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tter fro! Wita e° i F ,. o llcr 111 1 rewar d ' ' Swan - , bad flu ' 'Oen° 11 3 blest, $ 6cer 6%.a0" mode ° S:oc k ' oth wed coil Wald° vizsbetil Goe r 142 , • iv on; „ Cob ae ' o°ll Arr i ' f o r e° , t 1ig",3,5 saw" u, fro al xi,' es t alp, 13 •daY, 7e ea tte ie. . )'che" d ' r ), 101- I'l.r' Dm it stor f c °° f is carol° GO' L ; Ao. Ehos Dro ps is, °lie NAIIONAL ANTI-CORN-TAW LEAGUE. 911i,, T ,-41tEAT LEAGUE MEETING in GOVENT - GARDEN RE Th„ i .„ • ‘-vENCIL of the NATIONAL A NTT-GOR N- LAW LEAGrE 1 announce that the ,AGGI;ZGATE MEETINGS of the kt N . 4 .,;JE, in the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, will RE-CO.II- s 6E 00 WEDNESDAY EVENING NEXT, the 17th of December. tis e i"GE WILSON, Esq., will take the Chair at Seven o'clock pre- Th e •.• ,i shn Meeting will be addressed by Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P.; Ti.Tright, E sq ., 31 P. ; and W. J. Fox, Esq. 4s6..ei%iti:eit,seo t. f s a tr d e m et ission to all parts of the house may be had as usual ofbti. will in futur e be reserved for all farmers who may make ap °,ll, , 4 The Offices of the. League, 67, Fleet-street, up to the hour Fr a Trade, a their attendance, whether favourable or opposed to . x, c , r ade, is especially requested. , -___&___ ) plication for tickets by letter can be attended to. TEAST INDIA HOUAE, DECEMBER 1 0 , 1845 . 11 E COURT OF DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice, la l'L, PROPRIETOR of EAST INDIA STOCK has given not i c e b o ai 4' Quarterly General Court of the said Company, appointed 17i 0. El at their House in Leadenhall-street, OR WEDNESDAY, the Il ei , r " a tant, he Will PREFER CERTAIN CHARGES .AGAINST : 1 1 nt-Colonel CHARLES OVANS, late Resident at Sattara. Ify ti atement of the charges intended to be made was delivered in T a ',s,tine Proprietor at the last Quarterly General C.,urt. tk a .„`_!?!e , same Proprietor has also given notice, that at the same g e 7 l 3 General Court he will move that, " 'Whereas on the 25th e ur , v ,, n '_,ber, 1819, a treaty of perpetual friendship and alliance was af g s_'eo between the Honourable East India Company and. his .717 s Maharajah Pertaub Shean, the Raja of Sattara; 4 1 i,", whereas, his Highness Pertaub Shean so conducted himself 11,35 ally of the East India Company, that on the 29th December 111 E e following letter was unanimously agreed to by the Court 0, • our High n ess,— ki lt ? have b een hi g hly gratified by the information, from lune etransmitted to us by our Goverament, on the sub- Lo yce.T Highness's exemplary fulfilment of the duties of that ‘B7Ositziation in which it has pleased Providence to place you. 11 0 ,, 4 course of conduct so suitable to your Highness's exalted sta ta4lnd so. well calculated to promote the prosperity of your do *isek. and the happiness of your people, as that which you have kitk r '',, l oEt uniformly pursued, while it reflects the highest honour OR akti sfa - Ll . arad M r, has imparted to our minds the feelings of unqualified ?„la k i ei°ll amid pleasure. The liberality, also, which you have eßeouting die at your own cost various public works of great '‘e p '„ood which has so justly raised your reputation in the eyes of N),,`"eets and people of India, giv.s you an additional claim to our ,:ation, respect, and applause. ?e,t i l'nDressed with these sentiments, the Court of Directors of the '',fo i. e,dta Company have unanimously resolved to transmit to you %ao, „ ", which will be presented to you through the Government of and which, we trust, you will receive with satisfaction, as a 1 / 4 ,Zi their high esteem and regard. e 'Etf;ttit sincere wishes for your health and prosperity, we subscribe 4 , In the name of the Court, " Your Highness's most faithful friends, " W. S. CLARKE, Chairman. h " J. R. CARNAC, Deputy. a g in 1836, certain enemies of his Highness - the Rafe' 0 . : (11 con% ire toeffect the in and dethronement of that • by preferring false charges ruin and dethronement ef that by preferrin' fals charges against him to the Bombay ' N nent ; Ne w hems, when these charges, and the evidence in support of N' l aEl been forwarded to the Court of Directors, and. had been a s red by them, it was the decided opinion of that body that it only a waste of time, but seriously detrimental to the cha eSelt. the Government, to carry on any further inquiry into the It 4 4d P,„ Whereas this opinion was communicated to the Government N trs 'A and the Government of India, in dispatches from the ' tractors, dated respectively the 13th June, 1838, and the 4r I EO7, 1839 ; NftkeWbereas Sir James Rivett Carnac, on his appointment to lZift„. or 'Governor of Bombay, received no instructions from the kr : l Directors to dethrone, or otherwise to punish, the Raja of `afi z ‘ , but, on the contrary, was empowered to suppress all fur klt;l2ll7 into the charges that had been m ade a g ainst the Raja, k k b " - '"sign the matter to entire obliiion ; 'whereas James Carnae did, in a minute, recorded by a i i i t tle 19th June, 1839, propose that the Resident of Sattara e i , e instructed to assure his Highness of the desire of he Bri trt2ernment to maintain the relations of amity with him ; and at It z ;:( 1 1er declare, That the British Government had nothing to the Raja, and could afford to act with generosity Whereas Sir James Rivett Carnac did, at a personal inter ,l*lmportant violations of the Treaty had been proved against kuio t Of the sth Article, in having, during a series of years, held ti'l„ Communications with the Goa authorities ; A f the same Article, in having held a clandestine intercourse 4: WA 1. Sahib, the ex-Raja of Nagpoor ; \. 0 1 'having tampered with the native officers of the 23d Regi rqUl 7 e Infantry ; iN M aereas Sir James Rivett Carnac, did, at a subsequent in 'tti, 4 '2 71 the 27th August, peremptorily require the Raja to sign Lhertie.ks, to which the following preamble was affixed, viz. f— f,!yoe„rtlation having been byreeceived by the British Government Of y `tE lligt mess, misled il advisers, had, in breach of the e nicht laced you on the throne, entered into c ommunications ( A t . th e B ritish Government, an inquiry into these accusations , e 'idered. indispensable. This inquiry has satis fied the British gi fts th at your Highness has exposed yourself to the sacrifice l i ,gfC i alice an d protection. Nevertheless, moved by considerations towan i s your Highness and your family, the British Go bas resolved entirely to overlook what has passed on the conditions, namely, &c. &c. ; Zt Whereas the Raja of Sattara did, at these interviews, de et dire and absolute innocence , and earnestly implore per- h o:be heard in reply to the charges which h is enemies had tra inst him, and in refutation of the evidence in support of ?1 ( 1 did also ' express his willingness to submit to any con qaß Mich did not require him to abandon his religion, or to ac '„,e ash Goo, in -violation of his conscience, that he had be en the enem y 4tittbibbvernment ; whereat - , for the sole reason of having reffised to sign the 4 , Ltz 9 P r e a a n n a b b l e y submitted h a u th o t ri o t hi y he si r w j e a s m , one Jams Carnac, the sth forcibly e S i edy s4lsoner amd dethroned, and a proclama tion issued by the 14 fleclaring his brother, Appa Sahib (his bit ter enem y ), the 4 1 , 4 Sahara ; kZ'h Whereas, by the 3d Geo. 111., chap. 52, sec. 43, it is enacted e „lhall not be licsalal for the Government of Bombay , &c., to -11 ta ue any order for commencing hostilities, or levying war, 1C(4.,Z, 1 1 . .te or conchide any treaty wi th an y Indian prince or k t'N in cases of sudden emergency or imminent danger, ‘1,7) %b 5 11 appear dangerous to postpo ne such hostilities or 11, 0 N I 011ie as in pursuance of express orders from the Governor council, or from the Secret Committee, by the an -11,4 4 1 ,, c p the Bnard of Control ;' t h ,Y . h brzea,l It is further enacted, in section 42 of the same Act, V4t i', a al not be lawful for the Governor-General in Council, yra, 6 " 5 express command and authority of the Court of Di tft:ltao. or - the Secret Committee, by the authority of the Board of k i ti l l,„ 11 1. any case (except where hostilities have actually been tie :d. or preparations actually made for the commencement of 'aahit the BriAsh nation in India), either to declare war 1 / 4 ',k e - ,o toe hostilities, or enter into any treaty for making k . tte,Z i ; Itti`k, OEI —That the dethronement of his Highness Pertaub i= oa—Raja of Sattara, under the circumstances now set forth, , tttic t a of the above statute, and was, therefore, an illegal JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. 1 , 0 ..„...... COMMERCIAL TRAVE LLERS.—Ever y 4k44111,74.„ Ptien of solid and other L EATHER CASES, for carrying lit Q;A:st.o.e.k, made to order. Sold Leather and other always Portman ,‘,i 'Pet :Rags, Hat Cases, &c. &c., in great variety, in \4•••••......,°114hRate and Son, manufacturers, 76, Watling-street, London. ti- ~,, -------- ' l 4 'LI:VERSITY of FRANCE. O( t ;AST.ITUTION for the EDUCATION of YOUNG GEN- Ni, uneer the direction of M. LANDRY, No. 1, lice Chaptal, l A 4 AIe ' l• Alithi, Paris. 1 4 4 1 , 1 Establiidiment, which is esteemed as one of the most c'ele -4051.4 Id best conducted in the French capital, parents wit /„1,,„„i heir children a complete and excellent course of educe i'll ,' 'ding the study of the Classics, a perfect knowledge of the 1 4 „'t .I 1 d other living languages, and every branch of education. *i,),'"t'l her particulars, apply to Messrs. Ber, 19, Melton-street, L\l'll- are. V 1 4. ~ . of ARYLEBONE, DECEMBER 6, 1845. t tz TO BRICKMAKERS, &c. yei, E.— The Vestrymen of this parish hereby give notice that ik 4 ,.11' meet in the Vestry-room of the Court-house of the said ki, 4, t! samn, 'DAV, December 27, at Eleven o'clock in the fore- Oitt, r eceive . TENDERS from persons willing to CONTRACT for ia,i 4 l 4 i - el: P.,E a n d ASHES of the said parish for ONE YEAR, from Itil:t itlt 'kt•l Y ofJaisuary next. Payment of one q uarter of the year's ~ t s lAl oney must he made to the said Vestr y men at the signing N t c ,'`e,, 'act, and good security given that the remainder be con- Ylu," ••, paid one quarter in advance throughout the contract. Atel 0 is divided into five divisions, for the purpose of contracting At liri 4 eze, particulars of which, with the form of the contract, il i‘,, )'At,,,, • - s tender, may be had of the surveyor, Mr. Robert Seace, '' , 4 4 ' l t Ari t ZA' t-house, from Twelve till One o'clock daily. k `" to be sealed; and no Tender will be received after Eleven 'AT the said 27th day of December. By order of the Vestry, C. FLOOD, Vestry Clerk. sit ~l 'il 4 e l -th - to pay six guineas, as expe nses of contract and bond. .. —. LI R A TI S ! GRATIS! GRATIS! li n THE PALACE OF BEAUTY. 4 , uo u b t ,many persons are anxious to look A A That we have said in the ne w winter book; ki - we beg to acquaint them this book is now p rinted, 101 ' 0 'that many a fact of importance is hinted; u , re find that •%,'re've not been remiss in o ur dut y , h ' e a you read whist we state in " The Palace of Beauty." l'i l • ~k - is book costs you nothing (it couldn't cost less), ' l ad th at i s a fact upon which we lay stress ; Y . eujust write a letter applying for one, I; ) ,Aar request will be granted by MOSES and SON, ' , 44' 0 are never accus•C of neilecting their duty, 4 . 1 1 regard to transmitibig "The Palace of Beauty." :\'e -‘, matter the distance at which you may dwell, e send in the town and comitry as well i k *'ld that which, perhaps, will si7rprise you the most li, the fact that we also ag ree to p ity post ; b ,: s proves that E. MOSES and S ON do their duty, ''' 11 1'er they're asked for " The Palace of Beauty." li LIST OF PRICES. READY MADE. b~X4 t kfifonis .... •• • ......... ..... .... • t k Oti e1,,,•e or k lodringtons .... •• • • ........... 1t 4 7 141 ) I, Aitols, I•embroke, and every description of li,h ,4 A ~..' /Coa.'s • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • '' • ' ' • . • • . • • • • • • .• 1 4 4 11t 4 ,"!.t.ter 6.,eats in every style .... •• •• •• from 00 8 6 6 I), N V' t masers, lined .. •.•• • • .............. • ....• 4 0 10 6 k t Ack C utts edged . .. • • •• '' '• • • • • • • •• •• ..•• .. .. 1 0 O )4, 111: ° ! liar Test.. .. ...... •••••• • • • • • ............... 0 2 6 , r0 p ............ 0 1 9 /„h. 4 ,: breasted ........ ............. I, i 'ls,: assar and Tunic suits.. .. 40 , " - Inter !rouser's •••••• • • • • •- ..... •'•••'• • ' • ' • • 0 3 0 ) t •• ditto Vests. ..... ... ..... .. •••• • • • ......... 0 1 6 S er MADE TO MEASURE. 1 1 4 "4 A ',oats, in every style and shape, handsomely 4 , ,,,,,,ki ioth Great Coate, velvet • collar and cuffs ... . . . I 12 0 lvAto l b •I N - rappers ~,, _••••• • , • • • ...". ..... ..... .. 0 18 6 141!1 4 , 11 , eh,•sers .. —..•••••• •• •• •• .................. 0 8 6 , i i: 'fre, •sers, in all the new patterns • • ... • ...... 0 12 0 ...... 0 111 6 t 44 t 14 dikb,, ................ .. IN lll ality 0, - dress do ..... • • ...........• •• • ..... 1 6 0 It li''t / Jest quality made .• •••••••••••. . • . • . . • • • • - • 2 15 0 q t ''Coak s •••• • • • • ......... O'' ' hest . a., , quality nus• de ......... 8 ................... 3 3 0 6 t,Yl'. ?., plain or fancy ,••••••••• • • • • • • • • „ ...... .. 0 12 0 V 1 0; lissar and Tanis su,!ts. ••• • • . ... .. • • .....: 6 0 1 14 :1 1 , ' l4 l It v Work, en titled the " Monarch M art," with full directions ~ '1 41 , 1 44 iasurement, may be had , on a pp lication, " Post Free." 0 1 !As ta tisT.—Any article purchas ed o r ordered, if not approved of ~N 4 ,, it, d, or the money returnee. 'it \ " s ..* Drapers, MOSES and SON, Tsang, Wholesale and Retail ' i ' - 'raPers Outfitters and General Warehousemen, 154, Mino tq 14 1. 4 : " 141 . 8 % tidg ' n a e t s e s , t C ra ity, ' opposite the March o nsaetedatthis Establishment frown sunset on 4 ISt 'Atli tr • sunset on Saturday, when business is resumed at twelve t; N i ( . 1 , , 4 1414 3 L ---- E. Moses and Son are obliged to guard the public L 4,„ In k nPosition, having learned that the untradesmanlike false ''Ao'''ea, being connected with them, or its the same concern, has At i ' . l to . !tea t o ii, many instances , and for obvious reasons. They I•,; , ti to. e_ennexion whatever s% Ath nny other establishairt, in or out 114,:e, x+ : t , and those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to , t -appointment, &e.) call or send to 154, Miaories, or 86, It • ten, 'elite the Church. ......_ K I R.. PROUT, 229, STRAND, LONDO N. r,,,111 Doncaster, September 26 th , 1844. .-•ttl N t at th. e following particulars have been handed to us with a Plibillte ::nig,ht be forwarded to you, with permisalon for cation, if you should deem them worthy of such. 4 Ells J. BROOKE and Co., Doncaster. t ja t , a - a . '2etli Brearle.7, residing in Duke-street, Doncaster, aged t qll b „ - , , Jolty and fifty, was severely afflicted with Rheumatism, and t ',',_ 4 ..e 1t0 r her bed for a period of nearly two months, with scarcely "e a,,,, e to lift her arm ; she was signally benefited after taking „ s 'lle t s Of BLAIR'S GO,UT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, and after ,„Ali :5, two boxes was quite recovered.' ti l i'ucfre recent testimonial is a turther proof of the great efficacy delt i Zallable medicine, which is 1 0, Tic ost rectiveprirsediny the ad '`. ol, eurnat* 111ainQ -,,me,loBZ.Sincilasttaickae,nLourmtlawagth..cheD, o an o d ro f u or x, Bll Gouty and ..It i s ;; t ie Tendencies. ° ,,'Altl"," l • ,, s _ c > gratifying to have permission to refer to the following ;71Ety ':,", solected from a multitude of others, whose station in _ion t a. , contributed to advance this popular medicine in public _ eit_ 1 . R. Mandan, Esq., Coroner, Doncaster ; the Rev. Dr. Chevalier de la Garde ; Mr. 3liskin, brewer and riu l r . Dartford Mr. Richard Stone, Luton ; John J. Giles, Esq., 'lnwood, Perbright ; William Courtenay, Esq., ;41:::: ; :h a e '• ~'4 4t r ecoi ae . eg, near Andover Railway Station, Hants. ; all of wboni ‘eci benefit by taking this medicine, and have allowed the ''''' ''rleto 4 ftil eted. r the privihge of publishing the same for the benefit of the gold b bat b , , Y Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by his appoint ki br ,,e3all respectable Medicine Vendo hroughout the United 4' 1 ,7_ • Price 2s. 9d. per box. I lle 4 ,,,, 1 5 BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS, and observe ceo pia gle and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, Londoon," %kw: 4. '4ft the Government Stamp affixed to each box of the a Meefiese. A e. d. Atom 0 8 8 ~.... • 1• 6 ._____ . . _>2 ,--".___---/ -- -- /se --- . . . ,---- ,- --- - • --e.,,‘)# ,/' 7, 4_-- -- -- - e- --- c- -- - - G?----- ( .. ; `, (! 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Mr. Par sons said, Ido not believe i t; you must d o somet hi ng / doctor!' He said, • I cannot; he is now near 4is--litst breath.' And indeed, so it was • for he fetched Initiine and stretched out his feet, and breathed no more. This was exactly at six o'clock. We continued rubbing his legs,_ hands, and feet with warm cloths, and b a th e d hi m w ith spirits for some time, but all in vain. I then put him into a warm bed, the doctor standing by, and often raised him upright, continued rubbing him, and putting spirits to his nose for an hour, till all hopes were gone. The people came in crowds to see him; I begged the doctor to shut the door." Of the funeral he says— " When the corpse was placed at the foot of the pulpit, close to the vault, the Rev. Daniel Rogers made a very affecting prayer, and openly confessed, that under God, he owed his conversion to the labours of that dear man of God, whose precious remains now lay before them. -Then he cried out, omy father, my father,' then stopped and wept, as though his heart would break, and the people weeping all through the place. Then he recovered, and finished his prayer, and sat down and wept. Then one of the deacons gave out that hymn, Why do we mourn departing friends,' &c., some of the people weeping, some singing, and so on alter nately. The Rev. Mr. Jewel preached a funeral discourse, and made an affectionate address to his brethren, to lay to heart the death of that useful man of God; begging that he and they might be upon their watch-tower, and endeavour to follow his blessed example. The corpse wee then put into the vault, and all concluded with a short prayer and dismis • sion of the people, who went weeping through the streets to their respective places of abode." PRICE SD. The Federal-street Church, where Whitfield was buried, was but a short distance from the house i❑ which he died, and on my way to it I stopped at the sexton's house. That functionary was not at home, but a little boy came up to me with several keys in his hand, and said he could show me the church, which he did. There was not much to see, excepting the Whitefield monu ment ; and when I had read the inscription thereon, I asked the boy to show me the vault. " No one but father does that," said the boy ; " he won't be here this half hour." "Is there any one about the neighbourhood knew Whitefield ?" I asked of him. " Yes, there's old Sam'! Wilkinson, as lives in street—he says he seed'un." And then, in obedience to my reque;t, the lad pilotE me to the house of a very old man, of whom I inquire if he had known the great preacher ? " Yes," said he, " and I was in the room with him just five minutes or so after he died. I was only six years old then, and I don't know as I ever went with the crowds to hear him, but I saw him dead and buried." I had further talk with this old man, and then went back to the church, at the door of which I found the sex ton waiting for me. He preceded me through the aisle of the church, and, opening a little narrow door by the side of the pulpit, we passed into a dim, dingy room behind it. and from thence, descending four or five steps, found ourselves in a brick vault, which lay directly under the pulpit. It was two or three minutes before my eyes gut accustomed to the gloom ; but soon objects became dis cernable, and I saw three old coffins, two of them ser ving as supports to the third, which lay across them. One of these coffins contained the remains of the Rev. Jonathan Parsons, the pastor of the church when Whitefield was preaching here, and another holds the bones of the Rev. Joseph Prince, a blind travelling preacher, who died in 1791, and the third was White field's. Just as if he was going to exhibit some common curiosity, the sexton trimmed his lamp, then lifted the lid off an old coffin, and holding the flame close to it, said, " Here, look in and then, pointing to a heap of bones, gathered together at the head of the shell, said, in a very business-like tone, _ _ " THAT'S THE MAN." Yes—there lay the man,or, at least, all that remained of the once mighty preacher. For all I knew, the heap of dirt, the skull, and the loose bones, might have been any one else's. But a strange awe came over me at his words, " That is the man." I took the skull in my hands and examined it narrowly. The forehead was rather narrow than broad— by no means high. I soon put it back again to the coffin, for I bethought me of Shakspeare's malediction, and felt as if I had committed sacrilege by touching the precious relics. It is said that one of the arm bones was stolen, and is in England. Philip, in his " Life and Times," refers to this with just indignation. For my own part, did I know the possessor of it, I would print his name, for the purpose of shaming him into restoration. There are some other interesting sepulchres in New buryport ; amongst them, the grave of 'Thomas Parker, one of the early ministers. Cotton Mather thus quaintly and beautifully speaks of him " He went unto the immortals in April, 1677, in the 82d year of his age, after he had lived all his days a single man; but a great part of his days engaged in Apocalyptic studies, he went unto the Apocalyptic virgins who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes." With as anecdote of Whitefield; which, I believe, is not generally known in England, I conclude this article: "In the last visit but one which Whitetield paid to America, he spent a day or two at Princeton, under the roof of the Rev. Dr. Finley, then president of the college at that place. At dinner, the Doctor said, Mr. Whitefield, I hope it will be very long before you will be called home, but when that event shall arrive, I should be glad to hear the noble testimony you will bear for God.' You would be disap pointed, doctor,' said Whitefield, I shall die silent. It has pleased God to enable me to bear so many testimonies for him during my life, that he will require one from me when I die. No, no. It is your dumb Christians, that have walked in fear and darkness, and thereby been unable to bear a testi mony for God during their lives, that he compels to speak out for him on their death-beds.' " This anecdote was related a few months ago to a gen tleman of New York, by'an individual now living, who was then a student in the college, and a boarder in Dr. Finley's family. The manner of Whitefield's death ful filled his predi6tion. WHIZ. CALLING OUT OF THE MILITIA. The following circular in reference to the enrolment of the Militia has been addressed by the War-office to the colonels of the different regiments in Great Britain: " GREAT BRITAIN. " War-office, December, 1845. " Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to signify her commands that the permanent staff of the several regiments, battalions, or corps of the Militia of Great Britain shall be completed to the numbers limited by the Act of the sth and 6th William IV., cap. 37, I have the honour to acquaint you that the establishment of the staff of the regiment under your command should be completed as soon as practicable, so as to consist of the numbers specified in the margin— " 1 Adjutant. " 1 Sergeant-Major. " 7 Sergeants. " A communication will be addressed to you respect ing the adjutants by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county. A s it appears that there are several vacancies in the rank of sergeant, and it being highly essential that those vacancies should be filled by active and efficient non-commissioned officers, whose former services in the regular army have rendered them particularly qualified for the duty of drilling recruits in the modern and im proved principle of military instruction, I have caused to be prepared a list of non-com m i ss i one d officers (pen sioners of Chelsea Hospital), whose efficiency and ex cellent character combine to render them eligible to supply the existing vacancies; and I beg leave to state that, upon the expression of your wish to avail yourself of the facility offered by this arrangement, I shall be enabled to recommend to you, from among the pension ers residing in your district, the number of sergeants requisite to complete the stefE " Adverting to the recent inspection of the staff of your regiment, I have to observe that, although the in specting officers have reported that several of the ser geants are unfit for the performance of duties, in the event of the Militia being embodied, for active service, yet they are not wholly incapacitated from the perform ance of local duties incidental to the ballot, enrolment, as well as the exercise of the Militia, and would be able to afford valuable information on the first training; upon these grounds, it is not deemed expedient, at present, to discharge all such sergeants and replace them by others ; but as there may be s o me who, from their great age, long service, and infirmities, are no longer competent to the performance of any duties whatever, it would be very desirable that those sergeants should be discharged and recommended to the Commissi oners o f Chelsea Hos , pital for the grant of a pension; but before any definitive measures are adopted upon that point, I should be glad h n ni t o bY f le M ilEse ilitia." to receive a statement upon the inclos e d fo r m, showing the names and services i n a ll ra n ks of the sergeants whom you may de s i re t o se l ec t f or discharge upon this occasion, preparatory to the adoption of td ryan te ß n ßt o i r ß m T. ea sures respecting them. ~ have your the mosth oonboeußdrlee,tgiusotimmb e NEu " Colonel of the SHIPWRECK. —In a letter from Barra, dated Bth ult., we have the following:—" A vessel, the crew of 'which are all spaniards, was lately stranded near Alasdale. She is I mbedded in sand, so that the amount of injury suffered has not yet been ascertained. The crew of the unfortunate vess el were all saved by means of a rope cast from her towards the shore. Part of the cargo, which consists of fish, has beau landed, but cannot be sold until the Comptroller of Customs arrive from Stornoway."—lnverness Courier. EADVERTISEMENT.]—FEMALE COMPLAINTS AND HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—So great are the known virtues of Holloway's Pills, that a great many titled ladies and others are purchasing them in large quantities to distribute to poor fami lies. These Pills act in so wonderful a manner upon the system and constitution of females generally (even on infants at the breast), that whether taken when entering into womanhood, or at the turn of life, or any other time, a few doses of this fine medicine will always produce the desidered effect and restore health when every other remedy has failed. Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's F,stablishment, 244, Strand, London. THE DEMAND FOR PAROCHIAL RATES ENDER THE DISTRICT ASYLUMS ACT.—At the Marylebone Vestry, last Saturday, an order was read from the Central Board of Management for the District Asylums for 173/. 7s. II d., being the proportion of the Marylebone parish towards the sup icphenwnyasican ltchue pound upon 832,3121., the parish rental. The money is to paotretdoaf ft t h e r e t N ii V e es r t a e t rn e o D f t i h st e r t ic w t en ts e y t l h um pa , 26th inst. to the Hon. Philip Pleydell Bou rtanodf o w n h e be paid on the goods be seized sooner than pay it. At the same vestry, verie. The parochial authorities are resolved to let their Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the board, stated that Lord Port man had served upon him a notice of action, in consequence of their surveyor having attempted to remove the gates erected by his Lordship in Harewood-square. Mr. Peacock said that he would have to pay the Solicitor. General 100 guineas as a retaining fee in the action. The vestry desired their attorney to defend the action, and, instead of the Soli citor-Gencral, selected Sergeant Talfourd and. Mr. Peacock, jun., to be their counsel. A RADII CIRCUMSTANCE.--A goose, the property of Mr. Spink, farmer, of W en tb r id ge , hat ched, during the course of last week, seven goslings, which is the second pro duce in oze year. A MOND ~. AY e g. - 3 S DECEMBER 15, 1845 _-, •• - ; No. 16,640. DUDLEY, MADELEY, BROSELEY, AND IRONBRIDGE RAILWAY, WITH EXTENSION TO SHREWSBURY. At a meeting of the Managing Committee of this Company, held at the Stork Hotel, Birmingham, on Thursday, the 10th of Decem ber; 1845, • • • WILLIAM COLLINS, Esq., M.P., in the Chair, • • The following Report of the Committee was read : The Managing Committee of the Dudley, Marleiey, Broseley, and Ironbridge Railway Company, with extension to Shrewsbury, feel that it is due to themselves and to the Shareholders, to lay before them, Lathe earliest 'possible period consistent with due inquiry, their preses t position, consequent upon the circumstances which will be found detailed in the following Report : Mr. Francis Giles became the engineer of the Company on its for mation, and the Committee were induced to place confidence in him from the fact of his having been employed by Mr. Robert Stephenson, in his absence, to lay out several important lines in the vicinity of the line of railway projected by this Company. Mr. Giles attended a meeting of the Committee at Birrninghani, early in October, when he gave positive assurances that he was ra pidly proceeding with his work, and had made such arrangements as would enable him to complete it In good time ; and from that pe riod till the end of November he constantly reiterated those assu rances to the Committee, to the respective solicitors, and to the se cretary, both orally and in writing. Every assistance was rendered which he required, and extracts from the correspondence will abun dantly testify that all was done by the Codunittee and the officers of the Company to enable him to eomplete his work by the 29th of No vember. His applications for money were, in every case, complied with, and the sum of 4,0i01. was at various periods advanced to him, on account of his own and the surveyors' charges ; the last payment of 2,000/shaving been made,•at his own solicitation (though not with out considerable hesitation on the part of the Committee), in order to avoid the possibility of his operations being retarded for want of funds, or to afford any possible pretext for t heir being inefficierely performed. Of this sum, Mr. Dugdale Houghton, the Company's surveyor (Mr. Giles's brother-in-law), has accepted his (Mr. Giles's) liability to him for 2,000/., and Mr. Giles has paid Mr. John Brettell, another surveyor, 3001., thus leaving him (Mr. Giles) the sum of 1,7001.. - • The anxiety expressed that all should be ready In time was only equalled by Mr.. Giles's assurances that there were no grounds for appreheniion, as the following extracts from the correspondence on the subjeet will show : • On the - 17th of October, Mr. Collis, one of the Company's solici tor* thus addressed Mr. Giles— • • " Great anxiety is entertained as to the sections and surveys be ing ready in time. Ido hope you will use every exertion to get them done, and well done." On the '2Bth October, Mr. Collis writes to Mr. Giles— " I trust you will get the sections of the Dudley and Madeley line completed without delay; as time runs on. I am glad to tell you that all goes on favourably, and everything now rests with you. You have, of course, made proper arrangements as to the engraving." _On the 31st, Mr. Collis says to a letter to Mr. Giles— " I assure you most unpleasant rumours are abroad amongst our proprietors that our sections and plans will not be properly done or ready, as Dugdale Houghton will have told you. Now I have done all in my power to put a stop to these reports. I entreat of you to have the sections of the whole line from Dudley to Ironbridge and to Shrewsbury, as well as the surveys, most carefully done. You have, of course, made due arrangements as to the engraving of the sec tions." In a letter to Mr. Collis, on the 9th of November, respecting the Oldbury branch, Mr. Giles says, in reference to the plans which he had received— " The plans are, as I consider, in good condition." On the 10th of November, Mr. Collis thus writes to Mr. Giles— " I know you will pardon my expressing deep anxiety as to every thing being done in due time, particularly that we may have the Sec tions and surveys finished, as the middle of November Is nearly arrived." Three days afterwards, viz., on the 13th, Mr. Collis says— " I hope you will use every means to complete the sections with the least possible delay. I assure you we all feel extreme anxiety on the subject. Should yon want me, or if I can do anything to for ward you, pray send for me, or let me know immediately." The next day, the 14th, Mr. Collis again urges Mr. Giles onward, by saying— " We quite rely upon your having all ready, and that the sections are in the hands of the lithographer. Bear in mind that the 29th is only twelve days off, and that the sections must be sent before then to us, and be i eady to deposit. I trust you will excuse my most earnestly beseeching you to use every possible exertion to complete everything as quickly- as practicable. The general impression is, that we shall not be ready. We must not spare exertion of any kind ; in fact, we must keep faith with the public." On the 19th, Mr. Collis writes— " I have just heard that Houghton thinks there is some misunder standing between you and the lithographer. If there be the slightest foundation for this, I beg and pray of you not to lose an instant in setting this matter right. Excuse my personally entreating you to use every exertion, as I am daily pressed on the subject." To this Mr. Giles replies on the 20th— " I know of no misunderstanding between me and the lithographer. Don't give credit to such nonsense." The same day, the 20th, Mr. Collis writes to,Mr. Giles as follows— " I am desired by the Committee to beg and entreat you to see that the sections are completed, and placed in the lithographer's hands as speedily as possible. I do hope you will excuse my writing so ur gently to you. Ido seriously assure you that we all feel that our honour and characters are at stake, to say nothing of the large sum of money • that would be sacrificed If our plans and sections are not duly deposited." On the 21st, Mr. Giles replied as follows— " I beg that you will not be in any anxiety about lithographing the sections. Mr. Houghton will get some done in Birmingham. I will get all the rest done, and have provided for it. You shall deposit on the 29th. I come to Birmingham ablegt, by express train, to meet my troops, who are all to asse at Dee's to-morrow night." Mr. Collis's next letter to Mr. Giles is dated November 21st, in which lie says— • • "I know you will not like my troubling you with these repeated urgent letters, but I confess I am so strongly pressed by numbers of people daily, that I feel painfully anxious that we should not fail in keeping good faith with our shareholders." Mr. Giles replies on the 22d— " If you come to me to-morrow, in order to be made certain of my work being done, I will even show you my plan and arrangements for it—otherwise be assured of it." The Committee, feeling that the foregoing extracts abundantly confirm the assertion with which they set out, will now refer to the statements made to them by Mr. Joseph King and Mr. Heath, two active members of the Committee, who were in Birmingham, watch ing the later proceedings. Mr. King states that he went to .Birmingham, at the urgent re quest of Mr. Collis, in company with him and Mr. Heath, on Thurs day, the 27th of Noveniber, and that he remained there till Satur• day night, with the exception of a few hours on Friday, during which period he had every reason to believe that the business was pro ceeding satisfactorily. - Mr. Heath reports that he accompanied Mr. Collis to Birmingham on the 18th of November, at his, request, to have an interview with Mr. Giles, who had stated that he should be there that night. They and Mr. Wainwright saw Mr. Giles after midnight, at the Royal Hotel, when he gave them the most positive assurances that every thing would be ready in time. The following Monday, the 24th, Mr. Heath again went to Birmingham with Mr. Collis, when Mr. Giles repeated his former assertions that everything would be ready. Three days afterwards, Thursday, the 27th, Mr. Heath, at Mr. Collis's request, once more went to Birmingham, accompanied by Mr. Collis and Mr. Joseph King, and remained there until he had seen the various gentlemen start on Sunday night to make their re spective deposits. About five o'clock on Sunday afternoon Mr. Heath saw Mr. Houghton deliver the plans to the several solicitors, in doing which he (Mr. :Houghton) expressed his obligations to them and the other gentlemen connected with the Company, for the assistance they had rendered him, adding that the sections would be ready in half an hour. After this interview with Mr. Houghton, the party left to prepare for starting, and returned to Mr. Houghton's office about half-past five o'clock. In the afternoon, where they remained until twenty minutes to nine in the evening, and during this period, facts of such importance are spoken to, that the Committee feel bound, not withstanding its length and the reluctance of Mr. Heath, to give a large portion of his report in detail. After stating that they found Mr. Joshua John Peele, of Shrewsbury (solicitor to the Wor cester and Crewe, and also to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Rail way Companies), and Mr. Hood (a relative of Mr. Roy, the other so licitor to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company), in Mr. Hough ton's waiting- room, ready to convey the Worcester and Crewe plans for deposit, Mr. Heath thus proceeds : " Between seven and eight o'clock Mr. Peele was sent for by Mr. Houghton, and he remained in Mr. Houghton's room until after the delivery of the sections by Mr. Houghton to the respective solicitors. At this period I became very anxious, and requested Mr. Collis to see Mr. Houghton. Mr. Collis accordingly went into Mr. Houghton's room on the first floor, but immediately returned and told us that Mr. Houghton positively insisted on his leaving the room. Shortly after this Mr. Giles came out of Mr. Houghton's room, and on my asking him respecting the sections, Mr. Giles said that they had been out of his hands some time, and that they were under Mr. Houghton's care, upon which I again requested Mr. Collis to go to Mr. Houghton. Mr. Collis, consequently, went a second time, but came back directly and said that Mr. Peele (whom I saw in Mr. Houghton's room when the door was opened) refused to admit him, telling him (Mr. Collis) that Mr. Houghton would soon hand out the sections. Mr. Collis further said that he had remonstrated with Mr. Peele on the impropriety of his being in Mr. Houghton's room at such a moment. Thus matters stood, the solicitors and myself remaining in a small room adjoining Mr. Houghton's, in a state of great anxiety ; a person being then stationed in the passag ed a to the do of usor of Mr. Houghton's room , who positively refused to allow any one to pass to It. Soon after eight o'clock Mr. Peele, from Mr. Hough ton's room, called the respective solicitors of the Company, who ac cordingly went into the room, whither I followed them ; and where I saw Mr. Houghton give to each of them certain rolls, which he said contained the sections of the Dudley and Madeley line com plete, except the section of the breach from Rudge to Wolverhamp ton, which he said should be delivered out in a few minutes, if it could be found. adding that they were then engaged in looking for it. We then left Mr. Houghton and went into the anti-room, where we consulted together as to the propriety of the solicitors at nce pro ceeding to their respective destinations (the evening being so far ad vanced), to deposit such sections as they had ; but it was at length agreed that Mr. Houghton should be again distinctly asked if the rolls he had given to each of the solicitors contained the sections of the whole line, except the Wolverhampton branch; for which p pose Mr. Collis once more went to Mr. Houghton's room, Mr. Wain wright, another of the Company's solicitors, following him. Mr. Collis returned immediately, and reported that Mr. Hough ton had told him, contrary to what he (Mr. Houghton)n the had p rev iously stated, that the respective bundles did not contain whole of the sections with the exception of the before-mentioned branch. Upon this the solicitors and myself held another con ference, during which Mr. Collis partially unrolled one of the bundles of Sections, and it appearingthat Dudley, was upon one sheet and Shrewsbury upon another. the solicitors and came to the con clusion that the rolls which they had received comprised the sections of the entire main line, contrary to Mr. Houghton's last statement. Immediately upon this discovery being made, Mr. Peele called from Mr. Houghton's room for Mr. Collis, whither he went, returning directly, and stating that Mr. Houghton had now informed him that they , ' respective rolls did contain the Whole of the Sections of the line, with the exception of the Wolverhampton branch. The same state ment as to the correctness of the rolls was mad Collis and e his Mr. Houghton to the other solftsitors of the Company. Mr.colleagues then started, at twenty minutes before nine o'clock." Mr. Heath concludes as follows ra-" Observing, with much pain, that attempts have been made to impute blame to the solicitors, in reference to their eonrinct on Sunday, the 30th of November, and preceding days, and particularly that a scene of gross confusion and disorder occurred in the surveyor's room, in which they are impliedly charged as participators, I feel that though I have shown they were rigidly denied access to Mr. Houghton's room, I owe it to the Com pany, to these gentlemen, and to myself, as a member of the Manag ing Committee, to declare that a more unfounded calumny could not have been uttered. I was with these, g entlemen during the Whole of Sunday ; I had many opportunities of observing their unremitting exertions on the preceding days—l may say nights also ; and I have great pleasure in stating that, with whomsoever the blame of this failure may rest, it was in no way attributable to any want of ar rangement or zeal, or activity, on the part of the solicitors, or of the secretary, their conduct throughout, and especially during the most critical period, having been praiseworthy in the highest degree," The Committee have also received reports from the solicitors, re. ferring. to the circumstances detailed Int Mr. Heath, and speaking in the highest terms of the exertions made by Mr. Houghton to com plete his portion of the work in good time, up to the period of the delivery of the plans ; but they do not think it necessary, after quot ing at so great a length from Mr. Heath's statement, to allude to them further at present. Notwithstanding the foregoing facts show it was next to an impos sibility to make the deposits in time at Shrewsbury and London, the Committee think it no more than justice to state, that the most strenuous exertions were made to do so, Mr. Anstiee posting to the former place, a distance of forty-five miles, in three hours and twenty seven minutes, and Mr. Wainwright arriving at the Board of Trade, in London, upwards of ore hundred and fourteen miles, by the aid of a special engine, in three hours and forty-six minutes, both gentle nien having been retarded on their way by accidents on the road. The journey to Stafford, twenty-six miles, might have been readily accomplished by Mr. Collis, but he was detained a long time on the road between Birmingham and Walsall, in consequence of tile great misconduct of hisisoettsys, which was such as to induce suspicion that unfair means had been s employed to retard his journey. By great exertion Mr. Collis ultimately reached Stafford in due time. Mr. Houghton made the deposit at Worcester also in good time. As soon as the failure in the deposits was known, a. meeting of the Committee was hastily surninOried at Dudley, when Mr. Giles and Mr. Houghton attended. 'Pipit former offsred no excuse for his GOR aisappointed, adding that no duct, further than that he had beeil parties could have behaved better or sol ed more handsomely, than the Committee and the officers of the Campauy 04 behaved towards him; and lie at once admitted, that even if the lateneSs of the de posits could be get over; his sections were in some iestatiece eet de fective, that they would not bear a searching examination. In swer to questions which were f4essed upon him, he said " That the sections of the cross line from Stoustsselge to Wolverhampten were strictly correct ; In fact, he believed the ecetiens of tile wholscheme w ere complete, with th e sin g le exce p tion of thebranejs to hampton. ' Houghton expressed his sorrow at the feitore t 4 4,ts posit, and his regret at the mis-statement made by him to Mr, ha on Sunday evening; justiMq himself, however, by saying that e was greatly excited at the Stole s from his previous exertions, and that he corrected birriicy hinediately. This, the Committee may remark, is opposed to Mr. liesstls'a statement, by which it appears that some time elapsed Were air. Houghton re celled his previous answer, and this geutielllan Is continuedAy pi!, I several solicitors. Mr. Giles, after informing the Committee that he had known amended sections deposited after the 30th of November to be received in Parliament, where notice of such emendations had been given to the landowners, offered to make correct sections at his own expense, to enable the Committee to apply fer their Bill ; and Mr. Houghton also offered his personal services, free of charge, in the event of their determining to proceed, and the application proving unsuceceful. Under these circumstances, taking into consideration the fact that the cress line from Stourbridge to Wolverhampton formed a very important, and to a certain extent independent por tion of the projected railway, and that it was probable, from what Mr. Cps had stated, that they should be in a position to apply for a Bill for it in the ensuing session with a reasonable prospect of suc cess, the Committee agreed that the solicitors should nertnevith take the opinion of the Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Berson, Hall, and Company, ee to the course the Committee should pursue; and also send competent person,. to ascartell what sections had really been deposited. Mr. Giles had stated that he should at ollee proceed to make entire new sections of the whole line. The deliberate written opinion of the Parliamentary agents has been obtained, to the effect that it was " a very reasonable and proper ease to bring before the Standing Orders Committee, with a view of obtaining a decision in favour of the Bill preceeding,” But information was afterwards received from the parties sent to search at the offices of the Clerks of the Peace, that the sections of the im portant prose line from Stourbridge to Wolvehampton had not been deposited, that sections of several miles' of the main line had also not been deposited (despite the deoiSiVe statements of Mr. Giles and Mr. Houghton, the latter of whom delivered out the sections), and that those which had been lodged were extremely incoerect in detail. In the altered circumstances of their affairs, the Committee were at anee convinced that their only course was to advise the share holders to ebanden all thoughts of an application to Parliament for a Bill in the ensuing seasion, and to consider what steps should be taken to protect the shareholders from the consequences of the eon. duct which it has been their painffil duty to detail. With this object, as well as with respect to the future operations of the Company, the Committee have called Mr. Sergeant Allen and their Parliamentary agents to their aid, and they will most Anxiously and carefully consider the propriety of taking such steps in reference to competing lines in the next session as they may be advised. One course whießthe Committee propose to adopt, is forthwith to return to the Proprietors the stuns of 21. per share, on such condi tions as counsel may deem necessary for the purpose of enabling the Committee to prosecute the undertaking in the session of 1847, should it be found expedient to do so. The liabilities of the Company will be forthwith ascertained and discharged ; and the Committee beg to inform the Shareholders that every regard has been paid to economy consistent with the progress of the scheme ; and further, that no expenditure has taken place since the 30th of November, saving such as was actually necessary for ascertaining their real position. Tho Committee desire to record their unabated confidence in the Intrinsic excellence of the line, and to express their regret that a scheme, supported by such an array of noblemen, Members of Par liament, landowners, ironmasters, and other gentlemen, whose in terests demand its construction, together with a large proprietary of unexampled respectability, full one-half being local, should have been frustrated by the circumstances which they have set forth. They are consoled, however, by the conviction that a railway so Im peratively demanded by the locality, pbsspssing gradients superior to any other line in the district, accommodating South Staffordshire and Shropshire in a manner that no other scheme can do, bringing the respective places in its course much nearer to each other than any other project does, and gaining, as it has, so great an amount of public favour by its undoubted merits, must shortly be carried out. It now only remains for the Committee to say that they should fail in fully discharging their duty, if they did not express their per fect satisfaction with the conduct of the selicitors and the secretary, all of whom have paid the most unremitting attention to their re spective duties, and have used their utmost exertions to advance the interests of the Company. The report having been read, the following resolutions were unanimously carried:- 1. That the report now read to the Committee be adopted and published, at the discretion of the Committee, in the local and daily newspapers. 2. That the further services of Mr. Francis Giles, as engineer to this Company, be at once dispensed with. 3. That the Committee of Management take such proceedings against Mr. Giles, their late engineer, as counsel may advise. 4. That the warmest thanks of the Committee are eminently due to Richard Heath and Joseph King, Esqs., for remaining in Birming ham during the eventful period ending with the 30th of November, and lending their valuable assistance to secure the deposit of the plans and sections. WILLIAM COLLINS. 5. That the thanks of the Committee be presented to Mr. Collins, M.P., for his able and impartial conduce in the chair. WILLIAM CHANCE. OXFORD, THAME, HIGH WYCOMBE, AND UXBRIDGE JUNCTION RAILWAY. Offices, 43, Moorgate-street. THIS MANAGING COMMITTEE. Hubert de Burgh, Esq., Chairman. Viscount Curzon, Deputy-Chairman. Lord Albert Conyngham Deane John Hoare, Esq. Lieut.-Col. Lothian Dicksoa John Lane, Esq. Charles Collins, Esq. Malcolm Maclean, Esq. Thomas Edwards, Esq. Richard Christopher Preston,Esq. Frederick Wm. Etheridge, Esq. Richard Twiss, Esq. A. W. Hillary, Esq. 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Inkstands, in wood, bronze, and papier-mache, 6s. to 71. Papier-mache Work-tables, 61. 10s. to 251. Tea-trays, 10s. to 341. per set. Work and Cake-baskets, 10s. to 41. Card racks, 16s. to 31. Hand-screens, 10s. to 4/. 10s. Pole-screens, 2l ss. to 41. 10s. Netting-boxes, 3s. 6d. to 30e. Card-boxes, 10s. to Si. Ladies' Folios, richly painted, 15s. to 61. Ladies' Companions, in pearl, shell, papier mache, and leather, 3 s. 6 d. t o 71. 10. Ladies Scent Cases and Toilet Bottles, 2 s. 6 d. to 31 . 3 s. Ladies' Card-cases, 2s. to 41. Chess Boards and Men, 7s. 6d. to 151. Elegant papier mache Chess Tables, 61. 10s. to 101. Watch Stands, Is. 6d. to 30s. Gold and silver Pencil Cases in every variety. Seven-day Razor Cases, 255. to 101. Scissors and Penknives, is. to 50s. each. Good Tooth Brushes, 6d. each. Cases of plated and silver Dessert Knives and Forks, from 41. to 251. Sheffield Plate. Splendid Table Cut lery, 50s. to 401. per set. Warranted Razors and Strops, 3s. 6d. each. Sporting Knives, and every description of Fancy Cutlery, with a va riety of other articles, of which catalogues may be had gratis. As Mechi manufactures extensively on his own premises, the qua lity of every article is warranted. BURGESS' ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES. Warehouse, 107, STRAND, corner of the Savoy-steps,London. JOHN BURGESS and SON, being apprised of the numerous en deavours made by many persons to impose a spurious article for their make, feel it incumbent on them to request the attention of the public, in purchasing what they conceive to be the original to ob serve the Name and Address correspond with the above. The gence ral appearance of the spurious descriptions will deceive the un guarded ; and, for their detection, J. B. and Sen, submit the following cautions:—Some are in appearance at first sight, '• the genuine," but without same or address ; some " Burgess's Essence of Anchovies," and others " Burgiss's ;" and many more without address. John Burgess and Son, having been many years honoured with such dis tinguished approbation, feel every sentiment of respect towards the public, and earnestly solicit them to inspect the labels previous to purchasing what they conceive to be of their make, which they hope will prevent many disappointments. BURGESS' NEW SAUCE, for general purposes, having given such great satisfaction, continues to be prepared by them, and is recom mended as a most useful and convenient sauce ; will keep good in all climates. Warehouse, 107, STRAND, corner of the Savoy-steps, Leadon. The Original Fish-sauce Warehouse, ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL, preserves and reproduces the Hair; prevents it from falling off or turning grey ; restores grey hair to its original colour ; frees it from scurf and dandriff, and renders ifsoft, silky, curly, and glossy —facts abundantly proved by innumerable testimonials, which are open for inspection at the proprietors. As a mild stimulative, cor rective, and preservative agent, ROWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL h as the egclusive patronage of th e severa l S over eigns and Courts of Europe, and with rank, fashion, and discernment, supersedes all preparations of professed similar import. A small pamphlet accom panies each bottle of Rowland's Macassar Oil, wherein important hints and advice will be found on the culture of the hair of infancy, and on its preservation and beauty through the several stages of human life. AlT s i a ° r l4. oi—L' Ij ' n l p t r i i n s ctihp,leer:ltbshopkeepers, pe trifle more Pra t, vend the most spurious trash under the title of lacas l rative on purchasers to see that the words BOWL A.ND S MACASSAR OIL, are in two lines on the wrapp er of each bottle, and on the inside of t h e wrapper near l y 1,500 times, contai ning 29,028 letters. Price 3e. 61' Is. Family Bottles (equal to fo ur sma ll) , 10 s . 6d., an d double per bottle.—Sold by the Pr o p r i e t ors , A. ROW LAND and SON, 20 0 liiitten - garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfumers. *** All other Macassar Oils are Fraudulent Counterfeits. UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF MANY OF THE NOBILI IT. A LLE N'S COMPOUND ANTIBILIOUS Esq., F.R , S. ; twenty-two years a prin rA; PILLS, prepared by Thomas Allen, late of Mile-end-road, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, and Licentiate of the Apothecaries' Company, and a pupil of the late eccentric and celebrated John Abernethy, and obstructions, a sluggish alpal iirgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. During a practical trial of twenty years, these Pills have been found an invaluable remedy in ca et? incligestionrliver, and bilious complaints. For derangements of the digestive °tarts action of the liver and bowels, which 00easiens more or less the fol lowing symptoms, viz., heartburn, giddiness, fu3idity, headaos, italu-441 spasms, and flatulent distentions of the stomach and bowels, 'drisuisirusz and dimness of sight, an uncomfortable sensa tion experienced a the pit 0' the stomach soon after eating , with a feeling of a weight of oppresdbn, appetite Imp aired, breathin g (In cult, tenderness about the region of the 7foel';' bowel; irrermlar, some- WI obstinately costive with languor and depression of .- ‘s . ptrits. Air xes a t is. 2s. 9d., and 4 s. Gd. sold by . ?1, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square, Barclay and Sons, 414frichs0, Ind Hannay, Sanger, Sutton, and Ce., London; and the po4opigt49dioine venderS throggh ' out the kingdom. A 1 , trt Az(nt for Mile-end, Mr. Wilkes, Druggist. INORTH UNION, TRENT VALLEY, AND MIDLAND COUNTIES JUCTION, AND MACCLES FIELD, WARRINGTON, AND LIVER N POOLDIRPCT RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) • 20, Brown-street, Manchester, Dec. 12, 1845. The Committee of Management have the satisfaction to inform the allottees in this undertaking, that the proeeedings of the Com pany are progressing satisfactorily, that they do not anticipate any opposition, and have every reason to expect an Act will be obtained early in the ensuing session. A copy of Rio engineer's report is sub joined, to which they desire to call their attention. By order, W. F. WESTALL, Secretary. REPORT. To the Acting Committee. Gentlemen,—T have the pleasure to inform yo 1, that the plans and sections of the line have been completed, and were duly depo sited at the office of the Board of Trade, and at the offices of the Clerks of the Peace in the counties of Chester and Lancaster, on Saturday, tke 29th ult. The utmost care and precaution have been t iken to make the plans and sections accurate in every particular ; their having passed under any own immediate inspection, warrants me in saying, that the standing orders of both Houses of Parliament have been complied with. By reference to the plans and sections, you will perceive that the gradients and curves are of the most favourable description, fully bearing out the opinion I gave on first going over the ground, that no country could possibly offer greater engineering facilities for the con etrnetien of a railway. lam therefore satisfied that this line will be worked at as moderate a cost as any in the country. I have not yet completed a detailed estimate, but from calcula tions I have already made, I alp of opinion that any previous estimate will be fully stiflleient fir carrying out and completing tile line. )urine the survey, I have had every opportunity of ascertaining the feelings and opinions of the owners and °eel piers of the land through which it is proposed to pass, and can say, with confidence, that they are generally in favour of the project, ane have every wish for its success, Having been requested by many of your board to give my opinion as to the ultimate success of the line, I do not hesitate to do so, although Ido not consider it within my province. the success of it does not, in my opinion, admit of a doubt. Ido not look upon this line as dependent upon local traffic, bet as a link it a great and int pertant chain of railways, which will form the most (erect and best communication with the South-Eastern and Midland Counties, as well as with the great and important trA:tis- hi the noeth-west of England and Scotland. With this view', it would ba impossible to over-estimate the importance of the undertaking, or the amount of traffic i but I have no hesitation in saying, that the returns to the shareholders will be quite equal to the average of the best lines in the kingdom.—l remain, Gentlemen, your obedient, faithful servant, 11. T. EDWARDS, Acting Engineer. GLA.SGOW via FLEETWOOD and AR DROSSAN, every IitiONDAY, TUESDAY, THVRSDAT, and Fattier, by the new Iron Steamers, " HER MAJESTY" and ROYAL CONSORT," 700 tons and 350 horse-power. The above Ships leave Fleetwood, on the arrival of the trains that leave Euston-square, London, at 7.30., 8.45., or 10... x. Passengers can be hooked through to Glasgow in London. Carriages taken by the 8.45 train only. Daily communication with the Isle of Man. Further particulars may be had at 8, St. Switlites-lane ; or the Universal-office, Regent-circus, London ; or of the Agents, Kemp and Co., Fleetwood, and M'Kean and Lament, Glasgow. RO YA L POLYTECHNIC IN STIT A Lecture on the PREVALENT DISEASE In POTATOES, and the Means of extracting the Starch as an Article of Food, will be delivered by Dr. Ryan, daily, at Half-past Three, and on the Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at Nine. Professor Bachoffner's varied Lectures, with experiments, in one of which he clearly explains the principle of the ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, a model of which is at work Daily. Mr. Downe, the celebrated Flutist, will perform, at Three o'Clock, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Coleman's NEW AMERICAN LOCO MOTIVE ENGINE, for ascending and descending Inclined Planes. A beautiful saries of DISSOLVING VIEWS. 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SAVORY and SONS, Goldsmiths, 14, • Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank, have finished a few splendid Pieces of PLATE, suitable for presentation to Gentlemen connected with either of the above pursuits or professions, to which they invite the attention of Committees who are in scatch of valuable testimonials for such occasions. THE TWELFTH EDITION. Just Published, in a sealed envelope, price es. 6d., and seat free, on receipt of a Post-office Order for 35. 6d. mLY HEALTH: a Popular Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of its Decline, with Instructions for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to th )se suffering from the destructive consequences of excessive indnlgerco, terminating in Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional Weakness, In digestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehensive Dissertation on MARRIAGE. Illustrated with Cases, &c By C. J LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, London. CAUTlON.—Complaints having reached us that several moona wishing to purchase our work, entitled "Manly Health," have had placed in their hands a fraudulent infringement of our copyright, pro duced by illiterate and dishonourable men, and which, though bearing a close resemblance of title, is utterly valueless; ye deem it a duty, by way of protection, to caution the public against being duped I. y such base imitations. Persons desirous of obtaining the above work, :nyi not wi s hi ng t o apply to a bookseller for the same, may, to insure secrecy, have to direct from the Authors, by enclosing 3s. G 1., or Postage Stamps to that amount. May be had of the Authors, No. 60, Ne wman -st reet , Oxford-street; and sold by Brittain, 11, Paternoster - r ow ; H annay and Co., 63, Oxford-street; Noble, 114, Chancery-lane; J. Gcrden, 146, Leaden hall-street; G. Mansell, 3, King - street , S out hwark, London; T. Sowler, Courier-office, 4, St. Ann's - squ are, Manch ester; W. Howell. 75, Dale-street, Liverpool; W. Wood, 78, Highstreet, Bi rm i n glam; W a . mtr aeusdTiee.t, Dub li n; and all l,Gßree.onkte-esrstr.eet, EOnburgh T. Price, D " The best of all friends is the professional friend, and i n no el-ape can he be consulted with greater safety and secrecy than in' Lucas '.n Manly Health.'—The New Bell's WeeklyMusenger. Messrs. Lucas and Co. are to be consulted froze Ten tin Two, and from Five till Eight in the evening, at their residence, N. CO, New man-street, Oxford-street, London, and country patients may be successfully treated, on minutely describing their case, and enclosing the usual fee of 11. for advice. NEW DOCKS AT LIVERPOOL.—TIL O uommittee of the Dock Trust are proceeding to Parliament for power to construct several large new docks, on an extensive site at present principally covered with buildings. The Journal states, that the Committee w ill a pp l y to Parliament for power to purchase all the pr o p ert y west et a straight li ne drawn from the end of Kitche n-street to Canning_ at that point opposite the Custom-house where M rs . R o bi n son's property is situated. This line, i., will be se en by l a yi n g a Canning-place, rule on the map, runs at the back of the houses 6 Mersey street,dock, enters Hurst-street , and crosses Garde n - street , Mason street, Sparling-street, and along to the te rmination at th e lower end of Kitchen-street. All t he warehouses in Lower Sopeakl paralleling-stree,tv,iathnidthaellKAilrnagp,spiDngockw,il7l srun ningaith into ouso the roo c tonn il 3 b l e o c a. rr id feet.e up At to t w h a e rd e s Mersey-street, end, erse . ,..street, its — proposed width being 380 fee t, and its len g th 720 Between s tird, olllo s it e th e D u k e ' s feet long Docktlie s e , twoextending docks and 170 wide. These measurements are taken from t h e plan, and are suffi ciently accurate for th e p ur p ose of un derstanding the design. Around these docks is traced a space of 7 0 feet will o r - ;t e r% t, o a wide for quays, sheds, or warehouser, and along the boundary line from Kitchen-street to the Custom house, will run what we suppose will be a public road, branch ing down, at intervals , to the Duke's Docl. King's Dock, &c. It is also proposed to purchase a part of the property east of Sefton-street, for on the Harrington property is to be con structed a large dock, beyond the Little Toxteth Dock, 1,450 feet long, and 380 feet wide. This leviathan will swal low up the Harrington Dock, slips, &c. The plan does not stop here. The committee proposes to purchase all Nova Scotia, and in it to construct a large but irregular dock, em bracing the Manchester Basin, with deptes for the coasting trade on each side, one approaching the baths, the other ad j4ning Ole graving do4s. The premises to be purchased number 64 3 ,--Liberpo446ion: •1 P • uiiicuoss-STREET ... 4lsow.—Tl;e:p are 130 pri7 oonera fii Whitgsfoo7#tmt fob debt, of whom only seven have been committeedd under thfo Smoll - .444? A' - . EGYPT. DEATH OF THE BISHOP OE JERUSALEM. ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 30.—0 n the morning of the 26th we received from Cairo the melancholy news of the death of Bishop .Alexander, of Jerusalem, who, it ap pears, died only five hours distant from Cairo, on the desert. He was accompanied by his lady and daughter. Colonel Barnett received an express shortly after his death, with a request to send out and bring the body to Cairo, An autopsy was held on the body by Dr. Ab bott, and it appears he died of an apoplectic fit. Great preparations are making in Cairo for the wed ding of the Yacha's daughter. TURKEY. NEW COMMERCIAL TREATY BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE PORTE. RAILWAYS IN TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27.—The principal intelli gence I have to-day to send you is, that Russia has at last entered into a new commercial treaty with the Porte, which will place her in the same commercial relations with this country as the other nations of Europe. This measure so long urged, especially by Great Britain, on the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh, and so long delayed, has certainly been very reluctantly adopted. Since 1839, when England and other western states trading with the Otto man empire formed their present common treaty of com merce, for so their separate treaties may be called, with the Porte, it has been a constant complaint against Rus sia that she has refused to trade with this country on the same terms as other nations. It is perhaps necessary to remind your readers that the commercial treaty of 1839, alluded to, was framed for the express purpose of putting an end to a system of trade which was alike injurious to the foreign and the native merchant, and to the general consumer. Up to the date just named, many of the most important objects of commerce in Turkey could not be brought into the sold to firmanfro certain m merchandisesm t hee s a s r e k d oet Turkishfe e eTr otheheeein Gove rnment. This importation firman without rm an was a merchants for a sum a good deal under the value of the ,arboynvainrdtuiseeofoothrne or wool, or becwamhaetepvoesr it might be, w as th en sold, again, and a third time, perhaps, before it came fairly into the public mart. And by this means a very large revenue was secured to the Porte, and the most vicious monopolies were established. In the interior provinces of Turkey especially, this system was found to be most vexa tious, ruinously to the disadvantage of the fair, unprotected trader, whilst it enriched enormously fa voured individuals. The public revenue, however, ac cruing therefrom could not be dispensed with till some other source of revenue should be opened. England, therefore, and other nations agreed with the Porte that, on the condition of these firman monopolies being abolished, the import duties on foreign merchandise and the export duties on the home produce and manufactures of this country should be considerably augmented. The tariff was accordingly raised to 5 per cent. for imports, and to 12 per cent. (altogether) for exports. By this arrangement all parties were great gainers. By the suppression of monopolies the commerce of Turkey with foreign nations has, within the last few years, been much increased. But Russia refused from the beginning to adopt the new arrangement, and by so doing she set all fairness at defiance, as she necessarily partook of all the advantages which England and other States had been glad to purchase at a heavy cost. The tariff to which Russian trade till now has been subject in this country has only been 3 per cent, for import duties and 5 per cent. for exports. She has thus for several years enjoyed here immense com mercial privileges, which she has had all to herself, and of course Russian merchants have thriven, in what ever part of the Ottoman empire they have opened busi ness, above those of any other nation. These advan nit e a eg g g e ow s t aat with ot not, o eo t f , et o ar w t. oe e v ya s e e r a , er , to ta h t h e ebre fore i g n relin q uished. Cabinet sotfatse ts. r A e f Tt t e e hr r es a b Et 1 1 o rfig n gh g . has consented to b e pl ace d on th e same commerc i a l foot lish and French merchants here naturally rejoice much in this event ; the more so as they had fully persuaded themselves that it would never be brought to pass. Another event, which may turn out to be of much greater importance still, I have now to mention to you. Three railroad companies—one in England, one in Belgium, and one in Sardinia—have made proposals to the Ottoman Government to undertake, on their own risk and responsibility, lines of railroad in Turkey, on the condition, of course, of possessing a secure right of property in the enterprise—a right of a sort which no European has ever yet been suffered to hold in this empire. The Porte, lam informed, is now entertaining these proposals with a very good will to close at least with one of them ; and as Reschid Pacha will now be at the head of affairs here, one may feel pretty sure that Turkish bigotry against European innovations and improvements will not be allowed to hinder the fair con sideration of a; project which looks so full of promise of progress for thg country. It is certainly too soon to an ticipate the consequences of such a project, yet so preg nant with mighty consequences must it be, should it ever be rz..alised, that it is difficult not to look forward to them. One word only, however, I will say thereupon; viz., that frequency of communication and intercourse between different parts of this empire, or between any two of its distant and important sites, seems the only possible means of rousing its inhabitants into a sense of their being not scattered like communities, or rather mere groups of individuals—but a people; and that as the people, or popular liberties in other countries have produced all the great mechanical inventions of the present age in the west, so the introduction of the greatest of these inventions into the east would in its turn produce a people—would, if anything could, give a public life and will, a consciousness of aggregate national existence to numerous populations which at present exist in utter disconnexion, simply as loose crowds, inhabiting the same place. Au reste, not to dwell on a view which may seem to you unfit for a letter, all are agreed that the first want of this empire is the want of roads. Instead of roads, then, to give railroads would be making a giant stride in advance. And as to the practicability of the thing, I have the opinion of a very accomplished Turk, holding an important office under the Government of the Porte, and of several Europeans who have long been inhabitants of this country, that the enterprise would offer every probability of success. Three lines of road have even already been spoken of—one from this capital to Adrianople, another to Smyrna, and a third to Varna. I will speak only of the advantages which the Adrianople line would present. That city has very ex tensive commercial relations with Constantinople, and yet the communication between these two first cities of the Ottoman empire is a most fatiguing, tedious, and ex pensive one. By land it requires four or five days' tra velling on horseback on bad roads (the distance is 150 miles, and by water there are in every season difficulties of another kind. The port of Enos is nearly blocked up with the accumulated deposits of the River Maritza, and is therefore a very unsafe harbour, and the river itself, full of rocks, in winter has its banks generally over flooded, and in summer has often so scanty a stream in its channels, that large boats cannot sail up to Adrian. ople. A railroad, consequently, on this line would offer the best prospects of success. lam assured by those whose opinion is of weight, that the speculation could not fail to be a very profitable one. The English proposal on this subject to the Porte has come from two substantial mercantile houses of Liverpool. I hope it will meet no impediment from the question of property, the very considerable property its t elopt ion would give to foreigners on the Ottoman territory. If this qnestion does not interpose a hindering obstruc tion, one will have to rejoice that the rage for railways has taken this eastern direction, for whilst lucre by the establishment of railroad lines in this country would primely be sought, this appetite for gainful enterprise would furnish, at the same time, the most powerful means of giving a civilising impulse to the whole east, whereby the work otherwise of centuries may haply be accomplished in a single generation. I told you in my last letter that the disarming of the Lebanon had been completed, and with respect to the Lebanon, strictly speaking, this information was correct. But I learn that numerous bands of Druses and Mare nites have taken refuge in the Hauran, a mountain close upon the Lebanon, inhabited by the tribe of the Metualis, which spot, from its strong natural defences, it will be extremely difficult to disarm. The disarming of it by Ibrahim Pacha was made at a very great sacrifice of men, and it is said by many that unless the inhabitants can be induced to surrender their arms on terms, the military force under Namik Pacha must be increased in order to effect that purpose. M. de Bourquenay has addressed a note of an apolo getic character to the Porte, on the subject of the me nace made by the Belle Poule to violate the Ottoman territory to rescue the French dragoman who had been arrested and put in prison, as I wrote to you in a former letter, by the Turkish authorities. It appears that the boat's crew of the French steamer did not on that occa sion land ; but their commander threatened only to do so, if the demand of the French Consul were not com plied with. It is to apologise for this threat that the French Ambassador has addressed the note I speak of to the Porte. His tone is much changed since his late explosions. But no doubt in this instance he has acted with the dignity befitting the representative of a great nation in apologising for a gross insult offered to the Ot toman Government by the malapert hot-headed violence of the French Consul at Beyrout. A dispatch from Reschid Pacha has been received by the Porte, in which the ex-umbassador from this country to France declares be shall with all possible expedition take his departure from Paris. He is expected here on the 14th of next month, but may possibly arrive on the 4th. I have just learnt that the Porte has issued circulars prohibiting the exportation of corn from Roumelia, after the expiration of a month, on the pretext of the great i s n ca s rc s i r t i y a. tha ß t n e t x t i h st i s s throughout n t o h i e m e p m o p r i t r a e n , t b t u especially in be spterceiaatlelyd• of at the close of a letter; therefore, having mentioned the fact, I will say no more. —Chronicle Correspondent. DOCIE-YARD.--It is likely that the present system of mustering the workmen in the dockyards will be done away with, and the old plan of " recalling" resumed. The Lords of the Admiralty some time since ordered the authori ties at the dock-yards to report upon the system; ancl rya linclerltaud that 4 the reports invariably condemn it 'as an in, ef:oieOt qbok and 4 W4:ste of One. Twenty-Ave boy§ are to be enterei in this dockyard as apprentices to sllipwrighta.,, Pepcmport kideffendog, OCCASIONAL SKETCHES—HERE AND THERE. No. IV. WITITEFIELD'S BONES! " Whitefield's bones! and what of them? They have long since been mingled with kindred dust —‘ massed into the common clay.' Seventy-five years have sunk into the grave of ages since the Prince of Preachers was laid down in the narrow bed, from which he never rose but in the spirit. Only the memory of Whitefield survives—his immortal part is now wearing its crown, and with the Elders be is waving his palm; but of the tabernacle' in which he tarrlA on earth for a season, no trace can remain. , It was committed to dust long, long ago,' and nothing but the blast of the archangel's trump shall collect the scattered atoms, and bid the dry bones live." Such may be, perchance, the exclamation of the reader, on glancing at the heading of this sketch; but let me crave his patience whilst I relate, as simply as may be, the particulars of a pilgrimage which, scarcely more than two months ago, I made to Whitefield's bones, for, to the everlasting disgrace of those who might prevent it, they are exposed to the public view " a marvel and a show." I was spending a Sunday at Old Ipswich, in the latter part of last September, when, by accident, I fell in with an old inhabitant of the town who had heard Whitefield preach there. He was a sort of patriarch of the place, and as he sat on one of the stones which surrounded the ancient orthodox meeting-house, his grey locks stream ing from beneath his queerly-shaped hat, and attired in his primly-cut old-fashioned coat, he appearel no bad representative of the departed Puritans who, in former days, had soberly and decently obeyed the call of the Sabbath bell, and worshipped in the same temple whose steeple now cast its shadow athwart the green sward beneath. A Sabbath in a New England village is quite a primi tive affair. The old-fashioned folk commence it on the Saturday evening, but the custom is confined to, and will probably die out with them. Where it is observed in all its strictness, every occupation ceases about six o'clock. All loud and boisterous talk is hushed, and the old clock in the corner ticks audibly, whilst the family circle, consisting as well of the domestics as of the members of the family, gather round the wood fire, and listen to th e h ea d o f t h e h ouse rea d an d expoun d the Scriptures. As the bell of Old Ipswich church swung out that bright Sabbath morning, it was a pretty sight to see the village people coming from different points to the decay ing old church, which was situated, as most country churches in New England are, on a hill top. Whilst I was enjoying the scene, the old man to whom I have alluded, and who was sitting on a stone, accosted me, and asked if I was not a stranger in " those parts?" On my informing him that I was, he became very loquacious, and pointed out to me the various " lions " of the neighbourhood, which consisted of such places as " Heartbreak-hill," "Lovers'-lane," and other affec tionately-named localities, and wound up by observing, " I suppose, Sir, you've a-heard of Whitefield?" Of Whitefield! to be sure I had; and then it occurred to me that the celebrated preacher had often visited Ame rica, and recollections of a fine old mezzotint portrait of him, which used to hang over the family mantel-piece when I was a boy, became vivid, and my curiosity was thoroughly excited as the old gentleman said, when I nodded my head in reply to his query, " Well, I've a-seen Whitefield ; George Whitefield stood on this very stone," and he dropped his stick feebly from his shaking hands, " and I heard him preach here." " And do you remember anything about him?" I asked. " Well, I guess, I do. I was but a bit of a boy then, but here he stood on this stone, looking like a flying angel, and we do call this Whitefield's pulpit to this day. Mat other stone, further on, is the one on which they tell the devil lighted when he jumped over the church. ' The mark of his toes is to be seen now; but that's non sense, and neither here nor there." " He'd a-preached in Boston, on the common," con tinued the old man, "in the morning, and came over here to give a sermon in the afternoon, and he went from here to Newburyport in the evening. There was folk here from all parts to hear'n; so he was obligated to speak outside, for the church warn't half big enough for 'em, and no two ways about it. I've a-hearn many pa-arsons sin' that time, but none on 'em could come nigh he, anyhow they could fix it." "Do you remember anything of his sermon ?" I inquired. " Oh ! I was too young to notice aright, Sir, but the preacher himself and the crowds of people, but I know he had a very sweet voice, and, as I said when he spread his arms out, with his little Bible in his hand, he looked for all the world like a flying angel. There never were so many people afore or since in old Ipswich. I suppose, Sir, you'll be goin' to see his bones ?" " His bones—whose bones ?" I asked, in some asto nishment. " Why, Mr. Whitefield's. He was buried at New buryport, and you can see 'em if you like. The sexton shows 'em, but only strangers go to see 'em, I here." I made up my mind that 1 would see them too, if pos sible; but I regarded the affair as an old man's story, until I learned from other quarters that what he had stated was true. I attended service in the church, which is one of the oldest in America, and was, therefore, more interesting than a modern erection would have been. There was the old pulpit, with elaborate carvings about it, and of a forty-parson power size. It was surmounted by an enormous sounding board, which was decorated by a gilded star. There had been a similar gorgeous decora tion in front of the pulpit, but it had been considered too gay by a rigid deacon, who scraped off, with his own pious hands, the gold leaf. The pews were very capa cious, and square, old-fashioned high-backed chairs be ing used as seats. In a very high and deep gallery was an ample space for the choir, which was an exceedingly good one ; and en peasant, I would observe that the Americans are far beyond us so far as hymn singing is concerned, and it would not be amiss if some of the dole ful tunesters in our churches and chapels would imitate our transatlantic brethren in this respect. After listen ing to the delightful congregational singing in New England, the monotonous, melancholy music of our me tropolitan dissenting choirs, seemed to me dismal in the extreme. But to my more immediate subject. On the following day, I went over to Newburyport by railroad, and having previously ascertained the into resting spots, I proceeded first to the house in which Whitefield died. It stands in School-street, and was at one time the residence of the Rev. Jonathan Parsons, the first regular pastor of the Presbyterian Society in the town. It is a plain, unpretending structure, consist ing of two floors, and possessing no other claims to at tention than its being near the spot where the last scene of Whitefield's career was enacted. I knocked at the door, and asked of a servant girl who answered my sum mons, if I might be allowed to see the room in which Mr. Whitefield died, taking it for granted that so memo rable an occurrence must have been familiar to her mind. She looked me in the face for some time, and then replied that no one of that name lived there ; and finding I could make nothing of her, I was turning away, when a lady came forward from a side room, and on learning my business, and receiving my apologies for the intru sion, very courteously showed me up a flight of stairs into a chamber which she said Mr. Whitefield used to sleep in. I surveyed the room with some interest ; but the cha racter of it must have been greatly altered since White field's time, for there was a, very pretty French bed, and smart window curtains, and portraits of George Wash ington and General Jackson, and a whole army of Pre sidents, and a view of Bunker-hill Monument, and similar matters, but nothing whatever to remind me of White field. " Here is the place he died in," said the lady ; and she showed me a little entry just outside the door of the bed-chamber, directly over the entrance to the house. A window in this recess commanded a view of the road in front of the dwelling. " He lay, the night before he died," said the lady, "in that bedchamber, and when he was took for death he ran out to this entry-window for breath, and died whilst sitting in a chair opposite it." A host of thoughts crowded to my mind as I stood on the spot where the great mau gasped, and gasped for air, and then breathed out his life. So simply and so graphically is the last scene of all described by his ser vant, Richard Smith, who attended him from England to America the last time he ever crossed the Atlantic, that I cannot forbear quoting here from his narrative. There is no flourish or parade about it ; its interest lies in the little facts which it records, and which, in connexion with Whitefield, are of such deep interest. " The ac count," it has been said, " has all the constituents of a completed drama;" and what could close it more graphi cally than that single, simple fact, of " the people who went weeping through the sti eels to their respective places of abode ?" "On the morning of his death, at a quar t er -past four, he waked, and said, 'My asthma, my asthma is coming on ; I wish I had not given out word to preach at Haverhill, on Monday ; I don't think I shall be able • but I shall see what to-day will bring forth. If lam no better to-morrow, I will take two or three days' ride!' He then desired me to warm him a little gruel; and, in breaking the fire wood , I waked Mr. Parsons, who, thinking I knocked for him , rose and came in. He went to Whitefiekl's bed•side, and asked hi m how ' he felt himself. He answered, am almost suffocated. I can scarce breathe , m y asthma ch okes tae.' I was then not a little sur p rised, to b ear how quick, and ttle sa w no danger, only that h e h ad a great difficulty in y clock. I went to hi m, and for about five s five o with what difficul t y , he d rew his breath. He got out of bed, and went to o p en the window for air. This was Frilalcuthing, as I had often seen before. Soon after he turned to and other said, I am ' I said, I hope not, Sir.' He ranto me, the panting for breath, but could get no relief. It was agreed t h at I should go back for Dr. Sawyer; and on my com i ng b ack, I saw death on his face; and he again said, /am dying,' His eyes were fi xe d, hi s under lip drawn i nwar d every time he drew breath ; he went 1 towards the wi n d ow, and we offered him some warm wine, with some lavender d ro p s , w hi c h h e re f use d . I persua d e d hi m to sit down i n a c h a i r, an d h ave hi s c l oa k on ; he consented by a sign, but cou ld not spea k . 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