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1 Wed.. i deck being day. St a to 3 4 24 0 -36 0 - 31 - 25 - 33 - 33 0 - 30 0 - 60 0 - 56 0 - 57 0 - 34 0 - 35 0 - 24 0 - 23 6 - 24 0 - 23 0 - 21 0 - 29 6 Le wee k vas ex• n soma US cur as pre ilowing ess has prices ivals at .ceding From barrels mode- eat and nnight, .ats no d fully f grain I small II &OM all do which ►rn was ~ new, It 6'l to k 6d to to 115; n corn 0 52s ; ;0 345; ,0 8s 9d wls, per 3s 6d; n town 0 same Ad, 44* ) ditto, 140Ibs, Pt., 11a re had beaste. prices. per do, inking ing to prices per do, 1 about vale of that of eceipts 'els, at t 75 to s 9d to cling in vanced Act is 5 pass- CS are tity, 13 ►mples, barley meet a ales of barrel, value. emand spot white nehes 3ngth lobo- OFFICE OF THE GAS LIGH I' AND COKE COMPANY, 19, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London, October 21, 1E49. lir DO hereby give notice, th a t pursuan t t o t h e Bt h A.. By-Lam of this Company, FRANCIS WITHAM, Esq , ALEX. LUARD WOLLASTON , E sq., the and present JOHN WILLIAM SLOPER, Esq., Auditors, have severally given me notice, in writing, of their intention to stand for the Office of Auditor, at the Election which will take place at itsdley's Hotel, 10, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, in the city of London, On FaIDAY, the 2d day of November next. By order, C. BURLS, Secretary, BOULOGNE from LONDON DIRECT, every Tuesday and Thursday.—Great Saving to Travellers. Fares by Railway and Vessel, via Folkestone £1 8 0 Fares from London to Boulogne direct...... 0 12 0 Sating to each First-Class Passenger.... 0 16 -0 By Railway and Vessel, via Folkestone •• .. 1 0 0 Fare from London direct ........., •• .• .... 0 8 0 Saving to each Second-Class Passenger.. 0 12 0 The COMMERCIAL COMPANY'S superior Steam-ships CITY of BOULOGNE and EMERALD, will leave LONDON-BRIDGE WiIA2F as under : Tuesday, October 23, at 2, Morning. Thursday, October 25, at 5, Morning. Tuesday, October 30, at 9, Morning. And every succeedin Tuesday and Thursda. For particulars of freight, appl g y to Mr. James Whisson y , 5, Arthur- Street East ;or at the Company's Offices, 4, Arthur -street East ; and Chaplin's 'Universal Office, Regent-circus. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. TENDERS FOR STORES. Tie Directors of the London and N orth-Western Railway Company are prepared to receive Tenders for Stores for their several depart nlents, viz.:— Locomotive Stores—Anvils and vices, axles, brass and copper and Fas Work ; baskets and ba g s f o r c o k e ; b a l ances (spring), brass tubess for locomotives ; crucibles, files, irc,n, steel, Ironwork, oil, t4 _ llo T er, and waste; sundries, lead, timber, tin. uarriage Stores—Colours, oils, varnishes,brushs and pencils ; ' , rasa and brasswork ; carpeting, cloth, canvas, silk, e &c. ; castings (various) carriage fittings, iron and ironwork, steel springs, l amps ltnd lamp fittings, leather, sundries, timber. ct e. Wa ggon Stores—Axles, brake blocks, castings (va r i ous ) , co l ours, , files, iron and ironwork, oils, steel, springs, timber, wheels. General Stores—Chandlery and small stores, carpenters' and Joiners' work, hardware, oil, grease, and cotton waste, canvas and tarpaulins leather, coal. SPeciications, showing the quantities and descriptions of articles areqrtTelliered, also forms of tender and printed conditions, may be had on aPPlication to the Secretary, on and after the 20th instant. time for sending in tenders is extended to November sth, n which day none can be received. to sample or pattern oi ma t : e n :P e l :::•nd patterns of articles purchased .3" be seen at the Company's Works at Euston, Camden, Wolver- Longsight, and Ordsal-lane (near Manchester) Stations, the 24th and 25th instant, from Eleven to Four o'Clock. BY order of the Directors, Euston Station, Lond on , Oct.II A B R , ICIB4I9I.MSU' General Manrger. LONDON and NORTH - WESTERN RAILWAY. BEN REFR ESHMENT ROOM AT BLLTCHLEY JUNCTION. ,„,,FHrectors having in contemplation to erect a REFRESH ROOM at the above point on the line, are desirous of aving Tenders for the tenancy of the same, for a term of Three, V ey or Seven Y earls of ears. the proposed buildings may be seen at the Office of th e ti;_eer, E aston -station, from the 23d to the 30th instant, between l. hours o f Ten and Four. morning rs, addre sse d to the Secretary, will lie received up to the of the Bth of November. tr iton Station, October 17, 1849. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY. LOANS ON DEBENTURES. Th e Directors of this Company are prepared to receive (under the rowe rs of their Act of Parliament) Tenders for Loans of Money on urity of Debentures, bearing interest at the rate of Five per Cent. P r loAnnum the Interest payabl e half-yearly, viz., 10th January and ire th J u l y. nders, stating amount and term o f y ears for which it is pro ‘olidon, aed to be Lent, to be addr esse d t o the Secretary, Euston Station, By order, E uston Station, October I,ANDR 1849. EW G. GIFFORD, Secretary. ID L AND RAILWAY. LOANS ON DEBENTURES. The Midland Railway Company are prepared to receive Loans on Security of their Debentures for a period of three years, in Slims of 1,0001. each and upwards, at interest after the rate of sf. Per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly. „Application to be made to the Secretary, at the Compa n y' s Offi ce , Derby, By order, Derby, October 18, 1849. J. F. BELL, Secretary. THE SEA, FIRE, AND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCITY. I b eg to certify th a t th e insertionE of my name as one of the Medi a it w t ft icers of this Society, and of which a Mr. Augustus Collingridge is ton4gill soiri r s i c a d g , ea g Director, &c. and a Mr. Alfred Burt the Actuary,is wholly th e fid in c ontravention of my express order, addressed Oct 1 1, 1849, MATTHEW FRENCH WAGSTAFFE, Walcot-place West, Lambeth. TABLE D'IjOTE at ONE and FIVE o'clock, 1)_. co nsisting of Soup, Fish, Joints, Entrées, &c., at Is. 3d.c each. S . ;!;ners in the Coffee-room from ONE till SEVEN from the Joints Csti l ' u e .,''2 j . ith Sup or Fish, and Joit or Entrees, 2s. h otel, 48, St. Paul's n Churchyard, the corner of Cheapside. TIIIRTY-FIRST EDITION. ON 111"Listrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel. _ ' rac ed DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA ew 1, , , C1TY , AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. liN. """ntiois enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or -M1111;ect from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps, t. _ 1 4 SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on o t Oai'sr Thse in SILENT and decay of the generative system, from ax "4ll r ° e,tdullenee, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, rtlio, -- : 4 r, ks on Marriage, and the means of' obviating certain dis ; 1"ti b "... 0 211. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and ,; ° , l l-st,L'2 and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Ox ,ll, p..._ - , London Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, Istitri:..rnoster-row.• Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; 4411 .23 1 . 2 2 . ,Titchb0rne- . street, Haymarket ; and Gordon, 146, Leaden -1.44,....,. Orga z , 4 4 I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive •Pan r ala -, d is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. ttel l% ti. treats of the consequences resulting from cxcessiveindul ad h, 4 41 ,,d their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental 4 ,t l tt a t "., .cahness, nervous excitement, and generative neapacity. 4 '4 r -" oy Three Explanatory Engravings. Ik e ~tt 111 11 , • treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in ), L ti lel; - t7,..arY,_ or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for ' 4, tra aw l'aßt. This :oction ' is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured I P: 12 88 b l a ~i , „.. - V• contains a Prescription for the Prevention of Disease "a4te.-4t_le application, by which the danger of infection .8 ob 44e's '' Ll & InaPortant part of the Work should ne esoto}e the 4 P 4T i,l...Lice. ~, t i a. ,„,' • is devoted to the consideration of marrlage, and its -, 991,, i '1ze caeses of unproductive union are also considered, and 1 tz to..s e subject critically and philosophically inleired into. t,„ k R s , tiorg a bial. BALM or SYRIACUM Is exclusPnly employed in -eat 'Lilt `',Z and sexual debility impotence, .2co lie- and 335 . IT 4 4 ,.._ 444, fw...oi Concentrated Deters' re ??senee, an anti-syphilitic Ib:f 4,,„l,nirifying the blood 1- case:. °tulle:Aim, secondary symp ,;";'s p - ,._ 1 '" 02 1, and the abuisc of n^ curt', 11s : and 833. per bottle. ti-c:,.`kle soma, Specific P - 10, Sc, 9d., 4s. 6d., and Its. par box, a p..". Or ik - uedY for gonorrLosa - , gleet, strictitre, and chronic intiamma. O . n o i bladder. ,onsultation fee, if by letter, 1/. A minute , 1 lei.,l'eek the cas e is 'legal? , ed : age, habits, and position in society. ,1 1 ; 4 '01 t:" , wiA't advise, to be had at the Establishment only, by , ac, ~ 8 fee,11.,19 saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in atteu "'lA f;13 4 ,1 1 , at 19, derners-street, Oxford-street, London, from Eto ‘92 Itild IriVe to Eight ; on Sandays from Eleven to 92e. MARCH WOOD, NEAR SOUTHAMPTO. ORDNANCE PROPERTY TO BE LET, at Ma.rchwood, near Southampton, comprising Three large well ventilated Magazines, with porches, an examining -house, and a shi fting - houso, each builditr, enclosed within a high wail admirably well adapt e d and eligib y situated for granaries or for merchandis ; Vie stage or landing-place being so constructed that vessels of consi derable burden can at certain periods of tide load and unload goods with great faciaty. Canals (with suitable boats) connect the several magazines, thereby greatly facilitating the removal of goods. A commodious Dwelling-house, consisting of eight rooms, with out-houses and two gardens, all in excellent order. A smaller ll welling-house, containing five rooms and k tchen, with out-house and garden. A small Dwelling-house, formerly used as a Canteen. A Barrack, containing two quarters for officers. of three rooms each, and nine rooms for non-commissioned officers and privates, with outdiouses, &c. Ten Cottages of three rooms each, with a small garden to each cottage. The whole comprises an area of 20a. 2r. 37p., about five acres of which are pasture land. The Boa'rd will ii - „rati; a lease, the stamp duty and charge for copy ing and engrossing the same an I counterpart to b 3 defrayed by the tenatr, and which will contain all usu d and customary covenants, and a restriction against the tenant tang the magazines as salt provision stores, or for any other purpose that might render them unfit for the reception of gunpowder, in tne eve, of their Wit.; hereafter required for such purpose. The usual clause in Oi j dnan e leases will be in serted, giving the Bard the powe of resu Ling pose scion at any period, on giving six months' notice to the tenant. Tenders for renting the foregoing property for a term of Seven Years, to be addressed to the " Secretary of the Honourable Board of Ordnance,* on or before the 20th November, 1849. The property can be viewed any day except Sunday, between the hours cf Nine and Fo ir, on application at the Storekeeper's Office on the spot, where a plan of the premises can be seen, with a description of the buil iings. For further particulars apply also at the Ordnance Office, Pall mall, London, and the Gan-wharf, Portsmouth. ' By order of the Board, G. BUTLER, for the Secretary. Office of Ordnance, O c t o b er 3, 1849. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE. 19, 1849. The Principal Officers of her Majesty's Ordnan O ce ctober do hereby give notice that they are ready to dispose of, to such persons as may be Willing to tender for the same, a quantity of Old Iron Guns, Shot, and Shells, Cast-iron, &c., in Store, at the Royal Arsenal, at Wool- Wich, which have been divided into Lots, and may be viewed upon application to the Storekeeper, at that place, any day (Sundays ex cepted) previous to the day fixed for the delivery of the Tenders. A Catalogue of the several Lots may be obtained by persons wil ling to become purchasers, at the Storekeeper's Office, Woolwich ; the Principal Storekeeper's Office, at the Tower ; and at the Secre tary's Office, in Pall-Mall, where the Tenders for the whole, or any number of the said Lots are to be delivered, on or before MONDAY, the sth November next. Ey order of the Board. G. BUTLER, for Secretary. GATCO3IBE HOUSE. TO be LET, for a term of Seven, Fourteen, or Twenty-one Years, by TENDER, by order of the Principal Officers of her Majesty's Ordnance, All that desirab e MANSION, known as GATCOMBE HOUSE, with Ground attached, situated at llilsea, near Portsmouth (lately in the occupation of Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, Bart.), containing on the ground-floor—entrance-hall lofty dining and drawing-,uoins, each 24 by lg. feet, library, housekeeper's-room, kitchen, butler's pantry, scullery, and all other requisite offices. On the first floor— six commodious and airy bed-rooms and dressing-room. On the second floor--four good bed-rooms and a man servant's-room. Also, good wine and beer-cellars in the basement. A double coach-house, five-stall stable, and harness-roo m , with lofts over the same, an d , coachman's apartments detached. The Mansion, staading on a Lawn of upwards of an Acre, is situ. aced within three miles of Portsmouth, one mile of the Cosham Ter minus of the London and South-Western Railway, and eight railes of the Isle of Wight. The House is approached from the Turnpike road by a carriage drive through the park, with a Porter's Lodge at the entrance, and by a footpath through a sp:endld avenue of trees, 300 yards in length. There is an Orchard and two good Kitchen Gardens, well stocked with fruit trees, and Meadow attached, the whole comprising about 12.1., 2a., 25p, The whole of the premises are in a good state of repair, and fit for immediate occupation, and would form a desirable Residence for a family of the first respectability. The Tenders to state the Annual Rent in words at length, and to be delivered at the Ordnance-office, Pall-mall, London, on the 15th November next, addressed to the " Secretary to the Board of Ord nance." The Conditions for Letting the Premises may be seen, and the House and Grounds viewed on application to Mr. Ilarte, the Super intendent of Ordnance Property at Hilsea. By order of the Board, Office of Ordnance, 15th O c t ., 18G. BUTLER, for the Se cre t ar y. 49. THE Commissioners o f th e M etropolis Turnpike roads north of the Thames, will hold a Special Meeting at their Office, No. 22, Whi tehall-place, in the parish of Saint Martin in the-Fields, in the City of Westminster, on FRIDAY, the 16th day of No- Yember next, at the hour of One in the Afternoon, for the purpose of consulting whether any and which of the several Toll-gates and Side bars now placed on and by the side of the Ninth District of the said Metropolis Turnpike -roads north of the Thames, shall be removed and placed elsewhere or discontinued, and whether any other Toll gates and Side-bars snail be erected on or by the sides of the roads In the said district, and in what situations the same shall be placed. By order of the Commissioners, J. L. PANd ER, Chief Clerk and Secretary. Metropolis Roads Office, W..itehall-place, October 12, 1849. ~-. , • _ ~(, d F,7, •• r r - . • • ,:.:,••.• • a, , , r. •••• . , • ' ' '''' - _ , .,.1-:,,;,': , ; • ..A.,..• i 4 ft . %:. 1 141 , • ~,' Ft ! I ! , t ii .C . l, •,.., Z5^.... \lt - .7.J , . ,/.---, art • 1 ' d ' 4.4` 4., D' l' '' t g \ c t t v ;,,,,,.:,- , ,; , 4 +-," E 4 - ~, , ---v4 ~ .1„. . . r , t. 4,.,./ ~,, , , ,* , f oli + , 4 ? -- - \': --- ,:, ~.-.--:-.--) 7 . 7 . 7 '.. '\'''' ' 'l ': ''7-----..- ;:::st:-,- „ L"`',,,*'1:\k ‘ :'',..:.?'1 1 4 : -. 4 . ---,.,- -,., ; , , , !..,. !,....,„ ..,::_,„,..,,, i ._ .....„. I. ... , LIVE. , --• j / L -1.., : q:4, . c.,.......7.74. .... , ;,...... 1 " -;";tv'' ."":..-. , "--N, \.zfi ,-- :( i Z: -. .. - 3..‘,.. \ - , t., .-- .. ` , .....4‹ . .—__'. 5f .,,,,- ,i.'., le_ ._,...-- ( , ..T . - , ••.,;, 7 . 1.. The TO yal - : 1 '''..-'i. - -' 2 - (.7, '1, ,, , - ; :. ir '•;,?. , v•.„M r ,'W -. .4t;,Z ,,, y - e.i.? ' alAt„ - .__ ~ \..1,( 7 4:7 --- - - z7,„ ,`:., i 17 - • .[W' 4 l -- . 1" • ~• , _ - -.2 , ,= --,,'"; ii'4 ,- . ':' .s--- 3k . it-,4 1 !4.. " •- . _,', l y - 1 -- z ---- : - „t \ , c-- P: i':7N, hr ~-,---71 , c k -- 4 • L it ti , b, elia. 4 2 , - ep t , 14 , 1 2,_„ . - ____lL,Lifi ~ - v 4 , N . -.____. . [PRICE bp. WAN NEWS. _IIPOOL, SUNDAY, MIDNIGHT. marl steam ship America, Captain Harrison, nas just arrived with advices from I\ ew York to the 9th, Boston to the 10th, and Halifax to -the 12th inst. The royal mail steamer from Liverpool arrived at New York on the 4th, and Herrman from South ampton on the 6th inst. The Caledonia arrived at Halifax on the 11th, and proceeded to Boston. The condition of affairs, political and commercial, remains very much as last week. A frightful storm had raged in New York, doing much damage to the shipping. News from Campeacby to the 28th of September reports that Yucatan would be able to close the war between the races by the quiet submission of the Indians. Accounts from Boston state that the British brig St. John, Captain Oliver, from Galway, Ireland, an chored inside 11.1inot's Ridge about six o'clock, A.m., on Sunday, dragged her anchor, and struck on the Grampus Rocks about nine, AM. The captain, officers, and crew, with the exception of the first mate took to the boats, and landed safe at the Glades. The passengers who were saved got on pieces of the wreck, and landed near Whitehead, north end of Cohasset Harbour. The number of passengers on board was about 164, out of which about 145 are supposed to _have been lost. There were fourteen cabin passengers, mostly women and children. The steam-ship Falcon, arrived at New Orleans on the 6th of October, from Charges, in five days and fifteen hours, brings 70,000 dolls. in gold dust, a large mail, and fifty-nine passengers (our other dispatch said forty-nine), for New York. The steam-ship California was to have sailed from Panama for San Francisco on the 27th ult., the Senator on the Ist, Union on the Bth, and the Panama on the 13th. The health of the isthmus was good, and the roads were more easy for travelling, they having been greatly improved. The dates from San Francisco are to the Ist of September. General Persifer P. Smith had gone on an expedi tion to the mountains. Colonel Fremont was at Monterey. The steam-ship Empire City left Chagres on the 25th ult. for New York. The steamer Panama brought 500,000 dolls. in gold dust, and 159 passengers arrived at Panama on the 22d inst. --- General Riley was at Monterey at the last ac counts, and his health improving. A San Francisco letter says that a constitution will he formed and Members elected to the Legislature by the Ist of November. The demand for cotton on the 7th continued limited, and the sales are scarcely worth reporting. During the VS eek the sales have reached 5,700 bales, at rather easier prices, factors being ready sellers. The quo tations are—for good middling, 10i to 10i good fair, 12k to 13. The receipts since the Ist of Sep tember were 3,619 bales, against 72,412 bales the same time last year. The stock on hand is 32,220 bales, against 66,796 bales last year. vizNG Ezr . . . a . OOTOBER 22, 1849. No. 17,808a] LONDON, MONDA Y -4! 4 t • • 4 NOW PUBLISHING, LI ZA COOK'S JOURNAL, A WEEKLY PERIODICAT,, PRICE THREE-It ALFPENCE, CONTAINING LITERARY MATTER of INFORMATION and AMU3EMENT. The First Volume of ET I ZA. COOK'S JOURNAL is now com pleted, and the roprietor takes this opportunity of expressing her sense of;Ii honourable,and coveted position which a generous Public has placed her in. Many difficulties beset the path of a young, Journalist which a little experience removes, and most earnest thanks are proffered for the kind indulgence bestowed on the errors which have occasionally marked the Editorial and Practical Departme.its. The best proof of the Editor's feeling will be fount in her endeavours to render the Journal far more worthy of the flattering patronage it receives, and without any fallacious beast, she can promise her Readers a future supply of sound and valuable matter. The most gratifying circumstance attending the extensive circula tion and cordial reception of the Journal has been in proving that a large reading public can be found for a cheap Serial who do not require unhealthy excitement and mere ephemeral entertainment to gain their attention. Right glad has the Editor been to see that her plain and simple wish to elevate the morals and invigorate the mind, kas been graciously received for, though amusement is one of the chief essentials, not only of periodical literature, but of our whole lives, it should ever be blended with a principle and purpose tending to advance humanity. From the cheering encouragement already received, the Editor trusts fully to her friends for the future, and has equal pride and pleasure in presenting her First Volume as a Journalist to those whose generous perceptions stamped her first attempt as a Poet. ELIZA :COOK'S JOURNAL is published every Saturday, and in Monthly Parts, stitched is a wrapper, by J. 0. CLARKE, At the Office of the Journal, No. 3, Raquet-court, Fleet-street, (Nearly opposite St. Bride's Church). Where all communications for the Proprietor, and Advertisements for the Monthly Parts, may be forwarded NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. The leading features of the Society are guaranteed of an ample Proprietary Capital. Moderate Rates of Premiums. Two-thirds Premium Loaned to the Assured. Annual Division of Profits. Half the Premium may remain as a Loan for Five Years. Extensive Travelling Leave granted, without extra Premium. Moderate extra Premium for Residence In Tropical Climates. N.B. The last Annual Bonus to the Assured varied from 27 to 65 per cent. (according to age) on the Premiums paid. Examples of Bonuses already Declared, and Options. -4' -d Annual Policy Bonus in Bonus Inrenetrinlate _ LT Mi um• out in tured. Age. -.. Pre- takesi a t d e d s il u io nt u ,'Sum the in ductisn of E may bor £ Cash. Annual :Low oi . Premium. Policy. Id./ 1837 ,276 14 3 128 14 3 21 7 2 1 593 6 8 12 1838 51 18 10 115 14 8 18 12 8543 17 ' 9 1 1 1839 1226 6 0 102 15 1 16 2 9494 8 10 €e 1000 X s. d. 1840 178 0 082 14 212 14 11,445 0 0 74 3 4 1841 174 0 076 3 41 12 3 0395 11 1 1842 147 4 2 15 15 10 10 2 41346 2 3 18 43 99 18 4 44 8 4 61 5 11 296 13 4 1844 62 4 8 27 13 4 4 4 0 247 4 5 1 Prospect )r any of i warded po :tuses, with tables of rates, &c., may be bad at the office, its branches in the country; or, on application, will be for )st free. W. S. B. WOOLHOITSE, Actuary. SEA, FIRE, LIFE ASSURAN oMces, 31, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Empowered by Act of Parliament. Caoltal-10,000'. [n Shares of Twenty Shillings each, to be paid in full on Allotmen DIRECTORS. Howell Gwyn, Esq., M.P. George Helmore, Esq. John Bennet, Esq. Sir William Ogilvie. Bart. Thomas Bunting, Esq. Frederick A. reel, Esq. Alexander Davi., Esq. W. Yates Peel, Esq. John Kellam' Durant, Esq. John Wrefcrd, E:q. Augustus Collingridge, Esq., Managing Director. AUDITORS. Henry Rogers, E•g. Ebenezer ;,:oper. Esq. J Henry W00d.., Esq. Samuel Henry Ranger, Esq. MEDICAL REPERErS : PIITSICI A N. James Rldson Bennett, Esq., M,D., 24, Flasburpplace North, BURGEONS. John Fisher Goude Esq , lf.n.c S., 83, Cheapside. Fredk. Co. Crane, Esq., M.R.C.S., Leicester-square. BANKERS. Messrs. Currie and Co., 29, Cornhill. Commercial Bark cf London, Lothbury. SOLICITOR. John Chapple, Esq., 70A, Aldennanbury. MARINE DEPARTMENT. LINDERITRITER. Mr. John Powis, Member of Lloyd's. - LIFE DEPARTMENT. A CTI7ART. Mr. Alfred Burt. FIRE DEPARTMENT. SUP'ERINTENDENT. Mr. John Nelson. sravayoa. George Moody Longmore, Esq. BROKERS. John IL Gelding, Esq., Warnford-courr, London. Thomas Bayley, Esq., Warnford-court, London. Messrs. Turner, Brothers, Throgniorton-street, London. FEATURES. 1. Exemption of Shareholders DlSTlNGrismsci from all Liability. 2. The Right of Transfer at Will. 3. Periodical Divisicn of Profits. 4. Five per Cent. Interest Guaranteed (irrespective of further DM dends) upon the paid-up Capital. 5. Yearly Audits of Accounts by Auditors exclusively chosen by the Proprietors. 6. Life Policies INDISPUTABLE and free of Stamp-duty to the As owed. .Applications fey the remaining nnallotted Shares, and ma the sub ject of MARINE, FIRE, and LIFE ASSURANCES to be addressed to the Agents of the Society; or t• the Head Office as above. AUG. COLLINGRIDGE, Managing Director. TO MR. PROUT, 229, STRAND. " No. 208, Piccadilly, London, October 19, 1847. Sir,—lt is now three and a half years since I was sorely afflicted with Rheumatic Gout, the suffering from which induced nee to try all the proposed remedies that extensive medical experience could devise, without obtaining any satisfactory relief from pain. During one of the paroxysms a friend advised me to try BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, observing that he had in some severe cases taken them himself, and they proved very successful. I in stantly adopted his advice, and to my joy the excruciating torment soon began to abate, and a few boxes restored me to health, since which I have had no return of the complaint. " I trust you will give publicity to my case, that suffering humanity may know how to obtain a remedy for this distressing disease. " I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant, The above testimo n i a l i s a f ur th er proof of the efficacy NASMYTH of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, which afford speedy relief to those afflicted with gout, rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, tic doloreux, pains in the head and face, and all analogous complaints. The never-failing effects of BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS in curing every description of Gout and Rheumatism, have secured to therm a celebrity unequalled by any medicine of past or present times. They not only give relief in a few hours, but re store to perfect health in an inconceivably short space of time. They are equally speedy and certain in lumbago, sciatica, pains in the bead or face, and indeed in every rheumatic or gouty affection : in fact, such has been the rapidity, perfect ease, and complete safety of this medicine, that it has astonished all who have taken it ; and there is scarcely a city, town, or village in the kingdom but contains many gratefei evidences of its benign influence. Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London, and, by his appoint ment, by all respectable Medicine Vendors throughout the United Kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe the name and address of "Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, Loudon," im pressed upon the Government Stamp affixed to each box o:fthe genuine Medicine. D. No alphabetic characters we see, More requisite in trade than L. S. D. ; Which letters of the alphabet, I deem, Will furnish Moses with a tidy theme. Pounds, Shillings, Pence, in all their worth we see Embodied in the cyphers, L. 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The first extract refers to the tests which it was found neces sary to apply to ascertain the mode by which the greatest strength in the hollow iron bridge could be obtained : " One of the most interesting and important re sults of the preliminary investigations so ably con ducted by Mr. Fairbairn and his friend and associate Mr. Hodgkinson, was the astonishing difference found to exist between the power of cast and that of wrought iron to resist compression and extension. From the experience which engineers and builders had obtained in imposing weights upon cast-iron girders of all shapes and sizes, it had long been considered almost a mechanical axiom that iron possessed greater power to resist compression than extension ; whereas Mr. Fairbairn's experiments, to his surprise, as well as to that of all who witnessed them, most clearly de monstrated that, after bearing a certain amount of weight, the resisting properties of cast and of wrought iron are diametrically opposite; in short, the results in figures proved to be nearly as follows: " Cast iron can resist per square inch— " Compression of from 35 to 49 tons. Extension of „ 3,, 7 „ " Wrought-iron can r es i s t per square inch— " Compression of from 12 to 13 tons. Extension of „ 16 „18 „ " The unexpected results thus obtained were of in calculable practical value ; for, if the preliminary ex periments proposed by Mr. Stephenson had not bean made, he, Mr. Fairbairn, Mr. Hodgkinson, Mr. Clark, and, indeed, all the eminent engineers and mathematicians of the present day, would, on the correct principle of everywhere adjusting the thick ness of iron to the force it has to resist, have erro neously concurred in recommending that the proposed wrought-iron tubes for crossing the Conway and Menai Straits should be constructed stronger at bottom than at top, instead of, as it appears they ought to be, stronger at top than at bottom ; in conse quence of which error the aerial gallery would have been improperly weakened in one part by an amount of iron which would have unscientifically overloaded it at another, and thus, like Falstaff's increasing belly and decreasing legs,' the huge mass, with dimi nished strength,would have laboured under unnecessary weight. " By continuing with great patience and ability the experiments above referred to, it was finally asceF tained that the r e l a ti ve strengt h o f wroughtiron in the top and bottom of the tubes should he in the pro portion of about 5 to 4 ; and whereas, had they been constructed of cast iron, these proportions would have been reversed in the higher proportion of nearly 5 to 1, it may reasonably be asked why, if the latter ma terial bears compression so much better than the former, it was not selected for the top of the tube ? In theory this adjustment of the two metals to the force which each was peculiarly competent to resist, would have been perfectly correct. It, however, could not practically be effected, from the difficulty of cast ing as well as of connecting together plates 10 and 12 feet in length of the very slight thicknesses required. Mr. Stephenson, therefore, adhered to his dAermina tion to make the whole of his aerial galleries of wrought iron ; and we may here observe that, to ensure the public from accident, he further resolved that the amount of the force of extension upon them should be limited to only one-third of their power of reistance, that of compression to one. half—the reason of the difference being that, inasmuch as any little flaw in the iron would infinitely more impair its power to resist extension than compression, it was evidently safer to approximate the limits of the latter than of the former. " As the exact strength of a hollow wrought iron tube, such as was proposed, was unknown to engi neers, it was deemed necessary by Mr. Stephenson that its form, as well as the disposition of its materials, should be correctly ascertained. This portion of the investigation Mr. Fairbairn and his coil, agues, with great care and ability, conducted by subjecting tubes of different shapes to a series of experiments, the re sults of which were briefly as follows : " 1. Cylindrical tubes, on being subjected to nine very severe trials, failed successively by collapsing at the top—or, in other words, by evincing inability to resist compression :—the tube, losing its shape, gra dually became elongated or lantern-jawed, while the two extremities were observed to flatten or bulge out sidevvays—beside which the ends, which for precau tionsake rested on concentric wocden beds,invariably bent inwards. " 2. Elliptical tubes, with thick plates riveted to the top and bottom had been particularly recom tnendA for experiment by Mr. Stephenson. These tubes under heavy pressure displayed greater stiffness and strength than round or cylindrical ones; but, after being subjected to a variety of torturing expe riments of a most ingenious description, they all evinced comparative weakness in the top to resist compression. They likewise exhibited considerable distortions of form. "3. A family weakness in the head having been thus detected in all models circular at bottom and top, rectangular tubes were in their turn next sub jected to tri a l. A s t h ey at once appeared to indicate greater strength than either of the other two forms had done, a very elaborate and interesting investiga tion was purs ue d by M r . F a i r b a i rn, w h o, b y the light of his experiments, soon satisfied himself of the superiority of this form over the other two ; and as every successive test co n fi rme d th e f ac t, h e con t i nued his search with an energy that has only since been equalled by the American judge, who, it is said, on arriving at California deserted the bench for 'the diggings.' Tlie following is an abstract of the important result of about forty experiments made by Messrs. Fairbairn, Hodgkinson, and Clark, on the compara tive strength of c i rc ular, elliptical, and rectangular tubes :—Circular, 13 ; Elliptical, 15 ; Rectangular, 21. "As soon as the rectangular was, by the investiga tion recommenced by Mr. Stephenson, clearly ascer tained to be the best form of hollow tube that could be selected, the next important problems to be deter mined by experiment was what amount of strength should be given to it, or, in other wurds, what should be the thickness of its top and bottom, in which, as we have shown, consisted its main power. " The investigation on this subject soon demon strated that if, instead of obtaining this thickness by riveting together two or three layers of plates, they were, en the principle of the beam itself, placed in horizontal strata a foot or two asunder—the included hollow space being subdivided by small vertical plates into rectangular passages or flues extending along the whole top as well as bottom of the tube—an immense addition of strength, with very nearly the same weight of material, would be obtained. " This adaptation proving highly advantageous, it was deemed advisable by Mr. Stephenson that fur ther experiments should be made by Mr. Fairbairn and his colleagues to determine finally the precise form and proportions of the great tubes. For this object an entirely new model tube, one-sixth of the dimensions of the intended Britannia-bridge was very carefully constructed ; and the cellular tops and bot toms thereof, as well as the sides, were subjected to a series of experiments until the exact equilibrium of resistance to compression and extension, as also the variations in the thicknesses of the plates in the several parts of the tube as they approached or receded from different points of support, were most accurately ascertained. "In these as well as in all the previous experiments the trial tubes were loaded till they gave way—the results being accurately recorded and transmitted by Mr. Clark to Mr. Stephenson, who in return confi dentially assisted Mr. C. with his opinion and advice. From the fibrous nature of wrought iron, as compared with the crystalline composition of the cast metal, the tendency to rupture in most of these experiments was slow and progressive. Destruction was never instan taneous, as in cast iron, but it advanced gradually ; the material, for some time before absolute rupture took place emitting an unmistakeable warning noise; just as a camel, while kneeling on the burning sandy desert, and while writhing his head from one side to the other, snarls, grunts, grumbles, and groans loud er and louder, as hi s swarthy turban-headed owners keep relentlessly adding package after package to his loud. "Although it can be mathematically shown that the two sides of a thin hollow tube are of but little use except to keep the tops and bottoms at their duty —the power of resistance of' the latter being, how ever, enormously increased by the distance that sepa rates them—it was nevertheless necessary to ascertain the precise amount of lateral strength necessary to prevent the aerial gallery writhing from storms of wind. The riveting process was likewise subjected to severe trial, as also the best form and application of the slender ribs termed ' angle irons,' by which not only the plates were to be firmly connected, but the tube itself materially strengthened—in fact, the angle irons were to be its bones, the thin plate iron covering being merely its skin. " Mr. Stephenson had two main objects in insti tuting the investigations we have detailed. First, to determine by actual experiment what amount of strength could be given to his proposed galleries; and secondly, of that maximum how much it would be proper for him to exert. And as his decisions on these subjects will probably be interesting to our readers, most especially to that portion of them whose for tunes or fate may doom them occasionally to fly through his baseless fabric, we will endeavour very briefly to explain the calculations on which they ap pear to have been based. "As a common railway train weighs upon an avenge less than a ton per foot, as the greatest dis tances between towers of the Britannia-bridge amount each to 460 feet, and as it is a well-known mathema tical axiom among builders and engineers that any description of weight spread equally along a beam produces the same strain upon it as would be caused by half the said weight imposed on the centre, it follows that the maximum weight which a monster train of 460 feet (an ordinary train averages about half that length) could at one time inflict on any portion of the unsupported tube, would amount to 460 tons over the whole surface, or to 230 tons at the centre. "Now, to ensure security to the public, Mr. Ste phenson, after much deliberation, determined that the size and adjustment of the iron to be used should, according to the experiments made and recorded, be such as to enable the aforesaid unsupported portions of the tube (each 460 feet in length) to bear no less than 4,000 tons over its whole surface, or 2,000 tons in the centre, being nine times greater than the amount of strength neceesarily required ; and as the results —unexpected as well as expected—of the searching investigation which had been instituted, incontestably proved that this Herculean strength could be imparted to the galleries without the aid of the chains, which, even as an auxiliary, had been de clared funnecessary—and as Mr. E. Clark had very cleverly ascertained that it would be cheaper to con struct the tubes on the ground than on the aerial platform as first proposed—Mr. Stephenson deter mined, on mature reflection, to take upon himself the responsibility of reporting to the directors of the Chester and Holyhead Railway that this extra ca tenary support, which would have cost the company 150,0001., was wholly unnecessary. Indeed, such was the superabundance of power at his command, that, without adding to the weight of the rectan gular galleries, he could materially have strengthened them by using at their top and bottom circular flues instead of square ones, which, merely for the cake of cleaning, &c, were adopted, although the former were found on experiment to bear about 18 tons to the square inch before they became crushed, whereas the latter could only support from 12 to 14 tons. " But the security which Mr. Stephenson deemed it necessary to insure for the public may further be illustrated by the following very extraordinary fact : It has been mathematically demonstrated by Messrs. Hodgkinson and Clark, as well as practically proved by Mr. Fairbairn—indeed it will be evident to any one who will go through the necessary calculations on the subject—that the strain which would be inflicted on the ironwork of the longest of Mr. Ste phenson's aerial galleries by a monster train sufficient to cover it from end to end, would amount to six tons per square inch, which is exactly equal to the con stant stress upon the chains of Telford's magnificent suspension Menai bridge, when, basking in sunshine or veiled in utter darkness, it has nothing to support but its own apparently slender weight !" The next extract we shall give furnishes some curious details as to the exertions which were neces sary in putting the tube together : " PLATES.—The wrought-iron plates which form the top, bottom, and sides of the Britannia ' land tubes,' 230 feet in length, are, of course, slighter than those required for the four, each 460 feet, which overhang the stream. " For these long tubes—which are of the same height and breadth as the shorter ones—the dimensions of the plates are as follows : " For the bottom-12 feet in length, 2 feet 4 inches to 2 feet 8 inches in breadth, 7-16 to inch in thickness. " For the top-6 feet in length, 1 foot 9 inches to 2 feet 11 inch in breadth, to inch in thickness " For the sides-6 feet to 6 feet 6 inches in length, 2 feet in breadth, k to / inch in thickness. " Although these plates have been severally forged with every possible attention, yet, to render them perfect in thickness, they are not allowed by Mr. Stephenson to be used for the tubes until each has been passed by the company's superintendent between two uncompromising massive iron rollers worked by steam, which, by revolving, quietly remove or rather squeeze down that variety of pimples, boils, lumps, bumps, and humps which, from unequal contraction in the process of cooling, occasionally disfigure the surface of plate iron, and which in the workman's dictionary bear the generic name of buckles.' When the plates, the largest of which weigh about seven hundred weight, have been thus accurately flattened, they are, one after another, according to their dimen sions, carried by two or more men towards one of several immense cast-iron levers, which, under the influence of steam, but apparently of their own ac cord, are to be seen from morning till night, whether surrounded by workmen or not, very slowly and very indolently ascending and descending once in every three seconds. " Beneath the short end of this powerful lever there is affixed to the bottom of a huge mass of solid iron a steel bolt—about the length, thickness, and latent power of Lord John Russell's thumb—which, en dowed with the enormous pressure of from 60 to 80 tons, sinks, at every pulsation of the engine, into a hole rather larger than itself, perforated in a small anvil beneath. "As soon as the labourers of the department bear ing each plate arrive at this powerful machine, the engineer in charge of it, assisted by the carrying men, dexterously places the edge of the iron upon the anvil in such a position that the little punch in its descent shall consecutively impinge upon one of a series of chalk dots, which at four inches from each other and 11 inch from the edge, have been previously marked around the four sides of the plate; and thus four rows of rivet-holes, averaging an inch in diameter, are, by the irresistible power we have described, pierced through plate iron from one half to three fourths of an inch in thickness, quite as easily as a young cook playfully pokes her finger through the dough she is kneading. " Some of the steam-arms or levers just described are gifted with what may be termed double thumbs,' and accordingly these perforate two holes at a time, or forty ver minute—the round pieces of iron cut out falling, at each pulsation of the engine, upon the ground, through the matrix or perforation in the anvil. " Then the plates, averaging from six to t we l ve feet in len g th , b y above two feet in breadth, have been thus punched all round, and before they are brought to the tube, they are framed together on the ground, in compartments of about twenty plates each (five in length and four in breadth), in order to be connected to each other by what are termed covering-plate and angle irons. In order to prepare the former (which are half an inch in thickness, one foot in breadth, and a b ou t two feet lo ng ), th ey are h eate d in a small furnace, when, instead of passing between rollers, they are put under a stamping, or, as it is technically termed, a joggling block, which, by repeated blows, renders their surface perfectly flat; after which 4 series of holes, corresponding in size as well as in distance from each other with those in the ' plates,' are punched all along the outer edge of each of their four sides. When thus prepared, two of these small covering plates, one on each side, are made to cover and overlap the horizontal line of windage existing between the edges of the plates, which, as we have stated, have been previously arranged so as to touch each other ; and bolts being driven through the corresponding holes of the three plates (the large plates lying between the two cover ing ones), they are firmly riveted together by the process we shall now describe. " RIVETS.—In the construction of the Britannia tubes there have been required no less than two mil lions of bolts, averaging iths of an inch in diameter and 4 inches in length. The quantity of rod-iron consumed for this purpose has, therefore, amounted in length to 126 miles, and in weight to about 900 tons ! " The mode in which these legions of trivets have been constructed is briefly as follows : "At the western end of the company's principal forging establishment there stands a furnace or trough, full of pieces of rod-iron from 31 to 4i inches in length, packed together as closely as soldiers in a solid square of infantry. As soon as, by the fiery breath of bel lows worked by steam, they have been made uniformly red-hot, a little boy, whom they are all obliged to obey, rapidly, and without partiality, favour, or affec tion, picks them out one after another through the furnace door with a pair of pincers, from which he quietly drops them perpendicularly into eight moulds, each of which being about three-quarters of an inch shallower than the length of the piece of iron it re spectively receives, they, of course, all equally pro trude about that distance above the surface. "In this position they are handed over to a pale, sturdy engineznan , or executioner, who, with a b ou t as much mercy as P rocrustes used to evince towards those who slept on his bed, immediately places them upon an anvil, towards which there very slowly de scends a huge superincumbent mass of iron• pressed downwards by an immense long cast-iron lever worked by steam. "By this despotic power the red protruding portion of each little rod is by a single crunch inexorably flattened, or fraternised,' and thus suddenly con verted nolens miens into a bolt; it is no sooner thrown upon the ground than the mould from which it was ejected is again, by the child in waiting, filled with another raw red-hot recruit, who, by a process exactly the reverse of decapitation, is shortened, not by the loss, but by the acquisition of a head. "As soon as each 'set' of the half-inch iron plates which form the sides, top, and bottom of the Bri tannia tubes, have by a travelling crane been lifted— technically termed picked up '—into their places, and have been made to touch each other as closely as pos sible a moveable stag e on w h ee l s i s d rawn close to the outside of the tube, for the purpose o f fi rm l y connect ing every se t o f plates to that which on each side adjoins it. This work is performed by what is termed ` a set of riveters,' composed of two 'riveters' one holder up,' and t wo r i vet -b oys. , "As soon as the two first have ascended the scaffolding on the outside of the tube, and when the holder-up sitting on a board suspended by ropes from the roof, has exactly opposite to them taken up his position on the inside, cne of the boys quickly ab stracts from a travelling furnace, conveniently placed for the purpose, a red-hot bolt, which 'by a circular swing of his pincers he buries inside the tube towards the other boy, his comrade or playfellow, who, as actively as possible, with a similar instrument snap ping it up, not only runs with it towards the holder up, but as long as he can reach the rivet-holes inserts it for him therein. As soon as this is effected the holder-up presses against it an enormous iron hammer, which forces it outwards until it is stopped by its own head. The red protruding bolt is now mercilessly assailed by the two riveters, whose sledge-hammer s meeting with a sturdy reaction from that of the holder-up, which by a vast leverage or length of handle elastically returns blow for blow, the bolt, in about thirty seconds, becomes double-headed, when one of the riveters, dropping his hammer, snatches up a steel mould about nine inches long, called a swage, which he continues to hold upon the newly-formed head, until his comrade, by repeated blows of the hammer, has swaged it into a workmanlike form. "The bolt is thus finally converted into a rivet, which, by contracting as it cools, binds together the plates even more firmly than they had already been almost cemented by the irresistible coercion of three sledge-bummers ; indeed, they are so powerfully drawn together, that it has been estimated it would require a force of from four to six tons to each rivet to cause the plates to slide over each other. " The bolts for the upper holes of the interior, which, being about thirty feet high, are of course completely out of the rivet-boy's reach, are dropped by him into a concentric iron ring, which, by a wire and cord passing over a pulley attached to one of the uppermost plates, is rapidly raised, until the holder-up is enabled by pincers to grasp the fiery iron, which, on being inserted into its hole, he then instantly, as More, presses with his hammer. "By the operations above described, a set of riveters usually drive per day about 230 rivets, of which in each plate there are about 18 per yard in two rows, averaging only 2} inches of clear space between each bolt-head. On the large tubes alone there have been employed at once as many as 40 sets of riveters, besides 26 platers,' or men to adjust the plates, each having from three to four men to assist him ; and when this well-regulated system is in full operation, it forms altogether not only an extraordi nary, but an astounding scene. "Along the outside of the tube, suspended at dif ferent heights, are to be seen in various attitudes 80 riveters, some evidently watching for the protruding red bolt, others either horizontally swinging their sledge-hammers, or holding the rivet-swage. "In the inside of this iron gallery, which is in comparative darkness, the round rivet-holes in the sides as well as in the roofs, not only appear like innumerable stars shining in the firmament of heaven, but the light beaming through each forms another as bright a spot either on the ground or on the internal surface of the tube. Amidst these constellations are to be faintly traced, like the figures on a celestial globe, the outlines of the holders-up, sitting at dif ferent altitudes on their respective stages. Beneath them 40 or 50 rivet-boys are dimly seen, some hori zontally hurling red-hot bolts, others with extended pincers running forwards with them, while fiery bolts, apparently of their own accord, are to be ob served vertically ascending to their doom. This cyclopean dance, which is ofcourse most appropriately set to music by the deafening reverberations of 70 or 80 sledge-hammers, is not altogether without danger, for not only does a holder-up' from a wrong move ment occasionally—like a political Phaeton—all of a sudden tumble down, but the rivet-boys, generally unintentionally, but occasionally, it is said, from pure mischief, burn each other more or less severely, in which cases a couple of these little sucking Vulcans, utterly unable, from incessant noise, to quarrel by words, fall to blows, and have even been observed to fight a sort of infernal duel with pincers, each trying to burn his opponent anywhere and everywhere with his red-hot bolt. "But by far the most curious part of the riveting process is to be seen on the flat roof or top of the tube. This immense deck, which we have already stated to be 472 feet in length, is composed of a pavement of plates to be connected together by eighteen longitudinal rows of rivets, the heads of which are to be only 2f inches apart. Beneath this surface, at a depth of only 1 foot 9 inches, there is, to give additional strength, a similar stratum of plates, the space included between both being divided into eight compartments called flues, 21 inches deep by 20 inches broad, exactly resembling those of a common stove. After the horizontal bottoms and upright sides of these eight flues have been firmly connected together by the battering process we have just de scribed, the upper stratum of plates are loosely laid down, and, being thus by the superincumbent weight of the iron covering securely adjusted, their final con nexion is effected as follows : " A tiny rivet-boy —we observed one little mite only ten years of age —in clothes professionally worn into holes at the knees and elbows—crawling heels foremost for a considerable distance into one of these flues as easily as a yellow ferret trots into a rabbit-hole, is slowly followed by his huge lord and master the holder up, who exactly fits the flue, for the plain and excellent reason, that by Mr. Stephenson the flue was pur posely predestined to be exactly big enough to fit him; and as, buried alive in this receptacle, he can move but very slowly, he requires some time, ad vancing head foremost, to reach the point at which he is to commence his work. On arriving there, his first process, lying on his left side, is with his right hand to pass through one of the rivet holes in the plate above him a little strong hook, to which is attached a short hempen loop, or noose, which, supporting the heavy end of his huge hammer, formsa fulcrum upon w hi c h h e ca n easily raise it against the roof, simply by throwing his right thigh and leg over the extremity of the long lever or handle of the instrument. " When similar preparations, by the injection of other little rivet boys and other stout holders-up into several of the other flues, have been made, the signal for commencing operations is given by several red-hot bolts falling, apparently from the clouds, among the linter', who, loaning ox their sledge Nommen, have been indolently awaiting their arrival. These bolts have been heated on the outside of the tube on the ground immediately beneath, in a portable furnace, from which a gang of lithesome rivet-boys in attendance extract them as fast as they are required, and then I walking away with them, without looking upwards, or apparently caring the hundred -thousandth part of the shaving of a farthing where they may fall, or whom they may burn, they very dexterously, by a sudden swing of their pincers, throw them almost perpendi cularly about 45 feet, or about 10 feet higher than the top of the tube, upon which, as we have stated, they fall among the:assembled riveters as if they had been dropped from the moon. " As soon as these red hot meteors descend upon the flat roof, another set of rivetnoys eagerly sr op them up, and ea c h runn i ng w i th his bolt, not to the spot where it is required, but to one of certain holes in the plate made on purpose for its insertion, he deli vers it into the pincers of the little sweep, rivet-boy, or Ascanius, within the flue, who, having been patiently waiting there to receive it, crawls along with it towards his Pius .near, the stout recumbent holder-up. As soon as he reaches him he inserts for him the small end of the bolt into the hole for which it has been prepared, and through which, obedient to its fate, it is no sooner seen to protrude than the sledge-hammers of the expectant riveters, severely jerking at every blow the heavy leg of the poor holder up, belabour it and swage' it into a rivet. " The red-hot iron—unlike the riveters—cool during the operation we have just described; and even if a by-stander, from being stone-blind, could not see the change in its temperature, it could easily be recognised by the difference in the sound of the hammers between striking the bolt while it is hot and soft, and when it has gradually become cool and I hard. But whatever may be the variety of colours or of noises which accompany the formation of every one of these roof-rivets, it is impossible to witness the operation we have just described without acknow ledging, with a deep sigh, how true is the proverb that one half of the world,' especially the rich half, does not know how the other half lives ;' indeed, unless we had witnessed the operation, we, could scarcely have believed that any set of human beings, or ;rather fellow-creatures, could professionally work from morning till night, stuffed horizontally into a flue of small dimensions—that they could endure the con finement which only allows them, by changing from one side to another, to throw sometimes the right leg and sometimes the left over the elastic handle of a hammer—and above all, that they could bear the deafening noises created close to and immediately thundering into their very ears ! "In attentively watching the operations just de scribed we observed that at the sides of the tube it required generally eighteen blows of the hammer to flatten the end of the bolt, and then twelve blows on the swage' to finish the head of the rivet; whereas, on the roof, the former operation was usually effected by only twelve blows, and the latter by eight or nine. At first we conceived that this difference might be caused by a reduction in the sizes of the plates and bolts; but those in the roof proving to be the thickest and longest, we, on a few moments' reflection, ascer tained that the reduction of labour in riveting the roof is caused by the sledge hammers descending upon it by gravity as well as by the main strength of the riveters; whereas, at the sides, they are worked by the latter power only." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SATURDAY. His Excellency Abbot Lawrence had his first audi- ence of the Queen this day, at the Castle, and had the honour of presenting his credentials to her Ma jesty, as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo tentiary of the United States. His Excellency was introduced by - Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Right Hon. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, K.C.8., was presented to her Majesty, at an audience, by Viscount Palmerston, and took leave on proceeding to America as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States. The Queen and Prince Albert walked at an early hour this morning. The Prince of Wales and the other members of the Royal Family took their usual airings. Her Majesty, attended by the Viscountess Canning, Lady in Waiting, and General Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting, drove out in Windsor Park. HitsblitsoymalorHningighr: attendedess Prince Ably Lord bertwent w o a u t t erpark shoot ing Major-General Bowles, Lieut.-Colonel A. N. Hood, and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Earl of Carlisle left the Castle this morning. Her Royal llighness the Duchess of Kent dined with the Queen and Prince Albert this evening. Lord Waterpark has relieved Lord Camoys in his duties as Lord in Waiting to her Majesty. SUNDAY. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert took their usual early walk this morning. The Royal Family took walking exercise. The Queen and Prince Albert, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service in the private chapel. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also attended the service. His Royal Highness Prince George left town on Saturday night. HEALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER (From the Court Circular.) Her Majesty the Queen Dowager passed rather an indifferent night on Friday, but appeared more composed on Saturday morning, and slightly rallied in the afternoon. Their Serene Highnesses Prince Edward and Prince Hermann of Saxe Weimar arrived at the Priory, Stanrnore, on Saturday, the former from Windsor, and the latter from the Continent. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar left the Priory in the even ing, on his return to Windsor. Prince Hermann remained on a visit to her Majesty. The Queen Dowager passed a tolerable night on Saturday night. Sir David Davies is in constant attendance on her Majesty, and Dr. Bright returned to the Priory yesterday afternoon, to attend leer Majesty. There has been no improvement in the state of her Majesty. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—The state of the Queen Dowager causes the greatest anxiety. Throughout the week her Majesty has been suffering from severe illness, relieved cccasionally by a temporary rally of a few hours' duration, giving partial and tran sitory relief. Her Majesty is in a very weak and ex hausted condition. Dropsy, the incipient symptoms of which first manifested themselves while the Queen Dowager was at her own residence in Busby Park, has become developed and decided. The greatest care and attention is bestowed by all in attendance, but in spite of all the skill and experience of her medical advisers, her Majesty has been at intervals affected by distressing symptoms, so trying to one of her enfeebled powers. Her Majesty, having entire confidence in Sir David Davies, who for so many years has been her constant medical attendant, had not desired the assistance of any other physician of eminence, but during the past week the attendance of Dr. Bright has been commanded at Bentley Priory, Stanmore, and that gentleman has at tended in consultation with Sir David Davies, and has sat up with her Majesty. The members of the Royal Family send frequently to learn the bulletins of her Majesty's health. The Foreign Ministers, and the select circle of private friends honoured with the ac quaintance of her Majesty, have called and sent daily to inquire after the state of this estimable lady. The Bishop of London arrived at the Priory in the middle of the week, and administered the holy sacrament to the royal invalid. On Saturday afternoon the Queen Dow ager's nephew, Prince Hermann of Saxe Weimer, arrived at the Priory from the continent. Prince Hermann's brother (Prince Edward) also arrived from Windsor, where he is at present stationed with the Grenadier Guards, in which regim en t h e h o ld s a comm i ss i on . Their Royal Highnesses th e D uc h ess o f K en t, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambri d ge, made affectionate inqui r i e s after their august relative.— Send :y Paper. THE CLIMATE OF INVERNESS. —From its happy situation, sheltered from all strong or keen winds from whatever quarter they delicate may blow, Inverness has a re markably mild and pleasant climate. a li nd w de te air ed Two hundred years ego Shakspere praised the gentle that breathed over the green banks of the Crown, and w h e ther the remark was made from his ow n o b servation or derived from the experience of some of his intimates, i t was no doubt true. Many changes have come over Inverness in that long space of two centuries; but the Crown seems to have retained all its former amenity, a ver y good proof of which we had before us last week, in the shape of a cluster of tick black grapes from the garden of Alpine Cottage! The tree is still very young, having been only two years in the ground. It is of the small black cluster kind, a hardy description of vine, and was planted in the open air, against the gable-wall of the house, by Mr. Maclennan. Last season, its first, it bore no fr u it ; b ut t hi s season i t produced three' bunches, over which, to protect them from the boys, a small glass case was fixed, leaving every part of the tree but the fruit exposed, the three bunches having grown close to each other. The first cluster came to perfection three or four weeks ago, the second was cut on Thursday last, and the third is now ripe. It must be very satisfactory to Mr. Maclennan, whose garden is a source of great pleasure to him, that his interesting experiment has been crowned with success,—lnverness Courier, COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, OCT. 9.—Our market is abundantly supplied with money, yet there is a quick demand for it. On call loans are readily obtained at the rate of 4 per cent. premium. Good paper is discounted at 6, and secoad-class paper at from 7 to 10. There was consi derable demand to-day for Government and other leading securities; large sales were made of United States Sixes of 1567 at 111 to 1 Ili; the Coupon Stock of 1868 at 112. The market for foreign exchange has been quits firm at rates higher than at the departure of the last steamer. We quote sterling bills on Loudon firm, at from 9/- to 101; for France, at short sight, at 5 22 to 5 20; for guilders on Amsterdam, 404 to i. The supply of bills is moderate. Cotton—The sales since our last, per Cambria of the 2d inst., amount to 7,860 bales. Of this quantity 2,600 have been taken for France, 1,800 for Great Britain and continental ports, and the balance for home use and speculation. The Canada's advices came to hand on the 4th inst., and, although of a dull tenour, produced no effect, being counteracted by unfavourable advices from the south relative to the crop, and a limited quantity offering. From the 4th to date the market has generally strengthened, and the quotations for middling and middling fair qualities are i to f cent. above those last advised; the market closing firmly, with a good inquiry. The stock in this port is 43,821 bales, including about 7,000 bales in course of shipment; leaving available stock, 36,821 bales. We quote this day as follows: Inferior Florida and upland, 9i; and New Orleans, Mobile, and Texas, ordinary to good ordinary, 91 to 10k; middling to good middling, 142 q to 10i; 101 to 111; for middling fair to fair, 11,+ . to 12 121 to 13. Flour—The market remains without material change. The receipts are light for the season, and prices quite steady, although for some days the transactions have been light and the market heavy, owing in some d:'gree to the stormy weather. Our quotations are about 6-le. lower in the superfine and common grades than at the date or the sailing of the steamer Cambria. We quote sour western at 3 dolls. 75c. to 4 dolls.; common state and mixed western, 4 dolls. :Aim to 4 dolls. 94c. ; pure Genessec and southern Ohio, 5 dolls. 25c. to 5 dolls. 44c. Grain—There is sonic inquiry for good wheat, but the market is rather heavy at the asking price, and the Genessto is held at 121 c. to 122 c.; Ohio, 110 e. to 118 c,; Canadian, in bond, 107 c. to 108 c., duty paid I Isc. Scotch pig iron brings 19 dolls. 80c. to 20 dolls, cash, at which sales have been made. Copper is steady; new sheathing, 21c.; yellow metal, 17c. to 1 7ic. Freights—The rates aro to Liverpool, for cotton, 75a. to I doll, per bale; flour, Gd. to 9d. per barrell; grain in bulk, 21d. to 3d, per bushel for corn and wheat respectively; to London, Is. Gd. per barrel for flour, and other articles in proportion; to Havre, cotton, ie. to ic. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY. The Committee of Aldermen, appointed to make regulations for the reception of her Majesty in the City on the 30th instant, assembled at the Guildhall on Saturday. It was resolved, that the Lord Mayor be requested to give such directions to the Water Bailiff, Harbour Masters, and the watermen as might be thought ne cessary in arranging the progress of her Majesty to the Custom House by water, and her return from the ceremony. Precepts were issued to the several livery compa nies, directing them to attend in their barges on the occasion of her Majesty's visit, and it was ordered that directions should be issued giving them the ne cessary information as to the stations allotted to be to them on the river. The Commissioner of the City Police attended, and was consulted upon the most advisable plan of regu lating the carriage approaches to the Coal Exchange, and it was referred to him to communicate with Mr. Bunning, the City architect, on the subject, with a request that he give in the plan which might ap pear to them the most eligible to the committee on Tuesday next. Alderman Humphery was appointed chairman whenever the Lord Mayor should not be present. The Lord Mayor announced that the Royal Artil lery had given notice of their intention to attend as body guard to the Queen. The committee expressed a hope that, as it was her Majesty's wish that no firing of guns or exhibition of fireworks should take place, special attenti on wou ld be paid to th a t w i s h b y all her faithful subjects on that occasion. The Corporation Committee on the Queen's visit met during the day for the purpose of discussing pre liminaries. DEATH OP MR. EDWARD HAWKE LOCKER.— We regret to notice the death of Mr. Edward llawke Locker, who expired at Iver, in Buckinghamshire, on the 16th instant, aged 72. Mr. Locker was for many years a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital, but in 1844 he was compelled, by the gradual decay of his bodily and mental faculties, to resign his appointment. Although five years of retirement from the tusy world ' may have caused many to forget his name, we cannot resist paying some small tribute to the memory of u man who deserves the sympathies of this maritime country as the originator of the Naval Gallery of Greenwich pital. Few who repair to Greenwich Hospital will have failed to visit the Painted Hall; and that man's heart must indeed be cold which does not throb with some feelings of patriotic enthusiasm on beholding the por traits and pictures commemorating the prowess of those whose proudest boast it was " to serve their country." It was with the view of arousing su c h f ee li ngs us these, and of forming a vivid memorial of the past, that Mr. Locker commenced this collection, and we think that his who inm loveent o f t . o h objectitsrace h st o m u Brt excite the perseverance admiration in o t t he al a l tta w ( n , fav the a l s s t e r a e s n . g t A h l r i . n r c , r o e c a k s e e r d u co m n t m i e s n h c e e d b e h c i a s m p e u bt c m careeris a t r i e n i s i s s i 1795; in 1804 he became private secretary to Lord Ex mouth, and was will him in India, the North Seas, an d the Medite rranean, accepted ll o s Ti)tui till the general peace. In 1819 h e the appointment of Secret ar y t o G reenw i ch and was subsequently made Commissioner of that institution. ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL.— On Friday last the Dean and Chapter of Rochester again assembled, and in the course of the day their clerk served Mr. Whiston with another deed declaring that the De.in and Chapter had again removed, unloved, dis placed, deprived, and expelled that gentleman from his office. The deputy -treasurer accompanied the chapter clerk, and tendered Mr. Whiston his salary up to Christ. mas next, which he declined to receive. 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