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COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION. WILLIAM ASTELI„ Esq. , M.P. for Bedfordshire, Chairman. 11-)111IND BECKETT DNISON, Esq., M.P. for West Yorkshire, Vice-Chairmen, VIANCIS MOWATT, Esq., Old Broad-street, !.i s hie tn eh e au s rod A nr r . b i o j uin, Esq., Mark.lane, London. Pratt Barlow, Esq., 24, Kensington-square Octavius Duncombe, M.P. for North Yorkshire II • "ms Esq., Sudbrookholm, near Lincoln , • .• Enthoven , Esc Winchester House, Old Broad •street ; o h: , • , N mhaniel Foster, Esq., St. Andrew's, Biggleswade J H eil G ill. Esq., Mansfi e ld, Wo o dhouse, Notts. IT li gan, Esq., Liv erpoo l Ca • o uldsworth, Esq., Manchester ,Ptain Laws, R.N., Manchester Z' l nhi , Pearce Kennard, Esq., Lombard-street • S. Marshall, Esq., 4, Hyde Park-square O„% n r u . e . l ,‘ l , r ills, Esq., 20, Russell-square, and Radwell, Herta ii.irchi -" Hussey Packe, Esq., Caythorpe House, Grantham Francis parker,bad Esq., Manchester Paull, jun., Esq., Leadenhall-street } ral'ci3 P M, Esq., The IL:sells, Biggleswade Tretick Ricketts, Esq., Old Broad street , r e Rev- H. W. Sibthorpe, Washingborough, ilea - York .noinas Wetherall, Esq., Lincoln. FNIIINEER IN-CHIEF—WiIIiaM Cubitt, Esq., F.R.S. 1 ...ft._ TABLE OF DISTANCES. No. 16,270. LONDON, SATURDAY, EMORNING SU N , OCTOBER 19, 1844. PRICE sd. less and hat's a nd Quid B ad that THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O ' CLOCK , in Time for the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; II SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS and a THIRD EDITION e t SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up So that Hour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED i n ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. square, Nov. B—B. Bright, licensed victualler, Wigmore street, Marylebone, Nov. 9—J. C. and G. H. White, music sellers, Bath, Nov. B.—J. and D. Sugden, fancy cloth manufacturers, Huddersfield, Nov. 12—J. Forth, hatter, Nottingham, Nov. 14—I. Tobias, factor, Bir mingham, Nov. 26—M. Mackenzie, A. Watson, and G. Mackenzie, ship-brokers, Liverpool, Nov. 8. PUBLICATIONS for th eY ralue THE BUILDER, No.. 89, price 3d., pub- lished THIS DAY, contains articles on the Science of the Plan of the Royal Exchange compared with that of the Church of St. Bonet-Finek, and the sacrilege of destroying that church—On Paper Hangings—The Art of Brickmaking—Baths and Washhouses for the Working Classes—Church at Glastonbury, the First Christian Temple In Britain—Lectures on Architecture and Antiquities—Tudor Arch, from a.Doorway in Croydon Palace—Tenders, Notices of Con tracts, and all the PTofessional News relating to Building. . but I uP; ,rated fuel illot. pro' Present Distance by Distance ; London and by existing Yorkßailway Railways. by Doncaster Distance iaved. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. I. Evans and G. Foden, brewers, Chorlton-upon-Med lock, Lancashire —J. Bolton and J. Ward, cloth dressers, Leeds—W. Chrystie, J. Porteous, and J. Carson, mer chants, Kingston, Jamaica (so far as regards W. Chrys tie)—D. Kay and 5. Wilson, printers, Kingston -upon- Hull—E. W. and J. D. Etheridge, wino merchants, Stoke-ferry, Norfolk —C. and W. Phillips and J. St. John Hayward, brass founders, Bristol (so far as regards J. St. John Hayward) --M. A. Robinson and F. Arun del!, straw bonnet dealers, Bristol—T. and C. Shirley, farmers, Chart -next-Sutton, Kent—J. and B. Bower, Botolph-lane--S. Knight and A. Woodward, printers, Birmingham—A. and J. Sykes, pawnbrokers, Man chester—S. and R. A. Plant, merchants—J. Morton and B. Wood, oil merchants, Manchester—G. L. Harvey, potato salesmen, Fenning's-wharf, Tooley-street—C. Sawyer and W. T. Moore, butchers, John's-row, St. Luke's. Office, 2, York-street, Covent-garden ; and of all Booksellers. No. 90, to appear on Saturday, Oct. 26, will be a Double Number, consisting of 32 folio pages, and will contain a complete Analytical Digest of the New Building Act, by Alfred Bartholomew, Esq., F.R.S. ch 10 opLo Lo ndon t o Hull bctoll to York • i Miles. , Miles, • 1 219 1851 (le nto Leeds I Byoakenshaw' 205 185 4. fLondonto ' 243 , 203 Lon I ,, eakene t id ß . y Wakefield , 205 187 ' 199 174 .r.'",!011 t o Bradford 212 187 4 flaon to llaliPtx undo t o n ' 215 190 oddersfleld • Miles 331 40 20 18 25 25 25 25 T welfth Edition, carefully revised. Price Sixpence. URETI S H I P. CIURLES SAUNDERSON. " The danger and defects attending on private security are ably treated in a pamphlet now before us. We perfectly agree with Mr. Saunderson in his concluding remark."—Morning Chronicle. " We have now before us a cleverly-written little pamphlet, en titled Stiretfship.' "—The Atlas. The public are greatly indebted to Mr. Saunderson for his exer tions, and we recommend his pamphlet to the attention of our readers."—Railway Journal. " It is on this subject that Mr. Saunderson has written the short treatise before us, which does great credit to the zeal of that gentle man."—Polytechnic Review. Rad ailot- . con' Lions, a few inst); )ar er9 s At a h ;1;4 C ommittee have the satisfaction to apprise the Share• !", that the Parliamentary Survey of the line, throughout its n • z e i . eextent, is no w on t h e po i nt of complet i on ; an d t h at a ll t h e P c a rd r i mr any Y , EtePs for Complyin g r i g idly w ith th e Standing Ord e rs o f _or lam ent have b een ta k en ; and further, that t h e l i ne h as b een Pproved of by the great body of the landowners along cou rse, and by all the towns through which it passes, without el coPtion. J. R. MOWATT, Secretary. Lot hbury, Lond on , O cto b er 18, 1844. , and " We think nothing can be added to the clear and able statemen he has drawn up."—Bankers' Magazine. STEAM-PACKET COMPANY, Established for the purpose of effecting Daily Communications ""u the Continent of Europe. Capital 2 50,000/. in 25,000 shares of 10/. each. " Our attention has been given to a pamphlet on Suretlehlp—the remedies proposed deserve the support and countenance of the public at large."—Kelso Chronicle. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. RICHARD COM MON, mason, Jedburgh, Roxburgh. shire, Oct. 25 and Noy. 15, at one, at the office of Messrs. Rutherford and Laing, Jedbnrgh. 1 .01 0 a cO O. ,tio o )pi li g 05 0 1° 11 Ib. " few things are more unpleasant, perhaps, than to become bound for any one. We shall not fail to avail ourselves of the advantages offered."—North British Advertiser. " We would recommend a perusal of a clever little work on Sureti ship, by Charles Saunderson."—Glasgow Argus. " The intellectual progress of our country has at length furnished a solution to the difficulties 'if Suretiship '—to quote a pamphlet on the subject by Charles Saunderson," &c. &c.—Chambers' Edinburgh Journal. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or.Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending Oct. 15, 1844, is 31s. 4*.d. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. e Deposit, per Share. tbre a e l ra h not above 21. at one time, and at intervals of not less than be ar " t bs. When half th e C ap it a l i s p a id u p , t h e Sh ares to Interest at Four per Cent. per annum. London : Sim ,kin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers'-hall-court, BOARD OF DIRECTORS ----- Jon, (With power to add to their number.) „ ' BAGSHA W, EN., London and Harwich, Chairman. Atnah:lajor.General BRIGGS, London, Deputy. Chairman. A gus , nl Bauer, Llndon I Summers Harford, Esq., London i `Us Boaanquet, Esq., IR. W. Kennard, Esq., London , 4 •Dedo n . 414 ,,„ '`.o4ert Crosbie, Chas. Lushington, Esq ,London 1 ,, .• Croft s. ,___., ...1 London Curtis Reid, Esq., R.N., London Esq., Liverpool Ge , rge Thompson, Esq., London l ' il t of Committees on the Continent will very shortly be ~C 4K la. i v , published. ut e 1 -- 4 3 4,AVAL A RCHlTECT—Christopher Dunkin Hays, F4q. 4"A " (Pro tem)—J. A. Franklin,7l, KingWilliam.street, City. BANKERS. 4ndon—Messra. Denison, Heywood, Kennard, and Co. rlatnbuersgth--Illessrs. Abraham Bauer and Co. /fa n Altoo._ et—The Exchange Bank Liv er .,„„ - ") l —.Arthur Heywood, Sons, and Company keg.. SOLICITORS. €. H ardwick and Davidson, Weavers' Hall, Basinghall.street, London. The w , litiv eru vJects of tbis Company, as fully explained in the Prospectus ,1144" in the Times of the sth inst., are to construct power. I ,.. te arll•boats, for the purpose of connecting Harwich and ( 0 , •arl and 4 be ac. , -rid Har w i c h an d t h e H ague by d a ily communications, l Cou nt . ‘°terilished by means of the Company's beats, the Eastern the ti Cou nties and the Gluckstadt and Altona Railways, in about half .44 1 ; at present consumed, and at less than half the present Paths, in tended s , to apply for a Charter of Incorporation, or Act of Letter Patent, for the purpose of limiting the lia. 44:the S hareholders to the amount of their subscriptions. dresfl'heations for the Shares to be transmitted by post, and ad. t oR sh 'd t° the Secretary, to the Solicitors, or to one of the follow. mareholders s, May, Liverpool ; Seebohm and Hey. totul ah or , chest er ; and R. B. Watson and Co., Leeds. 71 , King William.etreet, City. (:)Y „, 4 ,,L FREE HOSPITAL for the D ESTI. - -. 1 1 , ,, r, SICK and DIIB2B.SEASED, Gray's Inn-road (late GreviliCl'at, olu Ps:mote—THE QUEEN. dat ents lon. a dmitted, night and day, without letters of recommen fa co :keg Ut teanenee of the number of wretched applicants crowding the l ake t ,,'e Hospital the Committee feel it.their imperative duty to ttno:ol;unitioons: urgent appeal to the public for continued support to pr. them to ‘'ent ti admit and relieve the distressing cases that hourly eo letnse lves are kindly received at the various bankers' in the me and at the Secretary's effice, by the e ttet Rev. R. C. PACKMAN, Sec. aPParel, male and female, will be gratefully acknowledged. Lk I 4 4P LOYMENT.—PersoRs having a little time ~, a st , to spare are apprised that Agents continue to be appointed in „th - g , and country towns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, OftiLttle of their celebrated tens. ,Tt. e 7 , Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate-street. 1 41 114, t re packed in showy lea.d9n canisters, from one ounce to a th. N vithth • and weight marked on each packet, and but tre„ e le is rice atNa occasioned" by the sale. The license is only Ils. per I' 4ll many during the last nineteen years have realised con- X . :4,7anes by the agency without one shilling l a e s torloss. I)ll. 4 cation to be made (if by letter post-paid) p ) above. to p A RD PRICE and CO. beg respectfully ~ C,,,,11,C...,,,,,,:begt0te55t that all parties wishing to purchase their COMPO to,, .6t h will ask in the shops simply for " Price's Patent 4 ged ; e ntatt;Lthese have attracted public attention, many Imita ,e°rapsii-„tarclA(ll s, and called them by the name " Composite," 'antit; 'flndle ," and Co. ; but the process by which the real g n o .+Cen 1 4 ` e Made, being a patent oneand-Co. . 1)10 111:„ ""° real h one of these imitation candles are at all the thei r Witho t -- ". The chief - properties of these latter are their -brah, g " f ling more brilliantly than the best wax, and g this 0 larg e ' 1 o a c , an amount of light, that they are cheaper, 'est - "g th e 1 1 °l int, than the commonest tallow candles, one of Rte u °r the r„ ght of three ordinary moulds. They may be had of kont: /) ,, Pli ed to-PAectable tallow-chandlers throughout the kingdom, and aux . b.„he trade wholesale by Edward Price and Co., Bel "`" and by Palmer and Co., Sutton-street, Clerkenwell. Wj LL R it or i z e t 4 - ICE.—LYNN'S WATERLOO ‘-',,, ItA- NELAGII-STREET, LIVERPOOL. " lu t hetel.C''lC respectfully calls the attention of the nobility, Ore k'urtati o eePers, and others to this beautiful and cheap article 41 4L'inds - 2: It is In solid blo cks, weighing from one to two hun -110-, niti t " e n , and is as asyscan be sent te any Ny!' t hat t v . trim tr). waste • and is used for a variety' of pur th, • L. hoallglmh I ce cannot be applied to. I~TheornPorted some PROVISION SAFES from America; for ittritinifort of Private Families— t'tnii? and s sometimes deeiated) a Miniature v'sn to is a w useful article of f furniture, rapidly nt,;..: o ol And - " 'n northern and southern climes ; it is designed to iti i ,;`art ,tnreet such dishes in the cniinary department as are fram the department heat of the weather during the ..Nnot, r„" of , ier „ -t ' r o - °r is now considered an indispe nsible article in the. The arc fe46 t." We.fl Y Pxxl housewife • the quantity of fod it protects will more than pay the cost ofthe article in trp o ; 'gay N I i t.sr, " n 4, at tit !n in operation in their various valuable and useful q'aterloo Hotel, ' and families can be supplied wi th L4' 11 411 .at e terms. Titrtiae_ w,holesale and retail. mltl Purtle-noup sent to any part of the kingdom. APlb x ... t ............._____________ It . 4 r, PRINCE ALBERT'S PATTERN PLATE. NO 1: 41 1 Silv 'IVORY and SONS, iNlanufacturinv NA ,ertatit), 7 ‘'le p - " , ne b ,"". 1 4, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of 4: 4 7,1 .pe tt, r, 7e_4 wrought SILVER • POONS and FORKS, Pri,. %ne e '' 'd• per ounce; the Prince Albert's . Pattern, 11:1,444ehe erbet 7i:0030 Thea.r.t.icles may be had lighter or heavier, at the I; T h ahl,. c . l s lie vice :- 1 2 ''ellie - tis s• d• X. R. d Prince Albert's. oz. & d. £ s.d. 10 15 012 Table Spoons 40at7 615 0 0 14 4 "Lrk tat, 2 .. • '7 34 12 Desse•t citto 26 769 1 0 '4 Cr 'etd ' - al. 7 2 . .: I , st y 8 itt o 20 - . le ,15 0. 1 2 Table Forks 40. 7615 0 0 1^ i .._,Pflons io ' 2••• 7 .3 4,12 Dessert ditto 26 7. F 915 0 4 yktlee7ule . 10 2:.. ~ 1 11 B'2 Gravy Spoons 12 '7 _ 6 4 0 1 i' ll &*- 1 - 11 ° lb' . 2 .t.•4 1 4 , 91 I. Soup Ladle , 1 2 , 7 . 64 4 1 ' 0 12 T l :h g i ri e :s (gilt st 7 yr) B 4. ) 5 1 16'8 . 4 Sauce ditto 12 8 o— ' 4'l6 0 0 0 , 4 Salt Spoons (stronggilt) 2 2 0 1 4411 8 8 .. 1 , 001;T ...... ........... 21001 1 Fish Slice .......... .3 10 0 It • tags, - I , o ' w 7 6 ... 316 8112 Tea Spoons 15 805 12 0 I sv e , • So o , n gs• ..... ..0 , 5 01 1 Pair Sugar Tongs l5 0 l• n,,,,ei Y 4,; k d nd or s o un n e s . r a ec in o p T ed me ti n e d au t t h ye. Prince Albert's pattern. _ . tbhieb POST. 0 FFI CE.— CA UTII. and formerly l'at,, ,„--""tabard-street (late Price and Gosnelt's,. 1 - v " 4 Co , I.erfumers. t.. h er Majpstv, 28. eretar;oUtts, price , and Co'..), by the recommendation of the Se tkuid,„.°l' the Post offi beg to t, lid ed - ,e the occessi.ty of precision in the address of all let r t ice er and " impress upon IPCloseeil°' theta thus--" Price and Co." (and not their Csmirne: 4rdi,--:thet attn ceased to exist in 1831), as ho take ' lt and ' `llaist the f d lent conduct of individuals w .. le..„••ret k i n ,__ r rau intended for Price and Co., by ti the only P means of te at a55,,,,,,7Lte s and orders mit th._ ..ong the firm of " Price and Gosnell " well knowing that ' firm 7 never were in any way connected w i t h__- NTS. ge neral at,B°.PIERVVISE THAN AS . SERV A NTS. I\l,-0re,...,,..,1:::. aeza Perfumery is so superior to any other , and n g su th ch e 'ablip is'etoancl, that many sh . opkee . per s s are basely ec Price and Co. respect. g spurious imitation . tld, ..ocit Lad' 1 ,,,, 4 . 4,wnes and Gentlemen when they pure d hase . n b n y ot S t i e r , • i ' llil n i -4,iele without the protection label, from a 'Nit eNreve being a ffi xed to it, with the eu Nc e y iiind Co., L'otabard-street," in red ink, and 28 Price tnivi.to centre ~s e si gni g, , te u b r n e s po i .f ' Co. are the sole Wholesale Agents for l prpn_h DELCROIX'S KALYDOR, tif Ah c ectenketit, surpassing all others for preserving and beau- Myth e Complexion, prepared for the use of her most gracio us heitior, "4 Queen, and her Majesty the Queen Dowager, by es -4"10,1, and protected by letters patent. Price 4s. 6d. in n, liirt,„, bELCROIX'S MACASSAR OIL, '4 t,,:' t t o d er the sanction of the " Lords of the Treasury," four th e pi °I her most gracious Majesty and their Royal H th ei, nc e In Wales the Princess Royal, &c., is also Protected. by kep-g:TtIY-exected, correct likenesses , in embossed medallions, ighness ea ki Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Price _ W e . DXLCROIX'S ODONTO. 40 1 .0 not hesitate to recommend, from experience, DEL 'ki tisbi 8 °DONTO, or the Queen's own Dentifrice, as the most e etll: rge4 ne of purifying, preserving, and embellishing the •,.,,, 1 .1 GUrns, hitherto offered to the Public." —Court Gazette. h tr;/._.h.e. Bouquet Duke of York is the last new 0,, ' ~ se aso n 1 844 ; but though the last, is not th 1 01 'aCton fashionable ii, e re yal sit happily combines the preceding excellence of a ll kite bettlUeta. With the delicate and delicious fragrance of t he reels rose. Let hint Who is a trite born gentleman, Aid stands upon the honour of his birth If he suppose that I have pleaded truth_ :4 , tilszt Fro m off this briar pluck a white rose with me. otr i Js• J. Delcroix and Co. 158, New Bond-street, have pleasure `be 4 4 . 1 g this their last bon ' uct of the season, and beg to inform rkr ~heir IsiiY and their Patron:is that, during the recess, all orders tet,, " unique cadeau" of a case containing the six royal bou i44or otie ~. _ uine,cornprising the bouquets de la Reine, d'Albert, I,4liee,;:iiwkele, Duke of York, Princess! Royale, and Princesse oi,B t he forwarded to any part of the country, carriage paid. t4at No , 158 gennine, particular attention is required in observing ' t 'ery t ,:, t 58, New 13ond.street London, he upon each case and spit' blltle, 116 worthless counterfeits , for the sake of profit, are Dee, and Hairdressers in town and country. ;'etil,, Net. SHAVING A LUXURY. ii4Mt, d - and CO.'s RYPOPHAGON surpasses every seep ever char shaving. One trial will prove that the luxury of a _ Yneph, - , e ean be enjoyed only by those who use Price and Co.'s il „4711te0. Which renders shaving (hitherto disagreeable and c,_l'rt;:rnrUl? bye ant and eaey. ~,°% a elp.7 uY Price and Co., 28, Lombard -street (late Price and i h fl how 4 4nd sold by Delcroix and Co., 15d, New Bond.street, as k e 1 else in London, price 3s. 6d. per pot, Is. per square, tto e- x,:: b o a . s Is. 6d. and 2e. 6d , e y etl 4 - ' • Price will have pleasure in presenting any brother ° hi._ iith t, eth , a square of the ypophagon gratuitously, who may nt, e nonotir or , ...ii a t montperifrr House r .28, Lombard- Lifordecl of posi" ed for nilitarl ( 131°e)9 At is. • te I ! l° ,r 0 ,Inr, he -to ''d be use fest' of p io or' nleo' is 'be e to - of ° sill KV of G. 0 oA os . . i e l ton, Or' .-- -7- Jell-IWa 0 ro fil° igbte 0 ,131$ nf > r e lati otc' °I relitmg v i oo l° 110 131 310li e° 3 - i rttli' tDO J $ 0 01 Ales , V j 1 !le"ti TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE WARD OF PORTSOKEN. GENTLEVEN, THE Court of Aldermen have this day rejected my claim to be sworn in as Alderman of your Ward, and declared my election void. Into the motives which have led to this step I do not inquire; it is sufficient to say that the act has been done, and that yew rights have been assailed, and your liberty to elect has been an nulled. I had fondly hoped that the example of the Crown, the proceed ings and appointments of her Majesty's Government, the progress of legislation, the influence of public opinion, and the ameliorations of the law, would have induced the Court of Aldermen to abstain from insisting on a course repugnant to my feelings, and which was not required by law. I had also anticipated that bigotry and intolerance which have been repudiated by public opinion, would not have found their last strongholds in the Court of Aldermen . Had I chosen to pursue a devious course (which was pointed out to me). and by a mean and paltry subterfuge subscribed to what my conscience rejected, I might now havebeen your Alderman; but believing, as I de, that it is the duty of all men in authority to set an example of the highest principles of honour and Integrity, I die. dained to accept office on such terms. One lesson, however, will be gained by my failure. It will de. monstrate the folly and wickedness of all tests like those insisted upon by the Court of Aldermen, and show that, while they exclude the conscientious, they offer no impediment to the admission of the bad and unscrupulous to office. These, however, are the remains of a false and vicious system of legislation, which the indignant voice of a free and intelligent community will soon sweep away. To you who honoured me with your confidence by electing me to so responsible an office, my heartfelt thanks are due. I shall never forget your noble conduct, nor the strenuous efforts you made in my behalf. To those enlightened members of the Court of Aldermen who did themselves the honour and me the favour, to assert your rights and my pretensions, lam greatly indebted. I hope they will long live to adorn the station they occupy, and to vindicate and support the great cause of civil and religious liberty. Gentlemen, the contest is not over; it is removed only to another tribunal, where I am sure to meet with more able judges, and more temperate expositors of the law. Till their decision be obtained, I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your faithful servant. Shorter's-court, Oct. 15,1844. DAVID SALOMONS. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTIuN. The PROTEOSCOPE, an original Optical Instrument, unli mited in its appliances to Nature and Art, a highly valuable addition to LONOBOTTOM'S OPAQUE MICROSCOPE. The Pictorial Il lustration of the Passions, from Collins's Ode, with Vocal and Instru mental Music, is the first subject exhibited by the PHYSIOSCOPE, at a Quarter to Five o'clock in the Afternoon, and at a Quarter to Ten in the Evening. Dr. RYAN'S present daily Lecture Is on POISONS and their ANTIDOTES, at half-past Three, and on the Evenings of Monday, IVednesday, and Friday, at a Quarter to Nine. Professor BACHIIOFFNER Lectures on the alternate Eve nings. The Lectures abound in Interesting Experiments. The HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE, DIVING-BELL and DIVER, &c.—The Music is Composed and Conducted by T. WALLIS, ➢sus. Doc. Admission, is.; Schools, Half-price. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUIt.. ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital X 500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The steady success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation declare a second Bonus, averaging 60 per cent. on the amounts rove ed on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. 'LBS. , o l'' v $ ti Bo premi _ . 'd Bonus Bonus in ~,., -, a 0 f. fi `"" added. Cash. o a l i v . 4 ?- 1 it§g I .tg •.4 4 " . • -... c i' S. X A s. d. 1 A s. d. A s. d. X a. d. A s. ds 1837 170 9 3 77 5 1 12 3 9 346 2 3 40 1 1000 74 3 4 1838 144 2 2 64 5 6 9 16 4 296 13 4 I 1839 116 16 0 51 bll 711 9 247 4 5 The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in De cember of the present year. This institution offers many important and substantial advan tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr)w, without ex pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid, (see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX. Sen. PELICAN LIFE A 70, LOMBARD-STREET Established 1797. SSURANCE OFFICE, r, and b 7, CHARING-CROSS DIRIV If. Attwood, Esq., M.P. , John Coepe, Esq. W. Ootton, Esq., F.R.S, Sir W. Curtis, Bart. Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq. It. H. Lawrence, Esq. J. Petty Muspratt, Esq. G. S. Storey, Esq. C. H. Turner, Esq. 31. Whiting, Esq. Wm. Davis, Esq Richard Fuller, Esq J. A. Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.R.S The plan of this Odlce will be found to comprise all the solid ad. vantages of Life Assurance. Persons have the option of Insuring upon the Return or Non- Return Systems ; and the Tables have been formed to stilt the convenience of all parties. The Rates have recently been reduced agreeably to the most ap proved calculations ; they are also verified by the experience of the Office during forty years, are as low as consistent with safety ; those adapted to the RETURN SYSTEM entitle Its assured to an equitable participation in the surplus premium, according to the plan detailed in the Company's Prospectus. The Assured under both Systems will possess the guarantee of a large Paid-up Capital, and the further security of a responsible body Of Proprietors, without being exposed to the liabilities of partnership. Policies are purchased on liberal terms when the object of an assurance is effected ; or, loans will be granted thereon to the extent of five-sixths of such purchase-money. Prospectuses and every information obtained on application at the Offices as above, or to the Agents of the Company appointed in every city and principal town in the kingdom. R. TUCKER, Secretary. UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 11, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON. Established by Act of Parliament in 1834. . DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED. This Company, 6:stabil:flied by Act of Parliament, affords the most perfect security in a large paid-up Capital, and in the great success which has attended it since its commencement in 1834, its ANNUAL INCOME being UPWARDS of 73,0001. In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Shareholders of one-half of their Stock, and also added a Bonus of V. per cent. per annum, on the Sum insured to all Policies of the Participating Class from the time they we' e effected. The Bonus added to olicies from March, 1834, to December 31, 1840, is as follows : Sum Time Sum added Sum Time Sum added Assured. Assured. to Policy. Assured. Assured. to Policy. £5OOO 6 yrs. 10 mths. £683 6 8 X. 5000 4 years £4OO 3000 6 years 600 I 0 5000 2 years 200 The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and only one-half need be paid for the first Five Years, where the Insur ance is for Life. Every information will be afforded en application to the Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. B RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANY, I, Princes-street, Bank, London. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament (4 Vict., cap. 9.) HALF CREDIT RATES OF PREMIUM. Persons assured according to these rates are allowed credit (with. out security) for half the amount of the drat seven Annual Pre. miums, paying interest thereon at the rate of rive per Cent. Oer, Annum. with the option of paying off the Principal at any time, or having the amount dechicted from the sum assureg,Wheh tile Policy becomes a claim. . • ... • 2 A7olicirs.mar thus be effected ,O,lower rates , the t n.ace generally required for the term of seven yeirs only; whilst the'holders have the same security for the payment of their claims, whenever death may happen, as if they paid double the amount of premium, which would be charged for assurances effected in the usual way. Extract from the Half Credit Rates of Premium. Annual Premium required for an Assurance of 1001., for the Whole Term of Lit.. Age. Half Premium for Seven Years. Whole Premium after Sere' Years. X .. d. 1 1 9 1 4 11 1 9 2 1 14 10 2 2 8 2 12 9 3 8 8 £ s. 4. 2 3 2 2 9 10 9 18 4 3 9 8 4 5 0 5 5 el 9 13 4 PETER MORRISON, Resident Director. PUBLICATIONS. TIIE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE PASSIONS. " What passions hurt the body, what improve; Truths as refilled as Athens even heard." The Fiftieth Thousand. Forty Engravings, price Is., by post, Is. 64., ON CHASTITY—its Abuses and Diseases—On Matrimonial Eligibility and Unfitness—On Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions—Unriosities of Medical Experience—Law o Divorce, &c. By it. J. CULVERWELL, M.D., Member of the lloy - al College of Surgeons of England, Licentiate of the Hail, and twenty-three years Resident Practitioner in London.l " Of human ills and frailties I diseourse, Those taught by nature and by art acquir'd. Of griefs conceal'd, and disappointments keen, Which young and gentle—the matured and sage— The lonely and the mated—all sustain ; In kindly spirit herein counsel's given, How health, how hope, how happiness to gain." Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street , Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Mann, 39, Cornbill ; and the Author, 21, Arundel-street, Strand.—A home daily till Two : Evenings, Seven till Nine. A NEW AND IMP.IterAN u EollrlON of THE biL.ENr FRIEND oNHUTIAN FRAILLY. Just published,piiceia.6i.:ardlr;ebi post (in a sealed envelope), Price Is. 6d., THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on Human Frailty and Physical Decay, its causes and the baneful effects of excessive indulgence and Infection, illustrated by engravings, with observations on Marriage, and directions for the removal of certain disqualifications. By R. and L. PERRY and CO. Published by the Authors, and sold at their Residence, 19, Demers. street, Oxford.street ; also by Strange, 21, Paternoster row; Purkis, Compton-street, Soho; Noble, 109, Chancery-lane; Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; J. Gordon, 146. Leadenhall-street, Lon don ; and by all Booksellers In Town and Country. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. " We regard the work before us, The Silent Friend,' as a work embracing most clear and practical views of a series of com plaints hitherto tittle understood, an.i passed over by the majority of the Medical profession, for what reason we arc at a loss to know. 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PERRY'S I'URIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS are the most effectua cure for syphilis and secondary symptoms in both sexes, price N. 9d. 4s. 6d., and lie. per box. Consultation fee, if by letter, 1/. A minute detail of cases is ne cessary. Messrs. Perry are in daily attendance, for Consultation, at their residence, 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, Londcn, from kleven till Two, and Five till Eight, and on Sundays from Ten till Twelve. One personal visit only is necessary to effect aperroanent cure CANDLE NOTORIETY.-W. S. HALE'S Superb COMPOSITE, 101 d. per lb., requiring no snuffing, on comparison and trial are allowed to surpass all others of the present day for beauty and brilliancy of light. There is no patent for Composite Candles, neither will those called patent burn so long a time by hours as the flue waxed-wick tallow moulds, or is the light equal. Sold for cash, at DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St. Martin's-lane, opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-house. KOLLMANN'S RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE and CARRIAGE IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, For attaining increased security and diminishing the cost of railways. Established pursuant to Act of Parliament of 3d Vic., cap. 98. Capital 10,0001., in 300 Shares of 201. each. Prospectuses, with full details, together with forms of applica. tion for Shares, and terms for granting Licenses, may be had of Mr. George Smith, Solicitor to the Company, 24, Golden-square i and of the Secretary, Mr. A. W. Barnes, at the Otlices, Albion Chambers, Adam-street, Adelphi. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. The following is substituted for that which was in serted in the Gazette of the Bth instant:— WHITEHALL, OCT. 8, 1844. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Rey. Christopher Wordsworth, the younger, D.D., the place and dignity of a Canon of the collegiate church of St. Peter, Westminster, void by the death of the Rev. Doctor Henry Vincent Bayley. BANKRUPTS. BRISEIS PERKINS and SARAH WOOLLEY, Stamford, drapers, to surrender, Oct. 25, at one, and Dec. 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Reed and Shaw, Friday -street. THOMAS SMITH, son., woolstapler, Minto street, Bermondsey, Oct. 25, at half•past twelve, and Nov. 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Burbridge, Hatton garden. WILLIAM CHEQUER, saddler, Blackfriars-road, Oct. 28, at half-past eleven, and Nov. 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook -court, Basingball-street ; Nind, Clement's lane, Lombard-street. CHARLES ROGERS, saddler, Bishopsgate-street Within, Oct. 29, at two, and Nov. 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing hall-street ; Morris, Stone, and Townson, Moorgate street chambers. ROBERT FOOTNER, upholsterer, Lymington, Hampshire, Oct. 30, at two, and Dec. 4, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basing hall. street ; Pownall and Crass, Staple Inn, Holborn. WILLIAM HILL, builder, Woolwich, Oct. 29, at half-past one, and Dec. 4, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street buildings ; Hughes, Chapel-court, Bedford-row. WILLIAM RICHARDSON, glass manufacturer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oct. 31, at two, and Dec. 9, at one, at the Newcastle-upun-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Shaw and New stead, Ely-place, London ; Walters, Newcastle-upon- Tyne. INSOLVENT PETITIONS. S. Chick, oilman, Minories, Nov. 11, at half-pass twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, officia assignee. T. IL Blythe, trunk maker, Chandos-street, Covent garden, Nov. 18, at half-past one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Turquand, official assignee. G. C. Alzard, Nov. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy._ Turqueud, .official assignee. E. Barnett, rbnker,'Springfiekl; Es'se)c, Nov: 18; - 1 / 4 at eleven, at the COurt of Bankruptcy. Grahaii,- official assignee. W. A. Phillips, pewterer, Fann-street; Goswell-street, Nov. 11, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptiy. Graham, official assignee. R. Knight, farmer, Byfleet, Surrey, Nor. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. E. C. Schram, schoolmistress, Queen's-road, Bays• water, Nov. 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee. W. Ball, tailor, Nov. 11, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. W. Moran, beerseller, Wapping-wall, Shadwell, Nov. 18, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee. J. Bailey, accountant, Baldwin's-court, Cloak-lane, Nov. 18, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Turquand, official assignee. W. Chifney, sen., Newmarket, Nov. 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee B. Margotts, baker, Birmingham, Nov. 4, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee. G Vernon, famer-o g Ntwbohl Vwdon,..Leicesteritlirtite 4 - Nov. 14, at one, at the.-Birminghaut District Court. -Bittleston, official - assignee: — S. Hall, dace raiker,i Neiv' tentbn, `Nottireghttniihire, Nov. Is, at half-past fen, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee. • • • ' • W. Thomas, book-keeper, Birmingham, Oct. 21, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee. J. F. Russell, schoolmaster, Bath, Nov. 7, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee. W. liorrobin, factory overlooker, Manchester, Nov. 4, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee. J. Crowther, cloth dresser, Huddersfield, Nov. 8, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee. 3:Brook, weaver, Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, Nov. 8, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee. Glen, cordwainer, Althorpo Lincolnshire, Nov. 8 at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman official assignee. R. Worsnop, engineer, Halifax, Nov. 8, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee. C. H. Richardson, dyer, York, Nov. 8, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee. J. Mortimer, cloth manufacturer, West Ardsley, York. shire, Nov. 8, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court Young, official assignee. J. S. Linney, confectioner, Leeds, Nov. I, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee. E. Green, beerseller, Huddersfield, Nov. 8, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope. official assignee. J. Field, publican, Braithwell, Yorkshire, Nov. 8, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee. DIVIDENDS. ht the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. W. Dethick, lime merchant, Temple-street, White friars, Nov. 12, at twelve—R. Drew, licensed victualler, Compton-street, Regent-square, Nov. 19, at eleven—S. Phillips, carpet warehouseman, Brook-street, Hanover square, Nov 8 , at half-past eleven—E. V. A us ti n , apothecary, Paradise-street, Rotherhithe, Nov. 9, at twelve—L and W. Fenner, merchants, Fenchurch street, Nov. 8, at eleven—J. Milner, engine manufac turer, Nov. 9, at one—J. F. Wood, surgeon, Oxford, Nov. 9, at eleven—D. Baseley, cheesernonger, High street, Borough, Nov. 8, at twelve—B. Lawrence, mer chant, Crown-court, Old Broad-street, Nov. 9, at half past twelve—J. L. Heathorn, ship broker, Abchurch lane, Nov. 19, at half-past twelve—G. Fielding, iron monger, Thame, Oxfordshire, Nov. 19, at twelve—E. Oxley, jun., hatter, King's Lynn, Nov. 22, at eleven. In the Country. R. D. Askham, lime burner, Knottingley, Yorkshire, Nov. 13, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—W. Thorpe, scrivener, Thorne, Yorkshire, Nov. 12, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—J. Male, miller, Lan teglos .by-Camel ford, Cornwall, Nov. 15, at one, at the Exeter District Court—J. Green, civil engineer, Exeter, Nov. 15, at one, at the Exeter District Court—R. Barker, druggist, 'Manchester, Nov. 14, at eleven, at the Man chest.r District Court—W. Broumhead, merchant, Bir mingham, Nov. 14, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court—T. and W. S. Bate and J. Hellings, brewers, Rugeley, Staffordshire, Nov. 12, at eleven, at the Bir mingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. A. Lett, timber merchant, Commercial:road t Lambeth, Nov. I—W. C. Clough, apothecary, Eye, Suffolk, Nov. 11—II. Williams, grocer, Farringdon, Berkshire, Nor. 8 —E. Arnatt, baker, Oxford, Nov. 9—W. Tutch, china c lay merchant, Barkham-terrace, Southwark, Nov. 9.-- T. H. Whitmarsh, hotel keeper, George-street, Hanover- BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last Night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Vic. toria, cap. 33, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 12th day of October,lB44 ISSUE DE 'ARTMENT. Notes issued ... 27,838,085 Government debt 11,015,100 !Other securities 2,984,900 'Gold coin and bullion _ 12,149,367 ,Silver bullion 1,688,718 £27,838,085 'M. MA: Dated the 17th day of Oct £27,838,085 RSHALL, Chief Cashier. tober, 1844. BA.NIEING a X. F. PARTMENT. Proprietors' capi tal ... 14,553,000 Rest 3,059,645 Public deposits (including Ex chequer,savings' banks, Commis sioners of Na tional Debt, and dividend ac counts) 8,147,290 Other deposits Seven day and other bills 1,107,985 Government secu rities (includ ing Dead Weight Annuity) 16,352,834 Other securities 10,5`28,785 Notes Gold and silver coin £35,098,593 1 M. MA Dated the 17th day of Oct £35,098,593 SHALL Chief Cashier. Iber, 1844. FREE TRADE and AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. On Wednesday, a public meeting took pl ace at High gofclatsaskeisn,ganindtoto discuss the consideration High worth, r distress "for of thethe p u w r p o r o k s i e n benefits likely to arise if the trade in corn and other provisions were free." The Earl of Radnor, whose seat is about two miles from the town, was requested to take the chair ; and Mr. Falvey, one of the lecturers of the Anti-Corn-law League, arrived a short time prior to the commencement of the meeting, to assist in the pro ceedings. The place appointed for the meeting was a field near the town called Bear Barn- c l ose , an d t h ree waggons, plac e d side by side, formed the platform for the speakers, with no shelter overhead, though the weather was wet. At two o'clock, about 700 persons had collected in'tlie field ; some of them small farmers, chiefly tenants of Lord Radnor, and the rest consisting of the townspeople and a considerable number of agricultural labourers. The market day had been selected for holding the meeting. At a few minutes after two, the Earl of Radnor, accompanied by Mr. Edridge, Mr. J. Crowdy, Mr. Falvey, and one or two other gentlemen, ascended the platform, and the Noble Earl took the chair. The Earl of RADNOR, in opening the business of the day, observed that he undetstood this was a meeting called at the request of some of his neighbours, for the purpose of inquiring into the causes of the distress of the working classes, and whether they might not be removed by a repeal of the corn-laws, which would add to the demand for lab Our by increasing the demand for our manufactures. He was very happy to preside over such a meeting, and he looked upon his having been called upon to do so as _tin evidence or the disposition of his 'neighbours _tovVards him, occasioned by his own beha viour to them. He was there to hear the sentiments that would he 'tittered by others; but, if in the course of the proceedings of the day he should be called' on to give his opinion or advice, he should be ready to do so. He hoped that all persons who might wish to address the meeting n ould be heard with attention, and replied to with candour. Mr. Citoosin (a sm a ll t ra d esman i n Hi g h w orth) came forward to p ro p ose t h e resolutions, which were amalga mated. He s a id h e depended for his bus i ness upon working men. H e sold second-hand clothes an d bed ding, which b roug h t him very much in contact w i th the working classe s . Th ey used formerly to come to hi m to buy clothes and other things, but now he was sorry to say that they came to sell again what they had bought the year before, in order , that they might buy themselves victuals. The poor were told by the gentle men in their neighbourhood to go to the poor-law union. That was more easily said than done. It required a deal of fortitude in the poor man to break up his little home, to leave the cottage where he had reared his chil dren, to give up his little patch of ground tilled by his own hand, and perhaps the little tree rila,,,nted,to, •cona7 nitnorite.Thezbiteri bf a ftligurge cgitd.-- r par.) - Sup: . pose, however; he g ot over 'till Oeleelings, and when :winter set in went to the union. As the season advanced 'he would 'mine home ageih —no ; he would come back to the cottage which ho had formerly called his home; and he would find it in the possession of another.— (Hear.) Then indeed would the tear come into his eye. —(Hear.) He (Mr. Croome) would, with the consent of the chairman, read a statement that had been made of his condition by a poor man in that neighbourhood. It ran thus :—" I, a labouring man in the town of High worth, do humbly pray that something may be done to lighten the difficulties and distress under which I labour through the badness of the times. I have a wife and four children to maintain out of Bs. a week. My chil dren are so small that my wife and the children are not able to go out to work, as the oldest is under nine ; so all depeed on my Bs. a week, which I find is not enough to maintain us in a proper manner, as I have to pay is. 9d. for house rent, 9d. for firing, and 6s. for six gallons of bread at Is. a gallon, which alone amounts to Bs. 6d., and leaves me therefore in debt 6d. I have nothing left to buy tea, sugar, candles, meat, and other things too numerous to mention. As it is, I have to work in the harvest from daylight to dusk like a slave, to pay what I get behind at the shop, and I can't do it then, instead of my having something left to spend with the tailor and the draper, to clothe my wife and children. Something must be done. What will be the end of it, I know not. I can't stop longer to see my wife and children nearly half naked and half starved." This was the condition of this poor labouring man.—(Hear, hear.) Unfortunately, there were too many in the same state.—(Hear, hear, and a cry of " It's true.") It was impossible for a man with a family, to live as a free-born Briton should, upon eight shillings a-week.--(" They can't do it.") He (Mr. Croome) did think that the labourers of this country were not treated as they ought to be.—(Hear, hear.) What was to be done ? He would leave it to others to say what should be done ; but it appeared to him that we wanted a greater outlet for our industry. The population increased at the rate ofa thousand a-day. Was that a time to shackle industry ? All that the poor wanted was work. Give them work, and they were always well inclined to labour.—(Cheers from the labourers in the meeting.) What they asked for was a fair day's wages for a fair day's work.—(Cheers.) Mr. Croome then proposed the following resolutions : " 1. That there prevails at this time amongst agricul tural labourers and small tradesmen in this neighbour hood great distress arising from want of employment, and the inadequate wages which they can obtain when employed. "2. That it appears that the population rapidly in creases, but that the mc‘ans of employment do not in crease in an 0(021 proportion. "3. That it is the first and most important duty of all Governments to provide as fully as they can for the adequate supply of the. food of the people ; and, if no human care or foresight can entirely obviate the uncer tainty of the seasons, to take care at least that no legis lative enactments should intercept or diminish the amount or increase the cost of the supply which, but for such enactments, might be obtained. " 4. That the corn, malt, and other provision laws now in force, have the effect both of intercepting and dimi nishing the amount, and, at times, greatly increasing the cost, of the supply of food which might otherwise be ob tained by the people ; and that, therefore, they ought to be repealed. " 5. That these same laws, by throwing obstacles in the way of trade, and by impeding the natural course of industry in the manufacturing districts, greatly diminish the sources of employment which would otherwise be opened for the increasing population of this kingdom. " 6. That the working classes of this country have no desire to rely fur support on gifts of charity or beneio- lence ; that as free men they wish to support themselves by their own exertions and labour ; that they have no doubt that if human laws did not interfere, they would be able to do so ; and that they, therefore, hope that all laws tending to curtail the supply of food, to diminish the sources of employment, and to press down the springs of industry, may speedily be abolished. " 7. That all laws enacted for the purpose of raising the price of food and other commodities used by the people above their natural price in the great market of the world, may be beneficial to certain classes, but must be injurious to the great mass of the people." Mr. AS/CELL tenant-farmer) came forward to second the resolutions. What was to become of the labourer ? That was the real question of the day.—(Hear.) The first duty of the Legislature was to see that the people do not starve. How was it possible for a labourer to live with a family on 6s. or 7s. a week ?—(Hear.) He advised the labourers to be as patient as they could—to hold together as well as they could for their common in terest. They need not terrify any one or attempt any violent measures ; but they could form associations.— (Hear.) Many, no doubt, would have to go into the poorhouse ; but the rest could form associations, which they had as much right to do as the Carlton Club. They could form village clubs, reading societies, aye, and tee total societies, and then they would not get drunk and break the law.—(A laugh.) The wants of the labourer were the cause of his committing crime. —(Hear.) After some further remarks, Mr. Askell seconded the reso lutions. WILLIAM SPACKMAN (a labouring man in the neigh bourhood of Highworth) requested to be allowed to ad dress the meeting He said he had a wife and nine children to support, and he had not done more than three days' work during the last fortnight. This brought him in ss. 6d or 65., out of which ho had to pay 2s. a week for rent. What could he do-with the rest?—(Hear, hear.) Well, but he was told he might go to the workhouse, and there he meant to go, and he hoped that all labour ing men with families would go there also. But there they would be separated from their wives and children. —(Hear.) That was against God's law.—(" Yes, it is!") The Scripture said, " Whom God bath joined, let no man put asunder." The Scripture also said, that cursed would be the man who put them asunder, and he be lieved it would be so.—(Cheers.) The poor-law was a law against Scripture.—(Renewed cheers.) But it would cost so much to keep them in the workhouse. To keep him and his family in the workhouse would cost 30s. a week. Out of the workhouse, with labour and the wages paid for it, it would not cost half as much.—(Hear.) He was willing to work, but could get no employment. Even if he did, how (could a poor man keep a family on Bs. a week?—(Hear, hear.) Something must be done. The poor could not go on any longer. If the poor man wanted twenty lug (perches) of land, why could he not have it at the same price as the, farmer? Why was he charged at the rate of 51. or 61. an acre?—(A voice— " Yea, and 81. an acre!") How could the poor man pay that price? Why, if they let the poor man have a couple of acres of land for a year or two for nothing, and then charged him a fair rent for it afterwards, would not that be better than his going to the union?—(Cheers.) But it was of n) use. They must all go to the workhouse. His advice was, to the poor who had families, " Flock to the union—fill the union—and then something would be done."—(Hear, hear.) A gentleman came to him the other day and said to him, " Can't you maintain yourself on Bs. a week?" He answered the gentleman, " Could you keep yourself on rBs. a week?" The gentleman replied that that had nothing to do with it, upon which he answered that it had a great deal to do with it ; for if one man could not do it, another could not.—(Cheers.) It was this poverty that drove men to do what they ought not. Many a poor man, with a wife and family, rather than go into the union, where he would be separated from them, did what he would not have done.—(Hear.) He (William Spackman) had been nine months in a workhouse. He did not mean to go nine months more there. He would rather travel the country first. He did not care who was there to hear him, or who was not. The Scripture said, " Thy gold and silver shall bear witness against thee, and the cry of ;the poor shall reach the L o rd." The state of the poor was something like the state of the children of Israel - when they were in bondage. He said to his fellow-labourers, " Let your prayers ascend to Heaven ! May God send us down help, and deliver us from our distress."—(Cheers, and cries of " Bravo I") Mr. EDRIDGE, who lately contested the county, was the next sneaker. He said he felt some hesitation in addressing them, as he was a stranger. He was a plain man speaking to a great many plain men. He should treat the question as a matter of business. The agricul tural labourers and small tradesmen were in distress. Why were they in distress ? Was it because they were lazy and indulged in drunken habits that they were in want of the common necessaries of life ? Or was it because they were starved by the unjust laws of unjust men?—("Yes!") Was it in consequence of the taxation on corn, on leather, on sugar, and on all other things ? Yes, it was ; and they were taxed in an unjust degree. The poor man with his limited means was taxed in a, greater degree than the rich man. The taxes bore the most heavily on those articles which the poor man con sumed ; yet the gentleman could not eat more bread than the poor man.—(Hear.) The taxes ought to bear most on the rich, and least on the poor man.—(Cheers.) Clever men had, in that the labourer paid nearly-, half his wages in taxes on'articles of consumption. The gentleman did not- pay in anythitrg like the same pro. 'portion. This was one greaVeause of the hardships under which the poor suffered.—(A voice—" That is the only cause I") No ; it was not the only cause ; be cause, by the laws restricting commerce, and therefore lessening the demand for labour, the poor were deprived of the means by which they might be able to pay the taxes.—(Hear.) This was foul play ; and he (Mr. Edridge) would be ashamed if he did not denounce it whenever the opportunity offered. One of the previous speakers had recommended the labourers to form associ ations. He thought that was bad advice. No ; let them come forward and attend public meetings. Let them appeal to the gentry of England to lead them, and let the gentry and the poor be once more of one family.— (Cheers.) The flock would fare badly without the shep herds ; but in this case the shepherds were all rogues.— (A laugh.) Their Noble Chairman ought not to have been left alone by the aristocracy to-day. If he (Mr. Edridge) was charged with having done wrong, as they were charged with doing so, would he skulk in the woods ? No ! But they were charged with cruelty and oppression towards the poor. If he were the subject of slosh a gysitpiNtOefirek lf eir,l)* men go. ntt'itsliatld 1)4 hiS ititiy.—(llar,) The wary ought to_ come Arward and see 16 - the - poor. If _their horsc or their f949,ipid, Wero ill; dui 'tlbetisewduid be sett Yor," and the fine generous animal would be cared for and physioked.' 3tit if men—men made in the image of- Gred r with wives and children whose cheeks met together from starvation-- came to them, they would not give them a bit of bread ! —(Loud cheers.) They knew that the people were starving—(Hear) —yet they would attend to their horse or their dog, but they would do nothing for the honest industrious working man.—(Hear, hear.) The men who allowed the wives and children of the poor to starve were murderers. " The blood of thy brother be on thy head !" It would be visited on them.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Edridge) threw this out by way of hint. It was not often they got such hints.—(Cheers.) There was nothing of a rebellious or a sour spirit among those who had met there that day. All the poor men wanted was to be able to work for themselves and their wives and children.— (" Yes, that is all we want, gentlemen.") He hoped the gentlemen of England would come forward while it was yet time.—(Cheers.) Wilda/km COLE, of Lechlade, a labourer, next mounted the waggon from the body of the meeting. He said—We poor men aro put upon very much indeed. The farmers make poor souls work many hours more than they ought, and give them nothing for it. They put taxes on poor souls, instead of which they ought to take them off. If they took a little of the duty off malt, it would be good for poor souls. Also if they took a good deal away from the parsons.—(A laugh.) It would be a good thing for the poor man to get his acre or two acres of land. The farmer says he would not work if he got it. That is not true. What the working man wants is a little more wages, and then he would be able to pay his rent and taxes,—(Hear.) The Lord will be with the poor, and God knows what will become of the gentlemen when they die. I'm sure I don't know.— (Hear.) I hope the gentlemen will let the poor have a little land. (A voice—" Yes ; but not at 61. an acre !") Let them have land for one year for nothing, and then let it to them afterwards for a penny a lug (perch) more than the others have it for.—(Hear.) The speaker was going on to recommend that the tax should be taken off tea and sugar, and put on thrashing ma chines, when it was intimated to him that he was talking too long. He persisted, until Spackman, the former speaker, stepped forward, and gave him a signi ficant look, upon which, turning round to Lord Radnor and the gentlemen who had got up the meeting, he said, " Gentlemen, I have said all I can to do good. I hope it will be pleasing to you." A person named CANDY, who was dressed like a me chanic, and wore an apron, and who said he came from London, then addressed the meeting in a long and rather violent harangue, savouring of Chartism. After entering at some length into the condition of the work ing classes, he asked, " What are you going to do ? Are you going to submit, or are you going to join heart and hand in putting down the demon power— monopoly ? Unite—unite—unite ! Get information. That is the groundwork of regeneration. All nature around you is good and beautiful, testifying to the handiwork of God, yet man, his noblest work, presents this spectacle of woe. Yes, there are men, who have reason to curse the hour that gave them birch.—(Hear, end (Lie o a t r, hear.) Then, let us use our energies t o Put a all the good such a state of things. Let eve r y aonri do e us end will be he can. Ultimately flgreat:n d gl we should see here the a ccomplished. God be f sP e i b ee ' id tht and Marat. The English days of Denton , R people want no revoluti on.rr All that they want is a fair wages for a fair day's work.—(Hear.) da .l 7: h e Earl of RADNOR said he wished to say a few words before the resolutions were put. Some of the speakers had described the state in which the labouring classes were. Ile feared that is that neighbourhood the t poverty which had been stated to exist was not at all uncommon. The agricultural labourer suffered con siderable privation. Not only was there a deficiency in the demand for labour, but the wages given also were most inadequate to supply the wants of the people. At the same time it appeared to him most unjust to bring a charge against the landowner and the farmer for giving insufficient wages. No man was bound to give for any thing more than he could get it for. They had heard a great deal about the new poor-law.—(Hear.) Now, he had always been, and still was, a zealous friend to the poor-law. He thought it was a wise measure. They all knew what abuses there were under the old poor-law. The present law was based on the most strict philo sophical principles, and the more stringently it was car ried out, the better he believed it would be for all per sons to whom it was intended to apply. At the same time he was free to admit that the poor of this country were labouring under great difficulties and grievances, for which some remedy might and ought to be found. lie believed that the poverty of the working man arose from the labour-market being overstocked, which was owing to the demand for the industry of the country being restricted by the laws affecting trade, commerce, and manufactures. He believed !that what the country wanted was free trade.—(Bear, hear.) But a great deal had been said about the allotment system, and it was said that the labourers paid too high rents for their allot ments. He thought the argument was unjust. Why should land be let to one man for less when another was ready to give more ? It would be to deprive the land owner of his right to his property. The real cause of the high rents was, that there was a great demand for allotments, and people were ready to give more for them than perhaps they ought to do. Ile for one was alto gether opposed to the principle of the allotment system. That principle prevailed almost universally in Ireland, and yet there was no people on the face of the earth that suffered more from poverty than did the peasantry of Ireland.—(Hear.) The Noble Earl concluded by advo cating the repeal of the corn-laws, which, by opening a larger market, would increase the demand for labour, and therefore the wages of labour. Mr. PHIPPS said he was in favour of allotments, and thought it was of no use talking about free trade. It was of no use to send the labourers to Manchester. They bred too fast there already. He was for allotments, but they should not be at rents too high for the people to pay. They should not be treated as the Noble Earl in the chair treated some tenants of his, when he enclosed a strip of waste land at the bottom of Blunsden-hill, and let it in allotments at Bd. the lug (equal to .5L 6s. Bd. an acre), and, when the tenants had worked the land, and improved it, turned them out to make room for others ; putting them on fresh allotments for them to cultivate at the same high rents.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") The speaker entered into som e d e t a il s w hi c h seemed to be understood and taken up by the working men in the body of the meeting ; but his statement was so rambling and unconnected, that it was not possible to understand it clearly. At length he was called to order by The Earl of RADNOR, who said he would tell them exactly how the matter stood as to the allotments at Blunsden-hill. The fact was, that although many years ago he was bitten by the allotment system, he was now wholly opposed to it. One reason was, that instead of it making the poor man independent, as it professed to do, it really made him dependent, for it required super intendence and management, all of which took away from the poor man's independence. As to his own al lotments, the case was this—there was a large strip of land by the side of the turnpike-road, which was taken in for him by Captain Bradstock, the surveyor of the roads. Captain Bradstock let it out in allotments, and chiefly to workmen employed on the roads.—(A voice— " Yes, but who receives the rents ?") If they would let him finish he would tell them. The rents were paid, and he (Lord Radnor) received them.—(Laughter.) A gen tleman in the neighbourhood disputed his right to the land, and the rents (as We understood) were therefore for a time not paid to him. , But as soon as the question was settled, which was next year, he reduced the rent s 25 per cent., and no ti ce was given that there would be further reductions, if the tenant managed the land well. The Noble Earl then repeated his previous objections to the allotment system. It was either merely a means of eking out the wages of labourers, or it afforded a temp tation to greedy landlords--(Hear, hear)—to drive hard bargains, and get more than the real value of the land. That was the case in Ireland. A VOICE.—Let us have the land at the same rate as the monopolising farmers. The Earl of RADNOR—Who is to fix the price ? If a man is willing to give eightpence a lug, of course I shall take it.—(A labourer—" Yes, but you won't benefit the poor, my Lord.") If I could get eightpence a lug and I let it to you for fivepence, of course I should be making you a p resen t o f th e difference.—(A voice— " The poor don't want the land cheaper than anyboly else.") Mr. PHIPPS—Lord Radnor was born a nobleman and bred a nobleman, how can he know what the feelings of the poor are ?—(Hear, hear.) What the Noble Chair man said might be all very well, but how could the poor man help giving the high rent ? He could not move his family to another parish, as he might pigs to another market.—(Cheers.) Mr. LAWRENCE (a shoemaker, who was saluted as the "village lawyer") here came forward, and declared he had been a tenant of Lord Radnor at eightpence a lug. He was also bound to clear the ditch. If a man kept his allotment drained and paid his rent, ought he to be turned out because another man was ready to give more rent, after the place had been worked upon ! Cheers.) No, let them keep the land they had dug.— (Loud cheers.). If the Noble Lord let his land at 2/ an acre, which would be IL more than it was worth, and gave the second IL as a premium to labour, then he (Mr. Lawrence) would be glad to meet him, and hail him as a friend to the poor.—(Hear, hear.) Lord Radnor told them that if one man would not give the price another would. He held that to be an abominable doctrine to be broached in a Christian country.—(Cheers.) Was this the way to mend the condition of the poor man ? Let him have the land :at a fair rent.—(Cheers.) If the Noble Lord let allotments, he should give them at a rent the poor man could pay, and not at such extortionate and extravagant rents as were paid to the Noble Chairman. CANDY, the man who had spoken before, again ad dressed the meeting. Since 1688 there had been no less than 3,900 Inclosure Acts, to swell the parks, lawns, and shrubberies of the landlords.—(A voice—" Yes; that's a home truth.") And then, when the poor came and a4ked for a scheme of home colonization, wbiel4 would reduce ft - amount brilirgerritia - thin the gaols and ,poor-law the veere.l;nld'ily Lord Radnor tlint he would . not agree to it, because - it made the poor de= pendent. , They had aright as Englishinen_to ask for it, • England was the 'land of their fathers,' and they ought to be able to enjoy it,' by paying the 'full value for it.—(Cheers.) The Earl of RADNOR then put the resolutions, but there were not more than one or two hands held up. One labourer in the crowd cried out that they wanted allotments at 11. an acre, and not free trade. The feel- ing of the meeting was so evidently in favour of allot ments, and against the Chairman, that it seemed pro bable that the resolutions would not be carried. Mr. EDRIDGE came forward, and made a speech in favour of the allotment system, which put the people into better humour. Mr. CROOME then took the resolutions from Lord Rad nor, and spoke for a short time in favour of the allot- ment system, but saying that it had no immediate con- nectioxi with the object of the meeting. The Earl of RADNOR then again put the resolutions, which, after a little hesitation, were carried by a few hands (some 20 or 30 in favour, to two or three against); but while they were being put, one or two labourers called out to Lord Radnor to give them allotments at a fair rent. Thanks were then formally Toted to the Chair, and the meeting separated. ST. CLEMENT DANES.-HOLEORN ESTATE.-Thurs day a public vestry of the inhabitant rate-payers of St. Clement Danes was held, in pursuance of an order of the Court of Chancery, to nominate eight trustees and twenty-four managers of th e H o lb orn estate, to b e sub mitted to the said court for its approbation. The Rector presided. Mr. Steele read the opinion of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd respecting the qualification of candidates for those offices, from which it appeared that, if they pos sessed real property of the yearly value of 30/., or were rated to the relief of the poor on a rental of 501, and re tained in a house in the parish apartments for themselves, in which they occasionally slept, that they were quali fied. Messrs. Dowling, Boobyer, Trout, Gannon, Stokes, and other gentlemen having expressed opinions pro et con, upon the propriety of the two offices being filled by the same person, it was almost unamiously decided in the negative. After which the nomination took place, which included Messrs. Paul, jun., banker,Twining, jun., banker, Trout, Boobyer, Chapman, Ommaney, Wood, Collier, Waugh, Abbot, Dowling, &c. According to the Master's report, the annnal income of the Holborn estate amounts to :3,957/ 10s., and there is also , to the cred i t o f the estate ')1,1131. Os. 2(1. stink in Bank Three per Cent. i Annuities. This e.:tate is for charitable purposes. THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN NEW BRUNSWICK AND CANADA.—We learn with much surprise that the Ca nadian Government are claiming all the upper part of St. John as part of Lower Canada, and that the claim is even extended as far down as the grand falls. This would be depriving New Brunswick of a large portion of country, which has always been looked upon as an in , tegral part of this province, the dismemberment of which would give very great dissatisfaction. It is said that this claim is so strongly and pertinaciously urge(l by the p Canadians, that the Executive of this province ha s b een under the necessity of issuing orders for seizing all tim ber cut on the Upper St. John under Canadian p erm i ts, in order to bring th e important question at once to issue. However severely this may affect individuals, still it i measure which the i n t erests of the p rov i nce imp erativelya demand, and we trust that our Executive will may yield nothing in this matter whichcompromise the just rights of New Brunswick. —New Brut 1 ' Sept. 29. tut tc i (Ter, _ ARLIAMENTAR - There has just issued from the‘admirabre t the Messrs. Clowes and Sons, an tal edition of th e Parliamentary ,FolibLffititlidi Report of the Commissioners for Inquiring info the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts, Vol. I." This is a document fraught with information upon the statistics which it is most essential for the well order ing of society to have diligently collected, carefully compiled, accurately classified, and conveniently di gested and arranged. In endeavouring to give our readers an adequate notion of the importance of the volume before us, we cannot do better than follow the classification which its contents have assumed. Let us premise that the Report most fortunately exceeds in its scope the terms of her Majesty's instructions to the Commissioners; for, whereas these required them to direct their attention to " the causes of disease among the inhabitants of large towns and populous districts in England and Wales • the best mea ns o f la:iiothnsrensopewctintfoort; force, promoting and securing the public health und er t h e drainage of lands, the erection, dr a i nage , an d venti aoapderatthieonuosafgtehae lation of buildings, and the supply of wa t er i n such towns and districts, whether for purpo ses o f h ea l t h , now w s p a r e n v d a i r l i e n g g u , or for the better protection of property from fire; and how far the public health and the condition of the poorer classes of the people of this r e al m may b e pro moted by the amendment of such la ws , regu l at i ons, and usages;" the Commissioners have also taken-evi dence not less interesting to humanity—namely, as to the moral evils attaching to some of the conditions of poverty in which a vast portion of our more unfortu nate fellow-countrymen, their wives, and families, ar e plunged. Th e "R eport " i tse lf is followed by sixty two detailed questions framed by the Commissioners, and issued to various localities for answers ; by an "Abstract" of the replies to them, and a table of mortality. The " Analytical Contents" range under these heads :—" On the Causes of Disease, and vary ing, intensity of th e i r o p era ti on i n diff erent districts ; ' " Nuisances ,;" " Regulations for Buildings;" "Sewer age and Drainage;" " State of the Authorities for the administration of Local Measures of Improve ment;" " Supply of Water ;" and " Ventiliation." The nine plates which illustrate this edition of the Report and Evidence are thus entitled-1. Stream of Life in Preston—Gentry, Tradesmen, Operatives. 2. Ditto, showing the Periodic Diminution of Vi tality. 3. Bird's-eye View of a Group of Cottages at Preston. 4. Ground-plan of these Cottages. 5. View of First Water-lane, York. 6. Diagram, showing the rates of Mortality in different wards at Nottingham. 7. Sketches of Districts in Notting ham, showing the back to back houses. 8 and 9. Ditto, ditto. 10. Plan of the Borough of Notting ham, showing the Commons and Commonable Lands. On the subjects to which these plates relate we shall have much to remark hereafter. The evidence applying to them is one overwhelming revelation of the actual filth in which the wretched denizens of the localities in question habitually live, and the in conceivably polluted atmospheres in which the vital functions can, for periods that must astonish the least reflecting inquirer, subsist and operate. Under the first head of "Analytical Contents" we find the intelligent and striking evidence of Dr. Southwood Smith, M.D., Physician of the London Fever hospital, &c., on the causes of disease, and the necessity for sanatory regulations ; J. N. Ward, Esq., on the influence of light and air as a means of pre venting diseases; D. Neil Arnott, M.D., on evils arising from want of drainage, ventilation, and clean liness ; J. Toynbee, Esq., Surgeon to St. George's and St. James's Dispensaries ; Doctors W. A. Guy, C. J. Aldis, R. Rigby, W. H. Duncan, and T. Lay cock. These gentlemen depose to the prevalence of scrofulous diseases and their causes; the influence of employments upon health ; the physical causes of the high rate of mortality in Liverpool, &c. J. Liddle, Esq., the Rev. Mr. Clay, S. Holme, and T. Hawkesley, Esqs., give very valuable information on all these, and on other sanatory questions. The evidence taken to " the Causes of Disease and varying intensity of their operation in various dis tricts,' treats of the condition of the poorer classes in the inferior districts of the metropolis, with reference to the state of the drainage, the neglect of cleansing, the deficient supply of water, and other usual causes of disease prevalent in towns. We have statements of the ages and sexes of parents attacked with fever, showing its ravages among adults, and especially females ; also, the general depression of the moral and physical powers of the inhabitants of ill-con ditioned districts. Other passages illustrate the risk 'Of infectious disorders, thu3 generated among the poor, extending , to the 'Mai-lots of the wealthy. Instances are given of fever occurring in the imme diate vicinity of gully-holes. An essential feature of the volume consists in the demonstration it affords of the physical and moral evils resulting from the over crowding of houses; and of the injurious (physical) effects arising from deficient ventilation in dwellings, workshops, and schools. The beneficial results of a due supply of light are well contrasted therewith. Then we have estimates of the comparative mortality during periods of prosperity and distress ; an inquiry into the proportion of sickness that is capable of re moval ; examination of the causes to which scrofulous affections are chiefly attributable ; of the influence of employments upon health; the proportion of con sumptions among males and females; the number of lives which in every year might be saved by the adoption of precautionary measures. It is admitted that the demolition of houses for the formation of new thoroughfares has not invariably proved bene ficial, and that some of the assigned causes of mor tality are inseparable from various conditions of poverty. Reasons are given for the necessary excess of mortality in towns over that 'of rural districts, and especially for the high rate of mortality in the town of Liverpool; and moreover, for the deleterious in fluences produced by the condition of their dwellings, on the working classes of both Liverpool and Man chester. There are some melancholy facts alleged to account for the alteration in the condition of the po pulation of Preston during the last century. In hereafter selecting extracts from the evidence, we shall especially recur to this point. (TO BE CONTINUED.) THE OXFORD-STREET WOOD PAVlNG.—Thurs day, in consequence of the peremptory notice served on the Metropolitan Wood Paving Company, by the Marylehone Vestry, calling upon them, in accordance with the terms of their contract, to put in immediate repair that portion of the wood paving in Oxford street, between Well-street and Bathbone-place, the roadway between Well-street and Berners-stn et was stopped up, and workmen were employed in removing , the wood paving. On being turned up, the under sur face appeared in a very decomposed and blackened con-,,• dition, and, in many instances, the hlcicks were so rotten that, instead of being taken up in flakes as they were laid down, they were thrown up in heaps in the centre of the road. The Vestry have not yet commenced the removal of Stead's . paring, opposite th e B oar an d Castle, which has been already condemned by the parish Surveyor, and Paving Committee ; but it is understood that its removal will take place in the course of a few days, and that granite will be substituted. THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 17.—The Royal West India Mail-packet The Tweed, Captain Parsons, left her moorings at three o'clock, r.m., on her outward voyage for Madeira, St. Thomas's, &c., taking out the mails for the West India Islands, which were un usually large. The Tweed has 115 passengers ; no freight, except three boxes of specie. The Tenet is ex pected here on Sunday from the West Indies with the inward mails. The Pacha, Captain Burnie, left the docks at four o'clock, r.sr., with the Gibraltar and Peninsula mails, and twenty-six passengers and a small cargo. The Braganza, which has been lengthened thirty feet, and fitted out with new engines, is fast getting ready fur sea, and is expected to proceed to Constantinople on the 25th, vice Royal Tar. EXTRAORDINARY FRACAS IN THE COURT OF BANK RUPTCY.—John Rudden, of Chatham, came before Mr. Commissioner Evans on Wednesday for his interim order, which was opposed on the ground that he had fraudu lently made away with his property, and remained up wards of six months in the Queen's Bench prison, but obtained his liberation by petitioning that Court. It was proved that his debts were more than 3001., and that he was a trader at the time. Mr. Commissioner Evans said he had no jurisdiction in the case, and dismissed the petition. The solicitor said that the insolvent mustgo back to prison. A scene of indescribable aproarnow took place; the insolvent, surrounded by several of his friends, i_n sisted that the Commissioner had discharged him, l x i s c n_d to a r regular fight ensued between the parties. Thesoadviiee, ran into the Court to ask for the Commissioner's a _ Ned in whilst Mr. Hodgson, the house registrar, them instructions to seve ral of the City police, and gavo them is s i i n o s n o e l clear the avenues of the Cour t .. of r Evans said, under the 6th section of judgment ; but, as vent could be again arrested upon Mr. the Act, Com the Court could not assist him. the necessary ivarral s ! e t iit escaped, amidst the shouts of the solicitor was unprepared t wi th a Sheriff's officer, or Eventually ' when he can. The police hadmost embarassing a his party, lea ti . ,e ing ins t ° he unlucky attorney to catch him again ifthey didthey would registrar urging them . to clear the Court, and the s olicitor's party threatening thatso, Ivouhl aid the escape of the insolvent. CADVERTISEIVENT.i - A POOR MAN'S LIFE SAVED Iloi.LowAY's Pit.t,s.—Jeremiah Laughlin, a porter about the quays of Dublin, was afflicted for years with shortness of breath, spitting of phlegm, night perspira tions, and guneral weakness of body, a want of appetite, sick head-ache, besides suffering much from the liver. This man was in the second stage of consumption, and not expected to live three months, when he commenced the use of Holloway's wonderful Pills, and by their means alone he is now as strong, as hale, and as. well as ever he was in his life. Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at the Establishment of Professor Holloway, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost .. all respectabl e ven d ors of medicine throughout the civilised world. THE WOES OF WEALTH.—Miss Burdett Coutts has we hear, taken one of the houses in Lansdowne-place, Clifton. This lady has been so much importuned for charity in other places, that her doors have been beset by needy or designing persons ; and when she takes an airing she is unable to avoid the importunate supplicants. We hope no such annoyance will be practised in this neig h bourh ood.—Br is Gazette. 1 3°416