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stVi • 4 )0 4 , • ) 0 • 411 1111 -7 " 13(1- ,f. 401 1 -10 zuP.-..!T•T 4 b ' Ai ', A llow • - • , , . , • • - • '1711!"X41 . vr v • ,°4 ' •• 1 , . 94. "At -%1111111'11". - • t. /o'. cft• _2O O 8 ) "". —11 419 4' ( ., /. UICI ri • V : 1 4 I I I • taVialisparstownericommwila....sana lv . alWaserWilen.t....astimmialeaNafilfal,emipsimairs 4"-GAf t e_e_ l oE--- MEM _ , _2 OPAL POLYTECHNIC - INSTITUTION. eu Christmas Holidays. One of the brilliant novelties is Chilit i t jt°I4 ATROPE, to which moy be added, Subjects in Nature and Art for the PROTEOSCOPE. The PHYSIOSCOP E. The first Ex ilbition of a Series of beautiful DISSOLVING VIEWS. On the e nings of Tuesdays and Thursdays Mr. C. E. HOR , ; lectures on t he MUSIC of DIFFERENT NATIONS. Dr. RYAN'S and Pro ,,lB:4°r BACHHOFFNER'S varied LECTURES daily. Dr. RYAN Troleetures on the Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. v Lectures abound in interesting Experiments. SURMA EXPERIMENTS by means of the DIVING-BELL and Dl ` .ER. The HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE. fluences,, oY a, - 0 ,1 uP,' I,iyartoo; the a gr c e d by ~ocvew 7.4i w hich .ticular•]' Admission, Is.; escnools, halt-price. 0 4 , I"re'w Edition of the CATALOGUE, containing Three Hundred D rie. ".tisnal Works of Art, &c., since the last revisal, is just published. N( 1 i 6 339. LO NDON SAT UR DA v ORNINQ S 9 DECEMBER 28, 1844. PRICE sd. GENERAL TOM THUMB. The AMERICAN MAN in MINIATURE has returned l e London and is now holding his PUBLIC LEVEES at the •al. in Suffblk.street, Pall-mall. The General bas been visiting the eancipal towns in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and has met With unprecedented success. Whilst in Edinbargh the General Irs i • presented with a beautiful Highland dress, of the Royal ‘' u srt Tartan, manuf a ctured ley Messrs. Meyers and Mortimer, in "kick he will appear at each exhibition, in addition to his Citizen, o l s oloos, and Court dress. Hours of Exhibition from Eleven to ~ ' lO . Three to Five, and from Seven to Nine. Doors open half aq hour previous. Admission (regardless of age), One Shilling. . General's Miniature Equipage will be exhibited daily from 'or t. Half.past Five, and from Eight to Half-past Nine, P.M. l' A t 2 I Pall-mall, at the trifling charge of Threepence, merely to 14 Y the rent of the room. WINTER OVER-COATS, WRAPPERS, &c. ESSRS. BURCH and LUCAS (late J. Albert) respectfully invite gentlemen to view their new aAi fashionable assortment of PATENT and BEAUFORT EA VERS, FANCY VESTINGS, TROUSERINGS, &c., for I L a Pproaching season ; !he style and cut of every garment are 'Mess equal to any of the first houses at the West end, at r : l ces in uniso n w ith th e econo my o f the times, feeling confident a at gentlemen who may do them the honour will be perfectly satis with any garment that leaves their establishment. A large as sotd ti tt rnent of Great Coats kept ready made in all the di ff erent and ° l t aPprovod forms agreeable to the prevailing taste ; being made 'b der the superintendence of the proprietors, they are enabled to i e4 k con fi dently as to their superiority over all garments of a slop tPtion, the which are entirely excluded from this establishment. KING WILLIAM-STREET, LONDON-BRIDGE, op v.site the Statue. MPLOYMENT.—Persons having a little time sr°t• spars are apprised that Agents continue to be apinted i ~'en, and country towns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, tine sale of their celebrated teas. Ire , . No. 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate-stret.l )0 4 ,,1Y are packed in showy leaden canisters, from one ounce%o with the price anti weight marked on each packet, and but call'e trouble is occasioned by the sale. The license is only I Is. per 5id. 44, , arid many during the last nineteen years galhve realised con . crable incomes by the agency without one shilli et or loss. ~ ._, l Ppllcation to be made (if by letter post-paid) as above. TUE DISSENTERS' and GENERAL LIFE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. t , ra lustitnted 1327. lii,P l ?ssered by special Act of Parliament, Id Vic. c. 20, 62, King t d ;' t arn -street, London.bridge, London ; 21, St. I)avid.stieet, ti,:ebureb , C, King-3treet, Queen-square, Bristol; and St. An. W's Hall-plain, Norwich. Capital, One Milliom. TRUSTEES AND DIRECTORS : IZER Boustield, Esq. Thom a s Pip e r, Esq. )e, t 'ati Challis, Esq , Ald. Thomas B. Simpson, Esq. J oss Ellis, Esq. Ed war d S m ith, E sq. Ifi,,On Fletcher, Esq. Hon. ( hires I'. Villiers, M.P. 4nard Hollier, John Wilks, Esq. res Hindley, Esq , M.P. Edward Wilson Esq. t. te n the return of the Christmas Quarter, the directors beg leave the minatheir Friends sod the Public that, in the Fire Depaitment toVeeeivo Risks of all descriptions, including Chapels, School th2, hfills, Goods, and Shipping in Dock, Farming Stock, &c., ts o 7 .. serne reduced rates as other respectable Companies, and make 1 4 ".111e on policies transferred I rom . other offices. N ati ` e Life Department they continue to teansact all business n . L II to Life Assurances, Annuities, and Family Endowments, `oe security.most liberal terms consistent with sound principles and re Isi ty .ans also are granted onequitable terms to life aurs on lif I st, e sti or satisfactory person e -1 securitieA. To all agents and cola e ' l4 etioneers and surveyors, liberal allowances will be made. By order of the Directors, THOMAS PRICE, Sec. ri ------ A llll -)LE AND PRINCE ALBERT'S PATTERN PLATE B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing , ki ,* . Silversmiths, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of ricrena—The best wrought SILVER SPOONS and FORKS, itAle ratters', 7.. 2d. per °woos ; the Prince Albert's Pattern, Ist,. Per ounce. The articles may be had lighter or heavier, at the , fe- ri ce Vier ounce :-- it 1, k e Fiddle. os. s. d. X. s. d t Prince Albert's. ox. s. d. X. s.d. . 1 , 1 /L e Sins 30 at 7 210 15 I)12 Table Spoons 40 at 7 0...15 0 0 1,-,ort ditto 20 7 2 7 3 4112 Desert ditto 26 7 6... 9 15 0 11 di e Forks 30 72 10 IS 0 1 12 Table Forks 40 7 6...15 0 0 I 0 - rota ditto 20 7 2 7 34 12 Dessert ditto 26 7 C... 915 0 ! s o „ 4 / 7 Spoons 10 72 3 11 8 2 Gravy Spoons 12 7 8... 4 10 ~,.,_"P Ladle 10 72 3 18 8 1 Soup Ladle i ""ce MU° 10 78316 8; 4 Sauce ditto 12 8 0... 416 0 't s ip. N ` .I)?ens (gilt strong) 1 00 1 4 Salt Spoons (stronggilt) 2 2 0 111 41 's a.:ce 2 10 Oi 1 Fish Slice .3 10 0 1 p,," Spoon. 10 78112 Tea SugarsSn 14 8 0 5 12 0 ,14,7 r Sligsr T0ng1..,“ : ”. 0150, 1 Pair Tongs ...... 1 5 0 't ii : Ir k iiavor and sos regornmend the Prince ilbert's pattern. "7 novel a nd of us n eignepleti beellty. , .. _. _ .. 41. 11 EE TRADE! FREE TRADE! tl'k IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! . Nitt_ublic are specially informed that during the re.erectlon of mtbid,r-S and SON'S premise* in Aldgate, the entrance to their rinnent is only at 154, Minories. , so t the Public observe that we neve found , t take u p a theme on political grou er nd ar ;and no such allusion, of coarse, will be made . I ) , the following hints with regard to " Free Trade." j ,„,, 4, Meaning need not be mistaken by one— if We mean a "Free Trade" with E. MOSES and SON. Tft,ll. long have we struggled to bring this about, A•j,sfc . t.the thing is effected, beyond any doubt : n t he east and the west our goods we send forth, .y rs vre send to the south, and we send to the north ; IT_ trade the whole world (wheresoever it be) „,,`',.. of E. MOSES and SON has been" free," 4 .,., th',_?.still through the glorous efforts they've made lyt' l , l _the warehouse of Moses be crown'd with " Free Trade." '.. To es L t b t rt , i . bp r c; e u t4 , , , t;c1, , !ha 1 l ' ' league" as in one Trade" with E. MOSES and SON. itrrah! for their noble achievements, hurrah ! t 1 . 1 1 0 fame of their houses be sounded afar! b th arnesbout it forth with a trumpeter's mouth, „y e e east gnd the west, and the north and the south— , ts. t s'i let the whole universe cry, as in one, • 1ii ‘ ,14,,,, t ee Trade is estatilish'd with MOSES and SON:" .‘lci, ‘ "ii ~Work, entitled "THE COMMERCIAL PHENO. tam,. With full directions for Self,Measurernent, en applies. 4 4 ' '''t forwarded post free. BEADY MID& £ s, d, Ntl e T .., 1 - C h esterfields from 0 8 6 b it t:o p od e' r terfields 0 1U 6 Vv?.Pern;netuns ............. ........ ................. ..... . ...... ....... ,0 13 6 I,_ i „, or.,kes, Athots , Peitoes, and every description of Zglir n Coat i handsomely trimmed .... l5 II No vrin te t r er t;ie s s r it•i, in *very style °users, lined Z t lii Doeskin . .......... 'Leta coats, edged, 41,' .......... - .......... - ........................ tl7 l4o ittoditto;. ..... ......... -.............- ............. ......" I 1 h , il , l Calla _ , ......•“•............ ..... •••.•••• .......... ••••• • ••••••• I 3 g is,l, ) its•lsr • r ' tit . e _ (stilted Ditto 4 14,1 1 ,, a :u Pr SUlls . lc, neatly braided 0 IS 6 Z t ' s i b Gotha c ba ._ MADE TO MEASURE. k i . ttt r__. . Ls, velvet cellar and cuffs tlit il tii ,74ts, in every style and Shape, handsomely trimmed I 5 0 %ti t '' , ditto Wrappers Ol7 6 04k... 4 ;1:Trousers 0 8 6 Otki ra '", ittop .... ....... ot, „. Dress any.pattern 0 I• 2 0 -%,l'4:relye's Trousers .............. ........ I 6 0 14'"e' Dtt e :' 0 7 e 144 c, at .In endless pattern .....—.... arts. ditto b k itt c oat s est ntanufactured 2 15 0 k .1 t he best 1 15 0 bi ts -4„_ manufactured , ~ • ..sar Suit 1 7 (I 11 / 4 4ittic ; 1 8 0 6 l 'rt to any e Zant can be had at five minutes notice, at the 'isie, B . ' t o :lowin :- 4 44 1 a, . dress coat 'nisi ~.nd trousers . from 1 16 0 , i , 14 4 to. s ae _ , ~ icet, vest, and tieu:ers from 0 18 0 ' t ;,itt,;t lll '. Any article purchased or ordered, if not approved Q4er;"ged. or the money returned, 4: i 4 lar, c c -- E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Wholesale and Retail et, ,jaPers, Outfitters, and General Warehousemen, 154, M1*141.7516. * 1 41.7 516 . Aldgate, City, opposite the Church. et. i -- E- Moses and Eon are obliged to guar the public tt, i ha b i r nPosition, having learned that the untradesvnanlike 11,, O te , Of tieing connected with them, or it's the s ame concern, tt, t rl 1 4 r esorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, tliNt i lio, e v e no connexion whatever with any other establishment, Ile, b , Who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to prevent 'l l, l / 4 14 m 4 nt, Yee.) call or send to, 154, Minuries, or 86, Aldgate V'•11, ,`no Church * V, i tt "° Utuiness transacted at this Establishment from sigma gn seZ lill ,44 "set on Saturday, when business is resumed till twelve POST-OFFICE.—CAUTION. `t aitl CE and CO., perfumers to her Majesty, 2s, t. 4 tty nlbard.strett (late Price and Gosnell's, and formerly tt t . t4 mutts, Price , and Co's.), by the recommendation of the Se. 11 / 4 , 11: Y the POst.of fi ce, beg to " impress upon their C orr._ th grit .$ the necessity of precision in the address of all letters in. ' , ll l ;,, L er them . . thus—" Price and Co." (and not " Price and r,: 4 trii; -- "that firm ceased to exist in I 831), as the only means of sho tlainst the fraudulent conduct of individuals who take ~tail'tills letters and orders intended for Price and Co., by il.. • a te tk l igutnin g tho firm ef " re and Gsnell," well knowing t Y never were In any fray P co iz nnected with that firm 1214 OTHERWISE y i THAN AS SERVANTS. 0 -4 •4 1 m ad Co.'s Perfumers so super or to a ny o her , and in such 4 : 1 4 04. demand, that many shopkeepers are basely deceiving the - .,b7 selling a urious Imitations. Price and Co. respect.. 1 4 -.licit Ladies and Gentlemen when they purchase not is 4'111ii"..1 ankle without the protection label, from a design by Sir 1i 4 .7 "%greys being affixed to it, with the signature ef I — nil I:orabard.etreet," in red ink, and " 28" censpi 1' ln it ti t , g centre. '. k p t nd Ce. are the sole Wholesale Agents fir r eh t l i DELCROIX'S KALYDOR, eosrnetic, surpassing all others for preserving and beau mCsnaplesion, prepared for the use of her meat gracious ' h e Queen, and her Majesty the Queen Dowager, by es. -I ' 4 riand, and protected by letters patent. Price 4s. 6d. tt lt Nt 4 , A DELCROIX'S MACASSAR OIL, Ittisler the sanction of the " Lai dl of the Treasury," for (As !l e ns ' her mt gracious Majesty and their Royal Highnesses of tleta of W o a s les, the Princess Royal, &c., s also protocted by khet :UY-executed, correct likenesses, in embossed medallions, Ili, - ` B4 "tY and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Price tlt 4 Wa DELCROIX'S ODONTO. 4 4 , 0 1 X la 'Mt hesitate to recommend, from experience, DEL. 't a tbi - °DONT°, or the Queen's own Dentifrice, as the most ta .th , - ,„lnelins of purifying, preserving, and embellishing the i srZGuras hitherto offered to the Public."—Court Gazette. 1 . 7 1 r4s 4 . 4 n_ . e liou ' quet Duke of York is the last new fashionable 10,eti..7, the season 1844; but though the last, is not the least ::y -- ‘ 4l /40 . Al it happily combines the preceding excellence of all .. ba nittots with the delicate and delicious fragrance of the . 44-.41 rose. Let him who is a true born gentleman, :‘ ,l ll Stands upon the tumour of his birth If he suppose that I have pleaded truth— l'rara or this briar pluck a white rose with me. ht hit t „ th o 'fferi t ; ...uelcrolx and Co., 158, New Bond street, have pleasure 11 %4 , 1 ! this heir last bouquet of the season, and beg to inform 1,, t he' ' t Y and Heir Patrons that, during the recess, all orders " t . th "NUe coimu" of a case containing the six royal bou 'it4e A 4 llo ltuinea,ci.'nprising the bouquets de la fteine, d'Albert, • nib al ". Duke of• York, Princesse Royale, and l`rincosse 14‘•ksk,, forwarded to any part of the country, carriage paid. ao, t Nt, i 7 h6 Moine, partial:sr attention is required in ohserving 4 4 ) 1. 41 ' 4 . New g en d_ s t ree t, London, he upon tub me and 4 ) *a worthless counterfeits, for the sake of profit. rust tlilltists and Hairdressers in town aid country. , SHAVING A LUXURY. I,,'g s ee 4.-5,1 CO's ft YPOPHAGON surpasses every so;;:i ever 1 -, Lo e r t aha ving. One trial will prove that the luxury of - ," ot t r'Ph i a n be enjoyed only by those wise use Price and Co.'s ap " i h n , Which ren d ers s h av i ng (hitherto disagreeable and te,r w „ t pl - ebar ti eli pleasant and easy. tellsaY Price and Co., 28, Lombard-street (late Price and 4 anh. 44 141 d by Delcroix and Co., 158, New Bend-street, kf• w fo p else an rgndon, price Ss. $d per pot, Is. per square, 4 4 0 h i : 4 x es lc 6d. apt 21. 6d. h !lt ep w : Price will L ave p l easure in presenting any brother Its4t4tAr iquare of the Itypopbagop gratuitously, who may now. o f ~.all moutpel , :ei *use, I'OOS AND DAMP AIR. fr Alt A (44, Y'S AS 1. HMATIC CANDY has, rna ny 's year proved an effectual Preservative 1 namp Air, which, in the Winter t 4 .1-ki ar etre t o e c , t , 0 1 the Fog s an “ Its effects are to expel !C t ,Pre,,,lrvrV a lent ill this Climate. '^o of Damps, and „`t'N ue llo e wh t he stomach from the admiss,— 14 0 don, n tib "o buffer from Diffic"ilty of Breathing. -- J, A ; kW, and ld Y Barclay and Sons 95, Farringclon stre , by their ap i pointment, by Sanger,. Gifford 114, and H. Barfield,. Iga, Strand; ; tfeti d "rnhill • 4 1.s3 e, p erek. b r fl ug a g ll i e s r , s e ll r rAg s g t i r s e t, et, ‘2 lla H c e n h e - y st ; re a e ,, t a Is.. &re .„ liiarteL r ,i_e Venders in Town and Country. " ot lifted to genuine, nnless the names of "Barclayand each Box. 0 USS' 411 0 tat 15 won' i ss ion? Id 0: co„ it if).- THE SUN is Publisked EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, in Time ior the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY ; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time Pr the :AFTERNOON TRAINA awl a THIRD . EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, w6wßining PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that nou n ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE MISS MARTINEAU'S STATEMENT. A FEW WORDS of COMMENT i n THE ATHEN.EUM of THIS DAT. BUILDING SOCIETIES—WINDOW D UTIES . THE BUILDER, No. 99, of This DAY, con tains a beautiful Illustration of the Confessional Chair in Len ham Church— Willoughby Wilton's Fourth Letter on Building So cieties—Petition of the Society of Master Carpenters for a repeal of 'Window Duties—Shed on the Eastern Counties Railway—lmprove ments In the Tower—Novel Proposition to keep Dover Harbour clear of Shingles—Society for Improving C Atages—Notices of Contracts, Tenders, Competitions, Timber Sales, &c.; and the Architectural News of the week. Price 3d. F RASER'S MAGAZINE for JANUARY, Price 2s. 6c1., contains :- 1. A Walk from London to Fulham. Adorned with Cuts. Part I. 2. Glimpses of the Pageant of Literature. No. I. 3. Recollections of the Gifted. Olympia Morata. 4. Some, Rambling Remarks on Horace and others. By Morgan Rattler. 5. Retrospective Gleanings. 6. A Fine Day In the Temple. 7. The Curate's Volume of Preens. 8. Little Travels and Road-side Sketches. By Titmarsh. Waterloo. 9. On Decorative Painting for the Embellishment of our Dwellings. 10. The Sun Dial. 11. The Poet of Prague. A Bohemian Legend. 12. The Church—her State and Prospects. 13. The Old Year's Track. G.'W. Niekisson, 215, Regent-street, London. steam sloop Growler ; of the detention, on the 30th August last, of a brigantine. name unknown, completely fitted for the slave trade, by her Majesty's sloop Star ; of the detention of a 13razlian felucca, called Il Grande Poder de Dios, bound to Bahia, with forty slaves on board, by her Majesty's sloop Wasp ; of the capture of a schooner, fully equipped for the slave trade, supposed to be the Virginia or Alerto, but without papers of any kind, by her Majesty's steam-ship Penelope, which ship had also driven on shore and destroyed a smaller schooner, of about forty tons, equipped for the slave trade, and probably Brazilian. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have pro moted Mr. John Francis Tottenham, mate of the Hya cinth, to the rank of Lieutenant. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, DEC. 27. The Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household has appointed the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West to be one of the Gentlemen Ushers Quarterly Waiters in Or dinary to her Majesty, in the room of the Hon. Heneage Legge, deceased. DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 24. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Frederick Sedley, Esq., to be Inspector of Police for the island of Malta. WHITEHALL, DEC. 26. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Chevalier Robert Schomburgh, recently at the head of the expedition for exploring the boundaries of the colony of British Guiana. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 26. Corps of Royal Engineers —Second Captain A. Gordon to be Captain vice Rutherford, retired on full-pay; First Lieut. R. G. Hamilton to be Second Captain, vice Gordon ; Second Lieutenant E. W. Ward. to be First Lieutenant vice Hamilton, Dec. 18 ; First Lieutenant 11. W. Lu gard, to be Second Captain, vice Harness, seconded ; Second Lieutenant W. H. Jesse to be First Lieutenant, vice Lugard, Dec. 20. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Gentleman Cadets to be Second Lieutenants—J. F. E. Travers, vice Desborough, promoted ; Hon. E. T. Gage, vice Russell, promoted ; N. S. K. Bayly, ♦ice Shaw, promoted ; G. Barston, vice Lennox, promoted ; G. Leslie, vice Henry, pro moted ; A. M. Archdall, vice Flint, promoted ; C. Wright, vice Taylor, promoted ; J. E. Thring, vice E. Swinton, promoted ; W. M. King, vice Pipon, promoted ; 11. L. F. Greville, vice Paterson promoted ; S. R. B. Swinny, vice Lucas, promoted ; H. Bent, vice J. D. Shakespeare, promoted ; F. R. Glanville, vice Hamley, promoted; H. J. W. Jervis, vice Field, promoted, Dec. 19. Corps of Royal Engineers—Gentlemen Cadets to be Lieutenants—J. G. Jervis, vice Galton, promoted ; H. W. Tyler, vice Barlow, promoted ; J. C. B. De Butts, vice Scott, promoted ; W. S. Stace, vice Ross, promoted; G. S. Tilly, vice Tuglis, promoted ; E. Stanton, vice Hope, deceased, Dec. 19. ADMIRALTY, DEC. • 21. _ _ Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieut. E. A. Wylde to be First Lieutenant, vice J. L. Brainier, to half-pay. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannan- shire. Stirling, Dumbarton, Clackmannan, and Kinross Militia, commonly called the 90th Regiment of British Militia—J. F. Erskine, Esq., to be C a ptain o f a com pany for the shire of Claekmannan, vice Young, de ceased, Dec. 10. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Joseph Craven and John Hardman, dyers, Wakefield, Yorkshire. THE RAILWAY SYSTEM AND THE 150,.RD OF TRADE. The course which Parliament intends to pursue with resp , ct to railways in the ensuing session is now become a subject of great interest. To develop a sound and permanent system of intercommunication suitable to the commercial and political situation of the country, both in its national and continental relations, is a matter of no inconsiderable difficulty ; and this difficulty becomes still more perplexing by the necessity which exists for repairing the errors that have already been committed, while preserving a due regard to existin g interests of so large a charact er as t h ose already involved in these undertakings. The full effects of the railway system are but very imperfectly comprehended by the great majority of persons. It is looked .upon generally as merely a more easy mode of transporting persons, for pleasure or for business, from one place to another. But those who look deeper into the matter discover in it a principle svhich is fast producing a change on the whole commerce of the country—which is daily ab sorbing the merchandise traffic to such an extent as must affect, to an unknown degree, the value of pro perty, by altering the relative cost of transit for our mineral productions and our manufactures, which form so important an item in the value of the staple commo dities and general merchandise of the country. The laying out of railways, therefore, on a comprehensive plan is a subject requiring the most serious considera tion ; and the most extensive experience which can be brought to bear upon the question will be required to obtain even an approach to a sound and judicious deci sion on this difficult subject. The proceedings of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade are naturally watched with considerable anxiety by those who are interested in, and able to com prehend the various bearings of, this complicated sub ject. A Government Board which was instituted to supervise the arrangements of railway companies for the prevention of accidents, is a very different thing from a Board which is to decide upon the great national question of railway communication in general. And the course pursued by this Board in their investigation of the various railway schemes brought before them is- not calculated to remove the impression that their inquiries will be entirely deficient of any practical good, while their reports may be productive of great harm, by in ducing those unacquainted with the subject to place a much greater dependence upon these reports than their intrinsic merits can possibly entitle them to. In a re cent article upon this subject we stated what were the points in which the Board were required to report to Parliament, These were principally the engineering peculiarities of the lines ; the sufficiency of the esti mates ; the relative commercial advantages of compet ing lines ; and some other points of minor importance. Now, how do the Board arrive at their conclusions on these subjects ? They have merely copies of the plans and sections furnished to them, similar to those de posited with the clerks of the peace. They examine no evidence, except such voluntary statements as the parties interested choose to make. They take for granted the correctness of the engineering details. No local examination is made to establish the accu racy of the estimated expense of construction. No in quiries are instituted into the commercial peculiari ties of the districts ; no personal inspection and survey of the country •, no estimates of traffic from actual ob servation. An Ordnance map, a gazetteer and the plans and sections of the railway, constitute, so far as any thing appears, the whole machinery by which a judg ment is to be formed and a report made, which is to be the foundation for a Parliamentary decision. The in quirers after truth need no longer complain, Mincing tarn facile vera ineenire possem, quam falsa convincere ; for it would appear that the clearsightedness which official situations produce on those who previously were subject to the common defects of ordinary mortality, renders both truth and error alike transparent at a glance. If gazetteers and maps could furnish sufficient infor mation as to the best direction and commercial advan tages of particular railways, there would still remain the question of cost of construction, which cannot be reached by these means. Where are the data for these calculations ? If we take the experience of the past for our guide, we shall find that the average cost of all the principal railways in England has been between 50,0001. and 80,000 L a mile. But in the new lines, for which application to Parliament is now about to be made, the cost of construction is estimated only at from 10,0001. to 15 0001. per mile —some few lines reaching as high as 25,0001., and others being as low as 7,000/, per mile only:Engineers may well laugh in their sleeve at the idea of their estimates being revised by the Board,of Trade. Without a careful investigation of the face of the country, the nature of the soil, the geological character, and the local value of the land through which the railway passes, even the most remote approximation to the cost of construction cannot be obtained; for many of the new lines are estimated to cost less than half what the land alone has cost in the old railways; and unless, therefore, the Government engineers possess intuitively that knowledge which it has cost the staff of railway en gineers twelve years' labour to acquire, and railway pro prietors a sacrifice of 40,000,0001. or 50,000.000/. to secure, the judgment of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade can be nothing better than a farce and a mockery, which it is quite beneath them to attempt. The Railway Board undoubtedly contains some clever men, and the character of the President is above reproach. But cleverness is as far removed from that grasp of mind which this subject requires as it is from that practical experience without which far greater ta lents than even the collective Board can boast would be of but little avail. To judge of such questions as these, military engineers are almost totally incompetent, unless they possess talents quite distinct from those of their own profession. In the two notable instances in which a Government engineer has been called upon to decide, the most unfortunate decision has been the result; for both in the Brighton Railway and in the Churnet Valley schemes the erroneous decision adopted is now fully ac knowledged; and the result will, probably, in both cases be, the construction of two lines of railway at a vast sacrifice of property, where one would have amply sufficed. The decision by a secret tribunal in such important matters would, under any circumstances, be a vast evil, which is greatly increased when the, udges are obviously inexperienced in the matters they are to decide upon. The opposing parties for competing lines each make their own statements. No cross-examination takes place by those acquainted with the facts of the case; and the most unscrupulous of the parties are, therefore, most likely to obtain a judgment in their favour. What care they if their estimates of cost prove utterly insufficient, their calculations of traffic enormously exaggerated ? These defects will not be exposed till t h e y h ave rea li se d a Large premium on their shares, and when they have left to others the task of bearing the public odium. Not one in twenty of the owners of the high-sounding names attached to various of the new schemes knows personally the truth of any one single fact 'which has been stated respecting the'schemes with which they are connected, and they have only at any moment to sell their shares, pocket the premium, and declare they have been deceived by false representations of other's, in order to exonerate themselves from the consequences here stated. The pro ceedings of the Board of Trade peculiarly favour such operations ; while the old-established companies, who bring forward schemes guaranteed on a tangible capita: of their own, and supported on the state ments of those who must be responsible for them, are left without the p oss ibility of being able to refute the statements of their opponents, however erroneous they may be. Such ap pear to be some of the probable evils that will attend the decisions of the Board of Trade, made, as these decisions will be, on most inconclusive evidence, and by persons inexperienced in the ma ttor.— Times. The Earl and Countess of Powis, lion. It. H. and Lady Harriet Clive, Hon. Robert Herbert, an d a f am il y Noble circle, are l rl and i assembled Hon, 11, I. 11. )wll4 Catio, P ear W e l s h poo l . The C live have each sub scribed PO/. for the relief of the poor of Ludlow. At the close of last week the Earl and Countess of Powis, Hon. R. H. Clive, and Lady Harriet Clive, with a party of friends, repaired to Ludlow, to honour the annual ball by their presence there. The assemblage of the local and neighbouring nobility and gentry was exceed ingly numerous, man/ of whom came purposely to Con gratulate the Noble Larl on his recent investiture as a Knight of the Garter. Earl Pools, who was decorated with the insignia of his order, viz., the star and garter, was warmly received by his friends and neighbours. 'The ball altogether went oft with much eclat. DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION, ••- CAUTION TO BURSII.OI oF Coin.—Thursdßy an inquest was held at the Royal Mason Tavern, Mary , street, Popl ar , b e f ore Mr, Baker, coroner, on view of the body of Edward Lines, Y occasionally acted aged sixty-eight years, a pensioner, residing India Company's almshouses, Poplar, who Caine by his sftoaltleopindamdeel deceased dl vircUrastances t— in the East as shipkeeper on board vessels in the docks. On Tues day evening last he left home to proceed ( N l v ea ii t i h i4 u m n under the i t: e t r e On board the Larpent, then lying in the West India Docks, to tape charge of her during the night. 04 fopolying j',l 4t io t;ol, t: xua) gay, tioetur,oin hot? as k il o , w i tness vent od Ward' the ship to aseertam the eat Se. iklot finding hint on the galley, which he usually occupied, he went to the after-cabin. lie found the door locked, and upon knocking and receiving no answer, he broke open the W 49 dircovcred the q. l e ßa c y a 400 i;i a ialtintod .' Ih &man, which was only seven feet long by five wide, was a fire grate, on which was a coke fire burning. There was no vent for air, deceased having Placed the curtain across the door to keep out the draft. There was no chimney or flue to the gra:f! , witness's °pluton deceased hail been'stlifbcaeaby the fames Of. the chareoal: Eanburn, a constable in the 'West India Docks . , said he had gone into 'the vabin'about*twe hours after the deceased had been found dead. The fumes of the charcoal were then so strong that it W t scarcely pos• Bible to breathe. It a human being had, even after that l a p se of time, been shut up u the ca,in, death must have ineviably - ensued: Yerdiev--!‘ Accidelic4lll) , s't4fibeit(cd 13y fumes ' .; IRELAND. FUNERAL OF THE EARL OF LIMERICK.— TURBULENT PROCEEDINGS. DUBLIN, DEe. 25.—The Tipperary Vindicator, re ceived this day, contains the following account of the funeral of the late Lord Limerick, and I am sure you will read with th e d eepest pa i n the description of the turbulent and disgraceful proceedings of a portion of the populace of the city of Limerick on that occasion:— " Oa Saturday evening, at six o'clock, the mortal re ' mains of the late Ear] of Limerick, of the late Viscount Glentworth, the Earl's grandson, and of Lady Mary Pery, his daughter, arrived in Limerick from Dublin in funeral procession. The hearses in which the bodies were contained were accompanied by mourning coaches, containing some of the distinguished members of the Pery family. The remains of Lady Mary and Viscount Glent worth were deposited forthwith in the family vault, Pery's chapel, in one of the niches of the ancient Cathe dral of St. Mary's. " The body of the Earl of Limerick was taken to the Palace. " During the entire of Sunday the family mansion and the cathedral were visited by hundreds of citizens of all classes, impelled by motives of eager curiosity t o witness the ob sequ i es o f an i n di v id ual who was known to them only by the recollection of his having a title and estates, derived from a city and locality which were never benefited by his occasional presence, or the expenditure of any portion of the ample pecuniary means with which the extensive property he held in the district supplied him. " The coffin, which was covered with black velvet, was placed in the antique spacious parlour of the mansion, and suspended over it was a coronet, with the family arms and escutcheon, surrounded by sable plumes. The lying in state was an imposing and pompous spectacle, commemorative of the decadence of worldly splendour— indicating the passing joys and sorrows of this life. "It having been rumoured through the city that the funeral would take place at twelve o'clock on Monday, the populace were on the qui rive from an early hour in the morning. The funeral left the palace at 12 o'clock, and moved on through George-street, Patrick-street, and Rutland. street. The carriages of the nobility and gentry of the surrounding district were in attendance. Among, them were, Earl Dunraven's, Lord Clarina's, Lord Monteagle's, Sir A u b rey D e V ere ' s, Mr. William Maue, sell's, &c. "About one thousand of the tenantry of his late Lord ship were dressed in scarfs and hatbands. Many gentle men of the county and city wore crape hatbands and weepers. The crowds of idle persons in the streets and thoroughfares were very great, and as the proceasion moved along there was a good deal of shouting and groaning. When it arrived at the New Bridge,' it was completely stopped, and then a scene of indescribablio con fusion ensued. The tenantry were hustled and pulled about, and the linen was torn from their hats and shoul ders. The crowd was so great on the bridge and up Quay-lane that there was no proceeding. A most dis graceful assault was made on the carriage of Lord Monteagle, who, on being recognised, was fiercely groaned and hooted. His Lordship with muck difficulty escaped into Mr. Howard's spirit shop, after some very rough treatment. Some say he was knocked down and trampled on—others that he was merely hustled. Mr. Sam Dickson, likewise the Mayor, and Mr. O'Neill, who interfered to protect him, received some ill-usage. At length the excitement and vio lenee become so great that it was feared the immense crowd would overturn the hearse and carriages and throw his Lordship's remains into the river. A speedy order was given for the military, and two companies of the 15th Foot, and a troop of the sth Dragoon Guards were almost immediately on the spot. In the meantime Lord Monteagle, Sir Aubrey De Vere, and others, re mained in durance at Mr. Howard's till the military came to their rescue. Th e p o p u l ace t h en slowly retired, laughing and jeering at the parade of soldiery, whose presence could have been well dispensed with were the police at hand, as they should have been, to do their duty." MR. O'CONNELL.—Mr. O'Connell arrived privately at Cruise's Hotel, Limerick, on Saturday evening, and left on Sunday, after breakfast, for Darrynane. There was a large collection of people outside the hotel.—Limerick Reporter. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn arrived on Thursday last at Baronscourt. SUICIDE BY STARVATION IN A LUNATIC ASYLUIIi. - Thursday afternoon Mr. Baker, the ftrotter, held rather a lengthened investigation at the Fire Bells inn, I - Ma — For+ Middlesex. resnectirw the death of Pracc;, Wilson, aged 45, an i nmate of Byle's private lunatic asylum, in the above parish, who died from voluntary starvation in that establishment. Ann Williams, a nurse is the - asylum, deposed that the deceased was a married woman, and had been an inmate of the establishment since the 10th of last month, having been sent under an order from the parish officers of Wel worth, on proper medical certificates, and was not a pri vate patient. The deceased was a decided lunatic. The deceased had a disposition to abstain from food, and could not be persuaded to eat proper nourishment. What could be administered to her was generally done by some persons holding her head back whilst witness put the food into her mouth. She used to fancy that she was going to be poisoned. On Tuesday forenoon witness, assisted by a nurse named Jones, was engaged in feeding her with wine and arrow-root, and as the last teaspoon ful was about being poured down her throat, her eTes became fixed as if death were coming upon her. She was instantly laid down on the bed, gave a deep gasp, and expired. The CORONER—Have you any padded rooms here similar to those at the county asylum at Hanwell ? Wit ness—Not as yet, Sir. What was this house formerly? —A receptacle for paupers, who were farmed out. Is it a properly licensed private lunatic asylum ?—Quite so, Sir. Mr. Edward Palmer, resident surgeon at the asylum, said the deceased laboured under violent mania, raving almost constantly. Her delusions were various. She refused food, believing it was poison. He was in attend.. ance upon her when she died. He thought that her death was caused by the weakened state of her system, arising from the circumstance of her having no disposi tion to take food. The jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased had died in consequence of her abstaining from proper nou rishment to sustain life." A SCENE.—At the Watlington Petty Sessions, on Saturday, before Mr. H. Hammersley, and the Rev. E. F. Glanville, Jane Allen, a wretchedly distressed-look ing woman, with an infant at her breast, was charged with having stolen, on the 25th of November, a small faggot of wood, of the value of " one penny," from off a pile in Thirdswood, the property of Mr. John Page, chairmaker, of Wheel-end, Stokenchurch. The prose cutor produced Alfred Newell, who said he saw Allen take the faggot at about half-past five o'clock on the morning of the day in question. The husband of the defendant, covered with rags, and bespettkie7, 'irorn his appearance great poverty, declared ;at no person left his house that morning 0 . 1 1 after six o'clock, and his wife declared that be did not enter the wood till after six o'clock, and then only to collect some dry boughs to ways her children. The bench more than once put it to the prosecutor as to whether he was determined to press the charge, and he said he was ; he had lost faz gots before. Page said, " The faggots were worth 6s. per hundred in the wood "—V. each. It was an affect ing scene. From the prosecutor sternly pressing the charge, the mother, with the infont in her arms, was committed to Oxtbrd gaol, to take her trial at the Quarter Sessions, charged with stealing the said faggot, of the value of id, TUB WEATHER.--THE PARKS, &c.—There is still a suspension of frost, without a thaw of that rapid and decided character which usually renders the streets of the metropolis slippery and muddy; they were, however, for the greater part of Thursday, greasy, as it is termed, and the roads in the suburbs were somewhat softened, but the wind was generally through the day keen and cutting, blowing briskly from the eastward; and a rather thick fog generally prevailed, which on the river was so dense as to obstruct the chief portion of the traffic. The temperature at the Royal Humane Society's receiving. house, in Hyde Park, was thirty-five degrees at eight o'clock on Wednesday night, but had descended to thirty four degrees at seven o'clock on Thursday morning. At noon the mercury had advanced to thirty-eight degrees, at which point it remained at eight o'clock at night, or rather it may be said to have risen a shade, and the wind having moderated considerable mildness succeeded. The barometer had fallen from 32. 2. to 29. 7., giving intimation of a fall of rain or snow. Skating in either the Regent Park or Kensington Gardens is at an end for the present. DRIADFUL ACCIDENT DT FIRE.--Thursday morn. ing, soon after three o'clock, a police-constable, nettled Ayliffe, No. 270 K, was on his beat in Green Man-lane, Poplar, when he heard the screams of a woman, and cries of " Murder, fire," proceed from the house No. d, inhabited by a frill* named Ellen Walsh. He lost no time in hastening to th e spot, and endeavoured to obtain admission, but was unable to do so until he broke open the door, when the poor untortunate creature Walsh fa_l . l into his arms with her garments blazing RAM ker. Ayliffe, with great preseace of mind, threw his great coat about her pclup.4, flung her on the ground, and rolled heit over until he extinguished the flames. She was burnt in a dreadful manner, and Ayliffe frame. : diately called upon the assistant of the divis . onal surgeoto,c.s,i,,t:end her. After the usual rerne diza 'uati neen apPlied; she was remo•ved on a la t t er t. 4 the London "Hospital, 'and 'riveivo.. tlt'e attentions which the res9ANI?:4 stf. Ghat adminable institution could filer case appeared hopeless from the first, and death has since VI- - • e red her. The woman was of the called " unfortunate," and went hom into,kicatd on Christmas night at twelve oktiock, iefi' a candle burning on a chair by her bed Side, a n d t h e li ght coma rininicated to her clothes after she had laid down. In extinguishing the fire, the constitble'a handl were te-1 Tereli hunted, DARTMOUTH ELECTION. THE NOMINATION. DARTMOUTH, THURSDAY AFTERNOON.—The nomina tion has just taken place, amidst a scene of considerable confusion and excitement. The show of hands has been declared by the :Mayor to be in favour of Mr. Somes by a slight majority. Mr. Moffatt was proposed by Sir Henry Seale, tun] seconded by Mr. Teach. Mr. Somes's proposer and skconder were Messrs. Cordner and Cutler. Mr. AfossA.Dr, in the course of his address, said that bribery had bk.en resorted to by his opponents, and at that time there was a warrant out against one of the party for attemptin g to bribe an elector, and in all probability he was then in prison. Mr. Soßtris denied that there was any bribery or inti midation rersorted to by his friends. The MANOR read a notice, signed by two electors, which had.:been placed in his hands, to the effect that Mr. Somers was a Government contractor, and therefore ineligible to sit in the House of Commons. Mr. So3tEs gave this statement a flat denial, and said that he •ivas not a Government contractor in any sense of the vrord. DEATH OF A MOTHER AND IN PANT FROM NEGLECT. Thy! picturesque little village of Cowley, near Chel .erhe in has, during the past week, been the scene of great excitement, in consequence of various reports, that a fe male (unmarried) named Sarah Jackson, had been recently delivered of a child, and that both the infant and mother had perished the same morning, shortly after the accouchement, and had afterwards been buried at Cowley without having notified to the clergyman the cause of death, which it was said entirely arose from the gross neglect of the midwife. The above circumstances having come to the knowledge of the Rev. Mr. Fendale, the rector of the parish, that gentleman immediately put himself in communication with the Coroner, Mr. Barnet, and Mr. Dalton, the medical officer of the union, when the former gentleman forwarded an order to the rectory for the exhumation of the bodies, for the purpose of as certaining the cause of death. The disinterment having taken place, the inquest was held in the drawing-room of toe parsonage house at Cowley. From the evidence of Edith Jones, who keeps the toll-gate at Birdlip, near Cheltenham, on the Cirencester road, it appeared that the deceased was her sister. Deceased, who was twenty three years of age, was unmarried, and lived as servant in a gentleman's family at Over, near Gloucester, and that she came to Birdlip for the period of her confinement, which took place at witness's house, on the 4th inst. Deceased was attended by a midwife, named Betty Redden, who, at the period of the accouchement, got extremely agitated, and sent to Cheltenham for the as sistance of a medical gentleman, Mr. Dalton, who gave his immediate attendance. Mr. Dalton remained with his patient above an hour and a half, who, he said was going on exceedingly well. He then left her in charge of the nurse, Elizabeth Redden, taking care to examine Redden as to her competency in midwifery; the answers being satisfactory, he left deceased in the hands of the nurse, with the greatest confidence, particularly as the dangerous period of parturition was over. At two hours after Mr. Dalton had left the deceased was delivered of a full-grown fine female child. The nurse Redden was present. The nurse was to have ss. for her attendance. After the birth (about an hour and a half) Redden attended to the child; she washed its face, and placed it on a box, observing that it was " dead enough." The mother was placed in a chair, undressed, and put to bed. The child' as born alive, and there was some blood on its ears and nose before it was washed. There were no marks of violence observable about the head. The child lived about an hoar after it was born, but nothing was done to it till it was washed by the nurse, and the mother was informed of the death of her first-born. After the child's face was washed the nurse left, saying the female was going on very favourably, and did not return again. The mother died before Mr. Dalton could be sent for a second time. Elizabeth Redden was examined at great length, but the prevaricating manner in which she gave her testi mony, and the great reluctance with which she answered the questions of the Coroner, induced him to order her to withdraw, and to decline receiving her testimony. The CORONER observed, that, by her own admission, it was obvious that both mother and infant had been treated with great neglect and ignorance. The Coroner observed, he did not know in what position the verdict of the jury would place her; it might be one of peril. Ann Williams, of Birdlip, another midwife, also in giving her evidence. prevaricated to such a deer.° ‘lntt it torch the severe censure of the tionrt. The wit ness, however, admitted that ahe observed a black mark on the forehead of the child, and blood was escaping from the nese, mouth, and ears. The CORONER severely lectured the two midwives for the tissue of falshoods relative to the child, which, in fact, had never been washed at all, and said he did not know that he was doing his duty in not having them punished. Mr. Hawkins, surgeon, of Cheltenham, stated that in his opinion, both mother and child had been grossly neglected by the two midwives and their friends. Had proper and judicious care and management been taken, both lives would undoubtedly have been saved. It was a gross case of neglect. Mr. Dalton, the surgeon to the union, presented him self for examination, but the jury said there was not the slightest imputation oa his conduct, and his evidence would be unnecessary. Mr. Dalton replied, he merely wished to explain that when he arrived at the house, he was told his assistance would not be required, that the female was going on well, aid that nature would perform her office—having seen the patient, he left orders that if she got worse he should be instantly sent for. Placing the deceased in a chair was sufficient to cause serious injuries. As medi cal officer of the union, he received no order to attend the woman, but went instantly without one. The jury, after a lengthened discussion, returned the following special verdict:—" That they considered the deceased had not received proper care and attention that a person in her peculiar state required, but, on the con trary, was neglected and injudiciously treated by the midwife, Elizabeth Redden—that the, infant died from contusion of the bride, but from what precise cause it arose there is not sufficient evidence to testify. The jury also beg to express their opinion that the child had not proper care and attention bestowed upon it, as to afford it an opportunity of living, and that there was great neglect oa the part of the said Elisabeth Redden." The above verdict will not warrant a committal for manslaughter. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS The following are the results of "A Table of Mortality is the Metropolis, shorn' ,* the Number of D ea th s f rom all Causes register e d i n W eek ending Saturday, the 21st of Deoember, 1844." a Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-CTeneral CATJSEg Or DEATH. Weekly Total. Average of Vire Years Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 258 178 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat lO7 111 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 2OO 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration 5ll 285 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-♦essels 46 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 4 5 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. l7 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c Old Age, or Natural Decay 125 71 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified 1390 942 Deaths from all Causes ...... . 1393 946 DRAINS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES LNCLUDRD UNDiR THE ABOVE HEADS. Total. Weekly Ayerap Consumption Scarlatina 42 34 Pneumonia .......... Dropsy ..... .. .. 35 35 Hooping Cough 3l 33 Typhus ............... 35 31 Small P0x...... 4B 15 Disease of the Heart Measles ... 52 28 Apoplexy .......... ... .... Diseases of the Brain ll 9 Diarrhoea.. Sudden Deaths ....... .......... 17 15 DLITRICTS. Vest 194 196 North 262 11'1 Central East ... .. 303 207 South 382 242 'f0a1.... ----Ina 946 SALE OF GUANO.--Our brethren of the press ought to be on their guard against being made the medium of communicating to the public erroneous information on the subject of matters of trade, inserted solely with the view of serving the purposes of interested parties. A paragraph is now Tanning the course of the press, to the effect that when the last-arrived vessels left Ichaboe there was only about four months' supply of guano left in the island, and that nearly 200 vessela were waiting. We need hardly suggest that this news has beet fabricated solely with the •Kiesv of giving an adventitious 1:4111a to that tunintie, which has of late fallen to a price which can barely remunerate the shippete, in consequence of the immense suuly lately arrived or on the way home. 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The COMMA!, BALM of SYftIACUM is exclusively directed for the cure of nervous and muscular debility, Impuissance, &e. Price Ils. and 235. per bottle. Sold by all Medicine Vendors, of whom ma y be had the " Silent Friend." The Five Pound Cases may be had as usual. PERRY'S P URIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS are the most eftl•ctua Cure for syphilis and box. secondary symptoms in both sexes, price 2s. 9d. 4sCon. FA sultaliPP Ils. per fee, if by letter, 11. A minute det a il of cases i s ne . cessary. Mentz. Perry are in daily attendance, for Consultation, at their residence, 19, Berners-stteet, Oxford-street, London, from Eleven till Two, and Five till Eight, and on Sundays from iii till Twelve. One persona visit only is necess ar y t o effect aoermanent cure FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE ADMIRALTY, DEC. 27, 1844. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have re ceived from Commodore Jones, the senior officer of her Majesty's squadron on the west coast of Africa, a letter, inclosing one from Commander Scott, of the Hyacinth, of which the following is a copy Her Majesty's ship Hyacinth, Aug. 13, 1844. "Sir,—l have the honour to request that you will be pleased to bring under the favourable notice of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the following account of the gallant and dashing behaviour of the officer belonging to the ship named in the margin,* which will, I hope, obtain for him that promotion he is, in every respect, most worthy of, Or' the 12th of August, in or about lat. 15 south, longitude 11 deg. 30m. east, when eff Fish Bay, I sent Mr, Tottenham, in a four-oared gig with one spare hand, to communicate with the Portuguese Governor. The weather became thick, and he missed his port, but, knowing that this ship was working along the coast, anchored for the night, and pulled to the southward. On the morning of the 13th he discovered a brig at anchor, without colours, and saw her slip and make sail, on whieli he save chase, being to windward, and the breeze light., he wa.s enabled to approach her weather beam, and fired a musket ahead to induce her to heave to, and show her colours ; this and a second was di3re garded, but a port was open and a gun run ont and brought to boar on the boat, which caused the officer to pull into her wake, when part of the crew of the brig commenced firing musketry, while the others gat the gun on the poop, and pointed it at the boat. Mr. Tottenham now commenced firing, as fast as the spare hand could load for him, being just able to keep way with the brig ; having hit four of the men on board, they left the gun, and after firing 11:114a4e0 for twenty minutes, finding they were unable to weather the land or teek, without being boarded by the boat, they ran the brig on shore, and abandoned her, to the number of eighteen, inelnding three wounded men, bearing another mortally wounded (sine.) dead), on board. In the course a fiat afternoon, the brig was dis covered on shore from the fp4Sitead of this ship, which stood in, and anchored, and hove her off, when she proved to be of two hundred tons, with out papers, a Brazilian ensign in this aabirl, fully equipped for conveying about one thousand slaves, tap g - eis of four pounds calibre loaded, a barrel of powder, and a quainiti ,(.4f langridge shot, a number of muskets, swords, and bayonets et, Almost every bullet expended in the gig was traced ' to the gun c sit .iage, or its immediate vicinity on the pi' 3o15; ado trust that 40 rooluess, decision, and gallantry displayed by Mr. Tottenham,, Nn 04; occasion, may obtain for him the rank of lie.ittenant, for yhr.t. nassed in 1841. I have the honour, &c. (Signed) F. SCOTT, Commander. To Captain Jones, Commander-in , Chief of her ' Majesty's Ships and Vessels, West Coast of Africa. And the Commodore has also informed them of the tapt,ure of her Majesty's sloop Ferret, on the 28th Sep teinber heir, oi a fi phooner, with.out colours or papers, but supposed to be - the Brazilian ,hopr.er Aventura, with four hundred slaves on board ; the defitriiction it the Brazilian slave-brigantine Piedatle,conipletely 'equipped for the slave trade, by her Majesty's sloop Albatrosa ; an d o f th e eaT turp 'of the slave'-brigantine Andaz, completely equipped nor the aims trade, en Ranteuth.s last, by 4r 4ajestYs`stealp-iloop - nqnture of the Spanish siaYe s'elY)(> l, l' - L , r last, by her Majesty's the 25t,, Prometheus; of toe Concepcion, on the 23d Septeni.— * Mr. John Francis Tottenham, mate. BANKRUPTS. Levi Israel Themans, tea dealer,Sidney-place, Com mercial-road, Middlesex, to surronder, Dec. 31, at one, and Feb. 6, at half past twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane. Bevan, Old Jewry. Ann Seed, licensed victualler, Liverpool, Jan. 6, and Fob. 5, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenore, official assignee, Liverpool ; Wilkin, Fur nival's- Inn, London ; Wardle, Liverpool. Charles Strange and Robert Parsons, merchants, Baglan, Glamorganshire, Jan. 14, and Feb. 4, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Weymouth and Co., Angel-court, City. Christopher Watson, jun., tea-dealer, Darlington, Jan. 10, at half-past one, and Feb. 12, at two, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle-mpon-Tyne; James and Hamilton, or Richardson and Glover, Leeds. Joseph Raymond King, druggist, Bath, Jan. 8, and Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acre man, official assignee, Bristol; Mansford, Bath. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. T. Sedgwick, grocer, Leeds—first and final div. of 4s. in the pound, on any day on and after Dee. 30, at the office of Mr. Young, beds. R. Bell, wool-stapler, Keighley, Yorkshire—first and final div. of is. in the pound, on any day on and after Dee. 30, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds. T. M. Monckmar, tobacconist, Bradford, Yorkshire— first div. of 3s. in the pound, on any day on and after Dec. 30, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds. J. Swallow, sen., J. Swallow, jun., and G. Swallow, corn-millers, Halifax—second and final div. of sd. in the pound, on any day on and after Dec. 30, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds. J. Mallalieu, cotton-spinner, Halifax—first dir. of 6s. Bd. in the pound, on any day on and after Dec. 30, at the office of Mr. Young, Leeds. J. Clark, colonial broker, Mincing-lane, :Fenchurch street—first div. of 6d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street, City. S. E. Welldon, butcher, Cambridge—first div. of 7s. 6d. in the pound on new proofs, and second div. of 3d. in the pound on all proofs, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street, City. W. Hill and W. K. Wackerbath, ship and insurance agents, Leadenhall-street—first and second div. of 2s. 4d. on new proofs, and a third div. of 7d. in the pound on all proofs, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street, City. J. H. Loup and G. Godber, cotton-factors, Cateaton street—first div. of 3icl. in the pound, on Saturday, Dec. 28, and the three following Saturdays, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane. City. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. G. Rossiter, jeweller, Bridgewater, Somersetshire, Jan. 17, at half-past eleven—T. Marsh, miller, Canterbury, Jan. 17, at twelve—T. G. Postan, auctioneer, Alders gate street, Jan. 17, at eleven—J. Lark, bootmaker, Seymour-street, Euston-square, Jan. 17, at half-past eleven—G. Purt, ale merchant, Upper Thames-street, Jan. 17, at half-past twelve—W. Chamberlain, linen draper, Peckham, Jan. 17, at twelve—J. Woollam, silk throwster, St. Alban's, Jan. 17, at eleven—J. Holland, draper, Busted, Sussex, Jan. 17, at one. In the Country. B.O'Beirne, wine merchant, Bath, Jan. 21, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court—G. B. Orchard, upholsterer, Bath, Jan. 16, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court— H. Drake, attorney-at-law, Barnstable, Devonshire, Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court— J. Row, chemist, Torrington, Devonshire, Jan. 24, at one, at the Exeter District Court—J. Goss, draper, Devonport, Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court—G. Alexander, innkeeper, Bea minster, Dorsetshire, Jan. 24, at one, at the Exeter District Court—J. Cuttell, clothier, Holmfirth, York shire, Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court— J. Laycock, tallow chandler, Colne, Lancashire, Jan. 31, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—W. Taylor, wool merchant, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, Jan. 24, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court—T. Dickson, linendraper,!lThirsk, Yorkshire, Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—T. Dobson, sen., J. Dobson, and T. Dobson, jun., carpet manufacturers, Kidder minster, Jan. 25, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court—W. S. Batson, J. Wilson, and J. Langhorn, bankers, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyn e District Court—J. W. Harris, wine merchant, Wolverhampton, Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—W. Fletcher, malester, Sedgley, Staffordshire, Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Bir mingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. W, flailey, jun., currier, Whiteeross-street, Jan. 17— B . pow, licensed viettialler, Wigmore.street, Maryle bone, Jan, 17— W. Martin, clothier t Woodehester, Glou cestershire, Jan. 17. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. B. and J. Cutler, steam-boiler manufacturers, New Gravel •NnP, liateliff—J, Fuller and W. Thornhill, sta tioners, lirewer-O.reet, (Olden:square—D. and AL Hiles and S. Heald, Bolton—W. Snook mad J. Taylor, dra pers, Portsmouth —H. lines and A.. Galt, lace rouche Garrett, tailors, Wolf*, l!tforthamptonshire-W, and J. Manu4ctuyers, Wpod-street, Cheapside—J. a n d W. Adams, farmers, Plaistow, Essex—L. Lloyd, sen., S. J. Lloyd, L, Lloyd, jun., E. Lloyd, and C. W. Tabor, b an k ers, Lorldqn (q far as yegards L Iloyd t §en.)—.T. Wood, M. Lund; T. Shaw, jun., stud Shaw, cotton spinne rs , Yorkshir6-0. J. Samuels and S. H. Dughton, coal merchants, Manchester — it RIO G. I - Tay/lees, iron mongers, Reading—J. M'Naught and P. Alexander, coal masters, Rainford, Lancashire—W. Hatfield and J. Hall, silversmiths, Blanchester. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Alexandir M14760e, iqercilapt, VoTt Jan. 4 and 24, at one, at th 4 James Mackenzie, spirit dealer, Beauly, Jan. 4 and Feb. 1, at twelve, at the Sheriff Court-house, Inverness. *r obe - ..t. yla'llip!.flea . 7 : tie, baker, Edi n b urg h, J an . 2 an d 23, l 'aethree,it GOl's'c4mberp, Edinbur g h. I . 4oip'fiOdt, l 6i , oo l o,. Jan, apt 23, at eleven, at Brooks's chambers, Greenlaw. Archibald Thomson, merchant, Kelso, Jan. 4 and 25, at twelve, at PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Priee'of - brown or - Mugeova4o Suga r , Mr the week ending pee: 124, 1844 14 30s. 'BO. per cwt.., .xClitsive of the Duties of 'Custorns paid or payable thereoh on the im portation thereof into Great - Britain ..• r lIF CURISpiAB lionuAvs.---Tlie various public pxliibitioni'tbrouglut the uleiropeiis Were on Thursdqv visited " flonabers o f ''sfgleseel•i; Web evP. -".• . "Inch Erstifisd by wbst the)7 UVili•aj The Captains'-room is the coffee-room depnrtmfnt of the establishment. Here there is a bar, with kitchen and offices attached, for supplying merchants and the subscribers with coffee, sandwiehrs, &c. Lloyd's Committee, under the superintendence of Mr. G. R. Robinson, their respected chairman, met for the first time in their Board-room on Saturday last. In consequence of the holidays, not much busi ness was transacted in Lloyd's on Wednesday, but the it rooms were a good deal crowded by the subscribers and their friends, and the increased accommodation and convenience are subjects of much satisfaction and, congratulation. THE TRAGICAL OCCURRENCE AT ASHFORD. This melancholy affair, some particulars of which were given yesterday, appears to have created a very great sensation in the whole neighbourhood, and, from what has since transpired, the suspicion which was at first entertained that the unhappy man Oliver intended to have destroyed his wife and all his family, has been considerably strengthened. The following additional facts have been ascertained by a corre spondent : It seems that the deceased man belonged to llan well, but he had resided with his wife and f am il y f or some time at Bedford and the neighbourhood. Ile was always considered an idle, disorderly fellow, and his wife, who was a woman of violent temper, did not bear a very good character. They frequently quar relled and fought, and Oliver has been heard by seve ral persons to say that he would do for her some day. They took up their abode in the cottage at Ashford about Michaelmas last, and since that time they appear to have gained their subsistence by begging about the neighbourhood. The family consisted of the father and mother, a daughter named Eliza, a very pretty little girl eight 'ears old, and a son named William, about eleven. The cottage in which the melancholy occurrence took place consists of two rooms on the ground floor, the one used as a keeping-room, and the other as a bed-room, and in which all the family slept The bodies still remain in the same state as when they were first found, the woman lying partly on her stomach with her face buried in the straw mattres% which formed their lied, and the man lying across the room with his head reclining upon the body of Ilia wife. At present, although there is a very strong impression that it is the result of poison, the cause of death remains a mystery. It was stated that some white powder was found in a paper in th e room, which was believed to b e arsenic. This has, however, sin ce been tested by the medical officer of the union, and turns out to be magnesia; and up to this time no trace of any poisonous. ing,.sreleizlshseasd been discovered, and Dr. Curtis h an opinion that it is possible the parties were Buffo cated by the fumes of the coke . that was found partly consumed in the saucepan in the bed-room. This opinion does- not, however, appear to be borne out in any way by the facts that have transpired, and from. the circumst ance o f t h e deceased man being near 5; dressed, and having been heard walking about the house, and in the garden during the night i t i a not very likely that the deaths could ha ee arisen from this cause, particularly as the two chi 'e were La the room all the time ; and they state 'ch a t thp v d;,a _ cr. 4: - • , }ka. only ex periencing violent sickness, and the:other symptoms./ having taken poison. It has been stated that the children of the deceirsed were conveyed to the Stables Union Workhouse imme. diately upon the discovery of the dreadful occurrence, Remedies were administered to them both, the girl was veil , sick and ill for several hours. The boy was not so bad, and they are at presei.it considered out of danger. On their being questioned relative to. the melancholy transaction, the boy stated that on tilde Monday night his father and mother appeared quit e well, and about nine o'clock his father zr,ade some tea, of which his sister, his mother, arP:i his father partook, and his mother cornplai:ied at the time that the tea had a str ange taste. Th ey soon afterwards all went t o bed, and about eleven o'clock he was awoke by his sister crying, and complaining of a pain in her stomach and beir.g thirsty, and he awoke his mother and father. The teapot had been, brought into the bed-room,_ar.d he sa id t h at his father gave his sister some o f the liquor that was in it, n o states that after this his Inother asked his father for some money to purchase some necessaries for the next day-, . eventu a ll y upon which he a b use d h er a good deal aml , struck her, and th e y fought together, brut afterwards laid down again, and in a short time 'ells mother also complained of pain in her stomach rnd thirst, and his father asked her to drink out ok . . the teapot, but she refused, saying that it had sue a nasty taste, and was so different to anything sh had ever before observed in tea, that she could not drink it. He further states that after this they all went to sleep, and during the night he heard his father and mother breathe very hard, and towards morning his sister was again very sick, and he tried to make his mother do something for her, but could not, and he saw his father lying o n the ground very ill and foaming at the mouth ; and finding he could not make either of them sensible what he wanted, he ran out to the neighbours and gave an alarm. The teapot in question, and one or two saucepans which contained liquids, have been carefully set aside preparatory to their undergoing chemical examination. Information of the occurrence was forwarded to Mr. Wakley, the coroner for this district, on Wednesday, and upon a representation of the circumstances being made to him, he at once decided that no satisfactory inquiry could be entered into, in a matter of so much mystery, without a post mortem examination, and he gave the necessary directions for th a t p urpose, and the inquest, therefore, is not expected to take place for two or three days. DxstiTuTroL—Thursday morning Mr. Wak le M.P., held an inquest on the body of James W. Saun ders, who was found dead on a truss hay in a miserable room, at 14, Newton-street, liolborn. The deceased, like most who have no worldly goods, was recognised by no relative. He was rAissed on Sunday and Monday. The landlord had the door of his room forced open on the latter day, when he was found dead and ';aiked as already descril-,ed. The room was in a wretched condition, filthy in the extreme, without food or the means of obta;:ning it. A French gentlemen stepped forward, and said that ho had known the de ceased for three years, and that as an operative chemist ho was unrivalled, and was well known to Professor Graham, of the University College, to whom ho had been an assistant. This gentleman further stated that. the deceased told hi m t h at h e had b een disappointed irs love, and had nothing to live for. In the concentration of acids as poison he was most clever —so much so, that from common acids he made such powerful p o i sons that two drop s repeate dl y killed animals. Mr. Riely the summoning officer, having stated that a paper of tartaric acid was found near his bed, Mr. Walley ad journed the inquest to have the body opened. The Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, the Mar vis of Chandos, and Lady Anne Grenville are passing Christmas at Stowe. The Noble Duke has distributed, under his personal inspection, his annual Christmas bounty to the numerous labourers on his Grace's estates in Buekinghanishire. HERTFORD, TEURSDAT.--MORR INCENDIARY FIRES. —On Monday night a large stack, containing up - ,cards of 19,000 fagots, the property of Mr. B arnar d, ma l tster. situate in a field on the road-side, between the towns of Harlow and Sawbridgewortb, was burnt to the groand. The loss is estimated at about 2504 The fire 'Was sup posed to be the act of an incendiary. The stack was fired at the windward side. This remark applies to all the conflagrations that have occurred in . this county. O n Wednesday night, th e 18tb i ns t an t, the inmates of th e dwelling-house at Lilly Hoo Far ni , which has been twice the scene of incendiary fires during the last few weeks were alarmed at finding the house gradually filling with smoke. A search was made, and it was soon discovered, that the apple room vas on fire, and the whole premise% or all that remained after the recent fires, were in a state: of great danger. Tie ,en gine from Rit c hi e, whick was instantly sent, armed with all possible haste, arid the fire w;i won got under; Superintendent Wakenell, of the rural police, the nett morning instituted an inquir-, and the result was the apprehension of Mary Anne Bl— grave, servant at the farm-house. She was taken in, custody of the police before- Dr. Bland, a county magis— trate, on Thuraday, the lath, and remanded until Monday , last, upon which day a very strong ease (upon circum stantial evidence) was made out against her, and she was committed for trial at the Herta Spring Assize& 7 NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE. V OPENING OF LLOYD'S / An important step towards the complete oecupa 4- 4 c ,,z Lion of thi s e difi ce by its former tenants4* accom plished on W e d nes d ay, b y t h e great este, .1•=1 ,- , , Y.:5','4t.t) blishment known as Lloyd's taking possession of their splendid and commodious apartments. It is now seven years, within some ten or fourteen days, that by the destruction of the Old Exchange by fire on • '• the 10th of Januar", 1838, they were deprived of these apartments. They certainly have gained most materially by the change, though in the interval they have been exposed to great inconvenience by the narrow accommodation afforded to them at the Old South Sea House. The rooms they now occupy have been so recently described, that it is unnecessary to notice them now in much detail. The great room in which the banquet was given is now fitted up v‘ith three ranges of mahogany tables and seats, each table accommodating four underwriters. At the north end is a lobby entrance, divided from the great room by a screen, having a small room or inclosure, right and left, for hats, great coats, &c. The warming and lighting of this room are considered for business arrangements as perfectly successful, whilst to pro vide against the inconveniences of dark and gloomy weather, two Bude lights are suspended from the ceiling. The only remark we have heard made against these occupiers was, that the chandeliers are considered too plain and slender for a consistent effect with the room in which they are hung. The Commercial-room and the Captains'-room are fitted up with seats and benches of mahogany, and richly carved mahogany stands are placed all round the room for the reception of newspapers from all parts of the world. - , kt! on jor of !;°° ier th ~ ~,0~ GAP° tb ° utn it WO ' fe 4l4° of 4 4 " ,et• .A. dair ' f I 1