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C . ONTRACTS . for SEAMEN'S CLOTHING. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset-place, March 30, 1850. The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kin Nem of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give notice, that on THURSDAY, the 18th April next, at Ono o'clock, they .... will be ready to treat with such Persons as may lie willing to Con trisct for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores At Deptford, the undermentioned Articles, viz. : Blud Cloth, No. 1. 28,000 Yards Do. No. 2. . . Duck Flannel . . . . . White Cotton Drill „ . Blue Jean ' 10 OOO . Worsted Mits 2,000 Pairs Do. Caps . . • . 12,000 No. . 16,000 Blankets . • • Black Silk Handkerchiefs . . 16,900 Caps for Boats' Crews, . . • 500 Flushing Jackets . • • • 2 ' 5OO Hair for Beds 40,000 lbs. Bed Cases . . . . . 7,000 No. . • • 'lessen . • . ..... 13000 Yar ds Black Shalloon . . , • 8 • 000 (y . . Royal Canvass . . . . 3,500 ,• Padding Cloth . . . . 1,500 ~ White Calico . . • • • 20' 000 ~ ' ~ OOO '' Black Stay Tape • . . . 30 White Tape . 210 000 White Dutch Tape 30,000 Pieces Osnaburgh • , • • . ' : 850 Yards Black Linen . 500 ,• • • • ' Black Silk 2B 000 Skeins Black Silk Twist 28 OOO Yards Sheeting White Serge 2 OOO „ White Thread 2 OOO lbs. White Linen Thread . • • B5O ,* Whited-brown Threal . • • 1,500 ~ Black Thread Sewing Cotton • • • 120 „ . • . Horn Buttons, Small . . . 3,000 Gross. Iron-sha=le Buttons 1,500 „ White Cotton Buttons • • • • 1,000 „ Pearl Buttons , • • . 1,000 „ Silk Wove Buttons . • • • 800 „ Horn-shank Buttons . . • 950 „ Black Iron Buttons (4-hale) . • 900 „ White Metal Buttons (4-hole) . Imo Tenders will•not be received for a less quantity than 5,00(1 yards of Blue Cloth, 50,000 yards of Duck, and 15,000 yards of Flannel. s ample . of thcartieles, and the conditions of the Contracts may be sees at the said Oftloe, between the hours of Ten and Two only, No Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, and the party tendering, or an agent for him, duly authorised In writing, must attend' on Monday, the 22d April next, at One o'clock, to learn the result of his tender. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear In the left hand corner the words "Tender for and must also be d e li vere d at Somerset-place, accompanied by , a letter Signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound • with the person tendering, in the sum of 251. per cent. en the value, for the due performance bf the Contracts. EMPLOYMENT. —Ladies and G ent l emen may profitably occupy leisure time by acquiring the elegant ART of ORNAMENTING PAPIER MACIIE in Pearl, Gold, and Co lours, as practically imparted by the Advertiser, on an improyed aYatern, by which.2l. a week can be realized. Premium 10s. Gd. As the number must be limited, th se desirous of engagement should make early application to Mr. Wright, 20, Tavistock-street, Coyent garden, from Ten to Four. FISTULA INFIRMARY. President.the Right Hon. THOMAS FARNCOMB,Lord Mayor. Treasurer, JORN MASTER MAN, Esq., M.P. Notice is hereby given, that the ANNUAL MEETING of the Governors of this Charity will be holden at the London Tavern, Ri shopsgale.street. of WEnxEsDAY, 'April 10. The Chair will be taken at Three o'clock, to read, for confirmation, the Minutes of the Extraordinary Meeting of September kith last, to receive the Re ports of the Treasurer, Medical Officers. and Committee of Manage ment for the past year; to elect new Members of the Committee in Place of those who retire by seniority of service, and on other bu siness. The Committee have the pleasure to announce that the ANNI VERSARY FESTIVAL will be holden at the Albion Tavern, Alders gate-street, on Mom:ea, May 13, the Right lion. THOMAS FARN COMB, Lord Mayor, President of the Charity, in the Chair. J. J. VIVIAN, D.D., Chairman of the Committee of Management. London, Charter House-square, March 27. THE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY INCORPORATED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, upon the principle of Mutual Life Assurance, the whole Profits belonging to the Assured. No.. 72, LOMBARD-STREET, LONDON. TA USTEES. John Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. I Richard Spoonei, Esq., M.P. *!chard Manus, Esq., Q.C. James Fuller Madoz, Esq. William Wilberforce, Esq. DIRECTORS. William Adams, Esq., New Broad-street. John Atkins, Esq., White Hart .coart, Lombard-street. Henry Augustus Bevan, Esq., John-street, America-square. J. 'Thompson Bramwell, Esq.. Prospect-place, Kilburn. John Dangertield, Esq., Chancery-lane. Robert Henry Forman, Esq., Ordnance, Pall-real!. John Hamilton, Esq. ' Alfred-place, Thurloe-square. James Fuller Madox, Esq., Clement's-lane. John Matthews, Esq., Arthur-street West, City. C. Octavius Parnell, Esq., Ncrfolk-street, Park-lane. AUDITORS. George Cumming, Esq., Westbourne-grove. William D. Starling, Esq., Change -alley, City. James Turner, Esq., Parliament -street. David Henry Stone, Esq., Poultry. RankEas—Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods, and Co. SISCRETARY—Dayid Alison, Esq. PADDINGTON LOCAL BOARD. 24, Connaught-terrace, Edgevrare -road. The Rev s latnes Shergold Boone, A.M., Stanhope. street, llyde-park Captain Creed, Norfolk -crescent, Oxford-square. Charles Pemberton, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace. Hyde-park. George Y. Robson, Est, Eastbourne -terrace. Hyde•park. Secretary, Chas. , Esq. T he POLICIES i ssue d b y this Company being INDIsPUTAB Hoghton LE, are transferable and negotiable Securities. They may at any time be made available in money transactions, their validity not being depen dent, as in the case of ordinary Policies, upon the import of other documents. Used as Family Provisions, they relieve the As sured from all doubt and anxiety as to the result of Assurances thereby made certain. Owing to this important improvement in the practice of Life As surance, the progress of this Company has been rapid from the com mencement of its business, and is steadily increasing. Prospectuses, Reports, and every other information, talned at the Chi e f ° Mee, or any of the Agencies. may be ob _ ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager. THE LIVERPOOL AND L ONDON FIRE AL. AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. , WATER-STREET, LIVERPOOL, 2, CIIARLOTTE-ROW, 3 IANSION-HOUSE, and 25, REGENT STREET, WATERLOO -PLACE, LONDON. LIABILITY of the PROPRIETORS UNRESTRICTED. MODERATE PREMIUMS in the Fire Department. • PECULIAR ADVANTAGES In the Life Department. P° licies, insuring the value of Leasehold Property at the termina tion of the Lease, are also issued. Persons whose Policies with this Company expire on the 25th n stant, are respecrthlly reminded that receipts for the renewal of t he same will be found at the Head Offices in London and Liverpool,preferring and the in the handa the respective Agents ; and those who, security the by this Company, remove their insu incurred by such re ranee's. are informed that may desire t ne expense will be Ileral, BENJ. lIEINTDERSOIT, Resident Secretary, London. SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Company. ARCHITECTS', BUILDERS', and GENERAL FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, 69, Lonmard-streot, London. CHAIRMAN—SYDNEY SMIRKE, Esq., A.R.A. TRUSTEES. T. L. Donaldson, Esq. A. Sal Tin, Esq., F.S,A. I S. Grimsdcll, E sq. G. Smith, Esq., F.S.A. The rates for both Firo and Life Insurances are as low as can with sal ety be taken. Those for Life Insurance may be paid either yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly; one-half the annual pre 'Alum may be left unpaid for seven years, or one-third to the end of life. Thus large sums may be insured at the smallest present outlay. Prospectuses, Forme of Proposals, &c., may be had at the Office, et Lombard -street, or of the agents. JoirN . REDDISH, Manager. METROPOLITAN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. No. 3 Princes. , Bank. T he Directors hereby give notice to street Members whose Premiums fall dee on the bth of April next, that the same must be PAID within Thirty days from that date. The Premiums are paid Yearly, Half-yearly, or Quarterly, on the bth of J anuary, sth of April, sth of July, and sth of October, eith er ef which several days constitutes the commencement of the Sear to Members. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the So ciety as Members on the sth of April next, should appear or lodge their proposals at the °dice en or before that day. This Society, for Mutual and General Assurance, appropriates the Whole of its profits to the benefit of parties assuring their own lives for the whole term of life as Members of the Society. For the year ending the 6th of April, 1851, an abatement of 51 per cent. has been declared on the Premiums of all Members of Five Years' standing and upwards. RICHARD HEATHFIELD, Superintendeat, Princes-street, Bank, March 10, 13511. RLIFE POLICIES FREE or STAMP DITTY IN THE OYAL FARMERS' and GENERAL FIRE, LIFE. and HAIL INSURANCE and LOAN and ANNUITY INSTITUTION. Empowered by Special Aet of Parliament. Life Policies free of Stamp Duty. Claims paid promptly. Life Policies Indisputable. FIRE. —The Renewal Receipts for Policies due at Lady Day should be takenre up oz or b etore t h e 9th of April, 1850, or the Policy will expi. Prospectuses and every information may be obtained lithe Agents, or at the Head Office, Strand, London. WM. SHAW, Managing Director. T O EVERY FAMILY in the KINGDOM and the PUBLIC UNIVERSALLY. CLARK'S HARVEY'S SAUCE, Clark's Reading sauce, also essence of anchovies. mushroom ketchup, French caperl, cayenne Pepper, all at. 681, per bottle ; real India soy, 9d. per bottle ; finest Gergona anchovies, in bottles 18. each, Is. 4d. per lb., or 225. 6d, ler double barrel; anchovy paste, for breakfast. luncheons, &e., Is. per pot ; Yarnmeth bloater paste, for ditto, Bd. per pot ; superfine salad oil, Bd. per bottle; real Dantzle spruce, 10s. 6d. per keg, or Is. 3d. per quart bottle ; mustard, in lb. bottle squares, from 6d. to Is. 4i. each for the finest article, also in 91b, and 181 b. casks, from 4d. to Is. 3d. per lb for the beat; best London pickles, 7d. per bottle, or 61. per dozen, of various sorts ; malt vinegar, from Is. 4d. to 2s. 6d. per gallon for the beat; new lemons, from Zs. 6d. per 100; fresh lemon juice, k ilf-pints, 2s. 9d., pints 45. Gd., quarts Bs. per dozen ; also in Packages, from two gallons to 120 gallons, at Is. per gallon ; dried Peel, Is. 7d. per lb. ; St. Michael and other table oranges, 16s. per original chest, or from 2s. 6d. per 100 ; new Seville oranges, from Bs. 6d. per 100 or Is. 4d. per dozen; fresh Seville •range juice, 28. Per gallon; dried peel, 25..9d. p er lb .: b lack Pepper, ls. per lb. ; white pepper, Is. 4d. per lb. ; ginger from 6d. per lb.; coves, from Is. 4d. per lb. ; i s i nglass, from Si. Gd• per lb. ; m accaront, from 7d. Per lb. ; vermicelli, 101. per lb.; cayenne pepper, 2s. 2d. per lb. ; allspice, 9d. per lb. ; floe mixed spice. 21. 6d. per lb. Terms cash. All orders, by post Sr otherwise, delivered free three miles from the city. CLARK and CO., Italian, fruit, and spice merchants, and mustard Manufacturers, 40, Coleman-street, City. D R. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS, 147, Fleet• s t r Cornhill ; or direct fro the author ; To be ec t; had of Mann, 39, Sherwood, 23, Patcrnoster-rem w ; Carralho, price One Shilling each ; by post, is. 6 d. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. “Health, Recreation, and rational Use of Time.” - Cowl - awn :—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings-lex_ illusions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Dills, Foresta, Fields, Ifigh-roads, and other pleasant places_Ceuntr Trips and Rambles- , -The Sea—London at Night—Evenin gs at hom e — Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathi ng, Air, Beet, Base, Occupation, &c., Sze. __ - . FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAIN'S. Two Vols, A VISIT TO THE LAKES • SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, &c, • __.. Vol. IL TUE LAKES OF KILLARNEY ; REMINISCENCES OF • DUBLIN, &c. -- 111. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. " That three score years and ten our course may run." A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner vourly.dchilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses the yonng, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em bitters old age, with tables and rules for the diet and physical regu lation of every -day life. IV. THE PASSIONS. " What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." SUBJECT :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent Of the passions. Chastity and its Infringenunts. The casualties of lice ntiousness and dissipati on , w ith ill us t ra ti ons, graphic, narrative, and remedlative. Advocacy of early marriages. . _ THE MARRIAGE STATE. " To be or not to be, that is the question." ligion regardingre choice marriage, to be obs erve d b y e i ther sex. Time and , on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its -conversion. Cases, &c. By R. J. CIILVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. (0124). Twenty-I:lie years Medical and Forensic Referee in these euitteril• RecePtion hours daily till dye. Eyeninge, Seven till nine. 19 -44112/11114toi iteStaltitrest. ' G-•" . , • , - • 47 . 11 : I 4 111‘: : . of 4 . • *‘ /10 t , 4/ 11, • ' • lived ,1":*! .77 1 - e=•• . nts • \ \TV 11.7"..,' • " , t 0 0 • s , s"*. v y*, ,t 4 I 14 4. • 4" 14 4 'l. 111 4 N _ - [PRICE SD. - ^7l %~ . . _The - neighbourhood of a seaport town ,kthe heat the war, that he was taught to regard every ter as an enemy; but he trusted that he had , g enough to discover the fallacy of those and to feel, as a Christian, that bis duty men.; and as a statesman, one nation was the prosperity j was that the prosperity , of all.—(Cheers.) His Excellency the FRENCH AMBASSADOR then proposed " The Health of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor," which was drunk with great applause. The LORD M AYOR re t urne d thanks, and proposed "Lord Dudley Stuart and the House of Commons." Lord DUDLEY STUART shortly returned thanks. The LORD MAYOR then proposed the "Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the East India Company." Sir ARCHIBALD GALLOWAY returned thanks. The LORD MAYOR then proposed the "Bank of England, coupled with the health of the Deputy- Governor." Mr. Tnomso's HARKEY returned thanks. The Loan MAYOR then proposed " The Health of the Magistrates of the city of London." Sir PETER LAURIE returned thanks in the name of his brother aldermen ; and, after a graceful allusion to the splendid hospitality lately exercised by his Lordship towards the magistrates offthe other cities and boroughs in the kingdom, proposed " The Health of the Lady Mayoress and the Ladies," which wits drank with great enthusiasm. The LORD MAYOR returned thanks. The company soon after retired. LATEST FROM THE UNITED STATES. _ LITERPOOL, MONDAY.—The arrival of the steam ship, Canada, places us in possession of two vveeks• later intelligence from the leading cities and porta of the :New World than that brought over by the last steamer. The Canada left New York on the 20th ult., and after the usual call at Halifax, on the 22nd, passed Holyhead at three this afternoon, arriving here a short time since. In addition to the mails, the steamer has a large number of passengers on board. Mr. Calhoun was not expected to survive above a few hours. Upwards of 80 lives had been lost by the burning of a steamer on the Alabama river. The expedition in search of Sir John Franklin which has been started by private subscription will consist of two or three schooners suitable for the navigation of the Arctic seas, of from 70 to 90 tons burden. Lieutenant Derhaven, who was attached to the exploring expedition, had accepted the command of the enterprise, and would sail on the Ist of May. From California we have advices to the lat of Peb ruary. Wet weather had nearly put a stop to buil,- ness. The inundation of the Sacramento had sub • sided. At Sonoria Camps much gold had bee* found, one entire piece weighing upwards of 231bs. It was reported that a piece of nearly 851bs. had been picked up. Vessels continued to arrive at the rate of from six to twelve each day. Prices for every thing had ruled rather high in the fall. The Council at San Francisco had established a chain gang of criminals, for the purpose of employing them in public improvements. A slight earthquake had been ex perienced. Mechanical trades were on the increase. Many vessels were leaving daily. The population of San Francisco alone was esti mated at 50,000. The prices for meat and vegetables were very high, An effort was making to form Benechia into the chief port of the Pacific. All the accounts agreed that a fair yield has been derived from the mines. Pressure of money was great. We have dates from Kingston, Jamaica, to the Ist of March. A Protectionist meeting, convened by the mayor, failed in consequence of the scanty attendance. Her Majesty's ships Trincomalee, Iwaum, Sappho, and Vixen, were in Port Royal harbour. Dates from the city of Mexico to the 19th of Feb. The insurgents, under Fern an d ez , were reported to have captured Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas. Government bad marched a body of troops to oppose The Chamber of Deputies had passed the Bill to discount the indemnity due from the United States. The steam-ship Cherokee had arrived with 250,000 dollars of gold dust. From Hayti ativices are to the 24th of February. Foreign merchandise was depressed in consequence of certain decrees issued by Solouque. Coffee was scarce and high, and provisions plenty. COMMERCIAL NEWS. The commercial accounts received by this steamer are not so satisfactory as those received ,for some time past. Business was very dell throughout the loading commercial cities and ports of the union. The Money Market was, how ever, tolerably easy. Money was plentiful, for all legitimate purposes. United States sixes, 1151. Treasury Notes, 1131. The following are the quotations of the bread-stuff market:—Western Canal flour, 5 dole. 25c. to 5 dols. 37ic., steady; Gennes?ee prime wheat, 1 dol. 26c. to 1 dol. 280. per 601 b.; Southern wheat, 1 dol. 10e. to 1 dol. 12c. per 601 b .; Indian corn, round yellow, 54c. to 56c. per bushel, steady; ditto, fiat yellow, 55e. per bushel. In cotton the balus for the fortnight have been 18,000 bales. Priceri, in the early part or the fortnight, fell 1 per cent., but rose again to the quotations 01 last steamer, at which they remain firm. Freights are unchanged, the asking rates being—for cotton to Liverpool, 3-161 to id. per lb.; flour, to Liverpool, la. 9:1. to 2s. per brl.; grain, to Liverpool, 50. to 6d. per bushel. Provisions are inactive. Mess pork, 101 dols. • mess beef, B,i- dot-. to 10 d o l-. ; prime, 51. dots. t o 63- doff , . Exchange on London, 1084 to 10Si, few sales; on Paris, 5 30, limited transactions; on I.lamburgla, 35 6 35k; on Bremen, 77i to 78. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MOSDAT. The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual morning walk, The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. The royal dinner party in the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Lady Vernon and the lion. Miss Vernon, Rev. F. and the Hon. Mrs. F. Anson, and Sir George Couper. The band of the Scotch Fusilier Guards attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band will afterwards attend in the Castle. Lord Charles Fitzroy has relieved Major-General IVemyss in his duty as Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty, and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour has relieved Colonel Bouverie in his duty as Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert. GREEN WICII FAIR. This popular suburban fair commenced yesterday in all its pristine glory, with every prsopect of fine weather, and of a rich harvest fur the "show folks," who appear this year to have provided many addi tional attractions of an amusing and varied character. The time-honoured temple of Thespis, of the late " Muster" Richardson, is reared on its accustomed site, while Alger's Monstre Pavilion is devoted to the votaries of Terpsichore ; then there are menageries, though happily without " Lion Queens," t ents fur equestrian and acrobatic exercises, perf ormances on and dioramas of C a lif orn i a with the tight-rope, slack-wire, &c., with i nnumerable panoramas the " ig gins," likewise mechanical exhibitions of the "sea serpent," which, together with a host of Tom f "theeto skeletons, and of other fare" for " 'Thumbs, nigger mel o di s t s, b anjo players, spotted theill ho wonders ay v t is h i e . tors, who, duri ng th e afternoon, flocked in va s t crow d s world,boy, v o i n r m g e s d k into the town, the transit to and from the metropolis being remarkably rapid, and the fares, both per rail and steamer, exceedingly moderate. Exclusive of the fair, there are many objects of interest in Greenwich and its vicinity, not the least of which is the famed Palace Hospital and the Painted Hall, with its ceiling, the work of Sir James Thorn hill, marble floor, and pictorial walls. The portraits are placed in seniority of rank, and the historical paintings ranged according to the date of action. Here are also statues of these great naval commanders __Nelson,Powe, Duncan, and St. Vincent. The cu rious may be accommodated with an inspection of Nelson's hat, coat, and silk stockings. At the en trance to the park there i s the Royal Naval Asylum, affording accommod a ti on f or 800 boys and 200 girls, the children of seamen of the royal navy. Not far from the eastern gate, in the garden of the k eeper, stands the venerable oak which has outlived the cele brated Fairlop cak. Then there is the Observatory, built by Charles 11, for Flamstead , the Royal .As tronomer. eat month the Courtof h StO As sizeAs At the condemned beginning mason, named Roulette, for having in July last beaten out the brains of a fellow workman, named Cou n ca l ix e , dn in order to possess himself of a intindgfe:t...ja ne. sum of about SSE orders to the preefs'edcatYureevoe f ni i n ,o g lic t e he to r c r a o u ci s m e re t i i i i r ; b e executed yesterday morning. The scaffold General gave erected at an early hour, at the Barriere St. s i :... a u s te a n e c c o ord to if joy J a cques; but few People assembled. Roulette was not aware that his appeal to tint. Court of Cessation had been rejected, and from his conduct, in his cell in the prison of La Roquette, i t , appeared that he had confidently calculated on having his s entence commuted. Wh en told his last hour had ariired he appeared thinid er - strtrck, door. Assistan ce was inun t e t d u ia n t e e d lv de a a tl\ l i l le y p d al l e min a m n , d at t l ii h o e n pa ti r i - e tially recovered. Time chaplain, the Abbe Monte.i, attempted to administer religious consolation, but for a long time his &Torte were unavailing, the prisoner understanding nothing. After a while the wretched man demanded a glass of water, to which some cordial was added, and this appeared to re store him a little. He was then removed to a waiting-room, where the last preparations were made. When the /WS La • sisted him to walk towards the vehicle which was to convey him to the barmier, he said_" Thank you? I die like a lamb ! Will God pardon me." He uttered no other words, and on his way listened to, but apparently without understanding, the exhortations of ? the priest. On arriving at the Barriere St. Jacques, he had almost entirely lost all consciousness, and it required two men to carry him to the foot of the scaf fold. There he turned to embrace his confessor, but though supported by the executioners, his weakness was such that he fell into the Abbe's arms, and almost knocked him clown. lie was carried on to the platform, placed in the required po. aad a woad after the liaife tell.—Paris Paler. N1%17,947.] 4 e 4. LONDON TUESDAY 74" 5 7 , - S ' APRIL 2, 1850. PUBLICATIONS. NEW WORK BY MR. W. C. TOWNSEND, Q.C. On Friday, April 12th, will bo published, In '2 vols. svo., MODERN STATE TRIALS REVISED and ILLUSTRATED. with Essays and Notes. lii- WILLIAM CHARLES TOWNSEND, Esq., M.A., Q.C., Recorder of 3lac clestleld. By the same Author, In 2 vols. Svo. price 285.. LIN ES of TWELVE EMINENT JUIMES of the Last and oi the Present Century. London :,Longman, Brown, Green, and Longranns. A LET,HEIA ; On Wednesday, April 10, w ill b e published, in 1 vol. 16aao , or, The Drom of Mythology, With other Paems. By WILLIAM C. 31. KENT. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman& MR. MERIVALE'S HISTORY OF ROME. In April will Do published, Vols. I. and 11. Svo. tp - roKY of ROME under the EMPIRE. By the Rev. CHARLES MERIVALE, late Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge. London: Longman, Brown, Green, end Longmans. NEW EDITION OF DR. Rb:EC E'S MEDI , 'AL, GUIDE Centainin,g a full Accoint of Chloroform, and all the latest Di,coTe• ries in Medicine : with a IteTiew of the Elydnipathic and Homccv. pathic Treatment of Disease. In April will he published. in Bvo., a New Edition of r i pHE MEDICAL GUIDE; for the use of the 1 Clergy, Heads of Families, Schools, and Junior Medical Prac titioners: comprising a complete Modern Dispensatory, and a Prac tical Treatise on the distinguishing Symptoms, Causes, Prevention, Cure, and Palliation of the Diseases incident to the Human Frame. With full Instructions for the best Treatment in Cases of Accidents: the Management of the Sick Room ; Diet, &c., of Invalids. By R. REECE, M.D. New Edition, thoroughly revised, corrected, and improved. London: Longman, Brown, Gre , m, and Longmans. LOUDON'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF sIARDENING, Corrected and Improved by Mrs.' Loudon. On Friday, April 12, will be published, an entirely New Edition, In One large Volume, Bvo. with nearly 1,000 Engravings on Wood by Branston, pride SO:. cloth, AN ENCYCLOPEDIA of GARDENING ; comprising the Theory • and Practice of Horticulture, Flori culture, Arboriculture, and Landscape Gardening ; including all the latest improvements, &c. &c. By J. C. LOUDON, E.L.S., &c. A New Edition (1450), considerably improved. Edited by Mrs. LOUDON. *** The present New Edition will also be published in Ten Monthly Parts. price ss. each, commeneiag from May 1, IMO. A New Edition of L9UDON'S HOEWUS BitITANNIOUS will • also be published on Friday, April 12th. • Ltindon Longrnan, Brown, Green, and Longmans. citovri COMMERCIAL INN, DIS'S, NORFOLK. 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'F- 1 4 .:4 6° 4 4 'pr, Colchester — 1 200 :300 100 Harwich ••• • 357 -- 201 Leigh 49 01 9S —•—• 53 33 Maldon lOl2 42 353 326 82 1039 CHELMSFORD, MARCH 28.—Prices to-day were as follow: Wheat, white, old 35s to 445; new 364 to 458; red, old CHELMSFORD, MARCH 28.—Prices to-day were as follow: Wheat, white, old 35s to 445; new 364 to 455; red, old 33a to 395; new, 34s to 40s; barley, 24s to 27s ; chevalier 25s to 28s ; grinding 21s to 23e ; oats 16s to 22s ; malt 54s to 565; chevalier 64s to 58s; peas, partridge, new 26s to 27s ; old, —s to ---s ; white, new, 2is to 28s ; old, —s to —s ; dun, new, 24s to 26s ; beans, tick, new 24s to 26s ; old, 27s to 29s ; harrow ticks, new 25s to 27s ; old 28s to 303; ma zagan, new 23s to 25s ; old 24s to '27s per qr. COLCHESTER, Mlncit 30.—Wheat , white 42s to 465; red 368 to 403 ; barley 24s to 28s ; beans, mazagan 22s to 26s ; middle and small 24s to 23s ; peas 24s to 28s per qr. COAL MARIE Carr's Hartley Davison's West Hartley 15s Od New Tanfield l3s tid Old Tanfield l2s Od Havensworth'sW.Hart 15s Od ranfield Moor %V, TasTsaDAT. Russell's Hetton ...... 17s 3d Scarborough l6s Od Stewart's Whitwell Caradoc .... Cassop. .... ... I Hese(den Hartlepool l7s 6d Kelloe . l7s Od South Hartlepool Whitworth l4s Od Birchg. Graigola Cowpen Hartley Hartley Howard's W. H. Neth l5B Od Llangennech 2ls Od Newport Steam Resolven Steam 2ls Od Sidney's Hartley Ships at market, 111. 'est Wylam Wylam Wall's End, &c. Bewicke and Co. Clarke. Elm Park Morrison l6s Od Northumberland Washington Eden Main. Braddyll Iletton Haswell l7s 9d Lambton Lumley l6s Os THE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT HOXTON. Yesterday forenoon a lengthened investigation was entered into before Mr. W. Baker. the coroner, and a highly respectable jury, at the Shaftesbury Arms, Shaftesbury- street, New North-road, Hoxton, con. cerning the death of Matthew Sanderson, aged six weeks, who was murdered by his mother, Emma Sanderson. The culprit was examined before Mr. Hammill, at Worship-street Police-court, on Saturday, and remanded to await the result of the coroner's in quest. The first witness examined was Mary Fuller, ser rant to the parents of the deceased, whose evidence was to the same effect as that she gave at Worship street. Mary Ann Potterton, 3, Boundary-row, Hoxton, deposed that she had attended the mother of the de ceased in her confinement, and that she had been in a low and desponding state of mind ever since. Her lowness was caused by marks on the deceased's face at its birth, and she was constantly harping upon the disfigurement it caused for the last fortnight. Wit ness noticed a great change in the mother's appear ance, which caused her to tell the servant to keep a atch upon her actions. On Thursday afternoon last she called on witness on her road from the City. She appeared in a very melancholy state, and asked wit ness to come to her in the evening ; and on her going to the house shortly after five o'clock, she was informed of the attempt Mrs. Sanderson had made on her life, and found the deceased lying on the bed quite dead and cold. On seeing her the mother exclaimed " I have killed my baby, and if Mary (meaning the servant) had not come in, I should have killed myself too, and we should then have been happy together." Afterwards she put her hand into her pocket, and produced a piece of tape (shown to the jury), saying to witness, " Take this, it's what I have done the deed with; rub it against the marks on the necks of the other chil dren, and it will cure them, as it is now charmed." By a Juror—The other children were born with some marks upon them, but very slight, and they are now scarcely observable. By the CORONER—Mrs. Sanderson's father and sister had died while labouring under an attack of mental derangement, and I have not the least doubt that her mind was deranged at the time she killed the deceased, and made an attempt on her own life. The medical evidence was also to the same purport as that which has already appeared. The CORONER summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Emma Sander son," and the witnesses were hound over to prosecute. Ipon the unfortunate woman being removed to the Shoreditch workhouse shortly after her apprehension, and during the momentary absence of the police-con. stable who had her in custody, she succeeded in ob taining possession of a table knife, with which she was about to cut her throat, when the constable ar rived and prevented her. On afterwards searching her another knife was found secreted on her person. THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL ADELAIDE STEAMER,. L 4TEST PARTICULARS. The City of Dublin Steam-packet Company's ship Royal Adelaide, Captain John Batty, plying between the ports of Cork and London, left the former city on Wednesday afternoon with a full cargo of goods and, it is said, about 250 passengers,ltouched off Plymouth on Thursday evening, left that port fur London on Friday morning at three o'clock, and was totally lost on the Tongue Sand, off Margate, at eleven o'clock on Saturday night, when there is too much reason to fear every soul on board perished. The Royal Adelaide was due at the Dublin, Bel fast, and Cork steam-wharf, Lower East Smithfield, on Saturday evening, but, as a strong head wind prevailed against all vessels coming up Channel, her absence, up to midnight, caused very little anxiety. When morning carne, and there were still no tidings of the missing vessel, Mr. Davidson, the com pany's manager at the wharf, felt some uneasiness, but, as it was supposed that an accident to her machinery might have partly disabled•' her, and thus caused the delay, she was confidently looked for every hour during the day up to four o'clock, when the first intimation of the terrible catastrophe reached London. The bearer of the melancholy intelligence was William Coe, a river pilot, in the service of the company, who 'was in waiting at Gravesend to take charge of the Royal Adelaide from that place to the Pool. About two o'clock on Sunday, one Charles Gillman, a Deal pilot, who had that morning brought a large barque up Channel, which was then lying at anchor off Graves end, saw Coe on the pier.head, and asked him what ship he was waiting for. Coe replied that he had been expecting the Royal Adela'tie since the previous evening, and was very anxious on the subject of her non-arrival. Gillman then informed him that on Saturday evening, shortly after he had taken charge of the barque, a large black steamer, without figurehead, and having a great many passengers on deck, passed his ship steaming up Channel. The sea was running very high, and he could not make out the name of the steamer, but she bore every resemblance to the boats of the Dublin Company. At 11 o'clock the same night, shortly after having passed the Tongue lightship, when about 15 miles from the coast of Margate, as Gillman informed Coe, his barque passed a large steamer about three-quarters of a mile distant, from which signals of distress were fired in rapid succes sion. The steamer, from her position, was evidently on the sand, but as the wind blew a perfect gale, Gillman said it was quite impossible to render any assistance. They threw up rockets in reply to the signals, in the hope that they might be observed from the shore, but as the night was very dark and hazy, he believed there was too much reason to fear they had never been seen. The description of the vessel given by Gillman corresponding exactly with that of the Royal Adelaide, especially the absence of of any figurehead to the ship, a peculiarity which marks nearly the whole fleet of steamers belonging to this company, Coe felt satisfied that his worst an ticipations were realised, and that the unfortunate ship wrecked on the sand was no other than that for which he had been so anxiously looking. He imme diately came on to London with Gillman, and com municated the sad intelligence to the company's manager, Mr. Davidson. Yesterday morning the company received corrobo rative intelligence from Captain Manning, master of the Malcolm Brown, screw-steamer, which arrived off the Tower on Sunday evening from Guernsey and Jersey. •Captain Manning reports, that about half-past nine o'clock on Sunday morning, when off the North Foreland, about 12 miles from shore and between two and three from the Tongue lightship, he observed the wreck of a large steamer on the Tongue Sand. The weather was very stormy, the wind blowing almost a gale from S.S.R., so that they could only approach within three-quarters of a mile of the spot where the wreck lay. From this point, they perceived that the masts and funnel were gone, and everything upon deck swept clean away. Not a soul could he seen on board. The stern of the vessel was apparently gone, and it was evident she wa s f as t breaking up. The framework of both paddle-boxes was standing, and the stanchions of the bulwarks, but the boards were gone. They endeavoured to discover the name of the vessel, but could not. They, how ever, observed that she was painted black, and had no figurehead. Captain Manning further stated that the -wreck bore all the appearance of having taken place a very few hours previously. The Duke of Cornwall, Captain Higgins, another steamer belonging to the same company, and plying between London and Dublin, arrived in the River at 2 o'clock yesterday, and reports having passed the wreck at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. The vessel had then entirely broken up, and the framework of her machinery was the only portion visible above water. The Roscommon screw-steamer, cattle-laden, from Holland, also arrived in the River yesterday after noon; and reports having passed the wreck, and ob served several articles bearing the private mark of the London and Dublin Steam-packet Company floating over the Tongue Sand. The latest intelligence on the subject of the wreck reached the company's offices by electric telegraph at 4 o'clock yesterday. It comes from Lloyd's agent at Margate, who states that the wreck is now covered at high water. Two bodies, supposed to be those of dispatchp ashorea s T s passengers on (cnhitas precise spl board pra- osattn the half-an-ho u r rel- o'clock). previousf t at h e e d shi p t , 0 had been date washed h h e ( 5 1 a a nbdout Lower Queen's two Tongueor hrnaeunennyceal nearbs .les' At l length nefga at e rss s an s cnn e act l eh, w -obw a fe set ascertainedhs wrecked r from Prince'se cke d t h i e s entrance from a comparison of the spot where the wreck lies and the Channel chart, it appears tha t had the R o y a l Adelaide be en a b out a vessel ' s length from the place where she struck she would have been in deep water. The Tongue sands are several miles long, running E. by S. and W.N.W. A very heavy sea always exists times c; e o e s r t iw i s o na was between exceedinglyetthw e ee C n h a d4 n i i n c l ! and Channel, nto h s () navigation olyeasat Royal Adela i de these e h e is p n re g r sa i . n ll e H s 4e o 7r f fb l er 4 ee o ta:d h wt o hi r t s nh e f a p m o l on w fi nt e y r . tons burden, swnapspl2i 8e da feet, e) d ye t h ,t had d ar ne t ed w bo o nv i e el paddle-wh ee l s were 24 f eet i n poop on on deck. Her diameter. She had a "gammon and knee stem" (no figurehead), and was rigged as a first-class steamer, at which rate she was ranked at Lloyd's. She was built about fourteen years ago by Messrs. Thomas and William 'Wilson, of Liverpool. The Royal Adelaide was commanded by Captain John Batty, of Cork, who has been in the service of the Dublin Steam-packet Company upwards of twenty years, during a great portion of which time he has commanded ships on the London and Dublin and London and Cork stations. lie was considered one of the most experienced sailors in the service, and was besides a man of no ordinary attainments. The sole command of his ship devolved upon him until he arrived off Gravesend, when the river pilot took charge. Captain Batty was universally beloved and respected, and his fate is deeply regretted. He has left a family of young children. His wife died suddenly about six months ago. six men b e f ore the mast, a i p n t e a e in rs , , co tw ns o ist c e o d a o l- f threo e a mates, hecrew carpenter, ninneaddition the first engineer was William Reilly. H e was t h e steward trimmers, a n a d i x s t fi e w r earmen,d e; s , son of an engineer of some celebrity, formerly attached to the firm of Messrs. Fawcett and Co., of Liverpool. He was himself an exceedingly ingenious and clever man, in proof of which it may be mentioned that he himself constructed a diving-bell, which he always carried on board his ship, and made use of as occasion required. The name of the carpenter was Handy Turner. The names of the rest of the crew are not known, no record of them being kept in London. As to the number of passengers on board at the time of the wreck no certain clue can be obtained until intelligence reaches London from the company's agent at Plymouth, where a great many of the deck passengers frequently land. By the advices which have been received from Cork there appears to have been a greater number than usual shipped in Ireland, but until it is known how many landed at Plymouth on Thursday evening no correct estimate of the num ber lost can be formed. The majority of the passen gers brought by this route are of the poorest class, and in some voyages nearly 300 are brought over. The Dublin Steam-packet Company own a fleet of about 25 ships. Mr. Charles Wye Williams, of Dub lin, is the managing director, and the chief business ef the company is carried on in Ireland, th e o ffi ces in London having only the character of agencies The Royal Adelaide is said to be fully underwritten at Lloyd's. The melancholy event caused much excitement in the city yesterday afternoon, and the greatest anxiety was manifested to obtain authentic information on the subject. _ _ _ Our: reporter has to acknowledge the courtesy of Mr. Davidson and the other officiali of the company, tor - the readiness with which they furnished him with every information in their power relative to the me lancholy catastrophe. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—In another portion of our columns will be found a letter from a correspondent upon the oft mooted question of Chancery reform. The contents of this letter are substantially identical with the statements made by Lord Brougham the other night in the House of Lords, on introducing his Bill for a partial reform of the Court of Chancery. The same facts and the same deductions are contained in the letter as in the speech ; but we publish it in the hope that many persons who have not looked through the speech may take the trouble to peruse the letter. It would hare been strange indeed had a strong move ment for the reform of equity practice been in course of progress without the apparition of Lord Brougham upon the scene. However much at times we may be disposed to smile at the readiness with which he thrusts himself forward upon questions entirely re. moved from his experience, or at the pertinacity with which he defends his random impressions, on I the subject of law reform at least he is entitled to be heard with attention and respect. We will not say that the propositions he has made have always been the best planned and best digested that might have been devised; but throughout his devious ca reer, at least this praise cannot be denied to Lord Brougham, that he has set more brains to work upon the propriety of reforming our system of legal ad ministration than a n y o th er man o f hi s period. 1% can scarcely look for a union of the conveyancer's cautious foresight with the backwoodsman's buoyant energy--and Lord Brougham is an adept in the art of " clearing." A mass of legal rubbish, now hap pily obsolete through his strenuous exertions, rise gratefully to our recollection in connexion with his name. The hope of obtaining complete and entire satisfaction upon the question of Chancery reform by a coop de main would be a mere delusion. All that we can reasonably expect is to assist from time to time those amongst the numerous assailants of the Chancery who are pointing their attacks against seri ous and substantial grievances. It was but the other day that Sir John Romilly, feeling, no doubt, the difficulty of grappling with the phalanx of Rog lish practitioners by a straitforward attack, endeavoured, by executing a flank movement in Ireland, to take them in the rear, and we most earnestly and sincerely trust that his manoeuvre may be crowned with complete success. As we dealt with the subject at length when the Learned Solicitor-General brought forward his propositions, it mould be needless to recapitulate here the abuses and errors of equity practice, common to the two divisions of the empire, against which his proposals were directed. But it will be remembered that one of the most vigorous attacks made against his measure con sisted in the suggestion that even if soma trivial defects did exist in the administration of our equity system, the proper remedy was by order of the Court, rather than by Act of Parliament. Lord Brougham's new Bill, it now appears, is to be met by the same kind of objection. There is to be a re commendation that all intermeddling in the matter be postponed until the Chancellor himself mero motu shall take order with the abuses of adminisration suits, against which the reformatory measure is di rected. Neither in this instance, nor in any other where there exists any anxiety to serve the cause of progress, is such a proposition admissible. Once and again the task of reform has been intrusted to the hands of the Chancellor, and the experiment has turned out a complete failure. Ten years ago, five years were given to that great dignitary to set his court in order; not only was power given, but he was authorit a ti ve l y and i n terms required to exercise it for the benefit of the suitors, but all in vain. At the expiration of the first term, yet another term of, five years was given to the reluctant judge, but the second term has expired as the first expired before it ; and nothing has been done. What, then, can we say to a recommendation for a third extension of the period of grace, but to meet it with the too famous formula " Clest trop lard." And, after all, why this irrational desire to postpone useful changes, and to paralyse the hands of their proposers ? Let any one read either in Lord Brougham's speech, or in the letter of our correspondent, a succinct account of the evils against which the Bill for simplifying ad ministration suits in Chancery by extending the powers of the Makers is directed, and judge for him self not only of the extent of the evil, but of the ab solute absence of any well•grounded motive even for interested opposition. If the subjects of a country cannot obtain cheap justice before its tribunals their course is obvious enough. They either set their brains to work to discover methods of evading the law, or they do without it altogether. In the case of administrations, executors who hare the slightest re gard for the interests of those beneficially interested in the contents of a will prefer the latter alternative. It appears, on comparing the figures obtained from the probate returns with the number of administra tion suits actually instituted in the Court of Chan cery, that nine-tenths of the cases are kept out of the court by the delays and enormous and intolerable expense of its proceedings. In our correspondent's letter will be seen set out at length the several steps of an administration suit, upon which the judge, when it comes before him, makes an order as of course. It must be remembered that from the first there is no real litigation. The parties interested are not at issue as to any simple question of law or fact ; they are made to pay 2001. or 3001. for the observance of a parcel of trumpery and irrelevant forms. There are office copies of the bill ; then close copies ; an swers in draught; the engrossments ; a special com mission to swear; a special messenger to take the an swer to London—for it is not allowed to send it by post ; more office copies; more close copies; coun sel's opinion on evidence ; interrogatories to prove wills, if any real property be involved ; more special commissions to examine more witnesses; more evi dence taken in secret; more special messengers to London ; more office copies, and so on, through inter minable rounds of delay, vexation, and easpense. And all these are mere questions of the most idle and un necessary form. It would be equally rational to corn pel the British subject who desired to pass from Upper Baker-street to Hampstead -hill to walk seventy-one times round the outer circle, and one hundred and seventy-three times round the inner eis cle of the Regent's-park, and to call these enforced perambulations— necessary solemnities. There are few men so completely isolated from commerce or connexion with their fellow-creatures that they are not called upon at one period or other of their lives to discharge the office of executor or trustee. What case more common than to find a widow with a family of young children thrown upon the world with no support or protection but that of the one or two *lends whom her husband may have named executors of his will ? Not many instances, we believe, exist in such cases of persons either refusing or renouncing the trust, but yet, owing to the preposterous system of our law, an executor finds himself exposed to one or other of two very painful alternatives. If he should make up his mind to pull through with the estate as he best can without seeking for protection in the proper quarter, he may in his person, or in his heirs and representa tives, become almost at any indefinite time the victim of his disinterestedness, and be required to satisfy a debt of his testator's of the very existence of which he had no conception, notwithstanding that he had used his best efforts to discover the liabilities of the estate. If he be not sufficiently interested in the legatees and heirs to take such a course, he has no alternative but to apply to the Court of Chancery, at an expense which, if the estate be a small one, will go far to swallow up its value. It is against this evil that Lord Brougham's Bill is directed. Ile pro poses to commence consent administration suits in the Master's-office, and to give an immediate and cheap appeal to the Court, should any party be dissatisfied. TIMES.—The elaborate report on the public health of the metropolis submitted by Mr. Simon to the City Commissioners of Sewers has received the formal consideration of a select committee of that body, and the two documents, taken in conjunction, present a very fair synopsis of the works comprehended under the general description of sanitary improvements. Speaking broadly, we may resolve all the nine heads specially reported on into the one single condition of the removal of all offensive matters from the dwelling places of the living. The absolute execution of this provision would render the sanitary state of a city almost unexceptionable in so far as it depended upon human agencies. Two great branches of the subject are obviously distinguishable —one referring to the effectual abstraction of the necessary refuse of a city, and the other to the Prevention o f a ll suc h pract i ces as are plainly offensive to public h ea lth. U n d er t h e lust is included a scientific system of sewerage ; under the second, the regulations pertaining to the in tertnent of the dead, and to various pursuits and trades involving consequences unwholesome to the population at large. To some extent, perhaps, we may separate from the former of these conditions the necessity of a copious water supply, and consider it as a distinct requirement ; but when we have done so, and stipulated for esystematic superversion on the part of the municipal authorities, we shall have ennumerated all the points to which Mr. Simon and the sanitary committee have found it needful: to attend. Good sewerage includes both house drin age and street drainage, although until the com mencement of the present year the former portion of the arrangements was wholly withdrawn from the control of public officers, whose authority terminated at the door of private dwelling-houses. The conse quence has been that commun i ca ti on with the main sewers have been made without any regularity or com pleteness, and that although the city of London passes for one of the best-drained cities of Europe as tar as street sewerage is concerned, one-third at least et its houses, according to the most favourable computation, remain still undrained. In these cases the refuse is left to accumulate .in cessp oo l s w hi c h are , or s h ou ld be, periodically emptied, and the demand for reform in this respect may be inferred from the fact that 5,414 of these sinks are estimated to exist within the limits of the City, though the total number of houses is only set at 16,300. Fortunately it is now competent to tile authorities to enforce house drainage in connexion with street sewerage, and we may therefore anticipate that a remedy will be soon applied to an evil which bears with peculiar hardship on the poorer classes of the population. After these preliminary arrangements the great question of outfall is that on which every. thing depends. Next to relieving the dwellings of individuals comes the duty of cleansing the town at large. :Somewhere or other the main sewers must discharge themselves, and the method or direction of this outfall has been the principal object of recent sanitary researches. In common with many other simple-minded people, the committee which has been considering Mr. Simon's report conceived that there was a certain body of men highly qualified by talent and education, and invested with extensive command over the purses of their fellow- citizens, whose express and particular commission it was to determine this all-important question, and, accordingly, in the inno cency of their hearts, while acknowledging the urgency of some measure for the purification of the Thames, they propose to await the result of the pending inquiry respecting the "system of drainage for the whole metropolis and the question of outfall for the same"—little thinking that the said " question of outran" would be quietly shelved, and that the great Metropolitan Sewers Commission would come to no ether conclusion than a confession of their own impotence or perversity. Meantime one of the 170 gentlemen whose suggestions were dis missed in a lump by the Greek -street Commissioners, as deficient, inadequate, and impracticable, has modestly gone to work on his account, at the mouth of the Puddle-dock sewer, and is bidding fair to solve the problem which Lord Ebrington and his col leagues are spending 100,0001. a year to prove impos sible. " The Thames can never be cleansed," says Sir John Burgoyne. "Water can never be forced up to the tops of houses," said his prototypes in the days of Elizabeth. The Dutchman, however, soon settled the doubts of his generation; and as much will in fallibly be done for ours before the Metropolitan Commissioners can spend another quarter of a mil lion. The passage of the Atlantic by steam was proved to be impracticable in the very month in which the Great Western entered New York harbour. As regards avocations and practices prejudicial to public health, the difficulties are, of course confined to the suggestions of interested opposition. There is a pretty general consent about facts. Intramural slaughtering receives the unequivocal condemnation of the commit tee, nor can we doubt that the particular pursuits carried on in Smithfield upon cattle days are included in the " other offensive trades" by which the clause is rendered duly comprehensive. It was, perhaps, no more than was decorous, considering the present stage of the question, to leave the subject of parochial interments,without any further allusion than a casual approval of the proposed reform. Evidence has already been given that the City authorities are in this respect fully awake to their duties, and the inter ference of the Legislature will shortly bring the ques tion to a conclusive issue. As the law stands at pre sent, even the utmost exertions of the sanitary officers backed by the general consent of the population and the terrors of a pestilence, were found inadequate to prevail against the obstinacy or interests of individuals. All these are matters of general expediency. But Mr. Simon's commission extended beyond the esta blishment of mere sanitary principles, and his ap pointment was, in fact, a testimony to the anxiety felt by the inhabitants of London to bring their city under such practical order as should secure pure air and wholesome lodging to all classes of the population, and thus diminish those causes which aggravate so seriously the mortality of the whole. With this view an examination was instituted into the dwellings of the poor, and it was opposed even to maintain a staff of officers for the permanent exercise of this supervision. Sufficient attention has not been paid to the fact that until proper lodging-houses have been extensively constructed every metropolitan " im provement" adds to the misery and discomfort of those classes who are thus driven within a circle growing narrower and narrower day after city. People must lodge somewhere, even if they can pay but eighteenpence a week rent, and, in proportion as the courts and alleys where this accommodation was pro vided are destroyed to make room for another class of habitations, the state of those which remain becomes worse and worse. The committee have admitted the principle of Mr. Simon's recommendations on this head, and have so far acceded to his suggestions as to advise an outlay of 2501. per annum upon the acqui sition of proper and continuous information respecting the localities in question, so that the first appearance of infectious diseases may be instantly noted, and means promptly adopted to encounter the enemy. On the whole, the City Commissioners have substan - tially concurred with all the recommendations of their officer of health, and it is to be hoped that this co-operation may develope itself in some visible results before another hour of peril comes upon us. ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION-HOUSE. The customary Easter Entertainment at the Man sion-house took place last night, when the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor entertained to dinner the Aldermen and Common Councilmen and their families. There were also present the French Am bassador, the American Minister, the Boli v ian Mi nister, th e Bi s h op o f St.:Aaaph, Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., Sir William Molesworth, M.P., Mr. Curteis, M.P., Mr. Mitchell, M.P., Mr. F. French, M.P., the Chairman and Deputy-Chairman of the East India Company, the Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England, Major-General Delamotte, Lieutenant- Colonel Williams, the Venerable Archdeacon Wil liams, Sir Hamilton Seymour, &c. The Aldermen of the City were also present, in their robes of office, and a great number of the members of the Common Council. The Egyptian Hall was decorated as on the former memorable occasion, when the heads of the various municipalities of the empire were entertained by the Lord Mayor with his characteristic hospitality. After the usual loyal and constitutional toasts had been given. The LORD MAYOR proposed " his Excellency the French Ambassador and the Foreign Ministers." The FRENCH AMBASSADOR returned thanks on be half of himself and his colleagues. He had already been such a frequent guest at this festive board, that he considered himself almost at home in the civic hall where they were now assembled.—(Great ap plause.) He was proud of the welcome they had given him, not from any feeling of selfi s h van i ty, not even from a sense of personal gratification, fur he was sensible that these kindnesses bad a view towards the country he had the honour to represent—(Applau3e)— and he was fully convinced that nothing could be more conducive to the welfare both of France and England than the continuance of a friendly under standing:between the respective countries.—(Cheers ) Th e AMERICAN MINISTER said he hardly knew bow to express his gratitude to the Lord Mayor for the frequent opportunities he had afforded him of par r taking of his splendid hospitality. He was there as representing a nation speaking the same language, governed by the same laws, and having the same re ligion with themselves.—(Applause). He was there as a cousin of their own—(Loud applause)—and he had now to return thanks on the part of the country he represented. He was present in the largest, the richest, the mightiest, city on the face of the earth— (Applause) —and this mighty city had been created through the instrumentality of commerce —commerce, the greatest pioneer of civilization all over the world. —(Great applause.) He was present in this groat city, renowned in history, renowned for its charitable institutions —renowned for its commerce—rtnowned in literature, science, and arts—renowned, too, in war, and be hoped it would hereafter be as greatly reuowiird in peace. Ile had partaken to. night of the loving ,imp, which he understood to pledge those who drank it to friendship, and a determination to stand by each other. He had sipped of that Cup in the name of twenty-two millions of people—(Cheers) —and if he had th e p ower, h e wou ld bring them here and make them sipEof it too.—(Loud cheers.) lie begged to c onc l u d e b y propos i ng , as a toast, the ''City of Lond on , renowne d i n t h e annals of history for its commerce, hospitality, and charity—renowned Above all for its devotion to the cause of civil and re ligious liberty."—(Loud cheers.) The LORD MAYOR then proposed the " L or d Bishop of St. A saph and the Clergy." The Bishop of ST. Asaen returned thanks, and pressed his cordial concurrence in the sentiments so eloquently expressed by the French and American ministers. lie recollected hAviog been brought up NEW WORK BY HARRY HIEOVER. On Friday, April 12, will be published in fcp. Bvo., with two Plates, one representing " Goinx like Workmen ;" the other " Going like Muffs 1" price 53. half bound, PRACTICAL HORSEMANSHIP. By HARRY II lEOVER. 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