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W'.....' _ . -Y •-") , ..v .• - • ''' .7 • t! ' quo -1'". -..----;___ - - tires .., - MORN ING EL .I I I ON. expenses in Chine, Affghanistan, and Svrie, which must amount to several millions more. Irob,,bly, the addition to the public debts during tl.e last ten years may be about thirty millions ; we car), there fore, expect no boastimr, upon this point. But .‘ Ire land is my great difficulty," Lord Melbourne may well say, as Sir Robert Peel is reported to have said be fore him, with this difference, however, that Lord Mel bourne's difficulties from Ireland are the effect of his otun treacherous intrigues ; Sir Robert Peel could fear no embarrassment that must not be caused by the crimes of others. N. CB. nu Amy, d :Biebop f Cheshire Ps:ir°„ /I t ineoln voe nptnn s pre +emu+ en College+ eau 1100 1 Suffolk. bir e l g, • Fellow sb ire. Id the A, t .i f. ni ster of P . 'al i tivanstom, sox a , vicar o' No. 15,092. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1641. PRICE sd. BANK OF FRANCE. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS MOR, INt3 ITIO IrANCH -- ATEI. ND BIRMINGHAM 4 7 1. EX I El` o , s ce i RIILWAY COMPANY. CRIPHOLDERS. ' , Bond-str ee t, M anc h ester, J an . 12,1841. .ic e is her given, that at a MEETING of the SUB SCPABERS to th e COMPANY , h e l d, pursuant to advertise :lll2l on the IRh i ns t an t, i t was resolved that the C ompany ..i . "' .141 be, sod th e same was, DI SSOLVED; and the affairs 7.rtieof w ere di rected to be immediately wound pp, with a view RI a s ubstituted Comp an y b e i ng organise d f or t h e purpose o f • L 4 :DPIYing to Parliament i n the now ensuing Session for power construct a Railway from Stafford to Rugby, according to the Notices given and the Plans deposited in that behalf. All Parties intending to claim, as Scripholders, the benefit of any share interest i.i t he funds of the Company, are requested to deposit such Scrip with the Company, at their Offices, within f ourteen days from the date hereof; and no Scrip will e "eiyeti for d epos it a f ter t h e t i me h ere b y li m i te d . , This Netiee d oes not a pply t o th e C ompany ' s S u b scr ib ers, But to the purchasers of Scrip Certificates. By order of the Provisional Directors, Prt n RICHARD FOSS, Secreta r y. -- •VISIONAL DIRECTORS OF THE STAFFORD AND RUGBY RAILWAY COMPANY. Thomas Ashton John Bradshaw, George R. Chappell • Henry S. Chadwick London. Robert Gardner Manchester. Henry Newbery Robert Ogden George Sandara Leo Schuster Edward 'l'o,jtal George Stephenson, Consulting Engineer. George P. Bidder, Acting Engineer. LAST-1)--- , --AY FOR THE APPLICATION FOR SHARE S .i:,eltoAl. THE COUNTRY, the 26th, and IN LONDON, I 3 coth instant. ..?NDON and WESTMINSTER. WATER To b p , COMPANY. - InPoWered by Act of Parliament, for which Notices -)l l fiers. hare been given. No. 7, St. Martin's Place. Trafalgar -square. 4- b e Capital 600,000/. in Shares of 501. each. -%-ip er m iT r it e. (in order to comply with the Standing Gliders) 5/. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. ' ` 'SirT _ (From whom the Directors will be elected.) • Th e ir,!"cia Burdett Bart., M.P. • sir wlr.ht Hon. Sir' Charles Grey, M.P. 8 4 ,* i t 1111 ) Colebrook, 11, York-gate, Regent's-park. Ah • o°l l H If ti Bart., M D. 'G. C. H., F. R. S.. F. S. A. , ii aor , ; 7 ' - isr . tt etPhrey, Esq.. Alderman, M.P. TbeA. Mavkinnon, Esq. M.P. ' T h 11 „°n. Col. F. IL ' W.' Needham, Jermyn- street. irk e " (3 °- H. R. Westenra, M.P. • ;jeerlirdaiCr,oll-Ij.. E . I. C. 31. P. John Chaplin E: q., Lad-lane, and Euston-square. °h -n P. Clarke, ' Esq -. Vineent-square, Westminster. Colonel Deere 28, York-place, Portman-square. ,-, T h°‘. de Vea; Es Lisle-street, and Kensington. 'Elderto'n E q sq " . Lincoln's Inn-fields. Will Evans, ' Esq., ' Milbank. , Vi lliam Gri s th enwa i te, E sq., C am b erwe ll -grove, .. .„.,* l tobert Keat e , E sq . , S urgeon to the Queen. ' • ' - 'att,-., tain hlacDougal, Fir GrOve, North Brixton. ; •r• Mackintosh, Esq., Upper Seymour-street. • e ;.Morriso n Esq., Princes-street, Bank. • I ) r• Paris, Dover -street, F.R. S., F.L.S. i . .• ';,eremiah Pitcher, Esq., 46, Russell-square. , . Dr. Hamilton Roe, Hanover-square. ilines Ruddell Todd, Esq., Portland-place. disci+. Workman, Esq., Greenwich. i ' 'With Power to add t o th e i r N um b er. RANKERS. Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co., Lothbury : * ' Messrs. Drummond and Co., Charing-cross. ENGINEER.—Robert Stephenson, Esq. ;- ' Sor acivoits.—Messrs. Winter, William s , an d Willi ams, 16, Bedford-row. .•- ; - 1 , 1 °, 14 for Shar es , h ere b y g i ve N ot i ce, that they will receive no ,--:, de'. ,:e nor f rom the country after Tuesday, the 26th par ille 1 ." J anuary instant (b e i ng t h e fi rst d ay o f t h e meet i ng of .- - ift ei . 8 In) or from persons residing in or near the metropolis I attirdy, the 30th day of January instant. ;f t : th e 'wa n time applications may continue to be made to any e foll uwingMembers of the Sub-Committee—Wm. Chap . L. l •L' a , E lq• ; Lad -lane and Euston - square ; Thomas De Vear, Esq., le' - street and Kensington ;or Captain MacDougal, Fir-grove, ; yr Brixton_ ; the Solicitors, Mess's . Winter, Williams, and Perlis;4:ll°4 to W. S. Northhouse, Esq., Parliamentary Agent, , ~ • 91. eet ; M. E. Wilkinson, Esq., Guildhall_ and ' •U • NY. Blanch, Esq 7 St. Martin's Place. • f t Committee Jan. 14,8 By o l r B d 4. er i of the Sub- Committee Room, , . CIIA Y ' S INN WINE ESTABLISH , MENT, No. 23, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. t , inn Arter ten years' experience, the Proprietors of the Gray' s 1 re. Wine Establishment have the satisfaction of knowing that .itberali zed spirit of enterprise with which they commenced e ,„ 141 4as has accomp li shed the object they haped to obtain—the • lilinally i ncreasing confidence and patronage of the public. i e,,:t " a s seen th at , w hil e enlightened principles and improved , a,.telos of business were being extended to ahnostevery branch t ` commerce, the WINE and SPIRIT TRADE partook of • db e 4itt i l .e of those advantages—the consumers in many instanc es • 14erita 11 / 1 supplied fro m sma ll d ea l ers, who frequently, from acci ..l or necessitou s c i rcumstances, were thrown into the 'wine • ~ e without. the slighte s t c l a i m to a knowledge of its princi- Lies; possessing little or no capital, generally the most incom retenr_ t judges of the articles they p ro f ess to understand; and, "°M ail these causes, perfectly unable to protect the interests littd health of their customers. Thus a wide field was open for • * fell -directed capital and exertion. • • The. Proprietors associated themselves with a gentleman edu i l atild from his youth upwards into a fall knowledge and ac rnce with every department of their business, embat ked est a tie tlital, opened direct communications, and ultimately • Pars of intimate relations with the wine growers and ship -4,0„ ,I,llcountries, thereby placing themselves in the most • Isereirawe position to take advantage of both the Home and vv. . A r ` u ° Markets, They have always sold at a fixed and mode ti y t o f s t ' ; 01 4, together with their increasing desire to gra , tsw to '" toe tastes and wishes of their friends, has enabled , . :et, ..ostaleticeeded in raising their Establishment to its present -.7ln enee Th e vs ' ;as well as the Duty-paid Stock, embraces every passibt ° ,, t \ Tine; from the most economical up to the highest • •• **t on e 'At' i t.Y. Gentlemen who prefer it can make their se ' in :h e . t),` Pi Gentlemen Hogsheads, or Quarter-Casks, in the Dock. • tees - e Stock there are always from Forty to Fifty i h.l) Lne on Draught, of which any quantities may be -ass zera ,e Bottled Stock contains from Five to Six Thousand /ear s i n ° ,..` fort Wine of the best Vintages, from two to ten th quit - irttlat the whole at the lowest prices consistent with p h ,. Offered, in th ' most various and most curious of the Sherries shipped g er . e nay of Cadiz are to be found in their possession,. and Vim, tt rich treat to the . Connoisseur in really Pure and Virgin . .. tr T htheeP reoepnrsite t er s s , in ret urn i ng t h e i r b est t h an k s t o th e P u bli c 'e met . Antiy-increasin g encouragem ent their exertions _es is 'h wi th; beg t o a dd , that their Business will continue, ,re etion ls ef,ntinued si nce t h e Ist January, 1834, under the di ti at itt,,of M. Kislingbury, the Managing Partner; and their zerye i ts c a stimulate them still further, if possible, to de lta entire confidece. HENEKEY, KISLINGBURY, and CO. . _ WINES IN WOOD, g D i Includinuty, and ex p ense o f D e li very n London, CID. r PER QUARTER CASK. £l5 10s. - • 1 good • young Wine .. 17 Os. luperior ditto I.l4litiov immediate bottling . £l9 les., and 21 10s. 41;a,,O.rdtriary old Wines of h igh character £24 and ls £ 10 2 5 6 . su er pale, gold en, or brown Pule ( ior oldexcellent. Dinner Wine) l7 10s. . , s , p ...... first class Wine • , extraordinary old, high character 27 Os. .. £2l 10s. and 2264, Os.os. ' . • , ex traordinary golden do. (Santa Maria de Xeres) 30 Os. 414 oat India very choice Sillpor-INEia, the best quality 13 Os. ••• • 14 10s. 1,, London particular ....... 12 Os. .4,llt,t,sAL A, best quality 0 0N r; *" . tket best ........ . £7, £B, an .. d . 9 9 1 1 0 0: : WINES IN BOTTLE. ? Ort'r • Per D ozen, exclusive of Bottles. ' h ... , t rOtn the W oo d o4s. to 30s. llN'vrinr old, b est marks 34s. to 40 3 . Cry ; °t 82s. to 365• sp„._!‘i, two year: in bottl e a ,e7ter, five t o e i g h t years in bottle ...425. to 48s. ' l ltr i i th e 'gold co l our or bro ws i,l'oiee. ten y ears i n b ottle s4s. to 60s. Ms. to 30s. „Ws.• • 0 1 4 144 , eXcell en t Dinner Wine th e rPee, jot, any colour • 365. to 425. 425. very au pale, dry and high-flavoured 48s. to 545. th,',4„itltelor choice qualities 48s. A:713:41.1 juieladn o(,Santa Maria do Xeres) 48s. to 545. very old 114h4,„*.aPerior old East 'lndia ..30s. 365. to 425. :Iv /IA direct ••• • .., tit Ind' - 48s. to 545. , ta t la 60s. i. th:-„lnd.ia, very old 845. . IR ARbe,rcial, very old and scarce oBs. l a I) from the wood ' 11 1.1 n- ' °rust 2to 4 years in bottle C ELL ed' 3 3:: .. ' ANN, AS 1 .14, 1 m 0 .., "• C..ALCA''',lrich or dry ,TlbriT."'Etl.A, the fi•iest 255. to Z 2 ;l B B ss s s .. .. • 11•11.-" LA, London particular . 9 45. '., C ATS ALA, the best quality oTsiTAlcood and superior lss. and 18s. 18s. and 21s. b All 11........*:-0.;;"• .CIRFIC; GALLON wines in Pints. at proportionate prices. 1111 A ,1, -N AND BRITISH SPIRITS P ER 1 9rs 245. ant - i littAZ.,l), Genuine Cognac JAN/""*V, Finest old Champagne wp,DAICA RIJAI 12s. and 14s ,URN'SpE DITTO, best marks . 16s. Wlll • 'l(Scotch and Irish, various strengths .. 12s 16s. and 18s, 141)()AiLsA,NDS, Sehied ...... ... •-• - 265. 6d. and 2%. ...........,stcitist,l4lGliiltii.;v ........ .... ....... .............. Bd., 13s. 4d. and 16s._ . _s. 114 1 ,,, --_,--------- best quality 'R 'MANDY - ths...Bs., 9s. 4d., and lOs 1 8 9 d 18s. TOri n tlaren '"---Citsh without discount, bottles charged 625_.. per i tt ii , hampers or case s IS. pe r doze., stone bottles 4 oh, which wtll be allowed if returned. ' • P.R . p • HENEKEY, KISLINGBURY, and CO. . t . nee Currents containing, all the varieties of their ...._`'va• forwaided upon a pplication. THE NEV,' COIJCi II MEDICINE! ! ! °L LA ND'S BALSAM OF SPR UCE , INI, I. the tb,wly-disuverrd remedy for COUGHS,dCOCL(D)N_, Itir „JA.I,i,,,,NzA, INCIPIENT ASTHMA, an • A,,: , ..! lON. o._l.;Ovi Scienc e is daily producing nevr wonders, l ai:d r am n, on e g . 4,.cl.scovuries which tal - ,e place none are more t.e ter,i..,;,.,,,r I,l7i,i,ppr,bati,,, 1 11311 a remedy tor those complaints consequences tii iii . ' , ril.)!e el mate, are so productive of fatal This' cotntort and liv, i 1 the oldie as Cou,ghs and C ol ds.. y ~. Extraordinary' s ll ' neds P relieves the most distressing I tiilir!"ras in a levy liour ( s, and ii little perseverance in its use c,,,1n every cae, effect a permanent Cum I A Il gths and Colds, accomninied by a dif fi culty of breathing, -..r ert , throat, sv and rawnes s of the chest. impeded expectoratio n , so re i t and feverish symptoms, will be quickly :übdued, w hi le . it use "ill a._soretily pre:•ent consumption from this prolific • Asl„lstallaatn.d's Balsam of Spruce gives ~..;',,. leases, and particularly in Hoarseness, _.lave immeliate Weagheeeizningasll, ft;'; uhstructions of the Chest • while those who t • lab..ured eilabic,otstunler the misery of 'a confirmed Asthma, have been lh."' '1 Its us e to eni,iv th . blessings of life, and to pursue liee- avocations with a "di•gree' of ease and comfort they had I),.!trangers to for years. l'i.o„;Pred by Charles Holland, and sold by ev.;'' 229, Strand. London ; and bs at least one per. s,.:itown in the kingdom. Price ls. lid. a Bott l e. his agent, T. and 6.b ge d r 44 ° by Johnston, 68, Cornhill ; Hannay. t 3, ' 150• (410 rd-street. V 3 L -'•- ~~ ,NCE. his right of full Ott! and 19 to having W I not surPj Eringo ;hal Solt wever, beig knowledget wit t o one , th e Whist l6 vith offers ['he Duko ot were bask.. ne bets W si°‘ y t prices . d aft. 00 1 :o yards of I %lie colt' •_ _ A taken • vest; i y,,,r thell° T 10 ! s Os '" a tiO ..—s s 44 j. 161 9 0 ...—s s e 1. s odto. Oki to. oil S 6d te E 445 0 , 0 ° ° 14 0 '' 7 0 • 4 . 00000 0 ji 0 : ..... 3.0. ;ton.- is ........ " ry4 ..... gt 24 >1....... ie ..... 19 . 143 01 " . JO deF ° IN 00 d of i, eta 013 ,,5 roug— roge, 94 0 :f t raqo are to r , Aei r of cc' , • .ness rr— i d yl C° ; CO Oll e u kalh pa fd ria" of ible t° t cb° !Id a y .' 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Notwithrtani.ing the above Institutiz is closed, Patients continue to receive the GRATUITOUS ADVICE of the Sur geon (Mr. Courtenay, 42, Great l'ilarlborough-street,) by ap piying at his ow•n hease instead of the Charity. Hours of Attendance, from Eight to Ten in the Mornings and from Seven to Nine in the Evenings. On Sundays in the Morning, but not in the Evening. CITY OF LONDON CONINIERCIAL CLUB, This CLUB is OPENED for the ACCOMMODATION of MEMHEILS, it embraces all the elegancies and advan tages combined with the comforts of the best arranged Club.. The Exchange or Commercial Chamber is furJished with every necessary information relative to Commerce. Each Member has the privilege of introducing a Friend, Applications for Admission (with refOrences) to be made to the Committee at the Club House, 39, Throgmorton-street. --- • ATIONAL LOAN FUND, LIFE AS. .L 1 SURANCE, and DEFERRED ANNUITY SO• CIETY, 2t, CORNIIILL. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. DIRECTORS. T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. Elliotson, F.R.S. John Rawson, Esq. H. Gordon. Esq. Clamant Tabor, Esq. George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. A untrous—Dr. 0. Gregory, ..R. A. S. ; Professor Wheat. stone, F.R.S. ACT ua. AY—W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S. LIFE ASSURANCE. Besides the perfect security to the policy holder of a large paid up capital, and accumulating funds, with moderate rates of premium, the following is one amongst many of the advan tages which belong exclusively to the principles of life assu rance and deferred annuities originated by t- :e Society, viz.— Power to borrow, ( without delay, expense, or orfeiture) two thirds of all premiums paid upon a policy of assurance. Premium for assuring 1001. I s. d. I Age. I k: s. d. I Age. I s. d. 25 1 1 18 61 35 210 111 45 1 3 9 4 30 1 2 4 41 40 218 81 50 I 4 4 2 PUBLIC NOTIFICATION. 31 ESSRS. SLOAN and CO., M em b ers o f the Royal College of Surgeons. 4, ARGYLL-PLACE, ['REGENT-STREET, and 28, IRONMONGER-LANE, CHEAPSIDE, may le consulted from Ei g ht o 'Clock in the horning until Ten at Night, on every variety and stage of Syphilis, with that delicacy and seeresy they have hitherto nb s.:l-vcd. 'The treatment they pursue will not subject any patient to confinement or hindrance - from business. Cases of an ex treme nature they eradicate in eight or ten days, or if slight or recent in two or three, without the indiscriminate use of mer cury, and .at a moderate expense. Generative debility, Gonorrhoea, and Siiictures of the Urethra, unhappily so preva -1?-10, are treated upon'those interring principles which have in sured to Messrs. `loan and Ch. so large a share of nubile va• tronaee for nearly thirty years in London, and which it will be their future exertion to maintain. Letters, containing an enclosure, will be answered by return and patients, hoverer distant, will be corresponded with until recovered. IIOOPING-COUGH cured without Inward Medicine, By the Use of ROCHE'S HERBAL EMBROCATION. Many thousands of children are cured annually by this remedy; en the first attack, an immediate application of the EMBROCA TION will prevent the complaint taking any hold of the constitu tion, and a few times may completely cure. In most cases, one bot tle will produce the do-ired effect ; and no remedy can be so a ell caL calated for children as this, for it jequires no medicine to betaken in wardly. In no case can this medicine be genuine unless signed on the wrapper, "J. ROCHE." Price 4,t. and IL 2s. per Bottle. Sold by E. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's; Church.yard ; Sanger, 1511, Ox ford-street; White, 24 Cornh ill (oppo!i , e the Royal Exchange), and Iv most Dialers in Meclioines. DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT. By the plan exclusively developed by the &Ides, a single deferred annuity is made, not only to answer the sitne object, but to equal in amount the entire sum •of all the advantages neretofere only obtained by the middle and industrious classes by separate investments in Savings' Banks, Benefit Societies, and Loan Banks. I. A small yearly or weekly contribution will secure' the most ample return for after life • thus-2/. 12s. per annum (Is. a week) at 20 will at 65 give the policy holder the choice of an annuity for life of 471. 165. 6d. : 3941. 11s. in cash; or polio) , without further contributions of 4661. at death. 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. The report to the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, praspectuses, tables, &c., may be obtained at the office of the Society, by letter or otherwise, 26, Cornhill, London, or at any of its Branches throughout the country. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec 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 May, 1840, when a reduction of 60 per cent. was declared on the annual premiums of all those policies entitled to participation. The following table will show the operation of the reduction made by the Society : Age Annual when Date ot Sum Original Premium Polic3 was Policy. Assured. Premium. Reduction paya bl e i n issued. 1840. -- ---------- __________ -------- ------ 2u j May 18.35. £l,OOO £l9 6 8 £ll 12 0 £7 14 6 30 ." .. 04 1,000 24 $ 4 14 1 3 0 915 4 40 ••• •• 1,000 31 10 0 1 8 18 0 12 1 2 0 50 ... . - 1,000 42 15 0 2 5 13 0 1 7 2 0 60 ••• .1,•• 1,090 66 11 8 39 19 0 26 12 8 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 ek tensive 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. AFirst-rate HOTEL, and BOARDING HOUSE adjoining, in CHELTENHAM, to be LET on LEASE, or SOLD, formerly well known as FISHER'S HOTEL and BOARDING-HOUSE, but since named the CLARENCE HOTEL, &c., in consequence of his late Ma jesty having sojourned there when Duke of Clarence. The establishment has enjoyed, for upwards of thirty years, a very extensive connection, and has been a principal resort of the most distinguished visitors to Cheltenham. The Hotel and Boarding-house are distinct buildings, contiguous to each other, and are situate in the centre of the town, in a most convenient position for access to all the spas, walks, and drives of that fa vourite watering-place, and very near to the Depots of the Cheltenham and Great Western Union, and Birmingham and Gloucester Railways. The Hotel contains 13 sitting-rooms, 38 best bed-rooms, 13 servants' bed-rooms, with all requisite offices. The Boarding-house contains four large public dining rooms and drawing-rooms, 11 private sitting-rooms, 34 best bed-rooms, and 10 servants' bed-rooms, with all necessary offices. Attached to these buildings are baths, a brewery, plea sure garden, coach-houses with standing for 24 carriages, stabling for 31 horses, loose boxes, and numerous convenient offices. These extensive premises will be Let for a term of years, or Sold if required. For further particulars, and to treat for a Lease or Sale, ap ply (if by letter, post paid) to Mr. Laurence, solicitor, Ciren cester. Immediate possession may be had, if required. INUNDATION AT BRENTFORD. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS NEW BRENTFORD, MONDAY EVENlNG.—Throughout the day, the town of Brentford has been thronged by per. sons from the neighbouring towns and villages, and even from the Metropolis, anxious to visit the scene of the late awfnl inundation. The Infant School-rooms in the Butts have been prepared for the reception of the distressed boatmen, whose boats are damaged or sunk, and 90 men, women, and children, were refreshed nith a plentiful supply of coffee and bread and butter. This morning, at 8 o'clock they all had a breakfast of coffee and bread and butter, and at dinner the number was increased to 68. The following nine boats are supposed to have been sunk and broken up by the stream, as no trace of them has yet been discovered—viz., the Safety, laden with coals and peas, and the Diligent, with a similar freight, both the property of Mr. Bissell, of Tipton, near armingham ; the Julia and the Kingfisher, both freighted with beep iron, the property of Mr. Josiah Smith, of Bloxwich, Staffordshire : the Tipton Lass, and the Adelaide, freighted with coals, the property of Messrs. Brad ley and Co., of Tipton ; the Oak, and the London Trader, the first freighted with 70 quarters of wheat, and the latter with 24i ditto, both belonging to Messrs. John Bradley and Co., of Stourbridge; and the Ashley Company, which was empty, and was the property of that company. In addition to the above, the following arc known to be seriously injured, if not, as well as their freights, rendered unfit for further use—viz., the Union and the John, belonging to Mr. Shipton, of Wolverhampton; the Amiable, belonging to Walter Williams, of West Brom wich ; the Liberty, the Prosperous, and an iron boat, not named, with a freight of slate and quarries (two of which boats are sunk), the freight the property of Mr. Dale, of Brentford, and the boats hired by John Dafferu, of Nunea ton, Warwickshire; the Sarah and the John Price, belong ing to Messrs. Price and Sons, of Brierley-hill ; the Henry, belonging to Michael Hall, of Gospel Oak, Tipton ; and several others whose names have not yet been ascertained, with barges and lighters, to the number of at least twenty. During the day a great number of persons have been busily engaged in clearing out some of the barges lying off the shore, in which they have to soma extent suc ceeded ; also in fishing up large numbers of sacks of wheat, &c., which had been washed out of the craft, but front its sodden and swollen state, by which many of the sacks have been burst, it is feared will not be of much value. In addition to the wharfs and premises of Messrs. Bourne, Curtis, Sims, and others, whose premises were stored with wheat and other grain, &c., most of which have been flooded and damaged, there are nearly fifty small cottages situated in the yards and alleys leading from the high road to the water, to are inhabited by the poorer classes, who have suffered considerably by the inundation, as have also the residences of several other inhabitants. The damage done at Mr. Norris's tan-yard is estimated at nearly 1,0001. With regard to the origin of the calamity, it is evident from an inspection of the locks and banks of the canal that they have not given way, as was at first supposed. The escape of the 21 men, women, and children, from off the passage boats, as they passed the wall of the Duke of Northumberland's grounds, was almost miraculous. The first tlsat got over was a boy, named John Joacs, who instantly fastened a rope to a tree, by which means the others got over. As they did so, they felt the wall tot tering under them, and while the last boy was on it it was overthrown by the water, he providentially falling within the grounds. Immediately on being discovered by his Grace's gardener, they received both shelter and succour, for which they still express their heartfelt gratitude. During the day considerable excitement has been occa sioned in the town by the fact that Mr. Charles Morris, a market gardener at Old Brentford, had been missing since the everting of Saturday, and in the course of the afternoon all doubt on the subject wa s remove d b y the discovery of the body near his own resid e n ce i n a stream communicat ing with the Brent, and which, until yesterd a y, was much swollen. The body was removed to his residence, where it awaits an inquest. No time has yet bean fixed for the inquest on Spruce, as it is probable there may still be other bodies in the water. At Hanwell, an island laid out for a garden, and be longing to Mr. Shrivenham, has been entirely washed away by the water. The palings on the side of the grounds belonging to the County Lunatic Asylum have been thrown down, and thirty-two sheep are supposed to have been carried away by the stream from Twyford Abbey, as two of them have been found drowned. They are the property of the Rev. J. Emrnerton, of Hanwell. At Hayes there is a deal of water, even across the high road, and at Uxbridge the mill and residence of Mr. Ste vens are considerably under water. On the Bucks side of Uxbridge the highroad is flooded in many parts. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The summons was for two o'clock, and shortly after that time all the Cabinet Ministers were in attendance. _ f (From the Morning Chronicle.) The yearly balance sheet of the Bank of France has recently been published, giving an exact account of the affairs of that institution up to the 31st December. These accounts also exhibit the average position of the Bank for the preceding quarter, and the result of the operations for the last six months. The fullness and precision of these documents afford a strikint , contrast to the pa r ti a l an d vague i nformat i on derived' by the people of this country from the average Gazette rct urns of the Bank of England. In no respect is the contrast so striking as in respect of the relative amounts of specie in proportion to the circulation possessed by these two national establishments, as may be seen from the subjoined comparisons of the most recent returns of each : BANK OF FRANCE. BANK OF ENGLAND. Circulation, Dec. I Circulation, Jan. 31, 1840 €9,666,000 5, 1841, Bullion Deposit Accounts, Deposits including Trea- sury Balance ... 7,073,000 _ We thus see that while the specie on hand in the • Bank of France is only 338,0001. less than the amount - of its issues, the bullion in the Bank of England is 12,555,0001. below the circulation, and that the bullion in the Burk of France is nearly three times as great as that possessed by the Bank of England. By the original constitution of the Bank of - France, the management was vested in a general council, entirely chosen by the shareholders, but that form of administration was altered by the law of 22d April, 1806, when the central committee was replaced by a governor and two dept ty- , loverneis I , chosen by tha Crown. On the fall of the empire, the introduction of three agents, chosen by the Crown, was reprcs( nted as an act of tyranny, and an attempt was made to dispense with them ; but the opposition was ul timately unsuccessful, and the Crown patronage is still continued. The Bank offers no objection to the in terference of the Government, and the law of June, 184.-0, gave full effect to it. The report of M. Du faure of April last says, " Your Committee also approve of it without reserve ; not that they would wish to afford to the Government a means rescrted to at former periods of procuring irregularly the re sources of which it might stand in need ; they are of opinion, on the contrary, that the public treasury should never treat with the Bank except by mutual consent, on conditions respectively agreed to, and as every other capitalist would do. But such would be the influence on the value of all transferable articles, and consequently on all private fortunes, of an unlimited ex tension of, or of an imprudent restriction in, this im mense circulation of notes performing the functions of money, and of a change in the rate of interest which the Bank charges in this enormous mass of discounts ; or of a refusal to render to commerce the gratuitous services which it owes it; that it is impossible to expose society to the chances of the errors which may be committed, or of the bad calculations which may be made by a pri vate company armed with such extensive powers." The French legislators in this report demonstrate very plainly that they foresaw the dangers attending the possession of the power of making money by any class of individuals. They specify the evils which society would be exposed to by such a system, and therefore they have wisely appointed officers chosen by the Crom, to preside over the deliberations of the Directors chosen by the shareholders, the former of whom sign all agreements and covenants, without whose approbation no bill can be discounted, nor of conse quence, we presume,rejected ; nor can any resolution be carried into effect, unless signed by the governor appointed by the Crown. The constitution of the Bank of France, then, which is admitted, on all hands, to have worked better for the public in terests than that of any other in the world, fur nishes a direct precedent for the checks of publicity and of Crown officers under Parliamentary control, to protect society from the evils of unlimited power of is suing paper money being vested in private hands. Under the influence of such control our French neigh bours allow the privilege to the Bank of France of being a national bank of issue. Such an engrafting of Parliamentary control, and of officers appointed by the Crown to preside at the meetings of our Bank Direc tors, would be an improvement on the constitution of the Bank of England, but it would only be a palliation of the disease. 1t svotald net„vre fear, be a radical cure ; and, unless united with perfect publicity of the affairs of the institution, no g reat benefit would accrue from it. To effect substantia real good for the people, we must go back to first principles, and have the sole money of the realm, whether specie or convertible paper, emanating from the Crown, subjected to per fect. publicity and efficient Parliamentary control. When we see the people of France placing so strong a curb upon the management of their Bank as to submit the actions of the shareholders to the constant super vision and control of Crown officers, although the coin in the coffers of the establishment frequently exceeds their notes in circulation, and is never much below it, we can only come to the conclusion, upon a parity of reasoning, that in England, where the circulation of the Bank of England stands as 16.1 to 3.5 against the spe cie on hand, and where the trading and commercial interests are so immerve that the interferenee of the Crown and Parliament ought to be carried to a much further extent, in order to protect the rights of property. The coin in the coffers of the Bank of France, and its circulation for the years 1835 to 1839 inclusive, were us follows : Coin in Bank Coffers. Notes in Circulation. Maximum Minimum Naximum Minimum Francs. Francs. Francs. Francs. 1835...203,207,200 130,89 9 ,278 241,872,000 207,204,500 1836...192.916,100 89,28 9 ,044 231,873,000 1 9 6 , 5 34,500 1837...248,221,300 1 03,702,344 216,912,000 190,079,500 1838...298,208,000 235,003,000 227,733,500 195 , 2 25,500 1839...249,091,500 20 2,814,500 234,740,500 195,880,500 The average will be about Maximum of Coin. Maximum of Circulation. Francs. Francs. 238,328,820 230,626,200 Minimum. Minimum. 152,338,833 196,984,900 The circulation and bullion of the Bank of England for the years 1835 to 1839 inclusive, taking the amounts fro►u the average Gazette re►.urns in the months of December for each year, were as tol- lows :-- Bullion in Bank Coffers. Circulation. 1835 ............£6,6.16,000 £17,321,000 1836 ............ 4,545,000 1837 1838 ...... 9,362,000 1839 The average about £6,318,000 bullion against £17,576,000 of circulation. Stating the French returns in our money, the ave rage of the maximum of coin is about 9,533,0001. against 9,223,000/. of maximum average of notes in circulation. These results cannot fail to attract at tention, and it must not be forgotten that they prove the working of a national bank conducted under the immediate superintenden ce and control of officers chosen by the Crown, and subjected to periodical publicity by its actual position, in contrast with the Bank of England, managed without any such right of interference by the Crown, and affording no account to the public of its actual position. 'They give such decided weight to the principle of Crown interference and Parliamentary control, as acting beneficially for the public interests, affording steadiness of prices and the convertibility of paper issues, that we almost consider tha precedent deci sive in favour of the adoption of the same principle in this country. Difference of opinam, in and out of Parliament, will no doubt be entertained as to the extent to which the principle ought to be carded in renewing the Charter of the Bank of England ; but we are confident it will not long be any thing more than a difference of degree. The expediency of having the national currency subjected to the control of Parliament, through the supervision of officers appointed by the Crown, ere believe will soon be generally admitted by the leading men of all pasties. The precedent is directly in point. The Bank of Eng land have thought it no humiliation to borrow gold upon the security of the dead weightlrom stohesoßanndle, of France, and the obligat i on should now b e renewe d by borrowingaleathf ealsboconuetficoiafl threeisruibtoookr oitts fi nospnecriaa.l W e think the principle t am i n o ad i n i sa havegs m clearlyteseen. in the r:e placing affairs r of ly u the n d tehr cßtah issuing n e k c o o f nt l rd ' oe r l a p n aa e rn e tdi that we have little difficulty i n coming to the decision, that in this country i t ought to be car mirnica:inisattgoesmetpheaenrtaftueolliyf extent otren: entirely officers. The interests in volved here arc vastly beyond thos e in France. The notes of the Bank of England alone, without in cluding the country issues, arc nearly double in amount to those of the Bank of Prpbaernocepeer,sosapnooirflt,;ostnuhapcbereiry: the pred'lency sv f o ti sr r I c on , ng e t h n w e t h c i c o h n r t rhoel wouldl i n a g le rpebol be ob t aine d e o r b should tai ned negat i ve y of the Crown officers at the weekly board would not work with sufficient energy or harmony. 'To reach the safe haven of rest, the sittings and actions of the Crown officers and those of the Shareholders' officers must be separate and independent, in respect, at least, of the process of issuing the paper money. The elec tion of the Governor and Deputy-Governor by the Crown would naturally entitle those officers to preside at the meetings of the General Beard, but the propriety of such a step requires more space than we can afford at present. The indispensable preliminary to Crown in terference at all is the extinction of the debt due by the T Government ungeraepti to the Bank—an easy and necessary ar- FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.) (From the Morning Chronicle.) In another part of this day's Chronicle will be found an exposition of the course of medical study, and the mode of testing candidates for medical degrees, in the University of London, together with the most satisfac tory proofs of the successful progress of that institution, in reply to the mis-statements and misrepresentations of the Quarterly Review. In the Morning Chronicle of 10th January, 18:37, we entered into an explanation of the objects for which the Metropolitan University was founded, and the article in our paper of this day affords conclusive evi dence that our anticipations of its success are fully realized. Does the writer in the Quarterly Review believe that the public will long tolerate that the gra duates of the University of London shall be prevented from practi:ing their profession, for which they have qualified themselves by a good previous literary and scientific education, by an extended course of medical study, and by submitting them selvt s to a more searching examination than that enfo7ced by any other institution of this country ? We trow not. The period has arrive.) when the Government cannot much longer resist the almost universal call of the medical profession, to which will soon be added that of the public, to place the medical institutions and rrofession in this country in the position which the advanced state of medical science dictates and the welfare of the public requires. We are far from considering the University of London as a perfect institution ; but its faults, which have been rendered sufficiently apparent by its workings, ate of a nature to be easily remedied. The senate of the Uni versity, as it is now constituted, is too large for an exe cutive body, and too small to admit of such a body king selected opt of it. Let the members of the senate be at once raised from its present number (38) to 80 or 100, and let them choose from among themselves an executive council, composed of a due proportion of members of the different faculties and it may then be made an efficient institution. The effect of such a change in the constitution of the University, provided the new members were well selected, would be to strengthen the institution, to raise it in the estimation of the public, and extend the sphere of its influence and usefulness. This increase in the number of its members would euahle the senate to place its administration, as regards the carrying out its details, in the :hands of an efficient body, the individual members of which would be kept from lapsing into inactivity by the surveillance of the larger body, and by the consciousness that the work to be done rested with them, and that they were responsible for the character of the University during the period of their administration. Such are the more important altera tions in the constitution of the University of London, which we consider absolutely necessary to render it a really efficient institution, capable of carrying out the important objects which we believe it destined to accomplish. At the present moment, therefore, when a new charter, we understand, is about to be granted, we would urgently press the consideration of our suggestions upon the present members of the uni versity, and upon the Government who instituted it, and whose duty it is to watch over its operations, and to do everything in their power to render it efficient. In its present state, we do not hesitate to express our conviction that it cannot maintain the rank among similar institutions which the Metropolitan University ought to hold ; and we confess that it has been matter of surprise to us, that it has effected so much as is this day recorded in our pages. This could only have been done at an expense of time and labour on the part of its members, which men worthy of being intrusted with such important duties could not be expected to continue. (From the Times.) The Journal des Debuts, anxious, as it would ap pear, to make the various departments of its political system hang well together, has travelled far for weapons wherewith to bastinado French democracy, and, by im plication, M. Thicrs and his friends. This grave Con servative and Guizot Journal has brought its own fire of haughty Royalism to bear upon the ultra-Radical Mes sage of Mr. Van Buren to the Legislature of the United States. It can find nothing in the Message 'uut rabble po • litics. That document it calls "a manifesto of the demo cratic party, in support of doctrines which they have been disseminating for many years, and which, unhappily, had enjoyed a complete triumph until the very last election." There is, however, much and pointed truth in the se vere remarks of the I)ebats upon " two fatal sentiments, of which America does not stand alone in offering an example to the world "—(take that, you gentlemen of the extreme Gauche)—" that of a spirit of indepen dence carried to excess, and that of an intolerant ha tred of all superiority." " Thus," adds the French official newspaper, " does Mr. Van Buren make a last appeal to that gloomy liberty, and that inexorable jea lousy." The whole article of the Journal des Debuts would be worth translating for its eloquence, and for the tone of deep and indignant reprehension of the brutalizing spirit of extreme equality which pervades it, and it is to be regretted that want of space deprives our readers of its perusal ; fer we have seldom seen a more forcible or more edifying exposure of the tendency of the thing called " movement," when it once gets ahead and infects the habits of a people, to batter down all intellectual excellence, all eminence, whether of personal worth or social influence, or worldly prosperity or distinction, however nobly acquired and founded, as being of an aristocratic character, to one dead level of distrustful and dreary mediocrity. " Those," says the Journal des Debuts, who would prepare for every man, and for every people, a sort of isolated and repulsive existence, are grossly ignorant of human nature. They turn their backs upon the road which leads nations to equanimity and to greatness, and individual men to peaceable, pros perous, and virtuous life—to a life of freedom also— because freedom consists in the exercise of the spiritual f.culties, whilst isolation cannot fail to paralyze and famish the most precious of those faculties. Such men are guides to a li:e at once base and brief, true coun sellors of misery. This is not the first, although nearly the hest, animadversion that has of late appeared upon that repulsive self-sufficiency and self-dependence, which distinguishes the democrats of North America from almost ail other nations of the earth ; but which, in the judgment of the French Editor, seems naturally to asso ciate itself with other attributes of thet same spirit of morose equality which he finds to be growing amongst certain portions of his own countrymen, and of which ho is wise enough to dread and deprecate the possible ascend. ancy. The Journal des Debuts, in some of its reflections upon America, is indebted a good deal to De Tocque ville, but has pioneered its own path in turning them to account as a warning against imitation within the territories of Louis Philippe, where it concludes with an anxious hope, not merely that the public energies may find vent in works of peace, and in useful labours, but further still, that since " material " undertakings alone can neither constitute the happiness of mankind, nor give consistency to public or private morals, nor obtain for any people the respect and confidence of their neighbours, nor establish the national honour, nor na tio.mlity itself, upon a rock, Governments ought to seek and cherish this latter class of elevated objects as the chief end of all their efforts, and the aim of all their political and social institutions. But if public works of the most pacific and profitable nature cannot do this for a civilised people, what moral influence will France be likely to secure over mankind by menac ing her metropolis with cannonades, or surrounding it with a wall an hundred times more impotent against the combined numbers and skill of armed Europe, than even the gigantic circumvallation of China proved itself against the Tartar hordes, which found it no serious obstacle to the conquest of the Celestial Empire ? By the way, what has become of all our fine Chinese vi sions, and . of the triumphant shouts of the Downing street journals, for the victories achieved in every , quarter of the earth ? Where and how have the Eng lish barbarians obtained that magnificent " indemnity for the past and security for the future." that " three millions paid down in ready money,' which was the burden of such pwars, and the staple of so many columns of contemptuous ridicule spirted out against the Duke of Wellington and his Conservative supporters by time morning and evening press of the Whigs ? We fear that nothing is settled. Instead of the little war," according to the linkboy Globe's impertinent use of the Duke of Wellington's lan guage—instead, ire say, of a " little war's having al ready produced great results," the great opium war against China has produced no results at all—not a shilling of indemnity—not an approach to a treaty —not even a promise to negotiate worth the least reliance. And what have we really and definitively accomplished in the east of Europe ? What is the actual state of affairs between Mehemet Ali and the Sultan ? Where is still the army of Ibrahim Paella Hew far has lie proceeded on his march towards Egypt ? Has the Turkish fleet arrived at Constantinople, or is it at Alexandria still? Has the prolongation of the con`..cst there—for in Syria the fighting is not yet. over— not yet produced any change of posture, or return to ill humour in the French Government? Admiral Duperre has at this moment in Toulon 18 sail of the line, 'zeal manned, which our ships (as is complained of by scores of British officers in the Mediterranean) are not, nor in a safe condition for conflict with a skilful Euro ropean etsemy. Is our quarrel with the United States made te.s made up, or the slight e st approximation towards it Ask Mr. Van Buren, who hopes, as every American President has hoped, and every British Minister, for so ninny years ; but not a single point is yet decided, nor A single atom of American tenacity relaxed, nor a single ground of hope established (though many of ap prehension) which did not exist ten years ago. Then, in fact, there is nothing settled anywhere ; east, west, north, south, there is nothing settled. Yet out of such nothingness a Qactm's speech must be vamped up, and everything like an amendment sneered at! Will the speech allude to the state of Ireland, and the re peal agitation too? We guess not. (From the Morning Herald.) We understand that energetic remonstrances have been again made, within the last few days, on the part of the great Powers, against the continued armaments of France, and that the British Cabinet, which hesitated on the subject, has determined to express its sentiments very clearly, in accord with those of its Allies. French Government feels itself ill at ease under the accumulation of these reproaches, particularly at a mo ment when it had hoped to find something tending; to renewed friendship in the speech of the Queen of Eng land, on the opening of Parliament. Oar informant, who has hitherto kept us so fully advised in diplomatic affairs, suggests the immediate convocation of a Con gress, as the sole mode of terminating the existing dif ferences. In the face of public opinion, France cannot be the first to disarm, and it is clear that those who followed her movements in that respect cannot give way. before her. It is only, our informant says, through the medium of a Congress that a general disarmament, under guarantees, can take place. (From the Morning Post.) The Ministerial Globe extols Mr. O'Connell's speech at the Whig-Radical gathering in Dublin, on the ground " that he made repeal' the alternative of Stanley's success in carrying his hated measure." This will sur prise nobody. Does any man doubt that the success of Lord Stanley's Bill will be fatal to the Whig-Radical Ministers, or that these unprincipled persons, the mo ment they arc turned out, will turn Repealers, Repub licans, or anything else that may seem to afford them a chance of getting in again ? The Globe, moreover, says :—" It is already whispered that Lord S:anley will abandon his Bill, and will endeavour to engraft its more subtle and insidious clauses on the Bill for the improve ment of the registration which is to be introduced by the Government." Where, we should like to know, is this whispered, and by whom ? At the Reform Club, perchance—perchance in Downing -street—and by men who believe, with dread and dismay, that Lord Stan ley's Bill will be ready to send up to the Lords by Easter, whatever Ministers may be in office. ( From the Morning Advertiser.) Ireland, by the meeting held on Friday last, to which we yesterday alluded, and of which we this day publish the proceedings, has afforded the strongest evidence of her determin'stion to resist the onslaught designed against her franchise by Lord Stanley's Anti-Irish Re gistration Bill. In directing attention to these pro ceedings we mean not to exaggerate the importance which must necessarily attach to them, and therefore, in placing them before our readers, we merely in the lan guage of a Dublin paper, remind them that " the re quisition was signed by forty-five of the nobility of Ire land, by several Lieutenants and sixty Deputy-Lieu tenants of Irish counties, by forty-six Members of Par liament, by 380 Magistrates, 300 Protestant, Catholic, end Presbyterian clergymen, 300 country gentlemen and landed proprietors, and 400 merchants and members of the legal profession. Notwithstanding theextremeseve rity of the weather, the meeting was worthy of the object, and of the rank and influence by which it was convened. The boxes, pit, galleries, and stage of the theatre were crowded to the utmost extent, both tiers of boxes being completely filled by fashionably dressed persons, prin cipally ladies ; and the stage being crowded with gen tlemen, representing the rank, wealth, intelligence, and influence of the country." Before making any comment on the proceedings, we are anxious that they should be read and understood by all desirous of acquiring correct information on the subject. Another meeting is about to be held in the north of I reland,on a requisition, muster ieg a display of titles and numbers almost equal to those who called the great meeting to which we refer, but la mentably deficient in rank, influence, andcharacter. Let us give a few names taken passim from the two requisitions. In favour of Lord Stanley's Bill there first appears " Downshire," against it " Charlemont." On the re lative merits of these names alone may an appeal be safely made to the people of Ireland ; but we confess ourselves at a loss to find in the requisition calling the aggregate meeting in Dublin, any names worthy to cope with" Waterford, Roden, Londonderry, Beresford," Sec., so familiar to the ears of Ireland in association with blackguardism, oppression, and cruelty. We shall not at present pre-occupy the attention of our readers far ther than to direct attention to the proceedings which we this day publish, and which appeal with equal force to our readers, and to the Members of the Parliament , about to assemble. (From the Globe.) The Tories exult in the strength of their Commis sariat. The Great Duke is said to be preparing his batterie de cuisine for the dinners of the approaching campaign, and the Small Duke has commenced the skir mishing by a Conservative festival—a sort of political luncheon—in the capital of what the Standard calls " the model county." But our Contemporary thinks that although the Noble Duke has the glory of being " adored" in Bucks, yet he has been deluded, by the in tense Conservatism which environs him, into an opinion that his party ought immediately to turn out the Whigs. " He (the Duke of Buckingham) knew of no govern ment at present. It was Sir R. Peel's one day, and the Radicals the next:—(Cheers and laughter.) The time had, however, arrived when Sir R. Peel should take the Got ernment in order that the Throne might be supported, the Church maintained, and the rights and liberties of the people protected.—( Hear, hear.) It might be very well to say, Wait your time,' lout he would say, like his Hon. Friends, that the time was come —that the blow ought to be struck, and that a Conser vative Government should rule this great country." The Standard thinks this too hasty, and wishes Sir Robert Peel to choose his time ; and even the Post, though dissenting from the Standard, admits that there may be reasons why the Conservative leaders should " content themselves with substantial power," and not take office forthwith ; but has some apprehen sion that " the Conservative tide may sweep onwards with such force that the leaders must obey its impulse, lest the pressure from behind should be too great for the safety either of the party or the State.' We do not know what the Post would wait for ; but the Standard is afraid of a compromising Government. The " Protestant Conservative democracy" must exer cise its due control. " True Conservatism is the po litical creed of the nation, unless the popular feeling shall be paralysed by some disgueing defection of the leaders of the party," (perhaps something like the Ca tholic Relief Bill.) "Of such defection there is less danger while the Conservatives remain in opposition, because there is no temptation to it." As the Stand• and justifies the Protestant landlords for clearing their estates of Popish tenants, we suppose that Sir Ro bert Peel is to surround hims( if with men who wiil take care that no Papist shall continue to hold any office from which he is removable at the pleasure of the Crown ; and, of course, in new appointments none but sound Protestants will be admitted to any office whatever. At the Ashby-de-la-Zouch festival, a Mr. Gough said, " lie considered modern \Vhiggery to be a compound of absolute tyranny, democracy, and Po pery—alike fatal to a Protestant monarchy, and the welfare and happiness of a Protestant community." " This," says the Standard, '' expresses faithfully and eloquently the sense of die great body of the Con servatives of England." We offer no comment, but ad mit that the eloquence and sense are equal, end take it as a manifesto of our Contemperary's principles. (From the Standard.) As the Session of Parliament approaches, curiosity becomes more lively and active in anticipating the pro bable topics of the Royal .. iech. As regards foreign policy, subjects of congratulation present themselves ; but there will be much delicacy required to treat properly the relations of this ntry with France, so as on the one side to av jiving offence, on the other eacouri.lging arrogant I etensions. This is a difficulty which, arising out of the sensitive charier of our neighbours, even more than from the peculiar cir cumstances of the crisis, would embarrass wiser and more skilful men than her Majesty's present advisers; still it is a difficulty which cannot be evaded. The affairs of Great Britain may be disposed of with case, thanks to the utter failure of the meditated Anti-Corn law sedition, and to the returning good sense of the majo rity of those who were lately Chartists ; this last blessing being chiefly the ctletA of the exertions of the Con servative press and the Conservative people in forcing an amendment of the a dministration of the Poor-laws. Despair is an evil counsellor to the in dividual—to the masses it is a fatal one ; but the zeal for the protection of the humbler classes, whe ther in the workhouse or the factory, man if ested by Conservatives of every rank and degree, has taught to these classes that they have real friends watching for them, and that, therefore , t he y must not liste n to the deadly co unsels of despair. In promoting Church worship the - Conservatives have als o g r eatly contributed to thin , t I e ranks of the Chartist s : so much may he done to pro mote the most important political ends without the pos session of political power ; at least, o f t h e po liticalpowe which belongs to office, or a Parlia l tne_ntary predominance. There is little to be said of the financial state of the c ountry. By the aid of the new e been kept up to nearly its former sacxa('ls e, the revenue has though falling far short of the prese n t , even the late, national expendi ture. The national debt has been increased about seven millions since the accession of the Wines to I • and this without t a ki ng i nto account , as we eli believe,e c ve, th e "7"t India loan of twenly mill ions, or the war (From the Courier.) If we have been rightly informed—and we have no reason to doubt but that we are—the Friday's trains of the South Western Railways were detained on the line by the snow until Saturday. This is lamentable neglect. No other railway has been thus impeded, and there is the less excuse for permitting such a drift on the line as to cause such delay, because the fall on those days was no sudden and unexpected thing, and therefore the evils arising from it might have been provided against. If Mr. Locke has a Cault it is in carrying his economy too far, and we suspect, in this instance, to save the expense of employing a few men, in addition to the work of the engines, more snow was allowed to accumulate than could be cleared off (having fallen upon ice and become frozen) by the engines. Thus the Company, being penny wise, have been pound foolish ; and we are induced to notice thus particularly the subject because we cannot sufficiently impress upon the minds of the managers of railways that they arc public works, permitted only for public use, and that unless they are liberally dealt with they will not be permitted at all, or, at all events, with clauses the companies would be very sorry to see in their Acts. We had hoped that. on the secession of Mr. Easthope from the chair, the South Western would have resumed the proper and dis tinctive appellation of Southampton, and have brushed up into a proper and smart metropolitan line of road ; that its plans, arrangements, and conveniences would have equalled the Birmingham, or, indeed, as it is less of a business transit line, it would even have exceeded it. For these reasons we trust the new Chaii man will be a resident in London. We are in the habit of throwing more refinement into our management than the mercantile gentlemen of the manufacturing dis tricts ; and we really wish to see the proprietors and managers of railways look a little more to the public interests than their own premium or dividend ; although we are equally as desirous to see a good divi dend follow—of premium we care nothing, except so far as the value of the shares creates it from the dividend in proportion to the value of money. The returns on the South Western Railway have been so much larger than was to he at all reasonably expected, that the Company can now afford to act liberally in all respects ; and as one of the great advantages of railway' travelling is the power of keeping the two lines of iron clear of snow, and thus keeping up the means of travelling in all weathers, how ever severe and bad, so ought every railway Company to be doubly zealous to prove this advantage as against the doubts and fears of the public in the dangers of running on an undeviatable track. We have not heard that the other great lines have been similarly impeded. MONEY MARKET and CIT Y NEWS - (MONDAY EVENING.) II ERA LD.—A singular report is given in the Ameri can papers of one of the Commissioners for managing the state debt of Indiana, and providing for the payment of dividends, the last of which in July was a matter of con siderable difficulty, but it is only lair to add was eventu ally accomplished, much to the credit of the State and its officers, although at great pecuniary sacrifices in the sale of stock and excessive discounts on exchanges of paper available for remittances to New Orleans and New . York. These difficulties in making provision for the dividends Ening due arose however from no want of apparent assets, or credits, in possession of the State,. had they been of a nature to be madc serviceable, for eselusive of a debt from the Mortis Canal Com pany of upwards of 1,000,000 dollars upon balance, the Stare WAS and appears to be still a holder of State, bank, railroad, and other stocks and shares of very indifferent repute to the extent of above 1,000,001 dollars more, the larger proFortion of which was incon vertible into real values on any terms, and what might be disposable, only so perhaps in the way of deposit as cola lateral security for money ad, anced on an emergency. The Commissiorer in his Report confesses with a candour approaching to simplicity, that he had " made indiscreet sales of bonds. . . . I must say," he states, " that I have made contracts for the sale of our bonds that I would not with my present experience make again, but at the time they were made, in the honesty of my heart I believed them to be for the interest of the Sate." The unsale able stocks and shares ref:reed to were doubtless a pass of the consideration received in satisfaction of ems tracts for the sale of Indiana Bonds to unsubstantial parties. But past experience was not sufficiently' smart to prevent the worthy Commissioner from fall ing into other blunders. For example, he was jug,z led by the Morris Canal people to hold over or waive the heavy claim of the State before noticed, on mortgage of the Morris Canal itself for 1,250,000 dollars, states himself for his justification that the cheat is worth 2.000 0001 but:cost 4,000,000 ; that it produces 70,000 dollars a j ear ; bul as the expenses of management and working amount to 50,000, there results, even should the valuation be realised, no more than 20,000 dol lass annually towards the interest upon 1,250,000, which at 6 per cent. would be 75,000 dollars, to say nothing of pritiental for ever urr redeemed. The linos man appears to have been duped every way by the Morris Canal Company, for it sass from them also he received, and the State was saddled with, the 1,000,000 dollars and upwards of discredited stocks and shares before mentioned, by way of pit meat of In mane bonds. CHRONICLE.—L or d Althorp, now Earl Spence., in moving, on the 31st of May, 1833, that the House re solve itself into a Committee of the whole House on the re newal cf the Bank Charter, said, " It is certainly a ques tion of great importan ce w h et h er i t i s desirable to trust such a power in the hands of persons not legally respon sible,;or in the hands of a Government which is responsible : and another point is, whether the profits, necessarily to be derived, should belong to the Government, or be allowed to the Company ? The advantages, and the only advantages I have been able to discover in a Government bank instead of a private company are the responsibility of the managers and the profit to be derived from this undertaking ; but it seems to me that they are much more than counterbalanced by the practical evils of such a system." His Lordship then referred to the temptation of Government to abuse its power, and to the impolicy in that case of permitting any assistance to be given to the commercial interests of the country in periods of difficulty—a course frequently pur sued by the Bank of England. His Lordship, therefore, threw aside all idea of a Government Bank for the ma nagement of the paper circulation of the country, and then touched upon another point, which, he observed, had beets urged upon some occasions, that although a private corpo ration ought to have the management of the circulation, yet that Government should have a direct control over its affairs. He states that he did not think this control would be very effectual, and, to a certain extent, he thought it would be liable also to the objection already stated, " but," added his Lordship, " I do not know what great objection there would be to adding to the practical experience of the Directors the opi nion of the Minister of the day." This adds to the' weight of precedent afforded by the Bank of France the important opinion of Lord Althorn, which every man in this country will receive with deep respect., tbat he knew of no objection to the interference of Go vernment in the management of the Bank. His Lord ship, however, did not think that the establishment of Government control would be of any great advantage. It: might, he thought, be of some advantage, but not to suclr an extent as to make it desirable. The only remaining check, therefore (arid he admitted it was imperfect), was the publication of the accounts of the Bank. His Lord ship then alluded to the principle on which the flick had conducted its bustness for the preceding Jive or six years, which h e exp l a i ne d to b a t h e retent i on of ""e" third of the liabiliti es t o b e k e p t i n bul:ion in the Ba nk coffers. He very j us tly o b serve d, that they bad the ex perience of the effect of that mode of management flur .o 7 a period of considerable difficulty, and he came to thri . f it elusion that it was justified by experience. " l'ublic_ty ( accounts," said his Lordship, 'a will enable all m en to intlt,ta whether the Bank continues to act upan this wiinlesonarc principle, or variesfrom i . • onsible fur their Bank Directors are not legally resp . ... • t i t ma y be said, that then punich ed if I.riey depart conduct, and that they cannot be admit that there is a responsibility to public opinion, and us s u s b e j e e e t t h to at the the. that it. will have its control upon men in every situation. Irani their former practice. This is true ' but . we oust Therefore, I am prepared to propos* the continuation ( . 4. T in he th i e )ub m lC r w op il ( l 'li t s h , s i n gle bank of issue, was the confident he control of publicity." f ground on which the Bank o England charter was last renewed, single bank of issue lief and understanding that. the bullion would be kept on a fixed principle of one-third in amount to the liabilities. The con dition has been almost entirely cis icarded evri.r reiiewed, as a since. The agreement has been broke • with the ec , country, and the question now comes to be considered _—shall it be renewed 7 No one, we presume, would propose to do so on the same terms. Without some expressed clause in the Act of renewal, binding the Bank to adhere to certain principles of management, we scarcely think that a proposal of renewal would base any chance of success in Parliament. The voint of importance to the public is, should it be renewed even with a clause exposing the Dircetot a to punishment in case of forfeit tire? We have stated our views oii that head al ready, and believe tint the only sate remedy is to add tootle check of perfect publicity of accounts the control of °di cers chosen by the Crown. Lord Althorp was averse to the idea of any compulsory enactment to compel the Direc tors to abide by a fixed principle of management, because he saw and felt that the only way by which the Directors could expect to maintain public confidence was by proving that they were possessed of that judgment and steadiness of purpose which rendered penal clauses to compel there to act faithfully to the nation useless and unnecessary. Experience has now shown how far that reliance was well placed. The flit cetera have been weighed in the balance and feund wanting ; arid when Lord Althorp sees how his confidence in them has been mispbccd, we confidently hope he will a droit that Government control, after all, is re quisite to ensure uniformity and steadint sl in our mone tary system. ELECTION FOR BRIDGE-MASTER.—The polr ing IccunirneTn•cd on :11onday inortlng at nine o'cluel:, and ploccedcd briskly throughout the day. The follotNing numbers were announced at the close (three fi'cleck) : Gibbs, 1,970; Ledger, 1,655; majority for Gibbs, 315.