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i@ellsoo4ol*'- - „~,,,, -3',.. ~~~, ~~~~ t'2 . RVE\IING 1:01T1ON. EXCHEQUER BILL OFFICE. THE 2, W HITEHALL -YARD, FEB. 18, 1841. EXCHEQUER BILLS, dated in the Month s of FEBRUARY and MARCH, 1840, viz., _ Also,Pethre2 Victoria' cap. 8, £13,000,000, 1839 ; 2 and 3 Victoria, cap. 90, £12,026,050, 1839 - . EXCHEQUER BILLS, dated in the Months frmu ULY 19, to MARCH, 1440 s viz., Pe J 2 and, 83 3 William IV., c. 125, fo (b r Relief of West India Islands • with the l. 2 Victori a , c. 88, for carrying on Public Works, &c., e interest due thereon, will be paid off on the Isth day of Alarch, 1841, when the interest will cease. Such bills will received daily from Half-past Ten o'Clock till Two, until 1 1 : 11 1 includin g t h e Bth day of March, at this Office, where me?ts are t o b e obtained, containing instructions for arranging 'filabills. The bearers must endorse each bill with their usual tures, and write their names and residences at the bottom t a r n s, the list ; and where the names of holders are inserted in the bearers, not being such holders, must previously ob eeiitsrorr tehnlorseinents. The bearers must attend to give re payment. , Payment may be obtained, if required, previous to the said 15th dayd av . of March, upon leaving the bills for examination one day to that on which such payment is desired. day hills, bearing an interest of twopence farthing by the ,IJ II Pon every one hundred pounds, and dated the said 15th " F Y of March may be obtained in s whole or in part payment ti°leprincipai of the Exchequer Bills issued under the .abov.e ea 4talled Acts of 0 Victoria cap. 8, and 2 and 3 Victoria, li P. 7, ' uPon stating the required amount on the lists, de bre. on or before the said Bth day of March, which new .. 3 ! with the interest on the bills exchanged, will be issued 64 „the it day of March. A the bills to be classed in separate lists, according to the e„„tslouler Which they have been issued. 41.,"1e reliefsued for carrying on public works and fisheries, Vor of West India Islands, will he paid off in money. h. 4 .-1 3. All Exchequer Bills dated prior to July, 1839, have been advertised to be paid off. 4ANCHESTER and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. Th e r % TENDERS FOR LOANS. of ?tDIRECTORS of the MANCHESTER and BIR psiIAI4 RAILWAY COMPANY are now prepared NT lIIORTGAGES (under the powers of their Ac. ole r t,raroent) of the TOLLS and WORKS of their un let,-,Ling, as a security for Loans of Money, in sums of not 1 , 4 0 e F,„" 5 . 001 . on each mortgage, and for the periods of Hite; 'or, and seven years, at the option of the lender. etttiZst warrants, calculated at the rate of .51. per cent. per It„Zt...and Payable at the Company's bankers, in London or tbeee te . 7", on the half-yearly da . Won. which , the interest will tie er , e 'Ma durin g the whole period of the Loan, will be de ri,to the Lender with the mortgages. t;4artleulars, explaining the peculiar eligibility of this 5ecu e4,1113141.14 obtained at the Company's Offices, No. 43, Pio itheet; or at the office, of Slater and Heelis, Princess - street, lVl este r• ' THOMAS ASHTON, Chairman. •utnester, Jannary 12th, 1841. O D, • rZ,v-iAT WESTERN RAILWAY. tE N eetice i s hereby given, that the next HALF-YEARLY IiAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of this 111 ' w ill be held, pursuant to the Act of Parliament, at 14 T H - -I ' an Y's-office, Princes-street, in the city of Loudon,for th Ut,LE CTION of SIXe)AY, the 25th of Fbruary next, at CTORS in the Eleven o'Clock. t he sa e tt 'DIRE place of Pes t , fL nurn . her Who will retire by ballot, and for other pur iseiy."ll°lrless. The Chair to be taken at Twelve o'Clock CHARLES RUSSELL, Chairman, Th e b, ROBERT BRIGHT, Deputy Chairman. hlr'etnis retiring by ball o t, a re re - eligible underthe tillsf the Act. The Transfer Books will be clo d - "a7, the 15th of February, and will not be re-opene .d 24th 'her the said Half-yearly General Meeting, on the sa i d li bruar ' Clause 123 provides that no person shall I ,'led to v ote as a proxy, unless the instrument appointing (,t's411":11hoe been transmitted to one of the Secretaries of the t y (i n y, at least five days before the meeting. Oie ''ter ' CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, } THOS. OSLER, Secretaries. 4111 Princes-street Bank, London ; Corn-street, Bristol. tevin RATIONAL SYSTEM OF SO itrt;lp:e4ol,-,ifelrbyy, derived solely from Nature and Experience, as OWEN ; versus SOCIALISM, NiSti : 41 Misrepresentation, as explained bv the . Lord ;iNlp ° : Exeter and ethers ; and versus the PRESENT d " 41 of SOCIETY, derived from the inexperienced an ';, 1 : ' , 1 ' . 4-1 1 : 11 11 : of our ancestors, as it now exists all the op -411-%.-`,lfiejal, and most injurious divisions in all civil!zed 1 4 4 ° I R "° 1 more especially in the British Empire a . nd F in the iti4PtiNt'Gtesaof.N_orth A erica. To be explained in OUR d F UR m EVENING COURSES of LEC ',e't4,,B) at then Egyptian O Hall, Piccadilly, each Morning and "Ystelit- Coorie natory of a different part of the New h , 1 11 ° r ett . the explanatory of a different part of the New the E • a s of the Old, by ROBERT OWEN. r st Ai the Evening Course, of six Lectures . each, v l ntroduc a t n o ' r Courses, in which a brief outline of " t h ew{7 ',uhject with a Y contrast between the rationa l . and and tne irra ' tio 11 and evil systems of society will be given. 4(1 It na n ; Mornin 22d February, 1841, y it enee on PAY g, "ntinued in the Mornings and Evenings of every W ErPsFsi i tY and FRIDAY. To conclude with Lectu res and two Evening Lectures, on MorrnAy '"th a4 d W - - the 21st of April. After each of th„ EDINF : SDAN L,ecturer will answer all questions . rela tive . to the 44d explai n every difficulty to the satisfaction of a .de -4°,o,llelottYflis morning and evening audiences, or publicly 4 , l he M or " whole system .. ',the t "mg Lectures will commence at One o'Clock, P. 31. ; I , ,q(irvi4 ening Lectures at Seven. ts',.s`eke'n to e. Lecture Is • reserved front seats 2s. the '` ) r each rs,• ' reserv'ed seats, 10s. N e ts to be had r a . t " th a e • Ezyptian Hall, Piccadilly ; and at po_utoe Colonization Office - 57, Pall Mall. ali4e`.Ptirticulars, see Syllabu ' s of each Course, to be had as iorLecture Room, which is on . the first floor, has been the l , p . and will beereit Lighted belated... meet°- il: half an hour previous to the com ( of each Lecture. r Nte qf Wien anticiates that these Courses of Lectures will Pabi."l.Per gener a l interest to all ranks and classes, . than feti_l;'l. 4retd,i,coursosthat have . been given to the civilized di l i! a . trial to ascertain whether ignorance, mystery, t" , , • nitistice, division, poverty, univirsal disorder and 4 i ' l ll,, with their consequent immorality, crime, and mlsery, 4.l„,Wre.tofore, continue to direct the affairs of men, to the . t''Qd f ro me i kinrY of every individual—or whether . knowledge rga "Ner uncliancin facts, truth, union, wealth, universal 6 h4tkt 144.4 ' ° ", b an g d their consequent morality, justice, fut govern the destinies of the t h:in ' c l alculab u l ee e ' advantage , of every individual. p t A ir 21, FLEET-STREET. L'lr OPPOSITE CHANCERY-LANE. Ale t o TWENTY POUNDS SAVED. »l: tilts, s i srs i BROWNE and CARTWRIGHT, Surgeon ktid e t -street, beg to call public attention to their be sot tf) ~*1114,,s 'Cul EVERLASTING TEETH, the most clean d tehaOtur,- ,?ale that can be worn. They are so exactly forme Nit 111 t " G th in sh a p e an d co l our, t h at t h e c l osest o b server • R 51 44 tite difference, with this advantage—they never for ' for fine decay, or w ear ou t ; an d a comp l e t e se t, on 0, 4 20 year."l°ll they w ill on l y c h arge 15 to 1 8 guineas, will last di rt s or upwards, and are far superior to those usually p h , °, °r 40 guineas ; a single tooth, one guinea ; three 411i leas and half. Natural teeth supplied from W. li~-ttik,, or RI a ttp:Of f i t t • S ' Per tooth. Messrs. Browne and Cartwright's ' thesli neither requires the extraction of stumps nor , to k pen ee tsotest pain ; and having had upwards of 20 years ‘kss' l 'atiot t 14 t he profession, can guarantee to restore perfect in and a rticulation, having succeeded in thousands of 4,4lal),le'Odreds of which other dentists had entirely failed. ' totally different from the brittle glossy French vi s i su PPlied by dentists as newly-discovered mineral . 44 t will convince the most sceptical of the fact. , s h a ltsh- ,;(NeW and Imp r o v ed Editi ons —th e t wen ty-thi r d. T a " u nga each, and sent p o st free at Si x Shilling s , " )EGIS OF LIFE. I,A 0 tiornirkem pagi n a nostra sapit." toot , i r Page relates t o man."—MA ILTIAL. Commentary on the Indi cretions that cause the tirlntern which th e nature, symptoms, and baneful effects 44 , tc;ieti9al t i p: ln h e rence, Libertinism, &c. arc fully developed ; w it i- n i. os u . so e d r e v it at a ioAi e s rie o s n or S a , , x ,s tr s. l Debility and Mental Irrita ii am! CO., Consulting Surgeons, London u hl • Sj ( M ) 111 d " Natura beatis ' 1 e ,: e si r CLAUDIAN. t r .. 1:111-_:.„Cil!. al l i thefund of bliss supplies, krit, 41,.' • PPlication marks the wise." Ork i , YOhitii,(VLIST, a Familiar Treatise on Diso'ders arising ' eai, l ' s c eor r i ; `..mnnorrlicea, Stricture, tic , with a variety of re- I pci el " a most extensir e practice, each section explained liti'h tO a Non-Medic a l A n alysis o f some C omp l a i n t „, (414 (In alcs, as Leucorrlicea, Nervous I rr it a ti o n &c. in alt l 4 ,'"le tt r d soino import an t a dub.i i itions On the peculiar deb!. t eircumst ance ,, sympathi"s, and f orma ti on. Th e Q tli Ostr, te )' is especially dwelt upon. Inter es ti ng and import. the Subject tt Venus ? lieu ! quove color decens ?" „, Either 8 . Her. IA 4, 0,1. 12. Oh, fon" ,!es Love' Ah ! where the charming bloom ?" s "l 'lit,,Nilyi..° 4 of a flourishing maturity and healthful old age f ors snail ce o r,t! ; and it does appe.r to us that the basis is de .! redly op ',lle gilardians and tutors of r :x persoos. I! . oper CrT k i l We the causes which create iliseaseshoilenthel'ai,77 ,ihclous blending of such examples as are r e di, " 4 te Memory, awaken the fears, or . exci e h g th e h:l7. nntlie otherwise than . beneficial Pr l uct,lte - ,of w a orks. ii he sa it s of the rising generation. —a , esa s - h ,„ 11 411 , i: !h e ";'o , ..it s can lie T l csi r .i t s sc i o o i s n i m ai. e s. nd ed as well for the moral P i th l , e l : l l "t)e Q rt, ta n i e n e as for the Y extensive and successful result of the "oi;s1-liedn i d u ffi t i hi ‘ l o w r o n rT g are jnu i r n n t a e l iesting and useful.— A e y r g . • 1 / 1114, 1s : -ei Sioa), is properly called an analysis of some female t , writtim in a very peculiar style of moral admonition l' i Nhi`oev e 4'4 Journal. t k i'd ri,4 4 . .Caa r b i e , had of Sherwood and Cc, Paternoster-row ; tr ,l- treet,Strand ; Pall-mall; Churchill, itW i!e 4'4ller ch , i!, 6°1 , , 0, London; Stitlie,land; Calton-street, Edin. Grafton -street, Dublin, and of all Booksellers.— p.:?tt„l. (i(i'llant free by post for 6s. tut CO., are to be consulted as usual, every slay. t; k - ,17•Y en de4eilr!!tnotest parts of the country can be treated rnr dv i i ( ),'"g ?ninety the case, and if enclosing a fee t?f' ^S4 , a, th e lor„ar,:!aii immerliate answer will be sent. Medi r, , ,„„ (t to any part of the world ;no diulty . can kt; s() NS ". ".0 securely packed, and carefully pr.tected trom near co, r Wat 41: 0. ° R Surg,ons No 7, Lancaster-place, bridge, London. 1.441 p, ' S ' GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS. it ii, .... II TO MR PROW, 9.::9, STRAND, LONDON 0,. 1,.. 44:11:1,t, i',..114,'15. hheahvepiteeasl,uroerin st ting to ' f rd Jan. Q IF4 I. L.s i r i t ia n t ti t*l4l.foeria`tl:.anti exeli: ago I became . h youagratist,ery ice to me. Between lair's Gout' and afflicted with . that most tty l giv,,,, ( , ) leii g a „,,r.n,wpg Pain which 1 sutirreil in my l e eh , pos a ... 1 4 t 1 ' lily th e ' '., nanl,s any description which I al . p , a s i n a f n u! lei • b eei, . Miwrable state. I could .eldom obtain either !ti si.ela4 , i liad the hest medical advice, including that of two 1 ht4.tgat,a ilaldon, towitlipu btsining any essential relief. I went tq 1 11 ,, 51,, 4 4 at ~tl,,,r4loalch:Sbes,tteili,al , (I . vice, trying t fi h i c warm bath i ' tt_ lt i 4 al, '' l: lt e t Hljr„,,a° I .i,a‘Zirece.u.ritt u n b ie t i a L u eUrto au t Y ry be t i tl e air's flout and i NAtit, 4,,,iiek,i),,,invioTlQi s r t s he T i b n y n i i i ni ni n li i i i e d ed a t n o d nne ., hs i e ,c a ni b is o i x , of nf i t i.i is , kr,:wtly tr,erfol.e_l l' n, taken the quantity therein contained, kit,j4il4 Ze i PiP , l' n, and speedily recoverednionel.itieranitholfvut,?silik. t„44„ tiit a , ( l 3 :c ' s T du halantyliitterye ttniapsut:ll my r et urn Ca,C, in the hope excellent medicine maw be the means of relieving abl e l, I am, Sir, yours, respectfully, :---I f / J. 11. Mrskus Brewer and Maltster, Dartford, Kent, keyp;2edi ike,n.uld possildy'speak in stronger terms of your invalu ,The(o qes,,,,' should he mi:st happy for it is impos,ible for lan [Ll .iior !- the relief I have expeiieneed. tti o ' 4 M ~,,.",his' effect s nf BL AIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC l'kt4l'te.,'‘l to tiie'l4g every descrip ion of Gout and lthkumatism, have t im e ..'na e lebrity unequalled by any nied,cine o . f past or t lr il:fas theneoY tio'. only give relief in a few hours, u here the r eh ab " A , : r iven nearly to madness by the . excruciating 141 hlit,iVnert ,pl',,Ta o s,?,. but restore to perfect health in d c a e n ita in i c n oi i i i; o f 1 1 , Y ! , either chronic They are equally speedy ; th in e N .. , itl a tieh 1ie,,a,1 i nd,, zo f r or acute, lumbago, scia n tica a , a n i4, ec tin t s jo i n n 4 ,:..t,t•dieji'l,elh,•ett the tapidietvsry rpeumatic or n g ty , d u complete safety of NtqZ,eit , l'.' . , _it it has astolatestrl ‘ rgw e ho have a taken it, and there ,it4_ all re. rout, '4l), 4 1 u1(q ) .eys,„ e 'v e ns or village in the kingdom, but contains many eiti," .I h o ln a : ( I ) ,' the benign influence of this medicine . Strand London; and by his appoint- Ons Pectable Me li i " r„, ri ce s .. im , c ne Venders throughout the United ci,,,th, h a 4k ; t,s, dr.,„. th , h, oe am .., Li 1 anal RHEUMATIC PILLS, and ob e cill_4l?„,,st, . Mure s . ot s aa •lhomas Front, '229, Strand, Lou. ille teernet.he Govern cin - —OvernMent Stamp affixed to eAch box of TN cases of secrecy consult the TREATISE TN on every stage and symptom of the VENEREAL DIS• EASE, in its mild and most alarming forms, just published by Messrs. Perry and Co., Surgeons, 4, Great Charles-street, Birmingham, and 44, Albion-street, Leeds. The above invaluable little work is given gratis with each box of PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lls., containing a full description of the above complaint, illustrated by Engravings, showing the dif ferent stages of this deplorable and often fatal disease, as well as the dreadful consequences arising from the use of Mercury. The causes, symptoms, and baneful effects of Lues Venerea, Gonorrhea, Strictures, Seminal Weakness, &c., are explained in a f.'miliar manner ; to which are added very extensive prac tical observations on sexual debility, brought on by a delusive habit, all its attendant sympathies considered, and the whole illustrated by striking cases, accompanied with full and explicit directions for an effectual and speedy cure, with ease, secrecy, and safety, without the aid of medicial assistance; it also con tains many hints and advice well worth knowing. PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 2s. 9d., 4s 6d., and Its. per box, is the most certain and effectual awe ever discovered, for every stage and symptom of the Venereal Disease, in both sexes, including Gonorrhoea, Glects, Se condary Symptoms, Strictures, Seminal Weakness, Deficiency, and all Diseases of the Urinary Passages, without loss of time, confinement, or hindrance from business ; they have effected the most surpi ising cures, not only in recent and severe cases, but when salivation and all other means have failed. It is a melancholy tact that thousands fall victims to this horrid disease, owing to the unskilfulness of illiterate men, who, by the use of that deadly poison, mercury, ruin the con stitution, cause ulceration, blotches MI the head, face, and body, dimness of sight, noise in the ears, deafness, obstinate gleets, nodes on the shin bones, ulcerated sore throats, diseased nose, with nocturnal pains in the head and limbs, till, at length, a general debility and decay of the constitution ensues, and a me ancholy de atli puts a period to their dreadful sufferings. Messrs. Perry and Co., Surgeons, may be consulted at No. 4, Great Charles-street, Birmingham, and 44, Albion-street, Leeds. Only one personal visit is required from a country patient, to give such advice as will be the means of effecting a permanent and effectul cure, after all other means have proved ineffectual. _ Letters for advice must be post. paid, and contain the usual fee of one pound. PERRY'S CORDIAL BALM of SYRIACUII is intended to relieve those persons who, by an immoderate indulgence of their passions, have ruined their constitution, or in their way tw the consummation of that deplorable state are affected with any of those previous symptoms that betray its approach, as the• various affections of the nervous system, obstinate gleets, invo luntary emissions, excesses, irregularity, obstructions of ce..-tain evacuations, weakness, total incompetency, barrenness, &c. A perseverance in its use has been the happy means of relies ring many thousands, and sif restoring a great number to the I ser manent enjoyment of life. It is remarkable for its efficacy in all disorders of the d'gestive organs, and is especially recom mended to those who, from the irregularities of youthful a; !e, habits of studious application, or a life of pleasure, have fall, to into a despondent state of mind, and that distressing train of symptoms commonly denominated the nervous. In such per sons the mental are not less enfeebled than the corporeal powers, and to them a remedy that acts with efficacy, without interfering with domestic habits, is peculiarly desirable. Sold in bottles price I Is. each, or the quantity of four one family bottle for 335, by which one I Is. bottle is saved,. duty included, and may be had of all medicine venders in ton- • don; also in every town and village throughout the United.: Kingdom, America, and the Continent of Europe. N. B. Country druggists, booksellers, patent medicine ven— ders, and every other shopkeeper, can be supplied with any - quantity of Perry's Purifying Specific Pills and Cordial Balm of Syriacum, with the usual allowance to the trade, by most of ae principal wholesale patent medicine houses in London Just published, in royal 16m0., cloth, price 3s. and seat in Town or Country free, by post, 35. 6d. , ANHOOD : the CAUSES of i ts PRE MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suf fering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHCEA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases, &c. By J. L. CURTIS and Co NIPANY, Consulting Surgeons, London. _ _ t'ublished by the Authors, and sold by Balliere, Medical Bookseller, 219, Regent-street; 59, Pall Mall; &range, 21, Paternoster-row ; Pattie, 4, Brydges-street, Strand ; 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin; Duncan,ll4, High-street, Edinburgh; and to be bad of all Booksellers. The Work which is now presented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of diseases and affec tions, which fer some unaccountable reason have been either altogether overlooked, or treated wit h apathy, and almost in difference, by the c dinary practitioner. To enter into the details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical, which are sure to follow from indulgence, in certain habits, would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, in saying that there is no member of society, by whom the book will not ho found interesting, whe ther we consider such person to hold the relation of a PA RENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a CLERGYMAN. Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their residence, No. 7, Frith-street, Soho, from Ten till Three, and Five ill Eight in the Evening; and Country Patients are re quested to be as minnte as possible in the detail of their cases, —as to the duration of the complaint, the symptoms, age, ge neral habits of living, and occupation in life of the party ; the communication must be accompanied by the " usual Consulta tion Fee of 11.," without which no notice whatever can be taken of their application ; and in all cases, the most inviolable secrecy may be relied en. N.B. Seven doors from Soh-square. No. 15,117. LIFE ASSURANCE. A Combination of all the Important Advantages hitherto offered to the Publi'e distinguishes the SCOT TI S H UNION INSURANCE COMPANY. Instituted in 1824, and Incorporated by Royal Charter. The Septennial Division of two-thirds of the Profits of this Corporation will be declared in December, 1841, on all Policies of the participating Class effected previous to the let of August next; and persons contemplating insuring their Lives so as to share in the forthcoming Bonus, should snake their proposals with as little delay as possible. Tables of Rates, Forms for Proposals, and every informa tion, may he had on application to the Secretary, at the Chief London Office, No. 449, West Strand ; or at the City Branch Office, No. 78, King William-street, Mansion House, between the hours of Ten and Four. Persons whose Lives are proposed for Assurance, must be seen by the Company's Medical Adviser, at the Office, No. 449, West Strand, on Tuesdays, at Eleven e'Clock. Moderate Rates arc demanded for Australia and the Colonies generally. F. G. SMITH, Secretary. Scottish Union Office, No. 449, West Strand, London. UNITED KINGI RANCE C )OM LIFE ASSU ,OMPANY, Pall-mall, London. PRESIDENTS. Earl of Stair Lord Viscount Falkland Lord Viscount Eastuor, M. P. Lord Elphinstone n and Stenton C:'..:RS. f, Esq., Chairman. ;q., Deputy Chairman. Charles Downes, Esq. Charles Graham, Esq. John Ritchie, Esq. N. P. Levi, Esq. ''V. -- C. Maitland, Esq. 8, Waterloo-place, MONORA RY Earl of Errol Earl of Courtown Earl Leven and Melville Earl of Norbury. Lord Belhaven DIREC JAMES STUARI WM. PLASKET, Es, Samuel Anderson, Esq. H. B. Avarno, Esq. Morton Balmanno, Esq. Ed*. Boyd, Esq., Resident E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., An. sistant Resident This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords the most perfect security, from an ample capital, and only re quires, when an Insurance is for the whole period of life ono half of the very moderate Premiums to be paid for the first five years after the date of the Policy, the other half may remain, subject to the payment of interest at 5 per cent. annually, to be deducted at death, or may previously be paid off at convenience. It obviously becothes easy for a person of very moderate income to secure, by this arrangement, a provision for his family ; and should he at any time after effecting the insurance succeed to, or acquire, a fortune, he may relinquish his policy, having only paid one half the premiums for the first five years, instead of the whole, as in all other Companies. Thus a man of 25 years old may, by an annual payment of 28/. 16s. 3d. for the first five years, and afterwards by paying yearly the full premium of 57/. 12s. 6d., se cure to his widow and children at his death payment of no less than 3,000/., subject only to the deduction of 144/. Is. 3d., with interest, being the amount of premium unpaid. This Company holds out, in various other respects, great inducements to the public. When such facilities are afforded, it is clearly a moral duty in every parent who is not possessed of a fortune, but of an income, however moderate, to insure his life for a sum which may yield a comfortable provision for his family. RATES OF PREMIUM. Age. Without Profits. With Profits. 25 30 40 50 60 Older ages nay be insured, and the half credit for five years is found particularly convenient en such insurances. For the convenience of parties residing in the City, they may make their appearance and pass the medical examination before the agents, Edward Frederick Leeks, Esq., 4, Scots-yard, Bush-lane, Cannon-street, and J. F. Goude, •Esq., surgeon, 9, Old Jewry. Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident Director, Edward Boyd, Esq., 8, Waterloo-place. Proposals may be accepted en Wednesday at three o'clock, and any ether day at half-past two o'clock, when Frederick Hale Thomson, Esq., the Company's Surgeon, is in attendance to give despatch to the business. PATRICK MACINTYRE, Secretaiy. 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 Id i enAnnual „ Date ot Sum' Original Premium wa3 Polic y Polic y Policy. Assured. Premium. Reduction payabla in i.sued. 1840. ...--....... —....-...--. --- 20 . May 1835. £l,OOO £l9 6 8 £ll H 0 £7 14 $ 30 ... ... 1,000 !4 $ 4 14 13 9 15 4 40 ••• ••• 1,000 01 10 0 J$ 18 0 12 19 0 50 ... ... 1,000 42 15 0 25 13 0 17 2 0 CO 1,000 68 11 8 39 19 0 26 19 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 ectensive 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. DOUBLE PATENT PERRYAN FILTER INKSTAND. PERRY and CO. having effected considerable improvement in their FILTER INKSTAND, have now the pleasure to announce that a Second Patent has been granted to them for such improvement, which they have united with their First Patent, under the title of " DOUBLE PA TENT PERRYAN FILTER INKSTAND." The eulogy bestowed on the Patent Filter Inkstand by the public lournals, and the preference obtained for them over the common Ink stands was almost unprecedented. The present novel and sci entific method of supplying Clear Ink to the Dipping Cup, and returning it into the reservo►r, is exceedingly simple, the action being now performed by merely lifting up the lid to obtain a supply, and shutting it down to withdraw it ; in this state it cannot oveillow, whatever may be the change of temperature, and it is protected from dust or other injury in any place or climate. When the inkstand is filled, it is always ready for use, and the wr itcr will have a regular and daily supply of Clear Ink for fouror six months. Sold by James Perry and Co., Patentees and Manufacturers, 37, Red Lion-square, London ; also by all Stationers and other Dealers in such articles. NFIRMARY for the CURE of STRIC TURES of the URETHRA, SYPHILIS, GONOR RHCEA, GLEETS, and'all DISEASES of the GENERA TIVE and URINARY ORGANS. Notwithstanding the above Institution is closed, Patients may continue to receive the GRATUITOUS ADVICE of the Sur geon (Mr. Ceurtenay, 42, Great Marlborough-street,) by ap 'Lying at his awn Image instead of the Charity. Hours of Attendance, from Eight to 'fen in the Mornings and from Seven to Nine in the Evenings. On Sundays in the Morning, but not in the Evenieg. . . Zoed . ~. . Ls ~,, rc:t.. . : , 1, -! ,./: 0 1; :,. : C1'.431 , .i\ ,• • ." N., ' g 4-14 :I*.', ' 41: 5 41- C•,.:'N'tit. :$ 0. 11 , 1rit1ii.... ? ::: , . 4 . ' ;: " s .2. 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The facts and particulars connected therewith, are now be fore you and the public generally, and I feel confident that had I had the opportunities before, as I have had since the Election, of going into that full explanation of the conduct of certain parties in your Borough, I should have had a greater manifestation of your sympathies, and by your independent and unshackled suffrages, I should have attained to a very proud position on the poll. Although the treachery of those who promised me all the support that their influence could command, (and the base calumniations that werethus circulated,) which I fully attri bute as the cause of the delicate position that myself and my friends occupied on the day of Nomination ; yet, the kind atten tion that you gave to my very lengthened address, and the hearty acclamations that you were pleased to favour me with, will serve for me to look upon my connexion with you with feel ings of pride and pleasure, and ever fill me with the deepest gratitude, and lead me to exercise all my energies, in what ever position I may occupy, to the advancement of your best interests. As the affair has thus terminated, I beg leave utterly to dis claim all feelings of animosity towards any who have taken a part in opposing me in endeavouring to rescue your Borough from that political bondage in which, for so long a. time, it has been bound. Permit me again to say, that the promotion of your interest will ever lie near my heart, and if my humble endeavours should ever be required (if at all practicable), I shall feel the greatest pleasure in responding to your wishes. Allow me, in conclusion, to express my hopes that your Town and Trade may continue to enjoy all the blessings that can flow flo:n an increasing prosperity. anl"%ermit me to remain, • • Gentlemen, your'oblireiNind obedient Servant, Laudoun House, Brixton. J. BEDFORD, Phil. D. TILE WEATHER. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE- STREET. NOON. FEB. 18, Barometer 29'6-1 In. Thermometer Highest .. 51 . 5 Lowest Wind S. W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS FOR THIS DAY. Exmouth Market. 2. Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway. 3. Wishaw and Coltness Railway. 4. Harborough and Bramptcn Road. 5. Leeds and Wakefield Roads. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, FRB. 17. (London Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Lord bENMAN and a Common Jury,) MARY MARTIIA GREENSTED V. JOHN CHARLES NORTH. This was an action for breach of promise of marriage. Sir F. POLLOCK stated the case to the Jury. The plaintiff was a young woman, the daughter of a widow, who had been compelled to bring this action in consequence of the defen dant having violated the sacred promise of marriage he had made to her, after having gained her love and affection. He should be able to prove, by numerous letters, that the de fendant had over and over again promised marriage, and in deed the evidence would clearly show that, in 1839, the pro mise having been made so far back as 1834, the banns of marriage were published in Lambeth Church. The mother of the plaintiff had for some time refused her consent, but at last seeing how warmly, apparently, they were attached to each other, she yielded to their wishes. The Learned Coun sel then read and commented on the following letters, written to the plaintiff by the defendant : "My dearest and beloved Mary—l have just heard, to my misery, the unjust conduct of your mother, and the manner which it has affected you • but pray, my dearest girl, do not let it hurt you, or you will break my heart. You know there is nothing causes me so much wretchedness as to see you mi serable, and surely you will not break the heart that is so sin cerely, warmly, and for ever yours. Treat with scorn your cruel, hard-hearted oppressors. It is not they that will do you justice, but the Almighty will, I sincerely hope, punish them who are so callous to all human feelings. And is there not another thing to console you ? I hope there is. You have my unchanging love ; you know, my lovely girl, you have it, therefore cheer up and say to yourself, I have one who will always stand by me, and when the storms of life and cruel oppression surround me, he will console rite and love me in the hour of misery. Then why should I grieve when I have him for my support and his faithful heart for my haven of happiness.' Adieu my beloved and dearest Mary till ten or half-past ten this evening, when I hope you will be recovered and meet me with pleasure. Your ever faithful and attached adorer—J. C. NORTH. " God bless you, trust in him for justice." The parties were nearly of the same age, between 24 and 25. Matters so continued until ilitskplrbt 'February, 1840, when the plaintiff was, unfatunatelOcilvered of au illegitimate child, of which the defciant was the father. He then teased his attentions, and, in the following July, married another young lady, his present wife. Under those circumstances Otis action was brought. There was no doubt the defendant was able to pay such damages as the Jury might award. He had been surveyor of the high roads in the parish of Lambeth, and was now a stone-merchant. The circumstances, in cases of this nature, were very various, and differed in degrees of fla grancy, but he felt that this case was one admitting of no pal liating circumstances, and he trusted the Jury. by their ver dict, would mark their sense of the conduct which the defen dant had pursued. Mr. Jones—l am clerk to the High Bailiff of Southwark. I know the plaintiff and her mother, and I have been very inti mate with the defendant. In 1839 he told me he was shortly to be married, and wished me, as his most intimate friend, to be present in the church with them. He told me lie had pub lished the banns at Lambeth-road Church. He once spoke to me about his property, and said he expected to receive 501. a year from his father.. The Rev. Air. Peat, one of the Ministers of Lambeth Old Church, produced the parish register of the banns of marriage, published by the plaintiff and defendant on the 14th, 21st, and 28th of April, 1839. The letters , of the defendant were then put in and read. Mrs. Mary Greensted-1 am mother of the plaintiff, and a widow. I have five children. The plaintiff is my eldest daughter. She is nearly 24. I received three letters from the defendant in 1835. Ile wished to pay attention to my daugh ter. I objected to him at first, but afterwards approved of him when I found they were so much attached to each other. I heard of banns having been published in 1839. The wedding was to have been kept a secret from me, but I understood they were to be married. The plaintiff had a child on the 3d of Feb., 1840. I suspected her situation in June or July pre ceding. The defendant never . came to my house after then. He made appointments with the plaintiff up to Oct., 1839. Mr. TIIESIG ER having addressed the Jury for the defendant, called the niece and mother of Mr. North, who represented his conduct as low and the lady's as violent and coarse. Sir F. POLLOCK remarked upon the aggravation by the defence set up. Lord DENiSAW then summed up, and the Jury, after a short deliberation, found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 250/. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, FEE. 17. (Before Mr. Commissioner Horatorn.) 1N RE DAVID CLARK. The fiat in this case was issued in December, 1835, against the separate estate of the bankrupt, who was a partner in the very extensive East India concern of Fairlie, Clark, Junes, and Co. of New Broad-street; and that firm having previously failed, in 1833, for 970,000/. .The amount of debt proved and claimed under Clark's estate was 50,556/. 13s. 2d., on a part of which 20s. in the pound was paid, and 14s. either paid or reserved upon the remainder. The last hearing but one was on the 29th of February, 1840, when a claim was put in upon the part of Mr. Adam Frere Smith, as trustee for Mr. and Mrs. Falconer, the lat ter having married him upon the death of Mr. Falconer, for principal and interest to the amount of 6,0111. Is. 7d. The earned Commissioner then gave the assignees time to send to India for further evidence, which was heard on the 23d of December last, but as the subject was one of very great im portance, as between trustee and cestui que trust, husband and wife, acquiescence, &c., he took time to consider, and now delivered his judgment, setting forth that the right of the husband to administer, and to enjoy exclusively the effects of his deceased wife, depended upon the common law, the Statute of Frauds declaring that the Statute of Distributions should not extend to the estates of femme coverts. In the present case, then, Mr. Smith had administered to his wife solely for his own benefit, for it was not pretended that his wife left any debts unsatisfied. It appeared , therefore, to him that he must as he should if Mr. of his wife, and th at he mu st look on Mr. Smith as consi der Smith claiming question t h ie in same way the trust fund as the ap pointee n interest the the presenceesti que trust. As regarded Mr. Smith, he con sidered the result of the e vidence to be, tha t the trust fund was suffered to remain with Ferguson and Co. with Smith's per mission ; that he authorised the money to be so dealt with as much as the trustee, and that he could not complain that this was a misapplication, permitting it with respect to his own in terest.—Brice v. Stokes, Rep. 312, and Nail v. Pinter, Swars. Rep. 555. For these reasons he was of opinion that the proof for interest must be expunged. THE LATE RICHARD PAGE, the well-kn own Daniel Hard ills with Q.— a D n le (1 o Hard castle." author a s n t Tu l e. : o s f d t a mh y er l Pt Lettersge Richard ha do on the at thtPage,eerly Currency, b e E e n s v o , br yy E in ternal complaint, but, for a few days before his death, it was hoped that he would gradually recover ; and, indeed, he bad never been thought in immediate danger. He ap pears to have died from complete exhaustion of the system, brought on by laborious exertions and intense study. His labours during the sitting of the Bank Committee last Ses sion were excessive. Mr. Page was greatly esteemed by his numerous friends, and though opinions may vary with respect to his views regarding the currency, there can be but one opinion with respect to his private worth. THE COTTON CROP or THE UNITED STATES.—The accounts received from the United States, by all the recent arrivals, concur in representing the crop of cotton as smaller than had been previously calculated upon; the curront estimate being from 1,600,000 to 1,650,000 bales, whilst some of the letters reduce the amount as low as thirteen or fourteen hundred thousand bales. It is very diflicu!t to believe that any such falling oft' from the produce of 1839 can have taken place; but from the determination shown to run down the amount of the crop, it is probable enough that some considerable quantity of cotton will be withheld from the market, as happened with respect to the crop of 1838, when the same feelings prevailed. The American planters then estimated the crop at thirteen or fourteen hundred thousand bales ; and it appeared from the receipts at the ports to be really 1,360,000 ; but it is now agreed on all hands that the enormous produce of 1839 was swelled by about 150,000 bales of the cotton of the preceding year, which had been kept back from the ports, whereby a crop of really more than 1,500,000 bales had been apparently diminished to 1,360,000. —Manchester Guardian. OPENING THROUGHOUT OF T HE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY. The public are respectfully informed that on and after Mon- DAY the Ist March, 1841, the MANCHESTER and LEEDS RAILWAY will be OPENED for the conveyance of passen gers and goods, the entire distance from Manchester to Leeds, by means of which they will have the accommodation of a second route of continuous railway communication between London and Manchester. 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The DIRECTORS of the EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY are desirous of receiving TENDERS for the MAINTENANCE of about Fifteen Miles of the PERMA NENT WAY, including all the Masonry in Bridges, Culverts, and Viaducts, particulars of which may be had by applying to the Engineer-in-chief, at his offices, in high-street Shore ditch. By Order of the Board, A. BULKELEY, Sec. Eastern Counties Railway Offices, Shoreditch, Feb. 13. IVE STE RC-ONM-PAANIITISTRALIAN DIRECTORS, WILLIAM nurr, Esq., M.P., Chairman. JOHN CHAPMAN, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Thos. Holdsworth, Brooking, I Jacob Monteflore, Esq. Esq. Geo. Robert Smith, Esq. M.P. Henry Buckle, Esq. I Captain Mark Halpea Sweny, Charles Enderby, Esq. R.N. I James Irving, Esq. Edvw. Gibbon Wakefield, Esq. The DIRECTORS of the WESTERN AUSTRALIAN COMPANY hereby Give Notice, That they are ready to DISPOSE OF LAND, consisting both of Town and Rural Sections, in the New Settlement of AUSTRALIND. 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The question of the " claims of British subjects for losses sustained by reason of confiscations of their property under the direction of the Government of Denmark," came on again for discussion on Tuesday night. Two or three Sessions ago, the whole history of the transactions out of which these 'claims arose was very tersely and accu rately given by Mr. Warburton ; and in the following year still further illustrated by the lucid address of Mr. Cresswell, who brought forward the motion. As it seems to us that her Majesty's Government are acting, in reference to this question (the fate of which will be found recorded in our summary of the proceed ings of the Commons)—a very eqnivocal part; and not the less so as they are treading in the footsteps of Mr. Spring Rice's track over this debatable ground :—we are anxious to direct public attention to a brief outline of the merits of the case. For this purpose we have referred to the Parliamentary debates of 1807, of 1837, 1839, and 1840. It appears that in 1807 Mr. Canning being at that time Foreign Secretary, a state paper was issued on the part of the King of Great Britain, in which were set forth the grounds of the very abrupt - but signal hostilities commenced by this country against Denmark, in the bombardment of her capital and the seizure of her fleet. It has been the fate of few aggressive operations undertaken by our Go vet nment within the last century to be the subject of more crimination and question than that expedition against Co penhagen. But on high authority, from that time to the present, it has been sometimes defended and justified • at others more apologetically excused, by an admitted ?act, which has long since become matter of history—viz., that the Imperial Government of France had formed a well laid scheme for the-geizure of the fine feet of the King of Denmark, with a view to employing ii against our own naval power which the victory of Trafalgar had rendered sn formidable to the enemy, whose maritime strength it had, for a season, completely demolished. Under Lord Gambier and Earl Cathcart the objects of our conjoint expedition were accomplished with entire success, and the Danish men-of-war were partly in corporated into our navy, partly broken up. It is also certain that the important intelligence which we had so opportunely received, and so promptly acted upon, turned out to be absolutely correct. " Acting, however," (as Sir Charles Grey observed, in the debate of Tuesday night), " under these very natural, however they might be hasty, feelings caused by this seizure, and not aware that the intelligence the English Government had received with respect to the intention of her enemy was thus correct, Denmark declared war against this country; and these circumstances might have justified the Crown in appropriating to the uses of the revenue the money de rived from the seizure of the fleet." Such, at least, were the causes in which the seizures and confiscations of Bri tish property, on shore and afloat, and of book-debts due to British subjects, were made by the Danish Govern meat. It is not requisite, in this place, to go into the grounds upon which it was afterwards ruled that the Danish Government were not justified in the pro ceedings thus adopted by them. The fact that this was the final determination in the matter by the com petent tribunals, is the sole fact to be noticed, as found ing the entire case set up by each class of the " Bri tish claimants" whose various demands have from time to time been debated in the Legislature. For on three se veral occasions, at least, they have formed the subject of earnest discussion in the House of Commons. Now, there were three classes of claimants—first, those for debts due from Danish to British subjects appearing on the books of the former and confiscated by the Government of Denmark ; the second, British subjects who had property on shore, in various parts of the Danish dominions at the time, which was also confiscated; and the third, British subjects who had property afloat, consisting of vessels and of merchandise on beard of them, which were seized and confiscated by the same Government in the like manner. As Mr. Cresswell stated to the House on opening the case, the first of these classes of claims had been speedily, and with little difficulty, settled. The second had been likewise settled, after a longer delay, and much more trouble. The thifd bad been repudiated by every Chancellor of the Exchequer who had held office since the date of these transactions. We would ask—why ? Certainly no one, on Tuesday, at tempted to assign any sort of legal principle, or any con siderations of political expediency, for this very capricious as well as very cruel distinction. Merchant ships afloat, and the cargoes they carry, are of all other descriptions of property those which have the strongest claims upon the protection of the State, in cases of confiscation by a foreign power not having a valid right so to confiscate. The severest injury which that confiscation could inflict on a flag, violated by its acts, would necessarily be accomplished through the seizure of that species of property which has the capacity of concentrating all other descriptions, either in a positive or a representative state. Book debts are a class of property less tangible, and it might be thought more difficult to make the seleleet of rielm -and compensee don. If, however, they have been successfully propounded as such, and if the British Parliament has voted compen sation on account of them, what possible ground can be as signed for refusing to grant compensation for vessels and goods afloat ? The argument of Lord John Russell And the Chancellor of the Exchequer was puerile as well as dishonest ; for a more dishonest defence to a just claim never was offered by a shuffling Government. The Chancellor dwelt on the fact, that the whole pro ceeds ref the seizure of the Danish fleet had been exhauste.l, and that there remained no fund to pay this class of cl.tims." Then why was any fund at all appro priated to satisfy the two other classes? What is it to the claimants " for vessels and goods afloat," to be told that you—the Government—bad proceeds in your hands, of priz , s, which you have devoted to the liquidation of classes A and B of " Danish claims ;" that therefore you have no thing to say to class C ? Why, what law, or logic, or equity, or honesty is this? Either these claims now urged are valid or invalid. If you hold them invalid, prove them to be so. If they be invalid, so, also, must have been the claims for " book debts," and " property on shore." If they be valid, treat them as you treated those other two classes of claims, and satisfy them in part or in full. But to talk, as Mr. Baring talked, was it wretched plagiarism from Shakspeare's Brutus—defi cient, only, in the stern virtue and inflexible honesty and truth of the original. " Not that I loved class C less," quoth the Right Hon. Member, "but that I loved" classes A and B " more." We must again draw on the plain good sense of Sir Charles Grey's argument If those claims had been made before the money in question had been spent, he apprehended there could be no pos sible objection to allow them." No doubt of it. But here is the rub. An Administration which took power for the sake of its influence and patronage, and their solid, though sordid benefits, never condescended to inquire be fore hand what might be the legitimate outstanding de mands on the "concern" to which they were so willing to take. But if they had—what chance, with them, would the mere " equity " of the case of British claimants for losses by Danish confiscations have had ? The whole of the special plea of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is a disgraceful curiosity in the polemics of British legislation. Lord John Russell's speech in support of it, and his flip pant notions about the views which English merchants are bound to form on the nice contingencies that determine what elements shall constitute a " cassis belle or a "status pacis" (on which some heads, harder and better than his own, have condescended to busy themselves very earnestly, during the last two centuries)—were absur dities, wo must protest, unworthy of a civilian's clerk. But, Mr. Baring, who must have been bred in a better, because a more practical school, where neither patrician petting, nor hereditary humours, nor "luck at legislation," can have had much chance of turning his brains by family fondling, or the freaks of fortune, should have felt that somet king was due to the mercantile reputation of his house, and especially of his noble relative, in the necessity for preserving a tone of consistency and good sense in any arguments he might undertake to submit to Parliament on a mercantile question. He ventured to say, however, that this motion of Mr. Cresswell's (excellently supported as it really was by Mr. Hawes, Sir Charles Grey, Sir W. James, Mr. Alderman Thompson, Mr. Ingham, and let us add—by Mr. O'Connell)—was brought before the House as a question (ad captandurn) " between British merchants and a Minister of the Crown." Ho knew better. Mr. Baring may be very vain of his posi lion ; in which it truly is surprising to see him • but we, who care much m ore f or th e immuta bl e pr i nc i p le s of jus tice than for Chancellors of the Exchequer or Danish merchants either, beg to toll him that it is a question be tween private rights and Government necessities. And what is the objection which the principal Finance Minister of Great Britain put in the van of his plea—we cannot, again, call it by courtesy, argument—against this class of Danish claims. That, if satisfaction were made for them by the British Government (admitted on all hands to be the sole responsible or liable party), b 5,000/. of the amount would go to " the share of insurance offices and underwriters, who had already been amply in demnified by the premiums which they had exacted in the shape of war risks on the property destroyed or seized." Hear this, gentlemen of Lloyd's and Liverpool 1 If there be Whigs and Whig-Radicals among you, we give you joy of your Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer 1 We will not insult the common sense of our readers by one word to show that " risks," in the maritime insurance, command (from thC inevitable process of underwriting coin petition) no greater premiums than they are really veerth. But, to regret that a certain share of a just debt should fall to private institutions, to which, perhaps, above all others, this country is indebted for its gigantic advances in commercial enterprise and prosperity—to talk of these fair profits in legitimate trade as " exactions," and to forget how much the noblest naval marine that any country ever possessed, and how much more still the most vast and sue ecsful mercantile marine the world ever saw, and, by conse quence, how much the welfare and the grandeur of the empire at large have been indebted to the more than princely spirit and munificence of these " insurance offi cers and underwriters " in times of imminent peril, as well as in seasons of prosperity—pending the protracted hor rors of war, as well as in the continued calms of peace—is a height of obliviousness and ingratitude inexplicable in one of a race of British merchants, unpardonable in a Member of a House of British statesmen, and, in a Bri tish Chancellor of the Exchequer, even beyond " bearing. ' [The Chancellor stated that the proceeds of the Danish fleet had been exhausted, &c. The money did not arise from the sale of the fleet which was captured at Copenhagen, but from the merchant-ships and goods embargoed in the Thames and other ports in England, and sold. There was no captor to be paid, the seizures having been made by the simple fiat of the Govern. PRICE sd. ment, and the balance paid into the Exchequer from that source was 1,200,0001. It was not made droits of ne_ miralty, but reserved, as Mr. Perceval stated, for the ex press purr). se of making this compensation, which is now refused. The protection spoken of was taken away, inas much as Lord Gambier took the greater part of his net t out of the Baltic, and the remainder, under Commodore Fraser, soon followed, without even leaving a gun-brig to warn the ships then on their voyages from Russia and other parts of the Baltic that hostilities had recommenced. The. Admiralty acknowledged that Captain Fraser had prema turely left his post. The Chancellor first stated that it was not a question be tween himself and the claimants, as had been represented ; and then proved that it was ao, by declaring that he would take no steps to carry out the wishes of the House if they should vote for the Committee.] (From the Times.) The slight and superficial way in 'which some of our Contemporaries appear disposed to treat the recent disap pointment of the public demand for justice in the case of Lord Cardigan, will but inflame the feelings which that event is calculated to produce in the minds of thinking men. Expressions such as those of the Morning Post, which speaks of " the public business having been sus pended, that their Lordships might be employed judicially, for the amusement of the wiseacres of Wandsworth, in the trial of the Earl of Cardigan," and of the Standard, which " thinks that, whether the blunder" (on the part of the prosecution) "was or was not intentional, it ought not to be regretted," and that " the House of Lords has hap. pily escaped a great difficulty," can only tend to direct in dignation against the House of Lords, and to foster the belief that the judicial proceedings of Tuesday were a mere solemn farce, and that mine but wiseacres could bare given their Lordships credit for a disposition to exe cute criminal justice upon one of their own order. Others may do what they will; bur We witt e rsever play so far jets) the hands of Chartism as to disseminate so foul a libel upon that illustrious bode. That the offence of which Lord Cardigan was accused was a felony within the mean ing of the statute 1 Victoria, cap. 85, no man who bas the slightest knowledge of the law can possibly doubt. That, in committing him to take his trial for that of fence, the Wandsworth Magistrates discharged a plain and inevitable duty, must be admitted by all but those who think " such divinity doth hedge an Earl," as to give him a prescriptive right to defy the laws. That a convic tion must have ensued but fcr a deficiency of evidence upon a point of form, our Contemporary of the Morning Post believes (we are sure) quite as firmly as we do. The Peers are not responsible either for the way in which the evidence for the prosecution was got up, or for the legal quibble to which they were compelled, judicially, to submit their reason. Precedents, both ancient and modern, have settled the point, and left them no alter native. It is not long since a soldier was tried on the Western Circuit for the murder of his comrade. That a murder bad taken place, and that the prisoner was the murderer, was fully proved; but the evidence produced was not enough to satisfy the supererogatory curiosity of the law, as to the Christian name of the murdered man ; sins so the prisoner was acquitted. The grOund on which Lord Cardigan was acquitted was precisely the same. But that any man should think the escape of a criminal from justice, upon grounds like these, matter of congratulation to the country, especially when that criminal is a man of rank and mark, and when it has been all along suspected (must we rather say foreseen ?) that one or more of those convenience loophopes, which English juris prudence furnishes in such plenty, would be left open pur posely for his benefit, does, we must confess, astonish tie. If the law which makes a givers action criminal, is unjust or inexpedient, let it be repealed ; if the contrary, let it be enforced ; but to leave it upon the statute book without the wish to enforce it, and to felicitate ourselves upon get ting rid of its effect by a side-wind of negligence or cul pable connivance on the part of the public prosecutor, is to pursue a cowardly, hypocritical, vicious, and dishonest course. We are tired of hearing it said, that to punish Lord Cardigan (if convicted), under the statute of I Vic toria, cap. 85, would have bean to take an individual by surprise, to " begin to repress a custom sanctioned by the usage of centuries," " by the sacrifice of a victim, caught up, as it were, by accident, and without notice of his danger ;" as if duelling had been made a felony for the first time by this statute, or as if nobody bad ever been taught to expect, or had ever suffered, punis:l - for that offence. To kill in a deliberate duel has been murder in England from time immemo rial • to attempt life in such a duel , though without fatal consequences, has been a capital felony ever since the time of George I. ; and the recent Act, though it may have somewhat increased the penalty in cases where, if death had ensued, the crime would not have been mur der, yet, with respect to such duels as that of Lord Car digan with Captain Tuckett, has mitigated rather than augmented the severity of the previous law. The notion of a distinction between shooting with intent to kill at a consenting party, who takes his shot in return, and doing the same act with the same intent under any other cir.. cumstances, has never yet been recognised, and it is to be hoped, it never will:Aim artralfall -be told, though such has been the law, still it has not been executed ; it has slept, and become obsolete, and ought not now to be suddenly enforced. Wu admit that it has not been executed so stringently as it ought to have been; proper vigilance has not been uscol either to suppress duels, or to punish duellists; and we think the argument a valid one against the infliction of the extreme penalty for this offence without previous notice. But if pushed further than this, the argument fails, as resting upon a false and exaggerated statement of facts. Why does every man who is concerned in a fatal duel fly from the pursuit of justice, if the law is suffered so entirely to go to sleep? The Standard says, that if Lord Cardi gan had been convicted, the House of Lords must have sentenced him to " a long imprisonment" (the Attorney- General, by the way, was so benevolent as to suggest one hour), " for an offence, for the commission of which, under like circumstances, no man was ever before imprisoned or even questioned." Has the Standard never beard of a certain duel, in which a linen-draper named Mirfin fell? And does not our Contemporary know that for acting as seconds in that duel, only three years since, two gentlemen (not quite so exalted in rank as Lord Cardigan) were both " questioned," and imprisoned too; ay, and obliged to sub- I mit to strict prison discipline, cropped heads, the tread oatmeal diet, and all ? The only difference of " cunastances" was in the act of God, by which, with out ai:w greater fault of Elliot in the one case, or merit of Lord Cardigan in the other, it happened that Mirfin died of his wound, while Captain Tuckett reco vered. Tilo alai red want of notice is nothing, unless it can bo supposed to have influenced a van's conduct. When Lord Cardigan ;liach"ged his pistol at Captain Tuckett, he was as fully a,; are, as if a Queen's prociarna tion had been then sounding 1.7 his cars, that the act in which he was engaged was felonio;:ar and that its conse quences might place him in a worse I ;:esit ion than that of the seconds of Elliot and Millie. But Lb.' Standard has discovered not only that " the House of Loi' 4l has hap pily escaped a great difficulty," in being saved .")°' the necessity of treating one of its members as an inherit,.'t : the same flesh and blood, and a debtor to the same law, with the ignoble seconds of a linendraper, but that we must not even suppose the proceedings in Lord Cardigan's case " to be altogether useless ;" since "they have practically established the fact, previously admitted only in theory, that the fighting of a duel, even though neither death nor wound ensue, constitutes a felony." And this position our Contemporary labours to demonstrate by some grave buffoonery about pleas, cognizance, and demurrers, which must be mightily amusing to the junior students of West minster-hall, but which it is really not worth ink and paper to refute. Those proceedings have established:nothing, except the difficulty of proving the plainest and most no torious facts when a Peer is in the case. The proposition which the Standard alleges to have been established is not even true in the extent in which the Standard states it (for there may be duals, as when a party fires into the air, in which there is no felony at all); and so far as it is true, it has received no now light whatever from Lord Car digan's trial. The only proceedings which can be said to have done anything towards " practically establish ing the fact,' arc those of Mr. Dann, the miller, who took the Noble Lord into custody ; the Wandsworth Ma gistrates, who committed him for trial ; and the Middle sex Grand Jury, which found a true bill upon the indict ment, Altogether, we deeply lament the whole of this affair. We lament it, because it will be difficult to persuade the people (as, indeed, it is difficult to believe) that due diligence has been used to procure a conviction. We lament it, because it must inevitably give a great en couragement to the practice of duelling among those aris tocratical and military circles to which Lord Cardigan be longs; and must as certainly discourage Magistrates from exerting themselves to prevent or suppress duels for the future. We lament it especially, because an opinion, most dangerous to the aristocracy, prevails, that in Eng land there is one law for the rich and another for the poor; and the license which has been conceded of late years to certain juvenile scions of nobility, who seen , to have resolved upon trying the experiment whether there exists among us any law too strong for a coronet and gold, has greatly strengthened that unfortunate delusion. A cir cumstance happened only last week, un happily too corro borative of such a view. The Earl of Waldegra c v h e a Captain Duff were committed in June last, upon d efendants procured their case to be removed 4 c ertiorari a ch arge of assaulting a policeman at H am p ton. The k into the n t , Court of Queen's Bench, and (havinghff pleaded " not permission, by their counse guilty") contrived to get the tria l put till Saturday last l . On that day they r equested . to withdraw their original pleas , and p lead " gui'lt •3 ," which (as a matter of cou rse) was assented to. The fol lowing conversation is t hen re p orted to have taken , place: " Sir Frederick Pollock" ( Lord Waldegrave s counsel) " said, there was every des ire on the part of the defendants to mark their sense of th e im p ro p riety of their conduct. " " Lord Denman said, lie hoped this might be a case of such a nature as to admit of a private reparation being made," " Sir F. Pollock said. he felt deeply indebted to his Lord ship for the suggestion." We take it for granted, that who is an upright man, did not know th e ILliostrodryDnoeinn' fth a isease he could not haveknown that th ese Noble defendants h ad attacked the p olic eman in the exe cution of his duty, and beaten him so savagely, as to place his life in danger. But whether lie knew this or not, a painful conviction forces itself into our minds, that if these persons had not balonged to the Corinthian order, it would never have been suggested from the seat of jus tice that such an outrage could possibly be a fit subject for pecuniary compromise. We know not whether such a way of dealing with cases in which the Nobility is con cerned is to be accounted f or on the principle that t h ey have privilege of P eerage, a n d t h at i t is useless to convict where it would be impossible to punish. It may seem tit first sight, that for Lord Cardigan to have been convicted, 147, WEN MG- P. DITIoN rya to have eseapei punishment by pleading his Peerage (a.vmming the vatiditv of such a plea), would have lieon •-•vso 1-re unsatisfActory than the actual termination of Pis We think otherwise ; for if such a privilege . still exists, it tine that it should be dragged from its lurlt.ii.g place, and once for all abolished. That it did exist to late as 1825 when Mr. Justice Coleridge, in hiS alluotations en .13:acksione's Commentaries, penned the following very pertinent rerun' k;, is only too certain —" This is one of the very few cases of privilege," said that Learned Judge, " retained in tin- English law ; and of all privileges, that of inzpunity in the commission of crime is the most dis gracflid to those who enjoy it, and the most odious to those who are debarred from it. By this law ji Peer may ut day rob en the higliway, steal horses once, break a house, or rob a church (crimes capital in a commoner), and is li able to no personal punishment whatever." • (From the Morning Chronicle.) We do not suppose that our rer dors would thank us for endeavouring to show how the guilt of the Earl of Cardi. gan could have been estslekhed. Before the solemn farce of this trial WA3 entered on, conjecture was often busied with the way in which the acquittal would be brought about ; hut that he would be acquitted was never doubod for one moment. Could the privilege of Peerage have been claimed, odious as the distinction is, it would have left the law answerable for the escape of tile Noble Earl ; whereas his acquittal, for want of the evidence which might easily have been obtained, revolts the common sense of the country, and cannot fail to lower the charrctcr of its highest tribunal in the general estimation.. We can easily understand that it must have bees exceedingly painful to Noble Lords, many of whom have themselves given and received challenges, and fought duels, to be under the necessity of convicting the Earl of Cardigan, and it has been asserted that a blunder in conducting the prosecution was purposely committed, in order to free their Lordships from the necessity of pro• nouncing on their honour a solemn acquittal, after the most unexceptionable evidence of guilt. But be this as it may, the people will look only to the naked fact of thakae qoittal of a man of whose guilt there coulkl•not be even a shadow of doubt ; and, scorning to perplex themselves with the trickery by which the end was attained. or with settling the respective shares of the responsibility between the prosecutors end the tribunal, they will arrive at the conclusion, that the House of Peers have solemnly deter mined that henceforward duelling is not to be considered a violation of the law. After this acquittal of the Earl or Cardigan by the supreme tribunal of the country, if there shall not be one law for the peer and anetlitr foLtb.- , peasant, no man in Ftagland ought to be concted shedding the blood of another in a duel. MONEY MARKET and CITY NE WS, FROM THE P4OIINING PATERS OF THIS DAY. CHRONICLE.—The leading article in to-dLyti Chronicle, relative to the liberation cf Mr. M'Lcod bail, has removed much of the remaining uneasiness ontsr rained on that subject ; but the business done in tl,s, English Funds has been limited, prices being kept down by the renewed rumours of a revolutionary movement at Constantinople, alluded to in the morning papers, and by the expected success of the Fortifiction 13111 in the French Chamber of Peers. We mentioned the story of the out break at Constantinople in our City article of Monday as one of the causes which had depressed the Funds here on that day. It was coremutricatcd• in private iett,;ls from Paris so far back as Friday last, which reached the City only on Monday morning, and it seems extraordinary how such a report could have found its way to affect prices on the Paris Bourse only on Mon day afternoon, three days af.er it was current there is the diplomatic circles. Had there been any grounds for it, an event of such importance must have found its way to the Money Market much sooner; and wo attribute the slight fall in the French Rentss on Monday to a knowledge that' the Commission in the Chamber of Peers were favcurablo to the Fortification 13111, the passing of which would ren der the appearance of proposals for a Mulch loan of largo amount a question only of time, if the works be seriously entered upon, as it is notorious that the French Trecsurf cannot find the funds necessary for their execution without borrowed supplies, and London is the only market to which M. Burnam can turn his thoughts with much hopes of success of obtaining them. TIMES.—A private letter from Baltimore states the belief of the writer that the L'anks is Maryland and Vir ginia would resume specie payments on the Ist inst., of which it was considered u fair indication that the notea in Maryland were at per for specie. Of the state of the country generally, however, as to its commerce and i:s fiscal operations, it is observed that it will yet be necessary to have one, and perhaps two crops out of mother earth before all be right." The arrival of a private vessel from Barbadoes furnishes papers thence to the 13th of January inclusive, which is a later date by nearly three weeks than those brought by the packet convey ance . Th e ma i n f act t h ey contain is, that sugar-making had commenced iu the island. The crop was expected to be in quavity about the same as last year. Ground provisions were evlerrywhere scarce. In the French Chamber of Deputies on the 13th inst., the Debate on the Customs Duties - Bill was resumed, but . the only occurrence worthy of notice was a question put to the Minister of Commerce whether it was his intention or not to reduce the duty on iron. It was obserefill, that although much had been said respecting the interest taken by the Government in the agricultural prosperity of France, iron was so dear that it was in some localities an. article of luxury, and wooden spades were plated with iron. The reply of the Minister of Commerce was, that although it was the wish of Government to reduce the duty, the present was not a proper time for - such a measure, as the iron manufacturers were those who were suffering most. Mr. Labouchere's Bill for the equalization 'of the rum duties, read for the first time on Monday, cannot fail to be an object of the highest interest to those concerned the produce both of the East and West Indies. By the first clause, every gallon of rum, of any strength not exceeding the strength of proof by Sikes's hydrometer., and in proportion for any greater or less strength, being the produce of an y B r i t i s h pen •ssion within the limits of the East India Company's charter, is to pay 9a. 4d., snit every gallon of rum shrub the same amount. A proviso is contained in the second clause, that such rum or rum shrub shall be the produce of a British possession in India into which the importation of foreign sugar shall have been pros hibited, or of sugar the produce of any British posit. sion within the limits of the Company's charter into vi" foreign sugar cannot legally be imported, The Act, if passed, 36 not to come into operation till it k proved that foreign rum and rum shrub have bet prohibited to be imported into any of the possessions frog. which the importation is allowed, according to a provision in the 3d clause ; and, as a precautionary measure, it is required in the 4th clause, that before such rum or ruin shrub be entered in the United Kingdom, the master of the ship shall deliver at the Customs a certificate, by the collector of the sea-customs of the port where the run . ; or rum shrub was taken on board, testifying that the shipper of the article had produced a certificate by the revenue collector of the district in which it was produced that it really is the produce of such district. The second read ing of this Bill is fixed for next Friday. Some doubt having arisen on the construction of ate of der in Council of the 10th of last August, as to whe ther a distinction was to be made between the produce of the East Indies and other British possessions when im ported into the Cape of Good Hope, the Customs basing adopted the interpretation according to which a dis tinction was to be made to the disadvantage of India, the East India and China Association have applied to tgo Treasury as to the real meaning of the order, and re ceived an answer, in which the Lords of the Treasury state that it appears to them, on consideration of the order, quit goods, the growth, manufacture, and 'produce of -stories under the government of the East India Cern. tel. a void be admissible into the Cape of Go o d H o p e o n tpli n same arms as goods from any othe r B r iti s h poss es. They add that they will give the requisite officers at the Cape to pre pCtiouestoomast'his point. v in t. instruction s a a b n r 3r a t : i , nt„1.17,0 SUN.—The mark,:t was steady f or E ng li s h secur i t i es to-day, with a fair busit, "!I doing. Th e f ac t o f the,. ' new agents of the United St . ,,tes Bank having accepted such an immense amount of p er drawn on them by that establishment, and received ,!tv the packets lately arrived, helps to inspire more coti6t: l onco among our monied interests. Consols for present transfer were to-day quoted 881 to 88/, and far time the came. Es. chequer Bills were worth 5 to 7 premium, and India Bonds 10 discount. Bank Stock brought 1631 to 164/, and East India Stock 246/. The New Thee. and-a Half per Cents. were at 97 to 96i, and the Re. duced Three par Cent. Annuities BSi to 84. Two-and-a- The Foreign Market was quite neg lected but prices did not go lower. Spanish Active Bones were worth 23- for money, and 0:32. to I for the account. Portu. guese were not dealt in. Buenos Ayres Stock rose. again to 25 and 26, Colombian Old Bonds were at 22/, and Brazilian touched 72 to 7.21. French Five per Cents.Haif per were Cents.du l l steady y sO a c t ., s a o n t d o ,1.. Dutch In the Railway shares there was no alteration. Great Western brought 2.5 to 26, the New 111, Birming ham an d London 86 to 84/, South Western 19/, and Manchester and Leeds, New, 3 premium. Brightott were q, Blackwall 4/, North Midland 26, Edinburgh wereeisitei and Glasgow si, and Birmingham and Gloucester Y discount. Australia Bank Shares were 1 ,, ./, and Lou don Joint Stock 21 pfemium. Later dates have come to hand from Barbadoes to day, viz. to the 13th January, and which are of a gra tifying character. It will be remembered that up to the end of December the most serious drought had prevailed throughout the colony, so as to threaten the annihilation of the canes, but before the date of our present advices, refreshing showers had fallen, which it was hoped would prove general over the island. Notwithstanding this, however, the crops will, " doubt, prove eery short, and it is mentioned as a re markable fact that a few days previously there were a not r e t n n o ig u i g a h , s provisions t of home onof fth e g r p o o w p t u h in kkti o t a h , e w i dfo r a wereo r indebted for supplies to America. The Memorial of Dieppe states that there is such a scarcity of hands to man the cod-fishing ships in ghat. port, which ought soon to be sailing for Newfoundland, that the traders have addressed two successive petitions to the Minister of Marine, praying him to take measures for their aid, and, if possible, to set some of the sailors of tho navy free from their engagements, in order that they may re-enter the merchant service. TUE TURKISH FLEET.—A correspondent of the Augsburg Gazate at Alexandria observes that tho Turkish fleet remained in that port eighteen months; ttat when it arrived it had on board 15,000 seamen and 7,0(41 troops, of whom 5,000 have since died, and 2,000 de serted ; that the whole pay of the sailors is in arrear, which they have received. This it cost Mehem e t Ali, d ur i ng that time, upwards d o e n d e , month, hias of 60,000 purses (about 7,500,000 f.), an d hi s o wn aqui• ron not less. is ce p a added, .19, at 1, Fe b ' house, Mock inning , utatiun ilaters, ber , of 20 and j‘ I a V . ) 48 10 ?5 0 1 ; 7 7 9 0 4 5 ls.; cos' Pe o l R e , ISO