The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-17 00:00:00

)ENT rh r.) bishoP as in. the lost his a letter of their i g her of roux the par- cers have tnd every tie ( peril' lid oth er ble quail" watches, ,aas, an 4 ances, be Alresdp chain and whom he ief clerics las asce.,r -' he ca se of s has ° s° ng to her .0 illes or beeli e railroad' aunt fool his 00 1 5, on it• e hook of ith , recover. relati.: Hue ad or''' . how ".ere he A dvcr * )rother, s ggont 1 1 30 P 3 rtY Years 0 :but e ones h inj u a till no . give ; e Y jes her of erroneueof trO RES' ule ioc Court 4 , ),227 6 ,440 * ?,535 17 9 5,691 • 3,286 tris worjr., Lied. 'll were _ # set , vi 001 afferuO e heisv-r 2 2, 'MONUMENT TO THE AUTHOR OF WAVERLEY. T O an appeal which has just been made in London • 00/01 and its neighbo ur h oo d , for the purpose of over ,l lir •g a defi ciency in the funds for erecting the '°--ACUIVIENT TO THE MEMORY `OF SIR sr) WALTER. SCOTT, b . e _ e f r, ku ral and so hi g hl y di s ti ngu i s h e d a response has made, as to encourage th e London Auxiliary o nittee to hop e th a t a very s h ort t i me will enable ,:-i ll to announc e th e c l ose o f t h e subscription. t welve thou san d e i g h t hundred pounds is the : Is ne nt necessary to complete the Monument, which H Gothic Tower and Marble Statue : above eleven 41_ -, 11. „, b ut : d port.nds of this sum has already been contri dntie, an the Committee thus publicly advertise_ t the IsT( ive r ne Y , that the admirers of the great Foe and tar I st may have an opportunity of enrollingtheir b., ;lea on !Ilia Subscription Schedules, which are to test, and deposited, for the inspection of pos. in the Museum of the Monument. e.aeh Contributor is presented with a beautifu graving of the Cenotaph (23 inches by 16), speci. iv inscribed. 1 2, 1 k1y of th e mem b ers o f t h e C omm itt ee h ave no t y e t ute a return of the Subscribers they have obtained. £lOO 50 25 I;er Majesty the Queen 1,.!1' Majesty the Queen Dowager Ro ;a l Highness Prince Albert lloyal qr Highness the Duke •hf Sussex, and her trace the Duchess of Inverness r e Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester „, file r G race lr Grac e the Duchess of Buckingham ••% the Duchess of Sutherland 10 5 5 10 *David Hill, Esq , Tru mans, Hanbury, & Co.XI 1 Robert Davison, Esq.... 1 1 George Gow, Esq. C. H. Powley, Esq 1 1 James Young, Esq 1 1 J. D. Kincaird, Esq.... 1 James Miller, Esq. *Peter Hogg, Esq., Kensington Palace *A. K. Hutchinson, Esq. Threadneedle-st. 1 1 *Robert Hepburn, Esq., Davies-street ... 1 1 James Robertson, Esq.. 1 1 John Thomson, Esq 1 1 Wm. Williamson, Esq *William Jerdan, Esq., Surrey-street ... 1 1 *William Kirk, Esq., 106, Fleet-street 1 1 *John Leslie, Esq., Conduit-street. Everett Allenby, Esq 1 1 Stephen Lewis, Esq 1 1 Wm. Tinkler, Esq 1 1 *D. Littlejohn, Esq., King William-street 1 1 Charles Duncan, Esq. 1 1 *J. Lindsay, Esq., St. Paul's Church-yard 1 1 *Robert Lowe, Jun., Esq., 330, Strand 1 1 *David Lawson, Esq., 8, Marylebone-street 1 1 *G. D. M'lntosh, Esq., 12, Regent-street 4 .13hn Macneill, Esq., 9, Whitehall-place *DanielMaclanrin, Esq 83, Lombard-street 1 1 A. Maclaurin, Esq 1 1 William Duff, Esq 1 David Halket, Esq 1 1 William Heathorn, Esq 1 1 T. L. Heathorn, Esq. 1 1 D. M'Artbur, Esq 1 1 I*lllr. Macklin, 14, Clif ford-street Mr. Stone *John Murray, Esq., Albemarle-street 1 1 *J. Mouat, Esq. , 8, Cou per's -row, Tower-hill 1 1 *J. R. AV Cullock, Esq. Stationers'-office 1 1 A. Mathison, Esq., 3, Princes-street, Hano • ver-square *S. W. Orr, Esq., Amen -court, Pater noster-row *S. Oliver, Esq., Hat ton.garden *James Painter, Esq., Howland -street, Fitz roy-square J. Stewart, Esq., M. P 5 5 Peter Painter, Esq. Mrs. Erham Mrs. MacArthur... ...... 1 D. Jerdaine, Esq. R. H. Stewart, Esq 1 1 Mathew Scoles, Esq 1 *Paton and Stewart, Coleman's-buildings William Paton, Esq... - 1 1 Thomas Paton, Esq. *William Pratt, Esq., Russell-square 1 1, *Dr. D. B. Reid, Duke street, Westminster 1 1 James Watson, Esq. *J. Reid, Esq., Dun court, Cornhill 1 1 Alex inder Reid, Esq. 1 1 *A. Rowland and Son, Hatton-garden *Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill J. Scott Smith, Esq 2 2 T. W. Appech, Esq 1 1 W. S, iloyd, Esq. 1 1 James Boyd, Esq. John Dixon, Esq.' . 1 1 Capt. Goodroy 1 I John Morley, Esq. *John Sandilands, Esq 2, Conduit-street J. Gilchrist, Esq. H.. 1: Garrod, Esq 1 1 'Compton Reade, Esq 1 H. W. Scott, Esq 1 1 G. P. Wright, Esq, 1 1 *Walter Scott, Esq., Secretary Reform Club 1 1 *Edward Rose Tunno, Esq.l9,Upperßrook.st 21 0 *George Virtue, Esq., Ivy-lane *John Wilson, Esq. 41, Regent .square 2 2 Mrs. Wilson .l 1 Mr. James Wilson ... 10s. 6d. Miss Wilspn los. 6d. Miss Mary Wilson 'Miss Emma Wilson los. 6d. Mr. John Wilson, jun lOl. 6d. Mr. George Wilson los. 6d. David Alison, Esq. ... 1 1 W. M. Rooke, Esq. ... 1 1 *Woollet, Rowe, and ' Clay, Holborn George Bagley, Esq.... 1 1 William Duncan, Esq. 1 1 Henry Hogard, Esq. ... I 1 James Saltmer, Et. ... 1 1 *John Walker, Lsq., M.D., Baker-street 1 1 -Colonel Vans iitignavr, 42, Brook-st. £2 i•rnuel Anderson, Esq. ~,3Yloontl's Inn `pi'rtie Alexander, "1.• , M.D., Queen- Lr'/,,t, 'Hammersmith 1 % I T' • ngua, Esq. ~,%vid Allan, Esq., ),„"oletnan-street Jo Pr att 1 '„tthe Black vood, Esq. " • B 'arnett,K.C.H. tG... i vitet Hou se 1 I,7 ll eßai n ,E ssi., 13, Joky '. : l,at nent-street sPHorton, Esq 1 'eti Tulloeh, Esq 1 "*.•Aniesllraidwood,Esq., *.f.,Watling-street,. 1 , 11 „,;A Bank o f L en d en ,44,r•Laurie, Governor 1 Spttiswoode, DClL.Governor 1 .I,Z ntrt eCTORS. AVI Webster, Esq., 1 tt_t Barnes, Esq. w S utherland, Esq 1 Ity‘, Al. • Nurse, Esq 41 trck ° , 1 r.G en• Robertson 1 ,Ja,„-.• Cockburn, Esq. 1 It e 7' Farquhar, Esq I ,laroin Boyd, Esq... 1 1, , P e 4 . 1 -auri e , E sq 1 0;_ C ranfurd, sq..,E 1 1 17 4 ,0 COnu e n , E sq . 1 lii'terl.4llr. U nion-Bank 1 ' "ehedule Al a t of L on d on CI tk`onc'lleuoYxKd, Esq. in.. of 1 ... 1 1 4 , (tr nas M... Farquhar, ..... . Cr.„enen .. 1 1 V.l 1 J . J. , ifturs, Esq Jo m lloase, Esq 1 1 s e Po Lsle, Esq. .10oveilor of the Lon- Z e .la Auxiliary Com t tee ...... lO 101 8. T. t'havv, Es q . .2 2 1 Saroud, Esq ';'ebert Hunter, Esq.... 1 11 ,:'seph Knight, Esq 1 1 qobert Donald Esq lll A Friend • : David Ling Esq 11! br • Ai • ' enzies. 1 11 m,alor-General Sir D. A PLeod. ' 4 % Quin ,areos Thomp son , E sq 1 1 Sir James Clark, Bart., 22 13. Brook-street VChas. Guthrie, Esq 5 0 r. A5hwe11...... ...... 2 u 13 u , !hanan, Esq 1 0 air. Daniel •Or. Forbes * The Chisholm, 79, South A udley-streek 2 2 * Andrew Clark, Esq., 57, Brook -street ... 2 2 ,",,,a‘eni. Clark, Esq., do. 1 1 . ' 4l o.lVierryweather,Esq. 1 1 William Bircbam, Esq 1 1 Bircham I I Calvert. 1 1 I- Deana Campbell, t 4, 1,2, Montague-sq. 1 I Cowlishaw, E sq., tf,, ;sal t xe h auge W orks 1 r°,,s ) . Jackson, E sq 1 1 z;"" onnett, E sq 1 I Npoinas Nicol l , Esq 1 1 ilrr• Collunibel, Derby 1 1 Air;_T. ditto I 1 r, riaywood el, ditto , ditto 1 1 11j1 1 5l ‘ 4 ..evetis, ditto 1 1 n'neeldon ditto 1 1 • 11,(1.4`1,;nthiarn ** l. r "Igrave- lace ' 1 1 fir P. Cla r k P Sa.c4ll Esq., 5, A. ',, e- atre et , „, 2 2 1. • W, l' lff() rd, Bart 1 1 lith o „Ogers, Esq. 1 1 1), cai,',clters, Esq 1 1 , Esq., 29, F• .Ay quare ...... 1 1 • Caldw E 1 • • G. e sq 1 *p. itkasoanton, Esq... 1 l' ce itiers e "'as, So r. tit-house arlin ß. 0_ IqUare •.. : Forbes, • Bart, „V eitzro -quare 2 2, „ 0 • nos, Esq 1 1' 1.%1.-.6"erßuson, Esq oft,. "°r .QUaen-street, ....... 2 2 D over.ll t eutr street.... 1 1 • 1 tt oberts . us 4r. , on, . . t ut................ 1 1 N i °eli. N. Forbes, W, '4lle -street 1 1 %est, Esq. , ........ 1 1 latnllaPson ,' 1 Notliu ... •-• ... "g, sq 1 1 Gordon E 4r al. Airer-offic'e b„ .. Esq 1 ! e„,..—ltssi,„`",, a Ineinb;rof the Committee, each of whom is t in e -Pavia °I subscription schedule, and copy. of h i and will receive the names of Subscribers. kt'srie.diA'l!!erand copies of tbe_ o e ss n i tr . av co inf nag ar . e .,s a , lsis lying at hi Pall-m. 11; or'aKvelns Strand; . M Pall-mall Mesas. Rivington's,. Waterloo- Ness s rs Mortimer and Haselden's, Wigmore-street. kil - i t t llo2 B t . i ° l l l 3 Will Mortimer and Haselden's, Wiginore-street. will also C avedbe d re by Messrs. Coutt s and n Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, ,41re(,),,,,_duiliitretni;nanidoneaBank Of London. requested to be addressed to the "i!vd, r : t 'll a ions ar 0, 0 4 01.4 ‘ ." MURRAY, Convenor, Church-street, M inories. CASTLE, Secretary, 7, Arundel-street,Strand. ii , AL • tlte tk _ftet u p ; • - --A. B. SAVORY and SONS. Mann ”iii,"%17,4,,',..11 Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, London (oppo te 4 S o "„' 0 England).--The best wrought Fiddle-Pattern tly g ege 7 118 and Forks, at 7s. 2d. per ounce. The following i .,. et Or I:g i lts recommended, but the articles may be had ‘ 4 p. . he aler at the same price per ounce 1 1 4 1 4)0 oz. a . d. £ s. ti. 4 - ti ft i t t te to rn Silver Table Spoons 30 at 7 2 ... 10 15 0 Dessert ditto 20 at 7 2 ... 7 3 4 , di t t o Table Forks 30 at 7 2 ... 10 15 0 1 , ditto Dessert ditto 20 at 7 2 ... 7 3 4 t dit to Gravy Spoons 10 at 7 2 ... 311 8 4 dit to Soup Ladle... 10 at 7 2 ... 3 11 8 h dit to. 1 ~ ditto Sauce ditto... 10 at 78..3 16 8 . ' ditt o Salt Spoons (gilt strong) 10 0 di Fish Slice 2 10 0 Zh ditto Tea Spoons... 10 at 7 8 ... 316 . 4 Pair Sugar Tongs (strong) 0 15 0 Vikg Drice ~.,,,.141dcurrent, stamped as a newspaper, illustrated by I h r !Sil vr Containing every information relative to the pur- Itt le4 t ° . r Sheffield plate, may be had on application, or ipter I4 t o the country, free of postage, in answer to a ~I ~. 4 ----- -- t Nt 4 P t bSoNr S - 1_ 41 44' v i , T OBACCONIST to the ROYAL hi - -vit li ~:. . 132, OXFORD-STREET, begs to return his t 5 4 1 ,4 li,l l ,lts to the NOBILITY AND GENTRY, and the Nttvap,O, vY, for their most liberal support during the past lii k 4llii' Of Onklbly solicits a continuance of the same. sk t i mit .4, 1 4. 0 4 , (4 ,%RS is very extensive, and of the finest pos. t u , P 8 most approved manufacturers in the Ha. I, 4 Nitit'llie e UAa . advantages of his foreign connexion enable ,t fr o l Cigars as he defies all Europe to produe' their h•110, k th e '`..,,, .ree to I iur . years old, and made expressly for his 474,, a r ti le t9picest and richest pick , d leaf tobrco grown in the 4, 4 eothefZes varying from 3 6 5. to four gui 'eels per pound. " , tl i . pZopi e ' a rare Tobaccos willbe found Latakia, Gibelly Baran, 4 „ (l l4cittp , , Ag, Tombac, or the scarce and . celebrated gel, 4 tpktip e I n.onginal waxed bags as sent from Persia, Gastcn ~ rapiNtr,gar!an Tobacco, and a great variety of others. it4,l 44o ‘ f ti e r tt iti, o+7aelifan Snuffs, in original one and two pound pack em air A s m uw e l r y d, of the tabriques cif Bo m lo , n s fa fa ro m Z 481iii i tliZler k ely st , 40,0.144 l o w •s a‘lin, and others of the ktt,'lsp,' , ll 4 red and yekSabTl" t e genuine Spanish Bran and atik'lSpC , Tp i . ° 9kahs, with Chillu t t . n i T a. obacco and fire balls Persian Ilibklitl a c t Aiii.,,1,11 Schibouques, with a numerous and splendid as_ ./:'._*4 l lip ue r 'boush Pieoes , l b t tli all a a „, tn° ked Mer • , NI- I llop ..-,Paratus for ebch as also . a superb collection o well aum Pipes in gold and silver mount_ 4: 1 .01 0 ,, n.s e of his late h 1 74: 94e" to ° '.crvrtl? king ' at this Advertisement is called forth Iti .i Nts by ~43, three don't' opman,. Beasoa, having opened a shop pi, 4t .„ Ich ,„.._ .8 from his, and adopting the next num "-0.14'11e0,,,,,, h : us i.l e y . m i3.2 ls . takes have arisen, and respectfully re blith_ , munications intended for hur. may be addressed to Si AND COMFORT IN SHAVING. '' 4A t SE-------------------_____ ').k - ' 2 O CA . 8 * 13 . and s rtti o Ttsi l L e rox STROP .S. COWVAN'S invaluable h keen tO thicsPENER, renilerrsV A EMI LATERAL CHINESE 1 k4 I tI P i et t ne ;nost tender skin. e i liperation of shaving no longer IN e . s triev en , a , Peedily be given to tyh abluvieirtyestsrimazpolre processor penknife. the \,, vzh t !ttiflOr th e „.rPeculiarly tem pered e ra g z a o t rs h and shaving powder. InnAdelaifle Gallery, Royal L t o w e d .._ the and ..,t o op_a are now ex hibitin 3r e i t at the p os h t eh li t to a r t y t: , E. gancr e . c. c tes v‘ p Polytechnic ave been sent, w A llich e r;la f y re b m e 4y, h ers Str 4 : &rm. k ace', Mav be ohtsin,dVA.„lC, 164, Fenchurch-street, „. Elieencld7eri!iitm4,UncitaedwyKaain,ag,Cloa;hoiaptiv-rieilaaisro. fir.l,ol;:.;tiair.t,te'ala'a7det, aUtto4:-...l._en_r-e. apsieeSnluiativish:ge_xPcoftw:tletrhmlse. Winn. Per k e d box. ae d ' Pci ' id. and 6. c 0 WVAN " CLAUDET'S PHOTOGRAPHIC, 71--CLA GUERREOTYPE PORTRAI l'S, are.tAken daily at the ADELAIDE GALLERY, LOWTHER ARCADE, by his New Patented Improved Process. The acknowledged su periority of Mr. CLAUDET'S PORTRAITS is due to the surprising RAPIDITY of the PROCESS, which gives to the Likeness the pleasing and unconstrained expression which the Sitter can only assume during an INSTANTANEOUS OPERATION—TO THE INTRODUCTION of BACK GROUNDS (EXCLUSIVELY HIS OWN), representing Landscapes, Interior of apartments, &c., which produces the most PICTURESQUE EFFECT—and to the mode of durably fixing the image, so that it cannot fade or change colour, or be easily rubbed off. _ _ . Mr. t LAUDET has also a peculiar process by which Na. tural Colours are imparted. BIRKI3ECK TESTIMONIAL. At a PUBLIC MEETING held in the Freemasons' Hall, on MONDAY, the 25th April, to receive the REPORT of the COMMITTEE on the best Means of Testifying the PuUic Gratitude to Dr. BIRKBECK, for his Services in Promoting the Education of the People, and especially of the Working Classes, LORD BROUGHAM, in the Chair, _ _ _ It was resolved,—That this Meeting approve and adopt the Report of the Committee appointed on the 3d of August last, and are of opinion that the most fitting method of testifying the Public Gratitude to Dr. Birkbeck, is by founding in Univer sity College, London, a Professorship of Machinery and Manu factures, including the application of Chemi•try and other branches of Natural Philosophy to the Arts ; that the Professor be required to Lecture in the country during the College vaca tion, and that a Subscription be commenced for this purpose. The following Subscriptions have been received : Mr. W. Broadhurst Lord Brougham Mr. W. Bryson 1 1 0 Mr. Butterfield 0 10 6 Mr. Claxton 1 1 0 The Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst Lord Campbell lO 10 0 Mr. Coates Mr. Cuthbert • 0 5 0 Mr. De la Rue Lord Denman Mr. Dakin ' 2 2 0 Mr. Delius Mr. Darton Right Honourable George Evans Mr. Ewart, M.P. 5 0 0 Mr. A. Fry, Junior 1 1 0 Sir Jas. Graham, Bart., M.P., Secretary of State 10 10 0 Mr. R. Hayday Mr. W. E. Hickson .. . 1 I 0 Mr. A. Hill, Tottenham 5 0 0 Mr. E. Hill, ditto 7.3 0 0 Mr. M. D. Hill, Q.C. Mr. R. Hill Mr. F. Hill, Edinburgh Mr. Ebenezer Johnston • .. 5 5 0 Mr. V. Knight Mr. Kozmian Kentish ToWn Medical Improvement Society Marquis of Lansdowne, K. G Mr. Lemaitre Lewes Mechanics' Institution . 5 0 0 Mr. R. Monckton Milnes, M.P. Mr. Thomas Martin, Ryegate Mr. Morris M-. F. Morris Mr. James Morris Mr. John Morris Mr. Wm. Morris 0 10 0 Maidstone Mechanics' Institution Mr. Noldritt Mr. Ogilvie Sir F. Pollock, M.P., Attorney-General... ...... ... 5 5 0 Mr. Penlingtons, Liverpool Mr. Rayner . Richmond Mechanics' Institution Earl of Ripon, President of the Board of Trade lO 10 0 Ross Mechanics' Institution ....... ... . 1 0 0 Mr. J. C. Ridgway ... 1 1 0 Lord John Russell, M. P lO 10 0 , Lord Dudley Stuart Mr. George Taylor Mr. Richard Taylor Mr. Henry Stephens Mr. Watson Mr. J. Wheen, Laytonstone . Sir Thomas Wilde, M.P. No. 15,516. g THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING a t FIVE O'C LOCK, in Time f or th e EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY ; a SECOND EDITION (Evenin Sun) is Published in Ti me f or t h e A FTERNOON TRAINS and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all otlar d COUNTRY CIRCII. L ATION , at ONE CHARGE . ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, a n d Ni g h t, t h ere b y i nsur i ng a TOWN (z:' 1 s. or " TEE SUN." ALL ADVERTISEMENTS or A EXSOUSTING CILAR.ACTER, OR xivxmor.ax. TENDENCY, ARE EXCLUDED rito:dx TEE c " __ NEWS in LONDGN u p to tha t Baur. __ ROYAL ACADEMY, TRAFALGAR — SQUARE. The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY is NOW OPEN.--Admission (from Eight o'clock till Seven), ls. Catalogue. Is. HENRY HOWARD, R.A., Secretary. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Mornings and Evenings, except Saturday Evenings. A SPANGLED TUBE, 30 feet in length, producing •nag nifcent effects, is just added to the COLOSSAL ELECTRI CAL MACHINE, worked by Steam Power, and exhibits;the ELECTRIC LIGHT, the appearance of the AURORA BOREALIS, and various other Experiments on a grand scale. Constant additions to the ENLARGED and IMPROVED DISSOLVING VIEWS, part of which form a Series in tended to illustrate the SCENERY of the HOLY LAND, copied from the beautiful work of David Roberts, R.A., by permission of Mr. Moon, the Publisher of Threadneedle-street. Lectures which demonstrate the la+est advances made in practi cal Science. The ORRERY, DIVING BELL, and DIVER, with Experiments in the Water. PHOTOGRAPHIC POR TRAITS taken Daily by Mr. Beard.—Conductor of the Band, Mr. Wallis.—Admission, One Shilling. . - nornenr,"••=oll.. v i a ALEXAIVDRIA, 5xx.......,,,..... MAM to INDIA, LTA. The GREAT LIVERPOOL will . calling at MA. START f r om SOUTH AMPTON on the Ist June, at Eight A. MOUTH with the Mails on the 2d. C ons t an ti no pl e • Steamers from Malta for Naples, Athens,. ' 1 an d P a t ras , .M., and from FAL &c., every Ten Days, and for the lonian IslauscL, sth and 15th of each month. t-street, For fur:her information, apply at No. 44, Hegel. 'Aviga- Piccadilly ; or at the Peninsular and Oriental Steam N. ion Company's Office, London, 51, St. Mary Axe. N.B. No cargo received en board after May 28th. 'ITEAM TO SWEDEN AND NORWAY I►.J7 For CHRISTIANSAND and GOTHENBURG, her Majesty's Mail Steam-packets INNISFAIL, JOHN !MOF FATT, R.N.. Commander; and EXPRESS, ANTHONY BAITSON, Commander, will leave HULL every SATUR DAY MORNING, at ELEVEN o'Clock, and GOTHEN BURG every FRIDAY, calling at CHRISTIANSAND on the Outward and Homeward Passage. Passports can be immediately obtained in Hull, at the Office of the Swedish Cottsul. These Packets are in communication with Norwegian Steamers from Christiansand to Drontheim, and from thence to Hammerfest in Lapland, also to Christiana ; from Gothen burgh by Steamers to Copenhagen, to Stockholm, and from thence to the North of Sweden, as far as Tornea, to Finland, Petersburgh, and Lubeck. The accommodations fer Passengers are of the first order. For further particulars, apply to THOMAS WILSON, SONS, and CO. Hull, March 19,1842. NEW ZEALAND COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, that the ANNUAL GENERAL COURT of PROPRIETORS of the NEW ZEALAND COMPANY will be holden on TUESDAY, the 31st day of May inst., at One o'Clock preeilely, at this House, for the Election of Directors and other Officers of the said Company, and for the transaction of other business. At the said Meeting, the follow ing Directors will go out of office, viz.: Viscount INGESTRE, M.P. Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, Bart. ARTHUR WILLIS, Esq. JOHN ELLERKER BOULCOTT, Esq. JOHN WILLIAM BUCKLE, Esq. HENRY AGLIONBY AGLIONBY, Esq.,lll.P. But being eligible for re-plection, hereby offer themselves to be re-elected accordingly. By Order of the Court, JOHN WARD, Secretary. New Zealand House, Broad-street Buildings, 13th May, 1842. TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. ACIVIL ENGINEER, in practice, in the County of Sussex, has a VACANCY for a PUPIL. Premium moderate. Apply to L. K. F., " Brighton Guardian" Office, North street, Brighton. THE ABORIGINES' PROTECTION SOCIETY. The Fifth Annual Meeting of thts Society was held yesterday at Exeter Hall. Among the ladies and gentlemen present we noticed William Gore Ousely, Esq., late Charge d'Affaires at Brazil; Dr. Hodgkin, Sir C. E. Smith, Bart., Wm. Tooke, Esq., Rev. John Burnett, Josiah Forster, Esq., John Barton, Esq., Chevalier Dillon, Dr. Ernest Dieffenbach, Colonel Jackson, Edward Backhouse, Esq., Mrs. Samuel Gurney, Mrs. Amelia Opie, and several other ladies of distinction. The Chair having been taken, shortly after one o'clock, by F. HODGKIN, Esq., M.D., the Father of the Society," the Secretary read the following REPORT. " The Aborigines' Protection Society are again met io receive from their Committee a retrospective statement of a year's exertions. Your Commttee are painfully sensible that the Society has not attained to that magni tude and importance, or achieved those results which, doubtless, their early friends, who five years since met to receive their first annual report, might reasonably antici pate, when advocating so interesting and important a cause, and appealing to a public at once enlightened and benevolent. They are, nevertheless, encouraged to hope that their constituents and the public will regard with favourable indulgence the exertions , of the past year. From necessity and not from choice, their labours have been proportioned to the smallness of their resources, rather than to the magnitude, and interest, and neces sities of their cause, yet in hopeful confidence they come before you, trusting that the continuance of your interest, and the increasing support of the public, may enable their successors so to conduct the operations of the So ciety, that it may more nearly realize the hopes and wishes of its founders. You will perceive from the ab stract of occurrences which this report contains, that the past year, like its predecessors, has been fruitful in events of great importance to the existence of that portion of the human race, in accordance with custom, rather than with strict propriety, comprehended in the term Aborigines. "It might naturally be supposed that the exalted position which man holds as the highest and noblest of living creatures, would render an accurate knowledge of the varieties into which his species is divided, a most legiti mate and interesting object of research ; yet so little does this view of the subject engage attention, that it may safely be said, that man is less generally and mi nutely studied than many of the groups of inferior ani mals, whether they are numbered amongst the living inhabitants of the globe; or are only known through those organic remains which are scattered beneath its surface. "Important as the study of man must confessedly be, as the highest object of natural history, the subject be comes far higher and more important, when we seek, through its assistance, to trace out those families, into which Sacred Record informs us that the decendants of our first parents have been divided in their diffusion over the surface of the terraqueous globe. How few are there who most confidently believe in the common origin of mankind, who can form any accurate idea of the divi sions and combinations of tribes which have taken place, and how little has been done to prove, by the incontest able evidence of living witnesses, that the doubts of the sceptic in this respect are manifestly groundless. Sonic idea of the kind of interest connected with this inquiry may be formed, if we take as an illustration the attention which has been paid to any feasible inquiry as to what is become of the lost tribes of the children of Israel. Almost every branch of our great family is precisely in the same state, and we must despair of arriving at any satisfactory solution, if we allow tribe after tribe to be I sacrificed to our cupidity. " Your Society do not limit themselves to a particular portion of the globe because from all quarters, in which. civilised and uncivilised men are brought into contact, they may derive those facts which serve to prove the aggressive character of the former, and to engage the most attentive interest, and call forth the strongest sympathy on behalf of the latter. " At the meeting of the Society last year, the most gratifying announcement the Committee had to make related to Western Australia, where a colony had been founded, under the auspices of the Western Australian Company, consisting of London merchants and capital ists, who gave assurances that they would surpass all their predecessors in their efforts to benefit rather than injure the natives of the soil which they proposed to ap propriate; nor could a stronger proof of the merits of their assurances have been given than the fact, that the Company offered, if sanctioned by Government, to send out a Commissioner nominated by your Society, for the express purpose of making himself thoroughly acquainted with the natives and their territory; in order to frame on the spot measures cal culated to secure their existence and well-being . in peaceful alliance with their new neighbours. The most gratifying encouragement, and fullest co-operation was given at the Colonial-office, and your Committee had the satisfaction of securing a Commissioner who raised their hopes in proportion to their entire confidence in his qualifications for the task assigned him. It is not for this Committee to dive into or judge of the reasons which led the Directors of the Company to decline car rying out their proposal when preparations were so far completed. But the Committee would not be doing jus tice to themselves if they omitted to state that they did not relinquish their hopes of success until much time and careful attention had been devoted to the subject. " AMERICA. "With regard to the Aborigines of British possessions in North America, your Committee regrets the defi ciency of documentary evidence, and the want of in formation bearing on those people. " The little remnant of Micmacs, cut off from • Com munication with kindred tribes, and leading a semi civilized life, on a greatly restricted and inadequate ter ritory, have sought, by the personal application of a deputation from their number, relief at the hands of the Colonial Department of the mother country ; and your Committee feel unfeigned pleasure in stating that the re ception with which those Indians were favoured by the present head of that department, Lord Stanley, warrants the hope that the petition will not have been heard in vain. Through the kind attention of the Rev. Egerton Ryeson, the Editor of the Christian Guardian, your Committee have received repeated accounts of the suc cessful operations of missions in isolated Indian villages. The Mohawk children are advancing in school educa tion, and the converts to Christianity in the Credit, Rice Lake, and Muncey settlements, maintain their improved character with respect to temperance, and are advancing in agriculture and domestic tomfort--facts which esta blish the feasibility of those reforms in regard to the treatment of the Indian population of our North Ame rican provinces, for which this Society has perseveringly pleaded. " The difficulties which for some time continued to exist in the arrangements with the Cherokees, subse quently to their removal, have, it appears, been satis factorily terminated ; and private accounts from Washin ton announce that the enlightened chief John Ross had received the payment of many thousand dollars due to his tribe. 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N ,1 4 : : 411ik • , 7N , a •.1 !‘, 7 4 . •,, . • ‘l c ..F.A\ , • , _ ) • t•ss-t , f • - I,W4 v • (.444 411 , .4 1 ;1 11 - '• • 0 0 0 1v cv , ;„,; , T ' T t yl (i t/ laimilimmiltrilllMlMn. _ - LONDON, TUESDAY N 7 '. 7 4 s . ll 'la NS 11/ LAY 17, 1842 PRICE 5d TIMBER DUTIES.-One person, speaking of the in tended reduction in the timber duties, said, " that unless trade improves, there is as much timber now in Lanca shire as will last seven years." Immense quantities both of bricks and timber are useless in the buildings unoccu pied. The remission of the timber duties is a great hiss to the revenue, and not likely to benefit the people.— The Struggle. His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the Suffolk-street Gallery last week, and purchased a picture of Mr. J. W. Allen's. So judicious a partialitr for the works of this truly English Landscape Painter is an ex cellent compliment to British artists. useless to look to the Goyerrinzent for the. initiativ e . In •• all periods of history' Governments were never found commencing, any course :of improvement, or aiding it, till the people forced it upon them. It was not .to the Government that they must look for com mencing any work to save the Aborigines of the world from ruin. It had not supported the measures that had been recommended by this society, and why ? because the public was not sufficiently alive to the im portanc of the subject, and if they went to the Go vernment without backers they would get very little there. ll e urge d on a ll t h e necess i ty of supporting this Society, on the ground that those who did not do all in their. power to prevent great evils must be held to be in part guilty of those evils. lle showed that by, introducing civilization among the AborigineS, this country would be benefited, from the demand that would spring up for our menufactures, while the native tribes would also become valuable producers of commodities which this country consumed. having dwelt feelingly on the blessings that would follow from the world living in a state of universal brother hood, he noticed the objection that had been made, that civilization could not be introduced, if the efforte for that er.d were separated from the _introduction of Christianity, and observed, that there was an impres sion that this attempt would fail, as all offices had. done. In this there were many errors. He denied that the attempts to civilize barbarous tribes had failed, because the introduction of Christianity was not associated with the labour, but because the public did not sufficiently enter into the importance of those labours. This Society was one for interposing between their own people and the Aborigines of the earth, when engaged in deadly conflict, and prevented them from destroying each other. It was a peace making society -,•-• a police society, if they liked, for the whole world.—(llcar, hear.) Was there any one who would not assist in the efforts of such a Society ? If the Government could be told that the great hall up stairs had been crowded _with a meeting, feeling a strong and holy indignation at the injuries inflicted on the Aborigines of the earth, they would find that a measure would soon be laid before Parliament on the subject. The Government IN - onld then take the initiative in formal legislation, but the - initiative would re Ay have been with the public. To accomplish their ends, a statement of the flats and principles connected with the subject was necessary, and - this could only be done by meetings, not in Lon • don only, but in all parts of the kingdom. They wanted a grand general movement on the question, but how could they get this with out funds ? The Society was left. Without funds and could not act; it could not tell upon the com munity—it had.not the means of reaching the ear of the public at large. •Let the meeting help it, then, in its future struggles, taking this consideration with them, that in the present state of this country emigra tion must increase ; and if this must be the case—if they must create new empires in the east and west, • let them not be as they had hitherto been —empires founded in blood, and consecrated by murder.— (Cheers.) Sad ! sad, was the history of British colo nisation. The history of no community exhibited evils more frightful than the history of British emi gration, if faithfully given. Let them make it, then, in future, a work, not of danger, but of peace=not Of invasion of foreign tribes and people, but of amal gamation with them—not of attempts to plant our feet on the necks of those feebler than themselves, but of becoming acquainted with to whom we may be useful, and who may be useful to ourselves. Let them make the work of emigration so pure, so moral, so hallowed, so just, so sternly honourable, that no one need, either be afraid or ashamed of the name of emigrant. He concluded by enforcing the necessity of carrying out the plans of the Society with regard to all the countries mentioned in the Report. W. GORE OUSE IX, Esq. (late Charge d'Affaires at Brazil), seconded the resolution. Ile said, in secondin!r, this resolution, I avail myself of the opportunity of expressing, as a new member of this Association, the high opinion which I entertain of its praiseworthy objects, and the extreme satisfaction with which I perceive that its efforts have not been useless in call ing attention in this country to the duty of affording to numerous aboriginal races of mankind that proteci tion to which they have now a just claim from Great Britain. My opinions have, lam well aware, no other weight than that which may be allowed on the score of personal experience, and an observa tion of several years, both i n N or th and South Ame rica. That experience goes to prove that without now referring to those great principles of justice and be nevolence upon which this Society is founded, the best policy for our Colonists to pursue, is that of ob servance, not only of strict equity, but of the greatest forbearance towards the native tribes with whom they may be in contact. lam convinced, from what have seen, that well-directed and supported efforts to conciliate, civilize, and render them useful allies, in stead of bitter enemies, will never be made uselessly ; It is with regret, also, that I have observed, that in almost every instance of asserted aggression or out rage on the part of native tribes, or wherever an apparent character of determined hostility or fem.- city has been exhibited by them, it mild be traced to wrongs inflicted, in the first instance, on the part of the white man, or a violation of all jus tice and a denial of rights evinced towards them by more civilized communities. One of the permanen t and necessary characteristics of this Society, which formed an additional inducement in my own ease for . be ing desirous of th e honour of belongmg to it, is the total absence of all political party spirit or bias in its object and composition ; still it may be allowable to express the deep feeling of satisfaction with which I have • seen the late declaration of the distinguished Minister who presides over the Colonial Department of her Majesty's Government, that attempts such as that lately made at Natal, in the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope, will not be allowed to succeed. I may also he permitted to feel and express some self-gratulation that the form of Govern ment under which we have the advantage of Ming enables that Government (possessing, as it does, the • greatest and most important colonial empire that the world ever saw,) to interfere effectually whenever necessary, for the protection of those aboriginal possessors of the territories that our Government now occupies, from the interested and shert-Bighted op pression exercised towards them by its own subjects: I trust that the efforts of this Society may become practically ancillary to the just and humane policy adopted by her Majesty's Government towards the numerous aboriginal tribes under its protection. lI.TfNDAL ATK IN ON, Esq., seconded the resolution, in an animated and eloquent address. He could not conceal from himself that humanity must shudder on Perusing the " history of Colonization." The first step taken on the settlement in Van Diemen's Laud was to slaughter men, women, and children. The history of the unfortunate people in South Africa would ever be a stain upon the policy of England. The Boers had come out, they had much to answer for, their path was tracked with blood, and they had recklessly sacrificed human life. It had been said, what had Government clone in the initiative for the improvement of the' people ? • Ile answered, nothing ; they had left the whole to the people.—(Cheers.) He trusted that the public would rally round • insti tutions like the present, and in that 'hope he would most cordially support the resolution. The resolution was then put by the CHAIRMAN, and declared to be carried unanimously. Sir C. E. SMITH moved the next resolution " That this Society recognises the great importance of investigating and recording facts connected with the pre sent moral and physical condition of the uncivilisod races of man, with a view to the elucidation of their origin, and the adaptation of suitable measuroc for the introduc tion of time arts of civilised life and intellectual culture, as offering the most availing means of arresting the pro gress of evil, and aiding in the introduction of the bles sings of Christianity." He believed that nothing but Christianity NI/mid arm that Society with success, and it. was therefore their duty to extend its principles as much as possible. DANIEL LISTER., 'Esq., seconded the resolution. The great object of the meeting was to get rid of the difficulties that attended the colonisation of other countries, which he believed was only to be effected by the introduction of Christianity. The resolution was then put to the meeting, and declared to be carried unanimously. The SECRETARY, in announcing that Mr. Teioke, I Esq., would move the next resolution, stated that that gentleman had, since entering the, room, nib scribed two guineas to the funds of the Society. Mr. TOOKE then came forward and said • that ho had not intended that the latter part of` the informa tion should have been communicated to the meeting. He had been a pleased and an instructed auditor of their proceedings, and felt as they all must have felt, that their best thanks were due to their Chairman for the zeal and ability which he had ever displayed in promoting the interests of the Society.—(Cheers.) There could be no doubt but that , his endeavours must be ultimately successful. Dr. IloOgkin would enrol his name on that small list of practical philan thropists, to whom was due the credit of having ori ginated great designs.—(Loud cheers.) The Hos. 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Schoinburgk; was actually service of the British Government lb; the that disputed boundary, the uncoil • posed the Indians residing;enaged in t:: . settlement of upon it, of which ex sing incursions of Brazilian sil l y , e. t i o i the kidnap sing r o m s quits received, it appears that the Pa Commissioner r ace, ',lisently proceeded 7 3 it . li . . his task, yet, from has a- 'Ni causes, the . . wish Government has unexplains 'it not to maintain thought it rig. •_ the boundary as defined idna ,p p n p i e fi rs are consequently still at li by him. The is. , berty to enjoy the s ‘ts of that uncertainty which :t to , see perpetuated ; an d t h ere it is so much their interb is reason to fear that the simis: long since employed by an acute American Indian, may be,Applicrible to the Indians of Guiana, namely, that the English and their rivals are scissors, which are brought like the blades of a pair of together in apparent oppositio.l, whilst the poor Indian s are like a piece of paper placed ,!ietween them, which re ceives all the mischief. Mr. Sehs.mburgls while engaged in his official duties, has not been 2inmindful of hi s In dian friends, and has e xe rted hi ms elf , to save from con demnation a native youth, supposed t o have forfeited his life by conforming to th e cus t om s o f hi s tri.'”-', in opposi tion to British laws, of w hi c h h e cou ld h ave no k 'nowledgs. "It becomes the painf u l d u ty o f y our Comm.'ttee to state, in relation to the Indians of South America, Vint the proceedings of the remarkable Botocudo Indian Chief, Guido Peerane, have not been such as to realise the pleasing anticipations which the accounts published ilia former year were calculated to excite. " AUSTRALASIA. . "In the district of New South Wales, the settlers on the rivers Ovens, Hume, and Clarence, have more or less suffered in the loss of cattle and sheep speared by the natives, and in addition, at the latter locality, two set tlers have been murdered ; while, on the other hand, about twenty of the natives have been killed by a party of mounted police, under the command of Major Henry • Oakes ; and for the murder of Mr. Stapleton and his servant, at Moreton Bay, two natives, named. Merridio and Neugevil, have paid the forfeit of their lives on the scaffold. A settler at New England has had 1,200 sheep slaughtered, besides 300 driven into the bush, and his shepherd murdered. " In the vicinity of Port Phillip, a settler and his ser vant have been murdered by the natives. " In the neighbourhood of South Australia, 800 sheep have been carried off from one station, and a shepherd severely wounded ; and from another 900 sheep, and the shepherd killed. But the most deplorable accounts of all, are the impediments thrown in the way of trans porting cattle and sheep over land from Sydney to Adelaide. Vast destruction of property and loss of life, both on the part of the Europeans and natives, has taken place,—calamities, however, which have fallen most heavily on the latter people, being in the proportion of more than forty to one. " In 'Western Australia, in consequence of a murder having been committed on a settler by some person or persons unknown, an attempt was made to capture a tribe of blacks on suspicion, and, as they resisted, five of them were shot. While government and governors therefore, whose duty it is to wat c h w ith equa anxious solicitude, the Aborigines and the colonists, are regard less of that duty, the assumed and the real proprietors of the soil, or in other words, the colonists and the natives, are waging wars, if not of extermination, of utter ruin to one or other of the parties—wars which, if justifiable, as defensive on the part of the natives, on that of the colonists, are not only unjust, but decidedly unchristian. " TASMANIA. " It is always with heartfelt sorrow that your Com mittee allude to the natives of Van Diemen's Land. The poor remnant of that race, amounting now only to fifty seven souls, are still imprisoned—for an imprisonment it must be considered—on Minder's Island. A year or two more, and they will be among the extinct nations. It will then be impossible for the reflecting mind to turn from the page which records their history, without being strongly impressed with the feeling, that a barbarous 1 race have been consigned to a premature grave, by a nation, rendered the more criminal, because they enjoy the blessings of Christianity. "NEW ZEALAND. " Your Committee feel convinced, from the impartial and accurate information they have received, that if ever a nation of barbarians could be rescued from their own helpless situation, and from the baneful influence of colo nization; and be destined to contradict the fallacious dogma of the necessary extermination of coloured men by European settlement, the New Zealanders arc that nation • a result your Committee especi a lly an ti c ip a t e , from the fact, that the New Zealanders are an agricultural people, and accustomed to fixed habitations. But they are, at the same time perfectly aware, that this advan -1 tage over other barbarous races is of no avail, if a sufficiency of land is not secured to them, on a uniform principle of reserves, alike applicable to the lands of the Government, of the New Zealand Land Company, and of private purchasers. As the most vital point therefore in future legislation, must be regarded that of the native territorial rights. No act of the Legislature has as yet appeared, setting forth the intentions of Government re garding native reserves in the districts purchased by the local government of New Zealand. " The appointment of Mr. Halswell as a Commissioner of native hinds by the New Zealand Company, has not produced the expected beneficial result, for on the arrival of that gentleman in New Zealand, he was restricted to Port Nicholson, and to a nominal situation, as sub-pro tector of that district, under the orders of Mr. Clark, the chief-protector, appointed by Governor Hobson. " AFRICA. " That large corner of the African continent which forms the British colony of the Cape, is in itself an Eng land beyond the seas, and the dwellers in Caffraria are among the most important of the aboriginal nations of the earth. To them especial attention is therefore due. In the last year's Report your Committee had to treat of the Caffre contracts with the Governor, who met the chiefs for the especial purpose of modifying the treaties, so that Colonist ancrtaffre might find them useful, and consider them as binding. Almost monthly accounts have beets received from the colony, yet scarcely one authenticated case throughout the year of actual aggres sion on the part of the Caffres, nor of any infraction of the treaties on either side has occurred. " In performing the last act of their official duties in concluding this Report, your Committee desire very closely but respectfully to press upon your consideration . the state -of the great cause in which you are engaged, as sketched in the Report, and the very weak and low condition of your Society in relation to it. Whilst such a Society attests the existence of acknowledged evils, it seems to behove us all in good earnest to make efforts for their correction. The work is confessedly difficult, but it must not be regarded as impracticable, when as yet no effort has been made from which any signal success could reasonably be anticipated. Noble acts have indeed been performed, but they have unhappily been isolated, and consequently almost fruitless. May your counte nance and support be given to future Committees, in such a manner as to strengthen their hands, and inspire in creasing zeal and energy. They then may reasonably hope to diffuse knowledge and right feeling amongst then' countrymen, and they may plead with success when they pray that the Government, amidst numerous and pressing cares, may deem it worthy of its notice, to legislate for a just and systematic conduct towards the Aborigines of' our colonies—a work which would be no less honourable to those engaged in it, than cheering to the friends of humanity, and fraught with blessings to the feeble races of man." Dr. GARNIER then moved, "That the Report now produced be printed, under the direction of the Com mittee." A. B. WRIGHT, Esq., briefly seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. The Rev. J. BURNETT then moved the following resolution :—" That this Society, whilst gratefully acknowledging the adoption of various measures for the protection of the Aborigines, on the part of the Government, cannot be insensible to the fact—that their claims, and the necessity of strenuous interpo sition for their preservation and improvement, remain unabated, and feels most anxious that there may be no remission in efforts in their behalf, until, as res pects this country at least, an improved system shall have been adopted, by which, in the British Colonies and their vicinity, the Aborigines may fully partici pate in the protection and privileges of British law, and the fostering care of the mother country." He was persuaded that the real objects of the Society were not understood by the public in general ; if they were the public would feel at not having given ft greater support. The Society had been formed for protection of the Aborigines all over the world, and surely that object ought to excite kind and generous sympathy. It was impossible to make any progress in discovery without coining into contact with the native population ; and it was impossible to proceed in our researches without either being affiliated to them, or else resorting to the most deadly warfare.— (Hear, hear.) It had often been regretted that we possess no better knowledge of the natives of the inte rior of South America and of New Holland. If the natives knew what they had too much reason to ex pect from us, they would rejoice at our not having penetrated their fastnesses.—(Hear, hear.) It was said that they were barbarians. Admitting the fact, it formed no reason why we should take away their lives ' • but as we had found means of entrapping their .lions and tigers, and wolves and hyaenas, so let us now find some means of attaching them to our selves by kind and generous treatment. He was ashamed to be obliged to admit that his country had not been the schoolmaster of the aboriginal tribes of the world, but their executioner.—(Hear, hear.) He pointed out that, with respect to improvements, it was