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EVENIDITION - .EVENING. EDITION. 'e F ie 11TORNING SUN.-ADV - E-RTISR: -IL MENTS inserted in the MORNING SUN will also appear in the EVENING EDITION without any EXT urIAIII7E. SUN OFFICE, 112 STRAND. CONTRACT FOR PAPER. STATIONERY OFFICE, MAY 13, 1839. THE COMPTROLLER of her MA JESTY'S STATtONERY OFFICE, is ready to receive Tenders fir different descriptions of Paper required fur tire public serviee. Particulars of Contract, and Samples of the Papers may be had at the Stationery Office, between the hours of Ten and Four. Tenders to be addressed to the Comptroller of the Stationery Office, James's-street, Buckingham-gate, and to be delivered by Twelve o'Clock on Monday the 27th of May,11839, marked on the cover " Tender fur Paper," after which day and hoer Ye tender can be received. CONTRACT FOR LIFT PUMPS. DEPARTMENT 'OF THE STOREKEEPER-GENERAL OF THE NAVY, SOMERSET-PLACE, MAY 21, 1639. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXE CUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH AD MIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, do hereby give N•tiee, that an the 13th June Neat, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying her Majesty's Dock Yards at Deptford, Wool wich, Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, with LIFT PUMPS For Pumping Water out of Ships' Holds. A Pattern of the Pump, and a Form of the Tender, may be seen at the said Office, No Tender will be received after one •'clock, on tits day of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party attends, •r an Agent for him duly authorized in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Ten der for Lift Pumps," and must also be delivered at Somerset- Flom, aceempanied by a Letter signed by a responsible Person, ongaging to bece►ie bound with the Person tendering, in the sum of 2001. for the du• performance of the Contract. BENEVOLENT INSURANCE AN NUITY, and NATIONAL BENEFIT SOCIETY. 50, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. Capital, £250,000., in Two Classes of Shares ; namely, IA,OOO of £2O eack. Deposit, 10s. per Share; and 10,000 of £5 . The Earl of Euston, M.P. Lord Teignmouth, Lord Skelmersdale George Birkbeck, Esq., M. D, CUSTOM-HOUSE, MAY 14, 1839. THE COMMISSIONERS of her MA JESTY'S CUSTOMS, do hereby give notice, that they will be ready to receive at the Custom-house, London, on the Ist of JUNE, next, fenders in writing, jsealed up) and treat for the Supply of Provisions, for the use of the Cruizers and Vessels employed under their direction, for twelve calen dar months, from the 6th of July next, to the sth of July, 1804, inclusive. To be delivered free of all charge into the boats of the said vessels, as follows, viz.:— BISCUIT, RUM, WHISKEY, [* At the ports in Ireland and Scotland (only) ] . SALT EEF, FRESH BEEF, FLOUR, SUET, SUGAR, EA, CABBAGES, POTATOES, SCOTCH BAR LEY, AT ENGLAND. Gravesend, Ramsgate, Dover, Hastings, Seaford. Cowes, Poole, Weymouth, Exmouth, Fowey Penzance, * Milford Berwick, Grimsby, Boston, North Yarmouth, Harwich, Quarantine Station, Liverpool. SCOTLAND. IRELAND. Leith. Kingstown, (Dublin), Stranracr, Carlingford, Oban, Larne, Stornawav, Killibegs, Greenock, Westport, Quarantine Station Galway, Borrowstovrness. Cast letownsend, Kilrush. RUH, * WHISKEY ? Lm At Cove of Cork (only)1, SALT BEEF, FRESH BEEF, FLOUR, SUET, SUGAR, TEA, CABBAGES, POTATOES, SCOTCH BARLEY. AT ENGLAND. SCOTLAND. Deptford, hatham, * Portsmouth Plymouth Falmouth Including the Quarantine Vessel, and the Establishments at Standgate Creek and Milford HaNen. A lin BISCUIT FRESH BEEF, CABBAGES, POTATOES, ONLY, AT ENGLAND. SCOTLAND. Lymington Montrose, Brigham. Cromarty, Campbeltown. FRESH BEEF, CABBAGES, POTATOES, ONLY, at ENGLAND. SCOTLAND. Sheerness. No regard will be had to any Tender in which the prices'shall uot be inserted in words at length, or that shall not be made on, or annexed to, one of the printed Particulars, to be procured from the Custom Houses at, or nearest to, the Places where the said Provisions are to be delivered, and at the Secretary's Office, Custom House, London, and at the Collector's Office, Custom House, Dublin, ani Leith, (at which last mentioned plac es th e C on dit ions f the Contract may be seen or that shall not be delivered in, or sent post paid, addrossed to the S ecretary at the said Custom House', London, before twelve 4L7k, on the said Ist of June; nor unless the same is accom - to b;, 4 0 1 1 a Letter signed by two substantial Persons, engaging Sum s tn i* * l ?ound with the party tendering, in the penal Sum or glue perforring otaenetion‘d against the respective places in the following to those for which they may tender,) for the toption orthTeenl N . B . "cc' of the Contract. —Tenders t m en ay ee b r e ing m . ade for one or more Ports, at the IRELAND. Cove of Cork, ENGLAND. Deptford £3OO Exmouth £3oo Gravesend Chatham : Sheerness Ramsgate 3OO Falmouth 3OO hover Hastings ... .............. ... :101 NI ill - ml Seaford 3OO Bt•rwick Portsmouth ,Cowes 4 -Yrnington toole e rftouth . i„..on SCOTLAND. ,I f eith trsse IRELAND. £6OO Kingstown £6OO 150 Carlingford .--,foraarty l5O Larne V anipbeltown . ...... 150 Killibega G reenock 3OO Westport Stanraer °ban l5O Cove of Cork Stornoway aorrovnitownws By order of the Commissioners, C. SCOVELL, Secretary. THE FREQUENT ROBBERIES OF PLATE. CAUTION. It 'having been represented to RIPPON and BURTON that sever al persons are vending a spurious metal as their NICKEL SILVER BRITISH PLATE, they assure the Public that tile Genuine Article can only be had at the Warehouses, 12, Wells -street, Oxford-street. The Nickel Silver British Plate I ntnufactured by Rippon and Burton, is, by a chemical process, t endered superior to any other so called, in appearance and Il umbility ; it is equal to silver ; all the articles being solid anti " 11 wrought material, they improve with use, and are war ta•nted to stand the test of that strong acid aquafortis. The fo llowing prices are named as a criterion : I'm, s. d. a. ii. -- -le Spoons and Forks, full King's Pattern Table Spoons s ize, with fiddle handles, and Forks, full size, per ,ller dozen • 12 0 dozen 3O 0 .11essert do . 10 0 Do. Dessert, do. do., per G ea Spoons, per aozen 5 0 dozen ~ fish spoons, each 4 5 Do. Tea, do. de. do l2 0 Butter Knives, each +stater Knives 2 ft Do. Ftah knives, do Salt and Mustard Spoons .... I 6 Do. Salt and Mustard Spoons, Sauce Ladles S 6 do v 4 auce L a dl es ..„ — ugar Tongs, each ablg Candlesticks, per pair 16 0 Do. Sugar Tongs , do. I.:lumber ditto, complete, Decanter Stands, chased „ eac h lO 0 edges, per pair vtvet Frames, Shell Mount- Snuffers, do 5 6 ings Bread Baskets, Tea and Coffee Sets to match, &c. Purchasers are recommended to apply, post paid, for a Cata bogus, which can be forwarded for a single postage. WARRANTED TABLE CUTLERY. Table Knives, with Ivory Handles, per doz. 14s.—Dessert n ives,l2s. —Carvers, per pair, ss.—The Long Set of 50 Pieces, '"s• —The same to Balance Table Knives, 16s.—Desserts, 14s. --Carvers, ss. 6d.—Large size Ivory-handled Table Knives, 18s. Desserts, 16s. per doz.—Carvers, 6s.—The same to Balance Table, 2ls.—Desserts, 15s.—Carvers, is. 6d.—White Bone Handled Table Knives and Forks, 9s. per doz.—lllaak Horn handled Table Knives and Forks, Ils. per doz.—Desserts, Bs. - -Carvers, 2s. 6d.—The Knives and Forks both warranted. FENDERS, FIRE IRONS,_CORNICE POLES, DISH- COVERS, BATHS, &c: Fashionable Black Iron Fenders from N.—Bronzed ditto from 12s.—Brass ditto from 22s.—Polished Steel Fire Irons from ss.—Block Tin Dish Covers the Set, 11s.—Improved shape ditto, 163.--,Patent ditto, the very best quality and newest shape that is made, 35s.—Japanned Bottle Jacks, warranted to carry 251135., 75. 6d.—Brass ditto, Os. 6d.—Brass Stair Rods, 3s. 6d. per doz.—Brass Cornice er Window Curtain Poles, is. 64. per foot.—Copper Tea Kettle to hold 1 Gallon, 7s.— Copper Coal Scoops, from 10s.—Tea Urns, from 27s.—Shower Baths, with Copper conducting Tubes and Pomp, and with Curtains complete, 110 s. Purchasers are recommended te visit the Warehouses, Wells street, Oxford-street; or to apply for a Catalogue of prices, 'which can be forwarded for a single postage. Country Orders to contain a remittance. All Postat-es to be paid. Establish, d 1 4'o. 4 . I care not how I am physicked, so it be cot by the adventure of a quack, but advice of a physician, who, I am sine. will prescribe no more for me than may consist with my s,fsty, and need doth re quite ---f , LD DI ;ANIL SUFFERERS from a REDUNDANCY or DEFICIENCY of BILE, from Indigestion, Pain in the Side, or under the Right Shou'der-blade, Sick Heacl-ach:, Heart-burn, Giddiness, Oppression after Mea,s , Pimples, or Cuta neous Sores, or even those dreadful maladies, the S t one and Gravel (of which they are a deci,!ed solvent and provenCve), would do Well to try the LIVER PILLS, as now prepared from the prescri , tion of the late Dr. JOHN A R ONG, of Russell-square, and Author of the Works on Tyhus and Scsrlet Fever, &c., by the Proprietor's Agents, Messrs. EDWARD WINSTANLEY (vice ED DI), of 7, Poultry; of whom they may be had retail, and of almost *very Druggist and Patent Medicine Dealer hi London and the United Kingdom, at Is. lad. per box. tz7- For Females, and as a Dinner Pill, they are incomparable. For Children they area safe Aperient, and Vermifuge. Observe Dr. John At mstrong's Liver Pills," is engraved en the stamp None else genuine. CRANKS'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION OF COPAIBA. Within a period of Two Months upwards of Three Hundred Patients were successfullv treated at the Metropolitan Hospitals with ritANK ,'S SPECIFIC SOLUTION of COPAIBA. By Joseph Henry Green, Esq., F.R.S., one of the Council of th...! Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and Professor of Surgery in the King's College, London. " I ha: e inee trial of Mr. Frank's So;ution of I opaiba, at S`. Thomas's Hospital, in a variet y or cases of discharges in the male and female, and the results warrant my stating, that it is an effie:, cloys remedy, and one which does not produce the usual unpleasant effects of Copaiba. (Signe d) "JOSEPH HENRY GREEN . 46, Lincoln's-Inmtlelds, April 15, 1635. BY Bransby Cooper, Esq., F.B. S., Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, ana Lecturer on Anatomy, &c. &c., and others most eminent in the Medical Profession.' • " I,lr. Bransby Ceoiier presents his compliments to Mr. Geo. Franks, and has great pleasure in hearing testimony of the efficacy of his Sr _ lutio,, of Copaiba in Gonorrhoea, for whic h disease Mr . Cooper 11;., prer„.ibed the Solution in ten or twelve cases with perfect succesa. New.street,Spring-gardens, Aprill3, 1535." This invaluable Medicine is confidently recommended in all cases of Gonorrhoea. Gleets, Ureth :al Discharges, Spasinra c Strictures, Irrita. ion of the Kidneys, Bladder, Urethra, and Prostate Gland it , purify mg effects upon the gen( ...al health render it particularly ap plicahle isa all cases of relaxed fibre ann nervous debility. Prepared only by George Franks, Surgeor, tG, alackfriars-road, Lonuon, a nd may he 11.... d of all Medicine-venders in the United !tiny. (Zorn, in Bottles at 2s. Pd., 4s. dd., and I Is. each. rA Mir,/ Ull. George Frangs Ella 'to - viers road," is engraw d 0 0 the Government Stamp it cannot be genuine. Air. 1 ranks may he consulted until Two o'cl oc 1. daily. Also Annuities commencing at the Ages of 50, 55, and 60. Two-thirds of the Premiums paid, returnable, in case of pre mature death. Immediate Annuities for all ages, granted •n very favourable terms. A Board with a Medical Officer is in daily attendance at tw• •'clock. Prospectuses may be had at the Offices, or any •f the Branches, or Agents in the principal Towns. F. FERGUSON CAIIII2OUX, Secretary. MORISON'S PILLS of the British College of Health, No. 2, Hamilton-place, New -road, King's-cross, London. Tile Second Part of Mr. Tothill's Report of Cases of Cure performed at the Exeter Hygeian Dispensary during the month of April, 1839 WILLIAM CuArraLL, aged SM, a bricklayer, residing in Cheek-street, Exeter, cured of a chest complaint, accompanied with generally deranged state of health. Also of a cutaneous eruption of both arms. Had been thus afflicted for more than a year. TifomAs GRIBBLE, aged 29, a whitesmith by trade, resid ing in Sun-street, Exeter, cured of a gravel affection, with which he had been afflicted for five years, after having been under very eminent treatment, without deriving the least benefit. ELIZABITN PIMPERNALL, aged 34, the wife of a plasterer, residing in Church-street, St. Sidwell's, Exeter, cured of an affection of the head and stomach, with which she had suffered for a long period. Mr. JOHN MANACOTT, aged 24, a bookseller, residing in Cox's-buildings, Paris-street, Exeter, cured of a bilious fever in the short space of a week. WALTER DAVEY, aged 79, residing in Bartholomew-yard, Exeter, cured of a stomach and chest complaint, with generally deranged state of health. JOHN Witr,cox's son, aged 9 years, of Heavitree, cured of epileptic fits of long standing. SUSAN Donn, aged 38, residing in Fore-street, Topsham, four miles from Exeter, cured of a bilious affection of six years' standing, other medical treatment having failed. Also her daughter, aged 18, cured of the same complaint, accompanied with worms. (Signed) R. TOTHILL, M.R.C.S.L. Heavitree, April, 18.39. (Mr. Tothill will, on application, accompany any person de sirous of ascertaining the truth of the above cases, to the par ties themselves.) CAUTION.—Beware of Counterfeits. —No Chemists or Druggists are authorised to sell these Medicines. See that the words " Morison's Universal Medicine's" be engraved on the Government Stamp, in white l e tters upon a red ground, with out which none can be genuine. N. B.—Sub-Agents may be found 'n all carts of the country, duly appointed by the General Agent, and the public are cau tioned agai ns t purc h as i ng the Medicines, except of such regu larly appointed Agents. Ned- Ltes of 2 tbat chair which No. 14.573. 2,,isi,v,::o7itkk'frllL-z7-1'1;t::::7::7:74fl:jA..t::( • • LI 4 , ••• • • e' s 7 - " 4 ' - 0 3' Att)111))0 1)141)1Ill /33 -1. 0 I T NOTICE OF ALLOTTAIENT OF SHARES THE MACERONI COMMON ROAD STEAM CONVEYANCE COMPANY. To be Incorporated by Act of Parliament. Capital 200,0001., in 40,600 Shares of 01. each. TREASITRER. James Gordon Murdoch, Esq., Frognall, Hampstead; and No. 11, Haymarket. mANKans. Messrs. 13ouverie and Co. Four Thousand Shares, of the value of 51. each, in the Ca pital Stock of this Company, to be now issued at 3/. per Share, upon which no further calls will be made, to be paid within fourteen days after notice of the allotment of the same. On the issue of the remaining Shares, each of the above 4,000 Shares will entitle the holders, in preference to other parties, to an allotment of three more b/. Shares at par, if taken within fourteen days after notice of their allotment. Applications for Shares to be made (post paid) to the Pre visional Committee of the Maceroni Common Road Steam Con veyance Company, at Mr. Hodgson's, 21, Lincoln's Inn.fields, of whom Prospectuses may be had. The Committee will proceed to the allotment of the first 4,000 Shares on Monday, the 3d day of June next, and no Ap. plications for such Shares will be received after Saturday, the Ist day of June. PATRONS. DIRECTORS, H. G. Boldero, Esq., M.P., Chairman.. John J. Burn, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Sir E. L. Bulwer, Bart, M.P. Amos Gann, Esq. J. P. Beavan, Esq. James Garrard, Esq. James•Bourdillon, Esq. A. B. Granville,.. D., F. R. S. Duncan Campbell, Esq. Thomas Hutchinson, Esq. PHYSICIANS. A.B. Granville, M.D., F. R. S. J J. S. Campbell, M.D. BANKERS. The Bank of England .. . The Board of Directors considering, that through the prac tical working of this Association during the past year, its uti lity to every class of society, as well as its particular adapta tion to the wants of the industrious and productive classes have been clearly demonstrated; considering, also, the eagerness shown by the last-mentioned classes in connecting themselves with this Institution through the various modes of insurance which it alone affords to them, have resolved to further these interests, by issuing the Shares reserved for that purpose, namely, 10,000 Shares of 51. each, for the purpose of placing within the reach of persons of small means an opportunity of participating in the advantages of mutual insurance, leesdes the remainder of the 201. Shares yet unappropriated. A deposit to be paid of 2s. 6d. on each 51. Share, and of 10s. on each 201. Share, and further sums of 2s. 6d., and 10s. respectively, at the time of signing the deed. Application for Shares and Prospectuses to be made a: the Office of this Society, No. 50, Lincoln's-inn-fields, or at Mr. Heseltine's, Stock Broker, Finch-lane, Cornhill. ,„.** Shareholders will be entitled to two-thirds of the net profits, and the remaining third added to the Subscription Capital. HENRY WILSON, Actuary and Secretary. EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, 3 WILL. IV. T HE ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, No. 34, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. Established 1823. DIRECTORS. The Right Hon. THOMAS FRANKE AND LEWIS, Chairman. HENRY FREDERICK S CEPHENSON, Esq , Deputy Chairman, Lancelot I3augh Allen, Esq. William Grant, Esq. Stephen Nieolson Barber, Esq. John Knowles, Esq., F.R.S. Robert Biddulph, Esq., M.P. John Mendham, Esq. Itobeit Davies, Esq. Thomas Meux, Esq. Thomas Edgar, Esq. William Routh, Esq. AUDITORS, Henry Barnett, Esq. 1 Charles Morris, Esq. Henry Milford Boodle, Esq. 1 John Gilliam Stilwell, Esq. PHYSICIAN—John A. Paris, M.D., F.R.S., No. 27, Dover-street. Sufic izom—Benjamin Travers, Esq., F.R.S., No. 12, Bruton-street. SoLtorrott—llenry Young, Esq., Co. 12, Essex-street, Strand. AcTuARv—J. J. Downes, Esq., F.R. A.S. The following are among the advantages of this Society. Ist, The security of an ample Assurance Fund, besides the subscribed Capital. 2dly, For young and middle-aged lives the Lowest Rates of Premiums that entitle the assured to participate in the profits. idly, Three-fourths of the profit s divided every fifth year among those who have been assured four years on the equal scale of premiums. The bonus declared in 1834 averaged 16/. per cent. on the premiums then paid ; and th e b onus awar d e d geti is equal to all, per cent. on t h e pre le last five y ears . pre miums u l in B3 s 9 r , e c o e n iv t e h a de during vera 4thly. Assurers may have the bonus applied to increase the sums assured, or in reduction of future premiums, either for the remainder of life, or for the next five years only. sthly, Policies granted without any charge to the assured be yond the stamp duty. 6thly, An option given to Assurers on the increasing scale of rates after the lapse of any number of years to commute the fu ture increasing premium by an equivalen equal annual one for the remainder of life, and thereafter to participate in the profits. The same advantages are appiicable to assurers on the degreas ing scale of rates. Policies on the lives of parties dying by suicide, duel ling, or by the hands of justice, not void as respects the inte rests of persons to whom they may hays been legally assigned. Bthly, No extra charge for residence in any part of Europe, nor for proceeding to any port (in a decked, sailing, or steam vessel) between Brest and the Elbe. Licenses are granted to go to any part of the world upon terms proportionate to the risks. 9thly, Whole-life Policies on the equal scale of premium pur chaseable after four years. Lapsed Policies revived on favour able terms to the assured. All assurances effected on the equal seale of rates during the year 1839 will participate in the next division of profits. JOHN KNOWLES, Resident Director. 'NATIONAL LOAN I.UND LIFE AS- L SURANCE AND DEFERRED ANNUITY SOCIETY. 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. 67, New Buildings, North Bridge, Edinburgh ; 36, Westmoreland-street, Dublin ; 28, South Castle-street, Liverpool ,47, Princess-street, Manchester ; 9, Clare-street, Bristol ; And 14, New Bond-street, Bath. Capital, 500,0001. EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. PATRON—His Grace the DUKE of SOMERSET, F. R. S. DIRECTORS. T. L AMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. Col. Sir Burps Camac, K. C. S. Robert Hellond, Esq., M.P. John Elliotson, M.D. F. R. S. George Lungley, Esq. C. Farebrether, Esq., Ald. John Rawson, Esq. H. Gorden, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. AUDITORS. Dr. Olinthus Gregory, F.R.A.S. Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. PHYSICIAN—J. Dilation, M.D., F.R.R. SuncroN—E. S. Symes, Esq. ACTUARY-W. S. B. Woothouse, Esq., F.R.A.S. By the new principles of Life Assurance and Deferred An nnuities, established by this Society. many essential advantages, besides that of securing a provision for a family or for old age, are gained by the Assured, and thereby an additional value is given to each Policy. Premiums payable annually, half-yearly, quarterly, or monthly, or in the increasing or decreasing scales. Females assured at diminished rates. Extension of limits of travelling. Policies ist force seven years not forfeited by suicide, and two thirds of the premiums paid at all times available to the assured. Two-thirds of the profits of the Sooiety divided annually amongst arties assured on the participating scale of Premiums. SPECIMENS OF DEFERRED ANNUITIES, BENEFITS. PREMIUMS. "( Annuity-C . ll 0 0 -- - attaining the 1 , ' t. S 2 II • Options Secured, on attaining th age of Sixty-five, by an Annual' , ~ the} ash e l 'l'o secure, I age of ' '), Policy q 7 3 6 Premium of 2/. 12s. ' option of _ t"..7. 9 ' W. :: a• ' Payable Payable 4 Payable in for' m* Annuity. Cash. Policy. , F.,,, 3 . L. ~, a. CD pnually. One Ms. R ,v-, Sum, parity. .%. o ': ,-, X. s. d.. X s. d. X. s. .1. . X. s. d. X. s. d. X. s. d. 90 47 16 6 ;394 11 0:46G • 6 ' f. , 0 •IS 11 10 010 • • • 25 i 96 15 10 2i:l • 01:261 • 0 30 •19 6 16 7 1 7 311 36 113 19 8 1115 5 01136 0 0j 40 117 3 27 311 19 411 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1839. ILLEGAL IMPRISONMENT OF MR. VINCENT. THE despotic Whigs having evinced their itde termination, by their arbitrary arrests of the Advocates of Political Equality, to deprive the . People of their Constitu tional right of Meeting in PnbPc to discuss their grievances, the Friends of Mr. Vincent have resolved to bring him up by a Writ of Habeas, in order to contest the assumed power of Despotism. The Working Men's Association having resolved o form a Committee for collecting Subscriptions for the above object, they respectfully and earnestly solicit the assistance of all Friends to Constitutional Liberty. By order of the Committee ARTHUR DYSUN, Secretary. _ . . The Committee meet at the Rooms of the Working Men's Association, 6, Upper North-place, Gray's Inn-road, every Thursday Evening at Eight o'Clock, where every information may he obtained. NATIONAL ANTI-POOR-LAW AS SOCIATION. A GENERAL MEETING of the MEMBERS of this ASSOCIATION will be held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen -street, on FRIDAY next, at Seven o'clock in the Evening precisely, at which the Deputies appointed by the va rious Parishes are requested to attend. JAMES DUNCOMBE, Hon. Sec. 4, Gray's Inn-place, 21st May, 1839. On the Ist June will be published, in foolscap Bvo., cloth boards, price ss. THE MISER'S DAUGHTER, a Comedy ; and MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. By J. PURCHAS, Esq., a Rugbman. London : Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria-lane ; Stevenson, Cambridge ; and Lockyer, Rugby. HAND-BOOK FOR THE NAVAL SERVICE. NEW and CHEAPER EDITION, in a neatly bound pocket volume, price 65., to be had of all Booksellers, T HE NAVAL OFFICER'S GUIDE for PREPARING SHIPS for SEA. By LIEUT. CHARLES MARTELLI, R.N. " A masterly exposition of those complex details on which the efficiency of our ships depends. No naval officer should be without it, and it should be in the cabin library of every yacht."—United Service Journal. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Te-morrow will be published, L ADY BLESSINGTON'S ' IDLER IN ITALY." NEW and CHEAPER EDITION, In 2 vols. Bvo., with Portrait, 245. bound. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. 4 %,,,* Orders received by all Booksellers. NEW NOVEL BY ONE OF LORD NORMANBY'S BROTHERS. Now *eady at all the Libraries, in 2 vols. post Bvo., THE FERGUSONS. By the Hon. EDMUND PHIPPS. " One of the cleverest and most amusing books that has ap peared for a long time."—Court Journal. "An exceedingly well-cultivated story of high life. The characters are drawn with skill, and a full knowledge of the society in which they move."—Age. " Written in a most agreeable style, and developing its in terest naturally and affectingly."—John Bell. " There is, we venture to assert, not a character or a scene in The Fergusons ' that has not bad its prototype in the ac tual experience and observation of the writer, during his in terceurse with the society with which the tale busies itself."— New Monthly. " This book has given us a sensation as unusual as it is agree able. It is a portrait, not a caricature, of human nature. 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STEEPLE CHASING on SP, TURDAT, 26th of May, 18.39. These Grounds will be opened to the Public for the first time this Season on Saturday the 26th instant, at the particu lar desire of many distinguished Noblemen and Gentlemen, for the express occasion of affording an opportunity to His Im perial Highness the Grand Duke of Russia of witnessing these National Amusements. By the express commands of his Imperial Highness, the day's sport will commence at 4 r.m., when the following Stakes will be run for; viz., The Birth-day Stakes of 5 sovereigns each, with 25 sovereigns added free for any horse carrying 12 stone. 4 miles over the Steeple Chase Course. A winner of a Steeple Chase of 50 Sovereigns or up wards at any time (the Steeple Chase having been adver tized or noticed in •` Bell's Life") to carry seven lbs. extra, twice 14 lbs. extra, and Horses having started twice in a Race as above and not won allowed seven lbs. To name and close at the Hippodrome Saddling Paddock by Two &Clock on Fri day, the 24th. The Olympic Stakes of 3 Sovereigns each, with 25 Sove reigns added. Over the Steeple Chase Course. Free for any horse carrying 1 Ist. 71bs. Two mile Heats. Extra weights for winning, and allowance the same as for Birth Day Stakes. To name and close as above. The sides of the fences on the Steeple Chase Course have been deeply laid with tan, so as to prevent jar to the horse or accidents to the riders, and every precaution will be taken to raider the running ground safe and unobjectionable. Horses must be plated and Jockeys dressed accordin g to the Rules of the Hippodrome. All disputes to be settled by the Stewards, and their decision to be final. This Establishment has been entirely remodelled—the Grounds extended, the Race Course lengthened, and much improved, and without interfering with the rights of the Public, the footpath which intercepted the Old Ground nosy runs at the outside of the Park : thus corn pletoly removing the cause of the contentions and Inconveniences that have hitherto existed. The new Grounds are entirely surrounded by a high close paling; so that none can enter but respectable and well-conducted persons who pay for their admission. All Gambling Booths and Tables will be excluded. The prices of Admission will be as follows: Four-wheeled Carriage Two-wheeled ditt o 3s. Od. Person on horseback Person on foot.. Carriages and Horsemen will pay at the Outer Gate, at Por tobello-lane, and Pedestrians will pay at the Gate on the Hill. The Hill which is enclosed for Pedestrians alone will enable fifty thousand persons to see the sport in safety, without their being interrupted by Horsemen or Carriages. Public Cabs, Omnibuses, Carts, and Waggons will not bt admitted. None but holders of Proprietors' Tickets, and Gentlemen belonging t. the Public Press will be admitted free. The terms of obtaining Proprietors' Tickets, &c., may be ascertained on inquiry at the Hippodrome Rooms, No. 57, Pall-mall. CAPITAL HOTEL, TAVERN, AND COFFEE-SOUSE,` - eatebliehed more. tllasrs century in one of the most eligible situations in the City of London, to be DISPOSED OF, upon very advantageous terms. The Premises consist of one of the most convenient Houses in London, in substantial repair, and adequate to a much larger trade than that now doing, which is upwards of 8,000/. per annum, the beds alone realizing upwards of 6001., exclusive of other emoluments, more than adequate to the payment of all rates, taxes, and servants' wages. The present Proprietor is retiring, but will not object to continue in the business for a short time, until his successor becomes fully initiated therein, and part of the purchase money may remain upon security, at 5 per cent. Particulars of Mr. Gardiner, Auctioneer, 17, Hatton-Garden. FIRST-RATE, WELL-KNOWN TA VERN.—Mr. GARDINER is instructed by the Pro prietor, who is retiring to TREAT for the DISPOSAL of one of the most LUCRATIVE TAVERNS in the Kingdom. It ha; been Litany years established, and has always commanded a most extensive Trade. The returns are upwards of .6,000/. per annum, at profits equal, if not superior, to those of any other House in London. It has been mzny years in the present family, and offers advantages rarely to be met with to an in telligent and active successor. Principals will be treated with on application to Mr. Gardi ner, Auctioneer, 17, Hatton-Garden. ARESPECTABLE FAMILY AND COMMERCIAL HOTEL, delightfully situate in a rapidly improving and Fashionable Wa.cring Place, to be DISPOSED OF BY MR. GARDINER. The premises have been erected within a few years, are in excellent order, and include about 40 Bed Rooms, an adequate number of Sitting Rooms, Stabling of a very superior character, a good Tap, and every other requisite for conveniently conducting the Business, which is highly respectable in all its branches, and has been annually increasing. Particulars by principals, of Mr. Gardiner, Auctioneer, 17 Hatton-Garden. AN ESTABLISHED AND HIGHLY RESPECTABLE HOTEL, TAVERN, AND COFFEE HOUSE, in one o f t h e mos t comman di ng situa tions in London, to be DISPOSED OF, it has been occupied by the proprietor many years, and for upwards of a cent ury been supported by most respectable professional gentlemen ; part of the premises may be adapted to a retail Wine and Spirit Warehouse, to great advantage. Particulars of Mr. Gardiner, Auctioneer, 17, Hatton Garden. COMPACT COMMERCIAL HOTEL, NJ INN, and COFFEE HOUSE, with Concert and As sembly Rooms attached, situated in an important and very flourishing Town, within 60 miles of London, TO BE LET upon very advantageous terms. The Premises are in good re pair, judiciously arranged, placed in one of the most command ing situations of the Town, and have for many years been patronized by its most respectable i nhab itants, independent of other advantages. Possession will amount to about 8001. Particulars of Mr. Gardiner, Auctioneer, 17, Hatton- Garden. COMMERCIAL INN AND HOTEL. TO BE LET upon very advantageous terms an Old Established anti Respectable COMMERCIAL INN, in an excellent situation in the City of London. It makes up about 25 Beds, has excellent Dining and Sitting Rooms, Coffee Room, and good Tap. The amount required for possession will not exceed 1 0001. Particulars of Mr. Gardiner, Auctioneer, &C., 17, Hatton- Garden. THE QUEEN'S HEAD, BILLINSGATE. ONE OF THE BEST HOUSES IN THE DISTRICT. MR. DANIEL CRONIN is instructed by Proprietor to SELL the above excellent PREMI v_m. the ....—____ SES by AUCTION at Garraway's, on Thu asm, May 30, at Twelve. They are held under nine years, a t th e extremely low rent of 631. p er annum, are in capital repair, have abundant accommodation for the market f trade , t and a sp ac i ous coffee room for the accommodation of its s numerous respectable visi ters • being a corner house,.7tmentlinst7counptoilLNek:tho°blse°,lfa'sWithhaagrf Stairs, and 'Summers Quay houses in the market. many years been, one of th n e s' be l May he viewed, and particul ' ars had on the premises; at Ca raway's; and of the auctioneer, 12, East-street, Lamb's Con duit-street. _____-------- FCONOin GENTLEMEN'S DRESS MY .4 FROCK and DRESS COATS, and every other arti cle, cut and made in a superior stylefrorn a we ll selected stock of goods of first-rate qualities, at J: CH ARLES'S, 171, Fleet street. the following is a brief list of prices for cash : Dress Coats, of fashionable colours 15 0 to £3 0 0 Ditto Saxony Wool, blue or black 215 0 310 0 Frocks faced with silk, bound, &c 218 0 318 0 A large stock of Dalmatias, Ango las, &e., for Trousers...... 0 15 0 1 10 0 A beautiful assortment of I.l9;ured Satins, Challis, &c., for Waistcoats. Young Gentl emen's Suit s on the most moderate terms. A Footman's Suit of Livery ...£4 4 0 Observe the address, 171, Fleet-street, which gentlemen are requestedto note down. His Majesty the Kind has been pleased to appoint Professor Redepenning, of Bonn, to be Professor of Divinity in the University o f Gottingen. A " Camp Meeting'' of Primi t i ve Methodists was held in a meadow at Monmouth, on Sunday last, and was, as usual, largely attended. INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINA RY.--TheLeeds Intelligencer of Saturday says :—" The Bishop of Salisbury, the youngest on the Bench, is about to be married to Mr. Seymour, daughter of Sir M. Seymour." THE SLAVE TRADE. It is a melancholy fact, and one, too, about which there can be no doubt, that after all the labours of Clarkson, and Wilberforce, and Brougham, and others, in attempts to put an end to this flagitious traffic, the trade has increased at least twofold, and the cruelties of the traffickers in human blood, and the consequent sufferings of their victims, have in creased tenfold. Th e stain, it is true, has been wiped from the British name, but since that was accomplished the cruelties have increased, because the trade now is solely carried on by the most de based of mankind, viz., Spaniards and Portuguese, and the outcasts of France and the United States of America. Here is the picture drawn by Mr. Fowell Buxton, in his work on " The African Slave Trade," just published : It is but too manifest that the efforts already made for the suppression of the Slave Trade have not accom plished their benevolent object. The people of England take a more lively and intense interest in this than per haps any other foreign subject. The Government, whe ther in the hands of the one party or the other, cannot be accused of having, for a long series of years, been wanting either in zeal or exertion for its suppression— millions of money and multitudes of lives have been sa crificed, and in return for all we have only the afflicting conviction that the Slave Trade is as far as ever from being suppressed. Nay, I am afraid the fact is not to be disputed, that while we have thus been endeavouring to extinguish the traffic, it has actually doubled in amount. Twice as many human beings are now its victims as when Wilberforce and Clarkson entered upon their noble task, and each individual of this increased number, in addition to the horrors which were endured in former times, has to suffer from being cribbed up in a narrower space and on board a vessel where accommo dation is sacrificed to speed. Painful as this is, it be comes still more distressing, if it shall appear that our present system has not failed by mischance, from want of energy, or from want of expenditure, but that the system itself is erroneous, and must necessarily be at.. tended with disappointment." This is not a statement made at random, or a tale dressed up to make an impression at Exeter Hall, but a matter of fact, substantiated by official and incontestible documents. Mr. Buxton shows that, according to returns, there were imported into five ports of the Brazils during twelve months, ending July, 1830, 78,331 negroes, into Cuba annually 60,000, and 8,294 captured in the course of twelve months, and calculating the casualties at 3,373, that the total number of negroes exported from Africa in the course of a year amounts to 150,000. This appears from official documents, but from inquiries and calculations made at the different slaving ports on the coasts of Africa, he infers that the negroes exported thence amount annually to not less than 215,000. They are purchased with fire-arms and am munition, furnished in part from the United States, but chiefly with goods manufactured for the purpose in Lancashire and Glasgow, and he has ascertained that the goods manufactured in the former district, exclusive of those manufactured in Scotland, in the year 1836, and shipped to Brazil, Cuba, the United States, and elsewhere, intended for and adapted only to the slave trade, was ade quate to purchase 187,500 slaves. A strange coincidence certainly—factory children employed in making articles for the capture of slaves 7 . But even that amount is small, compared with the gross numbers that fall victims of the slave trade. The mortality that is caused by the mode of capture, by the detention on the coast, the middle psssage, and the seasoning after landing, Mr. Buxton calcu lates at 145 per cent., thus making the number of victims to the Christian slave trade amount an nually to 375,000, and including those carried off to supply the slave trade in Egypt, the Red Sea, ' and the Persian Gulf, to about 475,000, or nearly half a million annually. The sufferings of these unhappy beings during the middle passage are but too well authenticated,and after the appalling speech of Lord Brougham last Se3sion, must be familiar to most of our readers; but even the horrors of the voyage appear to be supassed by the scenes that occur in the capture and during the detention of the vic tims at the slave trading ports. We give the fol lowing account furnished to Mr. Buxton, by Cap tain Cook, of the treatment which they receive at 'tire hands'' - of a Christian, a public functionary of the Queen of Portugal : " The fact, however, which I am now about to state oc curred in August 1837, and came under my own obser vation, and to all of which I am ready to bear testi mony on oath, if required. Slaves to the number of 250, or thereabouts, male and female, adults and chil dren, were brought in canoes from Senna, a Portuguese settlement at some distance in the interior of Africa, to be sold at Quilimane, there being at that time several slavers lying in the river. These unfortunate beings were consigned to a person holding a high civil appoint ment under the Portuguese Government (the Collector of Customs). These poor creatures were from a part of the country, where it is said the natives make bad slaves ; consequently, and as there was abundance of I human flesh in the market, they did not meet with a ready sale. The wretch to whom they were consigned, ac tually refused them sustenance of any kind. Often have I been compelled to witness the melancholy spectacle of from twelve to twenty of my fellow -creatures, without distinction of age or sex, chained together with a heavy chain round their necks, wandering about the town in quest of food to satisfy the cravings of nature, picking up bones and garbage of every description from the dung heaps, snails from the fields, and frogs from the ditches ; and, when the tide receded, collecting the shell fish that were left on the banks of the river, or sitting round a fire roasting and eagerly devouring the sea-weed. Again and again have I seen one or more of these poor creatures, when unable from sickness to walk, crawling on their hands and knees, accompanying the gang to ' which they were chained when they went in search of daily food, for one could not move without the whole. In consequence of this treatment, they soon became so emaciated, that the slave dealers would not purchase them on any terms. In this state, horrid as it may ap pear, the greater part were left to perish without food, medicine, or clothing." And he states in another part that in the colony of Mosambique, belonging to her Most Faithful Majesty, slaves are not unfrcquently buried alive for trifling offences. Mr. Buxton evidently despairs of any effective and immediate remedy. " I must declare my con viction," says he, " that the trade will never be suppressed by the system hitherto pursued. You will be defeated by its enormous gains (180 per cent.), you may throw impediments in the way of these miscreants —you may augment their peril, you may reduce their profits, but enough, and more than enough, will remain to baffle all your humane efforts." Russia has no interest in this abominable traffic, and would probably agree to any general plan adopted by Great Britain, France, and the United States. On these three naval and commercial states, therefore, the most free and civilised of the world, be all the blame. Could they unite for once in the cause of humanity, make the crime a capital felony, hang up every captain of a slaver as a pirate, and hand over the crew to the tender mercies of the Portuguese Collector of Customs at Mosambique, we should soon ceaseto hear of the Slave Trade. The Duke of Sutherland, it is expected, will be the new Lord Lieutenant of Shopshire, in the stead of the [ate Earl of Powis. T H E QUEEN."—This splendid new three• decker, 3,099 tons burthen, which has been building- 30 years, was christened by a niece of Sir Robert Seppings, who constructed her. The following are the dimensions of the Queen ft. in. Length on the gun deck 204 0 Ditto of keel for tonnage Breadth extreme .. 60 0 Ditto for tonnage Depth in hold Burthen in tons... ....No. 3,099 Extreme length aloft ). Forward 56 4 Extreme height Midships 5O S Abaft Launching draft of water—Forward Abaft Height from deck to deck—Gundeck 7 3 Middle Mainc'e •k , 7 0 . This, except on the main -deck, gives less than six feet under the beams. She is the largest and finest ship in the Navy. A FACT.—A worthy individual residing not fifty miles from Bunker's Hill, Bradford, lately erected a domicile for his ass. All went on well, and the building was completed—covered in and all that. Rejoicing over his work, a passer by asked, " How d'ye get into it ?' He then dis:overed, to his amazement, there was no door vray.-127alifax Guardian PRICE sd. MR. HUME AND HIS KILKENNY CONSTITUENTS. Bryanston-square, May 18, 1839. Sir—lt is certainly one of the most painful events of ray political life, to be under the necessity of differing widely with men I so much respect as my Kilkenny constituents, for whom, in return for their conduct to wards me at the last election, I feel so much gratitude and esteem. I was proud of the confidence reposed in me by the electors of Kilkenny, when, without any communication whatsoever between us, they chose toe for their repre sentative ; committing to my care their interests, and, as far as an individual can sustain them, the interests of the whole empire. The charge was confided to me UNCONDITIONALLY (had it been offered to me coupled by any restriction or reservation, I should have declined it) : I therefore considered that it was to be executed according to my judgment, upon my own sole responsibility. I have, more than once, even early in my Parliamen tary career, been placed in the unpleasant position of opposing the wishes of my constituents ; but I have ever maintained and exercised my right, I will also say fulfilled my duty, of determining for myself in every case. My speeches and votes in favour of the reduc tion of the Protestant Church Establishment of Ire land, of Catholic Emancipation, and of religious freedom generally, were as inimical to the views and opinion of many of my Scots constituents as was my late ote on the Jamaica Bill to those of the electors I am now, through you, addreEsing. I withstood much exhortation and entreaty, and per sisted in exercising my own judgment. I have perse vered, up to this hour, in advocating equal justice to all parts of the empire, and equal rights to all subjects, of whatever sect ; and I look back with pleasure upon the share I have had in promoting and advancing these important objects. I was entitled to assume that the constituency, who, of their own free will (and even against the recom mendation of one whom Ireland designates as her Libe rator), chose me for their representative, did so upon their knowledge of the prominent circumstances of my past political life ; that they wera acquainted with, and approved of, my conduct in Parliament ; and I con cluded that, in pursuing the same independent course, I should acquit myself of my obligation to them. The resolutions, however, which my constituents have forwarded to me, set forth views and opinions so widely different from those I entertain of the position and du ties of a Representative, that I cannot but regret our not having had a better understanding of each other's sentiments on these matters before we were placed in our present relative situations. I concur in thn opinion expressed in the first. re solution, "That a Parliamentary representative should be the organ for carrying the sentiments of his con stituents before the Legislative Assembly ;" for this is the only constitutional mode by which the mass of the community can make known their wants and wishes to the Legislature ; but I dissent entirely from the doc trines laid down in the second resolution. It affirms " That when a representative differs in opinion with his constituents, and measures of national consequence are involved in that difference, the repre sentative may conscientiously differ with his constitu ency ; but if they declare their opinion to him before he votes, if he cannot vote as the representative of their opinions, he has no right to vote at all. In fine, that, being sent to Parliament as a unit to represent the many, the moment he votes in opposition to his constituency his representative office ceases." The citizens of Kilkenny cite no authority for the stronc , opinion herein expressed : I might, therefore, merely reply, that I consider a representative in such circumstances not only justified in voting, but bound to vote according to his own j u d gmen t, th oug h i t s h ou ld unfortunately be contrary to that of his constituents ; and here the matter might rest—my opinion against yours. But this is not the respectful course I wish to pursue towards men, who, however we may differ on this subject, have acted a generous part towards me. I shall, therefore, proceed to quote two authors of great eminence in support of my opinions. Black stone,* no mean authority on constitutional doctrines, says, " Every Member, though chosen by one particular district, when elected and returned serves for the whole realm. For the end of his corning thither is not particular, but general ; not barely to advantage his constituents, but the commonwealth." Hence it ap pears that each Member represents the common wealth, and consequently must not, to please any por tion of it, shrink from his duty to the whole. Blackstone adds, " And therefore he is not bound, like a deputy in the United Provinces, to consult with, or take the advice of his constituents upon any particular point, unless he himself thinks it proper or prudent to jdo so." It will be admitted that I have always shown a disposition to bear and consult the wishes of my con stituents. In the late instance I spent several hours in conference with the gentlemen deputed to convey their opinions to me, hearing all they had to urge, and ex plaining fully my own reasons for differing from them : and could they, by any new argument or information, have placed the question in a different light to that in which I had till then viewed it, I was still open to con viction, and would undoubtedly have altered my line of conduct with my altered views. I will now give you another high constitutional autho rity for my version of our mutual relation. " Cer tainly t (says Burke in his celebrated speech to the electors of Bristol), it ought to be the happiness and glory ofa representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved commu nication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; theirbusiness unremitted attention. It is hisduty to sacri fice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions to theirs; and above all, ever and in all cases, to prefer their interests to his own. But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does nil., derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law and the Constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your ;epresentative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. " MY worthy colleague says, his will ought to be sub servient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But go vernment and legislation are matters of reason and judg ment, and not of inclination : and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discus sion ; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion arc perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear tlie arguments? " To declare an opinion is the right of all men ; that of constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion, which a representative ought always to rejoice to hear, and which he ought always most seriously to consider. But authoritative instructions, mandates issued, which the Member is bound 'blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience—these are things utterly unknown to the laws of the land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our Constitution. " Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain as an agent, and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a Member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a Member of Bristol, but a Member of Parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form an hasty opinion, evidently opposite to the real good of the rest of the community, the Member for that place ought to be at far as any other from any endeavour to give it effect." _ These words express better than I could my notions of the limits of the duty of a representative to his elec tors; and I am not sorry that circumstances have re .quired me thus formally to explain therm It is not for the constituency of Kilkenny alone that I now publish them, but that there may henceforth be no mistake : and that should any body of electors, in future, think fit to require my humble services, they may know the terms on which they will be rendered. It has always been my wish to give to electors an tifll• cient co:;troul over their representatives, which is best done by enabling the former to recisc their c h o i ce fre quently ; and 1 earnestly wish those Ministers, whom m y c onstituents are so anxious to uphold, would concur in the desire of sincere Reformers fora return to Triennial Parliaments. 1 will support them on this, and on every other measure calculated to give the peo ple their just share in the government of the country. But in all tyrannical attempts to destroy constitutional rights, at home or abroad, I candidly tell you I will oppose them as long as I have a seat in Parliament. I do not here enter into details of the merits of the Jamaica question, because your. resolutions do not rest upon them, and because I explained my opipions fully to Messrs. Cormack and Laffan, who have doubtless reported them to you. But I refer you to Mr. Smith O'Brien's excellent letter to the electors of the county of Limerick for a clear and short statement of the facts of the case. I The citizens of Kilkenny, while they censure, have yet forborn e t o reproach me ; they have given me credit i for acting up on conscientious nictiliCS: I cannot in my turn but honour , who, under circumstances of great rritat:on, preserve so•much fairness and moderation. I am still proud to be the representativ e of Kilkenny, and I do stilt hope and believe that, under cur pre.sout im proved understanding, we may complete the term of car Parliamentary connection in mutual esteem and regard. And now, Sir, with every sentiment of respect to wards my constituents and you, I remain your obedient, humble servant, JOSEPH HUME. I must request my Kilkenny friends will excuse my publishing, together with this, my two former letters, though then marked private. I think them necessary to show that there was no neglect nor discourtesy on my part towards my worthy constituents. John Kilrey, Esq., Chairman of the Citizens' Club, Kilkenny. (Copy.)—No. 2. Bryanston-square, May 6, 1839. My dear Sir—l have delayed an answer to your kind letter of the 29th April, in the hopes that something might occur to allow me to meet the wishes of my con stituents in some manner ; but, to this time, no case has been made out, and I fear cannot be made. I would do anything but violate my honour as a public man ; and I shall to-morrow address the Citizens' Ciub, from which the resolutions have emanated. I mean to act towards Jamaica as I acted towards Ireland against the Coercion Act, and to Canada against the Suspension Act. The example of those and their results do not hold out encouragement to support the Jamaica Suspension Act. It is to be deplored that so little attention is paid to truth in the details on this subject ; but they will out in ti m e. With great regret that I cannot meet your kind suggestions, believe me your's, sincerely, (Signed) JOSEPH HUl.llk. To Richard Sullivan, Esq., Kilkenny (Copy.)—No. 3. Bryanston-square, May 6, 1889. Dear Sir,—l have received yonr kind letters, and only delayed an answer until I should he more com pletely master of the subject which interests you all so warmly in Kilkenny. You have long suffered under oppressive legislatiem, and are able to judge of the feelings, and to have res pect for the sufferings of others, under unjust laws ; and I, therefore, can appeal to you on this oceasioa for a). fair consideration, and for a just decision. I shall to-morrow state my views on the subject ; and it would indeed afford me pleasure if I saw the most distant prospect of my being able to support what ap pears to me to be the most tyrannical measure ever, in my time, introduced into Parliament. The Ministers have gone out of their way to do mischief, and to prevent the fair operation of that great and benevolent act of emancipatio n ; and, under the guidance and influence of a few zealous and well-inten tioned men, have made a Ministerial and party question of what never ought to have been so considered. Until to-morrow, I remain, Sz e , (Signed) JOSEPH HUME. To K. T. Buggy, Esq., Kilkenny. * Commentaries, vol. i., book i., chap. ii., p. 189. t I quote this passage from Mr. Samuel Bailey's valua ble work, entitled " The Rationale of Politißepresen tation,” page 130 (a work too little known at yet to repre. sentative or electors), in ;he general view of which I heartily concur. I shall forward a copy of it to the library of the Citizens' Club, hoping that many of my constituents may be induced to read and consider impartially the opinions there so ably expressed. PUBLICATIONS. NOW ready, foolscap. ALETTER TO LORD LANSDOWNE on the. GOVERNMENT PLAN of NATIONAL EDUCATION. By ROBERT ISAAC WILBERFORCE, Vicar of East Farleigh, late Fellow of Oriel College. John Murray, Albemarle-street. Ali., Just published, price 6s. boards, Volume the THIRD of GERALDINE ;;A TALE OF CONSCIENCE. By E. C. A. London : Charles Dolman, 61, New Bond-street. Also, lately published, price 124. The SECOND EDITION of VOLUMES I. and 11. ARCTIC DISCOVERY. FROM THE INVERNESS COURIER.) We have been favoured with the following private letter, addressed by Mr. Thomas Simpson, one of the leaders of the expedition for the discovery of the North- West passage, to a friend in this neighbourhood. Our distinguished young countryman writes in high spirits, and with that enthusiasm and devotion to his cause, without which no great enterprise was ever accom plished : _ _ _ " Fort Confidence, 19th December, 1838. " Our old enemy the ice has stepped cruelly in between us and the fulfilment of our hopes. I had a party of five men and two Indians on foot, and set out from this place on the 7th of June. We successfully crossed the height of land with our boats, a portion of our undertaking long deemed particularly difficult and doubtful. But my re peated and fatiguing journeys of last winter had so tho roughly explored every route, that we were quite pre pared for each obstacle that occurred. On the 30th we reached the Coppermine, and found it still fast ! It gave way a few days afterwards, and we descended all its terrific rapids, then swollen to their utmost height, along with the driving ice ; grand, but perilous running. I assure you. Often had we to pull for life or death, to avoid the suction of the precipitous cliffs, along whose base the waters raged with overwhelm ing fury. The descent of Escape Rapid was the finest thing of the kind I ever witnessed. Below, the breakers make a clean breach over our little vessels ; white above we were involved in a cloud of spray that dashed from an overhanging rock a hund re d and fifty feet in height, and for me d a magnificent rainbow around us in the bright sunshine. It was a gorgeous shower-bath, however, that few would relish. On the Ist of July we encamped at the Northern Sea, which still glis tened with ice as firm and impenetrable as adamant. It kept us imprisoned in the mouth of the Coppermine till the 17th ; and our subsequent progress to Frank lin's Point Turnagain (which was attained on the 9th of August) was one incessant struggle with the same re lentless fee, in which our poor boats got several planks more than half cut through. At Point Turnagain ehey were finally arrested and. remained beset for 22 days ; so different was the season of 1838 from that of.lB l / 4 , when Franklin found a perfectly clear sea on the 16th •of August. The mild weather we experienced in July, though ve r y agreea bl e at t h e t i me, was, in fact, our bane ; the gales which then would have cleared the ocean for us, reserved themselves till the following month, read brought down the ice from far and near upon the very part of the coast where we were so unfor tunately confined. It was during ten days of that tedious interval (from the 20th to the 29th August), that I per formed the pedestrian journey to the eastward ; its re sults are the tracing of 100 miles of the coast, the sav ing of thirty miles further, the discovery of an exten sive snow covered land to the north (distant about thirty miles from the main), which I have had the honour of' naming " Victoria Land," besides many islands, and of an open sea to the eastward. At my furthest point we erected a lofty stone pillar, with a letter for the information of " whoever might find it." The march altogether was a most fatiguing one, and the weather on our return to the boats very inclement. Five days carried us to the " Bloody Fall" of Hearne as it is celled ; five more up the Coppermine to our boat deposit ; and in a third space of five days we crossed the mountains on foot to this place, where we found every thing in good order on the 14th inst. Some dry venison was stored up dining our absence. We have now two dozen of nets set in the lake, and want no longer stares us in the face, as it did for several months after our arrival here last year. Luxuries we have none, our only beverage being an infusion of the artic tea plant (a rather bitter but wholesome herb), without sugar. " My hopes of final success, instead of being de pressed are elevated by the check this year received, and the knowledge thus painfully acquired. The existence of an open sea to the eastward is no more doubtful, and should the main shore be again encircled by ice in Au gust, the southern coast of the great northern land be fore alluded to, will afford an earlier passage into that eastern sea. Besides, I now regard September as the best month of the year for artic navigation, and krona the mouth of the Coppermine to this place is merely a hop, step, and a jump ; an eight day's journey on foul. I traversed that ground over and over last winter, and again this autumn. By the way, that is the country for princely hunting ; not a day but I had several chase after the rein-deer. A full grown buck, with his tower ing antlers is a noble animal ; in fact I now despise all meaner game. I have three tamed white wolves, too, of my own taking." - On the occasion of the Queen's recent visit to Gloucester Howe, her Majesty's attention was devoted for a considerable time to a particular painting representing hsr Royal relative, the Duchess of Gloucester, when en infant of fifteen months old, fondling a little shock dog. It7was executed by command of her Majesty's venerated grandfather, George 111., by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and, in addition to its merit as a portrait, is considered to be an extraordinary production, with reference to the animated style in which the little favourite pct dog is represented. Her Majesty. we understand, expressed her wzrutest.ad m:ration of this picture. THE SEASON.—We hare a very indifrocent accotint to give cf the state of vegetation in the neighbour. hood. On Tuesday morning, the 14th of May I the hAlls around were cow.red with snow, and the night of Tuesdav ani morning e WeJnesday were accompanied by sech intense frost as to hive done irreparable and extensive in jury to a great variety of table vegetables and flowers—tlie potatoes, kidney beans, peas, &c., have suffered, wee feu, irretrievably ; the fruit blossom has also sustainer' extensive injury ; dahlias and other flowers that have been planted out have also been killed in immense numbers.—Z a th Herald. The Orangemen of Norwich we see arc so sadly. mortified at the discomfiture of their pet Peel, that they met together on Tuesday, and after a great deal of vapour ing, manufactured, at the Maid's Ileadllnn, an addrtas to the Queen 1 Tt:e address of the Purple and' Orange Conservative Club ! LONGEVITY.—Peter Martyn, sexton of liel. I his wife, number between them ton, Cornwall, and h w ; I l i : years. Each enjoys good health. FAIR ROSAMOND.—Those who recollect Mr. - will new one, of Miller's romance of " Royston Gower," (Hight that he is on the point of publishisngl3l.l, a similar description, on the charming lea of " Asir Rosamond." We venture to say that there u romance writer, and a subject oore happily chosen by t h e r bas never boon we doubt if any one among our lining writers, possesses higher qualifications for the treatment of it, than t he author • of " Royston Gower ;"certainly there is no ono among: tha followers of Scott, who has eau that great writer' s spirit, both as regards conception i f a caught so large a sh a re tte execution, iniiasrtyanccla instance imt shaen on popular d resultthe re w illcanfur..abvbeo a fiction, ePo ct doubt that, in the pr ts• a i ction, possessing eXtrAGE :di- .....trelms It On the 28th instant will be published, in 3 Vols. post Bvo. NA N DARR E L L; or, THE GIPSY MOTHER, a Novel. 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