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• -111111i1b4S • --- RI t • ( --001>-••-90' - ocx. F "'" * •••‘-` r 4 7 1 % 4 • Kr, e >01,12-d -' • - • 4 ' • 'i t ~ FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD HOUSES, BRIGHTON. TO be PEREMPTORILY SOLD, PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made In the cause of DIXON y. LINN, with the approbation of RICUARD TORIN KINDERSLEY, Esquire, one of the Masters of the said Co - art, at the Old Ship Hotel, Brighton, in the County of Sussex, on Mutts 14Y, the 17th day of May, 1819, at Two o'clock precisely, in Two Lots, A FREEHOLD MANSION or DWELLING-HOUSE, known as BLOOMSBURY HOUSE ; and a LEASEHOLD MANSION or D WELLING -HOUSE, known as LANSDOWIIE HOUSE, both situate on the Marine Parade, Brighton. Particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained (gratis) at the Plaid Master's Office, in Southamp ton -b u ilgi ng s, Chancery-lane, Lon don ; of Messrs. Shield and Harwood, 26, Queen-street, Cheapside , the City of London ; of Messrs. Palmer, France , and Palmer, Bed ford-row; London: of Mr. Dingwall, 8, Tokcnhouse-yard, in the Cityof London ; of Messrs. Upperton and Yerrall, Brighton; and of Messrs. Webb, Marine Parade, Brighton. Dated 30th April, 18-19. THE PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION (Enrolled under the ~rienalY Societies' Acts) and BENEVOLENT FUND. Th om TRUSTEES. Thoins a o s a t H ar any, inf e ,E sq., M.P. IW. G. P rescott, Esq. Jun., Esq. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. TREASURER OF THE BENEVOLENT FUND. John Abel Smith, Esq , M.P. Every description of Life Assurance effected daily. Division of Profits every Five Years. Parties assured Three Years I :r t iciPate in Profits, either by an addition to the Policy , reduction 8 Preadum, or a Casio B o nus. All parties assuring during the pre at Year will participate in the next Division of Profits, which will _ place in 1852. Rights to nominate any party to receive the I :_monnt of a Life Policy, free of legacy and probate duty, or any ether 4 ) e h ase• No entraace fee. "° Eighth Annual Report, and detailed Prospectuses, showing the very_ Peculiar advantages offered by this Association, may be had Ott application at the office. By order of the Board, PHILIP HENRY BYRNE, Secretary. 42, Moorgate-street, March, 1349. BUILDING GROUND TO LET, AT NORWICH-COURT, HOLBORN. F or particulars apply to Messrs. Adam Murray and son, Surveyors 0. "" 'And Agents, 35, Craven-street. IMPORTANT INVENTION connected with the MA-NUFACTURE of BREAD, BISCUIT, and PASTRY. ....•ne Inventor, M r . JOHN SMITH, of Rare Crag, near Dundee, L b', to whom her Majesty's Letters Patent have been granted for i nu g l aild, Scotland, and Ireland, has discovered a METHOD of u se- ThYO TREATING the OAT, so as to obtain therefrom a flour e q ual, an t superior t o t he best wheaten fl our . The flour of oats has been al Y B ed by well-known chemists, and is Ifoand to contain a much cid larger_ast e to quantity of nutritious qualities than wheaten flour, and is cal give a greater amount of nourishment and strength to the u cle, bone, and blood of man. The inventor i ntends to extend the advantages •f this discovery by granting licenses in the different c ountries for which her Majesty's Letters Patent have:been obtained. In carrying out this dis cover y, there will be required but little altera -1?n in the present system of g, r i n di ng —an advantage which will be at o nce self-evident, as the manufacture may immediately be entered 00T of those engaged in the manufacture of flour front wheat. In While "Price the benefit will be largely in favour of the consumer, the invention will create a demand for oats which will ba y very r 4 ePtabl a e ri to ot t . he growers of that grain in its present depressed state .11 the r a rtlrther particulars of this discovery, and also of the terms upon w hich licenses will be gr a n ted, may be obtained by application to Mr. raith, factor for Lord Douglas, of Douglas, Hare Craig, near Dun- T -IDLE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET. The Collection of Models of Agricultural Implements has been greatly increased by additions deposited by the Royal Agricultural Society and other scientific p arties. The use of these Models, as well 8s all others in the Institution, is explained from day to day.—Lec tures by Dr. Bachhoffner on the Ventilation of Mines, &c., by Means of a Jet of Steam, daily at Iwo o'clock, and on alternate Evenings.—Lecture on Chemistry, daily at Half-past Three, and on ahernato Evenings.—The Microscope.—The New Dissolving Views include Scenes In Van Diemen's Land, from Original Drawings taken on the spot by J. Skinner Prout, Esq.—New Chromatrope.—Diver and Diving-bell.—The Music is under the direction of Dr. Wallis. Open daily from Eleven to Five ; and in the Evenings (including Saturday) from Seven till Half-past Ten. Admission, Is.—Schools, Half-price.—The New Catalogue. Is. ROYAL MISSISSIPPI PICTURE, EGYPTIAN HALL. BA/sWARD'S great PAINTING having returned from WINDSOR CASTLE, where it has been exhibited, by command, to her Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family, is NOW OPEN to The Public at the usual hours, at the Egyptian Hall. Morning, Half- Past Two ; Evening, Half-past Seven. Admission—Lower Seats, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. IIERR STRAUSS, with his celebrated Band, will give his LAST GRAND CONCERT, at the Hanover square Rooms, on SATURDAY MoaNtrzu, May 5, to commence at Half past Two o'clock precisely. Tickets, Three Shillings ; Reserved Seats, Fire Shillings each, with Programmes, to be had of his Publishers, Messrs. R. Cocks and Co., 6, New Burlington-street ; at the Rooms ; and of all Mus.icsellers. ITORTICUL TUR AL FETE. A Full Report of the CHISWICK MEETING, with List of the Prizes, will appear in The GARDENERS' CHRONICLE and AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. • The Gardeners' Chronicle is edited by Professor Lindley, and may be ordered of any News Agent, price 6d., free by post. IT is impossible to detail in the limits of an ordi nary Advertisement the many advantages appe rtainin g to the REGISTERED PALETOT, the MORNING COAT, Esc., suf fice it to say, that Messrs. NICOLL purchase the wool direct from the foreign grower, and it does not leave their possession nun it is produced in a complete form and ready for the inspection of their Patrons. Messrs. NICOLL are honoured with the patronage of their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert, Prince George of Cam bridge, Prides Edward of Saxe Weimar, his Grace the Duke of Wel. ungton, and all others distinguished in Rank and Fashion, the Court, the Pulpit, and the Bar. 114, 116, and 120, REGENT-STREET, and 22, CORNUILL. UNDER the SHkDOW of the GRASS• HOPPER (22, Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange) may be seen the City Depot for the NICOLL, the REGISTERED rALETOT, NICOLL'S MORNING COATS, and other garments, With some portion of each of the beautiful fabrics daily exhibited in the spacious warerooms, 114, 116, and 120, Regent-street, a 3 not only these last-named premises, bat also those in Cornhill, are the property of sae and the same firm. - The following agents have also a large variety of goods for inspection, viz.:—Messrs. Wareing anti Soo, New-street, Birmingham ; Messrs. 'Davybara and Son, Bold-street, Liverpool ; Messrs. Macdona, Moles worth-street, Dublin ; Messrs. Christie an Son, George-street, Edin burgh; Messrs. Wilson and Co., Calcutta; Messrs. Rutherford, long Kong ; Messrs. Roth, Philadelphia ; Messrs. Bruce, Cape Towa. II 3' a des agents pour la vente de ces articles brevetes dans teutes les principales vines de PAngleterre et des colonies qui oat des as &liniments prets I etre examines. 'ONLY TWO WEEKS to GRAND EXCITING DERBY RACE of 1849. , PROSPECTUSES containing full information will be forwarded 'g r atis) on application to DRUMMOND, GREVILLE, and Co., 72, P rincess -street, Leicester -square, London. N.B. Ruff's Guide to the Turf, and sporting prints of every de- Scription. Post Office orders, payable at Charing-cross, will command prompt attention. Po stage stamps received as cash. • lIUXLEY'S PARISIAN SHIRTS.- There is but one reason to be assigned for the difficulty experienced by gentlemen in being fitted with Shirts. It is the im perfect rules hitherto applied to Shirt making. This has led many gentlemen to suppose the difficulty to arise from some peculiar for nation of the neck or chest. Such opinions are most erroneous. It le essential that a Shirt should set with ease and comfort, the front remaining smooth with every change of position. 11. and Co. respectfully . Pectfully solicit inspection, and feel confident of giving satisfac tion to every customer. RUXLEY'S REGISTERED SHIRT CO LLAR is guaranteed to fit the neck without a crease. As the most liberal wages are paid to the shirt hands, superior work can at all times be relied upon. HUXLEY and CO.'S PARISIAN SHIRT WAREHOUSE, 5 , MERE-STREET, C A.VENDISII-SQUARE. rr, the MONTH of Shining, smiling, flowery May, Listen to my humble lay, Fondly doth my eye discern Tokens of thy glad return ; Now are nature's prospects seen, Decked with newly spreading green : All is charming, all is gay, Shining, smiling, flowery M.iy. Happy month 1 thy welcome reign, With its ever pleasing train, Scatters pleasures here and there, Pleasures which the many share ; Even in the crowded town, Thousands hail thy blooming crown, And to thee their honours pay, Shining, Smiling, flowery May. M A Y [PRICE SD. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. COAL MARK ET. —l' I STE ADAY. Buddle's W. Hartley.. 14s Od Hetton Carr's. Hartley East Adairs Main..... 12s 6d l llutton Hasting's Hartley l4s Odlonassohns ... 145 6d Ilolywell Main ... ..... 14s Od I.,ambton New Tanfield l2s 6d 'Morrison l4s 6d Newcastle Hartley .. 12s 6d i Russell's lletton Original Tanfield l2s Od l Stewart's Ord's Redheugh Stewart's Hartley...... 13s 0(1 Whitwell Canfield Moor Walker's Primrose ... lls 9d, Hudson's Hartlepool lss Od West Hartley Wylam Wall's End, &c. South llartlepool Acorn Close Eden ....... ...-.... .... 14s 6dlWhitwortb l2s 6d Framwell Gate ..... .... 15s 6cl Bishop's Tees ..... Heaton Hedley Killingworth l4s 6d Tees Percy Bensham l4s 6dlWest Cornforth .. ...... 15s Od South Peareth Walker Washington Eden Main Lambton Primrose Braddyll's Hetton l7s Od Ships at market, 344. Bell While thy trees mad flowers assume New attire on leaf and bloom, We prepare a change of dress, Suited to thy loveliness. Daily now is MOSES' Mart Filled with things in every part, Won by MOSES' choice display, Shiniog, smiling, flowery May. I myself have lately been To this busy trading scene ; And with pleasure did I scan Dress designed on such a plan. Trowsers, Coats, and Waistcoats, too, Easily beautiful to view, Here were bought for little pay, Shining, smiling, flowery May. Hats and Caps and Boots and Shoes, Such as none could well refuse, Showed what MOSES' Mart can do, When thy month appears in view. May the preparations made, Add to Messrs. MOSES' trade, And with this I close my lay, Shining, smiling, flowery May. - LIST OF PRICEaI. MDT 11.1. DE. Men's Spring, and Summer Wrappers.. from £0 S 6 The Bulwer, Pasha, Paletot, an every descrip tion of light Over-suets • 1 2 6 Cloth Over Coats, of alight texture, and hand somely trimmed • ...... • ...... •••• • • 11 0 Do. do. lined with 1 8 0 Do. do. superior quality ••• • • • 1 18 0 Jean and Holland Blouses ••••••••• • •• • • • • • • 0 2 9 Fancy Victoria do. ••••• • • • • • ••••• • • • • • 0 4 8 Tweed do. • • • • • • • • ........ 0 17 0 Dress Coat ••• • • • ..... • "• *: ............ 1 0 0 Frock Coat ...... • • 0 4 0 Spring and Summer T • To • U • S • c • fa • • •• • •••• • .. .. .. .. ..... 0 7 6 Doeskin and Buckskin do.. ••• • • • Spring and Summer Vests In . y .. v . r:f1 . e . t . y . .... 0 0 1 4 6 6 Black and Figured Satin Vests • 0 9 Black do., superior quality •• • ••• .......... 0 4 6 White Marcella Tests •••• " • • • 0 3 6 Men's Black Cloth Vests •••• • " • • 0 I 10 Boy's Spring and Summer Tests. ••• ••.. • 0 40• • 0 15 0 Boys' Hussar and Tunic S uits • • • • • • • • • • Men's Fishing Coats in great variety • • • • • • • fitted Feleteta made from a material, 0 Ki a D v ii T T ], c o t y m o sts vs x. for Summer wear • • • • ••••"• • • • • • •• • • ••• 1 8 0 Do. very elegantly trimmed •••• • • • • • • • •1 15 0 Superior Cloth of a light texture • . ...... • • • • Ditto ditto lined with silk.... .......... 2 2 0 Ditto Dress Coat.. • • .• •• • • ' • '• • • • • • • • • • • •• 2 1 12 0 15 0 1 15 0 Superfine Frod • t • ii • o. • ••• •• • • • ••• • • • •••• • • • .a TrouVe • r • s • . • •..• •••• • • • • 016 6 Fancy Doeski Black do. • • ••• • • • • • • Black Cloth Ve5t5.................0 8 6 Beat ,„ • 0 13 6 gplotlid Satin st ••••••• • • • • • • 014 6 • • •• e• •••• Beat d 0... e •0 18 6 „ u nmoor and Tunis suits ..................•.1 5 0 Met e s d 1 15 0 pi s l a n ;V e h l it ar e Marcella Vests .• ••••••• - •• • • • • 7 variety et ts s i in n g endless variety from 0 10 6to 1 16 0 Eleg an t Robes in great Mo ';' 4 • •• • • irons 0160 to 5 0 0 bookiii,‘o any extent at Five Minutes notice. The n of Clothes complete for if. 10s. for Self.nr eas „,, entitled the " Great Fact," with full directions free, to any ""raent, • Part of the can be had on application, or forwarded, post he Sh awl n k indom. ev ery Doyelt ' "nu Parasol Department are now replete with Obsert,e novelty of the s ,.. sen Melts -- anY article purchased, either ready made, or made to u_re, if approve not.,l.sosEs,lemrlBs?6FßaSn ae;olad,sSON,d of will be exchanged, or the money returned. Tailors, woollenSrapers, Clothiers, Hatters, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, 154, blinorier, and Fa, 54, 85, and 86 Altigate, City, ' l ' c ' n don; all c ommunicating with each other, and forming one vast Establishment. ag e e r e u s t t ion•—E. Mos es and Son regret hav i ng t o guar d th e pu bli c •• • I mposition ; but having heard that the untradesman-like falsehood of being connected with them, or " It is the same concere," t ruo rtesi t(.. in many lubtanees, and 'or obvious reftsons, b. scat, they have no contwxion with any other house in e or nut I•e d :I OP. except their nranch :sr;, Far a ' 3 r and . 19, Thoraton's-buildins.s, Bra,ifortl, Yorkshire; Ludes wh o e p and .g =mitre Cothiri - P'e choral:? ^ll at, or send to the i stinories and Aldg ' ate, ' Citi7, London ; , or either of the Bran h c Establishments , as above. till eke Establishment is closed from sunset Friday, " B At.uld o l 7 . when buzineee is round till twelve o'clock. NEWCASTLE CATTRIC MARKET, MIT L —We have again to report a large show of fat beasts, which are of a very supe rior quality. There is not a middling beast on offer. Also a good average supply of sheep, which are of excellent quality. The supply of beef would comprise about 800 head of beasts. The beef trade is slow at drooping rates, and a considerable quantity remains unsold. The number of sheep is 4,000. The mutton trade is firm, and, in some instances, are making more money, and nearly all is sold. Prices—Beasts—Small heifers, 5s 9d ; large do. 5s 6d ; best steers, 5,3 d ; second do., 4s 9d to 5s ; middling, 4s 6d ; stags and inferior, 4s 6d per stone of 141bs ; sheep, 51d to 6d per lb, sinking the offal. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, MAY 1.-There were in in the market to-day 90 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801bs imperial, whereof 84 sold thus :-48 at 1188 Od, 16 at 1/ 716 d, 6at 117 s 3d, 6atll 7s Od, Bat 116 s 9d. Average price of the whole, li is 7d 11-12ths. 8 sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at 335, 3 at 30*, and sat 23 5 . 2 sacks 1:al Icymcal, whereof 1 sold at 235. 2 sacks peasemeal, whereof 1 sold at 20s, and 1 (beanmeal) at 16s 6d. 11 sacks pot-barley, which sold thus: 3 at 11 8s Od, 1 at 11 7s Od, 1 at 1 51 Od, 3 at 114 s 6d, 3 at 114 s Od. 2 sacks brosemeal, whereof 1 sold at AS. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, MAY 1.-- Supplies of all kinds again large. Oat straw, from 6s Od to 7s Od per kemple of 16 stones tron ; wheat ditto, 6s 01 to 7s Od ; barley ditto, 58 Od to Cs Od. Hay from 7d to 9d per stone. was a small _supply of AaßllksEoTris A o rt r z, ai 3 n o. To-day h t 48s , eats and 2 p o r s i 6 c prices thereEAST LINTON GRAIN M - bushel ; barley 24 . s 6d, weighing wheat 1 b s per w bushel eiggli weighing g';Glbs pe were downwards weighing 441bs per T bus P he ( f 4 ; bushel. Averages per es ' 29s Od, weighing 651bs per oats, 195 sd. Of barley im p e r ialquarter—Wheat, 21 5s 9d , there was only three ; all the beans sold at 29s one parcel and of beans . BELFAST, APRIL 30.—Grain—Since in S' have been small, but the demand having luce Friday the supplies prices are scarcely maintained. Wh ea t, abated, that day's barley, 6s 6d to 7s ; oats, 6s 6d to 753 d.. 93 3d to lOs 3d ; oatmeal, 6d per cwt. Butter — firkins , first 9 d ; crocks lls to Ils third 'lid ; crock bid per lb; shipping price 70 s to 86 ; s pe firkins, Potatoes, per stone , 9d to 10d ; ditto, p er cwt, be t o 5s cwt.s Fruit—Apples, per dozen, 6d to 9d ; pears, per ditto, Od to Od; grapes, per lb., 8d to 10d ; lemons, per dozen, Os 93 to Os 10d • nuts, per quart, 6d to Ed; wall-nuts, per hundred, is to Is 3d; chest nuts, per ditto, is Od to Os ; cocoa nuts, 6d to 8d each; American apples, 10d to ls Od per dozen ; mixed pickles, 10d to l e , Butchers' Aleat—beef, per lb, 4d to 7d ; mutton, 5d to 7d ; val, 6d to 7d; lamb, 5s Od to Gs Od per quarter. Fish—Trout, Os 6d per lb ; brett, 3s Od to 4s Od ; soles, is to is 6d per pair. Poultry—Fucks, 2s owls, 2s 6d 2s 6d per to 3s a• pair ; chickens , is 6d to 2s per pair ; d u cks, to pair ; turkeys, 3s to 4s each ; geese, 2s 6(1 to 3s Gd ; eggs, per doz., 5d to 6d. Hay, Is 2d to 2s 2d ; straw, oat, 8d to Is 3d ; ditto, wheat, 10d to Is 2d per cwt. BANBRIDGE, Arum 30.—Oatmeal, from 12s Od to 12s old per cwt ; Indian meal, 9s Oct to 96 6d per cwt ; flour, first, per 11 9 lbs, 16s Od ; second, 14s 6d ; third, 12s Od ; fourth, lOs Od ; bran, 6s Od ; wheatmeal, 12s 6(.1 to 14s Od; wheat, from 9s 9d to lOs Gd per cwt. of 112Ibs ; oats, seed, from 7s Od to 9s 0( 1 grinding, 63 10d to 7s Gd; barley, 6s Gd to Os Od per cwt, best butter, firkin, at the scale, :none in market ; meskin, 8d to sid per lb ; beef, 3d to 5d ; mutton, 5d to 6d ; potatoes, for seed, 3s 6d to Sc 6d per cwt for table, from 4s 8d to 53 per cwt ; hens, 10d to 00d each ; chickens, 10d to Is 2d per pair ; ducks, Os 00d to 2s Od ; turkeys, 3s Od to 3519(1 each ; geese, 2s 6d to Os Od ; eggs, hen, 41c1 to Od per dozen ; duck, Od to 6d per dozen ; tutkey, Os to is per dozen ; ~••' ' 1 ' t;' ; 'nay. tipl .nrl , c r o , n 0, Oil to ' , .s old per cwt • ~,-,-, '5,,,,,.., , 1. flout 1)3 0 I to Is -!ti ; s tr a w. from 'd to 10 d; turnips, 0,1 to Is 8 , 1; pork, front 4 's Od to 45s i d per 1 1 2lbs. lamb, trom Od to 7d per lb. weight of bread at Hamilton Moore's bakery, 41bs fur ild. Old grain whiskey, at Mr. Robert Bell's, Gs 3 d per gallon , duty paid. BALLYMENA, AralL_2B.—Coats, 6s 6d_ to Ea Od; oatmeal, stores, and fuel should be sent out to the Investigator this year, as much as a suitable vessel can conveniently carry. 9. That the performance of this service with the re quisite certainty antl effectiveness is entirely imprac ticable by engaging a whaling vessel to execute it, this duty being wholly incompatible with, and opposed to the usual, and to them all-important, occupation of killing whales. That these ships pushing across the ice in Bat - fin's Bay at all during the season cannot be reckoned upon with any degree of certainty, and that the early period of their leaving England (February and March) would be a serious disadvantage, as greatly lessening the chances of our having received previous information of Sir John Franklin, either from Sir John Richardson, or by way of Panama, or through Russia, from Kanaschatka. (In this view of the expediency of employing a whaling ship, Dr. Scoresby's opinion is very strong, from his long experience of those vessels, and the business in which they are engaged.) 10. That the best vessel for carrying out the provisions, &c., would be a bomb, such as those already engaged on the Arctic expeditions, their scantling being large, and their frames strong; and that the Thunder, of about 375 tons, if fortified in the usual manner for the navigation among the ice, manned by effective officers and men, and commanded by an officer of intelligence and zeal, would be a very fit vessel for this service. 11. That the 15th of May (not a day later) is the proper time for the store-ship to leave England, and that she should be directed to proceed across the ice in Baf fin's Bay, into Lancaster Sound, and up Barrow's Strait, looking out for the Investigator or her boats, and then to take such measures for unloading the vessel as may be directed by Captain Bird. 12. That if it should happen that the Investigator is not met with, nor any of her boats (which, however, may be confidently expected, from the tenor of the Ad miralty instructions to Sir James Ross), then the store ship to proceed, in good time, to land the provisions, &c., if possible, at Whaler Point, Port Leopold, this being a rendezvous specially appointed by Sir James Ross in his instructions to Captain Bird; but should that point (as it is not unlikely) prove inaccessible to the ship, on count of ice, then a notice to be left there, as well as at several points on the south coast of Lancaster Sound named by Sir James Ross, containing a summary of the Admiralty instructions now sent out, and giving precise information where the provisions, &c., are landed. 13. That imperative instructions should be given to Sir James Ross for a strict search in Wellington Channel and its neighbourhood, since it has been ascertained that Sir John Franklin attached very great impoz tance to that opening, in case of his failing to push on to the southward and westward. 14. The attention of Sir James Ross should likewise be drawn to Regent's Inlet, as Sir John Franklin might possibly return by that route, and that very conspicuous notices be posted in that neighbourhood, and especially about Cape York. 15. That is desirable that the store. ship be employed in assisting in the search during whatever portion of the season may remain after the delivery of her provisions, &c., and in such manner as Captain Bird or (as the case may be) her commander may deem fit, consistently with the securing of her return to England before the en suing winter. 16. That should Captain Bird deem it expedient, any of the officers and men belonging to the store ship, who are volunteers for the service, may be exchanged ler any sick or disabled individuals whom it may be desirable to send back to England. 17. That in addition to the foregoing precautions, it will be desirable to send out by a certain number of whaling ships (selecting the most desirable) copies of the new instructions to Captain Bird, including those given to the officer commanding the store-ship, and offer ing some inducement to the masters of the whaling ships to deposit these communications at certain points, to be hereafter decided upon, especially those which we know to hare been selected by Sir James Ross. It may be well to print these instructions, and to enclose them in copper cylinders, ready for depositing as above sug gested. 18. That it will be necessary to go into many impor tant details in addition to the above, but that the points here alluded to appear to be the most obvious and im portant, and requiring immediate attention. (Signed) F. BEAUFORT. 71 7 -- Several gang‘<olconvicts are now employed in clear ing the mud from the old basin at Portsnaouth. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. -. ----- M' ANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY. A special general meeting of the shareholders of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was held this forenoon at the Pala tine Hotel, for the purpose of directing the conversion and consolidation into general capital stock of the gua ranteed six percent. preference shares. Mr. HENRY HOULDSWORTH was called to the chair, and in opening the proceedings briefly alluded to the advantages which would be conferred on holders of those shares by conversion into general capital stock. In con clusion, he proposed the following resolution:— " That the guaranteed six per cent. preference shares of this company be converted and consolidated into the general capital stock, to ha 'cl:€(.l the Lancashire and Yorkshire Consolidated Six per Cent. Preference Steck, as to such of the said shares as shall be paid up on the 30th day of May instant, from that date; and so much of the said shares as shall not be then paid up, from time to time, when and so soon as the same respectively shall be paid up." • Mr. R. GILL seconded the resolution, which, after a short discussion, was carried nem. con. The basiness of the meeting then concluded. N°.l, .] LONDON, THURSDAY E MAY 3, 1849. IY. ; DIAZZA HOTEL, COVENT - GARDEN. This well-knowrAnd old established house, having added numerous Bed and Sitting Roo - is previous means of accom modation, Families visiting Lo ml desirous from the limited period of their sojourn to avoid t rouble of seeking private lodg ings, will find every comfort and most Moderate Charges at this Hotel. Being contiguous to the Royal Italian Opera House, it p 0.4- Fesses the advantage of a Covered Approach thereto, an accommo dation to Ladies particularly unnecessary to comment upon. Private Dinner an I Supper Rooms for Parties visiting the Theatre (no charge mado for Apartments or Lights). A ma,;nificent nr.d well-ventilated Coffee room and Smoking-room will be kand amongst its numerous advantage HELL GWYNNE TAVERN and CHOP HOUSE, Bull Inn-court, Strand, for Luncheons, Dinners, and Suppers, Three Doors East of the Adelphi Theatre, and opposite Adam street. Messrs. ARCHER and BOLT most respectfully invite their friends and the public to patronise the Nell Gwynne Coffee-room, which has been fitted up in the style of the period in which she lived. Visitors to the Theatres, Citizens, and Gentlemen connected with Somerset House, and the Banking Houses in the vicinity, will find the Table d'Hote, which takes place at half-past Five precisely, the most comfortable and reasonable in the metropolis.—Fish and Joints, 2s. per head. Hot Joints until Eight, and Suppers mitt One o'clock. Private Dining-rooms. excellent Beds, superior Wines and Spirits, tine Ales, and Barclay and Perkins's Stout. N.B. An Entrance also from Maiden lane. THE MECIIIAN DRESSING-CASE, the most portable ever inyented, being only the size of a pocket book. containing one pair of Mechi's ivory-handled peculiar steel razors, his magic strop, comb, and badger-hair shaving-brush, price only 255. ; the same with hair-brush and soap-dish, 355. To military men, and as a steam-boat or travelling companion, this invention is an invalu able acquisition. An immense variety of other dressing• cases, both for ladies and gentlemen, either in fancy woods or leather, at all prices, to suit either the economical or luxurious. An extensive stock of writing-desks, writing.cases, work boxes, and bagatelle tables, razor-strops, table cutlery, superb papier macho articles, &c. Manufactory, 4, Leadenhall-street, Four Doors from Cornhill. 4PENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE . The thousands of individuals who for upwards of twenty years hare used this celebrated liquid, pronounce it to he 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 of life. Price 3s. 6d., 65., and 10s. per bottle. 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The above works may be had of Sherwood, 23, Faternester-rew ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet•street • Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Nelson, 457, Went Strand ; or direct (by post or other wise) from the author (who may be conferred with personally, morningx and evenings), IC, Argyll-plaeo Regent-street; and all Bookseller.. Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or by post, direct from the Establishment , 3 s. 6 d. I n p osta g e stam p s, THE SILENT FRIEND, 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, and the means of obviating, certain dis qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Ox ford-street, London. 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Stock. - 11134 Ditto 80nd5.... - - 41. per cent. - - _ St. Katharine ........ 4 per cent. Stock. - 83 Ditto Bonds ........ 4%1. pr cent. - - - Southampton •• •• -•• 21. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - WATER-VT ORES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of raid. Prick Annum. Share. — £ a. d. £ s. d. East London. ..... •• • • 81. 100 0 0 173 Grand Junction •• .• -2/. 108. 41 13 4 SO Kent•• •• •••••• •• - - 31. 108. 100 0 0 Lambeth •• •• •• -••- bl. per cnt. 100 0 0 97 New Rivr Lndn Brdge 2i. 108. bb Vauxhall -•• •• •—•- 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 100 West Middlesex . . . 61.05. pr cnt. 120 OAS—LIGHT AND CORE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. --- - X. a. d. X. a. d. British ••••••• • • • • • • • 1/. 40 0 0 18 0 0 14 Ditto Provincial. •• • 11. Bs. 20 0 0 19 0 0 18 Bristol ••••••• • • • • • • • 101. per cent. 20 0 0 Brighton .. ••..•• • • .. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 16 City of London .. •• • • 101. 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 Continental Consolidat. 925. pr share 50 0 0 39 5 0 25 Equitable .... ••..• • • • 455. pr share, 50 0 0 50 0 0 32 Imperial . • .... ••• • • • 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 606 Independent ....... •• 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 62% London • • .... ••.• • • • • 50 0 0 50 0 0 12N, 50 0 0 50 0 25 Phoenix . .... • ....... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 46 0 0 24 Ratclifl .• •••..• • • • • • 51. 100 0 0 90 0 0 75 United General .• •• . . 4% /. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 12 Westmiaster Chartered 3 /. 50 0 0 49 Ditto, New ...... , 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 9% CANALS. 9 • 1 . . Dividend g Names of r; ,Dividendl Price. Names of ci , r per Companies. A ' per ''''' Companies. , \ Annuls ,. Price. i cc Annum. En I ' .........-- ••••••• ' ...........* , 1 X 1 X \ Ashtn& Oldh 97 ' 71. - Macclesfield . 100 2/. 10s. - ( Barnsley •• • • 160 121. 180 Neath ••• • • • 100 181. 340 Brknk&Abrg 150 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. 186 Birmingham 35 41. 81 Peak Forest. 78 31 . 18s. - ( Coventry.... 100, 251. 210 Regent's.. • • 33 1/. ss. 18% 1 Derby ••• • • 1001 61. 63 Rochdale.... 85 41 . 54 , Ellsmre&Chs 133 565. 40 Somrset Coal 150 7/.los. 130 , Erewash •• • 100, 321. - Do.LkFdSt 12 61. p. c. - GrandJunctn 100 5/. 80 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 310 Grand Surrey 100, 21. 30 Shrewsbury.. 125 15/. - Grand Union 1001 1/. 10s. 24 Stourbridge.. 145 201. 285 Grantham • • 150 - - Severn and ? Kenut & Avn 39 7s. 6d. 5% Wyeßall. j 26 21 . Os• - Leeds& Livrp 100 1 301. 320 Warwick & 1 4L 50 Leicester .... 140 1 61. 63% Birming.3 100 Leicstr &Nth 83 4/. 45 Warwick& 1 - 100 31. 41 Loughborogh 142, 701. 650 Napton.. Monmouthsh 100 81. - Worcstr &) 78 21. 41 Mntgemrysh 100' - - Birming. MeltnMwbry 100 - - Wilts & Brks - 11. 10 LIST 01' SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ________„.,-.-• -.-. .........- -.- ....10 X B. d. X I. d Bank of Scotland British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 193 Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11 % Clydesdale Bank •• •• • • 04 per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12% Commercial Bank •• • • 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 152 Eastern Bank -••• • • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 C 91. 7s Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. 50 0 5 0 0 5% Exehangeßnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 30 Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 - National Bank ..... North of Scotland ..... 41. per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 31.175. North British Bank • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Royal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 116 1 4 Union Bank of Scotland 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 80% Western Bank ••••• • • • 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73% Aberdeen Fire and Life Thil.pr cent. )2 10 0 20 e 214 B. Accord. Life aud Fire - 20 0 0 011 0 - British Guarantee Ins. 4/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 lOs Od Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21 ' Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 20 0 2 ' City of Glasgow Life.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. Its Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 17% East of Scotland Life.. - 10 0 0 015 0 95.0 d. i Eng. & Scot, Law Life 61. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - (weir. Co. of Scetlnd•'• 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Life Assoc. of Scotland 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1 1/. 6$ r Mercantile Life .. •• • - 10 0 0 010 0 3s. Od. National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 205.6 d 1 North British Insur. • • 5)41.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 I 22M North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1 175.6 d. - s Scottish Life and Guar. 20 0 0 011 0 - Scot. M as. and G en. Life - 1 0 0 015 0 - s Scottish Union Insrnce. 6UI. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 25 ; Standard Life s United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 0 ,145.6 d 1, IIIIISCEEMANZOITS. Dividend Amount • Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ; -- [ 1 : C aDn Australian iatdtoa , ~ i."A I . f. g; I .h 7 r l .e t ; : r : 1 -.... X. s. d. X. s. d. - 100 0 0 30 0 0 17% „ Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 4e. 10 0 0 10 0 0 r. Uppr Canada Bonds 51. 61. perlle-r cent. cent. lOO - 2 0 32 2 1010 0 0 - 31 - 88 ; City Navigation .... - - - 90 I . Comp. Cppr Mars Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 n ,. Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 21 100 0 0 100 0 0 TO Equitable Reversionry 5/. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 3, Gen•SteamNavigation 11. Bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 21}4 L ; London Institution ... - - 78 15 0 - Russell Institution.... - - 26 5 0 3 5d Peninsir & Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 68 er R ev ersicnary Int. Soc. 4341. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 90 Royal Mail Steam •• • • 61 18..4. p. c o 100 0 0 160 0 0 - ~,'. S ou th Australian ..... 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 16 '" Van DieMan'S Land., - lOO 0 0 23 0 0 4 i ; ROYAL CHINESE JUNK.—On Saturday last their Serene Highnesses the Princesses Amelia and Eliza of Hohenlohe Shillingsfurst, her Serene Highness the Countess Erbach Schomberg, and his Serene Highness the Prince of Hesse Philippsthal, attended by the Hon. Miss Mitchell and Captain Bedford, visited the Royal Chinese Junk " Keying." These august relatives of I),)wag,:r arrived at the entrance to the vessel in the East India Doe . ks,Waeliwall, in two royal car ri9ges and fou r, with outriders, and expressed themselves tmhuecehx d hei l b i igt h io t n e . d wi the the e: e n x d t a r r e i m n novel ty e llei g h and the i nt eres t honourof of being preeented to tbeir Iligbuesses. THE RAJA OF SA.TTARA. There has been a ballot at the India House—a ballot not about a personal question, not about an election to a vacancy in the direction, not even about a piece of job bery—a ballot, too, not demanded by the proprietors of India stock in defence of their 10 per cent.; not called for by that earnest and sincere friend of India, Sir Charles Forbes ; not insisted on by that :naughty, pertinacious fellow, Mr. George Thompson; but a ballot on a question of principle, on a subject of surpassing interest to every Hindoo prince and native ally in India —a ballot required by Sir Archibald Galloway, chairman of the court, and by certain of the court of directors, to protect themselves from a numerical defeat; to inter pose the ignorance of the absent proprietors against the knowledge of those present at Wednesday and Fri day's debates; to save the Government of India from the censure and condemnation which then threatened it. And this appeal from knowledge to ignorance has suc ceeded to the wish of those who had recourse to it. The determination of Mr. Holt Mackenzie, Mr. Sulli- liven, and the able participators in their opinions, to ar rest, if possible, the determination of the Indian Go vernment to overthrow a great rule of Hindoo succession, and a great principle of Hindoo religion, for the pur pose of absorbing territory and gaining revenue, has raised a question in which every man of property in India, whether of the Hindoo or Mahomedan faith, is deeply concerned. The subject has, however, come so suddenly on the public that the press was quite unprepared to report the debates at the India House. The discussion was tkought to be only an obstinate repetition of the old Sattara question, on which we are bored to death. And the consequence is, that though the debate on one side was conducted with ability un rivalled in the arena of the Court of Proprietors, and by men of the highest authority on all Indian matters; though it exhibited a deep schism in the Court of Di rectors, and left the majority of that Court in a nume rical minority in the more popular assembly, neither we nor any of our contemporaries have given the faintest notion of what was occurring in Leadenhall-street on Wednesday and Friday last. The debate will, however, be published separately; and thus a record of the trans action will be preserved for the instruction of our pos terity, even if the lesson should be lost on ourselves. The subject of the debate, and the object of the ballot, arise out of the Sattara case, about which so much has been written and spoken, but of which so little is known or understood. They do not, however, in the least involve the merits or demerits of the late Raja Pertaub Singh, the justice or injustice of his deposition, the character or want of character of his successor Appa Sahib, or the policy or impolicy of our former treatment of these last descendants of Sevajee. They flow, indeed, from those transactions, but they relate to a point even more important than any before raised. And it is quite possible for a man who viewed favourably the conduct of the Indian Government in deposing Pertaub Singh, to regard with indignation and disgust the policy it is now pursuing, in seizing on the Sattara state. Both Pertaub Singh, the deposed Raja of Sattara, and Appa Sahib, the substituted Raja, are now deceased. One brother died in exile at Benares, where his family languish in poverty; the other in his palace in the capi tal of his dominions. Both departed childless; but both followed the custom of their race and the dictates of their religion—for each adopted an heir to light his funeral pile, and to succeed to his inheritance. Was it then a contest between these rival heirs on which the Court of Proprietors was called to give an opinion by ballot? Nothing of the sort. The Government of India has equally disregarded the rights of either, and has consigned both to obscurity by proclaiming itself heir to the Sattara dynasty. And the question for decision was t r e d a o t y, uwf which ai uf re. its power and the policy of d o i n g this. By een t s h t e itu H ted Hon. the Al Sattaraountstua state, rt the Peishwa and surrender of Pertaub Sin g h to the British troops during the battle of Ashtee, that state was made over to Pertaub S in g h, his heirs and succes sors from generation to generation. The words of the treaty did not confine the succession to his lineal heirs: they left the succession upon the rules of Hindoo law; (hey reserved to the British Government no right or authority to override or set them aside. Now one of the most sacred of those rules is the power of adoption in the absence of lineal heirs. It is a power as well recog nised amongst Hindoos, be they princes or ryots, as the right of the eldest son in England to succeed to the fee simple of his intestate father. It is a power dictated by Hindoo religion as well as authorised by Ilindoo law; for unless a deceased Hindoo leave an heir lineal or adopted, to fire his funeral pile, his religion as signs to him additional punishment and purification in another world. So indispensable, indeed, is its exercise in a religious point of view, that, though the British Re sident at Sattara had always objected to Appa Sahib adopting an heir, the religious scruples of that Prince compelled him on his death-bed to disregard those ob jections, and to send for a child distantly connected with his family, and from poverty he presented the infant to his courtiers as his heir; and by the lad his funeral obse quies were performed. Up to the period of that Prince's decease, this power of adoption by Hindoo Rajas had been undisputed by the British Government; and their adopted heirs succeeded to the muanud as quietly and ordered as their lineal or collateral descendants. It is now, for the first time since we acquired an em pire in India, disregarded and set aside. In spite of Lord Cornwallis' law, which binds us to the consequences of Hindoo rules and of the Hindoo faith, Lord Dalhousie has advocated the disinheritance of both the adopted c C tsapAl aniue o el rdr u pis nti Court git application, Pertaub p o t.bauc h f l nplsec l i sl liv : esntnta i igao r nt oeshtf:ntpc: Sattara air o t hnte vas Hindooadis osohs state at aat a hshttA v eieublo e li srernat. ewoc it is sons, and the Board of Control and a majority of the friendsf s e n t l ai me p h fi snn h e r ont i in seh n thxsea have s d et o iada i cvs i t o r ' etri violatede' his daull, stpdeerba;enyni our da e u t t lynhdee Mackenzie,o, e c odefe e m, geßutuisohnrnuafi univer sal you: guaran teeing h for the present in vain. It was in vain Sir Archibald Galloway argued ;n his written oration that there was justification for the violation in the treaty itself, that he de scended to assert that the British Government was not bound by the Mahratta version of that treaty ; that he quibbled like an Old Bailey lawy e r on the words " from generation to generation," as if that form of expression required lineal succession. Not all the special pleading in Westminster-ball can rail aw ay the words " heirs and successors" in the treaty; can get rid of the right of Hindoo adoption in the absence of lineal heirs; can conceal the intentions of the Indian Government to absorb and annex native state after native state as excuse affords an opportunity. All the weight of Indian practice and all the pressure of Indian authority were opposed to his idle reasoning. The old servants of the Indian Government rushed to town from their rural re tirements to protest against this violation of native rights; and Mr. Holt Mackenzie, in a speech of irre sistible power, demolished all the flimsy pretences on which it has been abused. The British author of the treaty, Mr. Elphinstone, and its British ratifier, Captain Duff Grant, are still alive, to be appealed to as to its meaning. Yet, though the Court of Directors has been entreated to procure their .pinion as to its meaning, they hare not dared to ask it. For ten years have all these distressing questions rela ' tive to the Sattara state been pending; counsel and ad vice have the Court of Directors and the Board of Con sass trol sought from all quarters except from those most competent to advise and direct them. Reference sin he u ei f i f made to every one but Mr. Elphin stone and Cap Grant D c 1 spirit and intentions that hav e moved the Indian Govern ment. l e arn the motive Grant ; and in this omission w e have some -to the -4 T4 It is from this last step t hat we may of the first. The extinc tion of Setters as a state is but 75 the complement of the de p osition of Pertaub Singh. It 534 is, h ow ever, a measure which ma y rouse the remainin g n ative Princes to a sense of the dangerons tenure b y IN which they preserve t he remnants of their power, and Is• which may teach the people of India the unscrupulous faithlessness of the British Government, when their ex istence impedes its designs. Lord Dalhousie has re- I% corded in esformal minute the anxiety of the Indian Go vernment to absorb their sovereignties and to annex Od their territories as time and opportunity may serve. And the extinction of Sattara as a state will show them the means by which this end i s to be g aine d. The majority 11 1% for the Directors on the ballot, g ained b y a mus t er of .od. subservient voters and unscrupulous finesse, cannot finally settle so important a question. The Directors have not yet heard the last of it.—Daily News. A BALLOT AT THE INDIA HOUSE. TO THE EDIT OR OF THE DAILY NEWS. Sir,—A ballot was taken this da y at the Indi a House , You may not be incurious to know how this kind of thing is managed in Leadenhall-street, and what it there means. .6 d One side of an inner ro om is p artitioned off by a ba r, behind which are three tables; the cent re one is occupied by two directors, h av ing each a balloting urn before m , him, the table on each aide by two or three clerks, who write down the balloter's name, and by one clerk who administers the usual declaration to him previous to his balloting. A proprietor coming to vote naturally goes up to the • directors' table, upon which are, or ought to be depo , sited the ballot papers, having printed upon them the words " for the motion" or " against the motion." We were to-day standing close to the table in question when a proprietor approached. Before he had time to utter a ) x word he was thus apostrophised by the clerk, the worthy who administers the declaration, " Are you come, Sir, to support the Court?" (meaning, of course, the Court of Directors.) This was said not only authoritatively, but pointedly and offensively, in the very hearing of one of the directors, virho is placed there ostensibly to see that the balloting is fairly and impartially conducted; it indicated, as plainly as words so delivered could, that, if the proprietors did not come "to support the Court," his presence there was an intrusion. So much so for the spirit of this ballot. To understand why certain direc tors, headed by Mr. Charles Mills, called for it, your readers should know that, at an ordinary Court, each proprietor of East India stock has only one vote when the Court proceeds to a division upon any resolution be fore it; but at a ballot he is one gentleman or lady rolled into two, three, or four, as the case may be, and pos sesses as many votes as his or her stock enables him or her to hold. This is what the directors call " taking the sense of the proprietors," and this is the outrage upon common decency which, under the guise of a public charter to rule India, they have perpetrated on the pre sent occasion. May 1, 1849. A LOOKER OX. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. J. Hale, jun., Woodnewton, Northamptonshire, baker, May 25, at eleven—J. Patterson, Tonbridge, Kent, tea dealer, May 24, at eleven—W. Armstrong, Norwich, draper, May 22, at eleven—A. Fielder, Alton, Hamp shire, brewer and maltster, May 22, at twelve—R. H. Pugh, Aldermanbury, City, warehouseman, May 22, at two—H. C. Broom, Laurence Pountney- hill, grocer, May 24, at eleven—J. Stubbing, Northumberland-place, Commercial-road east, draper, May 24, at half-past two —J. E. Saunders, jun., Upper Thames-street, fish factor, May 24, at half-past eleven—G. Ridley, Gould-square, wine and spirit merchant, May 24, at one—Louise Roe lants, Argyle-street, Regent-street, milliner and dress maker, May 24, at twelve—A. Morecraft, Marlborough, Wiltshire, draper, May 23, at half-past eleven—M. R. C. Wightman, Pancras-lane, City, linen factor, May . 23, at half-past eleven. In the Country. W. Parkinson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchant, May 24, at half-past one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Ty ne —W, Smith, jun., Stockton, Durham, manufacturer of earthenware, May 25, at one, at the Court, Newcastle upon-Tyne—C. J. Spence, Stockton upon-Tees, timber merchant, May 24, at one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon- Tyne—W. Richardson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, glass ma nufacturer, May 25, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle upon-Tyne—W. Plumley, Bristol, poulterer, May 22, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—J. J. Ferens and R. Ferens, Durham, drapers, May 25, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—R. English, Sunderland, wine and spirit merchant, May 25, at half-past twelve, at the Ccurt, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Birch, Kingston upon-Hull, tailor, May 23, at half-past ten, at the Town hall, Kingston-upon-Hull—H. Moseley and J. B. Mur phy, Derby, carvers, June 8, at . eleven, at the Court, Birmingham. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. D. Sharp, Southampton, attorney, Is. lid., Monday, May 7, and the subsequent Monday, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin. lane. J. Hunt, Horseferry-road, Westminster, builder, 2s. 3d., Wednesday, May 2, and three following Wednes days, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Turquand, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street, NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES, At the Court Basinghall-street. B. Tippler, Great Tower-street, colonial broker, May 23, at twelve—H. E. Bennett, Southwark, carrier and commission agent, May 24, at twelve—J. Smith,Regent street, jeweller, May 23, at eleven. In the Country. 11. Grant, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, clock and watch maker and jeweller, May 24, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—W. Garret, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, bookseller, May 25, at half past ten, at the Court, Newcastle 'upon. Tyne—J. Cadman, Pontypool, Monmouthshire, wine and spirit retailer, and corn dealer, May 24, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol. Court of Review, May 22. W. Minton, Liverpool, linen draper—B. Clark, Kings ton-upon-Thames, Surrey, export ale and porter mer chant—T. Grimbly, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick shire, commercial clerk and traveller—J. Krauss, Man chester, agent—C. Kay, Wakefield, Yorkshire, manufac turer—S. Bennett, High-street, Islington, draper and laceman—L. Greening, Stroud, Gloucestershire, saddler and harness maker—J. Arnold, Oxford-street, linen draper—J. B. Brown, Liverpool, broker and commission agent—R. Owen, Manchester, tailor and commission agent—R. Owen, Manchester, tailor and draper—A. D. Young, Gracechurch-street and Islington, commission agent—J. T. Jay, A cle, Norfolk, surgeon and apothecary. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Duffield and J. R. Peniston, Leeds, cloth finishers —J. Graham and T. Jefferson, Carlisle, merchants and drapers—J. Liddell, 11. Liddell, and T. Liddell, Huddersfield, boot and shoemakers (eo far as regards T. Liddell)—S. Lozel and W. Jackson, Maldon, Essex, linen drapers—T. WindlQy and G. N. Walsh, Nottingham, silk throwers—J. Rawstron and E. Cunliffe, Rossendale-forest, Lancashire, cotton spinners—W. Lund and J. L. Copeland, Liverpool, soap makers—E. S. Owen, F. Austin, and G. Austin, King's Arms-yard, Moorgate-street—j. Frost and I. Frost, St. John's-square, Clerkenwell—T. Millership and W. Barnett, Oldbury, Worcestershire, brickmakers—J. Marryat, C. Marryat, and C. W. Short, London (so far as regards J. Marryat)—T. Whitham and J. Har wood, Sheffield, whitesmiths—G. Statham and T. Smith, Macclesfield, cotton- yarn. doublers—A. Sloan and J. ilaining, Manchester, drapers—R. Jackson and J. Walker, Manchester, tea and coffee dealers—J. F. Froes, T. G. Smith, and G. A. Douglas, Liverpool, wine and spirit merchants (so far as regards G. A. Douglas) —H. S. Gibbs and G. Hyem, George-lane, Eastcheap, ship brokers—J. Lees and F. Bailey, Oldham, cotton-spiu ners—G. Porter and E. Butler, Chelmsford, wine and brandy-merchants—E. Waine, J. Waine, G. Horlaston, W. Horlaston, and S. Johnson, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staf ford.hire, miners and coalowners (so far as regards G. Horlaston, W. Horlaston, and S. Johnson)—J. Orbell, Jun., and 11. P. Parmenter, Great Henney, Essex, mil lers and merchants—J. Skinner, D. Borsley, W. Haynes, and E. S. Eyre, Coleman-street, City, builders (so far as regards D. Borsley)—B. Dickison and T. D. Dickman, Little Tower-street, City, wine merchants—G. Gimson, T. Yates, and J. Ainsworth, Staleybridge, Cheshire, engineers and millwrights (so far as regards T. Yates). INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. John Bowling, Weeton, Yorkshire, shoemaker. John Smith, West Orchard, Warwickshire. Edmund Russell, Berkeswell, Warwickshire, tailor. Joseph Stephen Weatherilt, Coventry, schoolmaster. Robert Morrell, Dawley, Shropshire, pudler. John Cooper, Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, farmer. Thomas Griffiths Blocksidge, Madeley, Shropshire, plumber. Henry Walker, Dawley, Shropshire, confectioner. David Avison, Birstal, Yorkshire, coal leader. Elizabeth Hunter, Cheltenham. Robert M'Ulellan Walker, Claughton- cum-Grange, Cheshire, collector. William Butt, Walford, Herefordshire. John Nicholas, Neath, Glamorganshire, blacksmith. Thomas Davies, Aberavon, Glamorganshire, joiner. Robert Marsden Rigby, Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancashire, baker. SCOTC EI SEQUESTRATIONS. P. Walker, Glasgow, merchant and compassion agent, ,0 meet May 9 and 30, at one, within the Black Bull Hotel, Glasgow. J. Blair, Airdrie, grocer and spirit dealer, to meet May 7 and 28, at one, within Drummond 's Royal Hotel, Airdrie. J. Wlicand, Glasgow, merc hant and share dealer, May 8 and 29, at one, within the Buck's Head Hotel, Glasgow. ARCTIC EXPEDITION. madeln c o o n n s t e h q e u motionenc• e of o a f n s o i r r d eTr D. t . h A eHouse o a f f C u o r t m h m e r o r n e s . , turn has just been printed of copies or extracts of any proceedings or correspondence of the Admiralty, rela tive to the Arctic expedition. The present paper con tains " The opinions of the most experienced officers connected with the Arctic expeditions on the necessity of sending a ship to the entrance of Lancaster Sound with supplies for Sir James Ross's expedition, and their joint opinion as to certain measures proposed to be adopted." This document, which is of an extremely in teresting character, gives at length the separate opinions and suggestions of Captains Sir W. E. Parry, Sir G. Black, Beechy, Sir E. Belcher, and Colonel Sabine on the subject, but they are of too great length for insertion in our columns; the subject, however, of all of them is introduced in the paper which we subjoin. JOINT OPINION OF OFFICERS, &c., INTER ESTED IN THE WELFARE OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS. JAN. 17, 1849.—At a meeting of the undermentioned officers, &c., interested in the welfare of the Arctic ex peditions—namely, Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, the Rev. Dr. Scoresby, Colonel Sabine, R.A. Captain Sir William Henry Parry, R.N., Captain Frederick W. Beechey, R.N., Captain Sir George Back, R.N., Captain Sir E. Belcher, R.N., it was given as their unanimous opinion 1. That, considering the fact that Sir James Ross's expedition did not reach the entrance to Lancaster Sound till the 28th Aug., 1848, little or nothing could have been effected by the ships under his command in that season, beyond a partial examination of the two shores of Lan caster Sound and Barrow's Straits. 2. That, therefore, that expedition will, virtually, have to commence the search ;for Sir John Franklin's ships this year. 3. That, with reference to the position of Sir James Ross's ships during the present winter, there are three possible cases — a. The Investigator fn a harbour near Cape Benne) and the Enterprise having pushed on to, or near to, Me wile Island. - b. The Investigator as above , and the Enter p rise hav ing proceeded in a part of the way to Melville Island . c. Both ships having been obliged to winte r near to gether, consequence of the few days remaining for that season's navigation in 1848, subsequently to the 28th August. 4. That in either of these three cases the two ships are sure to be separated this season, as eve n in the last case (c) Sir James Itoss will push to the westward as soon as possible in the ensuing summer. 5. That under any of these circumstances it is highly unsafe, and therefore inexpedient, for the Investigatleave Sir James Ross alone in the Ente r p rise, in the performance of a hazardous service. 6. That, therefore, fresh instructions should be sent out this summer to Captain Bird to J pe a bove effect, lest 1848 he should feel himse lf bound by Sir am , andes Ross's in structions to him of t he 12th July, i the b y state of his resour ces, to return to England n the In vestigator in the ensuing autumn. 7. That Captain Bird should be directed to remain ou t another winter, in order t? carry more exten sively the objects. of the expedition. 8. Vat, for thi s purpose, supplies of provisions, ship's NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTDIENTS. Captain Peter Richards, C. 8., now superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard, removes to Chatham Dockyard, vice Sir Thomas Bourchier, deceased. Lieutenants—Robert Jenkins, F. H. Stirling, A. H. Hoskins, to the Castor, 36, to be commissioned at Chatham; John Burgess, to the Columbia, steam-vessel, fitting at Chatham, for surveying service, vice Bullock, whose appointment is cancelled. Master—G. J. Hodges, to the Castor. Paymaster and Purser—Walter Clatworthy, to the Castor. Mates—Charles W. Russell and Hubert Campion, to the Castor. Second Masters—A. G. Whichelo, to the Victory, flag-ship, at Portsmouth ; Frank Inglis, to the Castor. Clerks—Thomas Price and John Wotton, to the Castor. Midshipmen—Edward J. Mears, to the Heroine, 8, at Devonport, for the coast of Africa; Henry Berkeley, G. L. Sulivan, and A. A. Duff, to the Castor. Naval Cadets— Chidley Coote, J. W. L. Oakes, Hon. Reynolds Moreton, and G. T. Key, to the Castor; Henry Somerville and the Hon. Crofton, to the Cleopatra, 26, fitting at Chatham •, Thomas W. Chap man, to the Wellesley, flag-ship, West Indies ; Gerrald R. Perry and Charles R. Gaper, to the Fisgard, flag ship, at Woolwich. Masters' Assistant—James Woraley, to the Castor. Boatswain—John Copplestone, to the Castor. Carpenter—William Kingdon, to the Castor. The remains of the late Capt. Sir Thomas Bourchier, K.C.8., superintendent of Chatham Dockyard, will be interred this afternoon, at half-past two o'clock, with the honours due to his rank. THE BASILISK. /ND NIGER STEAM-SLOOPS.—Captain M. Austin, C. 8., superintendent of steam-vessels afloat, with the able master, Mr. Allen, and other officers of the Blenheim, screw guard-ship at Portsmouth, arrived at Woolwich yesterday afternoon, by Admiralty order, the gallant captain having been appointed to superintend the forthcoming trials in a fortnight's cruise in the Channel between the Niger and Basilisk. Captain Austin, it is understood, goes to the Basilisk, and Captain Halsted is to have temporary command of the screw sloop. The necessary arrangements for proceeding to sea will take a day or two to complete. It is to be hoped that these experiments will be better carried out than those which were instituted with the screw vessels Sharpshooter and Rifleman, and that after going to the expense of getting up the trials, the results will be clearly and definitely ascertained, and intelligibly reported. The St. Vincent, 120, has gone up Portsmouth Har bour to her ordinary moorings. The San Josef, 110, was completely broken up at Devonport, and the dock has been cleared. There will be little chance now of charging any more building repairs or alterations of new experimental ships to the old three-decker. She has borne enough in her day—a couple of hundred thousands at least. The Castor, 36, will be commissioned at Chatham to morrow as the flag-ship for the Cape of Good Hope, it having been determined to send a commodore thither as commander-in-chief, and to send Rear -Admiral Reynolds, C .8., in the Southampton, 50, to the Brazils station to relieve Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert. Nearly all the disposable seamen from the Victory, flagship at Portsmouth, were sent round in the Myrtle steamer, Master Commander Braddon, and the Confidence steamer, Master Commander Martin, to join the Cleo patra, 26, at Chatham. Few of the men that put their names down on the Victory's books, on the paying off of the Rodney, have as yet returned to that ship. Our correspondent adds,—We suppose she is very short.. handed, for we have not seen her topgallant yards across since she has assumed her summer rig. The Favourite, 14, Commander Murray, was mus tered and inspected on Monday morning, in Plymouth Sound, by Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, after which she sailed into harbour, to be paid off to-morrow. The Ringdove, Lieut. Alfred Luckraft, acting com mander, will be paid off at Devonport this day. Scorpion, 4, surveying vessel, Lieut. Commander Law rence, will be ready for sea at Devonport on the 9th. THE PLUMPER AND REYNARD SCREA-SLOOPS.—A new screw was cast at the foundry at Portsmouth, on Tuesday, for the Plumper, Commander Nolloth, which vessel is getting out her broadside medium-guns, and will receive in lieu carronades of the same calibre, which will not occupy so much room on her deck, nor require so many men to handle them. She will retain her two 32-pounder pivot-guns of 56 cwt. The Reynard, Commander Cracroft, will also receive 32-pounder car ronades as broadside guns, but will retain only her bow pivot-gun. The Commander of the Stromboli, Lord A. Beauclerk, has returned from leave, and that vessel is lying at Portsmouth, all ready for sea. The Encounter, screw-sloop, at Portsmouth, has shipped a new screw. fitted Her old one has been on chocks on her deck as a spare screw. She is fitting for commission with all dispatch. The Pigmy, old steam-packet, at Woolwich, is to be sent to Sheerness, to be placed in charge of the master eng ineers of the Wildfire steam-tender. The Comet, 3, steam-vessel, Commander Otter, is re ported ready for sea this day, at Portsmouth. She has been detained by the non-arrival of her surve y in g stores. The Elfin, tender to the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Master Commander Balliston, ar r i ve d at Ports mouth during Tuesday night, from Woolwich. She made the run from Woolwich to Portsmouth in seventeen hours, including the time it took her to put into Sheerness, whence she brought a few super numeraries. Mr. Lang, jun., went round in her. She is said to have behaved very well, but soma acei dent occurred to the iron wor k o f h er pa d dle wheel which will require repair; when done, she will have a trial of speed with the Fire Queen. The Bloodhound having had a coating of Mr. Hay's composition on one side, and that of Mr. Peacock's on the other, has been taken out of dock at Portsmouth . Three dockyard lighters have been taken into the va cant dock. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY, FIVE ' , al.—Wind N.E., varying breezes with cloudy weather. .. , RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. NAT 2. STOCK. EXCIIANGE.—The share market was dull today, and but few sales were effected. Great Western, Quarters, were done at 3% (fis. LIVERPOOL, MAT 2. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The maket continues to improve, bat still little business was 'doing. The sales are—Birmingham and x ford Junction, 25%—Caledonian, Quarters, (late Halves), lie. 3d.— Dundee and Perth, New, 8 %—Lancashire and Yorkshire (B. and EL), 26 c. dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 4% dis. —London and North-Western, New Quarters, 4 p.—Ditto, Fifths, p.—Midland, 63 c.—Ditto, Halves, 11 N i dis.—South.Eastern and Dover (No. 4), G% —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till 1850, 2% dis.—York and North Midland (East and West Riding Extension), Preference, 6 per cent. till 1850, c. dis. MANCHESTER, MAT 2. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follows : Sheffield and Lincoln, W 4 dis.—Midland Stock, 68—Dover (No. 4), 7—Eastern Counties, 8 _ YORK, MAT 1. STOCK EXCHANGE —The business transacted to-day was as fol lows :—Great Northern, 10N —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 51. i. _ _ _ _ GLASGOW, MAT 1. STOCK. Excuaxax.—The business done in the Stock Exchange to day has. been as follows : Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves (No. I), CL lls.—Wishaw and Celtness, 4%—York, Newcastle, and. Berwick (G. N. E. purchase or l'reference), 5. _ HER. MAJESTY'S TNEATRE.—The Queen's box was on Tuesday evening occupied by Mr. G. E. Anson and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Miss Harman, Colonel the Hon. C. B. and the Hon. Mrs. Phipps, the Hon. Augustus Vernon and party. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager's box was occupied by his Serene Highness Prince William of Hesse Philipsthal, bis Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Earl of Denbigh, the Ladies Cust, the Hon. Miss Macdonald and party. Amongst the visitors were—The Duke and Duchess of Leeds and Miss Lane Fox, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Alicia Paulet, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, his Excellency the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow and Mdlle. Olga de Leaner, his Excellency the Swedish Minister and the Baroness Rehausen, his Excellency the Neapolitan Ambassador, his Exoellency the French Ambassador, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Donegal, the Marquis of Huntley, th• Marquis of Granby, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, the Countess of Lichfield, the Baron Meagden, M. de Berg, Baron Wiedenbruck, the Viscount Somerton,: the Vis count Engeld, the Viscount and Viscountess Anson, Baron Theodore de Gazes, Baron and Baroness de Mon therot, Viscount Clitden, Lord W. Lennox, Lord and Lady Templemore, Lord Elphinstone, Lord G. Paget, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lady Charles Somerset and Miss Somerset, Lady Flower, Lord W. Graham, Lord Eddisbury, Lord William Powlett, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, Lady Liltord, Lord George Lennox, Hon. Mr. Lumley, Lady Kin loch, Lady Forbes, Sir W. K. Ball, Bart., Lieutenant- General Sir Alexander Barnard, Bart., Sir T. Hare, Bart., Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, Bart., Sir J. Bayley, Bart., Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, Bart., and Lady Barrett Lennard, Sir C. Ibbotson, Bart., Sir W. Clay, Bart., and Lady Clay, Lady Lister, Mrs. Walpole, Mr. Start, M.P., Mr. Sandford, General the Hon. H. Cavendish, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martyn, Captain the Hon. Strange Jocelyn, Captain P. Munday, Mr. Yarn ther, Mr. Packe, M.P., and Mrs. Packe Reading, Mr. Norman Macdonald, Mr. W. Rose, Mr. G. Dodd, M.P., Mr., Mrs., and Miss Ewings, Mrs. Mountjoy Martin, Mr. Hubert de Burgh, Mr. Reynolds, Mr., Mrs., and Miss B. Trelawney, Major Buckley, Mrs. Paul, Mrs. Wyndham, Mr. and Mrs. B. Fraser, Mrs. G. Dodd and Miss Saunders, Mrs. Fitzroy Somerset, Colonel Meyrick, Captain Martin, Colonel Tierney, Miss Howard, Captain Meynell, R.N., Colonel Dixon, Colonel Thornton, Mr. 0. Morgan, M.P., Mr. H. Broadley, M.P., Mr. H. Sin gleton, Mr. W. Delafield, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Viner, &c. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVErT•GARDEN.—Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the performance at the Royal Italian Opera with their presence on Tuesday evening; they were attended by the Marchioness of Douro, Lady Caroline Cocks, Lord Morley, General Wemyss, and the Hon. Colonel Gordon. Among the visitors were his Excellency the Turkish Ambassa dor, Prince Callimaki and suite, his Excellency the Nea politan Minister, Prince Cestelcicals, his Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Marchioness of Ely, Miss Burdett Coutts, Miss Beaumont, the Duke of Brunswick, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Douro, the Countess of Charlemont, the Earl of Wilton, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis de Sauli, Baron Nicolai, the Earl of Essex, the Earl of Besborough, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, the Earl of Durham, the Earl of Belfast, the Earl of Bradford and the ladies Bridgeman, the Countess Cornwallis, Hon. Charles Ne ville, th• Countess of Essex and Miss Johnstone, Sir John Walsh, Bart., H. Vincent, Esq. and Miss Vincent, Viscount Chelsea, Viscount Sidney, Viscount Temple town and Hon. Arthur Upton, Viscount Mandeville, Viscount Clitden, Vicountess Jocelyn, Vicountess Can ning, Lord and Lady Ashburton, Lord George Manners, Lord Archibald St. Maur, Lady Hotham, Lady Norreys, Lord Ward, Hon. John Fortescue, I lon. Spencer Cow per, Hon. George Mules, Hon. Mr. Howard, Hon. Mr. Corry, Hon. A. Vivian, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bart. and Mr. Edward Hobbouse, Sir Chstrles Price, Bart., Sir William Abdy, Bart., Sir Richard Vyvian, Bart., Sir Henry Welk. Bart, Sir John Campbell, K.C.T.S., and Lady Campbell, Sir Henry Paulet, Bare, Sir William Molesworth, Bart., and Lady Molesworth, Sir Charles Marshall, Sir John and the Misses Burgoyne, Lady Jodrell, Sir Felix Agar, Le Chevalier de Horta, Madame and Mademoiselle de Horta, Admiral Sir John Dundas, Colonel Wingfiel I, Colonel Blanc, Colonel Merry, Colonel Bagot, Colonel Ridley, Major Gage, Major Simpson, Captain Cuddy, Captain C. Ellison, Captain Sykes, Captain Maxwell, Captain Moorsom, Mr. and Mrs. Coghlan, Mr. T. Baring, M.P., Mr. Gerard Stuart, Mrs. Standish Standish, Mr. Tierney, Mrs. Horsham, M. and Madame Uzielli, Mr. Montague Gore, Mr. Gore Currie, Mr. Broadhurst, Mr. W. A. Commerell, Mr. S. Lushington, Mr. C. Walsh, Mr. F. Vane, Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery, Mr. Henry Greville, Mr. and Miss Mitchell, Miss Richards, Miss C. Webster, &c. &c. LONDON SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—This new society held its first annual general meeting on Monday last, in the Lower hall, Exeter-hall. There was a large attendance of subscribers, and the gallery was filled by ladies connected with the society. The Rev. George Roberts, president, filled the chair; sup ported by the Rev. F. J. Stainforth, V.P. ; the Rev. W. S. Austin, honorary secretary ; the Rev. C. Day ; and other clergymen and gentlemen. The Chairman opened the business of the meeting by a brief address, in which he expressed the very great satisfaction he experienced by the attendance of so nu merous a body of supporters, and congratulated the sub scribers upon the unprecedented success that had marked the society's operations during the past year ; he then called upon the secretary to read the report, which stated that the society had been established with the view to meet the increasing taste fur sacred music, the more immediate cause of its formation having been the dismissal of Mr. Surman from the post of conductor to the Sacred Harmonic Society, which position he had oc cupied for nearly fifteen years ; that, with Mr. Surman's removal from the Sacred Harmonic Society, was also discontinued his vast stock of music, which was gene rously placed by him at the disposal of the new society. The financial statement showed a deficiency at the expi ration of the society's year, but this was, however, more than counterbalanced by subscriptions received subse quently. The report stated that the number of sub scribers entered up to Lady-day last was 696, this num ber having been obtained during the first twelve months of the society's existence, not by withdrawals from say society previously in existence, but, with comparatively few exceptions, from an entire new connexion, a number certainly unprecedented in the annals of any musical society, proving the necessity for its establishment, and affording a strong pledge for its continuance ; and the Committee continued to receive the most encouraging offers of assistance and support in carrying on their operations. The reading et' the report was received by the large body of subscribers with the greatest satisfac tion. The several speakers met with a most hearty and favourable reception, several of them having dwelt strongly upon the unjust persecution to which Mr. Sur man had been subjected, and expressed their contempt and disapprobation of the unhandsome and marked op position with which the society had had to contend on the part of its opponent. No sooner was an oratorio announced for performance than the old society imme diately advertised two or three performances of the same work. Notwithstanding this, the London Sacred Har monic Society had made its way, was steadily receiving fresh accessions, and it required but continued exertions to ensure its prosperity. Votes of thanks were unani mously given to the various officers of the society, the committee, &c., after which the proceedings terminated. FREE PARDON.—At the late Kingston assites a man named John Roberts was convicted of a criminal assault, and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. The prosecutrix, who upon the trial represented herself as a married woman, gave her evidence in such a manner upon that occasion as to induce a very general belief that she was not telling the truth as to the actual character of the transaction ; but the jury re turned a verdict of guilty. Very soon after the matter had been thus disposed of it was ascertained that the prosecutrix had made a great many false statements, and that, instead of being a respectable married woman, she was a person of a very different description; and there was every reason to believe that ther. whole charge Home e s w e h e r o e l e . ha d t hhee facts t e r u h m a p v ieedgup been againsteoo submitted the itte d to isop t n h of tary, the result has been that Mr. Keene, the governor re e ofH p o r r i s s e o m ne o r ng on er s -l a a t n u e rd G a a y o , l a , n r d ec h e e ive w d as a immediately free pardon for the dis charged from custody. The Marquis of Lansdowne gave a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers yesterday evening at Lansdowne House.