The Sun. — London, England, 1849-03-12 00:00:00

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Card nitteo be sition for ;, and be with the id at the ,his most DANK OF ENGLAND, MARCH 6, 1849. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the GOVERNOR and COMPANY of the BANK of ENGLA. ND give notice— That the GENERAL COURT held at the Rank on THURSDAY, the 15th instant, at Twelve o'clock precisely, to consider of a Divi dend ; also that another General Court will be held at the Bank, on TUESDAY, the 10th April next, from Ten o'clock in the forenoon till Four o'clock in the afternoon, fcr the Election of a Governor and Deputy-Governor for the year ensuing (which will be declared that .evening) ; and the same Court will be continued by adjournment, and held at the same place, and during the same hours, on IVEDNEs 3)air, the 1 lth April next, for the Election of Twenty-four Directors (which will also be one of the Quarterly U eneral Courts appointed by the eharter), and the Election of the Twenty-four Directors will be declared as soon as the scrutiny is over. Printed Lists of the Proprietors having votes will be ready to be delivered at the Bank, on TUESDAY, the 27th March instant. JOHN KNIGHT, Secretary. N.B. By an Act passed in the 7th year of Geo. 111. no person will be entitled to vote at the said Election who shall not have been six calendar months possessQd, in his own right, of the stock for which be shall then give his vote, unless the said stock shall have been ac quired, or shall have come by bk quest or by marriage„ or by succes Won to an intestate's estate, or by the custom of the city of London, or by any deed of s,ttlement after the death of any person who shall have been entitled for life to the dividends of such stock. EAST INDIA. HOUSE, /Luton 12, 1849. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice, in conformity with the by-law of the sa'd Company, chap. 7, sec. 6, I That the following Proprietors of East India Stock, qualified agree able to law, have signified in writing to the Secretary their desire of becoming Candidates at the ensuing Election of Six Directors, on *WEDNESDAY, tLe 11th April next, viz.:— Sir Robert Campbell, Bart. William Joseph Eastwick. Esq. Sir James Weir Hogg, Bart., M.P. Lieut.-Colonel William Henry Sykes. John Clarmont Whiteman, Esq. Sir Henry Willock, K.L.S. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause BOISRAGON against GORDON, such of the Next of Kin of ELIZABETH WHI I'. AKER, formerly of Brenchley, in the countyof Kent, afterwards of lie- Kate, in the county of Surrey, and late of Douro Cottage, Toubridgo Wells, in the county of Kent: spinster, deceased, as were living at the time of her death, which happened on or about the 24th day of Janu ary, 1848, and also the legal personal representatives or representa tive of such of them, if any, as have since died, are, on or before the 18th day of April neat, to come in and snake out their, his, or her claims or claim, as such next of kin, or legal personal representatives or representative, before RICHRD RICHARDS, Esq., one of the Mas ters of the said Court, at his Chambers in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane. London, or in default thereof they will be peremp torily excluded the benefit of the said Decree. N. H. BAINES, 3, Yerulam-buildings, Gray's Inn. March 7, 1849. SOCIETY for the DISCHARGE and RELIEF of PERSONS IMPRISONED for SMALL DEBTS through but ENGLAND and WALES. Established 1772. PRESIDENT. The EARL of ROMNEY. vICE-PRESIDENTS. Lord Kenyon I Rt. Bon. Sir R. Peel, Bart., M.P. Tatssuara—Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P.,.F.R.5. Aubrroas —John Pepys, Esq., and Cape! Cure, Esq. At a MEETING of GOVERNORS, held in Craven-street, on Wednesday, the 7th day of March, 1849, the cases of 33 Petitioners were considered, of which 24 were approved, 5 rejected, 1 inad missible, and 3 deferred for inquiry. Since the meeting held on the 7th of February, SEVENTEEN DEBTORS, of whom 10 had Wives and 25 Children, have been Discharged from the Prisons of England and Wales ; the expense of whose liberation, including every charge connected with the So ciety, was 3071. 9s. I Id. ; and the following BENEFACTIONS RECEIVED SINCE THE LAST REPORT : John Pepys, Esq. • ..... .................. A. £5 0 0 John Curteis, Esq. ...... •• • ............... A. 5 0 0 Frederick Chatfield, Esq. per Messrs.Drummondi. 5 5 0 Lord Sherb•rne, per Messrs. b0are...... • • ...... 3 • 0 Benefactions are received by Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., the Treasurer, No. 1, Brick-court, Temple; also by the following Bankers :—Messrs. Cocks, Curries, Drummonds, berries, Hoares, Veres ; and by the Secretary, No. 7, Craven-street, Strand, where the books may be seen by those who are inclined to support the Charity, and where the Society meet on the first Wednesday in every month. JOSEPH LUNN, Secretary, APUBLIC MEETING of GAS CON SUMERS of the CITY of LONDON will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on WEDNESDAY evening, the 14th instant, at Six o'Clock precisely, to receive a report from the Committee of Gas Consumers, appointed by the Public Meeting on the 21st of February last, and to take the determination of the meeting thereon. The chair will be taken at six o'clock precisely. IN consequence of the great rush of Visitors to see BANVARD'S GRAND MOVING PAINTING of the MIS FASSIPPI and MISSOURI RIVERS', at the EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly, the Proprietor respectfully announces Two Exhibitions every day during the luii.ays. This immense Painting is the Largest in the to orld, and exk,bits more than 3,000 miles of Ameri can scenery.—The Day exhibition will commence every Afternoon, at Half-past Two, and the Evening at Half-past Seven o'clock ; 'doors open half , n hour before commencing. Admission, lower seats, 2s. ; gallery, Is. -W ALHALL A, LEICESTER-SQUARE TO-NIGHT, a GRAND BAL MASQUE, a la Jullien, for the Benefit of the LESSEE, being the Last Night on which this ele gant Establishment can be open to the public. Costumier, Mr. Simmons, 7, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden. Doors open at Ten, Dancing to commence at Half-i ast Ten. ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE 1 ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. The leading features of the Society are guarantcee of an ample Proprietary Capital. Moderate Rates of Premiums. Two-thirds Premium Loaned to the Assured. -Annual Division of Profits. Half the Premium may remain as a Loan for Five Years. Extensive Travelling Leave granted, without extra Premium. Moderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates. N.B. The last Annual Bonus to the Assured varied from 27 to 65 Per cent. (according to age) on the Premiums paid. Examples of Bonuses already Declared, and Options. Parma- Suns the 4.0 Annual Policy Bonus in , mut Re- Assured .6.• Pre- taken addition ;Bonus in Auction of may bor .;l 111111 M. out in to Sum I Cash. Animal row *a Assured. ' Premium. Policy. X s. 4. X s d. X s. d. X s. 4. 1837 262 14 3121 15 11 20 0 0 543 17 9 s. d. 1838 237 15 6,108 16 4 17 7 6 494 8 10 60 ilOOO 74 3 4 1839 211 18 61 95 16 9 14 17 7 445 0 0 1840 165 8 4, 75 15 10 11 10 9 395 11 1 1841 159 3 41 71 6 • 10 19 8 346 2 a 1842 132 2 61 58 17 6 819 10 296 13 4 1843 84 11 81 37 10 0 614 2 247 4 1 Prospectuses, with tables of rates, &c., may be had at the office, sr any of its branches in the country ; or, on application. will be for- Warded post free. W. S. B. WOOLITOWSE, Actuary. BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, _ _ Princes-street, Bank, London. Capital, One Million. This Institation is empowered by a Special Act of Parliament, 4 Tict., cap. 9, and is so constituted as to afford the benefits of Life .Assurance in their fullest extent to Policy holders, and to present greater facilities and acoommodation than are usually offered to the - The ample subscribe) Capital, together with the large and con tinually increasing fund, accumulate 1 from the Premiums on upwards 4 31 . 7,000 Policies, affords complete security to the assured ; while the magnitude of the Company's transactions has enabled the Directors to offer unusual advantages to Policy holders, as will be seen by re ference to the prospectus, and to the varied and extensive tables Which have been comput ed with great care and labour, expressly for the use of this Institution. PETER MORRISON, Resident Director. POLICIES FREE OF STAMP DUTY TO TIIE ASSURED. E NGINEERS, MASONIC, and UNIVERSAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Ilead Office, 345, Strand, London, (opposite Waterloo-bridge). Medical Referees paid by the Society. A Policy once granted never disputed. Premiums may be paid llalf-yearly, Quarterly, or Monthly. The whole of the Profits amongst the Assured. FREDERIC LAWRANCE, Actuary and Secretary. THE FABLE of the FARTHINGS ; Or. a HINT from the MINT. Two farthings of perfectly different dates Met together—so fabulous story relates ; The one had been coined in the reign of Queen Anne, And the other was formed on Victoria's plan. It appears that they met in a box which contains The different coins of the different reigns : When thus the old farthing saluted the new— • " Good morning, Victoria, how do you do ?" "Quite well," said the one with the Vic. in its flame,: " And all in the nice order—hop , you're the same." " Well, I feel rather dull, but I think for all that, That you are so bright, we can have a nice chat." " I thank you," said Vic, " for your compliments, Anne, And I'll try to oblige you as well as I can ; I've thought since I seen you what different scenes Distinguished the reigns of the couple of Queens. Queen Anne," said the newly-coined farthing, " would stare At the wonderful change brought about here and there. My owner one day, as he often had done, Mad.' a call at THE DRESS MART OF MOSES AND SON, And chancing to drop from his pocket, I gazed, Till really I e. - aild not help feeling amazed. Such a warekouse I never expected to scan ; There was nothing like that in the reign of Queen Anne. The suit which my owner purchased there was ono Which honoured the Warehouse of MOSES and SON ; And I know not a Lord in the Court of Queen Anne, Was ever attired on such a choice plan. THE HATS AND THE BOOTS Which were bought at the time, Were novel, and stylish, and thoroughly prime. You must own," said the Fadge, "that your own noble Queen Swayed England when nothing so stylish was seen. THE ELEGANT FURS Which I also beheld Could never be equalled, or never excelled : The beautiful goods which I happened to scan Would have highly delighted your mistress, Queen Anne ; My wonder is this," said the new to the old, " That the price is so low for the articles sold." " I've been highly delighted to hear you," said Anne, " And try to amuse in return, if I can ; But pray don't expect me to do as you've done— Toe had the advantage with MOSES and SON." LIST OF PRICES. READY MADE. Autumn and Winter Coats, in all the new styles.. from £0 9 6 Chesterfield and Codrington's, and every description of Over-coats, handsomely trimmed •• •• • • • 0 The Premier •• • • ••• • • • ••••• • • • • • •• • • • • • ***** • • 0 15 ••••••• ** • • 1 o 0 Shooting Coats.— •••••••• • • • " '• " • ***** •••• • • •• S 6 Autumn and Winter Trousers .. ••••••• • • • • • • • •• • • 0 4 8 Doeskin ditto .. 0 12 6 Autumn and Winter Vesta .. ••••••••••• • • • • • ' • • • • • 2 9 1 I I Boys' Hussar and Tunic Suits.. •• • ****** .• 0 16 6 MADE TO MEASIIIII. Autumn and Winter Coats, in all the newest style from I 6 0 Milled cloth Coat ••••••••••••••••••—•••• •• 2 2 0 Tweed Wrappers ••..••••.. • • • • • • • • 0 16 0 New Patent Trousers, in all the approved styles...... 0 16 6 Doeskin Trousers.. • • ...... ••••••.. • • .• •• • • 1 2 0 Best, or Dress.• •• • • ...... ......... 1 6 0 Dress Coats ••• • • . Best .. • ..... .••..• • .. • • .............. 215 0 Best quality ••• • • • Satin, Plain or Fancy ••••••• • • • • • • • 0 12 0 Hussar and Tunic Suits .. ••••••••• • • • • • •• •• •• •• 1 8 0 Mourning to any extent at Five Minutes notice. A Suit of Clothes complete for 1/. 16s. A new work, entitled " The Treasury of Taste," containing a de tailed list of prices for each department, with full directions for self nieasusement, may he had on application, or forwarded post-free. Notice.—The Shawl Department, 155, Minorles, is now replete With every novelty of the season. observe.—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to mea sure, if not approved of, will be exchanged, or if preferred the Motley returned. Caution.—E. Moses and Son regret having to guard the public against imposition ; but have learned that the untradesman-like falsehood of being connected with them, er " It is the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They have no connexion with any other house in or nut of London, except their Branch Establishments, 36, Fargate, Sheffield ; and 19, lhoraton's-buildings, Bradford, Yorkshire; asd tuose who desire genuine and cheap clothing. &c.. should call at, or send to either of their Branches, or to the Minories and Aidgate, City, London. X. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, flatters, nesters, le urriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for Ladies and Gentlemen, 154, 1/ 5 , 1 56 , and 157 Mino r l es, and 83, ~ ' 4 . 85 , and 86 Aldgate, City, London ; and their Branch Establish nients, 36, Fargate, Sheffield ; and 19, Thoruton's-buildings, Brad ord, Yorkshire. Take Notice.—This Eitablishrnent is closed from sunset Friday, MI sunset Saturday, when business is resumed CB twelve o'clock. Several first rate Cutters wanted for London and. Cotuttif ; apply 0 4 Tuesday mornings, a 6 Ten o'clock. man' lace the foreign former loners of British hat the, at trade but thy If they ling the )petition wound principle ;aged row that ,king. as nd theY extent , herefore for thio 'LIS Wer e to Carl t of 010 Lotion on ; nhouid oise and lion as 3overn- at; CO' auld not fembero man the the re' mday if [iursdai Id be 0 ly tha t motions )f great i of the uld lieS second Le coo' ra con several ch case ventioe ause of d, since re cow' a of the 'matioe ;; like :11 have nose 4 :!f long i t l ips, or 1 which ause °f , tOWIV ►nd the Great took, 62' 9-1.0 0 ; tdon an d. ex in ' Tbirde , wcastle, —Ditto, 3 la-l i 7estern, an d rnian , 3 heincidt P' es dll. ;lifers - SCr I P , 3% dlb' ions 16'6 ❑ee), rs. No. 17,6 10.] LONDON, MONDAY EY IMPORTANT TO GENTLEMEN, FARMERS, AND OTHERS. J WAITE, Seed Merchant, 181, Hi g h Hol born, G. London, has spared neither Limo or expense in selecting all the grasses worthy of cultivation, which enables him to offer the following : Grass—fine mixturo for forming lawns, to suit any soil, 40s. per acre. Ditto, a mixture of selected natural grasses for laying down laud to permanent meadowo and pasture, to suit any soil, 30s. per acre. Ditto, mixture lbr improving old grass land, 80s. per cwt. Ditto, a mixture sufficient for laying down one acre for healthy and mocry lands, 30s. Ditto, a mixture sufficient for one acre for permanent pasture In or chards, or other grounds, much shaded by trees, 30s. Ditto, for pasturage and covers in thick shaded woods, to suit any soil, 28s. per acre. Ditto, a mixture for marshy groun , ls, and such as are occasionally overflowed by fresh water, 255. per acre. J. G. W. has just received a large consignment of Italian Rye Grass direct from the continent, Bs. per bushel. In giving or,lers for grasses it is requisite to state whether for light, medium, or heavy soils ; With every other kinds of wtricultural, horticultural, and floricul tural seeds worthy of cultivation. Catalogues can be tad on appli cation. VOMMISSION.—A Gentleman, having travelled IL.) twelve years through the West Riding, Yorkshire, calling Imo* Grocers, Tea Dealers, and Manufacturers, is open to treat for a respectable Commission. Ills journies are monthly, and a quick re turn may be relied upon. Address A. Z., at the office of this paper. ART -UNION of LONDON. Incorporated by Royal Charter. The Subscription List will CLOSE on the 31st instant. Each Prizeholder, at the Annual Distribution, will be entitled to select FOR lIIMS'ELF a Work of Art, as heretofore. Every Subscriher will receive for each Guinea an impression of a Line Engraving, by P. Lightfoot, after W. E. Frost, A,R.A. —" SABRINA," a proof of which may now be seen at the office, and in addition to this, an Engraving, after a design in bas relief„ of " Christ entering Jerusalem," for which the Premium of 100/, has been awarded to Mr. J. Hancock. GEORGE GODWIN, 1 Honorary LEWIS POCOCK, ' j Secretaries. 444, West Strand, March, 1849. THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET. Lectures explaining the Art of Magic by Mr. Shaw, with il lustrations, changed every week, daily at a Quarter to Four, and every Evening at Nine.—Lecture on the Chemistry of the Breakfast Table, daily at a Quarter to Three o'clock.—Dr. Bach hoffner's Illustrations .n Astronomy, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at One o'clock.—Lectures on the Ventilating of Mines, &c., by means of the Steam Jet.—A. View in the Gold District of Ca lifornia is aided to the New Dissolving Views.—New Chrome trope.—Machinery and Models explained, &c., &c.—The Music is directed by Dr. Wallis. Open daily from► Eleven to Five ; and in the Evenings (including , aturday) from Seven till Half-past Tea. Admission, lg.—Schools, Half-price.—The New Catalogue, Is. THE NICOLL.—REGENT- STREET and CORNIIILL. " Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy— rich, not gaudy ; For the aparel oft proclaims the man." TIIE spirit and meaning of the above quotation may with justice he applied to The NICOLL, a patented Paletot or outer coat, adapted for a variable climate, by means of a novel and most ingenious contrivance, whereby it can be converted at pleasure from a warm to a light garment, or vice versa. The wearer's personal appearance is moreover im proved, and he possesses a most gentlemanly and graceful gar ment for either cold or warm weather ; not only this, but tke inner hieing, when detached, can be worn alone, and forms a most corn foita,le reading or dressing Jacket; and though ibe tout ensemble is rich in quality, yet It retains a moderate cost, such varying from one and a halt to three and a half guineas, hut can he had in London only of the Patentees, H. J. and I). NICOLL, 114, 116, 1210, RE GENT-STREET, and 22, COItNIIILL. FOREIGN WOOLS.—" At the recent Wool Sales, the whole of certain qualities of Foreign Wools, after some competition, were purchased for Messrs. Nicoll, the extensive Woollen Drapers and Clothiers of Regent-street and Cornhill. They are all marked for Gloucestershire, as in that county the mills are situated wherein the raw material will be converted into the beau tiful fabric known as the Nicollian Cloth, a species of manufacture introduced by the firm from wherry it derives its name."—The Sun. WOOLLEN BUYERS and CONSUMERS are reminded that Messrs. NICOLL were the first, and continue to be the only, house in the United Kingdom that ever offered to the buyer and consumer, for cash payments, the saving of all the several profits of the In termediate grades that continue to exist between the wool growers and themselves. As will be shown by the above extract from one of the public journals, the wool used in the manufacture of the Nicollian Cloth does not leave Messrs. N.'s po-sessien until it is produced in the piece ready for sale, either by their Agents, or themselves at the Whole sale Warehouse, 120, REGENT-STREET, and afterwards when made up into the fashionable and Patented garments known as the NICOLL, the REGISTERED PALETOT, and NICOLL'S MORNING COAT, all of which can be purchased singly of the several recognised Agents, as also of the Patentees. 11. J. and D. NICOLL, at their Retail Ware-rooms, 114, 116, and 120, REGENT-STREET, and 22, CORNUILL. LONDON. THE REGISTERED PALETOT (6 and 7 Vict., Cap. 65) of .Nicollian or Llama Cloth, as adapted for the approaching Spring by Messrs. NICOLL, who are the ORIGINAL INVENTORS, and continue to be honoured with the patronage of their Royal High nesses PRINCE ALBERT, PRINCE GEORGE of CAMBRIDGE, PRINCE EDWARD of SAXE WEIMAR, his Grace the DUKE of WELLINGTON, and all others distinguished in rank and fashion, the Court, the Pulpit and the Bar. The above is now produced in the richest and best-manner, con taining all the new and patented improvements for the extremely moderate price of Two Guineas, to be had in London only of H. J. aid D. NICOLL, 114, 116, and 120, REGENT-STREET, or 22, CORNIIILL. UNDER the SILIDOW of the GRASS• HOPPER (22, CornhM, opposite the Royal Exchange) may be seen the City Depot for the NICOLL, the REGISTERED PALETOT, NICOLL'S MORNING COAT,: and other garments, with some portion of each of the beautiful fabrics daily exhibited in the spacious warerooms, 114, 116, and 120, Regent-street, as not only these last-named premises, bit alss those in Cornhill, are the property of sae and the same firm. The following agents have a large rari.t,r - 6 00 as tor mspe,ri.., viz. :—Messrs. Wareing and Son, New-street, Birmingham ; Messrs. Dawbarn and Son, Bold-street, Liverpool ; Messrs. Macdona, Moles worth-street, Dublin ; Messrs. Christie and Son, George-street, Edin burgh. y a des agents pour la vents de ces articles breTetes dans teutes les principales villes del'Angleterre et des colonies qui ant des as sortiments prets a etre examines. ANOVELTY. —There has lately been registered an article that cannot fail to find a place in every Gentle man's wardrobe, as it effectually provides for a long-acknowledged want therein. The said novelty consists in a body garment some what in the form of a dress-coat—that is to say, it can be worn without any distinct infringement of the laws of cos tume recognised in society upon ordinary dress occasions; but yet the garment is more especially intended for morning wear, as a Riding er Walking Coat ; and as, for such exercises, each will maintain his own idea as to the requisite ease necessary for its dt, the inventors, in order to insure the full convenience of their patrons, will keep ready an extensive graduation of sizes, Fe that a selection can be made proportionate with the nature of exertion or the wearer's own taste—thus at once obviating any annoyance arising from the cutter not iminediatelely comprehending what is wanted. Although composed of the NICOLLIAN CLOTH, yet a most moderate price is charged, viz., Two Guineas for NICOLL'S MORNI.tiG COAT, as that is the name given to the said novelty, and which can be had in London only of 11. J. and 1). NICOLL, 114, 116, and 120, REGEN f.-STREET, and 22, CORNIIILL. TO TIIE COUNTRY TRADE, &c.--Such re spectable Houses as may be disposed to add to their present trade the very important addition of a first-rate connexion, consisting of purchasers of first-class Goods, principaLy PALETO IS, &c., can effect their object by applying for terms, &o. to the under-men tioned, who will duly forward same, with tullert particulars, in the event of there being an opening for an agency in the town from whence they write.—H. J. and D. NICOLL, IVIIOt.E -SALE and COUNTING-HOUSE DEPARTMENT, 120, REGENT STREET, London. CARRIAGE FREE.—Families resident in the country, whose consumptioa of TEA is considerable, are par ticularly invited to the Establishment of MANSELL and CO., Wholeiale Tea and Coffee healers, 2, BucklersDury, Cheapside. When the order is for 61bs. in weight and upwards, the carriage is paid direct to the house, and the lowest wholesale price is charged; thus the frequent addition of accumulative profits is saved. MANSELL and CO., Backlersbury, Cheapside. GAS CHANDELIERS AND GAS PIT TINGS.—AII who require Gas Fittings of any description should inspect the Immense Stock at the Establishment of th e Metropolitan Light Company.—Designs of Chandeliers, Brackets, Hall Lanterns, Pendants, &c., to suit every taste. The prices are so low, all must be pleased. The Fittings can be done with all dispatch consistent with proper workmanship. The proper Gas Burners for dwelling-rooms aro the Glass and the Reflecting Burners. The Compasy, to prevent their Gas Work being defaced, use Glass Handles for the turn-taps.—Contracts entered into, and the work guaranteed. RICHARD CLARK, Resident Manager, 447, West Strand, corner of Adelaide-street, next doer to tke Electric Telegraph Company. A NEW DISCOVERY. MR. HOWAitii,StlieOnbentist, 52, Fleet street, has introduced an ENTIRELY NEW DESCRIP TION of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as net to be distinguished from the originals by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth rendered sound and useful in mastication 52, Fleet-street. At Home from Ten till Five. MEDICAL ADVICE. MESSRS. Surgeons, 60, Newman-street, Oxford-street, continue to be DAILY CON: SILTED on all diseases of the generative system, comprising syphil- Us, gonorrhoea, secondary symptoms, and those deplorable disorders resulting from early indulgence and excess. 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Just published, price 2s. 6d., or by post, direct from the Establishment, 35. 6d. in postage stamps, THE SILENT FRIEND, a M e di ca l W or k on the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Ox ford-street, London. Published by the Authors : said by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and. Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Stacie, 23, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; and Gordon, 146, Leaden hall-street. Pali I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive indul gence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. 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The above works may be had of finerwood, 23, Paterncster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street • Mann, 39, Cornhill; Nalson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other wise) from the anther (who may be conferred with personally, mornings esti evenings), 10, Argyll-place Regent-street; and all Booksellers. I SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—The occupation and possession of the prin cipalities of Moldavia and Wallachia by Russian troops are objects of traditional interest to the Imperial Cabinet of St. Petersburg!), and of no less constant apprehension and repugnance, not only to the Porte, but to all the Powers of Europe. Although the position of those pro vinces removes them from the more familiar interest of European policy, and their social condition has done little to raise them into g neral notice, they are of the utmost importance in the eyes of reflecting statesmen. They are still the outworks of the Ottoman Empire, to which they once were snore closely attached, and they command the course of the Danube from Orsuva to Ga latz, thereby affecting the most important channel of communicatin between Southern Germany, Hungary, and the East. At Constantinople and at Vienna alike, ciiean,ovtodnaal induced consent nead t d i tt aoot sh e :, s eotl r chf, eretogahuanel Court d , es the presence of the Russians in these countries has been 1772 it was the intense desire of Maria Theresa and Feunitz to obtain the regarded lesser aboiseitfain:nen thosemal onncac Russianotpewna. consent e i n o t n e i c t e ve s t iu o l bspy.tahtßeiloupnnBaSiroji:io.l:tohbrotii the same provinces, which lasted from 1806 to 1812, was the ch I s ia u p b o soe l et Subsequently tul yo u induced hbeo Alexander npsolad, tohfe Russia scs invasionoi at the hebdethronementh Peninsula.i e been constantly directed to making good all the rights an connive v a oe e t of her protectarate'on the Danube, and to extending her indirect supremacy and influence begun by the Treaty of Kutschule Kenardji, and a'l hut completed by the Treaty of Ackermann in 1826. The country has been not only ruled on many occasions by Russia Generals, hut the present constitution was framed by Russian authority, and the name atone of conquest is wanting to finish the work of annexation, to extinguish the last vestiges of Turkish power north of the Danube, and permanently to array upon the banks of that stream the threatening armies of the north, wlaieteehave seemed for ages to be on their march to Constantinople. Accordingly, when the general convulsion of 1848 broke out, and the shock of the revolutionary explosion was felt to the confines of Europe, it was in Moldavia and Wallachia alone that the direct power of Russia was immediately exeecised. An insurrection occurred on the eth of April amongst the Boyars at Jassy, tind in June similar disturbances extorted the customary list of democratic concessions from Prince Bibesco in Wallachia. But the Russians entered the northern principality, and the Turks the southern one, and the visionary scheme of forming a Dacian empire of the provinces interposed between those great states was naturally crushed in the bud. What remained was a considerable Russian army in full possession of the country, and ere long the outbreak of civil war in Hun gary and Transylvania gave this corps an additional motive for holding the position it occupied within reach of the Austrian lientier. A few days ago, in the course of the confeted operations bete. eon the Austrian forces and the Hungarian insurgents, General Puchner, the Im perial commander, solicited and obtained the temporary aid of the Russian division , which had for stone time past been quartered within sight of the laud of the Szeklers ; and, although the Cabinet of Vienna has since re proved this intervention, the lucid, nt sufficiently indicates the uses to which the Russian posi tion in Moldavia may be turned. Whether it be the object and the policy of the Emperor Nicholas to assist or to assail the Austrian or the Turkish empire, the army now in the province of the Danube is a most convenient instrument, and it forms but the left wing of that prodigious power which encerupasses the east of Europe from Finland to 13essara'oia. The Emperor of Russia has sufficiently shown by his language and his actions, during the p as t year, that ho is by no means dis posed to precipi • •tate any attack on the privileges of other nations; and the policy of the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh is still wholly of an expectant kind. On the Danube alone he has made a move sufficiently decided to revive all the habitual fears of the Porte, and to excite doubt, if not suspicion, in other quarters. The first impression of Sir Stratford Canning, the British Ambassador at Constantinople, was one of considerable anxiety. It did not require his sagacity and experience to perceive that at no former time was that effective concert of the European powers, by which the integrity and indepe deuce of the Ottoman empire are defended, so feeble and powerless for the purposes of resistance. France and the German States were paralyzed by a fearful internal revolution. Austria, whose interests are most nearly engaged on the Danube, and whose means of action are most direct, had been thrown into a closer dependence on Russia by her own difficulties, aggra vated by tho coolness of England. The British Go vernment, which alone retained the means of action, was intent on peace, and was probably anxious to avoid at such a crisis anything like a dissension with the only other Government in Europe which had maintained its balance. All these circumstances rendered it evident that the Emperor of Russia might pursue his own policy without any fear of - immediate consequences from any other of the great Powers, and the Turks were therefore the more alarmed as to what that policy might prove to be. The language of the Russian Ministers wee, however, eau moderate. They con fined themselves to the suppression of the revolu tionary movement in Moldavia and Wallachia, which they alleged that they had a right to effect, and pledged themselves to no positive acquisition of territory. Snell was the state of things in the course of last summer and autumn. At a later period, how ever, the English Ambassador was instructed to act with more vigour, to remonstrate with more energy, and to give the Turkish Government more positive induce ments to withstand the influence of the Northern Power. It cannot be doubted that in so doing Lord Palmerston acted in conformity with the established policy of this country in expressing his dissatisfaction at the attitude assumed by Russia on the Danube, and it was his duty to express that opinion, provided it was backed by such a political combination as might give it the weight due to the interests and principles not only of England but of all Europe. Unhappily, the result shows that the Russians have no intention of withdrawing ono step from the position they Occupy, and our relations with the other continental Powers are not such as to give us any effectual means of supporting Turkey against this species of encroachment. Within certain limits— that is, with a pretext of justice, and by slow degrees the advance of the Russian forces on the Danube is an occurrence not easily to be checked or resisted, unless by the joint de termination of all Europe.' But we do not participate in the opinion that the Russian Government, whose military forces are undoubtedly in a high state of efli• ciency, contemplates at this time the execution of any grand scheme in the Esst. The material obstacles to a campaign, which should cad under the walls of Con stantinople, and be celebi ated by a Te Ileum in St. Sophia, may be diminished by the distracted state of Europe, but the moral obstacles are enormously in creased. The Emperor of Russia stands forth in the world as the representative of fixed principles of autho rity, tinged with religious enthusiasm, but regulated by established laws of conduct. His attention is directed to the anticipated failure of these 'experiments of popu lar government in which the Germanic states are still absorbed with small chance of a speedy deliverance ; and he possibly reckons on a time when the military authority of the North will be the last anchor of ex hausted Europe. For that purpose he collects his re sources, and with these views he suspends his resolu. tions. But to suppose that, because the world is con vulsed by revolutions, Russia is herself intent on accomplishing a revolution of the greatest magnitude, by planting her flag on the Bosphorus, is to convert the Emperor Nicholas into the most daring of anarchists and the most unscrupulous of aggressors. He would give the signal of a bloody war, and aggravate a thousand fold the universal confusion. The spoliation of Turkey would be the consummation by absolutism of that vio lence and injustice which was begun by democracy on the 24th of February; and no act of the Emperor of Russia could be more gratifying to the revolutionary party on the Continent, than an enterprise which should divert his steady gaze from their follies to the towers of Constantinople, and relieve them from their dread of his might by an exseaa of atubiti4u and imprudence more culpable than their own. HERALD.—It was remarked the other day by the Learned Cursitor Baron, the Member for Dorsetshire, in bringing forward the motion relative to the supply of Ordnance stores to the Neapolitans—that there was great apathy in the House in respect to questions con nected with the foreign policy of the Government. But we really think the lion. and Learned Member over rated this apathy in reference to the House. and cer tainly in reference to the country. When Mr. Bankes was first called to the bar, or when he first entered the House of Commons, some three-and thirty years ago, unquestionably there was considerableitspathy in refe rence to every foreign topic. For a quarter of a century previous to 1816 the Continent had been hermetically sealed to our nobility and gentry. None of the younger among them had travelled, and the few of the older,who had lived much abroad, returned with a horror of French principles and French propagandism, determined Anti• Jacobins and Anti-Gallicans. But with the peace of Paris and of Vienna these feelings have gradually died away ; and for the last twenty years the intercourse with the Continent has been so wide and general, and for the last years it has, day by day, so much increased, that every man of education is now more or less in a condition to discuss, and therefore to feel an interest in foreign politics. Whatever, therefore, the feeling may be within the house, we can assure Mr. Bankes that out side of the walls of St. Stephen's a very general and growing interest is taken in the affairs of Europe. We do not, for instance, mean to say that the inhabitants of the English metropolis take that eager and vivacious in terest in interpellations on foreign affairs which so pre. eminently—we will not say so advantageouslydistin guishes the badauds and quidnuncs of Paris. 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Prince Ernest of Stkxe Leiningen took leave of her Majesty and Prince Albert, and returned to Frogmore House yesterday. Baron Stockmar, Sir James Clark, and Dr. Meyer, arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon, and had the honour of joining the royal dinner party, Sir James eta' k returns to London this afternoon. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations had a meeting on Saturday- morning at the Board of Trade. There were present—ihe Right Hon. H. Labouchere, President of the Board of Trades Earl Grey, Secretary of state for the Colonies; Earl Granville, Vice-President of the Board of Trade; Sir Edward Ryan; and Sir James Stephen. Dispatches from the Governors of New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and the Mauritius, were received on Saturday at the Colonial-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Wood had a dinner party on Saturday, at their residence in Downing-street. The company consisted of the Netherlands Minister and Mademoiselle Schimmelpen ninek, the Duchess of Inverness, the Earl of Strafford, the Earl and Countess of 'Vint°, Lady Georgina Grey, Mr. and Lady Anne Tuffnell, the Dean of Westminster, Mr. T. Baring, and Mr. Augustus Barrington. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's yesterday. The Rev. Dr. Wesley read the prayers and preached the sermon. At the daily service the prayers were read by the Rev. J. C. Haden, the lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore ' and the communion service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The ser mon preached by the Bishop of Ely. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended a meeting at the British Museum on Saturday. His Royal Highness visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, on Saturday. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans downe, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, the Marquis of Clauri verde, and the Earl of Carlisle. The Council sat three hours. A deputation from the ve.try of Marylebone, on the subject of Sunday trading, had an interview with Sir George Grey, on Saturday, at the Home-office. The deputation consisted of Mr. Nicholay (Chairman), Messrs. Grange, Davis, Hickman, Calder, Trail, Wingfield, Hay man, and Adamson. Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister, had an inter view with the Right Lion. H. Labouchere, on Saturday, at the office of the Board of Trade. A deputation on the subject of Irish Railways, includ ing the Earl of Glengall, the Right Hon. R. L. Shiel, the Right Hon. Thomas Wyse, Mr. French, and Mr. Rey nolds, had an interview with Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Saturday, in Downing. street. TEM COURT.—According to present arrangements, her Majesty and the Prince Consort, accompanied by the youthful members of the Royal Family, leave Osborne for Buckingham Palace on Monday or Tuesday next, in order to hold a levee at St. James's on the 21st inst. The Right Hon. the Speaker had his customary Parliamentary entertainment:on Saturday evening, at the Right Hon. Gentleman's official residence in Eaton square, on which occasion the following noblemen and gentlemen, Members of the House of Commons, were the guests:—The Marquis of Douro, the Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Castlereagh, the Hon. Colonel R. E. Boyle, the Hon. Colonel Geo. T. Keppel, Sir Chas. Lemon, Bart, Sir Geo. T. Staunton, Bart., Sir John Hope, Bart., Major S. W. Blackall, Mr. C. L. Cumming Bruce, Mr. Wm. Beckett, Mr. C. B. 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But three littl e mont h s have elapsed since we ; first, and alone, drew public attention to the subject, and within that short plied no less than three pamphlets have been published on the question, at intervals of two or three weeks from each other. The last of tho , e pamphlets, published a day or two ago, is now before • us,* and it contains within the limits of 30 pages, and a short appendix of five or six more containing the decu ments, the whole history of the Moldavian and Walla chian questions. The inhabitants of the principslities ' it should b e k nown to t h e genera l rea d er, assume the name, and boast to be the descendants, of the Romans, who ruled and colonised these countries, with Transyl vania and part of Hungary, under the name of Dacia. In their language the Latin element predominates, though mingled with Sclavonian, Greek, and Turkish words. The traveller who even in our day trusts him self in the romantic defiles of the Carpathians, is struck with the resemblance, both in costume and feature, be tween the woodsmen appointed to repair anti guard those psrilous routes,and the Dacian captives portrayed on the celebrated column which commemorates the victories of Trojan. From the period when the Roman eagles retired south of the Danube, scarce a century has passed in which the Moldavians and Wallachians have not suffered more or less by the passage and incursions of the bar barous nations of Asia. Never totally subdued, they for ages combatted manfully for their independence, and it was not until they became convinced that this inherit= ance could no longer be preserved entire that they re solved to part with a portion, in order to secure the enjoyment of the larger and more importsnt share of their liberties. Of the treaty:of the Wallachians with Bajazet in 1393 we have before spoken. That treaty provided that they should .continue to be governed b) their own laws--and that their Princes, always Chris tians, should be chosen by the metropolitan and the boyarcls. Moldavia did not yield to the Turkish power until upwards of a -century after Wallachia; and the terms on which the former principality acknowledged the sovereignty of the Porte were not less advantageous than those obtained by Wallachia. These two ancient treaties have been confirmed by successive Sultans, and, further, have been appealed to and acknowledged as valid by the Russian Government. The diplomatic con nexion between Russia and the principalities is compara tively modern. It dates from 1710, or 139 years ago, when Peter the Great, having determined on attacking the Turkish empire, commenced his operations by se ducing the princes of Moldavia and Wallachia from their allegiance to the Sultan. That inspired but insidious barbarian concluded a treaty with Demetrius Cantemir, by which that Hospodar agreed to maintain ten thousand soldiers, whose pay should be provided by the Czar of Muscovy; Russia, on the other hand, binding herself never to interfere in the affairs of • the country, and agreeing to a provision that no Russian sh(,uld be permitted to marry or purchase landi in Moldavia. Shortly afterwards Peter succeeded in in. during the Prince of Wallachia - to conclude a compact similar to that into which he had deluded Moldavia. But neither these intrigues nor the bribery of the Turkish generals by Russia tendei to the success of the Czar's campaign on the Pruth. That campaign, indeed, was most disastrous, and almost fatal at the time. But the successors of the Czar, at the close of the last and the be ginning of the present century, revived and continued hi, policy, and by intrigues and underhand means again in terfered in the internal csncerns of Moldavia and Walla chia, and in their international relations with Turkey. By the 16th article of the treaty of Karnardji, in 1774, Russia acquired the privilege of •• speaking in , avonr of the principalities," and the door being thus opened, no opportunity of encroaching farther on the rights of the Turkish empire and its tributary states was lett unimproved. By the treaty of Bucharest in 1812, Russia obtained the cession of the province of Bessa rabia, forming nearly one-half of Moldavia. This con siderable cession of Moldavian territory, far from satisfying, has, it appears, only whetted her Imperial and Moscovite appetite. By the convention of Akermans and the treaty of Adrianople, the Czar claims a species of protectorate or guarantee over the principalities, though it may well be doubted whether such right is in reality conferred. But even admitting it conferred by a treaty the handywork of her own agents, or by the or ganic statute of Wallachia, such title of protecting power, even if recognised by the public law of Europe, confers on Russia no right of sovereignty, and no right of interference except in the case of some act contrary to the stipulations of treaties being committed by the Porte, and application being in consequence made by the principalities to Russia for assistance and re dress. No such contingencies ;as the two latter have arisen. The Hospodar of Wallachia, however, having on the 23d June of the past year granted to his sub jects reforms of an important nature, a Russian force, in consequence crossed the Pruth, on its march to Bucharest, on the Ist of August. At Bucharest it has since remained, exercising all authority civil and mili tary. The Russian commander has seized the r,renues of the principality, altered the commercial tariff, for bithl,-. the export of Wallachian produce, and, indeed, his army may be said to live in free quarters, by pillage and plunder. But this prllagr and plunder of - 5U,u00 men would soon exhaust richer countries then either of the principalities, and the result must bo that a debt will be incurred for this" protective" occupation--or, rather, ruthless invasion of territory—rt debt which will furnish a pretext for indefinite occupation of both principalities by Russian armies. This surely cannot be allowed without reraoi,strance and loud complaint from the mouths of independent members of both houses, if not from her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Apart from higher considerations of justiCe and equity—apart from the duty of curbing the strong and of protecting the weak—it is the interest—the direct and evident commercial interest of England, to preserve the integrity of the Ottoman Porte. The largest portion of our exports to Persia and Central Asia passes through the Dardanelles, and if we now allow Russia to assume a preponderant influence, not merely iri Bulgaria and Servia, but also in Wallachia and Moldavia, how long will it be ere she tries to obtain what Alex Under called the key of his house—the possession of Coestan. tinople itself ? The commercial aspect of the question is so vast, that to that aspect we must devote a separate article. PEEL'S. PLAN FOR I.RELAN (From the Weekly Dispatch.) Mr. Editor,—Did you over assist at a pig. shearing ? It is a lively picture of Irish landlordism in the House of Commons, during three mortal nights of debate on the Ministerial proposition of a rate of 6d. in the pound upon all the rateable property of Ireland, as a contribution for the famishing people. The rate is only to be levied wlien local misery grows too mighty for local relief from the p(bor-law unions; if insufficient, the prospect is held out of further drains upon the Imperial Treasury, 1, e., upon English taxation, to which English poverty so largely pays, and it is only to be imposed for two years. Against this moderate proposition the Irish landlords set up an universal howl. Men of 50,0001. a year declared it -tantamount to individual and national ruin. They in sisted that it devolved as rightfully upon Middlesex or Lancashire, as upon Ulster or Leinster, to pay for the perishing poor of Connaught. They clamoured for rating the merchant and the fundholder. They as severated their decided preference for a property-tax. They screamed and struggled, just like the animal above referred to, making as much noise, and yielding as little result. A sixpenny rate was the knife at Ireland's throat. For once the Whigs were firm; quietly allowed them to scream their scream out, and then voted the rate, though in the face of a strong minority. It is to be hoped that Government will get through with this minimum of justice, though it has cost, and is likely to continue to cost, a maximum of trouble. The main interest of the debate—that portion off, it, I mean, which took place on Monday night —was, how ever, incidental. It consisted in the fact that Sir Robert Peel, very unexpectedly, availed himself of the occasion to propound his plan for the pacification and prosperity of Ireland. This was an extraordinary course, whether we consider the usual tactics of Op position and of Party, or the characteristic caution of the individual. If regarded as a bid for office, it is a noble one, and may well dispose us to close the bar gain. If taken as another symptom of the change which seemed to come over the spirit of Sir Robert Peel three years ago, when he so manfully broke the bonds of party, and sacrificed place and power for a loftier policy, it must heighten both our respect for the man and our expectations from the statesman. But to come to the plan itself. Sir Robert Peel proposes to regenerate Ireland by what he boldly and justly calls "a new constitution of property" in that island. He would have a Government Commission take possession of lands which, at present, the nominal proprietors are alike unable either to cul tivate, to sell, or to pay rates for. Much is properly seizable for accumulated arrears of unpaid rates. Much is reduced to a condition in which its full present worth is a mere trifle. Not only is waste land unimproved, but what was formerly cultivated has become waste. It only serves as the resting place of dying thousands, to whom formerly it yielded the precarious subsistence of the potato, but who now find there neither food nor em ployment. Take this land, says Sir Robert, and sell it to those who will apply capital to its cultivation, guaranteeing them for a time from the pressure of more than a defined amount of rate and other fiscal bur dens. In one property alone, that where formerly " Dick Martin ruled the pathless wilds of Conne mara," there are 200,000 acres, producing nothing, paying nothing, worth nothing, and supporting nobody. It is in vain to talk of sales under the present law, and by :individual means. Take the land, at a fair valuation, and by uncostly give indisputable titles. Look to the settlement of Ulster, now so prosperous, in the time of James I. The miles of waste were divided into manageable portions. A secure tenure was given to the tenants. The wilder arrangemen t ness became a fruitful field, and hordes of starving savages and maraudeis were partly . replaced by and p p o a p rt u ly lati Coning naught an Ulster now. Free the land of the burden of t e r n ! n s fo Ulsterm e d w i a n s t t o h , e a n n a industrious _a n a l a k t h e r iy half-a-dozen tiers of landlords, middlemen, mortgagees, annuitants, piled one above the other, and all based upon the unemployed peasantry, for whom they have no power to do anything. Begin afresh. Let the agricul- * The Russians is Moldavia and Wallachia.—London : J. Ridgway, 1649. [PRICE D. rural character and tendencies of the Irish p sople have fair play. The natural wealth of the country may then ha wrought out. Profit will invite capital, at id security aill stimulate improvement. Such is the Utt)pia of the modern politician ; and when he has the pow na' or rival itatesmen have the wisdom and energy, to, give the ,thane effect, it may be called Utopian for laei rig hold, , 'art not, I think, for being visionary. The great curse of Ireland is its spendtbrift and pauper landlordism. We may almost say that, all Ire e,d is mortgaged to the teeth. At least at ash is the ease in the south and west. Irish mortgag es do not leave a clear 25 per cent. of Irish rental. Hence the enormous arrears of rates, which often amount: to more :hen is left for the nominal landlord to receive. Hence the sacrifice of agriculture to high-rented poteito patches Ind a swarming peasantry, now swept away together, the one by blight and the other by famine. 'There is m help or hope till the land shall change owners. The incubus of a moneyless proprietary must be hetsved off. And heaved off it should be, in spite of clamour. or the country and the people perish. Beggared 1: tnclowners must show themselves the beggars that they a.re. The nine has gone by for the pretence that, if the Imperial Treasury will lend them money, they will rep ay it, and employ and feed the population. Such loans never - are repaid. The first thing that happens afterwards is a clearance. Were the scheme successful, it would only 'mount to an improvement of the land, by the help of the State, fur the benefit of the landowners, and not of the people. But if public money is to be adraneed, the people have the first clains'to be considered in its outlay. Instead of setting them to work for the lanalord, why not set them to work for themselves? Give them the fee-simple, or a permanent tenure, of the soil which their labour reclaims from the waste, or restores to fer :ility. Thousands lie down and perish en ground which .vould feed them in return for their toil alone. In three years they would support themselves in comparative affluence. Why are Irish savings' banks so rich in de posits?. How is it that, in the aggregate, large sums are continually leaving Ireland to be vested in the cultiva hon of land across the Atlantic? Simply because a pauper proprietary has a close monopoly in Irish soil. It clutches the land with a gripe like that of a. drowning wan ; not saving himself, but dragging down and strangling the power which might help him. These pro perties, whose extent is imperial, and w h ose con di t i on i s that of a wilderness, must be broken up. Peel's plan would let in, not only the large capitalist, but the prudent farmer. Even the industrious labourer would have his chance. If not a peasant proprietary, at least a yeoman proprietary would arise. Ireland will always be agri cultural. Love of the land seems an inborn tendency in an Irishman. On that tendency should the statesman work for Ireland's regeneration. There is no large and powerful middle class in Ireland. Trade and manufac ures are not likely to furnish such a class for genera tions yet to come. On this plan, the land would produce a middle class. The social gradation would be filled up by the hardy and independent occupiers of the soil. hey would defy alike the assumptions of landlord in solence, and the tyranny of Tipperary assassination. Secure in their possession, and thriving in their in iustry, such a class would be the bulwarks of order and ,f freedom. The folly is enormous, which continues to banish such men,l and send them to colonize the Ca asides, or the United States. Let them colonize at home. Give them only tho same chance there which they have n Australia. Let them have land for their money, and profit for their labour. The men who are leaving Ire land are just the men most wanted in Ireland. They Are the bone and sinew of the nation. Shame is it, they ,hould be sacrificed to title-deeds and sterile ownership. The whole land cries out for what, amongst statesmen, Sir Robert Peel alone has dared to promise, a "new con stitution of property." What says Lord John Russell to it? " I will leave the question to the House." No scheme which includes a due respect for existing interests and the legalized rights of property promises so well as this this to put the social machinery of Ire land into a wholesome and. working condition. Of course there would be great danger of jobbery in the practical details. Success would require the earnest and vigilant superintendence of a mind deeply impressed with the determination to carry the plan through to its natural results. Probably it would be safe in no hands but those of the proposer. This consideration may reconcile us to its being let alone by the Whigs. And when their ocpected hour arrives the prospect of its practical adop tion will be, both to Ireland and to England, a very great consolation for their fall from power. There is one point on which Sir Robert Peel did not speak out, which yet is of primary importance. His plan would go far towards providing for the material well. being of Ireland ; but "Man shall not live by bread alone," though be cannot do very well without it. The Church question still remains. The settlement of that is essential to the settlement of Ireland. It is not merely the pecuniary pressure of the Establishment, though that is sufficiently onerous, but the fact of its being the Church, of a small minority ; and the further and more important fact th a t i ts ascen d ancy is an insult to the j Catholic Hierarchy, keeping them embittered, irritated, and discontented ; and through them keeping the great mass of the population in the same untoward and anramo .;,tie condition. Sir Robert Peel did, Indeed, glance delicately, and remotely, at something beyond his pro jected " transfer of property." He suggested "that no religious distinctions should be allowed to enter into the arrangement." He would "place the land in - the pos session of new proprietors without distinction of religi ous profession." And he characterizes as " a fatal defect in the Act of James 1., the establishment of a religious distinction.' We understand by this time what the cau tious man is at when he puts forth such feelers as these. Little pilot balloons, no bigger than a child's ball, show in what course the current of air will bear the great ma chine of policy when it rises and is fairly launched. Sir Robert Peel is preparing to be the economical and the Church Reformer of Ireland. If cautious in his bold ness, he is not less bold in his cautiousness. The Disraeli of Irish landlords and Orange Protestants (whe ther it be he of the Protectionists or another, if there can be another) may prepare his sarcasms on the future renegade (as he will be called) from property and Pro testantism. Another storm, like that of 1846, may burst upon the agent, but the work will be achieved. The territorial and ecclesiastical monopolies of Ireland are doomed. In due time, the blessed fruits of famine, whose seed was sown in misery, will be reaped amid rejoicings, PUBLICOLA. ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURAN wa C im E thesw S B ehonecgni residents SOCIETY. --T h e tiiw r . was e—s sent or dinary annual court of this society, pursuant to notice, and afterwards the extraordinary quinquennial general court, were held on Saturday last, at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars. The Right Hon. Sir T. Frankland Lewis occupied the chair, and laid before the members a full statement of the receipts, disbursements, and financial position of the society for the year ending the 31st of December last, the whole of which, as sanc tioned by the auditors, was received by the meeting as highly satisfactory, and adopted, and ordered to be re corded in the minutes. The meeting then resolved itself into an extraordinary quinquennial general court for the transaction of special business, and Mr. J. J Downes, the actuary, read the report of the directors for the quinquennium ending the 31st of December, 1848. The chairman then declared a bonus of 168,7941., and congratulated the meeting upon the highly satisfactory position which the society occupied. He announced a contingent bonus of 1,2, 3,4, and 5 per cent. on the sum assured to all policies now entitled to an absolute bonus and becoming claims during the next five years. He also drew attentio❑ to the following arrangement announced in the report:—" With respect to the class of assurers on the participating scale, who have not yet paid the requisite number of premiums to entitle them to parti cipate in the present division, the directors, to make the distribution of profits more equitable, have made a pro vision for the payment of a conditional bonus (calculated on the amount of five annual premiums) on all policies on which claims shall accrue after the payment of the fifth annual premium, and before the next ensuing divi sion. If the life assured survive that period, such bonus will merge into the general fund, and the assured will then of th e premiums p articipate he n e proportion hes p s ipaid." ~, to Theth the meeting improved terminated amount with the usual vote of thanks to the chairman. FIRES IN THE M ETROPOLls.—Yesterday morning, about four o'clock, a fire of a very alarming nature broke out in the extensive range of premises belonging to Messrs. White, G reenwell, and Co., haberdashers, &C., carrying on business at 53, 54, and 55, Blackfriars-road. The discovery was made by Sergeant Davis, of the L division of police, who raised an instant alarm and; sent for the engines. After some trouble the whole of the inmates, nearly 50 persons, male and female, Were a rouse w d asfrsoomfultlheoifr smoke that T th h e e building, how ever,alein t h e i r night n .. a precipitate retreat into the street clothes. The engines of the the Royal Society's West of England Company, fire-escape, promptly att e nde d , in the first floor. The found the flames raging furiously that part of the flames were not extinguished until lower part damaged by pre mises was burned out and the ht about nine ' I k the water, &c. On Saturday night. India-rubberoc o'clock, , part of the house in which the premises of Mrs. Eliz th burned out, and the stock in the'shop London Brigade on fi upon ente • found the engines. The firemen__ ring the first general blaze. The firemen Was 1 floor: in a unable to get was given,wer@ discovere r' and rest of the house severely injured by fire, water, &c. Mrs. Harris was fortunately insured in the Sun Fire ' instant alarm flt m ha a em k fie e rs r e , b, 4 : ; gu B a , tn S un t w r t a ai n ls d hat and Fire office. A short time since Mrs. Harris's husband and One of her children was burned to death in a fire which destroyed the same premises. The trial of Sarah Grout, charged with murdering two of her children, came on at Chelmsford on Saturday. The unfortunate woman, during a fit of furious madness, cut down the children with a billhook. She was acquitted on the ground of insanity. Three carpet weavers, named Phasey, Rennie, and Price, were tried at Worcester on Friday, for poaching in Lord Ward's preserves. They had been attacked and terribly beaten by Lord Ward's keepers. They were all of them acquitted —a striking proof of the hatred of the farmers for the game-laws. The Bishop of London has appointed the Rev. Charles Anthony Swainson, B.D , fellow and tutor of Christ's College, Cambridge, to be one of her Majesty's peaohers at Whitehall. . . . rThfiger.oei lemoaAsfnehondn.r THE COMMAND IN INDIA.. It is said that Lieutenant -Colonel Napier will proceed to India with his relative, the gallant Sir Charles, as mi litary secr( tary. Sir Charles, itja..understeod, will dine with the Court - of Direcrors of tha Hopourable East India Company on Saturday neat; he las been com pelled to decline several most pressing invitations from the London United Service Clubs, and also from distin guished private quarters. As a matter of interest at the present moment, we give the following list of officers who have held the appointment of Commatider-in-Chief in India, with the date of each appointment:— Lieutenant-General Sir-John - ClaveLiug7K -- .13 1772 Lieutenant-Goner:ll Sir Eyre Coote, K.ll Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Sloper, K.B General Esrl Cornwallis, K.G. Lieutenant-General Sir E. Abercrombie, K.B 1792 Lieutenant-General Sir A. Clarke, K..C ;.p 1797 Lieutenant-General Lord Lake .... Lieutenant-General Sir G. Hewett, Bart. Lieutenant-Gcneral Sir G. Nugent, Bart. General the Marquis of ilastings, G.C,13 lBl3 Lieut.:General the Hon. - Sir Ed. Paget, 1822 General Viscount ConaLermere, G.C.8., G.C.H. 1825 Lieutenant-General the Earl of Dalhousie, G.C.H. 1829 Lieutenant -Gener a l Sir Edward Barnes, G.C.B. 1831 General Lord W. C. Bentinck, G.C.8., G.C.H 1833 General Sir Henry Fane, G.C.B. General Sir Jasper Nicholls, K.C.8.1839 General Sir Hugh (now Lord) Gough, G.C.B 1843 General Sir Charles Napier, G.C . B 1849 Lord Gough has held the office since March 15th in the year mentioned, so that he has occupied it for a period of six years exactly. It may be recollected that at the period in question, some of the Indian papers questioned in terms somewhat strong the fitness of the roan for such a post. It subsequently transpired that be had been promised the office of Commander-in-Chief in Madras, but that the Government. at the eleventh hour, had determined upon uniting the offices of Governor and Commander-in-Chirf in the person of one man, Lieu tenant General the Marquis of Tweeddale, K.T. By way of compensation for this disappointment, the Go vsrnment conferred upon him the still more important office of Commander-in-Chief of all India. SIR C. J. NAPIER AND THE INDIAN WAR.---It iS now definitively arranged that General Sir Charles James Napier, the new Commander-in-Chief in India, will leave town for Marseilles by the mail of the 24th instant, not the 20th, as was stated last week by several of our contemporaries. it Charles will be entertained by the directors of the East India Company at a grand ban quet on Saturday next. The embarkation of the 75th and 87th regiments for India will not take place until after the arrival of the next mail from India. These re• giments are, however, ordered to hold theniselves in readiness to then embark without delay. The nature of the next information will also decide whether the East India Company will apply or not for an additional force of the Queen's troops. The rumours, therefore, to the effect that several other regiments are to proceed from this country to India are premature, and without any foundation whatever. CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST. The first anniversary of this excellent institution was celebrated on Saturday last, by a dinner at the London Tavern. The, Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle presided, and was supported on his right and left by Samuel Gurney, Esq., Mr. Alderman Sydney, John Dillon, Esq., A. G.. Gurney, Esq., H. Ford Barclay, Esq., Dr. Baoington, Dr. Jefferson, Mr. Alderman Finnis, William Tite, Esq., J. hlasterman, Jun., Esq., Joseph Tucker, Esq., and other gentlemen. The dinner, which was a most sump tuous one, was well served up, and did great credit to Messrs. Bathe and Breach, the caterers at this renowned establishment. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts hav mg been warmly responded to, The Earl of CARLISLE said, before he asked his hearers to drink to the prosperity and perpetuity of that insti tution, he would be forgiven if he troubled them with a few statistical details. They were aware that this age, if anything, was statistical trade was necessarily statistical, and agriculture, which had Neely been expressing itself through most eloquent organs, had also become statis tical. The subject of the public health had now, to his own cost, become extremely statistical—(Laughter)--- and he supposed that they must also adopt the fashion of the times and become statistical in the return. He found from inquiries that the total amount of hospital accommodation in the metropolis only furnished about 3,450 beds—that of those fully one-half were engrossed by surgical cases; and the remaining half were taken up by those cases which were called acute, and which ne cessarily presented the most urgent and conclusive calls for assistance. Consequently, but a small proportion of the whole could be allotted to those cases which were called chronic. But what amount of sorrow and anguish did that term " chronic " not imply 1 What pain, what languor, what restlessness, what drying up of the juices and the springs of life, till the disease terminated in death, from which it was 'but a little removed! Ho had further learned, as it would ap pear to them, he was sure, that in consequence of that Mate of things, it was thought most desirable to add to their hospital accommodation, and it was considered that that object would not be so well or so easily achieved by founding a large hospital, which would include every sort of case, and every class of disease, as by having a special receptacle where persons might receive the most ap propriate treatment from physicians and medical attend ants whose attention had been specially directed to dis eases of the chest. It had been ascertained that one third of the whole mortality of the metropolis might be traced to diseases of the heart and lungs, and that they were diseases to which the labouring and indigent class of our fellow-countrymen were wore especially exposed. 'lacy were very much aggravated by those privations to which that class was, unhappily, too liable—such as impure air, deficient clothing, improper food, and protracted hours of labour. The toiling weaver, and, in short, all those classes who ministered most actively to our necessities, to our com forts, and to our luxuries, were those, who in the hour of pain and and suffering, were claimants for the super fluities of their means.—(Cheers.) It would be found that in their crowded workshops and squalid garrets they too often engendered that consumption which hurried them to a premature grave. He believed that it would be geieerally found with respect to diseases of the chest, that while the mischief was easily arrested and duly treated, it was too liable, if the symptoms were neglected, to terminate in. the most serious and fatal forms. It was desirable that a building should be specially constructed for the recep tion of patients, because the arrangements with respect to air and ventilation, which might suit some diseases, would be totally unfit and improper for the class of dis eases with which they had to deal. They did not come forward to oppose the institution which had recently been established at Brompton. There was, unhappily, too great a demand in the metropolis for medical aid is that class of cases, and far be it from them to grudge or to envy the respectable appearance and comely gables of that institution, or even the Nightingale who had sung so sweetly and so productively in its groves.- -(Laughter.) They felt inclined to say as was puce, addressed to the Americans, "you are very enterprising, go-a-head people in the West, but do not forget that the West is not the whole of the world—there is also a venerable East, which you cannot blow off from the mat ." —(Cheers.) They did not wish to run the race of rivals, but the race of a glorious emulation with the west in the great object of doing the will of their Maker and in alle viating the sufferings of his creatures.—(Cheers.) With a view to supply the urgent demands which were made for that species of relief to which he had alluded, it was proposed to erect in a healthy situation in the suburbs of the City an hospitalifor the reception of in-patients, and in connexion with it som e thi ng i n the form of a sanatorium, where persons of moderate means, but still not able to command at their own homes the requisite appliances which the best medical skill could supply,, might by a moderate payment have secured to them all the advantages of an hospital with a greater amount of comfort. Besides the hospital, which was their primary object, they intended to maintain and continue in a Can , . tral part of the City a public dispensary, at which persona suffering from disease of the chest might receive gratuitous assistance. This institution was opened on the ;13th of Juno, 1848, and its brief history from that date to the 3d of March was comprised in the following tow figures: No less than 3,176 patients had been admitted to the benefit of the charity, of which number three had been discharged for ir regu l ar ity, 36 had died, 9 11 still re mained under treatment, e t2 he lO rerl ha !) d owie b eg e r e es n twr c hr u e. r_e tkte d wi o tn .t r , relieved.—(Cheers.) lie em the prophetic beauty of some lines whichtge itteters of S wale zerland, and which madeallusionma traveller's book at one of t he great to the some ec ofw e a r y e s t p o i t e there on his way a "11- ee sumptive patient who had come hoped g to obtain sout h er n climate, where h of that death which seemed ato thosethrnatureaten him. Il e wan described as coming to loob eauties of nat ure would probably not loo t g gladden his eyes— ,. Here be steals a moment from the Italian sky, And stops and wonders, on his way to die." But those on whose behalf he now addressed them—the sons and daughters of toil—whose labour wasted the sinews and palled the rosy cheeks of health, and sapped up all the elasticities of youthful life—could not have recourse to the sunny shore of France, the sheltered bays of Italy, or the orange groves of Madeira. But it was in the heart of that great city, even under their own dusky sky and murky atmosphere, that-they were asked to provide all those aids which the medical science of this metropolis, now more than ever at the head of modern civilization, could render to those martyrs of labour and to those victims of disease.—(Cheers.) There was a charm and a magic in kindness which, by a ten. derness of touch and a sympathy of look, cheated pain of its greatest pangs, and disarmed even death of half its terrors.—(Cheers.) No patient, evert the meanest and most ragged of those that prowled about the streets of the metropolis, would they refuse to succour in the hour of distress, and take care that the winds of heaven visit his face not too roughly. —(Cheers.) They were about to add another star to that glorious constellation of charities which was the boast of the metropolis. He begged to give—" Pros perity and perpetuity t o t h e C i ty of London Inst i tut i ott for Diseases of th e Ch est. " The toast was drunk with great applause. The report was then read, which, after detailing the progress of the society, stated that there remained, after paying all expenses, a balance of 471. Ss 4d. An annual sure of 6001, would be required to carry on the out. patients' branch, while the amount of annual subscripe Dons was only 200/. At present an average of nearly Thy 600 patients obtained relief from the charity every week. The following toasts w ere afterwards dru n Earl of Carlisle," " The Corporation of thket— C " it Tyh o London," " The Bankers and Merchants o f t h e City, ' , " The Vice-Presidents, &e.;" " The Medical Officers, i " The Ladies," and other toasts. The subscriptions collected in the course of the oven* ing amounted to 1,714/. 18s. The musisal arrangements were under the euperia• 0► .