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,-/- &-, P: . _ EV ING EDITION. „ . 1..• • . j •• •z „ j / = •-• . '• „(t-gsTi bi un , • ' EVENING EDITION. WING SUN.-ADVERTISE- MENTS; inserted in the MORNING SUN will also pear in the EVENING EDITION without any EXTRA CHA RUE. APPALLING SIT UATIONS AT SEA. SUN OFFICE, 112 STRAND. COMINIERCIAL BANK OF LONDON. CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS, In Two Thousand Shares of 1,0001. each. Fifty per Cent. to be paid up by Instalments, and a reserved power of enlarging the Capital if required. DIRECTORS. Edward Baines, Esq., M.P. G. 13. Matthew, Esq., M.P. Edward S. Cayley Esq., M.P. Edward Oxenford, Esq. Sir James Gambier. John Ramsbottom, Esq., M.P. Thos. Grimsditch, Esq., M.P. George Rennie, Jun., Esq. Mark Gambier, Esq. John Shelvell, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. Juhn Tailor, Esq. Thus. Hawkes, Esq., M.P. ;A. J. Valpy, Esq. Arthur Todd Holroyd, Esq. R. Walker, Esq., M.P. Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq. B. B. Williams, Esq. Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P. Sot.tcyron.—Samuel Amory, Esq. The Commercial Bank of London has been formed as a Bank of Deposit, and for making advances by loan or otherwise, The Capital will be inShares of One Thousand Pounds each. The business will be conducted by three experienced Mana gers, thus uniting the secrecy of a private bank to the soli dity of the joint-stock system. Ten per cent. to be paid on the allotment of Shares, and the remainder by instalments, at intervals of three rontlis, as re quired. The Directors are of opinion that it will not be necessary to eall for mere than 25 per cent. for the first two _years. It ie intended to establish a Branch at the West-end of the Metropolis, but at no other place. Applications for Shares, Prospectuses, or further particulars, to be made to Samuel Amory, Esq., Solicitor, 25, Thrograor ton-street ; •r at The Royal Bank of Liverpool. The Bank of Manchester. The Union Bank, Northampton. The Yorkshire District Banking Company. The West of England and South Wales District Banking Company. The National - Bank of Scotland. And at all the Branches of the above Banks. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AS SURANCE AND DEFERRED ANNUITY SOCIETY. 21, CORNHILL, LONDON. 67, New Buildings, Nortk Bridge, Edinburgh ; 36, Westmoreland-street, Dublin ; 23, South Castle-street, Liverpool ; 47, Princess-street, Manchester ; ft, Clare-street, Bristol ; And 14, New Bond-street, Bath. Capital, 500,0001. EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. PATRON—His Grace the DUKE of SOMERSET, F. R. S. DIRECTORS. T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. Col. tlr Surges Comae, K. C. S. Robert Hollond, Esq., M.P. John Elliotson, M.D. F.R. S. George Lungloy, Esq. C. Farebrother, Esq., Ald. John Rawson, Esq. R. Gordon, Esti. Joseph Thompson, Esq. AUDITORS. Dr. Olinthus Gregory, F.R.A. S. Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. PurszczAN—J. Elliot;on, M.D., F.R. S. Su aczow—E. S. Symes, Esq. ACTUARY—W. S. E. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A. S. By the new principles of Life Assuranoe and Deferred An nuities, ostablisiski by this Society, many essential advantages, besides that of securing a provision for a family or for old age, are pined by the Assured, and thereby an additional value is given to each Policy. Premiums payable annually, half-yearly, quarterly, or monthly, or in the increasing or decreasing scales. Females assured at diminished rates. Extension of limits of travelling. Policies in force seven years not forfeited by suicide, an two tkirds of the premiums paid at all times available to the assured. Two-thirds of the profits of the Society divided ANNUALLY a mongst parties assured en the participating scale of Premiums. 'ERRED ANNUITIM. PREMIUM& - - i -- - ,L - --- , .i.i w,iicii rime' it also sets olt t or L on d on every Morning, ------------_ ITo secure en at Ten o'Clock. °Siena Secured, en attaining the,; , . AnnuityXlo 0 9 age ef Sixty-five, by an Annual' attaining t he . ( ash 82 10 0 NEWSPAPER PROPERTY. Premium of 21. 12s. i age of 6. - ft the - Policy 97 8 6 ,1 option o rllo BE SOLD the COPYRIGHT of a ..________ Z> ez > - Payable Payable _M- largely-circulated and well-advertised English COM -1 ;II Payable in for' MERCIAL NEWSPAPER, with a good stock of Types, . Annuity. Cash. Policy. ? o ~ , annually. One Dia- Engine-press, Printing, and Jobbing Materials, &c. &c. .... a Nl4 Sum. parity. `:( ~. Apply by letter (post paid) to A. N., Messrs. Rowsell and g o , J 2, ,s- d. 13E7 - 4 d. X. a. 41.1 .E. s. d. I. a. d. 171771. Sons, 31, heapside. -- „,.-', ' 8 a i 904 11 0 , 466 9 0 20 913 11 10 1 016 0 0 0 -., fan 15 10 1221 0 01261 0 0; 30 019 6 116 7 1 7 311 TIRITSCHKA to be SOLD, nearly as good 39 ,13 19 $ 1115 5 0;136 0 11IN 40 1 17 3 EP7 3 11 19 4I 0 BRITSCHKA to be SOLD, nearly as good as new, having been but little used. It has imperial, cap-case, and all the appendages usually attached to highly finished carriages; suitable for town or posting. May he seen at 43, Crawford-street, Bryanston-square. Also Annuities commencing at the Agee of 50, 55, and 60. Two-thirds of the Premiums paid, returnable, in case of pre mature death. Immediate Annuities for all egos, granted on very favourable terms. A Board with a Medical Offieer is in daily attendance at two o'clock. Proveetnses may be had at the Offices, Branche s , or A gents in the principal Towns. or any of the F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. EASTERN ERA wcit.-5, Castle-street, St. Mary Axe. HYAM HYAMS. Manager. EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, 3 WILL. Iv. T HE ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, No. S 4, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. Established 1823. DIRECTORS. Th u ts e JliOt Hon. THOMAS FRANKL AND LEWIS . Ch a i rman. "' ,I RY FREDERICK STEPHENSON, Esq , Deputy Chairman. Lancelot Baugh Allen, Esq. William Grant. Esq. Stephen Nicolson Barber, Esq John Knowles, Esq., F.R.S. Robert Biddulph, Esq., M.P. John Mendham, Esq. Robert Davies, Esq. Thomas Meux, Esq Thomas Edgar, Esq. Williams Routh, Esq. MMus. Henry Barnett, Esq. Charles Morris, Esq I . Henry htitf or d B oo dl e , Esq. John Gilliam Stilwell, Esq PlirSICIAN—John A. Paris, M.D., F.R.S., No. 27, Dover.street. Stiacieox —Benjamin Travers, Esq., F.R.S., No. 12, Bruton-street. Solaciroa—Henry Young, Esq., No. 12, Essex-street, Strand. ACTUARY—J. J. Downes, Esq., F.R. A.S. The following are among the advantages of this Society. Ist, The security of an ample Assurance Fund, besides the subscribed Capital. 2dly, For young and middle-aged lives the Lowest Ratea of Premiums that entitle the assured to participate in the profits. 3dly, Three-fourths of the profits divided every fifth year among those who have been assured four years on the equal scale of premiums. The bonus declared in 1834 averaged 16/. pet' cent. on the premiums then paid ; and the bonus awarded in 1 839, on the average, is equal to 31/. per cent. on the pre miums received during the last five years. 4thly. Assurers may have the bonus applied to inerease the sums assured, or in reduction of future premiums, either for the remainder of life, er for the next five years only. sthly, Policies granted without any charge to the assured be yond the stamp duty. 6thly, An option given to Assurers on the increasing scale of rates after the lapse of any number of years to commute the fu ture increasing premium by an equi valen equal annual one for the remainder of life, and thereafter to participate in the profits. The same advantages are applicable to assurers on the decreas ing scale of rates. Policies on the lives of parties dying by suicide, duel ling, or by the hands of justice, not void as respects the inte rests of persons to whom they may have been legally assigr ed. Bthly, No extra charge for residence in any part of Europe, *or for proceeding to any port (in a decked, sailing, or steam vessel) between Brest and the Elbe. Licenses are granted to go to any part of the world upon terms proportionate to the risks. 9thly, Whole-life Policies on the equal scale of premium pur ehaseable after four years. Lapsed Policies revived on favour able terms to the assured. All assurances effected on the equal scale of rates during the year 1839 will participate in the next division of profits. JOHN KNOWLES, Resident Director. :SALES BY AUCTION. IMMEDIATE BENEFITS OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC. LIFE ANNUITIES, CALCULATED on EQUITABLE PRINCIPLES ! ! ! INDEPENDENT WEST MIDDLESEX ASSURANCE COMPANY, 011osite the Bazaar, Baker-street, Portman-square, London. St. David's-street, Edinburgh ; Ingram-street, Glasgow; And - Sackville-street, Established and empowered under the several Acts of Parlia !omit of 14th Geo. 111. o. 48; 22d Geo. 111. ; 53d Goo. 111. e ' 141 ; 3d Geo. IV. c. 92; and Ist Vic. e. 10. LIFE ANNUITY RATES. For every 100/. deposited, this Association will grent the An nuity placed opposite the Ago of the Party depositing. From 50/. and upwards, in proportion. Aite3Oto4Oto.ls to 50 to 55 to €0 to to 70 to 75 to 80 THE EYE AND EAR. - _ re 1049 Or 161410 101412 101£15 10 CA U TION TO THE PUBLIC.cI 1.E20 0 r :25 o No. 96, Old Bon.street Per Per Per Per Per Per Per Per Per VER. ELIA SOLOIVIONS' VO Cent. Cent. Cent . Cent. Cent Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent. LIFE INSURANCE RATES, Reduced 30 per Cent. per Annum. LIFE ASSURANCE RATES. A 11. t'.l to 25 to SO to 35 as 38 to 45 to 51 Pr em i um. ll s. cl.ll e. d..£ e. dll s d 1 e. d.l.£ e. d.ll s. d. II 11 011 15 012 This Company make no charges for intermediate ages under 50 years. FIRE INSURANCE RATES. Common Insurance. s. d. Private Hewes aad Shops (not hazardous)... 1 0 per Cent. Hazardous . .. Double Hazardous.... 1. - 3 6 Farming Stock .... The Bank of England; BANKzas{Bank of Ireland; and Western Bank of Scotland. SEIRETA RY---Mr. William Hole. SIGHT AND REAR ING. THE INVISIBLE O PERATIVE VOICE n at.. CONDUCTOR, effected by the Messrs . S. and B. aOLObfoNS,_ Opticians and Aurists to the Royal Fain ' il 39, Albe. morle.street, Piccadilly , by which thousangs of deaf persons y have been greatly benefited, is the size of a seven.shilling pie ce , and fixed into the cavity of the ear is soft and easy , and e ce. and when not more percep. tible than having a piece of wool in its place, by which the faintest whisper at a public assembly is heard with distinctness. And gefee tive VISION is brought to nature by the use of newly-invented S PECTACLE LENSES : immediately they are placed before weak and imperfect eyesight, either by day or candle light, every object I "ewraes clear and distinct, and the most minute particle is seen with great distinctness, by the use of which both the sight and hearing become much improved. The Messrs. SJLOMONS DISCLAIM all connection with persons of the SAME NAME, and the sale of Amber Spectacles: in doing so they state the liISTORY of AMBER, from the Dictionary of Arts and Sciences" of Andrew Ure, NI.D., F.R.S., &c. &c. " Amber is an indurated vegetable ju ce, and not produced by the laws of crystallization, but by the same causes which influence the nleobanical condition of gum. Insects are often found embedded in Amber is most powerfully electrical by friction—very hot, to such an extent as to explode into fragments • the workmen, too, are subject to n ervous tremours i n the i r wrists, arms, &c. ; they en. counter great danger by handling such dreadful excited elcctrics ; Amber grows, with lime, and is apt to take fire, and is of such a , oft nature when exposed to warmth that it swells, bubbles up, and will burn away with flame." The above Dr. Ure's statements are further confirmed by Sir 1) BREWSTER and Pliny, as also by Parks and Heny on Chemistry. The destruetivc effects of such a material for Spectacles, to imperfect vision, ar e fully and most satisfactorily explained in Messrs. Curtis and Dollond's Second Edition on the Preservation of Sight, Sod Tall be ascertained at any respectable Opticians in London. he Messrs. Solomons' newly-invented Spectacle Lenses are not !onstrueted of such a material; but which are very superior, and bring bask at once dimness of sight and imperfect vision to its original and natural state ; these Spectacles, and very small Voioe toriductors f or D ea f perso ns, are only to be bad at their Establish- in ents BD, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly ' opposite the York Hotel. NO TRAVELLERS A E EMPLOYED. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE,' J ULY 5, 1339. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS o f H er Majesty's ORDNANCE do hereby give Notiee that they will SELL by PUBLIC AUCTION, at the Tower, on TnuItSDAY, the 18th of July, 1839, at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon precisely, sundry LOTS OF OLD STORES, consisting of clothing, great coats, boots, knapsacks, iron bedsteads, bedding, flags, tents, trumpets, bugles, drums, vices, tools of various descriptions, fenders, fire irons, scales and weights, fire engines and hose, tables, forms, flint kegs, tin ware, old rope, steel, and various other articles, the whole of which may be viewed at the Tower, as expressed in the Catalogues, four days previous to the sale (Sundays ex cepted) from Ten o'Clock till Four, upon application to the Princ:pal Storekeeper's Office at that place, where Catalogues of the Lots, and Conditions of the Sale, will be delivered to those persons who may apply for the same. By Order of the Board, R. BY - HAM, Secretary. TO WINE-MERCHANTS, TAVERN-KEEPERS, and OTHERS. GENUINE STOCK of WINES, i n B o t t l e an d i n W oo d . nR. COTTLE i s di recte d b y t h e E xecutors of a Wine Merchant, deceased, to OFFER for un reserved SALE, at Garraway's, on TUESDAY NEXT, July 16, at Twelve, More than SIX HUNDRED DOZEN of very CHOICE WINES, in Crusted Ports; Pale, Brown, and Golden Sher ries; Bucellas, Sauterne, Champagne, Claret, Marsala, &c. ; Six Quarter Casks of Port (duty paid), Ten extraordinary fine Pipes of Port in Bond, and Fifteen other Pipes; Butts and Hogsheads of Sherries, Burgundy, Hock, Marsala, and other Wines. The whole selected by the late Proprietor for his valuable connection, and will be found well worthy the attention of Private Families, as well as the Trade. Samples and Catalogues May be had at the Offices of the Auctioneer, 45, Holborn-hill; and at Garraway's, on the morning of sale. PERFUMERY—CAUTION. MR. PRICE, of the Firm of Price and Co., 28, Lombard-street (the only surviving partner of the late Firms of Price and Gosnell, and Patey, Butts, Price, and Co.), cautions merchants, shippers, &c., against the manoeu vres of individuals illegally styling themselves " Price and Gosnell." These persons never were iu partnership nor in any way connected with the above firms, otherwise than as ser vants in the employ of Mr. Price's late firm of " Price and Gosnell." The great superiority of Price and Co.'s Perfumery has been so incontrovertibly established by the distinguished pa tronage of the Nobility and Gentry in every quarter of the globe, as to render it unnecessary for Prise and Co. to do more than enumerate their leading articles. PRICE and CO.'S VICTORIA BOUQUET, the deli cious fragrance of which has rendered it an especial favourite with the Sovereign. 3s. ed. PRICE'S OLD BROWN WINDSOR SOAP retains its reputation as superior to all others. It is a perfectly mild emollient Soap, highly salutary to the Skin, washing with the greatest facility, possessing an aromatic and lasting perfume. 2s. rid. per packet. PRICE'S ABERNETHY'S SPECIFIC, for rendering the Skin soft, smooth, and beautiful ; removing freckles, mor phews, &c. Recommended for the hands and arms, bestow ing on them a delicacy and whiteness unrivalled. In Bottles, with testimonials of its surprising effects, by a Clergyman of the Church of England. Price and Co.'s Perfumery, celebrated Soaps, Brushes, &e., are to be had genuine in London only at their Establishment, 23, Lombard-street, and of their Agents in all the Cities and Towns of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Price and Co. affix to every article a label with the signature of " Price and Co." in red ink, and in its centre, "28, Lom bard-street," to counterfeit which is felony. To prevent disappointment, and ensure punctuality, all orders are requested to be directed to " Price and Co., 28, Lombard street." • R. ELIA SOLOIVIONS' VOICE CON DUCTORS have in numerous cases of Deafness produced the most satisfactory results, enabling persons to hear vocal, musical, and even the slightest sounds with accurate distinctness. Their minute and convenient form (being only quarter of an inch in diame. ter) preserves their situation in the ear. They are almost unseen and unfelt, and are inserted and removed with the greatest facility. The great benefit derived from his Patent AMBER SPECTACLES in all cases of defective vision, and which have received the sanction and unqualified approval of the principal Medical and Scientific au thoritios in Europe; among whom may be enumerated Sir James E. Anderson, M.D„ 11, New Burlington street. Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S.. President of the Royal College of Sur geons, and Senior Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, Langham. place. Sir Ben amin Brodie, Bart., F.R.S., Saville row Jai Jes ohnso Esq ,Ad D., Physician to the late King, 8, Suffolk.. I lace. Bransby B. Cooper, Esq., F R.S, Surgeon to Guy's Hoop tal, 2, New.. street, Spring gardens. Martin Ware, Esq., Oculist, 23, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. E. W. Duflin, Esq., M D. C. Aston Key, Esq., Surgeon, St. Helen's place. J. G. Andrews, Esq., Senior Surgeon to the London Hospital, 4, St. Helen's-place. J. T. Conquest, Esq., M.D., 13, Finsbury-squaro. The public are respectfully cautioned that some unprincipled enspi. ries have assumed Mr. S.'s name, and are adve r ti s i ng with the most unblushing effrontery as newly.i nvented S pectacle Lenses," which are nothing more than the commonest glass pink-shaded, pronassing to relieve imperfect vision, deafness, and cataract without operation. These glasses are highly prejudicial to the sight. Th e names of come apothecaries and others are set forth to sanction this untruth and absurd quackery, that the public may be deceived into a belief of their very extraordinary powers. Th is f a ct may be proved by a pply.. ing to Mr. Reardon, Spectacle Glass Maker, N o . 42, Easton-street, tlerkenwall, where they are purchased for Is. the dozen pairs, and for which the most exorbitant charges are exacted by the adver tising venders. •‘ Semper nocuit differre THERE is perhaps no situation in life s o f u ll of embarrassment as when the over-sensitiv e feel them selves compelled to reveal their moral indiscretions, or their physical imperfections, to others. Day after day does the horror of exposure accumulate in the morbid imagmation, while increasing disease aug ments the suffbring of the body and the irritability of the mind. Sen sible of the anguish thus protracted, we have adopted a system which long practical experience has proved to be highly successful, and which precludes the abiolute necessity of personal communication with those who recoil from such mode of consultation. A full and minute description of the case, written in plain language, will enable us to treat the patient with delicate secrecy; and such has been the pecu. liar nature of our practice, embracing every variety of difficult cir.. cumstances that the most timid may feel encouragement in the oppor. tunity thus affbrded them. Twenty_five years of practice, exclusively devoted to diseases arising from indiscretion, gaiety, or climate, whereby the constitution may have become enfeebled, enable us to promise a restoration to (3 SSa n nealth, without any interference with the ordinary diet and habits. d a ii C d o . p, a i t r i c e nttos the consul remotested ; as parts in usu o a f l t e h v e ery co d u a n Y . , at re s idenc e; i th ies ei s r rs. try can be treated successfully on their describing minutely the case, and enclosing a remittance for 4, deice and Medicine. No difficulty can occur, as the Medicines will be securely packed, and carefully protected from 0b5erv...1.2:. GOSS and CO., M.R.C. Surgeons, •.• Just published (TNo. 7, L•mcAster-place, Strand, London. wenty-third Edition)-Ist. The &GIS of LIFE, a familia: commentary on the above Diseases.-2d. The SY piimisT, a Popular treatise on I.ues Venerea, H GEI A 'IA, addressed er elusively o the female Sex. May be bed st:23, Patonoster-row, London; a n d of all llooksellers. Price sa. egeh. SPECIMENS OF DEF BENEFITS. No. 14.619. WILL CLOSE ON SATURDAY THE 27TH INST. THE FIFTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of the NEW SOCIETY of PAIN 1 ERS in WATER COLOURS, 53, PALL-MALL WEST, adjoining the British Institution. Open from Nine . o'Clock till Dusk. Admittance, Is. Catalogues, 6d. JAMES FAHEY, Hon. Sec. mr ANTED by an Experienced PRINTER, EMPLOYMENT as READER, OVERSEER, or SUB-EDITOR. The Advertiser is thoroughly qualified to undertake the Ma nagement of a Business in all its Departments, Literary and Mechanical, and can give testimonials of industry and sobriety. No objection to the country, or to go abroad with a fair prospect. Address (post paid) M. P., I, Shoe-lane, London. FFI) U C A T I 0 N.—GERMANY.---At a Select Establishment, beautifully situated at BONN, on the Rhine, for the limited number of Twelve Pupils, there are THREE VACANCIES. The Terms are moderate, and the whole system pursued is purely of a Domestic character, and well adapted to the speedy acquirement of the German and French Languages, and for some years past has given satisfac tion to both Parents and Pupils. The Principal is now in London. and his Address, Prospec tuses, and full particulars, may be had on application to Mr. Hookham, Library, Old Bond-street, London. VACANCY. —The office of RECTOR in the INVERNESS ACADEMY is now VACANT. The Rector will be required to teach mathematics, natural philosophy., including astronomy, chemistry, and the higher branches of geography ; and to take a general superintence of the whole institution. The Directors win guarantee that the emoluments shall not be under 260/. a year, including the allowance for a house, but they may be much greater according to the number of pupils, which must in a greater measure depend upon the Rector's reputation and exertions. The appointment will be held during the pleasure of the Directors; but Candidates will observe, that though this general explanation of the nature of the situation be now given, they must satisfy themselves as to all particulars by application either to Mr. John M'Andrew, solicitor, Inverness; or to Mr. Hugh Fraser, W. S., 4, Dun das-street, Edinburgh. The Directors have resolved to be regulated in their choice upon this occasion by the advice of two gentlemen resident in Edinburgh, in whom they have confidence. Candidates, there fore, must have their applications, with such certificates as they may deem proper, lodged with Mr. F r a ser , on or b e f ore Satur day, the 27th of uly current. 4, Dundas -street, Edinburgh, July 4, 1839. BULL AND MOUTH INN. T HE ROYAL SAXON, to HASTINGS and ST. LEONARD'S. Mr. SHERMAN, of the Bull and Mouth, London ; HUTCHINGS, of the South Saxon Hotel, St. Leonard's ; and of the Marine Hotel, Hastings ; and J. EASTLAND, of Hastings, respectfully announce that they have completed ar rangements for the performance of the above Conveyance in the very first style of Coaching, and trust, by strict attention as to Time, Security, and Comfort to the Traveller, to merit and obtain Public patronage. The ROYAL SAXON SETS OFF EVERY MORNING, at Half past Nine, from the Bull and Mouth Inn, St. Martin's-le-Grand ; Bull and Mouth Eastern Office, 74, Gracechurch-street ; Bull and Mouth Western Office, 40, Regent Circus, Piccadilly ; Bull and Mouth New Office, Corner of Portman-street ; and Moore's Green Man and Still, Oxford-street ; and proceeds from the Bricklayers' Arms, at Ten o'Clock, through Bromley, Seven Oaks, Tunbridge, Robert's Bridge, Watlington, and Battle, to The South Saxon Hotel, St, Leonard's, and The Marine Hotel, Hastings. From which Hotel it also sets off for London every Morning, at Ten o'Clock. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1S 9. N ORTH BRITISH INSURANCE COMPANY, No. 4, New Bank-buildings, Lothbury, London; and 1, Hanover-street, Edinburgh, for Assurance on Livos and Sur vivorships, and likewise for the Purchase of Reversions and Annuities. Established 1809. Incorporated by Royal Charter. Capital, One Million. PRESIDENT—His Grace the Duke of SUTHERLAND. VICE-PRESIDENTS. The Marquis of Huntley Viscount Melville. LONDON BOARD. PRESIDENT—The Earl of CAMPERDOWN. VICE-PRESIDENT—Lord Viscount STRATHALLAN. Sir P. Laurie, Alderman, Chairman. F. Warden, Esq., Deputy Chairman. The advantages offered to the Public by this Corporation :- 1. Ample Security from their large capital. 2. Rates of Premium nearly 5 per Cent. lower than most other offices acting on the system of participation of profits. 3. Premiums may be made payable either in a single pay ment, or by annual, half-yearly, or quarterly payments. 4. The assured may either participate in the profits, secured against all responsibility by the capital of the Corporation, er may pay a less premium for securing a specific sum without periodical additions. 5. When policies effected by parties on their own lives are assigned to others for onerous causes, the holders are assured against the risk of the original assured dying by suicide or duelling. 6. Every facility given on moderate terms to persons going beyond the prescribed limits of the policy. 7. Advances made on security of policies of more than three years' standing to the extent of their value. 8. A liberal price given for policies to parties wishing to sur rendir them. 9. Persons resident in the country can effect Insurances by corresponding with the resident Members of the Board, Messrs. B. and M. Boyd. 4, New Bank-buildings, London. PUBLICATIONS. THE FAMILY LIBRARY, VOL. 68. In One handsome Volume, Duodecimo, Price ss. bound in cloth, THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, with Literary and Historical Illustrations from authentic Documents, supplied by Spanish Biographers, and other Editors of his Works. By THOMAS ROSCOE, Esq. Forming Vol. 68 of the Family Library. London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside ; and may be procured, by order, of all other Booksellers. Just published, 2 vols. Bvo. price 18s. boards, TREATISE on the INDUSTRY of NATIONS; or, The Principles of National Eco nomy and Taxation. By J. S. EISDELL, Esq. Vol. 1, Production—Vol. 2, Distribution, Consumption and Taxation. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria-lane. NEW NOVEL, BY " THE OLD SAILOR." On Wednesday next, the l'ith inst., in 3 vols. post Bro. IiTAMILTON K I N G. By M. H. BARKER, Esq. Author of " Tough Yarns," " Land and Sea Tales," " Greenwich Hospital," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. DEDICATED BY SPECIAL PERMISSION TO THE QUEEN. In 2 vols. Bvo., with plates. THE HON. C. A. :MURRAY'S 'TRA VELS in NORTH AMERICA, during the years 1834, 1835, and 1836, IS NOW READY AT ALL THE BOOKSELLERS. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. NEW TRANSLATION of tne BIBLE " All the King's—( Henry the Eighth's)—proeeeding convincing the Pope that he was to expect no change in hums he published at length the Bull of Excommunication, drawn, and signed in 1535. As soon as Henry heard of the Bull being published, he required the Bishops and Abbots to swear again to renounce the Papal authority. At the same time, the new translation of the Bible being presented to him, he ordered 1,500 copies to be printed, being satisfied that nothing would be found there to support the exhorbitant power assumed by the Pope over all Christendom." " Grafton, the printer, printed 1,50$ at his own charge, which amounted to 500/. !"—History of England, by Rapin, p. 819. " He, who by a diligent and faithful examination of the ori ginal records, diminishes from the system one article which con tradicts the apprehension, the experience, or the reasoning of mankind, does more towards recommending the belief, and, with the belief, the influence of Christianity to the understandings and consciences of serious inquirers, and through them to uni versal reception and authority, than can be effected by a thou sand contenders for creeds and ordinances'of human establish ment."—Paley. - - - - ,‘ Patriotism is a scandalous game, played by public men for private ends, and frequently little better than a selfish struggle r power. _ _ " He must be a narrow-minded, short-sighted statesman, who does not see and acknowledge that National Morality, pro ceeding from religious principle, is essential to the peace, the prosperity, the permanency of this and every Christian country. . " No man upon earth, I trust, can have more enlarged sen timents of toleration than I have, but the Church of Rome is a persecuting Church, and it is our interest and duty, on every principle of religion and common sense, to guard ourselves against her machinations." " Give every Bishop income enough, not for display of worldly pomp and fashionable luxury, but td enable him to maintain works of charity, and to make a decent provision for his family ; but, having done these thingsfor him, take from him all hopes of a translation by equalizing the bishoprics. Oblige him to a longer residence in his diocese than is usually prac tised, that he may do the proper work of a Bishop ; that he may direct and inspect the flock of Christ ; that by his exhor tations he may confirm the unstable, by his admonitions reclaim the reprobate, and by the purity of his life render religion amiable and interesting to all." " We do not allow that there are any infal'ible interpreters of the Bible, on the contrary, we maintain, that Fathers, Churches, and Councils, have erred in their interpretation of this book, in their decision concerning particular points of faith. This we must as Protestants maintain, or we cannot justify our having emancipated ourselves from the bondage of the Church of Rome."—P. 117, Bishop Watson's Life. " University Education." " The great resorts and seats of learning often outlive in this way the intentions of founders, as the world outgrows them. Our Universities are, in a great measure, become cisterns to hold, not conduits, to disperse, knowledge. The age has the start of them, that is, other sources of knowledge have been opened since their formation, to which the world have had access, and have drank plentifully at these living fountains, from which they are debarred by the tenor of their Charter, and as a matter of dignity and privilege. All that has been invented or thought in the last two hundred years they take no cognizance of, or as little as possible, they are above it, they stand . upovi the ancient land-marks, and will not budge, whatever was known when they were endowed, they are still in profound and lofty ignorance of."—Hazlitt's Table Talk: also, the Examiner, Jan. 20, 18241. " The heads of houses at Oxford, are not SI obtuse of mind as not to see that if the privileges and possessions, gradually and imperceptibly accumulated by them, were brought :into collision and contest with the awakened perception and increas ing strength of mind of the community at large, their interest must be deeply invo vcd in the struggle Had they no fears that if Oxford wero brought within three hours' journey from London, that- instead of the reverential few who now come within their halls, like pilgrims, to worship and ad mire, that the busy eye of inquiry might be induced to ask how came it that when monasteries were suppressed, that such esta blishments were maintained as those of Oxford and Cambridge, with monastic discipline and rites, where celibacy was enforced by'statutes, amid other remnants of monkery, the relics of . . . Eremites and friars, white, black, and gray, with all their trumpery !"—Sunday Times No. 820. "We observe in a pamphlet, Anti-Diest,' published by Mr. Bellamy, that Exodus, c. iii, v. 22, is a gross mistransla tion. He notices a number of other errors in the translation of the Bible now in use, equally hostile to the true meaning of the writers. It is not a little curious, that many of these mis translated passages, wbich give meanings in direct opposition to the real ones, have been as stoutly defended by eminent theo logians as any in the whole took, and long commentaries have been written upon them, expressly to show their beauty and propriety."—The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821. To CoustrsroxnEwrs.—" The Bible.—We have been so earnestly exhorted to persevere in opening our Paper to the dis cussion of the merits of the New Translation, as a question of the utmo t importance to the interests of mankind, that we feel it to be our duty to comply. Our Correspondents, therefore, shall be attended to in turn, as we have reason to believe that the Heads of the Church have already directed their attention to the controversy."—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dec. 5, 1818. " Surely the elevated patronage which this New Translation has deservedly obtained, should operate as a general example and incitement. Shall the Bible, with its many acknowledged errors, descend to posterity polluted with all those errors; or shall it be transmitted to the latest generations of mankind, with as much of its original purity as it is po>sible for human sagacity, knowledge, and diligence to elucidate and confirm."--- The Sun, Monday, November 23d, 1818. The Sun, Septem ber 30th, October 7th, and 28th, 1837. The Guide, March 18th, and 25th, 1838. The Sun, December 27, 1838, Feb. 5, 1839. Published in 1818 and 1819. Parts 1 and 2, price 245. each, dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, as Regent. " The New Translation of the Holy Bible, containing the three books of the Pentateueh, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and reconciling the numerous discrepancies in J erome ' s an d the European versions." Part 3d in 1821, containing from Numbers to Deuteronomy. Part 4th in 1825, containing from Joshua, C. 1. to 1 Samuel, c. 13. T. 5. _ _ Part sth in :831, containing from 1 Samuel, e. 13. v. 6. to 2d Kings, c. 17. v. 11. Part 6th in 1834, containing from 2d Kings, e. 17. v. 12 to Job, c. 18. v. 21. _ _ Part 7th in 1835, containing from Job, c. 18. v. 22. to Psalms, c. 50. The Anti-Deist, in answer to the publication called the Deist, containing also a refutation of the erroneous opinions held forth in the Age of Reason, and in a recent publication, entitled Researches on Ancient Kingdoms, 1819, price 4s. First and Second Replies to the Quarterly Review, showing the gross errors the Reviewer has made in his Remarks on the New Translation of the Bible. " I now proceed to examine the passage which the Reviewer has adduced to prove how grossly I have erred in translating the word gnaaroumin, prudent, instead of naked ; which is in Job, c. 22. v. 6. And stripped the naked of their clothing. This is, perhaps, one of the pa ssages w hi c h h e d eems elegant,' ' simple, and ' dignified.' It is simple' enough, surely ; and such simple passages abounding in the common version have in all ages excited the wonder of intelligent men. ' Stripped the naked of their clothing In the name of common sense, if they were naked, how couldthey be stripped ?"—Extracts. See Classical Journal , No. 38.. A Refutation of the Erroneous Opinions, promulgated by a Right Rev. Bishop of London.—See Classical Journal, No. 1. A Reply to the Right Rev. Bishop of St. David's. Sae i Classical Journal, No. 26. The True Age of Christ at the Crucifixion, not 33 but 52} years, price Is. Biblical Criticisms in each quarterly put, in the years, 1810, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, of the Classical Journals, by JOHN I3ELLAMY, SPECIMENS OF EMENDATIONS, AND TENOR OF REPLIES. Genesis, c. 11. v. 4. Jerome's Version.—And they said, go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach Unto heaven. New Translation._Hebrew.—And they said, come, let us build a city and tower, with his top Like unto heaven. "An undertaking as impious as it was foolish, an attempt to build a tower which should reach to heaven !" Origines ; or, Remarks on the Origin of several Empires, States, and Cities. By the Right Hon. Sir W. Drummond.— The Literary Gazette, May 28, 1825. 4 , The tower of Babel whose top was to reach to heaven,' and the confusion of tongues;' the sacrifice of Isaac and Jeptha's daughter; the true age of Christ at the crucifixion.' " _Enquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors. The•works of Sir Thomas Brown, Knight, M.D., of Nor wich, 1680. Authorised Version, Deuteronomy, chap. 14, v. 22 :—" Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed." "Itis a well-known maxim of nglish law, suggested by common sense, and recognised by every principle of justice, to infer, that the long and uninterrupted enjoyment of a civil right must have originated in a regular grant from the original owner, although no express evidence can be produced of existence of such conveyance." On Tithcs.—Quarterly Re view, No. 53. New Translation :—" A tenth thou shalt tenth, of all the increase of thy seed." Note—Oakelos, the most eminent of all the learned Rabbis, who lived before the dispersion of the Hebrews, and consequently made the translation of the Sacred Volume into Chaldee at that period when the Hebrew was a national language, he thus translates the clause--gnasaara tignsarah, " a tenth thou shalt tenth," which is the same as the Hebrew. The Septuagint 3EY.270Y cor6OEXCCT . WG - Fi (both Alexandrine and Vatican) " a tenth thou shalt tenth." The learned ,olden, Le Clerc, and other great authorities on tithes, say—" It is not likely that the Levites should have had a tenth of the whole produce of the land, because the number of the tribe of Levi, compared with the numbers of the other tribes, was so trifling. Neither could it be of all the produce of the land, but of the increase of the seed ; as it is truly said in the comma!' version : for the increase must necessarily have been that part of the produce after the seed employed to give the increase, had been returned to the grower out of the gross produce; otherwise it could not have been said it was the " in crease of the seed." " The Council of Calcuith, or Calchite, held ha 785, or, ac cording to others, in 787, on account of erecting Lichfield into an Archbishopric, ratified the Canons of a Synod that had been convened just before in Northumberland. Gregory and Theophilact, who presided as the Pope's Legates, acknow ledged, in their letter to the Pope, that they were the first that had been sent into England with that character. The follow ing are some of the Canons of the Synod of Northumberland, ratified by the Council of Calcuith:_' Bth. The ancient privileges of the Church are carefully to be preserved. The 17th urges the payment of Tithes from the authority of the Law of Moses.' " _ . " Ethelwulph's reign furnishes us with a subject, w hi c h, though mentioned elsewhere, it will not be amiss to repeat a little more largely of in this place; I mean the grant of Tithes. The Charter runs thu " I, Ethelwulph, by the grace of God, &c., have, for the health of my soul, and good of my people, taken the prudent resolution of granting the tenth part of all the lands throughout my whole kin;dom to the Church and Ministers of Religion, &c. &c.—Dated the Palace at Wilton, in the year 854, Indic tion the second, at the Feast of Easter." The terms, date, and subscription of the Charter, have in duced several learned men to believe it spurious. But without entering into the controversy, I shall content myself with ob serving, that long before this Charter the Clergy of England claimed a right to the Tithes, if they were not already in actual possession of them. This is evident from the 17th Canon of the Council of Calcuith, held in 785, where w e find they urged the payment of Tithes from the Law of Moses. If this Char ter, therefore, is not to be considered a forgery, it seems at least to be of very doubtful authority. Add to this, that by the tenth part of the lands must necessarily be meant the tenth part of the profits ; which must be owned to be a very forced inter pretation, especially in a primordial Act such as this."—Page 111, Rapin's History of England. From the above readings the following scale is deducible : Allowing agricultural produce to realise thirty per cent., which is absolute—tithe impost to be included--and increase being considered synonymous with produce—a tenth is 131. per cent. Here we must observe we think the imposition of three half pence in every shilling quartern loaf a severe infliction for our spiritual edification. Albeit it would almost pass without a murmur, but that our hallowed Faith enjoins us " To feed the hungry—and its denunciations are upon those who are unmind ful of "the child of misery baptised in tears." Ethelwulph's Charter.—A tenth of the profit, 31. per cent. Hebrew. New Translation.—A tenth of a tenth taken on produce, 265. per cent. Hebrew.--A tenth of a tenth, on the increase or profit, 6s. per cent. We cull from the "blaze of eloquence" of immortal Milton the epitaph for the patron of this work—" Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse." " In the House of Lords, the debate being on the state of Ireland, the Earl of Liverpool said, The Noble Lord had in sisted on tithes, a property to which the Church had a right. He could not go quite the length of his Noble Friend, and be lieved that ultimately the question must come under the con sideration of Parliament. '—(Hear, hear.)—See Morning Herald, June 20, 1823. _ _ There is the recorded vote of the House of Commons to 10 per cent. property or income tax ! being oppressive. Under the operation of the property tax an esquire whose principal of 10,0001. netted him bOO/. per annum, paid to the State 50/., under the operation of the tithelcomposition, an out lay of 500/. subjects the cultivator to the same 50/. ; this, in deed, is .‘ th' oppressors wrongs ;" but thank God, we seem to outlive this. Mr. Hodges wished to ask the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Gover nmen t t o introduce in that Hou se , or the other House of Parliament, a Bill to amend and explain the Tithe Commutation Act? Lord J. Russell was understood to say that it was the inten tion of Governme n t to introduce a Bill for that purpose.—The Sun, June 14, 1839. It being to the Editors of the Sun and the Examiner must be conceded the onslaught on behalf of majesty and mind, here we must observe, we consider we are fully warranted to make our appeal to them to reassume their post of honour—" do this deed of worth" —as we have maintained the field " through good report, and through evil report"—our impulse of action being to render our country " like a Greek ship, where every man has his stake in her," and that "peace may have her vic tories no less renowned than war." Ist Samuel, c. v., Authorized Version. " Saul abode in Gi beah;under a tree in Ramah." New Translation—" Now Saul abode by Gibeah, in the grove by Bamah."—Classical Journal, p. 203, No. 5 for April, 1811. Twenty-eight years since this emendation was submitted to notice. There has beon uncommon apathy, or ignorance in our councils. A letter to Mr. Bellamy, by Samuel Lee, M.A. of Queen's College, and Professor of Arabic in the University of Cam bridge, 1821. Your Anti-Deist, a work perfectly of a piece with the New Translation." " I give it conscien tiously, I have not been able to discover any thing like merit in your translation." Advertisement—" The author takes this opportunity of making his grateful acknowledge ments to the Syndics of the University Press, for their libe rality in taking upon themselves the expense of printing these sheets. "—Extracts. Mr. Bellamy's Reply to S. Lee, M.A., Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, 1821. " You say, The only writers, who in this day have rejected these helps (the sister dialects, Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic) towards ascertaining the meaning of the Hebrew Text, are the author of the ' Remarks' (the Regius Professor of Oriental Languages at Oxford) abovementioned, and myself.' It is certainly much to the credit of the author of the ' Remarks' that he rejects those lame helps,' the sister dialects." . . . " But you have entirely passed over the vast destruction of the infant children in Egypt, as recorded in the common ver sion. I have shown, so as not to admit of a contradiction, in truth, that no such destruction was ever executed on the first born, but on the bekor,'—the firstling of the animal in their tabernacles, which was the object of their idolatrous wor ship." . . . H er e I shall close my remarks concerning the speaking of the ass, by observing, that though you have given the reader to understand that the ass literally spoke, the obvious sense in which Mairoonides understood the matter w as, that the messenger spake, and not the ass. Really, it is time you should get rid of such elnldish notions. To say any thing more on your absurd conclu ;lons, would be a total waste of time. Depend upon it that, v vhatever they may now do, asses never spoke in the days of Bal tam."—Extracts. The Critical Examination, refuting tile statements of Mr. Whit aker. The reader will, by attending to the , answers I have given to the remarks in his book and in his Ai pendis ' from a proper judgment of this gentleman's great °proton of his abilities in Hebrew, when he finds that the Third person singular of the verb is made the plural—the Third person singular preter of the verb is made the Participle active—the adverb instead of the verb—the common plural They instead . .of Them —pronouns where they are not in the original — errors An conjugation sanc tioned—the Masculine rendered Neuter—pa lbable errors, which sanction the remarks of Deists, countenano?d—obscenities at tempted to be confirmed, which are not in the pure word of God—absurdities admitted—the characters of the holy men of God represented as immoral and wicked. " " Luke x.vi. 9. And I say unto you, snake to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousnes s ; that when ye fail, they may receive you into ever l astin g ha bitations. Such a command certainly could not be given by- our Saviour. This verse remains in the state it was in when First translated out of the native language of Ju dea, in the early 'ages o f th e Ch r i st i an Church, not translated : and this is the case with numbers where the Hebrew words have been retained by the translators in Greek. I call upon Mr. Todd, and th..! writer of the Cri tical Inquiry, to favour the public with the .solution of the above difficulty. If they cannot, they are not qualified to translate from the Hebrei." " Surely, every one who believes in the s seictity of the Word of God, for the reasons above given, will he convinced that it never was subject to those casualties which : ever attend on the writings of men, and will not hesitate to say, that the most confirmed infidels, from the time of Pori ihyry, of Colsus, to the modern Deist, could not have broached a more impious and 4 untenable dogma—than the sacred ori g i nal Inspired Volumes were corrupt.'" " As the University is implicated, by the Syndics defraying the expense of the publication called A Cri:tical Inquiry, it will be something new in the annals of that higl i seat of learning, and will be heard with astonishment in the a antinental Univer sities, that a book containing such dangerou s 3 and infidel dog mas, calculated if believed to shake the fait h of all Christen dom, is printed at the expense of the Sy n di cs o f t h e U n i vers i ty of Cambridge, written by a man who says th at the Third per son singular of the verb is also the participl e ac ti ve ." Specimen of emendation s to be introduced; in Part VIII. : Song of Solomon, authorised version, eh ap. Ist, v. 3,—" I am black, but comely, 0 ye daughters of gerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the cur tains of Solomon.. Neither in this verse, nor Isaiah, chap. 41, v . 11, is the word " Kedar"—" mournin g " —translated. 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THREE or four days of truly fine weather, attended with a brisk drying wind, suffice to com mence, carry on progressively, and perfectly to secure in rick, a very large breadth of meadow hay ; and though the work of thatching cannot be completed in that time, yet every object as respects security will be obtained by means of a good TACKLE and RICK CLOTH. He who owns large Hay Crops, and is too penurious (economical he is not) to allow himself that most efficient defence, deserves to suffer in quality and pocket."— Hay-making : Gardener's Gazette, June 9, 1838. A great variety of RICK CLOTHS, both New and Second hand, to be had on moderate ter ms a t BENJAMIN EDGING TON'S, Marquee, Tent, and Rick Cloth Manufact3ry, 2, Duke-street, Southwark, foot of London-bridge. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN SPITAL FIELDS. About half-past ten o'clock on Saturday night the neighbourhood of Spitalfields was thrown into the greatest alarm and excitement by the sudden bursting forth of a most destructive fire, which commenced on the premises of Mr. Thomas Okey, timber-merchant and basket-manufacturer, situated in Quakers-street, Brick-lane. It was not discovered until the flames burst forth with great fury from the centre of the ex tensive premises, which cover upwards of two acres of ground, and is bounded on the south by Quaker-street, on the north by Phcenix-street, on the west by Wheeler street, and on the east by Grey Eagle-street. Within a few minutes after the flames were discovered they spread with alarming celerity over the extensive workships, which, with numerous stacks of osiers, used in the basket-making branch of the business, were soon one body of fire. The first engine that reached the spot was that belonging to the County Fire Office, from Church-lane, which was soon fol lowed by that of the Brigade from the Jef frey-square station, and that belonging to Christ Church. Fortunately, there being a good supply of water, they were immediately got into operation from Quakers-street, but their united efforts had no effect on the raging element, which quickly extended its ravages to the houses in Cro.vn-court, Quakers-street, to the rear of nine others in Quakers-street, on the nne side. to the back premises of the houses in Wheeler-street, to the houses in Phoenix -street, and to the outbuildings of those in Grey Eagle-street, nearly the whole of which were at one moment on fire. By that time no less than ten or a dozen other engines of the Brigade, and one of the West of England Fire Office, had reached the scene of the conflagration, and being quickly got into operation, poured a continuous stream on the burning buildings, and we are happy to say that by the united efforts of the firemen the flames were, by one o'clock, sufficiently subdued as to allay all fear of their extend ing further. From the confusion which prevailed when our Re porter left, it was impossible to ascertain the whole extent of the damage done. We, however, ascertained that the whole of the premises of Mr. Okey were de stroyed, with the entire of the stock they contained. He is insured, stock and building, in the Royal Ex change Fire-office, but we regret to state his stock far under the amount of his loss. The backs of the houses in Quakers-street are also burnt, and the looms of the the weavers by whom they are inhabited destroyed. Crown-court is also destroyed, as likewise several houses in Phoenix-street, as well as those in Woodyard and and other courts leading out of Phoenix -street, and the backs of those in Grey Eagle-street, most of which were inhabited by weavers, the generality of whose goods, which are uninsured, are totally destroyed, thus adding to the amount of misery to which that neigh bourhood has for a length of time been subject. (FURTHER PARTICULARS.) On revisiting the ruins last night at seven o'clock, the crowd round the place was very great. The en gines of the West of England, County, and ten of the Brigade were throwing powerful streams into the vast wrecks of property, which were on flames in many parts, and the smoke that arose therefrom was exceed- ingly dense and darkened the atmosphere all around the place. The poor creatures who were burnt ou t were huddled together, here and there, protecting their little property, which was strewed in various parts of the street, from the violence of the mobs which were passing by. There are as many as one hundred families wholly ruined by this dreadful occurrence, many of whom are in a state bordering on starvation without clothing or shelter. A strong body of the police were in attendance, and orders had been received that the whole of the engines and firemen were to remain on the spot for the night. We have received a long list of the damages caused by the fire for which we cannot find space. CANADIAN PRISONERS.-The result of the long-contested points arising out of the alleged illegal transportation of the nine prisoners from Upper Canada, and which have so long occupied the courtiof law, has been the discharge of them all—viz., of J. G. Parker, R. Wizon, W. Alves, R. Walker, F. Malcolm, L. Watson, J. Brown, Ira Anderson, and Paul Bedford, who were on Saturday released from their long confinement. On Thursday last, ten of the hands belonging to the Lady of the Lake, which was about to set out on her voyage, stated their determination not to proceed to sea. The owners endeavoured to bring them to a sense of their duty, by remonstrating with them on the impro priety of their conduct, but all in vain ; whereupon a war rant was issued, and the whole ten were brought before Mr. Sheriff Marshall, in the Justice of Peace Clerk's Office. On examination, they admitted the charge brought against them, and alleged in excuse, reasons which were found to be untenable. The Sheriff sentenced each to thirty days' imprisonment in the county Bridewell.— Greenock Advertiser. _ _ Some seem to have odd notions of what consti tutes a Christian. A fisherman who was exhibiting, the other day, some strange monster of the deep, assured the by-standers that "it had hands and pockets like a Chr is. tiara." IMPORTANT TO REPORTERS------The school master of Climpy has at length completed his machine, called the " Speech Recorder." Its principle is to divide the mental and mechanical labour of speech reporting, but allowing both to go on at once, thereby doubling the speed of the most expert common reporter : consequently a whole speech can be taken down by the time that the speaker is half through his harangue. The idea of this wonderful machine was taken from " Babbage on the Division of Labour." A GOOD SHOT AND GOOD GUN.---A well known sporting Baronet of the upper ward, who is an ex cellent shot, last autumn,with a single charge of his matchless gun, brought down three brace of game ; but what is still more wonderful, the shadow alone of this deadly shot in one instant killed his dog, " Nimrod." PAGANINI.—NISMES, JULY 2.---Paganini has just pased through this city. He arrived on Sunday evit ing, and left us yesterday morning for the Balaruc Waters, where he hopes to cure his rheumatic pains, to which is superadded an almost complete extinction of voice. CARNARVON.—We are glad to state that the hay harvest in the vicinity of this town is nearly all carried, and under the most favourable auspices, owing to the late prevalence of fine weather. 'We believe that very few fields in this neighbourhood are now standing, and in ano ther week, if the present beautiful weather continue, we shall expect to see it all got in.—Herald. PRICE sd, BIRMINGHAM. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) SUNDAY, Two O'CLOCK P.M. It is with infinite regret that I am compelled to acknow ledtre that the conduct of our Magistrates is hazarding the public peace, and that it is calculated to afford to the Chartists and other disturbed spirits here a pretext for re peating those scenes which it is so much the desire and the interest of all to put down. On Friday Mr. Watts, of Paradise -street, London, and Mr. Guest, Steel House lane, Birmingham, sureties for Mr. Lovett, and Mr. Rus sell and Mr. Thompson of Birmingham, sureties for Mr. Collins, attended at the public - office for the purpose of perfecting their bail. Mr. Watts, being a stranger, pro. duced as evidence of his responsibility 1,6001. good and substantial property. After a lengthened consultation the Magistrates adjourned their decision to Saturday, to enable them to satisfy themselves of the sufficiency of Mr. Watts' bail. This gentleman, in order to remove every pretext for a further postponement, proceeded to London for the purpose of procuring further evidence of his respectabi lity, with which he returned at two o'clock yesterday (Sa turday). At half-past two, according to the Magistrates' order, the four sureties attended at the public office. At five o'clock the Magistrates announced, through Mr. Ryland, their clerk, that they adjourned the consideration of taking bail, to two o'clock, Monday. I will not attempt to describe the effect such an unexpected announcement had on all present. I have been as yet unable to trace the proceedings of the Committee of Public Safety, although not a night elapses without their holding one or two meetings. But they are never bald the second time in the same house, nor is any one but a member admitted. It now combines Committees from almost every trade. The latter Com mittees are selecting Delegates—tried men—to correspond with the National Convention. Those tried men, are to receive orders from the Convention, which they are to convey to the several Committees, who are to strike the blow at a minutes' warning. This may be truly termed a mitigated warfare in the midst of peace. A Committee of thirteen will be formed from the Convention, to sit per manently in London, while the other Delegates will agitate different parts of the kingdom. Several letters have been received from Carlisle, Stockport, Newcastle, and other places in England and Scot land, announcing that the people are arming, and are ready, with two leaders for every one that may be arrested. Every exertion is being made to induce the Hibernian Society here, which musters 8,000 strong, to join the Chartists, but as yet they have been ineffectual, which is attributed to the influence Mr. O'Connell pos sesses amongst them. The intelligence of the fate of tile National Petition has caused great excitement, and created a fresh and vigo rous movement amongst the Chartists, who threaten, despite of military or any other power, to meet this night in the Dull-ring. It is said that Mr. Harney will not be committed for trial, the charges against him are so trifling, and the evidence so unsatisfactory. Reports are in cir culation that the Chartists will, on to-morrow (Monday), appear again in the field. These reports have caused con - siderable alarm. DUMFRIES.-ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY. Unto her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, The Humblo Address of the Inhabitants of Dumfries in Public Meeting Assembled, this eleventh day of July, Eighteen Hundred and Thirty-nine : SIIONVETII,—That we beg to assure your Majesty, that we approach your Majesty with every feeling of respect for your Majesty's person, and loyalty to your Crown. That we have ever understood it to be the duty of the Civil Magistrates to preserve the peace, and conduct them selves with kindness to your Majesty's subjects. That so late as the fifth and ninth days of July current, this salutary law and rule, has been, in our humble opinion, most grievously violated. That upon these dates, and within your Majesty's realm in the City of Birmingham, long famed for the in dustry and talent of her mechanics, the Magistrates of that City have in a violent and brutal manner, sent a force of armed horse and fort police, upon a meeting assembled in that City, and at Holloway Head, beyond the bounds of the Magistrates, for the purpose of hearing the news papers read, and otherwise informing themselves as to the present depression of trade. These meetings, from every source of information we can obtain, were peaceable; and the inhabitants of that City were necessitated to meet in the public square in consequence of being denied the use of the public Hall, which is under the guidance of the Magis trates. The Meeting at Holloway Head was a Constitu tional Meeting, and such as the Secretary of State declared he would not find fault with. In this unjustifiable outrage and attack upon the people of that City, several of your Majesty's subjects have been seriously injured. That we are bound to say, we are grieved that circum stances strongly favour the conclusion that our Majesty's Secretary of State had interfered by allowing an uncon stitutional act, in sending armed police from London, thereby outraging the feelings of the inhabitants of that City, and taking the local government out of the hands of the local Constable. ave defy the most venomous to characterise the meetings in Birmingham and at Holloway Head otherwise than peaceable. And surely the dispersing of these Meetings by an armed force, must tend to endanger the safety of your Majesty's throne, and the peace of these realms. That we anxiously implore your Majesty, through your Government, to order the recal of the armed London Police from Birmingham, and thereby ensure the peace of the Kingdom. _ Signed on behalf the Meeeting, JOHN LEADBETTER, LLANIDLOES AND NEWTOWN CHARTISTS. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) There are in all forty cases conected with the Llanidloes and Newtown party, about to be brought on for trial at the ensuing Welchpool assizes, opening on Saturday and com mencing business on Monday next. It will be, we under stand, attempted to charge one or two of the Chartists with stealing in a dwelling-house. We arc assured that, however these charges may be legally made up, there is no ground whatever for them. The classification of the charges will run for seditious words, riot, rescue, breaking and entering a dwelling-house ; for stabbing, for training and being trained, and aiding and assisting therein ; for assaulting peace officers, and attending an unlawful as sembly. The assizes will continue for ten days. Most of the prisoners are in gaol, and some liberated. Among the latter, Mr. Powell, of Pool, who is actually employed in assisting Mr. Williams at Newtown and Llanidloes, in p etting up the defence. We hope to be able to supply the public with succinct reports of the proceedings, as they progress. A part of the military occupy both towns, with nspect to whom we may have a few words to say in a future paper. ALARMING ASPECT OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. TO THE EDITOR O 1 THE SUN. SIR--Immediately on the arrival of the news in your paper of the murderous attack of the metropolitan police on the people of Birmingham, Newcastle presented an alarming appearance of excitement. At every corner of the streets were to be seen large groups of men expressing a determination not to submit to be put down. In the evening (Sunday) a great meeting was held in the New Lecture Room. Hundreds could not find admittance. The enthusiasm exceeded everything that I ever saw. On Monday crowds of persons poured into the town during the whole of the day, work of almost every descrip tion being entirely laid aside. At night thousands at. tended the public meeting held in the open air at the Forth, where resolutions of the strongest - description were passed, condemnatory of the Birmingham Magistrates and metropolitan police; and also if any illegal attempt was made to put down the constitutional meetings of the people by the local authorities here, they would hold them respon sible for any sacrifice of human life. TUESDAY.—The excitement continued to increase, the collieries and other large works striking for what is called the sacred month, and the meeting in the Forth larger than ever to hear The Sun newspaper and Dr. Taylor's letter read. The same determined spirit breathes through every breast, and the sale of defensive weapons taking place openly. Ail separated and returned quietly to their homes. WEDNESDAY.—The aspect of affairs are truly frightful. The people from all the out districts are pouring into the town in thousands, there being more persons at the meet ing this night than all the other nights put together. God only knows Lc) v and where it will end. The press of this country is much to blame in deceiving the Government as to the true state of the country, they have much to answer for. At this time, as I write, though wet, the people are beginning to arrive, and a very great meeting will take place to-night (Thursday). The Magistrates held a pri vate meeting yesterday, and decided by a majority of two against any interference 2 - this was wise, as no do ubt it would be dangerous to do so. Business is almost at a stand here, and many imagine that the shops wi1 . 1 .. shut on Saturday, the market day. The following_ collierie have struck wcrk :—Seghill, Crarnlington, St. La_wr . elye, Friars Goose, Kenton, Cowpen, Netheringt . on, Ealsdon, Backworth, Hallowell, and I have just received a letter from South Shields, stating that t he collieries there had things, struck likewise. As it is importan t that the of f b Government y I should know, in order to remedy this doing justice to the working classes, implore you to g i ve publicity to this rough and h ast y scrawl.—L'our's, A.CONSTANT READER. Newcastle, July 11, 1839. The story o Hamilton Kink" now on the eve .-- " of publication, is fuller of remarkable incident and start ling circumstances than any which has for a long time ap peared. Th e time of the novel is th e ear l y part o f George the third's reign, and a promi nent part i s sustained by that monarch in the developement of the plot. In the fortunes of H a milton King (a foundling), the reader cannot fail to take a deep interest, not only as regards the strange scenes wherein he is made to act in the West Indies, but in his sufferings while a captive in a smuggling vessel, on the coast of Ireland, and subsequently on board a pirate ship in the far Atlantic. The occurrences which take place in London, illustrate in a forcible manner, the system of espionage whi c h preva il e d d ur i ng part of Mr. Pitt's admi nistration. - On the 10th of April, the New York, John Adams, and Enterprise, sailed, to touch at Malta, on their way to the enemy's port. While making this passage, just as the music had been beating to grog, a heavy explo sion was heard near the cockpit of the flag-ship, and the lower part of the vessel was immediately filled with smoke. It was an appalling moment, for every man on board was aware that a quantity of powder, not far from the magazine, must have exploded, that Era was necessarily scattered in the passages, that the ship was in flames, and that, in all human probability, the magazine was in danger. Captain Chauncey was passing the drummer when the explosion oc curred, and he ordered him to beat to quarters. The alarm had not been given a minute, when the men were going steadily to their guns, and other sta tions, under a standin g regulation, which directed this measure in the event of a cry of fire, as the most cer tain means of giving the officers entire command of the ship, and of preventing confusion. The influence of discipline was well exhibited on this trying occasion ; for, while there is nothing so fearful to the seaman as the alarm of fire, the people went to their quarters as regularly as in the moments of confidence. The sea being smooth, and the weather moderate, the Commo more himself now issued an order to hoist out the boats. This command, which had been given under the in fluence of the best feelings of the human heart, was most unfortunately timed. The people had no sooner left the guns to execute it, than the jib-boom, bowsprit, spritsail-yard, knight-heads, and every spot forward was lined with men, under the idea of getting as far as possible from the magazine. Some even leaped overboard and swam for the nearest vessel. The situation of the ship was now exceedingly critical. With a fire known to be kindled near the magazine, and a .rew in a great measure disorganized, the chances of escape were much diminished. But Captain Chauncey rallied a few followers, and reminding them that they might as well be blown up through one deck as three, he led the way below into passages choked with smoke, and danger rapidly increasing. There, by means of wetted blankets taken from the purser's store-room, and water thrown by hand, he began to contend with the fire, in a spot where a spark scattered even by the efforts made to extinguish the flames, might, in a single moment, have left nothing of all on board but their names. Mr. David Porter, the First L;eutenant, who meets us in so many scenes of trial and danger, had ascended f ro m the ward-room by means o f a s t ern ladder, and he and the other officers seconded-the noble efforts of their intrepid commander. The men were got in from the spars forward, water was abundantly supplied, and the ship was saved. The accident is supposed to have occurred in consequence of a candle having been taken from a lantern, while the gunner was searching for some object in a store-room that led from the cockpit. A quantity of marine cartridges, and the powder horns used in priming the guns, and it is thought, some mealed powder, exploded. Two doors leading to the magazine passage were forced open, and nearly all the adjoining bulkheads were blown down. Nineteen officers and men were injured, of whom fourteen died. The -sea . tinel at the magazine passage was driven quite through to the filling room door.—Cooper's History of the Nary of the United States. A Correspondent sends us the following addition : Mr. Cooper seems to write from information. I was an actor in what lam about to describe. In the year 1809, I think, I was serving on board the Nymph, Captain Joceylin Percy ; and when the incident I am about to advert to happened, she was nearly midway on her voyage from Lisbon to Madeira. She was running be fore an easterly gale, under close reefed topsails. No vessel was in sight. She was perfectly alone in the midst of the dark blue ocean. A little before 8 o'clock in the morn ing, I was in the gun-rcom prepared to breakfest and re lieve the second lieutenant, wiles° watch had then expired. Suddenly nearly two hundred voices raised a th r illi ng alarm of fire and a cry for water, and in a moment I beard the crew rushing to the hatchways with the utmost vehemence. To spring on the gun-room table, and thence through the open sky-:ight on deck, and by two other hounds up the quarter-deck ladder, was my in stant business. There I found the wild:st confusion— some were caliirg fo: the drummer to beat to quarters —some to lower the quarter boats—some were unlash ing, the boats on •the booms and getting up the yard-arm tackles to hoist them out, some had run out on the bow-sprit, and others crept on the spanker-boom ; some were calling for water, some to rig the pumps, and others demanding buckets ; so wildly terrified were the mass of the crew, that no man heeded orders ; and the ship, which had been brought to, more readily to obtain a supply of water, was ordered to be again put before the wind, to prevent the people cutting away the quarter boats and destroying the chances of escape for themselves and others. " The ship is on fire below !" was the aw ful communication made to me by the Se cond Lieutenant ; " you had better go there." I hastened below as quickly as I had gone up. I hastened forward to the store-room, to the very threshold of the great magazine, and there were a few men passir ' s buckets, pouri ng w ate r down the fore cock-pit, and zealously labouring to stifle a fire ; there was a dense and suffocating smoke, but no flame. It was my business to endeavour immediately to collect more assistants, to form a late of mcn to pass the buckets—to order the hole to be applied to the pump—to calm the fears of some, and encourage the exertions of others. Soon the men in the cock-pit said the fire was out—soon.that joyful word brought back general calmness—soon the crew were restored to order— and soon an investigation could be made into the cause of the dreadful alarm. It then appeared that the man who had charge of the carpenter's store-room, which ad joins the powder magazine, was mixing paint below, contrary to orders; and, contrary to most positive orders, was pouring turpentine out ofa large carboy, by a naked candle. The ship gave a roll, the carboy fell, the flame caught the turpentine, and the man tried to extinguish it in vain. In his agony, he seized the flaming bottle in his arms, and endeavoured to throw it up the hatchway on deck. At that moment the whole crew had just sat down to breakfast, on the deck, whither he threw the bottle, and were all of them nearly witnesses of the body of lime bursting, accompanied by a loud scream, from the vicinity of the magazine. The terror was nearly universal, and the crew was for the mment utterly unmanageable. One or two brave men, parti cularly a boatswain's mate, ran to the spot, and their exertions mainly sufficed to extinguish the flames. Too soon they did not accomplish it, for the outer part of the magazine was burnt, and the ends of some sky-rocket staves were burnt in the magazine passage. One or two minutes more, and what had become of the Nymph might have been for ever a subject of painful conjec ture. The unfortunate and guilty man who was the cause of the accident, but who bravely endeavoured to stifle the flame, was most cruelly burnt by the turpentine and lay a miserable and piteous object till an opportunity offered to send him to the hospital. What became of the brave boatswain's mate, whose courage and coolness, under God, were the instruments of our preservation, I know not. Perhaps, for such was not unfrequently the reward of the best and the bravest, he might have got a little tipsy, and been flogged, degraded, and for gotten. The alarm over we could rejoice at the nar rowness of our escape ; but never, I believe, till death, will any person who heard that one terrific cry and rush, or witnessed the scene of wild confusion which en sued, forget that awful moment. I will now, with your permission, Mr. Editor, de scribe a different scene. I was on board a frigate which, somewhere about the winter of 1810, was one of the last to leave the Baltic. She remained as long as the weather would allow her to cruise in Cattegat. While engaged in this service she fell in one day with a fleet of small vessels carrying corn to Norway. She chased them and captured two ; but ever as she continued the chase the breeze freshened till towards the close of the short day it blew a heavy gale. Our two small and ill-conditioned prizes were soon lost sight of, and they, I believe, and all their crews perished. It became necessary to carry as much sail as possible to work the ship off a lee shore. The night was bitterly cold. The old ship strained at every joint, and creaked as she strained as if every plunge would be her last. The spray flew over her from one end to the other ; and no man could keep dry on any part of the deck. So cold had it become, that our clothes froze to us, and change, as often as we could and might change them, we could not keep ourselves either dry or warm. We had to near ship ; after, it blew so b ar d tha she could not tack once or twice ; the crew were ent feebled ; t h e y were not happ y , and not content e d ; the Captain was a flogging Captain, and the people, worn out with with wet and cold, would work no m ore. As the gale increased we had been obliged to reduce the sails, and every time that we wore some dis aster had fallen on us, till at length we had scarcely any sail to carry, and the braces and tackles we had used to strengthen the yards had go t f ou l ; th e crew were exhausted, a n d the ship lay nearly helpless on the waves. At that moment the Captain said " Look there, but say nothing." I lo eked, and could plainly perceive,directly under our lee, the white waves foaming mast-high, and dashing against the high black rocks of Norway. Soon, amidst the noise made by the wind whistling through the rigging of our ship, the more awful voice with which those waves spoke was heard, and there seemed no hope of safety. Quickly was the ship drawing to her fate About apparently a chance of escape. There was one. Ere she reached the rocks, the wind changed, changed considerably. New hopes gave rise to new exertions ; new sails were got up, the damages were gradually but. slowly repaired by our. enfeebled crew, and slowly did the ship creep off that Even rising sea ut o shore which was the grave of some of he r be st men, and most promising young officers pl new those white shining waves which, like of the deep, warned us, on the pain of destruction, not to approach them. Once to have witnessed such scenes. is to have them for ever engraves on the memory, They become incorporated with, and are an enduring part of ourselves. HAMPTON C . ounT.—Th e roya l apartments at Hampton Court will henceforward be closed on the Friday of each week instead of Saturday.