The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

EVENING SUN. j ~, GREAT WES TERN RAILWAY. -y Ei , Notice is he rc by given, that the next HALF- co-FLY MEETING tif the PROPR IETORS of this ,„ ~,-•I'ANY will be h e ld, p ursua nt to the Act of Parliamen t, r*.gsrist o l, at t h e Bristol Station, on TAuasnAY, the 26th Au at, at Twelve o'Clock, or the general purposes of business. The Chair will be taken at Oro o'Clock precisely. CHARLES RUSSELL, Chairman. ROBERT BRIGHT, Deputy-Chairman. A lhe TRANSFER-BOOKS will be CLOSED on the 16th e e r rsi t, i. thd will . not be opened . until after the said Half-yearly aseetmg on the 26th: a , rue 123 p rov id es th a t no person shall be en titled to vote b e , Pr°xY unless th e i n strument appointing him shall have 4 transmitted to one of the Secretaries of the Company at "t five days before the meeting.—By Order, CHARLES A. SAUNDERS,t Secretaries. THOMAS OSLER ' 4:6ll way Offices, Princes-street, Bank, London; Railway Station, Bristol. IEtL AC KWALL RAILWAY. The RAILWAY TRAINS run from the NEW TER twxlNtrs st utain Fenchurch-street, and also from the Minories, zi tie . ell, Stepney, Limehouse, West India Docks, and Poplar tt , ' i l ° ts, f rom r the Blackwell Terminus, every quarter of be hour, Half-past Eight in the Morning till a Quarter ~Zra Ten a t Ni g ht ( excep t S un days during Divine Service) , "n 2 Half-past Ten to One. N Fares, First Class 6d. ; Second Class 4d. 8,,,,: 0 13 . --On Sundays the Trains will start from the Min ories n instead of Fenchurch-street. h street, Aug. '2, 1841. LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAIL• th W AY COMPANY.—Notice is hereby given, that TRANSFER BOOKS of this Company will be CLOSED o al MONDA Y , th e 9 t h i ns t. until MONDAY, the 16 th inst. , preparatory to the allotment of the new shares. 1 1 ,. i • " iMportant that all out-standing Transfers should be that in on for before the 9th inst. for regstration, in order ti, the allotment of the new shares may be r m ade to the par - Pl'operly entitled to them. By order of the Board, J. WARRINGTON, See. ur G % F h ch-strcet, August 2, BLACKWALL AND GRAVESEND. 1 ,, NEW FAST IRON STEAM BOAT S. The " RAILWAY " I The " BLACKWALL , " T, ,he " BRUNSWICK," , " FATHER TH AMES. ° An SONS OF THE THAMES," STEAM BOATS.. TIMES OF STARTING. 28011. ELACKWALt FROMGRAVESENP. l"nlin gt at 9 Morning, at 7 Town Pier past 9: I past 7 Terrace Pier • past 8 do. • past 11 do. Afternoon, past 12 do. 2 Town Pier ▪ past 2 Terrace Pier past 3 do. J. past 4 d.. _ Town Pier past 6 Terrace Pier past 7 do. N s, ••• past 10 N lt k f tetn Oon, It past 1 past 2 past 4 ' ••• mast past 6 Oast 8 I FARES. Week Days—Chief Cabin, Is. ; Fore Cabin, Bd. U Sundays—Chief Cabin, ls. 6d. ; Fore Cabin, Is. THE RAILWAY TRAINS als ofr "om the , e NEW TERMINUS , Fenchu rch-street, and °ln the AI ori Shadwell, Stepney, Limehouse, West ` ut Docks, and m Pop ' lar 'Stations, and from the Bl ackwall th e s —gi nis , every quarer of an hour, from half-past eight in m orning, till a quarter before ten at night' (except . on - N 44:14 1 . 3 dari ng Divine Service, viz. from . hal , .past ten till ens) Itoi,c, On SUNDAYS the Tra in s wasted from the Ml tg.S Station instead of Fenchurch-street. ...-:--I.:.—venchureh-street, Aug. 2, 18,11___ • ... NATIONAL LOAWFUND SOCIETY LIFE FOR GRANTING ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c. No. 26, CORNHILL. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. EIRECTORS. . J ' ,„.. T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. j . ,Liliotson, M.D., F.R. S. 1 John Rawson, Esq. Dtkl, G r iffithE N vi Frith, Esq. Jehn Riddell Stodart, Esq. a n ter Gordon, Esq. . Clement Tabor, Esq. e 'lrge Lunklei, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. l'roi e _ AUDITORS. nor Wheatstone, F. R. S. I Professor Graves, A.M. F.R.S. S QL , 4O Tuar —W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S 1° 1 14)&8 a —Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Ewens, and Omman- ney, 6, Baiinghall-street. LIFE ASSURANCE. p a i d ges the perfect security to the policy holder of a . large stn 4ri l T Capital, and accumulating funds, the following is one tie ten ,many of the advantages' which belong exclusively to Renate Mies of Life Assurance and Daferred Annuities l o by 't h. Society, viz.—Power to borrow (without tle uPot reen'e, or forfeiture) Two-thirds of a ll p remiums paid Policy of Assurance. fin' k nUeXed is a short Tale, showing the Annual Premium £lOO on the Whole Life, or for a Term FOR LIFE. 4 -''' I A. B. — ' e Without With For One For Five Profits. Profits. Year only. Ye ars only ....„...... ---- , X. s. d. X. s. d. X. s. d. X. s. d. 20 1 13 7 1 17 4 0 17 0 ( 17 6 30244293 0 19 6 1 0 0 40 2 11 1 S 5 3 1 3 10 1 0 50 4 4 2 413 6 , 1 13 0 1 16 6 60 613 6 7 8 4 ( 3 0 0 3 9 6 No) 15,264 MORNING SUN. WANTED to be forwarded by Post on the Eveninir, of Publication. Terms to be addressed to J. C., No. 10, Clarke's-buildings , East-street, Greenwich. ITNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE OF FICE, 1, KING WILLIAM-STREET, LONDON. DIRECTORS. Sir HENRY WILLOCK, K.L. S., Chairmarn. JOHN STEWART, Esq., M.P., Deputy Chairman. Col. Sir Richard Armstrong, . illiam Kilburn, Esq. C. 8., K. C. T. and S. Charles Otway Mayne, Esq. John Bagshaw, Esq. John Rogers, jun., Esq. Augustus Bosanquet, Esq. Robert Saunders, Esq. Chas. Dashwood Bruce; Esq. Jas. Duncan Thomson, Esq Ellis Watkin Cunliffe, Esq. Captain Samuel Thornton, Raikes Currie, Esq. M.P. R.N. AUDITORS—Robert Hichens, Esq.; Crawford Davison Kerr, Esq. ; Robert Gardner, Esq. Batirmus—Bank of England; and Messrs. Curries and Co. Souctroa—William Henry Cotterill, Esq. PHYSICIAN —George Burrows, M.D., 45, Queen Anne street. Actuator—David Jones, Esq. POLICIES ON THE Livgs OF PERSONS ABOUT TO PRO CEED TO, OR RESIDENT IN INDIA, either in a Civil or Mili tary capacity, may be effected at very moderate rates of pre mium, calculated from extensive data exclusively for the use of this Office. The Society has Committees established at Calcutta, Ma dras, and Bombay, where Assurances may be effected, and the premiums be made payable either in India or in Great Britain, as may be most convenient to the parties. The profits are declared in each y ear, on the second Wed nesday in May, on which date all those whose policies have been in existence five complete years, are entitled to partici pation therein. One-fifth of the ascertained profits of the five preceding years is divided between the lolicy-holders and shareholders ; three-fourths to the former, and one-fourth to the latter. The remaining four-fifths are set apart to enter into the average of the succeeding years, and thus to provide against unforeseen contingencies. 1 Messrs. Bagshaw and Co. , Calcutta. Agents in India Messrs. Hall, Bainbridge , a nd Co., Madras. ille s e • 1.4.: 4 .fr0 IllkwhaV. __, r&lskio , ,_ ~., — 3sy orderot the - Board,' DAVID JONES, Actuary. rIHE LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND DUBLIN GUARANTEED MUTUAL and PRO PRIETA RY LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 3, CHARLOTTE-ROW, MANSION HOUSE, and 19, REGENT-STREET, LONDON. 21, ST. ANDREW-STREET, EDINBURGH. And 64, FLEET-STREET, DUBLIN. DIRECTORS. Alexander Anderson, Esq. Kennett Kingsford, Esq. John Atkins, Esq . John M'Guffie, Esq. James Bidden, Esq. John Maclean Lee, Esq. Captain F. Brandreth J. Marmaduke Rosseter, Esq. Vice-Admiral Robert Honyman Alexander Robertson, Esq. , Benjamin Ifill, Esq. Managing Director. John Johnson, Esq., Alderman ' • SOLICITORS.--klessrs. Palmer, France , and Palmer. SECRETARY. — F. Edgell, Esq. IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS have been introduced into LIFE ASSURANCE PRACTICE by this COMPANY. The POLICIES.are INDEFEASIBLE and INDISPUT: ABLE, unless they have been obtained by fraudulent misre; presentation. The Beard of Directors satisfy themselves upon the va rious questions proposed before 'they enter into the contracts of assurance, and frame their policies in such terms as to pre clude all future questions as to their validity, and thus ren der them indisputable and negotiable aocuments of future debt against the Company. Parties may be assured either upon the participating or non participating plan ; the assured are relieved of all responsi bility, and the participating class is entitled to the whole of the profits upon that branch of the business. - • Table to Assure £lOO, with addition of profits Age 25. I Age 35.: I Age 40, I Age 45. I Age 50. I Age 55. £2 2 7 1 .£2 15 I° 7 " " 8 Persons interested in the lives of nominees or debtors may, for a trifling extra premium, be relieved from the risk of their Policies being forfeited by the parties going to foreign coun tries. ONE-HALF of the PREMIUMS MAY REMAIN UN PAID for SEVEN YEARS, Affording a greater facility for Loan Transactions and Fa mily Provisions than any other plan which has been sug gested. Credit Tab'e to Assure £lOO Payable at Death. Age 20. Age 25. Age 30. Age 40. Age 45 , I Age 50. £0 18 0 I .€1 07 I £1 3 7 I 11 5£11661 £2 3 9 • The usual Commission allowed to Solicitors and Agents, and Medical Gentlemen are in all cases remunerated for their reports. - - PUBLICATIONS. READ ! READ I ! READ ! ! ! pEEPING TOM, or NOTES OF LON DON LIFE. A new Work, .published every SATURDAY, price Twopence. This entertaining Periodical comprises a variety of spirited and original articles on Metropolitan topics, amongst which will bfaouna paykers connected with Racing. 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Amongst the MSS. will be found some of the brightest ebullitions of wit which ever emanated from the pen of this truly wonderful man, a collec tion at once rare and invaluable, 'since it forms the last relic of that brilliant genius which was so justly designated the master spirit of the age -by its patrons and companions, the late Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV., tlie Dukes of York, Kent, and Clarence, Pitt, Fox, Burke, Wyndham, Colman, Byron, &c. "` London : Published by J. Crash, at " Peeping Tom's" Office, 9 - , Agar-street, Strand, where Advertisements are received, and all, communications are requested to be addressed. Pub lished also by W. Strange, 21, Paternoster-row, and may be had of all Booksellers. Just published, price 3s. ; or by post, free, 3s. 6d., lA N the DEBILITIES of the GENERA TIVE SYSTEM in MAN and WOMAN; the Causes that produce a Premature Decay of the Reproductive Powers in both ; and. the Moms of their perfect Restoration. To which are added, Practical Observations on the Nature and Treatment of Syphilis, Gonorrhcea, and other Diseases peculiar to the Organs of Generation in both Sexes. Bv a MEMB E R of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEOerine- NS. Sold by Baillere 219, Regent -street ; Onwhyn, Cath s treet, Strand ; and all Booksellers in town and country. Just published, the Seventh Edition, price 3s. ; and sent free, on receipt of a Post-office Order, for 3s. 6d., MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE MATURE 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, GONORRMEA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases, &c. By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY, Consulting Surgeons, London. published by the Authors, and fold by liailiere, Medical Bookseller to the Royal College ef Surgeons, 219, Regent street ; Strange, 21, Paternoster-row, London ; Guest, Bir mingham ; Sowler, 4, St. Ann's-square, Manchester ; Philip, South Castle-street, Liverpool ; Machen and Co., 8, D'Olier street, Dublin; Duncan,ll4, High-street, Edinburgh ; and te be had of all Booksellers. This Work, a Seventh Edition ef which is now presented te 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 with indiffer ence, b t h e ordinary medical p ractitioner. The proverbial and well known rapacity of unqualified practition ers, 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 in in vestigating the latent sources of many diseases, which arise from certain secret praetices, can only be acquired by an ex clusive and undivided attention to this department of medical practice. The numberless instances daily occurring, whersin affections of the lungs, putting on all the outer appearanc es of co nsumption, 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 saving that there is no member ef society by whom the book will not be found useful, whether such person hold the relation of a Parent, a Preceptor, or a Clergyman. The PARENT, who beholds his beloved child pining away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in conse quence of some disease, which, for want of careful investiga tion of its real cause, has been set down to the score of con sumption, will, on perusing this work, be astonished te find, that in nine-tenths of the cases of - young persons of both sex es, who perish of what is called pulmonary consumption, heart disease, tabes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has been the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by youth much more frequently than it is at all suspected. The PRECEPTOR, also, who holds (temporarily at least), the relation and responsibility of a parent, will, by this work, be directed and ver y much per using and detectin assisted in investigating g the too often con cealed practices so often introduced into schools, whereby the health and ultimately the lives of his pupils aro sure to be com promised, unless the evil be arrested in proper time. He will here find, a clue to guide him through the intricate mazes ef this moral labyrinth, and a standard whereby to judge, when delicacy of health should appear to attack any of his young charges, what the real causes of such attack may be, and thus he will be enabled to check the evil in its incipient state. The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred character is at and instructor, once concentrated the two-fold rela tion of parent will here be directed as to the nature of those habits to which youth is addicted; he will also be enabled te point out the &o estrous consequences which are sure to follow from them if not relinquished. Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their residence, No. 7, Frith-street, Soho-square, London. Country Patients are requested to be as minnto as possible in the symptoms, the detail of their eases —as to the duration of the complaint, age, general habits of living, and occupation in life of the party ; the communication insist be acc ompaniednotice most inviolable secrecy may be relied on. whatever can be taken of their application ; and in all cases, the WEEKLY STATEMENT OF LON DON LETTERS, AUG. 9, 1841. THROUGH THE GENERAL POST. Four weeks ending Aug. 7 1841 Corresponding period of 1840 Ditto as nearly as can be given of 1832 Increase since * lB4o on the four weeks' letters 1,560,229 Ditto• 1839 ditto 3,868,503 THROUGH THE DISTRICT POST. Four weeks ending Aug. 7, 1841 Corresponding period of 1840 Ditto as nearly as can be given of 1839 Increase since 1840 on the four weeks' letters 146,699 Ditto 1839 ditto 673,316 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYDS. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Caribbean, from Bor deaux to Calcutta,, , 25th June, and Eliza, Johnston, Liverpool to Perna urn, 27t1:4-an-th° Ec O n 'toz , - 11 Y t l:2 - /1) Queen - Mab, arrive at Liverpool. Condor, Liverpool to Boston, 17th ult., la 41, lon. 56 ; Lord Nelson, Hull to Labrador, 27th, lat. 47, lon. 30 ; Fanny, Liverpool to Quebec, 22d, lat. 45, lon. 42 ; Lady Constable, do. for do., 28th, lat. 48, lon. 29 ; Jane of Galway, sth, off Cork ; Rival, Newfoundland to Bahia, Bth, lat. 6, lon. 26 ; Union, Boston to Cape of Good Hope. 24th, lat. 33, lon. 40 ; Superior, Batavia to London, 29th, lat. 42, lon. 37 ; Hersulla, from Amsterdam, 30th, lat. 44, lon. 35, by her Majesty's ship Melville, arrived at i'ortsmouth. Tagus (s.), 31st, off Lagos ; Liverpool (s.), sth lat. 45, by the Braganza (s.), arrived at Southton. Isabella, London to Bombay, 23d June, lat. 28 S., lon. 38 ; Severn, Liverpool toßahia, 9th ult., lat. 9,N,. lon. 29W. ; George Canning, for Africa, 27th, lat. 43, lon. 34 •, Gos sipium, London for Quebec, 30th, lat. 45, lon. 32,' by the Helene, arrived at Falmouth. ( Sultana, from Buenos Ayres, by the British Queen, arrived off Cork. Andro• macho, Calcutta to London, 6th June, out ninety days ; Lord Vestern same day, which had spoken the Frede rick Hut in the Straits of,, Sandy, by the Couch, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope. • Patriot, Alexandria to Lon don, 27th ult., thirty miles East Of Malaga, by the Warblington, arrived at Cadiz. Whitby, London to New. Zealand, 29th June, lat. 3 S., lon. 32 W., by the Inde fatigable, arrived off Falmouth. Carnatic, London to China, 12th ult., lat. 15, lon. 39 ; " Jury, London to Malta, 29th, lat. 45, lon. 9, by the William Alexander, arrived at Plymouth. .. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals.—Her Majesty's ship Melville, Captain R. S. Dundas, from China, at Portsmouth ; sailed from Macao 25th March, Cape of Good Hope 10th June ; St. He lena 26th June ; Ascension Ist July. Palestine, Sim, from New South Wales, off Margate sailed from Syd ney '23d March. Dispatch, Tomlinson, from the Cape of Good Hope, in the Downs ; sailed from Table Bay 10th May, St. Helena 30th May. Eagle, Buckley, from Port Philip, in the Downs ; sailed Ist April, Pernam buco 24th June. Japan, M`Lellan, from the South Seas, in the Downs ; sailed from St. Helena sth June. Queen Mab, Ainley, from Bengal, at Liverpool ; sailed sth March, St. Helena, Bth June. Maryborough, Cooper, from Bengal, at Bristol ; sailed Bth March. John King, Bristowe, from the Mauritius, in the Downs ; sailed 24th April. Arrivals at St. llelena.—The Minerva, Wainwright, June 13, from New South Wales ; Mandane, Murdock, 14th, from do, and both sailed on the 14th for London ; Diana, Garrick, 14th, from Desolation Island, and sailed to London ; ' Rainbow, Winn, 14th, from London ; Derby, Lee, 16th, from Newcastle ; Apprentice, Cade head, 19th, from the Cape to Rio ; Schoon Verbond, Drayer, 21st, from Batavia, and sailed 22d to Amster dam ; Mary Roper, 22d, from Calcutta, and sailed 22d to Liverpool ; Lord Western, Lock, 23d, from Singa pore and Batavia, and sailed 24th to Liverpool ; Majes tic, Smith, 23d, from Port Philip ; Reliance, Hall, 24th, from Bombay, and sailed 26th to Liverpool ; Bato, Key ser, 25th, from Batavia, and sailed 26th to Dordrecht ; a schooner, prize to the Waterwitch, 25th, Mr. Sturdie in charge ; Imatim of Muscat, Thickbroom, 26th, from Cal cutta to London ; Buen Nova, 26th, prize to the Fan tome, full of slaves. Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of' Good Hope.—Sir John Byng Ellis, June 2, from London ; John Graham, Lar ner, from Newcastle. In Simon's Bay.—Anna, Robertson, June 10, from London, Departures from Table Bay.—Le Gol, June 2, for Nantes ; Brilliant, for Port Philip ; Hugh Walker, 6th, for the Clyde ; Fame, for the Mauritius ; St. Helena, for Sydney, from Simon's Bay ; Princess Victoria, May 31, for London. Arrival at Port Philip.—Singapore, Hamilton, March 20, from a survey, and to sail in April for King George's Sound and Singapore. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. The only St. Leger horses backed yesterday were Middleliam and Tearaway, the former in tens, and the other for 2001., the prices being severally 8 and 10 to 1. Nothing done on the Derby. The room was very thinly attended, owing to the Wolverhampton races, which com menced yesterday. The St. Leger " Price Current" closed as follows! ST. LEGER. 5 to 4 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Coronation 4 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Van Amburgh 7 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Middleham 10 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Tearaway—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Eringo—taken 25 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Lampoon—taken THE DERBY. The following bets were laid a day or two back:-500 even laid on Scott's, J. Day's, and M. Dilly's lots against the field. Offers to bet 30 or take 35 to 1 about Nessus. Maroon was sold yesterday fur 1,0401., and Marshal Soult for 3101. Too BAD.—A shoemaker at Lynn, Massachu setts, the place where they shovel so many shoes toge ther, and so fast, lately whipped one of his apprentices to death because 'he could not hang up the shoes as fast as the master made them ! COMING TO THE POINT.--The following is a verbatlni copy of a Ciceronian epistle recently sent to a parish clerk:—" Can wa baa marad to morrow mourners at alavau o'clock ? Plaza to sand maa wud." wo-thi rds of Profits divided annually amongst the Assured. DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT. "I the plan exclusively developed by this Society, a single 4 eferred Annuity . is made, nut only to answer the same object, 41. to far exceed in amount the entire benefit of all 'the ad ti;.nt ages heretofore only obtained by the middle and industrious jes through separate in .s vestrnents in Savings' Banks, Be refit Societies, and Loan Banks. I. A. small yearly or weekly contribution"wilt secure 'the . ample return for after life; thus- 2 1. 12 s. per an num ( Is. l owi !k) at tho age of 20, will give the policy holder the fol k_ option, at the age of 65 *— • cs,iiity for remainder life... £47 18 6 poll ..... : .................................... 394 11 oor a 0 t ,7) Without further contributions, of 466 0 oat death. ds tr i, s perio of life (of 50, 55, and 60) may be also taken r!,rnilar advantages. fa tid we-thirds a t any time lent on dep osit of p olic y , being a ;. ~,ways av a il a bl e d ur i ng s ickness or want of employment. aa %t e we-thirds of all payments returned to representatives in premature death. eti e Policies, as collateral money -security, for periods of thy t o five years, effected at lower rates than are charged by ti4 can er ( Sec Tables A. and B.), with opti on of con. co for Life at the usual rates. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec. IFURNITURE SALE DEPARTMENT. 1 „ . ": 1 „ TECHNICON, BELGRAVE ,Ati "3‘4IJARE.—The largest and best selected , Stock o . f bit td t NET and UPHOLSTERY FURNITURE ever exhi !laalit:r Sale, is always to be found in this Establishment, the ever ° I 'which is warranted of the best description, and G Y arti c l e plainly marked at the Manufacturer's lowest price. carefully packed and forwarded to any part of the days, notice, ouses of the first class furnished throughout at a few CARRIAGES.—The Nobility and Gentr s y t , re vettr about to build for this or the ensuing season fi ar , e , Pric es 'ully solicited to compare the quality, high finish, and for 1 ( 1. this Manufactory for Building to order, purchaser,rr.azde bitty il. °l ng• Nearly every description of superior i town ti ; Bee n complete, in great variety of colour, arranged a ' for -e, and for long and short, ourneys. likel feq excellent ones, •ust off jobs, to be SOLD at prices that Y t° be satisfactory tojcountry coachmakers requiring some 43 re equal to new for work and in fashicn. -----2.9ritwford-street B rvan ston-square. )() OUNCE. ioNs AND FORKS, 7s. 2d. PER 0 • Iv i• HORTON and CO. (Late AVERY), SI R E ,„„ Silversmiths and Jewellers, No. 36, LUDGAT:i_ Co.' s ) '4 l ', ST. PAUL'S oposite Messrs. Everington d 4'013,,,gt, their elegantly-finished SILVER FIDDLE_t ter n 7 s Lind FORKS at 7s• 2d. per oz. ; the King's Pa t • coffee ' ; the Victoria and . other Patterns, as also Tea an greNatarri eiys'of-nd thrartieles equally. moderate. A very A Dessert Knives and Forks in cases of Sets. immense Stock of splendid Fancy Goods and r j a' 25 to 30 per cent. below the usual London Charges, 'PIERS, OWNERS, CAPTAIN,S,and OTHERS hCin`'o, pies of Test' ials, Gratis, by all Agents. i STO N S on EYE SNUFF.—Under the tro na . go of kis late Majesty, h.r Royal Highness Ile P rete :um : l Kent, and the Lords of the Treasu . ry, is universally elder, inci dent by the Faculty for its efficacy in removing dis siG eldent to the Eyes and Head. NT RESTORED!—NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE EY th AN D DE AFNESS CURED! It, Most simple, delightful, and fragrant Compound! h_lat'd ohll, °f application is fraught with pleasure ; thou mime—es ave been accomplisl:ed by its use, triflingabnrsseaxr toi Yet certain in its operation. If te . stimenies reoee have the sufferer to make trial, Kings, Lords, e andCom Y - L ts U si . " " l used it. The Lords of the Treasury have sanctioned t !rle Their late Majesties, the Duchess of Kent, the most ~,""‘ Oculists, Practitioners —with that , gigantic t ri 'Lee, the Press—have have eulogised Grimstorp s celebrae tr e e r i b t a lee et Z: Compound. known as " Grimstone 's Eye Snuff," nao i all diseases incident to the Eyes and P 4. 41. • G. 7in removing Esq., F. See J. B. Lachfiel l t it e ' s Letter, Whitehall. Dr. Thomas. .Dr.. t And ti r l ew t , s ea lat e r ltional blessing—see his Reports touching i m s m u end i )._..rTmhe rteee:4r. Abernethy, witk many others, reco Rt.:a E ye Snuff, and call it " Mans best Friend," and the ° f Vade Mecum." —See the many thousand Letters th e testimonies, of undoubted medical authority, with others of t xtr. rat respectability. act from the Second Edition of " Grimstone 's Weather Almanack." 1 e 7, Skinner's Al ms h ou ses, Mile End , Jan. 26, 1 840 . fa think it my incumbent duty to retu rn y ou my g ‘ rate afteillowledgments of the efficacy of your invaluable Eye foureur You must understand, Sir, that I h ave for the last alnl e ; 'Lee years suffered much with giddiness in my head and /Igo of sight. I naturally concluded (being in my 69th frieed, ',titha, t it was the decay of Nature, and was ad vised b y a vi t t,. n said so mu c h in its favour, and the extraor dinar y I a trt V f Your invention, I was induced to give it a trial, and riv e d f -PPy to say that the great and cant I have head the use of four of your 2s. 4d. sters has enabled `ay aside my spectacles, has given me great relief in my th at and I feel so th or oughly convinced of its benign virtues, ul I my gratitude shall ever e evinced in recotendng it to may her meet sufferin g with those affl n ict m ions. i 1 am . Sir, your much obliged and grateful servant, "To yr: • ANN COLE. - Grimstone, Esq., 39, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, s • CePy of a Letter dated Leeds, July 4, 1834. 11 . 1 _ 11 .,—1 have receirved great benefit from your Eye Snuff. tt „ re been afflicted ten years with Cataract, and was given etreZ,the Medical Men bu: was recommended to use your 4 , it t i ! which completelY cured me in a few weeks. You may ruy:w%titsiengo.r my name, if it will do you any good. Excuse Your's, ever faithfully, ,13er-street, Leeds. PETER S ANDERSON. fr • Wm. Grimstone, 39, Broad-street, Bloomsbury. Ob serve Last Testimony, Feb. 1 0, 1840 . ept o 7 rr e the C au ti on .—W. GEMSTONE is the sole ina and the only genuine is prepared by him. 11 ." Odorifer ous Herbaceous Compound of Herbs is sold in e Tters, at .RA s "" A Is. 3d., 2s. 4d., 4s. 4d., Bs., and 15s. 6d. .131 0 " LI the Proprietor, W. Grimstone,Broad - st reet, elti e °m ' bu rY and can be obtained in all the principal towns and mist i s ; do A r, l o ib f eral allowance to shippers, owners, captanis, and Grimb`one' Eye Scuff. Thi celebrated Snuff l a il ual e L o % sh ipped to all quarters ‘ of - the globe, ' anti retains its benign eeeFy climate. M 1 Snuffs inn Cigars chipped on at notice. ...- • , . . • e y: „ , ..,, . • - 4' 7- 27-- -- " ' ',\ • , • . . ' - " , '' : ''. ', : : %,'-, *) : to ' 'O . .':: 1 4 . 't. ? , , 0 1 . t .1 1. ' ir '''''L ' •::: . Y: ailk : ' . ! \\:.-' vr.,. , b .. , ~ _. __ , , e .,,,,,,,, , ,,,• , - as..„,„.. ..di v[ri.4„:77=_c_ j,4 -. , . ke '. • , -4:r r. 4"44„ ~.' V:4 4... 4'4 5 4 5 ~, ~ . . I '..---- , • 4" a —:A. I 6 0 0, y) ,, s . 4 .H.- jt 4 ...., , ' tvr• .10,:te z i ~tli di (Or •%, 0 ..., ..... •/ ' 7 ) , . ' , • -*. - .‘, , -4' ° , .`• ' - pi, ..10.„ . . 4 . ~-. h,., 0 51 4 .. 4a,i,..-- , - • .. , oxv • --r% . . ,- .... a. - - -... . , un + , ..., . _ dritnematioey LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST, 10, 1841. SIR J. GRAHAM'S IGNORANCE. TO SIR JAMES GRAHAM, BART.--LETTER I. Sin—Your Dorchester speech, delivered'on the 22d of July, lies before me, I sat down to its perusal without hope, and, therefore, rose from it without disappointment, but with a firm opinion that it does little credit .o.ther to your head or your heart, The clearness or the for mer appears_to . . have been dimmed, while the feelings of the latter have evidently been blunted, by the apostasy which led you to make shipwreck of the principles which, in early youth and the first (lawn of riper manhood, you maintained with all the earnestness and ingenuousness of conviction. That happy day has long since passed by. You mixed with the temptations of the political world, and were not proof against them. They were too strong for your sincerity. They. vanquished your integrity. Youfell before th em , an d became what you now are. Alas, how changed ! h ow de gra d e d! The promise of youth and of your en t rance i n t o ma nhood is blighted and blasted. The once champion of the people has be come the tool of their enemies, pandering to the selfish ness and , sordid interests of an ariatocracy, whO use and despise him at the same time. Oh, what might not Sir James Graham have been, had -he never swerved from the Principles which marked his first appearance in public life ? And, what is he now ? A proverb and a bye word to hurl against every renegade who may cross our path. But the theme is a mournful.one. The man who was carried into Pa r li amen t upon the Shoulders of the people, is now, I. a'fitting retribution, obliged to wander to and fro throei '1 every quarter of the land before he can find a place 'Ol rest,-,a borough sufficiently under control to be brought to bear the obloquy which the name of such an arch-apostate casts upon all who are connected with it. But now for your oration at the Dorchester dinner, where, ;by the way, I observe that you entertained, in stead of being entertained by the electors. Much of that speech was occupied by a lame and impotent at tempt to defend the present Corn-laws. Here I join issue with you at out* But be not alarmed. I are pet going to plunge intAtits,elengthenovi;eltotS:elf;•i;:t: ;-ou on ;hie`sel,j46t. Cort : law creed is a very shot' one, and may very briefly be placed before you. If we —I say we, because my. clerical income springs either from tithes uncommuted: or land only let from year to year,—if 'We ..get 'nothing by the Corn-laws, why should we maintain them at the expense of so much oblo quy and reproach ? Why not at once repeal them, if; as the Duke of Wellington observed, they are not aprotection to screw up rents, but a protection—to protect nothing—a kind of political prop and pillar—to support nothing—a figure of speech which had a very tellin g and thrilling effeet upon the he re dit ar y legislators of the land, al though it only provoked a smile of contempt from the profane vulgar out of doors,? Why, if according teehis 'Graeb i i notion on the subject, they are a work of legis lative supererogation and a dead letter, and not a rent screw,. as mischievous and evil-disposed people say, why not, laurge, blot out the useless stain from the Statute book without delay,. and with it the odium and hate which it brings upon us ? But if, on the other hand, the Corn-laws are a rent-raising protection to the landed interest; if• they sacrifice the happiness of the millions to the selfishness of the few ; if they take from the com forts of the working classes ; if they diminish 'the sources of employment ; 4f they bring upon them ruin, misery and starvation—then, I ask, in this case, what right have you or I, or any; to grow rich upon the wretchedness of others ? Are not the people in this burdened land sufficiently taxed for the support of the exigencies of the State, without being called upon, in addition, to toil away their lives that one master-class may be pampered and fattened at - the cost of all the rest ? Have you ever thought of the matter in this light ? • Think of it now. As you are a Chris tian Man I call upon you to ponder over it seriously and deeply. Oh, believe me, in the very best of days to the working classes of' this country, the golden threads interwoven with their web of life were " few and far between." And, alas 4 those few are now alto gether withdrawn from it. What a portion is now their's, all bitterness and sadness from the cradle to the grave. Their's are the pains of childhood without any of its pleasures, the toils and privations' of manhood without its rewirds, the weaknesses and miseries of old age without any of its comforts and indulgences to solace their failing strength and declining years. And why is it so ? Why does gaunt famine move within our land ? Why, in our manufacturing districts, may dark and scowling looks he seen in all directions, while men, des perate with famine, hunger-bitten, and in rags, talk with a recklessness of the_ future which, could it be heard by the high and noble ones amongst us, would somewhat discompose their nerves and startle them with apprehensions abeut coming evils of which now, it may be, in their hours of ease and luxury, they little dream of, but which, nevertheless; if not checked by wise and timely legisnaiw„ ' , ill come with all the fury of the lava flood when the volcano bursts its bounds and vomits forth destruction on all around it ? Why are these things, did I ask ? Why do they exist ? Why do they continue ? Simply to satisfy the lust of the demon, RENT, which, like the home leech, is never gorged, but still, after every meal,with increasing appetite, shrieks "More, more," _lmre lict/JRB 1,1,13011 my ~a.ltars,,,inorp sperithings2lol:4 avarice and - thirst for gain. Yes I such thin asll are mentioned may now be witnessed in our manufacturing districts, aye, and more than such things, and all spring ing from the self-same cause. The busy hum of occu pation' has died away in our hives of industry. The loom is silent ; the shuttle is idle in many directions ; half-starved men, 'as I said before, hang scowling and cursing the authors of their misery in the streets; while, if you penetrate their wretched abodes, you will find sorrow, want, sickness, and death, rioting in every ap paling form and shape which it is possible to conce i ve. Here perhaps, you will see some lisping child begging for bread, which its parents, hungry as itself, have not to bestow upon it. There, is sOme ex haused babe, even in its dying moments, in va i n att e mpting to suck in nou rishment from the breasts of its weak and famished mo ther—and all this, be it remembered,: in a Christian land —all this the work of a par excellence Christian Legisla ture; And when we ask what remedy shall be de vised ? how long shall these things be ? some laugh ing demon shouts aloud, "Yeomanry, yeomanry Lord Francis Egerton will raisens yeomanry. They will silence the discontented ; they will calm the hungry !" They will. The sw or d is a sharp doctor, but a sure one. " Order reigns in Warsaw," said - the French Mi nister, as he proclaimed the entrance of the Russians into that devoted city. Solitudinem faciunt et pacem appel lant, wrote Tacitus of the Germans when they invaded an enemy's country. This is the Tory receipt for paci fying the people to the ver y l e tt er . They cry out for bread, and they are to have yeomanry. And yet, as I observed before, this is a Christian land, and Sir James. Graham, when speaking otthe Corn-laws at Dorchester, quotes scripture in their behalf. The Corn-laws and the Scripture ! The Corn-laws, Sir James Graham, and the Scripture ! What a trig juxta in uno 1 What a medley of opposites and contradictions ! But this portion of your " ponderous nothings" 1 must reserve for another letter. I am, &e, A CLERGYMAN of the CHURCH of ENGLAND. Aug. 9, 1841. EXECUTION OF THE KNARESBO- ROUGH MURDERERS. This day (Saturday) at noon, the last awful sentence of the law was carried into execution upon John Burlin son, henry Nuttall, and Charles Gill, who were con- victed at the Yorkshire assizes of the murder of Joseph Cocker, of Knaresborough. The trial took place, our readers may remember, on Monday, the 19th ult., before Mr. Justice Wightman. Ever since their condemnation, all the three men have conducted themselves in a most penitent manner, and have been attended in their devotions by the chaplain of the gaol, the Rev. W. Flower, Rev. J. Shackley, Rev. Thomas Richardson, and the Rev. J. Rattenburv, Wes leyan minister. The unhappy convicts paid the most reverent attention to the instructions which were afforded them by the Reverend Gentlemen, and exhibited the ut most anxiety in making themselves prepared for entering upon eternity. The prisoner Gill has suffered consider ably for several days from erysipelas, so much so that for a length of time he was confined to his bad. No reprieve having arrived on Friday evening, the necessary preparations were made for the execution. The condemned sermon was preached by the chaplain of the prison. At half-past five o'clock this morning the condemned were removed from their cells to a room ad joining the scaffold, where they remained till their bodies were demanded by the Under-Sheriff. Early in the morning the Rev. J. Shackley and the Rev. Mr. Richard son came to the castle and remained with them until the time arrived for their execution. In walking across the yard from the condemned cell to the room where they were pinioned, Burlinson and Nuttall walked with a firm step ; Gill, who was weak from the effects of disease, was supported by two of the attendants. During the night great numbers of people travelled on foot from the adjoining towns and villages, especially from Knaresborough, where, as may be naturally ex pected, the murder and consequent fate of the men created the greatest interest. The crowd assembled in front of the scaffold so early as eleven o'clock was consi derable, but after that hour, and up to twelve o'clock, great accessions of people swelled the numbers previously collected together. At twelve o'clock the procession was formed, and the men walked to the scaffold. They were quite resigned to their fate, and when the Chaplain engaged in the usual ser vice they were loud and earnest in their responses. After this the whole three were engaged in pray(ir for 'se veral minutes. Burlinson, who was the eldest of the three men, was placed in the position of the drop next Castle gate, Gill was in the centre, and Nuttall occupied the other extremity. Gill was more firm upon the scaffold than might have been expected from his previous suffer ing from erysipelas. The other two walked to the scaf fold with a firm step ; but the demeanour of the whole three was that of the deepest contrition and penitence. After the usual preliminaries the bolt was drawn, and the men were launched into eternity. The sufferings under gone by Burlinson and Gill seemed to be great ; their bodies were very much convulsed, the other seemed to die soon after the executio ner had done his work. aft er hanging the usual time th e bodi es were cut do wn an d removed to the prison, pr evi ous to their bei ng b ur i e d within its precincts. . All the three were quite young nurli esun b e i ng 24 years of age, Nutt 9,ll 22, and Gill 19. B ur li nson and Gill were the parties who inflicted th e wounds upon the men, old man, Nuttall was present at the time, and assisted in the rifling of Cocker's pockets. They all belong to Knaresborough, where their families reside, some of whom, We understand, are pious persons.— Yorkshire Gazette.' . EARTHQUAKES IN GREAT. BRI- TAIN AND THE BRITISH ISLANDS. Although earthquakes and their attendant and awful phenomena are happily of rare occurrence in ourcountry, slight shocks or tremblemens de term have been more fre quent in the British Islands within the last fifty or sixty years, than we supposed until we perused an article on the subject in " Jameson's Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal" (April to July, 1841.) The title of the paper is as follows :—" Notices of Earthquake shocks felt in Great Britain, and especially in Scotland, with inferences suggested by those notices as to the causes of such shocks by David Milne, Esq., F.R.S.E., M.W.S., F.G.S., &c." The chronological table of Mr. Milne enumerates the various shocks of earthquakes felt in Great Britain from the. year 1608 to October, 1839, and it is particularly in teresting on account of the coincidences which it exhi bits between the subterraneous convulsion's in our own islands, and similar, but more formidable phenomena in other and distant countries. Such coincidences have often been noticed, and it has been supposed by some writers that there are subterranean communications con necting all the countries of the earth. When the dread ful earthquake took place at Lisbon on the fatal Ist of November, 1755, the workmen in the Derbyshire mines were much alarmed. " The rocks that surrounded them were so much disturbed that soil, &c., fell from the joints or fissures, and they likewise heard violent explosions, as it were of cannon.' It is also.= extraordinary fact that the shock of an earthquake experienced in the West India islands on the 23d September was sensibly felt at the same time at Algiers, which is, perhaps, the most striking coincidence of the kind ever known. On examining the elaborate enumeration of slight or greater shocks of earthquake which have been witnessed in the British islands during the terre.,alrea.dy specified, i2,xtrigottiiivatr-T6.4ifonW-Of ~ the - phenomenon at COrnrie, in • Perthshire, in Scotland, must excite the sur prise of the most superficial observer. Comrie is a Highland parish, remarkable for its beautiful and ro mantic scenery. "It is thirteen miles in length by about nine in breadth, comprising several glens at the head of Strathearn ; Loch Earn, a fine 'expanse of water eight miles long, bounded by lofty hills, and its banks fringed with valuable wood.; and Ben Voirloch, a mountain rising to the height of 3,200. feet above the level of the sea." It appears that this spot has been visited with between seventy and eighty light or ruder shocks of earthquake, from the year 1788 to 1828, an extraordinary, and. in Great Britain, an unprecedented circumstance, which merits the particular attention of geologists and scienti fic men. . In ednelusion, we subjoin a few desultory paragraphs from Mr. Milne's tables : " 1608, Nov. B.—People of Aberdeen, about 9 P.M., 'dreadfully alarmed by an earthquake, on account of which a day of Pasting and humiliation was appointed by the magistrates and clergy. The particular sin,- on account of which the scourge was thought to have been sent, was salmon fishing on Sunday, and accordingly the proprietors of salmon fishings were called before the Session and rebuked. Some (says the Session record) promist absolutely to forbear, both by himself and their servant's, in time coming ; others promist to forbear upon condition subcreyvant, and some plainlie refusit ahy way to forbear." " 1750 f April 2.—Liver . pool, at 10, p.m. ' • Chester, Downing, near Holy-well, in Flintshire, at half-past 10, p.m. It reached Wrexham to the south, and Lancaster to the north—in all, seventy miles. From Flintshire to Stockport and Altringham. The earthquake extended over a district forty miles N. and S., and ninety miles E. and W. Direction said to be N.W. to S.E. A per son went into the open air during the shock, and saw multitudes of blood-red rays converging from all parts of the heavens to one dark point, but saw no luminous body. The phenomenon disappeared in fifteen minutes. (Gent's Maq.) A person at Liverpool who felt it, says, I was in a sitting posture, • and the motion I felt was like that of a vessel falling from the top of a wave, and rising again upon the next.' "* " 1755. Oct. 20.—At Scallaway, in Zetland, the sky being very hazy, as is usual before thunder and light. ning, there fella black dust over all the country, though in greater quantities in some places than in others. It was very much like lamp black, but smelled strongly of sulphur. People in the fields had their faces, hands, and linen blackened by it. The same phenomenon was observed in Orkney, where it received the appellation of black snow :' and on the 23d of the same month, a shower of dust fell on a ship twenty-fire leagues from Shetland." " 1755, Nov. I.—At Madera, at half-past 9, a.m., there were three Shocks (with a few minutes between each), felt at LisbOn at 35 minutes past 9, a.m. The sea rose on the coast there from 40 to 50 feet perpen dicular, in three successive waves: The sea retired first." " Same day, geese swimming in a pond gave alarm before the water was observei to be agitated. " Same day, at Tangiers and Morocco,• the earth wave, about sixty feet high, dashed on shore about 11 a.m., and that was followed by three others. At Swan sea a wave came a mile and a half up the river; at 45 minutes past six p.m., after two hours ebb, with a great noise, fell back suddenly." " 1 761, March 31.---At Dublin, at six o'clock P.N., near dead low water, the tide suddenly rose about two feet, and then retired. This was repeated several- times." " 1789, `Dec. 30.—The same day with the earthquake at Bergo di San Sepulchro, in Italy, three distinct shocks of earthquake were felt at the house of Parson's-green, on the north side of 'Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh." * Mr. Egerton Smith, when a child, has often heard his father mention the sensation ha experienced at feel -ing the slight shock here noticed, The following paragraph, originally frgin the. French scientific publications, may be very appropriately intro duced on the present occasion : EARTHQUAKES.—According to a research made' for thirteen centuries—namely, from the third to the sik teenth—by.M. Perrey, and presented to the French Aca demy of Sciences, it appears that they have been in diffe rent months, as in the following table : January 21. April 14. July 9 October ...17. Februaryl2. May 12. August l4. November 10. March 10. June 13. September 15. December 28. Thus the months of January and December have been the most fruitful in earthquakes, and July the least. Winter has produced 43, spring 39, summer 31, and autumn 55 ; also, the six months from October to March have given 112, and from April to September 79. • Subsequently to the year 1839, we understand that numerous slight shocks of earthquake have been expe rienced at Comrie.—Liverpool Mercury. , THE SURREY THEATRE.--This theatre h av ing been originally built for.an equestrian . place of exhibi tion, possesses many facilities—as spacious stables, the foundation of a ring under the pit, and a capability of enlarging the audience part to a great extent. AlLthese aids have been skilfully rendered available by the ma chinist of the theatre, Mr. Lowe, who has constructed (in the short space of time allowed by closing' the house one night), the very finest ring in the kingdom, enlarged the pit to the extent of nearly 350 seats more than be fore, converted the solid stage into an ingeniously shift ing one, with gas-lights, orchestra, and more than ten feet of the part before the proscenium, all made to re cede and give place for a perfect equestrian circle. Plat forms and moveable machinery of the most ponderous nature, and of such strength, that whole bodies of cavalry are sustained by it, have been prepared, new scenery painted, new appointments completed, and the whole newly, brilliantly, and ingeniously lighted on a novel plan, in a space of time scarcely sufficient apparently for a tithe of the extraordinary preparations. Such en deavours to merit, deserve success. A PICTURE 01? DESOLATION.—At six o'clock we rose upon a beautiful table of land, on which stood another gigantic church. It was the seventh we had seen that day ; and coming upon them in a region of desolation, and by mountain-paths which human hands had never attempted to improve their colossal grand eur and costliness were startling, and gave evidence of a re trograding and expiring people. This stood in a more desolate place than any we had yet seen. The grass was green, the sod unbroken even by a mule-path ; not a human being was in sight, and even the gratings of the prison had no one looking through them. It was, in fact, a picture of a deserted village. We rode up to the cabildo • the door of which was fastened and the shed barricaded, probably to prevent the entrance of straggling cattle. We tore away the fastenings, broke open the door, and, unloading the mules, sent Augustin on a fo raging expedition. In half an hour he returned with one egg, being all that he was able to procure ; but he had walked up the village, and the alcalde, an Indian with a silver-headed cane, and several alguazils, with long thin rods or wands of office, came down to examine us. We showed them our passport, and told them where we were going ; at which, with their characteristic in difference of manner, they expressed no surprise. They could not read the passport, but they examined the seal and returned it. We asked them for eggs, fowls, milk, &c., to all of which they answered . what aftenYards be came but too familiar, No hay"—" There is none"— and in a few minutes they retired and left us to our selves.—Stephens's Travels in America. CHURCH EXTENSION.—The parish of Colne, in Huntingdonshire, is worthy the attention of Sir Robert Inglis. Its population is upwards of 500. It has a resident clergyman. The tithes amount to about 5001. a year, received by Dr. Turton. There is not a single 'inhabitant who pays Poor-rates who attends the church service 1 It is only a few paupers who occupy the church land that attend. The parish is celebrated for ,the virtue of its inhabitants. The poor are well attended to, and peace and prosperity flourish. The Dissenting minister of the neighbouring parish lives in the affections of the people at Colne. Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Prebends, and all other ecclesiastics are useless and un necessary to the well being of this happy parish. Nawauacu.—,-The United ' Secession meet i ng have got a bell hung on their church last week, which chimed for service for the first time on Sunday. The time is not far gone . by, when any such noise on a pun day,eicept. the, ringing of the parish church.b e l!, wou ld ,have- boo reckoned a desecration of the Sabbath—but lempork nintant . ur. We certainly may be a s h ame d of the bigotry of our ancestors whe attempted to prop up their own section of religion by such intolerant pretensions to PRICE .5d SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNIko Muss OF THIS DAY. CHRONICLE.—The narrow and -petty views of pub lic affairs with which the mind of Sir Robert Peel is most familiar, -ere strikingly indicated by the mode in which he prefaced one portion of his speech to his con stituents. Passing from medical analysis and paragraph reforms to the proper political business of the day, he says- 7 " I do not think I should have been induced to say a word to you on the subject of party interests—l should have been perfectly content to acquiesce in a sus pension of hostilities, considering the near approach of the period when the combatants will meet face to face— if I had not recently seen the manifesto put forth by Lord John Russell." " Party interests," " hostilities;" " combatants ;" these are what Sir Robert Peel sees in the great miestion of a nation's trade and food. The House of Commons is not sitting, and so he thinks there might have been a " suspension of hostilities." He would have been " content to acquiesce." There was eo party move to be made, and so he wonders that the affairs of the country should be brought into earnest dis cussion. No man could employ such language, or be subject to the train of thought which it implies, with whom the well-being of the community was more than a very secondary consideration. The evils from which redress is needed no more remit their operation than do the great operations of nature, th 9 beneficent influences of which are counteracted by those evils. Bread tax' presses on, most mercilessly ; and monopoly acquiesces in no " suspension of hostilities." The adverse in terests, unfriendly feelings, and growing competition which our Corn-laws have fostered in Foreign States, relax no jot in the warfare they wage upon our manu facturing prosperity. There is no suspension of the dif ficulties, the embarrassments, the failures, which have be gun to multiply so fearfully; nor of the misery they spread amongst multitudes. Hunger is not in abeyance. The winds blow, the rain falls, and overclouded hopes of har vest are testifying the hostility of_the.. elements,to hu -wrin monopoly:''' But what is all this to Sir R. Peel `fir does not perceive how the relative position of Whig and Tory can be materially affected till " the period when the combatants will meet face to face," and, therefore, it moves him not ; he would be content to hold truce with politics, and entertain the electors of Tamworth with the paragraphing of the Globe. Without being a Nero, a man may fiddle while Rome is burning ; inherent littleness, as well as great crime, may generate 'a cold-blooded . indifference to what most deeply interests all who regard their country. What a contrast is presented, by this absortion in the most paltry phase of political life, to the eager ness which we encounter in other directions. Mi nisters have thrown down the gauntlet to mono poly, and proposed to invigorate the resources of the nation by lightening its burdens. Political econo inis:s are reiterating their demonstrations that the re strictive policy is fraught with injury and ruin. Capital ists are calculating the effect of closing markets. The leagued foes of the bread-tax sleep neither night nor day in their struggle against the pressure which must crush them unless it be o'ermastered. The preachers of reli gion claim justice for the poor as part and parcel of our common Christianity, and wash their hands of the im piety that taxes, while it prays for, daily bread. With none who have minds to think, and hearts to feel, is this a subject of gladiatorial skill, of .tongue-fence and party tactics, but a vital question, that allows no rest nor peace till the way be found to its satisfactory termi nation. Sir Robert Peel sees nothing in it but the ball to play a party game with, when the "combatants" shall have gathered on the ground. TIMES.—It is to the honour of the press that there is only one daily paper which has ever given an un qualified support to the New Poor-law ; and to have that particular paper opposed to them has been a great advantage to the friends of the poor. We could not have desired a • better foil for our arguments upon this subject than the.self-complacent dogmatism with which they aro noticed in the columns of the Journal al luded to. It is evident that the gentlemen of the So-. merset-house establishment who favours us with his replies belongs to what has been aptly called the "- silver fork" school of literature ;—his lucubration savour of cambric pocket-handkerchiefs, and are redolent of Euu de Cologne. Once in a month, or so, the languid apathy of his nature is roused by the per serverancc of the Conservative press in attacks, which, if successful, might perhaps touch his exquisiteness in the tenderest part, and *even stop the supplies of lavender water; and accoidingly he summons up resolution for the task of writing an article, and settling the Poor-law controversy for ever. Reading through the arguments which he professes to answer, or attempting a logical reply to them, is, of course, out of the question; but he skims delicately over the surface of one or two prominent phrases, and annihilates his adversary by the summary process of assuring the public, upon his veracity, that all the worst abuses of " the old system" are lurking under every word. Reasons he does not give ; and, of' course, would not give them " upon compulsion," though they were " as plenty as blackberries;" but his assertions as to matters of fact are abundant, and he throws them about with as much recklesspertinas if, t itpon sub tket were sealed' up from all but himself. In an article of this description on Saturday last the public were informed, that " the Times has a panacea for all privations occasioned by high prices, low wages, and insufficient employment for labour ;" and that " it is to revert to the old Poor-law practice of diserimivating relief to deserving objects." The writer proceeded, in a somewhat more confident than coherent strain, to expose " the fallacy of appor tioning relief to desert, and making it in all respects pleasant and consistent with domestic arrangements ;" and wound up with the observation, that "It is not to this transparent quackery, puffed by the Times this morning, that the labouring; people must look for rescue from the hardships of their present condition." We need hardly take the trouble of assuring our readers,. that our supposed "panacea for all privations" exists only in the imagination of the silken economist who professes to answer remarks which he has evidently never read. ADVERTISER.—The doom of the Corn-laws is sealed the death- . blow of the monopoly in human food is . about to be struck, and a famishing population have at last the prospect before them of being able to procure for themselves daily bread. The singular coincidence of _circumstances marshalling themselves in antagonism to the Corn-laws, which obtains at this moment, clearly in- Wicates a providential interposition on behalf of the starv ing masses in the manufacturing districts; and proclaims in trumpet tones the folly, as well inhumanity, of at tempting to uphold the existing monopoly. First of all, we have the Ministers of her Majesty, not only as indivi duals, favourableto a free trade in corn, but standing be fore their country in the attitude of men most solemnly pledged in their collective capacity, to avail themselves of every means which the Constitution of the realm will sanction, to abolish imposts which mercilessly withhold from the mouths of the poor that food which their appetites crave, and which the munificence of an indulgent Providence had intended for them. And this solemn pledge, . given, we doubt not, with perfect cordiality, is about to be repeated in the presence of Parliament, and in the hearing of the nation ; for there cannot be a question that her Majesty's sp eec to the new Legislature about to assemble, will contain a re iteration of the Ministerial conviction of the absolute ne cessity which exists for a repeal of the Corn-laws, pro vided it be deemed desirable to prevent the most fearful anarchy, and to preserve from utter destruction the com mercial relations of the country. Nor will Ministers content themselves with the mere annunciation, in her Majesty's proximate speech, of anti-Corn-law and anti- Monopoly measures ; the'propounding of these measures in the Royal Address will be followed up in the Minis terial speeches which the discussion on that address will necessarily elicit, by the expression of a resolute determination never to cease their uncompromising hostility to these prohibitory laws, until they be erased from the statute-book. This will very materially strengthen the position which Ministers already oc cupy as. the leadiug opponents of these odious imposts ; it will inspire the people with increased confidence in their leadership, and bring into one close and adhesive phalanx,_ in the war now wagin g with the Corn.laws, the entire betty of *hoe. opponaatc to monop o l y . Th. _ma. nisterial advocacy of the Corn-law abolition will be powerfully abetted and enforced by the on present peen liarly heavy pressure of these law s classes. Trade is stagnant, commer ce is pare avodrking paralyzed myriads of the population in the manufacturing dist , and ri cts have either no employment at all, or are but par tially employed and inadequately p a id for their labour. eriyhAt such a moment the iniquity and oppression of hateful taxes are seen with a special clearness, because felt with a peculiar force. The masses are consequently ready and eager to bring the whole weight of their sanc tion and authority in aid of whatever efforts Ministers may make with the view of ridding the country of these barbarous imposts. POST.—We insert in another column a letter from Lord Francis correcting the Journals respecting his mis.sta to an Evening Contemporary , Egerton Lancashire Yeoma a nry. t L era ord en s ts hip, o s f co th nn e ec r io h n ig; i ß th adi t c h a e l troop ; nor has his Lordship regiment taken . any step towards:i the . an addition to this most useful and va luable of blic force It is right that the falsehood should be thus etfectua y . con tradicted,not merely on the ge neral ground that it is al ways right to contradict falsehood, but because the lie in this particul ar i nstance was i nve nted and propagated for the purpose of creating the impression that his Lordship and the great national party o f which he is a distin guished member, regard the grea t bulk of their country men in th e li g ht of enemies, against whom it behoves them to take precautions at all times, and view the re cent transfer of political ascendancy in the Legislature as . an occasion that suggests the expediency of additional precautions at the present moment. The letter of Lord Francis Egerton appears to us to be a very seasonable communication to the public in another point of view. It shows the Whig-Radical agitators who labour in the in terest of the Queen's present Ministers, to instigate the lower classes of the people to riot and insurrection, how completely Lord Franc is E g erton, and men like his ,ord ship, despise and disregard their efforts. We like his Lordships communication, not only as it contradicts a falsehood industriously circulated by the Government scribes, for a most mischievous and unprincipled purpose, but as it manifests the sober and quiet :scoru with which the landed proprietors of England feel themselves entitled to regard the persevering attempts of the Edinburgh Review, the Morning Chronicle, and all the other PU] 3LICATION S. last published, price 6d., No. I. of ~O LD L AMPS FOR NEW." By J. HALL WRIGHT, Author of'. " Breakfast Table Science." Printed for .1c eeph Smith, 193, High Holborn. 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The Microscope, Di se r and Diving Bell, Popular Lectures, and beautiful Experime: ats. ,CANTON, and othe r beautiful COSMORAMIC VIEWS, are added to the Evenis tg Exhibition. Opens at Half-past Veit o'clock in the Morning, and seven o'clock in the Evening. Admission, THE G,INTERAL STEAM NAVIGA TION COIPAN7`..I'S splendid and powerful . First-class STEAM SHIPS 't.'re appointed to SAIL from London for HAMBURG, ROTTJ3,RDAM, and OSTEND—every Wednesday and Saturday 11forning. ANTWERP a nd . HAV-11E--every ThursdaTifgnin., ,- DOULMN&Ievery V.. , idtweseter, Jratrwatt,, and Saturday. MATA4:;ei, Tuesda3 Thursday, Saturday, and Sucday. every Between BRIGHTON as d DlEPPE—twice per week. EDINBURGH—from Br unswick Wharf, Black wal I—every Saturday Evening, and every alternate Wednesday, at Ten. To-morrow and Saturday. NEWCASTLE—from Dow,ne's Wharf—every Wednesday and Saturday Evening, at Eight. SUNDERLAND—ditto—every Tuesday Evening, at Seven. YARMOUTH—every Saturday Evening, at IPSWlCH—every Wednesday and .Saturday Morning, at Eight. RAMSGATE—DaiIy. at Nine Morning. Further particulars may be obtained, and Berths secured, at the Company's Offices, 69, Lombaird-street ; and 37, Re gent-circus. SAFETY ROTATION RAILWAY COM PANY. The Directors invite public attention to this highly important IMPROVEMENT in the CONSTRUCTION of RAILWAYS, whereby the advantage of equal speed with those in ordinary use will be found to.be combined with dimi nished expenditure to proprietors, and perfect security to tra vellers from danger to life or property. An experimental test of the efficiency of this valuable invention is about to be im mediately made by laying down a line of sufficient dimensions for the purpose, Application for shares, on which'a deposit of 11. only will be required, may be made at the Office, 1, Wallbrook•buildings, where models and drawings may be examined and prospectuses obtained. SUPERIOR CANDLES. DAVIES'S CANDLES, 6d. per lb.; Wax Candles, Is. 2d.*; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; Cocoa Nut, 10d: ; Extra Fine Wax. Wick Moulds, Md. ; Transparent Wax, 2s. Od. • Genuine Sperm, 2s. Od. ; Genuine Wax, ' 2s. 3d. • Yellow Soap, 465., 545., and 60 s. per I 121 bs: ; Mottled, 62s..and 665. ; Windsor and P&t, Is. 4d. per pac ket ; Old Brown Windsor Soap, Is. 9d. ' • Rose, 2s. Od.: Cam phor, 2s. ; Almond, 2s. 6d. ; Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d. per lb. ; Sperm Oil, 9s. Od. per Gallon; Solar Oil, 3s. For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old-Established Warehouse, 63, St. Martin's-lane, opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-Douse. EVENI SG . ;11T ti--. instruments of Whiggery, t o i nfuriate the n:1-sses of popelation in our great manuf-lcuring 1,01V115 ak, rtin,‘t. . owners and cultivators of the :'nil.. There is no lice( ~.' fir to increase to the Lancasllire yeomanry, node; 'I. , ~..,,,, 11l and 'of ' Lord Francis Eg.irton, and, therefore, i b . Nob 2 Lord delays to embrace the coMplimentary ofi'c! , • • h:s evvn tenantry to form air odeliti eua l troop to b e c pmmanded by his. son. And why is there n• such n •cessity ? Simply because the masses of the manufac turing population of Lancashire despise as much as Lord Prawns Egerton himself despises the incentives to hosts.- lity against their fellow , stibjects interested in the culti vation of the soil, and the artful admonitions to violcner 'and outrage which the journals of a defeated, and morti fied and disloyal Administration daily put forth. 11E4-ALM—We have already stated that the new-, brought by the North America is three days later tha.: the last intelligence from the United States which ha, reached this country. We are unable to give an opinion as to the degree of probability which may attach to, the article from Lockport relative, to the reportkl, violent rescue of Mr. 35PLeod by an armed body of Canadian s. This is not the time to enter upo n a quest i on Which is raised simply on the affirmative or negative of that fact. - x But whilst we feel that the series of aggressions and out- rages which has been visited on the personal liberty and . . the personal safety of M'Leod would amply justify him :o escaping, by any means that might offer, from an iie- prisonment commenced in an act of lawless violence (...= the part of certain functionaries of the United States, aly, , since maintained and enforced in defiance of the ctenr,P,' principles of the law of nations and those very rights ..,' free citizenship which are the professed o bj ect o f ! i e , United States most unqualified veneration; we know pr.t, whether at this particular juncture we should be pre. pared to rejoice at the verification of the report. W. feel, for the first time, something like a conviction tie) . the predominating tendency of public opinion in Amer: , .- is against the decision of the Judges of the New-A . .. Supreme Court. We perceive such strong indication.. , a returning sense of the demands of reason, of right, of justice in-this case, that we would a thousand tin:, prefer to see the release of M'Leod pronounced by iiii solemn arid deliberate finding of a legal tribunal in a land where it is of vast iinportance to all the countries. of the World that have amicable relations with - ft, but, of still more essential and indispensable moment to its own power, its own influence, and its own security, that the majesty of the law should vet be able to vindicate its own decrees. We shall hail it as a happy omen for . the peace and repose of the most civilised mittens of the ~_ . , ' -- f ....---oeht , .. --. Z * F. globe, if justice in the courts of the be fo..md- , -&-alfieciently "steonraißl - 45ifitIViary -ft white to •, -.„...,... make the language in which she shall pronounce for the instant release of M‘Leod, heard far and near above the sullen murmurs of a cabal, or the importunate clamours of a reckless and bloodthirsty faction. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. POST.—The principal dealings in the Share marloct were in Brighton Railway. A meeting of the proprie tors of this Company was held in the course of the day, and until this was over, a feeling of uneasiness prevailed, lest, perhaps, some discouraging disclosures shoal be made concerning the traffic of the line in its more ad vanced and expensive state. The accounts lately received from Mexico give a very deplorable idea of the condition of that country. The enormous rate of duty laid on all foreign productions, under one 'form of authority and another, operateki as a complete prohibition to legitimate importations. The result of this had been, that several vessels coming in with cargoes were ordered away again ; and if the . same fatal system should be persisted in, the resident foreign merchants would be compelled. to quit the Re public. Some measures were to be broqght before the Legislature in relation to the foreign debt ; but as they would first come under the consideration of the De puties, and these persons are paid for their services out of the public treasury, it is not expected that anything will be done for the relief of the bondholders. The same circumstance will in all probability interfere with the remittances promised to be made to England on ac count of the dividends, as required by the provjsions.of the late conversion. AD VE RTISER.—The advices received to-day througl , indirect channels from Germany and Italy, notice, we regret .to find, the occurrence of more failures. AL Vienna, Messrs. Deutsch and Co. had suspended, and at Gractz a large house in the iron trade, viz. that of Mi.- chey. At Trieste the Hebrew firm of Raphael Salem had stopped for 280,000 florins, and as it carried on a large business with the Levant, it was . feared it - might lead to embarrassments at Alexandria, Aleppo, J a ff a , Smyrna, or Beyrout. Two Greek houses, involved in losses by Guy Muller's failure, had also suspended, viz., Messrs. Clinuy and Cappair, and A. S. Minz. The firm of J. Hagenaner, at Trieste, loses about 50,000 florins by the Mullers, but its credit has remained unshaken by it. TIME4.—The failure of Messrs. Trottghton and Sons, the West India merchants, has created a great noise among their Demerara connections, and will ne dottl•i do the same here when the particulars are fully known ; although, as far as at present appears, there is nothing to justify censure. The Demerara papers received to-day, of the 3d July, are filled with the particulars of the melt ing which was called to investigate their affairs and to choose trustees for the benefit of the creditors, at which the leading partner out there submitted a statement of their accounts, which, though he would not pledge him self to its perfect accuracy, considering the emis.s. rassed state of their affairs, and the short time they had had to prepare, tsontained, he believed, fair estimate of their liabilities and assets. The ex - tent of their liabilities, on the showing of this ac count, exceeds what was originally anticipated by A , bout - 50,watt for - It i 8 stated - that tore iecistaivivtow bills likely to come back, including those for tiv, Adelphi estate not yet paid, is 120,030/. ; the colonic' debts are placed at 10,0001. ; and the debts at home at 30.0001., making a total of 160,0001. The assets arc. , described as consisting of remittances to the firm in • London, in amount 18,000/., notes of hand 12,00 '11., , the Adelphi estate 20,000/., book debts 25,000/., anti stock 7,009/,,, making a total of. 82,000/. The differeice of 78,000/ is accounted for by loss on 1,735 hogsheads,' 143 tierces, and 39 barrels of sugar, all arriving after the fall' in the produce-market in the early part of this year; 17,500/. ; on 2,254 puncheons of molasses, 1.,200/. ; on 1,094 puncheons of rum, 10,5001., making altogether a. loss on produce of 40,000/. The loss on the Adelphi 'es= tate is reckoned at 10,000/., bad debts 10,0001., bad stock. 2,000/., profit and loss 4.000/., loss on ships 1,0001., loss by failures of grocers 4,0001., loss by immigration to Berbice 2,000/., with other losses of 5,0001., the partiets;• lass of which are not stated in the papers. The party who exhibited this statement was questioned by many of the creditors, with the view, it `could appear, to show that the firm had been for a long time in a bank rupt state, and that the declaration of inability to pay had been deferred to the latest possible period. It was admitted in answer that the concern had been in embar- rassed circumstances, but they "were not of such magni tude as to lead to the supposition that by prudence and circumspection they might not be eventually righted. The firm contemplated no stoppage till the severe depreciation in produce occurred, and then it was seen that they could not carry on business further. They had, in the mean time, confined their transactions as much as possible, in order to render the catastrophe less paralyzing t 9 the mercantile community. Naturally enough, in the course of an examination like this, a variety of questions mere put, which, though relevant to affairs out there, would not be interesting here, and therefore, without enumera ting these, it is only expedient to add, that trustees are appointed to examine and take possession of all property ' for the general benefit of the creditors. The papers do ' not convey any other news of interest. SUN.—The amount of business transacted in the funds to-day was of a very limited character, and, as regards the fluctuations, they were confined to the same extent as on Saturday, viz., about 4 per cent., taking the extreme prices. The market was rendered a little heavy in the morning by the loose statement, contained in an Ame rican paper, of an attempt having been made by the Ca nadians to rescue M`Leod. Very few, however, attached the least credit to it. What we want now to give firm ness to Stocks is fine weather, and an early solution of the intentions of the Legislature on the -all important subject of Commercial Reform. For immediate transfer, Consols realised 891 to 1 ; and for account 89i to i. E.- chequer Bills were 14s. to 16s. premium, Bank Stock re ceded to 168 i and 169 ; India Stock got uP frum 24 g, t ' 248, but w ith scarce l y any business doing ; the 'New. Three-and- a -H a lf per Cents. were rather flat at 984 to 4, and the Three per Cent. Annuities at 90 to 4. The transactions in the Foreign Market were on a my wards the close of last week. small scale, but there was ratherNneizerodrotiengguethseanvitove sd a Ti s l l e utde h ' igher, viz., 30k. er Cent. Stock was P lot— r- t 44, &t,t ;tL n um ). ~.-G. Is .kJ a re ..r. D 11 patlar - Acure• tude, they did net qui , . morning ; but, in t h el a o bs m en ai c n e tai of n a t a h y e b i u m s p in r e e s y s em of en m t, agn riz i . - , 20f for account. The money price was 194 to 20 • eCo lombian Stock w Mexican nteueh e at 26, and Chilian at 62. French Five 2l perets. d 116, and Dutch Two - an d•a-lialf per Cents. were at 524. as at 0 The business in the Share Market was generally upon satisfactory terms for the sellers, though no advance oc curred. (,rest Western Railway Shares were 19, the New 8, the Fifths Sf to 4 ; London and Birmingham New 214, and South Western 134 to 134 premium; Brighton were 74 to 64, Blackwall 94, Croydon 1, and Eastern Counties 154 discount. National Provincial Bank. of: England Shares were 14 discount. Provincial B an k ~ of Ireland Shares were 15 to 154 premium ; and Union. , Bank of London i discount cx dividend. LONGEVITY.—There is now living at Be'grove, near Welling, in Kent, a venerable man, named Reeves, who was a soldier in the British army at the battle of Lexington, in America, April 19, 1175. He was then 25, and consequently is now 91. An aged person, who frequently stands at the gate of Greenwich Park 'was also in the army opposed to General Washington in 1780. He was also on board the Royal George when that ship sunk at Spithead, and is now, by his own account, in his 90th year. The first of these old men is surrounded by two generations, his descendants, all located near his' place of residence. THE CROPS.—We had very heavy rains on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday ; but dig weather has been better since, and we have good hopes of a safe harvest, if advantage is taken of every hour of sunshina. The wheat will be under an average crop. — Hampshire Guardian. Barley harvest commenced upon Tuesday last, the 3d inst., upon a field on the farm of Garronhaugh, parish of Rothiemay, belonging to Mr. William In gram, and proves to be a most abundant crop.—Abirdeett Herald. PARAPETS ON HIGHLAND ROADS.--We are glad to learn that Mr. Grant, of Gleninoriston, is agitat ing the 'propriety of parapets being erected on the most dangerous parts of our Highland roads. On the haukt of Loch Ness such protection is much r equ i re d , and We trust the county will assent to the Proposition, wh en i t is formally introduced at next Michaelmas meetin g._:, Inverness Courier. Wes.