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To secure passages, and forwar d goa d s an d Parcels, apply at the Company's Offices, 51, St. Mary-Axe ; IV,I information may also be obtained at 44, Regent-street, e icead illY ; of Earle Langston, Manchester ; and W. and E. • Carne, Falmouth. Y 2 ~. A it ,4 M. r. 4. PI No. 15,69 a LONDON, SATURDAY NING "'UN DECEMBER 10, 1842. 3 PRICE sd, THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, in Time for th e EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing, PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Hour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. PUBLICATIONS. OYAL POLY rEcIINIC INSTITUTION. -SAL Cary's NEW OXY-HYDROGEN MICROSCOPE, of enormous power, exhibiting the HUMAN HAIR EIGHTEEN INCHES in diameter, being magnified seventy four :nillions of t imes. New DISSOLVING VIEWS, including a View of GHUZNEE and the BOLAN PASS in AFF GHANISTAN. The COLOSSAL ELECTRICAL MA CHINE. LECTURES DAILY, in which the latest scien tific productions are familiarly explained. Admission, One Shilling. Schools, Half-price. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC. 6, 1842. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James IVPHenry, as Consul at Londonderry for the United States of America. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 6. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain W. L. Kaye to be Captain, vice Drew, retired on full-pay ; First Lieut. P. Ellis to be Captain, vice Kaye, Nov. 26 ; Second Lieut. 11. W. Patton to be First Lieutenant, vice Ellis, Nov. 29. MEMOITANDUM.—The date of promotion of First Lieutenant E. A. Williams is altered to Nov. 26, 1842. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire. Queen's Own Royal Yeomanry.—J, P. Oates to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Osborne, deceased, Dec. 6. WHITEHALL, Nov. 29. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Charles Bridges, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. STEPHEN THOM AS,victualler, Heworth,Yorkshire. T HE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CXLI. Is published THIS DAY. Joim Murray, Albemarle-street. PUNCH ; or, the LONDON CHARIVIRL is published every Saturday. Price 31. PUNCH'S ALMANACK will be published on the 31st instant. And PUNCH'S POCKET-BOOK is now on sale, price 3s. 6d., roan tuck. Office, 13, Wellington-street, Strand ; and sold by all Book sellers. NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION. The SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING of the MEMBERS of this Institution, will be held at the OFFICE, No. 31 Nicolas-lane, King William-street, on THURSDAY the 15th instant, at One o'clock precisely, to receive the RE PORT of the DIRECTORS for the current year. Dec. Ist, 1842. JOSEPH MARSH, Secretary. THE WATER-CURE AT MALVERN. OYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY of A-W ENGLAND.—A FULL REPORT of Dr. LYON PLA YFAIR'S important LECTURE on the "Application of the Principles of Physiology and Chemistry to the Grazing and Fattening of Cattle," will appear in the GARDENER'S CHRONICLE of to-day. LONDON FRIENDLY UNION NATIONAL INSTITUTION. Under the Patronage of The Right Hon. Lord LYNDHURST, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. The Right Hon. Earl of LIVERPOOL, Lord Steward of the Household. The Right Hon. Sir ROBERT PEEL, Bart., First Lord of the Treasury. The Right Hon. Earl of ABERDEEN, II " Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. And upwards of 200 Noble Lords and Ladies. 10 give Empl o y men t t o industrious Artisans, by a distribu t,;ou four ti mes a - year, v i z., i n M arc h, J une , S eptem b er , an d De cember, of Cabinet Furniture Hosiery from Nottingham Blankets from Witney And Silk from Spitalfields. tie next Distribution wil take place on THURSDAY, "eeember 15, 1842. t T he Society require no gift or donation for their support, !it every subscription of 2s. 6d. entitles the subscriber to a Pance of obtaining some article of their manufacture, varying 'llvtlue from 10s. to 20/. Notice.—A subscription of 10s. constitutes a Yearly Sub- I t eviber, ent i t l e d to Four Ch ances, one eac h Q uarter , an d so on 4 r every additional 10s. subscribed, who, if he should not l i in a Pri ze d ur i ng t h e year, w ill b e en titl e d t o an ar ti c l e othe S oc i ety ' s manufacture, the va l ue of w hi c h w ill d epen d the amount he subscribes. All Lette rs f or S u b scr ipti on R ece ipt s , enc l os i n g the amount, win" be answered by return of Post. ließeceipts for Subscriptions to be had at the Society's Estab nizent, 71, Leadenhall-street. W. CROFTON, Secretary THE TEA ESTABLISHMENT, r *1 8, LUDGATE-HILL, LONDON. Jr lE " GLORIOUS NEWTS" from the East is , everywhere hailed with delight and gratitude. In con 171„tience of the highly important announcement of " Peace t0 1 : 4 ,_ China," we take the earliest opportunity of making known ef `.:;e,,,Fublic, that we have commenced selling all descriptions I „' 4 -k much cheaper. There is no longer any necessity for the public paying ex liagant prices, in order to secure good Teas. • The m0n0,,.._1 ,,.._ 1 tif price, like all other menopolies, is found to be based on d ew and selfishness. Every day's experience tends to Zi that the first cost of the finest Teas in China does not grant the extraordinary prices paid in this country. The Re of the importer is becoming better understood, and fe e t i e Profits, with the intelligent tradesman, like prejudiced ten 4 gi with the better informed part of the public, are now ‘_ orally giving way, and comparison in value made the test of i lefence "e following are our present Prices , C,,..., BLACK TEAS. s. d. cm ordinary Congon 3 4 per lb. Cful Congou, good quality 4° ,1 Strong Congou, full flavour 3 10 N e tlil Congou, blackish Leaf 4 2 recommended F ° ° Con gou , P e k oe S ouc h oug ki n d IP t Congou, wiry blackish Leaf full rich Fi ene e kue Souchong flavour t Lapsang Souchong ..: 5 6 recommended GREEN TEAS p e°4l . ll nion Twankay, or Hyson Skin 3B to 41. 4 e li tuirn Hyson n'utl Pi ~, yson R: 4 'l b .... I '/n p e r i a 1 Gunpowder Pi i ,r7nie Hyson, rich delicate flavour 5 8 recommended one G unpowder, small silvery leaf 6 10 recommended °ll - 11 Y. fine Gunpowder 7 6 In COFFEE. or conseque nce of the New Tariff admitting the Productions eh re ign Growth, all descriptions of Coffee are materially e s. d. v ery .. i . good Ceylon per lb. 1 2 islva, of superior quality p 4 e finest " Mountain-flavoured" C ey l on „ 1 6 e rY fine Laguayra and Jamaica.. T le" Mo unta i n " Jamaica, and very choice . w e it i uona let lbyecornmend Families to pay One Shilling and Fourpence tl eo , fir very goo d C o ff ee ; O ne Shilli ng an d Sixpence for th. tl ie . nt; and One and Eightpence for as good as need be SIDNEY and HALL, Importers and •Dealers, Por B, Ludgate-hill, London. the convenience and security of Families living at a Lid gee, we h ave P ac k ages o f 41b., 81b., an d 161 b. i n Ti n f o il 9' ht whin.h may be sent in safety to any part, and 4 0 a` % :"‘lit of the Tea p •eserved. Parties taking an original tr Chest, of 401 b. or 80Ib., allowed the full overweight F.i.te?..the trade. ki t 7 1 y es in the Country are respectfully requested to trans tke",e,ir order s th roug h th e P ost , accompan i e d w ith a Post u k t , rd er for payment. Address SIDNEY and HALL, `Z ... Lgate-hill, London. SHEFFIELD PLATE. 4 1 `SSRS. HORTON and CO., Silversmiths ,41 ) , and Jewellers, 36, LUDGATE-STREET, ST.. 4 10„,,,5, now effer to their Friends and the Public their It4r, 'N of GENUINE PLATED GOODS, which they k m lint to be the Manufacture of the first Sheffield 'Houses, Vi t .' ate of the most tasteful and modern designs, comprising te,' `7l, Dish Covers, Corner Dishes, Ice Pails, Coffee and tk e Nts, Kettles, Inkstands, Candlesticks, Cruet Frames, jlaskets, and every other article, useful and ornamental. r, Cent. allowed for Cash. tits, i t ty Stock of Jewellery, Fancy Silver, and other arti -41,-t• Drices well worthy the notice of visitors to, as well hi, London. OIL `----- ND LAMP PHENOMENA, AND NO et A PUFF. 4 Bt 4h H t p, d i and Co., Oil Refiners by Chemical in ocess, 261, - 11/0. 44 d,.... 16, Picket-street, sell their UNEQUALLED top OIL, at 4s. 10d. per gallon, suitable for every ,t 2 4 of Lamp in present use, four gallons go as far as sk -110 1 Or of Solar or other common Oils, therefore their Cla -"-sceou Is cheapest. Lamps burning it require no cleaning, t ioi t p"t of its purity, it produces a Splendid Light without 1)2 their Fire-proof Smoke consuming Glasses are used) I‘,„. -.4s quite equal to Sperm with the common glasses. k ih iNt ic ,st workmanship and newest style at MANUFAC , tisti PRICES. For instance : excellent table lamps, 0t)".79/ 38s. ; Cambridge reading or writing lamps (su- Orb d i r `‘ s • 9 d , usually 21s. ; hall lamps, from 2s. 9d. ; very fn , awing and dining-room lamps, 455. 6d., usually 84s. ; zit . , ; _‘" brass and real bronze . reading lamps, 15s. 9d., usually j:_as .. ..le n are only specimens of prices.. Chandelier designs ''' l .3 an ' great variety. Clarified Oil 4s. 10d. imperial gal- ULG•proof chimneys, Is. only. lWki ro 4 k and CO., le, Picket-street, or 261, Strand, three 71 ;14 t the Stone pillars, opposite St. Clement's Church, ,_kA s . corner shop (to prevent impositions). - ‘'.4. 4 - '" strictly CLARK and CO. stamped on the Glasses ~.ko lte d on the Oil-corks. N't cie, ne laid designs of Lamps (for every use) forwarded to any ' ingdom. v~ I "'IS' LADIES' BREAST OINTMENT. ral l i it This Ointment is now confidently recommended to the : le i 414 an infallibl e reme dy f or a ll diseases of the Breast, tt a i e d by Cold, or the Milk coring in the Breast. It is t et atl k i t tl cure for Whitlows, Abcess, Scalds, Burns, Bad Legs, t'a.t d e eal aneous diseases ; and in consequence of the now Ly fore for the Ointment, the Proprietor is induced to iid l is Ce the p u bli c — no t as , a cure for " all the ills that N h lest t r to," but in cases a..; above mentioned it is with the rsokt,,°afidence ecommended to the public. 74, 41 7 0 1e5a1 e and retail b R. Johnston, 6S, Cornhill, V 14 Pots 2s. 9d. each, duty included ; and most Medi andors in the counts v- (1 0t - jor SASTI. B, COLDS, INFLUENZA, HOARSENESS, 14 0 ,.., 31 A, AND INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION. ‘-i'S ESSENCE OF LINSEED is an in ktpik-nolable remedy. Price Is. lid. and 2s. 9d. per tQ ba 4241 j a l l a ,c e immemorial Linseed has been proverbial for its i t 3 e v tly o '7 th cure r eosfenCtoat Chemical s o s l e d n s c ; e but was previous m er y to u t s h ei e i it h i ste e : rr n of tea, and its benefit comparatively limited. This e (4 01 contai2ns all the medicinal properties of, Linseed in a COogh prentrated form, combined with other medicinals and the most certain and efficacious remedy for taNidrenich ha s y e t b een di scovere d. liptl 6". Coughs, as recent ones in Adults, will be re tb;_te ievv doses of Simco's Essence of Linseed (frequently Ps .'N`) :) ; old standing Chronic Coughs may require per ee, l ut they ultimat e ly yi e ld to its curative powers. tit persons, who previously had not been able to lie f rom "; have received the utmost benefit, and others suf . *in t. Influenza have been speedily cured by this valuable Sold by all respectable Medicine Vendors. s44,YER,'S EMBROCATION for GOUT q `,I I EUMATISM TIC DOLOREUX, &c. k _ the i't - tett add e se ' by Trevor Holland, Esq., Surgeon, ta i,.P., d „ , near Walsall , . Sta_ff , ordshire, on the 6th July last, ti t Bte, 7of the " Times :' sZtlr6 e z think it a duty I owe to the public to make known t ql'eli I t ZY,_°f a remedy which I met with accidentally, and t:lltils been of such wonderful benefit to myself. Some t k i %go 1 -, a d - met with a very severe accident, having dm . lo- NI b fract u I From the great tender tip °f the • • red my ancle sever"' the limb con k tled _ Joint I was quite unable to walk, _ v„ . very ...._ tbquit y f r,,, 'ouch swollen and adematous, and I suffered tled trai nu severe attacks of spasms in tho night, which Itty the ancle to the leg thigh, back, and to the to . Q e a a v i i ng exhausted every resource - of relies which I and i „-po,, , friends in the country could suggest, to no titia. l set out for London with the intention of con s:l,44k ir , ll enjarnin Brodie or Mr. Listen—then to adopt sea 117° an. -nY accident I met with Mr. Feaver, 16 Ludgate-hill, 44 1 1 3 1 I'ded his Embrocation, and, to my great astonishment, t k 4 ,:tr in ° sDasin that night, no r have I had one since. The next b_ l e to I "true down stairs without my crutches, and was ,ov, r _ alk, the swelling of the limb soon subsided, and I am Zitsiy:Pidly recovering . Having for many years had an es -144 Itletitni Wil y practice in the county of Sta ff ord, I know of t h ._kldi, ci nal compound possessing such wonderful efficacy. eved bgol, testimony to 11r. Feaver's Embrocation, lam ac fre t Yno other motive than gratitude to him, and a sincere v'er l. °"l....ake known his invaluable remedy to my fellow-suf t&att evv°sgessing, as I ever did, the strongest prejudice t, s tta a , t er Ming in the shape of quackery, 1 should be the r i , tis ? "Phold a system which, generally speaking, I know " l ug but a nefarious traffic and humbug. I, ::'1 a m, your obedient ser v ant, e irrn " TREVOR HOLLAND, Surgeon. P; 8 . ° e,k, near Walsall, Staffordshire. Zten, At the various consultations held Kim my . case, the klia ti tv ,'"ld physicians (including myself) were decidedly of 1 1 ,, k late j ua t the frequent violent attacks of spasms would ter `", th e -4 ,. 1 40 ck-I a w , but, as I have before stated, I have not °, t.l l . :ughtest symptoms of spasms since the first application 4 :th l i a , ; I ,. t raurdi nary ern brocat i on. —T. II." . trty ptlY- 'I'. remedy (which is equally efficacious 4, tty ° th e p_ se s above afflictions) may be obtained of, or through ,7ttotl4etable wholesale or retail Chemist in Town or "r fr ott itt L at the Depot, corner of Wellington-street, Strand ; t°° P renriPtor, Mr. Fever, 16, Ludgate-hill, London. R TO MOTHERS AND NURSES A l l 4". JOHNSON ' S AMERICAN i 4 soo k • %tir o . THING SI ItUP, which has been held in such k it t for so many ears for relies' n Children when suf. W ft t 4 ) I%."B.P,ainful Deidition, y still' continues i to g be prepared accord- WrAiteuohnson's Original Recipe, and With the same success, % e t % er e en ` - ` 1. AND 95, Farringdon-street, whose name and Pved on the Stamp. Full directions are enclosed with 44_ rice 2s. 9d. to ask for MRS JOHNSON'S SOOTHING SYRUP, Next week will be published, to he had of all Booksellers, price 4s. 6d., • TOMACII COMPLAINTS AND DRUB DISEASES;fw their Causes, Consequences. and Cure, with an Appendix of Two Letters to Dr. Hastings, of Wor• center, on the RESULTS of the WATER-CURE at MAL VERN. By JAMES WILSON, M.D., Physician to his Se rene Highness Prince Nassau, &c. London: John Churchill, Princes-street, Soho. AFFGHANISTAN. BY A NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER. In a few days will be published in 1 Vol. post Svo., price 10s. 6d. SCENES and ADVENTURES in AIiTGITA NISTAN. By WILLIAM TAYLOR, Late Troop-Sergeant-Major of her Majesty's 4th Light Dragoons. T. C. Newby, 65, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square; T. and W. Boone, Bond-street ; J. Cumming, Dublin ; Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. MECHANICAL PRODIGY—LITERARY NOVELTY. On Saturday, Dec. 10, will be published, No. 1., price One Penny, to be continued Weekly, the FAMILY HERALD; or, Useful Information and Amusement for the Million ;—interesting to all— offensive to none—an agreeable pastime for leisure moments, adapted for all ages or sexes—grave or gay—rich or poor— learned or unlearned—idle or busy—citizen or husbandman— landsman or seaman,—containinr, qu3ntity as well as quality (being the Largest Sheet ever printed for the trifle named,) and intended to exhibit the wonders of another new invention in printing. London : published by G. Biggs, 421, Strand; and may be ordered of all booksellers and periodical vendors. N ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASUR ANCE SOCIETY, FOR GRANTING LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c. No. 26, CORNHILL. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. IfiItECTORS. T. L AWE MURRA Y, Evq., Chairman. Elliotson, Al. D., F. R. S. John Rawson, Esq. John Griffith Frith, Esq. I John Riddle Stodart, Esq. Hunter Gordon, Esq. I Clement Tabor, Esq. George Lungley, Esq. I Joseph Thompson, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. I Professor Graves, A.M. F.R. S ACTUARY -W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F. R. A. S. PHYSICIAN —J. Elliotson, M.D., F. R. S. SURGEON—E. S. Symes, Esq. Sotscrrons—Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Ewers, and Ommanney. 13aNKEas- . —Messrs.. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. The most rational motives - to Ltfe AssuranPe are found in the plan adopted by this Society ; viz. joined to a secure provision at death for inheritors of the Assured, the Society affords succour to the Assured himself (proportioned to pre vious payments) in the event of unforeseen reverses. Annual Division of Profits. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. EUROPEAN LIFE INSURANCE COM ' PA NY. No. 10, Chatham-place, Blackfriars, London. Established January, 1819. PRESIDENT-Sir JAMES RIVETT CARNAC, Bart., Rook Cliff, Lymington. VICE-PRESIDENT.—GEORGE FORBES, Esq., 9, Fitzroy square. With Twelve Directors. Facilities are offered by this long-established Sotiqty to suit the views and the means of every classot insurers. Premiums are received yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly—er upon an in creasing or decreasing scale. The insured for life participate septennially in the profits realised. A liberal commission is allowed to solicitors and agents. DAVID FOGGO, Sec. N.B.—Agents are wanted in towns where none have yet been appointed. WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Office, 49, Parliament-street, Westminster. DIRECTORS. HENRY EDGEWORTH BICKNELL, Esq. WILLIAM CABELL, Esq. THOMAS SO:MERS COCKS, jun., Esq, GEORGE HENRY DREW, Esq. WILLIAM EVANS, Esq. • WILLIAM FREEMAN, Esq. FRANCIS FULLER, Esq. JAMES HUNT, Esq. JOHN ARSCOTT LETHBRIDGE, Esq. ' EDMUND LUCAS, Esq. GEORGE HENRY POLLOCK, Esq. JOHN BAZLEY WHITE, Esq. J. CARTER WOOD, Esq. HENRY WRENCH, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. COCKS, BIDDULPH, and CO., Charing-cross. SOLICITORS. Messrs. BICKNELL and LETHBRIDGE, Abingdon-street, Westminster. Perfect security combined with moderate rates. The assurance of a CERTAIN BONUS. The allowance of HALF the ANNUAL PREMIUM to remain unpaid for SEVEN YEARS. and TEMPORARY LOANS to the ASSURED on available security. EDWARD T. RICHARDSON, Secretary. UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED. HONORARY PRESIDENTS. Earl of Errol Earl of Stair Earl of Courtown Earl Somers Earl Leven and Melville Lord Viscount Falkland Earl of Norbury Lord Elphinstone Lord Belhaven and Stenton DIRECTORS. JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman. H. DE CASTRO, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Samuel Anderson, Esq. Charles Downes, Esq. Hamilton Blair Avarne, Charles Graham, Esq. Esq. F. C. Maitland, Esq. Edw. Boyd, Esq., Resident William Ilailton Esq. E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., As- John Ritchie, isq. sistant Resident F. H. Thomson, Esq. SECRETARY.—Patrick Macintyre, Esq. This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords the most perfect security in an ample paid-up Capital, and in the great success which has attended it, since its commence ment in 1834. In IE4I the Company declared an addition to the Share holders of one-half of their Stock, and also added a per Cent. per Annum, from the date of the policies to those par ties who had insured with Profits. The Premiums nevertheless are on the most moderate scales and only a moiety need be paid for the first five years, where the Insurance is for life. The amount of bonus added to policies since the commence ment of the Company in March 1834, to the 31st December 1840, is as follows : Sum Assured. Time Assured. Sums added to Policy. £l,OOO 6 Years 10 Months £136 13 4 1,000 ... . 4.. Years BO 0 0 1,000 3 Years 6O 0 0 1,000 1 Year ............... ......... 20 0 0 Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of No. 8, Waterloo. place, Pall-mall, London. Frederick Hale Thomson, Esq., Surgeon, 48, Berners-street, attends at the Office daily, about Half-past Two o'clock. .HWALKER'S NEEDLES (by autbo. 4 rity the " Queen's Own)," with the new large eyes, are easily threaded (even by blind persons), and work with great ease, having improved points, temper and finish. The labels are correct likenesses of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert in relief, on coloured grounds. H. Walker's improved Fish-hooks, Steel Pens, Hooks and Eyes, Bodkins, &J., are particularly recommended to notice. For the Home Trade, neat packages of Needles or Pens, from Is. to 10s. value can be sent free by post by any re spectable dealer, on receipt of 13 penny stamps for every shil ling value. Evero quality, &c., for shipping. H. Walker, Manufacturer to the Queen, 20, Maiden-lane, Wood-street. WATCHES by WEBSTER AND SON, Chronometer Makers to the L or d s o f t h e Ad m i ra l ty, established 132 years, 3, Birchin-lane. The finest description of Watches at the lowest prices, consistent with maintaining that character for superiority of workmanship which has dis tinguished their establishment dining so long a period. The Compensated Duplex Watch, upon the principle of their Chro nometers, to which Government awarded the priz es th ree suc cessive years, combines perfect accuracy with the utmost ele gance, and is not surpassed by the Pocket Chronometer. W. and Son have devoted considerable time and attention to the manufacture of the Patent Lever Watch, and considerably reduced the price; likewise the small Horizontal, for ladies. They can offer a large selection of Second-hand Watches, at little above have the original cost. The utmost value allowed for old Watches, in exchange. The most experienced work men in the repairing department are employed on the premises, for foreign and English manufacture. WEBSTER and SON, 3, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, London. VI ATE NT LEVER AVATCHES.—This cele -g- brated construction (the most accurate on which a watch can be made) is now offered at the following prices, with the latest improvements, i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four holes, hand to mark the seconds, and maintaining power to continue going while winding up. SILVER. CASES. With double-bottomed cases, capped £6 6 0 With hunting cases, capped ... 6 16 6 COLD CASES. Size for Ladies, Kith elegant gold dial £l2 12 0 Ditto, in double•backed cases 14 14 0 Size for Gentlemen, enamelled dial l3 13 0 Ditto, extra full size, capped.... 17 17 0 A pamphlet, containing observations respecting the various constructions on which Watches are made, with the prices both in gold and silver cases, and a variety of sketches of new de• signs, which have just beer, completed in gold Chains, will be sent, gratis and postage free, on application by letter to T. Cox Savory, Watchmaker, 47, Coruhill, London, seven doors from Gracechurch-street. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS. OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—It appears that her Majesty's Ministers are at length convinced of the necessity of adopting a, fled duty o'n - Corn ' as the new slidin g s c a l e has worked so unsatisfactorily for the public interests. We are in formed that the scheme under consideration, and which will probably be submitted for the approval of Parlia ment, with certain modifications, is as follows :—ln the beginning, to -levy one uniform rate of duty of 12s. per quarter on wheat imported from all foreign countries not being British possessions . ; but after wards to allow the Executive to reduce the duty one half—to 6s. per quarter—on imports from those countries which may claim the indulgence as a compensation for concessions made to us, or for corresponding reductions in their duties levied upon British manufactures. This will give power to Minis ' tens in negotiating commercial treaties with our neigh bours, as they will be enabled to offer an equavalent for favours conferred upon us. It will be of great service in softening the hostile Tariffs of America and of Prussia, together with the other States forming the German Customs' Union, which are manoeuvring slowly and systematically to exclude our goods en tirely from their markets, and which they may effectu ally succeed in doing at no very distant period, if we do not adopt timely measures to counteract them. We must confess that this scheme offers many advan tages, and is a great improvement upon the last sliding scale. It remains to be seen whether it will find favour with those who were lately advocates of monopoly, although they now begin to sing a differ ent song. STANDARD.—It must have been observed that the Whig journals have rather abruptly discontinued their claims, on behalf of the late Ministry, to the arrangement of that plan of operations conducted to so glorious an issue by Sir H. Gough and Sir William Parker. At first our Liberal Contemporaries were loud and most indignant in their reclamation against the at tempt to "filch" (that was the word) from Lords Mel bourne, Palmerston, and Co., the honour of preparing the plan in question ; and many long columns of grave argument were daily poured forth to prove that the present Ministers have been mere me chanical labourers, working out the masterly design of their predecessors in office. This importunate claim, as we have remarked, has ceased with an abruptness not easily understoOd by the public : be it our task to offer the explanation.. The Whig journals, with or without prompting from their patrons lately in office, would . naturally assign to these patrons, and detract from Sir Robert Peel's Ad ministration, whatever amount of merit they could ; but as the successes of the Chinese expedition followed so immediately upon the expulsion of the Whigs from office, these journals had upon the post hoc ergo ex hoc argument, a plausible pre text for ascribing to the expelled Ministers the merit of the expedition and its arrangements. The expelled Whigs, whether they suggested this claim or did not, looked complacently upon it ; not one of them had the grace to dis claim praise which they all knew, if the truth were manifest to the public, must reflect upon them the deepest disgrace. As the time of in evitable explanation, however, approached,- it was thought convenient to let the matter drop. On the eve of an exposure of the truth, that they had not merely not prepared the plan of the expedition so happily adopted and executed by their political rivals, but scornfully rejected it when proposed to them, it would be impolitic to persist in the claim set up for them. Hence all their journals have lately received orders to be silent on the subject. MONEY MARKET and CITYNEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. l'OST.—The exultation of the New York money dealers at the arrival of a small portion of gold from Liverpool, may well be excused. It could be very conveniently spared, and there can be no question that it was sorely needed as a means of propping up, for a season longer, the rotten and tottering banks scattered over the face of the Republic. The Philadelphia papers, in speaking of the strange position of Pennsylvania, in relation to money mat ters, the authorities of the State being adverse to the issue of small bank notes redeemable in specie, mention as one of the consequences of that policy, that so pressed are the people in the country for currency, that many of them not only make use of the " relief notes," but even cut them in pieces, and employ them as substitutes for half dollars. The Montreal Gazette, of the 15th of November, states that, notwithstanding the receipt of advices from England, to the effect that Canada beef and pork were rapidly getting into consumption at from to 4-id. pei lb., realising to the retailer 58s. 4(1. to 755. sterling per barrel on the first and least favourable samples, the Montreal market, though active for prime and prime mess of both descriptions, had not advanced materially in the rates. Shippers had been deterred from making large purchases, by the unusually high charge for tonnage which prevailed. The quantity sent to England between Oct. 28 and Nov. 10, inclu sive, was 2,815 barrels of psrk, and 636 barrels of beef. TIMES.—The commercial letters. from Madrid, adverting to the affair of Barcelona, consider its issue highly favourable to the trading interests of this country, inasmuch as the insurrection is to be as cribed chiefly to French intrigue, in conjunction with parties who benefit by the contraband system, and who appear therein to have made their last great effort. The Spanish Government are said to possess proofs of a meditated outbreak in the course of last year, but which was frustrated by the mismanagement of the parties concerned in it, among whom there appears to have been all along a great want of concert and judicious arrangements. Hence it is hoped among the merchants, that they may !now see the treaty of commerce, so much desired, make a business-like progress, and the Ministry take courage to put it into shape. Nothing but decisive conduct, however, on their part and that of the Regent is likely finally to dispose of it ; and the question is, whether they will venture to execute such a treaty of them selves, committing the country with England on the issue, and trust to their influence with Congress to obtain an indemnity afterwards. This is deemed the only safe course, as the Cortes, who would resist the measure in session, were likely to be reconciled to the act when done by the advantages sure to follow it to the finance and the credit of the country generally. One of the arrangements talked of as likely to form part of any commercial treaty with England is the rather delicate one of allowing the duty on cottons to be collected in this country—an admirable protection against smuggling, but calculated, unless very adroitly managed, to wound the pride of Spain. With this is connected the further project of making a portion of the proceeds of such duties available for the payment of interest to the English bondholders of Spain. Al together, whatever turn affairs may take i n th ese re spects, there is something like a gleam of hope derived from them of a change for the better, especially if Es partero should maintain himself in power, upon which everything depends. By the New York papers received to-day, it ap pears that an Act passed by Congress last session for the armed occupation of the uncultivated portions of Florida, is beginning to attract the attention of the northern States of the Union, and surprise is ex pressed that it was not more noticed at an earlier period. The object of the Act was to encourage emigration to Florida from the north, and it seems to have the political purpose of increasing northern influence by forming a population which should not have the same interest A ith the landholders and cotton-growers of the south. A "quarter section" (160 acres) of land is given to every emigrant, but he is to plant it for four successive years, before he re ceives the deed conveying it from the Government. For his wife and every adult son he receives an addi tional piece of land of the like dimensions. The Bill as , it was originally drawn by Mr. Burton lent each emi grant a musket and cartridge-box with ammunition and rations for a single year, with the design of ren dering the project as useful as possible to the poorer classes, who would have been thus provided with arms and sufficient sustenance while raisng their first crop. To save expense to the Government, the deed was not to be given till the arms were returned. The clauses allowing a grant of arms to the emigrants have since been removed, which those who are most in favour of the project seem to regret, as they consider the esta blishment of an armed population would be the first step towards the removal of the Indians from the ter ritory. There are not, it is supposed, more than 100 Indian warriors now in Florida, but even these, it is thought, could not easily be removed by a regular military force, but only as the Indians of the Western States, by the steady increase of armed white labour ers. East Florida, when its resources are developed, is not expected to become a great cotton-growing country, but to be chiefly fitted for the cultivation of tobacco and fruit. As the produce of the soil will. therefore be principally of a kind in which free labour is profitably employed, the anti-slavery party look upon the scheme w ith cons id era bl e f avour . CHRONICLE.—The movements in Jamaica, evincing the consent of the agriculturists of that colony to allow the G( vernment to deal with the sugar duties, attracts much interest in the produce markets. The Jamaica H4 -, use of Assembly could not be mistaken in thetteip_twetation of Lord, Stanley's dispatch regaiding , the siigidtintiei ?. We put that question because doubts have been expressed upon the subject by one of the newspapers this morn ing. The House of Assembly forwarded a memorial to her Majesty last spring, against the admission of foreign sugar to the home consumption, which Lord Stanley laid before the Queen, and in communicating the fact to the Jamaica planters, his Lordship re quested the Governor of this island to draw their at tention to the new tariff. • "As far as it relates to the important articles of sugar and coffee," and to the cir cumstance that in giving relief to the labouring classes, by a reduction of the duties "on coffee," tho interests of the planters had not been disre garded. His Lordship then explains the causes which had influenced the Government in not reducing the duties on sugar when they reduced those on cof fee, but holds out no reason to expect that those causes are to be longer relied on. The Jamaica agricul turists took the hint at once, and although we have not yet received the papers, with a report of the de bate which took place in the House of Assembly on the subject, we have got the result, which was the appointment of a Committee of their number to ine- ii - iOrialise her Majesty—not, as formerly, to maintain the prohibitory duties presently levied on slave grown produce—but only such a differential duty, on admit ting it for home consumption, as shall afford due pro tection to the West India planters. Under these cir cumstances, it would seem impossible for the Govern ment to refuse to admit foreign sugars into the home consumption next session of Parliament. There is no other rational interpretation open to Lord Stan ley's dispatch. He says, in answer to their memorial, " You have asked the Queen to keep up the prohibi tion on foreign sugars. I have laid your request be fore her Majesty, but I bid you attend to what we have done under the new tariff in regard to coffee. We have lowered the duty on that article of consump tion to relieve the labouring classes, although it be tainted with slavery, because that is an old established sin, which it is no harm to continue. We have diffi culty, however, in making new vices and in giving fresh encouragement to slavery. But mind you, that difficulty too may be got over, and therefore you had better look sharp and prepare for the coming change," That is the reading which the Jamaica planters gave to his Lordship's labyrinth of fine words ; and coupled with his eulogium on Mr. lluskisson's policy, and some of his successors, it seems pretty clear that they read him right. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of D e aths from all Causes Registered i n the weekending Dec. 3, 1542.. The Table is issued froni the Office of the Registrar-General: — Weekly Average 1835-9-40-1 CAUSICS OF MATH. Total. Four I Four Autumns 'Years Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 150 190 190 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 161 140 149 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ............... iYseases of the Heart and 8100d -vessels 20 19 18 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidndys, &c......... Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, Sce 7 15 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Museles 6 6 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c ..................... 1 1 1 Diseases of Uncertain Seat . ............ Old Age, or Natural Decay . Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem perance ......... ............... 32 24 25 Causes not specified ............ 2 8 7 Deaths from all causes . ........................ 882 -- - Average Weekly Death s..... 912 912 Population Average Deaths enu. Weekly in rnerated Deaths the 1835-9-4 C-1. Week Four I Four Ye ,rs.lAuttunns. DIST RILTS. West—Kensington, St. George ( Hanover-square), Westmin ster, St. Martin in the Fields, St. James North—St. Mary-le•bone, St. Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 161 193 Central—Saint Giles and Saint George, Strand, Clerkenwell, Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon- don, West London, City . of L0nd0n...... ...... ........ ...373,806 188 185 160 East—Shoreditch, Whitechape , Bethnal Green, St. George in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392,492 206 '207 193 South—St. Saviour, St. Olave, St. George( Southvvark),Ber mondsey, Newington. Lam beth, Camberwell, Bother hitbe, Greenwich .„, ... 43 8,060 221 228 207 Total 1,870,7.27 912 912 882 It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality-- sre e w lr ingto n ) , S t. Leonar d cßrom and the parishes of St . Ma rylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington, Y), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad dington,ley), St. Mary-le-bow , Camberwell, Gree nw i c h, St. Nicholas and St. Paul (Deptford) , a n d Woolwich. Th e population, a s enumerated in 1831, was 1,594 ,890 i an d i n J une 1841, was Fulham H am mersmith m Diary sm ( i S th tok Ce h l a 1,870,727. The weekly average . for 1838, 1839, 1840, and dividing the 1841, was obtained by deaths in the four years by 208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52. TEMPERATURE IN THE W EE " ENDING Nov. 26. Dec. 3. 53 , ) 56 ° 36 40 43 48 I 6, 1842. Highest LoWest . Daily Mean . .. General Register Office, Dec RUSSIAN STEAM NAVIGATION.--TW O very fine new steamers of About 800 tons each, with engines of 26'0 horse power, by Maudsley and Field, a re now i n th e East India Dock, on the point of departure for Con stantinople. They have been constructed here for the Russian Government, are fitted a,s passenger and cargo vessels, and are, it is said, destined to ply in the Black Sea and the Bosphorus. The following curious anecdote is recorad by Aubrey, in his Ostenta or Portents, printed in 1696 : Sir Walter Long's widow (of Draycot, Wilts) did make a solemn promise to him an h is death bed, that she would not marry after his decease : but not long after, one Sir Wm. Fox, a very beautiful young gentleman, did win her love; so that notwithstanding her promise aforesaid, she married him at South Wraxall, where the picture of Sir Walter Long hung over the parlour door, as it doth now at Draycot. As Sir Wm. Fox led his bride by the hand from the church (which is near to the house) into the parlour, the string of the picture brake, and the picture fell on her shoulder, and cracked in the fall. It was painted on wood, as the fashion was in those days. This made her Ladyship reflect on her promise, and drew tears from her,eyes !" BANKRUPCY COURT, BRISTOL DISTRICT, D EC , MESSRS. HODROUSE AND Co's. BANKRUPTCY.—This afternoon J. English, Esq., solicitor under the above fiat, in consequence of a summons from the Commis sioners, brought the proceedings in this bankruptcy into Court. It was finally ordered by _Commissioner Stephenson whe presided, that the Co.a/Twould allow one month for the production of the proof 'of debts, &c.. and would then appoint an official assignee. Mr. Edward Mant Miller was to act as the official assignee in the interim—Bath Chronicle. CHEAP PORK.—When pigs is sc arce , t h ere ' s ri s t l i plenty o' wa y s o f filling the, pork b arre l f or them B ic sh k e rdsogsl:aosuwkenl well as tbheearres a s youn g in un an there's g p or p esses, sea l s anpossums, plenty of b ones o ' them pigs as died .murrain time to put a l ong w ith urn. Them ere pigs wa'rnt a no use then—but now, we know better —we sha'nt throw away nothing. But man it a'nt lawful to put no young children in pickle.—Arnertcan paper. BANKRUPTS. EDMUND PETER POWELL, tailor, Southampton, to surrender, Dec. 16, at eleven, and Jan. 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Walker, Southampton-buildings, Bloomsbury ; Deacon and Long, Southampton. JOHN BURSLEM, stationer, King's Lynn, Norfolk, Dec. 19, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Bankart, Clement's. lane, Lombard-street. THOMAS HARTLEY, hatter, Liverpool, Dec. 19, at one, and Jan. 10, at one, at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Grocott, RICHARD- RABY URRY, coach maker, East Ret ford, Nottinghamshire, Dec. 19, at twelve, and Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy. Hope, official as s i gnee , L ee d s ; V o ll ans, E ast R et f or d . ROBERT CHESHIRE JANION, commission agent, Liverpool, Dec. 16, at one, and Jan. 11, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, offi cial assignee, Liverpool ; Johnson, St. Helen's, Lan cashire. JOHN DAVIES and HENRY EDWARDS, linen drapers, Westminster -road, Lambeth, Dec. 22, at eleven, and Jan. 25, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basing hall -street. Lackington, official assignee, Coleman-street buildings ; Ashurst, Cheapside. JOSHUA BEAUMONT, victualler, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Dec. 19, and Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Plaskett, Gainsborough. ISRAEL WADE, grocer, Manchester, Dec. 15, and Jan. 16, at one, at the Manchester District Court of Bankruptcy. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Dear den, Manchester. WILLIAM BELL, merchant, Bridlington, York shire, Dec. 23 and Jan. 17, at eleven, at the Leeds c.ol,lrt of Bankruptcy, Hope, Leeds, official as signee ; Towse, Lawrence Pountney-lane, --London ; Mather, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Wetwan, Bridlington. PETER BLATCHFORD, miller, Plymouth, Dec. 20, and Jan. 19, at twelve, at the Exeter District Court of Bankruptcy. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Harris, Lincoln's Inn, London ; Stogdon; Exeter; Kelly, Plymouth. EDMUND OAKLEY and JOHN WISE, corn dealers, Poole, Dec. 21, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Bishop, South ampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London; Moore, Wim borne, Dorsetshire. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. T. Marris and T. Nicholson, bankerg, Barton-upon- Humber, Jan. 2, at one—J. J. Grant, ale merchant, Gloucester-street, Queen's-square, Bloomsbury, Jan. 2, at half-past eleven. In the Country. J. and G. Lockwood, linen drapers, Wakefield, York shire, Jan. 11, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy—W. S. Batson, J. Wilson, and J. Lang horn, bankers, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Dec. 31, at eleven, at the District Court ofßankruptcy,Newcastle-upon-Tyne. CERTIFICATES to be granV , unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. W. Richardson, wino merchant, King-street, Covent garden, Dec. 30—J. Dennis, sen., and J. Dennis, jun., linen drapers, Tooley-street, Dec. 30—W. Walford. merchant, Great Winchester -street, Dec. 30—W. C. Golland, linen draper, Cambridge, Dec. 30—M. Otley, milliner, St. James's-street, Dec. 30—R. Jacques and R. Wilson, flax spinners, Leeds, Jan. 2—T. Mennen, cloth merchant, Leeds, J an . 4—G. A. Cator, wool merchant, Leeds, Jan. 3—T. T. Johnson, ribbon manufacturer, Wood-street, Cheapside, Jan. 3—R. Duffel', tar distiller, Bow-common, Jan. 3—W. Ridge, C. Ridge, and W. Newland, bankers, Chichester, Dec. 30—E. J. Trough ton, merchant, St. Michael's-alley, Cornikil I, Dec. 30—W. Nockells and J. Barsham, oxalic acid manufacturers, Stratford, Dec. 31—R. H. Goddard, fringe maker, Wood -street, Jan. 4—B. Hargreaves, tailor, Manchester, Jan. 2—W. S. Batson, J. Wilson, and J. Langhorn, bankers, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Dec. 31 B. Paice, victualler, New Windsor, Jan. 4—W. Dunn, merchant, Southampton, Jan. 6—B. Ward, boot manufacturer, Charlotte-terrace, New-cut, Lambeth, Jan. 6—J. Allen, cattle dealer, Much Wymondley, Hertfordshire, Jan. 6 —R. Collinson an d W. B rown , upholsterers, Oxford street, Jan. 6—R. B. Thompson, warehouseman, Wood street, Cheapside, Jan. 6—J. Dudley, chemist, London terrace, Hackney-road, Dec. 30—P. Protheroe, jun., iron merchant, Bristol, Jan. 12—A. G. Gifford, wine mer chant, Mark-lane, Dec. 30 —T. Stephenson, coach maker, Manchester, Dec. 30—J. Russell, merchant, Manchester, Jan. 3—J. Wilson, commission agent, Man chester, Jan. 3—J. Alexander and H. Gibbons, chemists, Wolverhampton, Jan. 2—F. W. Fiddian, architect, Bir mingham, Jan. 3—T. Hampson, broker, Liverpool. Dec. 31—T. Allen, silkman, Macclesfield, Cheshire, Jan. 2 C. Biggs, commission agent, Manchester, Jan. 2. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. P. Lane and P. Wilson—T. and W. Stripling, watch makers, Litchfield— S. Baker and A. Windle, timber merchants, Worthy, Yorkshire—J. H. Watson and S. Wix, attorneys, Great Winchester-street, City—W. Kightley and H. W. Hall, solicitors, Panten-square, Haymarket—My. and M. Dunne, dress . makers, Con duit-street, Westminster—C. Heathcott and S. Linley, manufacturers of joiners' tools, Sheffield—G. Ewart and, R. G. Spedding, zinc workers, Quickset-row, New-road, Bridge-road, Westminster—J. H. Sellers and J. Blomley, attorneys, Rochdale, Lancashire—N. Buchanan and W. Tuppen, hair dressers, Hastings—G. Fox and 11. Horner, engineers, Sheffield—C. Hinnell and R. Willan, attor neys, Bury St. Edmund's—T. Kershaw, C. Holt, J. Jack son, S. Jackson, and J. Stott, coal miners, Spotland, Lancashire (so far as regards S. Jackson)--J. Barnes and E. Chantler, bleachers, Elton-fold, Lancashire—J. Wright and W. S. Partridge, surgeons, Bordesley, 'War wickshire—T. and W. Dickins, whip manufacturers, Da ventry, Northamptonshire—A. and W. Dove, iron mongers, York—B. P. Gurney and R. Carr, ivory cutters, Sheffield—J. Coote and A. Ardley, carpenters, Witham, Essex—T. C. and P. R. Jackson, engineers, Little Bolton, Lancashire—J. Reid and J. Breakenridge, tailors, Liver pool—T. Kershaw, S. Jackson, J. Jackson, J. Stott, and M. Stott, coal miners, Spotland, Lancashire (so far as regards J. and M. Stott)—J. Vickers, J. Vickers, jun., J. Plaisted, and B. Vickers, wine merchants, Tooley street (so far as regards B. Vickers). SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. JAMES HOOD WILSON, flesher, Dundee, Dec. 15 and Jan. 10, at two, at the British Hotel, Dundee. MATHEW TOD, farmer, Bankfoot, Haddington shire, Dec. 3 and Jan. 4, at twelve, at the George Inn, Haddington. ALEXANDER JAMES KILGOUR, china dealer, Dundee, Dec. 17 and Jan. 4,. at two, at the Royal Hotel. Dundee. GEORGE MACFARLANE and CO., merchants, Glasgow, Dec. 15 and Jan. 5, a t one , a t t h e G eorge Inn, glasgow. ' LAUDER and CO., brewers. Jedburgh, Dec. 15 and Jan. 5, at twelve, at the Spread Eagle Inn, Jedburgh. JAMES SCOTT, grocer, Leshmahagow, Dec. 14 and Jan. 4, at two, at the Chambers of A. and J. Morrison, Glasgow. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending Dec. 6, 1842, is 355. Od. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. LADY GRAIIAM.—We are happy to state that Lady Graham is fast recovering from a severe attack of scarlet fever, and that the younger branches of the family are convalescent. Sir James has not been at the Home-office for several days past, being anxious not to run the least risk of communi cating the infection of that distressing illness. The official documents which require the signature of the Home Secretary, are sent to the private residence of the Right Hon. Baronet. FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD A WEST INDIAMAN. —On Thursday an inquest was held before Mr. C. J. Carttar, at the Unicorn public-house, Greenwich, on the body of James Smith, aged 65, a seaman on board the London, of London, West Indiaman. It appeared by the evidence that, on Monday last, as the London was proceeding down the river on her outward bound voyage to Jamaica, when the deceased was standing on the foreyard, handing a rope to another sailor, his foot slipped and he fell on to the windlass-chain with great violence. He was taken on board the Dread nought hospital-ship, where he died in about an hour after the accident. Mr. Botley, the assistant-surgeon of the Dreadnought, deposed that, on a post mortem examination, he found that the liver had been crushed into the cavity of the chest, one of his thighs, legs, and wrist were also broken. The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." KEEPING LENT.—A high Churchman was once asked what made his library look so thin Q His reply was, " My books all keep Len r CORONERS' INQUESTS. MANSLAUGHTER. —Thursday afternoon Mr. Payne held a lengthened investigation at the Duke of Ola-• rence, London-road, on the body of Samuel Nathan, aged 69, a picture dealer in the Borough-road. Peter Felcock, of 3, Neale's-place, Seven Dials, a porter, said, that on Wednesday, the 23d ult., at about three o'clock i n th e a ft ernoon , h e was standing in the passage of Mr. Foster's sale-room, in Pall mall. He saw three men, named Mountain, Rason, and Davy, walking along the passage towards the sale-room. Rason said, in witness's hearing, " Let's go in and ask Mr. Nathan to have a drop of gin. Mountain nodded assent, and Rason added, " Give it him right and left when he comes out." All three then went into the room, and in a few minutes after wards came out again, the deceased following them. When they all got into the passage, Mountain turned round and struck the deceased a violent blow on the right eye, which caused him to fall, and while he was on the ground Mountain again struck him severely over the head, and kicked him in the throat, Rason inciting Mountain to continue the aggression, by saying, " Give it him ;" and Mountain replied, " I'll have his b-- liver out." The deceased called out for assistance, and several gentlemen rushed from the sale-room, lifted, and carried him into the counting-- house. Blood was streaming profusely from his wounds.—The above evidence was corroborated by a number of witnesses. Mr. John Brady, 194, 131ackfriars-road, said he was called in to see the deceased upon Friday week, when he was in bed. Upon examining his head, he found xery severe contused wound awe the .right eye. He prescrllied for him, butgave the family to understand that there was no hope of his surviving the injuries received, and he gradually got worse, erysipelas en suing, and he died upon Wednesday evening. Ile attributed death entir e ly t o th e violence received. The Jury at once unanimously returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against Richard Mountain, as principal, and Thomas Rason as accessory. Yesterday morning Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Crown and Sceptre, Mile-end Old Town, on the body of Mr. Henry Spinks, 69 years of age, of No. 46, Luke-street, Mile-end. Mrs. Mary Spinks, widow of the deceased, stated that on Wednesday evening, during the heavy fog, the deceased had occa sion to go into the yard at the rear of his dwelling house, and a considerable time having elapsed with cut his return, she went to seek him, when she found him lying in the yard in a state of insensibility. Mr. Burchell, surgeon , o f Whi tec h apel-road, said the de ceased was subject to asthma, and he was of opinion death was caused by deceased going out of a warm room suddenly into the foggy atmosphere, which had produced congestion of the lungs, and subsequently of the brain. The Jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death." Mr. Payne held an inquest yesterday evening at Guy's Hospital, on the body of Edward Holland, a child three years old. It appeared from the evidence of his father and others, that on Tuesday last, the child had for a short time been left to the care of his brother, aged six years. Th e l a tt er was b urn i ng a piece of wood to amuse himself, and the child in stretchinc , over to pull it from th e fi re , un f or t una t e l y fell upon the hearth, at the same time upsetting a kettle full of boffin water which was upon the fire. His screams brought the neighbours in, who carried him to Mr. Mason's, a surgeon, where emollients wer e applied. The child was afterwards removed to Guy's llospital, but he had been so seriously injured about the head, neck, and breast, that he died on Thursday. —Verdict, " Accidental death." Mr. Porno held an inquest at the Queen's Head, Creechurcip- &Ile, on the body of Richard Buxton, aged 46. appeared that deceased had been an inveterate I. runkard, and on Thursday night while ascending the stairs to his lodging in No. 3, Herring's-court, Creechurch-lane, and shouting " Buxton is coming, hurrah for Brave Buxton," he fell backwards from top to bottom, his head coming with great violence against the stones, and rendering him insensible ; medical aid was procured and he was removed to bed, when, after lingering till the suc ceeding morning, he expired —Verdict, " Accidental death." THE FOG ON THE RIVER. (From our Evening Edition of yesterday.) Yesterday the business on the river was almost at a stand-still, owing to the dense fog that prevailed both above and below bridge. The small steamers plying between London-bridge and Chelsea were laid up all day. Three of the Watermen's steamers left Wool wich early in the morning, but only one found her way through the mist to the Adelphi pier ; and it was a work of great peril to bring her under the bridges at all. The others brought up at Greenwich. One of the old Company's steamers left Greenwich in the morning, but, in trying to make the pier at Wapping she got athwart hawse of a tier of shipping for up wards of an hour, in a very awkward position. The Harlequin steamer, for Boulogne, and the Belfast, f o r Calais, left the pool at three o'clock in the morning, and, after many hairbreadth escapes from col lision with other vessels, the former got as far as Erith, and the other to the Lower Hope, near Gravesend, where they were heard of at four o'clo'l in the afternoon. The Wilberforce was advertis e d to leave her moorings off the Tower at ten o'cicyck, but it was not until one o'clock in the afternoon when the fog had cleared off a little that she was able to get under way. She reached Gravesend last night, after a long and tedious passage, and brought up there. The City of Canterbury, Captain Large, for Herne Bay, to the surprise of every person on the river, left London-bridge wharf at nine o'clock, and went down the river stern foremost. She was at the Blackwall wharf at one o'clock, and her further progress after that time is unknown. The Ramona, from Yarmouth, which place she left at eleven on Wednesday, did not reach London till yesterday afternoon at three, and came up through the fog much better than was ex pected. The Jolliffe, from Calais, came up about the same time, having made her passage in the usual time, 12 hours. The Giraffe, which was to have left Rotter dam at seven on Wednesday morning, had not passed Gravesend during the day, and it is most probable she is detained on some part, of the coast. The Vivid, from Hull, got upon the Gunfleet Sands, near the Nore, on Wednesday, during a dense sea fog, where she remained eight hours. She arrived at London-bridge wharf on Wednesdaapytai n n gh t Allison, at nine lft o'clock. The Royal Adelaide, e St. Katherine's wharf at five o'clock on Wednesdeay evening. The fog was then rather heavy, but hopes were entertained by her skilful pilot, Mr. Allen, that she would be enabled to get down to Gravesend, but the fog becam e so t hi ck on reaching Limehouse, that the pilot determined not to risk the safety of this large steam-ship any longer, and her ancacr was let go. The Royal Adelaide is bound to Leith, and remains 'at Limehouse for the present. The foreign steam-ships Antwerpen, from Antwerp, and the Batavier, from Rotterdam, were both due on Wed nesday at St. Katherine's, and had not arrived there at nine last night, nor was there any probability of their during so during the night. It was reported in the early part of the day that the Antwerpen was ashore on the coast of Holland, but it is right to state the report was not traced to any authentic source. A large ship bound to Sydney, with emigrants and an extensive cargo, was to have been hauled out of the St. Katherine Docks yesterday, but could not proceed, and the only vessel that did get under way from the dock wag the Quebec New York packet-ship with the emigrants. She was towed down the river by the City of London steamer, and brought up before reach ing Gravesend. At night the fog was unusually heavy, and there was not a vessel of any description stirring on the river. On inquiry at the offices of the General Steam Navigation Company, it was ascer tained that five of their first-class steam ships were expected, and that there was no probability of their coming up during the night. There were several col lisions on the river during the day, but none were at tended with serious results. A boatman was drowned off Rotherhithe, in the afternoon, by coining in con tact with a coal brig, while rowing across the stream. The barque Chusan, Captain Laird, from China, out, six months, landed passengers and mails here yester day morning by the pilot-boat Pandora, of Dort r , J. Collins, master. The Chusan spoke with th e Cyrus whaler, Captain Spratley, on the 4th Au gust, in Macassar Straits, with 300 barrels of oil ; on the 12th of August with the brig Lanothland, Rogers, master, from Sydney, at Batavia, desired to report the Rover whaler all well, with 2,000 barrels of oil ; on the 30th October with the brig Malden, of New castle, from London for Brazils, lat. 7.20 N., long. 25.00 W.; and on the 30 th Nov. with the brig Fo rester, of Hull, from Liverpool, lat. 45.14 N., long. 10.40.—Brighton Gaze.tl._ Charlemagne, which arrived at Marseilles on the 2d, brings news from Algiers to the 20th of November. The column under the command of the Governor-General was on its march towards Oued Rouina on the 26th of last month. No important event had resulted from its operations, which are favoured by splendid weather. _ Tr i CHURCH-RATES. The following notice has been forwarded L , • --- Home-office ' to the Oversee rs an d Ch urc h w rks every parish in England a n d Wales : • , _ • " Gentlemen,—The Queen has b een p l comply with the prayer of a humble address prekriktkiaS to her Majesty in pursuance of a resolution of the House•of Commons, for' return of every Church-rate, or rate for the purpose of Church-rate, within the last two years, in every parish, district parish, and extra parochial place, distinguishing the year in which it was made ; the gross amount of the rate, and the rate per pound on the property assessed ; the amount collected, and the amount spent in repairing the fabric of the church ; the amount derived from all funds other than Church -rates, applied in aid thereof; in what cases vestries called to consider a Church-rate have refused, or by any form of proceeding declined to grant it ;' also with the prayer or an humble address presented to her Majesty, in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons, for a return of the value at which the property has been assessed to the Church rate in each parish, district parish, and extra-parochial place, within the last two years.' " I am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to desire that you will prepare the said returns, so far • as relates to the parish, or township, district parish, or extra-parochial place for which you are the churchwar dens, and transmit the same to me as soon as possible, with a view to th e i r b e i ng l a id b efore the House of Commons. " A form for the returns has been prepared, and in enclosing to you a copy thereof; I have to request that the same may be carefully filled up and returned to me, unsealed ; and it is particularly requested that the insertion of the name ofyour parish, and of the county and diocese in which it is situated, may not be omitted in the form. (Signed) "H. MANNERS SUTTON." The following is the nature of the return required Ist. Date at which every Church-rate, or rate for the purpose of the Church-rate, that has been made within the last two years. 2d. Gross amount of rate. 3d. Value at which the property has been assessed to the Church-rate. 4th. Rate per pound of the Church-rate on the pro perty assessed. sth. Amount of church-rate collected. 6th. Amount derived from all funds, other than Church-rates, applied in aid thereof. 7th. Amount spent in repairing__ the fabric of the church. Bth.. Cases in which vestries have refused, or by any form of proceednigdec;ined to grant:. Church-rate TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU!*. Siai—As the season of the year has again returned when the. benevolent are necessarily called upon to assist the deserving poor in their respective parishes, permit me, through the medium of your paper, to call the serious consideration of the kind-hearted to the fact, that a very great number of those poor families who absolutely require the aid of their more affluent neighbours, during the winter months, are themselves charged to the Poor and Church-rates ; indeed, I know several destitute families who, for many weeks, have scarcely bread to eat, are most inhumanly com pelled to pay these rates, or subject themselves to having their scanty furniture, nay, even the beds on which they lie, sold to pay them ! (this Church has been ironically, I suppose, styled by some of the clergy " the poor man's Church.") These truly arbitrary mea sures should not be allowed any longer to remain upon the statute book of a professedly Christian country. The poor, who have barely enough to subsist upon by their own indasty, 'to be called upon and compelled to pay Poor and Church-rates, is really too bad ; the vo luntary contributions of the charitably and religiously disposed, to be turned into a source for paying the Poor and Church-rates, ought not, in common honesty, to be for one moment tolerated, much less to be continued year after year. It is to be hoped that these observations will meet the eye of some of the parochial authorities in most of our towns, who will, doubtlessly, instantly set about a thorough reform, and, as carefully as possible, correct these deplorable abuses; let only the benevolent themselves ques tion their respective applicants as to whether they are charged to the Poor and Church-rates, and act accordingly, as I purpose doing, this glaring absurdity, to say the least of it, will, arid must shortly-, correct itself. The clergy of the national Church of England and Ireland, will soon feel that their honour and respectability, as a clergy, are too deeply involved in allowing the tax-gatherer to harrass the poor and needy (* whom they are in duty bound to protect,) for Church-rates. The favour of your giving publicity to these, trust, wholesome suggestions, for the benefit -of your numerous readers, in your next paper, will, S: 11 - greatly oblige, A CONSTANT READEa. , 29th Nov., 1842. * At the period the Roman Catholic Churcb was pre dominant in .this country, their clergy provided for the paor, kept the parish church in repair, and maintained themselves out of the tithes. Now, however, we have a' reformed church, with two out of three of those charger harrassed upon the .people—there has been no pi iesteruft, in all this I ! No, no, it is all pure and holy Pro— testantism, and disinterested scriptural self-denial. A COOL BET—HOT 4 INE., At length Mr. John found himself so cantir: tta n y losing, that he began to complain o f a headte.ie as an excuse for leaving off. "'Tis the vie o'rd"eaire" said Jack Johnson, " you may depend upon 'it. I thought you took too much at dinner." Ar. John Bernard was indignant at the idea that 'anybody who went on the river in London, and, kp e . sv some of the Leander men, could allow yin o ral' atire to have any effect upon him. " It cannot be that 'wretched stuff," he replied. "It is a great deal deal. stronger than you think for," said Jack ; " and Y - Ju would find it so if you drank it quckly, instead of taking your time about it." " I don't See what that h as t o do with it," observed Mr. John " Now, look here," continued Johnson ; " I'll bet .V 4 7;ti fifteen or twenty francs that I make the whole of this pack of cards into pancakes' before you can drink oft' a half-pint tumbler of Chablis." " Oh, nonsense ! I would not take the bet ; it would be downright robbery." "As you like. Will you bet twenty francs ?" Mr. John Bernard, who had lost about that sum to Jack Johnson, thought there would be no great harm in getting his money back again, so said that he would make the wager. " But you will give me good wine ?" he asked. " You shall choose it yourself," was the reply, " and I will drink some first:" Ledbury being appointed a witness of the bet, Jack left the room, and procured the Chablis from the butler. He then invaded the kitchen, and having established himself instantaneously in the fa vour of all the servants, by paying them a collective compliment and kissing Madame Provost's fentme de chambre, he g o t th e coo k to heat a tumbler-full of the wine until it was nearly boiling, and with this he re turned into the drawing -room. " Are you ready r ile inquired of Mr. John Bernard. " Perfectly." " Then fire away," said Jack ; " but don't spill any over that pretty stock, because it would be a pity. You'll find the wine rather warm ; but I presume that is of no consequence. We made no agreement as to temperature—it was merely as to quality." As Jack rapidly began to make the cards into pancakes, Mr. Bernard put his lips to the wine, and saw that he was " done ;" but still thinking that he might yet ac complish the task within time, he attempted to swal low it. He sipped, and sneezed, and winced, and coughed, his eyes watered, and his throat appeared losing its skin, b u t all o f no avail. Jacks agile fingers completed their task before the tumbler was half emptied, a n d he tossed the last pancake upon the table in tri um ph as he added, " I'll trouble you for twenty f rancs " There was no 4-ening out of it, and Mr. J. B ernar d' s an ger at losing his moneywas only exceeded by the feeling of humbled importance which he experienced. Throwing the money on the t _ table out with a very bad grace, he marchedoeroom without saying a word to anybody .1 . _r f _ eh . • dbury's Adventures in Bentley's Miscellany for December. OPERATIONS FOR RAISING THE APOLLO AND WATER WlTCH.—Captain Fisher, harbour -master of the port of London, a short time ago received instruc tions to survey, and see how far it was practicable to remove, the hull of the Apollo steam-boat, the pro perty of the General Steam Navigation Company, and sunk some time since near Grays, on the Essex shore. The ,lev hen examinationit was commencementfho a u 01 di n now trbaaetsei operations fora d l a e yr aui prepa ratoryspionngiht nhaedvreegesrsotoo:uleiri recovering thereg her would entir probably and wi without u l little t h e difficulty aving re course Fisher htoaseixlapalos.ons. From the experience Captain in ; raisin.. the Vesper and other vessels, he is inclined to think that, with the assistance of the Government lighters, and should the Apollo hold together, the operations will not occupy much time. The vessel contains fifteen large anchors and chain cables, which it will be necessary to raise before attempts are made to remove the hull. The WrAer Witch, which was sunk soon afterwards near t"aie same place, has also been surveyed, and found in a very weak condition, the timbers in many parts having yielded and become injured by the action of the water. The vessels have obstructed greatly the free navigation of the river at that part. The Cor poration of the City have employed Captain Fisher in the undertaking, and it has been determined to com mence the work of raising both vessels when the weather becomes favourable for the purpose. Yesterday after noon a shocking accident occurred to a respectable f :.male named Margaret Walker, 70 years of age, re siding in Bishopsgate-street, who, whilst in the act of crossing Cornhill, opposite the Mansion House, was knocked down by an omnibus, which was pass-111g at the time. A policeman who saw the occurren •ce, immediately ran to her assist ance, and on picl :ing her up it was found that her right ancle was dislocated, and she was otherwise severely injured. :He procured a cab, and conveyed her to St. Thoi nas's Hospital, where she lies in a Perfectly insens: ible state, and without the slightest hope of recovery. STORK HOTEL, LIVERPOOL. . C. THOMAS begs to inf orm those Cornmer cial Gentlemen who travel with stocks, that he has at length overcome the inconvenience arising from the want of show rooms in having taken the aljoining house for that purpose. E. C. T. takes this opportunity to return his warmest thanks for the distinguished support received from Commercial Gen tlemen since opening the above Hotel, and respectfully solicits a continuance of their patronage.