The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-21 00:00:00

. • ~',.,(_, ___,/ -/, ._,, -2 ..-- .f 2 . at-e-6--e--ey / .._---- - ~, e__,.-- x. ,_ : . I II _~. ,~_~l/t/ 4s ---- - —,..., :i . t : : . : ii i A lo t 4 c l o - .litz.,, A At ; .4 . . . .. ,V 1 , . _ lll _ , 4r4t.joh, ' all! 41. 44' og . T.4;,!.,4,vz.5-: L-i4.7 .,, 004,1: -' vti , fr#›..4%.) .• ,_. ~..__ A - - , ...0.• , S ~.. , *e ..- .'_: :WV' % ' - A ; ' • •344t,' t) , Igt ` '''....- ": %. . 4 ''.>•artaithis .\..'"*.' r' ' , ' l r '' ' .i '4 ', i . i ' '' ' . S.• " *-4 ' . '- . 1.1 ..,':..., AO" lii ~/ said there FrNATIONAL ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. ILE WEEKLY MEETING of the LEAGUE Will be held in the THEATRE ROYAL COVENT-GARDEN, TO-MORROW EVENING, May 22. Ths Chair will be taken precisely at HALF-PAST SEVEN O'CLOCK. The meeting will be addressed by Mark Phillips, Esq., M.P. ; t ",?rfro Thompson, Esq. ; an d o th er gentlemen. T__uards of admissi on may b e had on application at the Offices of the ngue, on Monday and Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and MAT ceel oc k . CO Mo Plnd ay lcation , for Private Boxes to be made personally or by letter The grads of registered Members will admit, as heretofore, to Pit kid Galleries. DOORS TO BE OPENED AT SEVEN O'CLOCK. o roner for igation. at , touchni.g t, the wie Saloon is committed her disco' er life, si No. 16,151. LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING SU N, MAY 21, 1844. PRICE sd. THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING a t FIVEO'CLOCK, i n Ti me for th e EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time 'or the AFTERNOON TRAINS and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARI and all other NEWS in LONDON wp to that Hour. THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION _ COMPANY'S splendid and p ower thl f i rs t- c l ass STEAM -16 - 1 13 are appointed to leave LONDON for— BAMBURGII and ROTTERDAM, carry i ng h er Ma j esty ' s Mails --Every Wednesday and Saturday Morning. . ANTWE RP — From Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall—Every Thur.-/eV at Twelve, Noon. UTlLE—Every Sunday, at Eight, Morniag. From London Brid ge Wh ar f , f or — OBTIIN D— X 0 P.very Wednesday and S a t ur d ay M orn i ng. I TLOGNX—Every Thursday and Saturday Morning. CALAIS — Every Thursday and Sunday Morning. 1111 LL—Every Tuesday and Frida, at Eight, Morning. YARMOUTII=Every Saturday, at y Six, Evening. ItARS GATE—DaiIy, at Half-past Nine. BUIXBURGH—From Brown's Wharf, Poplar, every Saturday Lid every alternate Wednesday, May 25, and 29, at Ten Evening. From Down's Wharf, Reduced Fares, for— 'Ong. EWCABTLB—Every Wed nes d ay and Saturday , at Eight, Eve 111UNDERLAND—Bvery Tuesday, at S eve n, E ven i n g. Between B RIGHTON and DIEPPE, every Wednesday and Sit .(l4Y. Wednesday, 22d, at half-past Three Afternoon. BRIGHTON and HAVRE—Every Tuesday and Friday. POVER and BOULOGNE—May 22, 24,26, and 28. itit., To saws Berths, ibr Freight, and for Bills, containing hours of a r t t nr et; s fares, &e., apply at the ()tikes, 69, Lombard-street ; 37, eus ; And 35, Leadenhall-street. .---...—......_______ TARLi . 1," A C K E T S.—GRAVESEND and • • LONDON, By way of the BLACKWALL RAILWAY. • EIGIITPENCE THROUGHOUT. BOAT AND RAIL INCLUDED. vin i r ront e the. Terrace Pier, Gravesend, Morning, Seven, Half-past 4 : tr uu r rn iin ra sw n i , ck Ti li t li ve r: g ' ancl Half past Twelve' Afternoon, Two, Four, Six, and Seven. rrioliiirla,cskizall, Morning, Ten, Eleven, and Twelve; and Half-past Seven. Al lernoo Y n, Ffrootmir, and SPYOII GsTra.vesend, Morning, Seven, and Half-past Nine ; braadliltltwaall, Morning, 'fen and Eleven ; Afternoon, Three, Front the 0 - 1 1 :a vlt Sevill. Star o fn _ - hades Pier above London-bridge, Daily at Nine. .v, Gravesend, M ' ay 17, 1844. GuAnk NTEE SOCIETY. BEcttirrttabit3hm , A.. ~ V * Act of Parliament. -,,,, I ''.•••Nr for the FIDELITY of PERSONS in . aru m , SIT!, ~ - - , JATION - 4,6f TRUST. rOitit r y, b et " M a_ he obtained daily, -' at the Society's Office, No. 28, vreen the hours of Nine and Five o'clock. AI Aeasm. Ne ee" aa r ' G ' X drrarda and Son Bristol. sJ. H. and G. Ridsdale . .Lcods. 14tesses. Hughes and Ronald ... ..... Liverpool. I;Arr. Nathaniel Lea .. . . ..... Birmingham. 1:r. Samuel Taylor .. :. ::..... . Manchester. Mr . H. Ca11ender........ Edinburgh. IIY order, THOMAS DODGSON, Secretary. BiIIIPLOYMENT.—Persons having a little time to Fip a , nd o , - v are apprised that Agents continue to be appointed in ac e ~,kan.d. oonntry towns, by the East India Tea Company, for the The celebrated teas. Th -- '' IC o• 9, Great St. Ilelen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate-street. --e3" hum O re Packed in showy leaden canisters, from one ounce to a M t With the price and weight marked on each at, and but ot,_ treab h „ I . occasioned by the sale. The license pa c kl . lls per IlidZ u. and. many during the last nineteen years have realisedcon -wable i. . -.comes by the agency without one shilling let or loss. .................____,‘Pplication to be made (if by letter post paid) as above. CITY OF LONDON FASHIONABLE La nd -.' 41LORING ESTABLISHMENT, 52, King William-street, ‘.. on -bridge. .„Ressra. 1, ..URCII and LUCAS, Tailors, &c., late J. ALBERT, re "Y`terall i Families of the largest 4 44 be 3' invite Gentlemen and Coats, e_ stco ating of the m os t nove l d es i gns, Cachmeretts for Summer aYery . . e : ?c c., for the p resen t season. The style of cut and make of 110„„ertrment are guaranteed equal to the first and most expensive ttli:j at , t he West-end, a n d f or cas h payments a sav i ng of 40 per th,4 11, be effected, and will be f oun d t o th e wearer muc h c h ea p er a t firle a , einfer ior garments made up by puffing slop-sellers . andhosiers, a re to astonish and delude the public, which description of goods ...nrely excluded frost this establishment. , 52, King William-str ee t, City, Established 1818. --• . ar ke assortment o f Summer Over-Coats ready made. RAGASIN de la NOUVEAUTE de la VILLE iii ve ,, do PARIS, No. 174, RUE :MONTMARTRE, near the for% ~a rd . in I'aris. These magnificent and extensive Warehouses iwh.,.., the Most splendid MAG ASIN de NOUVEAUTE which has yet ereas tablished 'in l'aris, and m - ust arrest the attention of tra tissue I nf ,. come from all parts of the world. It contains every ti e b 1 of French manufactures, beautiful silks, elegant cachmeres, !IDeeti a :.. . and every other rare material, each of which has its re silk 4,._7 counter. General articles, such as linens, chintzes, muslins, ear,,',.° 'lvoollen damasks for curtains, - prints, hosiery, mourninfs, ra,rin _lite., have also their distinct department, Each articletisfac tiOn l ," a fixed price, and anything which does not give sa I, arriv e I` . be, e xehattged, or the money returned. Foreigners t% o Acimire t heris should not fail visiting this elegant establishment, to that a g , n_, Progress made in our manufactures, and acknowledge *ill 41,...`"P4a1 in Europe can compete with it in splendour.. Ladles rule oiscover several beautiful articles which have obtained the Well 6e to he exhibited in the galleries of the Champ Elysees, as reeta. — 'any others which have not been exhibited for want of .....,.._ F ~, I OR STOPPING DECAYED TEETH. -a ct , 'Btd Price4s. 6d. Nir. ' ~.._ hy b h ,. e ,„ r 3 taiesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and i.,.. ~,.,-!ryal Highness the Duchess of Kent. rib: for STOPPING SUCCEDANEUM, et i -v• it u s DECAYED TEETH, however large the dote:r P1)1%"; I ,, lft ee (l in the tooth in a soft state, without any pres -414— .1:1;11 :futllfr:;ilel remain Ilrm in the tooth for many years, ren- Perg ona 4111 u nnecessary, arresting the further progress of . decay. Mr. ' homas's Succedaneum themselves with th ra Pere,' old etions are enclosed. l I M -1 1tre, t Y 11 Y Mr. Thomas, Surgeon-Dentist, 64, Berners-street, tetit r,... Price 4s. 6d.; and can be sent free by post. hot r " Sek... ad ", continues to supply the loss of teeth on his new sys ratio:l4ire h a iloll , without springs or wires. This method does Whatta,._eitraction of any teeth or roots, or any painful ope- Plph,... '`. At home from eleven till four. 4'". t AND 11 -,,''" PRINCE ALBERT'S PATTERN PLATE. ..„, so ' SAVORY and SONS, Nlanufacturing pattip— , ,.---ib — „ ln n..itlig, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of ' 4 .6 h _s - atte n ; `'t 4 4 Wrought SILVER SPOONS and FORKS, 44 0 e '''' otu k 4 e ' 4 . Id. per ounce ; the Prince Albert's . Pattern, , T h price b ., • The articles may he had lighter or heavier, at the al, te,Pidaj,: ( ....nce ;_... S l e TeSp ot ;„' ...._°z• s. d. X. s. d i Prince Albert's. ea. s. d. X. s.d. la , I, aert d ." o oat 7 2...10 15 012 Table Spoons 40at7 6...15 0 0 ll sabl e p I tto 20 7 2 bi... ork, ... 7 34 12 Dessert ditto 26 7 6...__ 9_ 15 9 2 op"sort c no 7 2..,,10 IS 0;14 Table F orts 40 7 6...15 ot; 1 S‘;',„4/3' Sp ans r 7 2... 734 12 Dessert ditto 26 7 6... 915 S.' , Likii 7 2... 3 11 8. 2 Gravy Spoons 12 7 6... 4 11 0 4 te dip! 1 0 7 2... 31881 1 Soup 1 1 3 ,5 1 Sn.. ''' 10 1 2 ..- 41 1 4 n s (gilt 7 8... 316 8, 4 Sauce ditto 12 8 9... 416 0 r ft le e.. strong) 1 0 0 1. 4 Salt . Spoons (stroriggilt) 22 0 1 4; , s 8 lioo n :••••• ..... . .... 2 10 0 1 Fish Slice 3 10 0 T A; .ne a - r ',, 1 0 .. 7 g... 3168 12 Tea Spoons 14 8 0... 512 0 '' 4,7 4 . 4 1 , - „ .. "ge 0 15 Oi 1 Pair Sugar Tongs 1 5 0 - fty d ov e and Sens recommend the Prince 'Albert's pattern. C ''f.id of unexampled beauty. IT SUNTIDE HOLIDAYS. ... Prepare, prepare, your Summer v, , 'car, • For Whitsuntide is advancing And HYAM'S Clothes beyond compare, Are all of them entrancing' His fashions matchless are, and gay, Well worthy this efflison, Well suited tor this Holiday, And in a great profusion One visit will repay you well, And prove to demonstration, k T hat he d oes most o f al l exce l , , t th , lii this, or other Nation. tetliii4t'leitent festive season of Whitsuntide, when all are in full regQ tink7f!",.ivity, happiness, and pleasure, one of thteonaisos. due erns 1, ,ioti tions for really snaking that event compl f e ,tery ay v , h, tr., th hl og, and P. is a fact, which the . events c,.. d 1.0 5 t "rill 4 there is no house in London, without exception, but tra, l i'll, an a l a nee give way to L. HYA M, 36, prtaocenichacthairsitrteLti tli'sspiiall:;BrZ9n:_k..7% lint ever p sensey c aovfetal„)heroaini word, ged stich a magnißcent Lily placed him, he , Of Ci o ii , l n i g y h a i s si , i n ri t t id e ll Holidays, eflts out of the question. Gent ILe s n a of high renown, Tnere their utmast wishes crown. • ~,Lidi e s t oo it does behove, P arents, Call their Habits to improve. yarents, bring your children too. Hussars an i funks there to view, ti ~ . ti , Rich and young, old an d poor , '' ail 1,,. i AN ! 1 ' m=ousse h is sp l en did s t oic . e. s ini ri n . ' 4 ft rer t ple r in announcing that, having made iirni `o in .6 Purchase • asu e, th Public are respectfully soli 4, ~..._l5ll, h .,, h COMO, t?, e 1... A 4 50 , 7 e.„t. ~.,,,tock, which is the most extensive in London, -ot ~ cont.,now any other House. ' Lir.. cooing a list of,prices, can . be had on application, er tir mi _ 9 a nV Part of the United Kingdom. hanetuSharn 3 R 1r NCH ESTABLISHMENTS. t I.i, 'ftter 12A3e'v'str ect* 2 Wine-street. Bristol, , t, ti m _ ;,,, .arket-strect. 1 6, Union-street. bb ,eet, ' and Gr k %rv, th 65 , Lord- Leeds, 9, Briggate. Glasgow, 12S, Argyle-street. "I 'ttteh e ila rrle and Address—L. lIYAM, Pantechnetheca,36, -street, City. .N, A b LHEM AII LE-8 MEET, PICCADILLY. ' v s'lV L A , ~st GHT AND HEARING. '''o AIp.,36",b,INVENTED SPECTACLES, TE h , U n' IC -- / .. v .- t'S__. OPERA GI ASSES MICROSCOPES Ps tr i s oised r: '`.STRIJ al ENTS for R ' ELIEF'of DEA rN ESS,.&c. Ij i teriv l's r i'„Y iris Majesty: the King of Hanover, her Royal High. 174the;zY. the Ash Sophia, her Serene Highness the Princess kry Cheesy ' rrineesses Mary and Rosa, her Grace the Dowage "u il tilt bi,% 9l.° td, and their 'Graces the Archbishop of Canter_ 9 w r i i , l 4 la l lefte r : , i ' l l Devonshire, Norfolk, Argyll, Marlborough, fa Ai ne, , arquises ot Londonderry anti Thomond. Earls ' 4 ,1 ; , V,,. .ietown, Shaftesbury. I ankerville, Po wis, Bradford, NO l 'hirr ula to Hat t, , c irk n e. m., ,, . rewhy, Buckingham, Meath, homers, 0 . x.. I n - 14 1.1 I , Zl i , h , o Ferrer,. Bishops of Exeter,. Bland ford, lan- IT' 1i,, 9 ", 1i . ,,,,T , Kildare. Generals Sir Edward Pager, , S , i i r . .Ohi r wiott, I R -~ene Moister, Clayton, Galway , . Grosvenor, Morrie It' t tite, 55 e I;bertson, and Mackenzie. Major-Generals H. O r ton 4 ,, r it.0.,.,' Flers, D. ',lacteal, Hamilton, and W _. Y-_. ern A.oir 1 . , ",",itls Sir Henry Bouverie, Sir J. Macdonald, Cock. It. -a m 4l 4 1 1)S .' - ' d a1,i14, Lord J hn Hay. Admirals Sir George . Cock. -.: 1 v v '' -"Hie. D. John Hay. Admirals Sit George Cock_ tfle, Sir George Munday , Sir G. Martin, Sir toorirs. S, .„''Pherl, Sir D. r Cold and Ross al'ett t ,reet -- j; C. S OLOMO ' NS ' Opticians and Aurists, 39, Alhe. . 1 4_ 41e 12,yetadilly fl ' po •t ' ' the York Hotel, have invented ii 44lt el y ! b elle - :,: 5 ., &C.: of P th ' e i g e reatest transparent power. Imme- Ji, ll 4„.unk rf ;;Y, iY invented Spectacle Lenses are placed before ex. 'Act Ofhie,'" vision, either by day or candle-light, that mis a d siogtreornesaPPear betore the eyes are at once removed, every sigh at tie d, ~e : ,,e a r and distinct, vision becomes preserved and mane 4 n tis , rutii',...,!ery aged people are enabled to employ their -" iess"".iute occupati n, and can see with those Lenses t I t i ,''' th e furthe7gP,Ying power, nor will they require the frequin h"'tentit'l;iost a ze - d ",e'N. as tke Spectacle t now in common use, so 1.4'4 a, 'to it * l roPer feet sight becomes bright and brilliant,.and IN ,eornwie,Youthful, natural, and original state ; those objects ~,All4l . l o ed, ' le tt 15 a matter ot much deeper consequence than can :vEli l ,'Yls ~r „ lie4l i • '). whi,"LewlY invented INVISIBLE ACOUSTIC FICSTBU. n. r r i t l Y y.4,,;:i enable i ndividirals at. au advaneed age, and of . forty hoii.,,k,er ens::,,..7B.7thdeinagtrtei: &extreme deafness, instantly . fo join in t,, .t chtn eh ) P , and t o catch the sound of a distnnt low Al " I n veil: " eXtent that in most severe I fi l ' l Si "€ ' toost cases conversation dearness n the not et h tti, ~,,,,,ltowerful Newly-in vented ACHROMATIC OPERA ....Th i 'tre , &c ”:eo are invaluable on the race-course, as well as at ',,T,:vt Tee, r 0. 1 _ , r0,. l's f„ os ur .the waistcoat-pocket possess extraordinary 44 r, tra ns ob,"" t i!iff. sea purposes, Ac . ; and w , th stands for Sk!the insoar,,,'iriviTtions, with the celebrated Lenses of the most " ti t suss! so briglhainc44the powers are so great over all o o th im er t s ; tpt,trt.„lell,ovz,vtidista4ce brilliant, thatthcmos minutemost objects Tour, completely tr Sln tie . , and Sea -side Visitors will here have a great der the eyes. t h. bi 94 ( "AM , Csrn. i orl nr a p,'und ICROSCOPES, by which the circulation 141 t , ~nfr.,,4e..riY il.tl a Flea can be seen flowing in great streams. v,4 4 .0,,, y , w.” . co n ,4•2trid R. Solornons, Opticians and Aurists, are , Abit stteighbour,:eflwith a Person of the same Name in thei ''' l nia,l:" o4_ l ). , ( . :,,Z ,,4 n z t a n an t 3: part of the coun b try ita, lo at s.- " Piccadilly: opposiutt g r ei " ori o r n ifot t ei. e ' II i 4 ....-___________ B nLTIt N' S ANTI-DOLORIC OIL. \-1 pp , °u T O mr" PAR,I's PROM MEDICAL DISPENSARIES. he '4:4lr cii''IBLIIN—Mi-r, I have great pleasure in informing ttil44_ ;it r,,,bil,!,nnich recommended and highly approved of here, by ,:e r „ et ':l7, :who all tell me it is the best thing of the kind they '1 Gout,turiti„ntl.,ll,and.is sought after as a sovereign remedy incases ~ NC., &c. —I am very respectfully yours, k etlicm v,. "STEPHEN WHITE. eluitth etri;,",„", IPensry, 77, King's road, Brighton March 3, 1843." iN t i t's by RC* PhYsielan, who was-suspended from his professional ti 4 t ki of b eurriatic Gout, in a few hours obtained such relief, that, t tasist,2l:g lifted in and out of his carriage, he could leave it with i oc or i n i 1,,.. t , ri e .' Atr, c . ~,. ~ " Hereford, Ledbury, Oct. 21, 1843. • sajec o at vv`'?.URN.--Sir, Mr. Bridges, a surget.n of considetable 1, 1 - C Itheuth 5"1.1 Begard, was for some time so very much afflicted h e, ilit At,..tisrn, as to he unable to sit on horseback ; having heard hi,...ay, ~,trotici:iloric Oil, he vras determined to give it a fair trial, and 14s.tet Well. t he of one 4s. Lottle, he was astonished to find , it ,_,,pe has since purchased several bottles of me, and has irlent ( ~,,i 7 ,_ luny in hi/4 private practice. He is now trying it on a 4trord jr)'2,,Pinrospect, of success) who has been discharged from the 1 e sary as incurable. I remain, yours &c., *. J. S. BAGSTER." 4 jo 1,, 1 ,: d 1t for Cabburn's Oil for the cure of Rheumatism. „Cwt.. 1 1 , a, Most Patent Medicine Vendors, in bottles, 211 . 9d., t i P 11 41 0 '4. 141, 1 225. ' 4 / 4 1 " ma) 1181 be seen In the Shipping Gesette,7(xt Wed ,j Jr le Pi hod, esr" u se'cop. Wh e y'd ip t are , r 0?! . 0‘ thell t )rtn ig. In th e n er kn [ on Pri a roun ho t red te tela e wr r aci ke es : 0 0 wa11" a t . u tti by e „if P el ,he otlt ver, oil Lich soe 00 )isper• d to la to' at ttii~ r d ;ed thr° quan tit9 SSeIS I° o o 111 0 $ 1 cA ffo tj is' su f matte sio°' v hitL e l( tha t r " r pot' _ the ail el l .1 4 6 e bs J - h U n 1 t Of tole° 0 10 • co l 0 6 • a , 1 011, ,c9 0 ;e sli ank of 11 " A BbS ell of je) abU 0 ,110 0 bij kelY that Age lirh ere. ; I to to t ° ver r. nvTvo t; 0 PO' lbe yt Ilext" . ; 1 0 0 y so. 1 th e C°' 1 ;00 00 1801' ' 1;0' trio f sro de, d ,n- 6(11"' rife lag ,ibter daub 11% . , °` i erf r b l9l i f b 1 I.o°l ° Jl !ote c : 0 0- int voll; - kiato 2 4 * 01 ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED i n ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY •CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. WEST LONDON RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that the WEST LONDON RAIL WAY COMPANY will be OPENED for public traffic MI MONDAY NEXT, the 27th inst. Trains will start from the Kensington and Shepherd's Bush Stations, to meet corresponding Trains on the Lon don and Birmingham and Great Western Railways respectively, throughout that and the following days, of which due notice will be given by advertisement. JOHN THOMPSON, Secretary. (Vices, 11, Alichurch-lane, May 20, 1844. THE NEXT DISTRIBUTION OF MONEY DIVIDENDS AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by lIIS MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA contains Money Dividends of— £5O £6O £7O £SO £9O £lOO £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO £4OO £6OO £BOO £l,OOO £1,500 £5,000 and 23,000 sterling. This Distribution contains as many Dividends as Benda. Every Rond a Dividend! Smallett Dividend - - £5O Largest Dividend - - £23,000. Direct for Prospeatus, with Out particulars, without delay to HEINE BROTHERS, at Hamburgh.. Or to HEINE BROTHERS, at Lubeck. 31 ONEY.—GRAND DISTRIBUTION of 70,1701. sterling, authorised I.y his Imperial Majesty, and the Government of Austria, on the Ist JUNE NEXT, 'at Vienna. Highest Prize, 23,0001. ; Lowest 501. ; 700 Prizes. Apply fig• Prospectuses, to Messrs. F. E. Fuld and Co., bankers and receivers-general, Frankfort ; or, to save postage, at 26, Bouverie-, street, London, by letter only. Office hours from Twelve to Three. IMPERIAL. RUSSIAN•POLISH LOAN of 150,000,000 Florins (of 1835), IMPERIAL AUSTRIAN LOAN of 30,000,000 Florins (of 1839), guaranteed by their Majesties the Emperor of Austria and the Emperor of Russia. GRAND DISTRIBUTIONS AT WARSAW AND TIENNA. In the Russian-Polish Loan the following Dividends will be reim bursed:—One of 1,000,00011., one of 300,0009., two of 150,00011., six of 25,000f1., eight of 14,0009., &c., together 7,000 dividends, gaining 7,970,0009. Smallest dividend 75011., largest 1,000,00011. In the Anstritur:Loan 700 bonds will obtairt 701,100f1, in lots of -230,00011., 50,00011., 13,00011., 10,0009., &c. Smallest dividend 5009. 10 florins are equal to 1/. sterling, a trifle more or less, as per day's exchange. The prices are -1 Russian-Polish Scrip for £2 10 1 Austrian Scrip for .£3 0 4 do. do. do. 10 0 6 do. do. 15 0 9 do. do. do. 20 0 13 do. do. 30 0 Payable by bank notes, remittances, or drafts. Dividends reim bursable at Frankfort, Paris, London, or New York, at the option of the holders 71save postages, foreign subscribers may apply to his houses in Paris, New York, and at Mr. A. Schwarzr,child's, 1, Plough-court, Lombard street, London, by letter only. Prospectuses, with full particulars, and Lists cf the Distribution, promptly forwarded to every share holder abroad . J A. SCHWARZSCHILD Banker and Receiver-General. Frankfort-ou-lia hie, April, 1844 * 4 ,' , A Florin being 25., it follows that a fifth share at 12s. in the Austrian Government Distribution is relatively mush more valuable than one Red Bond in the private speculation of tho 25th. SALE BY SHARE S, OF TIIE FOLLOWING VALUABLE PROPERTIES: — I. A PRINCELY CHATEAU, with the Grounds and Ap purtenances belonging thereto, situate on the banks of the Lake of Geneva, Switzerland, valued at £32,000 2. A SPLENDID MANSION, and its Dependencies, situated in the town of Vevay, Switzerland, valued at .. 3. A FINE BATH HOTEL, and its Dependencies, with a very abundant Spring of Mineral Water, situated on the banks of the Lake of Geneva •.. Forming a Total (In 40,000 Shares of ,L 1 each) 0f...... £40,000 The kale will positively take place in the town *1 Sion, Canton of Valais, Switzerland, on the 16th of SEPTEMBER, 1844, whatever may be the number of Shares sold at that time. The value of the Shares sold will be deposited In the hands of Messrs. Rougemont, Brothers, London, until the transfer of the property to the new proprietors. For Shares, Conditions of Sale, Prospectuses, &c.; &c., apply, post paid, to Mr. Frederick Quin, General Agent for the United Kingdom, No. 25, Southampton-street, Strand ; or to Mr. Joseph Thomas, No. 1, Finch-lane, Cornhill, London. LONDON, EDINBURGII, and DUBLIN LIFE COMPANY, 3, Charlotte•row, Mansion-house, and 18, Chancery-lane, London. The indisputability of the policies granted by this Company; The obligation to pay the sum assured although the debt for which the policy was taken may have been paid before the claim arises; Whole-world policies not confined to the limits of Europe; Option of half-premium payment for the first seven years. These form a combination of advantages which can be obtained only from the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Life Company. ALEX. ROBERTSON, Manager. DISEASED AND IIEALTEIY LIVES ASSURED. MEDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL LIFE OFFICE. 25, PALL-MALL, LONDON. Capital, £500,000. - . This Office is provided with very accurately constructed Tables, by which it can ASSURE DISEASED LIVES on Equitablo Terms. The Extra Premium discontinued on restoration of the Assured to permanent health. INCREASED ANNUITIES granted on unsound Lives, the amount varying with the particular disease. Members of CONSUMPTIVE FAMILIES assured at Equitable Rates. _ . . HEALTHY LIVES are Assured at Lower Rates than at most other offices. Policies of twelve months' standing are not affected by Suicides, &c. ; and Assigned Policies are valid from the date of the Policy should death ensue from any of these causes. F. G. P. NEISON, Actuary. QELLING OFF, CARPETS, CHINTZES, ►►77 SILK and WORSTED DAMASKS, TABOURETS, and CA BINET FURNITURE. LUCK, KENT, and CUMMING, of No. 4, Regent-street, opposite Messrs. 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As I have an objection to see my name in print, I beg you will not publish it; but you are at liberty to show this letter, or make any other use you please cf it, and re er applicants to me, necessary, in proof of the efficacy of your Macassar Oil. Your obedient servant ROWLAND'S MACASSAIt OIL preserves and renroduces the Hair; prevents it from falling .ir or turning Grey; Changes Grey Hair to its Original Colour ; frees it from Scurf and Dandruff, and makes it beautifully so't and curly. Price 3e. 6d.,75., Family bottles (equal to 4 small), 10s. 6d., and double that:siZe. 21s. CAUTION—Each genuine bottle has the words ROWLAND'S MACASiAR OIL engraved in two lines on the Wrapper; anion the back of the Wrapper nearly 1,5 11 0 times, eentaining ::9,02S letters. Sold by the Proprietors, A Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton-garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfumers. Be sure to ask for .• Rowland's" Macassar Oil. All others are Fraudulent Counterfeits! !! LAIR'S GOUT and RIIEUAIATIC PILLS. The decided superiority of this Medicine over every other itherto offered to the public for the cure of those dreadfully painful diseases, gout, ifteumatic gout, rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, &c , is so fully manifested by the increasing sale, and the testimony of thousands in every rank of life, that those who are aware of the ex isten of such a remedy, and have not availed themselves of trying its efficacy, cannot truly be objects of sympathy. The testimonials of the astonishing effects of this medicine are universally accompanied by the fact that no inconvenience of any sort attends its administra tion, but that the patient, without feeling the operation of the medi cine, is universally left in a stronger and better state of health than experienced previous to being aftlic'ed with this disease; and in all cases of acute suffering great relief is experienced in a few hours, and a cure is generally effected in two or three days. Sold by Thomas Front, 229, Strand, London ; and, by his app Ant "lent ,by all respectable Medicine Vendors throughout the United Kingdom. Pace 2s. NI. per box. Ask for BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe the name and address of " Thomas Front, 239, Strand, London , " impressed upon the Government &amp affixed to each Box of the Genuine Medici.. PUBLIC NOTICE. 434, OXFORD-STREET. TO - „SHIPPERS, OWNERS, CAPTAINS, AND OTHERS. Copies of Testimonials, Gratis, by all Agents. GRIMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF.—Under the Patronage of his late Majesty, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and the Lords 01 the Treasury, is universally re commended by the Faculty for its efficacy in removing disorders ncident to the Eyes and Fiend. SIGHT RESTORED !—NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE AND DEA b NESS CURED! By the most simple, delightful, and fra rant Compound! Its mode of application is fraught with pleasure; many thousand cures have been accomplished by its use, at a trilling expense, yet certain in its operation. If testimonies be necessary to induce the sufferer to make trial, Kings, Lords, and Commons have used it. rise Lords of the reasut y have sanctioned its use. Their late Ma esties, the Duchess of Kent, the most eminent Oculists, Medical Practitioners--with that gigantic balance, the Press—have eulogised Grimstone's celebrated Herbaceous Compound, known as "Grim. stone's Eye Snuff," for its efficacy in removing all diseases incident to the Eyes and Head. G. J. Guthrie , Esq., F.R.S. See .1. B. Lach field, F.sq.'s Letter, Whitehall. Dr. Thomas. Dr. Andrews calls it a national blessing —see his Reports touching its utility. The late Mr. Abernethy, with many others, recommend Grimstone's Eye Snuff, and call it " Man's best Friend," and the "Student's Vade Mecum." Fee the many thousand letters of Testimonies, of un doubted medical authority, with other s of the fi rs t respec tability. Nottingham, Aug.2B, 184 t This extraordinary cure is attested by Mr. James Wilcockson, Foreign Snuff and Cigar Merchant, Nottingham. to Mr. W. Grimstone. Sir, I feel great pleasure in sending you the particulars •f my case, and the miraculous cure performed on myself, by using your truly valuable Eye-Snuff. Sir, I am now in my ninety-third year, and a native of Holland, have been in this country twenty-six years. Whether from change of climate, or my advanced age, I cannot say, but for six years I hare been deprived of sight, there fore unable to fol:ow my business. Ido most sincerely believe I should have remained in dareness and pain but for the kind recom. mendation of a friend to use your invention. 1 purchased a 2s. 4d. canister of your Agent, Mr. Wilcockson, tobacconist, who knows the above to be facts, and wit hear witness to my extraordinary recovery of that most inestimable blessing of our life—. Perfect Sight"—l declare has proceeded from the use of your Eye Snuff. For the sake of tho , e suffering, you may make what use you please of this letter ; Mr. Wilcockson and many others will vetch for its truth. 1 refer the sufferers to this gentleman, being your Agent, and so wellknown in Nottingham. I am, Sir, your obliged servant, Aug. IN, 1841. ANNNIS ZENIA MASSENIA. I'.S.—Sir,-1 should not de you justice without stating my relief was almost instantaneous. My eyes became clear and free from humour, and by persevering in its use very frequently, I am enabled to read small print without the aid of glasses, and continue to enjoy God's blessing—Sight! free from pain I have reason to be grateful, and do recommend your Eye Snuff to all 1 Know. Nottingham. A. Z. M. Observe the Caution—W. GRIMSTONE is the sole inventor, and the only genuine is prepared by bins. This Odoriferous Herbacer us Compound of Herbs is sold in canisters, at 83., Is. Id., is. Id., 4s. 4d., Bs., and 15s. (Id. each, by the Proprietor, W. (iRIMST'JNE, at No. 434, Oxford-street , Totten nain-ceurt-road end (late of No. :9, Broad-street, Bloomsbury), and at the Herbary, Highgde ; and , can also be obtained in all the principal Towns and Cities A liberal allowance to Shippers Owners, Captains, and all Vendors of Grimstone's Eye Snuff. Psis celebrated Snuff is shipped to all quarters of the globe, and retains its benign qualities in every climate All Snuffs and Cigars shipped on the shortest notice. lIERIJAR Y, filekiOATE. ETTERS of CREDIT on BOMBAY.—The UNION BANK of LONDON having been appointed AGENTS for the BANK of WESTERN INDIA, are authorised to receive sums not exceeding 5001., to be accounted for ht Bombay, in rupees at the exchange of the day. By order of the Directors, W. W. SCRIMGEOUR, Manager. Union Bank of London, No. 5, Moorgate-street. . ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, TRAFAL GAR. SQUARE. The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY is now OPEN. Admission (from Eight o Clock till SeTee) One Shilling. Catalogue One Shilling. HENRI' 'TOWARD, R.A., See MUSIC or FRANCE. Without Extra Charge to the Public, at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC ISSTITUTION. The Directors have engaged Mr. C. E. HORN, to deliver A SERIES of LECTURES on the MUSIC of EIGHT different NATIONS. The MUSIC of FRANCE commences on the 20th instant, and will he continued during the week, on Monday, Wednes day, and Friday Evenings, at Eight o'clock ; And on Tuesday, Thurs day, and Saturday,' at Three o'clock, with VOCAL and INSTRU MENTAL ILLUSTRATIONS.. All the other LECTURES and EXHIBITIONS as usual. LONGISOTTOM'S PHYSIOSCOPE and OPAQUE MICROSCOPE. NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS, ARM STRONG'S lITDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE, &e. Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price. GENERAL TOM THUMB (for a few days longer), the American Dwarf, under the especial patronage of her Majesty and the Royal Family, exhibiting every Day and Evening, previous to visiting Paris, in CATLIN'S spacious INDIAN GALLERY, EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly, from Eleven to One, Half-past Two to Five, and from Seven to Nine o'Clock, giving illustrations of Napoleon, the Grecian Statues, Singing, Dancing, &c. This wonderful man in miniature weighs only FIFTEEN POUNDS, and is smaller than any infant that evtr walked alone. 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Translated from the German of L. TIECK, by Madame BURETTE. D. Nutt, Fleet-street; Williams and Norgate, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. Just published, price 4s. fid., in boards, •• THE ANGLICA N CHURCH the CREA TURE and SLAVE of the STATE : being the Refutation of certain Puseylte Claims advanced on behalf of the Established Church : in a Series of Lectures delivered before the Academy of the Catholic Religion, by the Rev. P. COOPER, of the Church of the Conception, Dublin ; Prebendary, &c. London : C. Dolman, 61, Bond-street ; Dublin : .T. Cumming. THE REV. T. WILSON'S CATECHISMS. Just published, price 9d., THE CATECHISM OF MUSIC. By W. A. WORDSWORTH, Esq., Also, New Editions of the following Catechisms, by the Rev. T. Wilson Price 9d. each. First Lessons in Natural Philosophy. Second Lessons in Natural Philosophy, Third Lessons In Natural Philosophy. First Catechism of Common Things. Second Catechsim of Common Things. Third Catechism of Common Things. Catechism of Bible History. 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THIS PHYSIOLOGY OF THE PASSIONS. " There are passions grateful to the breast, And yet no friend to life : perhaps they please Or to excess, and dissipate the soul, Or while they please, torment." Elegant pocket edition (20 engravings) price Is. , b y p ost Is. 6d. THE PHYSIOLOGY OP THE PASSIONS, their Purport and Control. On Chastity, its abuses and diseases arising therefrom—on Marriage ; its duties and denials—on infeli citous and unproductive unions.—Law of Divorce, &C. By It. J. CULNE.RWELL, M.D., Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, &c. " But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite ; and in one fate, Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend." Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Mann, 39, Cornkill ; and the Author, 21 Arundel-street, Strand. At home, daily, till - Two ; evenings, Seven till Nine. LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c. 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" The various positions of Lover, Husband, and Parent, the in herent privileges of mankind, ate frequently marred and prevented through the follies and frailties of early indiscretions. To such, among others, this Essay addressee itself; and by its perusal many questions may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of ne appeal even to the most confidential friend."—Stafford Gazette. " The design of this work will be tolerably obvious from its title, and we cordially recommend the author and his book to all who are suffering from nervous debility and general weakness."—Wakefield Journal. Published by the Author, and sold in London by S. Gilbert, 51 and 52, Paternoster-row; Starie, 23, Tichbome-street, Quadrant, Regent street; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford - street; N o bl e , 114, Ch a n cer y- Line; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; and by all Booksellers. At home every day till '1 hree, and from Five til Eight. THE ALBERT DOCK AT LIVERPOOL.—The work at and surrounding this dock, under the able superintendence of the clock surveyor, is now proceeding with almost incre dible rapidity. The warehouses are several stories high, and the form of the dock itself can now be distinctly seen. WILL Or VISCOUNT SIDMOUTTL—The will and cocicil of the late Henry Addington Viscount Sidmouth, have just been proved in Doctors'-commons by Thomas Grimston Bucknall Estcourt, Thomas Hoskins, and William Townsend, Esqrs. The will is dated in 1841, and gives nearly the whole of his property to his son Leonard Addington (now Viscount Sidmouth); to Earl Powis, "the full-length por traits of :George the. Third and Queen Charlotte," and the remainder of his pictures, which are considered one of the finest collections, including many of the old masters), to his son. To valet, butler, housekeeper, footmen, grooms, and a host of other domestics, legacies varying from 51. to 2001. The codicil is dated as lately as 1843. The personal property is sworn under 35,000/. After a very few unimportant legacies, he gives the residue of his property to his son. We are able to announce that Sir Hugh Pigot, Knight, C 8., K.C.H., Rear Admiral of the White, has been appointed to the command of the Particular Service Squa dron, Rear Admiral Bowles having been appointed one of the Lords of the Admiralty. Sir Hugh entered the Royal Navy Ist May, 1788 ; wa.9 made Lieutenant 12th November, 1794 ; Commander 29th April, 1802 ; was posted Bth May, 1804; and hoisted his flag as Rear Admiral 10th January, 18.37. The record of his services rendered is that, whilst in com mand of a frigat e i n th e W est I n di es, i n 1809, h e capture d ir isitlirg surrendered. ..1 s anon , He,i t ; al the the island frigateonsdteofar M e ariagalante, and assisted at the taking of the distinguished wa3a u lso nit p e r d ese S n t t a ‘ e himselfi.e—nStates.—United Service the activity a t n tpolt, 74, French Gazette. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. 7RO)t THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—Church -rates continue to supply matter for expensive, and we will add, disgraceful litigation. Several cases, which have recently been uublished in the daily journals, are calculated to diminish the influence which the national Establishment ought to exercise, with salu tary effect, upon public opinion, and the confidence which ought to be felt in the impartiality of the authorities who administer the law. We have invariably employed our efforts to induce the members of t Established Church and the dissid en t s f rom h er creed and worship, to unite in an application to the Legislature for an altera tion in the law, which is unhappily so fruitful in oc casions of expensive and injurious strife. We have less hope than ever of effecting amicable arrangements between the belligerents. But the dispute—which appeal" interminable, if its termination is allowed to rest upoN a compromise between the advocates for and opponeitt of the existing system—produces a state of things with which the Legislature ought to interfere for the purpose of applying a remedy. A law which would place the repara tion of the structures upon the taxation of the country, and compel the members of the Established Church to provide what is requisite for the performance of public worship in the churches, according to the rites and ceremonies of her liturgy, wo d remove this constantly arising cause of parochial rife. In many li n parishes the expense in curre d b y li t i ga has amounted to More than the entire amount of t rate which oc casioned the altercation and-the subsequent legal pro ceedings in the Courts. This was the case in the still unterminated Braintree church-rate dispute. There the costs—which were eventuallycast upon the parish, or rather upon the churchwardens, owing to the rate being pronounced invalid—would have built a new church from the foundation. Two cases illustrative of the evil of church-rates, as now provided for, hare taken Owe within the last few days. The one was decided in the Court of Queen's Bench, on appeal from Sir H. Jenner Fust, the judge before whom the proceedings were brought, and the case decided in the Arches Court. The parties, " Francis and otbers," inhabitants of St. George Colegate, in the city of Norwich, were cited by Archdeacon Bathurst, to appear in that Court for refusing to join in making a church-rate. Archdeacon Bathurst, acting in concurrence with other Archdeacons in that diocese, actually instituted proceedings against these parties, and brought them into the " Court Christian," to answer " for having contumaciously obstructed, or at least refused to make, or join, or concur in the making, of a sufficient rate for the necessary repair of the church of the parish of St. George, Colegate, in the city of Norwich, they being parishioners of that parish, and liable, as such, to a rate for the repair of the church." Mr. Francis appeared to the citation ; and pleaded, by way of protest, that he had not been guilty of any ecclesiastical offence in the matters alleged against him. Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, after argument, decided that an ecclesiastical offence had been committed by Mr. Francis, in "refusing to make, or join, or concur in making, a church-rate.' A writ of prohibition was obtained in the Court of Queen's Bench; and Lord Denman delivered a judgment, remarkable for clearness, in which the judgment of Sir H. Jenner Fust ' was reversed, and all proceedings in the suit stayed. The power of vestry•meetings to refuse church rates was fully recognised. The expense of these pro ceedings must have been very ccleisiderable. This, how ever, is the least part of the mischief produced by such contests. Their influence upon the public mind with reference to religion generally, and to the Established Church in particular, is extensively injurious, and ought to be stayed. Another case of the same character and tendency was disposed of by the Judicial Committee of Privy Council, on appeal from a decision of the same Judge, on Thursday last. A churck-rate h a d b een ma d e in a vestry meeting, of the parish of Hornchurch, in Essex. Against the validity of this rate, Pigott, an in habitant of the chapelry of Itomford, alleged to be situate within the parish of Hornchurch, appealed, on various grounds. The Court of Arches decided against the party who impugned the validity of the rate. Pigott, who is a very poor man, had conducted his case in person. On the decision of the Court below being pronounced against him, h e a pp ea l e d t o the Judicial Committee, where he obtained the able assistance of Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Mellor. The deci sion of the Judge of the Ecclesiastical Court was re versed, and the whole proceedings quashed. The judg ment was given on only one ground. The Court, by Lord Brougham, who presided, stated that as the rate was manifestly bad on this ground, it was unnecessary to co into the others. Several hundred pounds have been spent in this litigation ; and materials 4or future litigation are suggested, of which par ties will avail themselves in fthare. If those who cling to the existing system refuse to be influenced by a love of peace, let them at least listen to the voice of prudence. The requirements of the law to give validity to a Church -rate are so numerous, and the probability that one or more errors will be detected, in any rate which may be disputed, so g rea t, tent almost every appeal brought against a rate is susxessfuly prose cuted. if the law expenses incurred in pro se cuting an d resisting appeals, andin enforcing payment of Church rates, were ascertained, it would go far to produce a desire for a final settlement of the question in those now most attached to the existing law, and most strenuous in maintaining it. STANDARD.—There is a homely English proverb, full of good sense, like most of our old English adages, which we think may be usefully remembered at this particular moment. The proverb is this, that " one ought not to cut his nose to vex his face." The principle conveyed in this simple suggestion is of great value in politics ; for in political transactions it is that men will be most frequently offended by the friends in whom they repose most confidence. It is not easy to find a single ques tion upon which even all men pursuing the same end will think alike, but to find a succession of such questions from year to year, is an utter impos sibility. Now, as in the conduct of public affairs the actors must ever constitute only a very small portion of the party to which they belong,_ it is very plain that these act ors must often give offence to many of those engaged with them in the same common cause ; but to resent this offence, not merely by war upon the persons who give it, but upon the principles of the party, is surely a plain case of "cutting the nose to vex the face." At present some honest men of the Conservative party, and a great many professing Con servatives who are not honest, are labouring to excite public indignation against her Majesty's Ministers. Now, of the honest Conservatives we would ask what must be the end of their success, supposing that they should succeed in runnir.g down Sir Robert Peel's Cabinet ? The question is a serious one, for they may suc ceed, if they persevere in the course that they are pursuing. Lord J. Russell, Lord Howick, &c., have already stripped off their Whig liveries, ready to take the reins as soon as they •shall be wrested from Sir R. Peel's hands, with a resolution, however, to put them on again as soon as they are settled upon the box. Let Conservatives only remember the facility with which the change was made in 1830 by the effect of Tory apathy or Tory aid, and the return that the Whigs made to them, and then think twice before they again "cut their noses to vex their faces," having now far less provocation than they had fourteen years ago. Do they want another ten years of Whig rule ? As Conserva tives, they must have some care for the institutions of the country. Do they wish to place these institutions once more at the mercy of Whig rulers, because it is surmised that the present Ministers, though greatly miti gating it, have not violently reversed the whole of the Whig policy (this is the complaint) will Conservatives consent to return to the arms of the Whigs? We speak here of the efforts made by honest men to run down her Majesty's Ministers, and N e wish broadly to mark the distinction between running down a Cabinet and voting against it, or advising others to vote against it. The first must, if successful, be always fatal to the party to which the Cabinet belongs. the other may, in many cases, augment the personal influence of Ministers, while it puti "them out of office for a moment, and it may' at the same time greatly exalt the character of the party to which the retiring Ministers belong. It is a great mistake that division in politics is weakness. An honest division of opinion, not fundamental, is much more frequently an accession of strength, because (+erecter is strength, in public opinion ; but compromise is always weakness—fur whether dishonest or not, 'it looks like honesty. We could have heartily de sired that upon the occasion of Lord Ashley's late proposition, every Member 'of the House of Commons had voted according to his osvii conscientious judgment, the effect of which would undoubtedly have been to leave the Ministry in a minority, and remove them for a mo ment from office ; but it would have been for a moment only. Without a dissolution of Parliament the Con servative majority would have insisted upon the resump tion of office by a Ministry that had achieved so much for the peace, the wealth, the prosperity, and safety of the country ; or with a dissolution, the present Conservative majority of 100 would have been about doubled, by reason of that very stand made for the la bouring classes by the Conservatiies In Parliament. Lord John Russell, Lord Howick, - and the other Whigs saw this, and they hedged, as the jockey's phrase is, in contemplation of the possible appeal to the country ; we will not give any more charitable con struction to their pirouette, because we do not find one of them offering amends to the memory of the great and good man who commenced the work of protection, and whom they persecuted for doing so—Michael Thomas Sadler the only man of whom we know anything that ever deserved to go before Lord Ashley. To have out-voted Ministers on the factory question would have done no harm, but a great deal of good, to the Conservative party; but what possible good can result to the Conservative interests from the attempt to run down the Conservative Cabinet —the best Ministry, too, that the country has had for half a century? Will abuse of Sir R. Peel's Govern ment tell in favour of a Conservative candidate on the hustings, or anywhere else? And, next, we would have our readers to remember the parties who urge them into a course prima facie so unwise. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY ' COMPANY. A special general Meeting of this Company was held yesterday, at the .Paddington Station, the Chairman of ihe Board of Directors in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said that,, as the meeting-was small, he believed the business would be small also. The Directors had called the Proprietors together for the f i st purpose of askin them to confirm the sanction which they had already on o occasions given to the Bill for enabling this Company to nice with, and subscribe 150,000/. to, the South Devon ailway Company. The Bill had been road 11 second time, having unanimously passed through the Committee, and would shortly be read a third time, notwithstanding the great opposition which had been offered to it. But, according tole Standing Order of the House of Lords, before the Bill could be read in that House, it was necessary that the draft should have been approved of and accepted by three. fifths of the Pro prietors present at a general meeting specially convened for the purpose of taking that subject into consideration. To comply with that Standing Order the present meeting had been called. The Secretary would then read the report of the Directors. The SECRETARY read the report, which stated, almost as concisely, the matter contained in the opening expla nation of the Chairman. The report further stated that on the 10th instant the Royal Assent was given to the Bill for enabling the Company to amalgate with the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway 'Companies, whereby they would all be under one management, and the lines would be completed at less cost. On the motion of Mr. WISHAW, seconded by another Proprietor, the report was received. The SECRETARY then read the clauses in the South Devon Railway Bill which applied to this Company ; and, after a brief conversation, Mr.iSsrrrnEns moved a resolution, to the effect that the Pl'oprietors present approve of those clauses. The resolution was seconded, and adopted uanimously. A PROrRIETOR begged to suggest that some means should be adopted by the Directors to give the Proprie tors more early intelligence of the approaching special meeting. He thought the Secretary should be instructed to write to the Proprietors, instead of leaving the matter to the chance of their seeing the — Overtisements. For his part, he had not seen the advertisement until late on Saturday evening. The CHAIRMAN said that the advertisements were in serted in strict accordance with the Act of Parliament. If they were to write to every Proprietor the Secretary would have to write 2,500 letters.---(Hear, hear.) Still he thought the suggestion of the Hon. Proprietor was of importance, and the Directors would give it due consi- . deration. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. SALE of MR. JEREMIAH HARMAN'S COLLECTION OF PICTURES. On Saturday the sale of the pictures which formed this valuable collection was resumed and terminated. As on the first day's sale, the great room of Messrs. Christie and Man son, in king-street, St. James's, was crowded to suffocation by company, and all ingress at the door was, after the com mencement of the day's;sale, totally impossible. The most valuable pictures were sold on Saturday and produced very good prices ; indeed, one or two of them brought prices al most unprecedented • thus proving that a taste for what is really good in art has not deteriorated in this country, and that works of the highest class are almost like bank-notes and will always command a real value in the market. The proceeds of the sale on the first day amounted in round num bers to about 9,0001., the proceeds of the sale on Saturday to about 17,0001. or 18,0001., making the whole produce nearly 27,0001. for 115 pictures. The principal lots were knocked down at the following prices : Lot 65. A Boy leaning on a Bank fondling a Pigeon.— Titian. 150 guineas. Lot 76. A Portrait of Charles I.—Vandyck. 151 guineas. Bought by Mr. Norton. Lot 79. A Cat with dead Birds, Grapes, &c.—Snyders. 105 guineas. Bought by Mr. Seguier. Lot 81. A Portrait of a Gentleman. Very fine.—By Ron dani. 250 guineas. Lot 83. The High Priest in the Holy of Holies.—Rem brandt. 150 guineas. Lot 87. The Magdalen contemplating the Cross.—Carlo Dolce. This delightful picture was bought by Mr. Pennell for 690 guineas. Lot 89. A Landscape—a Storm ; with figures.—Gaspar Poussin. 209 guineas: - Bought by Mr. Gardner. Lot 90. An infant Christ asleep. A finished study.—By Guido. 153 guineas. Lot 94. A view of Dort.—By Cuyp. In his luminous and brilliant manner. The purchaser was Mr. Mawson. The price 1,010 guineas. Lot 96. A Dutch River Scene.—Vanderneer. Bought by Mr. Sloane Stanley for 210 guineas. Lot 97. Portrait of Gonsalvo de Ferrand in armour on horseback.—Bv Georgione. 250 guineas. Lot 99. A Virgin and Child, with Angels and Saints.— Garofalo. 240 guineas. Bought by Mr. Buchanan. Lot 100. Tfie Ménage Hollandais.—Adrian Van Ostande. One of the gems of the collection. It has been engraved several times. Mr. Buchanan bought it for 1,320 guineas. Lot 101. Christ and the Woman of Samaria.—Annibale Caracci. Sold to Mr. Seguier for 225 guineas. Lot 102. A view near Haerlem.—Paul Potter. It has been engraved. It was bought for 800 guineas by Mr. Higginson. Lot 103. A picture called the " Tabby Cat," and mentioned in Smith's catalogue.—G. Matzen 260 guineas. Bought by Mr. Nieuboys. Lot 105. Portrait called " The Duke of Hamilton." It is mentioned in Smith's catalogue, and has been engraved by Heath.—Vandyck. 240 guineas. Bought by Mr. Lloyd. Lot 106. A Storm and Shipwreck.—W. Vandervelde. Men tioned in Smith's catalogue. 470 guineas. Mr. Higginson. Lot 108. A Landscape, with figures, by Rubens.—lt has been engraved by Bolswert, and is mentioned in Smith's catalogue. It was brought into this country from Holland In 1818 by Mr. Emmerson. 510 guineas. Bought by Mr. Gardner. Lot 109. Peasants regaling at a Guinguette.—Jan Steen. 610 guineas. Bought, we understood, by Mr. Norton. Lot 110. A sea view, called le Coup de Canon.—W. Van eervelde. Formerly in the collection of the Count de Merle. 1,380 guineas. The bidding for this picture was very ani mated; it was ultimately knocked down to Mr. Mawsort. Lot 111. Portrait of a Venetian Lady.—Sebastian del Piombo. Bought by Mr. Nieuboys for 430 guineas. Lot 112. Le Bonnet Vert.—Teniers. Formerly in the ca binet of M. Vauderlys. A beautiful gem. 660 guineas. Mr. Mawson. Lot 113. The Age of Innocence.—Sir J. Reynolds. This picture fetched the highest price of this class of art ever given for a picture of Sir Joshua's ; it was bought by Mr. Vernon for 1,520 guineas. Lot 114. Peasants passing a Ford.—_M. Hobbima. A noble landscape by this master, who has repeated the study of the trees in the centre of the picture from a landscape of a still finer character in the possession of Mr. Farrer. It is men tioned in Smith's catalogue, and is signed and dated 1662. This beautiful work of art was purchased for 1,850 guineas by the Baron de Rothschild. Lot 115. Aneas with his Father and Son visiting Helenus. —Claude. 1,750 guineas. Bought by Mr..lCieuboys. It is mentioned in Smith's catalogue. IRELAND. THE STATE TRIALS. Dunux, MAY - opens on Wednesday next. It is considered probable that the judges of the Court of Queen's Bench will deliver judgment on the following day, Thursday, upon the new trial motion. There is no doubt that the Court have determined not to hear counsel on the part of the traversers, in reply to the Attorney-General, on the new cases introduced in the argument by the Crown. It is understood that Chief Justice Pennefather has prepared a very elaborate judgment, stating at length his reasons for re fusing a new trial, and defending those portions of his charge to the jury which have been so strongly animadverted upon by the counsel for the traversal. The Conservatives still assert, very confidently, that the Court will be unanimous in refusing a new tui al, unless in the case of the Rev. Mr. Tierney. In that event, the argument on the motion for arrest of judgment would be in progress at the close of the next week. THE SPY SYSTEM. It is really appalling to contemplate the extent and atrocity of the police spy system, which, ever since the accession of the present Government, has been in active operation. The ramifications of this system extend to various counties, and new disclosures are made almost daily. The inquiries re specting the police villanies in the Queen's County is still in progress at Dublin Castle, and more policemen are said to be implicated. The Tipperary Vindicate? of this day contains the following :—" lurther evidence is forthcoming of the nefarious plot concocted to entrap the unsuspecting people in the meshes of crime. The charges are not confined to Ogle, Lyndon, and Parker—others are said to be deeply implicated in the oul and hideous conspiracy, to get up prosecutions, and trade on the liberties and lives of the innocent. It is confidently stated that since the accession of the present Go vernment to office, a great portion of the police force has be come tainted with the morbid appetite of transporting and hanging,inotrensive men for rewards. That this is the fault of the Executive would plainly appear from the observations made in the House of Lords by the Marquis of Normanby, on Tuesday night, when calling for an investigation into Stipen diary Grey's case. Be this as it may, we have now to inform our readers that two other police constables, named O'Leary and Cantrill, have been brought up to Dublin within the last few days, and that they are undergoing an examination into a series of charges preferred against them by Revington, who seems to have rejoiced in the peculiar confidence of the een" coctors of plots against the people." NEW STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE. , Mr. 11. Pollock has been appointed stipendiary magistrate at Thurles, in the loom of Mr. Grey, whose disml4sal formed the subject of debate in the House of Lords on Tuesday. Bell's Life in London of Sunday, May 26, will give the most correct account of the four days' sport at Epsom, with a portrait of the winner of the Derby. Contents of Bell's Life of last Sunday, May 19 :—Fifteen columns of Sporting events, including Paris Races, and a peep at the French Derby (Chantilly), an epitome of the week's mis cellaneous news, and 100 advertisements, chiefly connected with Sporting matters. The insertion of a single advertise ment in Bell's Life may be equally beneficial to that of half a dozen in some journals. A sixpence, or six penny stamps, to Mr. Clement, Jun., 170, Strand, will at all times insure a copy of Bell's Lift by return of post. The vreekly sale of Bell's Life exceeds 20,000 copies. It is regularly published in time for the Saturday afternoon railways. Bell's Life of June 2 will contain an engraving of the Ascot Cup. ETON COLLEGE 4TH OF JUNE REGATTA.—We have been requested by the authorities of Eton College to state, that the annual regatta will take place on the 4th proximo, as usual, and not on the 3d, as had been contemplated, in consequence of the races at Ascot, which commence on the 4th of June. THE FINALE OF THE FACTORY DEBATE. (From the Examiner ) The defeat of Lord Ashley's amendment by the large ma jority of 158 is no triumph of principle,' no sign that on im• proved knowledge and reflection the error of the former votes on the same question has been discovered and corrected ; it is merely the result of subserViency to the Ministry, whose existence is preferred to all other objects and considerations. There is a majority for imposing restrictions on labour, and for confiscating a portion of the capital invested in- mills; but thpse who would not scruple te overthrow our manufac turing system are restrained by the fear of upsetting an Ad• ministration. The principles, if the name be given to them, are under suppression, but their bias will probably appear before this Parliament is dissolved, and in that case the great Conservative rally and triumph will have given the first representative to doctrines worthy of Jack Cade, and breaking in at once on the rights both of industry and pro perty. The division of Monday night will not remedy any of the mischief that has been done by the preceding votes; it will not put down or discourage the Short Wages agitation. The delusion is now fixed in the minds of a large portion of the work-people, and the cruelty is done which cannot be undone, of adding an unreal cause of discontent to a lot which is hard enough without imaginary grievances. The notion has been sanctioned that Parliament can regulate wages, that it can abridge labesr without diminishing the remuneration for it, end this insane idea will spread through all the provinces of industry. Sir Robert Peel, in his masterly s p eec h an Monday night, produced an example of the working of the delusion— " Here is a circular issued by a body as important as the workers in cotton factories, ' The Miners' Association of Great Britain and Ireland.'—(Hear, hear.) They make these demands.—(' Hear, hear,' from Mr. Ferranti.) To which, it appears the Hon. Gentleman, of course consistently upon his principles, is prepared to yield, but to which I am not. They are urged, however, upon the same principles as those on which we are now appealed to; and, if the presumption be that those who are employed know best their own inte rests, of course our yielding in the present case would but provide a precedent for repeated concessions to all similar demands in future periods.—(Hear, hear.) This, then, is the address of the turned-out miners; they enumerate their grievances, and thus enunciate their proposed reme dies: We ask, yea, we would say, demand, first, these boons, as the redress of those grievances —first, we wish to work eight hours per day and no more—(Assenting cheers) —secondly, we wish to receive 4s. a-day wages—(Laughter, andHeanhear)—thirdly, we wish to be paid weekly—(Hear, hear} —fourthly, we wish to be united for our security.' 'Friends and fellow-countrymen, we now appeal to your sympathy, and ask you, in the name of justice, whether to be buried in the caverns of the earth, inhaling the most _noxious air for eight hours a-day, be not enough ?'—(Loud cries of Hear, hear.') Whatever is morally wrong, cannot ,be politically right.—(Laughter from the supporters of the Ministry, cheers from others.) We ask you is 4s. a-day too much for'digging out of the bowels of the earth so useful a commodity as coal, our lives all the while in the most immi nent peril—(Hear)—every moment threatening us with th e most horrible death—(Hear)—and no provision for our wives and children?'" It is remarkable that, throughout the debates on the Fac tory question, not a syllable has been said in defence of the millowners rights against the proposed confiscation of a sixth of their properties._ _ It Beans as if it had been agreed that if reducing the hours of work would improve the condition of the operatives, the improvement should be effected at the cost of the capitalists. No one protested against robbing Paul if it could be made certain that Peter could get twelve hours' pay for his ten hours' work. For nights the discussion was, whether wages would or would not fall with diminished production, as if upon a con clusion in the negative a clear case would have been made out for taking from the millowners a sixth of their profits, or for ruining many of them altogether. Mr. M. Milnes, indeed, remarked with infinite coolness that, if Lord Ashley's amendment were carried, the manu facturers would make up for the shortened time by improved machinery, as if the millowner could afford to provide him self with new machinery as an idle gentleman purchases a trinket or piece of furniture of a new fashion. The machi nery in many factories has cost more than a hundred thou sand pounds, and would require as large an outlay to substi tute improved machinery for that which legislative restric tions had made unequal to the remunerating production. Manufacturers cannot all afford to be in the newest fashion of machinery; their means of refurnishing their mills do not keep pace with mechanical improvement; and hence the greater number of factories are now worked with inferior machinery, which would be utterly inadequate if there were a further reduction of the working hours. To tell these pro prietors that they must make up for shorter time by im proved machinery would be much the same as advising a man who complained of the sacking of his house that he could set it all right by employing a fashionable upholsterer. If some of these fine gentlemen who talk so glibly of fac tories would take the trouble to go and look at one, they would find that its machinery was not to be thrown aside and renewed as easily as a toothpick. Lord llowick advocates the Short 'Wages project as a check to the too eager pursuit of wealth : "If a too eager pursuit of wealth put to hazard the moral condition of the people and impeded their moral improve ment, that pursuit it was the duty of Government to mode rate. The people should not be allowed to follow the pursuit of wealth to the neglect of still higher objects." He would impoverish spinners, weavers, and millowners for their moral advantage. lie is shocked that people in earning ten shillings a week neglect higher objects than money-get tinq, and accordingly he would mulct them of a sixteeth of their little incomes, to give them leisure for moral cultiva tion, which it is absolutely certain will occupy the time hitherto devoted to work. We are quite ready to admit that there is too eager a pur suit of wealth in this country, but the factories are not more forward in the chase than the shop, the counting-house, the bar, and every profession and vocation that can be named ; and we cannot think it within the province of the:Legislature to contrive checks to this propensity, as, amongst other ob jections, there will always be danger of its destroying the livelihood of people in the attempt to control the excess of industry. There are lawyers who work their brains and lungs for sixteen hours a day, and who kill themselves by so doing; but the Legislature would hardly pass a Bill appoint ing inspectors of chambers and courts, and prohibiting at tendance in them for more than ten or twelve hours a day. The correction of the pursuit of Mammon to the neglect of higher objects is the proper business of the Church, whose heads so forcibly illustrate the scriptural precept that riches are the root of all evil, by insisting that bishops cannot main tain their respectability without incomes of many thousands a year, and that 150,000/. a- year is an inadequate sum for twenty six prelates.• But throughout the Short Wages argument there is the assumption that the factory work-people are in a worse mental and bodily condition than persons of the same classes in other employments, which is utterly false. They are better fed, better clothed, better lodged, better educated, and more moral than the rural labourers; and if they have not the advantage of working in the open air, they are, on the other hand, 'palled the rheumatism and other ailments re sulting from exposure to wet and the vicissitudes of weather. Mr. Charles Buller, indeed, asks— " Could any Hon. Member deny that labour protracted to the period of twelve hours a-day did not greatly interfere, and was inconsistent with the moral improvement, education, and well-being of the people who were subjected to it?" The condition of the factory population is the practical denial of the question; and if the labour which is proved to be accompanied with the greatest demoralisation, the densest ignorance, and the worst diet and lodging, is to be put under Parliamentary regulation, it is that of the rural population that the landowners in Parliament should commence their experiments upon, by some Bill for improving the labourer's state by the confiscation of a sixth of the landlord's estates. If the factory work-people are deficient in morality, educa tion, and the comforts of the poor, let us be told in what other province of labour the advantages wanting in their case are to be found. Are we living in the midst of a moral, educated, and prosperous populace ? What is it that we see all around us ? As Mr. C. Wood remarks, " the greatest amount of depravity and vice is displayed in the haunts of the greatest poverty," and to make the poor poorer is the proposal of Lord Howick, by the arbitrary confiscation of a sixth of their property in their industry. The truth is almost confessed that there is no peculiar oc casion for interference with factory labour, except that it is so easy—that they present so inviting an opportunity for meddling. As an idle boy throws a stone at a bird or beast, not from any provocation or but simply because it had the ill luck to offer so fair a mark, legislators have their fling at factories because they are such broad objects for interference. We must except, however, one special argument of Mr. C. Buller— " He referred to the necessity—the absolute importance, of keeping the two sexes to their own distinct and proper pro vinces. —(Cheers.) A master manufacturer had put forth a statement on this subject. What was that statement with regard to the proportion of men and women employed in the manufacturing districts ? Why, in the large town of Manchester it was stated that of the labouring portion of the population employed in the factories three-fifths were females and two-fifths were males ; as three to two.—(Hear, hear.) That was a great evil, requiring c ertainl y le g islative interference." This logic is borrowed from the Duke of Wellington. The absolute importance of keeping the two sexes in their proper provinces is asserted, it being assumed at the same time that spinning and weaving and piecing slender threads are in the indisputable province of male labour, and that women are as much out of place in such employments as at the forge or plough. This point being so summarily settled, it is next found that the women in factories are to the men in the pm_ portion of three to two, and that, declares Mr. C. Buller, ex cathedra, is a great evil. But how, in what respect a great evil ? If Mr. C. Buller will look about him he will find that the women employed in rubbing and scrubbing, in private houses, are in more than the proportion of six to one males, and to his polite horror lie will find that in the immense majority of houses no man is employed, women blacking shoes, brushing clothes, cleaning knives, besides sweeping, bed-making, roast ing and boiling, and a ll th e rest of a household drudgery. No Lord Ashley has yet calculated how many miles a maid of all work paces over in the course of a day, how many things she turns her hand to, ortohow much punishment at the treadmill her errands updown stairs will amount. Nor has any r e t urn b een had and of the number who are killed annually by falls in the work of cleaning windows, to save the expense of a glazier. The same reason that accounts for the employment of women instead of men i n f am ili es ex pl a i ns th e i r preponder ance in factories, they are equal to the work required, and their labour is cheaper. But Mr. Buller thinks them out of place in the factory, which they notoriously prefer to domestic service. Spinning and weaving have, however, from all antiquity, been deemed fit female occupations, and the difference in the improved art of them is, that the steam-engine does the heavier part of the work, and leaves to the operative only what requires an at tentive eye and a light hand. Women serving in haberdasher? shops attend standing for a' longer time, and go over more ground in stepping to and fro, than piercers or weavers in a mill, and they undergo a • Eccleaiast4cal Report of 1835. trouble and vexation from the whimsies of customers that sA L-1 1 the factory work-woman is exempt froM. But•nti one has , discovered that women are out of their province in a haber- 1 dasher's s h op , or that the business of measuring yards of: ribbons and. fingering laces should be left to glen sively. - Si - -If Mr. C.'Buller could, as he wishes, turn the wome • t?- of the facto r i es , w h ere would- they find those" proptiprO- , . • :r vinces" to which lie is so anxious to confine them ? Some might get into the Domestic drudgery, which they are so' glad to quit for factory employment ; more would be thrown into the workhouse, and many would fall to prostitution. Is the workhouse or the brothel a more suitable province than the factory? Mr. Hawes is too intelligent and too honest to deny that short wages must be the consequence of short work; but he is for imposing the restrictions as a way in his view of get ting rid of the corn restrictions. But how ? There is but one way in which such an effect can be produced, namely, by so damaging the manufacturing interests that for deliver ance from sheer ruin they must make a struggle of des peration for the abolition of the corn-laws. To do this evil that good may come of it seems to us as little consistent with prudence as with sound morality. The mischief would be certain, but not so sure the expected remedy: And what right has a legislator to take from the poor operatives a sixth of their little incomes, and from the mill owners the same portion of their profits, that through their sufferings a certain reform may be brought about ? Other supporters of Lord Ashley's proposal believe, or pretend, that the work-people would not be the losers by it, that wages would not be reduced; but Mr. Hawes does not countenance the delusion which induces the operatives to pray for re strictions, and he would find few indeed of the youngest and least reflecting among.them to consent to his scheme for bringing about the abolition of the corn-laws by cutting off a sixth of their wages. Lord Howick, who is always consistent, as be proposes to diminish the production of our cotton mills, endeavours to reconcile us to such a result by showing that it would not materially affect - our foreign trade. The rise in the price of the article his Lordship thinks of little consequence, as " Any practical merchant would tell them that, if a cargo of cotton goods was sent to Rio, it was not the price which determined whether the speculation would be a profitable or a losing one. If lie was forced to pay a heavy premium for a bill of exchange, the' consignment might be a losing business ; whereas, if he paid a less premium, and received only the same price for his goods, the speculation might be a profitable one. _ _ - It would tie well for Lord Howick to bring this doctrine to the test of experiment. Let him, for example, send a cargo of British brandy to Bordeaux, or a consignment of velvet to Lyons, and upon such ventures he will ascertain Whether the premiunt of exchange is the main element or a very secondary one in the profits offoreign trade. If we send a dearer article to a foreign market, it 18 4* same thing as sending fine not in demand, and our cotton, raised in price, would be as much a drug in competition with the cheaper American article as our brandy, velvet, or cambric in the French market. Lord Howick instructs us to look to imports only as the essential of foreign trade. • In Swift'S advice to servants the same economy is taught, all the servants being admonished to swell the bills in their respective departments for their master's honour, the butler to order in as much wine as possible, the cook as much meat, the coachman the greatest possible quantity of hay and corn, without troubling their heads about the payment. A spendthrift, who must have had a glimpse of the same principles, used to say that he reckoned his yearly income by casting up his bills. These were the imports, in his view, payment for them the export, which he thought quite im material. Carrying out the doctrine of Lord Howick to its extreme conclusion, if, instead of reducing manufacturing production a sixth, it were destroyed altogether, the foreign trade would be nearly as prosperous as ever, or, to use his own word, the inconvenience would be small. We confess that we rather incline to the opinion of Sir K. Peel, that importation and exportation are of equal import ance, and that we cannot receive commodities in our porta without sending out something in payment of them, unless, indeed, we adopt the economy of Swift's servants or the spendthrift. THE FACTORIES BILL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—ln your paper of Wednesday evening, May 15, in a list purporting to contain the names of those whose aid was withheld from Lord Ashley, on Monday last, May 18, von mention the names of the Hon. Colonel Butler, and Ifr. Fitzstephen French. _ _ Colonel Butler paired on that occasion with Mr. Williams, the Member for Great Marlow, in favour of the Ten Hours' Amendment, and Mr. French, to my knowledge, voted for Lord Ashley in company with myself—other newspapers, particularly the Sunday ones, have copied Those erroneous statements; and as public opinion is rather strong upon this question, they would do well to rectify these and other such inaccuracies.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, No. 3, Queen-square, Saturday. P. S. BUTLER, M.P. FATAL OCCURRENCE.-THREE LIVES LOST. On Sunday night, between eight and nine, the most painful excitement was produced in the neighbourhood of London bridge and Fresh-wharf; in consequence of a distressing acci dent, havOlving the loss of three lives, occurring on the river at the foot of London-bridge steps. It appears that at about half-past eight o'clock a beat under the charge of the son of a waterman, - named Williamson„,a_young man about eighteen years of age, pushed off from th stairs on the City side of London-bridge, with about eleven boys (under the age of twelve years) and three girls, intending to take them to the Custom-house. The boat had not reached ten or a dozen yards from the stairs, before she came athwart the tide, which was running down very fast, and she was carried with great vio lence against the bows of the Diamond steamer, moored oft Fresh wharf. Had they kept their seats, in all probability nothing further would have happened, but unfortunately the whole got up, and instantly the boat went down stern fore most, precipitating all of them into the water. The acci dent being observed by many hundreds of persons assembled on the bridge, and on the different steam-boat piers, the ex citement that ensued was of a character easily conceived. Fortunately a man having charge of the dumb-lighters in front of Fresh-wharf was standing at the bow of the Diamond steamer at the time. Ile threw overboard ropes and other floatable articles for the children to lay hold of. Most of them rose to the surface, and eleven, including the waterman, were with great difficulty saved; but the remainder (some say three, and others six) were drowned. Among them are known to be two girls (one 16 and the other 18 years of age), and also a boy eight years of age, whose parents are living in Milton-street. Those saved were in a most exhausted state. They were all immediately c o n ve y e d to t h e R oyal Humane Society-house—the . New castle, an Lower Thames street—where they received all possible assistance. Drags were directly put into requisition, and search was made for the bodies of those drowned, but, up to eleven o'clock, none of them had been discovered. Mr. Colvile,.M.P. for South Derbyshire, is, it is understood, is to be the new Master of the Atherstone Hounds, in the room of E. Applewhaite, Esq. LADY PEEL'S ASSEMBLY.—On Saturday ni*ht Lady Peel had an assembly at the family mansion in White hall-gardens. The splendid picture gallery and the several saloons opening en suite on the first story, were thrown open for the reception, and brilliantly illuminated. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and the following personages of rank and fashion were present :—The French Ambassador and Countess de Ste. Aulaire, the Turkish Am basador, Baron Nicumann, the Russian Minister and Milkiness Brunnow, and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner, Prince Castelcicala, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, M. Dedel, Baron de Cetto, the Danish Minister and Countess Reventlow, Count Pollen, Countess Bjornstjerna, the Venezuelean Minister, the Brazilian Minister and the Marchioness de Lisboa, the American Minister, Mrs. Everett and Miss Everett, the Portuguese Minister and Baroness Moncorvo, Baron Hugel, the Mexican Minister and Mrs. Murphy, Baron Koller, Count Jarnac, Baron Scheoppingk, Count Rosen, Baron Brockdorff, Baron Bremer, Baron Bjornstjerna, and the Dukes—Buccleuch, Montrose. Duch esses-7 Northumberland, Bucdeuch, Montrose. Marquises —Douro, Huntly, Ailesbury, Normanby, Ormonde, Salis bury, Kildare. Marchionesses—Aylesbury, Douro, Ormonde. Earls—Devon, Normanton, Jersey, Delawarr, Beverley, Besborough, Haddington, Kinnoull, Clarendon, Winchilsea, Powis, Sheffield, Daitmouth. Countesses—Jersey, Delawarr, Beverley, Haddington, Kinnoull, Clarendon, Nelson, Powis, Dowager Mansfield, Wilton, Dartmouth. Viscounts— Ossulston, Melville, Strangford, Parker, Sydney„ Villiers, Mare, Mahon, IThwarden Clive, Ingestre. Viscountesses— Adare, Sydney, Parker, Villiers, Mahon, Beresford, Maynard, Ashbrooke. Lords—Prudhoe, Redesdale, John Manners, Charles Wellesley ; and above 300 other persons of rank and fashion. . REDUCTION IN TILE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD. —lt is not to be concealed that there is growing up a feeling of un easiness, if not discontent, about the reductions that are constantly taking place in the Royal household. We allude to the subject reluctantly, but, we hope, with a proper sense of the delicacy with which it should be treated. The whole case, reduced to figures, seems to resolve itself into the fol lowing particulars :—lndependently of the personal income of the Sovereign and her Consort, of the augmentation of Prince Albert's allowance by about 10,000/. a-year, derivable from places and appointments conferred upon him by the Queen, and of the large revenue drawn from the Duchy of Cornwall for the use of the Prince of Wales, an annual sum of 375,0001. is granted by Parliament for the maintenance of the customary splendour of the Court. We have never heard a single objection taken to the amount of that grant. On the con trary, we believe, if it were required, Parliament would at any moment be prepared to increase it—the special purposes for which it was originally designed being, of course, always kept in view. Now, ofthat sum of 375,000/. per annum, reductions have been effected to the amount of 25,000/. The rage for retrench ment which appears to have set in with the il people in come-t s a tres x ts reac hed the Palace itself, and equ err i es, d•t _mi i sni ver c hamber-pages, and all sorts of go ld and waiting have been cut down t o meet the economical spirit of the times. If a saving to the country had been positively accomplish e d b y this reduction of 25,0001. per annum, it would be very ungracious on the part of the country to complain ; but the popular grievance con sists in the somewhat anomalous fact, that this very reduc tion will absolutely entail an increased burden upon the public. The persons whose services are thus dropped out of the Royal household must be pensioned ; but the pensions are not to be paid out of the amount saved by their reduc tion, but are to constitute a fresh charge upon the national Treasury. The consequence will be that the public expen diture, instead of being diminished by this 25,000/. a-year, will, in fact, be augmented by the amount of the pensions. To this conclusion all the information we possess at present on the subject distinctly points. Perhaps it is intended to return the surplus to Parliament ; but, as no indication of such an intention has been made, and as Royal economy in one department is generally directed with a view to enlarged outlay in another, we do not anticipate the adoption of such a course.— court Journal. THE LATE MR. BECKYORD.—Mr. BeCkford ' S fa ther, the alderman, was not a merchant, his connection with the City was entirely political. He was the eldest son of Sir Peter heckford, accounted the ricliestsubject in Europe, who left also extensive estates to his younger children, viz., Julius, grandfather of the late Lord Rivers, Francis, whose descendants now alone retain the name; Elizabeth, Coun tess of Effingham, and Ann, the mother of Lord Seaford. Peter Beckford was the son of a successful soldier, Colonel Beckford, Governor of Jamaica, who was nephew to Sir Tho mas Beckford, of Aslistead, in Surrey. The family had ori ginally large estates in Gloucestersh i re , & c ., but Sir William Beckford died fighting for King Richard on Bosworth field, and the fortunes of the family fell with him. And you will not be sorry to hear, that the works published by Mr. Beck ford did not ex h a ust his productive powers." M asses of manuscripts remain which may be given to the public, and which I do not think you will find unworthy the advantage o f your notice.—Correspondent m scepods a adent of the Athenmum. 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