The Sun. — London, England, 1849-12-26 00:00:00

THE S UN , LONDON , W ••........ - - STE A M COMMUNICATION WITH with him from Lisbon letters of introduction to your 1 PRICES OF SHARES BRAZIL. corre s p ondent, and full y ex p lained his view in refer-1 IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, ANT:: OTHER COM ence to these projects, which were designed, in point In December, 1848, the Lords Commissioners of ( of fact, to establish a steam communication between PANIES' STOCK. the Admiralty issued advertisements inviting pro- From the Official List. posals from persons willing to tender for the conve y - 1 England , and Brazil vi a Lisbon, by means of the PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND ramar E V ENING . since of her Majesty's mails to and from Brazi l, Mon- I eninsular and Oriental Company's steamers from LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24. tevideo and Buenos Ayres. Southampton to Lisbon, and thence by the Portu- ...--- In February 23d, 1849, we announced that the guese steamers from Pernambuco. ZOINT-STOCIL BANES. contract for the performance of this service had been Owing to the general disfavour with which London Dividend Amount adjudicated to the directors of the Royal (West capitalists were disposed to view the investment of Name of Company. per of Paid. Prue. India) Mail Packet Company. money in an enterprise essentially Portuguese, we - Annum. Share. The basis of the scheme embodied in the tender of believe that M. d'Affonseca, after several months' l. d. £ s. d. this company, as accepted by the Admiralty, was that negotiations, was unsuccessful, and could not raise gi s e s t r e al es a o s A l ••• American ••• • •• :11. per er cent. 40 5 g g 0 40 0 0 2434 the intercourse with the Brazilian empire, and with the necessary capital for carrying out his scheme, Ceylon .............. 71: per p cent. een• 25 0 0 0 5 2 0 5 0 0 0 0 -- the states on the Rio de la Plata, was to be kept up although previously to his visiting England he had Commercial ce of London 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 21 1 5 5 1. ip p e e r r e c e e n n t t : 100 _0 0 26 0 0 _ by a direct line of independent steamers from South- obtained subscriptions for stock to a considerable Glou n c l e a s i te"rehl; ....:. _ _ ampton or Liverpool to Pernambuco, Bahia, and Rio amount both in Madeira and in Portugal. By re- lonian ••••••-•• • • • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - de Janeiro. From the latter port the mails were to cent private advices from Lisbon we learn that the Lo D n i d t n te and Westminatr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 - e o fw f Ireland.. :1 . per e r cent. ent . be conveyed to Montevideo and Buenos Ayres by concessions granted to M. d'Affonseca (which took London Join . t • :1; • .:: 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 - 7 5 D7 i i o i n t fl o c a , i i !N e i ' - branch steamers running in conjunction with the main place during the latter period of the Duke de 100 10 0 0 00 25 0 0 0 - 4314 line. Saldanhe's administration), are likely to be with- Ireland.. Si. l per cent. SO 0 22 10 0 - The communication outward and homeward was drawn by the present Government, at the head of Nat. Provncial of En 61. per cent. 100 . 0 0 35 o 0 3634 to be monthly, and the course of post with Rio Janeiro which is the Count de Thomar, in consequence of the South e tc• ese N st e r w aria Si. sl peer cent. 20 0 0 2 10 2 0 0 - 10 0 - aboutinability of M. d'Affonseca to arrange for the comple- union of Australia.... Si.' f•er r cent. 25 - 0 0 25 o e - 70 or 74 days from the time of departure to the time of return to England, the proposal being to oc lion of the proposed lines of steamers under the Por- unionD Ittoo.f L0nd0n..... . L . •• •• 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1234 .. ---• • • • 61. per cent. - 210 0 - copy about 30 days out and 30 d sys home, leaving tugu ese fla g . nion of Madrid - 40 0040 • 0 about a fortnight, or rather less, for preparing replies We are, however informed that the Count de Thomar is especially desirous to promote steam corn- INSURANCE MCE COPANIES. at the Brazilian capital, and a proportionately greater time at the northern ports. munication between Lisbon and the Brazilian ports Dividend Amount ' Name of Company. per of Pala. Price. The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company hail the b y wa y of Madeira : and on a certain occasion, when Annum. Share. option of choosing either Southampton or Liverpool the British plan for the Brazil mails was a subject of as the port of departure and arrival of the ships to be discussion, the Count expressed himself free to grant Albion ...• •••••• • • •• 31. 101 500 m a d O . /0 m a 0 SO any concessions and privileges necessary to facilitate Alliance Brit. and Far. 711456 d& las too o co 11 e 0 j2O employed on this service. 31571r i f i tta Marine. •• •• •.• 1 6 c p e r nl . 1 6 0: : 0 6 5 : : ley; Nearly a year has now elapsed since the carrying the touc h ing of t h e steamers at Lisbon or an y Portu- At out of this important scheme of steam communication guese port. British Commerc i a l was confided by the Government to the Royal Mail There is at present no steam communication be- Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life Ipr et& be. 108 0 I 10 0 • 19 31. 100 0 0 10 e 5 . Company, and the public will be very prone to in- tween Portugal and its dependency, Madeira. A fast- 14s. 50 0 0 ie 0 14 quire if any really tangible steps to place the line sailing vessel, the Zarga, running regularly between Eagle in operation have been taken by the contractors, and Lisbon and Funchal, carries 40 to 50 passengers each E n u e r e 0r a a:1 008 L1e .. ............ 4 6 1 . p e e r r e c e e n n t t . 2 2 0 0 5 36 0 - 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 5 2 8 2 1 5 • 3 o 0 - - to ask when there is a probability of something eeing trip. The English steamers, therefore, if calling at Glibe ..... .. •• •••• • • 61. p p er cent. Stock. G inl ar pe di ria an l Fire :•• •••• •-• •••• 121. p s er i• cent. 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 done in the matter, and will further be glad to learn Lisbon, would secure a considerable number of pas - the exact position and prospects of the enterprise, sengers between Madeira and Portugal. Imperial Life •• ••.• •• 125. 100 0010 0 0 1534 and why it has been, and is apparently held in With regard to the intercourse between Portugal Indemnity Marine •• •• 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 37 abeyance. and Brazil, owing to the community of language, Law , a F i re i_ , fe -:•••• • • • • • - 100 0 9 210 0 2% I •• •••••••.. 11.165. 100 0 0 10 0 0 42 We regret very much to be unable to give any manners, customs, and relations, and the large mer- Legal and General Life 6o 0 0 2o 0 4 _ very satisfactory solution to these inquiries, as there cantile business between the two countries, we are London Ship ...: :: :: , Licensed dcn r Y i r i e e taalle rs • • - 50 0 10 0 10s. 26 0 0 12 10 0 16% certainly has been a lack of energy in bringing to of opinion that with moderate rates of forces a highly 103. 25 0 0 12 10 • 169 i bear, or even commencing, the requisite measures for lucrative traffic would immediately be produced. itarine - ....• ••• • .. 121. per share 100 0015 o e 9 carrying out the contract, and we are fearful, even Our advices from Cadiz have recently put us in M ra e t d i . e l n n e rl i i, e & ae Gen.Life 4)4/. per et. SO 0 0 20 0 2% e.lladiunt Life Fund.. 61. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 now that a considerable period of time will pass over possession of the fact that the merchants of that Cational Life.... - 51. per cent. 100 8 0 5 0 I - ere the pioneer of the line will set sail from England city are about to establish a line of Spanish steamers for the various ports. between Cadiz, the Canaries, and Cape Verde ; hut, in 74 11 ,, c 3 a u n " •"• •• 31. "" - " _ - - - p. sh. &bs. - 141 Ftecs id L e i n fe t Life 00 - We understand that a long time was occupied in the event of the Royal Mail steamers calling at Paoeeter Life•• -•• • • SI. p e r k cent. 20 5 010 0 - 0 10 0 5% deciding whether steam-ships on the paddle-wheel or Lisbon, this scheme would in all probability be 10 0 0 26 screw principle should be employed on this line. It abandoned, and all the Spanish traffic to those islands 5. iloyal Exchang - e • .. •• • • it. per cent. - 203 would be a pity to adopt upon speculative grounds flow into the English steamers at Lisbon. There are "31" are.. - - 205 i itte Life any particular method of steam propulsion in carry- regular, rapid, and frequent communications between United KinEdoie 4...• 41 per . cant . . 0 e - nt. 20 - 0 4 - 0 47 ing out an enterprise of so important a character as Vigo and Cadiz with Lisbon by the Peninsular Corn- ueiversal Life l O% pr cnt. 100 0 0 9 0 Il this, to the commerce of Great Britain. Paddle- pany's steamers. Victoria Life . sl. per cnt. - 40 0 4% wheel steamers have been thoroughly tested for all We therefore incline to the opinion that if the Dooms. the purposes of Transatlantic navigation, and they Admiralty were to sanction the call, out and home, Dividend Amount have been found to answer in every respect, both as at the Portuguese capital, the traffic from Spain and Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. regards speed, safety, efficiency, and precision. All Portugal with Madeira, Cape Verde, the Canaries, Annum. Share. sea-going steam ships are liable to accident, and and the Brazilian ports would exceed the extent of -- - East and West Ind's- 61. p r ce n t. 4 Sto ' c . k. d. ------4 - l• i• - accordingly paddle•wheel steamers have sus- passenger traffic from England to South Amer'ca tained at sea all kinds of damage and dislocation which would at first accrue to the steamers in the E w a n st do C n ountry •• 20s. per sk. 100 0 0 p p e r r c e e e n n t t .. Stock. - 21 - 119 of their machinery, but never durin4 an expe- infancy of the line. The latter traffic will no doubt Ditto 80nd5........ 4 5 1 1 . • _ -_ perience of ten years has a paddle-wheel steamer been greatly increase when steamers shall have been_some C. Katharine ........ 4 per cent. Stock. - $0 Ditto, Scrip • • •., - . . - - - - completely and thoroughly disabled by an accident to time in full operation. Ditto Bonds- -- • • 4)41. pr cent. - her engines, or prevented from continuing her voyage An additional and direct communication with the Southampton •• ...... 21. per cent., 60 00se - e 0 _- by reason of such derangement. A vessel upon this Tagus would also be enjoyed by the British tner principle is not dependent upon one propeller, but can chants by the adoption of this plan , ava i lable both for BRIDGES Dividend Amount proceed by the help of either one paddle or two pad passengers and mails. Nami of Company. per of Paid. Price. dies, or by one engine driving one paddle, or both Another peculiar feature in this line of steamers to Annum. Share. engines working a single paddle, in each case respec- Brazil is, that from Porto Praya , Cape Verde , nearly Lively at a speed of fully one half to three-fourths of half the distance froth England to the Cape of Good Charing-cross- .• .. •• - X. t. d. Z. a. d. I • - the ordinary maximum rate of steaming. There is, Hope, the line can at any time be extended to our Sou th wr k, Nw Sub. Av. - 632 12 $25 - I 2 therefore, a degree of certainty about the voyages of South African possessions. We have no doubt that es at i e t r t l o oo Nse or 734 p. c. 355. per c e nt. 50 0 0 - 6 vv ••• • 100 0 0 60 - 0 0 25 21,4 a steam-ship worked with paddles which cannot he eventually this also will be accomplished by steamers Ditto Old Ann. 0•111•11 - 11. 4s. ed. obtained by a steam-vessel trusting to a screw, which, in conjunction with the Brazilian line, so that the Ditto Nw A ditto of 71. . 11 11. s.. 70 10 3 Od. - 40 0 0 25 Vauxhall t... • • • 1 - - if broken or deranged, leaves the ship at the mercy Cape of Good Hope will be brought within 35 or 36 T of the winds and waves in the midst of the ocean, days of England by steam, and at a moderate ex- _ WATER-IVORIES and possibly in a dangerous position on a lee shore. pense. i Dividend Amount The screw-propeller of a vessel deranged at sea Southampton has been definitively fixed upon as Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price. cannot be repaired except in port, and the vessel is the port of departure for these steamers in preference ____ I Annum. Share. forced to rely upon her sails ; and as it unfortunately to Liverpool. The present establishment of the .6 s. d. £ a. 4. happens that accidents of this nature generally occur Royal Mail Company at this port render it more L N a e m w b i a t t i h yr . L . • • • • • • •• •• E Gr ic a s n t d Lo j ndo e n ti . e . ; .... .. ••• i 4 SL 1 3 . 1 p. per cat. t. 1 5 0 0 0 11 1 0 0 100 0 0 - 16134 in bid weather, when the ship is being forc e d convenient for the management of the enterprise than Kent.............::: at. per cnt. 100 • 0 - 52 - . . .n . d . n . . B . r . d . g . ! I 51. 2 p L e r lOs. 76 through the water against a wind, there is certainly Liverpool, where a separate staff would have to be Vauxhall- 95 a poor chance for a screw steamer being enabled to kept up. The repair of the vessels and machinery cat . 100 - 0 0 - SS - In maintain anything like regularity in reaching her being effected in the company's own factory is also West Middlesex .. . 61.0 i. pr cat. - - 121 destination after having been exposed to accident. an additional inducement. But even if these reasons On the other hind, to take an extreme case (such an did not exist, there are more powerful ones for the OAS...LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. one as we believe has never yet been experienced by choice of Southampton as a packet station-as being Dividend Ameent Name of Company. per of Paid. Pri c e an ocean steamer), that of both paddle wheels being a maritime port on the south coast of England, within Annum. Share. deranged, it is possible at sea to repair and replace the nearest distance to the metropolis, midway be- - .s. s. .1. A... 4. temporarily any damage of the wheels, not of a serious tween Dover on the east and Exeter on the west- British •• •• •• .••• • • 11. 40 0 0 1$ • 5 14 nature or affecting the main or paddl e shafts, and and in regard to the embarkatioa of passengers, pos- Ditto Provincial- .: 11. as. 20 • 0 25 • 5 Is thus to enable the vessel to proceed, at a reduced sensing exclusive advantages, its position with re- Brighten ...... •• •• .. SI. per cent. 20 011 - - City of London .. •• •• 111 11 11 250 speed, to her destination. Again, all experience has ference to the interior of England being in a line tiontinentalConsolidat. 925. pr share 1 75 0 : : 31 5 0 30 proved that in sea-going steamers the screw has never nearly direct with Newcastle, that line dividing Equitable.. ••••.. • • •• 60s. pr sha t re 5150 5 5 II S 0 27 yet produced a speed equal to that of paddle steam- the kingdom into two nearly equal parts, and im Independent peri a l •• .. : •. •. •. :: : : s s ii: p pl ir r e e s e n nt. 45 0 5 0 0 5495 • 0 6 69 ships. It may be urged that perhaps the principle of thus by means of railways giving the whole inha- London.• .....• •• •• • • - SO •ose• • ' 2 propelling vessels by screws is yet in its infancy, and bitants of Great Britain, whether on the east or west,- so •ose • • , n . 1. pa . r . 1.. P re f erence ..... .. .. 61. per cent. 25 9 0 110 • -- that better things may be expected from this unfor- an equal but not an undue ' means of communication etee )° 4141. per ct. 50 0 0 45 9 5 r 29 tunate class of steamers ; but who will say, on the con- with the packet port. Then, again, it is found Rsttollfr .. - . ........ Si. 100 011 90 0 0 75 trary, that paddlewheel steamers have reache I the that Southampton, either through London or by way ay United etm i le t n e e r r e a u t .. . rt . ... re . d . 73 3 . 1 64. 5 6 : 00 * so 011 l•q„ - 4534 tnaxitnurn of speed, efficiency, or excellence ?of Havre, embraces more advantages for securing a Ditto, New •• •• -.. 125. 50 0 0 10 0 9 S3i, Is it impossible that by a perfect accor d continental traffic to the foreign steamers than Liver- - existing between the builder of the vessel pool or any western port. The Brazilian steamers CANALS. and the engine -maker, by careful atten- sailing from Southampton will draw from Havre a ,; , I . , lion to the lines of the ship, by progressive improve- very large French trade, both of valuable merchan- Names of ::: Dividend, p ri ,.. Names of , r Diyidend C mapanies. ' 4 ' per I Companies. I An P s er 1 Price. silents in the engines, but more especially in the dice as well as passengers, for South America, Buenos nnu . 1 V.: ! A In I I au boilers, whereby steam in greater quantities shall be Ayres, and Mon'evideo, and which would be irnpos generated with a lessened expenditure of fuel, and sible at any other port. These advantag es ,• w ith 4 I .4 1 ,-- wit- Ashtn t Oldh 97 I 71. 113 Macclesfield . 100 21 101 II consequently at a reduced coat, and with greater others, have been found sufficient to counterbalance B lrus l eY - - 160, 121. ISO Neatk ...• • • 100' • 161. • 340 economy of stowage, better steamers will hereafter be the advantages of dispatching Iflrenk&Abrg 150' SI the steamers from Li- Birmin g ham as , 41. . M 5 53 OPexafln•o•r•e•st... 1 7 0: 31 20 1 / 6 . 5 Ir e produced than those now in existence ? To scout verpool in consequence of itscontig u ity - Coventry.... 190 251. 210 Regent's - - 33 , i 11. 25.. 1534 such ideas as these would be to sail directly in the nufacturing districts; besides which the nature of the Eh e, Dr s b in 3 're&C • h - s 13315 i. 63 Rochdale.... 15 41. 50)4 teeth of the aims, intentions, and study of all practical mail service and the lengthened voyages of the Erewash •• . 100 321. - Do.LkFdSt '6l 12 i -p. is. - and eminent engineers, who declare that improvements steamers will prevent them from carrying any large Grand f unctn 100 51. 52% Stffrd&Werc 1 ' 40 ! 281. 450 of an ' important character, are yet to be accomplished. amount of heavy goods on freight, only light acid Grand Surrey 100 21. flu Gra 30 Shrewsbury.. 1 , 5 IS: • - lid Union 11. les. 24 Sto brid --- • Stour bridge.. 145 1 201. SOO With all these considerations, therefore, and while valuable merchandise in limited quantities being in- Grantham • •• ,150 - - Sever* and 7i ~ . - preserving the conviction that five minutes' discussion tended to be conveyed. Kennt & Avnl 39 7s. id. 534 Wye RaiLi 26 ''• 'l* Lee•lsSe Livrp,loo 301. 325 Warwick&i would be amply su ffi cient to decide upon the com- Such, then, is a brief outline of the advantages Leicester ..- 1140 51. 6354 Binning. j 100 41. 63 partitive merits of the two principles, we are glad to proposed to be embraced in the contract granted by Leicstr &Nth 83 41. 46 Warwick& 100 31. 43 learn that the screw principle for the Brazilian sere the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to the Lmneutt4mhebourtehthh 105 7 0 0 1 1 . . 650 w N or a c p s t t o r n . 8; vice has been rejected, and that only really efficient Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. Mntgemrysh 100 - - Birming. 75 31. 42 paddle-wheel steam ships will be employed. We have alluded to the improvements of which it MeltnMwbri 100 - - Wilts & Brks -14 s. 9 The route proposed to be adopted is, we under- is susceptible in regard to the intercourse between LIST OP SCOTTISH! COMPANIES' PRICES stand, as follows :- Spain, Portugal, and Brazil, and which can be ef- Miles. forted without any detriment whatever to the useful- Name of Com p any. Dividend Amount y. per of i Paid. Price. Southampton to Funchal, Ma3eira 1,306 ness or integrity of the main line between Great Bri- Annum. Share. Madeira to Santa Cruz, Teneriffe 260 taro aid South America. The possibility and prac- --. - Tenerife to Porto Prays, C.pe Verde ticehility of an extension of the line to the Cape of B ank of Scotland 00 0 0 100 5 0 117 I iiand (allowing 20 miles for winding Good Hope has also been glanced at. British Linen Company 11. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 220 the “51a , i 1..) ev The public will, therefore, naturally feel an interest yof Glasgow City S a nk :3 Vor:k t , Penn imhueo that this scheme, so important, whether viewed corn. •.?sank ydesdate Bank-..... 6% per cent. 20 0 II 15 0 0 1334 P ern ini t- Juee to Kaiak Bahia to Rio Janeiro train for consummation; and it is far from desirable F.dlnb.k Glas g ow Itank 61. p 0 8% --per cent. 5 0 0 5 1) 0 5/as Total (Southampton to Rio Janeiro) 5,136 that we should leave it to the Americans to carry Exehange Bnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0060 0 0 2 . 1 . Isle of Man. Company 71 6 . per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 - Rio Janeiro to Monte Vale° 1,043 out before us their contemplated line of steamers National Bank )5 per cent. 60 0 0 15 0 0 14)4 Monte Video to Buenos Ayr•-s (311 :wing from New York to Rio Janeiro, intended to call at North of Scotland B kan 41. percent. 20 5 0 10 0 2% 20 miles for winditg the shoal') l3O Birbaioes and the intervening ports of Bahia and North British Bank,.. - - Royalßank of Scotland 51. percent. 100 • 0 100 71 0 129 Pernambuco. Union Bank o! Scotland SI. per cent. 105 11 0 SO 0 0 14 6,306 Supposing the voyage to be performed by steamers running at an average speed of eight miles an hour, and allowing for stoppages, the time occupied to Pernambun would be about 22 days, to Bahia 24, and to Ri ) Janeiro 27 lays. At a speed of 10 miles the voyage to Pernambuco would occupy 18 days, Bahia, 20 days, and Rio Janeiro, 24 days. At a speed of 12 miles the distance to Pernambuco would he performed in 15 days, B thia in 17 days, and Rio Janeiro in 19 to 20 days. We believe the medium, or 10-knot speed, is the one that will be adopted. The route t' - .us marked is undoubtedly the best ens that can ba laid from Southampton to Brazil. The stoppages are at judicious and convenient dis tances, an l afford a regular communication to and from Madeira, the Canaries, and Cape Vi-!rde. The distance from Southampton to Pernambuco direct is 3,953 miles, against 4,046 with the proposed stop pages, and from Southampton to Rio Janeiro direct 5,565 miles, against 5,136 as intended, so that a very trifling increase of distance is required to be traversed on account of the detour to the various islands and ports. Sierra Leone is only 710 miles from Praya (Cape Verde), une of the ports of call, and therefore, if needful, a branch steam-vessel, or fast sailing schooner, could bring up the mails thence, and thus a direct line of steam communication be established with the coast of Africa at a small additional expense. While admitting that this course fur the line of Brazilian mail steamers is the best that can be adopted, both outwards and homewards, we are of opinion that in the organization of the scheme a very impor tant traffic has been altogether excluded from the route, and that a large accession to the business of the line might he produced by an arrangement which would effect an independent and rapid intercourse between Portugal and Brazil. We allude to the propriety of these vessels making a call both outwards and homewards at Lisbon. The extent of the traffic between Portugal and Bra zil that might ho comprised and included in the ope rations of this line cannot be underrated, particularly as a favourable opportunity for effecting such commu nication now exists, and without detriment to the service of the British mails, and with much benefit to the public as well as to the promoters of the enter prise. On the 4th of November, 1848, we mentioned the arrival in England of M. d'Affonseca (Deputy for the island of Madeira in the Portuguese Cortes), who visited London for the purpose of concluding arrangements for the establishment of t r y-, lines of steamers, for which he had received th, concession of ample privileges from the Portuguese Government. One of those lines of steam-vessels was to proceed from Lisbon to the Algarves, Cadiz, Ma deira, and the Canaries. The other line was to pro vide a communication from Lisbon to the Algarves, thence to Cadiz, St. Michael's, Terceira, and Fayal, both lines returning to Lisbon by the same routes. With the first project was another, to connect the Madeira line with Brazil by means of steamers run ning between that island and Pernambuco, calling at Cape Verde; the latter portion of the route being, in fact, identical with the one now proposed to be followed by the English line. U. d'Affonseca brought Moreover, as the proposed steam communication cau be carried out at a less cost to the public ser vice than that now incurred by the Exchequer in maintaining the communication from Falmouth to Brazil by the monthly line of man•of-war brigs, so comparatively slow, irregular, and uncertain in their movements, considerations of economy should urge the necssity of an immediate c3mmencement of the contract. At the expiration of nearly a year the Royal Mail Company are found without any ships available for commencing the service which they have contracted to perform, and we understand that to the present moment no vessels have been constructed for the purpose, but that it is intended to dispatch four of the original ships from the West India fleet. These steamers are to be razeed and to be prepared for carrying the Brazilian mails, by improvements which will bring their average speed to ten knots, and would, no doubt, make them very efficient vessels for this particular route. It is plain, however, that these vessels cannot be spared till the new steam-ships to be employed under the new West India arrangement (as mentioned in the Times of the 10th inst.) are built and ready for sea, and, as the preparation of such new vessels will occupy at least a year, there is very small chance for any commencement of the Brazilian service till the middle of 1851. Considering the magnitude of the interests involved in this undertaking, the facilities that would be af forded by steam communication to a development of our commerce with Brazil and the Rio Plata, and, finally, bearing in remembrance how much sooner the political questions concerning the relations of England and France with Buenos Ayres may be brought to an amicable adjustment by means of a more regular and rapid intercourse with that part of the world, it would certainly appear to be desirable, if the directors of the Royal Mail Steam packet Company cannot quickly make some arrangements for carrying out the intentions of their contract, that fresh tenders should be invited by the Government, in which case there would be doubtless plenty of applicants for the concession of so valuable, so pro- mising, and so lucrative an enterprise.— Times. MAN'S LAST FRIEND IS THE TAX•GATEIERER.— His wile may leave him, his family disown him, his chil dren run away from him, his best friends and worst ac quaintances avoid him, but the tax-gatherer follows him wherever he goes, even to the grave. It must be most fingering to an Englishman's pride, that, poor as he may be, hn has Plways one friend that takes care of him. and who will call without the smallest ceremony and share his last penny loaf. Solitude and selfish ness cannot exist in England, for no man can live independent of the tax-gatherer. His existenco is a partnership drawn up for life, between the Government and himself, in which the former takes what it likes, and the latter gives more than he likes. In short, every Englishman may be said to p ossess t wo s h a d ows —hi s owl genuine, true-born shadow, and the government presentation shadow; but there is this difference between the two, that, whereas his own shadow merely walks after him, the Government shadow walks into him if it is not paid the moment it runs after him.—Prsnch's Abnanack. I DOCKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. --- —•----- £ s. d. £ Is. d. East and West Ind'a ... 61. pr cent. Stock. East Country • • 20s. per sh. 100 0 0 21 London . 51. pr cent. Stock. 119 Ditto Bonds ••.. • • 41. per cent. -- St. Katharine .... •• • • 4 per coat. Stock. 60 Ditto, Scrip...—. . Ditto Bonds— •... • • 4341. pr cent. Southampton •• —•• •• 21. per cent. 50 0 0 SI • • BRIDGES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. - X. s. d. X. s. d. Charing-cross ...• • • 25 9 9 Southwrk, Nw Sub. Av. 632 12 I 2 Ditto Kw of 7% p. c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 6 Waterloo •• •• •• •• •• •• 100 0 0 —3% Ditto Old Ann. oflll. 11. 4s. ed. GO 0 0 26 Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. Is. Od. 49 0 0 26 Vauxhall t... •• • Ay. 11. 70 10 3 %VAT ER—WORMS ; Dividend Amount Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ---- ' £ s. d. A s. 4. Esat L0nd0n........ •• i IL 100 9 0 1111% Grand Junction ••.• • • 41. per cnt. 50 11 0 112 Kent.........• •••• • • 1 31.105. 100 • 0 76 Lambeth ...... ••• • •• R. per cnt. 109 9 0 95 New Itivr Lndn Brdge 1 21. 10s. SS Vauxhall ............ 61. per cat. 100 9 • .911 West Middlesex . . . 61.• i. pr cat. 121 OLLS..LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. X. s. d. A. a. 41. British ••••••.• • • • • •• 11. 40 9 • 111 • • 14 Ditto Provincial•• •• 11. ils. 20 • • 29 9 9 18 Brighten ...... ••• • .. 61. per cent. 20 9 • City of London .. •• •• 101. 100 9 • 111 • • 260 ContinentalConsolldat. 925. pr share 75 • • 31 6 0 30 Equitable.. •• • • ...... bee. pr share be 0 • SO • 0 27 Imperial —....— — 31. per cent. SI • 0 i• • • 69 Independent ....... • • 61. per cent. 49 I • 41 I 0 I 62 L0nd0n.......• ••• • • • SO 0 0 SO • • SO • 0 SO • • Do., Parl. Preference 61. per cent. 25 9 0 110 0 --- Phosnia . .... • ....... Oil. per et. 50 0 0 46 • • 29 RatclifY .. ••-..• • • • • • SI. 100 0 • 90 • • 75 United General ...... 7s. 64. be 0 o 50 0 • 143, Westminster Chartered 31. 60 0 II 4534 Ditto, New ••••-• .• 12s. SO 0 • 10 0 9 sh, Bank of Scotland British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 220 Jaledonian Bank City of Glasgow sank . 61. per cent. 10 0 I 10 0 0 12% Iydesdale Bank 6% per cent. 20 0 I 10 0 0 13% .lommerclal Bank ...• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 • 0 166 V.:astern Bank .....• •• 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 I 0 8% F.dinb.k Glasgow Rank 61. per cent. 8 0 0 5 0 0 51. Os. Exchangeßnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 9 0 50 0 0 21 isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 - National Bank 6% per cent. 60 0 0 II 0 0 14% Norther Scotland Bank 41. percent. 20 I 0 80 0 2% North British Bank Royal Bank of Scetlind 51. per cent. 100 I 0 100 I 0 129 Union Bank of Scotland al. per cent. 100 0 0 80 • 0 114 Western Bank •• • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 75 A , )erdeen Fire and Life 7%1.pr cent. 12 10 0 2 0 0 B. Accord. Life and Fire 20 0 0 •Is 0 - &nib Guarantee Ins. 41. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 134 Od Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cent. 100 50 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 • 0 o 2 . 1 Church of England Ins. City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21, IG, Kdinburgla Life Insur 6l. per cent. 100 • 0 12 10 0 20 East of Scotland Life lO 0 0 015 0 93,04 Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 - Elercules Insurance Ce. 7/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - fn wr. Co. of Scetlnd•• 51. per cent. 100 I I 10 - Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 • 0 , 11. 85 Mercantile Life ...• National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 • 1 0 I 1 208.6 d North British Incur. •• 5%1.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 24 North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 11 0 - Scottish Life and Guar. 20 0 0 011 0 - Scot. Mac. and Gen. Life I • 015 • - Scottish Union Inarace. 610. pr cent. 20 0 • 1 0 11 211‘.6d Standard Life • . 51. per cent. 50 11 0 4 6 0 9% United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 13s ad AXXSCELLANZOUB. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Anima. Share. X. s. d. s. i. Auction Mart •••• • • • • 21. ss. 50 0 • - 23 Australian Agricultarl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 16 Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 4s. 10 10 • 0 - Ditto, Half Shares.. 2 10 0 Canada ....• .... •• .. Gl. per cent. 100 0 1'52 II • 26 Uppr Canada Bonds 51. percent. - City Navigation 91 Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.tcbs, 2/ 100 0 0. 100 0 0 - Equitable Reversienry ro. pr cant. 100 0 • 1100 0 0 103 Gcn.SteamNavightion 11. Se. 15 0 • ' 14 0 I 2$ London Institution .• . 78 11 0 - Russell Institution.... 26 f 0 - Penlnslr& Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. SO 0 0 SO 0 0 79 Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 92% Royal Mail Steam.... 61 18..4. p. c 100 0 0' 60 0 0 50 South Australian..... 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Van Dieman's Land.. 100 0 0 23 0 0 2 Mz. arcs SOMBRE...-.lt is rumoured in the Court of Chancery that this singular case is likely to be again made the subject of inquiry. It is stated upon good authority that the Lord Chancellor will propose that Dr. Seymour, Mr. Lawrence, and Dr. Forbes Winslow be appointed, in conjunction with one of his own physicians, either Dr. Bright or Dr. Southey, to consider this matter in all its details, and report accordingly. Our readers will recollect that prior to the former inquiry Mr. Dyce Sombre himself selected Dr. Winslow, Mr. Lawrence, and Dr. Seymour as his judges, and expressed himself willing to abide by their decision; but these gentlemen declined entertaining the question without the knowledge and consent of the Lord Chancellor (the legal guardian of Mr. Dyce Sombre), and having access to the important documents in pos. session of the Court of Chancery. Mr. Dyce Sombre then appointed four other gentlemen, who saw Mr. Dyne Sombre and made a report in his favour. The matter came before the Court of Chancery, and the petition was dismissed. Mr. Dyne Sombre complains of his anoma lous position. Ho is found lunatic by inquisition, and is therefore supposed to be incapable of taking care of himself and property. Notwithstanding this he is under no kind of surveillance, has at command nearly 12,000/. per annum, and is permitted to leave the country and reside on the continent. If he be a lunatic, it is said, why is this liberty allowed? Either his person ought to be under control, or he is 6t to be at large and have the management of his own affair. He is the only lunatic connected with the Court of Chancery placed in this peculiar and anomalous position. It is understood that Mr. Dyce Sombre has strongly expressed his readi ness to abide by the medical opinions of Dr. Seymour, Mr. L a wrence, !tad Dr. Winslow, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1849 The SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. (From the Times ) The question of an independent railway audit should be solved for ever in the mind of any rational man by the report of the meeting of the South- Western shareholders which took place at the Nine Elms station on Saturday last. It will be remem bered that certain direct charges of malversation in financial matters had been preferred, amongst others, against Mr. Chaplin, the chairman of the board. The gravamen of the main charge was this—that he had allowed his calls upon shares, to a heavy amount, to fall into arrear, and yet had received dividends upon those very shares. It was further stated, in aggra vation of the charge, that the rate of interest charged upon the shares during the time they were in arrear, and commencing from the period when the debt to the company was contracted, was infinitely below the market value of money at the time—for then " the panic" was in full operation. To make the care clear, according to the spirit of the accusa tion, let us suppose A, the chairman of a railway company, to allot to himself 1,000 shares of 501. each ; that upon each of these shares there is an immediate call of 101. ; and that, owing to a great commercial disturbance at the time of the allotment, money could not be got in the market at a lower rate than 101 per cent. per annum. The figures are arbitrary, and given only for the purpose of illustration. A—the chair ' inan—does not pay up his arrears, but the shares stand in his name, carrying interest at the rate of 5 per cent.--half the market value,—ani upon them he receives a dividend of, say, 21 per cent., which goes in reduction of his arrears : the times are hard, and railway property, like all eoinmercial property, at its lowest point of depreciation. But the conduct of A, far from being actuated by any self-seeking motives in the transaction, was (so he might tell us) inspired by the purest and most disinterested anxiety for the benefit of his shareholders. " Con sider," says A, " what would have taken place had I thrown 25,0001. of scrip upon the market at the time when the stock of the company was already sufficiently discredited. Then, indeed, the share holders might ha ve h a d co l oura bl e matter for an accusation against me ; but, as it was, can any other construction be put upon my conduct than that I offered my own coat to the shearers, to induce them to spare the fleecy honours of my flock ?" Suppose, in addition to all we have stated, that the transac tion as we have put it was carefully kept from the knowledge of the shareholders, until one day au ditors were appointed to look into the affairs of the company. It became impossible that this fine instance of disinterestedness and public spirit should any longer be concealed, and then A, no doubt, lest he should be encumbered with the grateful acclamations of the proprietary body, instantly makes a great effort to reduce his arrears. It is easy to conceive the contempt with which a man on the lofty moral eminence we have described would , listen to the despicable insinuations of the auditors, " that very censurable irregularities had taken place in the administration of the company's affairs." How can such mere men of routine be expected to appre ciate the heroism of a railway chairman, or the moral peculiarities of a board of directors ? It might, in deed, be said, that had the speculations of the company prospered according to the ideas of the chairman and the board—had the dividends been kept up, or, still better, had they increased, it would have been no contemptible speculation to have secured , a share in the ripening fruit upon such terms. If all went well all the gain would have gone into A's pocket; if things turned out badly, he saved himself from loss just in so far as the company might be damnified upon the general result of the transaction. From the illustration we have given, the true nature of the charge against Mr. Chaplin can be far better understood than from the wordy, unbusiness like report made to the meeting, in which, taking things at the best, two thirds of the facts must be taken upon credit. Substitute the name of Mr. Chaplin for that of our friend A, and the charge against him may be readily appreciated. Some time before the meeting on Saturday, on the 15th of the present month, Mr. Chaplin wrote and sent to the proprietors of his line a letter in " explanation" of his conduct. There is much of it that is hazy and unintelligible, but when we had got about two-thirds through the perusal of it, we were stopped by , the following sen tence :—" I have already denied in tote the charge that I have at any times received dividends upon calls in arrear." We were much struck with this asser tion, for in the previous part of Mr. Chaplin's letter we can find no such denial as the one to which he alludes. On the contrary, at the very commence ment of his explanation there occurs an actual admis sion that be had been credited with dividends on the shares in arrear, in reduction of the interest due upon such shares. For the sake of common honesty and common sense, we will not permit ourselves to think that Mr. Chaplin is quibbling upon the word " re ceived," as though to be credited with money in diminution of a balance were not tantamount to the receipt of it. Here, however, is the passage at the commencement of Mr. Chaplin's letter := " The complaint in my particular case is, that I have been, ar.d continue to be, in arrear in respect of calls ; and that, nevertheless, matters have bean so contrived that I have received dividend on calls in arrear at a higher rate than the interest with which I have been charged. The latter charge is wholly without founds tion. I have never received or been credited with a dividend at a higher rate than the interest with which I have been charged. The former charge I admit, and although I do so in the confidence that the explanation I am about to give will excuse me with all fair and im partial men, I should do myself injustice if I failed to state that to have been in any arrear whilst acting as your chairman has occasioned me pain." We would not willingly be guilty of the slightest misconstruction, or do Mr. Chaplain the shadow of wrong, but it appears to us that lie says here, "I did receive dividends, but the dividends were not so high as the interest I paid; the dividends, in point o f fact, went in reduction of my interest." The task, however, of reconciling Mr. Chap lin with himself is not an easy one, as will be seen by the following paragraph. We quote the passage, however, rather as a cur i ous spec i men o f the dealings of a chairman with his company than from the idea of reconciling anomalies. It will be observed that Mr. Chaplin treats the proprietary body just as an Irish gentleman, somewhat in difficulties, might deal with an opulent friend, who in an un guarded moment had permitted him to have the run of his bankers. Mr. Chaplin procured a ledger—we presume it is the identical book to which Sergeant Cr izelee alluded in the discussion on Saturday —and opened a little account between himself and the com pany, by which it appears that Mr. Chaplin and the chairman of the South-Western Company were on the most confidential and friendly footing in pecuniary matters, and that there were no lengths to which the chairman was not willing to go to oblige his friend Mr. Chaplin : " I have already denied in tote the charge that I have at any time received dividend on calls in arrear; but, before passing to matter subsequent in point of date, I must, in order to displace that charge more completely, state that in 1845 I advanced the company 43,0001., without security, and at a low rate of interest. This loan was either absorbed in calls which fell due from me in the year 1846, or by cash payments by the company, . and I only refer to it because it was the means of open ing a ledger account between myself and the company, on the credit side of which will be found my loans, and on the debtor side my calls, with the company's re payments in cash. When, therefore, in the latter part of 1846, and during the year 1847, further calls and de posits on new stock became payable by me, they were debited against my name in the abovementioned ledger account, and I no longer stood in the list of shareholders in arrear of call. It has been asserted that this was done for the purpose of enabling me to receive dividend (at the higher rate which the company were then paying on the dividend bearing part of their stock) upon amounts I had really never paid, whilst I was only charged interest thereon; or that at least such a consequence resulted from it. This neither was nor could be the case. The shares on which I was then in arrear bore no dividend, and the rate of interest on those bearing interest was at 4 per cent. only, whilst I was on my arrear rightly charged with 5 per cent." We would wish that every shareholder in the three kingdoms would weigh this paragraph well, and consider what kind of control they exercise over an - account of this sort ? Who is the judge of the propriety of borrowing ? Mr. Chaplin. Who is the jndge of the propriety of lending ? Mr. Chaplin. Who has to choose the time for either operation ? Mr. Chaplin. Who asks for time ? Mr. Chaplin. Who gives time ? Mr. Chaplin. In whose interest is the account opened at all ? Mr. Chaplin's. Who is the only person who knows anything about the matter ? Mr. Chaplin. Who suffers ? The South- Western Railway Company. There was some talk at the meeting on Saturday of the control exercised by the board over the acts of their chairman. Now, if there be one result more striking than another from the investigations that have taken place with regard to all the defaulting railways, it is this—that one man is the manager of the concern invariably, and that the names of the other directors are merely for show. A row of wig-blocks would have been as sufficient a protection to the shareholders as the boards of the :Northern or Eastern Lines in which Mr. Hudson was concerned ; nor, with regard to the South - Western Railway, have we any reason to see that the case is materially different. The public should bear this in mind, and not permit themselves to be duped by the mere mention of a few names with ap purtenances. If the directors of the South- Western line had done their duty, how could such transactions have taken place at all ? With regard 1 to one half of the charge, Mr. Chaplin frankly admits I it, and deplores the imp ro pri e ty of his act ; upon the remaining porti on o f th e accusation, when we have clearer explanations than those contained in Mr. Chaplin's letter we shall be enabled to speak with more certainty. At present all is mist and mystery, 1 but no doubt the Committee of Investigation will 1 , supply us with something mire to the purpose than the Chairman's letter. With this new instance of railway mismlnagmnent before us, however, is it possible that an independent audit can be any longer resisted? Short of this, there is no meaeure which will restore confidence in railway stock to the public mind. CHRISTMAS - DAY IN THE WORKHOUSES. For several years it has been the custom to give an account of the treatment of the parochial poor of this vast metropolis on Christmas-day, supplying therewith a variety of statistics showing the comparative increase or decrease of pauperism, as the case may be, in the various metropolitan . districs, a course which it is pre sumed is calculated to afford the public a very fair criterion for judging as to the state of trade and the amount of distress actually existing. The following report will bc found to contain not wily a detail of the Christmas fare all )wed by the guardians of the respective parishes to the ror in mates of the workhouses, but it shows the number in_ each, distinguishing the adults from the children as well as the sexes of the inmates, and also the number in the various establishments last year; as also, where the returns could be obtained, the number of outdoor poor, and the gross number summed up at the end of each report, with other interesting particulars : Sr. PANCRAS WoaauouSE•—Number of inmates pudding, with one pint of porter, with tea morning and evening, to each adult. Total number receiving relief, 6.770; total decrease of pauperism as compared with last year, 1,421. • ST. MARY MAGDALEN, BERMONDSEY.—In the workhouse, G3O (last year, GB4), viz. :—Men, 174 ; women, 246 ; boys, 100; girls, 110- The inmates were regaled with roast pork, potatoes, plumpudding, and a pint of Barclay's porter fa- dinner. The children fed at discretion, and to receive two oranges each instead of beer. All the adults are allowrd to go out on Christmas-day. About 1,600 receiving outdoor relief; total, 2,230; decrease, on Christmas-day, 1849, 1,360 (last Christmas day, 1,462. Number of outdoor poor, 7,054 (last, year 7,283). The inmates of the house are thus divided : -Adult males, 450 ; females, 540 ; boys, 170 ; girls, 200. The Christmas-day fare was six ounces of cooked beef, free from bone, Ilb. of potatoes, llb of plumpudding, and 1 pint of porter each adult, with an extra allowance of good tea, tobacco, snuff, &c.; the children fed at discretion, and allowed fruit and sweetmeats. It is worthy of remark that in the parish of St. Pancras there has been a great change in the management of its affairs, a new party having come into power, who have abolished as far as possible the workhouse test, and applied more extensively than formerly the principle of outdoor relief, which shows the following results :-1,462 indoor poor in 1848 cost, in the Christmas week of that year, 2041. lOs. 31; this year, 1,287 cost 1691. 14s. 2d., being 175 less in the house, and the cost of 341. 16s. Id., in the week less than the corresponding week last year. 7,283 outdoor poor in the Christmas week, 1848, cost 2461.- 14s. 7d. ; and in 1849 the cost of 7,054 has been 259/. ; being an increase in relief to 229 less the corresponding week of last year of 121. 53. 5d., saving on the week as compared with last year, 22/. 10s. Bd. (saving of children in the house instead of Tooting, 201.) making a total saving on the weeks account of 421. 10s. Bd. The diminution in the cost of inmates is the decrease and cheapness of provisions. The increase in amount given to outdoor poor, although much smaller in number than last year, is caused by a greater amount being given to the most deserving and necessitous. The affairs of this parish are now most flourishing, the directors of the poor having a rest of 8,0001. in their banker's hands, besides having paid a few days since, 1,2001. on account of the industrial training-schools be longing to the workhouse. It will thus be seen that there is a decrease on the indoor poor of 102, and on the outdoor poor of 229. SAINT MARYLEBONE.-The returns up to yester day show the number of inmates of the workhouse and infirmary to be 1,999. Last Christmas- day the numbers were 2,222 in the house. Number of out door poor about 6,500. Christmas fare ilb. of roast beef free from bone, 11b. of potatoes and bread, one pint of porter, and lib. of plumpudding, with 1 ounce of tea and a alb. of sugar extra to each adult. The children are fed at the discretion of the master, and in the evening are allowed to partake of various amusements at the expense of the guardians, who had fruit and sweetmeats provided for them. Decrease of inmates at the workhouse, 233 ; number of outdoor poor last year, 7,280; decrease of outdoor poor, 780 ; total number receiving relief, 8,489 ; total decrease as compared with last year, 1,013. ST. MARTIN'S IN THE FIELDS.-Inmates of work house, 650 (last year 660), viz., 189 men, 376 women, 35 boys, 50 girls. Christmas fare-to adults, 11h. of roast beef; /lb. plumpudding; as many potatoes as they require; a pint of porter (many of them receiving 2 pints for little services rendered.) The majority of them have also tea and sugar, with leave of absence after dinner and another day's liberty in the course of the week. Number of outdoor poor about 600; outdoor poor (last year), 575 ; decrease of inmates, 10 ; increase of outdoor poor, 25 ; total increase, 15 ; and total receiving relief, 1,250 Cirr or LONDON Urios.-Number of inmates in the new workhouse of the City of London Union, Bow-road, this Christmas, 900 adults; last year (including children at Peckham, Stepney, and Norwood) 1,132. The children of this union are in the Central London District School, Norwood, which comprises the following unicns and parishes :- City of London Union, boys, 126 ; girls, 11l ; total, 237. East London Union, boys, 117 ; girls, 108 ; total, 225. St. Saviour's, Southwark, boys, 79 ; girls, 48 ; total, 127. St. Martin's in-the- Fields, boys, 83; girls, 71; total, 154 Total number of children in the Central London District School boys, 405 , girls, 338 ; total, 743. Christmas fare roast beef, roast pork, plumpudding, and one pint of beer each. The outdoor poor to hare Is. extra given them. Number of outdoor poor about 3,000. The difference between this year and the last in the house :-Outdoor poor last year, 3,378 ; total receiving relief, 4,131 ; total decrease, 384. STRAND UNION.-Inmates of workhouse, Cleve land-street, 644 (last year, 611); males, 280; females, 364 ; 90 children at the new establishment, at Mill field-house, Edmonton.-Christmas fare-boiled pork, potatoes, peaspudding, with a pint of porter to each adult; children without porter in proportion to age. Number of outdoor poor, 1,529 (last year, 1,768); total receiving relief, 2,173 ; total decrease, 355. ST. MART, ISLINGTON.-'-Number in the workhouse, 420 (last Christmas, 485). In adlition to this, there are 120 boys and girls at the Islington Infant Poor Establishment at Hackney. Fare-6 oz. of roast beef, free from bone, bread and potatoes as required, 1 lb. boiled plumpudding, and 1 pint of London porter. Decrease in the number of poor, as compared with corresponding period of last year, 65. No return as to outdoor poor. Sr. LUKE'S, CHELSEA.-The number of inmates of the workhouse are 515 (last Christmas there were 541), viz.-able-bodied men, 43; able bodied women, 43. Men temporarily disabled, 9 ; women temporarily disabled, 38. Old and infirm men, 99 ; old and infirm women, 185. Boys, from 7 to 15 years old, 28 • girls, from 7 to 15 years old, 18 ; children and infants, 52 Farmed out in the parish, 75 children (last year farmed out at Drouet's, Tooting, 127) ; outdoor poor, 2,723 (last year, 2,196)-this being a decrease as compared with last year on the indoor poor, of 26, children farmed out 52, and on the outdoor poor of 473. Lunatics in the various asylums 46 (last year 40). Total, receiv ing relief, 3,359. The inmates of the workhouse of this parish are allowed by the guardians, for Christ mas-day, to adults, alb. of roast beef, free from bone, with a liberal supply of potatoes and bread ; ;lb. of plumpudding, and one pint of Barclay's porter. Children dieted at the discretion of the master, and for those farmed out 6d. per head is allowed for extra Christmas fare. Total decrease of pauperism in this parish 551. STEPNEY' Urctorr.-Number of inmates in the four workhouses of this union, 1,209 (last year 1,314)- viz., men, 281 ; women, 492 ; children, 436. The Christmas fare for the indoor poor is the good old English fare of roast beef and plumpudding, with a pint of porter for each adult, and spies and oranges for the children. Number of outdoor poor, 3,860, being a decrease of 105 in the numbers in the work house, and an increase of 219 in the outdoor poor as compared with the corresponding period last year; total receiving relief in this union, 5,078 ; increase over last year, 114. ST. LEONARD, SHOREDITCII.-Number of inmates, 787 (last year, 870)-viz., men, 231 ; women, 404 ; children, 152. The outdoor poor are about 1,600 families, averaging to each family, amounting to about 5,000 persons on the aggregate. About 100 children at the establishment at Enfield ; Christmas fare to adults, 6oz. of roast beef; baked po tatoes, lb. plumpudding, and 1 pint of ale; to children, soz. roast beef, Vb. baked potatoes, ilb. plumpudding, and 1 pint of ale between three. Holydays are allowed on Christmas day as well as Boxing-day. Total receiving relief about 5,800. ST. JAMES'S, CLERIEENWELL. - Total number of inmates 450 (last year 537)-viz., aged and infirm men above 60 years old, 92 ; women above 60, 125 ; able-bodied men under 60 years, 75 ; able-bodied women under 60 years, 110; boys and girls under 16 years of age, 18; boys and girls (including in fants) under 9 year. of age, 30; besides the children at the schools at Kentish-town. Christmas allow ances :-Each adult 11b. of plumpudding, ilb. of baked beef, 11b. of baked potatoes, 1 pint of porter, loz. of tea, and i-lb. of sugar; children above 6 years of age ill). of plumpudding each, and half a pint of porter. Number of persons now in receipt of out door relief weekly 2,035, making a total of 2,485; increase on outdoor poor 670, decrease on indoor poor 87--making a total increase of 583. ST. °LAVE'S UNION, SOUTHWAIIK.- Inmates 354 1 . . . ST. MARY, ROTHERHITHE —lnmates of the work house, 255 (last year no return), viz., men 72, women 109, children 74 The adults had each ilb. roast beef, Vb. potatoes, with 1 pint of ale, and tobacco and snuff for the old people. The outdoor poor have nothing extra provided by the guardians. POPLAR. UNION.-Nurnber in t!',P workhouse, 574 (kit Christmas 651), viz., men, 171; women, 198; boys, 109 ; girls, 96. Number of outdoor poor averages 2 300. Christmas fare—roae. or baked beef, with potatoes and plumpudding. Decrease in indoor poor, 77. WIIITECEIAPEL UNlON.—lnmates of the work houses, 1.013 (last Christmas, 647), viz , men, 228 ; women, 417 ; children, 368 ; outdoor poor, 2,253 (last year, 2.613). Christmas fare, by order of the directors, roast beef, plumpuddiog and beer. Increase in the indoor poor, 366 ; decrease in outdoor, 360 ; total increase, 6. EDMONTON UNION.— Inmates 410 (bast year, 426), viz , men, 298 ; women, 182 ; the children at an estab lishm.rit at Enfield. Christmas tare, 6 z of cooked beet with potatoes; lib of plurnputhlirg, and 1 pint of porter each. No return of the number of , -utdoor poor; decrease, as compared with last year, 16. ST. MART, NEWINGTON.—Number of inmates, 364 (last Christmas, 348), and 180 children at Drouet's establishment, Grove-house, Brixton-hill. Christmas fare—roast bec-f, baked potatoes, plutn pudding. In the afternoon each adult will rt-ci ive loz. of tea, 8. , z. of sugar, and 6uz of butter. Such adulis as smoke will have loz. of tobacco, and those who take snuff loz. each. Holydays are permitted to such inmates as may desire them. The children fed at discretion. Number ot outdoor poor 1,428 (last year 1,576.) Total number receiving relief, 1,792 k last year, 2,052). Total decrease of pauperism. 260. ST.GEORGETRE MARTYR.SOUTHWARK.—No return of figures given, and all the information obtained is that the usual Christmas fare will be provided for the inmates of the workhouse of this parish. HOLBORN UNlON.—lnmates ot workhouse, 708 (last year 918), viz.-206 men, 288 women, and '214 children. The number of outdoor poor is 2,112 (last year, no return of out-door poor). The Christmas fare is beef, plumpudding, and 1 pint of porter each Liberty to go out is permitted to all who make appli cation. Decrease this year, as compared with last, 2 - 10. WANDSWORTH AND CLAPHAM UNlON.—lnmates of workhouse, 487 (last Christmas, .551), viz.-85 men, under 60 years of age ; 124, above 60 ; boys, from 9to 16 years, 42 ; girls, from 2to 9 years, 31 ; women, under 60 years, 70; above 60 years, 82 ; girls, from 9 to 16 years, 23 ; from 2 to 9 years, 20 ; infants, 10. The Christmas fare was ilb. roast beef, 11b. potatoes, 11b. plumpudding, and 1 pint of porter; aged, 1 pint of tea, and tobacco, snuff, &c ; oranges, nuts, &c., to the children. Decrease, 64. KENSINGTON.—Inmates, 313 (last year, 267) — women, 115 ; men, 87; girls, 48. Outdoor poor, 1,481 persons, or about 500 families (last year, out door poor 900). Fare to adult males and females, ilb. roast beef of the best quality, lib. of baked potatoes, fib. of plumpudding, and 1 pint of Barclay 's porter. The whole of the children above nine years of age same as adults, with exception of porter. Younger children in proportion. Old women above 60, who take it, -i-oz of snuff each, and old men ioz. of tobacco, with leave of absence to-morrow to all those whose conduct entitles them to it. After dinner the children were regaled with oranges, apples, &c. Increase in indoor poor, 46, and in outdoor, 581 ; total in crease, 627. WEST LONDON UNlON.—lnmates, 395 (last year, 450)—men 163 ; women, 244; children, 88. Christmas fare, roast beef, plumpudding, potatoes, and porter for dinner. No return of outdoor poor. In crease of inmates over last year, 45. ST. MATTHEW, BETHNAL-GREEN.—NO return of numbers given on account of " hurry of business and limit of time of the master:." Christmas tare to in m4tes, a liberal supply of roast beef, plampudding, and ale. ST. JAMEs'S, WESTMINSTER.—Inmates 700 (last year 713)—men, 230; women, 390; children, 80; with about 100 children at the parochial establbhment at Brentford. Christmas fare —llb of roast beef, with potatoes and plumpudding ad libitum. 1 pint of table ale, and 1 pint of porter; the children, fruit, cakes, &c Outdoor poor about 700 (last year 724), decrease 37. (last year no return)—viz., men 89 ; women 143 ; boys 73 ; girls 49. The Christmas-day fare to the inmates was roast beef, potatoes, plumpuddiug, and porter without any defined allowance. ST. MARY, LAMB ETH.--Number in the workhouse, 1,028 (last year, 1,095); adult males, 424 ; women, 526; boys, 89 ; girls, 39 ; children in the parochial establishment at Norwood (not farmed), 494. There are 5,742 persons on the out-relief list, receiving weekly money and bread, the latter being baked in the house. Christmas fare, 6oz. of baked b:ef, free from bone ; 11b. of baked potatoes, 11b. boiled plum- Sr.GBORGI3 9 B IN-THE-KAST.—lnmates 900 (last year 947)--men, 220 ; woman, 467; children, 207. Christmas fare—roast beet and plumpuilding, &c., ad libitum Decrease in inrn•ates 47. IN DUST RI AI. SCHOOLS, NORWOOD (Auhyn'.) 1,000 children belonging to various metropolitan parishes. The children—a plentiful supply of roast beef and plumpudding, with coffee and bread and butter in the evening. Srrmons were preached and addresses made to the children by the chaplain to the establishment. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS, BRIXTON.—About 700 chg.. drun belonging to various parishes. Similar fare to those at Mr. Aubyn's Asylum. In consequence of the want of courtesy on the part of the officials some of the parishes have been omitted, but the foregoing proves the satisfactory circumstance that there is a vast decrease in pauperism, with about two exceptions, in every parish in the metropolis, amounting in the aggregate to about 5,000/. It also appeared that there are from 80,000 to 100,000 in the metropolis who are dependent on parochial bounty for their Christmas day dinner. It must be remarked that the number of persons in the workhouses on Christmas-day must not he taken as a criterion of the number usually therein, the inclemency of the wea ther and the certainty of a Christmas dinner being a strong incentive to persons to claim parochial relief. CHRISTMAS C UST OMS IN NORMANDY. A very singular spectacle presents itself to the stranger, who, unacquainted with the customs of the country, finds himself alone amongst the corn-fields and pastures of the department of the Eure-et- Loire. On every side he can discover nothing but fire and flames running over the fields, with every now and then a certain shrill and modulated noise. This phantasmagoria, which at first astonishes and even alarms him, arises from the practice of a very ancient custom still in use in this country. Every farmer fixes upon some day in Advent fur the purpose of exorcising such animals as prove injurious to his crops, and for this purpose he furnishes his youngest children with prepared flambeaux well dried in the oven, and furnist,ed with combustible materials. If he have no children his neighbours lend him theirs, for none but young and innocent children can command certain injurious animals to withdraw from his lands. After twelve years of age children are rendered unfit to perform the office of exorcists. These young children run over the coun try, like so many little spirits, set fire to bundles cf hay placed for the purpose, go under the trees and flourish their torches among the branches, burn the straw placed underneath, and continuall cry out— Taupes, " chenilles, et mulots, Sorivz, sort( z. demon clos, Ou je you hrule la barbe et les os; Arbres, arbrisseaux Donnes moi des pommes a miriot." Which may be thus translated—" Moles, caterpillars, and mice, get out of my field, or I will burn your beard and your hones; trees and shrubs give me abundance of apples." The simple people of the country put implicit faith in the remedy, which they believe infallible. CHRISTMAS BENEVOLENC IC—Yesterday the com mittee of the Society for Establishing Soup Kitchens for the Poor in the North-West District of the Metropolis. of which Lord Southampton is the President, distriOuted plum pudding, bread, and soup to about 600 poor per sons, each of whom had a pound of bread, a pound of plum pudding, and a pint of excellent soup. Th e t i c k ets were given to the applicants by the Rev. T. Dale, vicar of St. Pancras; Rev. G. Elliott, ree•or of Tritiry Church, and the other members of the committee. In the course of the previous year the society gave 36. 335 quarts of beef and pea soup, 49,147 loaves. &c., to 89,515 persons. At the Foundling Hospital the children of both sexes, amounting to about 400, received the usual Christmas allowance of plum pudding, &c.; and at the various unions and parish workhouses the unfortunate inmates were provided with an extra allowance of meat, in addition to plum pudding, &c. At the Debtors' Prison, Whitecross street, in which there nra 215 pri soners, the Sheriffs' allowance consisted to each prisoner of 21b. of meat, 21b. of potatoes, plum pudding, a , d pint of porter. At Kensington the destitute inhabitants have been provided with the usual bounties given b) the Duchess of Kent, in clothing, meat, coals, &e.; acd by the order of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the poor residing in Kew obtained a dinner of beef and plum pudding. The customary gifts granted by the late Queen Dowager to the poor in the vicinity of Bushy park were renewed this year. In St. Martin's-in -the• Fields, in Lainht at, in St. Pancras, ani various other parishes, the poor received a substantial nae.il from sources of private benevolence. [ADVERTISEMENT.]— A Life Guardsman, one of the Heroes of Waterloo, cured of Rheumatism by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Mr, Thomas Brunton, landlord of the Waterloo Tavern, Coatham, Yorkshire, was afflicted for many months with rheumatism and rheumatic gout. His legs were dreadfully painful, and disfigured with colours of every hue, frightful to behold. For ten weeks he was wholly unable to walk, the treatment he received from several medical men not only failing to do him any good, but leaving him, in fact, in a considerably worse condition. At this juncture Holloway's Pills and Ointment were resorted to, and by their sole means he has been restored to health and strength.— Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, firsad s London, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH WA On Monday Robert Mason, shopman to Mr. Wil liam Jones, Enendraper, of Newington causeway, was brought before Mr. A'Beckett, charged with robbing his employer to a considerable amount. Wiliam Boyce, showman in the same employ, stated that suspicion was excited against the prisoner in consequence of his having been observed to retain in his o6n possession a small sum of money laid out . by a customer, an d w hi c h it w as hi s d uty to h ave po d over immediately to the person authorised to receive it. Upon this discovery a policeman was employed to search the prisoner's house, as it was strongly sus pected that this was not his first act of dishonesty. DI the course of the examination a great variety of articles, consisting of silks, lace, velvet, ribbons, 80.9 were di,covered, which were alleged to have been the property of the complainant, and to have been pur. l-ind at various times by the prisoner from the stock. A solicitor, who attetrded for the proecution, stated that although the accused had not het long in the complainant's employ, yet he had plundered him at b-ast to the extent of 1001.—The prisoner was re tbandtd. Mr IVilliam Collins was charged with furiously driving a alise, and running over two elderly pe.r sons, a man and woman, who sustained i n juries of a serious nature. Tne complainants stated that about half past nine o'clock on the preceding night, they were about crossing the Waterloo-road, near the Victoria Theatre, and had scarcely stepped off the pavement into the road, when the defendant, in a chlise, came along at a furious rate, and they were' both knocked down, and hnd a narrow escape of losing their lives. As it was they were much b uised, and incapacitated from followicg heir Occupations. Mr John Sinclair, a publican in the New-euti stated that on the night in question he was near the spot when the accident occurred ; that he had just stepped out of an omnibus, and had a most narrow escape of being run over by the defendant, who w 0 driving at the rate of at least twelve-miles an hour. He (witness) saw from the reckless manner in which the defendant was driving that he would do some mischief and in a moment afterwards he saw the man and woman knocked down in the road and run over by the vehicle. He (witness) called "police 1" and of erwards assisted in stopping the defendant, wh o was evidently under the influence of liquor. There was another person in the chaise with him at the time. The defendant denied that he was driving furiously , and that the horse was going faster than six miles an hour, the whip being in the socket, and not used at all. He then called his friend, who confirmed his asser tion as to the rate at which they were going a t the time, and said that the accident to the two old people was unavoidable, as they had. in fact, walked right off the pavement into the road when they saw the vehicle coming along. Mr. A'BECKETT said that he believed the evidence given by Mr. Sinclair—namely, that the defendan t was not only driving furiously, but that he was also intoxicated. He (the magistrate), however, instead of inflicting the full penealty on defendant, which would not be appropriated to the benefit of the parties injured, would give him an opportunity of retiring with them and compensating them for the injurie3 they had received. The Magistrate was subsequently apprised that the defendant had adopted his advice and satisfied the complainants, besides paying their do c t o r' s bill; end he was therefore discharged on the payment of the mitigated penalty of 103. ~ ISM Notice is &PPLICAT day of Jani lament. Wellington 11 0 YA It In of the Subsci Institution, 1 seriptions Ps sued in faros ecriptions, of Secretary to Castle, InN ECON CHAIRMAN — DEPUTY CU.& Alfred Kings( Arthur Kett Henry Berne Robert Biddu Thomas Edgr Suncasox—Be Acl Th. followii ECONOMY The RITE which eatitle lower than th, The WHOL the Assured, a Annual Prern: If a claim am The BONU, from three-fb cent. respectir The BONUS fits), being the live 3 ears npoi Premiums rec( All Assurani Premium, will in 1854. The subjoin resulting from among the As: Or& :=1E1.3 LAMBETH. THE MUTES' RETURN FROM A FUNERAL 1" .. FORMANCE.—On Monday, amongst the prisoner' brought before Mr. Elliott, were two men in the em ployment of Mr. Turner, furnishi ng un d er taker, 0 ' No. 1, Farringdon-street, and 22, Carey. s treet , Lincoln's Inn-fields, who were charged with beil drunk, and committing various acts of vi o lence so misconduct. From the evidence of two persons, one of them t in undertaker, it appeared that while proceeding along the Kent- road on the preceding afternoon, they 01°. served a mourning coach standing in front of a public' house, and, supposing they could get something. to drink there, they approached the door. On reaching it, it was opsned, and both the prisoners made their appearance, having been, as it appeared to them,' ejected from the inside. On reaching them (witnesses) the prisoners, without the slightest provocation, mo de a desperate attack upon them, and struck them several times. At length a policeman made his aP' pearance, and after much difficulty both prisoners were taken to the station house. When the evidence against the prisoners was gone through, M r ' Turner got into the witness-box, and, upon being sworn stated that both the prisoners had been in I L ie employment for same years, and the present was he only offence, to his knowledge, of which they b° , been guilty The fact, he said was, they had a bur ls ' on the day before, at Bermond,py church, and having had to wait a whole hour for tha clergyman, and th e day being extremely cold, the prisoners, who were two of his men, went to a public-house, and had, unfortunately, taken rather too much to drink. Mr. ELLIOTT —ls it your custom to let your men go to a public-howe and get drunk while a body i 5 in the church or in the churchyard waiting the attend . ance of a clergyman ? Mr. Turner--Certainly not, Sir; but the day, as told your Worship, was very cold, and having to woi t so long for the clergyman, these men went to public house. They returned, however, and Wee t " performed " the funeral very comf o rtably, and e e all right. These young men b e in g r a th e r the wor s t for liquor, were very much annoy e d by a parcel 0 _ people calling them " D ea th hu n t e r s ," and othl offensive namt , s ; and, under this excitement, An _ probably getting more drunk, they had forgott en themselves. Mr. ELLIOTT, after remarking on the extrem e impropriety and violence of the prisoners' condo', convic'ed them i n p ena lti es amount i ng , one to 3 e an I the other to 21. 10 s ., or i n d e f au lt o f payment/ 50 days' imprisonment. How TO KEEP SOLES ALIVE ON BOARD OF DI": BOTTOMED VESSELS —Fisherme n , i n a ll countr i e s wh e ' . soles are, have tried many plans to keep them alive fr°,7 the fishing-ground to mar k e t, b u y as y et unsucoes sfullr From the habits of soles locating in - soft, muddy be d :i which they s..ldom quit, they aro naturally the 0 3 % tender specirs of ground fi.h caught. Th e fisherw e d have succeeded in bringing turbot, halibut, plaice, 9 , ° „ t other description of flounder s t o t h e s h ore li v ing, LT ~ seldom soles. An idea that h as o ccurre d to me latter' how they may be brought living to market in dry bottomed-vessels is as follo ws: —L e t th ere b e a tank cf, c board of say twenty fek in length, four fe e t in bee; and six feet broad, divided into say four co mpartmen% Let one foot of mud be pl a ced i n th e b o tt om o f ta nk, st. v 4 ab Are the mud let the compartment s b e p er f ora ted ot! 11 a number of holes. As there ar e no sa lt wa t er fish W t i o live any length of time in water th a t i s ent i re ly still, h . ° keep the wat-r constantly circul a ting i n th e t an k let t" water be pumped from the campartment at on e end .0 the compartment at the other. Considering the deliero li o quality of sole fish when entirely fresh, if it be espable ha t carry thus idea into practical operation, soles m ight "- brought alongside of Billingsgate-market in sea wa ter." H. DEMPSTER. OFFICIAL .APPRECIATION OF GOOD SEENtolv: ‘ , We have much gratifi c ati on i n announc i ng that 1'; Lords of th e Ad m i ralty, apprec i at i ng the initnen-d labours of M r . Willi am O'Byrne,in h's n l° „" - j efficient compilation o f hi s N ava l Biographic; Dictionary, comprising th e lif e an d serv i ces i f livin fficer in her Majesty's navy, from the ron e, of Admiral of the Fleet to that of Li e ut enan t inolasi have, in the most handsome mariner, presented him 0 with an acknowledgment of 100/. T o a gantle o33 , like Mr. O'Byrne, who has devoted six years to £ll l compilation of this most vttluable work of professio o , and family reference, a distinguishm e d mar k of sPPr bation trom such high authority must be moat peculi ar k gratif ing; and it is no less honourable to their ships that they have thus estimated the good a wines one whose att-eessful aim was to bring before the count"' the distinguished services of its most devoted publio pe r. vents.— United Service Gazette. 131R7713 On the 21st in s t., a t G u ildf or d , t h e l a d y o f t h e Rev 61; Belin, head master of the Royal Grammar School, °` daughter. of On the `22d inst., at Brighton, Mrs. Frederick Foster/ twin daughters. On the 22d inst., the wife of George Hilaro Barlow*, 3111' of a daughter. On the 231 inst., at Mansfield Woodhouse, the wife o f S. Gill, Esq., of a daughter. rt• On the 23d inst., at Sydenham, Kent, the wife of Gilbert, Esq., of a daughter. On the 23d inst., the wife of Mr. Henry R. Forster , o f daughter. On the 24th inst., at Barnsbury-park, Mrs. C. Sawbrit i r of a daughter. On the 24th inst., at Lordship-lane, Dulwich, Mrs. f rr derick Eva*, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 22d inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, . 105- „' i , Forster, Esq.. of Cavendish-road, St. John's-w oo d, to Fanweit' youngest daughter of George Taylor, Esq., of Georgo-str e- Yo:tin tAfl-square. DIED. On the 2nth inst., at Bath-square, Peckham, Mr. raertir Scott, late of Lambeth, in his 53d year: an affectionate band and beloved parent. His end was peace. On the 13th inst., at N a ples, Si r Th omas Gibson Cslr miOna chel, Bart.,aged 75. b rt the 16th ag at Leighton• hall, Lancashire, 1 " „,-0 Gillow, Esq , aged 77. ro. (), the f 6th inAt., at Tollerton, Northaniptonsh"ra, Do Urea, the wife f . Farnall. Es. On the 17th i H nst., a B t Brixton, Henry Walter Wilson, 0- f i lia Inner Temple, aged 33. 'n the 18th inst., at A-la-Roude, near Exmouth , - Parrninter, aged 82. „ a id •On the 22d inst. at Heckmondwike, near Lee's, Cater I'eo., aged ti 2. Or - he 23 1 t. lith. aged +rnmersar lOUSN .41 in at Montague-. 32, the a ifr, of T. Griffith, Esq. On the 23d inst., in Guildford-street, Russell-squa re ' atveieff, Esq., aged 50. Priuted and Published ti) eitinuo fr ; `:0 112, Srraosi, Printer, et, T;-• CA ;71 tht Pr'xiret th. wra-Cil Wodneiday, December 26, 1849. ProspectusQs GUARD KT): 11, LOMB. TIIOMSC Henry Anise Be John Dixon, Es Francis Hart D: Fir Walter It. F John Harvey, E John G. Hubbar George Johnston John Laboucher John Loch, Esq A. W. Robarti, In the LIFE low Rates witho with partic!patic each of the three the Bonuses am( assured, or abou and the whole at racy exceeded 5 LOANS grant( sided such l'olici attained in each In the FIRE I en the 6th of J which had been i is now in course between the hou also by the Agen Notice is here alas Day must bi lir. Sams, No. Company's Agent void. SEA, FII Capital 100,000/., bearing a guarani of further divide■ Application fel Offices of tke Sloe on the most nen Immediate and advaatageois ibr dust pulilshed, i POST 0 for 18ii. tort' ; Streot Dire Law Directory; Directory ; City I tory ; Assurance Information. FOT don Directory pul Herald, 23d ult. ; 23d ult. ; Sas, 22e Hull, 14th ult. ; 1 nttk's Joarnal, 2 Ult.; Era, 25th ul Kelly and 4 rrHE NO I .111._ MESSRS. hOWN PALETO Elder Down In thi elegance and utili Eiders are foe Islands, where thi Proof against the • Which can be corn eery* in the forms ordinary lightness and thickest blan being thus accomr Publics inspectio retail warerooms, 114, 116, and 1 THE NIC 7 Viet., cap STREET. and 22, M f( 0492 i y h a a r r e e thea u i The Wholesale Itranches in the ALLEY. CORNII The NICOLL Secured by Royal the advantages el GISTERED rAr LETOTS are ch Guineas, accordin; be required, CIRISTM Cons calle doubtless form a ir festivity, when it i friendship or affect 'will render it hlgl Irithont catis;ng th Of the formation of eureasent being tat appearance will in DOWN P ALETOI fairly be described Introduced to the IL, J., and D. Is Cornhill, London. MECHI'S Sensible t tive their tan; tole an abundance of themselves the lux the most coatly art and elegancies, - 4, LEADE Rork -tables, _, England has al, 1.41 4, while '• Le Iktually consecrate 'roin the natives ,ay be sure of p s hape. The IT13: twabh7d, desire /C ork -boxes, tea-ca erases, &c., embellis berm department t Writing -desks, ivc Variety of goods tables, affording a SPENCER' The thousa fears have used th % Melt extant whic NY hair, whisker r i thout trouble (b: 'ices by one appli „While other dye! ` Ol B liquid promob Aenod of life. 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