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'CONTRACT FOR SALT BEEF AND PORK, DEPARTNtENT OF THE COMPTROLLER FOR VICTUALLING AND TRANSPORT SERVICES SoSIERSET PLACE, AuorsT 8, 1841. 1 1 1 HE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUT - ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL old Ire UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND do hereby give Notice, that. on THURSDAY, the 23d of September next, at One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for the supply of a quantity of SALT MEAT, of the cure of the United Kingdom, equal to 15,000 Navy Tierces of Beef, and 16,000 Navy Tierces of Pork (in separate Tenders), all to, be cured in the ensuing season, their Lord ships reserving to themselves the power, when the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for su ch p art thereof, only, as they may deem fit, or of not contracting for any part, The sa;.d Meat is to be delivered, three-fourth parts they in tierces, and the remaining one-fourth part thereof in br .rre i s, i nto b er Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, Po!' mouth, Plyrsouth, and Haulbowline, in such proportions as r here- A itfte r be directed ; and within the following period',:_ Beef, Two-thirds (31st l‘fiAarch One-third On or before the 4 31st Ma y 1842 Pork, One-third )31st !slarch Two-thirds 1,315 t May and to be paid for by bills payable at sight, but not during the first period of delivery, for any quantities beyond those specified. The Conditions .of the Contract - may be. seen at this Office, or by applying to the Agent for the Victualling at Cork, or -to the Collectors of her Majesty's CrtF,coms at Limerick, Bel fast, Waterford, and - Newry, or to th.e Secretary of the Post master-General at Dublin, or to the. Resident Agent for Trans ports at Leith. No Tender for a less no antity than shall be equal to 300 Tierces of Beef, or to 3fli Tierces of Pork, will be admitted; but all Tenders for such, small quantities will be accepted, if at a lower price th an th r , t fr,r which larger quantities are o ff ere d. No Tender will . be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any uo ti r ed unlessthe party attends, or some per son on his behalf, duly authorised in writing ; and it is to be expressly und i grste o d th a t th e T enders must conta in a separate price for the and a separate pr i ce f or the Pork • and that e w v o e r ry Tender.Y.nust also s p ec if y t h e pr i c es both in igures and i r i*c r'th' or the Tenders will be rejected. Admi. 27 ender must be addressed to the Secretary of the h • .and bear in the left hand corner of the envelope cords `• Tender for Salt Meat," and ' 6 Comptroller for a• jrialling," and m us t a l so b e delivered at Somerset - place , m 3 be accomp an i ed by a letter s i gne d b y t w o responsible per .. ' ls ' e ngaging to become bound with the person tendering, rn a sum equal to '251. per cent. on the amount of the Contract , `for th e d ue performanc of the same. OFFICE of the GOVERNOR and COM PANY of COPPER MINERS in ENGLAND OLD BROAD-STREET, London, August 12, 1841.-7.. j ai COURT of ASSISTANTS of the Governor and ( : ) ,,, pany of Coppers Miners in En g land, HEREBY GIV . that th e y w ill SE LL, on T HURSD AY, the that NOTICE 1 2-nurteenth day of October, now next ensuing, at their P .:atees in Old Broad street, 1.000 Tons of British Gra'..„,, Refined and Common, Tin, in Block's, Ingots and Bar s in Batsith ; in Lots of not less than I' , vo Tons. The Sale to commence at Twelve o'Cloek pref ; isely. Catalogr L es will 1- Je issued in due time, containing particulars and cowl; tions of 'Sale, which will be delivered on and after the fourteen' ,h day September next, either at this office or by the Comps' ay's brokers ' Messrs.- Short and 11ahony, No. 71, New man's court, Cornhill. T.1., e Public. Sales of Tiu by the Company will henceforth be he' it quarterly—viz., in January, April, July, and October, and t) quantity put up will be regulated by the average quarterly ' xasumption. N. B. The Company binds itself not to make Sales of Tin during the quarter beyond the quantity advertised. - UNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE OF FICE, 1, KING WILLIAM-STREET, LONDON. DIRECTORS. Sir HENRY WILLOCK, Chairmam. JOHN STZWART, Esq., ;tI.P., Deputy Chairman Col. Sir Rir i aard Armstro74,`William Kilburn, Esq. C. 8., K ,C. T. and S. Charles Otway Mayne, Esq. John Brshaw, Esq. John Rogers, jun., Esq. Augus*.us Bosanquet, Esq. IRobert Sauuders,Esq. Chas . Dashwood B ruce , E sq . J as . D uncan Th omson , Esq Ell ; .s Watkin Cunliffe, Esq. Captain Samuel Thornton, I t'aikes Cu rr i e , E sq. M . p . R.N. AUDITORS —Robert Hit:bens, Esq.; Crawford Davison Kerr, Esq. ; Robert Gardner, Esq. BANKEas—Bank of England; and Messrs. Curries and Co. SOLICITOR—WiIIiam Henry Cotterill, Esq. PuYsiciAN—George Barrows, M.D., 45, Queen Anne street. ACTUARY—David Jones, Esq. POLICIES ON THE LIVES OF PERSONS ABOITT TO PRO iCZED TO, OR RESIDENT IN INDIA, either in a Civil or Alili *ray 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 year, on the second Wed siesdiy 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 policy-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. {Messrs. Bagshaw and Co., Calcutta. Agents in India Messrs. Hall, Bainbridge, and Co., Madras. Messrs. Leckie and Co., Bombay. By order of the Board, DAVID JONES, Actuary. N ATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY FOR GRANTING 'LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c. No. 2r,, CORNHILL. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Pariatment. EIRECTOR.S. T. LAMIE .MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. J. Elliotson, M.D., F.R. S. 1 John Rawson, Esq. John Griffith Frith, Esq. Jehn Riddell Stodart, Esq. Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq. George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. I Professor Graves, A.M. F.R. S. ACTUARY—W. S. B. Woolhonse, Esq., F. R. A. S 'SOLICITORS—Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Ew ens, and Omman ney, 6, Basinghall-street. LIFE ASSURANCE. No 11512E36 TP-E - trISITORS of the ROYAL POLY t,T. f.:CHNIC INSTITUTION are respectfully informed, I , ha AFTER THIS DAY, the 4th of September , the 4n ` A itution will NOT BE OPENED ON THE SATUR . , JAY EVENINGS. It will be continued open en all other Evenings, as'well as in the Mornings, with the new and varied Lectures, ORRERY, DISSOLVING VIEWS, and nearly Two Thousand Works which display eminent art, science, and ingenuity, to which constant novelties are added. Admissik,n, One Shilling. .T ONDON and BRIGHTON RAILWAY. —NOTICE—SUNDAY TRAINS.—The Train from London to Horley and intermediate Stations at 2 r.m., and from Honey to London intermediate Stations at 6i r. DI. will discontinue on and after the sth instant. 34 Order, THOMAS WOOD, Secretary. ;el-court, Sept. 1, 1841. GRAVESEND AND BLACKWALL STEAM BOATS.—The Public are respetfully in formed, that in consequence of an arrangement entered into between the Directors of the Blackwall Railway and the "STAR" GRAVESEND STEAM PACKET COM PANY, one of the Iron Boats will, on and after THURSDAY', the 4 411 September, leave the Brunswick Pier, Blackwall, for 4..;eryesend, at a Quarter before Nine in the Morning, and that Idiot VESPER will leave the same Pier for Gravesend at a Quarter past Nine in the Morning. The other Iron Boats will leave at the same hours as heretofore ; and all the Star Beats will call at Blackwall on their way up to London 60, Fenchurch-street, Aug. 31, 1641. 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 print inles of Life Assurance and Deferred Annuities ori ginated by rh• Society, viz.—Power to borrow ( without de lay, expense, or lorfeiture) Two-thirds of all premiums paid upon a Policy of Assurance. The annexed it.). a short Table, showing the Annual Premium for assuring £lOO on the Whole Lite, or for a Term FOR LIFE. •A. B. Age. Without With For ()no For Five Profits. , Profits. Year only. Years only s. d. E. s. d. , s. d. s. d. 20 1 13 7 , 1 17 4 (► 17 0 017 6 30 2 4 4 2 9 3 , 019 6 1 0 0 40 2 18 5 3 5 3 1 3 10 1 5 0 50 4 4 2 4 13 6 1 13 0 1 16 6 60 613 a 7 ii 4 ; 3 0 0 3 9 6 Two-thirds of Profits divided annually amongst I(, Ani 'he Assured. NEW WORK ON STRICTURES OF THE URETHRA. Just published, price ss. PRACTICAL TREATISE on the CAUSES, NATURE, and TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA, and their CONSE QUENCES. By FRANCIS BURDETT COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.L. And late Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Care 01 Strieturesof the Urethra. .70NTENTS. CHAFTXR. I. Causes of Strictures. Divisions of Strictures. Consequences of Str►ctures. CHAPTER IT. 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. Symptoms resemble those of Stricture. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER 111. On the Diseases where thel FASHIONS FOR SEI?TEWIBER. (From the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.) Gros d'Afrique, taffetas, poult de soie, bareges, fou lards de Chine, moires d'ete, &c., are the materials most in request, and the favour: to colours are Oriental blue, purple, vert scarabe, orange, ,:nd noir de Chine. The make of dresses continues much ,the same ; the skirts are still ornamented en tablier, the bodies are tight and a cceur, and the sleeves very generally tight, with different styles of ornament, gimp, tas sels, folds, &c. &c. ; tucks and folds en th.e skirts are still fashionable. The newest style are I:... ; °s° headed with a rouleau of the same material as the dress ; others are edged with a lace or a ruche, the corsages a coulisses are sometimes made with the run ners placed horizontally, which have the effect of lessen ing the size of the waist. Inlets of lace are much in use for fischus, caps, or handkerchiefs ; for the latter borders have been formed by six small inlets, divided by an in terval sufficiently wide to admit a single row of em broidered spots. Cuffs and collars for neglige have also been made in this style. Small caps, both in cambric and muslin, are worn without any ribbon, and form the pr e et t t i i e e d st o s n ty t l h e e fo t r op ne o g e l t ig h e e h ,• e t a n d e ; b t a h n e dswhich turn back ar embroidery on them is light, and they are trimmed with lace. Some of the latest accounts from Paris state the re- Of tne Treatment of the Mala dies Consequen upon Stric ture. Sold by 13ailliere, Medical 13 Sinipkin and 111arshall, Ststioi rine-street, Strand; Barlow, ginale, Liverpool: and all 800 l A PPENTHX. 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. introduction of combs in the coiffure : they are said to be worn by ladies, ornamented, carved, or cnt out, of elegant forms, and suiting all styles of head-dress. The form of bonnets is undergoing some slight altera tion; they are not thrown so backward, and begin to incline a little more on the forehead. The straight cot tage is still in favour, and the materials, as yet, continue much the same, but the flowers, &c., indicate the autum nal season :some bonnets have the brides placed inside, which prevent their closing very much. Velvet is used both on straw and Leghorn bonnets. The latter are also ornamented with a voilette entirely covering, the front, confined on each side up the brides by a mend of green sarcenet ribbon ; sewed Le ;horns are also genteel. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. 1841. NOMINATION FOR THE CESAREWITCH STAKES. Hyllus, 5 yrs—The Doctor, aged—Lanercost, 5 yrs— Kingston Robin, 4 yrs—Huon, 3 yrs—Gammon Box, 3 yrs—Revoke, 5 yrs—Colchicum, 5 yrs—Benjamin, 4 yrs—Janus,4 yrs—Exit, 4 yrs—Oakley, 3 yrs—Taurida, 3 yrs—King of the Peak, 4 yrs—St. Lawrence, 4 yrs— Flash, 4 yrs—Flambeau, 5 yrs—The Genius, 4 yrs— Mus, aged—The Currier, 5 yrs—Bracelet, 5 yrs—Na worth, 4 yrs—Mustapha, 3 yrs—Halfeaste, 4 yrs, Cruis keen, agel—Zelmyra, 4 y - rs—Wirrestrew, 5 yrs—Fid hann, 3 yrs—The Nob, 3 yrs—Orelia, 5 yrs—Remnant, 4 yrs—lsabella, 6 yrs—Mungo Parke, 4 yrs—Sister to Glencoe, 3 yrs—Belgrade, 3 yrs—The Squire, 3 yrs— La Sage Femme, 5 yrs—Thirsk, 3 yrs, Millapede, 3 yrs—Showlad, 3 yrs—The Shadow, 5 yrs—Stamboul, 4 yrs—Bosphorus, 5 yrs—Silistria, 4 yrs—Scarf, 3 yrs— Compensation, 6 yrs—Wardan, 4 yrs—Lady Liverpool, 4 yrs—Champagne, 4 yrs—Ernest the First, 5 yrs— Miss Stilton, 4 yrs—Camelino, 6 yrs—Retriever, 5 yrs— Ermengardis, 3 yrs--Snowdrop, 3 yrs—Blemish, 4 yrs— Tom Tit, 5 yrs—Bellissima, 6 yrs—Galen, 4 yrs—St. Martin, 6 yrs—The Young-'un, 4 yrs—Bellona, 6 yrs— Charles the Twelfth, 5 yrs—Calypso, 4 yrs—Zohrab, aged—Modesty, aged—Broadwath, 4 yrs—Wee Willie, 6 yrs—Roscius, 5 yrs—Clinker, 5 yrs—Bussorah, 4 yrs— The Recorder, 5 yrs—Duke of Wellington, 3 yrs—Th e Ruler, 4 yrs--Melody colt, 4 yrs—lliona, 4 yrs—Tam burini, 5 yrs—The Day of Algiers, 5 yrs—Gibraltar, 4 yrs—l-am-not-aware, 6 yrs—Rory (More, 5 yrs— Welfare, 4 yrs—Johnny, 4 yrs—Alice, 3 yrs—lsaac, aged—Black Beck, 4 yrs—Hetman Platoff, 5 yrs—Prize flower, aged—Pocohontus, 4 yrs—The Corsair, 5 yrs— Humming Bird, 4 yrs—Tearaway, 3 yrs—Diana, 4 yrs— Y. Quo Minus, 3 yrs—Thebes colt, 3 yrs—Bentley colt, 3 yrs—Bob Peel, 4 yrs—Buffalo, 3 vrs—Barbara, 3 yrs— St. Francis, 6 yrs—E.O., 3 yrs—kiss Mary Ann, filly, 3 yrs—Teleta, 4 yrs—Portsoken, 3 yrs—and Laures tina, 3 yrs. COURT CLRCULAR The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at one o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Claremont Park. Between twelve and one o'clock, the following mem • bars of the late Administration arrived at Claremont : Lord Cottenham, Lord John Russell, Marquis of Nor manby. Viscount Palmerston, Earl of Clarendon, Right Hon. F. T. Baring, Earl of Minto, and Sir George Grey. The following Officers of State also arrived : The Earl of Errol, the Earl of Uxbridge. Lord Foley the Earl of Surrey, the Earl of Belfast, and Lord Marcus The Members of the new Ministry also arrived at Claremont about the same time. There were present Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharn a.i,:cfe, the .1/12m of Buckingham, Earl De Grey, Lord Stanlej', Sir Jomes Graham, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Ellenbomngh, Ea rl of Ripon, E ar l of Haddington, Mr. Goulburn, - Lord I,:yadhurst, Sir Henry Hardin e, Sir Edward Knatchbull, ...r.ord Eliot, Earl of Liverpool, 1:arl Jersey, Lord Granvilie Somerset, Earl of Lincoln, Mr. W. E. Gladstone, Lord Ernest Bruce. and Sir George Clerk, Lord Cottenham had an audience of the Queen, and resigned the Great Seal. The Marquis of Normanby had an audience of her Majesty, and resigned his three Seals of Office, as one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State. Lord John Russell and Viscount Pabnerston had audi ences of the Queen, and resigned their Official Seals, as two of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., had an • audience of her Majesty, and resigned the Seal of the County Palatine of Lancaster, and also the Seal of the Duchy of Lancaster. , The Earl of Clarendon had an audience of the Queen, and resigned the Privy Seal. The Right Hon. Francis Thornhol Baring had an au dience of her Majesty, and resigned his official seal as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Earl of Minto had an audience of the Queen. The Earl of Errol had au iitiifelce of her Majesty, on resigning his office of Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household. _ _ _ _ _ The Earl of Belfast, Lord Foley, and Lord Marcus Hill, had also audiences of her Majesty. The above named noblemen and gentlemen, after their respective audiences, immediately took their departure from Clare mont. Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen, and kissed hands on being appointed First Lord of the Treasury. The Duke of Wellington had an audience of her Majesty. Lord Granville Somerset accompanied by Mr. Danvers Clerk, of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, had an audience of the Queen, and took the oath of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and was presented by her Majesty with :. • - Seals of Office. The Earl of Li rorpool had an audience of the Queen, and kissed hands on his appointment. His Lordships received from her Majesty his Wand of Office as Lord Steward of. her Majesty's Household. The Earl of Jersey and Lord Ernest Bruce had au diences of her Majesty, and kissed hands on their ap pointment to her Majesty's Household. After giving these audiences, the Queen quitted the Yellow Drawing-room, accompanied by his Royal High ness Prince Albert, and preceded by the Earl of Liver pool, the Earl of Jersey, and Lord Ernest Bruce, and passed to the Corridor, where a Privy Council was held shortly before two o'clock. Her Majesty was pleased to declare Lord Wharncliffe Lord President of the Council, and his Lordship took his place at the Board. The custody of the Great Seal having been delivered to Lord Lyndhurst, his Lordship was sworn into office as Lord High Chancellor. The Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Leicester, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Eliot, and Mr. William Gladstone, having been appointed Privy Councillors. were sworn in of the Council, and took their seats at the Board. The Duke of Buckingham was sworn in Keeper of the Privy Seal.. Sir James Graham, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Lord Stanley were sworn as her Majesty's three principal Se cretaries of State. The Earl of Ripon and the Right Hon. W. C. Glad stone were appointed President and Vice-President of the Board of Trade. Earl De Grey was declared by the Queen in Council Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Mr. C. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. The Council broke up at a quarter past two o'Clock. The Earl of Listowel was the Lord in Waiting ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; General the Hon. Sir William Lumley, Groom in Waiting ; Colonel Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting; and Colonel Wylde, Equerry to Prince Albert. A dejuene was served immediately after the Council. His Grace the Duke of Wellington left Claremont at half-past two o'clock. Sir. Robert - Peel,. and the Noblemen and Gentlemen attending the Council also took their departure for town before three o'clock. The new Ministers and Officers of. State appeared at her Majesty's Council yesterday in Court costume, the Members of Orders of Knighthood, wearing their re spective Ensigns. Yesterday morning at an early hour her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in Claremont Park. The Earl of Aberdeen, after his return to town yes terday afternoon, proceeded to the Foreign Office, and transacted business. Sir James Graham attended at the Home Office yes terday afternoon, after his arrival from Claremont. THE CORN•LAWS A . ND THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. _ Sin—The cOnsisTertiidperseverini,Wianner in which the question of a change in the Corn-laws has been fol lowed up by The Sun newspaper, deserves the thanks of this country, as well as every other community. When all was gloom and despondency, that subject was nobly sup ported by your independent and valuable paper. The present scale of duties was carried by the Duke of Wel lington against poor Mr. Canning, and therefore he is responsible for his act to this free and powerful country. Common sense at once shows that a close and grindinr , monopoly, on the most essential article of food of the e people, must be a fatal blow to trade ; and what would become of this great country without it ? Could the Noble Duke, or Sir Robert Peel, resist the suffering cry of the people in 1830 ? The thunder-clap which then frightened and alarmed them, and shook the whole fabric of society, may recur agri.n with awfvl consequences. I say, let them and the landowners beware before it is too late. The mere triumph of party will not deceive those who are exiles from their native land, those who have been ruined and are suffering from the crushing effects of this hard and unfeeling law. If the day of adversity falls on them, what mercy have they to expect who have shown none ? Are we serfs, or freemen ? I, as the father of a family, with thousands—l may say millions—feel severely the pressure of this iniquitous law, and yet I am of the.middling class, and well edu cated. I happen to know that the labouring classes are generally being deprived of what few comforts they had left, by deep and overwhelming distress. Can those who have the luxuries of life, look on this Appa"ing state of society with indifference—are they aware of what Eng glishmen can do, when driven to despair ? I hope not for their own sakes, as well as my own. I do not he sitate to say, that if this law.is not at least greatly mo dified, six months will not pass without a crisis. No one w: 1 1 deny that it is better that individuals should suffer, than a nation sink. Those who deride our gra cious Sovereign's Speech on the distress of the country, and recommending attention to the Corn-laws, may live bitterly to repent their error. Let us hope that more just principles of taxation will prevail, before the work ing class stand up as ene man, and indignantly demand their rights as freeborn men who have been deceived. The importance of the subject will, I trust, excuse my requesting you to publish this letter.—l am, Mr. Editor, Your obedient and humble servant, AN ELECTOR. 3ookseller, 219, Regent-street iners' •court ; Onwhyn, Cathe. Birmingham ; Ross and Night ksellers in Town and Country. COURAGE NECESSARY FOR NONCONFOR MITY.—For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face. The bystanders look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlour. If this aversion had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he might well go home with a sad counte- DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT. By the plan exclusively developed by this Society, a single Deferred Annuity is made, nGt 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. nance ; but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, disguise no God, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs. Yet is the discontent of the multitude more for midable than that of the Senate and the College. It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent ; for they are timid, as being very vulnerable themselves. But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the igno rant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it God-like as a trifle of no concern ment.—Emerson's Essay on Self-Reliance. 1. A small yearly or weekly contribution will secure the most ample return for 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 Cash Policy, without farther contributions, of 466 0 0 at death. Other periods of life (of 50, 55, and 60) may be also taken with similar advantages. 2. Two-thirds at any time lent on deposit of policy, being a fund always available during sickness or want of employment. 3. Two-thirds of all payments returned to representatives in case of premature death. N. B. Policies, as collateral money-security, for periods of one to five years, effected at lower rates than are charged by stny other Ottlee, (See Tables A. and B.), with option of coo tinuance for Life at the usual rates. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec. WESTBURY.—THE MANCHESTER CONFER , ENCE.—The pastors of the Dissenting churches in this b kav o ratoitiuseogn,hv to e , l p i f n artr c e o communication cati o poor, n having otherg requested persons thein interested e j d . re s s n ent p t a h r e t m th i e n F t r h id e a C y o p n r f e e c r e en d c in e g la f t o e r ly pa h h e l l i d c in Manchester, e t apart special prayer, that a Divine blessing might attend his return mission ora their i t r h the e p p r r oc es e e e n d ta li t i i c.s e, of that to hold a assembly. On the it was considered desirable public meeting, to hear the report of Mr. Watson, prio r to t h e a d opt i on o f u l ter i or measures. On Frid ay evening convened iabythNe. last, the 27th ult., an assembly was Upper Meeting-House; the Choir was Overbury, Esq. After the devotional ably filled exercises, the meeting j.ir N e vas addressed by the Rev. Messrs. R. Harries and. c a l c i ee f e t o e u' e nt of the proceedings at the long and interestinn• population appeared Mr. Watson then gave a a on f cluded with prayer. The Conference, and M r . chapel was crowded, an dof deep sympathy devo a a p o p n e a a l re e d ha t r o acter, towards our starving every breast. Though of a meeting broke up presentin g a practical ‘ pervade t h the the twelfth resolution passed inConference, illustration of viz.:— " That while this Conference declines to distinct or specific plan of operations t : prescribe any its members after this meeting break s up,e pursued by ourselves, that by all such means as m a y be deemed we pledge the individuals themselves best fitted to advance eth by . cause in which we are engaged, we shall never ee e as gr e et in our efforts till these u n j ust and unchristian enactments which restrict the supplies of food are expunged from the statute both."— Wiltshire Independant. TIMOROUSNESS OF THE AGE.—The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are b e _ come timorous desponding whimperers. We are a f ra i d of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect per sons. We want men and women who shall renovate "fe and our social state, but we see that most natures are in solvent ; cannot satisfy their own wants , have an ambi tion out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our house keeping is mendicant ; our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen , but societ y has chosen - for us. We are parlour soldiers. The rnged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun. Emerson's Essay onSelf-Reliance. It is pleasant enough to consider the changes that a linen rag undergoes by passing through various hands. The finest pieces of Holland, when worn to tatters, assume a new whiteness more beautiful than!the first condition, and often return in the shape of letters to their native country. A lady's chemise may be meta morphosed into a billet-doux, and come into her posses sion a second time. A towel, or napkin, worn to tatters, may be taken from a dunghill and converted into a valu able piece of furniture in a Prince's cabinet.—Old Manuscript. P.S.—My letter on the election of the new Parlia ment, published on the 12th of July, 1830, in the Morn• ing Herald, was followed by events sufficiently alarming. I was then in Kent, and in the capital. Plymouth, Devon, Sept. 1, 1841. LIST OF NEW PATENTS. AUGUST, 1841. Samuel Brown, of Gravel-lane, Southwark, engineer, for improvements in the manufacture of metallic casks or ves sels, and in tinning or zincing metal for such and other pur poses. Sealed 11th August—six months for inrolment. John seaward and Samuel Seaward, of the Canal Iron Works, Poplar, engineer, for certain improvements in steam engines. Sealed 13th August—six months for in rolment. William Hale, engineer, and Edward Dell, merchant, both of Woolwich, for improvements in cases and ma gazines for ou npowder. Sealed 13th August—six months for inrolments.. John Hawig, of the Strand, gentleman, and Felix Mo reau, of Holywell-street, Milbank, scuoptor, for a new or improved mode or process for cutting or working cork for various purposes. Sealed August 21st—six months for inrolment. John Hawig, of the Strand, gentleman, and Felix Mo reau, of Holywell-street, Milbank, sculptor, for a new or improved process or processes for sculpturing, moulding, engraving and polishing stones, metals, and other sub stances. Sealed 21st August—six months for inrolment. MEATH ELECTION.—We refer with unallayed satisfaction to the influential requisition calling on Mr. Corbally to stand for the representation of Meath. In rank, wealth, patriotism, and public virtue, the requisitionists are second to none in the em pire. It must be peculiarly gratifying to Mr. Cor bally to find that his character as a public man, and his services in the public cause, are appreciated by so numerous and respectable a body of the inde pendent freeholders of Meath. Mr. Corbally may rejoice at having earned the approval of such men ; and with equal pride and satisfaction can he respond to the call they have made. To represent a county situated as Meath is—a county in which Toryism has been pros trated, if not utterly annihilated—is an honour of which any man might well be proud.—Dublin Pilot. (/r-Pn/(-46-4-4.1,,z-wtig.q7 - • • (, . 4 e. 1 %.1 ,- AS „ et A. &I: 4T , r ; 40 & , , t3i,s • / t.P . .` Q vlw./.omt, 7/, ( 4 4 1 40:1,,* nn s. 6 4 4:34 1 4 / Att,r W • 0 14 `%, bit D itAT ill * „ Sit• 2 PROITt LONDON, SATURDAY, 'SEPTEMBER 4, 1841. SIR ROBERT PEEL AND HIS CABIN ET. On Friday last Sir Robert said, whilst speaking of the Corn-laws, " I held in 1830 that I would not bind myself to the details of the existing law, but would reserve to myself the unfettered diScretion of considering and amending that law. I hold the same language now; and if you ask me whether I bind Myself to the maintenance of the existing law in its details, or if you say that this is the condition on which the agricultural interest give me their support, I say that in that condition I wili not accept their support." The Duke of Buckingham said, in 1839, " What alarms me most upon this subject is the difference of opinion existing upon it in the Cabinet." Sir Edward Knatchbull said, on the Bth of March, 1827:—" The Right Hon. Gentleman had said that <he did not believe an import duty would be preferable to a prohibitory price.' This was the opinion he also held. ... It was his opinion—an opinion in which he was supported by eminent authority—that this country ought to depend for its supply of grain on the soil of the United Kingdom. . . . He thought the principle which had been laid down in 1815 the true one, and he should op pose every other." To this mild speech, you, Sir, replied, that you " thought that, when it was recollected that corn could not be imported into this country under the law of 1815 until the price of it was above 80s., no gentleman who called himself a friend to the agricultural interest would seriously advise a rigid adherence to the law of that date." . • The Duke of Buckingham, no longer since than the debate in the Lords of the 14th of March, 1839, took " his firm stand in support of the Corn-law as it now stands." His Grace then quoted a speech made in .1815, of which the following was the concluding para graph :—" Whether the restricting price should be 725., 765., or 80s., was a matter of less moment ; although, under all the circumstances, he was in favour of the higher sum,. us giving-due-eueaucagement. to,.tlte. farmer, without which he could not contend with rival anrlii4gn markets. These (said the Noble Duke) ARE MY EXACT OPINIONS." On the 18th of February in the same year, his Grace likewise said (speaking of the existing Corn-laws), " I adhere to these laws ; I wish for no alteration in them. . . . .These essential laws—laws of which I have ever been, and shall continue to be, a firm advocate." Let us hear the Duke of Wellington on the 18th of February, 1839. He also opposed the hearing of evi dence on the subject of the Corn-laws :—" Agriculture —said his Grace in his usual pithy style of expression— agriculture cannot yet do without protection, and there fore the law must be kept up." No longer ago than Thursday, the 12th of August, Sir E. Knatchbull thus expressed himself : " Nothing had been advanced within his hearing or reading that induced him at the present moment to think an alteration in the Corn-laws, as they now stood, advisable.—(Cheers.) When the matter came under consideration, if any improvement affecting the farming interest or the general interest of the country should be suggested, he would give it his fullest consideration, and adopt it or not, according as he might or might not think it beneficial. With respect to the general question of protection, there was no doubt that protection must be maintained in the existing state of things. Let, then, the alteration of the law of tithe be considered in con nection with the conduct of Ministers on the subject of the Corn-laws. Within the last few years an Act had been passed for the commutation of tithe, which was compulsory on both parties, the clergy and the landed interest. It was his opinion, that the law was based on equitable principles ; but if an alteration should take place in the Corn-laws, and the price of wheat be re duced to 40s. from between 50s. and 60s. per quarter, how would it be possible for that law to be carried out ? —(Hear, hear.) How would it then be possible for the land to bear the burden imposed on it by that law ?" (Hear, hear.) The Duke of Buckingham has continually adjured the farmers at ordinaries, and at extra ordinaries, to stick to the entire Corn-law, and not allow a line of it to be al tered. With such colleagues, how can Sir Robert Peel alter the law beneficially ? At Tamworth he showed that the present law does not give protection enough, and we therefore have no doubt that the only alteration he will make will be to increase the tax now levied on the public by the rent-owners. TARDY JUSTICE.—During the Assizes just closed, the subjects of mania andmonomania have been more than once discussed on behalf of prisoners charged with serious crimes, and examples have been cited from works of authority on the subject ; but we think the Learned Counsellors had no occasion to go so far out of their way to bring evidence of what was called monomania, for they have a living example of its ef fects generally travelling the circuit with them ; and, as one tact is worth fifty arguments, the time of the Court, the patience of the Jury, as well as the evidence of the medical - gentlemen, which, by the bye, was not of the most satisfactory and explicit nature, would have been spared. Some of our readers may per haps be aware that the Judges of the Northern Circuit are attended in their judicial route by a genteelly-dressed female, a monomaniac, who fancies she has a very im- portant trial at issue, that she has engaged one of the Learned Counsellors as her advocate, and that the cause is to borne on immediately. Sometimes the officers of the Court and she have slight skirmishes, as she generally wishes to take a very prominent part in the hall of jus tice, and does not like to submit to any of the under strappers. At these assizes the poor lady has been somewhat at a loss in consequence of the ab sence of her supposed advocate, notwithstanding which, she has attended, and listened very patiently and earnestly to the trials going on. On Tuesday evening, just as his Lordship and the few of the long robes who remained were discussing the propriety of finishing the last case that night, or leaving it till the morning, her Ladyship, who had taken her place in one of the seats appropriated for the Counsellors, on hearing Mr. Watson, who was next her, urge his Lordship to go on with the case that night, rose, and with great calm ness addressed the Judge and Jury as follows :—" Yes, my Lord and Gentlemen, and I hope, before you go, you'll do me justice. It is nearly time for you ; my case has been standing for nine years." A cry of" hush" from her Learned Friend who was next her silenced the good lady, and she left the Court, when the Judge re tired. We have heard it whispered that this poor woma n lost a considerable sum at one time by a law-suit, the re- suit of which was the partial bereavement of her senses, which accounts for her singular conduct.--Liverpoo , Mercury. We have received from a correspondent, now travelling on the Rhine, some particulars relative to the Belgian railways, which cannot fail to interest our readers. That part of Germany has already been brought very near to London by the steam navigation, and at a very cheap rate ; but the continuation of the railroad from Liege to Cologne will, in a short time, add materially to the rapidity of the communication. From the _ latter place to Aix-la-Chapelle the line will be opened in a few days ; though two years v. probably elapse before the part of the line from A 4 x to Liege is completed, that not having been begun as soon as the other, and there being much greater difficulties to sur mount. The terminus of the Ostend line at Ans, near Liege, is on a very high level, and it is now in the course of being brought down to cross the I:ver Meuse, near the town, by inclined planes. It will afterwards follow the pretty and romantic valley of the Verder to Ver iers, crossing the river no less than six or seven and twenty times, and the road six times, by very handsome bridges, as they promise to be from the piers that are already constructed, of very good stone, which is found almost close to the spots where it is wanted.' There are nine galleries, as the French call them on the Simplon, through projecting masses of rock, round which the ri ver flows, so that in many instances there is a very hand some bridge on each side of the entrance to the turnel. This will be a most beautiful road to travel on the rails, and the railroad, with its bridges, stone embankments to the river, &c., wilt also form a most interesting object to those who travel by the post road, both in point of picturesque appearance, and as being worthy of notice in an engineering point of view. From Verviers the road runs in a different direction to that followed by the post road.—Brighton Gazette. GROWTH OF FREE-TRADE PRINCIPLES.— The expectation that civilised nations mad• become, in no long time, suffiiciently enlightened to understand the advantages of free-trade is not visionary. Even at pre sent a progress towards a less restrictive system of com merce is visible over the whole civilised world. Protect ing duties between different parts of a country imme diately subject to the same Government are now gene rally abandoned. Yet Turgot's measure for permitting a free trade is g:ain between the different provinces of France, caused an insurrection in 1775 ; the corn trade between Ireland and Enghind was first opened by Lord Grenville's Administration in 1806 ; and the remaining protecting duties between the same, two countries were not removed till 1825. The principle of a free com mercial intercourse has been extended by the Prussian league to a certain number of neighbouring independ ent states. And, although every nstior still asserts the expediency of duties intended for the protection—as it is falsely styled—of native industry and commerce, and not for the levying of a revenue for the Governmenr, yet they all show a disposition to diminish the number and rigour of the prohibitions and restrictions by which this so-cal'ed protection is affordei. Thus slow and painful are the advances of human reason, made, as it were, by groping in the dark, and retarded at every step by the opposition of short-sighted interest, the listless ness of routine, and the want of confidence in theoreti cal truths! If, however, the Governir 2nts of civ:lized nations could once acquire so much reliance on the moderation and enlightenment of the Governments of other civilized nations as to expect that the latter would allow an unrestricted trade with their own subjects, the motive for the acquisition and possession of dependen cies, which is founded on the assumed folly of all Go vernments respecting commercial intercourse, would no longer exist.—Lewis's Government of Dependencies. Great quantities of pilchards and mackerel have been brought in here this last week past, and gave re munerating prices to the fishermen.—Plymouth JournaL The agricultural papers are urging the farmers to do their hoeing during the dry weather. This is ac •3rding to the scriptural injunction, which says, " Hoe, every one that thirsteth." PRICE 5d SLAVERY IN THE EAST INDIES. BENGAL.—In this division of the report the systems of bondage and slavery prevailing ;n the terraories which were subject to the presidency of Bengal prior to the year 1841 are treated of under twenty-two separate heads. Our limited space will, however, only enable us to give a few extracts from the most important of these heads, showing, in a degree, the nature of East Indian slavery. 1. PREVALENCE OF SL E RY. —Slavery preva:ls more or less throughout the whole of these territories ; the number of the slaves in some parts is considerable, a wealthy zemindar often possessing as many as 2,000. ; and it is stated that there are 200 or 250 landholders who possess that number each. One of the witnesses examined is himself the owner of fifty slaves ; in other districts the slaves are comparatively few. In the northern, central, and southern districts of Cuttack the proportion of the slaves to the free population is supposed to be as six to ten, but this proportion is considered excessive. " In the city of Calcutta the majority of the Mahome dan, Portuguese, Armenian, Parsee, and Jew inhabi tants possess slaves. In the districts of Bengal lying beyond the Ganges slavery prevails to a• great extent. In Tipperah the slaves are supposed to conAtitute one fourth of the population ; in Mymensingh all the great zemindars have slaves in proportion to their wealth, who are settled on their ?states ; one landholder, a lady, pos sesses 1,400 slaves of this description ; even persons who live upon small salaries, such as clerks and accountants, have generally five or six slaves. In the Delhi territory the keeping of slaves is stated to be almost entirely confined to the city of Delhi, though in all the surrounding independent states, especially where the chiefs are Mahomedans, it is more common. In 1813 Sir C. Metcalfe, then resident at Delhi, addressing Government on the means of checking the traffic in slaves within this territory, ob served :—" The natives of this country are undeniably greatly addicted to the purchase of slaves, espeeially of the female sex ; some because slaves are kept at a less expense than other servants,—others for the sake of the privacy of the apartments of their wives,—others for the gratification of their own vicious propensities,—others , fin. the purpose of public prostitution. They will go to any expense, and run any risk, to procure slaves." 11. ORIGIN OF SLAVERY.—The slavery prevailing in the territories subject to the Bengal Presidency may be traced to several sources :- 1. The sale, or gift of children by their parents, or other natural guardians. ' 2. The sale of children and adults by their mothers, or maternal relations. 3. The sale of wives by their husbands. 4. The self-sale of adults. 5. Marriage, or cohabitation with a slave. G. Kidnapping. 7. Importation. 8. Birth. Of all the modes by which free-born persons pass into the state of slavery, the first-mentioned is the most gene ral and constant in its operation. These sales take place under the pressure of any neeessity, either to obtain an advance of money, to discharge a debt, or to preserve life. Dr. Buchanan mentions that in Rungpore poor pa rents sell their male children with more reluctance than the female, as being a greater resource for support in old age, and that in Shahabad they seldom sell them of either sex. In the case of wives being sold as slaves by their hus bands, the marriage is not thereby dissolved, and if the husband continues to have access to his wife, the offspring belong to the purchaser. In the famine which visited the district of Agra in 1813 and 1814 persons were glad to sell both their women and children for a few rupees, and even for a single ineal.—Report of the Indian Law Commissioners, printed by the House of Commons. ANTI-CORN-LAW MOVEMENT IN CHICHES TER.—On Tuesday evening, at the Independent Chapel, a public meeting was held, when the Rev. W. Malden having returned :rom the Manchester Conference, gave an address which extended to an hour and a half, com- prising an outline of the four days' Conference, Anti which was listened to 14:th serious and deep attention. At the close of the Rev. Mr. Malden's address, it was moved by the Rev. John Fullagar, the Unitarian minis ter of Chichester, and unanimously adopted by the meet ing:—" That, in the opinion of this meeting, the Con ference of Christian ministers lately held in the town of Manchester is entitled to the thanks of the nation ; that the proceedings of the Conference were characterized by Christian kindness towards the poor, and calculated to exert a beneficial influence ; and that it is the duty of EVENING "UN. THE ROYAL CASTLES OF SCOT - LAND. (From Tyler's History qf Scotland.) On the Borders were the Castles of Jedburgh, Rox burgh, and Berwick ; those of Dumfries, Kirkcudbright. Wigtown, Ayr, Tarbet, Dumbarton, and Stirling, formed a semicircle of fortresses which commanded the impor tant districts of Annandale, Galloway, Carrick, Kyle, Lanark, and the country round Stirling, containing the passes into the Highlands. Between Stirling, Perth, and the Tay, there was no royal castle, till we reach Dundee, where Brian Fitz Alan commanded • after which the castles of Forfar, Kincardine, and Aberdeen, pro tected and kept under the counties of Perth, Angus, Kin cardine, and Aberdeen; and travelling still farther north, we find the castles of Cromarty or Crumbarthyn, Ding wall, Inverness, Nairn, Fortes, Elgin, and Banff, which, when well garrisoned, were deemed suffi cient to maintain the Royal authority in those remote and unsettled districts. Such were the Royal Castles of Scotland previous to the war of liberty ; but it was the policy of Bruce; as we have seen, to raze the fortresses of the kingdom, wherever they fell under his power ; whilst, on the other hand, Edward, in his various cam paigns, found it necessary to follow the same plan whick had been so successful in Wales, and either to construct additional fortresses, for the purpose of overawing the country, or to strengthen, by new fortifications, such baronial castles as he Imagined best situated for his de sign. In this manner the architecture of the strong Norman Castles, which had already been partially intro duced by the Scoto-Normah Barons, was more effectually taught by their formidable enemy to the Scots, who pro fited by lessons, and turned it against himself. It not unfrequently happened that the siege of a ba ronial castle detained the whole English army for weeks, and even, months, before it ; and although feebly gar ' risoned, the single strength of its walls resisted and sometimes defied the efforts of Edward's strongest ma chines and most skilful engineers. To enumerate or to point out the situation of the baronial castles which at this early period formed the residences of the feudal nobility and their vassals, would be almost impos sible. They raised their formidable towers in every part of the kingdom, on its coasts and in its islands, on its peninsulas and in its lakes, upon the banks of its rivers and on the crests of its mountains ; and many of those inhabited by the higher nobi lity rivalled, and in their strength and extent sometimes surpassed, the fortresses belonging t* the King. In the year 1309, when the military talent* of Bruce had wrested from England nearly the whole of the Royal castles, we find Edward the Second writing earnestly to hiS principal officers in Scotland, diroctit them to maintain their ground to the last extremit:r against the enemy ; and it,is singular that, with the ex ception of Edinburgh, Stirling, Dumfries, and Jedburgh, the posts which they held, and which are enumerated in his order, are all of them private baronial castles, whose proprietors had either been compelled by superior force. or induced by selfish considerations, to embrace the English interest. In his letters are mentioned the castle of Kirkintulloch between Dumbarton and Stirling ; Dalswinton in Gallo way, a principal seat of the Comyns ; Caerlaverock, be longing to the Maxwells ; Thrieve Castle, also in Gallo way ; Lochmaben in Annandale, the seat of the Bruces ; Butel, the property of the Steward,- Dunba a castle o;' great strength and extent, one of the keys 'f ' the king dom, by which the Earls of March commanded so mud^ influence in an age of war and invasion ; Dirleton, also of great extent, and possessed by the Norman race of the De Vaux ; Selkirk, at that time in the hands of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke ; and Bothwell, a castle at various times the property of the Olifards, Morays, and Douglases. Innumerable other castles and smaller strengths, from the seats of the highest Earls, whose power was almost kingly, down to the single towers e the retainer or vassal, with their low iron-ribbed door, and loop-holed windows, were scattered over every di triet in Scotland ; and, even in the present day, the traveller cannot explore the most unfrequented scenes, and the remotest glens of the country, without meeting some grey relic of other days, reminding him that the chain of feudal despotism had there planted one of its thousand links, and around which there often linger those fine traditions, which fiction has lent her romantic colours this city to petition the Legislature for the total repeal of all laws which restrict the supply of food to the people." We learn from Switzerland, that Professor Agassiz, of Neufchatel, is established, with several savants, on the glacier of the Aar, in the canton of Berne, making Observations on the geological phenomena attendant on glaciers. and superintending a bore which is driving down through the glaciers The bore has gone down 80 feet ; - the 'thermometer merks—one-third ; and at night falls to six. Lord Enniskillen, Professor Forbes. Messrs. Robertson and Martins, have visited Professor Agassiz in his rocky grotto, where his com panions are Messrs. Studer and Escher.—Literary Gazette. ANOTHER ANTI-CORN-LAW MOVE.—We learn that a number of large and influential spinners and manufacturers had a meeting at Menchestcr, on Tues day last, to consider the propriety of withdrawing their business from all merchants and brokers in Liverpool who gave their support to• pro Corn-law Members of Par liament ; and they came to the conclusion that such a c ourse would be quite justifiable, and that they saw no reason for giving business to those who were deeng their best to deprive them of their means of living—no reason for increasing the wealth of those who were reducing them to poverty. Another meeting of the spinners and manufacturers of the town and neighbourhood of Man chester was fixed for Tuesday next, for the purpose of considering further of the matter, and carrying it into effect.—Chronicle. , FORCE OF TRUTH. Dreadful limits are set in nature to the powers of dissimulation. Truth tyrannizes over the unwilling members of the body. Faces never lie, it is said. No man need be deceived who will study the changes of expression. When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint. I have heard an experienced counsellor say that he feared never the effect upon a Jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a ver to history. In the vicinity of these strongholds, in which the Scottish Barons of the thirteenth and fourteenth centu ries held their residence, there was cleared from wood as much ground as was necessary fcir the support of that numerous train of vassals and retainers, which formed what was termed the " following" of their Lord, and. who were supported in a style of rude and abundant hospitality. The produce of his fields and forests; his huge herds of swine, his flocks and cattle, his granaries and breweries, his mills and malting-houses, his dove cots, gardens, orchards, and " infield and outfield" wealth all lent their riches to maintain those formidable bands of warl!ke knights and vassals, who were ready on every summons to surround the banner of their Lord. Around these castles, also, were placed the rude habita tions and cottages belonging to the servants and inferior dependants of the baron, to his arznourers, tailors, wnghts, masons, falconers, forest-keepers, and many others, who ministered to his necessities, his comforts, or his pleasures. It happened too, not unfrequently, that, ambitious of the security which the vicinity of a feudal castle ensured, the free farmers or opulent tradesmen of those remote times requested permission to build their habitations and booths near its walls, which, fur payment of a small rent, was willingly allowed; and to this prac tice we perhaps owe the origin of towns 'and royal burghs in Scotland. HARVEST BELL.—It has been the custom, from time immemorial, for the parish clerk of Dritile ld to ring what. is called the " Harve - .1 Bell." This custom is observed by giving the principal bell of the church a merry swing for several minutes, at five o'clock each morning, and at seven each evening, to warn the labour ers in the harvest fields when to commence and quit their toils. Before the general use of clocks and watches, this• custom would doubtless be of much service. The clerk is rewarded for his trouble with a small portion of corn from each crop, which, like tithes, was formerly paid in kind, but is now received by an equivalent in money.— . York Courant. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—With the exception of the after part of yesterday, which was gloomy and showery, we have been favoured with an other week of glorious harvest weather, which the farmers in Our neighbourhood have turned to geod ac count, the wheat fields being pretty well cleared of their golden produce. We are happy to state that; the in-ga thering is more than an average both as to quantity and quality. There were many fine samples of new wheat in our market on. Saturday, but the hot noonday sun made the buyers cautions, lest they might burn their fingers as well as scorch their faces, and but very little of the new grain passed from the hands of the growers. There was a fall of from 6s. to Bs. a quarter (4s. tad. in the average) from the prices of the preceding week, but strange to say, the price of bread and flour remains the same. How is this 7—ln another column will •be found extracts from the country papers of Saturday, which will be read with interest, as affording an index to the state of the crops in all parts of the kingdom. [We have learnt, after writing the above, that the price of bread, first quality, has fallen (this day, Wednesday) to 9id., and seconds, Bd.—Cambridge Advertiser. ELECTION.—Mr. Wilberforce is mostly boarded and lodged at Matthew Thompson's, Esq. The Tories of the town are making the utmost exertions for their man and a very strict canvass has been made on his behalf. Blue flags are waving in various parts of the town. The election day is, however, a good distance yet. According to Wordsworth's Law of Elections it cannot take plaCe before the 10th of September. The Yellow Committee are paying off the bills of expenses incurred last election. Mr. Busfield's canvass, we have been strongly assured on good authority, has been extremely' successful, and if We rselectionl tr.s remember,Busfield o w how ed e vt has a sre,mwsei nottl h v e sy s o row, e r t indifferent le t yr h , ee addresseda Yellows-caieu men's promises are to be relied upon he will be ret u rned. very re il t aa h ts ;inhabitant s . Mr. Wilberforce has spoken publicly at no place in Bradford besides the once at the Odd Fellows' Hall, which we mentioned last week. In other parts of the borough he has addressed the electors with no success we mean so far as applause was concerned. Mr. Wilberforce and Mr. Busfield met in the street one day last week, and on being introduced to each other did not. agree.— York Courant. bridge Police-office, on Friday, a fellow named WORSE THAN THE KNIFE.--At Stour- Ikad was charged with cutting and stabbing Thomas Pardoe, and Mr. Mobberley, publican, of Coalburn-hrook Amblecote, on the 26th ult. From the evidence ad duced, it appeared that on the day in question .the prid soner came into Mr. Mobberley's taproom, and ihq_lnre thought it Edward if any of the company had any razors to set H . had half-a-pint of ale, and had not been in manyannldmultes when he began blackguarding all the co be rn tided him in the mately became so violent that Mr. Mo necessary to turn him out This razor, cut at Mr. M. and slightly and lie` e s b iste ir Cl l-je , nl' and, with t face. Mr. Mobberley cried out, and Pardoe went to Thug, and it appears a few very slight wounds on miraculous he did not murder his assistance, when the prisoner h s i e m t up o o u n tri h:m h , t e az. aosr iint was, he escaped with the abdomen, and a fearful one on theright shoul der, about four long,inches commencing at th e t o p an d extending to the arm -pit. From this wound the blood must have poured in torrents, for Pardoe's coat, waist coat, and shirt were completely saturated. After a most determined resistance, the prisoner was secured by po liceman Thornton, and conveyed to the prison. The prisoner made no defence, other than saying they set upon him, and showing a bruise on his arm, which he said some one did. He was committed to take his trial at the next Stafford Assizes. Poor Pardoe seems very weak and ill from the loss of blood which he sustained. ir e had a most providential escape, there being six cuts entirely through the front of his trousers (three in a perpendicular and three in an horizontal direction), and his escape from a fatal wound in this part of his person is to be attributed to the circumstance of the trousers being of a large, roomy description. Head is a rough looking customer, from IVolverhampton. His wife was in Court during his examination, and appeared much distressed at the situation in which Le had placed him self.—lVorcestershire Chronicle. A WOMAN'S ADVANTAGES.—A woman may say what she likes to you, without the risk of getting n dr i ss knocked down for it. She can take a sno oze after dinner while her husband has to go to wo rk. She ca ich e herself in neat and tidy shoes for a dollar, hick ier husband has to earn and fork over to her. She can take a walk on a pleasant day without the fear of being asked to treat at every coffee-house she passes. She can paint her face, if too pale, or flour it , if too red. She can stay at home in time of war, and w ed again if her husband is " kilt." She can wear corsets if too thick, and other fixins if too thin.—Buffalo Times. diet. If he does not believe it; his unbelief u l l appear to the Jury, despite all his protestation, and will become their unbelief. This is that law whereby a work of art., of whatever kind, sets us in the same state of mind wherein the artist was when he made it. That which we do not believe we cannot adequately say, though we may repeat the words never so often.—Essay on Spiritual Laws. SINGULAR CASE OF SPONTANEOUS COM BUSTION.—Between the hours of eight and nine, on Wednesday evening last, a fire, which at first assumed an. alarming character, was discovered raging in the base ment of the premises belonging to Mr. Archbutt, pawn broker and silversmith, No. 110, Blackfiar's-roa 1, near the Magdalen Hospital, and oh inquiry being instituted, it was ascertained to have commenced in the cellars, which were fitted up as store-rooms for the reception of beds, bedding, carpets, &c. With great exertions the ravages of the fire were confined to the cellars, and in about half an hour it was wholly subdued • but the loss of property is stated to be very considerable, nearly the whole of the beds, carpets, &c. that the cellars contained be:ng all but consumed. There is every reason to believe that the fire is the effect of spontaneous combus tion, and that one of the beds contained rags mixed with flock, which, by some means, became damp, and being closely piled one a top of another they heated to a state of combustion, and ultimately burst into flames. Un fortunately Mr. Archbutt was severely burnt about the hands and face, in extinguishing . the flames. The pro perty is stated to be insured in the Union and Atlas Fire-offices to the extent of several thousand pounds. SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.—Some very re markable organic remains of those gigantic Saurian rep tiles which characterize the Wealden formation, have re cently been discovered in the cutting forming the en trance to the Bletchingley tunnel, on the South Eastern Railway. They are chiefly vertebrae of Megalosauri an d Iguanodons, with some of smaller reptiles of the same class. They are in the possession of Mr. Simms, the re sident engineer of the company at Bletchingley. The cutting from which these relics of a former world were taken discloses a magnificent section of the Weald strata. The huge primeval lizards whose skeletons are thus brought to light must have sported in the waters or roamed along the bank of the great lake or estuary for merly covering the districts of the Wealds of Kent and Surrey ; the bottom of which lake now forms the exten sive level through which the Dover Railway is carried. The cuttings on this line near its junction with the Brigh ton Ra'lway at Reigate are also highly interesting to the geological inquirer. NOVEL APPLICATION.—ThUrSday consider able merriment was caused at the Town-hall, Brighton, by the following novel application :—A comely-looking dame, " fat, fair, and forty," named Lucy Smith, applied to the Magistrates for their advice. She stated that she had two husbands, and wanted to get rid of one.— (Laughter.) She had not heard of her first husband until within a few days for seventeen years. Thinking he was dead, she married again about three years back. Major Allen told her she had rendered herself ' , able to be indicted for bigamy. The applicant said her first husband enlisted. for a soldier, and left her with four children. He had now returned, and came to her house all hours of the night, creating a disturbance, and she wished to have a summons against him, as she was afraid he would do her some injury. Major Allen—But you are his wife, and he has a right to take possession of you.—(Laughter.) Applicant—But he always used l me ill, and I have no wish to live with him . Ma j or A len— I cannot alter the law. If the first husband makes his appearance he can claim you, although he has been ab sent so long. You might have learned from the War office whether he was alive or dead. Perhaps the first and second husbands can agree about the bargain.— (Laughter.) You shall have a summons and brine. ' both your husbands here, and we w ill see if we can make an arrangement.—(Laughter.) The applicant thanked the Magistrate, and retired. THE COMPLEXION AND SKIN. ROWLAND'S K A LYD 0 R An odoriferous creamy liquid—pleasingly efficac ous in dissipating sun-burns, tan, pimples, freckles, spots, redness, and all other cutaneous disfigurements ; renders the Skin deli cately fair, soft, and smooth ; imparts a healthy juvenile bloom to the complexion, and realizes a delicately white neck, hand, and arm. It is invaluable as a renovating and refreshing wash during travelling or exposure to the sun, dust, or harsh winds. Gentlemen will find it peculiarly gratefill in allaying irrita tion after shaving. Price 4s. 6d. and Bs. 6d. per bottle, duty included. ROWLAND'S ODONTO, A White Powder, of Oriental Herbs. 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Illustrated with Cases. This little work is not only distinguished but contra-distin guished from all others which have preceded it, its pages being exclusively devoted is the curative department, and hence it may be justly hailed as a great national desideratum. It con tains above one hundred choice recipes, adapted to various stages of the complaint, which is divided into three distinct heads and progressive stages of treatment, viz.:—let, The cleansing, or detergent ; 2dly, The strengthening, or tonic ; and lastly, The alterative, or purifying. Into these three grand divisions, theory suggested, and leng experience has demon strated, the curative plan ought and must be divided. The treatment of this disease has, for obvious reasons, been hitherto confined to some cordial balm, occult tincture, or talis manic drops, which act merely as a dram—a temporary stimu lus, procured at the expense of the patient's future welfare. 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A week of brilliant weather has at length re joiced the hearts of the farmers, and enabled them to secure as fine a crop of wheat as their most lavish hopes could have expected. A vast breadth of ground has been cleared of its burthen, and already ploughed up for succeeding husbandry. The damage occasioned by the unsettled and bad weather, experienced at the be ginning of the harvest, though unquestionably consider able in some districts, is not of great extent throughout the country ; and if we have a few more bright days, will occasion a very slightly disadvantageous character on the samples of wheat in general.—Bath Chronicle. TORY QUARRELS.-A grave difficulty has arisen to embarrass the Administration of Sir Robert Peel. Three " Ministerial morning prints" have been run ning a race for the post of first earwig of the Treasury; and the Herald has broken out upon the Times, for dar ing to brush past her. It seems that the Times, precisely at twelve o'clock at noon, published a " third edition," co ►taining a very full, true, and particular account of the New Administration, all signed, sanctioned, and gua ranteed by itself ; and the modest Herald, scandalised at the audacity, asks how the deuce it could do it, when Sir Robert Peel only left the Royal presence at " two o'clock, P.M." (to a hair), and could not reach PrintinT house-square till some convenient period thereafter. We once heard a flying stationer bawling out the " last dying speech and execution" of a poor fellow who was at the very moment warm in his shoes ; but the Times surpasses him in hideous enor mity. If we were admitted to the confidence of him whom one of the speakers in the recent debate termed " the Right Honourable Member the Baronet for Tamworth," we would try to get him out of his diffi culty. We would divide the " leadership" between the Post and the Herald; and let the Times go hang. It is able enough and impudent enough to take a lead for it self ; and Sir Robert owes it a kick or two—" cus" to wit. At the same time, and apart from all spiteful considerations, the very idea of the Times becoming a mere " Ministerial morning print" is quite horrifying to us. To change the gallant " Bogle" hunter into a mere lickspittle ; to reduce the " great bear" of the opposition into a common Treasury hack, is an absolute horror. What ! no more cakes and ale ? No more screeching about the navy ? No more groans about our foreign re lations? No more chewing of opium? And, worse than all, no more atrocious Poor-law ? Caliban serves a new master, and must be a new man. And yet the Times, if it have any despondings for the futuie, should take up the prayer of .the poor fellow who believed in transmigration, and who besought all the gods and goddesses, that, whatever they might do, they would not turn him into a braying donkey. After all, we think the Heral. is right, and that the Times is not yet regu larly acknowledged as a pure and unmitigated Treasury messenger. It cannot give up its habit of reading Sir Robert a lecture. Only yesterday it tells him to mind his weather eye, or it is all up with him. Now, this won't do for a reasury hack. If it does mean to pub lish third editions at twelve o'clock precisely, it must learn, like a good dog, not to bark at those who are in, but at those who are out. We are perfectly disinterested, and, in the pure spirit of good-will, proceed to advise our all but fallen Contemporary. Let it abandon the official duties of Downing-street to its morning rivals, who are both dying with eagerness to get it shelved. Let it give up the chopping of Treasury logic to the Post, and the re tailing of twaddle to the Herald,—and in its old effec tive brickbat and bludgeon spirit," set to work to de molish the " lath-and-plaster Cabinet." In that case we —even we—will be content to play second fiddle ; and who knows but, ere long, another announcement may appear in its Columns—" The Queen has done it all !" Morning Chronicle DUNDEE TRADE.—We regret exceedingly to have occasion to observe that here almost every branch of trade is at present labouring under great depression. Unless some improvement takes place, it is fearful to think of the distress that must be felt, as winter ap proaches, by the working classes of the community, more especially as the price of bread and other necessaries of life seems to be increasing, as the means of paying for may nigrowingetnbifioneymu quoted less. unyoat e. scarce,h de cia F h easaamrhxraiap, and ee v arar h nloa i do c ii fvhn lower, rahe fi nen n b c pb l tu s thit cye buyers rea(ie)c i rls n eev. small 1 a o r t e s, i ja s and rdt Jute g c u oi s l d t adu continue without alteration, either in demand or prices. Yarns and linens of all sorts are of rather dull sale, and may be noted a shade lower. The proposed imposition of a duty of 20 per cent. on all linens imported into America has already had some effect on prices here.—Courier. a Whose brush are you cleaning your teeth with, It's yours, I expect, but I shan't hurt it." Well, be sure you put it back where you got it, for I cleaned m y toe-nails with it yesterday, and I want to clean theca agin." .=. .~