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I I . i / ,••• - • • .• • • . doz, x O 2 _ A lf • • • • A , • tOt.'" N 43 • ..tra idg , vv.* . • A illoOk r 444oZ` Ar.. 11 , k• • JAlick, • jr"V;sii • • - - r - I •c. , - l- 4:••_ - • - , , , r . " 1 1 ,1 • - • 4 F t - ''. RO I. , • s• - • LETtERS of CREDIT on INDIA.—The b UNION BANK of LONDON, as Agents for the Oriental 'k, are auth or i sed to ISSUE LETTERS of CREDIT for any r_„neYa paid to th em, to b e re-pa i d i n rupees at t h e curren t ra t e o f • r_ c _nange on th e d ay of presentation at the off i ces of t h e O r i en t a l A nk , in Bombay, Calcutta, and Colombo. Similar Letters of Credit flaY be obtained at any of the branches of the National Bank of oCutland, and of the Provincial Bank of Ireland. By Order of the Directors, W. W. SCRIMGEOUR, Manager. * Union of London, No. 2, Princes-street, Mansion He er apolof C. N sr j the vie NI Baronet Oft the Chair P r ing EAGV" .;C• _CO:run'.b the Ffl h for 10°11v; iu o re A , 13Q`'. or L ic l ° o 4 oolouro,:ver as i t OP cowl ° c e, cosfid es t their es i .. s r it are i t io e e t he w ithout crated t bl h m" ta 4 T bsy Eta . i t ,. to tia• ersevs b reir a'.: d d , tea • c eiev s r! !nil. t o &toyer „Ai so d D mi „ c ul l estractaf, Fob': t ) rdcr in , actli . to e xe c (si e ? digife itoot).o b 1 ... Abercoril, >ath, the n-squ'r e ' ady o f T• ster, t° «i ll ia Rev, ) ace, an n• Giffo rd ' :barn s° tonshirth AP ° ougbt°l3 unes F . daligu ,..--- t ged be late Vi r • IV V, EA . 'Brilef a10g,6 6 t escent , 7,faris red 6 1 ,ghtel RAILW A Y LITIGATION. s At a meeting of pe rs o n s, h e ld the 17th day of December, at O. 25, Thro,gmort on-street, London, to consider the objects mated In an advertisement recently published, and which was read NI follows : " AILWAY LITIGATION. 0 ,. %%•lit a Preliminary R meeting of persons interested, held the 2d day 4 :"oceniber, 1845, .„ _lt was resolved,—That proceedings at law having been threatened ;;,_Tarious railway matters, it is very desirable that, with a view to ems obviously arrangement of just demands, and the resistance of ,„7,4_ , .1 obviously made under the impression that the dread of Ynotis law charges will induce compliance, as also to ascertain the Warms liabilities of committee-men, shareholders, and applicants for ; and further to elicit the actual circumstances of various i h 7^_aY projects ( ma tt ers f ar t oo we i g hty an d important for indivi- ZM r esPensibillty), a confidential meeting be speedily convened of ^me% who are interested in these objects." WILLIAM COLLINS, Esq., 31. P., in the Chair. peen names of n umerous p ersons d es i r o u s of co-operating having 'vett, given in— tw_a_s _unimously resolved,—That with a view to the accomplish mentiieothe forego•ng purposes, a Society be nosy formed, to be called toßailway Mutual Protection Society." hat the rules and regulations for the support and government of 4 k, s 7v,mtY now read, be approved and 'adopted. Ss...".n.it was ordered that the same be printed for distribution, and • i o ll ei s •31_essrs. Amory, Sewell, and Moores, of Throgrnorton-street, the Ilsou„.,_` °2l of the Society, be authorised to furnish copies thereof to s".its ; and that Persons proposing to become members of the Society, are re li,;neo to send their names and addresses to the solicitors. .'"a the motion of Sir WILLIAM LOWTHORP, it was unanimously resolved-- It..T.eth t Daniel Whittle Harvey, Esq., be appointed President of the "..t l b , and that the thanks, of the country are due to him for hay -7,,rginated this important undertaking. ' &te the thanks of this meeting be given to William Collins. Esq., a for his attendance, and for the able manner in which he has 3IAIICUSI TRAVERS, Secretary pro tern.. RAILWAY MUTUAL rIiOI'EUII.O.N - S.O lE'TY. Sti e , m , soclety is a voluntary association of persons interested in the Is t - ,;:a i nd judicious administration of railways ;. and especially for 114biliti lg the present state of the law as affecting the rights and Th .,eB of those connected with railways and railway projects. • in the undefined state of the law touching the various rela • 114,:a Which persons connected with railways find themselves bitZ , great inducements are offered to the r. sistance of just de , Ilsi o Z i trd to the enforcement of 'groundless claims ; in either case If very serious expenses, amounting in the one to the denial and in the other to the it Merlon of positive wrong. fo to . obvious that Individuals having to enforce their rights against, h ttki rosist unwarrantable claims by bodies corporate in their elm -41%4 and having in their hands large funds, will do so at a serious , § l it ititage, without an arrangement for co-operation and mutual „ e, and the aid of a subscribed fund. It is therefore agreed ‘ 4 ,417 41 0cl shall be provided by subscription, and that the tbLowing 111144 d regulations shall be binding upon the rnenwers of the %Al a Committeeoaf seven persons, including the President, to he Ittl et t he Council, shall be appointed to conduct the business of the t a president shall he appointed, whose sanction, with two of • is smn U-ell, shall be necessary to alt decisions touching the institution t ut saee of proceedings at law or in equity. 11 001 t the Council shall consider the case of any member of the lay Which may be brought before them, and shall advise whether N 0,, e4l l What proceedings ;hall be taken, either at law, in equity, or ' vet, Be, fur the protection or assertion of th rights of such mein . 4 MT:that all such proceedings as may be suggested by the Council th a , submitted to the solicitors of the Society. t, for th e gu id ance o f t h e C unt il, and for the satisfaction of • Oateetobers of the Society, the opinions of seval counsel at the ko it t y and common law bars shall be taken upon the varioas and q h„ D Nninent questions which may affect the rights and liabilities keain. Ong and allottees of shares, as well as the Lirectors, g nn g and Provisional Committeemen, of and railfvay tal t' ih -e names of persons seeking to become members of the So ' her 4 % l l be submitted to the Council, who shall have the absolute Ti l ; t o f admission. teer b b: au annual subscription of Two Guineas shall he paid by each aOQr of the Society, on or before the let of January in each year, nqlDors° shall be deemed a member until such subscription k`atit • zie i v - members who shall not renew their subscriptions on or before :(04 .. .., da Y of January, 1847, and so on from time to time, on or ole ed Y succeeding Ist of January, shall cease to be members of anY subscriber who may desire to confide his owu case to the op t . of the Society, may do so in strict confidence, and if his case ' kq l Which the Council deem to be within the scope of the Society, • LI th,7ell have the option of requiring his interests to be censidered `4l a. °ll citors of the Comoany upon the payment to the funds of eti society such further sum ' of money as may appear to the Colin . 44p r oPriate and reasonable, or of placing the business in other N t upon his own responsibility. 11b s°, neel all subscribers shall be entitled to the benefit of the opinions of Propo , ed to be taken for the guidance of the Council, and 01b,t Daniel`e advice of the counsel and of the solicitors. ,"°1e, 0 4 Whittle Harvey, Esq., be appointed the President of 4 , ory it : 111' • Davis, Esq be appointed the Treasurer, and Messrs. andMoores the w solicitors of the Socles iety. seta t he Council shall hi:ye poer to make ru tor the manage .lo th.".• the business of the Society, pro ideal they are not repugnant .„, t elte: t a i l l 'ove rules And that no subscriber shall be liable for any ..741.'cok ar ges, and expenses whatever beyond his subscription, and gillet ii "ter expenses as shall have been provided fur by his engage ss-,.__N__vith the Council J. F. BELL, Secretary. qs_ BEAT WESTERN RAILWAY. CHRISTMAS. 1 4 11 4 7 ee n is hereby given, that the usual Return Tickets, at a Reduc - AL, his line,e-third of the reckoning Far Christmas-dayes, will be allowed to Sunday. AU the passengers travel , Tr ains Will, however, run on that day. By order of the Directors, C. A. h'AUNDERS, Secretary, t i rltE..kT MAINCI - IEbTER, RUGBY, A:ND WITH DIR SOUTIIA3IPTON RAILWAY, it4 l? - 3. 1- 7 1 T E LINE FROM M DERBY TO RUGBY. ilti t i tt L , GENERAL ME x E.'l ll ` .kt l akLe-b o u f il t d i i , n e g s , London, Dec. 19, 1845. s'IIAREHOLDERS in this held at the offices of the Company, on A ednesday, the Ini , tflecember instant, it was unanimously resolved —. :That an trtferernent be inserted in the daily papers , to the effect that all Si t o Whom Shares in the Great Manchester, Rugby, and South -4.14.C, Railway have been allotted upon their application, and who 1 4 IN: S t Paid their deposits or any portion thereof, that if the sum vik 0 Shillings per Share upon the number allotted to them, be not ..,.. S nar before SATURDAY, the 3d day of January next ,their names resses shall be published as defaulters in th rundertaking, as ti _ l4 eki l th a view of operating as a warning to future companies, as ZO t o `! l :vouring to obtain justice for this . Company ;" the said resolu mn,..e_ accompanied by an intimation that on payment of Two .I t posir,Per Share, either at the offices of eel Company, or on the Z t a tt li iier ul the bankers' receipt for the same, th etters of application retarned to the allottees, and they shall be released lima all liability. By order of the Committee of Management, HORATIO CARTER, Assistant Secretary. --- 4 STERN COUNTIES RAILWAY k ttel lsi COMPANY. ° l lB from CAMBRIDGE to YORK, and from TOTTEN -2.1 t i DAM to F.A.RRINGDON-STREET. L tl4 l: l 4 e I , hereby given, that in accordance with the resolutions 1 4 „" ,1 Y passed at a special general meeting of the Company, 'Pura Thursday, Oct. 30, 1845, every - person whose name shall qa a 8 a Registered Shareholder of the Company on the 4 th of B tist,; l7 , next, will receive a Letter of Allotment ibr York Extension nak t 7, , n the proportion of three such Extension Shares for every Wit m •gares of 41. 16s. of which he is the proprietor, in the consoli li R ock of the Company. /4 11, t11(2 'Iders of Scrip Certificates for the New Shares of 141. 16s. ;44,74 cititied to Extension Shares in the same proportion , , ertificates must be sent to the offices of the Company for en ~ejnlater than the 31st instant, accompanied by a letter , 4 1 Leh holder of the subjoined form : t he Secretary of the Eastern Counties Railway Company. December, 1845. Zev r - "C k derewith I forward to you Scrip Certificates for No t s ' i ma res of 141. 16s. each in the Eastern Counties Ra i lway , in 9, ts k b; Of whieh I desire to obtain a Letter of Allotment for sly Nit tt r i Proportion of Shares of 201. each in the York Extension Name in full .• •••••••• • • • • • • •• Usual Signature.. • • •• •• . • • • • • • De,cription .... • ... tlZllPlace of Abode ••..• . • • ••• • •• f orm must, in every case, be filled up In the handwriting of 4 14,1 leant. S 4 r eceipt of the Scrip Certificates will he immediately acknow nth 'and they will be subsequently returned endorsed, together ; Letter of Allotment for the number of Extension Shares to th• applicant is entitled GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman. Ey order, ARCHIBALD BULKELEY, Secretary. emcee, Shoredßch, Dec. 17, 1845. r 4 III3RIDGE and LINCOLN RAILWAY. %1 Me Provisional Committee beg to acquaint their Share ,taltivete that the arrangements for extending the line of the Eastern • ' L I Company from Cambridge to York, with Branches to Spat- T h . oaton, Stamford, and aleaford, hare been completed. Olt capital of the proposed extension has been so adjusted, that holder of each Original and each Extension Share in the Cam tbe Lincoln Company will be entitled to one Share of 201. in a ,l e k of the Eastern Counties York Extension. t Scripholdor will be required to forward to the Secretary of aDpit'"Vany ' not later than SATURDAY, the 3d of January next , an h.— c ation in the subjoined form, and to inclose therewith the Scrip h eld by him Lek b e receipt of all Shares sent for registry and exchange will be N:rledged by return of post ; and not later than seven days atter tityi 1 , a Letter 'of Allotment tor the same number of Eastern Conn , tih ° rk Extension Shares will be Mrwarded to the Scripholder. 14,, r ehrokers and Agents will understand that Cambridge and ,kti ti V o M Scrip cannot be exchanged for Letters of Allotment in the ▪ ki r n Counties York Extension, unless the Form of Application ' 4l 4 1) and signed by the parties for whom they transmit them. HENRY BARNETT, Chairman. By order, C. P. RONEY, Secretary. 30, ~Great Winchester-street, Dec. 18, 1848. 40 the Provisional Committee of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway. -, 184 • Ger uri -. ‘ 4 eMen,—llerewith I forward to you Scrip for In glnal and Extension Shares in the above Company lobiTP e ct of which I request you to obtain for me a Letter of Al 4 in ett to r Eastern Counties York Extension Share , th itt g, hi the proportion of one Share in tat Company for each Share l lold in the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway. Name in full .. •• • • ••• • • • Usual Signature.. Description ... f Place of Abode • • •••• • • • • Ippu„ orM must, in every case, be filled up in the handwriting of the 4 0 NES's DEMULCENT COUGII LO- Afth the best remedy ever discovered. Persons afflicted gis u .cough, asthma, difficulty of breathing, consumption, or other le l „.7ca or d erangemen t o f t h e r espiratory organs, will experience 4 0N e t ti , 1 .'tte relief, and derive permanent benefit, by the use of Clo DEMULCENT COUGH LOZENGES, which are so eflica le t) a ' n uuthat they will cut short the most violent paroxysm of mixt kl'a are so agreeable to the palate that they may be eaten to c onfectio n . ld g kt by the proprietor, Peter Jones, operative chemist, 11, Norton -211. utt, H ishopsgate-street, London, in boxes Is. 1 and in tins at lint v _ e ach, duty included ; and by most chemists and patent medl— endors in town and country. ~ N D A' 3l THE PATRONAGE OF MANY OF THE NotiILICY. LLEN'S COMPOUND ANTIBILIOUS keni,_PiLLS, prepared by Thomas Allen, late of Mile-end-road, of ;1 1 . °11 * of the it. •yal College of Surgeons, London, and Licentiate A Pothecaries' Company, and a pupil of the late eccentric and eip..rated John Abernethy, Esq., F.R S. ; twenty-two years a prin. tril i o llrgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. During a practica l r t ,, e4 twenty years, these Pills have been found an invaluab le der an P i n cases of indigestion, liver, and bilious complaints. For gements of the digestive which occasions more or less the fol stekii"g eYmptoms, v i z ., h eart b urn , giddiness, acidity, headache, bowels 11 Pa-sins, and flatulent distentions of the stomach and drowsiness and dimness of sight, an uncomfortable sensa- Nil experienced at t he pit of the stomach soon after sating, with a eui t n f " a weight of oppression appetite impaired, breathing difil tinu,e enderness about the region , of the liver, bowels irregular, some ' obstinately costive with languor and depression of spirits. [Sold b y In boxes a Arr. Ale n , jun., ChemLst, 24, Grafton street, Fitzroy-square, siZtoL T'Y and Son s , Ed war d s, Dietrichsen, and Hannay, Sanger, 911tlraTZ°., London; and the principal medi c ine ven d er s through . AStut tic Wheat, Mt. Mtn, Dania% No. 16,645. LONDON, SATURDAY 0 SUN, DECEMBER 1845, PRICE SD. ROYAL I'OL I".rEt;HN iN 711.1TUT1.02, A Lecture on the PREVALENT DISEASE in POTATOES, and the Means of extracting the Starch as an Article,of Food, will be delivered by Dr. Ryan, daily, at Half-past Three, and on the Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at Nine. Professor Pachoffner's varied Lectures, with expyriments,, in one of which he clearly explains the principle of the ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, a model of which is at work Daily. Mr. Downe, the celebrated Flutist, will perf,;rm, at Three o'Clock, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. 2olcman's NEW AMERICAN LOCO MOTIVE ENGINE, for ri.3:entling and descending inclined Planes. A beantifnl series of DISSOLVING VIEWS. New OPTICAL IN STRU %JENTS, Sac. Experiments with the 'JIVER and DIVING BELL, &c &c, Admission, One Shilling. Schools, /Self-price. Ai R. CARTER'S MAMMOTH lIORSE. AL The colossal Horse, GENERAL WASHINGTON, the pro perty of Mr. Carter, the Lion King, has been visited by many thou sand persons, including the obility and gentry, and numerous ladies, who have declared that he is the most extraordinary horse in the world. The principal journals have spoken in the highest terms of this remarkable animal General Washington is the largest horse in the world- he is twenty hands in height, and weighs twenty-five hundred pounds. He will be exhibited by Mr. Carter for a short time, previous to his departure to America, at the Egyptian Mall, Piccadilly, from Eleven, a.m., till Nine, ?AL—Admission, Is. N ATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY. ROBERT WILCOXON, Esq., Chairman. The Directors, Members, and Friends of this Society will DINE together at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishopsgate-street Within, on TUESDAY, the 30th of Decemb,.r, 1845, at Five o'Clock precisely. Tickets, One Guinea. STEWARDS. Messrs. Midlane, H. Milledge, R. 0. Newbon, J. S. Reed, T, Ridley, A. Ridley, R. Roberts, T. Rumcey, W. S. Satchel!, T. H. Smith, W. IL" Starr, F. Stockdale, G. Stokes, J. Sutton, T. P. Tilt, W. Toleman, J. Watch, J. Williams. W. Wilson, C. Wood, F. G. Messrs. Aders, J. Bally, A. H. Barrett, J. Bligh, F. J. Brankston, T. Brooks, J. W. Carter, J. D. Child, 11. M. - Crampton, T. IL Crease, 0. Curley. J. R. Eng!efield, J. Evans, J. L. Godshall, Goodall, M. Hewitt, G. Hicks, M. liodgkinson, W. S. Jones, S. Loder, It. li'Culloch, W. Tickets may be had at the Lora at the Office, Arthur-street West, 1 ;don Tavern ; of the Stewards ; or London-bridge. NTATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR , ANC?' SOCIETY, 26. colonin,L, LON - Dahi. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This institution offers important arm suestantial advan Dive •vith respect both to Life A9SUrliTiCeB and Deferred Annuities. The ass fired has, on all occasions, the power to borr 3W, WitkUtlt ex pense Jr forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid, (see tahe); aleo the option of selecting benefits. and the conversion of hi i:Aerosts to meet other convatiences or necessity. Assurances for terns of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PitOFIT4. The sseeess and increasing prosperity of I,c. Soctei:y nes enables the erectors, at the last aoeual investigation, to declare a third Bonus, oaring torn :du to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on each . Policy etlected on the Profit scale. i . .l . C' l 4 Li P. .9 t. 4co ri), - „7 Bonus Benas in ''P 5 t ~., it-, to go Premium. - B - py : !... ; added. - Cash. it g g..64tt ck 1 „ 1 0: ; m o m 4 -----,----,-- -- 1837 X 1 1 51.87 13 5 1£1317 1 X 395 Il 1 1 -- 3 - 60 1000 74 3 4 1838 165 13 0 74 13 101 11 8 6 346 2 3 1839 138 13 6 61 14 3 9 210 296 13 4 1840 89 0 0 41 13 4) 6 0 I 247 4 T of protit4 is annual, and the nest will be made in 1)e. tens •er of the present year. F. FERGINON CAVROUX, T HE PROTESTANT DISSENTERS AND GENERAL LIFE AND Instituted R 7. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 3 Vie., c. 20. 62, KING WILLIAM-STREET, LONDON-BRIDGE, LONDON ; 21, ST. DAVID-STREET, EDINBURGH ; and 4, KING-STREET, QUT.EN-SQUARE, BRISTOL. Capital—One Million. TRUSTEES AND DIRECTORS. George Bousfield, Esq. Charles Ilindley, Esq., M.P. Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman Thomas Piper, Esq. Peter Mils, Esq. Thomas B. Simpson, Esq. Jacob G. Cope, Esq. Edward Smith, Esq. John Dixon, Esq. Mon. Charles P. Villiers, M.P. Joseph Fletcher, Esq. John Wilks, Esq. Richard bonier, Esq. Edward Wilson, Esq. On the return of the Christmas quarter, the Directors beg to re mind their friends and the public that, iu the Fire Department they receive risks of all descriptions, including Chapels, School-rooms, Mills, Goods, and Shipping in Docks, Farming Stock, &c.. at the same reduced rates as other respectable Companies, and make no charge on policies transferred from other Offices. In the Life Department they continue to transact all business re lating to Life Assurances, Annuities, and Family Endowments, upon the most liberal terms consistent with sound principles and public security. Loans also are granted on equitable terms to life assurers on life interests or satisfactory personal securities. To all agents and soli citors, auctioneers, and surveyors, liberal allowance will he made. By order of the Directors, THOMAS PRICE, Secretary. G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR ANCE COMPANY. No. 11, LOMBARD-STREET, at the Entrance of the Old Post office, London. DIRECTORS. JOHN LABOUCIIE RE, Esq., Chairman. JOHN DIXON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. George Lyall, Esq., M.P. John W. Buckle, Esq. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq., M.P. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. John Martin, Esq., M.P. Sir Walter It. Farquhar, Bart. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Thomson Hankey, jun., Esq. Robert Mitford, Esq. John Harvey-, Esq. James Morrl Esq. George Johnstone, Esq. Henry IL Reynolds, jun., Esq. John Loch, Esq. John Thornton, Esq. Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. AUDITORS. A. W. Robarts, Esq - Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. I Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq. ACTUARY—Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S. in the LIFE DEPARTMENT, a Bonus was declared in June 1829, exceeding one per cent. per annum on the sums insured, on an average of the different Ages ; and two subsequent divisions of nearly equal amounts were made up to Christmas 1835 and Christmas 1842. On an average of the three divisions the Reversionary Bonuses added to the several Policies at the end of every seven years amounted to about 27 per cent. on the total premiums paid thereon during those seven years, and the whole amount of Bonuses allotted at the three Septennial divisions exceeded 530,0001. Loans granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro vided such Policies all have been effected a sufficient time to have attained in each case a value not under 501. Is the FIRE DEPARTMENT, a Return of profit was declared on the 4th of June, upon the premiums received on all Policies which hail been in force seven years at Christmas 1844, and the same is now in course of payment daily (Friday and Saturday excepted), between the hours of ten and three o'clock, at the Head Office; and also by the Agents in the Country Districts. Notice is hereby given, that as , atranees which expire at Christmas must be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with Mr. Sams, 1, St. James's-street, corner of Pall-mall; or with the Company's agents throughout the kingdom, otherwise they becom void. GEORGE KEYS, e Sesretary. IMMENSE SALE OF LAMPS AT lIALF-PRICE. el ARK and COMPANY, 447, West Strand, J beg to announce that they intend mating extensive alterations in their establishment, awl, in consequence, are compelled to dispose of a large portioa of their immense and excellent stock of lamps. The stock consists of the New Light, Clark's Patent Camel Oil Lamp (the best oil lamp aver made), Solar Lamps, and all other oil lamps. Young's Vesta Spirit Lamp, the Gem Spirit Lamps, Oil and Candle Chandeliers, Candelabras, and Ormolu Candlesticks, and richly cut Lnstres ; Pahner's Magnum Candle Lamp., and every description of Pshner's and Clark's Candle Limps that can be required. In fact, teir immense variety providcs a choice for all, and gives all satisfac ana. The whole will be sold considerably under the usual charges. The reduction in prices continence Tuesday, 16th December, and will only continue one month, or perhaps less. Please write down Address, CLARK and Co., 447, WEST STRAND, the Immense Lamp Depot. RANDY AND CAPSULES.-Mr, BETTS (the late firm of J. T. BETTS% and CO.), Patent Brandy Distiller, 7, Smithfield Bars, feels it due to himself and the public to state, that the Manufacture of the PATENT BRANDT was not, and never has been knowa to any person except to himself and one of his sons. And that ho wits succeeded in the business of the Dis tillery, 7, Smithfield Mars, by his sons, J. T. BBTTS, jun., and CO., on his retiring therefrom, in 1843. Mr. BETTS further states, that ha is the sole Patentee, manufac turer, and ♦eadcrr of the Metallic Capsule, (or solid metal covering for the mouths of bottles), that no other Brandy in England, except BETTS'S PA [TNT BRANDY, is thereby protected; the Patent Metallic Capsule if, therefore, applied to any other Brandy, must have been surreptitiously obtained. 3fetallie Capsule Manufactury, 1, Wharf-road, City-road. BETTS'S PATENT BRAN DY,certified by the Faculty of England to be the purest spirit, and guaranteed by the Patent Metallic Capsules, embossed " Betts's Patent Brandy, 7, Smithfleld-bars," is sold at 3s. 6d., bottle included, by the most respectable dealers, lists of whom nagy be obtained at the Distillery, where quantities of not less titan two gallons, in bulk or bottles, are supplied. Address, 7, Smithileld-bars. FOIL STOPPING DECAYED TEETH Price 2 , . 6d. Patronised by her 3fajesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. R. 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At some dully till 2 ; Evenings, 7 till 9. OPENING OF THE ,PORTS. GREAT FREE-TRADE Dkm ItgIhaiTRATION IN HULL? (Abridged from the Hull Advertiser.) A meeting of the merchants, shipowners, traders, and ether inhabitants of the town of Hull, convened by the Mayor in pursuance of a requisition, to which was at tached the signatures of 136 of the most respectable and influential residents of the borough, was held at the Town-hall on Monday last, for the purpose of praying her Majesty to be pleased to order the ports to be thrown, open fer the importation of food. The meeting, which was most numerously and respectably attended, was pre sided over by John Gresham, Esq., the Mayor. The first resolution was proposed by Mr. Alderman THO3IPSON, and having been seconded by the Rev. J. H. BROMBY, Vicar of Hull, was unanimously adopted. It was to the effect that the meeting viewed with serious alarm the failure of the crops, and that it consequently became the duty of the Government to adopt every means for the prevention of the evil results likely to arise from it. Dr. GORDON moved a resolution to the effect that dearth and scarcity of food diminished employment, en gendered disease, and increased crime among the work ing classes, which was seconded by the Rev. M. SIBREE, and carried amidst loud cheers. The next resolution, advocating the opening of the ports by an Order in Council, to be followed by an Act of the Legislature permitting the free importation of human food, was moved by Mr. Alderman ATaxelsoN, and seconded by Mr. Councillor SessessoN, and carried with acclamation. Hexer BLUNDELL, Esq., moved that a loyal and dutiful address be presented to her Majesty, imploring her to permit the ports to be thrown open, and to cause the immediate assembling of Parliament, for the pur pose of abolishing ali restrictive duties on the imports time of food. The motion was seconded by J. JONES, Esq., the ex-Mayor, and carried nein. con. E. F. COLLINS, Esq. (Editor of the Hull Advertiser), proposed the adoption of the following memorial:— " TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " Most Gracious Sovereign, " We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the inhabitants of the borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, in public meeting assembled, viewing with serious alarm the state in which this country is placed by the general failure of the potato crop, which constitutes the prin cipal food of several millions of the working classes in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the proved deterioration of all descriptions of grain, and being apprehensive that the scarcity and dearness of all description of food produced in these islands will cause an imminent amount of suffering among the poorer classes of your Majesty's people before the ensuing harvest, most ;humbly approach your Majesty, as the fountain of justice and the hope of your people, in this their seasoe of imminent peril. We would most humbly but most earnestly remind your Majesty that dearth and scarcity of food are proved by the experience of the past to diminish employment, to render property insecure, to excite discontent, to engender disease, to increase crime among the labouring classes. We, therefore, most humbly pray your Majesty to suspend, by the merciful exercise of your Majesty's royal prerogative, the operation of the corn-laws, by commanding the ports of the United Kingdom to be thrown open for the impor tation of all descriptions of food, free of duty, and by summoning Parliament together for the immediate repeal of those laws, and fur the removal of all legal re strictions upon the free importation of food for the sus tenance of all classes of your loyal subjects." The Rev. JAMES ACPINALL, Rector of Althorpe, Lin colnshire, on rising to second the motion, was received with tremendous chering, which lasted several minutes. After the applause had subsided, he proceeded to say — Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, these are eventful and im portant times. The breaking up of the late Ministry— (Cheers)—l never used the word late with so much pleasure before—cannot fail to precipitate a crisis in which all our watchfulness and all our exertions will be required, that we may neither be baffled by open enemies, nor over-reached by false friends who may desert to us from the hostile camp. I rejoice, therefore, to see this meeting. The struggle with monopoly is not over, whether Sir Robert Peel is meditating treason to it, or is only dreaming of once more modifying it to a less repulsive form. In either case it is only scotched, not killed. But I do not believe the rumours which give him to us as a total repealer, and claim for him the honour of martyrdom. I regard them as inventions cunningly devised, and industriously circulated by the enemy to throw you off your guard, and so lull you into security and consequent inactivity. I am glad, then, to find that you are not the sort of birds to be caught by such chaff.—(Cheers and laughter.) For my part, I am here to-day from the conviction that, when distress be gins in Lancashire, prosperity will not abide very long in Lincolnshire, and that when the profits of cotton fall off, the interests of corn will be greatly damaged. In short, as an agriculturist, I am always most anxious to see the masses in the trading and manufacturing districts obtain " a fair day's work " to make the hungry, and " a lair day's wages " wherewithal to buy the food which we supply. But it will, perhaps, be as well if I commence my remarks to you with briefly stating the results, as far a's they can be yet ascertained, of the harvest and potato crop in our part of the country. With regard to the former, that is, the wheat harvest, although much inferior to that of last year which, if I may so say, was next door to a miracle, it is but little below an :average, and small complaints would have been heard about it but for the sad and awful failure of the potato crop. On this point, I am sorry to say, exaggeration s almost impossible. But what is, perhaps, the worst feature of all, and must tell tremendously before another harvest is, that we have the phenomenon of low prices, encouraging consumption, with an ascertained scarcity, the farmers bring anxious to sell, at any price, such part of their produce as they dare not risk the keeping of for fear of the disease reaching it. I need hardly observe that the result of these things must create a gap in the food of the country which it will be quite im possible for the produce of the wheat harvest to supply, and which must, therefore, help to accelerate the approach of that crisis under the fear of which we are here assembled. But, before I go further into the subject, I have a little scolding and grumbling and some of our friends to get over, in which, I hope, when you hear the purport of it, you will heartily join me. The country has had. a bitter lesson during the last few weeks. I trust that it may be a salutary one. Before that period darkened in upon us, it had become the fashion of many speakers and writers on our side of the question to be constantly telling us that Sir Robert Peel was an excellent free-trader, and would, in time, do everything for us. For myself, I must say that I always considered such persons to be very original eulogists of the late Premier ; for their compliment to him, when translated into plain English, could mean nothing else but that they regarded turn as the veritable and amiable snake warmed and cherished in the bosom of monopoly only to sting it to death.—(Loud cheers.) Now, I do not think that this strange trust in Sir Robert Peel has yet affected the self-reliance or diminished 'the efforts and energies of any of the free- trade party. But its ten dency, if persevered in, would be to produce such an effect. You may depend upon it that any seeming bias which you may ever have perceived in him towards your principles has been the result of your selfrelisnce. But if you ever go to sleep, anti allow it to be the substi tute for it, it will become " fine by degrees and beauti fully less," until it altogether vanishes from your view ; that is, if the monopolists had brought the greatest pressure to bear upon the late Minister, he would, I verily believe, have remained with the monopolists ; but, as it happened that the free-traders produced this greatest pressure, he has come over to free trade, or to some approximation towards it, of which we do not know the exact degree yet.—(Cheers.) You will probably recol lect in your miscellaneous reading to have met with an account of an elderly gentleman, Mr. Bold, who once, as he returned a young lady's glove, which she had acci dentally dropped, thus tenderly addressed her— "lf from glove you take the letter G, You make it love—that's what 1 feel for thee ;" to which this sad rejoinder instantly came forth— " And if from bold you take the letter B, You'd make it old, and that won't do for me." And I would try it a third time, and put it— " And if from Peel you take the letter P, You make it eel, and that's too slippery for nee." That is, I have not yet admitted him into my Book of Martyrs.—(Renewed laughter.) But then comes the question, which has often been asked of the good-natured people of whom I speak—" Are you not satisfied with what Sir Robert Peel has done for trade ? Did he not take the duties off four hundred and thirty articlee all at once at the beginning of this very year?" To be sure he did. But it must be recollected, that if (to use a commercial phrase) he is a free-trader in the sample, he is, or was very lately-, still a monopolist in the bulk. He abandoned, it is true, four hundred and thirty poor, innocent, pigmy monopolies, which nobody felt, and which nobody, therefore, complained about, but he still upheld the two giants, the Goy, and Magog of monopoly, sugar and corn—(Loud cheers)—in all the immensity of their oppressive weight. But enough of this. I will only ask, in connexion with it, have we not leaders of our own, without everlastingly coquetting with one who has always shown himself to be, and, I believe, still is, the most sagacious champion of monopoly ? Have we not all the tried men of the League ?—(Loud cheers.) Have we not Mr. ,Macaulay?—(Renewed cheering.) line not a Morpeth just thrown in his time honoured name to take his part and lot with us ?—(Tremendous cheers.) And what other war-cry is that raised in the forefront of the battle? It passes from mouth, and cheers from mouth to mouth, and cheers us with the certainty of success, as it tells that the hero of a hundred fights and of a hundred victories in the political struggle has I joined us, and unfurled the pure and unsullied banner lof the house of Russell at our head. Let us, then, I say again, place all our trust in self-reliance, union, and our own exertions, and cast off altogether the foolish thought of confiding in the abduction, by expediency, of Sir Robert Peel, and his being compelled by the force of circumstances to become the unwilling stepfather of free trade.—(Cheers and laughter.) But I will now go on to consider whether, through the gloom which is upon us, we may not see brighter prospects y et iu store f or the country. And, first of all, let me fix your attention on what I consider to be a very encouraging sign for our cause. Its enemies have laid aside all their old arguments against it. Not that they have got any better or stronger instead of them, but the old ones are aban doned as no longer tenable. There is, for instance, the newest of all—the ducal one, which says, " Never mind corn, but stick to curry powder."—(Laughter.) Again, at one of their meetings, not very long ago, it was urged that no fault whatev er r es t e d • with the corn-laws, but that much of obloquy and odium was brought upon them b i the iniquit o us b a k ers , w h o wou ld c h arge suc h enormills and unreasonable prices for their bread.— (Cheers and laughter.) Fortunate bakers! that they do not live in Constantinople, where the Turks cheapen loaves by cutti ng off the bakers' ears, and, sometimes, their heads.—(Renewed laughter.) Another mode of endeavouring to keep monopoly out of sight is, for its advocates to maintain a perpetual outcry on the subject of the miseries of the working classes in the trading and manufacturing districts. But as this has been al ready most expressively defined, by a leading organ of Toryism itself, as " factious benevolence," I shall not spoil the picture by adding one word of my own to it. But the most extraordinary substitute for an argument in behalf of monopoly which I have yet seen was one which I met with a short time since in an agri cultural journal, in which it was urged that the corn and sugar monopolies had just as good a claim as the national debt upon the taxation of the country, and that, consequently, to assail the former was to threaten the latter with the sponge. Never was a more absurd proposition put forth by the simplicity of man.—(Hear, hear.) What is the national debt ? It is the representative of money lent by private individuals to the state, and, until the capital is repaid, the interest must be regularly forthcoming to those who, confiding in the national faith, have trusted their money to the country instead of investing it in other securities. Now, what claim have the monopolists equal to this ? Have they lent any money to the country ?—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") At what time and to what amount ? When did the transaction take place, and how was the sum borrowed expended by us ? Until we know all these particulars, we shall demur to the alleged debt, and continue to believe that our ideal creditors have been oftener borrowers than lenders ; more frequeretly receivers than givers.—(Hea r , h ear .) But did you ohlreee the very revolutionary hint about the sponge and the national debt in the argument of the cham pion of monopoly ? Really I was not prepared to ex pect anything se bad as this even in such a very unscru pulous quarter.—(Laughter.) My faith in Toryism, smelt as it ever was, is now utterly gone. When the magistrate turned over the exciseman to the tender mercies of the infuriated mob, his measured hint against violence was contained in the words, There is the pump, but on no account put him under it." And what says the Tory scribe in this instance ? " There stands the national debt, and here is the sponge ; but be sure you do not let the one come in contact with the other."—This is posi tively monstrous. What enormity Toryism may next contemplate in its onward progress it is impossible even to guess. All good citizens must be prepared to check and counteract its revolutionary and anarchical tendencies. Repeal the corn-laws, and you give a new lease of vi tality to the commerce and manufactures of the coun try, and render trade trade indeed, and no longer a mere speculation. Repeal the corn-laws, and you make the world the market of England, and England the workshop of the world.—(Hear, hear.) Repeal the corn • laws, amid you fill every sea with our ships, and every land with our goods. Repeal the corn laws, and what I look at most in the whole struggle, you will give labour constant and steady employment, and se rescue it from those periodical battlings with famine to which it is now exposed as often as a failing harvest comes round, with, first, stagnation, and then panic in its train.—(Loud cheers.) Whatever the timid and impatient may say to the contrary, I think that our cause is advancing steadily and surely towards success. I point to all the little nothintee and the almost as little somethings which the late Ministers have grugdingly conceded to the principles of free-trade, to their amended tariff, to their altered corn laws. These, be they ever so trifling in themselves, and, as I said before, ever so unwillingly or ever so craftily yielded, are still to be hailed as so many straws, so many pilot balloons, sent up to try the current of public opinion, and indicating that, whenever " the pressure from without" shall be strong enough to insist, in the name of the people of England, upon a repeal of the corn-laws, the thing will be done, let who will hold sway in Down ing-street. But, while speaking of these things, let us give praise to those to whom praise is due.—(Cheers.) In all that the late Premier yielded to the demand for free-trade, he did but feebly and poorly imitate the an nounced policy of the Ministers whom, in his struggle for place and not for principle, he so treacherously drove out for avowing those very tendencies to which he has since, in part, given practical effect. This, I am aware, is a very sore point both with Sir Robert Peel and his more im mediate followers. " Sir Robert adopts free-trade in imitation of the Melbourne Administration ;" they in dignantly exclaim, "He was always a free•trader, and his policy was his own, and borrowed from no one else." Now, if it be correct that he was always a free-trader, he must have kept the secret admirably for many years of his life, so much so, indeed, that our merchants and manufacturers have a right to put the question to him— "'Tis true that, you say, you dissembled your love, But why did you kick us down stairs?"—(Laughter.) And then, again, as to the assertion that his policy was his own; who doubts it? Du you? Do I? Does any body T— " The golden hair that Galla wears Is her's : who would have thought it? She swears 'tie hers; and true she swears, For I know where she bought it." —(Laughter.) But, perhaps, it may be said that, al though the small concessions made by Sir Robert Peel to the principle of free-trade, are, whatever may have been his motive, good, so far as they go, still they are not to be received as positive signs and symptoms that the monopolists are prepared to abandon the corn-laws. Not if they can help it, certainly. But you should know your men better—you should know both them and your selves, both their strength and your strength, better. The people of England will bear much and long. They are a people little addicted to change, and only driven to it by the most exasperating stimulants. But when once they feel that right and justice are with them, and their hearts are up and determined upon victory, they will be more than a match for any Ministry which, in the vicissitudes of the struggle upon which we are entering, the monopolists may pick and cull to their own satisfaction and pit against them. Up to a very recent period all was well with us. The country was prosperous and happy. Providence had overruled the blunders and ignorance of men, and two bounteous harvests had coun teracted the mischievous working of class legislation. A wise statesman would, like Joseph preparing in the years of plenty for the years of famine, have taken ad vantage of such a period, and smoothed the way for the next scarcity in our own crops, whenever there should be a change of the seasons, and they should leave the Ministerial benches to go into Opposi tion. But what was Sir Robert Peel doing all this time? He was watching over the food monopoly until very lately with careful tenderness, as if it were the proudest monument of his legislative wisdom, and not only that,, , but, as if anxious to "make hay while the sun shone,' for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he crowned the ex periment upon John Bull's patience, good-nature, and gullibility, with the pleasant addition of the income tax (Hear, hear) thus employing the time for averting another commercial crisis in rendering a commercial crisis more certain and inevitable than ever. But what security had we for the continuance of this state of things ? Was Sir Robert Peel regent over the barometer ? Was he master of the seasons ? Could he nail the weathercock in any particular quarter ? Could he give up any guarantee for a farther series of good harvests ?—(Cheers.) Not he. Well, then, what followed ? Our prosperity being only a fair-weather prosperity, we felt that we must abide the issue in fear and trembling, as men who knew that the first short or failing harvest would scatter all our delightful dreams and golden prospects to the winds.—(Hear, hear.) When ever it comes, we said to ourselves, the averages will begin to creep up, as they are doing now. Anxiously and feverishly will they be watched from many a quarter of the country. At last they will be dangerously high. Then there will be a whisper in the Bank parlour warn ing the directors that it is time to bo preparing for the coming storm. The country banks, taking the hint from head-quarters, will catch the infection, and become equally cautious. The accounts of their customers will be searchingly looked into. "Pay up" will be the order of the day. Money will be scarce; business will stagnate; confidence and credit will depart. There will be a smash, and a crash, far, wide, and sweeping, through the trading and manufacturing districts. What of rail road shares then? what of them now, at only " the begin ning of the end?" But what of them then, when the end itself is upon us? What of bank shares? What of the shipping interest? What of business in all its branches, when many a gallant bark of enterprise shall be engulfed in the troubled waters on which it rode so gloriously befere—(Loud cries of " Hem-, hear ")—and there shall be more return bills than profits, and more bank ruptcies than successful speculations? There will be broken fortunes and blasted hopes ; blighted prospects and withered hearts ; there will be wee, and wailing, and lamentation in the land ; there will be mills stopped, and the industrious thrown out of work ; the ruin of the employer will be starvation of the employed—(Hear) — poverty and hunger will again raise their demon front, and once more strew with shrieking victims the path by which monopoly drags its triumphal car to the Juggernaut of its idolatry.—Cheers.)l i,ke ) Then, perhaps, the Premier—yes, be he t o of Richmond or the Duke of Wellington himself— th will learn tardy and bitter wisdom ; and , feeling th e state vessel reeling and staggering beneath him, think at last of lightening the ship e weight of monopoly under which irh Basting she is overboard sinking.— in g t . the will (Cheers.) t h e w e a r i s t .) fort But h thatl fu tf l u r s e t tur n ofsuch e the a people opleEngland crisis, in allits ter rific and whirlwind fury. I trust that they will say, " Overboard it must go, even now, and the crew and cap tain with it." Aye, let the whole " organised hypocrisy" go together. I am forgetting. It is gone, and, I trust, never to return. We have a new pilot, as well as a new policy.—(Cheers.) We have regained the advocates of free institutions to he the advocates of free-trade. Let the country uphold them in the good work ; let the country raise its voice that it may be done now, while, compa ratively speaking, the calm lasts—before excitement again occupies the place of judgment, and passion usurps the throne of reason.—(llear, hear.) And for whose ad vantage is all that ruin of which I have spoken to be perpetuated ? I disclaim all benefit to be derived from it on the part of the lauded interest.—(Hear, hear. I repudiate the very idea of the monopoly being a gain to or a protection. Consumption is our best protection.--(Loud cries of "Hear.") We must take care of our customers if we want to take care of ourselves. We cannot attract customers by cutting off their means. We cannot empty their pockets, and expect still to get rich by filling their mouths.—(Cheers.) The great body of the landowners, however, still cling to their fears as to the effect upon prices upon which the admis sion of foreign corn would produce in this country. I believe them to be wrong. They think only of the increaser'. supply, while they ought to set against it the increased ants steady demand, the increased and steady consumption, which the more trade of free-trade would create among the working classes, by bringing about a state of things when, as Dickens somewhere expresses it, dinner would happily come round to them as regularly as dinner time.—(Cheers.) But supposing, for the sake of argu ment, that prices would not exactly maintain the height at which they now range one year with another in this country, the landowners should, as another item in their cal'ulations, ask themselves, where and at what prices, and, consequently, rents will be, when monopoly, if long maintained, has ruined our best customers, the manufacturing and trading population?—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Our chief object, as wise wen, should be to consult and legislate for the prosperity of our cus tomers, and, in so doing, to. logili, if I may draw such a distinction, not at first consciences, but final conse quences. To act otherwise, is to let the ship founder, rather than save her, by incurring the cost of cutting away the masts. It is to suffer your house to burn to the ground without interruption, lest, if you should send for the engines, they might, in extinguishing the flames, injure your best bed, damp your Turkey carpet, or take the shine out githe French polish of your drawing-room furniture.—(lTud cheers.) But I withdraw the supposi tion that, under any circumstances, English agriculture will suffer from free trade. I have every trust, as I said before, in the increased consumption which it must bring with it, and I have all faith in English agriculture itself. Wit i ii the security o f l ong l eases — (Hear, hear)—with the game thi nne d—(Ch eers)—with pract i cal science dai y increasing, and with more labour brought to the cultivation of the land, I feel confident that the British farmer, as well as the British n ma afacturer, may safely defy the competition of the wor d. But while we, with our finite intellect, are endeavouring to calculate, to the shadow of a fraction, the results of free-trade to our par ticular interest, a third party steps in and turns the scale at once for us. It is eternal justice, and it rests its appeal to us upon that golden precept, which is the essence of all practical Christianity, and which teaches us that "we should do unto others as we would that others should do unto us." But I have done. From what was once deemed to be an impossibility, our cause has advanced, first of all, to possibility, then from pos sibility to probability, from probability to certainty, and from one certainty to another, until the hour of its triumph canna cow be far off—(Cheers.) It is true that the fortress of monopoly still stands before us seem ingly in all its dark and gloomy strength. But fate no longer frowns upon us from its its banners. Its towers and all its bulwarks are undermined. Its defenders, some from fear, some from shame, and some, let us hope, from conviction, are gradually deserting its walls. A few more strokes from the battering-ram of truth, and all will sink into the dust together. Then will be the real jubilee of mankind.—(Cheers.) Then will people congratulate people, as the loud huzza spreads from land to land, until it reaches the ends of the earth. " Mono poly is fallen, and trade is free." That would be, in deed, music for the million. 0! that the day may soon be here, when it shall be chanted forth in a grand chorus of all the nations of the world! "Monopoly is fallen, and trade is free." After seconding the adoption of the memorial, the Itev. Gentleman resumed his seat amidst peals of applause, which were several times renewed. The memorial was agreed to, and, after voting thanks to the Mayor, the meeting separated. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire, p.—Cambridge and Lincoln, 1 7 g p. —Clydesdale Junction, 12:p.—Derby and Crewe, 2 p.—Fleet wood and West Riding, par—Grand Junction, 236—Ditte, Quarter Shares, 33 p.—Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 32', London and Birmingham, 210—Manchester, and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 10 p.—Matlock`: and Midland, 1 3 / 1 p.—North Eastern, par—North Western, 1% p.—Sheffield and Man chester, Quarter Shares, No. 2, 4 p.—Shrewsbury and Here fordshire, 23. 6d.—Sothh-Eastern and Dover, Consolidated Thirds, Half Shares, IA p.—Welsh Midland, 1 ,4 dis.—West Riding Union, 34 . ,p...--_-yaris and Lyons (Latlitte), Is. 6d. p. lANCHESTER:DEc. - I B. STOCK EXCTIINGE.—The sales are—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 42 s. —Manchester and Birmingham, 70%—Preston and Wyre, 31—Sheffield and Manchester, 53‘ c.. LEEDS, Dxc. 18. STOCK EXCITANGE.—The sales are—Manchester and Leeds Fifth Shares, 9Y' s p.—Midland, 141—Leeds and Bradford. 18—Ditto, Extensions, 18—North British, New Carlisle Branch, 2 1 4—London and York, 3 3 %—Cambridge and Lin coln, 31. 15s. 6d.—Direet Northern, I%—Buckinghamshire (late Rugby), 2s. 6d. dis.—Grand Union, 2s. 6d. dis.—Lan cashire and North Yorkshire, par—Leeds and York, 105. dis. —Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 335. p.— Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 10s. dis.—North Western, 2 1 4—Wakefield and Harrogate, 2s. 6d. dis. HULL, DEC. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Hull and Selby (10 per cent. guaranteed), 100—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarter Shares, 3 3 4—North British, 22—Ditto, Carlisle, 2—Ditto, Dalkeith, 6 3 ,4—Dudley, 3ladely, and Iron Bridge, 375. 6d.—Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 475. Leicester and Bedford, 27s.—London and York, 33A—Notting ham and Erewash, ice., 21, —Tean and Dove Valley, 1%. BRISTOL, DEC. 18. 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The Earl of Minty was expected to have arrived from Mint° . House, Hawick A North Britain, last evening, and Mr. C. Wood, M.P., was to have arrived by the mail train this morning. - . . . The Earl of .Bosborough is 1K.p..-17 414)ected, also the Marquis of Clanricarde the filin' from Besburimgh Howe,. .and the latter •from Portumna Castle, county Galway, Ireland. - • _ We are informed that on the explanation, which, as a matter of course, will take place on the assembling of Parliament, the 'following; division for and against Sir R. Peel, will prove.in every particular correct. There were for Sir Robert Peel, in support of his views, including the Right Hon. Baronet himself— The Earl of Aberdeen. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. The Earl of Lincoln, and Sir James Graham. In opposition to those views— The Duke of Wellington. Lord Stanley. The Duke of Buccleuch. Lord Wharncliffe. The'Earl of Ripon. The Etrl of Haddington. The Lord Chancellor (Lord Lyndhurst). The Chancellor of the Exchequer (the Right Hon. Henry Geulburn). Lord Granville Somerset. As regards Lord Lyndhurst, we can state, on un doubted authority, that the Noble and Learned Lord contemplated, previous to the meeting of Parliament, to relinquish the high functions of Lord Chancellor, owing to the uncertainty of his health. The Duke of Bedford, it is stated, will be offered the office of Master of the Horse. .The Duke of Devonshire will give the future Whig Government his support, but will decline any office. The Noble Duke was Lord Chamberlain in the late Earl Grey's Administration. THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. (From the Times.) The expression of opinion in public meetings cannot always be appealed to as a certain • index of the influence which it exercises, or the numbers by whom it is main tained. In every free country the demonstration of political feeling exceeds rather than falls shortof the enthusiasm or the zeal of these who make it... Where it is a popular privilege to lasemble in numbers, to speak and to resolve, there will be many gatherings, many speeches, many resolutions. The frequency of publie assemblies will become a habit, their rules and regulations an instinctive knowledge in a people; public duty will attract many to them, private amusement will allure others. Some will be rigidly exclusive and fana tically fastidious as to the character and object of those which they attend ; others as indiscriminately lax. One class of persons will go only to exercise the duty of citizens; another to study the humours of mankind, or the excellences of public speakers ; such will with equal indifference cheer a loyal or a democratic sentiment, hurrah with equal intensity of lungs " The Queen," or "People ' the only source of legi timate power." This is a natural consequence, from the frequency, and forms a natural deduction from the influence of public meetings. In process of time they begin to be considered as a species of popular diversion, cheaper than the opera, more personal than the drama. And when they are held throughout a long continuance of time for the fur therance of some one measure and the promulgation of some one theory, their continuity generally tires and their same ness palls. The effect is equally injurious both to speakers and listeners. The same sentiments perpetually uttered by the same persons on the same matter spoil their style, and impair the vigour which ought to belong to every oratorical effort. Nor can it be concealed that this iteration is not un frequently destructive to the impression which every speaker ought to make upon his hearers,—that of since rity-. A man who speaks week after week on the same subject is easily betrayed into inflated exaggerations of style or narrative, which materially detract from the effect which it is his wish to produce on the hearts or intel lects of those about him. With some of these shortcomings or overshootings the Anti-Corn-law League may be fairly o l t i rf a e Ll t n d w. i iD o c s he e e d pm t l y h i g e h n t a b t e i o inflictedm ind o t n o e t h n e t e co o t c h a rgeable. It had its bi rt h at a time when circumstances e evils impressed with a conviction of the ex auinnt country e b o y bj e the t corn-laws, its members always spoke of them aspresent ; they realised to their own minds a contingent calamity, and de claimed about it as fulfilled. Hence they were accused of vilifying the good without a pretext, and of magnifying evils without a cause. It is not our province to defend the League, its members, or its proceedings. We confess that they are amenable to some charges of misconduct, and to some of mismanagement. If they have sinned, they have been abused enough. But their present posi tion is ene which proves that their course has not been widely wrong, nor their cause imaginary. A small club of manufacturers —plain, practical people, whom the operation of obnoxious laws had associated to gether to promote their abolition—men whom their own bu siness had familiarised with the daily working of the system of which they complained, and its bearings on the condition of the numerous class that, spin and weave—men without the influence of ancestral name or territorial possession, but ani mated by one common feeling, and inspired with one com mon zeal—a club of this kind has g rown up against opposi tion, against contem p t , against abuse, into a powerfel and ambitious association. Where it was weak it is now strong; where it begged it now dictates; where it whispered it now speaks out boldly and threateningly. Mach of its success may be due to the energy and determination —those greet heirlooms of the Saxon race—which have breathed the spirit of heroism into the labours of commerce and the strug gles of itrade. Much may be due to untiring perse verance, to unfailing courage, to the calculating shrewd ness of the north. But what were shrewdness cou rage, or perseverance, without a cause worthy of their exercise —without a cause for which the hearts of thousands beat high with e n th us i asm ? It i s no t the League that is powerful of itself, or through its own exertions alone. T h e League is a cre a t ure of circumstances . It is by the exi gencies of a cri s i s , b y the yearn i ngs o f a people, by the de mands of com merce, by the h opes o f n ations, by the die traction of Cabinets, that it has waxed strong. Men may declaim on fancied grievances, and their declamations will only amuse ; but when the grievance becomes real, the coarsest speaker and the roughest limner find a road to the heart of the most insensible and the head of the most stupid. Let a Demosthenes harangue in time of plenty on the pro spect of starv a t ion, an d men will smile at the superfluous rhetoric. But let the danger approach—let men be placed within the proximity, not of starvation, but of scarcity—let them be brought to ;ask one another this question, " Why should we want bread ?" and then the homeliest speaker in the roughest dialect may strike a chord which will thrill through the hearts of millions. It is to this fear—it is to the question which this fear arouses, no less than the other questions to which it gives birth, half-buried as yet in the unconscious mind of toil, but soon to be developed into potent speech—it is to these that the League owes its power. Were it not for these, Covent garden would not be thronged; the West Riding of York- shire would not send forth its mechanic population as it did to swell the recent gathering at Wakefield ; Bright would not be listened to; Cobden would not be followed. They are the indications, not the origin, of a general sentiment—the re sults, not the causes of a popular combinati on . Ti me an d events have now realised what was once deemed a remote contingency. Men begin to see that bread may be scarce— more scarce—very scarce. They ask the mse l ves a l so, "I s there no means of prsviding against this ?" an d th e fli ppan t reply, " Providence wills it," satisfies n o t th ose who see that human laws have something to do with it. Men see that when bread is dear labour is suspended ; the fac tories stop work ; the unbusy streets swarm with squalid artisans, wage less and labourless. Therefore men ask, " Why is this ?" and when told, " The corn-law makes it, so," they cry aloud, " Away with it," and b e se lfi s h, commercial, vulgar; but it h as a s t rong cheer hear' t and soul the gl owin g or atory of the League. All this may touch of human nature iu it, and of those elements in our nature to which this country is indebted for wealth and power. On Anglo-Saxon industry is laid a heavy burden ; its theirs and sinews are taxed by anticipation for genera tions vet to come; the labour of its arms is mortgaged; it therefore demands freer play of limb, greater expansion of its power, to enable it to do its work with health and energy. It has done much already, despite many obstacles; but it feels its time is come to de more, or to give in for ever. It has triumphed over foreign rivalry and Continental tariffs; its handiwork has penetrated through the ineffectual barriers of jealous laws into the heart of distant empires; and now it finds that its worst foe is nurtured on its own soil, the strongest resistance is arrayed against it by th e coun t ry which it has enriched. Theref ore does it ally itself with the League, and therefore is it th a t th e L eague w i ll be triumphant. GREAT FOOT-RACE FOR 1001.--On Tuesday the much talked-of match between Westhall, of London, and Leyland, of Bury, came off. The Loughborough-road, Lei cester, was selscted; the distance was 180 yards, and the stakes 501. a side. Westhall was very numerously attended by his London friends, and at the time of the race the spec tators amounted to upwards of two thnusand. The men, having bounded away with the celerity of locomotives, West hall quickly showed in front, and his opponent made a stre nuous effort to come up, but without success, and Westhall ran in triumphantly seven yards ahead. The Leicester fancy (who backed Leyland very heavily) appeared much mortified Atlas raults YORK, DEC. 18. STocx Exclustox.-The sales are-York and North Mid land Extension, 25-Newcastle and Berwick, H-North British, Dalkeitb, 5 1 ,4-Ditto, New Carlisle Branch, 21.4 x. -Grand Union, 1 1 Leicester and Bedford, 11. 7s. EDINBURGH, Dkc. 16. STOCK EXCITANGII.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 47. 155.-- Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 21.-Airdrie and Bathgate. 2/. Bs.-Arbroath and Forfar, 251.-Ditto, Half Shares. 151.-Armagh and Portrush, 11. 155.-Ayr and Dumfries, 2/. 155.-Ayr and Galloway, V. 55.-Banirshire, 2/. 55.-Bel fast and County Down, 31.-British and Irish Union, 2t. 18s.-Caledonian, ex new, 121.-Caledonian Extension, 2i. 15s.- Caledonian and Dumbarton, 31.-Caledonian and North ern Direct. 2/. 158.-Cambridge and Lincoln, 41. 58.-Cara warth and West Linton, 1/. IN.-Chelmsford and Bury 1/. 12s. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 191.-Cornwall and Devon 2/. 8..-Deeside Railway, 5/. IN.-Direct Northern, 21.- Dublin and Enniskillen, 4/. 7s. 6d.-Dundee and Arbroath, 351. 10s.-Ditto, New, 171.-Dundee and Forfar Junction ; 2/. 17s. 6d.-Dundee and Perth, ex new, 71.-East Coast ct Scotland, 21. 135.-East of Fife, 2/.-East Lothian Central, 11. 17s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, W.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex news, 68/.-Ditto, Half Shares, 161. 10s.-Ditto Quarters, 161. 10s.-Ditto, ditto, New, 131.-Edinburgn. Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 18s.-Edinburgh and Leith At mospheric, IL 165.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric:. Direct, 1/. 155.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 21/. 10s.- Ditto, Preference, 18/. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, 31. 10s. -Ditto, Newport, 11.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 11. 95.-Edinburgh and Peebles, 21.-Edinburgh and Perth, 41. 10s.-Edinburgh, Portobello, and Musselburgh, IL 145.-Forth and Clyde Junction, V. 55.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 707.-Ditto, isZew Stock, 231.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 211. 12s. 6d.-Glasgow and Belfast. Union, 2/. 25.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisl2 21. 45.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 45/.-Glasgow and Greenock ' , IL-Ditto, New Stock, 101. 155.-Ditto, Preference, V. 5s -Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction, 2/. IN.-Glasgow Har bour Mineral, 2/. 195.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardros. san, 3/. 7s. 6d.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmahagow, 2e. 155.-Granton Junction, 2i. 10s.-Great County Down, Z. 12s. 6d.-Great North of Scotland, 2/. 17s. 6d.-Great North and South Wales, 12s. 6d.-Inverness and Elgin, 11. 155.- Lanark and Galloway, 2/. 25.-Lanark and Lothians, 2/. 17e 63.-Larne and Ballymena, 2/. 25.-London and Hounslow 21.-London and Manchester (Rem.), 2/. 55.-London Manchester (Rastrick), 41. 10s.-London and Windsor, U.- Loodon and York, 41. 55.-Midland and Eastern Counties 21. 7s. 6d.-Morayshire, 11.-Newcastle and Berwick, 11, -Newry and Londonderry, 21. 10s. -North British, 241.- Ditto, Halves, 5/. 10s.-Ditto, Extension to Carlisle, 11. 15s. -Ditto, Extension to Dalkeith, 6/.-North Wales Minera, New, 41. 75.-Perth and Crieff Direct, 2/. ls.-Perth ant: Inverness, 2/.-Scottish Central, 13/. 7s. 6d.-Scottish Cen tral and Caledonian Junction, 1L 14s. 6d-Scottish 31.-Scottish North Western, 1/. 145.-Scottish Soutil Midland, 2/. Is.-Scottish Southern, 2/. 58.-Shrewsbut% and Hereford, 17s. 6d.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Che. F . 4/. 17n. 63.-South Midland, 41. 7a.-Stirling and Dun fermline, 21. 10. s. 6d.-Stirling and Midland, 3/. 25.-Stra them Junction, 3/. IL-Surrey Grand Junction, 11. 2s. 6il. -Tean and Dove `alley, 1/. 155.-Tyne Valley, 11. 185.- Wishaw,.and Ccltness, 521. 10s. GLASGOW, DEC. 17. STOCK EXCIIA.NGE.—The sales are—British and Irisl: Union, 60x.—Caledonian Extension, 54s.—Caledonian anti Dumbartonshire Junction, 43g.—East Indian Railway, 188.-- Edinburgh and Gla..gow, New Quarters, 9% ant i Perth, an, Perth, 4%—Forth and Clyde Junction, 45s.—Glasgo w Genera. Terminus, —Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 435. Glas gow and Greenock, Preference (6 per cent. till 1853, and per cent. afterwards), 37e. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, an:', Ardrossan, 58s.—Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 2 1 ,i—(Meat North and South Wales, 10s.---Great Indian Peninsular 7s. 6d.—Lanark and Lothians, 55s.—Lesmahagow, 555. Scottish Central, 131.—Scottish South Midland Junction 375. 6d. The American papers contain a legal decision, r Vice-Chancellor Sandford, on the subject of trade-marks. that is of some importance to British manufacturers. Messrs J. and P. Coates, of Paisley, in Scotland, had obt!unedtra extensive market in America for a certain description )t cotton-thread. This thread had been imitated even to the labels by one M'Gregor, of New Jetsey, and Mears. Sheparu and Co., commission merch ants, had received the spurio thread in question. Against this firm Messrs. Coates filed t bill to restrain them from vending the thread. Mewl. Shepard and Co., at the time . of the bill b e i ng fil e d h au nea rly sold out the second invoice sent to th em, an d o ff erer to stay proceedings by delivering up the thread left on ban. and paying the costs at the date of their answer. This odes was refused, and tie cause coining to a hearing, the plaintiLs were allowed a perpetual injunction with costs of suit. The defendants had denied all knowledge of the fraud, but`,•l: fact that the thread, although marked " Coates's best siz cord thread," was, in fact, only a three cord thread, together with other circumstances, had completely overact this line. defence. SINGULAR SOIREE.—On Thursday evening, it authorities at St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol, determined • giving an entertainment to the lunatics confined in: i 1.• house; and, accordingly the place having been lit up att_ music provided, about eight o'clock festivities commenced 4 dancing and other innocent diversions, in which our poc't afflicted f e ll ow b e i ngs o f b o th sex es joined, seeming throught% to enter into the sport, which revived in some the touchmt recollections of former times, and in others awakened. :L ecstacies of loud delusion. Some, who fancied themseliet kings and queens, looked upon the entertainment as littk short of a court ball, and conducted themselves accordingly while others, whose hallucinations were less ambitious,fa cied themselves once more in the holiday festivals oft't native village. Some would have it that they were walkuk in the midst of their tenantry. The dancing was morea: tive than regular; a few moved with slow and statelystec ; while others skipped and jumped and caracoled abouta ttt independent of friends aid fiddles. Some broke out scraps of wild melody, some harangued and talked verie,vu each seemed happy ; the peculiar and varied wanderingsam delusions of all creating on the whole, a moat curious elle( 'The entertainment lasted two or three hours; and thee was not merely pleasant, but teamed to bt salutar... Bristol paper, MIDLAND RAILWAY. 1 1 111 E MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY f. prepared to receive LOANS on SECURITY of their Deben kap r,__Periods of Three, Five, or Seven Years, in sums of not less 44 44 4 ,7 0 1. _each, at interest after the rate of 41. per cent. per 4 11 ' l leati oaS to be made to the Secretary, at the Company's Mee, Itc Ey order, 1845. J. F. BELL, Secretary. C. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary, P --'DS and CARLISLE RAILWAY. L :44 ,, t tlaij, ° _ l lce is hereby given, that an amalgamation, o2:.1 terms t „,`,_ , 40 . !!Uventageous, having been effected with the YORKSHIRE OW LIMON RAILWAY COMPANY, by which an 4 rarliamentary o pposition is obviated, the Shareholders in 1, and Carlisle Railway Company are requested to forward re," tip to the offices of this Company on or before the 31 st of 43145, in order to have it stamped, agreeably to the ar ' tattered into by the Directors. ItY order of the Committee of Management, CHARLES LOCOCK WELIB, secretary. Basinghall-street, London. 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