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101 1 " N, 014$ iOl le r Lo o& n" Jo ) flying 1,-- t brig' eh 3. 1 1 9 1 "0 .boltru ig bee n Los% 'nab : 1t ; o '; )1 be% stir csu hiebt ficbs e c to °l ' 4 froto _At rith ess te -A sh d uns . bo g! )pet Jaol 4 o, P- ;0 4 aro Prine e per tr ; lar babu— W.r , 0 0 lying fri e . a g-P dt ; co.-- o r at in Pi of °La?' te he [I of 00' O ° jr gbi ko . twit ;oi se, g tO the • 0 D fox • 10 hicetepP • hef u— ot iol bee ;A : 1t) t qty ° 011 fre e djil Ol d 700 in°6lvino - 0 ,11111 1.14:!#: oc' ,01 c s i !O o lo r ; )04 P°IITSAIOUTH EXTENSION of the BRIGII- Th TON and CHICHESTER RAILWAY. ItAl it e x , IYI RECTORS of the BRIGHTON and CHICHESTER . 110, 4 AY COMPANY hereby give notice, that APPLICA- Q " T oo . f r SHARES nia)- Le made et their Office, 4, D2an-street, "Y-street, London, By order of the Board, Forms FRED. OTLEY, Sec. Dee, , &c., flay be obtained by applying to the Secretary. 1844. (T RE AT 'NORTH of ENGLAND RAILWAY. The TENDER FOR IRON RAILS. th e D IRECTORS are prepared to RECEIVE TENDERS for 1111 stip p t % ,“,Y of 6,000 tons of IRON RAILS, each rail to be 16 feet ia. and weighing 65Ibs. per yard ; the quality of the iron in protrall to be equal to No. 3. The tender to state in detail the th e '44 " Manufacture which it is proposed to follow to produce heritY. No tend e r will be a ttended to without this statement, , e company will stipulate with the party whose tender may ec epted that the Company may, at any time, send an inspector toe works t o sat i s f y themse l ves t h at th e specified process of th. Ufa ctere is fully a d o pt e d. To be delivered on the quay of 111 - P ' 44 of Hull, or Stockton, er Middlesbrough-on-Tees, free of eh, go, or at Darlington, and the deliveries to be extended over in Months. N o i mperfect ra i ls w ill b e rece i ve d. tttioo enders to be delivered on or before the 23d day of December, , 1, 1 ; s-u raPany's office, in Darlinbe in t kla a section of th e rails to accordance with a drawing or lio o t iat e, which may be seen at the Company's office at Dar e:en, where also a model of the rail may be seen, and further nattation obtained. Darr By order, ........21gton, Nor. 12, 1844 H. PARKER, Secretary. U----------.ItEAT NORTHERN RAILWAY of FRANCE. t ilotlee I gi, jhereby given, that NO FURTHER APPLICATIONS I s% RES in this undertaking oan be received after SATUIIDLY, instant. Tlse " roelbeetus, °ordaining the Terms of the Subscription, will red with each Letter of Allotment. / order of the English Members of the Provisional Committee, ED. AIME. 432, William.street, City, Dec. 10, 1844. tk a l '4 i s , l '4NS end BOULOGNE RAILWAY. kr on '''GLISH PROPRIETORS in the above undertaking, de. 1t s ," taking Shares in the GREAT NORTHERN 4 trat — WA Y of FRANCE, must make their application to the of the English Section of the Provisional Committee of btld " e arthe n l Railway, at 62, King William.street , Lon don- The ~Q 1) et before SATURDAY NEXT, the 14th instant. SII ; "'trainee cannot pledge themselves to make allotments in lit m 4l ", and ne appl i cation will be entertained without "Zetion of the receipts of the Amiens and Boulogne Railway. 'se%ber 10, 1844. I r CI E ROBBERY at Messrs. ROGERS and CO.'S, the Bankers, CAUTION. M tk..ublic are respectfully requested to pay particular attention II l'lpbers and Dates of all 51., 101., 20/., 301., 401., 501., ;43' 2°01 :, linol., 5001., and 1,0001. Bank of England Notes 5 11 , 14 ' be offered in paymen t; and before changing them to the same, and compare them with the Lists of the Bank liv itt !` e len from Messrs. Rogers and Co., and which ha ve been I s tp: e 'l several times successively in the Daily and Weekly tilt; et q t . °f the Stol en N o tes may be had at all the Banking.houses, 44 :tossrs. Rogers and Co., 29, Clement's-lane, Lombard.• street ; lits c u .* Cr Daniel Forrester, at the Mansion House; and at all til m it r Ind Metropolitan Police Station.housea and of Mr. 44 4 Roiller, Solicitor, 20, Bucklersbury, Mansion House, 4,WINTER OVER-COATS, WRAPPERS , &c. ' r 'SSRS. BURCH. and LUCAS (late J. +l4 , Albert) respectfully invite gentlemen to view their new liktmshionable assortment of PATENT and BEAUFORT tbe k V "S, FANCY VESTINGS, TROUSERINGS, &c., for antes season ; 'he style and cut of every garment are ttle: tee 'l equal to any of the first houses at the West-end, at i lle ;2 ' unison with the economy of the times, feeling confident 44 ;,,,leeeen who may do them the honour will be perfectly Betio krtre.l:" any garment that loaves their establishment. A large as- Ile tt :" t of Great Coats kept ready made in all the different and 41 114,7 1 :Prneed forms agreeable to the prevailing taste ; being made l'es, he superintendence of the proprietors, they are enabled to 11,,, i ` u nlidently as to their superiority over all garments of a slop 52 Pt b. l un. the which are entirely excluded from this establishment. Ni' ' I NG WILLIAM-STREET, LONDON-BRIDGE, op the e._\Statue. "E CATTLE SHOW.—The attention of visi hetion t ors from th e co untry is earnestly directed to a varied col kropri_"splendid and magnificent novelties in FURS, which the Atoilvtors of the HUDSON'S BAY FUR ESTABLISHMENT, 111 „ b,;, ?°°43 No. 246, Regent-street, have just introduced, under Patroßage, among which the "POLKA PELISSE," tn 4 F 1 141,, L°IINCE,OZARINA,,, the e "SPANRIS MAQHUISE MANTILLA," and the E MUFF I t Li SE AL COAT," especially deserve attention.s,, OF PRICES FOR THE SEASON, IM4-1845. ROUND BOAS. SPANISH CARDINALS. 114140 ft_ 't D s. d. s. d. 'mai 4 - B ay sable ...... 31 6 Hudson's Bay sable NI an sable Ilih- a , h sable iteZisn squirrel Chi fl ine taehilla 2O 0 Real ermine 30 0 , ............. ... 21 0 German ermine Iriad in 'LAT BOAS. Missouri sable Pt ll'a Bay sable 0 kph sable .th a n sable .t h an 30 0 German sable 2l 0 Ite i a a n squirrel ...... . 18 0 French aJble l6 0 thi t :naine ..... .. 30 0 Siberian squirrel . l3 0 Vua ................ 35 0 Real ermine !tad on All b 1)1 11AL ... B . ..... German ermine... ...... fren c h 'L T V liable (1"14 -Ae . 15 0 Ladies' fur travelling , .............. t i btsian . 4b „„ in , .. ... 12 9 cloaks 41 e r ,„ 4 1:1 .. .... 0 0 Muffs cleaned chi 4 , — the . ...... 15 0 Boas 3 0 : inn ..... . .................... .. .. 17 6 Capes and cardinals be z ,rY arti cle Purchased of the Company is warranted, an: m ar a t y s ' 3 fth ur4e ci if hot a roved of. Furs sent for approval to a p ku i L t nialtry. pp -°14.8 BAY FUR WAREHOUSE, ARGYLL-ROOMS, 246, REGENT.STREET. NI ows from the recent investigations of the ts6tyritish Association for the Advancement of Science, as tht ad In the Athenaeum of October 19 , that the q uantit y of te -Poished by ens pound of PRICE'S PATENT CANDLES „ 4 1141 r„.,. sger„. — 'or its production four pounds of ordinary tallow ones ; and, ki kt i °t e, that the firmer, if at two shillings per lb., would be trklel " economical as the latter at sixpence per lb. Now, Z. b„ - ', 'S PATENT CANDLES are not sold at two shillings per ,-. 1 1 1 ;` St or under One Shilling per lb. ,11% may be had of respectable dealers throug hout the king. p care be taken to prevent any imitations being passed off as 11 441 4tont Candles ; and the Trade may obtain them wholesale C o , sward Price and Co., Belmont, Vauxhall, and Palmer and Clerkenw ell. SHEFFIELD PLATE. 14AVSSRS. HORTON and Co., Silversmiths 1, 4 a nd Jewellers, SS, Luilgate.street, St. Paul's , app osite ' T ariagten's, offer to their Friends and the Public, at im. :00Ljadirred prices, their STOCK ef GENUINE PLATED liefa cci ' , which they warrant t• be the manufacture of the . first i „, Houses, and are if the most tasteful and modern designs, tsk e ,: n e Dish Covers, Corner Dishes, Waiters, Ice Pails, Cake Ilter t ,C. Coffee and Tea Sets, Candlesticks, and every ether article A iitr4d ornamental. No common Birmingham ware kept. tad „ h ie stock of JEWELLERY and WATCHES, Fancy Silvez "th. er a rticles, t such prices as must be well worthy the notice • eIPT. t o , to —oYllENT.—Persons having a little time (4 -4 4 . B Pare are apprised that Agents continue to be appointed in the ,',.nd country towns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, Otti et r of their celebrated teas. hI t ?!) , I; r 11°. 9 , Great St. llelen's-churchyard, Itishopsate-strect. ovit t h Packed in skowy leaden canisters, from on g e ounce to a ke? trenb the c price and weight marked on each pac ket, and but mt , i e ' 3 occasioned by the sale. The license is only l Is. per 3 ble t„ n uttlY during the last nineteen years have realised con „eorees by the agency without one shilling let or loss. 4,l cation to be made (if by letter post-paid) as above. 11ESS S NEW SAUCE, for general pur avin: gained such great approbation , a nd the demand , to increase, JOHN BURGESS and SON beg most tt k\ Zsir tkus their best acknowledgme nts to the Public tllliteral Patronage of the same ; its utility and g reat convent climates have recommended 11, to the most distinguished t 'pleetions, who have all spoken highly in its recommends otit to VrePared by them only ; and for preventing disappoint behi„Tnies, all possible care has been resorted to, by each te o ;7lll,,,V ea led on the cork with their firm and address, as well Leo --•• having their signature, without which it cannot be Rrsl/ it tRG 1 1 , T 114 Iteß ESS and SON'S long-established and much-esteemed )t2trao ,"` ANCHOVIES continues to be p r ep ared b y them after — diner that has given the greatest satisfactiou for many War Louse, 107, Strand, corner of Savoy Steps, London .t tA 4 and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE ~?re , ,,„ ~ SAUCE. pfl, 'rest";„ e u from the recipe of a Nobleman in the county. Iren p f .., , ` , estern Steam-ship, June 6, 1844.—The cabin of the 11 6 ,_ 14 1ht;L e ril has been regularly supplied with ' Lea and Perrius' s"k t hx',.,:wre Sauce; which is adapted for every variety of dish, li tt taoil - t o beef—from salmon to steaks—to all of which it gives it k 4 tossre to I have great pleasure in recommending this excel -." bei t t 'e a e ptains and passengers for its capital flavour, and m 11,14 ac companiment of its kind for a voyage. (Si gne d) " JAMES lIOSKEN." ti ter WhOlesabi by the proprietors, Messrs. Lea and Perrin o, W or- S ;41 / 4 4 srs Bar y c la wyareliouseinand Sons en in Farringdon-str London ; eetthe prin --‘4- 1, 11 4 Italian ' and retail by the "'lore of sauces. 4 b , THE BEST ENGLISH WATCHES. .... SAVORY and SONS, Watchmal<ers, No 9 2Corribill, London, opposite the Bank, reiuest the atten th ti rteVhasers to their Stock ot London-made PATENT Az: ow n ATCHES, which are manufactured by themselves in I Jew ell house . In Slyer Cases, with the Detached Escapement Vea, e ed,, the prices are Four Guineas and a Half, Six, and Eight eq , Nts 4 -or in gold cases, Ten, Twelve, Fourteen, and S teen 101,,r/des, -- 1•"? The very large stocK offered for selection includes tcoL,,,l_Ptlon, enabling a customer to select t hat which is more p o , Y adapted to his own use. UT lAir O ,Th RHEUMATISM, AND RHEUMATIC GOUT 0„ " GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PIL LS is h ` t terc,;.it certain and safe remedy ;they restore tran q uillit y to Rive tone to the etc mach, and strcngth to the whole en d ias th e ° other medicine can be compared to these excellent t h oratve T im Pr o v red ent the disorder from attacking the Stomacher Head, thousands from pain and talisery to health and latZ, l , (l , ''Y al! i „ - `• Willoughby and Co , Bishopsgate Without, and '..edicine Venders, et 15..134d. or `2.s. 9d. per box. P I T h A a MPTON's PILL OF HEALTH heads of families from the Ivi t Zi,n o rkenifolyi advantages to to % tumi d ' a Medicine of known egea e . cy, that may be resorted to ‘4 l ► tt c teur a,ace, and used with success in cases of temporary sl.k. i 4 l 4 Vlat 40 1. '4 in families more or less every day, are so obvious to Ah _er „cluestion Can be raised of its importance to . every house 1-44°Irlii: i tn e kingdom From among numerous testimonials, the -11 `I r espectfully . submitted : q . " TO Nit. TIOSIAfiI PUNY; 229, STRAND, LONDON. ),.. air r have " 5, Cooper-street Manchester . , March 12 , 1942. - -.tilt 1" much satisfaction in coreetunicating t? you the 11, or , coy -... c,,,, -, experience aer repeated trtals, of IRA AP roN . - = EALTH, and l i fe l it but ju , tice to state, ihat in the 1 4 , -et( in . .'? foi l .-. 4 'y Yeats' trial of nandpe Mt dimes, I have ..._..4411. !....e wanting,e orew ken, fro - ,, results at once salutary efficient in he relief of the troPb. thief an 1 , ~ . f teduad t tile &c &c., with so little inconvenience ; arranted in declaring that they supply to . me a kaoPPectilly of being able to recommend to families , school's, .trarli,l/uable mercantile men whether at the desk or on the road, a re. ource in an occasional medicine . And I shall take 1 4 FR A I ,%Yre I I,f in ivin this testimo, I am t e means of mak rotri tn?atuilie4nsraeoenfud "1 - '''FFON'S PILLS more generally known and apprec H iat , ed , . ot :he : lin ; 81 r, respectfully yours " WILLIA M SMI 1 ' khltrie , n Prececieted sale ot 'these' Fill, arising from the earnest re rteehrterrmyalalleniriyvthheonuietaonvid:icwhhmoanha. have derived benefit e iti Ptit forth d comment unnecessary, they are Kind is liable, but for 4 „. 1 4 4 ,1. 11 ,!'d Liver Com laints, e rt s h the;r many well.known attend- Zirl4; - ",,Lkatili and S ck P Headache Pain and Oppression alt !rya 5, "'rar,Cs. Dizziness, Singing Noise in Head and Ears, Drowsiness, Tw o ' r n. Loss of Appetite, Wind, Spasms , & c. .._ Or, three doses will convince the aillicttd of their . salutary sel4. Ih° stomach will sneedily regain i s Strength ; a Leaitny and i ns t. the Liver Bowels , and Kidneys, will rapidly take place ; ", ti 7 d ' i listiletness heat, pains, and jaundiced appearance, will 4 a tetivity, and renewed health, extending to good . old age, 4c etdrilo a ,..." e r eaqit of taking this medicine, wording to the directions ItlV - Vf each box. itb,* y • t' out, 2W, Strand, London, Price Is. I}4d. and2s.tL e ador n ' " 4 by the Vendors of Medicines generally throughout h xilsak foi, a., F RAMPTON'S PILL of HEALTH, and obselve the thits tuutac e -- " 4 tritamp.ress of'. Thoamyrout,24 9 . straw. 1 -Aillf l ° l4 ' ° n his SCOTTISH EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, Incorporated by Royal Charter. Established 1831. Ilead Mike, 26, St. Andrew's -square, Edinburgh ; London Office, 61 A, Moorgate-street. PRESIDENT. His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCII and QUEENSBERRY. VICE-PRESIDENTS. The Right Hon. Lord Gray. Sir Neil Menzies, Bart., of Menzies. David M. M. Chrichtoun, Esq., of Rankcilour. ROBERT CHRISTIE, Manager. The leading principle of this Mutual Assurance Society is, that the whole Profits are divisible among the Policy Holders every three years. In illustration of the eminent success which has attended the Society, it may be stated that the additions made to Policies have been at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured and on the vested bonus. Thus the holder of a Policy for 1,0001. effected on the Ist of March, 1832, v.lll, if it become a claim during the present year, be entitled to 1,2971.; or, if effected on or before the Ist March, 1833, to 1,2751., and so on as regards other Policies. The Accumulated Fund exceeds 260,0001., and the Annual Revenue is above 70,0001., the whole being in a course o steady and increas ing prosperity. No other Life Assurance Institution whatever can warrantably hold out greater advantages to parties Assuring than this Society does. WILLIAM COOK, Agent for London. 61 A, oorgate-street. LONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 3, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, and 18, Chancery-lane, London. REGISTERED PURSUANT TO ACT 7 S VIC. C. 110. ASYLUM FOREIGN and DOMESTIC LIFE OFFICE,. 70, Cornhill, and 5, Waterloo-Place, London, Established in 1824. DIRECTORS. The Honourable William Fraser, Chairman. Major General Sir James Law Lushington, G.O 8., Dep. Chairman. J. Harvey A stell, Esq. C. W. Hallett. Esq. J. Clarmont Whiteman, Esq. Foster Reynolds, Esq. Geo. Palmer, jun., Esq. Thomas Fenn, Esq. W. Edmund Ferrers, Esq. G.Farren,E,sq.,Resident Director MEDICAL OFFICERS IN LONDON. R. Ferguson, M.D., 9, Queen-street, May-fair. J. Forbes, M.D., F. R.S., 12, Old Burlington-street. T. Callaway, Esq., Welliugton-street, Southwark. Persons suffering from chronic disease or irregularity of form, in pregnancy, or old age, are insured at proportionate rates, the Ayluin being the Co epany which originally (in 18?4) extended the benefits of life insurance to such cases. RENEWABLE TERM INSUR kNCES FOR HEALTHY LIVES. The advantages of a whole life Policy are secured by the smallest necessary outlay in the first instance,—the contract being continued year by year, whatever the future health of the assured (after the primary examination), at a stipulated slight increase of premium, little exceeding the price of an ordinary term insurance, up to the age of 70, when the rate remains stationary. Extracts from RENEWABLE TERM rates for select lives. AGEI Ist yr. 2d yr. 3d yr. 4thyr. sth yr. 1 6thyr. 7thyr - - 30 1 64 1 17 1 1711 19 9 19 7 1 1051 111 4 Extracts from the EVEN RATES for select lives, 1 11 9' 2201 2 17 1 4 2 0' 6 10 9' ,10 18 61 19 1 8 ALTERNATIVE. Two-thirds, only, of the even rates, whether for select or diseased lives, or for the risks of foreign climates, may be paid down, and the balance, with interest at 4 per cent, deducted fr om sum ,ssurel. FOREIGN, A ND MILITARY AND NAVAL INSURANCE. Distinct classification of plases, aecording to salubrity of climate; a specific price for any particular place, or fora voyage er voyages. Officers whose destinations are not known, covered to all parts of the world at a small but fixed extra ra e of premium. GEO. FARREN Resident Director. ~~ ~`+_ Pry 111 • . 411 b o. If 4 I Al • . Wit • • _ •• 444-.0 • 0 , 4k .rt - A . 4 , 0 4 7 .'4N 2 .. 4 it s d, .{ , Ar t.; . 4 4 n ✓ Dr Er ;; ,„. 4 • • • /., - • . • , ). f -amma. • No. 16,325 LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING DECEMBER 12, 1844. - PRICE sd. THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, i n Time for the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the :AFTERNOON TRAJNA and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, conlaining PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that flour. a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, a t ONE CHARGE. 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The General has been visiting the principal towns in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and has met with unprecedented success. i pthilst in Edinburgh the General was presented with a beautiful Highland dress, of the Royal Stuart Tartan, manufac. tured by Messrs. Meyers and Mortimer, in which he will appear at each exhibition, in addition to his Citizen, Napoleon, and Court dress. Hours of Exhibition from Eleven to One, Three to Five, and from Seven to Nine. Doors open half an hour previous. Admission (regardless of age), One Shilling. The General's new and elegant carriage, drawn by two of the smallest ponies in the country, with coachman and footman in splendid liveries, will pass through the principal streets daily. N.B. Visitors will find the Suffolk street Gallery far superior to the rooms formerly occupied by the General at the Egyptian Hall, access easy, and the rooms well warmed and beautifully lighted with gas. AS A T E A.—An Establishment has been formed for the Importation and Sale of " Asam.grown Tea." Asam (or Assam) is regarded with a considerable degree of in. terest on account of a highly flavoured species of Tea growing in this important province of India, and possessing suck strength that when steeped one pound yields, at a moderate computation, at the rate of two pounds of the Chinese leaf. This Tea is furnishe4 in an original and pure state at the Head. office, 11, Crooked-lane, King Wiiiiinustreet, City. One Agent is required for most large towns and cities. The Establishment's sole authorised Agent (at present) far the Wcat-end, J. G. WATSON, confectioner, 11, Upper Seymour. street, Portman-square. LEGAL and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, No. 10, FLEET-STREET, LONDON. December 10, 1844. Notice is hereby given, that the Transfer-books of this Society will BE CLOSED from the 31st day of December instant, to the 31st day of January, 1845. By order of the Board, T. R. EDMONDS, Actuary. SCOTTISH (WIDOWS' FUND) LIFE AS SURANCE. Capital accumulated and invested upwards of 1,450,0001.; annual revenue upwards of 220,0001. The amount of capital sums insured since the commencement of the Society is nearly 6,500,0001. sterling. The next periodical investigation takes place on December 31, 1845. ASSURANCES COMPLETED BEFORE THE BOOKS ARE CLOSED for the CURRENT YEAR have the IMPORTANT ADVANTAGE of A FULL YEAR'S STANDING over those delayed till after that period. The Directors aro now empowered to grant assurances for fixed sums, without any claim on the part of those in right of the policies to participate in the surplus fund or profit of the Society. Forms of proposals and every necessary information may be ob tained at the head office, Edinburgh, 5, St. Andrew-square; or at any of the Society's agencies.— October, 1844. JOHN MACKENZIE, Manager. OFFICE IN LONDON, 7, PALL-MALL. HUGH INPKEATP, Agent. PUBLICATIONS. MR. DICKENS'S NENY CHRISTMAS BOOK. 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Recently published, in 3 large vols. royal Bvo., pricu 41. 10s., THE BOOK of the FARM; Being a Systematic Work on Practical Agriculture, do ailing the Labours of the Fanner, Farm-s`eward Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Cattle-man, Field-worker, and Dairymaid. By HENRY STEPHEN'S, F.R.3.E. Illustrated with Portraits of Animals painted from the Life ; and upwards of 600 Woodcuts and Seventy Plates of Agricultural Imple ments, so particularised as to enable country mechanics to construct them from the descriptions. " The best practical book I have ever met with." son, of Durham. " We have thoroughly examined these volumes, but to give a full notice of their varied and valuable contents would occupy a longer space than we can conveniently devote to their discussion ; we there fore in general terms commend them to the careful study of every young man who wishes to become a good practica l fanner."—Times, Dec. 2, 1844. Win. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, and 22, Pall-mall. London. 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In the course of Tuesday morning Inspector Penny, G, intimated to Mr. Combe that Mr. Sewell had not appeared to answer the charge pursuant to the recognisance, and the charge was delayed until inquirie s were m ade, and to give his bail an opportunity to produce Mr. Sewell. In the course of the day Inspector Penny stated to Mr. Combe that the officer wh o br o ught Mr. Sewell in charge to the station-house had been to his residence at Dalston, and on inquiry he discovered that Mr. Sewell returned home in a cab, and shortly afterwards retired to rest, and on Tuesday morning, about six o'clock, he was discovered dead in his bed. Medical aid was resorted to without effect. Mr. Granger, the proprieter of the cab, the driver, and some other wit nesses, were present to give their evidence, but Mr. Combe said he must leave the case in the hands of the police until a coroner's inquest was held upon the body. The deceased was about forty years of age, and has left a family. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—Tha Post—though utterly disapproving of tha object sought to be effected—is " glad to find that the farmers of England are preparing to bestir them selves against the malt-tax." We showed yesterday that the " farmers of England" know better than to make any stir for such an object. In fact, they refuse to move in the matter ; and that for reasons which are no less cogent than they are convincing to the said " farmers of England." Indeed, our Contemporary, in a sub sequent part of the same article, limits the phrase, the " farmers of England," to the " agricultural gentlemen"—that is, the landlords, as contradistin guished from those who cultivate the land. These " agricultural gentlemen" are apprehensive that the present rents cannot be maintained under the new state of thin g s which the Conser v ati ve G overnment t h ey invested with power has managed to bring about. The tenant-farmers are complaining ; and, we believe, not without cause. The landowners are endeavour-. ing, with their usual sensibility of personal inte rest, to work this feeling for their own advantage. They see—or think they see—an opportunity for se curing :the " surplus revenue" to themselves. The re peal of the malt-tax would be neither more nor less than a positive donation by the Government to the landlords of nearly five millions from the revenue of the country. The history of the malt-tax, and the conduct of the landed interest with respect to it, will assist to an un derstanding of the movement which is now sought to be got up for its removal. The present amount of malt duty is but a remnant of that which existed in 1815. At that period the malt duty, including the tax on beer, amounted to about 565. or 58s. perquar- . - :er. No sooner was peace restored, and produce began .o feel the effects of peace prices, than the agricultural ... interest in the House of Commons obtained a diminu- tion of the malt duty to the extent of 16s. per Winchester quarter. The agricultural-distress-year of 1822 was taken advantage of for the purpose of - getting another re duction from the malt-tax ; and what was called " the annual duty" was given up. Next followed the repeal of the beer duty—equivalent to 12s. on the quarter of malt. The aggregate of these reductions—obtained from the Governments by whom they were relinquished through the influence exercised upon them by the landowners— amounted to seven millions of annual revenue. Their ob- ject was to keep up rents, by maintaining war-prices in a time of peace ; find to a very considerable extent they succeeded in effecting their object. A combination of new and concurrent circumstances—principally caused by the insane and cruel policy of what is falsely called "agricultural protection "—threatens the farmers with another visitation of " agricultural distress." The land lords are on the qui vice. Repeal of the remaining portion of the malt-tax is the panacea which is to re move the distress, and avert t!e pending calamity—from themselves ! The trifling relief which the removal of the malt-tax would afford to the labouring classes will at once be seen, if the amount of duty upon the quantity of malt required for the production of thirty-six gallons of porter—the favourite beverage of the labouring classes—is computed. The amount of duty upon the quantity of malt required for producing that quantity of porter is 6s. ; being 2d. per gallon, or as nearly as can be estimated, one-third of a penny upon the pot. The price of the pot of porter would therefore be retailed at 341.—0ne farthing less than at present. And this is the reduction which the Post's " agricultural gentlemen" advocate, on the pretext that it would enable the labourers to procure beer who cannot now obtain bread. The u.bs s urdity of the plea is too manifest to impose on any understanding which is not previously prepared to yield to the delu sion, as an excuse for embarking iu a project which is meant to subserve the landlord's interest at the introduce into the Church novelties of doctrine and of ritual by which they hoped to make for themselves a name. How were the Bishops or the Universities to deal with these persons, when they saw the tares flung among the wheat? They might say at the hebdomadal board at Oxford, how many Bishops in their charges did say, "An enemy has done this thing." But the reluctance which all good men feel to awaken the sleeping lions of the penal law—the spirit of the parable referred to compelled them to wait until the wickedness or folly of the new heresy was fully de veloped ; besides that a precipitate course would risk the danger of presenting as martyrs those who were simply criminals. The forbearance thus manifested, though wise and just, and the effect indeed of the prosperity of the Church, has been, we admit, attended by this incon venience, that it has given occasion to doubts and scruples in the minds of some good men, which, though relating to matters in themselves indifferent, seem to throw these good men, in some respects, into the hands of the heretics. Poison is rarely adminis tered save in combination with something palatable, or at the least indifferent, and the false doctrines of Tractarians were, in the usual course of these things, mixed up with an abundance of professed veneration for obsolete ritual observances. Some of these obsolete ob servances, however, unfortunately appeared obligatory on conscience, and though the real question is between pure Christianity and Romanising innovation, it has, at least in appearance, taken the form of a dispute about surplice preaching or the use of the offertory. Now while we entirely sympathise with the resolution of the people not to submit to authority, where the legal foundations of authority shall seem to be doubtful, and though we have no doubt that there is no au thority whatever to enforce surplice preaching, still we think that the dispute raised is one which (if the Bishops who enjoin surplice preaching unhappily feel bound to persist) can be determined satis factorily only by the law. We_ say again, that we have no doubt how the law will determine it. In order, then, that the wound to the Church be promptly probed, let the question be at once referred to a legal issue, and, if ne cessary, prosecuted to the court of last resort, the Privy Council. Let some clergyman of the diocese of Exeter, for example, use his accustomed habit in preach ing; if he do so unmolested, the question is set at rest in that diocese, atid the people well know that all who abandon the former usage do so, not from a necessity of canonical obedience, but from a bias towards the Romanising heresy ; if, on the other hand, an at tempt be made to punish the clergyman who adheres to the usage of two centuries, the people will support him in his successive appeals, up to the appeal to the Privy Council. This is the course which to us seems to be in all respects the best, and, if unhappily rendered neces sary, it is the course which we hope to see pursued. THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE, This neighbourhood was aroused by the intelligence of the above murder (recorded in The Son of Monday), and on the constables proceeding to the spot they found the body lying on its back, at the top of a short hill, with the hat drawn over its face, and two small pools of biood, which had issued from a bullet wound two inches behind the right ear, the ball being afterwards discovered, on post mortent examination, to have penetrated the brain, and to have flattened against the skull, where it lodged on the opposite side. His waistcoat had been torn open with such violence as to break several buttons, and ail his cash had been abstracted from the money pocket ; his watch and several articles in other pockets were untouched. From all appearances it was evident that the fiend-like assassin had fired the fatal shot while walking up the ascent of the road, at the side of his unsuspecting victim, who must have fallen forward on his right knee and forehead, and have been turned over on his back by the murderer, for the purpose of plunder. Messengers were immediately forwarded to Brecon. On the intelligence reaching Mr. D. Rosser, landlord of the Bridgent Inn, where the deceased (whose name w as D av id Lewis) had been in the habit of putting up, the suspicion flashed across his mind that the deed had been done by a man named Thomas Thomas, of Llansowel, Carmarthen shire, who had called at his house in a drab mackintosh, and had inquired for butter carts going to the vicinity of his home, About two hours before Lewis and his boy started. iie accordingly caused a letter to be sent per mail to a re spectable innkeeper in the neighbourhood of Llansowel, who immediately forwarded descriptions to the rural police of the county, leveral of whom wet: stationed near. In the meantime inquiries been made by the Brecon police, which strengthened the suspicion, and Mr. Super antendent Stephens, accompanied br the late superin tendent, who knew Thomas from havio . g had him in custody on a previous occasion, started off - to,. Cirmarthenshire, while printed descriptions were forwarded to all the adjacent districts and seaports. Having been detained making in quiries on the way, the Brecon police did not reach Llan sowel until after one o'clock on Sunday morning, when they found Thomas in the custody of the rural police. who had taken him under the following circum stances .—Acting on the information they had received. they had proceeded to his father's house, and found that he had reached home at half-past eleven o'clock ; they also ascertained that he had been seen in the village, and deeming it likely that he would come home at night, the superintendent stationed his men on the look-out, lying in wait himself with one of his men- in a lane near his father's house. Soon after eight o'clock they heard him coming down the lane, and passing one on each side of him, collared him at once. Being a very powerful young man, he succeeded in throwing them both down, and after a severe struggle on the ground, they were compelled to draw their cutlasses before he would surrender. During the struggle use dropped a brace of pocket-pistols, which, fortunately, were not loaded, and in his pocket were found twelve bullets, caps, and some powder. Having been surrendered to the Brecon police, he was brought on Sunday to the station-house in that town s and on Monday was taken to an adjourned in quest held before Thomas Batt, Esq., at the Camden Arms, Trecastle. From the evidence here adduced, it ap peared that he had nine days previously bought the pistols at an ironmonger's shop in Brecon, and that on Friday night lie rode in a farmer's waggon a short way out of town until overtaken by Lewis and his cart, when he made the bargain for conveyance to Trecastle. The boy who had charge or the waggon, and Mr. Lewis's little boy, swore most positively to his identity; and such a chain of circumstantial evidence was made apparent, that the jury without hesitation re turned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Thos. Thomas," who was therefore removed to the county goal, to take hie trial at the March assizes. His appearance WAS more that of the careless, cheerful, country boy than that of a designing boy; and he kept his composure to the last, maintaining that the two boys were mistaken as to his identity. THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR. NOTTINGHAM. INQUEST ON MR. JAMES BOLESTRIDGE. Norrukaisaki, Dac. 11.—Shortly after six o'clock, last night, Mr. Browne, coroner, and a very respectable jury, assembled at the house of the deceased, for the purpose of inquiring into the cause of his death. The CORONER addressed the jury at some length. He be sought them to cast from their minds any impressions that the verdicts in the other two investigations mighthave given • rise to, and trusted they would arrive at such a conclusion as the evidence which might be brought before them wouldjus. tify. He considered it would be totally unnecessary to go, . 7 over the whole of the ground again ; and as he was mist anxious that the present inquiry should terminate'hefore the • assizes, which take place on Saturday next, he would pro pose to them what he thought the best mode of facilitating the business—namely, to produce before them the several witnesses, read over to each his depositions as given on the ' former occasion, the jury, at the same time, reserving the right of putting any further questions which might suggest themselves to their minds. This would answer all legal purposes, and save a great deal of time. Should the jury not agree to this, it was impossible that their labours could, terminate this week, for in the case of Mr. Deane, he (the Coroner) took down no less than 148 closely-written page% of evidence ; and to go through the same task again would be the work of four days. He repeated, that it was highly necessary, on Mr. Lightfoot's account, that this investigation should close before the assizes, as that gentleman would then be arraigned for the crime of manslaughter. The jury unanimously expressed themselves perfectly ca. tisfied with the Coroner's proposition, and thought with tu n , that it was necessary they should conclude their labours be fore Mr. Lightfoot took his trial. The Coroner and jury then proceeded to an adjoining room for the purpose of viewing the body. The deceased did not present any remarkable appearance. It was ultimately decided by the jury, on a show of hands, that they should meet at three o'clock this afternoon, and, if necessity required it, continue their deliberations each day to a late hour. As a matter of form, a witness was called who knew the deceased, and was present at his death. The jury then adjourned, shortly after seven o'clock, till this day. ADVERTISEMENT.—An astonishing cure of an in ward cancer in the lower part of the stomach.—Mrs. Quinn, residing at No. 4, Back-lane, St. George's-in. the 7 East, had been in three hospitals for about eighteen. months, and was discharged from them as incurable. She was in this state when the ointment was rubbed in all over the regions of the diseased parts, as salt is forced into meat, which effected a cure as speedily as though the inward part had been palpable to the eye. Any internal sores, tumours, aches, or pains may be cured in the like manner. 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Eventually he left tha wine room, and proceeded to the ground at the back part of the establishment, where he saw a cab waiting for a fare. He called for the cabman, but receiving no answer, he got upon the box and drove off to the Clown public-house, in St. John-street-road, and made inquiries for the driver of the vehicle, but lic• could not be found anywhere, on which Mr. Sewell again got on the box and drove back again to the back of the theatre at a furious rate. On his arrival at a short distance from the stage door, the wheel of the cab came in contact with a post, and he was precipitated from his seat, and the cab was overturned and dashed to pieces. The alarm excited considerable sensation, and a crowd immediately came to his assistance, when he was sup ' ported into the wine-room ; but he seemed to be, or affected not to be, much hurt by the accident, and remained there for some short time. The driver of the cab at length made his appearance, and insisted on giving Mr. Sewell into custody for causing da mage to his cab, and he was taken to Bagnigge-wells STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.) The intelligence of the complete closing of the Elbe by ice, which reached this town on Saturday, has put a sudden stop to purchasers of yarn for Germany and the accounts from India not beingconsidered favour able, the yarn market has become exceedingly dull though, as yet, without any material change in prices. The market for manufactured goods is also inactive, for which the season may sufficiently account. Yesterday there were some rather extensive inquiries for 40-inch shirting* at lower rates ; but, we believe, not much busi ness done. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, DEC. 9 The Flannel market has been, very similar to the two preceding ones, and something like an average quantity of business has been transacted at previous prices. There has been much more inquiry after wool today ; and some kinds, such as nails and long wool, have realised a small advance in price. ROBBERIES OF PLATE AT THE DUKE OF RICHMOND'S, &c.—Tuesday Benjamin Ewen, a respectably-dressed man, about fifty years of age, described on the police sheet as a servant, living at No. 6, Yeoman's-row, Brompton, was brought up before Mr. T. Paynter, at the Hammersmith Police-court, for final examination and committed for trial, on a charge of having stolen a massive silver teapot, the property of the Duke of Rich mond. Mr. Paynter said he could not accept bail in this case. The prisoner was then charged with having stolen a dozen of silver table forks from the residence of R. H. Cox, Esq., of No. 8, Grosvenor-place and Hillingdon llouse, near Uxbridge. The prisoner was eventually fully committed for trial on this charge also. 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The Committee beg to acquaint the Subscribers and the public, that they are determined to do their duty in getting up good and substantial work. and as they have had every facility in procuring the driest and best wood London can produce, the Cabinet Furni ture is made of the most seasoned materials ; and all goods disposed of at this Establishment will be warranted. They therefore, being the real manufacturers, earnestly solicit a trial, as the only criterion by which the merits and decided advantages of purchasing of them can be fairly estimated. The Establishment is likewise a depot for all kinds of Fancy and Ornamental Work, which will be re ceived of poor families from all parts of the kingdom. London Friendly Union, No. 11, Great Windmill street, Hay market, late Dr. Hunter's Museum. W. CTtOFTON, Secretary. CORONERS' INQUESTS. DEATH FRON STARVATION —On Monday after noon a lengthened investigation was entered into be fore Mr. Higgs, coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster, and a jury of thirteen inhabitant householders, at the Golden Lion, Lower Edmonton, on view of the re mains of a man, name unknown, aged fifty-two, whose death was occasioned by the want of food and expo sure to the inclemency of the weather. Richard Pugh, the keeper of a lodging-house in Church-street, stated that helitid knewn the deceased for the last three months. He was a native of Essex, and was an agricultural labourer. He was in the employ of Mr. Boards, farmer, of Edmonton, but had been for some months out of work. He had during that period obtained a scanty pittance by vending Congreve matches, balls of cotton, &c. About Wednesday or Thursday week last the police inter fered with him, and threatened to apprehend him as a vagrant, saying that his offering things for sale was merely an excuse for begging. Deceased was in con sequence very frightened, and did not go out with his basket again. He stopped at witness's house till the following Tuesday, when he absented himself, having till then, from the day the police spoke to him, lived upon stale crusts, which he got in exchange for congreves, and the dregs of the tea - pot when others had done with it. On Saturday night last, about half-past ten o'clock, witness was returning home, when he saw the deceased sitting on the ground in the street, crouched up in a corner. He asked him why he did not come to his house. He replied, be cause he had no money ; adding that he was very cold and thirsty, and had a pain in his side. Witness as sisted him home, when he made him some gruel, put ting into it half a pint of ale, which deceased swal lowed ravenously. Deceased was then put into a bed, and witness saw him no more alive. By the CORONER—Deceased, on getting into bed, said that since the Tuesday he had slept in hovels and open sheds, and had had scarcely a particle of food. IVitness did not believe that deceased had ever made application at the workhouse, of which he al ways seemed to have a dread. Witness's opinion was that he died from want of food and exposure to the cold. Mr. Henry Samuel Lane, surgeon, Church-street, said that on Sunday morning last, about half-past eight o'clock, he was called to see a man at Mr. Pugh's who was considered to be in a dying state. Witness went about an hour afterwards, and then found the deceased dead. He was in bed, and laid out, and on inquiry he was informed that he had been dead above a quarter of an hour. There were no marks of violence. The body appeared much emaciated, and he considered that the deceased's death was accelerated by exposure to the cold. There being no farther evidence, after a few re marks from the Coroner on the distressing circum stances of the case, the jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased died from want of the common necessa ries of life and exposure to the cold." DEATH IN HORS EMONG ER-LANE GAOL.—On Tues day an inquest was held before Mr. Carter, the coroner for Surrey, at the Governor's room, in Horsemonger lane prison, on the body of Joseph Simmons, a most eccentric character, who represented himself to be Napoleon Buonaparte. The deceased had for many years swept a crossing at the end of Penton-place, in the Kennington-road, leading to the Zoological Gardens. He was half witted, and always very singular in his conduct, but the gentry of the neighbourhood were very kind to him. He was in the habit of proclaiming himself Napoleon, and hundreds of boys would congregate around the assumed emperor, and jeer him in such a manner, that he was continually in the custody of the police for assaults on one or other of these urchins. On the 21st of November he was committed for one of these assaults from Union hall, in default of finding bail for three months. On Sunday week he was taken ill in the chapel, and removed to the infirmary, where Mr. Meymott, the surgeon of the prison, immediately attended, and found he was labouring under paralysis of the right side. He was at the time almost speechless. He had re peatedly been in the same prison for similar offences. Jr. Meymott stated that the deceased had every at tention paid to him, and whatever food he ordered, but he had no hope of him from the first time he was called on to see him in the infirmary.—Verdict, " Natural death." MORE SUPPOSED INFANTICIDES. —Tuesday Mr. Baker held two inquests at the Three Cranes, Church-street, Hackney, on the bodies of newly born children, who were found under the follow ing suspicious circumstances :—ln the first case Edward Potter deposed that on Monday morning, about ten o'clock, he found a deal box, nailed down, having the name of " Ross" marked on it, behind a brick stack in Hackney churchyard, which, on being opened, was found to contain the body of an infant. A medical gentleman was sent for, who, upon examination, found the body in such a dreadful state of decomposition that it was impossible to state whether it died from violence or not. The other case was that of a female child found in the soil of a water closet, at the back of a house, No. 30, Ada-street, Hackney, on Tuesday morning, about nine o'clock. An inquiry being set on foot by the police, it was fsund that the deceased was the illegitimate child of Mary Ann Lucas, twenty-eight years of age, servant to Mrs. Wix in that street, who said she had no idea of her servant's pregnancy until the discovery of the body. The medical gentleman who was called in said she had no professional attendance at the birth, but he could not say whether it was born alive or not. The mother was immediately taken into custody. The jury in both cases returned open verdicts of " Found dead. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAI. ADVERTISER.—What say the Standard and Herald now ? Is the League dead ? Any indications of its extinction in Covent-garden Theatre last night ? Any symptoms of decrepitude ? Any premonitions of im pending dissolution ? The indications and symptoms were all the opposite way. The summer and autumn vacation has done the League infinite service. It comes before us more robust and more full of spirits than ever. Never before did it show such signs of vitality and vigour. It re-appears on the stage—on the stage, in a double sense—like a giant refreshed. The blows it ',gave monopoly last night will make the mono polists feel, if there be no other mode of con vincing them, that the League is alive, and in a far better condition for doing the work it has proposed to accomplish, than at any previous period of its history. Often as we have had to record the enthusiasm with which the meetings in Covent-garden have greeted the speeches of Messrs. Cobden and Bright, nothing ever equalled the cordiality of the reception they met with last night. They must have felt that in that re ception they were amply rewarded for all theirexertions, extraordinary and untiring as they have been, in the cause of corn-law repeal. Mr. Wilson, the Chairman, in re-introducing the League to the metropolitan public, adverted at considerable length to the way in which the League had been employed since they quitted Lon don and took up their location in the provinces. And nothing could be more cheering than the statements which the Chairman made. The League, though they had been comparatively silent during the interval, had not been idle. On the contrary, they had never worked so hard, nor had they ever laboured with so much effect. Their success has far exceeded their most san guine expectations. Several important counties have been, through the exertions of the League, rescued from the fell grasp of the landocracy ; and by the same means, namely, attention to the registrations, it is coa fidently expected, that among other counties which aro destined to be won, are the important counties of Middlesex and the West Riding of Yorkshire. Should the expectations of the League be realised in reference to Middlesex and the West Riding of Yorkshire, the moral effect of their victory will be of infinite importance to the anti-corn-law cause. The wresting of these two places out of monopolist hands would overwhelms the oligarchy with despair. Their other strongholds would be taken possession of with the greatest ease. The monopolists would hardly attempt their defence. The importance of an immediate atten tion to the registries, wherever parties are in a condition to acquire a freehold, was emphatically dwelt on at the meeting of last: night. It will be impossible to qualify for the remaining twelve months, after the end of the ensuing month. Those, therefore, who mean to enfranchise themselves for counties, in any part of the country, must purchase their qualification within a few weeks. The way to obtain this qualification, as our readers are aware, is by purchasing a freehold of the estimated yearly value of forty shillings. The money requisite to make this purchase need not in any instance exceed 701., while in many instances from 501. to 60/. will suffice. Now, there can be no doubt—the thing, indeed, is an absolute certainty—that in all counties where there, are populous towns, there is a sufficient number of persons holding free-trade principles, and pos sessing the requisite purchase-money, to turn the scale against the monopolists, were they only induced to lay out their little money in the purchase of a forty-shilling freehold. Let all such as are in circumstances to ac quire a county qualification in this way, remember the im portant fact—that in thus entitling themselves to be put on the franchise, they are not only thereby acquiring a political status in the community they did not possess before, but are making a more profitable investment of their scanty savings than it would be possible in any other way to make. The interest would in no case be less than five per cent., while in some cases it would be as high as seven per cent., being double the interest allowed by the savings' banks. We cannot, therefore entertain a doubt that every free trader and every liberal in politics, who is in the possession of the means, will forthwith enfranchise himself for the counties, by ac quiring a forty-shilling freehold. CHRONICLE.—The Anti-Corn-law League has once more transferred the scene of its public operations from the provinces to the metropolis; and the vast assemblage of auditors which Covent-garden Theatre contained last night was a curious commentary upon the assurances we have lately heard, that " the League was dead." There was apparently nothing in the announced arrangements for this opening meeting calculatt d to attract a London audience. The old subject—the " familiar faces "—the customary topics—free trade ; Messrs. Wilson, Villiers, Cobden, and Bright—these were the only inducements. Yet, long before the appointed hour, every avenue to the building was all but blocked up by an eagerly impatient throng, who greeted their old friends with a hearty and unabated enthusiasm; listened with interested patience to details ; caught up and cheered as lustily as ever all the points of each speaker, and displayed an ardour for the cause which had gathered them together, to gainsay which would be ludicrous folly, and to despise it infatu ation. The great complaint of the League against the citizens of London, when it first came among them, was their apathy with regard to a question which so deeply interested and excited the manufacturing districts. Va rious explanations were given to account for this some what mortifying circumstance. London, it was said, was a mere aggregate of separate interests ; it was difficult to move public opinion in it ; the general distress which swept like a flood over the manufacturing districts, was here dissipated, and carried off in different streams ; and even if the metropolis could be effectually roused, there was an inertness in its enormous mass, a distraction in the infinite variety of its occupations and amusements, which would defeat all efforts to sustain continued inte rest. But if last night's meeting is to be taken as a cri terion, the citizens of London are far from being charge able with fickleness. Once convinced of their concern in the question of free trade, their attachment is perma nently secured. It has survived Sir Robert Peel's juggling with the corn-law ;it outlasts two good har vests, and the impetus which China and guano have given to manufactures and shipping ; and in the face of cheaper corn and an accumulating revenue, shows itself as earnest, and more calm and determined, than when begging boxes, by virtue of the Queen's letters, went round the country to relieve the national distress, and there was daily danger of insurrections amongst the starving masses of the provinces. We are wrong, how ever, in supposing that the five thousand people who flocked to hear Messrs. Wilson, Villiers, Cobden, and Bright, last night, went to Covent-garden Theatre with the certainty of hearing the same topics dilated upon by the same speakers. The free - trade debate is now all but over. The intellectual part of the process is consummated. Thero is now no fallacy to expose, no fiction to lay bare, no valiant agricultural protec tionist to combat. Figures of fact and figures of speech have alike done their work. The mind of the nation— of that body of the people who read, listen, think, and reason—is thoroughly satisfied that the protective sys tem, in a commercial country especially, is a folly of the first magnitude. This is the reason why the election of Mr. Polk to the Presidency of the United States bas created less interest in this country than it would have done two or three years ago. We seem generally to have reached the conviction that it ought to be so, and should excite no surprise. True, in this country, a very rural gentleman will occasionally be found ven- cost of every other class of the community. The Post imposes on those who are disposed to follow its counsels, a labour equal to that of Sisyphus:— " The farmers, who now think only of demanding a repeal of the malt-tax, may soon find courage to demand a repeal of the new corn-law, of the tariff, and of the Canada Corn Act. The same energy which will be required to get rid of the malt-tax would suffice to get rid of the free- trade measures of the last three years, and of the Currency Act of 1819 into the bargain." And yet this was the kind of argument with which the far mers suffered themselves to be deluded at the last election. The same oracle of the agriculturists com- plains of what it calls the violation of these promises, and the consequent disappointment of agricultural hopes :—" Promises may have been made to farmers on the subject of the malt-tax, and those promises may have been violated. Nothing, however, was said during the great struggle in 1841 between the League and the agri cultural body on the question of the tax on malt ; and the pledges—express and implied—which were given by our present rulers, and by the majority of their sup porters, bore reference, assuredly, to matters of infi nitely greater inipoetance." The " straw" is manifestly " moving"—not fur the repeal of the - Malt-tax, but for objects yet more embarrassing to Ministers than any movement in that direction. STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle of this day commences a long article as follows:—" The friends of the Church of England may well be alarmed at her pre sent position. The Puseyite crisis exposes to the world the two fundamental defects of her constitution—the want of any supreme governing body, and the vicious system of promotion, which has filled her high places with men destitute of that statesmanlike ability that could guide her through her present difficulties." We shall observe upon the latter imputed defect first. We do not find that: the Divine Founder of our Church selected statesmen as his Apostles. We have the qualities requisite in a bishop more than once distinctly enumerated by the inspired teacher of the Gentiles; but statesman ship:or political wisdom isno where mentioned among those qualities, which may be classed under the heads of piety, purity of life, and a meek temper—qualities in which no man will say that the Bishops of our Church, as a body, manifest any deficiency. They may err, as all men err • but surely the common complaint has lately been that they have erred on the side of forbear ance towards men who would bring in heresies. And if one or more of them manifested more energy than the rest, it is the generally meek character of the order which causes such conscientious energy to be regarded as turbulence. But as our view of the conduct of others takes a colour from our approbation or disap probation of their end (the observation is as old as Aristotle) wo are disposed to characterise as turbulence that energy employed in oppositioa to our opinions which we would gratefully welcome as manly courage if employed on our own side. The con sideration, however, which we would press is that an excessive meekness, and superabundant charity, are the faults—the only faults—which can be charged upon the present Bishops as a body ; but these faults are Chris tian virtues, and better become the fathers of a Christian Church than the opposite virtues of statemen—vigilant distrust and some amount of unfeeling rigour. The first defect imputed to the Church is one that really does not ex ist; and we are not a little surprised to see its supposed existence matter of complaint with a Liberal journal. The defect in question is, " the want of a supreme go verning body," explained as follows in the next para graph :—" The constitution of the Church of England presents the singular anomaly of an extended and com plicated hierarchy, complete in all its organisation, with the one exception of a head. It has neither Pope, nor council, nor general assembly, to wield the sovereign authority, and enforce uniformity of doctrine and prac tice throughout its entire body.' The want of a " ge neral council" is one which the Church of England has endured in common with the Church of Rome for ex actly three centuries, the last general council of the Romish Church, that of Trent, having been assembled in 1845. The want of a Pope is, therefore, the only respect in which we are at a disadvantage as compared with Rome. And this is made matter of complaint by a journal professing upon all occasions to be the champion of civil and re ligious liberty. If, however, the Church of England acknowledges no human arbiter of religious doctrine—no despotic master of its ritual—it surely has an equivalent for such human arbiter in the Holy Scrip tures, and for such despotic master of ritual in the law. —the law, which is quite strong enough to maintain the authority of the Scriptures, so long as the people are free from utter corruption, and to enforce or to amend its own ritual arrangements. Comparing the state of the Eng lish and Romish Churches during the latter half of the three centuries that have elapsed since the last general council—the first half was a period of almost con stant political disorder in Christendom, from the in • fluence of which religion could not escape—comparing, we say, the state of the English and Romish ehurches, during the last 150 or 200 years, we assuredly do not find that a Pope has, even with the aid of the Inquisi tion and the temporal sword and the faggot, more effectually maintained uniformity of doctrine and ritual, to say nothing of political order and personal morality, than the Scripture and the law have maintained them all in England. It is, in truth, out of the happy tranquillity and implicit confidence arising from an experience of the operation of our English system, that the present danger, the magnitude of which no honest and observing man will dispute, has arisen. Indulgence on the part of the heads of the Church, implicit confidence in their clergy, had been nursed into inveterate habits by the calm, and steady, and glorious progress of religious truth. It was not that the Bishops slept on their posts, or that the laws had lost their power ; but there really was no fit occasion for the active interposition of either ; all was going on so - well without the help of either Pope or general council, that any rude interposition would be indeed a wanton challenging of danger. Such was the state to which the Christian liberty of centuries had exalted our Church twelve years ago, as every Englishman now living can attest. We say of Christian liberty, because the govern ment of law is liberty, and the only true condition of liberty ; and the government of law is most perfect where the law is least frequently invoked. Of liberty, however, it is a necessary attribute, that men may go wrong if they are prepared to abide the consequences of doing so. And se it has proved in the Church. About twelve years ago, certain stupid, ignorant—we repeat it, most ignorant—conceited, and perverse men sought to Preen. turing to drop a hint or two about the necessity or the value of protection ; but ho receives no encou ragement, and is listened to either in silence or with smiles. A daily organ of " public opinion" still strug gles on, hoping against hope ; and another occasionally exhausts its capacity in elaborating a sneer at the League ; but, with these exceptions, the advocacy of the restrictive system is abandoned by everyman who wishes to escape the imputation of imbecility, either as to the use of his reasoning powers or his capacity to discern the progress of public events. Tire question is not now what is free trade, but whenstsad how will it be att a in s d ? The Anti Corn-law LeUgue propose to answer this question; and the deep interest which was evinced by the auditory in the seemingly dry details of the regis tration, as,rarrated by the chairman, show that thi s is now thestarning point in the movements of the League. Between it and Sir R. Peel there is now something Eke reciprocity, In exchange for " buying in the cheapest and relliug in the dearest market," the I eague have adopted his famous policy of "Register, register, register," and are likely to work it out with far more effect than he' has done his avowed free-trade principles. We flier at, present no opinion on Mr. Cobden's bold and ingenious' scheme for invading the counties, by means of his forty-' shilling freeholds ; we merely notice the fact of the: deep interest manifested by the meeting in eh etoral operations and plans which have already bean tulsee up . with great zeal and activity in Lancashire and Yorkshit e.' The Anti-Corn-law League, almost in spite of its. if; is becoming a great normal school of political agitation,: and interesting thousands in the possession and the use, of the franchise who, otherwise, might have remained in a state of entire quiescence. This is ever the fruit of continued injustice, the fatal consequence of selfish p: o crastination in the settlement of great national questions., In 1841 the corn-law controversy might have been close d, for a century by the prompt adoption of a moderate fixed' duty and a free -trade tariff ; in 1842 compromise was not impossible, when Sir Robert Peel was disturbing, without settling, the whole of our commercial affairs ; in 1844, nothing short of the total repeal of the corn-laws would extinguish the Anti-Corn-law League ;• and wi.en , the corn-laws are repealed, there appears to be now a ' strong probability that the bulk of those who for years would have, been satisfied with commercial reforms, will neither be contented nor put down without the ac companiment of political changes, affecting the structure of the electoral body, and consequently the re-distribution of the balance of political power. The perfect apprecia tion by the auditory of the question of free trade was drawn out by Mr. Cobden in his usual happy way. Al luding to the dinner to Sir Henry Pottinger then taking place in Merchant Tailors' Hall, he asked What was the crowning service of that distinguished man, in ac knowledgment of which 'merchants subscribed to tes timonials, and were swelling by their voices the acclamations with which he was greeted ? Why,, the imposition of a perfectly free-trade tariff :on the Chinese ; a universal, not a one-sided tariff ; one open to all the world, and wholly irrespective of conditions of reciprocity—a tariff which freely admitted the main articles of human food, repudiated duties for protection, - and laid down moderate ones, solely for revenue This told upon the audience with great effect, which was increased when the speaker declared, that if the landowners would permit China to send over a Chinese Sir Henry Pottinger, to do as much for England as Sir Henry had accomplished for the Celestial Empire, he would willingly subscribe his quota in acknowledg ment of the services of so great a benefactor. Striking contrasts like these sink at once into the mind of an audience, and render superfluous a world of argument. On the whole, the meeting of last night in Co vent-gaaden Theatre, demonstrated that the Anti- Corn-law League is as strong, if not stronger, than ever ; and that continued refusals on the part of the Legislature to deal with and settle this great ques tion, may lead to political changes far more perilous than hesitating statesmen imagine. Let the middle classes lend effectual aid, in order to rescue the let d owners from the effects of their selfishness and obstinacy, and though some mischiefs are now all but irreparable, the next general election, not very far distant, may com pensate for the infatuation of the last, and save the country in time from undergoing, in the next series of scarce and dear years, evils similar to those which dark ened the disastrous cycle of 1837-1842. ATROCIOUS MURDER AND HIGH WAY ROBBERY, NEAR TRECASTLE, BRE- CONSHIRE. // 7 O r ifr 0. 1 . 1 0 04.° to tok