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' : IN : l6' '' t k ' n ' Y ''' s '— ' i 1-, 7 1 ~,-,- 0 ) --., - , , sto --, ' , -f _.,. , _____ , ll*---- , --- :, t. .t ,: , ) 1.41 5 4 ,,,,, , v ......:„. ~,--, + _ _ for meetings to be held all through th ' r i% At * ' ... :. --•-•••. -1e... 2_ .WV ,/,' ' . 4 . -4, ° - ^-, Q. ---- - w 4. • '''' , ' • .... • , ek Parliament This agitation will assn --. 1 4, ~ , -,-- ,I!,' -14 ' 6 I . l ' N'10.01 .1 ' Ali , ' .."` - `ce ,- -,--.., _ eh: - ms > ~, ett .. , r .....„_,.. , (4,-,,, 4 ''''''''' D E -. 4 . %A t , " ~.. .." .. ,7 , 1 ,? 01 7., ,, , 4,,\, r 0 1 4 '.0,- . ' , ~,,,, • ' .:400 0 86 15. ... „.,„ ' ' - • "`• \'.4.A4,-- '''' „.0.104,4tr,r4e) _ . -.....-----...... . - , '~ ....---- - AND itor ef PSIS - ... STRASBURG RAILWAY. ......... - r - , ~;_,- --1 - 2_.- , ...., ireS 0 3 To b e T otal Capital, 60,000,000 Francs. (fi 4 - ri ' v, - 4 S" ita 5t 0m , 4 .1 cled into 120,000 Shares of 500 Francs each. $ -",, *et exceeding a moiety of the same, to be raised in t 0 011. i England, i n 201. Shares. ! opie, WILLIA„, LONDON COMMITTEE. 1 eriWd en -. THOMPSON, Esq., Alderman, M.P. \ \..44„,,,,,,,t- • . ; ~„„__'ALES BARRY BALDWIN, Esq., M.P. ,Iti4 "n;',..„1-,:i C ROSTHWAITE, Esq., Liverpool. trial' iAL- r i: _ r ip , ' SAMPSON, Esq., London. i....-iC; rt.—, - ,,,,.......,,,....-,. • ............,t JT,I,W4M-,4.917112.,==.7.1 E par 1 . 4 . ,. vv EGuELIN, Esq., London. MOO " • KENNARD, Esq., London. z _ l4 Comte fi PARIS COMMITTEE. No. 16 092. LONDON V pre - , ... 14,. c -e MOLE, President, Pair de France. intro' 1 k on.. e hal Comte GERARD, Pair de France. ii, 1 de cH Ey ., N frOin t 1 19, . - DIER, Pair de France. ko MAG NIER a owe- . ~ n t. tv- t ,___ e MAISONNEUVE, Depute, du Bas Rhin. •non t . a a tf ,, z , E, Pair de France. THE SUN is Published EVERY IifORNIN , f his , 110 4 , ""4NERON, Banq - uier, Depute, de la Seine. It • d e L' , ESP EITN E E E, Depute, de la Meurthe. lOn ° r 1)48 ' WTI :i. t hi 4 o , ffis, Depute, de la Meuse. If tSn . 1 ,9, D El . io .„ BANKERS IN LONDON. u 1 re - —CLA tit ,' 'CEN, HEY WOOD, ICENNARDS, and Co. ADVERTISEMENTS I] foie E SCOTT, Bart., and Co. ,fleral BANKERS IN LIVERPOOL. . , . . __ ~ . , .. , _.,.., . Min. LEYLAND, BULLINS and Co. A NTIONAL ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. . BANKERS IN PARIS. n el l- Messrs. GANNERON et Compaigne. The COUNCIL of the LEAGUE beg to announce that their ail% ENGINEER. next MEETING in COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE WILL NOT TI4 ROBERT STEPHENSON, ESQ. TAKE PLACE until WEDNESDAY SeNNIGIIT, the 20th instant, en hen' Dreje nen Of e 'tett line of railway, 285 English miles in length, will be *ill e"fi'rina bl to t h e gagements having been made by the Proprietors of the Theatre dur ing next week, which will preclude the possibility of making the re-' 4 ~e Par c h, Y Law of the llth of June, 1842. The land Vie r; ~.! F r - sed, and the earthworks, bridges, stations, &c., executed quisite arrangements for holding the usual weekly meeting. ')'s i e ach Go v , V On e Vit nv est ernment at its own expense and risk, the Corn- NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR. Y , kw, nrent be; • ileted • The t ab ,. ~, rig limited to the formation of the permanent ANCE SOCIETY, , hold i .. route t a k e n ..e smile, - and providing the carriages and engines. 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. is through fifteen of the richest provinces of `j pp 4 V - 71 . ia "ntail l f en tiLi t , ' e ofth e .Pig. a population of above 6,000,000, and the land Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. It 1 1 . 1 h 04t 1, 143 ii aistrict is double that of the whole kingdom of Bel- The many novel and varied advantages bestowed by this Institti -14 hlginv ne, in conjunction with that of Havre, will form the • re •":. %let ay to Bon, both in its life assurance and deferred annuity departments, par in, to t he , Germany, the city of Strasburg being the converg- ticularly the power to borrow two-thirds of premiums without ex- LeeSr N i ,, , se e ve „ , irman railroads. D nse or forfeiture.--the great reduction of rates on short policies— weed,* p e ''' of the Comny not being constituted, the whole de- - e 'ln Y will b e - - the option of selecting benefits and converting policies so as best to UP° 5 kid cab return ed to the subscribers. , , ons for Shares, suit the interest or necessity of the policy-holder during life, as well k 10 , ,,..,,,,.. addressed to the London Committee, to be iv° °C. as to afford the full benefit to his family at death, and annual division f o • 4, A ', in Inkersole at the temporary Office of the Com- Ofr ag , I,.. l delph i ustin-f r i ar . ' _ •. . of profits, have already been so wel l . appreciated . by the public, that ..ar 4 -fe n . s, to Messrs. Bea% an and Anderson, solicitors, the Society's great success and growing prosperity enabled the M aio' be 4' t ' A tr i :t e r de _, ate, Strand, London ; and to Mr. Wm. Bridges, 6, Par .ctors at their General Meeting in May ast to add to each policy 7 1 . Wes tminster, where also detailed Prospectuses may r o e n the ' profit scale e a bonus averaging ] fifty-five per cent. on the iraW li " , " aPPlication. ' Rd he. nE Dv amount already invested ; and this bonus, aceording to an equitable scale, may either be paid in cash, or applied in reduction of future )0 t h4i. :it tn, m 4:4l-T DISTRIBUTION OF MONEY premiums. te d to 11, 4-11 8 Ty• n, EMP EROR AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS EXAMPLES. ha t 0 fly rZIPEROR of AUSTRIA contains Money Dividends tia,, £7O £72 £BO £9O Policy. Annual Bonus Cash Prem. intf o ; 4270 £llO £l2O £l5O £ 2OO Entry. Age. gum. No. Prem. Added. Bonus. Reduced. hu ed , -- t 1,0 00 £3OO £5 OO £6OO £750 — 11 0 ..! ' h, , £ 1 ,200 . £1,750 £ 4,000 & £ 21,000 £.E s.d. £ s.d. £ s.d. X s.d. c n, 114itn a i,,,,^n.lnunting together to £154,308 sterling. 1837' 39 59 1,000 67 8 4 132 14 658199 8 19 4 1 Ik r l d 'utrn contains as many Dividends as Bends. Every 1838 l)4 56 3,000 175 15 0 296 9 7 123 0616 9 7 look ect end! ost IC Smallest Dividend - - £6B • Another Bonus will be declared la the present year. i. t heir tt for ~t a rgest Dividend - - £21,000 DEFE RRED ANNUITIES. Wh ICI :, ' r°, I 3 eCIIIS, with full particulars, without delay to The best and most varied provision f o r a ft er-life hitherto o ff ered— HEINE BROTHERS, at Hamburgh. every 21. 12s. per annum, paid from the age of twenty , will, at sixty .e 111e ' Or to HEINE BROTHERS, at Lubeck. five, give the policy-holder the choice of an annuity of 471. 16s. 6d., or meu or 3491. 118. cash, or policy at death of 4661. Similar advantages at i ti liw il C ß O S ir t J A NT to a DECREE of the HIGH fifty, fifty-five, and sixty, through an increased annual payment-- )1 1 e ill of the „Aitb s -,i' of CHANCERY, made in - Two several Causes, two-thirds payments lent at any time, and two-thirds return„ to re -Bti,.,Elyp.„g,',4ost DODD. and EDWARDS against BOSANQUET, presentatives in cases of premature death. ‘.., ...._ ,,v,..„. .... .-;-FORMIDABLE ly the Assembly held flicnts were completed \e country to petition ;tune a very formidable ,aracter. The Belfast News Letter says—" A general system of simul taneous co-operation amongst all classes of Evangelical. Dis senters in the empire is to be instituted forthwith, and when the power and influence of the Methodists, the Independents, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians of England are considered, to say nothing of the Free and Voluntary Churches of Scot land, and a similar system of co-operative agency going for ward in Ireland, it is impossible to overlook the tremendous results which a combination so extensive may bring about. We look with deep regret to the causes which have produced this terrible alienation amongst Protestants; but our hope is, that, out of the mass of threatened evils ultimate good will be educed. Much will depend upon the liberal spirit in 'which the question shall be dealt with by the Government." In the progress of the Presbyterian agitation the Esta blished Church of Ireland will not be forgotten. "It is very -likely," says the Banner of Ulster, " that the impolicy and the outrageous extravagance of endowing one man with an income of 23,000!. annually may be asserted before large audiences, at many meetings in Ireland during the present month. The system that permits it may be styled impolitic and anti-Christian." THE PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGE QUESTION. MEETING OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, a special meeting of the Irish General Assembly was held in the Presbyterian Meeting house, May-street, Belfast. The Moderator, the Rev. Dr. Stewart, took the chair. The Moderator stated that the previous special meeting of Assembly had been adjourned till the present time, in order that they might know the decision of the Lords in the mar riage case. It appeared that three of the great law Lords had declared in favour of them (the Presbyterians), and three against them. In this state of affairs, the Presbyterians were virtually defeated—they might consider the verdict against them. He stated that he had sent forward, to Lord Lynd hurst, the resolutions agreed to at the former special meeting of Assembly; and he read his Lordship's answer, acknow ledging the receipt of the same. A Committee was then appointed to prepare resolutions, and the Assembly adjourned till seven in the evening. The Assembly resumed at seven o'clock, when the clerk read the following resolutions : " 1. That, it being the duty and privilege of the Church, in all time of peril and perplexity, to take counsel of God, this Assembly, in consequence of the attempt which is being mode to denude her ministers of the privileges they have hitherto enjoyed, in the solemnization of marriage, thereby denying their pastoral character, appoint the last Wednes day in March instant a day of special religious exercise, in all her congregations, when our ministers are recommended to preach sermons suitable to the occasion. " 2. That, inasmuch as it has been declared, by judges and eminent lawyers, that marriages solemnized between Episco palians and Presbyterians, by Presbyterian ministers, are invalid. in consequence of Presbyterian ministers not being prelatically ordained—an adjudication which conveys a stigma upon the Presbyterian body, constituting one-half of the Protestants of the world, and which deprives the Presbyte rians of Ireland of a privilege enjoyed upwards of two hun dred years—this Assembly petition the Legislature for an Act removing this stigma, and securing to the ministers of this Church the privileges which they have hitherto exercised in the solemnisation of marriage. No. 16,092. LONDON, TUESDAY NI ;I , : R N I 'trt 4 s MAIiC If 12, 1844. PRICE sd. THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, in Time for the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS wed a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Hour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TO WAY and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. CELTIC ENTERTAINMENT.—Under the im mediate Patronage of the Highland Society of London.—The celebrated HIGHLAND PIPERS and DANCERS, who had the honour of performing before her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Nobility of Scotland, at Tayinouth Castle, have engaged to give their SIXTH GRAND CELTIC ENTERTAINMENT in the Music Hall, Store-street, Bedford-square, on TUESDAY Evening, March 12, 1844. The five performers will appear in full Highland costume. Reserved seats 2s. 6d., back seats 25., private boxes for six persons Its., and for eight persons ii. Tickets for the hall may be had at Messrs. Cramer, Addison, and Beale's, Regent-street; Messrs. Duff and Nodgson's, Oxford-street; Mr. Chappell's, Mr. 011ivier's, Mr. F. C. Leader's, and Messrs. Mori and Lavenu's, New Bond-street; Mr. I man. He is one of fourteen or fifteen thousand minis ters of the Established Church. It can hardly be said that the fall of one or of one hundred of so numerous a body can by itself reflect disgrace upon the unsullied and faithful majority ; but though by itself such a lapse of an individual can leave no possible stain upon his brethren, a case may be imagined in which the sin of even one would extend its foul dis honour to - the whole body. Such a case would arise if the clergy used arts to conceal the guilt of the transgressor, or if the habits of the clergy generally were such as to cause the exposed guilt to be regarded as venial. How unlike either of • these cases is to the state of things exposed at Nor thampton, the simplest must be able to observe. Know- , ing how impossible, among creatures so corrupt as mankind, is the existence of a class wholly free from the common vices of our nature, we confess that we look with suspicion, not unmingled with alarm, at the seeming existence of such a class. The ex terior semblance of such perfect purity of thou sands cannot—for nothing can —prove that such perfect purity exists, and therefore it must prove a system of concealment so exquisitely contrived, and so universally supported, as to deceive all the world—a system of con cealment behind which the grossest licentiousness may be, and therefore certainly will be, freely indulged in of this we may, perhaps, see something in Ireland. In the Roman Catholic countries of the, Continent the vices of the clergy are scarcely concealed with more decency than the vices of the laity; they are treated lightly, and in the same proportion the clergy are objects of contempt or dislike, or both. Now what is the just inference, as regards the position of the English clergy, to be drawn from the proceeding at North ampton ? A wretched man who, perhaps, may be most charitably described as a sensual idiot, unhappily obtains admission into the orders and the service of the Church. He falls into sin, and " his sin finds him out." One of the companions of his sin uses her knowledge of his guilt to extort money from him under a threat of ex posure. Now, in some Roman Catholic countries a priest might smile defiance at such a threat—confiding in the armour of concealment assiimed by his order, which would render the threatened imputation incredible ; in other Roman Catholic countries the priest might again smile defiance at the threat, relying upon the indulgence which the public accord to the licentiousness of the clergy. In Protestant England the guilty clergyman has happily neither resource ; his brethren will not soil themselves by sheltering him, and public opinion, taught by the general pure character of the clergy, will regard him somewhat in the light of a monster ; he has, therefore, no resource but in buying up, if he can afford it, the evidence of his crime ; and this was the course pursued by the wretched man who prosecuted his para mour at Northampton. From first to last he paid her 1,200/. for hush-money; and it was not until her rapacity had outrun his means of satisfying her, that he resorted to that miserable prosecution which has brought the disgraceful history to light. The object of the prosecu tion was probably to frighten her, as a foreigner un acquainted with our laws, into silence, without carrying the case into Court. If such was the fact the project failed, and the public his certainly no reason (after the first shock) to regret the failure. The lesson is a useful one, not to the clergy—who want no lesson of the kind—but to those who might be disposed to doubt the solid founda tion upon which rests the moral character of our 15,000 ministers of the Gospel, or to fancy that the people of England will be satisfied with a low standard of morals in their religious teachers. the Administration. Admitting the equality of the two sys tems in the expense of construction`, the atmospheric has an incontrovertible advantage over the locomotive system in that of working. I have sought to estimate that advantage, but its existence was self-evident, from the absence of those enormous monsters, the locomotive and tender, which fre quently form the third part—sometimes half—the weight to be moved, and in the movement of which an inclination com paratively slight absorbs the whole power produced. Another advantage which could not be taken into consideration in the preceding calculation is that of speed. On the present system its cost is well known. On atmospheric railways it would be (so to speak) created beforehand, by the pneumatic apparatus. lam aware that in France time has not the value which it possesses in England, but the very use of rapid means of transit will teach us to appreciate it. How can we now compare the diligence with railways ? I shall not recur to the other advantage4of the atmospheric system. I think I have dwelt on it sufficiently to induce the requisite trial, which I ask in concluding this report. The method of exe tciuotnio. If ais n,the d lo ec cal i i o t a ie, co a a r f e arm fo a r tl t e h t e o c m ho y ic p e ropos oftihtieonAdi: arrivedini Administra tion it will remain to thaw up a programme of the conditions to be satisfied." the meeting on Monday night was got up by the landed in terest ; but as he believed the interests of the working classes were not considered, he was glad of the failure.—(Cheers.) Several other weavers add'i'essed the chair, when the reso lution was agreed to unanimously, and at twelve o'clock the meeting separated. THE SHAP CORN-LAW MONO POLISTS. H. Fentum's, 78, Strand ; Messrs. Monro and May's, 11, Holborn bars ; Messrs. Keith, Prowse, and Co.'s, 48, Cheapside; at the Music Hall ; and at Mr. Cameron's, 3, Great Ryder-street, St. James's. Doors open at half-past 7, and commence at 8 o'clock precisely. Children under 12 years of age half-price. The monopolist meeting held yesterday afternoon at Shap, has proved, as we anticipated, that the independent farmers, statesmen, and " other persons," of Westmoreland, entertain little sympathy with those who seek to persuade them that high rents and heavy poor-rates are matters of no moment to mere practical agriculturists ; but that those burdens are, in reality, borne by the generous landlords, for whose " pro tection" the Legislature has contrived to institute them. In dependently of the lay and clerical squirearchy—owners of land and tithes—and - a few Tory hangers-on from Kendal and the neighbourhood, we saw none present but men from Shap and Orton, from Askham, and Lowther, and Penrith, from Rigmaden and Kirby Lonsdale—the same whOm we saw at the Kendal election in November last, with thick oaken walking sticks, which most people called bludgeons, in their hands, and even they seemed chap-fallen and out of humour at the use made of their serf-like services. There was gloom within, and gloom without the place of assemblage—no cheer ing, no enthusiasm, no expressions of devotion to the dear loaf, and no zeal, expressed or apparent, for the exclusion of imported corn from the wilds of Westmoreland. The whole affair looked like the rehearsal of a stale farce—all the humour and jest of which had evaporated through repetition. The flatness of the thing infected even the speakers, who might have been expected to keep their interest from cooling, by remembrance of the stake for which they were to play ; but they evidently regarded their exer • dons as " work without hope"—the efforts of counsel to save a felon caught in the fact, and pre-convicted by his own con fession. The marriage-settlement and endowment explana tion of Sir Edward Knatchbull, the " common-sense " argu ments of Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham, and the lukewarm co-operation afforded to the protectionists by'-111r. Gladstone, seemed to hang like a dead weight upon the minds of the speech makers, and to clog and clip their every sen tence. It was, in sooth, a pitiful exhibition of mental inanity, bolstered, as well as might be, by daring and reckless asser tion. We have only time and space now, however, to request the attention of our readers to the statements of the West•• moreland monopolists themselves—arguments we cannot call them, because their confutation is part of their own sub stance ; and to bear in mind the pretended facts adduced to prove a necessity for maintaining the corn-laws as a boon to the tenant and labourer, as we shall next week enter upon the discussion of these points more fully.—Kendal Mercury. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. The various ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS in Ancient and Modern Use are familiarly explained by Dr. Ryan, at Two o'clock daily , illustrated by the LAMP of the ANCIENTS, the FIRT IMPROVE MENT by ARGAND, the BUDE, the DRUMAIOND, the BOCCIUS, the PELLETAN, the CAMPHINE LIGHTS, New FRENCH LAMPS, &c., &c. The First Lecture, by Professor Bachhoffner, Ph. D. M.A., is at a Quarter -past Three o'clock. ARMSTRONG'S HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE at Three o'clock and at Eight in the Evenings. NEW DISSOLVING VIEWS, DIVER and DIV ING BELL, Among the recent Deposits is the HEAD of a MUMMY from THEBES, very remarkable. Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price. The atmospheric principle is attracting much attention at the present time, and it should be mentioned that during the debate at the Croydon meeting very satisfactory testimony was given of its utility, and of the assistance it would afford to a reduction of expenditure on that line if it could be brought into operation. J3Y AUTHORITY of his MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA.—WiII take place irrevocably .n the 16th of March, 1844, the DISTRIBUTION of NINE bemitiful ESTATES of a value from 1,480,054 Francs, and MONET PRIZES from 150,000 Francs down t 0 .125 Francs of Common Bonds, and in the Special Distribution of the Red Bonds 32,509 gains will be obtained, and each Red Bond must gain a higher or lower amount. Price of a Common Bond, 11. ; a Red Bond, 2/. ; for 51. Five Common Bonds and one Red Bond ; for 101. Eleven Common Bonds and Two Red ; for 201. Twenty-three Common Bonds and Three Red. Apply, without delay, to Messrs. JACOBS and Co., Bankers, Frank fort-on-the-Maine ; or to save Postages, Letters may be addressed to Mr. Jacobs, 34, Wellclose-sivare. THE LATE SIR HENRY HALF ORD. Sir Henry Halford, Bart., whose decease on Saturday last is recorded in this day's paper, so long occupied a dis tinguished position in society, that some few particulars of his life will probably be acceptable to our readers. Be was born on the 2d of October, 1766, and received his early education at Rugby School, and at Christchurch, Oxford. He afterwards studied medicine at Edinburgh, and com menced practice, in conjunction with his father, Dr. Vaughan, a physician of high reputation, at Leicester. In 1792 or 1793 he settled in London, and rose with wonderfully rapid steps to the very first practice. After the death of Dr. Baillie, in 1823, he was left absolutely without a rival. In 1820 he was elected President of the College of Physicians, and re mained in- that office until his death, having been re-elected every year for nearly a quarter of a century. Sir Henry Halford was Physician to four successive Sove reigns, three of whom he attended in their last illnesses, as well as many other branches of the Royal Family, for he was held in the highest regard by every member of the family of George 111. So great was his celebrity, that it occurred to him, in the course of his practice, to be consulted by several Sovereigns of other States, as well as by a great many foreigners of the very first distinction. As a physician Sir Henry Halford was a favourite with all classes, and enjoyed in a remarkable degree the confidence of his patients. In consultation he was much regarded by his professional brethren on account of the quickness of his per ception, the soundness of his judgment, and the readiness and abundance of his resources. In society he was prized, for to strong natural sagacity and good sense he added the charm of a highly classical taste, and considerable literary attain ments: In temper and disposition he was remarkably socia ble and kind-hearted ; and his enemies (for a man so success ful could not but have enemies) will not deny that no man on earth was more placable or forgiving. Sir Henry Halford was created a Baronet by George 111., and changed his name from Vaughan to Halford, in compli ance with the will of his maternal great uncle, the last Sir Charles Halford, of Wistow, in Leicestershire, whose estates he inherited. He was Knight Grand Cross of Hanover, a member of the Royal Society, and of several other literary and scientific hi:dies, trustee of Rugby school, &c. He mar ried a daughter of John, eleventh Lord St. John, of Bletsoe, by whom he has left one son and one daughter. His son, who succeeds to his title and estates, has been for some years member for South Leicestershire. Of his brothers (many of whom have earned distinction by their talents, amongst them the late Right Hon. Sir John Vaughan, the late Warden of Merton and Dean of Chester), one only survives him—viz., the Right Hon. Sir Charles Richard Vaughan, formerly our hig ly popular Minister in the United States. DEFERRED ANNUITIES. The best and most varied provision for after-life hitherto offered — every 21. 12s. per annum, paid from the age of twenty, will, at sixty five, give the policy-holder the choice of an annuity of 471. 16s. 6d., or 3491. I Is. cash, or policy at death of 4661. Similar advantages at fifty, fifty-five, and sixty, through an increased annual payment-- two-thirds payments lent at any time, and two-thirds returned to re presentatives in cases of premature death. ' F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec. LONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN LIFE COMPANY, 3, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, and 18, Chancery-lane, London. The indisputability of the policies granted by this Company; The obligation to pay the sum assured although the debt for which the policy was taken may have been paid before the claim arises ; Whole-world policies not conaned to the limits of Europe ; Option of half-premium payment for the first seven years. These form a combination of advantages which can be obtained only from the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Life Company. ALEX. ROBERTSON, Manager. WHEREAS, a PETITION of MARTIN RICHARD PLATTS, of No. 37, Great Pulteney-street, Gol den-square, in the parish of Saint James, in the eounty of Middlesex, painter and glazier, having been filed in the Court of Bankruptcy, and the interim order for protection from process having been given to the said Martin Richard Platts,under the provisions of an Act of Parlia ment passed in the Parliament holden to the sth and 6th years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act for the Relief of In solvent Debtors," the said Martin Richard Platts is hereby required to appear in Court, before I. Sir C. J. Williams, the Commissioner acting in the matter of the said petition, on the 18th day of March instant, at twelve o'clock at noon precisely, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, London, for the pur pose of being then and there examined touching his debts, estate, and effects, and to be further dealt with according to the provisions of the said Act. All persons indebted to the said Martin Richard Platts, or that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but to Mr. George John Graham, the official assignee, nominated in that behalf by the Commissioner acting in the matter of the said pe tition. JOHN WRIGHT. "3. That public meetings be held in all the towns of Ire land, where it is practicable ; to which Protestants, of all de nominations, shall be invited, and from which petitions shall be forwarded to both Houses of Parliament. DISEASED AND HEALTHY LIVES ASSURED. MEDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL LIFE OFFICE. 25, PALL-MALL, LONDON. Capital, £500,000. This Office is provided with very accurately constructed Tables, by which it can ASSURE DISEASED LIVES on Equitable Terms. The Extra Premium discontinued on restoration of the Assured to permanent health. INCREASED ANNUITIES granted on unsound Lives, the amount varying with the particular disease. Members of CONSUMPTIVE FAMILIES assured at Equitable Rates. HEALTHY LIES are Assured at Lower Rates than at most other offices. Policies of twelve months' standing are not affected by Suicides, Duelling, &c. ; and Assigned Policies are valid from the date of the Policy should death ensue from any of these causes. F. G. P. NEISON, Actuary. "4. That a similar petition be sent from all our congre gations. " 5. That a Committee be appointed to open a correspond ence with Evangelical Dissenters throughout the empire; and, more especially, with the Free Church of Scotland, soli citing theirsympathy and support, in a cause which involves, not only the rights of the Church, but the interests generally of Christian truth and freedom ; and that this Committee hold its first meeting to-morrow. "6. That a deputation, consisting of the Moderator, Doctor Browne, Doctor Cooke, Doctor Henry, Messrs. H. J. Dobbin, with Counsellor Gibson, John Boyd, M.P., George Matthews, and A. J. 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PORTSMOUTH„ MARCH 9.—The Resistance, troop ship, Commander Patey, sailed on Tuesday, with detachments of the 2d battalion of Rifle Brigade, and of the 71st Regiment, on board, for Cork; there to embark a detachment of the 89th Regiment, and then proceed with the whole to Canada. The Prince George, transport, Lieutenant Ward, agent, sailed the same day for Bermuda, havihg on board a detach ment of the 20th Regiment, and a company of the Royal Artillery. The Dee, steamer, Mr. Driver, master, went out of harbour yesterday, and sailed for Cork. The Thedalus is to be converted into a flush deck ship, to carry sixteen of the heaviest guns. The Superb, 80, is to be made an advanced ship instead of the Kent, 76. The Bonetta is commissioned for the Mediterranean sur vey ; and the Sparrow, for surveying the Scotch coast. Moorings are prepared in this harbour for the Queen, of 110 guns, and Indus, 78. Both ships will be, therefore, paid off here. MECIII'S UNIQUE PRESENTS, 4, LEADENHALL-STREET. 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The Camphine or Vesta Table Lafnps, com mencing at 275. 9d., all complete, and .o on from price to price, to the designs suitable for the mansion of the nobleman. Highly Rectified Spirit, 3s. 7d. imperial gallon. Caniphim or Vesta Lamps always kept burning, fitted with ena mel, and shaded for public inspection. . _ . THREE-AND-A-HALF PER CENTS. REDUCTION. 'to PUBLIC NOTICE. Shlpbt„.... 434, OXFORD-STREET. 4n, PEA. OWNERS, CAPTAINS, AND OTHERS. 4.1. cf of Testimonials, Gratis, by all Agents. s t ," % tli*..stp on I ONE'S EYE SNUFF.—Under the ic.age of his ste Majesty, her Royal Highness the od - rr. and the Lords of the Treasury, is universally re. .' to ti: ....Y the- Faculty for its efficacy in removing disorde rs - 4111 7 , - :;cleil and Head. . 4 F-STORED! — NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE AND Lfts DE At NVSS CURED I ta - " h oda ;post simple, delightful , and fra rant Compound it _ a lVficationi is fraugh . t with pleasure ; many thousand accomplished by its at a trining induce the A ~,per!ion. If testimonies be necessary to the Noe. LTis ~F7te trial, Kings, Lords, and . Commons have used it. `" ti„ . 4 eti l tisoe ,_e Treasury have sanctioned its use. Their late Ma. ans.. ° Oer.:ess of Kent, the most eminent Oculists, Medical t ‘ 7e ii c„Os's — with that gigantic balance, the Press—have eulogised l o Ts S c h ell rated Herbaceous Compound, known as " Grim. ~ zit a nd for for its efficacy in removing all diseases incident 's e c t ,;_lead. G. J. Guthrie, Esq., F.R.S. See J. B. Lach- NZA,h_ ble..r , r. Whitehall. Dr. Thomas. Dr. Andrews calls it etiPg—see his Reports touching its utility. Tile late ia tL _ - 7: 1 caiii , with many others, recommend Grimstone's Eye oto ( 1._ " Man's best Friend," and the "Student's Vade 'otati c• foo many thousand letters of Testimonies,. of un t,tra6 authority , with others of the first respectability. Nottingham, Aug. 29, le4l r• orZ li nal7 cure is attested by Mr. James Wilcockson, -11, Snuff and Cigar Merchant, Nottingham. oa, , 44Asti ' e el 2 To Mr, W. Grimstone. 1 th -.teat pleasure in sending you the particulars of my ) iraculous cure performed on myself, by using your , Ye-Snuff. Si r , I am now in my ninety-third year, Qat whA, °f Holland, have been in this country twenty-six from change of climate, or my advanced age, I akrn, la "L Tor six years I have been deprived of sight, there -o)4 t ° fol , t osi c oti a , s e re., .ow my business. Ido most sincerely believe I 'oe -" of in darxness and pain but for the kind recom. Vb i ,Lf ND use your invention. I purchased ,''er e to h e r Agent, Mr. Wilcockson, tobacconist, who knows th..` a cea, and soil bear witness to my extraordinary OfOot de et 7 Most inestimable blessing of our life—" Perfect 4 4 ' 1 0, 1 i r oka ti i r e has suffers g, from the use of your Eye Snuff. otie• Per • ejikn i tt.se suffering, you may make what use you please 1 0* Pere; t , r• Wilcockson and many others will vouch tor its ne sufferers to this gentleman, being your Agent, A t in Nottingham. 213 I am, Sir, your obliged servant, it ANNNIS ZENIA MASSENIA. stori it ott intshould not do you justice without stating my relief to l td' and,! s antaneous My eyes became clear and free from th"nlet re ad "Y Persevering in its use very frequently, lam ittit a Q h ocicir t ,:il print without the aid of glasses, and continue " 4 do 'mg—Sight! tree from pain I have reason to be ,4, 0 Mari,. recommend your Eye Snuff to all 1 Know. th th A. Z. M. 'll l 4"sii p e ... c antion—W. 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They not only give - -rr b he e ,ft, t th e 0 net, where the patient has been driven nearly to 11 1 ,7,11, „v-olth i„lccnciating tortui es of this disease, but restore to tl i as itt - i mett y a"n4du in conceivably short space of time. They arc b et l.Tra k i sciatica c ertain in rheumatism, either chronic or acute, iTti4ect le ° r go tit rams in the head or face, and indeed for every eol mbetion ; in fact, such has been the rapidity, !Ski? th.'r,o b„..l.lete safety of this medicine, that it has a.sto ritr taken it, an . d there is not a'city . , town, or vit. a tth ea" . but contains many grateful evidences of its klith,:hiett su „:ne following recent case, selected from among e Prop rietor has been favoured, is submitted to tittit 1 To 4R PROUT, ^ 29, STRAND. foil t ir .., haVe ii. ' Hurst. Sussex, Nov. 6, 1843. To.lvslAt4'ation'le_P.ltaaUre.to inform you that a person holding an r it bout ar,vl 9ticing pi ono of my bills that I was agent fo t sqel;4.: and hl,n.9eyrnatic Pills, was induced to try them; he sen t anttti rb fo ur t hY taken them one day before he found wonder kik., 0 Ind day he was able to walk without his crutches, at - %vi a °c etipari 'lay was completely cured and able to perform his rs Us to this et, 'after 1 HI he w as v,or:to efth e generally laid up every year for several orlm irate ur ,__ _and f omentations had been applied, and medicine e e thy v ir,:.". I have r btained the above statement from a l l'Ot4 a t'd sh a - ii.,,arid have sent this for publication if you think it Cfsseerta,..e most happy at any time to satisfy any party ming its authenticity. Oqd b I am, Sir, your obedient servant, made,'ht Y Thr il .. 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Their perusal will enlighten and protect the invalid from the empyricism so fearfully exercis^d in the infirmities they re. late to. The author is a Doctor of Medicine, a member of the Col lege of Surgeons, and a Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hi'l, and his writings are founded upon the experience of 20 years' exclusive devo. tion to the subjects they treat upon. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalho, 147, Fleet street; Hannay, 63, Oxford.street ; Mann, S 9 Cornhtll ; and the author, '2l ? 'Arundel-street, Strand. At home daily till two—evenings, seven to nine LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c. 4 ' He who in pleasure's downy arras Ne'er lost his health or youthfu I charms, A hero lives, and justly can Exclaim, in me beho d a man !" Just published (in a sealed envelope), Tenth Edition, price 2s. 6d., or sent by post, free, to any address, 3,5, SELF-PRESERVATIO N : a Po p ular Essa y on 1.. 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" The design of this work will be tolerably obvious from its title, and we cordially recommend the author and his book to all who are suffering from nervous debility and general weakness. Wakefield Journal. Published by the Author, and sold in London by S. Gilbert, 51 and 52, Paternoster-row • Starie, Tichbo•ne.street, Quadrant, Regen t. street; Gordon, 146,'L ea denhall.street ; and by all Booksellers. At home every day till Um, and frora Five till Eight. T HE NEW DISCOVERY for the NERVES, _ BY DR. GRANDISON. Patronised by above 100 of the Nobility. This invaluable Medicine has effected the most wonderful Cures, and bestowed the boon of Nervous Vigour upon Thousands. Many who have proved it will testify, that by perseverance, the trembling hood may become steady, the weak heart strong, and nervous irri. tability (so often the precursor of ►nsanity), may be arrested. It has secured refreshing sleep (without contain►ng one particle of any opiate) to those who have not enjoyed that blessing for years, and conquered the most obstinate indigestion, ensuring vigour both of body and mind. Sold by all Resrectable Medicine Vendors, in Boxes, at Is. 1)4c1., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. each, containing Advice to the Patient, with Testimonials attached. Ask for Dr. GRANDISON'S CHARITY PILLS. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—We alluded a few days since to Lord Worsley's notice of motion, which stands for to-morrow, for a Select Committee of the House of Commons, to inquire into the amount of fees paid on summary con victions within a given period ; and also, into the ap po!ntment, duties, and mode of remunerating clerks to the justices in petty sessions. The returns obtained by the Noble Lord last session, with a view to this inquiry, are understood to be of a most astounding character, so far as the heavy fees payable on summary convictions for trifling offences are concerned. The provincial journals every week record striking instances of the oppressive operation of the existing system ; and by so doing render considerable assistance to its abolition, by directing the attention of the Legisla ture, and the public generally,' to its practical injustice. The following instance—one of a vast series—will §erve to show the magnitude of the evil which Lord Worsley has applied himself to remove. At the Petty Sessions held at Petworth on Saturday last, the Earl of Winterton in the chair, Mary Daughtrey, the wife of a labouring man living at Amberley, pleaded guilty to doing wilful damage, to the amount of threepence, to certain trees, the property of the Hon. R. Curzon, of Parham. The defendant was ordered to pay the amount of damage. This she—or rather her hus band—might have done without material inconvenience. But the costs upon conviction were to be added to the penalty, and these amounted to nineteen shillings and sixpence ! The imprisonment of this labourer's wife, as a personal infliction-for her husband's inability to pay this heavy amount of costs, was twenty-one days! What an accumulation of mischiefs are concentrated within the abova simple narration of facts ! A labour ing man is deprived of the society of his wife, and his humble home is rendered desolate—his children, if he have any, are left without the fostering care of their mother, and this for three weeks; not because the hus band and father of this now destitute family is unwiaing, or unable, to satisfy the damage done by his wife in a moment of thoughtlessness to the Hon. R. Curzon's shrubs, to the extent of threepence, but because the costs conse quent upon conviction for this petty damage are seventy eight times the amount of fine inflicted by the Bench for the offence. Thus far, the woman thus dealt with, and her husband and family, are the immediate sufferers. There are other consequences which necessarily result, in a great variety of instances, from the visitation of heavy costs upon summary convictions in such petty cases, The party, whether man or woman, if previously well disposed, cannot be the tenant of a gaol for several days or weeks, and the associate of such characters as are usually found there, without danger to, if not positive contamination of, their moral habits. The man or woman who has been consigned to a county prison, comes forth with the brand of conscious degradation upon their brow. The self-respect—which is the best incentive to and guardian of virtue l -has passed away, perhaps never to return. A disinclination to employ the man who has been in gaol is felt by those who would otherwise employ him. He becomes destitute, and is rendered reckless. Many a poor wretch has been thus plunged into crime, and pursued a course of plunder, until the gallows or the hulks has terminated his career, who would have been preserved to society, but for the sentence which—in default of paying an exor bitant amount of costs upon a summary conviction, for which a fine of threepence; or sixpence, was deemed a sufficient infliction—consigned him to a felon's fate for a considerable period. We again re mind the parochial and county-rate payers that this question is one which peculiarly presses on their pecuniary interests. Let them estimate the immediate and contingent burdens to which the exist ing system subjects the parochial and county-rates, and they will at once perceive that to pay the clerks to the justices in petty sessions by a fixed salary is, even in a pecuniary point of view, to be preferred to the pre sent system of remunerating them for their services by the always objectionable, and in the present instance op pressive mode of paying them by fees. STANDARD.—Most of our readers will have read with pain the report of the disgraceful case tried at the Northampton Assizes, but the pain which the pe• rusal of such a case naturally excites, will be found to carry with it some consolation. The traveller who blessed his good fortune when he discovered a gibbet upon a shore believed to be desolate, had good reason for his self-congratulation : he saw, by whatever melancholy proof, that he had arrived in the abode of men, and of men also who punished the crimes that unhappily must arise wherever human so ciety exists. The person who occupies the most dis graceful positivu In the Northampton trial is a clergy (From the Times Money Market Article, Saturday.) Mr. Goulburn's plan for the reduction of the Three:and-a- Half per Cents., announced in the House of Commons last night, has had the singular good fortune of encountering little or nothing in the shape of objection in the City. There were very many who anticipated that he would be tempted to a less liberal course—that, through the desire of a larger immediate saving, he would have adopted from some of his predecessors, the bad principle of saddling posterity with a larger amount of debt; or that, in his eagerness to make as good a bargain as possible, he would have limited the term of the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock to five instead of ten years. Both of these he has judiciously avoided, and thus has been able to put forward a scheme of the success of which no doubt is felt in any quarter. Political agitation in any part of the world might, it is true, interpose difficulties ; but as the time for giving notice of dissent, as regards this country, is so extremely short, only extending over the next fortnight, the risk on that score is very small indeed. Resi dents abroad, to whom a longer time for dissent is necessarily allowed, constitute so small a proportion of the whole, that they need hardly be; aken into the account. 'here is no circumstance connected with the project of the Chancellor of the Exchequer that has given more satisfac tion than his intimation that it has not been thought neces sary to make any arrangement with the Bank to provide for possible dissentients to a large amount. Unlike the last Administration, who were perfectly helpless in financial matters, because they never took their measures wisely, and had no funds to support them, the Treasury have now a large balance in hand, and ne e d b e dep en dent on no external aid. At all times this is a most material power to possess, but it is especially so at a period when the Bank is to be called before the public to treat for a renewal of its exclusive privileges. As a practical commentary upon Mr. Goulburn's measure, it may be stated that as he offers in exchange for the present Three-and-a-Half per Cents., and from October next, a Stock bearing interest at 3i p er cen t. f or t e n years, and 3 per cent. afterwards, with guarantee against further reduction fir t w enty years more, this may be considered the same as giving 3 per cent. at once, with gu aran t ee f or thi r ty years against f ur ther reduction, and a bonus of per cent. for ten years. Estimating, then, the rate of interest on Government Secu rities at 3 per cent., the present value of ss. per annum, for ten'years; is 21. 2s. Bd., which i s the equivalent in money offered as a bonus; in addition to which must be considered the value of the guarantee for thirty years, which cannot be precisely calculated, though evidently worth something when the' Three per Cent. Consols are at 98k. To illustrate this matter further, a person who assents, therefore, will receive 1001. in a Three per Cent. Stock, with an annuity of 58. for ten years. Thus— s. d. His Consols are now worth His Annuity Making lOO 12 8 To compare this with the case of a dissentient to the con version, the latter will receive 100/. in money , with which he can buy 10 1 /. 10s. 6d. in Three per Cent. Consols , the value of 'Which is, of course, 100/. only ; and the gain in money by assenting is, therefore, 12s. Bd. per cent. at present prices, without reference to the value of the guarantee for thirty years. As the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. of 1818 stand in a somewhat different position, the terms of the original con tract with Government requiring that they should be paid off in sums of 500,0001. at a ti me , and that upon s ix mo nths'` notice previously given, ' a different market value will pro bably be created for that St oc k. Th e e xtent of the advan tages which it possesses over th e other descriptions of Three and- a-Half - per Cent. Stock consists in the longer period in which the 11 per cent. may be received, but at the expira tion of the ten years fixed for the duration of the Three-and a-Quarter per Cents., or probably much earlier, all will be in the same situation. A broker of experience has stated to us that the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. of 1818 may be worth under these circumstances about 1 per cent. more than the others. It is not easy to comprehend exactly the mo de by which a reduction of 500,000/. at a time, and by a notice of six months for each, is to be effected. If one notice is to expire before a new one is given, the whole operation, as the stock is 10,000,0001., will extend over ten years; but means may probably be found of accelerating the process without any breach of the original contract. The proposal of Mr. Goulburn to equalise the amount of dividends payable in each quarter of the year is one which has also given entire satisfaction, and will have consequences, apart from the present question of a mere reduction of in terest, full of future benefit to the country. If there should be, in connexion with this arrangement, a sound and judi cious course pursued in regard to the privileges of the Bank of England—a question which must closely follow this now under consideration—the term" panic" may fall into disuse and be forgotten, and the trade of the country subside into a permanently safe and healthy state. It is understood that notices of dissent may be given, as in all former cases, at the chief cashier's office at the Bank, but no official intimation of it has up to this time been made. MONEY IVIA.RKET and CITY NEWS. TIM ES.—The remittances from Mexico by the Forth on account of the dividend amount to 90,500 dolls. from Vera Cruz, and 40,000 dolls. from Tampico, making together 130,500 dolls. This is the largest amount hitherto sent at i one time, and shows an mprovmrint in the receipts at the Custom-houses. Messrs. Lizardi, pursuance of the pro mise made some time ago to the S p a nish American Commit tee, have formally announced . that they are p re p are d t o p a y the remaining half of the dividend due last October. The accounts to the Committee further state, that a balance of 193,000 dolls. remains still to be paid to the dividend fund in Mexico by the merc hants. The United Mexican Mining Company have received re mittances amounting to 11,000 dolls., and also an intimation that the contract with the Sardaneta family is renewed for eight years. This has improved the value of their shares to 4,1 to Real del Monte, unregistered, are flatter at sto A dividend of four-and-a -half per cent. has been declared for the half-year on the shares of the Sheffield and Rother ham Company, the balance of profits divisible among the sh areh olders bein g 3,694/. 6s. 7d., the receipts having amounted to 8,9381. 13s. 9d., and the expenditure to 5,2411. 7s. 2d. The jobbing of the Directors in this Company creates rather an angry feeling between themselves and the shareholders, the latter of whom do not hesitate to speak out boldly on the subject. At the meeting of the Dublin and .Drogheda Railway, the announcement was made that the line will be opened for traffic next May. The works are proceeding rapidly to com pletion, and from the tenor of the Report an d speec h es ma d e , it appears low fares and sup erior accommodation are the in ducements which the Directors hold out to secure the patron age of the public. The Report of M. Mallet, the Inspector-General of Public Works in France, has just appeared on the subject of the At mospheric Railway, and . it strongly reco mmen d s t h e F re nch Government to select a line to adopt the syst em an d f u lly test the practical utility of the invention. Concluding his inquiry on the subject, he says— " I am, doubtless, far from having carried conviction into the minds of my readers that the atmospheric s y s tem can be applied to lines whatever their length. The question is not yet in so advanced a state, but it is suffi c i ent th a t th e suc cess of the application of it to such cases appears pro b a bl e to render the system worthy of peculiar atteution on the part pf • Please copy the Address—Clark and Co., 447, West Strand, ten doors from Lowther Arcade. Orders can now be executed immediately. Agents wanted. These Enamelled Shades are highly suitable for Gas. THE DIRECTORS of the NATIONAL LINEN COMPANY, in giving publicity to the unprecedented prices at which they are selling LINEN MANUFACTURES, beg to ap. prise families residing either in lawn or country, that gods are for warded for approval previous to payment. A few prices are an nexed, to which they respectfully invite the attention of families, hotelkeerers, &c : Table Linen—magniffbent table cloths, five yards long, each 15s. ; napkins to match, yard square, 10s, lid. per dozen ; fish napkins, 2s. 6d. per dozen ; very fine ditto, 6s. fid. ; common table cloths, yard and a half squ ire, 12s. 6d. per dozen ; larger sizes in proportion Sheetings—stout Irish sheetings, 12s. 6d. per pair; litha , three yards wide, without a seam, 15;. ; common, for servants use, 4s. 6d. per pair. Irish linens—stcp , t qualities, the piece of 26 3ards for 21s. ; ditto, fine, 26 yards, kis. ; and very fine and stout, yards for 355.; the Company's 3ard wide, curiously fine, 26 yards, 40s. to 505.; Irish cambric handkerchiefs, equal In ap pearance to the finest French, 125.6 d. per dozen ; common lawn handkerchiefs, 4s 6d. per dozen. The Company are likewise bleachers of long-cloths, calicos, coun. terpanes, &c. These warehouses are stocked with every description of goods suitable for household purposes. Prospectuses containing full particulars of the various goods for sale, with lists of prices, can be had at the warehouses, or by post. Retail entrance, 105, fleet-street, corner of I' arringdon-street, bottom of Ludgate.h ill. N 13. The nobility can have their own crests made to order on any size table cloths. Various superb designs now in the stock. Families waited on with samples if required. THE KING OF SWEDEN. --- Extract of a private letter received on Saturday from Stockholm : " I shall send you a copy of an interesting letter which the ' King dictated himself from his bed to the Duke of Welling ton, in answer to one his Grace had addressed to his Ma jesty. The King, in this letter, expresses his profound es teem for your great hero, and his gratitude for the sympathy and solicitude his Grace has constantly evinced during the severe malady of the august patient. Since I last wrote the King has undergone a severe ordeal. On the 18th a tendency to suppuration showed itself in the discoloured part of the foot; the King had a good night's rest, and his strength on waking was manifestly increased. On the 22d the black gangrenous spot became enlarged, the suppuration ceased, and the strength of the patient declined. On the 22d and 23d another favourable crisis occurred, -- the King slept soundly, his appetite returned, and the suppuration, a re storative process of nature, began once more. • This improve ment lasted until the 24th ; but op the 25th his weakness in creased, his appetite and his strength failed him once more. This improvement lasted until the 24th ; but on the 25th his weakness increased, his appetite and his strength failed him once more. He experienced no fever, but was a prey to mor bid jactitation, and was sleepless during the nights of the 26th and 27th. On the latter day the leg on the gangrenous side became discoloured, showing that the mortification was extending, although the suppuration had not ceased. " On the 26th, the King commanded that a new proclama tion to the subjects of his two kingdoms should be drawn out for him to sign ; saying that he could not foresee in what state ho should be on the Ist of March, the day on which the former proclamation, and the duration of the Regency which it established, would expire. He had the dispatches of the day read to him as in general, listened with profound atten tion and interest to their tenor, and had read over to him again those passages which he deemed most interesting. It was on the 27th he wrote to the Duke of Wellington, and on that day he ordered a distribution of wood to the poor suffer ing from the inclemency of the season. He still preserved all his faculties, the goodness of his heart and the elevation of his thoughts and views ; whilst his kindness betrayed itself in a thousand minute details. " His grandson, the Prince Charles, the eldest born of his son, the Prince Oscar, has recently been labouring under a most serious attack of illness ; but all danger is over at this moment, when the post is on the point of leaving."—Post. THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVERS. THE TRICKS OF THE. ANTI-LEAGUE ASSOCIATION.-OR Saturday night, at nine o'clock, a numerous meeting of the Broad-silk Hand-loom Weavers' Union was held at the Crown and Anchor, Waterloo-town, to agree to a memorial to the Board of Trade for the purpose of ascertaining if the silk trade was to be included in the Commission appointed to in quire into the state of the cotton-spinners, and also to receive communications in reference to the late proCeedings of the Anti-League Association. Mr. Le May in the chair. Mr. BURROUGHS, the Secretary, having stated that at the previous meeting it was agreed that a memorial should be presented to the Board of Trade, said that one had been pre pared, which he read, and which it was unanimously resolved should be forthwith communicated, the purport of it being to know if the Spitalfields weavers were to be included in the Commission of Inquiry into the State of the Cotton-spinners, lately appointed by her Majesty's Government. Tile CHAIRMAN then called upon the Secretary to give the meeting information relative to the Anti-League Association, to which he and a weaver named Sherrard had been appointed delegates, when the Secretary, having stated that his col league would give an account of the proceedings, as far as they were concerned with the League, Mr. SHERRARD said, that according to an arrangement with Mr. N. Doran Maillard, who attended the last meeting of the weavers, he and the secretary met the committee of the Anti-League Association on the Monday evening, about five o'clock. Mr. N. D. Maillard and a few gentlemen were there. After speaking upon the business about to come before the meeting, he mentioned to him that he and the secretary had been requested to appear there to support the resolutions, that they had lost nearly two days, and that it was but just they should be paid for their time. Mr. D. Maillard then took a half-sovereign from his pocket, which he gave to him, and remarked that he had no money in his pocket to remunerate the secretary but that he should hea from him on Tuesday morning. The secretary, however, has never heard anything of his half-sovereign.—(Loud laughter.) He then stated that while in the committee-room a lette was put in his hand by Mr. Maillard;who at the same tim charged him with having been instrumental in getting th Chartists to attend the meeting. [The speaker read the letter, which was written by a person named Mentz, one of the members of the council of the Chartists, and was ad dressed to Mr. Maillard. The purport of it was that it was the intention of the Chartists to be early at the meeting, and to appoint their own chairman, and that the class leaders had obtained a large quantity of tickets, which were dis tributed very extensively. A committee of three persons had been appointed to draw up resolutions to oppose the Anti- League Association, and to propose an amendment in favour of the principles of the Charter.] They were all aware what sort of chairman was appointed, and what was the result of the meeting.—(Hear, and laughter.) Mr. BURROUGHS observed that it would be remembered by the meeting, when Mr. N. Doran Maillard appeared among them, he stated that Mr. Oastler had promised to be at the meeting of the Anti-League Association held last Monday. He wrote, in consequence, to . Mr. Oastler, for information about a fortnight ago, but that gentleman did not. receive his letter till last Saturday. He sent an answer to it, and in that letter he denied that he had promised to be present at the meeting, observing " that whoever told you that I had been asked to take the chair at the meeting about to be held, that I declined, but that I promised to be present—l say, who ever told you so, told you that which is untrue." Several weavers observed that Mr. Maillard stated, that Mr. Oastler would be at the meeting, and that he was asked to take the chair. Mr. BURROUGHS then proceeded to state that Mr. Oastler had forwarded copies of two communications, which were sent to him from the Anti-League Association, and which had the signature of Mr. Maillard, rn which it was alleged that great success had attended the exertions of the League ; that shoemakers, cork cutters, silk weavers, and other trades, had given their support, and that branch associations were in the course of formation, and Mr. Oastler was invited to attend. [He read the letter from Mr. Oastler, in which he remarked, " My weak state of body and excited state of mind render it quite impossible to accept your kind invitation. " ] He con cluded by saying that had the letter from Mr. Oastler and the communications of the Anti-League Association to him been received in time, they would have exposed the attempt to impose upon the working classes by that body.—(Hear.) Mr BERRY said that the weavers ought to show their opi nion of the conduct of the Anti-League Association. He proposed that copies of the letters from Mr. Oastler be sent to Mr. Maillard, with some severe remarks upon his conduct, and that the weavers pay the Secretary his expenses for at tending on the Anti-League Association. Mr. MALrus, in seconding the resolution, observed that the only object of the Anti-League Association was to get the assistance of the working classes to put down the Anti- Corn-law League. Mr. Maillard had intimated to that effect. He also believed that, when the agitation had ac complished what the Anti-League Association wanted, that nothing would be done for them.—(lieur, hear.) lie thought The Poictiers and Ann Robertson, Indiamen, sailed on Wednesday, for Calcutta. The Pekin and Serge, packet-ships, for Hong-Kong, ar rived from the River on Thursday, and will proceed to-morrow. In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Victoria and Albert, Dee, Fearless, and Echo steamers ; Adventure, tran sport. At Spithead—Pekin and Serge, East Indiamen. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have issued a circular, directing that, from the Ist of April next, officers of all ranks doing duty as secretaries shall receive five shillings per diem out of their half-pay, in addition to their present salaries. (As secretaries to Admirals are quite irrespective of the service, we question the right of the Admiralty to inter fere in this manner with the half Tay.) PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. PROMOTlONS.—Mate—Frederick Robinson (1835), of the Comet, to the rank of Lieutenant. APPOINTMENTS.—Commander—J. S. Brock, to the Bonetta. Lieutenants—George Newcomen (additional), to the Agin court ; J. H. Veitch, to the Styx ; H. C. Otter, to command the 'Sparrow. -Master—John Penn, to the America, vice Mackey, war rant cancelled. Paymaster and Purser—John E. Dring (acting) to the Larne. Assistant-Surgeon—J. B. Lawrence, to the Styx. Chaplain—Rev. R. Petman, to Chatham Dock-yard, vice Whitehead, superannuated. Clerks—James Timpson, to be Secretary's Clrk to Rear- Admiral Bowles, vice Winstanley, to the Victoria and Albert yacht; J. Roberts, to the America; W. A. G. Young, from Sir C. Rowley's Secretary's office, to the St. Vincent; Au gustus Gilbert, to Bonetta (in charge). Naval Instructor—Mr. F. W. Smith, to qualify. Engineers—W. Jeffery (Ist Engineer), and Henry Lee, (2d Engineer), to the Comet. FIRE ON BOARD A SHIP. ➢iELANCHOLY LOSS OF LIFE. DEVONPORT, MARCII 9.—This morning about one o'clock an alarm of fire was heard at Mutton Cove, and shortly after flames were observed issuing from the companion and cabin window of the brig Theresa, of about 150 tons, Captain Nichols, belonging to Devonport, and recently arrived from Newport with a cargo of coals, which she was discharging at the wharf near her Majesty's arsenaL The two town engines were speedily on the spot, but owing to a defect in the hose, some time elapsed before they were brought into play. Lieut. Williams, the superintendent of the dockyard police, with one engine, and Colonel Clarke with part of the 76th Regiment and another engine, were soon there. Captain Milne, son of the Port Admiral, Sir David Milne, and Lieut. Elliott, with a company of Artiller7, were also present. About ten minutes after the engines arrived a boy was observed to make two inef fectual attempts to leap from the cabin and catch hold of the skylight combings : the third time a man on the quarter-deck pulled him out, but, harrowing to relate, the flesh on the poor boy's arm peeled off in the act ; the shirt was burnt off his back, and the hair of his head destroyed. He was immediately con veyed to the workhouse. The cargo very soon ignited, and, although low tide, the vessel was most injudiciously scuttled, when of course the water ran out as soon as it was poured in. The fire was, however, eventually subdued, but the brig is so much injured as to be past repair. The charred remains of John Davis, of Devonport, aged 18, were found in the steerage berth. He, with John Phillips. aged 13, the lad who was rescued through the cabin-window, were the only persons on board. The unfortunate youth was relieved from his sufferings in the course of the forenoon. Before dying, lie stated that he went on board about 9 o'clock on the Fri day evening, carefully put out his light and retired to bed, in the state-room, having received permission to do so from the master. The lad, who is the son of a gentleman now re sident at Newport, but formerly a collector of customs at a Cornish port, was determined to go to sea, in opposition to the wishes of his relatives, and was considered on board the brig more as a passenger than a sailor. The fire originated in the steerage, where Phillips slept in the mate's berth. It is supposed that he came on board very late, and that through his negligence the accident occurred ; he must have been smothered in his bed-place. The clothes belonging to the crew are destroyed, as they slept aft and messed with the captain, to whom no blame can be attributed in this melan choly accident. THE RIGHT HON. THE SPEAKER'S LEVEL: On Saturday night the Speaker of the House of Commons held his second sessional levee, at his residence, in Eaton-square. The reception of the Right Hon. Gentleman was rather nu merous, and the Duke of Wellington, Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Lowther, and Sir Augustus Clifford, were among the visitors. The following Members of the House of Commons paid their respects to the Right Hon. Gentleman :—The Marquis of Douro, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Judge Advocate-General, the Lord Advocate, Lord Charles Wellesley . , Viscount Duncan, Viscount Jocelyn, Earl Jermyn, Lord Eliot, Sir William Jolliffe, Sir John Walsh, Colonel Wood, Colonel Thomas Wood, the . Right Hon. Frederick Shaw, Captain Boldero, Mr. Maunsell, Mr. Protheroe, Mr. Lindsey, Mr. John Round, Mr. Botfield, Mr. Forster, Mr. Divett, Mr. V. Smith, Mr. John Young, Mr. Lefroy, Mr. Towneley, Mr. Dunn Gardener, Mr. John Lowther, Mr. Bailey (Herefordshire), Mr. Tollemache Cheshire), Sir George Staunton, Mr. Antrobus , Lord James Stuart, Mr. Rice, Mr. Scholefield, Dr. Bowring, the Hon. Octavius Duncombe, Mr. Collett (Athlone), Mr. Hindley, Mr. Blackstone, Captain Taylor, Mr. B. Wilbra ham, Mr. Pakington, Mr. James (Cumberland), Mr. Elphin stone, Sir Charles Burrell, Sir John Con Hobhouse, Mr. Wyse, Mr. Waddington, Mr. Wrightson, Mr. L. Fox, Mr. Villiers Stuart, Sir Edward Colebrooke, Mr. Kemble, Sir Stephen Glynne, Mr. Barclay, Mr. Gill, Mr. Stanton, Right Hon. B. IVlacaulay, Mr. B. Hu&hes, Mr. C. Leigh, Mr. W. Collett, Colonel Powell, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Allix, Hon. E. Yorke, Mr. Trelawney, Mr. S. Davis, Mr. Ross (Rosstrevor), Mr. G. Craig, Mr. J. H. Vivian, Viscount Ebrington, Mr. Tufnell, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Wawn, Mr. C. Douglas, Mr. Estcourt, Mr. Shirley (Warwickshire), Mr. Ward, Mr. Hastie, Lord Worsley, Lord Acheson, Hon. Colonel D. Darner, Viscount Howick, Mr. M ar ti n , Colonel Fox, Sir G. Grey, Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Stewart (Lymington), Mr. Ald • ham, Hon. J. S. Wortley, Mr. Hawes, lion. %. B. Baring, Lord Howard, Sir John Mordaunt, Mr. Acland, Sir William Heathcote, Mr. Thornely, Mr. Greene, Mr. W. 0. Stanley, Mr. A. Chapman, Mr. Lyall, Mr. Beresford, Sir Charles Lemon, Mr. Grogan, Lord Harry Vane, the Hon. W. Cowper, Colonel Rawdon, Mr. Bellew, Mr. Raikes Currie, and Mr. Wilshire. Previous to the levee the Right Hon. Gentleman entertained Viscount Grimston, Viscount Newport, Lord Alfred Hervey, Sir T. Dyke Acland, Bart., Dir. Beckett Denison, Sir Charles Knightley, the Hon. Colonel Rice Trevor, Mr. Darby, the Hon. Captain Maxwell, Mr. A. Hodgson, the lion. Francis Charteris, Mr. W. Beckett, Captain Jones, Mr. B. Estcourt, Mr. Neeld (Chippenham), Mr. J. A. Smith, Mr. Thesiger, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr. Monckton Milnes, Mr. W. Hamilton, Mr. Henley, Mr. Mundy, 111 r. Hope Johnstone, Mr. C. Round, and Mr. J. Bailey (Worcester), at dinner. CHARLES WooD, • ESQ., KR—We regret to find that the Honourable Member for Halifax has been for some time prevented by illness from attending his Parliamentary duties.—Leeds Mercury. Mr. Francis Nicholson, the distinguished artist, who has just died at the patriarchal age of ninety-one, was the father of the water-colour school of painting in this country. He was a man of true genius ; and eminent as was his position as an artist, he was no less distinguished for his practical knowledge of mechanics, music, optics, and che mistry. He also devoted much of his time to lithography, for the advancement of which art England is much indebted to Dr. Dn.t, of Dublin, followed. He stated that they (the Presbyterians) had shown what they could suffer; but he (Dr. Dill) cautioned those who were now opposed to them, not to reckon too largely on their capabilities of endurance. He said, that were the Presbyterians of the north to combine with the Catholics of the south, the Government of the country could not long resist a demand that had been lately made upon it, by which it was sought to separate the two countries. He brought this forward merely as an instance why the Legislature should not look lightly on so important a body as the Presbyterians. Mr. Molyneux, Mr. Johnson, and Dr. Stewart next ad dressed the meeting, the last of whom, at the conclusion of his speech, submitted a draft of a:petition to the house, which he had drawn up in the course of the day, for presentation to the House of Commons. It was unanimously adopted.—The Assembly then adjourned till the following day (Thursday). SUFFERINGS - OF BLEACHERS. (From the Glasgow Saturday Evening Post and Renfrewshire Reformer, of Saturday.) - It is understood that Mr. Wallace's motion, to have the bleaching works in Scotland brought within the Factory Bill, now in progress through the House of Commons, will be brought forward by him on Monday next, and that k will have the support of Lord Ashley. Mr. P. M. Stewart, who had promised his aid to the operatives, is now in cor respondence with the master bleachers, and will support a petition to be presented by them, praying that, before le gislation, a Government Commissioner may be appointed to inquire into the system of labour in the bleaching works. The masters postponed their opposition until they saw that, through the exertions of Mr. Wallace, the operatives were about to gain their object, and the demand at the eleventh hour for inquiry, is considered by the operatives as altogether a sham, and used merely for the purpose of delay, and thereby preventing them from obtaining an immediate redress of their grievances. The operatives made the same allegations of cruelty and oppression in their petitions to Par lianieht last session, and prayed for inquiry by Government, but the masters were then silent—they acquiesced in, or at least never contradicted, these allegations, and certainly they did not then invite inquiry; and it is only when the operatives are seemingly about to attain their object that their employers interfere, and, on pretence that the operatives' petitions contain somewhat exaggerated state ments of their wrongs, and that inquiry ought there fore to be made into them before legislation, pray that the. operatives' claims to legislative protection may be postponed. The delay and the inquiry sought for by the masters will however be useful to the operatives, and we trust they will make out such a case as will not only secure for them public sympathy, but also a full measure of justice from the Legisla ture. We have no wish at present to enter into any detail of the evils of the system of labour in the bleaching works, but we cannot refrain from stating what has just been communi cated to us, that in a bleaching work not a great many miles from this city, and tonducted by a gentleman as respectable as any in the trade, the workers were employed for three days suc cessively last week, from 6 in the morning till 12 at night, in dryinghouses heated to 120 degrees of Fahrenheit; the ave rage hours for the whole week being sixteen per day—a length of hours and severity of labour, more than sufficient to exhaust their strength, andrriously to affect their health. This is not a solitary example' of the system, and its effect upon the physical and moral condition of the workers ; and yet the masters require farther inquiry before it be interfered with. We have been amused to hear of the salutary effects produced in certain bleaching works by our public advocacy of the right of the operatives to protection from the Legislature. There has been an active setting of the works in order, preparatory, no doubt, to the visit of the Government Commissioner. Bells have been hung up to ring at meal hours—clocks set up to regulate the hours of labour—the wearing of watches by the men is not prohibited—and, except in cases of urgency, the hours of la bour have been limited to 13 hours per day ; while the kind est expressions of sympathy have been used towards the workers. This is all very well, and as it should be ; and we trust that, now the reformation has begun, it will goon, and that before the " Bleachers' Protection Bill" shall have come into operation, the masters will have brought the entire system into accordance with the principles of humanity and justice. THE RACER.—A new sporting work has just made its appearance under this title. It seems to contain all im portant matter connected with the Turf on great events about to come off, as well as those that have alreadydone so; it is a sort of book that has long been wanted as a safe and convenient reference, and isworthy of support on that account alone, independent of the original remarks on racing in gene ral. The Proprietor of this little work dedicates it to the "Pa trons of the Turf" in these words :—" This little work is in scribed to you. There are other publications which supply the same information as the present ; but there is non e i n which that information is conveyed in so compact and useful a form, for constant and ready reference. It may be slipped into the waistcoat pocket, or carried in a pocket-book. It is a mere nutshell, not feather weight ; a mulium in ; a bijou—in plain English a gem, and may it prove one of the first water ! Measure not its utility by its miniature size ; great matters often lie in a small compass, like a pearl in an oyster. Your patronage of this attempt to consult your con venience will proportionately stimulate the zeal of its pro prietor to make it still more worthy of your acceptance. Should it fail to deserve your support, let it be consigned to its merited fate—oblivion. Some of the readers of this may recognize the hand that pens it; those who do not willyer haps recollect the name of LIONEL BENJAMIN RAYNER.' DARING ROBBERY AT THE BANK.—On Thursday, as a gentleman from King William-street, City, was paying in money to one of the receivers of the Drawing-office, at the Bank of England, some daring thief contrived to abstract his pocket-book from the counter, and which contained a Bank of England note for 501., one for 101., one for 5/. ; in gold, 2/. 10s. ,• and in silver, 10s. 6d., with which the scoundrel got clear off.. Sivori is expected in town almost immediately. Since he left England he has been engaged in a professional tour in Holland, where he has met with great success. M. Ernst is also expected to visit London early in the season. THE SIEGE OF JELLALABAD.—SiIver medals are at present being struck off at the Mint, for the purpose of being presented to those who were present at the siege o f Jellalabad. HEROIC CONDUCT OF LIEUTENANTS CATWELL AND VANSITTART, R.N.—On Wednesday, the 13th of December, as the men of her Majesty's ship Agincourt were exercising aloft, one of them, unfortunately, lost his hold, and fell from the main-yard-arm, and striking against the rigging, bounded with frightful force from the spare-topsail-yard. and fell insensible into the sea. Lieutenants Catwell and Vansittart instantly dashed overboard after him ; the former officer was, however, from his position, unable to make way against the tide and reach the sinking man ; Mr. Vansittart was nearer to him, and with almost superhuman exertions (being burdened with the whole of his uniform), saved the poor fellow's life, supporting him a considerable time witil a boat could be lowered.—Hong-Kong Gazette. It is an interesting fact that the 39th Regiment, foremost in the late glorious victory under Sir Hugh Gough, was the first British regiment that landed in India; and that, among the many distinctions which it bears upon ita colours, is Primus in Indis. We understand that his Royal Highness Prince Al• bert is going, during the Easter recess, to make a short ex cursion to the Continent, in order to visit his afflicted rela tives at Cobourg.—Timer. 1 :144 IS - AND STRASBURG RAILWAY. To b e Total Capital, 60,000,000 Francs. Aa, mvided into 120,000 Shares of 500 Francs each. "'sunlit *et exceeding a moiety of the same, to be raised in England, In 201. Shares. LONDON COMMITTEE. WIL, -- L IAM THOMPSON, Esq., Alderman, M.P. arIaARLES ST BARRY BALDWIN, Esq., M.P. CROIIWAITE, Esq., Liverpool. • LIAM SAMPSON, Esq., London. IJELIN, Esq., London. ' • KENNARD, Esq., London. TR C o PARIS COMMITTEE. ‘, Co mt e de MOLE, President, Pair de France. *far:chid C omte GERARD, Pair de France. arsell CH EVANDIER, Pair de France. ko ne ' de. AHNIER de MAISONNEUVE, Depute, du Bas Rhha. at ent Pair de France. o fm. Y-4 IsTI-'4NERON, Banquier, D laepute, de la Seine. aro,. L 'ESPEE, Depute, de Meurthe. ENN E, Depute, de la Meuse. ke+trBANKERS IN c;IDEXISON, HEYWOOD, LONDON. KENNARL)S, and Co. ' AUDR SCOTT, Bart., and Co. BANKERS IN LIVERPOOL. Mesa's. LEYLAND, BULLINS and Co. BANKERS IN PARIS. Messrs. GANNERON et Compaigne. ENGINEER. '1 . 14 ROBERT STEPHENSON, ESQ. ode Droje tted . rope line of railway, 285 English miles in length, will be i'll . ta pee 7lably to the Law of the I lth of June, 1842. The land Y en t tle p re nyd, and the earthworks, bridges, stations, &c., executed a n r B inr os l„," Government at its own expense and risk, the Corn laiennZent being limited to the formation of the permanent ro or. 7 l g the same, and providing the carriages and engines. 'nee taken is through fifteen of the richest provinces of centaini ae of t , ,ng a population of above 6,000,000,. and the land ae district is double that of the whole. kingdom of Bel l'inelttlik-th",z.s_ fine, in conjunction with that of Havre, will form the he to Germany, the city of Strasburg being the converg k,? the ev German railroads. e „, ent of the Company not being constituted, the whole de 411,1Apieeznetronswill be return e d t o th e su b scr ib ers . tt o sir. for Shares, addressed to the London Committee, to be tnstltt Inkersole, at the temporary Office o( the . 9om lak-elphiae ; to Messrs. Bcavan and Anderson, solicitors, L , St. str r rate, Strand, London; and to Mr. Wm. Bridges, 6, Par tailinedeeont, 'Westminster, where also detailed Prospectuses may aPPlication. t4 P. NEXT DISTRIBUTION OF MONEY er.litty.,,,--'tYDS AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED by HIS R E .`" , EMPEROR of AUSTRIA contains Money Dividends £7O £72 £BO £9O .. °l3 £llO £l2O £l5O £2OO 11 , 1100 £3OO £5OO £6OO £750 21,200 £1,750 £4,000 & £21,000 bietrpamounting together to £154,308 sterling. a I) iden r i ti contains as many Dividends as Bends. Every Smallest Dividend - £6B u ' r ett r te . Largest Dividend - - £21,000 Pettus, with full particulars, without delay to HEINE BROTHERS, at Hamburgh. Or to HEINE BROTHERS, at Lubeck. F I , Qr, c o ' t , ) LANT to a DECREE of the HIGH 14 a ar tbc . aT of CHANCERY, made in Two several Causes, li e l - ittbr%agairist DODD, and EDWARDS against BOSANQUET, tia - ,, f itY-s o -v „, II S of ELIZABETH HOUGHTON, late of Hill-street, ‘,.,7 t e , in the county of Middlesex, spinster, (who died in °AS' t J a, nuary, 1823,) are, on or before the 15th day of April ° f th e t e m and prove their Debts before Sir GIFFIN WILSON, th t "'o4.l. ) ',lagers of the said Court, at his Chambers, in South ttleklings, Chancery-lane, London; or, in default thereof, let t P ererriptorily excluded the benefit of the said Decree. and HILL, 4, Verulam-buil dings, Gray's Inn. n and NEXT of KIN of ELIZABETH HOUGHTON and NANNY EDWARDS. e lt ' Ll A-NT to a DECREE of the HIGH tlis fhi , bei m . of CHANCERY, made in the causes of EDWARDS tt.t 4 g and EDWARDS against BOSANQUET, all persons nla rs . 44 llZ - a'''' n . t ._he HEIR or HEIRS-AT-LAW and NEXT of KIN of tl 'Os " HOUGHTON , spinster, who died in the month of Ja fhs. 2 , livi n 4 t-La w g at the time of her death, or to be such Heir or ili tt ,ltt otiv at the present time, or the personal representative or b.' s ., Of any deceased Next of Kin ; and all persons claim la.,`o4l,,„_- ...RIR or HEIRS-AT-LAW of NANNY EDWARDS fit@are "alPhrey Edwards), who died in the month of September, nti t l.l l °r before the 15th day of April, 1844, to come in and 4,44 eir claims and prove their kindred before Sir GIFFIN Iti l ?t i nti.b4;-daster of he said Court, at his Chambers, in South , h u, Der: i ngs, Chanc e ry -lane, London ; or in default thereof they aa o .;'latorily excluded the benefit of the said Decree. tnarned Elizabeth Houghton was the daughter of Richard w ' the Parish of St. Botolph Without, Aldgate, in the City P h : , sae ' ca rPenter, who died In the year 1764, and of Margaret his 4.,;!tnn, i! tra nd-daughter of James Houghton, of Kirkham, near ;ill re a d i the _ county of Lancaster, butcher, and at the time of her taii7 in Hill-street, Berkeley-square. I logi, e ;nattled Nanny Edwards was the sister of the said Eliza e',.oll, and for several years previous to her death resided at a t St " l e county of Middlesex, where she died.-Dated the 4th Ilattch. 1844. , ytSON and HILL, 4, Verulism-buildings, Gray's Inn. Arrt, SUPERIOR CANDLES. • e a ,,,,„S'S CANDLES, Sid. per lb.; Wax s .-“e-8, Is. 2d. ; fine Wax ls. sd. ; Composite, Is. ; extra If2itllsofes'lck Moulds, 7d.; Transparent Wax, 2s. ; genuine Sperm, lr 'P. • a l l ' :„ / Ya.x, 2s. 3d. ; Yellow Soap, 465., 525., and 58s. per 41 . ' • o i,`"cal. 60s. and 645. ; 'Windsor, ls. 4d. per packet ; Palm, Brownßps nd, 2s Windsor, Is. 9d. ; Rose, 25.; Camphor, 2s. ; 'll4'l' s Gd• ; superfine Sealing Wax, 4s. 6d. per lb. ; genuine kuistofii fr ' Per gallon • Solar Oil, Is. 6d. For cash. At DAVIES'S , vrarehouse 63, St. Martin's-lane, opposite New ,oee.houe. ,R. SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive ;to,,,,,by t h - nin,_r,jous metals called Nickel and German Silver sup e. '4. '''ncroduction of a new and perfectly matchless ALBATA rl ab o * ATaa,.. es s 41 and 42, BARBICAN, and 16, NORTON-FOL- Nr' s . 4 ceesi:,, b Y, a person of science in the amalgamation of metals, a..... Yet oft ." bringing to public notice the most beautiful article ku atb ,erect . , Possessing all the richness of Silver in appearance aie-liaae;'..durabillty and hardness-with its perfect sweetness in a h ,N, f ttl ng, as it does , a chemical process, by' which all that is the el - re ," tt i i !ed metals entirely extracted--resisting all acids ,t - able 'a as silver, and is manufactured into every article for and Sideboard. 44i t Fiddle. Threaded. King's. le a 'krt7 °T ak and Forks, per doz . 16s. 6d. 365. Od. 355. Od. 1 ,.. ,0 itt 0, h Per doz • Ott 1%.,.."5 , Per doz. • : toellgs. each ) ,, t , ti i i t L ast. '" Spoons, each .... 6s. Od. .. 13s. 6d. • • 13s. 6d. Communion Services, &c. eiicrsert Knives of Watson's new Albata Plate, with French alL f q handles, 2/. ss. per set of 24 pieces ; ditto, with li h andles, or with Albata Plate handles and blades. waTern, 2!. 10s. p er set of 24 p i eces. qi!ii,,-„on begs the Publi c will understand t h a t thi s me t a l i s pecu lo `Lwri, and that Silver is not more different from Gold, than lr e b : tt ri b e l from a ll lathers ; on its intrinsic merit alone he wishes it I,„..tlai fie ,"; and from th e daily Increasing eulogiurns he receives, he 1 1 . (2, '' that nothing can prevent its becoming an article of uni ., ear • it Just '' ) u'a handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Current ,Dulifislied, and families who ragard economy and elegance, iiiireas the lees of this useful book, which may be had Post free, fram the above address. per Tea Trays 355. the set:of three. A IL S , 71,„ "P P ' S EAST INDIA PALE ALE. • th e ,, , ,:,-0 1 , , euence of an advertisement issued by Messrs. Bass "it London and provincial newspapers, we were under '1,:k10r,, -1 cf addressing a letter to those gentlemen on the 26th ear - ...a1a, - „ l ,ng them that their statements of the prices of Pale Ale the shi melds thereto, a far as wewere concerned, elif"l'ass""lY incorr ' ect," and that if s the advertisement were not 14.4, 1 ) o f e ` should feel compelled publicly to allude to the Mac -44110Y, a. ' b' et e have, therefore, no alternative but to declare ,ks o We informed them privately, that almos t . every state. ' 4 l ), 44 o; i ,"IY incorrect." We take this opportunity of giving , li o cY the "elatest ben:, fide wholesale sales of each Ale, as yen , ca rious ' r ,eson n prices current, and have only to refer pantie to nkOttt -t ed With India for a confirmation of these facts. t 'ber -'r Rupees. s, Allsopp 77 per hhd. Bona fide sales, as per ber e - i4ta t Bass 70 ditto 5 public Prices Current. ti ltar Rupees. iN Allsopp 7o per hhd.7 Boni fide sales, as Ter tem u a k k y Bass 65 ditto 3 public Prices Current. Rupees. 014 Allsopp 65 per hhd.l Boni fid e . sales, as per lelo; tot /3 ais ts of one year past, fro m October to Ocioter, art Madra s aid Bombay. .9 0 16 3 Calcutta. Total Hhds. 5,583 .•..••••• 9,499 2,727 gl;e ' n at their Stores, 61, King William • "hon," ° „n. or at the Brewery, Burton.upen. [rent, as to parties Public may depend for procuring the East India P o a i l: \ AI s'" other • t'es of Burton Ale, and they may be -1, 0 ; Most of var ieties respectable dealers throughout the kingdom. " b d Sonls Brewery, Burion-upon.Trent, March 5, 1844.