The Sun. — London, England, 1844-03-27 00:00:00

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NEW ZEALAND _COMPANY. ADJOURNED MEETING. ce of the Renolution-passed by the . Special Court of Pro 6btthe New Zealand Company on the 16th instant, an Na;;' , 4 ,P 5 MEETING- of the mild COURT will be held at this tioAT, the 29th day of the present month, March, at precis e l y. By order of the Court of Directors, telt Ze alan d THOMAS Ctrtil3tßT HARINGTON, Secretary. a House, Broad-street-buildings, March 19, 1844. iP a with most severity against him; or, ilehould _ fortunate in the order in which :441Air -A . - appointed, there would be the satisfact-IFTINV that he would escape t h e costs of the hiwy ;_ such portion of th em as were incurred by himself, which - he could make as light as he pleased, by giving up the defence as soon ,as he ascertained the party complexion of the Chairman. POST.--Sir James Graham is commonly remarkable for the clearness—if not for the consistency —of his public state ments. The strange vagueness, therefore, of his various ex planations last night, in reference to the future conduct of the Government on the Factory Bill, almost induces us to suspect that there was a design, on the part of the Right Hon. Gen tleman, to leave the matter as unintelligible as possible. He has been so far successful that, as well as we can discover, the Bill he proposes to withdraw will only differ from its suc cessor in one point, which practically involves no difference at all. The present Bill limits the period of daily labour for adult females to twelve hours ; the new one is to provide that they shall not work more than twelve hours in the day. Does any body who knows the millowners suppose for a moment that they will permit the poor women to work less than twelve hours? ° ln fact, then, the future, like the present, mea sure, will be neither more nor less than a Twelve Hours' Bill ; and we earnestly call upon that majority of the House of Commons which has already affirmed the ten hours' principle, to remain firm to their vote of last Monday. The sort of subterfuge now attempted ought to convince gentlemen that they have no security except in a constant and vigilant at tention to every clause of the Bill, and to the proceedings in all its stages. To some Hon. Members we are proud to think we might safely appeal on the ground of humanity ; to all we would urge the policy of avoiding the frightful evils that may arise throughout the manufacturing districts from that "hope deferred which maketh the heart sick." The House of Com mons has declared by a majority that the Christian slaves shall have a sixth part of their labour remitted to them ;- they must be " bold bad men," who would venture hereafter to vote for the revocation of the edict that has now for seven days gladdened the victims of our factory system. CHRONICLE.—It is the intention of Ministers to with draw the Factory Bill—if they can, or to resign, if they cannot. Such was the substance of the communication made by Sir James Graham last night to the House of Commons, and reserved till the end of a somewhat long, but very able speech, in which he coolly discussed the different courses which :the Government might pursue, while most of his hearers were suppressing, as well as they could, their impa tience to learn that which had been adopted. It was ex pected by many that a compromise of eleven hours would have been proposed. Sir James Graham argued forcibly, that such a compromise would be full of peril to our manu facturing system, and at the same time that it would not satisfy the advocates of short hours of work, or settle the great question.at issue. A compromise being rejected, no thing remained bat to withdraw the Bill. To break this heavy fall, however, Sir James announced that in the event of obtaining leave to withdraw the present Bill, a new Bill would be introiuced, embodying certain amendments of the Factory Law on which there is no difference of opinion. There was every reason why the language of a Minister who had to make a statement like this, should have been conciliatory and temperate in the extreme. Nature, however, will break out, and the Secretary for the Home De partment did not hesitate, in the presence of Lord Ashley and of not a few of Lord Ashley's majority, to adopt the strong and pungent, but offensive, expression of a weekly contem porary (the Examiner), and say, that he saw in, the success of that oble Lord's motion the commencement of " a 'Jack Cade' system of legislation." A warm and indignant remon strance from Lord Ashley did not draw from Sir James Gra ham any retractation or explanation of this Parliamentarily " untoward" phrase. With , regard to the course proposed to be taken by the Government, Lord Ashley declared that he was not then prepared to give an opinion ; but he appealed to the ' House to stand by its repeated decisions in favour of some less amount of labour than octor, to factar er ' 1 Ad vie : e, t, and a and t" itVei l :t for the LINCOLN AND WAKEFIELD RAILWAY. PR AVISIONAL COMMITTEE beg to announce that the Y 4,41 of tlls SHARES in this UNDERTAKING have been ap kltio,' and will be allotted a ft er the sth of April, with due coast he to local and other Interests involved. Ni s C°ll uni ttee have also the satisfaction of stating that they have r r a ntenients fo r i nves ti ng th e amoun t o f d epos it a t an i n t eres t Cent. per annum. until .it is lodged with the Accountant neat year, In aces rdance with the Standing Orders of Far- No. 17,005. LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING sue :=.„, MARCH 27, 1844. PRICE sd. O. THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, in Time for the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a: SECOND EDITION (Evening S u n) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS and a THIRD EDITION at S.L'YEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY" and all other NE WS in LONDON vp to that Hour. (. r ho c°"',, r edau ° " - ) 11 g bigir el jerkc.ha Rot $ WM. ENTWISLE, Chairman of the Provisional Committee, pro. tem. eji I in EININIAN RAILWAY, from Carlisle to and Glasgow; being the line recommended by the —,•jt Commissioners. p tat t 1,800,000, in 36,000 Shares of £5O each PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. '2 l Eight Hon. Lord BELHAVEN, Chairman. %16eneithGeRARAM of Mossknow , Esq..,Deput-Chman. N - 17 t ' , 4 ,rr, Marcia; o John Dennistoun, .P Wellwood Maxwell, Esq. of %14t,Pc-c,,,nn--the Earl of Cath- Ifunshes " harles Stewart, Esq. of Hillside t E G T bercromby J. Brightman, Esq., of Courance it -4 . --- •"" r. Blphinstone David Dickson, Esq., of Hartree pi n „ T Col: Macdonald, of Powder-hall nnita l Torphichen Richard Mackenzie, Esq., of Dol se. ardine, of Apple- . phinton tlk, . Robert Monteith, Esq., of Carstairs A r n Carmichael Anstru- William Forbes, Esq., of Ifedwin • 4 - arruichael, Bart. Thomson Carmichael, Esq., of ck Pollock, M.P. Easteod ,I^ 4 llllrd , Sir Chas. Malcolm Robert Steuart, Esq., of Carlin of I lt:iir s , r land, of Climpy Archibald Campbell, Esq., 1, 01 ; Grant, the Hill, Carlisle Blythsvrood b P rovost of Glasgow jarnes Ewing, Esq., of Levenside of Guild of Glasgow w Henry Houldsworth, Esq., of Cran 114;orener of the Trades -house, stounhill Is m Wi ll iam Dixon, Esq", of Govan P rovost of Perth John Tennant, Esq., of St.Rollox 1 4W , o , tit of Lan ar k • Alexander Dennistoun,. Esq., of ost of An d ers t on o Golf hill ' • Robert Findlay, Esq., of Easterhill T °Nt ° f Calton Glasgow Robt. Bartholomew, Esq., Glasgow Ip o4 4 ' r nallTl Of the Grand June- Laurence Robertson , Esq. , 0 • ' ^a9 Company, J. Moss, Henry Brock, Esq., ditto Alexander Hastie, Esq., ditto 4 4,„• "'nazi of the North Union C. Nicholson, Esq., Cowan Head, Comshy, T. R u th_ Kendal 44. J. J. Hope Johnstone,. Esq., of 7 , ?-r 1 of the Lancaster Annandale, M.P.11,10r R ,„ n Railway Company, William Lockhart, Esq., of Milton ✓eb.l2nrrovc, Esq, Lockhart, M.P. t l llt ft an of th e Manchester, A. EliottLoekhart, Fag-, of Borth and Bury Railway Com- wick Braes. g a mes Brancker, Esq. A. D. W. B. Cochrane, Esq., of Nsti,;rnY Chairman of the . Lan- LamminMon, M.P. 14.41 y, ri.se.rlisießAilvrayCom- Thomas Houldsworth, Earl., of 14n of Esq. Coltness, M.P. ~_Ch‘ f of the Garnkirk William Forbes, Esq., of Callender, • ow Railway Company, M.P. V rot, E sq John Campbell Colquhoun, Esq., Nt o , r rnall and Directors • of Killermont, M.P. 5 / and Coltness Rail William Ewart, Esq., M.P. ei, Y 7nPan Mark Phillips, Esq., M.P. l!"" rrn nla a n o dD i irectorso h f Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P. ilt°llkland dKroo • Colonel B. Elphinstone bi ll entnpany . J. Fallarton Elphinstone, Esq., Esq., of Knells, Car- Monkland 4e"obert Garnett, Esq., of Wyerside, I, b y p r Y Howard, Esq., H.P.MP, Lancashire 112..4" -l ei Carlisle Johnstone Douglas, Esq., of Lock- I t 74e Esq., of Iticketby- erby •114arlisle 'gas G. M. Barstow, Esq., Edinburgh , 4140 :iioseph Locke, Esq., F.R.S. ; E. Errington, Esq., /1 „ * Member of the Inst. C. E. VOot. "R, with form of. application for shares and plans, with Otittil'articulant, maybe had on application to Messrs. Foster kl,7 l Wk i ,'";_alte, 64, Old Broad-street, London ; to Messrs. Mitchell, 1ti44,1-and Mitchell, or to Mr. John Lang, Glasgow ; to Messrs. ,p or l inhant, or Messrs. J. Robertson and Co., Edinburgh ; to 1,2 ,11 1 and Pritchard, Liverpool ; to Mr. J. B. Locke, share t*,_—'nehester ; or to he Provisional ommittee, 22, Par eet, West Minster.— the Proylsionol Commlttee, 22, Par -st, Westminster—March 15; 1844. Committee, ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THEEE PAPERS, Aforiing, N.on, and Ni g ht, thereby insuring• a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. NATIONAL TESTIMONIAL to MR. ROW LAND HILL, AUTHOR of the PENNY POSTAGE. At a MEETING of " The CITY of LONDON MERCANTILE COMMITTEE on POSTAGE," held at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cornhill, on Tuesday, March 12, 1844, Sir GEORGE LARPENT, Bart., in the Chair, The following Resolutions were unanimously adopted :- 1. That this Committee, observing a general feeling to exist that the important services rendered by Mr. Rowland. Hill are deserving of remuneration, do take the necessary measures to accomplish that °Wet. 2. That a public subscription be raised for Mr. Rowland Hill, the Author of the " Penny Postage," as a Testimonial to his ingenuity and pers6verance in having devised a scheine of legislation upon this important subject, which is so well calculated to give increased facilities so our internal trade, and to produce So many beneficial re sults to the general intercourse of Society. • - 3. That the following Merchants, Bankers, and others, having also given their sanction to the proceeding, this Committee feel them selves justified in making an immediate appeal to the country for support : John' Masterman, Esq., M.P. Messrs. Hanbury, Taylor, and George Lyall, Esq., M.P. Lloyd. James rattlscut; Esq., M.P. Cunliffes and Co. John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. Whitbread and Co. Sir John Rae Reid, Bart., M.P. Boddingtou and Co. Edward Dtvett, Esq., M.P. Sanderson, Fry, Fox, and Co. Raikes Currie, Esq., M.P. Gregson and Co. Sir George" Larpent, Bart. Barclays, Bros., and Co. John Cockerell, Esq. Forbes, Forbes, and Co. Joshua Bates, Esq. . Truman and Cook. Thomas• Baring, Esq. Rawson, Norton, and Co. S. Jones Loyd, Esq. Felix Calvert and Co. • J. Horsley Palmer, Esq. Mangles," - Price, and Moore. Lionel Rothschild, Esq. Gardners and Urquhart. Samuel Gurney, Esq. Henry H. Willis and Co. A. W. Roberta, Esq. J. Cockburn and Co. Lewis Loyd, Esq. H. D. and J. Blyth. H. J. Prescott, Esq. Wm. R. Robinson and Co. James Colvin, Esq. Scott, Bell, and Co. J. B. Gladetanes, Esq. Grey and Cates.' - L. P. Wilson, Esq. George Brettle and Co. J. L. Prevost, Esq. Ward and Co. W. G. Prescott, Esq. Alexander Cullen and Co. James Martin, Esq. Hanson, Brothers. William Lyall, Esq. Rainy, Bruce, and Co. J. M. Weguelin, Esq. J. H. and A. Borradaile. Robert Alex. Gray, Esq. Guest and Co. John Hodgson, Esq. Quarles, Harris, and Sons. Kirkman Hodgson, Esq. Tacker, Barnett, and Co. Richard Davis, Esq. J. Hutchinson and Co. William Gladstone, Esq. Grant and Hodgson. Alfred Latham, Esq. Marshall and Eldridge. S. Ricardo, Esq. B. and 31. Boyd. R. Ricardo, Esq. • Joseph Travers and Sons. Joseph Lawrence, Esq. Moffatt and Co. Thomas Fowler, Esq. Fincham, Matson, and Potts. Ebenezer Johnson, Esq. North, Simpson, and Graham. Edmund J. Wheeler, Esq. Hyde, Lenox, and Co. Hon. P. P. Bouverie. Brown, Lenox, and Co. George Norman, Esq. E. J. and H. S. Lawford. W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. Amory,-Sewell, and Moores. Messrs. Hoare. H. Waithman and Co. Rd. Twining and Co. John and Thos. Batt. Strahan and Co. J. J. and J. Wilson. (Signed) " G. LARPENT, Chairman and Treasurer. Gentlemen in all parts of the country who have formed, or are willing to'form, Local Committees, are requested to co-operate with the Londen Committee, and communicate with their Secretary, who will supply Subscription Cards, and afford every information and assistance. • - Subscriptions of 1/. and upwards received by the following Bankers : Messrs. Barnett, Hoares, and Co., 62, Lombard-street. 9 1 Bouverie and Co., 11, Haymarket. 9, Cunliffes, Brooks, and Co., 29 , Lomard - street. 9, Cunliffe, Roger, 24, Bucklersbury. 911 W. and J. Currie, 29, Comhill. 9 1 1 Drewett and Fowler, Princes - street , Bank. 99 Hanburys, Taylor, and Co., 60 , Lombard - Street. 9 , Jones Loyd and Co., 43, Lothbury. Masterman and Co., 35, Nicholas-lane. " PP Prescott, Grote, and Co. 62, Threadneedle-street. 9 , Roberts and Co., 15, Lombard-street. Rogers and Co., 29, Clement's-lane. P 9 Of Stone, Martin, and Co., 68 , Lombard - street. Twinings and Co., 216, Strand. Strahan and Co., 218, Strand. London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury. London and County Banking Company, 71, Lombard-street. The Commercial Bank of London, 3, Moorgate-street. Smaller Contributions received by the Secretary, Mr. George wanisey, Solicitor, 3, Lothbury ; or may be forwarded to him by Post-office order, stamps, &c. By order of the Committee, GEORGE WANSEY, Secretary. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. The various ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS in Ancient and Modem Use are familiarly explained by Dr. Ryan, at Two o'clock daily , illustrated by the LAMP of the ANCIENTS, the FIRT IMPROVE MENT by ARGAND, the BUDE, the DRUMMOND, the BOCCIUS, the PELLETAN, the CAMPHINE LIGHTS, New FRENCH LAMPS, BEALE'S LAMPS, &c., &c. The First -Lecture, .by Pro fessor Bachhoglncr, Ph. D. M.A., is at a Quarter-past Three o'clock. ARMSTRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE at Throd o'clodk and at Eight in the Evenings. NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS, DIVER and DIVING BELL, • Among the recent Deposi4 is the HEAD of a MUMMY from THEBES, very remarkable. Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price. LONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 3 , Charlotte-row, Manais*-house, and:lB, Chancery-lane, Loncksh. DIRECTORS. KENNETT KINGSFORD, £sq., Chairman. SBNJAMIN IFILL, Esq.. Deputy Chairman. Alex/soder Aidersoi, Esq. James Hartley, Esq. John Atkins, Esq. John M`Guffie, Esq. James Bidden, Esq. John Maclean Lee, Esq. Captain F. Rraadreth. J. Marmaduke Rosseter, Fog. ENERAL TOM THUMB, the American G Dirarf, exhibiting at EGYPTIAN HALL, Day and Evening, Nevious to his departure for Paris, from Eleven to One, Two to Five, and Half-past Six to Nine o'clock. The General had the honour of attending at Buckingham Palace, on the 23d inst., where his various performances elicited the approbation of her Majesty and the Royal Circle. The General weighs only FIFTEEN POUNDS! , a st thr 01 . 11 : 1 1° t e la.it they' r i°l e to A tip • t h out _ gl t 0 I t o st° • o rring (to t , o ic :ket-vv- SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS Admission, One Shilling. The General will be happy to wait on the Nobility and Gentry at their resieenees, on due notee. • AIIDITORs. H. IL Canaan, Esq. • I Robert E. Alison, Esq. MEDICAL ADTWEE—Marshall Hall, M.D„ F.R.S., L. and E. SzoRETART—Joha Emerson, Esq. SoLicrroas—Messrs. Palmer, France, and Palmer. THIS 19 tirli - ONLY COMPANY who are bound by their dead of conetitution,not to dispute any .policy, unless they can prove that it was obtained by fraudulent misrepresentation ; the great aim and object having been to render Life Policies COMPLETE SECUIir- TIES and NEGOTIABLE DOCUMENTS, which shall owe their value to the certainty of the contracts upon which they are founded, and be independent of the liberality or caprice of those who shall be in the management of the affairs of the Company when the claims arise ; and fir this purpose the Company have, by a clause is their deed of constitution, unhesitatingly deprived themselves of the 'elver of objecting to any policy, unless they undertake to prove that .it was obtained from them by fraudulent misrepresentation. The regulations common to all other Life Companies, which make the validity of assurance contracts dependent upon the perfect correct ness of the many statements required from a proposer for a Life Policy, and which have given rise to almost all the questions which have been argued in the Courts, and to many extra-judicial com promises, are thus entirely abrogated; and nothing but fraud, proved to have been committed against them, can vitiate a policy granted by this Company. THIS IS THE ONLY COMPANY from whom the assured on the mutual principle, receive the whole of the mutual accumulations, and also a guarantee from the Shareholders for the sums assured. PUBLICATIONS. RAILWAY LEGISLATION. (Letter addressed to Mr. Gladstone, and published by - Nickisson, Regent-street.) We have now arrived at a point where the Govern ment is supposed to be prepared to offer its assistance to any lines, on condition that they carry third-class pas sengers by every train at /d. per mile. There are cer tainly many lines which would accept this ; but the data on which we proceed are too slight to make it a safe bargain. I propose, therefore, that it shall be open to revision every five years ; at the end of which time, if the dividend has averaged more than 7 per cent., the Go vernment shall be entitled to require such a diminution of fares as shall reduce the dividend back to 7 per cent.; —that for all new lines receiving Government assist ance, 7 per cent. shall be coasidered the maximum divi dend :—that for all lines paying 5 per cent. or less, 2 per cent. more than the actual dividend at the time of the agreement shall be the maximum dividend :—th at Govern ment may at any periodical revision take into its own hands any line which has accepted their offer, by securing to the proprietors their maximum dividend:— that Government may also take into its own hands, on six months' notice, any line refusing to accept the Go vernment maximum, by securing to the proprietors one per cent. more than their actual dividend:—that a valuation of the stock or plant shall be taken at the commencement and expiration of such notice ; and the difference paid or allowed as the case might be :—that when any line accepted the Government maximum, or received notice that the Government intended to take it into its own hands, the Board of Trade should have power to appoint a commissioner, who should be ex officio a director of that railway, and member of every committee, to be paid in the same manner as his col leagues when attending ; it being understood that the Government Cmimissioner should not take an active part in the management of the railway, but be the organ through whom the Board of Trade might obtain minute information, and be also a check upon any unfair dealing that might take place. The whole management, patronage, power, and re sponsibility of directors of companies I would leave precisely as they are at present. I think the operation of these measures would be as follows :—When once it was felt that Government in tended to actiairly, and pay full value for what the nation got, the scheme would be examined as a matter of busi ness by those periens who, knowing best the capabilities of their lines, would be the best judges. Some would try it ; if the trial proved successful, others would try it ; if unsuccessful, it would show that Government must pay more, or fix a higher fare. In some in stances, it might not be a company's interest to accept the Government maximum at once; but the natural course of competition would make it so in a few years; and in the other instances, where neither from corn petition, nor any other cause, could it become the in terest of the railway company to give such cheap tra velling as the nation desires, I see no alternative but to pay them the difference, to buy the concern at its full price, to reduce the fares, and let the loss fall upon the nation generally. Eventually, however, capitalists would be secured 7 per cent., and very cheap com munication obtained. The revision being only once in five years would leave a stimulus to exertion on the part of directors in the interim. Under the management of local - boards, the business of the railway companies and of the country would be attended to; and among so many persons, a greater progress would probably be made in the art of conducting railways, than if it became a department of Government, where regularity is often attained at a sacrifice of that individual energy, from which so much improvement springs. ;t ifi tueg's 0 be 1 11• was c° Thls day is published in 2 vols. post Svo., price 215., cloth, A TRANSLATION OF THE POEMS AND BALLADS OF SCHILLER, _With a LIFE of the AUTHOR. By Sir E. BULWER LYTTON, Bart. Wm. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh; and 22; Pall-mall, London V.) th i e, t l ia ho ro le oitt) Oa Wednesday, April 3d, will be published, fcp. Bvo., TR ESMERISM and its OPPONENTS with a Narrative of Casos. GEORGE SANDBY, Jnn., M.A., Vicar of Flixton, Suffolk. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. '4l a st ot t , a O s - 0 1" the to~ in Ls he t ` • ri ran the t,ois ,ifyinc sr de Ifter ic an d con' r ate ef/Ir THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CXLVI, Will be published on SATURDAY, March 30. CONTENTS. I. AQUEDUCTS and CANALS—FRANCIS, DUKE of BRIDGE • WATER. ' • IL CUSTINE'S RUSSIA. 111. REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL. IV. CHURCHYARDS and CEMETERIES i rUNERALS and FIT TIIIS IS TIM ONLY COMPANYwho bind thew:BJlJ to pay the sums in the policies, although the debts for which they were effected shall have beets 117plidated before the claims arise. The Company considering it only just towards the assured that where premiums have been paid for assuring a given amount, that amount should be paid ; and they undertake to de so without reference to the state of the accounting between the assured and his debtor. NEBAL EXPENSES. V. BRITISH AGRICULTURE. VI. DYCE'S EDITION of SKELTON'S POEMS. VII. HUME and his INFLUENCE on ENGLISH HISTORY. John Murray, Albeinarle-street. THIS IS ALMOST THE ONLY COMPANY who grant In favour of creditors whole world policies, whereby the debt Is secured, although the debtor should go beyond the limits of Europe. The premiums calculated according to the Carlisle Tables, are lower than usual upon young lives, where participation in the profits is not required ; and for short assurances, which, at the option of the assured, may be continued for life, the rates are as low as a due re gard to complete security will pen TRIENNIAL ASCENDING A.Y.) 8 ,441' --- lci suct . 0 . in PIO e d ( 0 11 0 • ,:eNnotlitto •ess.„ o o e sio n Te i at c ?;i scer is end c o to cflaPt cv 7 o t , 0 10 ,, n1i sio ' wOl rtal -433 d r oil d uc t, coo,, frie rdist lj, "'ol .a•Q New Edition, now ready, price 165., bound in cloth, MANURES. By C. W. JOHNSON, Esq., F.R.S., &c., &c., brought down to the present time, and giving the fullest and most authentic information on every kind. Also, by the same Author, TRACTS for the USE of AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS, price Is. each—On Agricultural Chemistry ; the Young Farmer's Calendar ; and the Cottage Fanner's Assistant, containing Cottage Cookery, &c. James Ridgway, Piccadilly. • Also, 1. A Foarth Edition of MORTON on SOILS, with the Two Reports of Whitfield Example Farm, price 10s. SCALE TO ASSURE £lOO. Are First I Second Third I Fourth R,emairder Three Yrs. Three Yrs. Three Yrs. Three Yrs. of Life. j --- £ a. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. s. d. £ a. d. 25 . • 1 8 7 . 1 9 9 116 11 2 4 1 211 3 35....... 1 9 9 119 6 2 9 3 219 0 3 8 9 45 ..... 2 1 0 214 10 3 8 8 4 2 6 416 4 65 ...... 811 1 4le 9 510 5 610 1 7 9 9 60 •. 4 611 517 4 7 5 9 814 2 11 2 7 2. A Now Edition of SikClAfi on GR A.P.BES, price 305., co. loured Plates. New Edition, price 255. each vol., I.D R. LINDLEY'S LADIES' BOTANY in 2 vols., Bvo., each containing 50 beautitlilly-coloured Plates. 2. Dr. LINDLEY'S BOTANICAL REGISTER, published monthly, pride 35. 6d. each Number, beautifiilly coloured. The vol. for 1843, bound in cloth, price 2/. 45., is now ready. 3. Dr. LINDLEY'S splendid Work on ORCIIIDACEOUS PLANTS is now complete in Ten Parts, price 255. each. 4. A New Edition of SWEET'S HORTUS BRITANNICUS, or Catalogue of Plants. Edited by DON, price 215., bound in cloth. 5. SWEET'S BOTANICAL CULTIVATOR. Price 165., bound in cloth. BT THE HALF PREMIUM PLAN only one-half of the first seven years' premium is required, the other half being payable at at the coavcnienco of the assured ; thus allowing a Policy to be continued for seven years at one-half of the usual rate, or to be dropped at one-half of the usual sacrifice, and entitling the assured, seven years hence, when loss of health may prevent him from effecting a new Assurance, to continue a Policy at a rate of premium applicable to an age seven years younger. The Half-premium plan thus enables persons to o f t As et stiraitce, as practised by this Com p any, aiztotheir owtise thsone-hafofthe premiums for the first seven years, at Si. per cent. Interest. Thus, suppose the or dinary premium for an assurance of 5001. to be 10L, the first pay ment by the half-premium plan will be five guineas, being the oae half of the 101., and interest for the retained half; and, if death should occur in the first year, the sum of 5001. .would be paid less the 51. retailed. The assured may thus have the use for the first year of 5/. ; for the second, of 10/. ; and so on till the end of the seventh year, when the retained sums, amounting to 351., may either be repaid, or retained at Si. per cent. interest until death, when the 351. would be subtracted from the 5001. thea payable by the Company. TO ASSURE ONE IV DUD POUNDS ON RALF PREMIUM SYSTEM. Age. . s. d. Age. X. s. 1. 15 - - • 16 1 40 - . 20 - - - •18 0 45 - • - 116 6 25 - - 1 1 7 61 - - - 2 3 9 30 - - - -1 3 6 34 - - - 212 8 Prospectuses and schedules are forwarded to applicants, free of ex pease, by the Manager and Agents. ALEX. ROBERTSON, Manager. AGENTS. Tyrrell, Wm., Merchant s Roberts, C. H., Surveyes Lipscombe, L., Solicitor Davis, W., Postmaster 1 4 * - --- .. . 44 V ti l) , NEXT , DISTRIBUTION OF MONEY ~ kcifv : T ratICDS AITTNORISED and GUARANTEED by . HIS the Infl'EROR of AUSTRIA contains Money Dividends ,$1 i ,,,, £7O £72 XV) £9O • t id e £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO - £3OO £5OO £6OO £750 1k £1,208 £1,750 £4,000 & £21,000 `l)4,„ o,l toanting together to £154,308 sterling. 1‘14 1)," 401 1tio nd! n eoatains as many Dividends as Bends. Every 41 4 Smallest Dividend - - £6B lot t or ,„ 441 4105t Dlyldend - - £ 21,000 ' rosPectas, witk full particalars, without delay to 11)----__ HEINS BROTHERS, at Hamburg% °rt.' HEINE BROTHERS, at Lubeck. 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Griffiths, Ketttgen, W., Solicitor Manufacturer E., Postmaster C., Merchant • JR 0 k`3I.IA.NT to an ORDER of the HIGH k trirr , ii,,t ti nt , of CHANCERI, made "In the matter of the Free i 1,7 4 li,Z u taeh, in the county of Lincoln," all persons claiming Viei t - „" or Heirs-at-Law of GEORGE FARMER, Esq., are by ic i ti, 4.a. forthwith to come in and make out their claims before It t , ;„ ~ILsorf, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his ,A,ty „7 0 outhampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London, in order :,_1414,'Y not be excluded the benefit of the said Decree. NTll43:?Orge Fanner, it aers by a deed, dated in the month kViiki re l669 , and to which h e w as a party, resided in the parish j‘jto,, n 2v. in the county of Middlesex, and was possessed of Akn or s. at Dolbeach ; and he founded the Free School there ~...„......... K. n ' - ' , . One of his sons, it also appears, became Sir Edward W. H. SMITH, 22, Bedford-row. Th„ 9. t i p (AS HASLER, at present, and for 1 7,‘ 7 1,. 14 i ii t Y Years past, residing at 6, East-street, Finsbury -I;*,?,kiki 4. Parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and county of Mid . ‘ lng a japanner, do hereby give notice that I intend to t,,, ), Pet ition to the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall - street , 't 4 0 7,,, 1 ng to be examined touching my debts, estate , and effects , S vleNpeeted from all process upon making a full disclosure and ; kkri such estate and effects for payment ofaay just and lawful .I._ pr „, hereby ftuther give notice that the time when the "i'q g a gte said petition shall be heard is to be advertised in the 4 ts ) l 4 , i k i t 4 tte and in the Morning Sun Newspaper one month at 1 r1b, 1 4 th er , the date hereof; as witness my hand, this 23 d day of ',Nis "; Year of our Lord, 1844. • TIIOMAS HASLER. tot'ii, J ohn J. Spiller, 33, Camomile-street, London, attorney , said Thomas Hasler. _ . The many novel aid varied advantages bestowed by this Institu tion, both in its life assurance and deferred annuity departments, par ticularly the power to borrow two-thirds of premiums withoet ex pense or forfeiture—the great reduction of rates en short policies— the option of selecting benefits and converting policies so as beet to suit the interest er necessity of the policy-holder during life, as well as to afford the 11111 benefit to his family at death, and annual division of profits, have already been so well appreciated by the public, that the Society's great success and growing prosperity enabled the Di rectors, at their General Meeting in May last, to add to each policy on the profit scale a bonus averaging fifty-five per cent. on the amount already invested ; anal this bonus, according to an equitable scale, may either be paid in cash, or applied in reduction *1 future premituris , N $ - 4 7 Year of our Lord, 1844- . THOMAS ELASLLIL. ....m, assay ....... .o v.., au ,0.1311, or appueu la reuttwou CL =Lure tot ih °li n J. Spiller, 38, Camomile-street, London, attorney premituksi e Said Thomas Hasler. ~.............. _ EXAMPLES. 4. y SAMUEL,_ WEBSTER, at present, and for E n try. Pelicy. . ... Anneal Bonus Cask Prem. No. Age. S. lA,' ''''e Months past, residing at No. 12, Spring-place, Pad- Prem. Added. Bonus. Reduced. NI , 4 th. :out of of Paddington, and county of Middlesex, and C p,„''' business, do hereby give notice , that I in- ~.„ Z .£ s. d. A s. d. Z e. d. A 3.d. '," , kt a petition to the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall- l : I ‘.]: , ct.. 'on. mr.‘,4„..4 ..... h. ....onn'4.cull +nnnhineirns , elahf • anterta 16 38 ll4 56 3,000 175 16 8 296 5 7 123 0 6 16 9 7 t „42U'EL WEBSTER, at present, and for 1 7 1 ` t `re Months past, residing at No. 12, Spring-place, Pad oh,.Parish of Paddington, and county of Middlesex, and business, do hereby give notice,- Basin g in ., "kt a petition to the Court of Bankruptcy,ghall ,4k, t 4. praybep rotected to be examined from touchinemy debts, estate, 4 rt ` l 'd to all process upon making a full ,1 4 ,,..surrender of such estate and effects for payment of my ,u 1 debts ; and I hereby further give notice that the time th 'u , atter of the said petition shall be heard is to be adver ld,4t t ,ftdon Gazette and in the Morning Sun Newspaper one p,..ge least after the date hereof; as witness my hand, tkis It,. in the year of our Lord, 1844. SAMUEL WEBSTER. - '`n Chisholm', 3, Cook's-court, Lincoln's Inn, insolvent's illa . 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Is. 3d. .• • 3s• 0 ,1 • • • 3 s. 6 d. i ) r ki tstara Spoons, each •• • . 6s. Od. • . 13s. 6d. .. 13s. 6d. 4 ) 'ktt s l)4 • 44 Communion Services, &c. • vai ,114 i 'rt Knives of Watson's new Albata Plate, with French i!rt, , ir y t ' ° ,_ r y handles, 21. ss. per set of 24 pieces ; ditto, with .IV' t ;ttq„'andles, or with Albata Plate handles and blades. 1 4 , 4` t bletZ 2f . 10s. per set of 24 pieces. , N, t , oe,, i 'vgS the Public will understand that this metal is peen -1!''.,,t„,14,1.1 f i .',_"d that Silver is not more different from Gold, than 11. t4 I_ , 4 4 f a r l o l m otl t e i r , s ,i o l n y iitnseirnentrsininsgic,nminergritninalsonhen hreec,;•iiis.elleshit i':l;;'tf th at nothing can prevent its becoming en article of tint -4.*lsi I ttse t , , 41;411 I, 4l,l l l ,,flandsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Current kiss. 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'Ake tf; thould doubt what these verses express, ',.et them think of their warehouse—their offers in dress— Let ,Vrri look at the fashions their show-rooms unfold 1, t then think of the prices for which they are sold, •vli Flo think if the thousands at home and abroad, I..hAtd then in the good which the MOSES' afford— lo, 4t r , they'll acknowledge (as millions have done), I t icN i the rival improvements are ~ MOSES and SON." e e tle, Vel d READY MADE. X a. d. Vest," collar and cuffs, lined throughout from 06 0 li th p. fi eld, AVItO, , velvet collars cii , from 010 6 l'y VTI . " d os, York Wrappers, &c., handsomely i !& . it tet • .. ............................ ... f from 0 15 0 VtZth. I ) ,!_roisers, lined rom 0 4 6 I T At east ed iT , , d itto from 0 9 0 *li t : e i g h t 1 ter Vests from 03 6 front 1 • 0 , h 4 , 1, ". ................................................. . t j l, A Nta MADE TO MEASURE. ,1,4441 i n t o b f e t na ho most . approved make and material, from 1 5 0 ‘ il'it 4 i t7 l l, TweenNurahpipemrahs, lfinsteydle from 0 18 0 , !,),._. ,ewnt fabric from 011 6 4 )t 9,f ...r1 0, c,..,, ktit c , s ., _ . . . for 110 0 i l. tZt,;i 4 .. ~.7. ... ....in endless variety of material and ... .from 0 8 6 '4 1 ,7 ais,... . ................. from I 1 2 o t to , Araet ure ...................... • ............. fro:z 2 15 0 k, ,llil any 7 extent can be had at Eve minutes' notice, - at the k ,lit t „ , dr ~.. followin trousers\, A n ja4 - • coat, vest, and )4,t4 1 h", arr et . , vest, and trousers . from 0 18 0 kikl , o4' th e ' c le purchased or ordered , if not approved ef, ex- I N QRsc;"•P., money Moses returned. 't ort Asti ~- ,o see and Son regret being obliged to guard the i:sct 1 9f 4erPosition, as they learn that the untradesmanlike lqii,,!)s e :lci,4 4 4,c_onnected with them, or it's the same concern, 000,, , t0 cont? to many instance . s, and for obvious reasons. ss,tl,,ri Wo o deAt flexion whatever with any other establishment, ..„.: 4 , i.„,!: genu . ine,Cheap Clothing should call or send to •.a. 10 . 0 ....rd against disappointment, &c. _ l a nd o u ' t ciS t : er d ., S l ( s ;i 4 N,J i a n d n ejs e , s. W an holesa . le W g o a t: e r Drapers, dB6 Aldgate. ► 't LV4 4 ' tNT — S ORIGINAL ANTI—CORROSION „N t , (1) ,,,,,, -4 4 eq u cs o Pee idly patronised by the British and ether Go. Op t ?. R most Last India Company, the principal Dock Corn. 14tti ) , 1 00 0 44 public _bodies, is particultarrlyr recommended to the sumt h il a t v u i zs z t c e , West India pro. proved, by the practical test of 4 .1 44 ;urPass all other paints as an out-door presereva stl„o° or every description of iron, wood, stone, 1;08 ti. l otio nv ntk, however exposed to silo or w . eather. it is e"0 t eal, any labourer being able to lay it on, thereby 'l;),'l.ltk repo7 l ° ll charges generally made by painters. lightColurs , eat% rtland d tto, Bath ditto, yellow ditto, d 'Diet Pe r I Ritt and dark chocolate, bright and dark red an ; invisible green, 50s. ; bright and deep green, 4 Mo te T casks of 2811)., 561 b , and 1121 b. each. Oil and st4ti.c:rertailend sarticulars will be sent free of post. The )1 1 VtiA ° th e ;: 3 ;l° Paint is only to be obtained of Walter Carson Nl4 s h3 / 4 .l' 4 l i b ' 15, TokeuhousF.vard, hack of the_Br_lt . t t , e o yr upwards of ONL . 11UNDRED VOLUN b_ ed the - ALS from the Nobility, Gentry, and Clergy. tent 4 ,11 ti-Corrosion for many years. No agents. All erect. Lg E , , Ilst r 'L. S SCORBUTIC DROPS, A I ;iti,; , % th t es. RATIoN OF THE GUARDIANS OF BRENT, to O s Ond . DEVON. kt,tl , or fur ergied , solemnly declare that before Thomas Ro. 'lOl% he par on comenced taking " Halse's Scorbutic 4 r t so 144 liter covered with large running wounds (some ) 1, t1 t 44 he e fi t! , at a Person might have laid his fist in them); that '124 t by e or r : t hed the first bottle he noticed an improvement, asia l46 o heal tinuing the m f or some time, he got completely N I „h4.4 4 ts or th . after ever th l had failed. He had tried i t 44 ) , pr,„: Medicines before t "g k. e se ., Halse's .corbutic Drops," tll,i 11le,,Isiff41,tions from the a mo i s n t g celebrated ' physicians in this sQ IQ', to„nt dieriving the least benrfit. " Halse's Scorbutic tl , ,id e lar as 4 1 7te 1 3' cured him, and he is . nuw enabled to attend 14,5, tithe thi s pa _..s any man in our parish. , Frot”ther ClIr!S 111 1 e tt , tl a ~Y J oh _ eOf the public. It4ll-tare,",„tlliott, seri., Lord of the Manor, John Manning, 9i;t,t, 0t... la t 3: Hence Goodman , ion. Arthur Langworthy. t L.' 7-14 A mts q i -.,,,zik tt , i i .t . or Lo: Barclay and Son, Farringeon, S e t aati i ',„`Pth Holborn; Prout, 2 4 20, Straaci ; King, V 2, 4 4 at sur e , . ". Johnston, 68, Cornhill. to r ''!• Dd . ,r - ' . ,asit for " Halse's Scorbutic Drops." Sold in ilk 'nq to Pint Bottle!, containing nearly six 2s. Pd. • Pm r O. • „ay.!, 167 ii : do 3 ...... ....... „ ....... ....... .. (3 14 7 ofi" of ' ip DEFERRED ANNUITIES, Another Bones will be declared in the present year. The best and most varied provision for after-life hitherto ofered— every 21. 12s. per annum, paid from the age of twenty, will, at sixty -five, give the policy-holder the choice of an annuity of 471. 16s. id., or 3491. 1 Is. cash, or policy at death of 4661. Similar advantages _at fifty, fifty-five, and sixty, through an increased anneal payment-- . , two-thirds payments lent at any time, and two-thirds retaried to re preieittatives In cases of premature death. F. FERGUSON CAMItOUX, Sea. T HE MARINERS and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Expressly established for Insurances on the Lives of Mariners, (whether members of the Royal or Mercantile Navy) and Military officers.—lt is to be noted that the Policies of this Company will cover voyages of every description and service in every part of the giobc. The Lives of Fishermen and Boatmen also insured. 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No. 19, Bouverie-street. Private Entrance, Bolt-in-Tun Yard, Fleet street. ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY. 92, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. ESTABLISHED, 1808. DIRECTORS. Sir THOMAS URTON, Bart., Chairman. JOMN OLIVER HANSON, Esq., Dcputy-Chairman. Sir William Bavnes, Bart. Moses Mocatta, Esq. The Ilon. Sir Courtenay Boyle James William Ogle, Esq. Thomas Chapman, Esq. Emanuel Pacifico, M.D. William Laforest, Esq. William George Prescott, Esq. Donald Maclean, Esq. John Peter Rase!), Esq. Atmorroas—Francis Bligh Hookey, Esq. and Joseph Pulley, Esq. ACTUARY—CharIes Ansell, Esq.. F.R.S. SOLICITOR—J. B. De Mole, Esq SURVEYOR—Thomas Hopper, Esq. ASIIRTANT-SURVEYOR—Thomas Lloyd, Esq. FIRE DEPARTMENT. RETURNS.—The Directors request reference to the fact, that Twevrry PER CENT. Was returned by this Company on the amount of Premiums paid for the Five Years up to Christmas, 1841, on all Policies for 8100 and upwards, which had been in force for one year at that time. The next periodical Accounts for Returns will ba made up to Christmas, 18413- 11ENT.—This Office (independent of the Returns and the late Re duction in the Rates of Premium) offers to persons effecting As surances, the further advantage of an allowance lot the loss of Rent on Buildings rendered untenantable by fire. RENEWALS.—PoIicies due on Lady day should be renewed within fifteen days thereafter. LINE DEPARTMENT. The attention of the public has, in the Advertisements and Pro posals of this Company of late years, been called to a Table of Addf tiot s applic ble to and expect tnt on Policies of particular dates znd ages; the Directors now beg to refer to a statement (which may be obtained on application at the Office in Cheapsile, or to any of the agents in the country) of sums actually paid, showing the sums res pectively assured and the bonuses the. eon. Persons assured for the whole term of Lice in Great Britain or Ireland respectively, will have an ADDITION made to their Policies every seventh year, or an equivalent REDUCTION in the future paymen s of pTemium, at the option of the assured. The FOURTH SEPTENNIAL VALUATION will be made up to C hristmas 1444. ASSURANCES FOR SHORT PERIODS may now be effected in this Office at considerably reduced rates of premium. The Company's Bates and Proposals may be had at the Office in London, or of any of the agents in the country, who are authorised to report on the appearance of Lives proposed for Assurance. HENRY DESBOROUGH. Secretary. 92, Cheapside, June, 1&43. A RGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 89. THROGSIORTON-STREET, BANK. EMPOWERED by SPECIAL ACT of PARLIAMENT, 5 and 6 Will. IV., c. 711. THOMAS FARNCOMB, Esq., Alderman, Chairman. WILLIAM LEAF, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Richard E. Arden, Esq. James Clift, Esq. William Banbury. Esq. Rupert legleby, Esq. Edward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq.. Ald. Thomas Camplin, Esq. Jeremiah Pitcher, Esq. John Humphery. Esq., Alderman, Lewis Pocock, Esq. M. P. CONSULTING ACTUARY—Professor Hall, of King's College. Jeaffreson, 2, Finsbury-square. SURGEON—W. Coulson, Esq., 2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. LOW RATES OF PREMIUM. In addition to the subscribed Capital of £lOO,OOO, the A asured have the security of the Company's income of nearly £ 0. 0,013 per annum, yearly increasing, and an accumulating Assurance Fund in vested in Government and other available securitie., of considerably la , ger amount than the estimated liabilities cf the Company. The rates of premium are reduced to the lowest scale compatible with the security of the Assured, and the stability of the Company, thereby, in effect, giving to every Policy Holder an immediate and curtain 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 Year. For Seven Years. Whole Term. ------- ------- 20 £0 17 8 xo 19 1 X 1 11 10 301181 2 7 2 0 7 40 1 5 0 1 6 9 2 14 10 50 1 14 1 1 19 10 4 0 11 3 2 4 3 17 0 8 0 10 so One-third of Whole Term" Premium may remain unpaid at b per cent. compound interest, as a debt upon the policy for life, or may be paid off at any time without notice. In Aesurances for Advances of Money, as security for debts or as a provision for a family, when the least present outlay is desirable, the varied and comprehensive tables of the Argus Office will be found to be particularly favourable to the Assured. The Medical Officers attend daily at a Quarter before Two o'clock EDWARD BATES, Resident Director. A liberal Commission to Solicitors and Agents. CORNS AND BUNIONS. Patronised by the Rayal Family and Nobility. PAUL'S EVERY MAN'S FRIEN D is a sure and speedy cure for those anneyances, W i t h out causing the least pain or inconvenience. Unlike all other remedies for corns, its operation is such as to render the cutting of 6 the corns altogether unnecessary : indeed, vie may say, the practice of cutting corns is at all times highly dangerous, and has been fre quently attended with lamentable consequenm's, besides its liability to increase their growth. It adheres with the most gentle pressure, producing an instant and delightful relief from torture, and, with rxtrseverance in its application, entirely eradicates the most In corns and bunions. Testirftenials have been received from upwards of one hundred Physicirms and Surgeons of the greatest eminence Prepared by John Fox is boxes at Is. 13d., or three in one fo 2s. 9d., and to be had of C. King, 232, Blackfriars-road, Loneon, and all wholesale and retail medicine venders in town and country. The genuine has the name of John Fox on the stamp. A Pd. box cures the most obdurate Corns. Ask for " Every Man's friend." BY ALEXANDER G. FINDLAY. London : published by Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside, where may be had, for the use of Schools, a Series of Outline Maps, corresponding with the above. Price ss. Full allowance to Schools or Merchants for exportation. 39, ALBEMARLE.SPREET, PICCADILLY. SIGHT AND HEARING. NEWLY INVENTED SPECTACLES, TE LESCOPES, OPERA GLASSES, MICROSCOPES ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS, for RELIEF of DEAFNESS, &c. Patronised by his Majesty the King of Hanover, her Royal High ness the Princess Sophia, her Serene Highness the Princess Esterhazy, the Princesses Mary and Rosa, her Grace the Dowager Duchess of Bedford, and their Graces the Archbishop of Canter. bury, the Dukes of Devonshire, Norfolk, Argyll, Marlborough, and Manchester. Marquises of Londonderry ansl Thomond. Fails of Albemarle, Eagletown, Shaftesbury. Tankerville, Fowls, Bradford, Wicklow, Vcrulans ' Harrowby, Buckingham, Meath, Somers, Ox. ford, Lisburne. and Ferrcrs. Bishops of Exeter, Bland ford, Lin coln, Cork, Elphin, and Kildare. Generals Sir 'Edward Paget, Sir Evan Lloyd, Fresleric Moister, Clayton, Galway, Grosvenor, Morri. son, Dyott, Robertson, and Mackenzie. Major-Generals Sir H. Elphinstone, P. Fyers, D. Macleod, Hamilton, and Wemyss. Lieutenant. Generals Sir Henry Bouverie, Sir J. Macdonald, Sir R. Barton. Sir T. Dallas, Lord John Hay. Admirals Sir George Cock. burn, Sir George Munday, Sir G. Martin, Sir James H. Whitahed, Sir I). Gold, and Ross. . . . Messrs. S. and C. SOLOMONS, Opticians and Aurists, 19, Albe. marle-•trcet, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, have invented Spectacle Lenses, &c., of the greatest transparent power. Imme diately these newly invented Spectacle Lenses are place,l before ex tremely imperfect vision, either by day or candle-light, that mist and dullness which appear before the eyes are at once removed, every object becomes clear and distinct,- vision becomes preserved and strengthened, and very aged people are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupati n, and can see with those Lenses of a much less magnifying power, nor will they require the frequent cnanges to further helps, as the Spectacle inow in common use, so that the most aged imperfect sight becomes bright and brilliant, and is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state ; those objects being accomplished is a matter of much deeper consequence than can be imagined. All kinds of newly invented INVISIBLE ACOUSTIC I INSTRU MENTS, which enable individuals at an advanced age, and of forty and fifty years' standing of extreme deafness, instantly , o join in general conversation, and to catch the sound of a distant low speaker at church, theatre, &c. It pours the conversation into the ears to such an extent that in most severe cases deafness cannot be observed. . _ Also, the most powerful Newly-invented ACHROMATIC OPERA GLASSES, which are invaluable en the race-course, as well as at the theatre, &c. Ths Telescopes for the waistcoat-pocket possess extraordinary great powers for shooting, sea purposes, &c. and with stands for Astronomical Observations, with the celebrated Lenses of the most clear, transparent brilliancy, the powers are so great over all others, and the Lenses so bright and brilliant, that tho most minute objects at an extraordinary distance are brought completely under the eyes. Sportsmen, Tourists, and Seaside Visitors, will here have a great reat Single and Compound MICROSCOPES, by which the circulation of the blood of a Fly and a Flea can be seen flowing in great streams. 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 pro vent mistakes, be Cautious, and Observe, only to be had at Albernarle.strect, Piocadilly, opposite the York ltioteL • CHING'S WORM DESTROYING LOZENGES have for fifty years hell a distinguished repu tation, and are still and increasingly patronised by the highest names in rank, respectability, and science, from a personal knowledge of their utility in their own families. It is a fact established by the annual Bills of 'Mortality, that one. half the children born are cut oft' before attaining'seven years of age, and the fruitful source of this m - rtality is found to exist in that foul state of the stomach and bowels which produces the generation of worms. The symptoms usually arc loss of appetite, a paleness of colour of the face, emaciated and irregular state of the bowels, attended with violent pain. They bring on convulsions; they affect tho growth of the body; and they prove fatal by ending in a consumption or decay. As the certain restorer of Infantine Health, in this critical state, "Ching s Worm-Destroying Lozenge:" have long been known and esteemed ; mild and safc in their operation, suited to every stage of this period of life, and infallible in their effect, their excellence can be gratefully testified to many fond and anxious mothers who have successfully had recourse to them. As an Opening Medt . ine in Spring and Summer, for Adults as well as for Childrm, and for foulness of the Stomach and Bowels, and Convulsions, although Worms may not exist, it is allowed to be superior to every other. CHING'S NVORMESTROYING LOZENGES are peculiarly adapted and recommended for Exportation to the East and West Indies and warm climates generally, as their virtue remains unim paired by time. Sold In packets at Is. IV., and boxes at 2s. lid, each, by Ed war d s 67, St. Paul's Church-yard, London; also by S anger, 150, Oxford.: street; White, 24, Cornhill ; and most respectable Chemists, Bruton- - Bridgewater - Belfast - - Ballin - a.sloo - Bordeaux - Brecon - - Mitchell, C.'C., Solicitor Deacon, F., Solicitor G. Emerson and Son, Merchants Boyd, Wm., Brewer Cutler, F., Merchant Maybery and Williams, Solicitors Cork . - - Chelmsford - Chichester - Carlisle - Canterbury - Cirencester - Coates and Lefebure, Merchants Williams, T. W., Auctioneer Pascoe, T., Draper Hodgson, T. H., Solicitor Davey. J.. Land Agent BOIC, W. 8., Solicitor Corwon Chatham - - Cambridge - - Chard -' Cherthey - - Church Stretton - Chudleigk - - Carlow - - Cape Town - - Dublin - - Darlington - - Dorking - - Roberts, John, Land Agent Whitehead, T., Accountant Dimrsock, J., Printseller Adney, F., Solicitor Kempton, J., Bookseller Robinson, J., Agent Prowse, J., Draper Johnson, W., Merchant Hart, W., ins;, Merchant Pike, W. nncl 1., Wine Merchants Taylor, W. 1., Druggist Lanham, Hy., Agent Deal - - - - Devoaport - - - Dorchester ' - - Drogheda - - - Donegal - - - Dawlish - - • Enniscorthy - - Epsom - - - Ellesmore - - - Exeter - - Edinburgh - - - Enniskillen - - Emsworth - - - Gosport. - - - Greenwich - - Gloucester - - - Gravesend - - Galss:ay - - - Guernsey - - Greenock - - Gainsborough - - llonitou - - - Brothers, J., Chemist Carrington, R. F. and W., PriblisherS Frond, J., Chemist Hamilton, J. B. and H., Booksellers Rankine, W., Merchant Byles, M., Solicitor Davis, S., Merchant Darling, J., Bookseller Cooley, C. E., Land Agent Belle, T., Bookseller Veitch, James, Attorney Kernaghan, T., Merchant Stone, R., Surveyor Wright, A., Grocer Fisher, T. 8., Draper Needham, .T., Bookseller Powis, J., Harmer-street Costello, J., Wine-merchant Qucripel, F.., Jan., Solicitor Erskine, H., Merchant Lovell, G. W., Academy Robertson, C., B an k er Elphick, G. W., Conveyancer Reynolds, W., Auctioneer Paxon, F., Plumber Roberts, R., Banker Burgess, J., Ironmonger Duteil, L., Merchant Horsham - - Haverfordweat. - Hampstead - - 11olyhead - - Hastings - - 11aara - - Ilindon - H tid dersfield Hull - Harrison, G. Postma ster lNtye, T. H.,f Solicitor Hewitt, T. F., Merchant Ilitchen Allen, G. L., Grocer llalifax Garlick, 11i. P., Solicitor Ipswich - Isle of Ma - Kilkenny - l i i i tl n el p e b rm i ja in g s e ter Limerick - - Mills, IV. P., burgeon - Quiggin, J., Bookseller - Prentice, B. 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A., Chemist Newcastle - Warburton and Co., Sharebrokers Newcastle Emlyn - Jones, W., Printer Northampton - - Pywell, H., Solicitor Newington - - Browne, J. 0., Surveyor Newport (I. Wight) - Wray and Son, Merchants Newport (Monmouths.) Long, S. H., Auctioneer Oswestry - - - Price, W., Bookseller Oakhampton ' - - Townshend, J., Stationer Oxford - • - Whitby, F., Accountant Pwlheli - - Pugh, Hugh, Banker Penzance - - - Britian, A. K., Banker Porimiidoo - - - Lloyd, R., Banker Petcrsfield - - Dnplock, G., Bookseller Plymouth - - Saunders, W., Ship Agent Paris - - - - Daly, M., Banker Poole - - - Aldridge and Crabh, MerchantS Reading - - - Hubbard, W., Accountant Rockford • - - - Green, J., Surgeon Rochdale - - Molessvorth, J., Solicitor Sheffield - - - Mitchell, S., Accountant St. Columb - - - Nankivell, J., Draper St. Auntie - - - Andrew, J., Printer Southampton - - Hunter, D., Merchant Stroud - - - Kearney, W. W., Solicitor Shaftesbury - - Brettell, W., Printer Sligo - - - - Boyle, J., Merchant Scarborough - - Merry, W., Academy Stonrbridge - Crompton, W. M., Solicitor Salisbury - - - Fulford, G., Draper Sherborne - . Vicary, J., Printer Somerton - - - Walton, V. 13., Auctioneer Tewkesbury - Thomas, J., Solicitor Thorubury - - - T. H. Harris, Agent Tunbridge - - - Stenning and Cornell, Solicitors Tunbridge Wells - - Delves, J., House Agent Torquay - - - Jacobs, A., Jeweller Truro - - - - Braithwaite, F., Solicitor Totnes - - Williams, W., Currier Teuby - - - - Walkington, J., Chemist Taunton - - Joyce, J., Chemist Tralee - - - - Benner, A. Solicitor Teignmontk - - Beater, J.:Collector Woolwich - - Cassells, W. G., Banker Worcester - Holden, H., Solicitor Welslipool - - - Edwards, E., Draper Wincanton - - Cannes, R., Banker Westerharn - - Palmer, C., Academy Wigton, N.B. - Carson, W., Town Clerk Winche , ter - - - Faltkfull, B. C., Solicitor Yarmouth - Cobb, J., Solicitor Yarns - - Foggitt, J., Bookseller Yeovil - C roc k er G. Ironmenger ork Watson. AV.A.TCHES, by WEBSTER and SON, Chro nometer Makers to the Lords of the Admiralty, established 134 yonrp. WEBSTER and SON have REMOVED to 74, CORNTIILL, where the advantages of the premises will enable them to bring the workme❑ under . their immediate Inspection in the manufacturing departthent. An. extensive Stock, finished with the utmost care, and at lower prices, considering the quality, than can elsewhere be obtained, consisting of Compensated Duplex and Lever Watches, adjusted to the variations of temperature, on the principle of their Chronometers, to which Government awarded the prizes three years in succession; the Detached Lever and Horizontal Watches for Ladles, of the smallest and most elegant patterns; Marine and Pocket Chronometers, with long and accurate rates ; also a large se lection of Second-hand Chronometers and Watches, by the most eminent makers, at half their original cost. Superior workmen are employed en the premises in the repairing department, both for watches and clocks. Foreign work of every olescription carefully repaired by workmen engaged expressly for the purpose. Watches take* in exchange. Post letters will meet with immediate atteation. W. and Son's publication, with the Equation of Time for 1844, win be sent, post tee, on the receipt of twe stamps. The nation will never consent that, to protect existing interests, a permanent dead weight shall, by mere in efficient legislation, be fastened upon every, new line. Such fetters should be struck off. - If railways, by the mere course of events, the improvement of legislation and the progress of science, - can be produced more cheaply than they . once could, the value of the old ones must be reduced in proportion, wherever they come into com petition. Wherever a dear line can exist, a cheap line will flourish, and ruin its neighbour. Nothing can pre vent the old lines from sinking under this -the e ressure un less, with a wise foresight, they anticipate - thvieday, and take shelter under the shield of Government, unless they consent to pay the price of being constituted real monopolies. even if that price should be " cheap travel ling for the working classes." A DIFFICULT CASE. A case of considerable interest to mercantile men came before the Cour Royale of Paris on Wednesday. The questions involved are-Ist. Whether the impru dence of the captain of a vessel constitutes baratry on the part of the owner, and deprives him of the benefit of his insurance ? 2d. Does a captain, who continues to navigate when a fire has broken out in the vessel and a port is near which he could reach, commit a fault which releases the insurance-office from all responsibility ? The facts of the case, as stated by M. Billault, the Deputy, counsel for the plaintiff, Mr. Kent, an English merchant, residing at Boulogne• sur-Mer, are as follow: —The brig Sylvain, of 124 tons, the property of Mr. Kent, commanded by Captain J. Baclin, and with a crew of seven men, after having taken on board at Boulogne a cargo of coals, left the port for Cette on the 26th of August, 1842. On the 3d of September the captain had the pumps examined, and, having dis covered that the vessel was making more water than usual, placed a man in charge of the pumps, with in structions to report any increase in the leak. On the 10th the vessel passed the Straits of Gibraltar, and on the 12th the man in charge of the pumps reported that the water had increased. On the 18th, at twelve miles distance from the Point of Roquette, he stated that the water had become warm, and upon this report the captain ordered a general examination to be made as to the cause. Ono of the crew having gone down into the hold was nearly overpowered by the heat, and then, for the first time, it was suspected that the water from the leak had caused fermentation and produced fire in the cargo. This suspicion was confirmed on the 19th, and two of the crew, whilst endeavouring to trace the precise locality of the fire, were suffocated by the smoke. On the 21st the smoke poured forth in volumes, and the crew got ready their clothes and a quantity of provisions, preparatory to their escape. On the 22d, the captain steered for the Bay of Rosas, about eighteen miles distant ; but he was unable to reach it, and on the same day the fire made a vent, and burst forth in flames. The captain and crew, finding all the efforts to check the fire useless, . resolved to abandon the vessel, as the only means sf saving their lives, and launched their boat in a heavy sea. The crew got into it, but the cap tain, unwilling to desert his vessel whilst even the most slender hope existed of saving it, remained on board until the fire had gained such a height, that to have stayed an instant longer would have been death. He then got into the boat, and, having reached the shore, reported the casualty to the adjutant of marine of the village of Lastardit, by whom, as well as by the captain, the facts were laid before the Vice-Consul of France at Rosas. On the 21st of November Mr. Kent, who had insured the vessel for 40,000 f. with the Companies of the Assur ances Generales, Orleanaises, Lloyd Francaises, the Union des Ports, and the Avenir, reported the loss and demanded payment. This was resisted on the ground that the captain had not exercised due judg ment, and that his conduct: constituted an act of bara try, which deprived the owner of all right to compensa tion. Mr. Kent, under the advice of counsel, com menced a suit against the - insurers before the Tribunal of Commerce of Paris, who, giving to the articles 353 and 216 of the _Code of Commerce an interpretation unfavourable to the plaintiff, delivered judgment for the defendants. Against this judgment Mr. Kent has ap pealed, and the Cour Royale has to decide on the ques tions stated above, and which are of great importance, for if the decision of the Tribunal de Commerce should be confirmed, the owner of a vessel will not only be held responsible for his servants, as far as regards the neces sity of their using every effort to prevent the loss of his vessel, but also for their judgment as to the means to be employed, a doctrine which has never before been set up. M. Billault, having stated the case, was proceeding to show that the decision of the Tribunal de Commerce was contrary to law and equity, when the President ob served that there was another cause on the list which had priority, and postponed the further hearing until Wednesday next. FANCY FAIR UNDER THE THAMES.--On Monday being the anniversary of the opening of the Thames Tunnel, a fancy fair was held in the Tunnel, to commemorate the completion of this extraordinary triumph of science, energy, and perseverance. The centre arches that divide the two parallel lines of road through_ the Tunnel, were adorned with holly and other evergreens, and were nearly all, occu pied with stalls displaying fancy goods of various kinds, amongst which may be mentioned medals and engravings of the Tunnel, printed " on the ! . pot." THE MARCHIONESS OF LANSDOWNE'S ASSEMBLY.— On Monday a splendid entertainment was given by the Mar • chioness of Lansdowne, at Lansdowne House, to about 300 of the leading members of the beau monde at present in town. Three saloons were opened on the occasion, with the connect ing ante-rooms. Among the company were the following:— His Excellency the French Ambassador and Countess de St. Aulaire, his Excellency M. Dodd, his Excellency Baron Nieumann, his Excellency Count Pollon, his Excellency Mr. Everett, Baron Lebzeltern, his Excellency the Belgian Mi nister and Madame Van der Weyer, M. and Madame Hum melaeur, the Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lady Elizabeth Burgh, Marchioness of Sligo and Lady Catherine Browne, Earl and Countess of Rosebery and Ladies Primrose, Vis countess Palmerston, Lady Ashley, Lord Campbell and Lady Stratheden and Hon. Miss Campbell, Lord Brougham, Mr. Harcourt, Viscount Ebrington, Baroness Langsdorff, Baron and Baroness de Rothschild, Viscount and Viscountess Joce lyn, Countess of Radnor and Lady Mary Bouverie, FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. STANDARD.—We will not affect to disguise the regret with which we refer to the proceedings of the two Houses of Parliament last night. In the House of Lords, Lord Brougham presented a petition from a number of persons, women and girls, we believe, complaining that the law had deprived them of their occupation in collieries, and the Noble and Learned Lord took the op portunity of delivering very strong opinions against any restraint upon the hours of labour, maintain ing, us we understood his Lordship, that toil is the lot of humanity, and that the tendency of civilisation is to aggravate that toil. His Lordship also warmly protested against the policy of inter ference • between employer and employed. He can have little modesty who sets his own judgment hastily against the judgment of Lord Brougham —but, in a matter so . thoroughly winnowed as the question of excessive labour has been, we cannot surrender our own conviction, to any authority, how highly soever we may respect it. The very case brought forward by Lord Brougham is indeed one of the strongest arguments that we have met with against his Lordship's apparent conclusion—the case of women and girls condemned to the alternative of the disgusting, cruel, and de moralising labour of the mine, drawing others of their sex into the same painful and loathsome con dition on one side—or starvation on the other. 'Must not the system be odious and criminal which creates such an alternative ? and is it not right to put au end to such an execrable system ? Goldsmith, we think it is, who tells of a Chinese or a Tartar tyrant, who was in the habit of burying obnoxious or suspected per sons in dungeons " deep, deep under ground." His successor, a man of humanity, broke up these living tombs, when one surviving tenant of them alone was disinterred ; and he, when brought to the s u rf ace , found the light painful, discovered that he had out lived all his kindred and acquaintance, and the strength by which in youth and manhood he had been able to earn a subsistence; he therefore prayed to be restored to the grave from which he had been dragged, and to the society of the toad and the spider, his only familiar friends. Whether he was rein terred is not told ; but though Goldsmith cites the story, as a proof of the power of habit, nobody that we have ever heard of has used such an instance as an argument, ex cept to prove the barbarity of imposing habits and cir cumstances that unfit human beings for the support or the enjoyment of life—habits really equivalent to the mutilations formerly practised in the Netherlands, to disable persons from pursuing particular trades. Toil is the lot of man: no doubt in the sweat of his brow must he eat his - bread; but, according to the Divine ap pointment, in the sweat of his brow he may eat his bread ; without adding the sacrifice of health, and life, and liberty, and morals : toil, not excessive or premature, or unnatural toil, is the lot of man. We can imagine the burning scorn with which Lord ,Brougham would have swept away the arguments of any one who should have attempted to justify negro slavery on the ground that " toil is the lot of man." Is it true, again we ask, that the tendency of civilisation is to render necessary severer and more painful labou r —l a b our breaking in upon the order of our natural associations ? We think too reverently of the dispositions of the Great Author of Nature to believe this possible. We see perfect harmony in all his other works, and we will not believe that in his dealings with man he appoints society to civilise and elevate his creatures on one side, and to degrade and corrupt them on the other; and if any moral truth was ever demonstrated, it is this—that of excessive, pre mature, and• unnatural toil, degradation'and - corruption are the necessary consequences. We know, indeed, but too well that the tendency of civilisation is to tempt to the abuse of its opportunity; and. of what other blessing may not this be said? Civilisation brings Wealth, and wealth gives power, and power un restrained will be always exercised in selfishness and in injustice; but if civilisation brings wealth, it also brings wisdom; and one of the earliest tasks of wisdom is to impose restraints upon all irresponsible power, the power of wealth in the first place. This is the point at which we have now arrived, and we respect. fully submit it to Lord Brougham as a scholar and a philosc pher, that upon the decision now made will depend the fate of the British empire; we speak of the decision in principle, not the decision in the matter of detail, though we own that we cannot oaaily mparuta thorn. lb in 'urn cleuraled that the hi fluence of wealth may not be in any degree restrained ; but that one rich man choosing to exact too much, or too early, or unnatural, labour from his fellow-creatures, shall be at liberty to do so, and to ruin all Who will not imitate his example (for the first tyranny is exercised upon compe titors), if this decision be come to, then we refer the Noble and Learned Lord to his own favourite author, particularly to " The Oration on the Classes," for a picture Of the consequences. ' Once more we repeat it, that the civilisation which grows only in wealth, and not in wisdom and humanity, is "a civilisation that leads to perdition, and leads more rapidly the more rapid the increase of' wealth. It is an abuse of a Divine blessing, and let those guilty of such abuse beware. GLOBE.—Sir Robert Peel last evening moved for a Select Committee of the House of Commons, to inquire whether any—and if any, what—improvements are required in the present law for the trial of contro verted Parliamentary elections. The present law was an experiment ; and was, in the first instance, enacted for a limited period, which expires with the present session. Previously to its being enacted, as a permanent measure, it is only reasonable that its mode of operation should be ascertained. Its defects, if any, will be thin pointed out, in order to their being supplied in the new Bill ; and its powers extended, if necessary, that it may be efficient for the purposes to which it is to be applied. We are therefore induced to hope that the Committee will suggest various improve ments in the existing law. Though an improvement upon the old system of ballot—which rendered the result of a petition against a return a mere lottery—the present system is far from securing a decision in accord ance with truth and justice. When the present law was under discussion we ventured to suggest that the most effectual way to secure satisfactory results from inquiries into controverted elections, and thus prevent the corrupt practices which had prevailed at Parliamentary elections, on the one hand ; and, on the other, to protect successful candidates from frivolous and vexatious petitions on the other; would be to remove the jurisdiction from the House of Commons to another and indifferent tribunal. While the House of Commons continues to be what it is—and ceasing to be what it is, an arena of party conflict, its very constitution must be changed, and thus its value would be destroyed—party spirit must pervade its_rostidiers. That spirit will rule, more or less, in its election committees, and influence the de cisions at which they arrive. Sir Robert Peel, it will be seen, carefully abstained from meeting this very essential point in the inquiries he has referred to the Select Committee.. The Right Hon. Baronet shrinks with instinctive dread from attempting so serious an invasion of the prerogatives of the House of Commons. Mr. Gisborne, in the course of some practical re marks of considerable value upon the working of the existing law, shewed, from the party character of the decisions of election committees appointed under it, the necessity of providing for the exclusion of party spirit, which yet biassed election committees, and rendered their .decisions justly suspected of being tainted by its influence. The constitution of these committees renders them liable to the suspicion which their decisions tend to con firm. The committee is still a party tribunal. Three Members are selected from one side of the House and three from the other ; and, by turns, a chairman is taken from one side of the House to one committee, and from the other side to the next. This mode of forming a tribunal is most extraordinary, if the design of the inquiry be 'a decision in conformity with evidence. To our minds, it wears the appearance of an expedient, and that not a wise one. It gives' to each party, alter nately, a chairman who has the power to rule every decision of the committee of which he is the head, by his single vote. In numerous instances—as the published reports of the proceedings of election com mittees under this law incontestably prove—the mem bers of the committee have been equally divided ac cording to their party politics ; and the chairman has decided the point, for or against the petitioners, in con felnity with his party views. • Then, on the question of costs—which, if the inquiry were to be conducted according to, and the decision governed by, the practice of every other court, would depend on the result of the in quiry—there is a- kind of compromise. A mutual understanding seems to exist, whatever may be the merits of the case—however palpably frivolous and vexatious the petition, or however corrupt the practices proved against the sitting Member—there shall be no decision by whi c h cos t s will be imposed on the losing party. " We will say nothing about costs ; that may ap pear to be severe. The petition was, indeed, wholly un supported; and there does not appear to have been any grounds for the inquiry." On the other hand, " The bribery by the recognised agents of the sitting member, was clearly proved: the intimida tion was terrible: the treating was on the largest scale, and 'the member's committee scarcely took any pains to conceal their participation in the illegal acts. But, then, such proceedings are so common ! Every one who has had anything to do with a severely contested election, knows that these things are - of common occur rence." Thus, in the one case the vexatious petitions is dismissed, and the member against whom it was pre sented is made to pay one or two thousand pounds to de fend his seat ; which would never have been attacked had there not been a probability of getting a party chairman ; nor then, the practice of the Courts been adopted, and costs followed a failure of the attempt. In the other case, the seat would, probably, never have been defended, had the member who had ob tained his seat by illegal practices not hoped, in the first place, that the committee would be presided over by a chairman taken from his own sido of the House, and therefore disposed to serve him where the case pressed twelve hours ; and Lord Howick announced that he would resist the motion for leave to withdraw the Bill. That motion will be made on Friday next.. Meanwhile the situation of the Government is most extraordinary. It has taken its stand on a position of decided hostility to a majority of the House of Commons. The House has repeatedly de clared that the labour of women and young persons in fac tories ought to be regulated, and that the hours of work should be less than twelve. In the face of these determina tions Ministers announce that they have resolved to abstain from any farther attempt to regulate the hours of labour, and to resist to the utmost any proposal for the reduction of those hours. This attitude of the Government, with regard to the House of Commons, is significant enough. It is a declaration to the majority that a question, already decided upon its merits, shall be reconsidered under a sort of Parlia mentary duress. " Twice you have decided," says Sir James Graham, -to the House of Commons, " upon principle, that the Government is wrong. Repeat that decision - on Friday, and Ministers will resign." It is not difficult to foresee the result. The whip will be applied with better effect than it was last week. Sir Thomas Fremantle's threat of resignation will be believed by those who only laughed when he talked of danger to the corn-laws. Ministers will have their majo rity, and Lord Ashley's clause go back for renewed and fiercer agitation to the towns. As respects the important question at issue, it could not be disposed of in a more unsatisfactory way. The success of Sir James Graham's motion will be the success merely of the Minister, and not of the principle upon which he stakes his Ministerial existence. This posi tion of Ministers, however, deeply humiliating as it is, is a striking example of that moral retribution which, sooner or later, overtakes unprincipled politicians: The political power, which was acquired by factious means, deserts them when they intend to act honestly: They stimulated and encou raged a bigoted opposition to every liberal principle of edu cation, and the feeling so excited amongst their supporters disabled them from framing the only kind of education scheme suited to the wants of the time. They obtained office by an agitation in support of monopoly, and the neces sity of not offending the adherents of the corn-laws is now the barrier to a real settlement of the factory question. Thus, Ministers are wholly powerless in a matter which they re garded as vitally important. They are deeply convinced that the hours of labour for women and children ought to be re gulated and limited, but they are, by their own avowal, too weak to propose what they think right. Such a position is 1.4 a 1.7vv0 rainy AN*. AMP C0m.c.am0v....“.•,4 163.4.• 657 occupy. It is a derangement of our constitutional system which ought to be corrected. TIMES.—" The effect of these various divisions," said the Home Secretary last night, " as the Bill now stands, has been to involve the measure in inextricable confusion." Seldom have we heard a confession so naive and so true. The speaker had himself, of his own motion and suggestion, attempted to force the House of Commons to affirm in one week two contradictory propositions. On Monday the House had vir tually resolved, as was admitted by Sir James himself, that women and young persons should not be allowed to work in factories more than ten hours a day. After the brief interval of four days, it found itself required to eat its own words, and vote that twelve hours' daily labour was allowable. This was rather sharp practice. The operations of facing about and wheeling round are easy enough on parade ; they may be seen accomplished very expeditiously at the Horse-Guards, but five minutes' walk to the House of Commons brings one to a very different and far more intractable region. Decency alone re quires there a longer delay. The result was that, though the Ministerial word of command did tell extensively, and though just round the person of the commander-in-chief there was tolerable order and discipline, yet mutiny and confusion prevailed throughout the field. The house was "demo ralised." It was called on to pronounce its judgment and renounce its judgment, to act independently and subserviently in one and the same act, to be the House of Commons and Sir James Graham, to pour forth sweet and bitter, blow hot and cold, say yea and nay, to go backwards and forwards, all at the same time. This it could not do, or, at least, did not do. What it did do is not so clear, as the only result was, as Sir James confesses, inextricable confusion. the House Will be readily excused by all considerate persons, on the ground of the novelty and strangeness of the circumstances in which it was placed. We have only heard of one instance at all parallel, and that is the case of the unfortunate man in the " Diary of a Physician," who woke one morning under the singular persuasion that a violent gust of wind (Palace-yard is a particularly windy locality) had twisted his head backwards. His attempts to carry out this unplea sant hypothesis involved him in great difficulties and some very false positions. It was at breakfast, if we remember right, that the physician first saw the poor creature under this delusion. He was then sitting with his back to the table, twisting round occasionally with the most excruciating efforts to the tea and muffins. The tails of his coat adorned his knees, and the lappels his shoulder blades. The nape of his neck was graced by a very neat tie, which, it appeared, had been by far the greatest difficulty entailed by his disaster. As soon as the door was opened he backed out of his chair, and retrograded up to the physician, with whom he shook hands a tergo, as the Parthians used to shoot their arrows. There was a good deal more, which will readily suggest itself, if not to our reader.s:4n.,avral,, at least to any Member of the House of Conynons p7.,ient at the two divisions last Friday. Deeply are iv . e concerried at the perplexity of the House. It is impossible not to smile, but serious considera tions present themselveS. This rotatory movement of opinion is both undignified and dangerous. The House won't bear such twisting. The confessed author of all this confusion, whose own whip had set the House a•spinning, did his best to fight his own way out of the eddy. In both narrative and argument he ,was last night most laboriously explicit. He ' opened with a history of all the ins and outs, evidently the • result of a strong mental effort; and as much required for the clearing of his own understanding as for that of the House. The finale of this. history was, as above mentioned, " inextricable confusion"—all of the Right Hon. Baronet'S own making. He then divided into three heads the field of opera• tions open to the Ministry. The first alternative was a com promise, say eleven hours a day. This he rejected for two very good and sufficient reasons ; first, that he would not. agree to it himself ; secondly, that Lord Asl.ley would not The second course was to throw up the Bill altogether, and leave Lord Ashley to bring in another if he liked. This - would not do. There was every probability that Lord Ash ley would like to bring in a Bill, in which case all the trou- • ble would come over again ; and it was evident that Minis- ters had already left too much to Lord Ashley, so that they. would not mend matters by leaving to him the whole Bill. The third course, and that actually adopted, is a very sim ; ple one, and might have been stated without any reference -. to other alternatives ; it is, to make another push for the 12 hours' clause under the technical form of a new Bill, which is to be done next Friday. EXTRAORDINABIriLAND-SLlP.—Thiring the night of Friday last an unusual and remarkable occurrence took place on Claston estate, in the parish of Dormington, the property of Edward Foley, Esq., of Stoke Edith-park. A large piece : of land, consisting of more than three acres of rock and earth, with forty oak trees, slipped down Dadnor's-hill,: a distance of 200 yards, into the valley beneath, and. • now presents a very curious appearance, the projected masses of rock forming fantastic shapes of caverns, &c., and some of the trees remaining upright, as if growing. The' whole scene is well worthy of inspection. From the ground cracking, &c., there had been previous indication of the , coming " slip," and no doubt the wet weather hastened the result. The damage occasioned by the occurrence is esti mated at 150/. The event has given rise to a variety of alarming reports about an "earthquake," &c., but we have to state the real nature of the incident as:above.—Hereford Times. MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT — Two LIVEIt - LOST.—On Sundsy last, between twelve and one o'clock, the; following fatal accident occurred on the river Thames, between , Tilbury Fort and Gravesend. The ferry-boat belonging to Mr. Creed, of the World's End Ferry , Tilbury Fort, left the , jetty at the latter place in the charge of two men, named. ; Bailey and Howard, having two passengers. The sail was, made fast, and a sudden squall upset the boat about three- . quarters of a mile from shore. The accident was observed on' shore, and the boatmen of Gravesend vied with each other in their efforts to reach the spot, but before any assist ance could be afforded,. Bailey and Howard, who were: dressed in fishermen's heavy boots and linen petticoat-trou-- sers, were seen to relax their hold of the boat and sink, The, passengers were, however, taken up, but in an exhausted state, and conveyed to the Three Daws public-house, at Gravesend, where every attention was paid them, but only. faint hopes are entertained of their recovery. The tide was running up strong at the time of the accident. Both the men drowned were inhabitants of Gravesend and married, Bailey leaving a wife at present in her confinement, and three chil, dren wholly unprovided for. The bodies of the drowned men were not recovered last evening. ivi d, tivs on, th 'OP P laence ./f LP' t