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EVENING EDITION. CUSTOM-HOUSE, LONDON, MAY 12, 1814. T" COMMISSIONERS of her MA JESTY'S CUSTOMS do hereby give Notice, that they will be ready to receive at the Custom House, London, on the Ist of Jur,e next, TENDERS in Writing (sealed up), awl treat for the SUPPLY of PROVISIONS, for the USE of the CRUIZERS and VES'ELS employed under their direction, for Twelve Calendar Months, from the 6th of July next, to the .sth of July, 1842, inclusive. To he delivered free of all charge, into the boats of the said Vessels, as fol ,loivs, viz : ENGLAND. SCOTLAND. IRELAND. 'Gravesend Leith Kingstown Ramsgate Stranraer (Dublin) Dover Man Carlingferd H stings Stornoway Larne Seaford Greenock K illibe. , s Cowes Quarantine Sta- We. t port Pno e fion, Borrows- Galway Weymouth towness Casletownend _ .. Riscuit Rum Whi.key (at the 'orts in Ireland and Scotland only) Silt Bet f Fr e.sh Beef I lour Sugar Tea Can)ages Potatoes Scctch Barley, Exmouth Kilrush Fol.vey Penzance Berwick Grimsby Boston Nort'lYarmouth Harwich Quarantine Sta. tion,LiverpoJl Rum hiskev (at Cove of Ctir I only) Salt Reef L Fresh Beef Floor Cabbages I Potatoes Scotch Barley) Deptford *Chatham at.{ • Port•mouth Plymouth I Fal outh l*Nlilford • Including ti-e Quarantine Vessel, and the Fstablishment at Standgate Creek and Milford Haven. And ENGLAND. 111 , cuit Fre h Beef C..bba g a at IBlitnagr Potatoes only Fresh Beef C Wages Potatoes at .. Shea: nest only No regard will had to any Tender in which the Prices shall not be inserted in words at length, or that shall not be made on, or annexed to, one of the printed particulars, to be pro cured from the Custom Houses at, or nearest to, the places where the said Provisions are to be delivered, and at the Se cretary's Office, Custom House, London, and at the Collector's Office, Custom House, Dublin, and Leith (at which last men tioned places the conditions of the Contract may be seen); or that shall not be de ivered in, or sent post-paid, addressed to the Secretary _at the said Custom House. London, before twelve o'clock, on the said Ist .June ; nr r unless the same is accompanied by a Letter, signed by two substantial persons, engaging to become bound with the party tendering, in the penal sum or sums mentioned against the respective pfaces in the following list (according to those for which they may ten der). for the due porformanee Li the Coaract. N. B.—Tenders may be made for one or more Ports, at the option of the party tendering. Cove of Cork SCOTLAND. Mont rose Cromarty Campbeltown E NG LA N D. Deptford Gravesend Chatham Sheerness l5O Ramsgate .. 300 Dover . . 3OO Hastings Seaford 3OO Portsmouth • 6OO Cowes Lymington Poole Weymouth SCOTLAND. Leith... - V £6oo Montrose l5O Cromarty lf.o Carnpbeltown Greenock 3OO Stanraer 450 Oha ra Stornoway Borrowst owness l5O By Order of thi Exmouth £3OO Brixham Plymouth 6OO Fowey Falmouth Penzance 450 Milford Berwick Grimsby 450 Boston l5O Yarmouth Harwich Liverpool l5O IRELAND. Kingstown.. £6OO Carlingford ... 150 Larne 3OO Killibegs.... 3OO We.tport 3OO Galway... ...... .. Core of Cork 6OO Castletownsend 3OO Kilrush te CommiQsioners, C. SCOVELL, Secretary. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the . NEW ZEALAND COMPANY do hereby give Notice, that a GENERAL MEETING of the COURT of P ROPRIETORS of the said Company pill be holden on 11,1oxnav the 31st day of this instant month of MAY, at Two o Clock precisely. at the Company's House, in Broad-street Buildings, London. In pursuance of the provisions of the Charter of Incorpora tion of the said Company, the following Directors will go out of office at this meeting ; namely, John Pirie, Esq. and Alder man, Sir George Sinclair, Bart., M.P., Captain Alexander Nairn e , Ross Donnelly Mangles, Esq., George Frederick uung, Esq., and William Thom!) , on, Esq., Alderman, ; but being eligible for re-election, offer themselves ac cordingly. By order of the Court, F. DILLON BELL, Sec. pro tern. New Zealand House, lOth May, 1841. CHUBB'S NEW PATENT DETECTOR LOCKS give perfect security from false keys, and also detect any attempt to open them. 'they are made of all sizes, and for every purpose to which locks are applied. These locks ate strong, secure, simple, and durable. The Patent Combi nation Latches for street doors are simple in construction, low in price, and quite secure ; the keys of the latches are parti cularly neat an'l portable. Chubb's Patent Fire-proof Safes and Boxes form a complete preservation for deeds, plate, books, &c., from fire and thieves. Cash boxe3 and japan boxes, of all sites, fitted with the new patent locks. A large assortment of the above on sale by C. Chubb and Son, 57, St. Paul's Church yard. London. WILKINSON'S ANTI - CORROSION PAINT. REMOVED from 63, Upper Thames-street, to 5 1. WATLING-STREET, near Queen-street, Cheapside. O, J. R. 'WILKINSON particularly recommends his Paint to : Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, wbo wish to paint their uses of Roman cement, stucco, or brick walls, as a preven !i/e to damp or sea spra y in exposed situations ; it will not blister or peel off as common paint. On tiling, to represent elating, iro n hu r dl es , roo f s , c o nserva t or i e s, hot-hou s es, f e nces, f ans, or any out-buildings, it will last four times as long as 'oltinon paint. It is so simple in its use, that any labourer can lay it on. To ship-owners for their decks, bottoms of ves sels, &c., it will be shown, as well as to the public, to be supe rior to any paint'in use, by testimonials of its lasting fourteen Years on wood and houses, twenty years on iron (see the South wark-bridge). The public are particularly guarded in giving their orders for Wilkinson's Anti-Corrosion Paint, that no •ther colour may be imposed upon them for his. A liberal allowance to the trade. C 0 TTLE'S GRANULES, or grains de sauté ; fibrous particles for mixing in the food of chil andten adults, and insuring a daily action on the bowels 511 Operation totally mechanical and not medicinal. They f ob an effectual substitute for physic, are of an agreeable !Vey taste, and act on the principle of bran bread, with an effect tisat renders them valuable to all, and in valuable to children. In Is. Id. packets , with a synopsis on thesr qualities, by a surgeon. _Hannay and Deitrichsen, 63, Oxford-street, and all Chemists. To MERCHANTS, SHIPOWNERS, CAPTAINS, AND ALL PERSONS UNDERTAKING A VOYAGE. IMPORTANT TO ALL THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM • SEA SICKNESS. SCHWEPPES LIQUID MAGNESIA is s jstly celbrted or the cue of th above disteing complai o nt, u that it e a is only f necessary for the e Proprietors r to ss se c,momend in such cases, that it be mixed (according to direc tmms), with their ACIDULATED SYRUP, to insure suc cess ; and this invaluable preparation is equally successful in all cases of Gout, Gravel, Heartburn, Acidity, &c. Sold in bottles, Is., 2s. 6d., 4s. 6(1., and 10s. each; and the Acidulated Syrup, Is. 6d. each. SCHWEPPE'S SODA and POTASS WATERS, and AERATED LEMONADE is now considered a necessary part of nearly every ship's stores, when passengers of respectability Ire conveyed ; but, in consequence of imposition being so Ire luently practised by th ose w h o f urn ish supplies, in vending bpurious Waters in Schweppe's bottles, and passing it off as their manufacture, all are now requested to observe that none are genuine without a Red Label over the Cork, repre senting the Royal Appointmect in the centre, and their signa ture on either side, and to imitate which is Felony. The Liquid Magnesia is similarly protected. All Merchants and Shippers, Shipowners. Captains, Ship Chandlers, and Stewards, supplied on WHOLESALE TERMS at Schweppe's Manufactory, 51, Berners-street, Lon don, and their Branch Establishments in Liverpool, Bristol, and Derby. P. s„—Be sure to ask for, and see you have, SCHWEPPE'S preparation. FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA. The diftrent Ingredients contained in FRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA, are those advised by the most practi cal and scientific in the profession, but, by a peculiar chemical pro cess so compounded that each drug greatly increases the efficacy of the ether. This invaluable Medicine is recommended in the public and pri vate practice of SIR ASTLEY P. COOPER, Bart. F.R.S. SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE, Bart , F.R.S, F JOSEPH HENRY GREEN, Esq. I.R.S. BRANSBY B. COOPER, Esq F.R.S. Members of the Council of the College of Surgeons, London, and many other highly distinguished members of the medical profes- Sion, by whom it is deemed the only Specific for the cure of those diseases to which it is more immediately applicable. The testimony of these ce tlemen cannot fail to convince every reflecting mind that FRANKSS SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAI BA is not only in every essential what it professes to be, but la considered a most valuable addition to those legitimate and adopted Medicines daily prescribed by the faculty. FItANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUI lON OF COPAIBA is proved to be the most effectual, safe, and speedy remedy for the cure of GONORRHOEA, GLEETS, all URETHRAL DISCHARGES, FLUOR ALBUS, SPASMODIC STRICTURE, IRRITATION of the KIDNEYS, BLADDER, URETHR A, and PROSTATE GLAND ; its purifying effects upon the general health renders it particularly applicable in al cases of relaxed fibre and nervous debility. The mos delicate persons may take it with perfect safety. Prepared only by George Franks, Surgeon, 90, Biacktriars-road. London, and may he had of all wholesale and retail Medicine-venders In the United Kingdom, in Bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and I Is. each. Catlin:rm.—None is genuine unless "George Franks, Bl:.ckfriars. t 2ad," Is engraved •a the Government Stamp attached to each bottle. The following Testimonials are selected from amongst numerous others forwar.:ed to Mr. Franks. From Joseph Henry Green, Esq., F.R.S., one of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and Professor of Surgery in King's College, London. " I have !vane trial of Mr. Franks's Solution of Copaiba, at St. Thomas's Hospital, in a variety of cases of discharges in the male and female, and the results warrant my stating, that it is an eftica. dens remedy, and one which does not produce the usual unpleasant effects of Copaiba. (Signed) "JOSEPH HENRY GREEN. " 45, Lincoln's-Inn-fields, April 15, 1835." From Bransby Cooper, Esq., F. R.S., one of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, London; Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Lecturer on Anatomy. Are. " Mr. Bransby Cooper presents his compliments to Mr. Geo. Franks, lnd has great pleasure in searing testimony to the efficacy of his So ution of Copaiba in Gonorrlioaa, for which disease Mr. Cooper has Pre"scribed t h e KGlution in ten or twel vecases w i th perfect success. „,New-street, Aprill3, M 15." 'torn Alexander Tweedte, Esq., Surgeon to the Metropolitan Free Hospita Carey-Art.o, coln' s Inn-fields. My Demi l, have notes ot six cases, in which I have admi. nistered your preparation of Copaiba, for th e cure of G onorrhoea, in ! 1 41 of which the disease has been subdued in a shorter period of time than according to the ordinary plans hitherto made use of Besides " rese cases of which I have taken notes, 1 hav e t r i ed i t in several in. , s __`aoces at the Greville street Hospital, ar.d am quit e sat i s fi ed that it I,"meases a control over the urgent symptoms of Gonorrhcea, r e lieving • .1.7 discharge and mitigating the scalding in maki ng water that I ars; not observed In the usual methods of exhibiting Copaiba. In one ii.litanqe only did it disagree with the stomach ; but in this it &tied %. , t depend rather on the method of exhibition than on tl'c re .'medy it,e:S, for, on diluting ob j ection was at o nce obviaf:d: it with a larger quantit y of water, Ihe objectionand throatient got well i n ten days pro the time that he commenced iiikitft the Medicine. I ha ve not .'ter !,1 a ease in `° Bch the discharge continai longer than te n d ays commencin g this treatmen t. truly ', , " I am, dear Sir, your's very (Signed) " . A LEX A NDLR fWEEDIE” %tin. SOLUTION a period of Two Months upwards of hive Hundred Pa kserts were treated with HANK 's S l ' "" /. TC at'AIB A, Th o m success at the above Metropolitan Hosi. in .. Ole. fft. as's, Guy er s, arid the Free Hospitals, by their Ye. - ..eetive ea. -. 4 lfoona, whose Telimonials arc given above. No. 15,58-3. CLOSING OF THE PRESENT EXHIBITION. BRITISH INSTITUTION. PALL-MALL. The GALLERY for the EXHIBITION and SALE of the WORKS of BRITISH ARTISTS, IS OPEN DAILY erom Ten in the Morning till Five in the Evening, and will be CLOSED on SATURDAY, May 15. Admission, Is. Catalogue, Is. WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper. N.B. The Gallery will be re-opened early in June with a Selection of Pictures by Ancient Masters, and those of De ceased British Artists. P HE SEVENTH ANNUAL EXHIBI TION of the NEW SOCIETY of PAINTERS in WATER COLOURS, is NOW OPEN, at their Gallery, FIFTY-THREE, PALL MALL, next the British Institu tion, from Nine o'clock till Dusk. Admission, 1 , . Catalogue, fid. JAMES FAHEY, Hon. Secretary. THE ROYAL REGENT -ST POLYTE—C.HNIC INSTITUTION, REET. THE FIRST PUBLIC EXHIBITION of MONSIEUR MOINAU'S PATENTED CLOCKS, which are kept in perpetual motion, without winding: up ; also the PATENTED CLOCKS, worked by VOLTAIC ELEC TRICITY. The DISSOLVING VIEWS, by C.IRY, with appropriate music, are exhibited at One o'clock, Half-past Four o'clock. and in the Evenings, after the MICROSCOPE, at Ten o'clock. The PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS, and the numerous novelties in Working Models, and other Works which display eminent art, science, and ingenuity. The Di ver, Divin g Bell, Popular Lectures, and Experiments. Opens at Half-past Ten o'clock. Admission, One Shilling. TO LAND-SURVEYORS AND ENGINEERS. ASURVEYOR of many veara practice in the COMPUTATION of MAPS, begs leave to state that he SCALES MAPS at a very reduced price per 100 acres. Payment not required until the quantities have been approved of by the Tithe Commissioners, First class Mayo, and highly-finished coloured Plana of Es tates, drag n in a superior manner much under the usual charge. Also Maps Reduced - 2AI Lithographed on very moderate terms, specimens of which can be forwarded if required. Accuracy, neatnsss, and expedition, together with small profits, are the principles upon which the business of the Advertiser's Office is conducted, by which means he trusts he shall give satisfaction to those who may favour him with work. Address E. MacCabe, 29, Castle-street, Holborn. SOCIALISM IN BIRMINGHAM. The Public is reTectfully CAUTIONED against the statement intended to be advertised in the London Papers, that at the end of the discussion between Mr. Briudley and Mr. L. Jones, on the sth, 6th, and 7th instant, a Resolution in favour of Socialism was earned by a large majority. The fact is, that the " Resolution " was merely read in the midst of the most vociferous cheers for Mr. lirindley from three-fourths of the entire audience. It was, therefore, im possible that such a resolution could be passed. Though the name of Mr. Murphy may appear at the foot of the advertisemint as " Chairman " of the meeting, he had no authority to affix it, for he was only Moderator of the discus sion. So much for those honourable principles, and the unfair means used for their promotion. J. GOODWIN, Secretary to the Anti-Socialist Society. Birmingham, Saturday, May 8. BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 2, MOORG:ATF-STREET, MAY 10, 141. The COURT of DIRECTORS of the BANK of AUS TRALASIA hereby give Notice, That, pursuant to the 11th Clause in the Decd of :settlement of the Corporation, the SE VENTH YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of. PRO PRIETORS will be held at their Office, 2, Moorgate-street, on MormAY, the 7th of June next, at Two o'clock, P.M., pre cisely, f-r the purpose of receiving the Annual Report, and ELECTING DIRECTORS in the place of those who go out by rotation. By order of the Court, WILLIAM ItIILLIKEN, Secretary. TWEEDALE'S HOTEL AND COMMERCIAL INN, (Opposite the Albion Hotel,) ROCHDALE. ABRAHAMTWEEDALE, WHOLE SALE WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANT, begs respectfully to return his thanks to Commercial Gentlemen and the Public, for the liberal encouragement he has received since opening the above as a Commercial kn, has pleasure in in forming them he has completed painting, beautifting, and other arrangements, no expense having been spared flatters himself the aceomodation he will now give cannot be surpassed by any bouse on the road. The rooms are splendid, and pro portionate, both commercial, Bed, and Private Rooms. The Stabling and Coach-houses are also good. Hot, Cold, and Shower Baths in the hon,:r at any moment. A News Room attached. A. T. asks a visit from those Gentlemen who have not already done him the favour, when he !, confident they will find him warranted, in his observations. From the very central situation, and the Albion still continuing closed, he hopes, with strict attention and moderate charges combined, to ensure a good share of their patronage and support, which it will be ever his study to deserve. Good Beds. Wines and Spirits of the Choicest Vintage. Omnibuses to each Train. N ATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY, FOR GRANTING LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c. No. ii, CORNHILL. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Pari:ament. EIRECTORS. T. L AMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. J. Ellinrson. M.D., F.R.S. George Lungley, Esq. John Griffith Frith, Esq. John Rawson, Esq. Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. AUDITORS. - Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S.Professor Graves, A.M. F.R. S. Acrua ay—W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F. R. A. S SOLICITORS—Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Ewens, and Omman ney, 6, Basinghall-street. LIFE ASSURANCE. - - - resides 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 princinles of Life Assurance and Deferred Annuities ori ginated by • he Society, viz.—Power to borrow (without de lay, expense, o+ forfeiture) Two-thirds of all premiums paid upon a Policy of Assurance. The annexed is a short Table, showing the Annual Premium for assuring 2100 on the Whole Life, or for a Term : TEAM to HERNE BAYand MARGATE, 1.7 from the BRUNSWICK PIER, BLACKWALL, on and after TO-MORROW, Bth of May, every TUESDAY. THURSDAY, and SATURDAY, by the following well known superior, fast, and favourite Steam-vessels, viz. For HERNE BAY, by the CITY of CANTERBURY or RED ROVER, at a Quarter More Twelve o'Clock. MARGATE, by the ROYAL WILLIAM or ROYAL GEORGE, at a Quarter before Eleven o'Clock ; and by the CITY of CANTERBURY or RED ROVER at a Quarter bef ,re Twelve o'Clock. Passengers by the Half-past Ten and Half past Eleven &Clot k Trains of the Blackwall Railway, from the Minories, will be in time for the above Steam-packets These boats will commence running daily very shortly, of which due notice will be given. FOR LIFE. A. B. Age. Without With For One For Five PrAits. Profits. Year only. Years only .E. s. d. E. s. d. s. d. s. d. 20 1 13 7 1 17 4 0 17 0 0 17 6 30 2 4 4 2 9 3 0 '9 6 1 0 0 40 2 18 8 3 5 3 1 3 10 1 5 0 50 4 4 2 4 13 6 1 13 0 1 16 6 60 6 13 6 7 8 4 3 0 0 3 9 6 GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S FOREIGN PACKETS. THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGA TION COMPANY'S powerful and First-rate Steam- Ships are appointed to SAIL from London, for HAMBURG, carrying her Majesty's Mails, every Wednes day and Saturday; the CALEDONIA, Saturday next, at Six Morning; and the COUNTESS of LONSDALE, next Wed nesday, at One. ROTTERDAM and th, RHINE, carrying her Majesty's Mails, every Wednesday and Saturday Morning, at Seven pre cisely. From Rotterdam to Mayence the distance is performed in three days. The COLUMBINE Saturday ; the GIRAFFE next Wednesday. BRIGHTON and DIEPPE. The DART will leave Brighton for Dieppe, Saturday, May 15th, and every subse quent Saturday ; returning from thence every Wednesdsy, ac eording to tide. ANTWERP, BRUSSELS, and COLOGNE. The SOHO every Thursday Morning, at Twelve. HAVRE. The JAMES WATT, every Thursday, at Eight in the Mordng. OSTEND and BRUSSELS. Every Wednesday and Satur day. This day, at Noon ; Saturday, 15th, at Four ; Wednes day, 19th, at. Seven ; Saturday, 22d, at Ten ; Wednesday, 26th, at Noon ; Saturday, 29th, at Five. The MENAI on Wednesday; the CITY of EDINBURGH on Saturday. BOULOGNE, from London-bridge-wharf. The HARLE QUIN To-morrow, at Three Morning; the MAGNET Sa turday, at Six Morning ; and every Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. CALAIS, from London-bridge-wharf, every Tuesday, Thurs. day, Saturda, and Sunday. To-morrow at Five ; Saturday at Eight. Further particulars may be obtained, and Berths secured, at the Company'; Offices, 69, Lombard-street, or 37, Regent circus. Two-thirds of Profi DEFERRED is divided annually amongst the Assured. 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. 1. A small yearly or weekly contribution will secure the most ample return for after life; thus-21. 12s. per annum ( I s. 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 ... 394 11 0 or a Policy, without further contributions, of 466 0 oat death. Other periods of life (of 50, 55, and 60) may be also taken with similar advantages. 2. Two-thirds at any time lent 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 any other Office, ( Sce Tables A. and B.), with option of con tinuance for Life at the usual rates. HULL 'and LONDON STEAMERS at REDUCED FARES from alongside St. Katharine's Steam Packet Wharf (where passengers walk on board), the favourite Steamers VIVID and WATER WITCH leave the above Wharf every TUESDAY and RUDA Y MORNING at Eight o'Clock precisely, returning from Hull every 'I'UES. DAY and SATURDAY AFTERNOON at Four o'Clock. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec. pINKUS' RAILWAY TIME REGISTER. TO RAILWAY DIRECTORS. The PROPRIETORS of the PATENT for regulating the TRANSIT of RAILWAY TRAINS are ready to grant LICENCES for its use to Railway Companies. By this Register the times of arrival and departure of Trains at and from Stations are stamped and printed on the Train on their arrival and departure at e tch successive Station. Quick Trains, without stopping at Stations, take up the impression of the time of departure of a previous Train, which is rendered visible to the l;onductors of a Train, and enables them with greater certainty to regulate their speed, and thus obviate the chance of collision. ANNUAL DIVISION OF PROFITS. UNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE SO CIETY, 1, King William-street, London. Established 1834. Empowered by Act of Parliament. 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. The first division of Profits took place on the 13th of Mrty, 1840, when a reduction of 60 per cent. was declared on the annual premiums of all those policies entitled to partici. ation. Policies effected before the Second Wednesday in May will entitle the holders to participate in the profits twelve months earlier than those effected at a subsequent period. The following table vr;11 show the operation of the reduction made by the Society :-.. Age when Policy was issued. Date of Policy. Sum Assured. Annual Original Reduction payable in ,. Premium, m 1840. Communica , ions to be addressed to the Chambers, 4, Tra falgar-square, Charing-cross, where drawings and specification may be seen. Fares—Saloon and Bed, 12s. 6d. ; Fore Cabin, ss. Excel lent accommodation for Horses, Carriages, &c. Further particulars may be obtained at the Company's Office, 41, Fish-street-bill ; Mr. Underwood, 56, Haymarket; or, at St. Katharine's Wharf Wlll. BOLLAERT, Secretary. H. D. MAULING, Hull, EDWARD ABELL, Agents. May 11. 1841. 41, Fish-street-Hill, London, PUBLICATIONS. TO CORN-LAW REPEALERS, rirHE ANTI-BREAD•TAX CIRCULAR _IL will be published every Wednesday until further notice. The Circular being the official organ of the National Anti- Corn-Law League, and containing accounts of the proceedings of the League. every Bread -Tax Repealer ought to purchase it, and thus add his mite to the funds of the League. Any person firwarding 35., or the value in postage stamps, to J. Gadsby, Manchester, may have 13 successive numbers sent FREE, to any part of the three kingdoms. Published for the League, by J. Gadsby, Newall's-buildings, Manchester. Agent for London, R. Groombridge, Panyer alley, Paterr os!er-row, from whom Newsvenders or Booksellers may be supplied. Also may be had, from J. Gadsby or H. Groombridge, price Id., or 7s. 6d. per 100, the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons on IMPORT DUTIES, so far as the same relates to the Corn and Provision Laws.— No man in the kingdom ought to be without a copy. In one volume, price 183. cloth. DICTIONARY of DATES and UNIVER SAL REFERENCE, relating to all Agee and Na tions, and comprehending a body of information, classical, political, and domestic, from the earliest accounts to the pre sent time. By JOSEPH HAYDN, EN. Edward Moxon, Dover-street. May 1835. 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 £l9 6 24 8 31 10 42 15 66 11 8 .£ll 12 01 .£7 14 8 1 4 14 13 0 915 4 0 18 18 0 12 I'2 0 0 25 13 0 17 2 0 8 39 19 0 26 12 8 NEW SOUTH WALES, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, AND AUSTRALIND. __ Now ready, postiii;;.,pWce 2s. 6d. THE RESOURCES OF AUSTRALIA, the Prospects and Capabilities of the New Settlements, and the Causes of the Prosperity of Port Philip ; with In formation essential to Emigrants ; being the results of Four teen Years' Experience of an Australian Colonist. London : Smith, Elder, anal Co., 65, Cornhill. CORN-LAS S.—Now ready, price 3s. 6d. I.IIIrISTO RICALSUMYIARYof the CORN IL LAWS, Illustrative of the Operation of the Several Statuti s, by HENRY THORNTON, of the Office of Inspector Gene al of imports and Exports, Custom-house, London. 2. The EARL FITZWILIAM'S THREE ADDRESSES to L I,NDOWNERS, Is. 6d. pINKUS' NEW SYSTEM of RAILWAY TRACTION. This system of reduction in the premiums affords immediate benefit to the Assured, or enables them to secure a considerable bonus by effecting a new policy. Policies are granted in London and by resident Committees at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, on Indian risks, at very ad vantageous rates, calculated from extensive data and tables, exclusively in the possession of this Society, to show the true risk of life during residence in India, and after retirement from foreign service. By Order of the Board, DAVID JONES, Actuary. VEAVER.'S INFALLIBLE EMI3ROC A TION, for GOUT, RHEUMATISM, &e., &e. Public attention is requested to the following Letter addressed by Thomas Schofield, Esq., to the Editor of the " Morning Chronicle":— St R.- is I am sure you will be happy to promulgate any thing that will benefit your fellow-creatures, I confidently send you the following statement of an extraordinary cure from a violent attack of that dreadful malady the Gout, which I have obtained by mere accident, feeling assured you will give it publicity in your widely-circulated paper. I was attacked with it for the third time on Saturday night, the 31st of May last, and suffered the most dreadful agony till the following► Wednesday, when I war recommended to apply to a Mr. Feaver. woollen warehouseman, Friday-street, Ch eapside, for a bottle of Embrocation for the Gout—a remedy discovered by his father, and by which, I was told, he had cured himself. At that moment my sufferings would have induced me to apply anything ; I therefore obtained a bottle of this Embrocation, for which I paid 6s. 6d., and applied it immediately ; and to my delight and astonishment, in one hour the intense pain ceased, in two days I could walk, and at the end of one week the gout had entirely left me. I have no doubt but for this remedy I should have had at least six weeks of suffering, as 1 had in former attacks. I am induced to take this step solely for the benefit of the thousands who are victims to this distressing disease (and for which, until now, it has been said there was no cure) that they may know where to obtain the same relief. Of Mr. Feaver, the proprietor, I know nothing, having seen him but once, when I called to thank him for the benefit he had been the means of conferring on me; and finding he had never made this invaluable discovery publicly known, I resolved at once to make known my cure to you, and I trust through you to my fellow-sufferers. It is much to be regretted that Mr. Fearer does not imme diately publish it. It cannot fail to prove beneficial in a large degree to himself, while at the same time it would be con ferring a great blessing on thousands of our suffering brethren. However, I feel myself bound to give publicity to my own case in every possible way ; and I consider, by inserting this in your columns, you will be doing a much greater good than usually results from whole pages of matter contained in some of our daily journals. I r emain, Sir, Sze. THOMAS SCHOFIELD. 52, Lower Thames-street, and 12, Marlborough place, Old Kent-road, July 6, 1840. May be obtained of most of the respectable wholesale and retail chemists and patent medicine vendors in the United Kingdom , of the proprietor, Mr. Feaver, Friday-street. Cheap side ; and at the Depot, 135, Strand, corner of Wellington street- 3. LORD WESTERN on the MAINTENANCE of the CORN-LAWS, Is. 4. The EARL OF TYRCONNEL'S ADDRESS to the PEOPLE on the CORN-LAWS, Is. James Ridgway, Piccadilly. NEW WORK ON STRICTURES OF THE URETHRA. Just published, price ss. APRACTICAL TREATISE on the CAUSES, NATURE, and TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA, and their CONSE QUENCES. TO RAILWAY COMPANIES. The PROPRIETORS of the PATENTS of the NEW SYSTEM constituting the differential RAILWAY worked by Stationary Motive Power as a substitute for expensive Steam Locomotive, or Rope T rac ti on , are rea d y to enter i nto con tracts for the application of the New System on lines of Rail way formed, or to be formed, in England, Scotland, Ireland, or the Colonies. 'Fhe advantages of this system in the construction of Lines of Railway, is the ability to work much higher gradients than is practicable by the Locomotive Steam Engine. A saving in some instances of more than one-half the costs of construction is thus obtained. The annual msintenance of the new will be only about one-third that of the common system, when ap plied to Railways already formed—greater protection to life in preventing the collision of Trains or other accidents apper taining to the Steam Locomotive, or the uses of Ropes, is afforded, and it admits of greater precision in transit than the common in.2thod. Communications to be addressed to the Chambers, 4, Tra• ralgar-square, Charing Cross, where Drawings and Specifica• Lion may be a., BOLLAERT, Secretary. pINKUS' NEW SYSTEM of TRAC TION on CANALS. TO CANAL COMPANIES. The PROPRIETORS of the PATENTS for the NEW CANAL POWER are READY TO ENTER INTO CON TRACTS for the APPLICATION of the SYSTEM in ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND, or the CO LONIES. Stationary Steam, or Gaso-Pneumatic Power, may be ap plied directly to Canal vessels. • The advantages of the new system are the great economy over animal traction, and the important consideration of ap plying motive power without any action on the water of the canal. A high degree of speed can thus be obtained to the extent o: from 10 to 15 miles per hour (as on the sys tem) without any injury to embankments. Communications to be addressed to the Chambers, 4, Tra falgar-square, Charing-cross, where Drawings and Specifica tions may be seen. NVM. BOL :AENT, Secretary. TO COMMISSIONERS OF PAVEMENT AND TURN- PIKE TRUST. - --- PINKUS' TEXTILE, or WOVEN WOOD, or STONE PAVEMENT. The PROPRIETORS call the atrention of the Public and Parishes in particular to this invention, whereby greater dura bility, economy, and superior advantages over any of the plans hithertho projected for forming Streets and Roads are attained. A more permanent foundation is acquired by means of the cheapest materials, good drainage secured, and the pavement is so laid on the principle; of the arch—and so woven toge ther, that it sustains the vehicles on the mass of the structure. Ready facilities are also afforded for laying gas, or watermains, repairing ways without impeding transit, and the import an t desideratum h as b een secure d o preventing the slipping of horses in wet weather. Communications to be addressed to Mr. W. Bollaert, 14, Trafalgar-square, Charing-cross, where models and drawings may be seen, and prospectuses obtnined. TO be PEREMPTORILY SOLD, entirely without reserve, at Lloyd's Room, 80, Bishopsgate street Withi:3, To-moxaow, THURSDAY, May 13, at Halt:. past Two, Three handsome and very useful STEAM-VESSELS, al mirably adapted for River navigation, neither of them drawing more than 2 feet 6 inches. No. 1. The TULIP, 40 tons register, with a condensing engine of eighteen-horse power, made by Miller and Ravenhill, of London. Length 80 feet, beam 13 feet. No. 2. The ROSE, of similar tonnage, with two engines of ten-horse power each, made by Mr. Thomas Thirlwell, and after wards greatly improved by Messrs. Hawks, Stanley, and Co., of Newcastle. Length 80 feet, beam 13 feet. No. 3. The VIOLET, same tonnage, with two engines of twelve-horse power each, made by White and Hodgson, of South Shields. Length 80 feet, beam 13 feet. '1 hese Ves'els are all nearly new, neatly fitted up for the conveyance of passengers, possess great speed, are in excellent condition, and fit for immediate service. May now be seen in the South West Inoia Dock. This is an opportunity for fa vourable investment, such as can rarely occur, whether for forming a small Company, for individuals starting single boats, or for adding to an existing Company's stock of vessels, as the property will be disposed of without the least reserve, with the view of wind.ng up the affairs of the parties to whom the Steamers belong. For further particulars apply to Thomas Ashton, sworn Broker, 9, George-yard, Lombard-street. PICTURES from GERMANY, and GRAND GALLERY Pic ruRE of the DUKE of WELLINGTON and him STAFF crossin g the Eidassoa in 1813. Mit. G. EY'RE BROOKS will OFFER to SALE by AUCTION, at his Gallery, 28, Old Bond-srreet, on THURSDAY, May '2O, at Twelve. PICTURES, from Castles in Bavaria and Baden Baden, comprising valuable specimens of the old masters; also the Grand Gallery Picture, by Regaud, of the Duke of NI ellington and his Staff crossing the Bidassoa, including equestrian por traits of his Graoe, of Lord Dalhousie, Lord Beres.fo-d, Lord Hill, Sir Thurles Doyle, Lord Niddry, Lord Lyndock, General A. Campbell, the Earl of March, the Marquis of Wor cester, and the Prince of Orange. Also a Steenei Violin and a Grand Pianoforte, by Broadwood. May be viewed on Monday and Tuesday preceding the sale. By FRANCIS BURDETT COURTENAY, And late Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. ONTENTS. ClIAPTkft t. Causes of Strictures. Divisions of Strietnr.s. Consequences of Strictures. Symptoms resemble those of Stricture. CHAPTER Iv. Of the Treatment of the Mala dies Consequen upon Stric ture. BANKS OF THE THAIIIES.—WEYBRIDGE, SURREY. MR. G. EYRE BROOKS is instructed to SELL by AUCTION, at his Gallery, 28, Old Bond street, on TUESDAY, the Bth of June, at Twelve o'clock. DA WNEY HOUSE, a com'ortable Freehold Residence, delightfully situate on the banks of the Thames, with coach houses, stabling for four horses, pleasure and kitchen gardens, greenhouse, and altogether about ten acres of land. Further particulars in future advertisements. Cards to view may be had of Mr. G. Eyre Brooks, Surveyor, No. 28, Old Bond- street. CHELTENHAM.—Most desirable PIECE of BUILDING LAND. nR. G. EYRE BROOKS has been honoured with Instructions to SELL, at his Gallery, 28, Old Bond-street, on TUESDAY, the Bth of June next, at Twelve, in One Lot, or if bought in, in Forty-six Lots, agreeable to Plait and Conditions of Sole, SANDFORD MEADOW, a Piece of Pasture Land, con taining 12a. 2r , situate in the most genteel part of Chelten ham, abont a quarter of a mile from the High-street, facing the Bath-road, and io without exception one of the finest pro perties for building upon in Cheltenham or its neighbouohood, being in a most fashionable situation, surrounded by buildings of the first-rate description, and commanding a most beautitul panoramic view of the town and its surrounding hills and pic ture que beauties. The land close adjoins the splendid man sions of " Thirlestaine House " and " Lake House," two of the largest domains in the town of Cheltenham, and is surrounded by public roa!s of the best kind ; indeed, such a situation for the erection of Villas of a superior description is not to be met with in Cheltenham or its neighbourhood. Further particulars may be had of Mr. Packwood, Solicitor, Cheltenham ; and of Mr. G. Eyre Brooks,. Surveyor, 28, Old Bond-street, Lendon. MRS. DAMER'S DIARY.—Lady MBry Wort ley Montague was the first traveller who gave the European world any knowledge that could be depended upon, relating to domestic life in the East. There must be very few persons who have read this lady's delightful letters, who do not enter tain a ;lively impression of her highly interesting revelations. By one of those singular chances that occasionally occur, we are likely to be indebted to a descendant of this accomplished traveller for still more comprehensive information of a similar nature. The Hon. Mrs. Dawson Damer, during her exten sive travels in the Ea , t, vas allowed to penetrate into the most private domiciles, and treated in a manner as if it was impos sible to place in her too much confidence, or to pay her too much respect, and the result is now about to be communicated to the public, under the title of " Diary of a Tour in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and the Holy Land." We are not surprised that its announcement should have excited a considerable de gree of curiosity, particularly in the upper circles. 3G, OLD BOND-STREET, AND 1, OLD JEWRY, lseisrleiyle, Carlisle, CliEsesine.—Patronised by the Royal Family, her Majesty the 11, New Burlington-street; Queen of Hanover, the Duchess of Richmond, Duke of Newcastle, Duke of Leeds, the late Duke of Buckingham, the Marquis of Wel. Esq., F.R.S., I S' ij e an . t ; in Si C r . j. B E ri;d A ie n , d ß e a r rt. ' , ' F A . l ß .D .S. , Saville row ; Sir Anthony F.R.S., Langham.place ; J. T. Conquest, M.D., F.R.S., 13, Finsbury-square; Jos. Copland, M.D., F.R.S F .., R B . u s !s , tr s od ur e g - e st o r n ee t t o , Extraordinary to the bite Esq., Senior Surgeon to Guy's Hospital; 14, Langham. Bridge-street ; J. G. Andrews, Senior Surgeon p A ol l auacyne,cs;h Hospitale James t a e . r - e s s q u Johnson, r E e .; B m r r a lv n in s . b pu y ffi. , B. Physician C l% o i o . p p e . r , , King ; R. Kcate, Sergeant Surgeon to the Queen, 15, Albemarle to the London Hospital. The above and numerous other Medical Albemarle street; n ; Ware, C A s Practitioners of pre-eminent standing have given the most flatter.. ing certificates to the superior value and importance of E. Solomon to s n ew Ke ß y r , idg and Co.'s Patent Spectacles, testifying to their peculiar power of softening the light to weak and irritable eyes, and the immediate and continued relief that its chastened transmission affords—their freedom from the pernicious attributes of ordinary glasses; in short, to a combination of properties which render them superlatively pre-eminent in preserving the powers of vision unimpaired to ex treme old age. Their Voice Conductors extend the most effectual relief in cases of Deafness, and additional satisfaction is derived front the fact that they are worn entirly unseen. In consequence of the mistakes arising from a similarity of names, the PATENTEES' address should be particularly noted, 36, Old Bond-street, and I, Old Jewry, City. THE LIBRARY AT TOURS. --There Lit a pub. lie library, consisting of thirty thousand volumes, at Tours ; and I have frequently heard the advanced state of the public mind in France attributed to the exist ence of such in most of the proyinew towns. Now, as the old monastic authors of these thousand vnlinnes —the pillage of the monasteries, certainly —poor men, slid not write with any intention of producing the total demoralization that is now unciviliz . ing the country, which, with fatal fatnitt proudly poi n t s to t h e spread ing cancer as the prop or its progress, I think it but fair to their memory to let it be tiode V stood how much they have, in Tours at least, had to do with it. Be it known, then, that all the influence which these thirty thousand tones have exercised on the public mind in Tours, has been accomplished in the space of two hours per week, as they are m ---°" safely and inno cently sleeping on their shelves, under luck and key, during the romainder of their lives.—Trollop e ' s Summer in Western France. CHAPTER Of the Different Nincles in practice for the Cure of Strictures, by the Bougie, ' th Catheter, the Lunar Caustic, and Cutting In struments. The Author's Mode of Cure. _ __ / /-- :Xt.-X . r f ,-/ _ ,- ( ,j) 4(1 hi zi, "(_____.. / i - 61z,-, _ .X /-7 //- I _,_. - -,t.,-z -‘,/ , , , toz , t , ~ itut..?../..„?. . .--- ..1 . ,---- . _. . . ' ~,,, , ,i..,, , _,, ( :,,,, , , --, , fr,..-_ _. ' ..... _ c ........................ . - ,:-.4, , .._ . *lklk:. ( .., n , . tec , , Vo.olgi oila (i-- - _ A ( C '-A , 1 ..,. V., 1 , , - ~- , y ., , '' ' ' i i... . e . ,‘ Ci, ': , 4 , 4 4 .e. i( 1 ‘,-...... <-, ,• - -.'; 0 , , , 1 0, ,& , ... 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C HRONlCLE.—Throughout the whole course of the pre sent debate, one thing is most remarkable on the part of the Tories. They have cautiously and studiously abstained from expressing any opinion as to the line of policy which they themselves would -pursue if in power. 'They have acted throughout on the advice given by their great party organ, the Times, of avoiding discussion on the real merits of the Minis terial measure, and treating it exclusively as a party question. In one form or other the speeches on the Opposition side have amounted in substance pretty nearly to this—" the measure may, for aught I know, be a very good measure, but—it is brought forward by a Whig Government, and therefore, I shall vote aga i nst it." Is this, we as k, con d uct worthy of a great party, who aspire to hold the reigns of Go vernment ? Is a deficiency of two millions and upwards in the revenue a. mere " bagatelle ?" Is the loss of the market in the-Brazils for four millions worth of British manu factures a trifle unworthy of serious attention ? Are the inte rests of British commerce—of British industry —of the na tional creditor—of the labouring classes and consumers of the country—matters of such insignificance as not to weigh for a moment in the scale against the all-absorbing importance of enabling a set of men called Tories to pocket the salaries of a set of men called Whigs ? Is it fair, is it honest, when a great question of policy affecting all the'most important interests of the country, is brought forward by one of the great parties who are in a position to carry on the Government of the country, that the other great party should oppose it without having some counter measure of its own to propose? Ministers say, we propose this alteration in the sugar duties, because there is a sum of 2,400,0001. w hi c h must be raised some how or other, and if we do not raise it in this way, we must either have a loan or new taxes. The Tories cannot dispute the alterna tive. They say they will not have an alteration in the sugar duties. Are they not, in common honesty, bound to say what they will have—taxes or a loan ; and if so, what taxes, and what number of successive loans? The certainty that the question must go to the country to be decided, renders this con duct on the part of the Tories more palpably dishonest. They know that if they succeed in defeating the Ministerial mea- sure upon any one of the three great points—of sug ar, corn, or timber—ne w t axes or a l oan are inevitable ; but they wish to go to the hustings without the unpopu larity which a fair statement of the case would entail upon them. There is one class of the community who, above all, have a right to insist upon an explicit avowal of their in tended policy from those who are about to engage the country in an exasperating conflict by opposing a Government mea sure brought forward for the purpose of making good a defi ciency in the national revenue. We mean the national cre ditor. We hear a great deal of " protection to the East and West India Interest ;" to the " landlord's interest;" to this or that overgrown monopoly—is the interest of the fundholder an interest more important than all put together, to be en. tirely overlooked? Sir Robert Peel's supporters tell us in the streets, " Oh, if we can ors-:y turn the Whigs out, we can get a vote of credit for the emer gency, and go on smoothly enough for a year." Very well, Sir Robert ; now, for once in your life, do have the frankness to tell us plainly whether this is your po licy or not. It is important that we should know—it is impor tant that all who hold stock in the public funds of Great Bri tain should know. No doubt a vote of credit is the easiest way of shuffling off the difficulty for the present year—no doubt it is better for your interests as a party leader than going to the country upon a salt tax or a house tax, dear postage, or some of the other new taxes, which you know very well you cannot avoid proposing, if you mean to oppose the Ministerial mea sures, and yet keep faith with the national ereditor. But what of next year? Two things are clear enough :—lst, That the necessity for new taxes will be not less, but greater than it is now ; 2dly, That the difficulty of imposing them will be not one whit diminished. When you come down to the House with your Budget for 1842, and announce that the state of Ireland has rendered it necessary to replace the 10,000 men withdrawn by the Whigs, and that the excitement against the Corn-laws prevailing among the unemployed opera tives of the manufacturing districts makes it a measure of pru dent precaution to fortify the principal towns of the country against their inhabitants; will you, as the " Citizen King" of the French is now doing, for the greater peace and security of his City of Paris, propose to raise new loans to cover your ex penses? Will ybur agricultural supporters be more inclined then than now to abandon their corn monopoly, or to sub mit to a property tax, or tax on the transfer of land ? If you are afraid to face the town constituencies now with a house tax, will you be more in a condition to do so a-year hence? If you resort to the ruinous expedient of a loan • now, in order to gain a littl e t emporary telief, is it not morally cer tain that, like the opium -eater, the power of resisting the temp tation will diminish every time you have recourse to the; fatal drug? One question more, and we have done. Are there not many instances in history of nations resorting to loans in time of peace as an habitual means of making good the defi ciency of their ways and means? Is there a single instance in which the practice once resorted to was not continued until the nation was involved in bankruptcy, ruin, and revolution ? Once more, we say, let the National Creditor watch the conduct of the Tories at the present crisis as he values his property. TIMES--It is a worthy termin a ti on o f a career uniformly marked by the postponement of public to party interests, for the present Ministers, on the eve of their departure from office, to aim a deadly blow at the principles of free trade. Having 1 iin by and done nothing when corn and sugar were at exor bitant prices, when they possessed the confidence of the House of Commons, when they were encouraged by Conservative as well as Liberal statesmen to reckon upon the acquiescence of all parties in just, temperate, and we 1-considered measures of cern tnercial reform—having neglected these great opportunities, and thus manifested their indifference to the principles of free trade when it was in their power to advance them effectually, they now come forward, under totally different circumstances, at a season of moderate prices, when their ruinous misma nagement of the national revenue has destroyed the last rem nant of confidence in their financial views, the country casting them off with indignation, and both Houses of Par liament rejecting their measures with contempt—they now come forward and propose, in the name of free trade, an almost indiscriminate application of the sponge to the entire system of protective duties. "Itis no slight evil," says Mr. Labouchere, " to bring forward measures of this kind, involv ing great changes in our complicated commercial system, un less they can brought to a successful issue." If this be true, what are we to think of a measure framed apparently for the very purpose of concentrating upon itself all the opposition which a combination of the most powerful interests, reinforced by justice, humanity, and political prudence, can muster—a measure which it would have surpassed the power even of the strongest Ministry which this country has ever known to carry through Parliament? The present Government can not, in their wildest dreams, have contemplated its success. What, then, must have been their motive for bringing it for ward ? Manifestly to throw the country into disorder ; to rally their broken forces by the help of that passion for revo. lutionary excitement upon which they have ever relied; to embarrass their Conservative successors by surrounding the name of free trade with the hateful associations of slavery, and identifying it as far as possible with the insane and unjust principle of non-protection ; to organize against all com mercial changes the enmity and alarm of great and in fluential classes—to throw the Conservative party into the false, unpopular, and untenable position of the friends of monopbly, the advocates o f commerc i a l restrictions. Such is the game which Ministers have been flaying. It is the obvious and only tendency of their ma noeuvre to intercept those advantages which the country had a right to expect from the gradual, but steady, development of Mr. Huskisson's principles, under a Ministry composed of Mr. Huskisson's colleagues—to obstruct, by a device analogous to a premeditated false start in horse-racing, or the premature firing of a train in mining operations, the realization of those just and practicable views which were announced by Mr. Herres on behalf of the Conservative leaders in the debate on colonial duties before Easter. No man can doubt that Sir Robert Peel would have acted consistently upon these views, if the present Ministers had resigned on Tuesday week, when it became their duty to do so, and had not presumed to propose a budget involving a financial revolution, after they received their coupe from the House of Commons in the usual consti tutional way. If he is preyeated from doing so now, it will be entirely owing to the difficulties and impediments thrown in his way by the treachery of his most unworthy predecessors. They flattered themselves, that by proposing to supply the de ficiency which they have caused in the revenue by a readjustment of the scale of differential and pro tective duties, they might extract some indiscreet expression of hostility to that useful principle from Sir Robert Peel. Here, too, they have failed; for if the expectant Premier should feel sufficient confidence in the productiveness of this source of revenue to give it a place in his budget, he may, without the slightest inconsistency, hate recourse to it whenever he pleases. The Conservative states men have taken their stand upon the principle of uniting the greatest possible degree of commercial freedom with bona fide protection to the agriculture of Great Britain, the British set tlers in Canada, the free labourers emancipated by British money in the West Indies, and the British and Indian capi talists whom public encouragement has induced to incest their money in the East Indian sugar trade. They are ready and desirous to reduce protection to the lowest practicable limit ; but they will never consent to break the engagements, or forget the duties, or wantonly alienate the dependencies of the British Crown. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAYERS OF YESTERDAY. CHRONICLE.—The Funds were flat in the early part of the day, and Consols for the Account declined to 891 sellers ; a purchase, however, having been effected to the extent of 60,0001. for money, by an influential broker, the market dis played more firmness. The debate of last night has done great good. The eyes of the people are getting open to the truth; they see that those men who were the strongest opponents of the eman cipation of our slave population are now the strongest erie mies of the reduction of the sugar duties, on abolition prin ciples; and that, while they object to the reduction on that ground, they also maintain that the diminution of duty proposed is so trifling that it will not benefit the con sumer above Is. 6d. per cwt. In the first case they detect gross inconsistency, and in the second they say, " if the reduc. tion of duty proposed by the Govei nment be so small that it will not benefit the consumer, why don't their opponents pre poseto make the reduction of duty greater ?" They oppose the relief which is proposed because it is so small, but they do not propose to remove the objection which they have advanced by making the relief not nominal but real. This salutary truth is now placed fairly before the public, and they will not fail to make a proper use of it. The contradictory nature of the esti mates of increased supply to be expected for the future is also now made manifest. So soon as the price falls the supply from the East Indies will fall also. But , supposing it should n o t f a ll off, and that Mr. Hogg's estimate of 100,000 tans next year should be realised, that only supports the case of the consumer, as stated by the opponents of the Ministerial measure; for, as according to their statement, the reduction of price on the estimated supply . of 240,000 tons, will not exceed one penny in the pound weight of sugar, the people are entitled to claim the benefit of full competition; so that by the increased be brought dow n t o a amountof supply the price mar reason able p.moißt, Uniess the Tor es propose to make the different tial duty less than the Chancellor of the t schequer, they will not deceive the people by arguing that the consumers will not be gainers by the alteration. The people, as has been well re marked by a Contemporary, have got the scent of cheap sugar in their nose, and they will not give it up until the sense of taste as well as that of smell is gratified. A paper has been circulated tet day 11 the pity, without any name attached to it, containing a concise and abl e ex p os iti on of the case of the consumer, that is, the case of the public against the c lass interests. It d ea l s ably with the arguments of the English planters, and d ec l ares this palpable and iln portarit twth, that " hereafter, those who shall baye been in struraePt maintaining the e;Clusiori *of the produce of B raz il and Cuba from oar markets mutt beheld ans wera bl e f o r th e ontinltaPoe of tho Africp slave trade," PRICE sd. The writer of the document from which this sound maxim is extracted discusses with good feeling and propriety the repug.• nonce entertained by many philanthropists in this country to the use of slave produce; but he asks, with great pertinency, while the products of slave labour are various, " why it is against sugar alone that the objection is raised ?" He observes— " C.Aton, tobacco, and rice, we use without ccmpunction. Gold, produced by slaves, who toil unceasingly, hopelessly, in comparision with whose condition the labourer on a sugar plantation lives in bliss—gold, thus stained with hrman crime and misery, we put into our pockets without a pang, without a thought ! But even with respect to this one article— sugar—what is our conduct ?Do we refuse to buy it ? Does it offer violence to our consciences to encourage its production by furnishing the planter with the implements of husbandry and by clothing his slaves, taking payment in that which alone he has to give —slave-grown sugar ? Of cotton goods alone, made from a slave-grown product, we sent to Brazil in 1839 to the value of 1,633,3101. To make the seventy-six million; of yards of cotton cloth sent to Brazil in that one year was the work of tens of thousands of our own industrious population, every one of whom vir tually gave encouragement to the sugar planters of Brazil. There might be some philanthropy in our giving those seventy-six millions of yards cf cloth to the negro labourers in that country. and this would not be so expensive an ex ercise of that virtue by two-thirds as our present mode of de priving ourselves of the use of Brazilian sugar. But letthat pass ; —we do buy this sugar ; and what possible differenee can it make, in a moral point of view, whether we sweeten our own tea and coffee with it, or whether we send it for sale to Germany to be used by the less scrupulous but more con sistent populations there?" These facts are conclusive, and must convince the abolitionists of the untenable nature of their argument. It is in vain fur them to say that we cannot exclude cotton and tobacco. There is no impossibility about the matter, and if the argument be good against sugar, it is equally so against the use of all slave products. TlMEs.—The preloittm on gold at Paris is per w!+! , , pri , :e of 3/. 17s. 10 1 ,4 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25. 36, and the ex change at Paris on London at short being 2.5. 40, it follows that gold is 0.16 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 432 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. Bi, and the ex change at Hamburgh on London at short being 13. 71 1 , it fol lows that gold is 0.47 per cent. dearer in Hamburgh than in London. The Ministerial measures continue to affect the Public Funds, and the market for Consols was all day in an unsettled state. There was also a demand for money at 5 per cent., which of course influenced the value of Exchequer bias. In the Continental exchanges there was no material alteration in the rates upon Hamburgh and Paris, but Amsterdam was, if anything, a trifle higher. By the usual official return published by the Customs, the export of the precious metals from the port of London to fo reign and colonial parts for the week ending Thursdsy last was as under: Ounces. Silver coin to Rotterdam 65,000 Silver coin to Hamburgh... Silver coin to Belgium SUN.—The feature in the Money Market, is still an un defined and vague feeling of apprehension that capital may soon become scarce, and a consequent tightness of dis counts. As regards the Funds, there were further . amounts of the unfunded thrown upon the mar ket, and this led to a renewed though not se rious decline in the premium—viz., from 7s. to 4s. and 6s. East India Bonds were at Is. discount, and Is. pre mium. Bank Stock was at 1671- to 168, the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 97* to and the Three per Cent. Annuities 88f to 884. Consols, at four o'clock, were 89i sellers for Account, and 894 for Money. There was not much doing in the Foreign Stocks. The Active Spanish Bonds were at 234 to 24 ; the New Por tuguese Five per Cents. at 33* ; Mexican Stock at a de cline, from 29+ to 28# to 4 ; Peruvian at 161 ; Vene zuelan Deferred at 84 to .*; Buenos Ayres at 22; Belgian at 100 to 4 ; French Five Cents. at 114 f. 25c. ; and Dutch Two-and-Half per Cents. at 521 to The market for Railway Shares has become dull. London and Birmingham were at 69 ; South Western 18* ; Great Western New at 14, and the Fifths at 7# premium. B r i g ht on were 3i to 2i ; Manchester and Lends 14 ; Northern and Eastern 22 ; and Birmingham and Gloucester 28 discount, ex-New Shares: Colonial Bank Shares were 10:} premium, and Union Bank of Australia 9 premium ; Brazilian Imperial Mining Com pany's Shares were 15 discount. The Foreign Exchanges were on the whole without any marked alteration to-day. On Paris bills were taken at 25f. 62-c. to 65c., on Amsterdam at 12 3 1 to 3-, on Frankfort at 1491 to R, on Hamburgh at 13 9,f to 4, and on Trieste at 10. The rate of exchange on London comes over steady from Hamburgh, and the price of gold still rather high. A letter received at the North and South American Coffee-house states that the writer had been on board the Lord Saumarez, arrived at Liverpool, and which re ported having seen a large steamer on her way home from the Cape, and had ascertained from the mate that the steamer was disabled, had three masts and one very large funnel, with her sails set upon the main. The track of the President steamer answers to this description. The steamer seen, which is proved not to be the Hard wicke (arrived safe at Liverpool), might therefore have been the President, out thirty days, and disabled, attempt ing to make the Cape de Verde islands. THE SHIPOWNERS' SOCIETY. Our readers will see from the following letter, ad dressed by Messrs. G. L. Jackson and Son, shipowners, Water-lane, to the Secretary of the Shipowners' Society, they have withdrawn themselves from that Society in consequence of its hostility to the measures proposed by Government with regard to sugar, timber, and corn : " Water-lane, May 8, 1841. " Sir,—Our attention has been called to a copy of a letter addressed by you on behalf of the General Ship owners' Society, to the Secretary of the British North American Association, in which you intimate the readi ness of our Society to unite with them in concocting measures of immediate and energetic resistance to her Majesty's Government with regard to the proposed al teration of duties on the importation of sugar, timber, and corn. "We cannot, therefore, refrain from expressing our opinion that such reduction would be highly favourable, not only to the general interests of the country, and especially to the poorer classes, but also highly advanta geous, in particular, to the shipping interest ; and disap proving, as we do, of this act of the Committee, as inju rious to the interests committed to their care, and as sa vouring too much of political bias, we have to request that you may consider us as no longer members of the Shipowners' Society. " We remain, respectfully, Sir, " Your obedient servants, (Signed) "G. L. JACKSON and SON. " W. Oviatt, Esq., Secretary to the Shipowners' Society. " P.S. As shipowners, nothing would conduce to our interests more than so near an approach to a free-trade, in corn and sugar especially, as the circumstances of the country might permit." The above, we learn, is far from being a solitary in stance. The conduct of the Committee of the Society has called forth many letters of the same import from mem bers of the Society.—Chronicle. REVIEW AND SIEGE OPERA TIONS BY THE GARRISON OF CHATHAM, IN CONCERT WITH THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. Preparations were made on Monday, the 10th instant, to receive his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who had expressed his intention of inspecting the establishment for the instruction of the junior officers of the Royal Engineers, and the Royal Sappers and Miners, of which Colonel Pasley is Di. rector, at Chatham; but as the inspection of parallels, ap proaches' batteries, &c., w ou ld be very uninteresting, unless manned by infantry and artillery, the Commandant of the garri son directed that this should be done, as on former occasions. Much to the disappointment of thousands, it was announced on the morning of that day, that his Royal Highness was prevented from attending by indisposition, but as two conjunct mines had been prepared for explosion, and very extensive field -works had been perfected, and siege guns and mortars had been placed in battery, by order of Colonel Sir William Warre, Commandant of the garrison, the intended operations were car ried into effect in the following order, commencing at 11 o'clock. Th., troops of the garrison having manned a front of fortification, and also the parallels, approaches, lodgements, and batteries erected against it by the engineers, the operations were opened by a general fire of infantry and artillery on both sides. After some time an officer of engineers was observed through the smoke moving towards a barrier gate, which closed the centre of the curtain, and having hung a bag of powder to it, he lighted a Bickford's fuze attached to the bag, and retired. In less than a minute the powder exploded and blew the gate to pieces. This was the preconcerted moment at which the mines were to be fired by the Voltaic battery, which was done in the usual manner by an 'engineer officer, in the second par al lel, o by tok rubbing one wi re aga i nst another ; instantaneous ex plosion place, and the effect was magnificent. An excel lent breach was formed, and by a simultaneous movement two assaulting columns rushed from their cover, one towards the gate way, and the other towards the breach, both of which, however, were obstinately contested until the defenders were obliged to retire by an escalading party who took them in flank. After some animated and skilful skirmishing on both sides, " Cease firing " was sounded, and the whole garrison who had been employed in these operations firmed in front of the lines, and marched past the Commandant in review order. There were about 1,200 men under arms on the occasion, be sides a great number of recruits to keep the ground. The day was propitious, and no drawback to the pleasure of the specta tors occurred, excepting the absence of the Royal Duke. Colonel Sir William Warre in person directed the operations of the besiegers, who were opposed by Colonel Weare, at the head of the provisional battalion as defenders. Colosel Pasley came from Portsmouth, where he had been employed more than a week in resuming the operations against the wreck of the Royal George, in order that he might be present to receive his Royal Highness, all the engineer prepa rations necessary for that purpose having bee n ma de in the mean time by Captain Sandham, his second in command. The breach was stormed by the 77th, under Major Wilson, and the 95th, headed by Major Trevor. The ptewaL was carried by the 75th and 33d, forming a battalion under Major Westmore. The escalade was executed by the Royal Sappers and Miners, under the oommand of Captain Sarjcl?am, .s . u u p ic ported by the Royal Marines, under Lieutenant-Colo nel h 51_ ton. An engineer with d ope to other of each corps, as wo r n u d l fired by Captain Wulff, t'znea comman d ing other adttebnedetdheupocaisio. The mines were prepa o r ffi ed ce a them, u o e f The officers of the garrison regretted the .t absence bnt h of his Royal Highness, and still more the emir of . 1 ; have the honour and pleasure of ho nours as soon as lils health shall be re-es receiving a w e re- es tablished. b a l y i hs terml limed. the t sarnTelleraeeschraipvetiobneeant s C ieg ha e th r a e m vi 7bu s' t none very recently. As they break the mono . ony of the comilion infantry manceuvres, they are not only a noveltyints:tiv otuhcese to the o spectators, but aarnedemxtereomeemly. ißtereating, as well as ploYf4. We regret to leaFti that several extensive failures r we to „ o we in Glasgow and neighbourhood within the • ot few days.— Glasgow Chronicle, APPENDIX. 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. 3ookseller, 219. Regent-street; 'ners' -court ; Onwhyn. Cathe- Birmingham ; Ross and Night ksellers in Town and Country. CHAPTER HI On the Diseases where thel Sold by Bailhere, Medical F Simpkin and Marshall, Stvtioi rine-street, Strand; Barlow, I ginale, Liverpool: and all Boot Just published, in royal 18mo., cloth, price 33. ; and sent in Town or Country free, by post, 3s. 6d., MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suf fering fr..m 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 sold by Balliere, Medica Bookseller, 219, Regent-street; 59, Pall Mall; S xange, 21, Paternoster-row; Pattie, 4, Brydges-street, Strand; 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin; Duncan ,114, High-street, Edinburgh; and to be had of all Booksellers. The Work which is now presented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of diseases and affec tions, which Nr some unaccountable reason have been either altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost in difference, by the c: dinary practitioner. To enter into the details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical, which are sure to follow from indulgence, in certain habits, would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, in saying that there is no member of society, by whom the book will not be found interesting, whe ther we consider such person to hold the relation of a PA RENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a CLERGYMAN. Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their residence, No. 7, Frith-street, Soho, from Ten till Three, and Five till Eight in the Evening; and Country Patients are re quested to be as minnte as possible in the detail of their cases, —as to the duration of the complaint, the symptoms, age, ge neral habits of living, and occupation in life of the party ; the communication must be accompanied by the "usual Consulta tion Fee of 11.," without which no notice whatever can be taken of their application ; and in all cases, the most inviolable secrecy may be relied en. '-^S ~~ p I t 2{e Gee EVENING EDITIOX. SANDWICH ELECTION. SAXDWICH, T'UtSAT EVENING.—This election has ter minated in the return of the Tory candidate—but every ruse that the Tories are acquainted with (and they are excellent tacticians) was resorted to in order to secure his'election. Among others they practised the following one—they issued early in the morning this placard :—" God save the Queen.— Contervative triumph.—(By express. )—The Duke of Wel lington, Premier.—Majority, 43.—Resignation of Ministers. —ln consequence of their not being able to carry the re-intro. duction of their Slavery Bill, and provide for the deficiency of the two millions and al& in the revenue." As there are many persons who like to be on the strongest side, and others (especially in Sandwich and Deal) who think that mere is to be gained by adhering to an expectant rather than a falling Government, this ruse, in all probability, obtained several votes. Immediately after the close of the poll, the Mayor pro ceeded to cast up the poll-books, when he declared the num bers to be— Mr. Lindsay Colonel Fox .... Alrjority for Lindsay —46 Lindsay then bri , fly addressed the electors, thanking them fur their kirdness in [placing him in the proud position in which he stood as representative of their borough. Colonel Fox also addressed the electors, and stated that he should collie forward again at the next election, which hit felt confident would be attencird with very different results. A vote of thanks was then given to the Mayor, who returned thanks. HEREFORDSHIRE. (FROLI a CORRESFONDENT.) CORN-LIWS.--Th: Tories and Monopolists are become dreadfully alarmed at the determination of Ministers, to affivd retiel to the poor of this country, by a repeal of the odious duties on corn, timber, and sugar ; hand-bills have been circulated by two or three hungry lawyers in the town of Ross, for the purpose of alarming the agricultu rists of the country, and calling upon them o p e titi o n against their r e p ea l. But we hope the landed interest of Herefordshire Is not. so easily deluded. Every well wisher to his country should be up and stirring, and sup port the present patriotic Government in their struggle for free trade, and to afford relief to the "starving minas " of their fellow-creatures. CALEDONIAN ASYLUM. The twenty-fourth anniversary of this institution Was celebrated yesterday at Freemasons' Tavern ; The this 4ntet,. offitinhot,' iu the chair, and supported on the left, by Sir Charles Napier, and on the right by Sir Augustus D'Este. Among the company were Sir James Clark, Bart., the Hon. C. Hope, Charles Barclay, Esq., P. M. Stewart, Esq., Capt. Charles Forbes, and the Rev. Dr. Cooke. On the entrance of the Chairman, accompanied by , Sir Charles Napier, the applause was most enthu siastic. Sir Charles Napier was dressed in his usual way, with a whit e wa i s t coa t, bl ac k cravat, and blue coat, and. attracted universal attention, of which he seemed not at all aware. It would be difficult to meet with a man of such simplicity of manner, or so far removed frelii p.m/thing like pomp or ceremony, as the hero of St. Jean d'Acre. He came among the company as a com mon visitor, and seemed surprised that he was received with such enthusiastic applause. After the usual loyal toasts had been given, the Chair man gave " The Army and Navy." Sir A. D'EsTE returned thanks for the army. Sir C. NAPIER, in returning thanks for the navy, said he believed he was the senior officer of the service pre sent. lie had been in the navy for for forty-one years. He had served in all parts of the globe, and he had never yet seen any navy to be compared to that of his own. country. On the coast of Syria, the British navy had distinguished itself not only by its bravery, but its scienti fic skill. On that occasion the army and navy acted in unison, and he trusted they would always do so, and thereby maintain the high character which this country had so justly obtained for the efficiency of the two great bulwarksof the nation. The CHAIRMAN then gave " The Duke of Sussex, the President of the Caledonian' Asylum," and paid a high compliment to the Royal Family for the support which they had given to the Institution. Three of the Royal. family had supported it—the Duke of York, the Duke of Kent, and the Duke of Sussex. Two of these were gone, but one remained, and he would therefore propose the health of the Duke of Sussex,lthe President of the Caledonian Asylum. The piper of his Royal Highness played the reel of " Tulloaligorum," to which the whole assembly responded by the loudest applause ; and while the shouts continued, The Chisholm, as a good Highlander, dressed in the costume of his country, left the chair, and was fol lowed by-Sir. Charles Napier, and two Highland Chief tains dressed in the garb of Old Gaul, and danced in pre sence of the company, and to their great delight the dance of " Tullochgorum." Some Englishmen who were present seemed astonished at. the exhibition, hut the Highlanders were delighted, and said when they saw " The Chisholm" and " The Napier," dancing together, that Charley Napier could dance as well as fight. • The CitAtintAx then gave success to the Caledonian Asylum, when the boys, to the number of seventy-six, marched round the • room to the great delight the company ; they appeared in the best health, and attracted great attention. Previous to the reading of the Report the CHAIRMAN stated. thilt he had visited the establishment, and he was never more gratified in his life than he was by the pro ficiency of the boys, and he therefore took that opportu nity of paying a just compliment to the Rev. Mr. Lees, for the admirable manner in which he performed his duty to the establishment, The SECRETARY then read the list of the subscrip tions, which were most liberal. Among many other names were the following :—The Earl of Haddington, 10 guineas additional ; G. Lindsay, additional 5 guineas ; Colonel Sir Duncan M`Dougal, 8 guineas additional ; Sir Augustus D'Este, 5 guineas additional. The Mar quis of Abercorn. additional 25/. ;• Lady Shaw Steward, additional 25L ; The Chisholm, additional 10 guineas ; Sir .Charles Napier, 5 guineas ; Sir 0. Forbes, in addi tion to 399/., 10 guineas ; George Forbes, Esq., additional 5 guineas ; Captain Charles Forbes, 5 guineas ; the Rev. Alexander. Fletcher, 10 guineas. The amount altogether for the year, we believe, is about 800/. The dinner was excellent, and the attendance good. The company broke up about twelve o'clock. THE CORN-LAWS, &c. A densely crowded meeting of the inhabitants of Kendal was held on the evening of Monday, the 10th inst., in the Town Hall, James Machell, Esq., in the chair. The resolutions were moved, seconded, and unani mously and rapturously cheered, by a meeting which, nevertheless, resolved that if these propositions be re jected, they would never relax until the whole restric tion on bread be abolished. Allan Simpson, Esq.. Alderman J. Wilson, Coun cillor Gibson, John Whitwell, Esq. Rev. Edw. H aw k es , John Thomp s o n , Esq., Rev. Gilbert Elliot, Vicar of Lesley Thore ; Rev. D. Jones, Independent clergyman ; Rev. John Guthrie, Presbyterian minister ; Mr. John. Somerville, Alderman R. Wilson, J. J. Wilson, John Gill, Chartist, and Lawrence O'Connel, weaver, took part in the proceedings, and a petition was agreed to and forwarded to Mr. S. W. Wood for presentation. The following are the resolutions 1. That this meeting regards the existence of all monopolies that fetter and crush industry, and which have already told with such alarming effect upon the trade of this kingdom, as part of a system which, if con tinued, must sooner or later bring ruin upon the nation at large. That the interests of all classes, and especially of the agricultural and manufacturing labourer, impera tively demand their abolition, and require the establish ment of such a.system of free trade as would open to the wants and products of this country the supplies and markets of the world. 2. That the high price of sugar, the protection so long exclusively enjoyed by the West India planters, and the danger of entirely closing our trade with the Brazils, as well as the financial state of this country, call for an im mediate alteration of the sugar duties to the full extent proposed by the Government ; and this meeting con templates with indignation the possible rejection of so wise and necessary a measure. 3. That in the opinion of this meeting the indispen sable means of supporting human life ought not, under a wise system of legislation, to be subject to taxation of any description ; yet, believing that the alter a tion of the duties on g ra i n p ropose d by Lord Johnßussell will he a vast benefit to the country, it views with cordial satis faction such a change, and regards with determined op position all attempts to frustrate this approach to a more equitable system. 4. That the alarming increase of disease and poverty in the land is attributable to the high price of provisions and the stagnation of trade ; and that the principles of religion, humanity, and justice, require that there should be a free supply of the necessaries, rather than the luxu ries of life. • (From the Liverpool Chronicle.) The all-absorbing topic with all men of all classes is, of course; the announcement made last night week in the House of Commons by Lord John Russell on the sub ject of the Corn-laws. Honour to the Ministers for this announcement ! The people have now something t an _ gible, Something palpable, something real to struggle for in the political warfare. The Reform Bill was only a means. We are now about to wrestle for an end. The electors- of this country' will, in all probability, before many weeks arekever, be appealed to for their verdict upon the bread-tax. What should the be edo at such an important crisis ? There should pub lie meetings in every 'quarter of the land to a d_ i se i veral dresS both Houses of Parliament on the subject. All schisms, all differences of opinion, the P sections of the Liberal party should be cast to the winds, and they should work as one man, with one heart, for "a con siuntnation so devoutly to be w • ished" There should be unceasing . agitation. And, above all, the con stituents of every county and borou g h in the land s h ou ld h a ve a candidate ready, who, if elected,_ will support the 31i n isters in their ende avours to settle this momentous question. The cause now rests with th e p eo pl e them selves, The Ministers have nobly and gallantly put themselves in the front of .o. the battle. The issue is with the country. According to private letters from Rio Janeiro lately received, it appears the young Emperor of Brazil had been specially invited to send a %presentative to the grand Convention proposed to be held of all the new States of America, North and South. . The place of meeting had not been determined on, but it was not supposed that it would be at Panama, as fixed upon some years ago when this Conven tion was first talked about and agreed upon. It is stated also that an Envoy from Brazil to Paraguily had been resolved upon, and would lie received favourably in that Republic, ac_ cording to accounts received from thence. This event roar tend to facilitate an opening to commercial- intercourse with that comparatively unknown country, for when once opened to Brazil, there hill be less difficulty about the admission of other States to the same privilege, and in any case foreign comraodi-. ties will find an easier vent there by transit through Bruit, when once the two neighbouring States t, have come to the sie-. sired understanding. The now well aseervained death of Dr. Francia is calculated to work a complete revolution in Paraguay,*. e is ag un o: The report that Governor Prescott had beets re. e a n e t c o o f un th t at o i f sla m ud isQ sO a rti li n% sigvie Newf a ou h n i d s la v t, rm o rri n called frorr e true. He -- EVANGELICAL VOLUNTARY CHURCH ASSOCIATION. 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