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THE COMMISSIONERS for EXE CUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH AD MIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, do hereby give Notice, that en Trtuasni.v, the 9th January next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Con tract, for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victual ling Stores at Deptford, the undermentioned Articles, viz. :...... When to be delivered. Half of each in three WHEAT [Rea 2OOO Quarters weeks, and the re. White S4IJ Quarters mainder in three weeks afterwards. Half in a fortnight, PEAS 5OO Quarters and the remainder in a fortnight after wards. OA TS (Scotch Potatoe) 3OO Quarters—Within ten days. (One-third bv 30th I April,one-third by liIISCUIT.B MIS (large) 80,000 No. -4 Suth June, and the remainder by 31st August next. CANVAS (for Pudding Bags) 2 OOO Ells—Within two months, Samples of the Wheat, Peas, and Oats (not less than two quarts each), must be produced by the parties tendering; and Samples of the Biscuit-Bags and Canvas, together with the Conditions of the Contracts, may be seen at the said Office. No Tender will be received after one o'clock, on the day of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party attends, or an A gent for him dt.os, authorized in writing. 'Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi ralty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for — ," and must also be delivered at So merset-place, accompanied by a Letter signed by two respon sible Persons, engaging to become bound with the Person ten. dering in the sum of 25/. per cent. on the value, for the due performance of the Contract for Biscuit Bags. PLATE GLASS. THE BIRMIR6i-lAM - PLATE-GLASS COMPANY, beg most respectfully to inform the Trade generally, of their intention to OPEN their WARE HOUSE, No. 141, FLEET-STREET, on the Ist JANUARY, 1840, with an extensive Stock of PLATE GLASS, to which they invite their inspection, trusting, that the quality of their Glass, and the facilities gives to the Trade, will insure them a share of their orders. No. 141, Fleet-street, London, UNION PLATE GLASS COMPANY. WORKS-POCKET NOOK, SAINT HELEN'S, LAN• CASHIRE. THE Trade and the Public in general are re spectfully informed that the extensive Establishment of the above-named Company, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, HAYMARKET, London (late the Hunterian Museum), is now open for the sale of their superior PLATE GLASS, which for brilliancy of colour and high finish cannot be equalled by any other Manufactory. Samples of quality and further particulars may be had upon application. By order of the Board of Directors, A. GOSLETT, Agent. LONDON HOTEL, GLASGOW. VBRIDGES begs to inform Commercial • Gentlemen that the ENLARGEMENT of the above Hotel is now completed, with every attention to do mestic comfort, and respectfully solicits a share of their pa tronage ; at the same time G. Bridges returns his best thanks to those Gentlemen who have already favoured him with their support, and will feel obliged by their recommendation. N.B. Hot, Cold, and Shower Baths. Glasgow, 29, Maxwell-street, Dec. 16, 1839. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. THE EUSTON HOTEL, EUSTON PLACE.—J. DETHIER and CO., agreeably to their former advertisements, have the honour to announce to the Nobility and Gentry travelling by the above Railway, that this HOTEL is NOW OPEN, and they have no hesitation in asserting that the style and accommodation of the Establish ment will be found equal to any. The Coffee Room is attended by English and Foreign Waiters, and supplied with all publications essential to mercantile information. The Private Sitting and Sleeping Rooms are replete with every comfort that can be desired. Hot and Cold Baths are ready on the shortest notice. The Kitchen is supported by first-rate talent, and the cellars are supplied with a well-selected Stock of Wines, Spirits, and Liqueurs. The Stabling Department comprises excellent Stalls and lock-up Coach Houses, and Carriages belonging to the Hotel are always in readiness. The Porters of the Hotel attend the arrival of the Trains. The Charges are Moderate, and include Gratuities to Servants. IN LEWIS. A CAPITAL FREEHOLD INVESTMENT, SITUATE IN THE HIGH-STREET AND BEST PART OF THE BOROUGH, INCLUDING THE WHITE HART INN, AND SEVENTEEN HOUSES, WITH SHOPS AND GARDENS; ALSO A CONSIDERABLE SPACE ADAPTED TO A BUILDING OPERA. TION, AND A MALT HOUSE, 125 FEET LONG. MR. GEORGE ROBINS is instructed to offer for Sale, by Public Competition, at the Old Ship, Brighton, on THURSDAY, the 23d of January, at 12, in Six Lots, by direction of the representatives of the late JOHN CRESSETT PELHAM, Esq., deceased, . .. _ and without the slightest reservation, A VALUABLE FREEHOLD ESTATE) with a view tO;;;fe and improving investment, it will be found to have especial claims to the early attention of Capitalists. This property is particularly well situate, commencing in front of THE C('UNTY HALL OF LEWES. and extending in each direction along the High-street, and at length terminated by the extensive garden and frontage in St. Mary's-lane. It embraces, first, THE WHITE MART INN, THE LEADING POSTING HOUSE OF THE COUNTY, and one of the longest established. In the olden times it was a Mansion of some pretensions, and is so admirably placed that it moat command the best business, from being immediately en face tho Splendid County Hall ; necessarily partaking in a greater degree than its rival can pretend to, of the enjoyment of the great profits of THE ASSIZES AND THE SESSIONS. Its present occupancy is fortunately of a temporary nature only : it commenced a few weeks since, and will end at Lady-day, when his notice to quit expires. The purchaser Islay then contemplate a spirited tenant, one on whom the " March of Intellect" has dispensed its favours. Mine Host of the White Hart will irst embellish and decorate it in good taste, and then proceed to get rich at " a railway pace." Dewes, it must be remembered, is the great thoroughfare from Hastings, Tunbridge-wells, East Grinstead, and Maid stone, through Brighton to London, and the Brighton Railway will increase the travelling to a degree almost incalculable. With the Hotel will be included several houses in the High street, a Malt-house, In feet long, Gorringe's House and Shop (one of the crack butchers) in High-street, and the ex tensive garden with a frontage to St. Mary's-lane, admirably adapted to increase TH2 RESPECTABLE CONSTITUENCY OF LEWES, by conferring lots of additional Votes to the Borough. The remaining portion of the Eligible Property in the High-street, and all within the town, will be divided into convenient and separate lots. It is ALL FREEHOLD, AND LAND TAX REDEEMED; a more desirable investment is rarely in the market, to say nothing of the POWERFUL BOROUGH INFLUENCE, which it cannot be disguised must of necessity greatly increase its importance and its value. The Property can be viewed by application to Mr. Figg, Surveyor, of Lewes, of whom every information can be ob tained. Particulars, also, at the Star Inn, Lewes ; the Old Ship, Brighton ; at the best Inns at East Grinstead and Hastings ; of Messrs. Oddie, Forster, and Lumley, Solicitors, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn ; and at Mr. George Robins's Offices, London. 1 OYCE'S PATENT STOVES.—These CONVENIENT and PORTABLE STOVES are particularly adapted for airing rooms, furniture, &c.; for dry ing newly-plastered or painted rooms ; for all purposes of heat ing where there is the convenience of a flue. By a little alte ration and the attachment of a pipe they may be used for burning either coke or cinders, which renders them an econo mical and safe stove for shops, halls, &c. Cost of fuel 2d. for twelve hours. On sale at No. 58, KING WILLIAM-STREET, LON DON-BRIDGE; WRIGHT and NASH'S, No. 253, OX FORD-STREET. Twenty-five shillings each and upwards. lATENTI ATENT BRANDY VERSUS COGNAC. —lf any evidence were wanting, that the old prejudices in favour of French Brandy over the English Spirit are fast wear ing away, and that the public are discri ninating and judging for thetnselt es as to the respective merits of the two articles, such evidence will be found in the simple fact that, whilst BETT'S PATENT BRANDY has experienced a sale, within the present year, exceeding, by nearly 50 per cent., that of any corre sponding preceding period, there has been a considerable falling off in the consumption of Foreign Brandy. If the comparison be made with the Brandy establishments of this Country, it will be found that, after all their lofty pre tensions to public support, they have dwindled into comparative insignificance ; the entire trade of the largest and most pow erful o f these establishments not having amounted to the mere increase in J. I'. Betts and Co.'s sales within the same space of time ; a ne cessary consequence of their total inability to produce an article with the slightest pretensions to approach it in quality. The Patentees, as Distillers, cannot send out less than Two Gallons, which may be obtained, either pale or coloure d, for Cash on delivery, at eighteen Shillings p per Imperial Gallon, of the highest legal strength, at the Distillery. No, 7. Smithfield bars, leading to St. John-street, their only Establishment. TO RAILROAD AND COACH TRAVELLERS. A.ROMATIC SPICE PLASTERS for the CHEST. Coughs, Colds, Asthmas, Shortness of Breath, Pain or Tightness of the Chest, Affections of the Lungs !cc., are effectually relieved, and in many cases enti rely prevented' by the timely application of WR A 5." S AROMATIC SPICI.: PLASTERS to the chest, which are far superior to the com r on warm plasters, and frequently supersede the use of internal reme dies. No person during the winter ought to be without one, tr.- yellers by railroad in particular. Prepared only by MO. Wray. Sold at 118, Holborn-hill ;8, Dark house-lane, Lower Thames-street ; and 9, Agar-street, Strand, at Is. and Is (id. e ach, the only Warehouses for Wray's celebrated Balsamic Pills. Digestive or Dinner Pills, P e ctoral Lozenges, Cough Pills, C hal y be ate German Seidlitz l'o wdcrs, Alte.ative T.aic Powders, and other useful Faintly Medicines. A large Stock of New English Honey, of the finest quality, retailing from Is. ed. to tls. per lb. ; best West India Tamarinds, 18. NI per lb. F RAIVKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA. Within a period of Two Months uwards of 'Three Hundred Patients were successfully treated a t the Metropolitan Hovita with I'llANKi'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION of COPAIBA. PY Joseph Henry G; Teti, Esq., F.R.S , one of the Council of th e Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon to . St. Thomas's Hospital, and Professor of Surgery in the King's College, London. ~" I have Towle tria lof Mr. Fr an k' s S o l u tion of Copiba, at St. Hospital, in a variety of cases of discharges in the male and female, and the results warrant my stating, that it is an eifica. 1..005 remedy, and one which does not produce the usual unpleasant eflects of Capaiba. (Signed) "JOSEPH HENRY GREEN. 46, Line°ln's-Inn-tields, April 15, 1535. 8 9 Brairaby Cooper, Fsq , F.R.S , Surgeon to Guy's Hospital , an d Lecturer on Anatomy, &c. &e.,. and others most eminent in the Medical Profession.' " Mr. Bransby Coolierpresentr his compliments to Mr. Geo. Franks end has great pleasure in tearing t es timony of the efficacy of his So lution of Copaiba in Oonorrhwa for which disease Mr. Cooper ha prescribed the Solution in t en or twelve cases with perfect success. Ncer.strcet,Spring.gardens, Apri113,1535." This invaluable medicine 13 confidently recommended in all case 0 1 . tioaorrheca, (fleet:,, Urethral Discharges, Spasmodic Strictures, Irritation of the Kidneys, Bladder, Urethra, ;Ind Prostate (,land; its purifying effects upon the general health render it particularly ap plicable in all cases of relaxieti titre and nervous debility. Prepared only by George Franks, Surgeon, 90, Blackfriars-road, toulon, and may he lied °fall illedicine-venders in the United Ring Born, in Bottles at 2s. 9d., 4a. 6d., and 115. uteri. Unless " George Franiss,Bia , kfriars road," is engravtd on the Government Stang, it cannot tie genuine. Air. Franks may tie consulted until Two o'clock daily. TO PERSONS WISHING TO ENGAGE IN HOTEL BUSINESS. ELIGIBLE INVESTMENT. TO BE LET on advantageous terms, the HOTEL DEPARTMENT of a RIRST-RATE ESTABLISHINIENT in the WEST of ENGLAND. For Particulars enquire at Mr. Cafe's Offices, Great Marlbo rough-street. 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On Wednesday, the Ist of January, will be published, embel lished with Two fine spirited Etchings by Phiz, Price One Shilling, the new Number of THE ADVENTURES of PAUL PERI WINKLE; or, THE PRESS-GANG. This popu lar work will be regularl" published every month, until fully completed in Twenty Ntmbers. London :—Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside, and sold by all Booksellers; alsolent to read at all Circulating Li braries in Town and Country. On the Ist of January, 1840, DEARDEN'S MISCELLANY, No. XIII., Price is. Edited by the Rev. HENRY ALFORD, Vicar of Wyrmeswould, Leicestershire, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. CONTENTS :—Lady Aslin's Pool, or the Dwarf •f Charn wood Forest. By Thomas Featherstone.—Abbot of Aluchel naye ; a Poem. By the Editor.—Duodecad the First.—Spe cimens of Modern Italian Poets, with Biographical and Critical Notices. By M. 11. Rankin, E;q., Translator of " Ettore Fieramosca," &c. No. I.—Mademoiselle de Sornbreuil ; a Tale of tiro Revolution.—Sketches of a Sea Life. Chap. 111. The Engagement.—Chapters on Poetry and Poets. English Series, No. 1.--Cowper. By the Editor.—Sonnets, Reviews, Notes of the Month, &c. &e. Vols. I. and 11. may be had, at 6s. 6d. each. W. Dearden, Nottingham ; and Wm. S. Orr and Co., London. Just published, price 9s. 6d. , T HE POST-OFFICE LONDON DIREC TORY FOR 1140, Containing a General Alphabetical Directory ; Law Direc tory ; Trades' Directory, being an accurate Classification of all '1 rades and Professions ; Conveyance Directory; Banking Directory ; Parliamentary Direc: - .ory, &c. &C. These various divisions have been compiled from information collected to a period infinitely more renew than has been at tempted in any similar publication, and much therefore is now furnished that cannot appear in any other Annual Work until 1841. Among the various matters exclusively in this Direc tory will be found an accurate detail of the operation 07 the recent orders for the Reduction of Postage upon Correspondence to every part of the world. The work must form an almost indispensable appendage to the Banker's desk, the Merchant's counting-house, the So licitor's offiee, and the Trader's shop, and at once be of utility to the public generally."—Times, Nov. 26, 1839. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., and all Booksellers. A NEW WORK BY THOMAS HOOD, Esq. In post Svo ; bound, price l2s. U. P THE R H I NE, being a Collection of Letters by a Family Party, with Nunsero is original Embellishments, By THOMAS HOOD, Esq. Loudon : A. H. Baily and Co., 83, Cornhill. In foolscap Svo., price 3s. 6d., embellished by Sixteen beautiful Engravings on Steel, THE NAVAL and MILITARY ALMANACK for 1840. Edited by W. H. MAXWELL, &c. &c. Containing, besides a Calendar and the ordinary Almanack In formation, Tables of Reference on matters of special interest to the United Services; and Interspersed with Biographies and anecdotes of England's great Naval and Military Heroes, London : A. H. Bailey and Co., 83, Cornhill. Being Former Runnngs of his Conii! Vein, and an Infusion of New Blood for General Circulation This Work contains 1373 pages eloselv printed, nearly 300 humorous Wood Cuts, and a fine Portrait, engraved on Steel, painted expressly for this Work. LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1839. PUBLICATIONS. NEW AND SPLENDID EDITION OF GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, To be completed in Eight Monthly Parts. On the Ist of January will be published, beautifully printed in large Bvo., price 2s. 6d., PART IV. OF THE NEW STANDARD EDITION OF GULLIVER'S TRAVELS: Illustrated by upwards of Four Hundred Wood-cuts, after designs by Grandville. With Notes and Elucidations from Various Original and Manuscript Sources ; an Essay on Philosophical and satirical Fictions ; a New Life of Swift. By W. C. TAYLOR, LL.D., M.R.A.S., &0., Of Trinity College, Dublin. London : Hayward and Moore, 53, Paternoster-row. This day, price 13s. 6d., post Bvo. L OGAN'S COMPENDIUM of the LAW of MARRIAGE. Also, Part 2 of the Compendium of the Laws of Engla n d, Scotland, and Ancient Rome, for the use of Students, By JAMES LOGAN. Price 2s. 6d., sewed. H. Washbourne, Salisbury-square, London ; Fraser and Crawford, Edinburgh. Just published, price IL 12s. boards, in Royal Quarto, Volume the First, with the Title illuminated in the style of the An cient Missals, and illustrated with Twelve beautiful Engra vings by the celebrated German painter Octave Hauser, Dedicated to the Queen. /SHE HISTORY OF ST. ELIZABETH 1 OF HUNGARY, Duchess of Thuringia (1207-1231). By the COUNT DE MONTALRMBERT, Peer of France, translated by AMBROSE LISLE PHILLIPPS, Esq., •f Grace Dieu Manor, Leicestershire. N.B. Copies without the Twelve Plates by Harr, lath with the Illuminated Title, price IL Is. boards. London : Charles Dolman, 61, New Bond-street. LITERATURE. HOOD'S " UP THE RHINE." Bally, London, 1839. We suppose we must accept this volume as a substitute for the Comic Annual ; and we do so willingly, for it is a merry, entertaining work, and forms the choicest possible reading for a social Christmas fire-side. Gaines and gravities in prose and verse, in the shape of tales, scenic descriptions, and sketches of character, are so adroitly mixed up together, as to keep up a constant variety. I n one respect, we prefer this volume to any of the author's Comic Annuals, even his earlier ones, for it contains more of real life—that is to say, of the bustling, every-day world about us ; and the author shows less solicitude to keep his reader continually upon the broad grin. As he justly observes in his preface, the idea of the work has been suggested by Smollett's Humphrey Clinker, and records the personal expe riences of a party of English travellers—consisting of a hypochondriacal old gentleman, who is beset with a constant apprehension that he is doomed to go off suddenly, without a moment's warning ; his widowed sister ; his nephew, an active, intelligent young man of the world ; and their maid -servant, whose grotesque blunders, and ludicrous perversions of language, in her epistolary correspondence with her friends in England, will recall at once the re collection of the inimitable Winifred Jenkins ; tie volume, we say, records the adventures of this party in the course of an autumnal pleasure tour up the. Rhine. Of course, the accounts they give of the various places at which they make a halt, cannot pos sess much novelty—for the scenery and towns of the Rhine are nearly as well known as the Highlands of Scotland—still they -abound in shrewd and amusing reflections, and will find an echo in many a travelled reader's bosom. Here is a sketch of the hypochondriac, as drawn by the lively pencil of his nephew. He is a complete Matthew Bramble without his spleen and testiness : " Imagine a stout, well-built specimen of the species, somewhat the worse for wear, but still sound in wind and limb, and in possession of all his faculties—a little stiff in the anatomical hinges—but still able to find a hare, and not bad at a halloo—in short, the beau ideal of a fine old country gentleman, for such he is. But here comes the mystery. To all appearance a picture of health, painted in the lull, florid style by Rubins himself, or one of his pupils, my hale uncle is a martyr to hypochondriasis, not the moping, melancholy sort, anatomized by old Burton,—not the chronic kind, but the acute. Perhaps he has some latent affections of the heart, or obstructions of the liver, causing sudden derangements of the circulation, and consequent physical depressions—l am not physicia❑ enough to determine—but I have known instances of the same malady in other individuals, though never so intense. As jovial a man, between his paroxysms, as you shall find in a chimney corner ; the next moment he sees a coffin, as the superstitious call it, fly out of the fire, and fancies his death-watch standing on the domestic hearth. But, as Shakspeare says, a man dies many times before his death,' and my uncle is certainly no exception to the common rule. On an average, he has three or four attacks a week, so that at. the end of the year his dying moments would, probably, amount to a calendar month, and his last words to an octavo volume." This character, which is clearly drawn from the life, is consistently maintained throughout, without any attempt to heighten the effect by the intro duction of caricature. Frank Somerville, the ne phew, is like most young well-educated Englishmen, clever, observant, and fond of enterprise; but, other wise, without either mark or likelihood. He de scribes graphically—or his author for him—and with considerable humour. For instance, speaking of the approach to the low lands in the neighbour hood of Rotterdam, he says, " at times nothing could be seen but the banks, till perchance you de tected a steeple and a few chimneys, as if a village had been sowed there, and was beginning to come up." He thus describes a grievance that his hy pochondriacal uncle laboured under at Cologne. Finding that that worthy gentleman did not make his apppearance as usual at the breakfast-table, he went up to his bed-room, to ascertain the cause of his absence, and found him in this grotesque posi tion s Imagine my worthy uncle lying broad awake, on his back, in a true German bedstead—a sort of wooden box or trough, so much too short for him, that his legs extended half a yard beyond it, on either side of th• footboard. Above him, on his chest and stomach, from his chin to his knees, lay a huge squab or cushion, covered with a gay-patterned chintz, and or namented at each corner with a fine tassel—looking equally handsome, glossy, cold, and uncomfortable. For fear of deranging this article, he could only turn his eyes towards me as I entered, and when he spoke, it was with a voice that seemed weak and broken from exhaustion. Frank,' he said, I've passed a miserable night.' Not a doubt of it, thought I, with a glance at his accommodations. I hav'nt slept a wink. Did you ever see such a thing as that ?' With a slight ned and roll of his eyes towards the cushion. I shook my head. if I moved, it fell off ; and if I didn't, I got the cramp.' Here he gave a sort of suppressed groan. Frank, I've only turned once all night long.' I ventured to suggest that he would have done well to kick off the incumbrance on purpose, and the words had hardly left my lips when off flew the variegated cushion to the floor. The action seemed to relieve him, as if it had actually removed a weight from his bosom ; he drew a long breath, and raised himself up on his elbow." In closing our notice of this amusing volume, we may observe that it is profusely embellished with humorous illustrations, from the pencil, no doubt, of Mr. Hood himself. THE BAD POLICY OF THE PRESENT PARTIAL REPEAL OF THE USURY LAWS. By A LiirrEß. The writer of this little pamphlet is extremely anxious to make out a case against the repeal of the usury laws, but his zeal is so great that he defeats his own object. He represents the usurers as hoarding up money to lend it out at interest ; as having tills full of gold, silver, and bank notes which they can get 20 per cent. for; and as ab stracting several millions from the circulation, in order to add to their own profit. His accusations are completely contradictory. At the same time we must admit that the repeal of the Usury-laws has not produced all the good that was ex pected ; but the failure is less attributable to the repeal than to the conjunct con tinuance of the monopoly of the Bank, and the very contracted state at present both of our credit and our bullion currency. The author con founds the consequences of the restrictions on the circulation with the effects of the repeal, and the beneficial approximation to free trade, acquires a bad character from its continued connection with a great monopoly. A bad system cannot be reformed by halves, and the partial repeal of the Usury-laws requires that no monopoly of credit currency should be tolerated. The writer means well by the bor rowers ; the lenders are called miscreants. The following is new to us, and may be to our readers : " Even clubs are now formed all over the town, for raising money amongst the members to lend upon ex orbitant terms ; and the whole kingdom forms, as it were, only two classes, namely, the plunderers and the victims ; whereas, if the Repeal Laws had not passed, all, except the old, determined, systematic, and shame less usurers—the Ralph .Nicklebys—would have lent their money, av, and freely to, at 51. per cent., and been satisfied with it, or they would have circulated it in trade or commerce." THE MAIDEN MONARCH, 2 VoLs. Hastings, London, 1839. The object of this tale, which i 3 to laud the virtues, graces, &c., of our present most Gracious Queen, is highly laudable ; but the flattery is rather too thickly laid on, as if with a towel. The inci dents, too, of the narrative are deficient in strong, exciting interest, and there is little or no at tempt at portraiture of character. The styl e , how ever, is uniformly easy, and in places even remark able for elegance. BEA UMONT AND FLETCHER. P ART L Moron, London, 1839. This republication of the plays of two of our most popular dramatists, is proposed to be coin- P leted in sixteen half-cro wn M onth l y P arts , w i t h an introduction by Dr. Southey, containing, of course, a critical and biographical account of the authors. The First Pant, which is now before us, is embellished with half-length portraits of Beau mont and Fletcher, which are executed in a supe rior style of art, by Robinson. Just blished, second edition; price is. 6d., DEAFNESS successfully TREATED. through the passages lead* froth' the —throat to the ear, as practiced by Kramer, Itard, Deleau, and other conti nental Surgeons of eminence, and satisfactorily shewn in a Report of the Institution for curing Diseases of tho Ear. 32, Sackville-street, Piccadilly. With Notes and Cases. By JAMES YEARSLEY, M.R.C.S., and Surgeon to the Institution. 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Most of the coaches were several hours behind their time on Monday and Tuesday last—i n some mea sure owing to the heaviness of the roads, hilt chiefly to be attributed to the coaches being heavily laden with Christmas presents.--Devizes Gazette. LIE DUKE OF BORDEAUX.—The Emperor of Austria has given the most full and satisfactory as surances to the Cabinet of the Tuileries on the subject of ,the Duke de Bordeaux, and that he has insisted upon a change of conduct in the Pope towards the Le gitimists, who are getting up intrigues kt Rome. The applicati on of the Duke de Bordeaux for permission to reside four or five months in Rome has been perempto rily refused. PRICE 5d MONEY MNRKET and CITY NEWS (FRIDAY EVENINII.) TIMES.—By the advices from Hamburg of the 20th inst., the price of gold is 430 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. lOid. per ounce fbr standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. 7i, and the exchange at Hamburg on London at short being 13. si, it follows that gold is 0.82 per cent. dearer at Hamburg than in London. The premium on gold at Paris is 10 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. lOid. the ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.40, and the ex change at Paris on London at short being 25.30, it fol lows that gold is 0.40 per cent. dearer at Paris than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London is 1094- per cent., and the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.07 per cent. against England. Money, which had been in demand on the Stock Exchange in the morning at 6 per cent., became very easy in the afternoon, so as to be obtained at a much lower rate of interest. The amount of business transacted in the Foreign Exchanges to-day was not generaly extensive, and out for the supply of hills brought by the British Queen would have been very small. These bills were princi pally oti Paris, but they included draughts on Amster dam, Antwerp, and Hamburg. The rate on Paris may be considered as nearly five centimes higher than last post ; Amsterdam as a trifle higher; and Hamburg at about the same as on Tuesday. Some information appears to be desired in the city as - to the character of the certificate given by Cap tain Elliot to the British merchants, a copy of which was inserted in the Times of the 25th. There seems a disposition in some quarters to consider the document as a mere receipt by no means committing him. This is, however, a hasty if not an untenable view of the subject, for if the document is a mere receipt, what is the meaning of the words " receipt and certificate for recovery of indemnity ?" Besides, the specification of the opium, as " surrendered for the service of her Ma jesty's Government," must at least have some force. It is, however, said in the City, that, besides granting these certificates, Captain Elliot has actually draw; bills upon the Government and given them to the opium merchants under similar circumstances, which bills have been presented to the Government and returned un accepted. The American papers contain a curious account of what is termed a " war" against a bank, not for is suing inconvertible paper, but for insisting upon paying out in specie and refusing to receive the notes of non specie paying banks. The bank in question is the State Bank of Missouri, which on the 12th of No vember came to a resolution contemplating the discontinuance of paper issues, and a resort to a specie business altogether. By another resolution the curtailment of " renewable paper" was restricted to 5 per cent. instead of 10. Specie was accordingly de manded in all cases where payments had to be received or monies collected for account of customers. A further notice was subsequently issued requiring those having deposited paper with the Bank for collection to with draw it, with an intimation that no more would be taken in, unless on the face of it specie was expressed to be re ceivable on the 19th of November ; as a great outcry was made against the Bank, and the Directors themselves appear to have conceived that there had perhaps been some precipitation in their proceedings, which might operate harshly in many instances, other resolutions were promulga‘ed, by which, whilst evincing a determi nation to persevere in the main principles of the former, they so far relaxed their action as to consent to accom modate their customers as follows :- 1. Payers of business notes which have been dis counted, may have them renewed for 60 days by paying one-tenth of the amount due and the interest. 2. This Bank, to accommodate the payers of notes sent to this Bank from abroad for collection, will buy to a moderate extent good bills of exchange upon New York, Boston, and New Orleans. and to a limited amount upon the branches of this Bank. Although this arrangement was limited in the first instance to 60 days, yet it was considered probable that it would be renewed on the expiration of the term, and even subsequently, as accommodation might be wanted or could prudently be extended. On the publication of the first Bank notice to the effect that, " the Bank will receive at its counter nothing but gold and silver, or its own notes, or those of specie-paying banks, either in payment of notes or upon deposit," the consternation among the citizens of St. Louis, wh ere th e b an k i s situated , is described to hare been extreme. Thep papers unfriendly to it recommend everybody forthwith to make a run upon the bank for their deposits in specie, and that public meetings should be convened for the purpose of denounc ing its conduct Ors for " deliberately" making " war upon the people," at it was called. Most of the merchants are represented to have been furious, and the result was, a " great rush made by the depositors, .and those h a vin g claims against the b an k." Th e run, however, was met mly, and the deposits were refunded in specie or the notes of its specie -paying branches, so that at the close of the one great day of crisis but a trifling amount of deposits was understood to remain on hand. In addi tion, moreover, to this trial, it was reported that not one single note left in the bank for collection had been paid ; so that although paying away specie to all corners, none was obtained. The run commenced on the 12th, was continued on the 13th of November, and an instance is given of two parties, " believed to be agents of the Bank of the United States," who thus drew out the largest sum, stated to be about 10,000 dollars. The final result was honourable to the bank, which met all demands promptly and remained after all, it is stated, stronger in specie than before. This, of course, would be a great blow to the rotten system of irredeemable paper currency which prevailed in Missouri, and the example of hardanoney business was of so much greater authority as coming from the state bank. It seems strange that the mjority of the mercantile community of any place should be found so bitterly opposed to the establishment of a standard currency of real value, instead of that fictitious paper repre sentative, the real worth of which could seldom be calculated upon with any certainty for a given time in the State itself, and out of it was generally discredited or unsaleable except at discounts more or loss considerable. So lax was the money system in Missouri, and so universal the currency of incon vertible bank paper, that, as the reason why none of those notes left with the state bank for collection falling due on the two days' run upon it were paid, and the bank assisted in a time of need with its own means to that extent, it is stated to have been impossible, as such was the scarcity of specie out of the Bank that it com manded from 15 to 17 per cent, premium. Checks upon the State bank, which were currently sold before at 5 per cent. premium, rose subsequently and after the run to 7 or 8 per cent., and were difficult to be pro cured even at those rates. The bank having thus overcome the first and great est difficulties which it could have to grapple with, was steadily pursuing its course. No collection paper, that is bills, were to be made payable with it, except for specie transactions. No deposits would be re ceived except in specie or the the notes of specie paying banks, and therefore it was not expected that funds to any extent would be derived from that source when depositors were so restricted. Thus, it is observed, the State bank would become, in fact, a " loan•office," trading on its own capital alone. There was no cause for hpprehension that good and profitable business would be wanting, for so long as it has money to lend there will be no scarcity of borrowers. Although, as before noted, the bank was violently opposed, and attempted to be cried down by a large portion of the mercantile community, yet it was not left without supporters, as " most of the prudent and solvent," it is remarked, were in favour of the course it was following, and among the infinite variety of paper values, both of that and neigh bouring States, circulating in Missouri, that of the State bank alone was at no depreciation as compared with specie. 1 Jcdge Story's has been opposed by Mr. Hamilton, the c unsel in another case concerning the slaver Butterfly, who contends that the Act of transportation •is neces sary to satisfy the words of the statute. The case of the Butterfly remains still undecided. A family of 34 slaves, recently liberated by the will of Mr. Hunter, offered themselves as emigrants for Liberia. Such is the state of the law, that. unless the American Colonization Society could receive them by the 20th inst., they must return to their original slavery. These poor creatures being utterly destitute, pressing appeals have been made to the benevolent to furnish them with the means of emigrating, and thus retaining their newly-acquired liberty. CHRONICLE.—In the English Stock Market a slight improvement has taken place in Consols, although unattended with any business of magnitude. Exchequer Bills are also better, the cause of which was a purchase of 35,0001. by an influential party, whose operations are more generally confined to the Consol market. It is now thought that the President's Message tr ill be received first by the Liverpool steamer, which was to leave New York on the 14th instant ; therefore it may be looked for by Monday next. POST.—We see it stated in the Evening Papers that a general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce laps hed at Manchester yesterday, for the purpose of eceiving a report from the Directors on the effects of the administration of the Bank of England upon the commercial and manufacturing interests of the country. Some speeches were delivered upon the occasion condemnatory of the banking system now in opo ration, the pressure upon the commerce of tho country being attributed, but how falsely we need not say, to the action of the Bank of Engl and on the circulation. The American crisis of 1836-7, the consequent cessation of orders for goods fro.n the manufacturers in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and the occurrence of two defective harvests in succession, are events that do not appear to have entered for a mo ment into the calculation of the speakers. Some of them recapitulated their losses in trade with a good deal of minuteness ; but, as the Bank system (not the Bankitseltvfor the Directors arc now acquitted of all blame) is mad© chargeable with the whole of the mis chief, and neither the absence of their principal cus tomers (the Americans) nor the failure of two years' corn crops in the United Kingdom with the smallest portion of it, we consider it necessary to give our read ers a peep behind the curtain, so that tneir eyes may be opened to what is really meant, and what is actually going on among the Bank agitators in the north. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce is avowedly instituted for the " promotion of measures calculated to benefit and protect the trading interest of its mem bers and the general trade of the town and neigh bourhood of Manchester." They have, accordingly, on public matters, such as the relaxation of duties, &c., memorialised Govtrnment, and in a respectful manner. A. board of directors is the executive, and they have on many occasions been of service to the trade of the district, and their opinion might have been considered us that of the more enlightened commercial men. In the course of the last spring the President, Mr. G. W. WoOd, and directors, incurred the wrath of the Anti- C3rn-law faction. They were prepared to petition Go vernment, praying for a consideration of the Corn-laws, with the view to a reduction of the duty on corn, and they added statements and opinions, drawn up as the result of mature deliberation, and such as we have reason to know would have weighed much with some mem bers of the Government. Mr. J. B. Smith (who is a director of the Bank of 'Manchester),. Mr. Cobden, ard some others, having taken umbrage at Mr. Wood's speech on seconding the address, or, more cor rectly speaking, feeling sore at the manner in which Sir Robert Peel turned Mr. Wood's statements (which are admitted to be true) against the Anti-Corn-law party, came down to the Chamber, and, having altered the pro. posed motion, they proceeded to vote a new Board of Directors, a President, and Vice-President. Ail this was such a direct attack upon Mr. Wood as an indivi dual, as well as upon the,Directors who entertained the same views, that those of the old Board .who wore re elected declined to serve, while, by the assistance of a number of members made for the occasion, the Ul tras got the Chamber to themselves. The total im mediate repeal of the Corn-laws was the Shibboleth of the party. Now, all the abuse which these persons send forth against the Bank cannot, of course, do it much harm, as the opinion of the individuals ; but the title they use, as the Chamber of Commerce, may cause their efforts to be more noticed than they de serve. Some of the members arc directors of a local bank of issue, an establishment that circulates a very large amount of its bills upon London at three month, which are drawn on account of a scarcity of cash alter the issue of notes ; and the complaint at Bolton is, that the Bank of England decline to find them cash for these bills, not to call them " kites." In addition the bank in question re-discounts in London, and every where else. The intelligence and information of the Chamber of Commerce arc represented to us as being much inferior to what they were. The members have, in fact, dege nerated into a clique of Anti-Corn-law declaimers, and with all the bitterness and rancour that distinguish this class of " repealers," they are now attacking,therßank of England jbecause 'they prefer assisting the le.itimate commerce of the cou n try t o :na ki ng themselves hie toots of inconsiderate speculators and mere kite-flyers. This explanation will serve, we doubt not, to demo lish most completely the effect of yesterday's meeting at Manchester. The exchanges were nearly Stationary ; but, if there were any alteration at all, it was rather for the better than otherwise. HERALD.—The Funds have been very firm throughout the day. Money is more plentiful, and confidence appears to have materially increased in the city. The mercantile interests are much more satisfied with the tenour of the recent advices received from the United States than had been expected. We have to notice a very firm market this afternoon for the principal Continental Exchanges. Paris, 23 60 to 25 671 ; Hamburg, 13 ; Amsterdam, 12 3 ; Antwelp, 12 311 ; and Frankfort, 1501. The accounts recently received from the West Indies furnish several official statements of the exports of the produce of the colonies, nearly all of which ex hibit a decrease in the quantity of sugar, coffee, and rum shipped off this year, as compared with the previous season. The exertions making by the agents of the Island of TriLidad in the free states of America to induce emi gration on the part of the coloured population, appeared to have excited toe attention of the Jamaica planters. The introduction of these labourers would evidently be a great service both to themselves and the colonist, and looking at the possible results of it, the attempted cul ture, with their assistance, of cotton and tobacco on a large scale, would be of the highest importance to the mother country. The private letters received from Upper Canada, by the British Queen, in many instances complain of the conduct of Mr. Thomson in assuming the command of that portion of Canada. The press of both provinces was not silent upon the same subject. SUN.—The principal commercial markets were firm this afternoon, and confidence has much increased since the receipt of the advices by the British Queen. Tess have improved on 'Change this afternoon, at least for most of the low qualities. We do not bear of any fur• ther failures !of consequence in the manufacturing dia. tricts. The Foreign Exchanges were higher this afternoon. Paris at 25 471 ; Hamburg 13 9il ; Amsterdana 12 31,i, and Antwerp 12 3. The Funds closed firmer this afternoon. Consols for the opening 921- ; Exchequer Bills 2s. discount ; and India Bonds 7s. discount ; Bank Stock rallied to 1771. In the Foreign Market Spanish Actives rose to 25i ; Portuguese new Five per Cents., were done at 33k, rather hwer ; and Dutch 21 per Cents., were heavy at 52i ; French Five per Cent. Rentes, declined to 111 25. There was some briskness in the share market this afternoon, and prices were steady. The Greenwiek Railway brought ;31dif.`sount ; the South Western premium ; the Brighton 14 1 1 discount ; and the North Midland 11 discount. Coloniil Bank Shares improved to 6 premium. The American papers bring some curious legal pro ceedings relative to the slave trade. The first section of the Act of 1800, chap. 51, declares " that it shall be unlawful for any citizens, &c., directly or indirectly, to hold or have any right or property in any vessel em ployed or made use of in the transportation or carrying of slaves from one foreign country to another, under the penalty of forfeiture." The second declares it unlaw • Jul for any citizen, &c., to serve on board of any vessel of the United States employed or made use of in the transportation or carrying of slaves from one foreign country to another." According to the third, "if any citizen, &c., shall voluntarily serve on board of any foreign ship or vessel which shall hereafter be employed in the slave trade, he shall, on conviction, be liable to and suffer the like forfeitures, fines, &c." The fourth declares " that it shall be lawful for apy corn . missioned vessel of the United States to seize and take any vessel employed in carry i ng on trade, business, or traffic, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act, or of the said Act to which this is an addition." I n the ~s e of the brig Alexander, recently before the Circuit Court, the point was whether, in the event of - a ship being engaged in the slave trade, and n o t having on board any slaves for transportation - , she was liable to forfeiture under the Act. It was decided by Judge Story that the employment of the ship for the purpose of the slave trade, and not merely the actual transpor tation of slaves, should be punished. This doctrine of SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. —The Aden, from Liverpool to China, September 3, lat. 15 N., lon. 25 W., with Ims of fore-topmast, by the Malabar, Dunl o p, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope. Orest es , B r i stol to Port Jack son, Sept. 4, lat.. 12, ion. 24 W.; Janet, London to the Cape of Good Hope, Sept. 1 8, lat. 43 S., lon. 22 W. ; Osceola, Rio Janeiro to Philadelphia, Sept. 24, !at. 13 S., lon. 29 W., by the Malabar, Dunlop, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, +lilts, Branch, bound to the Cape of Good Hope, October 26, by the Minerva, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope. Constitution, Quebec to Workington, 15th inst., by the Victoria, Goulding, arrived in the Downs. Thos. King, London to Sydney, N. S. W., 27th August. lat. 14 N., lou. 25 ; Fortitutk, 3d Sept., lat. 6 N., len. 17 W. : A:las, London to Madras, 7th, lat. 3 N., lon. 15; Francis and 8.. h, lat. I N., lon. 21 W., by the Jean, arrived ut tipc Cape of Good Hope. Cachelot (whaler), from Havre, 61.11 Sept., lat. 21 N., lon. 34 W.: Proteus, Rot terdam to Batavia, 12th, lat. 11, lon. 25 W., by the Wel liio;ton, Liddell, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope. EFFECTS OF THE LATE EARTHQUAKE.-- Since the period of the late earthquake in November, which extended over most of Scotland, and was felt also in various parts of the Continent, several wells -and springs of water in the neighbourhood of Inverness h ave been dry. On the high table land, or elevated eat, be tween the Leys and Inverness, there was a number of wells, which were never without three or four feet of water in the most sultry season, but all of which are now dried up. The Rev. Mr. Fyvic informs us that the same has occurred in the vicinity of his residence at Roschank, and that the people now resort to Aultoas kiach Burn for supplies of water. The concussion pro bably closed up some horizontal strata of rock through which the water had its course.—lnverness Courier. WANTED a MANOR and ESTATE (in any ENGLISH COUNTY) with or without Mansion, or TWO ESTATES, the purchase money of which would not exceed TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND POUNDS. All applications will be considered as strictly confidential. Address by letter (.postpaid): :to C. M. S. Cox, Box 59, Nottingham. .eY