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" J 1E COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY . do hereby give notice, That the RITE of EXCHANGE at which they will receive Cash Tr Bills on Bengal and Madras will, from the present date and until ti:trther notice, be 2s. Id. tho Company's Rupee; and for Bills on 4sta)ay, 2s. lid. the Company's JA Rupee. ME . ; C. MELVILL, Secretary. is were wounded slightly. We have had no with our men here. Boats constantly going town, and parties of men hauling the Seine, t no desertions." ARKS ON THE ANSWER OF "W." SiR CHARLES NAPIER'S LETTERS ON THE NAVE THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY is NOW OPEN for GENERAL MERCHANDISE TRAFFIC 4nd from London, and all Stations on the Great N orthern Railway rem, and to and from London and all To wns in the North of tiland and in Scotland. 1,2 0 , olls may be Booked at the King's - cross Statio n, or at the fel '"vaig Receiving Houses in London : At the Bull and Mouth Inn, St. Martin's - le , Gra nd ; the Oxford A AA,, Warwick•lane; the George Inn, Borough ; No. 11, Grace- Irreh-street ; the Flower Pot, Bi s h o p sg ate-street ; the Saracen's 4 d, Snow-hill ; the OW Bell, llolborn ; the Cross Keys, St. John et ; the Peacock, Islington ; the White Bear, Piccadilly ; , a tclaet's, Piccadilly ; the Ship, Charing - cross ; Moore's Green 'an and Still;Oxford-street ; the Boar and Castle , and t h e Glouces ter Warehouse, Oxford-street. n Ztal particulars as to Rates, ar.c., may be ascertained at the Goods . " 4 ee l , King's-cross Station, and at all the Statio ns on the Line. Tile Company's Dock and Waterside Premises, King's-cross Sta- Cn, are accessible by the Regent's Canal, and facilities exist for tiding and unloading Barges under cover in the Warehouses. h . ,• 1 1. To prevent mistakes all goods should he plainly marked " To -1 forwarded by the Great Northern Rallvray." By order, SEYMOUR CLARKE, General Manager, Secretary's Office, King's-cross Station, _ London, Dec. 13, 1851 N°.18,177.] LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING SUN 7 DECEMBER 26, 1850. [PRICE SD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING HERALD. Sir,—l have read withmuch interest the letter of your correspondent " - W." which purports to be a reply to Sir Charles Napier's remarks. Before I offer any observations on those parts of the letter of "W." which refer to Admiral Napier's correspondence, I cannot refrain from expressing my astonishment that any unbiassed, disinterested officer, and more especially one with the evident experience of " W." should still seek to maintain the superiority of the ships of the line of Sir 'William Symonds 's construction. THE WIDOW of the late Rev. GEORGE EDWARD HOLLEST, of Frimley, Surrey—Frimley, Bag shot, December 4, 1850.—An earnest APPEAL to public benevolence is respectfully submitted by a few friends and neighbours on behalf of the WIDOW of the late Rev. GEORGE EDWARD HOLLEST, who for a pried of 18 years, in an exemplary manner, performed the duties of his church, and was distinguished by his benevolence and charity in the wide district under his charge. The act of atrocity by which the Rev. Mr. Holiest was suddenly cut off is universally known, but those only who are acquainted with his posi tion are aware that ho never had the means of making a provision for his widow. Under such circumstances, it is hoped that the case of Mrs. Holiest will commend itself to the generous consideration of those who are blessed with the means of alleviating, so far as human sympathy and assistance can alleviate, the distress of family so fearfully bereft of its natural supporter. The income of Mrs. Holiest does not exceed 401. per annum, and subscriptions are earnestly solicited in aid of these inadequate means. Subscriptions will be thankfully received by the following bankers :—Messrs. llerries, Farquhar, and Co.; Messrs Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Messrs. Barclay, Tritton, and Co. ; Messrs. Coutts, and Co.; Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co.; Sir S. Scott, Bart., and Co., I, Cavendish square ; M essr s. mangles Brothers, Guildford; Messrs. Stevens and Blandy, Reading; also by the following members of the Com mittee : R. R. Bayley, Esq., Mitchett, Frimley, Bagshot. J. F. Burrell, Eq., Manor House, Frimley. Rev. J. H. Clayton, Farnborough, Bagshot. Rev. John Lawrell, Cove, Bagshot. Sir Walter Farquhar, Bart., Farnborough-place, Bagshot. Thomas Longman, Esq., Farnborough-hill, Bagshot. Captain Charles Edward Mangles, Poyle-park, Farnham, Surrey. The Commit'ee have the s itisfaction to state that her Majesty the Queen, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Bishop of Winchester, have sanctioned their exertions by very liberal donations. llowman, Rev. G. E. - 5 0 1:11 Hoare, Joseph, Esq. - 5 5 0. Holland, Miss • 2 0 0' Hunt and Roskell, Messrs. - - - 5 00, Harvey, Robt., Esq., and Itarsdon, W. F. Esq. - 5 0 0 Rhodes, Mrs. - - 1 0 0 Rusher, Geo., Esq. - - 5 0 0 Rush, Captain - - 3 0 0 Rush, Mrs. - - 2 0 0 Rowley, Mrs. W. W. - 010 0 :Smith, James, Esq. - 2 0 0 Shaft°, Mrs J D. - - 1 0 0 ,Scott, Rcv. 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Still, as I am desirous of showing your correspondent a few facts connected with the objectionable properties of those ships, I w ill venture to offer a few remarks for his consideration. First, I will ask him if he can possibly consider that a ship that rolls above 35 degrees, when in a swell or seaway, is then capable of having her guns pointed with anything like precision, even by the most skilful gunners ? I will next put a case which may occur within 48 hours of a war being declared, and will leave it to your intelligent correspondent to state his opinion upon it. I will suppose that unlooked-for events had arisen, and that war bad been declared by France against us, and that the same efficient and well-trained squa dron that was lately hovering on our coasts is cruising at the entrance of the Channel. Of course we should immediately get a squadron to proceed to meet the enemy, in order to prevent their intercepting our homeward-bound commerce. We will further sup pose that with the five sail of the line under Sir William Parker, who had managed to reach England without having fallen in with the nine heavy ships of the French squadron, we had, with the aid of the Coast-guard men and every other resource, been enabled to man the Trafalgar, Vengeance, and Ocean, and also the St. George and Britannia, thus with the Albion, already manned, giving us the superiority on meeting the enemy's ships, and that, consequently, they sought to avoid an action by going off before the wind, when the signal would, of course, be made for a " general chace," when each ship of our squadron would do her best to overtake them. _ _ THE TREASURY of KNOWLEDGE, and Library of Reference: a Compendium of Universal Knowledge. 10s. THE SCIENTIFIC and LITERARY TREASURY: a Copious Popular Encyclopzedla. Price 10s. LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY COMPANY. NORTH GRAVESEND EXTENSION. 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IiETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, in single bot h, ties, protected by the patent metallic capsules , obtaina ble 34 4 all respectable spirit merchants in town and country; or, at me i Per dozen ; and in 2-gallon jars, at 16s. per gallon, of BETTS at 7, SMITHFIELD BMtS. C. S., M.P. - - - 10 0 0 Monteflore, Sir Moses and Lady - - - 5 e 0 Murray, Henry, Esq. - 5 0 0 Makepeace, Miss - - 2 0 0 Macklesfield, G. G., Esq. 1 1 0 Mildmay, the Lady - 10 0 • Mlldmay, Edward, Esq. 5 0 0 Bev. F. - - 1 0 0 Miles, J. W., Esq., and Sons - - - - 5 5 0 Thackwell, Rev. S. - 5 0 0 Taylor, Rev. S. B. - 0 10 6 Thomond, Marquis of - 1 0 0 Thomond, Marchioness of 1 0 0 Voyle, G. E., Esq. - - 0 10 0 Vaughan, Henry, Esq. • 5 0 0 Van Hagen, Mrs. - - 1 0 0 Wylde E. A., Esq. - 2 2 0 Waddington, Mr. ani VIE DEW OFF BEN NEVIS : the patronised b y , skey of 11.R.H. 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(k Subscribed Capital, ONE MILLION. -et of the Proprietors Enrolled in the High Court of Chancery.) I,jackson, James, Esq. I .Tohnson, 11., Esq. Tohnson, Miss E. - Jackson, Miss, Jackson, Wm:, Esq. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AND EQUITABLE FIRE INSURANCE COSIPANIES, 26, CORNUILL, LONDON. DOCTOR ORD'S FAMILY PILL. No one need take that excellent medicine Castor Oil, as Doc tor ORD'S EVERY MOTHER'S FAMILY PILL contains all its qualities withont its nauseous unpleasantness. Every family should make trial of this valuable medicine. We will likewise suppose that this occurred in light winds and a heavy swell, such as is constantly found at the entrance of the Channel. When the Albion, from her fast sailing, would get ahead of the other ships some miles, and would thus get alongside of the sternmost ships of the enemy's squadron, and bring them to action with the hope of stopping their pro gress, whilst the remaining part of the squadron were an hour or two's sail astern. 'Jakyll, E., Esq. - - I King, F., Esq. IKelsey, Richard, Esq. DIRECTORS. t * T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. *W. A. B. Bennett, Esq. *John Rawson, Esq. *Hugh Croft. Esq. *John Shaw, Esq. Mliotson, M.D„ F.R.S. f*Edmund S. Symes, Esq. *Ralph Gough, Esq. t*Clement Tabor, Esq. *M. C. Maher, Esq. t Joseph Thompson, Esq. *John Moss, Esq. t*Angustus Vigne, Esq• AUDITOR. f Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S. PHYSICIAN. *J. Elliotson, M.D„ F.R.S„ 37, Conduit-street. SUMMON. P I E. S. Symes, Esq., 77, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square. ACTUARY. t . W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., &c. . SECRETARY. Sp. T. Lyons Clanchy, Esq. SUPERINTENDENT. *W. A. Hawkins, Esq. R ARIUS. DIRECTORS. km., Chairman—Major JAMES OLIPHANT , 11.E.1.C. T b 'r 1 . J. Adair. Wm. Ambrose Shaw, Esq. Ite v. arY Rev. the Dean of Emly. Ed. Heathcote Smith, Esq. Jo t „r , Harness, M.A. Rev. 11. T. Tucker, M.A. „'`nan Hopkinson, Esq. John Walker, Esq. J it Zatnin Jackson, Esq, Sir William White. ell Lamb E 4 ' B g' Rev. Richard Wood, B.D. e. l , tai 4 Macdougall. iThe Kentish Mess, Clif- - 215 b 5 - 5 0 - 1 0 ford's Inn - - Lawrell, J. G. 8., Esq. - Lambert. the Lady - Leyien, Edward, Esq. Sold, wholesale, by the Proprietors, at the Manufactory, 442, New Oxford-street ; Barclay and Co.; Sanger and Co. ; Hannay and Co. ; and all Chemists in town and country, at Is. I% d. and 2s. 9d. per box. I ,Latham, Alfred, Esq: - b e Lyall, d., jun., E. Liwrell, Miss Lee, Wm., Esq. Lee, Mrs. - Liddiard, Wm., Esq. LoydA., jun., Esq. -- 5 5 .- 5 0 -- 2 0 -- 1 0 - 2 2 - 10 0 - 1 0 - 10 0 5 0 In this position she commences her fire, rolling, as usual, above 30 degrees, whilst the French ships are comparatively steady, rolling, perhaps, from seven to ten degrees only—what, then, must be the result ? I would ask your correspondent " W." would it not follow as a matter of course that in less than half an hour the Albion would be cut to pieces, whilst the enemy's ships would be scarcely injured in any degree either in their hulls or rigging, from the Albien's shot going over their masts' heads, into the sky, in one roll, and the next falling into the water a few yards from her ports ? Supposing, too, that the Vanguard and Coiling wood were in a similar position they would share a like fate. LIFE. 1 3 , 84 Institution adopts both the MUTUAL and PROPRIETARY lse r g a s of Life Assurance, and thereby presents (in one Establish em„s'y all the advantages offered to the Public by other respectable — a. with Rates of Premium as low as are consistent with security. The FIRE. Receipts for the Renewal Premiums, due at Christmas, are 41 1 Y for delivery at the Elead Office in Town, and at the respective eles throughout the country. 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Also, in the event of the Assured at any time not requiring to continue 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 and acknowledged, so as to make them available as securities 111 the hands of third parties. No Entrance Fees or any other charge beyond the Policy Stamp. . - Morant, Geo., Esq. - sforant, John, Esq. - --...--. -. —..........—. , Exhibited by the Hunter's Bushman Tracker. uPEN DAILY, from Eleven till Ten. Admission, IS. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION Ittl ih. , Lecture by Dr. Bachhoffner on Voltaic Electricity, in which i Allman's Patent Electric Light, on Tuesday and •kat ay at :fine. —Lecture by J. P 4ppor, Esq., on Fire "and its byl44oniats, illustrated with brilliant Experiments.—New Lecture CApr o • G eorge Barker, entitled an English Christmas, illustrated by 4,l,,Printe Ballads, composed expressly by him, and written by a s'ek;', lt er distinction, every Evening (except Saturday) at E.gnt 4 411y . ..1 — M0del of Weston's Patent Nova-Motive Railway, at work li trie . Exhibition of the Oxy-Hydrogen Microscope.—Entirely New ert 4r " Dissolving Views, illustrating some of the Royal Residences qe.—Diver and Diving-bell. &c., &c. Op e Admission, I s.—Schools, Half-price. 4 1:it s„ + '4IIY Evening from Eleven till Five o'clock, and every (ex '''......:._"4lrdaY) from Seven till Half-past Ten. LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO, AItGyLL Licensed by s ActB , - R Psil A larient. INDMILL (Bue, STREET, ST. JAMES'S. , essee, Charles Emile Laurent, jun., 57, Brompton-square.) , tie OPEN EVERY EVENING. "xtist e I e success and wonderful performance of M. Boulcourt, the Vity 4 _ Att wile to the Orchestra, on the Cornet-a,Pistons, who will LA Fantasia each Evening atlialf-past Ten o'clock, aided by esv:; 4l, TT'S INIMITABLE BAND. The Selection of Music will e d nightly, k L bosr, ~ N.H. The Programme of the Dances as usual. 'Pen at Half-past Eight o'clock — Danc in g to commence at 4 N I P e en at Half-past Eleven o'clock precisely. Admission, One Shilling. cI.RAND SALON DE D ANSE, ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY, STRAND. Lem._ OPEN FOR THE SEASON. Thomas Bartlett Simpson, Albion Tavern, Great Russell-street, Covent-garden, • •,P SOIREES MUSICALES AND BAL PARE D'IIIVER. , ‘ _Rifitd r• • :IMPSON anxious to have the best Band in London, has re "'kb the valuable talent of the leading Artists engaged during the __`erfp — "on at Cremorne Gardens, including the most eminent ‘O4 tr i rr lers from her Majesty's Theatre, the Royal Italian Opera , e Philharmonic Concerts. BORINI'S BAND. e ctriri., VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT. • — "ng Selections from the most celebrated ComposerS, and ' Solos by fi rs t-rate Artists. en ll : r e• " L'Ambassadrice," .. • • • • Auber. Bo de " The Exhibition of 1851," Mr. J. W. Sharp. Trab, Trab, Trab " Miss G. Hodson • • • • laucken. 3liss G. Hodson Glover. " The r Zinged," Miss G. Hodgson and •I • W. Sharp .. • • • • Labern. 1. 1 Du a t t .• c d Miss Rann," Miss G. , eq s , • r. ann an , otat n and Mr J. W. Sharp • • •• • • • • Labem. "Billysalty Sonl N tt the Poet," Mr. J W. Sharp. • u s, J. ' hommage a Strauss" •• •• " Bonin!. REPERTOIRE OF MUSIQUE DE DANSE. b THIS EVENING, Dec. 26. .01k a Ali ce .. J. Strauss Quadrni • O'Brien . e.. Irish Donnybrook • • • 4 ' P •• So nbrecher • • • . .. J. Strauss 5, ° llt rge a •• Eclipse .. • • •• • • Kcenig „, Le Roi d'Yvetot • • • • .. Bosisio 7 .1 , 7 0 -00tt ische Leonora .. • • .. J a rvis - lka • Laura Bell .. • . orint ••• W —we.. All Nations .. Borini ID. altz • Fleur de Marie • • • • • • Bosisio 11 . 41- 6114 •• Charlotten • • Labitzky Le Bonhomme Tolbecque b_To ti m e ? • • Queen's Galop • • • . D'Albert f 71.41;.1 votaries of Terpsichore remarks on the excellence of "and, after the experience of its Orchestral Triumphs at los ' e• would be superfluous. Ro rb ,!nd Concerted Pieces will be performed during the evening. attioi i r Latest Compositions—The Adelaide Polka, Waltzes to . .41si att poPUlar Irish Melodies, Galop d'lndustrie, New Quadrille of 2.lg ) ns• and Laura Bell Polka. 41)1 1sid e nand S;alon,eshment, and Ante-rooms have undergone 110,, a 01e alterations and improvements. ' ' • •••••2..5Le 1 1 1 at Ilalf•past Seven o'clock. Admission One Shilling. envtis. TA '" , LL'i ,, raIRTY-FIFTH EDITION. G THE REMEDY FOR THE PREVENTION OF 02i 11148 tr f DISEASE. 8.,..,_ a.ed - by 26 Anatomical Coloured Eagravincli on Steel. 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P. - . - 10 0; Anonymous - - 0 10' Per Herries and Co. A. B. - - - 1 0 H. B. - 010 A. L. L. - - 1 01 E.W. W. - - - 101 X.Y. - - - 5 01 R. H. M. T. - - 210 Per Messrs. Mangles. M. S. - - - - 010 Per Messrs. Scott and Co. 11. W. B. . - 1 0 G. H. W. - - - 1 0 T. and L. H. - 2 0 F. G. - - - 2 0 Per Messrs. Smiths and Co. J. H. M. - I 0 J. C. D. - - - 0 5 J. M., jun. - . 1 0 X. T. Z. - - 1 1 Per Williams and Co. J. T. - - - - 1 0 M. A. 11. - 1 I Amory, Samuel, Esq. - 5 0 Alcock, Thomas, Esq., M.P. - - - 10 0 Allason, Thomas, Esq. - 2 0 Allason, Mrs. - 2 0 Allason, Miss - - 1 0 Abraham, Rev. Mr. and Family - - 5 Austen, Alfred, Esq. - I Austen, R. A. C., Esq. - I Alexander, 11., Esq. - 5 Bayley, Samuel, Esq. - 20 Rostock, Samuel, Esq. - 2 Banbury, F., Esq. - I Brown, John, Esq. - - 1 Bowyer, Mr., Frimley 0 1 Baillie, Wm. H., Esq. - 1 Baillie, Mrs. Joanna - 1 0 Bury, Mrs. and Miss M'Kenzle Grieve - 6 0 Battersbee, Harford, Esq. 1 0 Brown, James, Esq. - 1 1 Best, H. P., Esq. - - 1 0 Lturrell, J. F., Esq., Farn ham - - - 3 3 Burrell, Miss - - - 1 0 Barclay, Bevan, and Co. 10 0 Barker, It., Esq. - - 5 0 Sirs. Bosanquet, Samuel 5 0 Brassey, Mrs. - - 10 0 Bellington, Miss - 2 0 Bulnois, John, Esq. - 5 0 Briggs, Mrs. - - 1 0 Bliss, Miss - - 3 0 Badcock, Henry, Esq. - 2 0 Bridges, Thos., Esq. - 50 0 Barlow, Rev. John - 1 0 Barlow, Rev. John - 111 Brymer, Yen. Archdeacon 1 0 Bury, G., Esq. - - 5 5 Beardmore, Miss - - 5 0 Birch, Rev. C. - 1 0 Bayley, W. W.. Esq. - 2 0 Bowles, Rev. li. - • 5 0 Best, G., Esq. - 5 0 Best, Mrs. - - 5 0 Beevor, Charles, Esq. - 2 0 Brooke, S. 8., Esq. - 5 0 Barnett, R., Esq. - 5 0 Cobb, C. F., Esq. - - 2 2 Charlton, Rev. C. D. - 1 0 Cornthwaite, Rev. T. • 010 Clayton, Rev. J. H. - 5 0 C. C. 8., per ditto - - 1 0 C. N., per ditto - - 1 0 Carter. Rev. W. - - 1 0 Cholmley, Airs. Jane - 1i 0 Cording, J. C. and G. - 1 1 Comber, Mrs. - - - 10 0 Comyn, T. 8.. Esq. - - 1 0 Cust, Hon. Miss - 1 t 4 Cust, Hon. Miss Lucy - 1 0 Cust, Hon. and Rev. R. - 2 0 Clayton, John, Esq. - 2 0 Colesworth, Rev. W. - 5 0 Cock, General li. - 2 0 Causton, Miss - - - 2 0 Copeland, Ald., M.P, - 5 0 Cresswell, Mrs. - - 1 0 A Clergyman's Wife, St. Peter's Stepney - 1 1 Crofts, Rev. G. P. - - 5 0 Capper, Miss S. S. - 1 0 Curtels. John, Esq. - - 2 0 Cantrell, J. P., Esq. - 0 Davis, Hart, Esq. - 1 0 Darnford, Rev. F. E. - 2 0 Darley, Rev. W. B. - - I 1 Davis, John, Esq. - - 5 0 Doyle, Miss - - I 1 Dundas, Lady C. - - 2 0 Dartmouth, Earl of - - 5 0 Denton, Henry, Esq. - 1 1 Dumbleton, 11., Esq. - 10 0 Delafosse, Rev. C. D. - I 1 Dyer, C. 0., Esq. - - 1 0 Edwards, S., Esq. • - 2 2 Edwards, Charles, Esq. - 2 0 Echalaz, F.. Esq. - - 1 Ellicombe, Mrs. C. - 5 0 Evelyn, W. J., Esq., M.P. 5 0 Everett, Rev. C. - - 0 Eveleigh, Rev John - 1 1 Ellis, John, Esq. - 1 1 Egham, J. J. J., Esq. - 1 0 E , le, Mr. Justice - 6 0 Effingham, the Earl of - 10 0 Eden, the lion. Emily - 2 0 Elwes, J. W. Esq. - 2 0 Elwes, Mrs. - I 0 Field and Peckett Messrs. 5 0 Field and Son, Messrs. - 2 0 Flower, Matthew, Esq. - 2 0 Fry, W. Esq. - - I I Furlonger, C. Esq. - 1 0 From one who became a widow on the 30th of September, through a sudden catastrophe - 2 0 Francklin, Rev. J. F. - 1 5 Frere, John, Esq. - 5 0 Friends at Frimley-park, per John Tekell, Esq. - 5 0 A Friend, per Mr. J. - Portar - - 2 0 Freene. Edward, Esq. - 20 0 Fletcher, Sir Henry - 5 0 Favenc, Mrs. - - - 1 0 Freeman, Rev. J. - - 4 4 Freeman, Mrs. J. - - 1 0 Franks, Rev. G. H. - - 10 0 Gurney, Hudson, Esq. - 5 0 Greatorex, John, Esq. - 2 0 Gobb, J. R., Esq. - - 1 1 Goldsmia, S., Esq. - - 1 0 Greenhill, Chas., Esq. - 1 0 Gates, W. B.,Esq. - - 2 2 Gutch, Geo., Esq. - - 3 0 Gutch, Mrs. - - - 2 0 Goldemid, F. H., Esq. - 2 2 Grenfell, Mrs. - - - 1 0 Gwyn, Mrs., of Noath - 2 0 Godman, J., Esq. - - 10 0 Gurney, 'idney, Esq. - 2 0 Grote, Mrs. - - 1 0 Hamilton, Rev. L. - 1 0 Hiltom, A., Esq. - - 5 0 Henry, W. C., Esq., M.D. 5 0 Henley and Sons, Messrs. 5 0 Hopkins, Henry, Esq. - 2 0 He.eitine, Sam., Esq. - 2 0 Hutchinson, Rev. E. S. - 1 1 Ilayley, Rev. Burrell - 1 1 Hughes, Mrs. - - 1 0 Hayward, Miss - - 1 0 Hayward, Miss E. - - 1 0 FURTHER SU; M. F., per Coutts and C0..£1 0 0 0., per ditto - 1 0 0 A., per ditto - - 0 2 61 J. T. II , per ditto - - 010 01 F. C., per ditto - - 2 001 F,. J. S., per ditto - - 2 001 T. W., per Herries & 1 0 0 1 G. S., per ditto - Co_- 2 001 J. S., per ditto - - 1 001 J. T., per ditto -20 0 01 E. C., per ditto - -10 001 0 10 0 A. F., per Drum MondS - 5 0 01 1 D., per ditto - - - J.D.T., per Scott and Co. 2 0 0 0 J. 8., per Smiths and Co. 3 0 0 1 Mrs. J. 8., per ditto - 1 C. M., per ditto - - 1 0 0 G. W. H., per ditto -0 2 6 11. M., per ditto - - 1 1 0 C. J., per ditto - 3 0 0 C. C., per Williams & . 2 0 0 Lincolnshire - Co_ 1 0 0 P. S. M. - - 5 0 0 Atkinson, F. 8., Est. - 2 0 0 Asteli,J., Esq. - 5 0 0 Ames, Mrs. George - 1 0 0 Ames, Miss • - - 0 10 0 Blakey, Messrs. J. and E. 0 10 0 Blunt, Rev. Walter - 1 1 0 Bentinck, Chas. A., Esq. 3 0 0 Burton, Mrs. - 1 1 0 Bates, Lieut.-Colonel - 1 1 0 Blass, Thomas, Esq. - 010 0 Byass, Thomas S., Esq. 0 10 0 Beauelerck, C., Esq. - 2 0 0 Beauclerck, Mrs. - 1 0 0 Brooks, James, Esq. 2 0 0 Bennett, Rev. H. L. - 5 0 0 Bowles, Rev. C. B, 5 0 0 Boodle, Rev. T. - - 1 1 0 Brederman, H. F., Esq. 1 1 0 Beaufort, Dowager- Duchess of - - 1 0 0 Blissett, Mrs. - - 1 0 0 Bridges, Miss H., col- iecled by 1 06 MaJendle, Rev. H. - Afethold, Rev. T. - Milner, Mrs. L. G. - Murray, the Hon. Mrs., Friends of - - - 28 9 Menee, Rev. Samuel 2 0 Richard, Esq. - 1 1 Ntatthew, Jehn, Esq. - 1 1 Ntackenzle, Alex, Esq. - 2 2 Morland, W. C., Esq. - 2 0 Moore, the Lady - - 1 0 Atoning, Rey. John - - 5 0 I Miles, Mr'. - - 2 0 Miller, Boyd, Esq. - - 210 Mangles, Ross, D., Esq., M.P. - - - - 5 0 Marryatt, C., Esq - - 1 0 Millet, F. Esq. - 5 0 Mangles, Rev. A. - - 5 0 Melville, Hon. W. L. - 1 1 MoLineux, Rev. G. M. - 2 0 Molineux, Miss- - 1 0 Mousley, Rev. W. E. - 1 0 Morris, Hum, Esq.- - 5 0 Noel, the Hon. and Rev. Gerard - - - - 10 0 Two Friends per ditto - 010 Nicholson, G., Esq. - - 3 0 North, W. R„ Esq. - - 2 0 Newcombe, Captain G. - 5 0 Ogle, Mrs. Henry - - 5 0 Pocock, John J., Esq. - 10 0 l'h llips, Rev. W. Spencer 1 0 Payne, W., Esq. - 1 0 Parker, James, Esq. - 5 0 Parnell, 11. ' Esq. - - 5 0 Payler, J., Esq. - 1 0 Pembroke, the Lady- - 30 0 Percival, Rev. Henry - 10 0 Pannell, C., Esq. - - 10 0 Pope, Yen. Archdeacon - 5 0 Pope, G., Esq. - - - 5 0 Peachey, Rev. J- b 0 Pooley, R., Esq. - - 1 0 l'rice, A. T., Esq. - - 5 0 Parkinson and Frodsham, Messrs. - - - - 2 2 Richardson, Sawford, Esq. 1 0 Ridge, H., - 1 0 Randell, Rev. John - - 5 0 Rennalls, W. R., Esq. - 1 1 Richards, E. P., Esq. - 5 0 Rattle, Miss - - - 5 0 Robinson, Rev. G. - - 1 1 Rowse!), Rev. E. E. - 1 0 Rhodes, Mr. - - - 5 0 Scott, Sir C. E., Bart. 10 0 Sheppard, Thos., Esq. - 10 0 Smily. W. R., Esq. - 2 0 Spurling, Stephen, Esq. - 1 0 Slocock, Mrs. C. - - 1 0 Stevens, W., Esq., High field - - - 5 0 Stephens, W., Esq. - - 5 0 seovell, Lieut.-General Sir George - - 10 0 Sumner, Rev. C. V. H. - 2 2 Savage, Rev. J. A. - • 3 3 Seall, Rev. B. - - 2 2 Sandley, Rev. Geo. - - 2 0 Sandley, Miss - 1 0 Sewell, Rev. H. D. - 1 0 A Sussex Curate - - 2 0 Sullivan, Mrs. Stuart - 5 5 Sykes, Vice-Admiral - 5 0 iympathy, per Cox and Co. 1 0 Sutton, Sir Rd., Bart. - 5 0 Shaw, Sir John, Bart. - 210 Short, Colonel - - 1 0 Shrub, Rev. H. - .. 210 Suaby, Maurice, Esq. .. 5 0 Slandering, James, Esq. - 1 1 Smith, Samuel G., Esq. 10 0 Slaughter, Edward, Esq. - 1 1 Tustin, E. E., Esq. - . 5 0 Tyrie, David, Esq. - 2 0 Tudor, Henry, Esq. - 1 0 Two Sisters - 1 0 frower, G. S., Esq. - - 5 0 Two Ladies, per Child and _ Co. - - - - 8 0 Taddy, Rev. Wm. - 1 1 Three Members of the Travellers' Club - - 5 0 Thompson, J. D., Esq. - 2 0 Thrupp, J. W.. Esq. - 10 0 Vile, Thomas, Esq - 1 0 Villebois, Mr. and Mrs. 2 0 Venables, Rev. Edmund 5 0 Vidal, Rev. 0. E. - 1 0 \Vernal, Septimus, Esq. 10 10 Wilkinson, Norman, Esq. 5 0 Wilkinson, Conrad, Esq. 2 0 Watson, Rev. IV., & Mrs. 5 0 Watson, Capt., and Mrs. 5 0 Wyatt, Rev. J. J. P. - 5 0 Wyatt, Hugh P., Esq. - 1 0 widow's Mite, a, per Coutts and Co. - 5 9 Warden of New College 5 0 Watts, R., Esq. - 2 0 Waller, Miss Farnham • 1 0 Widow's Mite, a, per Barclay and Co. - 2 0 Walkden and Co., Messrs. 010 White, Henry J., Esq. 1 0 Watson, John, Esq. - 1 0 Watson, Mrs. - - 1 0 Mx, Rev. Samuel - - 1 1 Winstanley, Wm., Esq. - 10 0 Widow's Mite, a, from Canterbury - - - 5 0 Widow, the Offering of a 1 0 Wainewright, Mrs., John 5 0 Wigston, Capt. - - 1 0 ,vilson, Rev. J. - 010 Wright, Mrs. Ross - - 1 1 Wigram, W. Esq. - - 5 0 Wynne, Miles - 1 0 Wheeler, H., Esq. - - 5 0 . . _ Webb. Jonas, Esq. - Williams, Wm., Esq. Wilde, C. N., Esq. - tVatkins, Rev. li. G. Watson, Rev. U - 'BSCRIPTIONS. !Browne, Mrs. - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 1 - 5 0 - 1 0 - - 0 10 0 Buchanan, Mrs._ - - 1 0 0 Colville, the Lord - - 5 0 0 ' Carter, Mrs. A. M. • 5 0 0 larefis,th• Lady - - 2 0 0 Crofts, Rev. John - - 1 1 Currie, the Misses - - 5 0 0 Cornop, Capt. and Mrs. 10 10 0 Coope, J., Esq. - - 1 0 0 Clericus Salopiensis - 2 0 0 Cavan, James, Esq. - i 0 0 Chappell, Captain, R.N. 1 0 0 Clark, Rev. C. - - 5 0 0 Cotton, Rev. C. - - 1 1 0 Cholmondeley, the Mar quis of - - - 2 0 0 Cholmondeley, the Mar chioness of - - 1 0 0 Clay, Miss - - - 010 0 Clay, Miss Harr:et - 0 10 0 ' I Collected in small suns near Clifton - 0 12 6 Dunna , e,Rcv. J. A. - 1 0 0 Diggle:Colonel - - I I Daubuz, Wm., Esq. - 5 0 0 DOXat, Alexis J., En. - 2 2 0 Evans, Mrs. S. - - 5 0 0 Edmonds, Rev. nes. - 010 0 Edmonstone, Miss - - 010 0 A Friend at Bristol, per C. L. Walker, Esq. 100 0 0 IFarrer, James W., Esq. 5 0 0 Fazakerly, John, Esq. - 5 0 0 Flight, Thomas, Esq. - 1 1 0 Forsyth, Mrs. J. 11. -1 0 0 A Friend - - -010 0 Graham, Miss - 2 0 0 IGreame, Rev. G. - 1 1 0 Greenslade, Mrs. . 1 I 0 Gordon, Rev. J. G. -1 I 0 [Toward, Miss - -2 0 0 [ Toward, W., Esq. - 1 Howett, Samuel, and - Friends 2 10 0 Haller!, Rev. M; . 10 0 0 1196 8 49 D, ROY. J. G. • 2 0 0 The present annual income of the Society from Premiumi is 63,000/. ; the 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 82,4541. ss. 6d. 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 cent. on their Premiums in cash, or a reversionary addition to the original sum assured by each Policy varying from 20 to 65 per cent. EXAMPLES OF BONUSES ALREADY DECLARED. Parma :4°,4 Annual Policy Bonus in nent Re- Age. 5 t Pre- taken addition Bonne in ductlon of = g mium. out in to Sum Cash. Annual Assured. Premium. X s. 4. X a d. X x. d. I. 1837 292 6 9 139 16 9 22 13 1 1838 267 11 4 126 17 2 19 19 7 1839 241 18 6 113 17 7 17 8 8 X A s.d. 1840 193 12 6 93 16 8 14 0 10 60 1000 74 34< 1841 189 12 6 89 510 13 $ 11 11842 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 S 11 L 1845 66 15 0 44 10 0 4 10 1 Extensive Travelling Leave granted without extra Premium Moderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates. ve Travelling Leave granted without extra P. to extra Premium for Residence in Tropical C EQUITABLE FIRE OFFICE. Capital-500,0001. (Incorporated under 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.) The leading principles of this Office ara —Moderate and equitable Rates at Premium for each class of risk—Annual division of Profits. The difficulty of collecting the elements on which to proportion Tremium to risk in Insurance against Loss by Firo has been so great, that the rates at present charged are more the result of guess than calculation. It has been found by experience, that the. total annual losses of the different Established Companies have net 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 approximation to the true risk be made. To secure this object the Equitable Fire Insu rance Company is established. The true rate of Premium far Fire Insurance can only be ap proached through Classification and Average, which has not hitherto been sufficiently acted on, 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 fire, and the Insurer is largely interested in this question, and wi►l consult his interest by supporting a system ►here, 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 tin - e, 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 fifty 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. f National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society. * Equitable Fire f* Both Offices. R EPLY OF ALFRED TENNYSON, ESQ. THE NEW POET LAUREATE. Mosaic Bard ! your lines, addressed to me, Were not unwelcome lines—how could they be I feel quite proud, in fact, that one like you Should notice me—upon my wort I do I Nor would I let this first occasipn slip, Of warmly thanking such a brother "chip." I do not wonder at your feeling " nettled," On finding how the " Laureateship" is settled. When first you heard of what I'm new enjoying, The disappointment must have been annoying. The wonder is that you so calmly met it, Wirn every one expected "you" to get it ; T get the berth, I mean, of Laureate Bard, The loss of which you seem to take so hard. But, really, what with one thing and another, You're far more honoured than your laurelled brother. Think for a moment, cousin, what you are-- The muse of MOSES, that commercial star. Proud would your brother be if he could jump From his appointed " post" to Aldgate pump. The " cloth" of MOSES (understand the phrase) Would please me quite as much as my " green bays." Should MOSES, as you've hinted, change his muse, And let me pop into your honour's shoes, Good service to the dress I'll strive to do, Although I know I can't come up to you ; And oft shall MOSES have a rhyming benison, From your exalted brother, ALFRED TENNYSON. The NEW EDITION of "EVERYBODY'S BOOK," containing a full Report of the late important Trial, may be had gratis on ap plication, or by letter, post free. 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The occasion calls for particular comment from ourselves, and for very serious attention on the part of the public. Several circumstances conduce to facilitate at this moment the discussion of the points thus raised. The re monstrant workmen have embodied their case in a written memorial addressed to the directors of the company, and the authorities appealed to have made their reply in a form equally precise, so that we are in possession of authentic evidence on both sides of the question. The threatened combination, too, is the second instance of such a proceeding within the last six months, and the experience of the Eastern Counties' embroilment is at hand for our guidance. Moreover, the event, though impending, has not actually occurred, and as the disputes between the workmen and their employers have not as yet been embittered by much personal acrimony, there is some hope that a timely consideration of the case in all its bearings may avert an issue which could bring good to none. The requisitions of the men, as set forth in their memorial, are reducible to a single demand. The directors of the company have recently substituted for their old con tracts with their enginemen a form of engage ment which makes a three months' notice necessary before quitting the service of the line. The avowed object of this change is to preclude, as far as possible, the contingency of a general strike ; but so considerately was the alteration introduced, that the new terms were exacted, not from the men already engaged, but only from those coming on service from time to time. In order to obviate all chances of miss conception, the directors distinctly denied any intention of reducing the present rate of wages, and even quali fied their terms by a proviso which stipulated that for any bond fide purpose of exchanging service, unconnected with a combination against the com pany, the ordinary notice of a fortnight should be deemed sufficient. These are the conditions con demned in the four specific resolutions of the engine men, three of which directly demand the abandonment of the new system, while the fourth, which would re gulate the connexion of the enginemen and firemen, seems obviously intended merely to secure the com plicity of the ',Ater class of servants in the decisions of the former. It will be seen, therefore, that there is no actual complaint alleged by the workmen against the company at the present moment. The only point of difference is this—that the former desire to retain in their hands the power of acting on their employers by means of a well-concerted strike, while the latter are anxious to extinguish once and for all the chances of such combinations. On behalf of the workmen, it may be said that whereas their only means of effectively guarding their own interests consists in combining resolutions, which taken singly would be inappreciable, to de prive them of this power is to deliver them bound hand and foot to the arbitrary will of their employers. This objection, as far as it goes, is valid; but its force is qualified by the considerations following. In the first place, the risk of oppression to the workmen is less than it appears, for by the immutable laws of supply and demand it is wholly impossible that any combinations on the part of companies could succeed in substantially depreciating the marketable value of good service ; just as, on the oth er h an d, it would be equally hopeless on the part of the men to maintain themselves in the receipt of a fictitious remuneration. In this respect labour and hire will, undoubtedly, settle down to their true relative values, which would vary only with the fluctuations of the supply. Nothing but a glut of good enginemen will permanently lower a good engineman's price; and, if a body of directors can succeed in economizing the expenses of the company on this head, the very faot is suf ficient to justify their decision. The same remark holds good of any conditions which it may be sought to attach to the service exacted, so that, on the whole, the risk of oppression incurred by servants debarred from the resources of a strike is not sufficient to warrant the suspeniion of laws for preserving order in these important establish ments. In the next plebe, it is not strictly true that the only protection of the workman's rights resides in a recourse to these irregular conspiracies. So irresist ible an influence is exercised in the present day by public opinion, that an appeal to this power would in fallibly answer any just purpose of the workman far better than a combination for enforcing concessions. In point of fact, the very case before us proves that it is from public sympathy alone that a strike of operatives can acquire any real influence or lead to any success. If the enginemen were hacked by the public, the directors would probably yield ; but if these sym pathies go with the employers, then every allowance will be made for their embarrassments, every assistance will be given to their exertions, and all the resentment created by this injury to public convenience will be visited on those who brought the dilemma to pass. This conclusion is so palpably evident that it cannot be overlooked, and what we would press upon the consideration of the enginemen is that as their success is thus wholly dependent on the verdict of opinion, they would do far better to make their appeal to this tribunal in the first instance without interposing a measure by which all parties are exasperated and none are in any degree the forwarder. All that they can possibly gain by combining to abandon their work would have been more effectually, as well as more innocuously secured, by _publishing the sub stance of their demands. Finally, as many of these considerations are applicable to the action of both parties alike if arbitrarily exerted, it becomes a ques tion in whose hands, of the two, the advantage had better be left, and we apprehend it will scarcely be doubted that the board of directors is a safer repository of such discretion than the council of the enginemen. If one of two parties must have the upper hand, as in some sense it must, the privilege surely de volves more naturally upon masters than upon ser vants, and is less likely in such quarters to be wilfully exercised. There are no dictators more tyrannical than the ringleaders of an operative com bination, and two or three features in the present case are sufficiently characteristic to impress us opportunely with the fact. The men em ployed in the southern division of the line are well affected and contented and without any desire to disturb existing arrangements, but they are dragged into the quarrel by the others, and thus made to swell the total of an opposition which in all probe• bility bas no genuine existence excepting in the petty ambitions of some half dozen popular leaders. What should be still more instructive is the fact, that this council of workmen did not hesitate in the prosecution of their demands, to advise a violent breach both of law and fair dealing; for whereas they are bound one and all to give at least a fort night's notice of their intention to quit, they have proposed with the view of creating greater pressure, to strike work instantly and leave their employers to obtain satisfaction by the circuitous and expensive I forms of legal redress. After such a specimen of their conscientiousness they can hardly claim to be left arbi ters in a question on which such vaat public interests de pend. We shall, perhaps, be thought to have argued too pedantically a point which most sensible men would at once decide by their instincts alone, but we are anxious to disclaim a ll approac h t o part i a li ty or prejudice. We speak in the interests neither of the directors nor of the engine-men, but of the public at large. A total, or even a partial, stoppage of such a line as the London and North-Western would be attended with incalculable annoyance and loss, and it is precisely the power of bringing about such evils which we would not see left in the hands of a few scheming agitators. It is perfectly certain that no body of directors would ever have dared, for the coercion of their servants, to resort to such measures as the servants have here recommended for the coercion of their directors. This very case shows that in the interests of the public a responsible beard of educated men is more deserving of trust than a secret committee of operatives, selected probably for no better qualifications than superior audacity and cunning. It was, we understand, actually proposed by some of these agitators that matters should be kept quiet till the time of the great Exhibition, and that advantage should be then taken of the unprecedented traffic to extort an unconditional assent to thair:,demands, under pain of instant stoppage. With these remarks we might quit the subject, but we desire, in conclusion, to point out to the men that their attempts, besides being unjustifiable, are certain, as far as their per sonal interests are concerned, to be unsuccessful too. The directors will resist their demands at all hazards and all costs, and although vast expense may be thrown on the company and vast inconvenience on the public, yet the two latter parties will get through the difficulty, while the men will find themselves without service and with the prospect of being called seriously to account by the public for their wilful ness, and by the company for their violation of the law. They may create mischief, but they cannot gain their ends ; and we put it to them, as reasonable men, whether the only practicable result is worth its inevitable cost. HERALD.—In a week after these lines shall have met the reader's eye we shall be entering on a new year, and it requires no gift of prophecy to predict that before the end of 1851 Italy will be the theatre of remarkable events ; and, if we be not mistaken, of remarkable changes. A spirit is smouldering in the Italian Peninsula, from Chambery to Syracuse, Agrigento, and Trapani, which sooner or later will have an outburst—an outburst which, if it be not prudently and discreetly managed, may become a raging flame of devastation and destruction. The very fact that such a spirit exists in the Peninsula ought to engage the attention and awaken the solicitude of the great Cabinets of Europe. England, from her commerce—France, from her Mediterranean pro vinces —Austria, from her Italian possessions, are all directly concerned in this question ; and though Russia has no material and few collateral interests at stake in Italy, yet of late this power has contrived to meddle and mix herself up in every matter of Euro pean concernment. It is vain now to protest against this. It is not an intrusion of to-day or of yesterday, but it is an intrusion that dates back six-and-thirty years ago—from the period of the sittings of the first Congress of Vienna. The services rendered by Russia to the cause of the allies, from 1810 and 1811 to 1815, gave her a footing and a status which she has since taken pains to extend and to improve, and against which it were vain now to protest by any form cf words merely. We repeat, then, the condi tion of Italy ought to engage the attention—the deep and serious attention—of all the great powers ; for any combustion lighted there may extend to more than half of the fairest portion of Europe. Of the king dom of Sardinia we have few fears. For the last six or eight months the King, Victor Emmanuel 11., and his Ministry, have pursued a national and popular policy, and have done as much as could be expected of them under the difficult circumstances in which they are placed. A blow has been struck in Savoy against Jesuitism and ultramontaneism by the Sic cardi laws, and by the stand made, both by prince and people, against the arrogant assumptions of the Pope and the Romish Church. The Sardinian au thorities will not any longer permit the substance and property of the people to be devoured by tribes of lazy monks and nuns, who neither toil nor spin—who neither teach nor preach, nor edify by the sanctity of their lives or the purity of their conduct and example. Neither will the Sardinian Government permit the clergy to be an order in the state above and beyond the law, claiming a sacerdotal forum for the adjudi cation of all matters in which priests are concerned. Priests are now in Savoy amenable to the same tri bunals as laymen, and thus is the independence of the Sovereign asserted on the Italian soil against the au dacious usurpation of the Court of Rome. These cir cumstances, combined with freedom of speech—with some freedom of the press—with open chambers, open courts of justice, and a very tolerable code of proce dure, will save Savoy in the days of Italy's trouble from any great danger, and if her monarch be prudent and wise from any great internal convulsion. It were, however, hard to say that a like result would follow in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. Though every portion of that country is garrisoned by an Austrian army—an Austrian army commanded by an experienced, popular, and successful warrior— Marshal Radetzky—we fear it is but too true that the spirit of revolt and of disaffection is not dead, but only sleepeth in Lombardy sleepeth till a fair occasion and a convenient opportunity may arise for another revolt, probably as bootless as the last. Nor do Tuscany and Lucca present those guarantees of peace and order which we were wont formerly to reckon on with such absolute certainty. For the last two years and a half the Grand Duke, anciently so loved and venerated by his people, has become unpopular. The Tuscans, formerly so quiet. so industrious, and so prosperous, have become dis contented. They complain that there is neither free dom of the press, nor of speech, nor representative institutions, and they disadvantageously contrast their position with their neighbours of Piedmont. The comparison cannot be otherwise than offensive to their pride and nationality, and it is rendered doubly odious in the certainty that the Grand Duke and his Ministers are not free agents in their dealings with the Tuscan people, but the mere ministerial officers and sberri, the mere delegates of the Cabinet of Vienna. A yoke of any kind is bitter to an Italian, but a yoke forged in the smithery of Vienna is about the heaviest and the most distasteful that could be placed on his neck. In the event of any commotion or outbreak in Italy, we shall not be surprised to find the Tuscans no longer the orderly, submissive, and dutiful subjects they were in 1831, 1832, and 1833, when they remained untouched by the disaffection of the neighbouring Papal Legations. The people of Tuscany are now sufficiently enlightened to see, that while Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia has liber ated himself from an ignominious thraldom to the Popedom, their own sovereign, on the contrary, has become one of the most Pope-ridden and Papistical of the sovereigns of Italy, always excepting Ferdinand of Naples. The condition of the states of the monarch of the Two Sicilies transcends belief. The reign of the Jesuits is again restored. Espionage flourishes with new luxuriance. The gaols and prisons are full. There is neither liberty of speech nor of the press. Everything like a national representation is obliterated and blotted out. Everything savouring of progress, of improvement, and of enlightenment of any sort or kid is discouraged and discredited. The King acknowledges but two masters—the Pope and the Lazzaroni ; and he is prepared to obey the behests of the one or the other against the most en lightened of his subjects. Can such a system long last, even in the meridian of Naples, in the days in which we live ? Must it not fall suddenly asunder the moment a popular commotion breaks out in any corner of Italy ? There remains, apart from Modena and Parma, states) too paltry and insignificant to speak about at length, but the dominions of his Holi ness the Pope. For the last two months we in Eng land have been so engaged in considering the auda cious aggression of the Bishop of Rome—his violation, not merely of general international, but of English statute law, that we have not had either leisure or space to throw away a word on the condition of the States of the Church. But of all existing Govern ments the Government of Rome is the weakest, the most corrupt, the most soul-debasing, the most tyrannical, the most rotten at core, the most putrid iii all its members. The religious Government of the Tat tsrs of Thibet is generally ;considered by histo rians the most absolute, tyrannical, and degrading that has ever been palmed upon men, but since the late aggressive attempt of Pius IX. the Government of the Vatican and the Quirinal must be deemed worse, and more wicked anal degrading than ' even this Lamaism. The Pope of R ime, so agsgressive abroad, has not at home a duller he can call his own. Fur the very bread and meat and fish he eats Pio Nono is tributary to a Jew banker, one of a tribe against whom this pious Christian, accord ing to the very latest accounts, has fulminated new anathemas—one of a tribe on whose devoted heads he has heaped new persecutions for doing an office of charity ! The domestic servants of the arrogant Pon tiff—the noble guatd of the infallible Prlnee-Bishop, his ministers and employes, are all in arrear of pay. His Pontifical and stock scrip are unsaleable in any mart or exchange. He is over head and ears in debt —his people are overburdened with taxation—his ex chequer is empty—discontent is universal, and were the strong hand of Republican France removed to morrow, the infallible Sovereign—the Prince-Bishop, dare not show himself in the Corso—in the Via Ba buino—in the Piazza di Spagna—or in any public thoroughfare at Rome. If the French troops were re moved to-morrow, he would be turned adrift as he was in November, 1848, and again might he owe (strange fate !) his safety to an exclaustrated nu n, who fled from an Italian convent, and who married an excellent and accomplished Englishman 30 years her senior, on whose death she became the wife of a foreign Minister—again might be owe his safety to Hide. Spaur. A Government cOnstituted as this is— domineering, aggressive, unchangeable, unteachable, and unchanged—amidst a discontented and a dis affected people—cannot, and ought not, to last long ; and it is for this reason that we would direct the atten tion of the politicians among the Cabinets to signs too unmistakeable not to strike even statesmen ceco come un Fiorentino (blind as Florentine), to use the words of the Italian proverb. ADVERTISER.—Now that Christmas-day is past, and we are on the confines of a new year, we trust that those public spirited men, who have deter mined on a vigorous metropolitan agitation for the repeal of the window-tax, will embark, heart and soul, in the enterprise without delay. The time is short, and the work to be done is great. Parliament will meet in a few weeks. And if the important ob ject which it is sought to accomplish is to be achieved this session, there must be an immediate as well as vigorous commencement of the work. The Chancellor of the Exchequer usually forms his financial plans at an early period. He generally has them matured be fore the Easter recess. If, therefore, the pressure is not brought to bear upon him before that time, there will be little hope of a successful effort this session, to rid the country of the most iniquitous impost which the fertile imagination of man ever conceived. The window-tax is one of those few subjects on which it is difficult to bring ourselves to reason. It is one which cannot be contemplated without emotions of pain. To shut out the light of heaven— to deprive one's fellow creatures of that greatest of all blessings, is practical blasphemy, of the worst kind. It is not only oppressive to the creatures whom the Supreme Being has formed, but it is an act of daring impiety against himself. It at once destroys the comfort and impairs the health of our fellow-men, and seeks to defeat the benevolent designs of Him who made them. He formed the sun to shine, but our Government has forbidden the entrance of his bright and invigorating beams into the dwellings of the poor. The brute creation, roaming in the open fields, enjoy the light of the sun; but myriads of human beings, bearing on their foreheads the impress of their Maker, are doomed, through this odious impost, to spend their days in comparative darkness. To reason on such a subject is out of the question. It is a subject on which no man, with the feelings of a man, can argue. The instincts of right and humanity rise up and assert their sway in every one's bosom, whenever his attention is called to the window-tax. There is, we are told, hardly any cause so thoroughly bad, that some one will not be found to undertake its defence. It must be ad mitted that though all taxes are unpopular, nearly every impost has been fortunate enough to find some apologist for it. The window-tax is an exception. No one, so far as we know, has ever undertaken to prove that the impost is abstractedly right. We have never met with the man who said it was in itself a proper tax. Stern necessity alone is the only plea we have ever heard urged in its defence. Supposing, then, for the sake of argument, that there was, at the time of its being proposed, an inexorable necessity, owing to the state of the national finances, that it should be imposed—we assume that no one will venture to say, that this inexorable necessity still exists. No one will say this who knows anything of our financial position at the pre sent time. The state of our finances is much more flourishing now than it has been for nearly a quarter of a century. The current quarter's revenue will, we are informed, exceed consider ably the few previous quarters—though some of them have been unusually productive. And if, in conjunc tion with the increased productiveness of the various departments of the national income, we take into ac count the saving that has been, and will still be, effected in the expenditure of the country, there will ' be a disposable surplus in the next financial year, which would enable the Chancellor to dispense with the window-tax, although it yielded twice the amount it does to the national income. The plea of necessity cannot, therefore, be any longer urged for the main tenance of this obnoxous impost. That pretext for continuing the tax mill no longer be available. The means of remitting the window duty are in the hands of Sir Charles Wood. He possesses the power, if he only has the disposition. If he have it not, the country must impart it to him. The country can do it. It has only to will the repeal of the tax, and the tax will cease to exist. There is, just now, a remarkable con • currence of favourable circumstances for the extinction of the window duties. In addition to that most favour able of all circumstances, the means of repealing those duties without impairing public credit, or deranging the finances of the country, there is just now no other tax for whose remission there is so strong and general a desire. The window duties are the most intensely odious, of all taxes, to the great mass of the middle as well as the humbler classes of society. The agitation for the repeal of the impost will not in any way involve party prejudices or partialities. It is an agitation in which Whigs, Tories, and Radicals, can all work in perfect accord. The tax, too, sought to be abolished, is one which interposes insuperable obstacles to the carrying out of those sanitary prin ciples which now universally prevail. All, therefore, that is wanting to insure the success of an agitation for the repeal of the window-tax, is, that that agitation should be begun and carried on with vigour. An in telligent organization of existing forces, and the tact which is necessary to turn favourable circumstances into account, would render certain the almost immediate extinction of the odious impost. Let, then, the leading men in the various metro politan parishes, resolve on immediate, united, and energetic action. If they do this, and at the same time enter into an arrangement with the principal provincial towns, there cannot be the shadow of a doubt that success will crown their efforts before the middle of the session. We attach great importance to the circumstance of a correspondence being forth with opened with the populous towns in the pro vinces. In all the large towns the feeling against the window-tax is not less strong than it is in the metropolis. All that is wanting is that this feeling should be fully called forth, and that it should be, as it were, incorporated with the hostility to the im post, which prevails in London. If this were done, it would be impossible for any Government to with stand the demonstration against the window-tax which would then be made. The idea of resistance would at once be abandoned. Ministers would make a virtue of necessity. They would submit, with the best grace they could assume for the occasion, to a necessity which they saw to be unavoidable. Instead of waiting to see the proposal for the abolition of the impost brought forward by some one else, they would bring it forward themselves, and thus endeavour to obtain credit for doing that spontaneously which they had in reality been compelled to do by circum stances which they could not control. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. LISBON, Dec. 20.—Commodore Martin's squadron is still here. The officers of the Prince Regent, flag-ship, gave a ball on board that vessel some nights ago. We are sorry to say that Lieut. Darrell, R.N., of her Majesty's ship Retribution, now in this port, died on Monday last, of brain fever. The Phaeton, 50, Captain G. Elliott, having ship ped her stores at Devonport, for Lisbon, left the Sound on Tuesday morning. The Locust, 3, steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Curtis, having embarked mails, dispatches, and super numeraries, left Devonport on Tuesday afternoon for Rio de Janeiro, to be under the orders of Rear-Ad miral Reynolds, the . commauder-in-chief of the south east coast of America station. WOOLWICH, DEC. 25.—Lieutenant Thomas Bran dreth (1845) having concluded the usual period of studying steam at the factory at Woolwich dockyard, was examined by Mr. John Trickett, assistant to the chief engineer, and passed his examination satisfac torily, receiving his certificate accordingly. EXPEDITION OF THE DEDALUS IN TILE PACIFIC. The following is an extract of a letter from the Dm lalus, 20, Captain Gennys Fanshawe, with which we have been favoured. It is dated Lansolita Bay, San Francisco Harbour, October 29 :—" We have just returned from Vancouver's Island, bringing back a good many spars for the use of the squadron. Some Indians of the Newitte tribe having mur dered some English seamen, and refused to deliver up the culprits, we sent some of our boats with the first• lieutenant and second-master to destroy some of their villages, and, if possible, to take some prisoners; the-latter we _did not succeed in doing, but burnt their houses, 8 40, Scott, the second-master, and two That this statement of the Albion's rolling is not imaginary I would ask " W." to refer to Captain Milne for his relation of the facts he witnessed when he was out with the experimental squadron, and I would alao beg of " W." to refer to Sir George Sey mour as to the Collingwood's rolling going round Cape Horn ; and, with regard to the Vanguard, I will rely on the statement of any unbiassed, unpre judiced officer that ever belonged to her, and had wit nessed her rolling in a heavy swell, or in a seaway, particularly when under low canvass. When the Albion was last in commission I remem ber to have heard it said that her killed and wounded, from her rolling, during the three years she was em employed, was equal to that of many of the ships in the battle of Trafalgar Indeed I perfeCtly recollect hearing her master, who appeared to be always strongly prejudiced in her favour, admit that in a swell or sea she did constantly roll above 35 degrees. The Queen, since the expensive alterations she has undergone, is, I believe, much better than either of the other line-of .battle:ships of Sir W. Symonds's:con struction, though when right before the wind in heavy swell, I have heard that she still rolls so much that they would have difficulty in pointing her guns with any degree of precision. And now, Sir, with regard to your correspondent's observations relative to the statements made by Sir Charles Napier. I will not presume to doubt the accuracy of his re presentations generally, with respect to what occurred in the squadron under Sir Puiteney Malcolm, and elsewhere; but as regards the M'diterranean fleet in the early part cf 1840, he is greatly in error , as no doubt Sir Charles Napier will very soon show him.' Instead of Sir John Jones having been detached with a portion of Sir Robert Stopford'n fleet to the Archipelago, as " W." has represented, Sir John Jones, after having been long looked for by the com mander-in-chief, came to Vourla Bay to take the tem porary command of the squadron during Sir Robert Stopford's absence for a short time at Malta ; but I believe it will be found that there was no exercises of masts and yards, &c., bylthe rear-admiral's directions. It was during Sir John Louis's absence in a 20-guR ship on a shooting excursion, some fifty or a hun dred miles from the squadron, that Sir Charles Napier, who, as senior officer in command of the Powerful, made the signals for those exercises, after seeing how well the French had shifted their topmasts ; but he did not do this until the French squadron had put to sea, fearing, as he said, that we might not excel them ; and this the result proved ; for whilst the French ships shifted their topmasts, the majority of them the first time in about two hours, and ultimately within one hour, some of our ships were from three to four performing the same, on the first trial, though three or four of ours did it within one hour. _ ........ However, Sir Charles Napier will best set " W." right on these points ; but I believe I have closely adhered to the facts as they occurred. _ _ _ That the French fleet, which consisted of nine heavy ships under the zealous and indefatigable La lande, was one of the best trained and most efficient that the French navy ever possessed, I am confident that every officer of our squadron will admit ; and had we met them as foes, the contest would have been a more severe one than any on our naval records. VERUS. Dec. 12. DARING BURGLARIES. One of the most daring burglaries which has dis graced Herefordshire was perpetrated in the parish of Longtown, during the night succeeding Saturday last. Between twelve and one o'clock Mr. Pritchard, a freeholder, living in the above parish, was awakened by a noise which he considered, and considered truly, was that of persons attempting to break into his premises. Mr. Pritchard, who had no clothing on but his shirt, immediately proceeded down stairs, and saw three men outside his house, who said that they wanted bread, and bread they would have. Mr. Pritchard told the men that, if they would keep quiet he would give them a loaf of bread and some cheese, but he had no sooner told them so than they smashed in one of the windows, the broken glass falling upon him. They immediately afterwards said that it was money they wanted, and money they would have. They had with them an axe and a shovel, and with these weapons they immediately commenced a bat tery upon the door, which they broke open. One of the burglars then kept guard at the door, whilst the other two entered the house and proceeded to search for money. At the commencement of their search a circumstance occurred which showed. the quickness of woman's thoughts even in the midst of danger, and proves the adage true, that " while man is deliberating woman is acting." The villians who entered the house observed Mrs. Pritchard go to a cupboard, and told her that she had gone there for the purpose of removing money, but she assured them she bad not, and the villains' suspicions were lulled. However, whilst at the cupboard, Mrs. Pritchard contrived to remove some gold, which she threw into a sack of barley meal. The men, however, succeeded in finding a £5 note, a sovereign, 2s. in silver, and a bank receipt for 6001. The audacious villains then sat down and regaled themselves with the best fare which Mr. Pritchard's house afforded, and " ate, drank, and were merry." Daring the tim? they were tboi employed, Mr. rtiteltnr4 contrived to make his escape from the . house ; and Living on no other clothing than hr shirt, he went to the house of Mr. Griffiths. which . is about half a mile distant froin.his own, but which, we believe, is the nearest residence to it. Soon after he had escape d from the house the villains m is sed him ; and n o doubt thinking he was gone to seek assistance , the y decamped with their booty. On his return for for assistance, the villains had fled. At the time they entered the house there were no other p ersons therein except Mr. and Mrs. Pritchard and a little girl. Each of the gang bad a handkerchief tied round his head so as to conceal his features, the eyes, nose, and mouth being only just distinguishabl e. They ate 'laid to have All worn short round jackets.—lhrefird Tinto, Iv, :; t he t, t - 1 18 10% 10 14 10? 0 04