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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE)ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, '4llllk Lipp FOR GRANTING ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIE, &e. No. 26, CORNHILL. Capital £500,000. ErnPowered by Special Act of Parliament. DIRECTORS. irm T. LAME MURRAY, Esq. Chairman. afnotson, M.D. F.R . S. I John Rawson, Esq. Irio Griffith Frith, E sq . John Riddle Stodart, Esq. ;-,'4oter Gordon, Esq. I Clement Tabor, Esq ! "Norge Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. P lve AUDITORS. ' A Sar Wheatstone, F.R. S. I Professor Graves,A.M.F.R. S. . 7ru ARY—W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F. R.A. S. P uTssciAN—J. Elliotson, M.D., F.R. S. Sa t tepp„,. Bustaxow—E. S. Symes, Esq. 11. -- ' B.- -Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Ewens, and Ommanney. 7,4llxuas--117essrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. the , 7 L su ot rational moti ves to Lsfe Assurance are found in 41 °Pted by this Society ; viz. joined to a secure q 4a l s f ol at death for inheritors of the Assured, the Society ''olis „ su ccour to the Assured himself (proportioned to pre- Annual in the event of unforeseen reverses. Annual Division of Profits. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. S C ~ rrisii (WIDOWS' FUND) LIFE ASSURANCE. Founded A.D. 1815. Constituted by Act of Parliament. ON E Capital, accumulated and invested, upwards of MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. Tw Annual revenue nearly At 3 .0 HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS. te Ist December, -1838, the SoCiety's third periodical In unto tlie BONUS ADDITIONS then declared the s to TWO PER CENT. PER ANNUM, not only on tio titi ll til Assured, but likewise on the Bonus Additions pre- Ti declared. • P °IIIITH PERIODICAL INVESTIGATION TAK ES Atz ur PLACE AT 31st DECEMBER, 1845. rtc „„ an ces effected through the Head Office, 5, St. An te'fi,l4,re. Edinburgh, or Agencies, before th Books are deified Current Year, will have the advanfage of a FULL '44 ' 17 STANDING over thoie Assurances which may be C o , i " e Ynnd that period. 1111 ce` . " of the Prospectus, Forms of Proposals, and every 'nation may be obtained at the No LONDON OFFICE, 7. PALL-MALL. i be r. 1842. HUGH M'KEAN, Agent. O i\r t R SAL LIFE ASSURANCE Th e 1 1 1 . KIN OFFICE, G wiLLIAM-STREET, LONON. 411 1 i t, Il *s of this Office, founded on the most acccurate ob . - 14 ' , Isi,C 11 ' of the duration of human life, are as moderate as is tk e ' s ot aith perfect security. I „ e tts Is 6 , 1 1 th of the ascertained profits of the five preceding ;"'es,," i ided bet the policy-holders and shareholders ; k t ka' f r nha to the former, and one-fourth to the latter. The si i l4- "g Tour-fifths are se t apart to enter into the average of ' , ltg e ,2!'ng }ears, and th us to provide against unforeseen eu e 's rt divis ion of pr ofits took place on the 13th of May, r ~rre:" a r of 60 per cent. was declared on the -.4 tO t re - sof all those policies entitled to parti hePseriudnidivision of profits was in May, 1841, - .Per e - " r d in 1842 n, on both of which the large reduction of rh, cent, was decla r ed . kal e by f t w ing fabl will show the operation of the reduction e Societ- P t % Reduced < Polico. i. bate Annual Sum' Original Reduction Premium y Assured. Premium. payable in , 1 11 "........._ 184 0 , 41,8c2. ____—. -- 10 " k\ 34 . £l,OOO Zl9 6 S £ll 12 0£714 8 1,000 24 li 4 14 13 0 9)5 4 Qp 1,000 31 10 0 18 19 12 12 0 1,000 42 15 0 25 13 0 17 2 0 t hi._ .-:.*___••• 1,008 66 11 8 39 19 0 26 12 8 11 11 - is sYste 'bony to the of reduction in the premiums affords immediate bo n ue Assured, or enables them to secure a consider- Doi• . 11 s by e ft. . • • ectirig a new policy. v h ' i tleot ta :', granted in London, and by resident Committees tl t i;keo us '. al adras, and Bombay, on India risks, at very ad i:,4,les, calculated from extens . ive data and tables, ea r, ,orl eion i fe n, , a) possession of this Society, to show the true during residence in India, and after retirement from By order of Board, DAVID JONES, Actuary. tAij----- b 4 . - YOUR INCOAIE-TAX BY PURCHASING 4 11 TI -MONO P O OtY AT C jo Ti E , COMPANY'S alr: l ., , Central Office, 9, Charing-cross. e D b - ,..', 4 G AN, removed from 31 to No. 9, late manager, ‘y e . ll kil o n , a s7 o , and h seller since 1839, to the following gentle- A tw ar . l :_i 4 m are left 31, ex o ce . p p t r M ym r. e ß , e E n s n q i . e :ex.m. p. ' T ' 11' 1 F ' sq M.P. T °rod' Es b. ' Lead 3 , q• G. Rennie, Esq., ex-M.P. L e . er Esq., M.P. R. W. Rotbam, Esq. J, " 71, , E: 11, (11 b , ' ( 1. Sir Henry Webb, Bart. 4 t Ih • -,,41 1 and Company beg to inform the public in genera 1 . 11. ciao. establishment is enabled to supply the best coal at 5 °4 p p NT ton less than at 31, in consequence of being based ' 74, 4.et kal ex e • together with strict economy. Best A ttil 4 " S eeond P from 6d. to 265., Walls End Coals 235., d ''' - mite 3 °' s C r Ok ra 19s., * small 133., delivered within four ' tl i t C haring-cro e ss, thout extra charges, for cash on 6 AZ' 'N "s (pre -paid) to J. Ghagan and Co., No. 9, Charing- OIL AND LAMP PHENOMENA, AND kr: 4 llk PUFF. wad , and Co., Oil Refiners by Chemical pi ocess, 261, I"kliip e r n ,, (l 16, Picket-street, sell their UNEQUALLED ip 1 .:, 4 t 1 ) OIL, at 4s. 10d. per gallon, suitable for every tit;plll-on4 Solar in present use, four gallons go as far as o ti Oil is or other common Oils, therefore their Cla -leourir. cheapest. Lamps burning , it require . no clea : ning, 1 4 :t (i f t ° l its purity, it produces a Splendid Light without Lurns heir Fire-proof Smoke-consuming Glasses are used) I'o 4 . b "'le equal to Sperm with the common glasses. It's "t plArkmanshi? and newest style at MANUFAC- Per;,' usu a 4 l 3 ' B " . CES. For instance : excellent table lamps, to t Ils, 9 , 1 5 . ; Cambridge reading or writing lamps (sn- Orb dr awi ; usually 21s. ; ball lamps, from 2s. 9d. ; very b r n g arid dining-room lamps, 455. 6d., usually 84s. ; to ; tke se a , s ' aud real bronze reading lamps, 15s. 9d., usually loo -e een•• " re 00 1 y specimens of prices. Chandelier designs re., t i r n o great variety. Clarified Oil 4s. 10d. imperial gal -110,4 LARk ° L chi ymnes, Is. only. 1 4 1 frurn t he CO., 16, Picket-street, or 261, " Strand, three 4 0t e Stone illars opposite St. Clement's Church, 131 ' a earne r P 't' onsl k l a 41. 4 , 1 shop(to prevent i mpositions) . k l ekled rl etlY CLARK and CO. stamped on the Glasses p ar ruks a : d u the Oil-corks. uf tb.,,designs of Lamps (for every use) forwarded to any • 1 4.0 . id —. TCHES, LONDON MADE . v 0 4 , ~8 WA. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, No. 9 , Corn hill, avby 1 4; 0°54 e i lank of England, submit for selection a STOCK o• GOLD WATCHES, the whole of :, 1 , 4 Pt.. -I Wade arid fl::ished under the careful inspection of tftlf;d workmen their own premises, and each is war p.. correct per hi. mance. ' l4 V ert . SlIr?. FOR LADIES. 001,1,, l ed Watcha, jewelled, in engine-turned V e "'s and gold d - warranted . £lO 10 0 444441 Watches. jewelled, with double- War tui e ngine turner' gold cases and gold dials, ea t 12 12 0 -sle s. !wiled Lever W a t c hes, jewelled in four dial s, ith double-ba r:ked gold cases and geld "arranted ... pate nt d e , SIZE FOR GENTLEMEN. 4 ole s ' a ched Lever Watches, jewelled hi four warr a V e conds, and double-backed gold cases, tt ettt d e te t ie si r Oelied Lever Watches, capped, jev elled p eria ul es, seconds, deuble.backed gold cases a teat d et ' , l dials, warranted .. Bil r ed Lever Watches, capped, jewelled s ,„nd eni. ., 141, , seconds double-backed gold cases dials 01 0 0 u er warranted :f the Gentlemen's Watches may be had in gold ls for 3/. 3s. each extra. K. R. Second-hand Purchased in exchange. 14 14 0 13 13 0 17 17 0 C:o n , S„ i g i T ll , --- S, ‘ , COLDS, INFLUENZA, HOARSENESS, till& N . "" I A, AND INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION. ESSENCE OF LINSEED is an in ttit uable remedy. Price ls. lid. and 2s. 9 d. per rO IIt tim e • 0. ,‘Les e Immemorial Linseed has been proverbial for its %,, e: q the cure of Coughs and Colds ; but previous to the th e f Y of the present Chemical Essence, it was merely used 1 1 .4 4 ,_rut of tea, and its benefit comparatively limited. This iikytoneoeutains all the medicinal properties of Linseed in a p,„,„,lentrated form, combined w it h other medicinals and ue,ing the mos t certain and e ffi cacious remedy for ild r - „ mi en„has yet be en discovered. I• v 4 ed Coughs as recent ones in Adults, will be re -4",`11, r ersgc,,2\few doses of Simco's Essence of Linseed (frequently ; old standing Chronic Coughs may require per d,wlthri;. mit they ulti ma tely yield to its curative powers. fe r ,,, ill Le I ersons, who previously had not been able to lie . d. "X lave received the utmost benefit, and others suf " Influenza have been speedily cured by this valuable '"ld by all respectable Medicine Vendors. PE ---- t, - 4 /I V R t E R'S EMBROCATION for GOUT, ti fp' of , L UMATISM, TIC DOLOREUX, &c. addressed by Trevor Holland, Esq., Surgeon, -44 " k etter addr--- on the 6th July las t , t 'l the Edi t or ear Walsall, Staffordshire, of the " Times and t ,. } ',' effieaev i ,,l ll 4 it a duty I owe to the public t o make known "tich h '','' a rein e d w hi c h I met with accidenta lly, kr,„ 0 `leen pf K won derful benefit to myself. Some tli s 2. 0 I ,„- such islo me' and fr a the gr eat tender ''''% of the s.u . " re d et with a very severe accident, having d li_ tod e Joint I w • Tay ancle severely. From Isuffered 'l ' very as quite unable to walk, the limb con txt;sOfull \ Much swollen and edematous, and vr.ich s (1 : ro o m severe attacks of spasms in the night, n s,: s x ' ed fn t the ancle to the leg, thigh, back, h I and ky ~, 1 1, avirm exhausted every resource of relief whic no and . to the IJ,..,l4l,oseelliieal friend s in the country could suggest, to cut t „,, set out for London with the intention of con 4ti,jr,i, Sil• Benjamin Brodie or Mr. Liston—then to sea ladopt. Lade: By tecident I met with Mr. Feaver, 16 Ludgate hu', , r ,''d Ilia Embrocation, and, to my great astonishment, Nrni n - " '',,Pasut that night, nor have I had one since. The next Vole to I eanae down stairs without my crutches, and was lic)tv .walk, the swelling of the limb soon subsided, and lam ' , ti l t -1)1(Ily recoverinc, - Having for many years had an ex ti, " Medical practiCe in the county of Stafford, I know of 14 itctVieinal. corn ound possessing such wonderful efficacy. tti t ed lg my testimony p to Mr. Feaver's Embrocation, I am ac `l sir ~"Y no other motive than gratitude to him, and a sincere f kr ei .,, , ts make known his invaluable remedy to my felloly- d sn - auirivst P os l sessing, as I ever slid, the •trongest prejudice last , eve!fthing in the shape of quackery, I should be the l 4 be 114th to uphold a systenTi which, generally speaking, I know - 11441 ' 1 % but a nefarious traffic and humbug. " .I. am, your obedient servant, t, c. _ " TREVOR HOLLAND, Surgedn. 1, 1: 4- . 41 , °”"k, near Walsall, Staffordshire. ki i , • '). At the various consultations held upon my ease, the /i g i, e n nns and physicians (including myself) were decidedly of i ß i t , at 'n that the frequent violent attacks of spasms would ter ; had ti 7 In hlek-jaw, but, as I have before stated, I have i . io ''l thi s e 'lightest symptoms of spasms since the first application Thi s extraordinary embrocation.—T. H. i n 1 justly-celebrated remedy (which is ef f icacious equally a ny Y r of the above afflictions) may be obtained of, or through C4444"l,setable wholesale or retail Chemist in Town o r . T f r , (r Yt at the Depot, corner of Wellington-street, Strand , ' in the P roDrletor Mr. Feuer. 16. Ludgate-hill. London. ToBI'ITS 'ND NERVOUS COMPL. 14 '0 PIKE'S POWDERS.—This AINTS inestimable " , ty Medicine, a Cure for' EPILEPTIC, HYSTERIC, and I , hapher description of FITS and NERVOUS DISEASES, may Itr sto , °f the roprietor, Miss Pike, 15, Park.place, Clifton, near 111 s4, : clae of Berkeley, Gloucestershire) ; and in Londop, as ! 4kerit,•l3relay and Sons, 95, Farringdon.street, sole wholesale INti„„!..1? 3ottles, at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d , and l Is. each, where duper le 412 7. trials to its ordinary e ffi cacy of the highest respectability may edi o 'ned• It may also be had through all respectable Venders of th at th rle al the United Kingdom ; but be particular in observing *. Ogra e ''" , e " Sarah MerrettPike, Berkeley, Gloucestershire," is St 4„, ved in chiWte Letters on a Red Ground in the Government wi's O °therm begentiine. t "-- - • . ~ • • ..... ~.....40.,,,,. , , • .4 ~.-,‘ , ..3i,, -., - • • ~, , t... • , r -, 7 - -....., , 51V , ~., ,Ir- , , 1 . -.• t * ,. . ...... .: 4 . ', V 4 $. 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THE SUN is P u blished EVERY MORNING at ,_FIVE O'CLOCK, in Time for. the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY,; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time f or the AFTERNOON TRAINS and a THIRD 'EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Hour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby iti3uring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. STEAM CONVEYANCE to MADEIRA, West Indiei, and MeXico.—Boyal Mail Steam Packet Com pany, 53, Moorgate-street, November 12, 1842. Berths may be secured forthwith at the above office. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship CLYDE is appointed to LEAVE SOUTHAMPTON, at 1 p.m., precisely, on the 4th of De cember, conveying passengers, quicksilver, specie, and parcels for all the British possessions in the West Indies, and for the following foreign ports—Corunna, Madeira, St. Thomas, Gua daloupe, Martinique, Porto Rico, St. Jago da Cuba, Havannah, Vera Cruz, Tampice, La Guayra, Porto Cabello, Santa Martha, Carthagena; Chagres. E. CHAPPELL, Secretary. THE SCOTTISH HOSPITAL. A large party of the members and friends of this Association dined together yesterday at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. It was, we believe, the 117th occasion on which the supporters of this excel lent Society had assembled, on St. Andrew's Day, to promote its charitable objects and to celebrate the recurrence of its anniversary. The Right Hon. the Earl of Haddington (the First Lord of the Admiralty), one of the Vice-Presidents of the . institution, occu pied the chair, and was supported by the Hon. William Fraser, of Saltoun, and several other liberal friends of the Society. The Association owes its origin to the exertions of a body of benevolent persons who, as early as the - commencement of the reign of James the First, formed themselves into a society for the relief of the less fortunate individuals of the Scottish the last battle in China took place, where their noble and gallant countryman had borne so full a share of the honour of the day.—(Cheeis.) He would, there fore, give them the " Health of Lord Saltoun." The toast was drunk with marked enthusiasm, it a condition of sale that they should hold the proxies of those shares to use as they pleased, so that they sat and controlled the affairs of the Company, having either none, or a very small stake in the concern: The names of these Directors, they understood, to be Mr. Bourne and Mr. Hartley. The CHAIRMAN said the article had been noticed by the Directors, and he was glad they had an opportu nity of answering it. 'So far from the Directors hav ing acted as imputed, none of them „were holders of proxies at all.—(Hear, hear.) So much confidence had Mr. Hartley in the Company, that he had increased his shares to I,loo.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. POTTS said the next charge was, that the trade in cattle from Vigo was completely monopolised by Mr. B. A. Wilcox, son of the 'senior Managing Di rector ; or that the Managing Directors themselves were enlisted in this traffic. In corroboration of this rumour, it was affirmed that a gentleman having ap plied at the Company's offices, to know the freight of some cattle from Vigo, received for answer that they . could not bring any, and that no freight had been fixed, yet it was said they did carry cattle to and from Vigo. The CHAIRMAN said that, in answer to that, he begged to say that the short stay at Vigo, only two hours, and frequently at night, rendered it impossible for the Company to come under any engagement to bring cattle. In all cases where cattle had come, it had been through Mr. Wilcox, as agent of the Com pany, and the freight was carried entirely to the profit of this Company._ „L._ _ , Mr. POTTS said the third rumour was, that all the Mediterranean and Peninsular parcels were taken to this same ,son's offices. and the public thereby taxed 6d. or Is., or more, extra on each package. The CHAIRMAN said that certainly the parcels went to Mr. Wilcox's office the same way as they went to Mr. Waghorn's, Messrs. Harvey, Tucket, and Co., and others, and 6d. was charged for booking and agency, as they did not feel themselves responsible for the parcels until they were shipped at Southampton, when the responsibility fell on the Company. Mr. PoTTs—The fourth rumour was, that since Mr. Charlton had come into the direction the vessels had all been repaired at Liverpool, and such new ves sels as had since come out had been built and fitted there ; as for instance, the Lady Mary Wood, the Hindostan. A third vessel, of 1,800 tons, was now building there. This Mr. Charlton once belonged to the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, and after wards to the Transatlantic Company, both Liverpool concerns. B AYMARKET THEATRE. A Cure for Love is the title of a most amusing two act comedietta, which was produced at this theatre on Tuesday night. As the disease is at all times a prevailing epidemic, and as in this case it was of nine years stand ing, our readers will be doubtless anxious to become acquainted with the mode of treatment which, in this instance, was so completely successful. The patient was Richard Sadgrove, Esq. (Mr. Buckstone), Bar rister-at-Law, who having, at Cheltenham, met with a divinity rejoicing in the name of Laura, inconti nently waxed, like Petrarch, amorous and poetical — took to reading Moore instead of Coke upon Lyttleton —wrote sonnets " to his mistress' eyebrow" instead of endorsing briefs, and, deserting the Courts of Law, opened pleadings in the Court of Love; but alas.! after the record had been filed, notice of action served, and the cause called on, poor Mr. Sad grove was nonsuited. A rich East Indian had made an offer to Laura after Sadgrove had fixed the wedding day, and the lady preferring a metallic cur; rency to a paper or a parchment one, had accepted the gold, burthened as it was with a husband as bilious looking as itself. Love is proverbially light, and she only followed the fashion of the times in refusing to accept a light sovereign. Sadgrove wandered all over Europe in search of a cure, and at the end of nine years returned to London with his disease as violent as ever. having arranged his worldly affairs he de termined to try the cold water cure by throwing him self and his woes into the Serpentine. Arrived on the banks of the river he finds there a certain Felix Trimmer (Alr. W who. Farren)who had 'come with the same Preissnitzian intention ; and here we find a re markable instance of universal applicability of the cold water cure : Sadgrove sought it as a remedy for the want of a wife, Trimmer as a cure for too much wife. He, the son of a cotton-spinner with 8,0001. a year, had made an offer to a widow, who on that single occasion had answered him " Yes," for which con cession she had indemnified herself by saying " No" to everything that he had proposed from that time forward. But not alone by a wife was the unhappy Felix tormented—that wife had a mother, a Mrs. Major Browne (Mrs. W. Clifford), " a woman of war," as Felix feelingly describes her, who, living in the same house, brought the artillery of her tongue to bear on the miserable victim, on whose devoted head she kept up a constant fire. These twain it may be thought would be quite enough to keep an elderly gentleman in hot water but they have a potent ally in Miss Bitterton (Airs. Glover), an old maid, who, if she had had a little oil in her com position, would have been an excellent dressing for a salad; but that ingredient having been omitted, we find her composed of mustard and vinegar in equal proportions, and both of the most pungent possible quality. Company, they say, is pleasant in hanging; but, from this instance, it would appear that the proverb by no means holds good in the article of drowning, for Trimmer and Sadgrove, having compared notes, appeared to be of opinion that the Serpentine was only licensed to carry one inside, and, balked in their desire for water, they ad journ to a tavern, and try wine. Here they meet with some friends, and the wine makes Sadgrove tipsy, and Trimmer courageous. The latter returns to his own house, accompanied by his friends ; as sumes the command, ejects Miss Bitterton, forces " the woman of war" to strike her colours, and his own wife to return to her allegiance. But to the cure. In the virago Mrs. Trimmer, Sadgrove recognises his quondam divinity, Laura, who, having worried her East Indian husband to death in a twelvemonth, has been endeavouring to cut the thread of the cotton-spinner in the same manner ever since. Blessing his stars for his lucky escape, and full of gratitude to Trimmer for having shown him the sort of angel into which a divinity may be metamorphosed, he returns to the Middle Temple a merrier and a happier man, completely cured of love, and a deter mined advocate for celibacy. The piece was strongly cast and admirably acted. Farren, as the henpecked husband, was the very beau ideal of well-bred Jerry- Sneakism. The tavern scene was excellent; he warmed gradually under the influence of the old port, until at last, elevated but not intoxicated, he screwed The Hun. W. FRASFR, in returning thanks for his Noble brother, assured the company of his gratitude for the kind manner in which his health had been pro 'paled and received, and said that the greatest pleasure which his family could, in his absence, feel, was ;in the "hope that they might soon have the pleasure of seeing him among them again.—(Cheers.) The Earl of HADDINGTON next gave, " The health of the Secretary, Mr. Auld," who would, he regretted to say, on that occasion, announce the list of their subscription's for the last time.—(Hear.) That duty he had performed for 26 . successive years, and he (Lord Haddington) would take the opporthnity` of his retirement from the office to say that; during the many long years he had known him, he had ever found him a most kind-hearted and intelligent man, and a faith fill and most useful servant of the corporation.— (Cheers.) He proposed the " Health of Mr. Auld." The toast having been drunk in a manner: which must have been highly gratifying to the feelings of that gentleman, Mr. Aura, in acknowledging it briefly allitcled to the long period during which he had held the cif ice of Secretary to the Society, and referred with just pride to the prosperous state of its funds at ?regent, in com parison 'to their amount when he first joined the Asso ciation.—(Cheers.) Mr. Auld then, with nutch emo tion, bade the Society farewell—wishing health, hap piness, long life, and prosperity to the members of the company present, among whom he recognised many of the warmest friends of the Corporation.—(Cheers.) Some other toasts having been drunk, a list of sub scriptions was announced, amounting to about 3501., and after a highly convivial evening the company se parated. OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. R) The DAILY PUBLIC LECTURES delivered by Dr. Ryan, Professor Bachhoffner, and, the other Lecturers , ar e varied and extended to all the most recent DISCOVERIES in ART and SCIENCE, and are familiarly illustrated by Means of the 'best MODELS, APPARATUS, and DIA GRAMS, including the COLOSSAL ,ELECTRICAL MA CHINE. Dr. Lardner's Working and Sectional MODELS of the STEAM-ENGINE, &c. &c. The subject of the Daily Lectures (for each week) is suspendedln the Hall, and the hours at which they are delivered are Twelve, Two, and Three o'clock in the Da y , and at Eight o'clock in the Evenin g s. On Saturday, at Two o'clock, the Lecture will be on the STRUCTURE and FUNCTIONS of the EYE. The exten sive Exhibition is open Mornings and Evenings, except Sa turday Evenings.—Admission, Is.. , Schools, half-price. nation. Since that period, however, several important changes have taken place in its constitution, with a view to increase its efficiency, and it now extends relief to many objects not originally entitled to claim its charity. It has a branch society . at Edinburgh,, under the Presidency of the Duke of Buccleuch, and managed by Directors of the highest respectability; and it may be characterised as an institution emi nently advantageous to the nation to which its opera tions refer, as a Society of merited prosperity and in creasing usefulness, and peculiarly worthy of that distinguished patronage of which the charitable asso ciations which adorn our common country bear lasting and substantial testimony on the occasions of their annual Celebrations. After an excellent dinner had been disposed of, and the cloth was removed, the usual loyal toasts were given from the chair, coupled with an announcement that her Majesty the Queen was an annual contri butor to the Association of one hundred guineas. In proposing the toast of the " Army and Navy," The Earl of HADDINGTON said that if ever there was a moment when a loyal company was called upon to drink that toast with gratitude and enthusiasm, it was the present.—(Loud cheers.) To the unwearied energy, gallantry, and perseverance of our brave sol diers and sailors the country was indebted for the happy news which had so recently arrived of the res toration of peace in India and China—(Cheers)--the consequences of which it was not easy, at the present moment, to foresee.—(Hear, hear.) Our disasters during the last year in Affghanistan had now been repaired, and the character of - our country had been vindicated in the very scenes in which those disasters had occurred—(Cheers)—and the result was that the (he trusted) well•founded notion of the " invinci bility," if he might use such a term, of the British arms had been once more insured.—(Cheers.) He need scarcely add, that nothing could possibly be more calculated to perpetuate our empire in the East, nothing more likely to keep those countries in peace, than the prevalence of that .notion in the minds of the native population. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the very singular warfare in which we had been engaged in China, it was most for tunate that the contest in which we had there been engaged, had been brought to a conclusion, by the united efforts of the army and the navy— (Cheers) —which had acted during the whole pro gress of the expedition with a concord highly credit able to both services —(Cheers)—and which had given to himself, in the situation which he had the honour to hold, the greatest pride and satisfaction in reading the account of the manner in which the Gallant Ad miral, commanding the naval force, had disembarked his men, and acted with the military branch of the expedition as one united body.—(Cheers.) We had not, .however, owed these successes alone to the army, properly so called, of her Majesty. Let it, not be for gotten that, in one of our important victories in India, the greater proportion of our troops were those in the serve„ of the East India"Company=(Cheers)— and who had vied with their European comrades in shed ding their blood for the British cause.—(Cheers.) Let it not be forgotten that in China also there were engaged many volunteers from India, and Sepoys from the Madras territory—(Hear, hear)—and that of the twelve steamers employed no fewer than ten were the property of the East India Company.— (Cheers.) Although, Gentlemen (concluded the No ble Earl), the forces of the East India Company are not usually united with our own services in this toast, I trust, that, in drinking to the health and success of the " Army and Navy of Great Britain," you will not forget the duty of paying, at the same time, the debt of gratitude you owe to the Company's forces. The toast was drunk with signal enthusiasm, and followed by " Rule Britannia," which, together with several other vocal pieces in the course of the evening, was excellently given by Messrs. Broadhurst, Young, Fitzwilliam, and Bradbury, accompanied by an effi cient band. The Scottish character of the festival was also kept up by some lively interludes played by Lord Haddington's piper on the national instrument SOUTH OF DEVON. TO BE LET, for a term of years, an elegant MANSION, in the Elizabethan style, replete with every convenience, and suitable for the residence of a Noble man or family of distinction; situate about eleven miles from Exeter and Tortitiay,' seven miles from Teignmouth and Ilawlish, and one mile from the market and post town of Chudleigh. The tenant may be accommodated with any quantity of land not exceeding 170 acres. For further particulars apply to Mr. Richard Comins, soli citor, 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, whero a drawing of the mansion, lawn, &c., may be seen. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW, 1842 . BENJAMIN ED GIN GTON, 2, DUKE STREET, LONDON-BRIDGE, SOUTHWARK, having received instructions to cover in the area for the Cattle Show, respectfully informs the Public that the CANVASS will be of a superior description, and it is intended to SELL the WHOLE as SECOND-HAND, immediately after the Exhi bition. It is suitable for Rick Cloths, Waggon Cloths, and all purposes where resistance to wet is required. Address in full, Benjamin Edgington, 2, Duke-street, Southwark. B. E. will have a Stand, as usual, in the Cattle-yard, where orders will be received. A Warehouse, 208, Piccadilly. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPAN Y. The Second Annual General., Meeting of the Di rectors and Proprietors in this Company was held yesterday at their offices, 51, St. Mary Axe, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, and agreeing to a dividend on the shares in the Company. Sir JOHN CAMPBELL took the Chair, and the Se cretary, Mr. James Allan, having read the adver tisement, The CHAIRMAN rose to submit the Directors' Re port to the meeting. The Report stated that the ba lance of profits on the 30th Sept., 1841, amounted to 58,6821. 13s. 7d., out of which had been provided the sum of 12,3331. 6s. Bd., as premiums for insuring the ships of the Company for the year ending on that date. The dividend of 3, per cent. declared last May amounted to 11,8091. 3s. 6d., had also to be deducted from the profits alluded to, and the surplus of profit left available on the 30th September, 1842, therefore amounted to 34,5391. 13s. sd. There was a gradual increase in the gross receipts this year over that of last, which the Directors were not prepared to expect, from the depressed state of commerce dur ing the last 12 months. It would be recollected that in May, 1842, it was resolved that 150,0001. should be insured on the floating property for the third year of the Company's operations, commencing October, 1842. The Directors, however, availing them selves of the discretionary power vested in their hands at the last general meeting, had thought it prudent to increase the amount to be insured to 230,0001. They had adopted this precaution under the impression that it would be satisfactory to the Proprietors to know that their property was thus pro tected. It was nevertheless the desire of the Direc tors still to proceed with caution, under the assurance (which the experience of the past justified them in entertaining) that by annual appropriation out of the profits a surplus would accumulate available for an insurance fund, to which premiums of insurance now annually paid away to other parties, might hereafter be added by the Company and invested in available securities, so as annually to increase the fund in ques tion.—(Hear.) The Company's new iron steam-ship the Pacha, was now ready for sea, and promised to be fully adequate to the wants of the trade. During the past year the Company had frequently been under the necessity of chartering ships, but now they were wholly independent of such expensive aid, and the re gularity of the mail service had been frequently no ticed by Government in a gratifying manner.— (Hear, hear.) When the Directors met at their last half yearly meeting their attention was drawn to- the sub ject of the claim on the Government, which the Di rectors intended to follow up, in consequence of their being still required to send the Company's vessels to Falmouth for the outward mails for India, which it was contemplated would only continue for a short time after the contract was entered into originally. The Directors had succee d e d in estab lishing their claim, and the Government had agreed to pay an additional sum of 2,0001. per annum, so long as this additional service was required to be per formed by the Company. The Government had re leased the Company, on liberal terms, from keeping up a semi-monthly communication between Malta and the lonian Isles. The Report then went on to state, that the new ship Hindostan had arrived safe in Cal cutta, and the passengers. appeared to approve highly of her accommodation. The passage money received was 6,2501. It would be satisfactory to the propri etors to know that the instalments which had not yet been called for, were fully sufficient to meet all the existing engagements of the Company, including the contracts for the completion of the vessels ; out of the instalments called up amounting to 128,2381., only 4901. remained unpaid. It was scarcely necessary to state to the Proprietors that the entire property of the Company was wholly unencumbered. The inter course of passengers to and from India, during the year ending Sept. 30, 1842 , had increased conside rably. In the first year the number, via Egypt, did not exceed 573; now there were 800.—(Hear, hear.) In order to facilitate the transit through Egypt, which embraced a distance of 250 miles, the Di rectors had placed two efficient steam-packets on the Nile, with two iron luggage-boats. The Di rectors, however, were still unable to say that the con veyance across the Desert from Cairo to Suez (a dis tance of 84 miles), was made as convenient to pas sengers as it ought ere this to have been. This was owing to the parties who Lad hitherto been connected with that branch of conveyance neglecting to place this part of the transit On, an equally improved foot ing. Every facility had been promised and given to the Company by his Highness the Pacha. His High ness had granted the Company firmans for navigating both the Nile and the Canal by steam, had established telegraphs across the Desert, and was now taking measures to erect a coal depot at Alexandria, and a large hotel at Suer, at the expense of the gyptian Government, the former for the Company's use, and the latter for the accommodation of the passengers. The Company had sent out Captain J. R. Engledue to Calcutta, to represent the Company there, and the East India Company had consented to afford them whatever facilities their establishment at Calcutta ad vice, in effecting the repairs p f t h is mitted of, without impeding their own public ser -ompany's ves sels. The Report, after recommending a P , dividend of 3} per cent. for the half-year, concluded in these roprietors on the the Directors w ca o ri r n ils ot :—‘ prospect of increased prosperity to the undertaking , I forbear n concluding t u t l h a i t s e I t t h e e p o p r t which the recent brilliant successes of the British arms in the East have opened up. The settlement of affairs in the north of India, the establishment of peace, and the extension of our commercial relations with China, are events which must obviously lead to an increased intercourse with these countries, and a consequent enlargement of the resources of the great enterprise in which we are embarked," The CHAIRMAN having made a few general obser vations on the Report, it was adopted, and ordered to be circulated amongst the Proprietors. A statement of the accounts was submitted, from which it appeared that the balance remaining in favour of the Company was 34,539/. 13s. sd, which would be appropriated to the payment of the dividend. A PROPRIETOR then proposed that the sum of 1,0001. should be divided amongst the unpaid Direc tors, as a recompense for their exertions in behalf of the Company. Sir JOHN PIRIE thought it would be better to leave the consideration of this question until another year, as the present unpaid Directors were self-elected. At the end of the next year the Proprietors would have an opportunity of electing fresh Directors, and then it would, perhaps, be better able to consider this question. The CHAIRMAN concurred with Sir J. Pine, and the motion was withdrawn. Mr. POTTS said he wished to call the attention of the Chairman and Directors to an article which had appeared in the Railway Magazine. In it there were certain charges brought against the Directors, and he wished to know if they had been noticed by the Board. The first charge w as, that the Directors .had sold, or rather forced sales, of a very great portion, if not of all, of their shares in this Company, to certain parties, over whom they had influence, having made The CHAIRMAN said that all the ships -were not built in Liverpool; nor were they all fitted out there. The Lady Mary Wood was fitted at Liverpool, but she was fitted out by Mr. Simpson, of Charing-cross, who was sent down to do so. The same vessel re cently met with an accident in coming from the Peninsula to this country, and she was placed on the slips at Cowes. — , The vessels Bentinck and llindostan were built at Liverpool, because the Liverpool tenders were more advantageous to the Company than the London tenders. Mr. POTTS said the Magazine went on to ask how it was the Company had no vessel in the Mediterra nean, to carry on the mails from Malta to the lonian Islands, and how did the Company manage with the Government about it? Why had the Braga= been laid up for nearly three months to have new boilers, and to the present time nothing had been done to her ? Why had the Pacha, a new iron steamer, an other of the Company's vessels, lain so long idle at Greenock, and the repairs of the Lady Mary Wood been only just begun ? Was it possible that a Com pany dividing 7 per cent. was short of the needful, or was the whisper true, that there were certain shares to some considerable extent paid for,. not in bankers' pro missory-notes but in private promissory-notes, which now lay in the banker's box, and had never been taken upi? d e toas t A I uon T oulbodfnor dh s eiti aai her Majesty's Islands were ei advisablea)a, eeajffil requiredreel t edacs ttn t sAbl h nnele s e oaat tGet, Malta teonooemtgviani have lrratdni. u tvi hmbepe n eeai Government, dynsl hte t pif i sr o optoi inornl boilersl, a,pv,g tcp b h e usigd - 1 ITt t awvo w s s T t e tputtehhh e h i eßiet e oni rsn: theconsidered gigscnsaoh l ee l tnnti i rl o lzs ß ea n N ea( v m min i , t he s would not leave Greenock where she was built, until next spring, and with respect to the Lady Mary Wood she had been repaired, and was now actually running on the line. With respect to the shares of the Company having been purchased by promissory notes, he could tell them that every share that had been sold had been paid for in hard cash. He (the Chairman) congratulated the meeting and his col leagues on this subject having been brought forward, as it had not been their intention to involve them selves in a newspaper controversy. It had not been their object to conceal anything from the Proprietary, and he trusted that these reports had originated rather in ignorance than malevolence to the Company. A PROPRIETOR wished to know how it was that the shares were at a discount, when the Company was paying 7 per cent. The CHAIRMAN said the reason he supposed was the depression in all steam property, and unfounded reports which had got abroad that the Company - was embarrassed, and had been obliged to borrow 8,0001. A DIRECTOR said there were two classes of shares, those paid up in full, and those on which only four instalments had been paid. The shares paid up in full were selling last week at a premium, and it was the other sort of shares that sold at a discount. Mr. POTTS then proposed a vote of confidence in the Directors, which was seconded, and carried una nimously. A vote of thanks was then carried to the Chairman, who briefly acknowledged the compliment, and the meeting separated. his courage to the sticking-place, and, returning home, stormed all the enemy's positions, and made his house once more his own; and a most formidable undertak- ing . it was, as all those must admit who saw the Mrs. Major Browne of Mrs. W. Clifford—she looked every inch " a woman of war," and one by no means indis posed to maintain her sex's charter by an appeal to physical force, if necessary. Miss Bitterton lost none of her pungency in the hands of Mrs. Glover ; with what gusto did she recommend, as the best mode of managing the male wretches, to constantly " worry, worry, worry !" Oh ! what a proficient would she have been in the art if Providence, out of compas sion to men, had not doomed her to irrevocable old-maid ism. Buckstone, as the love-sick swain, was very good in the earlier scenes his despair and his misery were richly humorous. In his drunken scenes; however, he was somewhat too• extravagant—his was not the intoxi cation of a gentleman—it was the drunkenness of gin and bitters, not the effervescing inebriety of the gene rous juice of the grape. The piece was announced for repetition by Ferren amidst the unanimous ap plause of an exceedingly well filled house. of Scotland. The Noble CHAIRMAN next proposed the toast of " Prosperity to the Scottish Hospital," and, in the course of a short speech in support of its object, stated that it appeared, from the Report which had been that morning read, at the Annual General Court of the Governors, that the number of poor persons relieved during the past year had been, on an average, 259 in each month, of which 82, together with their wives and families; had been provided with a free passage to Scotland. The aggregate for the year was 3,115, besides 80 aged and infirm objects, to each of whom a pension of 101. a year was granted. In those ob jects the sum of 2,2881. 3s. 6d. had been expended in the past year, which, with other expenses, to the amount of 4421. 4s. 10d., made a total expenditure for the year of 2,7321. Bs. 4d. The property of the Hos pital consisted of 35,7701. 16s. ld. in the Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities, 5,1001. Old South Sea ditto, aud also 3,1821. 9s. 2d. invested in the Three and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities, of which the interest was devoted to the schools attached to the churches of the Scottish Establishment in London, or under the ministers thereof.—(Hear.) After this toast had been drunk, and " The health of the Duke •of Sutherland" had been also given from the Chair, _ _ The Hon. W. FRASER rose and proposed the healti of a Nobleman who tied long been one of the Vice. Presidents of the Society, and who, in the midst of other duties of an important and official nature, had ever shown himself ready to do whatever he could for the benefit for the Corporation, to the funds of which he had been a most liberal subscriber. He need not add that he referred to the Noble Earl who had done them the honour to preside on that occasion, and to whom their best thanks were due for his kindness in having found time, amidst other duties, to do so. " The health of the Earl of Haddington" having been drunk with appropriate honours, The NOBLE EARL, in acknowledging the toast, ex pressed a hope that every St. Andrew's Day would be as well attended as the present ; and concluded by proposing " The health of the Duchess of Sutherland, and the Ladies Patronesses," which, with the toast of " The Duke of Buccleugh," was drunk with much applause ; as was also that of " Vice-Presidents of the Society." The Noble CHAIRMAN then rose, and said that he was anxious to propose to the Company the health of a gentleman who had long filled, to the advantage of their valuable Society, the useful office of its treasurer. —(Cheers.) It was the business of treasurers in ge neral to give themselves no more trouble than they pleased, and to content themselves with the simple discharge of the duties of their office ; but such, how ever, was not the case with Mr. Fraser, whose addi tional services had been most valuable to the Associa tion, and for which he had no other motive than the exercise of his natural generosity and humanity.— (Hear.) He (the Chairman) well knew, that among the other modes by which he benefited their Society, there was one branch of his duties which gave him (Mr. Fraser) considerable trouble, and that was the exertions which he annually put forth in securing the patronage for the Caledonian ball, which had become a great favourite with the ladies, with whom also it might be some consolation to his Honourable Friend to know that he was equally a favourite himself.— (Cheers and laughter.) He would give them the health of the " lion. W. Fraser, of Saltoun." Mr. FRASER, in returning thanks, briefly expressed his acknowledgments of the honour conferred upon him, and the pleasure it had given him to do the humble duties he had performed since his connexion with the office he held in the Society. He would con clude by asking them to fill their glasses to the health of Lady Haddington, whose exertions in behalf of the Association demanded their gratitude. Lord HADDINGTON returned thanks. The NOBLE EARL then rose to propose the health of as brave a soldier as ever Scotland sent forth to fight the battles of his country. Lord Saltoun— (Cheers)—had served under his immortal captain, the Duke of Wellington, in the Peninsula, and finished his services under the same Illustrious Commander at Waterloo, where he gallantly sustained the difficult defence of Hougoumont.—(Cheers.) 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He will then be brought forward . again, and I trust triumphantly along with another Liberal, and an effort will, I trust, be made in the other wards in which Tory vacancies occur, to strengthen the Liberal majority. In Devonport the Tories have gained a temporary ascendancy by the interference, on the part of the dock-yard officers. I ' heard that clerks were stationed at the various polling places, to watch the votes of the dock-yard men, and that a book is kept in the yard, in which every elector is registered, and followed by three columns, in which the degree of their political warmth is distinguished by appropriate marks. I snap endeavour to procure evidence of these facts, :11,1 communicate it to some honest representative of the de. peop] CITY LICENSING DAY.—The following notice has been posted up on the doors of the respective churches in the City :—" A Special Session for the purpose of granting licences to persons being about to keep inns, ale-houses, and victualling-houses in the city of Lon don, to sell excisable liquors by retail, to be drunk or consumed on the premises therein specified, is appoint ed to be holden at the Guildhall of the said city on Saturday, the 3d of Dec. next, at the hour of nine o'clock in the morning." A FLYING MACHINE.--A man in New Orleans is constructing an extraordinary machine by which he intends to navigate the air. He is a skilful and intel ligent mechanician, and is sanguine of success. ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY. On Tuesday evening there was an exceedingly crowded company assembled in the charming Pro menades Musicales at this •elegant and favourite Saloon, in which the highest science is ren dered popular—and the most popular amusement is enriched and refined, by that happy combination of scientific lore, sound practical judgment, and the means to boot, on the part of the present. manage ment, for the want of which other similar enterprises have failed to maintain the favour which the public seemed ever ready to continue. The orchestra, under the direction of Mr. Julian Adams, is most effective ; and in the vocal department the efforts of Mrs. Wil son, Miss Thornton, Mr. F. Martin, and Mr. R. F. Smith, were rewarded with repeated and well ' merited applause. Amongst the most prominent novelties of the season just commenced is a little 'Thespian prodigy, somewhat of the Fisher, Betty, and Burke school (but in this respect more wonderful than any of her predecessor phenomena, that she has made her debut before the age of five years)—it is needless to say we mean the Infant Thalia. She with ve ry great cleverness, represented the Bavarian Broom-Girl and the Highland Laddy, introducing in each representation the characteristic dances. She was encored, and was vehemently applauded through out her performance. The popular lectures on science were also very well attended to, and gave, as usual, unqualified satisfaction. There were nearly 1,5b0 persons present. TIIE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE. -- At the last meet ing of the Gresham Committee, which was held on Fri day, the 25th 'inst., designs were laid before them by several sculptors, for ornamenting the pediment of the portico of the national edifice with sculpture. The sum voted for this purpose by the Committee is no less than three thousand guineas. After a most careful examination of the designs, the artists were respectively admitted to a personal interview with the Committee, to explain their own intentions and views in the composition. On a ballot being taken, the de sign proposed by Mr. Richard Westmacott, A.R.A., was chosen, and he was appointed to carry the work into effect. Notices have also been given by the City authorities for pulling down the mass of buildings in front of the Bank (known as Bank-buildings) in the course of the spring,. and that space, when cleared, is to be the site for the statue of the Duke of Welling . ton, immediately in front of the great portico of the Exchange. The progress made in the building itself isimost astonishingly great, reflecting the highest credit upon Mr. Tite, the architect, and the contractor. In the course of next year the work will be in great for wardness, and it will certainly be finished in the sum mer of the following year. The sculpture of the pedi ment, Mr. Westmacott undertakes to complete by the Ist of May, 1844. So far as the building goes, it gives great satisfaction ; and the edifice promises to be wor• thy of its situation, and the purposes to which it is to be applied. THE LATE DUKE or ORLEANS. —The following description of a smoking divan, formed by the lamented Duke of Orleans, in his apartments of the Pavillon Marsan, at the Tuileries, is given by the Constitutionnel:—" This sanctuary was arranged in j all the style of Oriental luxury. Here the Prince, dressed in an Asiatic robe de chambre, pantaloons, and babouches, held his smoking parties. The saloon con tained a rich collection of pipes of all countries— hookahs from the East Indies ; Egyptian and Arabian chibouques ; Turk ish meerschaums ; and Persian kalyhous, a ll e nriched with precious stones a n d ri n gs of damask' work, and having mouth-pieces of the rarest amber. But though surrounded. With all this splendid apparatus, the Prince and his friends con tented themselves with cigars. These cigars, how ever, were made of the choicest tobacco from Latakia, Beyrout, and Salonica, or of the celebrated herb of IShiraz, which the Shah of Persia reserves for his own use, and which never finds its way into Europe, ex cept as presents." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUA'. SlR,—Although I am anxious to disabuse the public mind-of an impression studiously and dexter ously circulated, both in this kingdom as well as in foreign parts, that the practice of the non-restraint system, and occupation of the Insane .Patients at Hanwell, are exclusively confined to that establish ment, still I have no desire to puff myself into notice, neither am I disposed to detract from the high merit which is due to Pr. Conolly, for his humane and judicious treatment of the insane ; but so much having been said on the system there pursued, I consider it due to my own reputation, due also, I have no doubt, to many other well-conducted establishments, to state, most distinctly, that the non-restraint system has been carried out, for more than thirty years, at the Laverstock Asylum, under my direction, and with the same salutary and practical results as at Hanwell, never more than from one to three patients per cent. having been under restraint at any period, and more generally not one. A reference to the Visitors' Books —to Dr. Thomas's celebrated work on the " Practice of Physic," published nearly twenty years ago, who states (from his personal observation) the almost total absence of personal restraint of the patients, and/the varied amusements and occupations provided for them and also to the following evidence recorded before the H Se o pl e m oi ber e° l ln Bl mii s,7 the year 1815, will establish this fact : Co: O in n itt t e h e e of 2 5 th the of i ca as ll ' e f d iir upo bac n k:s r. Finch, at Laverstock, near Salisbury ; this tl gen eman conducts his house in an admirable manner. He has l 20 h n ts t h ; e a w n , h d h l ee of b - begged me tghemd without t to ho u t a t ke time hisbein t con versego pre sent, to ascertain how they were fed and treated. " He had not a single patient in a strait-waistcoat or under any personal restraint. Every possible kind of amusement was provided for them ; billiards, back gammon, chess, cards, books, drawing, &c., in - doors bowls, cricket, horses, carriage, and varied exercises and occupations out of doors. In Rids Establishmen I saw all that Take had written realised, and no words in which I can deseribe it can characterise it in too high terms." I am, Sir, your obliged servant, W. FINCH. F.L.S., Laverstock House Asylum, Nov. 5, 1842. WANTON CRUELTY. -- A canary bird belonging to George M'Lachlan, Borland-park, near Auchterarder, was taken by his son to the bothie of a farm where the young man was servant to a farmer in the neigh bourhood. One Sunday, last summer, a person, whose feelings we do not envy, got access to it, and actually put out the eyes of the little songster. In this dark state it was restored to its owner, who, by careful at tention, taught it to find its way to the seed-box and the water-glass. In time it became reconciled to its fate, and now it makes the cottage ring with its melo dious notes. As it cannot distinguish night from day, it continues to pour its sweet warblings till all the inmates of the house are fast asleep, when it partakes a little of the general repose, but renews its song with the first breaking of the universal silence.—Caledonian Mercury. His Imperial Highness the Archduke Frederick of Austria, accompanied by Captain Fitzroy, R.N., and suite, visited, on Monday last, the establishment of Messrs. Clowes and Sons, Stamford-street, Blackfriars. His Royal Highness and suite took a lively interest in the operations of the different branches carried on, and expressed great gratification. 4 -,: , ....•3 MONEY MARKET and CIT Y*EWS. *----- • " --'* .. , - '4"l PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THI •. T. 'i; 4,4 4.3 -1 -- CITY, WEDNESDAY NINA. A. POsT.—, new paper, called the Dat ' .tienits-' _ ''' 'V+fii„ o f isk Bulletin, published at Boston, gives ageor . , 'i s-- ± - _ — ___a- 4 7 the state and prospects of trade in the UnitkillWr& ~ / It observes, under date of the 15th instant, tharmlifiFF g.iitap continues easy along • the Atlantic seaboard of the Union, and that the exchanges on England and the Continent of Europe are decidedly favourable to the country. The Bulletin proceeds to say that specie still moves in large masses towards New Orleans, con siderable amounts having already arrived there, by which the banks had been materially aided and trade facilitated. At that place of embarkation the crops • were fast coming forward. It was considered that the new tariff would greatly benefit the sugar planters, whose produce was exuberant and m:lst prove remunerating; a circumstance that would cora tribute to the ability of the New Orleans banks to re-- sume specie payments. The ratification of the treaty with England, ac cording to the Bulletin, gives general satisfaction, and will have a favourable influence on commerce. The disposition of America is, it is declared, decidedly pacific, while the country is slowly recovering from the fever of over-banking and over-speculation in 1836-7, from the consequences of the annihilation of American credit in England, and the great fire of New York. Of the advantages of the Ashburton treaty to Great Britain, the journalist speaks as follows : " The most intelligent men thiiik that England has seized the happiest moment for her to effect the treaty, and secure a great many of the advantages,. All that she required was a•highway: to the Canadas,, and to throw back the American line frOm Quebec ; but in addition to this, England has secured to a Bri tish seaport and to British bottoms, the carriage of the trade of the great valley of the St. John, now rapidly settling—a district nearly equal in size to the three • States of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Mas sachusetts united. Could the United States have se cured the narrow strip between Eel . River and the Great Falli, and made the river the boundary dam to Woodstock, . a short railway or canal, cutting off the bend of the St. John's, might, at the proper time, have made Calais and Maine the future outlet 'of the traffic of this region." TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 10 per milk, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per' ounde - fer - "standald - gold, gives an - exchange of 25 .101, and the exchange at Paris on London at short. being 25 65, it . follows that gold is 0.98 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4301 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/.175. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 74, and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 91, it follows that gold is 0.91 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg h. The course of exchange at New York on London is 106 per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng land and America beinglo9 23-40ths per cent., it follows. that the exchange is 3.57 per cent. against England. But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from the above difference. SUN.—Business quiet this afternoon in the Eng lish Stock Market, which closes, however, a shade firmer than yesterday. Consols for Money were 941 to 943 ; and for Account, 943 to 95.; Exchequer Bills were worth 50s. to 51s. premium, and India Bonds 48s. to .50s. premium. Bank Stock was steady at 171 to 172 ; and India Stock at 264 to 266. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. realised 1013 to 1 ; and the Three per Cents. 931 to 94. The Speculative Bonds since the business this morn ing of the half-monthly foreign settlement have been rather better. It is stated that Messrs. Lizardi posi tively disclaim having issued an excess of Deferred Stock. Spanish Actives left off at 171 to 3; and the. Three per Cents. at 221 to 4 being depressed on account of the news from Catalonia. Portuguese Converted Stock brought 32+ ; and Dutch Two -and•a-Half per Cents. were at 523 to 521. Less activity prevailed in Shares to-day. The sales this afternoon were Eastern Counties at 133 ; Brighton, 15 : Northern and Eastern, 81; and South Eastern, 263 discount. Great Western were 21 ; the New, 13 ; the Birmingham, Quarter, 24k, and Paris and Rouen, 5i prem. _ The American news is, on the whole satisfactory, though trade was not brisk. THE BRUSSELS TRAGEDY.--A gentleman named Jules Milow de Lavilette, who was present at the scene which ended in the death of M. Sirey, writes as follows to the Independent of Brussels, of Thursday. The letter is dated Brussels, 23d November :—" The incorrect accounts which are published by the jour nals relative to the murder of M. Sirey make it a duty on me to address you. On Saturday the 19th instant, the day of M. Laborde's concert, M. Sirey and myself were invited by Mademoiselle Heinefetter to a supper which she gave to a few friends. M. Cau martin was already in the salon of this lady when I entered, and it was M. Sirey who told me that it was M. Caumartin. A quarter of an hour afterwards we sat doWn to table. M. Caumartin, who was fre quently invited to sup, refused on the pretext offatigue. At midnight three persons withdrew ; the ladies left the saloon, and M. Sirey, M. Caumartin, and my self alone remained. M. Sirey then came up to me, and said, "Il faut en finir." I could not succeed in persuading them to let the explanation, which I dreaded, take place elsewhere. Some violent words ensued, and M. Sirey received a blow. He then threw himself upon M. Caumartin, and I separated them. At this moment Mademoiselle Heinefetter suddenly opened the door of the salon, and fell in a fainting fit. I took her in my arms and carried her to bed. I returned, and used vain efforts to prevent a new collision. I now heard M. Sirey threaten M. Caumartin to throw him out of the window if he did not withdraw. At the same instant M. Sirey cried out, My friend, he has stabbed me.' The thrust was so prompt, that neither he nor I saw it made. I was looking for the fatal weapon, when M. Sirey, point ing to the poinard which M. Caumartin had just drawn from his breast, said, See, there it is: These were his last words. A few seconds afterwards I held in my arms a corpse. This, Sir, is the exact truth. M. Sirey was not a colossus, as some of the journals have said. He was a man of five feet one inch and a half (about five feet six inches English). His death will cause sincere regret to those who were able to appreciate his noble and generous character." THE him AND CHINA MAILS.—In consequence of the glorious news from China, by the conclusion of peace with his Celestial Majesty, and a treaty of com merce with Great Britain, the most beneficial results are anticipated by the merchants in the City, Bristol, Liver pool, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, and other manufacturing towns. It is confidently stated that arrangements are abOut being made by . Government to ensure the earliest conveyance of letters to Hong-Kong, Canton, Nankin, and the different ports of China, through India, by the monthly overland mail via Marseilles and Egypt, and by the way of Falmouth. It is in contem plation to have a regular communication between Cal butta, Madras, and China, by steam-packets, which will be a groftt,desidcratum as hitherto the transmission of intelligence :to and from China and this country has been chiefly confined to merchant ships by way of the Cape of Good Hope. The postage on letters to India via Falmouth, is now a uniform rate of is. ; by the monthly closed mail, via Marseilles, 2s. Bd, ; and if ad dressed by French packets leaving that port on the Ist, 11th, and 21st of the month for Alexandria, 3s. Bd. per single letter. The new,Post-office arrange ments between England and France, for a reduction in the postage of letters going to and through that coun tr y from the United Kingdom, and vice versa, whic h ha s just been concluded by the Right H on. Lord Lowther, the Postmaster-General, and the French Government, will be highly beneficial to the mercantile interests of both countries. The next mail to M alta, Egypt, and India will be made up this day at the General Post office, and be forwarded by the Great Liverpool steamer via Falmouth, and the overland mail via mu st beMa rseilles on Monday r.ext, December 5. All letters pre paid, also newspapers , the p osta g e on whic h i s 2d. THE RELIANCE. -IVe re g ret to say some of the bodies were placed, naked, in holes, not two feet deep, in the churchyards. this liould_not have been, and. we trust will never occur again. They were, however, dug up, and rec eived Christian burial, follow e d to t h e grave by those of their comrades who had been more-for tunate than themselves. The hull of the vessel was sold for 1801., and the tea, upon an average, at 35f. the box. The following bodies have been picked up on the coast d ur ino , the past week :---Mr. Leg ge an d F . A . Bl a k e , Capt. Tucker's servant, and two seamen. Dews has ar• rived this morning of another body being cast on shore, and from the description of the clothes it would seem to be that of Capt. Tucker.—Boulogne Gazette of Monday. We have to announce the death of Lady Patteson, the wife of that most excell en t, h umane , an d l e arned Judge, Mr. Justice Patteson. Although his Lordship has, for several years, laboured under the harassing and increasing impediment of deafness (now permanent) in the discharge of his important duties, often requiring at nisi prius the utmost acuteness in hearing, yet , he has hitherto been esteemed one of the best practical Judges in Westminster-hall. He was promoted in 1830 ; and, having served his country for twelve years, we are sure that the public could not grudge his full pension, if this family affliction, which he feels most sensitively, be taken as the proper time for his retirement from the Bench. ANOTHER CASE.—MI'. Benjamin Wilson, an inde pendent, worthy farmer, living in the easterly part of this town, has been made insane by the fanatical Millerites. There are others, we learn, in that region who are but little better off than Mr. Wilson. The howlings of these deluded people, in a still evening, can be heard for miles.—Fall people, Argus. COV.ENT-GARDEN.—MISS Kemble resumed her per formances at this theatre on Tuesday, in the part of Be:d -ram:We, and was most cordially received. At the end of the opera, Miss Kemble, Mrs. A. Shaw, and Mr. Giubilei were called for. The house was well attended. BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—We understand that ordes were received from Weimer Castle on Monday, to have all ready for her Majesty's reception on Saturday next ; the intended departure of her Majesty, from the Kentis h coast, on Tuesday, having been postponed until that chi: I. / , za4 1