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GAME DUTY, 1839. COUNTY—OF SURREY— THIRD PUBLICATION. ir . IST OF PERSONS who have taken (rot —IA GENERAL GAME CERTIFICATES at 3/. I3s. 6d. Atkins, M., Headley [Kelsey, William, Banstead ' -- . . r. °k> - . " ~ ~,,,,,..._ , :,....- ~..t , ,A. s N , ------; , AA'• ''' - * I :',... ~,,;1, ._ 11'...jr ,, , , ,: ','.... ;:,,.„01,..r,..,. ..r .7.1. ei.,%, "....‘,.=.44.... e , ~, ~,, ~,, ; ~, i tto i 1:; \'.c.>• I .( 4 , 1 -.,. i'„ i ( .I :, ,__ 7._,.,,_-_)_ 7 trs., -V,4 N--* ' z *.407:rf.. - A4 , ),) , i, e'' 4 :'‘? '43 hu,,A,,, ---, . ',, ~.. ~ „-- -, - .4 •, , A _ - 1.,X,,:A ... • 1-cri , if , ''s - I,Th Or A., _,...... ~ 1 ,...,., - ... y .,,, \ i'Pav a alir -I. ~...,, - ) -- , 3--;e . .. zi;l , ----f-P''' ?,. - _ -, p , - - N : ''' ) 4j .ii --------- --- 'IV '' ' "-- • t-7- . .2.1 ;:_ ::', 2 ~/4/taTf3 o IV) ' ' l O 441 )1 , . 4 :44 . ~.\V:` . i)li , illi , 0i T . o, • -.• •••--,-- ;!,,t, , , , ...,,.....--........... ~. _ . ~~~ F • it: TNia DI O N . (---' , , : - =. _', , 0 1 Baker, John, Abinger (Neal, James Lingfield Beale, William, Reigate-heath) Borgnis, P e t er , Che'singt°n !Perry, J. W., Chessingtm Broadwood, H. F., Newdigate 'Pattock, James, Dnnsfold o. 14.7 t ;6. LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 18::19. Chandler, James, Epsom Chandler, George, Whitley • Robertson, Andrew, Kingston Child, G. Baylis, Clink Lihertvi lli e hhell, - Thomas, Kingswood ame 1-ItIC-F ~• ARKE 1 ,- ALL EY CONSOLIDATED. MINES, LIINIC.O "HORNE, CORNWALL. PERSONS holding SIL SItES in these MINES are re quested to communicate tr. ithin a fortnight from the date hereof with the undersigned, in order that arrangements may be made 'to EXCHANGE th use SHARES f or SHARES i n the NEW COMPANY, And PERSONS having an; ; other CLAIM against the said MINES, incurred previously is the 23d day of September last, are also requested to send the Particulars thereof within the above named period to the tin& Tsigned, in order that the same may be examined, and if correct . discharged. HENRY COOPER, UNION PLATE GLASS COMPANY. WORKS—POCKET NOOK, SAINT HELEN'S, LAN CASHIRE. THE Trade and the Public in general are re spectfully informed that the extensive Establishment of the above-named Company, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, HAYMARKET, London (late the Hunterian Museum), is now open for the sale of their superior PLATE GLASS, which for brilliancy ofeolour and hi g h finish cannot be equalled by any tither Manufactory. Samples of quality and further particulars may be had upon application. By order of 'the I3oard of Directors, PUBLICATIONS. LITERATURE. - vt TH E OBERLIN INSTITUT tl Dewdney, George, Dorking ' Dickens, Thomas, Lcatherh Ede, Thomas, DorkinerA". Evelyn, George, Wott on •1_ Scarlett, Hon. Robert, Abinger Shollcrass, Jaspi!r. Banstead Simmons, Caleb, Dorking Snow, Henry, Headley This day is published, in 1 vol., post Bvo., Ms. cloth lettered. AMANUAL of BRITISH COLEOP TERA, or BEETLES; containing a Description of all the Species of Beetles hitherto ascertained to inhabit Great Britain and Ireland, 8:2. &c. ;, together with their Localities, Times and Places of Appearance, &c.. By JAMES FRANCIS STEPHENS, F.L.S. , &e. Author of" Illustrations of British Entomology," &c. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. .1V EV TI? OD U CTION TO CON VE YANG'. IN G, ac.. By OWZN FLINTOFF, Esq.., Banister at Law. London, Richards and Co., 1840. Tabor, Charles, William, Wal- Goulbarn, Henry, Retchworth ton-on-the-hill • . Tckcl, John, Frimley Harding, Thomas H., Dorking Tickner, John, Cranley Hind, Charles, Dorking Hope, Henry Thomas, Dorking Wickens, John, Ockley Hughes, Rev. W. H., Hotley Woods, George, Shalford __ .. lWranghara, Wm. jun„ Epsom Solicit or to the New Company. A. GOSLETT, Agent. This day is published, in Svo., price 4s. ticl.;'Part VI. of - A DICTIONARY -of PRACTICAL -ME DICINE; comprising Gencral Pathology, the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Morbid 'Structures, and the Dis orders especially incidental ,to Climates, to the Sex, stud to different Epochs of Life; with numerous Prescriptions for the Medicines recommended, &c. By JAMES COPLAND, M.D., 5.,• &c. &e. London: Longman, Or-rae, and Co. Innes, G. A., Abinger [omitted in First List. I Salisbury, 16th Dec., 1839. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' and GE NERAL FIRE and LIFE A SSIAIANCE COM PANY, Adelaide-place, London-bridge; George-street, Edin burgh; Oldham-street, Manchester; and 'Wason's-buildings, Liverpool. The TRANSFER BOOKS of this COMPANY will be CLOSED on the 31st ing.ant, preparatory to the Dividend of four per cent, which will be paid on the Ist of February next, and any subsequent days Wundays excepted), between the hours of eleven and two o'clecV.—December 18, 1839. AVIES'S CANDLES, 6d. per 1b..; Wax 'W Candles, ls. 2d. ; ;Fine Wax, ls. sd. ; extra fine Moulds, Wax Wicks, 7d. ; transparent Wax, 'B.'9d. ' • ge nuine Sperm, I s 9d. ; genu i ne W ax, 2s. id. ; Yellow Soap, 465., 545., and 60s. per 1121bs. ; Mottled, 625. and 665. ; Windsor, Is. 4d. per packet; Palm. ls. 4d. ; Old Brown Windsor, Is. 9d. ; R ose , ' 2s. • Camphor, 2s. ; Almond,Soap, 2s. 6d. ; superfine .S ea li ng Wax, 4s. d. per lb. ; genuine Sperm Oil, 9s. Od. per gallon. • For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old-Established Warehouse, 63, St. Martin's-lane, opposite New Slaughter's Coffee-House. LIST OF PERSONS LICENSED TO DEAL IN GAME. NAME. RESIDENCE. Drummond, Robert Bridge-foot, Vauxhall. Glover, George Illackiriars.road. Hills, William Hercules-buildings, Lambeth. Hooker, Thomas.. Fashion-street, Bermondsey. Owcn, James Thomas Brixton. Pratt, Brixtint. By order r f thy Board, Stamps and Taxes. C. PRESSLY, Secretary. Made up from the 15th October to the 24th November, 1839. PENALTIES. The Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes hereby give No tice, that every person taking; killing, or pursuing game with out first obtaining a Certificate, incurs a penalty of 201., and is also liable to be surcharged in double the amount of the Certi ficate Duty. Any person in pursuit of Game, refusing, on being duly re quired, to produce his certificate or permit the same to be read, or a copy thereof to be taken, or refusing - to declare his true name and place of residence, also incurs a penalty of 2C/. Gamekeepers are desired to take notice that a Certificate at the rate of 1/. SL, will not authorise any person to kill Game beyond the limits of the Manor for which he is deputed; and, in order that a Certificate at such rate of. Duty may protect a Gamekeeper, it requisite, not only that he should be deputed by some Lord or Lady of the Manor or reputed Manor, but also that such deputation should be registered with the Clerk of the Peace, or the Gamekeeper will be liable to he surcharged in double the Duty of 31. 13s. 6d., and also to be prosecutes' by any common informer for the penalty of 201. It is the intention of the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes to publish in a separate List the names and residences of all persons surcharged in double Duty for sporting without Certi ficates. TO PERSONS WISHING TO ENGAGE IN HOTEL BUSINESS. ELIGIBLE INVESTMENT. TO BE LET on advantageous terms, the HOTEL DEPARTMENT of a RIRST-RATE ESTABLISHMENT in the WEST of ENGLAND. For Particulars enquire at Mr. Cafe's Offices, Great Marlbo rough-street. TO BUILDERS, WHEELWRIGHTS, AND OTHERS . PO BE LET, a HOUSE containing eleven rooms, including a large attic and cellar, with an exten sive grass plot, garden, and yard; also a side entrance of 12 feet; situate 21, Church-street, Gravesend. It has been sub stantially repaired and fitted up as the Unicorn beer-shop and eating-house, with bowling-green and skittle-grounds ; but is well adapted for any business requiring space, such as a builder, wheelwright, cowkeeper, &c. There arc also several large plots of Ground adjoining to be let. Apply at the Baker's, 20, Church-street ; or to Mr. Furrell, 83, Windmill-street, Gravesend. WANTED a MANOR and ESTATE (in any English county) with or without Manion ; az two Estates, the Purchase Money of which would not exceed TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND POUNDS. All applica tions will be treated as strictly confidential. Address by lettei, post paid, to C. M. S., No. 3, Falcon square, Aldersgate-street, until Saturday next, after which to (box $9) Nottingham. TIOUSES, &c., to be LET, by JACKSON and CO., in various situations, in the following Trader, and many others :—Tea, Coffee, Chop, and Eating Houses ; Public Houses; Beer Houses; "Brewery; Baket s; Tobacco nists ; Grocers; General Dealers ; Green Grocers ; Coal and Potato Dealers; Oil, Colour, and Italian Business; Cow keepers, Dairy, and Blilkwalks ; Private Houses; Lodging Houses, &e Particulars may be had at the Offices of Messrs. Jackson and Co., Auctioneers, 26, Brydges-street, Covent-garden. N.B. Letters to be pasd. HULLS YORKSHIRE. 3TESSRS. M 17R RAY and TA TTER JL SALL will SELL by AUCTION at the_ George Inn, Whitefriar-gate, Hull, on TUESDAY, the 4th of February next, All that ve valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE, known as BOREAS HILL, comprising a Mansion of old date, and 282 Acres of rich land, in a ring fence, in the Parish of Paull, eight miles from the Seaport and Market Town of Hull, only three from the Town of 'leder', and nine from Pattrington. The Mansion is placed upon a gentle eminence, in the midst of well-grown Shrubberies and thriving Plantations, and sur rounded by a noble growth of Timber; and at a convenient distance, is a Capital Farm House, with all suitable Outbuild ings and Offices, situated in the centre of the lands—and the entire property will be found to present attractions in the beauty of the surrounding scenery—its healthy and commanding situa tion, and the well-known richness of the land, well meriting attention, as offering an excellent opportunity whether for investment or occupation. Immediate possession may be had. Printed particulars, with a Plan, may be had on application to Mr. Dunn, Solicitor, Hcdon, near Hull ; of Messrs. Tat tersall, Hyde-park-corner ; and Of Messrs. Murray and Tatter sall, Land Agents and Auctioneers, 47, Parliament-street. TO PERSONS FURNISHING. THE largest STOCK of CABINET and UPHOLSTERY FURNITURE in the kingdom is always to be found ON SALE at the PANTECHNICON, BELGRAVE-SQUARE, LONDON, at the Manufacturer's lowest prices. Materials and workmanship warranted of the best description. STOVE ON PRINCIPLES ENTIRELY • NEW, AND UNEQUALLED FOR COMFORT AND ECONOMY. By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. THEPHE CHUNK PATENT STOVE, . invented by Mr R. PROSSER, Civil Engineer, is distin guished from all others by its entire freedom from dust or smoke ' its great economy of fuel, - and its perfect safety from fire. It has been a source of great comfort in the nursery and oed-room of he invalid, affording an uniform temperature through the day and night, with only one supply, while the most delicate test cannot detect anything arising from its use which is injurious to health—it merely warms the air without decomposing it ; and, as there is no door, none of the gases generated by combustion . can pass into the apartment. Wherever warmth is required, this Stove is applicable. It is as desirable for the drawing-room as the laundry ; for warming greenhouses it possesses extraordinary claims, the very great expense of building flues, and afterwards the immense con sumption of fu-1, being avoided. For workshops and ships' cabins it is invaluable ; it requires attention only once in twenty-four hours, during which time the cost will not exceed twopence. Price, Plain, 31. ; Fluted, 3 /. 10 s. Manufactured by the Sole Proprietors, RIPPON and BURTON, WELLS-STREET, OXFORD-STREET; of whom may be had detailed Catalogues of the Prices of Fenders, Fire-arms, Warranted Table Cutlery, Superior Nickel Silver, &c., 20 per cent. under any other old-established House, which can be forwarded for a single postage. Established:lWO. CAUTION TO ALL WHO HAVE PURCHASED THE CHUNK PATENT STOVE. It having been represented to Rippon and Burton that the Chunk Patent Stove has been fixed with piping improperly made, and without sand for the Fire Pail to stand upon, in the inner circle of the bottom, R. and B. feel it necessary to state, that unl e s s their printed directions (which are very short) are in every respect attended to, the action of the Stove will be much injured, if not destroyed. 12, Wells-street, Oxford-street. BETT'S PATENT BRANDY. —If any proof were required of the still rising celebrity of this Spirit, and the expiring efforts of attempted competition, the Excise Returns would at ones furnish the evidence ; whilst the prediction, on its introduction in 1829, that " it would even tually supersede the use of French Brandy," is rapidly approach ing its accomplishment. By the Official Accounts referred to it, it will be seen that the consumption of French Brandy is gradually DECREASING ; and that the sales of the PATENT BRANDY, within the present year, have INCREASED at the rate of from 40,000 to 50,000 Gallons per Annum ; a quantity far exceeding the entire trade of those establishments formed with the express object, and in the vain hope, of rivalling this production. These simple facts are the best answers to the allurements of high-sounding titles and aristocratic bombast, thrown out by certain parties ; who must he, by this time, fully convinced, that such an ostentatious display is altogether worthless, as a substitute for quality. If any doubt exist on tilt. minds of J. 'l'. Betts and Co., that the Patent Brandy will entirely supersede the use of the Fo reign Spirit, it arises from the fact, that purchasers are not SUFFICIENTLY CAREFUL to guard themselves against being imposed upon, by the substitution of spurious articles for the genuine Patent Brandy. Were proper precautions taken on that head, complaints of quality would soon cease to be heard. The Patentees, as Distillers, cannot send out less than Two Gallons, which may be obtained, either pale or coloured, for Cash on delivery, at Eighteen Shillings per Imperial Gallon, of the highest legal strength, at the Distillery, No. 7, Smith field-bars, leading to St. John. street,---their only Establish ment. • SIGHT AND HEARING. THE INVISIBLE OPERATIVE VOICE CONDUCTOR, effected by the Messrs. S. and It SOLOMONS, Opticians and Am ists to the Royal Family, 39, Albe marle—street, Piccadilly, and 96, Cheapside, by which thousands of deaf persons have been greatly benefited, is the size of a seven. shilling Piece, and when fixed into the cavity of the ear is soft and easy, and not more perceptible than having a piece of wool in its place, by which the faintest whisper at a public assembly is heard with distinctness. And defective VISION is brought to nature by the use of newly-invented SPECTACLE LENSES : immediately they arc placedb efore weak and imperfect eyesight, either by day or candleli rh: every object becomes clear and distinct, and the most Minute particle is seen with great distinctness, by the use of which both the sight and hearing become much improved. The Messrs. SOLOMONS DISCLAIM all connection with persons of the SAME NAME, and the sale of Amber Spectacles: in doing so they state the HISTORY of AMBER, from the Dictionary of Arts and Sciences" of Andrew Eire, M.D., F.R.S., &c. &c. , " Amber is an induralea vegetable juice, and not produced by the iaws of crystallization, but by the same causes which influence the mechanical condition of gum. Insects are often found embedded in 't. Amber is most powerfully electrical by friction—very hot, to Ruth an extent as to explode into fragments ; the workmen, too, are subject to nervous tremours iu their wrists, arms, &c. ; they en counter great danger 'ay handling such dreadful excited electrics ; Amber grows with lime, and is apt to take fire, and is of such a soft nature when exposed to warmth that it swells, bubbles up, and Will hu nt away with flame." Tire above Dr. Ure's statements are further confirmed by Sir D. !i I,tiEWSTER and Pliny, as also by Parks and Hem/ on Chemistry. fiedestructive effects of such a material for Spect,cles, to imperfect vision, ar e f u ll y and most sat i s f ac t o rily explained in Messrs. Curtis sad Dollond's Second Edition on the Preservation of Sight,, and icav be ascertained at any respectable Optician's in London. The Messrs. Solomons' newly-invented Spectacle Lenses are not Fonstru f ted of such a material; but which are very super i o r, a nd ~,"t?ne ck at once dimness of sight and imperfect visi on t o i t s 1 and natural state ; these Spectacles, and very smell Voice e 1 ductors for Deaf persons, are only t o b e had at their Establish cr , ts, 39, Albemarle.street, and 96, Cheapside. No Travellers are employed. NATIONAL LOAN . FUND LIFE AS SURANCE AND DEFERRED ANNUIT Y SOCIETY. 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. EASTERN BRANCH.-5, Castle-street, St. Mary Axe. Capital, 500,000/. EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PABMAMENT. DIRT:CTORS., T. L AIME MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. Col. Sir Purges Cam ac, K. C. S. Robert Holland, Esq., M.P. John Elliotson, M.D. F. R. S. Ceorge Lungley, Esq. H. Gordon, Esq. John Rawson, Esq. [Joseph Thom! 4on, Esq. A UDITOAS. Dr. olinthus Gregory, F.R. A. S. ProfessorW heatstone F. R. S. A czuARY—W. S. B. WooZzouse, Esq., F.R. A.S. 11/ the new principles of Life Assurance and Deferred An nuities, founded by this Society, the moral obligation of all elaFses of making a provision for a family or for old age is lei gel enhanced, by the immediate advantages secured to the Assured themselves. 'll - details of the principles of the Society, its improvement in thi system of Assurance, its economical arrangements in favour of the Assured, its extensive Tables, &c., will be found in its I'rospectus, which may be obtained at. the Offices of the Society, 26, Cornhilb London, or at any of its Braimhes throughout the Country. F. FERGUSON CAAIROUX, Secretary. IMMEDIATE BENEFITS OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC. LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE RATES Reduced 30 per Cent. per Annum Lower than any other Office. IFE ANNUITY RATES, _ll-1 CALCULATED on EQUITABLE PRINCIPLES ! ! ! FOR EXAMPLE. For every 1001. deposited, this Association will grant the An nuity placed opposite the Age of the Party depositing. • From 50/. and upwards, in proportion. AgeriO to 40t045 to 50 to 55 to 60 to 65 to 79 to 75 to 80 £S $ r so l ., o r , T in io r i2 101£15 10I£20 T 25 0 Per Per Per Per Per Per Per Per Per Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent, Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent. LIFE ASSURANCE RATES. Age :10 to 25 to 30 to 35 to 38 to 40 to 45 to 5• ; „JE s. (1.2 s. d..£ S. d. Zs. 6.£ s. d.I.E s. d . s. d. Premium 111 0 1 1 15 0 1 2 0 0 1 2 6 0 1 2 lO 01 215 0 13 5 0 This Company make no charges for intermediate ages under 50 years. FIRE INSURANCE RATES. Common Insurance. s. d. Private Houses and Shops (not hazardous)... 1 0 per Cent. Hazardous Double Hazardous Farming Stock . .. 1 6 INDEPENDENT WEST MIDDLESEX ASSURANCE COMPANY, - - Opposite the Bazaar, Baker-street, Portman-square, London. South St. David's-street, Edinburgh ; Ingram-street, Glasgow • And Sackville - street, Dublin. Empowered under the sevei-al Acts of Parliament of 14th*Geo. 111. c. 0 ; 22d Geo. 111. 2 • 53d Geo. 111. c. 141; 3d Geo. IV. c. 92; and Ist Vic. c. 10._ G. E. WILLIAMS, Secretary. AGENTS WANTED within Ten Miles of London for the INDEPENDENT WEST MID DLESEX ASSURANCE COMPANY, 27, Baker-street, Portman-square. Application to be made to the Secretary. BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM• PANY, • No. I. PRINCES-STREET, BANK, LONDON. CAPITAL, ONE MILLION. A most economical set of Tables—computed express.y for the use of this Institution, from authentic and complete data, ant presenting the - lowest Rates of-Assurance that can be of fered without compromising the safety of the Institution. Increasing rates of premium on a new and remarkable plan, for securing loans or debts, a less immediate payment being required on a policy for the whole term of life than in any other office. A Board of Directors in attendance daily at Two o'clock. Age of the Assured in every case admitted in the Policy. All claims payable within one month after proof of death. A liberal commission allowed to solicitors and agents. Premium per Cent, per Annum payable during „ First Five Second Five Third Five Fourth Five Remainder Years. Years. Years. Years. of Life. 20 £1 1 11 £1 510 £1 1011 xi 16 9 £2 3 8 30 1 6 4 112 2 119 1 2 7 4 217 6 40 116 1 2 4 4 214 6 3 7 0 4 3 4 50 216 7 3 9 4 4 5 6 5 6 3" 613 7 PETER MORRISON, Resident Director. ETY ASSURANCE. NIETROPOLITA SOLI FOR MUTUAL DIU= LIFE ASSURANCE Torts. John Al'card, Esq. Thomas H. Hall, Esq. Richard Low Beck, Esq. Charles Ilensley t Esq. • Edmund C. Buxton, Esq. Joseph Hoare, I..sq. ,fohn Burnes?, Esq. J. Francis Maubert, E. . William Clay, M.P. Joseph Pease, Esq., H.P. James Dawson, Esq, John Taylor, Esq, Thomas Fowler, Esq. J. Scholefleld, Esq., M.P. Francis Fox, Esq, John Travers, Esq. W. Storrs Fry, Esq. George Vaughan, Esq. The Directors hereby give notice to members whose Pre miums fall due on the sth of January next, that the same must be paid within thirty days from that date. This Society APPROPRIATES the WHOLE ofthe PRO FITS to the reduction of the Premiums of Members, and this is UNDIMINISHED by AGENCY or COMMISSION, the business of the Society being conducted without that expense. The effect of the principle of Mutual Assurance, so CARRIED OUT, is shown by the abateme n t o f FORTY per ent. declared for the ensuing year, upen the Premiums of Members of Five Years' standing, and which abatement has been computed on data justifying the expectation of its continuance, at an equal rate, year by year, throughout the remaining term of life. The Premiums of MEMBERS (who are the only proprietary) are payable Yearly, Half-yearly, or Quarterly, on the sth of January, sth of April, sth of July, end sth of October, either of which several days constitutes the commencement of the, Fear to INlEsraxas. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the Society, AS MEMBERS, on the sth of January next, should appear at the Office on or before that day. A Reduced Table of Rates for Assurances not claiming Profit. RICHARD HEATHFIELD, Superintendent. Princes-street, Bank, Dec. 14, 1839. CITY of LONDON ANNUITY and LOAN COMPANY, NO 6, King William-street, London. T* be Empowered by Act of Parliament. Capital, 600,000/. Tlt STEE S. R:ehard Sylvester Cahill, Esq., Brighton illiam Sloane, E sq ., 37, Wimpole-street, London. Thomas Teed, Esq., Stanmoro Hall, Middlesex. DIRECTORS. William Sloane, Esq., 37, Wimpole-street, Chairman. Gardner I3oggs, Esq., Liver- John Maclean Lee, Esq., 11, pool. Old Cavendish-street. Francis Ch. Cassaigne, Esq., John INPClure, Esq., 8, Broad- Salisbury-street, Strand. street-buildings. William Camp Crane, Esq., 65, William Shand, Jun., Esq.,ls, Old Broad -street. Pinner's Hall, Broad-street. Benjamin Jackson, Esq., 12, George Sloane, Esq., Temple. Keppel-street. SOLICITORS -- Messrs. Joh Temple. BANKERS—Messrs. Prescott, Su avEroas.-111essrs. Topl Church-yard. The objects of this Institution are to grant adequate rates of Annuity to parties disposed to invest Capital in this manner, and to offer to others the means of obtaining a provision, at an advanced age, on fair and reasonable terms. Not being restricted in regard to the investment of its Ca pital. like the Government Office, which can only grant An nuities in exchange for transfers of Stock, and not being en cumbered with the heavy responsibilities of Life Offices, on account of the immense sums assured by them, the " CITY OF LONDON equitable"C o m Company a Scaleny is of enabled Rates to than present ean to the offeredthe Public b by a much morewith every requisite either of these Estab l ishments. This ma y be at . onca seen by reference to Tables, the printed which, information, m ay be obtained by application at the Office. BAILEY, S ecre t ar y. By o r der of the Board o w f DmirLecitAorA, inson, Son, and Weatherall, , Grote, Ames, Cave, and Grote. lis and Son, 16, St. Paul's CO NFINEIV IENI OF THE BOWELS. stomach a n d a li mentary can a. -Y P Instead of habitualliyhirriatraitiantgiveanvdotidoen.bsi,lityaotninpgoutrhae little plai n water into DR. SCOTT'S E FOUN APLRITIV easy of desire TAIN, and carry it in your poc ket to any . app . appropriate is place, where it inst ant l y produces t h e e ffect application, and b y a double-act i on m ovement air, the import ance of which every pe rson uses lavement machines. Defective hearing has so ma n y degrees that it has been . ne- s , t_ou ne cessary to construct powers, so as to provide th e Deaf with that ass istance The SOUND MAGNIFIERS of various especially adapted to the parti cular wants o f eac h person. largest is called by the inventor (Dr. Scott) the SONI FERON; to the smallest, he has given the name o f COR NETS; the intermediate he has designated by the d eg ree of power of each respectively. The Soiliferon is so powerful as to be a resource for the most extreme cues of deafness; i ts curious property of bringing very dista n t sounds to the ear, ren ders it invaluable in places of worship and l arge assemblies. B u t the Cornets are the most convenient of the whole, as so long as they are worn, the wearer's hearing remains uninterrupted ; they arc the smallest aids to hearing that it is possible to con. strut. To be procured only of the Superintendent, at tor. Scott's Re pository, 369, Strand, three doors from Exeter riptions sent by post. Des- PUBLICATIONS. THE SPORTING RE VIE W for JANUARY, price 2s. 6d., will contain Four, splendid Embellishments, and, together with Papers by Nimrod and other distinguished writers, - the Third Chapter of the History of the Turf, by Craven. Sporting Review Office, 191, Regent-street. COOKERY. Published this d a y, price ss : 6d., 1. T HE COOK'S ORACLE. A New Edition. 2. Mrs. DALGAIRN'S COOKERY. A New Edition, with Additions, price 6s. Robert Cadell, Edinburgh ; Whittaker . n Co., London, and all Booksellers. CHEAPER . EDITION, IN POST OCTAVO. No►v ready, THE CONCLUSION OF THE DIARY OF THE TIMES OF GEORGE IV., Being Vols. 111. and IV. 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The First Minister then read the following proclamation :—" By' order of his High ness, the reigning Duke.-- His;Highness the reigning Duke of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, convinced of the deep interest which all - his faithful subjects take in all that concerns the Ducal house, has thought fit to assemble around him the Deputies and high func tionaries, in order to announce to them the approaching nuptials of his son, the Prince Albert, with her. Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. The very ex cellent and noble qualities of her Majesty are well known, and have given his Highness the firm convic tion that this union will, by divine assistance, Cause the eternal happiness of his son, who will consecrate all his efforts to his new country, but who, at a distance from hiS native country, will always turn to it with love and respect." Whi'st the Minister was reading the Proclamation the cannon from the fortrers announced the happy event to the people. Tbeir Highnesses then received the con gratulations of their Court.—Post Gazette, Dec. 17. A LAST WISH. Oh lay me mot within the grave, 'DILL bricks and stones enclose, O'er which no shadowy branches wave, r . p guard any last repose. I could not sleep my last long sleep - Did stony walls surround me; ,My soul would flit about, and weep That fttters still had bound me. • Oh lay me 'neath some ancient tree, That spreads its shade afar ; Where my lone grave may nulled on be, By many a silent star. Where bounding steps may o'er me press, . And ►aughing tones are ringing; And purest joys that mortals bless, Their course around me winging. Lay me where every season brings .Some sweet and simple token; Where Nature's fairest, loveliest things May soothe a heart that's broken. Where forest birds may sing my dirge And hover round my grave; Or where the distant rolling surge Proclaims the free blue wave. There, lay me there, 'mid scenes that life Hath twin'd in love around me; Oh lay me far from mortal strife, Let no dark walls surround me ! GnAcE A. —Mirror. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—AIoEnny. Business, always bad in the Christm7;;;;li, was seasonably flat yesterday afternoon—few bets were made, few changes effected, and those few of very slight iinportance. We need only state, that Brother to Euclid, Glenorchy, Gambia, Grey Milton, and May Boy, were somewhat better favourites than on Thursday last, that the offers against Crucifix and Lalla Rookh were severally a couple of points less than when we last quoted them ; and that the filly out of Rowton's dam was in request at 14 to 1. The following was the "price current" at the close : THE DERBY. • 500 to TOO agst Scott's lot—taken 14 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Br. to Euelid—takels to 1 15 to 1 agst Lord Orford's Angelica c.—taken 18 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Muley Ishmael—take 20 to 1 20 toil agst Lord Westminster's Launcelot—taken 22 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wardan—taken. 22 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Bokhara 30 to 1 apt Lord Jersey's Glenorehy—taken 33 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Ottoman 40 to.l as Lord Exeter's Velvet colt , 44) to 1 agst Lord G. Beritinck's Grey 31ilign 50 to 1 agst Lord Albermarle's Janus 50 to 1 agst Mr. John Scott's May Boy 50 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Gambia—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Hoaldsworth' s Confederate 1000 to 800 on Angelica c agst Muley Ishmael—taken 1000 to 50 agst Velvet c and Ottoman—taken 750 to 100 agst Brother to Euclid and Angelica—taken 1500 even, on Gambia agst Uzbeck, Camillo, and Sophoeles-- taken THE °AK's. 6 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinek's Crucifix—take 7 to 1 7 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Lalla Rookh—take 8 to 1 14 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's colt, out of Rowt on ' s dam—. taken 200 even between Crucifix and Lalla Rookh— taken We beg to direct the attention of our readers to the following extract of a letter addressed to A. R ow lanA and Son, 20, Hatton Garden, London, frem- Hamburg, dated February :—" I have also the pleasure to inform you of another decided proof of th e e ffi cac y of your celebrated Mneassar Oil. Dr, Roding of this place bad a.r&ent who was bald for several years, and who had tried several articles for the recovery of his hair, but without effect, until he was advised by the doctor to make use of your Oil : after using three bot tles he entirely recovered it, and has now a much finer head of hair than formerly. Dr. R. felt so gratified at its success that lie made a drawing of the recovered hairs (magnified), which lie herewith sends." Rowland's Macassar Oil prevents hair from falling off or turning rey ; changes grey hair to its original colou r ; frees it from scurf and 'dandruff; and makes it beautifully soft and curly. In dressing hair, it keeps it in curl, &c., unimp a i r ed by damp weather, the dance, or in the exer cise of riding. Ask for " Rowland's Macassor Oil." LIVERPOOL LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—A public meeting, convened by placard and circular, of the licensed victuallers, wholesale and retail wine and spirit merchants, brewers, and owners of public-house pro perty, was held on Thursday, at Eastwood , s Royal Hotel, for the purpose of taking into considerat:on the effects which certain clauses of the Metropolitan Police Bill (intended to be introduced into this borough) would necessarily have upon their trade, and upon the value of public-hous7! property. From 400 to 450 persons were present. There was a good deal of discussion, and some difference of opinion on the subject ; but th e ma jority carne to a resolution that the municipal authori ties of the town be respectfully requested to forego the insertion of the 42d clause of the Metropolitan Police Act in any Bill they may apply for in the next Session of Parliament. The present work, which forms part of the second volume of the larger publication on '" The Law of Real Property," by the same author, has been issued in a separate form, and will be found a very useful introduction to conveyancing. The work is founded on the second volume of Blackstone 's Commentaries it contains about 500 cases, ar ranged in alphabetical order, and treats of estates divided into two principal kinds, viz., common law estates and admittedly legal or customary estates. Th e author has generally followed the arrangement of the great commentator, and at the same time confined himself to what is properly the province of a legal writer, to a description of the- statutes and customs of the land, without indulging in theories, and, as. he candidly admits, claims little credit for originality, except in the general arrange ment of the subject, and in his mode of treating qtmsi-fines and quasi-recoveries, as well as customary estates and uses. Though the subjects are gene rally dry and uninteresting, Mr. Flintoff has con trived not unfrequently to make them very palatable to general readers. The chapter, for instance, on " Title to Estates by Descent" is both amusing and instructive. After defining " Descent" he treats of " Lineal Consanguinity," and gives the follcwing calculation : " The doctrine of lineal consanguinity is sufficiently plain and obvious ; but it is at the first view .astonish ing to consider the number of lineal ancestors which every mambas, within no very great number of degrees ; and so many different bloods is a man said to contain in his veins as he bath lineal ancestors. Of these he bath two in the first ascending degree, his own parents; he bath :our in the second, the parents of his father and the parents of his mother ; he bath eight in the third, the parents of his two grandfathers and two grand mothers ; and by the same rule of progression, he bath an hundred and twenty-eight in the seventh ; a thou sand and twenty-four in the tenth ; and at the twentieth degree, or the distance of twenty generations, every man bath above a million of ancestors, as common arithmetic will demonstrate." . Another instance. Having defined the words " apparent" and " presumptive," he adds, " The same estate may be frequently devested by the sub sequent birth of nearer presumptive h e i rs , b e f ore i t fixes upon th e nearest presumptive heir. As, if an estate. is given to an only child, who dies, it may descend to an aunt, who may be stripped of it by an after. born uncle ; after which a subsequent sister of the deceased may enter, and who will again be deprived of the estate by the birth of a brother." A work of this kind necessarily treats of the ancient customs of nations and their origin, and an opportunity is thereby afforded of point ing out some remarkable varieties in social life. Under the section " Feoffinents," for instance, are given the different modes in which land was trans ferred. According to the law of the Jews—." A man plucked off his shoe and gave.it to his neighbour, and this was a testimony in Israel." Among Eastern nations lands were surrendered by the pre sentation of land and water ; among the German tribes by the delivery of a piece of turf, still prac tised in Scotland ; and, among the English, the conveyance of certain estates is made by the deli very of a rod. The language is plain and simple, with little of the usual jargon of the law, and the work altogether displays much patient research and accurate knowledge of the various intricate questions which it professes to discuss. THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, ,yc. By °num Fki-vTorr, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Mr. Flintoff is both a diligent and an exteni.ive inquirer. His present work contains a rather mi note account of the origin, history, an d customs , warlike, dom es ti c , anti legal, of the several nations, British, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, who now compose the British nation, as an introduction to a description of the common law derived from those customs, and of the statute law. His work is much more full in respect to the Britons, as if he bad a filial love to them, than to any of the other nations he describes ; and he brings into a small compass all probably which can be learnt, or is worth know ing, •of their manners and customs. This part of the book is especially worthy of the attention of students of English 'history, as well as of those who take a wider range and examine the progress of so ciety. His researches lead to no conclusion different from the conclusion drawn froM the researches and observations of others, and demon strate that the further back inquiries are carried, the more ignorant, rude, unskilful, and barbarous, ap pear all the races of men. The knowledge pos sessed by the Britons of the Creator, was on a par with their skill in making weapons of war, which consisted of bows, with reed arrows headed with flint, or sometimes with sharpened bones. They also " used in battle the four-pointed oaken club called a cat." When they had scarcely a trace amongst them of the use of metal 'except that which " had been communicated to them by the Phumi cians," it seems rather hard to suppose that they preserved am ongs t t h em t h e re li g i on of Noah, while they had not preserved a knowledge of the art of working in metals, which is supposed to have at tained considerable perfection before the Patriarch took refuge in the Ark. We are afraid, indeed, that Mr. Flintoff, by' endeavouring to trace a resemblance between the religion of the ancient Britons and the religion of the Bible, wishes to invest the darksuperstition of our ignorant ancestors with a dignity which does not properly belong to it. For our parts we give no credit to the tale of nations loan a valuable knowledge, whatever may be lost by individuals. Men banished from society may - lose certainly all the knowledge possessed by it ;'but this is not a question of _individuals cast out from a tribe or nation, and wandering in an untenanted wilderness, but a question of the whole tribe or nation, and we cannot see any good ground for supposing that they had ere: possessed a knowledge which they had lost by "Ion!=, wanderings in the East,"or that their ancestors had ever shared a higher state of civilization than that in which they were discovered. It is admitted that they obtained some useful knowledge from the Phoenicians, and the presumption; therefore, is, that at an antecedent period they were still more igno rant, not more learned, wise, and , civilized. We cannot, however, enter at length into such a ques tion, and must close our remarks by observing, that almost all writers on such a subject lend to antece dent times, their own ideas, and their own know ledge ; this was particularly the case before histori cal criticism was cultivated as an art ; it is strikingly observable in the writings of the earliest authors, who invariably lead their own knowledge, and the systems preialent at the time they wrote, to preceding ages. Returning to Mr. Flintoff, we must observe as a drawback on the favourable opinion we have formed and already: expressed of his book, that it has in some places an air of being superficial, as if its ma terials were rather gathered from indexes than duly selected from the works themselves after being thoroughly • studied and' digeited. Probably the style and mode of composition give this appearance, while the materials have in fact been properly pre pared, and the work is one of a ripened and perfect scholar. THE D IARY OF A NUN.—We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Mariborough-street, has this day published " The Diary of a Nun," in 2 vols. post Bvo., which can now be had at all the Libra ries. Mr..Colburn has also just published the following new works of fiction, by distinguished writers :-1, The Spitfire, a Nautical Romance, by Captain ha.. mier. 2, Preferment ; or, My Uncle the Earl, by Mrs. Gore. 3, The Life and Adventures of Mi c h ae l Armstrong, the Factory Boy, by Mrs. Trollope, com plete in 3 vols., with all the illustrations by H erv i eu Buss, &c. 4, The Romance of Private Life, by Miss Burney. And 5, Little Pedlington and, the Pedling toninos, by John Poole, Esq., author of "P au l Pry. " The inhabitants of Presteign have invited the Right Hon. Sir R. J. Bridges, Bart., to a p u bli c din ner in that town on Tuesday, the 9th of January.— ../Icaford Journal. IMPORTANT, IF TRUE...A 43. man in Massa cbussettg, having the fear of the fifteen gallon law before h's eyes, drank a quantity of mores mu l t icaulis tea just before going to bed ; and when he woke up next morn ing the liquid bad passed through his skull, and farmed a silk night-eap, which covered his head. This is a college in Ohio, United States, and .Ti:ecivcd a charter from its Legislature in Is al. It is the only college, and, with one exception, the only sell, )01 in the Union, which admits the coloured student to t be same privileges and treatment in all respects with tl, a white student. While it thus maintains in practice t 1 to prin ciples of justice, it adopts the effectual coo cto break down the, prejudice against colour, NN 7.1) is the s t rong b ond ,of slaVery in America. T; se minary h as now in the course of trailing I;et 4 re m 4-00 and ..500 students, under twelve well qualiEed• pro lessQrs, with assistant teachers. It is the nursery Of teachers for the Coloured people, and of an ti-sla• very lecturers and preachers ; and by a thorough .:curs c physical, intellectual, end moral training, is pre::: ark .g class of well-informed and efficient advocates of sini% er sal freedom. It is considered by the Pigs' of America as a powerf u l auxiliary for the removal of st.t very in that country, which is an enterprise of gr eat dif ficulty, and involving heavy and continued exper; cc, and by whose advice a deputatio n h as v i sited Eng land to solicit pecuniary aid in its behalf. The applicat; ion has been kindly and liberally entertained. A petition to the City Corporation occasion( td. the speech of Mr. Rodgers, which was published in 2 . 2( twe e , paper of the 15th instant. Four Members of the et mitt spoke in favour of the petition, in reply to Mr.Rod g , arc, but their speeches were not reported at any length., and . th e Institution does not appear before the public in its pro per character. Justice to the petitioners, justice the Court, and especially to the respectable Committer who gave an able and a strong report in lat'our of tin pe tition, require that the other side he heard, and , the more so, because the abolitionists of America as a re presented as violating the latvanitlies-Federal•(o7.-erla meat, and even thela:es of morality: Fifteen hundred Abolition Societies are in operation in the United States, all of which arc pledged to use none les t irsoral means constitutionally put forth, and not one o whist!: has been arraigned for a violation of law. The following are the remarks of Mr. A lderman Thomas Wood and Mr. Richard Taylor, in It a vour of the petition and the repo r t F Alderman THOIIAS WOOD expressed his regret at being obliged to differ in opinion with the mov sr of the amendment against the grant, and more so, as I.e must necessarily question some of his facts, if not in) pi!ach his knowledge of American law. He (the rncevesr) had described this question as one in waich we n were re stricted from interfering in consequence of its being opposed to the American laws, the policy of th's country towards one in arnity, and militating against the corn mon opinion of the whole of the United S ;atcs. ' In the latter observation he was evidently at fault, for he had admitted in course of his observat ions that thirteen of the States were opposed to sla ,very, and that thirteen supported it'; hence it v rag, upon his own showing, a moot point. If thee popula tion of a country were greatly divided up on a sub ject foreign interference ceased to be very gut rstionable ; but when states and governments, possessing legislative functions and independent authority, were equally di vided what became of this objection ? The vc division seemed, if it did not invite, to sanctify a foreign interfer ence ; and respect for the consistency of tl to English character, as well as regard for what had been done in India, demanded of every Englishman, and t uore espe cially of citizens of this great metropolis, to be. loud and earnest and zealous in pressing on their American friends, and brothers and fathers, the abomination of the slave trade, and the horrors to which its operations would hurry ,them.. The plague, the pestit !nee, rind death, were among its votaries, and seem to 'be opcu armed to embrace the advocate of so easastrous and so deleterious a principle as was found to be involved in the Slave Trade.—('Cheers.) With respect to the policy of the country, what could be more fanciful, seeing that upon all occasions the city had been foremost to relieve the oppressed of other countries, regardless of the dangers which mietht arise to our foreign friends , hence, in 1823, we not only encouraged both Greeks and Spaniards, then 'in open rebellion, to take an asylum in this country, but voted them 'pecuniary relief even from ourThwn funds.— (Cheers.) The pocket-book of every member' would show many, very many proofs, the details of which would be tedious ; he adverted only to one principle of action to show the objection was one rather novel, if not somewhat forced, failing all others of importance. Nay, but a few evenings since, we were dancing for the ,Po7eS, regardless of the animosity of the Autocrat of al! the Russias. • Sir P. LAURIE—But we sent them . no money. Aldermara. WooD—Becauso, forsootheevereavencree to Poland was so closely watched, that even the pene trating eye of the worthy Knight-could cot find an open ing to admit the smallest effort of mercy in their native land for the distressed and exilesi Poles.—(Cheer2.) Bat there is another point to which allusion has been made—that the laws of America have been tiolati , d. ,The mover of the amendment had brought down his becks, and had shown—what? That American slrwory was supported—by what ? Not by the Acts of the Union. No, forsooth. By what then ? Why by the acts of Nem Orleans, or some local State ; and, therefore, all interference was illegal. Give Lim the benefit of thirteen Staten, all advocating and le galising-, the slave .trade, and that is all he contends for ; still he only proves that the worst of moral prin ciples may be adopted as the ground of legislatrons la bours, and become, as a rul e o f government, the means of perpetuating the worst of moral evils. Tile converse proposition stands, therefore, upon an equal, if trot a better foundation ; it has, at all events, the saner on of truth and justice, and the equal support of the law. If, however, it is unwise in this Court to oppose the law of the States, the argument seems to be in favour of the report ; for the mover of the amendment has det.er ously 'kept out of sight the ali-important fact that the Oberlin Institute is a legal body—is supported by Government—is protected I; v charter—a charter granted by the Government—the Government of the Stake of Ohio. It is a college charter ; and though he ( the Alderman) had not these books to refer to, he could assure the mover of the amendment that- his labours would be amply repaid, and curiosity abundantly gra tified, by a perusal of the Oberlin charter; and, com paring it with the charters of other colleges, he would there discover an agreement, if not "totident verbis," yet something so close and so accurate, as at once to convince him that while the Oberlin Institute was not only legal in its own State, its principle was recognised and menfully supported by many, if not most others.— (Hear.) Hence, then, neither policy nor local laws-were opposed to the interference of this Court; except, indeed, the laws of some interested planters of cotton, of which more would be said hereafter. But it was urged, and with no small force, that the laws of the United States were not against slavery ; nay, that the Union was obliged to support slavery. Can there be anything more monstrous ? Why, in the whole charter of American independence, the word slave, the term slavery, does not occur—is not mentioned ; more than that, 'it is carefully avoided.—(Cheers.) • The genius and the spirit of the whole declaration of independence, and all individual and collective exertions previous to it, great and terrible as they were, were based on one axiom, and one axiom only—viz., All men are free.— (Cheers.) How then can the laws of the Union ha so i libelled, or their practice so distorted, as to suppose that in the most distant manner they can even sanction any thing so unholy as the slave trade ?—(Hear, hear.) But let the acts of the Union speak for themselves ; and let the American Government construe its own proceedings, and negative the unpardonable aspersion on the purity of its principles. What! the Union support slavery ! Neither in principle, as we have seen, nor in practice, as this Court must have seen by its receat public act in sending out a ship of war to cruise on the high seas and capture vessels trading in slaves, even though manned by Americans. Such is the fact ; what then becomes of the charge against the Government.? Can it be supposed that so much care should be taken by the United States to annihilate the slavery of the Afri can, and yet exhibit either encouragement to or con tinuance of American slavery. What ! annihilate Afri can slavery and protect American slavery! Impossible. Sir P. LAURIE—The cases are different. Alderman 'P. WOOD —The cases are different! Read the details of American slavery. Among the wretches kidnapped into A mer i can slavery will be f oun d mem hers of our sister country, Irish men and women, bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh, commanding our sympa thies and demanding our interference. A difference ! An African free and - an Irishman a slave! A diffe rence to which if the Honourable Knight aspires, IT will take no credit by the distinction, nor will the majority of his countrymen stand by to sanction slavery, even though it be of no more, than one Irishman.—(Cheers.) But that circumstance calls aloud for redress, and this fact is rnandetory on every men who regards his per sonal avoucher to say that Americans should not heedlessly, and for mercenary purposes, enslave the poor and the wretched of our country, o r b o ld them in so vile a bondage for any purpose, however much their cupidity, or the Hon. Knight's ingenuity, may seek a justification. The time had so far advanced that it was quite impossible to enter minutely into the details ; but it was his (the Alderman's) intention to have exhibited and proved to the Court that the American panics of 1832 and 1836 were based upon, and matured by, the slave inte rests. One observation he could not refrain from making, for it seemed that, superior wisdom had decreed, as a certain consequence, that the most disastrous results should ensue upon all the owners of slaves and the unrighteous traffickers in human life.—(Cheers.) Such was the geographical fact, that in each of these panics the principal operations were confined to the sleVe distrUets, and the houses in that accursed tiade were spoliate d, injured, and impoverished, almost wtbout exception—leaving the sad but certain evidence that the finger of the Eternal had marked this abominable traffic with certaio unerring marks of his indignation -(Cheers.) Can it be necessary now to denounce, or ; even to decry slavery in this country? O ur pr i nciples, our laws, and thank God, our holy religion, teach us ; to regard every man as a brother, and as such we may, • we must, assist and relieve, but we cannot, we dare not spoliate er enslave. Let then the vote of this day I record our answer to the arguments of the mover of the amendment, and by a liberal donation to this institution, prove to the world at large, and to America in particu lar, that in this city the slave trade is hated and abo minated, as alike opposed to our institutions and to the spirit of our mild, and charitable, and holy religion. Mr. R. TAYLOR .expressed a hope that the Court would not be influenced by what had fallen from some of the preceding speakers to withhold its sanction end support to the institution which the Committee had re- I commended. He considered that the merits of the question turned upon the fact of the means employed. It bad been alleged that these w ere i n d efiance of the laws of the Unit e d States, and that to abet them would be inconsistent with our friendly relations. Were tin re any truth in such a statement he would admit th force of the objection ; bet it was altogether erroneous. The means' employed were simply the establishment o 4 • a college open to the negro as well as to the white man gy and where, by receiving their education together upon terms of equality and Christian fellowship, the preju (lice of colour may be lessened, and the cause of ablation of slavery gradually advanced. The asser tion that such means are inconsistent with th e law, either of the Union or of the is wh o ll y unfounded ; however, it may servo State theof O hio, purpose of those who are so anxious to show their concern for the institution s of the American re public, by assisting to perpetuate that foul blot witli which on other occasions they are ever ready to reproach them. It bad been stated that the general Government being federal it did not interfere with 'slavery in the States that permitted it ; but neither did it interfere-with efforts ler the improvement of the negro, and the dis continuance of slavery in those States whose laws sanc tioned such efforts, as in Ohio, where the Oberlin Institute existed under a charter from the Govern meat, and wheSe the means emptayed we-r -most peace. -able, legal, and such as stie appi'ore thmseiveg to every one who could lay claim to the character of a man or a Christian. --E-vcry one of the statements which had been so confidently made was erroneous, and he defied Mr. Rogers to prove their aacuracy. He would say a word on what bad fallen from the gentleman behind him (Mr. Burton), who, though approving- entirely of the institution, its sacred object, and the means it ern plcPyed, yet opposed the grant on the ground that the Corporate funds ought never to b:: employed on objects not connected with the city. He would only tell the werthy member who was lately come among them that the Common Council had never acted on such a view. He regretted that other Corporations were thus unjustly fettered under the Municipal Act, which at the same time • that it made the Town Councils dependent on and responsible to the people, absurdly de prived them, and their fellow-citizens who appointed them, of the free disposal of the income which their careful management may have secured. But such was not, and he .trusted never would be. the law with regard to London, whose. annually elected council should be left to dispense, in accordance with the wishes and wants of their constituents, the income of , the corporate pro party ; and those rashes and wants had always be en d e f i d ) l u a r r p e a d s e i s n u like tirH, opfretis'eenatp. pli A ce n t d io , n in o d f e ' e a d, po as rt t io h n e r o e l co it rds to of the City sho:vcd how we had • sympathised with our American brethren in their great and glo rious struggle to resist unlawful taxation, and to secure to themselves the blessings of civil and religious liberty, we may well and in the same spirit express the interest we feel in those who are labouring amid the greatest discouragements for the removal of that great evil by which the honour of the republic is so much tarnished. As to the lively and strentionc spee c h of the worthy Knight •(Sir P. Laurie) against the grant, it recalled to his recollection that by which the werthy Knight bad endeavoured to prevent the ap- ' cation to his late Majesty for the establishment of a University in London ; and he trusted it would be as ineffectual. The worthy Knight on that occa sion opposed an institution for educating together men of different creeds ; that which now experienced his opposition proposed to impart the blessings of education . to those who differed either in colour or in creed—to raise in the scale of humanity and religion ail whom the great Creator, " who bath made of one blood all na tiers of the earth," bath stamped with his own image, and commanded to live together as brethren,—as chit- • dren of one kind and bountiful Father. Such an insti tution he trusted, however, considering the magnitude of the evils which it was designed to remove, would not fail of obtaining the countenance and support of the Court.—{Cheers.) It is but justice to those who voted aga i ns t t h e grant of 001. to the Institute, to say that the•gre.^.t majon ty -e--444.....,...hiceted to it upon the ground._thar. the Con. 1 per ate funds ought not to be applied to any but, Corporate objects. BRITISH SAILORS. Yesterday evening, Mr. Nicholson, the owner of the George the Fourth, entertained the Captain, officers, `and crew at a public dinner at the Bridge House Hotel, on the return of that vessel, with a raluable cargo, from China. A large party of 2,1 r. Nicholson's friends, in cluding several merchants, shipowners, and gentlernea connected with the trade of the port of London, were in vited to be present on this novel and interesting occa sion. There were about sixty o,- seventy seamen at the lower tables. who ware rep:elect with substantial old English fare ; their clean and healthy appearance, and the hearty cheers with which. they responded to the F vc ral to;sts as the? were given from the Chair, must have impressed the uninitiated with a high opinion of the character and bearing of the British " hearts of oak." In.the course of the evening the Chairman Ni- Chaise:), gave the following toasts :—" The _Queen, God bless her, a good husband, a long, happ., and pros perous reign." This toast was drank until three times three, and a burst of cheering from the seamen which it was well observed by a gentleman near es, must make the hearts of their adversaries quad in the hour of strife. The next toast was, " The British Navy, and may the Union Jack ever reign triumphent." " Captain Dray ncr, and welcome back to old England." " The Offi cers of the George the Fourth." " The Chairman, John Nicholson, Esq." " Richard Thornton, Esq., and the Britiih Merchants and shipowners." " The Press," &c. &e. • The CHAIRMAN, in giving the healths of the Sailors of the George the Fourth, entered at some length into a statement of the system he had adopted:in giving the seamen credit for their arrears of pay, by which they were enabled to make advantageous purchases in China on their own account. He trusted the system would be more generally adopted by the English merchants and shipowners, and that means would be taken to ame liorate the condition of the British. sailors, who, when they came ashore with a large sum of money in their pockets, too frequently became-the prey of crimps" and pickpockets. who plundered and then sent them adrift. He also added that many of the sailors presert aad been for three voyages with the George the Feurth, and they would bear him out in saying that, during these three voyages, he was happy to state that not a single man had been flogged.—{Loud-cheers.) The evening passed off with the greatest harmony and conviviality. The late Francis Coast, Esq., who was buried cn Sunday in the Cemetery at Kensall-green, I,:ft be hind him upwards of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds. We believe his age to have been ncr.rly 100 years, although the seemingry accredited statements place him at 88. He was in his youth much, attached to the drama and its professors, and was the author of aSneossfions. some prologues and epilogues. Henderson, John Kemble, Stephen Storace, Twiss, Por-3on, and Dr. Barney, Fred. Reynolds, Thomas Morton, Sheridan, and Harris, were his convivial comps nions and friends. death. He will be remembered, however, as the editor Of lt i, the i 1 i i editiond est " 11 13 1 fg t. M agistrates r Poor-laws," r -1 and av 5 11 e a ndasC Westminster hainn Th ribunaux The latter situation Mr. Coast held up to hi s Although a barrister, his practice was but limited. singular i.h . lhf PARIS, DEC. 19.—The Gazette d eosf of this morning contains the particulars ui a f n e y e esterday occurrence which IS announced in my lett el . _ oi —the flight of the Marquis de Crouy was mistaken in some of the circumstancesnwas is (wl'ele mainis not yet clearly proved) my infoirnatio perfectly correct. It only biographical sketch of this remains fur a me m to giro wound up with an intrigue personae whose mime g is a still greater share of the • it has done, up to the which is destined to engross attention of the public than Crouy-Chanel is a son of a peasant of the depart- Present. me Marquis Do Buonaparte having taken it ment of the Isere. He was brought up at into his head, some Gre noble, from whence he repaired to Paris in 1804. time after, to create a number of offices about his per son fcr such of the representatives of the old Noblesse as should acknowldge his rule, De Crouy Chanel con trived to forge a genealogy connecting his family with that of the Humberts, formerly Dauphins of Vienne, and through it got himself promoted to the rank of Chamberlain. After the fall of the Emperor, Dc Crony- Chanel became a staunch Royalist, and as such took part in the c rusade of 1823 against the Spanish Cortes. A l contracted by the Government of Ferdi nand 'wu short time atter, through his instrumentality f or oa n loan .was he received 400,000 francs as a recompense. This sum did not last him long. In 1825 he w as almost in a state of destitution, when by some chance o r other he became acquainted with the family of a wealthy Russian Nobleman, whose daughter he married shortly after. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. S. C. HALL. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., A R I A .IN.L Or, A YOUNG MAID'S FORTUNES. N • By Mrs. S. C. HALL, Author of ' Lights and Shadows of Irish Life," " Uncle Horace," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.