelling the repeal of the tax, w hich then produced 16,000,0001,, taught the Mi nisters that they could do without it.—(Cheers.) The present Ministry, when they should find that they could not accomplish their object, would find a way to cut down the heavy national expenditure, to make reductions adequate to the necessity of .the ease, and to accomplish such reductions to the permanent advantage of the community.—(Cheers.) 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The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Watson, Mr. Clarkson, and Mr. Bodkin appeared for the Crown ; Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Sergeant Shee for the defendants. As the case for the defence had not been gone into when the Court rose, we reserve the proceedings until to-morrow. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Feb. 25. (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.) W. Silcock, jun., victualler, of Crawley-street, St. Pancras, applied for his certificate. Ile was opposed by Mr. Lucas, on behalf of two creditors, and supported by Mr. Cooke. In addition to the business of publican, the bankrupt had recently engaged in building speculations, to which he attributed his failure. His debts amounted to nearly 9,000 L, of which 2,2181. was owing without security. Tho property held by creditors was estimated at 6,420/.; his furniture had sold for 572/., and his good debts were estimated at 178/. From the bankrupt's examination it appeared that in September last he handed over to his father a lease, as a security for 130/. advanced to him shortly before. His bankruptcy took place on the 9th of December. This case did not appear in his balance sheet. The CommismoNErt—And this sum you spent in law, in sham pleading. Here is an item of 5041 , a8 law ex pellees, and he has borrowed money in all directions • the charge for interest only is 569 L, together 1,0731. Not content with carrying on the business of a publican pretty successfully, he had been tempted by the brewers to build a public-house, they advancing the money on condition of his taking their beer. With regard to this speculation he bad kept no account, and all was guess. work. The interests of commerce required that the bankrupt should be punished for this conduct. He ought to have come to this court, if at all, much earlier, before (!iving up the lease to his father. The certificate must be suspended twelve months from this date. (Before Mr. Commissioner HoLnovn.). IN THE BANKRUPTCY OF STEIN, SMITH, AND CO. In this matter there was a dividend meeting. The failure took place so far back as 1812. The bankrupts were merchants in Fenchurch-street. A dividend of three half-pence in the pound will be declared in a few days. The amount for which they 'failed was more than 60,0001. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Feb. 25. (Before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS.) IN RE C. H. CULLEY. This was an adjourned case. This insolvent had car ried on business as a butcher in Bury-street, St. James's, and had appealed to the Court of Bankruptcy as an in solvent in the year 1846. He was now supported by Mr. Duncan, and opposed by Mr. Dowse for Mr. Baker, a grazier in Essex, with whom the insolvent had had ex tensive dealings, and now owed him a balance of 1021. A prolonged investigation was entered upon as to a mortgage deed upon some landed property, which the in solvent had granted to a relative by way of security for 7501. advanced to him, being his savings during 40 years service in the family of Mrs. Clitheroe ; aad a charge of undue preference was urged by the learned counsel. The COMMISSIONER said that the advances appeared to have been obtained by the insolvent, in order to keep himself afloat in business, and to pay his creditors. He did not think the case made out was sufficient to justify a remand. The insolvent was then discharged. (Before Mr. Commissioner HARRIS.) RE JAMES GRANT. This insolvent, an aged man, was supported by Mr. Dowse. The case had been more than once adjourned, and the evidence produced at the various hearings dis closed a series of transactions, by which a large amount had been transferred from the insolvent's hands into those of a woman who had been his housekeeper, and other persons who appeared to be confederates with her. To-day it was stated that Mr. Bowyer, who was a principal creditor and assignee, intended to / have the conduct of all the parties sifted in another court. The COMMISSIONER said that the question for him to decide was whether the insolvent had been the victim or the accomplice of the conspiracy which, it seemed evident, had bcen concocted. From all that had trans pired in that court, it appeared that he should rather be considered as a sufferer, than as implicated in any scheme of fraud. Some amendments being required in the schedule, the insolvent was directed to come up on Monday for , his discharge. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Thompson Page and James Nicholson were brought before the Lord Mayor ou the following charge:— ' George Goodman, clerk to Messrs. Currie, bankers, stated that the cheque was brought to them on Thursday morning, signed " Juhn Ingle," and he passed it to another clerk in the house. Michael Haydon, the officer, said—l was sent for to the banking :house, and I found Nicholson there. A cheque for 501. was produced, and I asked him where he gut it. Ile replied, " From a man in a public-house in Bishopagate-street, whom he did not know, but should know again." I went with him to the public-house, and he pointed out Page to me as the person. Page said it was true, and that he had received the cheque on Monday, in a letter from Mr. Ingle, of Plymouth. In answer to other questions ho said he had left the letter at his lodgings, but he did not know the name of the street. At the house of Messrs. Currie he told them the same tale. Upon searching Nicholson I found a mariner's register ticket and a discharge from a vessel at Plymouth. I also found smile letters upon him, which, as I was opening, he told me were merely love letters, and I found them to be as he described. Mr;Woodhouse, clerk at Messrs. Currie's, said he knew Mr. Ingle, of Devonpert, who kept an account at the house, and believed the writing on the check not to be that gentleman's ' They had received inf orma tion that some person had surreptitiously obtained Mr. Ingle's cheque bock, and cautioning them upon the subj ec t, an d since that time he was to use black instead of red cheques. Nicholson said I know nothing of this man (Page). I never saw him before to-day, when I went into the public house to get a glass of ale. He there asked me to take the check to the banking house. The prisoners were remanded. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. George Anderson, a person of dashing appearance, living at No. 1.5, Queen-street, Brompton, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with having obtained goods fraudulently, and with having committed forgery. Henry Sadler, job master, 137 k, New Bond-street, said, on the 31st of August, 1846, the prisoner called on him, and said he had been recommended to him by his neighbour, Mr. Moore, as he wanted to hire a horse for a short time. Prosecutor consented to let a horse on hire for a short period, and, according to the directions received from the prisoner, he sent the horse to Ealing. Six weeks afterwards the prosecutor went down to Ealing to make inquiries, but he could hear nothing of the prisoner or the horse. James Matterface, coachmaker, Hammersmith, said in July, 1846, the prisoner hired a phmton from him at 2/. a month. The phaeton was sent to Ealing, but from that time prosecutor had never been able to meet with the prisoner. Police-constable Rackstraw said he found 104 dupli cates on the prisoner when he took him into custody. In defence, the prisoner said the horse was an old anitnal, and he was to give 181. for it. The phmton also was to be purchased for a stated sum. Mr. Sadler and Mr. Matter/ace said there was no truth in the prisoner's defence. Mr. Sadler said he had no doubt, at a future examina tion, numerous other charges would be brought against the prisoner. A charge of forgery was then preferred against the prisoner by Mr. Allen, plumber and glazier, Avery-row, Bond-street, who had received a bill from the prisoner wit'n Mr. Moore's name on it, which name was pronounced to be a forgery. The prisoner was committed on the two first cases, and remanded on the third, and ordered to be brought up on Monday. next. " I have now for thirteen years conducted the Exeter Hygeinn Dis pensary, wherein the poor of Exeter and its neighbourhood have been treatell gratuitously with Mr. Morison's purely Vegetable Medicine of the British College of Health, and I am still more confirmed in my opinion (from practical experience, not in one or two cases, but in hundreds), that the Hygeian system is founded in truth. '1 he cases which have been cured by that excellent medicine have not been of a common character, being, as I may say, the incurables of the hos pitals at Exeter, it being only after trying all sorts of treatment that patients have recourse, as a last resort, to the Ilyeeian medicines. The names of the parties and their addresses are recorded in my book for the inspection of the publio. I have treated upwards of 309 poor patients during the past year, and I have now about 150 on the Dispensary books. In conclusion, I beg to return my sincere thanks to the subscribers to the Dispensary. (Signed) " RICHARD TOTIIILL, Surgeon, 86c. " Heavitree, near Exeter, Jan. 1, 1848." N.B. No chemist or druggist is authorised to sell Morison's rills. RAILWAY SiIARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 26. Szocx EXcrIANGB.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire 31/. :Shares, dis. —Ditto (late C. and B.), 6% dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, Ditto, Halves (late H. and S.), 10% des.—Leeds and Thirsk, Preference, 265. 3d. dis.—Liverpo•l, Crosby, and Soatlipsrt, New, 4 dis.—London and North-Western, 145—Ditto, New Quarters, 4% p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolmskire, Eighths, No. 2, 3'4 dis.—Ditto, Preference, 1 / 4 p.—Ditto (Grimsby and Sheffield), 201. Shares, 5 5 ,i dis.—Midland, 115 —Ditto, 401. Shares, 451—Ditto, Halves, 1% dis.—North Staffordshire, % p.—Northern Union (B), 143—South- Eastern and Dover, New, No. 1, 31/ s dis.—Ditto, No. 4, 14 4 dis.—Y•rk, Newcastle, and Berwick, Preference, 2 1 % p.- - Ditto (N. and B. Extensions), No. 2, 3 p.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 2 1 % p.—Dublin and Belfast Junction, 201 s dis _ MANCHESTER, FEB. 25. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, 5% dis.— tato, 20'. Shares, 6 9.16 dis.—Bolton, Blackburn, &c. (A), 6 , M dis.—Great Northern, 6 dis.—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, Thirds, 1 1.16 dis.—London and North-Western, New, 4 3 jy p Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Shef field and Lincolnshire), G dis.—North Staffordshire, % p. —South-Eastern and Dover, No 4,1% dis. LEEDS, FEB. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—A moderate amount of business has been done in shares to-day, at the follor ing prices : —East Lancashire, 21—Ditto, New, 4 dis.—East and West York shire, 57 dis —Great Northern, 6 dis.—Lancashire and York shire, Fifths, Bs. 9d. p.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 538. dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 2514 dis.—London, Brighton, and South Coast, 36—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference. 2s. 6d. p.—North British, Thirds, 7s. 6d. dis.— North Staffordshire, 13s. 9d. p. HULL, Fan. 25. STOCK EXCHANGE —More firmness was apparent in prices this morning; but the telegraphic dispatch this afternoon, announcing continued outbreaks in Paris, &c., has had a de pressing effect, and but little disposition to do business was evinced. The sales are—East Lincolnshire, 1% p —North British, Thirds, ss. dis.—North Staffordshire, 1 iB. p.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 2% p. YORK, FEB. U. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Great Northern, 41. Es. 6d.—North British, Thirds, 32s.—Northern Counties Union, ss. 6d.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Extension, No. 1, I.9N 2 —llitto, No. 2 (late New Berwieks), 13—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 101 c. The Observer of Sunday will give the latest news in detail from Paris. Price of the Obstrvfr, forty columns, 6cl. The extensive publication of the Oliserver commences at six o'clock on Sunday morninr , s. Mon day's edition, with that day's markets, be, - 4 ( ) or readers in the country and abroad, is published at 170, Strand, at four o'clock, every Monday afternoon. [ADVERTISBMENT.]—Teas.a Coffees delivered, car riage free, at the wholesale prices, by which means, fami lies residing in the cotintry. whose consumption is large, are enabled to purchase on the first market terms, thereby saving all the intermediate profits of retail establish ments. Samples and a list of prices forwarded free, on application by post. References or cash is expected with first order. Mansell and Co., wholesale tea-dealers, 2, Beeklersbury, Cheapside. DUNDEE TRADE, FEU 23.—During the past week a pretty fair business has been doing in flax, at about our last quotations. There has also been more demand for yarns, but in most instances the sellers have had to sub mit to some reduction in prices. Linens of all decriptions are also moving off pretty freely, though prices are in favour of the buyer. No arrivals from foreign ports during the last eight days. By last accounts from the Baltic ports, there was more firmness on the part of the dealers in flax, The feeling was more in favour of an advance than a decline in prices.—Courier. MisrLAcED CONFIDENCE.—On Tuesday last, a gentleman who had just taken a seat in the mail coach, about to start from Princes-street to Carlisle, asked a man, named Thomas Wright, who was lounging at the coach o!•'.ice, to get silver for twa one pound notes. Wright returned with change for one pound, and pretending that he would go to another shop to change the other note, he decamped with it altogether. On the same day he was apprehended by the police in Toddrick's Wynd, very much intoxicated, and 10s. 7d. was found in his possession. lie was triA belore acting Sheriff Ckg. horn on Monday, and sentenced to be imprisoned for `sixty days,--Caledonian Mercury. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —The most Effectual Cure for Gout and Rheumatism is Holloway's Ointment and Pills. —A frequent cause of these complaints is the inflama tory state of the blood, as they are generally attended with bad digestion, lassitude and great debility, showing the want of a proper circulation of th e fluids, and that impurity of the blood greatly aggravates these painful disorders. Holloway's pills are of so purifying a nature, that a few doses taken in time is an effectual preventative against gout and rheumatism; but every one that has an attack of either should use Holloway's ointment also, the powerful properties of Whicii cotnbined with the effect of the pills, ensures a certain cure. Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand, London. Tan TEA DUTIES.—The deliveries of tea from the bonded warehouses, immediately after the notice of the Minister announcing his revenue policy, have been con siderable. Although there was very little probability of a reduction of the rated duty at pr6telit levied on the article being proposed, notwithstanding the movement which bad been made in certain quarters on the subject, yet the trade in a great measure withheld the payment of duties at the last moment to a certain extent, in the possible event of the Government intending to make any alteration in the existing rate of duty on the article. ROBBERY AT AI'SLEY HOUSE.— Yestc - day, a journeyman sweep, who had been engaged in cleansing the flues at Apsley House, was detected by the porter leaving the premises with a quantity of valuable pro perty concealed in his soot bag.. He was at once placed to custody of the pulse, and, removed to the station house in Vine•street, Piccadilly, and will be examined at Marlborough-street this day. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. FOREIGN OFFICE. FEB. 25, 18 48 . The Queen has be en grac i ous ly Francis Hastings. Gilb ert , E sq ., t o be her lilsjesty'b Consul at Alexandria. pleased to appoint WAR-OFFICE, FEE. 25. Ist Dragoons—Brevet. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Smith Webb, from half-pay ULattached, to be Major.. vice Francis Hearle Stephens, ,v ho exchanges; Brevei. Major Edward Littledale to be Major. by purchase, vice Webb,, who retires; Lieutenant Thomas Thoroton to be Captain, by purchase, v i ce Littledale ;. Cornet Joseph John Henley to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Thoroton; George Campbell, Gent., to be by purchase, vice Henley, Feb. 25. 6th Dragoons—Lieut. Whitehall 1)od to be Captain, by purchase, vice Carrol, who retires; Lieut. Charles Bill, from the 15th Light Dragoons, to be L.eutenan!„ vice Dud, Feb. 25. 15th Light Dragoons—Lieut. Henry Keown to he- Captain, by purchase, vice Perrot t, who retires ; Cornet. Edward Colston to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vie. Keown; Cornet Henry John Wade to 60 Lieutenaric, by purchase, vice Bill, appointed to 6th Dragoons ;. James Edwards Vivian, Gent., to be Cornet, by pur chase, vice Colson, Feb. 25 ; David Henry Rowell, Gent., to he Cornet, by purchase, vice Wale, Feb. 26. 16th Light Dragoons —Captain George Brown, from, half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice John Henry - Tongs who exchanges ; Lieut.-limit Thomas Folliett Powell to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brown, who. 'retires; Cornet William Thomas Dickson to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Pow:11; Lancelot Halton., Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Dickson, Feb. 25.. Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Brevet Colonel. Francis Venables Harcourt, from half-pay Unattached,, to be Captain and Lieut t -Colonel, vice William Stewart, Balfour, who exchanges ; .Lieutenant and Captain. William Samuel Newton to-latr.Captain and. Lieutenant • Colonel, by purchase, vice Harcourt, who retires; Ensign. and Lieutenant Lionel Daniel Mackinnon to be Lieu tenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Newton; Robert; Desmond Sulivan, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Mackinnon, Feb. 25. 9th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Sir James, Archibald Hope, K.C.8., to he Colonel, vice Lieutenant- General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, K.C.8., appointed to. 71st Foot, Feb. 18. 24th Foot—Ensign Robert Geoffery Augustus de. Montmorency, from 49th Foot. to be Ensign, vice John, appointed to 94th Foot, Feb. 25. 32d Foot—Major Thomas Hutton, from half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice George Browne, who exchanges, receiving the difference ; Captain John Eurdley Wilmot Inglis to be Major, by purchase, Tie° Hutton, who retires; Lieut. Charles Thomas King to be Captain, by purchase, vice Robyns, who retires ; Lieut. Frederick Yard to be Captain, by purchase, vice Inglis, Feb. 25; Ensign and Adjutant 'William Garforli to have the rank of Lieutenant, Feb. 24; Ensign Bow' ti Van Sfranbenz,?e to be Lieutenant, by purchtve, vii se King; Ensign William Power to be Lieutenant, by pa :- chase ' vice Yard; Ensign Walter Lawrenc3 Ingies, frern 67th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Stranhonz:l; John lit d ley, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchanl, vice Pow er, Feb. 25. 36th Foot—Captain Richard Dyott, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice John Maule, who ex changes ; Lieutenant Henry IV. Palmer to be Captain, by purchase, vice Dyott, who retires; Ensign henry Keane Grant to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Palmer; Flint William Stacey, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Grant. 40th Foot—Edward William Clemishow Kingdom, M.D., to be AssiAtant• Surgeon, vice Brunamell, promoted on the Staff, Feb. 25. 41st Foot—William Henry Hopkinson, Gent., to be Ensign, by p urc hase, vice Willson, who retires, Feb. 25 ; Harley Kingsmill Drury, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Hopkinson, appointed to 62d Foot, Feb. 26. 44th Foot—Tamworth George Ferrer; Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Parks, appointed to 61st Foot, Feb. 25. 49th Foot—John Augustus Conolly, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, •ice de Montmorency, appointed to 24th Foot, Feb. 25. 52d Foot—Captain Augustus Blair, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, rice George Murray, who exchanges; Lieutenant Robert Octavius Cumming to be Captain, by purchase, vice Blair, who retires; Ensign Charles Cornwallis Ross to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cumming; Charles Anthony Bacon, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ross, Feb. 25. 60th Foot—Lieutenant Ashton Mosley to be Captain, by purchase, vice Mansell, whu retires; Second Lieu tenant John Lambert Edward Baynes to be First Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Mosley; Conynqliam Jones, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by pachase, vice Baynes, Feb. 25. 61st Foot—Ensign David Reid to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Egan, who retires; Ensign James Henry HaCfey Parke, frum 44th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Rad, Feb. 25. 62i1 Foot—Lieutenant Lenard Barrett Tyler to Le Captain, without purchase, vice Herbert, deceased, Feb. 9; Lieutenant William la Dickson to be Captain, by purchase, vice Tyler, whose promotion, by purchase, has been cancelled, Feb. 11; Ensign henry William Sibley to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Tyler, promoted, Feb. 9; Ensign William Henry Hopleinsan, from 41st Foot, to be Ensign, vice Sibley, Feb. 26. 67th Foot—Robert Philip Armstrong, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Inglee, appointed to the 32d Foot, Feb. 26. 71st Foot—Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Arbuth not, K.C.8., from 9th Feot, to be Colonel, lice Lieute nant General Sir Thomas Rayne'', Bart., and K.C.8., deceased, Feb. 18; Ensign Charles Watson, from 89th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Brown, who exchanges, Feb. 25. 73d Foot—John James Vincent, Gent., to be En•ign, without purchase, Feb. 25. 89th Foot—Ensign Leopold Brown, from 71st Foot, to be Ensign, vice Watson, who exchanges, Feb. 25. 94th Foot—Ensign Rice Davies Knight, to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Freud, who _retires ; Ensign Charles William St. John, from 24th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Knight ; Henry Vansittart Stonehouse, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vi ce P em b erton, w h o ret i res, Feb. 25. 96th Foot — Quartermaster-Sergeant William Thomp son, to be Quartermast e r, v i ce Samuel Fox, w h o ret i res on half-pay, June 23. UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant Lachlan Hector Gilbert A r,o can , from 49th Foot, to be Captain, without pur chase, Feb. 23. 13REVET.—Major Thomas Hutton, of 32d Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, June 2S, 1838. MEMORANDUM. The commission of Lieutenant George Collins, of 4th Foot, has been dated August 27, 1847, instead of July 15, 1845. Erratum in the Gazette of Feb. 11, 1348. 62d Foot—For Ensign William Rudman to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Tyler, promoted; reed, vice Dickson, promoted. Coinmissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire. Sir Michael Robert Shaw Stewart, Bart. to be Deputy Lieutenant; John Henderson, Esq. to be Deputy Lieu tena nt; James Richardson, to be laa. Esq, Deputy Lieuten ant; Boyd Alexander, E a ,. a to be Deputy Lieutenant; John H all Maxwell ' Es q. to be Deputy Lieutenant; John Harvey, Esq., younger, to be Deputy Lieutenant; Captain James Stirling, aaN , to be Deputy-Lic u tenant, Feb. 19. Commission by the Lo rd-Lieutenant and Sheriff Prin cipal of Ayrshire. • The Prince Regent's Royal Regiment of Ayrshire mili t ia —Ensign William Cuningharne Gemmell to be Lieutenant, vice William G rieve, d ecease d, F e b. 18. WHITEHALL, F EB . 17. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Oram Gard, of Devonport, in the county of Devon, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS, henry Bolton, straw manufacturer, Luton, Bedford shire, to surrender March 3 and April 7, at twelve, at the Court, B a singhalastreet. Can aan, official assignee, Birchin•lane; Lawrence and Plews, Old Jewry-cham bers, Old Jewry. Jonathan Bedchambers, bookseller, Strand, March 9, at twelve, and April 7, at one, at the Court, Basinghall street. Whitmore , o fficial assi g n ee, 13 as i ng h a ll- street ; Fry and Co., Cheapside. Valentine Francis Strong and William Hosking, coil merchants Dye-house-wharf, Clink-street, Southwark, , March 7, at half - past twelve, and Ap r il 11, at twelve at the Court, Basiaghall - street. Pen nell, official assignee; Miller and Horn, King William-street. George Wills, coal merchant, high-street, Wapping, March a, at half-past twelve, : and 1 , epril 5, a t half- past eleven, at the; Court, Basingfi ad- street. Bell, offi c i a l ; assignee, ColeColeman-street - buil din gs . Vourd r i n i er , Col : lege.street, Do wgate-hill. Robert Hicks, apothecary, Bel *r Street Pimlico, March 4 and April 14, at eleven, at the Court, Baiing , hall-street. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook court, liid Victualler, South ampton, Basinahall-street; Wade an d Co., S ergeant's Inn. Henry Thomas Stephens, licensed March 2, at two, and March 3 1, at twelve, at the Court, Basinglialastreet. Edwards, offi c i a l ass i gnee , Frederick's place, Old Jewry ; F itch, Southempten street, Bloomsbury. Guliehnus Tertius Butterfield, dealer in drugs, Ox ford street, March 3, at half past twelve, and April 11, at half-past eleven, at the Court, Basinghall- s t ree t. Graham, official assignee, Coleman- street ; Minter, Brownlow-street, Holborn. William John Buckland, licensed victualler, East 1 Greenwich, March 3 and April 11, at half -past one, at the Court, Basinghall-street. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Ditnmeek and Co., Cl emen t' s . lane. he , i William Ask, watchmaker, Wa flea., Yorkshire, Leeds • . March 7 and 28, at eleven, at the District Court. Hatton, official assignee, Leeds; Sargent, Norfolk -street, London; lleece, Birrainghsin. William Smith, ship builder, South Stockton, York shire, March 6 and April 6, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis trict Court. 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Sold by the Proprietors, and by Chemists and Perfiunors. 4 11 FEBRUARY 26, 1848. March 9 and April 6, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Irwin and Co., Gray's Inn, London; Hassell, Bristol. • Thomas Plumley, jun, grocer, Bristol, March 9 and April 6, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acra nian, official assignee, Bristol; Ste►ens and Co., Gray's inn-square, London; Perkins, Bristol. Thomas Wilmot, chemist, Moreton in Marsh, Glou cestershire, March 14, at eleven, and April 11, at two, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol; Sharpe and Co., Bedford-row, London; Tilsley, _Moreton in Marsh. John Wallace, corn merchant, Liverpool, March 10 and April 7, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Mor gan, official assignee, Liverpool; Vincent, Temple, Lon don; Littledale and Bardswell, Liverpool. John Ridsdale, share broker, Manchester, March 8 and 28, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Lewis and Cooke, Bar narti's Inn, London; Ray, Leeds. Bennett Williams, grocer, Dyffryn, Merionethshire, March 17 and April 11, at twelve, at the Liverpool Dis trict Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Bower, Tokenhouse-yard, London; Mason, Liverpool. William Fallow s ' coal fitter, Middlesbrough, York shire, March 9 and 30, at eleven,: at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Williamson and Co., Gray's Inn, London; Nen sam, Middleborough; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. (Dividends, &c., in our next.) PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending February 22, 1848. is 245. 11U d. per cwt. SOUTH YORKSHIRE,I)ONCASTER AND GOOLE RAILWAY. The first hall-yearly general, and also a special or extraordinary meeting of the proprietors of this company, was held yesterday afternoon at the London Tavern. Eerl Fitzwilliam was unanimously voted to the chair. The report which was read stated that since the pass ing of the Act, on the 23d of July last year, the directors had been actively engaged in calling in outstanding accounts, registering the shares, and consolidating the stock. They had also been enabled, by careful inquiry into the future expenditure, and into the funds that will accrue to this company on its amalgamation with the River Dun Com pany, to make such arrangements for paying interest on calls, and on moneys paid in advance of calls, as to ren der the shares of this company a most valuable invest• ment. The particulars of the arrangement had been fully explained in a statement already in the possession of the proprietary. At the extraordinary general meet ing, held on the 28th of last mouth, the proposal for the immediate commencement of the construction of a por tion of the railway, was carried by a large majority. The directors had now to report that toe laud and working plans had all been prepared, the works had been commenced, and would be proceeded with as ra.• pidly as circumstances permitted. The directors had ( very reason to anticipate that the line from Swinton to Doncaster wou'l be opened for traffic early next year. The balance remaining to the credit of the company was 43,613/. Is. 4d. in cash and Exchequer-bills. A large amount Lad been offered in advance of calls on the terms of the circular of the 14th January, and the directors were confident that this amount would be consider ably increased before the time proposed for making the first call; and as the company was enabled to give seven per cent. per annum upon moneys paid in advance of calls, they apprehended little difficulty in obtaining the 'full amount which they can profitably employ. The total expenditure of the com pany, which was 70,523/. 19a. 5d., extended over a period of upwards of two years and a half, during which time the company was engaged in two very severe Parlia mentary conflicts, and involving a double expenditure in law, engineering, and other charges. During that ses sion fifteen schemes were projected in direct compettion with this undertaking ; proving the value of the district now occupied by the rail way. A sum of 47,2501. had been appropriated as deposit on 18,000 shares, in the Sheffield, Rother ham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole Railway, in accordance with an arrangement sanctioned by a general meeting held in August, 1846. The densely-populated district through which that line passed abounded in minerals, leased to wealthy and en terprising companies, and all requiring a more expe ditious and economical transit to their respective markets. To the eastern communication afforded by the South Yorkshire line proper it would form a most valuable feeder. In right of the large stake held by the pro prietors of this company in the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole Com• pany's undertaking, half of the board of that company had been nominated by the directors of this company, and the management of this company's portion of the scheme had been confided solely to those gentlemen. The amount of revenue accruing to this company, under the contract with the River Dun Company, to the end of he last year was 14,517/. Os. I Id., which sum would, however, not be payable until the amalgamation by half the capital being paid up and expended. Out of that revenue the directors proposed to declare a dividend, at the rate of 5/. per cent. per annum, from the passing of the Act, for the ball-year ending the 22d of January, amounting in the aggregate to 2,812/. 10s., for which, interest warrants would be forthwith issued, payable one month after the amalgamation. The directors would hereafter be enabled, out of the surplus and accruing revenue, to pay a dividend of 61. per cent. per annum, until the opening of the line. the extension of the South Yorkshire lino to Penistone was struck out by the Committee on the Bill, and it appeared necessary to the directors, for the interest of the proprietors, that the extension to Penistone should be re-deposited in an altered shape, and a Bill introduced into Parliament. Mr. ENGLAND, a shareholder, complained of the item in the accounts of 42,e93/. 103. ltd. for law and Parlia liamentary expenses, and trusted that the directors would make some reduction in them for the future. The CHAIRMAN said he was always extremely desirous for economy in everything, but it should be recollected that this company had to encounter two severe Parlia mentary struggles. It was a matter of regret to him that Parliamereary contests cost so much, bet if he had had the management of railway affairs in England, and if his advice had been taken some time ego respecting the management and construction of railways, there would have been no necessity for Parliamentary contests. — (Hear.) But he would remind the meeting that when gentlemen embarked in such undertakings as this, they were, of course, understood to make up their minds as to the risk and loss that might ensue, as well as to the advantages.—(Cheers.) lie regretted, however, very much that the law expenses were so exceedingly heavy. The report was then received and adopted. A resolution having been proposed for reducing the number of directors to 12, Mr. ENGLISH said he did not think it proper that any large coal owner, in the district traversed by the rail way, should be upon the directory, because he would be We to fix just shat price he liked for conveying his coal over the line. This, he said, had been the case on some other lines, and was en abuse which should not be allowed to exist by the proprietors. Earl FITZWILLIAM, wholiis one of the most extensive coal proprietors in Yorkshire, immediately took offence at the observation, thinking that it was intended to ap• ply to him, and :said ho would not remain a moment longer in the chair or upon the directory, since his honour and integrity had been doubted. The Noble Earl then took up his hat, and despite the solicitations of the directors and shareholders, who rose en masse, proceeded to leave the room. As he-reached the door, Mr. DEfeesoet, Chairman of the GreatNorthernßailway, took the vacant chair, and introated his Lordship to re consider his determination, which, if persisted in, he said, would materially injure the property of the com pany in the public estimation. The appeal had the de sired effect, and the shareholder having apologised The NOBLE EARL resumed the chair, and said he never had and never would have shares in any railway or other 'speculation merely as a speculator, because be did not think it consistent with his public position to do so, and he had only entered into this undertaking be cause it would benefit the district with which ho was connected in Yorkshire, and be of great public advan tage.—(Cheere.) After some further discussion and explanation, exculpating his Lordship from having any interested motives in joining this company, the matter dropped, and the resolution was carried ; also others votitg 1,2001. to the directors, ordering a dividend at the rate of 51. per cent. up to January last, and other formal resolutions, the meeting was made special and a draft bill agreed to for extending a line to Penistone, and ordered to be promoted in the present seeeion of Parliament. A rote of thaeles was then passed to the Chairman, and the meeting seperated. FATAL COLLIERY A CCIDENT. —ASIITON.UNDE LI Nit, FEB. 2.4.—Fouß LIVES LOST.—On Wednesday evening one of those distressing accidents, an explosion of fire camp, occurred at the colliery of Messrs. Surie and Lees, known as the Victoria Pits, Dukinfield, near Ashton, which occasioned the immediate loss'of four lives, and has placed in jeopardy several others, three of whom were not expected to survive many hours. Of the four who were instantaneously killed, two were bro thers named Aspinal, and the father of these is one of three who are not expected to lice. From the facts which we have been enabled to collect, it appears that the accident was occasioned by that fruitful source by 7%11101 so many sad catastrophes take place, viz., the working with a naked candle, instead of obeying the rules of the works and venturing into the pit without a safety lamp. It is said that one of the sufferers took a light into some of the old workings, the air in which was so i m pregnated with the explosive gas that it imme diately exploded, blowing one man literally to pieces and destroying three others, besides burning. several in a most dreadful manner. On the accident becoming known at the top of the pit means were taken to bring up the sufferers, who were carried to their own homes. The dead bodies were taken to the Snipe Tavern, the ne arest public.house, where they are now lying awaiting the coroner's inquest. A few early potatoes were exhibited for sale in the market on Saturday last. The price demanded for them was a shilling a pound.—Lancaster Guardian. PRICE SD. IRELAND. DUBLIN, FEB. 24,—The Poor-law Commissioners have dissolved two more boards of guardians—those of the unions of Ennistymon (county a Clare), and Gort (county of Galway). The regular guardians have now been superseded in about thirty unions, and paid guardians appointed. In a few instances, the ex guardians were glad to escape the responsibility, but generally the local gentry are filled with indignation by the proceedings of the commissioners, who pay little heed to the complaints of these gentlemen. The com missioners are, in fact, determined to enforce the poor law at all hazards ; and so far as the •collection of the rate is concerned, they are succeeding in most of the unions. Meantime, in some of the western and southern counties, a great extent of destitution still prevails. _ _ _ The Mayo Telegraph of yesterday contains a further list of fifteen deaths from starvation in the Castlebar union. There have been numerous seizures for non payment of poor-rate ; but in some instances the goods exposed for sale found no bidders amongst the crowd assembled at the auctions. As might be expected where destitution is so general, there are numerous frauds in the out-door relief system, especially in Mayo. One of the local papers contains a list of persons re ceiving relief under false pretences, and most of whom are in comparatively comfortable circumstances. In some districts efforts are made by the gentry anti farmers to diminish the relief taxation by extending em. ployment ; but pauperism is extending, nevertheless, to a most formidable extent. Mr. Herbert, M.P., of Meekness Abbey, has circu lated an address amongst his tenantry inlierry, offering to pay the entire of their poor-rate ; but, says this ex cellent landlord, " I shall expect, in return, that none of the labourers usually employcd by you shall be com pelled to hare recourse to the poor-rate for relief, while each of you has so wide a field upon which his labour may be made reproductive." DISTRESS AMONGST THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY. —The Cork Examiner quotes the following extract of a letter from a Ttoman Catholic clergyman of the diocese of Cloyne, as an instance of the condition to which the clergy of that communion are now reduced by the poverty of their flocks :—" Let me tell you (strange to say), I have this day in my possession but one halfpenny; such is the state of my finances, and I think it is, generally speaking, the position of the priesthood of the country— it cannot be otherwise. I have in my united parishes 6,000 in a state of starvation, many of whom have already died of starvation ; may God deliver them, and give them the grace of forbearance." CITY OF WITERORD ELECTION.--Further accounts have been received of the conflicts between the Old and Young Irelanders, which have only been stopped by the intervention of the military and police. On Tuesday Colonel Sir C. O'Donnell, brigadier-general at Clonmel, with two troops of the 4 - 11 Light Dragoons, arrived at Waterford, where Sir Charles will remain during the election. MURDER OF THE REV. JOHN LLOYD.-CA PITAL CONVICTION. The Evening Herald contains the following report of a most important case tried yesterday at the Roscommon Asssizes : RoscommoN, FEB. 23.—A respectable jury having been sworn, the Clerk of the Crown read the indictment against Thomas Donoghue, charging him with having, on the 28th of November, on the high road near Elgin, in this county, fired at and killed the Rev. John Lloyd, and in another count with aiding and assisting one John Flanagan to commit the murder. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated the Case for the Crown. Michael Walsh was then examined by the Learned Gentleman—Recollects the Sunday before Mr. Lloyd was shot. Was at the house of Owen Byrne early that day, and saw the prisoner at the bar there. It is about two miles across the fields from where Mr. Lloyd was shot. John Flanagan, Pat Regan, Owen Byrne, Mar tin Travers, and Michael Byrne was there. Was there till late that day. There was a conversation about Mr. Lloyd on that day; Owen Byrne said that they were all noticed by Mr. Lloyd, and that his life was in the lease and that he ought to be shot, that there was no other 'remedy but to shoot him. Ile (witness) said that he was a good man, and that it ought not to be done, and Pat Regan said the same thing, but the rest were for having him shot, and Donoghue, the prisoner, said ho was prepared to come any day at all, and that that day was wet and the pistol might not go oft Saw the prisoner, and knew him three years before that. Recollected going ;to Owen Byrne on the fol lowing Sunday ; that was the day Mr. Lloyd was shot; Donoghue, Flanagan, Owen and Michael Byrne were there that day in Owen Byrne's barn ; he saw two pistols lying on the corn in the barn; there was some conversation about Mr. Lloyd, but not so much as the other day; it was a wet day too, and one of them said there nes no luck in it; witness went home, which was only a few fields from Byrne's house, and left Donoghue after him; some time after that he saw two men cross the fields from Byrne's in the direction towards where Mr. Lloyd was shot ; saw John Flanagan that evening going towards his own house; he had a case of pistols, and another man was on before him, but was not sure it was the prisoner as ho was a piece elf from him. Flan agan he heard is dead. Cross-examined by Mr. W. BURKE—Is not a tenant of the late Mr. Lloyd. Did not swear his informations till he heard from Mr. Lloyd, of Lisanow, that he had a letter, and that he (witness) knew something of this. Then he came and told the truth. It is not for a re ward, but for the love of justice he gave his testimony. Martin Byrne, examined by Mr. FRENCH, Q.C.—Re members the Saturday before Mr. Lloyd was shot. Met Michael Byrne, and from what he told witness ho went to Owen Byrne, his brother, who sent him to Durham, about twelve miles, for the prisoner, Thomas Donoghue, to visit him ; and he went to the house of Donoghue, and his wile went with him to Mr. Corr's, where he was working, and in the evening both of them went to Cultra. On the way they met three policemen, one of whom asked witness where they were going, and he told theta to Cultra. Michael Reynolds, police constable, proved that he, with two more police, were out that night, and met the last witness at Carrigan's, which is on the road from Durham to Elphin. Patt Rooney, examined by Mr. WEST, Q.C.—ls about seventeen years of age. Was servant to the late Mr. Lloyd. Remembers the day he was shot. Was driving the gig in which his master was, and when above a mile from home, two men were walking before them, and when the gig overtook them, one went each side, and the prisoner told witness to come down. Mr. Lloyd asked what for, and they said they wanted to shoot him ; and Mr. Lloyd said, " Pull away boys." Witness cried out, " Don't kill my master," and immediately one of them fired (identifies the prisoaer as the man who fired the shot). The prisoner told the other man to fire, and he tried, but the pistol would not go off. Saw the prisoner about a fortnight after, among five or six others, and pointed him out as the man who shot his master. In the cross-examination of this witness his first in formations were read, in which he stated that he be lieved the prisoner Donoghue was the man that shot his master. To account for this, he said he had been then going into the town of Elphin every day, and that he was afraid to positively swear against him. Patrick Holmes was the next witness, who proved that he was going an old road to the Rev. Mr. Lloyd's on that day to get a bottle of wine, which Mr. Lloyd had promised to his wife, who was sick, and that coming towards a fort of rising ground he lost sight of Mr. Lloyd, and he heard a sout from some person, and then heard a shot, and going over the rising ground, he saw the body of Mr. Lloyd in the gig. He appeared dead. He then saw two men coming from where the smoke was, and they beckoned to him to go back, and he did, as he saw pistols with them. Ho knew Flanagan, but he did not know the prisoner before that day (identifies him as ens of the men); a man named Coghlan shook hands with Flanagan and said, " Well done, boys—you took down the old fellow." Thomas Brehery proved to having seen two men that day running across the fields, and that the prisoner was one of them, havinz a pistol or a short gun concealed under his coat. Mr. Bunee addressed the jury for the prisoner in an eloquent speech, contending that there was a discrepancy in the evidence, and that some of the evidence could not be relied on. The Judge delivered a long and able charge to the jury, who, without leaving the box, found a verdict of Guilty. Roscommon, Feb. 23, half-past five o'clock, This moment the jury have returned a verdict of guilty against Thomas Donoghue, for the murder of the Rev. John Lloyd, on the 28th of November last. The Judge was deeply affected on hearing the verdi c t, an d , after some minutes'deliberation,addressed the Attorney- General in a low voice, when his Lordship had the pri soner removed to his former cell, and postponed passing the awful sentence until morning. The Court never was so densely crowded, and before the Judge charged the jury, the whole assembly anti cipated the just verdict of this the foulest murder that ever disgraced any country. Six o'clock, Wednesday evening. Three persons are this moment committed for the murder of Major Mahon. EMIGRATION OF COTTON SPINNERS.—Last week a general meeting of delegates was held at Bolton, of the operative cotton spinners of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire. The business of the meeting was of a somewhat novel character. Instead of dis cussing the rate of wages, or the consequence of the recent reductions, the discussion was entirely confined to the consideration of the question of establishing the means of emigrating the surplus hands among them to the United States of America. It was proposed to do this by a weekly subscription of 2d. a head, by which they calculate that they can send out 329 spinners per annum. The project was adopted unanimously, and it was fixed to commence in a fortnight from that day.— Stockport Alcreury. The Duke of W ve a grand banquet e lli ng ton ga at Strathfieldsayo last evening to the Learned Judges going the Western Circuit, en route to open the corn miss:on at Winchester, the High Sheriff of the county, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley - , &e. The Noble and Gallant Duke, accompanied by the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, is expected to return to town to-day. 1 o ; M