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CONTRACT FOR SALT BEEF AND PORK, DEPARTMENT OF THE COMPTROLLER FOR VICTUALLING AND TRANSPORT I , ERVICE.S v. - 'SO34ERSET PLACE, AUGUsTB, 1341. - No 15,286 LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 18-11. PRICE 5d H E VISITORS of the ROYAL POLY TECHNIC INSTITUTION are respectfully informed, that, AFTER THIS DAY, the 4th of September, the Institution will NOT BE OPENED ON THE SATUR DAY EVENINGS. It will be continued open on all other Evenings, as well as in the Mornings; with the new and varied Lectures, ORRERY, DISSOLVING VIF.WS, and nearly Two Thousand Works which display eminent art, science, and ingenuity, to which constant novelties are added. Admissi. n, One Shilling. RAILWAY MEETINGS. LORD .COTTENHAM. FASHIONS FOR SEPTEniBER. MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. (From the London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of .ONDON and BRIGHTON RAILWAY. —NOTICE.—SUNDAY TRAINS.—The Train from London to Horley and intermediate Stations at 2 p.m., and from Horley to London intermediate Stations at 6i r.m., will discontinue on and after the sth instant. By Order, THOMAS WOOD, Secretary. Angel-court, Sept. I, 1841. GRAVESEND AND BLACKWALL STEAM BOATS.—The Public are respetfully in formed, that in consequence of an arrangement entered into between the Directors of the Blackwall Railway and the STAR " GRAVESEND STEAM PACKET COM PANY, one of the Iron Boats will, on and after Tituasnav, the 2d September, leave the Brunswick Pier, Blackwall, for Gravesend, at a Quarter before Nine in the Morning, and that the VESPER will leave the same Pier for Gravesend at a Quarter past Nine in the Morning. The other Iron Boats will leave at the same hours as heretofore ; and all the Star Beats will call at Bh.ckwall on their way up to London. 60, Fenchurch-street, Aug. 31, 1841. ' THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUT ING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of 'the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND do hereby give Notice, that on THURSDAY, the • 23d of September next, at One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for the supply of a quantity of SALT MEAT, of the cure of the United Kingdom, equal to 15,000 Navy Tierces of Beef, and 16,000 Navy Tierces of Pork (in separate Tenders), all to be cured in the ensuing season, their Lord ships reserving to themselves the power, when the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof, only, as they may deem fit, or of not contracting for any part. The said Meat is to be delivered, three-fourth parts thereof in tierces, and the remaining one-fourth part thereof in barrels, into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Haulbowline, in such proportions as shall here after be directed; and within the following periods:— Beef, Two-thirds 31st March One-third 31st May 18 4 2 Pork, One-third On or before the 31st March Two-t birds 31st May and to he paid fur by bills payable at sight, but not duri n g the first period o f delivery, for any quantities beyond those specified. The Conditions of the Contract may be seen at this Office, or by applying to the Agent for the 'Victualling at Cork, or to the Collectors of her Majesty's Customs at Limerick, Bel fast, Waterford, and Newry, or to the Secretary of the Post master-General at Dublin, or to the Resident Agent for Trans ports at Leith. No Tender for a less quantity than shall he equal to 300 Tierces of Beef; or to 300 Tierces of Pork, will be admitted; but all Tenders for such small quantities will be accepted, if at a lower price than that for which larger qu antities are offered. No Tend er wi ll b e received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless the party attends, or some per son on his behalf, duly authorised in writing ; and it is to be expressly understood that the Tenders must contain a separate price for the Beef, and a separate price for the Pork • and that every Tend er must also specify the prices bot h i n figures and words at length, or the Tenders will be rejected. Every T en d er must be addressed to t h e S ecr etary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left hand corner of the e nvelo p e he words __F words "T ender for Salt Meat, " an d " Comptroller for Victualling," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, and be accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible per sons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in a sum equal to 25/. per cent. on the amount of the Contract, for the due performance of the same. OFFICE of the GOVERNOR and COM PANY of COPPER MINERS in ENGLAND, CILD BROAD-STREET, London. August 12, 1841.—THE COURT of ASSISTANTS of the Governor and Company of Coppers Miners in England, HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that they will SELL, on THURSDAY, the Fourteenth day of October, now next ensuing, at their Offices in Old Broad street, 1.000 Tons of British Grain, Refined and Common, Tin, in Blocks, Ingots and Bars in Barrels ; in Lots of not less than Two Tons. The Sale to commence at Twelve o'Clock precisely. Catalogues will be issued in due time, containing particulars and conditions of Sale, which will be delivered on and after the fourteenth day of September next, either at this office or by the Company's brokers, Messrs. Short and Alahony, No. :I, New sman's-court, Cornhill._ _ The Public Sales of Tin by the Company will henceforth be held quarterly—viz., in January, April, July, and October, and the quantity put up will be regulated by the average quarterly consumption. N.B. The Company binds itself not to make Sales of Tin during the Quarter beyond the quantity advertised. UNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE OF FICE, I, KING WILLIAM-STREET, LONDON. DIRECTORS. Sir HENRY WILLOCK, K.L. S., Chairmam. JOHN STEWART, Esq., M.P., Deputy Chairman Col. Sir Richard Armstrong, William Kilburn, Esq. C. 8., K.C.T. and S. Charles Otway Mayne, Esq. John Bagshaw, Esq. John Rogers, jun., Esq. Augustus Bosanquet, Esq. Robert Saunders,Esq. Chss. Dashwuod Bruce, Esq. Jas. Duncan Thomson, Esq Ellis Watkin Cunliffe, Esq. Captain Samuel Thornton, Raikes Currie, Esq. M.P. ' R.N. AUDITORS—Robert Hichens, Esq.; Crawford Davison Kerr, Esq. ; Robert Gardner, Esq. BANKERS—Bank of England ; and Messrs. Curries and Co. SOLICITOR—WiIIiam Henry Cotterill, Esq. PIITSICIAN—George Burrows, M.D., 45, Queen Anne street. ACTUARY — David Jones, Esq. POLICIES ON THE LIVES OF PERSONS ABOUT TO PRO CEED TO, OR RESIDENT IN INDIA, either in a Civil or Mili tary capacity, may be effected at. very moderate rates of pre mium, calculated from extensive data exclusively for the use of this Office. The Society has Committees established at Calcutta, Ma dras, and Bombay, where A'surances may be effected, and the premiums be made payable either in India or in Great Britain, as may be most convenient fo the parties. The profits are declared in each year, on the second Wed nesday in May, on which date all those whose policies have been in existence five complete years, are entitled to partici pation therein. One-fifth of the ascertained profits of the -five preceding years is divided between the 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. -t Messrs. Bagshaw and Co., Calcutta. Agents in India Messrs. Hall, Bainbridge ' and Co., Madras. 3lessrs. Leckie and Co., Bombay. By order of the Board, DAVID JONES, Actuary. NATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY FOR GRANTING LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c. No. 2f-i, CORNHILL. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parlament. EIRECTORS. T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. J. Elliotaon, M.D., F.R. S. I John Rawson, Esq. John Griffith Frith, Esq. Jehn Riddell Stodart, Esq. Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq. George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F. R.S. Professor Graves, A.M. F.R. S, ACTUARY-W. S. B. Weolhouse, Esq., F. R. A. S SoLicrro as—Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Ew ens, and Omman. ney, 6, Basinghall-street. LIFE ASSURANCE. Besides the perfect security to the policy holder of a large paid up capital, and accumulat►ng funds, the following is one amongst many of the advantages which belong exclusively to the principles of Life Assurance and Deferred Annuities ori ginated by th , Society, viz.—Power to borrow (without de lay, expense, or forfeiture) Two•thirds of all premiums paid upon a Policy of Assurance. The annexed is a short Table, showing the Annual Premium for assuring £lOO on the Whole Lite, or for a Term FOR LIFE. A. B. Age. Without With For Ono For Five Pratits. Profits. Year only. Years only s. d. X. s. d. E. s. d. s. d. 20 1 13 7 1 17 4 0 17 0 0 17 6 30 2 4 4 2 9 3 ' 019 C 1 0 0 40 2 13 8 3 5 3 1 3 10 1 5 0 50 4 4 2 413 6 , 113 0 1 16 6 60 613 ki 7 8 4 ( 3 0 0 3 9 6 Two-thirds of Profits divided annually amongst the Assured, DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT. By the plan exclusively developed by this Society, a single Deferred Annuity is made, not only to answer the same object, but to far exceed in amount the entire benefit of all the ad vantages heretofore only obtained by the middle and industrious classes through separate investments in Savings' Banks, Be nefit Societies, and Loan Banks. 1. A small yearly or weekly contribution will secure the most ample return for after life; thus-21. I2s. per annum (Is. a week) at the age of 20, will give the policy holier the fol lowing option, at the age of 65 Annuity for remainder of life... ......... £47 16 6 Cash ... 394 n 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, (See Tables A. and B.), with option of con. tinuance for Life at the usual rates. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec. THE COMPLEXION AND SKIN' ROWLAND'S K A LyD p- R An odoriferous creamy liid—pleasingly ' efficae ous in dissipating sun - b urns, tan, pimp le s, freckles, s pots, redness, and all other cutan eous disfi g urements ; renders the Skin deli cately fair, soft, and smooth ; imparts a healthy juvenile bloom to the complexion, and realizes a delicately white neck, hand, and arm. It is invaluable as a renovating and refreshing wash during travelling or exposure to the sun, dust, or harsh winds. Gentlemen will find it peculiarly grateful in allaying irrita tion after shaving,. Price 4s. 6d. and Bs. 6d. per bottle, duty included. ROWLAND'S ODONTO, A White Powder, of Oriental Herbs. It eradicates Tartar and decayed Spots from the Teeth, preserves the Enamel, and fixes the Teeth firmly in their sockets, rendering them deli cately white, and imparts a delightful fragrance to the Breath. Price 2s. 9d. per box, duty included. eir Notice—The Name and Address of the Proprietors, A. ROWLAND & SON, 20, HATTON-GARDEN, LONDON, Are engraved on the Government Stamp which is pasted on each Article; also printed, in red, on the Wrapper in which the Kalydor is enclosed. Be sure to ask for " ROWLAND'S." A FACT. MECIII'S MAGIC STROP is known to have sharpened Razors when all other means have failed. Those who doubt it can ask their friends, and if they purchase, and are not satisfied, may have their money returned. They are cheap-2a 6d., 3s. 6d., 4s. 6d., and the very large sizes 5Q., ss. 6d., and 63. 6d. each. The MAGIC PASTE is 6d. and Is. per cake. Upwards of 150,000 .Strops and one million and a half of Paste have been sold in the last six years, which is a pretty pod proof of their excellence. There is a little fact, however, to notice, which may prevent much disappointment and a good deal : sundry unprincipled persons, desirous of sharing Mechi's good fortune, without being entitled to it, have made up thousands o e f common strops, calling them " The Magic Strop," " Th Double Magic Strop," " The Real Magic Strop,' &c. and so on, taking care not to put on Mechi's Magic Strop. Now, by noticing the name " Mechi" on each Strop, with the address " No . 4, Leadenhall -street, London," you are sure to be right, as the law will not allow them to put Meal's name on the spu ions sort. These imitation Strops are manufactured in large quantities at Sheffield, and shipped to a considerable exteat to America and the Colonies, and it is to be feared that in too many instances the buyers are not aware they are deceived, although they find them of no use in sharpening, which is a considerable injury to Mechi's good name. Most respectable Perfumers throughout the United Kingdom will supply the Genuine Strop as cheap as if purchased at Mechi's. His ma. nufactury is at No. 4, Leadenhall-street, London, where may be had his famous Bag:itere Tables, Dressing Cases, and Papier Mache Goods,; also his approved Razors, Penknives, and Table Cutlery. Catalogues may be bad Gratis. 0 , PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, in one volume post five., with numerous Illustra tions by Leech, T HE PORCELAIN TOWER; Or, NINE STORIES of CHINA. By T. IL SEALY, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. •.* To be had also of all Booksellers. This day is - published, BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW, NO. XXIV. I. Works of Thomas Carlyle. 2. Ceylon. 3. Milman's History of Christianity. 4. Colonies and Colonial Government—Java. 5. The Corn Laws. 6. Historic Cviticism of the Gospel—Hegel. 7. Servia—her History and Prospects. London : 11. and J. E. Taylor, Red Lion -court, Fleet-street. This day, with 15 Plates and many Wooicuts, price 65., F NCYCLOPIEDIA BRITANNICA, Part CXXIV. Containing—Vegetable Physiology—Ventilation—Vermin —Vernlam—Veterinary Science—Virgil—Virginia—Voltaic Electricity—Voltaire—New South Wales—War, and other Articles. Part CXXV., which completes the Work, with the excep tion of the General Index, will appear to-morrow. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Whittaker and Co., and Hamilton, Adams, and Co., London. Just published, price 10s. DR. DICKSON'S FALLACIES OF THE FACULTY. Second Edition, enlarged. 'this work has at last been fairly praised and abused into fame. It is a clever, stimulating, and suggestive book, and the present edition is considerably enlarged by the accumu lation of illustrative facts. It is in other respects improved." —Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. " The best hit at the doctors that has ever appeared."— Revue du Nord. London: Simpkin and Marshall. Oliver and Boyd, Edin burgh. A. Millikin, Dublin. In a sealed Envelope.—This day is published, itPRACTICAL and POPULAR TREA TISE, adapted and written expressly for the USE of the NON-MEDICAL READER, pointing out a successful and never-failing mode of effectually Curing those dire Dis eases depicted in the works of Drs. Tissot, Solomon, Jordan, Goss, and others. Br WILLIAM HENRY CASTLE, Surgeon. Illustrated with Cases. This little work is not only distinguished but contra-distin guished from all others which have preceded it, its pages being exclusively devoted to 'the curative department, and hence it may be justly hailed as a great national desideratum. It con tains above one hundred choice recipes, adapted to various stages of the complaint, which is divided into three distinct heads and progressive stages of treatment, viz.:-Ist, The cleansing, or detergent ; 2dly, The strengthening, or tonic ; and lastly, The alterative, or purifying. Into these three grand divisions, theory suggested, and long experience has demon strated, the curative plan ought and must be divided. The treatment of this disease has, for obvious reasons, been hitherto confined to some cordial balm, occult tincture, or talis manic drops, which act merely as a dram—a temporary stimu lus, procured at the expense of the patient's future welfare. The invalid suffering under mental depression and decay, impotence, and a host of peculiar and inveterate infirmities, comprehended under nervous debility, will find this Pocket Manual written expressly for his use, and adapted to his va rious wants. London : Published by Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street and may be had of all booksellers. Price ss. By post free, ss, 6d. NEW WORK ON STRICTURES OF THE URETHRA. Just published, price be. APRACTICAL TREATISE on the CAUSES, NATURE, and TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA, and their CONSE QUENCES. By FRANCIS BURDETT COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.L. And late Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Core of Strictures of the Urethra. .!OICTENTS. Symptoms resemble those of Stricture. CHAPTER I. Causes of Strictures. Divisions of Strictures. Consequences of Strictures. CHAPTER IV. Of tne Treatment of the Mala. dies Consequen upon Stric• ture. CHAPTER 11. Of the Different Modes in practice for the (ure of Strictures, by the Mougie, the Catheter, the Lunar Caustic, and Cutting In struments. The Author's Mode of Cure. 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. CHAPTER 111. On the Diseases where thel Sold by Bailliere, Medical 13 Sitnpkin and Marshall, Statioi rine-street, Strand ; Barlow, ginale, Liverpool: and all 800 l 3ookseller, 219, Regent-street -court ; Onwhyn, Cathe. Birmingham; Ross and Night ksellers in Town and Country. COURAGE NECESSARY FOR NONCONFOR. MITY.—For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face. The bystanders look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlour. If this aversion had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he might well go home with a sad counte nance ; but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, disguise no God, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs. Yet is the discontent of the multitude more for midable than that of the Senate and the College. It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent ; for they are timid, as being very vulnerable themselves. But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the igno rant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is Made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it God-like as a trifle of no concern ment.—Emerson's Essay on Self-Reliance. 'BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.—The preparations for holding the fair, which will be opened to-day at noon by the Lord Mayor, were being actively made last night, where the different stall-keepers obtained their locations. These, at the head of which is the large travelling me nagerie of Mr. Wombwell, will be nearly on the same scale of extent of those of last year. Yesterday the usual proclamation was issued from the Pie-powder court, at the Hand and Shears public-house, Cloth-fair, calling on all who take part in the fair to pay their icc customs, tolls, and duties, to such Court, and Ptoaallg e, customs, of the ity who trade there to produce their licenses." With the fair this very ancient, and the most expeditious as well as cheapest Court of law in the country will expire, as the Fair of St. Bartho lomew is now nearly the only place in the kingdom where any vestige remains of its former powers. It now merely CO lects the revenues of the fair for the Lord of the Ma nor, who is Lord Kensington, and whose steward pre sides, who ca s w e ' s as , until the last few years, a Judge of all la the ti ‘ c e i civil cases, important criminal ones re- Edw a a ' r t c fa r t i . he Third, for the summary redress the reign of This Court was established in b of ein al g l dgerireivveadn,ceasecordilsi because its ntoriginal,uari antiquarians, from o / m ) e the d o d u u d s r t e y , MA NCHESTER c id H a the said Fair. many P a o u ps se .is j s u e s n t t i i c nyE e g. was administered feet of the suitors, or o sibl r e to wipe the dust from with othreerc; there as speedily as it p m a - a p s er, the shoes. —Morning ;T :csrh E tislo ß oi rdnesi C ihe O s N in li Et interestedhßis having WESTBURY.—THE ENCL. —The pastors of the e y held might attend his fore Rev. public let J. borough, r t o h u e g w h elifnarceo mortuhneicpaotoi ,n linValtfsaonnchtoesrteeprr, e s s e e t n a t p themart the i n Fridayt h . Conference preceding assembly. On the s m p i e s c s i i a o l n p prayer, that ethpartoacelellvinin; o b f le t s h si a n t g as return of their iepresentative, it was considered desirable to hold a public meeting, to hear the report of Mr. "Watson, prior to the adoption of ulterior measures. On Friday evening last, the2s7t.h iAiltf.t,earntahßsesedmebvolytio was convened in the tipper Meeting-House; the Ch air was ably filled by N. Overbury, Eq ex . llercaisri erss,sthaeud J. Preecemeetingw , as a . d d 3, r i e r s . s e lv d by ats o t h n e then eN% A g l a T e rs a . R long and interesting account of the proceedings at the Conference, and Mr. Clift concluded with prayer. The chapel was crowded, and a fe elin g of deep sympathy towards our starving population app eared to pervikle every breast. Though of a devot ional character, the meeting broke up presenting a practical illustration of the twelfth resolution passed in Conference, viz. : "That while this Conference declines to prescribe an y distinct or specific plan of operations to be pursued by its members after this meeting breaks u p , we pledge ourselves, that by all such means as may be deemed by the individuals themselves best fitted to advance the great cause in which we are engaged, we shall never cease in our efforts till these unjust and unchristian enactments which restrict the supplies of food lire expunged from the statute book."— Wiltshire Independent. We are glad to learn that the shopkeepers have again commenced closing their shops for the winter sea son at eight, and no customer is admitted after that time. The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this undertaking was held in the large room of the York Hotel, on Thursday last. Mr. Thomas Ashton, Chair man of the Beard of Directors, occupied the Chair ; and, after he had read the advertisement convening the met ing, and the seal of the Company had been affixed to the register of proprietors produced, Mr. LYONS one of the Directors, read the Report, which stated, that the Directors did not entertain any doubt as to the completion of the various works at the specified time—namely, the 12th of March next ; and they confidently looked forward to the opening of the to Crewe before the close of that month. The ' re suit of the negotiation with the Manchester, Sheffield, and Ashton-under-Lyne Railway Company, had been an arrangement, which the Directors believed would prove beneficial to both Companies. The joint station is to be erected at the cost of this Company ; and the Sheffield Company are to pay an adeqna.te annual rent for such portion as they may occupy ; this payment will be altogether independent of the tolls to be levied, for the use of the line, between Chancery-lane, Ardwick, and the Manchester station. The amount of loans re ceived up to the 31st of July, was 352,329/. 9s. 6d., and, after satisfying all current demands upon the Company, there was then a balance in hand of £158,800 3s. 10d. Since that time a considerable amount had been received, and several large sums had been engaged, and the Di rectors continued to receive tenders of loans weekly. They had therefore no hesitation in again stating their decided conviction that it will not be necessary to it ake any further call upon the . proprietors. Mr. Bulkeley Price, Mr. Henry S. Chadwick, and Mr. Henry T. Wor ley, had been elected Directors, in the room of Mr. Jt;lin Brooks, Mr. Henry Tootal, and Mr. Robert C. Sharp, who tad resigned since the last half yearly meet ing. In compliance with the provisions of the Act of Parliament, the following five Directors retire from office by rotation :—Mr. Robt. Ogden, Mr. Henry T. Worley, Mr. Leo Schuster, Mr. Bulkeley Price, and Mr. Joshua P. Westhead. From the statement of accounts from the Ist Feb. to the 31:4 July appended to the report, but which was not read, it appeared that the amount received from passen gers and parcels was 8,666/. 13s. 4d.; and that the coach ing disbursements amounted to 4,5361. 12s. Bd. The amount received on deposits was 150,0001; on calls, 963,1841.; on mortage, 352,3291. 9s. 6d. ; and that the total of the receipts was 1,515,0451. 2s. ld. The dis bursements included items for expenditure in 1835-6-7, 157,745/. 7s. sd. ; land and compensation, 479,601/. ss. 11d. ; works, 461,629/. 17s. 3d. ; permanent way, 121,770/.145. 7d. ; stock, 85,131/. 15s. 3d.; and other items, making alto gether, 1,376,244/. 18s. 3d.; leaving a balance in favour of the company of 138,8001 . 35. Bd. _ _ Mr. BUCK, the engineer, then read the Report, giving an account of the various contracts, all of which are in a forward state, except the Wilmslow contract ; and he said that, since the Report was drawn up, much greater energy had been displayed by the contractor, and such arrangements made as would leave no doubt of the works being completed within the period specified. The Re port also stated, that the experience of the past six months had tended to confirm him in the opinion ad vanced in his Report of February last, that there would not be any excess upon the contracts then stated, name ly, about two per cent. upon the lettings. .sir. RICHARD BIRLEY moved, " That the Report cf the Directors he received, and, with the statement of ac counts, printed for circulation amongst the Share holders." Dr. LYON, in seconding the motion, said he trusted they might now say that the prospects before them were clear and promising. —Carried unanimously. NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY. The tenth half-yearly meeting of proprietors in this railway was held at the Derby Station on 'Thursday last. About 150 Shareholders were present. Gorge Carr Glynn, Esq., Chairman to the Bard of Directors, presided. The Chairman having noticed certain charges of unfairness made against the Directors, the Report was read ; from w hich it appeared, that, after the ne cessary expenditure incurred, there was a sufficient surplus on hand to warrant the Directors in recom mending a dividend of 21. per share on the hundred pound shares, and 11. on those of , fifty. The traf fic, as compared with last year, had increased 64 per cent., without occasioning any additional outlay to the Company. " All the works on the line, including the tunnels, are (says the report) in the most efficient state ; and, when the station at Nor manton (now erecting at the joint expence of this and the Manchester and Leeds, and York and N or th Mid land Companies) is completed, little more will remain to be done." The Board determined forthwith to close the ricat;ca 111 London, and LO uoncontrate the whole estab lishment in Derby. The receipts for the half-year end ing 30th June, 1841, with the balance in hand from last year, amounted to 125,869/. 19s. 6d. leaving, after de fraying all expenses, a surplus of 47,825/. 7 s . 7d . Th e net profit for the half-year amounted t o 16,000/ . Th e Chairman stated, that they had reali ze d a very h an d some per tentage on the surplus revenue, aim mat a. eduction in the expenditure had been resolved on, and was now being carried into effect, amounting to 14,0001. per an num, without in any respect impairing the efficiency of the works. The Report stated that " The opening of the Great North of England line has undoubtedly proved very ad vantageous to the North Midland, but as the railway communication northward terminates at Darlington, the Directors have been extremely anxious that the accom modation by coaches should be improved, and they are happy to state that satisfactory arrangements are now made by which the public ate conveyed the whole dis tance from London to Edinburgh in twenty-seven hours. This, however, is not sufficient ; the completion of the line from Darlington to Newcastle is of the utmost im portance, and measures have been taken to promote this abject in conjunction with the other Railway Companies interested in the extension, which the Directors trust will be seconded by the earnest and zealous co-operation of the Proprietors of the North Midland Railway." The report having been adopted, a discussion took place as to the propriety of reducing the fares ; but the meeting separated without proposing any formal resolu tion on the subject. BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY RAILWAY. The general meeting of the Proprietors of the Birming ham and Derby Railway was held on Thursday last, the 26th ult. at the Waterloo-rooms, Birmingham, having been adjourned from the 10th ult. for the purpose of re ceiving the Report of a Committee appointed to investi gate the accounts and the financial condition of the Com pany. From this Report which was presented and read to the meeting, it appeared that a considerable discre pancy had existed between the amount of traffic as pub lished weekly, and the aggregate amount ascertained at the close of the half-year ; the latter having fallen short of the former by no less than 1 1 989/. 13s. 3d. This error the Report stated to havo..arisen from errors in keeping the accounts of the merchandise and mineral traffic, and to have shown considerable negligence in the principal servant of the Com pany. With respect to the general financial con dition of the Company, the Report stated, that, in ad dition to the sum of 800,0001. raised by shares, and 256,6661. by debentures, a further sum of 80,0001. would be required to complete the line. With regard to the revenue, it appeared that the gross proceeds of the traffic for the past year had been 58,3501., which, after paying the charges of working the line and the interest upon the borrowed money, left a balance of profit for the year of 6,3611. 2s. 5d., equal to about 13s. 4d. on each share of 1001. The COmrilittee, however, expressed a confident expectation that the traffic will ultimately be greatly in creased ; and they presented a series of calculations to show, that a gross annual income of 113,4381. might be fairly expected, which, if realized, will probably pay about four per cent. to the Shareholders. After hearing this Report read, the meetinc , resolved that no dividend should be made, and that the surplus of 6,3611. 2s. sd. should be carried to the credit of the revenue account. DUBLIN AND DROGHEDA RAILWAY COM PANY. The usual half-yearly meeting of this Company was held in Dublin on Thursday last ; George A. Hamilton, Esq., in the Chair. From the Report of the Directors, it appeared that the works are rapidly progressing, and that the expenditure will not exceed 14,0001. per mile, including the purchase of land. The finance Report of last year stated, that, after the payment of expenditures to the amount of 10,584/..195. sd. the Company had a balance on hand of 13,5711. Os. 7d. The accounts pur ported to have been audited on 31st July last. The whole line between Dublin and Balbriggan will be soon in operation, and the remaining portion of the line will not be commenced till next summer, as the work on that division is very light, and will be completed in about twelve months from its commencement. The Report being approved of, it was resolved to form a friendly Society for the purpose of ensuring, in cases of accident, relief to the labourers employed by the Company. The usual vote of thanks was then given to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. TIMOROUSNESS OF THE AGE.—The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are be come timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect per sons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are in solvent ; cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambi tion out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our house keeping is mendicant ; our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen, but society has chosen for us. We are parlour soldiers. The rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun.— Emerson's Essay onSelf-Reliance. 1 A week of brilli an t weat h er has at length re joiced the hearts of the farmers, and enabled them to secure as fine a crop of wheat as their most lavish hopes could have expected. A vast breadth of ground has been cleared of its burthen, and already ploughed up for succeeding husbandry. The damage occasioned by the unsettled and bad weather, experienced at the be ginning of the harvest, though unquestionably consider able in some districts, is not of great extent throughout the country ; and if we have a few more bright days, will occasion a very slightly disadvantageous character on the samples of wheat in general.---Bath Chronicle. It was impossible for us to publish, as we did yester day, the orders, just issued by Lord Cottenham fur the better regulation of the business of the Court of Chan cery, and which may be regarded as his parting legacy to the profession over which lie has so usefully presided, without feeling that some public expression of the sense universally entertained of his services was due to the Noble and Learned Lord. It is usual, when an eminent Judge retires from the Bench, for the leaders of the bar to deliver, in the n ame o f t h e i r b ret h ren , a parting ad dress in acknowledgment of his claims upon their respect and esteem, and we may be very sure that such a com pliment would not have been omitted in the present case bad the Courts of Equity been sitting at the time of Lord Cottenham's retirement. We think it highly pro bable, from our knowledge of the opinion which prevails on the subject of his merits, that the bar will even now find for themselves some opportunity of performing this pleasing duty, notwithstanding the acci dent which prevents them from doing it in the customary manner. •In the mean time, we trust we shall not be considered to be intruding improperly upon their province, if we take advantage of the delay which must intervene to anticipate, in some degree, the senti ments which they may be expected to express. It has been the peculiar good fortune, or rather merit, of Lord Cottenham, to have sustained with universal ap plause an elevation for which his qualifications were not, at the beginning, appreciated by the public. To a per fect familiarity with the practice, and acquaintance with the recorded decisions of those Courts, he brought an enlarged common sense, and a mind disposed to recur, to the fundamental principles of equitable jurisdiction. Few Judges have approached more closely to the true medium between a slavish adherence to forms and prece dents, and a carelessness about tampering with established principles of action. There has been nothing technical in Lord Cottenham's judgments, and yet he has never departed from the settlertificial system of his Court, but has left it devebpet more consistent, and more legitimate proportions than when it began to re ceive modification under his hands. He has always ap peared to feel the importance of checking undue litiga tion, not by delays and harassing costs, which render justice inaccessible, but by throwing a steady light upon the principles of the law, and marking out as clearly a.s possible the rules which ought to govern the practical intercourse of mankind. Great indtistry, and an intellect apprehensive of principles, and quick to detect and dis card secondary and irrevalent matter, have enabled him to despatch the business of his Court with comparative speed, without withholding from the most trifling case that full attention and con sideration which was its due: Its decisions have given an unusual degree of general satisfaction ; and it has been a remarkable merit, that instead of shrinking from making precedents, aetd endeavouring (as Lord Eldon was apt to do) to confine the principle, and there fore the public utility, as well as the personal responsi bility of his judgments, within the narrowest possible limits, he has always manifested a desire to exhaust, as far as possible, the questions at issue between par ties, and to take every fair opportunity of settling the future law of the Court. Lord Cottenham's demeanour towards counsel, and all other parties concerned before him, has been uniformly, and without exception, and in an equal degree to all, courteous and attentive. No Judge was ever more free from the weakness of lending his ear with an undue bias to particular individuals. The youngest member of the bar, when arguing before him, was under no apprehen sion that the effect of his case or of his arguments would suffer on account of his personal obscurity, or the eminence of those who might be retained on the oppo site side. Lord Cottenham was in every respect the master .of his own Court. The services of Lord Cottenham to the country have not been confined to his excellent administration of jus • tice. He has introduced several useful measures into Parliament, for the purpose of facilitating justice ; and, had he met with the support which was due both to his character and to his measures themselves from his col leagues in the late Government, the public would, ere this, have had the benefit of the chief of those improve ments. As it is, he has succeeded in procuring the enactment of a statute by which new powers have been conferred on the Lord Chancellor, with a view to changes in the practice of the Courts of Equity. The first points of that enactment we yeAerday laid before our readers, in a series of judicious regulations, which, although they do not carry the work of simplification by auk means so far as may hereafter be found advantageous, are an exceedingly valuable step in a right directiOn, As a politician, we have differed from Lora Cotten ham. We believe him to be a very decided Whig par tisan, and to have exhibited that partisanship in the use of the influence and patronage of his office. It may fairly, however, be inferred from the circumstance that his official conduct has never been impeached with suc cess in any point of detail, that it has not been possible to lay to his charge, as a Minister of the Crown, any action unworthy of his high character as a Judge and as a private gentleman. There has been for some years an increasing opinion -ice ohms „ n i.„ „,„„i )1..; miscinef of uniting - wan f e - RA'Atv 'Gr - Griltrb tfttke in Equity political functions which make it neces sary to remove that officer upon every change of Ad ministration. In that opinion we coincide : we can see no more ground, in reason or practical conve nience, for making the Lord Chancellor a member of the Cabinet, than for making the tenure of the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench equally preca rious. On the present occasion the public will probably be less impressed with these considerations than might otherwise have been expected, on account of the vast capacity and long judicial experience of Lord Cottenham's successorthe first Englishman, we be lieve, who has ever received the great seal thy eetlifferent times from the hands of his Sovereign. But on that very account, and because under such circumstances there can be nothing invidious in the suggestion, we would now urge upon the Conservative Ministry that the prin ciple of arrangements which might have deprived the country of Lord Cottenham's services at the present mo ment, even had there been no man competent to succeed him, cannot be good. ue word more and we have done. If there is any mark of Royal favour and distinction which Lord Cot tenham, on leaving office, would be willing to accept, it would be universally felt to be a tribnte due to his ser vices, and we are sure that it must be an equal satisfac tion to Sir Robert Peel to advise, to her Majesty to be stow, and to the nation to witness, it.—Times, of Friday. THE WEATHER.—NOON, SEPTEMBER 3. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE—STREET. Barometer Thermometer... 73 Highest 75 j Lowest ...... 42 Wind S.--Freezing Point 32 Deg. ST. MARTIN'S-IN-THE-FIELDS REGISTRA TION SOClETY.—Yesterday evening the members of this Society, met at the Cambrian, in Castle-street, Leicester square, for the purpose of affording information to the electors, in reference to the means of supporting their claims in the Registration Courts, and which tended to the satisfaction of many applicants. It was stated by one of the members that many parishes had adopted the plan suggested by the 'Westminster Reform Society, and the effects of their own individual efforts, had been to increase the number of objections this year to 716, while in the last they were but 200, and the Society calculated upon the certainty of maintaining at least 500 of them. TORY QUARRELS.—A grave difficulty has arisen to embarrass the Administration of Sir Robert Peel. Three " Ministerial morning prints" have been run ning a race for the post of first earwig of the Treasury; and the Herald has broken out upon the Times, fur dar ing to brush past her. It seems that the Times, precisely at twelve o'clock at noon, published a " third edition," containing a very full, true, and particular account of the New Administration, all signed, sanctioned, and gua ranteed by itself ; and the modest Herald, scandalised at the audacity, asks how the deuce it could do it, when Sir Robert Peel only left the Royal presence at " two o'clock, P.M." (to a hair), and could not reach Printin7- house-square till some convenient period thereafter. We once heard a flying stationer bawling out the " last dying speech and execution" of a poor fellow who was at the very moment warm in his shoes ; but the Times surpasses him in hideous enor mity. If we were admitted to the confidence of him whom one of the speakers in the recent debate termed " the Right Honourable Member the Baronet for Tamworth," we would try to get him out of his diffi culty. We would divide the " leadership" between the Post and the Herald, and let the Times go hang. It is able enough and impudent enough to take a lead for it self ; and Sir Robert owes it a kick or two-" Catholi cus" to wit. At the same time, and apart from all spiteful considerations, the very idea of the Time s becoming a mere " Ministerial morning print" is quite horrifying to us. To change the gallant " Bogle" hunter into a mere lickspittle ; to reduce the " great bear" of the opposition into a common Treasury hack, is an absolute horror. What no more cakes and ale ? No more screeching about the navy ? No more groans ab ou t ou r f o reign re lations? No more chewing of opium? And, worse than all, no more atrocious Poor-law ? Caliban serves a new master, and must be a new man. And yet the Times, if it have any despondings for the future, should take up the prayer of the poor fellow who believed in transmigration, and who besought all the gods and goddesses, that, whatever they might do, they would not turn him into a braying donkey. After all, we think the Herald is right, and that the Times is not yet regu larly acknowledged as a pure and unmitigated Treasnry messenger. It cannot give up its habit of reading Sir Robert a lecture. Only yesterday it tells him to mind his weather eye, or it is all up with him. Now, this won't do for a Treasury hack. If it does mean to pub lish third editions at twelve o'clock precisely, it must learn, like a good dog, not to bark at those who are in, but at those who are out. We are perfectly disinterested, and, in the pure spirit of good-will, proceed to advise our all but fallen Contemporary. Let it abandon the official duties of Downing-street to its morning rivals, who are both dying with eagerness to get it shelved. Let it give up the chopping of Treasury logic to the Post, and the re tailing of twaddle to the Herald,—and in its old effec tive " brickbat and bludgeon spirit," set to work to de molish the " lath-and-plaster Cabinet." In that case we —even we—will be content to play second fiddle ; and who knows but, ere long, another announcement may appear in its columns—" The Queen has done it all Morning Chronicle. Fashion.) Gros d'Afrique, taffetas, poult de soie, bareges, fou lards de Chine, moires d'ete, &c., are the materials most in request, and the favourite colours are Oriental blue, purple, vest scarab°, orange, and noir de Chine. The make of dresses continues much the same ; the skirts are still ornamented en tablier, the bodies are tight and a emir, and the sleeves very generally tight, with different styles of ornament, gimp, tas sels, folds, &c. &c. ; tucks and folds on the skirts are still fashionable. The newest style are those headed with a rouleau of the same material as the dress ; others are edged with a lace or a ruche, the corsages a coulisses are sometimes made with the run ners placed horizontally, which have the effect of lessen ing the size of the waist. Inlets of lace are much in use for fischus, caps, or handkerchiefs ; for the latter borders have been formed by six small inlets, divided by an in terval sufficiently wide to admit a single row of em broidered spots. Cuffs and collars for neglige have also been made in this style. Small caps, both in cambric and muslin, are worn without any ribbon, and form the prettiest style for neglige ; the bands which turn back are tied on the top of the head ; the embroidery on them is light, and they are trimmed with lace. Some of the latest accounts from Paris state the re introduction of combs in the coiffure : they are said to be worn by ladies, ornamented, carved, or cut out, of elegant forms, and suiting all styles of head-dress. The form of bonnets is undergoing some slight altera tion ; they are not thrown so backward, and begin to incline a little more on the forehead. The straight cot tage is still in favour, and the materials, as yet, continue much the same, but the flowers, &c., indicate the autum nal season : some bonnets have the brides placed inside, which prevent their closing very much. Velvet is used both on straw and - Leghorn bonnets. The latter are also ornamented with a voilette entirely covering the front, -confined on each side up the brides by a nceitd of green sarcenet ribbon ; sewed Leghorns are also genteel. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN MEETING AT AYR.—WEDNESDAY. The Three-yrs.old Produce Stakes of 50 sous. each 20 ft. Two miles. Mr. Alexander's Archer, Bst llb ..........(Cartwright) 1 Lord Eglinton's Teflis, 7st 91b 2 Won by a length. The Ayr Gold Cup of 100 guineas. Two miles. Lord Eglinton's Dr. Caius, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (Lye) 1 Mr. Ramsay's The Doctor, aged, 9st 21b Won easy. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added. One mile. Mr. Merry's Patriot, aged walked over Plate of 501. Two-mile heats. Mr. Ramsay's Sunbeam, aged, 9st 41b...(Holmes) 1 1 Lord Eglinton's Potentate, aged, 9st 41b 2 2 Won easily. ECCLES RACES—(CoNcLuDED). WEDNESDAY.—The Hurdle Stakes, of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added, the second saves his stake, thrice round, were won in two heats by Mr. Hollinshead's Mischief (owner), beating Mr. Hepple's Sambo Sutton, aged, and Mr. Entwistle's Maid of Kent, 5 yrs (fell), after a good race. Sambo the favourite. The Ladies' Purse, and a Handicap of '2 sovs. each, the second saves his stake, twice round and a dis., were won in two heats by Mr. Lamb's Lady Flora, 3 yrs, Bst 51b (Livesly), beating Mr. Pratt's Mary Anne, 4 yrs 9st, easily. OLDBURY RACES. TUMPAY.—The first race was won in two heats by Mr. Fliiitoif 's Prudence, beating Frailty, Frank, and Lillie. The sec(ind race was won in two heats, by Mr. 'Tay lor's f by Ishinael, out of Charity, beating Lady Caro line, and four others. And The third race by Mr. Williams's Anvil, beating Frailty and Lillie. WEDNESDAY.—The first race was won by Prudence ; the second by Lady Caroline ; and the third by Little Bess. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. 1841. NOMINATION FOR THE CESAREWITCII STAKES. Hyllus, 5 yrs—The Doctor, aged—Lanercost, 5 yrs— Kingston Robin, 4 yrs—Huon, 3 yrs—Gammon Box, 3 yrs—Revoke, 5 yrs—Colchicum, 5 yrs—Benjamin, 4 yrs—Janus, 4 yrs—Exit, 4 yrs—Oakley, 3 yrs—Taurida, 3 yrs—King of the Peak, 4 yrs—St. Lawrence, 4 yrs— Flash, 4 yrs—Flambeau, 5 yrs—The Genius, 4 yrs— Mus, aged—The Currier, 5 yrs—Bracelet, 5 yrs—Na worth, 4 yrs—Mustapha, 3 yrs—Halfcaste, 4 yrs, Cruis keen, aged—Zelmyra, 4 yrs—Wirrestrew, 5 yrs—Fid hanu, 3 yrs—The - Nob, 3 yrs—Orelia, 5 yrs—Remnant, 4 yrs—lsabella, 6 yrs—Mungo Parke, 4 yrs—Sister to Glencoe, 3 yrs—Belgrade, 3 yrs—The Squire, 3 yrs— La Sage Femme, 5 yrs—Thirsk, 3 yrs, Millapede, 3 yrs—Showlad, 3 yrs—The Shadow, 5 yrs—Stamboul, 4 yrs—Bosphorus, 5 yrs—Silistria, 4 yrs—Scarf, 3 yrs— Compensation, 6 yrs—Wardan; 4 yrs—Lady Liverpool, Miss Stifibit, 4 yrs—Camelino, 6 yrs—Retriever, o yrs— Erniengardis, 3 yrs—Snowdrop, 3 yrs—Blemish, 4 yrs— Tom Tit, 5 yrs—Bellissima, 6 yrs—Galen, 4 yrs—St. Martin, 6 yrs—The Young-'un, 4 yrs—Bellona, 6 yrs— Charles the Twelfth, 5 yrs—Calypso, 4 yrs—Zohrab, aged—Modesty, aged—Broadwath, 4 yrs—Wee Willie, 6 yrs—lioscius, 5 yrs—Clinker, 5 yrs—Bussorah, 4 yrs— The Recorder, 5 yrs—Duke of Wellington, 3 yrs—The Ruler, 4 yrs—Melody colt, 4 yrs—llion:, 4 yrs—Tam burini, 5 yrs—The Day of Algiers, 5 yrs—Gibraltar, 4 yrs—l-am-not-aware, 6 yrs—Rory O'More, 5 yrs— Welfare, 4 yrs—Johnny, 4 yrs—Alice, 3 yrs—lsaac, aged—Black Beck, 4 yrs—Hetman Platoff, 5 yrs—Prize flower, aged—Pocohontus, 4 yrs—The Corsair, 5 yrs— Humming Bird, 4 yrs—Tearaway, 3 yrs—Diana, 4 yrs— Y. Quo Minus, 3 yrs—Thebes colt, 3 yrs—Bentley colt, 3 yrs—Bob Peel, 4 yrs—Buffalo, 3 yrs—Barbara, 3 yrs— St. Francis, 6 yrs—E.O., 3 yrs—Miss Mary Ann, filly, 3 yrs—Teleta, 4 yrs—Portsoken, 3 yrs—and Laures tina, 3 yrs. HOUGHTON MEETING, 1841. Entries for the Cambridgshire Stakes :—Naworth, 4 yrs—Taurida, 3 yrs—Exit, 4 yrs—Nicholas, 4 yrs— Garry Owen, 4 yrs—Rory O'More, 5 yrs—Diversion, 3 yrs—Welfare, 4 yrs—Johnny, 4 yrs—Caravan aged — The Doctor, aged—Lanercost, 5 yrs—Kington Robin, 4 yrs—Joachim, 3 yrs—Dey of Algiers, 5 yrs—Sir Hans, 3 yrs—Dr. Caius, 4 yrs—Charles the Twelfth, 5 yrs—Bentley c 3 yrs—Warden, 4 yrs—Henri Quatre, 3 j\rs—Knight of the Whistle, 3 yrs— Teleta, 4 yrs— llyllus, 4 yrs—Huon, 3 yrs—Vulcan, 4 yrs—Mus, aged —The Currier, 5 yrs—Bracelet, 6 yrs—Mustapha, 3 yrs —Halfe Caste, 4 yrs—Cruiskeen, aged—Zelmyra, 4 yrs . —Wirrestrew, 5 yrs—The Nob, 3 yrs—Orelia, 5 yrs— Remnant, 4 yrs—sister to Glencoe, 3 yrs—Bel grade, 3 yrs— Isabella, 6 yrs Mungo Parke, 4 yrs Stamboul, 4 yrs Bosphorus, 5 yrs— Silistria, 4 yrs—Cesarewitch, 3 yrs—Scarf, 3 yrs— Compensation, 6 yrs—Champagne, 4 yrs—Camelino, 5 yrs—Miss Stilton, 3 yrs—Dryad filly, 3 yrs—Clemen tma, 3 yrs—Retriever, 5 yrs—Ermengardis, 3 yrs—Ca lypso, 4 yrs—Galen, 4 yrs—The Young 'un, 4 yrs— Bellona, 6 yrs—Modesty, aged—Broadwath, 4 yrs— Roscius, 5 yrs—Miss Heathcote, 4 yrs—The Ruler, 4 Recorder, 5 yrs—Melody c, 4 yrs—Mona, 4 yrs—Gib raltar, 4 yrs—l-am-not-aware, 6 yrs—King of the Peake, 4 yrs . —Young Quo Minus, 3 yrs—Potentia, 3 yrs —Black Beck, 4 yrs--Hetman Platoff, 5 yrs—Pocohon tas, 4 yrs—The Corsair, 5 yrs—Diana, 4 yrs—Eringo, 3 yrs—St. Colomb, 3 yrs—Langolee, 3 yrs—Miss Mary Ann filly 3 yrs—Portsoken, 3 yrs—Dromedary, 3 yrs. WOOLWICH, SEPT. 2. (CIRCULAR.) Royal Marine-office, Aug. 31, 1841. Commissions, dated this day, will be laid before the Queen, appointing the following gentlemen to be Second Lieutenants in the Royal Marines, and they are, attached to the divisions as stated against their names, viz.:— Digby Isaac Sloggett, Plymouth; Henry Bates Leonard, Woolwich; William Mansel Manse!, Plymouth; Walter Barrett Aberfield, Portsmouth. Captain Layton, First Lieutenant Leheux,- Second Lieutenant Gould, two sergeants, two corporals, one drummer. and sixty privates, of the Woolwich I,ivision of Royal Marines, are under orders to hold themselves in readiness to embark in a steam-vessel at Woolwich, and proceed to join the Formidable, 84 guns, commis sioned last week by Captain Sir Thomas Troubridge, at Sheerness. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Heroine, 10-gun brig, was commissioned yester day in this dock-yard. Lieutenant Stuart is appoint.d Commander, and she is to have a crew of 55 men. The Rhadamanthus, steam-vessel, which has been fit ting for a troop-ship at Sheerness, arrived yesterday from that port, to have her boilers and engines put in order. The Syren, 18-gun brig, is in the basin, fitting out for the coast of Africa. The Volcano, steam-vessel, is having her masts, &c., put in. Several chains, for first-rate vessels, were tried in the chain-cable proving-house yesterday and to- day. The links are 2 inches diameter, and are proved at a pres sure of 814 tons, which they all stood. DEATH OF A CHILD BY FIRE.—On Thursday an inquest was held by Mr. Payne at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on the body of Mary Ann Robinson, aged ten years. The child, it appeared, was occupied in frying some potatoes for her brother's dinner, when a piece of wood fell lighted out of the grate and set the child's clothes on fire, which extending to the bed-clothes, the house would have, in all probability, been burned down had not timely assistance arrived. She lingered till Wed sday evening, when she died of the burns. Verdict, Accidental death. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.--CAUTION TO PA RENTS.—Between seven and eight o'clock on Wednesday evening, a shocking accident happened to a little boy, residing in the Queen's Bench-walk. It appears that the oor little fellow had got up behind a cab, unperceived by the driver, till he stopped in the Borough-road, to put down a lady, when he was alarmed by seeing the feet of the unfortunate boy standing upwards, and his body entangled in the wheel, from which perilous situa tion he could not be extricated without the wheel being taken off. He was conveyed to a surgeon's in an almost lifeless state, when his injuries were discovered to be of the most serious nature ; he was subsequently conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital. DISTRESSED CONDITION OF THE ILk.ND-LOOM WEAVERS. PUBLIC TEA PARTY IN MANCHESTER. MINGHESTER, WEDNESDAY.—Last evening a public tea party took place in the Corn Exchange, in this place, in aid of the distressed hand-loom weavers. Upwards of 500 ladies and gentlemen sat down under the Presidency of John Brooks, Esq., Alderman. There are up wards of 7,000 hand-loom wearers in this town and the suburbs ; of these fully one-third are entirely without employ . ; another third are only partially employed ; and the utmost earnings of those in full employment do not exceed 7s. per week. At the late Ministerial Confe rence in this town, it was fully demonstrated that the distress' of this unfortunate class of men was immensely aggravated, if not originated, by the operation of the cruel restrictions on the importation of corn. This fact being clearly established, great weight has been added to the arguments of the advocates for a free trade in corn. Amongst the company present were—Sir Thomas Potter ; James Curtis, Esq., of Ohio, United States ; D. Ainsworth, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester ; the Reverends D. Nearne, W. Gadsby, J. W. Massie, &c., &c. After the cups " which cheer, but not inebriate," had circulated for about an hour, under the brilliant auspices of a galaxy of Lancashire witches, the cloths were drawn, and the following hymn was sung by the whole of the company : Great God, to thee, and thee a'one Our country's woes are fully known: The most severe, and widely spread, Are want of work, and want of bread. "Both might abound throughout the land, If men obey'd Thy jnst command ; But there are those, our island's shame, Who by a law their mischief frame. "Regardless of the poor they live ; Their• pride and folly, Lord forgive ; May they be wise, to know betimes, The signs of these eventful times. With pity view the sons of need ; 0 Lord, arise, their cause to plead ; Break thou the proud oppressor's rod, And show thyself the righteous God. We meet this night that we may aid Those who in deep distress are laid ; We meet to pledge ourselves anew, Our glorious object to pursue. " Nor will we pause, nor will we rest, Till these, our wrongs, have been redress'd ; On thee, 0 God, the poor man's friend, Our hopes rely—deliverance send." The CHAIIIMAN, after alluding to the very great extent of the distress which prevailed, observed that no good could be done without going to the root of the evil. For his own part he had thrown away party distinctions; he was for free trade, which would go to the root of the evil, and nothing else.—(Applause.) The Rev. J. W. MAssiE announced that donations to the amount of about 141. had been received for the cause of the hand-loom weavers, and that many of the expenses attending the tea party had been gratuitously defrayed. He related an instance which he had heard from one of the registrars in the town, of a weaver having died a few days ago from literal want of food, and mentioned. se veral other cases of extreme distress. He stated that the memorial from the Ministerial Conference had been pre sented to the Queen last Monday, and that her Majesty had directed it to be stated that she had graciously re ceived it. Had its presentation not taken place till she was surrounded by a band of monopolists, a very different answer would have been returned.—(Cheers.) The Rev. DANIEL. NEAItNE stated that in one street alone in his neighbourhood last week, twenty-six fami lies out of thirty houses rose in the morning without knowing where to get a morsel of food. Unless God changed the hearts of our rulers, it was impossible to conceive hoW the winter was to be got over. The hand-loom weavers who, in 1835, with corn at 365. per quarter received ss. 9d. a cut, now, when corn was at G9s., only got 2s. 91 a cut.—(Bear, hear.) The increase of sickness in the town was frightful to contemplate. On his way down to that meeting he had visited three persons who were suffering from English cholera in its worst form. JAMES CURTIS, Esq., of Ohio, United States, said he was inclined to think that that pity and that charity which the hand-loom weavers would most value, would be that which would put men's hands into their pockets in the first place, and in the next place that which would devise some sort of means for bringing them out of their difficulties ; for he could not bring himself to believe that a class of Englishmen, so numerous asthe hand-loom weavers, would wish to depend on charity.—(Applause.) In the hymn that had been sung, they had stated their greatest want to be " want of work and want of bread ;" they wished, by the labour of their own hands, to support themselves in that independence which was one of the first characteristics of English men.—(Cheers.) It was capable of the most perfect de monstration that the hand of private charity never could relieve the constant wants of a suffering communit in vire - rand m wnren zney nvecr. -- xxer wurau any theory, but simply a practical plan. ng and had been very fond of colonizing • why could she not be re lieved by it ? In Russia and near the shores of the Black Sea there was a great corn-growing country, im mense plains spread out, where corn could be grown very cheap. Why should not a large number of individuals, who wanted work, go to those fertile, corn-growing plains, and raise all the wheat we needed ? All they wished for in return was simply to be paid for their work, and he presumed we should do that. It was pro bable, too, the Emperor of Russia would be very glad to h ave; Englishmen come as his subjects to raise bread in his country, and would give them some privileges. England had an abundance of capital which might be laid out in the construction of canals and other means of conveyance for the corn to be thus raised. If Englishmen were so numerous, why should they not go to the land where wheat might be raised in abundance ? He did net know any exact an swer to this, except that the experiment had been tried before. Something like two hundr e d years ago, Eng land had sent out a great number of her citizens to a far distant land, a corn-growing land ; the population of that colony now amounted to seventeen millions of souls ; and one would suppose that that was enough of the Anglo- Saxon race to supply food for those who remained be hind. What was the reason, in a land which could raise more and better wheat th an the plains of Moldavia or Russia, that the great tide of emigration which had already gone out could not supply the portion 'who re mained behind ? If there was any.power at all in colo nization to supply the home wants of this island, why could not the immense colonization already effected by England furnish that supply ?—(Hear, hear.) Not only had they sent out seventeen millions of people to North America, but those men had actually raised the bread, and got it ready to send to us ; our kindred across the water had done this.—(Hear, hear.) In the colonization which had been carried on, we had one of the strongest proofs history could furnish of the over-ruling providence of God, for the very hour when this island was filled with inhabitants who wanted bread, those colonists, whom we had sent abroad, or who, in the good providence of God, had been led abroad, had the very supplies we needed.—(Hear, hear.) And if they were kept away from us, the blame ought not to be attributed to Providence • he had furnished a supply for all the wants of all ma nkind ; it ought to be attri buted to the folly or ignorance of man.—(Cheers.) In America there was, at the present moment, an abun dant supply of food for the whole of England. If the amount which America could send abroad at this mo ment were brought to England, thctre would be enough for every Englishman. And if there was an open trade, the very articles which England had to sell and wished to exchange for that food, were those which America wished to receive in rettirn.—(Cheers.) But it should be borne in mind that the supply at present in hand in North America was not the same that it would have been had there been a regular trade between this country and America. It .was not to be supposed that individuals descended from those intel ligent, enterprising men, who emigrated from foreign climes, would pile up their wheat to rot in their own granaries, when they had no market 'for it. If they found there was no market abroad, they would produce abundance for the home market, to be sure ; they would turn their attention to other matters than raising wheat to rot ; if they did not, Englishmen would disown them. —(Applause.) In considering the ability of America to supply this country with food, it should be remembered that she had an immense territory, an abundance of land of the greatest fertility ; it therefore became the interest of America to abandon all things else in favour of the cultivation of the soil, agriculture being the most profit able employment—the production of the raw material and of food, to feed and clothe mankind.—(Applause.) If she could derive from abroad the other supplies she needed, the principal employment in America would be agriculture ; it would be her natural and most profitable employment. But the course of England—America's most natural market—had been to refuse to suffer Americans to carry forward their agricultural employment with any profit ; she had forced them, in fact, into manufacturing and supplying all those wants which an agricultural po pulation felt ; and, at the present time, this course being continued, America was, to a very great extent, supply ing her own wants. The manufacturers there manufac tured at a profit ; because, by this course, agriculture was reduced to a level with the profits of manufacturers , and the two classes of employment were on a level, or something like it. But let England once offer to take, at a fair price, the agricultural produce of America, and they should immediately restore their agricu lture to th at natural advantage which it had in that country, from the h h n the cheapness and abundance of land ; and the manufac turers would, at once, turn their atten tion m ore profitable employment.—(Applause.) I wished to compete with American manufacturers, a n o' u nt ia ue r e s n , in that land a more profitable em . p , the only way to do it was to render a gric ultur e their manufactures, or any thing but, hear.) It was not by underrrtale,ilisleg. to sh i u f t En o g u - t Eng land wished to break up the manufactures of America, the very way was to take as much as she possibly could of the agricultural produce of America.—(Applause.) The commerce of America at present nearly equalled that of Great Britain , a nd it was rapidl y advancing upon the latter. The American tonnage consisted of about two millions —that of England was something larger—not a /great deal. America, at the present time, manufao- turectiomething like . 190 million of dollars' worth more than the whole of the manufactured exports of Great Britain. America exported one-fourth, or little more than that, of the whole amount of what England carried into it. ---(Applause.) Not to refer to particular articles. he would point out some advantages which America had for manufacturing. In the first place, they had the raw material in hand ; in the next place, they had an im mense moving power, their water ; and if they did not wish to resort to that, they had an abundance of coals spread over the country. Some individuals seemed to suppose that that was a peculiar advantage which-Eng land possessed. The United States possessed fields of coal sixteen times the size of the whole of England ; in one State alone there was more coal than was equal to the whole of England. They had one bed of coal which extended nine hundred miles' in length ; ' the state of Pennsylvania alone contained six times as much coal as the whole of England. And they had not to descend into the bowels of the earth, as in Eng land, to get it ; it lay above the level of the'streams They had only to penetrate the hill side and take it out' without lifting it at all, and in many cases it was pushed' directly down into the furnace where it had to be burnt, without being hoisted at all. They had got many ad vantages of that kind which it was not necessary to enumerate ; but to show Englishmen that the only way of competing with America was to render agriculture profitable employment, he would state that Americo' could not only supply herself, but could compete with this country in all the markets of the world. At the pre sent moment she was competing with England in almost every market from her own shores to China, and she was doing this at a profit, a profit which was constantly in creasing. The magic of all that was the cheap bread of America. We were forcing the Americans into an em ployment which they never would have sought had it not been for the Corn-laws of England.—(Cheers.) It was no wonder that these restrictions had caused a harsh feeling towards England, and an alineation in the min& of the two nations—that instead of assisting and sustain ing each other, as the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race, they should look upon each other as rivals, and be ready to injure each other. This certainly was not a position of two nations related as they were.— (Hear, hear.) The population of America was now 17,000,000. At this rate of increase, it would, in ten years, be 22,000,000 ; in twenty years it would be 30,000,000; in thirty years it would be 40,000,000 ; in forty years it would be 53,000,000; at the close of the present century it would be 95,000,000 ; and in the course of a hundred years, 300,000,000._ (Applause.) The trade, at the same rate at which it was now carried on between the two countries, would then amount to something like I,soo,ooo,oool.—(Cheers.) It was perfectly evident, that if England wanted em ployment—if she wanted wealth—she should by all means cultivate her trade with the West. She was placed upon the western frontier of Europe ; and if she wished to secure that trade—to become the mart for the trade between the New World and the Old, she might do so. There was an abundance of employment in con nection with this, not only for the present population of England, but all that she might produce. Let any per son go into calculation, if he pleased, taking the date which America gave him, and which he could find in England, and he must come to the conclusion that, upon the system of free trade, every individual born in Eng land could have full employment and plenty of bread, without leaving his native shores. Sir T. PorrEa then addressed the meeting, and be fore sitting down made a donation of 151. The Rev. Wm. GADSBY next addressed the meeting, and proposed a subscription to aid the funds which this meeting was intended to raise, and recommended that the plate should go round the head table first, and the amount be announced, for the encouragement of the rest of the company ; and The CHAIRMAN announced, when the collection had been completed, that it amounted to 501. 19s.—(The announcement was received with cheers.) Mr. FINNIGAN, a hand-loom weaver, next addressed the meeting. The hand-loom weavers, more than any other class, were in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws, and the reason was, because they were the first to feel the sword of competition the Corn-laws had brought to bear upon them. In 1812 the price of wheat was 1225. Bd. the quarter. The hand-loom weavers had then for one description of work lls. for 24 yards ; for another description they had 20s. for the 24 yards ; for another description they had 16s. for the 24 yards. Well, in 1813 the price of wheat fell from 1225. Bd. to 106 s. Gd., and one of the descriptions of work alluded to, rose two shil lings, another two shillings. also, and the third kind was reduced two shillings ; the first because the demand had increased, and the last was occasioned by a failing of the demand ; showing that it is the demand that re gulates wages and not the price of food. In 1814 the price of wheat fell to 725. ld., and immediately there was a rise in the price of wages ; the hand-loom weaver who earned in 1813, 135., was enabled to obtain for the same work 20s ; the weaver who earned 225. in 1813, ob tained for the same work 325.; and those who in 1813 had been reduced from 16s. to 145., were raised to 265. No sooner had Prosperity Robinson's Coen Bill been passed than the hand-loom weavers' wages tumbled down, and had been gradually decreasing ever since. And this was simply because the law said von shall not increase the surplus produce of your hand-loom weavers for the surplus produce of foreign soils.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. MesstE announced that the collection amounted to 75/. 7s. 9d. In addition to this, there were the profits from tea, calculated at 251. ; donations in the hands of Mr. Gadsby, 101.; making a total of 1101. 7s. 9d. The party then separated. CLOSING OF VAUXHALL FOR cauxium nu, ICriWI. KYL I AIIITIC. Wa-t-nl7ll - fled" before the advances of bricks and mortar. The smiling_ rule of Simpson has given way to the two foot rule of the carpenter—and there, where the tuneful pipe of the musician sounded, the clay pipe of the hod man smokes. Vauxhall is in the process of absorption into the great wen. Matter of fact hath made another conquest from romance , and Vauxhall—the Vauxhall of Addison, and Steele, and Goldsmith—the Vauxhall where Sir Roger de Coverley moralised, and Beau Tibbs flattered—and the widow vulgarised, and Mrs. Tibbs did the genteel—the Vauxhall which " united rural beauty with courtly magnificence"—has closed its gates for ever. Last night was the last night of Vauxhall, and as we wan dered through its pleasant walks, and took a last long lingering look of various spots, endeared to memory by associations with the past, we almost fancied we heard the widow's voice exclaiming " The water-works over already. Impossibl I" Yes, widow, the water-works are over already and for ever. Their place will know them no more ; and when next we seek them on their old accustomed spot, instead "of finding every sense overpaid with more then expected pleasure," we shall be disgusted with sights, and scents, and sounds, betokening the presence of squalled wretchedness. There, where of old every one looked satisfaction ; there, where we were wont in days gone by, almost to realize the visionary happiness of the Arabian lawgiver ; instead of " lights everywhere glimmering through the scarcely moving trees," rows of flaring, vulgar eye-wearying gas lamps will meet our gaze—instead of " the full-bodied concert bursting on the stillness of the night," our ears will be saluted with the roar of drunken men, the yell of quar relling women, and the squall of sickly suffering chil dren, while the nearest approach to " the natural concert of the birds" will be the mangy parrot of some ancient spinster swearing " oaths profane" at a loitering pot-boy, We regret the closing of Vauxhall ; it has destroyed one of the few remaining links binding us to " happy child hood's hours," and our feelings on the occasion some what resemble those we experienced when we were, after stout argument, reluctantly forced to admit .that the history of Aladdin was no true story, and that the hopes in which we had indulged of perchance witnessing the glories of the lamp were " the baseless fabric of a vision. Sic transit gloria . niundi. Had poor Simpson lived to see this, how magniloquent would have been his funeral oration over the departed glories of " the Royal property." The Lamentations of Jeremiah would have been a mere Jeremiad when compared with the la mentations of Simpsen. Poor fellow ! after his death Vauxhall seemed like a widow—she drooped, and drooped, and for twelve long months shut herself up entirely, and then arousing herself for one last expiring effort, she set like the sun la his glory, and was greatest and brightest at last. FEATS Of A POSTURi•MASTER.--With a pair of French post-boots, under the soles of which are fastened quart-bottles, with their necks downwards, Mr. Macdonald exhibits several feats of activity on the slack wire ; after this, he poises a wheel on his right toe, on the top of which is placed a spike, whereon is balanced by the edge a pewter-plate ; on that a board with six teen wine-glasses ; and on the summit a glass globe, with a wheaten straw erect on the same. Ile then fix es a sharp-pointed sword on the tip of his nose, on the pom mel of which he balances a tobacco-pipe, and on its bowl two eggs erect. With his left fore -finger he sus tains a chair with a dog sitting initand„ 2t t r u e -o rri fe e azthenrgi 0, standing erect on the nobs ; and, to show the stren g th his wrist, there are two weights of 1001 bs . each fastened to the legs of the chain—J.lr• Daniels Eng land," in Bentley. A letter from Munich informs us that the eele• brated Bavarian sculptor Stigelmayer has brought to such a pitch of perfection his galvano-plastic process, that its effects would be deemed fabulous, were they not publicly exhibited i n the a m c u o s a e t um of of co th pp e e S r oc , N i l e .h ty ich of Arts. takes In the space of tw o or three hours, colossal statues in I:vilatshte the covered are egri leates t a ccuracy the most minute and delicate touches, n g the whole all the appea rance an d so lidity of the with M. Stigelmayer has also applied a i ge finest processmtsin brotothn. the smallest objects, as flowers, bronze. plants, a nd even insects, bringing them out with such accu racy, that they seem to have been executed by the hands of the most skilful artists.—Literary Gazette. SIR R. PEEL'S WELCOME AT WINDSOR.— Sir Robert Peel had an opportunity on Tuesday of veri fying the justice of the commendations bestowed by the Duke of Wellington on Lord Melbourne, for the suc cess which had attended his lessons to her Majesty on her duties as a Constitutional Queen. It appears that the interview between the Premier and her Majesty lasted exactly eight minutes, during which brief interval she was able to transact the important business which required the presence of the Right Hon. Baronet at the Palace. Not being prepared for this promptitude, Sir Robert had a considerable time on his hands before the arrangements he had made would allow him to leave Windsor, which he devoted to a minute survey of the state apartments. = Chronicle. Yesterday afternoon, the men employed by Mr. Coulston on Roundway 7 hill in making an embankment, in digging came to what proved to be an iron enffir. On opening the coffin, a skeleton which was in it, on exposure to the air, immediately fell to dust, with the excepton of the skull and teeth, which are in good.pre servation. In the coffin were a great number of trinkets, such as gold brooches set with stones like garnets, and pins like those now used.— Wiltshire Independent. 1' Of .1, of of