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7 c z /11/ / . . / . -79 ..,._. z....„..Nrt.4 4 . . (7 (- - i -- ------ 2 `i _ . .cl -.7v , -4, Ll • . ‘ ‘., ' 4 .1 •2-7 k-- ~..... '' ,l .l ii ) lt ' ' -' ‘4ll;ll ?'''' -It - 4s' j; ' ir 4 . _!\:`:, ‘, - j c -, 1 1, 4 A i r,, , , . v 4 4, • \ ' • iii', - ....- ..7. , . • L\ - 40 . y • . ..,..": .- ,1 .,. , .. , - - - - - - - - - - - - ---- I i , . , Ai. 4, 1- Jeri 4 0 ^ „,t4 . - 4 \• - , 1 ''',- P ,,' C e , . . ~.- ~ 7, - -X-4 , "". ` ' n '''''' , t)110. - A- - "Ar., ~' cof -- f--• , ; . 131Zoiv 4_ , ....:,vi Pe - ,:..: d- I. =:. r'...‘ , '• ". ~.—,:',-',.. -, • . / /1 F - INDIA HOUSE, JANTIAUT 24, 1849. INHE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice, That dPECIAL GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY will be held at their House, in Leadeahall-street, on WEDSpDAT, the 7th February next, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, at the desire of Nine Proprietors of East India Stock, as expressed in the following Letter, viz.: " London, January 17, 1849. " To the Chairman and Directors of the East India Company. " Honourable Sirs, _2' We, the undersigned Proprietors of East India Stock, duly qua lined by law, request that you will convene, at your earliest conve nience, a Special General Court of Proprietors, for the purpose of taking into consideration the accompanying Reselutions, and that Cu will be pleased to publish the same with this, ear requisition. We have the honour to be, " Honourable Sirs, " Your obedient Servants, "JOSEPH HUME. "ARTHUR J. LEWIS. J. SULLIVAN. "CHARLES FORBES. "JOHN POYNDER. "GEORGE FORBES. "JOHN BRIGGS. "CHARLES GRANT. "J. W. GRAHAM." RESOLUTIONS. " That by the treaty concluded between the East India Company and his late Highness Pertanb Singh, Raja of Sattara, on the 25th September, 1819, the territories of Sattara were secured to him and to his heirs in perpetual sovereignty. That by the supplemental treaty of September, 1839, the said territories were confirmed to his brother Appa Sahib, as the next collateral heir and successor, and to his heirs, on the SAM 4 terms as specified in the treaty of September, ISM _ . . . " That this Court has beard with feelings of the deepest surprise end alarm of the contemplated seizure, confiscation, and annexation, by the East India Company, of the Sattara territories, in violation of the rights of the lawful heir ; believing, as this Court does, that such Sei zure, confiscation, and annexation would be a most flagrant breach of the said treaties so solemnly entered into and confirmed, would be, a disgrace and stain upon the British character , and would se rleaslY weaken the confidence hitherto reposed by the princes and People of India in the justice and good faith of the East India Com- Puny and of the British Government. " That under such circumstances this Court deems it to be their Imperative duty to declare their solemn conviction of the impolicy and danger, no less than of the injustice of such a proceeding, and to express their earnest hope that the Court of Directors and the Board of Control will withhold their sanction from such a measure." JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. My COMMAND OF THE POSTMASTER-GENER AL . /- NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. GENERAL POST-OFFICE, FEBRUARY, 1849. Persons having occasion to forward Money by the Post are strongly recommended to transmit it through the medium of the Money-order Office ; and they are also advised NOT to transmit Coin in Letters under any circumstances. Money Orders may be obtained for any sum not exceeding 5?. at the loilowing charges, viz. : li r ot eice eding £2 ...... 3d. Those persons who desire to remi s t Money in Letters, by Bank notes or Drafts, payable to bearer, or any articles of value, are cau tioned to Register all such Letters. P U RSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause w h ere i n THOMAS AITKIN an d o thers are plaintiff' s, and WILLIAM BOLLARD and others are de fendants, tke Creditors of HENRY BOLLARD, late of Talavera place, Lower Broughton, in Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, c ommission agent, (who died in the month of March,lB46), are, by their Solicitors, on or before the 22d day of February next, to leave their claims of debts before JOHN EDMUND DOWDESWELL, Esq., one of _ the Masters of th e sa id C our t , at his office in Southampton buildings, Chancery-lane, London, and are, on the 22d day of March next, to establish such claims before the said Master ; or in default thereof such persons will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Decree and the general orders of the said Court. JOIINSW.7, SON, and WEATHERALL, Temple. CALEDONIAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 14th The ANNUAL BALL will take place on WEDIN'ESDAY, the F ebruary, at the Hanover-square Rooms. ti,e Lists of the Ste war d s f or th e i ssue o f vouc h er s can be obtained at R o ue, and of the Hon. Secretary, 15, Ring William-street, City. ""---...—___ Captain LAMONT, R.N., President. R AVESEND vlz BLACKWALL RAIL WAY, and STAR and BLACKWALL PACKETS. Railway and Boat included in one Payment. Fares, to or from London. see Fore Cabin and Second Class Railway, ONB SHILL ING ; °ll and First Class ditto, ONB SHILLING and SIXPENCE. To or from Blackwall or intermediate Piers, .„.Fore Cabin.. ...... 9d. Saloon •• • .... Is. ".‘a other Packets call at the Grays or Greenhithe Piers. FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. e ek Days, at 3, B%*, 9%. 11%, 1,2%, and 5. "li daYs• at 8%, 11%, 1,2%, and 5. "week FROM BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL. DaYs, at 9%, 11, 12, 1%, 3,4, and 5. 1,1:7,aY5, at 9%, 11, 1%, 3%, and 5. thn e starting one quarter of an hour before each of these iti lli t ,_ a aas ailes marked • are run direct, the Packets not being per to stop at Piers or for Boats. uasnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station to all parts of London ever u Ty r arter of an hour. T l -- AT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 4s. Months,:2l. vac ur i :e Months, 11. 153.; to be had of the Collectors on board the at 3 ; Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend ; or of Mr. Saunders, ; - "riok Wharf, Blackwall. w.._assengers' Luggage conveyed to and from the Packets and Rail ?Weeat e Brunswick-wharf, wi an charge. The charge for ra ge th at en hunch- is thout y Id. for small parcels, and 2d. for pa rcel .. °ember 7. 1843. ~IIE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET. View la the Gold District of California is added to the New Seri e s st Dissolvin Views —Lectures on the Cultivation of the clic e, and on the Art of Stng . ing, by G. Clifford, Esq., Illustrated a vari,ty of Songs, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at is i 7 o niclock.—On the Electric Light, by Dr. Bachhoffner on Tuesday, ...,,, 41.8 da s _ 7, and Saturday Evenings.—On Chemistry, by Dr. Ryan, nit brilliant Experiments, daily, and on the alternate Evenings.— vhilde's Phantasmagoria, with new effects- on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings at Eight.—New Chromatrope.—Microscope. —Diver and Diving-bell.—Machiner and Models explained.—The Music is direct e d b y Dr. Wallis. Y Open daily from Eleven to Five ; and in the Evenings (including Saturday) from Seven till Half-past Ten. Admission, ls.—Schools, Half-price.—The New ,Catalogue, Is. CLARK'S ROYAL WAX CANDLES.— NO PUFF,—(Only 11 it d. per lb.)—Luxuriant Light ; mil lions will admire. The chief of Candles, a Royal title bears—A ! liv er/ flame—Transparent as Wax.—They snuff themselves. —Are Gard as alabaster—Glossy as ems, and cheap as common Tallow C andles is their true character. The Public will know the Candles, for every 41b. packet bears a rld L a b e l " CLARK'S ROYAL WAX CANDLES, 447, WEST ''' .o, lS - D." All n o t b ear i ng t hi s L a b e l are b ase d ecept i ons. ether Candles and Soap are reduced in price, and may they wag keontinue so L... Ewit New Lights can be seenxt the Xstabliahment of the Zk e , tatt Light Company, 447, Vest Strand, next door to the relettraph Company. PUBLICNOTICE. - WAR AGAINST rtm Rl ° ll T.—The Diamond Lamp is perfect — Buy no other h - go-called Carrel Lamps are leaky and worthless. All who Zree:ought them, know this too well. These Carcel Lamps are ap ed for the Diamond Lamp—What a delusioa! What an , th . -- "'""Y to think thus to triumph over publie opinion. The lenelFge that describes CLARK'S DIAMOND LAMP is copied Thaeitize these Carcel Lamps. thi% M etropolitan Light Company, to end these impositions, give notice, tem, ,so tkat by all demanding the Diamond Lamp, the de b e , r 'e Carrel Lamp can no more be sold.—The Diamond Lamp u 04 , 9. Label, oa which is inscribed CLARK'S PATENT DI. - Th e " OIL LIGHT," se all can know the Lamp. 11 4 at D i a mond Lamp with the Eight New Lights are always burn igien.theEstablishment of the Metropolitan Light Company. ZsZt d oo r CLARK, Resident Manager, 447, West Strand, or to the Electric Telegraph Company. MOUSTACHIOS, and WHIS- PreventEltS Produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and k&To/C 11 7 the use of GRIMSTONE'S AROMATIC REGENE few di as essential spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers, !bolt d.,?11s of Which care headache in a few minutes ; it is also a ,unttiej,--gutfol, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only in tnangular •."Protected by the Government stamp, at 4s. ; double the size, t a i:. and double this size, 11e. each ; enclosed in a Pamphlet, con- A7 a 7Ar e t: t o estl monials of undoubted authority, entitled " Three Minutes' tke Growth and Preservation of the Human Hair, &c. Sold Post , 6 d, 7s. lid„ and 125., for money orders oily. ,_'°nden olesale only at Grirastone's Herbary, Hlghgato, near ~.yrford,' an d by Messrs. Barclay and Son, Farringdon-street ; Sanger, uoild„,!tsreet; Messrs. Butler and Co.Cheapside Fisher and Toiler, treet ; Mr. Johnston, medicine warehouse, 68, Cornhill• itZ....t_ll Ch emists, Perf umers , an d o th e rs For Edinburgh, J. and tiset.oilreel,Lelth-waLk ;_for Manchester, eresehe and Son, Adver Tills 1,,,4 , TO THE LADIES. Pap er en '? nad the following letter inserted in the t I. "Times" was news_ t he ap" b ug. Reader, remember, this let e put let .. mrs w Y the lady, herself, as a testimony to me. ttoilty of p .. 1 e t :C o " I cleY, of No. 3, Swan-street, Borough, takes this oppor tate for Itiblicly thanking Mr. W. Grimstoae, of the Ilerbary, Iligh- Y rWhheolee:fcaheeYr Of his Aromatic Regenerator, in having coni- Mid the est " the hair on her stronger er using it about four months, a 44 mraßas before the baldness appeared. hair's much and more luxuriant than I tegen a t o Wee kleY inserts this testimony to7the virtues of Mr. (3.'s till i 1 r' feeling a ssured that many ladies would gladly purchase - ....... nac•abotle if they were as certain of its virtues as she is, from bu e n x d_ 11 174, b_ ,not onlY in the restoration and production of hair in i a ti bey en ,, li t as o cure of nervous headache ; as a toilet perfume any i n : 'esPectability to the above Swan-street, Boroug ." tii.,,, s 'nses of the hair becoming thin, weak, or turning grey, afew ~,,,rt 4 ,7 n the crown of the head occasionally. every week, will pre preve"ue hair from coming away with the comb, mace it strong, aid few d i r it it turning grey, rendering the hair luxuriant and curly. A hai r b i .,, e P,? en your hairbrush before brushing the hair, will give the Th ''"anoY, causing it to curl. most e Most delicate ladies may use this delightful precinct of the odo ' t aromatic herbs and flowers with confidence ; its refreshing to r th nr . r , na noves headache and makes it a most necessary companion ?-'' Loilet- In cases of nevous headache, pour tea or twelve drops i n the trown of the head; if very bad, repeat it every quarter of an h ° .,_nr• In most cases relief is certain in ten minutes. it produces heads, ehildren's heads in a few appplications. If used on infants' it has such a peculiar cooling influence on the brain as te p re . Ve nt convulsions, as well as promoting the growth o f hair. —Ls" P 4 MPlilet of testimonials. ...Allietters addressed to William Grimstone. B a rb ary . Highgate. REMOVED TO 37, BEDFORD-SQUA. DR. LA'MERT ON TLIB SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY.—WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. lust published, and may be had in French or English, in a fie ft i e t Envelope, 2s. Od„ or post-free, from the Author, for forty-two Stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise on the Physiology sot Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive , Il nions, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Ma -'l3tY usually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate the Ysteal and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural c" u gs, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical wh e t h e r on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and _l u nfli s g e es uu ti e on et , tropi arising from these causes, close study, or the n Da- cal climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, •Joricture and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indls ttL°P. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the e E Y , Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, Ini',Z n ing their stnictin es, uses, and ftinctions,and e _the s v es a , ri e o u u d s rlq that are product - 4 in them by solitary hab its, 7. l ectie k. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.. be et() 2 7, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. b„,„! of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University _of e i m di b r e i; ;ra„ll,Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary London Hospital Medical Society, &c. that a r ri , a go requires the flufllment of several conditions. order C uld the Veit ,„,,Pay be really the cause of mutual happiness. strid - tZtoll covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be ° raised, it he to tae source in every instance disclosed, in how many c ould . Point - „ ac ,, ed ._ to physical disqualifications and their attendant disap- Used n i",;"'"e. Excesses are always injurious ; the gi ft , which when abus ed - sk pl ogeration is fraught with advantage, becomes, when to the ' 4 Prolific source of mischief and of greater or less injury the nerristltutional and vital powers. The particular excesses, on are e ,„„,, ur a and consequence of which this Treatise professes to dilate, iale b, - "J'alctive of greater severity of misery to the human frame, o ther to which it is subject. AruTaiwork contains an accurate and complete account of the t heir r 4 , l ,„ a ild Physiology of the Reproductive Organs, and of leettirei'''4ve conditions in health and disease. It deservedly ue of m o r e closest attention and study, for what subject can sad teethe ...portance than the preservation of the health pos e „, e Physical capabilities of which every man should a m yl It unfortunately happens that the unhappy 1 41 t excof essi ve indulgence and vicious habits, whether acquired troee their ure or from the follies of advanced age, while suffering fneir Invariable consequences, unwisely entertains a fear of ap tegriee-ii a qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so rYond T. but e rroneous l y en t er tained that those complai n t s are or asst s h e reach of art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking W l Z ..se cte tr ie r Where alone it can be procured. fining thus, he accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of "ably ,',ZYrnPathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, lava kledkararacterise the intelligent and practical physician, and to the 14 a 1 111„, - 0 3 , 4 441 who can show by his possession of the requisite legal - ‘°rliti c „ -- ` °i ls that he is entitled to esteem and respect in his profes- Leek s zePrielits, the FLU obtained the higest utmost co nfide n ce as his diplomas ra should c be extended. Dr. vtt.lll Y lItlar,„ 81 16 the great extent of his edipracticealhonfoorurinany years is a h bli t7 ) far his Profess ofional experience, ce, which has reference almost treatment the 1 1 2 . Pe t 2Led the Author, and may be had of Rent and R ichards, ra c ar -ro k w ylaallaY, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, TichP°rnc et Mansell, 115, Fleet. street ; Gordon, 146, -two stamps, h e . st r eet , Lond on; or, free by post for forty r.. 1 7 — .M. 8 lem : i.7de ! f, who may be consulted on these disorders personany y from Tea t il l Two, and from Five till Eight s at his Bedford - square London. Inior- par efore, Vie- said irtesy and I for I had air of rrobo-. belle d and Tina I said, )onded Lly de ich, it admir es, the quart" he lay , the Ist arrels ; 25 qrs ; here e was s erday , s as only tensive, a small ith less Oat' tuite as There ▪ ; 315 • trade west B.a o 3 9 ° - 33 ° _ 31 ° - 27 0 _ 31 0 - 36 00 - 33 - 58 _ 52 0 - 50 0 - 37 f i - 38 - 29 0 - 28 0 - 26 0 - 24 a ' - 23 0 barld' lusb el ! nd 1 65 ' t 611* st 61b" J., 0 10 6) priee ( g ; )v vn er too, he °l' !Ss 6 ' 00 of 0' N0.17,587.] LONDON, TUESDAY E S N 7 FEBRUARY O. 1849. METROPOLITAN COUNTIES AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, LONDON. INCORPORATED PURSUANT TO ACT OP PARLIAMENT. TRUSTEES. Spenokll. Walpole, Esq., M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. Henry 7ieter Fuller, Esq. Edward Vansittart Nealo, Esq. DIRECT•7IS. Samuel Driver, Esq., Whitehall. Henry Peter Fuller, Esq., Piccadilly. John Palk Griffin, Esq., Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside. Capt. Hon. G. F. Hotham, RN., United Service Club, and Brighton. Edward Legh, Esq., the Limes, Lewisham, Kent. Edward Lomax, Esq., St. John's-wood-park. Samuel Miller, Esq., Lincoln's-inn. E. Vansittart Neale, Esq., South Audley-street. Sir Thomas Newby Reeve, Richmond, Surrey. William Studley, Esq., Brixton, Surrey. William A. S. Westoby, Esq., Hyde-park-place. The LIFE ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT of the Society m braces : Assurances upon single or joint lives, contingent survivorship, or the survivor of two or more lives. Endowments of widows and children. Immediate, deferred, and survivorship annuities. The payment of fixed sums to the assured at any specific age, or to their re resentatives in case of death before that age. Premiums may be paid yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly, or upon the half-premium plan for the first five years. Loans granted on an entirely new principle. RAILWAY ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT. All persons, of whatever class, travelling by Railway in Great Britain and Ireland, assured in the event of loss of life by accident whilst so travelling, at the moderate premium of 10s. per cent., in one single payment, for the whole period of life. EXAMPLE.—A person may by one single payment of 5/. assure to his family or others the sum of 1,0001., to be paid in the event of his losing his life by railway travelling in Great Briltin or Ireland. F. FERGUSON CAMEO 111, Manager. T HE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY. INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. Upon the Principle of Mutual Life Assurance, the Whole Profits belonging to the Asqtred. No. 31, LOMBARD-STREET, LONDON. TRUSTEES. T. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. Richard Mathis, Esq. I James Fuller Madox, Esq. William Wilberforce, Esq. DIRECTORS. • William Adams, Esq. John Atkins, Esq. John Dangerfleld, Esq. Robert Henry Forman, Esq John Hamilton, Esq. James Fuller Madox, Esq.; John Alatthows, Esq. Charles 0. Parnell, Esq. AUDITORS, George Cumming, Esq. Tames Turner, Esq. Samuel Field, Esq. IWilliam Ghrimes Kell, Esq. MEDICAL ADVISER. Benjamin Phillips, Esq., F.R.S. BANKERS. Messrs. Spooner, Attwooi, and Co. MANAGER. Alexander Robertson, Esq. The 'POLICIES are INDEFEASIBLE and INDISPUTABLE, the Company being prohibited, by the 84th clause of their Deed of Constitution, which is duly registered in terms of the Act, from dis puting a Policy upon any ground whatever. The Rates of Premium are calculated upon Carlisle mortality, and are as low as a due regard to complete security will justify. HALF PRE MIUM SYSTEM. —By this plan only one-half of the premiums, with interest of the retained halves, is required to be paid for the first five years—the retained halves, being payable at the convenience of the assured, or allowed to continue, to form a deduction from tie claim on the Policy ; and as the As surance may be relinquished at any time without payment of the retained premiums, this scheme enables a party to assure for the first five years at little more than half the usual rate, and to discontinue a Policy at about one-half the usual sacrifice. WHOLE WORLD POLICIES are granted, whereby the security of a creditor, holder of a Policy, continues unimpaired, although the assured life should go beyond the prescribed limits. Sums are assured payable to the parties themselves on attaining a specified age, or at their death, whichever shall first occur. PARTNERSHIP POLICIES are granted, whereby a j oint assurance effected by partners, at the charge of the firm, secures the capital in vested. On the death of either, the survivor is benefited by retain ing the whole capital, and the representatives of the deceased obtain their share without having to wait until it can be recovered from outstanding debts. There is no extra charge for residence beyond 35 degrees of the equator. No Admission er Entrance Fees are required, nor is any charge made for the Policy beyond the amount of the Stamp. Claims are payable within three months after proof of the death o the assured life. Tie usual Commission allowed to Solicitors, and also to persons, approved by the Board, who extend the business of Life Assurance in oonnexion 'with this Company. BANK of AUSTRALASIA, (incorporated by Royal Charter, 1835), 8, Austinfriars, April 1, 1848. The Court of Directors GRANT BILLS and LETTERS of CREDIT on the undermentioned Branches, viz. :—Sydney, Mait land, Melbourne, Geelong, Hobart-town, Launceston, and Adelaide, on terms which may be learnt on application, either at their offices, Austinfriars, or at their bankers', Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths. By Order of the Board, WILLIAM MILLIKEN, Secretary. MIDLAND RAILWAY. J_Vill_ TENDERS FOR SLEEPERS. The Directors of the Midland Railway Company are prepared to receive Tenders for the supply of 40,000 SLEEPERS. Specifications may be seen, and particulars obtained at the Office of the Company's Engineer, at Derby. Tenders enclosed in sealed covers, marked " Tender for Sleepers," and addressed to the Secretary. are to be delivered at the Conipany's Office, Derby, on or before the 20th day of February. By order, Derby, Feb. 8, 1849. J. F. BELL, Secretary. TIC DOLOREAUX CURABLE. TOOTHACHE. Instantaneous relief from those excruelatim complaints may be had by using JAMES'S Celebrated ASTILIAN TINCTURE for TIC DOLOREUX, TOOTHACHE, PAINS in the FACE, GUMS, &c. [IMPORTANT TESTIMONIALS.] " Liverpool, Dec. 13, 1848. " To Messrs. Carson and Co, "It Is with much pleasure I coMmardcate the great efficacy of ymr Asttltaa. Tincture' for the Me Doloreux and Toothache, It having cured my wife for the former in a few minutes after the ap plie,atien. She suffered dreadfully for some time, and ceald get no relief till your tincture was applied • more than four weeks have elapsed and she has not been troubled it since. It would be an act of ingratitude on my part were I to withhold giving you the information, and you are at liberty to make it public in any way you think proper (Signed) " 14, Rathbone-street, Toxteth-park." " THOMAS GUY. " Liverpool, Dec. 14 , 1848. "To Messrs. Carson and Co., "It is with feelings of gratitude that I inform yon of the won derful cure effected by the use of ' James's Celebrated Astilian Tincture' • for the Tic Doloreux and Toothache, prepared by you. " My wife had been suffering the most excruciating agony for three weeks, night and day; she tried everything that we thought would be of any service, but all in vain ; she was then recommended to try your Tincture, which she did, and in four minutes after the application she was quite cured. It is now five weeks since, and I am happy to say there is no appearance of its return. (Signed) " WILLIAM REID. " 54, Oliver-street, Windsor, " P.S.—lf you are disposed you can publish this for the benefit of those who may be suffering from the same complaint." " Liverpool, Dec. 23, 1848 " Gentlemen,—After six months' experience in its sale I have found your ` Astilian Tincture' to be all but uniformly suceessfu in the cure of Tic Doloreux and Toothache ; indeed only one case of , failure do I know of in that time. Although generally averse to such things, yet you may, if you choose, make public use of this.—l remain yours, faithfully, " THOMAS LOWE, "Dispensing Cheraist, 38, Islington, and 40, Norton-street. "P.S.—You may send me another three dozen of the smaller size. " To Messrs. Carson and Co." Prepared by Carson and Co., St. Anne-street, Liverpool. sole pro prietors, from whom it may be had, or through any of the Wholesale Houses in London, Birmingham, York, Edinburgh, &c., and retail from any respectable Medicine Vendor throughout the Kingdom. In Bottles, at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 115. each. Just published, price 55., Evo., in cloth, r ipHE RATIONAL TREATMENT of STRIC JL TITRES of the URETHRA, in all their varieties and compli cations. With practical observations on the use and abuse of in3tru ments in the treatment of urethral diseases, showing that the unne cessary employment of instruments is a frequent exciting cause of stricture, and that a want of practical knowledge and manual dex terity in their use, when necessary, is the source of most of the se +ere, long-protracted, and complicated cases of that disorder so fa tally prevalent. By F. B. COURTENA Y, " The operation of introducing a catheter through an impermeable stricture is, without doubt, the most difficult in the whole range of surgical operations, and demands all the prudence, science, and skill of a master. The art can only be acquired, and that gradually, by frequent practice."—Liston's Operative Surgery. Published by H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street ; aid may be had of all booksellers in town or country. A it It I A Cr E. NI One half the world are desolately single, and the other supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a sense of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em »Jae' the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un zornprosing harry ; but the truth lies deeper. rhysical incapacity, and broken health, are the groat hindrances to domestic happiness end social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set tlement. Honour and justicedemand that health sheuldform an item in the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes er neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if ..hese surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S little AEMOIRS "On Single and Married Life , " p ub. in 2 vols., Is. ' a sh (by Doak; in stamps, ls. Gd. each). Let no imaginatively refined, , 03 ' mi sinterpretationof th e ir supposed contents, from obtaining Prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered th em. They a re not i ntende d cer tainly for mere idle curiosity, but 'or th e closet perusal of those mere deeply i n t eres t e d , t o w h om they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth en the above s u bj ects, by unqualifie d au thors, which alone or o gether, arc a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other '"le publications claim your attention (same price ls. each, by post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and Avoid,"ralt and ..How t o be Happy." They are not merely , c but equal in qu an tity a library volume, nor are they the ephemeralmiferePe' scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's e, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob servance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he would ,nthee b e done un t o — to l i ve after nature ' s laws — an d to k eep a l ways ' tunny side of the way." 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CHELMSFORD, FEB. 2.—The following are the prices of grain :—Wheat, white, old 49s to 54s ; new 48s to 535; red, old 43s to 495; new, 42s to 4qs ; barley, 28s to 31s ; chevalier 29i to 32s ; grinding 23s to 28s ; oats 17s to 24s ; malt 56s to 60s; chevalier 58s to 625; peas, partridge 31s to 345; white 3ls to 34s ; dun 29s to 33s ; beans, tick, new 24s to 27s ; old 27s to 31s ; harrow ticks, new 25s to 28s ; old 28s to 32s ; masagan, new 221 to 25s ; old 26s to 28s per qr. COLCHESTER, FEB. 3.—Wheat, white 50 to 545; red 46s to 48s; barley 24s to 31s; beans, mazagan 24s to 255; middle and amall 29s to 31s; peas 30s to 34s per qr. KIRSALDY, FED. 3.—The following are the quotations up to this date:— Wheat. I Barley. First 51s Od 1 29s ad Oats. 21s Od IBs 9d 15s 6d Ilbs. imp., ) following Beans. —s Od I —s Od I —s Od 25s to 26; are the Peas, —a Od —s Od Second 46s 6d 126 s 3d Third 42s Od 21s 6d —s Od Oatmeal, per bag of 281 HADDiNGTON, FEB. 2.—Thi grain at our market to-day : Wheat. ... 528 Oct ... 45s 3d 348 Od First Second Third prices of Barley. 32s Od 27s 2d 238 6d Oats. 23s Od 19s 10d 16s Od Beans. 524 Od 28s 5d 27s Od Total quantity of Wheat in market 442 qrs., 390 sold Do. Barley do. 356 qrs., 338 sok, Do. Oats do. 613 qrs., 575 sold Do. Beans do. 124 qrs., 103 sold Giuserow, Fzs. I.—Provisions—Cheese, 46s Od to 52s Od per cwt • retail, 51d to 7d per lb. Skim milk, Os Od to Os per cwt. Country fresh butter, 10d to Ild per lb ; Irish pow dered, in lumps, 9d to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, Nd to 9d. Country eggs, is per dozen; carried hen ditto, 8s 6d per hundred, or 10d per down. Hens, 2s 6d per pair ; ducks, 2s 6d. BitawicK, Fxs. I.—Wheat, 40s 101 d • barley, 23s sid ; oats, 17s 9d ; rye, 23s 4:1; beans, 26s 8d; peas, Os Od ave rage per imperial quarter. Kimso, Fxis. 2.—Wheat, old, 38s to 42s ; ditto, new, 32s to 36s Od ; barley, new, 17s to 20$ Od ; ditto old, Os Od to Os ; potato oats, Os to Os Od ; ditto new, 13s to 15s Od ; com mon oats, Ils Od to 14s; ditto new, Os Od to Os Od ; peas, 24s to 25s O d; loans, 24s to 25s per bo ll of six imperial bushels. flawicx, FEB. I.—Wheat, new, 36s Od to 42s Od; ditto old, 46s Od to 48s Od ; barley, new, 19s to 20s ; potato oats, 14s Od to 16s Od ; common oats, lls to 14s Od ; peas, 27s Od to 28s Od ; beans, 27s Od to 28, Od per boll of six imperial bushels. PERTIi, Fits. I.—Wheat, 40s Od to 49s Od ; barley, 22s Od to 26s Od ; oats, 15s to 18. ; peas and beans, 24s Od to 28s Od per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 26s to 28s. FALKIRK, Fxs. 2..—The supply of grain in this day's market was 912 bolls; wheat at 20s Od to 23s Od per boll ; barley , 165 9d to 21s 6d ; oats, 155 6d to Os Od; beans, 12s to 15s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. STIRLING, FEB. 2.—Wheat, foreign, 26s to 30s Od; Ditto home, Os Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, 2ls Od to 225; barley, per boll of 6 bushels, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new, 17s Od to 21s Od ; oats common, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, IN 6d to 118 6d ; ditto Flemish, Os Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, Os Od; malt, distillers, 38s Od to 39s ; ditto brewers, 38s Od to 41s ; beans, per boll, Os 6d to Os Od ; ditto new, 12s 611 to 14s 6d; pease, Os Od to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 385 to 40s ; ditto common ditto, 25s Od to 26s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new 26s Od to 275 ; ditto per peck of 7lbs, Bid to Os Od ; fresh butter, per lb. 8d to 10d ; eggs per dozen, 9d to 10d ; hay per ton, 455 to 465. THE CALIFORNIAN GOLD FINDERS. The accounts continue to increase in interest. The New York Herald introduces a highly interesting letter from a correspondent at Monterey, California, with the following mysterious paragraph:— We have also received a private and confidential letter which contains intelligence so astounding concern ing the gold regions, that we forbear giving it to the public at this time lest they should not credit it, and might only laugh at us for our pains, and accuse us of attempting to hoax and deceive the public." The Herald then goes on to declare that there were strong reasons for believing that Governor Mason and all his officers, men, mules, and waggons, were engaged digging on the banks of the Sacramento river. Colonel Stephenson had also disbanded his regiment, and gone on the like errand. This officer is said to have collected upwards of one million of dollars' worth of gold dust. Captain Marcy, son of the United States' Secretary of War, was engaged in the same pursuit. The cor respondent's letter, which is dated Monterey, No vember the 16th, is highly interesting; we therefore give it entire:— " We can now call ourselves citizens of the United States. We have now only to go by law, as we for merly went by custom, that is, when Congress gives us a government and code. The old foreign residents of California, having done very well 10 or 20 years with out law, care but very little whether Congress pays early or late attention to the subject. Those who have emigrated from the Atlantic States within the last three or four years deem the subject an important one; I only call it difficult. The carrying out a code of laws, under existing circumstances, is far from being an easy task. The general Government may appoint governors, secre taries, and other public functionaries; and judges, mar shah, collectors, &c., may accept offices with salaries of 3,000 dolls. or 4,000 dolls. per annum ; but how they are to obtain their petty officers, at half these sums, remains to be seen. The pay of a member of Congress will be accepted here by those alone who do not know enough to better themselves. Mechanics can now get 10 dolls. to 16 dolls. per day; labourers on the wharfs or else where 5 dolls. to 10 dolls.; clerks and storekeepers, 1,000 dolls. to 3,000 dolls. per annum —some engage to keep store during their pleasure at 8 dolls, per day, or lib. or l lb. of gold per month; cooks and stewards, 60 dolls. to 100 dolls. per month. In fact, labour of every description commands exorbitant prices. My previous information to you I merely forwarded to your office to open the way to the future belief of your many readers. I had not much expectation of being believed. The idea of mountains of quicksilver only wanting the ingenuity of man to make them pour forth as a stream —of rivers, whose bottoms and banks are of gold, is rather too much to play upon the, credulity of New Yorkers or Yankees. I suppose my story passed as an enlarged edition of the Arabian Nights, improved and adapted to California. " Whether you or your readers took the tale for fic tion or truth I know not. Your last paper that has reached us ie of April. This I know , the Sandwich Islands, Oregon, and Lower California are fast parting with their inhabitants, all bound for this coast, and thence to the great placer' of the Sacramento valley, where the digging and washing of one man that does not produce 100 troy ounces of gold, 23 carats, from the size of a half spangle to one pound in one month, set the dig ger to ' prospecting,' that is, looking for better grounds. Your Paisano ' can point out many a man who has, for 15 to 20 days in succession, bagged up five to ten ounces of gold a day. Our placer, or gold region, now extends over 300 or 400 miles of country, embracing all the creeks and branches on the east side of the river Sa cramento and one side of the San Joaquin. In my travels I have, when resting under a tree and grazing my horse, seen pieces of pure gold taken from crevices of the rocks or slate where we were stopping. On one occasion, noon ing or refreshing on the side of a stream entirely unknown to diggers or • prospectors,' or rather, it known, not attended to, one of my companions in rolling in the sand, said, Give me a tin pan ; why should we not be cooking in gold sands ?' Ile took a pan, filled it with sand, washed it out, and produced in five minutes two or three dollars' worth of gold, merely saying, as he threw both pan and gold on the sand, I thought so.' Perhaps it is fair that your readers should learn that however plentifully the Sacramento valley may afford gold, the obtaining, of it has its disadvantages. From the Ist of July to the Ist of October, more or less, one half of the people will have fever and ague, or intermittent fever. In the winter, it is too cold to work in the water. Some work in the sand by washing from the surface in a wooden bowl, or tin pan; some gouge it out from the rocks or slate; the more lazy ones roll about and pick up the large pieces, leaving the small gold for the next emigration. The extent of the gold region on the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers extends a distance of 800 miles in length by 100 in width. It embraces not only gold, but quantities of quicksilver in almost general abundance. It is estimated that a small population actively engaged in mining oper ations in that region could export 100,000,000 dolls. in gold every year, and that an increased population might increase that amount to 300,000,000 dolls. annually. You may believe me when I say that fbr some time to comp California will export, yearly, nearly or quite 500,000 ounces of gold, 22 to 24 carats fine; some pieces of that will weigh 161 b., very many 11b. Many men who began last year to dig gold with a capital of 50 dolls. can now show 5,000 dolls. to 15,000 dolls. I saw a man to-day making purchases of dry goods, &c., for his family, lay on ; the counter a bag made of raw hide, well sewed up, containing 100 ounces. I observed, That is a good way to pack gold dust.' He very inno cently replied, All the bags I brought down are that way ; I like the size 1' Five such bags in New York would bring nearly 10,000 dolls. This man left his family last august. Three months' digging and wash ing, producing four or five bags, of 100 ounces each, is better than being mate of a vessel at 40 dolls. per month, as the man formerly was. His companion, a Mexican, who camped and worked with him, only had two or three cowhide bags of gold. In this tough, but true, golden tale, you must not imagine that all men are equally successful. There are some who have done better; even to 4,000 dolls. in a month; many 1,000 dolls. during the summer ; and others, who refused to join a company of gold washers who had a cheap made ma chine, and receive ono ounce per day, that returned to the settlements with not a vest pocket-ful of gold. Some left with only sufficient to pur chase a horse and saddle, and pay the physician six ounces of gold for one ounce of quinine, calomel and jalap in proportion. An ounce of gold for advice given, six ounces a visit, brings the fever and ague to be rather an expensive companion. A well' man has his pro portionate heavy expenses, also, to reduce his piles or bags of gold. Dry beef in the settlements at four cents per lb., at the placer 1 doll, to 2 dolls. per lb.; salt beet and pork, 50 dolls. to 100 dolls. per barrel; flour, 30 dolls. to 75 dolls. per barrel; coffee, sugar, and rice, 50c. to 1 doll. per lb. As washing is 50c. to 1 doll. a gar ment, many prefer throwing away their used-up clothes to paying the washerwoman ; that is, if they intend re turning to the settlements soon, where they can pur chase more. As to shaving, I have never seen a man at the placer who had time to perform that operation. They do not work on Sundays, only brush up the tent ; blow out the emery or fine black sand from the week's work. Horses that can travel only one day, and from that to a week, are from 100 dolls. to 300 dolls. Freight charge by launch owners for three days, run, a dolls. per barrel. Waggoners charge 50 dolls. to 100 dolls. per load, 20 to 50 miles on good road. Corn, barley, peas, and beans, 10 dolls. a bushel. Common pistols, any price; powder and lead very dear. I know a physician who, in San Francisco, purchased a common made gold washer at 20 dolls. or 30 dolls., made of 70 or i 0 feet of boards. At a great expense he boated it up to the first landing on the Sacramento, and there met a waggoner bound to one of the diggings with an empty waggon, distant about 50 miles. The waggoner would not take up the machine under 100 dolls. The doctor had to consent, and bided his time. June passed over, rich in gold; all on the creek did wonders, when the waggoner fell sick, called on his friend the doctor, whose tent was in sight; the doctor came, but would not admi nister the first dose under the old sum of 100 dolls., which was agreed to under a proviso that the following doses should be furnished more moderate. When a man's time is worth 100 dolls. a day to use a spade and tin pan, neither d oc t ors nor waggoners can think much of a pound of gold, and you may suppose merchants, traders, and pedlars are not slow to make their fortunes in these golden times. In San Francisco there is more merchandise sold now monthly than before in a year. Vessels after vessels arrive, land their cargoes, dispose of them, and bag up the dust and lay up the vessel, as the crew are soon among the missing. The cleanest clear out is where the captainfollows the crew. There are many vessels in San Francisco that cannot weigh anchor, even w i t h t h e assistance of three or four neighbouring vessels. Super cargoes must land cargo on arriving, or have no crew to do it for them. Some vessels continue to go to sea with small crews at 50 dolls. per month for green hands. Old hands are too wise for them, and prefer digging an ounce or two a day, and drinking bock and cham pagne at half an ounce a bottle, and eating bad sea bread at 1 doll. per lb. I have seen a captain of a vessel, who by his old contract in the port whence he sailed, was getting 60 dolls. per month, paying his cook 75 dolls., and offering 100 dolls. per month for a steward; his mates, ha v i ng gone a his former crew, even to prospecting.' Uncle Sam's ships suffer a little the same way, although they offer from 200 dolls, to 500 dolls. for the apprehension of a deserter. The Ohio, however, laid in the poi n t o f Monterey about a month, and lost only twenty or thirty men. Colonel Stevenson's regiment is disbanded; 99 out of 100 of whom have also gone prospecting,' including the colonel, who arrived in Monterey last mont h f rom t his last post, an d was met by his men at the edge of the town to escort and cheer him into the town. The captains, &c., have bought up country carts and oxen, turned drivers, and gone to the placer. Our worthy' Governor, Colonel of Ist Dragoons, &c., having plenty of carts, waggons, horses, and mules, with a few regulars left, has also gone, but under better advantages, for the second or third time, to see the placer and the country, and have justice done to his countrymen or himself. Commodore Jones, lately arrived in Monterey, supposed it to be the capital, head -quarters, &c., but found not even the Governor left. Wh ere he a d-q ua rters is may be un certa i n, whe ther in Monterey, butier's Fort, or in 4 f our mule wag gon travelling over the gold region. Now, whether head quarters are freighted with munitions of war, &c., or whether the cargo consists of blankets, shirts &c., to clothe the suffering Indians, for the paltry consideration of gold, no one cares or knows. But the principle should be that if privates can or will be off making their thousands, those who are better able should not go gold less." The Washington Union contains a letter from Lieu tenant Larkin, dated Monterey. November 16, received at the State Department, containing further confirma tion of the previous dispatches, public and private, and far outstripping all other news in its exciting character The gold was increasing in size and quality daily. Lumps were found weighing from lib. to 21b. Several had been heard of weighing as high as 161 b., and one 251 b. Many men who were poor in June were worth 30,000 dolls. by digging and trading with the Indians. 100 dolls. a day is the average amount realized daily from July to October. Half the diggers were sick with fevers, though not many deaths had occurred among them. The Indians would readily give an ounce of gold for a common calico shirt —others were selling for 10 dolls. each in specie. The gold regions extend over a tract of 300 miles, and it was not known that it did not extend 1,000. A letter from Commodore Jones states, that many of the petty officers and men had deserted and gone in search of the gold. He adds, the Indians were selling gold at 50c. the ounce. Many vessels were deserted by captain, cook, and seamen. The ship Isaac Walton offered dis charged soldiers 50 dolls, per month to go to Callao, which was refused. She was supplied by Government sailors. All the naval vessels on the coast were short of hands. Nearly the whole of the 3d Artillery had de serted. Provisions were scarce and high; board, 4 dolls. a•day; washing, 6 dolls. a dozen. Merchant's clerks get from 2,000 dolls to 3,000 dolls. a-year. From all the States of the Union, vessels crowded with passengers were sailing daily. Even vessels of the very worst description were eagerly bought at very high prices. Amongst the emigrants from New York we no tice the name of Frederick Jerome, late seaman of the New World packet-ship. [PRICE OD. ciency of 48,4061.; in the latter there was a certain deficit of 57,2871., besides a considerable amount of contingencies due, and provided for, but still unpaid. In 1847 the esti mated value of imports was 1,298,9411., whilst the value of exports was 1,212,741/. In 1848 the imports were 1,255,0271., whilst the experts had sunk in value to 894,6211. We leave it to the thriving class of political economists to extract one gleam of prosperity out of such a statistical detail of misery as this. But we will go further. The whole ascertained value of the agri cultural exports of the country for the year 1848 was under 900,0001. To take that amount of produce to market, a sum fully equal to one third more must have been expended. It is easy to reduce such a calculation to figures. The average amount spent in wages end other contingencies throughout the island is not less than 3,000/. a week. It is probably more; or rather it was so when the state of the produce market supplied the means of carrying on the ordinary cultiva tion. It is thus, and thus only, that the overplus of imports over exports can be sustained. As long as cultivation is carried on at all, money must be found to pay the way. The labourer, who exists as hereto fore, however straightened may be his empleyer, or however disastrous to the latter may be the result of the year's business, still receives his wages, and remains the consumer of imports. But it is clear that such a rotten state of things cannot continue. The institutions of the country cannot be supported out of the bankrupt exchequer—the proprietor cannot maintain an expen sive circulation upon an unremunerative produce—the island cannot prosper with an increasing balance of trade against itself. Er nihilo nihil fit. It rests with Government to apply the only remedy, and that remedy lies in the legislative support of these her Majesty's colo nies, in contradistinction of the encouragement of the subjects of a foreign Crown—it lies in the protection of freedom from the crushing competition of slavery. COAL MARKE' ~.-YISTERDA7. Carr's Hartley East Adairs Main..... 12s Od Jonassohns Hartlepool W.Hartley 14s 9d Lambton Hasting's Hartley lss Od Russell's Hetton ..„.. 15s 6d New Tanfield l2s 6d Stewart's Ord's Redheugh South Pontop .. ...... 12s Od i lludson's Hartlepool l4s Od Tanfield Moor .... ..... 12s 6clll.ielloe lss 3d Walker's Primrose ... its 6d South Hartlepool Wylam ... . ... 13s Od Trimdon West Hartley • Wall's End, &c. 'Witten Park l4s Ed Gosforth 1 26s Od Gibson Hedworth Eden Main Braddyll's Hetton East Hetton 12s OdlHariley 14s 6d 145 6d,'Sidney's Hartley 15s 6dl Ships at market, 158. 14s Ocll RAILWAY SHARE. MARKETS. BRISTOL, FEE. 5. STOCK Excisrms.—The market continues ♦ery firm. Great Western, Quarter Shares, were done at % dis.—Ditto, New L7l. Shares, 34 dis. LIVERPOOL, FEB. S. Swim Excwoz.—The business done in the Stock Exchange to day has not been large; prices, however, remain firm. The sales are —Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire, Preferenee, guaranteed 6 per cent. (B), 16%—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 311. Shares, 9% dis.—Caledonian, Preference, 7 per cent., p.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birming ham), Fifths, 23( dis.—Ditto, 321. Shares (late Extension), 5% die. —Ditto, 101. Preference, 6 per cent., 1% p.—Ditto, Halves (late Liverpool and Bury), 8% dis.—Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), 3% dis.—London and North-Western, 137 —Ditto, New Quarters, 5% p.--Ditto (Huddersfield and Manchester), 28—Ditto, Thirds, 9 —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 101. Preference, 11% —Midland Mock, 94—Ditto, New Half Shares, 4% die.—North British, Quarters, Si. 18s. 9d.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Pre ference, 8 per cent. for ten years, 9% c.—Shrewsbury and Chester, New, 135. 9d. dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 71. I3s. 9d. c. —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Extension, No. 1), 2 p.— DittolG. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. guaranteed, Iy i p.—Datch Rhe sh, 6%. MANCHESTER, FEB. i. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 7 13-16 c.—Leeds, 321. Shares, 5% dis.—West Riding Union, 3% dis.—North Staffordshire, 3% dls. East Lancashire, Quarters, 5% —Leeds, Fifths, 2% die.— East Lancashire, New Quarters, 4% dis.— Great Northern (B), 1 9-16—Leeds, Preference, 1% p.—Matlocks, 2 7-16 dis.—East Lancashire, 20%. ras. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Our share market today was comparatively quiescent, and there was little alteration of prices. The only quota tions were—North Staffordshire, 3 1 ,6 dis.—Shrewsbury and Bir mingham (A), 4% dis.—Ditto (B), 5 1-3 dis.—Shropshire Uiion, 21. 1 is. 3d. dis. YORK, Fon. 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Tho business transacted to-day was as fol lows:—Great Northern, 91. 4s.—Great North of England, 239 Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union), 3% —North Bri tish, Quarters, 57i—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Pur chase), 9%. GLASGOW, FEB. Z. STOCK EXCIUNGE.—The following aro to-day's transactions : Edinburgh and Glasgow, 8434—Glasgew, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 41. 195.--Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 1, 634—Ditto, Preference, 7%—Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 15s.—Great Northern, 91. 9s. 6d.—M•nkland, 70 56—Ditto, 6 per cent. guaranteed, s —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. B. Purchase), 914. DUNFERMLINB.-0a Wednesday evening last, a grand soiree was held in thi s t own i n honour of Mr. Buckingham's visit, and to testify the satisfaction de rived by the community from his lectures delivered there. This entertainment, being the seventh 4sf the same kind which has been given to Mr. Buckingham in Scotland during his present tour, was attended by up wards of 800 ladies and gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood, and the proceedi ngs were kept up with great spirit from six till eleven o'clock. Altogether the entertainment was regarded as one of th e most popular and agreeable ever held in Dunfermline. —Edinburgh News. SPRING CIRCUITS.--ALTERATION OF THE OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Alteration has been made by Mr. Justice Coltman and Mr. Baron Platt since the first 'promulga tion of the days and locality for holding the ensusng spring assizes for this circuit. The appointments will thus stand :—Abingdon (instead of Reading), Monday, Feb. 26 ; Oxford, March 1; Worcester and city, Tues day, March 6 ; Stafford, March 10; Shrewsbury, March 17; Hereford, March 22 ; :Monmouth, March 24 ; Gloucester and city, March 29. (A D VERTISEMENT.] -THE EARL OF ALDBOROUGII AND Hottowav's l'ims.—An astounding cure by this miraculous medicine, arter every other means had failed. See extract from his Lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845. Professor Holloway—Sir : I beg to acquaint you that your pills have ef fected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach which all the most eminent of the faculty, at home and all over the continent, had not been able to effect; nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Ma rienbad. " ALDNOSOI7O}I." These wonderfUl pills will u (Signe d) diEase of the liver or stomach.—Sold (also Holloway's cure any i y t) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, and by all medicine vendors throughout the civilised world. THE WEST INDIA MAIL: SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. s.—Tho royal mail steam-ship Tay, Captain C. M. Chapman, arrived this day at twelve o'clock, from the West Indies, with the usual mails, in charge of Lieutenant Dennehy, Admiralty agent. On her homeward voyage, the Tay experienced strong head winds on leaving Si. Thomas, and afterwards S.W. winds and fine weather, until making the land, when it be came very thick and hazy. The latest dates brought by the Tay are :—Chagres, Dec. 29 ; Carthagena, Jan. 1; Jamaica, Jan. 7; St. Jago de Cuba, Jan. 8; Demerara, Jan. 4; Trinidad, Jan. 5 ; Barbadoes, Jan. 11; Grenada, Jan. 7; St. Kitt's, Jan.l2; Porto Rico, Jan. 12; St. Thomas, Jan. 15 ; Fayal. Jan. 30; Tortola, Antigua, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Montserrat, Jan. 12 ; Santa Martha, Jan. 10; St. Juan de Nicaragua, Jan. 26. She brings 36 passengers. From the Pacific—Cap tain Peacock, Mr. Reeves (died at sea), Mr. Muller. From Carthagena—Mr. Montagu and brother, Mr. S. Maria, Mr. Sailers, Mr. Abell, jun., Mrs. de Lima and family, Mr. Wiss, Mr. Sarabio. From Jamaica—Mr. Shirley, Colonel Soulin, Mr. Matsoni, Dr. Crivelli, Mr. Sotomayor and servant, Miss Macintyre. From Barba does—Captain Johnson, 66th Regiment, Mr. Smith, nine invalids. Freight-5 tierces coffee, 22 aerons indigo, 220 bales sarsaparilla, 31 packages sundries. Gold and silver, value 851,946 dolls.; gold weighing 1331b5. 6oz. 15cwts., silver ditto 1581bs. 4oz. ; guilders, 40 ; 5861. 10s. Bri tish coin; 1 box of pearls. Some slight disturbances had taken place in New Granada. Chagres will most likely now become a place of some importance, as the quickest point of communi cation between America and California. Many vessels la of passengers are expected to arrive shortly, a steamer having brought 250, and a vessel called the John Benson about fifty more ; the Governor, Judges, Cus • tom• house officers, &c., have already crossed by this route. Rain having fallen, the crops will most likely be an average. Stations of her Majesty's Ships—Bermuda at Nica ragua, Electra and Imaum at Jamaica, Helena at Maracaibo, Trincomalee at Barbadoes, Alarm on coast of Cuba. Stations of the Company's Steam-ships—The Avon at Demerara, Trent at Jamaica, Dee at New York, Forth in the Gulf of Mexico, Clyde from St. Thomas ior Jamaica, Conway at St. Thomas, Reindeer at Bar badoes. The Jamaica papers contain little news of interest. On the opening of the Legislative Assembly, after the Christmas recess, the Governor pronounced the follow ing speech:— " Gentlemen of the Council, Mr. Sneaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly, " Ido not think it could afford you any pleasure, nor that it would answer any good purpose, to say more than is absolutely necessary as to the occasion of our meeting here to•day. " Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly, " Having learned that on Friday last you had ad journed to the 23d January, before any Bills had re ceived the Governor's assent, and knowing that some of the colonial enactments on which the maintenance of civil government and social order within this island immediately depend would expire within ten days from your adjournment, I have thought it my duty to invite you, in the Queen's name, to resume the dispatch of business, in order that you may avail yourselves of the short interval which it still remains within your power to make due provision for the preservation of the public peace, and of your faith with the public creditor, and For the support of your existing social institutions, in cluding those of the Established Church. "For the sustenation of all these within this portion of her Majesty's dominions a confidence and trust is re posed in you, and they are left primarily and locally de pendent on your loyal aid, and on your willing discharge of an obvious duty. "Gentlemen of the Council, " Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly, " Although the Colonial Legislature has been in Ses sion from the 3d of August to the 20th September, and from the 26th October to the 22d December, not a single enactment has yet been made in the course of this year; and there are now scarcely five days remaining before the end of it, for the renewal of what we called the Annual Acts. I hope that from this brief and fleeting period at least the general good of the island may assume in the eyes of all its fit pre-eminence as the paramount object, and may throw into shade the sym bols and the differences of party. Any impatience and hurry in the transaction of the public business might re produce mistakes which are much more easily made than rectified, and a recollection that courtesy must be reciprocal, and such a feeling of mutnal respect as may incline each to put the most favourable construction upon the acts of the other, will much conduce to that ready co-operation between the two Chambers of the Legislature which upon this occasion is more than ever desirable." (From the Jamaica Dispatch, January 8.) It seems impossible but that West Indian affairs must again largely occupy the attention of Parliament at its approaching session. The Ministerial efforts of last year have proved too abortive, and the crisis in colonial affairs has become too urgent, to admit of the supposition that Ministers will be permitted to rest upon the delusive measures imposed upon the colonies during the last ses sion in the name and under the pretence of relief. The thing is scarcely within the bounds of reason. Unless the Ministers of the. Crown are prepared openly to sur render the Queen's possessions in the West Indies, and the people of England are ready to sanction the aban donment, it is impossible that the present anomalous po sition of the British Antilles can fail to enter largely into the political discussions of the day. In What form the renewed Parliamentary contest may be provoked, or who may be the champion prepared to throw down the gauntlet in defence of colonial existence, now that the hero of the last tournay is numbered amongst the dead, we are not prepared to state. But there were heroes be fore Agamemnon, and, deeply as we deplore the loss of the noble, the dauntless, the indefatigable spirit who fought the battle of the colonies during the session of 1848, we hope and believe there are conscientious and independent Members of Parliament, though Lord George Bentinck be no more. As regards the condition of Jamaica, it is, beyond doubt, far worse than it was when Parliament was so licited to legislate for the relief of the colonies at the commencement of the last year. The evils that were then principally in anticipation have been since realised with painful severity, and the public and private bank ruptcy of the colony has become an alarming fact. Nothing could more clearly exhibit the truth of all that was then advanced in favour of the colonies, or the weakness and utter delusiveness of the measures intro duced and passed by the Government, under colour of redress, than the present condition of this the most im portant colonial possession of Great Britain in these seas. Not only have private interests been ruthlessly sacrificed; not merely have private fortunes been scan dalously plundered; but public credit has been extin guished. It is now many months since the island trea surer formally announced by public advertisement the insolvency of the Treasury, and although a momentary expedient ha,s bben adopted, and some 50,000 L of ficti tious currency, irredeemable, and illegal in its use, has been circulated to meet the crisis, still the publio Trea sury is empty, and the means of supporting the institu tions of the country are barely attainable. And how, indeed, can it be otherwise, when every in terest in the island is paralysed? How can the revenue flourish, when they by whose industry it exists are plunged into the depths of poverty and ruin by the legis lation of the mother country? In the year 1826 the report of the Receiver-General exhibited a sum o f 165,7951. currency, being equal to 99,4771. sterli ng, . fiea in the public chest beyond the amount of public cert i ficates stated the circulation. In the year 1846, a similar repo o r ool d the amount at the credit of the Island to be 96 l a n t November of 1848 the amount was nil., been n nthough brought to paper d least 30,0001. of impromptu the aid of public necessities. In the ha d year Jamaica exported some 90,000 hhds. of sugar; in 1848 her exports somewhat exceeded one-third of that amount. In 1847 the actual revenu e of the island was 233,4581., I whilst its actual expenditur e was 281,8641. ulB 48 the revenue lln the Ord w as 192,038/., to meet an annual expen d iture of year there was an aseertaiued defi- JAMAICA MARKETS. (From De Cordova's Mercantile Intelligencer, of Jan. 5.) Flour—The market is heavily stocked, and demand very dull. Some 1,500 barrels have been sold at 31. Meal is very abundant, and dull of sale. The last trans actions were at 15s. and 15s. 6d. per barrel, but further arrival of 1,600 barrels since those sales have caused an unfavourable impression. Rice—Carolina has an improved tendency and is not abundant. It may be quoted at 17s. and 18s. per 100Ibs. Bread—There has been an additional arrival of 600 barrels, none of which has been sold. Of previous re ceipts, 150 barrels (Watson's) have been moved at 16s. for pilot bread, and 18s. and 19s. for crackers. Butter—American sells readily at Bid. to 9d. per lb., at which figure 600 kegs of Philadelphia have been placed. Irish is wanted, the stock being extremely limited, and may be quoted at 13d., but it is taken en tirely by retail. Lard—Tho stock is very heavy ; 950 kegs have come to hand in one vessel the last few days. Candles were wanted, when 3,000 boxes of Philadel phia arrived, and were taken at Bid per lb. Pork—The stock is very heavy ; indeed the article is becoming scarcer. Hams—Small lots of American are moved at 7 d. per lb. Cheese—The stock of American is heavy and un saleable. Beef—The market is well supplied. Rum has been sold at 3s. 3d. and 3s 4d. per gallon for consumption, equal to Is. 9d and Is. 10d. for exportation. Brandy brings ss. 6d. per gallon in bond. Tobacco is of heavy sale, and very abundant. Manu factured is taken at 7i-d. per lb. Sugar is dull at I Is. 6d. and 148. per 1091b5., accord ing to quality. Pimento is wanted ; it fetches 2d per lb. Freights are dull at 31. and 31. 10s. for sugar to London. There are several vessels in harbour waiting employment. THE MEDITERRAITEAN. SOUTTIAMPTON, MONDAY, FEB. s.—The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Sultan, Captain George Brooks, has just arrived here from Con stantinople, after an unusually quick voyage, having occupied only three days eighteen hours on the passage from Malta to Gibraltar, and from Gibraltar to South ampton only four days twenty hours. The Sultan brings ship letter-bags of the following dates:—Constantiuopre, Jan. 20; Smyrna, the 22d; Malta,.the 26th; Gibraltar, the 31st. She has six first-class passengers, and eight distressed seamen; and the following valuable freight:-133 pack ages of specie, value 130,0001. sterling; 31 packages of yellow berries, 10 packages of tobacco, 76 boxes of mandarin oranges, 8 cases of fruit, 4 cases of julap, 54 cases of opium, 4,303 drums of fruit; 184 packages of raw silk; 1,059 bales of goat's hair, 36 bales of carpets, 14 boxes of scamony, 20 cases of sponges, 120 bags of valonia, 28 bags of galls, and 67 packages of sundries. Our adl ices from Constantinople mention that the weather had contiuued to be very severe, and many losses of shipping had occurred in the Dardanelles and Sea of Marmora. Our Gibraltar letter of the 30th ult. announces the arrival on the 28th of Sir Charles Napier's squadron, The gallant Admiral immediately landed and paid his respects to the Governor, and after inspecting the now fortifications dined at the Convent. It was generally thought at Gibraltar that the pre sence of Sir Charles Napier's squadron in the bay was preparatory to a trip to the coast of Morocco, for the . purpose of demanding satisfaction from the Emperor for the repeat piracies of his subjects on the Rif Coast. The steamer Stromboli was detached from the fleet and sent to Tangier, returning OR the 29th with Mr. J. H. Drum mond Hay, her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul- General in Morocco. After an interview with Sir Charles Napier, Mr. Drummond Hay started immedi ately in her Majesty's steamer Sidon for Tangier, whence the Charge d'Affaires was to pursue his voyage to La rache previous to a journey into the interior to see the Emperor. The barque Appoline, which was aground, had been got off by the Polyphemus. The Russian barque Harmenie picked up the crew of the British brig Rebecca, of Bel fast, bound to Marseilles, which vessel had foundered off Cape St. Vincent on the 26th of January, and landed them at Gibraltar. STATIONS OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS. At Gibraltar.—Her Majesty's ship St. Vincent, Rear- Admiral Sir C. Napier, Captain J. C. Dacres ; her Majesty's ship Powerful, Captain the Hon. R. S. nuncios, C.B. ; her Majesty's ship Prince Regent, Capt. W. F. Martin ; her Majesty's steam-sloop Rifleman, Lieutenant Crofton, Commander ; her Majesty's steam sloop Plumper, Commander Nolloth ; her Majesty's sloop Orestes, Commander Hawker ; her Majesty's steam-vessel Reynard, Commander Cracroft ; her Ma jesty's steam.ship Stromboli, Commander Beauclerk ; her Majesty's brig-of-war Harlequin, Commander F. B. Seymour ; her Majesty's steamer Polyphemus, Captain R. D. Crawford. At Tangier—Her Majesty's steamer Sidon, Captain Henderson. At Malta—Her Majesty's steamers Merlin and Oberon. At Constantinople—Her Majesty's steamer Tartarus. The Sultan passed the screw-steamer Osmanli, on the 29th, off Cape Jenez, steering to the eastward. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The statement that Mr. Brown, master of the Agin court, at Devonport, has been appointed to the Victoria and Albert royal yacht, is incorrect. Commodore-Superintendent Henry Eden, of Woolwich Dockyard, has proceeded on leave of absence, we believe, to be married to Lady Beresford. Commander James Wolfe, additional of the Fisgard, has been acting for the Commodore as senior officer in the ordinary; and Mr. Bellamy, the master attendant, as acting superintendent of the dockyard. _ _ _ The Hon - . Armar Lowry Corry, brother of the present Earl of Belmore, and nephew of the Hon. T. L. Corry, M.P., late Secretary to the Admiralty, has been ap pointed naval cadet to the Fisgard, flagship at Woolwich. FIFTY' GUN FRIGATES.—We stated some weeks since that the Admiralty had determined to build two 50-gun frigates from the design furnished to the board by the late committee of naval architecture, Messrs. Read (master shipwright of Sheerness), Chatfield (assistant at Woolwich), and Creuzo (principal surveyor at Lloyd's), the constructors of the Cressy, 80, Thetis, 36, and Espiegle, 12. On the Ist of January, these 50-gun frigates appeared in the Navy List, one of them as the " Bacchante, 50, Portsmouth,,building," and the other as the " St. Fiorenzi, Woolwich, building." The conver sions for these frigates are being made, and slips will very shortly be appropriated for their construction. MORE CONVICTS IN THE DOCKYARD.—The convict establishment at Woolwich is likely to be increased to between 500 and 600 felons; and the Hobe frigate is ordered to be transferred to the convict department, for the purpose of accommodating the wretches. HIGH-PRESSURE MARINE ENGINES IN THE NAVY.-' - ' e _ The first high-pressure marine steam-engine, introduced e t d e 'into a ship in the navy, is ordered to be fitted to _ • • Mini, iron screw gun-vessel, at Woolwich, hi n gh.p i r u o u s. horse power engines are to be taken out, and sure engines of 10-horse power are to is still in the The Niger screw-sloop, at Woolwich,bn ntroduced. hands of Messrs. Maudslay, who are adjusting She She will not be ready before the end v a a s ly t e he shipwrights will have something to do with her after the engineers leave her. un port with the Niger, to The Basilisk, paddle-wheel sloop, to be tried with the Niger, will proceed q u a dr o n t t h o e r e. form a portion of the l a t o dv p a The eole, steam s S o he ' will ;lot go to Devonport just nowcieesvd ssteam a rt Sheerness s com plete her refittings. yet. When the Niger and Basilisk have taken up their moorings at that port , the sq uadr o n of eight vessels will be made up without the Hecla. The Juno, 26, Captain Patrick Blake, is ordered to be paid off at Chatham , without disturbing h er i nternal fittings. PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY. --The First Lord of the Ad miralty, the Right lion. Sir Francis Thornhill Baring, Bart., arrived here this afternoon, at three o'clock, from his seat near Andover (Stratton -park), in order to be present at a meeting of his constituents this evening, prior to his nominatio n to . morrow. The head-quarters of Sir Francis are the Fountain Hotel. • Mr. H. D. P. Cunningham, R.N., who has recently returned from the Cape of Good Hope as secretary to Vice-Admiral J. R. Dacres, has just received a medal from the Society of Arts, for a plan of a carriage for the conveyance of a life -boat along a coast, and for facili tating the lauziching of her, which has been applied by him to the Life-boat Establishment lately ormed at Table Bay. This carriage is of such a peculiar construe ltioll as to require only eight men to attach the oat to it i n 80 seconds, and to travel with so much ease as to enable the life-boat, with hawsers, and all other portabte means for rescuing shipwrecked people, to be eiouveyei t to the most remote parts of Table Bay within whicl i wreaks usually occur, in the short space of 20 mire e a; an d that, too, over ground which no ordinary carri age could travel without much difficulty and delay. 1 men it as remembered bow many fearful instances of ship.' wreck and loss of life have occurred on the dangerous shores of this bay, the means thus afforded of so spec !dily con veying succour to the spot must be viewed b y ail per. sons interested in the cause of humanity with , much g a . tisfaction. A model, from which tke carriage at Cape Town was constructed, has been brought to Ent ;land by Mr. Cunningham. Mr. Cunningham also furnished the Life-beeet Esta blishment at Cape Town with an apparatus for enenging people out of a stranded wreck under circumsts races in which boats could be of no avail, and which wt's suc cessfully tried in Simon's Bay, on which occasion per• son was landed from the vessel in five minutes after a communication from the shore had been established by means of a line. This has also formed a most satisfac. tory addition to the means now established at Table Bay for saving life from shipwreck. The Alban steam-vessel, Master Commander Mrsnser Bradshaw, sailed this afternoon for the river, taking such supernumeraries as required a passage to the Eastern ports. It is understood she is to be paid off forthwith. Wind N.W. by W., light breezes, and dark cloudy weather. PLYmoETTE, FEB 3.—Her Majesty's steamor Rhada,- manthus, Maer Commander J. Aylen, went up har bour yesterday worning with a battalion of Royal Ma rines from Waterfora, Her Majesty's sloop .Heroine, 8, Commander Chatles Edmunds, is ordered to be ready to sake the African mails on the Ist of April. The Drake lighter arrived on Tuesday from Ports mouth with stores for the Devonport dockyard. She had a boisterous passage of 15 days, and is very l e 3ky. On RA after the Ist of June next the Government sailing packet brigs, which convey snails from Fal mouth to South America, are to be paid off. The mails will afterwards be forwarded by contract merch'ant vessels. Two bricklayers and fivo stonemasons are to be dis— pensed with in the dockyard, and that part of the estab lishment is to be discontinued; only one of each branch will be retained. It is currently reported that one as sistant, two foremen, three inspectors, and 16 leading men are to be superannuated before the Ist of April. Orders were received on Thursday to enter 16 boys as shipwrights' apprentices; some of •here have elder brothers in the yard who have recently completed their indentures, and they have been thus selected to the ex clusion of other candidates. Her Majesty's ship Vanguard, 80, Capt. G. F. Rich, Failed from Malta on the 17th, for England. She brings home the crew of the Mutine, and will be paid off at this port. _ SHIPS IN THE HAnnoun.—The Impregnable, 104„ Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, with the flag of Admiral Sir if. Gage; Agincourt, 72, Captain Mends, with the• flag of llear•Admiral Sir John Louis; Caledonia, 120, Captain T. W. Carter; Apollo, troop-ship; Nautilus, tender to the Impregnable; Rhadamanthus, steamer; Crane, Linnet, Diligence, and Drake packets; and Con fiance, steam-tug. Her Majesty's ship, Caledonia, 220, Ceptain Carter, is to fill up her complement from 350 to her seagoing complement as soon as the ships in course of dismant ling are paid off. The naval apprentices attached to the San Josef were paid etc-half of their wages on Wednesday, the other half being reserved, by order of Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, to assist in clothing those who may be drafted into sea-going ships, or paid to their parents at a future period, as Sir Thomas may be disposed to direct. Woo',mut, FEB. s.—The Black Prince, 72 guns, has taken on board her anchors, cables, and other stores, which were landed at this doekyard when it was con templated to fit her as a convict ship, and on Wednesday next she will be towed to Sheerness and thence to Chatham. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.-YESTERDAY. Very few horses were backed for the Chester Cup, nor did the prices vary to any material extent, except in the instance of The Tartar and Jock o'Sot, both of whom sprung several points; The Tartar had the strongest party. Of the outsiders, Executor and Lugar were most in favour; they were also in force for the Metropolitan Handicap. The Flying Dutchman was backed very freely for the Derby at 13 to 3; the outlay could not have been much short of 1,000/. Nunnykirk, TJriel, and Elthiron were also in great favour, and several I,ooo's to 15 and 20 were taken about the colt out of Flambeau's dam and Indus. Strongbow was quite at a discount. Closing prices.— CHELTENHAM STEEPLECHASE. 4 to 1 agst Vengeance 4 to 1 agst Mr. T. Mason's Prince George 5 to 1 agst Mr. Wallace na Equinox LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 16to 1 agst Mr. T. Mason's Prince George—t to 50/. 25 to 1 agst Mr. Coghlan na Edward the First— taken to 501. 25 to 1 agst Mr. Buchanan's Alfred—taken 25 to 1 apt Napoleon METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. agst Lord Stanley's Canezou—taken egst Lord Eglinton's Lugar—taken freely agst Mr. Gregory's Loupgarou agst Colonel Anson's Backbiter agst Mr. Greville's Clarissa agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor—taken CHESTER CUP. 10 to 1 12 to 1 12 to 1 15 to 1 16 to 1 17 to 1 17 to 1 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar—t 18 to 1 25 to 1 agst Mr. F. Clarke's Joc o'Sot—taken 27 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress— taken 27 to 1 agst Mr. Nolan's Blucher 40 to 1 agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor—taken 1,000 to 20 agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar—tkn repeatedly 1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Gregory's Clermont—taken 1,000 to 20 agst Lord Howth's Peep-&-lisy Boy—taken 1,000 to 20 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair taken and afterwards offered 500 to 10 agst Mr. Gregory's Loupgarou—taken and afterwards offered 1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Maughan's Rathmines—taken 4to 1 agst Mr. John Day's lot—take 5 to 1 DERBY 13 to 3 agst Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman—tlnt 7to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Tadmor 20 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Osterley 25 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Nunnykirk—t freely 25 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Uriel—taken freely 25 to 1 agst Lord Stanley s btrongbow 30 to I agst Lord Eglinton's Elthiron—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's The Knout 50 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's c out of Flambeau' dam—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Colonel Peel's Indus HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Sir John Cope's bds., Wed., Bull Marsh Court; Fri., Crookham Street-10}. Craven hds., Wed., Stipe; Fri., Hare and Hounds; Sat., Langley Gate-10t. ork and Ainsty hds., Thurs., Pill Moor, Brafferton; Sat., Crockey Hill. Sinnington hds., Fri., Woolah-9. Cleveland hds., Thurs., Dunsdale Bridge-10i. Betide hds., Wed., Thorpe Perrow; Fri., Hornby Castle. Durham County hds., Vied., Old Acres Lane End; Fri., Elton-10i. Bement harrs., Wed., Appleby; Sat., Inglewood. Inn, Old Carlisle Road. Wigton harrs., Wed., Bethel. Lord Elcho's hds., Wed., Kilham; Fri., Budle; Sat., Newbiggin. Mr. - Watson's hds., Wed., Warkworth ; Fri., Nun riding-10i. F. B. hds., Thurs., Stonemasons Arms-101. ESTIMATE OF THE NUMBER OF CHARGEABLE LETTERS DELIVERED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN EACH YEAR, FROM 1839 TO 1848 :*- Annual Increase. Year. Number of Per c enta g e Letters. Number of reckoned on Letters. the Number for 1839. - _------------- 1839 76t millions. 1840 169 ditto 93 millions. 123 per cent. 1841 196 k ditt o 27i ditto 36 ditto 1842 208 i ditto 12 ditto 16 ditto 16 ditto 1843 220} ditto 12 ditto 28 ditto 1844 242 ditto 21 39 ditto ditto 1845 271 i ditto 29 ditt o 1846 299 fr ditto 28 ditto 37 ditto 1847 322 ditto 22} ditto 30 ditto 1848 329 ditto 7 ditto 9 ditto ----- -- ___L:- --- ----_ * The Est i ma t e for 1839 is founded on the ascer tained s s p fo e r a.k on in e g w , week in is fo far the ymonthear end ingom , pence was made the • um rate. The estimate for each tallied number ber December 5, at which . time four maxim °f strictly let subsequent year is founded on the ascertained number of Letters for one week in each calendar month.—(Vide Return to the House of Commons, No. 539. 1848.) t This is exclusive of about six and a half millions of franks. DEITII OF THE EARL OF BUCSINGHAMSHIRE.—• We have to announce the death of the Earl of Bucking hamshire, which took place on the Ist instant. The deceased Earl as born in 1789, and was consequently in his 60th year at the time of his death. He has lett, no issue. The title descends to the lion. and Rev. Ay,. gustus Edward Hobart, Prebendary of Wolverhaiiptl brother of the late peer, who was born in 1793, and 'al l s a large family. The Rev. Gentleman is the second member of the Church to whom a peerage has 1. stely descended; the other being the present Baron A' Luck land, Bishop of Sodor and Man. GOLD IN CALIFORNIA.—It is said by the hr it so counts from California, that 500 miles lie open to the avarice of gold hunters, and that some adventurer:a have collected from 1,200 to 1,800 dolls. a day, the vobahle average of each man's earnings being from 8 to 1 0 dolls. a day, or let us say 21. sterling. The same au' thority avers there is room and verge enough for the profitable working to that extent of 100,000 persons. Two pounds a day for each man would amount to 200,0001., which multiplied by 300 working days would give 60,000,000/. a year. TRADE OF DOUGLAS.—The amount of tonnage of shipping that arrived at the port of Douglas between the Ist of January, 1847, and the 31st of December, 1848, exclusive of trawl smacks and the Herring fle e t , was 119,943.—151 e of Man rises. • y did room , uncl ri) W 5, So that hich for Thite. 5Ma Lt tf. coin• alone -road it ad )r the ution, uch a itions orna- thus vith a 'erica . I,Q 0 ioo pr ettl i i25°,64 .! " Lieu . of 4 o° t the I . 00 r gOtl to of l ea bir, a , op? lard