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".........7..... . -!.. .. --- -.21 , A1T.• ' 4 , , at N. to an d METROPOLITAN COUNTIES AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, LONDON. INCORPORATED PURSUANT TO ACT OF PARLIAMENT. TRUSTEES. Spencer H. Walpole, Esq., M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. Henry Peter Fuller, Esq. Edward Vansittart Neale, Esq. DIRECTORS. Samuel Driver, Esq., Whitehall. Henry Peter Fuller, Esq., Piccadilly. John Palk Griffin, Esq., Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside. Capt. lion. G. F. llotham, 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 Awlley-street. Sir Thomas Newby Reeve, Richmond, Surrey. William Studley, Esq., Brixton, Surrey. William A. S. Westohy, 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. Endowmeats 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 apex the half premium plan for the first five years. Loans granted on an entirely ne principle. RAILWAY ASSURANCE DEPARTMENT. All persons, of whatever class, travelling by Railway in Great Eritain and Ireland, assured in the event of loss of li re loy accident whilst so travelling, at the moderate premium of Ins. per cent., is one single payment, for the whole period of life. EXAMPLE.-1 person may by one single payment of Si. assure to his family or others the sum of 1,0901., to be pail in the event of his losing his life by radwz.y travelling in Great E:itrin or Ireland. F. FERGUSON CAIIRO (IX, Manager. )vereL ig the ;t, she g, and [PRICE SD. ❑d the DrPgo - first by in the ;ion of rneang ►Liman upon er re es bad have ite or g, the I faint t once )raise , the r to be LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Royal Charter of King George the First, A.D. 1720, for ASF•URAotiffiCEcesll,psono.L7l,FlEto,yaaglaEiixisethFaZ Cornhill, and No. , and for MARINE INSURANCES.— 10, Regent-street. GOVERNOR —Lestock Peach Wilson, Esq. SUB-GOVERNOR —William King, Esq. DEPUTY-GOVERNOR—Robert Cotesworth, Esq. AND TWENTY-FOUR DIRECTORS, VIZ.: — Robert Allen, Esq. James Dovvie, Esq. John Alves Arbuthnot, Esq. John Furse, Esq. Ri c h a rd Baggallay, Esq. ' Samuel Gregson, Esq. George Barnes, Esq. David Charles Guthrie, Esq. Henry Blanshard, Esq. John Alexander Hawkey, Esq. John Watson Borradaile, Esq. Edward Haulage, Esq. Edward Burinester, Esq. Charles Kerr, Esq. Henry Cayloy, Esq , John Ord, Esq. -' , n !`h ^ email, Esq. - George Probyn, Esq. an icy, Esq. Tohn Rees, Esq. William Dailas, Esq. eatrick Francis Robertson, Esq. Bonansy Dobree, Jun., Esq. 'Thomas Weeding, Esq. The Corporation has effected Life Assurances for a period of more than 125 years, its first policy having been issued on, the 7th of Jane, 1721. t; the . y from vithout , 3,11 0 Ss 4d; LA this rs, and week's was iri per qr. Liter ed. and for ter Wad et little Id peas stained The extent of its business and connexions, the security afforded by its large capital, its long standing, its advantages to Assurers, and the liberality of its transactions, strongly recommend it to the public. Two-thirds of the gross profits are awarded to the assured, and the expenses •f managing the Life Department are not, as is usual, taken from the premium fund, but are defrayed by the Corporation out of their one-third share of the profits, thus giving to the As sured all the advantages of ➢tutual Assurance, without liability of partnership, and the security of an ancient and opulent Cor- Peration. sd with ack th• es, and accons and 16 wisely► Its tables have been formed on the lowest scale, to meet the varied views of Assurers, by affording to them the option of the following s everal advantages s —Firstly, of participating in the profits of the Corporation by abatements from annual prennams ; or, secondly, by inaking additions to the sums assured by way of bonus payable at death; or, thirdly, by a money payment at the division of profits in every fifth year, whilst from those who desire to limit their assu anci.s to a g i ven sum w ithout participation in profits, the lowest Possible rate of premium is required, as will be evinced by tables ex- Pressly prepared for the Corporation, which may be had on applica ,len at thei r o ffi ces, an d w hi c h h av e been constructed for meeting the various wants of Assurers, and every risk to which protection by assurance can be extended. The bonuses made to Assurers have at some of the periods of di vision been upwards of 50 per cent., and for three of the lowest Years the average bonus has been equal to from 24% to 28 per cent., or from 3 to 3 4 per cent. per annum on the sum assured, varying aecording to the age of the life. ANNUAL PREMIUMS FOl THE ASSURANCE OF £lOO. IPARTICIP NTIN NON-PARTICIPATING. iimated English former an im ats wag dispose om the ,dvanco trifling in both FOrrilert emandt held at I'AIZTICIPNTIN NON -PARTIC 1 PATI NG . kge. Whole ierei Whole Term For I For ............., of Life. of Life. One Year. Seven Years, 20 £5. ii. £s. d. £s. d £6. d. 30 20 2 115 11 018 3 01U 10 40 210 8 2 511 1 5 1 1 611 50 3 5 1 3 0 0 1 10 '2 1 11 7 60 410 7 45 7 23 0 211 1 65 6 12 5 6 5 11 3 12 1 4 4 5 ----____l 8 4 11 7 16 9 4 15 2 5 10 10 )f 6d to ,uppliee :e than in the n store rley, 59 4d per yellowy Fikr INSURANCES on every description of P , operty at Mode rate Rates, and MARINE INSURANCES at the Current Prendums. Attendance daily, from 'fen till Four, at both the Offices, and Pros- Pectuses sent tree on a written application. JOHN L AURENCE, Secretary. ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COAIPANT, 39, THROGMORTON-STREET, BANK; And 14, PALL-MALL. THOMAS FARNCOMBE, Esq., Alderman, Chairman. WILLIAM LEAF, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Richard E. Arden, Esq. John Humphery, Esq., AU. M.P. William Banbury, Esq. i;upert Ingleby, Esq. T-ward Bates, E sq . Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman. hoMas Camplin, Esq. Jeremiah t'ilcher, Esq. James Clift, Esq. 'Lewis Pocock, Esq. AUD ITORS —Professor llall, M.A. ; J. B. Shuttleworth, Esq. Jeaffreson, 2 Finsbury-square. SURGEON —W. Coulson, 2, Esq., Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. CONSULTING A cruear —Profssor Hall, M.A.* King's College. STANDING COUNSEL —Sir Joha 'torrid!, M.P., Solicitor-General. soucuron —William Fisher, I'sq., ID, Doughty-street. ADVA NTAGES or ASSURING WITH THIS COMPANY. In addition to a large subscribed capital, Policy holders have th e security of an A ssurance Fund of [Wore than a Quarter of a Million, and an Income of 65,0001, annually increasing, arising from the issue of up war d s of 6,000 Policies. BONI:1. OR PROFI T BRA NCH. Persons Assuring on the Bonus system will be annually entitled to 80 per cent. of the profits en this branch (after P ayment of five Yearly Premiums) ; an d the pr o fit assigned to each Policy may be added to the sum assured, 0: applied in reduction of the Annual pre taium. NON-BONUS, OR LOW PREMIUM BRANCH. The Tables on the non-participating pr.nciple afford peculiar ad- Z: l intages to the assure d , not offered by any other Office—for where 1s secured object i s t h e least possible outlay, the payment of a given sum "chred to the Policy-holder, on the death of the Assured, at a re duced rate of Premium. P REMICNIS TO ASSCRI £lOO 4 Be, One Year. !Seven Years. Wi t h Profits. IVithout Pr•flts. 2 0 .£0 17 8 £0 19 1 3 0 1 1 8 1 2 7 40 1. i 0 1 4 9 50 1 14 1 1 1? 10 60 2 2 4 3 17 0 XI 15 10 2 5 5 3 0 7 4 6 8 6 12 9 £1 11 10 2 0 7 1! 14 10 4 0 11 6 0 10 One-half of tl.O " Whole Term" Premium may remit' on credit or seven years, or ene-third of the Premiere may remain for life as a debt upon the policy at S per cent., or may be paid off at any time Without notice. Claims paid in one month after proofs have been approved. E. BATES, Resident Director. better• die. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOETY. The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGCI of PROPRIETORS will be held at the Office of the Society on THURSDAY. the Ist day of ]March next, at One o'clock precisely, at which Meeting Five Dime ors and one Auditor (on the part of the Proprietors) will be elected. Any person desirous of proposing a Candidate for the Office of I)i -rector or Auditor, must send the name of suck Candidate to the Se cretary, at least fourteen days before the day of meeting. The Ballot will commence at Eleven, and close at Two o'clock. .. on W EDNESDAY, February 28, between the hours of Eleven and The Election of an Auditor o n th e p ar t o f th e A s s ure d w ill a l so t a k e Two o'clock. All persons assured for the wholo term of life, and their qualified to vote, are hereby referred to the conditions endorsed on Policies, for information concerning the Candidate to be pro- Posed. lithero e . tnteed 6 re, 314 GEO. PINCRARD, Resident Secretary. 14 . n 9, Great Russell-street, BlocunsburY, February 7, 1849. ►er. s°' nghot _rTort27< Hun r iraE PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL Fi c - D L IFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION and BENEVOLENT The pm, 42, Moorgate-street, Jan 24, 1849. e • f SECRETARY to this Association being vacant, Can theivg desirous of applying for the same are requested to send in Ilext. aP a lic atiens. with Testimonials, on or before the 15th February To be addressed to the Chairman, and marked confidential. RICHARD lIENRY JONES, Chairman. ~- ; li— " A tkemeiv, gtheoh one to were--- n (A), OINNEFORD'S SOLUTION of MAGNESIA, T, now greatly improved in purity and . condensation. Most convenient form for the exhibition of carbonate of m g 4,7 . 4 the solution."—Dr. Neligan. th e nrep. a l :imieford's solution may fairly be taken as a type of what p re ation ougkt to be."—l'harm. Journ., May, 1R46. b rid : e alesty the her „_pared. by Dinneford and Earland, 172, Bond-street, Chemists to Queen Doand wager and 11. KM. the Duke of Cam sold b y a l l respectable Chemists. as PI" :k (Er _vitt° Ely, L. tension TIC DOLOREAUX CURABLE. 'mita t TOOT lIAC HE . had aneous relief from tbs. excruciating complaints may ha TIC g cn u'ing JAMES'S !, Celebrated ASTILIAN TINCTURE M for -44)1tE 1-TX, TOOTHACHE, PAINS in the FACE, GUS, Bce. [IMPORTANT TESTIMONIALS.] " Liverpool, Dec. 13, 1848. ong ld Prefer' M essrs. Carson and Co, 3. :: i rlt.i':Twlth much pleasure I communicate tie great efficacy of atfecnured mv ...., bayi n Astil ian Tincture' for the Tic Doloreux and Tootiaeh i e, it Idl e "e 0 ' few minutes after t e ap relief till f the former in a , 1 .__ - She suffered dreadfully for some time, and cenla get no She tincture Was applied. .. 14, Rathb one-s ( tre g et Sined) " T11031A6 GUY. , Toxteth-park." --- "To Messrs. It • • far,on and Co.,is with feeling s o f -- • f orm you et the won derful cure effected by tguratuitude that I e in 4, Liverpool, Dec. 14 , 1848. Vs Celebrated Astilian Tincture' for the Tic Dolorl'eux" of ' J o a o m thache, prepared My Wife had been sufferii and Toothache, excruciating agony for three weeks • ig the most exc !rould beef any service , night and day ; she tried everything that we thought by you. Le ' try your Tincture, which she did, and in four minutes after the 4 but all in vain ; she was then recommended applicatiot she was quite cured. 1. . (Signed) di, Ohver-street, Windsor." " WILLIAM REID. "Liverpool, Dec. 23, 1848. Gentle found MM....After six months' exerience In its sale I have . Your . Astilian Aure' to be all but uniformly successtu a ueh r t e h failatie cure of Tic Doloreux and Toothache ; indeed only one case ot . do I know of in that time. Although generally averse to I re_ Inge, yet you may, maid yours, faithful], ' " THOMAS LOWE, if you choose, make public use of this.— ... , ~„ "Dispensing Chemist, 38, Islington, and 40, Norton-street. ' .. — You may send me another three dozen of the smaller size. prepared" To Illessrs. and . eon Carson Co .T..:t by Cars and Co., lit. " Anne-street, Liverpool, sole pro ;)u oers, ,fromf whom it may be had, or through any of the Wholesale I .' ol _B s London Birmingham, York, Edinburgh, &c., and retail 4 any respectable Medicine Vendor throughout the Kingdom. s"------ In L ottles, at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lie. e a ch. ____ i.,,,, Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel. '4.4 PUYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA CITY, .AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. Wow Edition, enlarg e d to 196 pages. Jus published, price 2s. 6d., or THE SIL ENT FRIEND , by oust, direct from the Establishment, t 3s. 6d, In postage stamps, a Medical Work on the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, With remarks on Marriage, end the means of obviating certain dis qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings By R. and 19, D emers -street, Ox- L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, ford-street, London. Published by the Authors :held by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and ganger, 150, Oxford cad et ; Starie,l3, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; and Gordon, 146, Leaden hall-street. PAST I. treats of the anatomy an d physiology of the re -productive Organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings, Pasy 11. treats of the consequences resulting from exceseive idul gence, and their lamentable effects en the sysdtem, producing men Itlld bodily weakness, nervous excitement, an generative incapacity. Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. PanT 111. treats of the disease:nrdesculotnitnagitfsromexii,niifectiettdioirne,,etlitohnesrfoinr the primary or secoudary form, their treatment. This section is illustrated by S eventeen Coloured Xfl gravings. Pear IV. contains a Prescription for the Prevention ofi Disease a simpl e application, by which the danger of not of infection is i t o b b- e . Viated. This important part of the Work she. eader's notice. e der a e a d d , and 4 Paba devoted to the consideration of marri n a s g i P The causes of anproductive union are also ce t he Whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. InICOEDIAL BALM GP SYZIACUM is exclusively employed in treat ,...l4g nervous an d sexual debility, impotence, Ste., 11s. and 335. per ~....'t tle • The Con centrated Detersive Essence, MR anti-syphilitic " 2 ,_naedy, for purifying the blood in cases of Infection, secondary symp- VMs, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, 11 s. and 335. per bottle. „_e_rrr. Purifying Specific Pills, 13. itd., Per box . a "'Ain remedy for gonorrhcea, gleet, stricture, and chronic inflamma tion of tko bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, 1/. A minute retail of the case is refluired : age, habits, and position i s society. Which the fee, l l., is saved. Messrs. Perry, urgeous, are in often flkliee ~.. d allY at 19, Berders-etret, Oxford-stree, London, from Ele tui _ 1, 0, and Filie to Eight ; on Sandaya from Eleven to One. „ o_ tuents on this point —gentl emen o f very great WA... igence,who think that th e navigation-laws ought to be re - pealed, yet I must say I am not satisfied that they oughts, to be repealed; on the contrary, I am of opinion thatthe-- principle of the navigation-laws ought not to be re- ualed.—(Cheers.) This being so, I voted accordingly, And opposed Ministers in every stage.—(Cheers.) After I had done this, it pleased one of the members of the Government, Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Department, to offer to me, in a manner highly gratifying, because the offer was altogether unso licited ou my part, the office of Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department.—(Hear, hear.) Did I accept that? I—who am supposed to be the hunter after place? ("No, no," and cheers.) I did not.— (Cheers.) I said I would adhere to my own pro fession, and I said so, because, had I accepted the offer which was made to me, I should have had to leave Par. liarnent, and should not have been eligible for re-elec tion. Had I accepted that office, I should hare been compelled to leave the service of the electors of Hull within seven months after the time when they had ho noured me with their confidence; and I felt that such a course would not be a fitting return for the trust they had reposed in me, and would have been a very poor reward for the trouble which the friends whom I sell around me had taken to secure my election.—(Cheers.) Would such have been the conduct of a place hunter?— (Cheers, laughter, and cries of " No, no.") If I had been a place-hunter, should I not have said to you, " I have got a place that will suit me very well; so now you may proceed to an o th er e l ect i on as soon as you like. " — (Hear, hear.) I declined that place, and yet it is one which had its temptations; for Sir George Grey is an able Minister and an amiable man, and I should have thought it a great pleasure and a privilege to act along with him.—(Loud cheers.) Under the circumstances I have stated I did not think it right, however. that I should accept that offioe.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Gentlemen, at the close of the session, I was called away suddenly from town, after having spent, I believe, some six months of as diligent and laborious Parlia mentary attendance as Member ever went through, for I can say this truly, that I was at all times amongst the first in the House, and among the last out of the House. Every day I was thinking what I could do to promote the interests of my country, and:my constituents in par ticular. I attended to the letters I received from you. I appeal to the humblest and the meanest man in station in Hull, and I ask him whether he ever addressed a letter to me that he did not receive an answer by the first post.—(Loud cheers.) I beg to ask whether that has not been the case, or whether I did not do my best to promote the interest of every man, whether he voted for me or against me at the last election? I made not the slightest difference. I considered my self the Member for Hull, representing every indi vidual in Hull to the best of my ability.—(Cheers.) Then, gentlemen, at the end of the year, when I least expected it, I received a notification from her Majesty's Government that they were willing to offer for my acceptance the situation of President of the Peor Law Board—a situation which I will venture to say is in point of difficulty, in point of importance, in many respects second to none under the Crown. Now, what we have to do is this—to see, on the one hand, that the fund which is set apart by the wisdom of the Legisla ture for the relief of the needy and destitute, is not ap propriated to purposes of imposition, indolence and fraud. That is what we have to see on the one hand, and we have to see on the other that every real cause of genuine destitution does receive relief—(Loud ap plause)—and that that relief is not administered in a grudging, or insolent manner, which I think the law of this country, and which those laws that are superior even to the laws of our country—the Divine laws them selves condemn.—(Loud cheers.) That is the double duty which I have to perform in the situation to which I have been appointed. It is said that I have promoted my own private interest in what I have done. Why, I see Learned Friends of mine about this table to whom I may appeal, and ask them whether they think I have made a good bargain in a pecuniary point of view? —(Laughter and applause.) I have given up an income which was about double the salary which I am ever likely to have from this office of mine. I have given up prospects which I think were not bad, for I heard it said by my friends at the bar that by and by I might not im probably obtain a judgeship, or some corresponding si tuation—a permanent situation with a permanent in come, besides honourable and dignified. This I have given up, and I have taken an office which is pre carious in its tenure—which is much less in its in come than the income I have given up—with double the difficulty and,double:thelabour—(Loud cheers)—that I have ever been e n gage d in. 'And now I beg to ask that gentleman who stands at the doorway, if he be still there, after having made the charge, and having the manliness to hear the reply—l ask him what there is in this trans. action now explained, of which either I or my constitu ents need be ashamed!—(Loud cheers.) I have ac cepted this high office. and I mean to do my duty to the best of my ability.—(Applause.) One important point, gentlemen, with respect to the administration of this office, is to bring in and carry through Parliament the measures which are connected with the improvement of the Poor-law. It is not a political office I bold; pethape my indisposition to engage in political warfare of any kind may fit me particularly for the discharging its du ties. But I have accepted it. That necessarily has caused a vacancy; hut I now stand before yon, gentle men of Hull, not shrinking from meeting you—looking you boldly in the face, but I trust with no improper con fidence, and I ask you one and all, what it is that in time past I have done deserving your condemnation—or whether you are not now ready to say, " we believe you have acted to the best of your ability and conscience-- you may not have done all that an abler man could have Performed—we believe, however, that you have done your best—we believe you have acted conscientiously— and we will not withdraw that confidence which we gave you at the last election."—(Loud cheering.) Mr. Baines then resumed his seat, but immediately rose and said— There is ono word more which I wish to say to those gentlemen who have done me the honour to act as my committee. I hope I need not assure them that I feel most grateful to them for the countenance they have honoured me with on this occasion. It is to me a peculiar pleasure to be surrounded as I am, on the pre sent occasion, by so large a portion of all who are re-' epectable in the town, respectable both in station and in telligence. Gentlemen, I hope, as I said before, I shall not be found unworthy of your confidence. If there is to be a contest here, I trust, gentlemen, that I shall have your support to the end. I hope and trust that nobody, for mere purposes of vexation, will think of en gaging in a contest on that account. But what I say is this; whatever may be the result, Ishall undoubtedly per severe in seeking to obtain the honour of your suffrages. —(Loud cheering.) I have not the least doubt but I shall be honoured with them. If, in the course of that contest you should be put to trouble, I can only apologise to you for it. It is not my fault, and again I say how truly grateful I feel for the countenance you hare af forded me on this occasion, and for the trouble you have taken on my behalf.—(Cheers.) Tire AUTHOR or " WrifTerarAes."—A new his torical novel from the pen of this very popular author is on the eve of publication. From the previous efforts of the writer in this most attractive species of fiction, much is anticipated fr,m his forthcoming work, entitled " Owen Tudor," in which it is said he has sought to illustrate the chivalrous reign of Henry the Filth —a subject and period which will afford ample scope for his brilliant and varied powers. SALE OF THE STOWE LIBRARY. —On Monday this sale was continued, the principal features being the numerous editions of Shakspere, from the first edition of 1623 to the Pictorial Edition of 1846. The following were the prices the most rare copies fetched:—A copy of Shakspere's poems, in quarto, with fine portrait by W. Marshall, printed in 1640, and very rare, sold for 71. 10s. "Shakspere's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies," pub lished according to the true and original copies, with portrait by Martin Droeshout, first edition, 1623. This was a sound and perfect copy, with the ex ception of Ben Jonson s verses to the reader before the title being inlaid, the title-page lined, and the top line " Mr. William" being added from an other edition, Mr.Bohn purchased it for 761. The second edition, a fine, tall, and sound copy printed in 1532, was bought by the same gentl eman f or 11L 58. T h e account of the edition, almost as rare as the first, greater part of the impressions being° d est roy ed e be s r i ° n Y the only chaser. in the fire of London, sold for 351., Mr. Coo k _fi t sold for only chaser. The fourth edition, 41. 6s. Shakspeare's Dramatic Work s revised by George beautifnl edition, Steevens, a unique copy of / 30 r with 100 plates, proofs or:letrs, and set of Boydell's collec etchings, sold for 321. 101. Sh a k spere, . tion of 100 large and beautiful prints e f m ro o m st p d ic is t ti ur n e gu s **tire of Shakspere , p ainted by the believed to be unique, sold artists, with a set of etchings -.lnaddition of Shakspere some ofwetrhee oofthera books t for 431., Mr. Parker being t he _ to works in the day's. _Lale c th o e mprised resting charac te r. A copy of the " Stafford consisting of one hundred and fifteen engrav ings, proofs on India poper, sold for 101.10 s. A collec tionand trials, &c., o f legs, . • • of histories, journals, lives, per sons concerned in the rebellion of 1745, con s ist ing of broadsides and tracts, bound in a volume, was bought by Mr. Rodd for fifteen guineas. Lord Somers' collection of scarce and valuable tracts relating to the history and constitution of these king doms, sold for 44 17s. A curious Collection of Loyal Songs, written against the Rump Par liament, between 1639 and 161, with 50 portraits and plates, sold for 6 guineas. A remarkably fine copy of Sir W. Scott's Provincial Antiquities and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland, upon large paper, sold for $l. 2 8 . 6d. Si r H ans Sl oane 's " Voyage to Jamaica, with the Natural History of the Islands of Madeira, Barbadoes, St. Nieves, and St. Chrs topher," very scarce, printed in 1707, sold for 31. 13t. 6d. Captain John Smith's " General Historic of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles"—sa scares book, printed in 1627, and containing a rare portrait by W. Pass of the Duchess of Richmond, sold for Al. A fine copy of Shaw's History and Antiquities of Stafford shire, with many plates and maps, sold for Si. The produced near 5001. day's sale SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—.The next perform ance of this society, which takes place on Friday next. the 9th inst., will consist of Beethoven's service in C (one of the greatest choral works of the modern school), and Mendelssohn's " Lobgesang; or, Hymn of P raise," a work in which the t wo (formerly) distinct cla sses of cantata, scroems O osrm composition, the symphony and the hap pily united. Some smaller pieces, va rio us h •al together one 15 are also included in the programme , one of great:interest. ATTACL BY A . BULL.—On Saturday evening, ab ou t eight o'clock , an old woman nam ed Mar y Balf our, while about the bott om o f Leith-I'Blk' opposite Queen's-pl ace, was attacked and knocked down by a bull that was pro ceeding up the Walk its an infuriated manner. The un fortunate woman had a few of her ribs broken, and was otherwise so much injured, that the medical attendants called in pronounced her in a very dsnger Qu e condition. Cakdotan 411cron. No, 17,580.] •-• N LONDON, THURSDAY S N 7 FEBRUARY 8, 1840. BY COMMAND OF THE POSTMASTErt-GENERAL. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC . GENERAL POST-OFFICE, FEBRUARY, 1849. Persons having occasion to fbrward 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 si. at the following charges, viz.:— Not exceeding £2 .... • • 3d. „ £5 ...• Gd. Those persons who desire to remit Money in Letters, by Bank notes or Drafts, payable to bearer, or any articles of value, are cau ioned to Register all such Letters. GUILDHALL, FEBRUARY 1, 1849. THE COMMITTEE for LETTING the CITY'S LANDS will MEET at GUILDHALL on WEDNESDAY, the 14th day of February instant, at One o'clock precisely, to receive TENDERS for LETTING on LEASE, for twenty-one years from Lady-day next, a House, No. 14, on the north side of Broad-street buildings; a House, No. 28, on the south side of Broad-street-build ings ; a House, No. 28. on the south side of Upper Thames-street. Also, to receive TENDERS for LETTING on LEASE, for 18: , ,j years (less three days), from Lady-day next, a House, No. 22, or the cast side of Finsbury-street; and a House, No. 15, Ar tillery-place, on the west side of the City-road. Further particulars may be obtained, and plans seen, by applying at the Office of Works, Guildhall. THOMAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller. 1 1 HE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET. A View in the Gold I)istrict of California is aMed to the New Series of Dissolving Views.—Lectures en the Cultivation of the Voice, and on the Art of Singing, by G. Clifford, Esq., Illustrated by a yari ty of Songs, on Tuesday, Thursday, and iiaturday, at Two o'clock.—On the Electric Light, by Dr. Alachhoffnor on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings.—On Chemistry, by Dr. Ryan, with brilliant Experiments, daily, and on the alternate Evenings.— Childe's Phantasmagoria, with new effects on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evenings at Eight.—New Chromatrope.—Microscope. —Diver and Diviag•bell.—Machinery and Models explained.—The Music is directed by Dr. Wallis. Open daily from Eleven to Five ; and in the Evenings (includlig ,aturday) from Seven till Ilalf-past Tee. Admission, ls.—Schools, llalf-price —The New Catalogue, Is. IN consequence of the great rush of Visitors to see BANVARD'S GRAND MOOING PAINTING of the MIS SISSIPPI and MISSOURI RIVERS, at the EGTP FIAN HALL, Piccadilly, the Proprietor respectfully announces Two Exhibitions every day during the hcuuays. This Immense Painting is the Largest in the World, and exhibits more than 3,000 miles of Arierl can scenery.—The Day exhibition will commence every Afternoon, at Half-past Two, and the Evening at Half-past Sieve, o'clock doors open half ',I hour before commencing. Admission, lower seats, 2s. ; gallery, ls. CLARK'S ROYAL WAX CAND LES.- NO PUFF,—(Only 1 el. per lb.)—Luxuriant Light; mil lions will admire. Tbo chief of Candles, a Moral title bears—A silvery flame—Transparent as Wax.—They snuff themselves.—Are Yard as alabaster—Glossy as glass, and cheap as common Tallow Candles is their true character. The Public will know the Candles, for every 41b. packet bears a gold Label " CLARK'S ROYAL WAX CANDLES, 447, WEST STRAND." All not bearing this Label are base deceptions. Other Candles and Soap are reduced iM price, and may they long continue so The Eight New Lights can be seen at the Establishment of th• Metropolitan Liht Company, 447, West strand, next door to the Electric Telegraph Company. PUBLIC NOTICE. - WAR AGAINST RIGHT.—The Diamond Lamp is perfect—Puy no other. — The so-called Carcel Lamps are leaky aid worthless. All who have bought them, know this too well. These Carcel Lamps are puffed off for the Diamond Lamp—What a delusion What an absurdity to think thus to triumph over public opinion. The language that describes CLARK'S DIAMOND LAMP is copied to eulogize these Carcel Lamps. The Metropolitan Light Company, to end these impositions, give this notice, so that by all demanding the Diamond Lamp, the de ceptive Carcel Lamp can no more be sold.—The Diamond Lamp bears a Label, on which is inscribed " CLARK'S PATENT DIA MOND OIL LIGHT," so all can know the Lamp. The Diamond Lamp with the Eight New Lights are always burst ing at the Establishment of the Metropolitan Light Company. RICHARD CLARK, Resident Manager, 447, West Strand, next door to the Electric Telegraph Company. AS CHANDELIERS AND GAS FIT ‘„X TRIGS.—AII who require Gas Fittings of any description skould inspect the Immense Stock at the Establishment of tla4 Metropolitan Light Company.—Designs of Chandeliers, Brackets, Hall Lanterns, Pendants, &c., to suit every taste. The prices are so low, all must be phased. The Fittings can be dens with al dispatch consistent with proper workmanship. The proper Gas Burners for dwelling-rooms are the Glass and the Reflecting Burners. The Company, to prevent their Gas Work being defaced, use Glass Handles tor the turn-taps.—Contracts entered into, and the work guaranteed. RICHARD CLARK, Resident Manager, 447, West Strand, conier of Adelaide-street, next doer to the Electric Telegraph Company. PENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE. ►y The thousands of individuals who for upwards •f twenty years have used this celebrated liquid, pronounce it t• be the only article extant which effectually changes, in a few minutes, red or grey hair, whiskers, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or black, without trouble (by simply combing it through the hair), and pro duces by one application a pleasing and permanent change ; and it can be incontestibly proved, that while many dyes tend to destroy the hair by their pernicious properties and dangerous process of ap plication, that this article promotes the growth of hair, nourishing the roots till the latest period •f life. Price 3s. 6(1., Gs., and 10s. per bottle. To be had of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Fieldgate qreet, Whiteehapel-road, London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, f3B, Corn hill ; Butler, 4, Chcapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 160, Oxford street; Barclay, Farringden-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond street; Hooper, 43, King William-street, London bridge ; Finnigin, Milsom-street, Bath ; Elmore, Bull-street, Birmingham ; Roberts, 23, Church-street, Liverpool ; and of most Perfumers and Medicine Vendors in town and country. Sent to any part of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, post-paid. Please to ask for " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye." Observe, the Proprietor's address is on the wrapper. THE ATRAPILATORY, or LIQUID HAIR DYE; the only dye that really answers for all colours, and does not require re-doing but as the hair grows, as it never fades or acquires that unnatural red or purple tint common to all other dyes. ROSS and SONS can, with the greatest confidence, recommend the above dye as iniallible, and ladies or gentlemen requiring it are re quested, if convenient, to have it done the first time at their esta blishment; which will enable them to use it afterwards themselves without the chance of failure. They think it necessary to add, that by attending strictly to the instructions given with the dye, nu merous parties have succeeded equally well without coining to them Address, LOSS and SONS, 119 and 120, Bishopsgate-street, London. FRAMPTON'S PILL of HEALTH . The manifold advantages to the Heads of Families from the possession of a medicine of known efficacy, that may be resorted to with confidence, and used with success in cases of temporary sickness occurring in families, more or less, every day, are so obvious to all, that no question can be raised of its importance to every householder in the kingdom. From among numerous testimonials, the following is respectfully submitted : " To Mr. Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London. "No. 5, David-street, Itegent-road, Manchester, March 12,1842. " Sir, —I have much satisfaction in communicating to you the re sult of my experience after repeated trials of Frampton's Pill of Health ; and I feel it but justice to state, that in the course of many years' trial of variou , Aperient Medicines, I have never found results at once so salutary and efficient in the relief of the system from redundant bile, &c., &c., with•so little inconvenience ; I am there fore warranted in declaring that they supply to me a means long wanting of being able to recommend to families, schools, and espe cially mercantile men, whether at the desk or en the road, a 'nest valuable resource in an occasional medicine. And I shall take credit to myself it; in giving this testimony, I am the means of making Frampton's Pills more generally known and appreciated.—l Sir, respectfully yours, •' WILLIAM SMITH." The unprecedented sale of these Pills, arising from the earnest recommendations of the many thousands who have derived benefit from their use, render any lengthened comment unnecessary. They are not put forth as a cure for all diseases to which mankind is liable, but for Bilious and Liver Complaints, with their many well known attendants, Bilious and Sicls. Head.eehe, Vain and Oppression after meals, , ;iddiness, Dizziness, Singing Noice in the Head and Ears, Drowsiness, Heartburn, Loss of • ppetite, Wind, Spasms, &c. Two or three doses will convince the afflicted of their salutary effects. The stomach will speedily regain its strength; a healthy action of the Liver, Bowels and Kidneys will rapidly take place ; and instead of listlessness, heat, pains, and jaundiced appearance, strength, activity, and renewed health, extending to good old age, will be the result of taking this medicine, according to the directions accompanying each box. Sold by T. Prout, 229, Strand, London. Price Is. I%d. and 23. Pd. per box ; and by the Vendors of Medicines generally throughout the kingdom. Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," on the Government Stamp. REMOVED TO 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE OR. LA'MEET ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY.-WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON _ . STEEL. Just published, and may be had in French er English, in a sealed Envelope, 2s. Eicl„ or post-free, from the Author, for forty-two Stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatiie on the Physiology of Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Ma turity, usually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate :he physical and mental powers, diminish aid enfeeble the natural feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debilii.7 And Indigestion, whether arising from these causes, close study, or the influence •1 tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis cretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining their stractutes, uses, and functiois, and the various injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and infection. BT SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD-'SQUARE, LONDON. Doetor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c. Marriage reqaires the fulfilment •f several conditions. in order that It may be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the veil, which covers tho origin of domestic wretchedness. be raised, and its true source in every instance disclosed, in how many could it be traced to physical disqualifications and their attendant disap pointments. Excesses are always injurious ; the gift, which wisest aced in moderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, when abused, the prolific source of mischief and of greater or less Injury to the constitutional and vital powers. The particular excesses, on the nature and consequence of which this Treatise professes to dilate, are productive of greater severity of misery to the human frame, than any other to which it is subject. and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs, and of A n i a k t o i smwyork contains an accurate and complete account Sr th e s a t n n cl dy d dis ease. forea s preservatione . what lt su d b e j s e e c r j e c d a l n y tchegetilirreraelattnivee closest t itio a n tte s of the health of which every man should n in tien hea tu t l h i t d h e abnedof of t mo t r h e c i p m h p ys ort ic an at ce cap th ab a t n utiea victim of excessive indulgence and vi ' while suffering be possessed. It unfortunately chianpupsehnsibitath,at whetherthe unhappy In early life or from the follies of advanced tc age, and the dread so p tr l o yt ut ng th tn eir a in g v n ari awi t t le p c h on y s s e ic q i v a e n nc f e c s r , r u c tri ef s . ely si c ia n in :tains a fear of ap frequently, but erroneously entertained that these complaints are be yond the reach o f ar t , a lik e restrict him and prevent his seeking or assistance where alone it can be procured. In acting thus, ho riforgets that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of ce se, s Ympathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, lava characterise the intelligent and p rac ti ca l p h ys i c i an, and to the atedial qualiflcatioman who can show by hi. possession of the requisite legal ns that he is entitl e d t o es t eem and respect in his profes sional pursuits, th e utmost confidence should be ext en d e d. D r. LA?M ERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas itertarifayn,teactifdort'ae great extent of his practice for many years is a solely to the tre his professional atment of these diseases. 52, Paternoster -row Published by tha Author, and ma y b e h a d of Kent and Richards, street, Haymarket ; I laanay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Tichborne ; m anse'', 115, Fleet-street ; Gordon, 146, beadenhall - street, Lond on ; or, free by post for forty-t wo s t amps, from theAnthor, who may be consulted on those disorders personally or by letter, daily ,from Tea till Two, and frOM Fiye till Eight, at his raidence, 87, Betorci-equare 4,0,40,. STATES'S ROYAL HOTEL NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. _ _ 61TIRLES STATES solicits the patronage and support of Corn• mercial Gentlemen is the above Hotel, which is most centrally el• tuated. The Commercial-rooln will be found one of the most corn• modions and suitable, and en suite," the liotel, in point of accom• modation, second to none In the North. BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL. The GALLERY for the EXHIBITION and SALE of the WORKS of BRITISH ARTISTS will OPEN on MONDAY, the 12th instant, and continue Open Daily from Ten till Five. Admission, Is. ; Catalogu*, GEORGE NICOL, Secretary. MR. LIONEL GOLDSMID, assured by the success of his first appearance, is induced to announce the repetition of his Entertainment, called AT HDME AND ABROAD, at the MUSIC HALL, Store-street, TO-MORROW EVENIXG, Friday, February 9. To commence at Eight. Hall, 2s. ; Reserved Seats, 35. THE BRITISH GAZETTEER, POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, and HISTORICAL TRAVELLING ROAD-BOOK and COUNTY ATLAS. Imperial avo., being issued in One Shilling Monthly Parts (Part 111. on March I), each Part containing a carefully drawn Half Imperial Map of One of the Counties, and every alternate Part at least, a fine Steel Engraving, from a drawing made expressly for the work, of some structure, edifice, or natural object of interest. In addition to the series of County Maps, there will be a large general Map of the Bri tish Isles, in sections, which may, if it be preferred, be joined for hanging up. In all the Maps, the railroads and stations are being laid down most accurately up to the time of going to press. The most ample information with regard to each place is given on all subjects, under the f9llowing heads:—Location and description, dis tance (both from Londou and Derby), pe=tal arrangements, historic records, ecclesiastical, educational, political, and municipal, statistics, bankers, markets, fairs, races, newspapers, population, number of houses, extent in acres, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, came of present occupant, with a synopsis of any event of public interest in family, or connected with the eatate. The Editor will endeavour to conileaSe the matter into about 6i Parts, and will shortly, If approved, issue larger parts to expedl the completion of the work. Published, for the Proprietors, by H. G. Collins, 22, Paternoster revr, London. PRESENT STATE OF ITALT. Now ready, in 2 vols. post Byo., price Oue Guinea, A GLANCE at REVOLU LIONIZED ITALY, Ly CHARLES MACFARLANE, Author of " Sports, Pastimes, and Recollections •f the Soath of _ &c., &c. "1 clever and well-informed book "—Morning Chronicle. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhlll. BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, LONDON. CIIOLER A. TO ME 65149. MORISON% Gentlemen—l have just received the statement from Mr. Scott, of South Shields, being a cure of Cholera, by Morison's Pills, while laying at Hamburgh.—l remain. Gentlemen, your obe diem servant, J. KAI N ES, Agent for Morison's Pills. 20, New-road, St. George's east, Jan. 20, 1819. " 7, Heron-street, Bank-top, South Shields, January 13, 1349. To Mr. BANES, 20, New-road, St. George's East, London. " Sir,—l wish to inform you of the wonderful cure of Cholera, by taking Morison's Pills, whilst laying at Hamburgh when the Cholera was raging there ; so I hope you will making this public for the good of others. I have also been cured by the pills of palpitation of the heart, and a chest complaint, after being given up as incurable by the doctors. I purchased the pills at your shop. " I am, sir, yours, &c., " JAMES SCOTT." A R R I A G E. One half the world are desolately single, and the other supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, er a elm et right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em .:tter the latter. The solitary ono may shield himself under the plea of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un 'omprosiag harry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity, And broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness And social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set iement. Honour and justicederaand that health sheuldform as item in the compact ; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes er seglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if .hese surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S little kIEMOIRS "On Single and Married Life," pub. in 2 vols., Is. tech (by post, ii stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively refined, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered sy misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining ;hem. They are not intended certainly for mere idle cariosity, but or the closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to whom they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth en the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or together, aro a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other ittle publications claim your attention (same price Is. each, by post Is, 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and Avoid," and " How to be happy." They are not merely irimphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's dfe, 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 be done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always the " sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet street • Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Nelson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other wise) front the author (who may be conferred with personally, mornings and evenings), 10, Argyll-plaee Regent-street; aid all 11.031 m ill Are UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. THE CLASSICAL TRIPOS. CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 6.—The examination for the Clas sical Tripod will be held in the Senate-house, com mencing on Monday, Feb. 19. Names to be sent in on or before the preceding Wednesday. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. LEOMINSTER. LEOMINSTER, WEDNESDAY.—The election of a Mem ber to serve this borough in Parliament, in the place of Mr. 11. Barkly, the late Member, appointed Governor of British Guiana, took place here yesterday. The pro ceedings were conducted in a most quiet and orderly manner, and without any of the customary popular demon strations. There was no bell-ringing, for the vicar of the parish, who keeps the custody of the bells in the abbey church, refused to permit them to be rung on the occa sion, nor was there even a band of music to accompany the candidate to the hustings; not a public-house was opened, and it is said that ❑ot a penny has been spent in the entertainment of the free and independent electors. At eleven o'clock the Mayor and Town Council of the borough met the candidate at the Town-hall, an ancient edifice in the centre of the town, whence they walked to the Court-house, used as a national school, for the purpose of proceeding to the nomination. They were followed by perhaps 200 persons, including a large number of women and children, but, judging from tho manifestatio❑ of popular feeling, or rather the abscence of it, there was very little interest excited in the event. On the opening of the doors of the Court-house the building was filled is a most peaceable and orderly man ner in a few minutes, the electors and others taking their places as orderly as though they were assembled in a church. In consequence of the retirement of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton and Mr. Phillimore, as already announced, the only candidate was Mr. F. Peel, son of Sir R. Peel, who was attended by his brother, Captain W. Peel, all the magistrates of the borough, and other gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood. The court having been opened by the Mayor, Mr. H. MIDGE, who is the returning officer here, the writ was read, and the usual formalities were gone through, after which The Rev. J. P. TAYLOR proposed, and Mr. STANWAY seconded the nominatio❑ of Mr. F. Peel. The MAYOR then put the usual question, and no other candidate being put in nomination, declared Mr. Peel duly elected Member for the borough of Leominster, amidst some cheering. _ _ Mr. F. PEEL the; addressed the electors in a speech which occupi e d nearly an hour in its delivery, a n d in t h e course of which he touched upon almost every political topic of the day. After thanking the electors for the confidence which they had reposed in him by Acting him their representative, he said he should take that opportunity of entering fully into an explanation of his political principles. In seeking the suffrages of the eke tors of Leominster he had no personal or individual re commendations to depend upon as passports to their fa your. He sought their suffrages upon public grounds, in the conviction that a Parliamentary trust like that just confided to him ought to be exercised not as a thing subservient to private interests, but to the general interests of the kingdom at large.—(Hear, hear.) The connexion that clay established between himself and the electors of Leominster was grounded on their common profession of attachment to the Con stitution, and their common zeal for its preservation. However unwilling he might be to revert to what had passed during the election proceedings, he thought it incumbent upon him to say a few words on a topic of a local nature in connexion with it. It had been stated on more than one occasion by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, of whom he wished to speak in terms of the utmost honour and respect—but a charge had been made, and it had been reiterated by the .press—that the electors of that borough had been backward in promising , their support to the candidates. Now, for his part, he must say that he had had no such complaint to make; on the contrary, ho had received during his canvass a greater number of promises than he was entitled to expect; at least, he had received such a number as would have been amply sufficient to have secured his return as their representative had a contest actually taken place at the poll.—(Hear, hear.) But he had also observed with much pain that insinuations had been thrown out by the newspaper press, that this alleged backwardness of the electors arose from other motives than a justifiable hesitation and a desire maturely to weigh the merits of the candidates before deciding as to which of them professed principles and opinions most in unison with their own. Without doubt it was meant to insinuate that some of such pro mises were withheld in the hope of obtaining a corrupt return for them; and, in drawing this inference, he had in his recollection a speech recently delivered at Brad ford, Yorkshire, by one whose abilities he. was ready to acknowledge, while at the same time ho complained of the injustice which that gentleman had done both to him (Mr. Peel) and to the electors of Leominster.—(Hear.) They would at once perceive that he alluded to the re marks made by Mr. Roebuck at Bradford the other day. He thought there could be no doubt that in the com ments which he had made at that meeting in reference to the proceedings of the Leominster election then pending, he meant to imply that both the con stituency of Leominster and himself as a candidate for their suffrages, would not object to a corrupt arrangement being made. He had himself the fullest confidence in believing and affirming that these insinuations were as unjust as applied to the electors (and he spoke of them without any distinction of party in the borough) as they were unjust as applied to himself. lle believed the elec tors of Leominster were as incapable of bartering the free exercise of their franchise, as he felt that he (Mr. Peel) was incapable of soliciting it upon any such terms. —(Applause.) He could sincerely say that he solicited no man's vote except on public and honourable grounds, and he would go further and declare that he never de sired that any man should give him his vote who could not give it with a clear conscience, and without having to upbraid himself with having committed a breach of his constitutional privilege. He would prefer defeat to any thing savouring at all of corruption.—(Hear.) He would now pass on to the consideration of questions of a more general nature—toes review of those political views which be held in common with a majority of that con stituency, and on which he bad rested his appeal to their support. He desired to maintain in all their integrity the institutions of the country in Church and State.—(Cheers.) He professed the warmest loyalty to the frame of our civil government—the Queen, the Lords, and the Commons—and he desired to pre serve to each of these three branches of the Constitution the exercise of their respectiv e functions, and a due pro portion of the legislative authority of the State. He did this in the firm conviction that the form of : government under which we lived was better suited to our feelings and better calculated to promote our happiness and liberty than any other form lof government that ever existed or could be devised. The events of the last ten or eleven months must have taught them that it was no easy task to frame a scheme of government which should combine security of public credit and tranquillity with a due respect for the property of individuals, and which should contain in itself the elements of stability. In the construction of a government regard must be had to the peculiar character and prejudices of the people to be governed, and in our case we were a people proud in historical recollections, and looking backwards as well as forwards for guidance. We should then touch none of the great principles on which the chief institution rests. There might be other institutions not essential or subordinate which might admit of amendment or im provement, and with reference to these he would cor dially adopt the sentiments expressed by one of our il lustrious statesmen, whose name he did not at that mo ment recal to memory—viz., that our institutions might, be preserved for the purpose of improving them, and might be improved for the purpose of preserving them. —(Cheers.) He felt's deep attachment to the Established Church, from a sincere conviction of the truth and purity of her doctrines, and a full appreciation of the inestimable benefits which She had rendered to the cause of morality and pure religion. In respect to the Church, however, as in respect to the State, he should be favour ably disposed towards such reforms as should be really and truly calculated to strengthen her foundations, and to enlarge her opportunities of usefulness. He would also reconcile attachment to the Church with a re spect for the feelings of those who conscientiously dis sented from her doctrines, her ritual, or from her polity. In illustration of his meaning, he would refer to a sub ject which had been lately under consideration. Had he been in Parliament, he should have given his assent to measures for appropriating the revenue of sinecures of the Church to the extension of parochial ministration and the augmentation of scanty stipends.—(Hear, hear.) He would also hare given his support to measures pro viding secular education to the children of poor parents who were dissenters from the Church of England. So much for the great institutions of the country, civil and ecclesiastical. Ile would consent to no measure which would be likely to impair their stability, or oppose that feeling of attachment towards them which ho held, tounded on the convictions of reason. There were, doubtless, many questions of a practical nature likely to come under the review of the present Parliament upon which they would probably expect some expression of opinion. He said "expression of opinion," because he hoped they did not expect of him any positive pledges by which his conduct was to be fettered. Asa candi date before them, he laboured under one defect which it was impossible to correct. There were some def ec t s which became stronger by the lapse of time, but the de fect to which he alluded diminished every day. He was a young man, and could not refer them to his past services or experience in Parliamentary discussion; but he wanted to justify th em in the selection w hi ch they had made o f a re p resenta ti ve , and he had as k ed himself " How can I d o thi s ?" S u rely not by giving a pledge that, without having heard the arguments on either side, he would give a vote upon a question on which men of experience and known intelligence differed. Surely not by sacrificing his honest judgment and the liberty of act ing on his own conscientious dictates. He should ever pay deference to the opinions of his constituents, but he must reserve to himself the power of forming his own con clusions upon political questions, readily promising to hear both sides, and to give his vote, not as private in terest might dictate, but upon sincere conviction.— (Cheers.) Was not this more rational conduct than giving positive pledges?—(A voice—" Certainly.") He would take, by way of illustration, a question on which public opinion had latterly been much excited—that of endowment, as it was called, of the Roman Catholic clergy. Were he to give a pledge that at no time, under no circumstances, and out of no fund whatever would he give his sanction to such a measure, ho should have con ciliated many votes. He thought the pledge might have been safely given, for it was very improbable that any such proposal would be brought before Par liarnent. There were difficulties in the way of the question, as regarded the fund from which such an appropriation could take place, and also as re garded the repugnance of the Roman Catholics to accept of any provision for their clergy. By giving this pledge, therefore, he would have gained many votes and had no practical difficulty about it. Had he been asked to give a pledge in favour of Roman Catholic endowment he should also have declined giving it. lie would not undertake to support any measure which his reason might tell him he ought to oppose. On the other hand, when they looked to the state of Ireland, the dis order which had long prevailed in that country, and the great amount of military force required there to check it, it would be unwise to pronounce against any measure tending to benefit Ireland, and one which had for its object to render the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland —a most powerful body for good or evil—less absolutely dependent for their existence on the taxation of the poorest and most destitute of that country.—(Hear.) But he had heard it stated that this was a question of principle, and that it was sinful for the State to endow a sect which professed theological tenets different from our own. Ile could not agree in the assumption that it involved of necessity a recognition of the truth of those doctrines. He refrained, however, from entering fur ther on this question, which was one disposed of many years ago. The Roman Cathlic religion had been re cognised and protected through the length and breadth of the British dominions—in Canada, in many of our colonial possessions, and in Ireland. Why, this very question had been seriously entertained by men who united to great sagacity a devoted attachment to the Established Church. Mr. Pitt was in favour of grant ing a decent and adequate stipend to the Roman Cath lics ; George 111. did not object to this question being taken into consideration by his Government • Lord Sid mouth was in favour of it ; L or d C as tl ereag h made no objection to it. Did not these facts then justify him in pausing before he gave a pledge to vote against it, ere ke had heard arguments for and against such a proposition ? So much in reference to this question, which had absorbed a good deal of public attention of late. There were many other questions on which he should be called upon to pronounce, by his vote at least, an opinion, and he would now shortly refer to the more prominent of these. They had already learned from his printed address, that he had intimated his intention to support' economy and re trenchment in every branch of the public expenditure, consistent with public safety. But be would not attempt to deceive them by promising this to the extent to which some persons had gone. He would not consent to the cutting off of ten millions from the expenditure of 1849 because the expenditure of 1835 required no more. He thought it would be better to inquire what were the bona fide requirements of 1849 rather than what was the expenditure some 14 years ago. He would rote for no expenditure not required by an enlightened regard to the public interest. But, on the other hand, he would not engage to support improvident retrench ments in our naval of military force, which might re quire increased exertions hereafter in order to make good that which was so inconsiderately abandoned, and which had proved a bad economy in the end. The Hon. Member next alluded to the following passage in his first-published address to the electors :—" The necessity of a wise economy is the more urgent, in my opinion, because I shall feel it incumbent upon me to resist any attempt, if such be made, to reimpose taxation upon those articles of foreign import which constitute the materials on which our manufacturing industry is employed, or which enter into the subsistence or ad minister to the comfort of the great mass of the com munity; unless it should be deemed prudent, on more extensive experience of the effect of free-trade measures, to adopt a different line of policy, a result, however, which Ido not anticipate." While he had already ex pressed a reluctance to enter into positive pledges pre vious to the discussion of a question, he had thought it not inconsistent to reserve to himself the power of weighing any arguments which might happen to be brought forward. But he had added upon this sub ject that which he strongly felt, via., that any such re-imposition of duty would be unadvisable. He could not think that it was consistent to reimpose duties on the necessaries of life and the materials of manufacture. The extraordinary circumstances which had agitated Europe had no doubt dis turbed our manufactures. These disturbances had had their natural effect of disturbing credit and of disposing people to hoard their money, which no doubt had af fected commerce both abroad and at home; but he was at a loss to conceive how the removal of duties on flax, cotton, and other materials had had any other effect than that of compensating the crippled resources of the fo reigner, by enabling us to supply his markets cheaper than before. Referring again to the convulsions which had agitated Europe during the past year, ho would contrast with this state of universal ferment—he had almost said anarchy—the internal condition of this country, which had maintained an almost unbroken quiet; where a disposition to disturbance had been ma nifested it was at once checked, not so much by a dis play of power as by the love of peace and order which characterized the British community. There had been much suffering during the past year from want of employment, but no disturbance had taken place here, and scarcely a murmur had been ut tered, and they might attribute that, in part at least, under Divine Providence, to those measures which had opened the ports of this country to an unrestricted supply of everything which might be considered as the necessaries of the people.—(llear, hear.) There were only two other questions on which it was necessary that he should say a few words—he alluded to the questions of vote by ballot, and the extension of the suffrage. He professed himself a decided friend to the object contem plated by those who advocated vote by ballot—(Cheers) —namely, the independent exercise by the voter of the right of suffrage ; but he was not at all satisfied that the ballot would insure the independent exercise of that right, and in attempting to exercise that right by the ballot he saw so many impediments in the way as to deter him from adopting it.—(Hear, hear, and cheers from another part of the court.) If the ballot was designed to impose silence upon electors, if it was intended that there should be no canvassing of the merits of the can didates, then the nature and character of the English fran chise would become much changed; and he was of opi nion that it would be changed for the worse.—(Cheers, and cries of " Hear, hear.") It would open the door to deception and fraud. The residuum would have been deposited in the ballot-box. But he would not consent N purchase an occasional good by the adoption of a system which appeared to hold out a premium to fraud, and by imposing silence where there ought to be the freest expression of opinion. —(Hear, hear.) In refer ence to the extension of the suffrage, it would be most absurd to expect from him, or any man, an expression of opinion on the abstract question. He must first in quire for what purpose the suffrage was to be extended, and what new class of constituency was proposed to be invested with the right, before he could form any opi nion. He was far from saying that the elective consti tuency established in 1832 would not admit of amendment. It was true he saw an evil in frequent changes ; but he would not deny that the progress of knowledge and extension of education might justify a mature deliberation as to whether some further extension of the suffrage might not be desirable.—(Hear.) What he considered was the main purpose for which the franchise was given was, that the country might be well governed, and that the people might have security for good government; and it was his deliberate opinion that our Constitution did secure to us that good government, and provide gun • rantees for its continuance in a higher degree than any other form of government under which we could live. Popular representation was not the only principle in it. He would consent to no change in the constitution of the House of Lords or Commons which would endanger our constitutional rights and prerogatives, or impede the free use of them. In our representative system great influence was given, as it ought to be given, to interest in the soil, to wealth, and to intelligence. These were the conservative elements of society. If they wished to preserve a limited monarchy and a mixed form of go vernment, they must incorporate these elements in it. More than this —if they wished to protect pro perty and liberty, they had a better security for the attainment of these objects by giving to superior intelligence its legitimate influence in the popular branch of our Legislature than they would have if they admitted into the constituency a million of new voters.— (Hear, hear and cheers.) In conclusion, the Hon. Mem ber thanked the constituency of all parties for the atten tion and kindness shown to him during his canvass. He was now the representative of the whole constituency, and as such it would not be less his duty than his inclina tion to receive with respect and attention any recom mendation which might be forwarded to him relevant to the public interests of the country or the local interests of the borough, from whatever quarter emanating ; and, although he could not hope that his conduct would have the concurrent approval of all the electors, he did hope that when he should return into their hands the trust which they had confided to him none would be able to say that he had been negligent in the faithful discharge of his duty as their representative. The usual vote of thanks to the Returning Officer was then passed, and the proceedings terminated in a most quiet and orderly manner. plained to them that his creed was just this ---to do unto others as he would they should do unto him. He wished to extend to his countrymen of all grades that fair por tion of the representation of the country to which they were entitled. He would give them that protection to which they are fully entitled. He would give to every man an opportunity of voting according to the dictates of his conscience. That protection could only be so cured by the ballot.—(lnterruption from the opposite side.) He hoped to have a fair hearing. In tie course of his canvass if he met with an elector who said that he would vote for Mr. Bridson, ho would appeal to every elector if he had in any way tried to influence such elector. He had invariably said to him, " Keep your promise." That course he intended to pursue to the end. If he should win he would de so fairly. There were great abuses to be reformed, great reduc tion in the expenditure of the conntry to be effected ; our army and navy must be much reduced; but he would ask them if they were likely to succeed in accomplishing these changes by sending men who had neveryet come for ward to reform one single abuse. He should, indeed, be sur prised to find any working man against the extension of the suffrage, against the ballot; and ho thought there would not be one found opposed to retrenchment. He should prove to them that our navy, our military esta blishments, and miscellaneous estimates are carried on at an enormous expense to the working classes of this country; and all this not for the good of the great mass, but of the smallest section and the wealthiest in the community. He went on in a long speech to show that the cost of the army and navy in 1835 was 100,0001. less than at the present time, and that our expenditure ought to be cut down to that limit. Mr. BRIDSON said that though he was not so fluent of speech, yet he would promote their local interests quite as well as his opponent. He was' their townsman, and though Sir Joshua talked a great deal about retrench ment, he was quite as much in favour of it as he could be. If they sent him, they would find him at his post, not in Canton. The show of hands was much in favour of Sir Joshua Walmsley, when a poll was demanded by the frionds of Mr. Bridson, and, after a vote of thanks to the Mayor, tho proceedings terminated. A NEW DISCOVERY. MR. HOWARD, Surgeon Dentist, 52, Fleet street, has introduced an ENTIRELY NEW DESCRIP TION of AnTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, •r ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not t• be distinguished from the originals by the closost observer; they will never change col ,ur or decay, and will be tound very superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require tho extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth rendered sound and usefhl in mastication. 52, Fleet-street. At Home front Ten till Fiye. BOLTON. Yesterday was the nomination for this election. The excitement was not so great as on former occasions. From 4,000 to 5,000 people were present. The candi dates were Sir Joshua Walmsley and Mr. Thomas Ridge way Bridson, bleacher, of Bolton. The usual forms having been gone through, Mr. Robert Heywood, of Ross hill, proposed, and Mr. Thomasson, of High-bank, man, glue who theirwa s determined fairly to meet and answer ever y seconded the nomination of Sir Joshua W almsle y . Mr. Thomas Burton proposed, and Mr. John Stones seconded, the nomination of Mr. Bridson. Sir J. WALMSLET, in presenting himself as a candi date, said he hoped at the vari ous meetings he had at tended, both public and pri vate, that he had been suf ficiently explicit. If all c ould not fully a g ree with his political e ywould confidence a ed, he trustedsastraightfothrwat thard, honest question which any man would propose. H e thanked his political opponents for their kindness, andex extensive; n s s a i i v d e thatbut i t some w. a sb forad express ed them electors 1e c r t e o g r r s e t a n a d t not non . being elee. tore, to say whether he went too far or not. H Q had ex able to support him because his political creed was too lIULL. Matthew Talbot Babes, Esq., Chief Poor-law Com missioner, has this day, Wednesday, ith of February, been re-elected to represent the sea-port town of Bull in the Commons House of Parliament. Although ru mour had been busy for the last few days in conjuring up an opposition, yet such has been the fusion of the great leaders in the borough, that no one was found to stand forward to head the :opposition, which, however, only wanted a leader to have made Mr. Baines's return at least doubtful. After a champaigne breakfast given by the Sheriff, the gorgeous procession marched to the hustings amid mournful silence, en its arrival there, the yellings and hootiners of disapprobatio n f rom th e mo b ocracy were tremendous, and the whole of the proceedings were gone through in pantomimic form. Mr. Baines was proposed by Mr. Ward, a Tory, and seconded by the Mayor, hitherto considered a Radical, neither of whom were permitted to be heard, and Mr. Baines being treated to a like reception, the whole of the proceedings terminated within the hour. From Mr. I3eines's reception, it is not probable he will in case of a vacancy for Hull, offer himself again as a candidate; indeed, his friends would do well to dissuade him from such an attempt. The following address was delivered by Mr. Baines, at the George Inn, to his committee and a few Chartists who got into the room:— Mr. BAINES rose amid loud cheers. Ile said—Gen tlemen,—l assure you it is with the truest satisfaction I find myself again among those who have been myconsti tuents one, and who, I would fain hope, I may in a short time hail by that title again.—(Loud cheers.) I can truly say it has been my most sincere wish that I should be found not undeserving of a continuance of the confi dence with which you honoured me on a former occa sion, and the recollection of which must follow me as long as I live.—(Applause.) I told you then, and I told you most truly, that no efforts which I could make would ever satisfy myself as being equivalent in the way of re turn for all the kindness which you have shown towards me. And I said so because I had erected in my own mini a very high standard of the duty of your represen tative, and by that standard I can say conscientiously I have ever endeavoured to regulate my conduct. If I have failed, I have done so from the want of ability and not from the want of will.—(Hear, hear.) I have thought it my first duty on going to Parliament, not to look out for the means of advancing my own individual interests, or the interests of those connected with me; my object has been—(A Voice—" Place-hunting") —in the first in stance to do what little I could to advance the interests of my country, and in the next place to promote more especially the welfare of my own constituents.—(Cheers, hisses, and a Voice—" You looked out for yourself a snug place.") If that gentleman who accuses me of being a place-hunter will have the goodness to attend for a moment to what I say, he shall see what sort of a place-hunter I have been.—(Cheers.) I undertake to satisfy every one who hears the that there never was a place accepted under circumstances less discreditable to the individual who accepted it, or to the constituency which originally honoured him with its confidence.— (Loud cheers.) I accept the challenge which the indi vidual who accuses me of place-bunting has thrown out, and I will honestly and fairly show the circumstances under which I have accepted office, and I will then leave it to you—yes, I will fearlessly leave it to you (addressing the man who had thrown out the accusation) to say whether there is anything in those circumstances which is in the slightest degree discreditable either to me or to you, if you are, as I hope and trust you are, and as I hope and trust I ever shall be , an admirer of f a i r an d h onoura bl e conduct.—(Long and loud continued cheering.) I was about to state at the time I was interrupted, that I went to Parliament not for purposes of personal aggrandise ment, fur during the whole time I bare been in Parlia ment I have never asked a favour either for myself, or for any one connected with me by the ties of relation ship.—(Cheers.) And if I were to live to the age of Methuselah I never would do so—(Cheers)-1 or it has been my constant maxim not to make the office with which you were kind enough to invest me subsidiary to the promotion of my own private interests. Gentlemen, I told you when I had the honour of standing before you a year and a half ago, that I tho ug ht we ll, genera lly, o f the principles and conduct of the government of Lord J. Russell, and I have seen no reasons to change that opinion, although I have felt it my duty to differ from him on several important occasions. Time after time have I , the "place-hunter," voted against the very Ministry to which I am charged with looking for place. —(Loud cheers.) Upon points which they thought of vital importance, I have divided against them, and spoken against them.—(Applause.) I never hesitated to vote against them when I thought they were wrong, and when my public duty to my constituents required that I should do so.—(Cheers.) Let us see what I have done? I fully admit your right of asking. You have a right to ask—" What is it you have done? How have you con ducted yourself during the eighteen months you have sat in Parliament as our representative?" In the first place, then, allow me to say, I have had the happiness of introducing into Parliament three measures which I believe all impartial persons admit have done somewhat in improving the law of the country.—(Hear, hear.) I am glad to say that these three measures met with such unanimous approbation that there was not a single divi sion either in the House of Lords or the House of Com mons with respect to the expediency of those measures. —(Loud cheers.) I have, therefore, not been an idle representative.—(Cheers.) I set myself, in the first instance, to introduce a clause into the Irish prime and Outrage Bill, which had for its object the putting an end, ae far as I could, to the dastardly system of midnight assassination which then unhappily prevailed in many districts of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) I thought it was essential to devise some means of punishing those whom in law we call accessories after the fact—that is persons who knowingly give facilities for the concealment and escape of the cowardly and blood-stained murderer. The clause which I introduced has been held to be a great improvement of the law, and I believe has done much to prevent the crime of assassination in Ireland. —(Cheers.) When I say I introduced this or that measure, do not deem that I say it at all in the way of boasting ; I hope there is not a man here who does not know me sufficiently well to feel assured that I have no such intention.—(Hear, hear.) For if I had done twenty times as much as I have, I admit that you would have t_s_ right to call me but a n unp ro fit a bl e servan t a fter all. boast, then, not at a ll , b u t am s i m ply, showing wh a t think you have a right to know, namely, wh ether , your ay representative has put out to usury the one ta len t , be, with which ho h as been endowed, or w hether he hope hidden it in a napkin and suffered it se to wliheenyou learn idle. I t)p you will find that this was not the ca what it is that has been done. I h avesaid that I intro- ve rnents into the duced what I hope will be further impro law—improvements which, I trust, are of a valuable cha racter as tending to secure of the condemnation of the guilty and the escape t h e innocent. we (Hear, hear.) I have done , also what I could towards reducing parochial ex penditure, and knowing as y ou all do how heavily su.elh expenditurec affects y our in terests,onsider that an unimpor tant.matter. — I trust y notT These are the measures which (C-ohtee w i l l I have introduced into Parliament during the past ses sion, and I am happy to say that every one of them passed unanimously in both Houses of Parliament.— (Applause.) And now let us see how I have conducted myself in other matters, in order that it may be seen what weight is to be attached to the accusation that I am a ‘. place hunter." — (Laughter.) It will be in the remembrance of most who now hear me that the Mi nistry at the commencement of the session brought in a proposal for increasing the income-tax—charging pro fessional and trade income in the same way and at the same rate as the income arising out of realised property. I thought that unfair. (Hear, hear.) And I said s o —(C heers) and I voted ageing it.—(Loud cheers.) And yet that was a measure by which the Government set great store. But I cared not for that. — (Cheers.) I thought it my duty to vote against it, and I did so.—(Loud cheers.) Then there was the subject of the navigation-laws.—(Hear, hear.) It is perfectly well known that Ministers introduced a measure with respect to that Bill, against which I voted. —(Cheers.) I divided against Ministers in every stage of that Bill.—(Cheers.) I thought it my duty to do so, cud although 1 lawr I clan km iIaSPY of rioY CQUOti• ....••° __.--- It, the jar. of A' robi lb Coal , re ef, illi Sill Of tOj. re, d q., " erg 6 . oIIIY the I Pf S" j 79, 'af I ,for kn ne► inu el ct of relic s 30' o f ir --... - 1 THE ➢IAITLAND PRIZE. This prize for the year 1849 has been adjudged to Ernest F. Fiske, 8.A., of Emmanuel College. The Professor of Moral Philosophy has given notice that he will begin his course of lectures on Monday, Feb. 12, 1849, at one o'clock, in the lecture-room in Trinity College. The lectures will be continued every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at the same hour. The subject of this course will be the ethical doctrines of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Cicero, Hobbes, Locke, Butler, Paley, Dugald Stewart, Bentham, and Mac kintosll. In order to prepare the way for the operation of the Moral Sciences Tripos, and the professorial condition for the degree of 8.A., lately established by the University, the professor has also given notice, that after his course of lectures he will hold an examination on the subjects of the lectures, and on the books therein recommended. OXFORD, FEB. 7.—lu a convocation to be holden on Friday, the 9th instant, at two o'clock, it will be pro posed, that the annual payment of 1251., which was authorised by vote of convocation on the 10th of June, 1848, to be made for five years to the incumbent of Holm Cultram, to be applied towards the stipend of an as sistant curate for that parish, be discontinued after the 10th of June, 1849; and that, in lieu thereof, a grant in perpetuity of 501. per annum be made out of the im propriate tithes of Holm Cultram to each of the three district churches lately built in that parish, to be ap plied towards a permanent endowment for the stipends of the respective incumbents of the same. The Ecele siastical Commissioners in England have signified their readiness to make a permanent grant of 501. to each of the said three new churches, provided the University will secure to each of them a similar amount. The present proposition is made with the entire concurrence of the incumbent of the parish church. CAMBRIDGE, FL. 7.—The Vico-Chancellor has given notice that, at the Congregation on Wednesday next, the 14th instant, the following Grace (amongst others) will b offered to the Seeate:—" To appoint the Vice- Chancellor, the Master of Jesus College, the Dean of Bristol, the Master of Pembroke College, the Master of St. John's College, the Master of Trinity College, the Master of Catherine Hall, the Regius Protessor of Divinity; the Regius Professor of Law, the Regius Professor of Physic; Mr. Stokes, Senior Proctor; Mr. Edwards, Junior Proctor; the Registrary; Mr. Williamson, of Clare Hall; Mr. Hand, of King's College; Mr. Waller, of Magdalene College; Mr. Sykes, of Downing College; Mr. Rickards, of Sidney College; Mr. Wratislaw, of Christ's College; and Mr. Power, of Emmanuel College, a Syndicate, to revise the statutes of the University, and to present them to the Senate in their revised form before the division of the Michaelmas Term, 1849." The Professor of Mi❑eralogy will commence his lec tures on Thursday, Feb. 15. These lectures will be given gratis, on Tuesdays. Thursdays, and Saturdays, from two to three, in the Mineralogical Museum, under the west end of the new library. DISTRESS IN TILE WEST OF IRELAND.—A Trea sury minute of the 16th of January says:—The Poor law Commissioners report that of the 131 unions into which Ireland is divided, 100 will not need extraneous assistance, ten or eleven more may be rescued from em barrassment. There remains but twenty to be consi dered separately. A list is given of twenty-one unions, all along the west coast from Sligo to Bantry. Their expenditure during the y ea r was 968,0001., o f which 237,0001. was sent from England, nevertheless the debt of these unions increased in the year by 48.0001. The minute states the available potato crop of 1848 as less than that 01 1847. Each individual relieved during the severe three quarters of the year cost 1/. The 367,500 L furnished by British charity to Ireland saved the lives of at least 200,000 people. The out door relief, which in the week ending on the 6th of May, 1848, amounted to 184 millions, sunk in the last week of September below 6 millions. In the last week of November it was 7i mil lions. The number of inmates of workhouses was 130,000 in the beginning of June, 108,000 in the middle of Sep tember, and 163,000 at the end of November. From September, 1847, to September, 1848, there was spent on the poor of Ireland 1,856,0001. Of this 1,627,700/. was raised in rates. SwicsoN.—A very ludicrous scene was recently witnessed on the platform at the station here, on the ar rival of a train. A sergeant of a regiment of the line with a number of recruits, who wer e on t h e i r way to London to be attested, left the train to procure refresh ment. One of the recruits, a fine tall young man, wear ing very long trousers, stumbled as ho stepped out of the carriage. The sergeant, haring great regard for the limbs of his recruits, turned sharply round to the stumbler, when, to his great horror, he discovered that the recruit had a most singular defect. The amazed sergeant, as soon as ho could recover from the effect of his astonishment, shouted to the unfortunate recruit, " By —, sir, you have only one leg!" The man coolly replied, " Well, I know that;" and upon a closer inspec tion it appeared that the man actually bad a cork leg, a fact which had escaped the penetration of the soldier. The poor sergeant seemed to be driven to his wits' end, and endeavoured to persuade the recruit to return to the place from whence he came, but he persisted in going to London—" He had been 'listed to go to Lunnun, and to Lunnun he'd go." The bell rang, and all parties re entered the train to fight out the battle. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAT.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's strain-ship Pacha, commanded by Captain John Weeks, with the mails from Spain, Por tugal, and Gibraltar, left this afternoon. She had a full cargo of general merchandise, of about 90 tons, with one package of specie, of the value of 3001. Her passengers amount to twelve only. The next homeward-bound Pe ninsular steam-ship is the Madrid, due nn the 11th. She will be here about Tuesday next. > s