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0 sort! sales of , 7d to 2s ;id fair re" ,raitivelY spirits oing in , req uire he spo t c loso , r restl4 g chests g Ship, 7fi tpi 41, 414 "111 Fk 14 1i,41 o9!i ,9S t .94 .i; YSi ,9 0 4 4 6 ° .xtra. c h flag° 3 . each' 5 IS 6 ) V 2 (1 Loe l • IsdY terO ce ' Adel, b•p' EVENING SUN. CO NTRACTS FOR TRAIN AND PALE SEAL OIL. DEPARTMENT OF THE STOREKEEPER -GENERAL OF THE NAVY, SOMERSET-PLACE, JULY 29, MIL THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUT ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of t(1 ? UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT lIRITAIN and IP.E 4ND do h ere b y give Notice, that on THURSD AY, the 19th n ti c gust next, a t One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with Persons as may be willing to Contract for supp l y in g her ,11'11 jesty's several Dock Yards with A TRAIN AND PALE SEAL OIL. Di, TRAIN • “on of the Oil, and a Form of the Ten der, ma y "teen at be said Offic e . ' llO Ter --er will be reee —w ived after one o'clock, on the day of rex& n , j or t any not iced , unless the party attends, or a n agent duly. authorised in writing. ra i + ,! e rY Tender must be addressed to the Secretary o f the Admi '/, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accom t7,!ed by a Letter signed by two responsible Persons, engaging kr Z . eome bound with the Person tendering in the sum of r the due performance of the Contract. • STEAM TO GR. BLACK AVE 3 E N D FROM WA L L. 'AL TIMES. y fast Iron Boats, ICK," and " BLACKWALL," !ri Gravesend and Blackwall, at ADDITION. Tose remarka tAILWAY,h" "BRUNSW bI I ire now running daily betweel the undermentioned times : , raoss. BLACKWALL. Morning, at 9. past 9. past 10. Af ternoon, past 1. • past 2. ••• past 4. ••• past 1. •• past 6. ▪ past 8. FROM ORAVESENR Morning, at past 7. ▪ past 8. Past 11. Afternoon, past 12. past 2. ...• • past 3. I• , past 4. • past 6. ... i f past 7. - . FARES. _Week Days—Chief Cabin, Is. ; Fore Cabin, Bd. The Sundays —Chief Cabin, Is. 6d. ; Fore Cabin, Is. ter , ne Railway Trains run from the Minories every srar quart:ll hour, from half-past eight in the morning, till a se • before ten at night (except on Sundays duri ng . Divine earviee, viz , from halt.past ten till one). Fares,'First Class, Seeand Class, 4d. 60, Fen Church-street, Julyl9, 1841. LONDON & BL ACK W ALL RAILWAY. CHA R OPENING of the NEW TERMINUS in FEN kit nCII-STREET.—The Public are tespeetfully informed k iN the rit &INS now run to and from the NEW TER dim US in Fenchurch-street to Blackwell, and the interme e Stations of Sh a d w ell, Stepney, Limehouse, West India 14M Decks, and Popl ar • and carriages also run betw een the Station inories ancißlackwalL a s heretofore. p a „ 'R•—The T ra i ns ru n every quarter of an hour , from half ' fight o'clock in the morning, to a Quarter before Ten tl ock at night. Fares —First Class, 6d. ; Second Class, 4d. Ste a ,m-boats, in communication with the Railw, run fro m 0 - _zrunswick Pier, i>l a cksvalt, to Greenwich, ay Woolwic , Zoves_ensl, Margate, and Herne Bay. August 2, 1841. LON D ON AND BLACKWALL RAIL. th e WAY COMPANY.—Notice is here b y g iven, that fr nANSFER BOOKS of this Company will b e CLOSED .. It °ll3 Mertnay ' the 9th inst. un.il MONDAY , the 16th inst., Frel4ratory • to the allotment of the new shares. • Is important that all out-standing Transfers s hould be hr ht in on or before the 9th inst. for registration, in order Ai: the ProPerly allot entitled to them. ment of the new sh By order maofbe the Board, ade to the par so F J. WARRINGT ON, Sea. eneouren-strcet August 2, 1841. REAT WESTERN RAILWAY. y\- 41 1 Notice is hereby given, that the next HALF- Com a l :Y MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this io 21 . 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Notice is hereby given , tha t the BOOKS which are I ept in this Office for the Registration of Transfers of Shares I ,° the Co m p an y will be CLOSED, in pursuance of the pro :it'us of the Act of Incorporation, from Mond a y , the 16th LYoth f August, until Thursday, the 26th day of August next, (la} inclusive. By order, H. PATTESON, Secretary. ce3, War n fold- court, Throgmorton-street, Lcndon, July 26, 1841. ItiIiANCHESTER & LEEDS RAILWAY. • TENDERS FOR LOANS. Ak The r ,IRECTORS of the MANCHESTER and LEEDS los Act passed COMP ANY aro prepared, under the powers et passed i n th e F our th Year of the Reign of her present t; intituled " An Act for enabling t he Manchester and R R E glwa_y Company to raise a further sum of money," :48:e rate TENDERS for the LOAN of MONEY, in et e t of not less than One Thousand Pounds each, en interest Five per Cent. per annum, for the terms of five he years, at the option of the lender, the repayment to aqd Zure tea y mortgage of the property of the urider b tak v ing; tat . e „ T a tolls, and other sums, arising or to arise ir kid t he several Acts of Parliament passed relating to the a "lway e v er s'teders are to express the sums and the term of years d res which the same are proposed to be lent, and are to be ad btte'd t ° the Chairman at the Company's Offices, Clowe s 'bga, Hunt's Bank, 'Manchester. ated this 4th day of June. 1841. H. HOULDSWORTH, Chairman. BRILLIANT CHEAP LIGHT. °BINSON'S PATENT LAMPS, to Burn t,te ILLUMINATIVE NAPTIIA, an economic substi bo :111as, oil, er candles, reydre little trouble in trimmin g , o vv r , - , 4 'ung , or any attention whilst burning, consume their P4tt and ' tn ° l (e, are flee from grease, dirt, or sparks, never chill, 11 " liable to be out of repair. A post franked circular of (Ir e e „, r '' ' with 'prices will be sent, by` forwarding the address t ° IL M. 11;Thinson and Ca., 19, Minories. Aldgate. trin ayth.‘ sent regularly to order. Agencies and Licenses .11. Dealers supplied. 21, FLEET-STREET, p,NEARLY OPPOSITE CHANCERY-LANE. I . IE N ,to TWENTY POUNDS SAVED, Dentistsessr s. BROWNE and CARTWRIGHT, Surgeol -21, Meet -street, beg to call public attention to their gri W ,, and beautii . ul EVERLASTING TEETH, the most clean tolvoholt•some that can be worn. They are so exactly formed ca t ,,, it „ t ,aro, both shape and colour, that the closest observer 0 1 " detect the' difference, with this advantage—they never told" colour, decay , or wear out ; and a complete set, on fine to .lor which they will only charge 15 to 18 guineas, will last 47e:fears or upw.srds, and are far superior to those usually ditt o g 30 or 40 guineas • a single tooth, one guinea ; thr ee per , two guineas and a half. Natural teeth supplied from 5 1. keti aet. or 10s. per tooth. Messrs. Brown and Cartwright ' , "d of fitting neither requires the extraction of stumps nor zs.iv_e: the slightest pain ; and having had upwards ef 20 years_' 11 7 s iriceacf. in the profession, can guarantee to restore perfect t ation sari articulation, having succeeded in thousands of in hundreds of which other dentists had entirely failed. t,,,,, t}t above are totally different f rom the b r ittle glossy French , usually supplied by dentists as newly-discovered mineral, A visit will convince the most sceptical of the fact. [RANKS'S SPECIFIC t one difffir . • COPAIBA.. SOLUTION OF _ ent ingredients contained in FRANKS'S SPECIFIC ‘,...UT10N OF COP —.at., • AI BA, are those advised by the mest practi ce?, svi scientific hi the that but, by a peculiar chernicalpT_ thi` t p carri pounded that each drug greatly increases the effica c y r Thi t ` ... tat e _, invaluable Medicine is recommende d in the public and Pri IMaetice of Sift ASTLEY P. COOPER, Bart. F.R.S. SR • SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE:, Bart., F • • • embers JOSEPH HENRY GREEN, Esa• F • R ' S • "ANSB Y I. COOPER, Esq. F.R.S. of the of Surgeons, London, a tnan„ other Council of the Royal College of the medical profes. lion h ; , highly distinguished mem ber s . cure of those di s c' by vi nom it Is deemed the only Specific for t he Is h _es to which it is more immediately applicable. refi e Testi nicely of these gentlemen cannot fail to convince every til , . ' II R Mind that FRA.NKS•S SPECIFIC SOLU TION_ OF I Atha -t be but en „ . . , is not only in every essential what it professes to , adopted l edi 7Laer e d . a most valuable addition to those legitimate and pit , Mcs , Lily prescribed by the faculty. rov ed to be t n 4l, XI l'S SPECIFI C SOLUTIO N OF COPAIBA is P roved to fa...o Nn ejno, t e ff ectual, safe, and speedy remedy for the cure or 4 `14,y — ' ll • ll `MA, (SL E ET S , all URETHRAL OR DISC HARGES, lON of th e KT 4.113U5, SPASMODIC STRICTURE, IRRITAT, PL AN I-, I )I4ETS, BLADDER, URETHRA, and PROSTATE tits purifying effects upon the general health renders de llF.ienlarly applicable in al cases of relaxed fibre and nervous Tl l i l e tY. p re ,..!nnst delicate persons may take it with perfect safety. I. ond l o '2 , Ld onl,v by George Franks, Surgeon, 90, Blacktriars-road. iti thQ United ?TM el:1y be had of all wholesale and retail Medicine-vend ek..... nited KAigdona, in Bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s. ed., and I Is. each. toad , ;', l ; o N.—None is genuine unless " George Franks, Blacktriars. In '' engraved on the Government Stamp attached to each bottle, 5 folio • - Wtne Testimonials are selected from amongst numerous re others forwarded to Mr. Franks. In i n ,, R oyal Ph Henr y Green, Esq,, F.R . S. , one of the Council of the Prefess College of Surgeons, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and ~ 1 hav Or of Surgery in King's College, London. . 1 ; h°lllas's have trial of Mr. Franks's Solution of Copaiba, at St. I ' d feria' ospital, in a variety of cases ot discharges in the male ie ui , t . 4 e , e, and the results warrant my stating, that it is an effica. allects - _,.' 15 ,Y. and one which does not produce the usual unpleasant '` ~t liaiba, "45.Li tt Signed) .April "JOSEPH S. HENRY GREEN. Prom coliPs-Ihn( -tields, 15. IS 3 " c e i l ik ansbY Cooper, Esq., F.R.S., one of the Council of the Roya l i _pge of Surgeons, Lo n don ; Surgeon to Guy's Hospital , and Iri e t t'Vr on Anatomy, &c. Wed b a rronsby Cooper presents his compliments to Mr. Geo. Franl , cs, l utio _ great pleasure in hearing testimony to the e ffi cacy of his So tee,n7t°,_f Copalba In Gonorrlvea, for which disease Mr. Cooper has .• bed the Solution in ten or twelv ceases with perfect seCCeell. I'l.ol w-street, Aprill3, IS:15." n Alexander Tweex • nto the Metropolitan Free — l e, Esq., S urgeon Hospital, C r y street Lincoln's Inn-fields. " Me D a e - . ISistere I eau. Silt,—l have notes of six cases, in which I ave ce %mi . .. en ~ „ , Your preparation of Copaiba, for the ' cure of Gonorrh , i in_ of which the disease has been subdued in a shorter period of t ime tOn e ac ‘ cordin g to the ordinary plans hitherto made use of. Besides , itta e .. s .e tase s of which I have taken notes, I have tried it in s_ev_eralaiii -4'....! at the Greville street Hospital, and am quite satisfieclth , t n it control over the urgent symptoms of Gocorrhcea, r -lie h g oavuhcharge and mitigating the scalding in making water . t at_ I o ne s t observed in the usual methods of exhibiting F it opa n i I i this it n yinein, ins tance only did it disagree with the stomach b tn . ~, to depend rather on the method of exhibition ; than on tht re. • i „,_7Y itself, for en diluting it with a larger quantity of watei,tbe 'fla •ction was at once obviated, and the patient got well in ten days ga d a ca se in which tho discharge continued longcr than ten ays -., or c oounencing this treatment. " I am, dear Sir, your's verytruly, Vithi S . d) " A LEXANDER TWEEDIE." ( igne f Three Hundred Pa tient n a period of Two Months upwards o , , v, O b e were treated with FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION of 1 4 " In A, with perfect success, at the above Metropolitan Hospi. .Thomas's,' Guy's, amid the Free Hospitals, by their re le'"lre Burgeons. whose TesUmonials arc given above. THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY'S splendid and powerful First-class STEAM SHIPS are appointed to SAIL from London for -HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM, and OSTEND—every Wednesday and Saturday Morning. ANTWERP and HAVRE—every Thursday Morning . BOULOGNE—every Wednesday, Thursday, and Sat urday. CALAlS—every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sucday. EBetween BRIGHTON and DlEPPE—twice per week. EDINBURGH—from Brunswick Wharf, Thackwall—every Saturday Evening, and every alternate Wednesday, at Ten. NEWCASTLE—from Downe's Wharf—every Wednesday and Saturday Evening, at Eight. SUNDERLAND—ditto—every Tuesday Evening, at Seven. YARMOUTH—every Saturday Evening, at Sir. 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Consequences of Strictures. CHADTKIL IV. ' Of toe Treatment of the Mala dies Consequen upon Stric ture. CHAPTER 11. Of the Different Modes in practice for the Cure of Strictures, by the Mougie, the Catheter, the Lunar Caustic, and Cutting In struments. The Author's Mode of Cure. CHAPTER IH. ArrENDIX. Cases Illustrative of the Su periority of the Author's Mode of Cure over the Treat ment by the Bougie, Cathe ter, Lunar Caustic, and Cut ting Instruments. On the y Diseases where filet Sold by Bailliere, Medical B Simpkin and Marshall, Station rine-street, Strand ; Barlow, B ginale, Liverpool: and all Book: lookseller, 219, Regent-street; ners' -court ; Onwhyn, Cathe lirmingharn ; Ross and Night :sellers in Town and Country. Just published, the Seventh Edition, price 3s. ; and sent free, on receipt of a Post-office Order, for 3s. 6d., 31 NHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE AMATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suf fering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases, &c. By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY , Consulting Surgeons, London. Published by the Authors, and sold by flailiere Medical Bookseller to the Roy al Colle g e of Surgeons, 219, Regent street ; Strange, 21, Paternoster-row, London • Guest, Bir mingham ; Scowler, 4, St. Ann's-square , Manchester ' Philip, S out h Castle-street, Liverpool ; Machen and Co., 8, D'Olier street, Dublin; Duncan,ll4, High-street, Edinburgh ; and to be had of all Booksellers. This Work, a Seventh Edition of which is now presented to the public, ten thousand copies have been exhausted since its first appearance, has been very much improved and enlarged by the addition of a more extended and clear detail of general principles, as also by the insertion of several new and highly in teresting cases. The book, as has been already stated, is the result of very ample and daily increasing experience in a class of diseases, which, for some unaccountable reason, have been either altogether overlooked, or treated almost T with prove rb indifferal - enc e, by the ordinary medical practioner. he i and well known rapacity of unqualified practitioners, who traffic on the health and credulity of patients, has been en couraged and aroused by this supineness, on the part of the regular surgeon. In order to obviate the pernicious effects sure to result from the practices of such pretenders, the authors have fur a considerable time devoted themselves ex clusively to a certain class of diseases ; of the necessity of so doing, they were further convinced by feeling that tact h in ar is ine - ves tigating the latent sources of many diseases, whic from certain secret practices, can only be acquired by an ex clusive and undivided attention to this department of medical practice. The numberless instances daily occurring, ',bergs' affections of the lungs, putting on all the outer appearances of consumption, which, however, when traced to their source, are found to result from certain baneful practices, fully proves that the principle of the division of labour, is nowhere more applicable than in medical practice. We feel no hesitation in the boon saying n n g o t t hbaet foundthere of a Parent. a Preceptor, or a Clergyman. n i e f n u . l , member whether e s such eh ' o c person ietyb hold wh o t m h e The PARENT, who beholds his beloved child pining away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in conse q.uence of some disease, w hich, for want of careful investiga tion of its real cause, has been set down to the score of con sumption, will, or perusing this work, be astonished to find, that in nine-tenths of the cases of young persons of both se:es, who perish of what is called pulmonary consumption, heart disease, tapes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has been the indulgence in certain destructive 'habits practised by youth much more frequentlhan it is at all suspected. The PRECEPTOR, a y t lso, who holds (temporarily at least), the relation and responsibility of a parent, will, by . perusing . this work, be directed and very much assisted in investigating and detecting the too often con cealed practices so often introduced into schools, whereby the Ereoremfiisnedd,auenllueessttohgeueivdiel b i e iun arre tb st r e o d ug in b p t r b o e pe i r i t t i r m io e et . health and ultimately the lives of his p u p ils are sure to be com e m il ; e e will f this moral labyrinth, and a standard whereby to judge, when delicacy of health should appear to 'attack any of hi s young charges, what the real ca uses of such attack ma y be, and thus he will be enabled to check the evil in its incipient state. The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred character is at once concentrated the two-fold relation of parent and instructor, will here be directed as to the nature of those habits to which youth is addicted ; he will also be enabled to point out the &o estrous consequences which are sure to follow from them if not relinquishe d. Messrs. CURTIS and CO. a Sohn e consulted daily at their residence, No. 7, Frith-street, square, London. Country Patients are requested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases—as to the duration of the complaint, age, general habits of hying, and occupation in the symptoms, life of the party ; the communication must be accompanied by I ' the usual Consultation Fee of 1/., without which no notice ' whatever can be take* of their appli lication ; and in all cases, the ; most inviolable s ecrecy may be reed on. NO PUFF NOR IMPOSITION. 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The meeting of the members of the Mechanics' Insti tution, to consider the propriety of tendering some mark of their esteem and gratitude to Dr. Birkbeck, which took place on Tuesday last, and was adjourned till last night, was resumed at half• past eight o'clock, when the chair was again taken by Basil Montagu, Esq., Q.C. The CHAIRJIAN said, on the last evening he had the honour of presiding over them, he was not fully ac quainted with the nature of the resolutions to be sub mitted to their consideration. He had since been more fully informed upon the subject, and had great pleasure in again meeting them, in order to manifest his affec tionate respect for his friend Dr. Birkbeck. With their per mission, he would now read the resolutions that had been passed at the former meeting, which would prepare them for the third resolution, which they were then about to discuss. The Chairman then read the resolutions passed at the meeting of Tuesday last, which have already ap peared in this paper. _ • Mr. READER had much pleasure in mooring the third resolution, which he trusted would meet the approval of the meeting. It was, however, open to discussion, and he hoped the arguments that might be advanced, either in its favour or against it, would be heard with patience by the meeting. Mr. Reader then read the resolution. Mr. J. SMITH seconded the resolution. Mr. MASON said he was glad the predominant feeling at the meetings that had taken place. with reference to Dr. Birkbeck, was gratitude and esteem for that great and good man, to whom the industrious classes, and, in deed, all the world, he might say, were so largely in debted.—(Hear, hear.) He trusted that the iuterrup tions that had characterised their former meetings would not be persevered in, but that they would hear the arguments that were put forward, and then proceed to disease diem in a calm and deliberate manner.--(Dear, hear.) Although fully concurring in the propriety of the resolution that had been moved and seconded, he should take the liberty of moving an amendment to the effect that the subscriptions raised be applied to the pay ment of the debt due by the Institution of which he was thelotuider, and thereby carry out the wishes which had been expressed by Dr. Birkbeck.—(Hear, hear.) He believed that such a proposition would meet the approval of the majority of the meeting, and would be more con sonant to the wishes of the illustrious individual whom they were met to honour than any other course they could adopt. Such a measure would confer benefit upon thousands, and would be much more grateful to Dr. Birkbeck's feelings than the presenting him with a piece of plate, which he had already very unequivocally declined. Alto the proposition that had been put forward for the establishment of a lecture ship he thought there were many objections to it, and the money raised would be much more usefully and bene ficially employed in clearing the institution from debt. If he was not fully convinced of the disinterestedness and philanthrophy of the great and good man to whom he re ferred, he should never have thought of bringing forward such an amendment. He believed the great object of Dr. Birkbeck's life was to merit the esteem of all the great and good men of the country, and that in his ef forts to confer the benefits of education and knowledge upon his fellow-men he had been actuated by purely dis interested motives.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Mason concluded by proposing his amendment. Mr. HAWES seconded the amendment. Mr. CLAXTON did not think the amendment which had been proposed would meet the views of Dr. Birkbeck, and he was confirmed in that opinion by some personal communications he had had with that gentleman.— (Hear, hear.) It appeared to him that if the amend ment were carried the impression would be conveyed to the public that Dr. Birkbeck, having lent money to the Institution was ii want of it, and that they had taken that method of repaying it.—(Cries of " No, no.") He feared that such would be the im pression out of doors, and it appeared to him that the plan which had been adopted in America by Count Rum ford, of establishing a Professorship, which was filled by an intelligent mechanic, would better meet the views of Dr. Birkbeck. If the lectureship was established to en force the views of De. Birkbeck, namely, to explain some species of popular knowledge, a measure which he had always advocated, it would be much more judicious. The establishment of a course of useful lectures annu ally would, he thought, fully meet the views of Dr. Birkbeck, and be much more consonant to his feelings than any other course they could adopt. He could not better explain his views and wishes if he spoke for two hours, and he would therefore now sit down, thanking them for the patience With which they had heard him. Mr. J. SMITH said a fallacy ran through the amend ment, because they Could not expect to get money from the members of other institutions, - which were struggling very hard, in order to be applied to the relief of that in stitution. Such a proposition had been met with nothing but disgust amongst the members of other institutions. They could not, with propriety, indicate precisely the manner in which the money should be applied. Money was to be obtained from all who were anxious to do ho nour to Dr. Birkbeck. There would be a General Com mittee, in which their Committee would be represented, and they ought to have confidence in those Whom they had elected as office-bearers. He trusted they would not be so selfish, or so indecent as to ask for money from the country generally for their own purposes. He gave the original motion his warmest support. STIRIMPTON would ask whether it would be show ing any gratitude to Dr. Birkbeck to go begging through the country for money to pay the Doctor the money they owed him—to get rid of him in fact. But would that be raising any testimonial to Dr. Birkbeck ? It was almost too absurd for argu ment. No doubt Dr. Birkbeck, with his native mo desty, would say he was satisfied in his own conscience ; the good lie had seen flow from his exertions was suffi cient reward to him ; but would that satisfy the grateful feelings which existed in the breasts of thousands? He would answer— No.—(Cheers.) Mr. VALLENTINE thought the whole case was one which required the very gravest consideration. In his opinion the meeting ought to pause and consider before they passed either the amendment or the motion. He doubted whether it was at all to be expected that country members of Mechanics' Institutions would subscribe their money to establish a permanent lectureship for the benefit of their institution. It was a painful subject, but it was a fact that their institution was rapidly decaying —that was seen in the library, nay, throughout the whole establishment. Would it not, then, be a mere mockery to give a testimonial to the Doctor, while, if the present decay went on, even he might see its downfal ? Let them remember the advice of the Doctor only a short time ago—" Be just before you are generous." Mr. TRAICE thought the worthy member had answered himself, for with their institution falling, into decay, as he stated, would the country institutions come forward to their aid ? Would they not say the institution was badly managed, for the building debt had been re d uce d at the time when they , flourished in a manner beyond any other institution in the country. . Such an appeal would be most ridiculous. In his opinion the establish ment of a lectureship Would be a great benefit to the community, and a splendid testimonial to a great bene factor of mankind, who was now in the evening of his days. Let them bear all these things in mind, and cease squabbling. Whatever would do a great good in ame liorating the condition of mankind by instructing the mind, would prove a source of much satisfaction to Dr. Birkbeck. Mr. SOUTHGATE had thought, after what had taken place atithe last meeting, that they would not have heard again of the mushroom plan that had been proposed by the Committee. He thought that the speeches that had been made in favour of the resolution had been so under a misapprehension; and, for his own part, he could not but think that those who had the benefit of the institu tion at heart would most heartily support the amend ment that had been made. It was his firm belief that the plan proposed by the amendment was more in con sonance with the feelings of Dr. Birkbeck than any other. —(Cheers.) Mr. Shrunpsen had said that paying off the building debt would be like saying to Dr:. Birkbeck t h at theyhad done with him.—(Hear.)Now, for his own part, he could not see it in that light. It might be all very well for those who did not wish to pay their debts to say that, but it was widely different with those who did.— (Hear, hear.) lie thought that the pet plan of the Committee, namely, that of appointing a perambulatory ' lectitTeship was absurd, for the fact would be that that institution would have the benefit of the lecturer's ser vice once in about 70 years.—(Laughter.) He believed that by adopting the proposition contained in the amend ment they would render the institution permanent, and raise one of the most enduring monuments to Dr. Birk beck that could be conceived:—(Cheers.) When the building debt was paid off, the income of the institution would be considerably increased, and it would then be come, what it had not hitherto been, worthy of its ex cellent and benevolent founder.(Cheers.) oft Mr. °elixir. thought the proposition for payingthat the building debt was a most excellent one, and othneou thought that would do all in his power to effect, but he at the pre sent that proposition came most unapprop Y sent time. They were met there to offer r uld that object testimo nial to Dr. Birklieck, and he would ask,e? _ _ riatesiorine be effected by paying off their building debt r The sub scription for the great object could for one moment be be general, it was saidl; but they had in view was to of their debts? and as to would subscribe for the paym ent n the apathy that had been supposed that any other institution than the present the public, hewas afraid, be expec ted nblic to assist them in pay shown, there was little to they could not look to whom,;thcp frei from them. If, then, he would ask, were inn. the building debt, Why, to the members of that institu tion on ; g an t d he w m • supposed that they could raise posino• that they could raise that pounds ? And even sup ~ would ask, mark their gratitude to • ld that, he wet SUM, would Dr. Birkbeck ? Certainly not. as sel i v t es te - A G EN TLEMAN, who spoke from the body of the 1 t h ea tre, and whose name we w ere unable to get, said most impracticable . He was most decidedly opposed to he did not know which of the plans proposed was the en dowment. any t wit h respect o the Gresham Lectures, when the Let them look at the course pursued Royal doingburned down, and the lecturers out of theirduty, until the City tried to sneak if toperform it faithfully, Trustees compelled them, not .. Exchange was at least to go through the form of doing it. Mr. Toeo said that he agreed with the last speaker that the greatest.curSe that could be inflicted upoitedu cational systems was endowment. The inquiries insti tuted by Lord Brougham on this subject amply bore iz.fr - VENING SUN. 14* that fact out. But an endowment in the present ease was unadvisable—the same might be said likewise-tripther measures proposed. How could they appeal Ito ' , Otber institutions if they proposed applying them iAi . .ikoff debts due by their own institution, for it was ii. imagined the payment of . their debts could be re eft as a testimonial to Dr: Birkbeck? What he (Air. ago) I proposed would be, that the Committee should submit three or four suggestions to the Doctor, and allow him to choose that which met his approbation. Mr. KNox said, as a member of the Westminster Me chanics' Institution, he should protest against any reso lution emanating from that meeting being considered as a resolution on the part of the public. If the proposed amendment was carried, he trusted they would include the Westminster Institution, which was one of the largest in the metropolis, and founded under the immediate aus pices of Dr. Birkbeck himself. He considered the best plan to adopt would be to appoint a Provisional Com mittee, which should be prepared to propose some plan to be discussed at a general meeting, where all the branch institutions would be fairly represented. A resolution to the effect, that a number of gentlemen connected with the parent institution, and two gentlemen from the other metropolitan or provincial bodies, willing to act, be likewise added, having been passed, after along and desultory conversation, a vote of thanks was 'pro posed and passed unanimously to the Chairman, and the meeting separated shortly before twelve o'clock. • ACCIDENT RELIEF SOCIETY` Yesterday the friends of this Society, which was esta blished for the purpose of giving immediate relief to the families of poor persons who meet with accidents, twenty five thousand of which are said to occur annually in the metropolis, met at the London Tavern, Mr. J. Labou chere in the chair. Mr. LABOUCHERE' having stated the object of the In stitution, and that it had a strong claim upon the policy as well as the humanity of the country, called upon the public to aid their funds. The Society. had, he said; pre vented numbers of poor and afflicted families from going into the workhouse and submitting to the most painful privations. The benefits which it conferred extended to the patients who lay in. the hospitals, by setting their minds at ease (a great auxiliary to the prescription of the medical attendant) by the conviction that their wives and children received such care ancicomfort in their una voidable absence.—(Cheers.) Mr. F. SALMON, the distinguished originator of_ the Charter-house-square Infirmary for the cure of fistulous diseases, moved that the Report, of which the follow ing- is an abstract, should be adopted : The income of this Society is nearly double the amount received last year, and the increase would have been still more but for an impression amongst fnanv that this Society was an auxiliary to the hospitals, and that these establishments being so numerous and so libe rally supported did not require so much additional assist ance. The relief is given in the following way :—Each member of the Committee is supplied with a printed check book, from which he issues orders to res p ec t a bl e tradesmen for bread and meat, coals and potatoes. In this way during the past year the Committee gave away to many truly deserving families 3,320i1bs of meat, 3,39.0 loaves of bread, '1,250 cwt. of coals, 17,500 lbs. of potatoes. In all the case?, in which relief has been given, not one has been known during the past year in which any party relieved by the Committee sold their food for any need less or injurious article. As to the necessity for an In stitution the Committee pointed to the 'fact that, owing to' the increase of the population, the Lite of machinery, and other causes, upwards of 30,000 accidents annually occurred in the metropolis. The Committee submitted that the operation of other charities applied . to those un used to poverty, rather than otherwise, to keep them from seeking refuge in one of those receptacles of misery where the most important distinctions are. lost in one great mass of wretchedness, and where the industrious, the honest, and the virtuous are at once reduced to' a level with the idle and the profligate. But the Com mittee had to do with those who would rather work than beg, and they referred with confidesce to the plans of the Institution as a guarantee against imposition and misappropriation. A great number of cases, which strongly proved the admirable effects of the Society, being then detailed, the dreadful recital of the accidents, the extensive and immediate application of relief through the Committee and Secretary of this admirable Institu tion, the:gt, -atitude of those who received relief, and the description of the feelings of the patients upon learning that their families were kept from the workhouse, and only waited their cure to be in perfect happiness agected most:of the noble-hearted friends of the Society. The Report was seconded by Mr. Walton, in an able speech, and was agreed to amidst acclamation, each member pledging himself to the most active exertions in forwarding its glorious objects. The Rev. Mr. Price and others also spoke in praise Of the Institution4and thanks being voted to•the'Chairman, the meeting separated. BLOCK PRINTING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE , SIR,—I have read in The Sun of last evening a statement, extracted from the Glasgow Herald, in which a description is given of various improvements, so styled, in the method of block printing. These kind of notices, at a time when the operatives are already but half. grip. played, are. calculated to inflict still more serious injury on their interests, and can only contribute to the 're sources of those hideous monopolies that are already spreading desolation and destruction throughout the length and breadth of the land, and threatening every industrious workman with immediate distress and desti- tution. The grasping avaridowness of these machinery masters is most notoriously evident in the fact, that they never could, they never can, produce anything in qua lity which approaches the perfection of hand block print ing. Till dead matter hath, the superiority over living intelligence, it is not possible. This selfishnesss is still more apparent in the fact, that the average cost of pro duction is pretty well equal, and this is explained more fully by considering the enormous waste of materials, the expensive nature of the machinery, mid the waggon loads of machined rubbish that are daily returned on the manufacturers' hands as utterly useless, not only ex hibiting the absurdity of the competition, but its equally futile pretension to superiority, and its eventual ten dency tb the ruin both of employers and those whose employ it, supersedes. With regar d t o t h e S cotc h Editor's statement as to the equality between the French and English workman in manual dexterity, I will hereby stake the produce of six months' labour, that myself and anotheiEnglishman shall come and do more work in the time, and do it as well, as any four Frenchmen in France. . Sir, in conclusion, as we know you for the unflinch ing advocate of the poor man, I have sent you a sample of hand-made paper-hangings, and the price we can make it at, and I beg to ask you thus publicly, if you think any machinery can compete with it even in price. Your obliged, obedient servant, A HARD-FISTED OPERATIVE PAPER- July 31, 1841. STAINER. [We have receive(' the sample of hand-made paper, and taking into account the low price and the beauty of the workmanship, it certainly is a wonderful produc tion. At a little distance it does not:appear at all in ferior to paper that is sold at a shilling, while this costs only pne penny a yard.--ED. Sun.) A M eeting of fifty free-traders took place at Farnworth a few days since. Mr. Rawsthorne, one of the speakers, observed:—Sir Robert Peel would be like Goliah, " glorying in his strength," but David was coming with a big loaf in his sling, and then Sir Robert would he sure to fall.—(Laughter.) He was certain that if they had the women round them instead of .the men, they would have had their requests granted long since; for though it was said that man was the head of the howl:, yet if so, woman was the neck, and the neck could turn, the head which way it liked. An engraver, who had produced several prints of acknowledged merit, committed suicide a few days LIO from a cause which shows that his strength of mind ,was by no means equal to his talent. Having prepared IMO, new plates in aqua-tint, he was so hiCLIS iblyaacted_V: their not coming out with the force and beauty he -bad anticipated, that he shot himself, and thus, at the early age of forty years, terminated a career which gave every:, promise of being brilliant. soaper}•, in Leeds-street,; Barry, who worked at Moore 's FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last ThoOte heavyth an't:la;crolurd.ing v‘ th .as e m as e s n is w tin en g t its side, another said it stood on one entt - to one, was on Barry was, it fell over upon him, and crushed him severely, accident it with two others, steadying it, when by some saTaeyrntoengetot remove r m o o ll v e e r . a ; p he died o FELTED CLOTH FILTER.—A person at Brus- He wads cnieddlaiyo,mifies,La_ndListuergrpiocoail Albion. FELTED procured, but i s t u s r r P e a p s o s, rte in d the simplicity construction, and in to has )l-cn ted of a its lilter, which notice. The filter consists of two pieces of felted cloth, effects, most of those hitherto brought under public several inches thick, between which a laver of poWderee Brus sels charcoal is placed. This is the first application ; of thick felted cloth for the purpose of filtration, and it is pro bable that it will be thus extensively used. Filters 'tif this kind can be cleaned with the greatest ease.--Invvi= tors' Advocate. THE WILL OF THE LATE LUKE HANSARD; EsQ.—The will and codicils of Luke Graves • Han sard, Esq., late of Bedford-square, in the county of Middlesex, has just been proved in the Prerogative Court, Doctors' Commons, by the executors, Richard Ogle, Francis Rivington, and Thomas Varden. The personal property of the deceased has been sworn under the value of 80,000/. which is principally bequeathed to his children. Mr. Hansard was for many years printer to the House of Commons. WHICH IS THE WORST?—When the late Lord Clive was a boy, and once walking with a schoolfellow through Drayton market, the two lads stopped to look at a butcher killing a calf. " Dear me, Bobby," says the lad, " I would not be a butcher for all the world." ". Why, I should not much like it," said Clive.; "it's a dirty, beggarly business ; but I'd a plaguy deal rather be a butcher than a calf 1" When peaches and nectarines are about half ripe cover the side exposed to the sun with strips or specks of wax, in any desired shape or form, which hin ders the sun from colouring the parts covered ; and, when the fruit is ripe, and the wax removed, it will be found, marked in the manner described. _ MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE IN AjERICA.-A letter from Philadelphia, dated July 8, says :—"'l informed by a person, just from the foot of Arch-street, on the Schuylkill, that a person fishing there this morn ing caught his hook in the dress of a woman, and in drawing it to the shore was horror struck to find it to be - a young and lovely girl, not over nineteen, fast tied to the arm of a young genteelly dressed man ! They had resolved to die united by a silken handkerchief, probably because they could not live in th e s ilk en b onds of matri mony. On searching their p ersons no marks of violence were discovered i , nor wa s any one present able to iden tify Ahem, but n the pocket of each was found a loaded pistol. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1841. IT CHARLOTTE JONES or BARNARD MAXWELL, who, on the 13th October, 1840, signed their names as Witnesses to a Codicil to the Will of ELIZA BETH PUDNER, deceased, late of No. 29, South-street, Manchester-square, will apply to Mr. Boydell, No. 28, De vonshire-street, Queen-square, Bloomsbury, they will be re warded for their trouble.—Angust 4, 1841. NATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY FOR GRANTING LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c. No. 243. CORNHILL. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. EIRECTORS. T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. J. Elliotson, F.R.S. I John Rawson, Esq. John Griffith Frith, Esq. Jehn Riddell Stodart, En. Hunter Gorden, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq. George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. j Professor Graves, A.M. F.R. S. ACTUARY—W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F. R. A. S SOLICITORS—Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Ewens, and Omman- ney, 6, Basinghall-street. LIFE ASSURANCE. Besides the perfect security to the policy holder of a large paid up capital, and accumulating funds, the following is one amongst many of the advantages which belong exclusively to the principles of Life Assurance and Deferred Annuities ori ginated by t Society, viz.—Power to borrow (without de lay, expense, er forfeiture) Two-thirds of all premiums paid upon a Policy of Assurance. The annexed is a short Table, showing the Annual Premium for assuring ZlOO on the Whole Life, or for a Term : FOR LIFE. A. B. Age. Without With For One For Five Profits. Profits. Year only. Years only s. d. Z. s. d. Z. s. d. Z. s. d. 20 113 7 117 4 017 0 017 6 SO 24 4 29 3 019 6 1 0 0 40 216 ; 35 3 1 310 11 0 50 44 2 413 6 113 0 116 6 60 613 6 78 4 ' 30 0 39 6 Two-thirds of Profits divided annually amongst the Assured. Two-thirds of Profits divided ann DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT. By the plan exclusively developed by this Society, a single Deferreal Annuity is made, not only to answer the same object, but to far exceed in amount the entire benefit of all the ad vantages heretofore only obtained by the middle and industrious classes through separate investments in Savings' Banks, Be nefit Societies, and Loan Banks. 1. A small yearly er weekly contribution will secure the most ample return far after life; thus-21. 12s. per annum (Is. a week) at the age of 20, will give the policy holder the fol lowing option, at the age of 65 Annuity for remainder of life £47 16 6 Cask Policy, without further contributions, of 466 0 oat death. Other periods of life (of 50, 55, and 60) may be also taken with similar advantages. 2. Two-thirds at any time lent en deposit of policy, being a fund always available during sickness or want of employment. S. Two-thirds of all payments returned to representatives in case of premature death. N.B. Policies, as collateral money-security, for periods of one t• five years, effected at lower rates than are charged by any other Office, (See Tables A. and B.), with option of con tinuance for Life at the usual rates. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec. BRANDY. —For Preserved Fruits, for British Wines, or for a Summer Beverage. as a substitute for malt or other fermentable liquors, BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY stands, as ever, unequalled and without a rival; none other having the slightest pretension to approach it, in either purity of quality or wholesome properties. Price, pale or coloured, 18s. per gallon. May be had at the Distillery, 7. Smithfield-bars, loading to St. John-street; or from the appointed Agents throughout the Kingdom. WILKINSON'S PAI A NT NTI - CORROSION REMOVED from 63, Upper Thames-street, to 54, WATLING-STREET, near Queen-street, Cheapside. J. R. WILKINSON particularly recommends his Paint to the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, wbe wish to paint their houses of Roman cement, stucco, sr brick walle t as a preven tive to damp or sea sprit, in exposed situations; it will not blister or peel off as common paint. On tiling, to represent slating, iron hurdles, roofs, conservatories, hot-houses, fences, farm, or any out-buildings, it will last four times as long as lommon paint. It is so simple in its use, that any labourer can lay it on. To ship-owners for their decks, bottoms of ves sels, &c., it will be shown, as well as to the public, to be supe rior to any paint in use, by testimonials of its lasting fourteen years on wood and houses, twenty years on iron (see the South wark-bridge); The public are particularly guarded in giving their orders for Wilkinson's Anti-Corrosion Paint, that no ether colour may be imposed upon them for his. A liberal allowance to the trade. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE COUNTRY. (Abridged from a long, gloomy article in the Spectator.) " Distress" is a.word often and easily used without evidence of its existence ; nor can evidence readily be adduced, since no individual has sufficient knowledge of facts to pronounce upon national distress. But on this o?casion we have the strongest reasons for believing that very great and general distress does exist in the country ; that millions are subjected to hardships' and privations, the nature of which many of our readers cannot even imagine ; and that number s of persons through out the entire trading body cannot live upon their income, but must encroach upon their capital, if they have any, and if not, must run into debt. Nor is this surprising. Not to mention the high price of thq secondary necessaries, sugar, Vic., we have had for some years past a succession of bad harvests, almost doublingthe price of corn, com pelling the poor to do without many things, and to stint themselves in all to procure bread, without being always able to obtain even it in sufficient quantity. This limitation of the general means of purchasing among the millions, to almost one article. must have affected the dealers in every other commodity they usually consume, and distressed those trades : the e xportation of gold.-fur ther deranged the whole commercial system, and brought many to .bankruptcy : the " little wars" that have been waged, or are waging in Canada, South America, Syria, and China, lessened, as Sir Robert Peel truly observed, the demand for our goods in those markets : at home , the unsettled state of politics, couplei with the operation of the other cause's, limited the luxurious expenditure of the upper classes ; and from the : -action and reaction of all these circumstances, the existence of distress might be theoretically pronounced. The deficiency in the revenue is a direct difficulty, whicji must be grappled with ;`,for it is the point which brought on the battle with the Whigs, and it is in reality the ground on which they intend to base their future operations. If Sir Robert Peel would resort to temporary evasions, they will not permit him ; and the deficiency he has to deal with may be rated at nearly three millions—it may possibly approach four millions. This the Whigs may point-blank deny'; the Tories will hope against hope : here are the data. Mr. Baring in his Budget estimated the actual deficiency at 2,400,0001. : but part of his statement was fOunded on a confessedly conjectural account of the EaSt India Company as to the expenses of the China war ; the actual cost of which, at the time spoken of, would probably raise the deficiency nearer to three millions than to any other figure, besides the additional expenses which may yet become necessary. Since then the revenue has gone on declining : sugar, whose consumption the Tories in the Budget debate reckoned would increase, exhibits a decline of 580 , 0001 . on the year ending in July. Should the harvest be plen tiful, the pressure of the public distress will be lessened, and some stimulus will be given to consumption : on the other hand, corn, which last year yielded nearly 1,200,0001., will produce much less. Should the harvest fail, the general prospect will be towering enough ; but the importations may still not yield as much revenue as last year. The Corn-law averages would be "avorked," and the bulk of the imports pushed in at the shilling duty. Sir Robert Peel may therefore, we repeat, make up his mind to deal with a deficiency of some three mil lions, which a series of unlucky circumstances may carry on towards four millions. How can he meet it ? The chatterers of his party went about saying he would reimpose the postage duties; the Whigs could desire nothing better. The attempt would excite one-half of the country and unite the Op position to a man. The Tory Members for London, Liverpool, and Leeds, with some other commercial towns, must gather under their banner ; other Members would probably absent themselves ; and it is possible the Con servative Premier would be defeated. But if he managed to force the odious measure through the House, what would it give him ? One million; nay, not that, for the expenses of the Post-office have increased by nearly 200,000/., and could not immediately be re duced. If he try to reimpose the House-duty, there is the same risk of defeat, and the same deficiency in the results ; for dear postage and the eld house duty both together would yield little more than two millions, being short by one-third of the sum he requires ; and every Opposition speech would contain the assertion that the Whig Free Trade Budget would have rendered ne taxes needless. What fiscal ingenuity may devise to take money pleasantly out of people's pockets, we do not know ; we can see but two modes of supplying the defi ciency of the revenue,—a property-tax, with the revision of the Tariff; a revision of the Tariff, broad, bold, but well-considered in itself, and considerate towards exist ing interests, with the reserve of a property-tax should it not succeed in making up the deficiency after a few years' trial. For, pledged as Sir Robert Peel is to protection and the sliding-scale, he cannot deal with many duties as matters of revenue only ; and the criti cal state of our West Indian colonies, with tke nascent speculations in, India,,calligence by, an_gct of tardy justice in equalising ireOuties on their commo dities, prevent him from realising all the revenue that could be raised if we threw our colonies and India over board, and admitted every article from every place at one uniform rate. To effect a masterly reform of our tariff, with a due regard to fair dealing and the interest of all parties, is a matter requiring great practical information, and much consideration on each item ; but there are cer tain broad principles to be steadily kept in view. There should be— 1. Duties for revenue, not for mere taxing—none of those petty taxes which cause useless expense in the col lection, great trouble and inconvenience to the importers, very often enhancing the price of materials to the ma nufacturer, and taking money from the trading classes without any public gain. According to Mr. Porter's evidence before the Committee on Import Duties, 46 ar ticles produced 22,598,0001. out of a revenue of 22,960,000/., the other 36 9 ,000/. being drawn from 1,100 articles, some yielding nothing, and 147 yielding, so to speak, a loss ; 5,398/. of drawback being repaid over and above the duty they produced. All these minor articles should be subject to a careful revision, to abolish the duty on all but those which cogent circumstances re quire to be retained. 2. No prohibitions and no encouragement to anything but the general industry of the country. Many agricultural productions are now prohibited by express law—they are forfeited if imported, whilst corn till at nearly famine prices is subjected to a prohibitive duty : many foreign colonial commodities, and some manufactures, are sub ject to so high a tax as to be practically prohibited. All articles of this class must be revised, and a fair rate of duty impoSed. 3. Raw materials should be admitted duty-free wherever it is possible without a considerable sacrifice of revenue. 4. The Colonial trade should be placed upon the footing of a coasting trade, and all articles admitted duty-free, so far as our financial necessities will permit. 5. A bold and well-considered reduction of duties should be effected where there is a well-grounded proba bility of an equal or an increased revenue—as in wine, brandy, sugar, timber, &c. 6. If, after two or three years' trial and the practice of a rigid economy, the income should still continue below the expenditure, recourse must be had to a Property-iax. In dealing with these financialquestions, we believe the country—that is, the majority of all classes apart from mere partisans—are prepared to accept of a fair offer, and do not expect impossibilities. They do not expect Sir Robert Peel to come forward with a proposal for a per fectly free trade in corn ; or that the revenue is to rise to the required amount the moment his measures are propounded. Mere party'excitement, or agitation for political changes, has been so prostituted to factious uses, that the thing is worn out. What the country really de sires, is a Government that knows its business and will set about doing it—a Government that will attend to our economical condition, and give free play to the industry of the people and the enterprise of the capitalist. If Sir Robert Peel shall grapple thoroughly and fairly with the great question of Import-duties, the country will not contend for trifles, and . will be perfectly willing to give him time to await the result of his measures. If, however, he shall attempt to evade, the subject of Tariff-revision, or be so ill-advised as to peddle with it—to pro duce a measure which fails to satisfy by the breadth of its general plan and by the considerate skill of its de tails—he and his party are lost. We do not say that he will be immediately driven from office ; his numbers are too strong, and the leaders of the party opposed to him are too much distrusted for that. But, his Government will become a weak Government ; the country will shrink from him with disappointment ; his followers will have no confidence in him even whilst he deems that he is lending himself to their purposes ; and his opponents will be emboldened to attack him with pertinacity and lower him by contempt. We are not alarmists, or prone to panic terrors ; but we see that the country is verging to a critical state, when much depends upon treatment whether it shall fall into a financial decline or recover for an indefinite period, Many taxes cannot be imposed, and many, if imposed, would share the fate of Mr. Baring's per centages, and yield about half of their estimated amount. It cannot be too often repeated, that the only measures which pro mise to meet the difficulty are a property-tax or a revision of the imports. Votes of credit, loans, petty schemes of this and that, with all the arts of brokering financiers, will be useless, whether they be tried by Sir Robert Peel or by his successors some years hence —for if he will not grant those measures now, we see no chance, for some years, of a Ministry strong enough in numerical force and popular s ympathies to overcome the Lords. In -being will come a r i e ci v ain en wl u a e eir , gl together with a growing the mean time, wings its way from the countr y , leaving behindiscredit propagates itself ; cap ital it the artisans it had called into with hng every declinefurthercongregated (olefc on our re togetherieneeoituorteconomical financial embarrassment. And whether it be that finan cial embarrassment is by itself a sufficient cause of na tional decline o r as we apprehend, financial embarrass ment is merely a symptom of oppressive exaction, or of national old age —indicating excess of luxury, the ex tremes of great wealt h and sufferin g poverty, with all out lets for enterprise or industr y blocked up — pecuniary dis order, whatever its sha p e, has been th e forerunner of na tional decay or na tional convulsion. u are noted by L ucan among t h e The " its alien= p fewnt e a r , n u ee l i t. s tetras was one of th e th ree re li ances o f i s s: ingens fides, are vorax, avidu mq u e ity tumpore' c " seeds" of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey. Financial pressure brought on the decay of Venice, and the decline of Dutch greatness; the pecuniary difficulties of Charles the First was a proximate cause of the Great _ Rebellion; Louis the Sixteenth and the noblesse of the old regime might have gone on in despite of their effemi nate profligacy and corruption, but for " the excess of expenditure over income;" and economical suffering, per ceived by Wellington at the beginning of his cam paigns and the reason of his steadfast fortitude, was at the bottom of Napoleon's downfal. But, as our system is unexampled in its magnitude and ramifications, so it is proportionably liable to sudden destruction. Any cause, whether real or imaginary - , which should shake credit, would bring on a financial crisis of the most tremendous kind. An internal run, whether from prudent apprehension or from panic fear—whether with or without a foreign drain for gold—could bring the Bank to bankruptcy in a week. A man might take a fortnight's voyage in his yacht, and find on his return all payment of taxes, rent, and dcbts suspended, and no dealings going on but for necessaries with the money in hand. The imagination fails to conceive the condition of such a reign of terror. In most previous national convulsions, the luxurious classes were few in number and mixed up in the strife ; the masses were either kept down by force or left in peace to raise their food. When a district was devastated by military li cence, its scattered population were destroyed or driven away, but in otherplaces production of some sort went on, enough to supply the inhabitants of the few towns to Whom ancient proscription or modern denunciation left little deSire for luxuries. But who can paint the terrors of a time in which the crowded population of our nume rous cities should be without a market for their work, and consequently without the Means of subsistence ! Ra venous with hunger--,told, as they are even now told, to trace all their sufferings to the coming Government — what could be done ? To feed them, as the Emperors fed the populace - of Rome, would be impossible ; equally impossible to preserve order by our small military force ; and though we have great trust in the manliness and ge nerosity of the national character, however coarse its'ex ternals, yet if hunger and anger united should stir men to put off their humanity, we believe the sufferings of the country would be as unexampled as its prosperity and power. We are not speaking of such occurrences as likely ; but there are elements in our social condition to make them at all events possible. The best mode of preventing even their possibility, is to lose no time in restoring our finances to a sound state, and placing our economical system in a healthy condition. REGIST I{2..TIONS. TO BOROUGH AND CITY ELECTORS. The next General Election (should there be ore rithia 15 months) virtually commenced on Sunday, that being the day on which the Overseers published the list of voters for the ensuing year. Every Reformer, should, therefore, attend to the fol !owing instructions :-Ist. He should see that the Over seers publish their lists on all the Churches and Chapel doors on the Bth of August, their wilfully neglecting to do so rendering them liable to a penalty of 5001. 2dly. He should examine those lists on next Sunday, at he residence of an Overseer any day before the 15th of August, which any person may do without the payment of any fee. He should see that his name, qua lification, and place are correctly described, and having ascertained if the names of any persons, who be believes to be entitled to be on such list, have been omitted, he should induce them to claim to be registered on or before the 25th of August ; for this purpose the Reform Act prescribes a form of claim which should be adopted, viz. A CLAIM TO BE REGISTERED: To the Overseers of the Parish of I hereby give you notice that I claim to have my name inserted in the List made by you of persons en titled, under the Reform Act, to Vote in the Election of a Member (or Members) for the City (or Borough) of , and that my qualification consists of a at No. in . in your Parish. Dated this day of 1841. (Signed) of Insert the name of the parish, and the nature of the premises, as house, warehouse, counting-house, shop, workshop, stable, shed, or as the case may be, and the name of the street, court, &c. •, put in the date, and sign the names of the claimant, and his place of abode, at full length. If a scot and lot voter, instead of the words under the Reform Act," insert " In respect of the Scot and Lot Franchise." On or before the 25th August, give this claim to an overseer, and afterwards attend before the Revising Bar ristors, who hold their Courts between the 15th Sep tember and the 25th October. A correct copy of this claim should be kept, and the party who serves the claim should immediately write on the copy to whom the claim was delivered, and the day of the month and year. He should then copy from the Overseer's list the names of any political opponent that he believes not be be entitled to a vote ; and, should he be disinclined to take the trouble consequent upon objecting himself, ho should forward his information to a Reform or Regis tration Society, if there be one in that borough or city, or to some active Reformer residing therein,—as it is necessary that the objector, or some one on his behalf, should appear in the Revising Barrister's Court to sup port the objection, though the proof of qualification will fall on the person objected to. The following are grounds of disqualification, viz.:- Ist. Not having been in occupation of the premises for 12 months previously to the Ist of July. 2d, Not occupying as tenant, but only as director, se cretary-, clerk, servant, &c. 3d. Premises not being worth 10/. per year ; or, if described as a house, not having control over a separate door. This is not necessary for any other premises, as " shop, warehouse, counting-house, &c. 4th. Not being rated, or not having claimed to be rated, to all poors-rates made since July 31, 1840. sth. Non-payment, on or before the 20th of July, of window-tax (if assessed) due before the Gth of April, or of the poors-rates which have been demanded per sonally, or by a notice left at the premises, before the 6th of April. Gth. Not having resided (slept) within seven miles, since the 31st of January last. 7th. If in partnership, not having been so twelve months before the 31st of July, or premises not giving 10/. for each. Bth. If an alien, infant, idiot, or lunatic, officers of excise, customs, stamps, post-office, assessed taxes (if appointed by Assessed-tax Commissioners), or new po lice, pauper, or if convicted of bribery, felony, &c. The following notice of objection can only be signed by a person whose name is on the overseer's list, and must be delivered to an overseer on or before the 25th of August : NOTICE OF OBJECTION. To the Overseers of the parish of I hereby give you notice that I object to the name of being retained in the list of persons entitled, under the Reform Act, to vote in the election of a Member, (or Members), for the city (or borough) of ; and that I shall bring forward such objection at the time of the revising of such list. Dated the day of August, in the year 1841. (Signed) THE REGISTRY. ELECTORS—See that you are registered. The over seers are bound to place the lists of voters on the church doors on Sunday, August 8. COUNTY ELECTORS—Look at the county list. Note the name of every man you know to be dead, to have lost or sold his qualification, and mark especially the fudged votes of the farmers' sons, and of the men without legal qualification. If you are on the list for the county give notice of objection to the party and to the overseers on or before August 25. If you aro not on asy, list your self, find some friend to give the notices. BOROUGH' ELEctons.—Examine the list of: voters for your borough ; see that your own name is inserted cor rectly ; if it is not, give a written notice of claim to the, overseers on or before August 25. See what bad votes are in the list, and give a written notice of objection to the overseers on or efore August 25. WHAT IS CONSERVATISM ? What is Conservatism, is a question which the Times has endeavoured to solve in several long articles. The hoinely proverb says, much too hardily, it now it appears, " You cannot make a silk purse of a sow's ear ;" but you may call a sow's ear a silk purse, and then you may set about explaining the qualities and uses of a silk purse, and wherein it differs from the peculiarities of a sow's ear ; but no matter how long or how learnedly you lecture to such effect, the thing in your hand will retain its unalterable characteristics, and remain, not a silk purse, but the old original sow's car. Toryism is not what Toryism was. True, but that does not prove that it has become the Conservatism -de scribed by the Times, combining the improvement of what is defective with the preservation of all that is sound in laws and institutions. The sow's ear severed from the head of the most unclean and stubborn of crea tures is not what it was, the organ of a pig's hearing, but the fact does not advance the argument that its bristles have been changed to silk. The Times asserts that the change of name suffices to show the change of things ; but the Times might at the Old Bailey have learnt he fallacy of such an inference, there being a class of persons who change their names because the hands of justice into which they fall are apt to dirty hem. According to Sir Robert Peel's definition of Conser vatism, which The Times accepts, Conservatism seems to us to be merely a longer word for Toryism after the Reform Bill. It is Toryism with a new start—Toryism with a new departure, in nautical phrase. It is pretended that there is this difference between old Toryism and New Conservatism, that the Conserva tives are no friends of abuses, and are prepared to adopt changes which the altered state of society may require. And is it conceivable that any men could make any other professions ? Could they avow themselves attached to abuses ? Could they proclaim a fixed hostility to the changes which the advances of society render necessary? Could they avow the settled purpose to resist improve ment in every form? Could they declare that all exist ing defects in laws and institutions should be held by them sacred and immutable? Imagine Sir Robert Peel in a Tarnworth address avowing that he was the founder of a party determined to maintain the vices as well as the sound parts of ..our laws and institutions, and firmly resolved to resist such changes as the altered circum stances of society may require. There have been Tories who have acted on such a rule, but there never was one, and never will be one, frank enough to make the confession. They can say nothing but what they do say, that where they find -abuses they will consent to reform.; but - the reinarkable - fiterlirtitatJhis Con servative party, in the eleventh year of its age, has never yet made the :discovery of an abuse in institutions. It pretends that it differs from old Toryism, inasmuch as it has the perception of what the altered circumstances of society require, but in what single instance has it sig nalized its possession of this new faculty, every change effected within the last ten years having been extorted from it after a strenuous . opposition, with the one excep tion, indeed, of the Poor-law, as to which the party was, and is divided, some, with Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of 'Wellington, recognizing in it a change required by circumstances, and others opposing it as an innovation, despotic and unconstitutional in principle, and unjust and cruel in its operation. Now it is for the Times to explain which of these two divisions are the true Conser vatives, and which the old Tories. The Poor-law is the best test to distinguish the men of the new light from the men of the old Tory blindness, because it is the only change since the Reforin Bill in which the leaders of. the Conservative party have concurred and cordially co-ope rated. Are then the Stanhopes, Newcastles, and Win chasms, the Stephenses and Oastlers, the true Conser vatives, or the Wellingtons and Peels ? Sir Robert Peel stands on two legs, and the Times conjures him, for the better security of his footing, to stand upon one, and to cut off the other.and cast it from him ; but which is it to be ? which is the right leg, which the left, of his party ? He has shuffled in Ins present position by putting forth sometimes the one,. sometimes the other. Which limb of the party is to be amputated, the forward or the backward, the violent or I,he moderate ? Sir Robert Peel is in the predicament of the .11Ialade Imaginaire, advised by his mock doctor to pluck out one of his eyes to improve the sight of the other, and to part with his left arm for the invigoration of the right. He is told that he must , adopt the . principles of the party which has raised him to power ; but he has beea raised. by Lord Roden and the Duke of Newcastle, as well as Ickyirieri Who dread their intemperance, and feel ashamed of their bigotry ; and he has been raised b) the Duke of Buckingham, with his agricultural mania, as well as by persons who are not prepared to consent to a complete sacrifice of the commercial to the mistaken landed inte rest. Both have elevated Sir Robert Peel to his position, and *hick is he to throw down, in token of his adopted policy ? The Times tells him that he can afford a rupture, in words which seem to us to have the import of—" So much for Buckingham." The most difficult task for Sir Robert Peel, if lie strictly follow the advice of the Times, will be the politi cal regeneration required of himself. Sir Robert Peel is, in fact, not to be Sir Robert Peel. The Sir Robert Peel of 1841 is to be the opposite in conduct of the Sir Robert Peel of 1829. He must renounce himself, and all his shifts. The Times, an excellent teacher of such things, plainly tells him that he must become a man of principle and consistency. Principle and expediency are, henceforth, according to the same authority, to have their separate provinces in the Tory policy, that is to say, there will be no principle in their expediencies, and no expediency , in their princi ples. Sir Robert Peel's Government is to act on inexpe dient principles, and unprinCipled expedients. By the . latter the commercial and fiscal policy is to be conducted. —Examiner. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD . , JULY 31.—H. Smith, of Oriel College, has been admitted a demy of Magdalen College, on the Lin colnshire foundation, and the Rev. J. B. Mosley. R. D. Burrell Rawnsley, and J. E. Welby have been admitted Fellows on the same foundation. The Dean and Chapter of Durham have presented the Rev. H. Chaytor, of St. Mary Hall, to the perpetual cu stacy of Croxdale, Durham. The Lord Bishop of Chester :has presented the Rev. G. Levy, of Queen's College, to the perpetual curacy of Emmanuel Church, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire. W. F. Lowndes Stone, Esq., has presented the Rev. G. Day, Student of Christ Church, to the rectory of Baldwell Brightwell, Oxfordshire. The Lord Bishop of Chichester has presented the Rev. S. Davies to the vicarage of Barnham, Sussex. The Lord Bishop of Winchester has presented the Rev. T. Patteson to the vicarage of Hambledon, Hampshire. The Duke of Rutland has presented the Rev. J. D. Hastings to the rectory of Trowbridge, Wiltshire. COLEURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST FOR AUGUST. EDITED BY THEODORE H ook, Esq.—TlllS Magazine should thrive, if eminent contributions can bring grist to a publisher's mill. The Editor, Hood, Mrs. Trollope, Blanchard, P oo l e, and Jerrold, are palpable pen-labourers at the vocation of the periodical, and there are clever anonymouS articles besides. The paper on " Screws," is par example, full of informing satire, and useful exposure, and there is no disputing the blended bitterness and wit of Mr. Jerrold's stinging i llustration of " The Manager in S earc h of a Star. We wish, in 'spite of our appreciation of the force of . his ridicule, that this author would write in a kindlier spirit. Poole is just as merry, and not half as morose, and his drollery you can eny with somethi ng like sly hilarity. By the way the "Pedestrian R am bl es in the Alps, in the present number of The New Monthly are very interesting.—Morning Post. THE MOON.—M. Atago, the celebrated astro nomer,Alle-been giving lectures . to crowded audiences on the nature of the moon. He contends that this planet is not an inhabited body, and that it is without any kind of vitality, either animal or vegetable. He denies also that it has either seas, rivers, or lakes, but admits that it has mountains and valleys, which, however, he says, are 1 of primitive formation. - rk ~t 7g %•. 17-`,7 4 • - kali °RTH MIDLAND RAILWAY. y E Noti ce is hereby given, that the TEN TH HALF of ;IRLy GENERAL MEETING of PROP RIETORS ti tile NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY will be held in PI, e rbY, in pursuance of the provisions_of the Act of Incorpora- PI, at the Railway-station, Derby, on THURSDAY, the 26th ''y of August next. The Chair to be taken at One o'Clock Precisely. GEORGE CARR GLYN, Chairman, lof the Board JAMES HUBBARD, Deuty-Chairman, f of Directors. HENRY PATTESON, Secretary to the Board. 'Offices, Warnford•court, Throgmorton-street, London, July 26, 1841. 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