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n l' 00 egg, D ri t's kV , 4 0 1 nS-I9 li t o f t "' up t o th ° on lb' r „„tif oa wio th e cl9l icou lite° 0 51 the )f 04 Di°‘ Ivor: e, a 6.. ge or e, Will . ,ter ug'" t o i i ; eoA 5 0°11 Jr _ the itirt . 1:0,5 0,0r -----''' o, l i Js‘7 lit io. 1 i flAl EA STERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY. ,riiotice is hereby given, that the SPECIAL GENER AL 7"-LETING of the Shareholders, to consider the proposed agreements loetween the E ; , rn ticion, Norfolk and Eastern Counties Corn tr,nies, adjourne the 13th February la , t, will be held at the don Tavern, h o p sga te-street, London, on TUESDAY, the 18 th March, at One o'clock. I I .~~ By order, C. P. RONEY, Secretary. hishopsgate Station, March 4, 1851. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, that the Olt INARY HALF-YEARLY !_ENEttAL MEETING adjourned from the 27th February last, will held at the London Tavern, Bishopvgate-street, London, on .LL£SDAT, the 18th March, at the Close of the Special Meeting, ap- Pointed for that day. By order, C. P. RONEY, Secretary. Lishopsgate Station, March 4, 1851. ART -UNION OF LONDON. INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER. Tits Subscription List Closei A Ist instant. Each Prizeholder will b. entitled t.i select FOR HIMSELF, as heretofore, a work of Art. Every Subscriber will have for each Guinea the choice of fine Lt two li ne engravings,— " fhe BURIAL OF HAROLD," by F. 2 1 Con, after F. R. l'ickersgill, A.R.A., or "THE VILLA OF / CULLUA," by J. F Wilmore A.E.R A after %V. T. Leitch, and I n addition, volum of 31 wood engravings, by eminent artits, il lustrating Goldsmith's poem of " the Traveller." The "Villa of Lucullus" is now ready. GEORGE GODWIN 'i Hon. Secs. LEWIS POCOCK, 444, West Strand. GREAT CENTRAL GAS CONSUMERS' COMPANY. 28, Coleman-street, City, March, 1851. Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING 6 1 , 7 r the Shareholders of this Company will be held on MONDAY, the daY of this present month of garch, at Six o'clock in the Even i r' r eelv, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, with in the pity of London, to take into consideration the proposal of the City of London Gas Light and Coke Company to amalgamate with th i s ',en Company and if such propo.al be agreed to, to assent to clauses u t g inserted in thlg Company's Bill now before Parliament to feel ,,L to the arrangements for carrying the Bill into effect. By order of the Board, R. M. MASSEY, Secretary. CAVENDISH HOUSE. DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERF4HP. In h .,—nsequence of the Dissolution of the Partnership hitherto s ubistin g , s Zleen DEBENHAM, POOLEY, and SMITH. of 44, Wigmore he t, London, and Promenade, Cheltenham, the whole of their v .flulable Stock of Silks, Shawls, Cloaks, Linen drapery , Dres ses, Lace °1 110 Fancy Goods, w ill be offered on THURSDAY next, March 6 , 4 ti n n ` i f ollowing days, at a great reduction in price , it be in g the lnten , " 4 Of the present proprietors to clear out all the old stock prep ira ,\°rY to receiving the variety of novelties they have preparing for the Pring trade. .ODY. ,g(ft Pur a or ,P o ses of sanitary ventilation, particularly in places of pub lic re to', kneels, chapels, barracks, banks , large retail s ho p s, hcs p itals, ships' cabins, and such other places where gas is consumed , t ,' o2 e stoves are in use. It obviates the necessity of all chimney lirs or high tubes. c: °r further particulars apply to Mr. Septimus Braithwaite , 108, .`"lt , Russell -street, Bloomsbury, London, where contracts may be c o , .! te red into for the warming, by improved methods, and ventilating building. HE 116th Number of the HYGEIST and MEDICAL Co for MARCH, conains the Ad dre, L a of the British College of Health respecting the Petition to Pa r r- Co 7e to compel Doctors to write their prescriptions in EHglish 1,1 of Petition—The Humbug of the Regius Professorship of Me 15:ine at Oxford and Cambridge: Dust thrown into the eyes of the octors going ea-t°,Ple by such high-sounding terms—Lines written on the Promul b_'°ll of the Hygelan System, and its Effects on Medical Science — to Law against Relatives for Friendly Visits —Practi __'4l P roofs of the Efficacy of Morison's Vegetable Universal \l edlcine I ; , Port ofJohn Mackinnon, of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, for 1851. t t ,nay be had at the British College of Health, New-road, London ; t h;o i , Ygeist Office, 368, Strand ; and of all the duly authorised agents ughout the country. Price Id., or 2€l. by post. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, t att Lectures on the Music of Wales, by Ellis Roberts, Esq. (Harp Llar, ) , 11 • I t•II. the Prince of Wales), with Vocal Illustrations re iss t tnr iT,us Younge, R.A. of Music, on Monday, Tuesday, Thay, let x .;, ri, lal• Evenings at Eight, and on Saturday, at Three.—The Ce- T ri ,,"`ed Juvenile Harpists (the Lockwood Family) will perform r ,, -a under the direction of Mr. Frederick Chatterton, daily at ahlr.---Leettire by J. 11. Pepper, Esq., on the Chemistry of Ignition tt;,,_ CoMbustlon, with brilliant Eperiments.—Lecture by Dr. 41 , 1 — :hoffner on Voltaic Electricity, in which will be exhibited All- Patent Electric Light.—Exhibition of the Oxy.llydrogen kier s RI, i ° , B coPe.—New Series of Dissolving Views, illustrating some of "oYal Residences of Europe. Admission, la.—Schools, Half-price. t. , 15t s en daily from Eleven till Five o'clock, and every Evening (ex .........2turday) from Seven till Half-past Ten. DEBENHAM, SON, and FREEBODY. 44 . Wigmere-street, Cavendish-square. PASCAL'S PATENT FUMIVORE AND SELF-ACTING VENTILATOR. dLe attetitieVOt the public is respectfully directed to this truly I ilirrti4TlO N. The scientific arrangement of this appara - -417 e ntirely obviates the inconvenience and annoyance of smoky b„Z n eY B , arising from any cause whatever. It is also adapted to all LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO, Licensed by Act of Parliament. ,ARGYLLROOMS, GEtEAF WINDMILL (B°IO Lessee, Charle g s T E ß m E rle T, L S a T ur . e j n A t, 3 j i ti E n g .: 9. 57, Brompton-square.) OPEN EVERY EVENING, With LAURENT'S UNRIVALLED BAND. b t ,,, Principal Cornet-a-Pistons, M. Boulcourt. Rine and t p erminate at Half-past Eleven o'clock precisely. Admission, One Shilling. POL LONICO N. MissC o j l Poole, Miss Messcnt, Misses Emma, Victoria. and Rosin& ru zs '. lir. Grattan Cooke, Mr. Collins, and Master Joseph Collins. 134 T. THURSDAY, SATURDAY, MORNINGS, at Two The EVENINGS, at Eight. ore ib P roprietor has great pleasure in announcing the engagement icrr ia above delightful Artists, in addition to the Apollonicon per - Etrl tes Th i n e . "in g . the alterations consequent on the addition of The Great 24 Siirabilis to this already extraordinary Instrument, Mr. 4 Z et will give extemporaneous performances. ROYAL MUSIC HALL, ADELAIDE STREET, STRAND. (Adjoining the Lowther Arcade.) Conductor . • . Mr. Grattan Cooke. THIS EVENING. PROGRAMME. PIET I. 4 1 , 011 om• eon—lntroduction - - - - Mather. '°—The Misses Collins —La Gondolette - - Balfe. go ng (Morning) —Miss Victoria Collins—Oh, why , (1.0 we love? ng (Evening)—Mise Poole 4 1: 4 311onicon—Fantasia Ong( Morning ) iss Emma Collins —The Bree ze A u b er . Lng (Evening) —Nisi Messent—Tcll me my he a rt Si r H. Bishop. 7 i l0 —Oboe—Mr. Grattan Cooke vertissement —Mr., Master, and the Misses Collins. PART 11. 4 .,Dollonicon—Fantasia 'llut—The Misses imma and Victoria Collins— ,We come to thee, Savoy - - - - S. Glover. °'), Violin—Miss Rosins'. Collins—Carnival de , Venice gon g (Morning)—Fantasia gjg (Evening) —Miss Poole—The Polka in Disgrace o Concertina—Miss Rosina Collins (Evening) —Miss Messent Violoneello—Miss Victoria Collins Selo'.4, Concertino—Miss Rosina Collins "°— fhe Misses Collins—Flute Obligato, Mr. - - - J. Collins. Wail Wonderful mechanical powers of the Instrument will be illus tZ ,by its performanse of Mozart's Overture to " Figaro or r 8 celebrated Overture to " Der Freyschutz." Admission, Is.; Reserved Seats, Is. 6cl. ; stails, 2s. 6d. t nt ., Doors open at Half-past One, and Ilalf-past Sevez. ..___ — "ages may be ordered Mornings, at Four ; Evenings, at Ten. THAT DO YOU THINK OF MOSES' CLOTH ? _ I think this cloth is woven well, Such do , h is certain to excel ; 'Tis sound and stout, nor can we trace A single blemish on its face; With cloth so choice and cloth so strong, No wonder that the dress lasts long. What do yon think of MOSES' style ? I think it's elegantly neat, I think it matchless and complete, I think it beautifully chaste, I think it shows the cutter's taste, I wonder not that thousands smile Approvingly on such a style. What do you think of MOSES' make ? I'm led to think from what I ken. That they employ the best of men ; No slighting faults are found to lurk In any portion of the work ; In fact you need not ask me whether . . The clothes are rightly put together. What do you think of MOSES' flt ? What do I think of MOSES' fit? I think it truly exquisite. . I really always view with pleasure The skilful way they use tha measure: They have an admirable tact In making us a fit exact. What do you think of MOSES' prices? I tell you what, I can but wonder To find their prices so much under. To see the garments they supply, One might suppose they'd charge us high. But, no, their list of prices show They sell astonishingly low. L axidsorne Almanac, for the year 1851, can be had gratis, on application. ''ery 4o * -- e Fur and Shawl Departments are now replete with obße Th of the season. t t t „"t ilur rv „, article purchased, either ready - made or made to d arned 11 not approved of, will :se exchanged or the money re kttliiiiol•--E. Moses and Son regret having to giard t h e p ublic hod o f " Position, but having heard that the untradesmanlike false ein r ev , connected with them, or it Is the sa me concern, has ,7t t o „"rlkel to in many instances, and for obvious rea sons, the y ' l l. 3 ,,ltate they ha ve no conne xion with any other house in or out except their own Establishments, as iollows :- 44 , Rs . ?n City Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Minorles, 83, and n . 5 , Aldgate, opposite the Church, all ekmmunicating. ` 41, 1 3 . 1 1 , 4 W est-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford - st reet, 1,2, 11,...1a r t - street, all communicating. aaeeid "Yorkshire" Branch, 19, Bridge-street. Branch, 36, Fargate. l akk,,2" , Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot an d Shoe- T h " , and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. it irdnl ts tabllshmenta are closed from sunset Friday to sunset Sa s.„:„._"'T. When business is r.somed till Twelve o'clock. Ce l l i ., THIRTY-FIFTH EDITION. ''''kZilNG THE REMEDY FOR TIIE PREVENTION OF DISEASE. 04 111,11strated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel. . WriSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA -4,1';1ew1,,,44,4C1TY, AND IM PEDIMEN'I'S TO MARRIAGE. TAa, ""a Improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, price 21. 6d. ttolireet trom the Esta , blishment, 3s, 6d. in postage stamps, E 4, SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on ei„,e,„'le e xhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by 1 4 4 er,--„ve Indulgence, the consequences of Infection, or the abuse of ,1 4 -.1,7 1 , ‘ ,, , 5vith explic it ' directions for the Ti se of the preventive lotion, , 4, e11 5 , 44. ", aY observations en the Married State, and the disqualifies °Y tn"'ieh prevent It. Illustrated by 24', Coloured Engravings, and E31 1 ,, z e detail 4 ., of cases. By R. and L. r ERRY and CO., Consulting 1 11 , 4 , Q ,,, 5 . 19 . Berners-street, Ox , ord-street, London. Published by ''',.; a n - „'"e n ra ; and sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row • Hannay, ' , re ." ' , anger 150 Oxford-street ; and Gordon, 146, L'eadenhaU et, London. ' ' frr6:', 4 ! I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive p ly ' and is ill us t rated b y Si x C o l oure d E ngravings. itti g „,l IL treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in taerli;iee, and th e i r l amen table e ff ects on th e s y s t em , pro d uc i ng ` 4 ea.p„,ncl bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative P,44—,r`V• Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings. ~4 Dri.,44•111 treats of the diseases resulting from iniection, either in u.. .teir tr '''arY r Secondary form, and contains explicit directions for 1. - " L eleplaa gli, t ' n 'ent- This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured 4 14 , 11, P1e T .• contains a Remedy for the Preventio of Disease by a kat, - aPpllcation, by which the danger of infection is obviated. p n ., 1 ~,., — 'ea r4 ` - ‘ l ' a nt Part the Work should not escape the reader's 4. , P w ,,, gli, - :f .is d evoted to the consideration of marriage, and its du lehol, The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the Itticau,bject critically and philosophically inquired into. tle atlr, "I ' D 'AJL , Bsta4 or STILIACUM is exclusively employed in Di* I,os..nervous and se anal debility, impotence, Scc., I Is. and 335. rera,„"le• The Concentrated Detersive Essence, Ityt n , - ,:"' , for purifying the blood an anti-syphilitic in cases of infection, secdndary . N ettie7 ll l , eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 335. per Per I-- terry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and I Is. ek,,;;'., a certain remedy for gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and bIL e...inflammation of the bladder Consultation fee, if by letter, en i n T i nete detail of the 'case i 3 requi red: age habits, and p05i ,,1414rn.,4°c4.109. 11. Packets, with advice to be ' had at the Ytta -011,- ""'• euly by which Hu fee 11., ' is saved. Messrs. `Mil. Iltr,, --, lire in is'''. London, fromttieEndlevanenee lath , 'At 19, Rerners-st . reet. Oxf s e an ni - - -- v ill Two. and Five to Eight ; en *9lll lat Ten tO 9110. from lb ,. f sh° ° ' . ndictw eci - add let, oc--T impos,.oo s pot. 4ed , bo 03 0 cl , liy 'al to r od Love dB yerdi el a tioi t t i j b o per 0 bad b e : o keli 135 1 3 S a bee n ee- :1 , h i glef er , s kit J. died, -1 (arch 4 ' Co lsl LD • st th e asl°l.'4 the e l for the ja., the juril L. l (. 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India, i csme off at Byeulos Club nu the evening of Friday, the 31st ult.; the lit Qs. Sir William Yardley, one of the Judges of her Majesty's Supreme Court, in the chair. 107 gentlemen sat down to dinner. The Hon. Chairman was supported on the right by Sir Charles Napier, jN attgere of . on the th s el ucidr A left , byJ d o a h wi n e N t. Vard e n, q., Puisne The cloth was removed at ten o'clock, and the first toast was proposed by the Chairman in the following terms:—" Brigadier Wyllie, a bumper toast. if you please, to the health of her Majesty the Queen." Drunk with the usual honours. Air—" God save the Queen." The CHAIRMAN next proposed " His Royal Highness Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family." , Air—" Prince Albert's March." In rising the third time, Sir WILLIA M YARDLEY pro posed the toast of the evening. Sir CHARLES NAPIER, whose rising was the signal for loud and long continued applause, as aeon as he could be heard, spoke nearly as follows: — Gentlemen—It is with some difficulty that I, a traveller at the present' moment, rise to thank you for the compliment you have paid me, and for the kindness you have shown me; after hearing myself praised in cue of the most eloquent speeches I have ever heard, I, a poor soldier, cannot reply to such eloquence. Passing through Bombay, and without preparation, I am only able to thank you for all the honours heaped upon me by the army, as well as by the civilians of Bombay; and, when I say civilian., I mean all who do not wear the blue and red coat. I know I am supposed in Bombay to be an enemy to civilians, but this is quite erroneous—(Cheers)—l am no enemy to civilians; it is false to say that I am, and it is a falsehood which is so absurd that I have never taken the trouble to refute it. You must allow me great latitude in replying to the eloquent speech we have just heard, for, so help me God, I trusted to a soldier's heart to find words to address to you on the inspiration of the moment. lam afraid that my friend the chairman has gone far beyond my merits—(Cries of " No, no")-- and I cannot altogether admit his praise; his kindness has exaggerated my qualities, except in one thing where he has spoken the truth. He has correctly said that I would be the first to feel pain at the detraction of Lord Gough in order to increase my praise. Lord Gough is a glorious old soldier, and a good man, possessing one of the noblest hearts that ever b eat, and I love him well. I have to say to Sir William Yardley, in return for his kind eulogium, that I must share it with the brave army; for without them I could have done nothing—Whithe, Leeson, Wyllie, now before me at this table, and I could point out a dozen gallant others, without whose courage and assistance I could have done nothing. I must not forget the Bengal 19th Regiment of cavalry, who were equal to their neghbours, nor the small band of Madras Sappers, who also behaved well. I cannot pass over any man that has done his duty. I love all the three armies of India, but limust confess that I am prejudiced in favour of the Bombay army. lam saying nothing that can hurt a Bengal officer, for I have found as good officers and men in the Bengal army as I did in Bombay; but I com menced my Indian career with the Bombay army, and although I have fought with the Bengal army, and com manded them for two years, yet I am prejudiced in favour of the Bombay army and of low caste. Gentlemen, I have the honour to sit with a glorious soldier at this table. He rose from the ranks; he had a noble origin. I love that man, for he first planted the British colours on the breach of Moultan.—(Cheers.) He has been justly rewarded with a commission; but, gentlemen, I am steering among rocks, but I am a pilot and will go on—notwithstanding he has been so promoted, yet there is a regulation in force amongst you which prevents him from enjoying all the advantages of his present position. and I consider it a most inconsistent regulation by which he is prevented from joining the military fund, and making the same provision as yourselves for his widow and offsprings. lam now speaking to your best feel ings, and I say that this regulation ought to be broken; for although that soldier rose from the ranks, he rose from a glorious foundation.—(Sir Charles here alluded to Ensign Bennett.) This is a wandering wild speech, but as the thoughts come uppermost so the old soldier must speak. In what Sir Willam Yardley said, while I again repeat that he praised me too highly, yet I be lieve that he only spoke what he felt to be the truth from his heart. But I like to come to parti cular points. In the wars of Sinde there were some officers who did more for me than I did for them. The first I shall mention is Captain Brown, of the Bengal army, who is now dead. A braver or a better soldier never lived. Of the second I shall not say anything, as he is a relative of mine—l mean Major I,l`Murdo ; but the third, of whom I shall and will speak, is my Moon shee, Ali Akbar. This man stood by me in the day of battle; he was of the greatest assistance to me through out the campaign in Sinde; he was my tongue; and I now find him in disgrace. lam not aware upon what infor mation the Government has acted. I charge no man with injustice, but I have a right to say that Ali Akbar did more for the conquest of Sinde than a thousand sol diers could have done. I will never abandon a bravo soldier, and after all that Ali Akbar has done, I find him here in disgrace; and gentlemen (said the General, with emphasis, and striking the table with his hand), I say he has had no trial.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") I charge no man or the Government with injustice, but I will not abandon Ali Akbar. I will now speak of the day of peace, and tell you of the men who assisted me, besides the commanders of corps. Next to them were the collectors of Sinde ; there were three of them, but I shall only mention two, for they did preserve the honour of England—l mean Major Goldney, of the Bengal army, and Captain Rathborne, of the Bombay army. These two men did more for me than anybody else in time of peace—they upheld the honour of Eng land. Those gentlemen made our rule loved; and I will not take the credit of what they are justly entitled to. No man surpasses me in zeal and devotion to the army, and to the true interests of the East India Company. I am not an enemy;as has been said, to the Court of Direc tors—God forbid that I should be any man's enemy, but I will not submit to be ill-treated; this is not enmity, but an independent spirit, which I glory in, and which, old as I am, I shall carry with me to the grave.—(Rap turous applause.) It is this that makes me feel so deeply the kindness of the present company. This day 57 years ago, gentleman, I received my first commission as an ensign, and girded on this sword, which has remained by my side ever since. I received that commission, as a boy, rejoicing; your kindness makes me rejoice in finish ing that career as a man.—(Cheers.) Let me now speak of some matters connected with the interests of the city of Bombay, of which I have always thought with great intensity. The Country of the Five Rivers has been conquered, and I rod. throughout it all the other day, and never saw a richer or a more flourishing country. I do not know much of such things, but I tell you what I saw—oceans of grain, and there are coals for your steamers, and you will find sulphur, shall I say for your Scotchmen (aside laughingly)—(Cheers)—but no matter for whom. Steamers can go everywhere and bring these products to the port of Bombay, the trade of which would soon be considerably enlarged. I met an Arme nian of the name of Arathoon, the other day, in the Punjaub, a man of great energy and enterprise, and who largely assisted our armies in Affghanistan in procuring supplies—who told me that he had felled an enormous quantity of timber, which was now lying on the banks of the Cheenab, as he could not bring it down to Bom bay, Lord Dalhousie having refused him the protection of Government, unless he could prove that he had the means of carrying out his enterprise. It is true that I had only this Arathoon's own story, and he was an interested party; but I believed what he told me. Now Ido not know much of such things, and lam speaking in the presence of those who do, but I should say that ni rendezvoust righti es shouldot wrong, rnl f h ao Government had nothing to do with a man's means. Commerce requires to be nursed like a child. In telling you this Ido not wish to say anything against Lord Dalhousie, although lam not an admirer of his Lord ship, and I do not care though that go forth to the u w e o e r te ld d , f w o i r th l a t m he aw pr a e r s o s that here there are sgoemnetlepemeenoceonin- Bombay say and think that I hate the public press. Far from it, I do not hate the press, although I have a great antipathy to some individuals connected with it ; and I own I have sometimes wished for a broomstick, and to thebe n p e u a r r p the ose editor whether of the ordtatbDe ees ß ,aiatco o hlh m heoo b up a gs y pri oee T ratit i us m es.—( A laugh.) But in justice to Lord Dalhouse, I must tell you again that I got this story from Mr.Arathoon himself, an interested man, who told me that the timber would be ravaged by the rajas without he had the protection of Government, which Lord Dalhousie refused him. It is nothin g to but it is to the purpose for you to know u that an Ara thoon complains that he has a grea t tim ber, the produce of the countries of t _ the P n u d n j a : e h , n ready f to be borne to Bompihtysy_tronhaE; n tn d hat ne th ar e e G r o t v o ern th m e e s n e t rich w ili he requires to bring it not give him the fair p arrangements I y and the Punjaub. Cal cuttahere. Is it not a neglected ln citantnhoet other that Bombay will, 800 da n p r febovio provinces? e bringing fsr?om w Englandi, With andg properla not lose her grandeur, but b th u r t ou sh g e h all things Bombay or Surrachee as mercantile ports. Eight years a go Kurrachee had a population of only 5,000 men; will day, it numbers 25,000 men, and it must continue to now, as I found in crease and prosper, while Bombay must become the grand mart of India.—(Loud applause.) whereas, LPRICE SD. [ADERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills a superior Remedy for Scorbutic Affections and other Dis eases of the Skin.—Cutaneous diseases are in their nature both obnoxious and painful to those afflicted, causing great anxiety of mind, heaviness, weariness, and dejection of spirits. To effect a cure of these dreadful maladies use Holloway's Ointment and Pills. The latter medicine is the finest purifier of the blood ever discovered, and there is nothing egeuis.l to the Ointment for allaying the irritation of the parts aff ected . By a steady perseverance in the use of these reir . d . i . _ ' most aggravated diseases of the skin can be cured, and the pa tient restored to the soundest Leah h.—Sold by Strand , and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, London. 2,ll4,Druggists FRAUD ON A SEAMAN.—A sailor o l ffi a tceel,ypaid Whitehall, off from h er M a j es t y ' s s hip Prince Regent, nt Portsmouth, re ceived a remittance ticket amounting t o 351., p a y able in Lon donpand presented it yesterday at the p and received seven 51. notes. On leaving the office he was accosted by a gentlemanly -looking man, who asked the sailor if he would show him the way to the London Docks; when Jack proffered his assistance to show him the road, and on reaching that locality the gentleman invited the sailor to take some refreshment in a public-house. While there they were joined by another person, who entered into conversation, and described himself as being a gentleman of fortune who had come up to London to receive some pro perty. They then asked to be shown to the Tunnel, and afterwards entered another public-house on the Rotherhithe side, and there these kind friends managed to obtain posses : t io e a n d of the Rash o ßank r“B o a f n kEnglandgna n o t c e et a n n d o t e s s u . s The i t h u e t e p d o i r n s t a h il e o i r r has thus lost in ono hour WI whole of hie hard earnings for Mires Two, N ° .18,237.] LONDON, THURSDAY V N I S N 7 MARCH 6, 1851. NI CO L L'S REGISTERED PALETOT This garment exemplifies in its characteristics the genera 1 excellence and moderate prices observed throughout Messrs. NICOLL'S establishment, where DRESS for EVENING or MORNING WEAR has its allotted space . _ _ UNIFORMS.—NavaI, Military, and Diplomatic, present, in their department, the unusual aspect of fair prices for cash ; also 110,1 EA.—Municipal, Clerical, &c., have separate rooms, and are placed on the same footing with the above. BOY'S CLO I HlND.—This is a new department, wherein provi sion is also made for the display of much elegance and economy. THE CITY ESTABLISHMENT corresponds with the above, and is at 22, CORNIIILL, the entrance to the Shipping Department being in Change-alley. NICOLL'S TOGA can be used either as a cloak for the shoulders, or a wrapper for the knees ; it is registered 6 and 7 Viet., cap. 65, and can be had in London only of 11. J. and D. NICOLL, M ER CHANT CLOTHIERS, I'ALETOT PATENTEES, and MANU FAC TIMERS of CLOT:I, REGENT—STREET (from 114 to 120 inclusive), and 22, CORNII[LL. •CALTTION.—M any have its-umed the use of the word " Paletot," but Messrs. Nicoll are the sole patentees of the design and material (in winter or summer substances) employed in the manufacture of this inexpensive and gentlemanly article of costume. ICI ON PAIiLE FRANCAIS. HERR , PRICHT MAN DEUTSM. QUI SI PARLA ITALIANO. AQUI MABLASE EL ESPANOL. LIVERIES. —As unusual preparations ar e now .L 4 being niade in most families for the approaching Season, Messrs. NICOLL are ready to submit estimates for prices (and draw ings where a change is considered to be desiratle), for a full snpply of this branch of their business; such will present all the advantages for which the other departments have now for a long period induced much public favour. 11. J. and D. NICOLL, 114, 116, 118, 120, REGENT-STREET, and 22, CORNHILL. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AND EQUITABLE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. 1 4 1'. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. *John Rawson, Esq. *John Shaw, Esq. i*Edmund S. Symes, Esq. t*(lement Tabor, Esq. t Joseph Thompson, Esq. t*Augsistus Vigne, Esq• *W. A. B. Bennett, Esq. *Hugh Croft, Esq. tElliotson, M.D„ F.R.S. *Ralph Gough, Esq. *M. C. Maher, Esq. *John Moss, Esq. ILDDITOZ. tProfessor Wheatstone, F.R.S. Erdotson, SI.D„ F.R.S„ 37, Conduit-street. SURGEON. I . E. S. Symes, Esq., 77, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square. ACTUARY. t * W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., &c. SECRETARY. *D. T. Lyons Clenichy, Esq. SUPERINTENDENT. * W. A. Hawkins, Esq. BANKERS. t*Messrs. Glyn, liallifax, Mills, and Co., 61, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS, tMessrs. Sutton, Ewens, Ommanney and Prudence, 6, Basinghall• street. 4 W. Tatham, Esq., 22, Throgmorton-street. RATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE OFFICE. CAPITAL-500,0001. The WITHDRAWAL TABLE of the Society affords to the As sured the greatest possible present and prospective advantages that can be conferred by Life Assurance. On this Tab , e the Assured is entitled, at any time, to receive at interest an immediate advance, to the extent of one-half the amount of the paid annual Premiums, without security, personal liability, or deposit of the Policy, but by simple endorsement thereon ; or the half Premium may be with held during the whole continuance of the Policy. Also, in the event of the Assured at any time not requiring to continuo the Policy, on its surrender one-half of the annual payments will be returned by the Society. Lapsed Policies may be renewed without fine, on proof of health and payment of arrears of Premium without interest. Notices of Assignment of Policies registered arid acknowledged, so as to make them available as securities is the hands of third parties. 1 Permit .' . - .,,i.,1 i Annual IPolleT Bonus In vent Re ti ' Pre- Itaken ' addition Bonus in duction of o ° mime. 'eut in to Sum Cash. Annual s: " Assured. Premium. - ! ! X s. il. X s d. £ s. d. 1837 292 6 9 139 :6 9 22 13 1 1 1838 267 11 4 126 17 2 19 19 7 1839 241 18 6 113 17 7 17 8 8 .e X s.d. 1840 193 12 6 93 16 8 14 0 10 11000 74 3 4. , 1841 I 189 12 6 89 516 13 g 11 1842 I 162 16 8 76 18 4 11 8 3 1843 115 10 10 55 10 10 8 1 10 1844 77 19 2 38 15 10 5 9 11 , ..., 1645 66 15 0 44 10 0 4 10 1 Extensive Travelling Leave granted without extra Premium Moderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates. EQUITABLE FIRE OFFICE. Capital-500,0001. (Incorporated ander 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.) The leading principles of this Office ar3 —Moderate and equitable Rates 01 Premium for each class or risk—Annual division of Profits. l'he difficulty of collecting the elements on which to proportion rremium to risk in Insurance against Loss by Fire has been so great, that the rates at present charged are more the result of guess than calculation. . . It has been sound by experience, that the total annual losses of the different Established Companies have not been proportionate to the amount of annual Premiums received by each. . . _ It is of the highest importance, both to the Insured and Insurers, that such an anomaly should cease, and an aporoximation to the true risk be made. To secure this object the Equitable Fire Insu rance Company is established. The true rate of Premium for Fire Insurance can only be ap ,roached through Classification and Average, which has not hitherto been sufficiently acted n, or systematically applied. Whatever be the nominal rate, the bonus or return periodically to the Insured will determine the true Premium equitably payable, as security against loss for so great a calamity as tire, and the Insurer is largely interested in this question, and will consult his interest by supporting a system where, by a careful combination of Classifica tion and Average, the Premium will be proportioned to the risk. The Equitable Fire Office will, by a constant analysis of its own experience, from time to time, adopt such rates of Premium as the nature of the risk may Justify, and will decline to enter into arrange ments as regards tariffs with other offices. With this view an annual investigation will be made into each class of risk, and a return of one moiety, or fitly per cent. of the nett excess will be made to all classes of Insurers whose Policies have been in force for three years. Insurances against Loss by Fire are effected by this Company upon every description of Property on moderate terms. Farming Stock insured at 3s. per cent, without the Average Clause. Prospectuses. and every information may be obtained, on applica tion at the Office, or to any of its Agents. t National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society. * Equitable Fire i* Both Offices. CATHOLIC LAW AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, , NEW COVENTRY-STREET, LEICESTER-SQUARE, LONDON. The FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprie tors of this Company took place on the 25th instant, at the Head Office, at One o'clock precisely. The following is extracted from the report, which is too lengthy for publication : During the past year no claims have arisen from deaths in England. and but two in Ireland—one for 5001. and the other for 280/. —making together 7001., which have been paid. This is far below the expected mortality, and is especially favourable, when it is remembered how severely the life offices generally suffered from the epidemic of last year. The number of lives assured between the let of June, 1849, and the 31st of Slay, 1850, was more than double the number issued in the twelve months preceding. Proposals were made for 138 Policies, amounting to 52,9631.25. 6d.: of these 123, comprising 106 lives, were accepted for 45,1251. 6s. sixteen Policies lapsed, representing 6,0481., upon which 3201. 3s. was received by the Company in the shape of premiums. Since the commencement of the Company to the Ist of June last, assurance were effected to the extent of 110,972/. 128 6d., pro ducing in annual premiums 3,7321. 11s. 6d. Of these 54 lapsed, amounting to 23,9901. 16s. 6d., of which the annual premiums were 741/. Is., leaving the yearly income on the Ist of June last equal to 2,991/. 15s. 11d. since last meeting loans were applied for to the extent of 17,700/., but 1,1531. I Is. 10d. only was advanced. The I)irectors were also highly gratified to report that within the last four months +hey had considerably extended their business on the Continent, having appointed, as Head Agent in France, Monsieur de I'Etang, a gentleman of high standing in Paris, distinguished for his integrity and ability in financial and in all assurance natters, who, under the sanction and patronage of the Archbishop of Paris, the Cardinal Archbish sp of Lyons, and Monseigneur Parisis, Eveque de Langres, has already within the last three months effected a con• siderable amount of business, not only in Life Assurances, but in An nuities both Immediate and Deferred. se' approving of the Report, and r e t urn i ng rend Chairman, Bishop Morris, th e Vi ce- Chairman, Actuary, Secretary, thanks Af tAfter t v o ari t the it and Medical Officers of the establish ment, the meeting separated, highly gratified at its present r esu lt s various resolutions, lut ß io e n , and future prospects. NITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSI COMPANY. Established by Act of Parliament in 1834. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London ; 97, ,;eorge-street 12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow; 4, College. green, The bonus added to policies from March, 1834, December, 1847,15 as follows : 'RANCE ;, Edinburgh; Dublin. to the 31st A stired. Time Assured. Sum Sum added to Sam added to Sum payable Policy inlB4l l Policy in 18481 at Death. ; 1 i --___.- _--_ ----, £5OOO 113 years 10 mths.£63B 6 8 £787 10 0 £6470 16 8 5000 1 1 year 112 10 0 51 1 2 10 0 .. .. 1000 'l2 years 100 0 0 157 10 0 1257 10 0 1000 7 years .. 157 10 0 11 5 7 10 0 .. 1000 1 year 22 10 0 10 22 10 0 500 !12 years 50 0 •• 0 78 15 0 628 IS 0 500 1 4 years 45 0 0 545 0 0 500 , 1 year .. .. .. .. 11 5 0 , 511 5 0 ------- The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and only one-half need be paid fur the first five years when the In mrance is for Life. Every information afforded on application to the Resident Direc tor, 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. I)R.. LA'MERT ON Tit SECRET INFIRMITIES OF it/UTH IND MATURITY. With Plain Directions for their Prevention and Curs. FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL. ',lst publisnou, in French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Ita li a n, in a Seateg Envelope, 2s. tid., or post-tree, from the Author, for forty-two stamps, SEL F-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on he Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity, sually acquired at an early period of lif e, w hieh destroy he physical and me ntal p owers, dimi nish and enfeeble the natural oe lings, and exhaust th e vital ener gies of Manhood ; with Practical lo.ervations on the certain Prevention and successful Treatment of Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Atricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from India lretion, as adopted by Lallemand, Ricord, and other eminent mem .lxplaining their structures, uses, an d f unc ti ons, hers of the facu lt y in France. With Fifty col oure d E ngrav i ngs, injuries that are produced in th em by solitary illustra ting the tnatomy, Physiology, an d Diseases of the Re habits, excesses. an p a r n o d du th cti e vveaOriroguasus, d feettoo . LA'MERT, BY SAMUEL 31.D., 37, BEDFO RD -SQUARE, LONDO N. Doctor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Rdin bnrgh,Honorary Member if the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Member of the Ilunterian Medical Society of Edinburgh, &c., &c. This work contains a plain and complete description of the ana tomy and physiology of the reproductive organs, and of their relative conditions in health and disease. The author, who has taken the highest medical honours, as evidenced by the diplomas and testimo nials inserted in the work, is the only legally qualified medical man who has exclusively, and for many years, devoted his studies to the treatment of these complaints. Ile may be consulted VI ith ad vantage by all those whose constitutions may have become debili tated through secret practices acquired is youth. or by the excesses 9f later years, whereby the pleasures of life are marred, the objects of marriage frustrated, and existence itself rendered a term of un ce acing misery and regret. ,Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater noster-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Starie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; Mann, 23, Cornhill, Or free by post for forty-two stamps, from the author's residence, woo may be consulted cn these disorders personally, or by letter, dail y , I iron 3,403 till two, awl from six till eight. Now ready, at all the Libraries, crown Bvo., is. 6d, cloth, with Portrait, r rHE FEMALE JESUI C ; or, the Spy in the Family. Including her Autobiography, or " Seventeen Years of Convent Life," and her recent Intrigues in a Protestant Family near London. SHIP NE WS. LIVERP3OL, MARCH s.—Wind N. N.W.—Sarah and Louisa arrived here yesterday, from Mobile, was struck by lightniv during a hurricane in February, in lat. 39, long. 50, which damaged mizenmast, stove cabin, &e., and set several articles on fire, but was extinguished without doing material da:nage. Arrd. Lenora, from Demerara; Louisa, from St. Domingo; Pyramid, Helena, Houghton, and Ocean Star, from Now Orleans; John Horrocks, from Demerara; Imperial, from Wilmington; Philadelphia, from Philadelphia; Sisters and Medea, from Constantinople; Argo, William Herdman, Trident, and Gulnare, from Alexandria, Egypt; Irmodo, fom Trieste; Rloid and Rosebud, from Palermo; Catherine, from Marseilles; Union, from St. Übe's; Content, from Trieste; Parkfield, from Callao; Union, from Ostend. PORTOIOUTH, MARCH 3.--Favourite, from London, for Barbadoes, has put in with loss of stanchions, bul warks, &c., having been in contact, ou the Ist inst. off Fairlee, with Ceres, Norwegian barque, from Stettin, for Bristol. IlAnwtar, bancu 3.—The Aimuble Eugine, from Seaham for Bordeaux, foundered off the Long Sand last night; crew bayed. MARYPORT, 3,—The Ann Wood, on shore near Harrington, has been got off and towed in here. DOVER, MARCH 3.—The George, of Shoreham, from Shields for Folkstone, is very leaky, having grounded, and it is feared has received considerable damage. QUEENSTOWN, MARCH 3.—The Vivid, from New port for Galatz, has put in here with loss of foremast, toretoptnast, &c. GIBRALTAR, FEB. 23.--The Union, from Rio Hacho for Marseilles, put in, Feb. 22, with loss of mainmast, yards, sails, &c., and requires caulking in her upper works. BOULOGNE, MARCH 3.—The Jeannette and Anna, from Leghorn for Antwerp, was in contact with a vessel supposed a steamer, between Cape Grinez and the South Foreland, yesterday morning, and sank; crew, except one man, saved. MEMEL, FEB. westerly wind of the 2 - 3 d broke up the ice, and the harbour is now clear. MADRAS, Jam. 25.—Tbe Princess Helena, of Cal cutta, from Adelaide for this port, struck upon the Pu licut Shoal in the night of the 16th of January, was driven on the beach, about twelve miles north of this place, and has become a total wreck; crew saved. The Futtay, from Coringa for this port, sprung a leak at sea, which gained so fast upon her that she was obliged to be ran on the beach here on the 17th instant. The Flora Kerr, fromithe Clyde for Calcutta, was spoken by the Poictiers, arrived here, on the 3d instant, in long. 89 E., when s h e reported that she had been in contact dur ing the night of the 24th ult., with the Carnatic, from Calcutta for th e M aur i t i us, an d had sustained consider able damage, starboard bow stove in, foremast-head and bowsprit sprung, foretopmast carried away, and that the Carnatic stayed by her for four days. CAGLIARI, FEB. 26.—The Bezulcel, from Leghorn to London, put into Porto Conti on the 15th of February, with loss of rudder, bowsprit, and with other serious damage, having experienced a heavy gale on the 7th of February; has thrown some cargo and stores overboard, and will have to discharge partly, to repair. CALCUTTA, JAN. 20.—The American ship Charles Cooper,lhence for London, has grounded on a mud-bank five miles below this place, has not experienced any da mage, is being lightened, is expected off this evening, and to proceed without being docked. PERNAMBUCO, JAN. 20.—The Ellen Bryson, from Ca diz for Bahia, has buen totally wrecked on the shoals off Cape San Roque; crew and part of materials saved. GRAVESEND, MARCH W.S.W., squally, with rain. Arrd. Primrose and the Shamrock, from Seville ; Lusitania, from Oporto; Circassian, from Cadiz; Louisa, from Malaga ; Daniel Brock and the Concordia, from Guernsey; Aroe, from Alexandria; Mary Nixon, from Callow; Queen Dowager, from Genoa; Three Brothers, from Groningen; Emma, from Amens; Primrose, from Seville ; Batavier, from Rotterdam; Albion, from Bou logne; Sir E. Banks, from Ostend ; Two Friends, from Guernsey ; John, from Lignes ; Le Coq, from Cher bourg ; Doncaster, from Oporto ; David B an k s , f rom Jaffa; Lady Newburgh, from Oporto; Fox, from Malta; Ocean Bram., from Alexandria; Galen, from Patras; Maria, from Smyrna; Queen Dowager, from Genoa; Joven Ignatio, from Tarragona; Mermaid, from Malta; Ocean, from St. Übe's; Native, from Seville; Huntress, from Smyrna; City of the Sultan, from Odessa; Joshua Carroll, from Nantes; Harriet, from Leghorn; Janvarin, from Girgenti. Sailed—Najaden, for Teneriffe; Oliver Cromwell, for Shanghae; Roscommon and Diana, for Harlingen; Nancy, for Alicante; Triton, for Ostend; Amanda, for Honduras; Rhine and Magnet, for Rotterdam; Governor Harcourt, for Newport; Sandale, for Oporto; Vene zuela, for Havre; Stadt DordrPtcb, for Dordt; Countess of Lonsdale, for Hamburgh; Thames, for Hamburgh. VESSELS SioREN WITH. Margaret brig, Feb. 10, in lat. 39 N., long. 16 W. Carrschoonei, Feb. 12, long. 16 W., lat. 40 N. Oceani!e, from Stettin for Valparaiso, Feb. 11, in lat. 42 N., long. 17 W. Utility, of Newcastle, Jan. 11, in lat. 39 N., long. 6 E. Maid of Erin schooner, bound out, Feb. 9. Antonato, Bremen brig, bound out,.Feb. 24, in lat 48 N., long. 8 W. sis, of Livopool, in lat. 40 N., long. 10, W. SEABORNE MAILS. [ti signifies that the malls are sent from the General Post-office by the night—and ➢f by the morning—dispatch.) When made up in I From what When PLACES. General Post- o ffice) port dis- due. London. patched. America (by Brit. pkt.)N March 14 .. .. Liverpool March 12 America (by U.S. pkt.) N March 7 .. .. Liverpool March 16 America (by US. pkt.) M March 8 .. Southampt. March 8 Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month Plymouth March 3 Alexandria* N 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. March 18 Belgium • • • • • • N Daily • Dover .. Daily Brazil • • • .. 9th of the month Southampt. Feb. 24 Buenos Ayres • • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Feb. 24 Califomla(viaChagres)M 17th of month Southampt. March 7 Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth•• March 3 Constantinople * .. • • N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. March 10 Central America .. M2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. March 7 Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., &Fri. Southampt. Ta. Th. Sa Chili .. •• .• M 17th of the month Southampt. March 20 F ra nce M& N Twice daily .. .. Dover .. Twicedally Greece* •• • • • • N 7 th 17th 27th efmo Dover .. March 10 Hamburgh • • .. N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat, Holland .. • • M Wednes. & Satur. London .. Alom.Tltur Honduras .. . N 17th of the month Southampt. March 20 Ireland • • .. M& N Twice daily Holyhead .. Twicedally India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt. March 28 India (via Marseilles) N 7th& 24th ofnaonth Dover • • March 23 Mediterranean (via .• • • 77 1 :1 Southampton) • • M l 2oth of the month Southampt. March 28 ,%1 editerranean (via Mexico /11* of the month.. Southampt. March 7 7 2 t i l t i h i o 9 fmon t th hi Dover • • March 23 Madeira • • • • • • Ml9th of the month Southampt. March 12 Malta* • • • • N ot 30th :)f monthtln 11 Dover March 10 Naples * N sth 15th 25th ofmo l Dover March 12 Marseilles) Papal States * N sth 15th 25th of mo l l Dover .. M arch 12 Peninsular •• •• •• 31 !7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt. March 6 Peru 11 , 17 th of the month Southampt. March 20 T usc any* .• • . N' ;sth 15th 25th of mo:Dover • . March 12 West Indies .. 'l7th of the month Southampt. March 20 West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) M2d of the month Southampt. March 7 •• ististh 15th 25th of mo: „.._ - .of month 1 Naples * •• •• •• .N sth 15t1125thofmo,1 Papal States * .. .. N sth 15th 25th ofmol 1 7th of the month ' Peninsular•• •• •• M!7th 17th 27th of mo' Peru •• .. .• •• 117th of the month ilaYallrla & Nassau) M 2d of the month .. . The mails to those countries thus mar' French packs • ia Marseilles. ..* The mails for Brazil, Buenos Ayr lirvs Tuscany*,West ss ttlndi e si e . s . ( e .. ... c e p. t. m I made up on the morning of the 10th of the 9th falling on a Sunday. I Southampt. Eed (*) are c March 7 mreyel by ;, and Madeira, will be [arch, in consequence of POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. A woman named Eliza Driscoll was charged with ob taining 21. from Messrs. Fox and Henderson, the con tractors, under false pretence s . the prosecutors, said that in James April Ipasutnthetnperisaogne,enrt Spring -gardens, at their railway gauge -wstidr7ivt' of Dennis . Mack, who was killed on SPring-gardens, and represented 3 7 . She stated that she was in great want of 405., to complete the purchase of a pony and open a green-gr . ocere .! shop. She was told to call again, and inean . while witness wrote to the prosecutors h°thifieeresEeilarisnatesiCrtnhewCe Counties Railway. (who were executing some works for the railway), and subsequently received authority to pay her the sum. The prisoner called a g ain, and the money was paid to her. Ann Mack proved that she was the real w id ow o f the prisoner,her late husband knew w d had th deceased e i u b sri , anything ) and n was ytwast hin living not t o v i d n og aware w a t i th h thate r. Stretford. ever Evidence was given of the payment of 21. to the pri soner upon the above pretence by the cashier of the pro secutors. The woman affected to be ignorant of the whole transaction when apprehended, but she was iden kianrgra titled by the witnes ses on bei ng taken by the constable to the Crystal Palace. The prisoner denied that she w as t h e woman who had received the money , and decla re d t h at she ha d never seen the prosecutors or their agents b e f ore. Mr. HENRY comm itted her for trial. ete force, charged by ctive CLERICEN WELL. Frederick Curtis, a smart-10 0 y nt e , il i n n g th m e a c it t;stod wa y s b f r ought Sergeant Archdeacon Hale, of Charterhouse-square, with having obtained a situation in his service with a f a l s e char a cter. o before Smith, hlr of Combo th e d on a warrant Mr. Hale, son of the archdeacon, attended, and com municated that his father could not attend, in conse quence of his clerical duties on Ash Wednesday. It appears that the prisoner, , some months ago, en tered the service of Mr. k reshfield, solicitor to the Bank of England, when he gave a referenc e t o a person re siding at Moreton, near Norw ich; and, on application being made, a high character was given of the prisoner, who was received into the service. His subsequent con duct, however, caused great suspicion; and, on inquiries being made at Moreton, it was ascertained that the per son to whom he had referred was his father in•law, who had surreptitiously recommended him. He was prose cuted. and sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. Archdeacon Hale consulted with the police, and at tended at this court in company of Sergeant Smith, when a warrant was granted tor th e p r i soner ' s ap p re • hension at the expiration of his term of i mpr i sonmen t ; and yesterday Sergeant Smith took him into custody on leaving the prison. In answer to a question, Mr. Hale said the prisoner got drunk while in his father's service, and was guilty of other misconduct. Sergeant Smith said that on searching the prisoner he found a number of pawnbrokers' duplicates in his pos session, for articles of silver plate, &c., which he sus pected to have been stolen. Mr. COMBS, after a private consultation with Mr. Hale and the clerk, committed the prisoner to the sessions. plained not that the daily press existed at the price of 5c1., as it did. He would leave that press to its present customers; but still he said that they should have a press that the rest of the community could patronise also.—(Cheers.) What a curious exception the daily press was to every other article of Consumption! If they wanted a dictionary, for example, they could have one at any price, varying from a shilling to a guinea; bat if they wanted a newspaper, sd.—neither more nor less—was the magical price at which it was to be pur chased. They were told that a cheap article must ne cessarily be of a low character. He denied it. Toe cheap newspaper might not be quite so witty or fasci nating, perhaps, in style as some of the dearer publics. tions, but it still might be as honest, straightforward, and direct to the purpose --and if he wanted a good and wholesome taste he should not go upward, but if he wanted a meretricious taste he should find it there.— (Cheers.) Montesquieu had said that, though mankind was reprobate in detail, it was wise in the gross, and he had no doubt if the medium of literary and political in formation were made free to all, that the benefit must be general and universal. He looked upon the repeal of the advertisement duty as the sine qua non for a cheap press. In fact, there could not be a cheap press until those duties were repealed. They must do with the press as they had done with corn, and they should al ways find in him a Free-trader in knowledge.--(Cheers.) The CHAIRMLN here read a letter of apology from Mr. Scholefield, M.P., for non-attendance, and another from Mr. Ewart, M.P. The latter Hon. Member en closed 51, towards the object of the meeting.—(Cheers.) A person named SHAM, who addressed the meeting amid considerable interruption,_ contended that the only way to remove th e t axes on knowledge was to struggle to obtain universal suffrage. The people would have no power to obtain these or similar fiscal reductions until they were properly represented.—(Cheers.) The resolution was then put, and carried unanimously. Mr. IlicKsoff, who was introduced to the meeting as the late editor of the Westminster Review, moved the second resolution as follows: _ " That the excise on pager, the tax on advertisements, and the stamp on newspapers, though apparently uncon nected taxes, are in reality parts of one system, which restricts the freedom of the press by hampering it with fiscal burdens." He bad not anticipated meeting them to-night, but he had received that morning a communication from a friend of his now abroad, in the shape of a cheque upon Barclay and Co. for 1001. on behalf of the objects for which they were now assembled. This donation was from Mr. Ed ward Lombe, a liberal Norfolk landowner, the donor of 500/. to the National Public School Association. Mr. Lombe viewed the abolition of what he called the infa mous taxes on knowledge as an educational question.— (Hear, hear.) And he (Mr. Hickson) recommended this view to the consideration of all the friends of national education.—(Hear.) The object of education was to make good citizens of the people by teaching every member of the community to understand the laws he was called upon to obey.—(Hear.) But how could they teach the poor man the nature of the laws if they prohibited the circulation of the only publications that treated of the administration of those laws? Newspapers were only ac cessible to the poor man at the public-house, but what was wanted was that they should enter the cottage door. Such publications as the Penny Magazine, Chambers's Tracts, and Chambers's Journal, of which he did not wish to speak depreciatingly, did not come home enough to the real objects and business of life, and the working classes would sacrifice them all to the cheap news paper. There was some reason for the allegation that the higher classes in continuing the taxes on knowledge had a sinister object in view, viz., the maintenance of political privileges and political monopoly. If ever the people carried the repeal of these taxes it would be by taking the matter into their own hands. He believed it to be within the mark that there would be ten newspapers for one if the taxes on knowledge were repealed, and thus increased and more remune rating employment would be given, not only to journey man printers, but to the whole literary profession. The local press would be especially benefited. The Ruesell Administration appeared to be entering upon another lease of power.—(Several voices—" A short one!") They had lost very considerably the confidence of the country.—(Great cheering.) Ho trusted they would turn over a new leaf.—(A cry—" It is too late!") At all events a general election was close at hand, and, al though he was not favourable to pledges, he hoped the taxes on knowledge would be admitted to stand as the first to be repealed by a Liberal Ministry and Parlia ment.—(Cheers.) Dr. LEE seconded the resolution, but wished it had included the duty upon foreign books and the ocean penny postage. M. E. EDWARDS supported the motion, and addressed the meeting to show the additional employment that would be given to large classes of persons in the printing and paper-making trades, if the taxes on knowledge were repealed. London, with 2,500,000 of people, had only six morning papers, while in New York, with a popula tion of 500,000 or 600,000, there were thirteen. Mr. M. Grusori. M.P., who was cordially received, said it had devolved upon him to move the repeal of the taxes on knowledge in the House of Commons, and he hoped to renew that motion. But a Member of Parlia ment, in a like case, felt in a most forlorn situation un less he knew he was backed by public opinion. —(Hear, hear.) It was fur the people to carry this as they had carried other questions, and they must remember that no free knowledge or any other kind of freedom had ever been handed over to the people as a free and spontaneous gift.—(l.lear, hear.) He was afraid there lay at the root of the opposition to the repeal of these taxes en unworthy jealousy on the part of governing men of the spread of knowledge among the people.—(Cheers.) It was said that the spread of cheap newspapers would make government in this country impos sible. It was far more likely that ignorance would make government impossible.—(Hear, hear.) It would be much better that our institutions should rest upon the basis of an enlightened public opinion. If they looked forward to a period of universality of suffrage, nothing could bo more important than that the great body of the people should have brought within their reach the means of understanding the laws under which they lived. The Government was afraid to carry out impar tially and literally the provisions of the Newspaper Act, which, he contended, ought therefore not to be continued upon the statute-book. It might appear that, in asking for the repeal of all these taxes at once, they were ask ing for too much, but they were all connected with each other, and he for oae would not be contented until the three duties were all repealed, and until the press was set entirely free. He had no doubt whatever that the tax upon advertisements was not a means of revenue, but a revenue destroyer, since it struck at industry and commerce, the prosperity of which produced revenue. He ventured to say that if this tax were repealed in the next year's returns of income the amount would not be missed. It was not, in fact, a consideration of reve nue that prevented the repeal of this tax, but a dread of extending cheap knowledge and cheap newspapers among the working classes. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was preparing a new Budget. He had no great confi dence that he would come forward with a proposition for the repeal of the taxes upon knowledge; but they must not be deterred from pressing on this question by any statement that the financial arrangements of the year were concluded. He held it to be perfectly fair and Parliamentary to press all matters of this nature upon the attention of the Government, and he trusted that he should live to see the shackles struck from the press and perfect freedom introduced.—(Cheers.) The motion was carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. COLLETT, seconded by Mr. HOLYOAKE, the following resolution was also carried, and the meeting separated at midnight:— " That by allowing a number of registered newspapers to circulate a portion of their impression without stamps, and denying the same privilege to others; and by per mitting news and political comments to be inserted in the unstamped publications of the metropolis, while sup pressing similar publications in the country, the Board of Inland Revenue has invested itself with the powers of a censorship equally foreign to the laws of the land and the feelings of the people of this country," • Ns Entrance Fees or any other charge beyond the Policy Stamp. The present nnual income of the Society from Premiums is 63,000/. ; t e amount covered by the Policies of the Society is 1,781,5801.; and the reserved profit, applicable to future bonus to the Assured, amounts to 82,454/. ss. 6(1. At the last annual inves tigation, reported in May, 1850, the bonuses declared to the As sured were, the option of a return of 15 per cont. on their Premiums in cash, or a reversionary aldition to the original sam assured by each Policy varying from 20 to 65 per cent. EXAMPLES OF BONUSES ALREADY DECLARED. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. OLDHAM STEEPLECHASES (CONCLUDED). The Garrison and Hunt Stakes of 3 soya, each, and 40 added; the second to receive 101. Gentlemen riders; 12st each, &c. Over the Steeplechase Course. (7 Subs.) Captain Maynard's Springy Jack (Canavan) 1. Mr. Wall's Brewer (Cowell) 2 Captain Norton's Potheen (Mr. Lynch) 3 The Duchess and Clear the Kitchen also ran. A fine race. Won cleverly by half a length. The Beaten Steeplechase Stakes of 5 sous. each, 3 ft, and 30 added; the second to receive 101. Steeplechase Course. Mr. Tiernan's Isaac, aged, llst 71b (Canavan) 1 Mr. Mewburn's Queen of the Wiske,lost 81b ( %Vie") 2 Won easy. The Beaten Garrison Stakes were won by the Duchess beating the Brewer easily. DONCASTER SPRING MEETING. The race committee have g l o , t h u u p rs a d n a and steeplechase racing on yexacnd lle F fi r t i l ci s s t y fo n r e fl x a t t , low f ra Tn l e e, calculate oowing an fll is on a and the admission fees to the grand stand and betting moms having been fixed at a largo and fashionable company. outline of the present engagement s. , _ _ 'National Steeplechase Stakes TnuasDAy.—The Grand &e., with 10 0 added-23 horses left in The Betting Ro om St a k es , 9 e oo ri nf t tl r s ie o s sf o; an the h e ach, eitrvSheffield of3B. and Rotherham Handicap, 18 en tries; a Hurdle Handicap, and the Municipal Stakes. FRIDAY.—The Doncaster Handicap, with 1001. added, 22 horses left in out of an entry of 45; the Hopeful Stakep, for two years old, 15 ,entries, and three (Aber stakes which close next week. 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Physical defectiveness and its removal. SteriUty and its conversion. Oases, &c. By R. d. CITLVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. 1824). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these • 'uteri. Roo.otion hours laity till ay.. Evenings, seven till nine. 10 Argyll-place, Regent-street. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. LEEDS, MARCH 4.—Our supplies of grain to-day were only moderate. There was a little more firmness in the trade, and Friday's terms were supported, bat without leading to any activity in business. Barley steady, at late prices. Beans, oats, &c., were unaltered. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, MARCH 4.—The supply of wheat of all descriptions was small, still the trade was dull, although Saturday's prices were maintained. In fine qualities of malting barley there was a fair inquiry at if anything higher rates. Inferior sorts neglected. In flour and other articles little change. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, MARCH 4.—The supply of beasts was 101 less than on last Tuesday. Trade brisk, and all sold at 3d per stone advance. About 210 more sheep shown this morning than last week. All breeds have been in active request at full rates, and all sold. Beasts, 717 ; sheep, 3,437. Beef, 4s 6d to 5s 9d per stone; mutton, 6d to 60 per lb. BRISTOL MARCH FAIR.—At our annual cattle fair there wa. on the whole a good supply of animals, and prices rather looked up. Fat Devons fetched from 44s to 52s per cwt. In poor oxen prices varied from 81 and 101 to 17'. The supply of sheep was extremely indifferent, and not much business done. The supply of horses was large, good animals commanding fair prices, but indifferent hacks were difficult to dispose of. W . e have heard many complaints among the butchers at the fair being held on the market day (Saturday), thus putting them to great inconvenience to attend. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, MARCH 4.—There were in the meal market to-day 15 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801bs. imperial, which sold thus:-5 at 11 7s 6d, and 10 at 11 7s Od; average price of the whole 11 7s 2d 0-12ths. 3 sacks flour, which sold at 28s. 17 sacks pot-barley, whereof 10 isc.ld thus :—1 at 25s 6d, 1 at 255, and Bat 21s. EDINBURSH HAT AND STRAW MARKET, MARCH 4. Oat straw, from 7s Od to 8s Od per kemple of 16 stones tron ; wheat ditto, is Od to 7s 6d; barley ditto, 6s Od to 6s 6d. Hay, from 10d to Is per stone. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, MARCH 3.—There were 80 bags oatmeal at this day's market, which experienced a dull demand. In oatmeal there was no change on the prices of last week. There was no other description of meal in market Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third imperial .. 26s Od 25s 9d 25s 6d Barleymeal, per ditto —s 01 —8 Od —s Od Peasemeal —s Od —s Od —s Od Flour ... —s Od —s Od —s Od Pot barley ... —s Od —s Od —s Od COAL Chester Main ]2s 9d Clavering's Tanfield 145 6d North Percy Hartley l3s 6d Ord's Main Wylani Wall's End, &c. Bewicke and Co. Brown .. l2s 9d Harton Hotspur l2s 6d Haswell lss Od 1.- YESTERDAY. Lambton Russell's Hetton Scarborough 135 9d Stewart's Eleugh Hall South Kelloe l4s Od South Hartlepool Whitworth . l2i 6d Richardson's Tees l2s 6d fees Ships at market, 182. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, MARcn 5. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market was very active to-day, and prices had an upward tendency. The transactions were as follow :—..outh Devon, 17 3 4—South-Eastern and Dover, 2i 4—Vale of Neath, dis.. Li VERPOOL. MARCH 5. STOCK ExcHANC4l.—The share market was not so good to-day, and prices declined a little. The transactions were as follow : Aberdeen, 15 1 4—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 7 dis. —Ditto (late C. and B.), 21%—Ditto, 22/. Shares, 4 dis. Caledonian, IVA—Chester and Holyhead, 23—East Lancashire, 16 1 / s —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 59 itto, Fifths, 7 1-16 dis.—Ditto ( West Riding Union), 5 9-16 dis.—Lancaster and Carlisle, Thirds, 9 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, Preference, Fifths, 10 5-16—London and North- Western, 131 IA —Ditto, New :Quarters, 6 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 35%—Ditto, Preference, 11 15-16 —Midland, 65—Ditto, Halves. 13 5 i; dis.—North Stafford shire, 6 1 / 5 dis.—North- Western, WA, dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 27 1 4—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, unpaid-up, 1% dis.—York and North Midland, 264(,—Great Southern and Western, 45—Waterford and Limerick, 15%. MANCHESTER, MARCH 5. STOCK EXCHARGH.—There has been a fair business done today, but prices were generally weaker. The transactions were as follow:—East Lancashire, 16 LA—Ditto, Preference, 7'k,—Caledonian, 12 1 / s —West Riding. 5 7-16 dis.—Great Northern, 18 3 ,4—Leeds Stock, 5914—London and North- Western, 131 1 ,4—Ditto, New Quarters, 6 p.—Ditto (C), Quarters, 3 1-16 p.—Sheffield Stock, 35 1 4—Leeds, Fifth, 7 dis— South-Eastern and Dover, 27 1 4—Eastern Counties, 7 —Ambarghte, 4 dis. ex in.—Oxford and Worcester, Prefer ence, IA p, BIRMINGHAM, Ms.ncit 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was very active to-day, but the business was confined chiefly to local stocks. The transactions were as follow :—London and North- Western, 132—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 4/. 13s. 9d. dis.— Ditto, Preference, 10 1 ,4—Midland, 65. YORK, MARCH 4. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The only transactions to-day were— Malton and Drificield Junction, 5 1 / B —York and North Mid land, 25%. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS, LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Return Of Traffic for the week ending March 2:— Passengers, parcels, &c. £22,791 4 7 Merchandise 17,586 19 4 Cattle ... 700 19 4 Total ... ....£41,059 3 3 Corresponding week last year 40,201 910 Note.—The returns as published are exclusive of the traffic of the lluddersfield Canal and Shropshire Union, North Union, Preston and INryre, South Junction, Manchester and Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propor tion of traffic deducted under agreement with the North Staffordshire Company. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAT.—Return of traffic for the week ending March 2 ... ... £14,181 15 8 Corresponding week last year... 13,693 7 7 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles open..)—Traffic for week ending Mar. 2 ....£14,501 15 6 Corresponding week in last year, (219 miles open) .. ...£12,090 16 5 NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. (Miles open,ll2.) Return of traffic for the week ending Feb. 23: Railway and canal .. .£4,412 0 0 Corresponding week last year ... 4,097 0 0 Note. The above is exclusive of the receipts available under the agreement with the London and North-Western Railway Company. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.-- , TraffiC for the week ending March 2 : MAIN LINE. Passengers ... ... Parcels, H. C. and D. ... Goods, cattle, &c. ... Mails ... ... ... ... £902 1 10 ... 60 12 9 ... 442 13 6 ... 575 0 0 Total ••• MOLD. Passengers ... ... Parcels, H. C. and D. ... Goods, cattle, &c. ... ... £1,980 8 1 Total ... £39 6 9 ... 1 7 7 ... 70 7 3 ... ... ... Xlll 1 7 STZAM-BOATS. Passengers . Parcels, 11. C. and D. ... £lOO 5 4 ... 20 3 0 £l4O 8 4 Total LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY.—Amount of revenue for the week ending March 2:— Passengers Goods ..Z729 14 10 ... 21 5 0 Total ... ... ....£749 19 10 Corresponding week last year ... 600 16 9 SHROPSHIRE UNION 1 1 AnwAr.—(Open 29 miles.)—Traffic for the week ending March 2 : Passengers, parcels, &c. ... Goods and live stock ... £3Ol 16 ii ... 185 18 0 Total •• • . £490 14 74 Corresponding week last year ... 422 10 64 CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—(I6O miles opened.) —Return of traffic for the week ending Feb. 23: — Passengers, &c. Goods, &c. „ £2,013 7 Oi ... ... 4,312 13 3 Total £6,356 0 3} Corresponding week last year ... 5,759 10 6 THAMES. Roger M'Grath, an Irish labourer, who has bee❑ twice remanded, was brought up before Mr. Ingham, charged with cutting and wounding John O'Briant, one of his countrymen, on the night of Saturday, the 15th ult., with intent to murder or do him grievous bodily harm. The parties have been repeatedly before the Court, and their disputes have nearly terminated in murder. The prosecutor, who has been for 17 days in the London Hospital, appeared in a very deplorable condition and in a weak state from loss of blood. It appeared that on the 15th of February the prose cutor was charged by the prisoner's wife with using abusive language towards her, and was fined 2s. without costs. As he was leaving the court the woman struck him with her fist, took up a brick and threw it at his head, and inflicted a very severe wound. On the same night, about twelve o'clock, the prosecutor was coming out of his own house for the purpose of going to market to buy a piece of meat, w h en h e was i ntercepted by the prisoner and his wife at the corner of Stepney-causeway. M'Grath said he wished to be friends with O'Briant and have some beer. The prosecutor made no objection, and they walked a few paces, when M‘Gratli, who had his hands in his jacket-pockets, took from one of them what appeared to be a book, but which proved to be a small hand-axe or hatchet, with which he struck O'Briant a tremendous blow on the mouth, which cut his lips open loosened several teeth, and felled him to the ground As he was rising the prisoner struck him across the temple with the hatchet, and inflicted a severe wound, from which the blood flowed copiously. As he was falling the prisoner's wife struck him on the head, and cut it open. The prosecutor called out " Murder" as loud as he was able, and to stifle his cries the prisoner's wife put her shawl over his mouth, threw him down, and beat and kicked hira — in - a most savage manner. A police-constable, 75 K, hearing the cries of murder, hastened towards the spot whence they pro ceeded, and passed the prisoner and his wife, who were running away in a contrary direction, Mrs. M'Grath saying "Hurry home, hurry home."Jhe policeman found O'Briant on the ground apparently dead, end bleeding profusely from several wounds on his person. He caused him to be conveyed to the London Hospital, where be has ever since remained. O'Briant's life was despaired of for several days, and he left the hospital for the first time yesterday, and presented himself in the court in a very weakly condition. The prisoner was subsequently arrested by Potter, 212 K, and on being made acquainted with the charge, he said, " that he only struck O'Briant with his fist, and that he did so be cause he was a cuckold." Potter found the hatchet with which the wounds had been inflicted, in the prisoner's room. Mr. INGHAM expressed his intention of committing the prisoner for trial; but, as the surgeon who had dressed the prosecutor's wounds was not in attendance, he remanded the case till Saturday. REPEAL of the TAXES on KNOWLEDGE. Last night a public meeting was held in St. Martin's hall, Long Acre, to promote the repeal of all the taxes on knowledge, and in particular the penny stamp on newspapers. The large hall was filled to overflowing, and some interruption was caused at the commencement of the proceedings by the "pressure from without." Professor T. it Key took the chair at half past eight o'clock. Among the Members of Parliament present were Mr. Cobden, Mr. M. Gibson, Mr. F. O'Connor, and Mr. Stanford. The CHAIRXAN, who stated that he presided in the absence of Mr. Grote, said that ho had been for thirty years an advocate for the repeal of the taxes on know ledge. He thought the present a suitable opportunity of expressing the gratitude he felt for Mr. Rowland Hill, as a labourer in this cause, whom he regarded as one of the greatest benefactors this country ever had in procuring the penny postage for the people. We had obtained cheap food for the bodies of the people, and it now be hoved us to gain cheap food for their minds. No one could object to the diffusion of knowledge but those whose power or whose wealth was founded upon fraud; and with them he had no sympathy. What was wanted was, not only the advancement of knowledge, but the diffudon of knowledge.---(Hear, hear.) It was not enough that one class of the community should be edu cated, and the other half ignorant, becaase then the people would make only occasional advances, to be fol lowed by subsequent reaction.—(Hear.) This was the ease in Spain, where the intelligence of the towns was counteracted by the ignorance of the country. It was also the case to some extent in France, and in England too.—(Cheers.) The Minister of the Crown had ad mitted, although reluctantly, that the franchise ought to be extended. He would only be consistent if he also attended to the spread of knowledge among the class whom he proposed to enfranchise.—(Hear.) The Chair man concluded by reading a letter from Mr. Hume, sI.P., whose absence, he regretted to state, was caused by indisposition. Mr. J. CASSELL said that France and America had their penny periodica!s and penny newspapers, but in England it was exceedingly difficult to maintain a penny periodical iu consequence of the tax upon paper. The Messrs. Chambers' weekly tracts had a circulation of 80,000, yet they did not pay, and were obliged to be given np. They had since started a 14d. publication, but it had not obtained half the circulation of the others, and they would be obliged to give that up also. The reduction of the taxes upon knowledge would lead to the employment of thousands of persons in the paper and printing businesses, and all classes would be benefited. The working man would have his daily paper for 11, and, instead of being obliged to go to the ale-house and pay lit for beet i❑ order to get a sight of the paper, he would be able to take it home to read by his own fireside.—(Hear, hear.) Where we had one newspaper at present, we should have ten, if the paper and ad vertisement duties and the stamp duty were repealed. The Government gave 100,0001. towards education; but it ought never to be forgotten that they took 1,000,0001. a year from the people by the taxes on knowledge.— (Hear, hear.) He moved— " That all taxes which impede the diffusion of know ledge are highly injurious to the public interest, and are most impolitic sources of revenue, and that their retention by the Legislature is utterly inconsistent with the opinion now universally professed in favour of po pular education." Mr. E. Mum., in seconding the resolution, congratu lated the meeting upon the auspicious time at which they were assembled. Events had reduced the Budget to a state of liquefaction, in which it was melted down to its original elements, and had to be cast in a new mould. While the Chancellor of the Exchequer was pondering, he hoped the present meeting would be able to set the stamp of its purpose upon his new Budget A gentleman upon the platform here produced a copy of the New York Tribune, a daily paper published at two cents (one penny). There were, he said, from 15 to 20 newspapers published in New York every day. Almost every village had its newspaper; and the consequence was, that the people of the United States were well edu cated and instructed.—(Cheers.) Mr. G. H. LEWES seconded the resolution. It was said, that to remove the stamp duty upon newspapers would be to make that class of literature " low." But the objection seemed to him to be founded upon that eternal " snobism" of the English character that made everything " low" that was not exclusive.—(Cheers.) They were told that a good case might be made out against every tax, but the taxes on knowledge struck at the root of all other taxes, for the removal of these taxes would so far diffuse political knowledge, and would so democratiz' the House of Commons, that the people would take care they were not more taxed than was necessary for the wants of the nation.—(Cheers.) Mr. COBDEN, who was received with great applause, next addressed the meeting. The part ho had to take on this subject in another place would render it unne cessary that he should trouble them at any length. He believed that no other tax would have called together so large an assemblage; but this was a tax on knowledge, and when they complained of the Government for con tinuing it, it was, in point of fact, laying an indictment against the Government for depriving the people of mental food.—(Cheers.) He was, and always had been, an advocate for the advancement of knowledge, and these three taxes were in point of fact impediments to knowledge. Of these taxes perhaps the most objection able was that of the penny stamp on newspapers. It was, in the first place, so trifling in its proceeds that it laid itself open to the supposition that it was imposed not for the sake of the amount it yielded to the revenue, but for some sinister purpose. The annual receipt from the tax was about 350,0001. Not less than from 60.000,000 to 80,000,000 newspapers passed through the Post-office every year. Now, what they proposed was, that every newspaper that went through the Post-office should have a Queen's head upon it; and that, their friend Mr. Hume would tell them, would produce as large a revenue as was derived from the present sj stem; but, whether it did or no, the loss of a small sum on such a commodity bore no proportion to the benefit to result from the repeal. He fully believed if we had no stamp duty, and no duty on advertisements or paper, that wo might have penny daily newspapers with large circulations. A paper had been produced called the /Vtre I ork Tribune, which was published at a penny. There were others as cheap. The actual cost of producing paper in this country was as low as in New York— literary labour was as cheap—all the adjuncts were as accessible—why, then, was not the newspaper as cheap in London as there? It would be, but that the Chancel lor of the Exchequer intervened.—(Cheers.) The fact was, that this country had no daily press. The daily press only existed in London. It was scarcely known in the country, and it was not the exponent of the wants and interests of the working class.—(Cheers.) Let them look at the "leaders" of the daily press and their politics, and c om p are th e m with the leaders of the weekly press, and he asked which were the better (Cheers.) Why, no weekly paper could live upon the ..... politics of the M or ni n g Herald or the Morn i ng I st. (Laughter.) He did not wish to constitute himself a judge in th ese m atters, but he did say that those who patronised the weekly press ought to have the opportu nity of supporting a similarly cheap d aily press. At the same time let it not be suppo sed that he would say any thing to injure any portion of the daily press. He com-