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tIA LDERSGATE WARD! S .. At a WAR DMOTR, held at the General Dispensary, Alderagate _ eet, on M on d ay, the 22 d d ay o f D ec ember, 1845, by virtue of a F,Tecept from th e Ri g ht ll on . th e Lord Mayor for the election of Common Councilmen for the year ensuing (Sir Peter Laurie in the ;;,'t), Messrs. John Lockin, George Stacy, Edward Godson, Sohn. d John Thomas Norris, henry de Jersey, Samuel Sharwtiod, ..t!!! Solomon Maw, were unanimously re-clotted. ge aolved - unanimously,—That this Ward mote is of opinion that the anxiety and alarm which prevails throughout the country at t his Bement, m ore part i cular l y amongs t the working classes, at 10 - se d ' r ' _cad of an imp en di ng d ear th, is attributable to the existence 2 7, t irmance of the obnoxious corn-laws, and which are calcula led I °WY to fetter the general commerce of the country, but also to preclude the possibility of procuring a sufficient supply of food for - .the '3 J" in times of scarcity like the present, arising , as in t his in attce from causes beyond the reach of human wisdom, or power .of h uman control ; and that the only means of averting the horrors .of such a crisis Is, by the Government forthwith throwing open tb e Aorta for the free importation of all kinds of grain from otha r batin gut Lies, and rising every other means to encourage an immediate from whatever quarter it can be procured. !hat this- Wardmote, therefore, do unite with their fellow-citizeml xPressing their decided opinion of the necessity of a total arid ire - I;mediate repeal of the corn-laws, and their c•nfident hopes that lees • t 4JegtY will he enabled to form such a Government as will car Ty great and necessary measure into effect immediately on the is -cirthling of Parliament. R esolved unaniniously,—That the warmest thanks of th i s Wa.rd ii°mte are due, an d a re hereby given, to Sir Peter Laurie, Kiri,. e e l,en nan, for his courteous conduct in the chair t his da y , for his nstant:and unr e mitting attention to his magisterial duties, and for t i n rea diness and promptitude exhibited by him on every occasion involsr g the interests of this Ward. T. 'G. POSTAN, Ward Clerk. ELI:EP of METROPOLITAN DESTITU TION,ti and EMPLOYMENT of the POOR during this Int- Zent Season and Heavy Fall' of Snow. Commissioners of Sewers for the City of London havi n g kindl y' ' , ratted a Philanthropic Association, composed of various noblemet2 t latty lemen, to demonstrate to what state ofperfect i p n the streets; be kept clean, the Public are informed that the following streets: ,„how being cleansed by the Association : -- Cheaps ide, Cornhill,, ro 7K, Royal Exchange, Novgate, King, Gresham, Moorgate , Throg -- t r YM , and Threadneedle-streets, and Tokenhouse - ya rd, &c. Me!: are now employed at Two Shillings and Sixpence per lyindnd aLA Sixty vc:il soon :t •' • kitiun-67.2 the operatiC.us tire ,cpportoll,:r Voluntli."y BENJAMIN BOND CABBELL, Esq., Treasur er. Al the Council are very anxious to encourage am on g the melt bit sif. of industry, cleanliness, and neatness of apparel , they beg to to that a present of fifty pairs of trousers, or one hundred smock ,;;'2llB. will be considered equivalent to a donation of 251. ; a present hundred long brooms or mops to a donation of 101. ii „Lti 4 undermentioned Bankers have kindly consented to receive i i ri,,,, Ptlons ; " 2 1 1 1de Scott, Bart., and Co. ' 7, London and Westminster 1h,: 41 1k and its Branches Tln . ond and Co. Ilene and Co. rn and Co. 'OO Bank of London and its I:ltrich es k; 4 1 , 70Z and Co. and Co. 1144 %,nquet and Co. " 11 11 am Deaco n, and Co. ; Ilopkinson and Co. ; Strahan, Patel, ski Co.s, ti,,.. ; Hallett and Co. ;at the Hall of Commerce ; the London V• er ` r ti ; and by the Secretary of the Association, at the Offices, 24', 6- street, Oxford-street. LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED THIS DAY. L - iires Cochrane, Esq., President of the Association .. £lOO 0 o k, 4 J. Hansard, Esq. •• •• - ....... 50 0 0 thn. Coutts and Co. •• .• • ••• • • • • • 10 0 0 /c o Aliases Browne •.•. • • • • T h . I t lev• Dr. Spra.nger .. •• • • - • • • • 5 0 0 11,:. Rev. J. spranger .........................1 0 0 kirClarke, Esq. •••••••••••'•-• • " • • " • • - . • • • . • 5 5 0 . 61 Hyde Clarke, Es q............................. 3 3 0 P. 17 Hyde Clarke, Esq .. 1 1 0 tir ci,;'• • . • • - . 11 0 rge Staunton, Bart., M.P. •••••• • • • • . 10 0 0 20, v. By order, M. DAVIES, Secretary. ~..__ sere- street, Oxford-street Prescott, Grote and Co. Hanburys and Co. Sir Charles Price and Co. Cocks, Biddulpb, and Co. Hankeys and Co. Herrics and Co. Fuller and Co. London and Dublin Bank National Bank of Ireland :London Joint-Stock Bank ROYAL NORTHERN LUNATIC ASYLU M. t er , REPORT by the COUNTY COMMITTEE , as p resented to r ht e neral Meeting of Subscribers, held within the C astle of Inver ' Pun the 14th November, 1845. vi o ;e Increasing prevalence of lunacy through the county oillnver sii: and the obligation upon the local authorities , to confine at the an te , of the parish of domicile all persons thus dangero usl y anted,7, compelled this project as a matter of ordinary pruden ce, and et th ist tcni all consideration of general phila nthro py . Accordin g ly, kr 4 - ' Annual County Meeting of the 30th April, 1843, the project ihebseubmitted to the public. It was resolved to endeavour to afford 1 4 th nefit of the Institution to all the northern coun ties, standing, Ir ai gY did, under circumstances of equal necessity ; and a Committee foo i !PPointed to solicit subscriptions on this enlarged and general They commenced their duties ; but circumstances for some et Were adverse ; and they had the deep misfortune to lose, almost valuedset of their labours, one of their most influential, zealous, ke, members, by the sudden death of Mr. Fraser, of Newton. Is q ,„,'Y alive to the true benevolence of the undertaking, he was to Zi . 1 13 it the liberal assistance of his example and of his energies up of e w ,L, e Period of his death; and that melancholy event naturally o .`t'o, for a time, the exertions of those associated with him in the Thus the project remained in temporary akeyance. But Seem e d eon soon evident that unless active measures were again re hour to, there could be no reasonable anticipation of a successful etli ed . A Public meeting of the heritors, magistrates, and clergy, was lite,,,,accordingly, upon the 10th day of December, 1844, and the at Acting of an immediate canvass was admitted, and pressed upon , 4 1to " i ng Committee. They undertook the task. The funds at that amounted to 1,5001., and to-day they stand on the list as 4,7001. telly ! tin t Is almost entirely the result of private contribution ; for lesi bt ,s' n e parish, that of Dornoch, in Sutherland, has entered a sub- V; and only one public body, the Caledonian Bank of Inver illioWas given a contribution ;—the parish of Dornoch has taken one itti od . of 211. ; the Caledonian Bank has given a s ubscri p tion of one liiiJl,; kl guineas. Apart, indeed, from these two s ums, the contri the tfl ' it have been entirely from the hand of private benevolence. ltd and neighbourhood of Inverness have given most lib erall y , Ver'allY of the districts of the county with a n e q ual hand. Under k it , i It-tiling exceptions, the Committee have, as 3 . et, been prevented iSts e ,?,Neecuting their solicitations throughout the northern counties. Sts o ,el, however, of the most influential proprietors of the north are r the contributors ; and this circiunstance warrants the hope ees,4 e canvass which is to be immediately commenced may be suc iDts The Committee, through two of their number, have applied • tent'criPtions in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, and tli o , e s'n, confining, unless in one or two instances, their application to etio 4 . c onnected by birth; or profession, or trade, with the northern a• They regret to say that they failed in many quarters %er g t hey had the beet reason to anticipate success ; but, again, fr o% Were instances where the claim of enla r ged benevolence, apart VklibL ut Y local feeling, was willingly admitted. There were indi vi• ributing who appeared t o an object to consider It a privilege to haveto alley oportunity atiate the llt te l' a of the poor. 1 0111, , then is the amount of the realised fu nds, and Stich is the Ni a from which they have been to a very considerable degree de- The Committee have no hesitation in stating to the sub theirol,_ belief that the subscription will be soon considerably :Math 'ed. An important addition may be reasonably anticipated ~attatte northern counties, and the result of an influential communi of With India may be looked for with confidence. In closing this a o „ t he subject, the Committee have to mention that,whilst in they had the advantage of communicating with the Lord upon the proposed scheme ' •—that his Lordship became ben lf a subeerther, and that he obtained for the Institution the eflt of the royal patronage. It is hoped that such royal counts Zeta m a y be the means of assisting the subscription in directions ; "Its the t Oere oherwise it might not have penetrated. In any importance, event, it in undertaking with an and bar ant"'s to the public an efficient constitution and management `l-requiring as it does that that constitution shall receive the approval T the high officers of the Crown. % pie Committee have made it their endeavour t o obtain the best • L i ca as to the site of the proposed Institution. They have re : fiZtecl the assistance of Dr. Malcolm, of Perth, a gentleman emi t,`- the treatment of the insane, and whose opinions were ma- Ust i, during an extensive continental tour amo n g st similar institu li Preparatory to the erection of Murray's Asylum, in the neigh shianod,_ of Perth, with which he has been from its er ection, and 0t,5 intimately connected. He selected four sites as eligible—one ens property of Mr. Baillie, the proprietor of Culduthel ; another he al 'et of Mr. Mackintosh, of Raigmore ; a third at the Hut of C 114 114 on the estate of Inshes ; and a fourth on the l ands of Of th e Otbh, the property of Mr. Baillie, of Dochfour. With the first be ot lee proprietors, r. Baillie, of Culduthel, the Committee have tiejul.t l communication; but the terms of feu demanded by him are 10e t el Practicable, and therefore the site upon his property adjoin sten op tt ,,t/ltarry, and close to the marsh with the Raigmore lands, is Lilo question. The Committee have also communicated with to"' ;ackintosh, but without any result — that gentleman req uirin g , o‘Ow' from them the amount of feu that will be given, and the asiLkittee naturally enough begging to be informed what is to be to o 7. ; and here the negotiation stands with Mr. Mackintosh. Of e it will be the duty of the subscribers immediately to open N e nmunication with Mr. Robertson, of Inehes , and Mr. Ba ill ie , o f 41 4 :"°11r, and thereafter to select from those equ all y eli g ible sites • r ! Which may be obtained upon the most eligible terms. i3/4: ll e these circumstances of realised funds and anticip ated increase, tie Oiig Committee have considered themselves required to delay the com mencement of the Institution. The necessity for ert_ s r _ on Is every day forcin itself upon their attention. The num- 11 ,1ec g lunatics confined at the expense of the several parishes is every 42latreasing, and the operation of the New Poor-law Bill must teK, 4 ,erily dto the number. That Bill directs a course by vi which em,Zient parishes may be compelled to the humanity of proding 1 4 ,;_cient accommodation for their lunatic poor ; but it afford s no th 4 .l tatice towards securing such accommodation. The more s trin g ent ,e erection upon parishes, the more important to them should be ~._ereetion of a local and inexpensive Institution, such as that pro- This is obvious, and will undoubtedly force itself upon the — 4,Trstanding of all such burdened parishes. tff Committee, impressed with these import ant considerations, heist their proceedings to the general subscribers, and suggest isZ t s Without any delay, the necessary steps should be tak en for the I,l l nsation of the Asylum. p r ZleY cannot close the account of the ir p roceedin g s without ex .4ing the obligation under whic h the Institution is p laced to se /44tLgentlemen in the south connected with this pa rt of the countr y . Cor:4a, gem, Mr. Leith, formerly ins p ector of the Caledonian Banking Penv, most efficiently assisted the canvass ; and in London the )10 beneficial office was with equal liberality discharged by M r . ski:Aenzie, American merchant, and by Mr. Macgregor, of Cheap- Invc•Yog, liberal The Sun newspaper, the cause is eminently liZ t ed, for theity with which he uniformly admitted the Ito;L a sary advertisements in a free and prominent access to the co hns of his Important journal. Reported by W. H. COLQUIIOUN, Convener of the County Committee. A s . Total amount of subscriptions'as at this date 4,6731 . 13 s. General Meeting of the subscribers towards the erection of a L unatic Asylum at Inverness for the benefit of the northern '', ( lltitties, called by advertisement, held on the 14th Nov., 1845, "LLLIAM FRASER TYTLER, €sq., Vice-Lieutenant of the County, Chairman ; -solution, Chairman having addressed the meeting , m o ved the following — solution, which was unanimously agreed to : p: That the following noblemen and gentlemen be no w a pp ointed a Zennittee, with power to them to nominate from the i r own number vi allb Committee, for the management of all matters con nected s. t h the erection and establishment of the Northern Lunatic i'sYlum, and, in particular, to draw up rules and regulations, to be ~,Siartitted to a General Meeting of Subscribers, to be held at In eni,,_ese, on the earliest day in January next that the Committee may ib 'lvint—Mr. Colquhoun. convener." INVERNESS-SHIRE. Butt.smunens OF 501. AND SUBSCRIBERS UNDER 50/. l'is UPWA RD& W. H. Coiquhoun, Esq., 54. -e Right Hon. the Earl of Sea- Provost Sutherland field J. M. Grant, Esq., of Glenmoriston The T h Right Hon. Lord Saltoun J. M. Grant , Esq. , Joint - Co nvener // u ',Right Hon. Lord Lovat ' of the county ' • Bailey, Esq., M.P. for the' Thos. Ogilvie, Esq., ditto a Colluty J. B. Fraser, Esq., of Reelick Morrison, Esq., M.P. for the D. Grant, Esq., of Bught sisrbinth A. Forbes, Esq., of Culloden hi. Fraser Tytler, Esq., of Bal- J. Ross, Esq., Berbice Cottage stain Dr. J. I. Nicol . 1 1 ... e Mackintosh Patrick Grant, Esq„ Ballifeary 'E . liaillie, Esq., of Culduthel. C. Waterston, Esq., manager for the Caledonian Bank J. Mackenzie, Esq., banker lAlex. Forbes, Esq., chemist. CROMARTY. Sir Hugh Fraser, of Braelangwell, I K.C.B. 'D. Davidson, Esq., of Tullech, Convenor of the county i T. Mackenzie, Esq., of Ord John nay Mackenzie, Esq., of Cromartle Dr. J. Mackenzie, Kinellan D. Kennedy, Esq., of Bogbain George Cameron, Esq., Sheriff r Substitute, Dingwall. SUTHERLANDSHIRE. Grate the Duke of Suherland James Loch, Esq., M.P. 'avid Dundas, Esq., M.P. for the George Gunn, Esq., factor for the county. Duke of Sutherland. TSS-SHIRE. Sir G. Dunbar, of Hemprigge, Bart., and J. Gregg, Esq., She riff-Substitute, Joint-Conveners of the county. TSHIRE. Gen. Sir J. Rose, of Holme,K.C.B. H. Davidson, Esq , of Cantray Wm. Mackintosh, Esq., of Geddes J. A. Grant, Esq., of Viewdeld Gen. Gordon, of Lochdu. R esolved further, that the above Committee continue in office till the 30th of April, 1847. .. The Ma c ki n t os h move d that the thanks of this meeting be ten deredto Messrs. Mackenzie and Colquhoun for the exertio ns the y had made in procuring subscriptions for this Institution ; and that ac knowledgments be also offered to Mr. Leith , former l y ins p ector of e Caledonian Bank, now in Glasgow ; to Mr. Young, of The Sun rsPlPer; Yr. Mackenzie, American merchant ; Mr. Macgregor , apside, all of London, for the efficient assistance they afforded llethe deputation in their canvass in these cities ; which motion was seconded by the Rev. Mr. Clark, and unanimously agreed to. _ On the motion of the Rev. Mr. Clark, the thanks of the meeting 7era also unanimously voted to the County Committee, who had hitherto conducted the business of the proposed Institution so successfully. The meeting resolve that these resolutions be published in the In verness newspapers. WM. FRASER TYTLER, Chairman. The thanks of the meeting were unanimously voted to the Chair for hbi conduet in th• chair 4 ,-- me. , augatiTs /Motu littrOtur• Sir . ROSS AND ( • J. R. Mackenzie, Bart., of ocatwell n o Ron. Mrs. Stewart Mackenzie, d of Seaforth Matheson, Esq., of Achany, l Bathe4.p. of Redcaatle, M.P. ''mackenzie, Esq., of Applecrosa, 41 . P• for the county ``.. Matheson, Esq., of Ardintoul. - CAITENEI Prite Train, Esq., M.P. EATEN T he Right Hon. the Earl of Cawdor. miolooomoo .° Peeling, ' 4O ! marks a ply inly meet ,hing like t A id its talent s * irises of t : 1 niche in P i ke of Clarr subscriber 1° FARMER. Y NEW S ' EVENING: 4 'standing P' message, wever, is is: imperfect tel not only nd other se . ng systems °. s a very or sales M c , r price. tlyi when werirt u irn of Sir P . ave °cost •evented e l' l f ;reeehle fee ,n diffused be i o n from t b its expor t°. purpose--. c l ney, of st : no w o ffered ides ; end "- luy public S° l : !ourse Th. arkets. ,ve arisen b r bably not j b ° d consider: * ent the ID rents any ratinues e r o have @P e ; s was ab°° lay. , 11 suppore— the suse r can Gove r n; stock Cat o ?ady, its i the Foreig s Anisterd °l3 ;,, her than' per S. mge or, l on at soti t " , 7 p er cold is 45 „ 3/.175. it; ° f 13 .heri Da At cent. de'sre will of t l Irving' 1 1 , 1 0 .worn tel e bee' bare, qui SO , An g de in tti° ° ,hat pow hick 11 • contli l3 %l merel com railar u"'" e re veva. d, as dief ied er de' le raisicir protection from the leq We loptioa 0_ i e °pa are In u n rolig l i g deal ,l:l We e tithe 0 ri sl Tom` , lout t ui j b a a P‘rht rO O P, e otl l l io less" of Ir e that e of Ju r ' oclitur o . 62c., fteti bylll,l' 00 13 ' ! 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IJEW STRONG-BUILT SMALL STEAM JOT' LE, situ P.II"P ill(M-PREF;SURE EN ,ll7,j:s For particulars, inquire of E. M. Clafte, optician, machinist, and engineer, 425, Strand, London. LONDON and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY, SPECIAL NOTICE. . DAY TICKETS issued to Passengers on WEDNESDAY, the 24th De. ember, will be available to FRIDAY, the 26th. By order, Euston Station, Dec. 23. R. CREED, Secretary. REAT WESTERN RAILWAY CHRISTMAS. Notice is hereby given, that the usual Return Tickets, at a Reduc tion of One-third of the Fares, will be allowed to passengers travel ling on this line, reckoning Christmas-day as a Sunday. All the Daily Trains will, however, run on that day. By order of the Directors, C. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary, OXFORD, 'MAME, HIGH WYCOMBE, AND ITXI3RIDGE JUNCTION RAILWAY_ Notice is hereby given, that no further application for shares in this Company will be received after the 27th inst. By order, It. MORTON CALEY, Secretary. 43, Moorgate-street, Dec. 17, 1845. THE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT RAILWAY. The Committee of Management beg to announce that, in compliance with the applications and suggestions of several gentlemen of expo rience, they have instructed the several hankers named in their Letters of Allotment to continue to receive the preliminary deposits from this time until the 7th of January next, in order that those parties to whom Shares in this Company have been allotted may con suit their own convenience, by paying theflrst deposit at the present time, or paying the whole deposit en or before the 7th of January next. Ly order of th• "Board, Z. lIIIEBERSTT, Seoretary. Moorgate-chambers, Moor:ate-street, Dee. 19, 1845. 7i . ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. DEPOSIT ON EASTERN COUNTIES YORK EXTENSION SHARES. The Directors beg to give notice, that having ample funds of the Company at their disposal, it is their intention to pay the necessary Parliamentary Deposits on the Capital to be subscribed for the Ex. tension Line from Cambridge to York, and the other undertakings to be promoted by the Company, in the ensuing session of Parliament ; and that, instead of a Deposit of 21. per Sham being required as formerly announced, a deposit of Ten Shillings per Share only will have to be paid under the allotment letters to be issued. If Acts of Parliament be not obtained, the deposit of ten shillings will be re turned without deduction. GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman C. P. RONEY, Secretary. Offices, Shoreditch Station, Dec. 23, 1845. E ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY. Extensions from CAMBRIDGE to YORK, and from TOTTEN- lIAM to FATtRINGDON-STREET, Notice is hereby given, that in accordance with the resolutions unanimously passed at a special general meeting of the Company, held on Thursday, Oct. 30, 1845, every person whose name shall appear as a Registered Shareholder of the Company on the sth of January next, will receive a Letter of Allotment for York Extension Shares in the proportion of three such Extension Shares for every eight shares of 41. I6s. of which he is the proprietor, in the consoli dated stock of the Company. The holders •f Scrip Certificates for the New Shares of 141. 16s. each, being entitled to Extension Shares in the same proportion, these Certificates must be sent to the offices of the Company for en dorsement, not later than the 9th of January next, accompanied by a letter from each holder of the subjoined form : To the Secretary of the Eastern Counties Railway Company. December, 184 i. Sir,—llerewith I forward to yen scrip Certificates for New Shares of 141. 16s. each in the Eastern Counties Railway, in respect of which I desire to obtain a Letter of Allotment for my rateable proportion of Shares of 201. each in the York Rxtension capital. Name in full .. •• •• •••••••• • • •• Usual Signature.. • • •• ••• .. Deicript ion • . .. • . ........ Place of Abode •• .. ••-• •• • • This form mast, in every ease, be filled up in the handwriting of the applicant. The receipt of the Scrip Certificates will be immediately acknow ledged, and they will be subsequently returned endorsed, together with a Letter of Allotment for ttie number of Extension Shares to whilst' the applicant is entitled By order, GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman. Offices, Shoreditch, Dec. 17, 1815 C. P. RONEY, Secretary. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUii- ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital A-500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. 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The announcement that a station will soon be opened in the city of Basle itself, affording great accommoda tion to travellers, and presenting a means of economising to the company ; the facility of detaching the coupons from the newly-issued shares, which avoids the risk formerly incurred of sending the shares to France in order to obtain the annual dividend; in fine, thecertainty of an increased :dividend for this year—all these com bined causes have contributed to attract attention to this line of rail, which will become of still greater import.. ance when the railroad from Paris to Strasbourg shall be opened. DUBLIN, asec. 22 .—The was heldeh IRELAND. _REPEAL ASSOCIATION. Mr. O 2 . .—rhe weekly meeting of the Asso- O'Neill, en the pos i t i on this day, Edward Clements, Esq. (bar rister), in the air. 'C°Nl `rEat. commenced the business of the day by reading ti le . following letter from Mr. John August us to a ot the Repeal Association with regard Whig Administration : " My dear " Williams Park, Dec. 22, 1845. my Sir,—You are aware that influenza prevents C ""`".` tion “"ce at the Man s i o n-house Committee, and at y invalid, to s oncilia -hall ; I c l a i m , t h ere f o re, the privilege of an dun at the übmit my sentiments to the Repeal Associa certain wh sbuopurnodretnduta present crisis, and whilst it is still quite un o B ot h at Ministry may be formed. with ev Whigs a I T 'es h declared against repeal re aye measures al vigour, but there are many most valuable could grant, for this country which an anti-repeal Cabinet and it seems to me the only course and of Irishmen of all classes to welcome and whatever Government will do most for Ireland, no matter what name may be given to it. "In several newspapers there is an unwarrantable in ference drawn from Mr. O'Connell hiving declared that he would support Lord J. Russell in a repeal of corn-law and other popular measures. I cannot see how, with common consistency he could have avoided saying this. I repeat this expression, and protest against the infe rence that supporting a Government in certain good measures is an abandonment of the principle that Ire land has a right to demand the restoration of her Parlia ment. " To press this demand - was the principle, but not the sole object, for which I considered the Assnciation to haverom promote (in been embodied. practicabledried.llookedwuapy without compro mise it as est tblished to p raise of a great principle) the interests of this nation. I entertain the opinion that the more prosperous a country becomes the better able she will be to assert her own rights, and I would without the least hesitation withdraw from the Repeal Association, if being a member of it gave an implied pledge that I should not join in seeking for my ill-fated country any of the many practical measures by which all classes would be benefited, and, above all, measures which would secure food to, and provide employment for, two millions and a half of my country men, declared in official records to be in a state of desti tution. "This evidence has long since been laiehefore Sir Robert Peel's Government ; and not a single step did that Ministry take to alleviate the safferiegs of this im mense body of their fellow-subjects. " The Association will recollect that I have spoken favourably of what I believed to be the good intentions of Sir Robert Peel, but in my work on Ireland, published two years ago, I said that he himself had made Ireland his difficulty by calling to his councils men whose feelings were notoriously anti-Irish, and on the downfal of such I shall congratulate my countrymen. "After having given the corn-law question deep atten tion, I some years ago was enrolled as a member of the Anti-Corn-law League, by my esteemed acquaintance, its resneeted leader, the Hon. C. P. Villiers. At the same time the worthy Joseph Sturge enrolled me in the Universal Suffrage Society, and I hope the day will never arrive when a repealer will fear to say that he will give his cordial support to any Ministry—Whig, Tory, or Radical—which will introduce such measures, and evince a sympathy with the people. " I regret Sir Robert Peel's failure. for obstinacy was not amongst his faults; but I shall rejoice in the discom fiture of his administration, if it excludes from return to office the anti-Irish, anti-popular portion of his cabinet, and cordially do I desire to see such men replaced by statesmen like Lord J. Russell and Lord Morpeth, though I fear they will not go far enough. " Will you do me the favour to read this letter at an early period of this day's business, and to believe me, with esteem, very truly yours, " J. A. O'NEILL. " To T. M. Ray, Esq., &c. &c." In moving the insertion of the letter on the minutes, he observed that the sentiments it contained were those which would pervade the mind of every rational re pealer, had Lord John Russell been so fortunate as to he able to form a Government. He then read a report of his mission to Waterford, for the purpose of recon ciling the differences which existed amongst the re- peelers in that town ; and stated that his success had been unrestricted, unlimited, and complete. In future no person would have any chance of representing the constituency of Waterford but a real " Conciliation-ball" repealer; and as a proof of their devotion to nationality, they had that day forwarded the sum of 40/. to the funds of the Association. Sir Winston Barron and Mr. Wyse should yield at the next election to the better claims of Sir Benjamin Morris Wall and Mr. Meagher, unflinch ing advocates of domestic legislation. In conclusion, he read a letter from Dr. M.Hale, Archbishop of Tuaw, which abounded, as usual, with abuse, and denounced the Bequests Act and the infidel Colleges Act. There was not (continued Mr. O'Connell) a sentiment in that letter which would not be echoed by every Irish man. They were for Ireland, no matter what party was in power—no matter what section of statesmen was in office—they were for Ireland.—(Cheers.) Mr. .1. O'CoNiveae read the following letter from the Hon. Pierce Butler, M.P.:— " Imperial Hotel, Sackville-street, Dec. 21, 1845. " My dear O'Connell,—l inclose you my renewed sub scription to the Loyal Nation Repeal Association. I had , hoped it would have been in my power to have attended your meeting to-morrow ; but letters from the country demand my immediate presence in the county of Kil kenny. I regret much, and I know you will join me in that regret, that the number of misguided wretches ready at a moment's warning, and for a small bribe, to take the lives of their fellow -countrymen, is increasing. If the Government be not strong enough, or wise enough, to prevent this mischief, and this stain upon Ireland, I think the Association should at once take the business in hand, and put down such a disgraceful system of oppres sion. The Roman Catholic clergy are doing their duty, by denouncing the murders ; but they stand in need of the vigorous and prompt co-operation of a firm Govern ment, or of the Association. " This is a painful subject, but it is one that demands immediate attention. " If Lord John Russell succeed in forming an Admi nistration, I trust that Ireland will show firmness, pru dence, and generosity, without any compromise of her avowed principles. Lord John Russell must restore the magistrates, Orangemen and repealers. He must give a powerful but judicious support to our railway specula tions in Ireland, so as thoroughly to employ our labour ing population. He must impose a tax, a reasonable tax, upon the absentees, for charitable purposes in Ire land. In fine, he must make Ireland what she ought to be. As for the late Ministry, I have no feelings but g those of contempt and i n di gnat i on , when I think of their incalculable follies in re and to Ireland. " They remind me uf the well-known li n es of the ancient dramatist,' in reference to the uninformed and aboriginal inhabitants of this terrestrial globe : They saw, indeed, and heard. But what to them availed Or sight, or sense, or h ear i ng ? a ll things rolling, Like the unreal i magery o f d rea ms, in wild confusion tossed.' " With best wishes to your father, whose health I am happy to hear is as firm as ever, believe me, my dear O'Connell, very faithfully yours, " PIERCE SOMERSET BUTLER. " John O'Connell, Esq., 311 "." Having moved the insertion of the letter on the minutes, he observed that it was horrible to think of the dreadful assassinations alluded to in the letter he had just read, which were of daily occurrence in various parts of the country. He had no hesitation in saying that Divine Providence would continue to afflict the people of this country and perpetuate their miseries in just punishment of these atrocious crimes. It was the duty of that As sociation to cry out against the perpetrators of these horrible crimes : they had done so frequently ; there was not, in fact, an engine in their hands that was not put in motion to prevent these atrocities, and it was, therefore, rather unjust in his honourable friend to make the charges he had preferred against them. On no sub ject had the Association exerted itself more than in en deavouring to repress crime ; and, if the Hon. Gentle man had attended its meetings, he would have seen that such was the fact. He was sure Mr. Butler had no in• tention of harking-in with the cry of the magistrates of Tipperary and Westmeath, who called out for a Coercion Act because of the crimes of a few individuals. He was happy to say t hese ma g istra tes had received a very decided slap i n the face ev en from the late Government, the e gentleman sent d own to i nqu i re into the special commissions (prayed for in necessity a s of their memorial), had asserted that there was no such necessity. It would in his (Mr. O'Connell's) opinion tend materially to the p reservation of the peace if the dismissed magistrates , in whom the p e ople had such im plicit confidence, were restored to their commissions. If Lord John Russell had been able to carry on the Go vernment of the country there could be no doubt but he would have done so. THE CRISIS. Mr. O'CoNNBLL having moved the adoption of the report said he was anxious to address a few words to the meeting on the subject of the crisis at which they bar, arrived. They were in a strange state of puzzle. Sir Robert Peel was. Minister ten days ago—Lord' John Russell had become Minister in the interval, and he believed he was correct in saying that there was no Minister at that moment. That was the state of England. He did not consider that the Tories would, in all probability, be able to form an Administration. They could assuredly have no con fidence in Sir Robert Peel—they had declared that fact loudly and bitterly—they could have no reliance on him. It should likewise be remembered that they (the Irish) could have no confidence in him. Last week he was a Leaguer, this week he may be a Protectionist, next week he may be for something modified ; and lie was so much attached to a sliding scale, that lie might get on a sliding scale himself, and slip through their fingers.— (Laughter.) They were placed in a curious position. They had no Government, and no person could precisely tell why. They could not tell why the Whigs did not form an Administration —they could not tell why the Tories ceased to be a Government.—(Laughter.) All they knew was that both Whigs and Tories had quarrelled amongst themselves, and that they agreed upon nothing but to differ. — (Laughter.) There was only one point on which they were perfectly unanimous, and that was to differ among themselves.—(Laughter.) What was all that to Ireland? that was the real question to consider. The present crisis was most beneficial to Ireland—it raised their expectations—it gave them the certainty of success, if they were true to themselves and to their country.—(Cheers.) What cared they for Whigs or Tories ?—(Cheers.) Their cause was the cause of Ireland—they were on a majestic march to na tionality, and the changes and shiftings of Administra tions only exhibited the throes and struggles of that species of political tyranny that would debase them, di viding and separating them from each other. The pre- sent was the time to rally together—every man should be a repealer now—(Cheers.) On that day week he had expressed his concurrence in the sentiments expressed in the letter of Mr. Smith O'Brien. That patriotic gen tleman called emphatically for a " shout for repeal, and Ino compromise." And he (Mr. O'Connell) re peated his words, and added to them " repeal and no compromise"—(Cheers.) No matter who was Mi nister, nothing should ever be able to divert them from the pursuit of their object. Last week he had expressed his intention of supporting Lord John Russell on the subject of the corn-laws ; he had promised to attend constantly during the debates on the corn question, and that he would use his influence with the Irish Mem bers to attend likewise—that he would vote, and that, he would induce his friends to vote in every division with Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright—(Loud cheers.) He had no great liking . for Sir Robert Peel ; he knew what kind of a trickster he was, but still he would he equally ready to support him if he would imdertake to make food plentiful and give cheep bread to the people.—(Cheers.) But, while he said that he would not hesitate to do ample justice to Lord John Russell. That Noble Lord had placed himself in a per manent station of the highest order.—(Hear, and cheers.) Whatever his conduct as a Whig might have been, it was impossible to contemplate his conduct and mode of acting with regard to the corn-laws without feeling a veneration for his person and concurrence in his opinions.—(Cheers.) Lord John Russell had behaved admirably on that occasion, and he would go with him so far as he behaved himself, and not one inch further. He (Lord J. Russell) had pledged himself to a fixed duty and against a total repeal of the corn-laws; but he found that famine was approaching in England, that distress was increasing in the agricultural districts: he saw at once that the amount of wages paid in the manu facturing districts would diminish; he beheld great want in England, and he perceived that in Ireland we were approaching to a famine, and consequently, pestilence ; he did not allow the fear of being taunted with incon sistency to retard him in his career—he abandoned, and manfully threw up his former opinions when he arrived at the conclusion that they were wrong, and adopted opinions favourable to the health and prosperity of the people of both countries.--(Loud cheers.) A VoioE—More power to him.—(Cheers.) _ Mr. O'CONNELL—More power to him.—(Loud cheers.) But he wished it to be understood that he was not justi fying any other act of his. He was not justifying the con duct of the Whigs, or speaking in their praise as a party; but he apoke in honest commendation of their leader. He was vindicating the ancient fame of his family, which had given many martyrs to liberty, and produced many friends to the constitutional freedom of this country.—(Loud cheers.) He therefore loudly and distinctly applauded the recent conduct of Lord John Russell, but he would not the less vote with Sir Robert Peel, if Sir Robert Peel declared in favour of the abolition of the corn-laws. The lion. Gentleman, having proceeded at considerable length to point out the means by which he considered the repeal cause might be advanced, then observed that this plan at present was to get rid of the corn-laws, and by that means put a stop to the famine and consequent destruc tion of the Irish people. He would give no preference to Whig over Tory, or Tory over Whig —if ever he had given a party vote he would never do so again, nor would he ever vote for any measure except that hich he considered beneficial to his country. In conclusion, he gave notice that he would, on the next day of meeting, call upon the repeal members to assemble together, and determine upon what line of conduct they ought to pursue under existing circumstances. In his opinion there would be further changes before an Administration would be formed. Mr. GRATTAN, M.P., having addressed the meeting, the rent for the week was announced to be 2181. 18s. 2d. The meeting then adjourned. ATTEMPT TO MURDER GEORGE READE, ESQ. The Carlow Sentinel contains the following :—" We learn from a respectable correspondent, that a desperate attempt was made on Monday night last, about nine o'clock, to assassinate George Reade, Esq., of D u nees hal, near Carnew, county Wicklow, or rather on the bounds of that and the connty Wex ford. The particulars of this dreadful attempt to assassinate a respectable gentleman as com municated to us upon unquestionable authority, are as follows :—Mr. Reade had dined with a friend who re sides in his immediate neighbourhood, Mr. Sawn, of Tombrain, and on his return home at the above hour, he stopped midway between Tombrain and his own resi dence, at a stream which crossed the road, to water his horse, when a man leaped over the ditch, presented a pistol within a yard of his person and fired, but without effect. The villain then stood to see whether his in tended victim had fallen, and while in that position, Mr. Reade had full opportunity of identifying him as a work man and tenant of his own, named Ronayne, who, find ing the shot had not succeeded, turned round and fled through a fox cover. Mr. Reade returned back to Mr. Swan's and rode without delay into Carnew, and calling out the constabulary, they proceeded in pursuit of Ronayne, whom they arrested in his bed. His shoes were fitted to the tracks found on the spot by the police, and were found to correspond precisely. Being fully identified by Mr. Reade, who was thus providentially spared to his family, Ronayne was committed to Wex ford gaol on Tuesday, to abide bis trial at the ensuing assizes." The following additional particulars are given by the Wexford Independent :—" We are informed that the cause of this horrid attempt was, that Mr. Reade had, on Monday, refused to give stang or quarter land to the man in question, as he was giving it to other men in his employment. The reason he assigned for his refusal was, that the man had an improvident family, and he had found it requisite, a few months before, to forgive him ten or twelve pounds. At that time he decided on paying his wages weekly, and did so thenceforward. such were the reasons which Mr. Reade himself assigned to the man for refusing to give him the quarter land. As the unhappy individual is now in custody, we forbear from further observation. We have reason to hope, however, and indeed to believe, that there was not a second person in any manner concerned in the dreadful design, nor aware of it. Mr. Reade has nearly fifty persons in his employment, as be occupies about seven hundred acres of land, a great part of which is under tillage. It would be a severe los s t o th e severa l p oor f am ili es th us sup plied with the means of supporting themselves, that the life of their employer should be madly or wickedly taken away. We are sincerely rejoiced that he has escaped without injury ; and, next to this, we feel pleasure in believing that no other individual in his employment, or residing in his neighbourhood, had any part in the nefa rious intention to terminate his existence." RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Dxc. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The salee are—Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, New Shares, 2 p.—Derby and Crewe, 2% p.— Grand Junction, 242—Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 33 1 4 p. —Goole and Doncaster, 2s. dis.—Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 20s. dis. —Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 10% p.— North Staffordshire, 2 3 % p.—North Wales Mineral, New Shares, 3 1 ,' ! —Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, W I . p.—Somersetshire Midland, 1% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, Consolidated Thirds, 2% p.—Ditto, Half Shares, 12s. 6d. p.—Tean and Dove Valley, 7s. 6d. dis.—Dutch Rhenish, 2%. MANCHESTER, Die. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Clitheroe Junction, 23'--Coventry and Leicester, I%—Eastern Counties, New, 12/.l6s.—East Lancashire, No. 2, 8 3 4—Huddersfield, Hali fax, aid Bradford, 5/. 12s. c.—Lancashire and North York shire, 43s.—Leicester and Bedford, 22s.—Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 1% Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 33/4—Man chester and Birmingham, Quarters, 11—Ditto, ditto, 9 Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junc tion, 7 8 -Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 111%—Manchester and Southampton 2 %—North Staffordshire, 5/. Os. 9d.— Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 37s.—South-Eastern and Dover, Consolidated No. 3, Halves, 3—West Riding Union, 5/. 14s. 6d.—Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester, 2—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 2,434. HULL, DEC. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The news this morning from the Lon don market has rather tended to revive the drooping spirits of holders here, and consequently there is rather less disposi tion to sell. Reports about the irregular deposit of plans, &c., as also the incorrectness of many deposited, render tran sactions in scrip of projected lines not only difficult but dan gerous. The sales are—North British (Carlisle), VA-- Grand Union, par—South and Midland Junction, 255. YORK, DEC. 23. STOCK Excnaxon—The sales are—York and North Mid land Extension, 27—Newcastle and Berwick, 11 3 / 4 —London and York, 3 3 / 4 —Grand Union, 1X —Welsh Midland, 1 3 / 4 . BRISTOL, 132 c. 23. STOCK EXCITANGE.—The only sale was—Bristol and Exeter. New, 7%. THE MINISTERIAL. CRISIS. (From the Times.) Sir Robert Peel is Minister again, and the nation is re-assured. The funds at least rise, and manufacturers feel a little more encouragement to add to their stocks. The test may be vulgar, but there is no other. unhappily for the sublimer class of politicians, there exists no scala by which we can measure the aggregate fluctuations of the moral susceptibilities. Were it possible for people to lend their consistency at 3,;- per cent., and realise their romance in Exchequer -bills —were there a consoli dated st ck for all the virtues, and a suitable secu rity for good taste—we might then, perhaps, have to record a decided depression in this branch of the funds at the present conclusion of the " Ministerial crisis." In the absence of such a standard, we have no alternative but to enter the money market and feel the pulse of the capitalist. Last week that pulse was low, weak, and irregular, denoting a general collapse of the vital powers, a congestion of blood to the vital organs, end consequent desertion of the extremities. Sir Ro bert Peel returns, and a reaction ensues. He braces the system like a tonic—like other tonics, rather bitter and not very nice—port wine seasoned with bark, perhaps, such as certain commissioners have recommended for pauper ague. There certainly is an universal impres sion that Sir Robert Peel is the man to carry this mea sore. No other man can do it so easily and so inoffen sively. No other statesman can boast so strong a posi tion. He is the Hercules who alone can force the gates of trade, and open ti our commercial navy the wealth of Fortunate islands and Atlantic shores. The manifold anomalies that are centred in his person, give him the key to many classes and influences, which no other man can command. He is the very type of our mixed and motley state. By birth and inward sympathies a manu facturer, by education and connexion an aristocrat, he wanders through many phases of change, but attains a sort of unity of returning to the creed of his fathers and his native soil. The text of free trade was among the first that he heard, and through his whole life it has rung in his ears, though ever so stifled by the clamours of party and the whispers, perhaps, of privsteembition. " Quo setae' est imbuta recens, servabit odorem Testa diu." It is just thirty years since old Sir Robert Peel de nounced with the most enlightened sagacity and the deepest indignation the fatal measure of 1815, foretelling its blighting effects on the trade, the labour, and the wealth of the country, and on the landowner himself not the least of all. A generation passed, and his son happily lives to follow up the tradition of his father. His mea sure once resolved on, Sir Robert Peel needs all the de termination he can muster, and all the support he can receive. 'We know now both our measure and our man, and it is a very dilatory and superfluous wisdom to occupy oneself in retrospective meditations on the course of the present actual promoter. A hundred converging causes make Sir Robert Peel a free trade Minister. Fit or unfit, there is now no help for it. We must swallow our congruities, bow to necessity, and give our allegiance to the de facto repealer of the corn-laws. A task of incal culable difficulty lies upon him. He has to overcome in one way or another—we had almost said by fair means or by foul—the inveterate prejudice of the ignorant, the dogged pride of the exclusive, and the desperate selfish ness of those who imegine themselves the interested classes; and for this arduous task he demands, and very reasonably claims thus far, the assistance of every man who affects to wish well to his present cause. In fact, it is a very rough piece of work that is to be done, and whoever undertakes it must put into it all his strength. He must be prepared for trials and sacrifices, without which nothing really great ever was, or ever will be, accomplisheed. Even the lesser changes of the last twenty years have not been without frightful strug gles. Putting out of question their wisdom or necessity, they are not to be compared with that now in progress for the magnitude and extent of their operation. The Roman Catholic Relief Bill brought into Parliament a few dozen noblemen and gentlemen of that communion. The Reform Bill disfranchised a few hundreds, and en franchised as many thousands. The other chief mea sures of the period were of still less compass and signi ficance. The repeal of the corn-laws affects every one that eats and every one that produces bread, and every one who can do either of these things—in other words, the whole human race. It promises, and will most as suredly give to every civilised man increased facilities of employment and subsistence. It will put a nation which is the wealthiest, the most mercantile, the most in genious, the most adventurous, and the most philan thropical in the whole world, into immediate, free, and open communication with every race that is civilised enough to till the ground for food. It will bring all na tions to the best customer and the best producer of them all. It will make the ports of Britain the ports of the world. Is it, then, according to the analogy of human affairs that so mighty and universal a development should be so easily achieved? We are almost afraid to ask whether it is according to that analogy that it should be achieved by ordinary statesmen. The aristocracy evidently betray a misgiving that it is not to be so achieved. It. was neither any assignable doubt of the measure, nor any definite want of confidence in their political powers, which broke up the late Whig junta. They were altogether out of heart. They felt no call. They could not embrace the occasion. A personal an tipathy, a pique, a jealousy, began the flaw, which spread like lightning through the whole fragile combina tion, and with the loss of one member, the whole fell to pieces. It is impossible not to suspect a zeal which allows itself to be so easily baffled. The Whigs are, after all, recent converts; are they sincere? Something unexplained hampers the movements of men who were once free as air and bold as lions. Is it a lingering fear that the risk of the measure is their own? The men who helped to cancel theological test, and scheduled away rotten boroughs ; who made corporations popular, and alms-houses gaols, are staggered at a change which embraces the world in its benevolence. It was pos sible to corrupt or to threaten the British aristocracy into the degradation of the Church, the disappointment of a few boroughmongers, the ousting of mayors and aldermen, and the insult and persecution of the poor. Touch their rents, or seem to do so, and it is a more diffi cult affair. The change comes home. We must expect that such of the landowners as cannot understand or feel sure of the beneficial results to flow from the change will feel themselves under a tremendous necessity to re sist it almost unto death. Self-preservation, not mere interest, will goad them on. A large portion of our landowners are only the nominal proprietors of their estates. Extravagance, either their own or their pre decessors', or perhaps the absurd ambition of increas ing their rent-roll at the expense of their income, presses them to the earth with mortgages, the interest of which is barely covered by the rental. What they can truly call their own is only the little surplus that remains n hen the money lender has been satisfied. Their actual rent, therefore, consists in the difference between a high and low-pitched rental. Should, for example, the gross rent be reduced by a third or a quarter, their own differential rent is utterly destroyed. They are there fore in the position of a rash and needy speculator, who makes a time bargain far beyond his means in the confidence of corn maintaining its price. Settling day comes. Corn has fallen only a few shillings a quar ter, but the speculator, whose stake consisted in that difference, is ruined. Too many of the landowners imagine they foresee a settling-day in the abolition of the corn laws ; their actual rent being, as they imagine, a certain artificial excess over a more natural rent. Repeal the corn laws, and this margin disappears, and with it all their income. They who are in this anxious position, with mental faculties in keeping with it, will fight as for life itself against a repeal. It will present itself to their imaginations as a risk so horrible as to overpower the judgment. Some already talk of throwing up their es tates altogether, and renouncing the British soil. They have reason for that threat. Reduce rents but a little, and their estates are no longer their own. They have less than nothing. It is not surprising that they should be incapable of a rational inquiry, and should immediately prepare for the most des perate resistance. But this is not the only stumbling block to aristocratical enthusiasm. The rough work which the people have cut out for them demands rough and ready instruments. Could it be done by paper and red tape—might it descend from Heaven, or spring out of the ground—were it simply a matter for speeches and divisions, with perhaps a few gentle ebullitions of popu lar triumph when the work was fairly out of hand—the most fastidious taste would not quarrel with it. It is found, however, to be a far severer task than suits the declining energies, the sobered enthusiasm, and, per haps, the satisfied ambition, of statesmen who are long in their standing, old in their ways, and formed in the views, with much to lose, and nothing to gain. It can not be done without turmoil and, perhaps, immediate expense ; nor can it be done without some rather dis tasteful additions to the old staff. The monopoly of Government and the monopoly of trade are perilled to gether. Adopt the principles, and you admit the per sons of the new system. Mere shame, apart from the obvious necessities of the case, will not allow a handful of late, and perhaps not very cordial, converts taking to themselves the work of other and truer men. Such are the difficulties, and such possibly the scruples, felt by some of those in whose hands this arduous task is now left. We can only recommend them, if they entertain the smallest doubt as to their own determination or power, to give place as soon as possible to those who may be found more able and willing. BEXLEY AND CRAYFORD SOCIETY FOR THE PRO MOTION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. - On Tuesday evening last a lecture was delivered to the members and friends of this society, at the Infant's National School-room, Bexley heath, by Mr. Charles Mackie, "On the Five Senses." The Subjects were treated of in a most interesting manner, and afforded much instruction and the highest satisfaction to a numerous and highly-respectable audience. At the conclu sion of the lecture the Rev. A. C. Langdale moved a vote of thanks to the lecturer, and also to Mr. Henry Davids, the respected secretary to the society, which were severally and unanimously responded to. Mr. Mackie then said, that in consequence of the very flattering reception he had met with from the officers of the institution, he should be most happy to deliver a lecture gratuitously to the members of the society at such time as would suit their convenience. The announcement was received with much approbation. A lecture will be delivered early in January by the Rev. A. C. Langdale, on electricity.—Kentish Independent. The season for grouse shooting terminated on Wednesday. Birds have been very plentiful with the game dealers, and at lower prices than usual, but the weather has generally been unfavourable for the majority of sportsmen on the moors.—Durham Advertiser. PUBLICATIONV. Just published, price 2s. 6d., a; UNCITS POCKET-BOOK for 1846, _ Illustrated with a Coloured Frontispiece and Etchings , by LE EC 11. I London : Published at the " Punch" 011 ice, No. 92, Fleet-street. Just Published, complete in One Volume, price 55., Illustrated by GEORGE CRUIKSPIANK, T HE COMIC BLACKSTONE. By GILBERT ABBOTT a BECKETT. This work contains all the Four Parts of the Commentaries ; but the Second, Third, and Fourth will be sold together, price 3s. 6d., for the convenience of the purchasers of Part I. London : Published at the Punch Office, 92, Fleet-street. MASONIC ANNUAL, THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY RE VIEW for JANUARY completes the Annual for 1845, and contains a Leading Article on the Exclusion of llebrew Masons from Prussian Lodges—Earl of Zetland's Address—Rejection of Motion for Pension to Widows—The Grans' Lodge—Bishop ofAutigua's Support of Masonry—Marshal Soult's Letter to Colonels of Regiments—Death of Brother Ramsbottom, M.P.—The Asylum, &c., &c. Price as. Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 23, Paternoster-row. SHEFFIELD, Die. 23. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The safes are—Grimsbv and Shef field, 9% —Grimsby Extension, I ls. p.—North Western, 2% —Wakefield and Ifarrosate, 1/. Bs. 6d. _ _ GLASGOW, Dcc. 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 35s.—Caledonian, New, 10s. p.—Caledonian Ex tension, 58s.—Caledonian and Ayrshire Junction, 395. Dundee and Perth, 8/....East Indian Railway, 18s.—Edin burgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 16s.—Edinburgh and Northern, 725. 6d.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 40a. —Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 65s.—Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 39s.—Great North and South Wales, 12s. 6d.—Scottish Central, 131.—South Midland, 85s.— Stirling and Dumfermline, 425. 6d. • " I "INCENDIARISM.—Yesterday the metropolitan and city police received information that the outbuildings of Mr. Samuel Kilborn, farmer, of Desborough, Northamptonshire, had been set on fire by some vile incendiary, and a barley rick, a pea stack, a bean hovel, a quantity of straw, a waggon, and several valuable agricultural implements were entirely destroyed. SHAME.—A letter from Naples says, " The Em peror of Russia is expected here. The beggars and pick pockets are all in prison, to be carefully kept there till his visit is over." Perhaps it is well enough to imprison the beggars ; but we do not see why the thieves should be denied a sight of their Imperial brother—the pickpocket of Poland.-. Punch. NEW ZEALAND. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The fol!owing account of the actual state of this de voted islu:nd - may be depended upon. The writer is talen!ecl gentleman, with much i n d us t r y, an d h as a w ife and eight children totally dependent on his single exer tions. Every word he has uttered is truth. The Direc tors of the Company must rejoice at the departure from office of the troop under Lord Stanley, in a firm belief that their successors will do quickly what Lord Stanley has [dell/ most unwillingly promised. There never was a colony so cruelly used or neglected, and the sooner the Directors of the Company and the relatives of those unfortunates who went out under the protection (as they believed) of en honest Government, SPEAR OUT-AND IN LANGUAGE NOT TO BE MISUNDERSTOOD - THE BETTER. It is cruel—it is barbarous—so long to have left them unheeded and unprotected, there to remain the victims of the fearful misrule of the late Governor. Extract of a letter from Motucka, Nelson, Yet , : Zea land, May 30, 1845 : " I should, indeed, under present circumstances, be very cautious how I induced any one to come out to New Zealand—not that my opinion of its climate, snit, or capabilities is in the smallest degree altered; neither do I see any reason to change the opinion I they formed of the evils which were likely to result from the mal-administration of the Company's affairs, the defects of their.original plan, and the continued hostility of our local government. And yet I am one of the most hopeful in our little community. I believe that we shall eventually succeed, and that in the face of circumstances discouraging in no ordinary degree. No vessel leaves our port without taking away some of our colonists—the last, I am told, taking thir teen families in' the steerage ; and of the educated class, out of about fir'y, ten were enumerated to me lately as making preparations for leaving. The effects of the original deceit become more and more palpable, and as in all such cases, sooner or later, are now recoiling on its authors. They asserted a body of capitalists were prepared to go out to found this settlement of Nelson. Not one ever came out. They arranged a scheme of 1,100 sections of land, and found a place , with barely 500, so that one-half their purchasers must draw a blank, or, what is equivalent, lend not worth the expewe if cultivation. If this settlement is to prosper, it must be by the representations of actual colonists to their English friends. Now I will venture to assert that not one person can be found here to advise a friend to put his hand in the ballot-box; and the New Zealand Com pany itself, if it wishes to preserve any reputation for honesty or fair dealing, cannot allow any one to do so after the strong statements which have been forwarded to it from here. But I much doubt if the Directors will have the opportunity. The late events at the Bay of Islands (of which, when you have read the accounts in the Nelson Examiner, on the files of the New Zealand Company's house, you will know as much as we do here), although three hundred miles off, will deter all from venturing to so unsettled a country, *here Go 'erament tells colonists only thirteen miles from the capital. Auckland, that they are out of the pale of protection. And here again the chalice is returned to their own lips. A Governor sent out to rule 8,000 or 9,000 Englishmen, fixes his seat of government 300 miles off, where the land is already sufficiently occupied by native tribes, most of whom, by presents and mis sionary persuasions, he induces to sign a treaty making them subjects of Great Britain. He believes he can govern these half-civilised, half-converted savages by moral influence alone, without any physical force to beefs him. He dies, and his successor, imbued with the same ideas, as well as conscious of his own inability to enforce compliance with his orders, begins by slurring over the murders at the \Vairau, allows all individual acts of native aggression, robbery, and violence, to go unpunished, and drawing the greater part of his revenue from the Com pany's settlements, tells them en masse they are inter lopers and trespassers, and if they dare to resist native aggression will do so at their peril. But his Maori sub jects begin to be troublesome. They say they did not understand that in signing a treaty they were to pay more for their flour, sugar, and tobacco than formerly; and, lo ! the Governor abolishes the customs. They next complain that the treaty does them an injury in preventing them from disposing of their lands to whom soever they please; and again an ordinance is passed allow ing all teen to buy of them on payment of one penny per acre. Nothing now remained but the mere shadow of allegiance, and accordingly some who did not sign the treaty very logically refused to be bound by its provi sions, and cut down the British flag, once, twice, and a third time, on the last occasion being joined by another party, who, after a sharp fight, enter, sack, and burn the settlement of Russell. They now threaten Auckland, which has already as a settlement for peaceable people received its coup de grace, and without a very strong military force and much bloodshed will not, in my opinion, exist a twelvemonth hence. Welling ten has its own troubles. The natives refuse to leave the lands for which they had been paid over and over again, in the hope of still more ; the settlers are, so to speak, penned up in the town, and how they get on at all is a mystery. Here, at Nelson, we have got on our lands, and the Maoris are too few to annoy us ; and we feel only the moral effects of these distant commo ti ons , being, as it app ears , overlooked by our Governor, who has never visited us since his arrival, 18 months ago; so that the cause of our standing still must be looked for elsewhere. I believe them to lie mainly in the particulars I have already enumerated. Take my own case, for example. The scheme talks of concentration and its consequent advantages of mutual aid, protection, and society. I have one neigh bour half a mile off, and one only. The land around is ex cellent, but silent and waste; several settlers wculd wil lingly have set down beside me, but cannot; before and behind me are native reserves, and on each side unsold allotments, which may remain so my lifetime. How, then, can I ask any one to join me? You will gather from this account that the agency of your land is merely nominal, and that, with the exception of your town acres, you have no title yet given you fir a single foot of ground in New Zealand. Your land at Ma nawatu for years to come will be useless ; that in the Hutt, leading to an extensive inland valley, the Wairarapa, will be valuable as soon as the natives are brought into subjection. Selling or exchanging your land for wood is at present out of the question, even your Hutt land, and as to that at Manawatu, the Com - pany not being able to give possession, is, I fancy, bound to return the purchase -money." THE ARMY. COURTS-MARTIAL. CIRCULAR ON THE RETURNS OF COURTS-MARTIAL. It having been deemed expedient to discontinue the detailed half-yearly returns of courts-martial hitherto required from regiments and depots, from the Ist Jan. next, I have it in command to notify the same to you, and to call your attention specially to the following instructions, rendered necessary in order that the series of records preserved in this department may be continued uninterrupted by the proposed arrangement:— "Horse Guards, Dec. 6, 1845. " The inner sheets, containing the entries of courts martial up to the 31st instant only, are to accompany the summaries furnished at the first half-yearly inspection after the receipt of this order. Subsequently to that inspection, general officers are to forward, with their confidential reports, the summaries (without the inner sheets), and the 'general abstract of the summaries, &c.,' filled up as at present. " The size of the monthly return of courts-martial has been somewhat reduced, and the form slightly altered. As the return will be bound up and preserved as a record in the Adjutant-General's office, commanding officers of regiments and depots are strictly enjoined not to allow the slightest deviation therefrom in any par ticular, and after the Ist of January, 1846, no other form of return is to be used. " The greatest attention is to be bestowed on the preparation of this return, and previously to its trans mission it must be carefully examined, and if necessary, corrected by the general officer, who will make such re marks as be may deem fit in the column set apart for that purpose. "As this new form will not reach regiments at many of the stations abroad in sufficient time to be used for the month of January, 1846, commanding officers, not withstanding they may have already forwarded returns of the old.form, are to prepare others of the new one for as many months as the old ones may have been for warded, commencing with the above month, and transmit them to the Adjutant-General. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your very obedient humble servant, (Signed) " JOHN MACDONALD, Adjutant-General." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MAXCIIESTER, TUESDAY EVENING.—Very few subscribers present ; nothing done. SCARCITY or GRAIN IN INDIA.—The price of grain has again risen in the Calcutta market. Immediately after the recent inundations the prices had become extremely ex orbitant. Some days after the traffic in rice for exportation was suspended, but has since been resumed, and the people sow are obliged to pay for the balam rice which they eat, at a rupee and 14 amiss per maund, while there is every pros pect of further increase in the price to 2 or 2* rupees per maund. The price of grain has likewise been enhanced. It cannot be procured under a rupee and 10 annas per maund. Other articles, especially those adapted for exportation, have risen in price. It is difficult to say to what extent suffering and distress may be prevalent among the humbler claws. But still the fall of rain in the commencement of Kartick re vived the hopes of good crops. To what, then, is to be ascribed this scarcity of grain in the markets P—Calcutta Bhashur, Nov. 4. ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT DEVORPORT.— The Devonport Independent says that one of the largest meetings that ever took place at Devonport, assembled within the walls of the Town-hall on Thursday even ing, for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning her most gracious Majesty that the ports of the country may be thrown open for the free impor tation of corn and every article of food. The requisition to the Mayor to convene the meeting was signed by upwards of 1,200 of th e mos t respec t a bl e o f the inhabitants, com prising Whig, Radical, and Conservative, showing the great interest taken in a question of such importance to the future comforts, nay, existence of millions of our fellow-subjects in this country and in Ireland. The Mayor took the chair at seven o'clock, and a petition in favour of opening the ports was agreed to with enthusiasm. Mr. Hutchinson, of Trinity College, Cambridge, was received into the Roman Catholic Church, at Birming ham, on Sunday last. We understand that above thirty of the late parishioners of the Rev. Marshall, of Swallowciffe, Wilts, have, together with their pastor, conformed to the Church of Rome. Mr. Oakeley, late Fellow of Balliol Col. lege, has entered as a student in Theology at St. Edmund'a College, Hertfordshire, under Dr. Griffiths, Vicar Apostolic f the London District. Viscount and Viscountess Villiers and the Hon. Miss Villiers arrived in town on Monday, from Upton House, Warwickshire, and yesterday went to Worthing, for the ad vantage of the sea air, her adyship being extremely delicate after her recent severe illness. _ _ _ Viscount Morpeth has left Grosvenor-place for Castle Howard. • 4 . .y. i ifirS 111, till) F. 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