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11).E - N - INSULAR MAIL - STEAMERS. ALTERATION of TIME of DEPARTURE and REDUCTION' of RATES of PASSAGS MONEY. , The PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STE AM NAVIGATION COMPANY beg to announce that by order of the Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty the steamers conveying the Peninsular Maas will in litture be dispatched from Southampton on the 7th, 17th, and 27th of every mouth, iitstead of every Thursday a. 7 heretofore. When the above dates fall on Sunday the steamers s h 1 leave on the following day. The first departure under the new arrangement will take plate on the 7th April next, and the steamers will thencefor ward call at Comma both out and home, thus affording a direct and expeditious communication with Madrid. For further particulars apply at the Company's Offices, No. 51, 1-4 t. Mary-axe, London. DRAINAGE and IMPROVEMENT of the FERGUS. It is intended (under the provisions of the Ist and 2d William IV, Cap. 57) to open the River Fergus, so as to admit sea-going vessels to Ennis, the capital of the fertile county of Clare, Ireland, and to re move the obstructions up to its source, by which operation a large quantity of valuable land will be drained, embanked, and improved, and a chain of lakes lowered and discharged into the sea. Forms of proposals for shares to be had on application to me, at the Drainage Office, IS, Austin-friars, until a Committee is formed ; and, if no commission be obtained, the inoney, without interest, will be returned. JACKSON BA.RWISE, Secretary pro tom. g REAT NORTH of ENGLAND RAILWAY. N.if CONTRACT FOR COAL WAGONS, The DIRECTORS of the GREAT NORTH of ENGLAND RAIL WAY are prepared to RECEIVE TENDERS for the SUPPLY of GOO COAL WAGGONS of superior construction, spring-mounted, with Malleable iron wheels, and calculated to carry about Six Tons of Coals each. Tenders will be received either for the Wagons with springs and wheels complete, or nu* the bodics of the Wagons only. Tenders will also be received for Springs and Wheels separately. Plans and specifications may be seen at the Great North of Eng land Railway Office, and a Pattern Wagon at the Works of the said Company, at Darlington, on and aft er Wednesday, April 2. Sealed Tenders to be delivered to the Secretary, before the 15th day of April next. H. PARKER, Secretary, Great North of England Railway Office, Darlington, March 27, 1845. EXETER., YEOVIL, and DOR CHESTER RAILWAY. Provisionally Registered. NO APPLICATION for SHARES in this undertaking will be re ceived after THURSDAY, the 10th day of April instant, immediately after which the Committee will proceed to allot the Shares. JOHN CLINCH, Secretary. Exeter, April 1, 1845. DIRECTORS of the ASTUR fAN MINING COMPANY congratulate their Shareholders on the now certain prospect of the FORMATION of the ROYAL NORTH OF SPAIN RAILWAY. This line, as the Shareholders are probably aware, passes through the principal mining concession, of this Company, and will at once secure a cheap and ready access to the seaport of Aviles for its coal and other mineral produce. The establishment of this Railway will supersede the necessity of the Tram Railway contemplated in the original Prospectus of the Asturian Mining Company—the expense of which was estimated to survey at 90,0001. The Directors have further to announce, that the whole of the Shares of the Company have been appropriated, and they have every reason to hope that the funds at their disposal will be amply sufiligent to meet the currant demands, as well as the expenses of the Iron Works now in progress of erection, without any additional call daring the present year, by which time the Iron Works will be In Still and profitable operation. The reports lately received on the Quicksilver and other Mines are most gratifying, and may be seen at the ofilce. AW.—The Profes-ion is respectfully informed _ that the FIRST NUMBER of the FIFTH VOLUME of the LAW TIMES will be published on SATURDAY, April 5, affording an excellent opportunity for new subscribers. The Volume just completed contains all the Written Judgments of the Two last Terms verbatim, us taken in Short-hand, with a Report of every Case in all the Courts, and all the Legal Intelligence of the time. Law Times Office, 29, Essex-street. N. 13. A Number as a Specimen sent to any person inclosing Four Postage Stamps to the Publisher. Slit ROBERT PEEL'S BUDGET.—DUTY Ok F GLASS. SUPERIOR. GLASSES, AND SPLENDID GILT FRAMES. J' CRAKE, Career and Gilder, 18 1, Waterloo. • road, begs respectfully to info , rn the Nobility, Gentry, Artists in particular, and the public, that he has been io an immense expellee in removing the partition walls, in order to allow more room for business. He has since furnished his shop with an unequalled stock of Picture Frames of every description and quality, at very low prices. All regular sizes kept ready for immediate delivery. H. C. begs to remind the public that, owing to their friend, Sir Robert Peel, they will be enabled to ob' ain Looking-glasses of any size, and other Glass at nearly half the price they are at present, by applying at 181, Waterloo-road—the duty shortly coming off The Advertiser calls upon the public to look up all their prints that they would like tastily framed, and send them to CRAKE, of 181, WA TERLOO-ROAD, where he is willing to do every one justice who will patronise him. Lists of priees sent post-lee on application. Returned cases quar ter price. Recollect the duty will, after the sth of April, be taken off, and the public must look up a job or two for Crake, Carver and Gilder, 181, Waterloo-road, Lambeth. SILVER-PLATED DISH COVERS. AB. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturin g • Silversmiths, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England, submit for choice in their Plate-rooms, many Patterns of SILVER.FLATED DWI , :OVERS, of Sheffield Manufacture, from Fifteen to Twenty Guineas the set, viz. : Double Dome Pattern. , The Melon Pattern. Size. X s d. Size. X €. d. 1 Plated Dish Ccver, 20 in. 5 13 6 1 Plated Dish Cover, 20 in. 5 17 0 1 Dish Cover, IS in. 4 7 6 1 Dish Cover, 16 M. 4 14 0 2 Dish Covers, 16 in. 5 12 6 2 Dish Covers, 14 In. 6 6 6 Per Set• •. • • •£l5 13 6 Per set £l6 17 6 The above have silver handles and mountings, and silver shields for engraving crest or coat of arms. A Price Current, illustrated by Drawings, and containing every Information relative to he purchase of Silver or Sheffield Plate, may be had on application, or be be sent into the country, tree of postage, in answer to a paid IWer. —----- - - - - - CLARK'S NEW BR ILLIA.N 1 LIG Li T. Have you seen it? The nobility, scientific men, and all who have, admit its positive superiority, and admire its simplicity. This light causes no smoke, cannot emit blacks, breaks no chimneys, creates no smell, requires no cleaning, and in its construction is so simple, that any person can trim it. It is so economical that, while producing the light of two argand oil lamps, or the light of twenty candles, it costs no more than two candles. This perfect lamp fitted to persons' own pedestals, for 23 shillings, all complete. To be seen burning at Clark's Lamp Depot, 447, West Strand (op posite Warren's Blacking Manufactory). Clark and Co. have also an improved Oil Lamp used by Govern• went, and all the great light houses in the world, and only just now introduced to public notice. N.B. To prevent imposition, Clark and Co. put their name on all these lamps. TEA. TRAYS, Tea Urns, ;inives and Fort;s. Dish Covers, &c., at C. WATSON'S, 41 and 42, BARBICAN, and 16, NORTON-FOLOATE. Establ:shed half a century.—A set of 3 Paper Tea-trays, including the largest size made, 355. ; very richly ornamented all over, 5'44. a Set of Three, and up to 141. ; Jtt , Van Tea-trays, 7s. 6d. a Set, and upwar ; a Fly„ Quart LOlitloll made Bronze Tea-urn 355., with the newest patterns up to live gul l", '• a %et of Six patent ra i sed London made Dish Covers, ifis. f.d. • impertai raised, 355. 6d. Set of Six. E Elegant silver shape, 525. Set ot . Ivory Ta;',!a-knives, lie. par dozen, Dessert, 95.; Carvers, 3 s. 6d. PE' pair. Tama. DEsszax. Ceivzss. doz. doz. pair. 31.1 n. handsome balance handle •• Od. 14s. Od. 6s. 6d. 4-in. balance handle, largest and best .•••••• • • • • • ' • ****** 20s• Od. 16s. Od' 7s. 6d. Ditto with Watson's Albata Plate bandies, equal to silver .......... 225. 6d. 161. Od. Si. 6d. Forks half the above price. C. Watson's handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price : 1111Tent la just published, and families who regard economy and elegazi: •B should possess themselves of thia useful book, which may be had gratis, and post free, from the above address Sole inventor of the celebrated Albata Plate, which is so rapidly Superseding Silver. THE LIMP WONDER, C. WATSON'S PARAGON CAMPHINE LAM P. The great fault which has proved fatal to the success of the Vesta Lamp, viz., the em;ssion of black smuts awl smoke, is entirely ob viated in the Paragon—the brilliancy and purity of its light surpasses any other yet seen, and burns for one half-penny per hour. C. Watson's Warehouses, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton Fol gate, are replete with every variety. The Spirit, analysed by Dr. tre, is sold by C. Watson, at 4s. per gallon. Contracts given for Chapels and Public Buildings. NO PUFF NOR IMPOSITION. SPENCER'S CELEBRATED CHINESE LY LIQUID HAIR DTE.—The thousands of individuals whp Lave had the pleasure of using Spencer's Chines e Li qu id H a i r D ye, Pronounce it to be the only dye extant which will effectually change, la a few minutes, red or grey hair to a dark brown or black, and it Can be proved incontestibly that it is the safest dye in its use that ever was prepared. Red or grey hair, whi s k ers, eyebrows, mous tach:4ll. are changed without trouble, by s i mply using a comb we t te d 1 7 . 1t11 the liquid ; one application will produce a pleasing and a permanent :Ilange. The colour it impa r t s to the hair can never be discovered to ha' . been effected by dye, it b e i ng so perfectly natural, 7 and neither washing, c ..rspiration, or anythi ng w i ll in the least fade or affect the colour prods fled. Hundreds of ladies w h o wore f a l se : hair, because their own becami grey, wear now their own. Alec, Thousands of gentlemen who had gr•C‘ or red whiskers, which was a great disfigurement, have become qii.ste dark from the use of SPENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID lIAIR DYE. Any lady or gen tleman may dye their hair with ease and seert7V In a few minutes Without trouble. Price 3s. Gd., Gs., and 10s. per boZ.!le. To be had of the sole Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-ple , :e, Fieldgate street, Whitechapel-road, London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn hill ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Trout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford- Street; Barclay, 95, Farringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond street ; Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Churchyard ; Connell, Camberwell green ; Kennaby, Brothers, 10, Westmoreland-buildings, Altiengate street ; Finnigin, 30, Milsoin-street, Bath; Elmore, 31, Bull-stre.st, Birmingham ; Shirley, 40, George-street, Hastings ; and of most Per fumers and Medicine Vendors in Town and Country. Sent to any part of the kingdom by sending a remittance, post-paid. Please to ask for Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye. Merchants and Captains will receive a liberal allowance for expor tation. —Observe, the Proprietor's address is on the wrapper. THE MONSTER BELL FOR YORK MINSTER CAMIEDRAL. No doubt, gentle reader, you've lately heard tell Of the size and t - e weight of the " York Minster Bell". This bell, which was east by the famed Messrs. Mears, Is upwards of twelve tons in weight it appears; And eighteen strong horses are needed to draw The " Monster," whose equal your eye never saw. When we think of this Bell and its number of tons, We cannot help wishing 'twere MOSES and SONS'. For 'Us certainly tutted remarkably well To ring for that house whi A; has long " borne the Bell." Its sound, which Is doubtless a powerful one, • Is just the right thing for E. MOSES and S9N. How loud could it speak with its ponderous clappe Of a beautful " Frock," or a " Vest," or a " Wrapper," With the rest of that choice summer dress, which cliScloadi The taste and the elegant fashion of MOSES. Another dt use might he made of this Bell, By letting It toll competition's sad " knell." For all competition must quickly " expiro" Since MOSES and SON have provided attire. No tradesman in Europe can ever excel E. MOSES and SON, who have long " borne the Bell." A new work, entitled " THE LEVIATHAN OF TRADE," with tuil directions for Self-Measurement, may be had on application. or forwarded post-free. X a. d. Reamer Taglionis .• • •• • ' Ditto Chesterfields 0 10 6 Ditto Codringtons ......... .. Ditto Pmnbrokes, Athola, Peltoes, and every description of .., Winter Coat, handsomely trimtned.... ....... ....... .... 0 1 5 0 Warm W 0 8 6 warm Winte r inter Tro u sers in ever lined style • 4 6 , . Ditto Doeskin • 1 0 0 ~D re ft Coats, edged, Bcc. zrrock ditto, ditt o . Dou 1 3 9 •0 1 9 Rolling Collar Vest ▪0 2 6 Boys' l de - breasted Ditto Hussar Suits ..... Liar ' ZEADT MADE. %to Tunic, neatly braided . • • • • • MADE TO MEASURE. S axe Gotha Co a t s , ve l vet collar and cuffs ..frOM 1 18 Winter Coats, in every style and shape, handsomely trimm . e . d . 4 1 3 4 0 6 Milled Tweed Wrappers •••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • ' 0g 6 Ditto ditto Trousers iluckskin Ditto •••• • • • • •• • ' • .•*** ••• • • • • _oeskln Ditto, any pattern • • • • • CZest, or Dress Trousers ••••••••••• • • • • • • ' • " " • • :• 11262 7 I aslumare Vest ..... ••••• * • • ' 0 8 6 • • Winter Ditto, in endless pattern.. ••• • • . 1 12 0 Dress Coat ••••• • • • • " " • • 215 0 Ditto, ditto, best manufact u red 15 0 Frock Coat • • •• • • • • 3 3 0 Ditto, the best manufactured Boy's IL - - : .... 0 18 6 . . .:ussar Suit ••——•• • • " •• • " 'Ditto Tu n i c .... •—• • • 1 8 0 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••" Mourning to any extent can be had at five minutes' notice, at the following prices : Ditto Men's Sults, dress coat, ves t, an d trousers •• .• •••• •• • from 1 16 0 Jacket, vest and trousers-- IMPORT ANT . — Any article purchased or ordered, if sot „ approved of, ehanged, or the money returned. 0 18 0 e x Observe --E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Wholesale and Retail Woollen Drapers, Outfitters, and General Warehousemen, 154, Min.,- ek and 56, Aldgate, City, opposite the Church. C UTIO N. — E. \` ores an d S on are obliged to guard the pu bli c against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike false hood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, has Veen resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reassns. They `eve no connexion whatever with any other establishment, in or out rQT London, and those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to i" ent disaPPointment, &c.) call or send to 154, Minories, or 86, Igate o pposite the Chur c h. o , flat• No b us i ness transacted at this Establishment from sunset on 'ill SOntlneet Saturday when busine3s is resumed till twelve doc "Y k. t it rt is joil lde::0 w e tile Or, , rtobi ° ' Derbi •squ sre ' Ors• 0 0 " 01N or! tc, oroe r°e ol EA" - v. 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THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE 0 CLOCK, in Time for the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY ; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN 0 CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Hour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION at ONE CHARGE. IWANTED, a YOUNG MAN who has been ac customed to TRAVEL through North and South Wales, and who has a good connexion amongst the Drapers and Hatters. Applications, with the usual references, addressed to H. Box B 80, Post-otlice, Manchester, will have immediate attention. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Dr. Ryan's first Series of LECTURES on the Chemistry of Domestic Life daily, and on the Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Popular Lectures on Natural Philosophy, with Brilliant Experiments, by Professor BachhAfner A New Series of Objects, exhibiting beautiful effects in CHILDE'S CHROMATROPE, In the PHYSIOSCOPE, and the PROTEOSCOPE. The SHRINE of the NATIVITY is one of the latest additions to the DISSOLVING VIEWS. A Curious MECHANICAL HAND, exhibiting daily on the person of an individual who has lost his natural hand. A Work ing Model of the AT RAILWAY, Fifty Feet long, and other working Models and New Inventions explained. Submarine Experiments by the DIVER. The DIVING BELL, MICROS COPE, &c. &c, THE MAGAZINES• tively interfere with the procesz of manufacturing in dustry. Nothing could be better, too, than the way in which the recent changes were introduced by the i Premier ; the broad and emphatic announcement of the • soundest doctrine as to the national policy of exteroling commerce and unshackling industry. But the disagree. able reflection alwa) s recurs, that it is of comparatively little use to facilitate and cheapen production, while we persist in obstructing exchange—that there can be no exports without imports,—and that the desiderated ex tension of our manufactures for the foreign market must, after all, be limited by our power of receiving returns. Free production of glass and cotton goods requites, as its counterpart and complement, free purchase of corn and sugar. And, though we are fully alive to the high importance, in a national view, of an absolutely unre stricted importation of so many as four hundred and thirty articles of commerce, including such matters as argal and alganobilla, stavesacre and sangtas draconis, taraq and diva, divi,--yet, on the whole, the Ministerial bill of fare is more tantalising than satisfying. We have the amplest assortment of physics and poisons, but a dismal lack of food ; teeth and gums in profusion, but nothing to eat; skins and bones (not to speak of horns, hoofs, and tails) without flesh, and alum without bread." Some of the extracts given from "Freilegrath's Poems and Politics" will be read with interest. They display a vigorous spirit, and at the same time a pa triotic feeling, for the fatherland of Germany against Russians as well as French, We have room for only an extract from " The Two Flags," which shows that the Deutchers feel little sympathy with the French subjects on the Rhine : A Mosel dogger on the Rhine ! 'Twas towed up stream ; the horses panted. And . forward, fluttering in the shine, The hoisted ensign boldly flaunted ; Long-streaming landwards over head, The finest colours, fresh and galliard,— Blue, as I live ! then white, and red, In upright stripes, too, down the halyard ! I stopped, with wondering eyes thrown wide ; While from the craft, in saucy chorus, The Frenchmen hailing, loudly cried : " Ay ! look ! the tricolour flies o'er us !" So ! to myself I growled,—keep still ; At home it seems you yet speak German ; Lorrainers, bound from Thionville, For France need scarcely make much stir, men ! Therewith I let the peeon go ; And soon the hanging branches hid it. Here, ou our Rhine, no welcome, though, As God's my witness now, I bid it ! And meant it aught, upon these banks, Than peace, as borne on yond er gabbard, I'd join its foemen in the ranks • When German steel has left the scabbard ! Let home and country still be first ! But then—no word of blind-eyed rancour ! The flag we prize ; and that it burst For freedom way in France, may thank her. Even now 'tis wet with July blood ; Say where was nobler shed, or bolder ? So, though we'll watch it close—'tis good To have a gallant foe to shoulder. some muddy bank, or even a plunge over a bridge, horses, coach, and driver and all, would leave some hope—one half might escape unhurt—the wounded might crawl to the next stage, and the survivors in a body might mount a new coach, and send the old driver to Coventry—but to be led to the Slough of Despond against their will,and see " monarchy sur rounded by democratic institutions," is beyond Tory or even Conservative endurance. Yet, somehow or other, they are led on against their will, and are in a state of such utter bewilderment that even the most rational, and not the least far-seeing, of their organs is as much bewildered as the humblest of the lot. It has no confidence in Peel. He will betray them as he has already done. He is not necessary to their existence as a body, yet they are counselled not to change their leader. He protested against Catholic Emancipation, and the emancipation of the Jews and the emancipation of trade proposed by the Whigs. These and fifty other Whig mea sures he protested against, yet hil protestations and his vows are all forgotten, the Catholics and the Jews are his great favourites, and Hume and Cobden, and Warburton and other Destructives, are his Cabinet Ministers. Yet " Sir Robert Peel has deceived no one, or, if any, he has deceived the Whigs, for there is no disputing the fact, that he has managed to cut the ground from beneath their feet, and to have ren dered his Government more acceptable to the free traders of England and the Roman Catholics of Ire land than ever was that of Earl Grey or even of Lord Melbourne." But he has not only cut the ground from under the Whigs—he has served the Tories still worse, and ‘! made Allem cut, 4.,,,ilot.their own throats, certainly the throats of all their former opinions. Now this sort of thing cannot last for ever. Men dragged day by day through the mire must perceive in the end that they are very dirty; and as the conviction matures itself they lose both temper and judgment, and go about declaring that their leader has betrayed them." Yet Fraser advises the Conservatives to stick to him. "If Sir Robert Peel be determined to go forward in the course on which he seems to have entered, perhaps we could not give our friends better advice than to go with him." Yet, almost in the same breath, we have the following lugubrious strains on the admission of the Israelites to civic honours—strains which want only the charms of poetry to equal the lamentations of the Jews when they sat by Babel's streams and wept :—" The last hope of protection for the old Constitution is taken away. It is not an open enemy that has done it this wrong, but the very champion who fought for it half a life-time ; and now on whom can it fall back, seeing that a Conservative Minister has betrayed it ?" Can we wonder after this that Miles and Bankes and Tyrrell, and the whole host of agricultural Con servatives, are lost in the endless maze, when we hear such contradictions from one of their chosen teachers? The article on which these remarks are made is en titled " The Treasury. Benches," and it is in true keeping. Sir Robert Peel occupies them all, and he is the Alpha and the Omega too of this Number. The last article is on Peel, and so is the first—" Contem porary Orators, No. 1., Sir Robert Peel." His cha racter is not drawn with a partial hand, as may be inferred from the spirit that pervades the preceding extracts, but it is on the whole just : " A stranger to the House of Commons, who, having heard of Sir Robert Peel's influence there, had conceived some ideal portrait of a great orator, would assuredly be disappointed. He would observe in his speeches a want of strong reasoning on fixed principles, a lax, loose, many-sided mode of viewing the most vital questions, and a great command of that sort of logic which takes in common minds by clever fallacies. He would look in vain for vivid imagination or profound thought. He would find no outline of a complete scheme of policy, nor any one ruling idea with which his own views and poli tical !sympathies could associate. The style he would pronounce inartificial ; not that there is no attempt at construction, but that the speech is so crowded with ex traneous matter, and the speaker has so many ends to gain, that a perfect plan would be impossible. He would complain of verbosity, of repetition of ideas, nay, whole arguments, in different words, and then imperfectly ex pressed, of a pervading pretension to something very profound, which constantly falls short of accomplish ment. Of the action used by the speaker he would be tempted to say that it was neither modest as becomes an unassuming reasoner, nor commanding as ought to be the action of a great orator. He would see at one time a pompous solemnity leading to nothing ; at another, the most trivial postures of every-day after-dinner conversa tion ushering in the most important topics. His elbow resting on the table before him, while his pointed finger shakes ominously at his opponents, and one leg is crossed over the other, the posture of a man laying down an argument to a familiar friend ; or, his thumbs buried in the pockets of his capacious waistcoat, while his coat is thrown back ostentatiously, as some foreigners do to show their fine velvet linings ; or, as is more commonly the case, his hands bidden under his coat-tails, while he stands much as he might with his back to a fire,—there are not exactly the positions or gestures of a great orator. But, on the other hand, whatever the defects of Sir Robert Peel, when his speeches or his actions are looked at critically, you cannot fail to admire his ease and self possession, the thorough knowledge he has, even to the minutest details, of every subject he undertakes, the adroitness with which he enters into all the different feelings, prejudices, and interests which surround him, and the wit he evinces in wielding them so as to produce all the appearance of enthusiasm, and in moulding th em to his purpose, of subduing their varieties to one harmo the House niou of Commons s cou r se of h actioneis indeed,l n the unrivalled." v o a f l e m d 7 aging NYEED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 8, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON. Established by Act of Parliament in 1834. DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED. This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords the most perfect security in a large paid-up Capital, and in the great success which has attended it since its commencement in 1834, its ANNUAL 11 , 7 COME being UPWARDS of 72,0001. In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Shareholders of one-half of their Stock, and also added a Bonus of 21. per cent. per annum, on the Sum Insured to all Policies of the Participating Class tom the time they were effected. The Bonus added to °licks from March, 1834, to December 31, 1840, is as follows : Sum Time Sank added Sum Time Sum added Assured. Assured. to Policy. Assured. Assured. to Policy. 41000 f yrs. 10 mths. £6ko 6 8 £lOOO 4 years £4OO 5000 6 years GOO 0 0 500 PS 2 years 200 The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and only one-half need be paid for the first Five Years, where the Insur ance is for Life. Every information will he afforded on application to the Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of No. 8, ?waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. Admission, is. ; Schools, CWT LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 4 Fleet-street, next St. Dunstan's Church, March 14, 1815. Notice is hereby given, that the BOOKS for TRANSFERRING SHARES in this SOCIETY will be closed on THURSDAY, the 27th instant, and will be REOPENED on TurasDAY, the 10th day of April next. The Dividends for the year 1844 will be payable on Thursday, the. 10th day of April next, or on any subsequent day, Tuesdays ex cepted, between the hours of ten and three o'clock. —By order of the Directors, GEORGE KIRKPATRICK, Actuary. ROYAL FARMERS' and GENERAL, FIRE, LIFE, and HAIL INSURANCE INSTITUTION. Empowered by special Act of Parliament. Capital, 500,0001. Offices, STRAND, LONDON. The Proprietary of this Company exceeds 1,960 in number. All persons whose Insurances with this Office fall due on Quarter Day, are respectfully reminded that, to preserve the benefit of their Policies, the Premium should be paAl within fifteen days from that date, and that the Receipts are now in the hands of the Agents. FARMING STOCK Insured, 'without the Average Clause, at 3s. per cent., no duty. COMMON INSIIRANCE.—Private Houses and Shops, Is. 6d. per cent. Hazardous, 2s. 6d. per cent. Double Hazardous subjeet to special agreement. HAIL-STORM INSURANCE.—Premium 6d. per acre fbr Wheat, Barley, and Peas; 4d. per acre fur Oats, Beans, Turnips, and Po tatoes.—Glass in Hothouses, Greenhouses, or Private Houses, 20s. per Cent. Insurance of Lives on an equally moderate scale of charges. Annual Premiums on Life Insurances for 1001. Age 20 j 30 I 40 50 I 60 } 65 £1 16 1 I 27 1 I 33 5 I 410 3 I 75 5 93 4 Endowments of all kinds for future or existing children. Prospectuses may be obtained at the office, or will be forwarded, post-free, upon application. The usual Commission to Solicitors. Agents are appointed iu the Principal Towns in the Kingdom. W. SHAW, Managing Director. TH E LICENSED VICTUALLERS' and GENERAL FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, ADELAIDE PLACE, LONDON-BRIDGE ; 444, WEST STRAND ' • 23, THISTLE-STREET, EDINBURGH ; WASON'S-BUILDINGS and MATHEW-STREET, LIVERPOOL; and GREAT BRIDGEWATER-STREET, MANCHESTER. Empowered by Act of Parliament. The Company transact business in every department of Life and Fire Assurance, in Annuities, Reversions, and Loans. LIFE DEPARTMENT. ACTVARY.—J. T. Clement, Esq, At the last quinquennial meeting there was added a bonus to the Life Policies equal to 25 per cent. on the sums paid, and a bonus of 5 per cent. to the Shares, in addition to the payment of the annual interest. For the convenience of parties wishing to assure for a specific sum, without a prospective bonus, a new table at lower rates has been calculated, on which, as well as on the participating scale, one-half the premium may remain on interest at 5 per rent. for five years, thus enabling a person to insure his life for 1,0001. on the immediate payment of the premium for 5001. only. The following are the annual Premiums for the Assurance of 1001. for the whole Life, one-half of whirls may remain for five years by merely paying the interest annually at five per cent. ; and should the Policy become a claim in the interim, the amount due will then be &ducted. Age 20, without profits.. £1 13 50 ..... ......... 4 3 4 , ..... ... 4 .. For short periods the Premiums are considerably lower, and for any ages or contingencies not usually advertised information may be obtained on application to the Actuary or Secretary. FIRE DAPARTMENT. The Company insure houses, furniture, stock In trade, farming stock, and every description of personal property, against loss or damage by fire. The Directors beg to remind their friends whose Premiums become due at Lady-day, that no extra charge is made at this Office for the transfer of Policies, and that they will be rated on terms peculiarly favourable to parties insuring. Insurances may be effected for any period of time • if for seven years, the Premium and Duty will only be charged for six. March 20, 1815. JOHN BIGG, Secretary. 0 With profits .. ••...• X 1 18 0 8 •.. 2 5 8 3 .. 3 1 3 I[ 4 ONDON, EDINBURGH, AND DUBLIN LIFE ASSURAIS - CE COMPANY. charlotte-row, Mansion-house, and 18, Chancery-lane, London. DIRECTORS. KENNETT KINGSFORD, Esq., Chairman. BENJAMIN IFILL, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Alexander Anderson, Esq. James Hartley, Esq. John Atkins, Esq. John M`Gunle. Esq. James Bidden, Esq. John Maclean Lee, Esq. Captain F. Brandreth J. M arinaduke Rosseter, Esq. AUDITORS—H. H. Cannan, Esq. ; Robert E. Alison, Esq. MEDICAL ADvisEß—Marshall Hall, M.D., F.R.S , L. and E. SECRETARY—John Emerson, Esq. SoLiclToßs—Messrs. Painter, France, and Palmer. THIS IS THE ONLY COMPANY who are bound by their Deed of Constitution not to dispute any policy unless they can prove that it was obtained by fraud, and for this purpose the Company have, by a clause in their Deed of Constitution, unhesitatingly deprived them r!elves of the power of objecting to any policy unless they undertake to , rove that it was obtained front them by fraudulent misrepresentation. THIS IS THE ONLY COM I'ANY who give to the assured on the tn n tual principle the whole of the mutual accumulations, and also Ffrantee the sums assured. IS THE ONLY COMPANY who bind themselves to pay t e amount of the policies, although the debts for which they were effected shall have been liquidated before the claim arise. THIS IS ALMOST THE ONLY COMPANY who grant in favour of creditors whole world policies, whereby the debt is secured al though the debtor should go beyond the limits of Europe. BY THE lIALF PREMIUM PLAN ONLY one-half Of the flirt seven years' premium is required, the other half being payable at the convenience of the assured, thus allowing a policy to be continued for seven years, at one-half of the usual rate, or to be dropped at one-half of the usual sacrifice. Prospectuses and schedules are forwarded free of expense. ALEX. ROBERTSON, Manager. A.l'"S LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 30, THROGMORTON-STREET, BANK. EMPOWERED by SPECIAL ACT of PARLIAMENT, 5 and 6 Will. IV., c. 76. THOMAS FARNCOMI3, Esq., Alderman, Chairman. WILLIAM LEAF, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Richard E. Arden, Esq, James Clift, Esq. William Banbury'. Esq. Rupert Ingleby, Esq. Edward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman. p er l 1;, E n , , Etq. sq. . Jeremiah Pilchtr, Esq. 4.lderman, i LeWls Pocock, Esq. eiTohmhoimi.pHasuCznapmh PHYSICIAN —Dr. Jeaffroson, 2, Finsbury-square. SURGEON—W. Coulson, Esq., 2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. CONSULTING ACTUARY—Professor Hall, of King's College. LOW RATES OF PREMIUM. In addition to the subscribed Capital of 300,0001., the Assured have the security of the Company's income of nearly 60,0001. per annum, yearly increasing, and an accamulating Assurance Fund invested in Government and other available securities, of considerably larger amount than the estimated liabilities of the Company. The rates of premium are reduced to the lowest scale compatible with the security of the Assured, and the stability of the Company, thereby, in effect, giving to every Policy Holder an immediate and certain Bonus without risk, in lien of the deferred and frequently delusive prospect of a periodical division of Profits. ♦NNUAL PREMIUM TO ASSURE £lOO. Age. For One Year. I For Seven Years. Whole Terra. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. A remarkable change has come over the chief leader of the Tory party in the north. Passing events, politics, the outbreaks of D'lsraeli, the absence of O'Connell from his Parliamentary duties, the pros pects of Toryism, and twenty other striking events are undeserving of notice. flow different North is now, from what be was when Normanby ruled in Ire land, Melbourne deserted his town residence and re sided at Windsor and Buckingham Palace, and Peel and Lyndhurst and the Duke sat almost without hope on the dreary Opposition benches. Then his soul was filled with just indignation against the wild schemes of the destructives. They were denounced as the enemies of the farmers, they were preparing the way for the downfall of Protestantism by grant ing favours to Catholics, nay they were abrogating the Christianity of the State by advocating the eman cipation of the Jews, and ruining men, once their country's pride, by the new-fangled and dangerous doctrines of free trade. This silence, under the pre sent circumstances, argues a want of moral courage which Blackwood never showed before. His opinion is looked to by his countrymen, and it was shameful to leave them to their own undirected meditations when events of the first magnitude come upon them, one after another, or in clusters, and cast all the doings of Grey, Melbourne, and Stanley, into the shade. The present session has been fruitful beyond all others of themes for discussion, yet on these North is silent as the grave, and longs to amuse his readers with well-rounded sentences and learned disquisitions about such old worn out characters as Virgil, and Tasso, and Dryden. In these stirring times, such personages possess little interest, even with all the skill and classical know ledge plentifully displayed in at least forty pages. Readers, however, must submit to their lot, and if they can only forget Maynooth, and the tariff, and the whinings of disappointed underlings, will find not a little gratification in the comparison drawn by a learned commentator between Homer and his princi pal imitators— for imitators are they all. Too much praise has been given to Tasso. His epic poem is in the highest degree correct—it is written according to the strict rules of art, but it wants the quality which alone can give a zest to poetry—those simple touches of nature which at once go the heart, and which nei ther time nor change of customs can strip of their effect. In that respect Tasso is not only at an im mensurate distance behind Homer, but he is sur passed by Virgil, and even Milton, and his " Jerusa lem Delivered," whatever may be its other merits, on that account is seldom read. It is kept for show rather than use. The subject, too, is unfortunate. The wild visions of the leaders are now viewed in their true light, and the only good they effected— the accidental introduction into Europe of Asiatic discoveries and improvements — is, as far as we re member, not even alluded to. In his remarks on the translations of Dryden, North has not confined him self by any narrow limits, for he describes not only the Englishman, but gives the characters of those poets whose works he has so vigorously translated, and so beautifully clothed in an English dress. We select the character of Juvenal as a specimen : "In Dryden and Juvenal we meet peer and peer. In dignant scorn and moral disgust instigated the nervous hand of 'Juvenal, moulded to wield the scourge of satire. He is an orator in verse, speaking with power and com mand, skilled in the strength of the Roman speech, and practised in the weapons of rhetoric. But he is never• theless a poet. Seized with impressions, you see his sail caught with driving gusts, if his eye be on the card. He snatches images right and left on his impetuous way, and flings them forth suddenly and vividly, so that they al ways tell. Perhaps he is more apt at binding a weighty thought in fewer words than his Translator, who felt himself at this disadvantage when he expressively per • trayed ' the Latin as ' as a severe and compend ious lan guage. The Roman satirist has more care of himself; he maintains a prouder step; and the justifying incentive to this kind of poetry, hate with disdain of the vices and miseries to be lashed, more possesses his bosom. And what a wild inzurrection of crimes and vices! What a challenge to hate and disdain in the minds in which the tradition of the antique virtues, the old mores, those edifiers of the sublime Republic, had yet life! Rome under Nero and Doteitian! Pedants have presumed to question the sincerity of his indigration, and have more than hinted that his power of picturing those enormous profligacies was inspired by the pleasure of a depraved imagination. Never was there falser charge. The times and the topics were not for delicate handling,—they were to be heolted at boldly in the facee—and if spoken of at all, at full, and with unmistakeable words. " There is no gloating in his eyes when fixed in fire on guilt. Antipathy and abhorrence load with more re volting colours the hideous visage, from which, but for that moral purpose, they would recoil. But what, it may be asked, is the worth and use of a satire that drags out vices from their hiding-holes to flay them in sunshine? They had no hiding-holes. They affronted the daylight." " Bentham's Etruria Celtics" is an amusing sketch, and affords a striking illustration of the wild dreams of etymologists. " Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" is of a differcnt character, and merits careful perusal. It relates to those mute records of past changes which lie buried in the earth, the struc ture and movement of the heavenly bodies, and the great works around us, which everywhere show ma nifestly the hand of their Creator. The following remarks are very appropriate for such a grand subject : " To reduce to a system the acts of creation, or the development of the several forms of animal life, no more impeaches the authorship of creation, than to trace the laws by which the world is upheld and its phenomena perpetually renewed. The presumption naturally rises in the mind, that the same Great Being would adopt the same mode of action in both cases. If, for instance, the nebular hypothes . see have already alluded, should be received fi e account of the proxi mate origin of our pia' -w, this, as Mr. Whewell has shown in his Br Treatise,' would serve re the operations of only to enlighten and elev )..•i" our cenceP tion of the power of God. And indeed m i n d a ccustomed—as is every educated mind—to regard Deity as essentially differing from the lim ited, sudden, evanescent impulses of a human agents it is distressin g to be compelled to picture to itself the pow er of God as put forth in any other manner than in those slow, mysterious, universal laws, which have so plainly an eternity to work in ; it pains the imagination to be obliged to assimilate those operations, for a moment, to the brief energy of a human will, or the manipulations of a human hand. Does not the lang ua g e even of a Christian poet, when he slit aks of God as launchin g from his ample palm the rolling planets into space, in some derog the measure offend us? Do we not avoid as muchatory asto pos sible all suck similitudes, as being notions of the Supreme? " There are still, indeed, some men of narrow preju dices who look upon every fresh attempt to reduce the phenomena of nature to general laws, and to limit those occasions on which it is necessary to conceive of a direct and separate interposition of Divine power, as a fresh encroachment on the prerogatives of the Deity, or a con cealed attack upon his very existence. And yet these very same men are daily appealing to such laws of the creation as have already been established, for their great pro( fs of the existence and the wisdom of God ! Their imagination has remained utterly untutored by the little knowledge which they have rather learned to repeat than to apprehend. Whatever words they may utter, of subtle and high-sounding import, concerning the purely spiritual nature of the Divine Being, it is, in fact, a Jupiter Toner's clad in human lineaments, and invested with human passions, that their heart is yearning atter. they now applaud a ;Bridgewater Treatise, Such oljectors as these can only be beaten back, and chained down, by what some one has called the brute force of public opinion. in the laws of the " Some little time ago men of this class teemed it ir religious to speak of the laws of the human mind ,• it pto savouredDr. chal illustratemo f e r n st e h c we e h s necessity, ntttyrhi he writes t er f si a t fatalism i histm God mental as well as the physical world." The rest of the Number has greater variety, and among the amusing and interesting articles are " The Wolves of Esthonia," " Foscolo and English llos pitality," and "Modern Cookery." TAIT'S MAGAZINE. 1 _ 20 1 £0 17 S I £0 19 1 30 I 11 S 12 7 0 i 1 5 i 6 9 50 1 114 1 0 ll9 10 60 f 3 2 4 317 0 XI 11 10 2 0 7 2 14 10 4 0 11 6 0 10 One-third of " Whole Term" Premium may remain unpaid at 5 per cent. compound interest, as a debt upon the policy for life, or may be paid off at any time without notice. In Assurances for Advances of Money, as security for debts, or as a provision for a family, when the least present outlay is desirable, the varied and comprehensive tables of the Argus Office will be found to be particularly favourable to the Assured. The Medical Officers attend daily at a Quarter before Two o'Clock. EDWARD BATES, Resident Director. A liberal Commission to Solicitors and Agents. BRITANNIA LIFE OFFICE, 1, Princes-street Bank, and 448, West Strand, Lo: don, January l, 1845. Notice is hereby given, that the BUSINES • of the LONDON and WESTMINSTER MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY has ben TRANSFERRED to this Company ; and all persons holding policies issued by the said Society are intbrrned that, as soon as the renewal premiums thereon shall become pyable, new policies will be granted to them by the Directors of this Company, at the same rates of pressium W hich they now pay, and without any charge for stamp-duty ; and all claimants on policies issued by the said London and Westminstor Mutual Life Assurance Society are Informed that such claims will be dischar.Td by the Direc tors of this Company, a soon as the the same shall have been substantiated. PETER MORRISON, Resident Director. BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANY, 1, Princes-street, Bank, London, empowered by spe. vial Act of Parliament, 4 Vic. c. 9. - HALF CREDIT RATES OF PREMIUM. Persons assured according to these rates are allowed credit (with out security) for half the amount of the first seven annual premiums, paying interest thereon at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, with the option of paying off the principal at any time, or having the amount deducted from the 811111 assured when the policy becomes a claim. Pouch s may thus be effected at lower rates than are generally re quired for the term of seven years only ; whilst the holders have the same security for the payment of their claiMs, whenever death may happen, as if they paid double the amount of premitun, which would be charged fur assurances effected in the usial way. Extract from the Half Credit Rates al rremium. Annual Premium required for an Assuramie of 1001. for the Whole Term of Life. 'Ulf Premium for Whole Premium Age. seven years. after seven years. --- .£ s. d. .£ s. d. 30119 ' 2 3 6 25 1 4 11 . 2 9 10 40 1 9 2 2 18 4 45 1 14 10 3 9 8 50226 • 4 5 0 55 2 12 9 5 5 6 60 3 6 8 6 13 4 PETER MORRISON, Resident Di CURES of SMALL PDX by MORISON'S PILLS, of the British College of Health, New-road, London : To Mr. A. Charlwood, Orford Hill, Norwich, General Agent for Morison's Medicines. Dear Sir,—l am rather surpris , d that you have published no cures of Small Pox, that have been so long prevalent in the City ; and I see by a bill put into my hands this day, that it is still spreading to an alarming extent, and that there has been three hundred deaths, most of these, I suppose, under the care of doctors. My two youngest children caught the disorder, and I employed no doctor but Morison's Pills, which I gave them daily, and kept their bowels well open; one soon recovered, but the youngest had it very severe, and was blind five days; but I persevered with the Pills, and fully believe they were the means of saving her life. I know this is contrary to the Opinion of some that say the bowels ought not to be kept open in Small Pox. I can only say it was attended with the best eff OOD . ects on my children, You rs res p ectfully, T. W_ Magdalen-street, Norwich, March 25, 1845. P.S. I forgot to state that I aye u few doses to several persons whose children were very bad, with good effect in every case. In all the cases of cure published by the British College of Health, the name of the street , and nu mber of the house, is always put, in order that the fullest inquiries may be made. For other cases of cure see the " Guide to Patients," to be had of • all the agents. N.B. No Chemist or Druggist is allowed to sell Morison's Pills. — The principal agents in London are the Hvgeist Office, 368, Strand ; IMr. Field, 65, Quadrant ; Mr. Lofts, 3, Piirk-place, Mile End-road ; Mr. Chappell, 84, Lombard-street ; Mrs. Baucher, 125, Tottenham ' court-road, The articles in this Number are less interesting than usual. We have " Letters from Naples," de scribing the peculiar habits, the gay and careless life, and the lovely imagination of the inhabitants of the most delightful and luxurious climate of Eu rope, but there is little new in the details. The de scription of the drawings for the lottery, however, is good, though the writer magnifies the evils which it causes, and strangely describes the risking of a few pence, " one of the most virulent diseases that eat into the very existence of the people of Naples." The lottery is absolutely nothing compared with other modes of spending money in that country ; and even as regards the common people, the games at - which they constantly play when idle, and that is very often, cause money to change hands with infinite more ra pidity than lottery schemes. The lottery has got a bad name, and every one, of course, thinks he may hunt it to death. The " Series of Letters written by Niebuhr while in Scotland" is continued, and furnish some interesting details of his travels, and the visits he made to the men of note in Scotland at the time of his visit, which is now nearly half a century ago. The political article this month is the best of the lot. Tait, like all good political reformers, wants some thing more than new tariffs, he wants organic reform and democratic institutions ; but at the same time, like a man of sense and sound discretion, is willing to take an instalment, and thus alludes to some of the doings of Sir Robert Peel during the present ses sion :- " To call this Budget a Free-trade' measure, or a ' bold' measure—the usual terms of Liberal laudation of the Peel policy—we hold to be flat nonsense. Free trade' means doing away with the great monopolies ; putting down the interests;' repealing the private taxes which certain privileged classes levy on the public under the name of protection. This Budget does not touch one of the great monopolies, except that of sugar, which it makes many degrees worse than it was before ; leaves all the interests whole and intact • keeps on every one of the private taxes in undiminished exorbitancy ; and re-imposes a cruel and oppressive public tax to fill up the hole which the monopolists mak• in the revenue. * Boldness,' in politics, usually means doing the right and honest thing in the face of formidable opposition ; running risks and braving difficulties for the sake of a just and true principle. This Budget of Sir Robert Peel's gives no serious offence to any party or power in the country, capable of endangering his official exis tence ; leaves his tenure of office as secure and easy, to all appearance, as it was before ; has nothing bold about it, except the audacity that perpetuates a hateful impost, without even pretending a necessity—declines all attempt at mitigating an acknowledged injustice, as involving tedious and unnecessary discussions '—and exults in the possession of a surplus, however derived.' " While we regard the praise of boldness,' and ' free trade principles,' as ludicrously inapplicable to a measure which leaves all the great monopoly interests unassailed, and actaally strengthens one of them, we cheerfully allow its obvious and substantial merits to approbation on other grounds. Only lay free-trade out of the question ; grant the Minister his fundamental postulate, that the interests ' are a part of the Constitution ; ac cept the private taxes as a permanent public burden, standing in the same category with the interest on the National Debt,—and the measure is really an admirable one. The abolition of the cotton import duty and the glass excise, and the erasure from the tariff of the four hundred and thirty minutia that yielded little revenue, and obstructed much industry and trade, we regard as most valuable commercial reforms. We are delighted to see the thorough and final establishment, in our fiscal policy, of two principles of capital importance, for which our best economists have been contending for years,— the free importation of the raw materials of manufactures, and the abolition of taxes that vexatiously and obstruc• FBAS KR'S MAGAZINE. The State-coach, which last month was going down bill in such fine style, has since taken some awkward turns, and the jolting and swinging of the vehicle from side to side, the wild career of the horses, and the recklessness of the driver, have produced a most alarming effect upon the nerves of the pas sengers. The insides ar e tolerabl y eas y , b ut t h e out sides are in a state of t he most dreadful alarm for nor Where they they nareeithteerstkenpo.w wllhbe curses, though deep, are n ot loud —he h but their as got the whip-hand of them — they , in fact, are at his mercy , A and venture only to mu tter broken p hrases a bout the lraemtehetyheaeree coachman, filth of Houndsditch and Saffron-hill, and St. Giles's. "It is not longer than last month," says Fraser, " that we took occasion to explain ourselves very plainly concerning many of the measures of the Con servative Premier, and to afford to him the meed of praise which they seemed to deserve. We have not a word of our article for March last to retract. We think now, as we thought then, that his Irish policy is most adroit ; and though we cannot shut our eyes to the truth that the State-carriage is going down the bill of Toryism as fast as it can, we still hope to reach the level of a monarchy surrounded by democratic institutions with whole bones." This is a desperate look-out for Conservatives. Any hap would be better than this—an overturn, or a fix in ~~~~~~~ - -------- dwindled down almost into a grammar school. But judging from the writer's political opinions, seeing that he is-not—uo4pariog- - of his praise of th e Y o ung Englanders, and that he is of opinion that the prero gatives of the Crown ought to be increased, we must think he would not wish to see it lose its character of a prepar• a-fort' school. The other articles do not call for any particular remark. DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGA- ZINE. Douglas Jerrold still goes on in his course rejoic ing. " St. Giles and St. James" increases in interest, and piquancy, and value, for it is really a most valuable work. In the present number young St. Giles, incited by Tom Blast, steals a pony the pro perty of young St. James—is tried therefor and condemned to death. We give the following extract as a sample of the manner in which Jerrold extracts a high moral lesson from the most ordinary occur rences. Tom Blast, the ballad-singer, has been roaring through the streets " A most True and Par ticular Account of the horrible circumstance of a Bear that has been fed upon live young Children in a Cellar in Westminster :" " Nevertheless, though Torn roared with an energy that very strongly declared his own faith in the horror that he sought to vend fur only one halfpenny, still his auditors lacked credulity or coppers, for the well-worn enormity. Nobody purchased. Not even a timorous, sympathizing servant-maid advanced through the crowd to make the mystery her own. Tom looked about him with evident disgust at what he had heard called the ad vancement of the age ; he had heard of the nuisance and now he beheld it. His standing in the world as a tradesman was fast crumbling from neath his feet." What too, made it most discouraging to Mr. Blast were the scoffs and loud laughter with which certain new-comers would listen to the description of the horror sought to be circulated, and then hurry off. That cock won't fight now cried one--' A little late in the day for that. Get something new,' cried anether. Gammon !' shouted a third. " Nevertheless, be of good heart, Torn Blast : take consolation from this. You suffer in great society : you sink in most worshipful companionship. Very reverend, grave, authoritative persons—men of the bench, even of the pulpit—who for centuries sold to their exceeding profit, Most True and Particular Accounts' of a horrid bear of some sort—whether of royal or feudal privilege —of witchcraft—of Popery—of sham rebellion—nay, fifty bears and bugbears, all of horrid, ghastly nature, — they, too, in their turns, have outlived the profitable lie. And even in these latter days, when some Tom Blast in higher places, —nay, in the highest—sounds his tin horn of bigotry, and would trade upon some bear apocryphal, —he is assured in the like sense, although in gentler phrase, that such cock will by no means fight—that the day has passed for so foolish, vain a story—that, finally, his bear is no bear at all, but briefly, yet intensely— gammon. Has not history her catch-pennies, even as the archives of Seven Dials ?" The " History for Young England," is also continued in the present number, and there is an admirab'e west country story of a game-preserving parson who was caught in his own trap, while Juniper Hedge hog contributes three admirable letters on the occur rences of the day. The paper on the " Birthday of Shakspeare" should be read by every Englishman who has his country's honour at heart. The re proach cast upon us is most just. We have done nothing for him who has done so much for us. We hope that the attention of those in authority will be drawn to the subject, and that means will be adopted for preserving religiously every relic of Shakspeare which is yet left to us. The lovers of Shakspeare are under great obligation to Douglas Jerrold for having drawn attention to the subject. ~i~ PUBLICATIONS. DUNLOP'S HISTORY OF FICTION. 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The receipts for the half-year ending December last were r 18,503/. 10. jOd., and the expenses of working, 9,3401. fu l r of h . lss t .3 e C1do" leaving a balance of 9,1621. 19s. 71d, in Company. The gross amount of expenditure on the works of the line has been 1,139,7091., and the balance at the bankers' is now 32,2151. The proposed extensions are to be prosecuted befor e the Legislature with all due vigour, and the Directors appear to show a very friendly feeling to all neighbouring interests. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. The Dublin University Magazine for this month does not possess its usual average of interesting matter. The first article is a review of Mr. Petrie's work on the vexata questio of the Irish Round Towers, in which the reviewer and the author are of accord, assigning to them, and we think justly, a Christian origin • and an ecclesiastical purpose. Seeing, how ever, that many who have investigated the subject with great care, and amongst others the learned O'Connor, have given to them a very different object and a far higher origin, we think the reviewer's opinions too dogmatically expressed. Of much more conse quence than the solution of the Round Tower con troversy is the belief to which the investigations into this subject have led that the Irish were in possession of a style of architecture prior to the Norman inva sion, which, if satisfactorily proved, would establish the fact of that high civilization which tradition and the Irish records that remain assert was possessed by the Irish when England was sunk in profound dark ness and heathenism. From the' Poetical Remains of the late Mrs. James Gray" some portions are given which indicate a fine moral feeling and a high religious sentiment, rather than a lofty poetic faculty. " Walter and Mabel" is a tale, the common stale tale of love and the broken heart. There is a happy cor respondence, however, between the triteness of the story and the language,—as " the lamp of life seemed flickering in its socket like the last fitful rays of an expiring taper." " Bernardo Tasso" is the first of a series of articles on the Italian poets. Such a series, if well executed might be made highly interesting; but, judging from the specimen before us, we do not expect the writer of it will succeed in accomplishing that object. It is true he says he is writing at a distance from books, and can do little more at present than communicate his intention of future papers ; but it would be just as well if he deferred a beginning till he was really prepared to begin. The account of Bernardo Tasso is consequently confined to a few dates, while the style and character of his poetry are altogether passed over. His large work, ,the "Amadigi," con sisting of a hundred cantos, is certainly not a great work, but it is giving a very erroneous impression of it when it is said of it "it indeed exists.' It is a mere translation of the Amadisde Gaul, with some additions of his own ; but it is classified with the Morgante of Pulci, and the two Orlandos e i f Boiardo and Ariosto (though certainly inferior to' . them in all respects), which are called by Crescinibeni, "1 bellasimi ronianzi." Some of his sonnets, also, as that on the death of Charles V., are beautiful; and he composed pastorals and other poems, which had success. lie would have had a greater name if a greater Tasso, his son, did not exist. "The System of Positive Philosophy" is an attempt to analyse Mr. Compte's " Discourse" upon the system (of which he is himself the author), which that learned person delivered, last year, in Paris. The writer has not succeeded in giving a lucid exposition of a very abstract subject. " The Rail versus the Road " details a laughable adventure on the railroad to Versailles. " The Land Commission in Ireland " affords the writer of an article with this heading an oppor tunity of crying up the virtues, the patience, and kind-heartedness of Irish landlords—especially those of them who have been most active in display ing their anti-liberal feelings. The writer thinks that there ought to be no commission till agrarian outrages were put an end to—that is, that there ought to be no attempt at a remedy till the evil was gone! There is much truth, however, in the remark, " that the great want of Ireland is the want of wants." " The Empire and the Consulate "is a well-tempered article on M. Thiers' work. Like other critics in this country, the writer finds fault with M. Thiers' estimate of Pitt and his policy. But is not M. Thiers right ? We have got Waterloo ; true, out have we not paid too much for the "famous victory ?" We have sti - budgets, but no Bour bons. We would fearlessly put it to any Englishman —except, perhaps, the Duke of Newcastle—whether he would purchase again the same results at the same )rice ? " The Nevilles of Garrettstown" coritinues to ,ncrease in interest and effect. DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE. The second Number of this Magazine continues to realise the promise of its first. Some of its articles are clearly from experienced pens, and its fine Cat _ts Crimes;' spirit is even better than its literary merit. first article this month, " Vices, Sins , and demonstrates, in clear and almost axiomatic e g phrase ology, the absurdity and wieked . n h ess f the mainte vernmental power interfering nance of theological opinion s , or ridiculous. " The moral ity howeverand religious erroneous "are in relation faith of every one," says the . writer, actions are under the su to his own conscience : his ac office it is to p perintendence of the wh os e State, detrimental to the ro" vide that they shall not be State at large, nor to any member or members of the commu nity." How happy . had it been for mankind if states men always recognised and acted upon this simple truth. Deorum injuria diis eurce appears blasphemy only to those who have an interest in religious ascendancy. God needs neither Pope nor Prelate to wield his bolts. In " The Tractarian Movement" the writer discusses the probability of a change in the religious opinions of the people of England in conse quence of the Oxford movement, with great ingenuity and learning, but we think him too sanguine in his expectation. It is worth while to hear the • • opinion of a learned Rotnon Catholic on a point which stares every one in the face who at all considers the move ment :—" Without intending for a moment to im peach the sincerity of its authors, and with the ut most respect for their virtues, talents, and learning, we do not hesitate to affirm, that the system of inter pretation adopted of late years for reconciling the thirty-nine Articles with the doctrine of the Council of Trent, is one so forced, unnatural, false, and absurd, that if tolerated it would render the intercourse be tween men a snare and a cheat, and all language itself a mockery." One of the advantages which the writer attributes to the Oxford movement is, that it has imparted a " better theology and a more spiritual philosophy" to the University itself, which had (v / SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE. This Number opens with a very interesting ac count of the Neilgherry Hill tribes, who seem to differ from the other natives of India in every particular. In language, in religion, in manners, in customs, these Todus are a peculiar race. In every thing they seem opposed to those by whom they are surrounded. For instance, they are surrounded by natives who indulge in a plurality of wives—the Todus have a plurality of husbands A word respecting the marriages of this people may be worth inserting. They practise polyandrism, one woman being allowed two and frequently three hus bands. When a young man wishes to marry a girl,he, or, if he is young, his father, goes to the parents of the girl, and having settled the amount of dower the young man is to receive, which is sometimes considerable, presents them with a milch buffalo, and another on every occasion of a, death in the girl's family, until the parties are of age, when the young man goes to the house of the girl, and, after staying a few days, takes her to his house without any ceremony. This is practised also by all who marry the same woman. She stays with him who first married her three months, and with the next three, and so on. The first three children belong to the first husband, that second three to the second, and so on." The remainder of the contents of the present Num ber relate principally . to colonial statistics, and con tain a fund of valuable i nformation on colonial subjects CLERKS OF ASSIZE, &c., BILL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—A somewhat curious mode (if not apparent begging plan) is adopting in regard to the Bill now in Parliament affecting Clerks of Assize, Clerks of the Peace, and Justices' Clerks. A printed form of petition has been transmitted to justices throughout the country, for the purpose of their sig natures thereto, which is intended as a backer for the Govern ment scheme. In a little time we shall see how this has answered.—Your obedient servant, March. 28, 1845. JUSTICES' CLERK. THE LATE FATAL CATASTROPHE AT BLACKWALL. Monday Mr. Baker :held ;an inquest at the Spotted Dog, High -street, Poplar, on the bodies of John Payne, aged 27, and Thomas Bates, aged 22, who lost their lives in the building-yard of' Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare, Orchard-yard, Blackwell, under the circumstances de tailed in The Sun of Monday. The jury having viewed the bodies, which presented a most mutilated spectacle, the following evidence was ad duced:— henry Blackburn stated that the deceased, Payne, was a labourer. Bates was an engineer. Both were in the employ of Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare. On Saturday evening last, about a quarter to six o'clock, the deceased persons, together with several others of the workmen, were waiting to be paid their w a g e s at the entrance of the gateway, opposite the clerk's pay-office. There was a stack of rod iron standing near to the men on the left side. They were placed against a beam in a slanting direction. It is customary to place iron in that way. W a has seen between fifty and sixty tons against the same beam. The greater portion of the iron was on one side. The pressure was about seven or eight tons. There was a strut from the beam to the wall to ensure its safety. and compensate for the deficieney of weight on the weakest part. Whilst the men were waiting, about 80 or 90 in number, witness heard a rumbling noise, and immediately afterwards saw the whole mass slip oft bodily and fall to the ground, breaking the beam at the end. The workmen were standing and leaning against the iron. The two deceased persons, with five others, were crushed underneath. On being extricated they were found to be quite dead. James Edward Beeves, foreman to Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare, described the manner in which the iron was stacked. Witness could nut state the precise cause of the occurrence, but in his judgment the number of men who were lounging about waiting to be paid had pressed against the mass of iron, which had forced it down. Witness could only account for it in that way, as the iron bad fallen in a contrary direction to the pressure. The foot of the principal had broken off. Mr. T. J. Diteliburn, one of the firm, said he much re gretted the unfortunate occurrence. Ile had ordered the iron to be differently stacked. It was intended to be placed where it was, but instead of being conveyed to its destination, in another part of the yard, the men had stopped half way to avoid extra trouble, and to make it convenient for weiFliing. Witness employs upwards of 500 men, and lie coincided with Beeves, the foreman, as to the supposed cause of the occurrence. The CORONER summed up the evidence, and said he trusted that Mr. Ditchburn would see the impdrtanee o 1 personally seeing that in future every precaution was taken to prevent accidents, and the jury, without heal otion, returned a verdict of accidental death. THE COUNTESS Or E GUNTON STEAMER.—We re gret to state, that this tine river steamer was driven from her moorings at Milport, during the storm of Thursday night, and thrown upon the rocks. She is said to have been seri ously damaged. No person was on board,— Glaagow Satw day Post. THE MA ILS. — SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 31.—The Oriental Company's steam ship Royal Tar came into the docks last evening, with the Peninsular and Gibraltar mails , which, on being landed, were forwarded to London by 2 A M. mail train this day. Sh e l e f t Gib raltar on the 22d instant; Cadiz, 23d ; Lisbon and Oporto, 25th ; and Vigo, 26th. The Royal Tar has a fruit cargo and 14 passengers. The Fantom• sloop-of-war, and Spanish line-of battle ship Soberian, were at Gibraltar, and the Scout and Flamer steamers, the French ' corvette Trido, and brig-of-war Douro, were at Cadiz. The Tagus steam-ship, Captain Brookes, will leave the docks to morrow at three o'clock, with a full cargo of bale goods, for Constantinople. The Tagus will take out the East India and China mails as far as Malta, and then be forwarded, in the Iberia, to Alexandria. FOURFOLD ACCIDENT ON THE TIIAMES.—Mon day Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Spotted Dog, High street, Poplar, on the body of William Day, aged thirty-one, a fisherman. It may be recollected that on the sth of February the deceased and three other persons, named By ford, were drowned near the Gallions, off Woolwich, by the upsetting of their fishing-beat at night, during a squall. The body of one of the Byfords was found soon after the accident, and an inquest was held on it by Mr. Lewis, Coroner for Essex, at Barking. The verdict was" Accidental death." The body of the deceased man, Day, was found on Wednesday last, floating in the river, off Bow-creek. The bodies of two of the Byfords have not yet been found. The evidence on Monday proved that the men, at eleven o'clock AI night, were coming up the river in a batch-boat, laden with fish, and sailing in the wake of a brig. They gained noon the brig, and as they shot by its stern a sudden glut of wind, blowing off the shore, caught the boat's sails and upset her. Only one man escaped—a good swimmer, named Joseph Leach, who related the above facts. Verdict—" dental death." EXTENSIVE FIRE YESTERDAY IN THE MINO• ntEs.—About one o'clock in the morning a fire broke out it No. 83, in thesMinories, in the occupation of Mr. Kirby, ba and colourman. The inmates escaped with difficulty over thi roof of the next house. Engines were promptly on the spot. but. the result was the destruction of Mr. Kirby's house and stock. Mr. Ormer's house, next door, and other proKrty, was considerably damaged. Bee al will ,i 4 4 01 fool {5 to