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I to , ROFESSIONAL, COMMERCIAL, AN AGE,ICYL. TURAL GENTLEMEN. 4 -\ . GEL INN (Two Doors from the Post-office), ANGEL. STREET, SHEFFIELD. WILLIAM WALKER be g s to express his 41, sincere acknowledgments to his numerous friends for it,:h_eral patronage conferred upon him during the period ho has Proprietor of tin: King's Arms Inn, and respectfully an i,,Unces that he has taken that old established Commercial Inn ;" Fatuity Hotel, th e A nge l I nn, A nge l- s t ree t, Sheffield, which has fitted up in a style of elegance and comfort. The house will be opened for business on WEDNESDAY, the Bth ;vanvtlarnext. t uav B ALKER begs to assure his future patrons that they tn ,', 'el.! on every attention and accommodation, combined with tate Charges. Ai rra nlements have been made for the TONTINE OMNIBUS 4 1, x " and gall for Commercial Gentlemen and others, at the . kiXL, for all the Mikland Trains. Dee. 0, 1544. PROVISIONALLY AVENUE EGIS ASSOCIATION. Ca Pital. 300,0001., in 3,009 Nominee Shares of 1001. each. It4tr, TRUSTEES UNDER TOE ACT 7 AND S SIC. "C'SE MOORE, Esq., 13, Endsleigh.street, Tavistock \vitt square AM SHADBOLT, Esq., Croonie's-hill, Greenwich. TR O4 PROTISIONIL COMMITTEE. J l A S KELLY, Esq., Alderman TII HU MPHERY, Esq., Alderman, M.P. eiLu4AS FARNCOMB, Esq., Alderman Fe., LE S BURLS, Es q ., B r id ge - s t ree t, Blackfriars Iiz'NuRERICK WILLIAM CALDWELL, Esq , Golden-square ka r Y CHARLES CHILTON, Esq., 7, Chancery-lane ii3/I;,,,IANIEL GOULD, Esq., Barge.yarJ, Bucklersbury Jo HN . }I °WELL, Esq., Shepherd's-bush TI/0„ H EELTON, Esq., Bath-street, Newgate.street ''AS WILK INSON, Esq., 82, Cornhill. Ic B ANEERS—The London Joint-Stock Batik. Ar t ,, t ,,,, ' 7°ll . B —Messrs. Bischoff and Coxe, 19, Colernan-street. ''t , "r AND SURTETORr. William Barnes, Church Court, Old Jewry. SECRETARY—Mr. Peter Jeffery. Thi9TEMPORARY OFFICES-30, Bucklersbury. lee nue A ssociation is formed for the purpose of constructing an or arcade from Bartholomew-lane . to London.wall. me ho Uses Uses to be built on this site will be adapted for offices, 5,41 o: , D:f-h0e 5,8 . and shops, acc o r ding to the situation. They f well ventilated, and perfectly secured, and the whole E n a handsome and commodious approach to the Bank of of th , City, Royal Exchange, and generally to the most central parts e Id It e pr °Posed to raise the capital in 3,000 shares of 100/. each, of ten shillings to be paid on the shares being allotted, tecfordance with the provisions of the new Registry Act, and h urther Nisite prey' ' u ro, Rot exceeding 101.. per share, as may be re_ lon b e; I° us to applying to Parliament, .on complete registra -0„ ‘ ,l n g effected under the Act 7 and 8 Victoria. it te : sa ` r " Act of Parliament being obtained, and for which all the kri Y notices has been given for the ensuing session, each sub. k,,,„ e ,, r Will be required to nominate a good and insurable life not i i i -au log twenty nor less than five years of age. A subscriber I. " 'lot be limited in the number of his nominations, provided that lot iha 'Dore than five sh ares are dependent upon any one l i fe; such r es to be at all times tr ans f era bl e. Piu s the Act being obtained, the remainder of the capital to be ' at such tomes as the Committee may require, one month's pre- The ', notice times as the Committee may require, one month's pre_ notice being given. Provisional Committee have arranged with certain Life tl, "'sura nce Otlices, whereby every subscriber, or his representa. , will be securedhe t receipt of 2001. on the death of his no 'nee, for each 100/. paid. t The rental will be applied, in the first instance, in paying the di !.estary premiums for insurance. The surplus rental will be tr ,d e ed every existing five years in, by way of bonus amongst the proprietors nomations, and which, it has been calculated, will t ' ° unt to 0 p er cent. per annum on each 100!. subscr i bed, in. i l t. , ea 'ing, however, in amount at each subs uent division, as the u' lives aY fall in. eq So 5 th e c'on as the number of outstanding . shares, by the death of ..°Orn'nees, shall fall to within 500, the whole property of the 4ocialion to be invested in and divided amongst the holders of , lala ns mid dr aw i ngs may b e seen, an d a d e t a il e d prospec t ua bbtain ", on application to the Architect, Mr. William Barnes, ' O )4 ,nurch.coLirt, Old Jewry ; the S o licitors, Messrs. Bischoff and 40 t.oleman..street ; and at the Offices of the Association, REGISTERED PROVISIONALLY. SOUTII AIETROPOLITAN PURE WATER COMPANY. C aPit 4.000 ,0001.J° be increased t 0430,000/. if deemed expedient, In Shares of 101. each; Deposit, 10s. per Share. TRUSTEES (T,ll •he Act is obtained). ROBERT (1)1,ULPII, Esq., Charing.cross rHOMAS RIS iELL, Esq., Lambeth ITENRY WEal Esq.. Borough Bank. .tIONAL COMMITTEE. JAMES HORNE' Esq., F.R.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E., &e., Clavam-common, Chairman. HENRY BIRD, Esq., Haverstock.hill HUGH BOWDITCH, Esq., Norwood J. B. BRYAN, Esq., Lambeth EDWARD DOUBLEDAY, Esq., Blackfriars.road THOMAS ENGLAND, Esq., Surrey-square Captain EWBANK, Charles-street, St. James's JOHN HUNT, Esq., Lambeth ARTHUR B. MARKHAM, Esq., Acton C. NORRIS, Esq., Laneaster.place BENJAMIN SHAW, Esq., Kilburn Priory HENRY SI NIONDS, Esq., Reading (Director of the Great Western Railway) W. JOSHUA TILLEY, Esq., Blackftiars-road. BANKBES-111 Cocks and Biddulph, Ch ar i ng cross ; Messrs. " NTes . ten and Young, Borough Bank. N a James Easton, Esq., Th e G rove, Southwark. - 3 OINT'S G o I :Ic E i t- ro — as—Messrs. Birch and Bramah, b, Great Winches. ter.street ; John Galsworthy, Esq., 19, Ely-place. . This Company is established fur the purp ose of affording to the khabitauts of the outh side of the Th ames a pure and abundant t It is to be taken from th e Ri ver Wandle, but in i'lli g lY a ofra watear r as to avoid all injury to the mill and other property 41 1 the stream, and the heavy compensation consequent thereupon ; :hlelthas hitherto proved the great obstacle to th e use of i ts wate .o r 4 , _ snc purposes proposed. Into 411 I mpurities of whatever description now findi ng t h e i r way tethe Wandle will be conveyed elsewhere, and the water in this he e r c e t state will be taken a bove the Tide Mills, at Wandsworth, r t .,,, , :i be erected the necessary works, and thence pumpe d to eN vati Ir s u on W andsworth-common and Brixton-hill , w h ere an t ct stri ls found su ffi c i ent f or th e most efficient supply to the ,v'_,sv;in question. 'Utho,i, at ers of thi s r i ver h av e been pronoun ce d by unqu e s tionable how of LnY to be the purest and most wholesome in the neighbour and their abundance has again than ?3,000,000 dur_ Mons got " Th oter. The result shows that no less than 24,000,000 equal to four times the daily ti aliC into the Thames, a quantitynanies south of that rive r , 1 3 ' l l'PlY of the three existing water companies n , bi ' b , d 4' h tt b: 2 n-a nce of water, added to a very general opinion that it at tatteersTe. ' r°4l th e laterly taken in ether parts of London, now supplied arn et, has determined the . projectors to cross that river `' t whol e . -, and extend to the inhabitants of Chelsea the luxury t he st a 's )l na water. Accordingly estimates have been in t a o de e , ,tab an t d e the c o hdi ng orders of Parliament complied with, bt aub".n, if the increased amount of capital a s b o ov as e.mentioned p. rB rkl etl, to carry out this object. 41)4 .41 n, application has proved that an ample tenantry will be t h , 'id l e . r , -.S d, l ' ° as to guarantee the receipt of a large and increasing l'cB Peet tl ,, `" t her of ~ g r naY be had of, and application for shares made to, ad needle -sreet. Thr e 'oe solicitors, and Messrs. Edward Ellis and Co., 55, ° 4-r theia_P°lol OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. ".181° nal Committee of the South Metropolitan Pure Water Gentlemen Company. Prop,sed Cory ,----I request you to allot see Shares in your a nd nay thePar,Y. I will accept the same or any less number, and (; Ch ' e co nbt reaTt ssit thereon, .and sign the necessary Parliamentary when required. -- bated this day of 1845. Name - Address Occupation Rip P ,OST.OFFICE.—CAUTION. 28. r_ 4111 CO., perfumers to her Majesty, ?tte), t---nlbard-street (late Price and Gosnell's, and formerly 'flte, Price, and Co's.), by the recommendation of the Se eiboit4 retary of the Post -office beg to " impress upon their Corr& t0r,d,,,,,''t8 fe r the necessity of precision ' in the address of all letters in. th em," thus __« Price and Co." (and not " Price and gekr4iP -- that firm ceased to'exist in 1831), as the only means kof 5 eas ale fraudulent conduct of individuals who ta e toolg reai* letters and orders intended for Price and Co., by il. 41 4 t Y k a"Ulni ng the firm o f " P r i ce a nd Gosnell," well knowing e 7 never were in any way connected with that firm OTH ERWISE THAN AS SERVANTS. tene r : an d Ce.'s Perfumery is so superior to any other, and in such IL l' ohl', - , de rnand, that many shopkeepers are basely deceiving the selling o urious imitations. Price and Ca. respect. take 2 4li ett Lathes and Gentlemen when they rurchase not to atticle without the protection label, from a design by Sir P nc 4' C "greve, being affixed to it, with the signature of tlie ad Co Lo barthstreet, ,, in red ink, and " 28" eonspi. • m ?ric 7 irl its centre "and Co. are the sole Wholesale Agents for `?to, 4 . DELCROIX'S KALYDOR, tiryin-cf, Cos metic, surpassing all others for preserving and beau -2,41%1 ti'e Co mplexion, prepared for the use of her most gracious kei c Y tinle 'o Queen, an d h er M a j esty t h e Q ueen Dowager, by es. Queen, and protected by letters patent. Price 4s. 6d. % re rotte4 DELCROIX'S MACASSAR OIL, , ne tinier the sanction of the " Lords of the Treasury," for th e pof her roost gracious Majesty and their Royal Highnesses two e i r L nee of Wales, the Princess Royal, &c., is also protected by Of he -kam li-mecuted, correct likenesses, in embossed medallions, ice Ss, ItaleHity and his Royal Hi g h ness P r i nc e Albert. p , we DELCROIX'S ODONTO. Icilx s d " not hesitate to recommend, from experience, DEL ...444b1:- ° DONTO, er the Queen's awn Dentifrice, as the most 4 1`eth ;jans of purifying, preserving, and embellishing the Gu ms, hitherto offered to the Public."—Court Gazette. The t ou trpt eof the 'met Duke of York is the last new fashionable the royalas b ou r • . *alt o 'Blots, with the delicate and delicious fragrance of the rains rose. Let hire who is a true born gentleman, Arid stands upon the honour of his birth If he suppose that I have pleaded truth— xt Pram off this briar pluck a white rose with me. lo b0 . "8 ".J. Delcrolx and Co., 152, New Bond-street, have pleasure • . erin g uns their last lsouluet of the season, and beg to inform to: rility and their Patrons that, during the recces, all orders Itiet unique cadeau " of a case containing the six royal bou ritl+ for ene guinea comprising the b i oueuets de la Reme, d'Allsert, Ali " °f Wales, Duke of York, Princesse Royale, and Princesse e e, Will be forwarded to any part of the country, carriage paid. tha t nig ure the genuine' particular attention is required in obs e rvin g fie ry 158 , New Bond.street Loudon, be upon each c ase and 4 0icj:" ttl e, as worthless counterfeits, for the sake of profit, are b y Druggists and Hairdressers in town and country. pRI SHAVING A LUXURY. lo ve and CO.'s RYPOPHAGON surpasses every soap ever ~,du ra for shaving. One trial will prove that the luxury of a It,. ' h ave can be enjoyed only by those who use Price and Co.'s ,)ti'PoPhagoo. which renders shaving (hitherto disagreeable and Re Painful)pleasant and easy. 0 0 , 0 - '„"`t , by Price a n d C o . , 28 , L om b ard-street ( late P r i ce and !"''), and sold by Delcreix and Ce., 158, New Bond-street, 1.," nowhere e l se i n London, price Is. Id per pot, le. per square, " :thee for boxes Is. 6d. and 2s. 6d. I N Price will have pleasure in presenting any brother ',eller with a square of the Itypophagon eratuitously, who may strut nun the honour to call at Montpellier House, 128, Lombard- lIFOGS AND DAMP AIR, ARCLAY'S AS - 1 HMATIC CANDY has, 1 ,,,.. fr many years, been proved an effectual Preservative sk,,;'l toed effects of the Fogs and Damp Air, which, in the Winter w i '°_, , l, an!, so prevalent i• this Climate. Its effects are to expel ib I t .'.. to preserve the Stomach from the admission of Damps, and pelieve those who 6 ufler from Dit fi calty of Breathing. I,.,,..rePared only by Barclay and Sons, 545, Farringdon-street, Irin.tion ; and Sold Retail, by their appointment, by Sanger, O xford -street ; Gifford, 104, and 8. Burfield, NO, Strand 114, n r s ton, 68, Cornhill ; Hallows, Druggist, , High-street, Is kllun l Heudebourck, Druggist, Church street, H ackney ; alid by 6,!gpcetable clan Venders in Town and Country. 4 0 ',torse—Non be genuine, unless the names of 4 ' Barclay and h drool) the Stamp attixe:l to each Box, . .. , . , ... _ ~. lit-A,.A, -- t_,ei:-.7if. - • e•fik,-%. •., . . Or 01111 1. -- ' . ..., , : q 1, , -. 4 „,,,, ,iL . , . 1 *- ;7. cyg ...,,:•• , r. t iiim.l. ~ . . _ ‘ %..!,;'Kt . ,' ; YA :-... 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N• TUE' : crpti i s p a vi t ..4,,i v 4 , : ) , vonivnvo a t FIVE O'CLOCK, iR Tin ror the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS ar, 4, a Tinito EptrioN ed SEVEN O'CAOCK, for POST -anrscarinii PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS is LONDON up to that k/our. N00,z,, and Nig*, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CRARGE. Liverpool—J. E., J., and R. Barnett, gunmakers, Mi nories (so far as regards R. Barnett)—J. C. C. Walton and R. C. Webber, printers, Greenwich—J. and W. Baker, stone merchants, Wickersley, Yorkshire—C., J., and J. Sykes, cardmakers, Almondbury, Yorkshire—W. Notman and W. Young, grocers, Bishopsgate-street Without—T. Alien and E. Champtaloup, merchants, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside—A. Wilson, sen., A. Wilson, jun., and W. Jones, dealers in boots and shoes, Crawford-street, Bryanstone-square—H. Evers field and J. Mabbott, printer:, Gravesend—J. Churchill and T. Spencer, alkali manufacturers, Eccleston, Lan cashire—H. Grazebrook, H. Grazebrook, jun., and E. Senior, iron merchants, Liverpool—G. Jaulerry, H. Mil dred, and J. V. De Goyeneche, Broad-street, City—T. Forsyth and M. L. Pritchard, sharebrokers, Liverpool— 11. Woodhouse and C. Ewart, sharebrokers, Manchester —J. Lees, T. Lister, and W. Lees, ironmongers, Man chester—A. Rogers and G. Thorpe, merchants, Riches court. Lime-street, City—G. Jameson and T. Wilson, linendrapers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. and .J. Blannin, shipwrights, Bristol-- J. Biddulph, jun., G. J. Webb, W. Williams, R. Nevill, jun., and C N. Broom, timber merchants, Lianelly, Carmarthenahire—W. Glitch, and L. Fox, surgeon,.., Broughton, Southampton—J. Smith, R. Ouston, and J. Cochran, merchants, Neal and J. C. Gant, attorneys, Austin-friars, City—J. Hodg son and T. Taylor, printers, Liverpool—S. 0. Percival, J. Parton. and R. Mackenzie, brokers, Liverpool—A. Steele and W. Hobbs, cotton spinners—C. Bainbridge and R. Waddington, ironmongers, Lincoln—A. Zipfel, M. Ganter, M. Waldvogel, and J. Trit%chler, clock makers, Oldham (so far as regards J. Tritschler)—C. Hoar and G. D. Leary—C. Milner and A. Boyne, to bacconists, Cannon-street, City—G. Atkins and J. Hill, grocers, Thrapston, Northamptonshire—J. Turner, W. Thomson, and J. Spivey, woollen cloth merchants, Had derafield—R H. Blacker and H. Bambrick, booksellers, St. James's-street, Westminster—H. Chorley and G. Bulmer, surgeons, Leeds—T. Castle, F. Luck, H. W. Castle, J. Jones, and J. Wortley, Love-lane, City (so far as regards T. Castle)—G. Jones and W. W. Williams, joiners, Liverpool—B. P. and J. Nunes, merchants, Bra bant-court, City—H. Flint and W. Shaw, brewers, Kingston-upon-Thames—T. Evans and G. Cox, ship builders, Northam, Devonshire—C. Smith and H. White legge, trailers iu white muslin, Manchester—T. Sotham and W. Wing, auctioneers, Wootton, Oxfordshire— R. W. Jackson and J. Bury, jun., attorneys, Stockton upon-Tees—S. Lloyd, E. Brodribb, and J. Stewart, tea brokers, Liverpool (so far as regards J. Stewart)—W. Lanfear, jun., and S. Locke, hearth-rug manufacturers, Lent-street, Southwark—S. and S. B. Bucknill, surgeons, Rugby, Warwickshire—A. E. Heath and H. Coupland, chemists, Liverpool—S. Jones and W. Corlet, tailors, Liverpool—W. Ridgway and F. Morley, china manu facturers, Stoke- upon-Trent--J. and J. Wright, millers, Churchill, Cheshire—C. Busbey and D. Basset, meal men, Uxbridge—H. and W. Anderson, New Orleans— F. and H. Ileadly, farmers, Cherryhinton, Cambridge shire—G. and J. White and T. Goulden, sen., cabinet makers, Canterbury—J. Blackburne and C. Bell, tailors, Liverpool—W. and J. Naylor and W., J., and G. F. Sykes, coal masters, Birstal, Yorkshire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. _ THE LAW OF SETTLEMENT. TO THE SOCIETY OF CLERKS OF THE UNIONS OF THE NORTHERN DISTRIC 1' OF ENGLAND. In complying with your request that I sho u ld f urn i s h in detail the plan of national poor-law relief suggested by me at our meetings dining the past year, in order that its bearings might be considered with reference to the suggested Bill, as introduced into the House of Com mons at the close of the last session by Sir James Gra ham, intituled " A Bill to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Parochial Settlement, and to the Re moval of the Poor;" I am fully aware of the great re sponsibility and difficulties attendant on the course of any one attempting an alteration of existing laws, or opposing settled opinions and fixed prejudices. I will premise that it has now become a maxim of our consti tution that no poor person in England shall exist in want for a longer period than his requirements shall become known to the proper authorities for the relief of the poor. To trace down the laws of settlement and relief from Henry the Eighth to the present time, a hich I at first contemplated (and which liiws have made this maxim), is renclered unnecessary by the able report which since your reqnest I have had placed in my hands from a Committee appointed by the town council of the borough of Leicester. It were a work of supererogation again to travel over ground so well occupied by that report; and I proceed to the statement of facts connected with our union of Stockport, and to the plan suggested, which has been so favourably received by a body of' gentlemen connected as you are with a population of several mil lions, and with the principal manufacturing districts of the north of England. Under the laws so ably traced by the Leicester re port, the borough of Stockport has grown up from a small vine, and become a populous manufacturing dis trict, containing 60,000 inhabitants. For the purposes of the poor-laws it is divided into five districts or townships, each maintaining its own poor—namely, Stockport, Heaton Norris, Brinnington, Cheadle Bulkeley, and Cheadle Moseley. Stockport being the township originally located, has become built up, and the population has extended into the adjacent townships of Heaton Norris, Brinnington, Cheadle Bulkeley, and Cheadle Moseley. Stockport township has the largest amount of poor, and from its local position and from giving the name to the district, it has also the disadvantage of paying for all casual paupers ; its neighbouring townships receive all the advantages of the trade of Stockport, without any of the disadvantages. The poor-laws have been intended as a national ar rangement, and have become part of our constitution ; but the method devised 1:1 our ancestors to carry these lams into operation, was through the medium of arbi trary local divisions called parishes. These parishes have in many cases been sub-divided into smaller arbi trary divisions called townships ; and by the Poor-law Amendment Act these parishes and townships have been united into larger districts called unions ; but in these unions the relief of the poor of each township is kept strictly separate, and each township is exclusively charged with the expenditure caused by the relief of its own particular paupers. By thus localising the charges of maintaining the poor, whether in parishes or townships, much misery has been and still is caused. Boards of guardians will act on different principles : some pauperise whole districts ; others depopulate them. Landowners cause the surplus population to migrate. Manufacturers, in time of com mercial distress, send back again this originally agri cultural surplus population. Local authorities, as it were, shoulder the miserable wretch requiring relief out of their locality; and struggles in each district aro con tinually carried on through the medium of assistant overseers, relieving officers, removal officers, magistrates clerks, attorneys, and barristers-at-law, in reference to pauper settlements; which struggles entail an enormous expense on the parishioners; and all this to prevent the necessity of a few shillings being given in time of need to a pauper by one set of local authorities called over seers, which according to law declared through all the mazos of legal technicality, ought to be given by the overseers of another locality. And as the relief in dis puted cases is generally given unwillingly (it may be said as a general rule, with great parsimony), miserable is the wretch who awaits the decision of a parish law suit, to ascertain by what parish his necessary relief must be given. What is the real remedy? Is it by destroying all settlements but that of birth? or by changing the birth settlement by a settlement to be acquired from time to time by a five years' residence in any other parish? This would merely continue the evils of the present system; nay, if possible, it would aggravate them. It would cause the landowner to pull down every cottage on his estate not absolutely required for his own labourer. It would be a premium for cruelty. It would confer different settlements by the mere result of the accident of birth, on different members of the same family—(a family of eight children might each have a different birth-settlement); and lastly, by this legislative altera tion of existing settlements, in would cause one town ship to gain that which it would cause another township to lose; and this without any sufficient reason, without compensation in any way. The present law of settlement is well ascertained. There are no difficulties now, save those as to the facts, and those which arise from technicalities. Remove the technical objections as soon as possible. This may be done; but the facts, in case of dispute, will always have to be settled by evidence, and this therefore you cannot settle by Act of Parliament. Not one appeal in ten at the present day is decided on the merits. But few set tlements are disputed on a difference of opinion as to what the merits are; technical objections, and those only, are the questions decided by the courts. And I hold it to Ise a disgrace to our Legislature, and to the parties who expound the Acts of the Legislature, that every advantage is given in our courts of law to tech nical objections. The rule of the courts of law is not, Is the prisoner guilty ? or, Is the pauper really settled ? but, Is the commitment technically worded, or the examinations a perfect specimen of special pleading ? If after hearing a long, learned, and elaborate address from counsel, proving that according to law certain words omitted ought to have been. inserted in commit ment or order of removal, the Court of Queen's Bench or quarter sessions, agreeing in opinion with the advo • cate, were to send the commitment or order back to the magistrate for correction, or correct it by owe of its own officers, there would be no premium for technical objections—justice would be done ; but much business would be abolished, and criminals would not escape, nor parishes be mulcted, as they do and are at present. What, then, is the real remedy, the humane and Christian-like remedy, for the evils of the present sys tem ? It is to make the relief of the poor purely na tional—to make every part of England where a poor man may reside really and truly his home—to prevent removal officers by law separating him from the place where his happiest days have been spent—to make the relieving officer the real messenger of charity—to relieve distress when and as soon as it arises—and to banish for ever those insane struggles and legal fights to decide from which local purse the necessary relief must be abstracted. And how is this to be done ? By abolishing the poor's-rate altogether, and placing the relief of the poor upon the Consolidated Fund. The army and navy are kept out of this fund, and why should not the poor ? The poor are caused by distress, agricultural and com mercial. In times of distress the Legislature is always appealed to, and professes to be able to give a remedy ; and surely for the purposes of this letter we may take it for granted. that the Legislature is more or less answer able for the continuance of distress. It will be grunted that no individual township can in itself have any power to cause, avert, or prevent national distress. Stockport cannot cause or prevent distress as regards Heaton- Norris, nor the converse. No one township, therefore, ought to be detrimented by local distress. The law of settlement was caused by a desire to prevent hordes of beggars from rambling across the country, and maraud ing without warrant The destruction of it in the pre sent day would prevent them from rambling in the same way with warrant, accompanies! by official parties, at immense expense to the parishes concerned. To such a comprehensive plan as a general abolish ment of the poors'-rate, and with it the law of settle ment, I know there will be a horde of objectors. The parish officer's occupation, who ferrets out settlements, would be gone, and he is generally the clever man in each union. His hostility would be roused against any such plan. The removal officer, who journeys with paupers from Land's End to Scotland, would be dis pensed with; would his evidence be in favour of such a plan ? The magistrate's clerk, who receives now very large fees for the examinations and removal orders, would find his fees diminished; and he is a person of no slight influence. The attorney-at-law, who conducts the appeals and sessions business incident th ereon, would be minus his bill ; and I am not one to underrate the influence which the attorneys have in this country. The barrister-at-law, a ho only receives a fee after the case is fairly launched in court, would have no appeal busi ness. ✓ And let any one attend the Yorkidiire sessions for one appeal-day, and see the entry of se; dement appeals at Pontefract, and then ask if the barristers, as a class, can be sufficiently patriotic to abandon settlement liti gation? 1 do not mean to say all the before•nientioned in dividuals will oppose a comprehensive measure beneficial to their country. There are individuals at all times ready to come out from their class, and advocate views detrimental to their class-interests. But in classes c lass-interests will predominate; and it may fairly be inferred that all those classes will oppose a general and comprehensive view of the subject. There are several ways of objecting to an alteration. I will endeavour to deal with those which I can anti cipate. let. It will be said, how can you make it a national charge, and at the same time have a local distribution of the relief ? 2d. At present, the comparative expense to some townships is light, and why should they lose the present advantage ? The first objection, which is in reality the only one, Alexander Stevens, stationer, Edinburgh, Jan. 8 and Feb. 1, at three, at Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh. James Edgar and Thomas Fraser, tailors, Glasgow, Jan. 8 and 29, at twelve, at Wilkies' chambers, Glasgow. William Galloway, manufacturer, Paisley, Jan. 10 and 31, at one, at Martin and Ilodge's chambers, Paisley. J. Campbell, merchant, Balfron, Jan. 9 and 28, at eleven, at Stewart's Inn, Balfron. STATE OF TRADE. There has been a great degree of quietness in business for the last week, yet we have every reason to believe that the present year will progress with more advantage to the mercantile community than they have experienced for a considerable period. Prices of produce are low, and the means of the people are sufficient to warrant calculations founded on a very extended consumption of the great staple articles. Just now, we see no reason to fear any unnatural speculative investments in moods, and as our present stocks, and the supplies we have in prospect, are generally adequate to the requirements of the trade, we may confidently expect a continu ance of moderate prices, which, it is to be hoped, will be further insured by a liberal policy on the part of the Government, when dealing with those great questions, which will occupy so much atten tion on the re-assembling of Parliament. The ac counts we receive from the manufacturing districts are very satisfactory, and both the menufaeturer and the operative have every reason to be content with the present position of affairs, as contrasted with the state in which they were up to the beginning of last year. There has been no excitement in the cotton market ; a moderate business has been got through, and prices are not so firmly supported as they were a week ago. The American accounts have had no influence beyond, perhaps, inducing sales, on the ground that imports at present rates leave a handsome result. The rate of exchange continued high, and specie had been again shipping even from the southern markets. There is, however, no lack of money here, and just now we need not the dollars of our transatlantic creditors yet here again we refuse many of their commodities, and with cotton and tobacco we are as well supplied as with money. We are yet anxiously waiting arrivals, kept back in the Channel by the un favourable weather of the past week, to the very serious loss and inconvenience of the owners both of ships and cargoes. In guano, of which we shall ve immediately heavy arrivals, there is little doing for consumption, and although there is no diffi culty in selling at about 51. los. per ton, yet it seems as if the buyers were only speculating for a rise as the season advances. The share market is very buoyant, and prices advance nearly every day, under the influence, as it would seem, of deep speculative excitement; however, the proceedings of the railway branch of the Board of Trade have dealt a severe blow; which must have time to work before we can judge of the probable result. It is now too clear that many of the new schemes will be officially opposed in P a rliament.—Liver pool Mercury. STATE OF THE HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—The condition of the principal branch of the hosiery trade, namely, the manufacture of cotton hose by forming the articles of a continued thread, and shaping them by removing the loops, is still extremely dull, the hands in the surrounding manufacturing villages being put to great inconvenience in obtaining a scanty supply of material, they having in many instanees not more than half work. As a matter of course, this dearth of employment affects the general prosperity of the district, and many complaints are heard from the shopkeepers of want of business.—The cut-up cotton hose trade is much in the same situation.—The drawer branch, though not improved, is not considered worse, though the hands are very short of employment.—The cotton glove branch is rather dull, but not to the same extent as other branches.—There is no real improvement in any of the branches of the silk hosiery manufactures, notwithstanding many small floating orders, which ex cite hope,the forerunner of disappointment.—Thebob bin-net lace trade continues very dull. Some few de scriptions of goods are in demand, but they are very limited in number. There has been a little excitement respecting the new patent invention for making lace with scolloped edges. A person of Snenton has offered his method to a portion of the machine owners, who have been for some time averse to taking licenses from patentees, concurring that all inventions oir.:ht to be thrown open to the public, for which they have given him 100/. His method, we understand, is to accumu late the warp threads one upon the other, and to gather up the unemployed bobbin threads by the pearl thread, which is actuated upon by a worm and wheel, on the beam which draws the pearl thread the required tight ness to form the scollop. By this method, we are told, he can only make the indentation from four to six holes deep. He does not use extra point bars. Upon this latter fragile ground the subscribers hope the patent is evaded ; but the patentees claim the method of using the whole number of threads, as in scolloped cushion laces, by whatever arrangement of machinery effected ; therefore the using of extra traversing point bars by the patent method is only a secondary claim. Several parties, aware of this, have already taken out licenses, for which the patentees charge 7s. 6d. per in. per an. —The warp lace trade is further improved.—The silk blond branch, which has suffered so much for a long period, has revived, and many frames are set on. The lap, press, and tatting branches are in a very healthy state. The dispute respecting the warp jlequard patent, which seemed likely to occupy our courts of justice, is amicably settled, by the manu facturers and frame-owners taking licenses under 100 inches, at 35.; above 100 inches in width, at 3s. 6d. per inch. Frames being built after this time, above 100 inches, are to pay 4s. per annum.—/Vettingham Review. CHIPPENIIXII.—We are sorry to learn that a re duction to 7s. per week has been made in the wages of some agricultural labourers in this neighbourhood. We trust the parties reducing to so low a sum the earnings of their workmen are few ; we should be happier were they none at all. A distribution of coal, meat, and bread, has been made from the subscribed fund for the relief of the poor during the winter. 40/. has been thus distri• buted out of the 105/. subscribed.— Wilts Independent. Dispatches were sent offyesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of the North Ame rican Provinces. Dispatches ware received from the Governer of Hong-Kong. Pr E T A. 513 T ENSERTED ir ALL 271 E TIM E.E PAPERS ; Morning NOW OPEN. UNIQUE EXHIB ON .-BATTLE OF WATERLOO. New Model, upon a very large Scale, representing the Splendid Charge in the earlier part of the Battle by the British heavy Ca valry under the Marqui4 of Anglesea, and by the British Infantry under Sir Thorns, Picton. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. Oeen from Ten till Five; &nu in the Evenings, briniantly iliuminatrd, from Sever till Ten. Admission, One Shilling. GENERA L iOM TIIU M B The AIgERICAN MAN in MINIATURE has returned to London and 110 W hAding hia PUBLIC LEVEES at the lery, in Suffolk.street, Pail-mall. The General ha been visiting the principa! towns in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and has met with unprecedented success. Whilst in Edinhergh the General was presented with a beautiful Highland dress, of the Royal Stuart Tartan, manufactured by Messrs. Meyers and Mortimer, in which he will appear at each exhibition, in addition to his Citigm, Napoleon, and Court dress. Hours of Exhibition from Eleven to One, Three to Five, snd from Seven to Nine. Doors open half an hour previous. Admission (regardless of age), One Shilling. The General's Miniature Equipage will be exhibited daily from Four to Half.past Five, and from Eight to Half.past Nine, P.M. at 121, Pall-mall, at the trifling charge of Threepenee, merely to defray the rent of the room. DRAWING-ROOM CLOCKS. A B. SAVORY and SONS, No. 9, Cornhill, / - 1. • London, opposite the Bank of England, inviteattention to a plendid varie , y of Rose woof, China, Bronze, and Ormolu ('LOCKS; hey go for eight days, and strike the hours and half.hours. Price Foal' Guineas, Seven Guineas, and Ten Guineas each, and upwards. The performance is warranted. A Pamphlet, with detailed lists of rrices, and illustrated with sketches, may be had on application, gratis, or sent to all parts of cheat Britain and Ireland, postage free, in answer tea paid letter. D RAWING GALLERY, 18k, Ma(11ox. street, Hanover.square. In a few days this Gallery will be re-opened for the Study of Aleslel Drawing and Practical Perspective—the Human Figure and Anatomy. Further information respocting the Evening Claises may be eb tained at Messrs. Dickenson anti Son's Lithographic Establisbraent, 114. New Bond.street. RoyAL eoLYTECHNIC INSTIT rrioN. Christmas Holidays. One •f the brilliant novelties 111 CHILD'S CHROMATROPE, New Subjects in Nature and Art for the PROTEOSCOPE. The PIIYSIOSCOPE. The 2:nit Ex hibiLion of a Merles of beautiful DISSOLVING} VIEWS. On the Evenings of Tacsclava and Thursdays Mr. C. E. HORN loctexce on the MUSIC of DIFFERENT NATIONS. Dr. RYAN'S and Pro feesor BAcmforr NEW,Ii varied LECTURES diviy. Dr. RYAN also Lectures on the Even , Ags of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The whole of the Lectures abouit..; in interesting Experiments. SUBMARINE EXPF7,RIMEISTS by means of the DIVING-BELL and DIVER. The COLOSSAL ELECTRICAL MACHINE. Ad tenon, Serails, Half-prim. A New Edition of the CATALOGUE, containing Three Plnidred additional Works of Art, Etc., since the last revisal, is just pablished. price is. Fi A MPlJOYMEN'f.—Persons having a little time to spare are apprised that Agents continue to be appointed in LoAdon, and country towns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, or the sale of their celebrated teas. ORlces, No. 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate-staret.! They are packed in showy leaden canisters, from ens ouneeTio a pound, with the price and weight marked en each packet, and but ittle trouble is occasioned by the sale. The license is only I Is. per annum, and many during the last nineteea years have realised con siderable incomes by the agency without ens shilling let or lose. Application to be made (if by letter post-paid) as above. pURSU ANT to a DECREE of the HIGH COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause CORBYN against HER MAJESTY'S ATTORNET-GENERAL, the NEXT OF KIN of MARY PIIILIPPS, spinster, formerly of Halifax, Nova Scotia, in North America, afterwards of River-street, in the city of Bath, then of Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, in the county of Middlesex, but late of Boulogne-sur-;tier, in the kingdom of France (who died at a very advanced age at Boulogne, in the month of December, 1842), living at her death, or the personal representative or representatives of any of them who have since died, are by their solicitors, on or before the 12th day of January, 1845, to come in and prove their kin dred, and make out their claims before Sir therm WILSOK, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton buildings, Chancery-lane, London; or in default thereof, they will peremptorily be excluded the benefit of the said decree. The father of the said Mary Philipps was John Philipps, who carried on the business of a chemist and druggist at Halifax afore said, from the years 1765 to 1800, and who died and was buried at Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, In the year 1801. The mother of the said Mary Philipps Is said to have been " Judith," otherwise " Jude," one of the daughters of Dr. Wood, Rector of Annapolis, in the same province, whose other children are said to hare been Mary, the wife of Mr. Day, of Halifax aforesaid, mer chant, and Jane, wife of Captain Shaw, of a Highland regiment, in the service of his then Majesty. PRICE and BOLTON, Plaintiff's Solicitors. GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR ANCE COMPANY. No. 11, LOMBARD-STREET, at the Entrance of the Old Post office, London. DIRECTORS. JAMES MORRIS, Esq., Chairman. JOHN LABOUCHERE, Esq., Deputy , Chairrnan. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. John W. Buckle, Esq. George Lyall, Esq., 3i.P. John Dixon, Esq. Stewart M arjori ban kA, Esq., M.P. Francis hart Dyke, Esq. John Martin, Esq., M.P. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Thomson Mulkey, jun., Esq. Robert Mitford, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq. George Johnstone, Esq. John Thornton, Esq. Jelin Loch, Esq. , James Tulloch, Esq. AUDI' _ :TORS. A. W. Robarts, Esq henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. 1 George Stone, Esq. ACTUARY—Griffith Davies, Est., F.R.S. In the LIFE DEPARTMENT, a Bonus was declared in June 1825, exceeding one per cent. per annum on the sums insured, on an average of the different Ages ; and two subsequent divisions of nearly equal amounts were made up to Christmas 1835 and Christmas 1i442. On an average of the three divisions the Reversionary Bonuses added to the several Policies at the end of every seven years amounted to about 27 per cent. on the total premiums paid thereon during those seven years, and the whole amount of Bonuses allotted at the three Septennial divisions exceeded 530,0001. In the FIRE DEPARTMENT, a Return of profit was declared on the sth of June, upon the premiums received en all Policies which had been in force seven years at Christmas 184 g, and the same 1,4 now in course of payment daily (Friday and Saturday excepted) between the hours of ten and three, o'clock. Notice til,ereby given. That Assurances which expire at Christ mas must be rent frit zit days at this 0 1 11ce, or with Mr. SA MS, N.:. I. St. James's-sheet, cornisr of Pelt Mal; or with the Company's ..1.„;,:,te threllghotit. the Aingdom, otherwise they hecoms void. GEORGE KEYS, Secretary. NATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSU RANCE SOCIETY, Arthur-street IY,sst, Loudon-bridge. Estahlished In 1837. DIP.IRCTOIB. EDWARD BAKER, Esq. GILES REDMAYNE, E. ROBERT WILCONON, Esq. GEORGE MOORE, Esq. PETER BOLT, Esq. GEORGE CLIRSIIA.M, Esq., M.P. BANXHIRS. 3fegsrs. PRESCOTT, GROTE, and CO. Lives ‘ - ontinue to be assured in t ,, is Office ON EVERY KNOWN SYSTEM—..knnußied inun,tiliate and deferred. ADVANTAGES. A BONUS of TWO-THIRDS of the PROFITS allotted to the assured. LOWER RITES of PREMIUM dialled for assnranees without Prot ts. PREMIUMS payable Annually, Half-yearly, or Quarterly. AMONGST OTHER DESCRIPTIONS of ASSURANCES granted by this Office, Is the important ono, originated by the Society, of securing a sum to the assured—himself on his attaining any given age, er to his family in the event of his earlier death. CREDIT ALLOWED (without Security) for One-half the amount of the first Fire Annual Premiums, paying interest thereon at 51. per Cent. per annum. FRED. BANKART, JOHN L. EVANS, j Secretaries. THE FINEST WAX AN]) SPERMACETI CANDLES.—Those who burn these are respectfully recommended to make •ne trial whether PRICE'S PATENT CANDLES, at ono-third of the cost, de not burn better. They may be had of respectable dealers throughout the kingdom, if care can be taken to prevent any imitations beirg passed off as the Patent Candles ; and the Trade may obtain them wholesale from Edward Price and Co., Belmont, Vauxhall, nd Palmer and Cs., Sutton-street, Clerkenwell. DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY from LONDON to YORK, by LINCOLN.—The Committee have prepared and printed a statement of " Tho Case and Merits of the Direct Northern Railway," Copies of which may be ob. talked by Shartihnlders and parties interested in the lime by per. sonal application at the Offices of the Company, or by letter, poet paid, ashirossed to the Secretary. By order of the Committee, WILLIAM AMSINCK, Secretary. .irect Northern Railway Company's Offices, 64, Moorgate.. street, Loedon, Jan. 1, 1345. DIRECT NORTHERN RAIL WAY from LONDON to YORK, by LINCOLN.—The Committee beg to intimate to the Shareholders that the several Parliamentary an d parish Deposits, as well as the Notices to Landowners, Les sees, and Occupiers, have been duly completed, and the whole of the Standing Orders complied with up to the present time, so as to ena bl e the Committee etn proceed to Parliament. By order of the Committee, WILLIAM AMSINCK, Seeretary. Direct Northern Railway Company's Offices, 64, Moorgate street, London, Jsn. 1, 1845. DRAWING FRO \I MODELS EXETER HALL—on the METHOD SANCTIONED by the COMMITTEE of COUNCIL on EDUCATION. CLASSES under the DIRECTION of Mr. OANDEE, Teacher .f Perspective, Drawing, &c., will commence on TUESDAY, Jan. 7th. Terse, and flirther particulars, may be obtained at the Hall. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DOWNING-STREET, JAN. 1, 1845. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas Thompson, Esq., to be Superintendent of Police for the Island of Ceylon. CROWN-OFFICE, JAN. 3. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT, BOROUGH OF DARTMOUTH.—Joseph Somes, Esq., in the room of Sir John Henry Seale, Bart., deceased. WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 3. sth Regiment of Foot--Ensign G. S. .lorne,, from the 55th Foot, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Shipley; who exchanges, Jan. 3. 25th Foot—Lieut. C. J. S. Wallace, from the 26th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Roberts, who exchanges, Jan. 3. 26th Foot—Lieut. B. M. Roberts, from the 25th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice C. J. S. Wallace, who exchanges, Jan. 3. 36th Foot—Lieutenant T. Southall to be Captain, without purchase, vice Robert Woodhouse, who retires upon full pay ; Ensign E. T. Gloster to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Southall ; Gentleman Cadet C. F. T. Daniell, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Gloster, Jan. 3. 74th Foot—Lieutenant R. T. Farren to be Captain, without purchase, vice Vernon, deceased ; Ensign J. 11. Lowndes to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Farren ; Sergeant-Major S. Pilkington to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Lowndes, Jan. 3. 55th Foot—Second Lieut. R. Y. Shipley, from the sth Foot, to be Ensign, vice Home, who exchanges, Jan. 3. Ist West Ind:a Regiment—Ensign G. Allan to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Wieburg, who re signs ; Company Sergeant-Major 11. Jones to be Ensign, vice Allan, Jan. 3. Cape Nlounted Riflemen—J. F. Boyes, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice William Fraser, cashiered by the sentence ..f a General Court-martial, Jan. 3. HOSPITAL STAFF.—G. A. F. Shelton, M. 8., to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Brown, deceased, Jan. 3. UNATTACHED.—Brevet Major John De Lecy, from 36th Foot, to be Major, without purchase, Jan. 3. MEMORANDUM.—The Christian names of Second- Lieutenent Deere. of the 2lit Foot, are Philip Charles. Come-Assion by the Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire. R.Spoouer,Esq., to be I )eputy Lieutenant, Dec. 16,1844. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Buckingham shire. Royal Bucks, or King's Own Militia—Sir H. Ver, Bart.., to be Major, vice sir W. L. Young , de c e as e; R. E. Smith, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Nov. 29, 4844. WHITEHALL, DEC. 27, 1844. The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Edward Sharland, of Gravesend, in the county of Kent, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. George Edward Lanham, builder, Southampton, o surrender Jan. 15, at half-past eleven, and Feb. 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official a , signee ; Jones, Triuder, and Tudway, John- street, Bedford-row. John Weightman, wharfinger, Northampttm, Jan. 10, and Feb. 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pen nell, officiul assignee, Basinghall-street, London ; Wel ler, King's-road, Gray's Inn, London ; Pell, North ampton. Benjamin Wyment Palmer, coach-proprietor, Da ventry, Northamptonshire, Jan. 13, at one, and Feb. 22, ut twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, Sam brook-court, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Wim burn and Co., Chancery-lane ; Gery, Daventry. Andrew Padbury, jun., grocer, Epsom, Jan. 14, at half-past one, and Feb. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; Cattlin, Ely-place. John Newbold. tailor, Nottingham, Jan. 15, and Feb. 12, at eleven, at th e Bi rm i ng h am District Court. Bit tleston, official a ss i gnee , Birmingham ; Bowley, Not tingham ; Harrison and Smith, Birmingham. .lames Ward, engineer, Manchester, Jan. 17, and Feb. 6, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Wathen, St. Svvithin's lane, London ; Johnson, Manchester. John Woodhead, slogger, Todmorden, Yorkshire, Jan. 18 and F e b. 6, at e l even , a t the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Wigglesworth and Co., Gray's Inn, Loudon ; Barwick, Leeds. SALES Is Y AUCTION In BELORAVE-SQUARE, the VICINITY of her MAJESTY'S PALACE, a SPLENDID ABODE for a FAMILY of DIS TINCTION, with commensurate accommodation throughout, Stabling for Seven Horses, Standing for Three Carriages, a large Garden, and every comfort that ingenuity can desire. 34 - R. GEORGE ROBINS has received instruc tions from the Executors to SELL by PUBLIC COMPE TITION, on the Premises, on THURSDAY, the 28d of January, at Twelve o'Clock, (ani to the highest bidder), a SINGULARLY ELEGANT AND UNUSUALLY CONVE. NIENT MANSION, OF FIRST-RATE IMPORTANCE, No. 28, IN BELGRAVE.SQUARE, on the south side, and for several years the favoured abode of WSI. KNIGHT DEHANY, ESQ., DECEASED. This delightful tewn residence was fitted up by the late re. spected possessor, regardless of expense, with a fixed determination to secure every comfort a family of distinction can desire. That he succeeded " a merveille" will be perceptible at the first glance, since ingenuity would be puzzled to find a real want neglected. Of the situation, it may be desirable to observe that it is IN THE VERY CENTRE OF FASHION AND GAIETY, AND ON THE VERGE OF ROYALTY, and the tenure secures the possession, subject to the original ground-rent only, fora period. " STILL EXISTING OF EIGHTY YEARS." The outward form displays s• much of urchitec.ural taste that it has long been the subject of unvarying praise, and within, will be seen (from a condensed statement about to follow) is without a single alloy. There are three upper chambers, for seven beds ;on the third story, three heat bedchambers, and a cornmodite ; the second floor, three delightfully airy bedchambers, a dressing room, and commodite. The principal suite are of noble proportions, and the decorations quite in the present taste. The salon de cornpagnie is in communication with the stone colonnade and balcony, TWO NOBLE STONE STAIRCASES, d the paved hall, to which may be appended THE LUXURY OF Hat' AND COLD BATHS, admirably placed, with a shower-bath in connexion with it. The grand entree is of superior character and design, with a neble stone staircase to the principal suite, a lofty salle a manger, 3011. by I , a library about 20ft. by ISft., a gentleman's morning room, and commedite well placed. THE 13ASE‘1ENT Ia QUITE PERFECT, everything conducive to comfort, in its extended meaning, is pro minent throughout THE STABLE DEPARTMENT IS FAULTLESS. There are SEVEN CAFITAL STALLS, STANDING FOR THREE CARRIAGES, harness-room, with servant's sleeping.rooms over ; and a depository fur hay and straw ; a garden alone separates them from the roan. s i o n. There is wvter laid on throughout the abode and offices, indeed, the whole appears allied to comfort, although it is not in. tended to disguise the fact that a lady outrageously straight-laced may, by dint of ingenuity, find the opportunity to display her tact in renovating some of the decorations. Tim , purchaser will have the •pportunity to take, at a fair valuation, THE ELEGANT FURNITURE AND APPENDAGES of every kind, end in the best taste, observing that Dowbiggin was the artiste in furniture. It can only be seen by tickets ; to be had of Messrs. Parko and Freeth, solicitors, Lincoln's Init.fields; and at Mr. George Robins's offices, Covent-garden. DEVONSHIRE-PLACE, PORTLAND.PLACE. THE GROUND LEASE OF A NOBLE MANSION, CAL. CULATED FOR A LARGE FAMILY, AND WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION. IR. GEORGE ROBINS is instructed to sub mit to public competition, at the Auctioc Mart, •a TUEBIDAY, January 21, at Twelve, A most admirable RESIDEN C E for a Banker, Merchant, or Family of Opulence, situate No. I, DEVONSHIRE-PLACE, CLOSE TO PORTLAND-PLACE, and, contignotts to the Regent's-park, which in its domestic ar. rangements, offer the :lost complete and ample accommodation for a large establishment : the sleeping chambers, eight in number are spacious and airy ; the reception rooms of noble proportions; whilst the ground floor possesses an excellent dining-room, morning room, bath room, 8:c. A HANDSOME LIBRARY OF LARGE DIMENSIONS. The domestic offices are numerous, anti very complete, communi- cating at the rear with an excellent six-stall stable, coach-house for four carriages and servants' rooms over. The Residence is held under the original Lease, forty-three years being unexpired, and at a ground rent of only 18/. a year, offering the oppor. tunity of investing money for its purchase, with every certainty of possessing a secure income. May be viewed until the sale, and partieulars had on the pre mises; of Messrs. Kerly and S. Ware, Solicitors, 8, Gray's Inn square; at the Auction Mart; and at Mr. George Robins's Offices, Covent-garden. UPPER BROOK-STREET, close to PARK-LANE, A CLEAR INCOME of 4651. ss. PER ANNUM, SECURED UPON A FIRST-RATE TOWN RESIDENCE, or LEASE for the WHOLE TERM to GENERAL SIR MOORE DISNEY, K.C.B. XIII. GEORGE ROBINS is instructed by the .I..VAL Administrator of the late R. DEVERELL, Esq., to sub mit to PUBLIC SALE, at the Auction Mart, on THURSDAY, January 30, at Twelve o'clock, A most ELIGIBLE and SECURE INVESTMENT of the first character, presenting an opportunity of rare occurrence for the em ployment of capital most satisfactorily. It is secured upon THE NOBLE TOWN MANSION, No. 26, UPPER BROOK-STREET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE, being the fourth house from Park-lane, and partaking of all the advantage arising from ITS IMMEDIATE PROXIMITY TO HYDE.PARK, containing accommodation of a superior order for a large family and establishment, with double carriage house, and six stall stable, opening to the mews at the rear. The residence is let upon lease to General Sir Moore Disney, K.C.8., for the whole term, AT A CLEAR RENTAL OF 5001. A YEAR, and is held under the Marquis of Westminster. by an original lease, of which there is an unexpired term of twenty.four years, at a ground-rent of only 281. a year, the lessee insuring. Particulars may be had twenty.one days prior, at the office of E. Coulthard, Esq., Solicitor, 4, Gray's Inn-square ; at the Auction Mart; and at Mr. George Robins's offices, Covent-garden. MARINE VILLA. Opposite the Duke of Devonshire's. TO BE LET FOR A TERM OF YEARS. AMARINE VILLA. vi•i-a-vis to hip Grace tho DUKE of DEVONSHIRE'S MANSION IN KEMP. TOWN. It may be well to observe that the Residence to be let has just arrived at its completion ; it has been created at an immense ex. pence under the guidance of Mr. Beasley, the celebrated Architect, and completed by Mr. Reynolds, who has justly acquired so much fame and celebrity in kis erection of the Kensington Park Villas at Bayswater; it is titted up in the most perfect order throughout, and for tact and elegance the ensemble claims to have no successful rival in' Brighton. There is a double Coachhouse, 4-stall Stable, and four convenient rooms for the male portion of the establishment over the same. The Rent for 14 or 21 years, 250 guineas a year It is fitted through , ut with elegant massive Statuary and other marble Chimney-pieces and corresponding stoves In every roots, with a kitchen apparatus most perfect. The following is a short summary of what will be conspicuous within :—Thero are 4 superior Bed chambers, 5 smaller ditto, and 3 Dressing-rooms ; 2 noble Drawing-rooms, with elegant Conservatory, Balcony and Verandah, 2 excellent Dining Par. lours, Library, Lots of Closets, and 4 Cosnmodites. The base ment is faultless—it includes Housekeeper's Room with bed.room attached, Store Room, Servants' Hall, Footman's Room, and Butler's Roots, Strong Closets, a famous Kitchen capitally fitted up, coot Larder, Coal, Wine, and Beer Cellars, &c. &c Particulars of Mr. George Robins, at his temporary abode, 4 Brunewick.terrace, Brighton, and at his offices in London. GLAMORGAN. TO CAPITALISTS, COLLIERS, AND IRON MASTERS. MR. F. GLOVER, will SELL, by AUCTION, on Wisminsnav, the Bth day of January, 1845, at the Mackworth Arms Inn, Swansea, at One o'clock precisely, That valuable MINERAL PROPERTY, known as the Gwaun Cae Gurwen Anthracite Colliery, situate at Gwaun Cae Gurwen, in the parish of Langwicke, county of Glamorgan, extending under 717 acres, and held for an unexpired term of 91 years, at the very low royalty of 7d. per 1 ton cwt. mineral. The col liery has been established at a very great outlay, and the main shaft sunk to a depth of 90 fathoms, intersecting various seams of coal and winning the big or Milford vein five feet three inches thick, which is now working of the most pure and best anthracite in the mineral basin of South Wales. The works am connected by rail. way with the well known shipping port of Llanelly, distant 18 miles, at which place the produce of the colliery is delivered at the low rate of I bd. per ton per mile, inclusive of locomotives, waggons, &c. They are also distant from the nourishing port of Swansea 14 miles, and of which distance the Swansea Canal ex. tends eight miles, and a branch railway has been commenced from the colliery at a cost of about 4,0001., which from various facilities may be completed at a moderate outlay, and a junction made with the Swansea Canal, only distant six miles, Which on completion will connect the colliery with the best shipping ports in Glamorganshire and Carmarthenshirk'. The iron ore is of the very beet quality and in abundance, and the taking offers one of the most eligible sites for the erection of iron works and for the purposes of smelting and manufacturing iron In the kingd om, there being plenty oflime stone in tha vicinity. The mach iner y and plant are nearly new, of the best construction, and in excellent order. Further particulars may be obtained of Messrs. Taylor, Kemp, and Kingston, solicitors, Bath ; Alfred Russell, Esq., solicitor, Dartfoid, Kent; Messrs. 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ON CHASTITY—its Abuses and Diseases—On Matrimonial Eligibility and Unfitness—On Infelicitons and Unproductive Unions—Curiosities of Medical Experience—Law o Divorce, ifin. Hy R. J. CITLVERWELL, M.D., Member of the Royal College of Burgeons of England, Licentiate of the Hall, and twenty-three years Resident Practitioner in London. " Of bureau ills aad frailties I discourse, Those taught by nature and by art acquled. Of griefs conceard, and disappointments keen, Which young and gentle—the matured and sage— The lonely and the mated—all sustain ; Ia kindly spirit herein contuses given, How health, how hope, how happinees to gain." Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street Hannay, 63, Oxford-stroet; Mann, 89, Cornhlll ; and the Author, 21, Arundel-street, itrand.—A• home daily till Two : Eveulags, Sevez till Nine. A NEW AND IMPORTANT EDITION OF THE SILENT FRIEND ON HUMAN FRAILTY. 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Bradshaw, jan., merchants, Hod- Schofield,d r sfie l jn Gibbons and J. Roan, cattle salesmen, dJ " . / " .~ is placed first and will first be replied to ; as, if that can be disposed cf, none other need be feared. _ _ _ That pauperism is a national evil, not a local one, few will dispute. That no local district, arbitrarily formed by a brook or accidental mere stone can have any effect in the prevention of pnuperism or its causes, will be by few denied. The propriety of a national charge there fore results; and now comas the question how a local administration of them can be free from injustice. It may be done by a staff of officers comprising about one-half of the officers already employed. Tbe Pareise and Customs are managed by able and competent per- sons. The army and navy are paid by properly ap pointed parties. Every department of Government has its efficient management ; and there Is no reason why the administration of the poor-laws should not be a de parirnent of Government, and be equally well managed. The unions remaining as at present, and changed as circumstances may require (usefulness alone being the guide), the following officers would be requisite :--A paid chairman, a clerk, the relieving officers, the governor, the surgeons, the taskmaster, the schoolmaster, the nurse, the porter. The following would be dispensed with :—The auditor, the removal officer, the assistant overseer and settlement officer, the collector of poors'-rate, the treasurer. The chairman would be the general officer of a dis trict comprising at the least fin unions. He would be able to attend to five unions, leaving Saturday and Sunday at his own disposal. He would be removeable at pleasure by the head department from one district to another district ; and as he would be a superior officer, he would efficiently control the clerks, tke relieving officers, the surgeons, and other officers of each union under his sup, rtntendence. The duties of the surgeons and relieving officers and clerk would remain as they are at present ; and this paid ehairman would be in place of the present board. Now, as under a general system, statistics would be everything, this paid chairman would be sufficiently controlled— Ist. As to the granting sufficient relief ; and, 2d. As to an etf•-ctual check upon the expenditure. The local authorities, the coroner, the magistrates, and the public cress, would be smpte m , -ans to ensure suffi cient relief being granted to di' tress ; more ample than what is ensured at present ; because, with a local board of guardians (irrespun4ble as it is), its local influence has power over local authorities, over the coroner, the ma gistrates, and the press—a power and influence which a paid officer would not possess. The proposed plan would, therefore, not lost in comparison a ith the pre sent system. Any alteration, therefore, must be in favour of sufficient relief being immediately granted to distress. • And now as to the second head:—An effectual check upon the expenditure would arise from the authorities in the head office, or Government department. If a paid chairman's district presented an unfavotsrable compari son with the results arising from the statistics of relief in similarly situated districts, information would be re quested ; if not satisfactory, the chairman would be re moved to another district, and some other chairman tried with his district. If a chairman proved himself incompetent, the statistics of office or the complaints of the local authorities would discharge him. And now as to the saving. This in a national point of view I cannot exactly determine, but I can at once determine it as regards my own union. It is as follows: — The entire cost of the union establishment at present is as billows:- Clerk Relieving officers 320 Surgeons Governor ........ 100 Taskmaster, School master, Nurse, and Porter Auditor. .. X 25 Removal officer SO Expenses of removal and incidental charges 827 Law expenses Collectors and Assis tant Overseers Treasurer 4O Assessing property 342 .£99& £2,648 The average expenditure of our union is 16,0001. The saving would be 2,6481., or nearly one-sixth of the whole expenditure. Surely such a saving alone, especially when combined with greater efficiency and humanity, ought to be suffi cient to call for the change. But it is impossible to say what the exact saving would be to the community at lapye. The poors'-rate being entirely abolished, the loase?incurred in collection, the misery caused by distraint warrants, the peculations of local officers, the large amount of bookkeeping at present required. and the difficulties attendant on the superintending the collection of the rate, would be avoided. I cannot estimate these as regards the com munity at large at less than 20 per cent. As to the numerous objections which may be raid against the abandonment of poors'-rates on account of the county rates and other charges, which at present are paid from these sources ; such objections are best an swered by stating that the inclination of the Legislature has been already evinced to throw these . payments on the Consolidated Fund. One-half of the criminal prose cutions is now paid by the Government ; and crime being a national curse, prevention ought tobe a national care and expense. It is already deemed right for the country to pay half, it must be equally right to pay the whole. These objections I will not further notice—their answer is ob vious if they are raised. 'The 2d objection :—That at present the comparative expense to some townships is light, and why shonld they lose their present advantage ? The answer to this is, that every township will par - ticipate in the national salvaneTe derived from a more systematic relief and cure of pauperism. It cannot cost the lightly-charged-et•pre-ent township more than it does at present ; whereas, it will be a great and season able relief to the heavily-at-present-charged township. The present advantage of the lightly-charged township is merely an advantage when compared with another township more heavily charged ; and the inequality of such local charges is a very great blot upon the pre sent system. Efficiency, economy, and humanity will all be served by abolishing settlements ; and the general taxes of the country are the only proper sources from whence relief for national evils should he taken. In Ireland and Scotland difficulties in poor-law relief and management exist; and why? Because there is no national cure for national distress. Would not the pro posed plan enable the Government to avoid all the dif ficulties of the present system? Ireland and Scotland are integral portions of the kingdom, and ought to be equally dealt with, as regards pauperism. Not being a financier, it is not part of my duty to show the " ways and means;" but a national tax for poor-law purposes, I apprehend, would have all the difficulties of the present system, and be little or no improvement. The only improvement in that case being the more systematic giving of relief. The same staff of offieers for collecting such a tax would have to be kept up. The whole charge should therefore be plaoed upon the " ways and means" of the country; and the land owners would reap a rich reward for their support to this measure, by their entire freedom from pc:ors -rates. The poor man would, from his consumption of taxed articles, be indirectly paying towards the national purse, from which in case of wait his relief would be supplied; and as regards the fairness or unfairness of legislative taxation, I am quite prepared to leave that question to be decided by the Legislature, acted upon as it may be by our free constitution. If parties will first ascertain the cheapest, most humane, and efficacious method of dealing with pauperism, they may depend upon it that method will be the best for their future interests ; and that the question of greater or less expenditure to their own localities will, when compared with ultimate results, sink into utter insignificance. I have now stated the suggested plan, I think suffi ciently for the purposes of your request ; I have had considerabla experience in poor-law affairs, and am con vinced that few plans could be devised worse for the leypayers than the present law and practice of settle ment. But when .treating a malady, cure it. This can only be done by a complete change ; and if this sketch is at all instrumental in such a result, it will be a gratifying recollection that I have been in the slightest degree instrumental therein. It may be added, that this letter has been laid before a Committee of the Stockport Board of Guardians, and received its unanimous approval. I have the honour to be, yours faithfully, HENRY COPPOCK, Clerk to the Stockport Union. Stockport, November 16, 1644. Manchester, Nov. 16, 1844. At a meeting of the Society of Clerks of Unions for the Northern District of England, John Latham, Esq., in the chair, the above letter being read and approved, was ordered to be referred to a special Committee, con sisting of Mr. Gardiner (Manchester), Mr. Latham (Charlton-upon-Medlock), Mr. Woodhouse (Bolton), and Mr. Coppock (Stockport), with instructions to print the same, and forward copies to the clerks of the Society, with a view that the same should be laid before their boards el guardians, f 4. their consideration. JOHN LATHAM, Chairman. Nov. 22, 1844. NER GARDINER. JOHN LATHAM. 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HILLINGDON HALL; A TALE OF COUNTRY LIFE. —" Th'es is, beyond all question, the cleverest, the wittiest, the most humorous, and most amusing work that has be,n published for some time. The writer is already well known in the fields of literature as the author of Handley Cross,' a work which placed him at once amongst the first and most distinguished writers of the day.. In the work now before us, he has eclipsed himself. Every page in these volumes abounds in the most enquisite passages of rich and genuine humour. Laugh out right heartily the reader must, whether he be sportively inclined or not. The satire throughout is polished and keen; the portraitures of the different cha racters are touched off in a style of the richest and most exquisitti finish. Hillingdon Hall' is a work which could be read over and over again with feelings of un diminish ed pleasure."— Sunday Times. Mr. J. Parker, M.P., and a deputation of the " Company of Proprietors of the River Dan Naviga tion," eimsisting of Messrs. John Read, Watson, and 13artholornew, transacted business yesterday at the Board of Trade. G ~~-:~'~~ "/ ‘%7 r ~ j I