The Sun. — London, England, 1845-03-08 00:00:00

iEVIS ) the 3d• r ri li ssi r ppear t hs ielative to arid' many P hi ; t e r of ti' or., N le reserve, h of bli trc t die )s re preson t countT,tto Is i n a ll resr ance during l i b : ablisbed. ,46 000 f to 11,3 e rl;t 111 • - to not" rcu had deci le , oe fort; hat l ac eithe r t o 0: 1 :1 1)0) : ) ° 5 14 1, es of the ir obet nes, then t or d their de 00 01 , 1, and l e t ifs s 3 ne W ele r c es9 6l aid be iac a got '.ichar t bore:1: 0 4 14 At, on t 1 0/19 ' ace in the to 1.1 to ten l bs ot aimed,is (1,4 I than th A r - g anu I" ) e cemb er,e 0 f of -0 0 0. 4 1 ick isle on the 1, 00 , , e prison er, ventral kl 2, a 131 " 0 se" rd Pate rs°- ' tealinV ,4 . A . ° S. Liam .11.°1.9; bif ,Ward all charg ,olice-of off d the w rsto l l in i o were uR ht. uP be br °4 or trialtide/ and rfr• .street,tl tee 'ii. 6g, also sea • terdie t CO; ectioo6 of 0%04 viegt T he r t yr a n the but 1.- 14 7 .. . eb i d . be P71,60913r. tgr• efjitf ° t V nd r es v i r:o l , Pres b ? dig it ° 4.Tic OF ENGLAND, MARCH 4, 1845. URT of DIRECTORS of the G0 `,41 ` ,4 1 and COMPANY of the BANK of ENGLAND give ykkt , ,) 41, ii'4'TERAL COURT will be held at the Bank on Thurs 4,,W,Liestant, at Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, to consider :711 r '''' 4l) ; and also that another General Court will be held 41.41. :tei °11 Til eadaY, the 15th of April next, from ten o'clock in -Dep uty. till four in the afternon ensuing]te Election of a Governor en O‘'ernor for the year ' (which will he declared and the same Court will be continued by adjourn- Ned u ..l at the same place, and during the same hours, on 16th a April next, for the Election of Twenty-four ON by also be one of the Quarterly General Courts b 0wi11,.,e Charter), and the Election of the Twenty-fear i -1144004eelared as soon as the scrutiny is over. Printed Lists 41 Tap.,,, ° " having votes will be ready to be delivered at the kit the 25th of March. an Act , (Signed) JOHN KNIGHT, Secretary. 111. s be Pa ssed in the 7th year of the reign of George t jitep,. entitled to vote at the said election who shall no ~N4l7'_salendar months possessed in his own right of the stock :_ttqiiiorall then give his vote, unless the said stock shall have '4tom, intestate°rh have come by bequest or marriage, or by suc \tt, k-,,,,z:deed of settlement after the death of any person who entitled for life to the dividends of such stock. " 6BURY AND BIRMINGHAM 4 ttT x RAILWAY. .Y,b a „ I—G of the PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE, held la.`B o l`,, ° n• It• 11. CLIVE, 31 P . in the Chair ; V:Sini o "en of the Select Committee .. of the House of Commons ot u ,„ c i d ers, that in this case those orders ought not to be ffis kSttded....,,,Z:ng been considered ; it was thereupon unanimously I ra. _ to t the Committee of Management be requested and trLlle such st e p s as they deem expedient for the pro 1, erance of the interests of the Shareholders, and for neat session of Parliament the requisite Act to carry It t Za sirablo undertaking, which is cordially approved of it' 4 to 44 7 h er Trade, and d ec l are d i n th e i r re p or t to be " pre oPolicyl.ll,Peting schemes proposed, upon general grounds thteltreet, larch 7. SRI" 1 C AND LYONS RAILWAY. LA.FFITTE'S ORIGINAL COMPANY.) a t ' t ar th an .. DIRECTORS. a s4 ll Laft:III0, Paris, i ki toki so l_ °9 d, Esq., is, Upp e r S e ymour -street, Portman. IttosaZl Pair de France, Pads.ki 1/ 0 1 1 q, Liverpool. ifaLehat i q in C ,. R• Dawson, 15, Upper Grosvenor-street, London. E. Adelphl-terrace, London. _ Aie—"uns, Administrateur des Messageries Royalos, Parts. ork, Paris Berignieres, Administrateur des Messageries •st L c; ra. r i a _ 'II IL I / 4 4 41 ; 4 1, 62, Ring William-street, London. Tzt. Egg., Liverpool. tiount, Paris. l 4l !te l :rt t ; sq., M.P., London. 'Jun., Esq., Nicholas-lane, London. Elit e r Chalons, Paris. Zs<l., 62, King William-street, London. k t .'"Tha t as "R. C ommittee of the Paris and Lyons Railway Corn lesk,,sertalned that it is the intention of the French Govern- Qt `ue line to a company able and willin undertakeurse the 41Penditure hitherto incurred, and to all fur k:; (let errai ch cd MaY be required for the entire construction of the Ma fo r upon increasing the capital to the full amount . al „`" -i 5 purpose. In conformity with the terms of sub -11 the circular of the 10th August last, which con. " • , 11 ' .194 ftesneY• they . have resolved ; upon offering th e L , Two New Shares for every Old Share, sub " . abil ities ofincrease or diminution hereafter, as in the • and s ubject also to any f ur ther call which may be found Shar eholders who may wish to avail themselves of r - -e ?en, ested to apply at the office, and to produce t the .ctwecn Tuesday 1 1 th, and Saturday, 22d ins . 14s given, that all pa ties not applying within the pre fi ll h. considered to have waived their claim to the ad ' which will be otherwise appropriated. By order, tk illt wi ED. AISLE, Secretary. , 114 M -et 11 - 13:71 .. ' ------• reet, March 6, 1845. & ~, t l•boti e , GERAES COMPANY. ‘4 , 0 - t e- A ll "ebY given, that the DIRECTORS of this COM , tie r . l : l ‘ier t the award of the Arbitrator, made a FURTHER 1! 4 to i'l ►are on the Shareholders in this Company, and that tey e „" c Paid on or before thc 12th April next, to Messrs. 11. ~ Tritton dC L b d-street, for account of the 11„ ,v ,an e., Lombard-street, ar 0 1 .''oere , th e ,celpt is to be brought to this Office with the Certl 1, o 4 4\ ~." 1 to hav e th e paymen t en dorsed thereon. GEO. D . KEOGH, Secretary. 7‘ Ystrd, M 1) arch 8, 1845. li il `, l t : Oti t o Rb REMPTORILY SOLD, pursuant J NOs tpi t ; R of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY , made in sq, ittk._Wir,B o : against TYNDALL, with the approbation of 'hity - ' 41 ,, hoi e „: , °lle of the Masters of the Court, at the Auction y.4,`,lt er 'evir-lane, in the City of London, on MONDAY, the "011.,„,t1tXsil 1845 , at two of the clock in the Afternoon, the \ st„.are. „_` of 4 a ' GENTLEMAN in the 45th year of his age, ot, ' ‘ot q., ver Cent. Consolidated '' Annuities, standing in the et t j e r N g -t :nor and Company of the Bank of England, in the k r ., 4l lts ki(t of the marriage settlement of the gentlem t an th . , said N„ ~ ..jab4, : s ol u t t i oh n a sb eha(gra) Chancery-lane,a 15 rn o f t o s n a - l b e u ilct maylngLondon : t 4 DLotliZrY. Faulkn P er, and Co., ' Solicitors, Bedford-row, ' c oot ". Lyon, Barnes, and Ellis, Spring-gardens; and /, v sale. ~ To 1 11 ,..tt 4 /T, 8 ,.,1C SELLERS AND PROFESSORS. t‘t,C e ,"lls in - 1 - 4 POSED OF in one of the principal Vk.iiti t a ,„„ t ale West of England, a long-established, very ex 411ttthtt 41 th e ' c ollectable MUSIC BUSINESS. The connexion 14„o h O ll of it _collnty, and the concern will be found well it worth t Oltt ZTPetent person, so desirable an t opportunity t y ai n ia o . t, S l ett s44 l l7l , l be' to The reason of A t s he ref p e r r e e s a en proprietor the highest I* . Dittz . . „ „ l) (l tv,p.a o lg u ss o ti f sf t it h e e torz w on e e s e t w ern ill b L e u e ni xi i :v:cte. t t ary," ‘s, ' „,,, ,, g,_ B ,PATENT BRANDY, CAPSULED, 4tic4 - 4„: C„ • 6, 1, bottle included, by the most respectable ,:,,, , kii iti , 2 Re il l country. Lists obtained at the Distillery, where it, y °ottu, ° Oo and above, are supplied, in bulk, at 18s. per ise.lc] teci 4 1 . bottles and cases included, at 20s. Attention is 4 11. 4 44 . T r e 1,, to the security afforded by the Patent ME -4 '''S , embossed " Betts's Patent Brandy, 7, 5mith ,.,,,..............._ 44 S•,,%o,th. f At.t„,iN. ~,„,,. --; EDGINGTON, 2, Duke-street, , ‘t, N '.• 4,..4" - ' . London-bridge respectfully informs the Nobility, ten7ieulturists that be has on sale RICK CLOTHS, 4'ixtt qi i lY ei`allete, both new and second-hand, at a reasonable ' ° 4 4 , 1 :,;1 1 tre ' . 4110 1l will insure some really good second-hand ,44,1 4 t.pin ' decided bargain. Dressed Cloths and Tarpaul ' it,:ttle '7 , H 'tucks, of superior quality, and to any size. Mar '4llpe„Derpcce:‘, Waggon-cloths, Sack-ties, &c. ' 2 OB " gamin Edgington, 2, Duke-street, Southwark. , Piccadilly. P tti iAt t,tll4isi A 41RET PARASOL, from the ele. 1, B Yrnmetry of its form, is by far the most beautifu; Nb t , gr ltirice ,ioes not exceed that of ordinary parasols, ,N ro l / 4t , "Ad improvement has been effected in its con ee t ti 7 o ch that it cannot get out of order. The attention arl 'o Public is requested to this elegant noyelty, which 141ti,'Nes,o 3r of the respectable Drapers, &c .. and wholesale b . ' , wers, silver runner is stamped with the word Nt 4 l / 4 ; k l Ntl t ki kkt P la t E r LD I S 0 ginal CONCE N TRATED "t t i kl. Vol% ANCII-11ZN I GE requiring neither savouring nor 4.4444,1ty are extensive) in a short space of time a celebrity un extensively patronised in the cuisine of the 1. 141 %, t i t 4 l, o V v r i - 4 1 5 the aristocracy, while from their cheapness ( 11 1, , 41 , % ' kink!" the reach of the humble artisan. 101 k ent to fill twelve glasses, Is. 3d. each whol e.ths`,4ll;4:l7l set r 7, 7, Trafalgar-place, Kentish-town; Crosse 'tare ' — "° - equare ' • llarclay and Sons, Farringdon - street. ks several spurious imitations, lte careful to pro- kli„ bo, 4 l 4tll ll ° Z . . --- SA.I.4MON, ODY, and CO., k , L.N 1)04, PUblic against the numerous pretended new inven ,?,,k Q., them areand arc mentio , ned in Arn . aud's e s. Publish 1„ 1 4 pt ode that d a at Paris in 1748. No essential 471'aluaccaltiataeadatthebeunrtailc Salmmeoand'sedinh;etnhteioranoiant : 4,3„,.'tt1,„ 14 -4.,„,, t°w 1l and country. Salmon, Ody, and Co.'s Ite,iB ti 'mit - "tin , STING TRUSSES will answer for right r und ,L m et in _ t er tta _ erstrap, buckles, or any galling bandage ; thi s ', t ;,_ a uld decrease in size and force. 4i/e t _ pod, „r country are requested to send the circum- Nt 4 74o . er Ito ' r r t i . ttch below the hips. '1tt03;.4(10/t' Druggists in every city and principal town in ' 24/11, Strand, London. E 4%14,•ei 'AST-OFFICE --CAUTION. h t e o' 4l Perfumers to , her Majesty, 28, 11 / 44\ a a t ti e 4 ,_ . ,(!ate Price and Gosnell s, and formerly ratey, ‘4, 4 . , et D.1,001,J4 s),p , )? In ' the recommendation of the Secretary upon their Correspondents the 1 01,0 1 ' I n Me d p d r r ne es e t s a s , o , f 11 letters intended for them," t i lst In g e i ?," (and a Price and Gosnell—that firm 'lt t i: i s t , •• , ) , , as the only means of guarding against the 41 1 C-7,4 p` ; ndividuals who take in and retain letters and ;; l iee and Co , by illegally assuming the firm of ItiSt 'thiti n ll knowing that they never were in any way he o P, :ISE THAN AS SERVANTS. rneanyry is so superior any other, and in such Zglea 1 0 , 4 ,1, M shopkeepers to are basely deceiving the ks l 'er th - d o"uotis tations Price and Co. respectfully 1 4t N Z t th, ''fltiel nea when tie purchase not to take any unProteetion label, from y a design by Sir William kt 4 1, 4t," n ' te 'd to It, with the signature of Price and Co., °* ar e l'ecl i nk, and " 28" conspicuously in its centre. ti t , t a rrtnehth. sole Wh o l esa le Agents for DELCROIX'3 co e u e i sinetic, surpassing all others for preserving the 0„ i'lexion, prepared for the use of her most t on i , l)(lB, l A n 3 l i t , e, a . n e d . her 3eltatejersstypattheenuopenriee4s. Dowager, by 7 N 1 ,1 4 , k t k ad f ie tlie 4C ;i, A re S4 Aß t o a m by , 1 imported under the sanction of ktv, 4 ,l it 4ye asury," for the use of her most Gracious 01) 1k1. 4, pe ote ,l ll s l lnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess 41,7 ed by two elegantly executed, correct like %ek "ert • - " l kuoris of her Majesty and his Royal High- Olpo Pti ce as 6d 114 1',.-set, -et NTO • ISsth We do not hesitate to recommend arti : ci t able rin Odonto, or the Queen's own Dentifrice, Nfit t ? tt oul a t ie 3 , h 7 .h a e s r i t *.f purifying, preserving, and em rt be G lli az s e h t i t n e g 4 l ititn, of YOfforekredis t t o he the pu b n li ' last :vv . — fash e i n onable per . - klrle tt etppi i ; - ‘; but though the last, is not the least in per ' With e4 babines the preceding excellence of all the tile delicate and delicious fragrance of the white tet 44,1,'" who is a true-born gentleman, Ott h, h t 47 4 1 upon the honour of his birth, h t4 4 l4:"V eni, , l c , b r 7 l , eiv l)ls t r e ia th_at I have pleaded truth— fi,Nl '. 4 111t, 4,1 5, an ,, u11 ,,,ar Pluck a white rose with me. itra;'eir 158, New Bond-street, have pleasure Nktr.cul e - ' wuquet of the season, and beg to inform Ip N ct , 4le,. ead e4o ,, atrons that, during the recess, all orders for f l u,ekfr 4t a Drhin of a case containing the siz royal bouquets for t.), to 41-.4, I,ty , bouquets de la Reine, d'Albert, Prince of ~..10h Ar ia rtiY Dart r Pcesse Royale, and Pnncesse Alice, will be '4ll-'llest.4 on coUntry, carriage paid. To insure the 4 4 '.4 , is required in observing that No. 155, 0 , 4 lktrZterreit;nn. fore upon each case and every bottle, k t kit4l4 'lserethe sake of profit, are sold by drug bgAv„ to r 'itid co , to wn and country. ' I N' • a Ry L „ZING A LUXURY. '11) , 11,,et shrpasses every soap ever in qiVlittli';lo3,4,4 0 e trial will prove that the luxury of a good IZ A eader, nl .,Y bY hoes who use Pries and Co.'s RYPO - Preluir '''aving (hitherto disagreeable and often pain tt 04; 4 "Qt and r ti -by t, - 0 ., 28, Lombard-street (late Price and t t, , 1. 1 64 Lo ndon eleroix and Co., 158, New Bond-street, and 1 1% * Ith ' Lnd 2 ' p r ice as. 6d. per pot, Is. per square, in cakes 41 110„_ " v•ill price "'WU, -0 1 of the°, pleasure in presenting any brother travel '44 St li,,.."Yr*Phagon gratuitoubly, who may do him vuTewer }Low, 2 9 Lombard-street. -47 _ • • .• 44 , • - o.ri • 3/ 4e. Ati r .6. • • y e^.lrl 1 Ordf,lll/F.N.:,/,, , II It e „7. o 4' • *.." S - . A cs A 1:4 1 1, 4,0.4 4 -iti, 4 . 1 / --•••• T I , ' P : , et./ • ' 0, I • 1)0' , 4 , r if • Sr •. , . : ' 4 4t/v.• oi/. • D/E 4 " No. 16,399. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING Sv N 7 MARCH 8, 1845. Palm: sd. THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE 0 CLOCK, in Time for the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS, and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Hour. _ _ ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION at ONE CHARGE. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. A Curious Picoe of MECHANISM to supply the LOSS of the HAND, is daily exhibited on a person, who, having lost his own hand, is enabled to perform many of the ordinary functions of the natural one. PHILLIPS'S PATENT FIRE ANNIHILATOR, illustrated by Dr. Ryan in his daily Chemical Lecture on the Mornings and Eve nings of MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY.—A Series of LECTURES on ASTRONOMY by Professor Baehhefuer, on the .Mornings and Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, during Lent, accompanied by Dr. Wallis on lIIIABY'A CALOTONE. Working Models of New Inventions, are daily explained. NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS, including the SHRINE of the NATIVITY. CHILDE'S CHROMATROPE. TME PROTEOSCOPE. The PHYSIOSCOPE. DIVING MELL and DIVER, kc. ke. Admission, Is. ; Schools, Malf-priee. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HQME ClRCUlT.—Chelmsford, March 7. (Before Mr. Baron ALDEnsox ) ATTACK ON GAMEKEEPERS.—Thomas Crush, aged 23, and Thomas Bastock, aged 30, were indicted for having, with other persons, some of them armed with guns and other offen sive weapons, unlawfully entered a wood, the property of Lord Petre, at Montnessiag, for the purpose of destroying game. Mr. E. James conducted the prosecation, and Mr. Russell defended the prisoner Crush. It appeared from the statement of the Learned Counsel for the prosecution, and the evidence adduced, that a gentleman named Lescher has the right of shooting over the wood in question, and that he employs a keeper, named William Green. On the night of the 23d of November, Green. and some other men were out watching, and shortly before two o'clock in the morning they heard the report of fire-arms in a wood called Havering-grove, and after listening for some time, the keeper and his assistants, accompanied by a large and very fierce dog, which, it appeared, was a com plete terror to the poachers, proceeded in the direction whence the report of the fire-arms appeared to proceed. On coming to the wood they saw the prisoners and two other men come out, and the moment they observed the keepers the prisoner Crush pushed his companions on one side, and, with a vulgar expression, said he would shoot Green, and immediately levelled the gun and fired at him, but fortu nately without doing him any injury. He then made a rush at another keeper, named Gilby, and made a blow at him with the butt end of his gun, but he evaded it, and Crush then ran away. While this was going on the dog had been loosed, and seized Bastock, and held him until he was secured. Ihe other prisoner was subsequently taken into custody, and was identified as having formed one of the party of poachers. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner Crush was sentenced to be transported for ten years, and the other to nine months' imprisonment and hard labour. fonntrr TO MURDER.—DanieI Baker, aged 39, and Charles Cricks, aged 26, wereindiebed ferfelonionaly assault ing and wounding Sarah Sewell, with intent to murder her. This case came on before Lerd Denman on Thursday after noon, and was not concluded until nearly ten o'clock at night. The offence was of a very aggravated description. It appeared that the prosecutrix is in the service of a gentleman named Often, who resides at Great Burseed, and she had occasion to appear at the quarter sessions at Chelmsford, as a witness against a man named Martin Crick, a brother of the pri soner Charles, who was charged with robbing her master, and the trial ended in his conviction. While she was in waiting near the Shire Hall to be examined, FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S TIIEATRE. wards went with Eliston, whose Fidus Achates he was for a great number of years, to the Olympic, as manager, and con ducted the theatre during the period of Robert Williams's engagement at Drury-lane; and on Mr. Elliston's assuming the lesseeship of that theatre, in 1819, Russell was again his confident and director for the first three years. Subsequently, he took the Brighton Theatre, which he held for eight or ten years ; and, at one time, was believed to be in somewhat affluent circumstances. In the last two seasons before the death of Morris, the Haymarket Theatre proprietor, Mr. Russell was engaged as stage-manager, and his last profes sional effort as a director was in 1838-9, when Mr. Bunn appointed him as stage-manager at Drury-lane. On the retirement of his old colleague, Dowton, from the stage, Russell played Jerry Sneak to Dowton's Major Sturgeon, at the Italian Opera in 1840, and much interest was excited by the appearance of the two theatrical patriarchs acting toge ther once more. His own farewell benefit took place at the Haymarket in the season of 1842, on which occasion he ap peared as Jerry Sneak, and delivered an address. The pro ceeds of this benefit were lodged in the hands of a large dis counting firm, well known,•through whose insolvency, a short time afterwards, Russell lost the whole amount. He was not attached to the dramatic fund of Drury-lane, from a mis taken notion that he should never require its aid. As was stated, he appeared in 1795, and in the school of comedy was the oldest actor on the stage. public in the ordinary course of proceeding until Tuesday next, when the prisoner will be brought up for further ex amination, and most probably be finally committed. With regard to the reports in circulation that there are other persons suspected of having been accomplices of Hocker in the foul transaction, there is not the slightest foundation for them. The police are solely enileavouring to complete the chain of evidence against him, and they have no suspi cion that he had any accomplice. Mr. Frederick Lemaitre appeared last night in his greatest character, that of Robert Macaire in L'Auberge des Adrets. It is not, however, the first time that Lemaitre has appeared 'before an English audience in this character. Some seven or eight years since, his Robert Macaire stamped him, in the mind of the English public, as the greatest of actors. If anything, time has improved him, and we never before saw him so great as he was last evening. To personate,the character of Robert Macaire, it is necessary to unite the extremes of gen tility and rascality. It would seem almost as if the author bad tasked himself to illustrate that line of Shakspeare which tells us " The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman." He certainly has succeeded, a tnerveille. Never was there a being so fiend-like, yet so polished. We believe that Robert Macaire and George IV. were contemporaries. If so, the latter has no title to be considered the first gentleman in Europe. He must yield the palm to Robert Macaire, who unites in his own person the two extremes of the social scale. He is the most accomplished blackguard that ever was imagined—the prince of cut-throats—the founder of the swell-mob—Captain Macheath, Robert Macaire, Fra Dia volo, alike ; but, oh, how different ! Circumstances made them what they were. Had circumstances been different, the first might have been a Wellington; the second a Talleyrand, the third a Salvator Rosa. Macheath and Macaire may be taken as the incarnation of the two great principles which divide the world at the present day. Macheath is the repre sentative of physical, Macaire of moral, force. Robert Macaire is the great diplomatist of the felonry of the world. How easily does he ease his partner in the dance of all her valuables while whispering soft nonsense in her ear. How- completely does lie keep Bertram as his slave by the indescribable squeak of his snuff-box—and then his manner of taking snuff—how superb—how magnificent—how commanding. True, he is in rags, and the outward man bespeaks anything but wealth and high station ; but he . ar him speak—see him take snuff— observe the air rith, wipthhe gte*bia.orders.pd,wha,e , aa doubt but that he is some rich and high-born aristocrat, who has assumed the guise of a beggar out of eccentricity to enjoy a joke. You would take him for any thing but the thing he really is—a thief out of luck. How Talleyrand would have adored him. He never commits a mistake—true, he com mits many crimes, but never a useless one. If success be the test of genius, then is Robert Macaire the greatest genius that ever lived—he always succeeds. The distinguishing characteristic, however, of Robert Ma caire is the refinement of his manners—he is the most po lished of prigs—the very Chesterfield of conveyancers. No doubt he was executed ; but we would venture a small wager that when he ascended the scaffold, bowing to the execu tioner, he apologised to him in the most polite terms for the trouble he was about to give him, and, neatly picking his pocket, flung the proceeds of this his last " business transac tion" among the crowd, and having lived un mauvais sujet, thus died with the reputation of un bon enfant. Never was the magical power of the refined over the vulgar mind more beautifully exemplified, than by Frederick Lemaitre as Ro bert Macaire. A vagabond in outward appearance in clothes —not worth a sous—with a hat that the most abject beggar would not have picked up in the street—uncombed, unshaved, unwashed—he appears among a part of happy and comparatively speaking, wealthy peasants, at an inn, and in five minutes, by the mere force of manner, obtains an ascen dancy, and a supremacy over them, that all are ambitious of his notice, and the prettiest girl in the party—the adored of all adorers—thinks it an honour to be permitted to dance with the fascinating stranger. It is not often that in a mo dern play we meet with a character; but Robert Macaire is a character—and never was any character more ar tistically pourtrayed than is that of Robert Macaire by Frederick Lemaitre.• In fact, we almost be lieve that the author of the piece himself was not aware of the capabilities of the part until he saw them deve loped by Frederick Lemaitre. The author furnished the sketch—the actor has filled in the picture. Lemaitre has, to make use of a Gallicism, created the character, and never has a more perfect creation been exhibited upon any stage. Never, since the French company has performed here, has the theatre been so crowded. It was literally a bumper, even standing .room was at a premium, and never has any perform ance been more enthusiastically or more deserved applauded. the prisoners abused her very much, and threatened her. About two o'clock on the morning of the 10th of January, which was about a week after the trial at Chelms ford, the prosecutrix, who slept in a back room, was awoke by some one in the yard calling upon her to get up, and when she went to the window to see what was wanted, a voice called out that one of her master's horses were ill, and that the farrier was coming to bleed it, and that she must bring down a piece of string. She went up accordingly, and went with a piece of string to the back door, which she opened, and held out the string to the parties who were out side, and who turned out to be the prisoners. She was im mediately dragged into the yard, and a most brutal attack was made upon her by the prisoners, who knocked her down, one of them striking her with such force upon the stomach that the blood rushed out of her mouth ; and, whilst she was lying in an almost insensible state, they, with a pair of shears, such as used for shearing sheep, cut her hair off close to the head, inflicting, in so doing, a wound upon her neck. They then attempted to drag her to a pond in a field close by, she praying that if they intended to kill her they would do it on the spot. The sound of some one approaching being heard, they threw her down, and, with a brutal expression, said she might die there and be Upon assistance arriving, the poor girl was found in a dreadful state, and it appeared from the surgeon's evidence, that for a considerable time it was very doubtful whether she would recover the injuries and fright she had received. The defence attempted to be made for the prisoners was that they were not the parties who had attacked the prose cutor, and some witnesses were called for that purpose, but their evidence was very far from satisfactory. The jury found the prisoners guilty of an aggravated assault. The prisoners were again arraigned this morning, upon a charge of stealing foer fowls, the property of Mr. Min, and, upon a verdict of guilty being returned, the Lord Chief Justice, after commenting upon the atrocious character of the offence of which they had been convicted on the previous evening, sentenced the prisoner Baker, for the first offence, to be kept to hard labour for three years, the last fourteen days in the first and second years in solitary confinement; and for the second offence, at the termination of the former sentence, that he should be transported for seven years. The other prisoner was sentenced to eighteen months' hard la bour, seven days in the first year, and at the expiration of the sentence, to be passed in solitary confinement, and that lie should then also be transported for semen years. INcENDlmusst.—James Merchant, aged 20, and William Youngs, aged 21, were indicted for feloniously firing a barn, a cart-shed, and other buildings, the property of the execu tors of Edward Lugar, deceased. This case occupied the Court a considerable time, but the facts lie in a very small compass. The chief, and, indeed, the only evidence against the prisoners consisting in decla rations alleged to have been made by them prior to and after the fire. It appeared that the fire in question took ' place at a farm called Badley Hall, at Ardleigh, in this county, above a year ago, and although at the time some suspicion was entertained of the prisoners, no proceedings were taken against them until recently, when some persons came forward who swore that on the day of the tire the prisoners were in company, and that they were heard to say there should a fire at Badley Hall. After the fire had happened another witness stated that he heard one of the prisoners say to the other, that they had had a good flare up, and that it would not be found out if they " kept it dark." Some of the witnesses who deposed to these facts were persons of very indifferent character ; but altogether a very strong case was made out against the prisoners. The jury, after deliberating for some time, returned a ver dict of Guilty. The prisoners were sentenced to be transported for fifteen years. There were two other indictments for arson against the same prisoners, but they wora not proceeded with. CLOSING OF TILE LYCEUM. This theatre was filled to overflowing last night, with an audience in high good humour, to witness the last perform ance during the present season, it being also for the benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Keeley. Martin Chuzzleurit, condensed into two acts, was chosen for the occasion, and Mr. Keeley as Sairey Gamp, and Mrs. Keeley as the boy Bailey, were hailed with great applause. Mr. Distin and his four sons (the Sax-horn players) performed the celebrated quintette from Robert le Diable, and were honoured with an encore. After the farce of A Model of a Wife, Mrs. Keeley delivered very effectively the following address : " Ladies and Gentlemen,—The last night of the season having arrived, it devolves upon me, as directress of this theatre, to address a few words to its patrons. The task is to me most pleasing, not less from the bright retrospection of past success, than the cheering anticipation of soon meeting yeu again. " Until last year there was a cloud hung so unfortnnately over this house, that at last the werld looked upon the Ly ceum as Betsy Prig did upon Mrs. Harris—" They didn't believe there was no such theatre.' "By careful and fortunate management, however, the establishment, from a fiction, has, I am proud to say, become a ' great fact,' and in imitation of our larger neighbours, we have held League meetings here nightly, which have ma terially assisted our Treasury. But ours was a league only against dullness and blue devils; various were the forms in which we assailed them, nor were we scrupulous as to the allies we called to our assistance. First,we assailed them with the Forty Thieves, but finding, after a series of attacks, that even they relaxed in their vigour, we called upon the magic aid of Aladdin's Lamp and Ring, and as fresh occasion called for new assistance, we summoned from the prolific brains of our unwearied authors Valentine and his Savage Brother. With these we have occupied our dramatic field of battle, flanked with twenty new pieces of various calibre, but all of which went off with great effect. We have maintained our ground victoriously. " Gentlemen of the Pit,—You will be happy to hear that the revenue exhibits a most cheering balance. I have, how ever, several new taxes to impose, but they are only upon your kindness and constant attendance. I continue to receive the most friendly assurances from the authors who have already written for the Lyceum. On them will the pen and ink'em tax fall moat heavily; but they will not object to it, even if it extends beyond Three Years. They inform me that the late Budget, in removing the duty from Staves, will enable them to furnish me with Songs on the most ad vantageous terms. " Gentlemen of the Gallery—l have directed estimates to be made of various alterations connected with your part of the house. The gallery will be far more commodious, and better adapted both for seeing and hearing than the honour able benchers who fill it have hitherto found it. "Ladies and Gentlemen,—Such improvements will be im mediately commenced in every part of the house as will, I trust, tend materially to your future comfort. It will be thoroughly cleaned and redecorated, and the introduction of a new chandelier will render what has hitherto been a most e nlightened audience, still more so. Within an hour after your quitting this house, scaffolds will be erected for the execution (don't be alarmed)—the execution of my orders to that effect. But I fear I am trespassing on your patience. "On the part of my frequent partner, Mr. Keeley, and myself, I beg to express most sincere tanks for your un ceasing patronage. You have been the means of shedding happiness for twelve months over many, many families. Pray be assured that your favour, so liberally extended to us in public, has been sincerely felt and acknowledged in our own homes." This address was received with loud plaudits, and a shower of bouquets were thrown upon the stage. Mr. Keeley, as Mrs. Sairey Gamp, immediately afterwards made the following announcement : " Ladies and Gentlemen all—l don't know what that blessed babby has been a sayin' of ; but I thought I heard her speakin' the words of Betsy Prig, which, it's known, I hates. What she's been a saying is unbeknown to that blessed creetur, her husband—which, however, don't oppoge it ; but, if anything's wrong, which I hopes will not be the case, call me in. I shall be at home on Easter Monday next." The speaker threw a number of cards into the pit, which bore the legend, " Mrs. Sairey Gamp, at Home, Easter Monday, at seven." On that evening, a new comedy in two acts, a new farce, and a new burlesque, will be brought brwards to welcome Mr. and Mrs. Keeley's numerous visitors. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—Oxford, March 7. (Before the Lord Chief Baron.) LETTER STEALING BY A POST-MISTRESS. Ann Gardner, who is a post-mistress at Enstone, in this county, was charged with having opened two letters, and stolen a third, containing two half-sovereigns, all of which were committed to her care. It appeared that several letters had never reached their destination, after having been sent to the post-office at Enstone. In consequence of numerous complaints upon this subject having been made to the authorities at the General Post-offiee, Mr. Ramsey, the superintendent of the missing letter department, prepared what is technically called " a trap letter," an invention which has been found of great service in detecting the Post-office robberies, of late but too frequent. This letter enclosed a sovereign, which had been previously marked, and, after having been sent through the suspected channel, was examined by the proper authorities, when it was discovered that, although the coin was still there, the seal (of red wax) had been tampered with. A second letter, with another direction, was then sent, containing two marked half sovereigns. This was also found to have been opened and resealed, but still the money was untouched. A third attempt was then made, which proved saccessful in detect ing the culprit. Two half-sovereigns, marked, were put into a letter, directed " Thomas Hicks, to be left at the Chequ ers, Bradford-lane, Exeter, England ; with speed." This was put, as if by accident, into a bundle of letters for Enstone, and it was the duty of the prisoner to have written on it " inis-sent," and to have returned it to Oxford. No tidings of the letter having been heard, Mr. Ramsey, accompanied by Mr. Forrest, one of the clerks of the Post-office, went, on the 6th of November last, from Oxford to Enstone, when Mr. Ramsey informed the prisoner that he had come to show her the two first letters, which had evidently been opened. She denied all knowledge of the affair, and he then inquired for the letter directed to " Thomas Hicks," which ought to have been returned by her to Oxford. She declared that she had never seen it, and told him he might search the house. This he did, but not finding it, went out for a policeman, leaving Mr. Forrest with the prisoner. While he was absent Mr. Forrest heard her crumpling a piece of paper in her pocket, and immediately afterwards she put something on the fire, and laid a coal upon it. This he instantly snatched off, when it proved to be a post-office envelope, which had been used to inclose the two half-sovereigns in question, both of which were still within it, and were identified by the marks before men tioned. No traces of the letter itself could, however, be found. The policeman now coming in, the prisoner was given into custody, and in the course of the subsequent search of the house, a small pocket-knife with a flat-hooked blade was discovered, having red sealing-wax adhering to the point on each side. From its appearance, there could be no doubt that the blade had been heated, and had, while in that state. DEATH of MR. SAMUEL RUSSELL, THE COMEDIAN, AND FATHER OF THE STAGE. This once celebrated actor, famous for his performance of Jerry Sneak, in the Mayor of Garrett, expired on Wednes day, the 26th ult., at the house of his daughter, in Graves end, at the advanced age of 79 years, having been born in 1766. Mr. Russell's name as an actor, is associated with the brightest period of the English drama, when John Kemble, Charles Kemble, King, Lewis, Elliston, Fawcett, Dowton, Munden, John Bannister, Emery, 11. Johnson, Mrs. Siddons, Mrs. Jordan, Miss Duncan, Mrs. Bland, Madame Storace, and Miss O'Neill shed the lustre of their talent nightly on the boards of our royal theatres. The father of the late comedian was himself an actor of great celebrity in the provinces, and, as might be expected, initiated his son into the mysteries of the stage, for, when only nine years of age, he was with Miss Romanzini (afterwards Mrs. Bland), the great Eng lish ballad singer, performing at the Royal Circus, now the Surrey Theatre. In 1787, he Save entertainments by him self in the City, by permission of the Lord Mayor, after the style of Henderson, Lee Lewis, in a large room by Basinghall- street. Russell s introduction to Drury-lane Theatre had its origin in a mistake made by his late saw the father of the Ma jesty George IV., then Prince of Wales, who being at that some time Iperiodate at that (then) f as hi o nable watering place. On the Prince's act a or g p re la a y t patatbrioanrgoaftethwehdareahmea,was spending return to London, he menti . oned to King (then the stage manager at Drury) the gratification he had derived from the performance of an actor named Samuel Russell, adding a wish to see him on the London boards ; the same night an offer was made to " Samuel Russell, Esq.," and addressed " Theatre Royal Margate-" Samuel being the sponsorial appellation of the son, he opened the epistle, his father being absent from rehearsal, and the business proposed suiting him, he agreed to act with the salary offered. He took a hasty leave of his theatrical associates and sire, came to London and made his bow on the boards of old Drury the 21st of September, 1795, in the characters of Charles Surface and Fribble (-Miss in Her Teens); the Prince came to see his favourite, and was struck with surprise to find that the son had been engaged instead of the father, and though not so hi g hly pleased with his performance of Charles, was so delighted by his acting in Billy Fribble, that he declared himself much gratified at having been the occa sion of introducing him to the metropolis. Of his Jerry Sneak it is hardly necessary to speak ; the old play-goer will remember that it steodlone—it was a faultless per formance, and defied competition ; it became his cognomen ever after. In 1812, he accompanied Elliston as stage-manager to the Surrey, and was that gentleman's second in the bloodless duel between him and Vincent Decamp, on Finchley . COMS2OP, on the 9th of September of that year. He after come in contact with the wax. That part of the charge which related to the stealing the letter having been abandoned by the Learned Counsel for the Crown, the indictment for the larceny of the money was proceeded upon. The jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, returned a ver dict of Guilty. The prisoner Li 64 years of age, and has borne a good cha racter.—Sentence deferred. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—March 6. Mr. Justice Wightman was engaged the whole day with the trial of two cases against the sheriff. The question in one case respected the property in certain goods which had been seized under a writ. In the other the dispute was whe ther due diligence had been used in the endeavour to execute it. The cases were of no public interest. FUNERAL or Snt JOHN GURNEY.—The interment of the remains of the late Sir John Gurney took place yester day. The funeral cortege assembled at the residence of the deceased Judge, in Lincoln's Inn-fields, at two o'clock, and consisted of a hearse and four, and five mourning coaches, the latter of which contained the following gentlemen :—Russell Gurney, Esq., §idney Gurney, Esq., the Rev. H. Gurney, Joseph Gurney, Esq., and Thomas and Henry Gurney, Esqs., chief mourners ; the Rev. Mr. Tyler, the Rev. George Lea, Thomas and William Hawes, Esqs. (relatives of the de ceased), Russell Scott, Esq., S. H. Fordham, Esq., &c. The private carriages of the lion. Sir James Coleridge, Sir B. Bosanquet, Sir John Patteson, H. Weymouth, Esq., J. Hardy, Esq., M.P., Joseph Wilson, Esq., Martin Ware, Esq., tee., followed. On the arrival of the funeral precession at the chapel of St. Giles-in-the-Fields' Cemetery, Old St. Pancras road, the Rev. 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On Sugar the growth and produce of China, Java, or Manilla, or of any Foreign Country the Sugars of which her Majesty in Council shall have declared, or may hereafter declare, to be admis sible as not being the produce of slave labour, and which shall be imported into the United Kingdom either from the Country of its growth, or from some British Possession, having first been imported into such British Possession from the Country of its growth : " White Clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by:any pro cess equal in quality to White Clayed, not being re fined, for every cwt. •• • • ...... • • 8 0" Afterwards Motion made, and Question put " White Clayed Sugar, or Sugar rendered by any pro cess equal in quality to White Clayed, not being re• fined, for every cwt. ••• • • . The Committee divided:— MINORITY-AYES, 69. Ainsworth, Peter Fitzroy, Lord:C. Ponsonby, C. F. A. Arundel, Earl of Ferguson, Colonel Rawdon, Colonel Raring, F. T. Gibson, T. M. Russell, Lord E. Berkeley, H. T. Gill, Thomas Stansfleld, W. R. C. Bowring, Dr. Thistle, Archibald Staunton. Sir G. Bright, John Hill, Lord M. Stuart, Lord J. Brocklehurst, J. Hindley, Charles Stuart, W. V. Brotherton, J. Hobhouse, Sir J. S.trutt, Edward Buller, Edward Holland, Robert Talbot, C. R. Basfeild, William Howard, C. W. Tancred, II.:W. aildens, J. W. Humo, Joseph Thornely, Thomas Christie, W. D. Hutt, William Trelawny, J. S. Colebrooke, Sir T. Leader, J. T. Villiers, Charles Collett, John Moreland, Henry Wakley, Thomas Cowper, W. F. Mitchell, T. A. Walker, Richard Craig, W. G. Morris, David Warburton, Henry Currie, Raike, Muntz, G. F. Wawn, John T. Dalrymple, Captain Murray, AlexanCer Williams, William Dawson, T. V. liorreys, Sir D. J. Wilshere, W. Dennistoun, J. O'Conor, Don Winnington, Sir T. Duke, Sir J. Palmerston,Viscouut Yorke, Henry R. Duncan, George Parker, John TELLERS, Duncombe, T. Pechell, Captain Clay, Sir W. Ebrington, Viscount Plumridge, Captain Ewart,:Willistm MAJORITY—NOES, 152. A'Court, Captain Escott, Bickhara Masterman, John Adderley, C. B. Estcourt, T. G. Maxwell, J. P. Antrobus, Edmund Farnham, E. B. Miles, P. W. S. Bailey, J., jun. Fellowes, Edward Miles, William Baillie, Colonel Fitzroy, Henry Morgan, Delaying Baird, William Flower, Sir J. Mundy, E. M. Baldwin. Barry] Forbes, William Neville, Ralph Barclay, David Forman, T. S. Newry, Viscount Baring, Thomas Fox, S. L. Nichol], John Baring, W. B. Fremantle, Sir T. O'Brien, A. S. Barrington, Viscount Fuller, A. E. Packe, C. W.: Baskerville, T. B. Gladstone, W. E. Pakington, J. S. Beckett, William Gordon, Captain Patten, J. W. Bell, Matthew Gore, Montague Peel, Sir Robert Bentinck, Lord G. Goulburn, merry reel, Jonathan Blackstone, W. S. Graham, Sir J. Pennant, Colonel Blakemere, Richard Grimsditch, T. Plumptre, J. P. Boiclero, H. G. Grogan, Edward Polhill, Frederick Borthwick, Peter Halford, Sir H. Pringle, Alexander Bowles, Admiral Hamilton, W. J. Pusey, Philip Braraston, T. W. Hamner, Sir J. /lepton, 0. W.. 1. Broadley, Henry Henley, J. W. Rolleston, Colonel Bruce, Lord E. Herbert, Sidney lions, Captain Ilniges, W. 11. L. Hervey, Lord A. Russell, J. D. W. ' Buller, Sir J. Y. 'Uncle, J. H. Shaw, Frederick Campbell, Sir H. Hogg, J. W. Shirley. E. J. Cardwell, Edward Hope, Charles Sibthorp, Colonel Carew, W. H. P. Hope, G. W. Smith, Abel Charter's, Francis Ilouldsworth, T. Smith, T. B. C. Chelsea, Viscount Hussey, Ambrose Smollett, A. Clayton, R. R. Hussey, Thomas Somerset, Lord G. Clerk, Sir G. Ingestrie, Viscount Somes, Joseph Clifton, J. T. Irton, Samuel Spooner, Richard Clive, Viscount James, William Stewart, John Clive, R. H. James, Sir W. C. Stuart, Henry Cochrane, A. Jermyn, Earl Sutton, Henry Cockbnrn, Sir G. Jocelyn, Viscount Tennent, J. E. Colquhoun, J. C. Johnstone, Sir J. Thesiger, Sir F. Corry, Henry Johnstone, Hope Tollemache, John Darby, George Kemble, Henry Tower, Christopher Deedes, William Knight, W. Trotter, John Denison, E. B. Legh, G. C. Villiers, Viscount Dickinson, F. H. Lincoln, Earl Waddington, Si. B. Douglas, Sir H. Lockhart, W. Walsh, Sir J. B. Douglas, J. D. S. Lopeg, Sir R. Wellesley, Lord C. Dugdale, W. S. Lygen, General Wodehouse, Edmond Duncombe, A. Mackenzie, T . Wood, Colonel Du Pre, C. G. Mackenzie, W. F. Wortley, John S. East, J. B. Maclean, Donald Eastnor, Viscount 3PNeill, Duncan MIMS. Ellice, Edward Manners, Lord J. Young, John lintwisle, William Marsham, Viscount Lennox, Lord A. THE GLASS TRADE. A deputation, consisting of the Members for Birmingham, Mr. Nichol', Lord Sandon, Mr. Cookson, and others, waited upon Sir Robert Peel, at the Treasury, on Saturday last, to lay before him the injuries the glass manufelturers were cer tain to sustain by the suiden removal of the duties. The deputation asked for a remission of the duty upon stocks in hand, so as not to compel them to export ; and, secondly, they required a temporary protecting duty upon foreign glass, while adapting themselves to the new circumstances of the trade. Sir Robert Peel, with whom was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Wood, of the Excise, and Sir George Clerk, received the deputation with the utmost courtesy, and listened to the remonstrance with great attention, and in reply to the first request made by the deputation, the fol lowing order has been issued : " Excise-office, March 5,1845. " The Board hare received instructions from the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury to allow drawbacks on glass on the following conditions : "1. Warehouses at the cost of the manufacturers or dealers must be provided, and being approved by the Ex cise, put under our lock. These warehouses to be at the different manufactories, and .in each town where we have a supervision. " 2. That no glass be warehoused excepting under the same regulations as if for export. " 3. That no quantity of crown or German sheet glass, less than 10 cwt., be received at the same time from any in dividual. " 4. That each package be marked with the net and gross weight, and with the name and abode of the depositor. " 5. That the bottle on the manufacturing premises of such of the bottle makers as require it shall be taken account of and warehoused, or secured by the Excise. " 6. That on the repeal of the duty on crown, German sheet, and bottle glass, the quantities so under the Excise locks shall be delivered to the respective owners, precautions being taken to ascertain that such quantities correspond with those deposited. "7. That so soon as the re-deliveries shall be completed, and the accounts have been examined and certified at the head office, the owners shall receive doeunients authorising them to claim the sums to which they would have been re spectively entitled by way of drawback on exportation, de ducting 251. per cent. " $. That on the sth day of April the stocks of plate-glass, whether in the rough, smoothed, or polished state, be taken ; and on all rectangular pieces of 6 inches by 4at the least, andinot less than 1-Bth of an inch in thickness, the sum of Is. 10d . per square foot be allowed, and on such as is po lished and not 1-Bth of an inc h in thickness, the sum of 4/. 4s. per cwt. ;if unpolished and under 1-Bth in thickness, no allowance. " A letter, containing full instructions to carry into effect the above regulations, will be forthwith addressed to the several supervisors. " By the Board, " GEORGE BALLARD." To the second request we believe no answer has yet been given, but we rather doubt the success of the application. CURIOUS WILL.—John Moore, Esq., son of Arch bishop Moore, by his will, which was proved in Doctors' Commons, on Wednesday last, under 300,000/., which is the amount of the personal estate only, has left some interesting specific bequests and directions, of which we give the follow ing :—To Earl Howe he gives his equestrian bronze statue, in remembrance of his attached friend " Old Johnny" (the testator); to John Lewis 'Wyndham, Esq., he gives 500/. for " Auld fang sync ;" to Sir J'. Hyde Parker (his messmate), a cup he won at the Weymouth regatta; to Spencer de Horsey, Esq., he gives his Reindeer yacht; to Mr. Slater, master of the yacht, 2007. ; to George Cooper, the late master, an annuity of 20/. for his life; and to Valentine Lewis, the coxswain, 5/. a year. Gives directions that he, may be buried in the nearest churchyard to which he may happen to die; his body to be placed in an oak coffin, which is to be tilled up with quick lime, but no leaden coffin, and that he should be borne to the grave by labourers, sailors, or stablemen (no hearse); and if he should die in London, to lie near his brother Charles. The will is in his own haadwriting, and he has added two memoranda — one is, that his charities should be continued for two years; the other, that his favourite horses should be shot. He leaves his landed property in Essex to his godson, George B. Moore : his Calcraft, estate to his nephew, John Moore ; his house in which he dwelt, at Charles-street, and the whole of the furniture, he leaves to the wife of his brother Robert, for her own absolute use and disposal. The executors are the Rev. George Moore and the Rev. Robert Moore, clerks (the brothers), and Frederick Capes, Esq., the godson of the deceased. The deceased was the Registrar of the Province of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Principal of one of the seats in the Prerogative-office, boctors' Commons, where the probates of wills and letters of administration are prepared and issued. TIIE LONDON HosprrAr..—Yesterday a General Court of the Governors of this Hospital was held in the board room, for the purpose of receiving the report of the commit tee, and transacting the general business. L. Currie, Esq., presided. The report, having been read, was unanimously adopted. An authority was given for the sale of 2,000/. por tion of the funded property in the Three per Cent. Consols, to meet the excess of the expenditure over the fixed income of the last year. The statistical account of the accidents brought to this institution shows that they are m uch t tr e et at than any other hospital in the metropolis. year there were admitted 2,149 in-patients,tphaeunrtinl quarter, 95 2 jus t l h a r 7 g 2 e d h , a o d f te whom niin a s t 2 e o d out patients, making a total of 6,101 ;. were cured, 862 in-patients relieved, notwithstanding the serious na ture o a n tiet y its in the house ; on p The business of the day of a great number of the c 3 a l s B es, fatally. There are at present r 1 voted to the chairman the hav ibnogo beanks as o u concluded,t- p a t patients, ts thanks , _ , 2,3a were . FATAL WAGGON ACClDENT. — Yesterday Mr. W. and other officers, and the Court broke up. Carter held an in q uest at the Rose an d Orown, Riddlesdown, the death of J erem i a h G eorge Weaver, driver of a four-horse carrier's wag gon. On Wednesday evenin g aSguerdre3t;V Pe e r n e t s y, e w ti l n io g was the last, about six o'clock, whilst proceeding along the road towards Godstone from C r oydon, at a steady pace, he was stepping from the shaft of the vehicle for the purpose of ascending a steep hill at Rid dlesdown, when, in consequence of the slippery state of the road, he missed his footing, and fell under the fore wheel. He endeavoured to save himself, but in turning round he again fell under the hind wheel, which passed over his head, crushing it to pieces, and causing instantaneous death. A gentleman who witnessed the dreadful sight proved that the occurrence was purely accidental. Verdict...." Accidental death." COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morning in the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace. Their - Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were taken an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four. His Royal Highness the Prince of Walei was taken an airing in the royal gardens yesterday. His Royal highness Prince Albert presided yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the Commission for promoting and encouraging the Fine Arts in rebuilding the Palace of His Royal Highness, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, ar rived at Gwydyr House at half-past two o'clock. The Corn. missioners present were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Ashburton, Lord Colborne, Lord Mahon, the Right Honourable T. B. Macaulay, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. Henry Hallam, and Mr. Thos. Wyse. At half -past three o'clock, Prince Albert left Gwydyr House, for the new Palace at Westminster, Viscount Palmerston, Lords J. Russell, Mahon, Ashburton, and Colborne, Sir R. Inglis, Messrs. Macaulay, Hallain, and Wyse, followed. Mr. Eastlake, secretary to the Fine Arts' Commission, and Mr. Barry, the architect, received the Prince and the other Commissioners, and attended them during their inspection of the new Houses of Parliament and the other buildings now in progress. Mr. Gnssell, ene of the contractors, also attended the illustrious party through the different works. Prince Albert remained at the new Palace until a quarter past five o'clock, and then took his departure, attended by Sir E. Bowater. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace' yesterday included the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Howley, the Marquis of Normanby, the Earl of Rosalyn, and Viscount and Viscountess Emlyn. The band of the Ist Life Guards attended during dinner at the Palace, and performed the following pieces : . Sinfonia, Vol. 3 Walzer, Percy Labitzky. Polka, Norfolk Potpourri, Don Carlos Quadrilles, Scotch... Waddell. Pas redouble (from the Daughter of St. Mark) Balfe. _ THE GRAND DII . CIIESS STEPHANIE OF BAIDEN.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester gave a grand dinner at Gloucester House, yesterday, to her Royal Highness. The company to meet the Grand Duchess consisted of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his Serene High ness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Austrian Ambas sador and the Countess Dietrichstein, Count de Pollow (Sar dinian Minister), Count Kielmansegge (the Hanoverian Minister), the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunnow, the Marquis of Winchester, the Marquis of Douglas, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clemen tina Villiers, and Baron Knesebeck. The Grand Duchess was attended by Baroness do Strum feder and Baron de Schreikenstein. The Duchess of Gloucester had afterwards an evening party. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and attended by Mr. Edmond Mildmay, arrived at Gloucester House at ten o'clock. The company began to arrive at half-past nine o'clock. Among those present were Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Minis ter; the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, the Saxon Minister and Baroness Gersdorff, Baron Koller, Baron Brea ner, Count de Noailles, the Duke of \Buccleuch, Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Marquis of Granby, Mar chioness of Ely and Lady A. Loftus, Marquis of Salisbury, Earl and Countess Delawarr, the Ho nourable Mortimer and Lady Mary Sackville West, the Countess of Haddington, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Countess of Verulam, and Lady Jane Grimston. Mr. Grimston, Earl Cadogan, and the Ladies Augusta and Honoria Cadogan, the Countess of Mansfield and the Ladies Murray, the Earl and Countess of Sheffield, the Countess Bruce, Viscountess Pal merston, Lord Goderich, Lord Redesdale and the Hon. Miss Mitford, Lady Stanley, Lady Peel, Mr. Frederic and Mr. John Peel, Lady Graham, Lady Rendlesham and the Hon. Misses Thellusson, Lady Beauvale, Lady Charles Wellesley, Lord H. Loftus, and Mr. Vincent. Madame Dulcken had the honour of performing before the Illustrious party during the evening. His Excellency Sarim Effendi, the newly appointed Am bassador from the Sublime Porte to this Court, arrived yes terday at the Turkish Tmbassy in Bryanstone-square, at tended by a numerous suite. A deputation respecting tin, consisting of the Earl of Fal mouth, Sir C. Lemon, Mr. Pendarves, Mr. Praed, Mr. Came, Mr. R. Bolith, Mr. Williams ' Mr. C. Bolith, and Mr. R. Taylor, had an interview with Sir George Clerk yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Dispatches from the Governors of Hong-Kong and the Mauritius were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were sent off yesterday for the Governor of Ceylon, and also for the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. A deputation of the Flint-Glass trade, consisting of Messrs. Arthur Powell, J. G. Green, Rice Harris, Chester, and Aps ley Pellatt, had an interview with Sir George Clerk yes terday. BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY. BRISTOL, FRIDAY.—The half-yearly meeting of the Bristol and Gloucester Railway was held to-day, at the White Lion, George Jones, Esq., the Chairman of the Board of Directors, in the chair. The attendance of Proprietors was large. After the CHAIRMAN had adverted to the circumstances connected with the proposal to lease the line to the Midland Counties Railway, and other circumstances, The Secretary, Mr. Fletcher, read the report, which en tered with considerable minuteness into the proceedings of the Company during the past six months. From the fre quent cheers which the statements elicited during the read ing, it was evident that the Proprietors were of opinion that the Directors had done their utmost for the benefit of the Company. The surplus balance being 7,853/., the Directors recom mended a dividend of four per cent. per annum, being 20s. for the 501. shares, and 12s. for the 301. for the half-year, to be paid free of income-tax. This was unanimously agreed to. A balance of 2,974/.145. 4d. remains to be applied to contingencies. Mr. A. W. Daniel was re-elected a Director. The number of Directors will now be reduced to ten, but the form of keeping up the Board must be adhered to till the Act for ratifying the amalgamation of the Company with the Bir mingham and Gloucester be obtained. In the meantime the united companies will be managed as provided for by the terms of amalgamation recently agreed to. The business of the lease to the Midland Counties was then entered upon by the reading of the terms of agreement. The Cirairim.tm, after a few explanatory statements, calcu lated to show that the lease was mutually beneficial to the contracting parties, moved a resolution sanctioning the agree - ment, and authorising the Directors to adopt the necessary measures for carrying it into effect. Mr. Acura, banker, suggested that an opinion in favour of non-Sunday travelling, as far as practicable, be expressed to the Midland Counties Company. This view was supported by several shareholders, but the matter was left to the Directors. The agreement as to the lease was then put and unani mously agreed to. Votes of thanks closed the proceedings. THE HAMPSTEAD MURDER. DISCOVERY OF THE WEAPON WITH WHICH THE DE CEASED WAS KILLED.—By the extraordinary exertions of the police, the stick, of which some mention has been already made as having been usually carried by the prisoner, Thomas Hocker, has been at length discovered, and in a most remark able manner. It will be recollected that on the post mortem examination of the body the surgeon gave it as his opinion that the wounds upon the head of the deceased had been pro duced by some blunt and not very heavy instrument. A shoe-maker's pincers found in the prisoner's room was at first supposed to be the weapon, but the surgeon thought it a most unlikely one. He thought a stick more probable. In quiry was accordingly directed to the habits of the accused, and it was ascertained from the evidence of his father and brother that, up to about three weeks before the date of Mr. Delarue's murder, he had usually carried a large and rather heavy yellow walking-stick, which he said he had left behind him at the house of some friend. The police, however, thought it by far more likely that it had been secreted in some convenient spot until its services might be required, and accordingly every hedge and trench, and place, about the neighbourhood of the fatal spot has been examined, but to no purpose. On Thursday evening, however, In spector Shackell, of the detective police, received an intima • tion that a young man in the employment of Mr. Rudd, a poulterer in the New-read, had found a large yellow walking-stick, covered with blood, secreted in the herbage at the side of one of the bridges in the Regent's Park. In spector Shackell went instantly to the person indicated, and at once received the stick and the particulars of its dis covery. Strange as it may appear, as an instance of apathy in forwarding the pursuit of justice, this young man had actually found the bloody instrument on the morning of the Saturday following the perpetration of the murder, and although the entire public of the three kingdoms have been ever since aware of the importance of such a fact being made known, he has:suffered himself (it is said) to be dissuaded by his father from coming forward or giving any information. The information received by the inspec tor proved to be in all respects unusually correct. The stick had been thrust into the rank herbage or underwocd close by the bridge in the Regent's-park, not far from Prim rose-hill. Inspector Shackell lost no time in waiting on the father and brother of the accused, to whom he showed the stick, which they at once identified as the one usu all y carried by Thomas Hocker, and the same of which he spoke when he asserted that he had left it at the house of a friend. The in spector then waited on Mr. Rawlinson , the magistrate, at Marylebone Police-court, to whom he privately communi cated his important discovery, as it cannot come before the ‘z RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PAR- LIAMENT. FRIDAY, MARCH 7. London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire - way Mr ; —" for making a Railway from the London and Birminghane Railway at Marsworth to Worcester, with a Branch to the Severn, and with Branch Railways to Rugby and Oxford, and an extension to Dudley, to be called The London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire Railway,' " presented, and read a first time. Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway,— Petition for Bill ; referred to the Select Committee on Peti tions for Private Bills. Newcastle and Darlington (Brandling Junction) Railway' Bill,—Read a first time, and committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection. Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway,—Petition for Bill reported ; Report referred to the Select Committee ots Standing Orders. Edinburgh and Hawick Railway,—Petition for Bill re ported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Forbes Mac kenzie and Mr. Pringle. Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland),—Petitiote for Bill reported ; Report to lie on the table. Newry and Enniskillen Railway,—Petition for Bill; re--- ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills Waterford and Limerick Railway,—Petition for Bill_; re-. ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills.. Glasgow Junction Railway Bill,—" for making a Railway to be called The Glasgow Janctionßailway,' with Branches; presented, and read a first time. Eastern Counties Railway (Hertford and Biggleswade Line) Bill,—Read a second time, and committed, and referred to thee Committee of Selection. i Orand Junction Railway,—Petition for Bill; referred to thee Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway "to authorise an extension of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar nock, and Ayr Railway to near Cumnock, and Branches to. Barrhead and Nittshill, and to amend the Acts relating to such Railway" presented, and read a first time. Eastern Union and Norwich Railway,—Petition for Bill referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. Eastern Union and Bury St. Edmund's Railway,—Petitions for Bill ; refereed to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. Hull and Gainsborough Railway,—Petition for Bill; re• ferred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills. Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton Railway,—Petition for Bill ; referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Pri vate Bills. PRIVATE BUSINESS, MONDAY, Maws' 10. SECOND READINGS. Scottish Central Railway. Newcastle and Berwick Railway. Eastern Counties (Cambridge and Huntingdon) Railway. Ulster Railway Extension. Cambridge and Lincoln Railway. Oxford and Rugby Railway. Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. York and North Midland (Goole Branch) Railway. West Cornwall Railway. Belfast and Ballymena Railway. Lynn and Ely Railway. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE, FRIDAY, MARCH 7. Hull and Gainsborough Railway,—Committee on petition,. Tuesday, March 18. Grand Junction Railway,—Committee on petition, Tops day, March 18. Wear Valley Railway,—Committee on petition , postponed from Monday 10, till Wednesday, March 12. Middlesborough and Redcar Railway,—Committee on pe tition, postponed from Monday 10, till Wednesday, March 12. Harrogate and Ripon Junction Railway,—Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 10, till Wednesday, March 12.. Trent Valley R ail way,—Second reading. Tuesday, March 12. London, Chatham, and North Kent Railway v —Committee on petition, postponed from Tuesday 11, -till Wednesday, March 12. Bristol and Gloucester, and Birmingham Alia Gloucester Railways,—Committee on petition, postponed frpsu Wednes day 12, till Wednesday, March 19. Greenwich Colliery Railway Bill,—Committee eh petition,. to prove Standing Orders, Tuesday, March 18. Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction ItaQway,— Committee on petition, Tuesday, March 18. Eastern Union and Bury St. Edmund's Railwayi—Com mittee on petition, Tuesday, Mardi 18. Eastern Union and Norwich Hailway,,--Comraittet on pe tition, Tuesday, March 18. Lowestoft Railway and Harbour,—Committe on petitien„ postponed from Monday 10, till Tuesday, March 11. Brighton and Chichester (Portsmouth Extension) Rail.- wav,—Committee on petition, postpone& from Monday 10, till Tuesday, March 11. Bedford and London and Birmingham Railway,—Com mittee on petition, postponed from Monday 10, till Tuesday, March 11. Glasgow Junction Railway,—Second reading, Tuesday, March 11. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway,—Setond reading, Tuesday, March 11. COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. MONDAY, MARCH 10. Waterford and Kilkenny Railway. Blackburn and Preston Railway. Newark and Sheffield Railway. South Wales Railway. Midland Railways (Nottingham to Lincoln). Midland Railways (Swinton to Lincoln). Midland Railways (Syston to Peterborough). Midland Railways (Lincoln to Ely). North Woolwich Railway. York and North Midland Railway (Doneastdr Extension). Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway. London and Greenwich Railway. Erewash Valley AY Railway. TUESD, MARCH 11. Newcastle-upon-Tyne and North Shields (Tynemoutk Extension) Railway. Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale Railway. St. Helen's Canal and Railway. Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Associated Railway Com panies. Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway (Keymer Branch). Eastern Union Railway. Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Mester Junction Railway. London and South-Western Railway (No. 2). Yarmouth and Norwich Railway. Loweetoft Railway and Harbour. Brighton and Chichester (Portsmouth Extension) Railway. Bedford and London and Birmingham Railway. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12. Dublin and Drogheda Railway. Liverpool and Bury Railway. Middlesborough and Redcar Railway. Harrogate and Ripon Junction Railway. London, Chatham, and North Kent Railway. THURSDAY, MARCH 13. Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway. South-Eastern Railways. FRIDAY, MARCH 14. Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway. Southampton and Dorchester Railway. Churnet Valley Railway. Surrey Iron Railway Company (Dissolving)., CHARGE Or MURDER AGAINST IN ACCOUCHEUR• —Considerable excitement has been produced by a recent event in the populous parish of Cossey, near Norwich, the seat of Lord Stafford. About eighteen months since, a Mr. Raymond Gaches, a surgeon, came to reside in the village, having, as we understand, performed a difficult operation upon his Lordship, in which he was successful About six weeks since he attended a married woman named Jane Mary Lovett, as accoucheur, and delivered her, but she shortly afterwards died. The nurse ar.d another woruats present at. the birth afterwards attributed the death of ate woman to the course pursued by Mr. Gaches ; and after *le body had been buried lOr about six weeks, on their eteeerlitanicatiou with some of the Norwich surgeons, it was deemed. edvisahlo to disinter the corpse, and subject it to a post merlear exArnlin ation ; and Mr. Pilgrim, at the request of different members of the profession, consented to hold an inquest upon it. Messrs. Crosse. and Francis were the surgeons who made the examina tion. In their opinion, had the woman been treated properly after the birth, her life might have been saved. Gaches was in the room during the inquiry, but took little or no part in the proceedings; and the jury. after having heard the evidence, in a few minutes found a verdict of man slaughter against Mr. Gaches. Mr. Gachee said that, if he was wrong in the, treatment of the deceased, it had beers through error, and not by wilful neglect. The coroner issued his warrant for his apprehension, and fully committed him for trial at the approaching assizes. The proceedings were. not over till very late, and Mr. Gaches was placed for the night in the custody of police inspector Bassett, but about three o'clock in the morning he made his escape.. A full description of his person has since been published, with am offer of 51. for his apprehension. Ile is described as being 45 years of age, five feet seven inches high, slender, dark complexion, hair black and partly grey, high cheek bones, and whiskers shaved in a line with the ear. He has left a wife and child behind him. The deceased has had other children, and we have been informed that the surgeon who attended her in her previous acconchement said, if she had any more children she would not survive A.—Norwich Post. HORRIBLE OUTIIAGE.—A RURAL AhIUsEMENT. —. The parish of Foulsham, Norfolk, has for several days been thrown into an excited state, in consequence of • most. brutal outrage committed upon the person of an old man, between 70 and 80 years of age, named Amiss. He resided at Foulsham, and was much addicted to drinking. On the morning of the 21st of February he was enticed into a beer•hotise in Foulsham, kept by Benjamin Clitheroe, where several of his pot compilations were drinking; together; they had sent for a large quantity of 'atop, and put the same into some beer, which they made the old man drink. He was soon in a very bad state. His com panions obtained music, dancing commenced, while the old man, being in a state of stupor, knew nothing that wai going on, while the parties in the room held him up to ridicule and pulled him about. Not satisfied with this, they stripped him of his clothes, and made him dance naked is the presence of females. In this naked state he was pulled into a large fire, and held there till he was so injured that he was unable to walk or stand. lie was eeriously burned in many parts of his body, and when in a helpless state from burning and filth, lie was laid on. a brick floor, where he re• mained all night; but before this . he was , put on a wheel.. ed p . erso A n n s barrow, and one of the party exclaimed, Let's turn the old beggar over," which was done . . lie was not able to reach his own home till the next morning, when he went . to bed and a w ga h i e n n st he fl . v d t u h e e t names hav ing been held, and these facts established, the jury returned' instant, m anslaughter of li.glinton, Archer,. Chtlieroe, Baker, and Ch a lin v g er e d re io d t t o i f ll the 3 cl epperfield. The Coroner then issued his warrant for their committal to the county gaol, and the parish officers were bound over tO prosecute. FOREIGN BUTTER.—The collectors and comptrol lers of the Customs at the several outports of the United Kingdom have received instructions to prepare and transmit to the Inspector-General of Imports and Exports, with the least possible delay, the undermentioned accounts, as far as the same relates to their respective ports, A return of the quantity of foreign butter destroyed in bond during the last four years, with the dates of the several periods at which such destruction took place, and the quantity destroyed at each period. EXTRAORDINARY OPERATION.—One day last week James Walder, shepherd to Mr. Trimmingham, of Marr Grange, near this town, a young man about 20 years of age, was desired by his master to kill an ewe sheep, in conse quence of an accident which had happened to the animal. The ewe was in lamb at the time, and Walker proposed to save the produce, which was pronounced by Mr. Trimming ham to be a work of impossibility. The young man, how ever, went to work in a skilful manner, and succeeded in the operation, bringing into being two fine lambs, both of which are now living and doing well.—Doncaster Gazette. SALE OF VAN AMDURGII'S ESTABLISHMENT.---We understand that Mr. Van Amburgh has decided upon retiring from his profession and returning to America, and that his whole establishment of elephants, giraffes , lions, leopards, and stud of sixty horses will be brought to the hammer, at Manchester, in the course of the pre sent month,—Liverpool Albion. v lt `got Nit l o lt i i v el atf i g a o rn n in -cl E ot d h g s i , n l: t a o c n r 2, es, • Duke-street, Southwark. pg ALL COMPOSITE CANDLES, l A. t, ~ 1 'tteitif".f ATEN 4 B- 1 . C6dA.:SIDerLEI7,. 10s. 6d. per doz. ,iittlict to - h. ' 4 WAX - CANDLES, 28s. per doz. ' 4 4Lte b 141? t Candles are all precisely alike in the ir burn 4Nit'; oo 'l ` Men; the Vauxhall Composites are rather softer than ,14, % - gotti.,, , tuid thence the difference in price. Even those V m il g ale ' - ` 1 to study economy alone, should burn them in pre likter_bipy. Nclletritt:4,:t. Per Oil, warranted equal in every respect to 1 . 4 41),. Itel laT, 2 ° 53, Ttegent-circus, Oxford-street. \.,„...,..........._ t ' ' Al 411141.1Ir1: r g i i , I E, " Re "' ;e:l 4 ;:;irC i u - s — , 0 xfordist - reet . 4k , g i b lllei xo ROYAL WAX CANDLES 1 "t* l e , i (lttit, 1 4 „. 1 1 , TIFF ! I (Only Is. per lb.) L1,.. 4 ~.`t 11/0. 1 nowa—their superior will never come." 144' 0 , 41,1x....ii" ,-- they snuff themselve3--are hard as alabaster ItZWIN,e c h ° "3" as glass—and . cheap as common tallow can e ih_4l4,4itta:racter. Composite candles, German wax, M a be . k k ,bioN Nui rtn e wax, and all such inferior eandles must Li ol D t ly 4 li a , gno comparison to Royal Wax Candles. Their Al s iti, t trm air eadY created imitators. CLARK and CO. do I:14;4 tztl4 l 4 es ther' s lo o r a e rs al en l i n s o u p se ur d ch i a n s ti e u e ir ls y ew ts h e e h re all c e a n n g n e o d t . Il loh .., ite d ' o ' w o_r all sizes required. Only .. Is. per lb. iti'te w." tile address, CLARK and CO., 447, West )_,, 4 rren's Manufactory). k,, l ',Qit(6;.T r l re t n t! s e , a utri dcl u re. f - a % O C r) L .) ARK and CO., 447, en ‘ te . 1 3 ---- M 'tli, 4,,Par b —ENT.—Persons having a little time Trt„lkic„t4l`4.° aPPrised that Agents continue te be appointed in . 4, 4 1,n s ~,i4 t h,i ` r Y towns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, y t . , ° . 9, if e tlebrated teas. ,', , , tolt 4 Ditek ec r i eat St. Helen's -churchyard, Bishopsgate-street. 001)1, 41 , e Dr! 10 Showy leaden caniiters, from one ounce to a Nk t< it ~,,c eft and weight marked on each packet, and but \ N„,. I / 4........____ , 1 14, 41 1ta al i ll orled by the sale. The license is only lie. per "Dpetne, b uring the last nlaeteea years have realised eon lh, 411 on t Y ., , t lle agency without one shilling let or loss. 4, , r, xj ,.. "`e mQd• (if by letter post-paid) as above. ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. SEVENTH EDITION. Edited by Professor NAPIER. The work is now completed in twenty-one volumes quarto, and may be had in every variety of binding. An Index of 68,000 references, compiled with great industry and judgment, is appended to the work, forming a ready key to its multi farious contents. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh ; and sold by all Booksellers. ;It, a