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4,,M8R 4AL ID GE MONUMEN T, C ga CONIIII ['TEE OF MANAGENF.:NT. rkp f , ca4 ; 4 mitir-The Right lion. the LORD 3I,AYOR. -The Ri,ght Hon. Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR ck 9 f ., M.P. 4444448oetirsorso:n.)thpsella,e:et:a..,,.;Er.;...qti.a_i_ciftr:ttory to the Royal General Annuity 1,11 2 11,, t otio , er. G str esr eegte:LEeiscq : sL -, t i e 1 r i 0.. . ,: , Brighton . to the Royal Society of Musicians) , ge, of , -(1 are sitent-street on. Sec. to the Hig,hland Society of London), E trb .'" , the R„ go r r , J. A 1 . ."!,.., 11, p.n., St. Paul's, Vauxhall Ro'yai,4Bl. (Governor of the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's G ear _ Britishs Bank, Tokenhouse-yard 'lce; l „_,l'as;) , l 7o ,, q.. (lion. Treasurer to the Covent-garden Theo- Willi anl ''.,urn-square ' (siecretary to the Drury-lane Theatrical ti lirT B ', l3 2 Eso • F.R.S. (Treasurer), Brick-court, Temple tozyittheranlkkirisq;zcator:gcla.r.i (Secretary to the Royal Humane Society), 3, Tra ,e2l3lovomshury-selare 4 ' -sq. (Chairman or the Leicester-square Soup , Leicestersquare .3 1 ,, r s , Iymi t s ;', 1 ;' 7 . Si. Paul's-churchyard bosiNste-N;E:q. (Secretary to the Asylum for Female Orphans), I''*, L r aige-road b rtil4 , llar" Ge neral Sir Howard, Bart., 15, Green-street, Gros. Thera. •1114 (Secretor to the Dome*tic Servants' Be • %Iltitrt ge, taotlasitutl,lo:l), 32, Sackvillye-street. stop (Member of the Committee or the Leicester ,(l, ,i - „ c uen), 40, Leicester-square .7Y), 47 'sq. (Governor of the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's 1:4144,), Atount-st ks, e reet, Grosvenor-sip -tare Vsilworg e 'lon. the Marquislo2, Provident and Bone -- Cork-treet utit7eleat 4.(Meraber of the Committee of the Governesses' Zlo. ~ tm. (t,i‘trution), Tollington-park ,qpe,nt tta ensber of the Committee of the Governesses' Be vcilut prittion), M arlborough -chambers, Pall-mall 4ni 441 )04 N. (Ron. Treasurer to the Drury-lane Theatri -2,J, ',,-PPer Gower -street Itag - ,,7 1 ),13 (Secretary to the Royal Society of Female Mu itaas,4l44vAreneOileld-street, Soho-square agrlis , %, / LA., Rector of St. Pant's, Covent-garden •• I (Secretary to the Society of Ancient Britons), litio:TNte,7' (Secretary to the Leicester-square Soup Kitchen), Nit2 ll4 thit:t are (Sk-squ ecretary to the Industrial Home for Gentle. im u runswicare li. j _Esq. (Treasurer) Birchin-lane M A F•R (Secretary to the Governesses' , 14 ,44:1,14---......i0n) , 62, F. R.S. Regent's-park No t , try,, he 1 1 101 1. the Lord, 10, Grosvenor-place ~„0 84 Hon, the Marquis of, Holderness House . , " s PurY-Chai of Queen Adelaide's Free Dos -41141r•1ie4,h1-ilreen rnian 1: 41 41 , 44.. td0 e i t -„; 43, Bow-lane 16., -I ntl?) M.A. (Member of the Metropolitan Sant t-0%4 4. W . n s " hallows, Upper Thames-street New. street, Spring-gardens , (Hon. Secretary to the London .14Ze, Colin; St. Helen's-place ), N. (Secretary to the National Philanthropic t,. AsSter-square 4, 40 , (4 It ' l lry itiaffi e s q l 4 M.D. (Founder of the Royal Free Hospital), 111:411111411) livetilrinwarlvcian'f-ituiradn, sq.' Charlotte-row the a '6 r ' Esq. (Secretary to the Covent-garden Thea ge, Michael's-grove, Brompton 4111 .4 Sta k .' sq. (Secretary to the Royal Infirmary for Chit 14A 1)44,44, toord-street - 'tes t% t t ?:iliir e ,: q l ! (Secretary to the Metropolitan Free Hospital), NaLs4rit."„an 11. A.., 21, Bolton-street Albany S t ' i •nia as, tssqn Berners-street 11,1Wit.he/t".q•' C.E., Middle Scotland-yard Thom as, 1, Gloucester-terrace, Cambridge- N I , o 7rie s (Secretary to the Public Dispensary), Lincoln's 11411:11e,ilbeii'ryEsq., buildingsßank- 44 8 '11 .0, i N , 27, Gloucesteardens, We stbourne-terrace Associate King's College (Secretary to Charity), I, St. Matthew's-place, Hackney -11-44:41°11144;414stilelkiratr:yeitrniscqvt.:3:MD.D.D". (Hon. Secretary to the Asylum for k ti t Z tg oeis'f lis SrY ka,4 41 1 1 g T -sq., F.L.S. (Founder of the British Benell "es R e ,: •vrigoln's bon-fields ,Colorikloscitt;)l4eet. , T emple -grove, East Sheen ' West nel (Governor of the Royal Asylum of St. Ann's tt Sklkt Ale wi sh 14 irler gvroos , lt roet Esq. (Secretary to the Middlesex Hospital), b411 41i-a a kilel ' (Secretary to the Jews' Hospital), 5, 1 72g4t," , 'btu -a. (Secretary to the Orphan Working School), 32, lin..! 11), lith i ?a , qcl 'sr bt s P-sq. (Hon. Secretary to the City of London lk i t,,„; Je sse, t as q es of the Chest), 6, Liverpool-street 1 4 (Member of the Committee of the Governesses' Itight"Ution), Lincoln's,lnelds I,, t rep er ;. Pon. the Earl, Park Old Brompton ti Nis l't ;de .sq ' ( Hon. Secreta;y to the Hotel and Tavern 1.1„5a5,,,,e5,R.,,--iir„lnstltution), Craven-street (eoecretary to the Choral Fund Society), Polygon, 1111 111 ,4? ) 'es:Z r , (TT 0 11 1 \ st, R I ~,or th e . , -- 01 1. Secretary to the riospital for the Cure " r.Sq. 25, New Bridge-street \ treasurer of the Public Dispensary, Lincoln's aLS9lit;t, Nolir .S.A. (Governor of the Royal Asylum of St. L s stl tott Warwick-square Pimlico ItZti-soge!w-..._"eriff, Swithin's-lane es4sigty Egan, ) ;.'sn. Esq. (Governor of the Royal Asylum of St. ietoria-square, Pimlico 1 1 8 . 1;,,l) ? 8, paip'reasurer of the Royal General Dispensary, Al- T T - square 1.4 .1.- 4 °4 "' l st 34 . A. (Hon. Secretary to the London Orphan - Slark,„, °- ‘44,:q..R . ,-‘4 With asterisks form the Acting Committee. sh,k,assi.'Bondeabbell, Esq., M.P., and John Labouchere, Esq. ii b. °Sults and C. • Messrs. Twining; and Messrs. sttili,eslbe,‘ Williams Deacon, ' alai Co. g t kip h s ts 1, 4 °f . gig - Committee are anxious to collect such an qoap, t seri as velli enable them to raise that descrition h' t ill' a : . Xers p i ar u, ,, W ._. lll do equal justice to their own feelings and to kb o , virtues of his Royal Highness the late Duke of 17 1 141 0 „ e- nam na 4ati o ltai, ' 0 1; na'-'t b ankers and gentlemen area 111ing to receive 441 0Zsli a ej l . L tr . John Smart, the only authorised collecto , --et • ' - '` u ss as may be desirous of contributing to this t 'sfiott it.. t,,,,, By order, ,_ tow , It ty . FREDK. LEEKS, Honorary Secretary. I.3Zsifp,-2--......__f1a1en-house, August 22, 1830. qty: 4l l.eTo h e „trflif ed ? for SALT PORK, of the Cure 011 1 . I.44OkenljingdOlD, or any Foreign Country whatsoever. :ith. t'o,,,„_ ~ of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport 4 5iF‘itrliassi ' l ervices s its t, tm Ono" for executing, omerset-place, August 3, 1 liwOnt oh ltig e i,,,,,.Great Britain Office of Lord r'g so ll . Admiral , I , l p b, t -. pectts-..zzl Great Britain and Ireland, d i ' hereby give e iti. 'del lady t„ treat r the 26th September next, at o One . o'clock, lady with such persons as may be willing to / P 1 1 47. Itn ' supply of a quantity of l i i t i b h e i T vet . , 4 : th e t . n: , SALT PORK, to L i tteilad r ,qaalbaom or of any Foreign Country ' •". -be "t ' oo times, , t. be cured in the ensuing , 1 4 i1 ,, ,.-4:11e: r t , , , otbt:e.livered two-fifths in tierces, .and three-fifths I„;ll, t ,te ti la eas 7_ Part thereof, equal to 35 tierces, which . is L 1a,%0 e its a re " c ontaining 100Ibs. each, and for which ' , Ole • for to be made ; and also for 50 additional tierces lift Ate reB,,,, , 'Mieh le ) tb et,, As eel lo g t separate tenders are also to be made ; their - ~ ,t hey De l -or ~ or con o theinse'ves the power, when the t 11141 a), ; 1te,, 41 Y, a s "'acting either for the whole, or for such I„t 4 l t . p . A als o may deem fit, or of not contracting for e a t .' -• u nlimited power of selection, according to k „ su ede e to s , t„,,o,,„„feDeeify where the meat is intended to be cured, lt, l 4. Pe r ,„„be (kn . ,' each denomination of cure comprised therein. Aq s , bli,',no oth 'e.,led into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at ic't ' bobe g k rl Yntouth, and Haulbowline, in such prepor u; I ll it e, thli. _ &Ler be directed, and within the following 47 11 be e 4l l; l a s i 0,, To 8t ;Aid f o ,:-. -or before the 3 1851. r 31st March 1 k 1i2c.0„ 1 . e ,....` bY bill. / 31st May bylb. , llti o tx, f or - PaYable at sight, but not during the first R sr)! to t , as Of ~arly quantity beyond that specified. LtstiLaj es i'a , agetii'le comtract may be seen at this office, or by illie, t t ßs et .t. 4 Co stent f °! the Victualling at Cork, or to the Collectors tto t 'te ec ileseiTY or t hat Limerick, Belfast, Waterford, and Newry, 4, 11, 1 ,‘ il!: ,tebr,,l,r;",,Do43"l2ataste.r-General at Dublin, or to the Ati 14 -"it a Leith. lei,,,h e aati ty t ed for a less quantity than 300 tierces. ex bo in "a b be ~° .be delivered in casks, containing 1 001bs. sit b e t.:W.eithout bone. Ncw;ally „ lit 1 14 4 Peed after One o'clock on the day of treaty, l q 4lt t t 'a le h arised , t he party attends, or some person en his vier 444 .i . 4145, !II Writing. It t ,.kb bs for Va l l e t hese addressed to the Secretary of the Ad- N;?Z ,ait 0",,,,.7 ands"left-hd corner of the envelope the words w4 tli,"afl bt'lverees,'" Comptroller for Victualling," and eelitr c emg, in to Ji te ,„ ( 3 , ' two ,4, So merset-place, and be accompanied by a he 11 teki I : l°4B, ble persons engaging to become bound a sum equal to 25/. per cent. on the A at, for the due Nperformance of the same. . k R ybt js 4 1. ~ lEI GE S HIR E. iebl e ;`, l'er,,ebY given, that TOLLS. ll, L t, l, l o4 l : 3 l aut ett .!n, that the NAVIGATION TOLLS, payable 1 t711, 4 1,1t t : Ili r e ,' the South -level Drainage and Navigation VlD„ril ge tep ott b let of vessels navigating between Upware bi t ttlC:t or 4 anti I,,'„' l. !dge, or between Prickwillow-bridge and Lit 4,i mtlb t;, es `.,tsank Tolls payable to the said Commissioners 4,7b,7 If e y „,te I,;`V Cattle passing on the South-level Banks, will tery ie ' l at ex "es o ce ' ll , by AUCTION by Mr. GEORGE LEDGE, IliSb a 4 l'tp, ' ,in e Pr i , e4 bY the present Collectors of the Tolls for tst d , te .s to i t . ...tree y tt ihn k.) . t o h. , te m). _ _ ears, from . the llth day of . October 'll2 to' , Se;eold en `,..,.L..the said Drainage and Navigation Com ll't b' aOdi t 7ae r na 't the Lamb Inn, in Ely. on TUESDAY, the th,, sh, s t 0,,, lo hs „._ at. at Twelve o'clock at Noon, upon such 71e t rtr,,,,`L'thb 3 .."'s shall then be declared and which Tolls are ko. „. 11 ti,.^111. b e 'ar at the Rent of 1 900/ , biitot7oei,',atith eflpuired to enter into a . Bond to the Commis yet ;h e e It:retie s te ' f ' 6o /., with two sureties in the sum of 5001. „klt,, , ,I„,ilt b„„ the sum of 2501. each, for securing the pay e ~`1 stieqareilzflonthly Instalments. And the highest bidder le e ' l 4 ',', ,, l poe si l. , the A'e.o.n:idered to he the hirer, unless he shall im )th.„litn,e,)ilit, 0,,...b.m0n satisfy the Commissioners then present, I kettl . 4 beZ )c f th e 'Bu'irie.elf and his sureties, and produce the con kl;. 4 fC "% tri e l eUtet t willieiL to enter into the bond, nor unless the • 4,,,t 1 5 t , L .T c or t , a.. ‘lietoNyenp• days of the A . ucti t on. ii" , ti . _il eors, t :', „f e l: 1 y ip , t e i l t e t r e k d s o t n c. a t l l t.. e p o a ra t i o m n iss o io ll e e r s s s . rs . T . 1 tit s 18 , t. th,;_tt b L A ,, ", ' l tv't't `IIIRIS SILVER LEAD MINE ~,t 4 04 e //t ,c ATiiP I m lb t he l qr e ,c Fi, t s - LEIGH), DEVON. , yir I v .) i eo ns q , Of Tavistock (under Ns hose management i( i Op oil'Et la °ls ailnes, with 1/. per share paid, and now lt t 1,,t p ly ,. arris dine rietor and Director of the mining opera 'etjtM OV''ll,ociie 's, 0,11 • a- - C 0. ,, have some of the above SHARES ltlita,„lll)l.le44las of th, A r , 1 , 4,4L,R, .„ 4 May b'" fl ar.lng Committee, Shareholders, and ( \ it iig c „.,, r „ on .e Made at the office, No. 1, Royal Ex- I 4 "of ever s !lit t ., , y d e , criptioiltic,__..±iLL,. L l'it inett•t, -. 'A.S(I - I.c. i t't t,N)4,/'ur,, — 4-‘ •—e ROS SE and BLACK- , t;,,"4,, 4 4 ,:t,,,,47,ff1ui? I,6°,llnfion,,,Ordinary, by appointment to her Ma -5 Isd 4 tr f or f ' fl re the -- the nobility and gentry that they Ith i lts„- e t 4la 00 ? r ever_ _,:elebrated SOHO SAUCE, which will bvpi: l. o l 4 2lie d aMee ,k., u _s e eription of game ; also their improved le sA lepro ese 4 sh, 1 10 :,f,' vies. Dinmore's Essence of Shrimps, 41 , or ',th e ~, At eh '"' T able Sauce, Sir Robert Peel's Sauce Ne t all o s _hoov e, ,_ ovY Paste, Strasburg Potted Meats, &c. ktnii. principottfetakueerewith their superior pickles. may be ti k k i lii t , 01...1..- ' l t, ti,h o. s venders throughout the kingdom. N h are, London. Established 1706. b Tlui t , N l'A I,' 2 G A rY- PrRST se 40 1 b x nat emte EDITION. b et , ell y, 4 SQu Atip al Coloured Eegravin.gs on Steel, tli'lir l artla, l ' i b Ili 1,, r e ATIONS , GENERATIVE INCA -6 9; r let I,,tgd t o ~,c../311MENTS TO MARRIAGE. 1 sh, tb, qtf ~...( )M th e -,;'," Pages. Just pulnished, priceer i'nth it, lottrz.v..;l\ll, Vtabltshment, 38. 6d. In postage stamps, tl :l l ,4&l:tae, tle o ae c t de aI END, a Medical Work on ktdN t on i °II 4 111 fect on ea3 r o f the generative system, from ca ll -ti t 1r • i ll arri tt , e • and the inordinate use of mercury, 1i,:1 , , t eet , ".114 o n asts ot , , and the means of obviating certain dis qiikbooliktoodeu., e Oll 7, j 7 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and 0tr., 4 04, e l Pebit s il f urgeons, 19, Berners-street, Ox yetlt, ‘ehb e ,„" ; Ila,, e 'l by the Authors : sold by Strange, IA '. ir e 'qe-str eet :Y l i 6 3, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; 4 41 4 0a1 4 43 or aYMarket ; and Gordon, 146, Leaden lb 44, 1 1 t illo, t be an s , lik t te, ~ s at, , rated b - " , :ny and physiology of the re-productive 0 1 04 Z 1 their the „ 3 ,;,:' i x Coloured Engravings. thNt a 3, arrie:n!ettences resulting from excessive in klll,Nl_ll. llostratv,eakitess"`stele effects on the system, producing i lo itZ"> 0) 4% of `a t cl by 7,1 2 ., arjeus excitement, and generative 4e t ale-atee.'. he .' ea' raplanatory Engravings. 11,4eit e 'set, „,eea r , ~,,ses resulting from infection, either iu N i ll e ,' bp' Thy i' ee T t rta_ . and contains explicit directions for kt O lkk's4t'tl v u la Illustrated by Seventeen Coloured „ DorLtio II I ! a I tern s k Ak v . ht pap . 3: w hie ry for the Prevention of Disease by a It libi 171.•111,, -" °I . th e ~the danger of infection is obviated. I, i, t tot ; e,4 c ez oted to ~or should not escape the reader's p7atibiCooZtlerttit'etaille.,ensideration of marriage, and its du kLtittilierw NZ! enrpti!‘ve union are also considered, and the v ': • tel'a ale Or st„"aoPhically inquired into. b,t ti llt o ,tro r -at Con se zeet,lactn is exclusively employed in b e) e, 'at, ~blirleyi„%ltrat,kiltY, Impotence &c lls and 335. 4111414401'eti..,,5,..14,01187aitti1e Clood'-'et.e_rsive Essence ' , an:anti:syphilitic ti,,' kttl , oe r ,..ttritt yt ts th e eb „ , -. eases of infection, secondary liTaie t el,,p eetn "t'a of mercury, I Is. and 335. per Oh ' tee ' 44 3 ^ tlete r- uedy e Pills. 2s • 9d., 4s. 6 and Ils. Life t atos l ate 4 atati q the f°r gollorrh 'lwtoo , te,; • 1. 1 - • Of ,bla c id e _ coa, gleet, stricture, and . ti -„ , 14,,, ,, 13.. . p ack Case , , Consultation fee, if by letter, - 4,,,0k e _ lo Jr eget% w hit ' reellired: age, habits, and posi 'A Caitt o 4 tAted? the f i p. adv ice, to be had at the istit- IN ti nos n — . 1 ., 18 saved. Messre. rerry, t g ~ IN A ,„, z at 19, Berners-street, Oxford . 49. ..4 470 Wad Five toEiglat ;on San- N°. 18,078.] =-~ ; L / / - ,:'fi t / 1 ; i 4 , ....„ ^ - ••=, 4 .1 ' ', ...,..,,:--- ---... ~ e q., -. ,- ,-...- ~ • . ft,-. , ~.". ~. + ti."7,,--.40,t.i'i,, /-,.--• \.. i~ ~- ~. -~' . ~/ [PRICE SD. r ~',i" C'~ -. - 5.... '6 k 'F:4 .6 , t 1..1• . ' Aii.e'it 41 4=ft , _............._ 5 A 4. /.. Me ad '`g,.: ,_ f 5.4 4. 4 , -- ),,4..„-"t'., ,, ,, ' 7- ---- -,,\ „--:-_.-z-.,iJ''',l>..i.c--"-'-"vr)i,:) , !fr Get ,s , .., - , r g v, , j ,,,..... -___ , 4- 4-11,. - , - vlwr4 i • ___ l, -,.._ , ,,,! .._-_ , -i-,--;:, - ,... C - - 7-41" -1., •••%.tX:N,,. Y t ". ' r, ,":-. 1 , 1 A.,,, , ,1' . ,a,'; , - , - ~ r's'o"' ) •-'44:'* ,-„, ,, ,12- O-:,•" -- - ~v- - -, <O, /2 ' - '4 . 1 :-.4- ,;-- 1` ,-;;; • rte`' ... , t lie ow - O'e Is " 1 : V ..i424E (6 ; :, --mriet.,... , _--,--,,,,* —a , ~ .t 0 /1:,.._ : 2- h , f i k. rfi,'P. / =7 , ,,, r , • , i,i , ' .---_, `" _ , ____LL ..„. • ..,:::71 7 ("' -, ....,,A.5„...._------•..., _et./ LONDON, MONDAY T S TY N I SEPTEMBER 2, 1850. i it AVE SEND STA It PACKETS r'ort , abin and Second C 1 9 Railway NINEPENCE to or from London and Gravesend. lod First Class ditto, ONE SHILLING. To or from Blackwall. 1 ore Cabin .• • • Ed. Chief Cabin.. • . 9d. Intermediate Piers • • 6d. No , ther Packets cs ;'he Packets call ru F'lt() ill at tine Grays, Gr t the Piers as under] 17E: TM AC E PEE •eenhthe, and Purdeet Piers. line.l (weather permitting). ie,.;417, le vine. - 11'4 - 4 - 5 - 61, Grays hlthe. rime .CTNDAYS Itoshr vine. i - 1 _I , Grays Pa: hithe. Ile( Direct Trains from the Boats marked t Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station to all parts of London every quarter of an hour. FROM BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of the Trains from the Fenchurch-street Station. WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. Time. . Time Par- Green- , Roshr- Pur- Green- (21 ,.,. Roshr- K. X. fleet hithe. " r ". 7 ' II fleet hithe. vale. . X 10%- r 11 10 12 I 10% 114 11 3 1 4 - —3% •5u v 5 614 614 - - - - 7 1 ,4 7 1 A Passages marked * are run direct, the Packets not being per t:Med to step at Piers or for Boats. Passages marked * are tatted to step at Piers or fi BOAT TICKETS.—TweI Chree Months, 11. 155.; to iaellets; or Mr. Monk, Ter August, 1850. [ye Months, 41. be had of the race Pier, Gra' 4s. ; Six Months, 2 Collectors on boa 7esend. I. 155.; rd the /MESTER and HOLYHEAD RAILWAY COMPANY. At the THIRTEENTH HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, held at the Euston Station. London, on Friday, the 30th August, 1850, In the Chair, Captain C. R. MOORSOM, R.N., Chairman of the Directors. It was resolved 1. That the Report of the Directors be received and adopted. 2. That the declaration which has boen made by the Directors ofthe forfeiture of 65 original 50/. shares be confirmed, and the same is hereby confirmed by this Meeting--the Numbers of the said Shares being as follows:-5,437 to 5,446-5,807 to 5,816-5,887 to 5,891-6,205 to 6,209--6,245 to 6,249-12,842 to 12,856-14,9 6 6 to 14,970-16,977 to 16,986—and that the Directors be authorised to dispose of the Shares so tbrfeited in such manner as they shall deem fit. 3. That the Directors be, and they are 113reby authorised to con tract with any parties willing to construct any Siding or Branch from any part of the Railway, and to allow them the benefit of Traffic brought to or from such Siding over the Railway. 4. That the Directors be authorised to become insurers of their own VeFsels, instead of insuring as heretofore. 5. That Sir. William Jackson, M.P., lion. Arthur Kinnaird, Mr. J. Lambert, Mr. Samuel Morton Peto, M.P., Hon. W. 0. Stanley, M.P., and Alderman William Thompson, ALP, be, and they are hereby elected Directors of this Company. 6, That Sir. Philip Hanbury and Sir. J. L. Provost be, and they are hereby elected Auditors of this Company. 7. That the remuneration of the Directors and Auditors be con tinued on the present scale. 8. That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Chairman and the Directors for their services, and also to Mr. Robert Stephenson. EDWARD BROOKS, Secretary. Euston Station, August 31, 1850. DISPUTED LIFE POLICIES. " A trial of considerable interest to Life Assurance Offices and the public was concluded yesterday in the Court of Exchequer. The Eagle Company held a policy for an assurance of 5391. In the Albion Company as security for an advance, the payment of which policy was now disputed by the Albion, on the ground that at the time it was effect,d the fact of the assured party having been a man of in temperate habits was concealed from the office. The chief evidence turne I (mon the question as to the degree of intemperance that had been exhibited, and the resu't was, that a verdict was giv , n against the resisting office, not only for the amount of the policy, but also for 401. interest faun the date when it became due. The circumstance of the action being hrought by one office against another presents a r- striking illustration of the uncertainty which may attach to all po d lieles tin !er the present system, and shows that the only mole by ch absolute security can he obtained by the public must lie in the general adoption by Assurance Offices of the plan of prote,ting them selves in every case by due inquiries before the granting f each po licy, and of afterwards assuming the full responsibility of the com pleteness of such inquiries by bolding themselves precluded from raising any future question. In the present ca:c two offices are found to he diametrically opposed in their opinions as tc what can properly invalidate a claim, and yet the public are expected to be able to <mare themselves against such contingences. Similar cases have occurred before, and even if they were more rare, they would seriously injure the progress of life assurance. The very principle upon which the business is founded is the removal of uncertainty, and whenever that principle is counteracted in the slightest degree, the people who would be the first to resort to its advantages are the first to be deterred."—Times, July I I, 1850. T HE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY No. 72, LOMBARD-STREET, LONDON. TRUSTEES. f. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C. James Fuller Madox, Esq. William Wilberforce, Esq. DIRECTORS. Robert Henry Forman, Esq. John Hamilton, Esq. James Fuller Madox, Esq. John Matthews, Esq. C. Octavius Parnell, Esq. AUDITORS. Jal.nes Turner, Esq. David Henry Stone, Esq. William Adams, Esq. John Atkins, Esq. Henry Augustus Bevan, Esq. J. Thompson Bramwell, Esq. Jshn Danger&ld, Esq. George Cumming, Esq. William D. Starling, Esq. SECIIETARY—David Alison, Esq. BANzEits—Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Co. PADDINGTON LOCAL BOARD. 24, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware -road. Rev. 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The latest dates brought by the Avon are:—Chagres, July 30; Carthagena, Aug. 2; Jamaica, 7; Demerara, 5; Trinidad, 7; Barbadoes,Grenada, 9; 10; Porto Rico, 11; St. Thomas, 14; La Guayra, 6; Antigua, 11; Jacrnel, 9; Santa Martha, July 21; Grey Town, 26. The Avon brings on freight 1,420.171 dolls. on mer chants' account; 950 dolls. platina; 7,775 dolls. pearls; 2 cases of cigars; 10 turtles; 200 bales of sarsaparilla; 9 boxes of indigo; 2 cases of tortoiseshell: 5 cases of succades. From California-3 grizzly bears of very rare species, from the Sierra Novada mountains. STATIONS of HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS.—ArrivA at Grey Town, July 25, her Majesty's brig Persian, Capt. Bullman; Jamaica, August 7, her Majesty's ship Imaum ; Antigua, August 11, her Majesty's ship Alarm, during hurricane months. STATIONS OF THE COMPANY'S STEAM SHIPS.—The Great Western, Captain Wolff, Gulf of Mexico; the Tay, Captain Chapman, left St. Thomas for Jamaica on the 13 . h August; the Avon, Captain Vincent, met the Severn, of Porto Rico, en route to Jamaica, on the 11th August; the Clyde, Captain Moss, at St. Thomas, on the 14th August; the Conway, Captain Woolley, on the Demerara route; the Eagle, Captain Restarrick, at St. Thomas, on patent slip; the Dement, Captain Onslow, at St. Thomas. wharf for safe keeping. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Public feeling was aroused to the injurious tendency the new route by the Royal Mail Company's steamers will have on the commercial interest of the colony, by the loss of trade between the Spanish Main and Jamaica. Addresses have been got up to the American and Spanish Consuls, the former for securing the communication b,rween Santa Martha, Bcc. (hitherto carried on by the Royal Mail Company's steamers), by means of Ameri can steamer ; the latter to malos up the loss of comma nication b7tween Jsmaice, and St. Jags de Cuba, by moans of a Spanish vessel. A memorial has als.) been seat to the owners of the American .vesseli, urging their compliance, and promising to reciprocate the advantages by every means possible. Should the Americans con sent to supply vessels in the place of the Brirish vessels, nearly every pa3senger from Jamaica, it is expected, will take iris passage for Europe by way of New York. Emigration from Jamaica to Chagres still continued, but sc4reely a Vessel arrived from there without some of the adventurers returning, as p , )or in pocket and worse off in health than vilen they left. inize and observe their religious institutions? All they asked was toleration; all they complained of was perse cution. What did the Protestants of Germany, or the augenots of France, ask of their Catholic superiors? roleration. What do the persecuted Catholics of Ire• land ask of their oppressors? Toleration. " Do not all men in this country enjoy every religious right which martyrs and saints ever asked? Whence then the voice of complaint? Who is it that, in the full enjoyment of every principle which human laws can secure, wishes to arrest a poi ti ei of these principles from his neighbour? D the petitioners allege that they cannot conscientiously partcipre is pro:i s of the twill contracts and post-offi es brceuso the mail is carried on Sunday? If this be their motive, then it is worldly gain which stimulates to action, and not virtue or religion. Du they cemplein that men, less con•cien tious in relation to the Se both, obtain advantages over them by receiving their letters and attending to their contents? still their motive it worldly and selfish.- But if their motive be to induce Congress to sanction by law their religious opinions and observances, then their efforts ought to be resisted, as in their tendency fate' both to religious and political freedom. Why have the petitioners confined their prayer to the mails ? Why have they not requested that the Government be required to suspend all its executive functions on that day? Why 'do they not require us to enact that our ships shall not sail ; that our armies shall not march; that officers of justice shall not seize the sus pected, or guard the convicted? They seem to forget that government is as necessary on Sunday as on any other day of the week. The spirit of evil does not rest on that day. It is the Government, ever active in its functions, which enables us all—even the petitioners —to worship in our churches in peace. - Our Government furnishes very few blessings like our mails. They bear from the centre of our Republic to its distant extremes the Acts of our legislative bodies, the decisions of the judiciary, and the orders of the Executive. Their speed is often essential to the defence of the country, the suppression of crime, and the dearest interests of the people. Were they suppressed one day of the week, their absence must be often sup plied by public expresses; and, besides, while the mail bags might rest, the mail coaches would pursue their journey with the passengers. The mail bears, from one extreme of the Union to the other, letters of relatives and friends, preserving a communion of heart between those far separated, and increasing the most pure and refined pleasures of our existence; also the letters of commercial men convey the state of the markets, prevent ruinous speculations, and promote general as well as in dividual interest; they bear innumerable religious letters, newspapers, magazines, and tracts, which reach almost every house throughout this wide Republic. Is the convey ance of these a violation of the Sabbath? The advance of the human race in intelligence, in virtue, and religion itself, depends in part upon the speed with which a knowledge of the past is disseminated. Without an interchange between one country and another, and between different sections of the same country, every improvement in moral or political science and the arts of life, would be confined to the neighbourhood where it originated. The more rapid and the more frequent this interchange, the more rapid will be the march of intellect, and the pro gress of improvement, The mail is the chief means by which intellectual light irradiates to the extremes of the Republic. Stop it one day in seven, and you retard one seventh the advancement of our county. So far from stopping the mail on Sunday, the Committee would re commend the use of all reasonable means to give it a greater expedition and a greater ext-nsion. What would be the elevation of our country, if every new con ception could be made to strike every mind in the Union at the same time? It is not the distance of a province or state from the seat of Government which endangers its separation, but it is the difficulty and unfrequency of intercourse between them. Our mails reach Missouri and Arkansas, in less time than they reached Kentucky and Ohio in the infancy of their settlements; and now, when there are three millions of people extending a thousand miles west of the Allegany, we hear less of discontent than when there were a few thousands scattered along their western base. " To stop the mails one day in seven would be to thrust the whole western country, and other distant parts of this Republic, one day's journey from the seat of Government. But were it expedient to put an end to the transmission of letters and newspapers on Sun- day, because it violates the law of God, have not the petitioners begun wrong in their efforts? If the arm of Government be necessary to compel men to respect and obey the laws of God, do not the State Governments possess infinitely more power in this respect? Let the petitioners turn to them, and see if they can induce the passage of laws to respect the observance of the Sab bath within the respective States, for, if it be sinful for the mail to carry letters on Sunday, it must be equally sinful for individuals to write, carry, receive, or read them. It would seem to require that these Acts should be made penal to complete the sys tem. Travelling on business or recreation, except to and from church, all printirg, carrying, receiving, and reading of newspapers,—all conversations and social intercourse, except upon religious subjects, must neces sarily be punished to suppress the evil. Would it not also follow, as an inevitable consequence, that every man, woman, and child should be compelled to attend church or meeting-house? And, as only one sect, in the opinion of some, can be deemed orthodox, must it not be determined by law which that sect is; and com pel all other sects and persons ti hear those teechers and contribute to their support? If minor punishments would not restrain the Jew, or the Sabbatarian, or the Infidel, who believes Saturday to be the Sabbath, or disbelieves the whole, would not the same system require that we should resort to imprisonment, bauishmunt, the rack, and the faggot, to force men to violate their own conscience, or compel them to listen to doctrines which they abhor? When the State Go vernments shall have yielded to these measures, it will be time enough for Congress to declare that the rattling of the mail coaches shall no longer break the silence of this despotism. It is the duty of this Government to afford to all—to Jew or Gentile, Pagan or Christian-- the protection and the advantages of our benignant in stitutions on Sunday, as well as on every day of the week. Although this Government will not convert itself into an ecclesiastical tribunal, it will practis: upon the maxim laid down by the founder of Christianity —that it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day. If the Almighty has set apart the first day of the week as a time which man is bound to keep holy, and devote exclusively to his worship, would it not be more congenial to the precepts of Christians to appeal exclu sively to the great Lawgiver of the Universe to aid them in making men better—in correcting their practices by purifying their hearts? Government will protect them in their efforts. When they shall have so instructed the public mind, and awakened the consciences of individuals as to make them believe that it is a violation of God's law to carry the mail, open post-offices, or receive letters, on Sunday, the evil of which they complain will cease of itself, without any exertion of the strong arm of civil power. When man undertakes to be God's avenger, he becomes a demon. Driven by the frenzy of a religious zeal, he loses every gentle feeling, forgets the most sacred precepts of his creed, and becomes ferocious and unrelenting. " The petitioners have not requested Congress to sup press Sunday mails upon the ground of political expe diency, but because they violate the sanctity of the first day of the week. " This being the fact, and the petitioners having in dignantly disclaimed even the wish to unite politics and religion, may not the Committee reasonably cherish the hope that they will feel reconciled to its decision in the case; especially as it is also a fact that the counter memorials, equally respectable, oppose the interference of Congress, upon the ground that it would be legis lating upon a religious subject, and therefore unconstitu tional!" " Resolved,—That the Committee be discharged from the further consideration of the subject." " To the Honourable the Senate and House of Repre sentatives, in Congress assembled. The Subscribers, inhabitants of the County of Salem, in the State of New Jersey, respectfully represent-- " That your memorialists belong to various religions denominations of Christians, and some of them are con scientious in the belief that the seventh day of the week, commonly called Saturday, is the true Sabbath; that they have learned with regret that attempts are simultaneously making, in different sections of the country, to get up petitions and memorials to Congress to pass a law fur stopping the United States Mail on Sunday. Whil e y our memor i a li sts acknowledge, with the most devout reverence, that the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof,' and do most solemnly disclaim all idea of robbing Jehovah of th e wors hip which i s his due,' as Christian s an d R e p u bli cans t h ey are constrained to remonstrate against the passage of such a law, which they believe would be pregnant with serious evils to our country. We are of opinion that the report of the Committee of the United States Senate of the last year on this subject is conclusive, and that the first Article of Amendments to the Constitution, which declares that Congress shall make no law respecting an establish ment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or of abridging the freedom of speech or of the press,' has virtually p ro hibi te d C ongress from legislating on this subject. In the opinion of your memorialists, errors of opinion, whether of religion or politics, may be safely tolerated in our country, and no surveillance is required to control them other than that of reason, a free press ' and the free cour s e o f th e G ospel. ' From the judi• cious arrangement of the Post -office department, there is no reason to dread any disturbance of religious societies in their devout wors hip on th a t d ay; and the passage of such a law would, in the opinion of your memorialists, by occasioning numerous expresses and other modes of conveyance, defeat the ostensible object of the law itself. Such a measure would ha the result of a zeal not according to knowledge,' and is not warranted by the benevolent spirit of our holy religion, which is gentle,' and not coercive which is without partiality, and without hypocrisy ' — wh ich inculcates an active benevolence which discovers to us a D e ity w h o delights cot in sacrifices end vain oblations,' but in the offering of a humble and contrite heart, and whose good ness is over all his works. The proposed measu re would tend to circumscribe and restrict the benefits of a free press, which is the palladium of our libertie s , and to check or retard the diffusion of knowledge, which in the order of Providence is the surest means of spreading ' the Gospel, and would obscure or render less refulgent the light of Bethlehem Star.' Works of mercy, and of private and public necessity, are always excluded from the general prohibition, The Divine Author of our re ligion has shown us, by his own example, that it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day. The proposed measure would less-2n the good man's opportunities of doing good. Many religious tracts, tp“t, , hlcts, and newspapers, • de voted to the interest of Zion, and the pro::.perity of the it?:leemer's king low,' are transmitted by mail; and .vhy may not carriers,' cTuily illiterate become the heralds of ~, :v;:tiou? Why at tttnpt to rearriet or limit the Almaighty in the math uis his grace? 'Po stop the mail w,uld, in 0.13 opinion ~f yourrnemorialists, he repugnant to a wise maxire,.ah:ch applies to morals ',Ed religion, as well a,: to ec!momies,— ' not to put of till to-na-rrow that which can be doe° to-day,' and would resemble the c ,nduct of the slothful servant, who hid his talent in a napkin. '• It is apt invaluable privilege, fur which as Christian's Ind Republicans we cannot be too thankful, that the Constitution of the United States guar.ue . es to ev.ry one-the rights of conscience and religion; and, iu the opinion of your memorialists, the prep ised measure would operate as a violation of these rights—would be made a precedent for others of the same kind, and more alarming—would pare the way to a union of Church and State,' against which our horrors are cxe:ted by the awful admonitions of history —which would be the death blow to our civil and religious liberties, purchased with the virtue and valour, and sealed with the blood of our fathers, and end in the worst of all tyranny—' an ec clesiastical hierarchy.'" OST OFFICESUNDA Y DELIVERY (From the Weeny Dispatch.) Now that the post is restored to its former activity and use, our friends the Sabbatarians are kind enough to tell us what they will do, if they can, to mar th e pu bli c convenience. Like th e Protectionists, they ere tar to proud and far too angry at being proved to be- in the wrong, as well as at being defeated, to give up the show of a struggle. Therefore one Sir W. Farquhar ' and the Hon. A. Kinnaird, Mr. Masterman, the useless M.P. for London, and a certain J. D. Fowles, put forth an adver tisement, to tell their friends and admirers that they do not mean to be beaten. We have not room enough in our columns to allow a detailed answer, fitted to the space they pay for in the imes; we shall therefore only touch their arguments. They profess to think the ca,e of the postmen who work on Sunday a hard one, because they are compelled by the " fear of losing their employment," Why, the men accepted, sought, coveted the employment, well knowing that condition. Yes, as much so as the servants of Farquhar, Kinnaird, Masterman, Powles, and Co., know that they must wait upon their masters on the Sunday for their wages, or be desired to take themselves off. As to " violating a Divine command," and the disregard of the "Lord's-day" (they dare not now say "Sabbath") in a Christian country," it has been shown clearly enough that the " Lord's-day," as a Sabbatical rest, does not ex ist in Christian ordinance?, and that the " Divine com mand," taking it at their own value, is no more in effective operation than the obligation of circumcision. The Sabbatarian Chairman and Vices Chairman then quote Mr. Loyd Jones, now Lord Orerstone, to say that " they regard the importance to the community of a total cessation from ordinary pursuits on each Sunday as so inestimable, that they would mak e c ons id era bl e sa crifices," &c., , &c., to gain it. Well, let them! Wh o hinders th em ? ut what right have they to exact sa crifices from others, who do not think as they do? If the consciences of the postmen are in danger, let them make sacrifices. It they think it wrong to work, they are wrong in working. There are plenty who do not. As it has been put before, the Jews do not work on their Sabbath, the Saturday, or on their high fasts and festivals, though all the competing community is working around them. And they do not let their servants work either. Then the Sala ' batarians urge the example of London, neither sending nor receiving letters on the Sunday. Yes, that conces sion has been made; but if the chain is drawn an atom tighter, that concession may be revoked. There have not been wanting msny, during the late agitation, who have argued for a London post on Sundays. The ques tion was declined, but it may be resumed. Besides, London stands on one side and the provinces stand on the other. One day is now lost to all who communicate between the two—the Saturday for sending, and the Monday for receiving in the country, and the whole of Sunday in London. Strike out the Sunday from the country collection and delivery, and two days are taken from the weds. London cannot receive on Mon day, and cannot send on Saturday. London will lose another day. Why did not the Sabbatarian Commit tee meet their antagonists before a London audienck ? When their official, or officious deputies did so, what chance had they ? Fcr a day of rest, the largest com munity, the metrop ,lis, has the choice ; ft takes the Sunday. And it has other means of communication ekes n i t ( i ) i o a t e h c e e s r s o o r o i m e Li m n e i tclF; ca o l s s a e i s d s e v ia r l t i h n ra as l c s e o t i h n e t n s i e o i s r. t No doubt, a Sunday post would be a gre-at convenience in London; it is a matter well worthy of reflection. Then comes the trash about the 700,000 signatures to the Sabbatarian petitions. Hew many of those were bullied from the signers, by the parsoury and old woman hood? How many were wholly deceived as to the effect of the petitions? How many of the petitioners imme diately regretted their own aet? We then are intro duced to the future plan of campaign. It has been promised, that where " the prevalent feeling of the district" is against a Sunday delivery, it shall be aban doned. The circumcised Sabbatarians reckon upon this. It is a fine engine of oppression. If they can only, by their " parson power" coerce the inhabitants of dis tricts into giving up their post, they will do some thing in detail, and something, they say, to wards the general cause ; there will bs less to remove by a general effort. Now we call especially on our friends in remote places to watch this tyranny, and give us note of the tyrants and their doings. We cannot see what right any local majority has to deprive a single individual of a convenience, for the use of which he is taxed, which the Government is, in fast, bound to afford him. But we pray of our correspondents to keep us well informed. The Pharisees think they can do all this mischief at other people's expense. We must teach them that it shall cost them something. They shall fight on fair ground. There is not one old bigotted un repealed enactment that they shall not taste the plea sures of to let them feel what Sabbaterianism is. There is not a deed of their own but shall be subjected to the teat they dare to set up in oppression against others. We will give all publicity to them and their Sunday doings. And then, of course, they will try once more to surprise the House of Commons. We intreat of our Liberal friends in the House to prevent that. The orders must so be reformed as to give room for a second division at least, on bringing up the specific address to be agreed to. And lastly, throughout the country, let the people remember that the attack is, in Lord Overstone's words (who, by the way, would never have been a lord if his gains had been at the mercy t f every meddler who might feel it conscientious to interfere with them), that it is " a total cessation from ordinary pursuits" that is aimed at. We are to be chained like galley slaves to the exercises of a Scotch Sunday. It will not.do to be hypocritical or compliant. We must stand up manfully against superstition, ignorance, and pre tence. We must treat Farquhar, Masterman, and Co., as the inquisitors they long to be. The Sunday is surely ours as much as theirs. Let them put themselves out of the world for the day, so much the pleasanter for those who are left in it. But there are many who cannot; who need enjoyment as well as rest, because the week gives them neither. It is cne thing to worship the Divinity that speaks in every man's heart, and another to " fall down and worship the golden image which Nebuchadnezzar the King, ' or Masterman the I banker, " has set up." THE POST-OFFICE PET. (From Punch.) The Marquis of Clanricarde is one of the beat-natured of men. To be sure, it is difficult to withstand the in strumentality of a bishop; and the more especially, so oleaginous a pastor as the Bishop of Oxford. Great, in deed, is his secretion of the oil of gladness; an oil with which he has softened the already soft heart of the Postmaster-General. One Z. W. Davis, illuminating 25, Princes-street, Mile End, writes thus joyfully to the re joicing Morning Herald:— . Sir,—You will be glad to hear, that through the kind instrumentality of the Lord Bishop of Oxford, R. G. Howlett, the letter-carrier who was dismissed from the General Post-office in November last, for distributing hand-bills against Sunday labour therein, has been re appointed to a situation in that branch of the public ser• vice ky the Postmaster-General, the Marquis of Clan ricarde." Very kind, very forgiving, this, of the Marquis; the more so, inasmuch as the discontent and conspiracy of the tribe of Howletts were mainly instrumental to the manufacture of the petitions with which Lord Ashley, armed in the innocence of sheep parchment, attacked the Sabbath-breakers in the House of Commons. It is no torious, that the treasonous practices of the country Post-office servants were of fatal influence against the idleness and indifference of the mass of the people; idle and indifferent, because the Sunday closing of the country post was considered no other than an unmean ing rant of a party, who " think they're pious when they're only bilious." Every ten years, at most, some phosphoric prophet foretells the end of the world, giving the day and the hour; nevertheless, folks do not go i n t o sackcloth, and power their heads with ashes: and tradesmen are no whit less indifferent to the tender of a bad shilling. And thus it was with the bray of the Sabbatarians. The world received it as only an evi dence of length of ears, taking no heed of its menaced heels. And the Derby -day came, and—in the House of Commons—the bray became a note of triumph. But all is to be forgiven and forgotten. The hundreds of people who have suffered the piety of Lord Ashley; the sick, with the survivors of the dead; the anxious and the harassed, all pardon his Lordship the tyranny of his saintly goodness; for which no doubt his Lordship, in the bigness o f hi s h eart, i s very proper l y pen i tent , an d abundantly grateful Ashley shall be forgiven, and Howlett restored. Nevertheless, the Marquis of Clanricarde, by his ,re appointment o f t h e treasonous Howlett, has taken a large trump card from the hands of the Sabbatarians. It was the misfortune of Punch to censure Howlett into the receipt of 501., indignantly laid down for him by some WEEs DA EXCURSION TO T=IE LAKES OF KILLARNEY. I j ONDON and NORTH-WESTER N RAILWAY. Tickets available for Three Weeks, enabling parties to visit Dub lin, Cork, and the Lakes of Killarney, with the privilege of stopping at points of interest on the Chester and Holyhead Line, are issued from the following Stations, where full particulars may be had :- Ist Class. 2d Class. ..£6 0 £5 0 .. 5 0 4 .. 4 4 310 .. 4 0 3 5 London to Killarney and back . Birmingham ditto ditto Manchester ditto ditto . Chester ditto ditto . By order, MARK HUISII General Manager's Office, Euston Station, August 9, 1850. In a few days will be published, THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, Nos. 186 and 187, price Six Shillings each being the INDEX to Vols. 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During the short recess the above Rooms have been entirely and newly de corated by the most talented and ingenious artists of the day ; and such a galaxy of splendour and taste has been displayed (under the sole direction of G. F. Dryer), that this fay, urite and popular resort of f Ashton may be truly styled the most superb and elegant Temple of Terpsichore in the United Kingdom. Terms of Subscription:--Six mouths, 5/. 55.; one month, 1/.15.; one evening, Is. Doors open at Half-past Fight, Dancing to commence at Nine pre cisely. The Academy closes at Eleven. CREMORNE GARDENS, On the Banks of the Thames at Chelsea. Open Daily at Three o'clock. ONE SHILLING ADMISSION. Children, Half-price. Sundays at Half-past Four. No charge for admission except by Refreshment Card—Sixpence. Children under Six years of age free. Director, Mr. T. B. Simpson, Albion, Great Russell-street, Co vent garden. THIS BAY, September 2, immense Success of Deulin's new Fairy Ballet. " The Origin of Harlequin." New Groupings from the Antique. Danciag to Borim's Band of Fifty Instrumentalists. Madame Antonio will make her marvellous Ascent and l)escent on the Rope amid hurricanes of Chevalier Mortram's gorgeous Fireworks. Chattaway's celebrated Brass Band. In active preparation, a Grand Chinese Fete. On Saturday, for the future, the usual entertainments will be pre sented, instead of the Bal al Fresco, and the usual charge for admis sios restored, viz., Is. Ladies and gentlemen can here enjoy the health-promoting elegant exercise of the graceful bow, with the advantage of proper instruc tion, gratis ! Shooting three dozen arrows, Is. Matches for Dinner, Wine, and a Prize Bow are always open. Tickets, 10s. 6d. each, to be had of Mr. Tcetgen, Archery Manufactory, 164, Bishopsgate street. The Magic Cave—The Shooting Gallery—Burns's Cottage, with Groups of Figures illustrative of his Works—Summer and Winter in the Arctic Regions—The Maze—Statuary of the finest Classical description, &c., &c. Be it recollected, on Sundays, admission by Refreshment Ticket, Sixpence. Never were these delightful grounds in such high perfection as at the present moment. Visitors to London should not omit a stroll 'neath the shade of the lofty trees and amongst the variegated beds of flowers at Cremorne. Everything has been done to render this magnificent place of amusement worthy the most extensive patronage. The attention of the French in London is particularly requested to this metropolitan ducosse. The grand Bowling Saloon of this establishment is open free to the Public. N.B. The Mammoth Sycamore, the Largest Tree In the World, in the River Esplanade. A Table d'Hote on Sundays at Six o'clock—Half-a-Crown. Cremorrie can be reached by road or river for 3d. A. Boat leaves Battersea-bridge every Night after the Fireworks. DR. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS. To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho; 147, Fleet-street; Mann, 32, Cornhill ; or direct from the author , price One Shilling each ; by post, Is. 6d. ENJOYMENT OF LTFE. " Health,Recreation, and rational Use of Time." CoicrEtrrs:—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex cursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills, Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Country Trips and Raml4les —The Sea—London at Night—Evening., at home —Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air, test, Ease, Occupation, &c., &c. FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two Vols. Vol I. A VISIT TO THE LAKES; SKE H TCH:OF EDINBURGH, &c. Vol. . THE LAKES OF KILLARNE DUBLINY ; REMINISCENCES OF 111. , Ike. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. "That three seore years and ten our course may run." 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Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and Its conversion. eases, ate. By R. J. CIILVERIVELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. 0824). Twenty-rive years Medical and Forensic Referee in these matters. Re-ewiee till flue_ Evenings, seven till nine. 10 Argyll-plAce, Regent-street, ♦DVANTAGES The Lowest Rates of Premium on the Mutual System. The Whole of the Profits divided among the Assured every Fifth Year. _ The sum of 274,0001. was added to Policies at the last Division, which produced an average Bonus of 621. per cent. on the Pre miums paid. Amount of Assurance Fund 970,0001. Income 170,0001 per annum. Loans granted on such Policies as are purchasable by the Society. For particulars Apply to ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary, 6, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. jIIXOFORTE. FORD'S WELLINGTON FAMILY and COMMERCIAL lIOTEL, DALE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. This Hotel, situated in the immediate vicinity of the Exchange, Docks, and other places of public and commercial resort, is fitted up in first-rate style, and the accommodations for American, Foreign, as well as English strangers, will be found everything that is desirable, while the arrangements of the "Cuisine" are in the hands of a first-rate Cook. The Proprietor urther wishes to intimate that his Coffee and Commercial Booms, as well as Sitting and Bed Rooms, will be found second to none in the kingdom. N.B. The charges for servants are included in the Bill (except those who only stay a few hours), viz., Waiter, Porter, and Chambermaid, and it is respectfully intimated that all further payment is unne cessary. " The Drawing-room Quadrilles."—A brilliant Duet. Price 4s. "The S•sters."—Two Waltzes, with brilliant finale. Price 3s. "The Free Trade Polka," with beautiful Coloured Illustration. Dedicated to Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P. Price 2s. Cd. "This is just what a polka should be: light, airy, tripping, and full of life, with the time wall marked, and easy of execution. A man with the gout, or a lady with the toothache might dance to such music."—The People's and llowitt's Journal, June, 1850. " f he Free Trade Quadrilles." Pi ice 3s. The Free Trade Waltz," consisting of Waltz, Trio, and brilliant finale. Price 3s. Shepherd and Jones, 98, Newgate-street, London ; and to be had by order of all Musicsellers in the kingdom. JAMAICA. ------- The Avo❑ has brought us our correspondent's dispatch ___ from this island, dated Kingston, Aug. 7, 3 P. m. The commercial news of the island for the past fort night, is reviewed as follows by De Cordova's Mercan tile Intelligencer:— " The market, generally speaking, is heavy and un settled, both from large supplies and the disinclination of the trade to operate. £his condition of things is especially observable in the market for pickled 6)11 and butter. The quantity of mackerel on hand is greatly in excess of even the average demand, and it is expected that if arrivals are at all on a free scale, prices must fall to at - least 3s. to 4i. per barrel under the present low rates. The stock of herrings is not so large, but the de scription of fish now on hand is not by any means as good as that of previous shipments. The trade complain that the No. 1 herrings ' inspected' are unusually small, and in consequence unsaleable. " The free receipts of the June butter have, as we surmised in our last, depressed the market to a consi derable degree. The importations since have exceeded 1,500 firkins, and it is not at all probable that anything over 9d. per lb. will be for some time obtainable. " The flour market is buoyant, with a light supply. There is not enough at this moment in stock to meet one week's average demand. Prices are consequently looking up, and higher rates than have lately been cur rent, are likely to be got, if the receipts be moderate. " The produce market, so far as sugar is concerned, has decidedly improved. The anxiety to dispatch the Ist of August vessels caused considerable business to be done in sugar, and the supply in Kingston was greatly diminished in consequence. In addition to this cir curestance, the crop has been very nearly all taken off ; and as there is very little more to come to market, and as that little will be inadequate to meet the de mand for home consumption, there is every probability that prices will continue to improve. Rum is on the other hand most unusually dull, and it is difficult to effect any other than retail sales at our quotation. " The homeward- bound vessels reported elsewhere as having sailed from the outports are freighted with 3,001 hhds, 288 tierces, and 137 barrels of sugar, and 2,046 puncheons and 36 hhds. of rain, besides other miscella neous cargo. consisting of dyewoods, spars, succades, and other West India pr. 4;1 tree?' i The island was qu i te qu i et , an d exce p t i ng one or two parishe,, in which sickness prevailed among children, ' t i n consequence was of if may be said t o h e h ea l t h y. The weather unp th le e a i s n a t n e t ns i e n h a e l a l t t w h h e ich lowlanddis trcprevailed. In the • • Intertor, the mountain districts, it was more sgreeable. The assizes concluded its sitting in Kingston the day before the packet left. The calendar, although not larger than at previous courts, presented a most disgust ing amount of crime as far as the nature of the offences went. The most disgusting and unnatural crimes have been committed within th e wa ll s of the general peni tentiary by the prisoners. The last case tried on the 6th ult., and the previous day, excited universal interest. It was an indictment against Mr. James Taylor, member of Assembly for Port Royal. He was charged with the larceny of thirteen barrels of cement, which had been placed on his - ..% --- ii , 4 t 1r ;),4: , 1 --.-,, i'',Z'-.5:"',..7^11‘ 'N- SUNDAY MAILS IN THE UNITED STATES. The American people, especially those of New Eng land, are distinguished by their strict observance of the Sabbath-day; and the habits of the Puritan Fathers, who fled from religious persecution in this their native land, have continued to the present day to be exemplary in their new and adopted country. We may therefore, with great propriety, profit by their conduct on a similar, movement in the United States to that which is now going on in Great Britain, for the stoppage of the mails and of labour in the Post office on the Sabbath-day. In the years 1829 and 1830 numerous petitions from different. parts of the Union were presented to the Senate and the House of Representatives, praying for the repeal of the laws that permitted the mails to be transported and opened on Sundays. Those petitions, together with memorials from other inhabitants of various parts of the United States, remonstrating against such repeal, were submitted to the Committee on the Post .office, and the following report was presented to the House of Repre sentatives at Washington, in 1829: " Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, from the Committee on the Post-office and Post-roads, to whom bad been referred memorials from inhabitants of various parts of the United States, praying for a repeal of so much of the Post•office law as authorises the mail to be trans ported and opened on Sunday, and to whom had also been referred memorials from other inhabitants of various parts of the United States, remonstrating against such repeal, made the following report:— " That the memorialists regard the first day of the week as a day set apart by the Creator for religious ex ercises, and consider the transportation of the mail and the opening of the post-offices on that day the violation of a religious duty, and call for a suppression of the practice. Others, by counter-memorials, are known to entertain a different sentiment, believing that no one day of the week is holier than another. Others, holding the universality and immutability of the Jewish Decalogue, believe in the sanctity of the seventh day of the week as a day of religious devotion, and by their memorials now before the Committee they also request that it may be set apart for religious purposes. Each has hitherto been left to the exercise of his own opinion, and it has been regarded as the proper business of Government to protect all, and determine for none. But the attempt is now made to bring about a greater uniformity, at least in practice; and, as argument has failed, the Government has been called upon to interpose its authority to settle the controversy. " Congress acts under a constitution of delegated and limited powers. The Committee look in vain to that instrument for a delegation of power authorising this body to inquire and determine what part of time, or whether any, has been set apart by the Almighty for religious exercises. On the contrary, among the few prohibitions which it contains is ono that prohibits a religious test, and another which declares that Congress shall pass no law respecting an establishment of reli gion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. " The law, as it now exists, makes no distinction as to the days of the week, but it is imperative that the postmasters shall attend at all reasonable hours in every day to perform the duties of their offices; and the Post master-General has given his instructions to all post masters that, at post-offices where the mail arrives on Sunday, the office is to be kept open one hour or more after the arrival and assorting the mail; but, in case that would interfere with the hours of public worship, the office is to be kept open for one hour after the usual time of dissolving the meeting. This liberal construction of the law does not sati , fy the memorialists; but the Com mittee believe that there is no just ground of complaint, unless it be conceded that they have a controlling power over the consciences of others. If Congress shall, by the authority of law, sanction the measure recommended, it ould constitute a legislative decision (f a religious con troversy in which even Christians themselves are at issue. However suited such a decision may be to an Ecclesias tical Council, it is incompatible with a Republican Le gislature, which is purely for political and not religious purposes. "In our individual character we all entertain opinions, and pursue fi corresponding practice, upon the subject of religion. However diversified these may be, we all har monize as ciiiz- ns, while each is willing that the other shall enjoy the same liberty which he claims tor himself; but, in our representative character, our individual cha racter is lost. The individual acts for himself; the re presentative far his constituents. He is chosen to repre sent their political, and not their religious views; to guard the rights of man, not to restrict the rights of conscience, "From the earliest period of time religious teachers have attained great ascendancy over the minds of the people, and in every nation, ancient or modern, whether Pagan, Mohammetan, or Christian, have succeeded in the incorporation of their religious tenets with the political institutions of their country, The Persian idols, the Grecian oracles, the Roman auguries, and the modern priesthood of Europe, hare all, in their turn, been the subject of popular adulation, and the agents of political deception. If the measure recommended should be adopted, it would be difficult for human sagacity to fore see how rapid would be the succession, or how nu merous the train of measures which might follow, in volving the dearest rights of all—the rights of con science. The equality of rights secured by the consti tution may bid defiance to mere political tyrants ; but the robe of sanctity too often glitters to deceive. The constitution regards the conscience of the Jew as sacred as that of the Christian and gives no more authority to adopt a measure affe c ti ng the conscience of a sol i tary individual, than that of a whole community. That re presentative who would violate this principle would lose his delegated character, and forfeit the confidence of his constituents. " With these facts before Congress which involves en should be brought before th u e s constitutiou, and even by those ed itewa dearest who enjoy e s must ,ir be oi privileges i i a ei gt s se u se b j hn e cf c i e t teh o s et f deep regret that a of legisl a ti on s h a ll i n one po i nt bles , ings. "If a solemn act define the law of God , o wit r p h oint out to the citizens on e religious equal propriety, proceed t o d even to h re t velation, and enforce every eli oe every edruyty, part it of Divin e ivine fors s d a a y n d of the week ceremonies eek of the Ch urc h an d t h e sup " If Congress stag declar e th: fi o re t li w g o io rs u h s tp o . btlihgeaeti endowment wtnent holy, it power will not may e conxnvitneret vainthe Jew nor the Sabb a t ar i an . It alone will dissatisfy m both, t h port of the clergy. consequently convert neith er . sacrifices, but the Deity can he an a d ff ections of the heart. It mu s t a Hutn , a com t be recollected that, in the e a rli est settlement in this country, the spirit of persecution which drove the pil grims from their native home was broughtwiththem to their new habitations, and that some Christians were scourged, and others put to death, for no other e . than dissenting from the dogmas of their rul ers " We should all recollect that Catilin e , a professed patriot, was a traitor to Rome; Arnold, a professed Whig, was a traitor to America; and Judas, a professed disciple, was a traitor to his Divine Master. " With the exception of the United States, the whole human race, consisting, it is supposed, of eight h un d red millions of rational beings, is in religious bondage; and, in reviewing the scenes of persecution which hi story everywhere where presents, unless the Committee could believe ' that the cries of the burning victim, and the flames by which he is consumed, bear to heaven a grateful incense, the conclusion is inevitable that the line cannot be too strongly drawn between Church and State. " It was with a kiss that Judas betrayed his Divine Master; and wo should all be admonished—no matter what our faith may be—that the rights of con- science cannot be so successfully assailed as under the pretext of holiness. The Christian religion made its way into the world in opposition to all human Governments. Banishment, tortures, and death were inflicted in vain to stop its pro gress. But many of its professors, as soon as clothed with political power, lost the meek spirit which their creed inculcated, and began to inflict on other religion s , and on dissenting sects of their own religion, persecu tions more aggravated than those which their own apos tles had endured. The ten persecutions of Pagan Em... perors were exceeded in atrocity by the massacres and murders perpetrated by Christian hands; and in vain shall we examine the records of imperial tyranny for an engine of crue!ty equal to the Llo'y Inquisition. Every religious see', however meek in its origin, commenced the work of persecution as soon as it acquired political power. The framers of the constitution recognised the eternal principle that man's relation with his God is above human legislation, and his rights of conscience in alienable. Reasoning was not necessary to establish this truth; we are conscious of it in our own bosoms. It is this consciousness which, in defiance of human laws, has sustained so many martyrs in tortures and in flames. They felt that their duty to God was superior to human enactments, and that man could exercise no authority over their consciences. It is an inborn prin ciple which nothing can eradicate. " The bigot, in the pride of his authority, may lose sight of it ; but strip him of his power, prescribe a faith to him which his conscience rejects, threaten him in turn with the dungeon and the faggot, and the spirit which God has implanted in him rises up in rebellion and defies you. Did the primitive Christians ask that Government should recog- / 2 ~~. tr Iv ›"; 7 ;itEFIX '" l if-6 - 11 ' ,4 tVet ' ' `P .17f :- ; , ' j t P ; t' It 1.-'''-: :-;l7'l' well-meaning soul, shocked and °dined by the harmless rt` lenity that Punch—according to his wont—poured upon the head of the discharged postman. „Howlett, blistered by Punch's ink, was salved and comforted by a sanative bit of blank paper. But Punch required further and better treatment of Howlett; when lo! the merciful kind-hearted Marquis steps in—or is rather pulled into the rescue by a bishop--and Howlett, the martyr, is re stored to his original condition. Is there no abiding re ward in this world for the lowly champion of truth? We had hoped to see Howlett maintained in Sabbatarian clover, the pet example of Post-office piety. "For he on honey-dew has fed, And drank the milk of Paradise." This should bare been the amended condition of the victim ex -postman, had the Postmaster-General been less 3 ielding to a bishop. Howlett would have been the stall-fed martyr of Exeter Hall. And, uin Catholic countries, certain relics are on certain days exhibited to the populace, so, on certain gatherings, would our How lett, with a ruddier tint upon his cheek, a sleeker tex t, u r r e e s o c, e f te s d k i t n e , and the a electgro wcifegthdeiginktyll, as a of abdomen,lovely andba?n ft:wishing example of w( 11 -retarded piety. carefally taken in and abundantly dune for by Lard Ashley and his cinder-loving followers. Vauxhall has its Flo ver- Show ; why not Eketer Hall its Martyr-Show ? Been with Howlett restored to the Post-office, he is a (Lily, hourly example to his f flow-lahouter s of the itn puni y that may attend offi.:Et treason and revolt: but with Howlett, kept at Sabbatsrian expense—Howlett, grown sli.cli as a bishop's beaver—he would have been a two'old example of the prosperity of the conscientious lowly, and the generosity ( f the Sabbetarian rich. How lett,f,,t, and thriving, would have afforded a delightful gloss to the pious text of our Ashley preaching. Again, the Bishop of Oxford, in his all unworldly way, has missed a chance. Why did not he comfort and har bour Howlett ? Could he not have clothed him in. epis copal purple, and suspended him at the back of his coach, showing a stiff-necked generation what glory-was vouchsafed a Post-office martyr, whom a bishop de lighted to honour. This Oxford might have done; and this, with his characteristic meekness, he has foregone and missed. We must, therefore, be content to leave Howlett at the Post-office. We trust, however, that he will have an extra bit of gold lace to mark his worth and past suf fering. Poesibly the Marquis of Clanricarde has already provided for this, saying with Bassanio when he engages Lancele t Gobbo— ,, Give him a livery More guarded than his fellows' fee it dose." [Exit Howlett, into Post-office. T ." ./~ T- - -- e _ , HE ROYAL VISIT to SCO TLAND. EDINBURGH, An-a. 31.—My last detailed communica tion closed with the account of her Msjesty'a arrival at Holyrood on Thursday afternoon. The same evening, and before night had closed in, the Queen proceeded to tho suite of apartments occupied by the beautiful and uufortunate Mary Stuart. Her visit was a strictly pri vate one, so much so that the housekeeper who shows the rooms did not know who the illustrious personage was to whom site pointed out the curious relics placed beneath her care. To all who feel an interest in that fascinating page of history which records the life of Queen Mary, the announcement of this visit made by her descendant will be read with interest. The sceptre in both eases swayed by female hands, in both husbands not sharing with them the regal office—how great in every other respect is the contrast which the fortunes, and, it must be added, the character of Victoria, present to those of the ill-fated Mary! The apartments now occupied by the royal party are in the more modern part of the Palace, erected on the site of that which John Knox's fiery zeal burned down, and which was restored by Charles 11. Here Charles X. of France resided from 1830 to 1833. The levees of George IV. were held in the hall of state on the eastern side of the Palace. His Grace the Duke of Hamilton is here ditary keeper of Holyrood, but for a long period of time little has been done to keep this royal residence in good and tenantable repair. Everybody in Scotland had ceased to regard it as anything but a venerable and in teresting ruin, worthy a certain amount of care for the sake of old times, and in memorial of the days when the Court lived at the foot of the Canoegate. No one ever expected to see the Sovereign residing in that quadrangular and turreted old building again. Hence its occupation by her Majesty has greatly delighted the people of Edinburgh, and of Scotland generally. Yesterday morning the Queen and the Prince Consort were early astir, and ascended to the very summit of Arthur's Seat. They also visited at a later period of the day Donaldson's Hospital, but these were in the nature of private visits, and the only proceeding of a formal and public character which took place was the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the proposed National Gallery on the Mound. This ceremony was performed by his Royal Highness Prince Albert at one o'clock, and drew together an immense concourse of spectators ; but, befbre describing the scene, and giving the details of what took place, it is necessary to say some thing about the circumstances under which the new building is about to be erected, the objects to which it is to be dedicated, and the style of edifice which it is proposed to construct. At the Union of the two countries a grant of a certain sum annually was agreed to be set apart for the encouragement of manufactures and fisheries iu Scotland. The administration of this sum was vested in the hands of two boerds, one entitled " the Bt and of Trustees for Manufactures," &c„ the other " the Board of Briti,h White herring Fisheries." The former contains thirty, and the latter nineteen members, several . of them otherwise much engaged by public busiuess. The same secretary and clerics conduct the affairs of bosh boards, and the cflices are at the Royal Institution on the Mound, close to the Lew building of which hia Royal highness Prince Albert laid the foundation-stone yesterday. It appears that the annual amount paysble to these boards fell largely in art ear, end with 40 0001. of that arrear the institution was built. Now, it so happened, that when the grant of money at the Union eas egresd upon, the eecou kzeinsnt of art ssas unfit r stood to ba included along with that of manufactures, and thus it arose that when the Royal Scottish Sociity for Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture received its charter, it was placed to a certain extent under the wing of the board of trustees,who in their turn received se me two or three members of the society into their body. The an nual exhibition of the society, which much resembles that of the Royal Academy, took place at the Institution, and it is believed that the board of trustees have de rived considerable emolument therefrom. Certain it is, that the society has always ben outvoted by the trustees, that it is much dissatisfied with the treatment which it receives from them, and that it alleges, with the general assent of public opinion, that they are incompetent for the efficient discharge of their trust, which is thus thrown into the hands of a small clique and carried on in a jobbing spirit. The trustees in their turn say that they don't want to be bothered with the society's annual exhibition, that it compels them to displace their own pictures, which are thus exposed to serious damage, and is otherwise a great inconvenience. Which of the dis puting bodies is right remains to be decided by higher authority, but in the m' antimo out of these quarrels has sprung up a strong desire on the part of the Royal Society to have an academy specially provided for itself, leaving the Institution to be appropriated to other pur pose s. The society had saved some thousands of pound+, and Government were asked to obtain a grant of public money for the object . in view. They agreed to do so, and the amount of the vote which they carried, instead of being handed over to the board of trustees for expenditure, will, it is understood, be administered through the office of Woods and Forests by a committee of the board, consisting of his Grace the Duke of Buc clench, the Lord Provost, and several other very effi cient names. Such are the circumstances under which the now building is about to be erected. The objects to which it is to be dedicated are twofold, viz., first, the erection of a National Gallery, where great works of art, become public property, may be collected and exhibited ; secondly, the formation of a Royal Academy, where young artists may bo instructed in their profession, and the more ad vanced have an opportunity of annually displaying and compering their powers. Both are to be under the same roof, and to be parallel with each other along the extent of a structure running southward from the Insti tution towards the Free Church College, and standing separate from the former edifice, while harmonizing • with it in general character. There are to be two four columned lonic porticoes at either end, and a large transverse portico of six columns in the centre on either side, to break the otherwise monotonous effect of an extent of dead wall considerably longer than the insti tution, and plainly d ecorate d wit h p i lasters. The light is to be entirely from above, the rooms within to be shaped in octagons and squares, and the estimated cost of construction is 40,000/., of which the Government find 25,0001., and the Royal Scottish Society 15,0001. If the edifice when completed at all resembles a design of it pub,ished by the architect, it will:prove a very great ar chitectural acquisition to the city of Edinburgh. The ceremony yesterday was a very fine one. Prince Albert was loudly cheered as he passed in procession along Prince's -street, attended by an escort of cavalry. On alighting at the Institution, a royal salute was fired from the frowning battlements of the castle, and with grand effect. The halfmoon battery opened its fire, and - from that point battery after battery took up the salute in order, the flash of each report being visible several seconds before the sound was heard. and the smoke of the discharges as they took place being swept athwart the stern and warlike mass of the lofty old fortress till the mimic cannonade seemed to grow into a reality. On all sideQ, wherever the eye turned, countless multi• tudes of human beings were assembled. The whole space southward sloping upwards to the many storied houses of the old town was filled with a perfect sea of heads. On the flat roof of the Bank of Scotland, and on the graceful galleries of the Scott monument, and far up on the battlements of the Castle—in fact, every where whence a commanding view could be obtained, groups of spectators were clustered. The pensioners, under the command of Culonel Jones, kept the ground admirably, but had their patience been less conspicuous, or their bearing less firm; there was drawn up for the protection of the Queen's peace , that long - established and'headed by their va liant the high constables of the city , armed with elabo- Had this body fail e d i n i 's ill b a o g d in y e g , uard, who ns then the l r i a a t n e t ly s o id rn l a o m ys e l nrd m t o r d u e n r c a h t e n o r , might have been ca ll e d i nto requisi effect of a dis c harge R du o t y y a , l w s h eo ic t h tis i h t i A s re h h a e r r d a l , y h p e o r ssi l b i l a e je t s o ty of arrows upon a t w i o e n r e , a a n l s d o t p r i r e e d s e t n h t e , mob in the 19th century. Toe enclosed space had several stands erected wi.hin it; one at the northern extremity of- the new building connected with the institution by a canopiel passage, and set apart for the board of trustees and their friends. Through this, after the members of the board, and those of the Board of Fisheries, had keen presented to him, hiS' Royal Highness passed to the foundation-stone, retog-, t . nizing and shaking bands on his way with several of the distinguished personages assembled there. Among those were—the Duchess of Buccleuch, the Dowager Duchess of Roxburghe, the Duchess of Rozburghe and ..--•-•.• to 'lo t KI th e or the iota' able of ia of S G. r i ahors b r t WO' C , S I Ore IN" 10 do° 19 0 p fd • tell r_ i t* i. ioi