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. . ~.. : ~- A GRAND FULL AND FANCY . ,-- .7.-., ~.e,' lUTI I- .I) n R E S S B A L T., , ' :I'6l C. Under the Patronage of '7 . ; ;ri ir, it . '" I Isis Royal Highness the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE, TVED.N.TESDAY, To be given on ' t' 1 • - ,- I Li z ' S UN. ' the 26th of FEBRUARY, 1845, , - • i ! -, . Al THE LONDON TAVERN, NS AID of the SOCIETY for the PROTECTION and Elinor. . f. , .'' - ' 4 ' ' • ' ) of the Board . . -. .z... - iio - - •\, ~.., w av schen' e „ . .'' • le fioard ini . ' MENT of DISTRESSED NEEDLEWOM EN. .11111.3c.CT0Pteir" , ..1. 9 4 1. . ..,..........-41.4.16CM5VC71-,,.14,13-....., PA M. °NESs. — HER MAJESTY the QUEEN DOWAGER. atta i nm ent of Vtez-PArnox.--The Right Hon. LORD ASHLEY, M.P. tulle s ' l'ararDENT.--31r. ALDER.MAN FAREBROTIIER. N . 1 , i,,,. - 9'• . - - N 4 1 g Comp ant „s PATRONESSES. iler Grace the Duchess of Norfolk. ca tio. nuittni l by them_er Maremon ic r o Gr:t i ee r t oo lie ni. Duchess of Buccleuch. .e , l e Her Grace the Duche ss o f S u th er l an d . and not We' ss f be mar chioness of Clear' rd TR E BU. is Pub!ished EVERY IifORNIN co c co o u i i l:n n t t t :Zs of ( ir ) , ,fffLady Olivia Sparrow. partial ° , Viscountess Joycelyn. ;he Lady Mary Stanley. de to cases.°,' Sefton.enh o a r r e o . e n a g h e . . ;..q. 0 ° • Lady Emily Pussy. npan.-- . ". Lad a.— Lady Mary Vyner. ADVERTISEMENTS I laid down' le Lady y .rances Egerton. Lady Aylmer, Viscountess Frances Sandon. Lady Wenlock. has a valtn ib _ 4iseountess Sydney. ant of the ne", Lady Macdonald. Viscountess Cumin -• Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson. ATTLE 0 F WA • TERLOO. a fulfilment c) ,' L ady Ashley. 6. Dowager Lady Grey. .E.....V New Model, upon a large Scale, representing the Splendid tperior to Oa' Lady Ilume Campbell. Charge in the earlier part of the Battle by the British heavy Cavalry PATRONS and COMMITTEE for conducting the BALL, under the under the _Marquis of Anglesea, and by the British Infantry under Sir to Vilr i°lls 0 111 ; Patronage of Thomas Picton. • ceollaPli gh The t_ H. R. 11. the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE, EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. Rt. lion art of St. Jermyn, M.P. i B. B. Cabbcll, Esq. Open Irons Eleven Morning to Nine Evening. u; Lord Robert Grosvenor, J. Alexander, Esq. ;onnecte dif t Lord M. • . 1 G. Bland, Esq. Admission—One Shilling. nOnliCallf,::: l) 4dleY Stuart. sir B . ~ ~.. F. Clarke, Esq. ." One may read bul etins, and dispatches, and histories for a month than hY G eo ' • kaYnn, Bart. R. S. Cox, Esq. without obtaining the clear idea of these movements which a glance Sir 1. L . LarPent, Bart. T. Croudace, Esq. at the Model will convey."—Bell's Weekly Messenger. v .& if 13° aIW arr.' e r job. ... Goldstnid, Mart., F.R.S. '' staste John Carter, Esq. - 111) OY AL ' POLY TECHNIC INSTITUTION. a gren ta __,Ag r g Georg e L nn an, Esq., M.P. • J. Patti Sall' En'.P. C. S. Ellis, Esq. William Eykyn, Esq. _11_14.) A New Subject in CHEMISTRY - of universal interest pr the e3. " 7 " J. Iv. /Z,, n , , Eaci., M.P.. Thomas Eykyn, Esq. PHILLIPS'S PATENT FIRE ANNIHILATOR, illustrated by fer e° Eenja t „''''"a, Esq., I.r.r. T. sh " Wood, Esq., yd.p. T. C. Gibson, Esq. Dr.. Ryan in his daily Lectures, and on the Evenin LENT ;has ° as Or A. H. Hig,gins, Esq. MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and FRIDAYS. DURING Josept e , P r ill En, M.P.it e t 00 Thomas Harper, Esq. . a Series of LECTURES on ASTRONOMY will be delivered by Pro of comingderea Sir Ar e :Y , Esq., M.P. Henry Hoppe, Esq. Henry Heald, Esq. fessor Itachh,ffner, on the Mornings and Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. accompanied by Dr. Wallis on BRABY'S oin.ly render lite AT ;d lv ern k i a ::°B:it e E i s tO . l ' v 3 , l F .P .R . .S. . James Harmer, Esq. CALOTONE,—KITE'S PATENT SMOKE-CURING and vENTI i bind i" o e t ber aTtikAl St ei r readee c iwitn . ni2; l l 3; F :.ro ar rarnooh. eb nneoso. ro nin t . l beier. . G. E. Hodgskinson, Esq. EATING ROOF, COWLS, LAMP, 'and CHIMNEY-SWEEPING nal 11 1 01 a rieg aid,n.t7srshall, Alderman. John King, Esq. APPARATUS, and TAYLOR'S improved domestic FIRE ESCAPE, treby 5eC tor J. G. Gaunt Lye, Esq. are interesting Novelties. Two beautiful Pictures of the SHRINE of the NATIVITY are just added to the NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS. Alde — rm - L nll , oo Per. nd aIM OS to John Macutchin, Esq. Henry Marriott, Esq. CHILD'S CHROMATROPE. THE PROTEOSCOPE. The td its abilil PHYRIOSCOPE. EXPERIMENTS by meansof the DIVING BELL ' li en. al C. F. ➢Moxhay,Esq. and DIVER. • - - - ~., e Recorder of Lon- Robert Meggy, Esq. The Mutsic is conducted by T. Wallis, Mus. Doc. e duced, " v t li i, w. S. Potter, Esq. Admission, Is. ;• Schools, Half-price. (Militia Oil 3lr. a..r" 'licher, Esq. G. T. Roper, Esq. AS, W her ta ies; A. „t•-71's.ge.ant Merryweather. William Thomborrow, Esq. Ci LAR A •SEYTUYS MUSICAL and DRA „ p ',ltob arts , E „. t. Thornton Boyce, Esq. 91.•,j MATIC ENTERTAINMEN TS, at the MUSIC HALL, other f P tion ° P. s'„, - ennard, E s , Joseph Underwood, Esq. STOR.-:-STREET, every THURSDAY EVENING. eXPe ct3 all Itil;cBiFar°7i ti nns o ; r ' i EE it sg o s n : ,E . sq • W. Wilkinson, Esq. On THURSDAY NEXT, February 20, the LECTURE will be on old C0n313 re, D. W. Wire, Esq. reasonably i f . B. B. Williams, Esq. ENGLISH COMEDY, with Songs, Readings, Anecdotes, and an Ac esnoP° Ma s i._ count of the Ancient Minstrels. of o w no' x . „ 4 -s not allowed.—The Ball to commence at Eight o'clock. Piano-forte, Mr. W. MASTERS. . „ .. , -....T h .ate-st„„, 0 Committee sit daily at the London Tavern, Bishops in a bettef, 1' Alny ' 3 l where Donations and Subscriptions will be most grate- Tickets 2s. and 2s. 6d. each to be had of all Music-sellers ;at the nlpetitia' 01 • gOf ~ reeeiv . Slagle Ticket, ,as also by John Masterman, Esq., M.P., Treasurer. Hall ; and of Miss Clara Sey;on, 47, Conduit-street, Regent-street, of whom alone private boxes (One Guinea each) can be obtained. asonto to to b e h_licket, 12s, ; Double Ticket, for Lady and Gentleman, 20s. ; the coeL s bire C. 0 1,,,,,; at the London Tavern, at the principal Music Shops, of the Doers open at Half -past Seven, to commence at Eight. m. LincA 0 1 . liteir;'," e, and at the Office of the Society, 37, Rathbone-place. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR , .„, fl e • " L aetita includ ng ana i m . es 01 1 . . • ANCE .SOCIETY, • COIDP BnI til li IV e ILLIAM THORNBORROW, Hon. Secretary. 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. 0 d York, n oir Capital X 500,000. minds tu , e Vil 1 1 A. R, I S A ND LYONS RAILWAY. Empowered by Act of Parliament. don an 0 LAFFITTE'S COMPANY. Th e Provisio al Committee o of the Paris and Lyons Railway Corn- DIVISION OF PROFITS. The steady success and increasing presperity of the Soclety has d by th e 1613 DanY beg to state, forthe information enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation to declare a Ply ton of their Proprietors, and in re- .. ; 0 0 I. 3 ,0 1„. numerous inquiries, that this is that adopted by the Govthernme only. LINE TrPolicy Bonus, avera;fing 60 per cent. on the amounts invested on each went 0 , J. 0 ., t ender oMpany has been, for more than twe years, in a psition - to 's. effected on the Profit scale. conatra t i l cor eteecoveonaituoofothoef GovernmenttheeaEt h °F o rki RAILWAY l l? • EXAMPLES. i W hilst +4l, It ' — `" n ws . Y, l o n n th tl ~ . ...g r sees x d o e o te o t r t i o n g i n t i h n o g o t a o r th lease m ,0 r t k a l i e , 4 considerable increase in the capital will be speedily required. ~, p" I•V u. 9 m a): ve — co' .19, co 0 ''' es. '-1 eXlSti n i, 01 1° Further particulars gt Bonus Bonus in ii si g ea , s be so, ',ld Will thorn re sPecting the distribution of the new shares t 3 Premium. 4 Y he announced. , Ki..„'.- Wanam-street, Feb. 17, 1825. ? 13 added. Cash. r c'f; C V-' -' "A di , 13 - 2 te g ~, i s /no- 62 BY order, I i?, 2 l' 6 Yoe( CHELMSFORD ED. AIME, Secretary. A nd 0( [ldea Jot— et• z xa. d.l ! £ s. d. I£s.d..£ s. d. X s. ds 1837 170 9 3 77 a 1 12 3 !I 346 2 3 way they ~ • ‘_/ by BR ATNTREp b AND BURY RAILWAY, lee on l 0 1 ," kid LAvvv. , ,,,, —• ROCKING, HALSTE tD, SUDBURY, 10;1000 74 3 4 1838 144 2 2 64 5 6 916 4 296 13 4 mden i t f in dot 401 1). j;e7ioT-i'hit(rtwi,t_ll,,,p_r_o_nc.t_ed extensions to Thetford and Mai r 1 1839 116 16 0 51 511 711 9 247 4 5 CHELMSFORD AND BURY RAILWAY, ki by BRAINTREE BOOKING, HALSTE ID, SUDBURY, entiZLAVENHAT..lbli(rtwi;t_linip:treojismect:sd. extensions to Thetford and Mats Capitol, 75 0,0001., in Shares of' 25/. each. 14818tered Deposit, 1/. 7s. 6d. per Share. provisionally pursuant to Act 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir John Tyssen Tyrell, Bart., 31.1' for Essex, Boreham House, near Chelmsford. Sir Hyde Parker, Bart., Melford Nall, Suffolk. Sir Jelin Page Wood, art., Glazenwood House, Essex. CR. olonel T. F. Addison, Chilton Lodge, Sudbury C ' B arnardiston, Esq., the Ryes, Sudbury. ',Zinn Bennet, jun., Esq., Rougham Hall, Bury St. Edmonds. .re Rey. Edward Bull, Pentlow Rectory. 3 41 ; 11 es Brewster, Esq., Little Maplestead Hall, Essex. " • W. Cater, Esq., Lyston Hall, Essex, and Liverpool. Samuel Courtauld, Esq., Foley House, Booking. JChauntler, Esq., Friday-street, London. Mtn Edniunds, Esq., Sudbury and London. -bert Emmett, Esq. ,'I e Rev. B. Faulkner,Peckham. Westgate House, Melford. 8 Greenw oo t' • eedaY, sq E., Sudbury. • d Bank, Jo c , "r a e ,,. / layeock, , Esq., Esq., ChelmsfordHalstead- JobT.u,eale, Esq., Gray's Inn. Job " c uttings, Esq., Sible Hedingham, Essex. llubbard, Esq., Sible Hedingham. Th',, n i ; R ing, Esq., Bank, Sudbury. 'ev. Thomas Ludbey, Cranham Rectory, Essex.. t;) "; ac e W. Meteyard, Esq., Chatham-place, Blackfriars. e l l neY Savill Onley, Esq., Stisted Hall, Essex. atlas George Parker, Esq., Springfield-place, Chelmsford. G„ o n r ilaon Piper, Esq., Colne Engaine, Essex. John Weller Weller Foley, Esq., Boated Hall, Suffolk "411 Weller i'oley, Esq., Boated Hall, Suffolk. Ito;: o P „, 11 S ewell, Esq., Halstead. J ok F• Steadman, Esq., Sudbury. i11,...0 Taylor, Esq., Sible Hedingliarn, Essex. arles Walter, Esq., the Howe, Halstead. °4'4W111 ,..,.__te, Esq., Manor House, Weathersfield, Essex. With power to add to their number). ENGINEER. R. W. Thompson, Esq., C.E. Len., BANKERS. Ch„Len—Brown, Janson, an d C o. Ab c h urc h-l ane . Ilirtford and Br a i n t ree —M essrs. Sp arrow an d Co. s sndbead—London and County Bank. Itn„„_nrY-31essrs. Alexander and Co. Li,:iessrs. Oakes, Bevan, and Co. erlsool—Bank of Liverpool. kessr,, `i Vito SOLICITORS. and Borrett, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Chauntler and Westwood, Gray's Inn-square. i %h rain ein tsfot „ LOCAL AGENTS. — James Parker, Esq. 1 14, tree— Messrs. Cunnington, Veley, and Cunnington. SikiCad—D. Sewell, Esq., and G. P. Arden, Esq. t on urY - Messrs Stedman. g l ‘leirordlei Almack, Esq. stiL li e Lin o otR PROSPECTUS. Illet rie r t on the allway now submitted to the Public, rests its . claims for pig on strong general ground of its passing through important eted s4e th and Suffolk, whose interests have been almost entirely Eastern Counties of England, u I, lllo, Je cte r t i t f o " t e t l h aying out of the different Railways hitherto executed t elete t pose e „ _ e benefit of the . od e f. nev ertheless, population, wealth, and traffic, amply sunl it,'" h thro nzh 'UY the charges of forming direct ' railway cornmeernca 't!Purpo— tll era, and to afford a good return for the capital required -orie • gZe'liy) ,jinx at Chelmsford (at the station of th_e ee Eas kt t n e g rn H C als oun te t a ie a s , e lteZl';an L il lie will pass close by Braintree, B 4 44,' Of tN rh aVeldlaln, to Bury, running, throughout ' its whole It 'set est - miles nearly r e qUent., the Metropolis into the heart of conteminous with the t ` 4l‘'lll have eats and for its termini, two important market and assize Principal intermediate stations, places which are nsiderable and thriving manufactures. lle '"•-7t e rr t ° , 11 I -" , n e , Of t Bury and . Sudbury are the two largest in the county 1 . 11 Esso_ ,next ; and Halstead and t ß r raintree, the two by I , e tiopn,._ to Chelmsford and Colches e n o „ arno n „?_tion of the hundreds which will be directly intersected thj ul he n",' o 7 t e 133 ,131, and that of numerous places to which . it trik l e t4 la ry l pori:;,,,,,a,e,atiseaeilable than any other Railway, to 43,500, making which may be reckoned upon, as necessarily t4l.oeal vicinage to this line, not less than 176,631. 144 1441 11C 11 be h tt llet relaolis and all the places which . have been namen, to eon t 1 1,., -- e places themselves, there is a larg n e e r fall istin t g e ~ , l en the facilities of the railway system could t t . B „et ch B rl other cases, a vast extension. by 4 % i i• s and Stour Navigations, through which the districts er o , , an, ine now receive their supplies of coa!„ timber, Ue e , wp, w hich are also the principal outlets for its h a m gr e ic . ultural not ao OILY have their own operations greatly facilitated . , ; 0 13 , t o ;Venues increased by its formation, but contribute cons . l. oqielalleet,"e inc oithe Railway. They would be feeders, but in it, bip v als to it, e,., eon s . the above local traffic, the Line would command a lderable throu h traffic between London and all the t tes;: f al P l art ti : n e f I Corfolk g . From time immemorial more than one vor tb e°4o, traffic between London and . Norwich, has t i .44 e t a. - ` 0 l ine of road with which this Railway will be con tern, t o elisio n of . lam ° the line to Thetford, and also a branch from Brain- Frdvl p urt of 4; by the way of Witham, have been surveyed, an bl" lete e s elleme if renuircd by the Board of Trade. etrnmenation, which have been very carefully made of the l ess hY tit alone, it appears that, assuming that It wouid be fa — eilitle a afforded by railway communication, which is ' 4 railway experience would warrant, the total re kir,- Lino 8-projected Railway would amount to 105,405/. w,eicieehetoedmuuef b n y r tairn t d h ine e Railway is the result of an engineering j an ts, d pains have been expended, and wi11,. 1 It eli 4ter e of tIT beli eved, be found to be not only the very best of w t h t ic *e r t4 ' f its tr but one admirably adapted to mee !silt e(1 . ar dc. It will be a Line at once cheaply made and cheaply rte legs olgradients are easy,and well balanced ; the earthwork ee listr o 7, l . l the average earth-work on railways ; and there will litq i f er tit'"9 l te or much d'fficulty or magnitude. The land elee e W ili be mostly farm-land, of moderate value, and -04 4 , Pass through any parks or ornamental grounds. l eot t kiefi MO' Der cent. from the gross returns for the expense of 'Dtr - i s i 'M'e in ! (a liberal allowance for a Line of this character), it llnvested Capital. 1 1 , annual revenue of 63,2431., which would be equal to until be e t reserved in the Act to allow 4 per cent. interest on Por ttiPlietnin completion of the linv k i.,% °ll elt t o s rs ibr in the annexed form, may be made to any roke ° r 'meal Agents above-named, or to L. M. Simon, 3•tb r, "Aq., ii_o",“ilord-court, Throgmorton-street ; or to Thomas To Ts_ voitr, xer, Liverpool. IIR PRO` TrIOF A PPLICATION FOR SHARES. "\-I°2AL COMMITTEE OF THE CHELMSFORD 114,, ' BURY RAILWAY COMPANY. 4 1 1, ):1 4t4 I h "S e allot me e -ereb Shares in the above Com -14, . Y undertake to accept such Shares, and to pay the riborst., a it e gr n tec ai n at i L l eb al t, s e w t b o e e u x r e e c q u e t i e red the Parliamentary contract and day of I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, C x PLEAT L EAGUE MEETING IN COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. The AGGREGATE MEETING of the LEAGUE, in the THEATRE ROYAL, GOVENT-GARDEN, will be held THIS EVENING. GEORGE WILSON, Esq., will take the Chair at Seven o'clock precisely. The Meeting will be addressed by James Wilson, Esq., George Thompson, Esq. ; and John Bright, Esq., M.P. Tickets of admission to all parts of the House may be had, as usual, at 67, Fleet.street. Scats will in future be reserved for all Farmers who may make application at the Offices of the League, up to the hour of meeting, and their attendance, whether favourable or opposed to Free Trade, is especially requested. Livision of profit. - 6 13 annual, and the next will be made In De. eember of 'he present year. This institution offers many important and substantial advan tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr)w, without ex pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid, (see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his interests to meet other conveniences sr necessity. Assurances lbr terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, See. PRESERVER FIRE, LIFE, AND FAMILY ENDOWMENT OFFICE, BOND-COURT MUST WALf3ROOK. As an Indemnity to the Assured, a Deed of Settlement has been executed, whereby Property, producing upwards 'of Five Thou sond Pounds per Annum has been secured to Trustees for the fulfilment of all engagements entered into at this 01lice. The peculiar advantages offered over those of similar Institutions are, amongst others — TO ASSURE FROM LOSS BY FIRE EVERY DESCRIPTION OF HOUSE, CHARITABLE, and CHURCH PROPERTY, Farm ing Stoek, Goods, &c., at a considerable reduction from the charges usually made. TO ASSURE THE LIVES OF INDIVIDUALS OF ALL AGES the payment of the principal sum to be made EITHER ON THE DEATH OF THE ASSURED, OR ON A FIXED DAY, IF HE BE THEN LIVING. ADVANCES OF MONEY FOR LIMITED PERIODS on the deposit of Title Deeds, without•the expense of Mortgage Securities. LOANS TO NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN of established position, in conjunction with Life Assurances, upon their personal responsibility alone. The ASSURED MAY PASS FROM ONE COUNTRY TO AN OTHER without forfeiting their Policies, and MEDICAL EXAMI NATIONS are dispensed with. • .** Prospectuses and Tat,les, calculated with the greatest pre cision, may be had at the Office. JOINT WIDOWSON, • Secretary. UNITED KINGDOM LIFE "ASSURANCE COMPANY; 8, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON. Established by Act of Parlianient 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 gr,...at success which has attended it since its commencement in 1834, its ANNUAL INCOME 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 TasurQd to all Policies of the Participating Class from the time they weie effected. The Bonus added to olicics from March, 1834, to December 31, 1840, is as follows : Sum Time Sum added Sum Time Sum added Assured. Assured. to Policy. Assured. Assured. to Policy. £5OOO 6 yes. 10 mths. £683 6 8 £5OOO 4 years 4400 5000 6 years 600 0 0 5000 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 be afforded on application to the Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. PELICAN LIFE A 70, LOINIBARD-STREET Established 1797. Attwood, Esq., M.P. John Coepe, Esq. W. Cotton, Esq., P.B.S. Sir W. Curtis, Bart. SSURANCE OFFICE, C, and 57, CHARING-CROSS DIREI ;TORS. Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq, R. H. Lawrence, Esq. J. Petty Muspratt, Esq. G. S. Storey, Esq. C. H. Turner, Esq. M. Whiting, Esq. Wm. Davis, Esq Richard Fuller, Esq J. A. Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.R.S. The plan of this Office will be found to comprise all the solid ad vantages of Life Assurance. Persons have the option of Insuring upon the Return or Non- Return Systems ; and the Tables have been formed to suit the convenience of all parties. The Rates have recently been reduced agreeably to the most ap proved calculations ; they are also verified by the experience of the Office during forty years, are as low as consistent with safety ; those adapted to the RETURN SYSTEM entitle its assured to an equitable participation in the itirplus premium, according to the plan detailed in the Company's Prospectus. The Assured under both Systems will possess the guarantee of a large Paid-up Capital, and the further security of a responsible body of Proprietors, without being exposed to the liabilities of partnership. Policies are purchased on liberal terms when the object of an assurance is effected ; or, loans will be granted thereon to the extent of five-sixths of such purchase-money. Prospectuses and every information obtained on application at the Offices as above, or to the Agents of the Company appointed in every city and principal town in the kingdom. R. TUCKER, Secretary SCOTTISH EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, Incorporated by Royal Charter. Established 1831. Head Office, 26, St. Andrew' s- square, Edinburgh ; London Office, 61 A, Moorgate-street. PRESIDENT. His Grace the Duke of BUCCLELTCH and QUEENSBERRY. • VICE-PRESIDENTS. The Right Hon. Lord Gray. David M. M. Chrichton, Esq., of Rantellour. ROBERT CHRISTIE, Manager. The leading principle of this. Mutual Assurance Society is, that the whole Profits are divisible amongst the Policy Holders every three years. In illustration of the eminent success which has attended the Society, it may be stated .that the additions made to Policies have been at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured and on the vested bonus. Thus the holder of a Policy for 1,0001. effected on the Ist of March, 1832, will, if it become a claim during the present year, be entitled to 1,297/. ; or, if effected on or before the Ist March, 1533, to 1,2751., and so on as regards other_Polieles. The Accumulated Fund exceeds 260,0001., and the Annual Revenue is above 70,0001., the whole being in a course of steady and increas ing prosperity. No other Life Assurance Institution whatever can warrantably hold out greater advantages to parties Assuring than this Society does. Policies effected before the Ist of March participate in a full year's bonus. 61 A, oorgate-street. WILLIAM COOK, Agent for London. TO BE PEREMPTORILY SOLD, pursuant to an ORDER of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in a Cause JOSEPH against TYNI)ALL, with the approbation of Sir GIFFEN WILSON, one of the Masters of the Court, at the Auction Mart, in Bartholomew-lane, in the City of London, on MONDAY, the 10th day of March, 1845, - The LIFE-INTEREST of a GENTLEMAN, in the 45th year of his age, hi s,oool:Three per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, standing in the books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, , 1845. trlCFfreeein or trade, Reference, he name of Trustees of the marriage settlement of the gentleman V Al_Tx . f l 'ALL COMPOSITE CANDLES, i v , _ as. Gd. per doz. 1 Thest Qtliiii9xtr A.T,E.T CANDLES, 10s. 6d. per doz. the ,„,thre e , 0 IS AX CANDLES, 28s. per doz. . :41,criAiiite.tip:ileo•uledrttrost,00fset aund i y ll e e e s ol a io r m e y all precisely alike in their b trn i° ar 't ' Pate n . Andauxhall Composites are rather softer t i tian et trin.s e e. 04,„ I,thence the difference in price. Even those - 'll4 eoco a • N • 'Ps. eAt S h ••• Ut w, r eerr n 43 Lamp Oil, warranted equal in every respec -4. m .. .,,„ • Per gallon. '4CHAN.T, 253, Regent-circus, Oxford-street. Particulars and conditions of sale may be had, gratis, at the said Master's Chambers, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; of Messrs. Gregory, Faulkner, and Co., solicitors, Bedford-row, Lon don ; of Messrs. Lyons, Barnes, and Ellis, Spring-gardens ; and at the place of sale. Tu - E R coIVE, 4tt 34 NovLenday •st k qth t T. re T oa e 17 th Port e d 1 0 4.7 . _ Visits, at 7s. 6d. each. ,papers of the 16th February, and Daily 11 ci klitn e tIrt th e or of ENGLAND, do you now see why DOC ' It' t t kv " t he gi ga V e th eory, which, for profit, admits of endless ._.•iii t ' - Kys. t A • The sole reason that Doctors oppose the jieruh e ath ..11trzi t o 1 2 is because it does away with all such quackery. led ' ould re — n a Yw thy e lf . ,, til,r ~ Iv_ a the trial of All persons who care about their ottv Yor "ICAL " Baker v. Lowe ;" also the articles - i t i, i - the s ir , i TESTIMONY" and " THE MEDICAL Ll ,,e of Health, 'tit of r—"FICT," Which appeared in the "Times " of this kith , - ebruary . 'MORISON AND MOAT, , ollen. For and on behalf of the body of Hygeists. ;Cov-road, London. itob eri oli rd re° of cOu 1 12 i: O. a OA tLSEs ..' 4 'to._ a ot for Il m t SCORBUTIC DROPS, a . Sure Cure N- , t r , ti , of H ai . ,CB5, Scurvy, &c.Read the following wonde u t ;1r il al of th .e 8 Scorbutic Drops. It must convince the mos A t of ikrbe. safety. and great value of this extraordinary corn p., atllp„, ~ This important letter is sent to Ir. Halse by Mr. k elins ''''''BT. 't "4414 -respectable farmer of the parish of Brent, 3 , o,:ibe ot ~,_ ent, March Ist 1842. Dear, ' Sir —I consider it a duty heopi)"nto to state to'the üblic the invaluable properties of leif fk , Ivo, ~ broP3. You remember, n no• I first applied to you. bi lt t 'llg eiiiirdnost out of hopes of receiving any benefit for my poor te,t i .,'ery thin!?r I believe I informed you ° that I had been trying 4 o 1 4 ; 4 41 t o - 's lin order to give my child case, but day by day she Ivlttj'lger ablg7 W°rse until at last all strength left her, and she was tio,4 seepbut7 -° Walk ; her body and head were covered all over hgr a :, No i.,,eruption he appetite had vanished, the eruP r corbut le Drops vp z . i„ , in ag 04 ,... In such a dreadful manner that she would roll Q ri„" 3 ' higi„ - ne B on the ground d could get no sleep what the - al potii" Inireetliately yo'uale.l ski er , u told me you were kilo t e 'Atle ;vould"cvure'he'ryou told inc you were C Drops Would cure her. Before she had taken tile ,41"qoYed j le in sll the itching Ceased her . appetite returned, cad likbeckorta b;;ulld and refreshing sleep. ' By the time she had taken toed :. its, estorenke!' skin was as fair as any person's, the . use of her I remahi ` other Cr, am d, I thank God, her health is now as la it ver was. kt . , dear Sir, yours respectfully, Niett, fi:tB kettu te po re " WILLIAM MATTIIEWS." Viri i 1 , a 4414 t in pint ask for " Fiala 's Scorbutic Drops." Price 2s. 9d. !'.S_ alp , 4 .16 ' ' c°utainins' n e early six 2s. 9d. bottles, for I Is. for Londonßarclay and Sons, Parringd9n ,. t i tp4tg a ,„ . ,. , 1118 h Holborn; Prout, 2 29, Strand ; )"luggrp 00. Oa ford - otrect ; J9higtop, 68, Corn-hill. King, Napier , FISHER and CO.'S FASHIONABLE TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT is now replete with every variety of WINTER CLOTHING, consisting of Travelling Wrappers, los. 6a., 155., and 21s. ; Beaver and Milled Cloth Codrington and Chesterfield Coats, 2 Is., 305., and 425.; Trowsers, Bs. 6d. to I2s. Gd. ; stout Doeskin, 12s, 6d. to 21s. ; Waistcoats, Gs. 6d. to 9s. 6d. ; Silk, Satin, and Cassimere, Bs. to 12s. 6d. ; Boy,' and Youths' Clothing ; Shooting Jackets, 9s. 6d. to 13s. ; a Suit of superfine Black Cloth, 31., extra quality, 31. 10s. to 4/. At Fisher and Co.'s, Tailors, 31, King William-street, City, oppo site the Monument. BENJAMIN EDGINGTON, 2, Duke-street, Southwark, London-bridge, respectfully Informs the Nobility, Gentry, and Agriculturists that he has on sale RICK CLOTHS, with Poles complete, both new and second-hind, at a reasonable cost. Early application will insure some really good second-hand Cloths, which arc a decided bargain. Dressed Cloths and Tarpaul lugs for Railroad Trucks, of superior quality, and to any size. Dlar quees, Tents, Sacks, Waggon-cloths, Sack-ties, Sze. Address (per post) Benjamin Edgington, 2, Duke•street, Southwark. A warehouse 208, Piccadilly. GOWLAND'S LOTION.—This well-known and highly appreciated appendage of the British toilet has for nearly a century past maintained unrivalled reputation as a perfect remedy for all impurities of the skin, together with the valuable pro perties of a preserver and sustainer of the complexion of the most genial nature, removing every trace of sallowness and discolouration, and promoting the transparency and brightness of the skin, which constitute the peculiar graces of a fine complexion. " Robt. Shaw, London," is in white letters on the Government Stamp, without which none is genuine. Price 2s. 9d. ; ss. 6d. ; Quarts, Bs. 6d. Sold by all Perfumers and Chemists. TO LADIES. "{JOWL AND'S KALYDOR. Patronised by the several Sovereigns and Courts of Europe. An Oriental Botanical Discovery, and perfectly free from all mineral admixture. It exerts the most soothing, gentle, cooling, and ptirifying action on the skin ; and by its agency on the pores and minute secretory vessels, most effectually dissipates all redness, tan, pimples, blotches, spots, freckles, chilblains, chaps, and other cutaneous visitations. The radient bloom it imparts to the cheek, and the soft ness and delicacy it induces on the hands, arms, and neck, render it indispensable to every toilet. To Ladies, during the period of nursing*, and as a wash for Infants, it cannot be too strongly recommeraled. Gentlemen, after shaving, will find it allay all irritation and tender ness of the Skin, and render it soft, smooth, and pleasant. • Price 4s. Gd. and Ss. Cl. per bottle, duty included. _ _ --- CAUTION.—Bcware of Imitations of the most deleterious cha racter, containing mineral astringents utterly ruinous to the com plexion, and by their repellant action endangering health. See that the words . " ROWLAND'S KALYDOR" are on the wrapper ; and 4. ROWLAND and Son, 20, Hatton. garden, engraved (by authority of the Hon. Commissioners of Stamps) on the Government :,tamp affixed on each bottle. Sold by the Proprietor, and by Cheraitta Verfamere. 13,er Aaly4l9ll pfauclulant onuatcriviii I CORNWALL AND DEVON CENTRAL RAILWAY. A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS to this RAILWAY will be held at the Offices of this Company, 68, Old Broad-street, on TUESDAT, the 25th instant, at Twelve for Ono o'clock precisely. . . By order of the Committee, • • ' THOMAS HARVEY, Secretary. 68, Old Broad-street, Feb. 15, 1845. On the 28th cf February will he published, price Two Shillings, OLMA:N'S MAGAZINE. • • Art. 1. Correspondence with Sir R. Peel on Irish Agrarian Outrages. 2. The Eternal City. 3. The Policy of Catholics. 4. Floral Symbolism. 5. The Anglo-Saxon Church. 6. The Countess Clemence. Chap. I. By the Editor. 7. Vices, Sins, and Crimes. 8. A Peep at all Things, and a Few Others. By 80-reep. 9. Reviews of New Publications. London : C. Dolman, 61, New Bond-street ; sold by T. Jones, Pa ternoster-row ; Cumming, Dublin; Stevenson, Edinburgh; Booker and Co., Liverpool ; and all Booksellers. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PonTsmotrrn, FEE. 15.—The Lrty, 16; Commander New ton, went out of harbour on Monday, and sailed yesterday for the coast of Africa. She proceeds direct to St. Paula de Loando, to land Mr. Brand, British Vice-Consul and Secre tary of the Mixed Commission there, who goes out in her as passenger. The Persian, 16, Commander Coryton, sailed from Devon port on Wednesday, for the West Indies. The Eagle, 50, Captain G. B. Martin, C. 8., at Sheerness, is ordered to proceed to Spithead to be paid advance wages, and to wait further orders. She is 'about 90 officers and men short of her complement • ' The Espiegle, 12, Commander Harris, and the Flying Fish, 12, Commander Thompson, were off Devonport on Wednes day at 2h. sm. r.ai. They made signals, which were answered. They were not to go into the Sound, - but were ordered again . to sea. terday The Canopus, 84, a t Pl ymouth, was commissioned yes- The . Alarm, 26, at Sheerness, building, is ordered to be fitted for sea. The Dee steam-transport arrived this morning with dis posable seamen, from Cork. -- The Black Eagle steamer came - here yesterday from the River. A new first class screw -propelled steam-frigate, of 520 horse power, is ordered to be laid down in this dockyard on the plan of Mr. Fincham, master shipwright. The following are the dimensions ordered : Ft. In. Length Breadth Depth Tons, 1,453. Also a 46-gun frigate, w;ith aviwilliary screw of 300 horse power, for a complemenT of 430 men, of the following dimensions :-- Now published, Part 1., Price 25., of fikFAMILY HISTORY of CHRIST'S UNI VERSAL CHURCH. By the Rev. HENRY STEBBING, D.D. The intention of this History is to furnish the Heads of Fa milies with the means of instructing those around then in the most important branch of knowledge that can engage their attention. Though primarily intended as a book for Family Instruction, it is hoped that this History will not be undeserving the notice of religious readers in general, or of Theological Stndents, who will find in it a careful digest of whatever is most necessary to be considered in the annals of the Christian Church. It is intended to complete the His tory up to the per of of the Reformation, in Twelve Parts, forming Two Volumes octavo: Ft. In. Length 2OO 0 Breadth Depth . 30 0 Tons, 1,862. CHATHAM, FRIDAY, FEB. 14:—The Queen, 110 guns, in dock, is to have her powder-magazine, which is now in the centre, removed to the fore part of the ship. At present there is no other alteration determined on. The Comus, 20 guns, Commander Thompson, was towed to Saltpan-reach on the 12th instant by the Afrioan steam-vessel. It is under stood that the Fantome and Comus are to proceed to Ply mouth to await for final orders ; their destination is supposed to be for the Straits. The Bulldog steam-frigate, building in the first slip, is fast progressing —her skinning is complete, except the top-rail. A Court of Inquiry was held yesterday by the Captain-Superintendent, Captain W. H. Sherrill; and the Solicitor to the Admiralty, Mr. Geo. Spill, at the Cap tain-Superintendent's Office, in the Dock-yard—relative to the recent destructive fire in the yard. The Court was strictly private. The whole of the Dock-yard police on duty at the time the fire was discovered underwent examination. The origin of the fire remains a mystery, notwithstanding the majority of opinions prevail in the Dock-yard that the firing was wilful, as the Pound, at which the fire first broke out was solely under the care of a keeper, and no one was allowed to go into that place on any occasion ; if alipiece of timber was required for the joiners' shops, the workman re quiring it was obliged to ask the keeper for it ; and as the workmen leave the yard in the evening the-Pound-keeper locks up the gates, and delivers the keys to the Clerk of the Stores. The Pound, which extended the whole length of the building, was half covered over, for the p ur p ose o f keeping the fir timber dry, the remaining part was exposed for the purpose of seasoning the mahogany, of which there was a considerable quantity. The fire, when first observed by the police, was about 20 feet within side of the gate, and in the centre of a pile offir-boards of about 24 to 30 feet in length, and from one to two inchp in thickness. The night after the fire the whole of the officers and m en o f th e yar d were divided off into four relieves ; each relieve, consisting of 500 men, kept watch for above three h ours d ur i ng th e night. During the fire private Riddell, of th e R oya l Ma rines, had his thi g h b r oke by a piece of timber falling across him, and Adjutant Wood, of the 86th, had his sword broken, and also received some injuries about his person, by the fall ing of some of the ruins. COMPLETION of the PEOPLE'S MUSIC-BOOK. By JAMES TURLE, Esq., Organist of Westminster Abbey; and EDWARD TAYLOR, Esq., Gresham Professor of Music. I.—Psalm Tunes, 236 pages ........ • ....... .. ll. — Sacred Music, 348 page 5........ ...... • ....... 12s. Od. lll.—Songs, Duets, Trios, Glees, Madrigals, &c., 360 pages 12s. N. In very neat cloth bindings. A work intended to meet the growing demand for Music among all classes of the. community. Principally arranged for Four Voices, and an accompaniment for the Organ or Pianoforte; forming, respectively, a complete body of the best Music for the Cathedral, the Church or Chapel, the Family, the Glee Club, and the Madrigal Society. A considerable allowance will be made to Congregations adopting the Psalm Tunes, and taking a number of copies, and Choirs, Choral and Madrigal Societies, &c., with the sacred an d secular music. The 30th Edition of 1,000 each. FLETCHER'S FAMILY DEVOTION ; containing the Morning and Evening Service of a Family for every day throughout the Year. Embellished with 17 elegant Engravings. Bound in cloth, gilt edges, price 1/. 6s. Recommended by 25 distinguished Ministers in England, and upwards of 100 Clergymen in the United States of America. THE WORKING OF THE INCOME TAX. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. _•• Stn,—Sometimes the relation of a simple fact comes v. , greater force of conviction than a hundred arguments. beg to give a simple relation of an instance of the moss iniquitous and oppressive mode of levying the income tax. • The parties to whom I allude had about four years ago erected very large premises, to carry on business connected with manufactures, in doing which they expended upwards of sixteen thousand pounds; of necessity they had to borrow several thousand pounds on mortgage. Having to pay in terest., and buy their goods on credit, besides this having to call earlier for payments, they had great difficulty in making any profit at all. And in 1843 prices were so run down by competition, that they were worse in the end than at the beginning ; and as honest men, they made a return to the surveyor of taxes of "no income." This being the case they were summoned before the Commissioners of Taxes (their neighbours). In answer to the questions put to them, they averred they had made no profits. The Commissioners re plied, we do not believe your statements; you must bring your books, and show us by thtm that what you state is cor rect. The parties being then insolvent, or at least they were owing. several thousand pounds more than they had owing to them (although taking tato account the money expended in building and machinery, they had several' thousand pounds more than would pay their debts in full—yet they well knew if their eirctimstances were made known it would be fatal to their credit), and for this reason they refused to prothice their books. The result of this was the Commissioners Mulcted them in the duty on one thousand pounds. Since then, in consequence of the failure of other parties with whom they were connected, they have been made bankrupts themselves; and the 'assignees have since their failure had to pay 29/. 13s. 4d. out of the assets of the estate, and the creditors will not get more than 6s. to 7s. in the pound. Since their failure the premises, with machinery, which cost within the last five years the sum of 16,7001., has been sold for 8,125/., which had they brought cost price, they would have been able to pay their creditors in full. Your insertion of these particulars in your widely circa. lated journal, will much oblige, Sir, your most obedient ser• vent, ONE OF THE ASSIGNEES. Yorkshire, Feb. 18. London : George Virtue, 26, Ivy-lane ; and sold by all Booksellers, Pocket Edition (500 pages), in an envelope, rice 25., by post 3 s . 0 N MARRI A GE__ its Hindrances and Obligations. " Of griefs concealed, and disappointments keen, Which young and gentle—the matured and sage, The lonely and the mated—all sustain." By R. J. CULVERIVELL, M.D. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Licentiate of the Hall, and twenty-three years Resideut Practitioner in London. Also, companion to the same (72 Engravings), price Is., by post I s. 6d., ON CHASTITY—its Abuses and Diseases. " Whereon doth hinge the dignity of man, The health of offspring, and domestie love!" These publications are free from ompyricism and mawkish senti mentality—they abound in stern truths, and are addressed to the in telligence of the times. Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; and the Author, 21, Arundel-street, Strand.—At home daily till Two : Evenings, Seven till Nine. PRICE sd, TEE SUAT is PuVlshed EVERY MORNING at FIVE 0 CLOCK, in Time for the EARLY TRAINS and TO 147 DELIVERY ; a SECOND EDITION (E ven : ng S un ) is Published in Time for the AFTERNRAINS and a THIRD EDITION a t SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containin.g PARLIAMENTARY and all oth er NEWS i n LONDON up to that Hour. OON T ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED i n ALL THE THREE , PAPERS, Ilfornirg, Noon, and .Night,• thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION at ONE CHARGE. •--------- _ ~. , . N. „ e„ . , 9 I(Z <-. Z / --- 6.-•e--- -- C-4__-17 - - .. . . t • , . " - ' - , - • ,. ..W% - • N. . . ' ••••,.. • i. • • ' , 7j .. , S' , • -----<,,,,......,:., , • . . 4 . , 5,,i . •a t t . , •..., .., . . t TI - IE COURT AT BRIGHT . v 1; .. , ark ~4 k. - • 1 :,- \i, . - *wo w ., ~ , N ti o!.o. r , - ~...z• sk, -- Vt , , -, . ire t ir ' IV \Vi L . - . L •) _ ,, ‘L . . ;0104 '-a : gm r II ' 6110 , , / 1 ) ••"" ' .0.. , .--- pt .. 4 .. 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Her Majesty, and his Roy al Highness Prince Albert, rode out on the Cliffs this afternoon, - in a pony phaeton, accom. panied on horseback by Colonel Wylde and'Colonel Buckley. • Prince Albert walked out this morning in the King's-road s accompanied by Dr. Prxtorins. The royal children were taken for a carriage airing this morning on the Cliffs, and again this afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses walked on the Chain-pier this morning. The royal dinner party this evening will be limited to the royal suite. The Earl and Countess of Sheffield, Colonel Sir M. Creagh, Captain Pechell, M.P., Sir Theodore Pounckman; and Mr.. and Mrs. Ormsby Gore, called at the Palace to-day to pay their respects to her Majesty. The following selection of music was performed at the Palace yesterday evening, by the band of the Inniskillen. Dragoons Grand march, "Il furioso " (Spohr) ; Over. ture, "L a Si rene " (Auber); Selections from the " Bohemian. Girl" (Balfe); Waltz, "Les Bouquets Royales" (Jullien); Serenade Polka (M`Carroll). This has been another charming day, and the inhabitants have had the happiness of seeing her Majesty enjoying the pure air on our marine drive, the finest of the kind ire the kingdom. Her Majesty was out this morning, be• tween nine and ten o'clock, in an open barouche with the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. The royal carriage was not distinguished by any outriders ; Colonel Buckley, Equerry, attended her Majesty on horseback. The Queen was very plainly dressed, and wore a white straw bonnet. We never saw her Majesty look better. She rode up the cliff as' far as Kemp Town, and then westward to Brunswick -terrace, and back as far as the Chain-pier. Her Majesty did not alight, but returned to the Palace about half-past ten o'clock, and the Dowager Lady Lyttelton then took the Princess Royal to the Chain-pier, where the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice were enjoying their morning walk. His Royal High ness walked on the cliff with Dr. Prietorius, and in the afternoon he drove her Majesty out in a pony-chaise by the sea-side. In the course of her Majesty's promenades to the eastward, it is said that her Majesty's attention has been attracted to the advantages possessed by Kemp-town as a marine resi dence for the royal children, and that the mansion opposite to that of the Duke of Devonshire, belonging to Mr. George Robins, from its exalted situation, is spoken of as not un likely to be selected for a royal nursery in connexion with the Pavilion.—Morning Post. . COURT. CIRCULAR. A Catinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday after noon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Sir Robert. Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Lord G ranv ill e S omerset, t h e E arl of Lincoln and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. The Earl of Ripon was prevented by indisposition from attending the meeting. The Council sat two hours. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meet ing yesterday afternoon, at the office in Whitehall-place. The Commissioners present were the Archbishop of Canter bury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Chichester, the Bishop of Exeter, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Bishop of Worcester, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Chichester, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. H. Hobhonse, the Right Hon. John Nicholl, and the Dean of Westminster. Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister, transacted busi ness yesterday, at the Foreign -office. The Hon. C. A. Murray had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. Sir John Henry Pelly transacted business yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Adjutant-General to the Forces had an interview with the Commander-in-Chief yesterday. Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colenial-office. from Sir Robert Wilson, Governor of Gibraltar. AIL WAY BUSINESS IN PAR LIAMENT. - TUESDAY, FEB. 18. London and York Railway—Petition for Bill reported; Re port to lie on the table. Leeds - and Bradford Railway Extension (Shipley to Colne) —Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. John Wortley, Mr. Beckett, and Mr. Busfeild. Manchester and Birmingham Railway (Ashton Branch)--- Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Lord Francis E ger t on , M r . Hi n dl e y, an d Mr. Cobden. York and Scarborough Railway Deviation—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Sir John Lowther, Mr. Redhead Yorke, and Sir John Johnstone. Newcastle-upon-Tyne and North Shields Railway (Tyne mouth Extension, &c.)—Petition for Bill; referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. North British Railway—Petition for Bill ; referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. Ashton, Stalybridge, and Liverpool Junction Railway (Ard wick and Guide Bridge Branches)—Petition for Bill re ported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Entwisle, Mr. Mark Philips, and Mr. Hindley. London and South-Western Railway, No. 1 (Metropolitan Extension)—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Masterman, Mr. Hawes, and Mr. Antrobus. Leeds and West Riding Junction Railways—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Las celles, Mr. Beckett Denison, and Mr. Hardy. Manchester and Leeds Railway—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Entwisle and Mr. Milner Gibson. Manchester and Leeds Railway (Burnley Branch and Old ham and Heywood Branches - Extension)—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Entwisle, Mr. Brotherton, and Mr. William Feilden. Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Junction Railway—Peti tion for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. John 'Wortley, Mr. Beckett Denison, Mr. Beckett, and Mr. Stansfield. West Yorkshire Railway—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. John Wortley, Mr. Beckett Denison, and Mr. Busfeild. Richmond (Surrey) Railway—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Kemble, Mr. Antro bus, and Mr. Hawes. London and York Railway—Report from Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills referred to the Select Com mittee on Standing Orders. West Cornwall Railway—Petition for Bill; referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. Richmond (Surrey) Railway—Petitions against the applica tion for a Bill, from inhabitants of Richmond and Isle worth; to lie on the table. Caledonian Railway—Petition from Edinburgh, in favour of the application for a Bill ; to lie on the table. Great. Southern and Western Railway (Ireland)—Petition for Bill; referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. Ulster Railway Extension—Committee on Petition, Mon day, March 3. Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway—Committee on Petition, postponed from Thursday, Feb. 20, till Friday, Feb. 21. DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF WESTMINSTER.-It - - • - -- ------- --- is our painful d u ty t o recor d th e d em i se of the- above respected and revered nobleman ' who expired at Eaton Hall, on Blonday last, at half-past ten P.M. The Noble Lord was taken ill on Sunday, the 9th in stant, and from that time, although he had occa sionally rallied, he gradually sunk into the last fatal exhaus tion. On Friday last there was some slight amelioration in the symptoms, but not of so favourable a nature as to excite the hope of ultimate recovery. Debility gradually increased, and about five o'clock on Monday morning a shivering fit came on, when Mr. G. Harrison, Jun., surgeon, of Cheater (who, with his father, had been in regular attendance upon the Marquis during his illness), was sent for. On his arrival he announced to the family at the Hall that the dissolution of his Lordship was fast approaching, and about half-past ten the expiring nobleman quietly breathed his last in the presence of Earl Grosvenor. The Marchioness of Westminster, the Cokni tess Grosvenor, and Lady Elizabeth Grosvenor were also in attendance. The late Marquis was born March 22, 1767. married April 30, 1794, Eleanor, only daughter of Thomas, late Earl of Wilton, by whom the deceased Marquis has issue, Richard, Earl Grosvenor, born Jan. 27, 1795, and married Sept. 16, 1819 ; Elizabeth Mary, youngest daughter of George, Duke of Sutherland, K.G. •, Thomas the present Earl of Wilton, born Dec. 30, 1799, married Nov. 29, 1821, Lady Mary Margaret Stanley, only daughter of Edward, twelfth Earl of Derby, by his second Countess • and Lord Robert ' Grosvenor, M.P. for the City of Ch es t er , born April 24, 1801, married May 17, 1831, Hon. Cha r l o tt e Wellesley, daughter of Lord Cowley. TAXATION.—We frequently hear it said, that agriculturists should have protection because of the excessive amount , of taxation they have to pay. Wheat is as cheap now as it Was in 1792,:when our taxes did not exceed twenty millions ; how then, they ask, can we pay the present taxation ? The simple fact is this—that the nation has to pay thirty millions more of taxes in 1845 than it had to pay in 1792, while prices are the same in both periods. Thu real enemy then of the farmer is this excess of flscality ; but it IS an enemy that has fixed its gripe on every other class of producers, as well as on the tillers of the sail. To say, then, that the farmers, by a monopoly, should recover from the consumers of corn this excess of taxation is as unjust as it is impolitic. Why should farmers be exempt ? or, if exempt, must not the pressure from which they would be relieved ruin those other classes who purchase agricultural proddec , Is it possible that the miserable fallacy can any longer hold its ground —that the inhabitants of towns are t o b e t h e bondsmen o f the in habitants of the country—that the form er are to pay t r ibute . to the, latter ? Why, what is this but one o f th e f orms o f slavery ' Struggle. WHAT WILL KEEP UP RENTS ?---Iv.. e are quite still be in the power of the landlords of G t r e ea ( Britain, disposed to believe that, with tree trade and t natur t al ain pri or ce: ry , itwill though we are in no gene rally, to keep rents at about their present a life will be altogether changed. I high high rents, with a large tuna sort of way concerned to prove this) re bt it zt r ts th m e c a o y nd m it n io t n hi s ue of pos lan ,i dl t o te rt 4 l but high rents with slovenly ! g with tenantry-at-Will and political . with sfalinatsevedraymoafgfedarmcrops—whillig be IV ; minimising make It more productive of game—high rents, ntihmelsointligyb:7in. ofm maxalmiin.:thitc: The interest of landlords will be, lug impossible. tth Igh money Under price free trade t landradnwetlwill regime, inben, the annual MAILS.--Z the list o f morn i ng oRNI 3 N -ield of M —Y a the soil of England.—The Struggle. mails, revised up to the present time , was put up at th e G enerat Post-ofnce, in St. Martin's-le-Grand. In addition to the number of post-towns, heretofore published, to which there is a dispatch ft : the metropolis every morning, the revised list gives the following —B a ttle, 13elford, Bilstone, Chatham, Dursley, o o f f Se u o p tland and Ireland ' n '73l,°n-ullderlF Felton, Grantham, Guildford, Hertford, Iloddesden' H urtsgrk', Lewes, Rochester. Hyde, Sevenoaks, Staplehurst, Swinton, Tetbury a d forwarded, two hundred post-towns int parts m Ed o g riti e. ng ß , a i g n s d t e o pe a n li de nt l y 14th England, to which a similar dispatch On Friday last, Feb., St. Valentine's ay, (says a correspondent), C harles Freeman, the American giant, *ma ceremony, h e ReN• baptized at St. Thomas's, Arbour ,madetSquare, Commercial-road, East, by incumbent who, at the conclusion of the Book of Prayer, tof a sp a l re end dl id - ly ate i I nu ed min re itect T - A e are Eorry that our esteemed Member, Jetties Mait 1 -and Balfour, Esq., M.P., is obliged to pair off for some time. owing to severe family a ffl iction.—Bericiek Warder. Valentine,he,,"infant" ftahnevi, waar-ps present is n f MR. BENJAMIN WOOD, M.P.—We are happy to learn, from good authority, that this old and consistent Reformer LIP now so far recovered as to afford a reasonable expectation of his 're. eovery, and that he will be able to resume some part of his Pa4ta. mentary duties during the present session. Mr. R. Yorke left the House on Monday evening, about two hours before the division, and, from inquiries since mode s we find he is now confined to his bed with a severe attack of illness. THE BISHOP OF ELY.—Great hopes are begin. ning to be entertained by his Lordship's medical attendants of - his ultimate recovery. On Sunday a change for the better was perceived at:d the favourable symptoms continued on Monday. I 'DEPTFORD DOCKYARD.—Preparations are making at Deptford Dockyard for laying down the keel of the Odin, on the slip lately occupied by the Terrible. The Odin is to be 208 feet lend by 37 broad. The depth of th e h o ld w ill b e 28 f ee t el biches • power. burthen in tons is to be 1,326, an d h er eng ines of ,boo -h o rse insster .1,4.. She will be built according t o a design by Mr. ri t ej .. l" ' . Ude, a ne wright of Portsmouth Dockyard. Also, " 50-gun frigate is to be built of about 1.800 t o ns burthen. She is to c o ntemplation to lay darns be 180 feet long by 40 wide. It Is also a submarine propeller. a second-class steam-frigate, to be driven by 1 500 tons • engi • TIC s i , 40 feet beam ; tonnag e , ~ . Length, 215 feet, by 600-horse power. Early in the spring extensive alterations will -Le c m the M e nced In the interior of ' Winchester barracks, by whi c h th e y • be adapted to afford comfortable accommodation for one thotisan4 glen and forty officers. r 4--, FLANDERS MAIL. Bnussms, FRB. 14.—The city of Brussels has made ami cable arrangements with almost all the persons who had claims for indemnity on account of the losses they suffered from the riots in their city. One cause will have to be settled in the courts of justice; it is that of the claim of the Count de Bathune, who has not accepted the offer made to him. We learn, with great satisfaction, that the Government seems at length seriously to turn its attention to the ques tion of the cultivating of our waste lands, and we are assured that a Commission, composed of men well acquainted with such matters, will be ultimately appointed to inquire into, and to propose the best means to obtain the most satis factory results. M. to elaveleye, who was engaged as civil engineer on the railway proposed by Mr. Taylor, has addressed a letter to to the Chamber of Representatives, announcing that, in con sequence of the strange facts which have just come to light, he desires to withdraw his name and participation from this undertaking. The Chamber of Representatives, in its sitting to-day (the 15th), adopted several articles of the 18th chapter of the Bud jet of the Department of the Interior. It seems that immense quantities of snow have fallen in the province of Luxemburg, and the frost is very severe. It is feared, from the appearance of the atmosphere, that there will be a further fall of snow. If there should be a sudden thaw, with rain, we may expect extraordinary inundations, which will do incalculable damage.—Brussels Papers, Feb. 16. CORNWALL and DEVON CENTRAL RAILWAY AND THE BOARD OF TRADE. In a paragraph in one of the papers of Saturday it is stated that this Company intends to resist the decision of the Board of Trade, and to apply to Parliament this session for the portion of their line between Falmouth and Bodmin. From the almost unanimous feeling of the county of Cornwall in favour of the central line, as evi denced by the resolutions of the public meetings which have been published in this paper, and the support which it receives from Exeter and North and Central Devon, the scheme will no doubt receive the serious considera tion of Parliament. What motives can have influenced the Board of Trade in reporting against the central line and in favour of the coast line, we are at a loss to deter mine. The coast line increases the distance from Fal mouth to Exeter twenty miles; and, as we perceive by a comparative statement in the Falmouth Packet of Satur day last, the curves and gradients upon that line are vastly inferior to those on the central. The central line is also intended to be a double locomotive line, whilst the coast line is proposed to be a single line. The coast line having a railway gradient of I in 60, and some miles of 1 in 50, and as high as 1 in 42, is totally unworkable by any other than atmospheric traction. This is well-known to all engineers, and candidly admitted by even the promoters of the scheme themselves. We were, therefore, led to regard the decision of the Board to report in favour of this scheme as a direct recognition of the applicability of that principle to railroad propul sion, and of the estimation in which the theory of at mospheric traction is held, if not by the Government, at least by the Railway Department of the Board of Trade. This fact must be borne in mind, that the proposed Cornwall Railway from Plymouth to Falmouth can only be worked by atmospheric means, or by some system in which fixed engines are employed. We apprehended, of course, that the decisions of the Board of Trade would be influenced by some uniform principle, and that when the re ports should be laid before the House of Commons on any given lines, the general features of that principle would be clearly traceable in all subsequent reports. With the knowledge that the Board had determined to report in favour of the Plymouth and Falmouth Rail way, it created some astonishment in our minds to read in the document presented to the House by the Railway Board, "On the Kentish and South-Eastern Railway schemes," being the first report yet presented to Par liament from the Railway Department, the following statement relative to a line projected by the Croydon Company : " The question is further narrowed by the exclusion of the line proposed by the Croydon Company, London, Chatham, and Chilham, No. 142, which, from the nature of its gradients, is incapable of sustaining a serious com petition with either of the other schemes, even if equal to them in other respects ; while, from its direction, it is manifestly no less inferior in point of local accommoda tion and national advantage. " The gradients are more severe than have ever been proposed for a locomotive line ; 28 planes, extending over more than 15 miles of the first 30, being at an in clination of one in 50. "It may be proper to state, that the Croydon Com pany obtained, in the last session of Parliament, an Act, under which they are proceeding to convert their existing locomotive line of railway from London to Croydon into an atmospheric line, in connexion with another Company, also sanctioned in the last session, and which continues the line on that principle, from Croydon to Epsom. In their subsequent projects, which are now under consideration, the Croydon Company equally adopt the atmospheric system of propulsion. If that system had already been applied successfully upon any long line of railway, the severity of the gradients in these projected lines would not have been considered so objectionable. It is clearly, however, impossible for us to assume the success of a system, as to which much dif ference of opinion exists among railway engineers, and which has not hitherto afforded such proof of its merits as could warrant us in giving the preference to pro jected undertakings, the success of which must depend upon results, as yet uncertain, while other projects are offered, to which no such uncertainty applies." We shall be curious, after this, to see the report on the competing Cornish lines. On reading the above we could almost imagine that much of this language was intended to be applied in condemnation of the coast line in Cornwall, " which, from the nature of its gradients, is incapable of sustaining a serious competition." The gradients are more severe than have ever been proposed for a locomotive line." "It is clearly, however, impossible for us to assume the success of a system as .to which much difference ex ists among railway engineers, and which has not hitherto afforded such proof of its merits as could war rant us in giving the preference to projected under takings, the success of which must depend upon results, as yet uncertain, while ether projects are offered, to which no such uncertainty applies." We repeat, we shall be curious to see the report of the Board of Trade on the Cmish APPOINTMENTS. Captains—The Hon. Richard Saunders Dundas, C. 8., to be Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, in the room of Capt. W. A. B. Hamilton, second Secretary to the Admiralty, vice Sir John Barrow, Bart., retired. Commanders—William Wyndham Hornby (1841), to the Styx; J. C. Prevost, to the Rodney. Lieutenants—ll: N. Burroughes, to the Styx ; Reginald T. J. Levinge, to command the Dolphin, vice Hoare, inva lided; W. Howatt, W. Tottenham, F. H. Stanfbll, and R. C. Tattnall, to the Vanguard; F. G. Leigh, to the Stromboli; W. H. Webb, to the Firebrand; Octavius Cumberland, to the Racehorse, vice Tottenham; David Elliott, to the Pene lope; James Wood (d), of the Fearless, to command the Pandora ; 11. C. Toby, to the Styx. Masters—R. S. Rundle, of the Comus,lto the Styx; Samuel S. Flynn, to the Vanguard. Surgeons—Dr. A. Yeoman, to the Styx ; Dr. Andrew Mil lar, to the Trafalgar, vice Bruce; Allan M'Laren, to the Poictiers, vice Mliechnie ; John Smith, to the Vanguard. Paymasters and Pursers—Thomas Shanks, to the Van guard; Edward Ward, to the Styx. Mates—G. H. Wale, to the Cyclops; F. J. Hornby, of the Formidable, to the Excellent ; M. N. F. CEngreve, to the Styx; A. Phillimore, to the Vanguard. Second Masters—John S. Smith to the Pandora ; J. W. Hall, Assistant-Surgeons—Thos. the tant Vanguard. . surgeons _ Thos. Luscombe, and Caleb E. Pro theroe (additional) to the San Josef ; E. Elliott and J. G. M'Cullagh, to the Vanguard. Naval Instructor—G. F. Parker, of the Aigle, to the Rodney. Midshipman—S. Shipworth, to the Excellent. Naval Cadets—H. Batten, to the Lily ;T. B. Herbert, to the Charge—B. W. Tribe, to the Pandora. Clerk St.Vincent.in Masters' Assistants--Wm. Barrett, and G. Gilpin, to the Vanguard. ROYAL MARINES. —Major Morrison, to relieve Captain W. Ford, in the Recruiting Service at Birmingham. Captain John Miller (1843); First Lieutenant C. C. Hamley (1841), Plymouth Division ; and Second Lieutenant L. Reeves (1842), Woolwich Division, to the Vanguard, at Plymouth. Second Lieutenants W. S. Davis, of the Woolwich Division, and M. Patty, of the Portsmouth Division, to the Excellent, to study for the Royal Marine Artillery. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 13 per mile, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 47 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 62 . 1, it follows that gold is 0.60 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is 434 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 9i ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 11i, it follows that gold is 1.02 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at New - York on London is 1104 per cent. ; and the par of exc h ange b e t ween England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the ex change is 0.68 per cent. in f avour o f E ng land ; but the quoted exchange at New York b e i ng f or bill s at sixty days' sight, the interest must be added to the above ffifference. SUN.—The Funds close heavily, and we quote a reduction of per cent. since the morning. Consols have been 99 1 4 to % for Money, and 99% 1 / 2 for Time. Exchequer-bills have realised 535. to 565. premium. New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. were last marked 103%• Portuguese Stock improved a little, being 59% for the Converted. Spanish Five per Cents. were 27%, and the Three per Cents. 40% ON. Mexican Bonds were 35% V ; Colombian, 13 3 / 4 to 14. Belgian Bonds have been 1013,4'. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New , were 15 %; Ca ledonian, 2toX i ; Chester and Holyhead, 2 3 4 ; Churnet Valley, 6% ; Dublin and Galway, %; Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 7 ; Great north of England, 83 ; Great Western, 93 to 96 ; Ditto, Half Shares , 49 to 50 ; Lan caster and Carlisle, 14% ; Brighton, 8 ; Ditto, Eighths, 8 ; South-Western, 38%; Croydon, 5%; Manchester and Bir mingham, 24 3 4 ; Midland, 27; Newcastle and Berwick, 13 3 / 4 to 14; North British, 6 ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 3%; South Devon, 6 3 % ; South-Eastern, 8%; South Wales, 2 3 / 4 • Trent Valley, 17 1 / 3 4 ; York and North Midland, Halves, 27%; Paris and Orleans, 2434 y 8 ; Paris and Rouen, 22% to % ; and Bordeaux and Toulouse, % % premium. Direct Northern were IA discount to par. Blackwall were 8% to 3 / 4 discount. Union Bank of Australian Shares were 2 prem. The exchanges were higher this afternoon on Antwerp, Paris, Amsterdam, and Frankfort, and much the same on Trieste and Hamburgh, or perhaps barely so good. The following is the official return of the exports of Bullion for the week ending Thursday last : Silver Bars to Rotterdam ............ 32,0000 z. Silver Coin to Rotterdam ............ 6,0000 z. FIVE SUDDEN DEATHS. — On Monday thefollowing inquests on the bodies of persons who had died suddenly were held in the western division of Middlesex :—By rlr, Wakley, M.P., at half past nine o'clock, at No. 17, Gate street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on the body of Mr. Day, the well-known lithographer. The deceased gen tleman enjoyed his usual g health all last week; but on Friday, ood after an interview with some gentlemen on bu s i ness, he expired sud denly, without any apparent cause. Ity Mr. G. I. Mills, at the Lord Wellington, Sussex-street, Gower - street, on the body of Samuel Dyer, a bricklayer. The deceased always enjoyed good health, and on Friday forenoon he went to examine a room in the above street, into which water had penetrated from the roof, in consequence of the melting of the snow, and whilst telling the occupier of the room to fear nothing, he dropped suddenly on the floor and died. The third inquest was held at the Union, Essex-street, Somers town, on the body of Mr. Charles Bagnall Fleetwood, aged eighty six. Deceased resided at No. 12, in the above street, and was an operative chemist. He was found dead in his bed on Friday morning last, to which the cold weather had confined him with cough and asthma for two or three days. The fourth inquest was held at the Cricketers, Wellington-street, Camden-town, on the body of a poor woman, named Elizabeth Crisp, aged forty-three. She died suddenly on Thursday last. The fifth inquiry took place at the Two Brewers, Aylesbury-street, Clerkenwell, on the body of Frederick Errick Bar ham, aged seven weeks. The child was a fine healthy one, and the mother had taken it out on Thursday to look for a wet nurse's situa tion. She brought it home at four o'clock, and thinking it slept she placed It in bed. Soon afterwards the grondrnother wishing t o f ee d it, went to the bed and found the infant quite dead. Verdict in each case, " Natural death." DIRE.—UTILITY OF TEE " SMOKE -PROOF" DRESS.— T esterday (Tuesday) a fternoon, shortly befor e f our o ' clock, a fire was discovered burning in the vaults in the occupation of Messrs. Robt. Fenwick and Co., bottle merchants, Upper Thames -street, City. The outbreak occurred at the farther end of on e of the arches, to reach which it was necessary to pass through the trap-entrance in front of the premisce, and from the fact of there being on each side strong party walls, and but a single opening by which the smoke could pos sibly escape, the effluvia from the burning materials, consisting of straw and wicker baskets, was found to be so stifling that, prior to Mr. Braidwood's arrival, no one coul d p o ssibly venture below. One of the firemen, however, having, under the superintendence of that gentleman, clad himself in th e smoke-proof" • dress, descended at once into the vault, and so directed the hose that in a short period the flames were extinguished, and the damage rendered comparatively trifling. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—The new street from Long-acre to Holborn, forming the continuous line from Water loo-bridge to the new Holborn - road, has been named Endelb street ; and the fine opening which connects High-street, St. Giles's, with Monmouth and St. Andrew-streets, is called Broad-street. The new street connecting Long-acre with C oventry -street is in such a state of forwardness that it is expected to be open fbr traffic In about a pen% SUGAR DUTIES. On Friday evening last Sir Robert Peel stated that the consumption of sugar during 1844 had been 207,000 tons ; he also admitted that, although 10s. per cwt. protection to British sugar was the sum named last session, yet the protec tion had been practically 10s. 6d. per cwt. Since the admis sion of free• labour sugar to the home use—that is to say, that during the debate last sessien—the question was treated as though the duties were 245. to 345. per cwt., and therefore the difference only 10s.; but the fact of adding 5 per cent. to these duties, made the one 255. 3d., and the other 355. 6d. per cwt., conferring the protection of 20 guineas a ton for the benefit of the British sugar producers. Now, 207,000 tons are 4,140,000 cwt., which at 10s. 6d. per cwt. exactly demonstrates the amount of this protectioa, and that amount is no less than 2,173,5004, being more than the value of the sugar itself before charges accrue on it. What says Sir Robert Peel this session ? He announces that he proposes to reduce the duties on all sugars, maintaining, though, the difference . of 10s. 6d. in favour of British sugars; and he expresses a hope that such reduction of duty will augment the consumption of sugar in the course of the year from 207,000 tons to 250,000 tons—which are 2,500,000 cwt., at 10s. 6d. per cwt., the cost of protection. By this operation he expects to lose 1,300,000/, but the consumers will have to pay to the British sugar producers 2,625,0004 the amount of their protection. Sir Robert further thinks, that abstracting from the pockets of the public indirectly, through the opera tion of the differential duties, the enormous sum of 2,625,0001 . is not enough for the people to lose in these days of prosperity ; he therefore proposes to continue the obnoxious income-tax for three years longer, in order that he may reimburse the contemplated loss to the revenue of 1,300,000/. The people are first of all to be fleeced out of 2,625,000/, for the benefit of a particular class, and then to be worried and annoyed by a vexatious and inquisitorial income-tax, with a view to make good a deficit in the revenue of 1,300,000/,, occasioned entirely by the crafty plan in which the sugar duties are arranged. Now, let us glance at the party for whom this tremendous sacrifice is to be made. First of all, let us look at the sugar producers in the East Indies—do they need protection ? Assuredly not I The cheapness of labour and the fertility of the soil in those possessions will notoriously enable the planters to compete successfully with other sugar- producing countries. Secondly, do the planters in the Mauritius require a protecting duty of 103. 6d. per cwt. ? For years past they have, by employing the labour of the East Indies, participated in its cheapness ; they consequently require no protection. Thirdly,' . the West Indians—do they deserve protection ? they who have already cost the mother country so much— they who never did, and probably never will, be able to make sugar so cheaply, or so well, as other colonists between the tropics—and who now enjoy the bad pre-eminence of shipping to Europe the very worst manufactured sugar that enters the European markets ? And yet it is for their sakes that the consumers of sugar in Great Britain will have to pay protection money, if Sir Robert Peel succeeds in carrying out his proposition, to the tune of two million six hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds, and be saddled with a most vexatious tax (the income-tax) into the bargain. And these things are allowed to pass in the enlightened days of 1845 4 , THE SUN" EXTRAORDINARY jEXPRESSES. • THE BUDGET. FROM THE PRIVATE SECRETARY OF TILE LORD LIEU TENANT OF IRELAND TO MR. JOHNSTON, EDEN-QUAY, DUBLIN. " Castle, Feb. 17. " Mr. A'Court is touch obliged to Mr. Johnston for his attention in sending for his Excellency's information the Extraordinary Edition of The Sun, on Saturday evening." FROM THE PAYMASTER-GENERAL OF IRELAND, THE RIGHT HON. T. F. 'KENNEDY, TO MR. JOHNSTON, EDEN-QUAY. ___ _ " Treasury Chambers, Feb. 17. "Mr. Kennedy presents his compliments to Messrs. Johnston and Co., and begs leave to offer his best thanks for sending , him an Express copy of Th e S un on Saturday evening. " From the Dublin Morning Freeman's Journal of Mon. day, the 17th instant.) UNPARALLELED TRIP TO LONDON AND BACK. " Mr. Johnston, of Eden-quay, left his office on Thurs day, at five minutes to six o'clock, for London, for an Express of The Sun newspaper, with Sir Robert Peel's financial statement, where he arrived at six o'clock on Friday evening ; left London with the Express at nine o'clock, containing eight columns and a half of the state ment printed in The Sun up to the close. The Premier having sat down at ten minutes past eight o'clock, after occupying the House of Commons exactly three hours and a ball, and Mr. J. arrived back with the Express at Eden-quay at five minutes past six o'clock on Satur day evening, being absent forty-eight hours ten minutes, travelling in that time upwards of 700 miles, including three hours' delay in Liverpool, and three hours and -a halfin London. " We received the Express Edition of The Sun from Mr. Johnston on Saturday evening at a quarter past six o'clock." Acknowledgments of receiving the Extraordinary Edition of last Friday's Evening Sun, appear in the Dublin Times, Saunders' News Letter, and Monitor of Monday, in an equally rapid manner througk Mr. Johnston. THE BUDGET.—Tho spirited proprietor of The Sun newspaper, by an Extraordinary Express, conveyed to Mr. Horn, of this town a Fourth Edition of that paper of Friday evening last, containing upwards of eight columns of Sir Robert Peel's speech on the Budget, and which we received on Saturday morning, an hour before the Post-office delivery.—Newcadle Advertiser. FIRE IN THE WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE-ROAD.-- About a quarter before two o'clock this morning a very alarming fire broke out on the premises occupied by Mr. Thomas Wright, book seller and stationer, No. 42, Westminster-bridge-road, near the Orphan Asylum. The flames were first perceived by a policeman, who while pursuing his beat observed a bright reflection through the - fanlight over the Shop door. An alarm was instantly given, and after the lapse of some minutes, during which the fire made rapid progress about the lower part of the premises, the only person sleeping In the house was aroused, and in a state of comparative nudity, with considerable difficulty effected his escape into the street. The engines were sent for on the first alarm being given, and two being stationed in the Waterloo-road, a very short time elapsed before they were on the spot. There was, however, as usual on the Surrey side of the bridges, a lamentable delay in the supply of water, and great fears were entertained that the fire would extend its ravages to the adjoining houses. By the very excellent management of the firemen, when enabled to work, this calamity was happily prevented, and, indeed, the upper portion of the premises was also saved from destruction. The whole of the stock and furniture in the lower floors was entirely destroyed. The origin of the fire could not be ascer tained, but it was supposed to have originated in the shop, probably from an escape of gas. Police-constable Stratford, 50 L, at the imminent risk of his life, when the door was opened by the party who escaped, rushed up stairs, and searched each room, with a view to extricate any person that might have been sleeping therein. The poor fellow on his, return to the street was much exhausted, and his intrepid conduct was rewarded by the cheers of the assembled crowd. SUDDEN DEATH.—Mr. W. R. Barber, an ex ceedingly promising young man, twenty-two years of age, third son of the Rev. J. R. Barber, M.A., minister of St. Paul's, Vauxhall , and chaplain of Lambeth Union, arrived at Preston, in Lancashire, in which town and neighbourhood he had business to transact as agent for a wholesale house in London, and, before retiring to rest on Monday evening, requested to be called in the morning, as he had to proceed further by the railway. Mrs. Newton, at whose house ho had been in the habit of stopping whenever he visited Preston, pre pared his breakfast, as usual, on Tuesday morning, and having went into at his door several times without receiv in g an y answer, into his room and found him quite dead. CHEESE AND BREAD SELLERS.—" How can you think of coining to set up in opposition to me In the mine street? I have been here alone thirty years ; nobody has opposed the ; and, I assure you, it has been as much as ever I could do to get a living. I think such as I ought to be protected." "My answer to you is this, that when prices are reduced, and good articles sold, people will be attracted to the street, instead of being driven elsewhere, and th ere will be plenty to do for us both. lour articles have been dear, your shop dirty, and your customers uncivilly treated. Your not having made money has arisen chiefly from want of opposition. You will see, when I start, the people will be better used, and we shall both do better than you have done with all the street to yourself."—Not a bad illustration of agricultural protection and fregloni.—VieStruge. SUMMAfiIf OF NEWS AND ViitHr Optitton. " 1-1710 runs may rcad." ro IZEIGN. The accounts from Switzerland are not favourable. The Zurich Gazette, the Friend of the Constitution, published at Berne and several other journals of late dates represent that interesting country as in a state of great excitement. Two large popular meetings had been held at Lutzig and Cossonay, at which very strong language was used by the speakers. Accounts received at Paris state that the weather in the Provinces contined Very severe. — At Strasbourg on the 13th inst. Fahrenheit's thermometer had fallen to five degrees. The price of bread in Paris for the second fortnight of the present month has been fixed at 29 centimes the kilogramme first quality, and 22 centimes the second quality. Thus, the best bread costs rather less than three sous the French pound. The King on the recommendation of the Minister of Public Instruction has, by ordonnance dated the 15th inst., ordered the establishment of a Faculty of Science, at Besan con, and fixed the number of professorships at six —viz., theoretical mathematics, practical mathematics, natural phi losophy, chemistry, zoology and botany, geology and mine ralogy. A Ministerial order, dated the 16th, nominates the new professors. The Messager says there is no truth in the statement of the Count d'Appony having entered into a contract with the French Government for a supply Of tobacco. M. Radiguel Goury, who went to the Marquesas with Ad miral Dupetit Thouars as his private Secretary, has been made a member of the Legion of Honour. The Procureur do Roi has given notice of appeal against the judgme n t o f t h e Tribunal of Correctional Police, acquit ting the prisoners in the late trial for fraudulent gambling transactions. They will remain in custody until the appeal can be heard. The following is given in one of the Paris papers as a cor rect account of the facts relative to the late arrest of two Englishmen :—' Their names are Parker and Williams. They went on Friday to a money-changer to get French money for a Bank note for 100/. ; the suspicion of the latter was excited by the manner of the parties, and he sent his shopman to follow them. He saw them in succession call at three other changers, at each of which they exchanged a note for 100/., after which other exchange offices were visited for the purpose of again turning the French money into English gold. These circumstances strengthening the suspicions of the money-changer, he caused them to be taken before the Procureur du Roi. On searching their lodgings nothing however was found to criminate the parties, and they were set at liberty. The notes were on examination found to be genuine, and formed no part of those stolen in the late rob bery at Messrs. Rogers and Co.'s bank. The parties came to Paris from Boulogne, Parker merely accompanying the other as his interpreter." Some sensation was created in the Spanish capital by the receipt of letters from London, mentioning that General Espartero had sent a hostile message to the Spanish Ambas sador, because of some rudeness to Madame Espartero in his Excellency's chapel, who, perhaps, unconsciously had taken possession of that part of the gallery usually assigned to the Ambassador. LAIR 7 AND POLICE. In the Court of Queen's Bench a German, named Schie singer, received a verdict with 501. damages, against a fel. low -countryman of his, named Flersheim, for a libel. The case of Sawyer, a butcher, at Slough, was adjourned, in the Court of Bankruptcy, sine die. At the Guildhall a young man, named John Griffin, was brought before Mr. Alderman Hughes, charged with at tempting to steal from the warehouse of Messrs. Deacon, the earners, in London-wall, a truss of goods which had arrived from Norwich, and was lying in the delivery warehouse. After evidence, Mr. Alderman Hughes said the prisoner had committed a felony by removing the goods, but he was afraid a jury might consider it was only an attempt to steal. The Alderman, therefore, committed him to h ar d l a b our an d low diet for fourteen days. If he committed himfor a longer term he would be better fed, and the punishment would really be less. An omnibus conductor was convicted at Queen-square in the penalty of ss. and costs, for suffering another person to ride with him on the steps of the carriage. At the Thames Police-court Thomas Hazen, a labourer, was charged with committing an outrageous assault on Miss Priscilla Smyth, a young lady, the daughter of a surgeon re siding in High-street, Bromley. He was committed in de fault of bail for trial. COURT — FASHONABLE. The Lord Chancellor gave a grand banquet last evening, at his mansion in George -street. The follvwing formed the dinner circle :—The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, his Ex cellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Diet richstem, the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clemen tine Villiers, the E ar l o f Ell en b orough, Lady Peel, Lord Brougham, Lord Forrester, Lord and Lady Beauvale, Lord Macdonald, Lord Lovaine, and Baron Koller. After the banquet Lady Lyndhurst held a reception, which was numer ously and fashionably attended. The Duke of Hamilton arrived in Portman-square on Monday evening, from Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire. His Grace is improv e d i n h ea l t h . The Earl of Cardigan has left town for Deene Park, North amptonshire. The Noble Earl's last grand hunting party for the season at Deene Park is not expected to take place until next month, owing to the recent demise of the venera ble Countess of Aldborough, her Ladyship's grandmother. The Marquis of Granby, Lord Forester, and many of the leading members of the Melton Hunt, are expected to be pre sent on that occasion. The Right Hon. the Earl of Stradbroke has left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn• street, to attend the Lent New market meeting. The Earl of Ellenborough entertained a select circle at dinner on Monday evening, at his residence in Charles street, Berkeley-square. His Lordship has issued cards for a grand dinner party on Saturday next. The Earl and Countess of Albemarle have arrived in Berkeley -square from Newmarket, where the Noble Earl and Countess passed a few days. Her Serene Highness the Dowager Grand Duchess Stephanie, of Baden, and suite are expected to arrive at the Duke of Hamilton's, Portman-square, on Friday, from Man heim. The Grand Duchess intended to have left Germany in the early part of last month, but her departure was delayed on account of the severity of the weather. The Earl of Munster has arrived in town from a visit to Lord Frederick and Lady Augusta Fitzclarence, at Etal House, near Coldstream, Berwickshire. MIEzZABO ham By the death of the Earl of Effi M ng TTS a . vacancy has been occasioned in the borough of Shaftesbury, which Lord Howard (now Earl of Effingham) represented in Parliament since the general election of 1841. The present Earl is a sup porter of Whig principles, but voted against the abolition of the corn-laws. He is now in his 39th year. At the Repeal Association on Monday Mr. O'Connell said he had been told he ought to oppose the additional grant to Maynooth College, according to his own principle of allow ing each persuasion to support its own clergy. He would do so if all parties agreed to do the same; but while the Catholics continued to be taxed for the support of the Established Church he would take all he could get. The rent for the week was 7511. Government has granted 100/. a year pension to the widow of Captain J. M'Leod, stipendiary magistrate, who was mur dered at Ballinamore, Leitrim ; and at the demise of that lady 501. a year will devolve en her daughter, Miss M'Leod. The Norwich Musical Festival Committee have made an engagement with Staudigl, as principal bass for the ensuing festival. Yesterday a two hundred yards running match was de cided in the Copenhagen-fields, Maiden-lane, between Reed and Marsden; the men %ere matched for 31. aside, and after a well-contested race Marsden came off the winner. Mr. Henry Russell was employed last night by the mana gers of the Mechanics' Institution, to give a vocal entertain ment in aid of the library funds. The theatre was crowded to excess, and the clever vocalist, who sang a series of his most popular pieces, was loudly applauded. SUICIDE OF MR. L. BLANCHARD. CORONER'S INQUEST. On Monday evening Mr. Carter and a highly respectable jury as sembled at the Spread Eagle Tavern, Canterbury-road, Lambeth, to inquire into: the cause which led the late Mr. Laman Blanchard, the well-known contributor to the metropolitan periodicals, to com mit suicide. The jury, upon being sworn, proceeded to the late residence of the deceased, No. 11, Union-place, Canterbury-road, to view the body, which was lying in the bed-room. Upon the re-assembling of the jury, The CORONER stated, that what they had to inquire into would be the state of the deceased's mind at the time he committed the act of self-destruction, and upon the evidence adduced they would find their verdict accordingly. From the statement of the nurse, it appeared that about twelve months since the wife of Mr. Blanchard was attacked with illness, which, in the end, terminated in insanity. At different periods Mrs. Blanchard's disease became more confirmed, when, about two months since, while sitting in the drawing-room, she exclaimed to the de ceased that she was afraid she was attacked again, and shortly af terwards her intellect disappeared. On that occasion Mr. Blan chard carried his wife up to her bed, from which she never rose. From the period of the death of Mrs. Blanchard up to last Friday evening, the deceased had been observed to labour under a great de pression of spirits, and that to such an extent that he was afraid to be left alone of a night, so that when the nurse departed, his youngest child, a lad about eleven y ears o f age , s l ep t w i t h hi m . The result of the loss of Mrs. Blanchard, ac ti ng upon th e susce ptibility of the e mind of of the deceased, created a di sorgan i sa ti on , w hi c h ended in h pros tration of the nervous system, and Mr. Blanchard became subjected t to fits. In the c ourse o f l as t F r id ay l ie sus t a ined two attacks, both of which he recovered, a n d a t the usual whichhour, from nine and ten, he retired to his bed-room, accompanied by his son, and was between attended by the nurse. The deceased, s as per formed his devotions, which he concluded the Prayer,intellects. and at that time he appeared to be in the fill'hs usual custom, enjoyment Lord's o his The nurse, on the termination of the evening prayers, left the room, and within three minutes afterwards ftem the throat of his parent, d e ceased committed suicide. The boy, on seeing the blood g ush sprang towards him, and catchingfe hold of his hand, exclaimed, "Oh, fell, father !" when the deceased and In all probability died. Medical aid was called in, but the de ceased had ceased to exist. It was further stated that since the death of Mrs. Blanchard. and, although - the deceased had been most desponding, giving exist ence to those charming pieces which pleased all who read th em, he s i n king under a most painnd state of mind. wag c iai oNsa, at this stage of the proceedings, remarked that the son of the deceased who, it appeared, had slept with his father since the death of Mrs. Blanchard, was in attendance ; but from what had couldcome to his knowledge, he felt satisfied that no addi t i onal Information be aed at. The jury said they were perfectly satisfied, and returned a ver d ict, " That the deceased destroyed himself while labouring under tempo rary insanity." It is to be regretted that the deceased has left four children to lament his untimely loss. THE HOUSELESB Poon.—The asylums in Play house-yard, East Smithfield, and Ogle-street, continue crowded with unfortunate visitors, men, women, and children, although the Com mittee are daily engaged in indeavourlng to procure admittance for the applicants to their several parishes. The influx of destitute per !°l,3 18 So great, that the benevolent individuals engaged in conduct ing the affairs of the charity have been obliged to make a pressing appeal to the public for assistance in saving their fellow-creatures from perishing. They have relieved this season upwards of 10,000 persons, at an expense of 1,500!., and their funds have become fright fully diminished. ARTESIAN WELLS.—An artesian well is being sunk in Berkeley-square, in lieu of the old pump, which has for warty Years, past supplied the square and its vicinity.