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Taus-rues crNnua TEIII ♦CT 7 AND 8 vic. ASIIIROSE MOORE, Eg g , 12, EGdsleigh.street, Tav;stock. square W1'..1 lAN! SIIADBOLT, Evq. , Croome's-hill, Greenwich. - 6.348 NWEDNESDAY .1 0 NING 5 JANUARY 8 , 1845. PRICE 54 Ptddislted. grERY itrai r NlNG FI V E °' ( - Y -LeCK , zn TiMe I'l7l. the -EA RLII TRAINS find TOWN DELIVERY ; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINA • avi 4 TIFIRP EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS ix LONDON up to that flow. P:IOI , I6R`NAL co 1-1014 A3 KELLY, Esq,, Aid e - ma ssieirrce. :l J-)Hy HUMPHERY, Esq. ; Rt,ietimm. M.P. THOMAS FARNCOMB, Esq., Aller-nail CHARLEP, BORIS, Esq., Beidge-strect, Blackfriars rHEDEPICK WILLIAM C A.LDWELL. Esq, Golden-square HENRY CHARLES CHILTON, Esq., 7, Chancery-lane NATHANIEL GOULD, Eso., Barge-yard, Bucklersbury • JOHN HOWELL, Esq., ShQpherd's_bush JO HN WHEELTON. Esq., Bath-street, Newgate street THOMAS WILKINSON, Eso., S 2, Cornhill. Banaerte--Tle London Joint-Stock Bank. Socic troes--Nlessre. &ached' and o.'s e, 19, Co , eman.street. Ancutreor am) Q .nevevoit—Mr Wil:nne Barnes. Church Court, Old Jewry. SECRTI'ARY Mr. Peter Jeffery TEMPORARY O FFICES-30, Bueklersbury. This AF.s.yeiation is for the yurpose of constructing an ,-verele or arcade from P,arttil.mcw-lane to London-wall. Tit houses to he built on this sits will tie adapted for offices, w 46to g.houres, and shop decordii.g tc the situation. They w-:, he light, we ll' ventiatcd otncctly secured. and the whole term a handsome :int' commodious at ):roach i.o the Bank of r 4 t ,O - Royal Eacha..ge . t cd p ele x e lly i n t h e mos t cen tr a l parts the City. , h Prorotied to raise the capital 1,000 shares of lOW. each, Ltj9' ten shil l i ngs t e paiC cu he stares being allotted, cordance with the prov - sio‘s c.I toe sew Registry Act, and such further sum, not exceeLtig 10: per share, as may be re_ net': i.reviou s t o applyirg to Parliament, ou complete registra. I. Slog effected under the Act 7 and S Victoria. Chi the Act of Parliament being obtained, and for which all the ne '"' 4l 7 notices has I eel' giver for the ensuing session, each sub. ar " 41 ' be tcyuired tc Pollinate a good and insurable life not C egdi nd twenty ; n or is in than dve years of age. A subscriber slot be limited in the numeer of his nominatioas, provided that aot mote thau floe shares are dependent upon any one life ; such Marin to be at al times transferable. On th e Act being obtained, the remainder of the capital to be 1 . 41 ,_J at such times as the Committee mey require, ene month's pre- /1 • ante being &ten. Provlitonal Committee have arranged with certain Life hist, ive. fence Offices, wi,ereby every subscriber, or his represent a - Will be secured tnc receipt of 2001. on the death of his no line for each 100/. ()did. rental will be ai plied, hi tl e lint instance, In paying the ,47, 1 arr premiums tot insurance. TT* surplus rental will he of e. y five yea, s, Ly way ot 1 onus amongst the proprietors 4 "40 existing nominations, and which, it h as b een ca l cu l ate d , w il l tog per cent. per aanum ou each 1001 subscribed, in. using. however, in amou.it. at each subsequent division, as the 4r Pes may fall In do soon as the number of outstanolug shares, by the death of the nommeos, shot , fall to sr Rhin 500, the whole property of the Association to be inves:e 1 iu and divided amongst the holders of Lem. Piaui alid drjwing' *na• be seen, and a detailed prospectua cbtained, onapplication t ) the Architect, Mr. William Barnes, 11 . Church-court, O d Jewr9 - , the Soncicots, Messrs. Bischoff and 'Cote, 19, Colernan.street 1 and at the Offices, of the Association, 30 . Bucklersbury. SAMBRE and MEUSE CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY.—An article has appeared in several newspapers relative to the Sambre and Meuse Railway Central Line. The in clined planes of this Railway are not three miles in length, although an assertion has been hazarded that they exceed six miles, and their gradients are such that locomotive power will be used for traction The g the whole line. only surveys made for a Railway in the districts of the Sambre I L _nd Meuse, op en f or d i scussion in the Belgian Chambers, are that of the western line and the central or direct line (Taylor's), upon which this Company is based. Further information may be obtained at the temporary mikes of the Company, 15, 011 Jewry-chambers, Loudon, from whence the T r ospectuses and shares will be issued. SAMBRE and MEUSE RAIL\V AY.—NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN to the public, that a RAILWAY is al.out to be brought forward to traverse the highly interesting and valuable Mineral district between the Sambre and Meuse rivers, under a guarantee of four per cent. from the Belgian Government, to be ap plied for In the present session. This line will possess many advan tages over the original line, adopting the. Valley of the L'Eau d'Heure, and be much superior to Taylor's (or the central line), as it avoids the very objectionable gradients and inclined planes of six miles in l ength, by which that line is embarrassed, and which has caused it to be condemned for the purposeoflocal traffic, or as an international passenger line, by all competent persons in Belgium Farther particulars will speedi.y be furnished when certa'n arrange- Ments have been made in Brussels and Paris, and the direction is de lanitively formed. THE NEW YEAR'S BELLS. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! The Public are specially informed that, during the:re-erection of E. MOSES and - SON'S premisqs in Aldgate, the entrance to their ritablishment Is only at 154. Minories. We heard the bells that hail'd the year, While sweetly echoing round ; And, lo imaginations ear, Interpreted the sound ! Like famous Vs hittington of old, We felt each chime irrpr• ss . And fancied that the changes told A story of success. This year will be a prosp'rous year (They said, or seem'd to sav), NVith those wh' se triumphs, far and near, Have he'd a glor Liu sway, This year shall spread their vast renown; A treacly it discloses Increas'd prosperity, to crown The mighty Mart of MOSES. There shall the public through the year, Their patronage impart ,• And friend s, incre,sing, shall appear At MOSES' famous Mart." Thus ceas'd the Bells—nor do we doubt That, ere the New Year clo<es, All that they sang will come about, With many thanks from MOSES pE,k new work, entitled "THE COMMERCIAL. PHENO- Iic , N," with fult directions for Self-Nleasurement, on applica• "'n, will be forwarded post free. ae•DT Mang. £ s. d. 1111441 t l'aglionts from 0 9 6 th tt . 4 Ole' terfields C e o t,,,,,,drington s 'lVi nt etthr .kes, A thols, Peltoes, and every description of 5 0 t's• .oat, handsomely trimmed W!ter Coats, in ever y style Ditto Dinter Trousers, lined bre ci p °9l kin P r ‘-oats ,:11 oct ditto:di tt g7" , ("•••"" ******* ****** ******* : *** *** **** 1 9 '1,9 Collar ** ********** 0 1 9 üble_b 0 2 6 1.1 Ceasted Ditto 0 17 6 Ditto • 'iN• 444 Suits "'Mc. neatly braided 0 IS 6 Sze Gotha C MADE TO meeillYitil. from 1 18 0 Winter c o 9ats, velvet cellar and cuffs 2414 4 ats %Tw eed In every style and Shape, handsomely trimmed 0 1 1 3 0 M. dittc:i Wrappers 0 8 6 t o c t l i c ii vu ol)it er s 0 12 6 In Ditto ******* 0 1 12 0 or D ra w.t,__Y pattern 6 0 Virr i j aa re Vest "uBe " * 0 7 0 D inter Ditto, ************** .•. ******** ..•. ****** ..• ******************* 0 6 6 Jess c oat in endless pattern 1 12 . 5....7tt 0, ditto, :.• ........................................................ • .•.••• 2, 15 0 f,ock c oat u "t Manufactured 'mato, ........... . Iteys, . 4t;nanuf actUe•ec1 . ..=.7.7.....7.7a..... 3 " ... ................«........... ••••• 1 15 0 Ihtto r u ar Suit 1 7 0 " hum unit ..... I 8 0 ...... ..................• .................... . ......... tzg "" extent can be had at fi ve minutes notice, at the 1411'4J_ following prices di .. d ress Coat, vest, and trousers from 116 stibriqi;lrr,iacket, vest, and trousers .... ...... 018 0 eXch ani „ .nY article purchased or orderea, not approved Observe - ,or the money returned. VOullen MOSES and SON, Tailors, Wholesale and Retail eXties.,,,,74n,..PQrs, Outfitters, and lieneral Warehousemen, 154, Mi. Catrl /o ; ° °. Aldgate, City , opposite the Church. ust C -F.. Moses and %on are obliged to guard the public aikhoodrnposition, having learned that the untradesinanhke NW bee n °f b eirlft connected with them, or it's the same concern, -- resorted to " have no in many instances, and for obvious reasons. znd th ose _ connexion whatever with any other establishment, tlisspp oin . wnti desire genuine Cheap Clothing should _(to prevent k,, att orient, Scc..) call or send to 154. tt. e the Church. Dlinories, or Se, Aldgate, Kid"tiU business transacted at this Establishment from sunset on C qlock. g o riset on , aturday, when business is resumed till twelve MBASE AND COMFORT IN SHAVING ESSR S. B. and S. COWVAN'S i nva l ua bl e AzoitexToN STROP, or QUADRILATERAL CHINESE PyucE .HARPENER (Patronised by his Royal Highness tcaul AL BERT), renters the operation ef shaving no lon ene.t o the most tender skin. BY a ver y simple Process the .. B . and Pirspeedily be given tothe bluntest razor r nknife •Pacit nen c ' w van'a peculiarly tempered razors and shaving powder. leAtitutio s of th• Strops are now exhibiting at the Royal Polytec f is e tc 'whence tha 4.. d Royal Adelaide Gallery, Lowther Arcade, ,r b s e , t e most Wattering certificates have been sent, which may e pith, rthhe I nventors B. and S. COWVAN„I6 , t, Fenchurch-street, Stropa, perfu- --. tors, may be obtained, as well as of all reqiectable V. s d r ,er; Bcc.. In the United Kingdoin, price ss. ticl., 7s. ficl., and t s. Per ` The Poly be had, Cowvan's Canton Razor Strop Paste, at ~, Packet The Shaving Powder Is. fid. per box. ""ition--None are genuine, except those marked and Spelt N .B. A liberal II and S COWVAN all..wance to the trade and shippers. Nv,COUCHS, COLDS, ASTHMAS, &c., &c Il Ar6 FAMILY MEDICINES Ate r Patronised by of Brace the Dowager Duchess General Maitland ~. Leeds Mr. Justice Cresswell Lad) Sherb orne Sir C. F. Williams, Knt. Marquisl Of Lincol n Sir Ed. Lytton Bulwer, Bart. of Waterford Captain Boldero, M.P. ....rd Bantr A, . Itl Edward Baines, Esq., M.P. Sate oralserg, Vicar of Cripple- A rc hd eacon Webber General Gardiner Thi. An Families of th e fi rs t di s ti nc ti on. -se Medicines, which are found to possess so great a power tke respective complaints to which they are applicable, as fre- In"entlY to render further medical aid unnecessary, were also Ito iusr„e.d with the patronage of Lord ' a 's ii•H. the Duke of Sussex Lord John Churchill r Charles Churchill Sir Francis Burdett, M.P. "114 lidatthew Wood, Bart., M.P. George Byng, Esq , M.P. " alltnerous Medical Gentlemen of eminence in London have borne testimony to their efficacy. )4Parod and sold, wholesale and retail, at 11$, Holborn-hill, and 344, Strand, London. Strongly recommended by the Faculty. C 'WRA Y'S AROMATIC SPICE PLASTERS f or t h e CHEST , on i, Ike , s Colds, Asthmas, Shortness of B rea th , P a i n or Ti g h tness o f In h est. Affe c ti ons of the Lungs, Src., are effectu a lly re li eve d, and i laor cases entirely prevented, by the timely application of W r ar . 6 Aromatic Spice Pl as t ers to t h e chest, which are far supe !lser to the common warm plasters, and frequently supersede the et internal remedies. No person during the winter ought to oe without one, travellers by railroad in particular. Sold at Is. lknd I. 6d, each. tor st oughs, C C WRAY'S PECTORAL LOZENGE S, ° 10,, , Asthmas, &c. Th ese L ozenges w i ll be found a -Mo desirable remedy for allaying and removit.g the troublesome tst:ristation s ad incentive t o cough i ng wh i c h generally accompany na e complaints. They promise also expectoration and as easy respiration. Two or three should be suffered to dissolve in the mouth, and repeat at moderate intervals. Sold in boxes at 2s. each, duty incladed. WRAy'S SPECIFIC MIXTURE , 'warranted to remove Urethral Discharges in forty-eight hours—in Ihs majorit y of cases, twenty.four—if arising from local causes. ' 44:441 in bottles at 4s. 6d. and I Is, each, with full instructions. WRAY'S IMPROVED SUSPENSORY BANDAGES, adapted for sportsmen, gentlemen hunting, riding, walking, entering from disease, relaxation, local debility, &c., approved of end highly recommended by the late Mr. Abernethy. Best Jean, a sad Is. 6d, ; ditto, with fronts, 35. fid. ; Knitted or Wove Silk, mss ' B d.; ditto, with elastic springs, 7s. 6d. WRAY'S STEEL SPRING TRUSSES, for R evnia, Properly a d ap t e d , single, ss. 6d.. 7s. 6d., and 106. 6d. ; double, 10s. 6d., 155., and 218. Medici'ne Chests fitted up for family use or sea voyages. Genu ine Drugs and Chemicals of every description, with their several *Preparations, according to the Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College C't P hysicians. A large stock of new English Honey of the finest duality, retailing at Is. and Is. 6d. per lb., and the best West India Taatariads at the same price. A literal allowance to Merchants and Captains. Physicians' lirescriptiens and Family Recipes carefully and accurately prepared gentlemen regularly qualified. Physician's Advice from Eleven till One, every day. Surgical Attendance every evening from Seven till Nine. Persons residing in the remotest parts of the country can be 'treated successfully, on describing minutely their symptoms, age, habits of life, &c., an d i nc l os i ng a remittance for medicine, which r An be fOrwarded to any part of the world, securely packed and carefully protected from observation. Ali letters to be addressed to M. 0. WRAY 118, Holt ern-hill. ;11 -tr.. ,?.MENTS T.ANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE J COMPANY. 3, GEORGE-STREET, EDINBURGH, 82, KING WILLIAM-STREET, LONDON. The NINETEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING was held on Monday, the 16th of December, in terms of the Act of Parliament 1:1, which the Company is constituted— GEORGE PATION, Esq., Advocate, in the Chair. The Report and Statements as to the affairs of the Company submitted on this occasion were highly satisfactory to all connected with the Institution; and the Chairman, in an address to the Meet ing, directed particular attention to the following very gratifying re gilts : The number of Policies i.su,,d singly during the year is 562. The Assurances proposed to the Company during the year exceed the large sum of HALF A MILLION STERLING—the Assurances effected being nearly 400,000!., adding from that source alone about 13,5001. put annum to the Company's revenue from Premiums. Large transactions have also been effected in other departments of the business. • The Company's investments continued to be upheld at a high rate of interest on unexceptionable security, chiefly Government and Heritable, and notwithstanding the great increase of the Company's funds, the return secured still shows tin advantage of nearly 2 1 . per cent. in favour of the Company above the rate calculated on in their Tables for Life Assurance. The number of lives which have fallen during the year amount only to one per cent. on the number of the Assured standing on the books. AND, IN ADDITION TO THESE RESULTS, The Company have added, by an advantageous arrangement, 927 policies to their lists, through a transference of the business of the YORK AND LONDON ASSURANCE COMPANY. The Reports and Statements were unanimously approved of; and the Chairman, after drawing attention to the important peti tion which the Company now occupy among the Assurance Insti. tutions of this country, and the fact of the Company never having disputed or compromised a claim, concluded by congratu. lating all parties on the satisfactory results exhibited, and took the opportunity of calling attention to the important fact that the THIRD DIVISION of PROFITS among the Policy Holders was to take place in November, 1845. He was certain that the advan tage of joining the Participation Scheme of the Company, before the balance was struck, would not be lost sight of by intending assurers, and he felt confident that there would be much reason for further congratulation when they next met together. The MANAGEMENT was declared to stand as follows for the ensuing year : COVEAN‘IR. His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH and QUEENSIIERRY. D6PUTY.GOVER NOR. The Right Hon. the Earl of ELGIN and KINCARDINE. DIRECTORS, IN EDINBURGH. Thomas Innes, Esq. J. M. Melville, Esq. Eagle Henderson, Esq. Humphrey Graham, Esq. David Smith, Esq. John Sligo, Esq. Adam Paterson, Esq. Alex. James Russell, Esq. James Robertson, Esq. William Wood, Esq, James Hay, Esq. William Keith, Esq. George Moir, Esq. John Robert Tod, Esq. John Stewart Newbigging, Esq. IN LONDON. Right Hon. Lord E. Bruce, M.P. William Haigh, Esq. Sir James Evre, M.D. Edward Thomas Whitaker, Esq. Matthew Forster, Esq., M.P, George Frederick Young, Esq. James Gadesden, Esq. MANAGER —William Thomas Thomson, Esq. THIRD DIVISION OF PROFITS. The Third Investigation of the Company's Affairs, with refer ence to the approaching Division of Profits, is now in progress; and parties assuring before the close of the lists in November, 1845, Will participate. Looking to the prosperous condition of the Company, and the large additions to Policies declared to 1835 and 1840, there are great inducements to Parties assuring to give the Standard a pre ference. By order of the Directors, PETER E WART, Resident Secretary. 82 , King William-street. ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. SQ. THROOMORTON-STREET, BANK. EMPOWERED by SPECIAL ACT of PARLIAMENT, 5 and 6 Will. IV., c. 76. THOMAS VARNCOMB, Esq., Alderman, Chairman. . EdvrvhiLairaaimt, Beatatia vv enns: :: :E i y : E.4,. .4: 7 l . LEAF, Esq.. Deputy Chairman. Richard E WILL Esq. James cliff, Esq. Rupert Ingleby, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Aid. Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq. Johu Humphery. Esq Alderinsn, Lew.; Pocock, Esq. 111. p. ~ PHYSICIAN—Dr. Jeaffteson, 2, Finsbury-square. SURGEON —W Coulson, Esq ,2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. Costsuvroso ACTUARY—Professor Hall. of King's College. LOW RATES OF PREMIUM. In addition to the subscribed Capital of £300,000, the Assured annum ? yearly incr,a.ing, have the security of the Company's income of nearly Xro,ooo per and an accumulating Assurance Fund in vested in Govern ment and other available securitie,,, of considerably lager amount than the estimated liabilities of the Company. The rates of premium are reduced to the lowest scale compatible with the security of the Assured, and the stability of the Company, thereby, in effect, riving to every Policy Holder an immediate and certain Bonus without risk, In lieu of the deferred and frequently delusive prospect of a periodical division of Profits. ANNUAL PREMIUM TO ASSURE £lOO. Age. For One Yrar. --- --------- 20 £0 17 • Of 19 1 30 1 1 8 1 2 7 40 1 5 0 1 6 9 50 1 14 1 1 19 10 60 3 2 4 3 17 0 For Seven Years. I Whole Term. Z 1 11 10 2 0 7 2 14 10 4 0 11 1 0 10 ' One-third of " Whole Term" Premium may remain unpaid at 5 per cent. compound interest, as a debt upon the policy for life, or may be paid ()fiat any time without notice. In Assurances for Advances of Money, as security for debts or as a provision for a family, when the least present outlay is desirable, the varied and comprehensive tables of the Argus Office will be found to be particularly favourable to the Assured. The Medical Officers attend daily at a Quarter before Two e'Clock EDWA RD BATES, Resident Director. A liberal Commission to Solicitors and Agents SILVER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive and injurious Metals, called Nickel and German Silyer, sup planted by the introduction of a new and perfectly matchless ALBATA PLATE. C. WATSON, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton Folgate, aided by a person of Science in the amalgamation of Metals, has succeeded in bringing to Public Notice the most beautiful Article ever yet offered ; possessing all the richness of Silver In appearance, with all its dura bility and hardness—with its perfect sweetness in Use, undergoing, as it does, a Chemical Process, by which, all that is nauseous in mixed Met is is entirely extracted—resisting all ♦cids—may be cleaned as silver, and is manufactured into every Article for the Table and Sideboard:— Fiddle. Threaded. King's. Table Spoons and Forks, 16s. Gd. doz. 30s. I 355. Desert Ditto ••• • • • 12s. 6d. 255. 2ss. Tea Spoons •.•••• •• • • • • is. 6d. —12 s. 6d. 13s. 6d. Sugar Tongs C. WATSON begs the Public will understand that this Metal is peculiarly his own, and that Silver is not more different from Gold than kis metal is from all others—on its intrinsic merit alune he wishes it to be tested, and from the daily increasing enlogiums he re ceives, he is convinced that nothing can prevent its becoming an article of universal wear. C. Watson's handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Currant is just published, and Families who regard economy and elegance should possess themselves of this useful Book, which may be had Gratis, and Post Free, from the above Address. PATENT PARAGON CAMPHIXE LAMP:. The perfection of these Lamps over the Vesta has been happily attained by the invention of two parallel fiat rings—a larger and a smaller forming a cone round the margin of the wick, which cause a rapid reverberation of air against the flame—thus condensing every particle of volatilized vapour, it is flee from smoke or smell, having perfect combustion, and in full action, emits a light equal to 16 wax candles. C. Watson's Warehouses, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton Folgate, will coltain, throughout the season, all the most elegant recherel,., and new patterns, comprising Or-molu, China, Glass, and Opal. Old 0:1 Lamps fitted with the Paragon Head for 21s. And the Paragon Apparatus applied to the Vesta for 6s. The Spirit analysed and recommended by Dr. L're, is delivered in screw cans by C. Watson's carts, at 4s. per gallon. 41 & 42, BARBICAN, and 16, NORTON FOLGATE. NEW SELF-ACTING COFFEE FILTER. Impressed with the manifold defects of all existing filters of coffee, arising from complication of construction, liability to be put out of order, uncertainty of action, expense in use, &c.. RIPPON and BURTON hare purchased a NEW VERTICAL SELF-ACT ING COFFEE FILTER, which is extremely simple; it will al ways make the clearest coffee without trouble, it can scarcely be put out of order, and can be adapted to any description of coffee.pot in use.—Filters in block tin from 4s. each ; coffee-pots and filters complete in block tin from 7s. each. To be had only of the Proprietors. THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for SILVER. The material RIPPON and BURTON offer to the Public has for the last ten years been found equal to silver In appearance and sweetness, and superior to it in durability. Of the prices of tea-sets, waiters, candlesticks, and all articles hitherto made in ail. ver, a detailed catalogue, with engravings, will be sent (gratis) post free. Fiddle Threaded Victoria Pattern. Pattern. Pattern. Table Spoons and Fork :full size, per dozen Dessert do. do. do los. Od. 21s. Od. 255. Od Tea do. do• do ss. Od. I Is. Od. 12s. Od. Gravy do. do. do Bs. Od. 6s. Od. is. Od. TEEL FENDERS and BRIGHT STOVES. I. The largest assorlment of Stoves and Fenders in the world is now on sale at RIPPON and BURTON'S extensive warehouses, 39, Oxford street, corner of Newman street (just removed from Wells-street). Bright steel fenders, to 4 feet, from 30s. each ; ditto, ditto, with ormolu ornaments, from 60s. ; rich bronzed scroll ditto, with steel bar, 10s. 6d, ; iron fenders, 3 feet, 4s. 6cl. ; 4 feet, 6s. ; do. bronzed, and fitted with standards, 3 feet, 9s. ; 4 feet, Ils. ; wrought iron kitchen fenders, 3 feet, 4s. 6d. ; 4 feet, 6s. ; bright register stoves, with bronzed ornaments and two sets of bars, from 5 guineas ; ditto, ditto, with ormolu ornaments, from 91. 10s. ; black dining-room register stoves, 2 feet, 205.; 3 fee', 305.; bed room register stoves, 2 feet, 16s. ; 3 feet, 245. The new economi cal Thermio stove, with fender and radiating hearthplate, fl'om Si. ss. ; fire-irons for chambers, Is. 9d. per set; handsome ditto, with cut heads,6s. 6d.; newest pattern, with elegant bronzed beads, I Is. A variety of fire-irons, with ormolu and richly.cut beads, at pro. portionate prices. Any article in furnishing ironmongery, 30 per cent. under any other house, while the extent and variety of the stock is without any equal. The money returned for every article not approved of. Detailed catalogues, with engravings, sent (per posts free. Established (in Wells-street) 1820. TO LADIES. ROWL AND'S KAL yDOR. Patronised by the several Sovereigns 'lnd Comte of Europe An Oriental Botanical Discovery, and perfectly free from all mineral admixture. It exerts the most soothing, gentle, cooling, an d purifying action on the skin ; :.nci by its agency on th e pores a nd minute secretory ve ssels, most effectual y dissipates a ll re d- MSS, can, pimple s, blotches, spots, freckle., ch.lblains, ch a p s , a nd other cutaneous v i sit ctions. The radiant bloom it impart s t o the cheek, and the softness and delicacy it induces on the hands, riod of arms, and neck, tende r it indispensable to every toilet. To Ladies during the pe it cannot be ' too stro recommended.nursing, and as. wash for Infants, Gentlemen, alter shavirg, will find it allay all irritation and ten derness of the Skin, and renser it soft, smooth, nd pleasant. Price 4s. 6d. and Ss. 6d per bottle, duty included. CAUTION—Beware of Imitations of the most deleterious cha. racter, containing mineral astringents utterly ruinous to the com plexion, and by their repellant action endangering health, s ee that the words " ROWLAND'S K A LYDOR"are on the wrapper; and A. 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No Sense like Coat mon Sense-10. Love and Money-11. My Uncle the Clockmeker -12. The Two Apprentices—and 13. My Own Story. London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside; Bowdery and Kirby, Oxford-street ; Cundall, 12, Old Bond-street ; and all (Alter Booksellers. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TILE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—A rumour has been freely circulated, and obtains increasing credit, that Sir Robert Peel intends to submit to Parliament a scheme for taking the power of governing the British territories in the Elst out of the hands of the lion. East India Com pany, and placing them immediately under the Crown. fhe misunderstanding which arose between the Court of Directors and her .I%'.ljesty's Ministers respect ing the recta of Lord Ellenborough, and the in convenience and annoyance caused to the former by the decisive exercise of the power of recal vested in the former body, may have given rise to the rumour, without any more substantial foundation. The " wish" may have been "father to the thought," in the mind of the Government. The language of desire that the thing could he accomplished, uttered by a subordinate in the Ministry, may have been interpreted into an inten tion, on the part of its Chief, to carry it into execu tion. We neither affirm nor deny the fact, that some such scheme as that referred to is contemplated by the Government. The thing is possible. The idea might have arisen without any reference to the difference which arose between Ministers and the Honourable Court of Directors respecting Lord Ellenborough. If such a difference had never taken place, there are , circumstances which would invest the rumour with a sufficient air of probability to justify its being treated with respect. An investigation of the principles on which the assumed transfer of the powers of Govern ment, now held by the Court of Directors, to the re sponsible Ministers of the Crown, may therefore be permitted, without exposing us to the charge of adopting a groundless rumour as an ascertained fact. A project for adopting the debt of the East India Company and funding it in British stock, may have been entertained by the Government, with a view to accelerate the redemption of the dividend on the capital stuck of the Company. This scheme would receive an accession of public belief, were it ascertained that the Court of Directors has called upon the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, in pursuance of the 15th section of the Act of 1833, to raise for the Company such sums of money as might be necessary for the payment of the Company's dividend, by reason of any failure or delay of the re mittances of the proper funds for such payments. If such an event has occurred, it may be thought to fur nish a case for the redemption of the debt at an early period, on the ground that the owners of the capital stock ought not to have so large an interest at the ex pense of the public. The present state of the money market is especially favourable for the purpose. Go vernment would be able to borrow the whole sum required for the purpose, at a rate of interest little more than one-half the amount per cent. paid to the proprietors of the Hon. Com pany's stock. A careful perusal of the clauses of the Act (3 and 4 Will. IV., cap. 85) has led us to conclude that such a measure would be a dereliction of the redemption section of the Act— whether it would be in contravention of its principle, supposing that the interference of the Commis sioners of the National Debt has been called for in the way we have alluded to, is a point we leave lawyers, who are disposed to apply themselves to the question, to decide. We quote the clauses of the Act which hear upon the subject ; and conclude by remarking that, without pretending to a knowledge of the plans of Ministers, there is sufficiet probability in the rumour that some measure of the kind alluded to will be announced, to justify our bringing the sub ject btfore the public. The provisions of the Act should be clearly known and understood. Without them the power of the Legislature to carry out the supposed designs of the Government cannot be ascertained, nor the arguments which, in the event of the scheme being proposed in Parlia ment, will be raised upon the question, be appreciated. By the Act alluded to, 3 and 4 William IV., cap. 85, intituled " An Act for effecting an arrangement with the East India Company, and for the better govern ment of his Majesty's Indian territories till the 30th day of April, 1854," it is enacted by the 11th sec tion :—. " That out of the revenues of the territories, there shall be paid to or retained by the said Company to their own use, a yearly dividend, after the rate of ten pounds ten shillings per centum per annum on the present amount of their capital stock ; the said dividend to be payable in Great Britain by equal half-yearly payments, on the 6th day of January and the 6th day of July in every year . the first half-yearly payment to be made on the 6th day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four." By the 12th seetion it is provided and enacted— " That the said dividend shall be subject to redemp tion by Parliament upon and at any time after the 30th day of April, 1854, on payment to the Company of 2001. sterling for every 1001. of the said capital stock, together with a proportionate part of the same dividend, if the redemption shall take place on any other day than any one of the said half -yearly days of payment. Provided also, that 12 months' notice, in writing, signified by the Speaker of the House of Commons by the order of the House, shall be given to the said Company of the inten tion of Parliament to redeem the said dividend." And by the 13th section it is provided and enacted:— " That if on or at any time after the said 30th day of April, 1854, the said Company shall, by the expiration of the term hereby granted, cease to retain, or shall by the authority of Parliament be deprived of the posses sion and guvernment of the said territories, it shall be lawful for the said Company, within one year thereafter, to demand the redemption of the said dividend, and pro vi,ion shall be made for redeeming the said dividend after the rate aforesaid, within three years after such demand." And by the 15th section it is provided and enacted— " That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, from time to time, and they are hereby required, upon requisition made for that purpose by the Court of Directors of the said Company, to raise and pay to the said Company, such sums of mo ney as may be necessary for the payment of the said Company's dividend, by reason of any failure or delay of the remittances of the proper funds for such payment." STANDARD. The session of the French Cham bers opens auspiciously for Marshal Soult's Adminis tration, notwithstanding the coincidence of accidents and misapprehensions which gave to the representative of the Nantes slave dealers an appare n tly l arge mino rity in his late competition with a Ministerial can didate. At the first serious trial of strength—the appointment of a committee to draw up the Address in reply to the king's S peec h— t h e Mi n i sters counted a majority of fifty-t wo , v i z ., 206 t o 154. This majority—quite a sufficient working majority by itself—will be considerably augmented when 100 now absent Deputies shall appear i n th e i r places ; for the extraordinary exertions made by the Opposition, and the easy confidence of the pacific party previously to the commencement of the session, give an assurance that much the greater number of the absentees must belong to the latter party ; and the Paris Globe distinctly affirms such to be the case, without any contradiction from the Opposition press. There is no reason, therefore, to appre hend that the French people are prepared to dis honour themselves by stirring up a war for the sake of the slave trade, or willing to make war for its own sake. The abstract hatred of England which M. Thiers and his faction have so long laboured to excite, has disappeared, and all are now ashamed to profess it ; and the pretence that England employs the right of visit for the purpose of crippling the trade of France, set up by the Nantes slave dealers, has received its decisive answer in the known readiness of the British Government to acquiesce in any arrangement which shall re concile the suppression of the slave tr a d e w ith the interests and feelings of the French people, leaving it to France herself to determine what that arrangement shall be. A re no t th e t erms , however, of the Chinese treaty even better proof than this frank and candid offer, that England does not seek to cripple the trade of France, or of any other country ? She has n o i n t eres t i n d o i ng so, but the reverse; and if she be disposed to indulge pride in the matter, what oc cas i on o f hi g h er pr id e can she have than the liberal patronage of the commerce of the whole civilised world! Her commercial posi tion is happily one that wouli make jealousy on her part disgraceful. Before the division upon the ap pointment of the Committee, M. Guizot shortly addressed the Chamber in an outline of what would be, if required, a vindication of the policy of his Government. The tone of the distinguished statesman's observations was manly, as usual with him, and calm and confident as that of a man who knew the strength both of his cause and his party. '['he deserters who have followed Count Mole into Opposition were represented by M. St. Marc Girardin, and may number five or six. All of every c oun t r y w h o respect wort h an d genius must rejoice in the ascendancy of so brillant a representative of both as M. Guizot; but, apart from all cwisiderations for the Minister deserted, it is impossible not to regard the desertion of M. Mole with a feeling of deep disgust. We can forget the hatred to England of M. Thiers, and of other still more violent enemies of this country, because it is through a mistaken feeling, still, a French hatred—a hatred founded upon the erroneous opinion that the interests and honour of Great Britain and France are irreconcileable ; but Count Mole is no more a Frenchman in his feeling than he is an Englishman— he is a Russian. From first to last he has never wholly averted his eyes from St. Petersburgh. M. Guizot is well rid of the burthen of his doubtful support, even at the cost of losing the little six-handed Russian party in the second chamber. That the secession of the Mole party will strengthen M. Guizot's position in France, we cannot doubt. " Similis sirnili gaudet," according to the proverb, as France has advanced in freedom and civilisation —and rapid, indeed, has been her advance within the last few years she has felt more and more the advantage of a perfectly good un derstanding among all free and civilised na tions—has been more indisposed to despotic and barbarous alliances. This feeling is still pro gressive in France, as it has long been in England, and as it extends it will by a natural necessity, un connected wholly with turbulent propagandism, force civilisation and freedom upon all neighbouring coun tries until Europe shall be composed of one family of civilised, and free, and independent nations, among which war will be impossible, because war must be ruinous—the true " holy alliance." The intelligent and high-spirited people of France are fully alive to their prospects and their duties in this respect, and they will not willingly commit their country to a despotic and barbarous alliance. SHIPPING GAZETTE.—We have much plea sure in informing our readers that the Elder Brethren of the Trinity Board, in answer to the memorial of the owners and masters of vessels and other persons interested in the commerce of the port of Hartlepool, soliciting that a lighthouse may be established on the Heugh at that place, concur with the memorialists in the opinion that a light house may be advantageously placed upon Hartlepool Heugh ; and that they are " ready to take the neces sary measures for erecting such lighthouse, and main taining a light thereon during the night season ; pro vided the trade of the port shall consent to pay such toll on all vessels entering the port or departing there from as shall be requisite to defray the expense of such lighthouse and light." This the trade of the port are willing to do, as expressed in their memorial ; but while willing to bear the whole burthen, they are of course desirous to have it as light as possible. It will be trifling, considering the benefit that will be derived thereby. On this point alone there is a slight differ ence of opinion between the memorialists and the Trinity Board, which will no doubt soon be rectified, when explanations are entered into. 'We shall then furnish our readers with the correspondence which has passed on the subject. The Trinity Board appears to have no desire whatever to burden the shipping trading to the port of Hartlepool with a greater amount of taxation than what will be barely necessary for erect ing and maintaining a proper light on the Heugh. And as this light will prove of essential service to all vessels trading on the east coast of England, we have no reasun to doubt that both the Trinity Board of London, and the Trinity Board of Newcastle, will assist in all that is necessary towards so desirable an undertaking. CHRONICLE.—We are not aware that a Govern ment based on such a foundation as that of the Peel Administration has had its place in English history. There have, no doubt, been coalitions, and there have been compromises ; but the principle, or want of prin - ciple, has been avowed, and a mysterious mixture of new practices and old opinions has never heretofore been palmed upon a Parliament. We do not defend alto gether the great coalition between Fox and Lord North; it has the common defect of coalitions to an eminent de gree, and whatsoever the grounds on which party writers of the day rested its justification, it undermined and lowered the public estimation of public men. But when Mr. Fox and Lord North combined, the American war, about which there had been such grave differences, had closed, and although persons without long memories could not but be scandalised at a sudden reconciliation, for party purposes, between chiefs who for so many years, and with such vehemence of invective, had denounced each other, the real points of difference had yielded to events, and the new class of questions which origi nated about the period of the Frenchßevolution, and which have since so altogether occupied in their several phases the thoughts of politicians, had not then come into vita lity. Nor at that period of the history of the House of Brunswick were principles so accurately defined as they had been in the reigns of the two first Georges, or as they were subsequently, in the meridian of George 111. The politics of England up to 1745 were dynastic and anti-dynastic. The Whigs and the moderate Tories were for the House of Hanover, and made up the dynastic party. The Tories, and many of the old families, were for the Stuarts, and constituted a sort of anti-dynastic party, not differing much from that which has existed since the Revolution of July in France, but which, in all probability, will gradually become absorbed into the ranks of the Philippist monarchy, just as the Jacobites of Cheshire and Lancashire, as soon as they found they had a real High Church King, fell into the ranks of King George 111., and supported him, on monarchical principles, through the American and French re volutions. If our readers will turn to the diaries and memoirs of those times—those, for instance, of Horace Walpole and Bubb Doddington— they will not fail to be astonished at the menagerie of parties. Politics, in a great measure, were personal. If a Minister offended a Member of Parliament, the gen tleman went into Opposition. If the Crown did not bow to a Peer, the magnate, with all his cousins and his boroughs, went over to the Prince of Wales. Fox and Pitt were retained at the commencement of a session, pretty much as Sir William Follett is, to conduct an im portant case ; sometimes they were together, sometimes on different sides—sometimes Fox led Pitt, the latter consoling himself in lucrative isolation—sometimes Pitt led Fox, the latter maintaining a sort of sulky amity, and indemnifying himself by the well-paid office of the Pay master for loss of dignity. But these times are over. Politics became more stable in the school of the second Fox, at whose feet the leading Whigs of modern times were brought up, and a more definite system of party honour was established. The Tories under Pitt were also still more banded. They basked for the first thirty years of the present century in the exclusive enjoyment of power and place, and they established themselves and their party on the basis of a general resistance to im provement, and an inflexible enmity to change. In this school Sir R. Peel had his education. The monopoly, however, of the Tories,was broken up by the death of Lord Liverpool ; and although the Duke of Wellington and Sir R. Peel maintained a struggle of some years against the advancing intelligence of the age, and com promised themselves to an inconvenient extent against such plain axioms as religious liberty, religious tolera tion, Parliamentary reform, and negro as well as Catholic emancipation, the irresistible current of events ran the other way, and the stationary party of the Tories was hurled from power. We well remember the appearance of Sir It. Peel in the first session of the reformed Par liament. He scarcely knew his position ; isolated, or nearly so, by the mighty stream of popular opinion, to which his impolicy and want of foresight in the case of East Retford had given indefinite augmentation, he trod the floor of the House of Commoes as a tourist walks about /Etna or Vesuvius. For a time he bent gently, like a willow, a weeping willow perhaps, to the tempest and the storm. The impetuous career of Lord Stanley on the side of the people had not then closed, and Sir James Graham at that period had not addicted himself to barometical observation on the state of parties. For a time all was welL Sir R. Peel ac cepted the new order of events, and rumours were not wanting that the chief of the Conservatives would shortly connect himself with Lord Grey, and be glad to take his share in the practical regeneration of our insti tutions. In an evil hour, however, for his fame and his country, he took a widely different course, connected himself with the surviving leaders of the Tory host, re assembled the scattered members of the party, and avail ing himself of the secession of Lord Stanley and his fol lowers from the Whigs, pitched the old Tory camp, with all its ancient intolerance towards Ireland, and with all its inveterate addiction to monopoly, under a new name. In the years which followed we find him playing the part of a sort of Pulteney against Lord Melbourne. He crippled the education of the people by intermingling religious animosity with that sacred cause. He laid the foundation of the anti-Saxon nationality of Ireland by obstructing all the measures, so wise and peaceful, of the late Administration. He has jeopardized for ever the legitimate claims of the landed interest, by repudi ating a compromise which would have settled, for the next half century to come, a source of discord which is disturbing the relations of social life, and separating, by the ties of selfishness and imaginary gain, the great interests of town and country throughout the empire. He became, in fact, the champion of a faction, when circumstances put it into his power to have been the mediator between parties. He lost the golden opportunity of establishing a Go vernment in avowed conformity to progression, and by associating himself with persons notoriously indisposed to consult the temper of the age, he placed himself in the disagreeable position of an apparent identity of pre judice, and he has since found himself in the still more , disagreeable position of being forced by circumstances to disavow his second Toryism, and to throw his Ad ministration on the mercy of the House of Commons, by a wholesale piracy of the measures of his opponents. We do not, of course, object to useful measures. Con ciliation towards Ireland is better, far better, than bayo nets—the recal of Lord De Grey is worth half a hun dred batteries ; but we have a right to say that if the measures of the present Ministry are right, nothing can excuse the factiousness of the late opposition. If it be right to recognise the Irish Prelates, to place their Arch• bi..hops in precedency to temporal Earls, and to give a Catholic bishop the pas' before a Protestant dean—if it be right to augment the resources of Maynooth in the way indicated in the letter of our Dublin correspondent, and to extend to others than Protestants the immuni ties and privileges of Trinity College, Dublin—if it be right in Lord lleytesbury to receive the Roman hier archy with courtesy at his levees, and to recognise them on all occasions as the priesthood of the people—we will not attempt to designate the course of those who de nounced the initiate justice of Lord Normanby, or im pair the fair chances of success which this dexterous experiment may bring about, by contrasting the present with the past, or by drawing a portraiture of Sir Ro bert Peel from 1836 to 1841, at the he head of the Jack sons and the Lefroys, with the M'Neiles fled Stowols in his train—opposing the moderate arra ngemen t s o f L or d Morpeth for Irish Church reform, stigmatising the la mented Mr. Drummond for a sentiment which is now incorporated amongst English axioms, and raised by men of every party to the first dignity amongst maxims. It is no wish of ours to recur unnecessarily to what is past Political necessity is the mother of strange com pliances. The campaigns of opposition might have re quired such stimulants. But be this as it may, the aspect of things before us—whether we contemplate the tardy change, at the close of last session, in the Irish policy of the Government, or indulge in conjectural esti mates of their future course—justifies us in the conviction that by the success of the Whig system, and by the failure of the Tory, one thing is proved, and that to demonstrat ion namely, that Ireland must no longer be trifled with for party purposes as it hitherto has been ; and that Sir R. Peel, whatever hie past conduct may have been, must be supported by the Liberal party, if, upon the opening of Parliament, he produces—as it is rumoured he intends to ' do—measures in coincidence with the expectations he has raised. The Liberal Parliament gave him credit for agreement with them in the abstract. By the recal of Lord De Grey h e h as secure d t o himself and to Lord Eliot full scope for administrative liberty. There is no Castle wherein the contumacy of Orangemen will have a sanctuary ; Phcenix Park will no longer be a sort of Leicester House, in opposition to her Majesty's Prime Minister. As for Sir R. Inglis, he will have enough to do at Oxford before Easter, and it will not be neces sary next session to put off all useful bills till the Hon. Baronet is out of England, and fairly landed at Wiesbaden. TIMES.—The perturbation of the Ministerial ma jority on the first preliminary vote of the French Chamber, and its recovery on the second division, are striking exemplifications of the truth of th e remar k s we made the last time we adverted to this subject. They have exhibited more conspicuously than before the omnipotence of a party, not altogether uukeovvn at other times in the British House of Commons, which boasts of the title of " the King's friends :" and the practice of the ballot enables these pliant servitors of the Court to bowstring a Minister with as much certainty and secresy as the mutes of a Turkish seraglio. Such, however, was not on this occasion the purpose or intention of the Sovereign. He has contented himself with giving his Ministers what children and old maids calls a fright ; and the effect of this sudden impulse of the royal mind was so transient as to be set down to accident. Like most accidents of the same kind which occur between Cabinets and Kings, it tends very visibly to strengthen the personal power of the Sove reign at the expense of the dignity of his advisers and the consistency of their adherents. The springing of this little mine, which alarmed the garrison with out making a breach in the walls, will tend, if we are not mistaken, to embarrass the proceedings of the Oppo sition in the approaching general assault. It turns out that the chief weakness of the Government is not with out, but within their camp ; their dangers are in the intrigues of the Opposition with the Court, not in their invectives in the Chamber ; and those tactics have been carried to such an extent, that the aspirants for office seem to have abandoned even the pretext of an attack on the system of the Government to concentrate all their vehemence on the persons who compose it. If we are to attach any credit to the leading organs of the French Opposition, they yield to nobody, now-a-days. in their zeal for peace and their respect for the English alliance. They protest they will only beat M. Guizot by a better use of his own weapons, and they engage not only to do what he has attempted, but to perfect what he has left undone. They were his antagonists—they have become his rivals. These professions must not be construed too literally, nor must they be too contemptuously rejected or discredited. The cause of peace cannot but gain by any change which makes it the interest of the Opposition to preach peace instead of war ; and we readily believe that both in France and England the party who have talked most of war were thoroughly insincere, and only used these high-sounding words as a means of throwing dirt at the Ministry. The shots aimed at M. Guizot took effect upon us, though, it must be confessed, the balls were spent before they reached us ; the hooting of the Minister was converted into a hue and cry against England, and if in our supposed alliance with the French Foreign Secretary he shared any of our power, we certainly came in for a more than proportionate share of his obloquy. Such a division of profits is neither agreeable nor just ; but it is an inevit able inconvenience of a party preference in a foreign country. 'We have repeatedly seen the effects of these unlucky predilections in the less powerful States of the world, and they have proved a halter round the necks of our best friends on several important occasions in Spain, and Greece, and elsewhere. A Government that cannot exist without that sort of foreign support is very soon unable to repay that foreign support, even by the ordinary courtesies of friendly Powers ; it either denies its benefactors or sinks into complete discredit ; every act of common civility is stigma tised as a base concession, and we invariably get least from those who claim most from us. Tho same principle applies, though of course to a very different extent and in a very different manner, to our relations with the French Government itself. The moment it is believed, however erroneously, that the whale strength of the Ministry is derived from the English alliance, that alliance becomes virtually powerless and inefficient. If that union exists for the purpose of keeping in this or that Cabinet, in either country, it is contemptible ; if it is maintained for the real purpose of uniting the policy and interests of the two nations, it is the glory of our time and the basis of the peace of the world. At a period when, by the confession of all parties in France, the differences between them are reduced to mere shades of distinction, and the whole warfare of the political world is conducted by closet intrigues or personal attacks, with which we have nothing in the world to do, it is not only convenient, but absolutely necessary for us, as English politicians, to insist upon our neutrality in all such party contests. Our object is to be on good terms with France, without being dependent on this or that Minister. God forbid that the pacific relations of the two countries should depend on anything so precarious as a French Cabinet! Without doubt, when those relations were in serious jeopardy, the energy and prudence of the French Government succeeded in resisting the in temperance and indiscretion of the Opposition ; but it is an erroneous assumption to suppose that the same ele ments of discord are still raging against us on the other side of the channel ; and the truth is, that the organs of those dangerous opinions have been not only conquered, bat, what is better, converted. And we can bring no higher testimony to the success of the policy of the two Cabinets of England and France, than the fact that their opponents are now seeking not to resist or undo their work, but to turn it to their own purposes, by professing a still greater zeal than that of the authors of the system. We have said thus much before the opening of the de bate on the Address in the French Chamber, because, if this disposition of the Opposition has been correctly ex pressed by themselves and reported abroad , th e issue of the conflict will be of comparatively little importance. It is extremely probable that M. Guiz ot, awakened from any excessive confidence which he may before have en tertained by the discovery of the late intrigue, will cru s h his rivals in debate, and obtain his usual majority ; but if he falls, we have no reason to doubt that a Conserva tive and pacific policy will still be pursued in France, and probably with a greater freedom of action in favour of this country. The state of the two countries is for tunately so unentangled that the whole truth may be spoken outright on all points, and we trust that we shall seo no attempts to varnish over plain questions, or to be getdangerous errors, by givin g countenance to unfounded prejudices or boasting of baseless negotiations. HERALD.--Sir Robert Peel has now fully and en tirely accomplished one of the great objects for which the nation, sick and endangered by Whig quackery, " called him in," in 1841. Ho has restored the national finances. The last two years of Whig Government, if we take our view at the period of the year at which we have now arrived, furnished the following account of the national revenue : Year ending Jan., 1840 Year ending Jan., 1841 While the account just now published stands as follows : Year ending ,Tan., 1845 Perhaps some Radical, or some unthinking person who is not a Radic a l, m a y ex c l a i m , " W e ll, th ere is nothing to boast. of hero ! 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The immediate cause of the utter failure of the Whigs in 1841 was just that they could not do this one thing— could not raise the needful revenue by means which Par liament would sanction or the nation bear. First, being unable to invent any new impost, Mr. Baring quietly added 5 per cent. to the existing duties, supposing, as a matter of course, that every 1001. would become 105/. But he soon found out his error. The 1001. remained 100/. still, and obstinately refused to increase and multiply at his bidding. Grown frantic at this disappointment, and at their wit's end what to do next, the Whigs, as has been often observed, " set the house on fire in the hope of being able to run away by the light of it." They boldly proposed, by way of improving the revenue, to ruin at one blow cur farmers at home and our colonies abroad, on the pretext that the C Lt -Awns' duties would be increased by the admission of torvien corn and slave-grown sugar. L tterly disgusted at such undisguised quackery, Parlia ment, by a distinct vote, declared its confidence with drawn, and the nation, on a general election, put the Whigs out of office by a mejority of 90. And thus the reign of empiricism ended, and that of statesmanship re commenced. For, hoe ever unpleasing the fact may be, it is not the less true, that it is a principal duty incum bent on an English Minister, to discover the means of raising nearly fifty millions of annual revenue in an equitable and not oppressive manner. And to say that this has been effected, is, in fact, to say, that the Mi nister has adequately performed one of his most im portant functi ms. The Whigs took office in 1830, with a surplus of 2,667,0004, leinded over to them by Mr. Goulburn, the retiring Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1841, Mr. Baring, when opening his last budget, was obliged to confess, that on the , most favourable view he could take, there was a deficitof 'nearly, the same amount ! In fact the real deficiency must have been much larger, for Mr. Baring stated his expenditure at 50,731,7661.; while his income, in January of that year, appeared to be only 44,746,400/. This state of things was becoming mate r just alarm, and there can be no doubt that the Whigs felt it to be such, and were but too happy to escape' from a responsibility which was growing serioue. A nation whose expenditure exceeds its income by t wo or three millions per annum, must be daily plunging into fresh difficulties and dangers. Its cre ditors must gradually lose confidence. Its securities must decline in the public esteem. Its enemies, mean while, must daily become more and more alive to the perplexities which surround it. Thus the downward course, would be fearfully rapid. A vast empire, like that of England, spread over the whole globe, and open to attack at every point, must mainly be defended by its internal character—by the known valour of its troops whenever called into action, and by the known vastness of its pecuniary resources whenever required to be exhibited. And the first moment that should ex hibit such an empire, either without defenders, or with out the means of sustaining them, would leave her, like some huge carcase among the vultures of the desert, an instant prey to myriads of assailants. This may appear far-fetched and improbable; but the confusion into which the Whigs had thrown our finances in 1841 had made even this a possible supposition. The extent of that confusion may in some measure be estimated by the fact, that it has taken Sir Robert Peel three years to restore matters to a healthy condition. That task he has now successfully accomplished ; and if he were to resign the helm to-morrow, and never more to appear in public life, he might exultingly look back on the three years which have just concluded as those in which he fully and triumphantly restored the financial credit and prosperity of the British empire. POST.—Beyond all question the present state of the public finances of this country is, per se, a legitimate ground of Ministerial congratulation and triumph. When we consider what the state of the public finances was when Sir Robert Peel obtained office, and what it is after three years of his administration, we must own that in this point he has been most successful. Whether he has taken the best way of increasing the public re venue of the country is, no doubt, open to discussion, and many men of ability and experience are of opinion that equally good results as regards the Exchequer might have been arrived at with much better results as regards the general condition of the people. But the in portant fact is indisputable that whereas, for several consecutive years, the Whigs had gone on with a public annual revenue considerably below the annual expen diture—since the accession of the Government calling itself Conservative, this bad state of things has been re versed, and the public revenue of the country has been made to exceed the expenditure. The Government, we say, deserves to have credit for this fact, and we du not see how any one who is not dishonest, or driven out of his right mind by the acrimony of party spleen, can refuse to Go vernment the credit of having effected this great and salutary change. But while this matter of fact, by itself, is a fair ground for praise of the Administration, we must take leave to protest against the nonsense, and the sycophancy of certain inventors and publ;shers of flat tering inferences from the state of the public revenue. Surely these people would be more dis:reet if they bridled their tongues a little, and restrained their pens from exaggeration and fulsomeness. They tell us that it is a necessary inference from the state et' to public revenue that the country is highly prosperous What do they mean by this word " prosperous ?" We know they would have the world believe that, as the Minister has succeeded in obtaining a revenue greater than the expenditure, so he has succeeded in improving the general condition of the people ; but will they ven ture to eay plainly that there is good evidence upon which sensible and observing men may rely that the im provement in the general condition of the people is similar to that in the public finances? Some people we know have not any other standard of the prosperity of the country than the prosperity of the public finances. So far as they are concerned, the affirmation that the state of the revenue proves the country to be prosperous is merely the affir mation of an identical proposition. The prosperity of the revenue is the prosperity of the country—the revenue is prosperous, therefore the country is prosperous. Granting the first assumption, we cannot deny the infe rence. But experience will not confirm the proposition that the prosperity of the revenue is the same thing as the prosperity of the general condition of the people. It may be (as a Member of the Government has ad mitted in the House of Commons), that the rich are growing more rich, while the poor are growing more poor. In that case, a direct tax on wealth, which does not touch incomes below 150/. a-year, may swell the coffers of the Exchequer, while poverty is sorely pinch ing the lower orders— " While the tide runs in darkness and coldness below." For let us remember that, though the revenue de rived from taxes on consumption is improving upon what it was two years ago, it scarcely yet equals what it was in the worst time of Whig mismanagement, and it is very far below what it was when the population was but two-thirds of its present amount, if so much, and when the people appeared to have no difficulty is paying the heavy taxation. That there is direct evi dence of the greatly improved condition of a portion of the labouring people in the manufacturing districts, from what it was in the first year of the present Administra tion, we admit ; but the direct evidence as regards the agricultural districts is quite the other way ; and in the face of such evidence it is folly to ask the world to infer that farming labourers are prosperous because the public revenue shows a large increase of receipts, One Ministerial writer asks, with anile hether it can be that the agriculturists suffer while the home and foreign markets are manifestly so pro sperous ? The answer is that the home market for agricultural produce is not prosperous. If thousands of able-bodied labourers are seeking work, at from a shilling to fifteenpence a day, and cannot obtain even that, shall we tell Ilodge and Giles, and the rest, that they must be prosperous, since Mr. Goulburn is rubbing his hands cheerfully as he contemplates the state of the Exchequer ? If the union workhouses be getting too full, notwithstanding the general hatred of them—if discontent prevail, and agricultural property be burned by stupid wretches whom want has made desperate — shall we say, nevertheless, that all must be well since the public revenue is in a prosperous condition ? Whig and free-trading journalist, with the habitual au dacity of Whigs and free traders in forcing matters of fact into conformity with their theories, wakes no scruple of asserting, point blank, that trade in our manufacturing towns is trade for Essex, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk—that bustle in the manufacturing implies a mitigation of distress in the agricultural districts. People who write in this way would make no hesitation in saying (if it suited the Marty purpose of the hour) that the scarcity of chalk implied the dearth of green cheese.A t t his moment they would willingly transfer the wheatgrowing business of Essex and Norfolk to Poland and Upper Canada ; and if the business of Manchester increased, in conse quence, they would insist that Essex and Norfolk must be all the more prosperous, although their occupation was gone, and the land was receding into sheep •walks or barrenness. There is nothing too monstrous for poli tical bigotry—nothing too servile for political syco phancy. Rational observers of public affairs will, how ever, take facts as they find them—give credit where credit is due, and not hesitate to condemn where disap probation appears reasonable, and likely to be useful. BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCE9TER AND BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAYS.-It seems to be generally r, as an m d er t c h l a i d o i l s e e o i s nly con a c l e te r r n n e a d av i e s i n s ot to to admitted that the r ffi c i ent work i ng of the two gauges, ilonokseod tar en deavourbe to bring about an amalgamation of the two Companies, so as to secure the laying down of the narrow gauge to Bristol from Gloucester. Several in terviews have already taken place between the Directors of the two Companies, and some advance towards the basis upon which an amalgamation may be proposed to the Proprietors has been made. It is understood that one of the conditions is the laying down of the narrow gauge to Bristol in such a way as to render it available for the conveyance of goods. A very influential meeting of mer chants and manufacturers was held on Thursday week, at Birmingham, at which resolutions, deprecating the bad ness of the arrangements in the conveyance of goods over both lines, were passed. We believe that the fault has been entirely with the Gloucester Company and its late Manager ; but, as matters are now to be remedied, we need not go into into details.—Railwsy Record. ENLARGEMENT OF SMITHFIELD MARKET. —A meeting of the principal graziers and butchers frequent ing Smithfield, took place on Monday, at the Ram Inn, for the purpose of procuring an extension of that part of the market allotted for the sale of sheep. The chair was taken by Mr. J. Weal!, who pointed out the incon venience of the present arrangement, observing that, as the Corporation of the City of London derived a very large revenue from the tolls, it was only reasonable to expect that they would endeavour to consult the con venience of those resorting to the market. It was ulti mately agreed that a memorial should be presented to the Court of Common Council, praying for the proposed enlargements.