The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-14 00:00:00

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY res Notice Is hereby given, that the SCRIP CERTIFICATES in Peet of the Shares taken by this Company in the Brighton and cheater, and Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railways, are ready °▪ 5 exchanged f or th e Banker ' s Rece i p t s a t th e Offi ce o f thi s Com vanY, between the hours of Ten and Two. BY order, C. It. MACKENZIE, Secretary. LOr l d Terminus, Nov. 11, 1844. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, to ~,f ror n DUBLIN to MULLING AR, with BRANCHES ",AHLONE and LONGFORD. In n ec ,_ co nsequence of statements having been made by parties con ,. `vti with another project, styling itself the Great Western Bail „"it,4 "That the Dublin and Cashel Company are connected there , and will give it their support," c°r nmunication has been made to that Board, and the Com to"Lee are authorised t o s t a t e th a t th e C as h e l Company have no G i n i t el iott with any parties projecting a railway to Athlone and ' „ I. :a3r, and have refusd to pledge themselves to the support or u ragernent of any particular line. By order, 41 JOHN 111 A L LEY, Secretary. U sa Per ckville-street, Dublin, Nov. 11, 1644. NUMBER ONE, ST. PAUL'S t IP LOYMENT.—Persons having a little time Londe to sPare are apprised that Agents continue to be appointed in or th. , z.tud country towns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMI AN , 0418 le of their celebrated teas. ' No. 9 , Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopvgate-street. p oca are packed In sho w y leaden canisters, from one ounce to a itil e u a l with the p r i ce an d we i g ht mar k e d on e a c h packet, and but ai,jaanLrouble is occasioned by the sale. Tho license is only . I Is..per l aleraC ii , d many during the last ninetema years have realised con " incomes by the agency without one shilling let or loss. ication to be made (if by letter post-paid) as above. 1 4 RICE'S PATENT CANDLES are retailed by 085 most of the respectable Dealers throughout the . Kingdom at spun '', 14.1 g per lb., at which price they are cheaper, taking into ac 'hey ,"B quantity of light given, than the commonest Tallow Dips. Janii3,l b eautifully white, and burn without snuffing more bril an the finest wax. and co` r a b de may obtain them wholesale from EDWARD PRICB It reet 'ellnont, Vauxhall ;or from PALMER and CO., Sutton -1111 ~_RGESS'S NEW SAUCE, for general pur 16r it having gained such great approbation, and the demand re s , to increase JOHN BURGESS and SON beg most r th e et i r full ,,Y to off er thus their best acknowledgments to the Public epee in liberal patronage of the same ; its utility and great convent "et., climates have recommended i'.. to the most distinguished i co .nnections, ho have all spoken highly in its recommends '4citt t t o Prepared w by them only; and for preventing disappoint "uttie f amilies, all possible care has been resorted to, by each each bei ng sealed on the cork with their firm and address, as well teni i ,'abel having their signature, without which it cannot be t , 4 N 'SgEi fIir t : MESS and SON'S long-established and much-esteemed the a n ,"` of ANCHOVIES continues to be prepared by them after 4 4111. m anner that has given the greatest satisfactiou for many Art -w `house, 107, Strand, corner of Savoy Steps, Loidoi. I VEPPE and Ce ~Wine-inerehants, are now 4 4 , ' 3e, --til illit PORTS of the highest . character, at 305., 328., 345., th eir • p p' r do zen, to wh i ch they respec tf u ll y i nv it e th e a tt e nti on mitlityLucuels and the public. Fine old crusted wines, from two to t i Peri o it' In bottle at 425., 455., 455., 508., and 545. per dozen ; very s 4t) B ' h errie, pale, brown, and gold coloured, from 30e., 345., " 11 Pwards; also a curious Amontillado Sherry at 50s. '`,l,lltie: M ock of all description of wines constantly on hand, in- " 4 4,, 4 o,:ilare selection of HockS and Mosellcs, received direct from 4. s. and Cot on the Rhine. Il t :', L aeas C° . beg respectfully to observe that their principle of to ,aot to sell a low priced article at the expense of quality, o 'aslo w l'P'Y their friends with the finest wines that aro imported, 'rat e a Price f or cash as may b e commensurate with a fair and mo- L has Proti . 4. l l l.4 Xli a ° l t e , w ince and prices sent on application, and country orders k a iri tl ee_z m af:en .. d_ed t to on , receivingtt cellars, a eli c ar asp 2 ri 3 t i ta a i r i s c i e tal o t r -st a re r e e t: , 41 , enter s-s ree , re -,9,1) FURNITURE AT MODERATE PRICES. . -- ,.' ill lAS FOX, 93, Bishopsgate-street, Within, tAial-etTe_ctruny invites the FURNITURE to inspect the stock of a t ts 'r and UPHOLSTERY 4 est*. at cott 'aliment, consisting of every requisite for the Mansion 0 be sage' of a quality, fashion, material, and workm anship , not ON h a i r Pa ss e d, and offered at prices scarcely exc eeding those A re l s : l c harged for showy but unsubstantial furniture. and c a Most complete and beautiful collection o f Chimn ey, Pier, et her "a°l e Glasses, D ecora ti v e P a inting, Paper hang ings, a nd , knae s Pernara e ntal Embellishments at the most moderate and rea 1, Price s. , asto e " u ies requiring really good articles, will find at Thomas d rox . 's tageo.*o e xtensive and various as to afford every facility fnra wvlth lirst.s7,:eleetMn, at prices as low as are possibly compatible 93'4L.5. quality. ---- ' A'"h° l ,2 t ---.-________ga sestrect Within. I s{ ;IS! G HEALTH. A TA LE. Tws Health was seated on his throne one day, le, - ,e've an honourable prize away , ss.".. many a candidate, with coaxing eyes. ,sazed on the King, in hopes to gain the rize. " Tee- Totallers" in crowds, appear'd in view , . Ana • A ,- many a doctor soug • 1 , — , 1 length, while gazed upon by all and each, ht the honour, too. ." King address'd his Court—and here's THE SPEE CH. , . N ci v 9entleman all—l've wegh'd your various claims ithout respect to sny body 's names. ! An d. really after all is saidand d_on_e,___ . l ieprize is'elue to MOSES and his SON. ge lsc and temperance are very well, s u s kood warm clotnes abundant s wish it to be clearly understood ly excel. _ i : IO sES and SON have done my subjects good. he manufacture of their warm attire, Exclud es t h e cheerless storms of winter's i re ; ! i n ` l Juana a cheek is deckei with healthy roses, —y reaeon of the ga r ments sold by MOaLS. A nd he nce (.aist he), the prize is fairly won M B y U SES. 'is conjunction with his SON." With this be beckon'd Messrs. MOSES up, Arad handed them the prize —a n cup. With hearty wishes for their long su golden ccess, 1V;• Hs furnishing such admirable dress. MOSES and S'AN with due obedience boy". And took the prize 'mid acclamations loud. 4, iving his Majesty to understand s j. , s ~That they have, still, a famous stock on hand. 4 t s. io ' n F . or the convenience of parties residing from town, on appli . direetions for self-measurement will be forwarded post free. tk 'rsti ae s. d. 1 Vsi olt Coats in READY MADE. A/ . v s Ve t. „ _ every variety , We ed ,', unto, seven pockets 0 I 0 6 alsseS' s aglienis „...„,„ ....... .„ ... ................ •••••• Csip ditto with II silk facings, cellars, and cuffs StisiZaense stock of 810u5e5.....-- 0 3 6 EassZer vests . 2 6 l ',,, l a.el„ s e ; aild Persian ditto, in every variety ris. to 8 6 R io "'sin vests slo th ,loth ditto 0 4 6 %km "users , A in: tall ies' doe " ...... 0 11 0 b y __ at e fti ., 0 7 0 es,sa N o s' , Y of summer ditto , 1 0 0 edged' - -,st ditto,dittol: t on inis C O MADE TO MEASURE. I PI 6 I,n/skin-ats in the most approved style w eed e s , ditto, ditto, seven pockets 0 16 0 ii,te*tr ata.trimmed with silk 'aailtn ar !,.. fine Saxony 1 3 0 kPro of t ite. New and improved article, warranted water ltini . I , t ,a_nied with silk, collar, cuffs, &c 1 18 0 1 0 0 I , ,,Qnler e ' 4 " 78 - each, or three for 10ltses i 'vests, in choice patterns 0 9 6 Roles Nei:latsted for the season 1 - 37 .4 c lilitliss a nd plain doe 0 17 (.; pe r ... 4c Y . I hest of England 1 :?. 0 ts,tn /374.. k ............. , ........ • • O, 16 0 "etqs, , a. ............................. ....—• • .. 1 6 0 Ft', '? t .... .................................. 112 0 'date e ....................... .... teZ lt Co at ' ....... r ealiutactured 2 15 0 1 15 0 k,_ iitu....._ ............................................................ 3 3 0 ''' '' n, fl to Ste w ° --Y extent can he had at five minutes' notice, at the lioy,: i ... B ilita s e,.. following prices'. :- - elts ' •••ga eesat vest and trousers from 1 16 9 le s °, jacket ' and from 018 0 lif ,;Ort/ 4 ,, vest, trousers . (r ch an -- irly article purchased or ordered, if not approved Nv btess,iled,,.r the money returned. tictl 44 u la ss '• MOSES and SON, Tailors, Wholesale and Retail c r. a "41 e 11 Outfitters, and General Wareh ousemen, 154, ]ili a%&t, 44 63 . l ' iri t halli ' srw.--..e. ga e,City, opposite the Church. Moses.aleh_leihns-5,.. and Son are obliged to guard th public haa -- " 0 s1, oi.'",i'i. having learned that the untradesmanlike Th ev s'sTri se,o"rtlnit connected with them, cern or it's thes ales s h _nav e „ 10 td s to in many instances, and for obvious ame reasons. em" tlis s , oee wh o co nnexion whatever with any other establishment, tp i'Peihs,•.v. desire genuine Cheap Clothing should_ (to prevent VPk"te th e e4t, 'SM.) call or send to, 154, Minories, or 86, Aldgate, ' 40C P: eh * o 'cl o ' e l tillswi ss transacted at this Establishment from sunset on on Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve -- - -- - ROYAL HIGH- N .;8 1 .?,, NISED 11------------- MAJESTY, HIS .. ... N T , .3 pl t „„ Y HER MAJ i‘/IIILI•r;"CE ALBERT , THE ° AND s-Ot .L Y AND THE SEVERAL SO HUR TS ' ROYALVEFRAEMIGIIN.is, 1t0.,,,,01 EUROPE. for the P r %r e ° L ADS MACASSOR the Human Hair. d 'ce 4 . Zth and Preserving and Beautifying . 4 011 b1,, m , . ... ly Bottles ( equal OIL, '''' —• 's 1.. • to four small), 10$. 6d., 04 1.1.1,1,.. t size, 21s. Oil" are engraved i4the wr".--The words " Rowland 'a ,Nli, •. ti •• 29 021; letters. Without this, each genuine bott ' l g e M ; " an u d sa o r n the back of the containing . ~ ROWLAND'S KALYDOR Ik6 e ti ng and Be - Skin and Complexion. Price anit '. 6(1 - Per l i i e fying th ' e included. or b . duty inclu h,i‘tAti r ROWLAND'S ODONTO, 4 "' Pros—,.'4E_NifitlFlCE, readers the Teeth beautifully White, un .• ..., Um,. Price 2s. 9d. per box, duty included. N fit tlinc iPled sh o lc CAUTION. l'lA(fAleod the rt "Pe"' d as the " genuine r ' e ~..... slut ..deleterious compol __lir,. to It Is therefore for the sake of gaining a trifle more , r;i?,aary . un "11-', IPtLYDOR, and °DO ft : .1) , 5,. „ Purehamng either article, to see the w rd " RO W i a nd 4,,, . 5 on the Wrapper. For the otection of the Public from t 6 st roed , , s t i tl ipnisphtienau, tthhoerisHedontohuerapbrieoprietor . A Commissioners of her Ma_ Wh ich i, astrxWedLANl3 & SON, • 4 , Sold b " 2( t ) , hu ll s A : TTON.GARDEN ; ' Y th • All nth:ll:4 ALYnott and °nCl2oB°PuNeSNriTgfujaEn.teuß rr F : E t l o TS be . en ern and by Chemists a 6 PRADULENT FOR 1) ILE, IN DIop R 7 , -.S SION, AND DISORDERS OF THE R. A A 76%1'1ACR AND LIVER. . "JtRATEY, of Bath, formerly Sur „, „ Reon i n th„ , —) e his le • "•ast India Company's Service, recommends to the Th eßte t 4n"l Y. Pl ls. oust e ma I?enefits resulting Rom an efficacious household medicine Ivery 4 6tfe 't. to all. This medicine Is not put forward as a cure I N f . i . MPlatin, but in those cases of sudden and temporary 11.1r rvite eqUently occurring in families, it will be found of singula ~ Th e _as its o peration is extreinely mild, as well as effectual. . . lly 4;74 tCpece:irtz,idi,ly increasing sale of these .Pills?Pjt:e7rTad,u. 4ols!lttalities, is the t%sictinsroofo tfhofschsv.ho have experiencea m , sii4;nlhee thOse suffering') from° 0 1 theit, that their t ffects are perman &net! Tf . l whatever cause itmeir ex:ellen , Af oseb will r..,ti. liotvels• act u n the Kid i s on to s '"th on th 'fl• P° . .n e ya, stimulating e y i.... ove wins which might othei vase terminate in Droksy. tb: _riarvey's "rorem th o e ve ab o s be or t b n e c n t t 1.4 ~..m'e been found of infinite service both in England and during Practice in the East Indies, in preventing and curing 444' ti,' ,l ;Jtaiintlice ; in passing off Gall S and restoring a healthy ae the Liver. Ladies will find them Particularly beneficial both Li . St after their confinement 7i,n,gi pt.ly_exiucellent Pills are to be procured genuine t e h f , F i cl .lo w v i e r r d n s,. ,) i ta. t stalvulpi: Ckirccehisarliv. hpeosrebnoaxmeg:nrx engraved o by Sa n nger, 150, Oa t'', nii,te; White 24: Cornhill, oppo . site the Royal Exchange; and reaPectablei Chemists .P_ . RAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, kue.The Manifold advantages to the heads of families from the iij, 'Pon of a Medicine of known e ffi cacy, that may be resorted to bp,. TO fi denee, and used with success in cases of temporary sick -41, 1, h'ieurring in families mere or less every day, are so obvious to 4 old e a l. no question can be raised of its importance to every house lobo! hi the kingdom. From among numerous testimonials, the RlLig is respectfully submitted : 'to x R. THOMAS PROIJT, 229, STRAND, LONDON. s, si .. 5, Cooper-street. Manchester, March 12, 1842.7 !eaul t r ."7. l have much satisfaction in communicating to you the ' l l, ~°`, my experience, after repeated trials, of FRAMPTON'S 0%, we HEALTH and I feel it but justice to state, that in the Ile, -`.. ' f Many years' , trial of vatious Aperient i n dicines, I have ii,t." foUnd results at 014C6 salutary and efficient in the relief of the 1 ar g " ' froth reduadant bile, &c., &c., with so little Inconvenience ; sii,an:,therefore, warranted in declaring that they sup ply . to me a kid ~,,,,..._"M2 wanting, of being able to recommend to families, school, Itiosr', 411 Y mercantile men, w h et h er at the desk er on the road, a editcr Mg I v,..0 Myse I if, in giving thi s t es ti mony, I am the weans of mak ,,A MPTON'S PILLS more generally known and apprecisted. Th e Sir, Sir, respectfully yours, .. WILLIAM SMITH." *Oki " h Preeedented sale of these Pills, arising from the earnest re f; ehdations of the many thousands who have derived benefit hot ~h e ir use, render any lengthened comment unnecessary, they are Nett forth as a cure for an diseases to which mankind is liable, but for ant-nd Liver Complaints, with their many well-known attend— qkithnilious and S ck Headache, Pain and Oppression after Tea's, Ileat:L°44. Dizziness, Singing Noise in Head and Ears, Drowsiness, I,,"hth, Loss of Appetite, Wind, Spasms, &e. effe: . o ,t; three doses will convince the . affficted of etath salutary acti o : Ihe stomach will greedily regain i s strength 1 ealthy ahs I: Of the Liver, Bowels, and Kidneys, will rapidly take place, str"" 4 te,_ ad of listnesness, heat, pains, and jaundiced appearanc, 'will ittos activity, and renewed health, extending to good . old age, ae co „, the result of taking this medicine, according to the directions soi,.:t.hyjng each box. ter kZ„ , .r. Prout, 229, Strand, Lond on, Price Is. I%cl. and 2s. 9d. Killeo4..lld by the Vendors of Medicines generally throughout the kk f ',sal or FRAMPTON'S PILL of HEALTH , and observe the 0 ,., e 4rn ern blept A sum ddres p s of'. ThomasProut, 220, Strand, London," on the . No. 16,301. LONDON, THURSDAY, E viENING SUNS NOVEMBER 14, 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 En that Bour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. 57, STRAND!!! WELLINGTON BOOTS, the very best, to measure, ONE GUINEA. E. STUNT- ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INsTrrunoN. The TRANSFORMATION'S of PROTEUS will be illustrated by the PROTEOCOPE for the first tints on Monday, Nov. 11, and continued with other novelties during the week. The PHYSIOSCOPE, OPAQI TE DIICROSCOPE, HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE, DIVING-BELL and DIVER, DISSOLVING VIEWS, Dr. RYAN'S LECTURES on ACID POISONS and their ANTIDOTES daily, and in the Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays. Professor BACHHOFFNER'S varied Lectures abound in interesting experi ments. Admission, is.; Schools, Half-price. The revised CATALOGUE, with tho addition of Three Hundred Works of Art recently deposited in the Museum. Price Is. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The steady success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation declare a second Bonus, averaging 60 per cent. on the amounts Inv on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. The die:4ll°9.g gollte la annual, and the next will be made In De cember of the ?remelt year. THE APPROACHING POLISH BALL AT GUILDHALL. this city ; those who were accustomed to have Sovereigns for their guest:, that they still remain steady in their humane cona;.deratien for the sufferings of the exile. — (Loud cheering.) Mr. E.A.GLETON (the Treasurer, to whose exertions the Poles have long been deeply indebted) ruse, and ex pressed the high gratification he felt at the detailed ac count given by Lord I )udley Stuart, interesting and im portant as it was to the cause of the persecuted Poles, in removing the erroneous impression which had gone -Ibroad, that they had it in their power to return. — (Hear, hear.) Ile had taken care to make it known to all parties with whom he came in contact, that it was imposs:ble for the brave but unfortunate men to specu late upon the mercy of the Emperor of Russia. The knout would be their doom if they built upon the com passion of that monarch ; and the fate of the clergyman alluded to by Lord Dudley Stuart would, without the shadow of a doubt, be visited upon those who would en gage in so rash an adventure.—(llear, hear.) The day would soon arrive, he hoped in God, when those noble and patriotic heroes would be possessed of their country. Mr. IioLT made a few observations on the glad anti cipations of the sucas of the ball, and the Committee adjourned. Yesterday a very full meeting of the Committee appointed to superintend the arrangements for the grand ball and concert, to be given on the 19th instant, at the Guildhall, took place. Deputy Peacock in the Chair. The CHAIRMAN rejoiced to communicate to the Com mittee that they had every prospect of a most prosperous issue to their labours on the forthcoming occasion. Lord DUDLEY STUART said he felt great pleasure in seeing so full an attendance at the Committee, and was very happy to congratulate them on the prospects before them of a most successful ball. He had received on all hands, both in the west-end of the town and in the City, assurances of support the most encouraging The long list of distinguished persons who had signified their de sire to patronise the ball, headed by the illustrious lady who never failed them, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and graced by such names as the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Lord and Lady Wharneliffe, Lord and Lady Stanley, Lord and Lady John Russell, and not least in importance Sir Robert and Lady Sale — (Cheers)—was evidence of the favour with which their undertaking was regarded by persons in high stations of different parties; and though, even last year, they had met with such kind assistance from the public, as had ultimately produced a most satisfactory result, he per • ceived, this year, amongst all classes, a still greater in terest in the object in view, and still greater readiness to come forward to promote it. This ho attributed partly to the improved condition of the country, trade being generally less depressed, and partly to the circum stance of the Polish cause being better understood, in consequence of its having attracted a greater share of public attention. This had no doubt been ono effect of the recent visit to this country of the Emperor of Russia. However that might be, the friends of Poland had before them the prospect of being enabled to derive the greatest advantage from the liberality of the Court of Common Council, which by granting to them the use of the Guild • hall, would be found to have afforded them the means of carrying on their lakseurs in behalf of the brave and un fortunate men, now reduced to destitution in conse quence of their resolute attachment to their country and of their defence of its rights. It was impossible for him (Lord Dudley Stuart) adequately to express his appre ciation of the important boon thus conferred on the Poles and their friends ; but he thought it no wonder that the Corporation of London, ever famous in his tory as the friends and champions of liberty, should feel sympathy for men who were sufferers in its cause ;—no wonder that they could not bear to leave them without bread, and without a home in the midst of their busy and flourishing city ; no wonder that when a mode was pointed out of relieving them, without detriment in any way to the interests of other claimants, they should wil lingly adopt it. Far be it from me (said Lord Dudley Stuart), as far, I am sure, it is from the wish of any of those with whom I have the honour to act, to turn from, or undervalue the claims of our own poor. I believe that the humble individual now addressing you—l be lieve that the members of the Association to which I belong, cannot be charged with indiff e re nce t o th e suffer ings of their own countrymen—and that we are at least as ready as other people to contribute to their relief. We have not come into the City seeking to divert the benevo lence of the citizens fro m o th er channels, or to intercept assistance, which but for us would be bestowed on the destitute of our own country ; but we have sought to employ, for a benevolent purpose that, which, to all ap pearance would, but for us, not be used at all. For some time past there has been a Polish Ball at Guildhall almost every year; but there have been years when the necessities of the Poles not requiring it, we have for borne from asking for the Hall ; for we have no desire to take undue advantage of the generosity of the public, or to collect more money than is absolutely required. In those years we have not seen the Hall employed for any other charitable purpose ; but it has stood empty. We have never competed for it with any other charitable association ; and when our petition was presented to the Court of Common Council last week you heard a mem ber of the Court of Common Council make this state ment :—That when some years ago the Association of the Friends of Poland were about to ask for the Hall, a report was circulated that the Committee of the Greville street Infirmary wished to obtain it for that institution ; that on that occasion I w aited on him, as a member of the Committee of the Infirmary, accompanied by some of my colleagues, and inquired whether there really was any foundation for the report, stating, at the same time, that if so, we should not think of standing in the way of the Infirmary, and that, on the contrary, we should be ready to do anything in our power to promote its success. His answer was, that there was no intention of asking for the Hall for that Institution ; and we then prosented our petition, which was granted.—(Hear.) We have net heard this year that any other parties were ready to take the Hall and employ it to advantage. The entertainments given here are not conducted to a suc cessful termination without much preparation, or without ureat and sustained exertion. This we had made ; and being prepared to make the Hall conducive to a purpose which we were confident was good, and finding that there were no other persons in a similar situation, we came forward with the petition to which it has been the plea sure of the Court generously to accede. The ball, then, which will be given, will interfere with no other charity, will form a magnificent entertainment for those who, attend it, and will cause at least as much money . to be circulated amongst the tradesmen of this . City as will be devoted to the relief of the Poles. The funds collected in this manner are employed in relieving the sick among the refugees, and those who are the victims of accident and other casualties, in enabling others to proceed to foreign coun tries, in assisting some to procure employment, and in providing for the wants of those who have no other re source, by granting them allowances which, in every case, were of very small amount. It is our constant aim to repress misconduct, to discourage idleness, and to pro mote industry ; and in this we have not been without success—many are usefully and honourably employed, and btleeeugli pointed indiv to id amongstua 1 inst a n the e s ofm Poles,is misconduct duc t amongstmay doubtless b largetles s bodies of men, I am not afraid to say that on the whole, they conduct themselves well ; and I doubt if any other set of men in a similar situation would be found to conduct themselves so well, although the whole number of the Poles in this country has within the last five or six years, been very materially reduced (for, in 1838, it reached nearly 700, and now amounts scarcely to 500), the number of those depending exclusively on the 'Association for support (which had also diminished) has, since last year, been somewhat augmented. The chief cause of this is the following:—Some months ago a Russian mane of-war, bound for Kamschatka, was driven into Portsmouth by stress of weather ' • on board of her were a number of Poles, who had been compelled to serve as sailors, and were destined to become in habitants of Siberia. On finding themselves in a British harbour, they took advantage of that glorious privilege, which is common to the white as well as to the black slave fortunate enough to reach our shores, and escaped from the service into which they had been forced.—(Loud cheers.) Some of them have since entered on board British merchantmen, and others have found different employments, but they have not all been so fortunate, and some are still without work. Some others who, escaping from Russia, had obtained leave to remain a certain time in Prussia, on the expiry of the time prescribed found themselves reduced to the alter native of returning to the Russian dominions, or of taking ship from Hamburgh for England. What would have been their fate had they decided to return may be interred from the treatment experienced within the last two months by a Polish clergyman, of unimpeachable cha racter and exemplary piety, who having ventured to proceed from Prussia into that part of Poland now under Russia, was immediately seized, and condemned to receive 150 lashes from the knout. Russia boasts that she has no capital punishments ; but the knout, severely applied, answers all the purpose of the gallows; and at the 147th blow the wretched man expired I A report has been circulated that the Emperor of Russia has this year published a general amnesty, and some people ask why the Poles do not return to their country. Without stopping to dis cuss the motives which might prevent them from avail ing themselves of it, if it existed, it is important you should know that this amnesty is wholly imaginary. There has been no amnesty ; and the only foundation for the report is this :—About a dozen Poles residing here petitioned for leave to make submission to the Emperor, and to return to Poland. It was accorded to five ; and who and what were they who received this mark of imperial indulgence ? All persons of infamous character. Three had been convicted of felony in France ; one, struck off the list of refugees at the desire of his countrymen here, had been bound over to keep the peace towards me ; and the fifth, a convicted felon, committed an assault on me last year.—(Hear, hear.) It was perhaps unnecessary to enter into such details in addressing gentlemen who, by their attendance on the present occasion, showed that they needed not to have the claims of the Poles impressed on them ; but, seeing many members in the room who had joined the Com miescee for the first time, he (Lord Dudley Stuart) had thought that the statements he had laid before them might not be uninteresting, and that they would tend to confirm them in their conviction of the soundness of the cause in which they had engaged.—(Loud cheers.) This year of 1844 (continued his Lordship) will long be memorable in the eyes of the Poles, in consequence of the marks of sympathy they have received from- the British public —greater, perhaps, and more striking ; than any they have ever before received. In this year they have seen the leading members of our aristocracy employed for the peepose of relieving Poli s h di s t ress , undisturbed by the presence of the Autocrat himself, and deterred by no slavish fear of their benevolent exertions being met by imperial frowns ; but there is no sym pathy more grateful to the Poles than that which has always been so generously awarded them—the sympathy of the citizens of the Corporation of London. It is most cheering to them to see that those who occupy so con spicuous a position—those on whom the eyes of the world have lately, even more than usual, been turned, in consequence of the magnificent solemnities, graced by the presence of royalty, which have lately taken place in s p t u o t el t i l , 9 ui B to ri b t i i s sh ma is e l i e i s in , e 7i d t o h u a b l t l ie t s h s e b ir e %% N . beautiful and profitable combinations ?" If he could o v u in ld g b a e nd ab d le ea t d o master the results. Unfortunately, it is a concrete, actual, solid reality we have to deal with. We must legislate on facts and for facts. The economists are glad of any friend, however in consistent. Ten years ago they made an unholy alliance with the squirearchy to carry the New Poor law, though the two parties have really almost as little community of feeling as Turks rnd Christians. Nor are they at all anxious to see their system ad vance as a whole., Any part will do. Hence their cruelty. Under their suggestions the poor man has been stripped of his existing protection, without se curing for him the theoretical substitute. We have taken from him an ancient vested right which to him was hard money, and 'given him instead a promissory note payable to the n-th generation of his children. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis; showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the 9th of November, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General : CAUSES OF DEATII. Weekly Total. Average of Five Years Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 214 178 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat 95 111 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 147 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 32 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other _ __ This institution offers many important and substantial advan tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr)w, without ex pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid, (see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances ibr terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec. SCOTTISH EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, Incorporated by Royal Charter. Established 1831. Head Office, 26, St. Andrew's-square, Edinburgh ; London Office, 61 A, Moorgate-street. PRESIDENT. His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH and QUEENSBERRY. ♦ICE-PRESIDENTS. The Right Hon. Lord Gray. Sir Neil Menzies, Bart., of Menzies. David M. M. Chriclitoun, Esq., of Rankeilour. ROBERT CHRISTIE, Manager. The leading principle of this Mutual Assurance Society is, that the whole Profits are divisible among the Policy Holders every three years. In illustration of the eminent success which has attended the Society, it may he stated that the additions made to Policies have been at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured and on the vested bonus. Thus the bolder of a Policy for 1,0001. effected on the Ist of March, 1832, will, if it become a claim during the present year, he entitled to 1,2371.; or, if effected on or before the Ist March, 1833, to 1,27151., and so on as regards other Policies. The Accumulated Fund exceeds 260,0001., and the Annual Revenue is above 70,0001., the whole being in a course of steady and increas ing prosperity. No other Life Assurance Institution whatever can warrantably hold out greater advantages to parties Assuring than this Society does. WILLIAM COOK, Agent for London. 61 A, Moorgate-street. . . Organs of Digestion .. Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 9 5 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles— l4 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c ... 2 1 Old Age, or Natural Decay 6l 71 By Violence Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified Deaths from all Causes ... 989 946 DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES LNCLUDED UNDER IRELAND. MEETING OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS. DUBLIN, Nov. 12.—The annual synod of the Roman Catholic Archbishops and Bishops ot Ireland commenced this day at the Presbytery, Marlbeitugh-street. On account of the importance of the business to come before them, the 'attendance was much faller than usual. One of the first subjects that will engage the attention of the Prelates is the Charitable Bequests Act. It is stated that an insportas-t communication from Rome is to be laid before the meeting.. Amongst the Prelates in attendance were the follow ing :—The Most Rev. Dr. Crolly, Primate ; the Most Rev. Dr. Murray, the Most Rev. Dr. Slattery, the Most Rev. Dr. M‘Hale, the Right Rev. Dr. Cantwell, Right Rev. Dr. Keating, Right Rev. Dr. Kinsella, Right Rev. Dr. M'Nally, Right ]ter, Dr. Browne, Elphin ; Right Ikv. Dr. Feeny, Right Rev. Dr. O'Donnell, Galway; Right Rev. Dr. Higgins, Right Rev. Dr. 111‘Nicholas, Right Rev. Dr. Denvir, Right Rev. Dr. Browne, Kil mere ; Right Rev. Dr. Ryan. ANOTHER MURDER IN CLARE. A letter was received in town this day, stating that the land steward of the late Arthur Gloater, Esq., whose assassination was announced last week, was murdered near Kilkishen, on Sunday night last. The Clare Journal, of yesterday, contains the follow ing : " THE MURDER OF MR. GLOSTER.—The magistrates of the district in which the late 11. Ir. Gloster was mur dered have called a meeting of the fnagistrates and gentry on Thursday next, at Quin Petty Sessions-house, to consider such measures as may appear most conducive to the ends of justice, in promoting the discovery of the perpetrators of that diabolical murder.' A requisition is in course of signature to the Lieutenant of the county, to call a meeting of the magistrates at the County Court house, to divise measures for the same effect that the ma gistrates of Bunratty have so promptly called together of the gentry of their division of the county. It was cur rently reported here yesterday that a gentleman was fired at and wounded in the arm, in the neighbourhood of Broadford. We could not find out that there was any good foundation for the report." RAILWAY FROM DUBLIN TO WEXFORD. Mr. Brunel, engineer of the Great Western Railway, has arrived in town to complete the survey of the atmos pheric line from Dalkey to Wexford. THE REVISION OF THE DUBLIN JURY LIST. In the course of the revision before the Recorder yes terday, Edward Clarke, Esq., of Stephen's-green, claimed ex emption from serving, on the ground of his being an attorney. Mr. CLEMENTS—Were you not objected to on that ground last year ?—I was. Mr. CLEMENTS—And did you not then insist upon being put on ?—I did. Mr. CLEMENTS—You. succeeded ?—Yes. Mr. CLEMENTS—You were 0110'COMI011'S jury?— Yes. Mr. CLEDIENTS—IS it to your professional skill the public are indebted for the special pleading on the issue paper ?—I cannot say. • Mr. CLEMENTS—New, Sir, may I ask you wherefore it is that you, a retired attorney, seek for exemption now, while under identically similar circumstances last year you pressed and insisted upon being on the panel. Mr. Clarke—The fact of it is, I got quite enough of it. The RECORDER ruled that, not being an attorney ac tually practising, his name should remain on the list. Mr. CLEMENTS (addressing Mr. Clarke)—And, for my part, I have no objection to you, Sir ; tor, after the lesson that was read to you in the House of Lords, I don't think you'll be likely to find such a verdict again during your life.—(Laughter.) At the adjournment the list of Andrew's parish had not been gone through ; but all those who presented them selves from other parishes were duly attended to, and ad mitted or rejected. NEW HIGH SHERIFFS FOR IRELAND. The following is the official list returned by the judges to the Lord-Lieutenant, who is to select one name for each district : DUBLIN CASTLE, NOVEMBER, 18. of gentle men returned by the Judges of Assize to serve the office of High Sheriff for the ensuing year. Antrim—James Leslie, John White, John Thompson, Esqs. Armagh—Viscount Newry, Thomas Morris Jones, Maxwell Cross, Esqs. --Carlow—Robert La Touche, Robert Doyue, jun., Philip Newton, Esqs. County of the Town of Carrickfergus—Stewart Dune, John Legg, Hill Wilson, Esqs. Cavau—The Earl of Bective, Anthony O'Reilly, Henry Theophilus Clements, Esqs. Clare—Edward Fitzgerald, Hugh Palliser Hickman, Michael Finucane, Esqs. Cork—The Hon. Hayes St. Leger, James 11. Smiths Barry, Edward Deane Freeman, Esqs. Cork City—James Morough,!Willians Coppingcr, Ho ratio Townsend, Esqs. Donegal—Lord George A. Hill, George Young, Wm. Fenwick, Esqs. Down—Hugh Montgomery, William Keown, Richard B. Blackiston Houston, Esqs. Drogheda Town—James Geroon, St. George Smyth, William Cairnes, Esqs. Dublin—Hon. Edward Preston, Hon. Edward Law less, Thomas Thompson, Esq. County of the City of Dublin—Arthur Guinness, Thomas Crosthwaite, Alexander Boyle, Esqs. Fermanagh—William Archdall, John Richardson, J. Netervillc Blake, Esqs. Galway—Denis Kirwan, Esq., Sir James Fitzgerald Ross Mahon, Bart., Christopher St. George, Esq. Galway Town—Patrick M. Lynch, Lachlan M'Lach lan, Michael Browne, Esqs. Kerry—Christopher Galway, Wilson Gun, William Talbot Crosbie, Esqs. Kildare—Lord William Fitzgerald, Edward H. Cole, William Palmer, Esqs. Kilkenny—Charles Hely, James Sandford Lane, Chambre Ponsonby, Esqs. Kilkenny City—Clayton Savage, John M'Craith, Mi chael Cahill, Esqs. King's County—Richard Warburton, Henry Peel L'Estrange, jun., Guy Atkinson, Esqs. Leitrim—Edward King Tennison, Guy Lloyd, Loftus Anthony Tottenham, Esqs. Limerick—Edward Cripps Villiers, William Barring ton, Edward Croker, Esqs. Limerick City—Michael Gavin, henry Watson, Wil liam Roche, Esqs. Londonderry City and County—Sir Harvey Bruce, Bart., John Barrio Beresford, Leslie Alexander, Esqs. Longford—George Lefroy, Francis Edgeworth, Wm. Ledwith, Esqs. Louth—Frederick J. Foster, Lewis Upton, George Macartney; Esqs. l\ S. Carter, Charles Kirwan, Henry V Killeen, James Waller, Henry Codding- Monaghan—Samuel R. Bayley Evatt, Andrew Allen Murray, Thomas Oriel Forster, Esqs. Queen's County—The Hon. H. G. F. Walker, Chidley ton Esqs. n , l l .a e E y a K s t o g h n- 5 -7 T L , h o Eo r 81 d :aBs . Coote, Horace Rocbfort, Esqs. Roscommon—Sir Gilbert King, Bart, John Fitzgerald Grace, Garret O'Moore, Esqs. Sligo—Edward Joshua Cooper, Philip Perceval, John W. King, Esqs. Tipperary—John Bayley, Esq., Lieut.-Colonel Wm. Purefoy, John Trant, Esq. Tyrone—George d'Arcy, Francis Gervais, Richard Lloyd, Esqs. Waterford—John Bowen Gumbledon, John Henry Keane, Simon Bagge, Esqs. Waterford City—Jacob Penrose, Thomas Sheppard, Vim. Smith Sewell Doyle, Esqs. Westmeath—Hon. L. H. King lArman, Sir Francis Hopkins, Bart.oJames Howard Iretherston, Esq. Wexford—Patrick Walter Redmond, Harry Alcock, Edward Westby Nunn Esqs. Wicklow—Robert Archibald Gun Cunningham, Wm. W. Fitzwilliam Hume, Charles Tottenham. Esqs. Just published, price 65., No. 111. of the NORTH BRITISH REVIEW. TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY. CONTENTS:— I. Political Economy of the Bible. H. Sir Humphrey Davy. 111. Foster's Lectures. IV. Backhouse's Visit to the Mauritius and South Africa. V. The Earl of Rosse's Reflecting Telescopes. VI. The United States of North America. VII. Twiss's Life of Lord Eldon. VIII. Post-Office Espiomage. Edinburgh : W. P. Kennedy. London : Hamilton, Adams, and Co. Dublin : W. Curry and Co. LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c. " He who itt pleasure's downy arms Ne'er lost his health or youthfulcharms, A here lives, and justly can Exclaim, in me behold a man I" Just published (in a sealed envelope), Tenth Edition, price 2s. 6d., or sent by post, free, to any address, 3s. 6d., (QELF-PRESERVATION : a Popular Essay on those concealed disorders originating in youthful excesses, and terminating in Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and all those Sinking& Anxieties, and Tremors, which afflict the Weak, the Sedentary, and the Delicate. With Practical Observations on Marriage, and on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, with plain Directions for their perfect Restoration. By SAMUEL LAMERT, Consulting Surgeon, A„ BEDFORD-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospita IMedical Society, Licentiate of Apothecary's Hall, London,&c. 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One personal visit only is necessary to offbct &permanent cure STORNOWAY, OCT. 19.—The brig Mary Wylie, of Kincardine, Wylie, bound for Liverpool from Riga, in making out of the harbour of Stornoway on Thursday last, got on shore at the top of high-water, oil a rugged piece of ground. Fortunately the wind was from the north throughout the day ; and in the evening the crew of the revenue cutter Prince of Wales, Captain Oliver, assisted the Captain and crew of the brig in getting her off, for which service they were awarded, by arbiters, 401. After being surveyed, and as it was ascertained that she received no damage, she sailed in two days afterwards. The barque Ma jestic, of Newcastle, from St. John's, for Hull, was driven from the Pentland Firth to the Island of Lewis, and came to anchor in the Broad Bay on Tuesday night, mistaking it in the darkness of the night fur the harbour of Stornoway. Fortunately the wind was off the land, and she rode the gale in safety.—Nov. 2. The harvest is now over in the Island of Lewis, and a plentiful crop secured in fine condition. In the early part of October the weather was extremely boisterous, and there were heavy falls of rain ; but for the last ten days it has been particularly favourable for raising and housing the potato crops, which is more abundant than it has been fur several years past.—Ross-shire Advertiser. TIIE SAUEY OR SEA PIKE.—We last week no ticed the capture of a few of these fish in the Conon. Since then large numbers have been taken, and it was somewhat amusing to see women with their tucked-up gowns in the water, throwing out the fish. These fish are driven to the beach by the action of the waves, are incapable of motion, on the receding of the waves, and die immediately they are auger thrown ashore. At Beauly, immens e numbers have also been taken, and in the Invern ess market, as well as here h a ve been sold at the rate of four and five for a penny. Ssa e fetrrc of h d our n o them db bays. --Ross-shire womenys —Ross-shire a very bene ficial a fA e D v v e ieni r rs r tp e l i sa l relief, while w t b tf e poor i i hr l c eonr t lhteahpe Governor havee philosophical oravne feroenof New South Wales, in . and also from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. / 9(-- ..,-- , , LAWYERS i IIIIIIIIIIIkb%—"--s - ' ' e,, : • -- .4")::i;t:' i1 :4 1 -.,* ',..., . ~. ,- .7. - .. , ...r ....;.' ~ , . '.:.",, •r• • .. , ,'Ai - '44--;- • . ~ ri • ~4 .4 ~e , , . i.• a'' ' ' , i -- . 44,,e 4 • ,r.v,ktif., -.•'. •.• • • -,,'",-,1 hil " ' ti , , ahmi1...... t V /A .. _ ...,47 : , :;•;',: 44 ' .'•-•-..,.. ~..''-,•,------- 1 ' -••::` --_-____- -- ', ) • ....N., -; - N :i; 4.- . I . ' *., 1 ' 4. ' + -, \ ".- •. , . .., , . ,--"----"' .. ; • 1.. /I ~ -1 ...iv 4 ..... -, N. „..; . V ~. ~-,...,-.---,&. j...,„....2614i- .. ,i , ' 4 ''''.; ii. , l'i t 1.} . ." 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It appears that a fear days ago a stranger, of gentle manly exterior and address, !bout 60 years of age, and having the appearance of being blind, went to the office of a respectable solicitor, accompanied by a youth, who acted as his guide. On being ushered up stairs and seated in the solicitor's room, he pre sented his card, bearing the name of " Mr. Charles Rice," and proceeded to say that he had called for the purpose of obtaining a little professional advice rela tive to the best mode of recovering some 601. from a person named Joliffe, who resided at Aston-road. The money had been owing bim for a long time past, and having extended every conceivable indul gence to the gentleman, who was a man of property, he really felt the painful necessity of taking proceed" ings. The solicitor, of course, sympathised with his new cli( nt, took the necessary instructions, and pro mised to write instantly to Mr. Joliffe; Mr. Rice very considerately observing, that as he was a stran ger, and this being their first transaction, he felt the propriety of requesting the solicitor to accept his.ac customed fee for the intended application to Mr. Jeliile. Not having the least doubt of the respectability of hie client, the legal gentleman as promptly de clined the liberal offer, being quite satisfied with the honour ,of enrolling the stran ger's name amongst his clients. Mr. Rice then left, and, _according to promise, Mr. Johtle was written to, and in the course of the evening that gen tleman waited upon the solicitor, acknowledged the receipt of his letter, regretted very much the neces sity which his old friend Mr. Rice had been under to adopt such measures, and hoped a few days' indul gence would be extended, when he would most cer tainly pay all he owed. The solicitor, quite satisfied with the result of the interview, w4s about quietly to 'touch his bell for another client, where Mr. Joliffe, apparently overcome by the polite attention and in dulgence he had received, put his hand in his pocket, and tendered a guinea, as some recompense for the trouble he had occasioned; a " consideration " which was, of course, declined, and Mr. Joliffe left the office. On the following day Mr. Rice, accompanied by his juvenile guide, again called at the office of the soli citor, and was so well pleased at the result of the ap plication, that he at on proposed to commit the management of his affair into the solicitor's hands. With this view he produced a large posting bill, an nouncing the sale of "a very desirable estate," only one hour and-a-half's journey from London, in " a delightful situation," lately the property of Frederick Augustus Rice, Esq., deceased. The sale was an nounced under the authority of Mr. Winstanley, the auctioneer, to come off, without reserve, at the Crown Inn, Aylesbury, on the 30th instant. Amongst the valuable effects to be put up for sale, was a "commodious residenoe," entitled " Red-hill Farm," presenting, to quote the lan guage of the announcement, "a most attractive retreat for a London tradesman, desirous of combin ing a pleasant residence with profitable and agreeable rural occupation." Mr. Winstanley was also in structed to sell about 300 lots of well-made furniture, 460 ounces of plate, 37 d ozen o f exce ll en t w i nes , w ith live and dead stock, farming implements, &c., parti culars of which were to be had on the premises, of the auctioneer, and of Mr. C. Rice, " sole legatee, 41, Great Brook-street, Birmi ng h am ." Th e agency of this important and profitable transaction was at once accepted by the solicitor, upon which Mr. Rice said he could immediately put the deed of the pro perty in his possession, but that on coming down from London he stopped at Coventry, where he left the documents with a gentleman who kindly lent him 201.; as he happened, however, to have only eight sove reigns about him, the balance was freely advanced by cheque by the solicitor. Mr. Rice, extremely thank ful for the prompt arrangement of his pecuniary diffi culties, speedily left the office, and it is needless to say had the cheque forthwith converted into cash, for getting, in his anxiety to arrange his affairs, to send for the deed, or to return to the offices of his obliging legal friend. The solicitor next day, suspecting all was not right, made some inquiries, and discovered that two other solicitors had been favoured with the stranger's patronage, and prevailed upon to advance 201. each upon the deed of Red-hill Farm. Information was given to the police, when it was discovered that seve ral tradesmen had been swindled in a similar man ner, and, amongst others, Mr. Morley, hairdresser, of Union-street. Mr. Rice called upon him, and after many inquiries relative to the most improved mode of wig making, submitted his head for measurement, and gave an order for a very superior article. Money was no object; a good fit, the newest style, and appro priate colour, were the main considerations ; and if the article combined all these qualities, a guinea extra would be cheerfully paid. Mr. Rice, in the meantime, purchased a guard-chain and other articles, to the amount of about 2/., and in a day or two after called, and tendered in payment of the order a promissory note for 71., purporting it to be from his tenant, Mr. Joliffe, of the Aston-road. He said he did not wish to run so small a note into his bank, and as it would be due in a few days, it would, he presumed, suit Mr. Morley to hand him the balance. -Baying ascertained that the gentleman banked at Mr. Moilliett's, he made inquiries at that establishment, and was informed that Mr. Rice had a lerge sum deposited. He then accepted the note, and handed over the balance to his customer. In a few clays after the articles were sent home to the gentleman's address, when it was found that he had decamped, leaving Mr. Morley in posses sion of the yet undue promissory note. Finding his customer had absconded, he went to Mr. Moillistt's, to make inquiries relative to the " deposit," and was informed that the Mr. Rice referred to had with draxn 300/. from the bank the day before, and that he had been made the victim of an accomplished swindler. It is scarcely necessary to add, that neither Mr. Rice nor his accomplice has since been heard of.—Binning hart Journal, DREADFUL ACCIDENT FROM A NEW EXPLOSIVE SUELL.—On Tuesday lest, about three r.m., a dreadful accident occurred on Wimbledon-common to a man of the name of James Taylor, an old soldier, while assist ing Dr. Ryan, of the Royal Polytechnic Institution, in a series of experiments on a rew explosive shell, the in vention of Mr. Buckingham. The shell is one of a peculiar construction, having no fusee, and resembling in its external character the common cannon ball. The inventor, however, professes to have so perfect a control over the missile that by merely changing the position of the shell, as it is placed in the gun, it may he made to explode 1, 2, 3, or even 15 minutes after it has been fired ; or it may he made to explode almost as it leaves the orifice of the cannon. Four or five dozen of these shells were fired during the morning under the direction of Dr. Ryan, who had been retained professionally to watch the results. Two of the shells, which ought to have exploded each a few minutes after leaving the gun, having remained quiet upwards of two hours, it was sup posed that a failure had occurred ; and although Mr. Buckingham had repeatedly asserted that he could so arrange his machinery as to keep the shell quiescent 24 hours, and then allow it to explode, yet, as the shells in question had not been so charged, no suspicion of any danger occurred to the mind of any of the spectators. However, the dreadful result proves that, either the in ventor had by mistake employed one of his long-timed shells, or some error had occurred in the arrangement of the charge. Dr. Ryan had left the ground only a very short time to return to town, when Mr. Bucking ham and James Taylor proceeded to remove the exploded shells. One of these had been already in the hands of two or three persons, when Taylor took it for the pur pose of washing the earth off its surface. He was in the act of stooping when the shell burst, carrying away both the poor fellow's hands, and wounding him most dread fully in the legs. A portion of the shell entered the right cheek, carrying away the lower jiff, and then passing out on the side of the neck ; yet, Mange . to say, without injuring the carotid artery. Tourniquet4.were immediately applied to the arms and legs, and with all speed the sufferer was conveyed to St. George's Ilospi tal, where he arrived, as might be expected, in a sapte of collapse He rallied, however, in the course of the even ing, and Mr. Tatham proceeded to remove the remaining fragments of the horribly fractured jawbone, and after wards performed amputation on both arms, just below the elbow. Notwithstanding these injuries, Taylor is perfectly sensible, and some faint hopes are entertained of his recovery, a result hardly to be desired in his mu tilated state. Dr. Ryan had himself examined the shell before leaving the ground, being perfectly convinced that it was a failure ; his feelings, therefore, may be well imagined, when, in two hours afterwards, he saw Taylor in the accident ward of St. George's, an evidence of his own provi leatial escape. SOCIETY OF ARTS.—At the meeting of the Soeiety last night, an interesting paper by Mr. Milton, on British and foreign honey, and the management of bees, was read, and the thanks of the society were unanimously awarded to him. After this a model of the Grenior Mobile, or rotatory granary was produced, and a short paper, explanatory of its objects, was read by Mr. Waiishaw, the secretary. The machine, which is in tended to preserve corn, was exhibited at the meeting of the British Association for this year. It consists of a hollow cylinder composed of wire gauze and timber, so constructed as to admit the air, and divided within into several compartments for the reception of the grain. At one end is a vane connected with a tubs, by which the air admitted through the wir e :g auze is carried off, and a free current preserved. The whole machine revolves upon an axis, and receives its motion by a slight manu a l e xertion. Thus the c orn within i s shifted at pleasure something like coffee in a roaster, by the simple motion of a wheel instead of the present laborious method, and fermentation, decomposition, destruction by vermin, and all other casualties to which grain in store is subject, are, as alleged by the inventor, more effectually pre vented. This machine-is already extensively in use in France, and it is said there is one at Brest capable of holding 800 quarters. The expense of erecting one is estimated at about 1/. for every quarter of wheat it is capable of containing. The thanks of the society were then voted to Mr. Birmingham, by whom the model was exhibited, and the meeting was adjourned to Wednesday next. _ _ Sir James Graham left town yesterday morning for l3urleigh, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter, to have the honour of meeting her Majesty. .2c_~ Q EXAMPLI4B. ' 1 Bonus Bonus in 111 4 , ~• •ae Premium..F 4 added. Cash. 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Also, ZADKIEL'S LEGACY, price 3s: 6J., or with his Almanac for 1645, price 3s. DEAFNESS. - - TESTIMONIAL from John Sawyer, Esq., of Hay wood Lodge, Maidenhead, Berks, to Messrs. S. and B. Solo mons, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Gentlemen, having been deaf for some time, I was induced, in the month of No vember, 1839, to make trial of your Invisible Voice Conductors, and, although at my advanced age, at that time past my 77th year, I had no hope of obtaining any relief, yet immediately I applied them I could hear the general conversation, and my hearing has become so much improved by their use, that I can now hear acutely without their aid. I am, Gentlemen, your most obedient servant, J. Sawyer. 22d June, 1842.—Fror:, the late Henry Cowper, Esq., of Tewen Waters, to Messrs, S. and B. Solomons :—Gentlemen, bayin g - been deaf for many years, I was induced to try your invisible Voice Conductors. They enable me to hear persons in company, and at a place of worship most distinctly. The Spectacles and Handglass which you have sent me .re very excellent, and suit my sight perfectly, the tranelmrency of which is so bril liant, that although I have t,tssed my 86th year the 22d of May last, yet they enable me to read, and by candle-light, with the greatest ease and comfort to myself. I return you my hest thanks, and remain, your obedient servant, Henry Cowper. 22d June, 1839.—Telescopes, Opera Glases, Microscopes, &c. of the same kind of Lenses.—Caution.—Messrs. S. and B. So lnmons, Opticians and Aurists, arc not in any way connected with pemn of the same name in their immediate neighbourhood. Nor n any part of the country. To prevent mistakes, be cau tious, and Ob serve ,—O n l y t o b e h a d a t 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. An extra Gazelle was again published yesterday, full of notices of intended applications to Parliament next session for private and chiefly railway Bills. POLITICAL ECONOMY. (From the Times.) Every age has its panics. At one time the Turk, then the Emperor, then the Pope, then despotism, then the Radicals, have occupied the attention of all who had something to lose, and leisure to be alarmed. A few years back the cry was' that every article of food was adulterated ; and nobody could be sure it was bread he was eating, unless he had sown, reaped, thrashed, ground, sifted, kneaded, baked, and sliced the material with his; own hands, or, as a second best course, by the hands of a confidential servant interested in his preservation. The cholera frightened us all once ; comets now and then ; the new tariff spread considerable consternation in some quarters; mad dogs are always and everywhere terrible; the slow westward progress of white ants, and the oc casional visit of a real oriental locust, have in their turn considerably affected the more cautious and provident part of mankind. But what do our readers suppose is the last new bugbear ? A very terrible one, to judge from the universal horror it has excited. All parties, and almost all classes, both sexes and all ages, agree in the most dreadful apprehensions. The most alarming circumstance of the new enemy is, that it has been amongst us from time immemorial, and is impossible to be quite eradicated. The baneful charac ter of its operations has only just now been discovered. Reader—prepare your nerves. The new enemy of mankind is Charity. By the light of the economists it is discovered that charity, notwithstanding her angel robes, her gentle ness and smiles, is the most insidious and deadly of monsters. Her charms are meretricious, her sem blance a disguise, her name a misnomer, and her com mission a forgery. Proteus as she is, it is hard to say in which of her many forms she is the wprst. Some times she presents herself in the shape ola fair young lady, carrying a basket of provisions. Don't kiss— don't shake hands—don't speak, but stop your mouth, nose, and ears, and run for your life. She is more terrible than the old hag who carries the plague to Aleppo or Bagdad, at sight of whom the whole popu lation shut their windows and doors, and sit in speech less affright. If you have interchanged the smallest civility with the harpy, a consuming canker will con taminate your substance and your store. Sometimes the wretch assumes a dingier character, and goes about with a cart distributing half-hundreds of coals. Fatal incendiary. The hearth her coals have once lighted, will never again know an honest combustion. Sometimes she presides at a caldron, and distributes soup to besotted crowds, who little think they are gulping down dog's-meat and dependence, brick dust and bondage. Sometimes she carries bags of clothing infected with future nakedness. Sometimes she takes the attributes of Lucina, and delivers paupers of paupers; whereas it is the midwives of gypt we want just now. Sometimes she carries a me dicine-chest, and glories to lengthen the days of idle ness. Sometimes she enrols a crowd of rustics in a penny club. Wretched beings! Their names once down in that black list, they never will be their own men again. Sometimes she harbours old men and women, widows and orphans, the sick and destitute, in lazar-houses, whose very sight spreads an epidemic of age and infancy, widowhood, sickness, and destitu tion. Sometimes—direful invention of these latter days—she invades mother earth herself, and scars her fair face with leprous allotments. But there are no limits to her destructive ingenuity. The charla tan wife readily accommodates herself to every want and weakness of man. Not a cry can be uttered but she presents hersents herself with some one of her nefarious devices. To crown all, she augments the curse of death by burying the dead, and thus making the grave itself a school of improvidence. Nothing can exceed the universality of the horror which these newly discovered atrocities of charity have excited. Quiet old gentlemen, not hitherto supposed to trouble themselves very deeply for the welfare of society, are no w l ou d-t ongu ed alarmists on the dangers aradox of as bmenueovholaesncae.borOglldar ladies,aad n lith would hateda p almost rather have their h ouses b ro k en i n to than their reasons taken by surpri se , zealously propound the sin of giving. At the weekly meeting of district visi tors, the new curate, or the old incumbent (it matters not which), is sure to open his address to his fair co adjutors—" Dear sisters, the great secret of charity is to keep your money in your own pocket. There fore pray don't let's hear of funds. Depend upon it they are quite unnecessary for the purposes of an en lightened charity." On this point the greatest bigots are liberal, and the liberals are most certainly bigoted. Men who hate the whole theory of political economy with a hatred unspeakable, and consider it a most utter and iniquitous delusion, will yet reserve one clause. The one jewel in this toad's eye is the rule of not giving except for an exact equivalent. As we kill a whale for its blubber, a beaver for its fur, a castor for its oil, and the eider duck for its down, throwing away all the rest, so are there thousands who extract from political economy the one precious virtue of capital for capital, and send all the rest to the dogs, or to any other residuary legatee of super fluous remainders that may happen to occur to them. The application of this science is a great experiment, so they will only consent to try it on a cheap ma terial —namely, the poor. To take care of oneself is low the first duty of man. He •is the greatest public benefactor who gets on the fastest. Country gentle men, for conscience sake, suffer the labourers on their property to starve, or be turned out of doors, or sent to the union, and feel themselves to be martyrs all the while. Their daughters, who two or three years ago were setting up for so many Sisters of Mercy, now sit quietly at home, and read Miss Martineau. For ourselves, who continue in the old tack, the world is so turned about us,. that we hardly know our bearings. Not a day passes but we receive ex postulations at the novel and revolutionary character of doctrines which we should have thought, if any thing, were rather too stale for zealous propagation in these days. It seems that not giving is now become a catholic verity, and we who still cleave to the old poor-law, and other beggarly elements, are now the heretics and innovators. How far the doctrines of the economists are cal culated to supersede the offices of charity, and make a whole nation prosperous and happy, supposing them to be thoroughly carried out, is a question so utterly abstract and conjectural, that we may be excused from entering into it. They cannot he carried out in our very mixed state of society, and with the multi tude of interests and prejudices arrayed against them. We have no more immediate prospect of seeing the whole creed of the economist adopted by the nation, and producing its glorious millenium, than we have of hearing the music of the spheres, or Robert Owen's more rectangular harmonies. Consider the state of things which the economist supposes—all the elements of society divested of their present stiff and formal character, and melted to perfect fluidity; labour and capital finding their level as quickly as wind and water ; every five shillings and every five hours flow ing towards the greater demand as naturally as the surrounding water fills the vacuum you make by drawing a bucket out of the river. The labourer, in this theory, is ready, both by education and circum stances, to scent out and p'irsue an additional 6d. a week as far and as instantly as a vulture its prey, or a capitalist one-quarter per cent. more than he gets now on equal security. Land, in this theory, is nothing whatever but an investment, with no other use, value, opinion, or fancy connected with it, than shares in a dock or a railroad. None of these con ditions at present hold. Our customs and institutions are stiff and rigid, and so they are likely to remain for ages. 'We do then protest very strongly against working at once, with all its purity and severity, against the poor man, against even the aged, the orphan, the sick, and the unfortunate, a system the tenefits of which they of this generation are certain never to receive. The economist turns round the wheel, and sets his machine in motion. " Don't you :ee labour flowing towards that capital, and capital meeting that redundance of labour, and all those other THE ABOVE HEADS. Weekly Average Total. of Five Years. Consumption Scarlatina 7O 34 Pneumonia Dropsy .. ... .. .. ............ Ilooping Cough 22 33 Typhus Small Pox Disease of the Heart _ _ Measles 22 28 Apoplexy Diseases of the Brain ...... .... 9 9 _ _ Diarrhoea.. .... 11 12 Sudden Deaths DISTRICTS. West North 175 171 Central East . . South 285 242 Total ....... ~ 989 LLOYD'S SHIPPING. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Jane Goudie, Simpson, from New South Wales, in the Downs, sailed from Sydney 30th June ; Ocean Queen, Freeman, from New South Wales, off Margate, sailed from Sydney 13th July ; Galatea, Owen, from the Cape of Good Hope, in the Downs, sailed 23d August, St. Helena 9th Sept. ; Hydrabad, Harrison, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed 4th July. Arrivals at Hobart Town—Eudora, June 16 ; Lady Gray, 26th, both from London ; Louisa, July 1; Caro line, 2d, from Sydney ; Greenlay, 3d, from Kingstown. Arrivals at Sydney—Clarkson, from the South Seas ; Nimrod, July 1, from the South Seas ; Nelson, July 6, from the South Seas ; Avon, 7th, from coasting; Dorset, Bth, from Adelaide and Port Philip ; Christina, 9th, from Port Philip; Haider, 12th, from Liverpool; Sham rock, 13th, from Port Philip and Launceston. Departures from Sydney—Her Majesty's ship North Star, July 6, to the South Seas; Waterlily, 9th, to Hobart Town; Vanguard, 11th, to Akarod ; Achilles, 11th, to London. Arrival at Calcutta—Bentinek steamer, Sept. 20, from Suez, Aden, and Madras. Departures from Kedgeree —Salacia, Sept. 19, to Mauritius; Mary Ridley, to London; Thodosia, to Liver pool ; Pallas, and CordePa. Departures from Saugor—Olinda, Sept. 20, to Mau ritius; Dido, Ayrshire, and Hope; Arganur, to Greenock. Departure from Manilla—Lord Petre, Lukey, to Europe. Departure from Batavia—Mungo Park, July 31, to London. Departure from Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope— Her Majesty's ship Vestal, Sept. 16, to Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales. Arrival in Algoa Bay—Her Majesty's ship Conway, Sept. 5, from Simon's Bay, and sailed sth to Maurititu. WORK HOUSE REGULATIONS. At the last meeting. of the bench of magistrates at Kingston, seven young men were charged with mis behaviour in the Kingston workhouse, and refusing to perform the work allotted to them, according to the regulations of the establishment, as casual paupers. It appeared that on the previous day the defendants went in a body to the house of the relieving-officer, and stated they were destitute, and demanded relief, upon which he gave them an order of admission to the workhouse. They were there required, before any food was given to them, to break a certain num ber of stones, which they one and all positively re fused to do, upon which they were turned out of the house, without any kind of food or refreshment being given to them. They then, it appeared, went back to the house of the relieving-officer, and again demanded relief, and they were instantly taken into custody, and conveyed by the police before Mr. Row, the Mayor of Kingston. They there excused themselves by saying that they were faint and weak and wanted food, and they did not think that the people at the workhouse had any right to set them to work before they gave them food. The mayor recom mended that the men should be admitted into the workhouse, and that food and shelter should be given them for the night, upon the under standing that they should do double the allowance of work the next morning. This was accordingly done, but in the morning the men again refused to work, and they were in consequence given into custody a second time, and brought before Captain Roberts and Mr. Williams, the presiding magistrates at the county bench. The defendants conducted themselves in a very impudent manner, and insisted that they had a right to have food, and that nobody had a right to compel them to work in the workhouse. The MAGISTRATES said that there appeared to be a determination among persons of the defendants' class to set the workhouse rules at defiance, but they might rely upon it they would find the law too strong for them. They were then sentenced to fourteen days' impri sonment in the House of Correction. The defendants were then removed, laughing at the proposed punish ment, and declaring that they should be as well off in gaol as in the union workhouse. FIRE AT CROYDON.-A fire took place at Croydon on Tuesday night, on the premises of Mr. Harris, a tailor and outfitter, residing in the High-street, which but for its timely discovery might have been at tended by the loss of the lives of the whole of the in mates, consisting of Mr. Harris, his wife, and a female servant, who, as it was, were only enabled to make their escape, almost in a state of nudity, by means of a ladder placed against their bed-room windows. It ap. pears that between eleven and twelve o'clock a neigh bour's servant was passing the house, when she heard a sound like the crackling of fire in the shop, and she im mediately gave an alarm, when it was discovered that the shop was all in flames. Every endeavour was then made for upwards of ten minutes, by knocking at the door and various other means, to awaken the inmates of the house, but without effect. The fire was in the mean time rapidly increasing, and at length a ladder was pro cured and placed up to the window, and a young man named Chandler, who is in the service of a butcher in the town, ascended, and forced his way into the room, and actually awakened the inmates, who were at this time still asleep, and unconscious of danger. All means of egress by the lower part of the house was at this time completely cut off, and Mr. llarris, his wife, and the servant, were compelled to descend the ladder, which they did without any injury, and then took refuge in the house of a neighbour. The police, and a good many other persons, had arrived by this time, and there being a plentiful supply of water, the ravages of the fire were confined to the shop and the lower part of the premises, which, however, with a good deal of stock, were almost entirely. destroyed. The property is insured in one of the London fire-offices. DREADFUL EFFECT OF FRIGIIT.—Some two OT three weeks ago, a young woman, whose name we do not give, went to the house of a poor but respec table man named High, with whose daughter she was on very intimate terms, having on a mask made to resemble an ass's bead. Finding the poor girl alone, and thinking to enjoy a tine piece of fun in frightening her, she insisted on her dancing. The poor creature was so, dreadfully frightened, that she fell into ♦iolent fits, which continued for some time, when she became a decided lunatic ; but the shock her whole frame had sustained was too violent, and nature gave way to the sufferings consequent thereon. A few days ago she died a sacrifice to the thoughtless folly of a foolish companion, whose own mind must be greatly embittered by the melancholy reflection.—Cambridge Advertiser. 1