The Sun. — London, England, 1844-08-13 00:00:00

Tb" good, per )reign more , trifle quan he de: 1, - and s dulls ue. rs to Iff Is to 20‘ to 22. ,stogy is to 39 4 )i to SO is to 35 4 )8 to Sig !A to 388 Is to 40 Is to 58 . 1 Is to 3be ps Seto 20 si to irs 3s to 0 0 25 to 2111 d.s 4 i 8 : I 4 " i 4 S 6 l i° . a abilir ) metro' an 51° se fr° o ga les, e niucb hales 000 i. to Neale brougt brook,'" L uctioll aid inet_ is 0 aPoo bi b I n ok,, 10 r n , seem,,), T sb o r o to ,rtion lioe di' I. c lef • , „ 5 5 r vilto , t it" sh (D iall 50 °1 0 /~ t o i ces* tf l 115:1$9 the ' l4f of II" of° J• Iw o. of Cl4ll 10 1 the cicb lir°l l f o ii DO v j cp le , `ii ler Ft ls n d ford te Cor r r a t e r ate w $ F l rgiee e ptf o v er f $ 3scie-.." tr. J.' te C' O a 1 ; 'Ate . Ja w r stow' )r. loll► Lorot °lr 0 11 i r Ore- A gth iDg : rirob" 4 94• IL O a eft 0. g ott GRAVESEND STAR PACKETS. FURTHER REDUCTION OF FARES. SIXPENCE AND NINEPENCE, Boat and Blackwall Railway Included. Na y From the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, Q U'IdaYS included) at Ten, Eleven. Twelve, Three, Four, Six, and Half-past Seven. At g ew , From the. Terrace Pier, Gravesend, nail-past Nine, Half-past Twelve, Two,* Four, Six, Seven, and Eight. Flo —Fore -• On Sundays at Five instead of Two. Cabin and Seconi-class Carriage, Sixpence; Saloon and St ar C First-class Carriage, Ninepence. ...__:in_Clravesend, July 10, 1844. ar—A LONDO N and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. after therERATION and ACCELERATON of TRAINS on and .. T he 10 sth Ancusr, by order of the Postmaster-General. g an . 4 M, from London will arrive in Birmingham at Two, P.M. In 4,lP from Birmingham will arrive in London at One, P.M. itauition to the above Mail Trains, 1 15, P.M., from Birmingham, 3 45 0 , "at Half-past One, and arrive in London at Six, P.M. The T„ will leave Bi rm i ng h am at a Q uar t er -p as t Four, and arrive " N on tNi By Order, R. CREED, Secretary. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. order A LTERATION and ACCELERATION of TRAINS.—By hot, the Postmaster-General. The Public are requested to !it on and after the 15th instant, the Trains of this Company lie dispatched as follows : rrOlb T Arrive ,11,0,-. 00. 4 0 '," at Birmingham. 6 0 A.M. Mall _ _ _ _ .. 8 6 A.M. A , p ~ • . Third Class - - - - 11 36 A.M. if U A .M. First Cla ss - - - - - 1 21 P.M. 3 2, A 'M• Mail 3 51 P.M. 8 - ;'J P.M. Second Class - - - - 10 23 P.M. Ntn, D s __ P . • ' .l . Mail (mixed) _ - 12 36 P.M. 810 I ngham. Arrival at Liverpool. 1 6 10 A.At• Mail (mixed) - - - - 5 10 A.M. 0 11 15 A *X• Second Class - - - - 11 15 A . M. 2 A.M. Mail - - 3 15 p.m. 15 P.M.ail - _ - - 6 15 P.M. 4 5 p 1 Fi rst 6 P .M. Class - - - - 8 30 F.M. Ji4t e .....„° ?•M• Third Class - - - -11 0 P.M. '4ll, t isa ' n `, l !2 clocks arc set according to the longitude of eachs o ta n tien ci der ih e ' i ZiPs may be had at any of the Company's stations Arr a , ._ ° "l inSt. tO tl._ ,gelnents are in progress for attaching Second-class carriages fr- : I .%List trai ns, .7._ in Poorer elits - for reach! the fares, and for adding a cheapltrain t:_. ,yerti sein SCS, of which due notice ' will be given in a future 7, entßy order, Liverr,-, (Signed) MARK lIIIISIL Secretary. ,-.., 9th August, 1844. - velimoND and WEST-END JUNCTION ai Th e RATIWAY. de of. -- ,: o sPectus of the above Railway having its terminus on either With vs' un gerford-bride, and connected with Ihnigerford-min e , hie b lgjge ", , Means of bringing in the present South-Western traftle to Tet fluentialerminus in Lond on, w Comm ill be it published in a few days, with a e in Provisional tee. doub t Point selected (being the heart of the West-end) leaves no ti nd the .I r i o e s ni ve r u s s o w f i r groinoters of its superiority over a a ll to ot c h a e rr rs ; °U t the undertaking, Nv the various interests combine A tigllst 9, 1844 WM. CHAPMAN, Solicitor, Richmond. WANTED, EIGHT POUNDS for Six Weeks, ',Jemmy for whi ch TEN POUNDS will be RETURNED, and address, and which by latter only, free, stating name and Strand: "PPOn i ting an inte rv i ew , t o Mr. Green, 44, Wych-street, ...___ „ rho lir esSion of INTEaRnESTo INV-ENTORS d h GENTLEMEN in ti7e iNG er MODELS or WORKS of AnT, T,,t I TION• I to deposit them at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTI tile 3ist mate respectfully requested to forward them on 'or before CAT. 6 In order that they may be inserted in the REVISED 4 Posit "ruE• All such works are received gratuitously, and the aii ,, ..2r has free admission to the Institution. Working Models are LeetW:-.lPlained, and, where the subject admits, are described in a R. J. LONGBOTTOM, Secretary. s----- ------____LN.B. The Institution is open Daily, as usual. Stony --- __ 'ARTY for the DISCHARGE and RELIEF qI,,i I .,, E ItRONS IMPRISONED for SMALL DEBTS throughout and WALES, established 1772. toed President —The Earl of ROMNEY. iris e /( 'llYon VICPRESIDENTS. 'llih t• I Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, Bart., Ata rSham E - ainin Bo M.P. ,Trea surer—Benj I Bond Cabbell, Esq., F.R.S. A t . , AUditors—John Pepys, Esq., and Capel Cure, Esq. the 7 t laleetin g of Govenmrs, held in Craven-street, on Wednesday, (lered of of August 1844' the Cases of 100 Petitioners were consi (leferr'nO,' Which 79 were ' ' approved, l 0 rejected, 4 inadmissible, and 7 .., Fli t i c ',for inquiry. kis gins -13,(he Meeting' held on the 3d of July, ONE HUNDRED and teen I) . '" l ' r oltS, of whom 82 had Wives and 177 Children, have '4Wll°l'ellarged fr om the Prisons of England and Wales ; the expense ciet,,_e liberation, including every charge connected with the So ._ ' waa 4 G2/. 18s. 10.1., and the following Then) RtxEraeTIONS RECEIVED SINCE TILE LAST REPORT :- 1,,,,n). Eden, Esq. .... £2 2 0 , 3 '.trs. i `. r orrett, • • .. A 1 1 0 ........•••••••• ,"`.. 8 6,, - ,,. Punketi per Messrs. Herries and Co. •••• • • • • 2 0 0 '. L 1, - " 4 00s Pole ' Eper Messrs. Cocks and Co 8. 22 0 I'lu. • , •, Per T r ' s q” p .• A 1 0 0 - .ate s• easiwer • • • ‘, ,0 001 i.ir Francis Burdett, M.P., half year's dividend on 411 L, r e• Di a ,. T ..,„, r eo Per Cent. Consols, per Messrs. Hoare .... 15 0 0 0 ...c.ettof... - 7 -tYl'whitt Drake, per ditto ..................3 0 ~- (r ea3„'", 10 118 are received by Benjam Bond by', Esq., the ''', l4 'ker: r .' I% To. 1, Brick-court, Temple, also the following 'ere,. .._•---Messrs. Cocks, Curries, Drummonds, HerrieS, lloares, The ll,' k. d by the Secretar •, No Curries, 7 Craven-street, Strand, where C hanty- nla Y he ' seen i ) those who are inclined to support the •inont h - , 44.1 where the Society meet on the first Wednesday in every JOSEPH LUNN, Sec. IInYPERVg ) , near STAINES. Fifteen Miles from Hyde-park. ...._ - FA RM, MANSION, and GROUNDS, TITHE. E t and LAND-TAX REDEEMED. t ' 3 * ADAM MURRAY and SONS beg , .o anr ,„ *Nation T, 'C°fTRAc ounce that they are directed to SELL by PRIVATE . ", very el : 'gi .. bl e F REEHOLD ESTATE, in a dry and . healthy from Staines a n d wo genteel neighbourhood, about three miles l b, ..,seven miles from Windsor, comprising a neat, gent e -14.,1re.Matir sion, with attached and detached domestic offices, 4178 Z tounds, paddock, walled garden and hot-house, green 'very eisso u- l?orld, double coach-house and six.stalled stable, and 'louse c , ‘ . , , en . letCe for the comfortable ' residence of a family. The Mena, _.'..allni a drawing -room and a dining-room, of good dimen tol library, nine spacious and cheerful bed-rooms, housekeeper's 4445, entralice-ban, butler's pantry, large kitchen, and cellaring. Ma rch ' a n excellent FARM, let on lease, which expires 25th and P as - s : t ts Containing 228 Acres of productive arable, meadow, ° _tiler.„ - f e land, with a convenient farm.house, barns, stables, and 'her wi t table agricultural buildings and labourers' cottages, togs- V Or f s everal Copyhold Cottages and Gardens. ray and 4 ,11, sZ th er particulars apply to Messrs. Adam Mur d °' Who - " e Y° l 's and Land-agents, 47, Parliament.street, Lon on, --....„...t..............a cards to view the estate may be obtained. tt PLOYMENT.—P h • a little time Persons having ' 5 46 t° 'Pare appointed in t kgents continue to be , the n , am country rrisedbthath ' e EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, Otß ee : 6 l ''Of their celoewbrnasiedyteas. h yGreat St Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate-street. ',and ar° packed 1 • • isters from one ounce to a littl t i ' With ti • n showy leaden can , ) ° bl. 2 0 Price and wel ht mrked on sack packet, and but 4 1 41 ,, alz 1 a 1 ,,,;' La ()ems' b g l sale. The license. is only 1 ls. per I 'rali'l -. 1 7 r oallY during the t la le stnlneteeu years have realised con- Alipir )4l .°' hY the agency without one shilling let or loss. con at elude,* to be made (if by letter post-paid) as above. A la PRT AN T to FAMILIES FURNISHING. ')%oltlas-lii;r°lllBiderable saving can be effected ., in the purchase of aPe tt .k,,S, fig reTniongery, by visiting the PAINKLIA.I. , T the ,W,a th, ,:., li aker-strcet, Portman-square, where many ' be in- GOODS in Nvar""l„..agd,„"°St extensive STOCK of IRONMONGERY ..- * OII , N 44, consisting of kitchen cooking utensils, German silver tal bu t ~N t orit , In -room stoves, shower and vapour baths, ornamen ort...°lleftiefiArden implements, japanned water cans and toilette pails, 4471e11t ' .ate, kit 1 ' fenders and fire-irons, tea trays, g,, al m i ._ , . C lel ranges, * otivi r 7 l4 rked i wwok,o r k, flower stands, table cutlery, . &c. Every article allitibfe D ur „,' l Plain figures, at the lowest possible price, will fully of th? *e n , 6....: re at this establishment of the great advantage r;- 4 0 9 .,e y bea,sll Payments, as the proprietors warrant 11 1 every 11l C C - -ALPE, FP m anufacture, at a saving of at least 30 per cent.— e - ` 1.41 411 -L(P 'VS, and Co., 58, Baker-street, Portmaa-square. . RE parr oWance to merchants and captains. beTtu. Tit ~,,NT COMPOSITE CANDLES. to,„„,- a: 1 ,illes burn without snuffing more brilliantly than the tii4‘°lle'stlVtre cheaper in proportion to the light given than l the lasi'', r s to km( ` l° Nv Candles. The Patentees respectfully beg all 1 . ) ,s ), t : inii tuo In the silop.s simply for ~ price's Pat , ent Can are'sem 'lou t c tt Of th e n ' haVe adopted the term "Composite.' They .. g. atm kaOd a,., respectable Tallow Chandlers throughout tlic Price q - "•,11, suPPlied wholesale to the trade by Edward "k" vel i l in"t ' V . street, auxliall, and by Palmer and Co., Sutton e3r 114 t h FINE WAX CANDLES, Is. sd. per lb.; eon,,, z • 1 Y require trial to prove them the handsomest and s o teal candles in existence, that do not require snuffing. 01 , r 1 Candles 2s. 2d. • per lb.—Superior transparent Wax, 2s. onl ded .—Best kitchen and office Candles, 51d.—Ex- Set .„ 8. 42 3 ,andles, with the improved Wax Wicks, 28 . -uct Pah and SSS per 1121bs —Mottled, 60s. and 6413.—Winu ,12, 1111 4110; ' II Z 4(1 . Per . packet.-01 . d Brown Windsor, Is. Od.—Rose, ti • 48 .6(1 r`i!:—Superior Almond, 2s. 6d.—Supertlne Sealing -""tias-t".lsCt's- 'Z .— Refined - Sperm Oil, is. Od. per gallon—Solar Oil, ti -' B -1a 11 ., - su, at I) kVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St. OPPosite ew slaughter' ' s Coffeehouse), Charing-cross. A l , 9 hp- Aa A ~,."' DEST — ER - GLISH WATCHES. — . o;e ,,`l„v ORY and SONS, IVatehmalwrs, No. 4,4...v i g00r e f,::. , 111, London, opposite the Bank, re'uest the attep 7 reit " VvA l ,er,!, to their Stock of London-made PATENT Vljecv-""n4o,ll,:se',"EinS' which are manufactured by themselves in Siv r Cases, with the Detached Escapement cit% eatt, 7 . e Prices are Four Guineas and a Half, Six, and Eight eve ry ': ea c h! °,,,, in gold cases, Ten, Twelve, Fourteen, and . S c ix u tee es P4 rtke "c riPtio ' ll e very large stock offered for selection in l d Ulkri, adapted to Ms own use. er to select that which is more —.....„. TO sai l ? PUBLIC NOTICE. _ rilpi,tits, 403tiviurtieRCDASTRZET: NS AND t OTHERS. crRIACIOntf Testimonials , GraNtall_A SNUFF .— Under the ~,l)tirli I:artronago`'Nef kis S lat E e Y M E ajesty, her Royal Iligh t n:s y t t h e. e 3,ernetterd-'di(trlt, and the Lords ot the Treasyry, disorders tient t o tl Y„the Faculty for its efficacy in rem iillop tip ' e xles and Head. i e n v y n i v g e 11 ' RESTO RED!—NERVOUS HEADACHE AND Its By therm, DEAFNESS CURED! th, ,area;, , at simple delightful, and fragrant Compound! er,..,,tvelay; t ' ee a rr ace llc a o t ta ion r ' is he f d ra b ugh tt t s wusitet:aptleaasturrtentningaenxype_thno.uer yet d IN.,,, tifi t % in t o itl x 4 0 p e e r t trial,i o P n . 's llf Y Lo testimonies rds, a b n e d necessary Commons 1 used Ma lestiet Lda of the K in g s , Treasuryave sanctioned its use. Th 1 t t r !ietiii7 3 : Dtiche ss of i ‘r ri;luceth it e hints— InWith thati(geignatnttihcebalmaenscte Ilisue,,M_a_celebratesir Herbaceous C P u , e t m h i e ne id, n r t e O n c o u wnu f a i e s v t ase r s, et,t l l f ou ed grii i s c med a . l ° go o ,/ n 'all diseases inte c nt . i4,66:;.6.,;11:1,7. it 4.elucJahri-n,e i rEsq., 1;163' An drews calls calls l it -..- Nationl,',..,etter, Whitehall. Dr. Thomas. -r• - 7 d u t ili ty . Eye s ir ' Ab.s a ule "inft—see his Reports touching its -.°l l -rnet hY, with many others, recommen ~ st dent's Vail* A—. 4 nll call it " Man's best Friend," and the u i s ir7 Ll _ The late _Aedrew. es — • , ‘ in N, -,eitio recommends its use as a . preventive.Soefe the -etribr,,e 'T. ... 1 31. He states that the tenacious sympathy k_eforas, Eye , within the neetrils, with the nervous system that Grim. ••rieg t t Snuff, when freqently taken, must be of:the greatest 440 1i0 0 the consumer ; further recommends its u niversa l . ir. ' 4,o ° a Preventative. end, ' A both of oelad,,,_ornas, of Hatfield, having witnessed many c as- 1, m a . bAZlaloand ophthalmia, has kindly given his testimony !;Lh.r'oesacurtedhe b rn y a G ny l u th ra n s u r s a o nt E TT E im y o E ni s a N ls u o F f F Sl , glit restored and .. w . Grirnstone, Erg th e Dears si3. i,--I feel bound . by a sense of justic c e ‘ A to pri i l n 2 fo o r t i h y , 1= of r_ rracculous cure effected on myself by taking Wireiej_to__be called • ,s,"" elebrated G'runstone's Eye Snuff' which, ia rny case, ou ght Ear Snuff,' it having effectually relieved me tr a o r m e a few pinches of aitiibgv's fl'om which I have been su ff ering tor many yea . rs. you _ alse t neY to Make any use lease of this communication, sinFe 1 . N„„_ Much regret if thee xtr a ord i nary qualities of your Eye Snuff -.‘ not universally known G " I am dear Sir, your obedient servant, ,„ rattor, scottand.. '. MARGARET MACGREGOR. 1. Car, 1 .. m vouch for the truth of the foregoing facts and statements. Ce. V 4 V Y 8 ' 1%44 - .. off SHUTER, Kentbury, Berks.' reli t --; N. Reynolds, ed itoChambers' London Journal, Ecc.. ace., .„,,,v, excruciating pains, and can now write without spectacles ii2taniford-steet, Blackfriar's-road. of dr_ Ht tac F. Lespls, facing the church, Park-street, VW i edsor ; cured ae„:2.pineLass oefhtliegihit. vssig.hieadache.-9th S-ptember, 1838. and IS"' cured of Ophthalmia. Whitehall and ""•trered, House Tavern —See his letters, 163111 and ISII . ° ed tke 0. .the Caution —W. GRIMS LONE is the sole inventor, •,,,,,_ 2.1!)' genuine is prepared by him. ~ili:;__ odoriferous Herbaceous Compound of Herbs is sold in 11 b r0„71",_ 2 . et 53., Is. !id., 25. 4d., 4s. 4d. fts., and 15.5. 6d. each, by the Ili r'''"s W. GRIMSTONE at NO. 434, Gx ford-street, Totten_ end _gate of No. 29, Broad-street, Blcoinsbury) ile, Herbary, Hithgate • and can also be obtained 1, , n . all (h e tj2o__Pal owns and Cities. ' A liberal allowance to Shipp% ,I_7ra, aptains, and all Vendors of Grimstone's Eye Snu ff . I .n. Sts zrated Snuff is shipped to all quarters of the globe, anfil s reta pi 4 d M zvo,r,t....itituiesaleneevery climate_ All Snu ff s and Cigar s shi pped se quan tity can b e f orwarded through the General Post, by 3, dip "Roney o r d ers. A 2s. 4d. canister with " : , !lei lik eroportion. , postage, will cost A SileittATS, _... _ , ........ . „ , , ..... _ _ , Y' --47- 7: -, : --- - Ze 2------16' ' . .. 1 V .• . . . - - ------ ----, '''" .-'.* ' • -- - , ... , ....... . , ~. ~ / • .:- ' '..‘'‘‘' '.l' ' k ......-; • , , . . ' el •-• ' t" , 4 12 ) „ 4 ,,, .olr r , . • a ll • f. 44 - • ~ 0 . . . .... ... ... , , .., . , .., . ~.,,,,,,-..,.., • , 7 1 .;.. -....,- A 4 -- . 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THE SUN is Published EVERY MORN I N G al FIVE O'CLOCK, in Time far. the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS to that flour. and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POSY; co ntai n in g PARLIAMENT ARI and all other NEWS in LONDON up ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE P APERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY C IRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 78, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. Notice is hereby given that a DIVIDEND of FIVE PER CENT. (less Income-tax) on the Shares of the Society will be PAYABLE at this Office on and after TuEsnAY, the 20th day of August instant. GEO. H. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary. August 12th, 1844. AUSTRALASIAN, CI RAL LIFE ASSIJRAN Capital 200,0001., :OLONIAL, and GENE 7CE and ANNUITY SOCIETY in 2,000 Shares. THE COUNT NESSELRODE. The Count Nesselrode, who has just arrived on a visit to this country, is of a Hanoverian family, which has been settled in. Livonia for nearly a century and a half. His father had been Minister Plenipo tentiary of the Empress Catherine 11. to the Dukes of Wurtemberg, and was entrusted by the Czarina with the business of negotiating the marriage of the Grand Duke Paul with a Princess of the house of Wurtemberg. o such of our readers as have travelled in the north of Europe, it is unneces sary to say that a Livonian differs as much from a Russian, as a Russian from an Englishman. Al though the provinces of Livonia, Esthonia, Ingria, and Carelia, have been Russian for more than 130 years, yet they have ever clung with tenacity to their national language and customs, and are as much, probably more German now, than they were before the battle of Pultava, in 1709. It is true that all public officers and all clergymen are obliged to be acquainted with the Russian language; but when not under surveillance, or civil or military parade (for civil life in Russia may be said to have its parades as well as military), these worthy, primitive people relapse into the language and habits of their fathers, and cultivate their corn and hemp as their ancestors did in the time of Charles XII. Since the time of Peter the First the Livonian nobility have always been patronised at the Court of Petersburgh. Though speaking the language, and professing the religion of Luther, they have nevertheless, since the time of Gustavus Adolphus, been in a measure dis sociated from Germany, and have always looked either to Sweden or to Russia for favour or employ ment. Not being in heart and soul entirely Ger man, they were not anti-Russian ; and not being entirely Russian, they were untainted with that old leaven of Moscow Muscovite discontent, so occasion ally formidable to the Emperor. It is, therefore, no marvel that the Czars have more than encouraged this plastic race in whatever career, whether of arms or of diplomacy, to which they dedicate themselves. The present Prime Minister of Russia was born in 1770, and is now in his 74th year. His earliest studies were at the college of the Gerdes Nobles, at Petersburgh. He did not, however, enter the military service till after the death of Catherine. On the accession of the Emperor Paul, who was partial to his father, the young Nesselrode received an officer's commission in the regiment of Guards, and was immediately chosen one of the Emperor's aides-de-camp. At the end of a few years, either dis liking the monotony or the unsettled wandering nature of a soldier's life, he left the army to follow the profession of his father—the career of diplomacy. We are not aware whether Count Nesselrode accom panied the Russian army, commanded by Suwarrow, in the expedition to Italy or Switzerland. We think it probable that he did not; but that, aware from his position of aid-de-camp that t he fi rst extravagant hatred of the Czar, his master , against France and her revolution had changed into a passionate admi ration for the great military genius who was conduct ing the French people from victory to victory, and a desire to entertain intimate relations with him, he concluded the peace about to be signed would he of long duration, and that the career of diplomacy pre sented a fairer field to his ambition than the career of arms. Be this as it may, no sooner was peace signed than the young Nesselrode was dispatched to Paris as an attache to the embassy of Marcow. He had previously been employed at the Chancellerie of Foreign Affairs at Petersburgh, and had not been long in Paris before his d ili g enc e and spirit of routine caused him to be appointed conseiller d'am bassade. In that day Russian ambassadors were fre- - -quently remarkable for ignorance of diplomatic forms, and though Marcow and Besborodkow had acquired in Russia reputations for a certain species of clever ness, yet placed by the side of European statesmen, they were not only pigmies in mind, but deficient in education and the knowledge of the commonest rou tine. In this respect the defects of the chief of the embassy were supplied by the conseiller d'ambassade, and his knowledge of routine and business-like habits were of the greatest use. Marcow soon fell under the displeasure of the eccentric Emperor. lie was recalled, fell into disgrace. and was. Be a matter of course, banished, and by a refinement of cruelty peculiarly Russian, the Czar would not allow the tragic actress Hus, who had partaken of the ex- Minister's good fortune, to share his sorrows and his exile. The conduct of the negotiations for bringing about that armed neutrality of the northern Powers which provoked the battle of Copenhagen, were en trusted to Nesselrode. But Paul, who had been the soul of the coalition, did not live to witness the appearance of the triumphant fleet of Nelson before the mole of Cronstadt. His son Alexander succeeded, and a complete change took place in the foreign policy of Russia. The intimacy between Russia and France suddenly cooled, and Nesselrode and the whole of the Russian legation were speedily recalled from Paris. On his return to Petersburgh he was attached to the private chancellerie of the Emperor. Alexander soon discovered in his secretary great aptitude for labour, considerable acquired knowledge, s uppleness, intelligence, and a seriousness and gravity which are often found more useful than more brilliant qualities. In a word, he was a most useful instru ment, ready with thought, pen, or sword to obey the will of an imperial master. Nesselrode accompanied the Emperor in the campaign of 1805, and was pre sent at the interview at Erfurt in 1807. At this pe riod the Court, the Nobility, and the Russian nation, were divided into three parties. The first, exclusively Russian, was for rejecting the friendly advances of Napoleon, without going the length of open war. At the head of this party was the Empress Mother. The second party was called the Oriental party. It aspired to the occupation of Constantinople, to the enfranchisement of Greece, and to the extension of the Russian frontiers towards Persia and India. At the head of this party was Capo d'lstria, and Napo leon had shown himself partial to it at irfurt. The third party was in some sort the work of Count Nes selrode, ,onangdm,i,thiwas the stru gg l e b e tween these ideas a sort of juste milieu between both. For a con tinued, and Capo d'lstria, who to much grace of mann er and a ready eloquence, joined a mysticism w hi c h pleased and gratifi e d Alexander—himself a s 1 rod e l pupil of Madame de Krudener, and, if report speak truly, something more and dearer than a pupil—was thought to be a favourite and in the rscendant till the French armies passed the Niemen ; but then, and from that epoch, the names of Nesselrode and Pozzo di Borgo became more "Ramiliar in men's mouths," and it was plain that circumstances had given the Livonian and the Corsican the vantage ground over the Greek. Nesselrode now played the part which Maret Duke de Bassano enacted with the " man of destiny," for he treated directly, in the name of his Sovereign, with the Plenipotentiaries of European Cabinets. It was he who, at Rheichenbach, on the 15th of June, 1813, concluded with the Prince liar denberg and Baron de Stein the intimate alli ance between Pruissia and Russia. On the same day h e signed, with Lord Cathcart, the con vention between Russia and England, by which we agreed to pay the Russian subsidies during the first six months of 1813. But that which fixed him in the favour of his master, and crowned his reputa tion in Russia was the negotiation which preceded the alliance of Alexander and of Francis I. In the negotiations which subsequently took place at Prague, he but appeared asp enipotentiary for M. D'Anstell (an Alsatian by birth, a French subject, and after wards Minister of Russia at Dresden), was invested with plenary powers, but it was well-known that Nesselrode possessed at this period the entire confi dence of Alexander, and really directed the negotia tions. During the years 1813 and 1814 he never quitted the side of the Emperor Alexander, and to him and to Pozzo di Borgo are, in Russia at least, attributed the greatest portion of the successes of those campaigns. But out of Russia it is well known that the military science of Moreau, of Bernadotte, and the veteran Dumouriez (who furnished the Eng lish and Russian Cabinets with many excellent plans), were of more importance than the plodding labours of any Livonian, or the cunning devices pf any Corsican. It was Nesselrode who, on the Ist of March, 1814, signed the treaty of the quadruple alliance of Chau mont, which decided the fortunes of tbe empire. In entering Paris the conduct of Alexander and his Minister were marked by moderation and reserve. At the Congress of Vienna it was this Minister who held the diplotnatte pen of Russia. He lent a helping hand to the creation of the Germanic Confederation, demanded the partition of Poland, and the cession Of Saxony to Prussia. To the credit of Talleyrand and Castlereagh be it spoken, they stood up manfully for Poland ; and that country was only united to Russia by the link of her constitution—a constitution after wards shamefully violated, not by rebel subjects, but by regal and imperial rebels to solemn sworn oaths and imperious duties which they owed their subjects, and which they violated and left, and leave to this day, unfulfilled. On the 31st of December, 1814, the Plenipotentiaries at Vienna, and Nesselrode among the rest, signed the fatuous declaration which placed Napoleon under the ban of Europe. It was he, too, who after the battle of Waterloo, while the Anglo-Russian army were under the walls of Paris, sided with the Duke of Wellington in counselling mea sures of moderation and mercy, when Blucher and the Prussians were calling out for plunder, and Austria was throwing out dark hints of a partition, and intimating how gladly she would resume possession of Alsace with the three bishoprics—or Trineveckes, as they were anciently called—of Metz, Toul, and Verdau. Nor were the counsels of Nesselrode less humane, in suggesting that a moderate contribution only should be levied on the people of France. It is a mistake to suppose that the Holy Alliance was a state inspira tion, proceeding from the brain of the Russian Prime Minister, for the idea was altogether the conception of the Emperor Alexander himself, whoso mystical tendencies we have before alluded to. The tendency of this Emperor's political views had been originally Oriental, but the unsettled state of Europe induced him to think that he had a mission to fill in Western Europe, and he was accordingly present at the Con gresses of Troppau, Laybach, and Verona. Nesselrode accompanied his sovereign on these occasions, and daily rendered himself more useful to his imperial master. The disgrace of Capo d'lstria, in 1821, left him undisputably without a rival. From that period he has alone remained charged with the di rection of the department of Foreign Affairs. When the present Emperor ascended the throne, he showed more than a disposition for the Oriental system. Nesselrode pliantly yielded to the imperial - volition; and by so doing probably preserved - his place, The influence which he has since acquired over the mind of the Emperor, notwithstanding his advancing age and feeble health, he owes, in a great degree, to his experience and knowledge of affairs, to his passionless and persevering character, but in the greatest degree of all, to his being the faithful inter preter, the systematic transcriber, of the mandates of the royal will. To compare great things with small, that which Murat was to Napoleon has Nesselrode been to Alexander, and is to Nicholas. The name of Nesselrode is certainly mixed up in all the great diplomatic transactions of the last quarter of a century; but it is mixed up as a mere name —a long one, certainly, consisting of no less than ten letters—but after all but a name, without a system—without a spirit to vivify it—without a device, or a motto, or a free independent thought belonging to it. The names of Chatham and Pitt, and Fox, and Canning, and Grey, represent great principles ; the names of Thagut and Kaunitz, Metternich and Hardenberg, and Stein and Stadion, represent large, continuous, and consis tent systems, well followed out from generation to generation ; the names of Danton, Marat, Robes pierre, Legendre, and Lebeau, represent the fearful and ferocious energy of revolutionists, as the names of Thurgot, Necker, Chaptal, Carnot, and Moreau represent sects and systems and schools; but what does the name of Nesselrode represent but the fiat of a czar, the whole amount of the wisdom and reason of which is summed up in four words, stet pro ratione voluntas We hear much, from the ignorant and unintiated, of the great address of the Russian diplomatists, and of the successful issue of their negotiations. The ad dress is little more, after all, than cunning and deceit, which often in the long run overshoot the mark ; and the successes, such as they are, are attributable, not to the talents or genius of the negotiators, but to the knowledge that they were always supported by a large force, by a command unlimited of money, by the most unprincipled means, and by unblushing perfidy. We have only to look to the treaties made in the reign of Alexander, to see how easily and readily he could give up the claims of an ally when ever his own private interests and that of his own kingdom merely were at stake. The Minister of Foreign Affairs in Russia is the mere automaton—the plenipo puppet in the hands of an Imperial Autocrat—unless under some extraordi nary conjuncture of circumstances. Such a conjunc ture has not arisen in the time of Nesselrode; and it is, therefore, impossible to say what he might have been if left to himself, or had he been placed in cir cumstances of urgency, with unlimited power. But viewing him as he actually is, we can only say that he is a well-trained, moderately well. informed, cool, calm judging, passionless man, of 74, who implicitly obeys the commands of his master. There are hun dreds of thousands of such men in England, France, Germany, Spain, and Portugal ; and to such common place characters we cannot accord the high rank of statesmen—neither can we place them in the foremost rank, nor even in the second or third classes of re table politicians.—Chronicle. Dm , Edward Barnard, Esq., F.R.S. Robert Brooks, Esq. Gideon Colquhoun, Esq. Charles E. Mangles, Esq. Richard Onslow, Esq. William Walker, Esq. yard Ryley, Esq. lie premiums charged by this Com- Henry Buckle, Esq John Henry Capper, Esq SEcarrea3r—Ed` The following are specimens' of t pany for the assurance of 1001. Age. I 2O I 30 I 40 I 50 60 N ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital X. 500,000. :Empowered by Act of Parliament. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The steady success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a second Bonus, averaging GO per cent. on the amounts invested on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. An. Prem. £1 10 3 I a 62 0 7 £2 15 3 £4 1s I .£9 3 9 This Company offers the advantages of the guarantee of an ample subscribed capital--of permission to retain one-third of the premium in their own hands (the portion so retained, with interest upon it, being deducted from the policy when it become a claim),—of ascend ing, descending, and other scales of premiums,—aud of participation in the profits at the end of every five years. TO EMIGRANTS, TO THE AUSTRALASIA' COLONIES, assured for the whole of life, this Company offer the permission to proceed to, and reside in, any of those colonies without extra pre mium, and to pay their premiums there. For residence in New Zealand, a moderate extra premium is charged. In Sydney, a Board of Directors, and Agents in all tke principal settlements—Bankers in the colony. The Bank of Australasia (in. corporate' by Royal Charter, 1835), No. 2, Moorgate-street, London. ANNUITIES. Annuitants participate in the profits of the Company, and receive a rate of annuity much more favourable than can be granted by any Company making its investments wholly in England. The Company is enabled securely to grant these favourable terms from the advan tage it possesses of investing a portion of its funds at a high rate of interest c7is 04' g Premium. Bonus Bonus In ca 5 added. Cash. FE," • rag .£ Xs d. Xs,d.£e.d.£s. d. X s. ds 1837 170 9 3 77 5 1 12 3 9 346 2 3 1000 74 3 4 , 1838 144 2 2 64 5 6 9 16 4 296 13 4 11839 116 16 0 51 6 H 711 9 247 4 3 The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in De cember of the present year. This institution offers malty important and substantial advan tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all OCCASIG43, the power to borrow, 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 or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec. INDIA. Tables of Premiums for Assurances on the lives of officers engaged in civil, or in naval or military service in the East Indies mad China, may be seen at the Offices of the Company. ♦GENTS IN INDIA. Calcutta Messrs. Boyd, Beeby, and Co. Madras Bombay Messrs. Skinner and Co. Ceylon Prospectuses and full particulars may be had at the Offices of the Company, No. 126, Blshopsgate-street, corner of Cornhill. DISEASED AND HEALTHY ASSURED. MEDICAL, INVALID, and GENERAL LIFE OFFICE, 25, PALL-MALL, LONDON. TRUSTEES. Charles Hopkinson, Esq., Regent.street. Sir Thomas Phillips, Temple. Alfred Waddilove, D.C.L., Doctors' Commons.' DIRECTORS. Edward Doubleday, Esq., 249, Great Surrey-street. George Gun Hay, Esq., 127, Sloane street. J. Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., SO, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, Benjamin Phillips, Esq., F.R.S., 17, Wimpole-street. C. Richardson, Esq., 19, Brit ton.street, Berkeley-square. Thomas Stevenson,Esq., F. S. A., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street. Robert Bentley Todd, M.D., F.R.S., 26,Parliamontatreet. Alfred Waddilove, D.C. L. , Doctors' Commons. _ AUDI' John Pursord, Esq., 7, York- I terrace, Regent's-park. Joseph Radford, Esq., 97, I Cambridge-term., Hyde. park. [TORS. I S. Stirling - Taylor, Esq 14, Upper Gloucester-place, Dorset.square. Martial L. Welch, Esq.. Wynd- I ham-place Bryanston-square. STANDINQ COUNSEL--JOhti Shapter, ESQ., Lincoln's Inn. BaNlCEßS—Messrs. C. Hopkinson and Co., Regent-street. SOLICITORs—Meosrs. Richardson and Smith, 2g, Golden-square. DEPARTMENT OP MEDICAL STATISTICS—WiIIiam Farr, Esq., General Register Office. ACTUARY—F. G. P. Nelson, Esq. This Office is provided with very accurately constructed tables, by which it can assure unsound lives on equitable terms. Similar tables enable the Society to grant increased annuities on unsound lives, the amount varying with the particular disease. Members of consumptive families assured at equitable rates. Healthy lives are assured on lower terms than at most other offices. The first Life Assurance Society eommenced business in 1705, and the principles of life contingencies, understood at that time to a very limited extent only, have repeatedly undergone important changes and improvements; but till the establishment of this So ciety in 1841 no attempt had ever been made to assure the lives of _ _ .. persons who suffer from disease. The science of statistics has only within a recent period been successfully applied to the duration and mortality of disease, and hence tables on the probability of these results could not have been formed ; and it would evidently have been unsafe and hazardous for any society to have undertaken the risk of assuring the lives of persons afflicted with any particular malady. The statistical in. formation, however, rrow collected, and in possession of this office, is of so great an extent as fully to warrant the extension of life assurance to such cases, and, in fact, to place the application of life assurance on diseased lives on a more secure basis than even that on healthy lives. It is hoped that while kept clearly in view that this Society, in common with other offices, will assure the lives of healthy persons, it is as yet the only one established to assure the lives of persons labouring under disease; and to this latter feature particular atten. tion is directed. In the first place, because it opens a larger field for business than all other offices can have unitedly ; and in the Second place, because that branch of assurance must, from Its own nature, be less hazardous, and its principles rest on a more permanent foundation. These are two highly important facts, mad we shall enter into an explanation of each ; and first, as to the prevalence of disease. The period of life most important to an assurance of is that be tween 15-60 years of age, and is the following remarks we refer exclusively to this period of life. It will be found that the deaths in the metropolis for the two years preceding 1842 were, from all causes, 30,518 ; and from consumption alone, 10,688 ; showing that mere than one-third of the total deaths in that period of life takes place from the preva lence of a single disease; and if the same inquiry were instituted with respect to other diseases, such as asthma, dropsy, diseases of the head, heart, &c., it would be found that more than one-half of the whole population would, on medical examination, be refused admission into an assurance office. If the inquiry be carried to the principal towns in England, like facts are elicited—in Bir mingham, Liverpool and Manchester, the deaths from all causes, per annum, are about 5,023, while those from consumption are 1,988, forming considerably more than one-third of the whole. The same thing will be found to hold good in the large towns in Scot land, in six of which the deaths in a given period, from all causes, amounted to 23,078, those from consumption alone to 6,359, and from six important diseases, 9,754 ; in the latter case forming more than 42 per cent. of the deaths from all causes. On reference to the returns from the city of Glasgow for 1836-1840 It will be found that the deaths in that period, from all causes, were 14,107, from consumption 4,087, and a list of five diseases, 6,423, being more than 45 per cent. of the deaths from all causes. The diseases here alluded to are such as exist in general in a chronic form, frequently for many years prior to death, but which, on a strict medical examination, would effectually exclude the persons so affected from the benefits of life assurance ; and since it thus appears that a majority of the population is included in this class, the value and importance of the new feature of this society cannot fail to be justly appreciated. The second point to be explained is the fact that there is much less risk in assuring diseased lives. This is a feature of paramount and vital importance to the interests of this society, and deserves to be carefully considered. The real risk incurred in all assurance transactions consists in the chance to which an office is liable of experiencing a different degree of mortality from that expected by the tabjes on which its osculations are founded. This difference is termed the fluctuation of mortality, and will be found to be much less among diseased lives than over the general population, and among selected lives. The deaths from consumption in the metropolis per annum are sufficienily near the annual number which takes place in Glasgow, from all causes, to admit of a comparison, and by reducing the matter to figures it is found that while the fluctuation per annum in the latter case is as high as 45 per cent., In the former it is only 9 per cent., or, in ether words, the fluctuation of mortality in consumption was only one-fifth of the other ; and in Manchester, Liverpool, and Birmingham, even with the disadvantage of smaller numbers, the fluctuation does not exceed 3 per cent., showing a remarkable uniformity in the law which determines the mortality of this disease, and that it is more positive and absolute in its results than that which regulates the general population. Consumption has here been selected, not because it was consi. dered more favourable in its results, but simply on account of the larger numbers affording a more satisfactory proof of the question under consideration; but the same test has been app.ied to a great number of other diseases, and like results obtained. Among nine diseases in the metropolis, including asthma, dropsy, rheumatism, disease of the liver, of the heart, of the nervous system, &c., the fluctuation was only 71 per cent., and in five diseases in a different district the fluctuation was about 7 per cent., while among eleven in another locality, and even with small numbers, the fluctuation did not exceed 6.2 per cent. ; and taking the principal towns in England, including Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, &c., the fluctuation over eleven of the more important diseases was 6 , 4 per cent. The remarkable uniformity in these results cannot fail to pro. duce a conviction of the positive character of the law of mortality in disease ; indeed, there seems to be nothing within the whole range of the doctrine of probabilities so well defined as the mor tality of diseased lives. The mortality of the general population has frequently been referred to by writers as an example of the cer tainty of common events, but the preceding remarks must show with how much greater certainty the mortality of diseased live. can be depended on. It is perhaps right to state, that, in applying the test of fluctuation to disease, it has not been confined to one place or class of lives, but has been extended to the principal towns in England and Scotland, as well as to niany rural districts in Eng land, and included the experience • one or two large societies of select lives. This has afforded an opportunity of judging of the effects of locality and its sanatory condition on the duration of life, and a remarkable fact has thus been developed, viz., that the value of life generally is much greater in the coun try districts than in large cities; but that of these persons who suffer from disease the value of life Is nearly the same. As an example of this—the expectation at the age of 30 in the country districts is 36.7 years; in cities (viz., Glasgow) 27.6 years—diffe rence 33 per cent. nearly; but take the case of persons of that age in whom the consumptive tendency is developed, and who will ultimately die of consumption, and their expectation of life in the counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, will be found to be 14'5, in cities (Glasgow) 14.4, and in the metropolis, Manchester, Bir mingham, 13'9 ; difference •017 per cent. (or 1.57 per cent.) It therefore appears that while the difference between country and town life in the former case is about 33 per cent., that in the latter instance (consumption) the difference is almost nothing, and the results nearly uniform. The same thing holds good with some ether diseases, which have been investigated in this manner. This fact, although not generally understood, is only what might have been expected by a careful consideration of the conclusion formerly arrived at—that the fluctuation of the law of mortality in disease is confined within a very narrow limit, and consequently little in fluenced by external circumstances. It hence appears that the fluctuation in the mortality of diseased lives is much less than *along select lives and the population gene rally, and therefore the risk of assuring diseased lives must also be less. To apply this conclusion to the affairs of an assurance e.ffice, it nay be stated, that supposing the number of lives in a society, taking only select lives, was such that the table of mortality would indicate 100 deaths per annum, it wo uld be necessary to have always sufficient funds at immediate command to meet 145 deaths ; on the other hand, an office assuring only diseased livid need not provide for more than 109 deaths per annum; that is to say, the risk of assuring diseased lives is to that of average lives as 9 to 45, or only one.fifth. This fact is highly important to the interests of this Society, and establishes beyond doubt the safety and correetness of the principles on which it is founded. For further information, reference is made to the prospectuses and othee published documents of the Society, which may be 0 1 )- tinned_ on applioation at the Society's offices. P. G. P, WEISON. 4.ctuary, CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAIL WAY. COMMUNICATION WITH IRELAND. Yesterday the first general meeting of this Com pany was held at the office, No. 62, Moorgate-street. Mr. COLLETT, M.P., who is also Chairman of the Board of Directors, having been called to the chair, stated that the meeting had been called in accordance with the Act of Incorporation, and he also expressed his regret that in the present instance he was not enabled to go so fully into the details of the Com pany's affairs as ho could wish. The formation of the Company arose from certain negotiations with respect to the transmission of the mails, and after communications with the Lords of the Treasury and the Post-office authorities, the necessary surveys had been made, and plans submitted, after which the subject of constructing the line was brought before Parliament, in a Committee, upon which was Sir G. Clerk. With respect to the amount to be realised by the traffic, it was estimated at 50,0001. for the transmission of the mails, the conveyance of troops, and various other Government purposes. The sum now demanded by the Company was 40,0001., but notwithstanding that the Directors had had several interviews on the subject with her Majesty's Government, no arrangement had as yet been come to. lie had just received a note from Sir George Clerk, in which he stated that as Sir Robert Peel and the Chancellor of the Exchequer were both out of town at the present moment, it would be impos sible for him to make any definite communication on the part of the Government which might be submit ted to the meeting. Such being the case, it was pro posed to adjourn the present meeting until Friday, the 30th inst., when it was considered that the Di rectors would be in a position to state to the meeting the result of the negotiations with the Government. A PROPRIETOR wished to know whether the delay in these negotiations was caused by any difference re specting the amount demanded, or whether it arose from an objection to the principle. The CHAIRMAN replied that it was merely a ques tion as to terms. The Company considered they were entitled to the sum they demanded, and they, therefore, were determined to adhere to the first pro posal. In conclusion, he would state that a change had taken place in the Direction, Sir John Guest having retired, and the llon. Mr. Stanley being ap pointed in his place. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman, after which the meeting adjourned to the 30th. Lord Minto's able and statesman-like speech on the state of the navy has given great satisfaction to all who take an interest in the proper maintenance of that right arm of our national strength. That the navy has been most unwisely reduced to an unprecedented low state, at a time when the political horizon presents a cloudy and troubled aspect, is evinced by the fact, as stated by his Lordship, that at the present moment we have only nine line-of-battle ships in commission, three of which are small seventy -two's employed upon distant stations. his Lordship also might have added the astounding fact, that should the services of the St. Vincent be required in the Mediterranean, the whole coast of England from Sheerness to Falmouth will be left in a totally defenceless and unprotected state, there not being a single man-of war ready for sea in any port throughout Great Britain We would ask Lord Haddington is this being prepared for any emergency? —Hampshire Independent. 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He had tr ied various sorts of medicines before taking Halse's Scorbutic Drops," and had p w rescriptions from the most celebrated physicians in this country,without deriving the least benefit. Halse's Sembutie Drops," have completely cured him, and he is now enabled to attend to his labour as well as any Hs an in our parish. From ether cures also made in this part, we strongly recommend " Halse's Se3rbutie Drops" to the notice of the public. Signed by John Elliott, sen., Lord of the Manor, John Manning, William Pearce, Henry Goodman, Arthur Langworthy. . one 21, 1513. Wholesale Agents for London : Baxley and Son, Farringdon street ; Hallett, b 3, High Holborn ; Prout , 229, Strand ; Hurtley, 2f2, Blackfriars-road; Johnston, 68, Cornhill ; King, 7, Napier -street, mar the Albert Saloon, Hoxton. N.B. Be sure to ask for" Halse's Scorbutic Drops." Sold in Bottles at 2s. SC and in Pint Bottles, containing nearly six. 28. 9d. Bottles for Ils CORNS AND BUNIONS. NO CHIROPODISTS! I—NO CUTTING I ! PAUL'S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND is a sure and speedy cure for those annoyances, without causing the least pain or inconvenience. Unlike all other remedies for corns, its operation is such as to render the cutting of corns altogether unnecessary: indeed, we may say, the practice of cutting corns is at all times highly dangerous, and has been fre quently attended with lamentable consequences, besides its liability to increase their growth. It adheres with the most gentle pressure, producing an instant and delightful relief from torture, and, with perseverance in its application, entirely eradicates the most in veterate corns and bunions. EXTRAORDINARY TESTIMONIALS. From Dr. Cummins, Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence at the Aldersgate School of Medicine. Dr. Cummins presents his compliments to Mr. Paul, and begs to inform him that his Every Man's Friend has entirely taken away his Corns, and he has recommended it to several of Isis friends and patients, and in no one instance has it failed in eradicating both Corns 8.114 Bunions. From Dr. Ley, Midwifery Lecturer, at St. Bartholomew's HospitaL Dr. Ley presents his compliments to Mr. Paul, and begs to inform him that his Corn Plaster has taken away his Corns. Similar Testimonials have been received from upwards of one hundred Physicians and Surgeons of the greatest eminence. Prepared by John Fox, in boxes, at Is. 1; , .jd., or three small betties; in one for 2s. 9d., and to be had of Mr. King, 7. Napier.street, East, near the Shaftesbury Arms, Hoxton, and all wholesale and retail medicine venders in town and country. The genuine has the name of John Fox on the stamp. A k SM. box cares the most bdurate Cents. Ask for " Foes Every Man's Friend." SIGHT AND HEARING.-39, Albemarle - street, Picca dilly. Newly-invented spectacles, telescopes, opera- 1 glasses, microscopes, &c. Patronised by Generals Sir Edward Paget, Sir Evan Lloyd, Frederick Maister, Clayton, Galway, Grosvenor, Morrison, Dyott, Robert son, and Mackenzie ; Major-Generals Sir H. Elphin stone, P. Fyers, D. Macleod, Hamilton, and Wemyss Lieut.-Generals Sir Henry Bouverie, Sir J. Macdonald, Sir R. Barton, Sir T. Dallas, Lord John Hay ; Admirals Sir George Cockburn Sir George Munday, Sir G. Martin, Sir James H. Whitshed, Sir D. Gold, and Ross. By the use of these newly-invented spectacles, imperfect vision becomes preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation, and can see with those lenses of a much less magnifying power, nor will they require the frequent changes to further helps ; also newly-invented achromatic waistcoat-pocket telescopes and opera glasses. Every kind of telescope of larger size with increasing powers, for shooting, sea purposes, and, upon stands, for astronomical purposes, with the same celebrated lenses, the powers are so great, and the lenses so bright and brilliant, that minute objects at an extraordinary distance are brought completely under the eye. Sportsmen, tourists, and sea-side visitors will have a great treat. Their invisibl3 voice conductor gives immediate relief to old standing extreme cases of deaf ness. Caution—Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, opticians and aurists, are not in any way connected with a person of the same name in their immediate neighbourhood, nor in any part of the country. To prevent mistakes be cautious and observe, only to be had at 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. A TAME PACK OF GROUSE.—Thomas Lalor Cooke, Esq., has at present in his house at Parsonstown, King's County, amongst many other curiosities, a fine pack of grouse, consisting of eleven birds, which the old ones hatched and reared for him this season in a cage. Th e y are all perfectly tame, and will come when called, and eat green peas (which they are very fond of) or any sort of corn out of the hand.—Dublin Evening Post. CUSTOMS AT LEITH.—The receipt of Customs at Leith, on Friday, the 2d ilia., amounted to 13,6851., of which the large sum of 11,6851. was received on wheat, and the remainder on general produce.—Glasgow RAILWAY DEPARTMENT Minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, relative to the Constitution and Mode of Proceeding of the Railway Department. At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 6th August, 1844—8 y the Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Council, appointed for the considera tion of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations. My Lords read and considered the following para graphs and resolution, taken from third section of the Fifth Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Railways (1844) : " In recommending, therefore, that Railway Bills be submitted to the Board of Trade previously to their coming under the notice of Parliament, the Committee conceives that that Board (or such other public department as may be entrusted with the care of railway matters) might advantageously examine these bills, and also the schemes themselves before they had assumed the form of Bills, with regard mainly to the following subjects " 1. All questions of public safety. " 2. All departures from the ordinary usage of railway legislation, on points where such usage has been sufficiently established. " 3. All provisions of magnitude which may be novel in their principle, or may involve extended consideration of public policy. For example, amal gamations and agreements between separate com panies; extension of capital; powers enabling rail , way companies to pursue, purposes different in kind from those for which they Wereineim * poratett; fications of the general law. " 4. Branch and extension lines, in cases where, upon the first aspect of the plan, a presumption is raised that the object of the scheme is to throw diffi culties in the way of new, and probably legitimate enterprises. " 5. New schemes, where the line taken presents a strong appearance of being such as to raise the pre sumption that it does not afford the best mode of communication between the termini, and of accom modating the local traffic. " 6. Cases where a Bill of inferior merits may be brought before Parliament, and where a preferable scheme is in bona file contemplation, although not sufficiently forward to come simultaneously under the judgment of Parliament, according to its standing orders. " 7. Any proposed arrangements with subsisting companies which may appears as objectors to new lines. _ _ _ " The adequate and satisfactory discharge of their duties would entail upon the Board of Trade a great additional amount of labour and responsibility; and it is the opinion of the Committee that if the recom mendations of this and of its other reports should be adopted, it would be necessary to enlarge the railway department of that Board, and to improve its orga nisation. Upon these grounds, and with these inten tions, the Committee have come to the following "Resolution,—That it is expedient that all Rail way Bills should henceforward be submitted to the Board of Trade previously to their introduction into Parliament ; and that the various documents and other requisite information connected with each pro ject, and, if necessary, copies of the plans and sections of the line shall be lodged at the office of the Board of Trade, at such periods as may afford sufficient op portunity for their examination.' My Lords read and considered the heads of several clauses of the Railways Bill (now awaiting the Royal assent) which relate to the functions of this de partment. My Lords read the letter of Mr. Lefevre to Sir George Clerk, dated the 2d instant, in which it is proposed that provision should be made for the appointment of two secretaries to the railway department of this Board, and of an assistant-inspector, and the reply of the sth instant, in which is stated the approval of these arrangements by the Lords of the Treasury. My Lords are of opinion that they are not compe tent, without the aid of time and experience, to lay down definite and sufficient rules for the future prac tice of the railway department of this Board; but they have decided upon the following general instruc tions (subject, of course, to reconsideration hereafter, if in ally particulars they should be found inapplicable or inconvenient) with respect to 1. The constitution of a Board for the purpose of transacting railway business. 2. The preparation of minutes and reports. 3. The provisions to be made for obtaining ade quate and early information. 1. My Lords are of opinion that for the adequate and satisfactory discharge of the duties which, as is now proposed, will devolve upon this Committee, it is desirable that a distinct Board should be constituted in the department for the dispatch of railway busi ness, and that such business shall be settled by written minutes, in the same manner as the ordinary busi ness of this Committee. The president or vice-president of the Committee will act as the head of this Board, and the remaining members of it will act as his advisers in all its trans actions, and subject to his controlling authority. The ordinary members of the Board will be, besides the inspector-general, and, in his absence , the assist ant-inspector, the superintendent, and the joint secretaries. 2. Every minute of the Board upon a railway scheme, and every report upon a Railway Bill, to have the signatures of, Firstly, the president or vice-president of this Committee; and, Secondly, three members of the board, one of whom at least to be an engineering officer of the department. As respects minutes upon _ railway schemes, to be made before the Bills for giving effect to them are framed, my Lords direct that whenever the depart ment has formed an intention to prepare such a mi nute, whether upon the application of parties or otherwise, notice shall be given of that intention in the Gazette, for the information of those whom it may concern. My Lords direct that in such notice shall be stated as nearly as may be, the points into whick inquiry is to be made in connexion with the proposed line of railway. No such minute, unless of a preliminary or provisional nature, shall be signed until six weeks after such notice. Every such minute shall be pub lished forthwith in the Gazette , and every such minute shall be laid on the table of both Houses of Parlia ment fourteen days after the opening of the session. Reports to Parliament on Railway Bills shall be made within fourteen days, if there shall have been previous report on the schemes embodied in them respectively ; and at all events within six weeks at the furthest from the receipt of any such Bill. 3. As regards the measures to be taken for obtain ing early and regular information respecting Railway Bills and railway projects before they have assumed the form of bills. Adverting to the resolutions already adopted by the House of Commons on the 19th of July, and to those which it is the intention of the vice-president to propose for adoption in the House of Lords, and also to the provisions contained in the Joint-Stock Com panies' Registration and Regulation Bill, which, if that Bill shall become law, will ensure the deposit in a public office, under the superintendence of this department, of all documents made public by the promoters of any such joint-stock undertaking as may be formed subsequently to the passing of the Act, — my Lords are of opinion that there will be adequate security for their being duly apprised, from time to time, of the origin and progress of future railway projects up to the periods of the presentation of the Bills. - To make similar provisions for their subsequent stages, before the passing of the Acts of Incorpora tion, my Lords will cause to be addressed toa.llthe Parliamentary agents the circu lar hereto annexed ( A). As regards railway projects already.. announced to the public during the present year, forn of law, my and now in exist ence, -1 but not having assume(ithe Lords direct a list t o be p repared of these, and the circular letter (B) hereto annexed to be addressed to the solicitors or other leading (A.) promoters of them. CIRCULAR LETTER TO PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS. Railway Department, Board of Trade, Whitehall, August, 1844. Sir,. --Referring to the recommendation of the Select Committee on Railways, that " Railway Bills be submitted to the Board of Trade previously to their coming under the notice of Parliament," with a view to the examination of these Bills by the Board, and to the resolution adopted by the House, "`That in the case of Railway Bills, a copy of every Bill an nexed to a petition be deposited in the office of the Board of Trade on or before the day of presentation of the petition to the House," I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to call your attention to the course of proceedings with regard to Railway Bills entrusted to your charge, which will become necessary in order to give effect to the proposed supervision of the Board of Trade over such Bills during their progress through Parliament. My Lords will be desirous of exercising this super. '1 1~ // vision with the least possible interference with the ordinary progress of Parliamentary business ; and with this view they conceive that the most convenient course will be to require that the information neces sary to enable them to form a judgment on the Bill at its different stages should be furnished to them by the agents at the same times as such information Li required to be lodged at the Private Bill-office by the standing orders of the House. Accordingly my Lords think proper to propose, in regard to Railway , Bills, 1. That a copy of such filled-up Bill as proposed to be submitted to the Committee, as 4 deposited in compliance with the 136th standing order in the Private Bill-office at or before the time of giving notice of the Committee, be at the same time de posited in the office of the rail Way department of the Board of Trade. 2. That a printed copy of every Bill as amended in Committee, except in cases wherein the Committee shall report the amendments to be merely verbal or literal, be deposited by the agent for the Bill at the office of the railway department of the Board of Trade, three clear days at least before the considera tion of the report. 3. That in the case of Railway Bills, where it is intended to bring up any clause, or to propose any amendment in the report, or the consideration of the report, or on the third reading of any Bill, notice shall be given thereof, and a copy of such clause or amendment deposited in the office of the railway .de partment of the Board of Trade on the day previous to such report, or consideration of the report, or third reading. 4. That in the case of Railway Bills, where amend ments made by the House of Lords to any Bill sent up to them are to be taken into consideration, a copy of the same be deposited by the agent for the Bill in the office of the railway department of the Board of Trade, on the day previous to the same being proposed. to be taken into consideration. In fixing the same periods for the deposit of infor mation regarding Railway Bills in the railway dt= partment of the Board of Trade, as is required by the standing orders of the House in regard to the deposit of similar information in the Private Bill-office, my Lords wish, however, to call your attention to the desirableness of furnishing, in all cases of Railway Bills, any information respecting them, at the earliest periods when it may be found practicable.—l am, ike. (Signed) S. LAING. CIRCULAR LETTER TO TIIE PROMOTERS Or RAILWAY SC II EMES. Railway Department, Board of Trade, Whitehall, August, 1844. Sir,—Referring to the recommendation of the Se lect Committee on Railways, that a supervision should be exercised by a department of the Government over future railway schemes in their earlier stages, and to the resolutions founded on that recommenda tion which have been adopted by the House of Com mons—l am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to call your attention to the functions which this department is about to under take with reference to the railway schemes in which you are interested (as solicitor, agent, chairman of company, or otherwise, as the case may be). It will be their Lordships' wish to discharge these functions so as to incur the smallest possible risk of obstructing the progress of Railway Bills and under takings, by the delay necessary for adequate exa mination; and with this view it is obviously desirable that they should be placed by the promoters of such schemes in possession of the necessary information at the earliest possible period. Accordingly, my Lords request that you will use due diligence in communi cating with them from time to time without delay, as occasion may arise, respecting railway schemes in contemplation, in which you may be interested as a promoter or otherwise ; and in due course respecting the detailed nature of such schemes, and the specific legal provisions which it is intended to seek from Parliament.—l am &c. (Signed) S. LAING. TORYISM-CHARTISM. DEMOLITION - OF MANUFACTURES—EXTINC TION OF COMMERCE—EXTIRPATION OF POPULOUS TOWNS, AND FINAL TRIUMPH OF FEUDAL BARBARISM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. beg to hand you the following choice ex tracts, if you please, for publication. The spirit of the contents of ought not to be lost. The co incidence and identity of expression is perfectly na tural; and, indeed, they tell their own talc too well to need any explanation of their meaning from me. They are brief; notwithstanding, however, they speak volumes. I should have judged both extracts to have been an emanation from the same guilty or disordered brain:— (From the Standard, London Tory Newspaper, May 22, 1844.) " England would be as great and powerful; and alt useful Englishmen would be as rich as they are, thbugh one ruin should engulph all the manufacturing towns and districts of Great Britain." (From the Northern Star, Chartist Newspaper, August 10, 1844.) "Large cities are the curses of civilisation! God made the country: man made the towns! Oh for some Titus to pass the ploughshare over them! Oh for some Cincinnatus to lead us back to nature and the plough!" There, working men of London, of Birmingham, of Manchester, of Leeds—of the whole United King dom—what think ye now of your boasted leader ? If you know him not now, take him and hug him to your bosoms until he has drained your heart's blood! Never more complain. I am, Sir, very respectfully, Birmingham, Aug. 10. JOSEPH LANDER. MUMMY WHEAT.---A few weeks since, we bad the pleasure of visiting the grounds of Mr. Reid, nursery and seedsman, Derry, and feel bound to add our tribute of admiration to the tasteful manner in which they are laid. out. In his garden, among other curiosities wl.ich attracted our attention, we saw a quantity of Egyptian wheat in full ear, and giving promise of an abundant harvest, the seed of which was foune in the folds of a mummy unrolled in 1840. For the benefit of those unacquainted with the characteristics of this wheat, we take the following very accurate description of its peculiarities from our contemporary, the Derry Jour nal :—" The specimens of the Egyptian bear a much larger and weightier ear than our common wheats, and have a proportionably stronger stem or stalk.. The ear itself is fully six inches long, and is pro vided with long awns or beards, like barley; its breadth taken diagonally, measures, in one direction, more than an inch, and, in the other, about half an inch ; it has, therefore, a somewhat quadrangular appearance from the base till within one - third of its whole length from the top, from which, till its termination, it re sembles the car of barley. But, in our opinion, its dis tinguishing peculiarity (which accounts for its great breadth) consists in the disposition of the greatest por tion of the grain in earlets, or small ears, which lie so compactly and close to the main ear, that their existence, as separate ears, is detected only by manipulation. The grain, in size, form, consistency, and colour is similar to the produce of this country, and, from its being very prolific, its cultivation will merit the attention of our best agriculturists."—Northern Whig. A MEXICAN llonsmitArt.—Few things can be more complete for all weathers and all seasons, than the outfit of a Mexican horseman. He has everything that can contribute to the comfort or necessity of the passing hour, strapped to some part of his horse or his usual equipments. First of all, he has his broad-brimmed, steeple-crowned sombrero, covered with oil-skin ; ne xt, his short leathern jacket, fancifully embossed with plated nails, like the old buff coats of the feudal freebooters ; then, his leather trousers with rows of buttons at the scam, preventing the chafing of the saddle, and his leggings to protect his feet and ankles ; in front of him are his armas de agua, a large skin cut in two pa ts, the ends of which on one side are fastbned to Our saddle-bow ; the other two being tied behind him so that his legs are entirely protected from rain; be 'ore them, again are strapped his pistols, while passing beneath his left leg, rests his trusty toledo. From the peak in front hang his lasso, a long running noose, with which he catches his horse in the morning; and behind him is strapped his serape, or blanket-cloak, with a slit in the middle, which he throws over his head when it rains or is cold, and protects him from the weather as by a perfect thatch. Thus mounted on his high-peaked which is Spanish saddle, with stiff wooden stirrups, over which h a i t s ta f e e h et ed ar a m s e m d al \vi b th o the huge of are l long Spanish ears spur,of to wil ; finely-tempered steel, that strikes • against the long rowels at every tread of the man or beast, and rings like a fairy bell, you have a complete com lof M • p picture a Mexican horseman, equipped a t every point, and ready for the road. If he has to fight, he has his weapons; if to feed, he has his laden mule ; if it rains, he dons his serape and armis de agua, and rides secure from storm and wind; and if lie arrives at an Indian hut, after a long and toil some journey, and no bed is ready to receive him, he spreads the skins on the earthen floor—his saddle is his pillow, and his blanket a counterpane. He is the com pendium of a perfect travelling household.—Mayer's Me.a ico. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. —On Saturday morning, about half-past one o'clock, as Mr. William Blackwell, the proprietor of the Coach and Horses Inn, on the Great "Western Road, near Isleworth-gate was driving an omnibus, with which he had been to fetch a private party from Astley's Theatre, through the town of Old Brentford, when near the cage a collision, took place be tween the omnibus and a cart which was on the wrong side of the road, by which Mr. Blackwell was thrown with great violence from his seat, and fell to the ground head foremost. He was immediately picked up, bleed ing profusely from his head, and conveyed in the omnit•us to his residence, where he was promptly attended by Mr. Cooper, of New Brentford, and other surgeons, when, on examination, it was discovered that in addition to most serious injuries on the head, one of his shoul ders was dislocated and his collar-bone broken. 'Fortu nately no other person was hurt, but the omnibus was much damaged, and one of the horses was so injured that it was found necessary to kill it. The cart .he longed to Mr. Lodge, market gardener, Felthttm, Mid dlesex, and the driver WAS deep at the moment of ;the - sevident.' -- ' ' '''-.,, , pRE AT WESTERN RAILWAY. C°, iit, --t ,s A m ic o ottee is given, that the next HALF-YEARLY GENERAL I ' 4l ant t of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY willbeheld, on , r,i u , s 0 the Act of Parliament, in Bristol, at the Bristol Station, the I 41 11,..?P o t ei r, the 15th August next, at Twelve o'clock,a Onef go . 0 ., 1'44 417 of business. The Chair w c ill be i a a ken t, to'clock "";,- EL Chairman. C. 4 hdor, In C. A SAITNDERS, Secretary. 7 1 7 -----......-.....2n0inu5, Paddington, July 12, 1844. 'in. _ _ Pet .ande vhoez e was nd to pport supe- sto-- PIO 60 12 0 30 2eb 40 lie sce ; lid ---- 61