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RAYESEND S T A R PACKET& FIIRTUER REDUCTION OF FARES SLIPBNCE AND NINEP/ONCE, and Blackwall Railway included. blily s ways in the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwell, Four, included) at Ten, Eleven Twelve, Three, Six, and Seven if From the Terrace Pier, Gravesend , '"von, half-past Nine, Two, Four, Five, Six, and Seven. 4 4 _ 4 On Sundays at Eight and One instead of Two. Pure Cabin and Secorrl-class Carriage, Sixpence; Saloon and Itce First-class Carriage, Ninepence. co, Gravesend, Aug. 28, 1844. (Abridged from the Worcestershire Chronicle.) Spite of the untoward result of the recent election at Dudley, the spirit of Liberalism, though damped by adverse circumstances, is rather revived than ex tinguished there. The exciting intelligence that O'Connell was once more free, liberated too, in part, by the voice of a peer who formerly represented the electors in Parliament, awakened anew the popular enthusiasm, and it was at once determined to cele brate the event, fraught with so much importance to the cause of freedom, by a dinner, and thus to Dudley belongs the honour of having been the first town in England to express its sympathy with Ire land's champion. The dinner took place at the Swan Inn, on Tues day. The Rev. J. Palmer filled the chair, and Mr. Thomas Lester, officiated as Vice-president. Amongst the company present we noticed Messrs. W. IL Brook, Thomas Hill, William Fletcher, Edward Grainger, T. Wood, William Wood, and other lead ing Reformers of Dudley, Thomas Hair, Esq., and Mr. T. 0. Dadswell, of Kidderminster, besides se veral other friends of the cause from a codsiderable distance. Upwards of a hundred sat down to dinner. A handsome banner was suspended from the front window of the hotel, bearing on one.side the inscrip tion—" Justice to Ireland—O'Connell triumphant ;" and on the obverse—" Lords Denman, Cottenham, and Campbell for ever." The room was suitably de corated with a number of appropriate sentiments, evergreens, &c. Amongst the toasts of the evening which called forth much eloquence, after those loyal toasts which Britons always drink with true enthu siasm, were—" The People," and " Justice to Ire land." The meeting was in fact enthusiastic in ex pressing its sympathy with the Irish ; and though the first, is not the last, nor the greatest meeting in England at which such feelings will be expressed. now. No. 16,255. LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING SUN, SEPTEMBER 21, 1844. PRICE sd. THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, in Time for the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Hour• rEAST INDIA HOUSE, SNPTEMBER 18, 1344. tIE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice, Pir 4! the QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said COM ' aPPoluted to be held at their House, in Leadenhall-street, on ki tt , Nll sDay, the 25th instant, is made special for the purpose of sub -8,;Ito the Proprietors of East India Stock for Confirmation, the qatution of the General Court of this day approving the Resolution 4p h e Court Tho of Directors, of the 21st of August last, gran an an- "f One usand Pounds (1,0001.) to SirMWor-Genera William 4 t.(1 •- •—r upon the grounds therein stated. J. D. DICKINSON, 'Deputy Secretary...... ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. goods and passengers are most exorbitant and unequal, and much higher than the charges of any other railway. " 4. That for the interest of the proprietors one-third only of the fares and charges now exacted should in future be received for the conveyance of goods and passengers. " 5. That all the fares and charges of the London and South-Western Railway should be at a certain rale per mile. Now there are many gross discrepancies in the charge made—fur instance, 11 miles by the slow train, Bd.; 22 miles per same train, 2s. 4d.; and this is only one from among many such unequal charges. This is very fair, very equitable, very wise, and vastly clever ! " 6. The charge of 3i. per cwt. forextraluggage of the passengers (whether for a short or a long distance) is very moderate indeed—only the price charged fur the conveyance of goods from London to Calcutta. No more. _ THE HEPTAPRIEMION FINE ART DISTRIBUTION. Mrs. PARKES begs to inform the Public that, by the advice of her Friends, and for the satisfaction of the Subscribers, she has hilly authorised a COMMITTEE of GENTLEMEN to act for her in the General Management of her present scheme. The Public will be assured thereby of its being carried to successful termination on the 30th instant. At a Meeting of the said Committee, held at 22, Golden-square, this day, WILLIAM UPCOTT, Esq., in the Chair, it was resolved to publish the following Address: The COMMITTEE of the HEPTIPILEMION LOTTERY for the management of Mrs. PARKES'S Grand Scheme hereby give notice, that they have consented to act for her interest, and as a guarantee to the Public for its due fulfilment according to the Pro spectus as before published. They earnestly request all Persons intending to subscribe to take Tickets immediately of her Agents, or at 22, Golden-square, where these celebrated Prizes of the BOWYER GALLERY are to be seen daily, and where descriptive Catalogues and Prospectuses are to be obtained. The Committee particularly recommend the Subscribers to defer their selection of Engravings, to which the Tickets entitle than, until after the drawing, for the purpose of being enabled to choose from a larger number of ilnely-executed Plates than those already announced is the Prospectus. The Lottery must be drawn on the 30th instant, as that is the last day allowed by Act of Parliament. (Signed) September 11, 1844 half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee. T. FEW* omnibus driver, Green-street, Paddington- Ween, Oct. 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. hitmore, official assignee. S. Carroll, jun., medical student, Windsor-court, Markwell-street, Oct. 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Alsager, official assignee. B. Perry, stonemason, Fulham, Oct. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee. C. Primrose, lieutenant 36th Regiment of Foot, Tillot son-place, Waterloo-road, Oct. 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee. R. Wilson, Church-street, Bethnal green, Oct. 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official REPORT OF THE WEATHER, FOR THE YEARS 1845 AND 1846. In Mr. Mackenzie's Report of the Weather for the ensuing two years, with an early copy of which we are supplied by that gentleman, he observes :—" The year 1844 may now be numbered among the things that were; the year came out perfectly agreeable to the description given of it in the reports for 1841, 1842, and 1843—the repeated announcements being made in advance, on account of the extraordinary fine weather expected on this memorable year. A similar reason prompts the present notice—first, for the year 1845, on account of its general favourable character ; and secondly, for the year 1846, which is published a year earlier than usual, because of the windy charac ter of that year, eFpecially of the autumn quarter."l In the report for the year 1843, published by Mr. Mackenzie, at Perth, in the month of March, 1842, he anticipated the year just closing in the following words :—" Let one and all endeavour to live and see EAST INDIA HOUSE, SEPT. 18, 1844. TIIE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST That INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice , bath e a PROPRIETOR of the EAST INDIA STOCK has p ost p oned held QUARTERLY COURT of the said COMPA NY, a pp ointed 15% " ,1, 1 at their House in Leadenhall - street , on WED NESDAY, the ~ the Motion of which he had previously given notice , viz.:— That M the Dispatch of Lord Auckland, of the 17th November, to - 71 11 Which his Lordship rejected the proposed plan of the Bengal ti,,nunent, and recommended the annual money payment of 147 to the Temple of Juggernaut (to which recommendation the n et °rs assented, by their Dispatch of June 2, 1840), be considered ke iit e Court of Proprietors on motion for abrogating such money pay *vEr L 4 Pon the ground of no original pledge or engagement having etr"' ,ls given for the same, by, or on behalf of, this Company, as '.TraSIY alleged by Lord Auckland in his Dispatch." a PROPRIETOR has given notice, that at the said QU ,kR- Dti GENERAL COURT he will call the attention of the Pro s‘ to the treatment of his Majesty the King of Delhi b y the ,trittnent of India ;" and ir l , a PROPRIETOR has given notice that, at the said QLTAR- ro Ai et ' GENERAL COURT, " he will call the attention of the P rs to the state of the l'olice in the Presidencies of Bengal and and to the state of the Jails in all the Presidencies of India." J. D. DICKINSON, Deputy Secretary. Dnet °P has bee ° of useless ) efore i ple 0 1 1 1 is,t niedicin Y nlv ansr e ' • certso " 7. The Directors of the London and South-Western Railway certainly take great pains to make travelling by that railway as disagreeable and expensive as pos sible. Surely their best policy is to make it as agreeable and cheap as they may be able to do. Cheapness in creases the use or consumption of everything ; and if the excursion trains do not convince your Di rectors •f this fact, and make clear to them that three sixpences are more than one shilling, the lately projected and 'Direct London and Portsmouth Railway' doubtless will. EDWARD PAGE, Secretary. the year 1844. On this year (beginning the Ist No vember, 1843) a series of weather of the finest de scription is promised by the calculations, such as has not been witnessed by any one now living." It is superfluous to direct public attention to the strict accordance of the past year with this calcula tion. A finer season, or a more abundant or better secured harvest, has not been experienced for the last 50 years. " The weather of 1845 (says Mr. Mac kenzie in his present report), though differing consi derably from that of 1844, will nevertheless have a high rate of very fine days,' and of temperate days,' which must render the period generally a pleasant PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH 4 0 „ COURT of CHANCERY, made in the cause of GEORGE ISTZ,WALKER against ELIZABETH WALKER, and JOSEPH fit 0 :Elt again ELIZABETH WALKER, the Creditors of tlid 'GE WALKE st R, otherwise JOHN WALKER, late of Ton ttir-lace, Ne-roa, in he prish of St. Pancras, in the county Apr before Esquire w , d who t died in the month of April, 1842, are th ei u r before the 2d day of November next, to come in and prov e so d r n delts before Sir - GIFFIN ILSON, ono of the Masters of the Ike _tirt, at his Chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery elge..undon ; or in default thereof, they will be peremptorily ex the benefit of the said decree. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. CAPTAIN WARNER'S EXPERIMENT having give' rise to a general desire for information on the PROPERTIES of the EX PLOSIVE COMPOUNDS at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTI TUTION, the EXPERIMENTS (so highly interesting) are continued with perfect safety, illustrative of Dr. RYAN'S POPULAR LEC TURE on EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS, every Afternoon at half-past Three o'clock, and in the Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays, at a Quarter before Nine o'clock. The ♦aried Lectures of Professor BACIIIIOFFNER daily. The HYDRO-ELECTRIC MA CHINE, LON.IGEOTTOM'S PHYSIOSCOPE, and other original and beautiful Optical Effects, &c., &c. Is.; Schools, Half-price. INACCURATE CHARTS OF THE FRENCH COAST. We publish the following extract from a private letter just received from Etaples, in the hope that it will attract attention in the proper quarter, and lead to the adoption of measures tending to prevent a re currence of such terrible calamities as the wreck of the Reliance, the Conqueror, and other vessels upon the French coast : tish Co l on half eJr! 4 › , l ' f Or ° 'LES. 04 4 e f•P NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR. AXCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. DIVISION OF PROFITS. li wi ttle.2teady success and increasing prospe rit y of the Society has 11,,,, „ nullhe Directors, at the last animal investigation, to declare a t a ii2 Reims, averaging 60 per cent. on the amo unts invested on each - "`" 7 effected on the Profit scale. EXAMT ---....... ... 1 g - 5 -... Premium. #' 1 P ' 4 7; . Bonus Bonus in ..., r, z i-0 , al.„, . g added. Cash. :- g• al 0 3 44' '4 5 1 - --- --___ I £s. d. ' X s. d. £s.d.£s. d. £ s. ds 1837 170 9 3 77 5 1 12 3 9 346 2 3 °°o 74 3 4 1838 144 2 2 64 5 6 916 4 296 13 4 ...,_ 1839 116 16 0 51 511 711 9 247 4 6 The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in De of the present year. ." 3 institution offers many important and substantial advan lc With respect both to Life Assura nces and Deferred Annuities. I.,Msred has, en all occasions, the power to borr3w, without ex ce•e or forfeiture of the Policy, two - thi rds of the p remium paid, th i nbis) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion IstZliterests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances of years are granted en the lowest possible rates. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX. Sec. PLOYMENT.—Persons having a little time to spare are apprised that Agen ts continue to be appointed in %to" , and country towns, by the EAST INDIA T EA COMPANY, sale of their celebrated teas. 142 0 5, No. 9, Great St. Helen's -churchyard, Bishopsgate-street. pV are packed in showy leaden canisters , from one ounoe to a .'2 With the price and weight marke d on each p acket, and but b; t rouble is occasioned by the sale. The license is only l Is. per C; and many during the last nineteen y ears hare realised con able incomes by the agency withou t one shilling let or loss. '''Pldicatiox to be mode (if by letter post-paid) as above. — . , OPATHIC ESTABLISHMENT, SUDBROOK PARK, NEAR RICHMOND. ttYDROPATHY.—The British Public are la th. formed that the above Institution has been completed under 4le mind that direction of Dr. WEISS, in order to convince the pub v,iind that drugs so highly injurious to the human system may be kk7ether dispensed with in the cure o f disease. Dr. Weiss (for- Xl 3 the associate of Vi nce nt Priessnitz) is well known throughout °Pe for the wonderful cures he has for many years past effected te h t t i 'e,Water treatment. The. beautiful domain, Sudbrook Park, for 4 , es the residence of the Dukes of Argyll, forming part of Rich bbl Surrey, has been taken of the Crown and converted into ~ ,•!'isliment of the first order, which is now in full operation. ha terms vary from Three Guineas and upwards, according to a thte iQaneents. This sum includes board, lodging, and professional e. 4,,.. .Weiss may be consulted daily at Sudbrook Park ( Frida y s ex when he attends at 28, Sackyille-street, Piccadilly, from .z , en till Four. CANDLE NOTORIETY. S. 'TALE'S superb COMPOSITE, 101 d. • per lb., requiring no snuffing, on comparison and trial allowed to surpass all others of the present day for beauty tl brilliancy of light. There is no patent for Composite Candles, Iler will those called patent bu rn s o lon g a time b y h ours as the 7 Waxed-wick tallow moulds, or is the light equal. SOld for cash, at DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St. , 4 ttit 's lane opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-house. , - BOTANIC WATER and BEAR'S GREASE. *a u When the hair is becoming thin and falling off, the only effee !Areer',,,...'4,Y. besides shaving the head, is the use of the two above- Teta 11' Q ,, cies, applied alternately—the botanic water to cleanse the 118 lie, -7 ,,,"erf and as a stimulant, and the bear's grease as a nou _grease r„,. — anr further evi.dence was required of the virtues of bear's QThrerrOvating an d preserving she hair, Mr. Catlin's account of X u,,,, ort - CpltY used, and the le n g th of hair obtained by some of the Iti`Aflerlean Indians, would be a sufficient answer. 11r,1 and SONS 119 and 120, BISHOPSGITE-STREET, who And kll the the :Ise of bear's grease into this country, and who fat kat ► l 4 l t he animals, recommend Vie public to purchase none other :a re their names and address printed on the pot, or the chances it he ..eir obtaining a spurious article. All vegetable oils applied to are worse than useless. 1., _Mr . MEDICAL LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT. IuTILILL TESTIMONIAL. Ati,„.,'LL tz) The follow i n g iis the Inscription on the Piece o f Plate pre ii r Ptelriber, 1844. To RICHARD TOTHILL, Esq., of Heavi tree, Exeter, for his uncompromising advocacy of the Hygeian er Morisonian System of Medicine during a period of 14 years. Presented by **--....._ The Friends of the Medical Liberty of the Subject. 4 A HORIZONTAL WATCHES. VERY FLAT. B SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers , 9 e 1 C . ornhill, London, opposite the yank . Price, in Silver ' Ircc". Three and a-Half Guineas each; or, in Gol i Cases, Six 4. 6 ,; t i l a e,as each. These Watches are accurate and durable, the Hori. ltsk t ' Escapement being peculiarly suited to combine those im ant requisites. They are jewelled in fo u r hole, and continne lag Whilst being wound. A twelvemonth's warranty is given each, kOLLMANIC6 ItAI6WAY LOCOMOTIVE and CARRIA TS IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, -- molishezi pursuant to Act of Parliament of 3d Vic., cap. 98 Capital 10,0001., in 500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 2/. per Share. DIRECTORS. The Very Rev. the Dean of Hereford, F.R.5 &c. F. Marcus Beresford, Esq. Captain E. Blanckley, R.N. Thomas Davidson, Esq. William Kuper, Esq. Captain M. Montague, R.N. Samuel H. Powell, Esq. Captain F. Bayly Wardroper, H.C.S. Walter White, Esq. 'STANDING COM:REL.—FL A. Merewether, Esq. FoLlciroß.—George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square. i lliticat.—Messrs. Cocks, Bidd ul p h, and Co., 43, Charing-cross. -l earrrakir.—A. W. Barnes, Esq., F.G.S. k,P_P'oirs.—Albion Chambers, Adam-street, Adelp hi . "e object of this Company is t o brin g into g eneral notice and re na tion the improved system of Locomotion, invented and N.„ 4 nod by Mr. G. A. Kollman, wh i c h offers the following ad. . - "‘ltges • ..te„ • t „., O llTy FROM OVERTURNING. URITy FROM RUNNING OF F THE RAILS. b ' . 4 PECT FACILITY OF PASSING ON CURVES AT ANY -,:ItACTICABLE SPEED. ^E ATER FLEXIBILITY, TO ACCOMMODATE THE ' C ARRIAGES, TO THE INEQUA LITIES OF THE 'FER OF ASCENDING AND DESCENDING ORA 14,ENTS HITHERTO HELD TO BE I MPRACTICABLE. SA VING OF DEAD WEIGH T AND FRICTION. OF EXPENSE IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND "EAR AND TEAR OF THE LINE, CARRIAGES, A ND ENGINES. Al."*Pectuses, with full details, togethe r with forms of applica. o „ " ‘ th for Shares, and tetra for granting Licenses, may be had at ~ C4 _ lopanrs offices, Albion Chabers, Adam-street, Adelphi 'f Mr. George Smith, Solicitor m to the Company, 24, Golden. • a re, s b., FORD near STAINES. Fifteen Mlles from Hyde-park. 'ERIOR , FARM, MANSION, and GROUNDS, TITHE. FREE, and LAND.TAX MOSTLY REDEEMED. ESSRS. ADAM MURRAY and SONS are directed to SELL by PRIVATE CONTRACT, t ,„ .. '‘ very eligible FREEHOLD ESTATE, situ ated at Ashford, — "lt three miles from the market town of Staine s, and within :144Y distances from Brentford, Uxbridge, and other market towns, Z,4Prieing an excellent FARM, containing 233 Acres of produc 41;e arable meadow, and pasture land, a substantially.built cony.- 'l ; ,. ei 't farm-house, barns, stables, and other su itable a g ricultural :Idi ngs, labourers' cottages, &c., let on lease, which expires at daY next. Also several Copyhold Tenements, forming alto her a most desirable investment. ° r further particulars apply to Messrs. Adam M urra y and and land-agents, 47, Parliament-street. TO HOTEL-KEEPERS and HOUSEHOLDERS GENE kLLy, and to those in particular who have houses in the ! ° a roe of erecti o n o r alteration.—Price 6 1 . and 9 s. for both Nut es. (CrOVER'S PATENT METAL STOPS, for . O rendering .rendering new or old Window Sashes removab le WITH ) 'Att.': REMOVING the BEAD, preventing the sashes from I '4 in windy weather, and c .using them to slide easily and e alY in their frames. 'll l4t : 14 r. over's Paent Removable Widow Sah is so cotrived, in le ss than two minutes the whole n window s may be renmoved ' ci t a 3 teri into the roem by the most unskilful servant; so that wit? Possess windows on this improved principle, may have er "'" Cleaned by their domestics, &c., without endangering the life human being. . 4 uch inconvenience found to accrue from the introduction of li n f ite workmen will thus be avoided ; while additional ligh t and gut e °" ' may be obtained through the opportunity afforded of fre .., t may with convenience and economy. It will he found by those who inspect Mr. Gover's models of ‘T e ‘, renl ovable window sash, or the windows which have been fitted Pi: this principle , that it possesses several advantages over the etWaXtios. sash, y the " The krtnness given to it by means of the metal stops, when , e,„_. ll ., adt la ci?sed ; the silence and ease with which the metal at.d work together when the sash is raised or lowered; and the Tettunity it affords of substituting a ventilator upon a large i t.. : For clubs, hotels, hospitals, and offices, a duplicate sash, blrlita. with wire gum (so as to yield all the luxury of ventilation) gwhieen, sash ; t s h a eweather permits, be fixed in the frame by mea ns he e patent ia stops ; the same stops being in like manner applicable and no workman being required to substitute efor the oth e r."—The Builder. Orders for th e P atent S tops should b e a dd resse d ( s t a ting the siza w e • .: 11 ) t? J. PIERCE Agent, 289, Strand. • Printed directions given to all purchasers for the use of 4 '1" 11 joiners. PUBLICATIONS. TO ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS, AND ALL OTHERS INTE RESTED IN BUILDING. THE BUILDER, No. 85, of THIS DAY, beautifully illustrated, price 3d., contains an Engraving of All Saints Church, now erecting near Colchester, Essex—State of Parts of the Metropolis:—New Cement for Builders —Mineralogy—Timber, its Treatment and Uses—Remains of the Temple of Vesta—Church Building and ltailway Intelligence—The Current Prices of Wood and Metals—Architectural Competitions—Tenders and Notices of Con tracts, &c., &c. Office, 2, York-street, Covent-garden ; and of all Booksellers in town atcl country. Just published, 2d Edition, 12m0., 4s. Gd. boards, ARITHMETIC, for the Use of Schools. By the Rev. J. W. COLENSO, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge ; and late Mathematical Master at Harrow School. By the same Author, 4th Edition, 12m0., 4s. Gd. cloth, ELEMENTS OF ALGEBRA, for the Use of Schools. These books are now in use at Eton, harrow, Winchester, Rugby, Shrewsbury, and other Schools ; at the Royal Naval and Military College, Portsmouth, &c. London : Longman and Co. Cambridge : Deightons. Just published, post Bvo., 10s. Gd. cloth, T HE VALE of the TOWEY ; or, Sketches in 11 South Wales. By ANNE BEALE. " The peat merit of Miss Beale's book is Its truth, which leave , a strong impression on the reader's mind."—Spectator. "A pleasing volume of familiar sketches of Welsh scenery, sprinkled with stories, anecdotes, and romances." —Literary Gazetto. " This elegant and accomplished writer frequently reminds u". agreeably of Miss Mitford."—Atlas. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. THE BEST LIFE OF NAPOLEON. This day, in 4 vols. Svo., handsomely bound, price 30s. (or in 26 Parts, price Is. each), embellished with upwards of Twenty-four Portraits, Views, &c., B OURIENNE'S CELEBRATED MEMOIRS OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. To which are now first added, a History of the Hundred Days of the Battle of Waterloo, of Napoleon's Exile and Death at St. Helena. " Whoever wishes to know, not merely the General or the Em peror, but what the Man really was, will find him well pictured in these Memoirs by the Private Secretary of Napoleon."—Times. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. To be had also of all Booksellers. THE GIRL'S OWN BOOK, BY MRS. CHILD. In a handsome volume, square IGmo., embellished with 177 New Cuts, partly from designs by Gilbert, price only 4s. Gd., bound in cloth, THE GIRL'S OWN BOOK, by Mrs. CHILD, Author of the " Mother's Book," " Frugal Housewife," Ece. The Thirteenth Edition. London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside ; Bewdory and Kirby, Oxford street ; Cuudell, New Bond-street ; and all other Book sellers. SALE'S KORAN. In a very largo volume Svo., closely printed, with great additions in Notes, &c., from Savory's Edition, p. ice 12s. cloth, THE KORAN : commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed. Translated into English immediately from the Original Arabic, with Explanatory Notes, taken from the most apsroved Commentators. To which is prefixed a Preliminary Dis course. by GEORGE SALE, Gent. A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Translator, and also various Readings and Illustrative Notes from Savary's celebrated version of this important work. London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside ; niay be pro cured by order of all other Booksellers. READING SAUCE, FOR FISII, GRAVIES, HASHES, STEAKS, &c. Jand C. COCKS, the Sole Proprietors and • Manufacturers of the celebrated READING SAUCE, beg most respectfully to caution the Public against the daily frauds and Impositions practised by many London and Country Oilmen, who are offering for sale their own spurious compositions as Reading Sauce. This SAUCE is patronised and recommended by most Families in the Kingdom, and as a Sauce for general use it stands unrivalled. It is retailed by all respectable Oilmen and Fish Sauce Tendors in the Kingdom. Be particular in asking for " COCKS'S READING SAUCE," warranted to keep twenty years in any climate.—All others are Counterfeits.—Observe the name " J. & C. COCKS," on the Seal and Label of each Bottle. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, SEPT. 18, 1844. Ordnance Medical Department—Temporary Assistant Surgeon J. M. S. Fogo to be Assistant Surgeon, Sept. 13. WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 20. 7th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant D. J. Dickinson to be Adjutant, vice Dobbie, deceased, Sept. 20. 30th Foot—Lieutenant W. H. Heard to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet Major J. Poynts, who re tires upon full pay ; Ensign A. Lowry to be Lieutenant, vice Heard ; C. Molyneux, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Lowry, Sept. 20. 35th Foot—Ensign A. Tisdall to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Harding, who retires ; A. W. Ord, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tisdall, Sept. 20. 37th Foot—Lieut. C. F. Sham to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Brevet Major Lord Keane, who retires ; En sign T. Hawley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Shum ; J. H. Wyatt, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hawley, Sept. 20. 41st Foot—Quartermaster -Sergeant J. Gillan to be Quartermaster, vice R. Harker, who retires upon half pay, Sept. 20. GOth Foot—Lieutenant J. Douglas to be Captain, by purchase, vice Townsend, who retires ; Second Lieut. J. Warburton to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Douglas ; William Hetherington, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Warburton, Sept. 20. 63d Foot—Major A. C. Pole to be Lieutenant-Colonel without purchase, vice Logan deceased ; Captain A. G. Sedley to be Major, vice foie ; Lieutenant H. W. Coultman, to be Captain, vice Sedley ; Ensign C. H. Bell, to be Lieutenant, vice Coultman, Sept. 2 ; Ser geant-Major H. White, to be Ensign, vice Bell, Sept. 20. MEMORANDUM.—The exchange of Captain Pryce Clark, from the 54th to half-pay Unattached, on the 20th September, 1839, is without the difference, he hav ing repaid, to the credit of the public, the sum he re ceived. BANKRUPTS. FRANCIS SHOTTER, grocer, Portsea, to surrender Oct. 10, and Nov. 7, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Baylis, Devonshire-square, London. WILLIAM COLLIER, grocer, Cambridge, Oct. 10, at eleven, and Nov. 8, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, official as signee ; Ashurst, Cheapside, London ; Hunt, Cambridge. FRANCIS BATES, linendraper, Shoreditcb, Oct. 11, at eleven, and Nov. 8, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill ; Moger, Paternoster-row. BENJAMIN NICOLL, tailor,Rufford's-row,lslington, Oct. 11, at half past two, and Nov. 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin lane ; Fisher, Bucklersbury. THOMAS MARSH, miller, St. Martin's-hill, Canter bury, Oct. 5, at eleven, and Nov. 7, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basingliall- street ; Smith, Southampton-buildings, London ; Walker, Canterbury. WILLIAM SCOVELL, jun., brick-maker, Chilworth, Southampton, Sept. 30 and Nov. 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Old Jewry ; Paterson, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street. EDWARD BURNETT, merchant, Riches-court, Lime- street, City, Sept. 28, at one, and Nov. 6, at half past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street ; Reed and Shaw, Friday-street, Cheapside. JOHN G BUNDY, woollen manufacturer, Tottington Lower-end, Lancashire, Oct. 4, at twelve, and Nov. 5, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official assignee, Manchester ; Clarke, Metcalfe, and Gray, Lincol's Inn-fields, London ; Grundy and Co., Bury, Lancashire. JOHN BALL and WILLIAM BALL, silk manu facturers, Sutton, Cheshire, Oct. 8 and 23, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee ; Meredith and Reeve, New-square, Lincoln's Inn, Lon don ; Parrott, Macclesfield. JOHN HIG HAM, grocer, Liverpool, September 30„ and Oct. 31, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Corn • thwaite and Adams, Doctors'-commons, London; Fisher and Stone, Liverpool. ADAM PATTERSON, livery stable-keeper, Liver pool, Oct. 4 and 31, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Moss, Liverpool; Sharpe, Field, and Jackson, Bedford-row, London. ISAAC ALDERSON, worsted spinner, Warley,York shire, Oct. 9, and 23, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Jaques and Ed wards, Ely-place, London; G. Edwards, Halifax; Cron. helm, Leeds. INSOLVENT PETITIONS. B. Carpenter, licensed victualler, Saffron-bill, Hol born, Oct. 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee. J. Cadbury, clerk, George-street, Adelphi, Oct, 9, at asswnee. E. Thomas, warehouseman, Peckham, Oct. 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee. T. Simpson, jun., joiner, Liverpool, Sept. 27, at one, at the Livei pool District Court. Bird, official assignee. J. Lennox, master mariner, Liverpool, Sept, 27, at leven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee. R. Marshall, Liverpool, Sept. 25, at eleven, at the Li verpool District Court. Bird, official assignee. W. Thistlethwaite, cigar manufacturer, Liverpool, Sept. 27, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee. J. A. Walker, butcher, Bishopwearmouth, Durham, Oct. 3, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee. T. Dunn, grocer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oct. 3, at half-past twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee. J. Sweet, cabinet maker, Bruton, Somersetshire, Oct. 11, at one, at the Bristol District Court. Kynaston, official assignee. E. Bailey, joiner, Shipton, Yorkshire, Oct. 3, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee. G. Renton, coal leader, Leeds, Oct. 3, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee. A. Orwin, coal miner, Chesterfield, Oct. 9, at one, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. S. Younger, merchant, Great Tower-street, City, Oct. 12, at eleven-J. Adnum, upholsterer, Dorrington-street, Clerkenwell, Oct. 12, at twelve-J. L. Foster, harness maker, Jewry-street, Aldgate, Oct. 12, at half-past eleven -M. Coe, laceman, Goldsmith-street, Wood-street, Cheapside, Oct. 12, at half-past twelve-G. Fendall, butcher, Voodstock-street, Oxford-street, Oct. 12, at one-E. Mayo, woollerdraper, Craven-buildings, Drury lane, Oct. 9, at half-past eleven. In the Country. W. Bull and F. Turner, printers, Birmingham, Oct. 11, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court-J. Nicks, carpenter, Warwick, Oct. 11, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court-W. Turton, coal-master, Westbromwich, Staffordshire, Oct. 11, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court-J. Ward, tailor, Notting ham, Oct. 11, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court-J. Bent, grocer, Dudley, Worcestershire, Oct. 1, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court--T. Evans, scrivener, Denbigh, Oct. 12, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court-J. Whitley, money scrivener, Liverpool, Oct. 11, at half-past one, at the Liverpool District Court-J. Hill, brewer, Wallasey, Cheshire, Oct. 12, at half-past eleven, at the Liverpool District Court-R. Phillips, chemist, Exeter, Oct. 24, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court-P. Walters and M. Llewellyn, timber merchants, Neath, Glamorganshire, Oct. 11, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. T. Scott, baker, Colchester, Oct. 12-J. Willis, green grocer, Spring. street, Portman-square, Oct. 12-T. Car ter, jun., butcher, Waltham, Leicestershire, Oct. 12-T. E. Rowley, draper, Oxford-street, Oct. 11-J. Brown and 11. Graham, fustian manufacturers, \I anchester, Oct. 11-F. Margetts, wine-merchant, Oxford, Oct. 11-F. Roberts, butcher, Handley, Cheshire, Oct. 11. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. Bradshaw and W. Kirkham, tallow-chandlers, Lan caster-F. Robinson, S. Robinson, and E. Tansley, lace makers, New Radford, Nottinghamshire-T. S. Capel and M. Slaughter, coal merchants, Bridewell-wharf, Wil liam-street, Blackfriars-W. Skeate and 11. T. Skeate, linendrapers, Chippenham, Wiltshire-R. Tussell and 11. Smith, paper manufacturers, East Mailing, Kent-J. :iugden and J. Fearnley, wire drawers, Birstal, York shire-W. Williams and R. K. Hood, drysalters, Man chester-J. Cheshire and H. Waterton, salt dealers, Li verpool-E. D. Johnson and J. Cashmore, watchmakers, Church-street, Minories-A. Bill and N. Briant, papier mache manufacturers, Bridgewater-square, Barbican- J. Royston, E. Onions, and W. Wheelhouse, millwrights, Bradford-E. R. Withers, G. Withers, R. Woollatt, and F. Woollatt, wholesale tea-dealers, Crown-court, Phil pot-lane (so far as regards G. Withers)-Jas. Wright, Jos. Wright, and J. Dearden, machine makers, Birstal, Yorkshire-Jos. Armitage, G. Armitage, J. T. Armitage, John Armitage, and E. Armitage, wool merchants, Hud dersfield (so far as regards Joseph Armitage)-L. B. Bushell and R. Blumer, ship builders, South Shields- W. Hunt and G. Stott, engine makers, Manchester-J. Hollis and W. Simmons, coal dealers, Portsea. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. FRANCIS RAE, upholsterer, Glasgow, Sept. 24 and Oct. 15, at one, at the chambers of John Gammill Hous ton, Glasgow. JOHN CAMPBELL, MATTHEW RAE, and GEORGE JOHNSTON, clothiers, Glasgow, Sept. 24 and Oct. 15, at one, at the chambers of John Gammill Houston, Glasgow. ALEXANDER FRASER and CHARLES FRA SER, undertakers, Milntown of Redcastle, Ross-shire, Sept. 28, at twelve, and Oct. 26, at eleven, at the Na tional Hotel, Dingwall. ROBERT CHARLES, chemist, Glasgow, Sept. 26 and Oct. 22, at two, at the chambers of Mr. John Kerr, Glasgow. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending Sept. 17, 1844, is 325. 11d. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The war journals of Paris are again attempting to get up an excitement. On Tuesday evening the Messager published a dispatch from Ota heite, confirming the report, which had already reached England, of another conflict having taken place between the French and the natives at Otaheito ; and stating that the Governor, Bruat, had attacked the natives to the number of 3,000, who had en trenched themselves at Mahahana, and had three pieces of artillery. The redoubts were carried by the bayonet, the cannon spiked, the work 3 destroyed, and the colours, arms, and ammunition captured. The natives had 102 men killed, says the dispatch, but the French had two officers killed and 52 men wounded. Now, considering that the natives were attacked by the French, and that, upon the admission of their own Government, the French authorities at Otaheite had un righteously usurped dominion over the poor natives, who were but defending their rights and those of their legitimate sovereign, we should have thought that the blood of the 102 men who were killed would be justly imputable to the French ; and that some regret would have been expressed at a calamity arising out of an invasion of rights already censured by the French Government. No tear of regret, however, is shed in France for the poor slaughtered natives ; but, on the contrary, the Opposition journals in Paris call for vengeance upon Mr. Pritchard, and the English Govern ment, for the French blood that was shed in this con flict. The flagrant injustice of such imputations is manifest. In the first place, Mr. Pritchard was not at Otaheite; and the conflict shows that the natives were not, as the French have pretended, roused from a willing obedience to their invaders by his presence and exhortations. It shows that, although but par tially civilised, they have the consciousness of right and the sense of injury. The expulsion of Mr. Pritchard, whatever influence he may have had over them when at Otaheite, did not suffice to extinguish the feeling of independence and duty. The presence of Mr. Pritchard was not necessary for them to feel that their rights had been violated and their Sovereign outraged. They required no other counsel than their wrongs—no other stimulus than their indignation ; but it must never be forgotten, that whilst they were resisting the agents of France, France her self had repudiated those agents as having com mitted a gross violation of right and humanity. The resistance, then, was a sacred duty—the attack was an act of brutal injustice. M. Bruat and his officers certainly were not aware that the assump tion of sovereignty by Admiral Dupetit Thouars had been disavowed; and, as individuals per forming what they considered to he an act of duty, they may not be held personally responsible for the lives that they have destroyed. But their own Government has admitted that the assumption of the power under which these massacres were performed was an unrighteous one ; and the least that could have been expected from the French press, was an expression of regret for the lives that had been sacrificed by the French force in Otaheite. But, far from finding such expressions in the French journals, we meet with furious attacks upon Mr. Pritchard, the English, and M. Guizot. The Courrier Francais and the National call for re venge ; and assert that the blood of the French which has been shed at Otaheite must fall upon the head of Mr. Pritchard, and on that of M. Guizot, for having disavowed the act of the French Admiral. The National on this occasion uses language of the great( st violence ; it calls down public execration upon M. Guizot, and excites the navy to rebel - against the Government for having censured the conduct of Admiral Dupetit Thouars and M. d'Aubigny. A more atrocious and libellous article than that of the National we never read ; and if it be not prosecuted by the Government for its sedition, it can only be because M. Guizot fears that an impartial and honest jury is not to be found to secure a con viction ; in which case we can only pity the friends of order in France, at being thus exposed to the un bridled violence of political incendiarism. The Courrier Francs is little less violent than the National. It denounces M. Guizot to the Chamber of Deputies ; and say that if justice be not done by it upon him, the c ountry will do itself justice upon the Chamber ; which means nothing less than that the mob will get the upper hand of the representatives of the people. The Con.stitutionnel exhausts most of its fury upon Mr. Pritchard. It is so much out of breath with calling for vengeance upon his head for the shedding of French blood, that it is comparatively lenient towards M. Guizot. STANDARD.—According to the statement of the Moniteur, the French Government has received intelligence of a sharp skirmish between the natives of Otaheite and the French force on the island. In this engagement, which occurred on the 17th of April, the natives are said to have lost in killed 102 ; the French, two officers killed, and 52 men wounded. The French, though greatly inferior in number, 441 to 3,000 (the natives being also entrenched) were completely successful. What, however, is to be the fruit of this success is left to conjecture. The use which the war journals of Paris would make of the event is, indeed, sufficiently manifest, but reasonable men will expect something more than a topic of railing and an occasion of quarrel as the equivalent for so much bloodshed ; but what that solid equivalent can be, we are at a loss to conceive. Otaheite, in absolute sovereignty and cordial obedience, would be perfectly useless to any European power, certainly not less useless to France than to any other; how much worse than useless then must be the protectorate of a people constantly " straining upon the bit" and seizing every opportunity to indulge. a hostile and vindictive feeling. This most silly war is deplorable enough without making it worse than it is; but we must remonstrate with the Paris journals against the imputation of the war to Mr. Pritchard or any other Englishman ; the immediate cause of hostilities has been an act of usurpation, acknowledged by France, and seen by all the world to be such ; but an act of usurpation has always been admitted as an adequate casus belli, and we therefore need not look beyond M. Dupetit Thouars for the party responsible for the French and native blood shed in April, with which Mr. Pritchard has had no more to do than his accusers in the National, Courrier Francais, and Reforme. Our opinion of Mr. Pritchard—an opinion however formed rather from what we have seen of his exhi bition in this country, than from any report of his conduct in the kingdom of Queen Pomare—is, that he is an indiscreet and perhaps an ambitious man. It is a common calamity, indeed, that how pure soever may be the first stage of religious mis sions, ambition always infects the second and later stages But whatever Mr. Pritchard is, it is certain that neither he nor Queen Pomare sought the French people, but, on the other hand were sought out by French officers when in perfect peace with all the world, and anxious only to maintain peace ; a consideration which candid Frenchmen will admit to be of some weight when the consequences of the initiative taken by France are to be appreciated. Mr. Pritchard may have spoken with patriotic exaggera tion of the promptitude of his own country in aiding all who suffer from oppression; and possibly the simple credulity of the natives to whom he spoke may, in their hopes, have exaggerated even upon his exaggerations. We may concede all this, because it is obvious that if no pretext by oppression had been given, the utmost extravagance of promise on Mr. Pritchard's part, though aided by all imaginable credulity on the side of the natives, would be harmless. The ori ginal wrong-doer in such cases i 3 prima facie the. only party responsible for consequences. It may happen that his antagonist, by retaliating with a greater and a disproportionate injury (this hap pened to us in China), shall relieve the original wrong-doer of his prima facie responsibility ; but nothing of the kind can be alleged against Mr. Pritchard ; for since M. Dupetit Thouars usurped the sovereignty of the kingdom of Queen Pomare, Mr. Pritchard has done no thing to give offence or to cause mischief. It gives us no pleasure to find our French neighbours in the wrong—quite the reverse ; we heartily wish them quietly and honourably out of this Otaheite business ; but we confess that we do not at present see by what paths they are to escape, even if we could suppose great Britain and all British inte rests sunk in the Pacific to facilitate an arrange ment. To maintain Otaheite by force is out of the question. Otaheite is one of ten thousand islands— all more or less con n e c t e d, directly or mediately, by relations of friendship or hostility; the Euro pean Power that would establish a permanent settlement in one of these islands must contem plate the conquest, aye, and the garrisoning too, of the whole of Polynesia—a sufficient explanation, by the way, of the grounds upon which Great Britain declined the protectorate so rashly sought by France. What, then, is France to do in the matter? Perhaps the most manly and prudent course were to back out of it. We are not conscious that England has sus tained any dishonour in leaving the Affghans to the p u nishment of th e i r own ana rchy, and the protection of their mountains. Why might not France, with as good a grace, leave the Otaheitans to the punishment of their own rude manners, and the protection of heir great remoteness and other local circumstances ? MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The Proprietors of the Bank of England held their half -yearly meeting to-day, and the usual divident of 31 per cent. (deducting income-tax) was de clared for the half-year. The meeting occupied less than a quarter of an hour, and was, therefore, the shortest that has been known for many years. An alteration in the mode of making up the accounts was communicated by the Governor, and was acted upon for the first time on this occasion. Hitherto the accounts have been made up to the 10th of October, and the portion of the " rest" that was to accumulate between the day of the meeting in September and that day was only given by estimate. Now the accounts are made up to the 31st of August, and, consequently, the " rest" is stated according to actual results. A corresponding alteration is to be made in the beginning of the year, and the last day of Tebruary, instead of the sth of April, will be the day on which the accounts for the current half-year will be made up. Practically, perhaps, this alteration will pro duce no important difference, as the estimates to October and April have been generally found correct ; but never theless it is entitled to commendation ' as it is a much sounder method of ,doing business to declare upon the result of actual transactions than upon estimates, which must, from their nature, be more or less uncertain. The " rest" to the 31st of August is 3,563,000 L, but if esti mated to the 10th of October, to furnish a comparison, an increase of 8,8001. on the former "rest" is exhibited. The late forgery led to the question whether the loss which the proprietors have sustained might not have been saved by an adherence to the by-law which pro vides that no clerk to the establishment shall be permit ted to act as a broker. Burgess, it was contended by a proprietor, by identifying the pretended stockholder, had performed the office of a broker, and the acceptance of his identification was in contravention of the by-law. It is perhaps going too far to say that the mere act of iden tifying gives the identifier for the time the character of a broker, ab is andon the practice of allowing generally expressed that the c l e rks to identify. Many o f th e m ost respect able brokers, wh o are necessaril y well known to all t he clerks in the tr ansfer-office, have declared their willing tßhr ae o ni k rk e o r, wuo but ngh t the a t onceopin opinion willing ness to come forward and identify a party making a transfer, and known to them, whenever there may be occasion, and even to guarantee the Bank for the amount of the transfer which they may attest. A Bank clerk is for one reason the very worst person that could be se lected, as he has the opportunity of obtaining towards the perpetration of his fraud that information which would be totally inaccessible to a stranger, while the lowness of his salary, generally speaking, creates a great temptation to the fraud itself. From a remark which fell from the Governor during the meeting of this : morning it has been inferred that the practice will be abandoned. We insert the following letter, a copy of which has been sent us by the writer, as a singular instance of di,interestedness in a railway proprietor :- 1 "TO THIS SECRETARY OF THE LONDON AND SOUTH , wESTERN RAILWAY. " 2 9 , Carlton-terrace, St. James's, Westminster. "Sir—As a great number of shares in the abo I request you will imme diately submit this letter to the consideration of the em eti a t o e p d r it a of ay Board of Directors. o r n re "I have to state,— " 1. That the London and South-Western Railway trains travel at a much slower rate than those of any other railway. the London and South - We ' s 2 t . er T n h lattailtwhaey7arnridages of more especially the second and third-class carriages, are vastly inferior in every respect to those of any other railway. " 3. That the charges exacted for the conveyance of " 8. The income of the London and South-Western Railway is mainly derived from second-class and third class passengers, as there are fifty of these to every first-class passenger ; and yet the Board of Directors of that railway bestow all their civility and accommoda tion upon those from whom the proprietors derive the least profit, and but a small part of their income. " 9. There should be third-class carriages with every mixed train. People should be encouraged to travel, and accommodated as much as possible, and should not be hindered, or nearly precluded, from so doing ; and the carriages generally of the South-Western Railway ought to be as good as those of other railways, and not, as they are, ten times worse. " 10. The future passenger fares should be— By the slow or cheap trains, id. per mile. By the third-class carriages, id. per mile. By the second-class carriages, id. per mile. By the first-class carriages, Id. per mile. and goods and merchandise of every sort, packages, par cels, &c., should be conveyed very cheaply. " 11. A return of all accidents upon the railway should be conspicuously posted at every station upon the line. (This should be done on every line, and would hare more effect in preventing accidents than heavy fines.) " 12. By adopting the 10th regulation above suggested, or by some equally efficacious measure, Parliament may be induced to withhold its sanction of the Direct London and Portsmouth Railway ; but an adherence to high fares and charges, unequal charges, and to regulations and arrangements which make travelling by the line disagreeable and very costly, will materially promote the progress of the contemplated London and Ports mouth Railway, and greatly damage the interest of the Proprietors of the London and South-Western Railway. " I am, Sir, your obedint servant, " JOHN JULIUS RADISDEN, F.R.S." COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL A Court of Common Council was held on Thursday for the purpose of agreeing to measures to be adopted for entertaining her Majesty and Prince Albert, on the occasion of her Majesty publicly opening the Royal Exchange. The LORD MAYOR, on taking the chair, said he had received a letter from Sir J. Graham, informing him of the honour intended to be paid to the City by her Majesty and Prince Albert. This letter and his Lordship's reply having been read, On the motion of Sir P. LAURIE!, it was agreed to enter them on the minutes of the court. Mr. KING then rose to move for the formation of a Committee of Entertainment to provide for the re ception of her Majesty and Consort. He would com pose this Committee of a certain number of Alder men—he had no objection to all the Aldermen, and one Common Councilman from each ward. He had no wish to offend any one, nor did he think that his motion would be opposed, except by those who enter tained peculiar notions on the matter. The motion he should make was as follows : " Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to communicate her intention, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, to honour this city by open ing the Royal Exchange in the latter part of the month of October next; that it be referred to a Com mittee now to be appointed, consisting of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, the Sheriff's, and one commoner from each ward, to consider in what manner the Corporation can best testify their respect and attachment to her Majesty on the oc casion." _ _ Mr. Under-Sheriff ANDERTON econded the motion, and with some warmth deprecated the conduct of that private committee which had, without the sane tioa or authority of this Court (the proper power in such matters), taken upon themselves to go to Windsor and tender to her Majesty an invitation to honour the City with her presence. Mr. Deputy STEVENS defended the Exchange Com mittee from the imputation intended to be cast upon it by Mr. Under-Sheriff Anderton, which he said had arisen from a pique of that gentleman, because the affair did not take place during his under-shrievalty. A letter from Sir J. Graham had been read, but he would ask the Lord Mayor whether he had not re ceived another communication, containing her Ma jesty's express wishes regarding their intended enter tainment ? The LORD MAYOR said he had waited on Sir J. Graham to know more it would be most agreeable for her Majesty to receive the entertainment' of her citizens, and he was told in answer, the Royal Ex change. Nothing else had been communicated to him on the subject. Ultimately the motion of Mr. King was carried by acclamation. ALDERMAN GIBBS. one." A Common Councilman said he had read in the Times paper a statement, purporting to be a report of a meeting of the parishioners of St. Stephen's, Wal brook, in which the name of Mr. Alderman Gibbs appeared. He wished to know from the worthy Al derman whether that account was true. The hoax which appeared in the Times was read at length. Mr. Alderman GIRDS said emphatically that the statement was totally false, and the letter to which his name was appended an entire fabrication.—(Hear.) Mr. Alderman COPELAND hoped the Court would not refuse that the statement just read, together with Mr. Alderman Gibb's denial, should be entered on their records. Sir P. LAURIE said he trusted that no such record would take place. True, an attack had been made on the character of a Magistrate of this City, but to take so much notice of a malicious paragraph in a newspaper would be a disgrace to this Cuort. WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAINMENTS.—MF. Wil son is at present making a most successful tour in the west of England. At Plymouth his entertainments were honoured by the presence of the Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's, the Earl and Countess of Morley, Lord Auckland, Sir Ralph and Lady Lopez, Admiral Sir David and Lady Milne, and all the gentry of the neigh bourhood. He gave " A Nicht wi' Burns," in the Ply mouth Theatre, under the patronage of Admiral Sir David Milne, when the house was crowded to excess. We see by the northern papers that in a few days the Scottish minstrel bends his steps as far north as Inver ness, and the towns in the neighbourhood. Mr. LINCOLN'S LECTURES ON MUSIC.—On Thursday evening, Mr. Lincoln commenced a series of four lectures on music at Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate-street ; they are designed to illustrate the genius and works of Beethoven, Weber, Spohr, and Mendelssolin. The lecture of last night was devoted to a critical examination of the works of Beethoven, from the earliest period of his fame as a composer. The lecturer displayed a fine appreciation of Beethoven's style of composition, and very aptly illus trated his remarks by instrumental and vocal music, selected from that great master's works. In this he was ably assisted by Miss M. Lincoln, Mr. Cox, I'lss Mason, and Herr Kroft: Mr. Lincoln himself presided at the piano-forte, and performed some very difficult pieces with precision and taste. The ball was crowded to over flowing, and Mr. Lincoln received unequivocal marks of the approbation of a numerous and discriminating audience. The public taste in the more elevated style of musical composition must unquestionably receive a vast impulse from lectures of this character, which are di rected to the development of principles, and, at the same time, are so pleasingly illustrated. LIFE DESTROYED BY A CARRAITAY.—A girl, named Georgiana Edwards, residing in Cricklade-street, Cirencester, recently returned from Cheltenham, enciente. On Tuesday morning she was delivered of a very fine boy ; on Wednesday the child died suddenly, and, on a post matem examination of the body being made by Mr. Warner, surgeon, it was found that a carraway from the food which had been given to the child had lodged ie. its windpipe, and as the child was unable to cough it up, it brought on convulsions, and ultimately death. An inquest was holden on Wednesday afternoon, and a verdict of accidental death was returned.—Cheltenham Examiner. A New York paper advertises that the owner of the perpetual motion, late l y exhibiting at Boston, has absconded without paying the man who turned the crank in the cellar 1 The mind of the most ordinary observer cannot fail to be strongly impressed with the importance of such a computation as this, founded upon the most minute and unintermitting observation of one solitary indivi- dual, for a period extending over half a century. In filet, the great value of these observations consists in their continuity ; the deductions from them are inevi table and irreversible ; and they must eventually lead to a complete discovery of the weather cycle, a sys tem totally distinct and apart from planetary influence, and computation—and which consists in showing the approach of more or less favourable or unfavourable seasons (not weeks or days), in respect to the crops reared by the agriculturist, so that in all time coming the visitations of deficient harvests can never come by surprise ;—a system, in truth, the discovery of which will prove the accuracy of the doctrine laid down by Professor Jameson, when, nearly thirty years ago, in a philosophical essay on this very subject, in the Edinburgh Review, he averred that " the complex system of winds moulds the climate, and varies the features of the seasons over the globe." Before proceeding to announce the weather, agree ably to this system, for the year 1845, commencing on the Ist of November next, it may be necessary to premise that averages of all the phenomena of the weather are struck for a certain number of years, and that when the simple phrases of " rather," slightly," " moderately," " considerably" windy are made use of, they all signify so much above average, and the same of every other phenomenon. From the Ist November, 1844, to the month of May, 1845 which composes the winter division of the year—the season promises a full average of frost and snow ; yet many temperate days, with an average of wind and rain. From May to the Ist November, 1845—being the end of the weather year, an d w hi c h com poses the summer division of the year—the season will have an average of wind, with many clear days. Temperate days, the general run ; and on the whole a mild sea son. Thunder and lightning slightly over average ; frost considerably over average, and rain sensibly over average. To sum up the annual period of 1845, it will be found that westerly winds will prevail, and the year will be an average windy one. Red, yellow, brown, and black clouds all considerably above average. Many clear days, yet average cloudiness. Tempe rate, fine temperate, and very fine temperate, all much above average—rather a singular characteristic of the year. Frost, slightly over average; snow, much over average ; quantity of rain, rather over average. It may, therefore, be safely concluded, that there will be little or nothing particularly noticeable in the forthcoming year, and that, in fact, in an agricultural point of view, and as regards the means of securing another abundant harvest, by ordinary attention to the operations of the season, no serious apprehensions need be entertained; nor can the present moderate prices of grain be materially affected. If, however, a famine and evil days were approaching—and which, in the course of time, can be forecast with the same certainty—there can be no doubt that this system, at present in its struggling infancy, would immediately command the most profound attention ; though it must be evident to the most superficial observer, that it is of as much importance, and requires precisely the same degree of accurate observation, discernment, and computation, to forecast a faveurable season as an unfavourable one. And this necessarily leads to the consideration of the weather for the year 1846. The character of that year is given thus early, in order to guard the public against the presumptuous and delu sive hallucinations of the astrological almanac-makers, as well as on account of certain peculiarities of the autumn quarter, of which it is of great importance duly to apprise the agricultural and commercial com munity. WINTER SEASON.—November and December, 1845 ; January, February, March, and April, 1846 :—Very considerably windy; rather wet; very fine days, slightly under average; frost and snow, both above average; days rain, slightly over average. SUMMER SEASON.—May, June, July, August, September, and October :—An unprecedently windy period, and over average rain ; considerable number of warm days, but the general mild temperature under average ; very fine days, a full average. Days of rain, under average, except in July. ANNUAL PERIOD.—A very windy period indeed, and sensibly over average rain ; mild temperature above average ; very fine days, average. The high winds of the year 1846—especially the more violent winds in August and September—will astonish the public of the British Islands, and of Europe generally. Thus much with regard to the general character of the weather for the ensuing two years ; and were it not for the necessity of condensing articles of this de scription, and the danger of becoming tiresome to the running reader, the weather for ten or twenty years to come could be given with the same safety and con fidence. Enough, however, has been indicated to direct public attention to the examination and study of the entire system, and to the discovery of the cycle of the winds made by Mr. Mackenzie, which, sooner or latter, will become the most important and indis pensable vade mecum of every class, from the statesman and stalist, the commercial man and the agriculturist, down to the humble cottager. In conclusion, it need 'only be hinted at present, that the high winds, for many years to come, will be more noted for their duration than their frequency. For the years 1847 and 1848, the calculations indicate other peculiarities of the weather of a startling nature, the description of which Mr. Mackenzie is fully pre pared to promulgate when he finds it convenient, al though his advanced age and physical infirmities are beginning to make serious inroads upon a constitu tion originally good, but necessarily shaken by a life of persevering research, and stupendous, but ill-re• quited labour, in the service of mankind. SCENE AT A THEATRE.-011 Thursday, during the performance of the play of Othello, at the Victoria Theatre, the audience were much excited by an announce ment from the management. Towards the close of the play, and just before the last act was to be represented, Mr. Osbaldiston came forward and addressed the audience as follows :—" Ladies and gentlemen, I am placed in a most painful position. I know not what to say.—(Sensa tion.) Mr. Kirby, who has been drunk to night, has in sulted the whole company, and without saying a word to me has left the house."—(Cries Of, It's a lie, Mr. Kirby is not drunk.") Mr. Osbaldiston proeeeded—" If it s your wish, I will send after him and try to ge l thth i l here ou. —(Great confusion.) Several gentlemen in tie pt rose and essayed to speak. One gentlearnndan after gentlemen, the confusion had subsided, said , " L adies it is untrue to say . that Mr. Kirby is drunk ;. I thej h ave h ust seen him, and he is as sober as any pe_r . son i h n ho this moment. The fact is , Mr. Osbaldiston as grossly insulted Mr. Kirby by telling Miss Vincent, in the pre sence of the whole company, not to speak the speeches, but to come to cues, and not be humbugged by the damned Yankey.—(Great sensation.) Mr. Kirby has just attempted to enter the theatre and explain to you the nature of the gross insult offered him, but Mr. Osbaldiston has ordered the doorkeepers not to admit him." Great confusion followed this gentleman's re marks, and a noise at the box entrance added ILA a little to the uproar, and upon inquiry it was found that Mr. Osbaldiston and Mr. Kirby were at the door, the latter gentleman having paid for a box ticket, and the former refusing him admittance. The house thinned after the above affair, and the other pieces went off very tamely. (The above appeared in a Morning Paper of yesterday. Mr. Osbaldiston has since issued a notice, denying the accuracy of the report, but stating that Mr. J. H. Kirby shall never again enter the Victoria Theatre.) The Rey. W. Penrice Borrett, M.A., has been in stituted to the rectory of Syston, Gloucestershire, vaesnt by the death of the Rev. F. " On Saturday I went with to visit the scene of the wreck of the Conqueror, and yesterday that of the wreck of the Reliance, the one on the right, the other on the left of the Bay of Etables. has placed the figure-head of the Conqueror in his gar den : it was quite shattered, but he had it repaired. He purchased many of the relics washed on shore; among others, the geographical charts of the captain, who probably owed his calamities to an inaccuracy in the chart of this part of the French coast. These charts are those of J. W. Norie, dated 1816, and en titled, A New Chart of part of the South Coast of England, extending from the Downs to Spithead.' They indicate neither the double light on Touquet Point, which is on the left bank of the mouth of the Canche, nor the light on Point Ornel, called, on the chart in question, Pointe de l' Orient, which is on the right bank. You will do well to get this inaccuracy noticed in the journals as speedily as possible, and will thereby prevent further disasters. During the thirty years that I have known this coast, more than a hundred vessels have been lost upon it ; and I have not the least doubt that, without due precaution, you will next winter have to deplore fresh calamities. The flat sandy shore from the mouth of the Autlise to that of the Canche is, in my opinion, even more dangerous than Eddystone rocks. A lighthouse of the first class ought to have been erected long ago ; but it remains undone."—Patriot. SIR ANDREW AGNEW. The following address from Sir Andrew Agnew has been forwarded to the Earl of Aberdeen : " To the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., &c., the Great Officer of State in attendance on her Majesty in Scotland. "My Lord—l have the honour of addressing your Lordship, as the Great Officer of State in attendance on her Majesty in Scotland, in the name of the friends of the observance of the Lord's-day in Scotland. " I am fully aware of the extreme, presumption of thus addressing your Lordship, and thus venturing to approach the Royal presence ; but having intrusted to me the confidence of those in whose name I now presume to write, and the shortness of time not permitting the gathering together of the signatures of all who concur in the sentiments which I express, I humbly pray that, as an individual, I may be pardoned. " It is a well known fact that the habits of Sabbath observance are not in all respects the same in the nor thern and southern divisions of these kingdoms ; and it is equally well known that Scotland has since the Refor mation been distinguished amongst the nations of Chris tendom as a strict Sabbath-observing country, in the true Scriptual sense of the word ; and it is this import ant fact which, with all imaginable respect and defer ence, and dutifulness, and loyalty, it is humbly prayed may be brought under the notice, at this time, of her most gracious Majesty the Queen, not doubting that in this, as in all other respects, it. is the gracious desire of the Royal mind to recognise, to respect, and to gratify, the religious habits, the peculiar characteristics, and the best principles of her Majesty's most loyal and devoted subjects in this her ancient kingdom. " It would be the highest presumption to suggest to your Lordship's consideration the extent of the over whelming moral influence which the example of the Court is calculated to produce upon the religious habits of Scotland on this auspicious occasion, as it must be the Christian patriarch's confident hope that the result shall be a large increase of that righteousness whi c h exa lt et h a nation, and of which, by Divine appointment, the Sabbath is the sign. " With thankfulness to Almighty God, who at an other time put it into the heart of our Protestant Queen to hallow the holy day of the Lord of the Sabbath, in a foreign land—or with prayer in the language of the Holy Scripture, that now and ever the Sabbath may b e a sign between God and her Majesty, whereby her Ma jesty may know that He is the Lord her G o d— an d, moreover, -praying that every blessing of God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ, may, by the Holy Spirit. bless the Queen— " I have the honour to be, my Lord, in the name of the friends of the observance of the Lord's day in Scot land, your Lordship's most obedient and very humble servant, " ANDREW AGNEW, Bart. " Sept. 12, 1844." INVERARY CASTLE.—The Marquis and Mar chisonesi of Lorn are expected to arrive at this princely residence on Monday next, upon a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Argyll. There will be a gather ing of the clans on the occasion to welcome the young chief and his lovely bride to the glens of M'Callum More. The clansmen, clad in the Campbell tartan, are to meet the carriages at, the top of Glen Crow, and es cort the noble pair to the castle. Altogether the muster will include 750 Highlanders, 400 of whom, belonging to his Grace's estates, and under the command of John Lorn Stewart, Esq., of Glenbuckie ; 100 of the Inve rary old clan, under the command of James Robinson, Esq. ; and the remaining 250 under Walter Campbell, Esq., of Islay. Great rejoicings will take place, and it is expected that the festivities will be prolonged for se veral days. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and several members of both families will be present. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and the Here ditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz have also signified their intention of honouring the Noble Duke and Duchess with a visit on the occasion. A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS.—A pugnacious tailor, a very flint, named Rispail, and living in the Rue des Petres St. Germain I'Auxerrois, was on Satur day brought before the Correctional Tribunal for a vio lent assault upon a customer, named Boulanger, who was the collector of his debts, taking his commission out in clothes. Some differences had arisen between them, and one day the tailor sent to his agent to come and try on a new coat and waistcoat. Boulanger went, and stripped for the trial, but not prepared for a fight. As soon as he had laid aside his hat and stick, and taken off his old coat and waistcoat, one of Rispail's men came and carried them into another room. The tailor helped his customer to put on the new waistcoat, but, while pretending to examine it behind, he assailed the agent with the fist and foot in the most violent manner. Bou langer demanded what offence he had committed, Rises pail pretended that he had robbed him of 700 f., and re-. q t u a i rt m eadaonu amount. Boulanger refused, of a a n b d i llaof battleexch exchange eto hensued, which lasted half an hour, and was only put an end to by the entrance of police-officers, called in by the neigh. hours. Poor Boulanger being the weakest, was almost beaten to a mummy, while Rispail had received scarcely a scratch or a bruise. The Tribunal refused to enter into the cause of the battery, deciding that under any circums t a nces the tailor had no right to act as he had done, and sentenced him to be imprisoned for twelve months, and to pay 300 francs to Boulanger by way of damages.—Galignani. The numerous passengers on Thursday morning that were embarking and disembarking from the different steamers at Blackwall Pier, were much amused at seeing two very splendid giraffes, valued 2,000 guineas, shipped on board the Soho steam-ship, that left shortly after with several families of distinction, and the proprietor of these valuable animals, for Antwerp. • chap. 16, oi:tVictoriaFLlNT AND CUT GLASS. — Doubts having been et_ tertained whether bottles of flint and cut gl`:. ss are c u h n a d r e g r a b t I l l e e be ad NN' it o h duty t "Bottlesy: P Aherwise enu merated or described, 11. per cwt. , ar:u further, on bY.t hc o A f ct glass 7 nV ac count of the Excise duty, is. P cwt. ;" or as " Flint and cut glass, for every 1001. value 301., and further, on account of the Excise duty, 75. per cwt. ;" and the Cus toms authorities being of opinion that all bottles of flint and cut glass should be charged with the latter rate of duty, orders have been issued for the officers in London and at the outports to govern themselves accordingly. A CURIOSITY IN NATURE.—Last week as a man was emptying the ash place in the Royal Hotel yard, Wakefield, he found a number of hens eggs buried under the ashes, altogether amounting to thirty-seven ; and, happening to break one of them, he discovered to 'hi s great astonishment a chicken which was almost full grown. There happening to be a hen in . th e yard at th e time, he thought he would sat the rema in ing thirty-si x eggs under her, whit,hhe accordingly did, and in t wo days after 013 hatched' fourteen of them. The youig Oackens are now looking remarkably well, and in a thriving condit:on,—Xanchester Guardian, ~.. ,