The Sun. — London, England, 1845-02-25 00:00:00

Hilary -Nisse n, FIE PROPOSED NEW TARIFF—GRATIS. atre, t London, stationer and printer, 68, G rea t Tower , c orner of Mark -lane. P Fonvarded to the country also (free) in reply to an enclosure of a ennY t ARIS and SAINT QUENTIN RAILWAY ailnx its • COMPANY, Junction on the Great Northern Railway, at CREIL. ''',ooo,ooo franca, Or 1,400,000/. ; in 70,000 Shares of 500 francs, or 201. each. Deposit, 50 francs, or 21. per share. P ROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. t Mons. J. Cordier, Member of the Chamber of Deputies. Le Marquis Henry De Dion, Landed Proprietor (Pro t'. Prietaire). E I Yus, jun. Banker, P ar i s . sae H. Neville, Ci v i l Engineer, Paris. G raham, Esq., M erc h ant; Loudon. Musias, Landed Proprietor (Proprietaire). 0... i De Be aupuy, Landed Proprietor (Proprietaire). r Joshua Walmsley, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, &c. una ln Jackson, Esq., Chairman of the Chester and Birken head Railway, &c. IreASTs, BANKERS. I ' 3 ' s actis,jun., and Co., Paris; Smith, Payne, and Co., London ; Engi n , Bank of Liverpool, Liverpool. 111. Rendel; Esq., F.R.S. Vice President of the Institute of Civil Engineers. Borradaile Esq., 20, King's Arms-yard, London. nrea are and forms ' on which to make the application for ow ready, at the temporary offices of the Company, 20, P,L,r,l4e-Yard, London. rbore,-'° a PPlications for Shares will be attended to except on the \ 0 mentioned forrus• ( biss o Z r, iB hereby given that no further applications for shares in ' 4 ' ll Y will be received after Saturday, the Ist of March next. 14 AI ND LYONS RAILWAY. The p i . LAFFITTE'S COMPANY. Pally , °visional Committee of the Paris and Lyons Railway Cora- Lyon, iluntereala inquirics, Ply to nu to state, for the information of their Proprietors, and in re ftith, to ms n „ lia „ t 4 ,dopted by the Government, that the only LINE OF RAILWAY to for the working of which Il n der. P r, nes been, for more than two years, in a position to t he event of th e Government determ i ning to lease the eousid er " the condition of te Lessees executing the earth works, p, rabic increase iu thecapital will be speedily required. Vlll d hartlq respecting the distribution of the new shares he announced. 62, Ri4 4 By order, William -street, Feb. 17, 1845 ED. AIME, Secretary, i ! EL T ,MSFOR AND BURY RAILWAY, ' 4 ' 11 41: L ' ItA ,IXTRE D BOCKING HALSTE ID, SUDBURY, tiee) • 1,1 1 , 1 ,! 4 -,L 1 (with Projected extensions to Thetford and Mal e -1 -forty-nine Miles. 750,0001., ha Shares of 251. each. metered efosit, 11. 7s. 6d.r Shre. Provis D ionally pursuant t o Act 7 a and 8 Vie., c. 110. SiL PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. r Si rarker , Bart. Melford Mall, Suffolk. 3 T 'BBCII. Tyrell, Bart., M.P. for Essex, Boreham sk hoo ae, near Chelmsford. I ' l ialaei Tll'a gn Wood, Bart., Glazenwood House, Essex. ~, R• C. F. Addison, Chilton Lodge, Sudbury ?hi)j n rli ardiston, Esq., the Ryes, Sudbury. Th e 'ennet, jun., Esq., Rougham Hall, Bury St. Edmonds. 11844;111: C:teErd, Edward Pentlow Rectory. 4. hrewster, Esq., Little Maplestead Hap, Essex. _ joauel courtauld, L E y sg st . o , and Liverpool. House, Bocking. nFlioleally, Essex, J ohn (-}!launafer, Esq., Friday-street, Landon. R°pnunds, Esq., Sudbury and London. 11;11 E mmett, Esq., Peckham. 1, 4 : r. H. B. Faulkner, Westgate House, Melford. It. F, G noday, Esq., Sudbury. Geer • Greenwood, Esq., Bank, Halstead. J HaYcoek Esq Chelmsford. osio, a •, Joh— A lien Esq., Gray's Inn. n Hubbard, Esq., Sible Hedingham. Ilieelaa Jennings, Esq., Sible Hedinghara, Essex. King, Esq., Bank, Sudbury. li o e r ,, n ". Thomas Ludbey, Cranham Rectory, Essex. d 0 r e a W. lleyleyard, Esq., Chatham-place, Blackfliars. ineY Sarin Onley, Esq., Stisted Hall, Essex. J o u l es George Parker, Esq., Springfield-place, Chelmsford. q„*"., Dixon Piper, Esq., Colne Engaine, Essex. e Weller Foley, Esq., Boated Hall, Suffolk jaall Weller Foley, Esq., Boated Hall, Suffolk. Ito Ph Sewell, Esq., Halste a d. 4, n e rt P. Stedman, Esq., Sudbury. -' Taylor, Esq., Sible Hedingham, Essex. `,,aarles Walter, Esq., the Howe, Halstead. LanilaS White, . Esq Manor House, Weathersfield, Essex. (With power to add to their number). ENGINEER. H. W. Thompson, Esq., C.E. Und o , BANKERS. nagel --11 rown, Janson, and Co. Abchurch-lane. el slid Braintree—Messrs. Sparrow and Co. suds ead—London and County Bank. b,,burY—Messrs. Alexander and Co. tia3--lesers. Oakes, Bevan, and Co. ''erl ' ° ° l-- -Bank of Liverpool. ke ss . SOLICITORS. )4, 4 . White and Borrett, Lincoln 'alnn-fields. ree Messrs' Chamntler and Westwood, Gray's Inn square. Obeli t y, fb LOCAL AGENTS. tr a • r d — James Parker, Esq. Cunnington, Veley, and Cunnington. S Messrs. Mate 00, ad—D. Sewell, Esq., and G. P. Arden, Esq. For 1, 0 Z.„,7 Messrs- Stedman. f " melfo rd — Richard Almack, Esq. .4st, urtli be 4a. er Particulars the public are referred to the Prospectus "`le Cern - W A, °fli cks „„. PanY, copies of wine A gent s , ort , o. 61, Moorgate-street, London ; or of the Solicitors the under-mentioned Brokers. `e,""a for Shares, in the annexed form, to be ts addressed to i, of th,, ,„ 1 11 0 , 40 Wbfa. "mapany, or to the Solicitors or Agents, and also to erd e -court, London ; Ittek, por...rokers:—L. M. Simon, Esq., Wa k aolL!' LeekLivol Lee d s; Henry Benton, E q., Manchester ; Alea, sr ,, a nd Rhodes, William Mason, _Esq., Bradford ; To "nocan and Hutchinson, Glasgow. TAE OhAt Pho,, - OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. VISIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE CHELMSFORD , °lt att 'NO' BURY RAILWAY COMPANY. akEar, Ro t , Plea, Shares in the above Corn he,..se allot me kr , slt Vboreo3- undertake to accept such Shares, and to pay the 114 ' wo re' and also to execute the Parliamentary contract and agreo n , eat, when required. `vti this day of _ , 1845. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, li:elne, 44dress, I.l.o l ,..fession or trade, P at m ro R , '`eference, dr 1144 IM . , °I :.PING DECAYED TEETH, Price 4s. 6d. , E 41 PW,:,t•It MAJESTY, his Royal Highness PRINCE Ii ', 1 , - “Li her Royal Highness the DUCHESS of KENT. ji i it S TOp rI OMAS'S SUCCEDANEU3I, for 4), • 44 ii in ....,'`G CAYED TEETH, however large the cavity. 14 )11 ,' ,l kr,,`Fie tooth ft state without any pressure or pain, ''' ''' '''4-"Ln firm in a the a tooth so for , many years, rendering extrac -4'11,1144, th o ,, t Y, arresting the further progress of decay. All per l'e •ecti o • "LC. Thomas's Succedaneum themselves with ease, as i 4p ' , D ateci i tftre enclosed . 'fie N.. , atm A , 7 Air• Thomas Surgeon Dentist, price 4s. 6d. Sold by li i -4i ter...st r e :". e : 2 . 20 , Regent -street, and 143, Bond-street ; Sanger, ~,Ar,,,,, Cor n fit ; Butler, 4, Cheapsidc ; Prout, 229, Strand ... John i'' tel t 'ace na :".. l , and all Medicine venders. ,Nit -41 , titc: e Oritinues to supply the loss of Teeth on his new system 'N.' tti,,:4 without springs or wires. This method does not ilkkitTlits;:traction of any teeth or roots , or a n y painful opera iti.„-tr. At home front Eleven till Four. 6 , Berners-street, , t°,1, 1 14 , o!ltoPsl4l,2lCNlENT.—Persons having a little time 'a4d -e are apprised that Agents continue t T e_be co appo m i p n AN ted y in , Of t kile o f F,TintrY towns, by the EAST INDIA EA eddy X, ' ft ` t eir celebrated teas. litt), l ,ovi th P il acked in i l iiii ' tr, •., Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate-street. showy leaden canisters, from one ounce to a ;,.. 44 4h," 41 )15 L . " ' Price and weight marked oa each packet, andkbUt 44 4 - 0 4 (1 - „, °ec asicned by the sale. The license is only I Is. per A e tacm,.7 t Y during the last nineteen years have realised con nvica-unea to the agen cy without one shilling let or loss. -- ' °4 to ~ it ravi n e (if by letter post-paid) as above. 'N T PREDICTIONS.-All who de this eknowledge should p, los 1 1 7 0 Lthe • - e,'TORE for 'S WEATHER ALMANACK, urchase whose without predic s k le iiickei - b e a y ther, from hi s pu bli ca ti on t o the present day, have 11,,t 1 4, e tes" l in any proprietors of newspapers and other works. f 2 ', gee r„,'"'‘'logised its correctness and peculiar mode o 14 1 , D 2 4:344 `,d-Le "v. The d " John Bull," published its usual check, P e t It, indeed, 336 correct daily predictions : see d 54. .Lay 4l 3o, "The Sun," the "Globe," • Herald," ff Ch ron i c l e ,. satirist, enne hav e nnticed the correctness of this unique work. -1 g r uat v rietofmatter, is an interesting biography of i gh , a y - . a l so fi ti t'op m uroil e iL"uss Prince Albert while at the College of Bean • - 'atiozi ,7 1 /..: 11 0Yal Family both Houses of Parliament, Summary '4l)' 4 (.!,..""eic British Emp ' ire, Population of the chief towns and in N. ..e0,4 Dctr,, -Soo, -ar. containing Sundays,' festivals, anniversaries, qt4l 3 4, o4tl; l e 4 r°llological events, moon's age, eclipses, tides, gar 01f3 to 2,Y calendar, a column for the weather of every day ; .oe k ett t u h r 3 1 St amPs, assessed taxes, ficc. ; a list of bai.ikers. 3 4 ,414 3 , utters offrom l at h es annd gentlemen of the highest qei Uta h : cured ophthalmia gutta serena, cataract, deafness, IL l ° l l3 l) *ar ( h '4a, h eadache and spectacles left off, some after using 1;,1)4 4 fre nch " Year; by using Grimstone's Eye Snuff-trans 'e 3 4 Italian,' and Spanish : pages 59, R the 60, 61, 62, 63. t en li e" , -9te e l iedical Report in the " Forceps," Feb. 14, 4 18_44, tree S-'441. advantages arising from the constant use of ri t m he - A. f eaht* ere si aving been the cause of clearing our streets of the or °able shades , and other human disfigurements. It is ,7 , 11 4 :„ • table iff of the day sold under the authority of the - - • t "Is ..'s ~_- ' t u rY and Royal Family. Grims one's Weather "eautiffil pocket size, with a steel engraving repre -0041 ere view of Oxford-street Sec., bound in Waterloo ere' 4l . , t edges. , ' g htto „ s Ri,„Lach. by all the London wholesale publishers and book -4 mgretßitrie °M.Y by the proprietor, W. GRIMSTONE, foreign chant 434, Oxford-streot, Lon4on. 111 Cop Bt r krtin , 3 ' of one, of the above Letters s -le-Grand, General Post-office, Inland Department, us ~or th e October 9, 1844. ti;riti t. siear n , as lit three or four years I have been labouring under a to ;I k en Afte r i_ e much 50 at times as to be almost incapable of 1 3 ' t y'el3, 'lug several very eminent aurists, from whom I de la' 4q . o 3" relief, I was induced at the solicitation of a friend tit i L e tt s C o 4 :l l ster s t" a e „ s tlt Eye Snuff. I accordingly procured one of your ki t gat ' Cr" taking which I found considerable benefit, so A:Uti an cortm et Sent for two more, which having used, I found my fli l ll t u tliat th'clY restored, and I have not been deaf since. I should i t let l t .' kid :,,,, t ;ime I commenced taking your Eye Snuff was in k r c continued taking it since. -I am, kti N , • W Sir, your obe l'etl, °r icnst W. H. ADAMS. h i by linty 0 , t one. coat a", Min e Ye Snuff can be forwarded through the General ", 414 „„,'"mtcY orders. A 2s. 4d. canister, with directions, '" on in like proportion. • It R ICE I:I°ST- OFFICE.-CAUTION. ef 4t, l ' el Ubs,, an d CO., Perfumers to , her Majesty, 28, 3 the' l 'ries - `elitre e t Po s , , a nd ,(late Price and Gosnell s, and formerly Patey, 111 7 1 4 r b a `' ( g ) •,_ , , by the recommendation of the Secretary 'Z'ePr' kechis or , "' Inipress upon their Correspondents the tt, te 1 ,1 the address of all letters intended for them," Zee "'tientst I n 18 ` : -' t u (and not " Price and Gosnell-that firm oe4le tat tc)ec luct -1), as the only means of guarding against the e 3a,litded f or of Individuals who take in and retain letters and e cteir,..9esn ol ,Pr, ice and Co by illegally assuming the firm of b " I th th at well knowing' that they never were in any way rio tfl rm I' 4e be ae4 • l EENVI -hit de °, p SE THAN AS SERVANTS. kil t !' by 41 411(1 , t er kinery cie t hat many is so superior to any other, and in such are basely deceiving the shopkeepersg"eunritieinusenimitatons.Price and Co respectfully ft rch not . to take any 1., 1 1)( 14'., betug hae,Proiection w lare a l, Born pa desi by Sir William . I c ct,"l„ -ze d to it with th oulagi of "Price and Co., - "RI '0 • 44 - - red h.. , signature q . 4_ _ . a re e and salenspy in its ce____nt_re__. Srati a ‘titit yi u Pr enc ,,m sole Whol Agents for DELCituut ki ,Nt the - cosmetic, surpassing all others for preserving bt o l alefitoloplexion r pared for the use of her most i• tollre„aKanaQu_en, and h P er e M pa ajesty the Quee , n . Do 4 wager, by 4rei tected by letters•patent. I nce s. _ i,'D fd :Y 444 of th e OIL, imported under the sanction of kk ii ‘tte a ct th oir rto r easury," for the use of her most Gracious 1:„ 1 t h . 04, 41 -so p r ., i 3T t al Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess ut k liee rsed e red by two elegantly executed, correct like :lh ex tOix,'.crt. p ri ail lcms, of her Majesty and his Royal High , th,„ kri_- O D price 3s. ed. e i 4 '°et t . 4e ci Det u ''''. T .°• -- -" We do not hesitate to recommend ‘ l,: ''t h eh uible e n r3t Odonto, or the Queen's own Dentifrice, t l s troe „:fh o Oe inn . ;cans of purifyinv nreserving, and embellishing ••• urti, uou,„,„ ••", Ith ert _ ta ~e sae4 ,, et , buke offered to the public."-Court Gazette. kIQ b e 4 41 i t t au 0 1 York is the last new fashionable per t% tk i „ e 1.1 40 but though the last, is not the least in per ikt wi th Licunibines the preceding exeellence of all the e delicate and delicious fragrance of the white 'M who I . o d ndn° a true-orn entleman, 1,4t, i44 he sta Ligon the ho b nour g of his birth, thfteris. 4. !o n , afr. e that I have pleaded truth- Mr • • V,B ti n neltr ob rut briar pluck a white rose with me. t heir and Cu., 158, New Bond-street, have pleasure \‘• o 01 14 4 c 1 th e i r 4 ,,t boUquet of the season and beg to inform , e atrons that, during the recess, all orders for re r ,,Z ) e_f a case containing the aix royal bouquets for 4iti ne 4 , o 4 t o e „ 1 : York , 1,..Te bouquets de la Reine, d'Alkert, Prince-of it 3 DEt rt rY p art ncesse Royale, and Princesse Aliceovlll be antral e f the country, carriage paid. To insure the and3lstacrthi "str e , t atte nti ta s , on is required in observing that No. 158, in t e lr ?Mat ri• na cui, be a r f upon each case and every bottle, , or the sake of profit, are sold by drug t4E „„ in town and 4 , to r -.al CO: fikA sv .,,,, country. t o, 0 14 , , • g tAG A LUXURY. -1 be ig• ,''PRAGON surpasses every soap ever * leo°Yed o 'ai tri al will prove that the luxury of a good n 're!'_ 4 r ktut - by those who use Price and Co.'s Rypo -117; tcl 1,7 4 cagy 4114,'i0: (hitherto disagreeable and often pain t!. \ ntr: ) ,444 ios „ i'skoi c ote " 141 4 by 1, --. ' O -, 2 8, Lombard-street (late Price and r sd O . Lon dori elroix and Co., 158, New Bond-street, and thnth t r• b•ri end Wills. 2 'Jr" 3 s• 6d. per pot, Is. per square, in cakes -` hen a kill °e -ou r -arev e ° f the i t , allure in presenting any brother travel , / 40 , Dunhagon gratuitously, who may do nim "Turner How, 28, Lombard-street. ' stitation a falling !4:1 theca runni°g A g cOna" !mse lle"" een t g pr and D I etVatiOn• 1 to the L th• , n t b htthe/ lible til and b. Menl ber r ane/le ilould be to iV claus e, t th eni, he c 151 12 . 64 i s a to I !, r, that be ild ne t e d ° formo ! d !sPe P n „% e rs e- soy than for erab no e r m a Id sr • 1 gu es rea t be titute ' nelu ng t yr n . Gen r for e ked .ess e grie it ° 01$ 03 Wi t" j t , to fsro' er 0° be 1 ) 0 0 ula b ~eio t I P r° , Pr °4 it 0/ , e d t iot .40 •*llO, ° lO , lltbe ! tt P'9 l ic e , o f f . ai9 got d e te s isli t e t rich or l . • 0 t he es fo ,t• ,e e c Tbe 65L 0 06 ,ho :13 .• The r ' i o ° r ot 'll to tof fil oa s 5. red a ir foil' e a °1 t ochcac ''t on p it., pa , ~ bail" - co '9' 0 0 . e t le .110 51r. r otOr 0 1° Di Y olol 1 010 , C 4 „I. 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'- '' ' ' 'k i i, . .. _, /A 331 ttbltr Opt ''-' - • • ''' ~...., ~... //miff, fsi) ••••t,..-: , 4i\ ‘ ----- " :,- -1 -- '-- • ` 7 ~ - \ /N. N, --', .: -\. ~,,- • " - J, ,- " Who runs ►nay read." FOREIGN. No. 16,389, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING SUN, FEBRUARY 25 1 1845. PRICE sd. THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE 0 CLOCK, in Time f o r the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Even:ng Sun) is Published in, Time for the AFTERNOON TRAIN and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Hour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION at ONE CHARGE. G REAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHIP at BLACKWALL. Tickets, enabling persons to go on board thiM magnificent Vessel, with a free passage down the Blackwall Railway, and including steam-boat fare to and from the Vessel, can be obtained between the hours of HALE-rear EIGHT and Foua (Sundays excepted), at any of the Stations on the Railway, except those of Limehouse, West India Docks, and Poplar, at the following prices :—Second Class, Is. Bd. ; First Class, Is. 10d. Tickets to view the engines can be obtained on board at an extra charge of ls. Parties walk directly from the pier on board the steamer, which starts on the ar rival of each train. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. PHILLIPS'S PATENT FIRE ANNIHILATOR, illustrated by Dr. Ryan in his daily Lectures, and on the Evenings et MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY.—A Series of LEC TURES on ASTRONOMY by Professor Bachhoffner, on the Morn ings and Evesings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. during Lent, accompanied by Dr. Wallis on BRABY'd CALOTONE,—KITE'S PATENT SMOKE-CURING and VENTILATING ROOF, COWLS, LAMP, and CHIMNEY-SWEEPING APPARATUS. Two beau tiful Pictures of the SHRINE of the NATIVITY are just added to the NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS. CIIILDE'S CHROMATROI'E. THE PROTEOSCOPE. The PHYSIOSCOPE. ',EXPERIMENTS by means of the DIVING BELL and DIVER, &c. &e. Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price. IRELAND. DUBLIN, FEB. 23.—1 n the case of " Smith v. Yeates," which has attracted so much attention, the jury were in last night till eleven o'clock, and then, there being no probability of their agreeing, were discharged. This is equivalent to a triumph for the defendant, at the former trial a jury having given a verdict against him with 300/. damages. On the present occasion, the great majority of the jury were for find ing a verdict in his favour, but there were one or two recu sants who obstinately held out, and thus there has been no verdict. The action was for alleged seduction, accomplished through the defendant's position and influence as a magis trate. The defendant, in applying for a new trial, positively swore that the whole business was a conspiracy against him, and utterly destitute of any foundation in fact whatever. He put himself, consequently, on trial in the second instance not only for the alleged seduction, but for perjuiy. It is very fortunate that he has thus succeeded. Mr. 1 eates is a gentleman of fortune, and has been high sheriff of his county. The Cork Constitution says, that the reduction of the glass duty has already induced parties to seek for premises in Cork in which to carry on the manufacture extensively. Mr. Blake, paymaster of constabulary at Carlow, is sus pended as a defaulter in his accounts, and committed to Car low gaol, at the suit of the Crown. THE NEW ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE INDIA MAILS. —The mail just arrived is the first under the bi-monthly arrangement. The Hindostan left the Sand Heads, Cal cutta, with it on the 10th of January, and arrived at Suez on the 4th of February. A detention of twenty hours in Egypt occurred by the vessel on the Nile getting aground. The Great Liverpool departed with it from Alexandria on the morning of the 9th inst., arrived at Malta with it on the morning of the 13th, from whence the portion of it ad dressed via Marseilles was forwarded the same day by her Majesty's steamer Acheron, and would, in ordinary course, have arrived in London on the 20th—leaving four days interval for replying to letters by the outgoing mail of yesterday, 24th, notwithstanding the de tention of nearly a day over the usual time in Egypt. The snow and frost in France has, however, prevented the mail getting through from Marseilles as usual. In ordinary cir cumstances the direct mail may be expected to arrive in Lon don about the 20th of every month, or four days before the t d h e e p a s r t t h u r o o f o e f v t e h ry e o m u t on wad th r ,ormail, four an o d r t fi o v a e r r i d v a e y at s b C e f a o l r c e u t t t a h e a b d o i u s .. t patch from that place of the homeward mail for England. It seems not to be generally known that letters from Bombay may be forwarded by this intermediate or direct mail, by way of Madras. The mail dispatched from London on the 24th will reach Madras on the 29th of the following month, and the steamer will leave Madras on her homeward route for England on the 14th of the month following, thus giving an interval of fifteen days between the arrival of the outward mail and the departure of the homeward mail. Th e dawk post between Madras and Bombay occup i es s i x days, conse quently a letter can be sent from Madras to Bombay, can be answeredfrom thence, and the reply be sent to Madras in sufficient time to meet the homeward bound steamer for En hristopher T ower, of Huntsmoor-park, near gla mr. dn e Iver (one of whose ancestors is said to have represented this borough about s century ago, if that b e an y recom endation), was on Friday elected knight of the shire or Buckingh am , t h e vacancy having been created by e retirement o f M r. C. S. Murray. Mr. Tower was th proposed by Sir John Dashwood King, Bart., and se conded by Grenville Pigott, Esq.; and his election was I unopposed. REPLY TO " JACK FROST'S " LETTER. Dear Jack—We consider we cannot do better Than make a reply to your very kind letter. You say that you mean to continue the cold ; Now this is a pity—nay, think us not bold. You must recollect, Jack, that it's vety near March, And time for the sun-rays to gild the blue arch. The primrose is waiting to put on his bloom, And the daisy is anxious to leave his dark tomb; And thousands of persons are longing to don The lovely spring-garments of MOSES and SON. You tell us our garbs must, at once, be increas'd To a mighty extent—twenty thousand, at least. Now here we would beg to inform you, dear Jack, That we never forget to remember the back. With a stock such as ours, we've not any reason To fear the most sudden returns of the season. In the middle of summer our mart can afford Warm garments for customers living abroad ; So you see, Mr. Frost, if you still should persist In chilling the air with your cold and your mist, We've warm winter-garments in boundless supplies, Which happily spare us a sudden surprise. And now, with warm thanks for your hints, Master Jack, And hoping, sincerely, you'll soon turn your back, We beg to remain, as we always have done, Your obedient servants,—E. MOSES and SON. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! The Public are specially informed that, during the re-erection of E. MOSES and SON'S premises in Aldgate, the entrance to their Establishment is only at 154,'Minories. A new work, entitled " THE COMMERCIAL PHENOMENON," with full directions for Self-Measurement, on application, will be forwarded post free. READY MADE. X s. d. Beaver Tag1i0ni5......... .. . ........ 0 8 6 Ditto Chesterfields . ....... .... Ditto Codringtons ............ .. 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They have no connexion whatever with any other establishment, in or out of London, and those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to prevent disappointment, &c.) call or send to 154, Minories, or 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church. N.B. No business transacted at this Establishment from sunset on Friday till sunset on Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve o'clock Pocket Edition (500 pages), in an envelope, price 25., by post 3s. O N MARRIA GE- R., Hindrances and Obligations. " Of griefs concealed, and disappointments keen, Which young and gentle—the matured and sage, The lonely and the mated—all sustain." By R. J. CULVERWELL, M.D., Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Licentiate of the Hall, and twenty-three years Resident Practitioner in London. Also, companion to the same (72 Engravings), price I s., by post Is. 6d.; ON CHASTITY—its Abuses and Diseases. " Whereon doth hinge the dignity of man, The health of offspring, and domestie love 1" These publications are free from empyricism and mawkish senti mentality—they abound in stern truths, and are addressed to the in telligence of the times. Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; and the Author, 21, Arundel-street, Strand.—At home daily till Two : Evenings, Seven till Nine. LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c. "lie, who in pleasure's downy arms Ne'er lost his health or youthild charms, A hero lives, and justly can Exclaim, in me behold a man I" Just published (in a scaled envelope), Tenth Edition, price 2s. 6d., or, sent by post, free, to any address, Is. 6d., ELF-PRESERVATION : a Popular Essay on LY those concealed disorders, originating in youthful excesses, and terminating in Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and all those Sinkings, 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, 9, BEDFORD-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE,-LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c. - " The various positions of Lover, Husband, and Parent, the in herent privileges of mankind, are frequently marred and prevented through the follies and frailties of early indiscretions. To such, among otkers, this Essay addresses itself; and byits perusal many questions may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of no appeal even to the most confidential friend."—Stafford Gazette. "Long experience in the treatment of a class of diseases hitherto neglected and most imperfectly understood by the great bulk of the medical profession, has enabled the writer to prove that there are concealed causes of Nervous Debility in existence, where the mere routine practitioner would never dream of finding them ; traceable to certain habits, forming the most secret, yet deadly, and fatal springs of domestic misery, and premature mortality."—Wakefield Journal. Published by the Author, and sold in London by S. Gilbert, 51 and 52, Paternoster-row; Starie, 23, Tichborne-street, Quadrant, Regent street ; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street ; Noble, 114, Chancery lane ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; and by all Booksellers. At home every day till Three, and from Five till Eight. FOURTEENTH EDITION of the SILENT FRIEND on Human Frailty, with Coloured Engravings. Just published, price 2e. 6d., free by Post (in a sealed envelope) 3s. 6d., THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on the Infirmities of the Generative System in both sexes ; and on the loss of the reproductive powers, with means of restoration. The baneful effects of solitary indulgence, neglected syphilis symp toms, &c., are fully pointed out. Illustrated by Engravings ; followed by observations on Marriage, with plain directions for the removal of certain disqualifications. By R. and L. PERRY and Co., Consulting Surgeons, London. Published by the Authors, and may he ad at their residence, 19, BERNERS-STREET, OXFORD-STREET. Sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Hannay and Co., 63, Ox ford-street ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; Porkies, Compton street, Soho ; and all Booksellers. "We regard the work before us, the Silent Friend,' as a work embracing most clear and practical views of a series of complaints hitherto little understood, and passed over by a majority of the me dical profession, for what reason we are at a loss to know. We must however confess that a perusal of this work has left sueh a favourable impression on our minds, that we not only recommend, but cordially wish every one who is the victim of past folly, or suffering from indis cretion, to profit by the advice contained in its pages."—Age and Argos. " The authors of the Silent Friend' seem to be thoroughly con versant with the treatment of a class of cOmplaints, which are. we fear, toe prevalent in the present day. The perspicuous style in which this book to written, and the valuable hints it conveys to those who are apprehensive of entering the marriage state, cannot fail to recommend to it a carefld perusal."—Era. 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Perry are in daily attendance, for consultation, at their re ridence, 19, Berners-street, Oxford..treet, London, from 11 till 2, and 5 till S. On Sundays from 10 till 12. One personal visit is only ne cessary to effect a permanent cure. Air R. HACKETT, the celebrated American Actor, 1.Y.1 now performing in this Country, gave the following unsoli cited testimonial to the efficacy of PARR'S LIFE PILLS before caving. New York : To the Proprietors of Parr's Life Pills. Sirs,--Hayingnsed Parr's Life Pills on several occasions when at tacked by violent bilious complaints, and having been ffilly satisfied of their efficacy, I beg leave, in Justice to you, as proprietors of the me dicine, to testify as much.—Yours, respectfully, Long Island, Nov. 9, 1844. WM. 11. HACKETT. *.* The extraordinary effects of this medicine is the wonder of the age ; it has been tried by hundreds of thousands as an aperient, and has, in every instance, done good ; it has never in the slightest degree impaired the most delicate constitution. Tens of thousands have testified that perseverance in the use of Parr's Life Pills will com pletely cure any disease, and are living witnesses of the benefit re ceived from this invaluable medicine. Sheets of testimonials and the " Life and Times of Old Parr," may be bad gratis, of every respect able Medicine Vender throughout the kingdom. Beware of spurious imitations of the above medicine. None are genuine unless the words " Parr's Life Pills" are in white letters on a red ground, engraved on the Government Stamp, pasted round each box; also the fac-simile of the signature of the proprietors, " T. Ro berts and C 0.," on the directions. Sold, wholesale, by E. 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Fore Cabin and Second Class Carriage, Ninepenee. Saloon and First Class Carriage, One Shilling. To or from Blackwall. Fore Cabin, Sixpence—Saloon, Ninepenee. Office, Gravesend, Nov. 29, 1844. JELLY AND BLANC-MANGE. CHOLEFIE LD'S Original CONCENTRATED JELLY and BLANC-MANGE require neither flavouring nor sweetening, producing Immediately, by the addition of boiling water to the former, and boiling milk or cream to the latt2r, a quart of most delicious Jelly and Blanc-Mange, equal in flavour, colour, and bril liancy to those prepared by the most complicated method. Sold in pots at Is. 3d. each ; wholesale, at the manufactory, 7, Trafalgar-place, Kentish-town; Crosse and Blackwell, Sioho-square ; Barclay and . Sons, Fvringdon-street. Retall by all respectable druggists, grouts, &c. VAUXHALL COMPOSITE CANDLES, Bs. 6d. per doz. PRICE'S PATENT CANDLES, 10s. 6d. per doz. GENUINE WAX CANDLES, 28s. per doz. These three sorts of Candles are all precisely alike in their burn ing qualities, but the Vauxhall Composites are rather softer than the Price's Patent, and thence the difference In price. Even those who are compelled to study economy alone, should burn them in pre ference to Tallow Dips. Patent Cocoa Nut Lamp Oil, warranted equal in every respect to the fixed Sperm, 4s. per gallon. WM. MARCHANT, 253, Regent-circus, Oxford-street. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the Royal Gardens of Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday, attended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, accom panied by the Princess Mary and their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, visited the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and tho Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were taken an airing yesterday in a carriage and four. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was taken an airing in the Royal Gardens. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Hon. Miss Kerr, the Marquis of Or monde, Colonel Buckley, and Colonel Wylde, honoured the. French play with their presence yesterday evening. Yesterday was the birth-day of hi s Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. In the forenoon her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester paid a congratulatory visit to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Wylde, also arrived at Cambridge House, to pay a visit of congratulation to the Royal Duke. day several of the Foreign Ministers and many of the nobility and gentry called and left their names at Cambridge House. Her Royal Highness the . Duchess of Gloucester and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, dined with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday. In the evening his Royal Highness's tradesmen illuminated their houses. A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday after noon, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were— Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancel lor, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aber deen, Lord Stanley, ir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, Lord Gran ville Somerset, the Earl of Lincoln, and the Right Hon. Sid ney Herbert. The Council sat two hours. The Chairman of the East India Company and the Deputy Chairman had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yes terday, at the office of the Board of Trade. A Deputation of Plate-Glass Manufacturers had an inter view yesterday with Sir Robert Peel, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Chairman of the Excise, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing street. A Deputation from the Hull and Gainsborough Railway Company, consisting of Mr, John Chapman, Deputy Chair man, and Mr. Morley, with Mr. Leech and Mr. Ord, trans acted business at the Board of Trade yesterday. Mr. Chap man presented a petition from the City of Lincoln, signed by the Mayor, Aldermen, and inhabitants, in favour of the Hull and Gainsborough Railway. The Rev. Dr. Collier had an interview with Lord Stanley, yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Belgian Minister and the Russian Minister trans acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Lord Colchester had an interview yesterday with the Earl of Dalhousie, at the Board of Trade. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of Hong-Kong. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.--YESTERDAL CHESTER CUP. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's lot—taken 11 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Semiseria 13 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Cataract—taken 15 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's The Era—taken 16 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Obscurity 18 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Strathspey—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Parry's Zanoni 25 to 1 agst Mr. Gulley's St. Lawrence—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour—taken 33 to 1 eget Lord G. Bentinck's Pug—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Collett's Corranna 40 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Foigh-a-ballagh 50 to 1 agst Mr.Davies's Yheoman.ac-Knuc—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldestone's Sorella—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Williamson's Extempore—taken • 66 to 1 agst Mr. Collett's The Dean—taken. A large sum was laid out for the stable on Cataract, at odds commencing at 20 and finishing at 13 to 1. The desire to get on was not confined to the immediate party, and although the quotation against Semiseria gives her a nominal advan tage, we doubt if she was not in reality second favourite Strathspey was in demand at an improved figure, and several eights and nines to one were taken about Mr. Irwin's lot. The betting, except in the instances mentioned, and in the appearance of Ould Ireland at 40, and Yheomun-ac-Knuc at 50 to 1, both taken freely, exhibits no striking features. In the course of the afternoon several bets were laid at some thing above the market price ; amongst these were 2.600 to 200 agst Semiseria, 2,000 to 100 agst Strathspey, 1,500 to 50 agst Winesour, and 5,000 to 50 agst The Dean. DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm 15 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas 16 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Kedger 16 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Cobweb colt 20 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Newsmonger 25 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip colt 30 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Mentor 30 to l agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa 33 to 1 agst A. W. Hill's Ironmaster (all in)—taken 35 to 1 Mr. Irwin's Clear-the-way—taken 35 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Anti-Repealer—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England 40 to 1 agst Mr. Stanley's Minikin colt 40 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnson's Annandale 100 to 1 agst Mr. Parry's Adonis. The Cobweb colt had several powerful enemies, and, not withstanding an outlay of several hundreds at 14, 15, and 16 to 1, left off with a tottering aspect. Kedger also gave way a point, and Newsmonger, although backed for 1001., at 20 to 1, was out of favour. Alarm and Ides as before, and Pam not mentioned. 35 to Ito 1001., and 1,000 to 30 was taken about Ironmaster, all in (20 to 1 with a qualification), and 35 to 1 each about Clear-the-way and Anti-Repealer— backers numerous and " fond." The only Oaks bet made within our hearing was 20 to 1 agst As you like it. POST-OFFICE IRREGULARITIES.—It was mentioned pub licly in the Subscription-room yesterday afternoon, that two or three instances have occurred in which letters, written by parties to their agents or friends at Manchester, have been opened before they got to their destination. We presume the matter will be inquired into, but, in the meantime, we would suggest the propriety of using more caution in sealing them than is usually observed at " the corner." We were much struck with the beautiful 'speci mens of New Zealand woods exhibited by the Company at their late meeting, and no doubt when known will soon be come generally used for decorative furniture. The Company kindly permitted the importer of these woods to show the different objects of furniture manufactured by him since his arrival in this country, and the combination of nature and art was most remarkable for novelty and beauty. A side board, ornamented with carved figures of New Zealand chiefs, was much admired, besides several smaller pieces of furni'. ture. Mr. Levein, the importer, a very clever, intelligent cabinet-maker, was many years a settler at New Zealand, and is the first to bring these woods into notice; we hope he will be rewarded for his industry and tact. DUBLIN, FEBRUARY 23, 1845.—A curious circum stance has occurred here which has completely destroyed all confidence in the boasted secresy of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade. Mr. Fitzstephen French, who was the cencoctor of the railroad from Dublin to Galway, arrived here on the 20th inst., and stated publicly that the Board of Trade would certainly give the Galway line and refuse the Mullingar line, and which, incredible as it may appear, was confirmed by the arrival of the Gazette on the 21st inst., con taining their decision exactly as stated by him. What secret influence has been at work it is impossible for the public to divine, but certainly grave suspicion attaches somewhere, and the matter ought not to be allowed to rest where it is; nor will it, for the Directors and Subscribers to the Mullingar line are determined to proceed With their Bill without one moment's loss of time, and sift the facts before a Committee of the House of Commons. The advantages of the Mullingar line over that of Mr. French's are too palpable, and must be appreciated when fully before the public; for the country through which the railroad is proposed to pass is rich and fertile in its resources, and is exceedingly populous, and only requires a facility of communication to bring those abundant resources to a profitable market. Should the arbitrary deci sion of the Board of Trade prevail, it is evident that great injustice will be done to a portion of Ireland, which, from its position, has stronger claims for railway facilities than any other part of it. EFFECTS OF SIR R. PEEL'S FINANCIAL SCHEME AT CARatARTHEN.—The particulars of Sir Robert Peel's Budget reached Carmarthen on Sunday evening, and on Monday, and throughout the week, two of the largest shopkeepers in the town have been selling their sugar at a raduction of one penny per pound.— Welshman. SHORT Cwr.-A tobacconist, not far from St. James's-street, got a bargain from a "traveller," in a roll of short cut, last week. On opening it yesterday he discovered that all but the exterior layer was twisted brown paper, co loured black.—Liverpool ifpurnal of Saturday. THE LATE REV. SYDNEY SMITH. Sydney Smith was botn at Woodford, in Essex, in 1768, and, consequently, at his death, was 77 years of age. He received the rudiments of his education at Winchester, and was elected to New College, Oxford, in the year 1780, where, ten years afterwards, he obtained a fellowship ; but it was not until six years subsequent to the last-mentioned date that he took the degree of M.A. Some years afterwards he became tutor to the son of Mr. Beach, M.P. for Cirencester, and accompanied him to Edinburgh, where he remained for five years, during a considerable portion of which he officiated at the Episcopal Chapel in that city. At this time and place his career as an author may be said to have commenced; and amongst the earliest of his literary acquaintances were Lords Brougham, Jeffrey, and Murray. It was from a suggestion of Mr. Smith that one of the most famous periodicals in Europe . originated. He proposed to the noble and learned persons Just mentioned—all of them still living —that they should unite with him in starting a review ; and of that publication the subject of this memoir was appointed editor. Few readers require to be informed that the publi cation here referred to is one which has enjoyed almost unin terrupted popularity for a period of more than forty years, under the title of the Edinburgh Review. Very soon after the commencement of the Review Mr. Smith ceased to be the editor, for he removed to London, where he settled in the year 1803, and in the 35th y ear of his age married the daughter of Mr. Pylons, the banker. Although Mr. Smith had now ceased to be the editor, of the Edinburgh Review—although he had, as he himself modestly says, " placed its management in the stronger hands of Lord Jeffrey and Lord Brougham," he yet continued to be one of its most active contributors, writing frequently on prison discipline, on the abuses and corrupting influence of the game-laws, on transportation to Botany Bay, on tolera tion, on Methodism, on education, on Irish bulls, mad Quakers, chimney- sweepers, counsel for prisoners, and a variety of other subjects. To the criticism of individual writers, or the estimate of literary character, he gave but little of his time or attention. The only person to whom he has devoted more than a single article was the celebrated Charles James Fox, a man for whom Mr. Smith's admiration was intense. In 1806, through the influence of the Whig Ministry, he was appointed to a living in Yorkshire, but ho was not long settled there when the cry of "No Popery" expelled the Government of that day from the councils of the King, and Mr. Perceval ruled in their stead. It was then that the most popular of Mr. Smith's works made its appearance. The celebrated "Letters of Peter Plymley' —under which designation it was the pleasure of Mr. Smith then to write—went through so many editions that the anti• Catholic party stood aghast, and really trembled far Protestant ascendancy ; but the citadel of the old constitution in Church and State was not so easily reduced. In the year 1831, during the Ministry of Lord Grey, the Rev. Sydney Smith became one of the canons residentiary of St. Paul's. In 1829 he had received the rec tory of Combo Florey, in Somersetghire, a living the value of which is about 3001. per annum. Mr. Smith had by this time declined into the vale of years, and the pecuniary ad vantages derivable from the exercise of his literary powers had ceased to become an object to him; his pen was, there fore, in some degree laid aside, and he was not induced to re sume it till an occurrence took place which he regarded as a downright invasion of his property and of the rights of deans and chapters, which as a member of one of those cor porations he had sworn to defend. This roused his ire against Lord J. Russell, and produced some pithy and amusing letters. His late letters on the honest Pennsylvanians are fresh in the recollection of our readers. They supply the most varied illustrations of knavery, the drollest sar casms on fraud, the most instructive satire on Republicanism, and at the same time furnish no imperfect specimens of the genius and character of the writer. The conversational wit ticisms of Sydney Smith would fill a jest-book ; but his cha racter will be estimated by posterity on far higher grounds. It will be remembered that he supported Roman Catholic claims, and that they were con ceded ; that he strenuously assailed the game-laws, and that they underwent great modification ; that he com pelled a large portion of the public to acknowledge the mischief of our penal settlements ; that he became the advocate of the wretched chimneysweepers, and their miseries were alleviated; that he co ntended against many of the unjust provisions of the C hurch Reform Bill , and they before his time, a man accused might be hanged before he had now ever y prisoner has the benefit of a de awte the e a b m a e r n a d f e a d ; c r t i h m a i t a l a a l h c e o r u e n It will further be freely acknowledged, f b e e n e h b a y l f c h a e u a n r d s a , that no public writer was more successful than he in de nouncing a political humbug, or demolishing a literary pre tender; that he was, on the whole, an upright and a benevo lent man ; and, as the world goes, a disinterested politician ; that he had opportunities of improving his fortune, which he nobly rejected; and that, having lived with unostentatious respectability, he died without accumulating wealth.— Abridged from the Times. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. MONDAY, FEB. 24. The following Railway and other private Bills were seve• rally read a second time without opposition : West Yorkshire Railway, Leeds and Bradford Railway, Richmond (Surrey) Railway, Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway, Leeds and West Riding Junction Railway, York and Scarborough Railway Deviation, Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, Birkenhead (Commissioners') Docks, Kendal and Windermere Railway, Hull and Selby (Bridlington Branch) Railway, Manchester Division Stipendiary Magistrate, Ashton, Stalybridge, and Liverpool Junction Railway (Ardwick and Guide-bridge Branches), Manchester and Leeds Railway, Manchester and Leeds Railway (Burnley Branch, and Oldham and Heywood Branches Extension) Manchester and Birmingham (Ashton Branch) Railway. PRIVATE BUSINESS, TUESDAY, FEB. 25. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway, Glasgow Junction Railway, York and North Midland (Goole Branch) Railway, Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway, Barnsley Junction Railway, Wallasey Improvement, Leeds and Thirsk Railway, Thames and Medway Canal, London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire Railway, Navigation and Railway, Railway'. y, and Rossendale (Heywood Branch ) S MC h ra° r Bridgw ate r nemcwhf°s Manch este r, e r C y r aN a nß n aa dvlu Bu ry, Birmingham Railway. SECOND READINGS. Cockermouth and Workington Railway, Chester and Birkenhead Railway, Sparrows Herne Road. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. SATURDAY, FEB. 22. Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway,—Committee on Petition, postponed from Tuesday 25th till Wednesday, 26th February. Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland),—Com mittee on Petition, Thursday, March 6. North British Railway,—Committee on Petition, Thursday, March 6. Edinburgh and Hawick Railway,—Committee on Petition, Thuisday, March 6. THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—We have received, by the arrival of the packet-skip Cambridge, Captain Barstow, which reached this port at an early hour this morning, New York papers and advices one day later than those brought by the steamer. The debate in the House of Representatives on the Oregon Occupation Bill was suspended, the excitement in con nexion with the success of the annexation scheme had ex perienced a lull, and altogether affairs remained in statu quo The Washington correspondent of one of the journals, under date the 30th ult., remarks that the democracy of the House had become rather alarmed at their belligerent posi tion with regard to England, and expressed on that day a willingness to have the Oregon Bill modified, so as to make it conform to the treaty stipulations; and that their amend ment not being prepared, the debate was arrested for that purpose. The same writer gives the following outline of the debate in the House on the 30th ult.:— " The House to-day was occupied in the consideration of the Oregon Bill, speeches being delivered by Messrs. Thomp son, of Mississippi ; M'Clerland, of Illinois ; and Owen, of Indiana, in favour of it ; and by Mr. J. R. Ingersoll and Mr. Elmer, against it. All these gentlemen maintained that our claim to the Oregon territory was perfect, though the two latter were not clear that it could rightfully be extended north of latitude 49 degir..? ; and they, as well as Mr. Owen, were in favour of giving the notice to Great Britain required by treaty, before we attempted to establish a Go vernment on it ; and they expressed their convietions that not to do so could not but be highly offensive to Great Britain, and would be, on her part, a sufficient cause of war against us. Mr. Ingersoll begged gentlemen to reflect where this war that is so much searched for is to be carri e d on ; it certainly would not be either in the distant territory of Oregon, nor yet at the homes of those gentlemen of the west who were ever so urgently pushing this measure, but it would be on the high seas, wherever our commerce shall float, and throughout our w hole Atlantic coast and on our north-eastern frontier; and he asked gentlemen if we were there prepared to meet such an emergency." It is stated that Mr. Calhoun rem i tted to Mr. Everett by the last steamer a most de cided dispatch, demanding from our Government. positive information relative to the refusal given by the authorities of Bermuda some time back to de liver up some slaves who, after murdering a family in Florida, escaped to the island. The Massachusetts Anti-Annexati on C onvent i on, after adopting an address stating their vi ews , h ad ad j ourned sine die. o c 1 la N s i ee r i awd gbea:thanelionin.ttwvoeryfirat branches of inquiry, he = G C r :s r E e: — lan Y e : C s taemr Camber well. resumed before Mr. explicit evidence, the Co roner Carter, ua summed After m t the e e odt h G u e ep o r. : stated, were quite satisfactorily answered, namely, the iden tity of the bodies and the means by which their death had B t E lT ß is ly m E y L s L ter l Z i g s: been caused, which was clearly shown to be the poison of arsenic taken in their tea ; but the third inquiry, as to how and by whom it had been administered, was the question of difficulty. He carefully went over the evidence, and poieted out its bearings as it might affect the three individuals who only seemed to have had any means of access to it, namely, Mr. Montague, Mrs. Montague , and George May, and left it entirely to the jury to say whether any of these, and if any, which, could be in any way held to be culpable. After upwards of two hours' deliberation, the jury, about seven o'clock, returned a verdict " That the deceased persons came to their deaths by having taken the poison of arsenic in their tea, but by whom a dministered there is no evidence before them to slow." PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Conanton.s.) MONDAY, FEB. 24. WAYS AND MEANS. uestion proposed, " That the Order of the Day Ways and /deans be now read :"—Amendment Motion made, and Qt for the Committee of V proposed, to leave out f tion, in order to add tin will be satisfactory at equalisation of Duty thereof :—Question put stand part of the Questi MA, .um the word " That" to the end of the Ques t() words " no arrangement of the Sugar Duties tad permanent, which does not involve an on Foreign and Colonial Sugar," instead t, " That the words proposed to be left out ion." The House divided : .JORITY—AYES, 211. Forbes, William Maxwell, J. P. !Fox, S. L. Meynell, Captain Fremantle, Sir T. Mlles, P. W. LS. Fuller, A. E. Miles, William Gladstone, W. E. Milnes, R. M. Gladstone, Captain Morgan, Octavius Godson, Richard Mundy, M. Gordon, Captain Newdegate, C. N. Goring, Charles Newport, Viscount Goulburn, Henry Newry, Viscount Graham, Sir J. Nicholl, John Granby, Marquis Northland, Viscount Greenall, Peter O'Brien, A. S. Greene, Thomas Owen, Sir John Gregory, W. H. Packe, C. W. Grogan, Edward Pakington, J. S. Hale, R. B. Patten, J. W. Haltord, Sir H. Peel, Sir Robert Hamilton, W. J. Peel, Jonathan , Hamilton, Lord C. Pennant, Colonel Harmer, Sir J. Plumptre, J. P. Harcourt, G. G. Polhill, Frederick Harris, Captain Praed, W. T. Hayes, Sir E. Pringle, Alexander Heneage, G. H. W. Reid, Sir John Henley, J. W. Repton, G. W. J. Hepburn, Sir T. B. Round, John Herbert, Sidney Roue, Captain Ilillsborough, Earl Rushbrooke, Colonel Hindo, J. H. Russell, Lord J. Hobhouse, Sir J. Russell, Charles Hodgson, F. Ryder, G. D. Hogg, J. W. Sanderson, Richard Hope, Charles Bandon, Viscount Hope, Alexander Sibthorp, Colonel Hope, G. W. Smith, Abel Hughes, W. B. Smith, T. B. C. Hussey, Thomas' Smythe, George Ingestrie, Viscount Somerset, Lord G. Irton, Samuel Sotheron, T. H. James, William Stanton, W. H. James, Sir W. C. Stewart, John , Jermyn, Earl Stuart, Henry Jocelyn, Viscount Sutton, Henry Johnstone, Hope Talbot, C. R. Jones, Captain' Taylor, Edward Kemble, Henry Taylor, J. A. Labouchere, Henry Tennent, J. E. Lambton, H. Thornhill, George Law, C. E. Tollemache, John Lawson, Andrew Trench, Sir F. W. Legh, G. C. Trevor, G. R. Lennox, Lord A. Trollope, Sir J. Leslie, C. P. Trotter, John Lincoln, Earl Tyrrell, Sir J. T. Lockhart, William Vane, Lord H. Lowther, Sir J. H. Waddington, H. S. Lowther, Colonel Walsh, Sir J. B. Lygon, General Wellesley, Lord C. M`Geachy, F. A.' Winnington, Sir T. Mackenzie, T. Wodehouse, Edmond Mackenzie, W. F. Wood, Colonel Mackinnon, W. J. Wood, Colonel T. Macnamara, Major Wortley, James S. M`Neill, Duncan Wortley, John S. Mainwarirg, T. Wyndham, Colonel Manners, Lord C. S. Yorke, E. T. Manners, Lord J. Marsham, Viscount Martin, C. W. Martin, T. B. Masterman, John A'Court, Captain Adderley, C. B. Ainsworth, Peter Alford, Viscount Allix, J. P. Antrobus, Edmund Arbuthnott, IL Archdall, Captain Arkwright, George Arundel, Earl of Astell, William Begot, Wiliam Raiky, J., jun. Baillie, Colonel Baillie, H. J. Baird, Wiliam Barclay, DaTid Baring, F. T. Baring, Thomas Bameby, John Baskerville, T. B.: Beckett, William Itentinck, Lord G. Berkeley, Grantley Blackstone, W. S. Blakemere, Richard Bodkin, W. H. Bolder°, H. G. Borthwick, Peter Bottield, Beriah Bowles, Admiral Branaston, T. W. Brisoo, Broadley, Henry Brownrlgg, J. S. Bruce, Lord E. Buller, Sir J. Y. Burroughs, H. N. Cardwell, Edward Chartek, Francis Cholmo eley, IL Clayton, R. R. Clerk, Sir G. Clifton, J. T. Clive, Viscount Clive, R. H. Cockbarn,lSir G. Codrington, Sir W. Colqnhotut, J. C. „ Colvile, C. R. Connolly, Colonel Corry, Henry Courtenay, Lord Cripps, William Darby, George Denison, E. B. Dickinson, F. H. Dodd, George Douglas, Sir H. Douglas, J. D. S. Drummond, H. H. Dugdale, W. S. Duncombe, 0. East, J. B. Egerton, W. T. Egerton, Sir P. Enilyn, Viscount Entwisle, William Farnham, E. B. Fitzmaurice, W. Fitzroy, Henry Flower, Sir J. TELLERS, Baring, Henry Young, John MINORITY-NOES, 84. Aglionby, H. A. Ellis, Wynn Osborne, Ralph Aldam, William Evans, William Paget, Colonel Barnard, E. G. Ewart, William Pattison, James Berkeley, 11. F. Fitzroy, Lord C. Philips, Mark Blewitt, R. J. Fox, C. R. Plumridge, Captain Bowring, Dr. Gill, Thomas Ponsonby, C. F. A. Bright, John Gisborne, Thomas Pulsford, Robert Brotherton, J. Gore, Robert Ricardo, J. L. Buller, Charles Guest, Sir J. Roebuck, J. A. Buller, Edward Hawes, Benjamin Ross, David R. Busfeild, William Rayter, W. G. Russell, Lord E. Cobden, Richard Hindley, Charles Somerville, Sir W. Colborne, W. N. R. Holland, Robert Stansfleid, W. R. C. Colebroeke, Sir T. Horsman, Edward Stuart, W. V. Collett, John Howard, E. G. Strickland, Sir G. Craig, W. G. l'lowick, Viscount Strutt, Edward Crawford, W. S. Humphery, Alderman Thornely, Thomas Currie, Raikes Langston, J. H. Trelawny, J. S. Dalmeny, Lord Loveson, Lord: Turner, Edmund Dennistoun, J. Macaulay, I. B. Villiers, Charles Duke, Sir J. Marshall, William Wakley, Thomas Duncan, Viscount Martin, John Walker, Richard Duncan, George Mitcalfe, Henry Warburton, Henry Duncannon, Viscount Mitchell, T. A. Ward, H. G. Duncombe, Thomas Morris, David Watson, W. H. Dundas, Frederick Morison, General Wawn, J. T. Dundas, David Napier, Sir C 4 TELLERS. Easthope, Sir J. O'Connell, M. J. Gibson, T. 3f. Ebrington, Viscount Ord, William Bouverie, E. P. SUGAR RESOLUTIONS. It is difficult to assign a reason why Sir Robert Peel should have decided, in his sugar resolutions, upon fixing a duty only of 14s. per cwt. on brown or muscovado sugar, except ing for the reason he himself alleged, that such reduction would bring down the price a penny and the fraction of a farthing per pound to the consumer, which, whether he knows it or not, is a fallacious position, because, if the con sumption exceed the supply from the British possessions (which he computes it will do), it requires no great stretch of sagacity to foresee that the ex-duty price of British sugars must rise to the extent of the differential duty between British and foreign sugars before the lat ter can be admitted into our markets, and so virtually inflict a tax of 235. 4d. per cwt. on all sugar: true, 14s. per cwt. only of this amount will find its way to the Treasury, and Us. 4d. into the pockets of the British sugar producers; but, nevertheless, the consumer would have to pay the 235. 4d. per cwt., let that amount be divided how it may. This arrangement is annoying enough, even if the financo of the country would permit us so to en rich the sugar producers, but when it is found that the scheme injures the revenue to the extent of 1,300,0001, and that that deficiency is to be made good by an inquisitorial income-tax, which the people justly abomi nate, it becomes disgustingly objectionable. Better would it have been for the publie, that Sir Robert Peel had left the sugar duties alone, than get us into the costs and difficulties described. After all, what does this reduction of duty on sugar, about which so much I:as been said, amount to as concerns the payments the people will have to make? Why, as far as paying goes (and that is a main element in the affair), the consumers will be com pelled to pay 235. 4d. per cwt. (never mind for the moment how it is divided) under the proposed sugar resolutions-and they have under the present law to pay 255. 3d. per cwt.- exhibiting a reduction of merely Is. Ild. per cwt., which paltry sum will be absorbed long before the sugar reaches the consumer's hands. If all brown or muscovado sugar, without distinction of country or origin, had been admitted to our markets at 14s. per cwt., then the sup ply would have been equal to the demand, and the con sumers would have enjoyed the full benefit conferred by the reduction of duty. But now to the sugar resolutions. The Minister has proposed to fix a duty of 14s. per cwt. on all British brown and muscovado sugar; that is his starting point: it will be curious to investigate by what process of reasoning he has arrived at the various grades of duty he has affixed on different kinds of sugar, and how they stand as compared one against the other. Should the Minister have applied his mind at all to the subject, and not trusted to guesses, he must have divided the 1121 b. of muscovado sugar into six parts Oiix two-and-fourpences exactly give the amount of duty, 145.), four of which he treats as crys tallizable sugar, and two as refuse. He then assumes (for he does not know) that that denomination of sugar. which he is pleased to call white clayed, or equal to clayed, will lose one-sixth, or 181 lb. out of each 1121 b. of muscovado sugar submitted to the process of clay ing, or of attaining the same degree of fineness by some other operation, and, therefore, argues he, in order to obtain 14s. on the remaining 9311 b., 2s. 4d., must be added to the muscovado duty of 14s. ; it is consequently forthwith deter mined that the duty on clayed, or equal to clayed, shall be 16s. M. per cwt. He has evidently forgotten while this cogitation has been occupying his brains, that some muscovado sugars are preferable to white clayed, shown by the price they bring in the open market. For example, Mr. Goulburn's Jamaica muscavado sugars, marked M G, command more money than some white clayed sugars. Again, brown St. Vincent sugar, clearly muscovado sugar, would be taken in preference, on account of the saccharine essence in it, to some white sugars which had undergone some process to purify them ; here, then, is an anomaly. Muscovado sugars, superior to clayed, ad mitted at 14s. per cwt. merely because they are muscovado and inferior sugar charged with a duty of 16s. 4d. merely be cause it has been clayed. The next regulation refers to refined sugar, and contains a parcel of unintelligible jargon, such as, in loaf, complete and whole, or lumps duly refined, having been perfectly clarified, and duly dried in a stove, and being of an uniform whiteness throughout, or such sugar, pounded, crushed, or broken, for every cwt. 18s. Bd. Can such an absurdity as the foregoing verbiage be matched in the United Kingdom ? So, before the duty of 18s. Bd. per cwt. can be levied on this class of sugar, the Custom-house officer will have to prove that all the above conditions have been complied with. And what will be the consequence, supposing he is satisfied that all the conditions have been acted on, except one-for instance, that the sugar had been dried in the sun, instead of the stove ? Why, the importer will have to pay the lesser grade of duty 16s. 4d., instead of 18s. Bd, per cwt. Sir Robert in adjusting this duty must have considered that in refining sugar one• third of it is driven off by the process namely, 3611 b., and that there would remain 741 b. for which, in accordance with his muscovado duty, he ought to have 14s. ; be therefore adds 4s. Bd., and fixes the duty on refined at 18s. Bd. per cwt., which exactly gives the 14s. for 7511 b. _ _ Then there is a resolution requiring 21s. per cwt. for double refined, or sugar equal in quality to double refined. Why, of course, the colonist would be careful to manufacture to that degree that, although not quite so good, it should be within a shade of double refined sugar. In some states of markets sugar so manufactured would command the same ex -duty price as sugar equal to double refined, but which could not be assessed at the 21s. per cwt., because it is a shade inferior to double refined sugar, and would conse quently come in at the 18s. Bd. per cwt. Was there mar such nonsense concocted to rule the commercial transactions of a great nation in sugar? The fifth resolution proposes a duty of 265. per cwt. on brown candy, and the sixth 355. per cwt. on white candy. What quantity of white candy can the Minister imagine re sults from refining 1121 b. of muscovado sugar ? The seventh resolution relates to molasses, which it pro poses to admit at a duty of ss. 3d. per cwt. Now molasses is composed of sugar, treacle, dirt, and other make-weights; and the duty has always been apportioned to meet the weight of sugar in each 11 lb. of . molasses ; here it is calculated that there will be 42J., which at ss. 3d., just comes out 14s. per cwt. ; the consequence is that the treacle is admitted duty free, and ever has been so, for the benefit of the West Indians, although the hacknied plea has been set forth that it is for the benefit of the poor man. Not a word is set down in these resolutions about duty on cane juice, nor a syllable about sugar in solution ; the co lonist may import, for ought the resolutions say to the contrary, fine white sugar in a solution of discoloured liquid, which colouring might be easily removed in this country, and such a solution would be admitted at the same duty as molasses. We have now concluded our remarks on the sugar resolu tions, as far as they relate to British sugars; we do not enter upon the duties on foreign sweet, because they are nothing more than a repetition of the same absurdities. Had the Minister proposed to reduce the duty on all muscovado sugar, we should have hailed the measure with joy, as a great benefit to the consumer, but when we find that the proposed partial reduction will cause the serious de ficiency of 1,300,000/. (and nobody knows how much more), as stated by Sir Robert Peel, and that that deficiency is to be made good by an income-tax, the case is altogether altered, and we should say, only reduce the sugar duties to that extent which would occasion no deficiency, and let us have no inquisitors to invade the privacy of our concerns. In fact, rather than have an income-tax, Sir Robert had better have left the sugar duties alone. There can be no question the sugar duties, as proposed by the resolutions, were conceived for the especial purpose of putting 2,600,000/. into the pockets of the British sugar producers, under the specious pretence of giving the consumer his sugar at three halfpence a pound cheaper—a prediction which never can be fulfilled by carrying these resolutions out. Bat submit the consumers must to the iniquity, because Sir Robert Peel com mands a majority consisting of monopolists. COUNTY MAGISTRATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—As hardly a da; occurs without meeting with reports in the newspapers of the gross ignorance of Jus- tices of the Peace, perhaps you may not deem the fol lowing observations on the mode of appointment of such dignitaries out of place, especially as a new commission has just issued. Justices of the Peace were originally elected by the people, under the somewhat different name of Conservators of the Peace. This. however, was taken from the public by King Edward 111., who took upon himself to appoint persons to fill this office, and then, first, such appointment was called he King's commission. 'This was settled by all the judges in the year 1590, to issue under the Great Seal, and all justices are appointed by it, the Custos Rotulorum being the principal for his county, and the King f'or the whole kingdom. Thus it may be perceived that all justices are appointed by the Crown, and it is but natural for the mass of the public to suppose that they are carefully selected out of the rest of mankind for their great legal acumen, their sound practical knowledge of th e l aws th y undertake to administer, and their general erudition. Such is a very pleasing theory, but let us see what is the practice. The Lord Lieutenant for each county re turns upon his own responsibility a list of tit and proper persons to the Lord Chancellor, who thereupon ap points them as a matter of course, doubtlessly supposing that in his situation the Lord-Lieutenant, never for one moment; has suffered himself to be acted upon by party bias or private motives. If the Lord Chancellor does believe this, I pity his incredulity, for it is notorious, that each Lord-Lieutenant, according to his political feelings, sends in a list of his own supporters, and, what is even worse, suffers the lowest relatives of his land agents, and other hangers-on, to be stuck in among the rest, together with the sycophantic holders of kis livings, parties ready at all times to do his bidding, be it what it may ; and thus, to use the learned Black stone's words, " the extensive power of a justice of the peace, which, even in the hands of men of honour, duly qualified for so important a trust, is highly formidable, is prostituted to mean and scandalous purposes, to the low ends of selfish ambition, avarice, or personal resent ment ; and from these ill consequences we may collect the prudent foresight of our ancient law-givers, who suf fered neither the property or the punishment of the people to be determined by the opinion of any one or two men." These are the words of a writer nearly a hundred years ago, and may, with much greater force, be applied now, when the powers of magistrates are so extensively enlarged, and when everybody who tacks "esquire" after his name, be his mental qualification ever so low, and every parson on the same side of politics with the Lord- Lieutenant, is thrust into the commission of the peace, until, what were formerly a select few, have become a mob of petty judges—a set of men licensed, as it were, to dispose of the liberty and property of their fel!ow men, merely because they are ready to follow their patron through any dirty path he may select, and chance to have as much land as will give them one hundred pounds a-year. Really, Sir, if we were to read of such a mode of appointing judges amongst the Chinese or any other people we have been accustomed to look down upon, a smile of contempt for their laws would instantly cross our features, and yet here, in England, in the nineteenth century, a certain small sum of money per annum (if derivable from land, for, if otherwise, it has no such efficacy) has the miraculous power of rendering a man a fit and proper person to sit in judgment on the rest of mankind, and by a kind of legerdemain, to instil all the concen trated essence of legal knowledge—the multorum ca melorum onus the superabundance of my Lord- Lieutenant's own knowledge, into the heads of his subordinates. The clergy, too, the peacemakers of Government, the preachers of brotherly love, are un seemingly placed in the commission, and, I regret to say, are always the most severe, I may say savage, dispensers of the laws they are ignorant of. I was much pleased, some years ago, to hear the Lord-Lieute nant of a county, which shall at present be nameless, affirm that he had made up his mind not to place any more clergymen in the commission of the peace, and highly respectable parties who had applied for that honour were satisfied with this answer. Well, Sir, in a few years after, to the surprise of all, a parson, a near relative of one of the chief underlings of the custos; was appointed magistrate ' and the dcor being once o p ene d a IA hole shoal of small fry rushed in. So much for free dom from private motives and party bias ! With regard to the mode of the administration of the laws by their worships, I shall merely add that, for many years past, I have constantly attended at quarter sessions and magistrates' meetings, and, from long observation, I do not hesitate to affirm that the generality of county magistrates arc acted upon by party feeling, and other motives foreign to their character as judges. Ido not for a moment mean to say that know ingly they do so, but it is impossible for men not legally educated, wholly to divest themselves of such feelings. In support of my assertion, look at the game convictions, peruse the appeals from magistrates' decisions, and lastly compare the punishment of offenders at quarter sessions with men tried for the same crimes at assizes. Should ' you, Sir, be pleased to give insertion to this somewhat lengthy letter, I doubt not a host of heroes will jump up ready to defend the system hereby condemned ; but at this:l shall rejoice, for the more the matter i s b roug ht before the public eye, the more likely are we to have a remedy applied to the evil. I have been behind the scenes for nearly twenty years, and I could say much, but for the present I have done, and remain obediently yours, A BARRISTER AND ACTING MAGISTRATE. F NEWS itton. At the division in the French Chamber which took place on Friday evening, 434 Deputies voted, 14 were absent front Paris, five were ill, two did not vote, and Marshal Sebastiani and M. Dupin paired off. The Committee on M. Duvergier d'llauranne's motion far the suppression of the vote by ballot has agreed to its report. It proposes that the opinion of the Chamber should be taken by dividing, and that the numbers be counted every time that a certain number of Members shall demand it. Should the recommendation of the Committee be adopted, there will be three modes of taking the opinion of the Chamber--Ist, the present mode, par assis et lerC ; 2d, by dividing ; and 3d, by the ballot. The Censtitutionnei publishes a letter from Berne of the 19th, from which it appears that the affairs of Switzerland are becoming daily more complicated and more threatening. The Univers contains a proclamation of the Government of Lucerne, calling to arms the entire military population of the canton. The Gazette d'Augsbourg notices some rumours of contem plated disturbances in Italy, of which Gibraltar will be ate focus. The same journd states that M. Guizot had given instructions to the _French Ambassador in Switzerland to pursue a conciliatory course, and that similar instructions had issued from Vienna and Berlin. It was reported that 400 Swiss, residing in Paris, had pro posed to volunteer against the Jesuits; but a letter, signed by 40 Swiss, addressed to the Sie.c/e, denies, on the part of the writers, any such intention. At the meeting of the Spanish Cortez on the 17th. General Narvaez ' in reference to the preaching of cer t a i n pests,, said the Government had ordered an inquiry to be made, the results of which were as yet unknown • but that, if such ex cesses had been committed, they should be chastised. " The Government," he added, "is aware that the enemies of the Government, of all parties, are conspiring against it, but it watches their machinations, and the sword of the law shall strike whoever shall dare to promote sedition, whatever mask he may assume." COURT-FASHIONABLE. The Queen and Prince Albet t attended the French plays last evening. The Marquis of Ifeadfort and the Ladies Taylour have arrived in Chesham-place, from the. family seat in Ireland, for the season. The Marquis of Salisbury has left town for Hatfield House, Herts. The Marquis of Bute shortly leaves town on a visit to Colonel and Baroness North, at Wroxton Abbey, near Ban bury. From thence the Noble Marquis goes to Cardiff Castle, his seat in 'Wales. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield entertained Viscount Castlereagh, Count Alfred D'Orsay, the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Anson, and a small party at dinner, on Sunday evening, at Chestei field House, May-lair. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord and Lady Beauvale, Lord and Lady Dalmeny, Colonel and Lady Mary Fox, Mr. Monekton Milnes, Mr. Panizzi, and a select party, at dinner on Sunday evening, at their mansion on Carlton-lion e-terrace. The llon. Mrs. Norton has engaged a new residence in Chesterfield-street, May-fair, this season. It is the same mansion that was occupied by Aidlle. D'Este, last year. MISCELLANEOUS. The eighth annual meeting of the Tailors' Benevolent In stitution took place yesterday, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Mr. Cutler in the chair. From the re port read by the Secretary, it appeared that during the past year the health of the pensioners in the Asylum, at llaver stock-hill, had been good, and that the inmates now amounted to 73. The funded stock belonging to the Society was 11,3041., being an increase over the previous year of 178/. On account of the state of the funds, and the circumstance that at present the Asyl u m contained but one vacant room, the Directors had resolved to defer the usual election of in mates until August next. The receipts for current pur poses amounted during the year to 1,8831., and the expendi ture to 1,5001. We understand that among the numerous and distin guished individuals who intend to honour the ball in favour of the distressed needlewomen at the London Tavern to morrow (Wednesday) is the brave and kindhearted Mohan Lal, of Indian celebrity, who aided so materially in liberating our fellow-countrymen at Caubul. The statement that the Wedgwood copy of the Portland Vase was not an original, is contradicted on the authority of Mr. F. Wedgwood, of Etruria, who says that Josiah Wedg wood stated in his account of the vase and his copy of it, published in 1790, that he had the original lent him for more than twelve months by the Duke of Portland, and the casts he took can now be produced. The remission of the coal duties, according to a letter fro:n the Board of Trade to the coalowners of Sunderland, will take place from the day on which the resolution shall receive the sanction of Parliament. Ferdinand Hirschfield, llenrie Binck, and Isaac Ezekiel, Berlin wool-dealers, of St. Pancras-lane, City, and John Jones, an attorney's clerk, charged at Guildhall a fey. , day's ago with defrauding Captain F. W. E. Burrell, of Grosvenor-terrace, Camberwell, of the sum of :250/., under pretence of entering into partnership, were on Monday re examined and again remanded. They were liberated on bail. The civil business at the Hertfordshire assizes will com mence on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, instead of Monday morning, as originally proposed. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3110 s to 4115 s ; use ful ditto, 41 16s to 5/ 4s ; tine Upland ditto, 51 5s to 5/ 10s; Clover Hay, 4/8s to 5/ 178 ;Oat Straw, 11 16s to 1/ 18s; Wheat Straw, 1/ IBs to 21 per load. For Straw the demand was steady, at full prices ; but with Hay the trade was in a sluggish state. _ _ _ _ CiimmuLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 103 to 41 15s ; useful ditto, 4116 s to 514 s ; fine Upland ditto, 5! 5s to 51 103; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to Si 16s; Oat Straw, 1116 s to 11 18s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ lits to 21 per load. Supply limited, and trade somewhat. brisk. WIIITECIIAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, dr 8s to 41 15s; useful ditto, 41 16s to 51 4s; fine Upland ditto, 51 55 to 51 103; Clover Hay, 41 8s to 61; Oat Straw, 11 l6s to 1/ 18s; Wheat Straw, 11 18s to 21 per load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand. COAL ME.II.II2CET. Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Adair's Main, 16s ; Middle's West Hartley, 16s 6d ; Carr's Hartley, 16s 6d ; Chester Main, 16s 6d ; Eden Taufield, 15s 6d ; Holywell, 17s 6d ; Old Pontop, 15s 6d ; Ord's Redheugh, 15s ; Ravens worth West Hartley, 16s 6d; Smith's Pontop, 16s 3d; Tan field Moor Butes, 16s ; Tanfield Moor, 19s 6d ; Townley, I6s ; Twizell Main, 15s 6d ; West Hartley, 17s; West Wylam, 16s 6d ; W. E. Clarke and Co., 16s; Clennell, 16s; Hilda, 17s 6d ; Ramsay, 15s 6d ; Belmont, 19s ; Braddyll's Heaton, 20s 3d ; East Hetton, 17s 3d ; Haswell, 20s 3d ; Hougall. 18s 6d ; Iletton, 20s 3d ; llylton, 17s 6d ; Lambton, 20s 3d ; Lumley, 18s 6d; Shotton, 20s; Stewart's, 20 s 3d; Whitwell, 18s 6d; Caradoc, 20s ; Kelloe, 19s ; Leasingthoree, 19s ; South Kelloe, 19s; Seymour Tees, 18s 9d; Brynanman, 20s; Morgan's Stone, 21s 9d ; Killingworth, 17s.—Ships arrived, 46. COLONI&Z. SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation has been firm ; about 150 hhds have been sold at previous prices. The public sales consisted chiefly of 11,228 hags 76 casks Mauritius, 4,984 bags Bengal, and 4,150 bags Madras. Although the quantity offered by auction to• day was exceedingly large, it went off with fair spirit, about two-thirds finding buyers at prices fully confirming the- advance of 3s lld to 4a from the lowest period, snore particularly upon Mauritius, the lower sorts of Bengal, and Madras; whilst the white descriptions of Bengal barely supported previous rates. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 590 hhds 48 tres 20 brls, and there were taken for home consumption 172 hhds 18 trcs 58 brls. The stock in the same places is 6,934 hhds 612 trcs 1,531 brls. CorFEE.-100 casks 62 barrels Berbice, 148 barrels Rio, and 163 bags Bahia (both B. P. kind) offered by auction, was nearly all withdrawn, affording no guide to the market. Runs.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks, was 72 puns 8 hhds, and there were 'taken for home consumption 164 puns 22 hhds, and exported 105 puns 30 hhds. The stock in the same place is 9,879 puns 1,706 hhds. RICE.-3,846 bags Bengal sold at I Is. to Its 6d for mid to good white, being 3d below the previous value. SALTPETnE.- - 1,188 bags kedgal at auction were disposed of at 248 to 25s 6d for 10 1 ,4 to 8 1 A per cent. refraction, and a few lots unrefracted at 23s 6d to 2.55, which are fully former prices. _ _ SI'ICES.-1,044 bags Pepper and 400 bags Pimento were offered, all the former was withdrawn, at 2%d for good black Sumatra, which is the former value, but at which there were not purchasers. The latter sold readily at fully pre vious rates, viz., 2%d to 3 1 4 d for ord to mid quality. TALLOW.—P.T.C. is steady at 39s 6d per cwt en the spot, and Town at 42s per cwt. TEA.—The market is steady, and there is a moderate busi ness doing. The deliveries are increasing. DISCOVERY OF THE " RED BARN" INCENDIARY. — It will be in the recollection of our readers that a few weeks ago a young man from Polstead, named Samuel Stow, was committed for trial, charged with sending a threatening letter to William Bouttell, Esq., of that parish. Since the prisoner's commitment, Superintendent English, of Bury St. Edmunds, late of Polstead, has collected a mass of evidence to bring home the charge of setting fire to the Red Barn and other premises at Polstead, wherein Maria Martin was murdered by William Corder ; also to setting fire to a cottage belonging to William Hoy, Esq., of Higham, in the month of December, 184 9 ; also in November, 1843, feloniously setting fire to the house and premises of Mr. William Tabor, St Polstead, when property to a considerable amount was consumed. The prisoner, on Tuesday last, was taken before Sir Joshua Rowley, Bart., the Hon. and Rev. Augustus Phipps, and Charles Dawson, Esq., at the Fleece Inn, Boxford, lasexteeditetmheentwihn the oleof to t w he n day, and n ne i g hbourhood. A host of witnesses were produced, b e fore whom the prisoner had made voluntary admits awhderecretahteed exthaemingrateiaotnest sions of his guilt, and the evidence altogether was so con clusive that the magistrates fully committed the prisoner for trial upon all the charges at the next assizes. The greatest credit is due to Mr. English fer his exertions i i v n hi b eh rin a g t i t n h g e t t im o e li e g a h n t sed the th se e grhiethateerstto nmonysstteernrioautsinnaffamirse, ce na r ji a uthor of the incendiary fires at P o l estead has now will the id reward sn they that been disclosed through the instrumentalit y of Mr. English, Buryanci n s o t.doubt Edmund his d ,s exertions ha‘e , puta stop t meet with m so justly merit. His exertio ns a b out the neighbourhood of part of Suffolk.—Essex Herald. FIRE IN GR OS\ ENOR•SQUARE.—TWO FIREMEN IN JURED.—Last evening, between eight and nine o'elock, much alarm was created in Grosvenor-square, fire in owing to a serious the mansion of the Hon. Captain Duncombe, M.P., adjoining th e res id ence of the Earl of Derby and Sir G. Talbot. The discovery was made by some of the domestics, in consequence of the building being gradually filled with smoke, and on their proceeding into the hall they found the flooring to be all on fire. The engines f rom W e ll s - s t ree t, King-street, and Baker-street were quickly in attendance, and on the firemen, named Loder and Horden, entering the hall, the flooring suddenly fell in, the supporting beams having burnt away. They were immediately extricated from their dangerous situation, when they were found not to be severely hurt. In the meantime active measures were taken to stop the ravages of the fire, ma Mr. Braid wood, the superintendent of the force, having arrived with more engines and men, the flames were prevented from ex tending beyond the basement. The furniture in the suites of rooms has, however, suffered much injury. The outbreak was ascertained to have originated in the overturning of a hot air stove. Up to a late hour the brigade were in attendapee, in case the flames should kindle again. The ry mansion' pas .. arrival in town, from their seat re cently undergone extensive repairs, preparatory the tern 113 Yorkshire. The property insured. cronAl6.-1-3 : " hric • • • • : gouriAITIEAC flan: , : PHAA9u : P9orlY TO BIBLICAL STUDENTS.—Ur. irr. GLITZ, L. L. O. (D. Vrof. gibes instruction, in pribate, anD to classes, In eit rettejtebrcht, Chalice, Syriac, ambit, Othiopie, &c. Ehe attention of those preparing for the inistrp is respectfully soliciteb to this opportunity of learning the Zhemitic Languages. Terms moberatt. clibbresas in, Vaternoster.roto. ,_-~ 7 11