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'„ ' ' ''%e;:s:g 46 "'h-v t ji#F.,, , '4,,,;4 , : ' r, 1.. ~ ; , ,, ,,e,.. ; r 1 R °TT. i;'' fir , iii t ~.,1 z - ..--.. -..:4 S . —____ ~... -... 4 - ' . • + .. . . • ____ ~~~~~~ GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, from MbLINT to 111ULLIN4AR, with branches to ATH and LONIIIFORD. i E y • Capital, One Millie* sterling. Lord racrysiossi. comisem CLONBROCK. The LORD MAYOR. CHAS. B. BALDWIN,.Esq., M.P. vEORGE AUGUSTUS BOYD, Esq. I° SEPH COWPER, Esq. JAMES DALY, Esq. I , 3AI TIEL DESMOND, Esq. JOHN GAYNOR, Esq. Sir FRANCIS HOPKINS, Part. Sir RALPH HOWARD, Bart. eaPtein HATTON, M.P. J AMES DIGGES LATOUCHE, Esq. JOHN M'DONNELL, Esq. Colonel ALEXANDER PERCEVAL. THOMAS RICHARDSON, Esq. C HARLES M. ST. GEORGE, Esq. ROBERT B. SMITH, Esq. HUGH M. TUITE, Esq., M.P. JOSHUA WATSON, Esq. ALDERMAN JOSEPH BOYCE Directors of JOHN ENNIS, Esq. the Dublin R. rt. GUINNESS, Esq. and Cashel JAMES PERRY, Esq. Railway. ENGINEER. —Sir John Macneill. to e Provisional committee have great satisfaction in announcing " tr aisareholders that the necessary capital has been all paid up ki ln ' highly respectable Proprietary, and the Parliamentary Contract TV , in Compliance with the standing orders of Parliament. te ' l ! traffic returns have been carefully prepared under the su r per h _ E ngland of a gentlentan'of considerable experience from the North of and the results more than justify the anticipations ori. Y formed of the pro fi table nature of the undertaking. hil,Be C ommittee have every reason to congratulate the Share uers that the negotiations for rc of the Royal Canal pactit been Concluded in a mannerm ost satisfactory to both Com. c e :', which will have the effect of placing at the disposal of this di , t l) . anY land nearly sufficient for the purposes of the railway for ti,,,,, , ! n ce of ninety.seven miles from Dublin, while, at the same s„ I t secure s th e passing of the Act of Incorporation during the -`'Lling session. d ~ ~ No. 16,326,. LONDON. FRIDAY IS O R N ING. SUN, DECEMBER 13, 1844. 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White and Co. The Lord Bishop of Winchester 5O 0 0 W. Walker, Esq 1 0 0 Miss Ware Rev. H. G. Watkins 5 0 0 Joshua Watson, Esq, Rev. .V. Winthrop J. E. Walker, Esq T. B. Wrightson, Esq J. Wickens, Esq. G. Whitbread, Esq. B. B. Williams, Esq 1 1 0 Messrs. Willis and Percival Rev. D. Wilson 2 2 0 John Wilson, Esq 5 0 0 J. D. Wood, Esq John Wright, Esq, Sundry small sums If any gentleman has not received a formal acknowledgment of the receipt of his contribution, he is hereby requested to com municate its amount, and when and to whom it was paid. Contributions are received by the Members of the Committee; by the Bankers of the Metropolis; and at the Temporary OlSee, 3, Crosby-square, where attendance is given from Ten till Four. JAMES FARISH, JOHN BULLAR, Hon. Secretaries. GEORGE STONHOUSE GRIFFITH, Assist. Sec. Committee-room, South Sea-house. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. . MUSIC OF DIFFERENT NATIONS. Mr. C. E. 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Saloon and First Class Carriage, One Shilling. To or from Blackwall. Fore Cabin, Sixpence—Saloon, Ninepence. Star Office, Gravesend, Nov. 29, 1844. a significant warning to the party in power to " set their houses in order." STANDARD.—The neglect of the commander of the Basilisk to answer the salutes offered by the French authorities in Otaheite upon the Queen's birth-day, cannot be explained with certainty until we are in possession of the gallant officer's own ac count of his motives. It is, however, surely unneces sary to assume that any offence was intended by the simple quiescence ascribed to Mr. Hunt. Many good reasons, wholly unconnected with unfriendly feeling to France, might have determined that gentleman to pursue the line that he did pursue ; some of them so cogent that we think the presumption would be against him, had he taken a different course. Queen Potnare was, we believe, on board the Basilisk—a deposed Sovereign, a fugitive from her enemies ; we will not say persecutors—certainly an unfortu nate exile, almost a prisoner. Now, as a mere question of feeling, it was hardly free to the officer with whom the fugitive had sought and found an asylum to ostentatiously exchange compliments, from the ship that carried her Majesty, with the enemies from whom she was flying—more especially as their compliments were commenced in a manner altogether unusual, for it is not, as we are aware, the practice in the French or any other service—it cer tainly is not the practice of our own service—to cele brate, by salutes, the birthday of a foreign Sovereign. We have all shown our sincere respect for Louis Philippe, yet we believe that the public would be a little surprised to hear the Park and Tower guns fired on the Gth of next October in cele bration even of that good and great Prince's birth day. The question of feeling (which, however, we should be sorry to see excluded from the breasts of British officers) put on one side, Mr. Hunt might have some apprehension of committing his Govern ment, or committing himself with his superiors, by any proceeding not strictly warranted by established usage or his written orders. There has been a great deal of negotiation about the protectorate of Otaheite, and we, though so much nearer the scene of the nego tiation, and professional observers of political events, are at this moment unable to say in what position the question stands. The French may have an acknowledged right to occupy Otaheite with an armed force, or they may have renounced that right ; but however this may be, it is plain that half a year ago Mr. Hunt could know nothing upon the point beyond this, that the matter was in dispute, and, therefore, when challenged by a display which, under the circumstances, was suspicious, because it was unprecedented, he merely acted with prudence in quietly declining to answer the challenge. If his disposition had been hostile he would not lose the opportunity of showing that it was so by some prac tical protest. After all that the war journals can say of such prudent reserve, they will scarcely succeed in inflaming it into a ground of quarrel. bdestr ° J r , of the Ye! i s tsses 1.1, e rats, 0,,' du th GENERA I, TOM THUMB. The AMERICAN MAN in MINIATURE will return to London and hold his PUBLIC LEVEES at the •allery, in Sufolk-street, Pall mall, commencing Monday, December 23, and continuing through the holidays, after which he leaves for the Continent. The General has been visiting the principal towns in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and has met with unprecedented success. Whilst in Edinburgh the General was presented with a beautiful Highland dress, of the Royal Stuart Tartan, manufac. turgid by Messrs. Meyers and Mortimer, in which he will appear at each exhibition, in addition to his Citizen, Napoleon, and Court dress. Hours cf Exhibition from Eleven to One, Three to Five, and from Seven to Nine. Doors open half an hour previous. Admission (regardless of age), One Shilling. 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',!rein of the wick, which cause a rapid reverberation of 4, 0,1 1 0, it , ''e n ame -thus consuming every particle of volatilized , k NI is f ree from s mo k e or sme ll , h av i ng perfect com b ust i on, 114 War k ae ,tion, emits a light equal to 16 wax candles. tt,, t . in t n 3 W arehouses, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton Fol -141.4, an e i nt ain• throughout the season, all the most elegant re t,r,,, Old 0 1'e„, Patterns, comprising Ormolu, China, Glass, and tl:,01i „ pat ' Lamps fitted with the Paragon Head for 215.: and the 4t.p4,,,atus applied to the Vesta for Gs. The spirit analysed t arts, m at did by Or. Ure, is delivered in screw cans by C. Wat -41 an t a t , 4 _'• Per gallon. tAltli'z. B ARBICAN, and 16, NORTON FOLGATE. ti, t relic „'. A BURN, az c.—Certssin and immediate ' i, (l li,'3l,, t yti the hours of business, by night, or on a journey, is tt '!)c, - ;:tid polore Alkaline Preparations of El-CARBONATE of Oa ' Th e .sS• compressed into Pills by lirockedon s Patent Ilt tv Oise as Y furnish an ever ready and instant remedy to those .."k , 14 40 11, a," of the digestive organs, Heartburn, Sick-headache, favy tv,..11,47° Produced by Acidity. ' -11 111 1: 4411 y 4 t i e by Barclay' and Sons, FarrinFdon-street ; and by a,„ and Druggist in the United lainardoni. Price One I, ill it , "Z• or in Family Boxes, Half-a-Crown. I v l l*o ,„„ LAND'S ODON T 0, A IL • by It Or PEARL DEN I'IFRICE k it .fta gr th e " Majesty " THE QUEENT." the Royal Family, and It Nivi kit v s t e Yeral Sovereigns and Courts of Europe . % t er ikti nue% bite Powder, prepared from Oriental Herbs of inesti st ape.c,tes the s rengthening, preserving, and beautifying the Teeth. I t , he t•th the f actitious formation of tartar, and thus lends a salu- Qat' 'tli tt ,' f reshness to the gums. It removes from the surface y lONA, t e t slots of incipient decay, polishes and preserves the 11/t l 4tA, 11,b,N1 the most pure and pearle whiteness ; while, k e s in sane t _ "its and disinfecting qualities, it gives sweetness 011. a l tx o the breath. Beisg an anti-scorbutic, the gums also i,:ts4.4cti,,trreetive Sowers ; scurvy is eraaicated from them, a kkt . 'si lt tahawtand redness are induced, sn that the teeth (if loose) ), 4 ' . 11 5 inotn:!‘ flrila in their sockets. As the most effic.ent and ,kll, l ` 4 4,Nisvi t ic Cleanser of the• mouth, teeth, and gums ever 4 ~ th e ,:,,Piel 4 _,AN . D'S ODONTO has now for a I rig series of , St', 5,,,, °hint ‘ u stinguished place at the toilets of he Sovereigns , tg e : - T 414,2 throughout Europe, while the genera' demand foi 1 t "'meet the favour in which it is held by the pu'die 4, 1, 4 till, u Iti j •ct ~,'k4f_ .-- rwe 2s. 9d per box, duty included. '" . .v e il 5t.,,;,' • protect Ihe public from fraud, tile Hon. Com eh kceit_have directed the Proprietors signatur e to be Aernment StSONamp, thus aaid , BO WLAND & , 20, Hatton-garden, °Y th e , Which is affixed on each Box. IQ _.rroprletors, and by Chemists and Perfumers. 'trier Odoatos are Frandulent Imitations. to tith, PUBLIC NOTICE. G ' , Pp, 434, OXFORD-STREET. . 4 1 r. h1-,cop - c ., . OWNERS, CAPTAINS, AND OTHERS. 11, 4 - " , alsil of Testimonials, Gratis, by all Agents. ,tek t ils, P ,•tr, n , ONE'S EYE SNUFF.—Under the ‘4: 4l th:t k. - ge of his late Majesty, her Royal Highness the lsatmteuti 4 t hand the Lord s of the , Treasnry, is universally re_ /4„ii., , y e s and Head, for its efficacy in removing disorders v ~.. RESI.I4 a lth T ORED!-NERVOUS HEADACHE AND - , it k ad ern, DEAFNESS CURED! i tn. t i4v , nt st I I a,,, ie - rnPle, delightlul, and fragrant Compound: t i let t ' , h : hts e eication is fraught with pleasure; many thousand Ois ~ t t Its ,„_ ac complished by its use, at a trifling expense, yet istt a•o t • iNkration. If testimonies be necessary to induce the at shies As nt . e fatal Oct,',the , th e • i _ , Kings, Lords, and CommoT h h e T r vT a u te sec i l 4 i . t. t iN t i o ist,4:tach s ' e ci a f 3 u K 7 h t av t e h sanctie t ned m it h s en u I t :In Pe . s .- ",„", Ith that • n , . e mos e i Press-have Medicll - 1 .1 Eves k-`ehrat gigantic balance, the ress-have'eulogised 0 1 4, ,y es Aufr ~ ,e l l . Herbaceous Compound, known as :Grimt ippktits.,sain.: otter ea r t z i ts efficacy in removing a 1 ni!eas See j e . s i l . cide c r h i . 4 4,Aht l hle,,,,t„tere Whitehall Guth rielin' F.R.S. r. Andrews calls it l 'al l ' ', 4 a 4le thy . " ll , - ,7s!* his Reports . touching its utility. Tl , ie late t thaia. tali i t ‘ltn many others, recommend Grimstone s Eye 'las' A Man's best Friend," and the "Student's Vade k tt i • ha,, it:'te l 4 N * I al. I ,l4l t ,,etia , vi b !. Igai: recommends its use asa preventiv e-See his 1 / 44 44 y t ,, 4 , th,,, the n ile gt otres tha t thel .) tenacious ouss sympathy s y tera that Grim , Ittio n `• th 4u fr , when rands ns' w 4 t ta:e n n erv must of 'the greatest NC 'II ' krv niur n 6 r ; i further, recommends its universal . 4 ;he ,40ai (entative. tl / 2 4 t/ ' or " mthilatt.i eld, having witnessed many cases both of a s ike th e ri, aliasta, has kindly given his testimony thereof. the b• WIN byaZY tlmusand Testimonials of Sight restored and th t he a4 r, ii;ntrist on ftI ,MSTONE'S EYE SNUFF :-. lifi l i a ctil o ;; -- 1 te t t r ) . 0 5 .51 1. . ." April 20th, 1844. t I n , et tct i eb,,,, s ture enec n t d ,, liiy a sen elf i tf j t u sit,iicne to ;anwforniip inches of 41ia.,,„11. tAlZ,GranstoneV fl y y e s Luft 7 wtich g , in my case, ought I t lltr l Yto r°4 ' Viiiik?, * Snuff' g effectually relieved me from tenkuctf•ake an y . have been suffering tor many years. You are , O p t eh ~ .1 7 You pleas . e of this communication, since I s N 11( e 'litilf I k now e ri extraordmary qualities of your Eye Snuff 41 4 4 • vs n ' 3 cotl an ara, dear Sir, your obedient servant, tl 4 ‘i) 4, li." for t d h . a "Al A ROA RET MACGREGOR. \P. 4 -.4 6 -e sruth of the foregoing facts and statemen . ;fet • Reyn nt , " JAMES SHUTER, Kentbury, Berks." tels 4 tria lf :Xcru cta ;!. editor et - Chatnisers' London Journal, &c.. •&c. s ,1 44 4 4 : 4 P " , _ 4t, ee t t in ai g "In'. and can now write without spectacles ih. -ets 4,•-•est.,4 •(-I?citfriar's-toad. ki th , 1 , e , sigh t ;_aeing the church, Park.street, Wiedsor • cured ~ta,. eti tofiela ' l,lh eadche.-9th September, 1838, and ' 1843. Attqfir, e ' 0 4.4; 4 9. ; cured cif Ophthalmia. Whitehall and t 4 '4,i 4 to k ithe c . .,, n . e ri- -See his letters, 1838 and 1812. ,t, Cl 4 titilui n tU i l n-W . a RIMSTONE is the sole inventor, k . 0,,,,, ti, at tlfe r ls Prepared b L" i'"to fia oust Herb Y im • ly ti tt,, i, r, w ~1,, , d aceous Compound of Herbs is sold in tyt th t t-r 4 4 ( ililaiA.p.t l .,. ds. 411., , and6cL eacti„ . by the 01, ta ' lien ens }pate- E, at No. 434, Oxford-street, lotten tt lit,.. 1 , ,,,)ary . . , of No. 29, Broad-street, Bloomsbury), It l 'ht 4t , Ca t ,,7 l s a " 43pgate ; and can also be obtained in all the %,, ti t ,, ea oain s a ,..., k-itles. A liberal allowance to Shippers " ti,, , es n 'llaa f i , "? . 1 1 Vendors of Grirnstone's Eye Snuff This I. 4l ).'ho:? e litio • a ' n l'Ped to all quarters of the globe, and retains %' ^ tl ''i '''l -s 'n eve r --- 4, k s anti t . flot c , 3' climate All Snuffs mai Cigars chipped kli''lO n Y or he fora , dk b (i t) ,_. .rd ers. , kr est through the General . st , by -44 }o p lit ca , r _ A Qs. 4d. canigtet with .post g• ill cost 4 /Li dlizrE PRIISIDENT. The BISHOP of LONDON. TRUSTERS. Sir WILLIAM MAGNAY, Bart. SAMUEL JONES LOYD, Esq. ABEL SMITH Esq., M.P. ANTHONY DE ROTHSCHILD, Esq. comsurreE )OR GENERAL PURPOSES. WILLIAM COTTON, Esq , Chairman. (The Trustees ex officio.) ROBERT BOWIE, Esq. Rev. W. W. CHAMPNEYS Lord HENRY CHOLMONDELEY ROBERT DICKSON, Esq., M.D. SAMUEL GURNEY, jun., Esq. WILLIAM H AWES, Esq. RICHARD JOHNSON, Esq. HENRY KINGSCOTE, Esq. Sir GEORGE LARPENT, Bart. JOSEPH S. LESCHER, Esq. WILLIAM LOBB, Esq., M.D. ROBERT OLDERSHAW, Esq. JOHN D. FOWLES, Esq. 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Messrs. Blades and East Rev. C. Bowen R. Bright, Esq., M.D. C. R. Brown, Esq. Henry Browning, Esq. Robert Brutton, Esq. Colonel B 1 0 0 David Raabe, Esq. ......... David Barclay, Esq., 51. P. Russell Gurney Barclay, Esq. Messrs. Barker, Brothers R. B. Bate, Esq. Henry Bateman, Esq. R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. T. H. Bothamly, Esq. R. and B. Brown lO 10 0 I. K. Brunel, Esq. John W. Buckle, Esq. John Buckle, Esq. Col. Buckley William Bullock, Esq. Alfred Burgess, Esq. Mrs. Burrell lO 0 0 Mrs. Col. C. Dr. T. K. Chambers.. The Very Rev, the Dean of Chichester Messrs. C. Chubb and Son William Coles, Esq. Lieut.. Colonel J. It. Crauford Lewis Cubitt, Esq. William Cubitt, Esq. J. C. Cameron, Esq The Misses Champion Charles Clarke, Esq.... (a) 1 1 0 Coal-porters' Fine for Drunkenness 2 0 0 Charles Cochrane, Esq 5 0 0 Messrs. Cockerell and Co Rev. E. Cogan Messrs. Collman and Salterfeht... ..... S 0 0 Alexander Colvin, Esq. Messrs. Cook, Sons, and Co. . Hon. W. F. Cooper John Crowley, Esq. 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' 21.. , 0 - ,.0 sargant, Gordon ,and C 0.... 3 6 - 0 • - ICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. TRUSTEES. Sir JAMES DUKE, Alderman, M.P., Chairman. BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq., Deputy Chairman. BENJAMIN BARNARD, Esq. CHARLES BALDWIN, Esq. Peculiar advantages are offered by this Company. Thus— Parties assuring the lives of others may make their policies secure, notwithstanding the life assured may go out of the limits of Europe, without the necessary permission of the Directors having been pre viously obtained. Credit of half the premiums ter the first five years allowed on po licies effected for the whole term of life. On policies of five years' standing, half the amount paid, after the first year's premium, may he borrowed thereon by the Assured. Advances are also made to Assurers on real or undoubted personal security, for terms of years, repayable by instalments. Attention is particularly requested to the detailed Prospectuses of the Company, which may be obtained at the Office, 18, King William-street, City, or by letter, addressed to the Secretary. WILLIAM RATRAY, Actuary and Secretary. LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITIES.. The following are Specimens of the LOW RATES of PRE. MIUM charged by the AUSTRALASIAN COLONIAL AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY COMPANY. Age........ 20 130 40 50 60 Annual Prem.' £1 10 31 £2 0 7 £2 15 3, £4 1 8 £6 3 9 and of these Premiums one-third may remain unpaid in the hands of the Assured, at interest to be deducted from the sums assured, when they become claims. peculiar facilities are afforded for the assurance of the lives of por sons proceeding to or residing In Australasia and the East Indies. Immediate and Deferred Annuities are granted by the Company, on very favourable terms, and it is a peculiar feature in its constitu tion, that Annuitants participate in the profits. E. Barnard, Esq., F.A.S. 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They therefore, being the real manufacturers, earnestly solicit a trial, as the only criterion by which the merits and decided advantages of purchasing of them can be fairly estimated. The Establishment is likewise a depot for all kinds of Fancy and Ornamental Work, which will be re ceived of poor families from all parts of the kingdom. London Friendly Union, No. 16, Great Windmill.street, Hay market, late Dr. Hunter's Museum. W. CROFTON, Secretary. SPLENDID FIGURED SATIN an d SILK DAMASKS; rich Figured and Plain Silk Taberets for Window -curtains ; Gentlemen's Velvet, Satin, and Fancy Silk Waistcoat.pieces ; Ladies' Silk Handkerchiefs and Scarfs, of every description, of Spitalfields and other British mann. facture, at a saving of from 30 to 50 per cent., no other profit being required than is sufficient to defray the ex penses. 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They last evening commenced their " monster meetings" in Covent-garden Theatre ; wbich they have hired for the season s and where various modes of carrying out the objects of the Association, and of aiding its funds, will be put in execution. A condensed report of the proceed ings will be found in another part of our paper, Although we think it inexpedient to push the prin ciple of abolition to the full extent to which the League is pledged, considerable benefits cannot fail to accrue to the cause of free trade from constantly keep ing before the public mind the mischiefs inflicted on the manufactures and commerce of the country by the existing sytem of protective duties. The light which the League has cast upon this important subject has penetrated many of the dark places of the kingdom. Public opinion on the subject has been influenced to a degree which must in the end prove fatal to restrictions upon the importation of human food. Opposition to monopoly is no longer a passion ; it has become a principle with the great body of the people. It is not affected by a temporary suspension of the conse quences which result from the artificial restrictions under which our statesmen, with a lamentable " blindness to the future," place the means of em ploying and sustaining the great mass of the popula tion. The people have been taught to look to the natural results of a pernicious system. Thousands, wiser than their fathers, are now able to distinguish between the natural opera tions of that system, and its accidental interruptions, by circumstances which intervene to stay, for a time, its baneful progress. Hence though the dis tress, which for several successive years had grown and spread in the manufacturing districts, has been greatly mitigated by the late good harvests, and the openings for our manufactures which the recent events in China have produced, it is plain that through the existing system of high duties this impulse to trade will prove but tempo rary. The drain of Chinese silver to pay the amount of compensation to this country for the expenses of the war ; and the necessity which compels the payment in specie for the opium —which, though prohibited by the Chinese Government is still smuggled into the country in large quantities—necessarily limit the means of purchase of British commodities by the Chinese. Were it not for our heavy import duties upon tea, and other articles, the produce of the country, the Chinese would exchange their goods for the fabrics of this country; and trade, upon the principle of reci procity, would flow without impediment in the natural channels. Foreigners are availing themselves of the errors of our commercial code. The last ac counts from China state that while the trade in many descriptions of British goods was declining, the manu factures of America—the representative of which had concluded a treaty with the Chinese Governinent--,were in increased demand. Had some demon been employed to preside in the councils of this country, and to prompt her rulers to measureS for obscuring her glory and crippling her energies, the end could not have been more secur e ly effected than by the system which, as in mockery of the mischievous results it works, is designated" Protection to British interests." No wonder that Covent-garden Theatre—capacious as that building is—was last night crowded to the ceiling by an attentive and highly respectable audi ence. It was not the attraction of mere novelty which brought the multitude together. Many of them had heard the same speakers expound the same doctrines, and demonstrate the same results, again and again. It was a pubic tektimopy against the system" of monnpoly ;• an embodiment of th e abiding conviction which pervades the public mind, that the commercial policy of our Legisla ture is a false and ruinous policy, pregnant with folly, and fraught with eventual ruin to every interestthe country, and with inhumanityand Misery to the most dependent and numerous classes of' the popula tion. The statements made by the Chairman of the meeting a to what the League had eft'ected in the Registration Courts, and the prospects thus opened to the cause of free trade at the next election will be ADVERTISER.—What say the Standard and Herald now ? Is the League dead ? Any indications of its extinction in Covent-garden Theatre last night ? Any symptoms of decrepitude ? Any premonitions of im pending dissolution ? The indications and symptoms were all the opposite way. The summer and autumn vacation has done the League infinite service. It comes before us more robust and more full of spirits than ever. Never before did it show such signs of vitality and vigour. It re-appears on the stage—on the stage, in a double sense—like a giant refreshed. The blows it t gave monopoly last night will make the mono polists feel, if there be no other mode of con vincing them, that the League is alive, and in a far better condition for doing the work it has proposed to accomplish, than at any previous period of its history. Often as we have had to record the enthusiasm with which the meetings in Covent-garden have greeted the speeches of Messrs. Cobden and Bright, nothing ever equalled the cordiality of the reception they met with last night. They must have felt that in that re ception they were amply rewarded for all their exertions, extraordinary and untiring as they have been, in the cause of corn-law repeal. Mr. Wilson, the Chairman, in re-introducing the Le ague to th e metropol i tan public, adverted at considerable length to the way in which the League had been employed since they quitted Lon don and tech up their location in the provinces. And I nothing could be more cheering than the statements which the Chairman made. The League, though they had been comparatively silent during the interval, had not been idle, On the contrary, they had never worked 40 hard, nor had they ever laboured with so ranch effect. Their success has far exceeded their most san guine expectations, Several important counties have been, through the exertions of the League, rescued from the fell grasp of the landocracy . ; and by the same means, namely, attention to the registrations, it is con fidently expected, that among other counties which are destined to be won, are the important counties of Middlesex and the West Riding of Yorkshire. Should the expectations of the League be realised in reference to Middlesex and the West Riding of Yorkshire, the moral effect of their victory will be of infinite importance to the anti-corn-law cause. The wresting of these two places out of monopolist hands would overwhelm the oligarchy with despair. Their other atronghold' would be taken possession of with the greatest ease. The monopolists would hardly attempt their defence. The importance of an immediate atten tion to the registries, wherever parties are in a condition to acquire a freehold, was emphatically dwelt on at the meeting of last, night. It will be impossible to qualify for the remaining twelve months, after the end of the ensuing month. Those, therefore, who mean to enfranchise themselves for counties, in any part of the country, must purchase their qualifieatioa within a few weeks. The way to obtain this qualification, as our readers are aware, is by purchasing a f ree h o ld o f the estimated yearly value of forty shillings. The money requisite to m a k e t hi s purchase need not in any Instance exceed 70L, while in many instance@ halm 504 to 601. will suffice. Now, there ofin he 1113 doubt—the thing, indeed, is an absolute certainty—that in all counties where there are populous towns, there is a sufficient number of persons holding free- trade principles, and pos sessing the requisite purchase , raoney, to turn the scale against the monopolists, were they only induced to lay out their little money in the purchase of a forty-shilling freehold. Let all such as are in circumstances to ac quire a county qualification in this way, remember the lava portant fact--that in thus entitling themselves to be put on the franchise, they are not only thereby acquiring a political status in the community they did not possess before, but are malting a more profitable investment of their scanty savings than it would be possible in any other way to make. The interest would in no case be less then five per cent., while in some cases it would be as high as seven per cent., being double the interest allowed by the savings' banks. We cannot, therefore entertain a doubt that every free trader and every liberal in pclitics, who is in the possession of the means, will forthwith enfranchise himself for the counties, by ac quiring a forty-shilling freehold. CIIIiONICLE.—The Anti-Corn-law League has once more transferred the scene of its public operations from the provinces to the metropolis; and the vast assemblage of auditors which Covent-garden Theatre contained last night was a curious commentary upon the assurances we have lately heard, that " the League was dead." There was apparently nothing in the announced arrangements for this opening meeting calculated to attract a London audience, The old subject—the " familiar faces "—the customary topics—free trade ; Messrs. Wilson, Villiers, Cobden, and Bright—these were the only inducements. Yet, long before the appointed hour, every avenue to the building was all but blocked up by an eagerly impatient throng, who greeted their old friends with a hearty and unabated enthusiasm i listened with interested patience to details ; caught up and cheered as lustily as ever all the points of each speaker, and displayed an ardour for the cause which had gathered them together, to gainsay which would be ludicrous folly, and to despise it infatu ation. The great complaint of the League against the citizens of London, when it first came among them, was their apathy with reg ar d t o a quest i on wh i ch so deeply interested and excited the manufacturing districts. Va rious explanations were given to account for this some what mortifying circumstance. London, it was said, was a mere aggregate of separate interests ; it was difficult to move public opinion in it ; the general distress which swept like a flood over the manufacturing districts, was here dissipated, and carried off in different streams ; and even if the metropolis could be effectually roused, there was an inertness in its enormous mass, a distraction in the infinite variety of its occupations and amusements, which would defeat all efforts to sustain continued inte rest. But if last night's meeting is to be taken as a cri terion, the citizens of London are far from being charge able with fickleness. ()nee convinced of their concern in the anestion of free trade, their attachment is perma needy secured. It has survived Sir Robert Peel's ingghng with the oorn'law ; it outlasts two good har vests, and the impetus which China and guano have given to manufactures and shipping ; and in the face of cheaper corn and an accumulating revenue, shows itself as earnest, and more ca l m an d determined, than when begging boxes, by virtue of the queen's letters, went roand the country to relieve the national distress, and there was daily' danger of insurrections amongst the starving masses of the provinces. We are wrong, how. , ever, in supposing that the five thousand people who flocked to hear M ess rs, Wilson, Villiers, C o bd en , and Bright, 44 night, went to Covent-garden Theatre with the certainty of hearing the same topics dilated upon by the same speakers. The free-trade debate is now all but over, The intellectual part of the process is consummated. There is now no #hllaay to expose, no fiction to lay hare, no valiant agricultural protec tionist to combat. Figures of fact and figures of speech have alike done their work. The 144114 vIP gict Ai tiou— of' that body of the people who read, listen, think, and reason—is thoroughly satisfied that the proteciive sys tem, in a commercial country especially, is a fully of the first magnitude. This is the reason why the election of M. Polk to the Presidency of the United States has ere ited less interest in this country than it would hay. Aisle two or three years ago. - We- seem generally to have reached the conviction that it cught to be so, and should excite no surpriie. True, in this country, a very rural gentleman will occasionally be found ven turing to drop a hint or two about the necessity or the value of protection ; but he receives no encou ragement, and is listened to either in silence or with smiles. A daily organ of " public opinion " still strug gles on, hoping against hope ; and another occasionally exhausts its capacity in elaborating a sneer at the League ; but, with these exceptions, the advocacy of the restrictive system is abandoned by everyman who wishes to escape the imputation of imbecility, either as to the use of his reasoning powers or his capacity to discern the progress of public events. The question is not now what is free trade, but whets and how will it be attained ? , The Anti Corn-law League propose to answer this question; and the deep interest which was evinced by the auditory in the seemingly dry details of the regis tration, as narrated by the chairman, show that this is now the turning point in the movements of the League. Between it and Sir B. Peel there is now something like reciprocity. In exchange for " buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market," the League have adoptedisis famous policy of " Register, register, r t . st er," and are likely to work it out with far more edict than he has done his avowed free-trade principles. We (Her at present no opinion on Mr. Cobden's bola and ingenious scheme for invading the counties, by means of his forty shilling freeholds ; we merely notice the fact of the deep interest manifested by the meeting in electoral operations and plans which have already been taken up with great zeal and activity in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The Anti-Corn-law League, almost in shits of itself, is becoming a great normal school of political agitation, and interesting thousands in the possession and the use of the franchise who, otherwise, tniglet has e remained in a state of entire quiescence. This is ever the fruit of continued injustice, the fatal con s eq uence o f selfish pro crastination in the settlement of great national questions. In 1841 the corn-law controversy might have been closed for a century by the prompt adoption of a moderate fixed duty and a free trade tariff ; in 1842 compromise was not impossible, when Sir Robert Peel was disturbing, without settling, the whole of our commercial affairs ; in 1844, nothing short of the total repeal of the corn-laws would extinguish the Anti-Corn-law League ; and when the corn-laws are repealed, there appears to be now a strong probability that the balk of those who for years would have been satisfied with commercial reforms, will neither be contented nor put down without the ac companiment of political changes, affecting the structure of the electoral body, and consequently the re-distribution of the balance of political power. The perfect apprecia tion by the auditory of the question of free trade was drawn out by Mr. Cobden in his usual happy way. Al luding to the dinner to Sir Henry Pottinger then taking place in Merchant Tailors' Hall, he asked what was the crowning service of that distinguished man, in ac knowledgment of which merchants subscribed to tes timonials, and were swelling by their voices the acclamations with which he was greeted ? Why, the imposition of a perfectly free-trade tariff on the Chinese ; a universal, not a one-sided tariff ; one open to all the world, and wholly irrespective of conditions of reciprocity—a tariff which freely admitted the main articles of human food, repudiated duties for protection, and laid down moderate ones, soh ly for revenue I This told upon the audience with great effect, which was increased when the speaker declared, that if the landowners would permit China to send over a Chinese Sir Henry Pottinger, to do as much for England as Sir Henry had accomplished for the Celestial Empire, he would willingly subscribe his quota in acknowledg ment of the services of so great a benefactor. Striking contrasts like these sink at once into the mind of an audience, amid render superfluous a world of argument. On the whole, the meeting of l as t n i ght in Qa.. vent-gaaden Theatre, demonstrated that the Anti- Corn-law League is as strong, if not strongor, than ever ; and that continued refusals on the part of the Legislature to deal with and settle this great ques tion, may lead to political changes far more perilous than hesitating statesmen imagine. Let the middle classes lend effectual aid, in order to rescue the lista owners from the effects of their selfishness and obstiaa a y, and though some mischiefs are now all but irreparable, the next general election, not very far distant, may com pensate for the infatuation of the last, and s ave th e country in time from undergoing, in the next series of scarce and dear years, evils similar to those which dark ened the disastrous cycle of 1837-1842, ATROCIOUS MURDER AND HIGH WAY ROBBERY, NEA4 TRECASTLE, BRE CONSHIRE, This neighbourhood was aroused by the intellige , ,a a the above murder (recorded in The Sun of N.onday), and on the constables proceeding to the spot tt. - .:v found the body lying on its back, at the top of a short hill, with the hat drawn over its face, and two small v4ols of blood, which had issued from a bullet wound two inches behind. the right ear, the ball being afterwards discovered, on post mortem e xam i na ti on, to hay, penetrat e d th e brain, and to have flattened ag_aine• the skull, wh ere i t l odged on the opposite side. Ills waistcoat had been torn open with snels violence as to break several buttons, and all his cash had been abstracted from the money pocket his watch and . several artielea in othe r p oc k ets were nnteueled. Front all appearaneea it was evident that the fiend-like assassin hail tired the fatal shot while walking up the ascent of tY.,e road, at the side of his unsuspecting victim, who must,Lave fallen forward on his right knee and forehead, and haN,e been turned over on his back by the murderer, for the purpose of plunder. Meateengers were immediately forwart2 i ed to Brecon. On the intelligence reaching Mr. 1). Hewer, landlord of the Bridgent Inn, where the deceased (whose name was David Lewis) had been in the habit of putting up, the suspicion flashed across his mind that the deed had been done by a, man named Thomas Thomas, of Llansowel, Carmartken, shire, who had called at his house in a drab mackintoe,,, earl had inquired for butter carts going to the vicinity of hia home, about two hours before Lewis and his boy started. He accordingly caused a letter to be sent per mail to a re. spectable innkeeper in the neighbourhood of Lianscm-el, wise immediately forwarded descriptions to the rural police of the county, several of whom were stationed In the meantime inquiries had been made by the Brecon police, which strengthened the suspicion, and Mr. Super intendent Stephens, accompanied by the late superin tendent, who knew Thomas from having had him in custody on a previous occasion, started off for Carmarthenshiro, while printed de°_,Criptions were forwarded to all the adjacent districts and seaports. Having been detained making in gullies on the way, the Brecon police did not reach Llan sowel until after one o'clock on Sunday morning, when they found Thomas in the custody of the rural police. who had taken him under the following circum stances .—Acting on the information they had received, they had proceeded to his father's house, and found that he had reached home at half-past eleven o'clock ; they also ascertained that he had been seen in the village, and, deeming it likely that he would come home at night, the superintendent stationed his men on the 100k -out, lying in wait himself with one of his men in a lane near his father's house, Soon after eight o'clock they heard bins owing down the lane, and _passing one on each side of him, collared him at once. Being a very powerful young man, he succeeded in throwing them both down, anti after a attVOINI struggle on the ground, they were compelled to draw their cutlasses before be would surrender. During the struggle the dropped a brace of pocket-pistols, which. fortunately, were not loaded, and in his pocket were found twelve bullets, caps, and some po w d er . H aving Breconbeen surrendered t o the police, he was brought on Sunday to the station-house in that town, and on Monday was taken to an adjourned in quest held before Thomas Batt, Esq., at the Camden Arms, Trecastle. From the evidence here adduced, it ap peared that he had nine days previously bought the pistols at an Ironmonger's shop in Brecon, and that on Friday night lie rode in a farmer's waggon a short way out of town until overtaken by Lewis and his cart, when he made the bargain for conveyance to Trecastle. The boy who had charge of the waggon, and Mr. Lewis's little boy, swore most positively to his identity 1 and such a chain of circumstantial evidence was made apparent, that the jury without hesitation re turned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Thos. Thomas," who was therefore removed to the county goal, to take his trial at the March assize& lIIs appearance was more that of the careless, cheerful, country boy than that of a designing boy; and he kept his composure to the last, maintaining that the two boys were mistaken as to his identity. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS The following are the results of " A Table of Mort a lity in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in lite Week eruiing Saturday, the 7th of December, 1844." The:Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General Weekly Total. Average of Five Years Epidemic,Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 191 178 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat B5 111 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 159 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration Diseases of the Heart an d Bl oo d- vesse l s 42 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 6 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c 0 1 Old Age, or Natural Decay By Violence Privation, or Intemperance ..• 24 26 Causes specified 983 942 Deaths from all Causes 9BB 946 DEATHS FRCLIf THE FRINCIFAL DISEASES INCLUDED LINDEN CAUSES or DEATH. THE ABOVE HEADS. Total. Weekly Avers" of Five Years, Consumption ll2 147 Scarlatina 44 34 Pneumonia .......... Dropsy ..... .. .. ............ Hociping Cough .. ......... .. .. 26 33 Typhus . Small Pox 3l 15 Disease of the Heart Measles ... a9 23 Apoplexy .......... ... .... Diseases of the Brain ...... 9 Diarrhoea.. Sudden Deaths DISTRICTS. West l3B 138 North 164 171 Central East . 216 207 South 283 242 Total .... ..... ..-.. COLOSSAL HORSE.—A very splendid colssal horse, of l9i hands high, the property of Mr. Thomas Hebbert, of Hellingdon, bred by Mr. J. Bayes, of Draughton, in North amptonshire, is to be seen in the stables adjoining the Prize Cattle Show. his a beautiful animal, and combines with its; coh4s4l kttre the pure English breed, with perfect symmetry. The colour is jet black, paces exceedingly good, and 4 well worthy the attention 9.i 44 iuterested in stuck. 4 " 5„ ?Or' wet' Of 101