The Sun. — London, England, 1844-03-22 00:00:00

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Incorporated by Royal ehAter 1842. t he Immediate Protection of her Most Excellent Majesty Pier. TIIE QUEEN. His Royal Highness PRINCE ALBERT, K.G. VICE-PATIIONS. His Grace the Duke of Buceleuch, K.G. His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, K.G. Most Noble the Marquis of Lansdowne, K.G. LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING SIT N 7 MARCH 22, 1844. Most Noble the Marquis of Westinluster, K.G, No. 17,001. PRICE sd. THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, in Time for the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY ; a SECOND EDITION (E ven i ng Sun) i s Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS and a THIRD EDITION at SETEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON srp to that Hour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Ni g ht, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, al ONE CHARGE. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury. Right Hon. the Earl of Dartmouth. Right Hon. Earl De Grey. • Right Hon. Lord Lyndhurst. . . Sir John Swinburne, Bart. Sir Thomas Baring, Bart. . . Sir George Philips, Bart. Win. J. Denison, Esq., M.P. Joseph Neeld, Esq., M.P. * a_ Jesse Watts-Russell. t alDkNr—Sir MARTIN ARCHER SHEE, P.R.A. . 6 .tiOram VICT-PRESIDENTS. ‘.elt 4 Phil lips Fs R.A. Thomas twins, Esq., R.A. lb Smirke, R.A. B. Bond Cabbell, Esq. Diehardst4. Westmacott, R.A. William Brockendon, Esq. o...._,ockerell, Esq., R.A. J. H. Mann, Esq, ):fl,„...Jwies. Esq., B.A. Andrew Robertson, Esq. • •11,_ „. - s - ...ng, Esq., B.A. Sir William C. Ross, R.A. :tiii'Lf4oblllty, Friends, and Subscribers are respectfully informed ,ttleh t , 7,_, T WENTY-NINTII ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL will be . 4 416 11 — t. ' 4 in FREEMASONS' HALL, on SATURDAY, the 30th kr, R OBERT HARRY INGL, _ ~ [S, Bart., M.P., in the Chair. ILRDS. J o u.: Armstrong, Esq. Ju-' e IV. Baker, Esq. l 4 0 od &trY, Esq., R.A. 2u er, Esq . rrell, E. Ar Da Y, sq. W. ,f,Z411 y, E m . 4:`,lm ickenson, Esq. Dorington, Esq. Fisher, Esq. 44 11. 'Ridge, Esq. Dinner on Table 11. Is. each, to be had of Ikt? stOuorary Secretary, I, Gor 14 , Osnaburgh-street, R, WILLIAM JOlll STEW. , Joseph Jennings, Esq. Charles Knight, Esq. Henry Mosely, Esq. Henry O'Neil, Esq. Charles Runciman, Esq. Edwin D. Smith, Esq. Joseph Severn, Esq. W. B. Sara&ld Taylor, Esq. Richard Twentyman, Esq. Henry Weekes, Esq. George Woolcott, Esq. at Six precisely. ffthe Stewards ; of Charles Fowler, rdon-square ; and of the Assistant tegent's-park. N ROPER, Assistant-Secretary. 4.3-TURIAN MINING COMPANY. Established in aecordanse with THS COMMERCIAL CODE OF SPAIN. 41 18,am CAPITAL, £300,000, """ wires of £2O each ; Spanish Reals 2,000 ; F7GESS 500. Deposit, £2 per Share. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. dIDEON COLQUHOUN, Esq., Chairman. Bh WILLIAM YOUNG, Bart., Deputy Chairman. • • %-Xmin Harding, Esq. Julian Skrine, Esq. Edward Stopford. I Lieut.-Colonel Fitch. Esq. Henry Scale, Esq. (With power to add to their number.) CORRESPONDING DIRECTORS. Count Ernest De Causans, Paris. The Marquis de Gras de Preigne, M.C.D. (President of Use Pyreneaa Canal Company). 14 4z 4 .1) ; __ e Baron llorat, Oviedo. t:re _tors hereby give notice, that in consequence of the nu iarlications for SHARES in the above Company, no further me no will be received after MONDAY NEXT, the 25th instant, A DDII List will be closed and the Shares allotted. 4:2 t lons for Shares to be addressed to Messrs. Amory, Sewell, ga rt 7. B , No. 25, Tlarogmorton-street. ---- . 1 9, 1844. I .• NEXT DISTRIBUTION OF MONEY 1 4,v_I . DENDS AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA contains Money Dividends ~..- - --_ " .. " °0 £7O £72 ZBO £9O 100 £ll9 £l2O £l5O £2OO ; . 4 Z250 £3OO £5OO £6OO £750 l '° oo £1,200 £1,750 £4,000 & £21,000 1 . 014 , Amounting together to £154,308 sterling. 'll4 47,! t ribution contains as many Dividends as Bonds. Every 4,r ridend ' Smallest Dividend - - £6B Mrs t t ~ Largest Dividend - - :621,000 ' Prospectus, with Bill particulars, without delay to HEINE BROTHERS, at Hamburgh. ---_ Or to HEINE BROTHERS, at Lubeck. L tvlioNAL BATHS, 218, High Holborn. ~,-tue Public is most respectfully informed that this Establish- RE-OPEN for the Season on SATURDAY, the 23d instant. 1 .4.11 ovate Baths of all descriptions in constant readiness. CoMmodious Tepid Bath, for Mechanics, &c., at Your f."EßT SEAMAN, - (late Ward and Seaman, il !, !t't , „ .°r nterly Ward and Fisher,) Wine, Spirit, and Ale Merchant, gXessrs. Truman, Hanbury, Buxton, and Co.'s cel , ebra . ted rtet and•StoUt, most respectfully announces to the N obility, entry, and the Public generally, that this . Business, in all . its 04 .1 ...W1R be continued solely by him on the same extensive 044 scale as heretofore pursued by his late lamented . partner tt; and hopes, by strictly adhering to the principle of snp liNdsr-Les, Spirits, Pric and other t a goods, of the very first-rate quality, es, to meri continuance of that high confidence 'kte e ''' , 'e patronage awarded to this establishment for nearly A o k,4 Z , eit e e to ry state that all Outstanding Accounts and Liabilities of • ,1 0 ,7 - ' l, will be received and discharged by him. a n -.taddermarket, Norwich, March, 1844. 0 -43 t 111P ,ItTANT and EXTENSIVE SALE of .Ic.ER and UNDERWOOD, near to the towns of PRES- Zlie4 t I COTON, PEMBRIDGE, and LEOMINSTER, in the eat Hereford and Radnor. 4 t:4 b en comprises 1,201 Oak, 386 Ash, and 179 Elm Trees, and k h ,„ ... ° Wars and Sycamores, standing on certain Farms, the A;titiv il .6 1 1 the late Lyndon Evelyn, Esq., deceased, called Lower 4„ tr ,i. eve House, Cadwell Held, Upper Kinsham, Upper and tt t„'Wheath, Rodd Nash, llill, Leen, Low Yew Tree, and ittgatuti'ritether with about 15 acres of Underwood, principally Oak ... .. e growth, standing in Pokewell Wood and other woods, It's ; Portion of the said Estates. , te4h, . b r esaid Timber and Underwood will be sold standing, in 10 -„ by Auction, by order of the High Court of Chancery, i , ), it 7„ bA Y, the 10th day of April, 1844, at the Oxford Arms Lo t, ..Bton, at Two o'clock in the afternoon. t27 t, ; viewed on application to the Tenants ; or to the Wood °llll. I th Eckley, of Beton, and Richard Drown, of Kinsham Lit e 4 t ritti, w i Particulars may be had gratis, in London, at the office of l, t am Senior, Esq ., Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane; tt ir.4 taln Stephens, 30, Bedford-row ;of Mr. A. Dobie, Lances- AN. . A, , s trand ; of Messrs. C. and J. Allen, Carlisle-street, Soho ; )6,,T, i...tosser, 63, Lincoln's Inn-fields. And in the Country, of 'lltiti%4Pd Stephens, and Mr. C. Parsons, in Presteign ; of Messrs. ~ ho tt ,!!'alet solicitors, Leominster ;at the Bush and Royal West j . ri . in Bristol ; at the Adelphi Hotel, Birmingham ; at the At t 1 1° ,... 41 , Portsmouth ; at the Royal Hotel , Plymouth ; at k ittrtaa K.,_ e notel, Southampton ; and at the principal Inns at Here it, Tebridge, Kington, and Knighton. ,LS 4-ICHARD ATTKINS, at present, and for nit i tt .si ltic de lv e months past, residing at No. 5, Kew-road, in the pa ztit4o h lU ttand and county of Surrey, and being an omnibus propric 144444FeZebY give notice that I intend to present a petition to the .11/4 4 , Bankruptcy, Basingleall - street, London, praying to be 'ii' r i . A .„toltching my debts, estate, and e ff ects, and to be pro ,kiebueir all process upon making a full disclosure and surren 41tertitstate and effects for payment of my just and lawful debts ; buttn''Y hall be heardotice that the time when the matter of the tt.,,,,. 14 t xf,, n ,. !hall be is to be advertised in the London Gazette Itiii7; m o rning Sun newspaper one month at the least after the date Ip h tB44" .t uess my hand this 18th day of March, in the year °four ~ 'elts, it ?„ RICHARD ATTKINS. . • •.. Atkinson, 27, Carey-street. ' JOSEPH 1, t ''EPH HOLLOWAY, at present, and for - *eh, tt.pty 0 , e months past, residing in the parish of Heston, and IQj i t t te Uiddlesex, and being a baker, do hereby give notice l i "O n . Bta k," to present a petition to the Court of Bankruptcy, haste t v examined touching my debts, estate, and effects, and to Tfr,orn all process, upon making a full disclosure and sur '\4:l44,:.ca estate and effects for payment of my just and law- A . ,7att4, and I hereby further give notice, that the time when VA, t o of the said petition shall be heard is to be advertised 1 4 1 . *4 4tt .... nd ou Gazette and in the Sun newspaper ono month at N tk ill '..er the date hereof; as witness my hand, this 19th day of , i ,.. - - ` 4O Year of our Lord, l 844. JOSEPH HOLLOWAY. •I 'essat ..,, • H. Atkinson, 27, Carey-street. W I LLIAM a PETITION of FREDERICK kt;or.OI,,ILLIAM WINSOR, commonly kaown as Frederick ka t eo•". 21, Trafalgar-street, Walworth, in the parish of Saint , I ke tti i - 4 - "„,g t on, in the county of Surrey, warehouseman to a colonial been riled in the Court of Bankruptcy, and the void for protection from process having been given ' 4 •41 Frederick William Winsor, under the provi -6,40 Act of Parliament passed in the Parliament holden .;" 4 ,_ and sixth years of the reign of her present Majesty,in- Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the said .7 1111 1u11 Winsor is hereby required to appear in Court, o haFonblanque Esq. the Commissioner acting in the said petition,: on ' the 28th day of March instant, L e, ock in the afternoon precisely, at the Court of Bank- N t ,,tili t 7, l 4 ll all-street, London, for the purpose of being then and N t , ' , Salt:Z. ( 4 touching his debts, estate, and effects, and to be fur- N 1 44 ) 7'. th according to the provisions of the said Act. All per litqt"led to the said Frederick William Winsor, or that have tti t44l4tb e lreets, are not to pay or deliver the same but to Mr. 'e official assignee, nominated in that behalf by the Nler acting is the matter of the said petition. VIITTINGTON AND lIIS CAT. I t ' ' i ngot .„va ar legend of .. Whittington's Cat," 1 1 4 riled amusement to many a brat. %I's? th e :Ty to hear, as the narrative tells, , no, , rtercie was hail'd b v the ringing of bells, Whlnidly foretold is their musical ditty, Tat wh a ; I loglon thrice being Mayor of the City. 1; th e 2.are the fortune: which Whittingto, won, der aFhievements of 510SES and SON 10 ;iLo t ook in th e s h a d e , when comparison's made, /liufl4, _w onders which M SES and SON have display'd. • Jhe London ?tar glory proclaim, hil le of th Universe sounds with our name; I,` ‘ 't .• - k i" the wide world we ere daily disolay'd, 'illtOttS of the CITY," but " LORDS of the TRADE." yaw w v r .nittington sailed his sueres: by a 1 ' Cat." h'*x ert '2ES . and 5 , ./N can say far more than that iteetu ri ne in trade they obtain'd oftheir success— mt by 0 all the attainment dress-- th i nog such wonders as never were done, 1 4 11 1 eu rtious days of E. M )SES and SIIN , i.„tke tr ,,l!or would try his ingenious 11 tact," sIT! iv;; 1 . 11t our hist'ry as 1 . found," on fact ;" the w on d erful s storuld soon be out.done H ist y 'ry wo f MOSES and SUN ." N,.,; 11 1 READY MADE. .£ s. d. Iti,:CC„, e , lv et collar and cuffs lined the , ughout from 09 0 t r lto,,;`orfield, velvet collar s ' and cuff's, ditto from 010 6 th,tere„../ Peltos, York Wrappers, &c., handsomely o T etk rouser , s l ,.lined , rom 0 15 0 from 0 4 6 .. from 0 9 11 'C!)Za,ted Wii n tier i V:sts from 0 3 6 dit to s e dged from 1 11 0 from I 4 0 ti qt C° ..ts MADE TO MEASURE. th e the mo-t approved make and material, 'No Mid t^ T most fashionable style from I 5 1t, ,, t, 4 Of .17 Tweed Wrappers, lined ....... from 0 18 0 ' l lt: t are e r newest fabric from 41 10 6 pill They t e rn . coats, in endless variety of matenal and 1 / 4 .............. ........ ........ from 0 8 6 toar„i ................................. from 1 12 • ult to acture fro:r 2 15 0 s hy extent can be had at flea minutes' notice, at the ) 11' di tits s dre following prices r— rh.,4l, to, j._, se coat,, and vest, trousers and trousers from 1 16 0 A v est from 0 18 9 a .. bitiPt se , ° t th e ' L en ' e l o e purchased or ordered, if not approved of, ex _ ney returned. a 'Ost i rn ' l oael l and Son regret being obliged to guard t h e h e „ of Position, as they learn that the untradesmanhke eqY va s 7,0 5 connected with them, or it's the same concern, 1 4,,t i s h : iv tie:oi t r is e In many instances, and for obvious reasons. connexion 2 whatever with any ether establishment, genuine Cheap Clothing should call or send to '....41 0 pard against disappointment, &c. an d and SON, Tailors, Wholesale Woolen Drapers, EN, ` llll lo.ters 154, minories. and 841, 4ldgate. Nth" Mr, T Hos h • PROUT, 92), STRAND, LONDON. 14414,, tot 8 , great benefit which I have received by 04 e L•AIR'S GOUT and RHEUMA CIC PILLS in. 1 1 'th e go ~._f ° rM you of About three , fo r oee ame . the particulars of my case. .eo 1, 4 th ree afflicted with a severe attack of rheumatism, NO t tte e was reta ' i r and nights, prevented my having rest or ° "t ''d to o t incapable of attending to business, when I was y 'tly i ther o _ Blaies Gout and Rheutnric I'ills, which I did, eiWit k i . ine,vgularly .o: four days, by which time the pain had bi ti ch h _ l lh roie oil on the fifth day I was able to attend to business ndeavour. by every means, to recommend a medicine 44ife service e relief. If th'e publication of my case t` °l n, Sir . you are.at liberty to use it. a. o Your obedient et rvant, G. E. SMITH, apt 1 r u rable 4 rraclough, Snuff Manufacturer to the Right e 41 e 4150 . la 4 3 the Lord Mayor, 46, Ludgate-hill, London. 41 t ,, le ewe resent , 4 44 Th e halo, uiele_btunonial is a . further woof of the great efficacy uiFin . e, which is the only effective remedy for • of te _ eciatica, lumbago, tic doloroux pains in the head t ti l t 47 . 11 e t ee ,l l 2Oustaken for the tooth-ache, and for all gouty and t 4 loo e l ttat t r y 429 es. N:e, DOO O t,T have permissien to refer to J. R. Mandan, Esq, IS.Pas s i„ e _uteh an ,';;; the Bey. Dr. Blomberg, the Chevalier de la s rs a g r s' e *. M r. " si ".sters, late of the Royal Newfoundland Veteran Lutoo"ins, brewer and nialtster, Dartford, Mr. RL 4 4 44,. ;444 dle4 . 6a v el wh . John G. Giles, Esq., Frimley, Mr. Inwood. orn have received benefit by taking this medi. ed the proprietor the privilege of publishing the i?on sa* "i„of the afflicted. . ion,. out, 220, Strand London ; and by all res t .-ect s et lej rt r l tt or. vendOrS throughout' the United Kingdom. Price best9te, 13 1.44 1 ,, oso ills k.ro e arid ad.sGOUT and RHEUMATIC' PILLS, and ob. as'd I, o 'l r h o ss of " Thomas Prout, 229, Straud, L oss . Government Stamp affixe d to each box of rgt er o s Ar a po i ,t he 1 3,41 0,4 0 r; • ~.erf c' ~olt - he r , 0 1 If Iry t tiro' e ; Lie 0 1 P t `; V ci• rA te jjel l ',Der e 11 0 tJe 4 3t t Or' 0 .11 u ina f o tto! 0 ,s'i l o s t , JO' 0 , v• ; c c, fo ci , to o tcti to Fe;, Pi t et 'i; per.' ° 0 .ii 1 ; t"' doe s, ue j o t 1eJ, 26 0 ,4 1 nS S ,t f ut et ] fer tI CS •••"1 ty! GENERAL TOM THUMB, the American Dwarf, exhibiting every Day and Evening at the EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY, previous to his departure for Paris. This beautiful and wonderful MAN in MINIATURE is the smallest per son that ever walked alone. He is of the most symetrieal form and proportions, li►ely, sociable, graceful, and intelligent, Twenty-five inches high, and f WEIGHS ONLY FIFTEEN POUNDS! He will amuse his visitors by relating his history ; also giving imi tations of Napoleon Bonaparte, Grecian Statues, Songs, Dances, &c. No just conception or the extreme diminitiveness and fascinating ap pearance of the General can he formed, except by seeing him. Hours of Exhibition from Eleven to One, from Two to Five, and from Half past Six to Nine. Admission, One Shilling ; Children, One Shilling. No Free List, the Press excepted. The General will be happy to wait on the Nobility and Gentry at their Residences after Nine o'clock, on due notice-being given. PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, 50, REGENT STREET, FEB. 15, 1844. BONUSES DECLARED, 529,3061. 17s. 7d Notice is hereby given, that all persons who hold Policies in this Office, bearing date prior to the year 1834, may receive the present value of the Bonuses which have been added to their Policies, upon application at the Head Office, or to the Agents through whom the Policies were issued. GEORGE BEAUMONT, Actuary NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, COItNHILL, LONDON. Capital-£:500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. Tile many novel and varied advantages bestowed by this Institu tion, both in its life assurance and deferred annuity departments, par tlettlarly the power to borrow two-thirds of premiums without ex pense or forfeiture—the great reduction of rates on short policies— the option of, selecting benefits and converting policies so as best t• suit the interest or necessity of the policy-holder during life, as well as to afford the full benefit to his family at death, and annual division of profits, have already been-so well appreciated by the public, that the Society's great success and growing prosperity enabled the Di rectors, at their deneral Meeting in May last, to add to each policy on the profit scale a bonus averaging fifty-five .per cent. on the amount already invested ; and this bonus, according to an equitable scale, may either be paid in cash, or applied in reduction of ftittwo premiums. EXAMPLES. Annual Bonus Cask Prem. Entry. Age. Sum. Prem. Added. Bonus. Reduced. X X x. d. X s. d. X s. d. X s. d. 18371. 39 59 1,000 67 8 4 132 14 6 58 19 9 8 19 4 1838 ll4 56 3,000 175 15 • 296 9 7 123 0 6 16 9 7 E ASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY. UNREGISTERED SCRIP. NEW SHARES of 251. each, issued under Resolution of the Special General Meeting of the 22d of February, 1842. The holders of the above Scrip, who have neglected to REGISTER, are required to send in their Scrip to this Office for registry, on or before the Ist day of May next, when the Registry Books for this Scrip will be FINALLY CLOSED. By order of the Board, A. BULKELEY, Secretary. Offices, Shoreditch Station, March 18, 1844. Another Bonus will be declared in the present year. DEFERRED ANNUITIES. The best and most varied provision for after-life hitherto offered — every 21. 12s. per annum, paid from the age of twenty, will, at sixty live, give the policy-holder the choice of an annuity of 471. its. 6d., or 3491. I Is. cash, or policy at death of 4661. Similar advantages at fifty, fifty-five, and sixty, through an increased annual payment— two-thirds payments lent at any time, and two-thirds returned to re presentatives in cases of premature death. F. FERGUSON CAM ROUX, Sec. DISEASED AND HEALTHY LIVES ASSURED. MEDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL LIFE OFFICE. 25, PALL-MALL, LONDON. Capital, £500,000. This OM& is provided with very accurately constructed Tables, by which it can ASSURE DISEASED LIVES on Equitable 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, Duelling, So.; and Assigned Policies are valid from the date of the Policy should death ensue from any of these causes. F. G. P. NEISON, Actuary. AUSTRALASIAN, COLONIAL, and GENE RAL LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUITY COMPANY, 126, Bishopsgate-street, corner of Cornhill. Capital 200,0001., in 2,000 Shares. DIRECTORS. Edward Barnard, Esq., F.R.S. Gideon Colquhoun, Esq. Robert Brooks, Esq. I Charles E. Mangles, Esq. Henry Buckle, Esq. Richard Onslow, Esq. Jelin Henry Capper, Esq. William Walker, Esq. BANKERS—Union Bank of London. COLONIAL BANKERS — The Bank of Australasia (Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1833), No. 2, Moorgate-street. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Maples, Pearse, Stevens, and Co. Paisicisx—Dr. Fraser, 62, Guildford-street, Russell-sqltre. SECRETARY—Edward Ityley, Esq. ASSURANCES may be effected with this Company at unusually favourable rates, affording every variety of accommodation to the assured. Participation in profits, ascending and descending scales of premium, permission to retain one-third of the premium, which is charged as a debt against the policy, tables for the assurance of a sum payable in the event of death to the executors of the assured, or to himself upon the attainment of the ages of 45, 50, or 60. TO EMIGRANTS, TO TIIE AUSTRALASIAN COLONIES in particular, who aro assured for the whole term of life, this Company offers the advantages of permission to proceed to, to reside in, and t• return from those colonies without extra premium ; and to pay their premiums there. G REAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE AS SURANCE SOCIETY, 14, WARTEIILOO-I'LACE, LONDON. THE CHISHOLM, Chairman. WILLIAM MORLEY, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. PECULIAR ADVANTAGES OF THIS INSTITUTION. Credit given fur half the amount of the first five Annual Premiums, by which means Assurances may he effected with the least possible present outlay, and after payment of the arrears, the Policy-holder will become entitled to participate in the entire profit of this Institu tion, precisely in the same manner as if he had paid the whole amouut of his premiums in advance, in the usual way. Thus, for example—a person in the twenty-fifth year of his age, instead of paying 21. 6s. per annum for an Assurance of 1001., would be required to pay 1/. 3s. only during the first five years, when, on payment of the arrears of Premium, amounting to 51. 155., his share of the Profits would be such as to reduce his future Anual Pre miums to very little more than the half Premium of 1/. 3s. originally paid by him. The Great Britain is the only Mutual Assurance filociety in which this very great accommodation is given to the As sured. Credit allowed for the whole of the first five Annual Premiums, on satisfactory security being given for the payment of the same at the expiration of five years. All the profits of the Institution divided annually among the Policy holders who shall have paid five Anneal Premiums. Full particulars are detailed in the Prospectus, which, with every requisite information, may be obtained by application to A. R. IRVINE, Managing Director. WATCHES, by WEBSTER and SON, Chro nometer Makers to the Lords of the Admiralty, established 134 years. WEBSTER and SON have REMOVED to 74, CORNHILL, where the advantages of the premises will enable them to bring the workmen ender their immediate Inspection in the manufacturing department. An extensive Stock, finished with the utmost care, and at lower prices, considering the quality, than can elsewhere he obtained, consisting of Compensated Duplex and Lever Watches, adjusted to the variations of temperature, on the principle of their Chronometers, to which Government awarded the prizes three years in succession ; the Detached Lever and Horizontal Watches for Ladies, of the smallest and most elegant patterns; Marine and Pocket Chronometers, with long and accurate rates ; also a large se lection of Second-lucid Chronometers and Watches, by the most eminent makers, at half their original cost. Superior workmen are employed en the premises in the repairing department, both for watches and clocks. Foreign work of every description carefully repaired by workmen engaged expressly for the purpose. Watches taken in exchange. Post letters will meet with immediate attention. ....... W. and Son's publication, with the Equation of Time for 1844, will be sent, post tree, on the receipt of two stamps. SCHWEPPE'S SODA and POTA SS WATERS, So much prejudice has been produced in the public mind by spurious articles, sold under these names, containing not a particle of Alkali, that consumers are earnestly recommended to ask for SCI-INVEPPF.'S, the original inventers, and still the largest manu. facturers of these invaluable preparations. Each bottle contains the proper proportion of Alkali, scientifically amalgamated by the aid of their powerful machinery, and every genuine bottle is distinguished by a libel on the cork, representing their name. This precaution is rendered necessary by unprincipled persons frequently filling Schweppe's bottles with their own composition, and passing it off as Schweppe's manufacture. 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Their perusal will enlighten and protect the invalid from the empyricism so fearfully exercis.!d la the infirmities they re late to. The author is a Doctor of Medicine, a =ember of the Col lege of Surgeons, and a Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hail, and his writings are sounded upon the experience of 20 years' exclusive devo. tion to the subjects they treat upon. To be had of ',lierwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet street; Hannay, fin, Oxford-street; Mann, Si) Cornhill; and the a uthor, 21, Arundel-street, Strand , At home daily till two—eveniugs, I raven to nine. PROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The Anti-Corn-law League held another of its "monster meetings" last night in Covent-garden Theatre. It was marked by as much enthusiasm in the assemblage, which filled every part of the immense building, as has been exhibited atatny previous meeting. The unity of the object sought les be attained by the confederation ; the frequency of like -opportunities af forded to the public for becoming eisequainted with the question ; and the necessary repetition of the same facts and arguments by the speakers, many of whom appear frequently in the same place, to re-state the same facts and iterate the same arguments, would, ere this, have palled upon the satiated ear of the mere cravers after novelty. The unabated interest manifested by the public in the struggle now going on between the advo cates of free trade and the supporters of monopoly, both in the metropoiis and in every part of the king dom, demonstrates the firm hold which the question, now fairly placed in issue, has' taken of the national mind and feeling. The trading and manufacturing parts of the community regard their means of supporting themselves and families as bound up with the decision of this controversy. Their sympathies are, consequently, with the League ; and while thousands congregate within the buildings in which the meetings are periodi cally Or occasionally held, tens of thousands devour the reports of the proceedings, and thuibecome increasingly enlightend by the arguments, and are more deeply im pressed by the facts of which the speeches were com posed. The meeting of last evening was marked by two circumstances of some interest. Lord Radnor presided ; and .two tenant-farmers—members of the class for whose special advantage, if the advocates of the corn laws are to be believed, the restriction upon importation is maintained—denounced the existing system as un sound in principle, and as fraught with mischiefs to the agriculturists ; while it subdues the energies of commerce and restricts the operations of manufacturing industry. In the course of his elaborate opening speech, Lord Radnor stated a fact—for the correctness of which he referred to the classification affixed to the population returns, taken under the Census Act—that " there has been for a considerable number of years a gradually diminishing proportion of the population employed in the pursuits of agriculture." A collateral fact was also stated, and proved from the same unquestionable source, viz., that " contemporaneously with the diminished num ber of the people, employed in agriculture, the number of persons employed in manufactures has increased." The Noble Lord then proceeded to demonstrate, from facts, the pitiable failure of the various experiments which had been tried to protect the farmers from variable and ruinously-depressed markets, by means of what has been falsely called " a protective system ;" and . argued that the best security to the farmers and farm la bourers would be found in an abolition of the protective duties. The speech of Mr. Lattimore—who announced himself "a tenant-farmer, who would satisfy any one who doubted that he was one "—was replete with facts and statements strongly confirmatory of the impolicy of the existing corn-laws, which he described as having wrought ruin to many farmers within the sphere of his own immediate knowledge. Mr. Lattimore proceeded to describe the farming labourers' condition under the " protective system." Like slavery, it is neither good for the masters nor for the men:—" But, forsooth, it was said the corn-laws were necessary to be con tinued for the sake of the labourers. If they could reduce that wretched class to a lower state than that in which they were now placed, it would be frightful indeed.—(Cheers.) It was a melancholy reflec tion that in this country the reward attainable by in dustry should be so small. —(Cheers.) He had heard of the price paid for making shirts and the toiling of poor females day and night on other work, by which they scarcely obtained a livelihood—(Hear, hear) — but he would tell them that the poor labourer in the agricultural districts was scarcely able to obtain a sufficiency of food.—(Hear, hear.) He had known instances where labourers, with a large family of children, had vegetated—he would not say lived— on 9s. a week, two of which were paid for rent, and poor-rates were paid on the remaining 7s.—(Hear, hear, and cries of " Shaine")—instances where these poor creatures had to subsist, with their families, on even 7s. per week, and but for the sympathy and kind ness of those who lived near them, they isiust all but perish for want.—(Hear, hear.) He should like to see the advocates of corn-laws go and take their tax in kind.—(Hear, hear.) If they could see the deplorable state of the famishing families of the agricultural la bourers, they would no doubt think it a fit study for an 'artist as a frontispiece for a Protection Hall.—(Cheers.)" This, be it remembered, is no fancy sketch, but the statement of a tenant-farmer, whose name and place of residence are given, and who comes forward to state that which, if not consistent with truth and fact, is easy of confutation. Will any one undertake to dis pute the facts, or to disprove the statements ? Mr. Hunt described himself as " tenant-farmer — a tenant-farmer only—and, comparatively speaking, a poor-tenant-farmer." He verified the statements of Mr. Lattimore ; and delivered a plain, unvarnished, but very impressive description of the depressed and de pendent state of the class to which he belonged ; and which he ascribed to the system which the farmers were called upon by the landlords to assist in upholding. His remarks on the state of vassalage under which the tenant-farmers are held by the existing system, and by which they are made the mere tools of the landlords for their political purposes, and selfish ma intenance of their re s t r i c ti ve l aws , well deserve at tention ; but our limited space forbids. Let those who bestow their sympathies upon the over-worked and ill remunerated manufacturing labourers, and who would demonstrate their humanity by diminishing their hours of labour, and thus diminish their means of obtaining food— let them turn their eyes to the victims of their own selfish adhesion to an insane and cruel policy, under the iron operations of which both the manufacturing and agricul tural labourers are pressed down to the confines of starvation ! STANDARD.—With much reluctance and no small disgust we are dragged back to the odious case of Mr. Marsh and Mdlle. Niord, by a letter signed " George H. Marsh," in the Morning Post of this day. We do not know whether the paramour of the profligate in mate of Madame Lodon's establishment is cognisant of the publication of this letter ; but if he is, the publication of such an apology is an enormous aggra vation of his original crime. We feel that we offend in giving insertion to such a letter, though , commanded by the rule " audi alteram partem,' but we shall not offend further by analysing it. The writer speaks in a style of flippant levity, which proves that he does not understand, probably is incapable of un derstanding, the question between his wretched name sake and the public. He argues as if the only consi deration were the punishment of Mademoiselle Niord's paramour—about which nobody cares one farthing— and not the relieving of the Church from an un worthy and disgraceful member, which interests every Christian in the community. Whether the occasional— only occasional visitor at Madame Lodon's," shall con tinue his visits to that establishment, as a munificent contributor to its support and the support of its in mates, or die, as hundreds of better men die daily, in a union workhouse, is a matter which concerns him only ; but whether such a man, reeking from such society, shall ascend a pulpit to address our wives and daughters and sons, is a matter that deeply interests us all. But, says Mr. Geo. H. Marsh, the man is a penitent, and has actually discontinued his visits to Madame Lodon's, substituting forsooth " visits to fa milies of the highest respectability of his acquaint ance." We do not envy the families, but this is not repentance. Let him resign the station that he has disgraced, and then he may be believed penitent, but not till then. " Oh,' replies his apologist, " to give up his living would throw him on the world. It should be borne in mind that a clergyman, deprived of his prefer ment, is debarred by his orders from every other source of livelihood. This is a motive, certainly, for in creased circumspection in him, but also for some un willingness to proceed to extremity, except where the offence is heinous, or the character of the party is irre claimable." An officer of the army or navy dismissed for cowardice or drunkenness, offences venial compared with Mr. Marsh's, has no other resource, and yet nobody pities him ; a man who from incompetency fails at the bar or in the medical profession, is as little the ob ject of compassion—people say the man took a line for which he was not qualified. We regret his suffer ings, but the public service must not be betrayed—the property or lives of the Queen's subject put in jeopardy, in order to keep a man in a position for which he is unfit. And is not the consideration much more grave in the case of a scandalous clergyman ? We will remark upon one other passage of Mr. Marsh's letter, though we cannot remark upon it without deep indignation: here it is:—" Are the Bishops now accustomed to deal with cases of equal or greater enormity when recent, and properly put before them, with extreme severity? If not, is it right to yield to a clamour, partly, at least, grounded on erroneous impres sions?" This is an insinuation that cases like that of tion the rector oa cto c r ur o r f e ß nc a e r , n t ac ha k n , areof which no ouisntosimnuaa can be more customary, that is, of fre quentvilely false. ADVERTISER.—The novelty of a Peer of the realm pre siding at a meeting-of the Anti-Corn-law League, in Covent garden Theatre, attracted last night an unusual number of persons. With the exception of the evening on which Mr. O'Connell made his anti-corn-law speech in that theatre, we do not remember having seen in it a more numerous or re spectable audience. Lord Radnor opened the business of the meeting in the plain practical manlier in which he is accus tomed to address the House of Lords. Ile never makes any attempt to be eloquent. He has no ambition to play the orator. That, in his apprehension—and in ours also—is the best order of eloquence which, on a question like the corn laws, deals more with facts than with flowery sentences— more with figures of arithmetic than with figures of speech. And that is the right sort of oratory which, instead of pro ducing an effervescing enthusiasm—an enthusiasm which dies away with the echoes of the speaker's voice—appeals to the judgment of the audience, and makes an impression at puce deep and lasting- 1e is the right and the real orator, who, by the truthfulness of his statements, the evi dent sincerity of the seiatintents he avows, the justice of his arguments, and the earnestness of his manner, makes an impression on his auditors which they forth with embody in zealous endeavours to indoctrinate others with the new notions• which they have themselves imbibed. Such was the character of Lord Radnor's eloquence —such the character of his oratory, when last night address ing the immense mass of human beings assembled within the walls of Covent-garden Theatre. He made no effort at me retricious ornament—he had recourse to none of the clap trap expedients so common among the modern fry of third and fourth-rate speakers. He fished not for cheers : if they came, good and well; if they did not, no matter. He did not address himself to the feelings—he appealed not to the pas sions of the congregated thousands before him. He sought to enlighten the mind, to convince the judgment, and to pave the way for every one who heard him becoming, in his own • sphere, and to the extent of his ability, a practical perse vering opponent of all monopolies, but especially of the monster monopoly in corn. • And what the Noble Chairman aimed at achieving, his speech of last night will, no doubt, accomplish. There must have been many persons in Covent garden Theatre who feel much more disposed and qualified to enter the lists with the landed oligarchy, than they were before they heard Lord Radnof a speech. It was a speech remarkable alike for ite Tiffin and perspicuous statements, its practical bearings, and its common-sense view of a great and momentous, . and, to many minds, per plexing question. The manly manner in which the Noble Lord identified himself with the objects and proceed ings of the League, and the triumphant vindication which he made of that body from the charge of instigating incendia - rism and other crimes, preferred against it by Lord Hare wood, elicited one of the most tremendous bursts of applause which ever greeted the ear of a public speaker. The Noble Lord had the courage to proclaim, in the hearing of 5,000 persons, that the League are as incapable of encouraging or sanctioning the crimes imputed to their instigation, as Lord Harewood himself; and that such charges, coming though they did from the lips of even a Peer of the realm, ought to be treated with scorn and contempt. We are greatly mistaken if Lord Harewood, after this full and fearless exposure of his calumnies by a fellow Peer, his equal both in rank and moral worth, be not more measured in his language in future. Mr. Lattimore followed the Noble Lord. That gentleman's speech derives importance from the fact of his being a tenant-farmer. He disclaimed the assumption lately made by the Duke of Richmond, that the farmers are in favour of - the corn-laws. He maintained that where they are not coerced by the land lords, they are almost to a man in favour of immediate and total repeal. How could it be otherwise? What inducement can the tenant-farmer have to wish for a continuance of the corn monopoly? It is notorious, that so far from being benefited, they have been deeply injured—in many instances entirely ruined—by the operation of the corn-laws. The landlords alone are gainers by these laws. All other classes, without exception, are plundered by them. Mr. Hunt, also a tenant-farmer, and a member of the Society of Friends, was the next speaker ; and a more lucid or forcible exposition of the injustice and iniquity of the bread monopoly, we have rarely heard. Mr. Hunt tore in tatters the stereotyped monopolist argument against the repeal of the corn-laws, that their abrogation would throw the land out of cultivation, diminish the de mand for labour, and consequently reduce the wages of the labourers. He proved, with unanswerable conclusiveness, that corn-law repeal would be productive of the very oppo site effects. Were the corn monopoly once abolished, one of the immediate and inevitable results would be, that no per son would embark his capital in agricultural pursuits except on a long lease. Landlords would be consequently compelled to grant long leases to their tenants; and the latter would then have the requisite indutement to expend their capital, not only in reclaiming waste - lands, but in improving the system of farming. This would of necessity require an addi tional amount of labour, and the increased demand for labour would, as a matter of course, be followed by an improved rate of wages. Mr. Hunt,- we repeat, proved with a conclu siveness little short of absolute demonstration, that the tenant-farmer and agricultural Tabourer, as well as the manu facturers and mechanics In large towns, would be largely benefited by the total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws. Mr. Cobden was the last speaker. His speech was one of the most effective he ever made. But we have not space to advert to it in detail, nor to make any further reference to the proceedings of the evening.' Suffice it to say, that the meeting of last night was in every respect one of the most important of the series, and more calculated, perhaps, than any other that could be named, to accelerate the doom of the bread monopoly. TIMES.—Sir Robert Peel's speech on Lord Ashley's ameddment is a remarkable confirmation of certain fears which we remember to have been felt for him a few years back, in the most friendly quarters. For ten years—no small period in the life of man—Sir Robert thought it politic to hide his wisdom, and ;nee* bow his head in silence under the storm of" Whig 'ascendancy. For ten years he considered it his place to oppose, to bailie, to convict, to qualify, but not to advise. - He had not been celled in. It was not, therefore, his place to initiate. It was his duty to speak only when spoken to—a rule of propriety applicable to some classes, among whom Sir Robert appears to have included the adult statesman. He stood by. The Whigs, sash, blind, precipitate, rushed into the most desperate and ridiculous scrapes. Siatobert looked on neither in sorrow nor in anger. BroughTever and over again to " a dead fix" by their own preposterous folly, they actually implored, with more than speechless eloquence, the aid of some abler practitioner. "Well,, whit do you advise? What would you have done? What's : your plan ?" " It's your place to consider all that, gentlemen," was his only reply. " You possess all the sweets of office ; you enjoy the confidence of the public patient; we watch with some interest the treatment you are pursuing ' • and, being a little concerned in the matter, will avail ourselves of the right to interfere, when we see you carrying . your quackery too far; nor is it inconsistent with our views to instil a general suspicion of your incompetency; but as for advice and assistance, not a syllable shall you have. Let the suf ferer call us in, and then we will consider his case, and do our best." Now, all this -mightbe politic. The result seems to show that. The homoeopathic statesmen, who anticipated revolt by rewarding sedition, were at last forced to retire, and the old alteratives walked. in. But we most seriously doubt the duty of this ParliaMentary silence ; and whatever be the resalt to individuals; ilie.tesult to the nation is unfor tunate. The doctors don't appear to unlearn their silence. They can't shake off their' acquired reserve. They still use their eyes, and are very cleyer, and seem perfectly to under • stand the case ; but they do *nothing. It is their fate still to stand by. What is the present state of things ? A great social disease calls for remedy. The symptoms are manifest. By this time there 'can be no doubt about the remedy—a legislative check. It has been tried on an inadequate scale for a consider. able period, not indeed with perfect. success, but with suffi cient to justify a larger. and more careful application. The remedy may, perhaps, be dangerous without a proper col lateral treatment ;but it is still the only remedy that meets the case. It seems really a case, not for wisdom, but for de cision. But the Premier does nothing. At least what he does is next to nothing. He won't be responsible, and looks on while others act, offering only a sort of habitual resistance. He may, perhaps, be the most sagacious statesman in the House, but cannot conquer his via inertice—the trick of stand ing by, with his eyes about him, but his hands in his pockets. There is every circumstance that can aggravate the almost provoking folly of this course. The plan which Sir Robert won't adopt, and leaves to anybody else who will, is his own patrimony. Nobody in the whole world has so much right to it as he. It is as much his own as Drayton Manor, and his baronetcy. Old Sir Robert Peel, one of the most re markable men of his day, both - for his virtues and his talents, after almost creating that great branch of manufacture, in which, we believe, Mr. Cobden is now facile princeps, and after procuring legislative protection for the apprentices, who were then so generally employed, did all he Could to procure the same protection for all, whoever might require protec tion ; for that was his rule. Thirty years since he proposed the very plan which his son now endures to see in other hands than his own ; though not being, like his son, the Premier, he had the mortification of seeing it cut down below what lie considered humanity and wisdom. On the present Sir Ro bert Peel's strong, natural, and personal claims to this noble work of legislation, we need not observe. His speech on Monday of itself is sufficient proof on that point. Tet his own heirloom, his own official privilege, his own natural right, he suffers another to seize from him. Strange to say, the very considerations that encouraged the father terrify the son. The father confesses 'himself " diffident of his own abilities to originate legislatite measures ;" yet, finding that his first Act in favour of parish apprentices has become a dead letter, in consequence of the use of another class of la • bour, he does not sit still, but goes further. In his memorial given in our Tuesday's - coluMus he says :—" Gentlemen, if parish apprentices were formerly deemed worthy of the care of Parliament,. I trust you will not with • hold from the unprotected children of the present day an equal measure of mercy, as they have no masters who are obliged to suport them in sickness, or during unfavourable periods of trade." This apparent necessity of extending a rule of pro tection once admitted to any who may require it, which old Sir Robert Peel, a man of the strongest practical sense, thus gladly embraced, is treated by the son as a reason for not even admitting the rule in the first instance, or at least not acting on it, when we can without difficulty. He takes in his hands the Report of the Children's Employment Commission, and enumerates the manufactures to which the existing Factory Acts, and the Bill now in Parliament, do not extend. Ife expatiates on the miseries disclosed in that Report, miseries which legislation does not at present attempt to mitigate. " I can time the steam-engine," he adds, " and the larger factories, but not every small workshop, every master, every parent." What is this but a mere phantom of difficulty ?-- a mere sinking under the sense of the infinite, when the finite is all we shall ever be really called on to perform ? The present duty of the Legislature is easy and obvious. There are large assemblages employed in the same manufactories and in the same mills. As it happens, these can be controlled. Their magnitude, their place in the social system, constitutes a legislative necessity. De minimis non curat lex. But the steam. engine is, as it were, a fourth estate of the realm—a mighty foreign power introduced ; it aggravates private into public evils, and domestic into political. But, most happily, its very greatness, which otherwise would make it intolerable, reduces it to order. It can be timed. It cannot hide oppression intra a nn ? ot Abegainprotected, is the r does eno parietes. Its size and power make it a public agent , and bring it under public duty. But , after all, granting that power thatho e w r eerw excuse in will re example u m s i fromu l ? a r d g ol e isn c classes s h, s ve r a tvi whoc continual cacn sight of workpeople laying aside their daily labour at six o clock of no effect ? Do not the acts of the nation, as well as of individuals, help to set the tone, and create a public conscience? This, too. applies, by the way, to objections drawn from foreign coin. petition. All nations, European and Transatlantic, complain, and that most justly, that we have heretofore set an example of excessive drudgery, which has tended to enslave the whole civilised world. Lately, they have learned from us to miti gate this drudgery. Is it beyond all hope that they will borrow our ten hours' time? Three weeks ago a mare, belonging to Mr. Father stone, of Tibberton, was backed for ten sovereigns to trot four miles in sixteen minutes. The animal was in the straw yard, and quite out of ctuniltioit at the time, but last week she justified the coufidenge of her backers by trotting from the Cross to the fburth mile‘stone on the Droitwich road in fifteen minutes and a half, being half a minute under the time, THE BANK of ENGLAND and the CURRENCY QUESTION. The following remarks upon the late Mr. Harman (one of the most active Directors of the Bank of England during the late French war) are extracted from the Banker's Circular, of the 16th February, 1844 : " Having mentioned the name of Jeremiah Har • man (who died last week, full of years and honour), we cannot, for the sake of example, refrain from di recting reflection to the virtues of this eminent per son, which were as remarkable in his private as his public station ; the latter only being within our province to notice here. During that eventful and critical period of our history which elapsed between the years 1797 and 1818, Jeremiah Harman had snore concern with the regulation of that vital func tion of our system—its money power—than any other man : he exercised this, without emolument or titular distinction, with a degree of foresight, circumspection, prudence, and vigour, which, if there ever be an historian capable of doing justice to human actions in" the most important positions of life, will place his name among the most estimable and illustrious of the age in which he lived. What are the duties of a Lord "Chancellor, with laws and precedents and a learned bar to assist and guidellim, oompared witlfthose`d a man who, in an extraordinary, difficult, and unprece dented conjuncture of affairs, is appointed to hold the balance which determines whether the people, what ever the sacrifices demanded from them, shall prosper or wither in their industry? What honour belongs to that the highest subject of the realm, that is not due to the balance-holder after he has performed his duty discreetly, judiciously, and wisely? Where would have stood the names of Peel and Arkwright if a man of opposite character to Mr. Harman had governed the affairs of the Bank when they were struggling to acquire wealth and pour wealth into the country ? They would have figured in the Royal Gazette as bankrupts, instead of being re corded there with honourable titles. Where would have been Wellington's victories and glory, if such a man as that had not given vigour to the " sinews of war ?" And let not us of the lower grades of the commonalty ever forget that Mr. Harman was the man who boldly stretched out his arm to avert that fatal blow on his industrious countrymen—the Act of 'l9; for he it was principally, we believe, who composed and tendered that celebrated remonstrance against the impending mischief with which the Act of, 'l9 was charged, and which drew forth the undignified sneers of Lords Grenville and Liverpool, and Mr. Huskisson—presumptuous men, who dealt with a case of which they were totally ignorant in defiance and contempt of the remonstrance of those who practically knew all. We here speak of Mr. Harman as the last of the old school, with no desire to detract from the merit of his colleagues and coadjutors. We had no intercourse with him, and have not had the pleasure of seeing his grave, benevolent, and intelligent countenance, for ten years ; but it would be wrong in a publication set up for the purpose of giving warning of any danger which may be seen approaching, in consequence of the disre gard of Mr. Harman's counsel, to omit this feeble expression of our veneration for his character. He was the brightest example of an independent high minded British merchant, as anxious for the success of others as for his own, which ever appeared in our path of life." We subjoin a copy of the memorial of 1819, which is alluded to in the above remarks as being princi pally composed by the late Mr. Harman. The man ner in which his fears and predictions have been since realised, constitutes an imperishable monument to his memory. " The universal interests of the em pire, in all the relations of agriculture, manufacture, commerce, and revenue, have been ruinously compro mised, notwithstanding the prolonged state of peace with which this nation has been blessed since that period." " The Directors of the Bank of England, having taken into their most serious consideration the reports of the Secret Committees of the two Houses of Parlia ment, appointed to inquire into the state of the Bank of England, with reference to the expediency of the re sumption of cash payments at the period now fixed— have thought it their duty to lay before his Majesty's Ministers, as early as possible, their sentiments, with regard to the measures suggested by these Committees for the approbation of Parliament. " In the first place it appears, that, in the view of the Committees, the measure of the Bank recommencing cash payments on the sth of July next, the time pre scribed .by the existing law, ' is utterly impracticable, and would be entirely inefficient, if not ruinous.' " Secondly, it appears that the two Committees have come to the it conclusion at a period, when the outstand ing notes of the Bank of England do not much exceed 25,000,0001. ; when the price of gold is about 4/. Is. per ounce ; and when there is great distress, from the stag nation of commerce, and the fall of prices of imported articles. " It must be obvious to his Majesty's Ministers, that, as long as such a state of things shall last, or one in any degree similar, without either considerable improvement on one side, or growing worse on the other, the Bank, acting as it does at present, and keeping its issues nearly at the present level, could not venture to return to cash payments, with any probability of benefit to the public, or safety to the establishment. " The two Committees of Parliament, apparently ac tuated•by this consideration, have advised that the Bank shall not open payments in coin for a period of four years, but shall be obliged, from the Ist of May, 1821, to discharge their notes in standard gold bullion, at Mint price, when demanded in sums not amounting to less than thirty ounces. And, as it appears to the Commit tees expedient, that this return to payments at Mintprice should be made gradually, they propose that on the Ist day of February next, the Bank should pay their notes in bullion, if demanded in sums not less than sixty ounces, at the rate of 4Z Is. an ounce, and from the Ist of October, 1820, to the Ist of May following, at 3L 19s. 6d. an ounce. " If the Directors of the Bank have a true compre hension of the views of the Committees in submitting this scheme to Parliament, they are obliged to infer, that the object of the Committees is to secure, at every ha zard, and under every possible variation of circum stances, the return of payments in gold at Mint price for Bank notes, at the expiration of two years ; and that this measure is so to be managed, that the Mint price denominations shall ever afterwards be preserved, leaving the market or exchange price of gold to be controlled by the Bank, solely by the amount of their issues of notes. " It further appears to the Directors, with regard to the final execution of this plan, and the payment of Bank notes in gold . at Mint price, that discretionary power is to be taken away from the Bank ; and that it is merely to regulate its issues, and make purchases of gold, so as to be enabled to answer all possible demands, whenever its treasury shall be again open for the payment of its notes. " Under these impressions, the Directors of the Bank think it right to observe to his Majesty's Ministers, that being engaged to pay on demand their notes in sta tutable coin, at the Mint price of 31. 17s. 10Id. an ounce, they ought to be the last persons who should object to any measure calculated to effect that end ; but as it is incumbent on them to consider the effect of any mea sure to be adopted, as operating upon the general issue of their notes, by which all the private banks are regu lated, and of which the whole currency, exclusive of the notes of private bankers, is composed, they feel them selves obliged, by the new situation in which they have been placed by the Restriction Act of 1797, to bear in mind not less their duties to the community at large, whose interest in a pecuniary and commercial relation, have in a great degree been confined to their discretion. " The Directors being thus obliged to extend their views, and embrace the interest of the whole commu nity, in their consideration of this measu re , cannot but feel a repugnance, however invo luntar y , to pledge them selves in approbation of a system , which in their opi nion, in all its great tendencies and operations, concerns the country in general more than the immediate inte rests of the Bank alone. " It is not certainly a part of the regular duty of the Bank, under its original institution, to enter into the it t t o he Parliament, proince o general views of policy by w hi c h t hi s great emp i re i s of th d e to ßa t n k k e to com ex in un nit d Y to be governed in all it s commerc i al and pecun i ary transactions, which e xc l us i ve l y b elong to the A d m i n i s tr - prin ciples by which th ese v i ews oug h t to b e regu l a t e d. Its peculiar a n d a p propr i ate d uty i s t h e managemen t of the concerns of the b a nkin g est a blishment, as connected with the payment o f th e i n t ere st of the national debt, p u o tahte largeno artr; the lodgments consigned to its care, and the ordinary advances it has been accustomed to make to Govern ment. " But when the Directors are now to be called upon, in the new situation in which they are placed by the Restriction Act, to procure a fund for supporting the whole national currency, either in bullion or in coin, and when it is proposed that they should effect this measure within a given period, by regulating the mar ket price of gold by a limitation of the amount of the issue of Bank notes, with:whatever distress such limita tion may be attended to individuals, or the community at large, they feel it their bounden and imperious duty to state their sentiments thus explicity, in the first in stance, to his Majesty's Ministers on this subject, that a tacit consent and concurrence at this juncture may not, at some future period, be construed into a previous im plied sanction on their part, of a system, which they cannot but consider fraught with very great uncertainty and risk. " It it impossible for them to decide beforehand what Shall be the eours.e of Omits for the neat two, much less for the next four years ; they have no right to hazard a flattering conjecture, for which then:have not real grounds, in which they may ,be disappointed, and for which they may be considered • respon sible. They cannot venture to advise an unrelenting; Continuance of pecuniary pressures upon the commer cial world, of which it - is impossible for them either _to foresee or estimate the consequences. " The Directors have already submitted to the House of Lords the expediency of the Bank paying its notes in bullion at the market price of the day, with a view of seeing how far favourable commercial balances may operate in restoring the former order of things, of which they might' take an advantage ; and with a similar view they have proposed, that Government should repay the Bank a considerable part of the sums that have been advanced upon Exchequer-bills. " These two measures would allow time for a correct judgment to be formed upon the state of the bullion market, and upon the real result of those changes, which the late war may have produced, in all its conse quences, of increased public debt, increased taxes, in creased prices, and altered relations, as to interest, Fa ' ital, and commercial dealings with the Continent ; and how far the alterations thus produced are temporary, or permanent ; and to what extent, and -in what degree, they operate. " It was the design of the Directors, in pursuance of the before-mentioned two measures, to take advantage of every circumstance which could enable the Bank to ex tend its purchases of bullion, as far as a legitimate con sideration of the ordinary wants of the nation, for a sufficient currency, could possibly warrant. Beyond this point, they do not consider themselves justified in going, upon any opinion, conjecture, , pi. speculation, merely their own ; and, when a system is recom mended, which seems to take away from the Bank anything like a discretionary consideration of the ne cessities and distresses of the commercial world ; if the Directors withhold their previous consent, it is not from a want of deference to his Majesty's Government, or to the opinions of the Committees of the two Houses-of-Parliament, but solely from a serious feeling that they have no right whatever to invest themselves, of their own accord, with the responsibility of counten ancing a Measure, in which the whole community' is so deeply involved ; and possibly to compromise the u n iv ersa l interests of the empire, in all the relations of agriculture, manufacture, commerce, and revenue, by a seeming ac quiescence, or declared approbation ' on the part of the Directors of the Bank of England. " The consideration of these great questions, and of the degrees in which all these leading and commanding interests may . be affected by the measure proposed, rests with the. Legislature ; and it is for them, after solemn deliberation, and not for the Bank, to determine and de cide upon the course to be adopted. " Whatever reflections may have from time to time been cast upon the Bank, whatever invidious represen tations of its conduct may have been made, the cautious conduct it adopted, in so measuring the amount of cur rency, as to make it adequate to the wants both of the nation and of the Government ; at the same time keeping it within reasonable bounds, when compared with what existed before the war, as is shown in the Lords' Reports, pages 10, 11, 12, and 13 ; the recent effort to return to a system of cash payments, which commenced with the fairest prospects (but which was afterwards frustrated by events which could not be fore seen nor controlled by the Bank), are of themselves a sufficient refutation of all the obloquy, which has been so undeservedly heaped upon the establishment. " The Directors of the Bank of England, in sub mitting these considerations to his Majesty's Ministers, request that they may be allowed to assure them, that it is always their anxious desire, as far as depends upon them, to aid, by every consistent means, the measures of the Legislature, for furthering the prosperity of the empire. " ROBERT BEST, Secretary." DEATH OF LORD LONSDALE. (From the Times.) It is with unfeigned regret that we announce the death of the venerable Earl of Lonsdale, who expired at his residence, York House, Twickenham, in the 87th year of his age, on Tuesday, the 19th inst., at a quarter to seven P.M . The Noble Earl had, during several weeks past, suffered severely from three separate attacks of illness, the effects of which were happily averted by surgical skill and the unre mitting assiduity of those around him, and his health and spirits were recovering their usual elasticity, when on Satur day last his Lordship was seized with the prevailing influenza (which is more than ordinarily violent in the vicinity of Richmond), and which excited so much alarm in the mind of Mr. Bolton (his consulting surgeon) as to induce that gentle man to call in the additional assistance of Dr. Chambers, who remained in attendanee upon the late Earl up to the day of his decease. Some flattering symptoms displayed them selves on Monday, but on Tuesday afternoon every favour able expectation had vanished, and the venerable Earl sank under the effects of the malady that had attacked him ; the progress of death being, however, so gentle and gradual, that the moment at which he expiredwas scarcely perceptible. It is worthy of notice that the demise of the Earl of Lone dale was preceded only by a short period by that of his friend and former coadjutor, the late Viscount Sidmouth, whose decease (so great was the care and solicitude of those who surrounded him) never was communicated to their aged chief; fearful lest so mournful an event should retard his re covery or operate injuriously on his spirits. The Right Hon. William Lowther, first Earl of Lonsdale, had been for some years the oldest Member of the House of Lords with the exception of the Archbishop of York. Lord Lonsdale was _born on the 29th of December, 1757, and had therefore entered the 87th year of his age, while the Arch bishop of York was one month his senior, and still continues to be the oldest of the spiritual and temporal Peers. The Earldom which Lord Lonsdale enjoyed is one of recent crea tion, but the family from which he descended is of great an tiquity, and have long been settled in the counties of West moreland and Cumberland, having been seated at Lowther Castle before the date of anything like authentic records. The family appears to have been ofknightly rank before the age of Queen Elizabeth, in the 30th year of whose reign Sir Richard Lowther was High SheriffofCumberland. The first Baronet was Sir John Lowther, who received his patent in 1640, and the first Viscount received his title in the year 1696 ; but the Viscounty became extinct in the year 1750, while the Baronetcy devolved upon a collateral relative, Sir James Lowther, who in the year 1784 was created Ea rl of Lonsdale and Viscount Lowther. He died without male issue, and the Earldom became extinct; but before his death he ob tained a patent, granting the Viscounty in remainder to the heirs male of his cousin, the Rev. Sir William Lowther, of Swillington, from whom the present line descends. In the year 1807 the Peer just deceased was advanced to the rank of an Earl, and the present Postmaster-General, his son and successor, is therefore, the second Earl of that line. The late Peer was the eldest son of the Rev. Sir W. Low ther, of Little Preston and of Swillington, by the daughter of the Rev. C. Zouch, vicar of Sandal, in the county of York ; he is, therefore, brother to Sir J. Lowther, of Swillington, who was created a Baronet in 1824. The Noble Lord who is the subject of this notice married, on the 12th of July, 1781, the Lady Augusta Fane, daughter of John, ninth Earl of Westmorland, by whom he had two sons and four daughters. His Lordship succeeded to the dignities of Viscount and Baron Lowther on the death. of his kins man, the late Earl of Lonsdale; but, as already stated, the Earldoin was not in remainder to him. As to his Baronetcy, he inherited that upon the death of his father, in 1788. Possessing great Parliamentary influence, and being a warm supporter of the Government, he was advadeed to the dignity of an Earl on the 7th of April, 1807, and in the same year was chosen a Knight of the Garter. He like wise held the rank of a Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, and that of Lord-Lieutenant of the counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland. From the earliest period of the public life of Mr. Pitt, Lord Lonsdale was one of his most earnest supporters. Mr. Pitt's first seat in Parliament was for the borough of Apple by—a place quite under the influence of the Lowther family. After the death of that great man, Lord Elden was the leader to whom the deceased Earl steadily adhered. Till the period which elapsed between the years 1818 and 1826, the political feeling of the county of Westmoreland had been but little called forth. It was during that time, however, roused to a pitch of high excitement by the endeavours of Mr. (now Lord) Brougham to participate in its representation with one of Lord Lonsdale's sons. For eight years, the contest could scarcely be said to have slept, and three successive elections displayed the obstinate perseverance of Mr. Brougham and the successful resistance of the Lowther family. In 1818 . and 1820, the majorities by which Lord Lowther and his brother were returned to Parliament could not have been regarded as considerable ; but in 1826, Mr. Brougham was so deci sively vanquished, the majority against him being 647, that he did not again solicit the suffrages of that county. Lord Lonsdale was a man remarkably popular amongst his neighbouis and friends. He was through life, in some degree, a patron of literature—if any nobleman can be said to share that honour with the only patrons of modern times —the reading public. A friendship, however, subsisted be tween his Lordship and Mr. Wordsworth, which is alike honourable to the Peer and poet. The " Excursion" is dedi cated to the Earl in one of Wordsworth's best sonnets. The Earldom devolves upon his eldest son, long known as Lord Lowther, who was raised to the Upper House during his father's lifetime, in September, 1841, when the present Ministry was organised, and the office of Postmaster-U . 616d conferred on the heir of the house of Lowther. Lord Lowther is unmarried, and in the 57th year of his age. Should he die without issue, Colonel Lowther, the Member for Westmore land, will be his successor. THE STORM IN AYRSHIRE.--Early on the morn ing of Saturday last, one of the most fearful storms raged around Kilmarnock which the memory of that sagacious carle, "the oldest inhabitant," enables him to recal from his youth upward. As the day advanced the storm deepened into the utmost pitch of hurricane fury. The gusts which roared in hollows were alike stunning from their noise and violence; the woods resembled an army making war upon itself; branches were lopped in pruning-knife fashion, torn, twisted, and whirled through the air, and echoes awakened in hidden recesses, so clamorous that they seemed to be " sympathisers" with the Spirit of the Storm. Little chil dren in venturing abroad, were in many instances toppled head over heels, and even adults, taxing their energies to the uttermost, were in danger of sharing the same fate. Cans were dashed from chimney-tops, roofs at least partially tirled, and thatch coverings grievously disturbed, if , not blown bodily away. In the west end of the town, two s t a t e ly beeches were prostrat e d, th a t h a d w ith s too di the blasts of many a winter, shrubberies greatly injured, and the architectural ornaments on villas grievously defaced. But the strangest arrival of all, was the arrival, at the ter minus of the Glasgow and Ayr Railway, of a truck used in the transmission of goods, driven by the wind at the rate of seventy miles an hour. In approaching the depot it split the huge pillars of the gate, and would have done otherwise much mischief, had not its career been stayed by the buffers —DumfriesiCourier. SUICIDE OF A RETIRED TRADESMAN.—Mr. Carter, the Coroner, held an inquest on Wednesday, at the Lord Nelson Inn, Old Kent-road, as to the death of Mr. James Pummell, aged 65, formerly the well-known fishmonger adjoining the Bricklayers' Arms, who committed suicide under very me lancholy circumstances. The deceased had for a number of years been the proprietor of the shop alluded to, where he amassed a good fortune. A few years ago he retired from trade in favour of his son, and went to reside at the house of Mr. Davis, 11, Thirza-place, Old Kent-road. He usually went to his former residence daily,. but had always, of late, been very low-spirited, chiefly arising, as his son stated, from the works carry ing on in the Upper Grange-road, Bermond sey, in connexion with the new line of Dover Railway, where he had some houses, and which he believed would cause his ruin. On Saturday he was at his old shop about throe o'clock, and was more than usually depressed in mind when he went home. At half-past six the deceased was found hanging by a slight cord to the bedstead, and when cut doffs he was quite dead. Verdict—" Temporary Insanity." P l !y lie o ' 4ll PcV A i, er tf ot‘"'' ,el 3" 0 Pt°