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GLASGOW via FLEETWOOD and AR DROSS. N, every MONDAY, TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY, by the new Iron Steamers, " HER MAJESTY" and "ROYAL CONSORT," 700 tons and 350 horse-power. The above Ships leave Fleetwood, on the arrival if the trains that leave Euston - -square, London, at 7.39. ' 5.45 ., or 10...5t. Passengers efin be booked through to Glasgow in London. Carriages taken by ths 5,45 train only. 'urther particulars may be had at 8, St. Swith'n's-late; or the 'Universal-office, Regent-circus, London ; or of the Agents, Kemp and Co., Fleetwood, and M'Kean and Lament Glasgow. WILLIAM UPCOTT, ESQ., Deceased. All persons having any claims on the estate of the late WM. UPCOTT, Esq., of Islington, are requested to send the particulars thereof to us, as Solicitors to the Administratrix ; and all persons in debted to the Estate, or having in their possession any Books, Auto graphs, or other property belonging to the deceased, are requested to pay such debts, and to hand over such property to us, on behalf of the Administratrix. ATKINS and ANDREW, Solicitors. 5, White Hart-Court, Lombard-street. TO COMMERCIAL GENTLEMEN. T. EDWARDS, CASTLE INN, CO- G • VENTRY, avails himself, on the present opportunity, of gratefully acknowledging the very liberal support he has expe rienced from Commercial Gentlemen since he has succeeded his father-in-law, Mr. Hall, and begs leave to assure his friends and those gentlemen who may favour him with their future patronage, that every exertion will be made throughout the establishment to promote their comfort and convenience. The omnibus at the station will set down passengers at the Castle Inn on the arrival, and call to take up passengers on the departure, of each train. 4 Coventry, Dec. 1845. 10 CABINETMAKERS, UPHOLSTE RERS, JL AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISER, &e.— fo be LET, at Cambridge, a commodious HOUSE, SHOP, WAREHOUSE, and WORKSHOPS, eligibly situate in the greatest thoroughfare, two doors from the Hoop Hotel, Bridge-street, Cambridge, recently in tenure of Mr. Summers, cabinetmaker, &c. N.B. These premises being in three separate compartments, but communicating, are admirably constructed for railway offices or for any commission business or trade where many rooms are required. Apply to Mr. Richard Newby, Phcenix Fire-office, 67, Regent - street, Cambridge. 13, George-street, 118110Ter. square. NEW YEAR of the BRITISH and FOREIGN INSTITUTE. The New Cards of Membership for the year 1846 are now ready for issue, and may be had at the Rooms of the Institute. Candidates desirous of entering with the commencement of the New Year will be admitted by ballot of the Committee on the fol lowing terms : Town Members —Entrance 10/. 10s.—Annual, 6/. 6s. Country Members ..Entrance 5/. ss.—Annual, 31. 3s. The Evening Meetings of the Institute commence on the sth of January, and will be continued up to the end of June ; during which period of Six Months there will be two Meetings in each week, on Mondays and Fridays, including the Lectures, Soirees, Converse eon', and discussions appointed for the Session, of which Lists may be procured at the Institute. Members desirous of introducing Ladies at the Evening Meetings, will be furnished with Transferable Tickets for the Session, at One Guinea each. By order of the Committee, all Members and Visitors attending the Evening Meetings, will be requited to present their Cards of Ad mission on entering. JAMES S. BUCKINGHAM, Resident Director. U NIVE RSAL GAS-LIGHT COMPANY. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. Capital 100,0001., in 5000 Shares of 201. xter Share. Deposit 10s. per 1001. Shares, in accordance with the set. (Provisio ally Registered.) Under the Management of a Provisional Committee. CONSULTING CHEMIST —Profe.sor Ryan, M.D., LL.D., Royal Col lege, Portsmouth, and Royal Polytechnic Institution. Exortiazz—Henry Francis, Elul., Patentee, 40, Elizabeth-street , Eaton-square. BANNERS—Sir Claude Scott, Bart., and Co. SOLICITOR —J . F. W. Fesenmeyer, Esq., 23, Bedford - row. SECRETARY — Mr. Willi "i.M Nicholson. Offices of the Company and Working Factories , 159, Drury- The Company is formed for the purpose of carrying out, more ef fectually working, and bringing into general use, an invention se cured by letters patent for an improved manufacture of gas. The apparatus is so portable it can be fitted up on any descrip tion of building, even at a kitchen range, without affecting the do mestic arrangements, and the fire used In ordinary in generating the gas will be ample to produce steam for warming the most extensive premises. The most eminent engineers and chemists unite in opinion that the invention is not only practicable and free from smell or annoy ance, but superior gas, not on on new, but sound , scientific, chemical a , and mechanical principles, which have been hitherto overlooked in the common modes of manufacture • besides, this gas possesses more of the illuminating power, and will burn longer, than that now in use, in the proportion of 40 per cent. In favour of the invention. The patent method is applicable to lighting generally, but more especially small towns, villages, lighthouses, colleges, churches, dock yards, theatres, public offices, prisons, barracks, railway stations, manafactories, printing-effices, madhouses, hospitals, and schools, ice., and warming the buildings, without extra expense. The benefits which would accrue to lighthouses, dockyards, and numerou4 localities, where the ordinary gas cannot be conveyed without the formation of many new Acts and Companies, or at im mense expense, would be sufficient to obtain for this Company the most prominent and prosperous position. The great saving to the consumer, the small portion of room requi site for the erection of the apparatus, the simplicity of its working, and the brilliancy of the gas, will insure the adoption of the invention throughout the kingdom ; and although the public can be supplied at a price which will defy competition, the Company can confidently hold out to those disposed to become shareholders a return upon their capital of not less than fifty per cent. The Company being far advanced, will be in a situation, when fully registered, to take contracts immediately. Applications for shares, In the usual form, to be made to, and further particulars obtained of, the Solicitor, and also the Secretary, at the Company's offices, where may be seen the apparatus at work, and the brilliancy of the gas exemplified. IMMENSE SALE OF LAMPS AT RALF-PRICE. CLARK and COMPANY, 447, West Strand, beg to announce that they intend making extensive alterations in their establishment, and, in consequence, are compelled to dispose of a large portion of their immense and excellent stock of lamps. The stock consists of the New. Light, Clark's Patent Cereal Oil Lamp (the best oil lamp ever made), Solar Lamps, and all other oil lamps. Young's Vesta Spirit Lamp, the Gem Spirit Lamps, Oil and Candle Chandeliers, Candelabras, and Ormolu Candlesticks, and richly of cut Lustres ; Palmer ' s Magnum Can dle Lamps, and every description Palmer's and Clark's Candle Lamps that can be require d. Insatisfac fact, their immense variety provid es a choice for all, and gives all tion. The whole will be sold considerably under the usual charges. The reduction in prices commence Tuesday, 16th December, and will only continue one month, or perhaps less. Please write down Address, CLARK and Co., 447, WEST STRAND, the Immense Lamp Depot. SILVER-PLATED DISH COVERS. AB. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing Silversmiths, 14, Comhill, London, opposite the Bank of England, f•ubinit for choice in their Plate-rooms, many Patterns of SILVER-PLATED DISH COVERS, of Sheffield Manufacture, from Fifteen to Twenty Guineas the set, viz. : Double Dome Pattern. The Melon Pattern. Size. £ s d. Size. X s.d. I Plated Dish Ccver, 20 in. 5 13 6 1 Plated Disk Cover, 20 in. 5 17 0 1. Dish Cover, 1$ in. 47 6 1 Dish Cover, 16 in. 414 0 2 Dish Covers, 16 in. 512 6 2 Dish Covers, 14 in. 66 6 Per set.... •• Xl5 13 6, Per set .• • • £l6 17 6 The above have silver handles and mounting and silver shields for engraving the crest or coat of arms. A Price Current, illustrated by Drawings, and containing every reformation relative to the purchase of Silver or Sheffield Plate, may be had on application, or will be be sent into the country, free of postage, in answer to a paid letter. C HRIST A M NECDOT AS E. TOASTS. A company of friends, on Christmas Day, Were drinking toasts together, so they say ; Some toasted to companions o'er their glasses, And some proposed " A Health to all good Lasses ;" Some drank to Queen Victoria on her throne, And nothing scarcely did they let alone. At length a worthy gentleman got up, While in his hand he holds a " sparkling cup." And thus, midst breathless silence, he proposes A hearty toast—to whom? Why, Messrs. MOSES. " The toast (said he) which I propose to you " Is one to which we must full justice do ; " I feel assur'd I should not do my part " Unless I drank success to MOSES' mart : " Look ! look ! (quoth he) at MOSES and his SON, " Consider what a deal of good they've done. " There's not one gentleman in all the room " Who is not drest in MOSES' choice costume ; " Hence I with confidence propose (said he), " That we should drink this toast with three times three." With this the gentleman resum'd his chair, And all approv'd of, what he'd stated there. But stop ! you've not heard all the anecdote ; A gentleman of literary note, Took out his pocket-book, and pencill'd there A song—and sang it to a well-known air. 'Twas quickly done; and as it is not long, • We beg to give a copy of— THE SONG. Let us toast the success Of the monarchs of dress — E. MOSES and SON, of the City; Let no one be mute, (For each has a suit), Bnt let us all join in the ditty. Many savings we've won By MOSES and SON, Many capital bargains we've made ; They deserve to be prais'd, While triumphantly rais'd To the loftiest post in the trade. May MOSES and SON, (As they ever have done) Win the pnblic in one mighty host; And at each Christmas season, May all have good reason To propose their success with a toast. LIST OF PRICES. READY MADE. X s. d. Beaver Tag .• ••.••• • • • • • --from • 8 Chaste fiAds or Oodringtons .. •• • • • • • • • • ... 6 D'Orsays, Attols, Pembroke, and every description of Iti 0 Winter Coats ••.••••• • • • • • • • • Bcys' Winter Coats in e ver y style Winter tre Isere, lined ............................ 0 4 6 .. Doeskin, eLtte..... ..... ••••• • • • • • ............ ••010 6 • Dress Coats, edged .. • Frock. ditto.. ••• • • • ........ ..... 0 1 9 •••• • • • •. . • I 3 Toll Collar Te5t...... ..... . • • • • • • • • • • • • ............ Double-breasted .. •••• • • • Boys' Hussar and Tunic s uits. ....... • • Ditto, Winter I ronsers...• ••• • • ...... • . 0 3 0 Ditto, ditto Tests •••• •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 01 6 MADE TO MEASEIE. Winter Coats, in every style and shape, handsomely trimmed ......... . ..... •••••••••• •I 5 0 Milled cloth Great Coats , velv et collar and cads .112 0 Tweed Wrappers .. •••• • • • • ............ Ditto Trousers ..•• .. Winter Trousers, in all the new patterns •• • . ..... . 812 0 0 10 6 Doeskin ditto ... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Best quality, or dress do ..• •••••• • • • • .. .• • . •. 1 0 6 Dress Coats 2 15 0 Ditto, best quality made •••••• • • • • • • .............. Frock Coats •••• • • • ........ .... ....• •• • ....... I 13 0 Ditto, best quality made ••••••• • • • • • • • .............. 3 0 C as hmere Vests... ..... •• •• • g 6 Satin do., plain or fancy .....• •• • • Boys' Hussar and Tulle suits.. 6 0 The New Work, entitled the " Monarch Mart," with full directions or self-measurement, may be had, on application, " Pest Free." ImrcutTA/cr.—Any article purchased or ordered, if not approved et exchanged, or the money returned. Observe —E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Wholesale and Retail Woollen Drapers, Outfitters, and General Wareh ou semen, 154, Mino ries, and 86, Aldgate , Cit y , opposite the Church. IT.B. No business transacted at this Establishment from suns twel et on Friday till sunset on Saturdal , when business Is resumed at ve o clock. CAtrrioc—E. Moses and Son are obliged to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untraclesmanlike false hood of being connected with them, or its the same concern, has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They have no connexion whatever Ni nth any other establishmant, in or out of London, and those who desire genuine Cheap Clotping should (to preven t disappointment, &c.) call or send to 154, =mi 86, Aldgate. opposite the Church. RHEUMATISM. All those suffering from Rheumatism, Chilblains, Lumbago, Tie-boloreux, Cramp, Sprains, &c., will find immediate relief an d a speedy cure by using CORRALL'S EMBROCATION. The great and ineteasing demand for this novel Embrocation induces the proprietor to introduce it more generally to the public, satisfied that one trial alone will be sufficient to convince the most sceptical of its superiority over all other articles offered for similar purposes. Sold in bottles at Is. 110., 25., and 2s. 9d. each, by the bol e , and Pro prietor, George Richar ds o n, 12, Norland-place, Notting by his appointment by Barclay and Sons, 95, Farringdon• street ; and J. Saeger, 150, Oxford-street. Orders, by post, directed to the Proprietor, promptly attended to. FOGS AND DAMP AIR. BARCLAY'S ASTHMA.TIC CANDY hag, for many yeatt, been proved an effectual preservative from the ill effects of the fogs and damp air which, in the winter season, are so prevalent in this ctmate. Its effects are to expel wind, to pre serve the stomach from the admission of damps, and to relieve those who suffer from difficulty if breathing. Prepared only by Barclay and Sons, 95, Farringdon-street, Lon don ; and sold retail, by their appointment, by Sanger, 150, Oxford street ; Gifford, 104, and H. Rurfleld, 180, Strand ; Johnston, 68, Cornhill ; Hallows, druggist, 2, High-streetslington ; ta Heudebourck, druggist, Church - stree t, Hackney; Tenders in town and country. Obsetve—None can be genuine unless the names of c4Barclay acid Iona" fin on the Atop s inzt to each Doz. No. 16,654. LONDON PUBLICATIONS. CHRIS rMAS HOLIDAYS. Ito YAL POL Y TECHN IC INSTITUTION, Lectures for this period of the year, by Dr. Ryan and Professor itachoffner in CHEMIATRY and NATURAL rutho- SOPHY will be illustrated by interesting and brilliant experiments. A Lecture en the PREVALENT DISEASE in POTATOES will be delivered by Dr. Ryan, and also on the ATMOSPHERIC RAIL WAY, by Professor Bachoffner, a Working Model of which, car rying several persons, is exhibited daily. The additions to the OPAQUE MICROSCOPE, DISSOLVING VIEWS, and CHROMA TRerime ntsOPE nre b very effective. The PHYSIOSCOPE. Submarine Ex pymeans of the DIVER and DIVING BELL. Ameng the various additions to the Working Models is Coleman's NEW AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE, for ascending and de scending Inclined Planes. A magnificent Collection of TROPICAL FRUITS. Mr. Myrtle, the celebrated Flats Player, will take part in the Music, conducted by Dr. Wallis. Open from Eleven to Half past Five, an - I from Seven to Half-past Ten in the Evening. Admission, One Shilling. Schools, Half-price. NEW MAGAZINE. (To be continued Monthly,) On January Ist, 1846, will be published, price 25., with an Illustra tion by PHIZ, and several Wood Engravings, THE UNION MAGAZINE. Contents of No I.:- 1. Thoughts on the lEsthetics of Milton's Comas. 2. Easy Chairs. 3. Letters from a Hindoo Gentleman travelling in England. 4. The Crusades. 5. Baron Puffendorf. A Satire. A.D. 1900. 6. Pope Gregory XVI. 7. A Musician's Plea for his Art. 8. The Adventures of a Stick. 9. The Inquisition. 10. The Scholar's Death Summons, and other Miscellaneous Poetry. 11. A Sporting Excursion in the Backwoods of Canada. 12. General Rosas, Monte Video, and Buenos Ayres. 13. Kordofan.—Reviews, &c. &c. Published by Messrs. Madden and ..Malcolm, Leadenhall-street ; Cumming, Dublin; Smith, Edinburgh ; and to be had of all Book sellers in town or country. STUNT, 57, STRAND, LONDON.-WEL LINGTON BOOTS, made to Measure, ONE GUINEA. Su perior workmanship, the finest French leather, very datable, and pleasant for tender feet.—Cash on delivery. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY On and after the Ist January, 1846, an additional Third Class Train will run daily (Sundays excepted) beween Paddington and Bristol in boll directions, Down at 10. 30 a.m.,t Up at 6.30 a.m. The stoppages at the intermediate stations may be seen by refer ence to the time bills. Third Class Passengers, and Horses will no longer be conveyed between Paddington and Bristol by the 2.15. P.M. Down Goods Train ; or by the 2 P.M. (10 P.M, from Bristol) Up Goods Train. Third Class Passengers between Exeter and Swindon will be con veyed by the 5.15 Z.M. Train, instead of by the 2 P.M. Goods Train, as heretofore. From Bristol to Exeter Third Class Passengers will continue to proceed by the 2.15 P.M. Goods Train, as at present. The usual Passenger Train, from Bristol to Bath, at 6.30 will NOT be discontinued. By order of the Directors, CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. Paddington, Dec. 29, 1845. NEW VOLUME. THE BUILDER, an Illustrated Weekly Journal for the Architect, Operative, and Artist, price 3d., No. 152, to be published on SATURDAY NEXT, will contain a fine Engraving of Princess Elizabeth's Garden Porch, C9ombe Abbey, from a drawing by Mr. C. J. Richardson—Opening Address —Paper on the Old Exchange, by Mr. Tite, F.R.S.—Report of Irstitute of Fine Arts on Competitions—lnterior Decoration —Equilibrium of Piers—Laws Relating to Buildings—Oa Study of Design, and other important Papers, with all the Architectural and Building news. Early orders are solicited to prevent disappointment.—Oftice, 2, York-street, Covent-garden; and of all Booksellers. E AST DEREHAM AND NORWICH RAILWAY. The Committee of Management beg to announce to the Share holders that a large proportion of the Scrip has been sent in for re gistry, and they request that persons who bold the remainin.; por tion will send it forthwith to the Secretary in Norwich, In order that their arrangements may be completed in ample time for the require ments of Parliament. By order of the Committee, EDWARD WILLETT, Chairman. Norwich, Dec. 27, 1845. YAY - 7-------- _____ ---k4EEDS AND CARL ISLE RAILV COXPANY. . . otiee Is hereby given, that a Meeting of Shareholders of this Company, will take place at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street, on MONDAY, the sth of January, 1846, at One o'clock precisely, to lay before the Proprietors the terms of the amalgamation which has been agreed to with the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway Company, and the general state of this Company. • By order of OCOC the Committee of Management, C. LK WEBB, Secretary Gresham-rooms, Basinghall-street. dIOLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY - - MAGAZINE. Edited by W. HARRISOA Arri - ewORTu, Fag Contents for JANUARY. No. CCCI. I. The Murderer's Confession. By Horace Smith. 11. The Westminster Play. By Sergeant Talfourd. HI. Echoes from the Backwoods. By Captain Levinge. IV. The Vision of Carl Van Quiet. By Charles Hooton. V. New Year's Day. By Dudley Costello. VI. The Privateersman. By Captain Marryat, R.N. VII. The Robertses on their Travels. By Mrs. Trollope. (Concluded.) VIII. Beauchamp. By G. P. R. James, Esq. IX. Sonnet to Sergeant Talfourd. By E. Kenealy. X. Old Romances concerning Bernardo del Carpio, By John Oxenford. XI. Sketches of the Lives of Lords Stowell and Eldon. XII. Lights and Shades. By W. 11. Maxwell, Esq. XIII. The 01,1 Pilgrim Ferry. By Andrew Winter. XIV. Travels and Opinions of Mr. Jolly Green. XV. Revelations of London. By the Editor. XVI. Literature of the Month. Embellished with a Portrait of W. HARR'. SON AINSWORTH, Esq., by DANIEL MACLISE, R.A. Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand. THE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT' RAILWAY. The Committee of Mar agement beg to anionace that, in compliance with the applications and suggestions of several gentlemen of expe rience, they have instructed the several bankers named in their Letters of Allotment to continue to receive the preliminary deposits from this time until the 7th of January next, in order that those parties.to whom Shares in this Company have been allotted may con stilt their own convenience, by paying thefirst deposit at the present time, or paying the whole deposit on or before the 7th of January next, Sy order of the Beard, Z. HUBBERSTT, Secretary. Moorgate-chantbers, Ifoorgate-street, Dee. 19, 1845. WITH AN ILLUSTRON BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. AINSWORT ATI H. 'S MAGAZ IN E. Contents for JANUARY. No. XLVIII. I. The Count of Monte Christo. 11. The Guerilla's Daughter. 111. Tom Walker's Story. By Jackson Lee. IV. The Miseries of a Prize. By George Raymond. V. Life and Writings of Nimrod. By the Author of "Handley Cross." VI. Deeds not Words. By J. E. Carpenter. VII. How Miss Mountnorris got a Husband. By Shirley Brooks. VIII. Saib and Nourmahall. By Thomas Miller. IX. The Diamond Lance and the Golden Basin. A Breton Le gend. By W. Hughes, Esq. X. Shelley. By E. Kenealy. XI. Dreams. By J. L. Forrest. XII. SIR LIONEL FLAMSTEAD. By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. WITH AN ILLUSTRATION BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. hapman and Hall, 186, Strand. GRAND UNION RAILWAY. ISSUE OF SPALDING AND BRANDON JUNCTION RAILWAY SHARES. Notice is tereby given, that the Shareholders of the Grand Union Railway who are desirous of taking shares in the Spalding and Bran don Junction line, are required to send in the original scrip for re gistry on or before the 6th of January, 1846. The scrip must be accompanied by a letter, signed by the owner with his name in full, his occupation, and residence, stating the quan tity of scrip, and the respective numbers sent in for registry, together with the name of a party in London to whom reference may be made as to responsibility, otherwise it cannot be received. A receipt will be given for the scrip deposited and at the expiration of two days (if the holder be considered sufficiently responsible by the Directors) it will be returned, together with a letter of allotment for the Spalding and Brandon Junction Railway shares. The allotment will be in the proportion of one share for every five of the Grand Union Rail way scrip. Application must be made on or befor B e the day above named, otherwise no cla im for the Spalding andßrandonunction shares will be recognised. The deposits will be payable at the several Bankers specified on the Letter of Allotmen t, on or before the 15th of January, and the Deeds will lie for signature as under, when theßankers' receipts may Cornhill and at the Oftices be exchanged for Scrip Certificates. all-buildings, from the sth of London—At i t t h a e ll ~'roarny pcaonnly'psaoffiny, cGesu, to 20th January, 1846, inclusive, between the hours of Ten and Five NEW. MORNING PAPER. On WEDNESDAY, Jan. 21, will be published, No. 1. of THE DAILY NEWS. A Morning Newspaper of Liberal Politics and thorough Inde pendence. The leading features of the Paper may be briefly stated tinder the following heads : Its City News and Commercial Intelligence, collected from the highest sources, will be scrupulously impartial, and always early. Its Scientific and Business Information on every topic connected with Railways, whether in actual operation, in progress, or pro jected, will be found to be complete. An extensive system of Foreign Correspondence in all parts of the world has been for some time, and is now, in course of organisation. Its Parliamentary Reports, its Law Reports, and every other item of such matter, will be furnished by gentlemen of the highest qua lifications. Among the writers of its Leading Articles, its Criticisms on Books, the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts, are some of the most distin guished names of this time. The Literary Department of " The Daily News" will be under the direction of Mr. Charles Dickens. As a Journal addressing itself to Men of Business in all parts of the World, particular attention will be paid to the arrangement of its Advertisements. *.* The Office for Advertisements intended for insertion in " Tho Daily News," will be at No. 90, Fleet-street, London. All com munications for the Editor should be addressed to the Publishing Offices, Whitefriars. o'clock. Nottingham—At the Offices of the Gra Union Railway Com pany, St. Peter's square, Friday, 16th Jan nd uary, 1846. Leeds—At the White Horse, Saturday, 17th January, 1846. Manchester—At the Albion Hotel, Monday, 19th Janua ryls46. , 1846. Li ver pool — At the Angel Hotel , Tuesday, 20th January, As it is understood that Parliament will meet on the 22d January, the time for payment of Deposits and execution of the Deeds can on no account be extended. The Plans, Sections, and Books of Refe rence were deposited with the Board of Trade and the several Clerks of the. Peace on Saturday, the 29th November, and all necessary arrangements hare been made for obtaining an Act in the ensuing session of Parliament. By order, 78, Conthill, Dec. 24, 1845 ALFRED BEESTON, Secretary. ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. The Public are informed that the following ALTERATIONS the arrangement of the PASSENGER TRAINS will come into operation on the Ist January, 1846, viz.:— CAMBRIDGE LINE.—DOWN TRAINS. Two additional Trains, consisting of First, Second, and Third Class Carriaes will leave London for Hertford and intermediate Stations, at g 10.30 A.m., and 1 30 P.M. respectively, every day except Sundays. The Trains leaving London for Hertford at Twelve o'clock Noon, and 4.30, and Seven o'Clock Evening, will consist of First, Second, and Third Class Carriages, and not First and Second Class only a n s heretofore, and will stop , if req uired, to take up or set down passe gers at any of the intermediate Stations. The 2.30. P.M. Train from London to Ely and intermediate Stations will have First and Second Class Carriages attached, in addition to Third Class, as at present. Elegant Pocket Edition' price Is., by post Is. 6 d. Eleg D R. CU LVE R WELL ON MARRIAGE, its HINDRANCES and OBLIGATIONS. " To be or not to be, that is the question."—Shalspeare. Contents :—On Matrimonial Eligibility and Unfitness—Laws of Paternity—Phenomena of Gestation—On Maternal Influence—On infelicitous and unproductive Unions—Curiosities of Medical Experi ence, Cases, &c. &c. Also Companion to the same, price lc, by past Is. 6d. . _ CHASTITY ; Its ABUSES and DISEASES' (7`l.' Engravings). These two interesting little volumes are not intended for idle or in discriminate perusal, but they are earnestly offered to the attentive consideration of those who may be more legitimately and perhaps painfully interested. Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalko, 147, Fleet-street Mann, 39, Conthill, and aii , kooksellers, or dltect from the Autkor, 21, Arundel-street, Strand. At home daily till 2 ; Evenings, 7 till 9. UP TRAINS. Two additional Trains of First, Second, and Third Clan car flues will leave Hertford for London at and 2.30 P.M. respectively, stopping, if required, at any of the interme diate stations. The 8.15 and 9.15 (not 9.30, as heretofore) A.M., and 12.30 P.M. trains will take First, Second, and Third Class Passengers, and not First and Second Class only, as at present, and the 9.15 train will, if required, stop at any of the intermediate stations between Hertford and London. The 9.30 A.m. train from Ely to London, and intermediate sta tions, will hereafter consist of First, Second, and Third Class carriages. The Mail train, heretofore arriving in London at 5.22 A.M., will be due at five o'clock. COLCHESTER LINE.—DOWN TRAINS. The 7.30 A.sir. Train from London will be discontinued, Third Class Carriages being attached to the 8.30 A.M. Train. The One o'Clock P.m. Train from London will consist of First, Second, and Third Class Carriages, and goods will be discontinued to be sent by this Train. The 1.30 P.M. 3 rain from London will be discontinued, and a Train at 2.15 substituted. The Train leaving London at Three o'clock will be EXPRESS, stopping at Romford, Brentwood, and Chelmsford, and arriving at Colchester at about 4.30 o'clock. The 6.30 P.M. Train from London to Brentwood, and intermediate stations, will have Third Class Carriages attached, in addition to First and Second as at present. FOURTEENTH EDITION of the SILENT FRIEND on Human I Frailty, with Coloured Engravings. • Jest published, price 25. 64., free by post (in a sealed e nvelo p e) 3s. 6d, THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on the Infirmities of the System n both sexes ; and on the lose of the reproductive powers, with means of restoration. The baneful effects of indulge - cc , die., are filly pointed out. Illustrated by En gravings ; followed by observations on Marriage. By It. and L. PERRY and Co., Consulting Surceens, London. Published by the Authors, and may be had at their residence 19, BER NERS-STREET, OXFOItD-STREET. 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The launch took place exactly at twenty minutes past eleven, and the ceremony of christening was performed by the Mar chioness of Westminster. There were present, in addi -1 tion to her Ladyship, the Marquis of Westminster, the [ Earl of Wilton, • Sir Philip and Lady Egerton, Sir Ed ward and Lady Cust, Mr. Ireland Blackburne, M.P., and a host of the principal gentry in South Cheshire. The Admiralty was represented by Captain Black, R.N. After the launch, which was beautifully effected, the principal. visitors sat down to a splendid dejeuner, at which the usual loyal toasts were drunk, and " Success Ito her Majesty's Steamer The Birkenhead " was pro- I posed and responded to amidst loud cheers. Mr. Highain, Secretary and Comptroller-General to i the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. GREAT FREE 'TRA DE H. MEETING I grower.' The monop ol y was thus establi e hed b y the law AT LAMB Last evening a meeting of e electors of Lambeth 'of the land; but in 1816 corn was down to 52 5. in t his i country, when it should have been at 80s., if that were took place at the Horns Tared, Kennington, for the Ito be the remunerating price for the agriculturists. Then purpose of taking measures t&petition Parliament for there were bad seasons, and prices rose; and then there the total repeal of the corn-la 's. The large room of agricul the Horns was completely filled. Among the gentlemen 1 were committees to inquire into the cause of cultural .distress and manufacturing distress.—(Hear, D'Eyncourt, M.P., Mr. Moffatt 'M.P., Mr. Wilson, Mr. , hear.) 4 . ' When the corn was cheap the farmers com on the platform, we observed . Hawes, M.P., Mr. T. plained abeing distressed for want of remune- Watkinson, Mr. Poulter, Mr. . A. Lyon, Mr. R. S. ' rating prices, and when corn was high then e m all e e e d tin a g c . Dixon, Mr. Cash, Mr. Bone, . Byron, Mr. Renton, manuiacturers and artizans were distressed. The Mr. RICHARD Pom took th chair and opened the Mr. B. Baker, &c. &c. business what the of a p t i e v a e r , e d butbefore hhe could 0 them eld n a e s t 1 world the i t law of 1815 was found to be too stringent in its character, it was never in operation, for it was enacted and in 1822 a new law was proposed and carried; but I that it should not come into operation until dering the question to be whetter this country was or help taking a part in the anti- rn-law struggle, consi- corn reached 80s., and as corn never reached 80s. whilst that law was in existence, it never came into operation. — was not to be starved ? —(H r, hear.) He avowed (Hear, on H se e hear.) From 1822 to 1828 there was a continual that he had only recently beeoite a free trader.—(Hear, shifting and patching of the corn-law, and last the Bill of hear.) He had been much !puck by the arguments which he had heard adduced tit a recent anti-corn-law to be secured at 80s., but that law failed, and in 1828 the meeting in the borough of mbeth; and a speech of friends' of agriculture only asked 645. In 1830 the King's that great man, Mr. Cobden CLeers)—which he had speech prominently put forth agricultural distress as had an opportunity _ of listenin to lately at Wakefield, .1 1828 was introduced. In 1815 the growers of corn were one of its topics ; and in 1833 a Committee was appointed had decided him never, on an future election, to sup- to inquire into the cause of that agricultural disress. In then proceeded to advert to the failure of the port any but a free trader .—(, eers.) The Hon. Gen- 1836 there was another committee to inquire into agri tlemancultural distress ; so it was apparent that those laws for potato crop, and to inquire whether the League did not the protection of agriculture had failed in their object, seem to be in earnest in its proceedings, when they con- and were but a delusion, holding out promises to the sidered the com menceme nt which had been made the farmer which they did not realise.—(Hear, hear.) The other day of the subscription for the gigantic fund which author of the report of the Committee of 1836, himself an the League had determined to raise.—(Cheers.) enlightened agriculturist, called the corn - law a delusive Mr. CASH moved t h e first resolution, to the effect that protection ; and stated th'at the farmers had been for some the deficiency in the harvest, its well as the diseased Years sinking under it, and paying their rents out of state of the potato c rop, r e ndered some such measure as their capital. The writer to whom he alluded was the the repeal of the corn-laws absolutely necessary.— Right Hon. Gentleman who now fills the chair of the (Cheers.) He referred to the misery generally existing House of Commons, and who, as he before rematked, amid the agricultural population themselves, and on that was an enli g htened agriculturist ground urged the necessity of opening the ports. If the came to the law of 1842 himself. They next ; but he would not say any- Ministry did not repeal the bread-tax of their own good thing of that law, as the Minister who proposed it was will, they would be forced to do it by the power of the about to give it up, and as it was now in fact but the constituencies of the kingdom.—(Hear, hear.) L e t t h e ghost of a corn-law.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Ile people be but true to themselves. If they wished for that these e d s e that w laws efohratdh the said p r 0 t e e n e o t i u o g n h ef t o agriculturesh ow themeeting hadn cheap bread; they could have it.—(Cheers.) Mr. Dixon seconded the resoultion, observing that a delusion, and he therefore thought he was right in when they reflected u on their isolated situatieneand the saying that the best cou rse to p ursue would be to do confined space w c ey cora appropriate to agerettl• - away with protection altogether.—(Cheers.) He was, weal pursuits, it was evident that they could only ex i s t therefore, in favour of the repeal of the corn-laws, and as a political body, by being a great manufacturing and for a perfect free trade in that article.—(Cheers.) He commercial nation. Let them look at our increasing was aware that every approach to free trade had been population, and let them say whether it was probable, looked upen by some persons as the signal of the ap that supposing that population to go on increasing as it proaching ruin of the agricultural interest, and most of had done, they could be fed by the supplies afforded them remenabered the obloquy with which Mr. Huskis by this country. From the constitution of Sir Robert son was met when he first proposed an introduction of Peel's Government, they had reason to expect that some the principles of free trade. At that time all the inte half-and-half corn-law measure would be propounded by rests which were connected with iron, silk, and shipping it.—(Hear.) But they would be satisfied with no such would be, ruined ; but what was the fact ? Now in attempted settlement of the question. It must be finally 1845, twenty years after Mr. Huskisson brought forward and for ever settled by a total repeal of those un j ust those propositions, those interests which he touched THE FRENCH MINIST RY AND enactments which taxed a people for the sake of the were in a .more flourishing state than before. The iron THE OVERLAND EXPRESSES. aristocracy.—(Hear.) In Belgium and other continental trade and the shipping trade had greatly increased, and (From the Times.) nations, everything possible had been done to avert the experience . had shown that the predictions, as regarded Nothing can be more natural than that p eo p le should consequences of the scarcity which threatened Europe. those interests, by those who were opposed to the estimate the ma rnitude of means by the importance of This country alone was apathetic; and he thought it P rinciples'of free trade, had utterly failed. What ha d results, and assi g n in their ima g inations a due proportion was high time that they should arise from their mesmeric the world, and what had they not lost, by not long ago between cause and effect. The omne ignotum pro magni slumbers, and be up and doing in the great cause of following out those principles ?—(Cheers.) All the fico will, of course, operate largely in such an estimate; free-trade. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by seconding great authorities of the world had been free-traders—Mr. and as nothing is more unknown to the general mass o f the resolution. • • Pitt was' ti tree•trader—Lord Grenville declared in his mankind than the causes of political action, these are, Mr. HAWES, M.P., then came forward amidst loud famous p rotest, that mono p ol y was the parent of dear- of course, set down at the highest possible figure. This, cheering, and, said he felt great pleasure in having the ness, scarcity, and want.—(Cheers.) Then they had however, is one of the vulgar errors—a popular delusion, opportunity of meeting the electors of the borough of Adam Smith, Ricardo, M'Culloch, ranged upon their extremely useful to governors, and by them much Lambeth on that occasion. He rejoiced at that oppor. side—a m ighty arra y, i n short, of statesmen—of theo- cherished, but not quite so useful to the governed, tunity, not from a desire to ascertain their opinion upon retical an d p rac tic a l authorities, all declaring their so- although, strange to say, by them still more cherished. the question of the corn-laws, for he was well aware that team conviction that the docrrines of free trade were The truth is, in politics, as in the most ordinary affairs they were favourable to the principles of free trade, nor those o f j ust i ce an d truth.—(Hear.) What had they of life, the impulse of human passions is felt, though not from any desire to express his own opinions to them lost by monopoly ? He need not remind them that distinctly seen. Statesmen know the touch of pride and upon that important subject, for the great majority of their North 'American colonies were sacrificed to its de. animosity like other mortals. Governments have their the electors of Lambeth being free-traders themselves, wands, and , now they found every nation in Europe petty rivalries and jealousies, fully as keen, and some well knew that since he had obtained a vote in the House copying their bad example, while this country was times not less ridiculous, than those of smaller societies. of Commons that vote had always been given in favour suffering from the evil precedents which it itself had set. And the consequence is, that great events of state are of the principles of free trade—(Cheers) —but he re- —(Hear.) : Then look to France, it was a country full as frequently produced by the most insignificant causes joiced at seeing that meeting assembled on that occasion, of all they Most required. But let them remember what as by wisdom and deliberation. Perhaps it was hardly as it would enable himself and his Hon. Colleague to an insignifieant trade existed between us and our neigh- necessary to point out so particularly such a familiar go to Parliament and say that they had been sent there hours on the, other side of the Channel.—(Hear.) Why anomaly ; nor would it have been done but for the sake of by a constituency who were unanimous as to the expe- was it lo ? why, when our Government pressed for a introducing an example of it, one of the strongest cer diency of removing the monopoly of the corn-laws.— liberal treaty of commerce they were continually met by tainly that we remember to have heard. The public has (Cheers.) For his part, he had seen nothing to change taunting allusions to our own monopolist enactments.— not forgotten Lieut. Waghorn's recent experiment to the opinion which he had long before formed, namely, (Hear.) Again, let them look to the state of America. shorten the overland route from India. That enter that they had an injurious and mischievous tendency. If By opening our markets to the produce of the United prising gentleman, having often experienced the dilatory there was any individual at that meeting of the inhabitants States, they would be tending more than by any other and vexatious pomposities of French officials, in passing of the borough who was an advocate of the corn-laws, he means to restore and promote peaceful relations between from Marseilles to Boulogne, and being convinced, as he sincerely desired the individual who held those opinions England and her old colonies—(Hear)—relations, the declares, that the route ;by Trieste is in other respects would comeforward and allege reasons for maintaining surest and broadest basis of which must ever be free trade preferable, resolved to make the experiment of carrying his views, for there was nothing so tiresome or tedious as (Cheers.) Free trade in tact was a kind of hostage for his dispatches through Germany. Accordingly he cone slaying twice and thrice the giant monopoly the corn- the peace of the world, and it would be well if the people veyed them by steamer from Alexandria to Trieste, laws.—(Hear, hear.) He had no desire in speaking of of the different cou ntries of Europe would take a large thence through the Austrian dominions to the Rhine, that question to appeal to the passions of those around and enlightened view of their interests—a view which and down that river to Cologne, passing through Bel him, or to set one class against another.— (Cheers.) No; could bring them to no conclusion other than that free gium to Ostend, and so to London, thus avoiding alto he would confine himself to reason and argument, in trade was the b e st and greatest security for the peace,the gether France and her custom-houses. He brought with preof of the opinions which he entertained, and which civilisation, and the progress of the world.—(Cheers.) him the Indian dispatches for all the papers without he would show were founded upon just and correct These were his principles, and he confessed that heshould distinction. His attempt was not completely successful, 1 principles.—(Cheers.) There were three courses open feel fortified in them, and in giving expression to them having been obstructed, as he explained at the time, by to her Majesty's Ministers with respect to the corn-la ws. in the House of Commons, by the general concurrence some adverse circumstances which were not unavoid- I They might either propose to maintain the existing law, which they had met with from that large and respectable able, and would therefore not occur again. It was, but he conceived that to uphold it longer would be im- meeting of his constituents, the inhabitants of the however, sufficiently promising to afford very general possible ; or they might in some shape or form diminish borough of Lambeth. The Hon. Gentleman resumed his satisfaction ; and we, among many others, bore testimony a portion of the protection to agriculture, and in some seat amid much loud applaus e. at once to the exertions of Lieut. Waghorn and the ad mysterious manner endeavour - to pers ua d e th e p u blic Mr. BYRON proposed the next resolution, to the effect vantages of his scheme. These, indeed, were obvious to that everything was done which could be done in order that the meeting pledged itself only to support that Go- a moment's reflection. In the previously existing state to properly arrange the question. If it were proposed, vernment which would propose the total and immediate of thin gs y an miatsunderstan disturbed our intercourse sort of fixed duty, he for one would take that opportie Mr. CrieisTiE seconded the resolution, congratulating India. Such an event history forbids us to consider im nity of raising his voice against a fixed duty.—(Cheers.; the meeting upon the conversion to free -trade principles probable, na nd of bygone modern experience furnishes no con there trast Now, when it was considered that corn was a p rime of their chairman.—(Cheers.) to thels ur n sees necessary of life, and when they had been told, upon T.D'EetiCouer, Esq., M.P., then shortly addressed the fore, which had for its object to render England inde the authority of Ministers of the Crown, that at meeting. He stood i n a distinct position from his Hon. pendent of France in this particular, was a national periods when there was an abundance of food there Colleague who had just addressed them. He was a land- benefit. Whether projected or not under the stimulus was less crime in the country, and greater prosperity owner. He enjoyed the signal distinction of being en- of private ieterest, it was nevertheless a public ad - than at other periods, he maintained that it trusted with their confidence—a confidence which he vantage, and as such should have been encouraged at formed a strong argument in favour of putting an would ever attempt to merit by being ready, when the least, if not promoted, by Government patronage. In end to any legislation which could have the effect of ren- time came to take that course which the public interest this view we regarded the subject, and in a similar dering food scarce and dear. He said he was opposed indicated.--(Hear, hear.) He assured them that he view it was regarded by all the other journals, with to a fixed duty, and he recollected that Sir Robert Peel was heart and soul with them, and with his Hon. Col- one exception. The cause of this exception will pre had expressed himself as opposed to a fixed duty—not league—(Hear, hear) —agreeing as he did with him in sently appear. Lieut. Waghorn's enterprise gave great that it would form any very potent argument in favour all the se ntiments w hi c h ho h a d e xpressed, and which offence to the French Government. The approbation of his always maintaining that opinion.—(Laughter and he p ercei ye d the y were so ea g er favourably to entertain. it met with on this side the Channel exalted a proper cheers.) He (Mr. Hawes) would maintain that the abo- —(Cheers.) He had at a former period voted for a tionate disapprobation on the other. Or rather no pro lition of the corn-laws would be of the greatest service fixed duty to replace the corn-laws. Let it not be portion at all was observed; for whereas our satisfaction of to the country, for whatever injured trade would equally supp osed from' that moment that he was an advocate had been moderate and founded on reason, th affect the landed interest in tune, and he believed that a of a fixed !duty. But he thought that a moderate the French authorities has known no bounds nor pre cheap and abundant supply of corn would m a ke the po- fixed duty. would have had—just as well as corn-law served even the shadow of reason. If the conveyance of pulation more happy and contented, and by giving a repea l —the effect of opening the markets of the world ; the Anglo-Indian mails from Marseilles to Boulogne had better field for th e ir industry enable them to b e better the great desideratum they had to complain of—the been a private matter, in which the pecuniary interests customers of that which the farmers produce, and thus great object' they had to struggle for.—(Hear, hear.) of individuals were deeply involved, it could have ex he would be a partaker in the general prosperity.— At all events, a fixed duty would have been infi- cited no wonder that these individuals should be alarmed 1 , (Hear, hear.) The landowners, indeed, said that one nitely better than the present sliding-scale. He had by the prospect of losing their monopoly. But that per claim which they had for a peculiar protection t o th e i r o ft en been challenged upon this subject. He had been sons in the elevated situation of the Ministers of a great interest was based upon the fact that they had p ecu li ar f re quently asked whether he was for a total repeal of the and powerful country—that a man who holds the present burdens to sust a i n , a nd, in answer to that argument, he corn-laws? His reply had always been as it now was. rank, and aspires to hold the future character, of a states (Mr. Hawes) called upon them to prove their case. He The production of corn was a manufacture—he was a man—that the philosopher-historian M. Guizot should invited them to prove before a Committee of the House manufacturer of corn. Let them repeal protective du- be open to such Fetty influences, and alive to such sordid of the Commons that they were subjected to peculiar ties upon all. articles of manufacture, and he would be impulses—creates no less astonishment than dis burdens ; but until they had proved that fact, he happy in that case to repeal that upon corn also with gust. Indeed his conduct in this matter is so would continue "to deny that. they had any peculiar the rest.—(Hear, hear.) The great apostles :of free- apparently inexplicable, that if we were left to burdens to sustain, and consequently to d en y t h e tra d e seeme d now to be agreed upon that point. Let conjecture alone, there would be no solving the riddle. argument in favour of the corn-laws which was them, then,, be agreed as to the repeal of all protecting What motive, one would ask, could possibly induce a based upon that supposition.—(Hear, and cheers.) d u ti e s—let them be just to all. He should be satisfied public man, the first Minister of one of the first of Let them p ro ve their case be fore a Committee— with such an arrangement ; and if the landed interest European P o wers, to enter into competition in a n y wa y let them sat i s fy the public tha t the y bore an un j ust g enerall y were not, they ought to be.—(Cheers.) Re- with a private person (for be it remembered that Lieute share an a public burdens, and then they might f a i r ly e ereec e had been made as to the course which Sir Robert nant Waghorn was not patronised by the English Go would in such ask for an equivalent, or for the removal of that portion Peel would probably adopt. He thought it a vain ima- vernment), and, further, to resent the simple expression of the taxation of the country which pressed upon them gination to suppose that the Premier would go for un- of satisfaction on the part of his countrymen, in contem exclusiveiy—(Hear, hear)—and he was sure the public conditional free-trade. He thought he would rather take plating the partial success of his enterprise? Such, a case cheerfully share in the common the course which his Hon. Colleague had hinted at, and however, has been the course pursued by M. Guizot, burden.—(Cheers.) He conceived that the existing law w ould propose :some half-and-half measure.—(Cries of and fortunately we are not left to conjecture to discover might be looked upon as having been given up, for those " No, no. No half-and-half measures.") His own dis- the motive of it. As soon as the commercial treat who introduced it were now abcut to relinquish it, al- position distinctly was to oppose any such measure ; and tween the French Minister and the Morning He, ai d was worked well.—(L au though the public had been to the l as t h our t o ld it h a d th en if that should be concluded, as he trusted there made known to us, onr correspondent in P a plied at ghter.) It was now condemned by ' would be, a union between the Liberals and many gen- the Ho the country. tel des Affaires Etrangeres to be ohmtted to its own authors, and no argumen t was requ i re d on his tiemen s itti n g on the opposite side of the House, which a participation in the advantages of the' treaty. maintaining part to show that it had not been useful or beneficial to might have the effect, at no distant day, of again eject- He had an interview with M. Guizot, who gave They had now viewed the two courses of ing the Tory Ministry from office, then there would be him the following answer :—" You have written a fixed duty or the present scale, and they an appeal to the people, and he trusted that they would to the Minister of Finance to request that next came to the consideration of' a duty-free trade in be well prepared for it.—(Loud cheers.) the favour of purifying and delivering the dispatch of corn. They would, in looking at that question, naturally Mr. Wiesen.; had listened attentively to the speech of the Morniag erald immediately for the on its arrival at to ye. Ttmes. Now, ask, was a duty-free tr ade in corn calculated to produce their representative, Mr. attentively o he wished to Marseilles be con H eeded the effect which some of the friends of the corn-law as- have a more explicit statement from that Hon. Gentle- 1 will tell you how the matter steads. The Times lately n amely, would it tin ow the land in this man, as to. the course which he intended to take with brought by Mr. Waghorn the Indian mail from Suez to sorted it w ould, Country out of cultivation, and bring ruin upon the sari- respect to the corn-law question in the House of Com- Alexandria, and thence rid Trieste to London, and culturists? It was most important to have that portion mons. He was desirous to be informed if the Hon. boasted of having beaten by that express, and of having of the understood, and that question per- Member wes prepared to vote for a total and uncon- outstripped by that route, the French Post-office, and asntihsjwlrt:dti,llaynd he (Mr. Hawes) was ready to as- ditional repeal of the corn-laws, at the meeting of Par- demonstrated—at least, assumed—that the Trieste route reasons which convinced him that no liament?-e-(Hear, hear.) was shorter than by sea to Marseilles, and by land ~ could follow the such effect abolition of the corn-laws. Mr. D'BYNCOURT said that since he first entered through France to Boulogne, and by Folkestone to Lon . what benefit had the agricultural interest received public life,' nearly half a century ago, it had been his don. Immediately afterwards we received from the from the corn-laws? There were about 120 statutes universal practice never to give a ;sledge upon any sub- Morning Herald the following proposition :—' We ;pe on the statuteook the object of every one of which was ject.—(Cries , of " hadar, mingled with marks of pose to prove that the route yid Marseilles to London is give protection in some shape to agriculture, and disapprobation.) Healways candidly and fully ex- shorter in point of time than that by Trieste. Will you to eve r ) , on e of those statutes had failed in its avowed object pressed his opinions, and he had acted consistently s he the French Government) participate in the expense of sign the sound —(Hear, hear) —and every one which was intended to honestly in Parliament, and with regard to pledges, he the attempt to prove that fact ?" We assented, and the regulate the supply of corn had been altered or repealed was confident that his Hon. Colleague would give the Alexandre steamer was accordingly ordered on that ser from time to time. In 1773 a law was passed which ad - ssme answer which he had given. He had, on three vice under the circumstances and in the manner you proached more nearly to free trade than any of the occasions, brought forward a motion for the reduction know. You see, therefore. that this is a joint affair others, and it happened singularly enough that the sta- of the duration of Parliaments, and yet, if he were of ours and the Morning Herald, and that tote o f 1773 remained longest upon the statute-book.— a sked to pledge himself to any particular vote with re- consequently we cannot—and we regret it— (Cheers.) That law alldwed corn to come into our mar- spect to ;that question, he would refuse to give such allow the Times to participate in an ad nominal duty when the price in this country pledge. His . duty, as their representative, was not to vantage for which the Morning Herald is at the greater a r 485., and he could show from excellent autho- give pledges at the call of any individual who chose to part of the expense. You see it was your own fault. rkwieyss t ao h tv a e t 20 years after it pass e d t h e con diti on o f the , j ump up and ' ask him to do .so.—(Disapprobation, You proclaimed to the world the superiority of Mr. farmers was better than it had b een s i nce w i t h a hi g h er - m i ng l e d w ith cr i es o f e Hear.") He repeated, he had Waghorn over us, and you cannot be surprised that we protection.—(Hear, hear.) A merc h an t o f London, in a g i ve n his opinions clearly to them on the subject of the accepted a proposition to prove the contrary fact." There publication upon the subject of the currency, published corn-laws, and he did not see how any individual could is one trait in M. Guizot's character which this transac in 1798 or 1799, charged the country bankers with doing misunderstied his views. i n jury by lending money to the farmers to enable them Mr. Weesoe sa id h e wou ld h av e p u t the q uestion to H e ma kes no scruple to acknowledge that a vessel or to hold over their st oc ks of corn, an d i n rep l y to that Mr. H awes - b u t th a t hi s s peech was clear and distinct the French navy—about the honourable employment of Lion very conspicuously developes—we mean his can lour. charge, a distinguished man, Sir Francis Baring, made ias regarded ' the subject. He thought it the duty of the which so much has been said of late—has been used t o a statement which threw grea t li g h t upon the condition 1 meet i ng p l a i n l y to put t h e qu estion to either of their convey the dispatches of an English newspaper in order of the farmers at that per i o d. H e said that the genera l ' mem b ers , w h e th e r he would or would not vote for an to afford it an advantage over its contemporaries. M. mass of the bankers in the country, instead o f l en di ng , abol i t i on of the eorns t aws .—(Hear, and cheers.) If the Guizot will of course be equally candielin his answer when money to the farmers , looked to them for deposits an d i Hon. Member, h av i ng been so many years in the Ho use some curious ire mber of the Opposition asks him out of su pport, and that it was rare for the farmers to want l of commie* had not made up his mind as yet on the what fund the expenses of this noble enterprise have to borrow money, whilst the instances were not rare subject of ;be corn-laws, it was time for the electors to been paid. The case, on the whole, stands where they even accommodated the landlords with look for seine one who could make up his mind on the private gentleman in England—the man, moreover, who loans.—(Hear, hear.) Could that be said in twenty years ' subject. -I ,k_, deputation from the constituency of Lam- first rendered the overland route practicable, in spite of after the enactment of any of the other laws for the ,bets, men-wtio co-oPerated with the League, had waited the indifference or opposition of' Ministers anti Secrete • protection of agr i eu lt ur ee—te lelo, no .)D ar i ng the French on the Hon. Member (Mr. D'Eyncourt) on the subject, ries—believes that he has discovered an improvement in wa r—partly from the effect of monopoly, partly from ' and never Could get a direct answer from him with that route, and in the prosecution of a private enterpri - e , p e r a i l c t e i s v a t r i o () s it e ; higher, and in the expenses of importation, and partly from bad respect to "It. He was of opinion that from the position charges himself indiscriminately with the conveyance. of and additional land was which he held the Hon. Member ought to be prepared dispatches But or aspte English journals, without favour 1815, w hen the peace not only to vote for an abolition of the corn-law, but to or affection. took place, a law was introduced corder t o u phold those exert himself strenuously to effect that object.—(Cheers.) of France, prosecuting a p u bli c un d er t a king, enters into high prices and high rents whih bad been produced Having put question to the Hon. Member, he thought, i a Private Partnership with the proprietor of a newspaper, during the progress of the war.—(Hear, hear.) He was it but fair _to adopt a similar course towards his cm- 1 and on the ground of private interest, excludes all the in a condition to Prove that the law of 1815 was passed league, and ho would now ask Mr- Hawes if he was world , save his partner alone, from a share in the ad in order to uphold rents and the war pr i ce s,—(Hear.) prepared to 'vote for an entire and unconditional repeal vantage, A n d t hi s mae , s nam e is blown throughout seasons --prices o i n n s t — o The price at which the duty was to be nominal was then of the corn4aws in the ensuing Parliament. the world hy the trumpet of Fame, and himself regarded filed at Os., as it was alleged, to meet the increased ex- i Mr. HAwss sa id h e h a d spo k en c l ear ly and at length I by thousands of Frenchmen as the first of living states pensee of agriculture, and to give remuneration to the on the subjtvt, and iu the most distinct e,nd unequivocal , men—Proh pudor I I terms. If they asked him after that declaration of his opinion to go into Parliament, bound hand and foot, under all circumstances, and at all times bound to vote for any particular question, he would sooner fling his seat to the winds than consent to be so bound.— (Cheers.) Neither his colleague or himself were to be brow-b-aten.—(Cheers and marks of disapprobation.) He had always been the advocate of free-trade in Par liament, but he would not go to Parliament bound hand and foot. When a man went to the House of Commons in a deliberate character, he ought to listen to argument; but if he went there and said that nothing which he could hear would change his opinion, he must neces sarily lose dignity and self-respect. The CHAIRMA.N said that he bad pledged himself to vote for no one but a man who would vote for an aboli tion of the corn-laws.—(Cheers.) Mr. D'EYNCOURT said that he had repeatedly stated that he considered the repeal of the corn-laws necessary and beneficial; he had voted repeatedly for Mr. Villiers's motions, but he looked upon a pledge as an unconstitu tional proceeding. The resolution was then unanimously agreed to. Mr. WILDE proposed a resolution, to the effect that a petition should be adopted, embodying the resolutions, and entrusted to Mr. D'Eyncourt and Mr. Hawes for presentation. The resolution having beenseconded, was unanimously agreed to. Mr. HAwEs thanked the meeting, and said that he would always to the best of his ability cordially and faithfully support the measure which the petition prayed for.—(Loud cheers.) They now saw the difference be tween tyranny and freedom. He had been the advocate of a free-trade in corn—(Cheers) —before the League was in existence; and he was sure that the leaders of the League would not lend their approval to the course which had been pursued on that occasion.—(Cheers.) He would support the unconditional repeal of the corn laws.—(Cheers.) He had called on the landlords to show that they had exclusive burdens, and if he did so again in the House of Commons, they might, if he pledged himself to a particular vote, say it was no use talking to him, as he was bound hand and foot ; but he would never consent to go to the House of Commons un der such circumstances. senti mentstortheoefnbtiirsell, u u n n c u o u n r d a i b t l i e on C a u l, ll a e n agu dim e. lie i a n t t e e r n e d p e e d a l to o fy tthee corn -laws.—(Loud cheers.) And he would add, after what had taken place, that whenever he found that he had not the confidence of his constituents, he should be the first to desire an end of the connexion between them. A vote of thanks was passed to the leading members of the League, after which the meeting separated. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NORFOLK RAILWAY. NORWICH, TUESDAY NIGHT.—At ten o'clock this evening, Mr. Robert Eagle Clark, the Coroner for the borough of Thetford, resumed the inquiry, adjourned from Friday last, at the Guildhall, Thetford, relative to the death of William Pickering, engine-driver, and Thomas Hedger, fireman, who perished by the recent accident on the Norfolk Railway. Thomas Brown, a labourer, living in ,Croxton parish, near Thetford, was then called, and on being sworn said, on Wednesday last I was at work at Mr. Wright's farm at Kilveston, which is near the Norfolk Railroad, on the Croxton-road, on the right hand side from Norwich. While I was standing near the farm-house, I saw the train that met with the accident coming up, but I cannot say that it was travelling at a greater rate than I have seen trains usually run, for I did not take particular notice of it. It passed me, and on going two or three fathoms, it went behind a plantation, and it was lost to my view for a second or so, when it came in sight. Almost immediately afterwards I lost sight of it again, the end of the house obstructing the view ' • and I then heard a kind of rattling which ap peared to me like the escape of steam. I ran round the corner of the house and saw a dense cloud of steam. which perfectly hid the engine and carriages and every thing near. I instantly made to the spot and called out if there was any one hurt. I was answered by some person that he did not know; and I then got upon the line, and discovered the deceased lying upon, or across the rails. Pickering was on the ground, with his face downwards, and I heard him groan. I lifted up his head and blood was gushing from the mouth, and he died in about ten minutes. Hedger laid with his legs on the rails, and his body rested on the earth. The engine was nine or ten yards from them, at the bottom of the em bankment, on the Croxton side. It rested on its side; two wheels were embedded in the earth of the banking, and the other rested in the field. The chimney was knocked off, and I saw it on the same side as the engine, near the edge of the line. The tender was thrown crossways on the rails near Thetford. The car riages were on the other side of the line, the up side. Three of them and a truck were down the embankment. The deceased was found just behind the last carriage of those down the bank. The remainder of the train was on the line, but I think the wheel had gone off the rails. The bodies did not lay under the carriages. The first carriage of the hate portion of the train was close to ono of the men, probably two or three yards. The men were about three yards from each other. Pickering was placed in a truck and taken on to Thetford, as also Hedger. I remained with the latter until he expired. By the CORONER—Did not see the engine go off the line. Did not observe any particular motion of the en gine before it ran off. Saw no rocking of the carriages. The deceased never said anything about the accident as to who caused it. Pickering never spoke, he frequently groaned. The only words Hedger made use of were, Oh, dear me I Am sure they did not give any account of the accident in my hearing. Took no particular nc tice of the rail where the engine went over. By a juror—Was positive that the first carriage of the remainder of the train on the line was three or fot.r yards from the deceased. • Isaac Rowe, a shepherd of Kilveston, was next ex amined—l wes about sixty yards from the railroad, cn the Croxton side, when I raw the engine go over tis line. Before then, I heard the train ooming, and turned round to see it, and thought it was going very fast— faster than I had ever seen a train travel before. lam in the habit of noticing the trains frequently pass up and down the line, perhaps three or four a-day. When it passed me, about sixty or seventy yards, I perceived the engine jump. The fire-wheels rose up, and it reeled on one side; it then jumped again, crossed the line, anti went over the embankment. CORONER—Now, be careful how you explain yourself. Did you see any men on the engine after it jumped? Witness—No, I did not, in consequence of the immense body of steam. CORONER —State if you noticed any other unusual ap pearance. Witness—After the engine jumped, the fire flew about in all directions from the bottom and side. It appeared as if it was forced out. By a juror—l could not say that the engine was oft the rails when she jumped. When it passed me I no ticed two men on it, but I did not see them jump off. Mr. George Goding Johnson, the master of the sta tion at Thetford, was then sworn. On last Wednesday, at about a quarter to one o'clock, I was sent for to at tend the deceased, the subject of inquiry. I imme diately went to the spot, and tbttnd the deceased lying on the right side of the line. Pickering having died, I had him put into a luggage box, and Hedger was placed on a board, and were both conveyed to the Thetford station. The latter died three or four hours afterwards. I did not hear him give any account of the accident ; he was not able, John Arwell, a farmer's bailiff, residing at Kilveston, next deposed, on oath, I saw the accident, when about 400 yards on the Croxton side of the railway.. It hap• pened rather to the right of me. I saw' the train coming full half a mile along the cutting. I did not notice the pace so very particularly then, but on clearing the euttin I thought the speed was much increased. It appearel to be going very fast. CORONER —Faster than usual? Witness—Yes, sir ; faster than usual. I think it was faster than ever I saw one go before. I may have seen an engine with a tend, r go as quick; but I am sure never with a train. CORoNER—Was there anything about the engine that attracted your attention more particularly than another ? Witness —Yes. The first thing that excited my fear was the flying of the fire from under it. It shot cut suddenly and rapidly, and I remarked to myself, "Dear me, what a pace they are going at." And the words scarcely escaped from my lips before she went off tie line. • CORONER—Now, did you see the engine jump? Wit ness—l did. Instantly after the fire flew out it jumped •as if it was passing over logs of wood laid on the raias, anti then went down the embankment. There was a great quantity of steam. Before the engine went off son appeared full;" in fact, there was so much of it that did not exactly witness all that took place. CORONER —Then I understand you to say that too moment the fire fell the engine jumped ? Witness-- She did, and then apparently pitched sideways down tht 1 lino. The carriages proceeded until they were all of a heap. CotoNen—Con you say whether you saw any man 311 the engine ? Witness—As soon as the engine came out of the cutting I perceived two men upon it, and I noticed them up to the moment prior to the enAine turning over. One of them jumped off on the Croxton side of the lino.. I saw nothing particular of the other man. By the jury—The fire proceeding from the engine in the way it did induced me to watch it more particularly. The carriages appeared to be proceeding on the rails after the engine had jumped. I cannot judge how far it went after the fire flew out—it might be 30 or 40 yarc:s from where I stood. The steam and smoke were very great; the steam seemed to be issuing from both ends a t the same time the fire was falling. When I got up to th spot, several persons, who had assembled, were pulling EXAMPLBS. 1 i ' PI Li 5 , i , ~4 1 14 P . ' i * 0 ,1 L . . . Bonus Bonas in s 7 LI .1 t ..: ~, = = Premium. 2 ? # A added. Ca5h....2. 0.. _ ---•--- ------- --- --- , 4 , 1337 ..Zi9l 13 3 .f. 87 13 51A13 17 1 £ 39 S 11 1 I£' £ '• —• 183 8 16 5 13 0 74 13 10 11 8 6 346 2 3 601001 71 3 1839 138 13 6 61 14 3 9 , 2 .. 10 296 13 1 1840' 89 0 0 41 13 4 . 6 I 0 247 4 8 _....._., ... •-.....1 ni n I 14, T ie :vision of protita is annual, and tho next will be made in D eemUr of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Soa. AW FIB,E INSUR ANCE SOCIETY. X/ (Completely Registered under the Act 7th and Bth Viet cap. 110). Offices, Nos. 5 and 6, Chlincery-lane. Subscribed Capital, Five Millions Sterling. TRUSTEES. The Right lion. the Earl of Devon The Right Hon. Lord Cottenham The Right lion. the Vice Chancellor of England The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron The Right Hon. Sir Herbert Jenner Fust (Dean of the Arches, &e.) William Wingfield, Esq. (Master in Chancery) R i c h ar d Richards, Esq., M.P. (M a ster in Chancery.) DIRECTORS. 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The facts are simply these:—lmmediately upon reading the bombastic obser vations made by the Times in support of Mr. Waghorn's project for conveying the India mail.viet Gcrtnany— offered, no doubt, as a compliment to Mr. Waghorn for bringing the Times' dispatches, and with the hope of receiving his assistance hereafter—we determined upon proving the utter absurdity of the assertion that the Trieste route was the shortest, by running as rapid an express as possible from Suez vid Marseilles. The only difficulty in our way was to obtain a steam-boat from Alexandria to Marseilles, and to obviate this difficulty we wrote to the French Government, stating our intention, asking the favour that one of the usual passenger steam-boats trading between Alexandria and Marseilles might be placed at our disposal, and offering to pay all expenses incurred in that service. The French Government, having considered our propo sition, answered that they could not comply with our request ; but to show their desire to afford every pos sible assistance in accomplishing an object of so much importance to England as the expediting the conveyance of the Indian mail, they had determined upon placing at our disposal a French war-steamer, which could con vey our agent to Egypt, to arrange the express from Suez to Alexandria, and for the use of which vessel the French Government could not possibly receive any pe cuniary remuneration, but they expected that a copy of the " Overland Bombay Times" should be delivered to the Government in Paris as soon as our courier arrived there. For this extrem ly generous, phi we cannot help calling it " patriotic" assistance, we shall always feel ourselves under great obligations to the French Mi nistry. The vessel appointed to the service, called the " Alexandre," accordingly was sent to Marseilles on the day we suggested, for the purpose of conveying our active and intelligent agent at Marseilles to Alexandria, who undertook the entire management of the express from Suez, and actually went to Cairo, and brought down the dispatches himself to Alexandria. He is con sequently at this moment, unfortunately for him, in qua rantine at Marseilles ; but we have no doubt he consoles himself for his present state of restraint, by the conside ration that, notwithstanding all the sneers of the Times, the Herald has succeeded in an experiment of a magni tude never before undertaken by any journal. As for the in.sulting observation of the Times towards M. Guizot, all we can say is, that, if the Paris correspondent of that respectable journal did actually apply to be allowed to participate in the result of this experiment, we are quite certain that M. Guizot could never have stated, as the Times asserts, " that be was determined to exclude not only the Times, but every other journal which had ventured to applaud Mr. Waghorn, from any participation in the result of this evperimont, ;" and for this simple reas.m-- via., that our express was arranged so hastily, that we had no means of ascertaining whether we should be able to procure even one spare copy of the Bombay Times for the use of the French Government ; and our corre spondent in Paris actually stated as much to M. Guizot; so that we really do not understand how his Excellency could promise to give any information to the Times or to any other journal, not knowing whether he would be able to obtain any intelligence himself. It so happened that we were able to procure an extra copy of the Born , bay Times, which was left in due course for the use of the French Government ; but our agent at Suez had great difficulty in obtaining it, and it certainly would have been extremely unfair, after all our exertion and expense, to have given that copy of the paper to the Times. It is really with great reluctance that we feel ourselves compelled to publish all these particulars; but after the gross insult offered to the French Government, and to M. Guizot in particular, we feel it a duty we owe to ourselves to make known to the public the exact facts of the case. PRICE SD. S Ny DECEMBER 31, /845„ ~~ ~~ TWENTY POUNDS FOR SIXPENCE. Thousands of Pounds Sterling Money will be given away with the CENSOR, or SATIRICAL TIMES NEWSPAPER, to be published January the 3d, 1846. Lose no time. 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