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PARISH OF BIRMINGHAM. TILDES. N otice is hereb y given, that the Guar ß dians of the Poor of the Pa -1 ..,4 4 of Bh.ma , Tt, Tham will, at their Weekly Meeting, to be held on for th AT, the 26th day of March next, proceed to consider Proposals Erection of a NE W 'WORKHOUSE for the Poor of the said t ,,', 8 _ 11 . The Drawings and Specification may be seen, and all par teiZitro obtained at the offices of the architects, Messrs. Drury and nd man, Cherry-street, Birmingham, to whom parties desirous of before are requested to furnisl thir names and addresses on or ~_ re the 23d day of February instant. The proposed building Is to nmerected on land belonging to the Guardians, situate at Birming "4,,,lleath, near the town of tairmingham. th,. All Tenders must he sealed, and addressed " To the Guardians of poor of the Parish of Birmingham," superscribed " Tender for 33e7orkhouse," and delivered at the Co Otlice, Lichfield 23th day Bir mingham, by or before Twelve o'clock on Monday, the aY of March next. buil Gu a r dians do not bind themselves to accept the lowest Tender, exee nt . e Party whose proposal may ba i.dopted will be required to sureties a Written Contract, and also a Bond, with two approved du e In such amount as the Guar liana may determine, fer the •mraelsot thereof. By order of the Board, C1e.449. O nce, JAMES CORDER, Clerk to the Guardians --••• Llehflold-street, Birmingba n, February 12, 1850. GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION LombardCY. (Incorporated by Act of Parliament.) 71 , (-street, London. Eh TIN S hereby g i ven , th a t th e HALF-YEARLY GENER.tI, it of the PROPRIETORS o f th' s COMPANY will be h old Initan "Vail's Office, 71, Lombard-street, (.11 TUESDAY, the 26th tra n -t,at T eclock precisely, pursuant to ti a Act of Parliament, the t usual usinesq, and te declare ND for .ftlf-yeaher ending b the 31st December, 1849. the DIVIDE London, February 1, 1250. MARTIN FRATT. ARGYLE SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS, Great Windmill -street, St. Janes I. v•This)ilnAlcal Director and Cendsctor, M. LAURENT, Jun. , _ G tOW op`A D ENIT, for Tuition and 1 ractice of DANUN , . mos ey for the Season. Teaching by Professors Calkin., t'er P ranc•nt• leriPtion GC Private Tuition apply at the office.—Terms of Sub °he nwn , „ l4 l' Morning and evening practice:—Six months, V. 5s ; I tlnie I. If Is • one is. Subscr.l”rs' tickets not evening, •41. 4 , • 'clock. ` au enlY Will open for evening practice at a Quarter to Eight 411 d terminate at Half-past Eleven precisely. 1 8r -- • '"/ IL Bishop's Lectures on Music, with Illustrations, will commence on Monday, the 18th instant. ra E ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET. 84 1 4 11 z ," ri tration s On Astronomy, by Dr. Bachhollner, on Wednesday MAh da Y , at One o'clock.—Dr. Bachhoffner's Lectare on the Philo by iir!caclentlfle Recreation, Mornirgs and Evenings.—A Lecture or L ow Althley lilt Coal.—its history and formation —Dissolving Tiews ileriptiZt In the Sixteenth Century, and as it now is, whit a De -1111 H i ; ' ect nre•—Also, a Series of Views of Rome.—Experiments tak ea Diver mid Diving-bell.—Tho Machinery, Models, &c., cx- Admission. 12.--Sehoola. Half-price, CIRE NICOLL PALETOT, or Patent Coat ; r linci 11, e original invextion. the Registered Paletot (6 and 7 I t licrkt„ 65 ). The West-end Warerooms for the sale .1 these cortaitio.ll4 woto "nu , Ihsefhl articles of dress are in Regent. street. and extend No. 120, inclusive ; and those in the City are at 22. till 1 "u• Shipping Department being in the rear—viz., 'Change. b it i. a q ha'. teo r - assumed the use of the word PA LETOT, but H. J. and '‘ate r t.,.. l . are the sole Proprietors and Patentees of the design or h Th e 7, mate sr ' 11 " 3 Are One, Two, and Three Guineas, and according to Purii•st for which they are required. , -r: -- . LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY 1 '1)4 tI,I3.CORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, "e principle of Mutual Life Assurance, the whole Profits belonging to the Assured i/oi n . l'te • 31 , LOMBARD-S MEET, LONDON. TRUSTEES. 14 C 1 1 7 11 Canl iThell Renton, Esq., M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. rd Mat " Ile, Esq., Q.C. 1 James Fuller Madox, Esq. William Wilberforce, Esq. Wiln a DIRECTORS. a olin In Adams, E , White Broad-street. lies At kins, Esq., Hart -curt, Lombard-street. ~T. ,h,f7 Augustus Bevan, Esq., John-street, America-square. ae,:`!l°lripson Bramwell, Esq.. Prospect-place, Kilburn. ,r b angerfield, Esq., Chancery-lane. ;aeon Henry Forman. Esq , Ordnance, Pall-mall. ,/,: n I farnilton, Esq., Alfred-place, Thurloa-square. Jeli n P uller Madoz, Esq., Clement's-lane. n'ill M atthews, Esq., Arthur-street West, City. '• Octitylus Parnell, Esq , Ncrfolk-street, Mark-lane. - N (31e 01,1, n AUDITORS. . W ul f. C umming, Esq., Westbourne-greve. .lA *l a nt O. Starling, Esq., Change -alley, City. David (4 Turner, Esc; , Parliament-street. Henry Stone, Esq., Poultry. . laarnct as —Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and CO. SECRETARY—David Alison, Esq. h t PADDfI.IGTON LOCAL BOARD. e t it e „ , t 4 Connaught -terrace, Edgeware•road. etle, Ti '',...eMes Shergold Boone, A.M., Stanhope. street, Hyde-park ligirls4t,"it Norfolk -crescent, Oxford-square. liciputa iernberton, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace. Hyde-park. -4 ir• y , v is Anios, Esq., York-street, Portman-square. Robson, En., M T h Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park. P OLIc / Secretary, Chas. Houghton, Esq. ri sfer ES issued by this Company being INDISPUTABLE, tli' e ade a _ b le and negotiable Securities. They may at any time titillleibleatrallable in money transactions, their validity not being Av er (lo on '," In the case of ordinary Policies, upon the import of 14' 4 , fro„,'" ei !ts• Used as Family Provisions, they relieve the As -04, hi'-`.,sti doubt and anxiety as to the result of Assurances kirsiot t:',lecertain. rat h a lee, th e dn e important improvement in the practice of Life As p'._`onte4t p r iVress of this Company has been rapid from the coni tki"tospt,tuef its business, and is steadily increasing. . e rl at tk" e i Reports, and every ether information, way be ob a Chief Office, or any of the Agencies. ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager. Ntll li p, i lrect %Ass ‘ 44 '' ' S WHITE LIQUID GLUE, for Is li , td, by h e ool China, without smell, and not Per Bottle. b l. ered Li ' bt Water - - . 6d. and 15. Vl,'YloUts o r„l'l Glue, for Wood, Stone, Jac., lt tArc o f '", - - - - . - 6d. Is. and Is. 6d. 44 1' V N aPth „ tkt 44,411 A G lue, fir all purposed - 3d. and 6d. 6d. and Is. 1i,.0r re,,`,fneral Liquid Glue at'Depo, 549, New Oxford-street. , 1 1 5 ' e n,, cog°, n 3 any short of l e ' 4l l. ...." 11101 1,* this Improved Liquid Glue seems quite up to il 4t eeli4 'Ye have tried it on a china disk, a wooden box, and a I N. rn Pile, with equally satisfactory results."—Bullder, Dec. , t )t reoo9e's MUSTACHIOS No t . oT aCHIOS, and WHISKERS produced in a 4 h * and Bald ness removed and prevented, by tie use of ,It , `''lM S TON E'S AROMATIC Ilkt.:°4 an, , REGEWERATOR. M tc. t v il , ri,,,- An Want of that b eau tif u l a d ornmen t o f th e h uman hien! f eral supply of human hair, obtain through the post, or tliini, e l i4aie or retail chemist or druggist, or perfumer, an I Is. try ' u 'llve l ,kg, Mono's Aromatic Regenerator. This is an essential t e l n ' - ` l ,v) ~,';,el'a aromatic herbs and flowers (grown at his Her -4 4.' °Y L 7), which has been long known to the nobility and )40, 1 ,1 0 111, t. " ) ,?ea it is highly appreciated for its manifold virtues, too ei I - " set forth in an advertisement, but may be read in,his h kit ' dllth t OA, Pain— ch the bottles are enclosed. I N ty, iiyulet has the signature of William Gemstone, Merchant, btu We tiintate d ill be found at page 11, under the copy of eta t'r, Lett ' e l Pto the w Editor of the " Times" newspaper, 7th h,:ti 144 s 'Nt h I'latniaaiehict is forwarded through the post, en receiving two yj t:, aro n T.l. 1 4 a a- - "4 Regenerator can be forwarded through the aost en l i e l l tli, order for 4s. 6d., 7s. Bd., or 1 . 45., which in . 4 ! li t . i sL age with the case. t h ' e etr et'ir4 contains four of the 45. )4 litip: i a ,, e tanY 'virtues, as thousands can prove, are published )4'-ad e , - ', enclosed with each bottle. V ii i, r i ' *o r o a ,?, e et for a few minutes, and if you are 40 years of age, :11 , oth e ;;'Mber the thousands f blind you meet with in yosr ,":Pari,ll. w ith various coloured eye-shades ; indeed, such was ‘t,.. t t iles ' e , r eYe-shades that it was a business. What has re (ttl'iite,,l kghtless beings, ' and given place to a straightforward, ~ til k r Peopl e , (the cliina te is the same) ? I'll tell you the caase a . % :Sin ' , 4 ,` use of Grimstone's Eye Snuff ! and because it cured L 'at l oe /4"ttitta Serena Catariet, Nervous Headach, and Deaf- N e lle To of the Trea ' sury directed it to be denominated a medi ipttZetinie gemmed. Although this advanced its character, 67 tk t i ttt,,N; , b ei ng proved by the informers, still it was an act of 1, I,` tl4 l :Vn 1825 the Solicitor of Stamps, Godfrey Sykes, Esq., S l .li f e 4e r i ; , 1 , and sanctioned its sale under order of the Lords of Lkt,‘,.. ar t y, the letter of protection, signed by Herries, Esq., to 141,,, t 7 t !tt i;',...riMston!, bearing date 18th February, 152 . 5. T . his was -4144 t he r en '-', cu rative qualities, being sold at that time in cams It ti ji. eat i t , each of every poor family. But under this order of k_sittp„,!!, obliged to be stamped. _ 0t, k ,,, 1 11 at , t ' MEDICATED EYE SNUFF, sold in canisters, 411501it.' e roPhlet of medical and other testimonials, ander the kiM ',lai n , rder, at is. lid., 2s. 9d., aid 4s. 6d. each. The ,ttylVei n ,l at Id. each. If through the post, is. Sd., 3s. 6d., and ite e lliiik i ,,, n if Postage, &c. The following letter is one out of the sit it tli t —. Proof s tet e follo w i ng ' Medical Testimony to the care of five cases ' l l 4 , 4 , ne i„ from G. 11. Boatel!, Professor of Galvanism:— k b bf.„. vr. c ; aouthsea near Portsmouth, Hants, sth Nov., 1848. V e Ilb,." B o, e 'XsToim ' —Sir —I must in justice to you send the fol ttlk1;;,3.111-Zial with , regard to the extraordinary efficacy of your i 4k 4 `stit o " a s i e es of Gutta Serena. I have used it in live cases with , ‘ l 4 , th,t Piing benefit and cure. Sir, yen may advertise this ! . 15t,.. 0 ti5,.,, ee You please. Tho cures have wholly astonished 1 11, "'"o of others.—T am, Sir, &C., ke,Y e rs t _ G. 11. BOUTELL, Professor of Galvanism." t4a4ot ~ ,41 ' , mr. William Grimstene, Herbary, Highgate, near I k% 1 04 e l'lti t gt establishment ke continues to manufa . cture h s " t etI4 I 4I,,„ T °RACCO, so mach esteemed in all foreign parts. " , 0 f4 ,-,er, in testimony of its , delightful qualities, is from ' p r ir , " Pleasures of Home " t ht:';',,! ea -I ,i n , e kt Cettage, Honiton, Devon, 15th August, MIL ' ki Di _mi,vir 41 -, deny myself the pleasure of stating how highly I kli, ` l , leittyro Tobacco. I have now found in it a substitute for 4 1e..' &lb ; hitherto obtained by me from a friend in Constanti. ' Beat ' e re that lovers of mild, fragrant Tobacco would find , . and , ' 'eceptable gift, at a very reasonable price. 1' I ,' I. I CM your obedient servant, 1'1 i, 44 1 -i i r t;, 11 t1111, 1 ,,,. "STUART FARQUHARSON, D.C.L. LIN - osiv„, -• Gemstone, Herbary, Highgate." 44 othera•s4Y-fanted Tobacco is sold by all chemists and drag '' 4 . se' 'wi th W. Grimstone's signature attached, at 7;4 d., • and 4s. 64. each, including the Government stamp Nri 4) 3st lit, 1,,,,, bast Published, price 55., Bvo. In cloth, . 1, ‘1 0,,, 4t hi 1 ati u , s i tt of the URETHRA; its Patho -1441, on ,naational Treatment, with important Practical 0b ',,,10 i ' ,! l oit t a - ; 1 7, 8 e- and Abuse of Instruments in the Treatment 1„ s 'oti?st oZ 'Lie Urinary Canal ; showing how it is that Stric • . ''' ita ti Z e, , not only resist, but are aggravated by the ordi- CS illi w , -147,,ed for their cure, and at leagth become seriously IleN‘ratt,i'Ve so-called " consequences of stricture." The 'It4 1:11 e 1"Y numerous cases, which will he found to embrace li 4 t he % r eeaq, nl o e f f Stricture and its consequences, together with t ltLi ka e,el W O.,, 46 ar Ii3 aI e g r • e COURTENAY, M.R.C.a.E. "Vitt ~loa , ,Zionring under long-protracted stricture, with all ' tj, e a 44.14" 41 4. pt%oiseries, will find detailed in this work modes of ka l ' 1 4 1 1e" l'e such cases, the efficacy and superiority of ~,.' il t ,t 1 41,, test e d _ by repeated practice; whilst th , ,se who 11.7, , 1eat DriL , ll4,:.the less severe forms of the disease may find tOtis h tr oao i ri l relief, and at the same time such information )4, - 14;4 oil,. 'fa from becoming the victims of unsk . Mal and knt `r th tiC---the main-spring of severe and complicated ob• N i (11,. r, a q i . i t ka 4 'et h iata t a Ilsry canal. " The operation of introducing a 1 4 4 siii kl i tea in in Impermeable stricture is, without doubt, the Nir ° lit h ,,ge whole range of surgical operations, and de -4'014 Og e ltit r " e nce, science, and skill of a master. The art kli Olv ta , 4 11.,4. and that gradually, by frequent practice."— N,:_9 7 4. , Urg er ,. e ilei,,, Ilailliere, 219, Regent-street; and may be had 114 wili and country. Vllt Il i ttr it ,.., k, / r , -- ` 1 by 95 Anatomical EDITION. •,, (4..'4/, I,7Anatornicat Coloured Engravings ma Steel. t 4 14,141110;1. AN- -- .,'NUALICATIONB, GENERATIVE INCAPA Pt — h itt ,T, et l i -;," I MPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. \(lt`',.,Nct to to to 196 pages. Just published, price 2e. 61., or ~ 4 1 ,, LlL,L,artx.„.the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps, I th pt, l4, l 7 ll l lrk i ir 9 i N t T FRIEND, a Medical Work on i s ,111 ~1 4, k Reh ee aacl decay of the generative system, frog ex- N t stlAti ort : e l , st 4 infection, and the inordinate use of laorcur . y .3 , 1 1 t li t ti tt ' Illn at il '‘ge, and tit* means of obviating certain d- - 04,4, fuld e , rateol by 2; Coloured Engravings. By It, and qll, o ,Lond o v, C onsulting s urge ons, 19, Berners-street, Ox 1t.:1q,11,14t, t'r-rn.,„A• Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, IkAt:,chb,.;,; llannay, 63, and Sanger, 1110, Oxford-stroot ; k 0 1.1„. ''''s-street, riarriarket, ; and Gordon, 146, Leaden hll' ',N., -eat % h 4 /' ji d la In °: ,tllO .natomy e physiology of the re-productive 11j,lh,ax'„t'attse%s,,e'l by Six and Coloured Engravings. l&gi,,gl N t_ - ' `. l e conseu salting frm excessive intitti steg,Weakt;.,amtable efl l ccts e (l th system, producing mental yhiltiq 'file:'ervous excitement, and generative ncapacity. el t k kr • tre,t; xPlanatory Engravings l,b.,,'Zt,,,,,LYtares,toc'ttfda.the diseases resulting from . infection, ether in I / 4 li g da, 41, Thi. r : 7 form, and centrdas explicit directions for Nt k 111 1/ t. , eCtlon is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured 4 aw t , ont at ,, N aDpiiewtt Prescription for the Prevention Of Digest e Op t ,tl t N I lihp or ,"b, by which the danger of infecton is ob- IZi, it t , et,. ant Part of the Work should no escnse the Itt, ih l a dt,p, I,' l ?lt i , e a ,,,, t , d to the consideration and its h t I, e , ltbj et ,acr uu , r _ ,__,.... of marriage, _ x0t,, , 74 141, eriti cau ,, --_ ,, lyti_ e l union are also considered, and Ort. i, 4 2%,' - : A . 1.144 0 , 4 Ta 'n i a a r o.sophially iw a ciircd into. i).,`,N, 1,,)110 cotnival debility im m la t ex(' usi- - -ly employed in treat ,N.er,ortiki,,irsiCentsated Deterar° gnce' SC., I] 2. and 335. per 1i4tii:p4,1?,,., k il h citat h .. e_bloed im te rssence, ax anti-syphilitic Jr case:: of infection, secondary eymp- Stt t ,zia t ,f,`,q 7,,..!',, , c of nee:cury, Ils. and Us. per bottle. if I,ce br rerg eno 1 , - 1 3, 2s. 94., 4s. 6d. and 11a, per box a clObk,l'4, 44, klCtr. .rr"cnaZleet, stricture, and d chronc infiamrna tt,.case 4 1 -;nnszitatiou fee, if hy . letter, 11. 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With an Illustration, 11, Bouverie-street. Messrs. BRADBURY and EVANS beg to announce that in MARCH next will be published, price TWOPENCE, the First Number of ANEW WEEKLY MISCELLANY of General Literature, conducted by Mr. CHARLES DICKEYS ; designed for the Entertainment and Instruction of all classes of readers, and to help in the advancement of the most Im portant social questions of the time. HORNED: —Remarks on a recent "Naval Exe , cut'en." By W. N. With a Map, showing the Scene o: Operations. Royal Svo. Price 2s. 6d. Effingham Wilson, Publisher, Royal Exchange. COURT OF ALDERMEN.. On Tuesday a Court was held for the dis pa tch of business. The Rev. Mr. Marshall, chaplain to the: Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, was appointed chapla in to the Borough Compter. A report was presented on the further con sidera tion of the report respecting the maintenance of criminal prisoners and expenses of proseculions.— Agreed to. -- Upon a motion of Alderman CHALLIS, a deputa tion was appointed to wait upon the Secretary of State respecting the return of expenses of maintaining convicted prisoners, and for public prosecutions. fect idlene ss , ma k es them spend. their leisure in awfully corrupting one another. I will not mock your feelings by attempting to describe the language, acts, and habits of those utterly depraved men. Their fil thiness, falsehood, and pernicious abominations are too bad to be described. I blame no one that things are so. The m +gistrates wish these men removed to their proper places rf confinement. The Government are unable to comply 'with these reasonable desires, because every place is f u ll. Would it not be better, then, t) fit up 'n :Leis as workshops after the manner of Milbank Prison, and keep these offenders constantly at labour, compel them to wear the prison dress, and subject them to the prof or discipline, when occupied prisoners are more consented, and cannot reitemploy their time in cor rupting and disgusting language? I press this matter the snore earnestly because it has teen the cause of all the calumnies that have f.Jund their way into many public documents as to the corruption inside of Newgate. Such depravity is chiefly limited to the trans port wards, and those in which known offenders are as asociated. The public arogetting much better to under stand not merely what can be done, but what cannot be done with incorri g ibl e offenders. -The limits begin to be discerned where reformation is hopeful,- and where it is visionary. The character of the inveterate thief gets better understood, and he will be treated as his conduct requires he should be treated. • a THE SEPARATE CELLS. " There is another part of the prison that still more urgently calls for the attention of the worshipful Court. I mean the state of the cells where prisoners are confined under sentence, or when the nature of the charge requires they should be kept separate. These cells are so intensely cold when the weather is inclement that the degree of pain which the prisoners feel is almost as great as human nature can endure. The pain of extreme cold is one of the most severe that the human frame can ex perience. It is often necessary either to expose prisoners to this !grievous suffering or to - remove them to other parts of the prison far lest desirable. The Court has frequently had this subject under their notice, and has gone so far as to - prepare plans for the warming and ventilating of these cells; but nothing has hitherto bean done to remove from the prison an evil which, in very cold weather, amounts almost to torture. " INCORRIGIBLE CONVICT,. "During the la, tyear we have had three prisoners tried for acts of violence towards turnkeys —one from Wool wich hulks, one from Millbank prison, and one f rom t h e New Model Prison, Pentonville, They were each mur derous attempts, from vindictive motives, at personal violence, and are strong indications of the depravity of incorrigible convicts. It is apparent that the sentence of transportation, carried out by separate confinement, is not sufficient to deter these violent and rash offenders. The only remedy for such men is firm, gentle, but rigorous imprisonment, with plenty of occupation, with moderate opportunities for self reformation; not so such with a hope that they may be really made available, as with a proper deterinination to leave thorn without excuse. Amongst this class of offenders were the extreme penalty against murder re laxed, the frequency of this heinous crime would be frightfully multiplied. " JOHN DAVIS, Ordinary." ch o a u v r, e , r t a h i ty e hfLuo Lord r o ad u n d r a no t d o b erdo Gentlemen ,imena:in:errant, Ordered, together with the report of the Rev. Mr. Cohen, the chaplain of the Giltipur-street Compter, upon the state of that prison, to be printed. Adjourned. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCR imparts tho most exquisite relish to Steaks, (Atom, and all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe guard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 6, Yere-street, Oxford street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other Oilnaen and Merchants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B. To guard against imitations, see that the names of " MIA. and PERRINS" are upon the label aid patent cap of the bottle. UNIVERSIT V INTELLIGENCE. MATHEMATICAL SCHOLARSHIPS. OXFORD, FED. 12.—The examiners appointed by the trustees of the mathematical scholarships give notice that sn examination will be held in the schools on Monday, the 11th of March, and the following days, for the pur pose of electing one senior and one junior scholar. Gen tlemen who desire to offer themselves as candidales are requested to call with certificates of their standi ng , th e .onsent of the dead or Vicegerent of their College or Hall, and (for the senior scholarship) of their having passed the examination for their degree, in case they have not taken the degree of 8.A., on Professor Powell, New College-lane, ou Wednesday, March 6, at two o'clock. The junior scholarship is open to all members of the University who have not exceeded nitre terms from their matriculation inclusively. The senior scholarship is open to all Bachelors of Arts, or those who have at least passed their public examina tion, and have not exceeded the 26th term from their matriculation inclusively. BADEN POWELL. B. PRICE. W. SPOTTISWOODE. A SHMOLEAN SOCIETY. At a meeting of this society, held on Monday last, the president, after the conclusion of the ordinary business, communicate i to the members that a gentleman, as a deputation from the committee of the National Exhibi tion in London, had a few days previously visited Ox ford for the purpose of inviting the members of the University and the residents in the city to some publio expression of their approbation of the proposed exhibi tion in the British capital of the works of industry of all nations of the world. A subscription was accordingly commenced among the members of the Ashmolean So ciety, and the following gentlemen put down their names:—The Rev, the Vice-Chancellor, 51; the Rev. the Principal of Alban Hall, 51.; the Rev, the Warden of New College, 5/.; Professor Daubeny, 51.; the Rev. R. Greswell, Worcester College, President of the Ash. molean Society, 10/. THE REDUCTION OF THE ARMY. The following is a copy of the circular memoran dum relative to the reduction in the army : Horse Guards, February 6. "Her Majesty having been pleased to approve of a further reduction in the infantry from the 31st of March next, the following are the arrangements under which it is to be carried into effect, ♦iz:— "First—The sth, 20th, 36th, 42d, 44th, 45th, 56th, 67th, 69th, 76th, and 2d battalion Rifle Brigade, to b• respectively reduced from 1,200 to 1,000 rank and file, and consolidated into one battalion. " The supernumerary officers of these regiments will be retained on the strength of their respective corps en second, with the exception of the surgeons and quarter masters, who will be placed on half-pay. " The second adjutants will remain in their ranks of lieutenant or ensign, as the case may be. " The commanding officers will proceed at once, under the superintendence and direction of the general officer commanding on the station, to carry out the proposed reduction, as far as may be necessary and practicable, after deducting invalids, by the immediate discharge of such supernumerary non-commissioned officers and men as may be do,irous to quit the service for the purpose of settling in the colonies, or who can procure the means of providing for their removal to England without sub jecting the public to expense. " Those regiments will henceforth have only nominal depots, such as those maintained by regiments in India, consisting of a captain, who will, as heretofore, have charge of the regimental records (assisted, when neces sary, by one or two lieutenants), and five sergeants and five corporals, detached from the regiment. " Secondly—The 6th Regiment will be reduced from 1,200 to 750 rank and file, tie reserved battalion being formed into au ordinary four-company depOt of 216 rank and file, with sack additional nnmber as may be required to make up the establishment of the regiment; and the .‘ hole of the supernumerary officers placed on half-pay, and such of the non-commissioned officers and men as are not inclined to transfer their services to other corps will be discharged. " Thirdly—The 11th, 58th, and 65th Regiments will be reduced from 1,000 to 750 rank and file, and in like manner formed into six service and four depOt cons- pante'. The reduction of these regiments to 540 rank and file each :(tho establishment of the service companies), will, as far as practicable .be effected by the discharge, on the spot, of such non-commissioned officers and men as may be desirous of being released from the service with a view to becoming settlers, or who have the means of providing their own passage to England, sending home the proper establishment of officers and non-com missioned officers to form and organise the regimental depot. ;‘ Lastly—The depiits of the Ist Battalion Royals, 7th, 16 , 1, 19th, 34th ,38th,54th, 66th, 72d, 73d, 79th, 88th, 95th, and Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade, will respectively be reducel from 230 to 210 rank and tile, which will readily be effected by di.continuing recruiting until the new establishment shall be attained. " The men to be voluntarily discharged, as above di rected, will, o course, receive al the advantages they may be entitled to claim under the provisions of her Majesty's warrant, according to the length and nature f their service; but care must be taken to select those for discharge, in preference, who have been found gene - rally the least efficient soldiers, and whom, therefore, it way be deemed the least desirable to retain. " By command, `JOHN MACDONALD, Adjutant-General." The reduction will thus amount to 3,680 rank and In Cumberland 3,640 persons are employed in mines, o lwhom 825 arc under 21 years of age; 3,836 in the cotton manufacture (bleachers, dyers, and printers included), of whom 1,065 are under 20 ye ars of age; 388 in the flax and linen manufacture, of whom 153 are under 20 years of age.— Cumberland Puqugt, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAT.—We have much plea sure in announcing the selection of Captain William Honyman Henderson, C. 8., K.S.F. (1838), to suc ceed Captain Austin, C. 8., in the com man d of her Majesty's ship Blenheim, 66, at this port, and the superintendence of the steam squadron on this station. Captain Henderson is peculiarly qualified for the above appointment, having bad considerable experience in the command of steamers, his last having been the Sidon frigate. Whilst the offi cers o f the Blenheim regret the loss of Captain Austin, their regret is tem pered with satisfaction at the appointment of such a successor, whose experience, zeal, urbanity, and hos pitality are so well known and properly estimated. The Sphynx steam-sloop, Commander C. F. N. Chadwell, is manned within a couple of dozen sea men, and will be ready to leiive by the end of the present month for the East India station, touching at Rio de Janeiro, to which place she will probably carry a mail. Captain Ramsay, late of the Terrible steam-frigate, is named as likely to have the command of the Ajar block •ship, now ready for commission. This coast has been visited lately by some boistrous gales, which only abated last night. Many ships have been driven in here in distress, among them the Dutch ship Immagonda, with a valuable cargo ; a large French merchant ship with loss of anchors, having dragged from Spithead nearly to the Woolsners, a fatal shoal.off Langston harbour. Lloyd's own ves sel, the Navarin, was driven ashore on Southern beach, but happily without loss of life, and was ulti mately got off without muc h damagebelow. These are only a few of the casualties that hare occurred from the tempestuous state of the weather. Her Ma jesty's ship Hercules, 72, Master-Commander Fulton, was the only vessel off this port that held on without driftin g , which is owi ng t o h er anc h or draggingbeing a patent on e. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICII, FEE. 13 . - --Captain William H. Hen derson, C.B. (1838), to the Blenheim, 56, steam guard-ship, at Portsmouth, Tice Captain Horatio T. Austin, C. 8., appointed to command an expedition to the Arctic regions. Assistant-Surgeons George Gordon (1846) and Edward W. Pritchard (1846) to the Asia, 84, flag ship of Rear-Admiral Phipps Llornby, C. 8., on the Pacific station. Midshipman W. B. Edwards to the Sphynx steam sloop, at Portsmouth. PROMOTIONs. Mate the Hon. H. A. Moreton (1849), at present serving in the'Vixen, 6, steam-sloop, on the North America and West Indies station, to be Lieutenant. Mate Gwinniett Tyler (1849), at present serving in th e Sc nan Scourge steam-sl oop, • on particular service, to be Lit. William Moyse to be Acting Carpenter. John Robertson to be Boatswain. COAST GUARD. Lieutenant John H. n —rang (1840) has been ap pointed to serve in the Coast Guard. THE NORTH- WEST RESUMED SEARCH. GUTTA PERCII BOATS. There have been so many jimcraok and flying.. kite inventions (some o f t h em, indeed, more ingenious tban useful) offered and submitted to the Admiralty to be employed on board the ships sent out to search for Sir John Franklin, that we are loth to add another that may perhaps be also considered in the same light. However, we are so much impelled with the notion that gutta percha boats mi g h t b e use d i n t h e forthcom ing expedition with great advantage and utility, that we cannot help earnestly ca lli ng the atten ti on o f C a pt. Austin to this matter. A gutta percha boat appears to us to possess e very d esirable qualificat i on f or use in the northern re g i ons, The most intense co l d and frost renders gutt a percha so firm an d tough that i t will withstand the hard es t us age (fire except e d). Nothing injures it. It possesses great buoyancy, comparatively with a common boat would be exceed ingly light It is impervious to water and damp—is quickly dried after being wet. It is not liable t o k crack or b rea k ; and should any accident occur t o it, it is eas il y repaired by a so l ut i on o f its own substance prepared ti by wou h l e d at. lightness. its Porta ges m i g ht e asily be invaluableln bro broken m ice boat of thi s d be made by carry ing this boat over the ice from one open stream of water to another. When a common boat would b e nipped or crus h e d b y a pressure o f ice, this boat might be lifted and saved. A blow from a floating piece of ice, that would stave in and destroy a com mon boat, would only make the gutta percha boat re bound. Had Sir James Ross possessed boats of this de scription, and placed them on light runners or sledges, his exploration parties would have been able to have proceeded as far again as they did, and his men would not have suffered so much from fatigue as they did, as they would have had much lighter weights to have dragged over the rough ice and snow. From the above considerations we have no hesitation in endea vouring to draw Captain Austin's attention to the services that might be derived from the use of a f ew gutta percha boats in his north-west expedition. We hear that the vessels to be used on this oes casion are to be purchased vessels, and not men-of war, and that they are now being selected. One, however, will not he a searching vessel, but will remain at some safe port in Baffin's Bay, to be pointed out by Captain Austin, where she will r ema i n a , a refuge vessel, in case any accident happening to the searching vess e l s th a t the crews in th e i r b oats may have a refuge to fall back upon : Had a third vessel accompanied Sir John Franklin in his voyage to the north-west, we should in all probability have known in what direction to have searched for his missing ships, and not betn in our present predica ment, groping in the dark. We have great faith in Captain Austin's energy ald exptrience. We believe he has been actively em ployed at sea for 32 years, and has always served with gre a t a bilit y . W e h o p e he will not be f e tt ere d with .qualified o r unqu alified Admiralty or d ers. Livwever well meant, they frequently hamper and S l7 Ny FEBRUARY 14, 1850. prevent a commander from acting entirely on his own opinion. Captain Austin must be wholly guided by .circumstances, and be left to act accordingly as him own judgment may point out. Being furnished with every particle of information respecting the various north-Rest expeditions, and also everything relative to Behring Straits, the arrangement of his proceedings after his arrival in B iffin's Bay should he left entirely and completely to bis own judgment; and we have great faith that he will succes.fully carry out the great object of his voyage by finding and rescuing his lost countrymen.—Herald. THE SICILIAN STEAMER BOMBAY AND THE ICING OF NAPLES. The following letter from M. Amari, late Minister of Finance in Sicily, has been published in the Democratie Pacifique : Sir,—l beg to request that you will give me the ar sistance of your journal in making an appeal to the public against an act of the Neapolit in‘Government di rectly affecting myself. I will state in a few words the origin of the affair. The Parliamentary Government . of Sicily, under which the portfolio of finanees was confided to me from the 28th of March to the 31st of August, 1848, recognised the necessity of arming several steam-vessels of war. The Commons Chamber approved of this project, and in sitting of April 16, voted a credit for the acquirement of four liar steamers. The new debt, created by a de cree of the 13th of April, was found insufficient fur this expense, and the Chamber, accordingly voted other re sources and extraordinary imposts, which were made law on the 19th ofMay. The executive power, on its part, through the mediuni of Prince Granatelli and M. Scalia, its commissioners* the British Government, concluded the pirchase of two steamers then building in England. ' In accordance the conditions stipulated, Invade a first remittance of between 126,000 and 127,000 ducats, :by means of bills of exchange, indorsed to the two commissioners, MM. Granatelli and Scalia. In order to provide for this ex pense, and of others in the war department, this Parlia ment in the month of December ordered a forced • loan to be made, which was paid with astonishing celerity. With this money the new Minister, M. Cordova, and MM. Count Amari, Prince Butera, and Marquis Cerda, who succeded him in the department of finance, successively remitted to . London a sum of more than 700,000 ducats, by means of bills of exchange endorsed to MM. Grins telli and Scalia. The price of the two vessels was paid in this manner, and several pieces of artillery, with other munitions of war, were also purchased. The latter, together with one of the steamers, were , sent to Sicily. Ott the arrival of th e s t eamer at Palermo, in the month of March, she received the name of the Indipendenza. The other vessel, the Bombay, was arrested at the mo ment cf her departure by the Customs authorities of London, on the demand of the Neapolitan Ambassador; but she was afterwards released. Towards the end of April and beginning of May, Sicily, as it is known, fell into the power , of the King of Naples. who hastened to possess himself of all the muni tions cf war, among which were those which had been purchased in England. The French Government some time afterwards made him a present of the Indipendenza, which had been seized in the port , of Marseilles. But the Neapolitan Government was not se lucky with re spect to the Bombay, the other armaments, and the money, which remained at London in the possession of the Sicilian commissioners. Two obstacles were thus opposed to the wishes of the Neapolitan Government, The commissioners, true to their duty and their honour, refused to give up to the; enemy the money and armaments which the Sicilian Government had confided to them, and, by the laws of England, it was impossible to compel them, as the King of Naples is not recognised in England as the legitimate heir to the Parliamentary Government of Sicily. The result has been that the steam-vessel, the arms, and the money have remained a sacred deposit. In this state of things the Neapolitan Government has adopted another mode of attack. It established, some time ago, an exceptional tribunal in Sicily, for the trial of 'revolutionary accounts. This court; which rivalled the councils of war, has just condemned myself, and MM. Cordova, Butera, Count Amari, Cerda, Granatelli, and Scalia, to pay into the treasury of the King of Na ples, in Sicily, all the sums which the five Ministers successively bad for Warded to the two London commis miesioners for the object in question. This decree has motived my protest, Ido not know before what tribunal it is intended to bring my colleagues, but for myself I desire no other than the public, as I believe the power in the name of which we have been condemned to be illegal and founded on usurpation. The King of Naples is neither mare nor less than a usurper in Sicily. The revolution of 1848 restored to Sicily its ancient and legitimate Parliamentary Goa ern went. - Erdinand of Bourbon recognised that Govern ment, and by a decree dated the 6th of March, 1848, he acoepted the Act fir the convocation of the Parliament, as it bad been fr framed at the revolution. Afterwards he refused to agree to this legislation, because he was not content with the limits assigned to the extcutlie power. The Parliament found itself compelled to confide this power to a President cf the Government and to six Mi nister,. By another well-known law the Parliament decreed the downfall of the Bourbons. After the events of the war in Sicily and the Peninsula, the Parliament prorogued itself on the 14th April, 1849, without, how ever, dissolving itself. Tho same was thy, case with the executive power, which only retired Ix fore a military occur ation of the island. Not a soul in Sicily renounced his political rights. 'The King of Nap'ee, who has never profited by the lessons of adversity, seems to have preferred; after the . occupation of Sicily, to remain there as an usurper, rather than adopt a line of conduct by which a govern ment might succeed in legitimatising itself. So far from respecting the fundamental condition of his dynasty, his own decree of the 6th of March, 1848, or even that of February, 1848, which was the result of French and English mediation; so far from re-assembling the Sici lian Parliament, he has insulted Sicily, by instituting in that country in the place of its old parliament, a consutta, composed of seven salaried government officials, possess ing neither the initiative nor a deliberative voice. So far from governing according to the laws, he has only manifested his poster in Sicily, by sentences of death, arrests en masse, decrees of exile, terror, and insult. Without any Parliamentary decrees, he has re-established the tax' upon the grinding of corn, the stamp duties, and a duty on the exportation of sul phur. He has in the most arbitrary manner charged Sicily with enormous war expenses; be has augmented its publiC debt to the exclusive advantage of the Naples treasury; but he has not blushed to ascribe the war debt to the malappropriations and destructions of the revolu tion. I think that no casuist will venture to call a go vernment legitimate so vicious in its origin and so de testable in its conduct. No one will recognise in its orders any other value than that of brute force, the right of brigands and wild beasts. It is very natural that I should decline a jurisdiction proceeding from such a government. But however ille gitimate in its origin, and, perhaps, inefficacious in its effect., a sentence which has tbr its pretext the restitu tion of public moneys, always conveys an.unplessaetidea to the public mind. Most certainly lam not the person to is main silent under such a decree, or to hesitate to place it in is true light before the public. The facts which I have mentioned at the beginning of this letter are sufficient for the proper appreciation of the decree of the exceptional magistrates in Sicily. It is only necessary to add that that authority has con demned us without summoning us to appear before it— without listening to a word in our defence, and in my case, at least, without notifying its decree. I will sup pose for a moment that the government of Naples pot- . sessed the right of undoing all that has been done by the Parliamentary government of Sicily. Under this supposition even, it is evident that the ministers of finance could not be made responsible for an expendi diture so explicitly ordered by the Parliament, nor for the acts cf the commissioners in London, who were not of their choice, but who were appointed by the president of the government, assisted by his council of ministers. Among the causes of this decree there is one which says that the forwarding of the money from Palermo to London must be regarded as a commercial *operation, because it was effected by the ministers of finance. by means of bills of exchange, and not by sending cargoes of gold and silver. It is not necessary that I should exhibit all the odiousness and absurdity of this reasoning. I may however Call attention to the injustice of the demand fur the restitution of all the sums of money sent to London, while the Neapolitan Government has in its posses sion at least one-half of the amount, that is to say, the steam corvette Indipendenza, with great portion of the arms, and other munitions of war. But I shall leave to those who will be compelled to justify themselves before the judges of the King of Naples the full development of these arguinents, in order that they may make a full and complete defence of themselves, and so, perhaps, save their property from heing impounded by the public treasury. For myself, I shall insist only on one argument. The money which the different ministers of finance in Sicily forwarded' to London, in order to arm their country against an enemy who attacked it unjustly, that money is, I say, the property of Sicily, an d not o f i ts enemy. That money was the produce of extraordinary resources, created, as I have stated, by the decrees of the 13th April and the 19th May, and by the - loan of De cember, 1848. Whatever may remain I f it, whether in money, ships, or objects of war, neither ought nor can it be given up to any one but the Sicilian people., or its sole legitimate representative—the Parliament. To give up their money or its representatives to any other power than the Sicilian Parliament, would be aid ing or instrumental t') an act of robbery. Profoundly convinced of this truth, I not only refuse to submit to the decree, the illegality and injustice of which I have just shown, but I shall do all in my power to render it utterly inefficacious. The Government of Naples wishes to add the steamer Bombay to its squadron, to increase its magazines by a few more pieces of artillery, and to add a little more money to its treasury. Unable to effect any one of these objects before the Engliah law courts in its own name s because it was not the party sending the money, the Neapolitan Government has discovered a very simple means of proceeding against some of the ex-ministers of finance who possess property in Oicily. It wants 19 Rue these ex-ministers to prescnt themselves before the English courts of law as the indorsers of bills of ex change, and to demand in their own name the rertitu• tion of the sums forwarded t0.A151. Gratatelli and Scalia, and so to procure the money for the Neapolitan Government in release of their property which is me naced with seizure. The Government of Naples would gain by this mode the advantage of economy in the cost • f the proceedings, and the astisfaction of scandalising and disuniting the Sicilian refugees. I am not aware whether any one of my former col leagues is disposed t.) permit himgelf t be led into so dioastrous a course. I sin ignorant also whe'her in that ease the English judges would recognise, in the parson of the complainant., the right of re'densanding, in their privet , capacity, sums of money belonging to the public treasury, which, as public functionaries, they had ex. pendcd for a specific object, and for the public interest; but, in the one as in the other of these two cases, should they ever occur, I shall oppose. to the utmost the deli very of the money or the articles, supported by the same right on which my former colleagues would . require it. I shall endeavour by all possible means to obtain the !reservation cf these articles as an inviolable deposit at the disposal of the Sicilrao Parliament, to which they belong, and which is not 'dissolved. In acting thus I believe I shall only fulfil my duty, and I hope that it will not prove too late or uaeleas, for I have faith in the destiny of Italy, and I see that it has struck with judi cial blindness a pore and a king, in order to chain them to its chariot and carry them forward in its own career. Paris, Jan. 20, 1850. M. AMARL RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. The statement of accounts for the six months ending 31st December last was completed yesterday. After deducting 167,000/. charged against revenue for interest, there remains a net profit of 533,000/. on the traffic of the half-year. A dividend, after the rate of 6 per cent. per an num, would amount to 534,0001., or 1,000/. more than the entire net profit for the half -year. If a dividend at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum be declared, the balance to be carried forward to assit the June half-year will nct exceed 45,000/. The balance hitherto carried forward to the Jane account has been about 70,0001. A dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum would leave a balance of 69,0001. for the June six mouths. The balance carried forward by the London and North-Western Company for the December half-year has never been less than 70,000/. If, therefore, a dividend at the rate of 5f per cent. per annum should be asked for by the shareholders—for we believe the directors are likely to recommend a 5 per cent. divi dend—the probability is, that the next June dividend would be at the rate of 4i per cent. per annum, un less the large increase of traffic which has come upon the railway since the commencement of the year should be maintained through the current six months. —Herald. LENDS AND BRADFORD RAILWAY...--L BED! Ftn. 13.—T0-day th e or di nary half-yearly general niteet ing of the above company (which is leased by the Midland Company, at 10 per cent.) was held at the White Horse Hotel. John Waddingham, Esq., for merly a Midland director, and chairman of the Leeds and Bradford since Mr. Hudson', resignation, took the chair. Mr. Best, the solicitor, read the adver tisement convening the meeting, and the seal of the company was then pro forma affixed to the register of shareholders. The statement of accounts was next read. The disbursements during the past half-year were 42,794/. 16s. 3d., which,' being added to the previous expenditure, made a total of 1,419,607/. Ye. 9d. The receipts during the half-year were 35,167/.19x. 6d., which, added to the previous receipts, made a total of 1,419,396/. 6s. Id. There 'was also a balance due to the bankers of 211'. Is. Bd. The statement of accounts having been approved and adopted, the chairman submitted a proposition for the appointment of a director in place of himself, as he retired by rotation ; but if the shareholders thought he could be of any further service to the company, he should be glad to continue a member of the board. Mr. Murgatroyd moved the chairman's re• election, which was seconded by Mr. John Goodman, and unanimsusly adopted. Mr. George, one of the retiring directors, was also re-elected; and Mr. Miles Illingworth was appointed auditor in the place of Mr. Robert Milligan, who had declined to act. A dividend for the half-year ending the 31st of December last, at the rate of a 10s. (less the income-tax) per share was then declared payable on the Ist day of March next. The Chair man then stated that Mr. John Rhodes bad been elected a director in the place of Mr. George Hud son, M.P , and Mr. William Henry Ripley in place of Mr. John Rand, who had retired. After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting adjourned. WOLVERNA MI•TON, CHESTER, AND BIR XENIEAD R AILWA Y.—Yesterday the affairs of this company came on for winding up before the Master in Chan cery Brougham, upon the petition of five of the shareholders, which set forth that the undertaking was fur a line between Birmingham and Birkenhead, with a proposed capital of 1,000,000/., in sop() shares of 201. each. All the shares were eagerly taken up, but, owing to the general panic of the period, only a small amount of money was paid. The preliminary expenses amounted to 12,000/., and of this a large amount is now outstanding and unpaid, and to liquidate it the petitioners have been called upon at law to pay between 400/. and 500/. each. The Master proceeded with the first class of contri butories, censisting of 100 provisional committee men, whose names appeared on the prospectus, and who were declared liable under the Act RAILWAY BILLS ON STANDING Oannas.---Tbe Select Committee of the House of Commons, at their usual sitting, declared that the standing orders ought to be dispensed with, and that the parties be per mitted to proceed with their respective measures in the following cases :—Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway • North Staffordshire and Man. chester, She ffi eld, and Lincolnshire Railway ; Mid. land Great Western Railway of Ireland ; and Dublin Diindrum, and tathfarnham Railway. He must have the courage also to remark upon those errors which their rulurs have apparently corn mined in former times,' so that the concentrated- Wis dom of the land may be the better enabled to avoid similar mistakes when legislating for the present.and the future. . All thir,- it appears, has been well and nobly done by the Prime Minister of her Most GraciOns Majesty. On Friday last, in making a declaration to the House of Commons of the general policy her Ida jesty's Government mean to pursue with regard to the colonies, Lord John Russell called upon the people of the British empire to regard with attention the page of past events, and reminded them that " wherever Englishmen have been sent, or have chosen to settle, they hen carried with them the freedom and the institutions of the mother country." With this landmark as his guide, his Lordship pro ceeds to tell our,Legislators that, " whenever you say political freedom cannot be introduced, you are bound to show the . reasons for such exemption." With these data as guide for the policy to be pur sued towards our colonies, his Lordship has not hesi tated to recal to our recollection Cromwell, " his high :notion of British power and energy ;" and here let us pause for a moment to consider, what is not England'a power and energy now, compared with what it was then ? Well, indeed, may his Lordship remark that we ought not " now to be considering whether we should part with those colo nies —whether we should make the connexion looser —or whether even we should" leave them with lose means of defence against foreign aggression." And his Lordship has not dreaded, with this landmark as his guide, to tell " those persons who have gone the length of proposing that instead of remaining subject to her Majesty, the province of Canada should be annexed to the United States," that "to that pro posal the Crown could give nothing but a decided negative." And his Lordship has firmli but mo debtly expressed his trust that "those persons, know ing the determined will of the Sovereign of this. country and of her advisers, not to permit that project to be carried into effect, will acquiesce in tlwdeci- Ilion of the Crown." This trust of his Lordship's will no doubt find an echo in all true and loyal hearts, and will, there can not be a shadow of a doubt, sooner or later give uni versal satisfaction throughout her Majesty's North American dominions. It is true, his Lordship ,has laid, " I do anticipate with others, that some of the colonies may so grow in population and wealth that they may say ' our strength is sufficient to enable ua to be independent ( f England;' " but his Lordship adds, " I do not think that that time is yet approach ing." So much for the political affairsof Canada. New for what his Lordship has said regarding our other colonies, and to that "questi on , w hi c h h a , b een muc h agitated, namely, that we should no longer think it worth while to maintain our colonial empire, I say," observes his Lordship, "that I consider it to be our bounden duty to maintain the colonies which have been placed under our charge. I think we cannot get rid of the obligation and responsibilities to govern those colonies for thlir benefit, and I trust we may be the instruments of improving and civili zing those portions of the world in which they are situated." Thus boldly and ably does his Lordship meet this much agitated question, and who will gain say his Lordship's trust that we may be permitted to fulfil our appointed destiny ? But to proceed : In the early part of his Lordship's address a general sketeh or outline is given of our early colonial policy--its progress, and of how our present colonial empire stands; thus we are shown our moral responsibility to retain all those possessions, their importance in peace as well as in war for the support of the imperial autho rity and the protection of our extended eom merce ; and the few following words of his Lordship will bring this forcibly home to the door of every Englishman, who " will admit the value of that commerce which penetrates to every place of the globe," and to which " many i f those colonies give harbours and security most useful in time of peace, and absolutely necessary in time of . war." Having explained all these matters, his Lord ship has had the candour to conf,•ss that "discontent, and in some places well-fuunded discontent, has arisen," and ha s h a d th e c ourage also to refer to past errors as beacons to warn us from those mistakes that appear in former times to have been so disastrous to the nation. " On looking back," says his Lordship, " at the origin of that unhappy contest, I cannot but think that it was not a tingle error or a single blunder which got us into that contest, but a series of repeated errors and repeated blunders, of a policy asserted and then retreated from—again asserted, and then concessions made when they were too late ; and of obstinacy when it was unrea sonable." " I believe," adds his Lordship, " that it was by such a course we entered into the unhappy contest with what were at the beginning of it the loyal provinces of North America." 1 hus are we . warned by his Lordship to s h un a wea k an d vac ill at i ng course of colonial history —may the nation profit by the 'advice. It was not to be supposed that the subject of free trade, the great commercial novelty of the age, and the eye of so much consequence to our colonial em pire, would be omitted in so important a declaration, and accordingly we find his Lordship declaring, no doubt under the impression that the nation has deter mined to give this modern system a full and fair trial, that, " By the repeal, last year, of the navigation law', I conceive we have entirely put an end to the whole s 3 stem of commercial monopoly in our colonies. It is not my purpose to go into the question whether this new policy is a right or a wrong policy—it has led at home to questions as to how the colonies are to be in future managed ; the whole result of what I have to say is, that whateier discontent has arisen from a transition painful to the colonies, from a system of monopoly as regards the colonies to a sys tem of free trade, we ought not to attempt to go back in any respect from that decision." To conclude, then, we gather from the declaration put forth by her Majesty's Government—first, that the , integrity orthe empire is to 'be maintained ; secondly, that the liberal commercial colonial policy is not to he given up ; and, thirdly, that the freedom and the institutions of Great Britain are to be ex tended to all her Majesty's subjecto, in whatever quarter of the globe they may think pro per to reside. There appears to be the three cardinal points upon which his Lordship has insisted in the colonial policy to be carried out ; and let us hope that, as observed by the Right Honourable the Pre sident of the Board of Trade, " the calm tone in which this important question has been discussed is . an augury of the manner in which colonial matters will in future be debated." And let us hope that, looking to the very favourable statistical results set before the House of Commons by his Lordship, the public will become every day more and more aware of the great increase in pope , lation and in wealth of a large class of colonies under the dominion of the Crown—and that we shall all feel more sensibly the . value of those relations altont . which so- much discession hal taken place, an d ea t deal un* fortunately, as his Lordship•'obseys, a m much inves tigating into the subject." . . talked about w b i on to renew at some " wi thou t Meaning comments on what is passing around future periol my he colonies, us regarding some of the . Believe me to remain, Sir, Y th s y om ou e r pe p•e rs rm on i s ssi . Your most obedient humble servant, . . ROBERT ' CARMICHAEL Sum. 15, Charles -street, Haymarket, Feb. 11. FIRS IN SOUTHWARK.-Ye sterday afternoon, shorty before two o'clock, a fire broke out in the pre mises belonging to Mr. Wilcoxon, pape - -,tainee, situate in Limt-stroot, Southwark. The flames commenced in the first floor workshop, a spacious building extending over three houses, and were caused ai follows;--The workmen having gone to dinner, they I. ft, a greet quan tity of paper on the frames to dry. The draugt,t from one of the open windows caused one of the lengths to fall against a I went stove, and it instantly ignited. Tte flumes then communicated with other pieces of paper, and the consequence was, that in less than five mintres the spacious floor presented one immense sheet of flame. The engines c f the parish, London brigade, sod Wert of England Company, quickly atteneed and the firemen happily succeeded in getting the fire out, but not until the whole of th e s t oc k i n tra d e was d es troyed, and the premises very seriously burned. MONET INIAALEi.—The premium on gold at Paris is 13 per millet, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchaegy Q f 25.47; and the exchange at Paris en London at short being 25 47i it follows that gold is 0 .02 per c en t. dearer in London than in Paris. By advises from Ham burgh the price of .gold is 434 per mark; whieh, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per mice for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.91 ; and the ex change at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.11 b it follows that gold le 0.68 per cent. dearer is Loa. dos Om ANNUAL REPORT or TILE ORDINARY OF NEWGATR. " GRAND JURIES. " We have constantly to regret the rejection of bills on account of suppressed evidence, which dishonest rer sons possessed of property are able to procure by buying or tampering with witnesses. This is one of the evils attendant 'on secret sittings. Were the de positions taken before the magistrates placed before the grand jury, or were the public admitted to hear the evidence given, better results might fol low. Two very serious evils attendant on the system among us are very obvious. One is the constant es capes from justice of known and inveterate offenders by the suppression of evidence; and the other is the com mittal to Newgate of respectable persons in consequence of bills found against them for some alleged offence, of which, in some instances, magistrates have refused to take cognizance. These things I know are matters of deep interest to the Court, and they doubtless are apply ing to them their grave consideration. "Before leaving the subject of unconvicted prisoner?, the numbers returned of those who have previously been in Newgate in some degree throw light on the subject. Out of 2,687 there had been previously in Newgate 343, and in other prisons 385, or about two in seven. As in lest year I observed seven out of eight are committed to Newgate for the first time ; 345 out of 2,637 is nearly the same proportion as 406 out of 3,133 in the preceding year. " This result must convince any impartial person that a large proportion of offenders committed to Newgate must reform and abandon their evil courses, and the ex perience of all persons who have to deal with the mass of the criminal population confirms the supposition that it is so. The gaol of Newgate beyond all doubt has great defects compared with more modern erections, but results from these more perfect prisons do not surpass the metropolitan gaol in this respect, that seven out of eight do not return to us again, " INSANE PERSONS. "I am happy to remark that under the head of insane persons we have none of that class now in Nowgate. Juries seem to have given over the habit of declaring per sons not guilty on the ground of insaaity, when they have really been quite as free from lunacy as the jurors them sell es. Most deplorable instances of this infatuation, that for a time took possession of some persons, are still to be met with in the lunatic asylums of other places, where criminal lunatics are confined. Such prisoners have for many months pined away in Newgste, and are removed only for others to witness those unwise convictions of lunacy in the protracted, and in some instances per petual, imprisonment of such offenders. Who dare un dertake the responsibility of liberating murderers, or attempted murderers, that have been wrongly declared lunatics on some slender evidence. Nothing seems to await such misplaced leniency but the needless seclusion of some asylum or common gaol. " CONVICTED PRISONERS. " As regards convicted prisoners, we have had in those sentencei to short periods many instances where youth, temptation, debts, , love of finery, or the influence of ' pleasure, have brought those offending under the power of the law. The greatest pains and care have been taken with all cases of a hopeful character, t I prevent, if possible, a recurrence to crime. The great efforts that must be made towards the rege neration of criminals must be made with those who are not far gone in iniquity. With respect to habitual thieves, the only question is, not how to reform them, but how best to employ them. Very few of this har dened tribe think of reforming, except it be that by reform they may further victimise their dupes. But it is not so with many first offenders. Much good may be done, and bat beeu done, among them, and I could heartily wish that some p'ans were adopted out of doors to prevent, it possible, their committal or conviction. Efforts might be made by domiciliary visits, and by giving additional powers to the superior officers of the police, that might, I think, have a very beneficial effect. Where persons are living without any known' and visible means of sub sistence, a sufficient ground-work is laid to suspect that the public are being injured to such extent as to call for a defence from such parties. A continuance in these habits after warning ought to be sufficient to class them among rogues and vagabonds, if they did not or would not satisfactorily explain themselves. The mere rout ing them out from their habitation, the influence of their landlord, and the suspicion that such visits would throw upon their character, might do much. But the moral influence of the neighbourhood is required to► sanction and give effect to those interventions. If thieves were not encouraged by their associates and in structors they would soon cease to pursue a course where shame and poverty only would attend them, and where danger at every turn awaited them. I hope much will yet be done by moral and energetic effects wisely and kindly applied to the habitation of the thief. More may be dune outside than in prison." YOUTHFUL DELINQUENTS. After stating that the number of boys under instruc tion in Newgats in the last year was by 73 less than in the year preceding, when there were 284, the report proceeds:— " With this considerable decrease in the number of boys committed, a great change has taken place in the character of those committed. First offenders, unless charged with a very serious offence, are seldom now f•iund in the gaol of Newgate. Boys of respect able connexions, from drapers' shops, pawnbrokers, „;rocers, bakers, and others, aie much more rarely found among , the committals since the happy alteration of the law in giving summary power to magi strates to adjudicate in such cases. lam reporting, my Lord and gentlemen, on the state of Newgate—not on the state of crime in the metropolis or in the City, as a learned gentleman misunderstood me last year, and I feel very thankful that the decrease among boys conti nues to the present time in this gaol. ” It will be found, in dealing with boys who have ad dictcd themselves to habits of dishonesty, that great carelessness has been exhibited in their training by their parents, or sad misfortune, in the loss of one or both of them, has happened to these children. Inveterate propensities to dishonesty in persons so young that the pressure of debts or the impulses of impurity can have had no share in destroying their reputation, must be traced in them to inherent depravity or to evil examples in their domestic circle. Measures should be taken, therefore, rather to provide a remedy for the cause than for the crime itself. All that the necessity of the came admits is limited to good industrial occupation, the influence of proper example and sound religious in struction. Beyond the appliance of these corrections, the case must be left to a higher power—man's further efforts are futile and visionary. " HABITUAL CRIMINALS. " Among the prisoners sentenced to periods of three months and upwards, but under twelve months, will be found many addicted to crime as a habit, and uneer its permanent influence ; bet the large majority of these will not again be found in the annals of Newgate. " Between prisoners sentenced to twelve months and upwards and transports a very slender partition divides. The difference in the sentence declares only that less has been proved against them. The altera tion in the law, rendering , unlawful to transport in cases of simple larceny, has (mused some very great of to escape this punishment. Stealing from carts, carriages, and waggons n the streets—a very serious offence in the metropolis, and formerly punished almost invariably with transportation, as well as stealing parcels from railway stations, is now an offence sub jected to imprisonment only. This has increased our number sentenced to twelve months and upwards, and has decreased to the same extent our transports. We had 465 transported in 1849, but in 1848 they amounted to 591; so that during the last year no less than 126 of the general decrease Nis under this head. "We have had a considerable number of these unhappy men confined for several months in Newgato; and it is becoming a serious matter to contem plate the mischief and corruption that take place among these men, confined as they aro with us. The aggregate proportion is not lessened, but increased, if you consider the 12 months prisoners and trans ports in one class -938 in 2,637 is a larger proportion than 1,070 in 3,156. The mode of imprisonment in exercise with respect to those prisoners now so gene rally confined in England becomes really a matter of rational importance. It is greatly to bo desired that no sentences—except for very short periods— should take place in Newgate. The perpetual excitement, the ever fluctuating character of the in mates, the assemblage of crimals cf the most fl , grant nature, the constant recurrence of the sessions, make Newgate a very unde , irable prison for purp oses o f lengthened confinement. We have two men c h arge d amsead(elhatorthseyto nape ee received , foraa notcollectors ll of property paying over t h e tax, who are much more fit to be detained in custody in Whitecross-street Prison, than in the common criminal gaol for the county of Middlesex. Occasionally men for conspiracies, or for political of fence,-, must of ,necessity, as the law now is, he impri soned in Newgate. Fur such persons we want bitter places than we have to meet the case fairly, and to make the sentence or detention such as it should be. Th e prison, in three respect*, should either he altered to meet these cases, or means bo taken that such sentences should be elsewhere carried into a !rect. " TUE TRANSPORT WARDS. " With regard to transports the state is much worse. The condition dame men, confined for Mclial in per% Alderman CIIALLIS presented the annual report of the ordinary of Newgate upon the condition of the prison, and said that it was his intention to submit a motion to the Court upon the very important matters contained in it at the next meeting.—(Hear, hear.) The following are the most prominent features of the document : IRELAND. - DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING.—Mr. Acheson Lyle has been appointed a member of the education beard over the foundation schools, in succession to the late Rev. Dr. Elrington. THE WEATHER.—The weather continues very in clement. Yesterday evening there was a fall of snow, and in the course of the night a smart frost. Conic.—On Saturday last Mr. Pennington offered for sale, by auction, two portions of the lands of Corroghanearle, each respectively containing 102 and 103 acres, situate within two miles of the towns of Carrigadrohid and Macroorn. They were held for a long term of years, and produeed a clear annual profit of 60/. per annum. The highest bona fide offer was 4501., which not being accepted, they were bought in at 460/., there being no advance beyond that. Annucrrox.—This crime, which is peculiar to Ire land, has become rather common of late. In the county of Kilkenny there have been two cases within the past fortnight, and two in Tipperary. Subjoined are a couple of the most recent. The first is from the Kilkenny Moderator of this morning ; "ABDUCTION.—On the night of Saturday last, a young woman, named Catherine Healy, about niueteen years of age, residing at Mount Nugent, near John's well, was seized upon, at her house, and forcibly carried off by a man named Reily, who had been previously paying his addresses to her, but unsucces4ully. The young woman, we understand, was daughter to a ser geant-major in the army, who, dying, left her 300/., to be held in trust by the Might Rev. Dr. Healy, R.C. Bishop of Carlow, and this lit . le fortune seems to have tempted the rejected suitor to the desperate course which he adopted. Assisted by another person, named Riley, his cousin, and also accompanied and abetted by a man named Richard Griffia, be seized the girl, and in spite of the resistance which she could offer, carried her off iu a covered car to the house of a Mr. Edmund Cronyn at Stonecarty, near Stoney ford. There she was detained daring the night and following day, though she was not treated with violence. However, in the even ing she found means of sending a message to the Stoneyford constabulary barrack, requesting that the police would go to Stonecarty without delay, but not mentioning for what they were required. Constable Kelly, with two of his party, pro ceeded to Cronyn's house, and the moment they wore iakc observed the Milers and Griffin ruslied out of thel door and m a d e a p rec i p i ta t e retrea t. Miss. -eaL calledy on the poli ce t o p u r sue th o runaway, wh i ch im mediately did, an d K e lly succeeded in capturing chase to Griff in after a warm run. The ether p o liceman the Itileys for upe ards of a ra ile,but gave was unable to overtake them. Griffin has been committed for tria l by Colonel Wemys , J.P. , and a wa rrant has been issued for the arrest tf the other delinquents. This is the second case of abduction occurring in our county within a fortnight." From the Limerick Reporter —" On Friday night a party of fellows entered the dwelling of a buxom widow, near Cooreclare, suspected of having plenty c f cash, it:- tent on forcing her to become the wife of one of the party. Understanding that she slept generally with her daughters, our gay Lotharios snatched up their supposed - prize, with which they decamped to a house some miles distance, where to their utter chagrin, instead of the rich fescinatiog widow, (hey found themselves in possession of an old haggard pauper, whom the daughter had brought fur her companion for the night in the mother's accidental absence. Shortly after the discovery a party of the police in pursuit of the housebreakers came up, who arrested six of the party and committed them to prison, where they are to remain until after Shrove Tuesday." §pca ZumAns.—The boles yortetday were ' , y - /4_--- . .e:—; -i. f~ ~ EW R 1 MARKS LOAD JOHN RUS SELL'S SPEECII OF TuE bTJt FEBLUART ON COLONIAL POLICY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—When a great people are about to determine upon the adoption of any important national question —either of a social, commercial, or political charac ter—it surely becomes the imperative duty of the head of their Government not to be carried away by the excitement of the moment or the urgency of the case, but, calmly looking back on the page cf their history, and to their pvriodica.l progress, deliber a t e ly to point out the land mar k s by which he proposes to direct the movement with advantage to the State, and the beacons by which he means to warn them of their dangers in the onward marsh of the public mind. Government Throe F or Cent. Consols, 951 I; Three and-a Quarter per Cent. Stock, 971 7 6i; Bank Stock, 201; It,yal Bank, 11I; Midland Great Wei tern an d 1? , ,yal C ana l Coiniratiy, Halves, a ; W ater f or d and Lime rick, 8 3 , EXCriAt 0 , LlST.—Wioklow Copper Mine ~ 1 C' a , Ulnere GfIP, 54 . 1 F