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• . . • , . ; Allalp . at.',A. • 4, . • :!! r t \ott , ; • V,' • • 0 ." • 1; ; • Y om . G . . •"? " • et. z A y t*, • .9: re' " - ' V, V , 4. , rte `•••:: . ' '4O . ")% ~ ‘1. •*. "Y' rYi , , 1 ,0, ( k\ ,/& 1 • ,s. pARrSII OP BIRMINGHAM. • Notice is hereby given, TO BUILDERS. that the Guardians of the Poor of the Pa ;,112.1_ or Birmittgham will, at their Weekly Meeting, to be held on f o uf4 bAdrs the 2Gth day of M arc h nex t, p rocee d t o consider Proposals th e rection of a NEW WORKHOUSE. for the Poor of the said t t ,„7. The Drawings and Specification may be seen, and all par t o rrS obtained at the offices of the architects, Messrs. Drury and toal.T. a ni Cherry-street, Birmingham, to whom p irtles desirous of 6,,,g are requested to furnish their names and addresses on or ;erec ted the 23d day of February instant. The proposed building is to 1 1 ,ted on land belonging to the Guardians, situate at Biriniug -_ Beath, near the town of nirmingharn. thailTenders must be sealed, and addressed "To the Guardians of itx;x:_c,o,vortzfhcatt Parish of Birmingham," superscribed " Tender for and delivered at the Clerk's Office, Lichfield -24,,e!: Birmingham, by or before Twelve o'clock on Monday, the of' March next. buruelekiil Party whose proposal may be adopted will be required t o *written Contract, and also a Bond, with two approved 'Z i t In such amount as the Guardians may determine, for the illeit. thereof. . At 1 to il Gas, 51. N°. 3 7 907.1 5 LONDON, THU A RSDY „ V , " N FEBRUARY 14 i P5O y . • r - [PRICE SD. FEW REMARKS ON LORD JOHN RUS SELL'S SPEECH OE TUE tiTIE FEBRUARY ON COLONIAL POLICY. TO THE EDITOR OF THB SUN. Sza,—lVhen a great people are about to Aeterm!ne upon the adoption of any important national question —either of a social, commercial, or political charac ter—it surely becomes the imperative duty of the head of their Government not to be carried away by the excitement of the rnonient or the urgency of the case, but, calmly looking back on the page of their history, and to their periodical progress, deliberately to point out the landmarks by which he proposes to direct the movement with advantage to the State, and the beacons by which be means to warn them of their dangers in the onward marsh of the public mind. PUBLICATIONS. COURT OF ALDERMEN. On Tuesday a Court was held for the dispatch of business. The Rev. Mr. Marshall, chaplain to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, was appointed chaplain to the Borough Compter. A report was presented on the further considera tion of the report respecting the maintenance of criminal prisoners and expenses of prosecutions.— Agreed to. Upon a motion of Alderman CHALLIS, a deputa tion was appointed to wait upon the Secretary of State respecting the return of expenses of maintaining convicted prisoners, and for public prosecutions. ANNUAL REPORT OF TLIE ORDINARY OF NEWOATE. Alderman CHALLIS presented the annual report of the ordinary of Newgate upon the condition of the prison, and said that it was his intention to submit a motion to the Court upon the very important matters contained in it at the next meeting.—(Hear, hear.) The following are the most prominent features of the document : prevent a commander from acting entirely on his own opinion. Captain Austin must be wholly guided by circumstances, and be left to act accordingly as his own judgment may point out. Being furnished with every particle of information respecting the various north-crest expeditions, and also everything relative to Behring Straits, the arrangement of his proceedings after his arrival in B An's Bay should he left entirely and completely to his own judgment; and we have great faith that he will successfully carry out the great object of his voyage by finding and rescuing his lost countrytnen.—Herald. these ex-ministers to present themselves before the English courts of law as the indorsers of bills of ex chango. and to demand in their own name the restitu tion of the sums forwarded to MM. Grameelli and Scalia. and so to procure the money for the'Neapolitan Government in release of their property which is me naced with seizure. The Government of Naples would gain by this mode the advantage of economy in the cost of the proceedinv, and the skttsfaction of scandalising end disuniting the Sicilian refugees. I am not aware whether any one of my firmer col leagues is disposed to pi rmit himself t be led into so disastrous a course. lem ignorant also whether in that case the English judges would recognise, in the psrson of the coropliiinact , , the right of re dengandinv, in their pricatt capacity, sums of money belonging to the public treasury. which, as public functionaries. they had ex. winded for a specific object, and for the public interest; but, in the one as in the other of these two cases, should they ever occur, oppose to the utmost the deli very of the money or the articles, supported by the same right on which my firmer colleagues would require rt. I shall endeavour by all possible means to obtain the preservation of these,articles as an inviolable deposit at the disposal of the Sicilia , ' Parliament, ;,to which they ' belong, and which is not dissolved. In acting thus I believe I shall only fulfil my duty, and I hope that it will not prove too late or useless, for I have faith in the destiny of Italy, and I see that it has struck with judi cial blindness a pope and a king, in order to chain them to its chariot and carry them forward in its own career. Paris, Jan. 20, 1850. Af.• AMARI. CHEAP EDITION OF MR. AINSWORTII'S WORKS. THIS DAY is published, H E MISER'S DAUGHTER With a Portrait of the Author, by Daniel Maclise, 11 A. Complete in One Volume, p ice Is. boards ; or Is. Gd. cloth. Now Ready, CRICHTON. It 0 0 K W 00 D. WINDSOR CASTLE. Each complete in Oxe Volume, price Is. boards; or Is. Gd. cloth. London : Chapman and Hall, 18G, Strand. Sold by all Booksellers and at all Railway Stations. BY order of the Board, JAMES CORDER, Clerk to the Guardians. k s . Ottlee, Lichfield -street, Birmingham, February 12, 1850. rsi IC.,___,__ 'NERA.L . STEAM NAVIGATION Ls CONIPAvy ( ilb ardstr -. • (Incorporated by Act of Parliament.) 71, Non ce i street, Landoll. )4Zit TI ,;. s hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL Lt me n s o ... m dl pa of y t,h B e o P ai lt e o e, P 7 R l l , ETOßS of this IsOMPANY will, be held 4 - t. ' l 7 4 4., sa at Tw o . Lombard-street, on TUESDAY. the 26th 'clock precisely, pursuant to the Act of Parlin , n ent, the u., et the usual business, and to declare the DIVIDEND for 'n•Year ending the 31st December, 1849. MARTIN PRATT. T HE LADIES' COMPANION at HOME and ABROAD. Edited by AIRS. LOUDON. No. VIII., price 3d., or stamped 4d., will be published on Satur day, Feb. 16. 'tea les , 62k Lohdcria, Febru ary I, 1850, A lt "Lt SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS, Great Mu s i cal iv Windmill-street, St. Janac.s's. This Ac, rector and Conductor, M. LAURENT, Jun. Yo 0 181 ,o4Y, for Tuitiou and Practice of ls —oz ez r the Season. Teaching by Professors ` Calkns, ptl Penns 'ranconi. 6 f Private Tuition apply at the office.—Terms of Sub set Mon th r mornin g an d even i ng p r a c ti c e:—Six mon ths, it. 5s ; thTheunitab ,l tls.; one evoking, Is. Subscribers' tickets not 4. 6' elock, ii e teNY Will open for evening practice at a Quarter to Eight •• te rnlinate at Half-past Eleven precisely. _ CONTENTS. The Fireside Fairy. With an Illustration. The Carrier Pigeon. The Adventures of Carlo Franconl. Continued. With an Illustration What Men think of Women. The Garden. The Month of February. With an Illustration. Household Philosophy. Fires. No. 3. The School Room. Continued. Letters on Geology. By Professor Ansted. Tableaux Vivanti. By Mrs. Severn. Household Hints and Receipts. By Miss Acton. The Dressing• Room and Boudoir, &c., &c., &c. With Illustrations. Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouvorie•street, and sold by all Book sellers and Newsmen, and at all the Railway Stations. " GRAND JURIES. sir /aen3 Bishop's Lectures en Music, with Illustrations, will T E c oMmence on Monday, the 18th instant. Ito YAL I'OLYTECHNIC jalitst r „,, INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET. ul)`rie'" , on Astronomy, by Dr. Bachhoffner, on Wednesday Mb), r . at One o'clock.—Dr. Lachhoffner's eetere on the Philo entricieatifie Recreation Mornings and Evenings. —A Lectaro 1 44,,, 11 !el Ilk Coal—its history ' and formation —Dissolving flews Qopth.."l. IR the Sixteenth Century, and as it now is, witk a De -44 ,t'fttltre.—Also a Series ef Views et' Rome.—Experimeats )4111 kl e ulTe r &Rd Diving-kell.—The Machinery, Models, &c., ex- .; 0 951 95 4 983 w 66 P 86y 93iS 9" P P ;410' 4 le F f l eS7s 89'4 5 4 5 1 4 OtS ei Admission. lg.—Schools. Half-price. NICOLL PALETOT, or Patent Coat ; e,„7 . t k 64 e ). original ,n N es t -ende sti on the 9 Registered P i . e a t i o e t .( r 6 and tis . 7 ms or the a Wareroo tr alb 4a d Useful articles of dress are in Re ent•street and extend 11— iitZat ' Z' t 1 h. 4 ,,, to No. inclusive ; and those g in the City are at 22, ks , • .hiPping Department being in the rear—viz., 'Change- DC „ a e . Cet 4 t.i , r- assumed the use of the word PA LETOT, but H. J. and rial are lite sole Proprietors and Patentees of the design or ..Th, • gi rice, elic utt , are ,Two, and Three uineas, and according to S r Purpose for which they are G required. LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY A I%. CR PORTED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, " POrinciple of 3fUtual Life Assurance, the whole Profits belonging to the Assured. Job , - e• 31, LOMBARD-S MEET, LONDON. e_ itieb b nm el , TRUSTEES. St•• .enton, Esq., M.P. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.T. ' 4 O. Esq ., Q.C. I James Fuller Madox, Esq. .William Wilberforce, Esq. ttlla . DIRECTORS. Jah n At Adams, Esq , New Broad-street. 1 1,eai.., 41 klus, Esq., White Hart.ceert, Lombard-street. 4 . Th . : Augustus Bevan. Esq., John-sheet, America-square. Joi l 7M,Dcon Bramwell, Esq.. Prospect-place, Kilburn. kt:anXerfleld, Esq., Chancery-Line. Joh„ r t, Henry F orman , Esc! , Ordnance, Pall-mall. Jorh." l lunilton, Esq., Alfred-place, Thurlos-square. Fuller Madox, Ran., Clement's-lane. 0 ""'„ M atthews, Esq.. Arthur-street West, City. ' uctavius Parnell, Esq , Ncrfolk-street, Mark-lane. AUDITORS. W . .e Cumming, Esq , Westbourne-greve. am ain D. starli ng , Esq., change .alley, City. hd b,Zeil Turner.parliament-street. Henry Stone, Esq., Poultry. MAN lCEns—Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co. SECRETARY—David Alison, Esq. u_ PADDINGTON LOCAL BOARD- Cennaught-terrace, Edgeware-road. 4 4 4110 "eg Shergold Boone, A.M., Stanhope. street, Hyde-park tb s t les pr e c'd, Norfolk -crescent, Oxford-square. 4, 1 4,,,1 n 1bert0n, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace. Hyde-park. y "'III Antos, Esq., York-street , Portman-square. • Robson, Esq., Eastbourne-terrace, Hyde-park. 4 1 4 kr, Secretary, Chas. Houghton, Esq. ~ ue et4aki• r erES issued by this Company being INDISPUTABLE, "able and negotiable Secarities. They may at any time available in money transactions, their validity not being - 47ti o lt, as in the case of ordinary Policies, upon the import of the, e4 , Iro 4 ,„ rne nts• Used as Family Provisions, they relieve the As n'vc),.."` doubt and anxiety as to the result of Assurances torPlegre certain. ice, 'his important improvement in the practice of Life As rrae,.,e Progress of this steadily has been rapid from the com- Wolk ' et ' ,its business and is increasing. atiL l ' e s• Reports ' aevery other information, may be ob.. "..9tilef Office, Ora y of the Agencies. ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager. tt ni ---- N, a l 'R'S WHITE LIQUID GLUE, for 14, fts b , 'L , gei and China, without smell, and not Per Bottle. 5h,,,e47 hot water - - 6d. and Is. 1 1 1 4 '4 414'4' 11 d Glue, for Wood, Stone, &c., Nit:po, _melt, 6d. Is. and Is. 6d. eir,litsptha Glue, for all purposes - 3d. and 6d. a. k t :rem 6d. and Is. Op,'" G eneral Liquid Glue Depot, 549 New Oxford-street. ti;44 re General anything short of akinidom out of joint,' or ' a lOsk . nitfition,' this Improved Liquid Glue seems quite up to ot. hs. Ws have tried It on a china disk , a wooden box, and a k t : } 4 l 4 : •4 P i pe, with equally satisfactory results."—Builder, Dec. I N "WS trn, 'Ni ts — s•STACHIOS, and WHISKERS produced in a 4 i and Baldness removed and prevented, by the use of it- usTONE , s AROMATIC I N N I ItEGENERATOR. -' ' 41.4 i n want L I141 ;4 - 111 iturfo . that beautiful adornment of the human ,tti; ^hok. - , - ; PuPPIY of human hair, obtain through the post, Cr Vilsti c't flit ale or retell chemist or druggist, or perfumer. an I Is. saristss,,rane'e Aromatic Regenerator. This is an essential l l..eist4 -1 , 111 154 60 s aromatic herbs and flowers (grown at his Her .llraej.„' "7 ivij, s '. Nvlijch has been long known to the nobility and )1141, h - ", 4 4 to b;' , it i 1 •ohly appreciated for its manifold virtues, too h4c r i e p t 4 ' In whist forth to'rtib"in an advertisement, but maybe read in - his k erb, r) . inphi et o the bottles are enclosed. , t ll ), i , • 1144 has the signature of William Gemstone, Merchant, age 11, uneer the copy of Ae,„"kly„ a te, and will be found Al'''. at, 144 6 'etter to the Editor of a the p " Times" newspaper, 7th flit,: hare., • lice sutelZ.t Is forwarded through the post, on receiving twe t tl fe.4 iti Are thi W ie .....e tie * ti f 4 generator can be forwarded through the post on '4 l i e Dss, 'floe order for 4s. 6d., 7s. Bd., or la., which in- ' 1 ,4 t . O. si z . ge with the case. *sther Of i t C Ontains four of the 4s. 1 ikrophr„ r nanY virtues, as thousands can prove, are published > e -, enclosed with eaeh bottle. l ks ti , ° , l % r 5t,,,,, k itk i " , re i t' , for a few minutes, and if you are 40 years of age, k 'si oLete er .' -n ther . the thousands of blind you meet with In your 1 o ,..`'ll t inere( t . W ith: various coloured eye-shades ; indeed, such was ~t h ees'u , r Ye•shades that it was a business. What has re- I k ek tec i kehtlees being ' s, and given place to a straightforward, klilth t t lihrs i . o l 7°Pie (the climate is the same) ? I'll tell-you the cease q' l ,iakis (:' u " of Gemstone's Eye Snuff I and because it cured Its,•% /4 . sutta Serena Cataract, Nervous Headach, and Deaf -04 t e T , of the Trees ' ury directed it to be denominated a medi kletser.',6 a ternped. Although this advanced its character, 67 pts 4 .` b eing Preyed by the in f ormers, still it was an act of 1. li i 7 th e y 4 in 1825 the Solicitor of Stamps, Godfrey Sykes, Esq., Ztilt t ,!sie.Pl, and sanctioned its sale under or of the Lords of 5e,..44, t he letter of protection, signed by - s herries, Esq., to 'ne n '. Grjeastene bearing date 18tk February, 1525. This was thet;lN:!:lts curativ e qualities, being sold at that time in cants ! tilt,nlth,L,ne reach'ef every poor family. But under this order of „titto4thn't Is obliged to be stamped. '•tre l h 'Xt'S MEDI CATED ) , tt h , 4 ~,,_ EYE SN. UFF sold in canisters, cgsteeet Pamphlet of medical and other testimonials, ' under the 4 t, ao , rde atlid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. bd. each. The N'Jee,,', 4 et Id. each. If through the post, Is. Bd., 35. 6d., and 1 4;0 ."14/3 postage , & c. The following letter is one out of the tt e l , 11 4 1 44n4 !meters -e' 14t S:rs f . 6119b ing . Medical Testimony to the mire of five cases 4; l ti lh - "a, from G. Jr. Boutell, Professor of Galvanism : k ,4 1 ,,,,•vt, Q " Southsea, near Portsmouth, Ilants, sth Nov., 1848. 81 ) :Sh`tst.,!" , te'romx.—Sir—I must in justice to you send the foi st te4iff7nllal with regard to the extraordinary efficacy of your ke n te h 4 L e ! of Gutta Serena. I have used it in five cases with ' oities kliZhat se yen log be please. netft and The cure. cures ' have wholly astonished 411 a nds of oth ers .—T am , Sir, &c., , bi4t l tt ers t .. G.' H. BOUTELL, Professor of Galvanism." h.11 1 .,' w1 11 , . 8 (r. William Grimstone, llcrbary, Highgate, near 14:1 0 ,,' , 1 rit„ich establishment he continues to manufacture his 'hil'lvin, -. , II TOBACCO so much esteemed in all foreign parts. , ..,,,tiitTs. sp ,,i'ti t ' o : t ,e,ri l i e n a. t s e u s r t e i i rn ' o o f nr io o m f i e ts e, delightful qualities, is from I tiT t he, C - I salingteld Cottage, Honiton, Devon, 15th August, 1848. SpUleioste P i ot deny myself the pleasure of stating hew highly I ktl %le et i , Tobacco. I have now found in it a substitute for N I ar, hith erto 4,,,,ak ~, obtained by me from a friend in Constanti ''elft and , u that lovers of mild, fragrant Tobacco would find a cceptable gift, at a very reasonable price. to 'I I ass your obedient servant, ItC 4"5111 " STUART FARQUHARSON, D.C.L. 1, k i l a teese,, , 4 'n Gemstone Herbary, Highgate." Al' ete„' e 'Y - fanted Tobacco is sold by all chemists and drug .' 2a, gas, With W. Gemstone's signature attached, at 7% el., ' and 4s. 6d. each. Including the Government stamp h t , f.te- t iBL , published, price 55., Bvo. in cloth, if , , 4k : l 3 ' RE of. the URETHRA; its ratho t 13),,,,4 ICE ltation nk., cues th e u al Treatment, with important Practical Ob ,ltv s fr, oe, . f, se and Abuse of Instruments in the Treatment - Z‘ l lita r r,"ltt s „ - : 'he Urinary Canal; showing how it is that Stric riN"kb, aa,,',",_ net only resist, but are aggravated by the ordi ,lo I ) ;Ted for their cure, ' and at length become seriously .147 olio lied " eonsequences of :stricture." The r k"'"rt, l hlel s ul 'Y nume rous cases, which will be found to embrace tos hi ''n of Stricture and its consequences, together with ! 1 11 k1Ne.,,,,,. 't4 h: 2 ‘ f ca ' re , -4 lt, CI tre,"o rie;J, t'• 11 COURTENAT, M.R.C.S.E. nl s s"teresq„l'kbourin under long-protracted stricture, with all ',,Ne: hibkileeL'niseri g will fled detailed in this work modes of is `feitie tt li''' to such e'' eases, the efficacy and superiority of kti 'n.% e s ,'kencesj.'d by repeated practice; whilst those w ho %h.,.. Pt0r,,,,: the less severe forms of the disc se may n s nti n , l 4,,' i,Pt relief and at thc same time suc inforation i t ,`ne,;' , WI, eii,"in from , becoming the victims of unskill.l and d ote ~- f e l , - Ole -- the main-spring of severe and complicated ob. el k hs 'lll ice? ll kli ary canal. " The operation of introdusing a ir 5 11 ' 1 4 4 th t in 4 ,,k impermeable stricture is, without doubt, the '''lee,! be :_ pip a 4" whole range of surgical operations, and di - ot r aliZet•s m uc e, science, and skill of a master. The art ''sl ON 1;"Ist S ur • find that gradually, by frequent practice."- - 'oks e jr II li e nf le - ;Alliii&e, 219, Regent-street ; and may be had ` ls vi and country. () I,,estr,,_ .. _ Tilt ttyp,Lad b,, p rtTT-FIRST EDITION. a, (4 'AT, - .6 Anatotrucai Colourod EngraVine• OR Ste., 1 . -7 )1' -Il l' -1 Z. 1 .,Q11 . A. CATIONS, GENE RATITE IIhCAPA. bv ' tl4lll t tit '' i i eili;;;" , I MP L E I DINLENTS TO b•MleheempAriGteE .28. 6d., or ErectL i'r°,:electtliA'n es 6 ta P b a lfs g h s tne j n ns t, t 3 p s u . postage stamps, 44‘11 ' 41 - ' - 'N ' T FRIEND, a Medical Work on ,'ltti ° tid",rkitt. ~,,,1 i, ,,, 11, t , c, g and decay of the generative . system, from an ti; 4,- 1 7L10,.. 4 • iating certain 14 . 11, ..5 , 4, tr.. ' infection , and the inorain eb a v te use of mercury, I l'. l-'1 flil u ' et rri r 1 ure4 Engravings. By It. and eg ,,, e, and tko means of 1 1 ,1, t rep t „end o ' 4 4 by 2; Co o ;tk ru kt t , ll . 1.01,4,;',0., Consulting Surgeons, IT4, Berners-street, bstr Ox . - NI °.l,,ptr_row4; Published by tko n A s u a t n k , o e r r s , ‘s7, ld Oxf y ordist a r n ee g t - : atil;4‘skt.74t. it°lberne•slitraenetari . 3) ,. a rk a et ; axd ' Gordon, 146, Leaden -1,44, jp .tr 'atil of arM ith44141 is i h ,, - the an atomy and physiology of the re-producti7e Ipi ,, e, i', tTpat.,trated by Six Coloured Engravings. l l' f ' t e.lo %el - i s f the c onsequences resulting from excessive bath/ I l',lrt,t-eY wpal;aleutable effects on the system, producing mantel A t l ~r , ! by Tir';‘,l,,laervous excitement, and generative neaps ..,. cl., lit.l. Three XXplant,tory Engravings. k, , t rp 4 ) - or p, e " ° l' the di:soaves resulting from infection, Other in piti l t t ‘ t eiro i t . ;;,;!.ler7 for-,:n h, 4k, Is. his ne.ction is illustrated ty beven.essu Coloured . and contairs explicit dir e ctions for N t Itib-,.* to ‘,. o ti, -,Die ~,'lns a P rescription for the Prevention of Dlaea b l 1, tt , "' his i;; A ca tion, by Which the danger of infection .s c tti t !kk Vitico. P°rtallt part of the Work should no eSed,f3 the tk. 4 e, , n ` • la dev oted 'ltb l' , la ," —c tcd tO the consideration of marruge, and its alp - auSe of t Ib to subject c. unproductive union aro also considered, and Ixeor, ebrp l ii 'ltically and philosophically inquired into. tlp . ell* p „, n _ 4 _ 4 , * oP TllA.cust is exclusislly employed in treat tp,Zl,, for `,',fexcu al..debility, impotence, &c., 11 s. and 335. per p t, s, ' tr ..tr ptiriZ_ „nt.ated P' impotence, Y3sence, an anti-syphilitic kt,0,,, , i iitio s '..!,.. the blood i•• cues ofinfection, secondary gym p -14ip ~r t irit,,,,..fn_e the abuse el rro:cnry, 111. and 335. per bottle. i tt h pr "err,,,,,:iy, Pecific Fills, 2s. 9d., 45. n 1 is. por box, a it 141,,ru.t bladnprx°a°rrh,f..leet, stricture, and chronic infiainnia spilth,Ntkp.: alk, is ,_ - '2, r _ lB, ,L . tatioti fee, if by letter, 1/. A minute tt ,izi;, aan74l,ereQubeagnei4haaittsze aznsdtaitTiszi,tion so , ciety. kit pt 1,04 4'1%111 Igeff3r3. Perry, Surgoo-nnas d ß ar n e ° in 'L a Y t: l n 7 - . 111, 1 IP L rlil irs - str 4 • ecti Oxford-street, Lonuen, from Eta -4 "I I - $ 9 111 114 I 94 lady; 0 ' 044 EATIA tg Oze APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED, LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe guard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 6, Pere-street, Oxford street, London, and 68,• Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other Oilmen and Merchants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in since. N.B. To guard against imitations, see that the names of " LEA And PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS, 15 To bo hail of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Caryalho, 147, Fleet-street ;: Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or direct from the author price One Shilling each ; by post, Is. 6(.1. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. "Health, Recreation, and rational Use of Time." Cortrasio:—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 Tripe and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evenings at Home —Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, sleeping, Bathing, Air, Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c., &c. FRAGMENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two Tole. Tel I. A VISIT TO THE LAKES; SKETCLI OF EDINBURGH, &c. Vol. 11. THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY . ; REMINISCENCES 01' DUBLIN, &e. 111. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, ANp AVOID. "That three score years and ten our sours• may run." A popular review of almost every form (cants and cure) of ner vously-debilitated 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 lations of every-day life. IT. THE PASSIONS. " What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truth; as refined as Athens ever heard." Sna.rEcT :—Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent of the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casualties of licentiousness and dissipation, witn illustrations, graphic, narrative, and remedlative. Advocacy of early marriages. THE MARRIAGE STATE. " To be or not to be, that Is the question.* PaoanAmmx :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and re ligion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and choice, 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. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841). M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. 1824). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these matters. Reception hours daily till Ave. Evenings, sever tlll nine. 10, Argyll place. Regent-street. UNIVERSIT Y INTELLIGENCE. MATHEMATICAL SCHOLARSHIPS. OXFORD, FEB. 12.—The examiners appointed by the trustees of the mathematical scholarships give notice that an examination will be held in the schools on Monday, the 11th of March, and the following days, for the pur pose of electing one senior and one junior scholar. Gen tlemen who desire to offer themselves as candidates are requested to call, with certificates of their standing, the consent of the Head or Vicegerent of their College or Hall, and (for the senior scholarship) of their having passed the examination for their degree, in case they have not taken the degree of 8.A., on Professor Powell, New College-lane, ou Wednesday, March 6, at two o'clock. The junior scholarship is open to all members of the University who have not exceeded nine terms from their matriculation inclusively. The senior scholarship is open to all Bachelors of Arts, or those who have at least passed their public examina tion, and have not exceeded the 26th term from their matriculation inclusively. BADEN POWELL. B. PRICE. W. SPOTTISWOODE. ASIIMOLEAN SOCIETY. At a meeting of this society, held on Monday last, the president, after the conclusion.of the ordinary business, communicated to the members that a gentleman, as a deputation from the committee of the National Exhibi tion in London, had a few days previously visited Ox ford for the purpose of inviting the members of the University and the residents in the city to some public expression of their approbation of the proposed exhibi tion in the British capital of the works of industry of all nations of the world. A subscription was accordingly commenced among the members of the Ashmolean So ciety, and the following gentlemen put down their names:—The Rev, the Vice-Chancellor, 5/.; the Rev. the Principal of Alban Hall, 51.; the Rev. the Warden of New College, 5/.; Professor Daubeny, 51.; the Rev. R. Greswell, Worcester College, President of the Ash. molean Society, 101. THE REDUCTION OF THE ARMY. The following is a copy of the circular memoran dum relative to the reduction in the army : " Horse Guards, February 6. . - "Her Majesty having been pleased to approve of a further reduction in the infantry from the 31st of March ❑ext, the following are the arrangements under which it is to be carried into effect, viz:— "First—The sth, 20th, 36th, 42d, 44th, 45th, 56th, 67th, 69th, 76th, and 2d battalion Rifle Brigade, to b• respectively reduced from 1,200 to 1,000 rank and file, and consolidated into one battalion. "The supernumerary officers of these regiments will be retained on the strength of their respective corps en second, with the exception of the surgeons and quarter masters, who will be plamd on half-pay. " The second adjutants will remain in their ranks of lieutenant or ensign, as the case may be. " The commanding officers will proceed at once, under the superintendence and direction of the general officer commanding on the station, to carry out the proposed reduction, as far as may be necessary and practicable, after deducting invalids, by the immediate discharge of such supernumerary non-commissioned officers and men as may be desirous to quit the service for the purpose of settling in the colonies, or who can procure the means of providing for their removal to England without sub jecting the public to expense. _ " Th ese regiments will henceforth have only nominal depots, such as tho.e maintained by regiments in India, consisting of a captain, who will, as - heretofore, have charge of the regimental records (assisted, when neces sary, by one or two lieutenants), and five sergeants and five corporals, detached from the regiment. " Secondly—The 6th Regiment will be reduced from 1,200 to 750 rank and file, the reserved battalion being formed into an ordinary four-company depot of 216 rank and file, with such additional nnmber as may be required to make up the establishment of the regiment; and the whole of the supernumerary officers placed on half-pay, and such of the noncommissioned officers and men as are not inclined to transfer their services to other corps will be discharged. " Thirdly—The 11th, 58th, and 65th Regiments will be reduced from 1,000 to 750 rank and file, and in like manner formed into six service and four depot corn- panies. " The reduction of these regiments to 540 rank and file each :(the establishment of the service companies), will, as far as practicable .be effected by the discharge, on the spot, of such non-commissioned officers and men as may be desirous of being released from the service with a view to becoming settlers, or who have the means of providing their own passage to England, sending home the proper establishment of officers and non-com missioned officers to form and organise the regimental depot. " Lastly—The depOts of the Ist Battalion Royals, 7th, 1G Lb, 19th, 34th ,38th, .54th, 6Gth, 72d, 73d, 79th, BSth, 95th, end ht Battalion Rifle Brigade, will respectively be redueel from 230 to 210 rank and tile, which will readily be eff:eted by discontinuing recruiting until the new establishment shall be attained. "The men to be voluntarily discharged, as above di rected, will, o course, receive all the advantages they may be entitled to claim under the provisions of her Majesty's warrant, according to the length and nature of their service; but care must be taken to select thole for discharge, in preference, who have been found gene rally the least efficient soldiers, and whom, therefore, it way be deemed the least desirable to retain. " By command, "Jonx MACDONALD, Adjutant-General." The reduction will thus amount to 3,680 rank and file. In Cumberland 3,640 persons are employed in mines, o leihom 825 are under 21 years of age; 3,836 in the cotton manutacture (bleachers, dyers, an d printers included), of whom 1,065 are under 20 years of age; 388 in the flax and linen manufacture, of wh om ,153 aro under 2b years of age.—Cumberland Parquet, " We have constantly to regret the rejection of bills on account of suppressed evidence, which dishonest re:- sons possessed of property are able to procure by buying or tampering with witnesses. This is one of the evils attendant on secret sittings. Were the de positions taken before the magistrates placed before the grand jury, or were the public admitted to hear the evidence given, better results might fol low. Two very serious evils attendant on the system among us are very obvious. One is the constant es capes from justice of known and inveterate offenders by the suppression of evidence; and the other is the com mittal to Newgate of respectable persons in consequence of bills found against them for some alleged offence, of which, in some instances, magistrates have refused to take cognisance. These things I know are matters of deep interest to the Court, and they doubtless are apply ing to them their grave consideration. " Before leaving the subject of unconvicted prisoners, the numbers returned of those who have previously been in Newgate in some degree throw light on the subject. Out of 2,637 there had been previously in Newgate 345, and in other prisons 385, or about two in seven. As in last year I observed Woven out of eight are committed to Newgate for the first time ; 345 out of 2,637 is nearly the same proportion as 406 out of 3,133 in the preceding year. _ _ " This result must convince any impartial person that a large proportion of offenders committed to Newgate must reform and abandon their evil courses, and the ex perience of all persons who have to deal with the mass of the criminal population confirms the supposition that it is so. The gaol of Newgate beyond all doubt has great defects compared with more modern erections, but results from those more perfect prisons do not surpass the metropolitan gaol in this respect, that seven out of eight do not return to us again, "INSANE PERSONS. "I am happy to remark that under the head of insane persons we have none of that class now in Newgate. Juries seem to have given over the habit of declaring per sons not guilty on the ground of insanity, when they have really been quite as free from lunacy as the jurors them selves. Most deplorable instances of this infatuation, that for a time took possession of some persons, are still to be met with in the lunatic asylums of other places, where criminal lunatics are confined. Such prisoners have for many months pined away in Newgate, and are removed only for others to witness those unwise convictions of lunacy in the protracted, and in some instances per petual, imprisonment of such offenders. Who dare un dertake the responsibility of liberating murderers, or attempted murderers, that have been wrongly declared lunatics on some slender evidence. Nothing seems to await such misplaced leniency but the needless seclusion of some asylum or common gaol. " CONVICTED PRISONERS. " As regards convicted prisoners, we have had in those sentenced to short periods many instances where youth, temptation, debts, love of finery, or the influence of pleasure, have brought those offending under the power of the law. The greatest pains and care have been taken with all cases of a hopeful character, t i prevent, if possible, a recurrence to crime. Tbe great efforts that must be made towards the rege neration of criminals must be made with those who are not far gone in iniquity. With respect to habitual thieves, the only question is, not how to reform them, but how best to employ them.' Very few of this har dened tribe think of reforming, except it be that by reform they may further victimise their dupes. But it is not so with many first offenders. Much good may be done, and has been done, among them, and I could heartily wish that some plans were adopted out of doors to prevent, it possible, their committal or conviction. Efforts might be made by domiciliary visits, and by giving additional powers to the superior officers of the police, that might, I think, have a very beneficial effect. Where persons aro living without any known and visible means of sub sistence, a sufficient ground-work is laid to suspect that the public are being injured to such extent as to call for a defence from such parties. A continuance in these habit.; after warning ought to be sufficient to c7ais them among rogues and vagabonds, it' they did not or would not satisfactorily explain thennelves. The mere rout ing them out from their habitation; ' the influence of their landlord, and the suspicion that such visits would throw upon their character might'do much. But the moral influence of the neighbourhood is required ta sanction and give effect to those interventions. If thieves were not encouraged by their associates and in structors they would soon cease to pursue a course where shame and poverty only would attend them, and where danger at every turn awaited them. I hope much will yet be done by moral and energetic effects wisely and kindly applied to the habitation of the thief. More may be dune outside than in prison." YOUTHFUL DELINQUENTS. After stating that the number of boys under instruc tion in Newgats in the last year was by 73 less than in the year preceding, when there were 284, the report proceeds:— " With this considerable decrease in the number of boys committed, a great change has taken place in the character of those committed. First offenders, unless charged with a very serious offence, are seldom now found in the gaol of Newgate. Boys of respect able connexions, from drapers' shops, pawnbrokers, ~rocers, bakers, and others, are much more rarely found among the committals since the happy alteration of the law in giving summary power to magi strates to adjudicate in sueh cases. lam reporting, my Lord and gentlemen, on the state of Newgiste—not ou the state of crime in the metropolis or in the City, as a learned gentleman misunderstood me last year, and I feel very thankful that the decrease among boys conti nues to the present time in this gaol. " It will be found, in dealing with boys who have ad dicted themselves to habits of dishonesty, that great carelessness has been exhibited in their training by their parents, or sad misfortune, in the loss of one or both of them, has happened to these children. Inveterate propensities to dishonesty in persons so young that the pressure of debts or the impulses of impurity can have had no share in destroying their reputation, must be traced in them to inherent depravity or to evil examples in their domestic circle. Measures should be taken, therefore, rather to provide a remedy for the cause than for the crime itself. All that the necessity of the case admits is limited to good industrial occupation, the influence of proper example and sound religious in struction. Beyond the appliance of these corrections, the case must be left to a higher power—man's further efforts are futile and visionary. " HABITUAL CRIMINALS. " Among the prisoners sentenced to periods of three months and upwards, but under twelve months, will be found many addicted to crime as a habit, and under its permanent influence ; bat the large majority of these will not again be found in the annals of Newgate. " Between prisoners sentenced to twelve months and upwards and transports a very slender partition divides. The difference in the sentence declares only that less has been proved against them. The altera tion in the law, rendering uulawful to transport in cases of simple larceny, has caused some very great offenders to escape this punCehtnent. Stealing from carts, carriages, and waggons. n the streets—a very serious offence in the metropolis, and formerly punished almost invariably with transportation, as well as stealing parcels from railway stations, is now an offence sub jected to imprisonment only. This has increased our number sentenced to twelve months and upwards, and has decreased to the same extent our transports. We had 465 transported in 1849, but in 1848 they amounted to 591; so that during the last year no less than 126 of the general decrease fslls under this head. "We have bad a considerable number of these unhappy men confined for several months in Newgate; and it is becoming a serious matter to contem plate the mischief and corruption that take place among these men, confined as they are with us. The aggregate proportion is not lessened, but increased, if you consider the 12 months prisoners and trans ports in one class-938 in 2,637 is a larger proportion than 1,070 in 3,156. The mode of imprisonment in exercise with respect to those prisoners now so gene rally confined in England becomes really a matter of national importance. It is greatly to be desired that no sentences—except for very short periods— should take place in Newgate. The perpetual excitement, the ever fluctuating character of the in mates, the assemblage of criinals of the most flagrant nature, the constant recurrence of the sessions, make Newgate a very uncle iirable prison for purposes of lengthened confinement. We have two men charged as debtors to the Crowe, for not paying ovor the moneys they have received as collectors of property tax, who are much more fit to be detained in custody in Whitecross-street Prison, than in the common criminal gaol for the county of Middlesex. Occasionally men for conspiracies, or for political of fences, must cf necessity, as the law now is. be impri soned in Newgate. For such persons we want better places than we have to meet the case fairly, and to make the sentence or detention such as it should be. The prison, in these respects, should either be altered to meet these cases, or moans be taken that such sentences should be elsewhere carried into effect. " THE TRANSPORT WARDS. " With regard to transports the state is much worse. The condition of thew men, confined for a19131b5 in pet feet idleness, makes them speed their leisure in awfully corrupting one another. I will not mock your feelings by attempting to describe the language, acts, and habits of those utterly depraved men. Their fil ' thiness, falsehood, and, p e rni c i ous a bo m inations are too bail to be described. I blame no one that things are so. The migistrates wish these men removed to their proper places z f confinement. The Government are unable to comply with those reasonable desires, because every place is full. Would it not be better, then, t) fit up wards as workshops after the manner of Milbank Prison, and keep these offenders constantly at labour, compel them to wear the prison dress, and subject them to the pros or discipline, when occupied prisoners are more cunienterl, and cannot misemploy their time in cor rupting and disgusting language? I press this matter the more earnestly because it has tem' the cause of all tie calumnies that have found their way into many public documents as to the corruption inside of Newgate. Such depravity is chiefly limited to the trans port wards, end those in which known offenders are as sociated. The public - are getting much better to under stand not merely what can be done, but what cannot be done 'with" incorrigible offenders. Toe limits begin to be discerned where reformation is hopeful, and %here it is visionary. The character of the inveterate thief gets better understood, and he will be treated as his conduct requires he should be treated. "THE SEPARATE CELLS. "There is another part of the prison that still more urgently calls for the attention of the worshipful Court. I mean the state of the cells where prisoners are confined under sentence, or when the nature of the charge requires they should be kept separate. These cells are so intensely cold when the weather is inclement tlkat.the riegree of pain which the prisoners feel is -almost es great as human nature can endure. The pain of extreme cold is one of the moat severe that th e h uman f rame can ex perience. It is often necessary either to expose prisoners to this grievous Beefing or to remove them to other parts of the prison far less desirable. The Court has frequently had this subject under their notice, and has gone so far as to prepare plans for the warming and ventilating of these cells; but nothing has hitherto been done to remove from the prison an evil which, in very cold weather, amounts almost to torture. " INCORRIGIBLE CONVICTS. "During the laatyear we have had three prisoners t r i e d for acts of violence towards turnkeys —one from Wool wich hulks, one from Milthank prison, and one fr om th e New Model Prison, Pentonville, They were each mur derous attempts, from vindictive motives, at personal violence, and are strong indications of the depravity of incorrigible convicts. It is apparent that the sentence of transportation, carried out by separate confinement, is not sufficient to deter these violent and rash offenders. The only remedy for such mea is firm, gentle, but rigorous imprisonment, with plenty of occupation, with moderate opportunities for self reformation; not so such with a hope that they may be really made available, as with a proper determination to leave them without excuse. Amongst this class of offenders were the extreme penalty against murder re laxed, the frequency of this heinous crime would be frightfully multiplied. " I have the honour to remain, " My Lord ani Gentlemen, • " Your - faithful and obedient servant, " Jour; DAVIS, Ordinary." Ordered, together with the report of the Rev. Mr. Cohen, the chaplain of the Giitspur-street Compter, upon the state of that prison, to - be printed. Adjourned. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY. — We have much plea sure in announcing the selection of Captain William Honyman Henderson, C. 8., K.S.F. (1838), to suc ceed Captain Austin, C. 8., in the command of her Majesty's ship Blenheim, 56, at this , port, and the superintendence of the steam squadron on this station. Captain Henderson is peculiarly qualified for the above appointment, having had considerable experience in the command of steamers, his last having been the Sidon frigate. Whilst the officers of the Blenheim regret the loss of Captain Austin, their regret is tem pered with satisfaction at the appointment of such a successor, whose experience, zeal, urbanity, and hos pitality are so well known and properly estimated. • The Sphynx steam-sloop, Commander C. F. N. Chadvvell, is manned within a couple of dozen sea men, and will be ready to leave by•the end of the present month for the East India station, touching at Rio de Janeiro, to which place she will probably carry a mail. Captain Ramsay, late of the Terrible steam-frigate, is named as likely to have the command of the Ajax block -ship, now ready for commission. This coast has been visited lately by some boistrous gales, which only abated last night. Many ships have beendriven in here in distress, among them the Dutch ship Immagonda, with a valuable cargo ; a large French merchant ship with loss of anchors, having dragged from Spithead nearly to the - Woolsners, a fatal shoal off Langston harbour. Lloyd's own ves sel, the. Navarin, was driven ashore on Southern beach, but happily without loss of life, and was ulti mately got"off without much damage below. These are only a few of the casualties that have occurred from the tempestuous state of the weather. Her Ma jesty's ship Hercules, 7/, Master-Commander Fulton, was the only vessel off this port that held on without dragging or drifting, which is owing to her anchor being a patent one. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLICICtr, FEE. 13.—Captain William A. Hen derson, C.B. (1838), to the Blenheim, 56, steam guard-ship, at Portsmouth, vice Captain Horatio T. Austin, C. 8., appointed to command an expedition to the Arctic regions. Assistant-Surgeons George Gordon (1846) and Edward W. Pritchard (1846) to the Asia, 84, flag ship of. Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, C. 8., on the Pacific station. Midshipman W. B. Edwards to the Sphynx steam sloop, at Portsmouth. PROMOTIONS. Mato the Hon. H. A. Moreton (1849), at present serving in the Vixen, 6, steam-sloop, on the North America and West Indies station, to be Lieutenant. Mate Gwinniett Tyler (1849), at present serving on particular se r v i ce , t o b i n e the Lieutenant. Scourge steam-sloop, William Moyse to be Acting Carpenter. John Robertson to be Boatswain. COAST GUARD. Lieutenant John H. Crang (1840) has been ap pointed to serve in the Coast Guard. THE NORTH-WEST RESUMED SEARCH. GUTTA PERCIIN BOATS. There have been so many jimcrack and flying• kite inventions (some of them, indeed, more ingenious than useful) offered and submitted to the Admiralty to be employed on board the ships sent out to search for Sir John Franklin, that we are loth to add another that may perhaps be also considered in the same light. However, we are so much impelled with the notion that gutta percha boats mi g ht b e use d i n t h e forthcom ing expedition with great advantage and utility, that we cannot help earnestly calling the attention of Capt. Austin to this matter. A gutta percha boat appears to us to possess every desirabl e q ualification for use in the northern regio ns , T he most i ntense co ld an d frost renders gutt a p erc h a so f i rm an d t oug h th a t i t will withstand th e h ardest usage (fire excepted). Nothing injures it. It possesses great buoyancy, comparatively with a common boat would be exceed ingly light It is impervious to water and damp—is quickly dried after being wet. It is not liable to crack or break ; and should any accident occur to it, it is easily repaired by a solution of its own substance prepared by heat. In broken ice a boat of this description would be invaluable from its lightness. Portages might easily be made by carry ing this boat over the ice from one open stream of water to another. When a common boat would be nipped or c rus h e d b y a pres sure of ice, this boat might be lifted and saved. A blow from a floating piece of ice, that would stave in and destroy a com mon boat, would only make the gutta percha boat re bound. Had Sir James Ross possessed boats of this de scription, and placed them on light runners or sledges, his exploration parties would have been able to have proceeded as far again as they did, and his men would not have suffered so much from fatigue as they did, as they would have had much lighter weights to have dragged over the rough ice and snow. From the above considerations we have no hesitation in endea vouring to draw Captain Austin's attention to the services that might be derived from the use of a few gutta percha boats in his north-west expedition. We hear that the vessels to be used on this oc casion are to be purchased vessels, and not men-of war, and that they are now being selected. O ne , however, will not be a searching vessel, but will remain at some safe port in Baffin's Bay, to be pointed out by Captain Austin, where she will remain as a refuge vessel, in case any accident happening to the searching vessels that the crews in their boats may have a refuge to fall back upon. Had a third vessel accompanied Sir John Franklin in his voyage to the north-west, we should in all probability ha ve known in what direction to have searched for his missing ships, and not been in our present predica ment, groping in the dark. We have great faith in Captain Austin's energy and experience. We believe he has been actively em ployed at sea for 32 years, and has always served with great ability. We hope ho will not be fettered with .qualified or unqualified Admiralty orders. However well Meant, tuey frequently hamper end THE SICILIAN STEAMER BOMBAY AND 'TIE KING OF NAPLES. The folio wing letter from Al. Ameri, late Minister of Finance in Sicily, has been published in the Democratie Pacifigue : Sir,—l beg to request that you will glee me the as sistance of your journal in making an appeal to the public against an act of the Neapolit tit Government di rectly affecting myself. I will state in a few words the origin of the affair. The Parliamentary Government of Sicily, under which the portfolio of finanees was confided to me from the 28th of March to the 31st of August, 1848, recognised the necessity of arming several steam-vessels of war. The Commons Chamber approved of this project, and in its sitting of April 16, voted a credit for the acquirement of four war steamers. The new debt, created by a de cree of the 13th of April, was found insufficient for this expense, and the Chamber accordingly voted other re sources and extraordinary imposts, which were made law on the 19th of May. The executive power, on its part, through the medium of Prince Granstelli and M. Scalia, its commissioners to the British Government, concluded the purchase of two steamers then building in England. In accordance with the conditions stipulated, I made a first remittance of between 126,000 and 127,000 ducats, _by means of bills of exchange, indorsed to the two commissioners, MM, Granstelli And Scalia. In order to provide for this ex pense, and of others in the war department, the Parlia ment in the month of December ordered a forced loan to be male, which was paid with astonishing celerity. With this money the new Minister, M. Cordova, and MM. Count Amari, Prince Butera, and Marquis Cords, who succoded him in the department of finance, successively remitted to London a sum of more than 700,000 ducats, by means of bills of exchange endorsed to MM. Grans telli and Scalia. The price of the two vessels was paid in this manner, and several pieces of artillery, with other munitions of war, were also purchased. The latter, together with one of the steamers, were sent to Sicily. On the arrival of the steamer at Palermo, in the month of March, she received the name of the Indipendenza. The other vessel, the Bombay, was arrested et the mo ment of her departure by the Customs authorities of London, on the demand of the Neapolitan Ambassador; but she was afterwards released. Towards the end of April and beginning of May, Sicily, as it is known, fell into the power of the King of Naples, who hastened to possess himself ofall the muni tions of war, among which were those which had been purchased in England. The French Government some time afterwards made him a present of the Indipendenza, which had been seized in the port of Marseilles. But the Neapolitan Government was not so lucky with re spect to the Bombay, the other armaments, and the money, which remained at London in the possession of the Sicilian commissioners. Two obstacles were thus opposed to the wishes of the Neapolitan Government, The commissioners, true to their duty and their honour, refused to give up to the, enemy the money and armaments which the Sicilian Government had confided to them, and, by the laws of England, it was impossible to compel them, as the King of Naples is not recognised in England as the legitimate heir to the Parliamentary Government of Sicily. The result has been that the steam-vessel, the arms, and the money have remained a sacred deposit. In this state of things the Neapolitan Government has adopted another mode of attack. It established, some time ago, an exceptional tribunal in Sicily. for the trial of revolutionary accounts. This court, which rivalled the councils ot war, has just condemned myself, and MM. Cordova, Butera, Count Amari, Cerda, Granstelli, and Scalia, to pay into the treasury of the King of Na ples, in Sicily, all the sums which the five Ministers successively had forwarded to the two London commis missioners for the object in question. This decree has motived my protest, Ido not know before what tribunal it is intended to bring my colleagues, but for myself I desire no other than the public, as I believe the power in the name of which we have been condemned to be illegal and founded on usurpation. The King of Naples is neither more nor less than a usurper in Sicily. The revolution of 181 S restored to Sicily its aucieat and legitimate Parliamentary Govern ment. F. relinand of Bourbon recognised that Govern ment, and by a decree dated the 6th c f March, 1848, be accapted the Act fir the convocation of the Parliament, as it had been f• amed at the revolution. Afterwards he refused to agree to this legislation, because he was not content with the limits asBl2ned to the executive power. the Parliament found itself compelled to confide this power to a President of the Government and to six Mi nisters. By another well-known law the Parliament decreed the dowr , f All of the Bourbons. After the events of the war in Sicily and the Peninsula, the Parliament prorogued itself un the 14th April, 1849, without, how ever, dissolving itself. The seine was toe case with the executive power, which only retired b, fore a military occupation of the island. Not a soul in Sicily renounced his political rights. Übe King of Naples, who has never profited by the lessons of adversity, seems to have preferred, after the occupation of Sicily, to remain there as an usurper, rather than adopt a line of conduct by which a govern ment might succeed in legitimatising itself. So far from respecting the fundamental condition of his dynasty, his own decree of the 6th of March, 1848, or even that of February, 1848, which was the result of French and English mediation; so far from re-assembling the Sici lian Parliament, he has insulted Sicily, by instituting in that country in the place of its old parliament, a consulta, composed ot seven salaried government officials, possess ing neither the initiative nor a deliberative voice. So far from governing according to the laws, be has only manifested his power in Sicily, by sentences of death, arrests cn masse, decrees of exile, terror, and insult. Without any Parliamentary decrees, he has re-established the tax upon the grinding of corn, the stamp duties, and a duty on the exportation of sul phur. He has in the most arbitrary manner charged Sicily with enormous war expenses; he has augmented its public debt to the exclusive advantage of the Naples treasury; but he has not blushed to ascribe the war debt to the malappropriations and destructions of the revolu tion. I think that no casuist will venture to call a go vernment legitimate so vicious in its origin and so ce testable in its conduct. No one will recognise in its orders any other value than tt.at of brute force, the right of brigands and wild beasts. It is very natural that I should decline a jurisdiction proceeding from such a government. But however ille gitimate in its origin, am!, perhaps, inefficacious in its effect', a sentence which has for its pretext the restitu tion of public moneys, always conveys areunplessantidea to the public mind. Most certainly lam not the person to la main silent under such a decree, or to hesitate to place it in is true light before the public. The facts which I have mentioned et the beginning of this letter are sufficient for the proper appreciation of the decree of the exceptional magistrates in Sicily. It is only necessary to add that that authority has con demned us without summoning us to appear before it— without listening to a word in our defence, and in my case, at least, without notifying its decree. I will sup pose for a moment that the government of Naples pos sessed the right of undoing all that has been done by the Parliamentary government of Sicily. Under this supposition even, it is evident that the ministers of finance could not be made responsible for al expendi diture so explicitly ordered by the Parliament, nor fur the acts cf the commissioners in London, who were not of their choice, but who were appointed by the president of the government, assisted by his council of ministers. Among the causes of this decree there is one which says that the forwarding of the money from Palermo to London must be regarded as a commercial operation, because it was effected by the ministers of finance. by means of bills of exchange, and not by sending cargoes of gold and silver. It is not necessary that I should exhibit all the odiousness and absurdity of this reasoning. 1 may however call attention to the injustice of the demand for the restitution of all the sums of money sent to London, while the Neapolitan Government has in its posses sion at least one-half of the amount, that is to say. the steam corvette Indipendenza, with great portion of the arms, and other munitions of war. But 1 shall leave to those who will be compelled to justify themselves before the judges of the King of Naples the full development of these arguments, in order that they may make a full and complete defence of themselves, and so, perhaps, save their property from being impounded by the publie treasury. For myself, I shall insist only on one argument. The money which the different ministers of finance in Sicily forwarded to London, in order to arm their country against an enemy who attache I it unjustly, that money is, I say, the prof erty of Sicily, and not of its enemy. That money was the produce of extraordinary resources, created, as I have stated, by the decrees of the 13th April and the 19th May, and by the loan of De cember, 1848. Whatever may remain of it, whether in money, ships, or objects of war, neither ought nor can it be given up to any one but the Sicilian people, or its sole legitimate representative—the Parliament. To give up their money or its representatives to any other power than the Sicilian Parliament, would be aid ing or instrumental.to an act of robbery. Profoundly convinced of this truth, I not only refuse to submit to the decree, the illegality and injustice of which I have just shown, but I shall do all in my power to render it utterly inefficacious. The Government of Naples wishes to add the steamer Bombay to its squadron, to increase its magarines by a few more pieces of artillery, and to add a little more money to its treasury. Unable to effect any one of these objects before the English law courts in its own name, because it Was not the party sending the money, the Neapolitan Government has discovered a very simple means of proceeding against some of the ex-ministers of finance who possess property in Sicily. It Wants to force RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN. The statement of accounts for the six months ending 31st December last was completed yesterday. After deducting 167,0001. charged against revenue for interest, there remains a net profit of• 633,0001. on the traffic of the half-year. A dividend, after the rate of 6 per cent. per an num; would amount to 534,0001., or 1,0001. more than the entire) net profit for the half-year. If a dividend at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum be declared, the balance to be carried forward to assit the June half-year will nct exceed 45,0001. The balance hitherto carried forward to the Jane account has been about 70,0001. A dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. par annum would leave a balance of 89,000/. for the June six mouths. The balance carried forward by the London and North-Western Company for the December half-year has never been less than 70,000/. If, therefore, a dividend at the rate of 5f per cent. per annum should be asked for by the shareholders—for we believe the directors are likely to recommend a 5 per cent. divi dend—the probability is, that the next June dividend would be at the rate of 44 per cent. per annum, un less the large increase of traffic which has come upon the railway since the commencement of the year should be maintained through the current six months. —Herald. LEEDS AND BEAEPORD RAILWAY.—L ESDS' FED. 13.—T0-day the or di nary h a lf- year l y general meet ing of the above company (which is leased by the Midland Company, at 10 per cent.) was held at the White Horse Hotel. John Waddingham, Esq., for merly a Midland director, and chairman of the . Leeds and Bradford since Mr. Hudson's resignation, took the chair. Mr. Best, the solicitor, read the adver tisement convening the meeting, and the seal of the company was then pro forma affixed to the register of shareholders. The statement of accounts was next read. The disbursements during the past half-year were 42,794/. 165. 3d., which, being added to the previous expenditure, made a total of 1,419,607/. Ts. 9d. The receipts during the half-year were 35,1671.195. 6d., which, added to the previous receipts, made a total of 1,419,3961. 6s. Id. There was also a balance due to the bankers of 211'. is. Bd. The statement of accounts having been approved and adopted, the chairman submitted a proposition for the appointment of a director in place of himself, as he retired by rotation ; but if the shareholders thought he could be of any further service to the company, he should be glad to continue a member of the board. Mr. Murgatroyd moved the chairman's re-election, which was seconded by Mr. John Goodman, and unanimsusly adopted. Mr. George, one of the retiring directors, was also re-elected ; and Mr. Miles Illingworth was appointed auditor in the place of Mr. Robert Milligan, who had declined to act. A. dividend for the half-year ending the 31st of December last, at the rate of 21. 104. (less the income-tax) per share was then thciared payable on the Ist day of March next. The Chair tnan then stated that Mr. John Rhodes had been elected a director in the place of Mr. George Hud son, M.P , and Mr. William H enr y Ri p l ey i n place of Air. John Rand, who had retired. After a vote of thanks to the Chairmao,_the meeting adjour ne d. E WOLVRUAMPTON, CHESTER, AND BIRKENHEAD RAlLWAY.—Yesterday the utlairs of this company came on for winding up before the Master in Chan cery Brougham, upon the petition of five of the shareholders, which set forth that the undertaking was for a line between Birmingham and Birkenhead, with a proposed capital of 1,000,000/., in 50,000 shares of 201. each. All the shares were eagerly taken up, but, owing to the general panic of the period, only a small amount of money was paid. The preliminary expenses amounted to 12,0001., and of this a large amount is now outstanding and unpaid, and to liquidate it the petitioners have been called upon at law to, pay between 400/. and 500/. each. The Master proceeded with the first class of contri butories, consisting of 100 provisional committee men, whose names appeared on the prospectus, and who were declared liable under the Act RAILWAY BILLS ON STANDING ORDBES.—The Select Committee of the House of Commons, at their usual sitting, declared that the standing orders ought to be dispensed with, and that the parties be per mitted to proceed with their respective measures in the following cases :—Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway; North Staffordshire and Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway ; Mid land Great Western Railway of Ireland ; and Dublin, Dundrum, and Ratbfarnham Railway. IRELAND. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING.—Mr. Acheson Lyle has been appointed a member of the education board over the foundation schools, in succession to the late Rev. Dr. Elrington. Tuu WEATnett.—The weather continues very in clement. Yesterday evening there was a fall of snow, and in the course of the night a smart frost. CORK.—On Saturday last Mr. Pennington offered for sale, by auction, two portions of the lands of Corroghanearle, each respectively containing 102 and 103 acres, situate within two miles of the towns of Carrigadrohid and Macroom. They were held for a long term of years, and produced a clear annual profit of GO!. per annum. The highest bona fide offer was 4501., which not being accepted, they were bought in at 4601., there being no advance beyond that. ABDUCTION.—This crime, which is peculiar to Ire land, has become rather common of late. In the county of Kilkenny there have been two cases within the past fortnight, and two in Tipperary. Subjoined are a couple of the most recent. The first is from the Kilkenny Moderator of this morning:— " ABDUCTION.—On the night of Saturday last, a young woman, named Catherine Healy, about nineteen years of age, residing at Mount Nugent, near John's well, was seized upon, at her house, and forcibly carried off by a man named Roily, who had been previously paying his addresses to her, but unsuccessfully. The young woman, we understand, was daughter to a ser geant-major in the army, who, dying, lett her 300/., to be held in trust by the Might Rev. Dr. Healy, R.C. Bishop of Carlow, and this little fortune seems to have tempted the rejected suitor to the desperate course which he adopted. Assisted by another person, named Riley, his cousin, and also accompanied and abetted by a man named Richard Griffin, he seized the girl, and in spite of the resistance which she could offer, carried her off iu a covered car to the house of a Mr. Edmund Cronyn at Stonecarty, near Stoneyford. There she was detained during the night and following day, though she was not treated with violence. However, in the even ing she found means of sending a message to the Stonoyford constabulary barrack, requesting that the police would go to Stonecarty without delay, but not mentioning for what they were required. Constable Kelly, with two of his party, pro ceeded to Cronyn's house, and the moment they were observed the Biters and Griffin rushed out of the back door and made a precipitate retreat: Miss Healy called on the police to pursue the runaway?, which theyim; Griffin after did, and K e lly s ucceeded in capturing In after a warm rum The other policeman gave ovecotihabstee to the Riley; for upwards of a mile, but w overtake them. Griffin has been committed for trial by J.l'., i Colonel Wemye, J. ~ and a warrant has been sLued fir the arrest of ihe other delinquents. This is the second case of abduction occurring in our county within a fortnight." From the Limerick Reporter-." On Friday night a party of fellows entered the dwelling of a buxom widow, near Cooreclare, suspected of having plenty of cash, in tent on forcing her to become the wife of ono of the party. cUnderstanding that she slept generally with her daughters, our gay Lutharioe snatched up their supposed prize, with which they decamped to a house some miles distance, where to their utter chagrin, instead of the rich fascinating widow, they found themselves in possession of an old haggard pauper, whom the daughter had broueht for her companion for the night in the mother's accidental absence. Shortly after the discovery a party of the police in pursuit of the housebreakers came up, who arrested six of the party and committed them to prison, where they are to remain until after Shrove Tuesday." Tux loons g2ECIIANGE.—The Wes yesterday were ; He must have the courage also to remark upon tio)se errors which their rule-rs have apparently coin initted in former times, so that the concentrated wii dom of tile l,ri d ma 3 be the better enabled to avoid siu filar misthkez: when lsgisiatin for the present and the future. Ali this, it appears, has been well and nobly done by the Prime Minister of her Most Gracious Maj es ty_ On Friday lag, in making a declaration to the House of Commons (f the general policy her MA jesty's Government mean to pursue with regard to the colonies, Lord John Russell called upon the people of the British empire to regard with attention the page of past events, and reminded them that " wherever Englishmen have been sent, or have chosen to settle, they have carried with them the freedom and the institutions of the mother country?' With this landmark as his guide, his Lordship pro ceeds to tell our,Legislators that, " whenever you say political freedom cannot be introduced, you are bound. to show the reasons for such exemption." With these data as guide for the policy to be pur sued towards our colonies, his Lordship has not hesi tated to recal to our recollection Cromwell, " his high notion of British power and energy i" and here let us pause for a moment to consider, what is not England's power and energy now, compared with what it was then ? Well, indeed, may his .Lordship remark that we ought not " now to-be considering whether we should part with those cola nies.-77whether we shoulel make the connexion looser —or whether even we should leave them with less means of defence against foreign aggression." And his Lordship has not dreaded, with this landmark as his guide, to tell "those persons who have gone the length of proposing that instead of remaining subject to her Majesty, the province of Canada should be annexed to the United States," that "to that pro posal the Crown could give nothing but a decided negative." And his Lordship has firmly but mo destly expressed his trust that " those persons, know • ing the determined will of the Sovereign of this country and of her advisers, not to permit their project to be carried into effect, will acquiesce in the deci sion of Ow Crown." This trait of his Lordship's will no doubt find an echo in all true and loyal hearts, and - wiil, there can not be a shadow of a doubt, sooner or later give uni versal satisfaction throughout her Majesty's North American dominions. It is true, his Lordship hits said, " I do anticipate with others, that some of the colonies may so grow in population and wealth that they may say ' our strength is sufficient to enable us to be independent t f England " but his Lordship adds,."l do not. think that that time is yet approacb ing." So much for the political affairs of Canada. New for what his Lordship has said regarding our other colonies, and to that "question, which has been much agitated, namely, that we should no longer think it worth while to maintain our colonial empire, I say," observes his Lordship, "that I consider it to be our bounden duty to maintain the colonies which have been placed under our charge. I think we cannot get rid of the obligation and responsibilities to govern those colonies for their benefit, and I trust we way be the instruments of improving and civili zing those portions of the world in which they are.. situated." Thus boldly and ably does his Lordship meet this much agitated question, and who will gain say his Lordship's trust that we may be permitted to fulfil our appointed destiny ? But to proceed : In the early part of his Lordship's address a general sketch or outline is given of our early colonial polioy—eits progress, end of how our present colonial empire stands; thus we are shown our moral responsibility to retain all those possessions, their importance in peace as well as in war for the support of the imperial autho rity and the protection of our extesided com merce ; and the few following words of his Lordship will bring this forcibly home to the door of every aglishnisn, who " will admit the value of that commerce which penetrates to every place of the globe," and to which " many 41 those colonies give harbours and security most useful in time of peace, lunt absolutely necessary in time of war." Having explained all these matters, his Lord ship has bud the candour to confess that "discootent, and in some places well-founded discontent, has arisen," and has had tl:e courage also to refer to past errors as beacons to warn us from those mistakes' that appear in former times to have been so disastrous to the nation. On looking back," says his Lordship, " at the origin of that unhappy contest, I cannot but think that it was not a single error or a single blunder which got us into that contest, but a aeries of repeated errors and repeated blunders, of a policy assorted and then retreated from—again asserted, and then concessions made when they were toe late ; and of obstinacy when it was unrea sonable." " I believe," adds his Lordship, " that it was by such a course we entered into the unhappy contest with what were at the beginning of it the loyal provinces of North America." Thus are we warned by his Lordship to shun a weak and vacillating course of colonial history —may the nation profit by the advice. It was not to be supposed that the subject of free trade, the great commercial novelty of the age, and the one of so much consequence to our colonial em pire, would be omitted in so important a declaration, and accordingly we find his Lordship declaring, no doubt under the impression that the nation has deter mined to give this modern system a full and fair trial, that, " By the repeal, last year, of the naTigution laws, I conceive we have entirely put an end to the whole system of commercial monopoly in our colonies. It is not my purpose to go into the question whether this new policy a right or a wrong policy—it has led at home to questions as to how the colonies are to be in future managed ; the whole result of what I have to say is, that whatever discontent , has arisen from a transition painful to the colonies, front a system of monopoly as regards the colonies to a sys tem of free trade, we ought not to attempt to go back in any respect from that decision." To conclude, then, we gather from the declaration put forth by her Majesty's G )vernment—first, that the integrity ado, empire is to be maintained ; secondly, that the liberal commercial colonial policy is not to be given up ; and, thirdly, that the freedom and the institutions of Great Britain are to be ex tended to all her Majesty's subjects, in whatever quarter of the glob* they may think pro per to reside. There appears to be the three cardinal points upon which his Lordship has insisted in the colonial policy to be carried out ; and let us hope that, as ob'erved by the Right Honourable the Pre sident of the Board of Trade, " the calm tone in which this important question has been discussed is an augury of the manner in which colonial matters will in future be debated." And let us hope that, looking to the very favourable statistical results set before the House of Commons by his Lordship, the public will become every day more and more aware of the great increase in popu lation and in wealth of a large class of colonies under the dominion of the Crown—and that we shall all feel more sensibly the value of those relations about which so much discussion has taken place, and un fortunately, as his Lordship observei, a great deal talked about by some persons " without much inves tigating into the subject." Meaning with your permission to renew at some futiere period my comments on . what is passing around ui regarding som the colonies, Believe me to remain, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant, ROBERT CARMICHAEL SMITH, 15, Charles-gtreet, Haymarket, Feb. 11. F IRE IN SOUTHWARK.—' esterdity afternoon, s h o wy before two o'clock, a fire broke o u t i n t h e pre . rn i se i belonging to Mr. Wilcoxon, paper-stainer, situate in Lant-street, Southwark. The flames commenced in the first-floor workshop, a spacious building extending over three houses, anal were caused as follows:—The workmen having gone to dinner, they left a great quan tity of paper on the fcames to dry. The draught from one of the open windows caused one of the lengths to fall against a Latent stove, and it instantly ignited. The flumes then communicated with other pieces of paper, / and the consequence was, that in less than live minutev the spacious floor presented one immense sheet of flame.* The engines of the parish, London brigade, and Wes t of England Company, quickly *ate), ed, and the firemen happily succeeded in getting the fire Out. bat not untit the whole of the stock in trade was destroyed, and the prtlnises very seriowdy burned. 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