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- Yr`: 11- A NOTTESTER ANT) LEFTS T/ ATLWAY . • ; I ".'S T!-0 DIRECTOR are prepared to receive TENDERS or the LOAN of MONEY, in sums of not less than .E 1,0: 0 each, to be secured by the Bonis of the Company, for periods of three, eve, or seven years, at the option of the lender. Interest thereon will be allowed at the rate of Four per cent. p,r annum, payable half-yearly, in London or Manchester. The Tenders to state which of the periods above mentioned is preferred, and to be addressed to the Secretary. By order, JOHN JELLICORSE Sec. Manchester, Sept. 6, 1842. , rrIII; CHINESE COLLECTION. ST. GEORGE'S-PLACE, HYDE PARK CORNER. This Splendid Collection, consisting of Objects Exclusively Chinese, surpassing in extent and grandeur any similar display in the known world, entirely filling the spacious saloon, 225 feet in length, by 50 feet in width ; embracing upwards of Fifty Figures as large as life, all fac-similes, in groups, in their native costumes, from the highest mandarin to the blind mendicant in his patched garment. Also, many thousand spe cimens, both in Natural History and Miscellaneous Curiosi ties, illustrating the appearance, manners, and customs of more than Three Hundred Million Chinese, respecting whom the Nations of Europe have had scarcely any opportunity of judg ing, IS NOW Or'EN for Public Inspection from Ten in the Alorning till Ten at Night. Admission 9 s. 6d.—Children Is. EARD'S PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS. These are now PERFECT MINIATURE REFLEC TIoNs of Face, Figure, and Dress; and receive an unique and impo , ing effect from the introduction of backgrounds of ro mantic scenery. A FEW OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. " The likenesses ara admirable."—Times. " It is, in truth, a second self."—Morning Herald. "The features are admirably delineated."—Morning Chro nicle. " A perfect far-simile of the sitter."—Morning Advertiser. Miniature Bust and case, 11. Is. ; Fell-lengths, 2/. 25.; Groups, 10s. tid. for each additional Portrait. Portraits taken sufficiently small for the setting of a ring, if required , and the Likeness of a Friend may be had in u ring, brooch, or locket, in an elegant style, at a moderate cost. Royal' Polytechnic Institution, Regent -street ; 34, Parlia ment-street, Westminster; and 85, King William-street, Cit ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASUR ANCE SOCIETY, FOR OR ANTING LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITILS, &c. No. 26, CORNHILL. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. DIRECTORS. T. LANIIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. J. Elliot son, M. D., F. R. S. John Rawson, Esq. John GriEti - th Frith, Esq. I Joh n qiddle Stodart, Esq. Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq. I George L ung l ey , E sq . Joseph Thompson, Esq. AUDITORS. Profess or Wh eatstone, F. R.. S. I Professor Graves, A.M.F.R. S. ACT tra RY—W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F. R.A. S. Pn YSICIA Elliotton, M. F. R. S. SURGEON—E. S. Symes, E.sq. SOLICITORS—M essrs. Sweet, Sutton, Ewe rs, and Ommanney. lIANKERS—Messrs. Glyr., Halifax, Mills, and Co. The most rational motives to Life Assurdnee are found in the plan adopted by this Society ; viz. joined to a secure provision at death for inheritors of the Anc:sed, the Society affords succour to the Assured himself (proportioned to pre vious payments) ii the event of unforeseen reverses. Annual Division of Profits. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED. This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords the most perfeet security in an ample paid-up Capital, and in the great success which has attended it, since its commence ment in 1834. In IE4I the Company declared an additi on t o t h e Share holders o f one- h a lf of - their Stock, and also added 2/. per Cent. per Annum, from the date of the policies to those par ties who had insured with Profits. The Premiums nevertheless are on the most moderate scales and only a moiety need be paid for the first five years, where the Insurance is for life. The amount of bonus added to policies since the commence ment of the Company in March 1834, to the 31st December 1840, is as follows : Sum Assured. Time Assured. Sums added to Policy. £1,000... 6 Years 10 Months £136 13 4 1,000 4 Years BO 0 0 1,000 3 Years 6O 0 0 1,000 1 Year Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd, EsR., of No. 8, Waterloo place, Pall-mall, London. Frederick Hale Thomson, Esq., Surgeon, 48, Berners-street, attends at the Office daily, about Half-past Two o'clock. A RGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 39, THROGMORTNSTRE, BANK. • t 5 POWERED by SPECIA O L - ET ACT nf PARLIAMENT THOMAS FARNCOMB, Esq., Alderman, Chairman. WILLIAM LEAF, Esq., Deputy Chairman. CONSULTING ACTUARY—Professor Hall, of King's College. Low Rates of Premium. In addition to the subscribed Capital of £300,000, the As sured have the security of the Company's income of upwards of 4:50,000 per annum, yearly increasing, and an accumulating ksuranee Fund invested in Government and other available securities, of considerably larger amount than the estimated liabilities of the Company. • The rates of premium are reduced to the lowest scale com patible with the security of the Assured, and the stability of the Company, thereby, in effect, giving to every Policy Holder an immediate and certain Bonus without risk, in lieu of the deferred and frequently delusive prospect of a periodical division of Profits. ANNUAL PREMIUM TO ASSURE £lOO. Age. For One Year.:l For Seven Years. I Term of Life. £0 19 7 E 1 0 7 118 1 2 1 1 7 8 110 9 1 13 5 1 19 0 3 1 1 3 15 5 £1 15 1 1 19 10 3 4 7 3 19 3 6 0 10 46 50 0t) In Assurances for Advances of Money, as security for debts or as a provision for a family, when the least present outlay is desirable, the varied and comprehensive tables of the Argus Office %sill be found particularly favourable to the Assured. A Board of Directors, with th e Medical Officers, attend daily.E. BATES, Resident Director. A liberal commission to Solicitors and Agents. GREAT REDUCTION IN INSURANCE ON FARM ING STOCK. T HE FARMERS' and GENERAL FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE INSTITUTION. Em powered by Act of Parliament. Offices, No. 346, Strand, London. Capital 500,0001. With 1,960 Shareholders Enrolled. HON ORA RY DIRECTO% s. !M e of Rutland, a Trustee of the Royal Agricultural Society. Earl of Stradbroke, a Governor of the Royal Agricultural Society . Earl of Coventry. Earl Ducie, Vice• President of the Royal Agricultural Society. Earl of Stair. Earl of Stamford and Warrington. Lord Stanley, M.P., Lancashire. Lord Rayleigh, a Governor of the Royal Agricultural Society. Lord Feversham, Yorkshire. Viscount CampdPn, Rutlandshire. And Seventy-two other Members of Pat Lament and Gentlemen - CUNY DIRE. Upwards o f One A u ndr T ed and Seventy Gentlemen, Landed Proprietors, or otherwise connected with Agriculture, and each being the holder of Fifty Shares or upwards in the Institution, have been appointed Local Directors in the Counties in which the,' are resident. Insured without the average G clause STOC K at 9d. per cent. ;no duty. Privat e Houses COMMON INSURANCE. and Shops, Is. 6d. per cent. Hazardous, 21 : 6d. Doubly hazardous, subject to s p ec i a l agreemen t.— Fire Insurances may be effected for a longer term than one Year. at Reduced Rates, by payment in advance. Insurance of Lives are on an equally moderate scale. ANNUAL PREMIUMS ON LIFE INSURANCES FOR 1001. Age 20 I 30 I 40 I 5 O I 60 I 70 -t1 14 11 12 4 1 1 2 18 10 144 5 1 6 11 2 10 162 endowments of all kinds for future or existing Children. The usual Commission to Solicitors. Prospectuses and Marks for Buildings may be had of. and P?oposals for Insurances, &c., be forwarded to the Agents in thOr respective Districts, or to the Office in London. Agents are appointed in the principal Towns in the Kingdom. W. SHAW, Managing Director. WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY , Office-49, Parliament-street, Westminster. Capital 500,0001; 10,000 Shares, 501. each. Deposit Si. each Share. This Society is established for the Assurance of Lives, upon Principles combining economy with perfect security. DIRECTORS. N. Edgeworth Bicknell, Esq., 28, Upper Bedford-place. William Cabell, Esq., Newington-place, Surrey. Thomas Somers Cocks, jun., Esq.,, Charing Cross. Georg e Henry Drew, Esq., Bermondsey. W illiam Evans, Esq., Millbank. • William Freeman, Esq., Millbank-street. Prancis Fuller, Esq., Poultry, London aryl Croydon. Ja mes Hunt, E sq ., Whit e hall. " °lll l Arnott Lethbridge, Esq., Greenwich Hospital. Almond Lucas, Esq., Millbank-street. George Kennet Pollock, Esq., Great George-street, ,aWest minster. Jame Lys S eager , E sq . , Millb an k. .1 01 1 n Baxley White, Esq., Millbank-street, and Swanscombe. i rel ,l l Carter Wood, E‘q., Artillery Place, Westminster, eary Wrench, Esq., King William-street, London Bridge. Wi lliam Whatele , Es TRUSTEES. y q. L. C. Humfrey, Esq. George Drew, Esq. AUDITORS. Ot MOS Biddulph, Esq. John Freeman, Esq. John Bazley White, jun., Esq. CONSULTING COUNSEL—WiIIiam Page Wood, Esq. e GNVEYA NCING COUNSEL —Samuel Jay, Esq. iiirstel.an—William Richard Basham, Esq., 17r Chemter-street, Grosvenor-place. ji ult . e 1" 'Ns—Alfred Leggatt, Esq.; George D. Pollock, Esq. --- 1 1 1eFsr s . C o cks, Riddulph, and Co., Charing-cross. Licrrous—Messrs. J. L. Bicknell and J. C. Lethbridge, 25, Abingdon-street, Westminster. TA lILE OF rarmtusis TO ASSURE £lOO FOR. THE WHOLE TERM OF LIFE. `ge: Annual Prem. Age. Annual Prem. Age. Ann.Prem. 9 .5 'CI 14 2 35 £2 11 0 50 £4 3 3 Z.io 118 11 40 219 6 55 55 4 2 4 8 45 3 9 1 60 615 3 'rh bp,, er e o bject of this So c i e ty is to afford to the A , sured all the otp it " °f Life-A ssurance , a t a great reduction in the rates retnium. De FOR EXA 31 PLE. f ' o l - 1 "(43 aged 30 may with this Society assure his life for wi,,, i 4 ky tti nu ' alpayment of lIL 3s. 4d., which in a Society hi m 'v i ne Bonus is held out as a main inducement, would . cost N um ,_ ' -s • 7 r. 4d., or, in other words, for the same annual pre /le , ne could at this Office assure very nearly 6001., whereby (I,(\crires AN IMMEDIATE AND CERTAIN BONUS "' 1 00 L ' Al i particul ars as t o Sh ares, L oans, Assurances , o btained On if required, or:vard e d to the country. &c. may be application to th e Secretary ; and, Parties in the countr) eligible for undertaking Agencies are Isequested to apply. A very liberal Commi.sion allowed to Solicitors and Agents. EDW. T. RICHARDSON, Actuary and Sec. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPER NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITU TION, Enrolled under A ets of Parliament rela4 ing to Friendly Societies For I'd UTUAL ASSURANCE of LIVES, ENDOWMENTS, and ANNUITIES. 13, Nicholas-lane, King William-street, London. DIRECTORS. C. P. Bousfieid, Esq. Thomas Hodgkin, M.D. John Bradbury, Esq. R. Ingham, Esq. Cash, Esq. Joseph Janson, Esq. Thomas Castle, Esq. S. Hayhurst Lucas, Esq. James Crofts, Esq. C. Lushiugton, Esq. John Feltbam, Esq. John St. Barbe, Esq. Joseph Hargrave, Esq Richard Shortridge, Esq. Samuel Smith, Esq. MEDICAL DIRECTORS. J. T. Conquest, F.L.S. I Thomas Bevan, M.D. F.L.S. SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Hardwick and Davidson. Members whose Premiums become due on the Ist October next are reminded that the same must be paid within Thirty Days from that time. Among the privileges to be derived by affecting assurances in this Institution, is that of Members being able to secure the benefit of their Policies to Nominees free of any charge. The Whole of the Profits are divided among the Members Prospectuses, together with the Report to the Sixth Annual Meeting of Membets, held on the 15th December last, and every other information, may be obtained by applying at the Office, or of the Agents and Medical Referees in the country. JOSEPH MARSH, Secretary. London, September 22, 1842. A NEW SOVEREIGN CLARENCE AND HARNESS "/[ORE THAN FOUR YEARS have now elapied since W. BERDOE, introduced his VENTI LATING WATERPROOF; also his well-known WATER PROOF FROCK, in lieu of the" Mackintosh." The host of imitations of bosh, mid the increasing extensive sale of the latter, among the friends of those who have adopted it, are sufficient proofs of their success. For the coming season, W. B. has now ready a large stock of the most modern and appropriate materials. Also of first-rate Garments for Shooting, Fishing, Travelling, Riding, Driving, &c., &c., warranted (without confining perspiration) to exclude any description or quantity of rain whatever. WALTER BERDOE, Tailor, Waterproofer, &c., G 9 CORN HILL, eight (lours from Bishopsgate-street. QUARTERLY SALE OF MISCELLANEOUS FOR. FELTED PROPERTY: AXESSRS. DEBENIIAM an d STORR evil —Y_EL SELL at their Rooms, King -street, Covent-garden on MONDAY, October 3, and following days (Sunday excepted; at Eleven, Several thousand volumes of books in every department of literature and science, a collection of fine original paintings and drawings, proof engravings; brilliant toned cabinet, grand, and square pianofortes, splendid pedal harps. fine old violins, violin cellos, flutes, trumpets, cornopeans, &c. ; excellent mathe matical, surgical, optical, philosophical, instruments ; carvings, sculpture, intaglios, fine old and rare china, and bronzes, and a variety of effects reserved agreeably to Act of Parliament for quarter sale, and pledged in months prior to November 1841, with the following pawnbrokers, viz. :—Attenborough, Richard; Attenbormigh, ilichard, jun. ; Attenhorough, Robert; Attenburough, George, late W. Cordwell ; Aldridge ; Aldons and Son ' • Alexander, late Jenki ns ; A rc hb utt , J. ; Barker, R.; Barker, G. ; Bassett; Burlton; Benton, G.; Benton, E. ; Burgess, J. ; Bromley and Crush ; Baylis, E. ; Buer ; Crouch ' • Cotturell ; Clune s ; C ogswe ll ; C o l ey ; Clark ; Fillmer, 'Thomas; Franklin; Fleming : Goodburn ; Gray; Grant; Graygoose ; Goolden ; Morrison; Knowles; King; Lindner; Livermoore and Tranah ; Loveday ; Lin wood; Lawton; Mills; Matthews; Mullins; Masland; ?dun. caster and Warre ; Priest ; Page and Kennedy ; Reynolds and Field ; Richards ; Stevens;Sayer ; Smanone, late Page and Smallbone ; Stephens ; Sharwood ; Smith, T. ; Smith, T. and E.; Thompson; Tarrant; Townsend, W. D.; Turner, E. W ; Ti gey ; Tomlinson ; Tighe ; Vaughan ; Whartons ; Wharton ; Walter, J. ; Walter, C.; Walter, T. B.; Walms leys ; Wiles ; Watt • Walker ; and Young. May be viewed, and catalogues had at the rooms. FOR SALE. ALIGHT, HANDSOME, ROOMY SOVE REIGN CLARENCE. with Single and Pair Horse fittings, and Double Harness ; the whole were completed to the order of a gentleman who is obliged to leave England, and will be sold a great sacrifice,in order to effect an immediate sale. To be seen at No. 40, Long-acre. TO BE PEREMPTORILY SOLD, pursuant to Orders of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made n certain Causes, PESHALL v. HUGHES, and PESHALL v. HUGHES, with the approbation of Sir GEORGE Rom one of the Masters of the said Court, at the Green Dragon Hotel, in the City of Hereford, on FRIDAY, the 30th day of September, 1842, in Three Lots, Certain FREEHOLD, COPYHOLD, and LEASEHOLD ESTATES in the Parishes of CANON PYON and WI THIN GTON. in the County of Hereford, late the property of FRANCIS EDWA RDS, Esq., deceased, consisting of First. All that FREEHOLD and LEASEHOLD ESTATE called UPPER DERNDALE ESTATE, situate in the Parish of Canon Pyon aforesaid, containing 247 Acres, 3 Roods, 24 Perches, or thereabouts. Second. All that Piece of COPYHOLD LAND called the HOP GROUND, in the Parish of Withingten, containing 2 Acres, 2 Roods, 13 Perches, or thereabouts. Third. All those Two Pieces or Parcels of COPPICE or WOOD LAND, situate in the said Parish cf Canon Pyon, containing respectively 6 Acres, 6 Perches, and 11 Acres, 1 Rood. 7 Perches, or thereabouts. Particulars and Conditions of Sale may be had (gratis) at the said Master's Chambers, in Southampton-bu.ldings, Chan cery-lane, London ; of Messrs. G:lbert, Hooke, and Street, Solicitors, Philpot-lane, London ; of Mr. William Aston, Soli citor, Hereford ; and at the principal Inns at Hereford, Led bury, Ross, Leominster, Worcester, and Cheltenham. UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF H.R.H PRINCE ALBERT. THE SPORTING Edited by " CRAVEN." The OCTOBER Number, embellished with a Portrait o , Scott, the celebrated Jockey, and an etching of Character , by Leech, contains— HYDE MARSTON, Chap. XXI. By the Editor. The French Turf. By Lord Doncaster Races. By " Cra- William Lennox. ven." Field Sports in Western Aus- Wolf Hunt on Hampstead Heath tralia. By a British Offi- by Leoctine Foy. cer. Cricketing and Rowing for the Thoughts on Racing Stock. By Month. Chiron. Monthly Memorabilia. Satan's Summer Seat. Literature. Turf ReOter, &c. &c. London : Mitchell, Sporting Review Office, 33, Old Bond street. 113 ATENT TEA and COFFEE SERVICES. 1 Royal Letters Patent have just beers granted for the production of articles as durable as, and bearing an almost exact resemblance to, elaborately chased or frosted silver, at a twen tieth of its cost. TEA and COFFEE SETS are now ready, and are not more distinguished for their extreme elegance than for the ease with which their attractive appearance is main tained, for which purpose neither wash-leathers, cloths, pastes, or powders are required. Tea-pots, 14s. ; Coffee-pots, 17s. Engravings sent postage free. BRASS POLES FOR WINDOW CURTAINS. rrabs cornice poles 1 inch diameter. Is. 2d. per foot, two inches diameter Is. 6d., a two-inch pole three feet six inches long, complete with rings, fads, and brackets 16s. ; register stoves &I. per inch; elliptic stoves, 4d. per inch ; bronzed fenders, f“ur feet long, 9s. _ Catalogue gratis (postage free) containing engravings and the prices of stoves, fenders, tire-irons, kitchen utensils, and every article in furnishing irotanongery.—RlPON and BUR. TON, WELLS-STREET, OXFORD-STREET.—Esta. Wished 1820. REVIEW, PRICES OF AMERICAN PRO VISIONS. (From a Correspondent at New York.) NEW YORK, AUG. 25.—1 send you beneath a list of certain articles of ordinary use in housekeeping, with their present retail prices, in this city. For better convenience these prices are stated in English currency. You will perceive that the prime necessary of life, wheaten flour, is not cheap in comparison with the others. There are general causes to account for that circumstance. In the first place, this is not the chief wheat-growing quarter of the Union. Then, again, you must consider, that by the time this article is sold here to the final purchaser, it has passed through more hands, and more profit have to be received upon it by dealers, than that flour or wheat which would be transported direct from the ports shipping to Eng land. There is also another thing to be borne in mind as respects all corn or grain in this country—that the Americans have been recently so deeply engaged in mercantile and speculative pursuits, as to have neg lected, in a great measure, their more sober aid safe occupations on - the land. The rage of speculation, however, has of late received a signal check, and there appears at present no chance of its ever being revived to . the same extent. Under these circumstances it not at all improbable that in the course of anothe season or two the "staff of life" at New York may become lower in price by full one-third than it is at this moment. s. d. .£ s. d. Flour, best wheaten (per barrel of 1961b5.) 1 5 0 Ditto, Rye ditto Bread, wheaten, 41b. loaf 6.1 Indian corn meal, per 100Ibs. _ . _ .. Beef, roasting per lb. Ditto, boiling Mutton Lamb 0 4 to 0 5 WORKING of the NkfW CORN-LAW. - (From the Examiner.) Account of Wheat and Flour entered for Horn( Consumption at ten of the principal Ports o , Great Britain in each Week since the passim: of the New Corn-law, with the Average Prict and Hates of Duty : Week Quarters Average Rate of Amount of following. entered. Price. Duty. Duty. -- ----- 3. d. s. d. X. April 28... 30,159 59 1 13 0 4,683 May 5... 31,072 59 3 13 0 10,131 9, 12... 7,033 59 8 13 0 3,952 19 19... 30,600 60 0 12 0 17,064 7, 26... 19,591 60 5 12 0 10,178 Jane 2... 7,511 GO 9 12 0 3,882 „ 9... . 19,121 61 3 11 0 10,055 99 1 6•• • 8,424 61 9 11 0 4,112 „ 23... 321411 62 3. 10 0 13,257 99 30 .• • . 5 3,978 63 0 9 0 21,973 July 7... 17,204 63 7 9 0 7 ,0 8 4 99 14... 95.610 '6 4 1 8 0 34 , 816 7, 21... 62,209 '6 4 5 8 0 21 , 800 28... 71,644 • 64 7 8 0 25,382 Aug. 4... 364,073 64 7 8 0 137,914 9, 11... 1,354,797 64 2 8 0 52 5 ,0 12 V, 18... 155,761 63 0 9 0 66,347 99 25... 96,733 61 10 11 0 45,788 • 18 - wet-ks. 12,457,931 62 1 I 8 4- I 974,024 It is remarkable that the average duty, Bs. 4d., is so near the fixed duty proposed by the Mel bourne Ministry, and that of the 2,457,931 quar ters entered, 1,948,333 paid the Bs. duty, the amount entered at other duties having only been 509,598, little more than a fourth of that which paid the Bs. duty. We point out this circum stance, not as any argument for an eight-shilling duty (which we are convinced would be too high), but as it s h ows t h at t h e best working of Sir Robert Peel's new scale is within the range of the eight-shilling duty, with all the objection belonging to so high a duty, and without th, steadiness which would have belonged to the whole operation of a fixed duty. We see that the Quarterly Review, whence the above table is taken, repeats the hacknied ‘'allacy that the eight-shilling fixed duty would 'lave been so much added to the price to the consumer. The obvious truth is, that the duty is ;aid by the foreigner or the importer, whose profit is the difference between the foreign price, he charges of freight, &c., and the British mar ket price, minus the duty. To say that the duty would be so much added to the home-market price is in effect to say that the corn would not be in the market at all ; and this addition of the duty to the market price is only fithcied to take Mace when corn has reached 725. At all prices below, it is seen clearly enough that the foreian importer sells at our market price, and that if he lid not pay the duty, his profit would be so such the more, and not his price so much the ess. If; when our average is 625., the foreign mport could be made at 455. without the duty, he importer would sell at 625., and the differ nce made by the duty would be, that lie would g fixed duty as too hi gh, ) tave a less profit by Bs. We object not to from an event of any one very bad harvest, but as it would to s ome ex t e nt check the supply which it m efeigalra of- sh i i t l s l i o n ieration in the would be desirable to have in seasons when i prices n this country may be nearer to those of Europe and America. It is only by a low fixed duty, if by any, that we can secure a s t ea d y and regular supply, securing us against the cala mity of prices starvino the poor; and much as we desire a free trade in corn, regarding it as we do as the consummation devoutly to be wished and steadily to be kept in view, yet a low fixed duty we must be prepared to accept as a step ping -stone to the better state of things, sa v i ng too violent a shock or alarm to existing interests. of itself. Th e working ci lau o g u e t a wasdon demonstration ebsetgraintinoinn of the end of it. The prosp ec t i s c h eer ing; the sliding scale is ast Che Times gives warning that what has been done shows cause for more to be done:— "'We would now suggest, not as being in any hurry .tbout the matter, but for the mature consideration of Government, whether an experiment which has hitherto answered so well does not tempt to a further tdvance. If the duties are really of so little im ?ortance to the farmer as the experience of the last four months would show, and their reduction so efficacious in throwing into our hands an abundance of the staff of life, it may be thought that we are wanting to ourselves in not pursuing to its legitimate limits a course of so great promise, and open to so little okection. And, i n d ee d , t h e ve ry fact that the great increase o f supply has not b een su fficient t o over the p r i ces wou l d seem to imp l y a sudden and proportionate inc rease i n demand, an d t o give forc e find application, even beyond the speaker's intention, to Sir R. Peel's argument, when he urged that the population of the country was increasing faster than their means of subsistence, and that it was the plain luty of the Parli ament to keep pace with that increase .)3 , the gradual extension of our sources of supply. this necessary sy s t em It can hardly b e unsa f e, one would th i n k , t o carr y on :>lenty which it i s t o accomplish beg i ns to a ff ec t th e market.of exte ns ion, at least till the Veal Chickens, in summer Ditto, autumn and winter Butter, per lb. Cheese, ditto 0 34- to 0 71 Rice, ditto Potatoes, per bushel 1 1 to 1 3i Lard, per lb. 0 31 to 0 41 Pork, salted, ditto 0 2k to 0 31 Hams, ditto Shoulders, ditto 0 1i- to 0 24 Smoked beef, ditto Ditto salmon, ditto Ditto shad, ditto Oil, per gallon Tea, per lb., cheapest Ditto, ditto, dearest Coffee, ditto, raw, cheapest Ditto, ditto, dearest .. Sugar, loaf, ditto, best 0 7 Ditto, ditto, common 0 51 Ditto, New Orleans, ditto Fruit, bunch raisins, per lb 0 11 to 0 31 Dried apples, per bushel Ditto peaches, ditto Brandy, per gallon Rum, ditto Vhiskey, ditto - to 2 9 " Lastly, the new scale bore a kind of approxima don,hemselves smaller an d more regular. to a fixed duty.. Thevariations were compressed within narrower li m i ts, and the differences were in The result has been a vast increas e i n t h e revenue, and a more steady and sound state of the market. Here, too, we would venture to suggest th a t t h e result is not on l y satisfac tory but encouraging. S uccess i nv it es progress. Advantages which have been gained by the present might surely he doubled by a more extensive reform. Ind such, we hope, before long will be the opinion of .he Conservative leaders. " We owe to Sir R. Peel thanks for what he hqs lone. He has done, events show that it is so,--he has done all that could he done at the moment. A bolder attempt would have effected the disruption of his own party, and that at a moment most critical for the well-being of the c ountry. B u t w e shall s till hope to be more in his debt b e f ore we h av e done w ith .uis him. oThp)i ere haws here never behasen an done ereason given for on Figures are not )rincsitplel ng s; and we have not yet heard any argument for the particular figures composing the present Corn law scale, excepting that there they were. The scale has slid once; there is no visible reason why it may not absolutely collapse. Duties have diminished one( —we look to see them waste away a little more." DUNN'S CHINESE EXHIBITION SECOND NOTICE. This splendid exhibition still continues to attract iisitors from all parts of the town, in as unprecedented a manner as might be expected. The Duke of Wel ,ington has visited it no less than five times, accom panied by the Marchioness of Douro, and if further proof were needed of his satisfaction beyond his re peated visits, he has, we understand, expressed his gratification most unequivocally. At this immediate 2eriod, when the nobility and gentry are abroad, or at their country seats, the magnificent apartment which contains all the riches of Cathaia appears to b 2 as fully thronged as ever by delighted and sur prised spectators. We had the pleasure of observing one or two recent additions, • comprised in the case numbered XLI. It contains, among other curiosities )f a recherche order, one of those esculent nests pro duced by the Java swallow, chiefly among the rocks and caves of Karang-bolang, and to secure which forms as perilous a task as the gathering of samphire on slanting cliffs. The appearance of this epicurean trifle is that of a crisp, sweet, honey-comb delicacy, and - when moistened by the rich sops with which it is eaten, would doubtless enrapture the palate of Apicius. In the same case is a specimen of a dwarf-tree, for which Chinese art is so celebrated. The Titan of the hills—be he of the bamboo, cypress, elm, or orange genus—appears here reduced to dimensions less than Liliputian, and grows in full health for its full fbrest-life of fifty years within the compass of a flower-pot. The one in question is an elm, and the dwarfed stature of this umbrageous tree is adniirably shown. But the grand, and perhaps, primary beauty of the exhibition consists in the women of the "land of flowers," the ladies of " Cathaia the fair,"—not, how ever so much in themselves personally, for the "bright bevy " of them on the whole, does not number more than six. or seven, arrayed in their vestures of silk and satinity ; but in the thousand little miracu lous ornaments wh:ch appertain to them—which the arts, whether of carving, music, sculpture, or paint ing, have one and all laboured to administer to them and their pleasures. Turn to case I. or case IV., as enu merated in Mr. Langdon's excellent synopsis, and " .Muh-wang," or the " King of Woods," as the rich rose-wood of Chi na i s ca ll e d, h as d evo t e d the siimotl; and splendid texture of its timber, to fabricate foi them alone their exquisite work-tables, foot-stools ; and screens. Ivories, in every delicate shape, form their chess, their fans, and their baskets, and the beauty of the cut-work in these specimens, out-para gons beyond measure, the Qpus reticulatum, and its best specimens, among the ancients. It is for them that the highest literary graduates of the realm, those who wear the white stone called the Chay-hew, or who have attained to the rank of Keu-jur, dedicate their time and talents to produce the charming novels, which so enamour the fancy, and of which Mr. Lane, it will be recollected, has given us recently many in an English dress, under a series of poetic tales and " fragrant" histories. Nor is the element or style in which they live other than the most refined and pleasurable. Waited on by sedulous attendants, their tables are constantly strewed with flowers, brilliant in their profusion, and exquisite of odour : tasty baskets filled with the same, are mixed with diminutive plates, which contain a vast variety of cakes, sweetmeats, and delicious nick knacks, of which the forms are as ingenious as they are varied. Administrant to their taste, the ruby.. rinded lichi affords them its aromatic flavour, finer than any fruit of the tropics, while the pears of Pekin decorate their boudoirs and sideboards. If their taper fingers arc soiled in the least by touching these, napkins steeped in tepid water, anti fragrant with otto of ro-es, immediately rectify the abuse. It must not be supposed, however, that the women of China are thus universally the beings of a per fumed and undisturbed existence. The same case (IV.) which presents us with ladies of rank magnifi cently attired, and their hair in wreaths of flowers, presents us also with representations of the common domestics in their plain coarse garments, handing the tea, or otherwise menially employed. Again in case VI. there appears a still coarser specimen of these females, in the person of a Chinese boatwoman, carry ing a child on her back, and another b oa t woman , mother of the former, with a pipe in her mouth. Not that a pipe is a sign of female barbarism : the scented lady lips her pipe as gracefully in China as the dark eyed beauties of Seville and La Granja, while indeed the former carries undeviatingly at her waist the never-absent tobacco-pouch, consistently elegant, of course, in material, form, and workmanship. Besides her pipe, however, the boatwoman carries other implements. Representing a large class in China, she has in her hand a painted block of wood, resembling a gourd, which is the safeguard for her child when on the water, while she wears, at times of rain, the common rush cloak, which hangs upon the wall, made of bamboo-leaves, and of a very rough ap pearance and texture. Her chief means of subsistence is rice, which, when out of the husk is called " Me," and when boiled "Fan ;" with her and her family i is the " staff of life." Of the general cast of Chinese beauty, Englishmen, who have made it a study abroad, have no very extra• ordinary conceptions. The full blue eye of the north, or that of darker ray, cannot be put in contrast for a moment with the mere optical loopholes, or glistening eyelets of the Chinese women, though the lover and the flatterer designate them by the fanciful, but ordi nary epithet, of " silver seas." The full cheek of the British lady, with its just admixture of "crimson and native white," is peerless, compared to the universal run of Chinese faces, which are never without due complements of paint or rouge, and a box of which last article is among the usual presents to a bride on her nuptial's. The symmetry of shape, which is the distinguishing recommendation of European loveliness, is totally spoilt in the Chinese beauty by the contracted "willow • Waist ;" and graceful n ess; or - agility of step is totally destroyed by the bandaged foot and its limp ing movements. Still there is much to praise in them ; their hands are as exquisitely delicate and slender as those of the " rosy • fingered Eos ;" their eyebrows have a curve of beauty as fine as a pencil line, and their countenances, if deficient in strength of expression, are possessed of great prettiness and sweetness. With regard to the moral and social virtues, they flourish in a Chinese home, and in the persons and deportment of the Cathaian ladies, in as amiable proportion as any where on earth. It may be remarked, in addition to Naat is said by the writer of the above, that while American wheaten dour was in April last selling in the London market at 38s. the barrel, duty paid, the same article is now as low with us as 30s. LONGEVITY. The following details are extracted from a curious hook by M. Lejoncourt, recently published, and en titled " Lcs Centenaires, Ancien s et Madernes :" " There have died in England, in the course of the last century, 49 persons who have reached from • 136 to 180 years of age. Of those seven reached 134 years, four 138, two 146, four lA -- 5 , one 159, one 160, one 168, one 169, and one 175. Th e n2sdied there 135 years official returns of Rus s i a s h ow that there were in th a t emp i re i n 1814 years, and one who persons who had o s h e lad % d ' , e p n a a sn p ds e e r i d s n o n ll6 s Bo3 a .B g e dI therenu I p , B w 3 m ds r i, d e : ici o n f l a, 1 238 passed 100, of whom 125 were upwards of 120, 111 were from 121 to 125, three from 126 to 130, five from 131 to 140, one was 145, three were from 150 to 155, preserved his senses one was 160, and one 165. In Franc e we do not live so long, yet the following instances of longevity are e state he was 9. times. The last , worthy of notice. In 1710, a Pe in as t an e t r , ryn,aamgee d d ",j ea t to ime th h e e last, entered up wardsli tZar d , of die; l l o a . t Dun-le n ft an oi, years of age, and the bride 18, who two years after wards made him a father. • A cure of Lisieux, named Desroches, died in 1712, aged 113. He cele ndi n lv o as the married ui arr i a t g en brated mass a few days before his death, and resided 91 years in the parish. In the same year died Jaques Thevenot, a labourer at Chateau, Vilain, aged 114, married three tunes, and the father of 39 children, and an officer named Bultrade, buried at St. Germain, aged 115, leaving behind 17 children, the eldest 74, and the youngest 12. In 1718, an apothecary, named Le Baupin, died at Chateaubriand , 107 years old. He was married twice, and was upwr.rds of 80 when he con tracted the second marriage.. He was the father of 32 children-16 by each wife; and he was 103 years old when his wife was delivefed of two fine ',J fi L —oys, who died upwards of ninety years later. In 1747 died at, Lourdes, M. Nazon de Vige, 118 years old. He was passionately fond of shooting, and had good sport not long before his death. He was upwards of 100 when he married. In 1757 a farmer of Bar near Tulle, named Nouthac, died at the age of 11 5. H e never had a d ay ' s sickness, was married three times, was 92 when he entered the state of wedlccic the second time, by which union he had several children, and was 102 when he married the third time." STADE DUTIES..—We should like to know whethe. Lord de Grey's frequent interviews upon the Conti nent with that august personage, whose 'merit Hines has excited such tender sympathy in this country, have had any thing to do with the increase of the Stade Duties, to which the Tory papers admit that Lord Aberdeen has assented? We can see no other rea sonable ground for the conversion of one-sixteenth into one-eighth, as the toll to be lev'ed upon British merchandise for the benefit of a trumpery Power like Hanover, without one vestige of right to show for it. Lord Palmerston invariably refused to listen to anv such pretensions ; but then Lord Palmerston had nothing to hope from Trinity College, of which the King of Hanover is the Chancellor ! Lord Palmer ston was at daggers drawn with the Orange Lodges, of which the King of Hanover was Grand Master ! Lord Palmerston had no terms to keep with that " bastard aristocracy" which makes Protestantism its stalking horse, and his Hanovei ian Majesty its hero! •He acted, in short, with perfect freedoin from per sonal or party considerations in dealing with this question ; and the result of a long and careful inves tigation of the claims of Hanover was this, that we should have given, and Hanover would have taken. ;list one-half of the Stade Duties which Lord Aber leeni is said to have conceded by treaty. There must • e something at the bottom of this. Can Lord de Arty clear up the mystery ? Weekly Chronicle. THE WILL OF THE LATE MR. LONGMAN —The will of the late T. N. Longman, Esq., of the firm of Rees, Orme, and Co., the well-known booksellers of Paternoster-rcw, has just been proved, by the execu tors, in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, in Doctors' Commons. The personal property of the deceased has been sworn under the :One of .(40D,C00/., which is principally left to his widow and family. MEETHYR.—Tranquillity is perfectly restored here, Ind the prospects of improver ent in the works are the .11-absorbing topics. One furnace is to be put in blast .t Periydarren, yncl three at Cyfarthfa, including the twe it Ynysrach, with as little delay as possible.--Monmouth shire Merlin, Repeated visits, instead of diminishing, only tend to augment, in the mind's eye, the magnificence and in structive nature of Mr. Dunn's exhibition. The pro vinces of the earth, the air, and the sea, have each contributed their quota. In one case the "Ring-necked Pheasant," groups with the " Golden Oriole," and the " Mandarin Duck." In another, the conchology of the seas and shores, from Pekin to the southern most province of the empire, may be scanned. The butterflies that have flitted over the flowers of impe rial gardens, the birds that have glistened in the fields of Ilonan, the fishes that have swam in the waters of Singsuhay, and the tea-plants that have bloomed on the cliffs of Quang-tong and a score of other pro vinces, have here contributed their wings, their forms, their blossoms, and their brilliancies, to furnish a treat to European eyes, which never could have been con templated in a collection. Yet this unprecedented work has been wonderfully, effected by the research, industry, and genius of the proprietor. To enumerate the personages of title and quality who have visited this exhibition, or made it a favourite promenade, would far exceed our space, since, follow it the example of her Majesty and the Prince, carcely any one of note but has done so. Among those we may more especially mention are the Duke of Wellington, the late Marquis Wellesley, the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Northumberland, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Marquis of Anglesea, the Duke of Devonshire, the Countess of 131essington, the Duke of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta, the Sardi nian Minister, the Duke of .Beaufort, the Prince of • axe Gotha, the Russian, Austrian, and Swedish Ambassadors, the Duke of Brunswick, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Amherst, Lord Jocelyn, Mr. J. Davis, &c. Qurcx TRAVELLING.—The General Steam Naviga tion Company's favourite steam-ship Rainbow, Cap tain John Fife, that left Antwerp on Sunday after noon, landed her passengers at the Brunswick Pier, Blackwall, the following morning, having made the run across in 16 hours, a performance that cannot be equalled by any other vessel. The General Steam Navigation Company's mail packet Giraffe,. Captain R. Stranack, arrived on Sun day, from Rotterdam, with a number of fashionables; and the Dutch mail of Saturday. The passage oc• cupied only 214- hcurs. SOMNAMBULISM.—A few nights ago a young wo man in this town got up in her sleep, and, with. a pair of scissors, cut off the whole of her ringlets, and retired to hed again without Lein;; conscious of what she had done. What is mole ren arliiible, she had taken more than usual pains with her hair the night before. —Bradford Ileralb. 4 1 -WileA . r , ( 1 4 Mit", O :f ,0 ,IW, • ' 41/ 1 - 14: ,t _ • Vii/ r e e ' i• 7 4.44 or, j o g V.e .7 1 1 • •• ir • - / VAT „ k!, 1174 19? $/ 4 • 104. i‘olj v ' 4 4 - - ' 4ll trT ! _" 1 - e lf - • _ No. 15.,629 LONDON, IVEDNE'SDAY , C - rff • ± - Er izse SEPTEMBER 2 8, 1849. -N] PRICE sd, THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, in Time for the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAITs and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing-PARLIAMENTARY and alp other NEWS is LONDON up to that Hour. !S, illorniny, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION,at ONE CHARGE. HAYMARKET THEATRE. A most touching and beautiful drama entitled Grandfather IVhitehead, was produced at this theatre last evening. It is an adaptation from the French, :)y Mr. Mark Lemon ; and if all our adapters had the caste to select, and the skill to adapt that Mr. Mark Lemon has exhibited in the present instance, w e should be for the establishment of a free trade in dramatic literature with our continental neighbour: at once. Grandfather Whitehead (Mr. W. Far. ren) is an old man of ninety, kind-hearted, in dulgent, and benevolent, who lives with Dray ton (Mr. Tilbury), a builder, his son-in-law, and whose great delight is in indulging and spoiling his grandson, Edward Drayton (Master George Webster), a boy about eight years of age. Grand father Whitehead is now poor, having only an an nuity of fifty pounds a-year, independent of his son in-law, which annuity is paid him by Driver (Mr. Strickland), a sharp, cunning attorney, but of whose bounty Driver is the instrument Grandfather White head is ignorant. But although now poor, Grand• father hitehead was once a thriving merchant, rich in worldly wealth; but the unsuspecting, trusting, kind heartedness of Grandfather Whitehead had been no match for the keen worldly knowledge of his quon- Jam partner Langley (Mr. Stuart), apd the benevo ent old man had been utterly ruined by the machi. nations of one whom as an orphan foundling he hat' adopted, brought up, and enriched with ball his for tune; yet Grandfather Whitehead is happier far in his honest poverty, than Gabriel Langley with his iii not wealth. Langley is indeed miserable—h e f ee l s 4 t 3 hat he is the despised of all good men, and in order to ease the pangs of his conscience, he, through Driver, allows Grandfather Whitehead, the annuity of tifty pounds. At the period when the action of the ‘lrarna commences, Drayton is in difficulties, and has Applied to Driver for a loan of thirty pounds, offering as a security Grandfather Whitehead's annuity. This is done without the knowledge of Grandfather %Vitae head. Driver accedes to Drayton's proposal, and goes to his house with the money. Grandfathei Whitehead is present when Driver arrives, and greets Trim cheerfully, telling him that he had had a presen timent that he should that day receive his halt* yearly allowance. Driver is about to undeceive him when Louisa Drayton (Mrs. Edwin Yarnold) interferes, begging him not to let her grandfather know the real state of affairs, as it would distress him unnecesssarily, and having received twenty-five pounds from Driver (who charges five for expenses), puts the same in a bureau, and goes te, ;eek her father. Grandfather Whitehead having .een her put down the money, goes to the bureau, and finding exactly the amount of his allowance, Shen takes it, and goes out; and' having paid certain little debts which he owed in the neighbourhood, spends the remainder in a gold chain as a wedding gift for Louisa, and in toys for his pet Edward On his return, Louisa explains to him the final mistake he has made, and tells him than her father is ruined. He stands thunderstruck She flies to her father—he is heard without threaten. ing to turn Grandfather Whitehead out of the house he old man hears him, and saying, he will i rorce Drayton to commit that sin, prepares to qt. the house, without seeing any one. As he is about to cross the threshold, he meets his little pet Edward coming into the house, and the parting between the old man and the child, was one of the most affecting scenes ever witnessed. The acting of Farren went o the heart—so intense was the interest •of the scene, chat, save the sobs of the audience, not a sound wa:, heard throughout the house as the old man hugged the boy to his bosom, and prayed for blessings on his head, and then directing the child's attention to the toys, tottered forth alone. This scene concluded the first act. The whole of the action in the second act passes at Langley's house. Restless and con science-stricken, Langley rises in the early morn, and sends his nephew, Bob Lincoln (Mr. Webster), who is articled to Driver, to fetch his master. Lincoln has, during his visits to Drayton's on Driver's busi ness, fallen in love with Louisa, and also be-- come acquainted with Grandfather White head; whose history he has heard, although he knows not that Langley is the rascal who has ruined him. On his way to Driver's, Lin coln finds Grandfather Whitehead sitting shivering on the step of a door, and takes him into Langley's house, where he. seats him by a fire, and brings hint wine. Grandfather Whitehead, on discovering be neath whose roof he had taken shelter, declares that he will not quit the place until he has seen Gabriel Langley ; but on being told that his being found there may bring Lincoln into trouble, ho consents to withdraw, and suffer himself to be concealed in a closet, until Lincoln comes to fetch him. Lincoln in the meantime goes to inform Louisa f Grandfather Whitehead's safety. Langley enters, and shortly after Grandfather Whitehead, imagining that he has been forgotten by Lincoln, quits his con cealment. Langley and Whitehead meet. The for mer demands what Whitehead would with him, and offers him money if he will quit him, and rid him of the presence of .an enemy. Old Whitehead calmly replies that he had come to offer him forgive ness ; that he rejects his dross, and that since his offer of forgiven ess i s refused, he will quit the house. Langley leaves him, and Louisa and Lincoln enter. Louisa rushes into the arms of her grandfather, who learns from her that her father is in prison for the debt. Grandfather Whitehead, on hearing this, sends for Langley, and says he will ac cept his oiler of money, that for the sake of his children he will humble himself to him, and, over come by his feelings, the old man sinks exhausted into a chair. Then the memory of other days comes upon him, and he is agai n th e p ros p ero us merchant—he hears the cries of distress—be rescues a boy from death—he learns he is an orphan, and the orphan boy, Gabriel Langley, is pressed to his bosom as his adopted son. Langley, overcome by his feelings, falls at the old man's feet. and help his forgiveness. His pet grandchild Edward comes in and caresses him—the old man's senses gra dually return, and once again Grandfather Whitehead is the happiest of created beings. Great as Farren is in other characters, Grandfather Whitehead is certainly his greatest. Never was the kind-hearted, honourable, indulgent old man, better persotffied. There is a natural truthfulness about Farren's Grandfather Whitehead which goes direct to the heart, and the tears of his auditors bore witness to the touching pathos which he infused into the character. At the Mil of the curtain he was loudly called for, and an nounced the piece for repetition amidst reiterated bursts of applause. We repeat it, Grandfather White head is Farren's greatest character, and no lover of the drama should omit seeing him in it. We cannot close this notice without bestowing our approbation of Master George Webster's acting as Edward Dray ton. He supported Farren admirably. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT THE HAVRE THEATRE. 7 0n Sunday evening there was a crowded house to witness the performance of an opera called La Dame Blanche. In one of the scenes the stage had to be left vacant for a moment or two. On perceiving this. an Irish gentleman who was behind the, scenes in a state of intoxication coolly walked on to the stage. He was attired in a gaudy plaid shooting jacket, with huge leather gaiters, &c., and carried a great thick stick. The audience was for a moment lite- rally astounded at the intrusion ; but anon rose a per fect storm of yells and hisses. The Irish gentleman, therefore, stood still, looked fiercely at the audience, end flourished his stick. Some of the audience, thinking fun might be got out of him, gave him a round•of applause, whilst others stormed more than before. At length there was a pause, and—will you believe it ?—the gentleman began singing one of his national melodies, something about but wa .as nedopi iial 1 isstrtdenr,c;Yraei considerable e e ft " Oh ! Teddy's the boy for bewitching 'em. Whoop 1 Hullaballoo ! Hullaballoo 1" And as he sung he whooped, and yelled, and danced, and flourished his thick stick right gloriously. Was there ever such an exhibition ? The people . roared again with laughter, and our friend the Irishman ap peared perfectly happy. But, alas, for Paddy ! the stage-manager called for the assistance of the gens (formes, a party of whom rushed on the stage to ap prehend the Irishman; the audience took his part. Some English sailors p w a n d o dy,,, were am p i r i e ,a s d en d) t ! di c d al g le o d it, ou f t or " h G e o di i d t o o N n v e e r e o d f damage to the heads of his opponents by h . el:e'er witnessed in a ,hilj e j a h. 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These Meters are approved of by all the London Gas Companies, and will entirely supersede those made in the common way with guide wires. Meter Works, Great Peter-street, Westminster. 8. d ~~j~= ~~u ~, THE REGISTRATIONS. CITY OF LONDON. The revision of the City lists was proceeded with yeserday. In the list of the Spectacle Makers' Company, the aame of Mr. James Haanier (late Ald erman H armer ) was objected to by Mr. Marr, on the ground of non residence within the prescribed distance. The notice of objection having been proved to have been served at Ingress hall, Mr. Harmer's seat in Kent, Mr. Harmer came forward in person to support his %rate. He stated that he was owner of the house, No. 139, Fleet-street, and resided there by his ser vants. There was a bed-room in the house, which ie might at any time occupy, but he had not done so. He had entire command over the door, and if burglary were committed on the premises the hour would be described as his dwelling-house in an in dictment against the offenders. Mr. Wansay, the Reform agent, submitted that Mr. Harmer had proved sufficient occupation to giv him a vote. Mr. Mari- for the Con serva ti ves , as k e d M r . H armer whether, when he said he resided in the house by his servants, he meant domestic servants, or the persons employed by him on the establishment of the Dispatch newspaper ? Mr. Harmer replied that he did net mean domestic servants. The house was occupied by a o p: i r o g ; t hb em ro t e t , h e a i s r o p e r c o o p p r a i e c t o o o r, the'sub- e dit or an d publisher of the Dispatch news aadsmthereel p y ow' e f r e permissive. Mr. Marr argued that the occupation was not suf ficient. The Reform Act required, according to Judge Bailey's decision, an occupation either by the party himselt, by his family, or by his domestic servants. Mr. APCIIRISTIE being of a slim • 'lar opini • on, ex punged the name: Mr. M`CnatsTie then gave judgment in a case which had stood over for the purpose. He said that to the name of Francis Collisson, described in the list as of Size-lane, a freeman and liveryman of th Grocers' Company, an objection was taken by Mr. I‘larr to his name being retained on the list. Mr. Marr stated that his name had been exuunged from the list last year in consequence of his absence from this country. Nevertheless, his name had' been again inserted in the Company's list made by them this year, and dejivered ac cording to the Act to the returning-officer, which is now before me. Mr. Marr proved that he had served notice of objection on . the 18th of August last, at No. 6, Skinner's-place, Size-lane. The witness who served the notice stated that he there saw a gentleman who called himself Francis Collisson, the freeman and liveryman of this Company, and that he informed him that his brother, after whom the witness inquired, had been abroad for exactly two years on that very day, that his return was uncertain, but that his family still lived there.. The clerk of the Grocers' Company swore that he believed him to have been abroad for upwards of a year, and that he had not attended the hall for some time. By the 32d section of the Reform Act it is provided that no freeman and liveryman of any borough shall be registered unless " he shall have resided six calendar months next pre vious to the last day of J u l y i n suc h year' in which he shall be registered within the city or the borough, or seven statute miles from the place where the poll shall have been taken ; and by the 48th section it is enacted that any person objecting to another shall " give to such other person, or leav at his usual place of abode, a notice in writing" of his objection, according to the form there pre scribed. Mr. Wansey's first objection was, that here the notice of objection had not been duly served, and he considered that objection to cut both ways. First, if Size-lane was not Mr. Collisson's usual place of abode, then, within the meaning of the Act, there had been ito service at all ; and next, if this were to be taken as a service at his usual plaCe Of abode, then that it could not be said tie had not abided there during the six months previous to July. Further, Mr 'Wansey contended, that upon all the decisions come to, and in all the dicta laid down upon this question by the su per;or tribunals, and admitting that this gentleman had been personally abroad for two years, his family having continued to reside here, he could not'be dis franchised on the ground of absence. Nothing was offered whatever, showing the ground or reason why his name was struck off the list last year. Since I was here on Saturday I have looked into some of the au:lorities ' and in all I have had tim e t o consu l t, I have found the Learned Judges striving against dis franchisement. In Rex v. Mitchell, 10 East 50, the return of a common councilthan depended upon the validity of the votes of four rreemen of the city of Norwich. They were substitutes in the militia, and their regiment was quartered at Colchester, but they all had dwelling-houses at Norwich, in which their families resided, and to which, at times, they themselves resorted on furlough, within the six months preceding the elections. Now, I think there can be no doubt whatever, upon reading the details of this case, that these men neither did enter nor ever would have entered the city of Norwich within the prescribed time for the purpose of voting, but they had houses there, and. their fami lies resided there, though they themselves personally resided elsewhere. And though their case may ap pear to be a little different to the one we are now dealing with, from the circumstance of their having been in the militia, yet the opinions expressed by the Learned Judges for holding them to be inhabitants of Norwich do not seem to me to have proceeded so far (if at all) upon their personal appearance once or twice in the town, as upon the facts of their having houses there, and their families residing there. L or d Ellenborougla Chief Justice, said, in giving judg ment, "The Act required, and ought to receive a reasonable construction. The Act meant to secure the right of voting fOr corporate offices to the free men, bona fide inhabitants of the city for a cer tain period before the election, and is therefore sa tisfied by a bona fide inhabitancy. The Norwich men were bona fide inhabitants of the city." Mr. Justice Grose, Mr. Justice Le Blanc, and Mr. Justice Bay ley concurred with this view. In the case of Rex v. John Sargent, 5 T.R., 466, the defendant having prior connexions with a borough town previous to his election to the office of bailiff, for which "residence" was a necessary qualification, took a house for one year, and slept there one night before the election, and did not return again for nearly a month afterwards, when he stayed two days, but retained possession of the house under his lease the whole time. The taking of the house appearing to the Court to be bona fide, that was held to be a sufficient " legal residence" to satisfy the qualification required, " residence" having been that required qualification. On the one hand, it was contended that it was a bona fide " resi dence ;" on the other, that it was merely colourable. Lord Chief Justice Kenyon, Mr. Juatice Ashurst, Mr. Justice Buller and Mr. Justice Grove concurred, considering him to have been at the time of the election a bona fide inhabitant. Lord Coke says, " If a man dwelleth in a foreign shire, riding, city, or town corporate, or keepeth a house and servants in another shire, riding, city, or town corporate, he is an inhabitant in such shire, riding, city, 'or town corporate."' By a decision of a Commit tee of the House of Commons it was agreed that two persons of the name o f Tilden by the common law of England are such inhabitants of Winchilsea as ought to have voices at the election, their said non-residence notwithstanding, because it appeareth not that they removed to dwell elsewhere with purpose there to settle, and never to return t( Winchilsea again, and that they kept no servants ho or family at Winchelsea, yet they kept their houses in their own hands, and might return at . _pleaauae i . In another case, upon the question of . res: N d ,h e a n t ce . , Justice Bayley says, " Tbe,qu l est k ion it j t s hat that s the meaning of the word resides . ta - eword, where there is nothing to show that it is used in a more extensive sense, denotes the place where an in dividual eats, drinks, or sleeps, or where his family or his servants eat, drink, and sleep." And in 1832, upon a discussio • n in the House of Commons upon the meaning of the word ' residence, the present Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench considered that a resident was one who, if he were to sail to the East Indies, yet l eave his family in the occupation of a house in Westminster, he would not by such absence be deprived of his vote." Now, in these cases the law upon residence, through the medium, as Mr. Justice Bayley says, of a man's family hi mse lf personally may be absent, althouh he the East Indies, is laid down d. and have gone' to so istinctly and. so ex tensively, that in the absence that in any one instance that law all authority showing altered, I am bound to follow at law has been repealed or evi dence here that Mr. _ lr it. I have had no Co issen is under any legal in capacity to return, or that he will not, or that he in tends slot, to return to his his famil y —all b • house, t o hi s h ome , an d t o being now, as they have been , here ;. and, theref • though a• fate, the service of the notice was good, yet the 1) . • o jection being invalid, his name must .be retained on the Est.—Name inserted. EXTRAORDINARY SUPPLY OF POULTRY. The poultry markets of Saturday presented the unusual but very gratifying appearance of enormous quantiti es o f every descripti on o f poultry being offered fr:r sale, all the produce of the Engl:sh feeder, who is enabled, from the great difference of the price ofcorn between the pre sent and last Michaelmas, to send his stock to market at a cost of 15 per cent. less to himse:f. The supply of geese was particularly large, the demand was also great, at prices varying from 4s. to ss. 6d. ; Lit the former quo tation many were purchased by those classes who had long learned to look upon such food as luxuries far be yond their reach. The accounts from Norfolk and other eas t e rn counties are most f avourable, and a continuance of a supplyour may be re a dil y l oo k e d to through out Own countrymen, w ith out h av i ng to call in foreign aid. D uc k s are fetching from Is. Ed. season rtiful from to 2s. 3d., and fowls 2 s . to 2s. 6d. Since attention has been called to the con di t i on in which grouse in cases came into the m ar k et, a great improvement has taken th P e le r place in its appearance, and also in the price, which way be now given at 2s. to ss. the brace. TILE IRON TRADE. —We are happy to hear that th price of iron has advanced 1/. per ton.—Carinarthe Journal. V , :~ CHEAP CLOTHING AT SWA INE AND CO.'S, TAILORS, No. 92, FLEET-STREET. The i3est Goods at the Low es t possible Primo. .~~* T i Di 1 11 ` . oe s, e if lte 1101/ floor )111V4 , tbe urPr . ,00412' ---' to :~-,